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Claims of Political Debanking Spark Executive Order plus Media Misleads on Gerrymandering Claims · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: I've got a very important update for you on a
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Speaker 1: story that we talked about yesterday, and it was the
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Speaker 1: claim by Donald Trump that banks had been d banking
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Speaker 1: conservative groups, Christian organizations, Second Amendment organizations. And now we
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Speaker 1: know even more about how banks had been d banking
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump after he left the White House. In twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: in an interview on CNBC, Donald Trump said that JP Morgan,
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Speaker 1: Chase and Bank of America, two of the biggest banks
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Speaker 1: in this country, refused to do business with him, despite
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Speaker 1: him having hundreds of million in cash and longstanding customer
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Speaker 1: relationships with them.
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Speaker 2: He alleged in.
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Speaker 1: The interview that JP Morgan asked him to close decades
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Speaker 1: old accounts with just twenty days notice, and that Bank
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Speaker 1: of America even declined his depositive over one billion dollars.
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Speaker 1: Trump attributed this to political bias, saying they discriminated against
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Speaker 1: many Conservatives, many Trump supporters, and many Christians. Supporters of
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, like tech investor Mark Andresen have echoed broader
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Speaker 1: claims of conservatives being quote d banked, including crypto entrepreneurs,
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Speaker 1: under what they called Operation Checkpoint two point zero, which
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Speaker 1: brings us to the draft Executive Order that I told
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Speaker 1: you about yesterday. It would penalize banks for political debanking.
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear President Donald Trump calling out
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Speaker 1: the JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Diamond for debanking him,
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Speaker 1: and also calling out Bank of America as he tells
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Speaker 1: a story of what happened when he left the White House.
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Speaker 1: The first time I did discriminate.
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Speaker 3: I had JP Morgan Chase. I had hundreds of millions
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Speaker 3: of dollars in cash. I could see if they want to,
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Speaker 3: you know, if they want to do something bad because
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Speaker 3: you don't have any money and you're defaulted, and they
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Speaker 3: took people out. But I'll give you me as an example.
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Speaker 3: I had hundreds of millions. I had many, many accounts
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Speaker 3: loaded up with cash. I was loaded up with cash,
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Speaker 3: and they told me, I'm sorry, sir, we can't have you.
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Speaker 3: You have twenty days to get out. I said, you
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Speaker 3: got to be kidding. I've been with you for thirty
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Speaker 3: five forty years, they said, And I mean I had
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Speaker 3: all this. I didn't know what to do with it.
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Speaker 3: And I went to and you could ask him, maybe
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Speaker 3: he's not going to admit it. So I said, you know,
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Speaker 3: I was informed by my people that we have to
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Speaker 3: get out of Chase Man and that's Jamie and JP
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Speaker 3: Morgan Chase. So I said, I can't believe it. Well,
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Speaker 3: I was never in this situation before. I've never had
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Speaker 3: anything like it. And it's not like g you defaulted
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Speaker 3: and alone. You know, Jesus if I could understand that,
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Speaker 3: that's different. But there's no default. I mean, there's nothing
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Speaker 3: but caresh, it's a really gut. I have a really
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Speaker 3: great company. And then what happens is I call a
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Speaker 3: Bank of America routinely, because when I was president, this
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Speaker 3: was after I got out of the way. I call
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Speaker 3: a Bank of America routinely, and I speak to him,
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Speaker 3: and I speak to a couple of people, and they
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Speaker 3: have zero interest. Brian was kissing my ass when I
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Speaker 3: was president, and when I called him after I was
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Speaker 3: president to deposit a billion dollars plus and a lot
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Speaker 3: of other things. More importantly, to open accounts, which banks
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Speaker 3: always like. They like accounts because they get interest free,
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Speaker 3: you know, the overnights and things are a lot of
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Speaker 3: reasons for it, but they like accounts. I had hundreds
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Speaker 3: of accounts and he said, we can't do it. Nope,
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Speaker 3: we can't do it. So I went to another, one, another,
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Speaker 3: one another one. I ended up going to small banks
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Speaker 3: all over the place. I mean I was putting ten
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Speaker 3: million here, ten million there, did five million, ten million,
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Speaker 3: twelve million and a half them all over the place.
