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Coming up tonight.

The latest news poll spells more bad news for the coalition, but it also shows a challenger emerging.

Adam Crichton.

Michael Danbie will join you to cover today's top headlines.

Susan Lee is targeting Chris Bowen, calling him a week link in the abanezy government.

Professor in Pima will join me to discuss that the Great Josh Hammer will have the latest from the US, from seditious antics to Trump's twenty eight point peace plan for Russia and Ukraine.

And Kinzisko Phil will join you later on the hour to cover the latest entertainment and royal news, including the fallout for Megan Mark will recreating another iconic Princess diet moment and Left Is Losing It features Dansaki and Katie Curic who have totally lost the plot and they think that trump hating press corps in the US is actually far too soft on the President.

That's a huge, huge problem because it's becoming more of a Kremlin esque press.

Corps right and they've invited a lot of reporters from very right wing media outlets, and you're right.

They usually say, I forget.

There was one example like did you ever believe that you would be the peacemaker?

But first, support for Andrew Hasty as the preferred opposition leader is rising as Parliament prepares for the final sitting week of the year.

In bad news for the Coalition, the latest newsport shows Labor improving its dominant two party per therred vote, leading fifty eight to forty two percent.

Core support for the coalition remains at twenty four percent, the lowest level since primary votes were first counted back in November eighty five.

Voters were asked who should lead the coalition, and while current Leadersism Lee remains a favorite at twenty four percent, Andrew Hasty follows behind at fifteen seen percent, followed by Angus Taylor and nine, Tim Wilson on six percent, and Ted O'Brien on three percent.

But the key figure there is that forty six percent of respondents didn't know who they would prefer.

Joining me now is Senior Fellow and Chief Economists at the Institute of Public Affairs Adam Crichton and former Labor MP Michael Danby.

Adam will start with you.

Party sources of told The Australian that there is a possibility of a leadership challenge before the end of the year.

Can we cope with another one?

Well, look, personally, there's not I think it's too early.

I think the party needs to sort out what it stands for.

I don't think it's the jockey.

I think it's the horse really, and they really need a clear set of policies.

I mean, Susanly does deserve a big tick.

I think for dumping that zero.

I mean, it should have happened much earlier.

It took far too long, but it has happened, and I think so, you know, she should be given a few months at least to try to take carriage of that very significant policy.

You know, personally, I have doubts that she'll be able to that's my personal you but just you know, there's no need to change over Christmas.

I don't think the election is still more than two years away.

They need a.

Policy on immigration first before they think about changing leaders.

I think, I mean, you've got Clara Oeil out there at the moment, you know, giving these ridiculous tweets on housing, saying the only thing the federal government can do is build more houses to fix the crisis.

Well no, no, we can cut immigration right.

Well, that's another tick for Andrew Hasty, because remember he stepped down from the Opposition front bench over immigration because he did want to have some dramastic, dramatic changes.

Michael, I think it's the jockey and the horse.

I think the policies obviously need to be clear, but I don't know if Susan Lee is the person to prosecute the case because her own personal principles and ideology aren't aligned with the direction the lives need to go.

She would be one of the backers of net zero, I'm sure of that, though now she has to argue against it.

I think she's done relatively well since that change of policy in argument, which seems to me since I know Andrew, I hope he gets suspend at least one last idyllic summer back with his very young family in West Australia.

I think that would be very good for him.

I think it's I agree with Adam that it's too early for the Libs to make another move.

You'd have, my goodness, all of the state leaders plus another cathartic move inside the Liberal Party.

But it's the election was only in May Reata, we forget it.

It's till May twenty eight.

They've got ninety five to forty three.

The Liberals would need to win twenty five seats, and I think Andrew hasty and as leader or whatever leader with it more cut through message would improve their result.

But they're almost in an impossible position.

I just agree with that.

I think that politics has changed, the twenty four hour news cycle has changed.

You can have these dramatic shifts in the vote.

You don't need to have two three terms to get back into power if you've had a landslide loss.

And I think they need to do the work.

I just think think they are living in dreamland if they think they can change leaders six months before an election and convince the Australian people that they're fit for offers.

I just wanted to say that, you know, these these poles are really pretty meaningless.

I think this are out.

I mean, no one's paying attention.

I mean forty six the third opposition leaders, you know.

So what I mean it doesn't have with people losing and the Liberal Party, you were right, does have don Quixote Chris Bowen on this side too, So that could swing people y you know, back away from the windmills towards reality.

Just one word answer, who would the would Labor Party fear most out of the contenders?

They say Hasty, but they also say that he's the one that they want the most because he's the easiest to be It's rubbish.

We don't know either way.

It's three years away.

It would at least give the Australian people a clear choice if we had a Hasty in there.

Now, let's talk about Victoria and pre listened to.

Alan has called out the state's judiciary, saying they are too soft on crime.

In an exclusive interview with The Herald's sign Premier, Alan claims her adult Time for adult crime policy was necessary because Victorian sentencing had been too soft.

