Intel worries of Trump, Beast carjacking story collapses, & NC polling (03-12-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] All right, so Joe Biden took the classified documents, lied about it, and then they found

[00:00:36] it, and then he was, then he cooperated, and so they did a big investigation and under the

[00:00:41] senile cooperator theory, a reasonable juror on a jury could reasonably decide that he was

[00:00:52] unaware of the presence of the files in his garage. So the prosecutors like, don't want to risk it,

[00:01:01] won't even bother so no charges. Very similar approach to the Hillary Clinton,

[00:01:08] you know, classified documents decision to not go after her too. Unlike Donald Trump where they

[00:01:14] would go ahead. No, Donald Trump has done a lot of other things to help make the case easier against

[00:01:20] him. And I know people who love Trump don't want to hear that, but he did. He made it easier.

[00:01:26] And if you've got people in the government that are out to get you, when you make it easy for them,

[00:01:32] it makes it easier for them to get you. That's why this story in Politico,

[00:01:41] so it's really his, it is something else. Headline, the prospect of a second Trump presidency has

[00:01:51] the intelligence community on edge. Oh no, what might they do? Right. Holy cow, are you saying that

[00:02:04] the intelligence community might do something? I don't know a little bit beyond the bounds of

[00:02:11] normalcy. No, say it ain't so. Former top officials from Donald Trump's administration are warning

[00:02:20] that he is likely to use a to amazing how many people from Donald Trump's administration come out

[00:02:26] and talk against him. It really is, it is something. Is it not? And you can say it's because he picked

[00:02:32] the wrong people. He got bad advice. He's a terrible hireer or something. I don't know, and at this

[00:02:37] point it doesn't matter to me. It just seems like there's a ton of people that have worked for him

[00:02:44] that now talk trash about him. You know? So former top officials from Donald Trump's administration

[00:02:52] are warning that he is likely to use a second term to overhaul the nation's spy agencies

[00:03:01] in a way that could lead to an unprecedented level of politicization of intelligence.

[00:03:11] Is it really unprecedented? Really? I mean, I guess if that word has no meaning whatsoever,

[00:03:18] it would be unprecedented because like what I've seen so what I've seen in the last eight years.

[00:03:27] I was talking to Christy about this last night that if Trump wins,

[00:03:35] that means for 12 years more than 12 years of my career, I will have been doing this job

[00:03:47] with a Trump either presidency or candidacy. You know? And if he loses and Biden

[00:03:57] wins and he does the four years or Kamala Harris does the four years, whatever. There's nothing to say

[00:04:03] that Trump couldn't come back and try again in another four years from now, right? He could.

[00:04:10] That would be 16 years. 16 years. I would be doing this job with Donald Trump as the candidate or

[00:04:20] the president. Anyway, I thought that was a great point by the way. That was Kelly Armstrong in

[00:04:26] the last hour who was pointing out that there are only been three people who have been

[00:04:33] or who have been president or running for president over the last

[00:04:39] what eight years now and three of them have in all three of them have been

[00:04:46] accused of mishandling classified information and only two of them have escaped charges.

[00:04:50] And it just happens to be the two Democrats. And by the way, for everybody that's mad about Trump

[00:04:58] getting hit with this stuff and not Biden or Clinton, never forget because I haven't

[00:05:05] it was Donald Trump who said, you know what? Elections over will let will let Hillary go now.

[00:05:13] That was his call. That's what he did.

[00:05:17] Everybody was chanting lock her up, lock her up. And then as soon as he won, he was like,

[00:05:22] oh, we'll just let her go. She's a good person, right?

[00:05:28] And for that good deed, what did he get? I mean, if you consider it a good deed, I don't know.

[00:05:34] I do not. I do not. I felt like it undermined the rule of law. But what do I know?

[00:05:41] Donald Trump who already tried to revamp intelligence agencies during his first term is

[00:05:46] likely to re up those plans and push even harder to replace people perceived as hostile to his

[00:05:53] political agenda with inexperienced loyalists. Oh my gosh, well, we can't have that. We cannot have

[00:05:59] loyalists to the president in the intelligence agencies. We must have people that hate his guts

[00:06:05] and leak all the time to undermine him. That's what you have to have. No.

[00:06:11] What does he think he's a Democrat still? Come on.

[00:06:14] By the way, this is all according to interviews that Politico did with more than a dozen people

[00:06:21] who worked in Trump's administration. 18. Apparently, 18 former officials who worked in Trump's

[00:06:32] administration like who? Well, here's one. Do you remember this name? Fiona Hill.

[00:06:39] Wait a minute. Wait, hang on a second. You're going to Fiona Hill?

[00:06:45] No wait, who else? I'm sure Vindman is in there, right? He's got to be in there. Dan Coates is

[00:06:52] in there who became an outspoken critic of Trump after he left the administration in 2019.

