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  • You will remember that.
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  • We, left the show on friday, and we were headed on over
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  • To the build the red wall event.
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  • It was an amazing, successful, energetic event with,
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  • Some of president trump's, i would say
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  • Most enthusiastic supporters in the event. it was amazing.
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  • It was amazing to see them
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  • There all dressed up, people waving signs,
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  • Lots of great, clips that came from that.
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  • And we just want to play a couple of clips just to memory,
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  • Realize it a little bit.
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  • Here we go.
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  • Let's start with sot six and we will pass the save
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  • America act to protect our sacred american election.
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  • Then we will also add into permanence statutes,
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  • A very simple thing called no men and women.
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  • Sports.
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  • And no trans gender mutualization
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  • Surgery for you, joe.
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  • We're putting that in.
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  • We're putting that in
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  • Because i call them best stuff.
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  • You know what? best stuff? best of trump.
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  • Can you believe it? best of trump.
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  • So i love that clip because he's
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  • Focusing on the domestic right.
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  • And it was just we
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  • We held the event right after the kind of iranian peace,
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  • Tentative peace which we've seen has been very fragile.
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  • And over the weekend, but he was in good spirits.
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  • But even with all of that international news,
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  • He was talking about domestic, domestic, domestic,
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  • One of my favorite lines here, crushing violent crime.
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  • Sot seven with your support, we will crush
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  • Violent crime, impose harsh
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  • New penalties for repeat offenders,
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  • Crack down on marxist prosecutors and rogue judges.
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  • The judges are horrible
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  • And deadly.
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  • Sanctuary cities in our country and
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  • And no cash bail which really started it all.
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  • So president
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  • Trump was in fine form and he was focusing,
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  • Like i said, on domestic issues,
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  • Which i think is important. it's noteworthy.
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  • It's it's
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  • I considered that event sort of a recalibration event.
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  • I think it's the kick off in some ways of the midterm run
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  • And for all across the country and really setting the tone.
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  • But there were some other really noteworthy moments.
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  • We had andy biggs there.
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  • Who's going to be running for governor,
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  • Who is running for governor in the great state of arizona?
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  • And i will tell you,
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  • I think this was the best speech i've ever heard andy
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  • Biggs give. and we've had him recently.
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  • We had him on the show recently.
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  • He got, emotional when he was talking about his wife
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  • And what the american dream in arizona
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  • Means to him and his wife,
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  • And what he wants to do for the future.
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  • I just thought he was completely spot on.
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  • So let's give andy biggs his due. sot 12.
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  • We want young arizonans
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  • To be able to start forming their families
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  • And getting into homes when they form families
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  • And get into single family homes.
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  • It preserves our traditions, our values, our freedoms.
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  • That's what we need to do.
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  • And i just love that, blake.
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  • And because you know this as well as i do,
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  • Charlie was so focused on the american family.
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  • If he ever ran for office, that was going to be
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  • His his main central crux of whatever campaign
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  • He was going to run
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  • Because he believed in the
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  • Power of the american family,
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  • Is the building blocks of a successful society.
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  • And i
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  • It just feels like andy biggs has taken that page
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  • Out of charlie's playbook hitting families, hitting
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  • Affordability of homes, hitting prices,
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  • Hitting the american dream.
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  • Kids being able
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  • To afford to have families, afford to buy a home.
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  • So i just thought that was a perfect note.
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  • I don't know if, you know,
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  • It was a very strong speech, a very strong message.
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  • I think it's the message we're going to want to keep hitting.
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  • Yeah, in the months to come.
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  • We know it's going to be hard fought
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  • Because among other things, that's the other topic
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  • That we have to hit at the top of today.
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  • Yeah. which is yeah,
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  • I don't even know if we need to hit that yet.
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  • Well, exactly.
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  • I was going to say at one one, there was a beautiful moment
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  • From katherine limbaugh that i would love to play.
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  • So katherine limbaugh was somebody that,
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  • When charlie was, you know, around and friends with rush.
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  • Katherine was always kind of around.
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  • She was copied on emails.
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  • She's really phenomenal woman.
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  • And she's been so supportive.
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  • When rush was alive and since rush passed, and left us all.
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  • And she was kind of a surprise guest at this event,
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  • And she had powerful words,
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  • In defense of erica's leadership.
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  • And i just thought it was really touching.
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  • 11 to take a moment to talk about erica kirk.
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  • Last september, the unimaginable happened.
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  • Erica showed incredible grace,
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  • Strength, courage,
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  • And determination
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  • To not let anything steal her light.
