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but two prestigious Marconi Awards for his
his broadcast Exodence, the one and only

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Bill Cunninghead. Now I Philly Cunningham, the great American, and tell you

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what a lot planned for Tonight.
We're gonna review the week that was and

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planned the week that's I had so
much more. As you know, Next

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Sunday is Father's Day. I'm gonna
give you my Father's Day story a little

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later on so that you have time
to cogitate in the next seven days to

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see if my words have some impact. If you're a strange from your own

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father, maybe the things I did
in my life wrongfully will serve as a

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lesson as to what not to do. We'll do that a bit later on.

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Coming up tonight, we're going to
have on Jeff Crue Air talk show

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host and author from New Orleans to
talk about a colony wrote which is the

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Trumpster is no justice and no peace
for Donald Trump tomorrow. He's got to

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visit I guess online with his probation
officer to get ready for the PDR.

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The probation apartment report so that the
judge Mershawn bought and paid for. Judge

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Juan Mershawn from the Great Nation of
Columbia will sentence this defendant having more known

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history about him. Normally, a
PDR is used for a defendant when the

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judge knows nothing about the case and
says, okay, I got a sentence

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this guy, and he may have
pled guilty. What's his name, does

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he have children, where he's from, What's he done in his life?

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A previous record, what are his
plans for the future. I think with

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Donald Trump, none of that applies. Mershawn's going to go through the charade

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of having a PDR done on Donald
John Trump, so he has some knowledge.

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The history and the sociological advances are
locked thereof of a defendant. Mark

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my words to lie the eleventh is
that it he's going to be sentenced to

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a jail or to home incarceration.
So the Democrats do not want him to

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campaign. That's what's going to happen. You want to bet me a hot

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fud Son. You on that,
raise your hand, Danny boy Glees and

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my producer did not raise his hand
because this has been a political show trial

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since it began and it's going to
continue. And the fact that he'd be

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put on probation in order to pay
some small fine. What should happen in

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every case with a seventy seven year
old man with no previous record on a

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paperwork violation and New York City,
for God's sakes, are you kidding me?

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You can treat a cop said like
a soccer ball in New York City

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and nothing happens to you. So
this is a charade we're going to go

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through. In July eleventh, I
don't know if the Donald's going to be

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at the RNC in Milwaukee. I
think the Republican National Convention is like July

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fifteenth to the eighteenth. My sister
is a delegate from Ohio. Is I

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hope vote for Donald Trump? She
tells me she is, But that convention

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could be wild one way or another
if the nominee can't be present because of

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the Democrat Party. That's beautiful.
Also coming up later as Joey Chester,

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a Federation of American Immigration Reform which
is fair. New stories out on Friday.

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This is from Sarah Arnold of townhall
dot com, which is a great

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publication, and she points out that
housing costs or skyrocketing because we have fifteen

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million new migrant slash tenants and no
place to put them. We have no

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place to put them, and that
number is growing. So fair, we

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have no place to put these,
says Susan Arnold, and also Donald Trump.

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And the price of a square foot
in a housing unit or an apartment

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has increased eighty five percent since twenty
nineteen. Does the media cover this?

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By the way, does the media
cover the fact that Joe Biden's led in

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about fifteen million people who have to
live somewhere with no housing being constructed because

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of the cost of doing so.
When you have less supply and more demand,

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what happens to the price of something? It goes up? Right.

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Oh no, the media won't cover
it, but you and I just did.

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We're living in a country under Joe
Biden that as a result of in

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Americans unable to afford the American dream, much less an apartment or a house,

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and it's because of illegal migration.
Try to check into an er somewhere,

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friends, of mine and the work
say they're overwhelmed and flooded with the

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legal immigrants that don't speak of the
English, than whenever conceivable medical procedure done

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on on them for nothing, and
every conceivable pharmaceutical drug available for nothing.

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Once again, when the use of
something goes way up and the supply stays

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the sam or goes down, guess
what the cost will skyrocket? Have you

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noticed what your medical bills have been
in your medical insurance because of Joe Biden.

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Have you noticed what the cost of
apartments and homes are because of Joe

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Biden? Have you noticed the waiting
in emergency rooms his skyrocket because of Joe

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Biden. Have you talked about inflation
because of Joe Biden? Go to Kroger

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and try to buy something? What's
the price up because of Joe Biden?

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No matter what it is, it's
Joe Biden. Does the media cover it?

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Absolutely not? Do you? And
I? We just did. And

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one thing really frost me is that
Joe Biden is willing to use family tragedies,

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his own family tragedies, so that
he can score some weird political points

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with certain demographics. Right. Remember
he said to a Puerto Rica group I

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was basically raised by Puerto Ricans.
Then he says to a black group,

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I was raised by the Black Church. In fact, he talked to a

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disabled group, and he pointed out
that an Aleutian Indian provided him medical care

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when he was a kid. His
great respect for the disabled community. When

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he went to West Point, he
said he was turned down an appointment to

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West Point. He also said his
uncle was eating by cannibals. He also

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said he marched with he was arrested. I'm sorry, arrested, supporting trying

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to get to Nelson Mandela Mandela.
He was arrested trying to get to him.

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He also said he marched with Martin
Luther King Junior. By the way,

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mL King was murdered in nineteen sixty
eight, and at that point,

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Joe Biden was twenty six years old, not in public service. How's that

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possible. I don't know how well. We do know one thing that he

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will use the tragedies of his family
to advance some weird political point with certain

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demographics. What's going to happen Monday
and Tuesday. I'll tell you what's going

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to happen. The Wilmington, Delaware
jury is going to either hang or find

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him not guilty, even though obviously
the federal government this time pulled out all

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the stops to prove that hunter Biden
lied on a federal form when he said

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he wasn't using drugs when he bought
a firearm legally, that he lied on

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the form which carries five years in
jail. You arrive done it, Danny

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Gleeson had done it. Put the
handcuffs on. You're going to Leavenworth and

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Hunter Biden did this while on drugs
by any reasonable method or means necessary.

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He brings to the courtroom doctor Joe
Biden flying back and forth in our dime,

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back and forth with D Day festivities, and then came out during the

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trial, which is something we suspected
that is. Hunter Biden was a user

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of young prostitutes from Eastern Europe,
had a terrible drug addiction that went on

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for years, years and years.
He admitted that he slept with his dead

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brother's widow, So I just concentate
on this one for a while. Hunter

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Biden admitted that he slept with the
widow of his dead brother Bo and not

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only did that, but hooked her
on cocaine, on crack cocaine and he

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charges for that, absolutely not.
And so the whole family is just weird,

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extremely weird, and they get away
with it because they have democratic privilege

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and they're protected. In Wilmington,
Delaware, there's a prominent African American minister,

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extremely popular in Wilmington, and he
is sitting next to doctor Joe Biden

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to you every day, sitting in
the courtroom with seven African American jurors of

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the twelve, nodding and smiling at
the noted minister that Joe Biden brings to

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court with her every day as if
okay, we got this, don't worry.

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So are you going to get a
conviction of an obvious crime? And

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my view, no, I'd be
shocked if that jury in Wilmington, Delaware,

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bought and paid for by the Bidens, are going to find Hunter Biden

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guilty of anything. The best hope
is for a course a hung jury.

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If it was Donald Trump, no
question of what would happen. But just

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bring Republicans to trial in front of
Democrats and you get convictions. Bring Democrats

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who commit obvious felonies to trial with
Democrats and you get just the opposite.

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But that's the way we are.
Let's continue. I want to relate to

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you. For the last several years
with you on Sunday night, I've related

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my Father's Day stories and to provide
as an example of what not to do.

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I don't know how many millions and
millions of Americans right now are astrained

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from your dad. And men tend
to act up more than women. There

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are a few moms who act the
way some fathers act. I don't mean

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all dads are most dads, but
if there's something wrong with a parent,

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just it is much harder for a
male to be a good dad than a

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mother. Maybe it has to do
with the birthing process, or the togetherness

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of the baby unborn baby in the
mother's womb, whatever it is. And

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I don't mean to say that,
I will say it. Women are better

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than men, and mothers are the
best parents in general. Doesn't apply in

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every circumstance. God knows, there's
lots of lousy, filthy, dirty women

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in the world, but the great
majority of mothers are those that sons and

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daughters would run through brick walls to
save them. And I had one of

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those mothers who was just wonderful.
Never got past the eighth grade, but

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she says she had an advanced degree
from the College of hard Knocks, and

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my mother, Mary Ellen Cunningham,
who died in twenty nine, was a

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graduate of the College of hard Knocks. When she was a teenage girl and

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the depression struck a night teen twenty
nine. She wasn't quite a teenager.

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I'd be wrong about that. She
was about ten years old when she got

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to graduated from grade school. When
she was fourteen, she went to work,

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and they all did because there was
no welfare system. Families banded together

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and it was difficult. So I'm
watching Saving Private Rhyme and I had some

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misty eyes because once again it reminded
me of the terrible, horrible mistake I

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made with my own dad. And
it is this that when I was twelve

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years old, think of a good
mother, four kids between the ages of

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thirteen and three, living in a
Cape Cod, humble middle class home and

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little Deer Park, Ohio. And
mother and father was my father and my

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mother, and I knew there was
terrible problems because you could sense as a

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kid, the arguing, the fighting. Dad didn't come home at night,

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smell alcohol in his breath constantly.
It was a raging terrible alcoholic. When

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he came back from the Great War, took several jobs, could not stick

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in any of them, and was
at that point in my life my best

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friend, my baseball coach, you
might know, great athletic skills, and

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from the age of five till I
was twelve, he was my coach.

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Spent more time with him almost anybody
else. I shared the same name,

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and we looked a lot alike.
And every Sounder daughter thinks that they might

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be the favorite of their mother or
father. But I was fairly certain I

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was his favorite because we spent so
much time together. But I knew he

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had problems. I couldn't articulate when
you're eight nine ten years old how to

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behave around an alcoholic father, because
you're eight nine ten years old. But

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he spent time in a county jail
for drunk driving and leaving scenes of accidents.

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Raging alcoholic. Became a bartender after
he lost jobs at Kroger and Procter

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and Gamble. We call him Cincinnati
Procter and God. Could not hold down

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work, constant money problems because my
mom had an eighth grade education and she

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cared for the four kids, and
I was number two of the four,

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but I was close to my dad, really close. And then one afternoon

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my mom sat us down in tears
and said, your father has left.

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Your dad's gone and he's not coming
back. First thing I said, is

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Mom, is he dead? She
said no, he'd left. I said

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where'd he go? I don't know? And so I had questions and questions

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and questions. But four, my
mother's sister, who called Auntie, that

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had her own house, very small
house. She also worked at Procter and

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Gamble, organizing coupons from something.
We all moved in together. She was

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living with her other sister and her
mother, and then five more move in

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with her. We had eight and
a small house, but we were fed

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and we had clean clothes. And
as the years rolled by, on Father's

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Day, I would say to a
mom now and then where's Dad? And

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it was like not heard from him? Literally not a word, never heard.

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We moved on. The four kids
all got advanced college degrees, either

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juris doctorates or master's and my mom
insisted that we all work, and I

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was doing my job, and I
was working, And as the Father's Day

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rolled by, after many, many
years, about fifteen to eighteen years later,

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It was out of my mind completely
about my dad gone. I assume

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by that point he was dead.
And I was in law school University of

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Toledo. I lived at thirty five
thirty Sheeltenham, which was a apartment building,

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and I was in law school.
My wife worked for the University of

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Toledo as a secretary, and I
worked from eight am to four pm every

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day. I had to get down
to Luca's County court house. I was

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honored to be a bailiff to Judge
Robert V. Franklin, and he was

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literally a roommate of Martin Luther King
Junior at Morehouse College. And that was

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from I was in law school from
seventy one to seventy five. It took

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me four years because I worked during
the day. I made six thousand dollars

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a year as a baiale of screwing
and witnesses, watching trials, reading verdicts,

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reading motions, listening to jury deliberations. I got one hell of an

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education. So I went on with
life, got married. My high school

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sweetheart didn't have a pot to urinate
in or one to empty it into.

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I thought I might be a golf
professional. So after we were married,

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I got on my volt stob BW
bug and drove to Miami, Florida in

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order to start a career as a
golf professional. God knows that didn't work

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out. Eventually made my way back
home. University of Toledo admitted me,

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so instead of going south, we
went to Toledo. Where's Toledo on the

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map? Got me a Ohio map. I said, honey, let's go

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to Toledo. I'm going to law
school, which I always wanted to do

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because I was up Perry Mason and
Owen Marshall. So I'm in my third

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or fourth year. Phone rings on
the wall. Of course, you may

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know, we had no caller idea
at the time, and who was calling

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me? But my dad hadn't seen
him in fifteen or eighteen years, completely

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out of my mind, and I
said, who's this? He said,

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Billy, this is your father.
I said really, I said, is

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this a prank? He said,
no, this is your dad. Hadn't

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heard his voice in a long time. And I said, okay, when

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was I born? Gave me the
date? I said what hospital was?

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I born in Saint Elizabeth's, Covington, Kentucky. I said, that's right.

