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on the side later for the whole cranberries. smerconish is up next >> i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. the tea was missing this week. we seem to have consensus on lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer or questioning rights in america. in 2015, the supreme court upheld same sex marriage in the obergefell case notwithstanding the occasional baker who refuses to bake a wedding cake for a same sex couple. i'd say by and large, we've moved on from the debate surrounding same sex marriage but the t in lgbtq, as in transgender has become the new cultural and political divide as noted by the new york times, the trump campaign spent more than 37 million on television ads that invoked transgender issues nearly 20% of its overall ad budget that, according to data provided by adimpact, an organization that tracks political ad placement and

spending, they would never have spent that kind of money without some confirmation that the message was resonating in one of the election's most notable ads the trump campaign highlighted kamala harris's embrace of transgender inmate access to taxpayer funded transitions. you remember the tagline kamala is for they them. trump is for you. it was the willie horton ad of the 2024 cycle, an analysis indicated that the kamala is for they them ad shifted the race by 2.7 percentage points in favor of trump after viewers watched it. the shift was particularly pronounced among suburban women and young male voters. but at the same time, this cudgel was helping elect donald trump something interesting was happening in delaware. their voters elected sarah mcbride who would become the nation's first trans candidate elected to a state senate. now, as the nation's first transgender member of congress, enter republican nancy mace, who was invited, by the way, to be on the program

this week. she declined. but what she did do was introduce legislation to restrict capital restroom use to a person's biological sex. house speaker mike johnson agreed. mcbride stayed above the fray, saying she didn't run for congress to fight about bathrooms she also tweeted every day americans go to work with people who have life journeys different from their own and engage with them respectfully. i hope members of congress can muster that same kindness in contrast to that grace, nancy mace went on the offensive are you suggesting that the representative elect mcbride poses some kind of danger to you and other women? >> absolutely. absolutely. 100%. this is an assault on women. a man being a biological man, a man with a and male genitalia. being in a women's locker room is an assault on women. and so the question is do i have rights as a woman or not? and i'm not going to allow the media or congress to

strip away women's rights. one half of 1% of people out there that more than likely he's got a mental, mental illness. and this is why he's doing this. he should not be forcing his private parts into women's private spaces. i'm absolutely a no. hard pass on this. i'm going to fight it every step of the way now she's gone so far as to sell merchandise off her transgender bathroom bill. >> t-shirts that say come and take it. it represents quite an expedient change for nancy mace, as noted by monica hesse at the washington post in a 2021 tweet, unearthed this week, mace posted a heartfelt pride message to her constituents the pandemic kept all of us from fully celebrating pride here in the low country, in 2020, but hopefully, as we finally begin to open back up, we can all come together to celebrate the challenges our lgbtq plus has overcome and the bright future ahead. and in march of 2021, she told the washington examiner, a conservative newspaper, i strongly support lgbtq rights and equality. no

one should be discriminated against. hess also notes something that i've long said on my sirius xm radio program, which is that women's bathrooms have stalls. nobody is in anyone else's space. a detail that nancy mace seems to ignore and yesterday on my radio program, i took a call from yamani in columbus ohio. she made an interesting point. she said, if nancy mace wants bathrooms assigned by biological birth, how is she going to feel when a trans man is now in the next stall? so what changed? the congresswoman obviously realized the resonance of the anti-trans talk, which i find sad and despicable and anti-conservative. what happened to the gadsden flag? you know what happened to live and let live. before the age of charlatans there were real conservatives like barry goldwater, who, when asked to campaign against gays in the military, said you don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. you just need to shoot straight. democrats were caught flat footed by the gop attack on the trans

community. the new york times reported that the harris campaign could not agree on a response to the they them trump commercial. one idea was to note that taxpayer funded transition surgery for inmates was in place when donald trump was president, and in the end, the harris campaign just decided to condemn negative ads without mentioni pennsylvania governor, head of the dnc ed rendell called this malpractice for the harris campaign to not have responded directly to the they them ad. here's what kamala harris should have said or at least what i would say first, that upon reflection taxpayer funds should not be used for the transition of the incarcerated. second, when it comes to athletics, the goal should be inclusion but not at the expense of fairness. according to swimming world magazine, leah thomas, the trans swimmer at the university of pennsylvania soared from the mid five hundreds, ranking in men's competition to one of the top ranked swimmers in women's competition. that

wasn't fair. third, while we need to emotionally support all facing questions about gender identity, we should be cautious before embracing life altering nonreversible medical treatment for minors who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria. the fourth, and finally, that we will not sit idle while some among us, no matter the size of the population, are used as political fodder in the culture wars when nancy mace demonizes the representative elect sarah mcbride, our first concern should be the message of non-inclusion that sends to our youth who are struggling with gender identity issues in their formative years, because that's bullying data shows they are the most susceptible to the risks of anxiety, depression and suicide. according to a 2015 study at the harvard t.h. chan school of public health. compared with non-transgender peers transgender youth were found to have an elevated risk of being diagnosed with depression.