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Speaker 3: The craziest thing. And it's lucky I even had them.
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Speaker 3: They were doing me a favor. And that's because the
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Speaker 3: banks discriminated against me very badly. And I was very
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Speaker 3: good to the banks. I had the greatest economy in
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Speaker 3: the history of our country when I was president, and
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Speaker 3: by the way, our economy now will blow that away,
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Speaker 3: and you see it happening. But our economy now because
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Speaker 3: we're a rich country again, because of our trade deals,
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Speaker 3: we've become a rich country again. But now they totally
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Speaker 3: discriminate against I think me, maybe even more. But they
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Speaker 3: discriminated against many conservatives. You know, I told that story,
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Speaker 3: and sitting around tables with other people that were conservative
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Speaker 3: or Trump supporters. I think the word might be Trump
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Speaker 3: supporters more than conservative. And I believe what they did
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Speaker 3: is they went to the regulators. You know, banks are
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Speaker 3: not afraid of anything but a regulator, their regulators, and
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Speaker 3: their wives. They're more afraid of their wives than the regulators.
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Speaker 3: But the the group they're really afraid of is bank regulators.
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Speaker 3: And I believe that Biden or Kamala and I don't
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Speaker 3: think they're smart enough to do it. But the people
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Speaker 3: that are surrounding the beautiful resolute desk, you know, the
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Speaker 3: high IQ people that are radical left. I believe they
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Speaker 3: told the Banking Commission, the bankers, that the banking regulators
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Speaker 3: do everything you can to destroy Trump. And that's what
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Speaker 3: they did. And guess what, I'm president, How did that happen?
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Speaker 1: President Trump making it very clear he's not backing down
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Speaker 1: A draft executive order reportedly is under review as we speak,
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Speaker 1: and it would direct regulators to probe banks under the
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Speaker 1: Equal Credit Opportunity Act, also antitrust laws and consumer protection
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Speaker 1: statutes if they've quote politicized or unlawfully de banked customers,
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Speaker 1: including shutting accounts over religious beliefs, political affiliation, or involvement
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Speaker 1: in crypto as well. Enforcement could include financial penalties, consent decrees,
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Speaker 1: or other sanctions against non compliant banks. The Washington Post
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Speaker 1: is reporting at this hour. Market reaction and responses from
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Speaker 1: the banks have also been very interesting. Following Donald Trump's remarks.
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Speaker 1: Shares of JP Morgan Chase fell approximately one percent, while
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Speaker 1: Bank of America dropped about zero point three percent. Broader
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Speaker 1: bank indexes like the KBW, NAZAC Bank Index and XLF
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Speaker 1: and ETF also slid zero point two percent.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: JP Morgan has also responded, saying we don't close accounts
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Speaker 1: for political reasons, but welcome discussion on regulatory reform. Bank
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Speaker 1: of America declined to comment beyond emphasizing the regulatory stability
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Speaker 1: and how important it is for the marketplace. Big banks
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Speaker 1: say they also agree with President Donald Trump that financial
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Speaker 1: regulations need an overhaul, even as their stock prices dropped
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Speaker 1: after the President confirmed plans to issue the executive order
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Speaker 1: to punish those that he said discriminated against him and
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Speaker 1: other conservatives. Trump complained that the banks allegedly acted unfairly,
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Speaker 1: specifically towards him, and that he wanted to open accounts
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Speaker 1: with him and they said no, as you heard in
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Speaker 1: the audio. The other part that's interesting is what JP
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Speaker 1: Morgan is now saying in response to this, saying, well,
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Speaker 1: we don't close accounts for political reasons, and we agree
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Speaker 1: with President Trump that regulatory change is deeply needed. The
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Speaker 1: spokesman said, JP Morgan looks forward to working with Trump
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Speaker 1: on overhauling banking regulations and praised his quote efforts to
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Speaker 1: address shortfalls in the current regulatory system. Now, the Bank
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Speaker 1: of America spokesman just straight up declined to comment ahead
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Speaker 1: of morn A Hand's scheduled appearance on CNBC. A Bank
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Speaker 1: Policy Institute spokesman said, we're hopeful that any forthcoming executive
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Speaker 1: order will direct regulators to confront the flawed regulatory framework
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Speaker 1: that gave rise to these concerns. Republicans, by the way,
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Speaker 1: also getting in on this, including Senator Tim Scott of
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Speaker 1: South Carolina, have also complained about banks alleged treatment of conservatives. Scott,
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Speaker 1: who chairs a Senate banking committee, said during a hearing
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Speaker 1: in February that quote, it is incredibly alarming and disheartening
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Speaker 1: to hear about banks cutting off services to digital asset firms,
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Speaker 1: political figures, and conservative aligned businesses and individuals. That is
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Speaker 1: exactly why the President now says he must act. You've
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Speaker 1: probably seen the story about Democrats from Texas State legislature
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Speaker 1: fleeing the state, many of them to Illinois so that
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Speaker 1: they didn't have to deal with redistricting. And Democrats and
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Speaker 1: the media like or are joining hand in hand to
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Speaker 1: make sure they lie to you about the reality of
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Speaker 1: jerry mandering in this country, which happens overwhelmingly in democratic states. Now,
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Speaker 1: what they're doing in Texas is very clearly not jerry mandering.
