6-10-26 Hour 2 - Plattner wins Maine primary, Dems Still Dodge on Scandals

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Wow! And that's easy? Of course, the taste is almost all automatic.

Finally, I feel like I'm so relaxed.

Hold your money back, take a breath with the way steuer. If I'm elected, I will only serve two terms. Regardless of whether a term limits law, a constitutional amendment passes or not. 12 years is long enough to be in public service,

make a contribution, and then come home and let someone else take your place. Huh. If I'm elected, I'll serve two terms. That 12 years is enough.

That's Susan Collins 30 years ago. She looked at the cameras and lied like a rug. Yes, Senator Susan Collins, who will now face Grand Platter, who would be Democrat nominee. After yesterday's primary elections, that happened around the country.

No real surprises. But Susan Collins who vowed only to serve two terms. And then she went to DC.

“And I think she got her beak wet on the power.”

She's not one of the people who appears to have gotten ridiculously wealthy. But she hasn't joined the perks of the privilege of being an elected member of royalty in the United States of America.

It's the Chris Plant Show.

Welcome to the second hour of today Wednesday's show,

Michael O'Pelka, in front of my friend Chris Plant. Yeah, we will look at some of the primary election results. And what they mean, as I said, no real surprises yesterday. There was an interesting turn of events

as we have yet another person who will be leaving the house of representatives at the end of this term, that being Nancy Mace, who efforted to become the nominee to be the governor in the state of South Carolina. She failed.

I think you could say miserably. She finished well behind the Trump endorsed leader, Lindsey Graham easily won his primary. So again, no real surprises yesterday. But there were what many on the left will tell you

is Donald Trump getting rid of his enemies. Nancy Mace challenged the president on a couple things, specifically the Epstein files.

“And the Democrats will try and make hay out of that, I think”

they are incorrect. We're trying to watch to see if Graham Platten or shows up again on other places he was on morning Joe earlier today, saying when Micah Brazinski asks him, if there will be more salacious or awful stories coming out

about him, he said, well, they will be made bad by his opponents. Yeah, that's kind of how that works. It is politics. But on CNN news night, Adam Mockler was defending at Graham Platteners, Nazi tattoo, as just a weird tattoo.

Just a weird tattoo, what's wrong with you people? The oyster group in Fiora has a weird tattoo. Abby Philip actually tried to direct the conversation into what you could be considered real journalism, saying, hey, there's probably more coming out, right?

And now Democrats are going to keep holding our candidates today. Probably is more coming out, don't you think? There could be, but we are now witnessing the post-cancelation post-purity style of politics that the Republican Party has ushered in. I'm not going to sit here and defend things Graham Plattener did in his past,

not even Graham Plattener defends these things that he did in his past. But we have watched for a decade as Republicans have repeatedly lowered the threshold, lower the standards for their candidates. And now Democrats are going to keep holding our candidates to an infinitely higher standard while we have Ken Paxon in Texas,

while we have Donald Trump sitting in the oval office right now. And I guess it remains to be seen, but I also want to refer to it. >> Did a high standard or is it a low standard? >> Listen, and because I'm not sure that I'm not sure that he's being held

“to a higher standard, but I think he's right.”

I think Abby Philip is right there, I rarely said that.

This may be the first time you can look that up,

that I've said Abby Philip is correct. I don't think Plattener's being held to a higher standard, but this does indicate that the canceled culture may be dead in the water. The entire canceled culture arguments may have gone the way of the Buffalo, if they say.

Very interesting to see. If no longer matters what you did years ago,

who was canceled a while back, I wonder. I wonder, I wonder, earlier today on CNN, as CNN was reporting the news of yesterday's primaries, John Berman was asking Delaware Senator Chris Coons about Plattener. And if anything in Plattener's background,

that could be considered troubling is coming up, and do you worry about this? >> Grant Plattener secured the nomination of Democratic nomination, take on Republican Senator Susan Collins. Grant Plattener just did an interview this morning.

And one of the questions he has faced and faced again this morning was, is there more coming? With everything that's been released, is there more coming that could be equally as damaging to your reputation of the candidacy?

