7-27-26 Hour 3 - Will the SAVE Act Pass any time soon?

It's going to be a different kind of an evening and it is.

“And in many ways, it's a more beautiful evening, actually.”

Everyone's looking really good tonight. And I know it was not easy finding shoes to go along with your bulletproof vest, which many people didn't want to wear because they'd rather die than look 20 pounds heavier. You know that, right?

And that's President Trump with his great humor. I'm Alex Swerre with the Washington Times Editor at Large. Yeah, the High House correspondent is in a redo on Friday night. The president making waves there.

Wearing, wearing his Trump 2028 hat,

trolling the media that he would run for a third term.

I'm sure I would love to be in the room and see the faces on the press at that time. But we just don't know. Maybe it could be a different Trump 2028, like Eric Trump, Don Jr., Laura Trump.

She's always out there. Lots to stay tuned for there. But right now, I am pleased to welcome in my next guest, Scott Pressler. He really doesn't need a introduction.

Everyone pretty much should know who he is. But I'll go ahead and run down. He was known for-- he organized the Baltimore cleanup and really gained attention there.

And is credited for helping Trump carry Pennsylvania. He moved there, registered voters.

He does an amazing work with early vote action.

I want to call Scott a conservative influencer, but he's more than that. He's like a conservative activist, like an actual on the ground doing the work. And one of the nicest people to travel through Washington.

I love on his ex account. It says, "Make kindness cool again." And Scott, that's what you do. Thank you. Good morning.

Thank you for having me. Yeah, of course. I want to start with a little bit about what you are doing with early vote action now. Can you tell me, I know you travel so much.

What's stator you and I know you've been very passionate about the Save America Act? Yes, I'm currently in Grace and County, Texas. I will be doing an event with Governor Abbott today, as well as Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick

can pack St. Congressman Brandon Gill and Shelley Luther. This is a get out the vote event. This is going to be the largest in Grace and County history. And our goal, of course, is to rally the troops and to get big, beautiful turnout this November

so we can keep Texas red. When it comes to my organization, while I am traveling the entire country, my heart is still with Pennsylvania. And early vote action.com has 21 full-time staff

on the ground throughout Pennsylvania's 67 counties. And we are kind of breaking news in Pennsylvania right now with the work that we're doing to clean the voter rolls. Yeah, tell me a little bit about that. I know that's been an effort of this administration

and the presidents, Hermit Dylan at the DOJ, has worked with lawsuits trying to clean up voter rolls. Wasn't it New Jersey just came out and had? I forget the is tens of thousands of illegals. I thought we're on the voter rolls.

Something we learned from President Trump's speech as well. How big of a deal is that in Pennsylvania

“and some other states that you're traveling through?”

Thank you.

So DOJ has confirmed that there are a quarter of a million

non-citizens registered to vote in just Cali, Nevada, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. And of course, 35,000 non-citizens on the rolls in New Jersey, Governor Mikey Cheryl Democrats, said there are 6600, probably a lowball estimate.

But the news that we are breaking in Pennsylvania is there something called a non-jure list? These are people that are disqualified from serving on juries. One reason is non-citizen.

And get this. We just got the non-jure list for Chester County. Chester's that said at Philadelphia. One out of 67 counties has 3,500 in 66 non-citizens that have been summoned to jury duty.

Now, while not saying those people are registered to vote, but what we are doing is cross-referencing the non-jure list with the voter rolls. And wouldn't you know it? We are finding actively registered non-citizens

on the voter rolls in Pennsylvania.

“And are you able to tell when the last him they voted are?”

It was. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Here's the cool thing. So, you know, if the Department of State is listening

right now, they might be. They might be. They might be by listening. I want them to know that any work that they do to try to purge the voter rolls

is not going to cover up fraudulent voting.

L2 data is the best in the business.

