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Allen Jackson: Election Integrity | Allen Jackson Now

June 9, 2026 | 22:41

Allen Jackson: Election Integrity | Allen Jackson Now
Eric Eggers joins Allen Jackson to discuss current events.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Election Integrity | Allen Jackson Now | June 9, 2026
  • Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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  • I'm alan jackson.
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  • You know,
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  • What are the most basic expectations in a democracy?
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  • Is that when election day arrives, people vote.
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  • The ballots are counted, and the public learns the results.
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  • It shouldn't be a complicated process.
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  • Once again, california is showing the rest of the country
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  • Just how far we've drifted from what most americans
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  • Would just consider common sense.
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  • In los angeles, spencer pratt appeared to have a clear path
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  • To the november runoff on election day.
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  • He was ahead of nithya raman,
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  • Who looked like she was out of the race
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  • Because of her distant third place results.
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  • Then, as additional mail in ballots continued to arrive,
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  • Pratt's lead began shrinking day after day.
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  • And a week later, everything's changed.
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  • Pratt now finds himself out of the race.
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  • Voters are left wondering what happened and why.
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  • Election results change long after election day is past.
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  • Well, americans, no elections do not have to work this way.
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  • Florida counts
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  • Millions of ballots and reports results quickly.
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  • Texas? they do the same.
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  • They're large states with large populations.
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  • Yet somehow they managed to conduct elections
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  • In a way that allows citizens
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  • To have confidence in the outcome.
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  • Well, california, on the other hand, they built
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  • An election system around mass mail in voting.
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  • California also allows ballot harvesting.
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  • Ballot harvesting occurs when someone other
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  • Than the voter returns a mail ballot.
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  • In california, the rules allow third parties,
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  • Political operatives, campaign workers, and activists
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  • To collect and return ballots.
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  • That leaves a lot more room for coercion, bribery, and fraud.
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  • California has moved
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  • Toward fewer safeguards and longer counting periods.
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  • But if florida and texas can count millions of ballots
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  • And provide timely results within hours of polls closing.
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  • Why can't california
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  • If election officials insist that the system is secure?
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  • Why does it take weeks to determine the outcome?
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  • It just stands to reason
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  • That if voters lose faith in elections,
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  • They're going to stop participating.
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  • You know, it seems to me that the waves of deception
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  • Just continue to crash over our lives.
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  • When you see what's taking place
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  • In our society, it's confusing.
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  • It's disorienting because there's talking heads
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  • Telling us not to notice, but we have to pay attention.
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  • In fact,
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  • I'm going to suggest that we're going to have
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  • To become more astute consumers of information.
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  • Pay attention to the world we're living in.
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  • You know, just recently in los angeles,
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  • A woman pled guilty to running a voter registration scheme.
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  • It exploited homeless people living on los angeles skid row.
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  • She roamed skid row, offering as little as $2 along
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  • With cigarets or maybe a phone charging cord to persuade
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  • Homeless people to complete voter registration forms.
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  • Federal prosecutors say the woman directed
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  • Homeless registrants to use her former los angeles address
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  • On all the registration paperwork.
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  • Because california automatically sends
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  • Ballots to registered voters.
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  • The registrations created the possibility that ballots
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  • Could be routed to the woman's home address,
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  • Or her scheme stretched back years and focused heavily
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  • On skid row because of its large homeless population.
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  • You know, once upon a time, if you were physically disabled,
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  • Not able to travel or to stand in line,
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  • The family member could help you return your ballot.
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  • People looked at that and felt it was reasonable.
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  • But then the rules drastically changed
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  • In california and in ten other states.
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  • Anyone can collect ballots and return them.
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  • Not your spouse, not your son or your daughter.
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  • Not somebody you know and trust.
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  • Just any random third party can turn in a ballot for you,
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  • And we're supposed to believe that that's a secure system.
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  • You know, recently, the u.s.
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  • Attorney's office said
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  • That california was blocking an audit of its voter rolls.
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  • And they noted that the state even allows first
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  • Time voters to use surprising forms of i.d.
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  • To register to vote.
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  • Surprising things like a gym membership card
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  • Or a credit card, or even a prescription label
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  • That's been peeled off a drug bottle.
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  • In this day and age, when astronauts can fly
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  • Around the moon and back and online
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  • Orders can be delivered within hours.
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  • Surely americans don't have to settle
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  • For a voting system that is slow, less transparent,
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  • And increasingly difficult for voters to trust.