Listen to how we respond. >> As I mean this clear, there's nothing out there that's actually concerning. People make everything seem very concerning because that's one. People do politics. >> He said there's nothing out there that's actually concerning.

“My question to you is, is his definition of concerning the same as yours?”

He has, he had a tattoo, which is a Nazi tattoo, a Tottencock. There has definite Nazi symbolism. He, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported. He, there was physically violent toward an ex-girlfriend. There were all the posts he made.

He says that's not concerning. Is that the same he of concerning that you have? >> So, Chris Cohen's the guy who inherited the seat. Because you were loyal to Joe Biden and will be elected until you choose not to be elected to the Senate again.

Because of Delaware so, Chris, good to have any questions about this. You're definition of concerning different than plateners? >> Well, John, that's a judgment.

The voters of Maine will ultimately make, but of course I have concerns about his tattoo.

And the story about whether he knew what it meant or not. And when, and concerns about the allegations, Democrats have held our candidates and our colleagues to high standards, particularly when it comes to any allegations of sexual assault. But I also respect the fact that the voters of Maine like most states did not like national party leaders coming in in anointing one candidate over another.

>> Now, let's, let's look at that last statement. Somebody go ahead and put that on the board and diagram the sentence that the people don't like party leaders coming in and anointing a choice. Gee, I am old.

“I'm old enough to remember back to when the Democrat party leaders decided that the Democrat”

voters of America didn't need to pick a candidate for president that they, the Democrat party leaders, would anoint somebody to replace the failing Joe Biden after the disastrous debate. The Democratic party leaders were not given an opportunity to choose a candidate. Chris Kuhn says the voters don't like that when that happens. Really interesting.

The use of Chris's trademark statement were not for double standards. Democrats would have zero standards at all. Kuhn's went on to try and turn all of this attention away from Graham Platner to the president.

>> At a time when we have a president who cheated on his first wife of the second on a second

with his third and then paid off a porn star to cover up his affairs with her. Well, his third wife was pregnant. We seem to have changed the standards for private conduct and its relevance to public life. I still expect my colleagues to conduct themselves in ways that I can be proud of and proud to associate myself with them.

>> So are you proud of Graham Platner? Do you, well, he's not a colleague yet, I guess. But it's turning in on Trump, which is what the Democrats are going to try and do. It won't be about Susan Collins, even though she pledged not to still be in the U.S. sentence. But try to turn this back and talk about what the real core of this question is about.

>> A core question is whether we will have a Senate that will hold President Trump accountable and constrain some of his worst actions.

Later today we're going to find out whether inflation has gone up for the third month in the row.

And as I said, he promised to lower your costs, he's not. He promised no new stupid foreign wars were in one and I think most voters are more focused on those issues. >> Covered a lot of ground there, and that answered, but didn't answer my question. Covered a lot of ground, but didn't answer my question.

“That's what Chris Perman should have said.”

Now, the interesting use of words there, inflation is up.

That's a big number when you consider we were looking at the high twos before the Iran war.

Will it come down? If the Iran war ends quickly, I suspect it will. As gas prices will go down, many other costs will go down as well. But right now because of that action, yes, the costs are going up inflation is up. He Chris Coon said Trump promised no more stupid wars and were in one.

Does that mean Chris Coon's Democrat from Delaware believes that the action the President is taking

“to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon that that's stupid?”

I'd like to know, maybe a follow-up question.

Maybe somebody will ask a follow-up question of the Senator from Delaware. I don't think so. I think they're just going to let him keep going and slamming the President and giving safe quarter to Graham Platner, really irritating to see this and I say this out of frustration because I'm a resident of the state of Delaware and this is a very blue state.

The southern part of the state is very, very, very red, but they're just ain't enough people. There's more chickens than people living down. There's, they said the inflation numbers popped at 4.2. I misspoke that 4.3. 4.2, which is the highest in three years. That's going to be the focus of a lot of statements from people on the left today to say that

the President Trump is not helping, not getting the job done. And inflation is a difficult thing to halt once it gets started.