She said, it's sending a message to the brazen, violent offenders, it's sending a message to victims of crime that we've listened to those very clear views that have been put to me, and that there's not enough consequences.

And yes, a message to the justice system as a whole.

Well there you go, Adam.

To me, this is just weapon grade HUTSPA.

Labor appointed these soft on crime judges, uniformly left wing types, and they knew what their views were when they pointed them to these positions.

How can they possibly feign surprise?

Now, now, look, that is totally true.

I mean, the crisis is one of their making and now they're trying to fix it, so hopefully voters know that.

But you know, this was always going to happen.

I think it was a risk for the liberal opposition here.

I think to focus too much on crime is you're always going to get a labor so called crackdown in the lead up to the election, and it's going to neutralize the issue, I think because most people out there they don't follow things as closely as as us, sadly, and they don't know it was Labour's bail laws in the first place.

You know that triggered some of these problems.

The other annoying thing about this too, is it you know, it kind of stigmatizes the whole status as if everyone is committing more crime and it's actually a very small section of the community that's actually doing the crime.

But we are in a record breaking crime.

Yes, those magistrates are created in the image of the people that appointed them, and that's where the problem comes from.

The laws are all there if they want to be enforced or their nonsense virtue signaling, like the so called mask law.

Well, now the police have to come up to some demonstrate and say, oh, could you please take off your mask, and of course they should just take it off them if they're involved in a riot or demonstration that's inciting violence.

In the city.

And when they appoint these members of the judiciary and labor have been very clever in the past and appointing some very young people to the bench because it's they're in that position for thirty years something.

Not just magistrates, also found in court and higher positions.

There are some people that you know, gossip amongst lawyers and barristers is, oh my goodness, that person exactly any qualifications, all qualifications.

If they're highly ideological.

It helps if they're young, because then they'll sit on the bench for thirty odd years.

Then they're in the running.

Now, this is just incredible footage.

I'm about to play you.

You will see this many times, but every time I watch it, I'm enthralled all over again.

Billionaire James Packer unleashing on former Victorian Premier Dan and who's calling him, amongst other things, human filth.

Daniel Andrews is about my least favorite person in the world.

I think Daniel Andrews not only ruined Victoria, he almost ruined my life.

I couldn't speak more lowly of Daniel Andrews.

I think he's human filth.

Jesus sounds like a Joe Aston column.

There you go.

I hope he sues me.

I hope he sues me.

That's just incredible.

That was on Joe Aston's podcast, Adam.

I wonder what he really thinks that.

Yeah, look, it was great.

I just wish more Victorians would also.

I realized that that's a fair characterization in my view, given the state that he's left.

The state need I mean just to take the balance sheet one hundred ninety four billion laws of debt, I mean basically can't be paid off.

And he said that, and James Packett does know his way around a balance sheet.

He's seen the state finances.

They are very very bad.

I mean, whoever wins an nex selection has a really big problem on that hands.

Well, James obviously has some personal grievances with I think some of the laws that were changed whilst selling Crown when it was in the midst of finalizing a deal.

I don't know why that happened the way he did.

But more broadly, for a politician who were told was just a master politician, hugely popular, Dan Andrews is gets a hostile reception just about everywhere he goes.

From what I can work out, I'm constantly getting reports from people saying they saw him being heckled or some harsh words spoken, even in his favorite horns.

And I won't name them here because I don't want to invite more aggression his way.

But I can't think of another politician in this country who would be treated like that for the.

Primary really get into a golf club either.

Is that too?

I think the hatred stems from the harshness of the COVID lockdown in Victoria, which was probably the worst in the world.

But the thing that I'm not upset about how he affected packet deal, but I am upset about the way he defamed Australia by standing on that military parade to Kim Jong un.

That's a picture that should live in.

In for me.

I can't forgive and I don't think Australians will forgive Dan Andrews for that ever, and.

It's been revealed Michael that Anthony Albernezi Penny Wong none of their staffers approached Dan Andrews before that Chinese Communist Party War commemoration and that lengthy handshake he had with Jijiping.

That's probably going to set him up for life.

He wasn't already set up for live.

I'm sure there'll be so many in China who would be looking to him for business opportunities perhaps, but it seems like incredible that something that defied diplomatic convention, it didn't seem to concern the Albanese government or DEFAT D.

There's a systemic problem he all the premiers and he's the worst.

Dan Andrews don't have serious foreign policy advisors, and the Chinese Communist Party is trying to deal with subnational states and provinces so they can align one against the national interest and DEFAT and whoever is the government of the day should see that all of these premiers, rather than using people from the Communist parties United Front as their China advisor, have someone from DEFAT who represents the national interest and.

Van Andrews signed up to the Belton Roads initiative.

Adam.

The Australian government had to change the law and junk that deal, but he was the only one.

No other premia signed up, no other The links there certainly trouble many Victorians, but it's ancient history now.

I guess, well, well, well, I don't know where is it.

It's not we don't use that phrase anymore road.

But the Otheran government was over there is leg The premier was there for two weeks basically trying to get investment into the suburban railway.