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  • It just feels foolish to me that there are people
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  • That don't want to have voter i.d..
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  • You know, decades ago, we used to not have any security
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  • At the airport.
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  • You go straight to your gate, straight to your plane,
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  • And you could meet your friends
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  • And your loved ones when they were arriving.
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  • But the world changed.
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  • And because of the threats emerging
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  • From all over the world, we had to put security at the airport.
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  • Well, once upon a time, voter
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  • Id might not have been considered a necessary thing.
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  • But our world has changed.
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  • We had 20 million people come across our border
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  • Illegally during the biden administration.
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  • And in order to maintain secure elections today,
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  • We have to adapt in a way
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  • That makes sense to the world that we are currently living in.
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  • Voter id is not an intrusion.
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  • It's a necessary tool.
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  • It will help ensure our liberties
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  • And our freedoms by making sure our citizens
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  • Are the ones who are doing the voting.
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  • This voter fraud discussion should also be looked
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  • At through the lens
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  • Of the larger conversation on fraud and lawlessness.
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  • Stealing money, stealing votes, ignoring laws.
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  • They're all symptoms
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  • Of a culture with a diminished christian influence.
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  • Unfortunately, we as the church have witnessed
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  • Murky messages of compassion messages laced
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  • With inclusivity from pulpits in christian circles.
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  • And absent the truth of scripture.
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  • Many have fallen under the spell of this cultural good
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  • Whatever became of sin.
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  • I know it's inconvenient to discuss.
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  • It's as
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  • If we're not sure how to respond or what the message should be.
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  • Because at the end of the day, we don't want to be offensive.
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  • We don't want to be labeled.
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  • We certainly don't want to get canceled.
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  • We don't want our friends to step away,
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  • Or our family members at our kitchen
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  • Tables to be upset with us.
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  • I think most of the time we'd much prefer to be labeled
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  • As a person of grace and a person of mercy.
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  • Well, i believe in the mercy and the grace of god.
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  • But that's not the entire character of god.
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  • When we ignore god's laws and our personal conduct,
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  • And we suspend god's principles
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  • For the goal of maintaining family unity, we surrender
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  • The broader culture to a brazen expressions of ungodliness.
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  • We must determine to be champions of the truth.
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  • If we'll do that,
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  • There are certainly more reasons for hope than despair.
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  • Well, in a moment, joining us will be eric eggers.
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  • He's the vice president of the government
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  • Accountability institute.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • Well, tonight we're joined by the vice president
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  • Of the government accountability institute, erik eggers.
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  • Welcome back to the show, eric.
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  • Allan, it's great to be with you and your audience.
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  • How are you?
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  • We are.
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  • Well, you know, it is primary season
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  • In many states, and they're working diligently
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  • To try to fill the candidates for the midterm elections,
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  • See if trump can have a historic victory
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  • And maintain the house of the senate.
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  • All eyes have been on california for the last few days.
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  • I'm not sure we can call it election fraud yet,
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  • But it certainly seems to be a bizarre story unfolding.
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  • What's your sense
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  • Of the fairness of california's elections?
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  • Allan, i think you are being characteristically overly
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  • Charitable by calling california's
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  • Amount of time that they've commanded the national attention
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  • Only a few days.
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  • Sadly, what's happened
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  • In california has been going on now for over a week.
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  • And the reality is, is by the time we actually know
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  • Who won,
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  • You may have been able to conduct
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  • Literally a biblical flood, let alone an election.
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  • In this state, the amount of delays
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  • That you're going to have because of the ways
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  • They've intentionally drawn the rules in california.
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  • We may still have another week or two
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  • Because of the amount of time they give you to
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  • Take our ballots after they've been postmarked.
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  • You know,
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  • This is why they're having a supreme court case, a decision
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  • We expect to have later this summer
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  • That maybe puts an end to this.
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  • But the reality is between,
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  • Automatic voter registration, between mailing everybody
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  • A ballot, between the lengthy and unnecessary curing process
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  • And a number of other laws they put into place.
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  • California's, elections this week, unfortunately,
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  • In the national spotlight. not for good reason.
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  • Well, steve hilton, candidate for governor there,
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  • He has an opinion about their election process.
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  • Listen to his comments.
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  • Everywhere you look, crime, chaos, homelessness,
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  • The high speed rail they can't finish.
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  • And now they can't even count votes properly.