And it tells me a person's voter history how long they've been registered, how many times they voted. When is the last time they voted, how they voted, et cetera. And so even if somebody is no longer on the voter rolls or inactive, whatever their status may be,

I have an entire voter history of every person that's ever been registered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. - That's amazing. Let me ask you, all this work you're doing.

“Would it be easier if the Save America Act was passed?”

Or like, how would that impact what you all, your organization is having to do? - It definitely would bring voter confidence and restore confidence in our elections. What the Save America Act does,

you know, I want to clear up a few things. No person that's already registered

of vote would have to re-register.

The beauty of the Save America Act is that stands for the safeguard American voter eligibility act. But really, it employs what's called the Save database, the Save database is the systematic alien verification for entitlements.

It's a fancy, semancy way of saying. Any person that's registered, their social security number will go through the Save database and will determine whether or not an individual is a legal, lawful American eligible voter.

Boom, and if they're not, they're taking off the voter rolls. So what I'm saying is, anyone that is not deemed eligible to vote that is currently registered

“of vote, i.e., non-citizen, illegal alien,”

they'll be removed from the voter rolls. So yes, the Save America Act would restore voter confidence. It would root out fraudulent voting. It would make our lives easier on doing the back end of all of his work trying to make sure

that only Americans are voting. And I encourage our Senate no recess. Stay in Washington, DC. And we are asking Senate Majority Leader John Spoon to ensure that his Senate caucus passes

the Save America Act before the November election. One of the things I thought was so interesting as I know you've actually traveled to Foon's home state. And what was the reception there and have you had any productive conversations

with him or his staff? - I will tell you, I've been to Rapid City, I've been to Sioux Falls. The people are I rate. South Dakota is furious that our Senate Majority Leader

representing one of the most conservative states in the union is whether it's incapable, unable, unwilling. I don't know what the reasoning is for not pushing the Save America Act. But I will tell you, if this isn't anything

but a peaceful message that I'm explaining on your program. If the Senate Majority Leader does not pass the Save America Act, he will be primary in 2028. The anger is palpable. And the voters are reaching a boiling point.

We duly elected a trifecta Republican government with a house, a Senate, and a White House. And with 53 senators, we can pass things like Budget Reconciliation 3.0. It's hatching the Save America Act

with the simple 50 vote, plus JDVance equals 51. There is no reason why we can't get this done. And I will tell you, South Dakota will act proportionately to what Senate Majority Leader soon does before the November 2026 election.

What I guess one of the things they talk about, too, is like, so the spill of us are the 60 vote threshold in the Senate, that's what they blame. But there's ways around it, right? There's the talking spill of us, sir.

“Is there any explanation like why that hasn't happened?”

Why aren't they doing it? Is it, I really, it kind of mind boggling to your point. We know that that's where the Republican Trump voters are the base is. And this midterms is a base election, clearly.

We saw with John Cornin, basically kind of waffling

on whether he would get rid of the filibuster or not. And then Ken Paxton coming in during that primary and saying, I would vote to get rid of the filibuster. So we can pass the Save America Act. Like, that's the way in the way I would drop out of this race

as if that happened. And of course, it didn't. And now, you see, he's now the Republican nominee for Senate of my home state. And I think he has enjoyed a lot of support.

I've been hearing for more than a decade now that Texas will turn blue and I doubt that's reality. I can get your take from what you're experiencing there on the ground. But I mean, to your point, yes, like I don't understand

why the senators are-- the Republican senators are playing with this, given that they saw exactly what happened just now in Texas and that GOP primary. I can't speak for the Senate major leader.

I can't speak for our members of the Senate, but I will give credit where credit is due, Senator Mike Lee,

and forced the Senate to vote on whether or not

“to take a 37 day paid vacation for August recess.”

And he is joined by Rick Scott of Florida. He is joined by Ashley Moody of Florida. He is joined by Jim Banks of Indiana. And so to anyone listening to this program right now, if you want to take action and ensure

this passage of the Save America Act, after you're done listening to this right now, I want you to call your Washington DC US Senate number. And then after you're done, I want you to call your local state number

because you may not get into DC, I just say, we the American people demand that you stand DC for no recess and very respectfully to people like Crepo, Idaho, Burazo, Wyoming, Tim Scott, South Carolina, Katie Britt, Alabama, Kennedy, Louisiana,

John Foon, South Dakota.