anxiety, have attempted suicide, and had engaged in self-harming activities without lethal intent. so congresswoman may's pick on someone other than the most vulnerable among us, it's time to take politics out of the t of lgbtq. which brings us to today's poll question that's birkenstock.com. should public restroom policies prioritize traditional gender norms or inclusivity? joining me now is zoe tur. she is a transgender journalist. the helicopter pilot, you'll recall, who covered that infamous chase of o.j. simpson's white ford bronco on the 405. zoe, nice to have you back on the program. you heard what i just had to say. anything top of thank you. anything top of mind that you wanted to get off your chest? >> i wish i had wrote what you said on the air. it was right on target. >> very good it.

>> it's true. the politics should be out of this and, um, you know, i nancy mace to me looks like she's doing a really great imitation of marjorie taylor greene. you know that's what she sounds like. >> you know she's running around between ufo hearings and and now taking on the bathroom. >> the bathroom thing as a grift to make money. >> it works. >> people. >> you can't go after gays or gay marriage anymore really? because you know the fundraising, you couldn't fundraise or raise over that any longer. so they found themselves a transgender issue. and i mean most people have never even met a trans person zoe, at what point in your own experience can't believe i'm asking the question, but i am. >> but at what point in your own experience did you begin using the ladies room and what was that like the

>> was after sexual reassignment surgery. so after i'd gone through extensive surgery and it was about a couple, 3 or 2 years or so before while i was on hormones, and that was the first time i, i felt compelled to use a women's room and i've never had a problem. uh, all around the world. and um, you know, no one has. you know, no one has said anything and, you know, maybe because you know, i'm seen as female, but i can understand the trepidation and fear among some people. people are very fearful right now. and um, you know, they see they've been told that transgender athletes are going to be taking over sports and they're going to be invading our women's, you know only spaces. this is all fear mongering. it sells. it's great for fundraising. and the

republican party knew this, and they used it to their advantage very cynical, but it works. and then you're left with kamala harris and others trying to fight against, you know, a perceived threat. it's hard to fight a lie. it's hard to fight a mean threat. it is, you know, it's you're already on on your back feet back foot trying to get control of the narrative. by that time people, if you keep telling people the same lies over and over within a couple of weeks, they start believing it. >> zoe, you heard me say that i'm for inclusion in athletics, but not at the expense of fairness. are you cool with what you heard me say which is that in the leah thomas case it went too far and it wasn't fair it wasn't fair and there is there is truth in that. >> i know that i'm still you

know, they say if you've been on hormones for still you know, they say if you've been on hormones for 24 months, that you're really you've lost a lot of your strength, a lot of your energy. i don't find that to be true. um, you know i still could pick the desk up. you know? so i have a great amount of strength and, um i don't think necessarily there should be 100 policy of 100% inclusion. i think we should use common sense and with respect to women's areas, i think you should have gone through uh, sexual reassignment surgery at least before you start using a women's private dressing room or shower area. i think it's just the classy thing to do you heard me say you heard me say that the trump campaign commercial was most resonant with suburban women

and young men. >> there is a perception among some that today, a kid comes home from school and says, i'm not comfortable in my body. and by tomorrow a transition is underway before you leave us, because i'm short on time, speak to the issue of what level of support and at what stage in circumstances of gender dysphoria well can you can you kind of give me more? >> um, can you kind of explain that yeah. >> what i mean is what should be the posture of society. i'll make it global relative to a minor who believes they're experiencing or has been diagnosed with two different things, i guess gender dysphoria at what stage do we do something? do we intervene? yeah i think you monitor. >> you monitor that child. you you provide as much love as you can. um and you hold off doing

