The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3538 - Texas Blackmails Banks to Drop Climate Change & the GOP Dream of Dismantling the Department of Education Comes True

Episode Date: July 15, 2025

It's Tuesday and we are joined by investigative journalist and director of The Undercurrent , Lauren Windsor, to discuss her new piece in Rolling Stone on the Texas state government's war on climate change policy. But first we take a look at Andrew Cuomo's low energy announcement that he is staying in the race as an independent, a very sleepy independent. It turns out that the supreme court green lighting mass federal firings will lead to the Trump administration dismantling the Department of Education. Something conservatives have been clamoring for since reconstruction. In the fun half we look into the great MAGA Saga. The conservative world is fracturing over Trump's refusal to release the Epstein files. House GOP's vote against unsealing the documents, Glenn Beck suggests finding a fall guy, Charlie Kirk trust his friends in the government but the MAGA base as reflected in comments on Trump's Truth Social page are not buying it. All this and more plus your phone calls. Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Follow us on TikTok here!: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here!: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here!: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here!: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors PROLON: To get 6 bottles of wine for $39.99, head to NakedWines.com/MAJORITY and use code MAJORITY for both the code AND PASSWORD. SUNSET LAKE: Use coupon code “Left Is Best” (all one word) for 20% off of your entire order at SunsetLakeCBD.com Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech Check out Matt’s show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon’s show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza’s music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder – https://majorityreportradio.com/

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On the program today, Lauren Windsor, you remember her? Ragonia. She'll be on the program talking about Worse v. Wurcer as a Republican. Republican attacks banks over climate change investing. Meanwhile, the big story today, Supreme Court okays Trump's unilaterally gutting of the Department of Education. Meanwhile, the rescission package stalls in the Senate as Thune searches for votes to disempower our government more. ICE declares millions of undocumented ineligible for bond hearings, putting the concentration in those concentration camps. Richie Torres and Josh Gottheimer, ostensibly Democrats, want other Democrats to vote for the Republican crypto bill as the crypto super PAC, which took out Sherrod Brown, announces,

over a $140 million fundraising for the midterms. Trump regime won't publish climate reports on the NASA website. Zoran Mamdani winning in polls, but Cuomo insists he's mostly in it to win it. Dan Bongino in limbo as Trump fumes over the Epstein Maga Saga. inflation pops back up as tariffs gets priced in. Netanyahu coalition in jeopardy as ultra-Orthodox pull out over military draft law. As some democratic lawmakers acknowledge the anti-Palestinian programs in the West Bank, Israel continues its relentless killing in Gaza.

All this and more on today's majority. majority report welcome ladies and gentlemen it is newsday tuesday newsday tuesday uh we got a 6% newsday right and then we have a great guess coming up later on i hadn't run the numbers but yes uh that's that's true uh 66% of news day uh today this is going to be news uh Lauren Windsor's uh story is going to be some news it is an interesting battle in many respects but it also speaks to

why the right was so obsessed with Black Rock I guess six to eight months ago they don't seem to talk about it much anymore but there was a time and now I think we have our answer we'll get to that in a bit first uh let's get to this we're going to be talking about the department of education ruling it

really is astonishing it's hard to get astonished uh these days with what the supreme court rules and and and we'll get into this more but let's be clear this is these are not decisions in the way that we have always considered supreme court decisions to be decisions there is no no decision has been written it is simply a an edict from the supreme court which is going to have an incredibly long-term and um deleterious i guess impact on education across the country we'll talk about that in a bit uh but first to the New York City mayoral race, which, of course, has become a bellwether

for Democrats across the country, including the leader of the Democrats in the House and the leader of the Democrats in the Senate. Hakeem Jeffries, as far as I know, has not endorsed Mamdani. I don't believe that Chuck Schumer has either. It's been three weeks since the primary. My understanding is that he,

He won the Democratic primary, and he is the Democratic nominee. But you have Hakeem Jeffries out there pushing any type of lie to try and characterize Mamdani as anti-Semitic, despite the fact that he was endorsed, cross-endorsed during the race by the highest Jewish elected official in New York City, Brad Lander, Nevertheless, Andrew Cuomo has made it official, ladies and gentlemen, with this stellar video he released on what the kids call social media. Oh, yeah, he decided to go outside. I mean, you know, we know he doesn't live in New York City.

So he probably took a car service to Manhattan, where he's been occasionally staying at his daughter's swanky apartment. and he goes zorons outside all the time talking to new yorkers and creating actual energy and grassroots support maybe i'll leave a conference room or a town car on occasion and stand outside for my relaunch i'm something of a zoron myself does he have an humiliation finish let's let's let's play this video first and then we'll comment hello i'm andrew quomo and unless you've been living under a rock, you probably know that the Democratic primary did not go the way I had hoped. To the 440,000 New Yorkers who voted for me, a sincere thank you. Thank you for believing

in me, in my agenda, and in my experience. And I am truly sorry that I let you down. I'm staying in the race. When you get knocked down, learn the lesson and pick yourself back up and get in the game, and that is what I'm going to do. The fight to save our city isn't over. Only 13% of New Yorkers voted in the June primary. The general election is in November, and I am in it to win it. We've got to go back a little bit, but I want to make it clear. We did not slow this video down.

We did not put any type of filter on him to make it look like he was speaking after having a small mini-stroke or that he had to articulate the words that he was saying and read them off of the whatever, the cue cards that he had there. I just want to make that absolutely clear. And we also did not play around with the editing. You're wondering why at certain times it just breaks away. I mean, it's almost like the people who are shaking his hand

were saying, I'm sorry, you lost, you're gone. And also, let's also be clear. This story about like, the numbers it should you know 13% of new yorkers voted mom donnie got the highest vote tally of any new york city mayoral primary that has been on record in history in history so to be clear if there's any metric to go by here he is already one of the most successful mayoral candidates that we've seen in this city.

But, all right, continue, because Cuomo, I want to hear Cuomo's fake story about his grandpa. The fight to save our city isn't over. Only 13% of New Yorkers voted in the June primary.