And who knows what.

Who's financing our debt though I mean that it's gone up and up and up the foreign part of the debt.

But who are those foreigners?

I bet you this is sort of capital Paul Beijing has involved.

With a lot of it, So not ancient history.

After Michael Daby, Adam Christ and thank you so much for your time.

Thanks reader.

Joining me now is leading geologist and author Professor Ian plymer I.

Environment Minister Murray Watt will be watering down heavy penalties for businesses that violate labors revamped nature laws is trying to reach a deal with the Coalition instead of the Greens to pass these environmental reforms in the final sitting week of the year.

In the legislation is intended to accelerate approvals for renewable projects and resource projects and establish a new environmental watchdog.

Do you see it delivering all that or not at all?

When the government starts talking about penalties, you know they're not concerned about investment.

What the government should be doing is trying to encourage people to invest in this country by making it far quicker and easier.

For approval for the roy Hill mine in Western Australia, four nine hundred and fifty approvals were needed for an iron ore mine in an iron ore mining district.

Now that is just insane.

Last week when I was in Saudi, I was talking to the Minister for Minds and he said, well, you will need eleven approvals in this country and it's a one stop shop.

That is the difference between Australia and a country trying to grow their economy.

So what he's doing in talking about penalties, he's immediately saying I'm not focusing on attracting investment.

I'm focusing on stopping investment and hurting who we think.

Of the bad guys.

And by the way, thank you for keeping the country alive.

Thank you the coal mines, thank you the iron ore mind.

This is just nuts.

He should be looking at ways to make it quicker, easier and cheaper to start producing and creating jobs.

Astonishing difference there eleven approvals versus four nine hundred and fifty needed for the project you mentioned.

They're astonishing.

Now the Australian newspaper has revealed that oppositionally to Susan Lee is going to be launching a Get Bowen campaign and that's going to be targeting the government's energy policy.

Susan Lee has accused Bowen of being a part time minister after it was announced he would become the president of COP thirty one climate change summit in Turkey next year, and senior Coalisi and sources told the Australian Labor is badly exposed and Bowen is the weak link.

I mean we could have told them that some time ago.

In fact, I think we did well.

We certainly did.

This program's been talking about that for years now.

The government should have been attacked years ago.

The week Link was bown.

The week Link was also the Prime minister.

He promised US two hundred and seventy five dollars.

Now that for me is a couple of decent bottles of wine.

I want it.

He promised this.

Now, if we can't have a prime minister stick to his promises, and he promised that almost one hundred times, then he is able to be attacked absolutely vigorously by the opposition.

The opposition should be targeting really only one or two things debt and the cost of living.

And the cost of living includes the energy costs, the energy which is unreliable.

It's costing us more and more and more.

And we keep getting told that renewables are the cheapest form of energy.

That just just wait seventeen hundred million years and you will have cheap energy.

Now, we once had cheap energy in this country.

It came from coal.

We have destroyed our coal industry and we wonder why our energy is expensive.

So I think the opposition should have been attacking the government years ago on these weaknesses and just not letting up.

Well, they finally have abandoned at zero, so they have an opportunity to.

Do that now.

To Tasmanian asbestos has been discovered in a wind turbine at a chin Chinese built wind farm in Tasmania.

The hazardous material was recently found in brake pads in the tower lifts at the Cattle Hill wind farm in This is terribly worrying.

And this same Chinese company has provided turbines to similar wind farms in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

Well, I'm not surprised.

We know that these wind turbine blades have got very dangerous complex organic chemicals in them, like bis fennol a.

That's one of these permanent chemicals that gets into the soils, gets into the waterways.

There are also heavy metals that come out of these blades.

We also have abrasion of these blades, and now we have asbestos.

Now, if this was any other industry, like say a manufacturing industry or a mine or a farm, the government would immediately step in and say, okay, you and the wind industry are paying for an independent organization to look at them out of asbestos, heavy metals and complex business chemicals in your machinery, and we will decide then how much you are fined and whether you can continue business.

Now they find other businesses, why can't they do it to the sacred wind turbine industry, so we are only reaping what we sew.

And we know that these goods that we buy from China are pretty shoddy.

We know it.

The solar panels also leak out heavy metals.

We also know they leak out complex organic compounds.

We've been saying this for years on this program, and finally someone has woken up to the fact that there's yet another component in there which is incredibly dangerous now that is asbestos.

We started to get rid of asbestos in this country fifty years ago, but the Chinese are just dumping asbestos and other toxins into Australia in our wind turbines.

And they're building these solar farms, these wind farms sometimes on fertile farming land.

I mean they It is beyond me how this has been allowed to happen.

Professor Enbimer, thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Stilting Khama, Lefty is Losing Ed plus Trump's twenty eight point peace steal for Russia and Ukraine.

Josh Hammer will have the latest.

You're watching the Reader Paney Show, and it's time for Lefty is Losing It.

Let's start with some weapon grade crazy before elevating to something a little more sophisticated.

