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Do foreign. Welcome to afterparty, everyone. As a reminder, please do go ahead and subscribe. It helps us so much on YouTube, wherever you get your podcasts. My guests tonight are Rachel Bovard and Inez Stepman, which, you know, I'm excited about because they're my friends and it's good to talk with your friends. We got a lot on tonight's show. We're going to talk about amnesty. Is there momentum for amnesty? Maybe Rachel will know. It kind of seems like there's a little bit of momentum for amnesty. We have a wild clip of Mike Lawler, Republican Congressman Mike Lawler brawling with Tommy Lahren. And some shocking new data from the Pew Research Center. A crazy New York Times piece framing this issue in a very particular way. I think you can probably guess which way. We're also going to talk about the Alibeth Stuckey versus David French, obviously David French evangelical Christian conservative columns. So you probably know when I say evangelical Christian conservative columnist at the New York Times that I mean a liberal. If you follow David French's work like I have over many, many years and Alibeth as well. This was, I mean, this was must see TV for the loser community. And it did not disappoint. It was incredible. So we have some big clips of that I think are very revealing about where the media is, where David French is and actually where the, the evangelical movement, how it's being torn in different directions. So we're going to go through Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter set at coachella. Madonna is 67 years old. That's all I'll say for now. For now. That's all I'll say. And I'm going to go through some of my thoughts on Bieber Chella, which I tried really hard to ignore. And then producer Steve Krakauer with great MK Media team. Just cool. Couldn't he, he couldn't, he couldn't be stopped. He was, what's the line in mean girls. I'm a pusher, Katie. I push people. Pushed my husband into law school, I pushed you into and now I'm pushing you. If I just got that off the top of my head, well done. But Steve is a Bieber pusher and that's where we find ourselves now. Please do subscribe. It helps us a lot keeping the the lights on the show going. We're having fun. Hope you're having fun as well. We appreciate everyone for being with us. But I wanted to start with some breaking news. One of the cool things a show that's live at 9pm Is that you can go through breaking news. And we got a late day news story, significant late day news story. Somebody asked on Happy hour, which is the Friday audio only episodes we do over on the podcast feed who I thought would be the next cabinet secretary to leave. I didn't really have a good answer to that, but one of the possibilities I suggested was Lori Chavez D. Reamer and as it turns out Lori Chavez de Rimmer resigned this evening. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez de Rimmer, who was picked because she was a supporter of the pro act. This was a bill favored by big labor. So some brief thoughts on this because she was a very significant cabinet pick, former Democrat from a swim swing district in Oregon, like I said sponsored big laborers big let's even best was signature piece of legislation probably just over the last 10 plus years that was really a signature piece of of labor's legislation and that's part of the reason she was selected for this job. She was seen as somebody who could be a bridge between the old Republican Party and the Trump Republican Party. Somebody who wouldn't upset the new right kind of inclination to be more pro labor more wouldn't wouldn't upset people in that in that camp but would also be inoffensive enough to people in the business community. And actually I did some reporting on this last year and this was February of 2025 as this confirmation was happening and a senior source in the labor movement told me then, quote, I think the fate of the labor secretary will be a huge test of this question. So if we pause on that now having learned Chavez de Rimmer spent about a year in the job and and had to resign. We have this post from Stephen Chung over at the White House who announced it basically I think notice got the story first and Stephen Chung then weighed in pretty quickly to say she was taking a role in the private sector, quote a position in the private sector, lauded her, said quote she has done a phenomenal job in her role by protecting American workers, enacting fair labor practices and helping Americans gain additional skills to improve their lives. Now, if that's true, that, quote, senior source of the labor movement saw this as a huge test of the question over the Trump realignment. This is what the source said. Is this real or not? And would those years of work from Josh hawley, Marco Rubio, J.D. vance in the Senate, the coalition building between folks in MAGA world and the labor movement, would it all matter at the end of the day, if you know libertarian Rand Paul, who's been on the show, of course, he tried to kill the Chavez du Riemer nomination in committee. But Bernie Sanders, Tammy Baldwin, Democrats were thinking long and hard about what to do with this question of