Rick Wilson

0:00I mean, particularly fucking pernicious in our world right now. This is a woman who's just, she's like into being evil. Yeah. She likes it. She likes being the woman, the one who causes the suffering and all that shit. She enjoys that. That's like a, that's like a thing that Corley Wendowsky convinced her. But eight minutes ago, House Republicans are asking Tony Gonzalez to withdraw. Wow. Right? Really sure? Yeah. We got Rick Wilson everyone. We're going to spend the wheel of chaos because you got Rick for 25 minutes. There's a lot I want to talk to him about. We got the primaries, the going to be costly, bloody, no good, a runoff on Hornen and Paxton. Delicious. We have. It's going to be beautiful.

1:00We have Donald Trump coming up with reasons every day to justify his legal war. I also want to talk to you about your latest piece because I'm glad you're talking about it because I am really worried about the Tucker Carlson of it all. And I don't think people are taking seriously as a threat. And I want to, I want to tell people what I've been hearing about Tucker Carlson from mainstream people who should know better, but they don't learn. And then we of course have the no, the no good face of Christie Nome, Pam Bondy. I just found out about eight minutes ago, folks that we talked about this, that Republicans are going to be stuck because they have a guy, Tony Gonzalez, who's in a runoff. Oh, you know, Tony Gonzalez, who forced, coerced his aide to have an affair with them. And then of course, the aide killed herself by burning herself to death. That guy didn't lose. He's in a runoff. Welcome to the modern GOP. And speak about the modern GOP. Do you see all those texts that were released yesterday? Inward was used to times program. If you said to me, hey, Rick, there's going to be a bunch of young neo Nazis in the Miami

2:01Republicans, that would not have surprised me at all here. Okay. Okay. So I'm giving, we're going to spend the wheel, spend the wheel, spend the wheel. Did you pop up? Did you pop up? Where did it end? You know, look, I think, I think the biggest story out of yesterday was Christie Nome is being thrown under the bus. Yep. Whether she realizes it yet or not, she's done. The all the things that Trump does, whenever he wants to fire somebody, he starts calling around to people going, hey, do you think Christie's doing a good job? Is she good for me or bad for me? And once he starts doing that, your day is your number in Trump world. Once he starts doing that, it's over. You just, it's like, it's like she's dead, but she's too dumb to lay down at this point. So I think she is, I think that even Trump reached a point where he's like, no, this one's too embarrassing for me. Can't do this. Well, the reports have come out just about a couple of hours ago that Donald Trump has

3:05done exactly what you said. He's calling people. We're on the street. He's asking his aides whether or not he should get rid of her. And I realized it when it was Tillis, not just Tillis, because Tillis has now retired, so he's found some balls as he's looking. Yeah. When it's Foghorn, Leghorn, who comes, yeah, that's my real life. I say, I say, I say, should we keep this all, this all, no woman around here? I do declare, I'm, I do declare, I say, I do declare. Kristen, no, once I saw Kennedy laying to her, I'm like, oh, that's, she's done. And she looked like a deer in headlights with a parasitic face that is going to, I'm convinced her face is like a basically a foreign sentient Mexican that is going to rebel against her and is going to just entirely possible, man, entirely possible. Look, I think no, I think no one represents something really, I mean, particularly fucking pernicious in our world right now. This is a woman who's just, she's like into being evil.

4:06She likes it. She likes being the woman, the one who causes the suffering and all that shit. She enjoys that. It's like a, that's like a thing that Corrie Lee would now see convinced her was going to be her path to being president because what people don't, don't widely know is that's why he pushed her to take DHS. That's why she is done all, a lot of these things because she thought, because Corrie told her, this is how you become president. Wow. I have some bad news. I have some bad news there, Christy. But did you see Christy in that hearing, you know, I pay attention to what they say because I think there's a lot of tells in that hearing, as she was being grilled by Tillus and while she was being grilled by a lot of folks, White House had his moments, I mean, they all laid into it. But we're, Rick and I are talking about as a fact that two Republicans just tore her up specifically with Tillus. He had fantastic moments, but Tillus is retiring. You're like, Tillus gives zero F's.

5:08This is him with two middle fingers, but that's Foghorn Leghorn. Everybody's everybody's brave on the way out the door and this thing. Yeah. But Foghorn Leghorn, Kennedy, he's still in it. So the fact that he went into it and then she said, Rick, well, I was just following the orders of Stephen Miller and President Trump. I am just following all of those sounds better in the original German, but that is what she thought would get her out of this from the beginning. I didn't, I was doing what the President told me to do. I was doing what Miller told me to do. I'm sorry, Christie, but you got to, you got to wake up and smell the, smell the sellout. They're going to throw her under the bus and as much as Trump for the first year of this administration was like, I don't want to fire anybody. That gives the media a win. Well, guess what? Now he's being hurt so badly by what she's doing that getting that, getting her off the, off the White House payroll right now is starting to look to him like a real winner.

