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but two prestigious Marconi Awards for his his broadcast Exodence, the one and only
Bill Cunninghead. Now I Philly Cunningham, the great American, and tell you
what a lot planned for Tonight. We're gonna review the week that was and
planned the week that's I had so much more. As you know, Next
Sunday is Father's Day. I'm gonna give you my Father's Day story a little
later on so that you have time to cogitate in the next seven days to
see if my words have some impact. If you're a strange from your own
father, maybe the things I did in my life wrongfully will serve as a
lesson as to what not to do. We'll do that a bit later on.
Coming up tonight, we're going to have on Jeff Crue Air talk show
host and author from New Orleans to talk about a colony wrote which is the
Trumpster is no justice and no peace for Donald Trump tomorrow. He's got to
visit I guess online with his probation officer to get ready for the PDR.
The probation apartment report so that the judge Mershawn bought and paid for. Judge
Juan Mershawn from the Great Nation of Columbia will sentence this defendant having more known
history about him. Normally, a PDR is used for a defendant when the
judge knows nothing about the case and says, okay, I got a sentence
this guy, and he may have pled guilty. What's his name, does
he have children, where he's from, What's he done in his life?
A previous record, what are his plans for the future. I think with
Donald Trump, none of that applies. Mershawn's going to go through the charade
of having a PDR done on Donald John Trump, so he has some knowledge.
The history and the sociological advances are locked thereof of a defendant. Mark
my words to lie the eleventh is that it he's going to be sentenced to
a jail or to home incarceration. So the Democrats do not want him to
campaign. That's what's going to happen. You want to bet me a hot
fud Son. You on that, raise your hand, Danny boy Glees and
my producer did not raise his hand because this has been a political show trial
since it began and it's going to continue. And the fact that he'd be
put on probation in order to pay some small fine. What should happen in
every case with a seventy seven year old man with no previous record on a
paperwork violation and New York City, for God's sakes, are you kidding me?
You can treat a cop said like a soccer ball in New York City
and nothing happens to you. So this is a charade we're going to go
through. In July eleventh, I don't know if the Donald's going to be
at the RNC in Milwaukee. I think the Republican National Convention is like July
fifteenth to the eighteenth. My sister is a delegate from Ohio. Is I
hope vote for Donald Trump? She tells me she is, But that convention
could be wild one way or another if the nominee can't be present because of
the Democrat Party. That's beautiful. Also coming up later as Joey Chester,
a Federation of American Immigration Reform which is fair. New stories out on Friday.
This is from Sarah Arnold of townhall dot com, which is a great
publication, and she points out that housing costs or skyrocketing because we have fifteen
million new migrant slash tenants and no place to put them. We have no
place to put them, and that number is growing. So fair, we
have no place to put these, says Susan Arnold, and also Donald Trump.
And the price of a square foot in a housing unit or an apartment
has increased eighty five percent since twenty nineteen. Does the media cover this?
By the way, does the media cover the fact that Joe Biden's led in
about fifteen million people who have to live somewhere with no housing being constructed because
of the cost of doing so. When you have less supply and more demand,
what happens to the price of something? It goes up? Right.
Oh no, the media won't cover it, but you and I just did.
We're living in a country under Joe Biden that as a result of in
Americans unable to afford the American dream, much less an apartment or a house,
and it's because of illegal migration. Try to check into an er somewhere,
friends, of mine and the work say they're overwhelmed and flooded with the
legal immigrants that don't speak of the English, than whenever conceivable medical procedure done
on on them for nothing, and every conceivable pharmaceutical drug available for nothing.
Once again, when the use of something goes way up and the supply stays
the sam or goes down, guess what the cost will skyrocket? Have you
noticed what your medical bills have been in your medical insurance because of Joe Biden.
Have you noticed what the cost of apartments and homes are because of Joe
Biden? Have you noticed the waiting in emergency rooms his skyrocket because of Joe
Biden. Have you talked about inflation because of Joe Biden? Go to Kroger
and try to buy something? What's the price up because of Joe Biden?
No matter what it is, it's Joe Biden. Does the media cover it?
Absolutely not? Do you? And I? We just did. And
one thing really frost me is that Joe Biden is willing to use family tragedies,
his own family tragedies, so that he can score some weird political points
with certain demographics. Right. Remember he said to a Puerto Rica group I
was basically raised by Puerto Ricans. Then he says to a black group,
I was raised by the Black Church. In fact, he talked to a
disabled group, and he pointed out that an Aleutian Indian provided him medical care
when he was a kid. His great respect for the disabled community. When
he went to West Point, he said he was turned down an appointment to
West Point. He also said his uncle was eating by cannibals. He also
said he marched with he was arrested. I'm sorry, arrested, supporting trying
to get to Nelson Mandela Mandela. He was arrested trying to get to him.
He also said he marched with Martin Luther King Junior. By the way,
mL King was murdered in nineteen sixty eight, and at that point,
Joe Biden was twenty six years old, not in public service. How's that
possible. I don't know how well. We do know one thing that he
will use the tragedies of his family to advance some weird political point with certain
demographics. What's going to happen Monday and Tuesday. I'll tell you what's going
to happen. The Wilmington, Delaware jury is going to either hang or find
him not guilty, even though obviously the federal government this time pulled out all
the stops to prove that hunter Biden lied on a federal form when he said
he wasn't using drugs when he bought a firearm legally, that he lied on
the form which carries five years in jail. You arrive done it, Danny
Gleeson had done it. Put the handcuffs on. You're going to Leavenworth and
Hunter Biden did this while on drugs by any reasonable method or means necessary.
He brings to the courtroom doctor Joe Biden flying back and forth in our dime,
back and forth with D Day festivities, and then came out during the
trial, which is something we suspected that is. Hunter Biden was a user
of young prostitutes from Eastern Europe, had a terrible drug addiction that went on
for years, years and years. He admitted that he slept with his dead
brother's widow, So I just concentate on this one for a while. Hunter
Biden admitted that he slept with the widow of his dead brother Bo and not
only did that, but hooked her on cocaine, on crack cocaine and he
charges for that, absolutely not. And so the whole family is just weird,
extremely weird, and they get away with it because they have democratic privilege
and they're protected. In Wilmington, Delaware, there's a prominent African American minister,
extremely popular in Wilmington, and he is sitting next to doctor Joe Biden
to you every day, sitting in the courtroom with seven African American jurors of
the twelve, nodding and smiling at the noted minister that Joe Biden brings to
court with her every day as if okay, we got this, don't worry.
So are you going to get a conviction of an obvious crime? And
my view, no, I'd be shocked if that jury in Wilmington, Delaware,
bought and paid for by the Bidens, are going to find Hunter Biden
guilty of anything. The best hope is for a course a hung jury.
If it was Donald Trump, no question of what would happen. But just
bring Republicans to trial in front of Democrats and you get convictions. Bring Democrats
who commit obvious felonies to trial with Democrats and you get just the opposite.
But that's the way we are. Let's continue. I want to relate to
you. For the last several years with you on Sunday night, I've related
my Father's Day stories and to provide as an example of what not to do.
I don't know how many millions and millions of Americans right now are astrained
from your dad. And men tend to act up more than women. There
are a few moms who act the way some fathers act. I don't mean
all dads are most dads, but if there's something wrong with a parent,
just it is much harder for a male to be a good dad than a
mother. Maybe it has to do with the birthing process, or the togetherness
of the baby unborn baby in the mother's womb, whatever it is. And
I don't mean to say that, I will say it. Women are better
than men, and mothers are the best parents in general. Doesn't apply in
every circumstance. God knows, there's lots of lousy, filthy, dirty women
in the world, but the great majority of mothers are those that sons and
daughters would run through brick walls to save them. And I had one of
those mothers who was just wonderful. Never got past the eighth grade, but
she says she had an advanced degree from the College of hard Knocks, and
my mother, Mary Ellen Cunningham, who died in twenty nine, was a
graduate of the College of hard Knocks. When she was a teenage girl and
the depression struck a night teen twenty nine. She wasn't quite a teenager.
I'd be wrong about that. She was about ten years old when she got
to graduated from grade school. When she was fourteen, she went to work,
and they all did because there was no welfare system. Families banded together
and it was difficult. So I'm watching Saving Private Rhyme and I had some
misty eyes because once again it reminded me of the terrible, horrible mistake I
made with my own dad. And it is this that when I was twelve
years old, think of a good mother, four kids between the ages of
thirteen and three, living in a Cape Cod, humble middle class home and
little Deer Park, Ohio. And mother and father was my father and my
mother, and I knew there was terrible problems because you could sense as a
kid, the arguing, the fighting. Dad didn't come home at night,
smell alcohol in his breath constantly. It was a raging terrible alcoholic. When
he came back from the Great War, took several jobs, could not stick
in any of them, and was at that point in my life my best
friend, my baseball coach, you might know, great athletic skills, and
from the age of five till I was twelve, he was my coach.
Spent more time with him almost anybody else. I shared the same name,
and we looked a lot alike. And every Sounder daughter thinks that they might
be the favorite of their mother or father. But I was fairly certain I
was his favorite because we spent so much time together. But I knew he
had problems. I couldn't articulate when you're eight nine ten years old how to
behave around an alcoholic father, because you're eight nine ten years old. But
he spent time in a county jail for drunk driving and leaving scenes of accidents.
Raging alcoholic. Became a bartender after he lost jobs at Kroger and Procter
and Gamble. We call him Cincinnati Procter and God. Could not hold down
work, constant money problems because my mom had an eighth grade education and she
cared for the four kids, and I was number two of the four,
but I was close to my dad, really close. And then one afternoon
my mom sat us down in tears and said, your father has left.
Your dad's gone and he's not coming back. First thing I said, is
Mom, is he dead? She said no, he'd left. I said
where'd he go? I don't know? And so I had questions and questions
and questions. But four, my mother's sister, who called Auntie, that
had her own house, very small house. She also worked at Procter and
Gamble, organizing coupons from something. We all moved in together. She was
living with her other sister and her mother, and then five more move in
with her. We had eight and a small house, but we were fed
and we had clean clothes. And as the years rolled by, on Father's
Day, I would say to a mom now and then where's Dad? And
it was like not heard from him? Literally not a word, never heard.
