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Trump’s Xi Summit Leaves CNN CRYING Outside—Their Power SLIPPING AWAY! S6 E1

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Trump’s Xi Summit Leaves CNN CRYING Outside—Their Power SLIPPING AWAY! S6 E1

Mint Mobile promotes a summer special with all plans at $15/month, offering unlimited data and a new customer incentive, though with upfront fees and data limits. FanDuel expands access to sports betting across the U.S., emphasizing nationwide availability. A health segment highlights the risk of shingles in older adults, urging early medical consultation due to reactivation risks. The political discussion focuses on the state dinner between President Trump and Chinese President Xi, where critics argue the media downplayed its diplomatic significance and mocked the pageantry, despite its cultural and strategic importance. Media outlets face backlash for perceived bias, especially in coverage of the event, with concerns about editorial independence amid a major media merger involving Paramount and Skydance. The narrative suggests that media skepticism and speculation about martial law or election interference stem from desperation, not factual basis, as legal experts point out constitutional and practical limits on such actions. The analysis concludes that while the media may react with alarm, the diplomatic event was a deliberate, well-coordinated gesture signaling mutual respect between the U.S. and China. Ultimately, the conversation underscores the tension between media narratives and real-world diplomatic efforts, as well as the shifting power dynamics in U.S. media under corporate consolidation.

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I mean, you've got what's going on, right? With the big dinner that they were. Banned from last night. And now you have this really crazy story, this really crazy story out there today. Like, I can't even believe I'm reporting this, but it's CNN. CNN is out there broadcasting that the president is going to invoke martial law. Yeah, you heard that correctly. I told you it was getting wild. They're saying he's going to invoke martial law if he doesn't take the House and Senate. I mean, this is getting out there, but it really smacks of desperation. You wonder. You wonder why he calls them the fake news, right? You wonder. We're going to get into that. But first, you know, think about what you're witnessing right now in this standoff, if you would, between the president and Donald Trump. It is all part of the same story. In other words, they thought they thought that their team and they themselves ran this show. But now you get the biggest media merger in history, right, with Paramount, Skydance, buying Warner Brothers Discovery. And with that, they get CNN. Oh, and they already have CBS. And then you get Elon over at X. And you get all the tech giants, the bigwigs in the tech industry sitting by the president's side last night. And I'll tell you, this media is desperate. Desperate. So that's why they're coming up with crazy stuff like martial law. I mean, they're desperate and they're humiliated, OK? Let's face it. They're really humiliated because they got stuck out there last night, right? Big summit. Big dinner. And they weren't able to report on it at all. I mean, all they could do was shout questions like this one did from CBS, I believe. Mr. President, did you call on President Xi to stop buying oil from Iran? Any new barbwares on the line? Mr. President, why are you banning media outlets? Why should U.S. Oh, man. Should U.S. taxpayers pay for ads about you, Mr. President? Time and place. Time and place. Time and place. Anyway, like I said, desperate. Desperate, desperate, desperate, desperate. And now the mainstream media wants you to believe that the Trump-Xi visit was nothing but a bunch of empty pageantry, that there was no there there. And they published a whole series of these pretty bad headlines. I mean, pretty nasty headlines like this. Oh, the Xi meeting. It was heavy on pumped, light on substance. China is just fine with that. That is the CNN analysis. Of everything. And then you get this one. Oh, lots of pump and even more punting on tensions in U.S.-China relations. That's from Associated Press, New York Times, flyovers, pandas and pump masks divide in U.S.-China summit. A few more here. Pump over progress from The Guardian as Trump rolls out red carpet for Xi. Pump prevails over substance as I mean, it's like, did they get the talking point or did they get the talking point? I mean, right down to the adjective that they're trying to use. The pump prevails and the noun prevails over substance as Donald Trump hosts Xi Jinping. I mean, enough is enough, guys. I mean, the the bias is extraordinary. Oh, and then the Daily Beast for the win here. She humiliates Trump to his face in the White House. Wow. I'll tell you, this was his first trip to D.C. in quite a while. I want to say more than a decade. I mean, he didn't go to the U.N. He came to see Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. He landed. He landed at Andrews Air Force Base and somehow we still got video of that, even though they're all on strike. Right. Amazing, amazing how that happens. The world goes on. I see there's the president of the United States greeting President Xi and his wife. You see Melania Trump at the tarmac. That was not just optics. That was actually a very big cultural signal, because in Chinese political culture, how you were received is actually the message, the rank, the ceremony, the flowers, the state dinner, the flag. The B-2 and F-55s that were going over the Rose Garden. And believe me, they had them. That is Beijing's language for respect. And guess who understands that? Better than the media, for sure. That would be one Donald Trump. And so that's why he made such a big deal of this. That's why this was actually really important. And if you wanted to have a good relationship with China, you needed to show that kind of respect. Don't forget, China certainly did that for him. When he went to visit, I mean, so he had the bombers going overhead. He had the band in the background. I mean, it really was an impressive welcome. And do not underestimate that. Again, I'm not an expert on Chinese culture, but I've covered China enough in the past and have enough friends that are experts on this. This is a big deal. This is important. And that is a sign of respect. And, you know, you're trying to work on a relationship here, right? And so Trump understands this. Trump gets this. And instead, the media, instead of saying, you know, if this were Biden, I guarantee you, if it were Biden, they would say, wow, wasn't this brilliant? Wasn't this wonderful? Like, we put on such a show and this is fantastic. And instead, because it is one Donald Trump, you're getting all of those would be the those would be the bombers going overhead. And because it's Donald Trump. We're getting all of this sneering and all the laughing at the pageantry. And it's just a show and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, they just can't stand it because actually this is good for our relationship with China. It actually is good for our relationship with China. In fact, she said it himself today. Here they are at tea. President and I are like two people that's charting the course for the great ship of China-U.S. relations. When the president visited China in May. Read on the vision of building a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability. Wow. OK, so we're getting somewhere. All right. We're getting somewhere. And that's despite what you read in the media with all the headlines. By the way, I'll also point out that Donald Trump was very happy with this and said that this is going to actually be good for the farmers. He extended the truce that we have right now for another couple of months in terms of trade. But in terms of where it goes from here, we'll get to that in a second. Just here. We've already had to say on how this is actually good for farmers. And we'll be speaking a lot. I think our farmers are going to be very happy. A lot of very positive things happen. But America is very happy about this visit. And I'm sure China is very happy also. Great things for both countries. And it's been just very, very productive. And thank you very much. So as far as substance, look. You need to start somewhere, right? You need to start somewhere. And before I get into that, I just want you to remember. I want you to remember that China wanted the trade truce stretched out for years, preferably through the rest of Donald Trump's presidency. And Donald Trump actually wouldn't give them that today. He kept the clock short. He gave them two months. I think it's through January 10th. That's not weakness. That is leverage. Because you're not going to lock in some kind of long-term deal, right, when the other side hasn't. He hasn't fully delivered on all the farm purchases they promised and all the rare earths. So what is he doing? He's extending the relationship just enough to keep the relationship from blowing up. He's making everybody happy with the pomp and circumstance and the pageantry. It was a warm welcome. And that was very deliberate and by design. And what you do now is you put the next hard round on the calendar, right, when you still have the cards. Treasury already said the truce holds. And the president has said. farmers are going to be very, very happy. So you know, that's