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Breaking: Trump has Terrible Week Amidst Major Epstein Development and Redistricting Battle
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Jessica Tarlov
We have some major developments this Friday evening. While everyone was talking about the ballroom this week, we had a lot of news that broke down from redistricting with Democrats pledging you know what? We're going to fight fire with fire to an Epstein development Major Epstein development about a suicide note that Epstein allegedly wrote that's been locked in vault in key and while chaos within the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives and a president who is seemingly becoming more and more of a lame duck every single day, I spoke with Jessica Tarlov as I do every Friday evening. So I want you to tune in. Let me know what you think in the comments below. Like Share get the word out. Here's my conversation with the one, the only Jessica Tarlov.
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Aaron Pernis
Let's talk about gerrymandering. Louisiana is suspending their plan to make Congressional primaries despite the fact that early voting was about to begin. Because of this week's Supreme Court decision that undermined a key plank of the Voting Rights act, the Republican controlled legislature will redraw the map. President Trump thanks the state's governor for, quote, moving so quickly, so not doing in Indiana. And House Speaker Mike Johnson says southern states should consider redistricting ahead of the midterms in November. We should know that Speaker Johnson himself stands to gain from the redrawn mass as a Republican incumbent in Louisiana. Meanwhile, Democrats could be ramping up retaliation in states like Illinois and Colorado with House Minority Speaker Hakeem Jeffries saying all options are on the table. I want to also note that we've seen that Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, has announced that he is not redrawing for the midterms. I argued on the five, this is a really big issue for 2028 and beyond the midterms. It'll be like zero or one seats gain, maximum three to four. But what's your take on the gerrymandering wars right now?
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Jessica Tarlov
Well, I've said it's from the beginning, it's a race to the bottom. And I don't like gerrymandering. I don't think anyone likes gerrymandering. It's why in 2021, Democrats put forth a bill to end partisan gerrymandering nationwide and every Republican voted against it. I mean, I really, even Republicans, many, if you ask them, do you support gerrymandering, they would probably say no. Your co hosts on the five said they don't like gerrymandering. So, I mean, like, we're in the situation where we're in this race to the bottom. But I'm of the belief that, okay, since they're going to do it, we should do it too, right? Like, screw it. Why, why fight with one hand tied behind our back? Now, I will say what's dangerous to me is the cancellation or suspension of elections, the state of emergency declared in Louisiana. That's scary to me because votes have already been submitted, absentee ballots have already been tallied. And so you're essentially nullifying votes as an election's ongoing. Could that be the, could you set the stage for the cancellation of, for example, a November election? If there is a hurricane in Louisiana and you just want to redo it, I mean, like, you never know where things go at this point. So it's concerning. It's a race to the bottom. And I just, I would like to see national gerrymandering ban be passed and a national independent redistricting committee established that's what I would like.
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Aaron Pernis
Yeah, that would be nice. And I think, you know, when people look at the breakdown and how many seats there were to be gained in the states based on their partisanship, you know, they see a lot of shiny toys, like 52 seats in California, for instance, if we did that, 17 in Illinois, etc. But I'm curious as to how successful you think some of these Southern governors are going to be in actually getting these harebrained ideas through. Like in Tennessee, for instance, it's already 8 to 1. There's only one Democratic seat in Memphis. They want to get rid of that. South Carolina only has one Democratic seat. It's Jim Clyburn seat. They want to get rid of that. I mean, do you. Everything will obviously get tied up in the courts. But do you think that they are going to be successful with anything pre midterms in Louisiana?
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Jessica Tarlov
Potentially, I think. But. But what is success? I don't know how you define success for a lot of these Republican governors because Jeff Landry could suspend this election. Let's say he gets it through. But I'm already hearing that they're not going to eliminate both black majority districts. They're only actually going to eliminate one.
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Aaron Pernis
The one.
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Jessica Tarlov
The one. So if you're going to do this for just one district, is that really a success when you have another one? You theoretically could. Are you going to go back next second cycle and redistrict again before 2028? I mean, and then in Georgia, like you said, they're not doing it. I don't. Tennessee says they're going to do it, but saying it is a lot easier than actually getting it done. We have six months until Election Day, so it is. I mean, we're going to have to see. I mean, I don't know that ultimately they'll be that successful. And also, I mean, when you talk about success, just look at what Democrats have done compared to what Republicans have done in this gerrymandering battle. If anything, Democrats are out on top right now. And so, okay, Tennessee goes through with it. Let's say Maryland. And Governor Moore wants to do it tomorrow too. Right. Like it's this constant race to the bottom. And ultimately I just think you're going to get out members of Congress that have been established and just cycle in a new generation of. Of members of Congress in these new districts. But on the numbers game, I think it's relatively going to be a wash.
