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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The number one question I have received from listeners across
the land is why is your boy Ted Cruz with
John Thune instead of Rick Scott. I offered Ted Cruz
this morning the opportunity to be on the show an
answer for the rumor that he is with John Thune
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in wednesdays vote, and I have not heard back. That
I have not heard back does not necessarily mean he's
hiding or he doesn't want to answer. Some days I'll
get an answer in thirty seconds. Sometimes it might take
a day or two. I'm not necessarily reading anything extra
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into that. If you were to ask me to guess
why he's with Thune instead of Rick Scott, it would
be as follows. This does not justify it. Understand that
some people struggle with that. I'm telling you what I
think His reasoning likely is not that I think that's
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a good thing. You don't need to say to me,
as many of you will say, well, that's not a
good reason. I didn't say it was. I said, I
think that's what the reason is. I suspect that Ted
Cruz has made a calculation that he wants to be
with the winner. The Senate majority leader has the ability,
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maybe not to make or break a senator, but he
can help a senator a whole lot more or a
whole lot less than he does another. Ted Cruz has
been on the ouns for the twelve years that he's
been in the Senate. I know because I was instrumental
in getting him elected in twenty twelve, along with other people.
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But I was very involved. And he'll tell you that
from the moment he came in as a tea Party Republican,
John McCain was cutting him off at the knees. Lindsey
Graham was cutting him off at the knees. John Cornyn
was cutting him off of the knees. And that's why
they would make statements like nobody in the Senate likes
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Ted Cruz. That's all I needed to know. I don't
trust anybody who Republicans senators like, because that means you're
a sellout. You see when Dick Cheney or Liz Cheney
or anybody on CNN or Lindsey Graham tells you that
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somebody's not well liked, you know what that means. That
means they've stood up, they spoke out. They have a
sense of pride and patriotism. You know who else isn't
like Donald Trump. So my suspicion is Trump Cruz got
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there and there would be votes that he would vote
against some wasteful spending or some stupid bill, and it
would be ninety nine to one, and so they couldn't
say it was unanimous, and they hated him for it.
Then he runs for president in twenty sixteen and the
fellow senators, they absolutely gutted him, gets re elected in
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twenty eighteen. He didn't get national support for that because frankly,
the Republicans, led by John Cornyn, would rather Ted Cruz
go away. So now fast forward to twenty twenty four.
Ted Cruz has a fortune spent against him by Californians.
The Senate Republican Fund wouldn't help him raise any money
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because McConnell would rather he lose. He really would. McConnell
and Cornyn would rather Ted Cruz lose than Ted CRU's
win and hold onto that seat because they don't like
to be questioned, challenged or contradicted. So there's Ted Cruz
twelve years in saying Rick Scott would be this best
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Senate majority leader. Cornan is a swamp creature. I don't
want Cornan to win because it'll just be more of
Mitch McConnell. So my compromise candidate is John Thune. Now
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if you look at where the claim is. Now these
are leaked lists, it's not certain this is true. But
if you look at the fact that that Thune has
twenty four, Cornan is said to have eighteen, and Rick
Scott is at eleven, Counting votes is very important. You've
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got to know how to count votes. So out of
those fifty three votes, Rick Scott only has about twenty
percent of them. Thune is almost at half. If the
Cornon and Scott folks joined forces, they won't but if
they did, they'd be at twenty nine and they could
beat Thune. If the Cornon folks join Thune, the race
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is over and they know that. But the moment that
Thune you see, what you want to do is be
the holdout if you want to be with the winner,
because if everybody voted at exactly the same time and
you didn't know how anybody else was going to vote,
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the returns would be very different. But the moment that
you see Thune. Let's say you know, Scott's got eleven
votes and this is how many Thuns got, which by deduction,
Corning can't beat Thune. So at that moment, there are
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people that say, well, I don't want Rick Scott. He's
the grassroots guy and Thun's pulled ahead. I want to
be with the winner, so I'll go with Thune. That
is my guess as to what Ted Cruz did. Now,
would I rather he support Rick Scott and take Thune
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down to twenty three and Scot up to twelve, Yes,
I would. I'd rather Rick Scott be in the driver's
seat right now. But what you're seeing is the backroom deals,
the horse swapping of your dollars and your policies and
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committee chairmanships and all the things that go with that.
And Cornan is a master of it. Cornyn is a
master because what Cornyan will do. I'll give you a
good example coming up in the next segment of how
a swamp creature like John Cornyn operates. How when you
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look at the votes as they're tallied on c SPAN
or the next day in the news, you go, oh,
John Cornan voted the right way on this bill. We
lost but he voted the right way. But what you
don't know is that he insured that there would be
a vote on that issue so that it could pass,
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and then he votes properly for his home folks in Texas.
So the bill passes, which is what he wanted for
the lobby and he's on the record as voting against it,
but he helped get it pass lox Flame County.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
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separating families the Michael Barry show.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Of course, families can meet the party together. Unless you
follow the internal operations of the United States Senate. Most
people will have a belief. People will ask me all
the time, what does Cornon do wrong? Why do you
dislike Cornin so much? I served on Houston City Council
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for six years, and city council is just a tiny
little microcosm of the United States Senate. There are people
who will do things in a legislative that will pass
an issue or kill an issue while voting apparently for
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the opposite side. And they do this so they're still
popular with their base, but they make the lobbyists happy.