We moved on. The four kids all got advanced college degrees, either
juris doctorates or master's and my mom insisted that we all work, and I
was doing my job, and I was working, And as the Father's Day
rolled by, after many, many years, about fifteen to eighteen years later,
It was out of my mind completely about my dad gone. I assume
by that point he was dead. And I was in law school University of
Toledo. I lived at thirty five thirty Sheeltenham, which was a apartment building,
and I was in law school. My wife worked for the University of
Toledo as a secretary, and I worked from eight am to four pm every
day. I had to get down to Luca's County court house. I was
honored to be a bailiff to Judge Robert V. Franklin, and he was
literally a roommate of Martin Luther King Junior at Morehouse College. And that was
from I was in law school from seventy one to seventy five. It took
me four years because I worked during the day. I made six thousand dollars
a year as a baiale of screwing and witnesses, watching trials, reading verdicts,
reading motions, listening to jury deliberations. I got one hell of an
education. So I went on with life, got married. My high school
sweetheart didn't have a pot to urinate in or one to empty it into.
I thought I might be a golf professional. So after we were married,
I got on my volt stob BW bug and drove to Miami, Florida in
order to start a career as a golf professional. God knows that didn't work
out. Eventually made my way back home. University of Toledo admitted me,
so instead of going south, we went to Toledo. Where's Toledo on the
map? Got me a Ohio map. I said, honey, let's go
to Toledo. I'm going to law school, which I always wanted to do
because I was up Perry Mason and Owen Marshall. So I'm in my third
or fourth year. Phone rings on the wall. Of course, you may
know, we had no caller idea at the time, and who was calling
me? But my dad hadn't seen him in fifteen or eighteen years, completely
out of my mind, and I said, who's this? He said,
Billy, this is your father. I said really, I said, is
this a prank? He said, no, this is your dad. Hadn't
heard his voice in a long time. And I said, okay, when
was I born? Gave me the date? I said what hospital was?
I born in Saint Elizabeth's, Covington, Kentucky. I said, that's right.
I said, who is your assistant coach on Rutter's pharmacy gave me the
name. I said, okay, you're my dad. Now what I'll continue
after a break, And I hope at the end of this, if you're
estranged from your dad as a daughter or a son, no matter what age
you are, the mistakes that I made you will not repeat with your own
father. Well, let's continue and if a line becomes available at eight six
six six, four seven, seven three three seven, Bill cunning in the
Great American with you every Sunday night. So I said to my dad,
where are you? He said, I'm in Missouri. I said, Missouri.
How'd you get there? I knew he took the only family car.
We had to drive west as far as you get away from us. And
uh, we had no transportation, no money, Uh the family. I
was twelve years old, and uh. But for my aunt's intervention, we
would have gone into orphanages and my life would have been completely different. But
I said to him, you're in Missouri. What are you doing there?
He said, I'm I build a new life. He said, well,
that's not why I'm calling. I said, what, Dad, why are
you calling? He said, I'm dying and I snipped, I shouldn't have
said this. I said, probably deliver disease in kidney. There was a
little bit of SI. Yeah. He said, I have liver cancer stage
four and kidney cancer and I'm not going to live much longer. And before
I die, I want to see you. I want to see you.
In tears, his son, I need to see you. And I said,
well, you know where I am in Toledo, and he said,
he said, I can't travel, so I'm too ill. I really would
like to see you, and I said, Dad, absolutely not. What
you put the family through, what you put your kids through, what you
put my mom through was unspeakable, and I want nothing to do with you.
And I hung up on them. Next call I made was to my
mom back in Cincinnati, and I said, Mom, you can't believe we
just called me. He said, I know your dad called you and I
said, well, he said, how do you know that? He said,
he call here to get your number. He wanted to talk with you.
I continue the story on the other side. If you're a strange from
your father getting ready for next Sunday Night, listen to what happened next.
Bill Cunningham with you every Sunday night by Billy Cunningham and let's continue. So
I said, Mom, what do you think I should do? She said,
Billy, just do whatever you want to do. I get it,
and whatever you do, I support you. I said, Mom, I
have no desire to go out to Missouri to see him after what it put
us through. And I was twenty six, twenty seven years old. She
said, Billy, it's your decision. I said, I love you,
Mom. She always said I love you too. Billy hung up. About
two months go by and the phone rings again. Well, I was only
home because I worked from eight am to four pm as a bailiff and common
Police Court, and I went to law school at night six to ten,
and also some classes on Saturday. And shall I say I was busy and
raising also a two or three year old son, and you know we're busy.
And it was good busy. Phone rings rings again, no caller idea
of course, and pick it up and it was a little bit of a
different voice and said, Billy, this is your dad. I said,
what's going on? He said? They told me I got a week or
two to live and I really want to see you. Please come here and
please see me in Missouri. I said, Dad, Well, how dire
is it? He said, They told me I have a week or two
to live, and I want to see you. We looked alike. I
share his name. He's my best friend. But we're going back fifteen years.
I said, Dad, you warn't a father to me in my life.
I'm not going to be a son to you and your death. Goodbye,
and never call again. And I hung up. And my wife says
that was a little harsh. I said, well, I'll tell you what.
What he put us through is in the unforgivable category. And I and
we kind of had a few words, but she thought I should have gone
by. I said, Penny, I just I just can't. I can't
do it. She said, okay, sure, Dad. So years roll
BI. As you may know, I've been an entrepreneur in many things,
including opening up sports bars called Willy's Sports Cafe. My nickname is Willy Wi
l I apostrophees and open them up quite successful in the nineties. Opened the
first one I think in eighty nine, continued owning him for about fifteen more
years. It was sometime around two thousand or two thousand and one. I'm
in Willie's and Kenwood, which was my flagship, the first one that I
opened up operated. I love that business. And this old man. I'm
at the bar talking to some customers. It was in the evening, about
seven o'clock and he taps me on the should I turn around. Look at
this guy. He was hunched over. He looked to me like ninety years
old old guy. And he said, can I talk to you? And
I said, you know, okay, but I only I got a manager's
meeting at about ten minutes seven thirty. It's Monday night, Monday night football
is coming on, he said. I said, okay, let's get a
table. So we were very busy at that point. I go and sit
in the restaurant with him, and he said, Billy, I was your
dad's best friend. And from the time he came back from the war and
went through the terror and the horrors of alcoholism that went on for about twelve
or fifteen years. I listened to the war store. I put him on
bond now and then I tried to get him. I just love Bill Cunningham.
He said, I love that guy. I said, you know,
I loved him too. It's my dad, it's my best friend. Here's
my coach, and one day, after years of alcoholism, money problem,
he simply took the only car we had my mom. I'm not sure mom
had a license at that time, and just left. Who never saw him
again? He said, I know, And I talked to him a lot
while he was here. Then when he moved out to Missouri, I went
there twice to see him. We exchanged letters here and there and phone calls.
He was a great guy. He's funny, good to be with.
But he never got out of the bottle, couldn't stop. And at that
point in America, alcoholism wasn't a disease. It was a moral failing.
It was shake it off. You don't have to do that anymore. He
couldn't keep work, and as years went by, especially after he left it
I got into Missouri, he even drank more. And he said, but
he was a great guy. He's my best friend. I said, I
know the feeling. I said, well, why did he leave? He
said, he told me he felt such shame and dishonor that. We had
a local newspaper called the Sycamore Messenger, and every now and then there was
a headline cunning him arrested again, and they had a police blog, cunning
him out on bond, cunning him this, cunning him that, and he
was causing such pain to his kids and to his wife, my mother,
that he couldn't take it anymore. And he felt such shame and dishonor.
He just got in the car and drove and almost killed himself a couple of
times, going off bridges, et cetera. But he got out to a
different state, met another woman, started a separate life, but never gave
up drinking. And I said to him, well, why, I guess
the question is why? And he said it was Guadalcanal. And I said,
guattle Canal. You mean the war in the Pacific. He said,
yeah, you know, it went on for about about six months, and
your dad was a private I had a picture of him. I threw away
him in a marine uniform. He was twenty two years old, volunteered win
and after a year or so of training, he was one of the first
to hit the beaches of Guadalcanal. I said, Guadalcanal. He said,
it was like summertime in nineteen forty two, and it was hotter than the
hinges of Hell, and there were literally thousands of American gis killed. There
were tens of thousands injured, and your dad lived. He was shot,
but it wasn't a serious wound. He wasn't taking off the island. He
was Medican. He stayed there. He was there for four or five months,
fighting and killing the Japanese. He said, he killed and his buddies
were killed. His platoon took eighty percent casualties. Your dad was one of
the lucky ones. And this went on for months and months months, and
he said the worst thing he had to do. And there's a scene in
Saving Private Rine at the end of the first ten minutes where you see these
gis floating in the water. They're on the beaches, face down, body
parts are gone, and your dad and others had bags, and in the
evening and in the early morning they would pick up the bodies of their crew
and their fellow marines and put them in bags, and pick up an arm
with a leg and the head, put them together and put them in bags.
He said that went on and on and on. It didn't stop for
weeks and weeks, and every day he was looking forward to, in a
sense being killed because it was so brutal and so awful. It was so
awful. When the Marines came out of Guadalcanal, all of them were given
short leave because all of them had terrible flashbacks and memories of what happened.
In fact, he was bobbing around off the coast of Japan getting ready to
be one of the soldiers that invaded hip hand. It was going to start
in November December forty five, until the bombs were dropped and his life was
saved. Then he came back home and he had such flashbacks. We would
call it PTSD right now, but then it was called it was. It
wasn't just shake it off and get on with life. He was shelf shocked
as a term that was being used. There were twelve million who went through
this, and there were millions of the Saving Private Ryan Crew all over the
South Pacific that lived through a living hell and they were simply told to shake
it off and get to work. Well, your dad couldn't shake it off.
And if there was a ball hit particularly hard, he would duck when
he heard a gunshot somewhere. He was in fear. My mom told me
he'd wake up in the middle of the night screaming, And I heard his
scream sometime at night, and I said, so he left the family because
of what he couldn't handle the shame, and he couldn't handle what he went
through in Guadalcanal. And I said, oh God, And if you would
have gone to see him, he wanted to apologize to you and say he
was so sorry. He wanted to accept his apologies for what he went through.
And I said, I had no idea. If you listen to me
for any period of time, you know the love and respect I had for
American military. You know how my feelings are about police officers, deputy sheriff's
correction officers, rank and file, FBI, Secret Service, from the US
Martial Service to put their lives in limit risk. My dad was one of
twelve million that went away to war, but when he came back from his
experiences, he wasn't the same person. One was born by that point.