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I said, who is your assistant
coach on Rutter's pharmacy gave me the

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name. I said, okay,
you're my dad. Now what I'll continue

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after a break, And I hope
at the end of this, if you're

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estranged from your dad as a daughter
or a son, no matter what age

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you are, the mistakes that I
made you will not repeat with your own

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father. Well, let's continue and
if a line becomes available at eight six

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six six, four seven, seven
three three seven, Bill cunning in the

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Great American with you every Sunday night. So I said to my dad,

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where are you? He said,
I'm in Missouri. I said, Missouri.

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How'd you get there? I knew
he took the only family car.

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We had to drive west as far
as you get away from us. And

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uh, we had no transportation,
no money, Uh the family. I

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was twelve years old, and uh. But for my aunt's intervention, we

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would have gone into orphanages and my
life would have been completely different. But

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I said to him, you're in
Missouri. What are you doing there?

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He said, I'm I build a
new life. He said, well,

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that's not why I'm calling. I
said, what, Dad, why are

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you calling? He said, I'm
dying and I snipped, I shouldn't have

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said this. I said, probably
deliver disease in kidney. There was a

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little bit of SI. Yeah.
He said, I have liver cancer stage

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four and kidney cancer and I'm not
going to live much longer. And before

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I die, I want to see
you. I want to see you.

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In tears, his son, I
need to see you. And I said,

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well, you know where I am
in Toledo, and he said,

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he said, I can't travel,
so I'm too ill. I really would

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like to see you, and I
said, Dad, absolutely not. What

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you put the family through, what
you put your kids through, what you

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put my mom through was unspeakable,
and I want nothing to do with you.

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And I hung up on them.
Next call I made was to my

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mom back in Cincinnati, and I
said, Mom, you can't believe we

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just called me. He said,
I know your dad called you and I

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said, well, he said,
how do you know that? He said,

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he call here to get your number. He wanted to talk with you.

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I continue the story on the other
side. If you're a strange from

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your father getting ready for next Sunday
Night, listen to what happened next.

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Bill Cunningham with you every Sunday night
by Billy Cunningham and let's continue. So

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I said, Mom, what do
you think I should do? She said,

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Billy, just do whatever you want
to do. I get it,

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and whatever you do, I support
you. I said, Mom, I

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have no desire to go out to
Missouri to see him after what it put

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us through. And I was twenty
six, twenty seven years old. She

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said, Billy, it's your decision. I said, I love you,

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Mom. She always said I love
you too. Billy hung up. About

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two months go by and the phone
rings again. Well, I was only

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home because I worked from eight am
to four pm as a bailiff and common

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Police Court, and I went to
law school at night six to ten,

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and also some classes on Saturday.
And shall I say I was busy and

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raising also a two or three year
old son, and you know we're busy.

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And it was good busy. Phone
rings rings again, no caller idea

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of course, and pick it up
and it was a little bit of a

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different voice and said, Billy,
this is your dad. I said,

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what's going on? He said?
They told me I got a week or

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two to live and I really want
to see you. Please come here and

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please see me in Missouri. I
said, Dad, Well, how dire

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is it? He said, They
told me I have a week or two

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to live, and I want to
see you. We looked alike. I

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share his name. He's my best
friend. But we're going back fifteen years.

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I said, Dad, you warn't
a father to me in my life.

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I'm not going to be a son
to you and your death. Goodbye,

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and never call again. And I
hung up. And my wife says

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that was a little harsh. I
said, well, I'll tell you what.

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What he put us through is in
the unforgivable category. And I and

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we kind of had a few words, but she thought I should have gone

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by. I said, Penny,
I just I just can't. I can't

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do it. She said, okay, sure, Dad. So years roll

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BI. As you may know,
I've been an entrepreneur in many things,

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including opening up sports bars called Willy's
Sports Cafe. My nickname is Willy Wi

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l I apostrophees and open them up
quite successful in the nineties. Opened the

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first one I think in eighty nine, continued owning him for about fifteen more

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years. It was sometime around two
thousand or two thousand and one. I'm

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in Willie's and Kenwood, which was
my flagship, the first one that I

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opened up operated. I love that
business. And this old man. I'm

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at the bar talking to some customers. It was in the evening, about

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seven o'clock and he taps me on
the should I turn around. Look at

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this guy. He was hunched over. He looked to me like ninety years

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old old guy. And he said, can I talk to you? And

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I said, you know, okay, but I only I got a manager's

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meeting at about ten minutes seven thirty. It's Monday night, Monday night football

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is coming on, he said.
I said, okay, let's get a

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table. So we were very busy
at that point. I go and sit

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in the restaurant with him, and
he said, Billy, I was your

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dad's best friend. And from the
time he came back from the war and

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went through the terror and the horrors
of alcoholism that went on for about twelve

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or fifteen years. I listened to
the war store. I put him on

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bond now and then I tried to
get him. I just love Bill Cunningham.

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He said, I love that guy. I said, you know,

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I loved him too. It's my
dad, it's my best friend. Here's

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my coach, and one day,
after years of alcoholism, money problem,

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he simply took the only car we
had my mom. I'm not sure mom

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had a license at that time,
and just left. Who never saw him

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again? He said, I know, And I talked to him a lot

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while he was here. Then when
he moved out to Missouri, I went

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there twice to see him. We
exchanged letters here and there and phone calls.

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He was a great guy. He's
funny, good to be with.

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But he never got out of the
bottle, couldn't stop. And at that

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point in America, alcoholism wasn't a
disease. It was a moral failing.

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It was shake it off. You
don't have to do that anymore. He

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couldn't keep work, and as years
went by, especially after he left it

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I got into Missouri, he even
drank more. And he said, but

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he was a great guy. He's
my best friend. I said, I

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know the feeling. I said,
well, why did he leave? He

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said, he told me he felt
such shame and dishonor that. We had

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a local newspaper called the Sycamore Messenger, and every now and then there was

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a headline cunning him arrested again,
and they had a police blog, cunning

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him out on bond, cunning him
this, cunning him that, and he

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was causing such pain to his kids
and to his wife, my mother,

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that he couldn't take it anymore.
And he felt such shame and dishonor.

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He just got in the car and
drove and almost killed himself a couple of

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times, going off bridges, et
cetera. But he got out to a

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different state, met another woman,
started a separate life, but never gave

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up drinking. And I said to
him, well, why, I guess

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the question is why? And he
said it was Guadalcanal. And I said,

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guattle Canal. You mean the war
in the Pacific. He said,

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yeah, you know, it went
on for about about six months, and

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your dad was a private I had
a picture of him. I threw away

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him in a marine uniform. He
was twenty two years old, volunteered win

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and after a year or so of
training, he was one of the first

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to hit the beaches of Guadalcanal.
I said, Guadalcanal. He said,

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it was like summertime in nineteen forty
two, and it was hotter than the

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hinges of Hell, and there were
literally thousands of American gis killed. There

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were tens of thousands injured, and
your dad lived. He was shot,

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but it wasn't a serious wound.
He wasn't taking off the island. He

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was Medican. He stayed there.
He was there for four or five months,

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fighting and killing the Japanese. He
said, he killed and his buddies

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were killed. His platoon took eighty
percent casualties. Your dad was one of

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the lucky ones. And this went
on for months and months months, and

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he said the worst thing he had
to do. And there's a scene in

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Saving Private Rine at the end of
the first ten minutes where you see these

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gis floating in the water. They're
on the beaches, face down, body

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parts are gone, and your dad
and others had bags, and in the

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evening and in the early morning they
would pick up the bodies of their crew

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and their fellow marines and put them
in bags, and pick up an arm

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with a leg and the head,
put them together and put them in bags.

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He said that went on and on
and on. It didn't stop for

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weeks and weeks, and every day
he was looking forward to, in a

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sense being killed because it was so
brutal and so awful. It was so

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awful. When the Marines came out
of Guadalcanal, all of them were given

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short leave because all of them had
terrible flashbacks and memories of what happened.

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In fact, he was bobbing around
off the coast of Japan getting ready to

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be one of the soldiers that invaded
hip hand. It was going to start

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in November December forty five, until
the bombs were dropped and his life was

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saved. Then he came back home
and he had such flashbacks. We would

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call it PTSD right now, but
then it was called it was. It

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wasn't just shake it off and get
on with life. He was shelf shocked

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as a term that was being used. There were twelve million who went through

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this, and there were millions of
the Saving Private Ryan Crew all over the

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South Pacific that lived through a living
hell and they were simply told to shake

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it off and get to work.
Well, your dad couldn't shake it off.

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And if there was a ball hit
particularly hard, he would duck when

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he heard a gunshot somewhere. He
was in fear. My mom told me

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he'd wake up in the middle of
the night screaming, And I heard his

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scream sometime at night, and I
said, so he left the family because

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of what he couldn't handle the shame, and he couldn't handle what he went

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through in Guadalcanal. And I said, oh God, And if you would

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have gone to see him, he
wanted to apologize to you and say he

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was so sorry. He wanted to
accept his apologies for what he went through.

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And I said, I had no
idea. If you listen to me

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for any period of time, you
know the love and respect I had for

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American military. You know how my
feelings are about police officers, deputy sheriff's

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correction officers, rank and file,
FBI, Secret Service, from the US

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Martial Service to put their lives in
limit risk. My dad was one of

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twelve million that went away to war, but when he came back from his

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experiences, he wasn't the same person. One was born by that point.

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I was born at the end of
nineteen forty seven. Other two more siblings

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born later on. And he never
could get out of the horrors that he

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saw in Guadalcanal. He couldn't give
it up. He couldn't hold jobs,

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and to him, alcohol was medicine
and he needed the medicine all the time.

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And there was no help for gis
that had those difficulties. You couldn't

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go to the VA and say,
look, I got PTSD. I'm shell

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shocked, whether go get away.
And the great majority of Gis who came

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back from that war or Vietnam of
my generation, or Korea or a Persian

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Gulf one or two rock, Afghanistan
and similar terrible experiences. But in that

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WARLD World War two, you didn't
go in for a year. You went

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in for years until the war was
won. When you came home, it

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was all glory and parades and all
this. Getting a job at Kroger or

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Procter and gamble anywhere. Driving a
cab he did for a while was easy

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if you're a marine, guess what. But he could not get over what

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happened to his mind in Guadalcanal.
And when his best friend told me this,

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I felt lower than whaled. I
felt terrible. During the living years,

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it was an opportunity I had to
reach back to offer forgiveness, and

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I failed. Every generation blames the
one before. I know the frustration compete

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in on your door. I know
that I'm a prisoner to all my father

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hussle. I know that I'm a
hostage all this hawks and beers. I

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just wish I could have told him
in love, I wish I had and

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I didn't. To me, it's
inexcusable. I leave four children of tender

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years and a loving wife and a
mother in that situation when the alternative was

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to put us in an orphanage,
which my mom would have fought like a

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warrior poet to oppose. Thank God
for Auntie for taking us in. So,

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my friends, if tonight you have
seven days to contact your dad and

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normally the men are the ones acting
up and say during the living years,

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I want to sit down with you
and talk about the sism and find out

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why we don't get along and find
out what happened all the different if you

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don't, and so I would urge
you in the next six or seven days

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to contact your strange dad and say, Daddy, I know we don't get

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along. I know we've had difficulties. I think most of us caused by

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the father and not the daughter or
the son. And I want to make

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one more opportunity to contact you.
Today we have text and emails and say

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00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:37.440
let's get together and have lunch,
have breakfast, let's talk because it's too

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late when one of us die to
admit it. So every Father's Day as

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it approaches, I have tried my
best and my time to be the best

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dad that I could beat to my
son and never put him through what my

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dad put me through. And there's
not an excuse and a reason to leave

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for kids and a wife and a
mother because of Guadalcanal. But when his

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best friend gave me that story,
I wish I hadn't torn up that photo

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of him in his marine outfit.
I just washed him out of my life.

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00:33:21.319 --> 00:33:28.759
She is I just wish I could
have to him. I urged you,

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00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.720
I urge you to make that connection. I've been doing this for about

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forty years, believe it or not. I've done a lot of other things.

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But it happened again last night.
I'm having dinner and I'm leaving at

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00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:45.079
a restaurant, and these two guys
walk up to me and said, are

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you going to do your Father's Day
story? And I said, well,

424
00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:50.839
I'm inclined to do it, and
both of me said, please do it

425
00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:55.480
because both of us are estranged from
our dads, her rights and wrongs that

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00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:59.480
each of us had done, and
because of what you told us. We

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00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:04.319
contact that our dads and guess what, we're now best friends again. And

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00:34:04.359 --> 00:34:07.839
one of us has to take the
first step to say, hey, dad,

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00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:12.559
let's forget the past. Let's get
together and talk about it. But

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00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:15.000
it's not going to keep me from
having a relationship with you in the future.

431
00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:21.039
And I get that regularly. When
I travel the highways and byways from

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00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:24.559
here to Florida out to New York, it happens once or twice a month

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00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:28.480
a woman or a man walks up
to me and says, you know,

434
00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:30.880
I heard your father day story,
and I kind of want you to know

435
00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:35.800
that you had a positive impact in
my life. So much of talk radio

436
00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:39.360
as a city and a cerbic,
so much of talk radio as accusations.

437
00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:45.559
Have a great show planned for tonight, but on a personal level, one

438
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:52.440
I solved for the first time in
total saving Private Rynd. And the reason

439
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:55.639
I haven't seen it is because when
it came out about twenty some years ago.

