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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sallisiisconsin.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
When you hear that bumper music, you know, Jesse Vasquez
is online. Jesse, welcome to the show. Thank you for calling.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Good morning that you guys are having me back on
as the most accurate predictor in American politics. It's all
with a pleasure to be on your show, speak with
you and speak to the good, beautiful, intelligent people of
Hudson Valley.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Thank you very much, sir, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Let's do before we get into what we want to
talk about today, and Jess, let's go back in terms
of your predictions, in terms of where we're at. I
think as of right now since we last spoke, I
think Pam Bondi has been confirmed, Robert Kennedy and Telsea
Gabbert have have moved out of the the committee process
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onto the full Senate votes, you know. And I think
the only one that I think is a little bit
surprising is Cash Patel has been held back a week,
if you will, thoughts comments and opinions.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, I mean again, you know, we've discussed this last week.
I thought that, uh, you know, we kind of differed
in our opinions about whether RFK Junior and Tolsi we're
going to get through.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
And as usual.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I corrected correctly predicted that they were going to get through.
So honestly, I think at this point she'd be getting
paid pretty these predictions. Indeed, indeed, yeah, I'm gonna have
the discussion with the higher reps at WKI.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Of course, you know, this is gold that I'm delivering.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, but you know, But but interestingly enough, on on
on RFK, he has taken a page from the MAGA
marketing campaigns and so far that he's now marketing his
own make America Healthy Again merchandise.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, I mean it makes sense. Uh, you know, he
started doing that. I think back during the campaign when
he initially kind of jumped on with Trump, and it
just you know, the branding is is credit to Trump.
I mean that he is brilliant when it comes to branding.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Musk is now even kind of toying with it with
you know, his efforts in Europe.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
At this point, he thinks he's trying to coin the
term make Europe great again. So you know, it makes perfect.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Sense to me, and especially given that you know what
Ark has really been pushing with respect to banning certain
things that certain dies and certain you know, things that
are in our food and drinks that are you know,
potentially contributing to chronic illness in America.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Ye just did you have a chance that I'm sure
you have to see the exchange between r F K
and Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
What were your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I mean, they were basically debating, and in fact, Kennedy
actually accused members of that committee as being corrupt in
terms of taking pharmaceutical money.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh, it was fascinating, especially, I mean they were in
the middle of accusing him of you know, uh, prosecuting
cases against big pharma for money, and he threw it
really back in their faith, especially Bernie. You know, Bernie
is the guy who's always been the get money out
of politics and trying to make himself kind of a
working class guy.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
And yet with kind of with kind of thrown out
his face that he'd accepted.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You know, one point five million of dollars from big Pharma.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And you know, the funny and the funny way that
he ended up doing that. He was vociferously no, no, no, no, no,
my donations are coming from small, little people and then
finally said, okay, only one point five million of it
came from pharma, from from big pharmacy.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It was just laughable.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, I know, the the the poor, poor people and
big pharma that that that shifted in, you know, one
dollar at a time to Bernie Sanders route, you know,
to the tune of one point five million. Uh yeah,
I mean his reaction told you everything about what about
the the nature of those payments.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
No question, Hey, Jess, I wanted to One of the
things that that you know I I opened the show
up this morning, is uh, you know, I'm looking at
varying competing federal judges, you know, in some cases stopping
some of the things Trump is doing, in some cases
not not stopping some of the things that are currently
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going on there. Just for for example, a DC federal
judge on Friday issued a limited temporary restraining order blocking
the US Agency for International Development from putting twenty two
hundred employees on paid administrative leave and ordered ordered the
agency to reinstate five hundred employees already on leave. That's
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just one example of some of the things that are
going on Visa VI. With federal judges now interjecting themselves
into this decision process, what are your thoughts in terms
of what's happening as far as that's concerned.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, I mean, it's not unexpected, I think, and I
think Trump probably expected that he was going to have
some pushback on some of the kind of the big
moves he's making. The thing is that he's making so
many big moves, all so early in his second term.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Nineteen days in, right, or nineteen days into to the
new administration.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, no, we're less than three weeks in, and I
mean the things that he's doing. Even yesterday during the
Super Bowl, I think he was so bored during the
Super he actually said put out something saying that he
was going.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
To end the penny. So, I mean he's just on a.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Whim doing these massive things that you know, it's kind
of astonishing. But yeah, a lot of these things are
going to end up going to the Supreme Court. And
one of the interesting things, because all of these things
are going to hit the Supreme Court kind of in
very fast order.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
We're going to have I think a lot of very.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
New sweeping president Supreme Court president. When it comes to
executive power and the limits of executive power. So a
lot of the things that we would talk about if
hypotheticals in law school are about to be.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Litigated in reality in the Supreme Court.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
That's a really good point.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You know, Judge Soda, my Era Soto Mayor is out
today with an or over the weekend, she was indicating
that we should the Supreme Court would would regain some
of its credibility if they were less if they were
if they were less willing to take on precedent, you know,
And and if you look at you know, I don't
necessarily know if that's true, if you look at the
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if you look at the Roberts Court in terms of
what they've done in terms of taking an unprecedent. But
I do think what you're seeing right now, once again,
I think you're one hundred percent accurate in your assessment.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Here.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You're you're having federal judges again in the same circuit
in d C. You have another federal judge who's declined
to block Elon musk me the the Department of Government
Efficiencies from accessing sensitive US Department of Labor data. So
you end up having one judge doing something on the
other hand and one way, and another judge doing it,
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you know, a totally different way. And this is just
This is all against the backdrop of Trump of Musk
over the weekend issuing a statement saying that it is
identified and cut more than one billion dollars in spending
out of the federal government.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's astonishing, and we're I think