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Aaron Pernis
Well, I hope so. And part of that definitely is due to the good work that Democrats did in Response. And in response to the Texas gerrymander and asked voters what they wanted to do in California and Virginia and picked up a lot of seats. Two questions. Do you think. So it was a big deal when Indiana, the legislature rejected Trump's overtures for redistricting. There, there were a number of Republican members who ended up getting death threats. Got into very public tangos with the president over that. Do you think any of the Southern states are going to. I mean, Brian Kemp, with the 2026 thing, you know, Brian Kemp has always been more of a normal human being than the average Republican in the Trump era. But do you think any. We'll see any pushback like we did in Indiana, or generally speaking, Okay.
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Jessica Tarlov
I mean, I think they've learned their lesson in a way. I don't think they want death threats. And even in Indiana, I mean, like, yeah, you got the pushback and they didn't do it. But Indiana, still a ruby red state, and if Trump told them to jump, they'll say, how high tomorrow? So I really just, I don't think we'll see it elsewhere.
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Aaron Pernis
And then this is a framing question that I have for you mostly. I want you to do my work for me for when I go back on the Five and talk about it. So there are two camps that I'm seeing in terms of how to talk about the Supreme Court ruling and the gerrymandering fight. So there is one camp that is all in on talking about the racial dynamics of this, and it is undoubtedly an attack on black representation in the country. Like, there's no two ways about it. Republicans have a very smooth way of framing it that, like, it's us that's obsessed with race, et cetera. Even though they were crying racial foul when Virginia lost some rural representation, they were like, well, what about the white people? And I was like, this is the same conversation here.
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Jessica Tarlov
Right?
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Aaron Pernis
So that's one way to talk about it. And the other way to talk about it is to talk about gerrymandering as a national plague on the nation. The policy solution to it, which is a gerrymandering ban the Democrats have been supporting and the implications for elections without really heavy emphasis on the racial component. What. What do you think is the most effective way? Because I, I've done it both ways. I think both, you know, have their resonant points, but it does feel like we can sometimes get lost in having, like, a hyperbolic fight. And, you know, there are a lot of people out there talking about, you know, this is a Jim Crow redux. Et cetera. And maybe it's just my perch in conservative media that I find those battles much tougher to wage and win. But I'm curious what you think.
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Jessica Tarlov
Well, I think I have a nuanced response to this, and it's kind of splitting the hair a little bit. And I think it depends on which audience you're talking to. If you're talking to a majority conservative audience, the racial argument won't play on the five. The racial argument won't play, but at the same time, you can't just eliminate an argument just because it won't play. And I think that a lot of people, when talking about gerrymandering, forget that black Americans fought for representation for decades. And this is a Jim Crow redux in a lot of ways in terms of trying to roll back the Voting Rights Act. Now, they didn't eliminate section 2, but they did anything. I mean, pretty much eliminating it without eliminating it. That's kind of where we got. And you have to recognize that in any argument you put forth. Now, at the same time, I think it all goes to a larger argument, which to me is the Electoral College. And just the way apportionment works in the United States of America, the system that we kind of operate in, I think it is generally a problematic system when a majority vote getter doesn't become President of the United States. This idea of this electoral college system where you apportion votes based on how big the population is, and then you apportion congressional seats based on population, it almost seems very archaic. And yet when you're having these arguments about national gerrymandering ban or anything, I don't think you can have those arguments without bringing up race. And I also don't think you can have those arguments without talking about, well, is the system really working the way it was intended to work? And I would say it's not. Now, that's a whole Constitutional Convention and all that jazz. And I would love to have a Constitutional Convention tomorrow on a whole host of issues. But I think there needs to be a bigger argument, a bigger conversation here about our electoral system and the way kind of gerrymandering plays into it. You can go into campaign finance for all this stuff. And I also think you need to have a conversation about is the Supreme Court, this modern day Supreme Court, too powerful in the sense that it. It is actively. From Citizens United to today, it is actively changing the electoral system as we know it, and there's nothing Congress or the President even can do about it?