I was born at the end of nineteen forty seven. Other two more siblings
born later on. And he never could get out of the horrors that he
saw in Guadalcanal. He couldn't give it up. He couldn't hold jobs,
and to him, alcohol was medicine and he needed the medicine all the time.
And there was no help for gis that had those difficulties. You couldn't
go to the VA and say, look, I got PTSD. I'm shell
shocked, whether go get away. And the great majority of Gis who came
back from that war or Vietnam of my generation, or Korea or a Persian
Gulf one or two rock, Afghanistan and similar terrible experiences. But in that
WARLD World War two, you didn't go in for a year. You went
in for years until the war was won. When you came home, it
was all glory and parades and all this. Getting a job at Kroger or
Procter and gamble anywhere. Driving a cab he did for a while was easy
if you're a marine, guess what. But he could not get over what
happened to his mind in Guadalcanal. And when his best friend told me this,
I felt lower than whaled. I felt terrible. During the living years,
it was an opportunity I had to reach back to offer forgiveness, and
I failed. Every generation blames the one before. I know the frustration compete
in on your door. I know that I'm a prisoner to all my father
hussle. I know that I'm a hostage all this hawks and beers. I
just wish I could have told him in love, I wish I had and
I didn't. To me, it's inexcusable. I leave four children of tender
years and a loving wife and a mother in that situation when the alternative was
to put us in an orphanage, which my mom would have fought like a
warrior poet to oppose. Thank God for Auntie for taking us in. So,
my friends, if tonight you have seven days to contact your dad and
normally the men are the ones acting up and say during the living years,
I want to sit down with you and talk about the sism and find out
why we don't get along and find out what happened all the different if you
don't, and so I would urge you in the next six or seven days
to contact your strange dad and say, Daddy, I know we don't get
along. I know we've had difficulties. I think most of us caused by
the father and not the daughter or the son. And I want to make
one more opportunity to contact you. Today we have text and emails and say
let's get together and have lunch, have breakfast, let's talk because it's too
late when one of us die to admit it. So every Father's Day as
it approaches, I have tried my best and my time to be the best
dad that I could beat to my son and never put him through what my
dad put me through. And there's not an excuse and a reason to leave
for kids and a wife and a mother because of Guadalcanal. But when his
best friend gave me that story, I wish I hadn't torn up that photo
of him in his marine outfit. I just washed him out of my life.
She is I just wish I could have to him. I urged you,
I urge you to make that connection. I've been doing this for about
forty years, believe it or not. I've done a lot of other things.
But it happened again last night. I'm having dinner and I'm leaving at
a restaurant, and these two guys walk up to me and said, are
you going to do your Father's Day story? And I said, well,
I'm inclined to do it, and both of me said, please do it
because both of us are estranged from our dads, her rights and wrongs that
each of us had done, and because of what you told us. We
contact that our dads and guess what, we're now best friends again. And
one of us has to take the first step to say, hey, dad,
let's forget the past. Let's get together and talk about it. But
it's not going to keep me from having a relationship with you in the future.
And I get that regularly. When I travel the highways and byways from
here to Florida out to New York, it happens once or twice a month
a woman or a man walks up to me and says, you know,
I heard your father day story, and I kind of want you to know
that you had a positive impact in my life. So much of talk radio
as a city and a cerbic, so much of talk radio as accusations.
Have a great show planned for tonight, but on a personal level, one
I solved for the first time in total saving Private Rynd. And the reason
I haven't seen it is because when it came out about twenty some years ago.
My wife's dad was also a Marine who served in South Pacific, and
he was sixteen years old who went to Marine Corps. No burstiments existed when
he was born, and his mother had a sign and certified that he was
eighteen to get in the Marines. He was shipped out to the South Pacific.
He went through similar adventures on beaches in Tarawoi, oh elsewhere. And
he got a hold of Penny and I said, look, my brothers were
telling me he was the youngest of ten that I got to go see this
movie called Saving Private Ryan. I said, I think I've heard of it
with Thomas Hanksman, it's in the movie theater. Said you want to go
see He said, well, I'm reluctant to see it. Well let's go
see it. I said, okay, So we pick him up, take
him out to the movie theater. We sit there and a little popcorn,
little coke, and the movie starts. But Thomas Hanks with my father in
law, Penny's dad, my wife's dad. There's a scene in at the
conclusion of the first ten minutes when marines are floating in the water, dead
down. He's got tears in his eyes. He looks at us and says,
I gotta go. I can't watch this. He never talked about the
war, as most did not. My father never articulated the Guadalcanal stuff to
anyone other than his best friend and my wife's dad said I gotta go.
This is too real for me, got up and left. We never talked
about I said, you want to talk about as I can't, so he
needn't to help. He said, I don't. He never fell into the
bottle. He was a great guy, great marine. He reacted to the
horrors of war differently. Let's continue Bill Cunningham with you every Sunday morning,
will my father passon. We didn't get to tell him all the things I
had to say, so with their permission, we're going to deal with this
again next Sunday night, which is Father's Day night itself. But I thought
doing it a week earlier gives hopefully thousands of sons and daughters a week to
make the connection to your dad during the living years and next Sunday night.
If you want to relate what happened in that attempt to connect, or if
the connection took place, so be it. But I counted for mental reasons.
I need to move on. First off will be Jeff crue Air from
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Collie Cunningham, the great American. Of course, Jeff Truere is a great
columnist, talk show host, and author. Gretten so many great things about
Donald Trump and about the Democrats. He wrote a new column a few days
ago, no Justice, no Peace for persecure to Donald Trump. It continues
to get worse, and I can only imagine what's going to happen July the
eleventh. And normally, if he had by that point a seventy eight year
old man with no previous record on a paperwork violation, you might not send
him to prison in New York State where cop killers are released on bond.
But nonetheless I regress a little bit. But Jeff crue Air, welcome again
to the Bill Cunningham Show. And I loved your column, No Justice,
no Peace for persecuted Trump. That's not the way the media views this thing.
Give me the essence of the column and edify the American people. What's
coming. Bill, Always great to be with you, Thanks for having me.
I would say this, whenever we think the Democrats will not go to
a certain degree with President Trump, they go further. I mean I've witnessed
it throughout his entire nine year political career. I mean I was there the
day covering the day came down the escalator, and I've just been seeing just
this Trump arrangement syndrome get worse and and worse, and it's just absolutely amazing
what they do to that man. And yeah, they convicted him, of
course on these bogus thirty four charges. It was paperwork violation if anything,
a misdemeanor if anything, Bill, And of course they took it to the
full extent that they could. And now the media and the Democrats get to
say, convicted valin Donald Trump, and they're going to try to make the
most out of that. The good thing is, Bill, I watched the
UFC fight the other night. He was treated like a conquering hero. And
the money's pouring in the American people see through the sham and it's backfiring on
them. And I love it, you know, Jeff, I love Dana
White. And when they walked in. Can you imagine? That was in
New Jersey, Newark, I think, and they had twenty three thousand faithful
there. There was a couple of scenes for some of the Mixed Martial Arts
UFC fighters jumped over the ring. Those rings are about eight feet tall,
jumped over the ring and run up to Donald Trump to get a selfie with
him. Well, one time it was just before the match, and the
other one the winner jumped out screaming, screaming, God, go, Brandon,
go, whatever that is. And then he went up to Donald Trump
and like hugged him, sweating like a dog. And people are going nuts.
Can you imagine Jeff Creweer. And by the way, that was in
New Jersey, not exactly a red stronghold. What if, say, Joe
Biden had walked into that arena with Kamala Harrison toe, what would have happened?
Can you explain what would have occurred? Bill? All I can say
is it would have been ugly. It would have been ugly. And Biden
is pretty slow, but he's not that slow. He wouldn't show up for
something like that. And you know, it gives you a great picture of
President Trump's support you know, he goes to wild Wood, one hundred thousand
people show up. He goes to the Bronx, twenty five thousand people show
up. He goes to a UFC match in Jersey. The people go crazy.
This guy is popular some of these states. If they say you're blue
states. Yeah, I think he's got a chance for a landslide this fall,
Bill, I really do. But well, they led him because you
make a great point in your column. In Manhattan voted eighty eight to twelve
against Donald Trump. Every member of the jury could not find him not guilty
because they'd go home and they would be pillared by their neighbors and friends for
the rest of their lives. None of them are going to pay for a
drink or a meal. And Judge Jan Mrshawan, who was born in the
Nation of Columbia, he'll be wine dined and pocket lined all the way up
to the New York State Supreme Court. And then in Delaware you have a
Hunter Biden on trial and about ninety percent voted for Joe Biden. And I'll
tell you one thing the Democrats love to do. You know, no one's
above the law. The best they can ever hope for, there with Hunter
Biden would be a hung jury because the great majority. There were a couple
of female jurors African American who pulled out Kleenex and were dabbing their eyes during
the opening statement of the criminal visit attorney for Hunter Biden. And then the
first lady is there, And then I guess there's a big time NAACP black
leader in Delaware, in Wilmington that is loved and he's like the Martin Luther
King Junior of Delaware. And guess who's sitting next to the first lady.
I forget his name is Poppy or sweet Lips, whatever his name is.
He's sitting there next to him, and he's nodding his head looking at the
black jurors, and I'm thinking, wait a minute, is this a fair
And they're assuming he's found not guilty. Well, nobody's above the lower Can
you see the writing when Hunter Biden is found not guilty by that jury of
simply lying on a form for U Bill, he is obviously guilty. We
all know he's guilty. This is only a small fraction of what Hunter Biden
did that he could have been prosecuted for. It's called home cooking. Bill
I mean he's got home cooking. I mean, Delaware is run by the
Bidens. I mean they have decades of political influence there in Delaware. So
yeah, you're right. I mean there's no way, there's no way he
is going to be convicted. No way, no judge, just like there
was no way Donald Trump was going to be acquitted in the Manhattan courtroom.
There was no way. And I just want to just mention this judge is
a Biden donor. His daughter is a high priced Democrat operative that makes millions
of dollars off of the Democrats. Bragg campaigned on a message of getting Trump.
