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Analyzing the most important week of Trump’s presidency with Iran, China, and huge budget bills
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President Trump says the ceasefire in Iran is on life support. We're looking a little bit deeper at what happened in Virginia on Friday and what it means for the rest of the country. And there's a major scandal brewing in California related to Gavin Newsom and diapers. All of that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drew. Everybody get up, get up. The story of America is the story of an adventure. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. First off, last week, on Friday, President Trump got welcome news with a very Strong jobs report. 65,000 expected. Nay, nay, nay. We are much stronger. 115,115. And last month, upward revision from 178 to 185. Meanwhile, the House and Senate are preparing for their next reconciliation bills. The first one up is reconciliation 2.0, which is the bill intended to fund Customs and Border Patrol and ice, after Democrats shut those down and extracted them from the regular funding bill. The Secret Service director will be on Capitol Hill to talk to Senate Republicans about this process. And Senate Democrats are already saying they will pull out all the stops they can to hurt that bill from passing. Meanwhile, we're also having a lot of conversation about potential security for the new ballroom that President Trump has talked about putting in place on the White House grounds. Now, Democrats are treating the White House ballroom like Armageddon. Meanwhile, presidents from both parties have suggested they need a space like this for the last hundred years. And I can find a lot of things Democrats complain about to be legitimate, worth discussing. To me, this one doesn't really feel like the end of the world. It seems like something that everyone, presidents from both parties can benefit from in the long term. We've all been watching closely to see what's going on with Iran. President Trump said yesterday that the ceasefire is on life support. After reading that piece of garbage they sent us. I didn't even finish reading it. They said, I'm not going to waste my time reading it. I would say it's one of the weakest right now. It's on life support. Now, as we've said here on 10 minute drill, it's not really a ceasefire because no one's ever really seized firing. The Iranians have continued to shoot at everybody around them. The United States has continued to shoot at Iranian ships in the region. They've continued to carry out the blockade. But what President Trump has tried to do is sort of raise the threshold for what counts as an attack that would end the ceasefire while he was trying to work on a peace agreement. There's also been reports that that's frustrated some of the Gulf countries in the region who have been taking incoming fire from Iran and said we wait a second, you're dismissing this against us even though it hurt our infrastructure, ships and things like that? But President Trump appears to have his patience wearing thin as the Iranians have rejected our most recent peace offer with conditions about how we would extract their uranium and things like that. So I believe we probably will be seeing more armed enforcement and bombing in Iran over the next few days. But I also will admit I said that last week. All eyes are on China as President Trump meets with Xi this week to potentially talk about Iran and a number of other things. And we'll see if that has an impact on this debate. We did a special episode on Friday breaking down the ruling and what it means. We also talked a little bit yesterday in our special Monday rundown about this case, the implications and what Democrats are doing about it. But just a couple things that I wanted to reiterate. First of all, Democrats are melting down on a number of different issues. One thing that they continue to come back to is this idea that the Supreme Court should have ruled beforehand or the fact that they shouldn't have ruled this way because voters already voted. But two very important things to understand with that point. First, this entire referendum was carried out illegally. The Virginia Constitution has laws that specifically dictate how it can be amended, and those laws are intended to ensure voters have access to all the information they need before they change their state constitution. Virginia Democrats violated those rules in this referendum. They were warned about it multiple times. Abigail Spamberger has tried to distance herself from this even before the Virginia Supreme Court overturned this by saying, we warned them. We knew this was gonna be we knew this was gonna be illegal. Jason Miaras was the attorney general at the time. He put out an entire document outlining how the referendum was illegal before they even got there. But the other thing to understand that's so important is in this ruling from the Virginia Supreme Court, they laid out how Democrats J. Jones, the attorney general, and his team had told the Virginia Supreme Court they could not rule until after the referendum. And this is not uncommon. Courts normally will wait until the process of lawmaking is completed before they weigh in so that they don't impact it, just case they don't end up ruling in a certain way. Next steps of course, the Virginia Democrats have filed an appeal with United States Supreme Court, something that many people believe is kind of a joke and suggests again that Democrats have the worst attorneys in the world. Not a huge surprise there. But in their initial filing, there were some glaring