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Trump fires Attorney General Pam Bondi and announces that Todd Blanche, his former personal attorney, will serve in the interim while he waits to appoint her replacement. Jon and Dan react to Bondi's sudden ouster and discuss the president's incoherent national address about his war with Iran. Then, they check in on Trump's long-shot bid to overturn birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, his attempt to restrict mail-in voting via executive order, and what appears to be the endgame for the Department of Homeland Security shutdown — a deal House Republicans could've passed before they went on recess. Finally, Jon introduces Dan to 'bimboification' as they discuss Fox News' reaction to Kristi Noem's husband's double life.
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I have to say Dan, you were gone this week on Family Vacation, Tommy.
It's like, it's getting lonely in some of my text chains about the news.
Yes.
And Ben, everyone else sleeps normal hours.
Yes.
Yes.
Not getting those same responses as fast from love it or?
No.
No.
And you never know what time zone Ben is in.
No.
That's also true.
All right.
On today's show, Pam Bondy's out.
And we're going to talk about why Trump fired her and who might replace her.
We're also going to dig into Trump's primetime address on the war.
He doesn't seem to know how to get out of.
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His new executive order to take control of voting from the states.
The possible end of the DHS shutdown and of course, the moment we all learned what
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As forgettable as it may have been, the president did just deliver a prime time address to the
nation on Wednesday about Operation Epic Fury, the war in Iran.
He got us into that has now dragged on for more than a month.
The 19 minute speech contained no news, no exit strategy and no coherent rationale or
even coherent sentences to explain why 50,000 American troops are still deployed in a conflict
that has already cost us tens of billions of dollars and sent gas prices through the roof.
Other than that, fine showing by Donald Trump, here are the highlights.
We're now totally independent of the Middle East and yet we are there to help.
We don't have to be there.
We don't need their oil.
We don't need anything they have, but we're there to help our allies.
America has plenty of gas.
We have so much gas, the countries of the world that do receive oil through the Hormone
Strait must take care of that passage.
They must cherish it.
They must grab it and cherish it.
They can do it easily and in any event when this conflict is over, the Strait will open
up naturally.
It'll just open up naturally.
We've done all of it.
Their Navy is gone.
Their Air Force is gone.
Their missiles are just about used up or beaten.
There's never been anything like it militarily, everyone is talking about it and tonight
I'm pleased to say that these core strategic objectives are nearing completion for the
next two to three weeks.
We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong.
In the meantime, discussions are ongoing.
There's no deal.
We are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and
probably simultaneously.
We have not hit their oil, even though that's the easiest target of all, but we could
hit it and it would be gone and there's not a thing they could do about it.
The whole world is watching and they just can't believe what they're seeing.
They leave it to your imagination, but they can't believe what they're seeing.
That is very true.
Don't know where to begin there.
Some good highlights, right?
It's that summarizes it all right there.
To open naturally, but you've got to grab the Strait of Formus.
I already made the joke in my YouTube rack with Ben, so I was going to make it.
Also, we'll bond them to the Stone Age, but negotiations are ongoing.
I laughed out loud when I first heard that.
I think he probably ad-libbed a bit of the Stone Age thing from his truth, obviously,
because he originally said, but I think, and then he's in the prompt or like, oh, but
discussions are ongoing.
I guess I'm supposed to talk about diplomacy.
Your message box take on the speech is that Trump declared victory, but admitted defeat.
Say more about that.
Sure.
So I tried to treat the speech seriously, which was hard, I would say that.
I did that too.
It was very different.
But it is the President of the United States addressing the nation at a time of war in economic
chaos.
So we should at least try to look at it from that point of serious.
And so to the extent that Trump's speech had a message or a strategy, I believe it was
to say the war was coming to an end in declared victory, right?
And he went through, he just said that we saw that in a clip.
All of our strategic, of course, objectives that been met, he went into into great detail
what we've destroyed, the Navy, the missiles, all of that.
But at the end of the day, what he was really saying is, the thing's going to wrap up in
the next two to three weeks.
And when we leave, however we leave, we are going to leave the same Arabian regime in
place, although likely more anti-American and radicalized than before.
Iran will continue to have all of their nuclear material, which we all basically monitor
with like Google maps, Google satellite, which we could look at it.
But we could have done before.
We've on them.
It's in the same place it was before.
They still have it.
And now, as a special bonus to Iran for participating in this war, they get to treat the
world's most strategic water passageway as a toll road, whatever they want.
And so he is, he wants this war to be over.
He knows this is bad for him, politically knows this bad for the economy.
He's trying to declare victory when what he's actually doing is simply waving the white
flag as surrender.
I think that's true.
And I also, it explains the incoherent conflicting messages, because he also can't, like,
for the straight of four moves.
He knows that we need the straight of four moves open.
He understands, at least the people around him understand, that oil is a commodity.
There's a global oil market, just because we have a bunch of oil, doesn't mean that we're
not going to be paying more for it if there is a disruption in the straight of four moves.
He can't plead with our allies to help reopen the straight of four moves, because then
he looks weak and he already pissed them off anyway by starting the war without consulting
them and insulting them, basically, every single day since.
He has clearly decided that a U.S. military operation to reopen the straight or to take
control of the straight is too risky.
He's not doing that, but he also knows, like, he doesn't know what to do.
So basically, he's going to say, we don't need it, but then he's now nagging Europe and
other countries to reopen it for us and saying, and, like, making himself sound tough, because
he can't say the truth, which is, we're fucked.
We have no idea how to open the straight of four moves, and we're just going to pretend
that some other countries will open it, that it'll open, fucking naturally, and then
we won't have to worry about anything.
Yeah.
It's a complete, and that's just one example of the many contradictory conflicting messages
in that speech.
Well, the conflict is in the part we just mentioned, where he will bond them to the
Stone Age, but also we want to have diplomatic negotiations ongoing with their new president
or whoever he has been.
He sort of made up in his head.
He was a good ally.
And again, it's like both a threat and a negotiation require you to demand something.
What are we demanding?
Because in that speech, we won.
We bombed everything.
We don't care about the straight of four moves.
We don't care that the nuclear material is still in Iran.
We don't care that the regime is still in place, because it's a new regime, according
to Donald Trump.
We've destroyed their military.
So why are we threatening to bomb them into the Stone Age?
And why are we continuing to hope that they will make a deal?
What is the deal?