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  • And that's what's so laughable about it.
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  • This election shambles,
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  • This fiasco where they're saying it's
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  • Going to be like another month before we know the result fully.
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  • It's just an example of how these people can't run anything.
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  • Well, we're we're all watching california's train
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  • Wreck of an election.
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  • But what about other states or other states
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  • That do an exemplary job with election integrity?
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  • Oh, absolutely.
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  • You know, it's funny that steve hilton clip, by the way,
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  • Reminds me of the phrase, how you do
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  • One thing is how you do anything.
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  • And just to kind of finish the point
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  • On california and the fraud specifically,
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  • You've seen in the news recently how much frauds
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  • Have been identified in that state,
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  • Whether it's the welfare system, hospice,
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  • Any number of kind of housing programs
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  • Or actually homelessness,
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  • Which a lot of the fraud that's happening in california
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  • Elections actually comes from the homeless populations.
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  • But, states like florida,
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  • Which obviously was in the national spotlight,
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  • Similar to california 26 years ago in the 2000 recount.
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  • You know, this is what has to happen.
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  • You have the floors be held up on a national scale.
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  • I think you're embarrassed as florida was correctly.
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  • And then they put in laws and,
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  • Protocols in place to correct it. right.
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  • So, the florida counts
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  • All their ballots on the same night of election.
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  • We don't allow these late arriving ballots
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  • Unless they're from the military.
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  • We have, you know, kind of voter id laws,
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  • Which california has the opposite.
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  • They actually have a law
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  • Banning cities from requiring voter i.d..
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  • So, yeah, it's like there's
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  • The whole phrase laboratories of democracy.
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  • And people can see what happens in one laboratory
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  • In california versus what happens in states like florida.
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  • I think there's some wisdom in connecting all the fraud points.
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  • You know,
  • 00:10:30.655 --> 00:10:31.923
  • Fraud is just a bit more of a dressed up word for stealing.
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  • So we're talking about election fraud.
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  • We're talking about stealing elections.
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  • What is the biggest concern in election fraud
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  • And how do we make them more secure?
  • 00:10:41.499 --> 00:10:45.036
  • So it's interesting, right?
  • 00:10:45.036 --> 00:10:46.104
  • Because i think, you know, fraud.
  • 00:10:46.104 --> 00:10:47.171
  • And the word for fraud is crime, right?
  • 00:10:47.171 --> 00:10:49.173
  • Like when you commit fraud, you are committing a crime.
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  • And i thought it was really telling that
  • 00:10:51.809 --> 00:10:53.644
  • When they had a press conference in ohio about fraud,
  • 00:10:53.644 --> 00:10:56.414
  • Not in elections, but in welfare systems,
  • 00:10:56.414 --> 00:10:58.549
  • In addition
  • 00:10:58.549 --> 00:10:59.317
  • To having a lot of federal agency
  • 00:10:59.317 --> 00:11:00.384
  • Heads there, you also had the governor
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  • And you had the attorney general,
  • 00:11:01.786 --> 00:11:02.887
  • Who's the top law enforcement official in that state.
  • 00:11:02.887 --> 00:11:05.456
  • And the state officials said a really interesting thing.
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  • They said, look, we welcome the participation
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  • And support of the federal authorities
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  • In helping us to stamp out this crime.
  • 00:11:11.596 --> 00:11:13.631
  • The reality is, states like california states
  • 00:11:13.631 --> 00:11:15.933
  • Unfortunately run by democrats, have done the opposite.
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  • They've not welcomed federal authorities
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  • In trying to stop fraud,
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  • Whether it's from
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  • A human services standpoint or election standpoint.
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  • They've actively fought them, and that's what sadly
  • 00:11:25.643 --> 00:11:27.912
  • Happened in california.
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  • The department of justice
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  • Has tried to look at these voter rolls and said,
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  • We want to do an audit
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  • Of every name that's on it, because we know that's actually
  • 00:11:33.518 --> 00:11:36.120
  • Where the breeding ground for the fraud is.
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  • When you get names on voter rolls registered,
  • 00:11:38.089 --> 00:11:40.291
  • That shouldn't be allowed to participate in elections,
  • 00:11:40.291 --> 00:11:42.527
  • And then you mail all of them a ballot.
  • 00:11:42.527 --> 00:11:44.295
  • Of course, fraud is going to occur.
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  • And that's exactly what's happened.