440
00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:02.639
My wife's dad was also a Marine
who served in South Pacific, and

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00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:07.320
he was sixteen years old who went
to Marine Corps. No burstiments existed when

442
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:10.960
he was born, and his mother
had a sign and certified that he was

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00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.000
eighteen to get in the Marines.
He was shipped out to the South Pacific.

444
00:35:16.199 --> 00:35:22.199
He went through similar adventures on beaches
in Tarawoi, oh elsewhere. And

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00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:23.599
he got a hold of Penny and
I said, look, my brothers were

446
00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:27.480
telling me he was the youngest of
ten that I got to go see this

447
00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:30.119
movie called Saving Private Ryan. I
said, I think I've heard of it

448
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:32.039
with Thomas Hanksman, it's in the
movie theater. Said you want to go

449
00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:36.400
see He said, well, I'm
reluctant to see it. Well let's go

450
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:38.280
see it. I said, okay, So we pick him up, take

451
00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:42.599
him out to the movie theater.
We sit there and a little popcorn,

452
00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:46.079
little coke, and the movie starts. But Thomas Hanks with my father in

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00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:52.320
law, Penny's dad, my wife's
dad. There's a scene in at the

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00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:59.280
conclusion of the first ten minutes when
marines are floating in the water, dead

455
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:02.920
down. He's got tears in his
eyes. He looks at us and says,

456
00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:07.360
I gotta go. I can't watch
this. He never talked about the

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00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:13.639
war, as most did not.
My father never articulated the Guadalcanal stuff to

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00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:19.320
anyone other than his best friend and
my wife's dad said I gotta go.

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00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:22.039
This is too real for me,
got up and left. We never talked

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00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:24.519
about I said, you want to
talk about as I can't, so he

461
00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:28.639
needn't to help. He said,
I don't. He never fell into the

462
00:36:28.679 --> 00:36:31.119
bottle. He was a great guy, great marine. He reacted to the

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00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:43.239
horrors of war differently. Let's continue
Bill Cunningham with you every Sunday morning,

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00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:55.840
will my father passon. We didn't
get to tell him all the things I

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00:36:55.960 --> 00:37:14.599
had to say, so with their
permission, we're going to deal with this

466
00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:17.360
again next Sunday night, which is
Father's Day night itself. But I thought

467
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:23.239
doing it a week earlier gives hopefully
thousands of sons and daughters a week to

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00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:30.079
make the connection to your dad during
the living years and next Sunday night.

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00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:36.280
If you want to relate what happened
in that attempt to connect, or if

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00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:39.159
the connection took place, so be
it. But I counted for mental reasons.

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00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:43.599
I need to move on. First
off will be Jeff crue Air from

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who's been recognized as radio's best,
the recipient of not one, but two

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00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:45.639
prestigious Marconi Awards for his broadcast excellence, the one and only Bill Cunningham,

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00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:49.000
Collie Cunningham, the great American.
Of course, Jeff Truere is a great

478
00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:52.000
columnist, talk show host, and
author. Gretten so many great things about

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00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:57.239
Donald Trump and about the Democrats.
He wrote a new column a few days

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00:38:57.239 --> 00:39:00.960
ago, no Justice, no Peace
for persecure to Donald Trump. It continues

481
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:05.320
to get worse, and I can
only imagine what's going to happen July the

482
00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:07.880
eleventh. And normally, if he
had by that point a seventy eight year

483
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:13.199
old man with no previous record on
a paperwork violation, you might not send

484
00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:16.119
him to prison in New York State
where cop killers are released on bond.

485
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:22.360
But nonetheless I regress a little bit. But Jeff crue Air, welcome again

486
00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:25.159
to the Bill Cunningham Show. And
I loved your column, No Justice,

487
00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:30.320
no Peace for persecuted Trump. That's
not the way the media views this thing.

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00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:32.800
Give me the essence of the column
and edify the American people. What's

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00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:37.960
coming. Bill, Always great to
be with you, Thanks for having me.

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00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:43.039
I would say this, whenever we
think the Democrats will not go to

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00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:47.280
a certain degree with President Trump,
they go further. I mean I've witnessed

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00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:51.960
it throughout his entire nine year political
career. I mean I was there the

493
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:55.920
day covering the day came down the
escalator, and I've just been seeing just

494
00:39:57.159 --> 00:40:02.679
this Trump arrangement syndrome get worse and
and worse, and it's just absolutely amazing

495
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:07.760
what they do to that man.
And yeah, they convicted him, of

496
00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:13.079
course on these bogus thirty four charges. It was paperwork violation if anything,

497
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:15.679
a misdemeanor if anything, Bill,
And of course they took it to the

498
00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:21.559
full extent that they could. And
now the media and the Democrats get to

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00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:24.199
say, convicted valin Donald Trump,
and they're going to try to make the

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most out of that. The good
thing is, Bill, I watched the

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00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:32.119
UFC fight the other night. He
was treated like a conquering hero. And

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00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:38.000
the money's pouring in the American people
see through the sham and it's backfiring on

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00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:40.400
them. And I love it,
you know, Jeff, I love Dana

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00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:45.719
White. And when they walked in. Can you imagine? That was in

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00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:49.800
New Jersey, Newark, I think, and they had twenty three thousand faithful

506
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:53.119
there. There was a couple of
scenes for some of the Mixed Martial Arts

507
00:40:53.239 --> 00:40:58.679
UFC fighters jumped over the ring.
Those rings are about eight feet tall,

508
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:01.480
jumped over the ring and run up
to Donald Trump to get a selfie with

509
00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:05.639
him. Well, one time it
was just before the match, and the

510
00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:08.840
other one the winner jumped out screaming, screaming, God, go, Brandon,

511
00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:12.360
go, whatever that is. And
then he went up to Donald Trump

512
00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:15.199
and like hugged him, sweating like
a dog. And people are going nuts.

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00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:19.880
Can you imagine Jeff Creweer. And
by the way, that was in

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00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:23.039
New Jersey, not exactly a red
stronghold. What if, say, Joe

515
00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:30.440
Biden had walked into that arena with
Kamala Harrison toe, what would have happened?

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00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:35.440
Can you explain what would have occurred? Bill? All I can say

517
00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:38.840
is it would have been ugly.
It would have been ugly. And Biden

518
00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:43.559
is pretty slow, but he's not
that slow. He wouldn't show up for

519
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:46.639
something like that. And you know, it gives you a great picture of

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00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:50.800
President Trump's support you know, he
goes to wild Wood, one hundred thousand

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00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:52.960
people show up. He goes to
the Bronx, twenty five thousand people show

522
00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:57.960
up. He goes to a UFC
match in Jersey. The people go crazy.

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00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:00.920
This guy is popular some of these
states. If they say you're blue

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00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:06.760
states. Yeah, I think he's
got a chance for a landslide this fall,

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00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:08.719
Bill, I really do. But
well, they led him because you

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00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:14.039
make a great point in your column. In Manhattan voted eighty eight to twelve

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00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:19.480
against Donald Trump. Every member of
the jury could not find him not guilty

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00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:22.840
because they'd go home and they would
be pillared by their neighbors and friends for

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00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:25.400
the rest of their lives. None
of them are going to pay for a

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00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:29.960
drink or a meal. And Judge
Jan Mrshawan, who was born in the

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00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:34.400
Nation of Columbia, he'll be wine
dined and pocket lined all the way up

532
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:37.360
to the New York State Supreme Court. And then in Delaware you have a

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00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:43.400
Hunter Biden on trial and about ninety
percent voted for Joe Biden. And I'll

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00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:45.039
tell you one thing the Democrats love
to do. You know, no one's

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00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:49.719
above the law. The best they
can ever hope for, there with Hunter

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00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:52.320
Biden would be a hung jury because
the great majority. There were a couple

537
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:58.599
of female jurors African American who pulled
out Kleenex and were dabbing their eyes during

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00:42:58.639 --> 00:43:04.599
the opening statement of the criminal visit
attorney for Hunter Biden. And then the

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00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:09.199
first lady is there, And then
I guess there's a big time NAACP black

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00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:15.119
leader in Delaware, in Wilmington that
is loved and he's like the Martin Luther

541
00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:19.239
King Junior of Delaware. And guess
who's sitting next to the first lady.

542
00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:22.119
I forget his name is Poppy or
sweet Lips, whatever his name is.

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00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:27.039
He's sitting there next to him,
and he's nodding his head looking at the

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00:43:27.039 --> 00:43:29.960
black jurors, and I'm thinking,
wait a minute, is this a fair

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00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:34.360
And they're assuming he's found not guilty. Well, nobody's above the lower Can

546
00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:37.239
you see the writing when Hunter Biden
is found not guilty by that jury of

547
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:45.440
simply lying on a form for U
Bill, he is obviously guilty. We

548
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:50.400
all know he's guilty. This is
only a small fraction of what Hunter Biden

549
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:53.199
did that he could have been prosecuted
for. It's called home cooking. Bill

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00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:58.559
I mean he's got home cooking.
I mean, Delaware is run by the

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00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:04.280
Bidens. I mean they have decades
of political influence there in Delaware. So

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00:44:04.360 --> 00:44:07.400
yeah, you're right. I mean
there's no way, there's no way he

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00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:10.440
is going to be convicted. No
way, no judge, just like there

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00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:15.440
was no way Donald Trump was going
to be acquitted in the Manhattan courtroom.

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00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:20.239
There was no way. And I
just want to just mention this judge is

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a Biden donor. His daughter is
a high priced Democrat operative that makes millions

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00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:30.599
of dollars off of the Democrats.
Bragg campaigned on a message of getting Trump.

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I mean, the whole thing,
as Donald Trump has said, was

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rigged. I mean, and I
thought Matt Gates did a good job of

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bringing this up to the Attorney General
in the hearing, and of course he

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00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:47.039
said, I know nothing about Colangelo, massive Colangelo number three under him a

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justice. He decides, you know
what, I want to enhance my career.

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00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:53.960
I want to go work and be
an assistant in a local prosecutor's office.

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00:44:54.119 --> 00:44:58.239
I kind of want to go from
Maine justice to a dirty, filthy

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00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:00.400
courtroom in New York City. That's
a career move right there. But of

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00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:02.679
course Mary Girland's out, don't know
anything about it. What do you mean?

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00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:07.079
You mean there's prostitution upstairs? All
I do is play the panel.

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00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:12.079
Well what are you talking about?
And here's Calizelo over the left shoulder of

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00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:17.760
Alvin Bragg smiling from Maine Justice ship
to a New York City County prosecutor courtroom.

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And this case began as a misdemeanor. So you got number three Department

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00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:28.679
of Justice signing on to Alvin Bragg
to help him get get him prosecuted.

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00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:31.639
And then and then you had the
age he's got the guts to say,

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00:45:32.239 --> 00:45:36.119
Jesus, I don't know how that
happened. Man, that's a new That's

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00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:38.519
not unusual. It was like a
career enhancement. It'd be like my local

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00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:43.559
prosecutor here in Hamilton County, Missy
Powers, if she would bring indictments against

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00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:47.079
Joe Biden, and then one of
Bush or Trump's DOJ officials came to Hamilton

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00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:51.599
County to prosecute Joe Biden. I
think the media would point that out,

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00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:52.559
Am I right or wrong? I
mean him? Now, wait a minute,

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00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:57.039
you are that may be at a
clue, right there, Sir Sherlock

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00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:04.239
might be right, and I'll say
this, I want to see the email

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00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:07.440
trail. I want to see Foya's
done to find out what kind of communication

582
00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:14.199
we had between DJ the Biden White
House, New York and also Georgia.

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00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:19.320
We have visits to the White House, suspicious visits to the White House.

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00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:23.519
All of this was coordinated. We
all know it. This was a political

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00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:30.760
hit job against the leading candidate for
President Bill. We see it in Banana

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00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:34.880
republics. We see it in countries
that are tyrannies. This is not the

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00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:39.639
United States of America, where one
politician uses his influence to try to remove

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00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:44.519
another politician, and maybe even in
prisonmen. You know they want to put

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00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:47.960
him in prison. You know they
can't wait for Donald Trump to go to

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00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:51.679
prison. That's their goal. Well, the ladies on the view are having

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00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:55.199
a conniption fit. In fact,
one of the great guests there said that

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00:46:55.280 --> 00:47:00.679
she gets quote wet unquote whenever I
think about Donald Trump and prison, and

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00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:05.119
I'm thinking wow. Going back to
the fouryer request, of course, Mary

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00:47:05.159 --> 00:47:08.360
Carland was asked, can we get
all the communications between you and the New

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00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:14.760
York County Prosecutor's Office. Can we
get the communications between you and the Atlanta

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00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:16.800
Fulton County Prosecutor's office, Nathan Wade
to spend a lot of time in the

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00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:20.840
White House along with Fanny Willis,
and he said, well, just go

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00:47:20.840 --> 00:47:23.519
ahead and make a four yer request. He didn't deny any coordination. He

599
00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:27.199
said, well, you got to
ask a Foyer request, and he made

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00:47:27.239 --> 00:47:30.599
a special appointment. Tony Fauci is
now in charge of all Foyer requests.

