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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Gives Urgent Update on Fight Against Trump

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

Politics, News

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas has an exclusive interview with Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker who has asserted himself and aggressively challenged Donald Trump and MAGA’s gerrymandering plan in Texas and elsewhere and showed what happens when Democrats fight back. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm joined by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, Governor, the Texas legislator issuing warrants for the arrest of the Texas legislators under your protection in the state of Illinois.

0:11.7

Donald Trump, not ruling out, sending in the FBI or other federal agents to arrest those individuals, the Texas Democrats under your protection. There were bomb threats

0:23.7

allegedly being reported today. What can you tell us about what's going on, Governor?

0:28.7

Well, just to remind everyone, you know, we are literally on the verge of losing our democracy.

0:34.3

If Donald Trump is able to just steal five congressional districts in Texas,

0:40.9

and by the way, they're going to Missouri and Indiana to get those legislatures and those governors

0:46.8

to comply as well, then, you know, honestly, you can just cheat and take over government

0:53.7

fairly easily, and all of us will be left

0:56.7

to wonder what happened. So we've got to stand with these Texas legislature. So here's what's

1:01.2

happening as of today. First of all, yes, it's true that John Cornyn, who is running for re-election

1:09.1

to the United States Senate in Texas, called up the

1:12.5

president to get the FBI involved.

1:16.4

And then you've got Ken Pax in the AG of Texas who is fighting to beat John Cornyn, and he

1:25.2

says that Texas can't actually engage the federal government in this,

1:30.5

and he's right about that. But he wants to send the Texas Rangers to Illinois instead of the FBI,

1:36.7

with, as you rightly point out, a civil warrant issued by the Texas House of Representative Speaker.

1:44.9

But, you know, the fact is that neither Texas nor the FBI at the federal level have the

1:50.8

ability to arrest these Texas Democrats who are breaking quorum.

1:57.1

They just don't.

1:58.3

There is no legal precedent for that.

2:00.3

There's no law on the books that would

2:02.3

allow them to do that. So as, you know, I've been saying, you know, they're all allowed to

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