we're just scratching the service, and we're going to find
out a lot about the nature of.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
The kind of money laundering and.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Just we can talk about it as waste, but to
me it might be there's just blatant money laundering, embezzlement,
and just misappropriation of funds to enrich a lot of.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
People in government.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
It's the only way that it makes sense to me
that people with the salary of a couple hundred thousand
dollars in Congress are worth tens of millions to have
networth of tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And again it comes down to I kicked the show
off this morning talking about the silliness of it. I mean,
you know, Uncle Mike and I last week had a
lot of fun with the National Science Foundation's study of
shrimp being able to run on a treadmill. Senator Ran
Paul over the weekend released the fact that the NSF
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funded to the tune of one hundred and eighteen thousand
dollars a University of Georgia study that studied finger snapping
in adults in humans, and it was to the point
where they wanted to see if primates can actually be
taught to fit to snap their fingers.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Jesse is insane.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, no, I mean, to be fair, that one I
think is very important. I mean, obviously, you know when
John Locke and the Enlightenment thinkers, we're trying to figure out,
you know, what governments should be doing, uh, finger snapping
and uh, you know, shrimps running on treadmills, you know,
research into those those hot button issues running.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I think we're at the Forefron cutting ed.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
There's no questions primates are already running the government.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Primates are running the government. Jesse, can you hang through
a quick break? I want to continue this conversation with
you Pee. We'll be right back with Jesse Vasquez.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Nothing wrong in the little meat loaf in the morning.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Thank you Jess for sticking around. We are rejoined by
Jesse Vasquez, our most accurate political commentator, perhaps in the
U in the intergalactic space.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Here, I think we have to give Jesse that title.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Now, Hey, Jesse, it's just me because I'm an odd ball,
but I was very happy to see when they were
playing the national anthem that our commander in chief was
in a full salute. I thought that was impressive.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
At the Super.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Bowl, Yeah, no, it definitely feels kind of like a
new era right now where there's a lot more optimist
I mean, you know, again, a couple of years ago,
the discussion before the game was whether you know how
many players were going.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
To be kneeling during the anthem?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Right and yesterday just that felt like such a distant memory,
it really, and especially now with you know, the the
Olympics are going to be in the United States soon,
the World Cup, you have the two hundred fifet anniversary.
I feel like there's a kind of a new wave
of optimism and patriotism.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Jess.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
A couple of things that I wanted to talk to
you about. There was an article in last week's Wall
Street Journal that I found fascinating in so far that
in the Washington DC area northern Virginia, Maryland, d C.
There's over four hundred thousand federal workers that call that
area home. You live down there yourself, what are you hearing?
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What are you seeing? Are people who are federal workers
a little nervous about what's happening.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
They're very nervous. They're very nervous.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
They they feel like a lot of what's happening right
now is uh just there's such an agent. Uh, it
just feels different. It feels like there's really kind of
an agent of change in power and that a lot
of their positions may be made obsolete. I mean, when
when you know, within a couple of days he shuts
down us A, I D he's targeting now the Treasury.
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I mean, he's going after with DOGE, He's going after
so much waste. And one of the things that I
thought was actually fascinating was Elon made a statement I
think towards the end of last week where he was
talking about how much he was enjoying doing all this
work with DOGE, and he was mentioning, how you know
the people that are you know fighting him? Uh that
that he was that he loved the fact that they
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go home on weekends.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
And I thought that that that.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Statement was very telling because you know a lot of
things in the private sector, especially you know, having worked
in big law and uh, you know with him, you know,
having run so many companies, me he doesn't do weekends.
He you know, he works through weekends. So you know
he's going to be relentless on a level that a
lot of the people that you're going to be fighting
him that have never dealt with that kind of force before.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But but but then I come back to these federal judges,
and I'll be very frank with you, a lot of
the ones who are opposing or stopping what what the
administration is doing are Obama or Clinton appointees. I mean,
there have been a couple of there's one one federal
judges a Trump appointee who you know, who's who's weighed
against the administration. But but ultimately, how long do you
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think it's going to to how long do you think
it's going to take for the legal process to shake
out specific to all of these issues? As you do
you think all of these things are going to be
eventually adjudicated at the Supreme Court, I think.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
A lot will And look, you know, to be honest
as much as kind of then may be frustrating when
you have this kind of legal process playing out where
you have judges in some cases activist judges, uh, trying
trying to kind of stin me the agenda.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
There is a degree of kind of like we need.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
To actually go through and litigate some of this. We
don't want to live in the scenario where you know,
the and the executive when they come in has unchecked
power to just be able to do whatever they want
without without anybody kind of being on the brakes and thinking, hey,
is this actually an overstepping of the boundary. So it
can't be frustrating, but to some degree it is necessary.
And I think by at the end, again, this is
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how precedent gets set.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
So you know, you need you need.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
These kind of legal fights to actually be tried and
listen to and argued and debated in both the you know,
the public square and in the courtroom.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
And I think President Trump was well aware of what
he was running into here. I mean a lot. I'm
sure he expected a lot of this. I mean, you know,
he knew he wasn't just going to waltz through here
and get his way. So, you know, I think it's
some of it may be intentional. He's you know, he's
a negotiator, that's what he does. So he puts things
out there with other ideas behind them than than we're seeing.
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You know what I mean, He's that's the way he works,
that's the way he negotiates.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
So yeah, I think he's he's going at it from
the perspective. Let's you know, let you know, uh, act
first and then you know uh and then you know,
ask questions.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Later, or you know, you know, shoot first and ask
questions later.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Easy to ask for forgiveness that it is for permission.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
So exactly, Jesse.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
On the other front, that I wanted to just have
a discussion with you on two things we have now seen.
