Will Cain Country - Kamala Picks Far-Left Walz For VP! PLUS, Deleting The Attempt On Trump's Life

Episode Date: August 6, 2024

Story #1: It's Official: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) is Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate. Will breaks it all down with the reporter that owns the Midwest, Washington Examiner Correspondent Salena Zito. Story #2: The incredible disappearing story- with help from big tech and the liberal media. Deleting the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. A conversation with The Crew. Story #3: Will looks back on Maui, a year after one of the worst natural disasters in American history. Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing [e-mail] Subscribe to The Will Cain Show on YouTube here: Watch The Will Cain Show! Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One, it's official. Governor Tim Walts of Minnesota is the running mate for Vice President Kamala Harris in her run for the presidency. We break it all down with the reporter who owns the Rust Belt, the reporter who owns the Midwest, Selina Zito. Two, the incredible disappearing story with the help admission and apology of Facebook. with the help, non-admission, and certainly no apology from Alphabet, from Google. The incredible disappearing story that is the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. And three, $4.03 billion. The citizens of Maui have settled with seven defendants

in what, I guess, in some way could be an admission of culpability. Maybe is the beginning of not being made. made whole, but some step forward in progress for one of the worst natural disasters, disasters in American history. I give you my update from Mountain. It is the Will Kane Show streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel, the Fox News Facebook page streaming live on the radio. Market to Market, from New York to California, from Texas to Wisconsin.

The Wilcane Show was always on demand by subscribing at Apple or Spotify, or if you want to watch us talk here on the Will Can Show, just hit subscribe on YouTube. We're growing in expected and unexpected ways. We're excited as I come back from vacation about the future here of the Wilcane Show. We're adding markets like KRLD, 1080 in Dallas, and we're adding audience. on YouTube. Millions last week on Facebook. Just an incredible community that we hope to be building here together. Speaking of community, a little bit later this week, I'm diving in, literally, diving into the Hudson. It is the New York City Navy Seal Swim, my second year in a row.

I lost my running buddy. I lost my partner. I lost Pete Hegsett in the Navy Seals Swim, where we go from Liberty State Park in New Jersey to the Statue of Liberty, to Ellis Island, to Manhattan and ultimately ground zero, three miles swim at each stop, three stops, 100 pull-ups, 22 pull-ups. Each of those numbers meaningful, the number of pull-ups at each stop,

signifying the number of veterans who on a regular basis commit suicide. And it is a real accomplishment in brotherhood. to run through the downtown streets of Manhattan to ground zero with 60-some-odd navy seals, with fire engines lining the streets of Manhattan, with first responders like firemen, Jersey State Police, and the applause of crowds is humbling and in some small way for someone like me a chance for a bit of brotherhood with America's ultimate warriors. But it will be a literal act of brotherhood for me this year as my brother has signed

up. While I lost my brother on television, I gained my brother in life. One of my brothers in life. My brother will be doing it with me this coming weekend, the New York City Navy Sealswim, which will air on Fox & Friends Saturday. Also, because we're talking about the community and a sense of brotherhood, I know at least some of you will be joining me. Brent Suriano, longtime friend and listener here of the Will Kane Show, signed up on his own for the New York. Navy SEAL swim. If any of you others listening are participating, you come, you find me. There's only going to be about 250 of us. We high five, maybe we swim, we work out, and then we grab a Miller light at a pub in downtown Manhattan. So Brent, anyone else here

who is in the community of the Wilhelmian show in the comment section who wants to do it in the future, I probably will be doing it in 2025, but I definitely will be doing it this year and you're invited to come hang out to be a member of the community. We've got a big show for you today. I want to talk about how it is that the first assassination attempt in 40 years on an American president has totally been wiped from the public consciousness. Arguably one of the biggest stories of the past half century, maybe only surpassed by the fact that a sitting president was forced out.

out by his own party in what amounts to an intra-party coup and replaced on the ticket, not because of his mental frailty, but because his inability to win an election, which is also once-and-a-half-century type of story. But how it is that an assassination attempt on Donald Trump was wiped from your Google search, was wiped in an image search on Facebook, and has largely and somewhat successfully been wiped from the public's consciousness. that a little bit later here on the will can show but the news of the day the big story of the day is that we now have a team for the democrats we have a vice presidential running mate to go along

with current sitting vice president kamala harris in her race for president so who is minnesota governor tim waltz let's start there with story number one tim waltz is the governor of Minnesota, and in making a chart of pros and cons, it at least at first blush appears to be heavily tilted toward the cons. We'll start with the cons. We'll see if we can land on the pros. Working against Tim Walts, first and foremost, number one, is it is in effect a double down for Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris is attempting to be the brusely of politics

to be like water. She is fluid in not only her code switching and cultural pandering, but she is fluid in the policies she seems to support anti-fraking, pro-fraking, hard on crime, soft-on-crime. But one of the things that is undeniable

is her past, is her actual track record. And that reflects the furthest left center in the United States Senate. Kamala Harris is, without a doubt, a banner raised under the flag of progressivism. She is one of the pulling factors making Joe Biden, one of the furthest left presidents in American history. Joe Biden, by all accounts, both his history and most likely his instincts, is not far left. That doesn't mean his administration hasn't been far left. He's just been pulled along with the likes of Ilan Omar, Jamal Bowman.