“So hopefully we can, we can make some things happen on that, but I do believe you have to have the”

situation in a ran wrapped up. Now there was an update on that this morning. Tray Yanks was reporting on Fox News this morning about the overnight strikes. And the most interesting thing to me was we had details that we had not heard prior to this morning about the Apache helicopter that was taken down by Iranian drones. The Iranians have successfully used drones. The story that the President told Tray Yanks,

I thought this was breaking news. Good morning. I just got off the phone with President Trump and he gave Fox News some brand new details on what happened with that Apache helicopter that went down earlier this week and provided his thinking on where things stand with the negotiation. I want to start with a story the President told me new details about the downing of this U.S. Army Apache helicopter president

Trump tells Fox News that the Iranian drone lodged in between the two pilots in this helicopter. They were flying very low. And at that point the drone didn't explode as it had intended to. And so these pilots were trying to take down the helicopter with the drone lodged into this into this gunship without it exploding. And at any moment it could have exploded the pressure. Now this is a movie this state. If you think about it, these Apache helicopters,

“we've seen a lot of them on the news. They are incredible pieces of equipment. I think about”

27 million dollars each. Great, great warships in the air. But now a hit by an Iranian drone

probably with some sort of ordinance attached to it. Thank God it didn't explode. And these pilots are trying to bring the helicopter down safely while this drone is wedged in between them. It didn't told me. And he said it was on fire. There was a lot of heat inside the cockpit of this helicopter. And ultimately these two pilots were able to take it down into the sea. We're ultimately they were rescued for the first time in U.S. military history by an unmanned

sea drone. The unmanned sea drone is a 24-foot Corsair. I think was the name of the craft that they used built in the state of Texas. Governor of Texas has a Greg Abbott has very proudly announced that that sea drone, the Corsair, unmanned drone. So an unmanned drone attacks in American helicopter and hits it but does not explode. Thank God the pilots managed to get the craft into the water and they were in the water for a couple of hours waiting for the sea drone to arrive and rescue

them as it did. They reportedly both safe and sound, which is a miracle. But there is a follow-up of this as President Trump said yesterday after we got off the air when we heard this was an Iranian attack that took down this helicopter. President Trump has said that Iran will pay for this

and then there were additional strikes overnight and we'll give you the details on it just

“around the corner. You want to join the conversation you can triple eight six three zero nine six”

two five eight eight six three zero nine six two five it's Michael Pauke in from Chris Plant on the Chris Plant Show. It is the Chris Plant Show. Happy Wednesday to you, Michael Pauke. We were in the middle of breaking down the trade yinks report from his phone call with President Trump today. Trade yinks yinks is in Tel Aviv Israel and the president had a conversation with Mr. Yinks

about what the U.S. was doing with Iran. We broke down the helicopter, the Apache helicopter story of being shot down by an Iranian drone. The drone wedged between the pilots right there in the cockpit of the Apache kind of a harrowing story. But went on to have a conversation with the president about what's next. Now President Trump also talked about the U.S. strikes last night against Iranian radar systems and air defense sites. He said the Iranians had tried to

rebuild during the ceasefire. Their defensive capabilities, but they were unable to stop these U.S. strikes overnight and they were hammered by U.S. fighter jets. Now interestingly President Trump told me that he is getting close to ordering new strikes against Iranian power plants and bridges. So this sounds like it's power plant and bridges day. I believe there's confirmation that that may be happening and I do think that the president is sending a message to the Iranians

“that you need to end this now. You need to make a deal. A part of me wonders and maybe you think”

differently or similarly that the president would like to have this wrapped up by flag day his birthday. He would like to have some kind of agreement to end this war ahead of his 80th birthday, which is

this weekend. And when this first began, we kind of thought, okay, 30 days, then that became 60,

then that became 90, now we're into 103, 104 days. There may be a way to say heavy your hits are coming unless you guys come to the table. We will keep our eyes on this, but taking out the power plants and the bridges was something the president was hoping he did not have to do because once it's ultimately over you need to rebuild all that infrastructure. And the idea was not to cripple the

“Iranian people, but to cripple the Iranian regime. So I think we'll keep our eyes on that as well.”