6:12Did you hear about Pam Vondi? How's Judiciary has asked her to testify? I feel like she might be the second person who might be thrown under the bus, but the reason why Pam Vondi might be protected is because she knows where the bodies are buried. Yeah, I have, I have a contrary position on Pam. I think she knows way too much to be thrown out. I think they're going to keep her as long as, as long as they can manage to pretend that she's still in the actual attorney general and not just a secretary for Trump, they're going to keep her around, I think, because it gets very ugly if Pam starts talking. That's, that's what I've been saying to people folks. I feel like the people are going to be on the ship with Donald Trump as it sinks is probably Pam Vondi, Stephen Miller, Pete Kegseth, and even Cash Patel, because they know where the bodies are buried, and because they're so delusional as cosplay crusaders that they probably think they could turn around the ship. Speaking of, I will say this, I think Hegseth will try to stay until the end, but there's

7:17a little bit of, there's a Marco Hegseth war going on right now over Iran, because as much as Marco has sold the complete hell out to Trump, he's also a guy who was around for the last go-around, you know, the, the, the, the, the ugliness of the last invasion in Iraq and does understand that what, what Hegseth is doing right now sounds great to the Maga base, but it's going to turn very poisonous, probably very soon, because it's going to turn into Pete Hegseth's crusadeorama against, against Muslims more broadly than just the Iranian regime. Nobody, nobody gives a shit about the Iranian regime. They're bad guys, right? But, but they're going to turn this into an extension of the, our war on Sharia law, blah, blah, blah, all that garbage. It's already happening, folks, talking to Jonathan Larsen, investigative reporter about a fantastic piece on how there's over 200 complaints by our troops that commanders have said

8:21this is part of the Armageddon in a rapture in the Rose Bible studies, right? And Pete Kegseth, for those who don't know, literally wrote a book called American Crusade, he's a cosplay crusader, that's what I call him, as a general school cross, has the Deuswald, has got her, you know, a person who said kill all Muslims drunkenly, drunkenly allegedly, which seemed to be his natural state. But speaking about the Marco of it all, of all of them, right, there's a certain shamelessness work. I was talking a few journalists yesterday. And we're just talking about, you know, I mean, hopefully we'll never be in this position. But even if you lie or you fave, you know, our eye twitches, we feel a bit nervous. We start beads of sweat. There is a type of shamelessness with this administration that is straight up social pathic. Where they have. Oh, absolutely. Watch, I mean, look, these people believe that they are above the law and above justice and above the rules of, of, of, of everything. They don't believe in any of these things. They don't even restrictions on themselves in any area of the, of the, of the world, right?

9:26And so I think it's really important to keep in mind that the psychotic shit people go, oh my god, I can't believe they did that. You should always believe they're going to do that. That's what they do. It's what they always do. This is who they are. This is exactly who they are. But you know, with Marco, and I'm not giving him a but because he's just as complicit. I don't know if you saw the state of the union of all of them. I see, I see a little bit of Marco's soul, like just like trying to rebel and he just looked to defeat it. Like a reek. It looks like reek from Game of Thrones. Like, oh yeah. Oh no, it is. It is what's your name? My name is reek. Yeah. That's exactly right. And look, I think Marco, look, I've known the guy a long time, he is, he is smart enough to know that, that what they've done here probably destroys his ambitions to be president. And Marco really wants to be president. He's smart enough to know that this is probably ended that dream.

10:26And I think he's also smart enough to know that, that when Trump gets bored in a couple of weeks by all the lists, and he will, he will get bored. Trump always gets bored and restless and moves on to something else. When he gets bored, I can stay focused. Did you see the drapes? 300 million dollar at the bottom? Right. There's a big hole there now, but soon you're going to love it. You're going to love what you see. But he has to go, folks, I swear. Yeah. It's a story. But watch, I mean, he's got, he's got a moment right now where he really thought he really believed that this was going to be so popular that American Jews and American evangelicals were going to finally get their, their, their, their Armageddon, they were going to finally get their rapture in the Middle East. And he believed that he believed that, that Jewish voters in Israelis would, would love him so much that this would be the, the, the legacy of his administration. But I keep telling people this, the easy part is over.