But first the crazy.

This next clip features Katie Currig.

That's the former NBC anchor.

You know, the gal who thought it was a good idea to dine with Jeffrey Epstein after he was convicted after it became clear that he was a filthy pedophile.

Well, here is Katie with galpal MSNBC anchor Jensaki.

More and more of the questions in there are by.

Are by people who are not asking about news that the American people cares about, you know, putting out conspiracy theories.

They're people who and they're getting a lot of the questions.

Conspiracy theories, she says, like the Russian collusion hoax.

You and the Democrats are the propagandas in the media pushed relentlessly for four years.

Imagine how crazy and warped your view of the world is if you think Donald Trump is getting an easy ride from the media.

Now, let's hear the ladies turn up the hyperbole.

That's a huge, huge problem because it's becoming more of a Kremlin esque press.

Corps right and they've invited a lot of reporters from very right wing media outlets and you're right, They usually say, I forget there was one example like, did you ever believe that you would be the peacemaker?

God forbid that the White House Press Corps would be representative of the country and not exclusively filled with hard left activists, And I love that.

The most egregious examples you can find of a terrible question is what about Trump being a peacemaker?

Katie the man did oversee eight piece deals in his second term.

It hasn't even been a year.

Now, let's hear from two other young ladies who display similar intellect and judgment.

To Jen and Katie, seem very misogynistic realistically, So what is misogynye?

Okay?

So why are you using words.

That you don't even know the definition?

But I don't know what I've meant.

I think.

What does misogynistic mean?

But just say more what you're calling with?

Okay?

So the reason I said it is guess again this on the the.

Cause you hear it on the internet.

No, bro, are you stipid the nerve to call him stupid after that performance?

The American education system has failed those two.

Maybe if they read a book or two instead of watching Mel Robbins videos on Instagram, they'd be a little bit smart.

And talking about mel Robbins, she made an appearance on Bill Maher's program, and sadly, she's a typical ill informed, awful that's affluent, white female lefty like.

I see so many people are upset about him building a ballroom.

I could give it.

I don't.

We're not paying for it.

She really should stick to giving terrible advice to sad girls on the internet because she clearly knows nothing about politics.

How does she miss the most pertinent fact about the bore room that it's not taxpayer funded.

And let's stick with Bill Maher, who gave this blistering assessment of Larry David, the once funny, once genius comic who has allowed his trumped derangement to run a mark.

This is so childish, so purely emotional that people look at all butt hurt because I had dinner with them, you know, because he's hitler, Except he's not so unhelpful and dumb.

Trump is the most supportive president Israel and the Jews ever had.

You know, every year I used to ask Larry David to do real time and he'd always say, Bill, I can't.

I'm not smart enough about politics to do your show.

Yeah, I get that now.

You know what, Bill Maher is proof that there is a cure for TDS.

He was among the worst offenders, folks.

He would sit right there with nutbags like Robert de Niro, give them a platform to spew their nonsense, and he would back it up.

He would make the most outrageous claims about Trump.

But though he remains a lefty and he's also a Democrat, still he's no longer raving like a lunatic.

So growth now to a video that has caused all sorts of uproar because the President correctly labeled it seditious.

Here we have Democrats calling for members of the military to break the chain of command and disobey orders.

I'm just going to play you ten seconds of this nonsense right now.

The threats to our constitution aren't just coming from a road, but from right here at home.

Our laws are clear.

You can refuse illegal orders.

You can refuse illegal orders now.

Typically CNN anchor Jake Tappa has joined the Democrats in claiming that Donald Trump is giving illegal orders to the US military and that individuals could be charged for following those orders.

And of course He's far more upset by Trump reacting to the sedition than the sedition itself.

President Trump's wildly inappropriate and potentially dangerous call for six members of Congress to potentially be executed or hanged because they issued a video reminding members of the military that they do not have to carry out illegal orders.

This is over the FAA Act because Trump's reaction was so out of control that this issue of illegal orders is not a new one.

There's this new movie out starring Russell Crowe called Nuremberg.

I just love that after having a mass meltdown about a so called insurrection, Democrats are now campaigning for an insurrection quite openly too.

And what about Jake Tappa referencing Nuremberg the movie because his dim audience doesn't know the actual history.

Let's see it now from one of these Democrats who call for members of the military to commit treason.

Essentially, here is Alissa Slotkin.

I wonder if she can name one illegal order that President Trump has issued.

Do you believe President Trump has issued any illegal order?

To my knowledge, I am not aware of things that are illegal, but certainly there are some legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes and everything related to Venezu.

What did she say, to my knowledge, I'm not aware of things that are illegal.

There you go.

But she and her treason as collaborators felt the need to create a very well produced video calling on members of the military to disobey lawful orders, to break the chain of command.

And it gets worse when she's pressed for examples.

She claims she was just talking broadly, and then she really loses it and starts scrambling.

She mentions Nuremberg and even a Tom Cruise film.

It does imply that the president is having illegal orders, which you have not seen.