where we are. I'll take that, shall we say, over a press corp that doesn't know a win if it hit them over the head. I mean, you know, we get two more meetings, right? APEC in Shenzhen in November, then you get you 20 in Miami. That's not a one-off photo op there. That's a cadence. And I would also add that, you know, great power relationships do not get rebuilt in a single afternoon in the Oval Office. They have to be warmed up. They have to be ritualized, especially with China, and they have to get into a rhythm. You have to develop some trust because we're talking about some important issues here, whether it be chips or AI or Taiwan, Iran, Ukraine, a lot. And so you got to work on this and you got to start from a place of conversation that is not filled with hostility. You know, it's kind of like dating, right? You know, if you want to build a long-term, long-term relationship with someone and you want a future, then you're going to need to start slowly and you're going to need to go gradually and you're going to need to warm up because you want that trust. And that is what Trump and Xi are doing. So Xi even floated bringing 100,000 American students to China and he sent some pandas to Atlanta. And you can laugh at that as the media has, but you know what? That's actually a big signal from China. China doesn't send pandas as a joke. They send them when they want the relationship framed as durable. So, you know, I just have to say, you know, I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm going to have to say, look, yes, there are a lot of things out there, whether it be Taiwan, whether it be semiconductors, whether it be AI, but I'm just telling you, you got to start somewhere and at least we're having the conversation. And then I look at the media and how they laugh at it and they mock it. And I'm like, guys, you had two of the most powerful people on earth sitting at dinner last night, surrounded by the people that actually build the chips and make the models, right? And that spectacle in and of itself, mattered. Donald Trump gets something, something really important in foreign policy. If you want to deal with China, you don't open up by humiliating the other side on the camera, right? You show strength, you show honor, you got the flyover and you get the dinner and the archives and the tea. And that wasn't filler. Okay. That was actually well-coordinated, well-planned. And this is because we want a better, long-term relationship with China, knowing that they are, oh, how shall I phrase this? Our frenemy. Okay. Keep your enemies close. What do they say? Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. I mean, China's a big deal. And China could be very threatening. So we want to balance this relationship very, very carefully. I don't know what the media wants. I mean, the media just, what, they expect some kind of massive trade deal and like some. Do you hear that? That sound, right? Every plan, including unlimited is $15 a month. Upfront payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months or $180 for 12 month plan required. $15 per month equivalent taxes and fees extra. New customer offer for initial plan term only greater than 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy. See terms. So you can get in on the sports action no matter where you are, including these places. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. Boot season's back, which means football season is back. And to COVID, you can buy your favorite denim at Tocovas.com. Find your new favorite denim at Tocovas.com or stop by your local Tocovas store. Either way, you'll be showing up on game day. Tocovas denim. It's made for boots. 40 page, you know, here's what, here's what we're doing now. I don't know what they wanted, but I will tell you, it's made for boots. It's made for boots. It's made for boots. They didn't appreciate getting kicked out on the street and kicked out on the street. They were the media. They want him to fail. They want him to lose. They want to make sure that they're not getting locked out of the big dinner like they were last night. I mean, wow. So, you know, that there's this ban on CNN going on. And because of the ban on CNN, all the other camera crews got together that are part of this so-called pool. And so, you know, it's made for boots. And so, we are not going to go and video this dinner or anything for that matter, because you're not letting CNN in. And by the way, CNN was the pool camera last night. And the president didn't have to let CNN in because the judge's order that came back, that was sort of a temporary thing saying, hey, you got to give them a badge just to get in the building because you didn't give them due process. They gave them the badges, but they didn't invite them to the dinner. And so there was quite a fuss about this. Let's go to the MSNBC reporter. There she is standing in solidarity with her CNN friends asked on television. And right now, there is no American network that is carrying this this state dinner that is carrying the events that have played out over the course of the day, including the rolling out of a red carpet for the Chinese president. Actually, I saw the rolling out of the red carpet. That's not on Twitter on X. So I think we still made it. OK. We still made it, even though they're saying, oh, well, we didn't have anybody there. One of the things I did notice was that the video that came in, it was actually more muted in terms of its lighting, because I don't think you had the big broadcast lights in there. And so the dinner actually felt more intimate in a way. You actually kind of felt like you were there because it's like this candlelight dinner. Right. And you kind of got that sense. And so, no, it didn't have the broadcast, you know, whiz bang, but it actually felt really authentic and kind of cool. And so it was still getting out. There. And I think Trump TV had some of it, but it wasn't the broadcast network. So understand this, right, guys. Their monopoly is crumbling in real time and they can't take it. They don't know what to do. I mean, their entire livelihoods, their entire existence, their entire center of power is deteriorating in real time. CNN not being allowed in. Oh, my goodness. CNN was not allowed. So they also attempted to gain access to this greeting ceremony, just like I did, one of their correspondents and a producer. And they were told that they were not going to be allowed in as well. And I'm not sure if they have received any explanation, but we certainly have not from the White House communications director. And so, again, will they, like us, be allowed to be credentialed into these future events? Well, it's going to be up to the judge now. Right. I mean, that's what it's coming down to. It's going to come down to whether the judge is going to say, OK, you are allowed to be credentialed for this event. You have this as a First Amendment right. I don't think you have a First Amendment right on that. I think you have a First Amendment right to report on things. I don't necessarily think you have a First Amendment right to be at every event that you want to be at. And that's going to be part of the distinction. They were in court for that today. And I have to show you some of that because I want to show you what the president's lawyer is arguing. But back to what's really going down here. I think they're freaking out in part. I think they're freaking out. Because the new boss, the new boss was there and they weren't. This would be David Ellison. OK, so this is the guy who owns Skydance. His father is Larry Oracle. He owns Skydance. We've talked about this before. And he went in and he bought Paramount. And everybody at Paramount's freaking out, including all of the 60 Minutes people, because you see CBS is owned by Paramount. And so the whole news division there is freaking out. Oh, my gosh, we've got this Trump supporter guy that is coming in and buying our program. He's going to be the new boss. He's going to own not just CBS, but also CNN, because that's his deal. In fact, we're just days away from it closing. It's supposed to close on September 30th. And they needed to close on September 30th because there's like a $7 million fee for every day it doesn't close. And the expectation is going to close very close to the 30th, maybe the first half of the year. But it just got approved last week. And they're coming apart at the seams at CNN, because now they've got this guy that's like a Trump guy that's going to be their new boss. I mean, what is he going to do? Look at this. Here's another one. Hollywood reporter. Whoa. David Ellison, tech titans and Fox News host attend White House state dinner honoring China's president. You had Elon Musk. It's like a who's who. Sam Altman, Tim Cook, Jensen Wang, Jesse. Well, Jesse and Laura made it. Look, it was a big deal in that you had everyone from the entertainment industry. Well, the new entertainment industry, dare I say, given it was David Ellison, as well as Elon Musk. You had everyone in finance there. You had bigwigs from Larry Fink was a lot of really important people in finance. And then you had a lot of people that were very important in tech. And so this is terrifying. OK, terrifying for CNN. They're looking at it and going our entire world just blew up. According to the guest list released by the White House, attendees include included paramount skydance ceo david ellison just days after his company inked a settlement to clear its