Yeah, like, he's trying to, nothing makes sense.
Yeah, it's totally logical.
It's complete confusion.
He's not even clear who he's speaking to.
When he says we don't need the straight of four moves, he is saying that to Iran, if
you say it to the American people, then that doesn't really matter because the price
of oil is the price of oil.
And so-
As they could see it going up while I was speaking.
Yes, that's the price.
And that to me is actually an incredibly important part of what this speech says about
where Trump is right now, which is he, like he almost didn't just admit defeat.
On the war, he's been in defeat on his entire second term here because what a really
powered Trump.
He hasn't passed any laws.
Right.
He is.
Don't forget the big, beautiful bill.
I mean, he hasn't mentioned that in months.
I hope he talks about it more on the way to the ratio, but like he has succeeded in implementing
his agenda in the second term through the force of his words.
He's threatening, controlling universities, law firms, media companies.
And here you have the president, the president of the United States.
In a national televised address at wartime, trying to send a message to not just American
people, but also the markets.
This thing is coming to an end.
And they took the exact opposite approach.
They did not believe what he was saying.
They did not take him seriously.
Oil went up.
The stock market went down.
So if his goal was, I believe, and it's hard to tell, but was to suggest that this is
coming to an end so everyone can chill out.
And they took it because of the way he did it delivered this speech because of the way
he's acted erratically over the last several months, not so much in the last several years.
They took the opposite approach.
Like the world is tuning him out.
Do you think, like, why did they do this speech?
I was wondering and like, I get that he sounds like an idiot all the time when he's off
the cuff and does his thing and does the weave and he has got all those, you know, crazy
ticks.
But this was a prime time address that he was reading off the prompter.
You imagine that some number of people in the White House, perhaps in the State Department,
the Defense Department, other agencies took a look at the speech.
And it just was like, I mean, the speech was all over the place.
The written prepared speech was all over the place.
What the fuck were they doing?
It may be either bad at their jobs.
Yeah.
Well, maybe like you have it, you do have an erratic stubborn president who is getting bad
information.
There was a report today that Susie Wiles has been telling other aids that they are only
giving Trump good information about the war and they're not being honest with him about
what's happening militarily or economically.
And so with that's feeding his mentality.
This communications team has no idea how to do serious stuff.
Like if you want to do memes and attack people and, quote, tweet them, like, that's their
game and that can work in a campaign to a certain extent, but this is like serious shit.
And they are, they are unserious people and that is coming.
It's like so obvious to bear here.
And I'm like, why did he do it?
And the question is like, what makes him do it?
They haven't done it for a month.
His approval rating is now under 40% in the Nate Silver model.
He is taking on water.
He's been dropping for a while since, for a year, a year yesterday, which was Liberation
Day.
But he has, that drop has been more, has been steeper since the war started.
And so I think they're trying, they're lashing about trying to find a solution to their
political problem and they actually have, not really a political problem, they have a
substantive problem.
Right.
We're hearing from, because, you know, someone was talking to Steve Bannon before the speech
and he wasn't right on this, but he was like, yeah, the messages were going to wrap this
up.
It's over.
Like, he's probably hearing from people in his base or his orbit that, like, you gotta,
you gotta communicate this thing's almost over.
Yeah.
And we know this from, whenever we worked at the White House, whenever there was like bad
political things.
Where's the speech?
Where's the speech?
Yeah.
Race speech for the straight-of-formers.
Remember the, uh, remember the oil spills?
Orville, I was talking to roads about that because I was like, that is a crazy, crazy
speech.
I'm like, it does remind me of the oil spills, but for those of you who are too young
or don't remember that, uh, to this in 10, there was an oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico
and, uh, no one could figure out how to stop the oil spill.
The oil just kept coming out into the Gulf of Mexico and every cable news channel in the
corner of the, of the television, you could just see the oil coming out into the, spilling
out into the Gulf of Mexico all day long, 24 hours a day and everyone was like, Obama,
you should fix it.
You've got, you're the president.
Why haven't you fixed it?
And the solution was he will give an oval office address about the oil spill and it sucked.
Yeah.
It was, it was the worst because somehow we decided that it was like a good time to talk
about climate change and that speech.
It had to be an oval office address that like, that was it, that was how stupid the
conversation was, a standing speech in the East Room was insufficient for the moment
of the oil spill from a private company.
If only I had known though that I could have just like fardered out a bunch of crazy
talking points and that could be of, that's me, but like it was, it was a speech that
was panned that didn't work out well, but I, we still worked really hard on it.
Yeah.
No one worked hard on this one.
There's some fascist John Favre over there, just, back, back to the real substance of
it because I was trying to think, like Donald Trump is sensitive to the market to what's
happening on, like he, he knows that he has a problem with the straight-of-formers and
I'm guessing that his cockamami plan here is or hope is that we walk away from this
after a couple of weeks, we say we bombed everything, everything's great, we've destroyed
them, we won so badly, they're begging us for, they're begging us for a deal, but whatever,
we're walking away, we don't need them anymore, we don't need the oil.
And then he hopes that the Europeans and the Chinese and maybe anyone else, like cuts
their own deals with Iran for the straight.
And then that alleviates sort of the crisis around the world and obviously we don't
got to deal with the Iranians, the Israelis don't, the Israelis are probably still at war
with them, but if enough countries do, then maybe prices are a little high, but he can
sort of blah, blah, blah his way past that.
I think that's what he's hoping.
I think that's a little more chest than he gets credit for.
I think that is one approach to what could, that is what could happen here, you don't
know all the other countries around the world who are meeting about this and having a conversation
without the United States about how to open this up.
I think it's a little more like, I'm sure you've done this is when you have an older
child and younger child, and the younger child wants the toy the older child has, I would
always tell Kyla, our daughter, just pretend like you don't want it for two minutes and
they'll let it go.
Now the only downside in that theory is I'm pretty sure that Trump has not deeply
involved in litigating the disputes of his children.
That's good name.
Maybe he saw a nanny do it.
I don't know.
Yeah.
I think that's definitely a dumber theory for Trump because the Iranians are like, Iranians
right now have to feel great.
They're like, I mean, I'm saying that the Iranian people, from a leverage point of leverage
point, a bunch of the leadership got assassinated, but the ones who are still surviving are like,
I mean, we can control the straight-of-form moves, the United States is eventually going
to give up and run.