11:31It's easy to turn the key on the missiles and launch missiles. That's easy when they start having to put, here, see if this sounds familiar, folks, boots on the ground in, in Iran, tell me how, tell me how that's going to go. I can tell you right now from, from, from painful experience as, in this country, we, it's going to suck. People are going to die. It is going to be bad in every possible dimension and I just can't, I can't imagine who talked to Trump. It said, this is your legacy item. This is what you want to do. This is what you want to do to establish your permanent, legacy in history. You know, well, the reporting Benjamin, you know, who came in and dog walked him, a, a combination of bullying and flattery. And then he said, flattery also when Donald Trump, look, listen to this, listen to the sentence. I'm about to say, folks, two days ago, Donald Trump on his broke down truth, social, asked Americans to tune in to Sean Hannity to hear Benjamin Dinyahu, the idea of a foreign

12:31country coming and sell the war. Yep. That's what happened, folks. Yep. And, and what we find out is, and what we, if you heard that and saw clips of that, bad, president, Trump is the greatest president of my lifetime. No one is more. No one has ever been bad. He's the best. He's the greatest. And, and he probably sat there and said, okay, you're right. And then Jared Kushner is there. Why the F is Jared Kushner in the Middle East doing deals and negotiations? Look, no, that's, that's, that's what this is about. This is about the Trump family enriching itself in the Middle East. This is about a Trump tower, Trump tower Tehran. And, and, you know, they don't need in their minds to understand consequences or, or, or what they've done with Iranian, I mean, if you wanted to radicalize Iranians, a generation of new Iranians to hate America, heck of a job, Donnie, you did great. You killed 200 girls at a school.

13:32Yeah. And, and, and as much as, and I, there are no apologists for coming in, right? Bad guy. But, but they killed the leader of the Shiite world during Ramadan. I don't know. Maybe, maybe somebody could have looked at a fucking calendar and said, miss, it's a good idea. Or does this have some bad symbolic juju? Yeah. I'm going to argue. Bad symbolic juju. I don't think Rick in all seriousness, I've been warning about this as soon as I heard it. I said, you know, 15% of Muslims are Shia. It's Ramadan. Ayatollah. You have to make, similarly, you can, oh, you can sit there and criticize at the same time, Khamenei and the oppressor regime. But also, you have to have a basic understanding of Muslims and Shia Muslims. They see the Supreme Leader and the religious scholarship of Iran as religious guides. So, it's almost as, if you literally brag about killing the Pope and you expect to blow back. Right. And, and while I'm Pakistan, which has, by the way, folks, the second largest Shia population

14:36in the world, what it is. It's going great. It's going great in Pakistan right now. It's going great. It attacked the US consulate. So the US consulate in Dubai is on fire. The US consulate is being repeatedly attacked in Karachi. Now you have Iran bringing in the Middle East and NATO and Europe into the war. And what I said yesterday, Rick, is knowing Donald Trump. The best way to get out of this, right, is Donald Trump doesn't give an f about any of this. He'll burn the world down for himself and his ego. But I think someone needs to be in his ear and just say, all right, Donald, this is how you declare victory. Someone just needs to give him an off-ramp where he says, I won. What are you saying? Now, look, I think that's exactly right. Somebody needs to say, Donald, this was a great military triumph. You're a war leader. You're a hero. The world is intimidated by your manly power. And once he hears that, he'll say, all right, I've liberated Iran. That's great.

15:36I have the greatest leader ever, and it'll go away. And so far as when I say it'll go away, I mean, he will stop trying to pour more resources and manpower into a thing that will make the Iran, the Iraq war look like a walk in the park. I mean, people don't get it. Iran is twice the size of Iraq. Saddam, they were a secular dictatorship. They don't get that Iran, that 95 million people would want, and yes, many of them want to be liberated from the theocracy. But that doesn't mean there are a lot of Catholics who don't like a lot of teachings of the church. That doesn't mean that they're not, that if you say I'm going to kill the Pope, they're going to be happy about it, right? I just feel like there's a set of unintended consequences here that are going to really punch hard, and they're going to cause more death and chaos than we've even calculated

16:41yet. Yeah. If this escalates, folks, Iraq war will be a walk in the parks. There's a reason why Spain has said, peace out, we're not doing this. And like that Iran sent a missile to Turkey, was intercepted by NATO, and now if you get NATO involved, you get the entire Middle East involved, you get shias around the world who are listening to death and others. And Mike Huckabee openly talked about crusade and white Christian nationalism. Then this becomes a religious war. Good luck, folks. You have fun. He has walked us into a global conflict without an exit strategy, without any strategy. And now we're stuck in it. So let's just hope some cool heads prevail. I really think folks, you think I'm kidding. I just think he's someone needs to say, Donald, you did a great job. Just come on and say that you've won. He did this last summer. I've obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons. I've obliterated them. Thank you. And he did not, but who cares? It was on the White House. As it's happening, you're seeing the spillover. There are certain things happening, Rick, that I never thought I'd see in my lifetime.