So let me give you an example. You've probably heard
of the term cloture. All bills in the United States
Senate need to pass through cloture. Cloture is the vote
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that will end debate on the bill. So a filibuster
would mean that we just keep the debate open forever.
We never actually have a vote, right whenever it come
to any conclusion. Well, at some point there's a call
for cloture, and that means, all right, let's vote now.
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In order to get an actual vote on an issue,
you have to pass the cloture vote otherwise. This is
where the whole end of filibuster comes into a in fact,
so here's what John Cornyn will do. Let's say a
bill makes it through the Senate committee, something along the
lines of say Obamacare. That is a terrible bill and
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no Republican should vote for it or they will be
at risk in their home state of being voted out.
But they want to vote for it because the lobbyists
want them to vote for it. So during the debate
this all comes out. It's why they don't like these
things to be debated in open court, in open session.
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So the GOP, because the base is making them lines
up in opposition, so they all have to pledge. Because
the little old ladies back home say you better be
against that, and they get the phone lines buzzy. All right,
So Chuck Schumer wants this issue to get a vote.
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In order to move that bill to a vote, sixty
senators must vote to invoke cloture. Now, you may only
have fifty votes, and then you've got Kamala Harris as
the vice president. She can break the tie. So you
don't even have a majority, but the vice president will
break the tie. So the Republicans can keep that issue
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from ever coming to a vote because you have to
have more than it takes to pass it in order
to get your sixty vote cloture. Okay, so Republicans can
have only forty one members and they can keep issues
from getting to the table. So that gives some power
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to the minority. You just filibuster. But what happens is
there are squish Republicans who, at Mitch McConnell's direction, will
vote for cloture, which means, yes, we will allow a
vote on this issue. We vote for cloture. Stop talking,
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stop filibustering, put this thing to a vote. Well, if
you wanted to kill the bill, you would never have
voted for cloture. Because if you never vote for clulture,
they never get to consider the bill. See what I'm saying.
So all they have to have is ten Republicans to
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break from the fifty Republicans and vote for cloture. So
John Cornyn will go and look and say, all right,
it's a six year term. Hey, Senator Smith, Senator Jones,
you're not up for election for four more years. People
will forget by that. We need you to vote for cloture.
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So this thing will come up to a vote and
it can be passed. Now, if you got a Republican
who's in a fifty to fifty race, he can't vote
for cloture because enough Republican grassroots folks know what this
game is. So Cornyon's job, under the direction of McConnell,
is he goes and picks who are the ten Republicans
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who are safest to vote for cloture. Well, Cornan is
safe because he sits on a war chest. You can
only beat him in a primary. We're not going to
send a Democrat up there. So Cornyn will go get
nine others and they'll vote for cloture. Well, now the
bills come, they already know they have a majority or
they have fifty plus the speaker, a fifty plus vice
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president to break the time. So once you vote for Kloture,
and there's going to be a vote, you move it
to the you move it to the floor, and there's
an actual vote. Now in the actual vote, John Cornyan
does this big thing where he says I'm against it,
this is a terrible bill. And passive observers, we'll say, Michael,
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why are you beating up on John Cornyn? He voted
against it because what you don't understand is he did
what he needed to do for you to think that
he was voting against it. The bigger issue is now
not how he's marked on the page. The bigger issue
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is did Obamacare pass or didn't it? He made sure
it passed. He makes sure Ukraine gets their money. He
makes sure the big bills get passed that give all
the money to the lobbyists. And that's why the lobbyists
give him a war chest. So it's hard as hell
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to beat him in a primary in Texas. This is
why Mitch McConnell gives corn money in his race. This
is why Mitch McConnell wants John Cornyn to be the
Senate majority leader, because these people are very devious. They
are very clever in playing this game. If you ever
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saw what they're actually doing, you'd run, you'd tarn feather them.
But they're very careful. And he may even go on
Fox News the next morning, and he may be he said, Dad,
Gummet Doucy, I'm so worried about this bill. We're gonna
have to rein in this out of control spending. This
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is one of John Cornyn cannot be allowed to be
this pry to be the customer.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I got a message to the mands of illegal amans
that Joe Biden's released in our country in violation of
federal law.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
You better start packing up.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
To Michael Berry, Joe, scuse you're going hold. Unfortunately, it
involves a term I can't say on the air that
rhymes with spit, as in to spit your tobacco. And
I'll use the word shot as in two ounces of
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tequila or to shoot in the past tense, and you'll
know what I mean. The Kamala Harris campaign could only
be described as a shot show. And the more we
are finding out, and this is just the early version,
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is it was so dysfunctional. Do you know What I
love about the word dysfunctional, the why instead of the
eye is funny. It's weird, it's awkward, It's like it's dysfunctional.
It's like automatopia for the eyes. Dysfunctional as a word
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looks like a word that is dysfunctional. The Harris campaign
is a shot show. Over a billion dollars was raised.
I'm not going to say they raised over billion dollars
because actually it's the swamp that raised it. She was
just a candidate. They slapped their logo like a NASCAR driver.
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They slapped there, They slapped the money onto her. They
slapped their logo Democrat candidate onto her. If Joe's health
had held out and magas do you see him at
the beach this weekend? Wow, If Joe's health had held
out just to touch better, they would have stayed with him.