takeover of warner brothers discovery including cnn which saw its reporters denied access to the state dinner even as a federal judge reinstated their press pass to the white house complex okay so the new boss was there and he's got to be looking at his reporters out on the street and he's got to be thinking gosh darn it guys there's got to be a better way just wait till i get in a few more days few more days we'll get this we'll get this fixed or not right i mean they're they're so nervous that before they even found out about this guy you see who i got on my screen we've been talking about this for the last couple of days because my sources tell me he's very interested in having this minority stake they've got a syndicate that they're putting together of equity investors because they need to come up with some of the money it's 110 billion dollar deal so in order to come up with some of that you need to come up with some of the money it's 110 billion dollar deal so in order to come up with They're tapping some, uh, some important folks. And one of them might be Elon Musk. Apparently the Ellison's have gone to Elon and said, Hey, can you help out? And I think he probably wants to return the favor because don't forget when he bought X, guess who helped him out? It was Larry Ellison, David's dad. So I'm like, I got to show you this because Christiane Amanpour and Brian Stelter, who's like their media guy, they are so nervous. They were so freaking out. And this is before they found out about Elon. Okay. Ooh, it's it. I mean, you have to understand the context right around where we're going with this, because what I'm eventually going to report is that they think that there's martial law coming and for them to get on that kind of limb and talk all this crazy stuff. It's because of this, it's because their livelihoods are threatened. Their entire establishment is threatened. And now they're like the, you know, the wild cat in the corner, and they're just going to kick and scream and lash out. and do whatever they can to try and make this noise in kind of a last hurrah. So here's Christiane. Here you get a sense of how nervous she is because she's got a new boss. We have also seen this movie. We have seen the Paramount, Skydance, Ellison takeover of CBS News first. And we've seen what their view of editorial independence has meant. Essentially a wholesale reorientation of the personnel. And as far as we can gather, the editor in chief's views on what editorial independence looks like. And there's been a huge amount of criticism about what it has transpired to be. I was actually surprised to see that this deal also adds the editorial board function for CBS. I mean, I thought the CBS thing was kind of done and dusted. That's a very interesting point. This is a partly as a result of the state attorney's general negotiating over the weekend. For example, in Connecticut, the attorney general, William Tong, he says in a statement he was fighting to protect both CBS News and CNN. He says he wanted them both to be sold off by Paramount, but he couldn't get that done. No, he couldn't. Poor guy. Well, you know, they go on to lament that this is going to be really tough. And she says, I've been here 43 years and I've lived through all these management teams. And I'm sitting there going, honey, you haven't lived through this one because the world is about to change. And that 1980 business model, 1980s, mid-80s business model, which was so revolutionary right back then, that is gone. That is out the window. And you've got the new kids in town that are going to come in and completely reinvent it. So, yeah, Elon may be in there. David doesn't even. I'm telling you, I hear very, very good things about David from all my sources. He's thinking in ways that you can't even imagine because entertainment is changing in real time and it's not going to be these big, big, big movie. You know, hey, we wonder if the actors are even going to have jobs in a few years, right? It's all changing. And yes, you will still need people, but there's going to be all kinds of new technology coming to this. And that freaks them out. And so what do they come back to? Crazy town. OK, crazy town. They're like, oh, you know, this must be the beginning of a dictatorship. He's not allowing CNN access to the dinner. This is clearly a dictatorship. As Chris Murphy, the senator from the state of Connecticut, a Democrat, a very liberal one, kind of like getting out there in weird ways. I just got to say, you know, and talking to this reporter from Lindell TV. Hi, Senator, your thoughts on Trump's media ban, the latest developments there. What do you think about him taking the access away from CNN Politico? I mean, this is the. Roadmap. For would be authoritarians that they try to destroy the free press and they try to use the power of the White House in order to punish anybody who tells the truth. I think it's also the mark of a pretty desperate president. He knows that he and his party are about to get their clock cleaned in this election. And he thinks maybe that if he keeps objective news journalists out of the White House, people won't learn what's happening. They won't learn about the disastrous war. They won't learn about his campaign to raise costs on people. I just don't think he'll be successful in that effort. There were journalists that were removed, though, under Biden for similar reasons. They didn't like the lines of questioning coming from those. Simon Atiba with African news outlet. Yeah. Do you think that that's similar to CNN? He was just asking questions. I think he was a little less egregious than CNN, to be honest with you. But what about when Trump was banned from all social media? So what's your so what's your what's your point? You believe that? The president should be able to ban CNN from the White House. I don't think there's anything in the Constitution that says that CNN has to be allowed in the White House. I think that you think it's a you think it's a good decision for for democracy and for the free press. I'm all for free speech. I don't think I don't think anybody in this country, right or left, thinks that news outlets like CNN should be banned from the White House. What about when Trump was banned from all social media? Any comment on that? Democrats celebrated. Thank you, Senator. I love her. I really do. I think she's terrific. And she goes right back at these guys and they're like, it's kind of a what dare I say once again, like this new medium, this new media. So they're all out there. He's a dictator. You know, this is this is this is what what you see in dictatorships. And I just got to say, I don't think you have a constitutional right now. You know, I'd be curious to see what the court comes out and says on this whole thing. But do you hear that? That sound, right? That means that summer is officially here. It means that grown adults. Just sprint into the street for a frozen dessert shaped like a cartoon. May slow when network is busy. See terms. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. By the time I hit my 50s, I'd learned a few things. How family is precious. Work can always wait. And 99% of people over 50 already have the virus that causes shingles. Not everyone at risk will develop it. But I did. The painful, blistering rash disrupted my life for weeks. Don't learn about your shingles risk the hard way. Sponsored by GSK. I'm with J.D. on this. J.D. making the point that, like, what's the difference between political, and Breitbart? Like, why does Politico get a pass, but Breitbart doesn't? So CNN, MSNOW, and Politico are now suing over the ban. Do you think it's appropriate for the president to be banning media outlets just because he doesn't like what they report? Well, I take some issue with the premise. So he's not banning media outlets. What he's doing is saying, we're not going to give you special access to the White House if you engage in what is effectively propaganda. We have to remember, those three outlets account about 92% of the stories that they have on the president of the United States, on the administration, are negative. That's not representative. It's not representative of the American people. It's not representative of public opinion. So if you're going to engage in what is effectively far-left propaganda, why would a Republican White House give you special access? Sir, you talked a lot about free speech over the years. How is this not an attack on free speech? Well, they can still report on the Trump White House. They can still get the public reports. They can still, of course, talk to people in the administration and outside the administration. What the president has said is, we're not going to give you special access inside the White House. The way that I think about it is, if you go back to the Biden administration or the Obama administration and compare, let's say, Politico to Breitbart, if you actually look at the objective analysis, Politico and Breitbart are, Politico is as anti-Trump as Breitbart was anti-Obama or anti-Biden. Now, why on God's green earth would Donald Trump be expected to give Politico special access when nobody in the media expected the Biden administration or the Obama administration to give Breitbart special access? It's about basic fairness. They can still report. They still have the access to free speech. They're just not going to get an office in the White House anymore. And I think it's totally appropriate. Okay. In other