I mean, the whole thing, as Donald Trump has said, was
rigged. I mean, and I thought Matt Gates did a good job of
bringing this up to the Attorney General in the hearing, and of course he
said, I know nothing about Colangelo, massive Colangelo number three under him a
justice. He decides, you know what, I want to enhance my career.
I want to go work and be an assistant in a local prosecutor's office.
I kind of want to go from Maine justice to a dirty, filthy
courtroom in New York City. That's a career move right there. But of
course Mary Girland's out, don't know anything about it. What do you mean?
You mean there's prostitution upstairs? All I do is play the panel.
Well what are you talking about? And here's Calizelo over the left shoulder of
Alvin Bragg smiling from Maine Justice ship to a New York City County prosecutor courtroom.
And this case began as a misdemeanor. So you got number three Department
of Justice signing on to Alvin Bragg to help him get get him prosecuted.
And then and then you had the age he's got the guts to say,
Jesus, I don't know how that happened. Man, that's a new That's
not unusual. It was like a career enhancement. It'd be like my local
prosecutor here in Hamilton County, Missy Powers, if she would bring indictments against
Joe Biden, and then one of Bush or Trump's DOJ officials came to Hamilton
County to prosecute Joe Biden. I think the media would point that out,
Am I right or wrong? I mean him? Now, wait a minute,
you are that may be at a clue, right there, Sir Sherlock
might be right, and I'll say this, I want to see the email
trail. I want to see Foya's done to find out what kind of communication
we had between DJ the Biden White House, New York and also Georgia.
We have visits to the White House, suspicious visits to the White House.
All of this was coordinated. We all know it. This was a political
hit job against the leading candidate for President Bill. We see it in Banana
republics. We see it in countries that are tyrannies. This is not the
United States of America, where one politician uses his influence to try to remove
another politician, and maybe even in prisonmen. You know they want to put
him in prison. You know they can't wait for Donald Trump to go to
prison. That's their goal. Well, the ladies on the view are having
a conniption fit. In fact, one of the great guests there said that
she gets quote wet unquote whenever I think about Donald Trump and prison, and
I'm thinking wow. Going back to the fouryer request, of course, Mary
Carland was asked, can we get all the communications between you and the New
York County Prosecutor's Office. Can we get the communications between you and the Atlanta
Fulton County Prosecutor's office, Nathan Wade to spend a lot of time in the
White House along with Fanny Willis, and he said, well, just go
ahead and make a four yer request. He didn't deny any coordination. He
said, well, you got to ask a Foyer request, and he made
a special appointment. Tony Fauci is now in charge of all Foyer requests.
And so I'm not sure and doj is going to do a damn thing with
that. But nonetheless, and secondly, Nathan Wade, the lover of boy
of Fanny Willis, spent at least sixteen hours in the White House. And
he says that they can't talk about what occurred there because it's a client privilege.
But nonetheless, would it be suspicious if Fanny Willis's lover was in the
White House. How many local county prosecutors have special counsel in Fulton County time
in the White House coordinating philosophy? Why would Nathan Wade go to the White
House. What's the purpose of that if there's not coordinator, No inquiring minds
want to know, Bill, and you know, Republicans need to push these
investigations a lot more than they've been doing it now. Of course, these
requests are going to be held up till after the election. They don't want
to release anything. They're not going to release the tapes of Joe Biden's interview
by the Special Counsel Robert Kerr, because of course Biden could barely articulate.
Biden forgot everything, and if he sounded horrible, they don't want that release
before the election, so they're not going to release it. So they're just
playing games, and they're trying to protect Biden at all costs. And of
course we just need to keep pointing it out and the American people, I
think are going to get it. I think the American people understand what's going
on here, and I'm sensing I'm feeling bill a landslide coming if there is
an honest election. Well what I want to do? You know, the
Democrats are desperate and they're dangerous, and that's a terrible place to be.
Get on to another comment you made here, which in your column, which
is so good. Afterwards, many Trump voters questioned the election results and is
sending on Washington on January the sixth, twenty twenty one to protest during his
speech to supporters, which is not a aired by the mainstream media, Trump
encourages followers quote peacefully and patriotically, make your voices heard. He never advocated
violence, and in fact appeared on Twitter to encourage his supporters to leave peacefully
and respect law enforcement. Because that doesn't fit the media narrative. The media
doesn't spend much time on that, do they. No, they all create
the impression that Donald Trump incited the crowd, and Donald Trump was right there
egging him on to go attack the capital and all that is a lie.
You know. Cassidy Hutchinson said he tried to grab the steering wheel and take
the of the Beast over to via capital, and that was of course a
lie. Yeah, they created this narrative, this fiction about Donald Trump,
which of course is not true. That's why I have to keep pointing out,
and I'm glad you do on others the truth about the January sixth thing.
He wanted more National Guard there. He wasn't allowed to get the kind
of protection that he wanted for the capital. So I think Nancy Pelosi is
really responsible for the horrible situation that occurred there, and of course she was
protected by that Sham January sixth Committee Bill. Well, you had two Republicans,
hon it. Thank god, we had two great Republicans. Oh yeah,
on that committeed to ask those probing questions that need to be answered,
and inquiring minds did not want to know anything. Last late Jane July eleventh
is coming up, and I know from when I speak to some of the
RNC that they have contingency plans. And I said, what do you mean,
Well, what if he's in the Rikers Island, what if he's on
a military base, what if he's in Sing Sing and I'm going to or
an uncharted territory if it was if his name was Donald Duck instead of Donald
Trump, and he was seventy eight years old and he committed a supposedly a
paperwar error, and you didn't know the nature of the charges against him until
the closing argument of the state. They didn't let him know what he was
being charged with. What are the odds of a seventy eight year old in
New York City on a paperwork mistake when no previous record actually being sent to
a jail. What are the odds? Zero zero? I mean, it
wouldn't it wouldn't happen, Bill, And you know what, this is backfired
in such a spectacular way that the Democrats might think twice. You know that
they want to jail him, they want to put him there, but since
they've gone so far and now this is now working against him, they might
think twice about it and say, all right, house arrest or something like
that, where he doesn't go to Rikers. We'll see. It's going to
be very interesting on July eleventh. And of course I'm going to be up
at the convention, you know a few days later, and I'm hoping Donald
Trump is going to be there. I'm not sure, Bill, I'm not
your question Mark. I'm not sure either, because if he doesn't appear,
will there be a convention at all? The answer is yes. They got
twenty thousand hotel rooms. They want to party hardy Wisconsin. That's going to
be almost like a Taylor Swift concert showing up. And so they're going to
do everything in their power. But he may have to be skyped in.
I mean, this is absurd that what's happening, But the media is on
one side of the table. I'll give you one last factoy, Jeff crue
Air, I saw this at Brent Brozel's MRC network, is that for those
American voters who primarily or only get their evidence, only get their news from
ABC, NBC or CBS as the evening news, it's the View, and
it's the morning talk shows of that group. And that's, by the ways,
about forty percent of all voters of that group. Biden's leading Trump fifty
five, the thirty five. And so if you have to rely upon the
mainstream media to tell you what a great job Joe Biden is doing and what
a convicted criminal, a felon that Donald Trump is, just watch the evening
news, the View, or the mornings like George Stefanopolis and guess what.
I'm surprised Trump gets thirty five percent. I say, garbage in, garbage
out. What do you say? I think the good thing is American people
are turning off those shows. The influence of those programs down dramatically from what
it was ten twenty years ago. Their numbers are going to keep decreasing.
The American people are looking for other outlets for their news. It's more fair,
more balanced, has good information. They are basically just selling the talking
points of the Democrats. I had the misfortune of watching the CBS Evening News
the other night, and I got infuriated. I'm like, I can't do
this. I'm not going to do this ever again because it's so biased,
and I think their numbers are just in the toilet. They continue to drop,
and I'm very happy about that. I'm trying to watch lester Holt and
I'm waiting for him to say, suddenly, Joe Biden discovered the powers he
denied the last three years by having executive orders of the southern border. None
of that happened. What lester Holt talked about the Republican's refusal to assist on
the southern border, forcing the President to take executive action, and thank God
that we have this man on the White House right now over those evil Republicans
who will not help on the southern border. Instead of saying he denied for
over three and a half years having the power he now wants to exercise for
political purposes, it is just the opposite. So if you watch the Evening
News, that's why fifty five thirty five support Joe Biden. Garbage in garbage
O, Jeff Crueir, you're the best on this stuff, and go ahead,
give me your final comments. I was just gonna say, my tom
a comment was Lester Hult could have said that Joe Biden took ninety four executive
actions to create the disaster on the border that we have today, and he
inherited a safe border and he created chaos. So it's all on Joe Biden
the bill. Of course, Lester Holt's not going to say that, but
I think the American people know that. I saw one of the shows head
on this large stack to his right of executive orders on the evening of January
the twentieth, twenty twenty one, and he signed executive order after executive order,
having no idea what he was signing. He has no clue what he's
signing, but the Marxist around him said, here, sign this. He
said, great. Wouldn't it be great if lesterol would say, you know,
the President created this crisis now he wants to go back to Trump era
policies. Would Lester hold ever say that, No, No, it's true,
he would never say it. No garbage in, garbage out? All
right? Once again, Jeff crue Air New Orleans based and you have a
great mayor there. I like watching her. Shenannikins almost like that the mayor
in the South of Chicago. What a wonderful woman she is. But nonetheless,
Jeff Crueir, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. We'll
do it again. Thank you, Jeff, Thank you, Bill. Take
care, God bless America. Let's continue with more Bill Cunningham, The Grand
American Live with you every Sunday Night by Billy cunning into Great American. Jeff
Carrera is wonderful in the way he puts thoughts in terms together. He talked
about no justice, no peace for persecuted Donald Trump. There's no question sometime
soon, I would think Tuesday, Wednesday, we're going to get maybe a
verdict in Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden's criminality is clear everyone with eyes to see
that he violated federal law atf when he was a drug addict and bought a
weapon, and then later on in California's got as the trial's coming up on
obvious income tax evasion. And so there is no greater scumbag in the world
than Hunter Biden, who had sex with his brother's widow after she had died,
after bo Biden had died, not only had sex with the with the
with the widow of his brother. He hooked her on drugs, which is,
you know, crack cocaine testified, Yes, crack cocaine. How despicable
is that human being? About as despicable as despicable can be. And the
fact that he would get off on this thing in a very Wilmington, Delaware
courtroom is obvious. It's either going to be a home jury or it's going
to be not guilty one of the other because it's a Biden. Well,
let's continue with more. Coming up next is that Leland Vitter of News Nation
and more the line becomes available eight sixty six six four seven seven three three
seven, Bill Cunningham, I try to be a great American with you almost
every so now, Johanna, you and I Now is Leland Vitter of News
Nation. And of course on Saturday, Reagan the Portrait of a Presidency is
going to air and I was given access to that documentary. It is unbelievable.