The general election is in November, and I am in it to win it. My opponent, Mr. Mandani, offers slick slogans, but no real solutions. We need a city with lower rent, safer streets, where buying your first home is once again possible, where child care won't bankrupt you.

That's the New York City we know. That's the one that is still possible. You haven't given up on it, and you deserve a mayor with the experience and ideas to make it happen again, and the guts to take on anyone who stands in the way. Every day I'm going to be hitting the streets, meaning you where you were. are to hear the good and the bad problems and solutions because for the next few months it's my responsibility to earn your vote so let's do this i'll see you out there oh steaming with energy i mean what's amazing is is that he says he has no real solutions zoron has been immensely

clear with policy specifics the rent freeze if he appoints the members of the board that he wants, he'll be able to do that fairly unilaterally. Bill de Blasio did it three times. The raising of the corporate tax rate from around seven and change to 11 in change, which is what matches it in New Jersey. Yeah, he'll have to get Hokel on board with that. Good news for Zoran is that DSA has been quite effective in electing assembly members to Albany, who can back up his agenda up north. And when he has a 12-point victory over the incumbent governor, he has a bit of leverage right now over Kathy Hokel, who is facing a primary

challenge to her left, where he could get some of these things done. So it's actually immensely achievable. And then David Freelander of New York Magazine interviewed Cuomo and asked him, I'll just want to read this short piece because he says that Zoron

has slogans but no solutions. Cuomo has said he would make affordability a cornerstone of his general election campaign, but would run on the notion that he will actually be able to make the city more affordable while Mom Donnie will only talk about it. It's about not just connecting with the perception of the problem. It's finding the real solution and then having the ability to do it. You don't want someone who just connects. That's step one. What you really want is the problem

solver and I can actually do that. So what would he do on housing affordability? There is no real answer, he said. What? Wait, what? The key is not to freeze the rent, but to build a lot more affordable in market rate housing, so abundance, while broadly a broader affordability can only be tackled by making government more efficient and cutting taxes. That is really the only truth. That's not pithier or sexy. I know, but that's also the truth. That's the dark thing of we're dealing with these elite liberals, which is you look at what happened in the UK. They're doing Doge, but it's just a labor party doing it. There is a constituency to attack government as the problem that has existed from Bill Clinton and the DLC in the late 80s to now.

and they are they're Vichy like they are working with Doge and Elon and all those guys to attack the things that we're trying to preserve here and as I had the curiosity I was looking up

who Eric Adams put on that board and one of them is from the Niskenen Center Niskenen I can never say it so that's like another abundance libertarian thing How does cutting taxes for low-income

New Yorkers help affordability I mean, uh, the, uh, of the city the, the, what, like, what taxes is he talking about? Uh, it, it is, it's just a way to sort of like a sop to his, uh, wealthy benefactors. And he's a Republican, basically. It's also the, it's the David Feldman lefty from way back thing to. It's like everything he says about affordability, I agree with, but I know how to do it correctly. But there's no real answer. Let's, um, but the, it's, in. It's, um, but the, in, it, in. In fact, it, in. In For those of you, of course, who are not interested in Mamdani and or Cuomo, of course, we do have a third and fourth candidate. One is Curtis Sliwa. You can check him out. I think he's still doing a radio show. I'm not sure.

Or, of course, there's Eric Adams, who's out there really, you know, concerned about what Hakeem Jeffries alluded to. that of course is the, well, I'll let Eric Adams say it. He's running on the end anti-Semitism party. Just a primer for this clip. Do you think that Mamdani is an anti-Semite?

Yes, I do. I think that when you're in the streets, after what we saw took place on October 7th, when you're in the street, either the next day or days later, and don't immediately denounce it when you're unwilling to talk about global, global infidata, infatada, infatada, infatara, indifada. He's so proud of, there's too many frittata, that's the problem.

Yeah, right, globalize the enchilada. Global, infidata, infatat, infatat, infatatat, infatada, intifada, intifada. Intifada. Entifada. demonize the the Muslim fella demonize the Muslim fella right I'm sure it's not the like and

anti-semitism dot com party like this is so low rent it says dot com is it going to say no I'm making a joke oh god it's going to be it's going to be clickable on your ballot you're going to be able to link to it

QR code you got to go to a QR code to vote for the anti-Semitism thing And then it just links you to Bill Ackman's Twitter account. Exactly. It's longest tweets. Something simple as a crack pipe.

I'm sorry, that was so loud. All right. Well, just a little bit of levity on a otherwise rather grim day. In a minute, we're going to be talking to Laura. Oh, I should say, no, we've got a while before we'll be talking to Lauren. First, a couple of words from our sponsor. And then we'll get into this stuff about the education department. Summers here, of course, we set, we might set goals for swimsuit season.

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let's get into this Supreme Court ruling. It's bad. The Trump administration, as part of like their Doge project basically fired almost half of the Department of Education got 4,000 people working there at least I think 1,400 were given termination notices to

two federal courts had basically stopped the measure it went to the Supreme Court and it was another shadow docket ruling and again what that means is no notion of what this decision was based upon and ostensibly the shadow docket we talked about this yesterday existed to deal with urgent or emergency rulings someone's on death row obviously if there's an appeal the the Supreme Court says, well, if you kill this person, there's no way to go back to dealing with

what this problem is. In this instance, it is unclear why it's so desperately needed that a decision that is at least three or four months old needed to be resolved today. So from the Supreme Court's perspective, all they did was to remove the restraining order, but the merits of the case have not been decided. However, if you fire 1,400 people from the Department of Education, which provides billions upon billions of billions of dollars to schools across the country, primarily to help low-income children and special needs children, if you fire these people who are in charge of making sure that civil rights laws

are being upheld by schools, not just for minorities, but for folks under the ADA, for gender requirements. I mean, across the board, these divisions of the Department of Education

have been decimated, and they will not come back. There is no way to bring these things back. You've got schools making their budgets right now. They're trying to figure out how they're going to deal with after-school programs, extracurricular, how they're going to deal with special needs.