If you decide to take a 37 day paid vacation

without testing the Save America Act, consider peacefully, respectfully, and professionally, a permanent vacation, because we will work tirelessly to defeat you in 2021, if you do not give us what we want, I.E. to save America Act.

And that is the message that everyone on this program should deliver to your senators. They work for us, not the other way around it. And if they don't want to do the job, and if they want to take vacation,

they will suffer peacefully, a permanent vacation. - Well, I love that you just gave that message because we, you know, being here inside the Belt and DC in the Beltway, you hear, this is where a lot of lawmakers that is,

and their staff listen and get news about what, you know, conservative talk, what people want

and advocates like yourself.

“So I think it's gonna have a huge impact.”

One of the things I have to ask you since you're on the ground in Texas is, is what's the feel there? I mean, you hear a lot about James Tolerigo, Democrats pouring money into Texas

every, it seems like every few years. What's the state of play? - My personal feeling, well, I'll find out more today. My goal is, while I am talking a lot right now, what I'm on the ground with voters,

shut my mouth, open my ears, listen. And I'll tell you, I'm listening to the Democrats, too. And the Democrats, especially wonderful members of our black community, they're I rate. They see what happened to Jasmine Crockett,

and they are fortified by the treatment of James Tolerigo supporters to Jasmine Crockett. They are fortified, and I actually, I think a lot of members of the minority community is in the black community.

They're not gonna come out for Tolerigo. And if he loses the black vote, he has no shot of winning the Lone Star State. I see Republicans solidifying and coalescing behind our Republican nominee, Ken Paxton.

And I see the base is gonna come out and support him. So I feel more strongly about Ken Paxton's chances of being successful this year. And I think that Tolerigo is actually a weaker version of Beethoven.

- Yeah, back in 2018, that's a good point.

“And I think that the whole his use of his religion”

in somewhat of a warped way, I don't think we'll play well in my home state. That's for sure. One of the things I wanted to ask you in my last, basically 45 seconds,

is where can people go to most effectively help you? Is it early vote action? Where do you want to send people to find you online? - Thank you, I need your help. If you are able to financially support us early vote action.com,

I promise that we'll go to hiring staff on the ground in swing states like Pennsylvania. If not, and if you need talking points in it, you need data, please visit one of my social media pages. I'm on everything at Scott Plus,

we're FCO2T, PRES, LER. - Thank you so much Scott. I really appreciate you and all your work you're doing. - I'm grateful for the opportunity and you all have a wonderful week.

- You too. That was Scott Presler with early vote action on the ground, making a difference, heating up voter rolls. But that is it for us. We will be right back after a quick break.

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Editor at Large, and Legal Affairs reporter.

I am sitting in for Chris Plant, my mentor, and friend who is on a cruise right now. I am a bit jealous, but honored to be sitting in his chair here and getting to talk to some of my friends who are movers and shakers in Washington.

So I'm gonna bring in America first policy institutes. Chief government affairs officer, Matthew Henderson. Matt is going to talk to me a little bit about us reconciliation. And I'm gonna ask him to kind of make it

so as non-capital hell folks understand how this works. And also the debate over if we're gonna get pieces of that Save America Act inside this budget bill. So Matt, are you there? Are you joining me?

- I'm here, I'm with you. - Perfect, I'm glad you are with me.

“And I think the American people are with you.”

Okay, so explain to me what is going on

with reconciliation, I know there's like a 95 billion budget bill

that's looking at key GOP priorities. I think you mentioned AFP. I was looking at defense spending. I think there's farm aid, election related grants. What's going on, can you tell us those of us

that aren't living inside the capital following every lawmakers that move? - Well, I like how you phrase that in the very beginning. You know, I'll do my very best to describe it in the most non-DC way possible.