And for those who can't recall, we're going back forty years of the
speech that Ronald Reagan give and Leland Vetter. The most the most note or
the thing about the Reagan presidency is that sometime in December, as he was
leaving office December of nineteen eighty eight, Reagan gave a speech from the Oval
office, from the desk, and that speech by Ronald Reagan should be studied
for years to come. And that's the reason Bush forty one got elected is
after Reagan gave that speech, they said, we want this guy back,
and the best they could do was Bush forty one. But nonetheless, what's
happening now with Hunter Biden. I want to get talk about Hunter Biden,
about Donald Trump, and about of course the landing and the speeches by Joe
Biden. Nonetheless that don't quite measure up. But nonetheless I would note,
and you're a big time journalist. You've worked in most of the major media
outlets. When I monitor ABC, NBCCBS CNN, MSNBC, and not so
much on News Nation, because you're not so ideological that I'm hearing constantly about
what's wrong with Americans who want to put Donald Trump back in office. And
I have a sense that the elites do not under stand how average Americans lived
their lives. And I saw a report out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in
which downtown Minneapolis is basically destroyed, the law enforcement is almost non existent,
and many cities now they use drones. If you dial nine to one one,
like in Chicago, they may send a drone to look about what's going
on the average American in Minnesota. There's a small town there that had eighteen
hundred total residents and two hundred immigrants showed up. May I say, newcomers
with about fifty or sixty school kids, and they didn't fit into the school
system at all. They're looking at ramp and crime. When I get my
Duke energy bill, it goes up about ten percent every year, fifteen percent
every year. You get your real estate tax bill, and that skyrocketing.
The kids graduate from high school or college have difficulty finding a job commensurate with
their with their education. So when I look at the cultural and media elites
that say you can't vote for Donald Trump because things are so good, after
all, he was bad, do you think the media elites understand how average
Americans live their lives? Bill, you packed an awful lot into that,
But you picked up on something that we're actually doing on the show tonight,
which is if you listen to Joe Biden's speech, which I just did at
Point to Hawk, and you compare it to Ronald Reagan. Is political malpractice
by the White House to have encouraged that comparison, both by choosing the venue
and then going out and saying we're looking for our different moments in so many
ways, the writing and delivery, the message, everything, but the underlying
message to what Joe Biden was saying, is the real threat to democracy that
I can't but want to talk about is Donald Trump Number two? Trump supports
or threats to democracy who are betraying the boys appoint to hawk. It's very
clear when you listen to his speech and you put all the other things Joe
Biden has said, and that would be a thoughtful political move by Joe Biden
if there was any evidence to suggest that it works. And I say that
because in twenty sixteen, when none of these situations that you were listed listed
in your opening existed. Mirime wasn't a huge deal, inflation wasn't a huge
deal, gration wasn't a huge deal. None of those weren't around on Tary
sixteen, and basically Hillary Clinton ran on, hey, I'm going to keep
doing another four years of what Barack Obama did, and Trump's terrible. He's
a racist, He's a bigot. Can you believe he wants to build a
wall, he's a fool? On and on and on and on. Okay,
and it didn't work. So now what they're doing is they're taking the
exact same logic and they're going, well, since it didn't work to call
him a racist and a bigot and a sexist, misogynistic pig, and to
call all of his supporters deplorables, now we're going to call them threats to
democracy. That's gonna work. Now. I am not a close I am,
I'm not I am not a partisan. I'm really not know. I
am an analyst and a reporter, and at my core a journalist and a
guy who just asks questions and tells the world the way I see it on
television every night. I don't get it. I don't get doubling down on
a strategy that demonizes fifty percent of America. And I don't get the savior
complex in reverse of telling America that you're going to save them from somebody else
with no aspirational message. Now it may work, Joe Biden may win,
but it's certainly that this this method of politics, to me or this strategy
makes no sense. Leyland the other of news Nation is like saying, don't
believe your eyes, don't believe what's happening in your life. Listen to Joe
Biden. You or I could be handed the greatest speech ever delivered in America,
which is I have a Dream by in Martin Luther King Junior. And
we could read the words, but it would not have close to the impact
of mL King doing what he did in nineteen sixty three. And I'm thinking,
all when I read the Biden speech, and there was some soaring lines.
But when you have someone who's not an order, who doesn't know what
to emphasize, and if the White House building this thing up, this is
Reagan forty years later. It's embarrassing because most Americans live their lives looking at
their checkbook. They're looking at the bottom line, They're looking at a paycheck
with inflation. I went to McDonald's a couple of nights ago, and I
got two big machs. I had somebody with me and my wife, a
couple of French fries and a couple of drinks. It was twenty eight dollars
and I'm looking at it. I said, is that right? And it's
too expensive? The utility bills. I had on an expert on utilities.
She told me, every year for the next as far as the eye can
see, we're going to have about eight to ten percent increase and utility cost
every year because the restriction of supply of energy, and it's going to keep
going up and up and up. You had Joe Biden say the LNG,
no more LNG terminals being built to ship our products to Europe, and that's
costing thousands of jobs. But it means natural gas prices or skyrocketing. And
right now natural gas is the main way we heat our homes in the summer
and cooler how homes in the summertime. And then you get on the issue
of crime. I'd live in a little Cincinnati, Ohio, which is fairly
very nice, but now we have numerous offenses being committed by large numbers of
doubt ever punched in the face, her valuables are all stolen, and the
car was taken, and the media in town is starting to talk about that.
And I can't imagine what it's like to live in Chicago, Washington,
d C. New York. I can't imagine what's happening there. So whether
it's crime inflation, utility bills, your paycheck not keeping up in a sense
of we're spinning our wheels in the mud. To have Joe Biden show up
and say, look, he wants to compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
He wants to say, you know, we're the Allies and the MAGA crowd
are the Nazis. Now, he didn't say that, but the implication of
Hillary Clinton's tweet the other day that talked about comparing her and the Democrats to
the Allies and the fact that they're fighting against fatalitarianism and democracy and therefore to
vote for US means you're voting with the Allies and not Hitler and the Nazis.
That doesn't make half the country feel well, you know what I'm saying.
That's true, Yeah, in the sense I hope it doesn't change because
I want to see Donald Trump and the presidency now. Secondly, this isn't
a big item on News Nation because it is so partisan. However, I've
seen CNN, maybe you don't watch it, and as much as you used
to you were on and Fox News, etc. MSNBC, especially the die
Tribe now because of the Trump's interviews, is that he may be going after
his political opponents, and the host are talking about how bad it would be
if Donald Trump went after his political opponents. Now you know the name shape
Leean Ziegler. About a year ago, two veteran IRS agents who are Democrats,
each spent about fourteen or sixteen years in the criminal division of the IRS.
Wanted to pursue all the money that Hunter Biden and the Biden family,
including the Biden grandchildren were getting from overseas interest and they were blocked by their
superiors at the IRS. Then they got the DOJ and they were told we're
not going to go there. So we have massive bribes directly and indirectly being
paid to Hunter Biden. The laptop is real, despite those fifty one experts.
The laptop is real. It details the criminality of Joe Biden and Jim
Biden and Hunter Biden. And the media is now saying, well, after
all this Hunter Biden trial, I mean, he was a drug addict,
and I watched the coverage of the media types saying well, you have to
under stand that he's crack cocaine head, and you have to understand, in
other words, don't convict him of obvious crime. And one of The worst
things that happened Leland Vinders is that he started having an affair and sex with
his brother's dead widow. His brother Bo was dead, he took up a
sexual affair with his widow and hooked her on crack cocaine. And I'm thinking,
oh, wait a minute, I can imagine that this was the Trump
family. The media coverage of that would be unbridled. And so when someone
says, you know what, maybe turnabout's fair play. Go after your political
opponents, the media says, dond no, don't go after the Bidens.
Don't go after Hillary who committed serious felonies. Don't go after Joe Biden,
who committed serious felonies. According to Robert Hurr, just let it go,
Donald, let it go. Do you find that somewhat hippocratic? Well,
if I spent my time detailing hypocrisy in the media, I would have no
time really to do anything else in my life. Journalists make lousy media critics.
I reave that to other folks. That's just not my job. And
I always think it's funny when someone goes, no, no, no,
but listen to me, because I am the unbiased one. It just doesn't
It just it's just not where I go. I think what you've pointed out
is that we are living in really unsettled times. And it's very easy now
in retrospect to think about the nineteen eighties with nostalgia and that they were of
pure motives and of veterans in geniality, and on and on and on and
on. The truth is that the nineteen eighties, and the Reagan documentary that's
on Us Nation plays this out of the Saturday Night and shows this, We
were in troubled times. We were in conflicted times. There was scandal,
there was real danger, especially from the Soviet Union. There were and I'll
use this term, real threat to democracy around the world. There's no question
about that. And the difference was how Ronald Reagan dealt with it and in
retrospect through the lens of history, and that's an important point. We have
the gift of time now to look back on Ronald Reagan and say, why
did what he do work and why was it so successful? Which it was
unquestionably, Why has history now given him his due spot in revered status.
We see that play out in the documentary, and I think what struck me
the most, I don't know about you was how bold it really was.
Right in retrospect, it seems like obvious, right. Oh, things are
terrible for Jimmy Carter. So therefore this guy from California who had been governor
came along and he said, look, government's the problem, and if you're
better off four years ago, then you are now vote for him, if
not, vote for me. And then he tackled inflation and he won the
cold wol and brought about the great economic expansion in America that turned in to
the computer rage was in turn to the Internet age. You freed Europe.
This makes perfect sense, gets from the documentary. Yeah, how bold that
was. It was in one of the great moments of this Reagan The Portrait
of a Presidency by Sean Compton was a moment the day after Reagan was shot
and he was laying in the hospital and we didn't know it at the time.