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  • Anyone who criticizes erica
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  • For how she grieves, to pause
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  • And think for a minute about the humanity of that
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  • Goodness, will always outshine the darkness.
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  • Charlie knew exactly who he was marrying
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  • A strong, smart,
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  • Beautiful soul inside and out.
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  • I know he is immensely proud of erica
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  • And how she is carrying on.
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  • Really poignant coming from her.
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  • It was. it was, yeah.
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  • And by the way, that clip has gone viral
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  • All over social media.
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  • People loved it.
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  • And, and by the way, i think we did kind of a,
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  • A back of the napkin, just review of the clips
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  • From this event and how many times,
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  • I mean, it was over 100 million views from,
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  • From this event on, i think on x alone.
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  • So massive, massive spread
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  • That's the power of these events really, is that they
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  • The energizing the, coming together,
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  • The spread of the clips,
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  • The spread of the good vibes, as i call it.
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  • And, anyway,
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  • So we'll end with, our kind of review
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  • Of this event with a clip from erica herself.
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  • Sot ten there is nowhere else on earth,
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  • Nowhere else on earth like the united states of america.
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  • There is not.
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  • And with this powerful combination of freedom,
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  • The ability to live your life with your faith openly
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  • And the chance to build a life nowhere else like it
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  • And nowhere else i would want to be.
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  • And i'm sure you guys feel the same exact way.
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  • It's really like i would say, my
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  • Experience in that room was that
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  • Erica had a fire and a confidence of strength
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  • And, you kind of saw her on and in a different way,
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  • In a different context where she's actually, you know,
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  • Pushing forward an agenda, which i thought was a no.
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  • Exactly, exactly.
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  • It's
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  • Stepping up into another
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  • One of the roles that does come with having to succeed
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  • Her husband, which is he always was a fighter for
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  • The next race, the next election,
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  • The next battle, you know, you've got to go,
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  • Every victory is just a chance to fight
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  • Another battle in the future.
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  • And she recognizes that as well.
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  • And,
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  • We didn't really show it in that clip,
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  • But a big theme of that was there's a lot of people
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  • Who complain online.
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  • We talked
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  • Talked last week about the black pillars
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  • And the people who just fume that nothing is happening.
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  • And a lot of her
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  • Remarks were just,
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  • Here's all the amazing things that have happened,
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  • Amazing things that happened on immigration,
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  • Amazing things that have happened on crime.
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  • And she also mentioned, you know,
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  • We're not people in nigeria being killed for our faith.
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  • We're not europeans being prosecuted for our speech.
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  • We're not aliens being fed into the suicide pod.
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  • And so many things to be grateful for,
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  • So many things to fight for.
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  • And i think that it was that combination that,
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  • Certainly charlie himself would have, been delivering.
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  • Absolutely.
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  • Well, and, we are going to get into some of the
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  • And so, the
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  • The unfortunate
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  • Story of the of the week was the shooting in louisiana.
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  • So we're going to get into that.
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  • So we're going to get into that.
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  • We got to talk about this shreveport, killer
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  • Dad story because it's really a really tragic story.
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  • But there's larger implications as well.
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  • So shreveport dad, killed it looks like eight kids,
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  • Including seven of his own children.
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  • He was hired as shamar elkins,
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  • Who was a former army vet, a national guardsman who shared
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  • A post of his daughter's hour before the slaughter.
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  • It was a really,
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  • Really, really sad case because it looks like he went to
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  • He was going through a divorce.
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  • He talked online about maybe facing
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  • Mental issues, mental struggles, the his demons.
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  • He talked about his demons, but
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  • He also took his kids to church and he was an army vet.
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  • It looks like this is a truly
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  • A case of some, some tragic story of a man
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  • Giving in to these demons and mental instability.
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  • And the results are horrific.
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  • So he was going through a divorce, kills
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  • The kids, and shoots one of the moms in the head
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  • And then goes to his girlfriend, his,
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  • You know, i guess his baby mama to use it.
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  • The the the jargon of the day and shoots her
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  • In the face and kills three more kids.
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  • So seven of his own kids, eight kids total.
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  • One of them was a cousin.
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  • And it looks like one of the boys,
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  • We're not sure if it was one of his sons or not,
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  • But there was a 13 year old boy that climbed up on a roof
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  • And jumped off the roof to escape.
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  • Broke his leg, and, is going to survive.
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  • The two women are in critical condition,
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  • So this death toll, in theory could rise to ten.
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  • And i just a complete tragedy.
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  • Then he carjacked a vehicle and speeds away,
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  • Gets in a police chase with the police
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  • And a basically a terrible story all together.