  • 00:11:45.663 --> 00:11:46.798
  • You've got assistant u.s.
  • 00:11:46.798 --> 00:11:47.999
  • Attorney saying on the record, we know fraud has happened.
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  • We know we'll be bringing charges in california.
  • 00:11:50.401 --> 00:11:52.236
  • So states should stop fighting the federal authorities
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  • Stop trying to prevent them from auditing the voter rolls.
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  • I think that's the biggest step that has to happen.
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  • You mentioned the midterms and donald trump,
  • 00:11:59.610 --> 00:12:01.445
  • If they can actually get audits on these voter rolls
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  • And clean them up before the midterms,
  • 00:12:04.148 --> 00:12:05.983
  • I think that's going to give them a real chance
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  • Of keeping the house and possibly the senate.
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  • We know you and the
  • 00:12:10.488 --> 00:12:11.322
  • Team at the gao are research experts
  • 00:12:11.322 --> 00:12:14.225
  • In these states,
  • 00:12:14.225 --> 00:12:14.926
  • Where the fraud is so widespread
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  • And there are billions of dollars involved,
  • 00:12:16.561 --> 00:12:18.629
  • And yet the voters don't seem to express any concern.
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  • Is there anything in the data that suggest
  • 00:12:22.533 --> 00:12:24.001
  • How the voters can be that numb to crime at that level?
  • 00:12:24.001 --> 00:12:27.905
  • It's hard to understand.
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  • For those of us that are just watching.
  • 00:12:29.340 --> 00:12:31.809
  • So that's a great question, alan.
  • 00:12:31.809 --> 00:12:33.544
  • And what's interesting is that when measures that would address
  • 00:12:33.544 --> 00:12:36.814
  • And prevent some of this fraud from occurring,
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  • Like voter id, are introduced,
  • 00:12:38.716 --> 00:12:40.918
  • Then actually what the polling suggested,
  • 00:12:40.918 --> 00:12:42.587
  • There is widespread support for it.
  • 00:12:42.587 --> 00:12:44.322
  • California, to their credit, is actually
  • 00:12:44.322 --> 00:12:46.023
  • Going to have against the will
  • 00:12:46.023 --> 00:12:47.491
  • And wishes and efforts of the governor. gavin newsom.
  • 00:12:47.491 --> 00:12:49.927
  • It's actually going to have an amendment
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  • On the ballot in november that would require voter id
  • 00:12:51.362 --> 00:12:54.065
  • That's polling at above 70% of leave washington state,
  • 00:12:54.065 --> 00:12:57.435
  • Which actually has, like california,
  • 00:12:57.435 --> 00:12:59.136
  • Among the worst election laws in the country.
  • 00:12:59.136 --> 00:13:01.272
  • They have an initiative that would require,
  • 00:13:01.272 --> 00:13:03.774
  • Proof of citizenship when you register to vote.
  • 00:13:03.774 --> 00:13:05.610
  • What a novel idea.
  • 00:13:05.610 --> 00:13:06.677
  • That's polling about 80%,
  • 00:13:06.677 --> 00:13:08.479
  • But they're still trying to collect signatures there.
  • 00:13:08.479 --> 00:13:10.081
  • So you're watching
  • 00:13:10.081 --> 00:13:11.349
  • Washington state, like, look for the ability to support that.
  • 00:13:11.349 --> 00:13:13.985
  • So i think when common sense reforms are introduced
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  • Or suggested, support is there for them.
  • 00:13:16.954 --> 00:13:18.956
  • But the reality is, is that why people aren't more outraged
  • 00:13:18.956 --> 00:13:22.193
  • By the fraud is so many different populations
  • 00:13:22.193 --> 00:13:23.995
  • Are actually on the receiving end of the fraud.
  • 00:13:23.995 --> 00:13:26.764
  • And, you know, so,
  • 00:13:26.764 --> 00:13:29.033
  • And democrat party
  • 00:13:29.033 --> 00:13:30.234
  • Officials, unfortunately,
  • 00:13:30.234 --> 00:13:31.168
  • Are supported by those populations
  • 00:13:31.168 --> 00:13:32.637
  • That are on the receiving end of the fraud.
  • 00:13:32.637 --> 00:13:34.205
  • So, there's not a significant amount of public
  • 00:13:34.205 --> 00:13:36.574
  • Will in these blue states to stop it. wow.
  • 00:13:36.574 --> 00:13:39.410
  • Well, eric, we need to take a short break.