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00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:35.039
And so I'm not sure and doj
is going to do a damn thing with

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00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:38.400
that. But nonetheless, and secondly, Nathan Wade, the lover of boy

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00:47:38.440 --> 00:47:45.239
of Fanny Willis, spent at least
sixteen hours in the White House. And

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00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:50.599
he says that they can't talk about
what occurred there because it's a client privilege.

605
00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:53.719
But nonetheless, would it be suspicious
if Fanny Willis's lover was in the

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00:47:53.719 --> 00:48:00.360
White House. How many local county
prosecutors have special counsel in Fulton County time

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00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:04.079
in the White House coordinating philosophy?
Why would Nathan Wade go to the White

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00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:08.639
House. What's the purpose of that
if there's not coordinator, No inquiring minds

609
00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:13.000
want to know, Bill, and
you know, Republicans need to push these

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00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:15.639
investigations a lot more than they've been
doing it now. Of course, these

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00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:20.280
requests are going to be held up
till after the election. They don't want

612
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to release anything. They're not going
to release the tapes of Joe Biden's interview

613
00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:29.440
by the Special Counsel Robert Kerr,
because of course Biden could barely articulate.

614
00:48:29.559 --> 00:48:32.400
Biden forgot everything, and if he
sounded horrible, they don't want that release

615
00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:36.440
before the election, so they're not
going to release it. So they're just

616
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:39.400
playing games, and they're trying to
protect Biden at all costs. And of

617
00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:43.679
course we just need to keep pointing
it out and the American people, I

618
00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:45.480
think are going to get it.
I think the American people understand what's going

619
00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:52.599
on here, and I'm sensing I'm
feeling bill a landslide coming if there is

620
00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:54.480
an honest election. Well what I
want to do? You know, the

621
00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:59.440
Democrats are desperate and they're dangerous,
and that's a terrible place to be.

622
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:01.760
Get on to another comment you made
here, which in your column, which

623
00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:06.880
is so good. Afterwards, many
Trump voters questioned the election results and is

624
00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:10.239
sending on Washington on January the sixth, twenty twenty one to protest during his

625
00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:15.280
speech to supporters, which is not
a aired by the mainstream media, Trump

626
00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:21.800
encourages followers quote peacefully and patriotically,
make your voices heard. He never advocated

627
00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:25.639
violence, and in fact appeared on
Twitter to encourage his supporters to leave peacefully

628
00:49:25.639 --> 00:49:30.079
and respect law enforcement. Because that
doesn't fit the media narrative. The media

629
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:35.400
doesn't spend much time on that,
do they. No, they all create

630
00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:37.960
the impression that Donald Trump incited the
crowd, and Donald Trump was right there

631
00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:42.599
egging him on to go attack the
capital and all that is a lie.

632
00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:45.679
You know. Cassidy Hutchinson said he
tried to grab the steering wheel and take

633
00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:50.400
the of the Beast over to via
capital, and that was of course a

634
00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:53.199
lie. Yeah, they created this
narrative, this fiction about Donald Trump,

635
00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:58.000
which of course is not true.
That's why I have to keep pointing out,

636
00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:00.800
and I'm glad you do on others
the truth about the January sixth thing.

637
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:06.320
He wanted more National Guard there.
He wasn't allowed to get the kind

638
00:50:06.360 --> 00:50:09.920
of protection that he wanted for the
capital. So I think Nancy Pelosi is

639
00:50:09.960 --> 00:50:15.280
really responsible for the horrible situation that
occurred there, and of course she was

640
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:20.920
protected by that Sham January sixth Committee
Bill. Well, you had two Republicans,

641
00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:23.039
hon it. Thank god, we
had two great Republicans. Oh yeah,

642
00:50:23.119 --> 00:50:27.239
on that committeed to ask those probing
questions that need to be answered,

643
00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:32.960
and inquiring minds did not want to
know anything. Last late Jane July eleventh

644
00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:37.079
is coming up, and I know
from when I speak to some of the

645
00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:40.159
RNC that they have contingency plans.
And I said, what do you mean,

646
00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:45.199
Well, what if he's in the
Rikers Island, what if he's on

647
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:50.000
a military base, what if he's
in Sing Sing and I'm going to or

648
00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:54.199
an uncharted territory if it was if
his name was Donald Duck instead of Donald

649
00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:59.360
Trump, and he was seventy eight
years old and he committed a supposedly a

650
00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:02.360
paperwar error, and you didn't know
the nature of the charges against him until

651
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:06.679
the closing argument of the state.
They didn't let him know what he was

652
00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:08.960
being charged with. What are the
odds of a seventy eight year old in

653
00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:14.800
New York City on a paperwork mistake
when no previous record actually being sent to

654
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:17.599
a jail. What are the odds? Zero zero? I mean, it

655
00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:22.719
wouldn't it wouldn't happen, Bill,
And you know what, this is backfired

656
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:27.960
in such a spectacular way that the
Democrats might think twice. You know that

657
00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:31.119
they want to jail him, they
want to put him there, but since

658
00:51:31.159 --> 00:51:36.480
they've gone so far and now this
is now working against him, they might

659
00:51:36.519 --> 00:51:39.320
think twice about it and say,
all right, house arrest or something like

660
00:51:39.360 --> 00:51:44.519
that, where he doesn't go to
Rikers. We'll see. It's going to

661
00:51:44.559 --> 00:51:46.480
be very interesting on July eleventh.
And of course I'm going to be up

662
00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:50.639
at the convention, you know a
few days later, and I'm hoping Donald

663
00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:52.000
Trump is going to be there.
I'm not sure, Bill, I'm not

664
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:55.719
your question Mark. I'm not sure
either, because if he doesn't appear,

665
00:51:55.880 --> 00:51:59.840
will there be a convention at all? The answer is yes. They got

666
00:51:59.840 --> 00:52:04.320
twenty thousand hotel rooms. They want
to party hardy Wisconsin. That's going to

667
00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:07.920
be almost like a Taylor Swift concert
showing up. And so they're going to

668
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:10.800
do everything in their power. But
he may have to be skyped in.

669
00:52:12.199 --> 00:52:15.639
I mean, this is absurd that
what's happening, But the media is on

670
00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:19.960
one side of the table. I'll
give you one last factoy, Jeff crue

671
00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:23.400
Air, I saw this at Brent
Brozel's MRC network, is that for those

672
00:52:23.599 --> 00:52:30.519
American voters who primarily or only get
their evidence, only get their news from

673
00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:34.760
ABC, NBC or CBS as the
evening news, it's the View, and

674
00:52:34.840 --> 00:52:37.199
it's the morning talk shows of that
group. And that's, by the ways,

675
00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:44.039
about forty percent of all voters of
that group. Biden's leading Trump fifty

676
00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:47.239
five, the thirty five. And
so if you have to rely upon the

677
00:52:47.280 --> 00:52:52.559
mainstream media to tell you what a
great job Joe Biden is doing and what

678
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:57.880
a convicted criminal, a felon that
Donald Trump is, just watch the evening

679
00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:01.159
news, the View, or the
mornings like George Stefanopolis and guess what.

680
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:07.320
I'm surprised Trump gets thirty five percent. I say, garbage in, garbage

681
00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:13.119
out. What do you say?
I think the good thing is American people

682
00:53:13.159 --> 00:53:17.400
are turning off those shows. The
influence of those programs down dramatically from what

683
00:53:17.440 --> 00:53:22.960
it was ten twenty years ago.
Their numbers are going to keep decreasing.

684
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:25.960
The American people are looking for other
outlets for their news. It's more fair,

685
00:53:27.320 --> 00:53:32.079
more balanced, has good information.
They are basically just selling the talking

686
00:53:32.119 --> 00:53:37.760
points of the Democrats. I had
the misfortune of watching the CBS Evening News

687
00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:40.119
the other night, and I got
infuriated. I'm like, I can't do

688
00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:44.960
this. I'm not going to do
this ever again because it's so biased,

689
00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:49.039
and I think their numbers are just
in the toilet. They continue to drop,

690
00:53:49.079 --> 00:53:52.199
and I'm very happy about that.
I'm trying to watch lester Holt and

691
00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:57.119
I'm waiting for him to say,
suddenly, Joe Biden discovered the powers he

692
00:53:57.239 --> 00:54:00.280
denied the last three years by having
executive orders of the southern border. None

693
00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:06.639
of that happened. What lester Holt
talked about the Republican's refusal to assist on

694
00:54:06.679 --> 00:54:10.639
the southern border, forcing the President
to take executive action, and thank God

695
00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:15.880
that we have this man on the
White House right now over those evil Republicans

696
00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:19.880
who will not help on the southern
border. Instead of saying he denied for

697
00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:23.159
over three and a half years having
the power he now wants to exercise for

698
00:54:23.239 --> 00:54:28.199
political purposes, it is just the
opposite. So if you watch the Evening

699
00:54:28.280 --> 00:54:32.840
News, that's why fifty five thirty
five support Joe Biden. Garbage in garbage

700
00:54:32.840 --> 00:54:36.840
O, Jeff Crueir, you're the
best on this stuff, and go ahead,

701
00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:39.280
give me your final comments. I
was just gonna say, my tom

702
00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:44.800
a comment was Lester Hult could have
said that Joe Biden took ninety four executive

703
00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:47.760
actions to create the disaster on the
border that we have today, and he

704
00:54:47.800 --> 00:54:52.960
inherited a safe border and he created
chaos. So it's all on Joe Biden

705
00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:55.880
the bill. Of course, Lester
Holt's not going to say that, but

706
00:54:55.920 --> 00:54:59.880
I think the American people know that. I saw one of the shows head

707
00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:05.280
on this large stack to his right
of executive orders on the evening of January

708
00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:09.400
the twentieth, twenty twenty one,
and he signed executive order after executive order,

709
00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:13.960
having no idea what he was signing. He has no clue what he's

710
00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:15.800
signing, but the Marxist around him
said, here, sign this. He

711
00:55:15.880 --> 00:55:19.440
said, great. Wouldn't it be
great if lesterol would say, you know,

712
00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:22.000
the President created this crisis now he
wants to go back to Trump era

713
00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:28.239
policies. Would Lester hold ever say
that, No, No, it's true,

714
00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:31.360
he would never say it. No
garbage in, garbage out? All

715
00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:35.440
right? Once again, Jeff crue
Air New Orleans based and you have a

716
00:55:35.440 --> 00:55:38.199
great mayor there. I like watching
her. Shenannikins almost like that the mayor

717
00:55:38.280 --> 00:55:43.159
in the South of Chicago. What
a wonderful woman she is. But nonetheless,

718
00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:45.480
Jeff Crueir, thank you for coming
on the Bill Cunningham Show. We'll

719
00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:49.400
do it again. Thank you,
Jeff, Thank you, Bill. Take

720
00:55:49.440 --> 00:55:52.159
care, God bless America. Let's
continue with more Bill Cunningham, The Grand

721
00:55:52.199 --> 00:56:02.039
American Live with you every Sunday Night
by Billy cunning into Great American. Jeff

722
00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:06.920
Carrera is wonderful in the way he
puts thoughts in terms together. He talked

723
00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:13.119
about no justice, no peace for
persecuted Donald Trump. There's no question sometime

724
00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:15.639
soon, I would think Tuesday,
Wednesday, we're going to get maybe a

725
00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:22.400
verdict in Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden's
criminality is clear everyone with eyes to see

726
00:56:22.679 --> 00:56:28.760
that he violated federal law atf when
he was a drug addict and bought a

727
00:56:28.760 --> 00:56:32.440
weapon, and then later on in
California's got as the trial's coming up on

728
00:56:32.760 --> 00:56:38.320
obvious income tax evasion. And so
there is no greater scumbag in the world

729
00:56:38.360 --> 00:56:45.840
than Hunter Biden, who had sex
with his brother's widow after she had died,

730
00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:50.360
after bo Biden had died, not
only had sex with the with the

731
00:56:50.719 --> 00:56:53.239
with the widow of his brother.
He hooked her on drugs, which is,

732
00:56:53.559 --> 00:56:59.800
you know, crack cocaine testified,
Yes, crack cocaine. How despicable

733
00:56:59.880 --> 00:57:04.760
is that human being? About as
despicable as despicable can be. And the

734
00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:07.400
fact that he would get off on
this thing in a very Wilmington, Delaware

735
00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:12.119
courtroom is obvious. It's either going
to be a home jury or it's going

736
00:57:12.199 --> 00:57:15.239
to be not guilty one of the
other because it's a Biden. Well,

737
00:57:15.400 --> 00:57:19.199
let's continue with more. Coming up
next is that Leland Vitter of News Nation

738
00:57:19.320 --> 00:57:22.440
and more the line becomes available eight
sixty six six four seven seven three three

739
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:28.159
seven, Bill Cunningham, I try
to be a great American with you almost

740
00:57:28.239 --> 00:57:42.480
every so now, Johanna, you
and I Now is Leland Vitter of News

741
00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:45.519
Nation. And of course on Saturday, Reagan the Portrait of a Presidency is

742
00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:51.400
going to air and I was given
access to that documentary. It is unbelievable.

