‘The Five’: Dems engage in ‘infantile’ behavior

‘The Five’: Dems engage in ‘infantile’ behavior

.” THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ARE SHORT ON POLICY BUT THEY ARE FULL OF STUNTS. FLEEING THE LONE STAR STATE TO DODGE VOTE. REPUBLICANS ARE LOOKING TO SCOOP AS MANY AS FIVE NEW HOUSE SEATS NEXT YEAR AND THE DEMS’ BIG PLAN TO STOP IT, THEY WANT TO HIDE OUT IN FRIENDLY BLUE STATE TERRITORY. ILLINOIS AND NEW YORK WHERE GOVERNORS ARE ROLLING OUT A WELCOME MAT. >> WE ARE NOT HERE TO PLAY POLITICAL GAMES. >> TEXAS GOVERNOR WITH BENDED KNEE TO DONALD TRUMP BECAUSE HE’S AFRAID TO LOSE AN ELECTION. I THINK WE ALL KNOW DONALD TRUMP IS A CHEATER. >> CULT LEADER AND WOULD BE DICTATOR OF THE UNITED STATES. TELLS TEXAS TO MIDSTREAM CHANGE THE GAME. WHEN THEY KNOW THEY’RE GOING TO LOSE IN 2026. ALL BETS ARE OFF. >> THIS IS A WAR. WE ARE AT WAR. THAT’S MY THE GLOVES ARE OFF. >> THERE WAS NO FELONY IN THE TEXAS PENAL CODE FOR WHAT HE SAYS. RESPECTFULLY HE’S MAKING UP SOME [BLEEP]. >> Dana: SOME FOLKS ARE POINTING OUT THE IRONY OF THE LAWMAKERS FLEEING TO ILLINOIS WHICH IS HEAVILY GERRYMANDERED IF YOU LOOK. TEXAS DEMOCRAT JASMINE CROCKETT IS AT RISK OF LOSING HER SEAT IN THE REDISTRICTING AND PERHAPS THAT EXPLAINS WHY SHE HAS BEEN EXTRA SALTY TOWARDS PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> LISTEN, DONALD TRUMP IS A PIECE OF [BLEEP], OKAY? WE KNOW THAT. YES, HE IS, HE IS. HE IS. BUT IN A FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY, HE STILL WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH THIS. >> Dana: BREAKING JUST MOMENTS AGO, TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT HAS ORDERED THE ARREST OF THE RUNAWAY DEMOCRAT SAYING “THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES FOR DERELICTION OF DUTY.” EARLIER ABBOTT OUTLINED WHAT POTENTIAL CHARGES THEY COULD FACE. >> VERY SIMPLY WOULD BE BRIBERY IF ANY LAWMAKERS TOOK MONEY TO PERFORM OR REFUSE TO PERFORM AND ACTS IN THE LEGISLATURE. OF THE REPORTS ARE THESE LEGISLATORS HAVE BEEN — FOR THEY SOUGHT OFFERED MONEY TO SKIP THE VOTE TO LEAVE THE LEGISLATURE. THAT WOULD BE BRIBERY. THERE IS ONE WAY TO CURE THAT AND THAT IS IF THEY GET BACK TO THE STATE OF TEXAS AND MAKE A QUORUM. >> Dana: APPARENTLY THAT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. JESSE, DO YOU REMEMBER IN DECEMBER OF 2021, THE TIKTOK TEXANS FLED. THEY WENT TO WASHINGTON, D.C. IT WAS ONE OF THE GREAT POLITICAL COMEDIES OF ALL TIME AND NOW THEY ARE TRYING IT AGAIN. SEE SIX JESSE JR. DIDN’T WANT TO GO TO CAMP BECAUSE I WAS DRIVING HIM AND HE WANTED MOMMY TO DRIVE. >> Dana: SHE’S A BETTER DRIVER? >> Jesse: NO. DEFINITELY NOT. HE FINDS OUT I’M DRIVING AND HE STARTS CRYING AND RUNS UPSTAIRS AND HIDES IN MY ROOM. I GET TIM AND I SAY WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? WHY DON’T YOU WANT DAD TO TAKE YOU QUESTION WHAT HE SAYS MOMMY WHICH HE TAKES ME TO CAMP SHE STOPPED AT DUNKIN’ DONUTS. NOW I GET MY MOM DRIVES. I SAID WE’LL STOP FOR A TREAT AND I DROVE HIM AND HE FORGOT ABOUT THE TREAT. THIS IS THE SAME KIND OF INFANTILE BEHAVIOR THAT YOU’RE SEEING. THEY