So much more coming up just around the corner, we do have the word out of the homeland security

department that the funding now secured for the remainder of president Trump's second term means

Tom Holman is coming in hot to a lot of cities. And there's a big house hearing today. And why? Why is Bill Gates testify? We'll share it with you just around the corner. It's so palka, it's on the crisp rancher. Café in its best form, with the new Cuba One capsule machine from Shibu. In every Cuba capsule decked with the café from special equipment. For espresso, coffee cream or coffee

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And as I said, it's a very busy day, usually summer months things slow down. Not as much going on, but very, very busy in D.C. on Capitol Hill. I'm still looking at some of the shots of all the things the president has focused on in making our Capitol look beautiful ahead of the

some of the drone shots that show all of the statues that have been cleaned up, the

“fountains that are back operating instead of being a place where the homeless can hang out”

and panhandle. They're just stunning. And our nation's Capitol is looking beautiful again, especially the reflecting pool, which the president had fixed. It was leaking a lot of water every day. It had ponds come in. It was horrible. And the left can't handle it. The, the Washington Post is saying it's, it looks exactly as it did before. I'm sorry. I hope the Washington Post employees have vision benefits. They need to get their eyes checked. And last night in the White House, the

president had the crew that repaired the fountain that repainted the floor of the reflecting pool with the beautiful blue color. And then fixed the plumbing that was leaking all day, long. Millions got those how many millions of gallons of water leaked out of that thing. And now he invited the crew, which, you know, this is like having the pool repair guys come into the house and serve it him dinner. They were in the oval office getting signed hats from the president

and challenge coins. And if you've seen the video, it doesn't translate to radio. Otherwise, I'd play it for you. If you see the video, you see the, the joy in the faces of this very diverse crowd of American workers who were responsible for fixing this. And all the left is saying

it's 10 million dollars. How do we dance? Yeah. It's probably a lot less than was spent

during the Biden years just to maintain the leekiness of that reflecting pool. Well done, Mr. President. The, the capital, the capital city of the country is looking great. If you disagree, you're welcome to make the argument as strongly as you can. Triple eight six three zero nine six two five eight eight eight six three zero nine six two five other things happening. We, we talked a little bit about yesterday's hearing with the, the membership, the, the leadership

of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which we understand there are going to be moves made to decertify the nonprofit status of that organization. I hope that happens quickly. They're obviously in arm of the Democrat party. But there is a hearing today that will feature one of the world's richest people Bill Gates. Bill Gates has just arrived on Capitol Hill. He will appear before this congressional panel that is looking at the Epstein files. The Epstein files still, but builders may

why we can't get all of this out there. And for years now, we've heard that they will be released and then we get the redacted versions. We constantly hear people threatening to read the names of the people that have been redacted from the releases. Why can't we know? It's infuriating. It's frustrating. But interestingly, Bill Gates showed up today to testify. Here's his brief statement before he went into the congressional hearing room. Glad to be here voluntarily to testify

“to help with the committee's work. First of all, key phrase there. Glad to be here voluntarily.”

Bill Gates and his people have crafted this statement to let you know that he volunteered to do this. And I'm sure that if he hadn't, they would have subpoenaed him and made it mandatory. But he wants you to know. He wants you to think that this is a good thing that he's doing. Start with an opening statement in the hearing room. I hope my testimony is helpful to the work, the important work of the committee to find justice for the victims. Thank you.

Obviously, a very prepared statement from Bill Gates. I played that first because

last night, a grant of ancestry had a discussion with Alan Dershowitz about Bill Gates showing up at the Epstein hearing. And I found this to be particularly interesting. So remember what Bill Gates said. And then let's listen to what Alan Dershowitz had to say about this testimony.

“I had of it. What do they want from Bill Gates? What are they talking to him about do you think?”

Well, you know, Bill Gates became friendly with Epstein after he was convicted unlike some other people like me. Very interesting opening statement from Alan Dershowitz. Bill Gates became friendly

Dershowitz was friends with Epstein, the Trumpless friends with Epstein. And we know the president Trump and Alan Dershowitz both severed ties with Epstein once he was a creep. And it was publicly know. But Bill Gates, oddly enough, became friends with a guy after he was convicted. They terminated my friendship with him once I knew that he had been guilty of any of these charges. Bill Gates apparently knew him and knew him quite well and was himself involved in some, you know,

“I don't think anything with Epstein. But his sex life is not pure and simple while he was married.”