And they're giving us billions of dollars to sell our oil.
We've lifted the sanctions too.
So that's something.
So that's that.
In my humble opinion, Trump gave a much better speech earlier on Wednesday at a White House
Easter lunch with evangelical leaders that was somehow livestreamed, even though the
event was supposed to be close to the press and the public.
The White House eventually deleted the footage, but not before clips were posted all over
the internet that includes such memorable moments as Trump's spiritual advisor comparing
him to Jesus Christ, happy Easter, Trump comparing himself to Jesus Christ, Trump calling
all Somali Americans low IQ bad people, and Trump saying that Christians like Israel
more than Jews, actually.
But somehow, none of that was as newsworthy as what the president said about his priorities
for America.
The United States can't take care of Decker.
That has to be up to a state.
We can't take care of Decker.
We're a big country.
We have 50 states.
We have all these other people who are fighting wars.
We can't take care of Decker.
You got to let a state take care of Decker, and they should pay for it, too.
They should pay.
They have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it.
And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up, but it's not possible for
us to take care of Decker, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.
They can do it on a state basis.
You can't do it on a federal.
We have to take care of one thing, military protection, we have to guard the country.
I mean, I need to know if you have somehow been able to infiltrate the White House and
are now writing talking points for Donald Trump.
I would not have done as good a job as that, because that is so obviously on the nose.
The Democratic argument, it is wild.
And a lot of times, like Trump says, things it should end people's political campaigns
all the time, like his remarks on a daily basis are more politically damaging or should
be more outrageous, more scandals, than Mitt Romney's 47% mark comments that were so critical
on the 2012 election.
People who don't remember, Mitt Romney was caught basically blaming 47% of the country
for mooching off the government.
But one of the theories is to why Trump's comments don't get sufficient, like, driving
enough conversation or coverage is because he just says them out loud, they're not secret
right in the press.
Right.
Right.
This is a, just like the Mitt Romney thing, this is a private videotape that was essentially
leaked by the White House, but leaked by their own idiocy.
Yes.
So it's like we get to see the things Trump is saying behind closed doors to political supporters.
And the president says that because we're so busy fighting wars that he started, we can't
pay for daycare.
States should raise taxes.
And he seems to say at the end that we can't afford that states should do Medicare and
Medicaid.
Yeah, throws in medical.
That was the amazing thing.
Daycare is bad enough to throw in Medicaid and Medicare, which is not, when that's a national
program, that's a federal program.
So he wants to, he wants to block grant everything, basically.
He wants to give all the states, like all the states, fend for themselves.
So he's basically telling people, if you want health care or child care, you're going
to pay higher taxes in your state because I'm over here very busy paying for bombs on Iran.
Yeah.
And other places in the war too.
We don't know what's happening, Cuba, the Venezuel operation probably ran up a pretty
big tab.
I mean, there's also a Bloomberg story this morning because the budget's coming out, that
Trump's budget.
And the headline for this is, Trump budget to focus midterms messaging on defense boost.
President Trump is preparing to release a fiscal year 2027 budget plan on Friday that will
frame his party's midterm election message around a massive defense buildup partially
paid for by cuts to domestic agencies like health and science.
John, I've not only been in the president's talking once, I've also been in the OMB documents.
What are they doing?
Yeah.
I don't.
I mean, and it's not just him, like we talked to, I don't know if you and I talked about
it, or I talked about the other part, but like the, uh, the Axio story about the House
Republican, or the, that was Republicans in Congress are thinking of paying for the,
the military supplemental, like $200 billion for Iran by cutting health care.
Yeah.
Also, and just not for nothing, we, Trump didn't even mention his Twitter that he needs
Congress to pay for this thing.
He did not, he did not mention that.
We should talk about that because I, I haven't heard much about that at all.
And now we'll talk about it when we get to DHS, but like, now they're talking about
a budget reconciliation build that just funds ice.
So like, when are they gonna, when are they gonna vote on the $200 billion that's supposed
to pay for Iran?
It's a great question.
I mean, who knows.
Maybe we're all supposed to pay for it.
Maybe it's gonna be higher taxes for everyone.
The state, you know, who's gonna do it?
The states, the states, the states, they're gonna get rid of their daycare, their health
care, their Medicaid, their Medicare, because everyone's got to pay for the bomb.
We're a little, we're like, because we just bombed a, uh, the biggest bridge in Iran,
uh, that's civilian infrastructure for what reason we don't know, but uh, Trump bragged
about it on treason.
No bridges in the Stone Age.
No bridges in the Stone Age.
That's right.
So we gotta, we gotta blow up someone else's bridge.
Uh, so no money for bridges here.
Cool.
We're doing it.
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Trump didn't make any news in his Iran speech, but he certainly did the next morning when
he announced in a phone call to Fox News as one does.
But he had just fired attorney general Pam Bondy.
Follow that up with the truth social post where he said, quote, we love Pam.
And she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private
sector to be announced at a date in the near future.
Not for nothing.
I just find it very funny that like he has to announce her private sector jobs.
Does she like belong to him forever?
I think this is because in the Peter Ducy interview with Trump, it seems like Trump told
Peter Ducy that she would be getting another job in the administration.
Oh, so we had to clear that up.
He had to clear that up.
Yeah, because Peter Ducy reported it would be in the administration and then he got
a transitioning room.
Yeah.
Like Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, president's former defense lawyer, personal
lawyer will now be the acting attorney general.
During Pam's year plus as Attorney General, she distinguished herself by one weaponizing
the DOJ to go after her bosses perceived enemies to executing that vision poorly.
And three, bungling the release of the Epstein file so badly that it became a massive political
liability for the president that stayed in the news for longer than maybe any other scandal
of the Trump era.
No, for sure.
Not even close.
Close to Russia, but Russia had a lot of twists and turns.
This was like sustained.
This lasted longer than Trump's involvement in an armed insurrection that almost murdered
members of Congress.
Yes, I do remember that.
I recall they did vaguely happen not too long before he was elected president again,
but it did happen.
So I guess my question is why now on Bondy, I remember when we were in Australia in February,
and that's when she did the big hearing where she talked about the DAO above 50,000.
Since then, went below 40, went below 50,000 and now she's out.
There it is.
There you go.
But I remember talking about like, is he going to fire her now, whatever.
It seems like a month and a half later, she hasn't been in the news all that much.
Yes.
So I think their colleagues going on here.
