Interviewer/Reporter (2:17)

Actually, it's not at levels that we agreed to. Democrats strongly oppose this legislation in the House.

Democratic Spokesperson (2:22)

And cause, just to be clear though, it's not, it's not changing current levels. Nothing's getting cut. It's at levels that you may not like, but, but it's about extending levels as they currently exist.

Host (2:32)

Meanwhile, Senate Democrat Chris Murphy also had trouble defending a major flip flop on shutdowns.

Senator Chris Murphy (2:38)

But you have been critical in the past of the tactic of choosing to shut down the government. You were in 2018. You were back in 2013 when it was a discussion over health care. This is what you said in 2018.

Kamala Harris (2:52)

The future of the American health care system was a legitimate public policy issue, as is the security of our borders. But we shouldn't be having the discussion amidst a government shutdown trying to use our nation's security and all of these federal workers and the work that they do as hostages.

Senator Chris Murphy (3:11)

Aren't you doing today exactly what you were criticizing then?

Kamala Harris (3:14)

No. That was a fight over sort of the long term structure of the American health care system. This is an emergency.

Host (3:20)

In the next few days, military members will have their first pay pay period that is unfulfilled because of the government shutdown. We will watch and see if this moves Democrats at all off of their current posture. We are seeing continued fallout in the Virginia gubernatorial and attorneys general races after texts were revealed highlighting the fact that Attorney General candidate J. Jones wants to murder his political opponent and watch their children die. New polling taken after those texts were revealed, including an internal from J. Jones campaign has Miaras within one and then days later a new poll, Trafalgar showed Miaras pulling ahead by six. Now the internal from Jones was taken even before Miyares campaign spent millions of dollars putting those text messages on the ad waves to make sure that every person in Virginia hears about them. The Washington Post confirms J. Jones sent texts that imagined shooting the Republican speaker of the House. Jay Jones wished the Speaker's wife could watch her own child die in her arms. Meanwhile, the gubernatorial candidates held their debate last week and Abigail Spanberger employed a strategy that had many puzzled as the Republican candidate, winsome Earl Sears, pressed her for a response on whether she continued to endorse J. Jones. Her strategy was to look straight ahead.

Winsome Sears (4:40)

And ignore would it take him pulling the trigger? Is that what would do it? And then you would say he needs to get out of the race? Abigail, you have nothing to say? Abigail, what if he said it about your two children, your three children?

Host (4:56)

In addition to questions about Jones, Spamberger has also struggled to explain her position on allowing men and women's bathrooms, the primary issue that has animated this election since the beginning. Last week you may have seen a video of former Democrat Congressmember and now frontrunner in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in California, Katie Porter, who got into a heated exchange with a member of the media over some basic questions about her candidacy.

Katie Porter (5:25)

You don't have an experience, but you.

Reporter (5:26)

Just said you don't need Those Trump voters.

Katie Porter (5:28)

Well, you asked me if I needed them to win.

Reporter (5:30)

So you don't need them.

Katie Porter (5:31)

I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question?

Reporter (5:34)

The question is the same thing I asked everybody. Well, to those voters. Okay, so you.

Katie Porter (5:38)

I don't want to keep doing this. I'm going to call it. Thank you.

Reporter (5:43)

You're not going to do the interview with us?

Katie Porter (5:45)

Nope. Not like this, I'm not. Not with seven follow ups to every single question you ask.

Reporter (5:49)

Every other candidate has answered.

Katie Porter (5:51)

I don't care. I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation which. And we're just going to circle around.

Reporter (5:56)

I am an investigative reporter.

Katie Porter (5:58)

I have had to do this before. Ever.

Reporter (5:59)

You've never had to have to end an interview. Okay, but every other candidate has done this.

Katie Porter (6:06)

What part of. I'm me, I'm running for governor because I'm a leader, so I am going to make.

Reporter (6:12)

So you're not going to answer questions from reporters.

Host (6:15)

Following the release of that video, a number of former Porter staffers have talked about the treatment that they experienced working for her. And this video also surfaced of her berating a member of her staff for getting into a shot during a video.

Katie Porter (6:27)

Recording and other problems and the state could lose. Get out of my shot. Okay. It does. Okay. You also were in my shot before that. Stay out of my shock.

Host (6:41)

We will wait and see if this window into Katie Porter's temperament and character has any impact on her standing in the California governor's race. In September, watchdog group Americans for Public Trust released a report on a British billionaire named Christopher Hone who has spent through his network more than half a billion dollars supporting left wing dark money groups in America who've been pushing liberal politics. After that report and the scrutiny that followed, Hone has announced that he's cutting off all of his financial support to American left wing groups. Hohn has previously supported groups like Energy Foundation China, the controversial Chinese Communist Party aligned group that has tried to attack American energy resources and promote the American climate alarmism movement. He's also supported the Natural Resource Defense Council, the Rocky Mountain Institute, which led the charge against gas stoves here in America. Former New York Times columnist turned Free Press founder Bari Weiss was recently named editor in chief of CBS News. Last week, she sent an email to staff asking some basic questions about what they do, the company culture, things they'd like to see changed. And a meltdown ensued. According to Yashara Lee, who tweeted this letter, the Writers Guild, the union, which represents some CBS News employees says it has sent a demand to CBS to get more information on about Bari Weiss's request. Many of you have expressed concern to us about the purpose of the email. We suggest that you refrain from responding until we receive more information so you can make an informed decision. Now, only in the current environment of left wing controlled newsrooms is a simple email of what is it you say you do here? Controversial Last week a man was arrested in connection with intentionally and maliciously starting the tragic LA wildfires that ravaged the Pacific Palisades on New Year's Day. The suspect, named Jonathan Rinda Knecht, was a climate activist who posted extensively about how climate change caused wildfires and wrote about how climate change could make summers too hot for humans. Those wildfires had originally been attributed by both left wing elected officials and members of the media to climate change, even though at the time we knew that bad brush management had allowed those fires to spread as quickly as they did. But now we also know that they were started by a climate activist. Read the Daily Caller on that. Corporate media's climate change narrative goes down in flames after man charged with starting LA wildfire. Lastly today we check in with Kamala Harris who says Joe Biden isn't taking her calls.

Interviewer/Reporter (9:26)

I want to get to some news that just came out today with President Biden. His spokesperson said that he is going to now start doing doing radiation for his prostate cancer. Have you talked to him?

Joe Biden's Spokesperson (9:39)

Yeah, no, I called him earlier.

Interviewer/Reporter (9:41)

How's he doing?

Joe Biden's Spokesperson (9:42)

I have not talked to him. I just left him a message after I heard the news. Listen, I think Joe Biden is a fighter and that is what I told him and left him a message. He's a fighter.

Interviewer/Reporter (9:53)

You write about him a lot in the book. Have you talked to him about the book?

Host (9:56)

Yes.

Kamala Harris (9:57)

Yeah?

Host (9:57)

What'd he say?

Joe Biden's Spokesperson (9:58)

I'm not gonna tell you.

Host (9:59)

That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining this audio only. Lightning round 10 minute drill. We will have a regular episode back tomorrow, full with video and full production. Thanks again.