It is nuts. The Supreme Court has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump. It has granted relief to Trump in all 15 rulings. This is since April 4th. So we're talking about April, May. June three months there are it has written majority opinions

in only three of those today's order is the seventh without any explanation at all let's look at what some of the dissent has been right so there was you know

there's time but that that means that lower and that means that lower courts sorry that means that lower courts have no idea what this is based upon. So they have no direction on how to handle any of this. Well, just ask the question to yourself, why don't the conservative justices want to elucidate

their thinking? Why don't they want to put it to paper as to why they are backing this? That should be a question that we all ask ourselves as we have these major corruption scandals that have trickled out over the over recent years as it comes to a conservative organization. billionaires and benefactors, and at least two of our Supreme Court justices. Let's put up the first excerpt from Sonia Sotomore's dissent. She writes, lifting the district court's injunction will unleash untold harm, delaying or denying educational opportunities and leaving students to suffer from discrimination, sexual assault, and other civil rights violations without the federal resources

Congress has intended. The majority apparently deems it important to free government from the paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very real harms while the litigation continues. She goes on to write, the president must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule undergirds our Constitution's separation of powers. Yet today, the majority rewards clear defiance of that core principle with emergency relief. And understand, this constitutes a constitutional crisis. Yes.

When we have a court that is not even providing decisions that shows absolutely no reasoning, why is it that the federal government, which has already appropriated funds to pay for these employees, why is it that the government needs emergency relief from a 10%? temporary order to restrain it as this court case winds its way through the courts versus all of the people who are going to lose services that's going to be immediate versus all of the schools that need to deal with this sudden lack of funding. I mean, it's, it is, this is a constitutional crisis because the Supreme Court has basically announced we are no longer in the judging business we're in the edict edict business the rubber stamp business and what she said there about

without the federal resources congress intended that piece i think is really important because the effects of this ruling could be even broader than just the department of education because it basically is rubber stamping uh the president uh clawing back funds that have already been appropriated by Congress. Like, the Department of Education has been funded by Congress. Trump is supposed to faithfully execute that. And this is, allows him to impound, right? This is kind of giving him the capacity to.

Yeah. And it really is fundamentally, I mean, when you, when you hobble an agency this dramatically, you are basically getting rid of it. let put up the next Sotomayor dissent she goes on to write uh when the executive oh we should just write consistent with that executive order secretary linda mcmand gutted the department's workforce firing over 50% of its staff overnight in her own words that mass termination served as quote the first step on the road to total shutdown of the department that is the essentially the lawbreaker telling you their intent to break the law.

And she writes, when the executive publicly announces its intent to break the law and then executes on that promise, it is the judiciary's duty to check that lawlessness, not expedited. Two lower courts rose to the occasion preliminary in joining the mass firings while the litigation remains ongoing. Rather than maintain the status quo, however, this court now intervenes, lifting the injunction in permitting the government to proceed with dismantling the department. That decision is indefensible. And just to give you a sense of what the history has been within the court, or I should say the court system, to these type of rulings.

Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a 2013 opinion when he was still a lower court judge that, quote, even the president does not have the unilateral authority to refuse to spend the funds. Instead, the president must propose the rescission of funds, and Congress then may decide whether to approve a rescission bill. That process for a whole separate tranche of funding is going on right now, and they need to do it by, I think, within days, if not today, and they are that John Thune is looking for votes to do that. this, and he can't seem to find them. So there is a process. The administration is using that process at this very moment. Yet, the Supreme Court allows it to happen for the Department of Education.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist in 1969, before he was the, to be the chief justice, wrote in a Justice Department memo, quote, it is in our view, extremely difficult to formulate a constitutional theory to justify a refusal by the president to comply with a congressional directive to spend. Yes. Yes. I mean, these are the enumerated powers as explicit as it could be

that Congress is supposed to have. They have the power of the purse. They allocate the spending if it's signed into law by Biden. Trump can't come in and claw that back unilaterally consolidating basically all of the financial powers into his discretion, but this is the natural conclusion of the unitary executive theory when we go back to George W. Bush and how so much of the fascistic administration that we're seeing right now was building off of

that both legal theory and form of governance. The Trump administration wants to fire the entire office of English language acquisition, which Congress specifically tasked with administering the department's bilingual education programs. It also seeks to eliminate, quote, all employees within the Office of General Counsel that specializes in K through 12 education funding and IDEA grants, seven of 12 regional divisions of the Office of Civil Rights, most of the federal student aid office responsible for certifying schools so that their students can receive federal financial aid. And the entire unit of the Office of Special Education and rehabilitative services

charged with providing technical assistance and guidance on complying with the Individuals with Disability and Education Act. I mean, in 2021, the funding that comes from the Education Department amounted to over 10% of all money spent on public schools that year. I mean, these people, public schools to deal with a 10% cut, particularly two months before the schools are about to open. The student loan functions are shifting to the small business administration. Who knows

if they're capable of dealing with a $120 billion a year in federal student aid? This is just it's shocking it is absolutely um uh debilitating and i want to make this also clear this is on the fact that this is going to happen

and students parents people living across the country are going to have very little awareness as to why there's no more after-school programs. They're going to have very little awareness as to why it's so much harder to get special needs education for their kids.

They're going to have very little awareness as to why there's no one to come in and say, hey, wait a second, my child has a disability. The school's not doing what they're mandated to do, or there is some type of gender discrimination, or there is a history of sexual assault on this campus, and why the federal government is not there. All of this stuff is obscured, just like in the bill that just passed. You're going to see Medicaid cuts that are going to happen in 2027, and people don't realize that the Medicaid program they belong to in whatever, it's Kentucky Connect or, you know, whatever the local name is, they're not going to realize this is a function of a bill that passed

two years ago, uh, in reconciliation. And here is the, uh, uh, the point I want to try and make about this in terms of the failure of the political leadership of the Democratic Party. And I'm looking directly at Chuck Schumer back in, uh, when he had the opportunity to stop the passage of the Republican budget bill. He was out there arguing, I can't do this. Here is his explanation on a PBS interview. Do we have that? Democrats have few options. This is the audio.