It was touch and go and he did fortunately survive. And there was
a moment in the documentary where Tip O'Neil goes into President Reagan bend's over,
kisses him on the forehead and said, Gipper, don't leave us. We
need you so badly, And I'm thinking, can you imagine Nancy Pelosi.
Let's say God forbid, Trump was shot and he's in a hospital that Nancy
Pelosi insists on seeing Donald Trump kissing him on the forehead and said, mister
President, we love you, Please get well and come back. Could you
imagine that happening today? Look? Is it well? Is it a fair
question? Yes? At the same time, I think you have to ask
yourself, would Ronald Reagan's message would his kindness? Would his aspirational message for
America? Would he would his unwillingness to engage in the politics of personal destruction
and unwillingness to attack the media even though he was attacked, his default always
to humor rather than to anger, his willingness to compromise, I mean,
in real compromise with Tip O'Neil. Yes, okay, in ways that are
never done or spoken about in Washington, if you want to compare it to
Trump, in ways that Donald Trump would never would never compromise. Okay.
So I'm not I'm not sure it's fair just to call out one side on
this, and I think it so. Look, we we have to be
I have to be fair in my assessments. I think there's you got to
ask your question with the Republican Party of today, except Ronald Reagan is as
standard bear, I don't think so. The Democratic Party, Well, the
Democrats accept Barack Hussein Obama for the policy he was the deporter in chief.
I don't think the Democratic Party today would have accepted Clinton the way Clinton ran
the presidency, which was working with nuke Ingridge and then I don't think the
Democratic Party would allow compromise. I think you're making my point. Yeah.
Now, lastly, lastly, Uh, we have a situation where when the
State of the Union Address was given near the end of the Trump presidency,
the Nancy Pelosi stood up and ripped the State of Union Address live to send
a message. Could you imagine if Speaker of the House, Uh Johnson had
stood up at the end of Biden's each in which he stumbled, mumbled and
fumbles the way through, and tore up the Biden State of the Union Address
on worldwide television. What would have happened? Same thing? Okay, it
would have been a disaster politically because Mike Johnson would not have done it,
but the media would have covered it. When that horrible act took place against
Donald Trump, there was little or no media criticism of Nancy Pelosi's behavior whatsoever.
In fact, they were more or less applauded. That was good.
And so when that's the template of the from a fellowship between Democrats and Republicans.
We yearned for the days when Ronald Reagan would say, I can't get
a hundred percent from Tip O'Neil, I can get eighty percent. Let's take
the eighty percent and work on the twenty. That's not the way politics works
today. Well, Bill, this is where the what aboutism game loses me
and where I and I think it's important to make this point. Everyone loves
to play the what about game? Okay, well, you know ron Reagan
wouldn't be in today's Republican But what about Barack Obama? What about Bill Clinton?
What was different about Ronald Reagan was different about the great leaders was that
they were different. They held themselves to a higher standard. They were different
because they were different, not because they were the same. And they did
reflectively and acted as poorly reflectively as the other side did. And I think
what America yearns for, and certainly what the polling chose as America yearns for,
is a leader who wants to make us better and wants us to make
us want to be better Americans. And I don't see either side speaking to
that. And frankly, there were some Republicans in the primary this time around
who really tried really hard to deliver that message, and nobody wanted to hear
it. Nobody wanted to hear. Hey, I'm going to get to Washington,
I'm going to get eighty percent of what I want. I'm going to
give twenty percent to the Democrats, and we're gonna we are going to turn
America into the shining city on the Hill where all Americans prosper on and on
and on and on. Yep, all right, well in it and it
went nowhere on both sides. Well. Reagan Portrait of our Presidency News Nation
Saturday. It'll be airing frequently. And once again, Leland Vitter, thank
you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Good luck, my friend,
God bless you. Let's continue with more. There you have it, Bill
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under Great America. And of course what's happening in public education is often a
disgrace, and it's made difficult anyway. But when large numbers of shall I
say, undocumented aliens show up in public schools, it could be a crisis.
There have been a few occasions when the Congress has held hearings on the
consequences of Biden's border chaos for k through twelve schools, but it's largely a
story that doesn't get a lot of media coverage because it doesn't fit the left
wing agenda. And therefore you have to look for outside sources to see what's
going on. Ericas Sanzy is one of the officials of Parents Defending Education.
I know it's happening here in Cincinnati, also happening around the world. I
can't imagine what it looks like in Houston or Austin. But of course Erica
has expertise when it comes to Washington, Washington, DC, and Erica Sanzy,
welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Erica, can you tell
the American people just in general, before there was an influx of literally hundreds
of thousands of additional students, many poorly educated, into our public school system,
weren't the public schools under stress anyway? Yes? I mean this is
the This is just adding insult to injury. The public schools have been struggling.
Even pre pandemic. We had very very low proficiency rates in reading and
math. Since the pandemic, we've seen the scores plummet in those areas,
and so schools are having a hard time with what they already have on their
plates, and so to burden them with an influx of new students, most
of whom do not speak the language here, and many of whom have had
no formal schooling in the past. So it's not just that you're bringing in
new students to schools, you're bringing in very high need students. And these
school districts really just couldnt manage this. And I look at some of these
stories given up about thousands. In New York City, there's about fifty thousand
additional students going to public schools and a population of nearly one million public school
kids. You got fifty thousand. That's five percent, but that five percent
puts them over the top. Also in Washington, d C. There's something
called language acquiestion division. Explain what English second language. Let's say you're a
twelve year old just show up in a public school in Washington, DC or
Cincinnati or Chicago, and you have no education. You can barely understand and
speak Spanish, which phonetically is easy for some in Central America but difficult for
others. So what are the particular needs of any child that shows up deserving
a public education? But let's face it, the school system can't accept them,
And so it kind of walks through what occurs when a kid shows up
at the front desk says, here, I am educate me. What happens,
Well, the school cannot turn students away, so really they've got to
figure out how they're going to navigate this. And what we did is we
looked at emails that were going back and forth, you know, with between
officials in districts, so that we could get a sense of like how hard
of a time they were having. And again, you're not going to get
them out of the microphone saying this is impossible. But in their emails,
what we see is basic as trying to figure out space. They don't have
the physical space, so they're trying to figure out where they're going to put
students. You see a lot of the you know, very compassionate people feeling
concerned that the school that the child is assigned to is very far away from
the shelter that's been provided for them. And then we see a lot of
talk about how they don't have the staff. They don't have staff who can
communicate with these students, most of whom Booth speak Spanish, but certainly not
all, and so that's become just another major drain on the system. And
the other thing is that English as a second language, or what they call
English language learners, those students usually are students where they know English but it's
not spoken in their home. But to have students coming in who have no
English at all, I mean, that's just obviously puts them in a category
of a very high need student. And again, meeting the needs of one
or two is challenging. Meeting the needs of a massive influx, where suddenly
a school district is dealing with one hundred and fifty students in this category,
it is just again really really difficult. And this is coming at a time
that all of the eser money, so all the COVID release money that school's
got that is ending as of September, that money is gone, and so
school districts were already trying to write, size and recalibrate their budgets as they
need to and as they knew they were going to need to. Unfortunately,
some didn't make good choices about how to spend that money. But to be
again burdening them with this influx of students, it's it's a totally unfair burden
that the school districts have been asked to carry, and that in the case
of the NEA, the largest teachers union, they've come out against the Biden
administration's plan to shut the border down or at least, you know, decrease
this number of people coming in. So they are so committed to this ideology
of open borders, sta've now thrown their own members under the bus, saying,
we don't care how hard it is for you, this border should stay
open. It's always difficult. But can you imagine a ten year old girl
showing up from Lithuania or Afghanistan or Nicaragua and have little or no English language
skills. They sit in a class and do they test in? Do they
say, okay, you're ten years old. There's supposed to be what in
about the fourth or fifth grade? You're ten years old, but you have
no educational foundation or achievement, and then you don't speak the language. Someone
shows up at the front desk, okay, here's your schedule. The first
class is down the hallway in room one. Ten. Go into that classroom
and sit there, and they have no ability to understand what's being said,
and they have no foundation of the first four to five years, which allows
the building points to become more academically disciplined. So what happens to the ten
year old who can't speak of the English is our do schools have to assign
a mate with them who understands both dialects or both two or three different languages
to communicate. How does that work. I mean, in a perfect world,
they'd be able to assign someone to them, but those people don't exist.
The school district doesn't have the staff for this, and so what ends
up happening. And I've actually seen this back when I worked in schools.
Lots of times kids just have their whole day wasted because they are because they
have been enrolled in an institution or facility that cannot meet their needs. Now
you can get lucky and you can have it could be that the school has
somebody who who knows the language, is great with working with newly arrived migrant
students. Like you can see progress, but everything has to align for that
to happen, and that's usually in very small numbers. The problem right now
is that places like DC Springfield, Massachusetts, which is TA Kansas, another
district in Wisconsin. I mean, these places are not it's used to having
to deal with this number one and they're just completely overwhelmed. And again they're
not getting you know, there isn't really much attention being paid to the fact
that these schools are being asked to manage a burden that is unsustainable. I
look at some of these stories and that what happens to the educational opportunity?
May I use the term regular kids. If you're a regular fourth grader in
Washington, d C. Public schools, I can't imagine the quality of education
you might receive. But nonetheless, it doesn't assist to have classes disrupted with
large numbers of other fourth graders that are not educationally appropriate, don't know the
culture, don't know how to behave, and can't speak the language. And
the teachers have to more or less take care of student body that she doesn't
speak a dialect out of Africa or Central America, and the kid sits there
with no hope of learning. What impact does that have on the kids who've
been there for three or four years, they're in the third or fourth grade.
Here comes ten kids from Southern Asia Afghanistan that have no idea what you're
talking about, don't speak the dialect. So what is it a babysitting service?
Well, how does it look? I mean again, it's hard enough
to meet all the needs of all students in the classroom because they're often at
very different levels. Right, So teachers already dealing with the fact that they've
got students who have very different levels of proficiency. That is a massive challenge.
So then when you bring in new challenges. And again, these children
didn't do anything wrong, right, and they have a right to be enrolled
in the school according to the law. Here, the problem is these schools
are not set up and equipped to set them up for success. So what
ends up happening is it's almost it's hard for anybody to really get what they
need because their needs are so disparate. And this is you know again,
I just feel like the schools are already reeling from the pandemic and trying to
recover from that, and this just adds another massive challenge that from a compassionate
angle of course, right, the school districts want to do the best they
can buy these kids, but the realistic situation or the truth about what's going
on is like they don't have what they need to be able to do it.