words, why are you being treated any differently? Because you see, you were part of the in crowd with all your like in friends and all the Democrats love political. They loved it so much. I hear the Biden administration was given an eight billion bucks a year to pay for all those fancy subscriptions. Everybody had to have a political subscription, right? So where did they go when they wanted to plan a story that the Hunter Biden laptop on the eve of the election was in fact allegedly not real? I mean, they said it was Russian misinformation when in fact it was real and all the people that were signing that letter would have known it was real. So when they wanted to put their misinformation out there, they went to, oh, the guys that were on the payroll that they helped become part of the pool and part of the whole. Well, it's not technically pool because they're not in the in the TV business per se, but they had those press passes. Well, now they don't. OK, so so what? Let's let's go to the courtroom today because the president's lawyer was arguing that there is just no frickin way that these guys. At CNN, have any constitutional right? This is not within the First Amendment. This is not about freedom of the press. In fact, they're arguing that there's a security challenge here. This lawyer is saying, hey, you know what? You guys reported on that plane. Remember the plane from Qatar? And you reported it out, all this business about it not having the same security apparatus that Air Force One originally did, et cetera. And for that reason, they consider them to have threatened the security of the president of the United States. And for that reason, they're taking away the passes. Listen to the lawyer. Yes, please. The court access to the White House is a privilege, not a right. The court just heard CNN put forth an absurd interpretation of the First Amendment that they could knowingly publish classified information. And the president would be. Required to still give them privileged access to the White House complex. There are a lot for HIPAA, 18 U.S.C. 798. Maybe that's why the cases that the court has identified were decided not on First Amendment grounds, but on due process grounds. Hmm. So he's like, you guys are honestly crazy to think that you have any leg to stand on with this, because there's this thing called 18 U.S.C. 798 disclosure of classified information. It's actually really illegal. It can land you 10 years in prison. Now, you might think that this is at odds with the First Amendment, but this law actually prohibits knowingly and willfully publishing or disclosing to any unauthorized person certain classified information involving secret code ciphers and cryptographic systems, equipment used for cryptography and communications intelligence. U.S. or foreign government communications, intelligence activities and information obtained by intercepting foreign government communications, knowing that was its source. The statute explicitly includes publication. OK, so it's wording is not limited here to government employees. They could actually arrest, if we're really to see this whole thing through, people that were reprimanded. We're reporting things that they considered a violation of these security rules, thereby putting the president of the United States and perhaps the entire team. Remember, he had a whole bunch of people on that plane. So that's a big deal. That's a really, really, really big deal. And this is what they're going in with. I mean, I thought that they were just going to go in on, you know, whether or not you really had a right to be in the room, because this was kind of what was discussed with AP. When AP said, hey, we don't want to call it the Gulf of Mexico. We want to call it or rather they want to call the Gulf of Mexico. They won't call it Gulf of America. And Trump said, all right, you want to keep calling it Gulf of Mexico. I'm going to revoke your your pass. And at first the court said, no, no, you got to give the pass back. And then at the appellate level, you had two judges that actually said, well, the president does have some discretion over special access to restricted places, whether that's like Air Force One or say like a little bit. A little dinner like they had last night. And so he has the ability to say yay or nay to certain people. And so given that they are saying that, therefore, he can continue using that same kind of discretion when inviting any of these people to pool events. And so that's why the AP gets left out in that case. So the left will say, well, Trump is infringing on our First Amendment because he's cutting off access and he's cutting off access to this very, very important. Outlet that is CNN. And you've got the rest of the pool, the so-called pool standing with them, of course, in solidarity. But the reason they're standing with them, think about it, is because this pool is in jeopardy of seeing their own. Monopoly get broken five networks, OK, and they are just refusing to film. So even though the president was like, OK, you guys can come back in, you can go to the White House briefing room. You can go sit in your desk. They said, no, we're still not going to film because you're not allowing CNN in. And this five network pool is ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and MSNBC, NBC. So they all take turns. And it was CNN's turn and CNN wasn't allowed in. So nobody picked up the slack. Everybody refused. So it meant you had, you know, reporters. Screaming out questions like this yesterday. Mr. Any new farm oils on the line? Mr. Why should U.S. Should U.S. President? Oh, boy. Right. Oh, boy. She's probably like, gosh, you know, you guys got to control your press a little better. I'm joking. I mean, that's what makes us. We love who we are. We love having the ability to ask the president anything. And you know what's great about this president? This president actually lets us. I mean, look at the openness and the transparency that this administration has compared to what we saw last time around. It's really kind of remarkable. But the whole problem here, really, the whole problem is that you've had a select group, a very, very select group of these five networks that have run the pool camera forever. And now. They're realizing that they're not the only game in town. They have to hold their nose as they think about who else is out there. And believe me, there are others out there. Including Lindell TV, including Breitbart, including Real America's News. I mean, all of these places that they're like, oh, my gosh, we can't believe that they're getting credentialed. But here, let me ask you this question. Do you think for two seconds that MSNBC. MSNBC. MSNBC wasn't like crazy, bizarrely liberal or that Politico wasn't or that, oh, I don't know, CNN wasn't? I mean, CNN sat there with a straight face and told us that the president was in great health all the time. It's the same stuff we got on MSNBC. I mean, they just lied to us. For what? And for why? Like, why do that to protect your team? Like, what is in it for them? I want to know. Were they really getting that much from USAID? And, you know, the whole Smith-Munt, the Munt-Smith, yeah, the act, forgive me, the Smith-Munt act, you know, was it that important to them? Maybe for CNN with all the worldwide global operations they were collecting, they're skimming a little off the top there. I don't know. I'm just like, why are you guys so beholden to one team? Like, why do you hate him this much? I don't get it. And now it's so crazy. It's so crazy that they're telling us, oh, he's going to invoke martial law. I mean, give me a break. They love it when the market goes down, but today the market went up, and I love it when the market goes up. This is my company, 76research.com. I have a lot of reasons for thinking the market's going to continue going up. We actually published a note, and you can get that, actually, for $1 a month. If you don't like it, you get your dollar a month back. So go check it out at 76research.com today, $1 a month for the first two months, and at least you can find the name of the company that we picked. We'll see you next time. A very important company that is now up, I think it's up 24%, actually. It's probably up more today because of it. And we, I mean, look, it's just, it's on a tear, and we think it's going higher. But anyway, we've had a lot of wonderful success. My colleague and my co-founder is a longtime, longtime mutual fund manager. So he's been picking stocks his entire life, and I get a pretty good macro sense of things. So go check it out when you can. The media doesn't want the market to succeed. The media wants higher oil prices. It's like the media wants this war with Iran to go on as much as it can just because they hate him and they don't want him to win. But this is, I'm sorry, this one takes the cake. I mean, I've heard it all, right? And then I hear this one out of CNN today, and I'm like, man, oh, man, you guys must really, really be desperate. Here we go. Are you ready? CNN wants you to know that if you don't vote for Democrats in a massive force, it's going to be bad. because the president of the United States is going to invoke martial law. Woo! just 40 days left until election day there is growing concern among experts about what president trump might do as he continues to push baseless election fraud claims and as the republican party appears headed toward losses in the midterm elections democrats right now are