743
00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:53.840
And for those who can't recall,
we're going back forty years of the

744
00:57:53.840 --> 00:58:00.159
speech that Ronald Reagan give and Leland
Vetter. The most the most note or

745
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:04.679
the thing about the Reagan presidency is
that sometime in December, as he was

746
00:58:04.800 --> 00:58:09.280
leaving office December of nineteen eighty eight, Reagan gave a speech from the Oval

747
00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:14.440
office, from the desk, and
that speech by Ronald Reagan should be studied

748
00:58:14.440 --> 00:58:16.960
for years to come. And that's
the reason Bush forty one got elected is

749
00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:20.679
after Reagan gave that speech, they
said, we want this guy back,

750
00:58:20.679 --> 00:58:24.719
and the best they could do was
Bush forty one. But nonetheless, what's

751
00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:28.400
happening now with Hunter Biden. I
want to get talk about Hunter Biden,

752
00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:32.519
about Donald Trump, and about of
course the landing and the speeches by Joe

753
00:58:32.519 --> 00:58:37.679
Biden. Nonetheless that don't quite measure
up. But nonetheless I would note,

754
00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:42.320
and you're a big time journalist.
You've worked in most of the major media

755
00:58:42.360 --> 00:58:47.239
outlets. When I monitor ABC,
NBCCBS CNN, MSNBC, and not so

756
00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:52.719
much on News Nation, because you're
not so ideological that I'm hearing constantly about

757
00:58:52.719 --> 00:58:57.400
what's wrong with Americans who want to
put Donald Trump back in office. And

758
00:58:57.440 --> 00:59:01.360
I have a sense that the elites
do not under stand how average Americans lived

759
00:59:01.360 --> 00:59:06.960
their lives. And I saw a
report out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in

760
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:12.599
which downtown Minneapolis is basically destroyed,
the law enforcement is almost non existent,

761
00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:15.320
and many cities now they use drones. If you dial nine to one one,

762
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:20.159
like in Chicago, they may send
a drone to look about what's going

763
00:59:20.199 --> 00:59:23.800
on the average American in Minnesota.
There's a small town there that had eighteen

764
00:59:23.880 --> 00:59:29.960
hundred total residents and two hundred immigrants
showed up. May I say, newcomers

765
00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:32.760
with about fifty or sixty school kids, and they didn't fit into the school

766
00:59:32.800 --> 00:59:37.440
system at all. They're looking at
ramp and crime. When I get my

767
00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:40.119
Duke energy bill, it goes up
about ten percent every year, fifteen percent

768
00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:44.440
every year. You get your real
estate tax bill, and that skyrocketing.

769
00:59:44.719 --> 00:59:47.920
The kids graduate from high school or
college have difficulty finding a job commensurate with

770
00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:52.840
their with their education. So when
I look at the cultural and media elites

771
00:59:53.280 --> 00:59:57.639
that say you can't vote for Donald
Trump because things are so good, after

772
00:59:57.679 --> 01:00:01.039
all, he was bad, do
you think the media elites understand how average

773
01:00:01.079 --> 01:00:07.760
Americans live their lives? Bill,
you packed an awful lot into that,

774
01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:12.719
But you picked up on something that
we're actually doing on the show tonight,

775
01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:16.039
which is if you listen to Joe
Biden's speech, which I just did at

776
01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:22.039
Point to Hawk, and you compare
it to Ronald Reagan. Is political malpractice

777
01:00:22.360 --> 01:00:29.199
by the White House to have encouraged
that comparison, both by choosing the venue

778
01:00:29.199 --> 01:00:32.199
and then going out and saying we're
looking for our different moments in so many

779
01:00:32.199 --> 01:00:40.360
ways, the writing and delivery,
the message, everything, but the underlying

780
01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:46.679
message to what Joe Biden was saying, is the real threat to democracy that

781
01:00:46.880 --> 01:00:52.960
I can't but want to talk about
is Donald Trump Number two? Trump supports

782
01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:55.719
or threats to democracy who are betraying
the boys appoint to hawk. It's very

783
01:00:55.719 --> 01:01:00.199
clear when you listen to his speech
and you put all the other things Joe

784
01:01:00.199 --> 01:01:08.880
Biden has said, and that would
be a thoughtful political move by Joe Biden

785
01:01:09.360 --> 01:01:14.960
if there was any evidence to suggest
that it works. And I say that

786
01:01:15.079 --> 01:01:20.639
because in twenty sixteen, when none
of these situations that you were listed listed

787
01:01:20.880 --> 01:01:24.679
in your opening existed. Mirime wasn't
a huge deal, inflation wasn't a huge

788
01:01:24.679 --> 01:01:29.960
deal, gration wasn't a huge deal. None of those weren't around on Tary

789
01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:35.679
sixteen, and basically Hillary Clinton ran
on, hey, I'm going to keep

790
01:01:35.719 --> 01:01:40.440
doing another four years of what Barack
Obama did, and Trump's terrible. He's

791
01:01:40.440 --> 01:01:43.920
a racist, He's a bigot.
Can you believe he wants to build a

792
01:01:43.960 --> 01:01:46.840
wall, he's a fool? On
and on and on and on. Okay,

793
01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:52.800
and it didn't work. So now
what they're doing is they're taking the

794
01:01:52.880 --> 01:01:58.239
exact same logic and they're going,
well, since it didn't work to call

795
01:01:58.320 --> 01:02:04.679
him a racist and a bigot and
a sexist, misogynistic pig, and to

796
01:02:04.800 --> 01:02:07.599
call all of his supporters deplorables,
now we're going to call them threats to

797
01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:13.280
democracy. That's gonna work. Now. I am not a close I am,

798
01:02:13.039 --> 01:02:15.760
I'm not I am not a partisan. I'm really not know. I

799
01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:21.599
am an analyst and a reporter,
and at my core a journalist and a

800
01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:24.000
guy who just asks questions and tells
the world the way I see it on

801
01:02:24.039 --> 01:02:30.400
television every night. I don't get
it. I don't get doubling down on

802
01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:37.719
a strategy that demonizes fifty percent of
America. And I don't get the savior

803
01:02:37.800 --> 01:02:43.800
complex in reverse of telling America that
you're going to save them from somebody else

804
01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:50.719
with no aspirational message. Now it
may work, Joe Biden may win,

805
01:02:51.800 --> 01:02:57.800
but it's certainly that this this method
of politics, to me or this strategy

806
01:02:58.480 --> 01:03:00.800
makes no sense. Leyland the other
of news Nation is like saying, don't

807
01:03:00.800 --> 01:03:05.159
believe your eyes, don't believe what's
happening in your life. Listen to Joe

808
01:03:05.199 --> 01:03:08.199
Biden. You or I could be
handed the greatest speech ever delivered in America,

809
01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:12.519
which is I have a Dream by
in Martin Luther King Junior. And

810
01:03:12.559 --> 01:03:15.519
we could read the words, but
it would not have close to the impact

811
01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:21.280
of mL King doing what he did
in nineteen sixty three. And I'm thinking,

812
01:03:21.400 --> 01:03:24.119
all when I read the Biden speech, and there was some soaring lines.

813
01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:29.119
But when you have someone who's not
an order, who doesn't know what

814
01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:31.559
to emphasize, and if the White
House building this thing up, this is

815
01:03:31.639 --> 01:03:38.000
Reagan forty years later. It's embarrassing
because most Americans live their lives looking at

816
01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:42.159
their checkbook. They're looking at the
bottom line, They're looking at a paycheck

817
01:03:42.400 --> 01:03:45.679
with inflation. I went to McDonald's
a couple of nights ago, and I

818
01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:47.800
got two big machs. I had
somebody with me and my wife, a

819
01:03:47.800 --> 01:03:51.519
couple of French fries and a couple
of drinks. It was twenty eight dollars

820
01:03:51.639 --> 01:03:53.840
and I'm looking at it. I
said, is that right? And it's

821
01:03:53.880 --> 01:03:58.519
too expensive? The utility bills.
I had on an expert on utilities.

822
01:03:58.800 --> 01:04:00.760
She told me, every year for
the next as far as the eye can

823
01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:04.760
see, we're going to have about
eight to ten percent increase and utility cost

824
01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:09.840
every year because the restriction of supply
of energy, and it's going to keep

825
01:04:09.880 --> 01:04:13.400
going up and up and up.
You had Joe Biden say the LNG,

826
01:04:14.039 --> 01:04:17.519
no more LNG terminals being built to
ship our products to Europe, and that's

827
01:04:17.559 --> 01:04:21.400
costing thousands of jobs. But it
means natural gas prices or skyrocketing. And

828
01:04:21.480 --> 01:04:25.880
right now natural gas is the main
way we heat our homes in the summer

829
01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:29.159
and cooler how homes in the summertime. And then you get on the issue

830
01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:31.239
of crime. I'd live in a
little Cincinnati, Ohio, which is fairly

831
01:04:31.480 --> 01:04:35.679
very nice, but now we have
numerous offenses being committed by large numbers of

832
01:04:35.880 --> 01:04:40.880
doubt ever punched in the face,
her valuables are all stolen, and the

833
01:04:40.920 --> 01:04:44.400
car was taken, and the media
in town is starting to talk about that.

834
01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:47.039
And I can't imagine what it's like
to live in Chicago, Washington,

835
01:04:47.119 --> 01:04:50.280
d C. New York. I
can't imagine what's happening there. So whether

836
01:04:50.280 --> 01:04:56.719
it's crime inflation, utility bills,
your paycheck not keeping up in a sense

837
01:04:56.760 --> 01:05:00.199
of we're spinning our wheels in the
mud. To have Joe Biden show up

838
01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:03.719
and say, look, he wants
to compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

839
01:05:04.159 --> 01:05:08.840
He wants to say, you know, we're the Allies and the MAGA crowd

840
01:05:08.840 --> 01:05:12.679
are the Nazis. Now, he
didn't say that, but the implication of

841
01:05:12.760 --> 01:05:16.320
Hillary Clinton's tweet the other day that
talked about comparing her and the Democrats to

842
01:05:16.400 --> 01:05:23.760
the Allies and the fact that they're
fighting against fatalitarianism and democracy and therefore to

843
01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:27.039
vote for US means you're voting with
the Allies and not Hitler and the Nazis.

844
01:05:27.239 --> 01:05:29.840
That doesn't make half the country feel
well, you know what I'm saying.

845
01:05:31.719 --> 01:05:38.480
That's true, Yeah, in the
sense I hope it doesn't change because

846
01:05:38.639 --> 01:05:42.239
I want to see Donald Trump and
the presidency now. Secondly, this isn't

847
01:05:42.239 --> 01:05:46.079
a big item on News Nation because
it is so partisan. However, I've

848
01:05:46.079 --> 01:05:48.960
seen CNN, maybe you don't watch
it, and as much as you used

849
01:05:49.000 --> 01:05:54.840
to you were on and Fox News, etc. MSNBC, especially the die

850
01:05:54.920 --> 01:05:58.519
Tribe now because of the Trump's interviews, is that he may be going after

851
01:05:58.559 --> 01:06:02.880
his political opponents, and the host
are talking about how bad it would be

852
01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:09.559
if Donald Trump went after his political
opponents. Now you know the name shape

853
01:06:09.639 --> 01:06:14.719
Leean Ziegler. About a year ago, two veteran IRS agents who are Democrats,

854
01:06:15.199 --> 01:06:17.960
each spent about fourteen or sixteen years
in the criminal division of the IRS.

855
01:06:18.280 --> 01:06:21.960
Wanted to pursue all the money that
Hunter Biden and the Biden family,

856
01:06:21.960 --> 01:06:28.079
including the Biden grandchildren were getting from
overseas interest and they were blocked by their

857
01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:31.719
superiors at the IRS. Then they
got the DOJ and they were told we're

858
01:06:31.719 --> 01:06:38.599
not going to go there. So
we have massive bribes directly and indirectly being

859
01:06:38.599 --> 01:06:42.960
paid to Hunter Biden. The laptop
is real, despite those fifty one experts.

860
01:06:43.480 --> 01:06:48.239
The laptop is real. It details
the criminality of Joe Biden and Jim

861
01:06:48.280 --> 01:06:53.119
Biden and Hunter Biden. And the
media is now saying, well, after

862
01:06:53.159 --> 01:06:56.719
all this Hunter Biden trial, I
mean, he was a drug addict,

863
01:06:56.719 --> 01:06:59.679
and I watched the coverage of the
media types saying well, you have to

864
01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:02.039
under stand that he's crack cocaine head, and you have to understand, in

865
01:07:02.119 --> 01:07:05.199
other words, don't convict him of
obvious crime. And one of The worst

866
01:07:05.239 --> 01:07:10.360
things that happened Leland Vinders is that
he started having an affair and sex with

867
01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:14.840
his brother's dead widow. His brother
Bo was dead, he took up a

868
01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:19.280
sexual affair with his widow and hooked
her on crack cocaine. And I'm thinking,

869
01:07:19.280 --> 01:07:21.840
oh, wait a minute, I
can imagine that this was the Trump

870
01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:27.800
family. The media coverage of that
would be unbridled. And so when someone

871
01:07:27.880 --> 01:07:31.199
says, you know what, maybe
turnabout's fair play. Go after your political

872
01:07:31.199 --> 01:07:33.880
opponents, the media says, dond
no, don't go after the Bidens.