Chavez Duramer. She was suspected, she worked at a Planned Parenthood clinic years ago. I mean, like 37 years ago, she was suspected of being a leftist, like genuinely a progressive, a cultural progressive. But that's where this fight became really interesting. It was like, does that matter for the labor secretary or was the abortion question really a proxy question for how loyal to the president Chavez Dreamer would be? She was mired in controversy for months. In fact, Chavez Duramer resigned as there was an inspector general investigation that was expected to close, according to the New York Post, was expected to conclude in the weeks ahead. There was also a Senate judiciary probe of Chavez Durimer, actually of some of these allegations that made their way into the New York Post and other outlets that Chuck Grassley was leading. And we could toss the headline off the screen, but basically, I mean, it's, it's kind of hard to even run down the full breadth of the investigations that just weren't even just Chavez Darimar. They were also Chavez Darimar's husband. A staffer accused her husband of sexual assault. The police declined. Law enforcement declined to bring charges in that case recently, but aides have resigned. Chavez Reamer was accused, as you saw in that New York Post story, of having inappropriate relationships with staffers who allegedly went to an Oregon strip club with the secretary who brought her staff to an Oregon strip club. Also took a trip to Las Vegas for someone in the staff's family member's birthday during the government shutdown last fall. Basically was accused of gross mismanagement of resources. There was a whistleblower complaint that the IG was investigating. She was accused of drinking in the office. Now that, like, I don't know how serious that actually is. The tabloids tend to play that stuff up and make it seem I was kind of happy to cash Patel at this second, although he was also caught chugging a beer on camera. So it's maybe a little bit different. But you know, that can get played up by the tabloids of someone is just, you know, having a staff meeting or something. So I don't know how serious that was. But this is a, where there's, this is a, where there's smoke, there's clearly fire situation because nobody, I mean Chavez de Rimmer is a target as soon as she steps into this role. Because big business libertarians, like the Rand Pauls of the world, but particularly big business, does not want to have somebody who is big labor friendly proact supporting like Lori Chavez Darimur in this role. So they want to get a scalp, they want her out, she is a target for them. If you go into this role knowing that and then are taking your staff to strip clubs, how long do you expect to last in this role? Exactly what do you expect to get done in this position? So the Trump administration's relationship with, with labor has genuinely been interesting. The same is true of the Republican Party. And Shahzarim is going to be very difficult to replace. This is one of the things I said on Happy Hour that made me think she might be safe amidst all of this controversy because she's a unique figure who comes to the table with this background that a lot of other Republicans don't have, who can stand up for the sort of pro worker vibes. And I say vibes because they've yet to translate into a ton of policy that you would see out of like the Labor Department, for example. Maybe that was Chavez Duramer's fault. But who can, who can be on board with that while also being on board with, you know, the Trump coalition, I mean the donor coalition, who keeps all of those pieces in place in the way that J.D. vance, Josh Hawley, Marco Rubio were doing in the Senate. And it was tough when they were doing it in the Senate. They were taking fire still Josh Hawley certainly taking fire from all directions when Ted Cruz tried to push back against a bill that labor really liked from J.D. vance after the East Palestine disaster in Ohio, it became a brawl behind the scenes, all out brawl behind the scenes. And J.D. vance had to push and push and push over and over and over again. And it was really, really difficult, uphill battle. And there aren't a lot of people who have the experience in both camps and that' it seemed like maybe that's what would keep Darimer safe, but it's possible. Also, they got wind that the IG report was going to be very bad for Chavez Durimer. So I'll just end there. I think this is an interesting story for that exact reason, not just a proxy battle for Trump's relationship with big Labor. That in and of itself is an interesting question. Obviously, a bunch of these unions have been so far to the left against the wishes, if you look at polling of many of their own members. So does that mean it's an opening for the right? It should mean it's an opening for the right. But what do you actually get out of that? Are you able to really steer them in different directions? Sean o', Brien, obviously at the Teamsters, has tried to have good relationships, better relationships with people on the right. We'll see what comes of it. Uh, but she'll be a hard one to replace. Uh, that'll that. 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