- Thank you. - I, you know, one of the things that this is, and we've heard a lot about this over the weeks and months previously, is, you know, this is essentially a budget resolution.

Now this is the first hurdle in a series of steps, but this is essentially a procedural measure that gets done, that allows some policy provisions to get through without having to jump through the hurdles of that, you know,

“that's 60 vote threshold, that's over in the Senate.”

Yeah, and these are really just numbers. I mean, these are numbers, these are budget provisions that are going into effect. And, you know, for this current bill that we've seen the last week, you know,

the house past its version, which is essentially a blueprint. You know, this is a very short document, you know, this only, it was only a handful of pages. And it just outlines some spending parameters. You mentioned the military funding that was thrown in there.

There's a large amount for that. There's a large amount for agricultural provisions. A lot of this is for some of the storm damage and also some of the trade items that are going on back and forth.

And then there's also a provision in there for what's called the House Administrative Committee. Now this is the committee that has jurisdiction over kind of election matters. You know, when I say election matters, I mean federal election matters.

Is that what all this is? Let me ask real quick, is that kind of where some of the state-America Act provisions could come in? Yep, you're absolutely right. So, you know, there were some, there were some overtures

that were made that, you know, again, this is a first step.

So, it passed the House, now it has to pass the Senate. And, you know, what this does is unlocks the reconciliation process, which allows for a simple majority in both houses. And let me ask you, I have like literally 10 seconds

before we're on a hard break. Is it likely we see the Senate vote on this before August recess? Yes or no? I, uh, not, well, no.

What do you think?

“No, I think we should all be calling everybody.”

This is a, we've already seen before. It's a minority, it's a very short majority vote. I think we can see it before September. Okay, well, that's good news. Thank you so much, Matt Henderson,

with America First Policy Institute. I am Alex Soyer in for Chris Plan, who is sailing the seas right now. We'll be right back after the break. (upbeat music)

Hello, this is Alex Soyer, editor at Large with the Washington Times and Legal Affairs reporter. I have the honor of sitting in for Chris Plan to his vacationing.

I'll be with you tomorrow too. Good news for me. Hopefully, good news for you. We'll see, but joining me now is one of my beloved co-workers, Carrie Pickett.

She has covered capital hill for years and the White House. And actually was at Friday's redo of the White House correspondent's dinner. So I thought she could kind of tell us

how it went compared to the nightmare on a back and April. So, Carrie, are you there? I am here, thanks for having me. - Yeah, of course, I love it.

What was the scene like, how was it different Friday night versus back and April? Obviously, you guys got through the dinner.

because I would describe the, the a redo. More as a, as a, you have a, we have a lot of the congressional correspondent and centers where they're sort of one off, right? You go to them, they're, they're like one night.

And in this case, it seemed more like like a congressional correspondent's dinner. There was only 700 people. Except there was a lot more security. There was about, you know, three, four checkpoints.

“The secret service really wanted to have”

their game down this time around. Yeah, you had a QR code to, to get in this time. No, no, a paper invites this time around. And, you know, as opposed to the last time, of course, there was 3,000 people in back and April.

There's 700 people and, of course, not as many cables. And also, you know, of course, there was the president

that was there that that never happened at a congressional

correspondent's dinner. And of course, one of the things that I like to point out is that what you have during the White House course is that you have the week before there's always that huge buildup. Yeah, there's all these parties.

Everybody cares. All the parties, everyone likes say, oh, are you going to this Google party? Are you going to get into this party? Did you get into this party?

Did you get into this party? Did you get into that one?

“And I have always said, I think that is the main reason”

why some people say, oh, I hate the correspondent's dinner. Yeah, you hate the correspondent's dinner because you didn't get into a bunch of pre-parties. Yeah, okay, it's not necessarily the actual correspondent's dinner, necessarily it's self.