Incidentally, those are the same members of Congress, the squad, who today are celebrating Governor Tim Walts of Minnesota, because he represents, in essence, a double down on progressivism, a double down on the far left of the party. In fact, Tim Walts has said socialism. It's just another word for neighbor. Here are some of the greatest hits from your new candidate for Vice President Tim Walts. But we can get out there, reach out, make the case, and for one thing, don't ever shy away from our progressive values. One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness.

Should Minnesota be a sanctuary state? If the definition of that is that the federal government enforces immigration law and local law enforcement enforces local law, then yes. Should cities be allowed to be sanctuary cities? Yes, local control. control stuff right number two it seems like elected officials are always surrounded by lots of people staff other lawmakers what is the last thing that you did truly out in the public truly by yourself I went to Menards and bought an air filter for my furnace one person's definition of socialism is another person's definition of neighborly

Tim Waltz is a double down on progressivism Tim Waltz is a double down on the far left You heard in that montage some of the policies that back up this accusation, not something an accusation, but a proud brag from Tim Walts. Those policies include signing a bill to give a driver's license to illegal immigrants in Minnesota. Now, I don't know where you may fall on that particular issue, but if you're opposed to illegal immigration, why would you give further incentive to illegal immigration? Left, right, Democrat, Republican, you can't deny the power of incentive.

And there's a huge magnetic draw to the United States of America. Part of that's our culture, part of that's our economy. When everyone wants to indict the United States as incredibly racist in this bigoted hellhole, you just ask, if you took down all national borders, would the United States experience a net inflow or net outflow of immigration? It's not a hypothetical. It's not a theory. We know the answer because even with borders, we have a constant net inflow of illegal immigration.

It's not because they're coming to a racist bigoted hellhole. and it's not simply because they're coming to a better economy they're seeking a better life and when you incentivize a better life like oh it's going to be easy for you to come on over and in this state only a few by the way like i'll give you another example new mexico i know i personally know illegal immigrants in dallas texas who have gone and gotten their license in new mexico i know this because i'm friends with some of these guys our lives intersecting interesting very ways, and I'm a curious person. So I ask, hey, how do you get a driver's license when you are here illegally? And they told me, oh, you can do that in New Mexico. And oh, now you can do that as well

under the stewardship of Governor Tim Walts in Minnesota, incentive, magnetism, pull to commit a crime to be sanctuary in Minnesota for illegal immigration. You also heard him talk there about Crime. You've heard him. You know he ran the stewardship over Minnesota in 2020. What happened in 2020? Well, of course, that was the George Floyd riots era. That's when Minneapolis burned, literally burned. And Tim Walts, and for that matter, Kamala Harris, who helped create bail funds to get out those rioters, watched as his own state. burned. He's got to own that. She's got to own that. That's a double down on what happened in 2020. I think it's also interesting and noteworthy to talk about the surprise, the surprise today that it is Tim Walts because everyone was expecting it to be Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro. And Shapiro would have made a lot of sense. It used to be people wrote that presidential elections came down to Florida, Florida, Florida. Now,

Everyone acknowledges that it's Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Democrats have committed to spend over $100 million in the state of Pennsylvania. Republicans more than $100 million in the state of Pennsylvania. It's a fight for Pennsylvania, and you would think a feather in the cap or a set of boxing gloves in that fight would be the sitting governor of the state of Pennsylvania. Josh Shapiro, but he wasn't selected. Instead, it was Tim Walts. Why? Why? Why? Well, some are saying there was a great amount of influence from Senator John Federman saying

and warning of the Harris campaign, hey, Shapiro's incredibly ambitious and he will put himself above the ticket any chance that he gets. He will be about Shapiro, not about Harris. But it can't be policy. People have pointed out, Shapiro wrote a college paper in support of Israel. Well, all of these guys, almost all of these guys, these potential candidates, whether It was Mark Kelly or Andy Bashir or Roy Cooper or Tim Walts or Josh Shapiro supported, while they kind of caveated and pivoted it and did it softly, supported Israel in its war against Hamas. So that's not a differentiating factor for Josh Shapiro.

So what is? Well, many are pointing out what is, is his last name of Shapiro, is that he's Jewish. that Kamala Harris ran away from Shapiro because he was a Jew not because of any internal baked-in anti-Semitism but because of concerns about how that plays among her electorate, which then can bring up

how much anti-Semitism is baked into the electorate of the Democratic Party. Policies past, this is a double-down on the far left. And then that brings me to one of the biggest lessons in politics that I feel like I've ever learned. I mentioned it even yesterday. Ronald Reagan's communication advisor said it's something like 70 to 80% how you look, 15 to 20% how you sound, and only 5% to 10% what you say. Tim Walts looks like a frumpy old white dude. I don't know whether to put that in the con or pro category. I don't know whether or not that's an asset or a liability.

Does it give him an everyman appeal? Or does it make him hard to watch? Maybe, like some of us, he's got a face for radio. I don't know. And that takes us over to the pros. Maybe he has that every man appeal. That's the argument for many in support of him today. He was a football coach.