So they're going to try to embarrass him. They're going to try to get him to either provide information that's embarrassing to him to the Democrats. So we'll see, we'll see depending on the question and Gates is also apparently has engaged and attorney to be with him to be present with them. While a very, very high paid attorney, no doubt, you know, he's got the money. It's it's not going to hurt Bill Gates to hire the best attorney he can to deal with whatever questions are coming

down the pipe. We will see an interesting story for us to follow. We're curious to see, are we ever

going to see justice for the victims? I'm predicting this is never going to come out because if you

“consider what's going on a daily and nightly in the house of representatives and in the Senate,”

there is a slush fund to cover up the bad behavior of these people, a very deep slush fund. And that's one of the things that I know Nancy Mace, Congresswoman Nancy Mace from South Carolina, temporarily anyway. She's going to be out of office after this term. She was pushing to get all those names published and the names of all the people that were in the slush fund. That would be true transparency, but I don't have any hope that we're going to ever see that either. I said the

phones are open and they are and they've been bubbling tripletes 6309625 Andrew is in DC joined the conversation. Andrew, how are you? Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you, Michael. I have doubts about the two things coming up and it's going to be a little shortly actually. The UFC fight and the Iran war. I'm going to combine them for a second and ask a rhetorical question. Do you win a UFC fight by making a deal? Do you win a UFC fight by making

a deal with Iran? Right. Anyway, can you win a UFC fight? I'm making a deal with a person you're

fighting. The answer is no. I'm really not sure where you're going. I mean, these are two very

different. The war is different than the UFC event. Is it not? Well, the Iranian goal is to destroy it. A UFC fighter's goal is to, to punch his opponent into submission. Yeah. So, they're very, they're very close. And you're mine there. Andrew, Andrew, you're trying to Andrew. Hang on one second, please. You're trying to fill up us here, but you're trying to make an interesting analogy here. One isn't an entertainment event that's happening, maybe happening.

There is an attempt to shut it down that was filed in the court. And the other is a fight for the survival of the state of Israel, as I understand it, that the Iranians' entire existence is to eliminate the state of Israel and then ultimately death to the West. So, I'm sorry, I know you're trying to make a fun point here, but it's really not a fair comparison in my mind, but apparently

“you think it is because when you face someone who's trying to defeat you, you have to defeat that”

person. And that's the bottom line. Oh, are you saying, you know, this could be a different point.

You're saying that the president needs to go and finish the job with Iran and the stop with the surgical strikes, but just hammer hammer till there's told submission. There you go.

Iran. That's it. Well, yeah, I've heard that as well, but I don't know if that's going to work

in this instance. We should say, we thought the people of Iran would stand up. I do believe that's one of the things the administration was hoping would happen that the people not the, not the Mullas, not whatever leadership exists, not the Iranian National Guard or Republican Guard would stand up. And that doesn't seem to have happened. And perhaps that's because 40,000 of them were slaughtered ahead of this action when they did stand up. So I don't know, but I kind of understand where

you're going here. And I do believe, I absolutely believe the president should try and finish this by looking for a knockout punch to use your UFC reference. But I, I think the UFC fight happens this weekend, whether not the president and ends or finishes the action with the Iranian.

But thank you very much. Very interesting discussion as it, as it happens, we always kind of

“wander into interesting territory and some of the calls. And that's why they're, they're wide open.”