873
01:07:33.880 --> 01:07:38.639
Don't go after Hillary who committed serious
felonies. Don't go after Joe Biden,

874
01:07:38.639 --> 01:07:41.840
who committed serious felonies. According to
Robert Hurr, just let it go,

875
01:07:42.079 --> 01:07:46.559
Donald, let it go. Do
you find that somewhat hippocratic? Well,

876
01:07:46.679 --> 01:07:53.880
if I spent my time detailing hypocrisy
in the media, I would have no

877
01:07:54.039 --> 01:08:00.000
time really to do anything else in
my life. Journalists make lousy media critics.

878
01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:04.360
I reave that to other folks.
That's just not my job. And

879
01:08:04.480 --> 01:08:08.159
I always think it's funny when someone
goes, no, no, no,

880
01:08:08.199 --> 01:08:11.960
but listen to me, because I
am the unbiased one. It just doesn't

881
01:08:12.039 --> 01:08:16.800
It just it's just not where I
go. I think what you've pointed out

882
01:08:17.239 --> 01:08:25.239
is that we are living in really
unsettled times. And it's very easy now

883
01:08:25.279 --> 01:08:31.880
in retrospect to think about the nineteen
eighties with nostalgia and that they were of

884
01:08:32.319 --> 01:08:38.079
pure motives and of veterans in geniality, and on and on and on and

885
01:08:38.119 --> 01:08:42.800
on. The truth is that the
nineteen eighties, and the Reagan documentary that's

886
01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:46.600
on Us Nation plays this out of
the Saturday Night and shows this, We

887
01:08:46.600 --> 01:08:51.600
were in troubled times. We were
in conflicted times. There was scandal,

888
01:08:51.760 --> 01:08:58.319
there was real danger, especially from
the Soviet Union. There were and I'll

889
01:08:58.399 --> 01:09:01.560
use this term, real threat to
democracy around the world. There's no question

890
01:09:01.640 --> 01:09:08.760
about that. And the difference was
how Ronald Reagan dealt with it and in

891
01:09:09.800 --> 01:09:13.119
retrospect through the lens of history,
and that's an important point. We have

892
01:09:13.279 --> 01:09:16.079
the gift of time now to look
back on Ronald Reagan and say, why

893
01:09:17.119 --> 01:09:23.760
did what he do work and why
was it so successful? Which it was

894
01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:33.520
unquestionably, Why has history now given
him his due spot in revered status.

895
01:09:34.079 --> 01:09:39.039
We see that play out in the
documentary, and I think what struck me

896
01:09:39.119 --> 01:09:42.479
the most, I don't know about
you was how bold it really was.

897
01:09:42.560 --> 01:09:45.840
Right in retrospect, it seems like
obvious, right. Oh, things are

898
01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:48.039
terrible for Jimmy Carter. So therefore
this guy from California who had been governor

899
01:09:48.119 --> 01:09:51.560
came along and he said, look, government's the problem, and if you're

900
01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:55.800
better off four years ago, then
you are now vote for him, if

901
01:09:55.840 --> 01:09:59.439
not, vote for me. And
then he tackled inflation and he won the

902
01:09:59.479 --> 01:10:04.199
cold wol and brought about the great
economic expansion in America that turned in to

903
01:10:04.319 --> 01:10:09.560
the computer rage was in turn to
the Internet age. You freed Europe.

904
01:10:09.840 --> 01:10:14.920
This makes perfect sense, gets from
the documentary. Yeah, how bold that

905
01:10:15.199 --> 01:10:17.439
was. It was in one of
the great moments of this Reagan The Portrait

906
01:10:17.479 --> 01:10:23.439
of a Presidency by Sean Compton was
a moment the day after Reagan was shot

907
01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:25.960
and he was laying in the hospital
and we didn't know it at the time.

908
01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:30.279
It was touch and go and he
did fortunately survive. And there was

909
01:10:30.279 --> 01:10:35.840
a moment in the documentary where Tip
O'Neil goes into President Reagan bend's over,

910
01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:40.520
kisses him on the forehead and said, Gipper, don't leave us. We

911
01:10:40.600 --> 01:10:45.279
need you so badly, And I'm
thinking, can you imagine Nancy Pelosi.

912
01:10:45.920 --> 01:10:50.119
Let's say God forbid, Trump was
shot and he's in a hospital that Nancy

913
01:10:50.159 --> 01:10:56.199
Pelosi insists on seeing Donald Trump kissing
him on the forehead and said, mister

914
01:10:56.239 --> 01:10:59.600
President, we love you, Please
get well and come back. Could you

915
01:10:59.640 --> 01:11:09.000
imagine that happening today? Look?
Is it well? Is it a fair

916
01:11:09.159 --> 01:11:15.720
question? Yes? At the same
time, I think you have to ask

917
01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:25.319
yourself, would Ronald Reagan's message would
his kindness? Would his aspirational message for

918
01:11:25.439 --> 01:11:30.239
America? Would he would his unwillingness
to engage in the politics of personal destruction

919
01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:36.479
and unwillingness to attack the media even
though he was attacked, his default always

920
01:11:36.520 --> 01:11:42.079
to humor rather than to anger,
his willingness to compromise, I mean,

921
01:11:42.079 --> 01:11:45.880
in real compromise with Tip O'Neil.
Yes, okay, in ways that are

922
01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:47.720
never done or spoken about in Washington, if you want to compare it to

923
01:11:47.800 --> 01:11:54.279
Trump, in ways that Donald Trump
would never would never compromise. Okay.

924
01:11:54.520 --> 01:11:58.920
So I'm not I'm not sure it's
fair just to call out one side on

925
01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:00.960
this, and I think it so. Look, we we have to be

926
01:12:01.439 --> 01:12:06.600
I have to be fair in my
assessments. I think there's you got to

927
01:12:06.600 --> 01:12:12.720
ask your question with the Republican Party
of today, except Ronald Reagan is as

928
01:12:12.760 --> 01:12:16.479
standard bear, I don't think so. The Democratic Party, Well, the

929
01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:21.520
Democrats accept Barack Hussein Obama for the
policy he was the deporter in chief.

930
01:12:23.239 --> 01:12:28.000
I don't think the Democratic Party today
would have accepted Clinton the way Clinton ran

931
01:12:28.079 --> 01:12:31.359
the presidency, which was working with
nuke Ingridge and then I don't think the

932
01:12:31.399 --> 01:12:38.039
Democratic Party would allow compromise. I
think you're making my point. Yeah.

933
01:12:38.279 --> 01:12:44.159
Now, lastly, lastly, Uh, we have a situation where when the

934
01:12:44.199 --> 01:12:46.319
State of the Union Address was given
near the end of the Trump presidency,

935
01:12:46.359 --> 01:12:51.640
the Nancy Pelosi stood up and ripped
the State of Union Address live to send

936
01:12:51.640 --> 01:12:58.239
a message. Could you imagine if
Speaker of the House, Uh Johnson had

937
01:12:58.239 --> 01:13:00.520
stood up at the end of Biden's
each in which he stumbled, mumbled and

938
01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:04.920
fumbles the way through, and tore
up the Biden State of the Union Address

939
01:13:05.000 --> 01:13:11.960
on worldwide television. What would have
happened? Same thing? Okay, it

940
01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:15.079
would have been a disaster politically because
Mike Johnson would not have done it,

941
01:13:15.119 --> 01:13:18.680
but the media would have covered it. When that horrible act took place against

942
01:13:18.720 --> 01:13:25.039
Donald Trump, there was little or
no media criticism of Nancy Pelosi's behavior whatsoever.

943
01:13:25.279 --> 01:13:27.439
In fact, they were more or
less applauded. That was good.

944
01:13:27.720 --> 01:13:32.479
And so when that's the template of
the from a fellowship between Democrats and Republicans.

945
01:13:32.640 --> 01:13:36.279
We yearned for the days when Ronald
Reagan would say, I can't get

946
01:13:36.279 --> 01:13:40.800
a hundred percent from Tip O'Neil,
I can get eighty percent. Let's take

947
01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:44.159
the eighty percent and work on the
twenty. That's not the way politics works

948
01:13:44.159 --> 01:13:47.520
today. Well, Bill, this
is where the what aboutism game loses me

949
01:13:47.560 --> 01:13:54.399
and where I and I think it's
important to make this point. Everyone loves

950
01:13:54.399 --> 01:13:58.600
to play the what about game?
Okay, well, you know ron Reagan

951
01:13:58.640 --> 01:14:01.920
wouldn't be in today's Republican But what
about Barack Obama? What about Bill Clinton?

952
01:14:02.079 --> 01:14:08.560
What was different about Ronald Reagan was
different about the great leaders was that

953
01:14:08.600 --> 01:14:11.840
they were different. They held themselves
to a higher standard. They were different

954
01:14:11.920 --> 01:14:16.359
because they were different, not because
they were the same. And they did

955
01:14:17.119 --> 01:14:23.880
reflectively and acted as poorly reflectively as
the other side did. And I think

956
01:14:23.920 --> 01:14:29.640
what America yearns for, and certainly
what the polling chose as America yearns for,

957
01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:35.279
is a leader who wants to make
us better and wants us to make

958
01:14:35.439 --> 01:14:42.720
us want to be better Americans.
And I don't see either side speaking to

959
01:14:42.880 --> 01:14:46.199
that. And frankly, there were
some Republicans in the primary this time around

960
01:14:46.439 --> 01:14:51.920
who really tried really hard to deliver
that message, and nobody wanted to hear

961
01:14:51.960 --> 01:14:57.039
it. Nobody wanted to hear.
Hey, I'm going to get to Washington,

962
01:14:57.359 --> 01:14:59.279
I'm going to get eighty percent of
what I want. I'm going to

963
01:14:59.319 --> 01:15:03.279
give twenty percent to the Democrats,
and we're gonna we are going to turn

964
01:15:03.319 --> 01:15:10.359
America into the shining city on the
Hill where all Americans prosper on and on

965
01:15:10.399 --> 01:15:15.079
and on and on. Yep,
all right, well in it and it

966
01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:20.399
went nowhere on both sides. Well. Reagan Portrait of our Presidency News Nation

967
01:15:20.560 --> 01:15:24.640
Saturday. It'll be airing frequently.
And once again, Leland Vitter, thank

968
01:15:24.680 --> 01:15:29.199
you for coming on the Bill Cunningham
Show. Good luck, my friend,

969
01:15:29.319 --> 01:15:31.119
God bless you. Let's continue with
more. There you have it, Bill

970
01:15:31.119 --> 01:15:34.199
Cunningham, the Great American. Live
with you. Every Sunday night. I

971
01:15:34.319 --> 01:15:38.399
go to Cunningham the Great American.
Great to hear from Leland Vidder. If

972
01:15:38.439 --> 01:15:41.600
you haven't seen the Reagan documentary yet, you've got to see it on news

973
01:15:41.640 --> 01:15:45.920
nations should run a few times between
between now and next Sunday night. Let's

974
01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:49.680
continue with more up next to Erica. Sandy heads up a group about parents

975
01:15:49.720 --> 01:16:31.199
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been recognized as radio's best, the
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979
01:16:46.039 --> 01:16:53.119
Marconi Awards for his broadcast exodence,
the one and only Bill cunning Bill cunning

980
01:16:53.159 --> 01:16:56.560
under Great America. And of course
what's happening in public education is often a

981
01:16:56.600 --> 01:17:00.039
disgrace, and it's made difficult anyway. But when large numbers of shall I

982
01:17:00.079 --> 01:17:04.760
say, undocumented aliens show up in
public schools, it could be a crisis.

983
01:17:04.800 --> 01:17:09.119
There have been a few occasions when
the Congress has held hearings on the

984
01:17:09.159 --> 01:17:15.199
consequences of Biden's border chaos for k
through twelve schools, but it's largely a

985
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:18.039
story that doesn't get a lot of
media coverage because it doesn't fit the left

986
01:17:18.079 --> 01:17:23.000
wing agenda. And therefore you have
to look for outside sources to see what's

987
01:17:23.039 --> 01:17:27.920
going on. Ericas Sanzy is one
of the officials of Parents Defending Education.

988
01:17:28.319 --> 01:17:30.760
I know it's happening here in Cincinnati, also happening around the world. I

989
01:17:30.760 --> 01:17:34.920
can't imagine what it looks like in
Houston or Austin. But of course Erica

990
01:17:34.920 --> 01:17:40.239
has expertise when it comes to Washington, Washington, DC, and Erica Sanzy,

991
01:17:40.319 --> 01:17:43.520
welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Erica, can you tell

992
01:17:43.560 --> 01:17:48.039
the American people just in general,
before there was an influx of literally hundreds

993
01:17:48.079 --> 01:17:53.600
of thousands of additional students, many
poorly educated, into our public school system,

994
01:17:53.800 --> 01:17:59.319
weren't the public schools under stress anyway? Yes? I mean this is

995
01:17:59.880 --> 01:18:02.119
the This is just adding insult to
injury. The public schools have been struggling.

