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I don't think the tension has a heart.

He's simply designed to do whatever he can

because people of color are the country with him. And he's doing the patient, he's doing the Latinos, and he's doing it with the blessings of my Republican colleagues in Congress. [MUSIC] Well, that's an L-green.

Not the good one either. Not the reverberate L-green. That's a team man, L-green. The guy who's not going to have a job come anywhere.

I guess he's just trying to get some attention.

[MUSIC] And welcome to the Chris Plant Show. Michael Pelka, my name in for my friend Chris Plant. Trying to get to everything today. Wow, there's a lot of news, whack 'em all going on.

And then you got Al-green, just throwing out just random accusations. He's trying to get all the people of color out of the country. How do you even figure that, just doesn't make any sense, does it? But he's lost his job, so he's flailing.

And he ended up on C-Span, which tells you pretty much everything you need to know.

He wasn't even worthy of MSNBC's time, wasn't worthy of CNN's time. And so he's probably hanging outside the studios of C-Span. It's just between Union Station and Capital Hill. You can walk from Union Station to Capital Hill. And there's that one building that's about a block away from both where all of the shows

have their little studio, so he's probably outside there, will rant for food if he can. A few things we want to talk about this hour, I want to give you more highlights from the Democrats who are trying to stop the virus they released from their political lab, the Democrats' socialist virus, which they thought they were going to use it to make their squad look normal.

And now the virus is replicating and getting more power. And it seems to be threatening the Democrats, and I think they don't know what to do with it. If they don't get that, that Democrats' socialist virus under control, they could be in trouble in the midterms, and there are new numbers out regarding the midterms we gave you the Washington Post CNBC poll numbers yesterday that there is hope for the GOP.

And now there are some numbers recently released that show you what the Jerry Mandarin redistricting may be doing. So we will see what happens there. The president of the United States Donald Trump is at this very moment meeting the president of Lebanon, and hopefully getting some more help with our situation with the Iranians,

the president of Lebanon, help to get some sort of negotiation happening between Hezbollah and Israel.

And this could be a game-changer.

This could be a good sign, we'll see what happens. What comes of that being, it's just getting under way. There's just hand shaking going on right now, we'll break that down for you. And we're doing kind of a social poll, I may put it up on social media shortly. I'll let you know as to whether or not the older man who encouraged a young man to stand

for the national anthem with a little motivational slap to the back of his head was he in the right for doing such. Well, I can't endorse violence. I certainly understand this guy's outrage and concern at a healthy young man sitting there. And speaking of health, there's been an interesting change in the heart of James Carvelle.

Now James Carvelle, the rage and cagin, I still think if we ever need proof of alien life

existing, I think James Carvelle may be that proof.

He does appear to me to be of another kind of species and maybe delivered here from another planet. I don't know. It's just my own personal speculation, I have no Carvelle DNA to test to see if it is alien DNA.

But every time I see me, just looks a little less human and a little more otherworldly. And I've been monitoring Carvelle because the left side of the mainstream media seems to give him a lot of airtime because he says a lot about rages things. And you may be able to gauge the direction of the center of the Democrat party based on what Carvelle's saying, what is the latest outrageous.

Now before you play what he said yesterday, I want to go back in time and remind you of

Some of the more recent attacks he has made on President Trump and it always ...

Trump's health and how Carvelle seems to believe that President Trump is not well.

In fact, last year he accused the President of having a venereal disease.

You should have reason to believe that is a leader of severely diminished capacity, which

may be even caused by underlying, what he called, "Cyphlitic," I don't know what the medical word for. It is. In other words, he may have to talk. That's just what this is.

The club, James Carvelle, accusing the President of the United States of having syphilis. He said that some of the issues that he was diagnosing just from looking at video of the

President, he accused him of having some sort of syphilis was really weird.

And then Carvelle wanted us to know that this just wasn't a capricious assessment by himself. He was actually being serious about this. I got to tell you that that's not a hollow observation that I make it. Pay very close attention, move zero in and you can actually see on the hands, which I don't know, there are a lot of serious diseases that manifest themselves in what are

you call it, the extremities.