any. i mean, there are really no medical treatments they're not done until a child is approaching puberty. and the only drug, the only medication that a child would get. it's not hormones it's something called spiral spironolactone and it's essentially a testosterone blocker so what you're doing is you're stalling. you're slowing down. you know, this change in adolescence that's all it is. and in fact women's um, and women and men's gymnastics gymnasts actually have this problem where their testosterone drops and men stay more, um, they still look very young. and women don't necessarily their periods stop. so there are other people like this, and um, all you're doing is giving somebody a testosterone blocker so they don't get the secondary sex

characteristics that are nearly impossible to remove should you decide to go further with your transition later on, when you're old enough to make a decision like that? >> zoe complicated question. maybe i shouldn't have saved it for last. we'll come back and we'll continue it. and thanks so much anytime michael. >> thank you hit me up on social media. >> i'll respond to some throughout the course of the program. catherine, what do we have michael, why are you so insensitive to the privacy of women and girls in bathrooms, but not on the playing field? i think that nancy, that this was overinflated by nancy mace for all the reasons that i described. there are stalls in those capitol hill restrooms and and what will be her response when it is a trans man? because that's what she's asked for, right someone biologically or at birth born male? is she going to be comfortable in that scenario? can't we just resolve this like adults and create bathrooms that are compatible

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backfire. she wrote this we are back to the island of misfit toys. what a mistake. mr. trump often confuses his own animals for daring his own unseriousness for boldness. how amazing that in the rosy glow of election he will spend so much political capital in goodwill on confirmation fights he may well and certainly deserves to lose. joining me now is peggy noonan, the pulitzer prize winning columnist for the journal former speechwriter for reagan, author of ten books on american politics history and culture. the very latest an idea of america, a collection of some of her columns. idea a certain idea of america. third time's the charm, peggy. it's great to have you back. the plan to hoax speech you delivered. you delivered a commencement address at notre dame. and one of my favorite columns that you reprint in the book is a reference to that. what was the connection between the commencement address and the boys of pointe du hoc oh gosh. >> um, well, i was thinking i met these fabulous young

graduates at notre dame when i was there. >> i spent three days with all of them and i thought, you know, they are entering life now and we all, as we enter life and professional life and making whatever success we're trying for in a way, you're like a one of the kids, one of the army rangers at pointe du hoc, climbing up the cliff you are part of something corporate. >> you are united with your unit. um, and yet you are on your individual climb. you know? so you're part of something larger, but you're competing with yourself and trying to do your very best. and so we talked a bit about that. and, and i put thoughts on it in the book so the book properly titled a certain idea of america, there we go. >> collections collections of your columns and each chapter is usually a dozen columns,

except one chapter only has two, one about president biden one about president trump, and compliment for reprinting the biden column because you ran it in in 2016 and you essentially said, don't do it, you're going to lose. but in retrospect, did you really did you really get it wrong in the column because when you read that column, the things you said came true, just not at that time. >> yeah, yeah yeah. well, that's a very gentlemanly way to put it. i think when you are a talking to a national audience sometimes you take shots at people, sometimes you make a little fun at people. and when you get something fabulously wrong, you ought to take a shot at yourself and make a bit of fun of yourself um, with the biden part i thought the progressive part of his party would kill him. i did not know

that he would rise and join the progressive part of his policy in terms of so many of their policy choices in his first administration and the trump second column that is, in this two column chapter was i, i included it because i remembered a feeling of poignancy as i wrote it it was just before the voting in 2016, and i felt i agree with trump on so many think he is the person or the man for this job. um and so i had to come out against somebody who who i agreed with on a lot of essentials. and i remembered it roiled me a bit. >> so in the trump column, you say my god, i'm paraphrasing, but if only he were sane if only he were sane and now reading it, i say to myself, but if he were sane in the way

you were wishing he probably wouldn't have won. i mean i've had to disabuse myself of the idea that he that he's won despite the things that he has said. and instead peggy i come to the conclusion he has won, for better or worse, because of the things that he has said yeah. >> um i understand what you're saying. and i think i've come to some similar conclusion myself. once in 2017, i was asked by a bunch of republican senators in the u.s. capitol to come and talk to them about recent events. they do that with historians and writers so i was one once in the spring of 2017, and michael, i said to them, the way i figure it, now, three months into the trump administration i thought the only person who could have won the gop primaries in 2016 was donald trump and that man was