Pam Bondi put forth a pause on all federal funding
to sanctuary states and cities and not profits according to
a memo that she sent out last week, and she
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actually filed lawsuit against the state of Illinois and the
City of Chicago for they're not wanting to assist with
ice deportations.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah, again, you know, to me, the bigger story there
is just that I think Trump one point zero is
first term. He was appointing a lot of people that
were kind of career people that were put in front
of him and told like, this is somebody who should
be in this position, I think this time he's really
putting in a lot of people that are deep believers
in his mission and in everything that he's trying to do,
whether it's DHS, whether it's the d J, the d
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o D. You know, he has people that are that
are way more activists and.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Way more Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
They're not going to be just sitting there, you know,
collecting a paycheck that they're They're actively going out to
do things in a different way. So with respect to Bondi, who,
by the way, I love Pam Bondi. She's brilliant.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
She was a great our attorney general in Florida when
I was there.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, I think she's you know, she got the the
the mission.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
She knows what she's doing.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Well, I was saying active.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
It's interesting. I read the twenty two page lawsuit that
the DOJ filed and basically, and I'm just quoting from
it here, the challenged provisions of Illinois, Chicago and Cook
County law reflect their intentional effort to obstruct the federal
government's enforcement of federal immigration law and to impede consultation
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and communication between the federal, state and local law enforcement
officials that is necessary for federal officials to carry out
federal immigration law and keep America safe.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
No, And again, you know, a lot of the devil
is the devil's gonna be in the details for a
lot of these cases and how.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
They end up playing out.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Again, you know, you want kind of my mantra as always,
you don't want your side to have a power that
you wouldn't want the other side to have when they're
in power. And you know a lot of this stuff
of you know, fighting the cities and states on sanctuar
and there, you know, them trying to be sanctuary cities,
trying to not go along with the federal government mandates.
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I mean, it was just a couple of years ago
that it was the conservatives that were really pushing and
a lot of conservative states that were pushing against overreach
by the Biden federal government when.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
It came to COVID.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Right, and again, a lot of these president gets carried
out across domains that you can't expect.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
So, you know, and I am I'm interested to see
kind of what the contours of executive power end up
being once this stuff actually gets litigated and heard before
the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Right to your point, Jesse. This is stuff that needs
to be litigated, for sure. There's got to be some
distinct answers made here, some lines drawn on both sides.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, and I think I think we will
get some clarity. I am curious to see kind of
what the split of the Supreme Court is going to
be given, especially you know, we've talked about it before.
You know, the Court is not right and left the
way that the country is right and the left, and
really is more of a philosophical divide between interpretations of
the Constitution, especially when it comes to kind of originalism
versus kind of what the left kind of refers to
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as like the living document theory of the Constitution.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Right right, Yeah, I'm sorry again, finished with lut chests.
I'm sorry, No, I was just.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Gonna say that that will be interesting to see kind
of where the divide ends up being on the court.
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
The other issue too that's going on that that is
now specific to Chicago and the ice immigration raids that
occurred in Aurora, Colorado. Apparently there's been another leak that
that sort of tipped off people specific to raids that
were actually about to happen. And one of the things
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that I'm hearing. Is that a lot of that that
that the leak in Chicago has been traced back to
NBC News. As crazy as that might sound, Have you
heard anything on that chest.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I haven't heard of that, But that doesn't surprise me.
And by the way, I think we're going to learn,
especially now with Doge, a lot more of just how
in bed our federal government has been with media.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yeah, kind of established media.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I mean, I don't know if you saw last week
the news that came out with the USA idea that
they were I think basically subsidizing to the suit of
almost eight million dollars Politico.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And by the way, I sell you what stick through
a quick break because I want to talk to you
about the FCC and they're going after the CBS broadcasting license.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
When we get back, let me joke us to the
right here.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
We're back with Jesse Vasquez. Thank you for holding through break, Jess, No, of.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Course again, you know, always happy to join you guys.
And did you guys watch the Super Bowl yesterday?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
We did? We did.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
We were just talking a little bit about how we
felt Kansas City didn't have that spark when they first
came out I knew. I knew in the first couple
of downs that Mahones didn't have it.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Yeah, it just it felt off.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
It was a very weird super Bowl. I didn't think
it was particularly enjoyable.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Even the commercials. I mean, usually you get you know,
I don't know, fun.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Commercials with like you know, I don't know, kitty cats
and dancing and rappers and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
And it just felt very odd. It wasn't very funny.
It just kind of wash, you know, just very odd
super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It was an odd A lot of messaging in the
in the commercials. Did Jesus got us one? There was
a several religious commercials that kind of surprised me.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yes, that's interesting. I noticed that as well. Hey, Jess,
let's talk about the FCC. You know Brendan Carr, who's
been appointed as the FCC chair, and CBS News you know, Trump,
as you know, has filed a ten billion with a
b dollar lawsuit against CBS UH specific to their editing
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of the Kamala Harris interviews.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
What are your thoughts on that.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, I think from a legal standpoint, it'll be tough.
I'm curious to see what arguments they're raising us.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Said like how what they did was well, you know,
it's very clear that what they did was intended to
make her look better.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
That being said, i think a lot of interviews are edited,
and there's a lot of the there's a lot of
strong arguments that they can make as to the nature
of how these interviews are done, especially with candidates, and
how they.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Are a lot of time edited for time, and that.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You know, selectively editing a clip to make a long
answer slightly shorter. It's I'm I'm a little iffy on it.