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Nancy Pelosi is now on the record that this was
all a huge mistake, that there should have been an
open primary, that Biden should have had to win, that
there were other candidates out there. Well, you know the
problem here is Gavin Newsom. You don't have to tell
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me how he is or how much you hate him.
Gavin Newsom would have been a candidate who probably would
have beaten Joe Biden. Gavin Newsom weighted in the wings.
It was Biden's to hold on to. It's Jimmy Carter
nineteen eighty all over again. And now Nancy Pelosi is
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coming out and saying, you know, he shouldn't have run.
Joe Biden should not have run, and that screwed everything up.
And then because they smothered him, he decided, you're not
going to pick my replacement. I'm going to pick my replacement.
So to spite them, goes the story from within. He
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immediately endorses Kamala Harris. Well, the media is in on
all this. That's why when the story started coming in
and they're going, uh, the President has endoored Kamala Harris.
Go back and look at those news reports. You can
tell it looks like that deal where you know you're
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being held hostage and the cops come to the door
and go, no, there's nobody behind me behind the door
right now with a gun to my head. I'm just
here by myself having a nice time. This whole thing
fell apart, and there was so much internacin war and
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then the Bidens Jill got crossways with Kamala. Kamala cussed
Jill out, but there is so much of a shot
show happening here. Over a billion dollars was raised. Trump
only raised over a three hundred million because he uses
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earned media. They don't buy a bunch of ads. But
it turns out that they blew through the money. They
paid staff, hundreds of staffers. They paid for appearances. The
Oprah made a million bucks. I've heard that Lizzo got
paid two and a half million dollars. Maybe Beyonce got
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paid to show up, but not enough to sing. They
paid four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a day for
the sphere in Nevada, and they still lost Nevada. They
blew money like Bill Clinton at a strip club. It's
out of control. So Kristin Welker opened her show on
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Meet as l Rushbo would call it, Meet the Depressed
and Crazy Bernie was on there and listen to this.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Democrats now grappling with their stunning loss and trying to
figure out what went wrong.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Had the president gotten out sooner, there may been other
candidates in the race. I think still would have won,
but she may have been stronger having taken her case
to the public sooner.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
I think people never got to know Kama Harris during
the time she was in this campaign.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
If the goal is to win elections on Twitter, then
you should embrace movements like defund the police. But if
the goal is to win elections in the real world
where it matters, then you have to appeal to working
class people of color.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
The party itself has increasingly become a smarty pants, suburban,
college educated party.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
I take issue sometimes.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
With people saying, oh, the.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
Quote unquote left is the reason why this is happening.
The ultimate problem is our ability to clearly and forthrightly
advocate for an agenda that clearly champions the working class.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Joe Biden's decision to run for president again was a
catastrophic mistake, but.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
We can all unite in knowing that Joe Biden would
have lost and deserves a lot of blame for the
situation that we're in.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
The amazing part of all this is they still refer
to the working class. They lost the working class a
long time ago, so crazy. Bernie Sanders was asked, should
Democrats be asking themselves the question about their historic loss?
Bottom line, if you're an average working person out there,
do you really think that the Democratic Party is going
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to the mats, taking on powerful special interest and fighting
for you. I think the overwhelming answer is no. And
quickly before we go to break, Christen Welker asked him,
should Justice So to my Or step down so Joe
Biden can ram through Kamala as her replacement? Give this
a listen, Senator, Quickly, before I.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Let you go, I do want to ask you about
the Supreme Court. Some Democrats behind the scenes quietly talking
about the possibility should Justice so do my Or step
down to allow President Biden to appoint someone who's younger,
She's only seventy years old. Is that something that you
would support? To you think she should step down?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
No, I don't have you heard any talk of this
tells a little bit. Yes, I don't think it's a sensible approach.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
And you don't think it's a sensible approach. Correct, all right,
Senator Bernie Sanders, thank you very much for your time
this morning and your perspective.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
We really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
They cannot grasp that people among their ranks that socialist
Bernie thinks that these are stupid ideas. They simply cannot grasp,
you know, it's not until real Americans vote that everything
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these loons say that it's made clear nobody believes what
you're saying. Just because you're sitting Nobody at home is
buying you.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
I proved that to the Colonel Cartels in Mexico front.
President Trump is backing off.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
He's gonna wipe you off the face of your You're dark,
You're dark.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
On this Veteran's Day, we thank all of you who serves,
and we think all of you who support it, those
who serve, whether it was your mother or father, your
brother or sister, your sons and daughters. Every day I
hear through our website Michael Berryshow dot com. I hear
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from folks whose child has gone on to sir, and
they're proud, but of course they're anxious. Heck, my son's
a college freshman and I'm anxious he's not likely to
get sent into war. It's a dangerous business serving the country,
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and we don't all share the burden equally. So for
those of you who do and who have, thank you
so this next bit. Earlier I told you that a
billion dollars was raised for Kamala Harris, whoever the nominee
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was This was a billion dollars not to change things,
leave the borders wide open, keep Trump out, Green New Deal,
inflationary policies. This wasn't pro Kamala money, this was anti
Donald Trump money. Well where did all the money go?