things that people noticed right away. First, in those first few lines, the lawyers for the Virginia Democrats misspelled Virginia and they misspelled senators. So again, they're not sending their best, which isn't surprising if you've watched this process and seen the fact that Democrats blew $80 million on a campaign for this referendum without paying better lawyers to ensure they were doing this by the book in a way that wouldn't get thrown out, which is a huge problem for them. But the last thing that we'll touch on this morning is the story from over the weekend. We touched on this just a little bit yesterday, but Democrats are considering a plan that would essentially vacate the Virginia Supreme Court. We're calling it the Virginia Supreme Court nuclear option, where they would lower the age range for Virginia Supreme Court justices in order to force the retirement of six of the seven justices. A number of problems were immediately raised. First and foremost, the fact that it would force the retirement, essentially the firing of two very popular black Supreme Court justices in Virginia, including the first black woman to ever serve on the Virginia Supreme Court. So Democrats are already in a little bit of hot water with black voting groups because of the way they steamrolled majority minority districts and sort of reallocated black voters to dilute their voting power in their gerrymandering nuclear option map. So this is not going over very well. And a number of Democrats in the state have already tried to distance themselves from it. Hakeem Jeffries appears to be throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if there's anything he can do to save face after blowing $80 million on a half baked idea that is not working out for Democrats. And as we talked about yesterday, this failure of the Democrats has put the the congressional power map back in play for Republicans pretty significantly. One thing we talked about yesterday just a little bit is why Spencer Pratt, the reality TV star who's been widely dismissed by political experts, is breaking through the way he is in California. And one part of it is content. Please, I'm begging you. There's homeless drug addicts in front of the schools. My children aren't safe. That wasn't an ad from his campaign. That was an AI created video made by one of his supporters. But it highlights themes that he is doing very effectively. Here's another one that brings in Star Wars. You didn't finish burning the city to the ground in your first turn, make sure you finish the job in your second. The only thing that can stop us is someone telling the truth. These are about storytelling and about highlighting this sort of massive juxtaposition between Pratt, who's making very simple basic arguments, and what Democrats are trying to say to get reelected, even after failing at such a high scale. Here's another one that I thought was really compelling that actually came from the Pratt campaign. This is where Mayor Vass lives. You notice something? Or here, where Nithya Raman's three million dollar mansion sits. They don't have to live in the mess they've created. Where you live. This is where I live. They let my home burn down. And I believe the reason that Spencer Pratt's breaking through it is he's making an argument that life doesn't have to be like this. You may live in a blue city or a blue state. That is one party rule where the bar for success is very low. But it shouldn't have to be this way, where you're paying so much for such expensive property and it gets burned down because of simple failures of mismanagement or living surrounded by homeless people. Because Gavin Newsom took 24 billion meant to fight homelessness and instead enriched his friends at all sorts of nonprofits. A theme we're going to talk about a little bit later in this episode. He has very simple messaging. I thought his juxtaposition to the policies and proposals from Zoran Mamdani was very interesting. I know he promised his voters, like the subway will be free. And I'm promising my voters the Metro, Metro buses, the Metro trains, they will be free from urine and feces. Stabbing attack again. You hear that and you just think, yeah, I don't think it should be too much to ask for in a place where we pay such high taxes that we should be able to ride the bus without fear of getting stabbed or having someone's bodily fluids on us. And that is why Pratt is breaking through. Meanwhile, on the other side of that, you have Karen Bass, who still can't take basic accountability for her own failures. For example, she's still trying to blame the LA wildfires on climate change. Your challengers have accused you of mismanaging that response on a number of levels. Are you responsible for what happened there with climate change? We are experiencing climate events that Los Angeles is not prepared for. Now, that's the same message that Gavin Newsom has used. It was climate change, not the fact that they left the reservoirs empty, that they needed to put out the fires. Not the fact that they left the brush untouched. That ended up being the kindling in Wildfire Alley that let it spread at such a rapid pace. Not the fact that local leaders in California moved fire departments away from some of these burns and watched them spread as widely as they did. This is the kind of failed leadership that happens when you have one party rule and people are trapped in failure. And that is the reason people like Spencer Pratt, despite not being the most serious, grounded candidate in the world, are breaking through. Meanwhile, in that governor's race yesterday, we talked about how hilarious it is that the