I'm a little iffy on whether they can win on
that ground. But it's clear the intent was to make
her look better, and it's very clear that they would
not have done the same for Donald Trump had he
given a rambling, uh incoherent response the way that Kamalas was.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, no question, there's no question. It's gonna be interesting
to see what plays out. And given the fact that
CBS actually released the unedited tapes, brilliant was well, I
mean they didn't really have any choice, right, I mean,
I think those those those tapes were subpoenag.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh I was lost than a fire.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Sorry, no, no, no, no, they got him and it
was clear to Jesse's point that these tapes were actually
showed that they were trying to be able to position
her in a better light, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Oh actutely, her answer was was horrendous on I think
it was physically on Israel. It just was a complete
nonsense answer that they were able to cherry pick the
three seconds that sounded somewhat coherent to look as if
she had made this very strong point about the US
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support for Israel when that she gave this, you know,
thirty second rambling response about when we do everything we
can to ensure that our mission, about doing everything that we.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Can to support in our stated goals of whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
It was just it was this constant, you know word
salid journey to nowhere that they again they knew that
if they aired that it would have hurt her, so
they were trying to do their best to kind of
prop her rong.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
No question.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Hey, Yes, a couple other quick little items that I
want to get your opinion on before we break at
the quarter hour. I wanted to there's rumor that Pam
I'm sorry, that Governor DeSantis's wife might be throwing her
hat in to replace him as governor of Florida because
he's term limited.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
As you know, Yeah, yeah, I did hear that.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
And I think that she's would make a very strong candidate.
She's very well respected in Florida. People like her. They
think that she's very strong, and they know that she
is very close with Ron and that like not just
in the center that they're married, but also that she's
very involved with his administration. I think it's going to
be a very interesting to see kind of where things
shake out.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
With the Florida governor race.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
You know, one other person who actually I think he
was on Bill Marshaw this week Byron Donaldson.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
And another guy who I mean when he when he would.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Ask directly whether he was considering running for the governorship.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
He said, you know, we'll see. He didn't he didn't
deny it.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
So I think he's going to throw his hat in
the race. I think there's a lot of interesting people
in Florida who could be you know, even Matt Gates
gets always had in the ring, So.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
We'll see interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And of course, the other issue that I wanted to
sort of get your opinion on before we before we
let you go to next week, Senator Menendez was sentenced
to eleven years in federal prison.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yeah, you know, it always breaks my heart to see
a fellow Cuban fall so far.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
But uh, you know, I don't know what to say.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Unfortunately, you know, the our just system doesn't really understand
our Cuban's long held practice of just keeping gold bars
in our house that foreign governments have given us. Right,
you know, hopefully one day we'll get there. I think
we'll get there where you know, we a cubanly understood.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Incredible. I mean, look, I mean people have to be
outraged at at that. I mean I mean, in all seriousness,
I mean people like yourself, like your dad, you know,
people who really came here seeking the American dream and
achieved it. To see what Menendez did has to be
a real, real stab in the heart.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
He's going to be out on during appeal though, right,
They're not going to put him intil after the appeal.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Do you know, jes you know the internet that when
does he have to report?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
You know, I don't know the specific thing.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I know that he can't. He can't be put in
jail and appeal while he's in jail. Right, But to
your pointed, though, I will say that while yes, that
is better sweet for Guban Americans to see, Uh, you know,
one of our senators end up being one of the
most corrupt politicians in American history. It's also been a
very bright week for Guban Americans, especially given what Mark
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Rubio has been doing in in the state Department. I think, uh,
you know, we're we're not shedding so many tears this week.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
There you go, there you go. And then lastly, Cash Patel,
what do you think I mean? Dick Durbin asked the
committee to be able to sort of stay the vote
for another week at the at the at the request
of being able to have another couple of rounds of questioning.
What do you think you think he's gonna make it?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
I do.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I think I think he'll make it. I think unless
he has a really bad moment during these these hearings,
and I thought he actually did fairly well during his
first round. Yes, I think that I think he'll get through.
He is I think of all of the candidates, the
people that are been nominated, he is the one that
I think that stands up the biggest chance of being
a real, you know, wrecking ball and agent of change
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within their their department. He is very much a you know,
an active participant in trying to dismantle a lot of
things that are happening in the FBI.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
So I will I.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Do think he'll get through, and I'll be interested with
what he actually does when he gets through.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Jesse, as you watch these hearings, everything in the back
of my head is screaming for term limits. Is Dick
Durbin needs to go. These people that they're just just
just not representing their constituents anymore. And and it's it's
just ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, I believe he's gonna get confirmed too. I think
they knew that most of these cabinet UH candidates had
enough votes and this was going to be a smear
campaign that they were going to have to live through.
So I don't, you know, some of these politicians, I'm sorry,
they just need to go.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
They don't, they haven't, They're not they're not serving their
purpose anymore as elected officials. It's become beyond that. And
and I don't know how you get term limits in
in stituted. It seems almost impossible, but it's sure. This
whole process is sure screams for it.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Well, what I will say with the turblinent thing is
that I think I would be.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Much more on board with it if it wasn't for
the fact that the.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Incoming the new people are even worse than the older
ones that have been there for a long time. A
lot of the new incoming congressmen, members of the House,
members of the Senate are just you know, loud, and
they're they're so built into this idea for formative politics
that they don't ask substance of questions during these hearings
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that actually would inform the American public as to who
the people these people are.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
So I think Urnlements is a good idea.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I mean, given just you know, how we've seen these
these politicians just stay in power forever and somehow, you know,
jack up a two hundred thousand dollars salary into tens
of millions of dollars. But I don't think anything's gonna change.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Until the voters really start looking for different qualities in
the people that they're electing. No, absolutely, somebody can give
a good speech.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Jesse, once again, thank you for your astute commentary. I
tell you, I looked at your last YouTube video YouTube
video on jv ln DC specific to usaid once again
informative and funny. I encourage all of our listeners to
take a chance at visiting that site watching that video
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in and of itself, as well as all your other videos.