the only one who could have beat hillary clinton. and that same man is the only one who does not have the tools for successful governance. so i found it to be ironic, and we sort of had a little wrestling match about that. there was a lot of pushback as you can imagine, but he's a large historical figure and we have decided to go back there a second time and see how it goes. and i think we all have after, uh and after the recent election, here's what you wrote. >> i'll put it on the screen as for me, i don't like the sob i think i'm a bad man who cause and bungle crises almost from day one. but he'll be the american president, and we all deserve grace. i will pray for him. support what? i think constructive. oppose what i think destructive. call it straight as i can and take whatever follows as someone once said, the real story of

american life is where you stand and the price you'll pay to stand. there beautifully written. i love that i have a noonan. i've most wanted to ask you this what happened to the the reverence for ronald reagan among republicans? i thought of this during the convention. everybody used to invoke his name. everyone used to have him on a pedestal. he was the gold standard. i don't hear today's conservatives other than peggy noonan you know, yearn for the reagan of our time. why um i think republicans respect reagan as much as they ever did. >> i think he's still a lodestar in their minds. i said republicans, i really mean more and more simply, americans reagan is there as a significant impressive figure um, but i think some i would say some great fans and supporters of donald trump feel that it might

help his rise a little bit to diminish the previous great man. so maybe don't mention the previous great man so much. but i do think michael, it doesn't all come down to personalities and characters. what we're always talking about in politics is policy the book is fun for not the least of which reason is you can pick it up, put it down, read a column or two and, you know, come back to it. >> and i love the whole thread that unites what you've written. look, you know i love your work. i tell you this all the time. thank you, peggy noonan. >> thank you. thanks, michael uh, gang, what are you saying? >> via social the course of the program? trump isn't appointing people to run departments. he's hiring them to destroy departments larry fox, elections have consequences. and if you run on a platform of wanting to be a disruptive influence, then you're not

going to appoint the rex tillerson you know, the sort of the company men or women, when you're trying to carry out that mission. so we shouldn't be surprised, i guess, is what i'm saying in terms of of the collection that he's put together. i want to remind you, go to the website. it's mercatus.com. today's provocative poll question should public restroom policies prioritize traditional gender norms or inclusivity? still to come your social media reaction to my commentary and the hidden dangers of ultra processed foods. why are so many additives banned in europe, but not in the u.s. rfk jr. raising these issues and be sure to sign up for my newsletter at smerconish dot com. it's a free daily newsletter. it's worthy you get great work from cartoonists like steve breen. check that out >> astute political analysis. >> we have questions how biden

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member of a male sex therein, isn't it? but wesley, i'm going to parse this a bit because she introduced a bill to preclude representative elect mcbride from using the female bathroom on capitol hill. that is the issue. what you raise difficult. you know, i can't sort it all out. but in that context sarah mcbride deserves to use the restroom. that nancy mace is in. and and the hysterics and the the the assertion of mental illness and the invocation of, you know and so forth. and then the selling of the t shirts. it was like the most i only got it wrong in one respect. i didn't think it was going to be a t shirt. i thought it was going to be some other form of tchotchke, but everything else was predictable and then i showed you the social media from mace just a couple of years ago. and, you know, she was at that time saying all the right things be inclusive, right? protect everybody's interests, be welcoming. my biggest concern and the reason that i chose to do this as my opening

commentary today, and i decided the minute that i saw that nancy mace clip is it's for me. it's not about nancy mace and it's not about sarah mcbride. sarah doing just fine handling herself. it's the kids. it's the kids who just don't very kids that, by the way you heard me say, let's not do something irreversible while they're minors. you also heard me say that i think that certain of the athletic competition has become unfair i want to be inclusive, but when it's now not fair. i'm sorry to the trans community, they can't participate at that level. so mine is a very nuanced and practical approach but what caused me to want to address this today is just the thinking of the kids who are already subject to a higher risk of anxiety depression and suicide, and when when the community at large becomes political fodder that disgusts me because you're jeopardizing the mental and physical well-being of kids trying to figure it out with their parents and with mental health