I think this is, I think it is, we are listening to the banging of the war drums that

were moving, but I think it's recklessly toward, which could be a catastrophic decision. We need to make sure that this man is not the way in tech. Carvelle has questioned the President's physical health. He's questioned the President's fitness for duty, for pretty much every month since the second term.

And I didn't go back in the first term and analyze.

But Carvelle now, he seemed to have changed his tune. And this is surprising to me, and I do believe this may also be tied to the latest concerns of the Democrat party that they are, the crazy party, that they're making all these wild claims of the President's health as declining. We know he's got a problem with circulation.

He's an 80-year-old guy, and he has some swelling in his ankles.

And when he takes medication, he'll often take it intravenously, and that's probably why you see those bruises on his hands at times. But Carvelle is made up of all kinds of assessments, and he's not a doctor, and he certainly hasn't had the chance to sit down with the President's medical team and ask him questions. He's just wildly speculating or has been.

Well, everything changed yesterday. Good. There seems to be a new James Carvelle, a nicer, not so rage-in-cage. Let me be clear, I don't want anybody to get sick, okay, I just don't. Not Lindsey Graham, not Ms. McConnell, right?

Not even Donald Trump, okay. That's just, we've just been slinging around, and I mean, I like hardball politics, I like body slam and everything, but it's just fascination in greed, and other people's health issues. It's just something, I don't want to be part of.

I just don't want to be part of it. But sir, that's all you've been doing for the past couple of years. That's all you've been doing is casting aspersions, making accusations, diagnosing the guy without having any of the ability of credentials to do so. He may have caught.

He might have the club, whatever the club. He might have the club club, if he's not a horse. I just think this is really funny, and maybe there is a memo that's gone out to all the senior Democrats to say, "Hey, we're starting to look like the crazy party. We're beginning to sound like the nuttyest people out there, and we have to rain it in."

So dial it back, you had the former governor Cuomo out there announcing that he's got problems with the far left and all of their desires to bring socialism and communism and get rid of the Senate and get rid of the presidency. They're starting to panic. Reeling in Carville may be one of those things that is part of the starting to panic thing.

I'm just saying, "You've got to keep an eye on these things.

If Carville and Cuomo have been told to tamp it down, we had Pelosi last week was saying

that she had concerns with the Democrats' socialist.

So we will keep an eye on things. We will monitor all of the upper tier and see what they have to say about it. I do believe there's a problem. They have an issue that they, again, experimented with this group of Democrats' socialist and now they've had a little bit of success.

They're a little bit power, hungry, and power crazy, and they've also got momentum. Because all they're doing is making promises. And these are promises that they know they can't keep.

Mondami has been telling people, "Hey, he was going to make a cheaper to live there.

He's going to make the rent cheaper," and he's frozen some of the rents in that city, which will drive landlores out and make the rent higher. And the rent is actually at the highest rate. It's ever been. They just sent records.

It's from a year and a half ago, though, so he doesn't get all the blame on that one.

But mom Donnie and Newsom and AOC, they've all been trashing capitalism. And they're going to have to probably dial all of this back. In case you missed it, the three biggest names in the Democrat Party, as of this point, if you'd asked me two years ago, I would have mentioned Pelosi among them. I would have mentioned Chuck Schumer among them.

But no, at the tip of the Democrat Party right now, is Gavin Newsom and AOC. And so run, Mondami, and they are really the leaders of the Socialist Party of America that will be on the Democrat line of any ballot. Do you like capitalism? No, I have many critiques of capitalism.

Capitalism, as we know it, doesn't work. Capitalism isn't, to me, it's an ideology of capital. And to me, that ideology is not sustainable and cannot be redeemed. So those three names, those three voices, are the leading voices of the party and their statements on capitalism should make everybody nervous.