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  • But we find out then, after
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  • News reports began circulating that in march 2019,
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  • Three years after completing his military service,
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  • Elkins was arrested on a charge of illegal use of weapons
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  • And carrying a firearm on school property.
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  • More than that.
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  • Yeah, because what he did is apparently he had
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  • Some confrontation with a man in a car.
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  • According to elkins himself,
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  • The man pulled a gun and pointed it at him.
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  • Who knows?
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  • But then as that car drove away,
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  • He pulled out his gun,
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  • Fired at five times after that car, apparently
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  • In the direction of the high
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  • School, was where the round was going.
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  • And the end result of that was he pleaded guilty
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  • And he received 18 months probation, not 18 months
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  • In prison, not 18 years in prison, but 18 months.
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  • So on probation, but no prison time.
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  • So this is a another classic story.
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  • Now this is a red state.
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  • But let's be honest,
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  • There are bad judges all over the country
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  • And there is a, i would say, a proclivity
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  • Within the legal community to give,
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  • A ton of leeway to judges there.
  • 00:10:45.063 --> 00:10:47.265
  • So there's the here's here's
  • 00:10:47.265 --> 00:10:48.567
  • What you need to take away from
  • 00:10:48.567 --> 00:10:49.601
  • This is that we need to stop empowering judges
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  • To give leniency to exhibit any sort of discretion.
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  • No, there needs to be mandatory
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  • Sentencing when you pick up a firearm
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  • And you use it with lethal intent.
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  • Five shots in the direction of a car
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  • In the direction of a school.
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  • And this guy is let back onto the streets
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  • Almost immediately with 18 months probation.
  • 00:11:08.253 --> 00:11:10.522
  • Yeah, it's we've learned this lesson over and over.
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  • We're learning it again.
  • 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:15.293
  • You know, the bright side of this is crime in dc, for
  • 00:11:15.293 --> 00:11:18.196
  • Example, is dramatically down 50% drop in homicides, crime.
  • 00:11:18.196 --> 00:11:21.366
  • And more impressive, i would say,
  • 00:11:21.366 --> 00:11:23.268
  • Actually is the drop of crime in baltimore.
  • 00:11:23.268 --> 00:11:25.370
  • Nearby baltimore was america's murder capital
  • 00:11:25.370 --> 00:11:28.673
  • Basically for about a decade after the freddie gray riots.
  • 00:11:28.673 --> 00:11:32.444
  • There, murder rate doubled overnight and stayed high.
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  • And now it's crashing again.
  • 00:11:35.113 --> 00:11:36.448
  • And but he's said, okay, we're actually
  • 00:11:36.448 --> 00:11:39.417
  • Going to enforce those gun crimes.
  • 00:11:39.417 --> 00:11:42.487
  • Like in this case,
  • 00:11:42.921 --> 00:11:44.156
  • We're routinely getting under charge that if you say
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  • And if you mean it, that if you're caught carrying a gun
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  • While you're a felon, if you use a gun
  • 00:11:51.329 --> 00:11:53.565
  • While you're a felon, if you have any reason
  • 00:11:53.565 --> 00:11:56.635
  • You're not allowed to be carrying
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  • Or using a firearm and you get caught, we will punish you.
  • 00:11:57.869 --> 00:12:00.639
  • And it's going to be multiple years.
  • 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:02.874
  • And that gets the dangerous
  • 00:12:02.874 --> 00:12:04.543
  • Ticking time bomb is off the street.
  • 00:12:04.543 --> 00:12:06.511
  • And it also means anyone with a brain
  • 00:12:06.511 --> 00:12:08.680
  • Who doesn't want to go to prison
  • 00:12:08.680 --> 00:12:10.148
  • Stops carrying illegal guns in the first place.
  • 00:12:10.148 --> 00:12:12.684
  • Because, you know,
  • 00:12:12.684 --> 00:12:13.785
  • I'll go to prison for five years,
  • 00:12:13.785 --> 00:12:14.986
  • And if they're not smart enough to make that correction,
  • 00:12:14.986 --> 00:12:17.322
  • Then they're probably not smart enough to be on the street.
  • 00:12:17.322 --> 00:12:19.324
  • Exactly.
  • 00:12:19.324 --> 00:12:20.158
  • And so it's this basic thing here
  • 00:12:20.158 --> 00:12:23.461
  • That sadly, we would possibly have these people,
  • 00:12:23.461 --> 00:12:26.198
  • These children still alive if we just bothered
  • 00:12:26.198 --> 00:12:29.067
  • To enforce these laws.