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Speaker 1: You can see it from the maps that they've made public.
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Speaker 1: What is happening in other states is shocking, And in
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Speaker 1: other states, what's even more shocking is how the media
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Speaker 1: didn't freak out about it. Insert CNN's Jake Tapper claiming
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Speaker 1: that democratic jerry mandering, for example, in Illinois is merely
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Speaker 1: quote an exception to the rule, and he says the
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Speaker 1: worst offenders are really republican states without any evidence. But hey,
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Speaker 1: who needs evidence when you're Jake Tapper, listen to his
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Speaker 1: own words on his own show.
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Speaker 4: Look at the map, right, You have some exceptions, like Illinois,
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Speaker 4: there's blatant democratic jerry mandering, but most of the worst
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Speaker 4: offenders when it comes to jerrymandering are republican states such
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Speaker 4: as Taxis.
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Speaker 1: So let's just talk for a moment. About what it
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Speaker 1: looks like in liberal states. Red states, by the way,
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Speaker 1: got nothing on blue state jerry mandering, and we have
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Speaker 1: the numbers to back it up. Let's take a look
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Speaker 1: at California, and by the way, everything I'm telling you
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Speaker 1: right now, this is why I do this show. So
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Speaker 1: please make sure you share this wherever you can on
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Speaker 1: social media. California, we're going to start with forty percent
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Speaker 1: of the statewide vote is read. That's right, forty percent
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Speaker 1: of the statewide vote. So what does it look like
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Speaker 1: when it comes to conservatives. Conservatives only have seventeen percent
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Speaker 1: of the seats there in California, nine out of the
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Speaker 1: fifty two. Take a look at Massachusetts, thirty five percent
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Speaker 1: is read of the statewide votes, zero percent of the seats,
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Speaker 1: that's right, zero out of nine go to conservatives. That's jerrymandering. Connecticut,
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Speaker 1: thirty eight percent of the state wide votes are conservative,
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Speaker 1: yet zero percent of the seats, zero out of five
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Speaker 1: in Connecticut are for conservatives. Take a look at New York,
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Speaker 1: where forty two percent of the state wide votes go
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Speaker 1: to conservatives and only twenty six point nine nine percent
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Speaker 1: of the seats seven out of twenty six go to conservatives.
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Speaker 1: Take a look at New Jersey. New Jersey actually has
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Speaker 1: forty three percent conservative when it comes to statewide vote.
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Speaker 1: Only twenty five percent of the seats, however, go to conservatives,
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Speaker 1: just three out of twelve. Then you move to Maryland,
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Speaker 1: thirty eight percent of the state wide vote is conservative,
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Speaker 1: yet twelve percent of the seats. Only one out of
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Speaker 1: eight in Maryland goes to conservatives. Look at New Mexico,
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Speaker 1: for example, forty four percent of the state wide vote
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Speaker 1: goes to conservatives, so surely that would be proportional right
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Speaker 1: in representation. No, zero percent of the seats, zero out
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Speaker 1: of three in New Mexico go to conservatives. Look at Hawaii,
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Speaker 1: thirty percent of the state wide vote goes to conservatives
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Speaker 1: and zero percent of the seats, yet again zero out
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Speaker 1: of two go to conservatives. That's called jerrymandering. Oregon is
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Speaker 1: another great example and a shocking example of jerry mandering.