So at the correspondent's there, this is the first one

that Donald Trump has actually been president and was speaking at the podium. So here he is, he is there, he finally is at the full correspondent there where he's not, you know, being scared that like someone is about to assassinate him.

And he is delivering the speech right after a bunch of journalists were just given awards who were given awards for their coverage of him, you know, about the Epstein files, you know, that was a Wall Street Journal just got awards for that.

Caitlin Collins, over at CNN, was also given an award which Trump, so merely during his speech said, oh, it was a fake award, he shouldn't have gotten it, he trashed her. Yeah, so he and her looks, right? Yeah, yeah, it was a lot of that.

So, but at the same time he also reflected about his time in the White House about, had to look, you know,

I do believe in the first amendment.

I do believe in a transparency. And he also ended up wearing his Trump 2028 cap,

“which I think he liked to kind of needle the press a whole lot”

'cause he could figure, hey, look, this is the biggest gathering of Trump derangedment syndrome ever. So, I'm gonna put this 2028 cap, he put it on jokingly, just to needle everybody in the room, which of course, I think it worked because if you look

at a bunch of Twitter feeds or ex-seeds rather, - Yeah, we're going. - We're framing it out. - Yeah, yeah. - Let me ask you, I had Daniel Litman with Politico on earlier, and he said he thinks that this is a sign

that the White House Correspondence Center is just expired. Like, it just isn't what it was. Do you agree? Is it going away? Do you think it'll go away?

- I don't think it's gonna go away. Honestly, I don't think it's gonna go away because I think that journalists in general, what do they like to do most? They like to talk about themselves.

- Okay, of course, they're supposed to have bylines, not their names and headlines, but of course, they like it the other way around here in DC. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, I respect Daniel Litman. - Talking to you, Jim Acosta.

- Yeah, yeah, but if there's one thing that reporters love to do, they love to put up their stories and make sure that their bylines are on the story, and they love to put out videos that are self-congregatory,

saying, we believe it's the first amendment. We believe it's defending everybody's speed and must speech except when it comes to code in the 2020 election. But, yeah, there's, there's, there's a lot of that.

So while people will say, well, you know, the correspondent's dinner is gonna come to an end. I simply don't see that happening. It may come in, it may change over time. They may rethink as to how big it is.

They may think about, you know, just how much they worship it, perhaps, I don't know. But, I personally prefer just the sort of smaller gathering. And simply, whoa, this is because you were actually there. Honestly, whether it's 700, maybe 2000, 3000, I, like I said,

of all those pre-parties and post-parties

that people don't get invited to, and some people say, are you going, no, I'm not going, and people get upset about, like, the rejection of not going to certain parties and only getting to other parties.

“I think people may disrepair going to a one-off party”

that's similar to, like, congressional correspondence dinners. - Yeah, and then real quick, I wanted to ask you, you talked about, you know, some of that, I guess, what do I wanna say, big heads here in Washington, D.C., Anthony Fauci.

He is going to be testifying, I think Wednesday. There's been a little bit of news about his diary. I think that he seems more focused on his fame than the COVID deaths. Is that what we take away from that?

- Yeah, it's funny. Once again, people love to get, you know, fame. And you would think that, you know, Anthony Fauci, he, his at Diaries were released, that's I think, ran Paul for this.

And he's going to have to answer for that. This is something that, you know, one of the entries that came out there, he's like, oh, you know, look at me getting hot and look at the reporters here, are all the sudden, you know, very interested in what I have to say,

reporters are really for me, quote unquote, hot and heavy.

“I think that was one of the entries that were in the diary entries.”

- I think he also said Trump was in quote and enamored with him something like that. - Oh, my goodness, yes, yes. - And this is one of the issues that the HHS is going to start looking into as far as what exactly the experts are going to,

what types of benefits they get out of when they do research for us, especially during a crisis is, and that was something that Anthony Fauci, especially since people were looking into, what exactly was he getting out of it financially? - Yeah, especially.