Do we have it? Let's listen to his response here. For challenging President Trump and the GOP majorities in the House and Senate. But some on the left say they had a chance to do just that last week when Senate Republicans needed votes from their Democratic colleagues to pass the government funding bill. The top Democrat, Senator Chuck Schumer, however, voted with the GOP and so, supplied that needed votes, angering many in his party. Let me be clear.

Go forward to where he starts to speak, where he starts to say, well, Jeff. Yeah, right here. Are they wrong in saying that you should have blocked it? Well, Jeff, I knew when I made my decision, there'd be a lot of people who disagreed with it. But I felt it was imperative that I do. We had an awful choice, a Hobson's choice, between a CR bill, which had no Democrat, input, a continuing resolution to fund the government, and a government shutdown. As bad as the CR bill was, the shutdown, I'd say, would be 15, 20 times worse.

And let me explain. In a shutdown, the whole government shuts down, and then the executive branch solely determines what is, quote, essential and what is not essential. So they could say on May 2 of the shutdown, snap. we just got that we just got that the executive branch is deciding what they decide is essential and not essential they are shutting down departments then he's going to talk about snap and uh medicate which the executive branch in the republican party has effectively uh hobbled continue with this food for kids not essential on day four no

transit funds, mass transit or other, are essential, will only declare as essential in the transportation bill air traffic controllers. On day six, Medicaid, half of it not essential. We can cut Medicaid, cut rural hospitals, cut community health centers, and who has the power to do this? The executive, the courts have ruled that they have no say, that the executive makes the sole determination. Now, in the old days with a shutdown, they might do little things around the edges. But look who's in charge now. Musk, Doge, and probably worst of all, this man, vote. He spells his name V-O-G-H-T. We don't need to hear any more of this. I mean, everything he predicted would happen has now happened, except for it is unclear to the American public who's

responsible for it. And this was wholly predictable, wholly predictable. You could see what the Supreme Court was doing. You knew who these people were. yet you decided, well, we don't want to, we're not willing to show the American public exactly who the Republicans are. His job is to understand who he is fighting against. And he has no idea. He is living in a completely different world. And he is, shit the bet. The bed is shot. I don't know how you unshit this, frankly. Yeah, well, now he's essentially saying that he wants to, to pursue a bipartisan approach with the upcoming appropriations bill.

Good luck with that because this ruling that we're talking about here effectively makes Congress's task of appropriating moot because the Supreme Court is greenlighting Donald Trump to impound on the other end of things. And this is the effect of having a Republican Party that's essentially fascistic and a completely corrupted and impotent Democratic Party that's unable to fight against this, at least on the leadership level here. And how do you explain to the American public? Is this the Republican Party doing this?

Or is it the Supreme Court or what? I mean, it is so convoluted now as a political message. There is, you know, there's no way to communicate this to people. And just for those people who said, like, well, we couldn't imagine the Republican Party wanted to get rid of. of the Department of Education. The Republican Party has been talking about this. Well, first of all,

they rolled it back when it was first started in Reconstruction. Yep. Because the Department of Education was first established to make sure that all of our citizens, particularly freed slaves, got educated. It was called the Office of Education then, and Andrew Johnson got it. The first one is the Department of Education.

education and then Johnson dropped it down to an office. It's been an office of education up until 1970-ish. But the bottom line is this entity was set up to make sure that we have a, all of our citizens have access to education, and that is why the Republicans have been against it for so long. Put up these quotes. You want John McCain, the Maverick. He was for cutting the Department of Education. How about the reasonable Mitt Romney?

Here's McCain. He backed the abolishing the Department of Education back in the day because, you know, as a Goldwater, Arizona Republican, didn't like exactly who was getting educated at the time. Here is number two. This is Mitt Romney. the reasonable Republican he'd slash the Department of Education

Go back in time a little bit We got Dole in 1995 Dill wants to cut four departments Education Energy Commerce and HUD and his hit list And also our boy New Gingrich Gingrich goes on record

Abolish the Education Department We got a couple of them And here's a couple of videos Of folks you may remember Here's Rick Perry Saying that he would Cut the Department of Education Oh he remembered this one

It's three agencies of government when I get there that are gone, commerce, education, and the, what's the third one there? Let's see. EPA? EPA, there you go. No, okay. Let's stop. Let's stop. Jeviseise. Seriously, is EPA the one you were talking about? No, sir. You can't name the third one? The third agency of government, I would do away with the education, the, uh, the, uh, commerce we get the point whoops that was a very fun moment in 2012 and here is ronald regan

calling for the uh... for the uh... dismantling of the department of education i propose and would have already started if your hypothesis is correct a planned and orderly transfer back to the states and local communities of functions the federal government is usurped

and which it has proven it is incapable of operating and one of the first of those would be welfare one of the second would be in the field of education i would like to dissolve the 10 billion dollar national department of education created by president carter and turn schools back to the local school districts where we built the greatest public school system the world has ever seen okay and understand this is the same guy who started is uh a 1980 campaign uh at the neshoba county fair just a couple of miles away from where those civil rights workers were killed in 1969 in Mississippi.

This is always been a question of how can we avoid, how can we make it impossible to make sure that the full range of the American citizenry gets educated? And the Republicans have finally been able to achieve what they have been looking to achieve. And that is to dismantle particularly those parts of the Department of Education that ensured that education, a quality education was available to all our citizens. And it is a failure of the Democratic leadership to not see this coming and to not make it clear to the American public where the Republicans stood on this. It is not enough that in Chuck Schumer's heart,

he is for the Department of Education. It's not enough for him to sit there saying, this is crazy. Who could have expected this? It's just an abject failure of leadership. All right, we've got to take a break. In a second, we'll be talking to Laura Windsor of Undercurrent TV on a big story she has,

some secret recordings of a Ken Paxton lieutenant who basically outlined how the Republicans are attempting to fight the fight against climate change by inhibiting investment in any type of alternative power sources. We'll be right back after this. Thank you. You know, I'm going to be able to be. And then, you know, I'm going to be. I don't know.