Democrat Socialists of America have endorsed billionaire Tom Steyer for governor, calling him the most progressive potential choice there. But read what they said. The most progressive of the current viable candidates for governor is Tom Steyer. Time will tell whether he's truly a class traitor. What's important to understand there is they're counting on Steyer being a class trader and throwing his class under the bus. The challenge for him is Tom Steyer's entire political brand is built off of fighting climate, which again is the upper class's biggest political concern because they consistently demand higher cost alternatives, whether it's electric cars, whether it's higher standards on things that drive up the cost of energy for lower class people. We've already seen he's not a very good class trader because like most Democrats, he's focused on rich, white Democrat problems. But I am still along for the ride past me the popcorn to see how this one shapes up for them. Meanwhile, Katie Porter is getting a little bit of defense in the media, saying questions about her temperament might be a little bit sexist for the lone woman left in the governor's race. It's all about temperament. To experts, it shows voters and political insiders continue to hold female candidates to higher standards than men. Now this is Calmatters, a sort of lefty nonprofit media outlet in California. But I don't know if it's necessarily an unfair standard to say that for governor we should want somebody who doesn't throw boiled mashed potatoes on their ex husband, who doesn't get caught in multiple videos berating staffers with expletives, or who doesn't fire a staffer for getting Covid during the worst pandemic in American history. Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Times declares that climate change is over. This headline forget climate change. Democrats need to talk about other issues. For the past several months, Democratic elites have been debating how much to talk about climate change, if at all. Now this is going through the fact that Democrats political Calculus around climate change has shifted. As we just discussed with Tom Steyer, the way that it was framed in the Joe Biden years was primarily focused on the needs of wealthier people with demands and policy changes that largely hurt lower income people. So now they've got to sort of shift the way they talk about it so they can sound like they care about affordability. You'll see a number of Democrats come out and say we need to lower gas prices. Meanwhile, they've got a record of the last five to six years of doing everything in their power to raise gas prices to fight climate change. But New York Times took a lot of heat for this declaration that it's time to stop talking about climate change. So they changed their headline to this, Democrats don't have to campaign on climate change anymore. Again, as we've Talked about on 10 Minute Drill, Climate change and the politics around it became a massive vulnerability for Democrats because it showed just how out of touch they were as they drove up the worst inflation in 40 years and gas prices that are still higher than what we're seeing right now with the conflict in Iran purely by choice as an effort to drive people towards green technologies that Democrats happen to have very close relationships with and get a lot of campaign contributions from. No surprise there for you can't make it up segment today, we're talking about Gavin Newsom and government diapers. He made a big announcement last week to a lot of fanfare, not just from California Democrats, but from national Democrats who believe that this new policy he's introducing is going to be the key to Democrats regaining ground with families. You know exactly what I'm holding in my hand, Diapers. We'll be distributing 40 million free diapers this year to new families. But hold that thought. If you ever thought anything from the government was free, think again. And with Gavin Newsom, there's always a catch. The New York Post reported this. Gavin Newsom under fire over $20 million diaper deal tied to Wifelink's nonprofit network. California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing accusations of corruption for paying $20 million in taxpayer money to a nonprofit led by an executive who also sits on the board of his wife's organization that promotes gender equity. It all comes down to diapers as the initiative Golden State Start was rolled out ahead of Mother's Day, billed as a partnership between the state and Los Angeles based Baby 2 Baby. So you've heard us talk about Jennifer Siebel Newsom before. The oppo book on her should Gavin run for president will be like a series encyclopedias because there's so many conflicts of interest between her nonprofit work and Gavin Newsom's official work. For example, we talked about the documentaries that she gets licenses from public schools for the privilege of showing that teach weird political things. And she's getting those contracts because Gavin Newsom is out promoting them. So not a huge surprise that a friend aligned with her would be getting this contract for government diapers. But also reporting has shown people like Steve Hilton have highlighted the fact that the cost they're paying per diaper here is about two or three times higher than what normal people pay for diapers. This is once again a reminder that Gavin Newsom and his political instincts are about as good as something you might find in a diaper. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us on 10 minute drill. Please leave us a review if you like what you hear, tell your friends, like subscribe and have a great day.