He served in the military. He was a teacher. He's a regular Midwestern every day. American. I will say he has an edge, so don't, don't overlook this frumpy 60-year-old man. I've heard him. He's a fighter. My Fox and Friends Weekend co-host, Pete Heggseth, who comes from Minnesota, was speaking earlier today on Fox, and he said he's got thin skin. Well, I actually consider this a pro or an asset in this category for Harris-Walt in that Donald Trump's going to be on office. He's going to be on the front foot. He's going to attack. He's

going to be aggressive. He's going to go after Kamala Harris. I think now she has a partner who will throw back punches. But this is the lesson with Trump and will soon be the lesson with Waltz. When you throw punches, you can land punches, but you can also have people ducking, lean him back to make the metaphor, literal, leaning away turned off by that kind of aggressiveness. Right now as I look at it, Governor Tim Walts has more. cons than pros. That's backed up by Donald Trump's post on truth social. In response to this news, he simply said, thank you. So let's break it all down. Let's get into this with the reporter who absolutely knows the Midwest, who I would argue owns the Rust Belt. Let's break it down

with Selena Zito now here on the Wilcane show. Selina. Great to have you on on the show today. I spoke to you this weekend on Fox and Friends. You and I were prepared to talk about and break down Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro. Here we are today. Nope, it's Tim Walts, Governor of Minnesota. Your reaction?

I'm not surprised. And here's why. Last night, I don't know if you saw any of the video of Shapiro playing basketball with his son. in his backyard, right? I felt like he was projecting to everyone. I'm good with this. This is where I want to be with my family, with my home state.

So no matter what is going to happen, and I suspect he knew at that moment, I'm good with this. I honestly think this is the best thing that could happen for Josh Shapiro. I suspect he probably thinks the same thing as well. He has wildly popular in my home state. He owns 64% approval. rating. He won plenty of Republican votes. There are literally Trump-Shapiro voters out there,

right? That's how popular he is. And but when you become the vice president, you lose your autonomy. You become them. They don't become you. So he would have to literally drag her across the state and say, yeah, she's for fracking. She's not going to take your guns away. And no was going to believe him. And I think this makes his future much brighter than if he was, you know, her second. And it's really been interesting to me. So I have covered walls since 2006 midterms. You're probably not old enough to remember them. But they were a big deal. And center right Democrats, one, house seats. They had no business running in. or winning, but because Republicans had taken their eye off the ball and become two establishment,

these Democrats won. Rahm Emanuel, I will to this day say he was brilliant in those candidates, including Walt, who he picked, to run in these Republican districts and won. That was the beginning. I wrote that back in 2006 of our populism because Republicans rejected the establishment. they were sending us a message and we weren't really listening to it. And so 2006, Waltz is this NRA supported, APEC supported, Blue Dog, and he runs and governs in that way. He takes votes that way. That is why Nancy Pelosi, I mean, he's the reason Nancy Pelosi initially became the House Speaker, right?

So that relationship between those two, I believe, is actually the biggest reason he became the pick. And as we have seen demonstrated, she is the one who had the heaviest hand in picking Harris to be the vice president. She had the heaviest hand in getting Biden to drop out, running for re-election. And I'm sure she had the heaviest hand in making sure Waltz was their pick. But make no mistake about it. This decision is because they are going to run a base election. Waltz has gone from being this blue dog Democrat to as soon as he had executive power as a governor. That's important.

When you're one of 435, you're just this big. When you're the governor, you're the boss of everything. You get to do and say whatever you feel is in your heart to govern. And he's done that. And he has a record to back that up. He is not a blue dog Democrat. He's not a moderate. He's a proud prairie progressive.

And they're telling everyone this is a base election. Shapiro would have been a coalition building election. It would have been Obama 2008. However, picking waltz makes it Obama 2012 when it's about the ascendant coalition. it's fascinating some of the things you're saying to highlight two the Nancy Pelosi still wields more power within the Democratic Party than perhaps she gets enough credit I think it's often said the wizard behind the curtain the Wizard of Oz is Barack Obama but you you point out that the wizard and very well is Nancy Pelosi second this I love this idea that you bring up that when you're one of 435 and you're running in a swing district you can you need to to present yourself in a certain way that may not be completely authentic as a blue dog Democrat, an NRA Democrat. But when you're a governor with executive authority and executive power, you can be more true

to your beliefs. And so we see the real Tim Waltz as governor. So the question I have for you, and I don't think that I'm overly hyping you up as the nationally syndicated reporter who's constantly been plugged into the Midwest. So I think you're the perfect person to answer this is how does Tim Waltz play? not in Minnesota, because Minnesota is not an important swing state. It's an interesting one that we talk about, like North Carolina, perhaps, but it's not important like Wisconsin, more so Michigan, even more so Pennsylvania.

So how does Waltz play in those all important swing states? So he's going to attempt to present himself as when he goes to Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wisconsin. He's going to present himself as one of us, right? former geography teacher, high school football, assistant coach, right? He's going to be like the Will Rogers slash Mark Twain of the Democratic Party. And we saw the Democrats do this before in 2016 with Tim Kaine, another Tim. But that didn't work. It didn't resonate.

And so, you know, if I were a Democrat and I was running, this race, I would not have kicked off the campaign in Philadelphia. You're going to get a lot of votes there, but you're only going to get so much of a lot of votes. What wins the election is if you kicked it off in Erie Pennsylvania. That's where the, these smaller counties are where this election will be held. And because they didn't make that decision, I wonder if they're going to going to utilize Waltz in the way that they need to. And if they know if he can be authentic enough for Erie County, Pennsylvania, for, you know, Luzerne County, for Vern County, for Vernon County, Wisconsin, you can be folksy. And it is a lot about perception of how you, you know,

show yourself. But I will say this, voters are a lot more informed than we give them credit for. And they know a lot more information and they spend time looking up where people stand on things. And in particular in Pennsylvania, his positions about energy, which energy and agriculture are the two most dominant economic drivers in this state. Harris is far to the left and so is waltz on natural gas and on coal. and it's going to be a struggle for them. I mean, right now we have a ban on exporting natural gas, liquid natural gas out of our state. That doesn't just impact union workers, welders, right, construction workers. It also impacts suburban voters like geologists, engineers, IT specialists, you know, all of those people.