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Aaron Pernis
Well, I think the President would say that he did a lot about it since he sure picked a bunch of folks who are a big part of it. Thomas's concurrence was like, bones, actually. I mean, right. And yesterday everyone was like, oh, I think it was Kayleigh McEnany. She printed it out and was like, reading it. Like, it was, you know, the most beautiful poem she'd ever heard in her life. And I was like, this is batshit, what we're hearing now. I just wanted to add I thought it was very cool. James Tallarico, our fave in Texas, posted that the first bill that he's gonna bring if he wins in November is a nationwide gerrymandering ban. And I think it is going to go in the conversation with corruption and the US versus them and like you're getting a raw deal. And will be used rhetorically by a lot of Democratic candidates and probably some Republicans who will then ignore the fact that they could have voted for it and didn't. Just to note that the calcium markets currently have the likelihood of redistricting before the midterms at 83% in Florida, which is strange because it's a violation of their state constitution that's in court. And Louisiana, and the odds rising quickly in New York and Alabama. Kathy Hochul is raring to go. So you were doing some great reporting on the attempts to control elections this fall. You already mentioned this a little bit in the last few weeks. The DOJ demanded Wayne County, Michigan to turn over ballots from the 2024 election and are now also asking for the full on redacted voter rolls. What's going on there?
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Jessica Tarlov
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of. They're trying to relitigate the past. The DOJ demanded voter rolls, all ballots, anything from Wayne county, which is Detroit, a majority black minority area that is highly Democratic, voted against Donald Trump significantly. And so they're trying to, in my opinion, at least influence the upcoming midterm elections by scaring off poll workers, by scaring off election officials, by trying to purge voter rolls. It's not just in Wayne County. They've requested it from 48 states in the District of Columbia. So it's. I mean, they're trying to do.
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Aaron Pernis
And even Republicans are saying no. Yeah, from my understanding, because.
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Jessica Tarlov
Yeah, because I the. It is actually such an unrepublican concept to have the federal government play a role in state elections. Republicans, the parties of states rights, they love states rights. They loved it for Roe v. Wade. Now they love it. Now they don't like it. When it comes to elections. Right. Like let Wayne county administer its elections, let Michigan administer its elections. Keep the federal government's paws out of states. And that's how it should be. That's how it's been done. But this Trump administration that wants to buy a stake in Spirit Airlines and buy a stake in big tech companies and do all this stuff, I mean, it's, they're moving towards socialism even if they don't like socialism.
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Aaron Pernis
Totally. State run capitalism is what we call, you know, what the Chinese do, essentially. It was interesting to see this move for 2024 roles because we know that they're obsessed with 2020 and you know, Tulsi Gabbard hanging out in Fulton county, like hiding in the corner there.
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Jessica Tarlov
Yeah.
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Aaron Pernis
And when I saw this headline come in, I was like, oh, like it's every election now that they think that there was fraud. And, and someone, I think he was Mitch McConnell's general counsel, he wrote a piece I think was in the National Review about to your point how this is such an asthma to being a Republican that you would try to federalize elections.
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Jessica Tarlov
But for sure, I don't know what that means. But yes, I agree with you.
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Aaron Pernis
The opposite of right.
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Jessica Tarlov
Like, thank you. I didn't take the sat, so I don't like SAT words.
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Aaron Pernis
Because you took the act or like you were just.
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Jessica Tarlov
No, I just, I skipped a few years.
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Aaron Pernis
Ok. Trump also spoke out yesterday about the filibuster, saying Republicans need to get rid of it. Let's take a look.
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Guest Speaker / Politician
There will be very little voting cheating if we do the Save America act. And the way they're going to do that is to terminate the filibuster.
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Aaron Pernis
So I thought he'd forgotten about the Save America Act. Frankly, I'm not sure what jogged his memory. Also, Greta Van Suster and looks really unhappy, which is generally how her face looks at this point. But where do you think the Save America act situation stands? Obviously Ken Paxton, who's still leading in the polls for the nomination in Texas for Senate, that's like his big thing. And I think he's said that if Trump gets it through, then he'll drop out and let Cornyn be the nominee. But what's your take?