ARE CRYING, RUNNING, AND THROWING A TANTRUM UNTIL THE GUILT THEY WANT. THIS ALSO HAS HAPPENED ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE. IN 1988 DEMOCRATS AND THE SENATE HAD CAMPAIGN FINANCE BILL AND THE REPUBLICANS COULDN’T FILIBUSTER IT SO THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS DISAPPEARED. WHAT DID ROBERT BYRD DO? HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CLAN, JESSICA. HE ORDERED THE SERGEANT AT ARMS TO GATHER UP CAPITOL POLICE OFFICERS AND HUNT DOWN AND REST REPUBLICAN SENATORS. THEY FIND BOB PACKWOOD HOLED UP IN HIS OFFICE AND HE TRIED TO OBSTRUCT THE DOOR SO THEY BUST DOWN THE DOOR. THEY HANDCUFFED HIM AND THEY DRAG HIM FEETFIRST BACK ON TO THE SENATE FLOOR. THIS HAS HAPPENED A LOT RECENTLY WITH DEMOCRATS. TEXAS, INDIANA, WISCONSIN, THEY ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM THEIR JOBS. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THE WORD GERRYMANDERED. YOU ASK ON THE STREET AND THEY DON’T KNOW THEY DON’T CARE. THEY HAVE OTHER THINGS THEY ARE DEALING WITH. THEY NOTE IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN YOU DON’T GO TO WORK. ALL THE HEADLINES ARE DEMOCRATS RUNNING AWAY FROM THEIR JOBS. PEOPLE WANT POLITICIANS TO SHOW UP AND THEY ARE NOT SHOWING UP. THEY SAY REPUBLICANS ARE PULLING A POWER GRAB. WHAT DO YOU THINK BRINGING 20 MILLION MIGRANTS INTO THE COUNTRY WAS? THEY ARE SAYING THAT IT WAS AN ABUSE OF POWER. PUT THE MAP OF ILLINOIS. THAT LOOKS LIKE AN EARTHWORM ON LSD. THEY ARE SAYING WE ARE GOING TO STEAL THEM MIDTERMS, THE REPUBLICANS WERE SHRUNK LAST TIME TRUMP WAS PRESIDENT, THEY STOLE THE MIDTERMS BY HOVERING THE RUSSIAN HOAX OVER HIS HEAD WHICH COST HIM THE HOUSE. OBAMA TOLD DEMOCRATS A COUPLE WEEKS AGO TO GET TOUGH. WHAT DID THEY DO? THEY RAN AWAY. DO MEN RUN AWAY? IS THIS HOW YOU GET MEN BACK? DID THE MEN AT THE ALAMO IN TEXAS RUNAWAY? NO. [LAUGHTER] THAT MIGHT HAPPEN. THAT MIGHT HAPPEN. IN THE REDISTRICTING. >> Dana: IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAP OF ILLINOIS. POINTED OUT ON “AMERICA’S NEWSROOM,” REPUBLICANS WON IN ABOUT 47% OF THE POPULAR VOTE IN 2024 BUT THEY ONLY HOLD 17% OF THE SEATS. ILLINOIS CHOSE TO DO THAT. THAT’S WHAT LIVING IN ILLINOIS LIKE. I DON’T KNOW IF THIS IS THE BEST PLACE TO FLEE TO. >> Joey: PLACES WHERE THEY GERRYMANDERED, THEY ARE COMPLICIT WITH BOTH PARTIES. GIVE ME A MORE RED DISTRICT, I’LL GIVE YOU A MORE BLUE DISTRICT. NORTH CAROLINA WENT THROUGH IT IN THE COURTS. IT’S NOTHING NEW. I’M KIND OF WITH JESSE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS COMING TO THE COUNTRY. THEY CAN’T VOTE. THEY DO GET COUNTED IN THE CENSUS AND THAT DECIDES WHERE THESE DISTRICTS COME UP AND WHICH STATES GET THEM. 1.8 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN CALIFORNIA. THOSE TWO STATES LOST SEATS BECAUSE EVERYBODY ELSE’S FLEEING BUT THE IDEA THAT REPUBLICANS ARE CHEATING BECAUSE THEY ARE DOING WELL BOTH PARTIES HAVE DONE SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE COUNTRY, THEY IGNORE THAT AND CALL UP THE GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY LIKE IT’S