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   delegate slots. Unfortunately, my position on the ballot. Was way down   
   the list. And in order to help some of the other delegates, that is   
   delegate candidates, he stepped out and supported them and we won   
   several. And at that convention in 1976, I believe it was in Kansas   
   City. Ronald Reagan almost defeated Gerald Ford. It was about 100 votes   
   apart. And after Reagan spoke, everybody in the convention knew that   
   they had picked the wrong Kennedy. In Gerald Ford who went down to   
   defeat. 1980 was another battle in Pennsylvania. The same Republican   
   establishment backed George H.W. Bush. Reagan decided not to campaign   
   in Pennsylvania to focus as resources elsewhere. And so we did a write   
   in pretty much for him, and he did a significant number. He did very   
   well. But as you know, he went on to win the nomination. I left   
   everything behind. My law, my betting law practice, and. Joined the   
   Reagan administration actually joined it before the president was   
   signed in. It was sworn in. In December. 1980. My father and I, we   
   drove up from Dallas. He came down to Dallas to pick me up and bring   
   me. To Washington. I started to work in the Reagan administration early   
   on. Who knew I would become. The number two lawyer and interior deputy   
   solicitor who knew I would become associate director, presidential   
   personnel overseeing federal judges and so forth. Who knew? That I   
   would become chief of staff to the attorney general of the United   
   States. Always a great honor. To serve great men and to serve a great   
   purpose. I never expected to be in this business radio, that’s for   
   sure. Fast forward. As I left the Reagan administration, I eventually   
   joined an organization called Landmark Legal Foundation. What a great   
   group. And they still are. And we litigated for school choice. We won   
   the first major case in the state of Wisconsin in the Supreme Court   
   there. We won two Supreme Court decisions, federal Supreme Court,   
   thanks to Landmark and a couple of other the conservative legal   
   foundations. We now have school choice. We didn’t before. We had to   
   clear the constitutional weeds out of the way. We went after the   
   National Education Association and beat them for using dues, paying   
   money for political campaigns without reporting. We went after the   
   Environmental Protection Agency. We beat them, too. They were held in   
   contempt. We went after Bill Clinton down in Arkansas with Judge Susan   
   Wright, and it was our filing that had him held in contempt. And I can   
   go on and on and on. What a great honor. I eventually became president   
   at a landmark. 1987 being a talk radio fish, yada. I started to listen   
   to a guy by the name of Rush Limbaugh. And I would hear him. I said,   
   This guy is good. Before him, I used to listen to a man name. You know   
   who? Mr. Producer in New York. Bob Grant. Philadelphia. I listen to   
   conservative hosts there as well. I would send stuff to rush through a   
   fax machine on the Constitution and the law. I stopped. I figured he   
   didn’t care. He used all of it. None of the blue. He called me on the   
   phone. He said, Keep it coming, Market come. And it’s very important. I   
   kept it coming. Then you said, What’s with the fax machine? It’s time   
   to use emails. But we didn’t use emails a lot back then. So I did.   
   Catherine. Was his right hand lady. Absolutely fabulous. And one day he   
   called me. If Lee Levine, the director of his legal division, I was   
   shocked and honored. We became best friends. He introduced me in his   
   own way to Sean HANNITY. We became in our best friends. I’ve been   
   involved in the Reagan Revolution. I’ve been involved in the Tea Party   
   movement. When my book, Liberty and Tyranny, went to multiple mass   
   rallies. It’s where I first met Donald Trump. My book, Liberty and   
   Tyranny. The Convention of States movement am one of the founding   
   fathers of that with Mark Meckler with my book, The Liberty Amendments.   
   And on and on. And here I am on radio. Having been a guest. Then   
   offered a platform. You know, prior to radio, I never earned a lot of   
   money and very little money. At a foundation. Working politics, working   
   for the movement during these sorts of things. I never earned that much   
   money. Now I do very well. Even early on in radio, I didn’t earn very   
   much money. Now, where am I going with all this? I’m going to tell you   
   in a moment, because it’s very, very important. It’s not about me. I   
   know. It sounds it. That’s not my point. I want to talk about a lesson   
   in what is important in life and what is important in our movement and   
   our mission. I’ll be right back.   
      
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   I’m getting to a point, you understand, to stick with me and be   
   patient. In 2014, a wonderful man came to me. Fairly wealthy man named   
   Carey Katz. Quiet man. He said, I’d like to start a digital TV network   
   or a platform independent of everything else. And in 2014, he and I,   
   the two of us, founded Conservative Review and Conservative Review TV   
   11 years ago. In 2018, Blaise came to us. They were looking for more   
   liquidity and Blase didn’t purchase us. We purchased plays. And then   
   you have Blase Media today. So we did that as well. I want to talk   
   about the next step and why I’m bringing all this to you. So there is   
   some context. In much of the time when the conservative movement was   
   getting stronger, particularly the constitutional part of the   
   conservative. There was no Fox News or Fox News was relatively new.   
   We’ll be right back.   
      
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   Wrap this up and then to get to the point that I’m laying the   
   foundation for here, I think my contribution to talk radio, in addition   
   to being supportive of Rush and Sean. And Bob Grant, for that matter.   
   This is several fold. Number one. I’ve decided to use this format. To   
   delve deeply into American history. And the Constitution. This format   
   has never been used for that before. I. I came to talk radio about a   
   quarter century ago. And work closely with Russian shown on both of   
   those. Number two. When I got into syndicated radio, you know, my first   
   radio station was ABC in New York. But when I got into syndicated   
   radio, the ABC Radio News network wanted to syndicate me at the time.   
   Even conservative hosts never got involved in Republican primaries.   
   They had different theories for that. I gave him my background. There   
   wasn’t a Republican primary that I ever ignored because that’s where   
   the rubber hits the road. I began getting involved in Republican   
   primaries. I began getting involved in taking on the Republican   
   establishment, particularly in Washington, D.C. There were a few pieces   
   written, including a national review. What does he mean by   
   establishment this live in? I knew what I meant by establishment. Since   
   the age of 13, I’ve been fighting this establishment. I’m trying to   
   advance constitutional conservative government and culture. We’ve come   
   a long way since then, haven’t we? So many of you embrace it and   
   support it. And I’m thankful for that. And the whole constitutional   
   conservative movement. Which has always been at the center of what I’ve   
   done as including as chief of staff to Attorney General Meese, who   
   really pushed the whole notion of originalism has been key to what we   
   do here. Among other things, among other things. So we changed   
   conservative talk radio and that sense. Less slapstick, less Happy-Go-   
   Lucky. Although that’s fun, too. Don’t get me wrong. Much more serious,   
   these substantive issues. And I’m not putting down anybody everybody’s   
      
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