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Jessica Tarlov
Yeah, I mean, I think the SAVE act is still dead on arrival. I don't, I don't think it's going anywhere. You still need a filibuster proof majority to pass it. You don't have enough Republican support to, to eliminate the filibuster.
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Aaron Pernis
And Thune has said he won't get rid of the filibuster. So this is just posturing.
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Jessica Tarlov
It's just posturing. But I will say this. If they do somehow eliminate the filibuster, like, I think you're gonna see a blue wave of epic proportion. Like, I really do. I don't think buyer beware here for them.
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Aaron Pernis
You think eliminating a filibuster is a story that resonates with average Americans.
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Jessica Tarlov
Okay, it's not the eliminating the filibuster story that it resonate. It resonates. It's the breaking down of congressional norms that I think resonates of, like, you're passing Save act and whatever, while we. We're paying a record amount for gas. But I don't know, I feel like
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Aaron Pernis
we're so past it, it's almost laughable, like, how far in the dust we have left all of the norms that I worry that anything really resonates. Like, when you look at, obviously, Trump support and Republican support has been eroding over time, but the real jolt to it was like going to a war. Right. That no one wanted. It wasn't because you didn't ask Congress to go to the war. It was just like, this thing is happening. And I feel like everyone has kind of accepted the fact that we live in a system with no checks and balances, like King Charles. Good on you for that line. But in general, I don't know what really resonates with people anymore besides huge, blunt actions and their grocery bill.
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Jessica Tarlov
Well, speaking of price increases, we're back to tariffs again. A minute ago, we're putting tariffs on the eu.
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Aaron Pernis
Breaking news, breaking news. Breaking news on raging moderates.
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Jessica Tarlov
Trump says he's pleased to announce that he's going to be announcing 25% tariffs on cars and trucks coming from Europe because Europe is not complying with our trade deal. So we're back to tariffs. Buy your cars now.
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Aaron Pernis
But also illegal. The Supreme Court said illegal. I do love how King Charles got the exception, the exemption for scotch and whiskey, because he wasn't totally shitty to Trump when he was visiting.
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Jessica Tarlov
It's insane. I mean, like, we live in a complete Veep episode every single day.
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Aaron Pernis
I know, but I was excited to be here live for an Aaron Pernis breaking news situation. We'll have to clip that up. Make sure to get it out right away. And your regular viewers will be like, why is there a weird woman in the frame as Aaron is breaking news,
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Jessica Tarlov
Not a weird woman. The author of I Disagree, which you should all go pre order right now.
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Aaron Pernis
Look at that middle of the show plug. Let's take a quick break. Stay with us. Welcome back. The DHS shutdown is finally done, 75 days long. TRUMP signed the measure into law yesterday. Speaker Johnson initially rejected the bill that came to the House from the Senate as a joke. But an internal memo from the White House saying it would be unable to pay DHS personnel starting in May if the House didn't act. Help grease the wheels. Here's Speaker Johnson speaking after the bill was passed.
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Jessica Tarlov
Don't doubt the House Republican majority. We always deliver for the American people. We did it again in spite of
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Guest Speaker / Politician
the challenges and we continue to do that.
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Aaron Pernis
He's so dishonest, though, because he doesn't mention that they jam through the ICE and CBP funding through reconciliation. So it's not like it makes it sound like the Democrats caved. They did not. They still voted for a clean bill. It came from the Senate. Right. It had no funding for ICE in it. So if you're feeling let down by Democrats, don't. They stuck to their proverbial guns for as long as they could and force them into a reconciliation process to get that. Was it 75 billion that they got through. But what do you think the upshot of any of this is? Or it's much of a muchness.
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Jessica Tarlov
Much of a muchness. I mean, what upshot? Like, I, it's just like, who cares at this point anymore? Like, seriously, like, who does this? What average American is going to be like, oh, my God, we're out of a government shutdown. Most people don't even know we're in a government shutdown. Because Trump just found my point about the filibuster. Yeah, well, yeah.
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Aaron Pernis
I mean, but it does have, or it could potentially have implications for immigration enforcement. This is the part that I was a little bit afraid of because it has felt like they've taken a real break from it, that Mark Wayne Mullen understands that what Kristi Noem and Greg Bevino was doing is not going to be acceptable to a wide swath of Americans, even more moderate Republicans. Tom Holman has kept a very low profile since Minnesota. Right. Like, I think I've literally not seen Tom Homan since ICE left Minnesota. So I did see him in the green room at Fox once, but I
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Jessica Tarlov
was attacking the Pope.