I think for us, it was just a statement widely, right I don't.

I mean, look, you going back to Nuremberg, right that, Well, they told me to do it.

That's why I murdered people.

Is not an excuse.

If you look at popular culture, Lily, you watch you know a few good men like we have plenty of examples since World War Two in Vietnam where people were told to follow illegal orders and they did it and they were prosecuted for it.

But you just said that President Trump had not issued any illegal orders.

That would be the key.

Point joining me, now, is Newswork, Senior Editor at Large at Article three Projects, Senior Council Josh Hammer.

Josh, this whole campaign by the Democrats has now been turned around to attack Donald Trump because he said what they did was seditious, tantamount to treason.

How do you see this?

Well?

Read it?

There's a lot to go a pack here.

First of all, can we forever dispel the notion that Alyssa slock and Mark Kelly and these other notable Democratic leather officials or anything other than essentially indistinguishable from Jasmine Crockett, aoc in the most radical left flank.

You know, they were sold Senator is Kelly of Arizona, Senator Slocket, who we just saw in Michigan.

They were sold as moderate statesmen.

There They're not.

These are radicals, with very very very few exceptions.

John Feerman comes to mind, but they are really few and from between.

Their party is from soup to knuts, from top to bottom, filled with revolutionaries, with genuine Marxist style Western revolutionary surgeons who are here to topple the established order.

And that is what this insane video, this utterly insane propagandistic video is attempting to do, It absolutely is incitement to insurrection.

That's what I called it on my show, because that's exactly what it is.

They are telling you not to follow the chain command.

The chain of commands RITA is the sinaquon non of a military in a Western style democracy.

The chain of command is what separates an active military ultimately subordinate to playing clothes officials.

In America, that would be the commander in chief.

That's what separates us in civilization from the barbarians.

And they are cutting at the very core of that.

They are playing with absolute fire here.

Now, if they actually had one or two examples that they could point to and say, oh, according to our well detailed legal research, according to this Supreme Court case, acordant to this president, blah blah blah blah blah, this actually is illegal.

Fine, maybe let's have that conversation.

I'm a lawyer.

I'm very happy to have that conversation.

But you just he she can't name a single one.

She literally cannot name a single possible order here.

So what are you doing.

You're literally encouraging the armed men and women of this country, in our volunteer military, to disobey the chain of command to get court martialed or potentially worse for that, and then you're not gonna have your back because you can't even think of an example on the furp of there.

This is so insanely crazy, Rita.

And I guess the final point that I'll end this filibuster on is I will say this, Ever since the Butler Pennsylvania near assassination of Donald Trump that happens almost a year and a half ago, now, we've been waiting for the radical left to tone down their comparisons about how Trump is a Nazi, Trump is Hitler, Trump is Stalin.

In that clip she's talking about Nuremberg.

Oh my god, I mean how she's literally making the Nazi comparison there.

They've learned nothing.

They have learned absolutely nothing, and most maddening to me as an American patriot, they are putting our armed men and women in our armed forces in harm's way by telling them to commit insurrection without having their back.

It's disgusting, is discription, and at bare minimum, they should be expelled from the Senate.

Frankly, these reprehensible hacks, if nothing worse than them.

And I also missed the point that if you actually did live in a fascist dictatorship, which they think they do.

You wouldn't be able to produce that video.

You wouldn't be able to post it all over social media and get mainstream media coverage.

Much of the mainstream media coverage has been positive for those Democrats.

What do you say to the likes of say Jake Tapper, who has joined them in suggesting that members of the military are in danger of committing crimes by following illegal orders.

He also mentioned Nuremberg and Vietnam.

He seems to be mirroring the same arguments and putting this suggestion that the US military right now is committing some sort of war crimes or illegal acts.

Yeah, look, Jee Tapper is quintessential Trump drain syndrome left wing commentator in the United States.

This this is someone who was upon a time was maybe center left.

Jake Tapper, once upon time was was not quite as far left as as let's call it a medi Hassan or a joyless joy read or someone like that.

There.

But but Jake Tapper drank the TDS kool aid with every ounce of what the TDS kool aid consists of, and at this point he's basically indistinguishable from that It's sad because Jake is a man who really ought to know better.

But if Jake didn't know better than then what he would realize is that the actual crime that could that that could happen here is if you were in the chain of command and you simply do not follow the chain of command.

Again, I cannot emphasize this enough.

I did not serve in the US r M forces, but literally all my veteran friends who did emphasize time and time again that the chain of command from the commander in chief to the Chairman adjoined Cheese, the generals, all the way on down.

This is how the military functions.

And you play with absolute fire when you start to play with them.

If there is an order that you were ordered to do that you that for whatever reason you genuinely feel like you cannot do.

There are remedies available for you.

You can seek a court martial, You can go to a military court.

We have military law and military tribunials.

There are various options to you.

What you cannot do is to just say, oh, my hands are tired because you are illegal.

You are not in any position to do that.

We have military judge do that.

There.

If Jake Tapper knew a damn thing about the law, then he would know that.