[00:06:59] Also, John Bolton, who's also now a critic of the former president, right?

[00:07:05] Fiona Hill, who has regularly criticized his policies. These are the people. These are the former

[00:07:10] Trump officials that left or refired that hate Donald Trump that have criticized him.

[00:07:15] And now they're coming like, hey, I just want to give you a completely objective, unbiased warning

[00:07:21] that Trump could destroy the intelligence community if you let him into the office again

[00:07:27] because he could politicize it unlike Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton.

[00:07:34] Barack Obama and all the Democrats and no, no, no, Peter Struck telling Lisa Page,

[00:07:39] we won't let them. Don't worry. We won't let them. And when asked, what does that mean?

[00:07:44] We won't let them. We won't let Trump become the president. What does that mean? Oh, I just meant

[00:07:50] we the people in the election. That's what I totally meant. Yeah, that's what I meant. No, it wasn't

[00:07:55] your investigation. You're crossfire hurricane that you were doing with Lisa Page. Now,

[00:08:01] America spy agencies are never completely divorced from politics says political, but an overhaul

[00:08:10] of the type that Trump is expected to. This is what if you were to take this with Michael

[00:08:15] Crite and talked about like 25 years ago, Michael Crite, he of Jurassic Park authorship, right?

[00:08:21] Michael Crite and talked about how so much of this of reporting of journalism has become

[00:08:28] just predictive. And as such, it has virtually zero relevance. It has zero importance and relevance

[00:08:39] because it's just a prediction. And if you are wrong, you don't lose your job. So all you do is predict

[00:08:47] and then what is the incentive is to predict the most horrible thing to juice your readership,

[00:08:54] right? To get more eyeballs, to watch your news programs or read your paper so that the incentive

[00:09:01] is built in to make wilder and wilder predictions. That's why you like if you listen to my show,

[00:09:08] I do not do a lot of predictions because if I'm wrong, like what's the upside? The upside is I

[00:09:15] get to say I was right. What did I tell you? You need to listen to me because I'll predict everything

[00:09:19] right in the future. Well, that's not possible. Nobody can predict everything right in the future.

[00:09:23] So what happens if I'm wrong? Well now I lose credibility. So what's the, like what's the overall

[00:09:29] benefit there for me and why would anybody rely on me to be able to tell the future? Look,

[00:09:34] if I could tell the future, I'm not coming to work tomorrow because I've won the lottery tonight.

[00:09:40] By the way, you don't have to play because I've won the lottery tonight.

[00:09:43] Washington Examiner headline, Cassidy Hutchinson's sensational story about Trump

[00:09:51] undercut by House GOP January 6th report. You remember Cassidy Hutchinson? Do you remember her?

[00:10:00] She was Mark Meadows' assistant to well-marked menos.

[00:10:08] Hutchinson, Cassidy Hutchinson. House Republicans released their initial report yesterday on their

[00:10:14] investigation into the Democratic-led Senate Select Committee on the January 6th Capitol riot.

[00:10:21] You got to say it like that, like Capitol, you know? Like Teddy Roosevelt.

[00:10:26] Bully, bully, Capitol. Anyway, that's the latest step in the House GOP's look into the riots

[00:10:31] at the U.S. Capitol following the 2020 election. Among the findings in the House administration

[00:10:38] committees, oversight subcommittee report, were claims that Cassidy Hutchinson's account of former

[00:10:44] President Donald Trump's actions on January 6th was not corroborated by other White House

[00:10:52] employees. Well, what did Cassidy say? Well, she was the assistant to former Chief of Staff Mark

[00:11:00] Meadows during the Trump administration. She was one of the key witnesses in the Democrats investigation

[00:11:07] into January 6th. Republicans have long sought to discredit Hutchinson and the overall findings

[00:11:13] of the Select Committee challenging the committee's work since the GOP took the House majority in 2022

[00:11:19] and by the way, I will always blame Nancy Pelosi for this because she could have had an actual

[00:11:27] bipartisan Select Committee, you know, a format where you've got an adversarial process that unfolds

[00:11:38] so you can test claims. You can argue and impeach and impune. Right? Well, not impune. You shouldn't

[00:11:45] do that. But like you can, you can argue against them the various testimonies and eyewitness accounts

[00:11:52] and that sort of thing. In other words, a trial. And this is the problem that the J6 committee

[00:11:57] was I think from its outset, it's original sin was that it put two never trumpers on there to

[00:12:03] Republicans and there were never there was never any pushback. There was never an adversarial

[00:12:09] process that was allowed to unfold. And as such, it's all poison fruit from that tree. So

[00:12:17] yeah, I don't blame Republicans for taking a look at the way this was done. And by the way,

[00:12:23] the more they look at it, the more we realize that the investigation wasn't completely on the up

[00:12:29] and up. And this Cassidy Hutchinson example is just another example. All right. Well,

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[00:13:45] is used under license. Cassidy Hutchinson testified under oath publicly and privately before the

[00:13:53] J6 committee that she had heard Donald Trump lunged for the wheel of the presidential SUV aka

[00:14:02] the beast and got into a physical altercation with his lead secret service agent.