996
01:18:03.159 --> 01:18:08.239
Even pre pandemic. We had very
very low proficiency rates in reading and

997
01:18:08.359 --> 01:18:13.960
math. Since the pandemic, we've
seen the scores plummet in those areas,

998
01:18:14.479 --> 01:18:17.920
and so schools are having a hard
time with what they already have on their

999
01:18:17.920 --> 01:18:23.600
plates, and so to burden them
with an influx of new students, most

1000
01:18:23.600 --> 01:18:27.359
of whom do not speak the language
here, and many of whom have had

1001
01:18:27.399 --> 01:18:30.000
no formal schooling in the past.
So it's not just that you're bringing in

1002
01:18:30.079 --> 01:18:35.680
new students to schools, you're bringing
in very high need students. And these

1003
01:18:35.680 --> 01:18:40.239
school districts really just couldnt manage this. And I look at some of these

1004
01:18:40.319 --> 01:18:45.239
stories given up about thousands. In
New York City, there's about fifty thousand

1005
01:18:45.279 --> 01:18:49.920
additional students going to public schools and
a population of nearly one million public school

1006
01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:54.479
kids. You got fifty thousand.
That's five percent, but that five percent

1007
01:18:54.600 --> 01:18:57.760
puts them over the top. Also
in Washington, d C. There's something

1008
01:18:57.880 --> 01:19:01.880
called language acquiestion division. Explain what
English second language. Let's say you're a

1009
01:19:01.920 --> 01:19:05.479
twelve year old just show up in
a public school in Washington, DC or

1010
01:19:05.479 --> 01:19:12.479
Cincinnati or Chicago, and you have
no education. You can barely understand and

1011
01:19:12.520 --> 01:19:17.239
speak Spanish, which phonetically is easy
for some in Central America but difficult for

1012
01:19:17.319 --> 01:19:21.880
others. So what are the particular
needs of any child that shows up deserving

1013
01:19:23.039 --> 01:19:26.800
a public education? But let's face
it, the school system can't accept them,

1014
01:19:27.039 --> 01:19:29.840
And so it kind of walks through
what occurs when a kid shows up

1015
01:19:29.880 --> 01:19:32.000
at the front desk says, here, I am educate me. What happens,

1016
01:19:33.279 --> 01:19:36.800
Well, the school cannot turn students
away, so really they've got to

1017
01:19:36.840 --> 01:19:41.960
figure out how they're going to navigate
this. And what we did is we

1018
01:19:42.000 --> 01:19:45.760
looked at emails that were going back
and forth, you know, with between

1019
01:19:45.880 --> 01:19:50.199
officials in districts, so that we
could get a sense of like how hard

1020
01:19:50.199 --> 01:19:53.560
of a time they were having.
And again, you're not going to get

1021
01:19:53.600 --> 01:19:58.199
them out of the microphone saying this
is impossible. But in their emails,

1022
01:19:58.199 --> 01:20:01.520
what we see is basic as trying
to figure out space. They don't have

1023
01:20:01.600 --> 01:20:04.840
the physical space, so they're trying
to figure out where they're going to put

1024
01:20:04.920 --> 01:20:10.760
students. You see a lot of
the you know, very compassionate people feeling

1025
01:20:10.800 --> 01:20:14.760
concerned that the school that the child
is assigned to is very far away from

1026
01:20:14.880 --> 01:20:17.680
the shelter that's been provided for them. And then we see a lot of

1027
01:20:17.720 --> 01:20:23.119
talk about how they don't have the
staff. They don't have staff who can

1028
01:20:23.159 --> 01:20:28.239
communicate with these students, most of
whom Booth speak Spanish, but certainly not

1029
01:20:28.399 --> 01:20:33.039
all, and so that's become just
another major drain on the system. And

1030
01:20:33.079 --> 01:20:36.479
the other thing is that English as
a second language, or what they call

1031
01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:45.039
English language learners, those students usually
are students where they know English but it's

1032
01:20:45.079 --> 01:20:50.119
not spoken in their home. But
to have students coming in who have no

1033
01:20:50.359 --> 01:20:55.640
English at all, I mean,
that's just obviously puts them in a category

1034
01:20:56.239 --> 01:21:00.159
of a very high need student.
And again, meeting the needs of one

1035
01:21:00.239 --> 01:21:04.680
or two is challenging. Meeting the
needs of a massive influx, where suddenly

1036
01:21:04.680 --> 01:21:10.199
a school district is dealing with one
hundred and fifty students in this category,

1037
01:21:10.640 --> 01:21:14.159
it is just again really really difficult. And this is coming at a time

1038
01:21:14.199 --> 01:21:17.119
that all of the eser money,
so all the COVID release money that school's

1039
01:21:17.199 --> 01:21:23.479
got that is ending as of September, that money is gone, and so

1040
01:21:23.560 --> 01:21:27.600
school districts were already trying to write, size and recalibrate their budgets as they

1041
01:21:27.680 --> 01:21:30.720
need to and as they knew they
were going to need to. Unfortunately,

1042
01:21:30.760 --> 01:21:33.399
some didn't make good choices about how
to spend that money. But to be

1043
01:21:33.600 --> 01:21:40.920
again burdening them with this influx of
students, it's it's a totally unfair burden

1044
01:21:40.960 --> 01:21:45.960
that the school districts have been asked
to carry, and that in the case

1045
01:21:45.960 --> 01:21:49.920
of the NEA, the largest teachers
union, they've come out against the Biden

1046
01:21:49.960 --> 01:21:56.880
administration's plan to shut the border down
or at least, you know, decrease

1047
01:21:56.960 --> 01:22:00.880
this number of people coming in.
So they are so committed to this ideology

1048
01:22:00.880 --> 01:22:03.880
of open borders, sta've now thrown
their own members under the bus, saying,

1049
01:22:03.920 --> 01:22:08.600
we don't care how hard it is
for you, this border should stay

1050
01:22:08.600 --> 01:22:12.640
open. It's always difficult. But
can you imagine a ten year old girl

1051
01:22:12.760 --> 01:22:19.079
showing up from Lithuania or Afghanistan or
Nicaragua and have little or no English language

1052
01:22:19.079 --> 01:22:24.119
skills. They sit in a class
and do they test in? Do they

1053
01:22:24.119 --> 01:22:26.840
say, okay, you're ten years
old. There's supposed to be what in

1054
01:22:26.840 --> 01:22:30.399
about the fourth or fifth grade?
You're ten years old, but you have

1055
01:22:30.479 --> 01:22:34.119
no educational foundation or achievement, and
then you don't speak the language. Someone

1056
01:22:34.159 --> 01:22:38.239
shows up at the front desk,
okay, here's your schedule. The first

1057
01:22:38.279 --> 01:22:41.800
class is down the hallway in room
one. Ten. Go into that classroom

1058
01:22:41.800 --> 01:22:45.640
and sit there, and they have
no ability to understand what's being said,

1059
01:22:46.079 --> 01:22:50.439
and they have no foundation of the
first four to five years, which allows

1060
01:22:51.640 --> 01:22:57.760
the building points to become more academically
disciplined. So what happens to the ten

1061
01:22:57.800 --> 01:23:01.479
year old who can't speak of the
English is our do schools have to assign

1062
01:23:02.159 --> 01:23:08.000
a mate with them who understands both
dialects or both two or three different languages

1063
01:23:08.039 --> 01:23:11.920
to communicate. How does that work. I mean, in a perfect world,

1064
01:23:11.920 --> 01:23:15.680
they'd be able to assign someone to
them, but those people don't exist.

1065
01:23:15.760 --> 01:23:18.399
The school district doesn't have the staff
for this, and so what ends

1066
01:23:18.439 --> 01:23:21.079
up happening. And I've actually seen
this back when I worked in schools.

1067
01:23:21.640 --> 01:23:27.840
Lots of times kids just have their
whole day wasted because they are because they

1068
01:23:27.840 --> 01:23:32.640
have been enrolled in an institution or
facility that cannot meet their needs. Now

1069
01:23:32.680 --> 01:23:35.600
you can get lucky and you can
have it could be that the school has

1070
01:23:35.640 --> 01:23:41.000
somebody who who knows the language,
is great with working with newly arrived migrant

1071
01:23:41.039 --> 01:23:45.359
students. Like you can see progress, but everything has to align for that

1072
01:23:45.479 --> 01:23:48.800
to happen, and that's usually in
very small numbers. The problem right now

1073
01:23:49.399 --> 01:23:56.359
is that places like DC Springfield,
Massachusetts, which is TA Kansas, another

1074
01:23:56.399 --> 01:24:00.720
district in Wisconsin. I mean,
these places are not it's used to having

1075
01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:05.119
to deal with this number one and
they're just completely overwhelmed. And again they're

1076
01:24:05.199 --> 01:24:09.640
not getting you know, there isn't
really much attention being paid to the fact

1077
01:24:10.119 --> 01:24:16.680
that these schools are being asked to
manage a burden that is unsustainable. I

1078
01:24:16.720 --> 01:24:20.479
look at some of these stories and
that what happens to the educational opportunity?

1079
01:24:20.840 --> 01:24:26.000
May I use the term regular kids. If you're a regular fourth grader in

1080
01:24:26.239 --> 01:24:30.279
Washington, d C. Public schools, I can't imagine the quality of education

1081
01:24:30.359 --> 01:24:34.000
you might receive. But nonetheless,
it doesn't assist to have classes disrupted with

1082
01:24:34.119 --> 01:24:39.880
large numbers of other fourth graders that
are not educationally appropriate, don't know the

1083
01:24:39.880 --> 01:24:42.720
culture, don't know how to behave, and can't speak the language. And

1084
01:24:42.800 --> 01:24:47.800
the teachers have to more or less
take care of student body that she doesn't

1085
01:24:47.840 --> 01:24:53.680
speak a dialect out of Africa or
Central America, and the kid sits there

1086
01:24:53.720 --> 01:24:57.319
with no hope of learning. What
impact does that have on the kids who've

1087
01:24:57.319 --> 01:24:59.960
been there for three or four years, they're in the third or fourth grade.

1088
01:25:00.199 --> 01:25:05.159
Here comes ten kids from Southern Asia
Afghanistan that have no idea what you're

1089
01:25:05.199 --> 01:25:10.760
talking about, don't speak the dialect. So what is it a babysitting service?

1090
01:25:11.399 --> 01:25:15.800
Well, how does it look?
I mean again, it's hard enough

1091
01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:17.720
to meet all the needs of all
students in the classroom because they're often at

1092
01:25:17.800 --> 01:25:21.039
very different levels. Right, So
teachers already dealing with the fact that they've

1093
01:25:21.039 --> 01:25:27.760
got students who have very different levels
of proficiency. That is a massive challenge.

1094
01:25:28.000 --> 01:25:32.199
So then when you bring in new
challenges. And again, these children

1095
01:25:32.239 --> 01:25:35.840
didn't do anything wrong, right,
and they have a right to be enrolled

1096
01:25:35.840 --> 01:25:40.439
in the school according to the law. Here, the problem is these schools

1097
01:25:40.479 --> 01:25:45.319
are not set up and equipped to
set them up for success. So what

1098
01:25:45.399 --> 01:25:48.279
ends up happening is it's almost it's
hard for anybody to really get what they

1099
01:25:48.359 --> 01:25:56.399
need because their needs are so disparate. And this is you know again,

1100
01:25:56.439 --> 01:26:00.640
I just feel like the schools are
already reeling from the pandemic and trying to

1101
01:26:00.640 --> 01:26:06.199
recover from that, and this just
adds another massive challenge that from a compassionate

1102
01:26:06.239 --> 01:26:10.880
angle of course, right, the
school districts want to do the best they

1103
01:26:10.920 --> 01:26:16.439
can buy these kids, but the
realistic situation or the truth about what's going

1104
01:26:16.479 --> 01:26:19.880
on is like they don't have what
they need to be able to do it.

1105
01:26:20.079 --> 01:26:26.079
And of course the leads on because
what you're reporting, Erica Sansei of

1106
01:26:26.239 --> 01:26:31.680
parents defending education is happening every day
in every public school, whether in Minnesota

1107
01:26:31.800 --> 01:26:38.359
or Maine or California, there's something
like two million children have come in the

1108
01:26:38.399 --> 01:26:41.720
past five years. The official numbers
eight million total. And of the eight

1109
01:26:41.760 --> 01:26:45.399
million, there's about two million children
who are legally entitled to a quality public

1110
01:26:45.520 --> 01:26:49.359
education dispersed all over the country,
and the school districts are not set up.

1111
01:26:49.359 --> 01:26:54.560
So what's happening. Whenever there's an
action, there's an opposite and direct

1112
01:26:54.720 --> 01:26:59.680
reaction to what's going on. About
seventeen or eighteen states now have educational vouchers.

1113
01:26:59.680 --> 01:27:03.199
We have in Ohio where if you're
dissatisfied with your public school, you

1114
01:27:03.279 --> 01:27:08.439
can take a voucher that sorts between
eight and twelve thousand dollars to a private

1115
01:27:08.479 --> 01:27:12.840
school or to a Catholic school or
some other monassory school outside the system.