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  • Can you stand by for another segment?
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  • Anything for you, alan?
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  • We're back now with the vice president
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  • Of the government accountability institute, eric eggers.
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  • And your research with peter schweitzer.
  • 00:14:08.873 --> 00:14:10.541
  • You've uncovered that the two countries
  • 00:14:10.541 --> 00:14:12.343
  • Most linked to drug cartel trade
  • 00:14:12.343 --> 00:14:14.111
  • That's coming into the us or mexico and china.
  • 00:14:14.111 --> 00:14:17.848
  • President trump seems to have had a focus on venezuela
  • 00:14:17.848 --> 00:14:21.319
  • In spite of that business relationship
  • 00:14:21.319 --> 00:14:22.853
  • That's pumping the drugs into our country.
  • 00:14:22.853 --> 00:14:25.356
  • Why do you think that focus is?
  • 00:14:25.356 --> 00:14:28.759
  • Well, look, it's a it's a complicated
  • 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:30.394
  • Geopolitical landscape, right?
  • 00:14:30.394 --> 00:14:31.896
  • I mean, as you noted,
  • 00:14:31.896 --> 00:14:32.797
  • China and mexico are the two countries
  • 00:14:32.797 --> 00:14:34.932
  • That we've linked the most in the fentanyl trade
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  • In this country.
  • 00:14:37.301 --> 00:14:38.102
  • And obviously,
  • 00:14:38.102 --> 00:14:39.303
  • You know, in the research that we've done
  • 00:14:39.303 --> 00:14:41.005
  • With peter schweizer, just last book,
  • 00:14:41.005 --> 00:14:42.707
  • Expose the activities of these mexican consulates and,
  • 00:14:42.707 --> 00:14:46.510
  • The department of justice has actually indicted,
  • 00:14:46.510 --> 00:14:49.213
  • You, a mexican official, for being linked to,
  • 00:14:49.213 --> 00:14:52.616
  • The drug cartels there,
  • 00:14:52.616 --> 00:14:53.617
  • And they'd like mexican mexico to turn them over.
  • 00:14:53.617 --> 00:14:56.120
  • Mexico has thus far resisted in doing so.
  • 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.422
  • So that's why the trump administration
  • 00:14:58.422 --> 00:14:59.991
  • Has opened an investigation into these mexican consulates.
  • 00:14:59.991 --> 00:15:03.060
  • And so some people said, well,
  • 00:15:03.060 --> 00:15:04.028
  • Why would we continue to have anything to do
  • 00:15:04.028 --> 00:15:06.130
  • With these countries if we know they're
  • 00:15:06.130 --> 00:15:07.531
  • Pumping drugs into this country, as they clearly are?
  • 00:15:07.531 --> 00:15:10.334
  • And the reality is we have business relationships
  • 00:15:10.334 --> 00:15:12.470
  • With mexico, business relationship with china.
  • 00:15:12.470 --> 00:15:15.573
  • With everything that's going on in iran right now, access
  • 00:15:15.573 --> 00:15:18.676
  • To oil from venezuela is also a strategic, kind of priority.
  • 00:15:18.676 --> 00:15:22.780
  • So, yeah, i think things are complicated,
  • 00:15:22.780 --> 00:15:24.415
  • But i do think kind of
  • 00:15:24.415 --> 00:15:25.583
  • Looks like the fraud is refreshing
  • 00:15:25.583 --> 00:15:27.451
  • To see the administration
  • 00:15:27.451 --> 00:15:28.552
  • Take stopping the drug trade, enforcing the border
  • 00:15:28.552 --> 00:15:31.122
  • Where a lot of the drugs
  • 00:15:31.122 --> 00:15:31.922
  • Come from and make it a priority.
  • 00:15:31.922 --> 00:15:33.324
  • And do you think the numbers reflect
  • 00:15:33.324 --> 00:15:34.592
  • It's making a positive difference?
  • 00:15:34.592 --> 00:15:36.527
  • I'm curious.
  • 00:15:36.861 --> 00:15:38.095
  • The dnc recently conducted their post 2024 election autopsy.
  • 00:15:38.095 --> 00:15:42.400
  • The report was, fascinating to look at,
  • 00:15:42.400 --> 00:15:46.003
  • But then we watch what's unfolding in the news,
  • 00:15:46.003 --> 00:15:47.905
  • Like in maine with their senate candidate, plattner.