[00:14:09] After Donald Trump was told that he could not go to the rally on J6 to join his supporters.

[00:14:16] Remember this story? That she had heard from a friend who heard it from a friend who

[00:14:24] heard it from another he'd been messing around with the secret service agent driving the beast.

[00:14:29] That's what she testified. Oh, I mean, I'm not don't quote me verbatim here because I'm

[00:14:33] not quoting her verbatim but she testified that people told her oh my gosh Donald Trump was so

[00:14:40] man he was so mad. I mean, he tried to wrestle away the steering wheel.

[00:14:46] Trying to lunge over the seat at the secret service agent driving the car so you could drive over

[00:14:52] so you could steer the beast over to the ellipses ellipses ellipses. Anyway, in the report the

[00:15:03] oversight committee subcommittee led by chairman Barry Louder milk said the White House provided

[00:15:10] Louder milk with four heavily redacted transcribed interviews from the White House employees.

[00:15:16] Right? So the White House gave the new committee for transcribed interviews from other White House

[00:15:26] employees but they were all very heavily redacted. So then they got them unredacted so they could

[00:15:32] read them. The committee found that oh, the descriptions of events from these other employees

[00:15:39] that Hutchinson was apparently quoting did not match what she said.

[00:15:47] Quote none of the White House employees corroborated Hutchinson's sensational story about

[00:15:53] president Trump lunging for the steering wheel of the beast. However, some witnesses did describe

[00:15:59] the president's mood after the speech as I rate. So he was very I rate. Okay, so the select committee

[00:16:11] despite knowing that Hutchinson's testimony, the J6 committee, despite knowing that Cassidy's

[00:16:18] testimony changed substantially over time to become more and more dramatic. They rushed into yet

[00:16:24] another Hollywood hearing even though they were not able to verify the story.

[00:16:30] The White House had originally sent over the interviews heavily redacted with which louder milk and

[00:16:34] allies believe was intentional. Quote, the content of these witness transcripts makes clear why

[00:16:41] the J6 committee chose not to release these transcripts despite releasing almost every other

[00:16:48] witness transcript. These witnesses directly undermine the claims that were made by Cassidy Hutchinson

[00:16:55] and the J6 committee and it underscores that that committee only showed the public what they wanted

[00:17:04] the public to see. Right, so this was not a legitimate investigation and we all knew this obviously.

[00:17:13] We knew it from the moment when they kicked all of the Republicans off the committee except for

[00:17:17] chaining and kinsinger. Right, the fix was in.

[00:17:21] louder milk said in a statement following the report's release that the J6 committee,

[00:17:26] quote, promoted hearsay and then cherry picked information to promote its political goal

[00:17:31] to legislatively prosecute Trump or as Democrats and the folks over at the bullwalk would call it

[00:17:40] in the Lincoln project. These are the norms. The norms being protected. Norms that allow Cassidy

[00:17:46] Hutchinson to make up a story so she can sell a book and they would promote that story. They

[00:17:52] would then redact any other witness testimony that would fly in the face of that testimony and

[00:17:58] then they would put it out there in this Hollywood produced hearing setting, get all of the media

[00:18:03] coverage in order to get Trump even though it wasn't true. These are the norms that must be respected.

[00:18:10] What else? Oh, I got some polling. This came from the North Carolina based conservative think tank

[00:18:17] John Locke Foundation. They contract with a polling firm called Signal which is actually very good

[00:18:26] and they took a look at likely general election voters. So this is North Carolina focus. The

[00:18:34] plus or minus margin of error on this is 3.99%. So 4% so I look at all of these numbers. I'm

[00:18:41] going to give you the numbers, but I look at these all if they're within four points of each other

[00:18:45] then there it's a tie to me that it's a tie because it's all within a margin of error.

[00:18:53] Generally speaking, do you think the US is headed in the right direction or on the wrong track?

[00:18:57] If you just said wrong track, you are with 66% of North Carolinians only 26% say right direction.

[00:19:07] So that's a big enough spread where yeah most people don't think we're going in the right direction.

[00:19:13] Which of the following issues was most important to you when you went and cast your votes

[00:19:18] in the primary. Okay, so this is backwards looking top issue immigration and it's beyond the

[00:19:27] margin of error. It's a 25% picked immigration as the top issue now the other issues some of them

[00:19:34] I would lump together and that would put it over immigration for example number two is the economy

[00:19:40] number four is inflation number five is taxes and spending. And if I add all of those together

[00:19:50] I'm over 25% and I kind of think all of those three things are together but they worry us

[00:19:54] separately and so people pick their top choice number three was abortion by the way

[00:20:01] and that comes in at 12.7%. The economy was number two at 17.8%. So almost 18%.