We are back. Sam Cedar. Emma Vigland on The Majority Report. It is a pleasure to welcome to the program. Lauren Windsor. She's the EP of the undercurrent. And folks may know her as the most recent thing that made a big news was a recording that you made of Sam Alito's wife, Mrs. Alito. I can't remember her name. You probably. do, where she was talking about that flag across the bay and how she was going to put up a flag called Vagonia. Lauren Windsor, welcome to the program. Thanks for having me, Sam. Thanks, Emma. You really provided us with some incredible, incredible laughs, including you are our merch muse.

We, like, got a bunch of our viewers to put together a shirt with Vorgonia on it. We ended up selling this, so we got to give you credit for this. This was, like, hilarious to listen to a shirt. You will be getting a T-shirt. Yes, you've got to get one. I need you to go to autograph it, please. She sounded, sure, she sounded so unhinged in that clip. Like, was that your reaction in person as it was happening?

Did she have some liquid courage to share this stuff with you? I mean, this is not the interview. So I imagine that she, you know had had several losses but um all right well let's um let's uh let's get into this you got a story that just broke on rolling stone um and i give us a little backdrop to i i don't know if folks know about the ESG um uh things like that kind of investing the net zero banking alliance uh net zero asset managers. What is that world? Well, so, ESG, it's been around for a long time. Really, since the early 2000s, is probably better known as socially responsible investing.

But it really gained traction during the Biden administration in letters to CEOs that Larry Fink would write. And he started writing these letters in like 2012, but they became more and more sort of emphatic about sustainability and the role of climate change in investment making decisions. And so about 2020, 2021, he issued a letter where he said that... And Larry Frank, we should say, is the CEO of BlackRock? Yes. And he's the, really the sort of boogeyman of this entire right-wing network that is funded and fueled by Leonard Leo. that's attacking the war on woke, this war on woke capitalism. The theory being that Wall Street is, you know, super leftist.

But so Larry Fink's been the evangelizer of ESG and because he's a Democrat and because he's talked about, well, I should say, because he also runs the largest asset manager in the country, it now has over $12 trillion in assets under management. He is their primary target to take out. And we should say, you know, I'm no fan of Black Rock, but I was always fascinated over the past year or so when folks like Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon and many on the right started to demonize Black Rock in the, particularly in the run-up to the election. And I really couldn't figure out why.

We should say Leonard Leo was the former, like I think. essentially the guy behind the Federalist Society. And when he left the Federalist Society, having stacked the judiciary with judges who, you know, made rulings like the one yesterday about the Department of Education, he got a billion dollars to essentially... 1.6 billion.

Where did that come from? It came from an industrialist from Chicago named Barry Side. He's like super reclusive and not much is known about him prior to this coming out that he was selling his company and just bequeathing all of, you know, the proceeds from the sale of it to Leonard Leo in a way that sheltered the sale from taxes. Oh, that's convenient. And do we have a notion of what Leonard Leo has been doing broadly or is it just really glimpses? Well, he talked about it. He came out. There was a piece in Axios that really announced, you know, he's leaving the Federalist Society. You know, obviously he still has ties there, but to become the chairman of CRC advisors and also to run the Marble Freedom Trust. So the Marble Freedom Trust is the main vehicle through which they disperse all this money. CRC advisors is a for-profit arm that provides services. to all the entities in the orbit of the network.

So they've actually been under investigation for self-enrichment because of all the money that's being paid through Leonard Leo and his firm on a profit basis. It's basically like sort of a nice laundering apparatus, right? You donate this money to these not-for-profits. They pay your business to provide services. That money comes back to you,

and it can just sort of like it just keeps going around in a circle on some level. Well, you know, I understand the concept of, you know, keeping money aligned within, you know, your network, you know, so that you're strengthening the people who are fighting for the issues that you believe in. But we're talking about self-enrichment on a scale of like, you know, the D.C. Attorney General opened a probe into it, and they actually moved the head, ostensibly moved the headquarters from D.C. to Texas to avoid that probe. Wow.

And the thing that we broke in the story, actually, was that we have the documentation showing that the 85 fund. It was the 85 fund, not Marble Freedom Trust, but the 85 fund is one of the entities that disperses a lot of this money. so it's one of the conduits. It was the one that moved from D.C. to Texas. All right. So walk us through this now. You went to, where is it that you went to get this tape? Well, so I was at the Sea Island Resort where the conference was happening.

I was not inside the conference because it was, you know, an invite-only type of affair. It was not something that you could just register and go. But I had a source who was there, and so I got audio from the source, and voila. And tell us a little bit more about the Sea Island conference. Like, who's there? I mean, you know, it's a smaller affair, but, you know, very insular, very exclusive, very tied in, you know, highest levels of Republican politics. So, you know, you have like Alec, the CEO of Alec, Lisa Nelson was there. Alec is the American Legislative Exchange Council, which set up model legislation where

Republican state lawmakers go. And that's how we see from state to state similar laws being introduced into these state legislatures through Alec. And Alec was funded largely by the Coke network. And so just, you know, to to keep people up to speed on this stuff. Yeah. They've long been affiliated with the Cokes, but they are very allied with Leonard Leo and get money from his entities as well,

significant amounts of money from those entities. So, Alec, the State Financial Officers Foundation, which is like Alec, but for treasurers. So when you're talking about ESG, they've been leading the charge in trying to implement ESG like enforcement actions. So the theory being in Texas, for example, that BlackRock by using ESG is discriminating

against the energy industry. And so they passed a law called SB 13, which would allow Texas to block financial firms from the bond market if they found them to be. discriminating against the energy industry. And so, like, the comptroller, Glenn Hagar, you know, can then say, oh, I find that you are discriminating against the fossil fuel industry. And so I will put you on a list that now means that, you know, the state of Texas will

not do business with you and we can block you from the bond market. I mean, this is nuts. The idea that you're going to inhibit, I guess, investing in any alternative. alternative energy sources and basically force people to support and to invest in oil companies. All right. So to describe for us what this tape is. Well, so this particular conversation, it was a fireside chat between, the name of the conference was a Consumers Research Summit.