- Yeah. - So, yeah, so it's interesting, especially since, and you're on the legal side of this, Alex, I believe the statute of limitations, as far as he's concerned, has expired, but still, he's going to have a very hard time

making a comeback. - Well, not only that, Kerry, you write about the point as he was given a pardon. Biden pardoned him before he left office, and it was pretty much a presumptive pardon,

and with one of those, like the Supreme Court has said, it was, you know, many, many years ago, but they ruled that the President's pardon power is pretty broad and absolute, which to me, you know, gives him quite a shield.

- Right, that is something when you have these, interesting sort of partens that happened from the Biden era, and I don't think we've really ever seen that before, and nobody really wants to touch them because they think, well, gee,

when there's a Republican there,

“but if you want to do it for the sake of pardon,”

but it's one of these things that what happens when these, when these parrins come around, and do they really want to touch that, okay? - Yeah. - And, yeah, it's like, well, maybe we might want to do

the same thing when one of our guys are in trouble. - Right.

- Yeah, but then the problem is we also have the issue

of what actually creates the whole idea of a super citizen going into the way future, you know, 'cause then all corruption could possibly break. - Yeah, well, Kerry, thank you so much for calling in and talking a little bit about that.

I love hearing your White House correspondent's dinner experience, and then also Fauci on Wednesday will be big news. I'm gonna jump over, I have Mike Davis from the Article Three Project.

He is gonna talk about the big news on Thursday on Capitol Hill, which is acting a turny general, Todd Blanche. He is going to get a committee vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee, looking ahead for his confirmation.

Mike, thank you so much for taking a few minutes to join me and break down. Where do you think the state of play is? I know we have Kornin' on the committee, Antilles, they've kind of been a thorn in the president's side

and trying to, you know, oppose any of his wish list. Is that something we need to watch out for Thursday? - Thank you for having me on Alex. I served as the Chief Council for nominations on the Senate, Chief Issuary Committee

for Chairman Chuck Grassley, my home state senator.

Back in 2017 through 2019 during President Trump's first firm,

I confirmed, held to inform a lot of judges and justice department officials and others. And I would say that Todd Blanche is on a glide path to Senate confirmation. - He is.

- He is very well qualified. He's been a former federal prosecutor and the Southern District of New York. He's been a lawyer and a law partner and a prestigious law firm.

He gave all that up to go defend President Trump for many years and many courtrooms around America.

unprecedented Republican to law fair.

He got confirmed as the deputy attorney general, which by statute has almost all the powers as the attorney general, he's been doing that job. All right, take it like 17 months now. He's been the acting attorney general

with the last several months. He's clearly qualified to do the job. The Senate Republicans voted for him last time. And they're going to vote for him against. - Yeah.

- To get reported out of committee on Thursday. - Okay. - And then he will get to the Senate law and I expect him to be confirmed on or before August 6. Probably August 6.

- So I know you don't really need much of an introduction. People know who you are. You're a mover and a shaker here in DC,

but one of the things you've been very successful with

“is you are key with the Justice Gorsuch's”

and Cabinaw's confirmations. So you know kind of the ends and outs on how this works, politically speaking. And my question is you talked about the committee, but what about people like McConnell being out,

Susan Collins with her up for reelection and Maine, do we need to worry about any of those? - No, I mean, I mean, the-- - Is the count there? - The confirmed.

Yes, the Senate confirms sideblasts. Be the deputy attorney general, they'll confirm him again. I see, like I said, there's no one who's been work qualified for the job.

He has been a bold and fearless leader at the Justice Department. He's been a reformer.

He is fired, the bad people hired,

the good people closed. The bad cases opens, the right cases. He's shown that he can do the job. He's been the number two with almost all the powers under statute as the agee.

And then he's been the acting wager. So he totally can do the job. - I went back. - I went back and looked like people like Tillis, corn and Mercowski, Collins, they all voted for him previously.