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Lyndy Lee is a campaign advisor. She's currently serving as
the Women's co chair and Mid Atlantic Regional Chair for
the Democrat National Committee. She was previously part of the
Asian American outreach team for Joe Biden's twenty twenty presidential campaign.
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Here she is calling Kamala Harrison campaign quote a billion
dollar disaster.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I'm not on anyone's payroll. I'm not beholding to anyone.
That's why I'm here telling the truth. I'm not here
to gastling anybody.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
This is just the truth. It is the truth.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
The truth is the This is just an epic disaster.
This is a one billion, one billion dollar disaster. Actually
it was one billion, eighteen million I think right, they're
twenty million or twenty million or eighteen million dollars in debt.
It's incredible, and I raised millions of that. I have
friends that I have to be accountable to and to
explain what happened because I told them it was a
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margin of error race. I was promised General Mally Dillon
promised all of us that Harris would win. She even
put videos out saying that Harris would win. I believed her,
My donors believed her, and so they wrote massive checks.
I just I feel like a lot of us were
in this led. And even on the night of election night,
will I looked somebody in the eye and I said,
are we going to do this?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Are we going to pull it off? She told me yes.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
And I asked somebody else, like, how are you feelings
We're going to win Iowa?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
And I was like, did they believe this going in?
Speaker 8 (27:04):
Was was there a real sense of false confidence on
the side of Kamala Harris?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Or did they know they were in store for disaster?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
You know, I was wondering about that. I was like,
are you I asked them, are you privated internal numbers
that I am not seeing because I study this so
carefully and I just wasn't seeing any basis for that
level of confidence. And I also want to remind our
viewers that, you know, the Trump campaign was touting all
these incredible empirical data weeks before election night. What Harris
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is touting was the door knocking. She didn't say anything
really about early voting. Now I know it's because there
was nothing much to set.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
They spent one hundred thousand dollars did the campaign recreating
the set of the podcast Call Her Daddy, a podcast
by a young woman or young women about how to
orally serve us your man about sexual positions. She did
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that interview from DC where they built the set, rather
than fly to the West coast and tie some events inn.
They spent one hundred thousand dollars of campaign cash building
the set. That interview cost them votes. It didn't gain
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them votes as a net on the balance sheet, some
people will say, well, but she got young single women
that have unprotected sex and want to have abortions. Now
she's their girl. While the people of North Carolina were
dying and begging for body bags that had not yet arrived,
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the vice president was doing that tone deaf that cost
her net votes. CNN's MJ. Lee says, Harris campaign leaders
have had to tell staff stop crapping on the campaign
in the press, stop telling them how bad it was.
Speaker 9 (29:19):
I am told that there was a Harris campaign staff
call held yesterday evening, and that leaders on the call
had one specific request that they wanted to make to
the staff, and that was to avoid criticizing the campaign
and its strategy to members of the media. Essentially, their
message was, this doesn't really help the situation at all.
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This is how one source who was on the call
describe the gist of what top officials on the call
said to staff. They said, everyone was like, this sucks.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Losing sucks.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
There's something bigger that happened than the campaign, and everyone
worked really hard, and everyone's proud of them, and basically
stop on the campaign to the press now. I am
also told that the senior campaign officials on this call
promise the staff that they're going to do everything that
they can to help them find jobs. Obviously a very
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new reality for everyone on this campaign, some of whom
had very much hope that if Harris were to win,
they could be headed to Washington, d C. To look
for roles inside the White House throughout the administration. I'm
also told that there was an acknowledged acknowledgment on this
call that Harris's loss had been sweeping. Now you can
imagine a lot of raw emotions right now. Coursing throughout
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the Democratic Party, including as we have been reporting, a
lot of anger that is being directed at President Biden
as well.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yes, blame the old man. Blame the old man. These
people don't learn, you know. They talk about the working class,
but the Democrat Party and progressivism is not the party
of the working class. It's not the party that my
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dad voted for as a labor Democrat, as a maintenance
worker at a chemical plant for forty years. Boys dressing
up as girls, taxpayer funding to chop off the wianers
of boys, chop off the breasts of girls, giving children
drugs to change who they are without their parents knowing,
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and if their parents protests, then stealing them on behalf
of the state from the parents. Nonsense. We close the
program on a FUNNOE reminder. You can listen to the podcast.
For anything you missed, you can email me directly Michael
at Michael Berryshow dot com or go to our website
Michael Berryshow dot com. We closed with some fun audio.
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There was a charter flight. The Auburn University men's basketball
team was flying from Alabama to Houston to play the
Houston Cougars. My alma mater, in a basketball game when
the pilot asked for police on the ground because the
flight was diverted because there was a fight among the
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Auburn men's basketball team. Take it away, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
But we have got an altercation off the boards.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
We talked to the player to murdercy and when we
got a bunch of basketball players fighting the right deck,
secure foot level, it's contained for a moment which you had,
we're all police on the ground and Beau. We had
two players that got into the civical altercation, closer rib
and one blood player and center.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Twenty six thirty one. It's kind of crazy where we
direct mcgawery
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The number one question I have received from listeners across
the land is why is your boy Ted Cruz with
John Thune instead of Rick Scott. I offered Ted Cruz
this morning the opportunity to be on the show an
answer for the rumor that he is with John Thune
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in wednesdays vote, and I have not heard back. That
I have not heard back does not necessarily mean he's
hiding or he doesn't want to answer. Some days I'll
get an answer in thirty seconds. Sometimes it might take
a day or two. I'm not necessarily reading anything extra
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into that. If you were to ask me to guess
why he's with Thune instead of Rick Scott, it would
be as follows. This does not justify it. Understand that
some people struggle with that. I'm telling you what I
think His reasoning likely is not that I think that's
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a good thing. You don't need to say to me,
as many of you will say, well, that's not a
good reason. I didn't say it was. I said, I
think that's what the reason is. I suspect that Ted
Cruz has made a calculation that he wants to be
with the winner. The Senate majority leader has the ability,
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maybe not to make or break a senator, but he
can help a senator a whole lot more or a
whole lot less than he does another. Ted Cruz has
been on the ouns for the twelve years that he's
been in the Senate. I know because I was instrumental
in getting him elected in twenty twelve, along with other people.