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up to 70% of the american public has them in their diet, and they can impact everything from lifespan to your mood. author michael moss is just the man to help us explain and understand this. he's a pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter and the author of the new york times bestseller salt, sugar fat, which covers this very subject and more recently, hooked, which explores free will and addiction. michael, nice to see you again. relative to free will. big food has our number, right? i mean, men and women in lab coats have figured out 56 gradations of different types of sugar. it's become an unfair fight. >> it's marketing and advertising that they use to sort of get inside our heads and stay there when we're making food decisions. >> and i have to say, michael, watching your intro, i mean i'm, i'm having flashbacks. >> i a certain first lady named michelle came into the white house and wanted to kind of

improve school lunches just a little bit. >> and by the way, got excoriated from certain circles. and here we have president trump referring to my grocery store as the industrial food complex, and mr. kennedy wanting to take colors out of the breakfast cereal. and maybe if he had his druthers, get us to not use ozempic to sort of, you know, fix this problem. we have with with big food. it's kind of incredible. i remember, you know, i also realized that i also realized that this is not kind of a political issue. i mean people on all sides of the spectrum are increasingly concerned about the trouble that the big food is causing us. >> i remember you once telling me, stay out of the middle of the grocery store. stay on the periphery and you won't get hurt. right? explain that yeah, that's an age old, you know, piece of advice. >> probably even going back to our parents, but increasingly so so most of the stuff in the middle of the store has added sugar. these, you know, many of

the products, these preservatives and dyes that people are concerned about. and the more sort of whole foods that of course, the fruits and vegetables are typically on the perimeter of the store and you're safer generally shopping there michael, can't they use all of the technology, the technology that allowed them to find the bliss point, as you described for soda? >> can't they use all that thinking and come up with food that's as good as tasting wise? the ultra processed stuff, but is actually healthier for us. when do we get there boy, you would wish for that, right? >> but look time and again the industry does what it's so good at doing, which is kind of this race to the bottom of our health, looking for the least cost formulas for their food. right. and so, you know and the government is helpless in the face of that. i mean, look, you know, the government puts puts vegetable gardens in the schools and what does the industry do? they spend $2

billion a year advertising junk to kids. government tells us to eat more vegetables what does the industry do? they plant sirup and the surgeon general going way back to 1988, was warning us about the surging obesity in this country which, by the way, the financial cost is now estimated to be as high as $1.7 trillion. and in response to that? they marched around the store, adding sugar to where it's now in two thirds of the products in the center part of the store, you refer to where do you see this going? >> if in fact, robert f. kennedy jr. becomes the secretary of health and human services? >> i mean, he's going to have a really tough fight. not only kind of with constituents who might you know, harken back to the michelle obama days and cry nanny state if he's actually going to force some changes onto people. but also these food companies and all they have to do is whisper, you're

going to increase food prices. i would think for the trump administration to get really scared of affecting any meaningful reforms or change in big food. >> final question. maybe it's related, maybe not. why is there so much choice in the grocery store? why do my wheat thins come in so many varieties? why? why are there such different levels of pulp who doesn't want pulp? by the way but orange juice has become confusing we talked about processed foods, captain crunch. there are so many different gradations now of captain crunch. why yeah, that's a play for one of our deepest biological instincts in which we love variety. >> it's why you have 200 brands of sugary starch in the cereal aisle, and it goes back to all the way back to hunter gatherer days when variety was a really good thing for us to look for, thinking that we could get more nutrients that way. and that's one of the cunning ways that the food industry goes after us, is tapping those deep emotional instincts that we have your

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>> 13 point. >> so there's the voting. so far in today's poll question. it's com just a tick under 30,000. should public restroom policies, policies prioritize traditional gender norms or inclusivity? interesting inclusivity carries at 57% to 43. if you haven't voted, go to smerconish.com. we'll leave it up for the remainder of the day, and you can cast your ballot. here's some of the social media reaction that has come in during the course of today's program nancy mace is just jumping on this issue for attention as she flips back and forth on issues. could be gerrymandering that has something to do with it. maybe she was more inclusive when she said what she said a couple of years ago, as compared to what she's saying today. all i know is she's fund raising as a result of it. and i'm worried about the collateral damage to kids who are wrestling with some of these issues more

social media reaction. you can find me by the way, on all the social media platforms trump appointing loyalists simply means that he's putting folks in place that he is confident will carry out his agenda. that agenda is being supported by an overwhelming mandate from the american people, and he should be given the chance to appoint the people who provided the highest possibility of the agenda. ben, i'll say it more simply. elections have have consequences. and yes he's with you know, unless unless they go the way of matt gaetz. he's got a right to have around him the team of his choice. and we will judge everything that he does after he takes office. but i'm i'm willing to give him a shot. absolutely respectful of the outcome of the election. and the people have spoken. i get it. one more if i have time and i think that i do, what do we have i remember when all the top cereals reduce their sugar content, i survived, but more importantly, shouldn't people have the choice yes, we should definitely have the choice. but i'd like to have healthy choices. i'd like to have healthy. let me go over it.

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