Not just those of us who want to preserve capitalism, but the Democrats who are trying to keep their jobs, because it's going to make it really difficult if your party wants to kill capitalism for anyone who's got a Democrat party affiliation to get elected. This is just broke today talking about what's going to happen in the midterms. We mentioned yesterday that there was some hope because the unbiased polling or the generic

Democrat or generic for a public in ballot was now closer than before it had been double digits up near 20% it's down to 4 points between the two sides, which is pretty much the margin of error. But earlier today on Fox, Bill Hammer was going over how the redistricting was changing, what's this look what it is looking like for the midterms.

It was leading the way on redistricting, we think anywhere between three and five seats for a game, a net game for the Republicans, that's Texas. He's talking about Texas and net game three to five seats right there. We see one in Missouri, we see up to two in Ohio possibly, another one over here in North Carolina.

See everything in that light shade of red. This is still to be determined because the lines have not been decided yet. These in being at the end of April, about three months ago, you had the big Supreme Court ruling with regard to Louisiana. Once these are all settled, we'll have a more firm idea as to how Republicans and Democrats

will break this up. So Louisiana, this Supreme Court ruling still has a handful of seats with the redistricting to be drawn, the maps to be redrawn, and this may benefit the Republicans greatly.

I think Louisiana plus one, Tennessee, maybe plus one, same for Alabama, but down here

it is, and same for South Carolina, down here, Florida, anywhere between one and four, depending

on how things break, how the lines are ultimately determined, and what kind of a voting

turnout you get, come on, no members. So swing on over here. We say that we're leading the way on redistricting could be the key along with the Democrats and socialists virus that has hit the Democrat party. It could effectively split the vote, and maybe push independent towards the middle.

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After set up and I will be there, follow and listen on your favorite platform. It is the Chris Plant Show, Michael Pelka, and for Chris Plant President Trump, in the White House as we speak with the President of Lebanon, taking questions from reporters that read a few questions about whether or not Iran wants to talk to us and President Trump

was quite clear that we are not going to talk to Iran until they're serious about what

the discussions will be. We're not just going to meet with them to allow them to maybe get a ceasefire and continue to drag this thing out. So it looks like he's going to press a little bit harder to get a commitment from Iran. Before we go to a break and wrap up this half hour, let's go to the phones, the phones

have been pretty hot today, triple eight, six to zero, nine, six to five, Marco in Spring Field, Virginia. Hello, Marco. Welcome to Chris Plant Show. What's on your mind?

Well, Michael, I want to address this summer recess that these candidates are going on.

If you're Republican, you should be spending this whole month crashing and defending those

Democrats that are destroying this country. You've got a son, fiker out there, and his chairman, Mawav Fit, and the rest of those panels like ALC and Bernie Sanders, and you guys are going to take a month off Republicans. You better get your act together or we're going to lose our country. Thank you.

Thank you for saying act. I thought you were going to another A-word, but yeah, the summer break that's coming up in the House and the Senate will not be gathered until September 15th, I was hoping we could actually get something done. But in the meantime, they're supposed to go and hold meetings in their district and in

their states. The House reps will meet within their districts and maybe have town halls, and the senators might hold meetings within the state and try and get some connection to their constituents.

And hopefully they'll bring up the problem is the left.

These Democrats Socialists are very well organized, and it's kind of a scary thing. They could turn out in great numbers and cause a lot of havoc in the midterms, because their organization is so good. So turn out it's going to be key. It's a great point.

Let's hope the politicians on both sides actually get voters involved. I just know the Democrats Socialist already are. All right, I have to take a break, Triple 8, 6309625, 888-6309625. It is the Chris Plant Show. It is the Chris Plant Show.

Welcome to it, Michael Pelke, and for Chris Plant this week, he's on vacation and thanks for being here. I appreciate all of the support from each and every one of you. And I can tell you, without Michael Peercy, without the lovely Jasmine on the phones, I would be adrift in the sea.

So I'm very happy that everybody's here helping out. Well, Chris is on holiday, thank you for being here. I'm monitoring a lot of things, the president's still taking questions from reporters. In the White House, a lot of it has to do with how long are we going to be engaged with the ram, the answer isn't changing.