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But I was very involved. And he'll tell you that
from the moment he came in as a tea Party Republican,
John McCain was cutting him off at the knees. Lindsey
Graham was cutting him off at the knees. John Cornyn
was cutting him off of the knees. And that's why
they would make statements like nobody in the Senate likes
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Ted Cruz. That's all I needed to know. I don't
trust anybody who Republicans senators like, because that means you're
a sellout. You see when Dick Cheney or Liz Cheney
or anybody on CNN or Lindsey Graham tells you that
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somebody's not well liked, you know what that means. That
means they've stood up, they spoke out. They have a
sense of pride and patriotism. You know who else isn't
like Donald Trump. So my suspicion is Trump Cruz got
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there and there would be votes that he would vote
against some wasteful spending or some stupid bill, and it
would be ninety nine to one, and so they couldn't
say it was unanimous, and they hated him for it.
Then he runs for president in twenty sixteen and the
fellow senators, they absolutely gutted him, gets re elected in
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twenty eighteen. He didn't get national support for that because frankly,
the Republicans, led by John Cornyn, would rather Ted Cruz
go away. So now fast forward to twenty twenty four.
Ted Cruz has a fortune spent against him by Californians.
The Senate Republican Fund wouldn't help him raise any money
(04:24):
because McConnell would rather he lose. He really would. McConnell
and Cornyn would rather Ted Cruz lose than Ted CRU's
win and hold onto that seat because they don't like
to be questioned, challenged or contradicted. So there's Ted Cruz
twelve years in saying Rick Scott would be this best
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Senate majority leader. Cornan is a swamp creature. I don't
want Cornan to win because it'll just be more of
Mitch McConnell. So my compromise candidate is John Thune. Now
(05:10):
if you look at where the claim is. Now these
are leaked lists, it's not certain this is true. But
if you look at the fact that that Thune has
twenty four, Cornan is said to have eighteen, and Rick
Scott is at eleven, Counting votes is very important. You've
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got to know how to count votes. So out of
those fifty three votes, Rick Scott only has about twenty
percent of them. Thune is almost at half. If the
Cornon and Scott folks joined forces, they won't but if
they did, they'd be at twenty nine and they could
beat Thune. If the Cornon folks join Thune, the race
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is over and they know that. But the moment that
Thune you see, what you want to do is be
the holdout if you want to be with the winner,
because if everybody voted at exactly the same time and
you didn't know how anybody else was going to vote,
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the returns would be very different. But the moment that
you see Thune. Let's say you know, Scott's got eleven
votes and this is how many Thuns got, which by deduction,
Corning can't beat Thune. So at that moment, there are
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people that say, well, I don't want Rick Scott. He's
the grassroots guy and Thun's pulled ahead. I want to
be with the winner, so I'll go with Thune. That
is my guess as to what Ted Cruz did. Now,
would I rather he support Rick Scott and take Thune
(07:01):
down to twenty three and Scot up to twelve, Yes,
I would. I'd rather Rick Scott be in the driver's
seat right now. But what you're seeing is the backroom deals,
the horse swapping of your dollars and your policies and
(07:21):
committee chairmanships and all the things that go with that.
And Cornan is a master of it. Cornyn is a
master because what Cornyan will do. I'll give you a
good example coming up in the next segment of how
a swamp creature like John Cornyn operates. How when you
(07:43):
look at the votes as they're tallied on c SPAN
or the next day in the news, you go, oh,
John Cornan voted the right way on this bill. We
lost but he voted the right way. But what you
don't know is that he insured that there would be
a vote on that issue so that it could pass,
(08:07):
and then he votes properly for his home folks in Texas.
So the bill passes, which is what he wanted for
the lobby and he's on the record as voting against it,
but he helped get it pass lox Flame County.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without
separating families the Michael Barry show.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Of course, families can meet the party together. Unless you
follow the internal operations of the United States Senate. Most
people will have a belief. People will ask me all
the time, what does Cornon do wrong? Why do you
dislike Cornin so much? I served on Houston City Council
(08:47):
for six years, and city council is just a tiny
little microcosm of the United States Senate. There are people
who will do things in a legislative that will pass
an issue or kill an issue while voting apparently for
(09:09):
the opposite side. And they do this so they're still
popular with their base, but they make the lobbyists happy.
So let me give you an example. You've probably heard
of the term cloture. All bills in the United States
Senate need to pass through cloture. Cloture is the vote
(09:32):
that will end debate on the bill. So a filibuster
would mean that we just keep the debate open forever.