Now, let's talk about California.

Who's going to take over the reins from Gavin Newsom.

It's going to be a Democrat, and we know that it's a one party state.

We've had the front runner, Katie get out of my shot, Porter.

Stick could lose.

You're out of my shot, she imploded a few weeks back during a friendly CBS interview.

Was quite an extraordinary performance.

And we've got another big name contender, Josh Eric Swollwell, he has some bold ideas of his own.

I want us to build a voot by phone.

Every California vote by phone.

Yeah, we can do our taxes, do our you know, our make our healthcare appointments, uh, you know, make essentially your do your banking online.

You should be able to vote by pune.

Josh, Could it work?

I've heard dumber ideas.

Maybe not today, but I've certainly heard dumber ideas.

Could Americans cast their vote on their fine.

Reader?

Eric Eric Swall someone whose IQ is one and a half standard deviations below the mean on a good day.

On a worse day, it happens to be worse than that.

He's also quite possibly a Chinese spy.

Let's not forget the whole affair.

Feng Fang.

Feng Fang is a name that many of us here have not forgotten.

This or this was the Chinese honey pot that Eric Swall was was found to be romantically involved with a number of years ago, and that has stuck with many of us ever since that he has never offered a square explanation for that, that that that entire scandal.

I have no idea what the hank Eric Swall thinks that he has accomplished to put him in a position to run for governor of the most populous day in the country.

But then again, did O, Katie Porter and Frankly did a virtually all these other candidate who are putting their hat into the ring.

As far as notion of voting by phone.

Frankly, I think that America's elections are insecure enough as it is.

I would not be one to you necessarily want to add an additional layer of insecurity.

I think that there are enough legitimate concerns, and if you look at the polls, there are enough people who say that they do not necessarily fully trust that their votes are going to be cast and tagulated there.

I mean, what could possibly go wrong by relying on AT and T in a Verizon and the various mobile cell phone providers to cast your vote?

I mean, I can think approximately a million to two million things that could possibly go wrong with that picture there.

So no, that strikes me as yet another quind essentially really really stupid Eric Swawll idea, which again is part of the course because he's a pretty dumb man.

As the case, I just can't believe he's in the running.

You would think the entire Fang Fang affair, the fact that he was in a serious relationship with a Chinese Chinese Communist Party spy, would to disqualify you from any sort of public office for life.

But no, here is He's still wanting to be governor of California now.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier today that he was very optimistic that negotiators could reach a deal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Rubio had met today with delegate with delegation from Kiev in Geneva, and he said the issues that must be resolved were not insurmountable.

Now here from President Trump, He's got a twenty eight point proposal, but he has a number of provisions that Ukraine has previously rejected.

We're trying to get it engined.

One way or the other.

We happen to get it engined.

So you want to it.

Well that he can continue, that he can continue the fighters with.

The heart out Josh.

He said.

If President Zelenski rejects the plan, then he can continue to fight his little heart at and he wants an answer from Kiev by Thursday.

Yeah.

Look, so basseed of what I've seen from this plan read the broad outlines of it are something that I could see myself getting behind.

There's one thing that I'm less confident of.

But Ukraine's gonna have to give up territory.

Okay, I've been saying that bluntly for at least two years now.

Many of us have been saying that blunly for years now.

Ukraine is not going to gain back territory.

To this day, no one has put a credible plan on the table to show how Ukraine is going to in a post war world, how you can convince Russia to simply give up territory that it has actually acquired over the past couple of years, So that to me seems like a non starter.

You have the typical hacks in the left wing media of the New York Times, MSMAC, the hardcore Slava Ukraine crowd.

They're all saying, oh my god, this is a Pudin plant plan they're giving away.

No.

I mean, Trump is a realist.

He lives in reality.

So that is what's going on here when it comes to some territorial concessions from Ukraine in the Eastern Ukraine region of the Dombas, the Crimean peninsul and so forth.

A part of the plan that I am not certain of yet, and it's going to depend on the details, is this NATO Article five style security guarantee.

Now, the part that I think I could be willing to get behind personally is that if I understand it correctly, there is a ten year time limit on it for now.

It's not a perpetuity commitment, if I understanding correctly, similar to NATO Article five.

However, if Russia were to actually then invade in the next ten years, which they probably wouldn't to be clear if that guarantee were in place, but if they would, there you're committeed US troops, British troops French streets.

I mean, that's potentially a very serious thing there, right, So I would like to hear more details about that before I offered it my enthusiastic support.

But based on what I can see right now, I think that I think that it is clever and it does, broadly speaking, map out with what I've been thinking a possible piece deal could look like for the past.

Couple of years.

Now, now let's talk about the Epstein of files and House Republicans, including James Coma.

I have ordered Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify next month about their ties to the convicted pedophile.

And it was a staunch Democrat as well, Jeffrey Epstein.

We forget that Josh.

The Clinton's legal team has earlier this month said their clients were willing to make a written statement.

What are the chances they will actually appear and testify in person?

Oh, I think close to zero.