enjoying an eight-point lead over the gop in the latest generic but in battle for the battle for control of the house a new republic report from the atlantic magazine details how a slew of outside advisors to president trump are urging him to take control of federal elections this november a key player in the scheme according to the atlantic is an attorney named peter ticton he's a longtime friend of trump they went to military school together as teenagers ticton told the atlantic magazine that trump could decide to declare martial law on or around election day ticton is also the attorney for convicted election denier tina peters out of colorado her sentence was commuted by colorado governor jared polk as soon after her sentence was her time in prison was commuted she met with president trump at the white house this is what peter said about that meeting there is a plan uh yesterday when i was with the president he talked to and i can't get into the plan understood please don't but we talked you know he basically said to his lead counsel um to to to do what i was asking there is a plan says tina peters and it's not just the figure circling the president saying this out loud president trump himself has publicly called for greater federal control of elections this is what he told his former deputy fbi director dan bongino on his podcast in february the republicans should say we want to take over we should take over the voting the voting in at least many 15 places the republicans ought to nationalize the voting and then there's trump's response back in august wayne allen root's suggestion that he should declare a national security emergency to mandate his preferred changes to the elections you have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections let me just say that stranger things have happened okay i'll leave it at that he said let me just say that stranger things have happened okay i'll leave it at that during the republican convention this month trump sarcastically asked his supporters to make this pledge if i'm registered or not i'm gonna try and cheat like hell like they do when asked for comment by the atlantic the white house said that figures such as ticked in and peters and wayne allen root play no role in election policy at the white house that's good to know but then again neither did discredited mega attorney sydney powell and general michael flynn both being boosters of the 2020 election lie they were not official election advisors and yet you will recall in december 2020 they were not official election advisors and yet you will recall in december 2020 they were not official election advisors and yet you will recall in december 2020 they were not official election advisors and yet you will recall in december 2020 they were not official election advisors and yet you will recall in december 2020 they were not official election advisors in the midst of various in the midst of various in the midst of various trump and trump allies plots to overturn trump and trump allies plots to overturn trump and trump allies plots to overturn the free and fair election of 2020 the free and fair election of 2020 the free and fair election of 2020 powell and flynn told the president he powell and flynn told the president he powell and flynn told the president he should seize voting machines in key states should seize voting machines in key states should seize voting machines in key states a move then attorney general bill barr a move then attorney general bill barr a move then attorney general bill barr told the president he could not do told the president he could not do told the president he could not do so that happened in 2020 the only so that happened in 2020 the only so that happened in 2020 the only reason i bring it up is because in 2026 reason i bring it up is because in 2026 reason i bring it up is because in 2026 january of this year president trump january of this year president trump january of this year president trump told the new york times that he regrets told the new york times that he regrets told the new york times that he regrets not having seized the machines not having seized the machines not having seized the machines i should have he said now the president i should have he said now the president i should have he said now the president continues to make public comments and continues to make public comments and continues to make public comments and take active steps to push more election take active steps to push more election take active steps to push more election fraud claims not just about 2020 fraud claims not just about 2020 fraud claims not just about 2020 but 2022 and 2024 and 2026 but 2022 and 2024 and 2026 but 2022 and 2024 and 2026 claims that could theoretically be used claims that could theoretically be used claims that could theoretically be used by the president to take extraordinary by the president to take extraordinary by the president to take extraordinary actions actions actions in february the office of the director in february the office of the director in february the office of the director of national intelligence under of national intelligence under of national intelligence under then director tulsi gabbard said it then director tulsi gabbard said it then director tulsi gabbard said it obtained electronic voting machines obtained electronic voting machines obtained electronic voting machines seized from puerto rico to look for seized from puerto rico to look for seized from puerto rico to look for quote security vulnerabilities in july quote security vulnerabilities in july quote security vulnerabilities in july scale vote rigging or foreign scale vote rigging or foreign scale vote rigging or foreign interference has been found as a interference has been found as a interference has been found as a result of any of these measures so result of any of these measures so result of any of these measures so the big question we continue to ask what the big question we continue to ask what the big question we continue to ask what is the president planning is the president planning is the president planning we do not know but we will keep watching we do not know but we will keep watching we do not know but we will keep watching and keep you up to date whether from and keep you up to date whether from and keep you up to date whether from inside the white house or outside inside the white house or outside inside the white house or outside whoa okay so you want to talk about whoa okay so you want to talk about whoa okay so you want to talk about his book right his his book i mean that his book right his his book i mean that his book right his his book i mean that was the best was the best was the best this guy comes out with a book after the this guy comes out with a book after the this guy comes out with a book after the the election's said and done right and the election's said and done right and the election's said and done right and he's like oh he's like oh he's like oh you know we we absolutely you know you know we we absolutely you know you know we we absolutely you know people that didn't call out biden for people that didn't call out biden for people that didn't call out biden for not being in good health it's their not being in good health it's their not being in good health it's their fault it's like fault it's like oh my goodness you were one of them day oh my goodness you were one of them day oh my goodness you were one of them day after day after day of today after day after day of today after day after day of today and you thought we were all quote cheap and you thought we were all quote cheap and you thought we were all quote cheap fakes when we said gee he doesn't look fakes when we said gee he doesn't look fakes when we said gee he doesn't look well well well unbelievable so unbelievable so unbelievable so that was very irresponsible very that was very irresponsible very that was very irresponsible very desperate reporting on behalf of a very desperate reporting on behalf of a very desperate reporting on behalf of a very desperate news organization desperate news organization desperate news organization where all of the talent including that where all of the talent including that where all of the talent including that guy right there probably guy right there probably guy right there probably knows that they are about to be fired knows that they are about to be fired knows that they are about to be fired because that deal is going through in because that deal is going through in because that deal is going through in like five days like five days like five days and their new boss is going to be one and their new boss is going to be one and their new boss is going to be one david ellison david ellison david ellison and maybe even elon musk so and maybe even elon musk so and maybe even elon musk so it it's very stressful it it's very stressful it it's very stressful over there at cnn right now let me just over there at cnn right now let me just over there at cnn right now let me just tell you that when you're talking about tell you that when you're talking about tell you that when you're talking about supporters urging donald trump to do that supporters urging donald trump to do that supporters urging donald trump to do that it's a very different story than it's a very different story than it's a very different story than donald trump plans to do that when he donald trump plans to do that when he donald trump plans to do that when he