  • 00:15:47.905 --> 00:15:50.708
  • It seems like they're incapable
  • 00:15:50.708 --> 00:15:52.309
  • Of learning from their past mistakes,
  • 00:15:52.309 --> 00:15:55.413
  • Or they just think they're powerful enough
  • 00:15:55.413 --> 00:15:57.314
  • With their control of the media to drive their opinions.
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  • I'm not sure what.
  • 00:15:59.550 --> 00:16:00.818
  • How do you read that?
  • 00:16:00.818 --> 00:16:01.886
  • Stubborn determination?
  • 00:16:01.886 --> 00:16:04.288
  • Allen, this is why i love you.
  • 00:16:04.288 --> 00:16:05.756
  • Because you're like, so kind.
  • 00:16:05.756 --> 00:16:07.191
  • Like, basically,
  • 00:16:07.191 --> 00:16:07.758
  • You just did
  • 00:16:07.758 --> 00:16:08.125
  • The whole
  • 00:16:08.125 --> 00:16:08.926
  • Bless your heart to the democrats
  • 00:16:08.926 --> 00:16:10.494
  • By saying their audit is fascinating to look like.
  • 00:16:10.494 --> 00:16:12.897
  • Look at.
  • 00:16:12.897 --> 00:16:13.964
  • That's like saying my seventh grade son's abandoned
  • 00:16:13.964 --> 00:16:16.333
  • Science project is fascinating.
  • 00:16:16.333 --> 00:16:17.868
  • Look like like it's interesting, even tells us nothing
  • 00:16:17.868 --> 00:16:20.604
  • Other than the person who conducted it and authored it.
  • 00:16:20.604 --> 00:16:23.774
  • Is bad at their job, put in zero effort,
  • 00:16:23.774 --> 00:16:25.843
  • And still somehow want to get credit for it.
  • 00:16:25.843 --> 00:16:27.711
  • That audit is a disgrace and it tells you something.
  • 00:16:27.711 --> 00:16:30.281
  • When the head of the dnc, ken martin,
  • 00:16:30.281 --> 00:16:32.550
  • I didn't even want to release it and said
  • 00:16:32.550 --> 00:16:34.318
  • Publicly on the number of podcast is
  • 00:16:34.318 --> 00:16:36.087
  • Or as recently as april
  • 00:16:36.087 --> 00:16:37.321
  • That he wouldn't be releasing it because it was shoddy,
  • 00:16:37.321 --> 00:16:40.424
  • It wasn't fact checked, it was incomplete.
  • 00:16:40.424 --> 00:16:42.560
  • And it now has disclaimers all over it,
  • 00:16:42.560 --> 00:16:44.495
  • Because the democrats can't do anything more than try
  • 00:16:44.495 --> 00:16:47.498
  • To distance themselves from its findings. ridiculous.
  • 00:16:47.498 --> 00:16:49.834
  • But to that point,
  • 00:16:49.834 --> 00:16:51.102
  • You know, one of the findings that was included is they
  • 00:16:51.102 --> 00:16:53.404
  • They need to do better at attracting,
  • 00:16:53.404 --> 00:16:55.606
  • Rural, you know, residents and attracting men.
  • 00:16:55.606 --> 00:16:58.209
  • So here's the grand plattner,
  • 00:16:58.209 --> 00:17:00.044
  • You know, so i guess he's allegedly
  • 00:17:00.044 --> 00:17:01.712
  • This kind of masculine figure up in maine.
  • 00:17:01.712 --> 00:17:04.448
  • He's got an oyster farm and a number of tattoos.
  • 00:17:04.448 --> 00:17:07.284
  • But then if you kind of look beneath the,
  • 00:17:07.284 --> 00:17:09.353
  • The surface, a little bit, you find out that his, agrarian
  • 00:17:09.353 --> 00:17:12.823
  • Or kind of in,
  • 00:17:12.823 --> 00:17:14.592
  • Industrial background has been supported by his parents.
  • 00:17:14.592 --> 00:17:17.261
  • He actually comes from money,
  • 00:17:17.261 --> 00:17:18.462
  • And he's got a number of very questionable decisions,
  • 00:17:18.462 --> 00:17:21.532
  • Not just in terms of the tattoo he's got on his body,
  • 00:17:21.532 --> 00:17:23.701
  • But the comments he made online is a lot of really weird stuff.