First, I think the orderly fascism of Trump's second term has been, has reverted to the chaotic
fascism of Trump's first term.
He knows things are not going well.
He's sort of lashing out all over the place.
He's doing sort of crazy things left and right.
And I think firing people is, that's real first term, Trump behavior is, so that's one.
It's like comfort food.
Yeah, exactly.
So that's one.
It's kind of, it's his, it's his blankie, his blankie, his blankie, because he's going
back to his apprentice thing.
That's what's the way he knows, you know?
And then this, but I think the second thing going on here is that no one pulls a band-aid
off slower than Donald Trump.
And so what he tends to do is, yeah, there've been stories about him, I'm thinking about
anyway, for like a month.
And so what he, like, like, like, Chrissy Nome is, what happened with Chrissy Nome was
very similar to having a pamphony, which is a massive scandal happens.
Trump sticks with him through the scandal, takes on all the water of that scandal, waits
till the scandal is out of the news, and then fires them, bringing the scandal back in
the news, but getting none of the actual credit for responding to the scandal and holding
someone accountable.
Like if Trump had fired Chrissy Nome right after the murders of René Good and Alex
Pretti and the smearing of them, that would have gotten a little, he would have seen
responsive to something, he held someone accountable.
Instead, he gave a pad on the back, said he was taking with him, waited till later and
fired him.
It's anything with pamphony.
I also think the, here, the congressional hearing probably helped her, they probably bought
her time.
I saw some detail in one of the stories that he actually thought that she was, he liked
that she was combative with the Democrats.
Yeah.
After all, they were like, oh, is this going to be the end for pamphony?
Yeah.
It's like, no, he liked it.
Yeah.
She knows she was doing there.
I saw, I think the New York Times story said that she spent much of the last day making
her case to stay.
It's so sad.
It's so sad.
The whole...
The sad pathetic thing.
Just imagine selling every bit of your integrity to Trump.
Every bit.
And then getting fired for not executing on his corruption?
Well enough.
Which...
I think I'd say this, in Pam Bondi's defense, by the way, like I do not think she failed
to execute Donald Trump's agenda at DOJ just because of her own incompetence.
I'm not saying that she is competent, but like the problem goes beyond anything that
Pam Bondi or any of the stuages he installed at DOJ can fix.
The problem is the judges and the juries who are like, these cases are crazy.
You don't have a case against any of these people.
You just hate them.
Yes.
Like, on that part of that is true.
The other thing that happened in the news recently that probably got hurt at what
was Trump again was the announcement that the Department of Justice was going to stop
prosecuting...
Was this going to stop trying the case on the law firms?
Oh, yeah.
And with all the law firms off the hook, who did not agree with the Trump settlement,
and then Trump got very mad about that, and then like an hour later they had to announce
they were going back in to continue to fight that case.
You see the pro-bublica story last week too, that the DOJ has basically under Bondi and
Trump just stopped prosecuting 20,000 criminal cases because they've spent so much time on
all of Trump's fucking weird priorities, whether it's, you know, getting, you know, going
after his enemies, all the other bullshit that the DOJ has to look at.
Yeah, immigration stuff.
Yeah, that was most of it.
Sorry.
So it's like, yeah, there's still, you know, good time to be a criminal if you're not,
if you're not an immigrant.
Good time to be a certain type of criminal.
Right, a certain type of, yeah, white collar criminal.
Yes, sir.
There's some reporting that what finally did Bondi in was an allegation that she tipped
off Congressman Eric Swalwell, who's running for governor in California about an FBI investigation
concerning him.
This is a very old FBI investigation from 2015, basically the FBI notified Swalwell that
an associate of his might be a suspected Chinese spy when he was notified.
He broke ties with that person.
And then the FBI investigated nothing ever came of it.
This is what, 10 years ago.
I guess they're trying to, they're going to release the files.
Yeah, it's clearly, I mean, it's so obviously, always running for governor.
Let's release the files.
Maybe there's something in the files that will embarrass him because we couldn't bring
a criminal case against him.
I find this one hard to believe because in the story, it says that there's a, I think
it's in the independent, I can't remember, but the story says that a source close to
the White House says that Bondi notified Swalwell due to their personal friendship.
Yeah, I'm really, it's the Daily Mail.
Daily Mail, yeah.
Yeah, she's intervening in those matters.
The White House wasn't pleased she was intervening due to her personal friendship with Swalwell,
the source set.
Okay.
And it says, it is unclear why Bondi would have intervened, but it is believed that Bondi
and Swalwell have a friendly relationship.
There is not a chance that someone like Pam Bondi who would carve out her own soul with
a spork for Donald Trump is going to feel so loyal to Eric Swalwell that she's going to
tip him off on something like this.
It's, I don't know if I believe that one either.
And in Swalwell, his office put out a statement saying, absolutely not, no one tipped us off.
No one in the government let us know this was happening at all.
And honestly, the best thing that could happen to Eric Swalwell as he runs for Groven
or in a crowded primary in California is being targeted by Donald Trump.
For sure.
Yeah.
Just ask Senator Adam Schiff.
Yep.
How that went for him.
I also noticed that the House Democrats are saying she still has to test.
She has a scheduled appearance in the House oversight committee about Epstein, and they're
saying she still has to do it.
Then I kind of imagine that Koma will want that too.
Yeah, probably.
So that's because he had to subpoena her to get her there.
So let's talk about Bondi's potential replacement.
I've seen reports that Trump wants EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
I've heard Janine Pirro might be an option.
I saw a report that some Republican senators want Mike Lee.
God help us.
What do you think the chances are that there will be a real confirmation fight for whoever
this is in the Senate and do you have ideas on why he might want any of the people I just
named or who it might be?
Well, let's first let's start with how long a Blanche can serve.
Blanche can stay as acting for 210 days.
Oh boy.
Now, here's what I would say to that.
One is, I'm not sure who enforces the vacancies acts, but I'm sure it's probably Todd
Blanche.
Yeah.
So I think that he probably stay longer than that if he wants.
And there is actually some legitimate questions about whether that 210-day clock applies to
the Attorney General because in the specific language around the Department of Justice,
that 210 days on and there.
But either way, in a normal course of business, he can stay for about, in acting sexually
exact, about 210 days.
Not really sure why Trump once leaves Elden.
Lee's Elden was a jack officer in the military during his career, but he's never actually
worked in traditional prosecution and law enforcement.