Always open to have the conversation, always wanting to have the discussion. And speaking of discussions, we talked earlier today, I put out a bit of a public service announcement about a massive recall of Jeeps that the Stolantis company has had to announce a million of these Jeeps. And if you've drive in one of the Jeeps, not not one of their SUVs, not like the Wagonier or the Cherokee. Are we allowed to say Cherokee? Because remember during the Woke Era,

they were going to keep saying that we're going to stop calling the, the car's Cherokee because it was politically incorrect. Yeah, I think they get that up. But the, some of the, the off-roady

kind of things that the Jeep has, they've recalled a million of them because they might catch on fire

and they're telling people to park them outside until you get them fixed. But the interesting sidebar here is that, that company Stolantis is in bed with China in a major way. Now, there are many Chinese connections to the American automobile market, but China has plotted for a long time to dominate the globe when it comes to automobiles. And their, their big company, which is BYD, their big company is in bed with Stolantis on several levels. And I'm wondering if

this is going to hurt BYD, but they do have a plot of plan, if you will, to try and dominate the American car market. And I was asking questions of a journalist in the automotive world named Lauren

“Fix. She, she does, I think she has an internet channel called Car Coat Reports about whether”

or not Chinese cars could come into America. President Trump has famously said he had blocked them. But there are concerns over Chinese cars being able to come into America or cars with significant Chinese-made parts coming into the country. And what kind of a threat does that represent to us? If you look at some of the cars in this country, I know Tesla has attempted to de-Chinaize its car production because of the nefarious nature of some of the technology that goes into the cars.

There are cameras all over these cars. If your car has cameras embedded into the bumpers, embedded into the mirrors, and those cars are also connected to the internet, they are feeding all of that data back to China. If in fact that technology originated there, I know that's that's a like roundabout way to say there should be a paranoia about China accessing all of our data now via cars. Interesting question. We'll get to it. I'll share some of the details on it with you

“because Lauren has put up a new piece on it. Plus, how do you feel about trucks on the road with no drivers?”

Are you all for semi-s without drivers in them? They're already out there. I'll share the story if you just run the corner. It's Michael Pelka, hit for Chris Plant on the Chris Blancho. It is the Chris Blancho. Welcome to Michael Pelka with you and from my friend Chris Plant, who is on a vacation and enjoying his vacation. I'm just reading a story about a disturbing reality.

and one of the things that's in technology already are the drivers who's cars.

“You have this company Weimo that's already deep into the driver who's car business and”

they're competing with Uber and Lyft and taxi cabs, but their cars have no drivers. There have been a couple of accidents. There have been a couple of problems where the technology was causing issues and they locked up traffic and in some cases even had accidents.

But now there are trucks on the road that are driverless.

One of the companies that comes to mind is called Gatech, a GATIK AI. They make 26 and 30 foot long box trucks that drive 100% on the highways without a driver. They are already partnering with Pepsi and Walmart and Croger and other Fortune 50 grocery companies and retailers. According to the data, they will pull out, put out over 400,000

long haul truckers, put them out of a job. By 2030, they expect to put 4 million drivers out of work.

“I think this is a problem. I'm concerned about it and I know somebody else who probably is”

Rod is in Arkansas. Rod, welcome to the Chris Plant Show. You're a trucker. Yes, sir. About last 41 years. I see a real problem with this. They came and get my cruise control to work. I got smart cruise. It'll see an overpass as a truck in front of me. Find a stopman at 70 miles an hour. Beating the brakes come on, engine brakes, downshift and brakes as hard as it can. Cars is one thing.

“Getting a truck to stop from 600 feet at 70 miles an hour is a whole different ball of wax.”

Also, I guess they think AI is going to stop everything. I mean, if you ever see a maximum of one would drop the movie. Yeah. This is going to be a little shades of maximum overdrive. I can't even understand where they're coming from. I understand that it's a big savings every year. 80 to $120,000 per driver. Of course, these systems aren't cheap. The empty is not going to be cheap. You're training a driver making mistakes for somebody behind a console,

valve them off the way and make it in the air. The trucks are already out there. They're tied in with Pepsi and Wal-Mart and Crogor and some other grocery companies. I wonder, keep your eyes out. Do you ever see a truck? Would you have noticed a GATK, GATK truck? They're blue trucks, and they have the name of the company on them. When you pass them, suddenly they're just nobody in the cabin. That would be very disturbing to me. Broad, keep your, keep all those wheels

on the pavement and stay safe. And thank you for being out there as a trucker. It's Opaulca, in for plant on the Chris Poncho.