I think they're going to plead the fifth until eternity.

Frankly, on this one, I don't think.

I don't think.

I don't.

I don't think slick Willy wants anything near a microphone when it comes to ask point blank, why were you on Jeffrey Epstein's playing the little Leaded Express over thirty times.

I look, I mean, I don't think Bill Clinton will get anywhere near a microphone.

Hillary Clinton has been making some of the media arounds here recently for god knows what reasons.

I don't really know exactly what he's trying to do, other than to maybe griff to get another multimillion dollar book dealer or something like that.

But maybe there's a world in which he'll rely could appear before the microphone, because she just has an utterly insatiable appetite, even at the late stage of her feckless career, to sip before the cameras in preem But I put the odds there pretty low as well.

To be honest with you, I think they will plead the fifth, they will do some statement there, But your broader point is important.

Jeffrey Epstein was a hardcore Democrat.

He was a hardcore Democrat.

He hated Trump, by the way, That's why he was texting Stacy Plaskett, the US Virgin Islands Congress Woolman during that twenty nineteen Michael Cohen here.

He was literally texting her get Trump talking points in real time.

He despised Donald Trump because Donald Trump kicked him outamar Lago.

Because Donald Trump became a very successful person without getting involved in horrific pedophilia and child sex trafficking operations, unlike Jeffrey Epstein there.

So he was a hardcore Democrat there.

And frankly, if Chuck Schumer, Hakim Jeffries and wrote Keahona, all these Democrats had an immorsal an ounce of intellectual consistency there.

They will be asking all the questions ten times as much when it comes to Bill Clinton as they are with respect to Donald Trump.

Absolutely, And Michael Wolfe, was also a vehement anti Trumper, said in a recent interview that Jeffrey Epstein believed that Donald Trump may have been the one who first alerted authorities to what was happening at his property, and he hated him ever since.

So this whole narrative and the fact that he chucked him out of marri Lago back in two thousand and eight.

But you mentioned Hillary Clinton.

She does have an insatiable appetite for attention.

And she did another appearance and she explained that she's been daydreaming about a Goodbye Trump announcement.

You know what this reminds me of as I wish that there could be like a huge national sound system and we would all wake up and they attention.

We have found the problem, and we have solved that he has gone.

She is still around.

But if she's still a force to be reckoned with, we hear from her a lot.

We don't hear much from Bill Clinton these days.

Why are these appearances happening to the Democrats think she still has some sway with the American electorate.

It's a very good question.

I don't claim to fully understand the phenomenon myself.

I, even subjected to the various tortures of watching the Clinton crime family, do these interviews for my entire adult life rita and I can't get them off my TV screen quickly enough.

I suspect that there are many folks here in the United States who feel the same way that I do.

Now.

The Clintons were a famously moderate Democratic family.

They have moved considerably far to the left as the party has moved further and further to the left, just to try to fit in with the times.

They must clearly think that Hillary offers something I guess superstar power if nothing else there I mean Hillary Clinton and Broack Obama, I suppose to this day are the two most famous Democrats alive, right, I mean, I'm not sure who else will be.

It's definitely not Joe Bien, that's for sure.

So I mean, those are the two who I guess still offer some semblance of quote unquote star power.

But look, Rita, I mean, the Clinton's had I've been dealing with crimes here for almost a half century, literally going back to Whitewater in Arkansas in the late nineteen seventies.

I mean, there are so many skeletons in that family's closet.

And I think as American people, especially start talking about Epstein a little more, a lot of this Clinton related Epstein drama is going to start to percolate more and more of the service there.

So maybe I'm naive, maybe I'm a little pollyanna ish, let's say, but but I think that there's a chance that the Epstein thing, coming as front and center as it is about to come here in the United States, could lead to Hillary entering stage left.

And the boy, could that not come soon and quickly enough?

That could just be wishful thinking there, Josh, But we'll watch and say Josh Habba, thank you so much for your time.

Thank you still to come.

And Meghan Markle recreates another iconic Princess di image, Kinsey's Schofield We'll have.

The details, Welcome back.

Joining me now is celebrity and world commentator Kinsey Schofield.

Kinsey.

Meghan Markol has come under fire for recreating Diana's famous cross legged photoshoot for Half as Bizarre and Kinsey, this isn't the first time she has recreated some of Diana's most iconic looks.

I don't know what running app.

Oh, yes you do.

You know when someone lacks a clear sense of identity or direction, they start to lean on imitation, And Meghan is such a polarizing figure she must think cars playing Princess Diana will help her absorb some of the warmth people still feel for Die.

But Megan's Harper's Bizarre spread doesn't feel like inspiration.

It feels like replication.

The parallels to Princess Diana's Vanity Fair Chute are so deliberate that they come off as vulgar, and it raises real questions about how Prince Harry copes with seeing his wife recreate images tied to his mother's final years, and still has not established an identity of her own.

You know, without a strong intercompass, it becomes much easier to borrow someone else's legacy instead of building your own.