jokes around you know he jokes around jokes around you know he jokes around jokes around you know he jokes around it's very different than him actually it's very different than him actually it's very different than him actually putting together a plan to do that so putting together a plan to do that so putting together a plan to do that so the atlantic's headline was the the atlantic's headline was the the atlantic's headline was the soviet peter tickton and you know soviet peter tickton and you know soviet peter tickton and you know these people around trump who are maybe these people around trump who are maybe these people around trump who are maybe some of the more extremists some of the more extremists some of the more extremists and they are possibly looking at these and they are possibly looking at these and they are possibly looking at these kinds of things kinds of things kinds of things that's often conspiracy land theory that's often conspiracy land theory that's often conspiracy land theory but they took this oh there are these but they took this oh there are these but they took this oh there are these reports that some people reports that some people reports that some people i mean look i know some people who said i mean look i know some people who said i mean look i know some people who said something crazy right like it's like something crazy right like it's like something crazy right like it's like okay so you know somebody who's got a okay so you know somebody who's got a okay so you know somebody who's got a crazy idea crazy idea crazy idea does that mean that you have the crazy does that mean that you have the crazy does that mean that you have the crazy idea no idea no idea no and yet they are presenting that and yet they are presenting that and yet they are presenting that because they're desperate because they're desperate because they're desperate ryan reynolds here for mint mobile with ryan reynolds here for mint mobile with ryan reynolds here for mint mobile with your summer price forecast now your summer price forecast now your summer price forecast now unfortunately we're seeing 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I should just say that because federal law establishes a congressional election date, and the Constitution assigns congressional election regulation to the state and Congress. It's a unilateral presidential decision. So that's not going to happen. And the Insurrection Act is not an election takeover power. It actually permits domestic military assistance under very specific circumstances. It doesn't authorize replacing civilian government with military rule or overriding any constitutional rights. So there's that. I mean, this is crazy. Okay, this is crazy talk. But you understand, and this is why he's like, they're fake news. I mean, this is totally why he's banning them from here to Sunday, for goodness sakes. They're desperate. Okay? They are desperate because they know that, ho-ho, when David Ellison comes to take over in five days' time, it's going to be a very different reality for them. The other thing that they're worried about, let's not forget, there's a chance. The Donald Trump pulls a rabbit out of a hat and Donald Trump wins this thing big time. Because remember once before when the polls got it wrong? I remember. I remember. I was there. In fact, my husband was waiting for me to come home because everybody thought it was going to be like an early night. And I was there on the election desk, you know, until the bitter end at Fox Business at the time with Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs. Rest in peace. And Neil Cavuto, he's gone too. Like, I guess that makes all four of us. One, two, three, oh, no, there was one more. It was Stu, I think, Stu Varney. He's still there. there. Okay. So we had like four of us there. Anyway, we were there on election night. And I remember Maria was looking at me and I was looking at her and we were like, can you believe this? Can you believe this? Because everyone thought Donald Trump had no shot in H-E-double-L of winning. Okay. And now look at this, what I'm showing you. These were the polls back at that time. This is why my husband, who was waiting for me to come home, he fell asleep watching the returns come in. And at some point it's like, I don't know, two in the morning. And he wakes up somewhat disoriented thinking, oh gosh, she's not home yet. And he looks up and there I am still on television because this was amazing, right? So the polls got it wrong. They thought that Clinton was going to win so much so that the Princeton election consortium actually had it at a 98 to 99% chance. Hillary Clinton was going to win the election. The New York Times said it was an 85% chance. I mean, Princeton gave Donald Trump a 1% chance of winning in 2016. And he won. And the New York Times gave him a 15% chance of winning in 2016. And he won. And then, oh, 538, they were looking like the hero, right? They were the only ones who at least had him at a 29% chance. And he won. So you see, CNN doesn't want to take any chances. They want to make sure that the left gets in and that they take the House and they're really hoping they can get the Senate too. And they know that the polls are not always accurate. And they know that maybe some people aren't going to be that motivated to get up off the couch and go and vote. I hope you are. Believe me, I hope you are. Because it's so important. It's a very important election. But I would just remind everybody that, yeah, you know, the polls can show you one thing. And they show right now an 8 to 15% chance of, it's like an 8 to 15 point spread. And the expectation is, not chance, but 18 to 15 point spread of the Democrats taking the House. And there's some analysis that suggests they could get them both. And I just keep reverting you back to this. Because I don't believe that everybody's fully truthful. I don't believe that everybody's fully truthful. And those polls, I don't believe they're capturing the MAGA population the way they should. And, you know, they're trying. They keep trying to say, oh, well, MAGA doesn't like him anymore. And MAGA broke up. And MAGA's over. And this, that, and the other. And then you've got all these, oh, I don't know, these anti-MAGA, ex-MAGA people out there, right, that are podcasters. And they seem to claim that, oh, you know, it's all over. It's all over for Donald Trump. These podcasters suddenly don't like him anymore. There was a story that they were quoting about the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal actually did an analysis, they claimed, of 70,000 hours of podcasting from, quote, unquote, MAGA podcasters. And they found that MAGA podcasters were not talking about Trump, like, at all, compared to how they used to. It was like this massive decline in how much they were talking about Trump. And so they were used to it. And they were used to it. And using that as a reason to say, like, the base is not there, the base is not there. I'm going to tell you, because I'm a very pro-Trump podcaster, we talk about him a lot. Maybe we don't talk about him every single day, because guess what? The news cycle is such that there's other stuff sometimes we go to, right? Sometimes we talk about Ilhan Omar. Sometimes we talk about Letitia James. And I guess in that case, he wouldn't be the main subject. Sometimes we talk about Elon Musk. Sometimes we talk about Mamdami. I mean, and Kathy Holcomb, who looks like she may not win her race in New York. So here's the reality of it. We are not in the middle of an election season. Like, we're going to be talking about this a lot over the next couple of weeks as we get closer and closer to midterms. But for them to say and point to the podcast and say, oh, because they're not talking about Trump as much must mean that Trump is not as popular. No. And the other thing I'd tell you is, OK, so maybe you got some kind of nutso folks out there. And I say nutso. And I mean it. Like, I mean it. Some people with some very big egos that are kind of maybe a little bit jealous of Donald Trump, dare I say. They don't want him to win for a variety of reasons. I sometimes think that they may have some foreign money coming into the picture as well. I hate to say that, but I really do question that. I think that there is a lot of foreign money that kind of finds its way into these situations. And that may be in part what's going on. So be wary of those ex-MAGA podcasters that think they know it all. And think that they have all the answers and want to trash Trump because apparently some of them are just suddenly becoming socialists. Socialists all of a sudden. I mean, they're going to be the next thing you know out with Susan Sarandon on the street protesting Bibi. Yeah, that was take a good look at her. Or don't. Susan Sarandon, ladies and gentlemen, out protesting Netanyahu there in New York City. Okay, so this is TMZ. They went and got the footage. Lucky them. Oh, I see her. I see her. I see her. There she is. And then she was really quite proud because, you know, she got handcuffed and the whole thing. You know, she's reliving it. She's reliving her hippie days, right? You know, apparently she was working together back when she was a young hippie. So she gets to get out there and do that. Listen, I'll tell you, Bibi took, he took Mary. She took Mary. She took Mary. She took Mamdami down brilliantly at the U.N. If you haven't seen this, you gotta see it because it's