So thank you again, Jess. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Oh, thank you guys so much all of the pleasure
being on and yes, look forward to talking to you
guys next week when hopefull well we'll have I'm sure
every week seems like we have tons of news we
do to get into it.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
All right, sir, Thank you again, Jesse. You can listen
to Hudson Valley This Morning with Ed Kuwalski Monday through
Friday six am to nine am on News Talk Radio
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
When you hear that bumper music, you know, Jesse Vasquez
is online. Jesse, welcome to the show. Thank you for calling.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Good morning that you guys are having me back on
as the most accurate predictor in American politics. It's all
with a pleasure to be on your show, speak with
you and speak to the good, beautiful, intelligent people of
Hudson Valley.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Thank you very much, sir, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Let's do before we get into what we want to
talk about today, and Jess, let's go back in terms
of your predictions, in terms of where we're at. I
think as of right now since we last spoke, I
think Pam Bondi has been confirmed, Robert Kennedy and Telsea
Gabbert have have moved out of the the committee process
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onto the full Senate votes, you know. And I think
the only one that I think is a little bit
surprising is Cash Patel has been held back a week,
if you will, thoughts comments and opinions.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, I mean again, you know, we've discussed this last week.
I thought that, uh, you know, we kind of differed
in our opinions about whether RFK Junior and Tolsi we're
going to get through.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
And as usual.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I corrected correctly predicted that they were going to get through.
So honestly, I think at this point she'd be getting
paid pretty these predictions. Indeed, indeed, yeah, I'm gonna have
the discussion with the higher reps at WKI.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Of course, you know, this is gold that I'm delivering.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, but you know, But but interestingly enough, on on
on RFK, he has taken a page from the MAGA
marketing campaigns and so far that he's now marketing his
own make America Healthy Again merchandise.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, I mean it makes sense. Uh, you know, he
started doing that. I think back during the campaign when
he initially kind of jumped on with Trump, and it
just you know, the branding is is credit to Trump.
I mean that he is brilliant when it comes to branding.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Musk is now even kind of toying with it with
you know, his efforts in Europe.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
At this point, he thinks he's trying to coin the
term make Europe great again. So you know, it makes perfect.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Sense to me, and especially given that you know what
Ark has really been pushing with respect to banning certain
things that certain dies and certain you know, things that
are in our food and drinks that are you know,
potentially contributing to chronic illness in America.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Ye just did you have a chance that I'm sure
you have to see the exchange between r F K
and Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
What were your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I mean, they were basically debating, and in fact, Kennedy
actually accused members of that committee as being corrupt in
terms of taking pharmaceutical money.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh, it was fascinating, especially, I mean they were in
the middle of accusing him of you know, uh, prosecuting
cases against big pharma for money, and he threw it
really back in their faith, especially Bernie. You know, Bernie
is the guy who's always been the get money out
of politics and trying to make himself kind of a
working class guy.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
And yet with kind of with kind of thrown out
his face that he'd accepted.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You know, one point five million of dollars from big Pharma.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And you know, the funny and the funny way that
he ended up doing that. He was vociferously no, no, no, no, no,
my donations are coming from small, little people and then
finally said, okay, only one point five million of it
came from pharma, from from big pharmacy.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It was just laughable.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, I know, the the the poor, poor people and
big pharma that that that shifted in, you know, one
dollar at a time to Bernie Sanders route, you know,
to the tune of one point five million. Uh yeah,
I mean his reaction told you everything about what about
the the nature of those payments.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
No question, Hey, Jess, I wanted to One of the
things that that you know I I opened the show
up this morning, is uh, you know, I'm looking at
varying competing federal judges, you know, in some cases stopping
some of the things Trump is doing, in some cases
not not stopping some of the things that are currently
(04:01):
going on there. Just for for example, a DC federal
judge on Friday issued a limited temporary restraining order blocking
the US Agency for International Development from putting twenty two
hundred employees on paid administrative leave and ordered ordered the
agency to reinstate five hundred employees already on leave. That's
(04:23):
just one example of some of the things that are
going on Visa VI. With federal judges now interjecting themselves
into this decision process, what are your thoughts in terms
of what's happening as far as that's concerned.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, I mean, it's not unexpected, I think, and I
think Trump probably expected that he was going to have
some pushback on some of the kind of the big
moves he's making. The thing is that he's making so
many big moves, all so early in his second term.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Nineteen days in, right, or nineteen days into to the
new administration.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, no, we're less than three weeks in, and I
mean the things that he's doing. Even yesterday during the
Super Bowl, I think he was so bored during the
Super he actually said put out something saying that he
was going.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
To end the penny. So, I mean he's just on a.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Whim doing these massive things that you know, it's kind
of astonishing. But yeah, a lot of these things are
going to end up going to the Supreme Court. And
one of the interesting things, because all of these things
are going to hit the Supreme Court kind of in
very fast order.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
We're going to have I think a lot of very.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
New sweeping president Supreme Court president. When it comes to
executive power and the limits of executive power. So a
lot of the things that we would talk about if
hypotheticals in law school are about to be.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Litigated in reality in the Supreme Court.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
That's a really good point.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You know, Judge Soda, my Era Soto Mayor is out
today with an or over the weekend, she was indicating
that we should the Supreme Court would would regain some
of its credibility if they were less if they were
if they were less willing to take on precedent, you know,
And and if you look at you know, I don't
necessarily know if that's true, if you look at the
(05:57):
if you look at the Roberts Court in terms of
what they've done in terms of taking an unprecedent. But
I do think what you're seeing right now, once again,
I think you're one hundred percent accurate in your assessment.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Here.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You're you're having federal judges again in the same circuit
in d C. You have another federal judge who's declined
to block Elon musk me the the Department of Government
Efficiencies from accessing sensitive US Department of Labor data. So
you end up having one judge doing something on the
other hand and one way, and another judge doing it,
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you know, a totally different way. And this is just
This is all against the backdrop of Trump of Musk
over the weekend issuing a statement saying that it is