And so Consumers Research is run by a lieutenant. a mentee of Leonard Leo's, Will Hild, who came out of the Federalist Society and that whole, you know, a group. He's talking to Brent Webster, who's the first assistant attorney general to Ken Paxson. And, you know, they've just come out of, you know, having a lot of wins against the banks. And I should say there's two separate sets here of financial firms. There's the banks and then the asset managers. So asset managers being BlackRock, Vanguard State Street. These are the guys that are, you know, running your retirement funds,

you know, running your retirement accounts. So anyway, they're like, okay, we've had all success with getting them to drop out of the Net Zero alliances. And so the Net Zero alliances are basically global voluntary associations where people who are at the financial firms that our members are saying, in our investment decisions, you know, the companies that we invest in, we're going to be working towards getting everybody on board with reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050, which, you know, a lot of people, I would say on the left would criticize these net zero alliances and being like greenwashing for corporate America, like, hey, we're doing something without, you know, really putting anything in a motion that's going to structurally

really have the power to mitigate climate change. So the right clearly sees it as some type of threat. Well, the right, I think they know better, but they want to, it's a cudgel to say like anybody who's taking any action whatsoever against climate change. And you should also remember it's not just climate change, it's DEI. So this is anything that's a diversity initiative. Like if you're seen to be inclusive of, you know, trans people, then, you know, you could be facing a campaign, a pressure campaign from consumers research or any of the groups in this network. But anyway, so Webster, he says he's like, you know, you have this, you dropped this lawsuit.

against Black Rock, and then all these banks, you know, dropped out of the Net Zero alliances. Tell us about your role in that. And so he talks about it. And then Will isn't satisfied with that explanation. He's like, but, you know, really, though, to the outside trained eye, it looked like these were separate things. But tell us, like, the backstory. And so Webster's, like, more than happy. Like, we're not recording this, right?

Yeah, let's play this clip. Tell them about what was going on behind the scenes with Texas and the bank. You had a different conversation related to any of those stuff, but also included some of Texas laws, and you've got something beautiful. We're not recording this, right? No. Okay, well, I'll be happy really, please don't vote me, because it's all the inside story on this.

So when we approach this case, we decided we're going to bring a holistic, problem-solvement approach, but I like to bring to all of our time. What are all the tools in our toolbox in the tag in ESG? And we literally went through our list of our consumer laws. We have our antitrust laws. We have criminal laws, right? There are being some criminalification here. We have some banking laws.

And then we have this nice tool that the Texas legislature is giving us, given us. Jason, I think you voted on these. And your wife might have a representative who's here as well. Thank you, guys, by the way, for what you've done for Texas. So they gave us this really nice tool that allows the Attorney General's office to block banks from the bond market. So the bond market in every state is massive because bonds, that's how your ISDs, your counties, in your cities, that's how they largely fund a lot of their building projects. And in Texas, we have a good bond rate, so banks want to invest billions of dollars in Texas. And so the legislature gave us this tool that said

If you're going to discriminate against the energy industry Or against guns We're going to keep you out of that thought line Okay And before I got there For those you don't know, I'm kind of aggressive I was a prosecutor for years I fired a lot of people that were anti-me

And I paid a lot of prices for firing people But I believe in staying on mission And focused on winning And so I came in and I was like I think we need to keep these people out the bond market because they're discriminating against the well industry and it's guns. And you would believe how these government lawyers may, like, oh, the whole bond market will shut down.

I mean, they will all be, and we'll have no one funding our bonds. I was like, there's no way they're going to turn down all the money they're making on the bond market here. All right. Let's stop it there. So just to catch up, this guy's coming in. He says, you know, he wants to brag about how, uh, what a brilliant guy he was. and is and he wants to also make sure that nobody's recording this and so he talks about um how the

texas legislature which apparently his wife is part of and some of his friends there i mean they're all there in the room uh created this law that said like you mentioned earlier loren that if if if investors discriminate against fossil fuels or guns which is what they would also call the free market, right? Like you're supposed to be allowed to decide what you want to invest in. You can be kept from this multi-billion dollar bond market in Texas. And when he brings this up, all the pinheads in his office were like, oh, you can't do that.

It's going to crash the bond market. Let's jump ahead to where he tells the story of being in the office with Governor Paxton, when who comes in here into the office that he is essentially a strong army? Well, he's not in the office. It's in the governor's mansion. In the governor's mansion, sorry, yes. He's having dinner with Governor Abbott and Governor Abbott's chief counsel, all these Wells Fargo executives and Ken Paxson.

And so he tells the story of shaking down Wells Fargo. All right. Let's start it from a little bit later. Do you have that, Brian? Yep. Everyone provided a response to us. One of the banks, though, went to the governor's office, and that name, Wells Fargo, operates in Texas.

And look, they have a lot of employees in Texas. They have a lot of business in Texas. We like having their business. So they went to the governor, and the governor doesn't know as much of this time about the governor having a great guy. But he didn't know much about our strategy with the bonds. So he sits down in his dining room in his house

with me and Kim Paxton and his general counsel and all the most bargain. And they do this big pitch of, hey, can you guys just let us get into the bond market again? We're so good for Texas. I let it play out, and I'm the smallest guy in the room. I mean, we got Ken Paxton, we got Greg Abbott. They're doing most of the talking. Greg Abbott's like, maybe we can get it back to the bar market, Ken.

And so I just wait for all I'm going to jump in. And really appropriately jump in, too, because, you know, I'm a lower ranking. Well, hey, one of our idea, I mean, this is one way to solve it, Governor. But another way to solve it, I think, could be that Wells Fargo can just leave the Net Zero of Banking Alliance, and then we can reinstate the bond market. Well, at that point, Governor Apple's like, well, maybe that is a solution. What do you all think? So all of a sudden, Wells Fargo went for winning to massively losing. They all turned bright red, and they said, well, that seems to be an antrust violation if we were to leave.