quite extraordinary. And I'll tell you, Mamdami is a little. He's a little turd, okay? He's a little turd that needs to go back to Uganda. I'm not as eloquent when I say that as Netanyahu, but watch him. We've taken innumerable steps to protect the civilian population. Is this genocide? Of course not. It's the opposite of genocide. So to all those that are spreading these lies about my country and about our brave soldiers, whether they sit in this hall or in the office of the anti-Semitic mayor of New York, I say this. Shame on you. Shame on you for distorting the facts. Shame on you for inverting victim and aggressor. Shame on you for spitting in the face of truth. Mr. Mamdani, since you were elected mayor of this city, many Jews no longer feel safe in New York. They talk to me. They tell me. This isn't the city we remember. It changed so quickly. Now, it's no wonder. You praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas. You count as friends people like Hassan Piker. Who said America deserved 9-11. America deserved 9-11. Some friends you have. You invite into your home a Palestinian journalist who filled Hamas terrorists beating and torturing Israeli hostages. And later admitted that he refused to publish the videos in order to protect, you guessed it, the terrorists. I mean, we got a problem. When you got a guy like Mamdani running New York City, I don't know what to tell you. And what did he do right after this? He ran to CNN, right? He ran to CNN to go do his big interview with Christiane Amanpour, who despises this president as much as perhaps Zohran Mamdani does. He met with him anyway. I guess he was, you know, a glutton for the camera. But. Bad news. Bad news guy. Let's watch. Mr. Mayor, welcome to our program. Thank you so much for coming. It's such a pleasure to have you here. Thank you. Shortly before we sat down, you were meeting with the president and you had a press availability. And so we were able to see you and monitor closely. It looks like the president is on his best behavior when he's around you. He is dignified, polite, speaks gently and of substance. It seems like he. quite likes you. It's quite a rare thing for a leader to have that kind of encounter with this president. So I just want to know whether you have a trick, whether you have a sort of a way of dealing with him. Okay, so what do you talk about? He's like, we both love New York. He's got these like vacant eyes, by the way. Have you ever noticed that? Totally vacant eyes. Anyway, I just, I can't take it because she's just, you're so great. You're so great. You're so great. You're so great. We love you. We love you. We love you. We love you. Because you're going to bring socialism to the financial capital of the world and destroy it. These socialists are getting out of control. And I mean, it's getting kind of scary. I'm not doing crazy stuff like CNN is, but I'm warning you, like this is an important election because these guys are getting kind of frightening. I sent out, sat down with my friend just yesterday afternoon and Kent just got back, just got back from the Chicago DSA event. They had like some big shindig out in Chicago. So he had a few things to say about that. I want you to watch. I got to tell you, the socialists are really getting out there. And when I say out there, I mean really and truly out there. You know how crazy this Hassan Piker is. I can't believe I even have to say his name. I can't even believe I have to know who this person is. But you need to know, too, because you need to know what we're up against. OK, take a look at the insanity of this dude. I will throw you in prison, OK? I want to put you physically behind a prison. I want Chinese style communism to happen inside of the Democratic Party right now, OK? I want to do cultural revolution when I see that. From, ladies and gentlemen, the DSA. So he's a socialist who apparently didn't believe in prisons, but now wants to throw other members of his party in prison. He's a socialist who apparently didn't believe in prisons, but now wants to throw other members of his party in prison. what are you guys doing? Right. Like I granted my, my theory on this Kent and, you know, forgive me if you've heard this before, but I think that the Democrat party, they just kind of, they got one track and their only answer to everything was we hate Trump. We hate Trump. We hate Trump. We hate Trump. So they had TDS on steroids and instead of coming up with solutions for things, and they had four years with Biden, all they did was say, we hate Trump. Everything is Trump's fault. And so they didn't offer any course of action. Donald Trump did, and he got voted into office. And you know who else did? The socialists, right? So if you wonder how like the Democrats party was just taken out from under, and you know, yeah, it's not your dad's socialist or Democrat party anymore. I think it's for that reason. I think people were searching for answers and you went one of two directions. You're like, okay, this MAGA thing, they got it going on. And I like how they're promoting capitalism or you went the other way. And I think it's so important as we get closer and closer to midterms is we need to ask Democratic candidates, where do you stand? Do you believe that we should eliminate the United States Senate? Do you believe that we should eliminate the Supreme Court? Do you believe like Hassan Piker apparently doesn't, that we should eliminate prisons, that we should have complete open borders? Do you stand with the Democratic Socialists of America? Or do you stand with freedom? And let's find out, let's find out in every Senate race. Let's find out in every congressional race, all the way down to dog catcher. Do you stand with the DSA or do you not? Yeah, no, we, we, we, we need to know that. And so many of them are trying to avoid that question or they, they, they, oh, you know, he's just a streamer who cares, right? No, no, no. He's a streamer that has a big audience and you're courting that audience and you've invited him to come out, for example, with El Said. And campaign with you or look at AOC. She's done events with him. Like he is actually, the fact that he's out there with some quote unquote mainstream Democrat politicians is very troubling to me, very troubling. And I know troubling to you. So fightsocialism.com, join the fight, join Kent for America on Instagram. You can see all his clips there. Thank you so much. Good to see you, my friend. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it, Shresh. It's always good to see him. You know, what, as, as he was talking with us right now, what just came out? Let me show you this story that just came out in the New York Post just within the last couple of hours. They have a headline here. Americans are embracing socialism at record levels. Guys, what is going on? Why is this happening? I think, you know, I think it's a little bit keeping up with the Joneses. Everybody's like looking over and oh, you know, they got Instagram and social media and somebody has this and somebody has that. And there's this like frustration. And I think it's a little bit I think it's happening like on a global scale. And they're like, oh, you know, why do they have that? And I don't have this. I mean, I don't know. I don't know why people would be looking to such a failed, disastrous system that has brought only misery to every possible civilization, every country that has ever tried it. I get some good news. We need a little good news, right? The citizenship is coming back. That check that they wanted to have before midterms. Yeah, this is a huge win for Donald Trump, guys. A huge, huge win. The Supreme Court voted on this and they said, guess what? You know what? You can get checked for your citizenship. Look at this story right here. This is Reuters, OK? This is Reuters that I'm showing you. And it's a headline from just two days ago. Reuters is not a conservative website. This is not a campaign ad. This is Reuters. And the headline is how U.S. states mistakenly added 30,000 non-citizens to voter rolls. Wow, OK? Red states and blue states, 30,000 people that didn't live in this country suddenly showed up on the voter roll list. Apparently, the DMV gets you all set up and 30,000 as a result were in the system. Software glitches, we're told, although the software companies are like, yeah, not really. They're clerical errors. Drivers license applications that should have stopped at no and didn't, OK? That's a problem. Reuters went all the way back to the year 2000 and they added up official records from a dozen states. So you had California, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia. OK, I got a cheat sheet over here. I've got the list. All right. That was a nationwide total. More than 30,000 self-declared non-citizens got registered by mistake. Now, they say that nobody had actually published this tally before. And they also say they cannot tell how many of these people actually voted. But I don't care if it was just one. Because what are we doing registering 30,000 people that don't even have citizenship in this country to vote? For goodness sake. Remember what happened in New Jersey? I mean, New Jersey was a big deal because that happened just a short time ago. We learned that 6,600 people walked into the Motor Vehicle Commission. And the next thing you know, they got registered. The system enabled them to register to vote in New Jersey. 