Also, huge impact on farmers. because farmers in my state and in Ohio and in portions of Michigan, they get royalties from the natural gas companies. And last year in Pennsylvania alone, it was over $193 million. That gives you the ability to buy new equipment on a family farm to be able to hire more people for the harvest, right? you are you are you are chipping away at voters in these small counties that will be the ones that actually make the difference in this election what i think it's fascinating about what you're pointing out there is we can we can it's not theory but it's often extrapolation to point out the cost to the voter when you when you inhibit fossil fuels of any type oil natural gas

meaning they're going to feel it in their home heating they're going to feel it at their gas they're going to feel it at the pump in so many different ways. But that does require a tad bit of extrapolation. But you're pointing out direct money being taken from the pocketbooks of people that show up to vote when, in the case of farmers or blue-collar workers, tied to the industry that is so big in Pennsylvania. I want to ask you, though, one more question before we move on to J.D. Vance. And that is, why was it not Josh Shapiro? This is a huge head fake.

And Carol Markowitz, who's a friend here of the Will Cain Show, who writes for the New York Post, she posted this on X. She said, Josh Shapiro had too much baggage to the Democratic vice presidential nominee. And that baggage was being Jewish. Carol is Jewish. She's pointing out that his ethnicity is what the Harris campaign ended up holding against Josh Shapiro. What do you think? Why was it not Shapiro as her running mate along with Harris? I'm sure that played a part of it. By the way, Josh is our third Jewish governor since I have been on this earth in 65 years. You know, it's really sad what has become, I'm still sort of stunned what has happened to the Democratic Party when it comes to Israel and just to the Jewish race, period. I'm sure that that was a portion of it. I don't think John Federman helped. Those two had a long.

standing feud when he was lieutenant governor and josh was the um uh state attorney general over prison reform and the prison board uh that didn't help either but i still think at the end of the day nancy got what nancy wanted we will i think it'll be interesting to see like i really think it'll be interesting to me does does she have three three home runs in a row picking Harris, getting rid of Biden, and then picking waltz? Or does this third at bat, you know, she strikes out? That's three. I mean, she has the potential, as you point out, for this to be a home run, or that's a complete three strikes for Nancy Pelosi. Let's move over to Republicans. You know, I, Selena, I spent before last weekend, a week and a half, two weeks on vacation.

It's kind of interesting when you step out of the cycle. I think it's really healthy to step out of the news cycle, kind of see where people's minds are. Yeah. And I will tell you something. You know, I'm not sure on the approval rating for J.D. Vance. I'm just being real. Like, if I step back for a minute, and I'm talking about, you know, moderate to center-right voters. I'm not talking about people that already have their minds made up who think J.D.

Vance was having intercourse with a couch. I'm talking about people who are actually open and want to vote on the right. I'm not sure about the approval rating of J.D. Vance. and he's there, he's there to win your states that we're talking about, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin. What are you getting from people in that area when it comes to Vance? They love him. Jay, I mean, look, most of Pennsylvania is in Appalachia. Most of Pennsylvania has a family member or they themselves have had that experience or know someone who has had that experience.

not just coming from nothing and making something of themselves, but also having a family member with an addiction problem, coming from a single family home. I mean, that's more normal than not these days. And so I think that what is at play with the news stories out here, right, rather than here, like I live in Western Pennsylvania. I don't live anywhere, you know, in the major media markets. So I really, have access. I mean, all I'd like to do is walk out the door and ask my neighbors, right? What do you think? And the reaction is very different on the ground. They like Vance. I think a lot of what is at play with Vance is a lot of jealous Republican establishment strategist who have, you know, sort of ambitions for their clients going forward. And so let's just put some little negative, let's make them, let's make Trump regret this, right? But, you know, when you talk to voters, they don't play that fourth level chest stuff. They're, you know, Vance is very, very relatable.

He's incredibly good on the stump. I remember I covered him at length in that Senate race. And everyone's like, he's going to lose. He's going to lose. And I'm like, no, no, he's not. Have you all been out here? Like, Tim Ryan isn't even going to win the Mahoning Valley, you know? And Vance wins by 9%.

I think it was 9 percentage points. I mean, he didn't win as much as DeWine, but DeWine's been there for he's an institution. He's been there forever. You know, Vance, that was his first political foray. And that would be considered a landslide victory in any other cycle except the ones where if you're tied to Trump, you must be defective.