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Aaron Pernis
Oh, did he that.
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Jessica Tarlov
Yeah, he said that the Pope, he should, the pope should go on an immigration raid with him.
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Aaron Pernis
Yeah, that's gonna happen.
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Jessica Tarlov
Yeah.
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Aaron Pernis
Like this pope who just appointed a new bishop in West Virginia who was an illegal immigrant who tried crossing the border three Times like that, Pope is gonna go on an immigration raid with you. But do you think that they're going to ramp back up the deportations? Because I have seen some swirl online from prominent voices saying that Mullen doesn't understand the assignment and that people did want these mass deportations. They just don't want, you know, public killings like Alex Preddy and Renee. Good.
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Jessica Tarlov
I think they will after November. Not before November. I think they're going to wait until after the midterms. I think they know that if they start back up before the midterms, it's not Bad News Bears.
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Aaron Pernis
Bad News Bears. Okay. I love that.
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Jessica Tarlov
I know.
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Aaron Pernis
Millennial talking points don't make me feel so old. It's because I've said Bad News Bears on previous episodes, I'm sure. It's incredible to me how far down the list of topic priorities Iran has gotten. Like yesterday on the Five, we didn't even talk about the war. But Today is the 60 days deadline for the conflict, no congressional approval in sight. I didn't even understand what happened last night. Like, they tried to reclassify it in such a way so that it wouldn't be subject to a war powers vote. I don't. It feels like Republicans are actually legitimately angry about this at this point. But let's listen to Pete Hegseth and then I want to get your. Your take on Iran.
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Guest Speaker / Politician
Ultimately, I would, I would defer to the White House and White House counsel on that. However, we are in a ceasefire right now, which our understanding means the 60 day clock pauses or stops in a ceasefire. So they're not in. Yeah, it's our understanding. Just so you know. Okay, well, I do not believe the statute would support that. I think the 60 days runs maybe tomorrow. And that's going to pose a really important legal question for the administration there. We have serious constitutional concerns and we don't want to layer those with additional statutory concerns. I yield back.
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Aaron Pernis
That was it that because we're in a cease fire, they should get those two weeks back. Do you think that argument is going to carry any weight with folks who are expecting to vote on this?
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Jessica Tarlov
I shouldn't. I mean, we're not in a ceasefire. I don't know what BS they're spewing. We have a naval blockade right now on Iran. That's an act of war under every international law of war. We are not in a ceasefire.
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Aaron Pernis
Are you as fascinated, though, as I am with the fact that the blockade isn't actually working and how the Iranians are just sneaking Their oil out. They're putting, like, a banner on the vessel that says, we're Iraqi and just going about their business. And I don't know. I don't have the numbers on exactly how much crude oil is getting out, but I feel like the fact that we're hearing less about folks who depend on that oil being really upset means that there must be some decent amount getting out the door.
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Jessica Tarlov
Yeah, 100%. I mean, but at the end of the day, like, the administration is going to violate the law again. They should pull out US Forces today if they don't get congressional authorization. That is the law. A ceasefire does not mean that hostilities have ended. It means that hostilities have ceased temporarily. You need a permanent agreement to end the war. I mean, I don't know, because it's like any. What's any? Are they gonna listen to a court? Are they gonna listen to Congress? Like, who do they have to listen to at this point? I don't even know.
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Aaron Pernis
Me and you, basically.
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Jessica Tarlov
Good luck.
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Aaron Pernis
Yeah. What's the deal with the Epstein suicide note situation?
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Jessica Tarlov
I would love to know. Apparently, there's a suicide note that they found in the coffers of a New York City courthouse, and it was found by a cellmate of Epstein's when Epstein died. And it's just been sitting in this vault, and we don't know what it says. I'm very suspect of it. I don't think Epstein took his own life. So that's kind of where I'm at.
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Aaron Pernis
But you don't think he took his own life? Like, how far do you go in the conspiracy? I guess, like, do you think that somebody. And I shouldn't even call it conspiracy, like Julie K. Brown doesn't think that Epstein killed himself? And I don't think anyone has spent more time steeped in Epstein than Julie K. Brown. But do you think that this is a note that he was coerced into writing or someone wrote for him or.
