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Two major developments this afternoon. A loss for Donald Trump in court and a win for Donald Trump in court regarding the UFC fight and the Kennedy Center. Naming the first the loss, a judge has ruled that Donald Trump's name has to come down from the Kennedy center today, upholding a prior ruling saying, I'm not going to stay my other decision. It's coming down come hell or high water today. Scaffolding is already up by the Kennedy Center. I have a live stream going. I was there earlier, so I'm going to try to go back there, weather permitting. Later. Speaking of weather, looks as though it's going to rain this Sunday during Donald Trump's US UFC fight. But today a court order came down saying that Donald Trump's UFC fight can move forward, that the people trying to sue to stop it didn't have what is called standing. So a win for Trump on the UFC side of things, a loss for Trump on the Kennedy center side of things. And while I have the latest for you right now, just moments ago, Federal Judge Christopher Cooper. And before I do, by the way, make sure to like, comment, share and subscribe to my substack link below to support my work. I say it often, but that's the only way to fight back against the censorship we're seeing on this platform and elsewhere. So today, Judge Christopher Cooper hands Trump a loss at the Kennedy Center. Judge rules he will not pause today's deadline for stripping Trump's name off the building. Judge says that Team Trump has improved, that they'd be irreparably injured given both sides the de minimis resources that would be required to restore the center's current name in the event of a successful appeal and lack of record evidence linking increased donations to the current name. This is what it looks like right now. Scaffolding is up. That's the name. It's coming down. It's coming down in the next several hours. We don't have an exact time. And they're going to try to appeal it, to try to block it. And who knows what a higher court does? We don't know. But ultimately it will be coming down at some point. It's already come down off the social media websites. It's already come down off of the Kennedy center buses that used to have Trump Kennedy on the side. It's just Kennedy. It's come down the LinkedIn, the website. I mean, it's down everywhere. The last thing is the building itself. I actually wanted to try to go and get one of the letters just to as like a souvenir and well, it looks like they're going to hold on to them just in case that they appeal and they somehow win. Now, they did win on the UFC side of things. The judge today ruled that the UFC fight can move forward, saying that plaintiff's asserted harms are not irreparable because they are both ancillary and temporary. As discussed, neither plaintiff's claims they will be in the vicinity of the White House or Lincoln Memorial for the primary purpose of enjoying their architectural grandeur, natural beauty or historical import. Rather, Romano's reason is work related and Douglas's is to exercise the First Amendment right they claimed aesthetic harms are thus ancillary to the main reasons for their presence. Their harms are also decidedly temporary. Claude disassemble began at 10am on June 15, 2026. What they're saying is that it's actually going to be taken down, despite the fact that the Trump administration told the judge it's getting taken down, the claw, the big octagon, despite Trump saying he wants to keep it up in perpetuity, but essentially it's staying up. The fight will move forward, but that doesn't mean the American people support the fight. That also doesn't mean that the fight's gonna move forward in terms of weather, because right now we're seeing, when you talk about weather, it's supposed to rain this Sunday. So we're gonna see how that goes. Now, here's the thing. It's costing $60 million for this UFC fight, and a lot of people are just saying, hey, I just want jo cheap healthcare, right? I just want cheap groceries, cheap health care. And it's why I partner with a company called Chapter, because right now the cost of living is too damn high. And the part that is not talked about enough is the cost of Medicare. Every single month. A lot of you are cutting back on groceries, driving further, save gas and gas, canceling things you used to enjoy. But your medical Medicare plan, that bill just keeps coming and most people never look at it twice. That's why I work with Chapter. They're independent Medicare advisors, the only ones that compare every plan nationwide. Their advisors are salary. They don't get paid to push certain plans. They look at your doctors, your prescriptions, what matters to you, and they tell you the truth. If you're already on the right plan, they'll say so. If you're not, they'll help you switch. Just last year, seniors who found new plans saved an average of $1,100 on healthcare costs. That's real money. It's free. Help in under 20 minutes. Call Chapter today. 8645-3806-6486-4538, 0664. Here's what Marco Rubio had to say about this UFC fight. He made a remark I thought was pretty crazy.
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I have a couple of reasons why that I think is very powerful. Here's the first. The first is America. And behind America is the impossible. That someone tells you you can't do that or that is never going to happen. The whole idea of America is audacious. The very idea that America, that you could have a country where founded on the principle that your rights come not from your government or from your leaders, your rights come from your creator, was an audacious idea. No one else believed that at the world at that time. And that's the foundation. But then beyond that, everything we've done since then as a nation, time and again, how can, how can you achieve some of the things you know? We're going to put a man on the moon. When President Kennedy announced that we were going to put a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth, no one thought that was possible. And we did it. We are a nation founded on doing what no one else dared to do, and no one else aspired to do. And at some level, that's what this whole company, what UFC has been. You see, mixed martial arts is not new. It's been around now for about 30 years.
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I would say it's comparing UFC to putting a man on the moon. I spoke with Elaine Lauria. She's running for Congress. She's being Congress. She's running again about cost of living and all this craziness and holding the administration accountable. As always, like Comment, Share subscribe here's my conversation with Elaine Lauria. Excited to be here with Elaine Lauria, who's running for Congress in Virginia. Now, I gotta ask you, why do you want to go back to Congress?