  • 00:12:29.067 --> 00:12:30.168
  • And it reveals something else about the left that
  • 00:12:30.168 --> 00:12:32.737
  • They often agitate for gun control.
  • 00:12:32.737 --> 00:12:36.007
  • They often agitate for new gun laws.
  • 00:12:36.007 --> 00:12:37.709
  • But the best thing
  • 00:12:37.709 --> 00:12:38.743
  • We could do to suppress crime in a lot of places
  • 00:12:38.743 --> 00:12:40.779
  • Is enforce the gun laws we already have,
  • 00:12:40.779 --> 00:12:42.881
  • Because everywhere in the country
  • 00:12:42.881 --> 00:12:44.182
  • It's illegal for a felon to just be carrying a gun around.
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  • It's illegal to just blast a gun off
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  • Right next to a school.
  • 00:12:49.754 --> 00:12:51.089
  • And if you enforce those laws, you will prevent
  • 00:12:51.089 --> 00:12:54.693
  • Future tragedies, because very few people start
  • 00:12:54.693 --> 00:12:57.796
  • With murdering children as their first offense.
  • 00:12:57.796 --> 00:13:00.632
  • Yeah, well, again,
  • 00:13:00.632 --> 00:13:02.500
  • There's too much discretion in the judicial judicial system
  • 00:13:02.500 --> 00:13:06.671
  • When it comes to judges
  • 00:13:06.671 --> 00:13:07.973
  • And the sentences that they can levy against criminals.
  • 00:13:07.973 --> 00:13:10.508
  • This guy pleads guilty
  • 00:13:10.508 --> 00:13:11.576
  • To plead down to an 18 month probation.
  • 00:13:11.576 --> 00:13:13.545
  • They probably looked at the fact that he was an army vet.
  • 00:13:13.545 --> 00:13:15.614
  • They probably look to the fact
  • 00:13:15.614 --> 00:13:16.581
  • That he's a family man, that all this stuff.
  • 00:13:16.581 --> 00:13:18.183
  • Well, it's there's a problem, though.
  • 00:13:18.183 --> 00:13:19.751
  • Lethal force, lethal intent in the middle of public towards
  • 00:13:19.751 --> 00:13:23.889
  • A school should not come with 18 months probation.
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  • There should not be that much
  • 00:13:26.591 --> 00:13:27.759
  • Discretion, that much leeway in the system.
  • 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:30.495
  • This man should have been put away and done hard time
  • 00:13:30.495 --> 00:13:33.164
  • And frankly,
  • 00:13:33.164 --> 00:13:34.566
  • Should have been a lot longer than 18 months in prison.
  • 00:13:34.566 --> 00:13:37.335
  • And i would
  • 00:13:37.335 --> 00:13:38.503
  • I don't know if it's going to turn out to be the judge,
  • 00:13:38.503 --> 00:13:39.271
  • Because if it was a plea deal,
  • 00:13:39.271 --> 00:13:40.438
  • It was likely prosecutors who struck this.
  • 00:13:40.438 --> 00:13:42.173
  • And yeah, it's a red state.
  • 00:13:42.173 --> 00:13:43.208
  • There's bigger picture things, which is, for example,
  • 00:13:43.208 --> 00:13:45.510
  • We should make sure it's louisiana.
  • 00:13:45.510 --> 00:13:47.012
  • I suspect they do this because louisiana has crowded prisons.
  • 00:13:47.012 --> 00:13:50.248
  • Well, what you need to do is bite the bullet.
  • 00:13:50.248 --> 00:13:52.417
  • Have more prisons. yep.
  • 00:13:52.417 --> 00:13:54.286
  • Have more have frankly more funding for prosecutors.
  • 00:13:54.286 --> 00:13:56.955
  • And if you need to, more funding for judges,
  • 00:13:56.955 --> 00:13:58.456
  • Make the system run quickly.
  • 00:13:58.456 --> 00:13:59.958
  • Because as we've seen in the case we're all following,
  • 00:13:59.958 --> 00:14:03.061
  • It's moving slowly.
  • 00:14:03.061 --> 00:14:04.629
  • And that doesn't make people feel there's justice either.
  • 00:14:04.629 --> 00:14:07.365
  • You want criminals to be rapidly
  • 00:14:07.365 --> 00:14:09.534
  • Brought to justice, quickly and efficiently
  • 00:14:09.534 --> 00:14:11.870
  • Punished with a penalty
  • 00:14:11.870 --> 00:14:13.438
  • That is consistently severe for crimes that warrant it.