So he would have very little experience for the job.
Cool.
And so I'm not sure he would be, I'm like the deep wall of experience he has with the
environment.
Well, he has hated it for a long time.
That's true.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm not really clear what Trump wants there.
It's in all the stories that he has mentioned Lee's Elden.
None of the stories say why he's mentioned Lee's Elden.
I'm sure Trump doesn't fully understand.
I'm sure it's how he looks.
Yeah.
Or he probably did like one good thing that's stuck in Trump's apple pie.
And that good thing is an interview on Fox News.
Mike Lee, I think that is directly related to Republican centers wanting to spend less
time with Mike Lee.
That's funny.
It's a joke.
I saw from London from earlier YouTube.
But the same reason other Republican centers keep when it puts anchors on the Supreme
Court.
Well, the Mike Lee thing is funny because I just read a story a couple of weeks ago that
Republican colleagues in the senator like pissed at Mike Lee because he's fucking crazy.
Yeah.
These two things are exactly related because you know what you do when you're in the Senate,
you have to have a lunch with your colleagues every single week.
Yeah.
So definitely, definitely promote that person to a position of near absolute power as
Trump's attorney general.
That's responsible.
You know what?
It's going to be a bad person under all scenarios.
You might as well stop having lunch with Mike Lee.
I mean, in terms of the confirmation fight, like you got Tillis who, you know, he's got
a very powerful position in this.
He's already said, what is he blocking because of the power of the Jerome Powell investigation?
The new Fed chair.
The new Fed.
Yeah.
Oh, there's a new Fed chair.
That's what it is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think he could stand in the way of this.
There's, you know, if it's a real crazy person to Susan Collins, one of hope for the crazy
person.
I think this is a election year.
This is a mark away in Mollein.
You think so?
I think the next, the person who places Pam Bondi is going to get the job this same way
by Pam Bondi got it, which is being somewhat other than the purpose to be for them.
Because the only reason Pam Bondi got confirmed is that she's not in that gates.
And so Mark Wayne Mollein.
He's had a long line of attorney general's, attorney's general, yes, and unhappy with.
You get your bill bars, you're Jeff Sessions.
Jeff Sessions.
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
I forgot that was the original.
Yeah.
Jeff Sessions to that interim guy.
Do you think it's the something that all these people have in common?
Or is it you?
It's the luck.
It's the bedlock.
You know, it happens.
Well, this thing is like, I don't, Lee Zeldin's not going to be able to get the Justice
Department to prosecute the people that he wanted Pam Bondi to prosecute that she hasn't
been able to prosecute yet.
Yeah.
All of this stuff is interesting, but not that significant.
Yeah.
It's like, who is it?
We talked about this with Chrissy Nome and Mark Wayne Mollein.
It's probably true that Mark Wayne Mollein is not having a fear with Cory Lundewski.
So that's not going to be an issue in this situation, but other than that, it's the
sale of the same policies.
But if that's what it took to get the job, he would.
Okay.
I'll let you lay it.
That was the best way.
Yes.
It's just my opinion.
There was a story this morning in the Guardian that Trump might be looking to fire Tulsi
Gabbard next since we talked about discussing this one.
Advisors close to Trump told Jennifer Jacobs at CBS that originally he hit, the Trump
had the idea of moving Bondi to director of national television.
Oh, maybe this is what Peter Ducey was talking about.
Now Trump said he wants Tulsi Gabbard to stay in that position.
And then I think the White House threw Stephen Chung just put out a statement.
There's like, it's all, it's a lie.
Of course, we want to keep Tulsi Gabbard to look off.
Stephen Chung said, but it was more, it was not like the the lukewarm, the Pambondi statement
from yesterday that like, she is good.
She did a good job.
This one was more a little punchy.
Yeah.
I, I'm confident that neither Trump nor anyone around him likes Tulsi Gabbard.
I just think the job is fake.
It's a job created after 9-11.
It doesn't, I don't think it really has to matter that much in this situation.
So if you just want to ignore the DNI, as he is down, like she doesn't go to anything.
He doesn't meet with her, doesn't talk to her.
We went to war without speaking to her.
Yeah.
He invaded Venezuela when she was on a beach.
A lot of those post 9-11 moves really coming back to bite us in the ass now.
Yeah.
I mean, do you think we might be rock war?
Yes.
D-H-S.
D-N-I.
Yeah.
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So Trump's Revans for the law and the legal system was on full display this week when
he gave himself a literal front row seat to the Supreme Court hearing on his executive
order to end birthright citizenship.
The first president ever to attend a session of the high court, presumably to intimidate
the justices he recently accused of treason, not sure it worked.
Here are some of the conservative justices peppering Trump solicitor general with pretty skeptical
questions during oral arguments.
That's a close thing you get to a real burn from John Roberts.
Were you surprised by anything in the oral arguments?
I was surprised that Trump went.
Yeah, let's start there.
Yeah, let's start there.
Like, think about what a fucking bozo though, what is my like, I saw that and he's like,
this is the worst thing about Mike.
You know what?
Go for it, man.
You think these fuckers who have lifetime appointments are going to be intimidated by the 35%
approval president, lame duck second term president.
Let's go through the decision making process here, which is we're at war.
Gas prices are high.
People are really mad about the economy and you decide that your high profile public appearance
that they should be to attend a Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship that almost
every legal expert in the world says you're going to lose.
You know what I love about it?
It's just so crazy you could work.
No.
It's that I bet anything but the person who convinced him to do this, Stephen Miller.
Yeah.
And I bet when he walked out of that courtroom, Donald Trump, he probably said to himself
or maybe said it out loud to Stephen Miller, what the fuck did you make me do that for?
Because there's no way Donald Trump left thinking that what he did was, that was a good
idea.
Well, he left in the middle.
So because he's because he probably listened, first of all, he probably couldn't understand
a lot of the words they were saying, but he was probably, I bet he could tell it wasn't
going well.
Yeah, even he could probably figure that out and then so that's the political communications
aspect of the decision.
Talk about the legal aspect of the decision to do it.
Do you remember when the fate of the Affordable Care Act hung in the hands of Justice Anthony
Kennedy and Barack Obama used to make a joke all the time, he was going to mow his lawn,
wash his car, and then someone, I don't think they heard directly from Kennedy, but they
sort of knew Kennedy's told Obama to stop making that joke because that, like being seen
as if you were trying to see him.