We never actually have a vote, right whenever it come
to any conclusion. Well, at some point there's a call
for cloture, and that means, all right, let's vote now.
(09:52):
In order to get an actual vote on an issue,
you have to pass the cloture vote otherwise. This is
where the whole end of filibuster comes into a in fact,
so here's what John Cornyn will do. Let's say a
bill makes it through the Senate committee, something along the
lines of say Obamacare. That is a terrible bill and
(10:14):
no Republican should vote for it or they will be
at risk in their home state of being voted out.
But they want to vote for it because the lobbyists
want them to vote for it. So during the debate
this all comes out. It's why they don't like these
things to be debated in open court, in open session.
(10:38):
So the GOP, because the base is making them lines
up in opposition, so they all have to pledge. Because
the little old ladies back home say you better be
against that, and they get the phone lines buzzy. All right,
So Chuck Schumer wants this issue to get a vote.
(10:58):
In order to move that bill to a vote, sixty
senators must vote to invoke cloture. Now, you may only
have fifty votes, and then you've got Kamala Harris as
the vice president. She can break the tie. So you
don't even have a majority, but the vice president will
break the tie. So the Republicans can keep that issue
(11:21):
from ever coming to a vote because you have to
have more than it takes to pass it in order
to get your sixty vote cloture. Okay, so Republicans can
have only forty one members and they can keep issues
from getting to the table. So that gives some power
(11:42):
to the minority. You just filibuster. But what happens is
there are squish Republicans who, at Mitch McConnell's direction, will
vote for cloture, which means, yes, we will allow a
vote on this issue. We vote for cloture. Stop talking,
(12:04):
stop filibustering, put this thing to a vote. Well, if
you wanted to kill the bill, you would never have
voted for cloture. Because if you never vote for clulture,
they never get to consider the bill. See what I'm saying.
So all they have to have is ten Republicans to
(12:25):
break from the fifty Republicans and vote for cloture. So
John Cornyn will go and look and say, all right,
it's a six year term. Hey, Senator Smith, Senator Jones,
you're not up for election for four more years. People
will forget by that. We need you to vote for cloture.
(12:46):
So this thing will come up to a vote and
it can be passed. Now, if you got a Republican
who's in a fifty to fifty race, he can't vote
for cloture because enough Republican grassroots folks know what this
game is. So Cornyon's job, under the direction of McConnell,
is he goes and picks who are the ten Republicans
(13:07):
who are safest to vote for cloture. Well, Cornan is
safe because he sits on a war chest. You can
only beat him in a primary. We're not going to
send a Democrat up there. So Cornyn will go get
nine others and they'll vote for cloture. Well, now the
bills come, they already know they have a majority or
they have fifty plus the speaker, a fifty plus vice
(13:29):
president to break the time. So once you vote for Kloture,
and there's going to be a vote, you move it
to the you move it to the floor, and there's
an actual vote. Now in the actual vote, John Cornyan
does this big thing where he says I'm against it,
this is a terrible bill. And passive observers, we'll say, Michael,
(13:57):
why are you beating up on John Cornyn? He voted
against it because what you don't understand is he did
what he needed to do for you to think that
he was voting against it. The bigger issue is now
not how he's marked on the page. The bigger issue
(14:20):
is did Obamacare pass or didn't it? He made sure
it passed. He makes sure Ukraine gets their money. He
makes sure the big bills get passed that give all
the money to the lobbyists. And that's why the lobbyists
give him a war chest. So it's hard as hell
(14:42):
to beat him in a primary in Texas. This is
why Mitch McConnell gives corn money in his race. This
is why Mitch McConnell wants John Cornyn to be the
Senate majority leader, because these people are very devious. They
are very clever in playing this game. If you ever
(15:07):
saw what they're actually doing, you'd run, you'd tarn feather them.
But they're very careful. And he may even go on
Fox News the next morning, and he may be he said, Dad,
Gummet Doucy, I'm so worried about this bill. We're gonna
have to rein in this out of control spending. This
(15:31):
is one of John Cornyn cannot be allowed to be
this pry to be the customer.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I got a message to the mands of illegal amans
that Joe Biden's released in our country in violation of
federal law.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
You better start packing up.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
To Michael Berry, Joe, scuse you're going hold. Unfortunately, it
involves a term I can't say on the air that
rhymes with spit, as in to spit your tobacco. And
I'll use the word shot as in two ounces of
(16:12):
tequila or to shoot in the past tense, and you'll
know what I mean. The Kamala Harris campaign could only
be described as a shot show. And the more we
are finding out, and this is just the early version,
(16:35):
is it was so dysfunctional. Do you know What I
love about the word dysfunctional, the why instead of the
eye is funny. It's weird, it's awkward, It's like it's dysfunctional.
It's like automatopia for the eyes. Dysfunctional as a word
(16:56):
looks like a word that is dysfunctional. The Harris campaign
is a shot show. Over a billion dollars was raised.
I'm not going to say they raised over billion dollars
because actually it's the swamp that raised it. She was
just a candidate. They slapped their logo like a NASCAR driver.
(17:18):
They slapped there, They slapped the money onto her. They
slapped their logo Democrat candidate onto her. If Joe's health
had held out and magas do you see him at
the beach this weekend? Wow, If Joe's health had held
out just to touch better, they would have stayed with him.