  • 00:14:13.438 --> 00:14:16.308
  • Yeah.
  • 00:14:16.308 --> 00:14:17.342
  • I mean, 18 months probation in this instance,
  • 00:14:17.342 --> 00:14:19.978
  • Lethal force in public that that's crazy.
  • 00:14:19.978 --> 00:14:23.148
  • Imagine imagine what they would do in
  • 00:14:23.148 --> 00:14:24.916
  • Some of these like asian countries.
  • 00:14:24.916 --> 00:14:26.851
  • You know, it would be like
  • 00:14:26.851 --> 00:14:28.553
  • Lashings involved
  • 00:14:28.987 --> 00:14:30.221
  • And and being put, put, put in prison for a while.
  • 00:14:30.221 --> 00:14:33.124
  • We have more coming up.
  • 00:14:33.124 --> 00:14:34.592
  • Ken paxton joins us next.
  • 00:14:34.592 --> 00:14:36.127
  • He's got a new lawsuit against against actblue.
  • 00:14:36.127 --> 00:14:38.096
  • We'll ask him about his primary.
  • 00:14:38.096 --> 00:14:39.431
  • We'll be right back.
  • 00:14:39.431 --> 00:14:42.997
  • We'll be right back.
  • 00:14:42.997 --> 00:14:52.273
  • We have, attorney general ken paxton
  • 00:14:53.074 --> 00:14:55.643
  • From the state of texas, who's also a candidate
  • 00:14:55.643 --> 00:14:58.245
  • For the united states senate, that we're going to get into,
  • 00:14:58.245 --> 00:15:01.782
  • In just a few minutes as well.
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  • Welcome back to the show, mr.
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  • Attorney general.
  • 00:15:04.518 --> 00:15:05.920
  • Hey, so great to be back on the, travel of the state
  • 00:15:05.920 --> 00:15:08.889
  • In corpus christi today on my way to victoria.
  • 00:15:08.889 --> 00:15:11.325
  • Oh, good for you. there you go.
  • 00:15:11.325 --> 00:15:12.927
  • Well, it's a it's a huge state.
  • 00:15:12.927 --> 00:15:14.562
  • I mean, it's like running for president of of other states
  • 00:15:14.562 --> 00:15:18.265
  • Or of other countries, rather.
  • 00:15:18.265 --> 00:15:19.633
  • So, you've got a, huge, huge, route
  • 00:15:19.633 --> 00:15:23.204
  • That you have to travel.
  • 00:15:23.204 --> 00:15:24.438
  • I know, but here, we've got breaking news over the weekend,
  • 00:15:24.438 --> 00:15:27.675
  • And i want to get to it right away.
  • 00:15:27.675 --> 00:15:29.343
  • And that's this lawsuit against, actblue,
  • 00:15:29.343 --> 00:15:33.614
  • Which was an issue near and dear to charlie's heart.
  • 00:15:33.614 --> 00:15:36.083
  • I mean, it just seems like there's been so much smoke.
  • 00:15:36.083 --> 00:15:39.053
  • There's got to be fire with actblue.
  • 00:15:39.053 --> 00:15:41.222
  • Tell us why you're moving ahead with this.
  • 00:15:41.222 --> 00:15:43.090
  • And what have you discovered, sir?
  • 00:15:43.090 --> 00:15:44.725
  • So charlie was not wrong.
  • 00:15:45.292 --> 00:15:47.061
  • Which is not shocking.
  • 00:15:47.061 --> 00:15:48.596
  • We actually started investigating them back in 2023
  • 00:15:48.596 --> 00:15:51.699
  • Because we heard reports of various
  • 00:15:51.699 --> 00:15:54.735
  • Improprieties.
  • 00:15:54.735 --> 00:15:56.203
  • And so we actually, because it's federal election
  • 00:15:56.203 --> 00:15:58.639
  • Laws, federal election commission,
  • 00:15:58.639 --> 00:15:59.974
  • We actually referred it to them.
  • 00:15:59.974 --> 00:16:02.309
  • I know you wouldn't be shocked to know
  • 00:16:02.309 --> 00:16:03.944
  • The biden administration
  • 00:16:03.944 --> 00:16:04.912
  • Did not pursue anything against that,
  • 00:16:04.912 --> 00:16:06.981
  • And they continue to raise money.
  • 00:16:06.981 --> 00:16:08.749
  • So then, of course, more recently,
  • 00:16:08.749 --> 00:16:11.152
  • There was testimony in front of congress
  • 00:16:11.152 --> 00:16:12.853
  • By some of the aclu's
  • 00:16:12.853 --> 00:16:14.288
  • Lawyers acknowledging that actually had lied to congress.