[00:20:07] How satisfied are you with your choices for the general election? Total satisfied was 59.7% 60%.

[00:20:18] 30% dissatisfied another 10% were unsure. North Carolina state legislature generic ballot

[00:20:28] do you like the Republicans or Democrats? This is a six point spread it's 49% Republican 43%

[00:20:35] Democrat with another like 9% unsure again that's the state legislature so a six point spread there

[00:20:43] but margin of error and also the unshores that could break either way congressional race similar

[00:20:50] margin 48 to 42% Republican over Democrat what else here with another 9% unsure Biden's job

[00:21:00] approval numbers do you approve disapprove is approval number is 38% disapproval 59% and here's the problem

[00:21:14] form only 3.6% are unsure so like these numbers are probably not going to move a lot unless of course

[00:21:24] something dramatic happens that rallies people around him you don't you don't turn this ship

[00:21:33] with only 3.6% unsure that tells me that like peoples opinions have solidified right

[00:21:41] how about Roy Cooper what you approve of his job that he's doing and his approval number is

[00:21:48] 49% his disapproval number 43% so a six point spread on Cooper's approval most people still

[00:21:57] approve of the job he's done but 8% are unsure but here's the thing it doesn't really matter because

[00:22:02] he's not running for reelection now he could run for us senate he could be trying to angle for a

[00:22:08] vice presidential slot somewhere but that's about it I think I don't know where else he would run

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[00:23:09] foundation has its latest pulling out on north carolina likely voters likely voters again that's

[00:23:16] the demographic you're looking for because these are people that actually take active measures to go

[00:23:21] vote they have a history of doing so and they intend to do so again um so what is the uh

[00:23:29] presidential ballot looking like right i did the coop approval numbers right i already paid that off

[00:23:34] i think i did yeah 49 to 43 percent right presidential ballot if the election were held today

[00:23:41] who do you vote for Donald Trump 45 percent Joe Biden 40 percent so that's a five point spread

[00:23:54] and again remember the margin of error is four percentage points so even with that trump is still

[00:24:01] ahead of Biden here's the thing someone else is listed at nine percent and undecided

[00:24:10] is at five point five and that my friends that's enough to swing either way right 14 15 percentage points

[00:24:22] um how about mark robinson versus Josh thine versus Wayne Turner versus Mike Ross for the

[00:24:30] gubernatorial race mark robinson at 44 percent so he is trailing Donald Trump but only by one point

[00:24:39] stein is at 39 he's trailing uh Joe Biden by less than a point undecided is about 15 percentage

[00:24:50] points on this and then you've got the green party candidate Wayne Turner he's at point six percent

[00:24:57] we'll see if he we'll see if he catches on if he's he picks up the momentum

[00:25:04] Mike Ross the libertarian is at 1.8 percent moving down the ballot we come to north carolina attorney

[00:25:12] general dan bishop at 41 percent so he's a little bit below robinson uh a little bit below trump as well

[00:25:22] democrat jef jackson is at 39 percent so a two point spread but undecided is clocking in at about

[00:25:29] 21 which means this is anybody's race still again always keep in mind with these polls just a snapshot

[00:25:39] this is just a snapshot of where people are right now after the primary now moving into the general

[00:25:45] election right uh supreme court justice ballot uh this is a 41 to 39 split in favor of the

[00:25:52] republican jeferson griffin over allison rigs but is a very large undecided number there to it

[00:25:58] about 19 percent um for the labor commissioner ballot uh this is luke farly versus braxton

[00:26:07] winston trawlet city councilman former um the republican farly is winning uh or is leading in the

[00:26:15] polls 42 to 35 percent but again another large undecided block of about 23 percent state treasurer

[00:26:23] Brad briner republican 43 Wesley Harris democrat 37 so a six point spread there for the republican

[00:26:32] for state treasurer but again 20 percent undecided next up insurance commissioner by the way all

[00:26:40] of these are the council of state races my cause the incumbent republican at 43 percent

[00:26:46] followed by the democrat challenger nattasha marcus from charlotte um she's clocking in at

[00:26:53] 37 percent so again another six point spread but again another large group of undecided at 20 percent

[00:27:02] superintendant this is very close michelle morrow the republican who just be

[00:27:07] Catherine trut the republican incumbent she's at 41 mo green at 39 20 percent undecided and finally

[00:27:15] last number um registration republicans 32 percent democrats 34 percent unaffiliated 31 percent

[00:27:25] so uh we'll see how it shakes out all right that'll do it for this episode thank you so much for

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