(17:38):
Nancy Pelosi is now on the record that this was
all a huge mistake, that there should have been an
open primary, that Biden should have had to win, that
there were other candidates out there. Well, you know the
problem here is Gavin Newsom. You don't have to tell
(17:59):
me how he is or how much you hate him.
Gavin Newsom would have been a candidate who probably would
have beaten Joe Biden. Gavin Newsom weighted in the wings.
It was Biden's to hold on to. It's Jimmy Carter
nineteen eighty all over again. And now Nancy Pelosi is
(18:22):
coming out and saying, you know, he shouldn't have run.
Joe Biden should not have run, and that screwed everything up.
And then because they smothered him, he decided, you're not
going to pick my replacement. I'm going to pick my replacement.
So to spite them, goes the story from within. He
(18:47):
immediately endorses Kamala Harris. Well, the media is in on
all this. That's why when the story started coming in
and they're going, uh, the President has endoored Kamala Harris.
Go back and look at those news reports. You can
tell it looks like that deal where you know you're
(19:10):
being held hostage and the cops come to the door
and go, no, there's nobody behind me behind the door
right now with a gun to my head. I'm just
here by myself having a nice time. This whole thing
fell apart, and there was so much internacin war and
(19:32):
then the Bidens Jill got crossways with Kamala. Kamala cussed
Jill out, but there is so much of a shot
show happening here. Over a billion dollars was raised. Trump
only raised over a three hundred million because he uses
(19:52):
earned media. They don't buy a bunch of ads. But
it turns out that they blew through the money. They
paid staff, hundreds of staffers. They paid for appearances. The
Oprah made a million bucks. I've heard that Lizzo got
paid two and a half million dollars. Maybe Beyonce got
(20:13):
paid to show up, but not enough to sing. They
paid four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a day for
the sphere in Nevada, and they still lost Nevada. They
blew money like Bill Clinton at a strip club. It's
out of control. So Kristin Welker opened her show on
(20:40):
Meet as l Rushbo would call it, Meet the Depressed
and Crazy Bernie was on there and listen to this.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Democrats now grappling with their stunning loss and trying to
figure out what went wrong.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Had the president gotten out sooner, there may been other
candidates in the race. I think still would have won,
but she may have been stronger having taken her case
to the public sooner.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
I think people never got to know Kama Harris during
the time she was in this campaign.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
If the goal is to win elections on Twitter, then
you should embrace movements like defund the police. But if
the goal is to win elections in the real world
where it matters, then you have to appeal to working
class people of color.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
The party itself has increasingly become a smarty pants, suburban,
college educated party.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
I take issue sometimes.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
With people saying, oh, the.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
Quote unquote left is the reason why this is happening.
The ultimate problem is our ability to clearly and forthrightly
advocate for an agenda that clearly champions the working class.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Joe Biden's decision to run for president again was a
catastrophic mistake, but.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
We can all unite in knowing that Joe Biden would
have lost and deserves a lot of blame for the
situation that we're in.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
The amazing part of all this is they still refer
to the working class. They lost the working class a
long time ago, so crazy. Bernie Sanders was asked, should
Democrats be asking themselves the question about their historic loss?
Bottom line, if you're an average working person out there,
do you really think that the Democratic Party is going
(22:25):
to the mats, taking on powerful special interest and fighting
for you. I think the overwhelming answer is no. And
quickly before we go to break, Christen Welker asked him,
should Justice So to my Or step down so Joe
Biden can ram through Kamala as her replacement? Give this
a listen, Senator, Quickly, before I.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Let you go, I do want to ask you about
the Supreme Court. Some Democrats behind the scenes quietly talking
about the possibility should Justice so do my Or step
down to allow President Biden to appoint someone who's younger,
She's only seventy years old. Is that something that you
would support? To you think she should step down?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
No, I don't have you heard any talk of this
tells a little bit. Yes, I don't think it's a sensible approach.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
And you don't think it's a sensible approach. Correct, all right,
Senator Bernie Sanders, thank you very much for your time
this morning and your perspective.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
We really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
They cannot grasp that people among their ranks that socialist
Bernie thinks that these are stupid ideas. They simply cannot grasp,
you know, it's not until real Americans vote that everything
(23:52):
these loons say that it's made clear nobody believes what
you're saying. Just because you're sitting Nobody at home is
buying you.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
I proved that to the Colonel Cartels in Mexico front.
President Trump is backing off.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
He's gonna wipe you off the face of your You're dark,
You're dark.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
On this Veteran's Day, we thank all of you who serves,
and we think all of you who support it, those
who serve, whether it was your mother or father, your
brother or sister, your sons and daughters. Every day I
hear through our website Michael Berryshow dot com. I hear
(24:33):
from folks whose child has gone on to sir, and
they're proud, but of course they're anxious. Heck, my son's
a college freshman and I'm anxious he's not likely to
get sent into war. It's a dangerous business serving the country,
(24:53):
and we don't all share the burden equally. So for
those of you who do and who have, thank you
so this next bit. Earlier I told you that a
billion dollars was raised for Kamala Harris, whoever the nominee
(25:13):
was This was a billion dollars not to change things,
leave the borders wide open, keep Trump out, Green New Deal,
inflationary policies. This wasn't pro Kamala money, this was anti
Donald Trump money. Well where did all the money go?