RACIST. IT’S NOT RACIST. IT’S A MATTER OF FACT. IT’S PADILLA CRY FOUL. >> Dana: ONE OF THE THINGS THAT’S IRONIC IS YOU HAVE 31 MILLION TEXANS I BELIEVE, HELLO. THEY’VE HAD — NET MIGRATION OF 131,000 PEOPLE OVER A SHORT PERIOD TIME SO THERE’S A POPULATION GROWTH IN TEXAS. BUT ILLINOIS IS ONE OF THE PLACES THAT IS LOSING POPULATION BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT IT’S GOVERNED. I FOUND THAT A LITTLE BIT CURIOUS. I’M SURE YOU HAVE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS. I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT I DON’T WANT JASMINE CROCKETT TO LOSE HER SEAT. I ENJOY HER. I THINK SHE IS ONE OF LIFE’S GREAT CHARACTERS. >> Jessica: HOPEFULLY SHE WON’T. ODDS ARE THAT’S WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN ONCE EVERYONE DOES EVENTUALLY HAVE TO COME HOME, WHETHER THAT’S TOMORROW OR DECEMBER. WHEN THEY CAN HIDE OUT THAT LONG. THIS ISN’T ABOUT POPULATION COMING IN AND OUT OF BLUE STATES. IT’S ABOUT THE FACT THAT J.B. PRITZKER CAN AFFORD TO DO THIS AND WHEN THEY WENT TO D.C. A FEW YEARS AGO THEY RAN OUT OF MONEY. J.B. PRITZKER IS NEVER RUNNING OUT OF MONEY AND HE’S GOT HYATT HOTELS AND THEY CAN HAVE A SWEET AND HANG OUT FIRST LUNGS THEY NEED TO. THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE ARE WATCHING THIS HAPPEN OR VOTE LIKE I DO OR SIMILAR VALUES TO ME ARE SAYING THIS IS PEOPLE RUNNING AWAY FROM THEIR JOB IS LUDICROUS. WHAT THEY ARE SEEING IS DONALD TRUMP CALLED OUT GREG AFFECT. REDISTRICTING IS MOST HAPPEN ONCE EVERY TEN YEARS. HE IS SAYING I WANT A MIDCYCLE REDISTRICT. I HAVE A THREE SEAT MAJORITY AND I NEED A BIGGER CUSHION. GREG ABBOTT CALLS A SPECIAL SESSION NOT ABOUT THE FLOODING, NOT ABOUT CAMP MYSTIC BUT SO THAT HE CAN STILL SEATS FROM DEMOCRATS SO THAT JAZZY WON’T BE ABLE TO HAVE HER SEAT ANY LONGER. IT’S IMPORTANT FROM MY PEOPLE THAT IN 2021 THERE WAS A BILL, H.R. 1 AND IT WOULD HAVE BANNED ALL GERRYMANDERING IN EVERY DEMOCRAT VOTED FOR IT IN EVERY ROOM AND VOTED AGAINST IT. REPUBLICANS WANTED THIS WAY. THEY WANT TO USE IT TO THEIR ADVANTAGE. IF YOU CAN DO IT WHY WOULDN’T YOU GET AS MANY SEATS AS POSSIBLE? THE WAY IN WHICH AVID IS GOING ABOUT THIS HAS MADE PEOPLE EVEN LIKE ERIC HOLDER WHO RUNS AN ORGANIZATION THAT’S FUNDAMENTALLY AGAINST THIS CHANGE HIS TUNE BECAUSE THE CALIFORNIA PROPOSAL AND NEWSOM HAS BEEN OUT OF RUN ON THIS AS WELL ONLY HAS THIS HAPPENED FOR A FEW YEARS. SO WE’LL GO BACK TO NORMAL CADENCE AND THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSIONS WILL COME BACK INTO PLAY. IF YOU DON’T FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE, WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO? IN THE MIDTERM YEARS WAS TO PICK UP SEATS. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO SIT THERE AND TAKE IT? THAT’S MY GOVERNOR HOCHUL SAYS WE ARE AT WAR. IT LOOKS THAT WAY TO ME AND I’M SOMEBODY WHO DOESN’T USUALLY ARGUE FOR THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR. WHAT IS UNFAIR IS IN TEXAS, 45% OF THE VOTE GOES TO DEMOCRATS. THEY WOULD GET 21% OF THE SEATS. >> Dana: IS ALSO UNFAIR IN ILLINOIS? >> Jessica: YEAH, I SAID THEY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT. >> Dana: LET ME ASK THE CALIFORNIA EXPERT IF THIS IS A GERRYMANDERED NUCLEAR ARMS RACE IF CALIFORNIA DECIDES TO DO THE SAME THING, COULD THIS BACKFIRE ON REPUBLICANS? >> Emily: THE APPLICATION MATTERS. THERE WERE SOME CRITICS THAT SAID THIS COULD HAVE BEEN UGLIER. THERE’S A SPECTRUM INDEED ABOUT THE IMPACT IS. THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION, IN TRUE ATTORNEY FORM, IT DEPENDS. RESPECTFULLY I DON’T THINK THIS IS FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE. I SEE IT AS STUNTS MASQUERADING AS STATESMANSHIP. LEGISLATORS CLEAN THEIR DUTY TO A BLUE STATE AND TOTALLY, YOU KNOW, ABSCONDING THEIR LEGISLATIVE DUTY, IT SHOWS THAT THEY PREFER THEATER TO GOVERNANCE. THEY CAN HAVE THAT DISCUSSION. THEY TIKTOK AWAY ALL DAY LONG. THE IRONY, EARLIER TODAY AND JOHNSON WAS BEING INTERVIEWED AND SAID THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY TACTIC. IT’S THE FINAL STRAW THAT WE ONLY EMPLOYED WITH US A COMPLETE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. THE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY IS ALL THE LEGISLATORS LEAVING THE BUILDING. WHEN POINTED OUT BY THE HOST, YOU DID DO THIS AT 2021 SO IT SEEMS LIKE IT HAPPENS A LOT, SHE ACKNOWLEDGED YES, THAT HAPPENED AND IT DIDN’T WORK. THIS IS FAILURE UPON FAILURE. THE NARRATIVE BEING PUSHED COMES BACK TO THIS BECAUSE BEING THE FACT THAT YOU’VE DONE THIS BEFORE, IT DIDN’T WORK, WHAT DID SHE DO? SHE DREW A FOOTBALL ANALOGY THEY DIDN’T MAKE SENSE. AT THE END OF THE DAY WE NEED TEXANS TO KNOW, DOES THE GOVERNOR SERVED TRUMP OR DOES HE SERVE TEXANS? IT’S ALWAYS GOING TO COME BACK TO THIS TRUMP IS BAD AND HE’S AT THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL WHEN THEY ARE ALSO SAYING IN THESE NEW DISTRICTS, THE CONSERVATIVE HISPANICS ARE OUTWEIGHING THE DEMOCRATIC HISPANICS AND WHITE VOTERS. THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED. FOR ME THIS IS THE APPLICATION OF REALITY RATHER THAN THE DISTORTION THAT THE DEMOCRATS ALWAYS HOPE FOR. >> Jessica: BUT TRUMP DID ASK FOR IT EXPLICITLY. HE WANTS THOSE FIVE SEATS. DON’T YOU THINK IT SHOULD BE EVERY TEN YEARS AS IT HAS BEEN? >> Emily: WE’LL SEE WHEN THE VOTER RIGHTS ACT IS CALLED INTO QUESTION. >> Joey: TAXES, THEIR LEGISLATURE MEETS EVERY TWO YEARS SO MOST OF WHAT THEY DO IS UNDER SPECIAL SESSION. IT’S NOT LIKE IT’S COMPLETELY OUT OF THE BLUE. >> Jessica: REDISTRICTING RIGHT NOW IS OUT OF THE BLUE. >> Joey: WHAT DO YOU WANT THEM TO DO IN RESPONSE TO THE FLOODS? YOU BROUGHT THAT IN. LIKE YOU’RE COMPARING THE TWO THINGS. >> Jessica: >> Dana: I AM FOR MORE COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS. WHEN BILL HEMMER IS AT THE BOARD IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR THEM TO HAVE MORE THAN A HANDFUL OF CONGRESSIONAL SEATS TO STATE THESE ARE THE MORE THAN 18 WE NEED TO WATCH. ONE YEAR WAS 34. I AM FOR THAT BUT WHEN YOU SAY DESTROY DEMOCRACY, THIS IS THE SAME CROWD THAT WANTS TO PACK THE COURT AND BLOW UP THE FILIBUSTER

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