And of course the leads on because what you're reporting, Erica Sansei of
parents defending education is happening every day in every public school, whether in Minnesota
or Maine or California, there's something like two million children have come in the
past five years. The official numbers eight million total. And of the eight
million, there's about two million children who are legally entitled to a quality public
education dispersed all over the country, and the school districts are not set up.
So what's happening. Whenever there's an action, there's an opposite and direct
reaction to what's going on. About seventeen or eighteen states now have educational vouchers.
We have in Ohio where if you're dissatisfied with your public school, you
can take a voucher that sorts between eight and twelve thousand dollars to a private
school or to a Catholic school or some other monassory school outside the system.
And parents there have been tens of thousands in the state of Ohio that have
left the public school system, leaving behind even the worse situation because if you're
a parent in Washington, DC, or Wichita, or Chicago or Cincinnati,
and you have a voucher available of putting your kid's hands, the voucher goes
with the kid and you can get a quality education outside of the Chicago public
schools, which are in total chaos, complete destruction. You're going to leave
and then what do you leave behind? Yeah, I mean the reality is,
in my opinion, every single family, regardless of their income, deserves
to have options when it comes to where they're going to educate their children.
And to your point, you know there's people who are if you're in a
failing system and you have an escape hatch, most of the time, you're
going to take it. So what's the solution, Erica? Instead of cursing
the darkness, what's the solution of this terrible problem which is producing kids coming
out at eighteen years old who have difficulty reading their diploma? They were never
failed because it is always socially promoted throughout urban America. You never fail,
and you get done, and you basically went through about fourteen years of whatever
in the public school system, and you come out and you have no quality
education at all. What happens? How do you solve the problem? Well,
the social promotion is not only in urban America, though we've never seen
social promotion in suburban America. I think that, honestly, part of it
is people have to get brutally honest about what's really going on. I mean,
one problem is that nobody wants to tell the truth about what's really going
on. So the first thing is so and part of that is because there
is a lot of intimidation around people wanting to speak freely about these topics.
Right, So teachers that are really really struggling all with these issues, they're
not likely to speak out about this in any sort of public way. The
other thing is that is that I mean again, I was a teacher for
a lot of years, and I was a member of the NEA and two
states, and I'm telling you, like the unions are a massive villain in
this. They never talk about student learning, student outcomes. They don't talk
about you know, reading and math proficiency. They are hyper political organizations now,
and so for example, that's why we don't even see them being supportive
in terms of helping with this immigration, this influx of students, because their
ideology is such that they want the borders wide open and they don't really care
about the impact that that's having on their own members. No, teachers are
leaving in droves. They can't can't take it anymore. And lastly, if
after November the same philosophy remains in charge and we have the next four to
twelve years of open borders, whether it's whether it's Biden or Kamala Harris or
Gavin Newsom, wherever it might be, all interchangeable left wing drill bits.
If that policy continues the next four to twelve years, what's the state of
public education all over the country after twelve more years of this? I mean
have this. I have concerns about the state of it now currently. And
so if we do not get our arms around this and begin making, you
know, hard choices, but hard choices that are good for students and families
and teachers, we're going to be in trouble. Teachers will leave, counselors
will leave, Education will become double and triple in price. Citizens don't want
to vote additional levies to support the schools that aren't functional. I've got to
build brand new building. Schools have become also now welcome wagons. They've become
language centers, They've become nursing centers and medical centers. They've become psychological service
centers. They've become feeding stations. All these things in the past were handled
within a family or a community, and families and communities don't exist anymore.
And I don't see a way out of this until we stop what's in other
words, before you start about drain draining the swamp, stop the inflow.
And we can't do that until we stop this happening of literally two million kids
have entered America in the past four years, two million just first all over
the country. And if that accelerates or stays the same, public education is
done. And I don't know what happens our to our great they use to
our magnificent cities. You know, America, for a long time, we
had magnificent American cities, majestic American cities, and all of them are being
destroyed in one way or another because of crime and lawlessness and lack of faith,
lack of family. And it's not lack of funding. It because Washington,
DC public school kids get about twenty two thousand dollars a year each from
the Congress and they want more money, and they want more money because of
the failure of the board and border policies. But all right, Erica Sanza,
go ahead, please finish up. I was just going to say,
most of that money never makes it to kids, and it never makes us
a classroom. So you know, obviously they're terrible stewards of the money.
And the last thing I would say is that if we're going to consider schools
to be social service institutions, right, you know, we're going to provide
you with all the services that you need, then we need to stop calling
them schools right because schools are not meant to be places that provide every single
need for a family. They're meant to be institutions of learning. The goal
is higher learning or secondary learning. The goal is to come here and get
the basics and then many at the age of eighteen. I love the idea
of getting an electrician, getting a plumb. I love that some go on
to institutions of hire indoctrination at the Ivy League, and that's even worse.
But I can't imagine public education. I don't care what city or state you're
in. If these policies continue, it'll collapse. And the collapse I think
this collapsed right now because I can't imagine comparing the senior high school or eighth
grade proficiency rates now to like fifty years ago. It's not even close.
That there is none, and they're getting worse, and no one's addressing the
real problem, which is out the southern border. It's not money, and
it's as teachers' unions dominate and they fire superintendents all the time. Like in
Cincinnati, we had a pretty good one named Ironetta Wright, and she had
a vote after about a year and a half trying to change things in Cincinnati,
which is a terrible school district. The six unions got together voted a
censure, no vote confidence, and the school board fired the superintendent and paid
off about three hundred thousand dollars to get her out the door. And she
wanted to make significant changes, and the six unions in Cincinnati did not want
it to happen, and we're left and it's awful. The unions do not
like people who come in to disrupt the status quo. So it is very
common for unions to you know, go after change makers. And what we
need are change makers. So that is again why I say again the rank
and file members of the unions are not well represented by their leaders, and
those organizations are nothing but political organizations. Now, they do not represent their
members well at all, and you know, they are a big problem.
And that is why you'll see like a place like Florida is really taking off
academically, they're you know, they've they've moved up to the rankings. I
think they're now first, at least in some categories, whereas other states,
like where I live, Rhode Island, we're a high spending, low performing
state. And that is not only because of the power of the union,
but is definitely related to that. All right, Erica Sandsey, we got
to go. Parents defending education keep working. It's a tough job, but
someone has to do it. And Erica, once again, thank you for
coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Thank you, Erica,
thank you, thanks for having me. Well, let's continue with more Bill
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Let's continue with more coming up next to Joey Chester of Federation for American Immigration
Reform Fair. Bill Cunningham with you every single year, Bill Cunningham, the
Great American. A few days ago, President joe Biden laid down in the
executive order which he claims will to hear the border. I find it unbelievable
that for the last three and a half years he said he did not have
the power to do what he just did with executive orders. He said for
a long time, I need the Congress to do something and doesn't take money.
All it takes is to will to shut down the southern border, stay
in Mexico policy to empower the border patrol to do their job. But I
wanted to get on an expert on the subject matter from the Federation of American
Immigration Reform, which is fair if AI R that is Joey Chester and Joey
welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Joey, can you tell the American
people the three or four things that the Biden Executive Order which is now in
effect, is occurring and why it's not a good idea because it doesn't really
solve the problem. But tell the American people the three or four things the
order does do. Yeah, Bill, it's great to be with you.
And I just want to say this is a desperate attempt by Joe Biden to
try to fool the American people. It's political showmen ship. And this executive
order what it does is it causifies his open borders policies. It doesn't do
anything to secure the border. So one of the major issues is that allows
twenty five hundred encounters per day, which is nine hundred thousand per year.
But that's not it. When you apply the CBP one app which is where
you can make an appointment to get into the United States, and if you
count the illegal HNV parole program where illegal aliens are flown directly into the United
States to a city near you, we hit at least at least one point
eight million illegal alien entries into the United States on a yearly basis. That
is acceptable by the Biden administration. That is Biden sending a message to the
cartels, to the human smugglers, and the foreign nationals around the world that
we are okay with one point eight million of you crossing our borders, and
in fact, you know, you can make a phone appointment for it,
and you can fly directly into the country if you're from a certain place.
Another issue, the executive order doesn't apply to unaccompanied minors. That means that
the human smuggler is going to take advantage of that to get these unaccompanied miners
across the border. It's going to allow human smuggling of minor children to thrive.
It. It makes me really mad. The executive Order does not apply
to any alien who DHS authorizes to enter due to operational considerations at the time
of the entry or encounter that warranted the permitting of the non citizen to enter.
So that sounds like a lot of discretion to me, where they can
basically say, oh yeah, the conditions allow this guy to enter. So
all in all, what this does is, like I said, it codifies
catch and release. This is not closing the border. Why twenty five one
hundred you weekue aliens to day? Why isn't it zero If you can do
it twenty five hundred, make it a zero tolerance policy. Bill Biden is
trying to fool the American people, But it's not going to work. I
hope not. But when I read this about unaccompanied minors, so I think
the little boys and little girls, some of the teenage years that don't count
against the twenty five hundred, and they're coming into this country to perform slave
labor or slave sex work. That's why they're coming and they don't count.
Add on top of this, there's about a million a year, which is
three thousand a day, which at about ten airplanes, ten to fifteen airplanes
that are flown directly from Central America, South America, Asia Africa directly into
a major American city. So you can go to an embassy, you're going
to apply online and once accepted, which is quite easy to get accepted instead
of going through the hassles. I've taken a flight to Mexico and then walk
through the border, and I watched a liberal over the weekend talk about you
know what this means is that the human traffickers aren't going to better from this
as much because you pay transit fees to come in the control of the human
traffickers to come across the southern border. But that's not the answer. The
answer is why do we allow into this country a million people a year flown
directly into the cities all over the country. On the top of that,
Joey, we have a million who overstay their visas every year. By that,
I mean they apply for a visa in some foreign country, they get
permission to come here to go on vacation allegedly, or to go to school
here. And then a million on top of that number just don't return after
the visa time, after the expiration date, they stay here anyway, And
so we have one hundred thousand children missing on the southern border. It was
a big deal, by the way, when Trump was in office, not
a big deal today. Two and a half thousand a day at on top
of that, Miners, it's at least a million a year before anything is
triggered, and what's being triggered is impossible. I watched Jay Johnson this morning
and one of the talk shows say he was a he was Obama's homeland security
He said, if we had a day with one thousand, that was really
a bad day. We're talking twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen. One thousand a
day is a bad day. Right now, we're having three thousand a day
with the Biden program, another three thousand a day from being flown into the
country, and another three thousand a day who overstay their visas. Those are
the numbers, and so we have about ten to twelve million illegals in the
country right now, living, working, many committing crimes in Venezuela. The
gangs are just unbelievable, vicious and cruel. They have no connection. And
so Joe Biden wants to sell the American people and the idea that it's the
fault of the Republicans. Those damn Republicans won't let me do what I want
to do, So by executive order, I'm going to do it. But
what he does by executive order doesn't change a damn thing. Correct, It
doesn't doesn't change anything. It literally does nothing. It is just him.