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Jessica Tarlov
Let me reframe what I said. I don't think the investigation was thorough enough to determine conclusively that Epstein took his own life. That's where I'm at. How about that? It's not that. I don't know. I ultimately don't know what happened. He may have taken his own life. He may have not. But I think that the fact that the inspector general of the DOJ that investigated Epstein's death didn't look at this note tells me everything I need to know.
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Aaron Pernis
Do you think that they secretly have read it and ingested it and had Conversations about what the implications are. And they were like, it would be really better if this was in a box at the bottom.
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Jessica Tarlov
That's a ton of speculation that I don't have an answer to. I have no idea.
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Aaron Pernis
Oh, all right. You're no fun today. Lastly, Senate voted unanimously to ban senators and their staff from participating in prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshee, effective immediately. Chuck Schumer is urging the House to pass a similar measure, which I imagine that they will. What do you think is going to happen with the regulation of these prediction markets?
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Jessica Tarlov
I mean, I hope they're highly regulated, especially Polymarket. Kalshi's a little different, but Polymarket's not even a US Based company, doesn't have, it's not regulated by the CFTC to conduct business in the United States, I believe. So that's a, that's a whole different conversation. I think this prediction market rise is one of the most dangerous things that's happening inside the United States of America right now because it is so unregulated. I don't like, for example, if there was a prediction bet about how long this episode would go, I can, I can filibustered on my own and make a ton of money off of it. There is nothing stopping that from happening, really. I mean, you have these insider trading regulations. So, so, but it's, it's very, it's not regulated like the stock market is. It's not like, like indicting someone for insider trading. It's interesting. That soldier that was indicted in the Southern District of New York for betting on the Maduro raid, he wasn't indicted for insider trading. He was indicted for the use of classified information. I don't know that you can even indict someone on insider trading charges because of how unregulated the market is. And also, I don't even know that. Is it gambling, is it a prediction market? Is it something like a stock or is it something like sports betting? No court's answered that clearly enough for me yet. The Supreme Court hasn't weighed in. So I think there needs to be a lot more regulation and a lot more conversation, especially as it relates to people in power.
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Aaron Pernis
Yeah, I mean, life always moves too quickly for the courts, especially when technology's involved. I agree with you with the difference. Like Kalshi doesn't allow bets on war, for instance, and things like that, which I think is important since there's an argument that, you know, people have been making a ton of money off of Warren, which is American lives lost, Iranian Lives lost, Lebanese lives lost, Israeli lives lost. All of it. And that there were inside information, potentially. There was a big story about someone on Pete Hegseth's team. And then we also, you know, know things like John Jr. And Eric Trump are making a ton of money off
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Jessica Tarlov
of the war, so what's the difference, right? Like, at this point, I don't even know.
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Aaron Pernis
I actually. And I could just go on and be like, I could do a whole episode listing all the ways that they're making money. Final thing that I just wanted to note. It's not even a topic. I just want to say that Trump's net worth has nearly tripled in his second term. It's up to $6.5 billion. That is not happening without cheating.
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Jessica Tarlov
Oh, for sure.
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Aaron Pernis
That's not happening without. Yeah, but I was doing, like, a soapbox thing for the audience.
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Jessica Tarlov
Go ahead, go ahead.
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Aaron Pernis
I mean, I'm basically done. Like, they're a bunch of criminals. And it's just astounding, like, the cognitive dissonance or the willingness to just completely ignore the fact that the coffers, crypto and live, like, in your hands are just open to the highest bidders. And the whole world knows that you can just put a token in and then you're going to get what you want. And this links to everything. I mean, I couldn't. It was frustrating on a number of levels. You know, we had Senator Rand Paul on earlier this week, and he has a bill about, you know, making sure the ballroom goes through the normal approval processes and private, privately funded. And I asked him, like, well, what are people getting for this money? He's like, well, I don't know if we have laws that are going to make it so that we could find that out. You're the guy to make the laws. Like, you now have somebody who has taken every norm and shattered them, who has met every rule that we ever thought that we needed to have a. A sane and functioning society. And you don't want to do anything about it. It's.
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Jessica Tarlov
I don't know, it's like, clip that, clip that. Good.
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Aaron Pernis
Clip it.
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Jessica Tarlov
That's great.
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Aaron Pernis
Yeah, Once I got on my soapbox.
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Jessica Tarlov
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