He made that joke in public all the time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, or at least in enough place, like not just in the office, he was making that events.
And so enough that it would get back to Kennedy.
And so this person who was close to Kennedy told Obama, that's a bad idea because if it
looks like you're trying to unduly influence the court, it's probably going to push them
in the opposite direction.
Yeah.
So he's always making that joke.
And that is like a tiny little bit humorous bit of putting your thumb on the scale.
Here you have Trump sitting in the front row trying to stare them down like when, you
know, in a wire reference, like when Avon and Barxdale would go to the hearings and just
like look at the witnesses, like say the thing.
And that's obviously not going to work.
It makes the justices look ridiculous.
And so if you're sitting on the fence of your justice, so like, am I really going to
go down this pretty ridiculous path?
And now it's going to look not only like I don't understand the wall, it looks like I did
Trump's bidding because he was there.
Not going to work.
Not going to work.
Yeah.
It doesn't seem like it's going to go well for them.
You know, I think the justices also, especially some of the conservative justices also asked
the ACLU's lawyer, some like tough questions as well, but you didn't have to listen to
much of it or even be a legal expert to know that it was, it was going badly just because
like the unworkability of what they're asking for here, right?
Like at one point, they're like, okay, well you say that the executive order is perspective
so that anyone born from here on out now, there's no birthright citizenship.
But like how do you make that work for all the people before?
Like what are you?
So now everyone is just going to have to go prove their citizenship and prove that they
were born before.
Like what is, this is, it is the most unworkable, crazy fucking executive order.
And I just can't, I mean, I'm sure you'll get like, Alito or Thomas or whatever, but
I don't know, or maybe some partial victory from the dissenting judges, I guess, but like,
I don't know how anyone looks at that and thinks that like, you know, you can just overturn
the 14th amendment.
Not for nothing.
It's been a while since I've seen polling on this, but when Trump first reposed this last
year, it was a 75, 80% opposition to the idea.
I mean, as Robert's asked, he was like, so the cases that you're talking about, which
is like birth tourism or, you know, what happens if there's an invading army and a child born
from a member of the invading army, is there, they are such, I mean, he's like, strikes
me as some quirky example.
Yes.
It's like, yeah, no, I think that's probably right.
So Trump sent out his usual bitchy truth about the court right after he left, but he reserved
his angriest reaction for another court when a judge appointed by George W. Bush ruled
later in the day that Trump can't start construction on his White House ballroom.
His pride and joy.
The only thing he cares about unless Congress approves it first.
The judge said, quote, no statute comes close to giving the president the authority he claims
to have.
You just say that about anything.
True.
Trump presidency.
How badly do you want to see Republicans in Congress take that vote?
I would love, just love to see them vote on it.
They would flee town to avoid it, put it in the supplemental, put it in the 200 billion
for Iran when you're cutting health care, just throw it in that one.
I mean, these fucking Yahoo's who clearly want to be in the minority so bad probably would
propose cutting ACA funding to pay for the ballroom.
I didn't think that the ball, like, I didn't think that anyone would stop him on the ballroom,
but like, I don't know, it's, I was looking, I'm like, okay, maybe this could be, I assume
this is one court order that he might just ignore.
What?
I mean, he already knocked down the East Wing.
It's a little bit like putting the toothpaste back on the tube.
Yeah, we should maybe respond a little faster here.
Courts.
I'm not really sure what the remedy is here, just we have to leave a hole in the ground.
What is the remedy?
Yeah.
I guess then maybe the remedy is that Congress would have to approve something.
They would have to come to some kind of agreement on what they could build in that space,
besides the fucking eye sore of a monstrosity that we saw in the New York Times last week.
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's, but just leaving the hole there for a while will be fun.
Yeah.
That would be good.
And by the way, I'm now on board with the next Democratic President bulldozing the
whole thing.
Oh, no, that's no.
No.
I just, after we've seen that, after you're seeing what it looks like in the, in the times,
like the stairs to nowhere and the windows that aren't windows and like the fact that it's
like three times as big as the actual White House residents, like, this isn't like, oh,
Trump did it, but it's a ballroom and it's a good space and whatever else and it looks
fine.
Like, let's leave it.
Who cares?
This is like, what?
Come on.
It's the White House.
You're going to just build like another White House, three times as big, stacked onto
the side, except it's like super tacky because it's from Donald Trump.
I don't know.
I don't know.
No.
On top of my agenda.
Are you going to make it a litmus test for?
Yeah.
It's like APAC.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You got to demolish the ballroom.
It's first and foremost.
Oh, filibuster.
Oh, yeah.
We can do a crooked questionnaire.
That's perfect.
Yeah.
That's perfect.
Yeah.
No fit.
You send it in with third place.
Eliminate the filibuster.
demolish the ballroom.
So, Trump's other passion project, as of late, is making it harder for Americans to vote.
And now that the Save Act isn't passing Congress anytime soon, he did what we all expected
and he just signed an executive order version of the law, which isn't how this works.
But nevertheless, the EO directs the Department of Homeland Security to create a list of
eligible voters using social security data and send each state their list before every
federal election.
It then directs the Postal Service to send mail-in or absentee ballots only to the names
on that list.
States that don't comply with lose federal funding.
Constitution explicitly gives states the power to run their own elections.
But at the signing ceremony, Trump seemed pretty confident about this move.
Take a listen.
I don't know how it can be challenged.
You'll probably challenge it, you may say, to find a rogue judge, you can open a lot
of rogue judges, very bad, bad people, very bad judges, but that's the only way that
can be changed.
And hopefully, well, we don't appeal if it is, but I don't see how anybody can challenge
it.
I don't see how they can challenge it.
So Oregon and Arizona immediately said they'd be just doing the challenges happen right
away.
It's a bunch of other groups, democratic parties, everyone's challenging it.
Earlier this year, Trump said Republicans should nationalize and take over elections.
What do you think about this?
This did not strike fear into my heart.
Maybe it should have, but I was just like, this is going to be immediately rejected.
Yeah, this doesn't strike fear in my heart as well.
It seems pretty clearly in line with all the other things.
Of course, I've thrown out the Trump's wanted to do.
And my general fear about election interference from Trump is not grand gestures from the White
House like nationalized elections, canceling elections, banning male ballots via executive
fiat.