  • 00:16:14.288 --> 00:16:17.091
  • They had not disclosed
  • 00:16:17.091 --> 00:16:19.126
  • Some of the problems with their fundraising,
  • 00:16:19.126 --> 00:16:20.995
  • Including potential using straw names and using names
  • 00:16:20.995 --> 00:16:25.499
  • That were not matched to the actual donors.
  • 00:16:25.499 --> 00:16:28.202
  • And also potentially foreign investments, which is also
  • 00:16:28.202 --> 00:16:32.606
  • Completely illegal.
  • 00:16:33.074 --> 00:16:34.508
  • So we actually tested it.
  • 00:16:34.508 --> 00:16:37.044
  • We actually i had my attorney go online and test it,
  • 00:16:37.044 --> 00:16:40.214
  • And we were able to
  • 00:16:40.214 --> 00:16:41.382
  • Make donations without fully disclosing who we were.
  • 00:16:41.382 --> 00:16:44.151
  • So we know we know the sites not.
  • 00:16:44.151 --> 00:16:46.087
  • And they're raising money inappropriately.
  • 00:16:46.087 --> 00:16:47.955
  • So we we have now sued them.
  • 00:16:47.955 --> 00:16:50.124
  • We're going to use discovery to try to understand more fully
  • 00:16:50.124 --> 00:16:52.726
  • How how big of a problem this is.
  • 00:16:52.726 --> 00:16:55.529
  • So i saw a story this weekend about
  • 00:16:55.529 --> 00:16:59.133
  • There was some chinese organized crime network
  • 00:16:59.133 --> 00:17:02.269
  • That was gobbling up gift cards and prepaid debit
  • 00:17:02.269 --> 00:17:05.973
  • Cards and funneling that money to various places.
  • 00:17:05.973 --> 00:17:09.643
  • And one of the things that i see here in your press release,
  • 00:17:09.643 --> 00:17:13.647
  • Is that that a lot of people are able to use
  • 00:17:13.647 --> 00:17:17.051
  • Prepaid debit cards and gift cards
  • 00:17:17.051 --> 00:17:18.552
  • To actually make donations on this website.
  • 00:17:18.552 --> 00:17:22.256
  • So you've got foreign organized crime rings
  • 00:17:22.256 --> 00:17:25.192
  • That we know are using gift cards for nefarious purposes.
  • 00:17:25.192 --> 00:17:28.829
  • And then you conveniently have actblue
  • 00:17:28.829 --> 00:17:31.365
  • That doesn't seem to have safeguards
  • 00:17:31.365 --> 00:17:32.933
  • For similar types of, donations or purchases.
  • 00:17:32.933 --> 00:17:36.504
  • Do you think that that is the intent?
  • 00:17:36.504 --> 00:17:38.439
  • Is there is the intent here that there is
  • 00:17:38.439 --> 00:17:42.443
  • Soft spots in this program because i believe
  • 00:17:42.443 --> 00:17:45.045
  • You don't even have
  • 00:17:45.045 --> 00:17:46.247
  • If you use your credit card, you don't even need a cv code.
  • 00:17:46.247 --> 00:17:48.349
  • At least that's the way it was before.
  • 00:17:48.349 --> 00:17:50.751
  • So i just your thoughts here, sir?
  • 00:17:50.751 --> 00:17:54.321
  • Absolutely.
  • 00:17:54.655 --> 00:17:55.523
  • They're completely valuable on purpose.
  • 00:17:55.523 --> 00:17:57.424
  • We caught them not using the seed killers,
  • 00:17:57.424 --> 00:18:01.095
  • And they told us they were corrected.
  • 00:18:01.095 --> 00:18:02.630
  • And we know now that they are not correct
  • 00:18:02.630 --> 00:18:04.131
  • Because we were able to make donation giving those.
  • 00:18:04.131 --> 00:18:07.434
  • So we know that they tell us one thing and do another.
  • 00:18:07.434 --> 00:18:10.271
  • Their intent, it appears, is to violate the law.
  • 00:18:10.271 --> 00:18:13.407
  • And as i said, i can't stop them
  • 00:18:13.407 --> 00:18:15.142
  • From violating federal law.
  • 00:18:15.142 --> 00:18:16.177
  • That would have to be the ftc.
  • 00:18:16.177 --> 00:18:17.878
  • And hopefully they will look into this more fully,
  • 00:18:17.878 --> 00:18:20.214
  • Especially given what was already admitted in congress.