17:43Number one, a majority of Americans are now pro-Palestinian. Number two, A-PAC is now toxic. Number three, 50% of Americans want to abolish ICE. Number four, a present, again, attacks the Middle East. Each time a present has done that. He's always come from a position of strength, 70, 80, 90% approval. Donald Trump has started with 60% disapproval. And then another thing I've never thought I'd see in my lifetime, it's Texas potentially going blue. Talk to us about the Texas of it all. Sure. One quick thing about going into a war in the Middle East from strength, just for context, right now, the public polling, there's not a lot out there yet, 29 and 27% of the two numbers for approval of the attacks. For context, at the end of the Vietnam War, 32% of people still, in 1973, when the helicopters were leaving the roof, 32% of people in America still favored the Vietnam War, it's going to go great. What could go wrong? Yeah, what could go, especially when you're at the start of it, right?

18:43What goes wrong? Correct. Explain what we're, yeah, so Texas, look, Texas is Ken Paxton is not going to bend the knee and get out. That's right. Donald Trump and the world as of today, nope, I'm staying in the race. This is psychodically bad news for the Republicans. They needed to have this race done and over. Now we're going to have 90 days of Trump's people and Cornyn who Trump's people don't love by the way. John is an old school bush style, bush 41 style Republican for real. He's not a manga. They know it. They don't like him. So Trump's fracturing his own base, they're going to pour $100 million into trying to burn down Paxton, which will not help. People already made the decision. Yeah, he's a scumbag, but he's there scumbag. Texas is a hard, high hill decline, it is a very tough race, but it got a lot easier this week. I got a lot easier.

19:43And Tolerico is a magnificent candidate in this race. He is running one of the best campaigns I've seen in a long time. No hate on Jasmine Crockett, love her to death, but Tolerico is a Obama level talent. And that's, that says a lot in his messaging is on point folks. His messaging. This is top versus bottom. This is against the public. Archie. This is against the billionaires. Yeah. Combining us. It's us versus them. Perfect. Multiracial coalition. Get independence, young people, Latinos, and he got, he got, he got, he built out a coalition in particular in the Rio Grande Valley of Hispanic voters that is going to, is, will be there in November because they're super activated right now because of surprise immigration. And I, I feel like this is just a, a, this has been a kind of remarkable stroke of luck. And I got love better. I love better, but he is not this guy. Yeah. And I've never seen anybody like this guy.

20:45This guy and they, they're, the Republican Jerry Mander has turned into a dummy Mander. They made the mistakes that Democrats did that that, oh, the Latinos will go for us. We don't have to do anything. It's the Latino voters themselves with the downfall of the Republicans in Texas because they overreach on the economy and they overreach on their white supremacy and ice and immigration. And irony is a supreme queen. And she is, she is here to deliver a punch in the face of Maga in Texas. And look, it is still a hard race. I'm not going to bullshit anybody. This is a tough race. It's a tough state to win, but you sure as heck want to be Talleriko over one to be Ken Paxton right now. Yeah. It's, he's going to need a plus five or plus six, but I think he might be put a little off in Paxton's folks. Paxton is like one of the least likable human beings on earth. Listen, I know Ken Paxton. He is a vial, sickening, grotesque monster. And that's me saying that on a day. I'm in a good mood. Yeah.

21:45And that's, yeah. That's when Ken is at his most charming. We, I know you have a hard out in five, I want to respect that, but I do want to talk about this. I am deeply disturbed by the rise of Tucker Carlson. I cannot tell you folks how many people I have talked to and I've been saying this for a while and I see the trends. Tucker, Nick Fuentes, Margie Taylor, Green, folks take them seriously. They're not just cranks. Take them seriously ahead of 38, take them seriously ahead of 2032. They have moved more to the left than the Democrats have on going pushing back against Israel. You have won them nothing but support. They are now criticizing AI. That has won them nothing but support. It is such a smart, and that is such a smart play on their part. Talk to us about, maybe am I exaggerating about the Tucker Carlson threat? No, no, no. Listen, I think, I think a candidate in that lane will do one of two things in 2028. They will either run in the Republican primary and shock the shit out of everybody or they will run as an independent and kill Maga and drain off the Republican party.