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Speaker 1: Forty two percent of the state wide vote goes to conservatives,
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Speaker 1: yet sixteen percent of the seats, or one out of six,
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Speaker 1: is a conservative. In Washington state, thirty eight percent of
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Speaker 1: the vote goes to conservatives, but only sixteen percent of
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Speaker 1: the seats, one out of six seats is a conservative seat.
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Speaker 1: Washington State, a state where there are thirty eight percent
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Speaker 1: of the vote statewide goes to conservatives, and only two
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Speaker 1: out of the ten seats there are conservatives, just twenty percent.
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Speaker 1: How about Rhode Island, thirty eight percent of the state
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Speaker 1: wide voters for conservatives and zero of the seats, zero
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Speaker 1: out of two go to conservatives. So when you look
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Speaker 1: at this type of media misinformation, it gives people like
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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom licensed to suppress votes even for it's also
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Speaker 1: well jerry mannering, and it's significantly worse than what they're
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Speaker 1: claiming is jerry mannering in Texas. It's actually not. It's disgusting,
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Speaker 1: but yes, the media is going to lie to you,
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Speaker 1: and they're going to continue to lie about this exact issue,
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Speaker 1: and that's exactly why you shouldn't fall for it. What's
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Speaker 1: also shocking about this story is who's getting involved in
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Speaker 1: the story. You look at the states that are harboring
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Speaker 1: the Texas legislators that fled, they are sanctuary cities and
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Speaker 1: sanctuary states. They're hardcore liberal places where they believe that
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Speaker 1: they are above the law and they don't have to
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Speaker 1: abide by the law. Even Eric Holder, the former Attorney
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Speaker 1: General of the United States of America, claims that the
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Speaker 1: House might not certify the twenty twenty eight President Joe
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Speaker 1: election because of the redrawn maps in Texas, will elect
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Speaker 1: quote partisan hacks. This was said by AMA's wingman on MSNBC.
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Speaker 1: It's deeply revealing about what the Democrats really want to
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Speaker 1: do when it comes to jerrymandering. Listen carefully, this is
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Speaker 1: not a Texas problem.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is the focus of this issue is Texas.
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Speaker 5: But this is a national problem. And you got to
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Speaker 5: understand if somehow, some way Republicans are able to hold
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Speaker 5: onto the House next year, and in spite of the
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Speaker 5: fact that I think they should lose because of you know,
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Speaker 5: the big budget build that took healthcare away from millions
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Speaker 5: of people, that gave tax breaks to billionaires who didn't
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Speaker 5: need it, if they were somehow able to hold onto
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Speaker 5: the House in twenty twenty six, that is the House
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Speaker 5: of Representatives that would have to certify who won the
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Speaker 5: presidential election come twenty twenty eight, twenty twenty nine. Now,
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Speaker 5: if you want to play with fire, and that's what
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Speaker 5: we're doing here, you put in a bunch of hardisan
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Speaker 5: acts who are not supposed to be in the House,
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Speaker 5: who are there because of jerrymandering and whole range of
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Speaker 5: other things that Republicans are doing, and then put at
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Speaker 5: risk the possibility that that body would not certify who
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Speaker 5: the next president was. That is that's why this is
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Speaker 5: a national problem. This is not something only the Texans
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Speaker 5: ought to be concerned about.
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Speaker 1: Incredibly revealing to hear Eric Holding claim something is outrageous
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Speaker 1: and egregious as what he just said. And I go
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Speaker 1: back to the main point here. Democrats are doing this
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Speaker 1: all over the country. They're doing it, and they know
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Speaker 1: what they're doing as jerrymandering. What they're doing in Texas
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Speaker 1: is redrawing the districts the way that the people that
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Speaker 1: voted them into office want it done, in an open
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Speaker 1: and transparent way. And they're not doing it where Republicans
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Speaker 1: have all control. What they're doing is representing the people
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Speaker 1: of Texas. And so yes, this is exactly why the
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Speaker 1: President United States of America is calling out the media.