  • 00:17:23.701 --> 00:17:27.204
  • But this is what happens when the democrats
  • 00:17:27.204 --> 00:17:28.939
  • Kind of embrace the bernie sanders aoc wing of the party.
  • 00:17:28.939 --> 00:17:32.276
  • His ideology is apparently enough
  • 00:17:32.276 --> 00:17:33.911
  • To overlook a number of very troubling personal, decisions.
  • 00:17:33.911 --> 00:17:38.382
  • And so we'll kind of see how it shakes out.
  • 00:17:38.382 --> 00:17:40.017
  • But the democrats are going to
  • 00:17:40.017 --> 00:17:40.951
  • Want to own that brand in november.
  • 00:17:40.951 --> 00:17:42.753
  • I think the republicans are comfortable with that.
  • 00:17:42.753 --> 00:17:46.690
  • Well, we've
  • 00:17:47.024 --> 00:17:47.958
  • Mentioned fraud stealing illegal already,
  • 00:17:47.958 --> 00:17:50.594
  • But it continues to dominate headlines.
  • 00:17:50.594 --> 00:17:52.463
  • Trump has assigned jd vance some responsibilities.
  • 00:17:52.463 --> 00:17:55.366
  • If he can clean it up, there is some headway.
  • 00:17:55.366 --> 00:17:58.302
  • You know, at least in minnesota, the health care fraud schemes
  • 00:17:58.302 --> 00:18:01.005
  • Have been exposed and maybe even some hint of prosecution.
  • 00:18:01.005 --> 00:18:04.642
  • Are we really going to make a dent in this,
  • 00:18:04.642 --> 00:18:06.110
  • Or does it just drive headlines for a little bit
  • 00:18:06.110 --> 00:18:07.845
  • And everybody's snouts going to stay in the trough.
  • 00:18:07.845 --> 00:18:09.914
  • And we're going to keep hemorrhaging money.
  • 00:18:09.914 --> 00:18:13.417
  • I think it is going to make a dent.
  • 00:18:13.417 --> 00:18:15.052
  • I think when you look at the last
  • 00:18:15.052 --> 00:18:16.253
  • Cabinet meeting,
  • 00:18:16.253 --> 00:18:17.288
  • Literally every agency was talking
  • 00:18:17.288 --> 00:18:19.690
  • About their efforts to prosecute fraud.
  • 00:18:19.690 --> 00:18:22.092
  • It was almost like playing
  • 00:18:22.092 --> 00:18:23.160
  • The price is right, like they just kept bidding
  • 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:24.895
  • A higher number of how much fraud
  • 00:18:24.895 --> 00:18:26.297
  • They've been able to identify.
  • 00:18:26.297 --> 00:18:27.464
  • Kelly loeffler with the small business administration.
  • 00:18:27.464 --> 00:18:30.000
  • So they turned over 22 billion in terms of fraudulent loans
  • 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.437
  • Back to the treasury.
  • 00:18:33.437 --> 00:18:34.638
  • But she said that was actually just part of a 200 billion,
  • 00:18:34.638 --> 00:18:37.374
  • Amount that they've discovered.
  • 00:18:37.374 --> 00:18:38.475
  • And she kind of detailed
  • 00:18:38.475 --> 00:18:39.510
  • The lack of integrity in those processes.
  • 00:18:39.510 --> 00:18:41.545
  • So it's all kind of just common ground
  • 00:18:41.545 --> 00:18:43.113
  • And just out on the show
  • 00:18:43.113 --> 00:18:44.148
  • You what a difference a year and a half makes.
  • 00:18:44.148 --> 00:18:47.284
  • In december of 2024.
  • 00:18:47.284 --> 00:18:48.752
  • So after the election in which donald trump had been,
  • 00:18:48.752 --> 00:18:51.488
  • You know, i know what to to be the next president.
  • 00:18:51.488 --> 00:18:53.023
  • But before he took office, the guy
  • 00:18:53.023 --> 00:18:54.692
  • That was the head of medicaid services
  • 00:18:54.692 --> 00:18:56.260
  • For the biden administration wrote a letter to all 50 states.
  • 00:18:56.260 --> 00:18:59.363
  • This is december of 2024.
  • 00:18:59.363 --> 00:19:00.631
  • He said, hey, states,
  • 00:19:00.631 --> 00:19:01.732
  • We don't care
  • 00:19:01.732 --> 00:19:02.666
  • If you think the people on your medicaid
  • 00:19:02.666 --> 00:19:03.734
  • Rolls have committed fraud or are committing fraud,
  • 00:19:03.734 --> 00:19:06.203
  • You're not allowed to remove them from the rolls.