So you know, hopefully they stick to where they were before. One of the things I also wanted to get too real quick is you and I have talked a lot about the law fair that President Trump faced in his allies throughout 2024.

I know Senator Grassley, Chairman Grassley has mentioned calling Jack Smith to testify before the committee by the end of the year. Jim Jordan just sent over the criminal referral to the DOJ over the alleged false statements to Congress.

“That has to do, I believe with the collection”

of toll records, right? He says he didn't look for content of text messages of lawmakers, but clearly that it's come to fruition. He did. Any news on that?

Like where do you think the DOJ should go with this? - I just wrote a Fox News opinion piece on this that got published. I commend House judiciary committee, Chairman Jim Jordan, for doing this.

Jack Smith is a rogue bad actor who should face criminal prosecution. He politicized and weaponized the justice department to try to take out a former president and a future president because he was warning for office again.

He was Biden's pitchman who tried to change the outcome of our presidential election by putting President Trump in prison for non crimes. And then how do you what about doing this? Was lawlet.

He got 44 members of Congress's phone records, including the House Speaker, the number two in the House, the money senators.

“And then he, so he illegally spied on members of Congress”

and then lied about it when he was asked by the House judiciary committee in a deposition. And how he lied about it is he lied through omission. He asked him if he got the contents of these polls and these text messages from a subpoena

that was issued. He said, no, I only got the toll records. The time, date, duration of the phone calls. Well, that was not true because he had got the toll records from the national archives, but didn't disclose, excuse me,

he got the catch messages from the national archives and did not disclose that. So he was reading the text messages from members of Congress, including a House leadership and senators, that's a major problem.

You can't just spy on your opposing parties, the opposition and Congress will be willing. There has to be a very good basis for it. There's no basis to snoop through the telephone records the text messages of 44 members of Congress.

Right, this is a lie about it. So yes, he should absolutely be prosecuted. And they all say no one is above the law will fetch those projects. And I will just throw in there as we're closing out.

Same for Judge Bozberg. I would like to see some accountability there with his actions. But thank you so much. Mike Davis for joining me from the Article 3 Project

is his Alex Sawyer from the Washington Times

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“Hello, this is Alex Sawyer, Washington Times,”

editor at Large and Legal Affairs reporter.

You can find all of my time today at Washington Times.com. I have my court watch podcast where you can get latest court news. This sit down with Alex Sawyer also a series where we do video interviews with administration,

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And everyone taking this ride along with me

through the past few hours of morning news. One of the things I thought I'd touch on real quick before I leave you all to Ponder is we see a lot of these DSA backed candidates in places like Colorado, New York, New Jersey, Michigan,

and they're young, and they're really challenging somebody a more establishment moderate dem, if you will. I don't know what the term moderate means anymore in the Democratic Party, but that's kind of different when we go look at Massachusetts.

So I'm pointing out Massachusetts, they're a Democratic primary, it's September 1st, but you have Ed Markey, a senator who is Ben in DC for decades. He's in his 80s, and he is being challenged by Representative Moulton, Seth Moulton,

“who's young, I think he's 47, more moderate, actually.”

He is trying to move to the left to be as progressive as Markey. So you have a bit of a reverse happening in Massachusetts compared to what we've been seeing in other states across the country. So I really think that's one to watch,

and it's been interesting because Moulton is making that race about age,

and basically having the establishment or support,

and Markey saying, hey, if you like the status quo and Markey back, he's been there for 50 years, and he's been claiming he's, you know, we're both progressives because he's been asked about being the more moderate as the younger candidate.

So it's basically, it's a very interesting,

“I think I would call it contrast to what we have really”

been seeing with people like the rise of these DSA candidates. Graham Platner, he was, I believe in his 40s younger, and those younger candidates in New York, as well as Colorado. But I really have enjoyed the past few hours

sitting in with you all, lots of news to cover, had some very great guests, and I'm honored that Chris Plant, while getting some much-needed rest, called upon me, Alex Swerre with The Washington Times. Thanks for listening.

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