It's smaller scale use of ice or to intimidate voters, having ice due patrols in certain
precincts.
If the Texas Senate race is closed, you can see ice all of a sudden showing up in the
Latino precincts of Houston or San Antonio or in the Rio Grande Valley counties and all
of the above.
I'm worried about the season of the machines, I think.
On the back end.
But I'm worried about most of the back end stuff.
Yeah.
And the thing that I worry about a lot is, and this youth would have to be a very narrow,
narrow house majority for it to matter, would be the failure to seat a member of Congress
over.
Like, to the extent of this stuff matters, it's all the claims of fraud leads to an environment
where they can say that in this close race, there's enough clouds that we the Republican
majority won't see the one individual who would give Democrats the majority.
But that's a very black swan event to get to the one seat holding us from a majority.
Yeah.
I feel like this will be struck down in short order.
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Quick update on what appears to be a fittingly stupid end to the partial shutdown of Department
of Homeland Security that's caused chaos at airport security lines.
Last time we checked in, House Republicans had just rejected the Senate's plan, which passed
by unanimous consent, to fund all of DHS except immigration enforcement, then Congress
left town for two week recess, and then they were followed around everywhere they went
by TMZ.
Now just a few days later, House Republican leaders apparently decided to cave, though
notice I said, House Republican leaders apparently decided to cave, saying that they'll go along
with the Senate's partial funding plan, and then try to fund ICE and Customs and Border
Patrol with a budget reconciliation bill, which only needs Republican votes, which was
of course the Senate's plan all along.
Only problem is the Congress is still in recess until April 14th.
So Trump announced on Thursday that he would quote, soon sign an order to pay all of the
incredible employees, the Department of Homeland Security, and not just TSA of the right
before we're recording.
I heard that Mike Johnson on a call with his caucus, he's just facing an uproar, hard
liners, moderates, everyone else, everyone's just pissed because Mike Johnson called it a
crap sandwich before just last week, and now he's saying I don't know what else we can
do.
So I'm not sure to eat the crap sandwich.
That's part of being Congress.
That is true.
Do you think that, like, how did they fuck this up so badly?
Mike Johnson is the one person in America who could make Kevin McCarthy look like a
competent legislator.
I mean, he's just, Mike Johnson is both dumb and weak.
Yeah.
When it's all worth to remember, he's an accidental speaker.
He wasn't even particularly high up in leadership or had any role role.
He just happened to be a guy so inoffensive that you could get an exhausted majority to vote
for him.
Yeah.
And so you end up with lowest common denominator leadership.
So he listened to the far right, rejected this thing, had no plan for what came next.
It was obviously the only way to solve this problem and to do what the Senate did.
Yeah.
And instead he decided, you know what?
I know the Democrats are the ones who shut down the Parliament of Homeland Security.
I know that there are lines everywhere where people are really pissed about it.
I am going to take full ownership of this and then go on recess.
I'm wondering now if he can put down the rebellion or just quiet the anger right now because
like, again, I don't know how else they would fund DHS if they don't go on.
No, there's no other plan.
This is it.
They're going to have to do it.
They went through all the iterations and if they don't do it, they're not, I mean,
I think the reason why they, the Johnson cage is like, they tried to blame this on the
Democrats and were like, Senator Republicans who went along with this plan.
I think they're having regrets now.
I think they're having second thoughts, but like, there's no way to pin this on the Democrats.
Yes.
So they were just owned the shutdown.
Yeah.
The Democrats won the shutdown, right?
Yes.
I think it's fair to say Democrats won the political battle over the shutdown.
Yeah.
They, what they said for the beginning was, fun.
One, we're not going to find ice unless you do reforms.
We will however find the rest of DHS and do that.
Do that.
We won't do that.
We won't do that.
Democrats won that battle.
So the thing that they have not won are reforms to ice, right?
Right.
Right.
So like, politically it's one.
Which again, it's not surprising because like, you can't, the only way you can reformize
is if you have the votes to reformize and we don't have a majority in either house.
Yes.
So all we can do is say, if you don't make our reforms, then we're not going to vote to
fund it.
And which is what we did.
And what matters in the end here is that we win the majority and therefore have a ton
of leverage because a bill can't leave the house without a speaker, a keen Jeffries allowing
it to come to the floor.
Yes.
We win the house.
This is a completely different dynamic, even if it's over the same general issue.
Yep.
And I do think it just, it goes to show both Trump and the Republicans weakness.
Just imagine this scenario a year ago.
Yeah.
Seven months or whatever it is before the election, the Democrats shut down the Department
of Homeland Security.
Probably because probably because I was, and I would have been for it, you know, and
you would have been like, you're an idiot.
Yeah.
Well, that it was, it would have been true, but to defund, not defund, but like, they shut
down the Department of Homeland Security over ice funding would have thought that that
was the Democrats doing the dumbest thing possible.
And they end up with the political high ground here.
It says a lot about just how the politics have changed.
All right.
Two final, very important items to discuss.
The first is a huge update that I'll just let you hear about from trusted newsman Brett
Baer.
The Christie Nome is asking for privacy and prayers tonight.
She said to be devastated by a report alleging her husband has been what is being called
a cross-dressing double life.
Senior national correspondent Rich Edson has details tonight could even reach.
Good evening, Brett.
Daily mail alleges it obtained hundreds of messages between Brian Nome and three women involved
in a site where men cross-dress.
The mail posted several of these photos and writes Brian Nome allegedly sent women in
the community $25,000 in virtual payments.
The publication says Brian Nome did not deny the explicit conversations, but says he never
put national security at risk.
All kinds of stories today.
Oh, fuck.
I had not watched that clip by Sandra for this and fuck that was good.
All kinds of stories today, absolutely.
So since the release of the Daily Mail reporting on Tuesday, at least one performer specializing
in quote, sissy sub and bimbo vacation has publicly come forward to claim she was paid
at $5,000 by Brian, it seems Brian, but it's B-R-Y-O-N.
I heard Tim Miller calling him Brian the whole time and I can't get out of my head.
Over the last two years, telling the Daily Beast quote, there's no way in hell that Christina
Nome didn't know per the Daily Beast.
Brian Nome wanted the performer specifically to quote instruct him to bend over Arches
Back, spank him, you guys didn't need to put all this in.
Show off what she describes as the largest prosthetic breasts she's ever seen on a client.
Okay.
A lot of different ways we could take this.