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Well, you know, I didn't think I'd get back into this, but I couldn't watch what's happening with this administration, with the current representative in the District and, you know, not get back in. I feel like we've got to put a check on what's happening in Washington. We got to set the course in a different direction. And this is one of those seats that always flips the majority in the House. When I won it in 18, that was part of flipping the majority every time in the last two decades. And so I really felt like it was a responsibility to step up Again,
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what lessons have you learned from your prior races to get back into Congress this time around?
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I would say that things happen quickly. November seems very close, but also very far off and especially the pace at which things happen and change with this administration. One day we are at peace, the next day we've started another war. And so you can say these are the top issues that are on voters minds today. But you gotta continue to be out there in the community and listening because it changes as time goes on.
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You talk about this being a fast paced environment, but if anything, if anyone knows anything about Congress, Congress moves very slow, glacially, even at times, I guess. How do you get anything done or how do you plan on getting anything done in a Republican led administration if you were to win in November?
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Well, first of all, when I was in Congress before I served two terms, one under both President Trump and President Biden, was one of those bipartisan members of Congress and had legislation signed into law by both presidents. So it is possible and it is possible to build those relationships and work across the aisle. What I would say about this timeframe between 2020, when Democrats take back the House and 2028 at the end of this administration, we are preparing the platform. Essentially Democrats can go back to Congress. And it's very important. The accountability part. We need to have the gavel in every committee so that we can lay out for the American people the damage that's been done by this administration, the work that's necessary to get the country back on track. But we're also providing the case about why it is we need a Democrat back in the White House in 2028 so we can introduce legislation. It' like we're going to introduce the best legislation in the world, send it to Donald Trump's desk and he's going to suddenly embrace good policy and sign it into law between 2026 and 2028. But we have to, we have the responsibility to show the American people what that good policy is. How we're going to focus on things like cutting health care costs, fixing the economy, cutting the inflation, getting gas prices down. All of those things that are on people's mind and causing people to struggle. And Donald Trump's not gonna sign that into law now, but we've laid out this is what we're gonna do as Democrats. And you vote for US Again in 2028, you put a Democrat back in the White House and we're actually gonna work on policy that helps the American people.
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Talk about accountability. What does accountability look like to you? In between 2026 and 2028.
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Well, I think that it's multifaceted. I don't know how much time we have, but the beginning of this administration, DOGE comes in the District, the region where I live. It's the highest concentration of federal employees anywhere in the country outside of the D.C. capital region. So it's not just active duty military, those people supporting the military, it's the shipyards. It's a huge part of our economy, 40% of our economy. Navy, DoD, directly, indirectly. And so DOGE comes in with a sledgehammer. Huge impact, Huge impact to the region, to people financially, personally, to the readiness of the military to shipbuilding and ship repair. There's a huge spectrum. And so part of what we have to do is lay out what needs to be done to get us back on track. Where were these cuts? What type of services that the American people depend on have just been slashed, either very visibly and publicly, or some below the radar that people might not even be aware of. But what are the repairs that need to be done? And through committee hearings, through accountability, through oversight, the many roles that Congress has, it's not just writing a bill, dropping it in the hopper, waiting around for the whole process through committee to get it marked up and voted on, but it is a way to convey to the American people information. Call forward people from every department, agency within the applicable committee and lay out all of that information so that paves the path for what needs to be done.
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I think, if any, if anyone, has been watching the past 18 months, we've seen an administration willing to not obey what those in Congress say, or sometimes even the courts. Would you support using Congress's, The House's subpoena power, contempt power to go after administration officials to push them towards that measure of accountability?
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I would support using all of the measures that Congress has under the law. You know, as you saw when I was in Congress, I served on the January 6 committee, we used subpoena power. We actually held those people who refused to show up to answer those questions in Congress accountable. And Steve Bannon, for example, went to jail for that. And, you know, so I think that, you know, Congress has those powers for a reason. That accountability is due to the American people, and Congress should, and when Democrats take control, will use that power.
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You mentioned the January 6th committee. If this weaponization fund or if the administration were to somehow pay out money to January 6th defendants who had been convicted of a crime, is clawing back that money, something that would be at the top of your agenda come 2026 it's very important.
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I mean, you know, you can't, honestly, sometimes you wake up and you feel like we're through the looking glass. You can't make this stuff up. And, you know, I don't know the direction this is going. I know that the judge who saw this case, they're now investigating, actually the case being introduced for the purposes of fraud. So, you know, here I am, I'm going to sue the government for $10 billion and, oh, well, you know, I'll back off on that. But, you know, go ahead and give me this much, which I can then pay to my, you know, friends, allies, cronies, and people who I pardon for breaking the law. I mean, it just, you know, and what's the sort of smell test? Right. It clearly seems that, you know, this was designed for the mere purpose of those people who were the foot soldiers for Trump benefiting from that activity. And if it came into office in the first day in office, executive orders, pardons. So he's literally trying to whitewash and rewrite history. Pardoned 1500 violent offenders. Now he's trying to wipe off the convictions of the 12 people who had the most serious charges for seditious conspiracy. And I mean, I think it's important in Congress that we can't let that happen. We can't allow financial benefit of this scale to go to these people who essentially were convicted by the Department of Justice. And so I think that that will be a role of Congress. I don't know the exact mechanism at this point, but certainly can't stomach letting that go forward.
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Elaine, Maria, thanks so much for the time.
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Yeah, thank you.
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