selina zito nationally syndicated political reporter here on the will cane show i want to move to this with you selina i spoke about this yesterday on the will cane show i think the right has to be careful it's like we have this attraction to whatever is true regardless of how unattractive it might be even if it's the truth let me give you an example like this whole debate over is comla black or is she Indian. It is, I think I, my suspicion is it's a big turn off to a lot of people sit there and try to parse someone's race, right? Right. When they are both. And there's such thing as mixed race. And you can be both the first Indian and, and a black woman at the same time who's held office. But the truth underneath that unattractiveness is still there, which is, is she a phony? Is she playing

to whatever she needs in that given moment? So I want to bring up another story that's in that same type of vein. This is the story over Doug Imhoff, her husband, who had an affair with a nanny, I believe, I think I'm right, he impregnated the nanny, right? And then he's divorced from the then-wife. It wasn't with Kamala Harris. I guess it's worth noting the then-wife supports Kamala Harris, you know, for president. But this is part of his past. Now, one could say, okay, that's true, but A, I don't care because, of course, there's Trump and his affairs. We got over Clinton. Yeah. And we, and we as an electorate or a voting public or America got over Clinton. So do we care? That's A. But B, it's like the Kamala Harris

phony thing. It's of note, even if it's unattractive, because he's being fake. Emhoff. In that he's saying things like this. I'm going to play this clip for you of Mhoff on MSNBC really quickly that I think illustrates why this story becomes relevant, certainly true, and reveals his phoniness. Watch. Let's talk about masculinity for a moment. As being second gentleman changed your own view of perceived gender roles of what it means to be a man. This is something I've thought about a lot and something I've spoken about a lot. There's too much of toxicity. It's masculine toxicity out there. And there's We've kind of confused what it means to be a man, what it means to be masculine, where you've got

this trope out there that you've got to be tough and, you know, angry and lash out to be strong. It's just the opposite. I mean, I'm taking toxic masculinity lessons from the guy that knocks up the nanny, Selena. But here's the thing. My question for you is, am I falling for the catnip? Like, yeah, it's true. He's a phony, but voters don't want to hear about this kind of stuff. know the answer and I'm asking you, Selena. So it's a little bit of both. First of all,

I don't know anybody who talks to anybody like that, ever. I've never asked to anybody about their toxic masculinity. You know, toxic is a chemical, right? It's a harsh chemical. It doesn't even belong in an analysis of someone's personality, right, as far as I'm concerned. But, you know, Look, I think it's important to point out the phoniness. Yeah, of course it is. Do you run on that? No. All Trump and Vance should be running on is the economy, the economy, the economy, immigration, the economy. That's it. You know, I mean, the other phoniness, this is, I have a story about this today, gets me so mad. They run in Pennsylvania on taking women's reproductive rights away. That is never going to happen in Pennsylvania. It is established law. Never, ever, ever, ever. And yet you see Shapiro, you see Casey, you see Summerlee, you see everyone that's a Democrat running on, the Republicans are going to take abortion access away. It cannot happen in my state. So I think that kind of phoniness should be pointed out too. But, you know, I think there's a way to point out the phoniness and

maybe you don't do it from the principle and you do it from people that are outside the principle. But it is important because they just, it's, it's just as though the voters believe that, that the elite media thinks they're dumb and, and thinks that they, that the elite media believes that they can get away with anything. And there is a larger portion, even people that are totally bought into Trump who are super tired of it and and and they do like someone calling it out and you know what it is selina to your point it is like calling me dumb and looking deep into my eyes and smiling while you call me stupid because it's part of this entirety of rules for thee but not for me to me it's all tied together it's not about whether or not Trump has the purity to lodge

this argument. It's whether or not you can be the mega preacher that tells me to tithe while you fly on a free of private jets. It's Gavin Newsom telling me to stay inside while he dines at French Laundry restaurant. It's Nancy Pelosi talking to me about the economy during COVID in opening her freezer to all manner of fancy ice cream. It's telling me that I'm racist while you send your kids to all white private schools. It's telling me, you know, that you understand the common man while you're a limousine liberal. It's the constant, you know, preaching in this case of toxic masculinity while you knock up the nanny. It's your own phoniness and falsehood and hypocrisy that makes me feel like you spit in my face and tell me that it's raining and you tell me I'm stupid and smile in my face.

Yeah, it's absolutely. I mean, voters, you know, one of the great things, I was off X for a number of years. I found it to be awful. I came back on when Elon Musk bought it and took over because all of a sudden, all information, I'm not just saying center right information, but all information was now not banned, right? And that became sort of what, you know, center-right voters. They don't even have to be Republicans or conservatives. They can be independents.

They can be center-right Democrats. You know, all of these people have seen all the stories about Vice President Harris for the past two years that the mainstream press has written about how terrible she is. And now they're watching her become. I'm sort of the second coming Barack Obama. And these voters are like, what? It's like dating a bad boyfriend who keeps telling you when he met you, how beautiful you are. And then once he's got you, you're no good, you're ugly, you're fat, whatever it is.

I mean, it's the same psychology, except voters are like, yeah, no, no, it's not going to happen. Selina Zito nationally syndicated political reporter here on the Will Kane show, Sasha and Savisha say on YouTube, Minnesota is happy to get rid of Waltz. Mark R on YouTube says Democrats have done better picking AOC and Schiff. What a disaster. And then Bessime says on YouTube, Waltz is just another super progressive old gray. Last question here with Selena Zito.

I'm shocked. I'm about to talk about this more, Selena. I'm shocked at what I think, not just me who pays attention to national politics on a daily basis, but the casual observer of the news cycle would agree is one of the biggest stories of half a century. The attempted assassination of a former president and current candidate for presidency has just sort of disappeared, Selena. I mean, it's a little bit around in terms of Fox News as covering the accountability within the Secret Service. But between there was some manipulation, admitted now by. Facebook and Google, in terms of allowing people to access information.