400 of them actually voted. That's crazy. And so, you know, the White House is like, we got to do something. We got to do something. New Jersey is like, well, we had a software error. The software company says, no, no, no, you didn't have an error. No, honey, to the governor. No, no, no. This was this was all on you. And so we don't really know what happened. But regardless of whose fault it is, I'm going to tell you what the upshot is. 6,600 non-citizens were registered to vote. And 400 of them did. New Jersey still does not use the federal citizenship database. New York doesn't use it. Texas, they ran 18 million names through it. They came up with about 2,000 or so red flags. But what's going on here? I mean, we all live in the same country. We all want free and fair elections. But some of these states are saying, we don't want to have any part of that. And all I get to say is the news today, could change this. Just this morning, the Supreme Court lifted the block on the federal registration database, which is called SAVE. And states that now want to check voter rolls against federal citizenship records, they can do it again, because for a while they weren't able to. The court did not order California to do it. They didn't order New York to do it. They didn't order New Jersey to do it. But it said, hey, if you want to do this, you can. So what's going to happen? Red states are going to use it. Blue states are going to ignore it. Why are blue states ignoring it? Like, think about that. If you've got a database and you have the ability to say, well, gee, you know, we got a few in here that are not actually citizens that have been registered to vote. Like, maybe we should do something about it. CNN reporting on this. I actually know this guy. We used to work at Bloomberg together, Phil Mattingly. He's a good one. So let's listen to his report, even though it's CNN, and see what he has to say. As we know more about that, the breaking news from the Supreme Court. The Trump administration will now be allowed to use a DHS citizenship database to review voter rolls in their search for non-citizen voters. The ruling reverses a lower court decision, which it said the administration's effort likely broke the law. This is an unsigned opinion, meaning we don't know who exactly was in the majority here. We do know the three liberal justices dissented. Gabe Cohen has been covering every single step of this story and joins me now. Gabe, talk about what the administration is actually planning to do now that they have the green light. Yeah, so Phil, the short answer is we don't know exactly what they're planning to do ahead of the midterms, and we are still going through this ruling. But I will tell you off the bat, the question at play here that the Supreme Court needed to answer was whether or not the administration broke the law when it beefed up this save citizenship verification system over the past 18 months, bringing in various records, federal records from other agencies, social security data, including data on U.S.-born citizens, whether or not they had broken the law to create this system that states could then run their voter registration list through in this hunt for non-citizens who might be registered. Remember, this has been a massive initiative of this administration as the president has continued to claim without significant evidence that there is this widespread crisis of not just election fraud, but of non-citizens voting. And we know that about two dozen Republican-led states have actually run their voter list through this system until the courts paused it to figure out whether or not this was even legal. And we also know that the Department of Justice has sued to require, to order 30 other states to hand over those lists so that the federal government could audit them. I do want to read you a bit of that unsigned majority opinion, which said that under the federal law, under federal law, I should say, the federal government has an obligation to respond to requests from state and local election officials seeking to verify the citizenship of voters. The Supreme Court said had prevented the federal government from using the program that it believes it is that it is best suited for the task of being able to identify these non-citizens who may be registered to vote the dissent that came from those three liberal justices uh it said the harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the non-existent harm that the government experiences when it uh is prevented but how are they disenfranchised if you're here legally and you're a lawful voter like how are you being disenfranchised if they just run a a check on you i mean you know when when you go to the airport and you get on a plane they have that little id check and they run you through a computer system i mean like how how is this how is this disenfranchising to you oh my gosh i mean this we're not in a good place because these people are just so consumed with tds that they are going to fight anything logical anything logical at all and this is logical i mean you should have some kind of way of making sure that somebody who's not a a citizen in your country is not voting and you get 20 000 of them forgive me 30 000 non-citizens thank you reuters for assembling that data i mean wow you know and i'll tell you again it goes back to you don't even want one you need proof of citizenship you need to have a system to triple check it and there you go i mean end of story that does not need to be that hard because you can't just have mistakes like you cannot have these kinds of mistakes i don't care they say oh well you know 30 000 people it doesn't really matter it was since the year 2000 not a big deal only 400 people voted in new jersey not a big deal well you know what it is a big deal because it shows you you got mistakes you got a broken system and with all the technology that we have at our disposal and believe me we get a ton of it you know that we ought to be able to fix this we can fix this it's just that these people do not want it fixed and i leave you with this why why do they not want it fixed it is good to see so many of you please make sure that you subscribe do make a comment maybe answer that question for me why don't they want it fixed i'd like to know it's great to have you here i may pop back over the weekend we shall see but we have a ton of content coming your way thank you for all you do to make this show a success and i'll see you for sure certain on monday afternoon live ryan reynolds here for mint mobile with your summer price forecast now unfortunately we're seeing rising costs across the country with possibility that big wireless hates you 100 now over here at mint mobile we're seeing sunny skies and dropping prices every plan to just 15 a month give it a try at mintmobile.com switch upfront payment of 45 for three months 90 for six months or 180 for 12 month plan required 15 per month equivalent taxes and fees extra new customer offer for initial plan term only greater than 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy. 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  1. Mint Mobile offers all plans at $15 per month with upfront payments and a new customer offer of over 50GB data.
  2. FanDuel is now available nationwide, including key U.S. cities, allowing sports viewing regardless of location.
  3. Shingles reactivation is common in people over 50, with 99% already infected; medical advice urges early consultation.
  4. Media outlets are under scrutiny for biased reporting on the Trump-Xi state dinner, with critics claiming it reflects political hostility.
  5. The President's media access restrictions and claims of martial law are seen as desperate responses to political pressure.
  6. A major media consolidation (Paramount Skydance buying Warner Bros. Discovery) threatens editorial independence and raises concerns about media bias.
  7. Critics argue that Trump’s state dinner with Xi was a meaningful diplomatic event, not just pageantry, and that the media misrepresented its significance.
  8. Skepticism exists over claims of martial law or election interference, with legal and constitutional experts disputing their feasibility.

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Mint Mobile promotes a summer special with all plans at $15/month, offering unlimited data and a new customer incentive, though with upfront fees and data limits. , emphasizing nationwide availability. A health segment highlights the risk of shingles in older adults, urging early medical consultation due to reactivation risks.

The political discussion focuses on the state dinner between President Trump and Chinese President Xi, where critics argue the media downplayed its diplomatic significance and mocked the pageantry, despite its cultural and strategic importance. Media outlets face backlash for perceived bias, especially in coverage of the event, with concerns about editorial independence amid a major media merger involving Paramount and Skydance. The narrative suggests that media skepticism and speculation about martial law or election interference stem from desperation, not factual basis, as legal experts point out constitutional and practical limits on such actions.

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Media coverage of the Trump-Xi state dinner was criticized for being overly negative and focusing on pageantry rather than substance, despite the event being a significant diplomatic gesture.

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