22:49But that story we saw this week about those young men down in Miami with their racist, racist chat group. If Florida, young Republicans are Nazi folks. Young Republicans love Nick Fuentes. They love Tucker Carlson. They love the overt, racial and religious hatred that these guys represent. It's important to remember, too, they're not conservatives, they're not, they're not small government, individual liberty, free market, they're not at all that. What they are is extraordinarily radical people driven mostly by racial hatred. And man, if we forget about that, if we like what that go, they're going to shock people it's not going to be good. You have a piece out on Tucker Carlson right now, how he's on full conspiracy theorist and folks, he's playing all the sides. You will not know. Just listen to your normy neighbors, your neighbors are praising Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson

23:51and Margetell Green and your normy neighbors are saying, I think he's made a good point. You know what? And look, Tucker is a tremendous performer. He's great on TV. He's great on podcasting. He's a great performer and he feels subversive and transgressive and people like that, they're like, hey, I'm involved in something like tricky and cool. These people are very much inclined to turn the 28 election into a racial referendum. And I think in the Republican Party, if Tucker ran in the primary, he'd wipe the mat. Now, he does have a good relationship with Vance. He thinks Vance is on their side, on this race stuff, but I don't think I'm going to count on Tucker. I'm not going to like make any long bets on Tucker Carlson sticking with Vance. Folks, the future and the present, I should say, in future of young GOP is Nazi.

24:53Yeah. I'm saying it. Well, I mean, don't, don't, you know, you don't have to put too far to point on it. You know, if the jackboot fits where it is, I always say. Most people have embraced the darkest, the darkest of the darkness. And look at the text, what Oh, me and Rick are talking about, came out yesterday, another group of texts, pro-Hitler, anti-Semitic, using N word, anti-woman and not just like, not just like using the N word, like an entire document of, of horrifying tortures they want to impose on black people. Yeah, yeah. The same thing which happened with the telegram text with the young Republican leaders, the many thousand texts, the same thing, how they want to throw us in gas chambers. Right. Other thing, this is hilarious. And Tucker is now playing all the sides and Democrats are on the losing end. If they don't see how they're being outmaneuvered by this group that seeks to collect the fringes of MAGA, then build with independence. And folks, if you get a Milk Toast Democrat who wins in 2028, assuming, assuming we have

25:56free and fair elections, that Milk Toast Democrat who's not going to do anything for transformation, who's not going to take on the billionaires, you know what's going to happen, a repeat of 2024, but instead of Trump, it'll be a Nazi, it'll be Tucker or Nick Fuentes. One of those monsters, Rick, shamelessly promote yourself before you head out. Folks, you can catch me on the against all enemy substats. You can also catch me on the Lincoln Project podcast, on the elephant room podcast, on the behind the numbers podcast every Friday with Andrew Wilson, where we go through the polling around the country. And as always, my friend, a pleasure to be with you. Take care, man. I'm just going to keep going for a while. Yeah, yeah. We'll see you soon. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, folks. Folks, this will be, we got a lot of interesting stuff today. Later on, for the people who are watching this later, that was Rick Wilson. We spun the wheel of chaos and talked about how Republicans are pretty much bleeding everywhere and bleeding the rest of us. I agree with Rick's analysis that Christian home is the fall person. We just had punchable news report that Donald Trump is calling people and saying, what do you think about Christy? Do you think she's weak? Whenever Donald Trump does that, that's a sign that she is going to fall for those who

27:00I didn't watch the left hook the last couple of days, Christy Nome was grilled in front of the Senate. And what was different about it is usually this is theater where Democrats, they come in and act hard and then Republicans, they sit there and perform and praise the Republican. But this time around, you had some fellow Republicans leaning into Christy Nome and just destroy her. Namely, Tom Tillis, who found his courage as he is retiring, a little too late, Tillis, but he got in a clause once he talked about her resigning. And then I'll do declare, I'll do the Senate of Kennedy, a foghorn, leghorn, he actually plays it much more dumb. He goes, what is Kennedy like? He goes, you know, Christy Nome, I'll see how. So Kennedy always plays dumb. The guy went to Oxford, he's an extremely intelligent person. He plays up the foghorn very deliberately because it's all a cosplay. He leaned into Christy Nome. And then what we talked about yesterday is like, watch Christy Nome be the fall person today.

28:02It seems like Christy Nome is going to be fall person. We also talked about Pam Bondy. Pam Bondy, folks, the house is subpoenaed here, but I've been seeing it for a while and Rick, who knows stuff about Republicans, the insiders, he agrees with me. She knows too much. She knows where the bodies are buried. And if Donald Trump turns on Pam Bondy, Pam Bondy is going to turn on him. We said this a year ago. If you've been following Maggie and these players, they're loyal to nothing and nobody. These are the world's worst people. You saw Christy Nome perfectly fine spending our taxpayer dollars on these ads, perfectly fine trying to retrofit and create a new fleet of jets, right? Like hundreds of millions of dollars, perfectly fine with their $50,000 Rolex cosplaying at C-coat. Remember that? It just looked like one of the most disgusting photos you thought it was AI. It's not. As all those brown men were behind her, just similarly, you could take that photo from Nazi Germany or, you know, Google logs. This is who they are. They don't care. And so it's gone too much because they've overreached on immigration.