  • 00:18:20.214 --> 00:18:23.217
  • But no, absolutely.
  • 00:18:23.217 --> 00:18:24.051
  • They're using gift cards
  • 00:18:24.051 --> 00:18:25.152
  • Or using debit cards or using apple pay.
  • 00:18:25.152 --> 00:18:27.321
  • They're using venmo.
  • 00:18:27.321 --> 00:18:28.589
  • There's all kinds of ways that their security law
  • 00:18:28.589 --> 00:18:31.225
  • And these foreign donations,
  • 00:18:31.225 --> 00:18:32.726
  • These other countries are influencing our elections
  • 00:18:32.726 --> 00:18:36.197
  • Completely illegally,
  • 00:18:36.197 --> 00:18:37.298
  • But they're getting away with it to actually,
  • 00:18:37.298 --> 00:18:39.500
  • Is there any dimension
  • 00:18:39.500 --> 00:18:40.534
  • Where you can work with the fec or offer up stuff
  • 00:18:40.534 --> 00:18:42.603
  • You're able to find and speed up
  • 00:18:42.603 --> 00:18:44.438
  • Whatever investigation they're able to do?
  • 00:18:44.438 --> 00:18:46.907
  • Well, i love that question because the,
  • 00:18:46.907 --> 00:18:49.043
  • I'm running for u.s. senate when i'm in the u.s.
  • 00:18:49.043 --> 00:18:50.978
  • Senate, i'll be all over this.
  • 00:18:50.978 --> 00:18:52.112
  • The problem we have now is our current u.s.
  • 00:18:52.112 --> 00:18:55.416
  • Senator, john cornyn,
  • 00:18:55.416 --> 00:18:56.317
  • Has never been interested in this issue.
  • 00:18:56.317 --> 00:18:57.484
  • We have brought it up for years.
  • 00:18:57.484 --> 00:18:59.119
  • We we filed this letter
  • 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:01.889
  • With the fec several years ago and no response.
  • 00:19:01.889 --> 00:19:05.693
  • So obviously, the information that we get,
  • 00:19:05.693 --> 00:19:08.395
  • We will disclose to the public and to the federal government
  • 00:19:08.395 --> 00:19:12.433
  • And we will use it in our own lawsuit.
  • 00:19:12.433 --> 00:19:14.401
  • We hope that the fec will go forward.
  • 00:19:14.401 --> 00:19:16.470
  • We want them to
  • 00:19:16.470 --> 00:19:17.438
  • We think that with new leadership,
  • 00:19:17.438 --> 00:19:18.973
  • We've had a much better chance, obviously.
  • 00:19:18.973 --> 00:19:21.075
  • So yes, we are hopeful that the information
  • 00:19:21.075 --> 00:19:23.444
  • That we gather, which we expect to
  • 00:19:23.444 --> 00:19:24.678
  • Be even more than what we have now, will be very helpful to,
  • 00:19:24.678 --> 00:19:28.249
  • To the, to the federal government
  • 00:19:28.249 --> 00:19:29.550
  • And hopefully to them taking action.
  • 00:19:29.550 --> 00:19:32.753
  • So you brought it up first.
  • 00:19:32.753 --> 00:19:35.055
  • Yeah, i was going to get to it.
  • 00:19:35.055 --> 00:19:36.590
  • But you are running for u.s.
  • 00:19:36.590 --> 00:19:38.158
  • Senate and your primary, contender is the sitting u.s.
  • 00:19:38.158 --> 00:19:43.097
  • Senator from the state of texas, ken.
  • 00:19:43.097 --> 00:19:44.932
  • Pat, john cornyn.
  • 00:19:44.932 --> 00:19:47.067
  • And there has been, you know, a little bit of news around
  • 00:19:47.067 --> 00:19:50.604
  • The endorsement or lack thereof from president trump.
  • 00:19:50.604 --> 00:19:54.174
  • Give us an update on the race
  • 00:19:54.174 --> 00:19:55.909
  • And maybe any insights into that endorsement story
  • 00:19:55.909 --> 00:19:59.480
  • That we all heard so much about. as well.
  • 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:02.383
  • So in the first round we had
  • 00:20:02.983 --> 00:20:04.018
  • I've been campaigning for a year.
  • 00:20:04.018 --> 00:20:05.753
  • As of april the 8th, we just had our march 3rd primary.
  • 00:20:05.753 --> 00:20:08.255
  • We had eight people in the race, 18%
  • 00:20:08.255 --> 00:20:11.125
  • Went to other candidates, including wesley hunt.