identified and cut more than one billion dollars in spending
out of the federal government.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's astonishing, and we're I think
we're just scratching the service, and we're going to find
out a lot about the nature of.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
The kind of money laundering and.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Just we can talk about it as waste, but to
me it might be there's just blatant money laundering, embezzlement,
and just misappropriation of funds to enrich a lot of.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
People in government.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
It's the only way that it makes sense to me
that people with the salary of a couple hundred thousand
dollars in Congress are worth tens of millions to have
networth of tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And again it comes down to I kicked the show
off this morning talking about the silliness of it. I mean,
you know, Uncle Mike and I last week had a
lot of fun with the National Science Foundation's study of
shrimp being able to run on a treadmill. Senator Ran
Paul over the weekend released the fact that the NSF
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funded to the tune of one hundred and eighteen thousand
dollars a University of Georgia study that studied finger snapping
in adults in humans, and it was to the point
where they wanted to see if primates can actually be
taught to fit to snap their fingers.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Jesse is insane.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, no, I mean, to be fair, that one I
think is very important. I mean, obviously, you know when
John Locke and the Enlightenment thinkers, we're trying to figure out,
you know, what governments should be doing, uh, finger snapping
and uh, you know, shrimps running on treadmills, you know,
research into those those hot button issues running.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I think we're at the Forefron cutting ed.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
There's no questions primates are already running the government.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Primates are running the government. Jesse, can you hang through
a quick break? I want to continue this conversation with
you Pee. We'll be right back with Jesse Vasquez.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Nothing wrong in the little meat loaf in the morning.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Thank you Jess for sticking around. We are rejoined by
Jesse Vasquez, our most accurate political commentator, perhaps in the
U in the intergalactic space.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Here, I think we have to give Jesse that title.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Now, Hey, Jesse, it's just me because I'm an odd ball,
but I was very happy to see when they were
playing the national anthem that our commander in chief was
in a full salute. I thought that was impressive.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
At the Super.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Bowl, Yeah, no, it definitely feels kind of like a
new era right now where there's a lot more optimist
I mean, you know, again, a couple of years ago,
the discussion before the game was whether you know how
many players were going.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
To be kneeling during the anthem?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Right and yesterday just that felt like such a distant memory,
it really, and especially now with you know, the the
Olympics are going to be in the United States soon,
the World Cup, you have the two hundred fifet anniversary.
I feel like there's a kind of a new wave
of optimism and patriotism.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Jess.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
A couple of things that I wanted to talk to
you about. There was an article in last week's Wall
Street Journal that I found fascinating in so far that
in the Washington DC area northern Virginia, Maryland, d C.
There's over four hundred thousand federal workers that call that
area home. You live down there yourself, what are you hearing?
(09:59):
What are you seeing? Are people who are federal workers
a little nervous about what's happening.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
They're very nervous. They're very nervous.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
They they feel like a lot of what's happening right
now is uh just there's such an agent. Uh, it
just feels different. It feels like there's really kind of
an agent of change in power and that a lot
of their positions may be made obsolete. I mean, when
when you know, within a couple of days he shuts
down us A, I D he's targeting now the Treasury.
(10:32):
I mean, he's going after with DOGE, He's going after
so much waste. And one of the things that I
thought was actually fascinating was Elon made a statement I
think towards the end of last week where he was
talking about how much he was enjoying doing all this
work with DOGE, and he was mentioning, how you know
the people that are you know fighting him? Uh that
that he was that he loved the fact that they
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go home on weekends.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
And I thought that that that.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Statement was very telling because you know a lot of
things in the private sector, especially you know, having worked
in big law and uh, you know with him, you know,
having run so many companies, me he doesn't do weekends.
He you know, he works through weekends. So you know
he's going to be relentless on a level that a
lot of the people that you're going to be fighting
him that have never dealt with that kind of force before.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But but but then I come back to these federal judges,
and I'll be very frank with you, a lot of
the ones who are opposing or stopping what what the
administration is doing are Obama or Clinton appointees. I mean,
there have been a couple of there's one one federal
judges a Trump appointee who you know, who's who's weighed
against the administration. But but ultimately, how long do you
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think it's going to to how long do you think
it's going to take for the legal process to shake
out specific to all of these issues? As you do
you think all of these things are going to be
eventually adjudicated at the Supreme Court, I think.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
A lot will And look, you know, to be honest
as much as kind of then may be frustrating when
you have this kind of legal process playing out where
you have judges in some cases activist judges, uh, trying
trying to kind of stin me the agenda.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
There is a degree of kind of like we need.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
To actually go through and litigate some of this. We
don't want to live in the scenario where you know,
the and the executive when they come in has unchecked
power to just be able to do whatever they want
without without anybody kind of being on the brakes and thinking, hey,
is this actually an overstepping of the boundary. So it
can't be frustrating, but to some degree it is necessary.
And I think by at the end, again, this is
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how precedent gets set.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
So you know, you need you need.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
These kind of legal fights to actually be tried and
listen to and argued and debated in both the you know,
the public square and in the courtroom.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
And I think President Trump was well aware of what
he was running into here. I mean a lot. I'm
sure he expected a lot of this. I mean, you know,
he knew he wasn't just going to waltz through here
and get his way. So, you know, I think it's
some of it may be intentional. He's you know, he's
a negotiator, that's what he does. So he puts things
out there with other ideas behind them than than we're seeing.
(13:04):
You know what I mean, He's that's the way he works,
that's the way he negotiates.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
So yeah, I think he's he's going at it from
the perspective. Let's you know, let you know, uh, act
first and then you know uh and then you know,
ask questions.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Later, or you know, you know, shoot first and ask
questions later.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Easy to ask for forgiveness that it is for permission.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
So exactly, Jesse.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
On the other front, that I wanted to just have
a discussion with you on two things we have now seen.