So they keep asking.

And that's what always amazes me, the same questions get asked over and over and over again.

Kind of interesting. Yesterday, we talked about Harry Sisson and Don Lemon, who talked about wanting to fight Republicans because they can't hold up policies and say these are good. So we want to physically fight you because we're violent people, even though they don't look like they could fight their way out of a wet paper bag.

But that kind of talking and that kind of statement has inspired people like this 72-year-old liberal white woman who has posted a challenge to the president of the United States. Hey Trump, I'm still waiting this 74-year-old woman is still waiting for you to accept

My challenge to a cage fight.

Wait, she's not 72, she's 74.

So 74, she looks like she's a pretty good shape and she wants a cage fight with Donald Trump. Okay, I know you're old and fat, but this is what I'm going to do. I don't know if she curses in this Michael, so just be careful on this for me. I'm going to put my right hand behind my back and I'm going to do your dumb. Whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm sorry, I didn't know that one's coming up there, I'm sure we got

it. Thank you. So here's a 74-year-old liberal white woman who wants to have a cage fight with the president of the United States.

Now should she get a visit from the Secret Service?

I don't think so. I think what should happen is family members should reach out to this woman. Family members should call and say, "Mom, Nana, you really can't be doing this. You can't hang the family out to dry like this. I'm sorry, no more threats to the president, please."

When we talked earlier about the Save America Act, it looks like it's not going to have a shot, even though Michael, several others have made very impassioned please, Ted Cruz. A lot of people want to save America Act to go through. It's not going to happen, but there are some interesting suggestions as to what should be done with the people who don't want to support the Save America Act.

I know Scott Pressler, the young guy who has been a voter registration machine, he worked to make sure Pennsylvania was delivered for president Trump in 2024 is now talking about making a primary move, not for himself, but for another candidate against John Thune. We'll see if that happens, but the subject is on the table, and you, the people are talking about it as well.

Let's grab Jeff and Germantown, Maryland, Jeff, welcome to the Crescent Plant Show.

You have some thoughts on this very important subject?

Thank you for taking the helm today. Yeah, I just wonder what's going to happen when 53 senators don't vote for the Save America Act. I kind of parallel about with the socialist taking over these democratic seats, it looks like a rush to me, I could be wrong, but what happens when 150 plus million Republicans decide

that our Senate and our House representatives aren't serving the people? What happens then?

Well, it's interesting because, first of all, you said 150 million Republicans, if we

could only get- I believe we have that, maybe a little bit more, but I could be wrong. Well, overall the nation, 330 million Americans, not all of those people are of their majority, so not all those people can vote. We had 77 million people support President Trump in the 2024 election. Many of those folks consider themselves to be not for Republicans, but consider themselves

to be independent, and based on the latest numbers. That is correct. It's diminished, the independence board has diminished a little bit, so I think there would be generous to say, 150 million Americans, but 70 million of us could be very upset to say the least.

Well, this is a provenant President's speech, he's a assertion on the amount of fake votes coming into our system, and the kids in the lower class in the middle class, even that can't get a chance under the democratic banner. You have to up those numbers quite considerably, because they've been lied to, they've been tripped, they've been cheated, and now they're in a dull age where they can vote.

So when they talk about numbers and polls, I'm not exactly sure I believe about that. Believe those numbers, but 150 Republicans, that would be great. Do you think we would have a chance to get this bill into circulation and have it passed with 150 million?

Well, yeah, if you've got 150 million Americans who stand up and say, yes, we don't want

to say the America Act, but I think you have to maybe cut it up into pieces and go solely

on the voter ID thing first, because some of the other stuff is what's getting problems. It's a tedious process, and I just see the other side. They're wearing down, and they're being primary by socialist communists, and it looks like there's a change of mist. I could be rolling around off an end, but I appreciate you today.

Thank you so much.

Thank you. Yeah, you're right.

There is a change happening inside the Democrat Party.