  • 00:19:06.203 --> 00:19:08.572
  • This is official document from the federal government.
  • 00:19:08.572 --> 00:19:11.375
  • So consider that you had the biden
  • 00:19:11.375 --> 00:19:13.344
  • Officials saying, don't take anybody out the rolls.
  • 00:19:13.344 --> 00:19:15.246
  • No matter if they're fraudulent.
  • 00:19:15.246 --> 00:19:16.347
  • So now you have at eight at cabinet meetings,
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  • Every agency had, let's say, and listen, here's
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  • Everything we're doing to stop the fraud.
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  • I do think it's making a very positive difference.
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  • You know, it's one of the things the trump
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  • Administration is trying to do to help get this,
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  • Balanced budget in place, try to get, you know, kind of a
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  • So, stranglehold on fiscal sovereignty and responsibility.
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  • And i think it's something
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  • That quite honestly polled well for republicans.
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  • So i think you're going to continue
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  • To hear them talk about it.
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  • And it's obviously something
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  • The democrats don't want anything to do.
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  • It's one of the reasons
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  • Why republicans were doing fairly
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  • Well in the poll
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  • In the california gubernatorial primary,
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  • Because they said, look, we're going to stop the fraud.
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  • And people even in california said,
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  • We agree with that. and democrats are, frankly,
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  • Don't have the courage to say that.
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  • Well, i've got an idea.
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  • I want to
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  • Turn all the irs auditors around
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  • And point them at the fraudsters,
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  • And we pay no
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  • Income tax until they've cut that fraud level by 50%.
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  • Then they can reengage.
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  • They can get any support for that.
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  • Well, i just want to be very clear.
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  • If you work for the irs, what you heard is alan jackson
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  • Saying he didn't plan on pay any taxes anytime soon.
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  • You did not hear eric egger saying that.
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  • And, you know, listen.
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  • But, alan jackson, i wish you the best of luck
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  • With that initiative. and again, that is an alan jackson thing.
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  • If you're working for the irs, appreciate the support.
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  • Eric, thanks for your time today.
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  • Ali. you're the best. thank you. great to see you.
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  • It's always good.
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  • We'll be right back in just a moment.
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  • We'll be right back in just a moment.
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  • Thank you for taking the time to send your emails.
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  • Your thoughts and opinions are always a highlight.
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  • Martha from durham, north carolina, wrote
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  • I've been thinking that the reason people
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  • Aren't speaking up about sin is because we have all sinned,
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  • And we don't want to be the one to cast the first stone,
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  • As we don't want the stones cast against us.
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  • Where does one start?
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  • Well,
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  • I don't disagree with your premise,
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  • But i think it's a bit more fundamental to that.
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  • It isn't that we stand up against sinners.
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  • I think we start out by saying there is such a thing as sin,
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  • Identifying those boundaries that god has presented to us,
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  • And then we begin to work with our own behavior modification.
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  • But we've had for far too long.
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  • Even within the church is a reluctance to say that sin
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  • Exists.
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  • It's as if god has lost his mind and all of his boundaries
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  • Have evaporated.
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  • We've created some false god in the new testament
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  • That doesn't reflect the god of the hebrew bible.
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  • We've got to change.
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  • Joyce from michigan said, i have a question that i would
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  • Like your perspective on because i can't figure this out.
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  • Detroit had its motor city pride celebration,
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  • And the whole month of june is gay pride month.
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  • It's perfectly acceptable for the gays to celebrate
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  • And no one bats an eye.
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  • Why can't a group of christians celebrate christian pride?
  • 00:21:59.176 --> 00:22:02.312
  • Well, joyce, i have good news.
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  • The tennessee legislature and the governor of tennessee
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  • Have made june nuclear family month in tennessee.
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  • We're celebrating the nuclear family
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  • Of of a father and a mother or their biological children,
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  • Or if their family includes adoptive children
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  • Or foster children.
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  • We're celebrating in tennessee and not just here.
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  • They're doing the same thing in arkansas, alabama, indiana.
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  • There is momentum growing.
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  • There is good news.
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  • Let's celebrate.
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  • Folks, god's moving in the earth.
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  • Let's go with it. good night. god bless.
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