29:04They've overreached on ICE. As we talked about yesterday, yet again, another individual was found dead in ICE custody. I want to name him. He was a Haitian immigrant seeking asylum. I want to give his name because we should remember these people. Emanuel Damas, Emanuel Damas, Haitian man seeking asylum, had a toothache. They went out of their way to ignore his toothache. What happened? He got an infection. How did he die? Sepsis. Emanuel Damas, in ICE custody, had a toothache, begged to get some help. They refused, developed sepsis, died of a tooth infection. My God. We've also talked about Nurell and Meensha, how CPP is working, customer borrower patrol, left the man to die, freeze to death. We're seeing now Iran, there's no escape plan. So there is going to be some fall people, some scapegoats.

30:06One of them is Christiano. It seems right now, we also talked very quickly about its Keck Seth versus Rubio. Report came out yesterday that internally they're turning on each other because Rubio, he's shameless, he's a reek, but he's not stupid. Keck Seth is stupid. Keck Seth wants his crusader war. This isn't cosplay anymore, right? When I talked about the tattoos that he's had, you know, I tried to warn a year ago, he wrote this book called American Crusade, Keck Seth wrote that. In the book, he said he was too extreme, even for the military. In the book, he outlined his religious extremism. He has openly invited Doug Wilson, who is the head of this, he is against separation of church and state. He's a white Christian nationalist. He's a massage and it's that Doug Wilson. He started these churches, right? These Christ churches, which Keck Seth belongs to, Pamela Brown of CNN a couple of months ago, did a six minute segment kind of exposing these people?

31:07They calmly, I mean, they didn't even flinch. They're like, yep, we don't believe in the 19th Amendment. We believe women are subservient. We don't believe in the separation of church and state. Yeah, you know, sometimes you might have to do certain things to create the kingdom of God, so be it. They're perfectly fine using and abusing their powers to essentially follow their extremist story that says that Jews need to control Jerusalem and that America is a special holy land and that God has asked Christians in America to cleanse and purge the land and use the power to put in part, put in place the conditions that will bring about the second coming of Jesus. I'm not making this up. So what's the problem? Well, when you have the Secretary of War, Pete Keck Seth, who's a proud follower of Doug Wilson and responds to the six minute Pamela Brown CNN clip with a positively tweeting all of Christ for all of life, that should have been a tell. I tried my best. I said, can you imagine? Oh, I don't know if Pete Keck Seth was Muslim.

32:09And these were, I don't know how many and someone said this, no one talked about it. And then Pete Keck Seth has invited Doug Wilson to the Pentagon, you know, to give prayers perfectly fine. And now you see that white Christian nationalists like Pete Keck Seth, like Mike Huckabee and like a lot of troops and commanders are openly now framing this disastrous Iran war as part and parcel of the Armageddon rapture, praying for it. They believe, if you don't know, that Jews need to control Jerusalem as a necessary precondition for the return of Jesus. And according to their extremist eschatology, Jesus then comes back. And the first group that he kills is Jews, and then the second group he kills is Muslims. And William Boykin, who said this 20, three years ago, this happened during the Iraq war. And when General William Boykin did the same thing that is now happening across battalions,

33:11he was let go by the Bush administration. And then William Boykin later made a career as, you know, this right wing white Christian nationalist who essentially became, you know, part of the tea party movement that then became part of the mega movement. He said that Jesus will return armed with an AR-15. This is who these people are. And so this is what you're seeing in Iran, because we got Benjamin and Yahoo, a Jewish supremacist and white Christian nationalist like Huckabee and Pete Kexeth. And then of course, just Jared Kushner, who is also a believer in the expansive Israel project, right, River to the Sea, has also supported settlements, illegal settlements, but also wants to make a quick buck in the Middle East as well. You had all those factors coming together, and now you got this clusterf. And you have Rubio, he's trying his best to sell it, folks. You could tell. You could tell it. Like his soul is leaving his body. So things are going bad on that front. Texas, we talked about Texas, it's a tough ride for any Democrat.

34:15Talleriko, last time I checked, he needs to be plus six, but he has assembled a Mamdani like coalition. And his messaging is fantastic. And the last couple of months, his ground game has been fantastic. Politico today did an autopsy and audit of where Crockett went wrong. And I thought it was fair. I thought it was fair. They said the messaging, she went too much on social media, not much on TV. And her ground game, she didn't devote too many resources. Kurt Bardella, I talked to him two days ago, he's in Dallas and said, there was a type of political malpractice by abandoning some of these districts. So Talleriko got a boost because, if you recall, Brendan Carr, the henchman of the Donald Trump's FCC, banned censored Stephen Colbert's interview with Talleriko, relied upon a rule that no one else uses, that you need to do equal both sides if you're a talk show.