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Speaker 1: It's exactly why Republicans are not backing down. It is
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Speaker 1: exactly why the President of the United States of America says,
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Speaker 1: do it openly, do it in the public let people
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Speaker 1: understand what's happening, and let me end by giving you
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Speaker 1: one example of just how corrupt the Democrats are in Texas.
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Speaker 1: There is a Texas Democrat by the name of James Talerico,
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Speaker 1: and what is he saying. He's actually saying on ABC
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Speaker 1: News that flood recovery for everything that just happened in Texas.
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Speaker 1: Quote was a Republican talking point. That's right. In the
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Speaker 1: special session which was called one of the things they
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Speaker 1: were going to tackle was all of the flood relief
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Speaker 1: that was needed for so many that were hurt in
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Speaker 1: the massive flooding in Texas. And now Democrats are so
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Speaker 1: soulist they're saying, oh, that's just a talking point, we
19:52
Speaker 1: don't have to deal with that right away.
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Speaker 6: And as you know, that means that there is other
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Speaker 6: legislation that's going to be the victim of that, and
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Speaker 6: that includes this bill for flood assistance for those Texans
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Speaker 6: who were impacted by those devastating floods on July fourth.
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Speaker 6: Are you concerned that all of this could ultimately be
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Speaker 6: a mistake if that legislation also becomes a victim of.
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Speaker 7: This, This is a Republican talking point. I'm concerned that
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Speaker 7: Greg Abbott decided to play politics with flood victims and
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Speaker 7: their families. The only emergency that we should be coming
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Speaker 7: to the state capital to address is flood mitigation and
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Speaker 7: disaster prevention. That's what Texans want us to focus on.
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Speaker 7: It's why my Democratic colleagues and I showed up on
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Speaker 7: the first day of the special legislative session two weeks ago.
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Speaker 7: We begged our Republican colleagues to prioritize flood victims and
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Speaker 7: their families, and they refused.
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Speaker 6: But the reality is But the reality is the consequence
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Speaker 6: of the decision, regardless of whether or not it's a talking point,
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Speaker 6: is that this bill is not going to advance.
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Speaker 7: Is that a bad idea?
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Speaker 6: If this bill does an advance?
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Speaker 7: And who put flood mitigation after redisseerting on the the.
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Speaker 6: Republicans they control the floor. They have made that exactly,
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Speaker 6: But there will be consequences to your decision here too,
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Speaker 6: will They're not And.
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Speaker 7: You know why they did that is so that they
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Speaker 7: could play politics with those flood victims, so that they
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Speaker 7: could pressure us to give away our constituents' voices in
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Speaker 7: the democratic process. They're using flood victims to try to
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Speaker 7: get us to agree to these corrupt maps so they
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Speaker 7: can rig the next election. We are not willing to
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Speaker 7: sacrifice the American experiment. We begged them to prioritize flood victims,
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Speaker 7: and they refuse to do so. This is cynical politics
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Speaker 7: at its worst.