They appear to be cannibalizing their own party. They appear to be attacking themselves by what they're doing, going after their own party members, and that should be concerning to all the establishment Democrats, because it's going to cause them trouble. You start counting the people, the retirements used to be the worry.

When we had retirements happening during the midterm elections, and they're certainly

I think somewhere around 60 retirements across both parties, but when you've gotten

out these rogue operations coming in, the Democrat Socialist coming in, some of likeness to the Tea Party from years ago, from about 15 years ago, I don't see it being the same. But I think this is actually better funded and better organized.

The Democrat Socialist seemed to have a lot better organization.

They went from some 70,000 members a couple of years ago to more than 150,000. And I'll bet you that gets close to 2 or 300,000 before the midterm elections. We will wait and see. Let's grab Andrew in DC. Andrew, thank you for holding and welcome to the Chris Plancho.

You have a thought on politicians and the truth. Yeah, I just sigh and I wonder not a people get away with so much lies. We specifically, the Socialist and the Communists, the history of Communism, Socialism is deaf, despair, and misery.

And so I think the reason, you know, is totally irrational that people would vote Socialist

and Communists, and I think that the reason is that even the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, it's the curse of the Hope Diamonds. Wait a minute, here, you're going to have to help me out. Yesterday, by the way, there was a really interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal about this Smithsonian Institute and the operation of the Smithsonian and the wokeness that currently

has infested this Smithsonian, and it talks about how the board that kind of directs this Smithsonian. They don't put the exhibits together, but they direct this Smithsonian. J.D. Vance is part of that. There are three members of the House and three members of the Senate, and then there are,

I believe it's eight civilians, eight people like you and I who are part of that board. And they're talking about there's been a woken agenda that infected the Smithsonian for the last maybe 20 years that the Trump administration has issued a suggestion that things be changed. And I'm wondering if that's going to change.

But I didn't know about the Hope Diamond Curse.

What is the Hope Diamond Curse that is outlined in the Smithsonian?

Well, you're talking, first of all, you're talking about the American History Museum and

the concerns about how history is being taught by the Smithsonian and the Trump people have legitimate concerns. But the cruis of the Hope Diamond goes back to the folklore that it was stolen from an Indian God and people who touched it or owned it were first divided, some sort of tried to be misled. And now the Curse of the Hope Diamond has affected your phone to where your signal is breaking

up. Could it be that the Hope Diamond people don't want you to get this message out? I've got kiddo. Are you back with me? I'm with you, can you hear me?

Yeah, you're good now Andrew, but it's kind of weird because let me start talking about the Curse. Your phone signal got really wonky. Boy, anywhere you look there, the Curse people are there, I tell you. You're better now.

But so you think that politicians in DC can't tell the truth because of the Curse of the Hope Diamond? I can't think of any other reason, because there's no rationality for what many of them we're doing and running as much as we can to call me, is it that same? So again, you start talking about the Hope Diamond.

We lose your signal. I'll dive into this. But thank you, thank you for bringing that up. That was a little bizarre. The minute he started bringing up the Hope Diamond and the Curse of the Hope Diamond.

His phone signal got wonky. Another story which we didn't get to today yesterday, the Mayor of New York has

Made it clear.

He would like to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the UN is in session.

He was very open about it. He comes in September.

I believe that my Mr Netanyahu belongs in the Hague.

He's a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court and what you will find as that is an opinion that has held by many purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years. I've also said that I will follow the laws that we have here in New York City because I believe that there is an importance in following the law as a leader who presides over

our city and that's something that I plan to do.

So he really can't arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.

He can talk about it and the most uncomfortable thing about Mundani to me when he makes these claims in these statements is that he smiles so broadly while he's saying he would like to arrest the leader of one of our greatest allies and even CNN realized that this is provostier, even the experts over at CNN, Ellie Honig, the legal expert was asked about this yesterday.

So Ellie, give us a reality check here. And Mundani, have Netanyahu arrested. Absolutely not.

It is utterly ridiculous for the mayor of New York City to even suggest that he might have

the authority to order the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu or any visiting foreign head of state.