Pam Bondi put forth a pause on all federal funding
to sanctuary states and cities and not profits according to
a memo that she sent out last week, and she
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actually filed lawsuit against the state of Illinois and the
City of Chicago for they're not wanting to assist with
ice deportations.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah, again, you know, to me, the bigger story there
is just that I think Trump one point zero is
first term. He was appointing a lot of people that
were kind of career people that were put in front
of him and told like, this is somebody who should
be in this position, I think this time he's really
putting in a lot of people that are deep believers
in his mission and in everything that he's trying to do,
whether it's DHS, whether it's the d J, the d
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o D. You know, he has people that are that
are way more activists and.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Way more Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
They're not going to be just sitting there, you know,
collecting a paycheck that they're They're actively going out to
do things in a different way. So with respect to Bondi, who,
by the way, I love Pam Bondi. She's brilliant.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
She was a great our attorney general in Florida when
I was there.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, I think she's you know, she got the the
the mission.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
She knows what she's doing.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Well, I was saying active.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
It's interesting. I read the twenty two page lawsuit that
the DOJ filed and basically, and I'm just quoting from
it here, the challenged provisions of Illinois, Chicago and Cook
County law reflect their intentional effort to obstruct the federal
government's enforcement of federal immigration law and to impede consultation
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and communication between the federal, state and local law enforcement
officials that is necessary for federal officials to carry out
federal immigration law and keep America safe.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
No, And again, you know, a lot of the devil
is the devil's gonna be in the details for a
lot of these cases and how.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
They end up playing out.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Again, you know, you want kind of my mantra as always,
you don't want your side to have a power that
you wouldn't want the other side to have when they're
in power. And you know a lot of this stuff
of you know, fighting the cities and states on sanctuar
and there, you know, them trying to be sanctuary cities,
trying to not go along with the federal government mandates.
(15:55):
I mean, it was just a couple of years ago
that it was the conservatives that were really pushing and
a lot of conservative states that were pushing against overreach
by the Biden federal government when.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
It came to COVID.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Right, and again, a lot of these president gets carried
out across domains that you can't expect.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
So, you know, and I am I'm interested to see
kind of what the contours of executive power end up
being once this stuff actually gets litigated and heard before
the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Right to your point, Jesse. This is stuff that needs
to be litigated, for sure. There's got to be some
distinct answers made here, some lines drawn on both sides.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, and I think I think we will
get some clarity. I am curious to see kind of
what the split of the Supreme Court is going to
be given, especially you know, we've talked about it before.
You know, the Court is not right and left the
way that the country is right and the left, and
really is more of a philosophical divide between interpretations of
the Constitution, especially when it comes to kind of originalism
versus kind of what the left kind of refers to
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as like the living document theory of the Constitution.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Right right, Yeah, I'm sorry again, finished with lut chests.
I'm sorry, No, I was just.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Gonna say that that will be interesting to see kind
of where the divide ends up being on the court.
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
The other issue too that's going on that that is
now specific to Chicago and the ice immigration raids that
occurred in Aurora, Colorado. Apparently there's been another leak that
that sort of tipped off people specific to raids that
were actually about to happen. And one of the things
(17:28):
that I'm hearing. Is that a lot of that that
that the leak in Chicago has been traced back to
NBC News. As crazy as that might sound, Have you
heard anything on that chest.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I haven't heard of that, But that doesn't surprise me.
And by the way, I think we're going to learn,
especially now with Doge, a lot more of just how
in bed our federal government has been with media.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yeah, kind of established media.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I mean, I don't know if you saw last week
the news that came out with the USA idea that
they were I think basically subsidizing to the suit of
almost eight million dollars Politico.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And by the way, I sell you what stick through
a quick break because I want to talk to you
about the FCC and they're going after the CBS broadcasting license.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
When we get back, let me joke us to the
right here.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
We're back with Jesse Vasquez. Thank you for holding through break, Jess, No, of.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Course again, you know, always happy to join you guys.
And did you guys watch the Super Bowl yesterday?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
We did? We did.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
We were just talking a little bit about how we
felt Kansas City didn't have that spark when they first
came out I knew. I knew in the first couple
of downs that Mahones didn't have it.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Yeah, it just it felt off.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
It was a very weird super Bowl. I didn't think
it was particularly enjoyable.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Even the commercials. I mean, usually you get you know,
I don't know, fun.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Commercials with like you know, I don't know, kitty cats
and dancing and rappers and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
And it just felt very odd. It wasn't very funny.
It just kind of wash, you know, just very odd
super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It was an odd A lot of messaging in the
in the commercials. Did Jesus got us one? There was
a several religious commercials that kind of surprised me.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yes, that's interesting. I noticed that as well. Hey, Jess,
let's talk about the FCC. You know Brendan Carr, who's
been appointed as the FCC chair, and CBS News you know, Trump,
as you know, has filed a ten billion with a
b dollar lawsuit against CBS UH specific to their editing
(19:19):
of the Kamala Harris interviews.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
What are your thoughts on that.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, I think from a legal standpoint, it'll be tough.
I'm curious to see what arguments they're raising us.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Said like how what they did was well, you know,
it's very clear that what they did was intended to
make her look better.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
That being said, i think a lot of interviews are edited,
and there's a lot of the there's a lot of
strong arguments that they can make as to the nature
of how these interviews are done, especially with candidates, and
how they.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Are a lot of time edited for time, and that.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You know, selectively editing a clip to make a long
answer slightly shorter. It's I'm I'm a little iffy on it.