(25:35):
Lyndy Lee is a campaign advisor. She's currently serving as
the Women's co chair and Mid Atlantic Regional Chair for
the Democrat National Committee. She was previously part of the
Asian American outreach team for Joe Biden's twenty twenty presidential campaign.
(25:56):
Here she is calling Kamala Harrison campaign quote a billion
dollar disaster.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I'm not on anyone's payroll. I'm not beholding to anyone.
That's why I'm here telling the truth. I'm not here
to gastling anybody.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
This is just the truth. It is the truth.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
The truth is the This is just an epic disaster.
This is a one billion, one billion dollar disaster. Actually
it was one billion, eighteen million I think right, they're
twenty million or twenty million or eighteen million dollars in debt.
It's incredible, and I raised millions of that. I have
friends that I have to be accountable to and to
explain what happened because I told them it was a
(26:34):
margin of error race. I was promised General Mally Dillon
promised all of us that Harris would win. She even
put videos out saying that Harris would win. I believed her,
My donors believed her, and so they wrote massive checks.
I just I feel like a lot of us were
in this led. And even on the night of election night,
will I looked somebody in the eye and I said,
are we going to do this?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Are we going to pull it off? She told me yes.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
And I asked somebody else, like, how are you feelings
We're going to win Iowa?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
And I was like, did they believe this going in?
Speaker 8 (27:04):
Was was there a real sense of false confidence on
the side of Kamala Harris?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Or did they know they were in store for disaster?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
You know, I was wondering about that. I was like,
are you I asked them, are you privated internal numbers
that I am not seeing because I study this so
carefully and I just wasn't seeing any basis for that
level of confidence. And I also want to remind our
viewers that, you know, the Trump campaign was touting all
these incredible empirical data weeks before election night. What Harris
(27:33):
is touting was the door knocking. She didn't say anything
really about early voting. Now I know it's because there
was nothing much to set.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
They spent one hundred thousand dollars did the campaign recreating
the set of the podcast Call Her Daddy, a podcast
by a young woman or young women about how to
orally serve us your man about sexual positions. She did
(28:08):
that interview from DC where they built the set, rather
than fly to the West coast and tie some events inn.
They spent one hundred thousand dollars of campaign cash building
the set. That interview cost them votes. It didn't gain
(28:32):
them votes as a net on the balance sheet, some
people will say, well, but she got young single women
that have unprotected sex and want to have abortions. Now
she's their girl. While the people of North Carolina were
dying and begging for body bags that had not yet arrived,
(28:56):
the vice president was doing that tone deaf that cost
her net votes. CNN's MJ. Lee says, Harris campaign leaders
have had to tell staff stop crapping on the campaign
in the press, stop telling them how bad it was.
Speaker 9 (29:19):
I am told that there was a Harris campaign staff
call held yesterday evening, and that leaders on the call
had one specific request that they wanted to make to
the staff, and that was to avoid criticizing the campaign
and its strategy to members of the media. Essentially, their
message was, this doesn't really help the situation at all.
(29:43):
This is how one source who was on the call
describe the gist of what top officials on the call
said to staff. They said, everyone was like, this sucks.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Losing sucks.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
There's something bigger that happened than the campaign, and everyone
worked really hard, and everyone's proud of them, and basically
stop on the campaign to the press now. I am
also told that the senior campaign officials on this call
promise the staff that they're going to do everything that
they can to help them find jobs. Obviously a very
(30:14):
new reality for everyone on this campaign, some of whom
had very much hope that if Harris were to win,
they could be headed to Washington, d C. To look
for roles inside the White House throughout the administration. I'm
also told that there was an acknowledged acknowledgment on this
call that Harris's loss had been sweeping. Now you can
imagine a lot of raw emotions right now. Coursing throughout
(30:37):
the Democratic Party, including as we have been reporting, a
lot of anger that is being directed at President Biden
as well.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yes, blame the old man. Blame the old man. These
people don't learn, you know. They talk about the working class,
but the Democrat Party and progressivism is not the party
of the working class. It's not the party that my
(31:06):
dad voted for as a labor Democrat, as a maintenance
worker at a chemical plant for forty years. Boys dressing
up as girls, taxpayer funding to chop off the wianers
of boys, chop off the breasts of girls, giving children
drugs to change who they are without their parents knowing,
(31:28):
and if their parents protests, then stealing them on behalf
of the state from the parents. Nonsense. We close the
program on a FUNNOE reminder. You can listen to the podcast.
For anything you missed, you can email me directly Michael
at Michael Berryshow dot com or go to our website
Michael Berryshow dot com. We closed with some fun audio.
(31:52):
There was a charter flight. The Auburn University men's basketball
team was flying from Alabama to Houston to play the
Houston Cougars. My alma mater, in a basketball game when
the pilot asked for police on the ground because the
flight was diverted because there was a fight among the
(32:15):
Auburn men's basketball team. Take it away, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
But we have got an altercation off the boards.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
We talked to the player to murdercy and when we
got a bunch of basketball players fighting the right deck,
secure foot level, it's contained for a moment which you had,
we're all police on the ground and Beau. We had
two players that got into the civical altercation, closer rib
and one blood player and center.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Twenty six thirty one. It's kind of crazy where we
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