And I go, that's not how that works. I go, you guys know how close? Do you know how close you are in age two right now for the law? this being an antitrust violation, which they were ready for that comments to be made, because they thought this was like that. And there's a GR meeting. And so, uh, they're still turning red, and then we need to talk to our lawyers about this. And I go, great, just to phone the idea. And I was like, yeah, let's talk about this more. So great conversation. Love the fly list. Fast forward. We see BlackRock. And I've been waiting for this day.

I have the phone number for the guy for Wells Park. I call him about him. I go, hey, he started filing. He goes, no. And I go, he pulled it up. And I go, he pulled it up. And I'd send a land and I mean you need to read this because you guys might be next they left a week later they left the next to your banking lines and then all the banks follow so they're all deathly afraid of being sued because my unlike theory stands none of them wants to be subject to depositions none of them wants to be subject to discovery so you're going to see interesting trends on these things and I'll encourage you guys anybody who has power over state enforcers or influence over state subpoena power they do not want to

to respond to your subpoenas, they know that what's in there is not good for them. So just keep that in mind. If you have any influence over that, states should be ramping up right now their enforcement actions, both at the legislative level and also at the executive level. Okay. I mean, there it is. They, uh, he outlines using lawsuits and essentially blackmail, uh, to get these people to, to leave an alliance to invest in alternative energy sources or just investment groups that won't invest in fossil fuels and encourages everybody in the room

who are all similarly situated in different states around the country to essentially do the same. I mean, you talk about weaponizing government. This is pretty stunning. I should note one thing that we wanted to include in the story, but it became something that read a bit confusing, but just so your readers know, or readers, your audience, your listeners know, when you said his wife was involved with it, so Webster was thanking a Texas state representative named Jason Isaac. Jason Isaac's wife is currently a state representative. Jason was working for the Texas Public Policy Foundation and introduced the law, SB 13, that allowed Texas to be able to force these financial institutions out of the bond market.

And Jason tells a story in a different panel where he talks about how he passed that law in the first place. And what he says is, you know, I was talking with Dan Patrick's office and who's a lieutenant governor. I was talking to their staffers. And we kept going back and forth on, you know, boycott fossil fuel companies or boycott oil and gas. And I, to me, when I first heard it, I'm like, why wouldn't they be on the same page? There's actually a reason that, there would be a fight over that language. But anyway, Jason Isaac prevailed for it to say fossil fuels because it was a bit of subterfuge with the staffers.

But he prevails on the language. And he says, what they didn't know that I knew, it's by saying fossil fuels to include coal, it meant that we could capture more banks on the list because they had specific goals against the coal industry. So even if it wasn't coal industry in Texas, it was coal industry nationwide. Everywhere. Exactly. So like for them to come out and say that we're passing these laws

because we're protecting our state industries is total BS because he's saying right there like, you know, we don't really, you know, the only reason I included coal in the law in the first place was because I knew I could use it to go after bank. And I talked to a reporter in Texas, Chris Tomlinson for The Chronicle, who reports extensively on climate and business. And he was like, well, the reason that Patrick wouldn't be on the same pages, Isaac, is because he's a big supporter of the natural gas industry. And he personally is responsible for getting billions of dollars of government funding in line for new natural gas plants.

and he was like, why would Dan Patrick want to give coal a foothold in the industry in Texas when it's like one of the most competitive energy markets in the country? And right now, there are natural gas companies that are pulling out of this fund because the price of natural gas is not high enough to warrant building the plants. So they're actually actively trying to the government, or I should say, you know, people who are allies of natural gas, trying to suppress coal in the market in Texas to make natural gas more expensive so that it makes these investments feasible. So tell me what the fallout do you anticipate. I mean, this is like one of those things where we're just sort of on the sidelines watching these two entities fight on some. level. I don't know how much people are, you know, at least on the right, are going to get

exercised about the idea of a government being weaponized to help fossil fuels in the gun industry. But what happens now? Like, I mean, would Larry Fink the CEO of BlackRock or would the people at Wells Fargo? Are there, I mean, are they going to have stockholder issues? What? What happens next? Well, I mean, I think that they have stockholder issues either way. So basically the folks in the Liner-Leo Network group are responding to the trend on the left of waging proxy battles. So they're getting more and more involved in waging these proxy battles to counter the left's influence. But they're in all of their rhetoric, like calling, you know, big banks, like leftists, like lumping them in with the left in a way that, to me, as someone who came out of, like, Occupy Wall Street, it's just mind-boggling that these people who fought against Dodd-Frank are now saying that, like, Larry Fink is a Marxist.

Like, it's insane. Well, they're like just weaponizing the kind of hatred of the base towards whether it be minorities or leftists, what have you, in order to circle the wagons for the people that fund their campaigns. Like when they talk about how this is discriminating against the corporate persons, the oil and gas industry, what they're actually doing is discriminating against sustainable energy by. trying to fortify these companies that are failing? Well, if it were actually a free market, like, I could understand passing the law to protect your own industries in the state, right? Like, you know, if Texas, if all the elected leaders are like, we're going to protect the oil and gas industry because it's vital to our economy from a free market basis,

you know, BlackRock and all these banks have every right to make investment decisions how they see fit. Texas has that right, too. I wouldn't have a problem. What I have a problem with is they don't stop there. It never stops at we're just going to make the decision not to do business with you. Now we are going to use different tools in order to, you know, just beat you into submission, which is what Webster is describing here because it wasn't good enough to just like block them from the bond market.