I'm a little iffy on whether they can win on
that ground. But it's clear the intent was to make
her look better, and it's very clear that they would
not have done the same for Donald Trump had he
given a rambling, uh incoherent response the way that Kamalas was.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, no question, there's no question. It's gonna be interesting
to see what plays out. And given the fact that
CBS actually released the unedited tapes, brilliant was well, I
mean they didn't really have any choice, right, I mean,
I think those those those tapes were subpoenag.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh I was lost than a fire.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Sorry, no, no, no, no, they got him and it
was clear to Jesse's point that these tapes were actually
showed that they were trying to be able to position
her in a better light, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Oh actutely, her answer was was horrendous on I think
it was physically on Israel. It just was a complete
nonsense answer that they were able to cherry pick the
three seconds that sounded somewhat coherent to look as if
she had made this very strong point about the US
(21:09):
support for Israel when that she gave this, you know,
thirty second rambling response about when we do everything we
can to ensure that our mission, about doing everything that we.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Can to support in our stated goals of whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
It was just it was this constant, you know word
salid journey to nowhere that they again they knew that
if they aired that it would have hurt her, so
they were trying to do their best to kind of
prop her rong.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
No question.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Hey, Yes, a couple other quick little items that I
want to get your opinion on before we break at
the quarter hour. I wanted to there's rumor that Pam
I'm sorry, that Governor DeSantis's wife might be throwing her
hat in to replace him as governor of Florida because
he's term limited.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
As you know, Yeah, yeah, I did hear that.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
And I think that she's would make a very strong candidate.
She's very well respected in Florida. People like her. They
think that she's very strong, and they know that she
is very close with Ron and that like not just
in the center that they're married, but also that she's
very involved with his administration. I think it's going to
be a very interesting to see kind of where things
shake out.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
With the Florida governor race.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
You know, one other person who actually I think he
was on Bill Marshaw this week Byron Donaldson.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
And another guy who I mean when he when he would.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Ask directly whether he was considering running for the governorship.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
He said, you know, we'll see. He didn't he didn't
deny it.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
So I think he's going to throw his hat in
the race. I think there's a lot of interesting people
in Florida who could be you know, even Matt Gates
gets always had in the ring, So.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
We'll see interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And of course, the other issue that I wanted to
sort of get your opinion on before we before we
let you go to next week, Senator Menendez was sentenced
to eleven years in federal prison.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yeah, you know, it always breaks my heart to see
a fellow Cuban fall so far.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
But uh, you know, I don't know what to say.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Unfortunately, you know, the our just system doesn't really understand
our Cuban's long held practice of just keeping gold bars
in our house that foreign governments have given us. Right,
you know, hopefully one day we'll get there. I think
we'll get there where you know, we a cubanly understood.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Incredible. I mean, look, I mean people have to be
outraged at at that. I mean I mean, in all seriousness,
I mean people like yourself, like your dad, you know,
people who really came here seeking the American dream and
achieved it. To see what Menendez did has to be
a real, real stab in the heart.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
He's going to be out on during appeal though, right,
They're not going to put him intil after the appeal.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Do you know, jes you know the internet that when
does he have to report?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
You know, I don't know the specific thing.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I know that he can't. He can't be put in
jail and appeal while he's in jail. Right, But to
your pointed, though, I will say that while yes, that
is better sweet for Guban Americans to see, Uh, you know,
one of our senators end up being one of the
most corrupt politicians in American history. It's also been a
very bright week for Guban Americans, especially given what Mark
(24:16):
Rubio has been doing in in the state Department. I think, uh,
you know, we're we're not shedding so many tears this week.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
There you go, there you go. And then lastly, Cash Patel,
what do you think I mean? Dick Durbin asked the
committee to be able to sort of stay the vote
for another week at the at the at the request
of being able to have another couple of rounds of questioning.
What do you think you think he's gonna make it?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
I do.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I think I think he'll make it. I think unless
he has a really bad moment during these these hearings,
and I thought he actually did fairly well during his
first round. Yes, I think that I think he'll get through.
He is I think of all of the candidates, the
people that are been nominated, he is the one that
I think that stands up the biggest chance of being
a real, you know, wrecking ball and agent of change
(25:02):
within their their department. He is very much a you know,
an active participant in trying to dismantle a lot of
things that are happening in the FBI.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
So I will I.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Do think he'll get through, and I'll be interested with
what he actually does when he gets through.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Jesse, as you watch these hearings, everything in the back
of my head is screaming for term limits. Is Dick
Durbin needs to go. These people that they're just just
just not representing their constituents anymore. And and it's it's
just ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, I believe he's gonna get confirmed too. I think
they knew that most of these cabinet UH candidates had
enough votes and this was going to be a smear
campaign that they were going to have to live through.
So I don't, you know, some of these politicians, I'm sorry,
they just need to go.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
They don't, they haven't, They're not they're not serving their
purpose anymore as elected officials. It's become beyond that. And
and I don't know how you get term limits in
in stituted. It seems almost impossible, but it's sure. This
whole process is sure screams for it.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Well, what I will say with the turblinent thing is
that I think I would be.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Much more on board with it if it wasn't for
the fact that the.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Incoming the new people are even worse than the older
ones that have been there for a long time. A
lot of the new incoming congressmen, members of the House,
members of the Senate are just you know, loud, and
they're they're so built into this idea for formative politics
that they don't ask substance of questions during these hearings
(26:31):
that actually would inform the American public as to who
the people these people are.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
So I think Urnlements is a good idea.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I mean, given just you know, how we've seen these
these politicians just stay in power forever and somehow, you know,
jack up a two hundred thousand dollars salary into tens
of millions of dollars. But I don't think anything's gonna change.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Until the voters really start looking for different qualities in
the people that they're electing. No, absolutely, somebody can give
a good speech.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Jesse, once again, thank you for your astute commentary. I
tell you, I looked at your last YouTube video YouTube
video on jv ln DC specific to usaid once again
informative and funny. I encourage all of our listeners to
take a chance at visiting that site watching that video
(27:25):
in and of itself, as well as all your other videos.
So thank you again, Jess. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Oh, thank you guys so much all of the pleasure
being on and yes, look forward to talking to you
guys next week when hopefull well we'll have I'm sure
every week seems like we have tons of news we
do to get into it.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
All right, sir, Thank you again, Jesse. You can listen
to Hudson Valley This Morning with Ed Kuwalski Monday through
Friday six am to nine am on News Talk Radio
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