First of all, the mayor of New York City has zero law enforcement authority.

He does not tell the Manhattan DA, the NYPD who to arrest who to indict, second of all. This warrant that we're talking about here was issued by the ICC, the International Criminal Court, which we are not signatories to here in the United States. So that warrant issued by the ICC has zero legal effect here in the United States. In fact, we have a federal law here in the US past 24 years ago that says if necessary,

the president can send military troops to pull our people on our allies out of the ICC. So that warrant has zero impact. And third and finally, Brianna, the constitution is quite clear that the conduct of foreign diplomacy, foreign affairs is entirely up to the federal government. It's certainly not up to local and county governments in New York City or elsewhere.

So I know the mayor is having his best lawyers look at this right now. Let me save them sometime. You do not have the authority to do this. No authority to do it, but that won't stop him from continuing to say it. And I'm sure there will be protests when Netanyahu arrives for the United Nations annual

gathering that blocks traffic and makes a mess of things in New York. Just to remind everybody, Benjamin Netanyahu stood before the UN before and said what other people would not say about the Palestinians and what would happen if we gave the Palestinian authority a state. But since the PA took control, that number has dwindled to under 20%.

These are the people you want to give a state to. What you're doing is giving the ultimate reward to intolerant fanatics who perpetrated and supported the October 7th massacre, giving the Palestinians a state. One mile from Jerusalem after October 7th is like giving al-Qaeda a state. And a mile from New York City after September 11th.

I support Benjamin Netanyahu in this logic. He's absolutely right.

And if the mayor of New York wants to try and arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, I think, good luck

pal. I don't think the NYPD will support his fever drink, just saying. I've taken a break. We'll come back and wrap up what we have done today on the program. See if there are any dangling participants we need to tie down.

We want to join us who can triple eight, six, three, zero, nine, six to five, eight, eight, six, zero, nine, six, three, five. It's Michael Calca in for Chris Plant on the Chris Plant Show. It is the Chris Plant Show, Michael Calca in for my Frank Chris Plant, who's on a cruise ship. So, we're hopefully having a wonderful time.

I'm sure he's in this ride. Thanks for being here, wrapping up today's show a very busy day. The president of the United States has said earlier, welcoming the Lebanese president to the White House. They did hold a very active Q&A with the press, but it's the opening of the meeting with

The Lebanese president that says everything you need to know.

Mr. President, it's an honor having you.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. I'll be looking forward. Was this a visit for a long time?

Thank you very much.

I mean, things such a great president like herself.

That's a very nice thing. See, he knows that he'll get to me. He can have any of those, but now he can have anything. Now you can have anything. We'll see.

I'll bet that's not the art of the deal right there. President Trump, meeting with the Lebanese leader, also an attendance, of course, Marco Rubio, the Secretary of War, Pete Hackseth, who will be in front of the Senate in making his appearance and answering questions. We will break that down for you.

I have to say something. I have to make an omission today, and maybe this will diminish me in your eyes. I actually agreed with something that Minnesota Governor Tim Walls signed into law. Yesterday in Minnesota.

This may be the first thing.

The only thing I've ever agreed with Tim Walls on.

He signed the grandparents happy hour bill into law yesterday, which will allow nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Minnesota to serve alcohol. I think this is great news. Finally, something I can agree with Tim Walls on, so people can say, "You just don't like him because of who he is."

No, I agree with something. And then there was the madness out of New York City where Mondami who wants to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. Mondami's administration is quietly made a pilot program permanent that pays junkies to turn in used needles for 20 cents each.

If you turn in a syringe, you get 20 cents.

And they're funding it to the tune of $3 million.

Don't think give out free needles to anybody that wants it to. What are we incentivizing in New York City? And we're spending $3 million to do so. That's craziness. All right, thank you for being here today.

Thank you, Michael. Thank you, Jasmine. Thank all of you. Till next time, it's Michael Pelka reminding you, enjoy every sandwich and testudo, my friends, testudo.

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