And then, of course, Biden dropping out of the race and Kamala's rise in her placement at the top of the ticket, a heavy news cycle. But I'm just shocked how this story has disappeared. And I know you were there in Butler, Pennsylvania. I was four feet away from him. It's not disappeared from my brain. And, you know, I don't think the news may have moved on. And it's covering the next shiny object.

But that moment was a big change in America. And I don't think we see it reflected in our national news as much as it is reflected in voters and how they see the world and how they see this election. And it's even had more of an impact as voters see the incompetency, the decision making made by our, institutions in the Secret Service and the FBI, and those kind of sentiments don't disappear. They just sort of go deep.

And voters don't forget it, even if the new cycle has. All right. Selina Zito, nationally syndicated political reporter plugged into Pennsylvania, I think as well, into the greater Midwest with states like Michigan, Wisconsin, in play in 2024. In fact, where maybe the entirety of the game is, with all due respect to Arizona and Georgia. Always enlightening and a great conversation. Selena, thanks for being on the Will Cain Show. Thanks for having me.

Have a great day. All right. Take care. Again, that's Selena Zito here on the Will Cain show. James Varner says on Facebook, Trump Vance strikes me as angry and negative. I do, I don't like Harris, but I do like Waltz. interesting counter perspective from James Varner. KG says,

I can already tell Kamala and Waltz will not do well together. Their personalities are both too self-indulging. Horrible match. We now have it. Trump, Vance, Harris, Waltz. There's your matchup for 2024. How is it that the attempted assassination

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And two days, young establishment James and tinfoil pat. What are you laughing at, boys? I think I know where you're going to go. That was a lovely zoom and tan and just elegance and grace. You get a side gig as a camera on. You're just working for your new gig. You're just going to be a camera operator. Well, there was a small bit of panic at the end of my camera work in that.

I'm wearing shorts and no shoes. And I was like, wow, okay, barefoot. Better than no pan down that low. Better than no pants, though, but that's good. I don't do TV with no pants, but I'm going to be honest, I ain't wearing suit bottoms every time you see me on television. So, always in pursuit of reality here on the Wilcane show. There are those who are watching and wondering whether or not, you were just bringing it up

to a day, Dan, whether or not this ticket, this Kamala Harris and Tim Walt's ticket is the one. Tell me some of the feedback you're getting on the YouTube, Facebook, stream and comments. So someone brought up, you were talking about Emhoff, and they were saying, why do we care about the spouse? He's not the one running the country or making laws.

You know, why do we bring up someone's spouse that is in political office? Yeah, I mean, I think that's part of the debate about whether or not you focus on Doug Emhoff's infidelities or knocking up the nanny, that it actually could potentially even make Kamala Harris, the victim, although she wasn't involved in that story. She wasn't yet in the

picture. It was his former wife, his ex-wife, who would have been the victim of that affair. But I think that there is some legitimacy to that comment. Doug Himoff isn't running for office. To me, though, as I got kind of fired up and talking about it with Selena Zito, it's just part of this larger story when it's tied to him preaching to me about toxic masculinity. It's, and sometimes hypocrisy can be a sin with a dull blade because it's, it's been struck so many times, like, you know, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. But sometimes hypocrisy, instead of being common, can be too in your face. And I just feel like this level of hypocrisy is too in my face for you to teach me or preach to me about toxic masculinity while you're

knocking up the nanny, I need to find the toilet. Somebody hold back my hair. I can only choke down so much of this nonsense before it's regurgitated. This is sickening. Meanwhile, one of the biggest stories, I think, of the last half century has almost disappeared from public consciousness. Just a few weeks ago, former President Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the presidency on the Republican side of the ticket, survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, literally shot through the ear in what is easily one of the biggest failures in the history of the Secret Service, led to one of the most iconic, regardless of partisanship, one of the most iconic moments in American history. Donald Trump shot through the ear, stands up,

yells, fight, fight, fight, let me get my shoes and raises his fist on the way out. of that rally. In fact, that was so iconic that Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of META, apparently called Donald Trump and said to him, according to Donald Trump, speaking to Maria Barat Romo, first of all, he called me two times. He called me after the event,

and he said that, well, I was really amazing. It was really brave. And he actually announced that he's not going to support a Democrat because he can't because he respected me for what I did that day. I think that what I did to me was a normal response. That response apparently won over the support of Mark Zuckerberg. Now, what is that response and what does that support worth? I don't know how much it's worth when immediately this moment in history is manipulated and propagandized out of public consciousness.

You know, Facebook, admittedly now, and with the apology of Mark Zuckerberg, altered. marked any image of Donald Trump and fight, fight, fight as an altered photo. If you were looking around, so I bring you in here, anybody watching on YouTube, you can see the headline, Zuckerberg apologizes because if you posted that photo with blood running down his cheek, his hand raised, the American flag in his background, in the background, Facebook marked it as an altered image. And you were warned you're posting essentially inaccurate information. if you share that photo.

Now anyone who's ever participated in Facebook, if you run a community violation, a community guideline, you're going to be taken off of Facebook. But they weren't alone. Google also admitted to a House Judiciary Committee. Let me see if I can bring it in here again. You guys can read this.

Google admitted to a House Judiciary Committee that they took away search results. It says through the council, through council alphabet, the parent company of Google, admitted to the committee and select subcommittee that after the July 13th assassination attempt on Trump, predictions for queries about the assassination attempt should have appeared but didn't. So in other words, if you went to Google and you put in assassination attempt, no, you know how they like pre-populate your searches and tells you, no, took it to anything but. The auto-complete built-in protections around political violence were, quote, out-of-date, says Google. And that as a result, auto-complete failed to provide relevant results about the attempt on President Trump's life. Alphabet also shared that the company updated these protections once issues were flagged. And that autocomplete now shows results about the July 13th assassination attempt, as reflected in the image.