You know, he knows the political optic, he can read the poll numbers,
and he needs something to try to say, Look, look, I
this is a shiny object. Look what I've done. It's all in name
only. It literally, like I said, it codifies open border policies.
It doesn't rescind any of his executive orders or change any of his policies that
opened our borders. And it's really infuriating when you hear President Biden try to
blame Congress for not doing anything because he keeps houting this oh, bipartisan border
security bill, which was a fake border security bill that failed once in the
Senate, and then Chuck Schumer brought it up a second time and it failed
even worse than the first time, and it had no bipartisan support. In
fact, it failed by a bipartisan vote. The House passed HR two to
Secure the Border Act last May. It's been over a year. It's collecting
dust on Chuck Schumer's desk. If President Biden was serious about border security,
he would call up Chuck Schumer and he would say, look, we've got
get a handle on this crisis. You need to bring HR two up,
and you are going to tell the Democrats and the Senate that we need to
pass this bill because we've got a crisis at the border. If Biden was
serious, that's what he do. His executive order is basically based on the
failed Senate Border security deal. It's the same open Border's policies in that really
terrible piece of legislation. And so yeah, when he says it's border security,
it's not. He just needs something, like I said, to point
to and say yes, I've done something, but I will say what this
is. It is an admission by President Biden that the border has become a
crisis and out of control under his watch. And like we've said, he's
had executive authority all this time to do something. Now he's using his executive
authority, but once again, it's executive authority to keep the border open,
not secure it. And I think it's it's infuriating. I think it's a
slap in the face to the American people who are living day in and day
out with the consequences of these open borders policies. You have a provision here
in this executive order by Biden that says that Mexico must accept about thirty thousand
a month, which is a drop in believe thirty thousand a month is a
drop in the bucket. It doesn't solve the issue at all. What solves
the issue is shut down the southern border, stay in Mexico, stop the
flights into the country, revoke the visas, and look for individuals that are
overstaying their welcome. Now, that would change things, but that's not going
to happen. Can you tell them, Mayor? Of course, we know
the answers basically, but tell them may if you live in northern Kentucky,
if you live in Iowa or Minnesota somewhere, how does illegal immigration affect you,
Because you think this is a New York problem, a California problem.
Every city, every state is now a border city of border state. Explain
what's happening. Well, we know that illegal aliens aren't just going to the
big cities. So I'm from originally I live in DC now, but i'merginally
from a small town in Montana. And even in this small town in Montana,
there was outrage because illegal aliens showed up on an airplane and showed up
at the sheriff's office because they said, we've been flown into rural Montana.
We don't know what to do, we don't know where to go. And
so what inevitably happens is, you know, either some local NGO or some
national NGO put them up in a shelter, might be a government fund a
shelter, depending on where you are, and the taxpayers have to bear that
burden. But if you're in a small town somewhere and illegal aliens are coming,
if they have kids, their kids are going to be in your school,
you may have to hire a teacher who can either teach in Spanish or
whatever language, or a translator so that those kids can be in school.
So that's a burden. You know, schools run on tight budgets already,
there's more kids in the classroom, police fire in all of that's burden when
there's more people. If illegal aliens are committing crimes, that harms the local
community. Again, it harms citizens, but then the police have to respond,
and so it's burdened on the police, it's burdened on the courts.
And then you have if the illegal alien goes to the hospital they get hurt,
well, the hospital's going to pay for it. We allow people to
show up at the er and you're going to get taken care of because that's
that's what we do. But chances that they're going to pay their bill is
small. So that's an absorption by the taxpayers once again. So not only
are Americans all across the country living with the things that they can see,
it's the things that they can also feel, and that's in their their pocketbook.
You have our latest cost study shows one hundred and fifty point seven billion
dollars that you, legal immigration costs the United States every single year. That
is a crazy amount of money. And illegal aliens pay a drop in the
bucket towards the cost that they cost American taxpayers. So you're either living with
it by the literal physical effects of illegal immigration, or you're paying for it.
You know, we see stories about illegal aliens allegedly shooting cops. We
have the death of Lincoln Riley, and it goes on. I had On
dan Stein a couple months ago, president of your organization is a good man,
and that one hundred and fifty billion does not take into account the ancillary
expenses such as the broken windows, has stolen vehicles, the drug sales,
the human trafficking of girls and boys for profit. None of that can be
monetized in a sense to make part of the one hundred and fifty billion,
but every community. I had on the superintendent of Schools of Cincinnati about eight
months ago. By the way, she's been fired because the six labor unions
didn't want her in Cincinnati. And they have thousands of illegal children that show
up in the school system who are like nine, ten, eleven, twelve
years old with no education foundation at all, and isn't just Spanish. There's
about one hundred different languages and dialects, and the law says each must be
taught in their native language. I see a number out of the New York
Post that there's eighty thousand school children in New York City public schools. There's
over a million in the school system that now have special needs because they're twelve
years old. They can't read, can't write, and so the school district
is supposed to hire interpreters to sit there with the language of the dialect being
used by that student to help that kid learn, which takes away complete educational
opportunities of the other kids in school because they're sitting in a classroom go over
it again and again in time and a time. They're not part of the
culture and they're not part of the educational foundation. Even if you're in a
terrible school district, by the time in the first, second or third grade,
you might be able to read and write. But these kids are just
dropped in the middle parachute into school districts. They have no chance of graduating.
Of course, you can't flunk anybody anymore. And in your number of
one hundred and fifty some billion doesn't take into account the horror of being thrown
into sexual slavery as a boy or a girl. And wouldn't it be great
if the media did a long term study of what happens on the Southern border
with the sex trafficking of boys and girls. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Wouldn't
it be wonderful if they talked about the crimes being committed by the illegal immigrants,
overwhelmingly poorly educated young males who are the criminal groups in America. And
then you're also throw on top of that the Chinese military age men. There's
about fifty thousand Chinese military ah men seeking across the Southern border that are working
in the pot farms, the pot factories, all illegal to take over the
control of marijuana in order to give Chinese government billions of dollars. I'm looking
at this total collapse, and Joe Biden says he's helped to solve the problem.
I would say this, Joey Chester, are you kidding me? I
almost wish he was joking, but he's not. He thinks he's done something.
He has it. There's no way and that's why I say it's a
complete flap in the face, and there's no way he read the order.
I mean, he did not rescind the hundreds of other orders that he's issued.
Someone sticks something in front of him, he can't read it, He
signs it, changes his adult diaper, and then goes to a news conference
as allows a job in the media, gives him a complete free pass,
and it goes on and on. You point out that today's executive orders,
this was a few days ago, does not repeal hundreds of other executive orders,
policy memoranda, or final rules issued in the last three and a half
years that have weakened the nation's immigration enforcement capabilities. That has nothing to do
and the media that mainstream media refuses to cover it. I'll give you one
last factoy, Joey Chester, and that is this that if an American gets
most of not all, their news from ABC, CBS and NBC, the
morning shows, the view, late night comics, and the nightly news,
supporting Joe Biden is fifty five to thirty five over Donald Trump because none of
these issues are aired out by anyone in the mainstream media. For those of
us that look outside, it's a different story. I agree, and I
do think that we may be starting to see a shift happen in places like
New York, in Chicago, Boston, these sanctuary cities that are now having
to live with the consequences of being sanctuary cities. You know, the average
person in these places are having to live with the consequences, and their mindset
may be shifting. I wrote a story not long ago about a group of
soccer players in New York City. It was a couple of high school teams,
and they showed up at the local local soccer field to play a game
they have been scheduled for. They'd reserved the fields, and they get there
and there's a group of illegal aliens on the field and they refuse to leave.
Even after the police were called, they refused to leave. The police
did nothing to help. They basically said, we can't we can't help with
this situation. And the high schoolers have to cancel the soccer and they're afraid
to go back to this field now and play because of the consequences if they
maybe confront these illegal aliens. So I think you are starting to see that.
Everyday people are encountering situations like that and they're saying, wait a second,
this isn't right. I thought the American people were supposed to come first,
and that we were supposed to decide our immigration laws and who gets to
come here and why and when, and so I hope that people are starting
to wake up in some of these places. Well, wait about thirty seconds
remaining. If come November the fifth and sixth Biden is still in charge,
Kamala Harris will take over within six months. They'll pull the twenty fifth Amendment
him in a heartbeat, and then these policies will be cemented into place for
years and years to come, and the character and the pedigree of this country
will be completely destroyed. But Joey Chester of a Fair Federation for American Immigration
Reform, Joey thanks again for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you,
Joey, Bill, Thank you, God bless America. Let's continue with
more Bill Cunningham, The Grand American Live with you every Sunday night. Billy
Cunningham, thanks for listening tonight. And as I began talking about Father's Day
a week from now, I wanted to give you my experiences with it to
maybe in the future sometime this week. If you're a strange from your dad,
whether a daughter or a son, and You've been a strange for a
long period of time, and you have a week to get this together by
next Sunday night, and I would hope that you would try during the living
years to reach back and to say, Dad, no matter what the relationship
has been between you and I in the past, I want to forge a
new one right now. So I would urge you not to do what I
did, and that is blocked my own dad from meeting with me at the
moments of his death because of what he did to me and what he did
to the family, Because looking back in time, I wish I had that
precious time with him. So in the next week, if you're a strange
from your dad, now's the time, and now's the hour on Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, getting ready for Father's Day
next Sunday, to make that cannet, make one more effort to see if
you two can connect during the living years. Don't do what I did.
Bill cunning and the Great American with you every Sunday night,