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Speaker 1: Yet again Democrats lying about what actually is happening in
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Speaker 1: the special session and calling funding those who need this
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Speaker 1: massive amount of help with the Texas flood victims. Oh,
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Speaker 1: it's just a quote talking point, and that's exactly how
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Speaker 1: sick they really are. Over fifty Texas House Democrats, including
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Speaker 1: sixty two members total in the lower chamber, have left Texas,
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Speaker 1: traveling to Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts. Well, at least
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Speaker 1: they're consistent up there being sanctuary states and cities. Why
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Speaker 1: to deny quorum and block a GOP back congressional redistricting
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Speaker 1: plan that would likely add up to five new Republican
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Speaker 1: leaning US House seats, That is the claim by Democrats
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Speaker 1: and why they're now fleeing the state. Now. This strategy
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Speaker 1: mirrors previous walkouts in twenty twenty one and in two
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Speaker 1: thousand and three in Texas, where the quorum rules were
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Speaker 1: used to slow down legislation. Governor Greg Abbott has now responded,
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Speaker 1: issuing a three pm Monday ultimatum for Democrats to return
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Speaker 1: or face serious consequences. He threatened to quote invoke a
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one AG opinion allowing courts to cleare seats
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Speaker 1: vacant due to intentional quote abandonment office. He also could
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Speaker 1: seek civil arrest warrants for absent members, valid only however,
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Speaker 1: inside of Texas, which is why so many Democrats have
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Speaker 1: fled to liberal states. Also, he can investigate potential felony
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Speaker 1: charges for fundraising to pay the five hundred dollars day
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Speaker 1: fines that are being imposed by the House rules. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Texas House passed an eighty five to six vote
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Speaker 1: authorizing the Sergeant in Arms to issue civil arrest warrants
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Speaker 1: for those that were purposely absent. Now. Breaking quorum, by
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Speaker 1: the way, is not a crime, making extradition impossible. Abbott
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Speaker 1: cannot legally compel lawmakers to return from other states directly,
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Speaker 1: is what is being said now by Politico. Declarations of
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Speaker 1: vacancy would require individual court action in each lawmaker's district,
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Speaker 1: years of litigation and with delay redistricting beyond the December
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five deadline for the twenty twenty six primaries.
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Speaker 1: And that's exactly why Democrats are playing this game. Texas
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Speaker 1: Democrats maintain they are quote standing up for democratic norms,
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Speaker 1: not running away. You can decide how ridiculous they actually
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Speaker 1: are in your own minds. But many of the representatives
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Speaker 1: are now taking more heat. Why because they are prioritizing
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Speaker 1: the Democrats' agenda over prioritizing flood relief. Yes, that was
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Speaker 1: one of the issues on the table that they're now
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Speaker 1: fleeing from. I'll give you just another example of also
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Speaker 1: how many liberal cities are helping them and states. The
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Speaker 1: Illinois governor Pritzker publicly backed the lawmaker's actions, calling them
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Speaker 1: a courageous defense of democracy and saying welcome to Illinois.
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Speaker 1: Democrats are characterizing the governor of Texas Abbot's threats as
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Speaker 1: quote smoking mirrors, pointing out that constitutional tools like quorum
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Speaker 1: breaks are legitimate devices they say to use under Texas law. Now,
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Speaker 1: Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, he's not playing around at
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Speaker 1: all with what the Democrats are doing. In fact, he
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Speaker 1: gave them a three pm deadline to get back to
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Speaker 1: the House chambers. The Democrats did not comply, and after
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Speaker 1: that he sat down with Sean Hannity on his show
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Speaker 1: on Fox News, and I want you to hear exactly
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Speaker 1: what the governor had to say.
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Speaker 8: Very latest from Austin is Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Governor.
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Speaker 8: When I looked, I have a whole sheet here of
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Speaker 8: every single Democratic state, and it's just like the examples
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Speaker 8: I put up there. They have jerry mandered their states
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Speaker 8: left right, sideways. They're saying, well, they're gonna they're gonna
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Speaker 8: do to their states what you're doing in Texas. They
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Speaker 8: already did it in all of these blue states. Frankly,
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Speaker 8: Republicans should have caught up a long time ago.
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Speaker 9: Well, Sean, first of all, Texas is doing what we
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Speaker 9: are allowed to by the law. And one reason why
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Speaker 9: that law exists the way that it does is because
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Speaker 9: the Democrats brought a lawsuit after our last redistricting and
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Speaker 9: that decision, and that lawsuit came out last year, and
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Speaker 9: that lawsuit recognized that coalition districts are not required, and
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Speaker 9: so Texas has a right to redraw these lines to
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Speaker 9: fully represent the desires of every voter in the state.
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Speaker 9: But Sean, that misses the point here. The point here
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Speaker 9: is that Democrats have done something that's very Untexan. They've
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Speaker 9: turned their backs on their fellow Texans. When it came
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Speaker 9: to a fight, they turned and ran away. Not just
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Speaker 9: from this redistricting fight, they ran away from dealing with
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Speaker 9: the flooding issues that are still echoing across the Curveville area.