35:17They've never done that any time for any other show, when they want to promote Republicans. So Stephen Colbert couldn't even show Talleriko's face. And instead that interview was then aired on YouTube, went viral, only helped Talleriko. Talleriko also has done two things I think are smart. Crockett is not weak, I didn't say she's weak, I think she's very good. There were just certain mistakes, there were certain mistakes that Talleriko's campaign seemed to capitalize on and Talleriko just had the edge. The Crockett's not going anywhere, she's a bright talent, and I do appreciate the fact that she conceited with grace, even though she has every right to be pissed because Paxton also, after over and Democrats, by Chinese repressed votes, folks, Kurt said that his wife, like so many other Texan voters, you know, like repeally, she went to go vote, like this is not your present, like what the F, and at the last second, a judge extended the voting hours from 7 to 9 p.m., Ken Paxton, as Attorney General, put his wheelchair on the neck

36:23of the Texas Supreme Court, Texas Supreme Court, then went against the judge and said, no, no, no, no, we can't extend it. And then furthermore said, all the ballots collected after 7 p.m., you know, you can count them. Clearly, examples of voter suppression and a sneak preview about what's going to happen. That's why it's important. Tell you exactly what's going to happen. That's what they're going to do. But it just so happened, the math wasn't mapping for her. Even if they did some recounts, it included those ballots. So good on her must be very difficult. Talleriko is a white male, that's far more appealing in Texas. We don't know, Robin, we don't know. Texas is in play. Paxton and Cornyn are going to go into a really nasty brutal runoff. The latest news says that Donald Trump is going to lean towards Cornyn. Ben Paxton, the attorney general, Ken Paxton is a piece of crap. I think I agree with the Rick we talked about it briefly. He's going to be in it. And as they bleed each other out, you're going to have Talleriko with the wind behind

37:28his back. And if it is Paxton, he is just loadsome. I mean, he is a deeply flawed candidate. So Democrats might have a shot at picking up a sentencing in Texas. And for those who are joining us, welcome. I had Rick on for about 30 minutes. I'm just doing my own analysis and recap about some of the stories. And then we'll be back at 2 p.m. with Ellie and Zev. We have not forgotten the Epstein files. Trump might have forgotten it, but the world has not forgotten it. We're going to give the latest about the Epstein files. And guess what, folks? The house hasn't forgotten about it because Pam Bondy, there's going to be hearing. Pam Bondy has been subpoenaed to testify about the handling of the Epstein case. They can't escape from it. They cannot escape from it. And as the UK and Europe is doing criminal investigations, the United States, Donald Trump has said, time to move on, stand to move on. Real quick about the Epstein files. I had a Jennifer Coonings on, I think a couple of weeks ago.

38:28She talked about, she was the first one. She talked about the links between Epstein and Eva Dubin, Glenn Dubin, Mount Sinai, and the doctors, put it all out there. And then last week, New York Times, New York Times came out with a piece over the weekend about how Epstein used doctors to treat him and also his girls that he raped, that he might have gone and pregnant, that people roughed up during the rape and the sex. So check out that story. That one broke when Donald Trump and Israel declared war. The story is that the DOJ is investigating how three interview summaries were just missing. These interview summaries are three of the four interview summaries from a credible witness who claims in the 80s when she was 13 years old, Donald Trump sexually assaulted her. She also won a settlement from Epstein in 2021 and a settlement is not in mission of guilt

39:29but something important to know. FBI interviewer four times created a 21-page slide show. Three of those interviews just happened to be missing. That story has legs, folks. The Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal is still on it. So if you all think Epstein's going to go away, it's not. Two things to be true at the same time. Donald Trump has pursued this disastrous war because he got dogwalked by Ben Yahweh, Kushner, White Christian Nationalist, apparently according to the Washington Post, also saw the rabies say, well, if you're going to do it, you've got to do it. They bullied him and cajoled him and flared him into doing it. I guarantee you, they probably said he'll be seen as the strongest American, the one president who got rid of this violent regime. They'll praise you. They'll be garlands of flowers around your neck, not only your base, but also the Iranians. They'll give me flowers. They'll call me a hero. I swear to God, they will. Yes, do it. Do something that Obama and Bush were too cowardly to do. You're right. They were cowards. I'm strong.