So now, if you go to Google, you'll get the act. actual pre-populated auto-complete results. But what does it tell us that in the first week or two after this election, or after this assassination attempt, both Google and Facebook tried to wipe it from your memory, tried to wipe it from your search, tried to wipe it from your eyes? And to some extent, it worked.

You know, I am shocked. I don't know how you guys in New York feel about this. I'm shocked that this story is kind of on the back burner. I think Selena Zito, who was just with us here on The Wilcane show, is right that in voters' minds, it's probably still there. But you're getting a big news event after big news event. And right after this, you had JD Vance nominated, which may have been a, you know, may have been a stake by Trump. Could never know that was happening in a assassination attempt.

But it would have been better if it was before that. And then you get Joe Biden being forced out. And then you get Kamala Harris coalescing her ticket. And then you get now Tim Walts selected. I mean, I just can't believe how far this is receded in what seems like the public's consciousness in their mind. I think it's a similar anger, maybe more long and drawn out, that was felt in the minutes after that we learned that President Trump got shot. And I think it's kind of a realizing of what we're up against. And there's just a, there's a strong calculation by a lot of these Democratic.

operatives to get the assassination story, no matter how bad it is, out of the conversation. You know, how powerful it is. Tinfoil, you're the one brought it. Like, I mean, tinfoil bat, this might have won Ronald Reagan. Like, this dominated a news cycle and was a huge moment for Ronald Reagan. And I would argue that this is even more iconic because of his reaction. It should be game set match. And a lot of us thought so afterwards.

game set, match. But now it's being memory wiped. Yeah, I mean, we've, you know, we've, you were one of the big ones to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story. And we've seen this before in the past where, you know, it was, this is almost like an October surprise a few months ahead of time. And, you know, the corporate press just cannot give Trump. you know, any leeway.

There's no reason why he shouldn't be running away with this thing right now. I mean, I'm telling you, you're right. And anyone on the right, if this election is lost, if this is a win for Harris, this requires a long look in the mirror, this is a layup. This election should be a layup. surviving iconically assassination attempt what promises to be i think we still have this october

surprise an economy either on the on the teetering on the brink or you know already on the skids potentially world wars in the middle east and in europe and quite honestly a candidate that two weeks ago was an embarrassment to our own party and yes now being hailed as the next baroque Obama but if you can't make that layup I don't know what long look in the mirror would be required on the right now I'm not telling you it's all going to be fair by the way and I think this manipulation by the media just like in 2020 is going to be a big part of it just putting the further pressure honestly on you to find information outlets and sources that you trust and that's not always just counter programming that's not just anyone who's

It tells you the mainstream media is wrong, but an honest attempt to find the truth. But there's going to be tons of media manipulation before this election. And I don't know what else. I don't know what else because it should be a layup. By any historical analogy or any objective analysis, this should be a layup election for Trump. And if it's not, get on the psychiatrist's couch. Long look in the mirror for the right. I just got back from Lahaina, from Maui.

I drove through the streets. I stood on the empty lots. I hugged the people who lost their home. I'm going to give you the latest update from Maui next on the Will Cain Show. This is Jason Chaffetz from the Jason in the House podcast. Join me every Monday to dive deeper into the latest political headlines and chat with remarkable guests. Listen and follow now at Fox News Podcast. or wherever you download podcasts.

4 billion dollars settlement for the people of Maui. $4 billion one year later after the entirety of Lahaina burns to the ground. It is the Will Kane Show streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel and the Fox News Facebook page. radio markets coast to coast always on demand at apple or spotify or subscribe on youtube and hang out with this every day on the will cane show anybody that's new to the show new to getting to know me might not know how important hawaii has been and in particular maui and even more in particular lehina to my life you'll remember the story from one year ago horrific fires, largely man-made, created by bad natural conditions, burned down, I would say

90% of the historic town of Lahaina on Maui, Lahaina, a wailing capital, a former capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii, chock full of history and tourism, anyone who's ever probably been there on anniversary or vacation, has walked the streets of Front Street. But they're gone. I think a little bit later this week, I'm going to play for you some. video i was just there last week because i've been going to this part of hawaii for more than 40 years uh for most of my life spending a good amount of my summers in in this part of the world so when this happened last year i immediately got on a plane and and went over there to cover it for fox

news it was an eye-opening experience for me um basically i had to sneak over that end of the island was shut down two highways i mean one highway both sides going in and out shut down with military checkpoints. I basically had to sneak over, covered it by the air, got up in a private plane, covered it by the sea, got on a boat, and saw the burn zone that really no national media had access to. In fact, during my reporting over there one year ago, the representative of the mayor of Maui tried to kick me out, declaring that it was a media-free zone. Since wins, as far as I know, this is still the United States of America, which means it's under the guidance of the constitution of the United States, no such thing was a media-free zone. After that, in one of the

most rewarding things I've ever been a part of, we were able to provide some aid. I asked you, the listeners of the Will Kane Show, I asked you the viewers of Fox News to contribute to a go-fund me that I promised through personal connections and a lot of work would get into the hands of people that lost their home. We raised $2.6 million, something like $30,000. of you donated. And because of that, we were able to make roughly $212, $12,000 donations. I'm going to tell you more about that a little bit later this week on The Wheel Cane Show. Names, faces, stories, who was helped by you. I was just a middleman. And I always try to remind people that when they say, we appreciate your generosity.