Then it's, hey, now we're also going to, you know, drop these antitrust lawsuits. against you, which is currently something that Black Ross is going through. And they're not going to drop that suit. This is something that they're intent on getting a scalp. So how does some of the other bankers react to this? I mean, are they aware of how concerted this effort is? Is this going to be a revelation to people who are in that world? Are they going to have a better sense of, like, exactly how coordinated,

Nate at all of this is? Definitely. They've been under attack for several years now, so I'm sure they know that it's very well funded and that it's the, you know, a movement that the network that Leonard has built, that the conservative movement has built around this campaign is substantial. I don't know that they know that it's as substantial. as it is. And I do think it will be illuminating for people how devoted they are in the ways that they talk about really destroying any entity that has any inclination whatsoever that they

describe as leftist. They're all about defunding the left and anything that has any association with it. Lastly, let me ask you this. The, um, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the that we did hear from right-wing media personalities in demonizing Black Rock, how much do you think that was core? I mean, you run in these circles, many times unbeknownst them. How much do you think that that was, you know, how incentivized were they to get into that fight? you know, by these networks? Well, I mean, I've been working on, you know, like some relationship maps I think will be more illuminating to this, but to your point. But these groups are all funded in some way, like they're part of this ecosystem.

And so, you know, Chris Rufo and Manhattan Institute and Heritage Action and, you know, the various spokespeople associated, like Robbie Starbuck, who talks about this a lot, consumers research with Will Hill, then going out and talking about Larry Fink, you know, they have an entire website is like, who is Larry Fink? Different people from different organizations. I mean, all the funding is like slushing around to, so. all the different parts of the ecosystem. It's fascinating. Folks can go to rollingstone.com. We're going to put up a link to Rolling Stone, the piece in Rolling Stone, and, of course, to the undercurrent. Lauren Windsor, some great reporting on something that I think has really been,

obviously extremely active on the right. And I don't know that people outside of that, those circles, had been aware of what was going on. I really appreciate you coming on and telling us about it. Thanks, Sam. Thank you. All right, folks. We're going to take a break.

Head into the fun half of the program. As it were, we'll be able to talk about, I don't know, carrot cake and Epstein. and the fun half. But you're still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? I'm enjoying this.

I'm enjoying this very much. Emma loves the Epstein stuff. Well, I do. I do. I do. I like seeing them freak out and panic. And I actually think it's having an impact. I think at the very least

is creating a credibility problem for Donald Trump with some fraction of his base. And that is something I enjoy. Well, it's causing the freaks that we have to pay attention to to absolutely like their hair is absolutely on fire right now yeah there there's one other aspect of it before we go to break that i just want to talk about because um i think there could be other reasons why we're not hearing about this information that don't necessarily have to do with the child trafficking that Epstein was involved with.

Pop up this link. This is from the Democratic, from Ron Wyden, on the Democratic leader of the Senate Finance Committee. And Wyden is looking for the Epstein files, but more on the basis. of the finances. Right. And Scott Besant is the one who is actually inhibiting this stuff.

They're curious as to why Conrad Black, who, you know, was apparently associated with, I think, the Mossade was it, right? the why Conrad Black was giving Epstein $170 million for tax advice which you know this is well after Epstein was convicted and it's not like there's any indication that Epstein was some type of genius when it came to tax advice I mean there's a lot of people out there

if you are a billionaire that you can get tax advice in so i mean there i think there's probably like a a web of finance uh stuff that is um yeah that may be in those reports that may have more to do with you know uh pan bondi or president uh or trump's reluctance here stuff that may be um you know bonjino and uh cash patel never saw because there is obviously like you know laura trump came out and said uh release the files one wonders why they would do that if um if they've thought that you know there was a pee tape in there or something um yes and right i mean i think it's a mix of both financial and like sexual blackmail

like the how did fc sometimes sexual blackmail of say bank executives how no one's has been able to answer to this day how Epstein made his fortune. He was a high school teacher scooped up. Teaching math pays billions. Hired at Dalton by Barr's father, who was in the OSS, which is the forerunner

to the CIA. And then I think I said Conrad Black. I'm sorry. I meant Leon Black, not Conrad Black. Went and went on to kind of skyrocket to be the financial manager for the Victoria

secret CEO, Les Wexner, who did have some pretty deep ties to Israel, and became somehow a multi, multi, multi-billionaire overnight and all of these connections to powerful people as well. So the problem is, is that the right, well, we can talk about this, but we'll talk about this later. Let's get into it. They have no systemic critique except Jewish cabal, but there is a systemic critique here. All right, folks, we're going to head into the fun half. Just a reminder, you can support this show by becoming a member. Go to join the Majority Report.com.

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Wait a second. Hold on for a second. The majority report. Emma, welcome to the program. Hey. Fun hack. Matt. What is up, everyone?

Fun hack. No me keen. You did it. Fun pack. Let's go Brandon. Let's go Brandon. Let's go Brandon. Bradley, you want to say hello?

Sorry to disappoint. Everyone, I'm just a random guy. It's all the boys today. Fundamentally false. No, I'm sorry. Women's... Stop talking for a second. Let me finish.

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Is it me? It is you. Is it's me? How long is it's me? I think it is you. Who is you? No sound. Every single freaking day.

What's on your mind? We can discuss free markets and we can discuss capitalism. I'm going to go to life. Libertarians. They're so stupid though. Common sense says, of course. Gobbled e-gook. We fucking nailed him.

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One half. 3-8s. 9-11, for instance. $3,400, $1,900. $6.5,4, $3 trillion sold. It's a zero-sum game. Actually, you're making me think less.

But let me say this. Poop. You can call it satire. Sam goes to satire. On top of it all? My favorite part about you is just like every day, all day, like everything you do.

Without a doubt. Hey, buddy, we've seen you. All right, folks, folks, folks. It's just the week being weeded out, obviously. Yeah, sundown guns out. I don't know. But you should know. People just don't like to entertain ideas anymore.

I have a question. Who cares? Our chat is enabled, folks. I love it. I do love that. Look, got a jump. You've got to be quick. I get a jump.

I'm losing it, bro. Two o'clock. We're already late, and the guy's being a dick. So screw him. Sent to a gulaw? Outrageous. Like, what is wrong with you? Love you.

Love you. Bye-bye.