40:29That's right. This will be part of your legacy. My legacy. You're right. My legacy. Voila. And now they can agree on talking points. They have no exit strategy. They talked about ground troops. Then they don't talk about ground troops and they talk about ground troops. Caroline Levitt yesterday, Donald Trump did it based on can make this up. A feeling. He had a feeling. Maybe it was gas. I don't know. And yes, Lev just texted me and said that Lev is running for Congress in Florida's 27th district, which is wild. He says, in the morning, he says, bro, call me. I was just really busy. And then he sends me the link to it. So I'm like, what? So we'll talk to Lev. He called me right before, but I'm like, dude, I'm doing lives. We'll do it. We'll do it live. We'll do it live. So that's wild. Didn't see that one coming. He kept that one in the back pocket. We'll talk to Zevan Elliott about it. Zevan Elliott on at 2 p.m. So we're going to talk about the Epstein files. And folks, there's just a lot of crises, but we're trying our best on the left

41:31took. I'm trying to bring really smart people who know what they're talking about to look at these different angles. For those who are joining us late, I would recommend listening to my conversation with Rula Jurel yesterday. I also had to treat a parsion as soon as to see. These are really smart folks who should be on corporate media, but they're not. People who've been following the Middle East, and we'll give you analysis. I think they did a really good job on Iran. I really recommend listening to my conversation with Jen Bud and Jessica Zwang yesterday about how ice and custom and border patrol work in tandem. They work in tandem. Most people just say ice, but they ignore the role of custom and border patrol. Custom and border patrol works to keep people out and patrols the borders. Ice patrols the interior. Both of them are working in tandem to terrorize Americans. It's the type of stuff that they break it down in a way that most people do not understand how this organization works.

42:32It's not just about abolishing ice. You've got to abolish CBP as well, customs and border patrol. That's happening, and we're going to talk about Epstein right now with Zev and Ellie. Later today, who do I have? I got, so we just had Rick. We got Ellie and Zev at two. We're going to have a really good conversation with Deborah Shushan. Deborah comes on a lot. Deborah was part of J Street. She has left very progressive inter-politics and experts on the Middle East, and she was at the J Street conference. And what we'll get from Deb, and what I really want to ask her is, what's the vibes within Jewish-American communities right now? Because someone who was there at J Street said that the base was far more progressive and liberal than some of the speakers. And as some of the speakers trotted out some of the stale old talking points, the base wasn't having it. And I think it is important, folks, and I made this distinction. Netanyahu, his base, is not American Jews.

43:34His base is white Christian nationalists. J Street, for those who don't know, J Street started off as a counter to APAC. J Street, as an organization, is Zionist, but they call those of liberal Zionist. In recent years, with many American Jews, seeing what's happening with Netanyahu, with the Jewish supremacy, with the genocide, they've broken away from J Street. And they're trying to push J Street and these legacy organizations to be more progressive and liberal. As I was saying, Benjamin Netanyahu's base, his base is the kind of old-guard Jewish institutions, the pro-Israel hawks, the older Jewish-Americans. It is not young Jews. It is Christian Zionists. The largest Zionist group in America is Christian Zionists, Christians United for Israel. So we're going to talk about how this is playing out and how all of this is going to be disaster for Donald Trump. Well, President Trump is preparing to

44:40fire Christy Nome. Called it, this is according to the Wall Street Journal. I don't see that is she fired folks? Wait. Someone did anyone get New York Times reports that Christy Nome has been fired. Okay. Folks, right on time. Yep, breaking. Whoo. Look at that. Oh, called it four minutes ago. President Trump just announced on social media that Christy Nome is out at Department of Homeland Security. However, oh, he wants the dumbest, the second dumbest or the dumbest senator, Mark Wayne Mullen to replace her, disaster. Called it, NYT. But the second, I'm going to just treat the dumbest person in the Senate might replace her. That's not good. Wow, thanks,

45:46counsel. All right. So New York Times, 45 minutes ago is the Wall Street Journal. For those who joined us, wow, literally 45 minutes ago, Rick and I. This is what we talked about. We said, yeah, I think Christy Nome is out and we kind of gave her a commentary as to why she's out. And then, apparently, as we were speaking, I talked about this. The Wall Street Journal said Trump plans to get her out and about, yes, Ellie, Christy Nome has been fired. Wow. That's big. That's big, folks. This is an admission by the Trump administration that they've effed up. They've effed up. This is an admission by the Trump administration that they've overreached. It's actually Steven Miller when Christy Nome was going out yesterday. She goes, I was just falling orders by Steve Miller and Donald Trump. She's not wrong. What we've heard is that Steven Miller is essentially

46:47the de facto person who's head of DHS and DOJ. He's the person who's, you know, budget himmler. He's the person who's talking about the quotas. He's the person who unleashed ICE agents, right, in LA. But what we said is, Christy Nome, you endanger girl. You endanger. Can you all see me? Apparently. Hello, hello.