I've told you before, I would not kink shame you for bimbo vacation because I know this
is a thing for you.
A word I learned from you this morning.
You didn't know what it was before, right?
No.
I didn't even.
I didn't know.
I read this where I was like, what is this?
I don't believe.
Is this a thing?
I didn't.
There was a cross-dressing scandal with Brian Nome via some text I got because I was
not really reading the news.
Just not like...
No, not before the story.
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
Are you the story?
Yes.
In the last 48 hours, whatever it was.
But I did not read any of them.
Oh, yeah.
And then just when I looked at the outline for this morning, it just had a something like
I said bimbo vacation.
And I was like, I didn't know it was the same thing.
So I'm learning about it in real time.
I will say, my take on this is, you're the spouse of a Homeland Security Secretary and
you're getting into stuff that if it's public, can embarrass you, your spouse...
Black...
Obtaining for blackmail.
No.
Even if it's just like public embarrassment, like you can't be doing that stuff, you know?
But aside from that, you know, she's the one who put him in this horrible position.
She's been clearly cheating on him allegedly, and we're almost having to drop allegedly
at this point.
But she, like, for just openly, the whole country knows...
For years.
For years.
She's asked about it at a hearing where he was sitting right behind her.
So he's dealing with that.
And now he's dealing with this.
So you get, you feel a little bit for, for Brian.
Yeah.
But not so much Christy know him, because like she...
I want her to be more of that.
Yeah.
What about thoughts and prayers?
What about thoughts and prayers?
She's the one who really sucks.
Yeah.
She's the one who, like, you know, sent people to a fucking torture chamber in El Salvador
and then fucking posed for a picture in front of it.
Yeah.
I have some questions about the vetting process at the White House and the FBI and the Senate.
Yeah.
He's going to say that.
I guess they did.
I don't think they did background checks.
I think the Trump would not let the FBI do background checks on his nominees, because
he thought that they were too anti-insurrection.
I'm not sure.
Charlie, sure.
Wow.
Trump was asked about it, too, which is...
I want...
I would love to hear someone explaining bimbofication to Trump.
So if you're that mole who's posting the live streams, can we get one of those?
I would let...
Yeah.
He was asked briefly about it and he was just like...
It is interesting how, like, Kristi Nome and everything, like, I'm asking for prayers and
privacy at this time.
Yeah.
I'm not him.
Yeah.
It's very...
Like, why not all of them just be like, no, we're not responding to the story, like, get
away and nothing and just, like, leave it at that?
This is her chance to bring her core Lewandowski alleged relationship to the forefront.
I mean, it was Lewandowski that pushed this whole thing around.
Allegedly.
Theoretically.
We don't know.
That's why I said maybe.
Maybe.
Anyway.
We'll just leave that there.
Yeah.
Poor Brian.
Um, finally...
She made...
She made...
You may title this pot be Brian's song.
So you may have seen the viral videos of Kid Rock saluting and clapping on the pool deck
of his mansion outside Nashville is to Apache Helicopters hover just overhead, apparently
attempting some kind of counter-programming to the No Kings March happening nearby.
Those helicopters appeared to be from Fort Campbell and Army base over the border in Kentucky.
And the Army immediately said it would look into it, later announcing that the two crews
had been suspended as the investigation continued.
Kid Rock told local reporters, I think they're going to be all right.
My buddies, the commander in chief, of course.
I'm sure enough, Trump got a question about it in the Oval Office that he'd take a look
because they like Kid Rock.
I like Kid Rock.
Maybe they were trying to defend him at his mansion in Nashville.
A couple hours later, Pete Hegseth posted, thank you, Kid Rock.
US Army pilot suspension lifted.
No punishment, no investigation.
Carry on patriots with an American flag emoji.
What a fucking asshole.
Such a grubber.
I don't know.
What do you think of this story?
Like it did not register as a big deal to me until Reed wanted us to cover it.
And then I started reading about it.
I'm like, yeah, this is really fucked up and crazy.
And the fact that it barely registers, including with me, someone who talks about the news
all the time, just goes to show like how down the rabbit hole we are.
I would just say as a piece of advice to Kid Rock, those helicopter pilots all on the
right, that if you perhaps your response to a rally that suggests that Trump wants to
be a king and dictator, should not be a show of military force.
Yeah.
Also, what kind of goobers were like, we got to find Kid Rock.
I think his mansion's up here.
It's like fly by, maybe, maybe a whole way.
Is that what the thing is that it was like a Hollywood star tour?
He was in the pool that this thought it was hoping he was in the pool deck.
Yeah, like what if he wasn't there?
But did he know that did he know they were coming?
That's what I don't know.
I'd love to know.
You know what?
Actually, Democratic majority.
You think this is a good one?
You know what?
I'm going to send someone's at South Dakota.
I'm going to send someone to Nashville and get to the bottom of all this.
I did on this South Dakota thing.
Did see there was like a clip of the reason podcast.
I think like expressing libertarians expressing some sympathy for Byron, gnome on this.
And then Dave Weigel, quote, tweeted and said, it was right sympathy that helped fuel
Hillary Clinton's run for Senate in 2000.
There is an acting governor of South Dakota right now.
They're ery rodent.
Oh, they could not.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, it's because it's replaced gnome when gnome.
Oh, interesting.
So maybe Byron can get his sweet revenge by running for governor.
You know what?
I hope he has another turn to the wheel as like a mega influencer with some, you know,
or maybe not.
It would be nice if, you know, he like came over to the good side.
But you know, I like, I hope that I hope that Byron found something to do with us.
I hope he can live his life.
But thoughts and prayers were Byron.
It is true that I heard some people say this like, oh, yeah, you can't feel too bad for
him because he was stayed married to Christy gnome as she went on this reign of terror as
the ice queen and never said anything as people's rights were being trampled.
So there is that with.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He did show up at the hearing to, to support his wife.
Well, so I was, you know, I was going to say sitting in the culture.
I felt bad.
The guys, you know, whatever, whatever, whatever, we're done.
Kid Rock bad Byron.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's our show for today.
I love it.
We back in the feed on Sunday with a conversation with Senator Cory Booker.
You think he's going to ask Senator Booker about the implication given the volume of laughter
happening outside the city as we were recording perhaps he did, perhaps it was raised.
Yes.
Well, tune in Sunday to find out.
Have a good weekend, everyone.
Bye, everyone.
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