  • 00:20:11.125 --> 00:20:13.861
  • And then i had 41.
  • 00:20:13.861 --> 00:20:15.629
  • He had 42, but he spent $100 million all in.
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  • I spent 5.8, you know, a topic for another day.
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  • But there definitely they definitely have the
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  • The rules rigged as a as a as it relates to fundraising for
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  • For challengers. that's just amazing.
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  • When i think about where that money could be spent
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  • And we're staring at a midterm
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  • That is not assured,
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  • The outcome is not assured that we even keep the senate
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  • And we, the powers that be below $100
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  • Million on a senate primary in texas.
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  • Just imagine that.
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  • Where could that money be better spent?
  • 00:20:48.595 --> 00:20:49.963
  • You know, that's
  • 00:20:49.963 --> 00:20:50.964
  • Just a question that we should all be asking.
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  • Like, what are we thinking?
  • 00:20:53.033 --> 00:20:55.135
  • But anyways, continue on.
  • 00:20:55.135 --> 00:20:57.071
  • That well,
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  • It does tell you one thing that incumbency
  • 00:20:58.038 --> 00:20:59.540
  • Is more important than majority.
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  • They tell you that, you know, they raise money with donors.
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  • And then john cornyn gets to spend 100 million plus.
  • 00:21:04.078 --> 00:21:06.513
  • I mean, how much more is he going to spend in this runoff?
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  • Another 30, 40, 50 million?
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  • It just seems like, it's clear from their actions
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  • From john cornyn
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  • Is actually the incumbency protecting incumbents.
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  • We're going to have a republican in the state.
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  • We didn't need to spend that money here.
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  • We can
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  • Spend it in a general election either here or north carolina
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  • Or michigan or maine.
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  • We have lots of places.
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  • These other senators are being hurt by this,
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  • And these other opportunities are being hurt.
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  • So the majority is secondary to getting john cornyn elected,
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  • Which really i mean, if donors really understood
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  • That, i'm not sure that they would
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  • That wouldn't have an impact on further.
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  • It certainly would be if i were giving i want to know,
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  • Hey, you're taking my money that i expected to go
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  • Against democrats and using it against
  • 00:21:45.853 --> 00:21:48.055
  • A conservative republican in texas.
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  • What's the what's the benefit to the party for that?
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  • I don't see one that's, mr.
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  • Attorney general, we, have your back.
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  • We've endorsed you at turning point action.
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  • Tell us, where is the race right now?
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  • What is the polling saying, and when is the
  • 00:21:59.833 --> 00:22:02.669
  • When is the primary election as well?
  • 00:22:02.669 --> 00:22:05.406
  • That's a great question.
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  • It's amazing how few people, the run off
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  • And how few people even know when it is.
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  • It's may 18th through the 22nd, five days of early voting
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  • Right before memorial weekend, monday through friday,
  • 00:22:13.147 --> 00:22:15.048
  • And then election day is literally the day after,
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  • Memorial weekend, may 26th.
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  • So it's really important
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  • That people
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  • Tell their friends, tell their family, encouraged,
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  • Because we had 2 million people vote in the primary,
  • 00:22:23.924 --> 00:22:26.460
  • Probably have less than a million vote in the runoff.
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  • So your vote really is leveraged
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  • As far as where the race is at
  • 00:22:30.798 --> 00:22:32.566
  • Every race, every poll i've seen.
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  • I had the last poll i saw, we were at 48.
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  • John was at 40, with the trump endorsement.
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  • John would go to 42.
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  • I'd be at 45 without it, i would be at, 55
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  • And he'd be at 35.
  • 00:22:44.878 --> 00:22:45.913
  • So it's, it's interesting to see those numbers,
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  • But they don't really matter until election day.
  • 00:22:48.916 --> 00:22:50.684
  • So, you know, polls are polls and they don't.
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  • What matters is people getting out.
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  • And i
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  • Don't want people to
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  • Rest or relax because we have a real opportunity
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  • To change texas and the country.
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  • With the change in leadership from texas.
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  • Mr. attorney general, we have your back.
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  • Please support this man. he's
  • 00:23:05.399 --> 00:23:07.034
  • The grassroots, the movement conservative in this race.
  • 00:23:07.034 --> 00:23:10.337
  • And the other guy's been a thorn
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  • In the side of the admin and of the movement for years.
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  • It's time. it's time for new blood.
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  • Mr. ken paxton, we've got your back 100%.
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  • Thank you for making the time today.
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  • Hey appreciate it.
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  • Love what you guys are doing
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  • And have ever since the inception.
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  • So god bless you guys. thank you.
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