It's not my generosity. It's the generosity of the people of America. And I can promise you that's known. That's felt in Maui. it's easy to feel disconnected when you're six-hour time difference in thousands of miles across the Pacific but i will tell you i can't tell you how many times i've heard wow i've never felt more american i've never felt more love from america now the american government has had a somewhat i would say spotty reputation in the wake of this incident first the news this weekend a four billion settlement was announced between the people who were victims of this fire, 102 dead, 12,000

displaced, and the seven defendants named in this lawsuit. Those defendants include Hawaiian Electric Company, Maui County, Hawaiian Telecom, Kamehamea Schools. It's a huge landowner, used to be the Bishop Trust, turned over to a public school system, Kamehamea Schools, which is the land where the fire started, West Maui Land Company, which also was some of the land where the fire started, and Spectrum Charter. I don't know because the terms of the settlement are not made public, but we do know Hawaiian Electric said they're responsible for about half of that $4 billion. So $2 billion. Hawaii Governor Josh Green has said record settlement, he pushed for a settlement within a year. And I think that is the right decision. You've got to get this aid to them. It'll never make everybody whole.

And we don't know yet how it will be divvied up. But having spoken to people, you need aid immediately. And that's part of a really interesting mindset going on. When you're a victim of a massive tragedy like this, I don't know. You don't expect, this is my experience, you don't expect perfection. Meaning no one expects to be made whole. They expect efficiency and a rapid response. It's like imagine you.

If anything happened in your personal life, who do you remember, the neighbor that runs over to your house first to help? Not that's because they were able to rebuild the entirety of your house, but because they were there to help you. And that's what government in a way is supposed to be, a coalition, an aggregation of your neighbors, you know? And I just kept hearing this over and over. I will tell you, I reported it, and I think, and I know it to be accurate.

You know, $700 initial response from the Biden administration is an embarrassment, especially when posited against the amounts of money we send to places like Ukraine. And that mentality exists in Hawaii. You need to know that. Wow. What kind of priority are we? And I think it's legitimate to continue to ask, how much are we there for Americans versus we're there? And let's be real.

We're not there for Ukrainians. We're there for some other national interest in Europe. So how much are we there and how much does our government serve Americans? That's a very legitimate point. that's not partisan. It's about priorities in politics. On the other hand, I want to tell you, I heard from residents, I said, how do you feel about the government response over the past year? And they said, you know, not perfect, but pretty helpful in FEMA, for example. They can be a real problem. But others have said, you know, I never would have been able to clear my lot. It would have

cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars, but it cost me nothing because the cleanup was paid for by FEMA. You got to understand the extent of the damage. You got nothing left. So when you walk to your home in a place like that, all you've got is the husk of your house and ashes. Cars, charred, everything. Getting back to ground zero is a huge economy. And that's just where they are a year later, back to ground zero, meaning lots have been cleared. And there was a lot of like environmental, toxic, everything, you know, keeping this at a slow pace. But a year later, as I walked through, with my friend Kimo Clark, drove through Front Street, with my friend Kakoa Mawet,

driving around Wakuli neighborhood, hugging Earl Kukahiko, who was sitting in a shed on his empty lot, just driving through. And I said, who's that? They said, oh, that's Uncle Earl. I said, is it really? And I knew him because I knew he was a recipient of the fund. And I said, let's go meet him.

I never got to meet him. Spoken to him on the phone. One of the best hugs I've ever gotten in my life, man. And what was he doing? He's working on making it hard. home an empty lot i'm telling you surrounded by empty lots nothing and he's working on making it home because he has a shed there and he's got a launcher and he's sitting there he's sitting there man making it home and i heard this i thought this was so fascinating from cacoa because

you know i remember after hurricane katrina one of my neighbors said to me in texas is there not some level of personal liability this is a horrible tragedy but when you to live below sea level and there's a flood and a hurricane that causes that flood and the levees break how much of that is on your neighbor aka the coalition of your government to help and how much of it is your own personal responsibility bad things happen meaning bad things happen to all of us we don't always get to outsource blame we don't always get to outsource the rebuild we have to kind of own it ourselves but what i'm here to tell you is they do like cacoa telling me i never would have been able to clear my lot. Pay for clearing my lot. I wouldn't have been able to do it.

Knowing like I lost my house in a horrible fire and it's on me to rebuild. And although the assistance isn't perfect, the assistance is appreciated. Believe it or not, that's the mentality that will bring back Lahaina. That's the mentality that is American. Not wallowing in whose fault is it. I always have to find accountability. And you need to ensure that the same mistakes aren't made a second time but not wallowing in a blame game and not waiting for perfection in the handout but owning your own rebuild i have never been more inspired by the human spirit than the year i've spent getting to know you and what you've given to people far away in the furthest away state in the united states and the people in that state ready to literally like a phoenix

rise from the ashes. I'll tell you more about their stories. I'll tell you about more recipients from the fund. I'll tell you about more of my drive through Lahaina as we continue to approach the one-year anniversary on August 8th this week here on the Wilcane Show. All right, that's going to do it for me today. Always appreciate you hanging out with this here on the Wilcane show.

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