And the Harper's bizarre piece underscores a large running issue with Meghan's public presentation.

There is no sense of purpose, no clear message.

It feels like someone sharing something.

It feels less like someone sharing something meaningful and more like someone trying to stay in the spotlight for the sake of it.

I tell you, if Diana was around, none of this would be happening.

I think she would have nipped this Meghan Michael business in the bud early on.

She would have seen her coming from a million miles away.

And it seems like the late Prince Philip maybe saw her coming.

He allegedly gave Prince Harry a warning about getting married to Meghan Michael ahead of the wedding in twenty eighteen.

The interaction was detailed in royal biographer Andrew Lowney's book entitled The Duke of Edinburgh allegedly told her Harry one steps out with actresses, one doesn't marry them, Kinsey, that would be hilarious if it was accurate, and I've got a feeling it is accurate.

Yeah, I've heard that from multiple sources.

And according to royal author Ingrid Seward, Prince Philip privately referred to Meghan as the Duchess of Windsor, comparing her to Wallace Simpson.

And you know, she stresses that Prince Philip warned the Queen to be cautious of Megan.

There's also the royal butler Grant Harold's account of Philip saying to Queen Elizabeth, thank f that's over as they left Harry and Meghan's wedding.

So, I mean, I think it's pretty confident that Prince Philip wasn't a fan.

Now we're hearing more about what went on at Jeffrey Epstein's infamous party at his New York mansion in twenty ten.

Former mbsc an Katie Couric sat around a table with Epstein for cocktails and lasagna, yep choosing to break bread with a convicted set offender, and they apparently talked about international politics.

Of course they did, Kinsey, what else can you tell us?

Yeah, she's also was teasing Prince Andrew at the time.

Andrew Mount Mountain Windsor now about William and Catherine's wedding, asking if she could have a cell phone number so she could call him during the ceremony.

I mean, to your point, I just want to remind.

Everybody to remember that visual of Katie curt cozied up to Jeffrey Epstein every time she lashes out and makes allegations against our president.

Katie has been so hostile about Trump's relationship with Epstein when all of Epstein's victims have said Trump was nothing but kind to them and there was no inappropriate behavior.

You know, Katie claimed ignorance about this event and about these people.

But former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown was astute enough to turn down the invitation.

She now calls it the predator's ball.

Wow, that's going to.

Ring to it.

I just can't believe anybody, let alone someone who's got the sort of profile Katie Curry had a the time, would accept an invitation from a pedophile either a two thousand and eight conviction, and this dinner was in twenty ten.

This meal two thousand and eight conviction was for paying for sex with a fourteen year old.

Now, in my mind, fourteen year olds can't consent, so that to me is rape.

But however you want to characterize that it was against the law.

He pleaded guilty.

That was two thousand and eight and twenty ten.

He's got all these famous people sitting around his table.

Give me a break.

Now, Wicked.

We've talked about this film before.

People have flocked to see The new Wicked movie was released last week.

The cinema goers were shocked to see a trigger warning before the film started.

Kinsey, what's that about?

Yeah, it warrants the audience to prepare themselves mentally to see characters who cast magical spells.

On one another.

I mean, not only was Wicked wildly successful on Broadway, it's the sequel to a blockbuster film.

Shouldn't we already be mentally prepared?

And do we really need a warning?

I think Carry Potter is even insulted in this scenario, and.

The incessant crying from the leads continues.

I saw another interview where it was actually more members of the cast.

It wasn't just Ariana Grande and Cynthia Arrivo, and they were all crying again.

I mean, there is something wrong about that movie or on the set.

Something has happened because these people seeing changed and perhaps not changed in a way that's improved their mental health.

Well, I don't like to comment on people's physical appearance, but just look at how then both of the actresses have become it's been to a point of being concerned about it.

So I think you are asking some fair questions as to what's gone on mentally over the last few years since they began filming this movie.

They're just all over each other.

They're crying.

Their reactions are so off.

The effect is all off.

Now before you go, One of Keith Urban's fans has told TMZ that he got the inside scoop about the singer's divorce from our Nicole Kidman weeks before the rest of the world.

How did Keith let it slip?

Kinsey?

So yeah, Keith met his darpelganger in Canada and they joked that the only way to tell them.

Apart was Keith's tattoos and wedding ring.

And as Keith told the fan goodbye, he noted that the next time they saw each other it might just be the tattoos, alluding to the fact that he wouldn't.

Have his ring on.

I mean, that's a dead giveaway.

That is a giveaway, but sometimes you know, people take off their rings, they get them cleaned.

I still think there's a lot to be told about that divorce.

I have a fear that our Nicole was hard done by.

And I say our Nicole because it's also our Keith, isn't it.

We can't really, it's not like the Tom Cruise divorce with Nicole Kidman, and we could demonize him as an American hurting our girl.

But I think we're going to hear a lot more about this as the divorce finalizes.

Kinsischofield, thank you so much for your time tonight, and that's all the time I have.

I'll see you at eleven tomorrow night.

Up next, it's Newsnight.