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Speaker 9: Families desperately need results from the state legislature in this
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Speaker 9: thirty day special session that are not going to be
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Speaker 9: delivered because Democrats are hanging out in Chicago and New
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Speaker 9: York and other place.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let me run through the states.
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Speaker 8: California Republicans thirty nine percent of the House vote, but
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Speaker 8: they only have seventeen percent of the seats. Connecticut Republicans
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Speaker 8: forty percent of the House vote, zero seats, none Zip Illinois.
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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four Republicans.
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Speaker 8: They got a pretty respectable forty seven percent of the
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Speaker 8: statewide vote, eighteen percent of House seats. Maryland, one of
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Speaker 8: the bluest states, Trump gets thirty five percent, but they
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Speaker 8: only have twelve percent.
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Speaker 2: Of House seats.
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Speaker 8: Massachusetts again, zero house seats. Nevada is even worse for
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Speaker 8: Republicans win the state. They won the state House by
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Speaker 8: ten points, walked away with one single House seat in
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Speaker 8: the entire state.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 8: So this has been the practice of these states for
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Speaker 8: the longest.
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Speaker 2: Period of time.
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Speaker 8: Now they want to attack you, and I'm thinking, Okay,
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Speaker 8: what you're doing is exactly what they did.
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Speaker 10: Well, and not even that sean.
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Speaker 9: To be honest, the Texas maps are not going to
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Speaker 9: be as extreme as those other blue states that you
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Speaker 9: talked about. But another thing, and that is what Texas
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Speaker 9: is doing under these new maps. Four of the five
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Speaker 9: new seats will be a majority Hispanic seats. One of
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Speaker 9: the seats is going to restore the Barbara Jordan's seat
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Speaker 9: over in the Houston area. And so these are seats
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Speaker 9: where Democrats are having to come to grips with the reality,
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Speaker 9: and that is they are now losing the votes of
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Speaker 9: Hispanics and black voters in the state of Texas. And
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Speaker 9: these districts are going to show that Hispanics in Blacks
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Speaker 9: as well as others are voting for Republican and Republican
28:32
Speaker 9: is their candadate of choice. And we will ensure that
28:34
Speaker 9: will be achieved at the congressional level in the state
28:36
Speaker 9: of Texas well.
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Speaker 8: Certainly it should be somewhat proportional to what the vote
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Speaker 8: is What is your response to Kathy Hochel who says
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Speaker 8: that we are at war over Texas and the redistricting
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Speaker 8: push that's going on in Texas.
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Speaker 10: There's a bunch of crazy bluster.
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Speaker 9: Democrats are freaking out because they are realizing Texas has
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Speaker 9: the authority to redistrict and we're going to do so
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Speaker 9: way that's going to lead to these additional seats that
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Speaker 9: will vote Republican and they will be serving in Congress
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Speaker 9: in the next session. And so Democrats are freaking out
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Speaker 9: about it, engaging in rhetoric, but I don't think they
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Speaker 9: have the capability of actually living up to it and
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Speaker 9: doing anything about. Texas will continue to fight for what
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Speaker 9: is right, and that's exactly what we are doing.
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Speaker 8: Is it a fair statement to say that Republicans, in
29:22
Speaker 8: terms of the percentages and numbers that they have voted,
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Speaker 8: have been unfairly cheated out of their representation.
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Speaker 2: I think that's a more fair statement.
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Speaker 9: Well, a different way to say it, and that is
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Speaker 9: at least in Texas.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, and I'll talk about both.
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Speaker 9: In Texas, we are going to ensure that voters are
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Speaker 9: going to be able to vote for their candidate of choice.
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Speaker 9: For example, I think Donald Trump won in all five
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Speaker 9: of these seats that we will be making Republican seats.
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Speaker 9: The same thing should apply in all those other states.
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Speaker 10: Sean that you mentioned in.
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Speaker 9: Your monologue where you pointed out the gross jerrymandering in
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Speaker 9: these blue states have rejected Republican candidates for office that
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Speaker 9: should be serving those states, should be serving our country.
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Speaker 9: It's the jurymandering in the blue states that has started
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Speaker 9: the politics in America.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you want to know who's actually gerrymandering in
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Speaker 1: this country, it's clearly Democrats in all of the democratic
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