1116
01:27:13.239 --> 01:27:15.880
And parents there have been tens of
thousands in the state of Ohio that have

1117
01:27:16.000 --> 01:27:20.680
left the public school system, leaving
behind even the worse situation because if you're

1118
01:27:20.680 --> 01:27:25.840
a parent in Washington, DC,
or Wichita, or Chicago or Cincinnati,

1119
01:27:25.960 --> 01:27:29.640
and you have a voucher available of
putting your kid's hands, the voucher goes

1120
01:27:29.640 --> 01:27:32.600
with the kid and you can get
a quality education outside of the Chicago public

1121
01:27:32.640 --> 01:27:36.880
schools, which are in total chaos, complete destruction. You're going to leave

1122
01:27:38.439 --> 01:27:43.960
and then what do you leave behind? Yeah, I mean the reality is,

1123
01:27:44.680 --> 01:27:47.960
in my opinion, every single family, regardless of their income, deserves

1124
01:27:48.000 --> 01:27:50.720
to have options when it comes to
where they're going to educate their children.

1125
01:27:51.159 --> 01:27:56.640
And to your point, you know
there's people who are if you're in a

1126
01:27:56.680 --> 01:28:00.239
failing system and you have an escape
hatch, most of the time, you're

1127
01:28:00.279 --> 01:28:02.840
going to take it. So what's
the solution, Erica? Instead of cursing

1128
01:28:02.880 --> 01:28:09.000
the darkness, what's the solution of
this terrible problem which is producing kids coming

1129
01:28:09.000 --> 01:28:13.640
out at eighteen years old who have
difficulty reading their diploma? They were never

1130
01:28:13.720 --> 01:28:17.479
failed because it is always socially promoted
throughout urban America. You never fail,

1131
01:28:17.640 --> 01:28:23.880
and you get done, and you
basically went through about fourteen years of whatever

1132
01:28:24.039 --> 01:28:28.039
in the public school system, and
you come out and you have no quality

1133
01:28:28.159 --> 01:28:32.119
education at all. What happens?
How do you solve the problem? Well,

1134
01:28:32.119 --> 01:28:35.479
the social promotion is not only in
urban America, though we've never seen

1135
01:28:35.520 --> 01:28:40.800
social promotion in suburban America. I
think that, honestly, part of it

1136
01:28:40.840 --> 01:28:43.640
is people have to get brutally honest
about what's really going on. I mean,

1137
01:28:43.840 --> 01:28:45.840
one problem is that nobody wants to
tell the truth about what's really going

1138
01:28:45.880 --> 01:28:53.239
on. So the first thing is
so and part of that is because there

1139
01:28:53.319 --> 01:28:57.920
is a lot of intimidation around people
wanting to speak freely about these topics.

1140
01:28:58.000 --> 01:29:00.439
Right, So teachers that are really
really struggling all with these issues, they're

1141
01:29:00.479 --> 01:29:03.960
not likely to speak out about this
in any sort of public way. The

1142
01:29:04.039 --> 01:29:08.479
other thing is that is that I
mean again, I was a teacher for

1143
01:29:08.520 --> 01:29:10.920
a lot of years, and I
was a member of the NEA and two

1144
01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:15.199
states, and I'm telling you,
like the unions are a massive villain in

1145
01:29:15.239 --> 01:29:21.039
this. They never talk about student
learning, student outcomes. They don't talk

1146
01:29:21.039 --> 01:29:27.439
about you know, reading and math
proficiency. They are hyper political organizations now,

1147
01:29:28.319 --> 01:29:30.800
and so for example, that's why
we don't even see them being supportive

1148
01:29:30.800 --> 01:29:35.159
in terms of helping with this immigration, this influx of students, because their

1149
01:29:35.239 --> 01:29:41.119
ideology is such that they want the
borders wide open and they don't really care

1150
01:29:41.239 --> 01:29:45.159
about the impact that that's having on
their own members. No, teachers are

1151
01:29:45.239 --> 01:29:48.960
leaving in droves. They can't can't
take it anymore. And lastly, if

1152
01:29:49.000 --> 01:29:54.960
after November the same philosophy remains in
charge and we have the next four to

1153
01:29:55.039 --> 01:30:00.159
twelve years of open borders, whether
it's whether it's Biden or Kamala Harris or

1154
01:30:00.199 --> 01:30:02.880
Gavin Newsom, wherever it might be, all interchangeable left wing drill bits.

1155
01:30:03.600 --> 01:30:09.479
If that policy continues the next four
to twelve years, what's the state of

1156
01:30:09.520 --> 01:30:15.600
public education all over the country after
twelve more years of this? I mean

1157
01:30:15.800 --> 01:30:17.880
have this. I have concerns about
the state of it now currently. And

1158
01:30:17.960 --> 01:30:21.359
so if we do not get our
arms around this and begin making, you

1159
01:30:21.399 --> 01:30:27.159
know, hard choices, but hard
choices that are good for students and families

1160
01:30:27.239 --> 01:30:31.079
and teachers, we're going to be
in trouble. Teachers will leave, counselors

1161
01:30:31.119 --> 01:30:36.800
will leave, Education will become double
and triple in price. Citizens don't want

1162
01:30:36.800 --> 01:30:42.319
to vote additional levies to support the
schools that aren't functional. I've got to

1163
01:30:42.359 --> 01:30:45.520
build brand new building. Schools have
become also now welcome wagons. They've become

1164
01:30:45.640 --> 01:30:51.159
language centers, They've become nursing centers
and medical centers. They've become psychological service

1165
01:30:51.199 --> 01:30:56.199
centers. They've become feeding stations.
All these things in the past were handled

1166
01:30:56.359 --> 01:30:59.960
within a family or a community,
and families and communities don't exist anymore.

1167
01:31:00.319 --> 01:31:02.439
And I don't see a way out
of this until we stop what's in other

1168
01:31:02.479 --> 01:31:06.239
words, before you start about drain
draining the swamp, stop the inflow.

1169
01:31:06.520 --> 01:31:12.640
And we can't do that until we
stop this happening of literally two million kids

1170
01:31:12.640 --> 01:31:15.960
have entered America in the past four
years, two million just first all over

1171
01:31:16.000 --> 01:31:20.399
the country. And if that accelerates
or stays the same, public education is

1172
01:31:20.439 --> 01:31:25.399
done. And I don't know what
happens our to our great they use to

1173
01:31:25.399 --> 01:31:28.279
our magnificent cities. You know,
America, for a long time, we

1174
01:31:28.319 --> 01:31:32.079
had magnificent American cities, majestic American
cities, and all of them are being

1175
01:31:32.119 --> 01:31:36.199
destroyed in one way or another because
of crime and lawlessness and lack of faith,

1176
01:31:36.319 --> 01:31:40.920
lack of family. And it's not
lack of funding. It because Washington,

1177
01:31:41.039 --> 01:31:44.720
DC public school kids get about twenty
two thousand dollars a year each from

1178
01:31:44.720 --> 01:31:47.119
the Congress and they want more money, and they want more money because of

1179
01:31:47.119 --> 01:31:51.239
the failure of the board and border
policies. But all right, Erica Sanza,

1180
01:31:51.399 --> 01:31:54.800
go ahead, please finish up.
I was just going to say,

1181
01:31:54.800 --> 01:31:57.359
most of that money never makes it
to kids, and it never makes us

1182
01:31:57.359 --> 01:32:01.039
a classroom. So you know,
obviously they're terrible stewards of the money.

1183
01:32:01.039 --> 01:32:03.840
And the last thing I would say
is that if we're going to consider schools

1184
01:32:03.840 --> 01:32:09.399
to be social service institutions, right, you know, we're going to provide

1185
01:32:09.399 --> 01:32:12.800
you with all the services that you
need, then we need to stop calling

1186
01:32:12.880 --> 01:32:17.279
them schools right because schools are not
meant to be places that provide every single

1187
01:32:17.319 --> 01:32:20.960
need for a family. They're meant
to be institutions of learning. The goal

1188
01:32:21.039 --> 01:32:25.439
is higher learning or secondary learning.
The goal is to come here and get

1189
01:32:25.439 --> 01:32:29.600
the basics and then many at the
age of eighteen. I love the idea

1190
01:32:29.600 --> 01:32:32.119
of getting an electrician, getting a
plumb. I love that some go on

1191
01:32:32.199 --> 01:32:36.920
to institutions of hire indoctrination at the
Ivy League, and that's even worse.

1192
01:32:36.960 --> 01:32:42.000
But I can't imagine public education.
I don't care what city or state you're

1193
01:32:42.039 --> 01:32:46.560
in. If these policies continue,
it'll collapse. And the collapse I think

1194
01:32:46.600 --> 01:32:51.479
this collapsed right now because I can't
imagine comparing the senior high school or eighth

1195
01:32:51.520 --> 01:32:57.199
grade proficiency rates now to like fifty
years ago. It's not even close.

1196
01:32:58.319 --> 01:33:00.800
That there is none, and they're
getting worse, and no one's addressing the

1197
01:33:00.840 --> 01:33:04.399
real problem, which is out the
southern border. It's not money, and

1198
01:33:04.600 --> 01:33:10.199
it's as teachers' unions dominate and they
fire superintendents all the time. Like in

1199
01:33:10.239 --> 01:33:14.000
Cincinnati, we had a pretty good
one named Ironetta Wright, and she had

1200
01:33:14.000 --> 01:33:15.960
a vote after about a year and
a half trying to change things in Cincinnati,

1201
01:33:15.960 --> 01:33:20.399
which is a terrible school district.
The six unions got together voted a

1202
01:33:20.560 --> 01:33:26.680
censure, no vote confidence, and
the school board fired the superintendent and paid

1203
01:33:26.720 --> 01:33:29.640
off about three hundred thousand dollars to
get her out the door. And she

1204
01:33:29.680 --> 01:33:32.720
wanted to make significant changes, and
the six unions in Cincinnati did not want

1205
01:33:32.760 --> 01:33:40.319
it to happen, and we're left
and it's awful. The unions do not

1206
01:33:40.680 --> 01:33:44.399
like people who come in to disrupt
the status quo. So it is very

1207
01:33:44.439 --> 01:33:51.199
common for unions to you know,
go after change makers. And what we

1208
01:33:51.279 --> 01:33:56.399
need are change makers. So that
is again why I say again the rank

1209
01:33:56.439 --> 01:34:01.359
and file members of the unions are
not well represented by their leaders, and

1210
01:34:01.760 --> 01:34:08.560
those organizations are nothing but political organizations. Now, they do not represent their

1211
01:34:08.560 --> 01:34:12.439
members well at all, and you
know, they are a big problem.

1212
01:34:12.439 --> 01:34:16.039
And that is why you'll see like
a place like Florida is really taking off

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01:34:16.119 --> 01:34:19.960
academically, they're you know, they've
they've moved up to the rankings. I

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01:34:20.000 --> 01:34:26.119
think they're now first, at least
in some categories, whereas other states,

1215
01:34:26.159 --> 01:34:29.960
like where I live, Rhode Island, we're a high spending, low performing

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01:34:30.000 --> 01:34:32.399
state. And that is not only
because of the power of the union,

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01:34:32.479 --> 01:34:36.680
but is definitely related to that.
All right, Erica Sandsey, we got

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01:34:36.720 --> 01:34:42.119
to go. Parents defending education keep
working. It's a tough job, but

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01:34:42.199 --> 01:34:44.920
someone has to do it. And
Erica, once again, thank you for

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01:34:44.960 --> 01:34:46.640
coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Thank you, Thank you, Erica,

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01:34:46.720 --> 01:34:49.239
thank you, thanks for having me. Well, let's continue with more Bill

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01:34:49.279 --> 01:34:59.279
Cunningham The Grand American Live with You
by Billy Cunningham, Eric Sandy, thank

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01:34:59.279 --> 01:35:02.279
you very much. I see on
sixty minutes and elsewhere, there's an effort

1224
01:35:02.600 --> 01:35:08.640
to mainstream drag shows. If you
want to dress up in drag and entertain

1225
01:35:08.720 --> 01:35:12.439
yourself and others in a cabaret or
a club, haven't at it. But

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01:35:12.600 --> 01:35:17.159
drag shows with drag queens in public
libraries with children on your lap man,

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01:35:17.199 --> 01:35:21.800
I don't think so there's a differential. And so those of us who think,

1228
01:35:21.840 --> 01:35:26.560
wait a minute, children how to
be off balance, off limits when

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01:35:26.600 --> 01:35:29.560
it comes to sexual orientation. I
guess who are the fools? Right?

1230
01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:34.560
Let's continue with more coming up next
to Joey Chester of Federation for American Immigration

1231
01:35:34.640 --> 01:35:53.800
Reform Fair. Bill Cunningham with you
every single year, Bill Cunningham, the

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01:35:53.800 --> 01:35:57.159
Great American. A few days ago, President joe Biden laid down in the

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01:35:57.159 --> 01:36:01.439
executive order which he claims will to
hear the border. I find it unbelievable

1234
01:36:01.479 --> 01:36:04.319
that for the last three and a
half years he said he did not have

1235
01:36:04.399 --> 01:36:09.960
the power to do what he just
did with executive orders. He said for

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01:36:10.000 --> 01:36:13.479
a long time, I need the
Congress to do something and doesn't take money.

1237
01:36:13.600 --> 01:36:16.079
All it takes is to will to
shut down the southern border, stay

1238
01:36:16.079 --> 01:36:21.039
in Mexico policy to empower the border
patrol to do their job. But I

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01:36:21.079 --> 01:36:25.520
wanted to get on an expert on
the subject matter from the Federation of American

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01:36:25.560 --> 01:36:31.279
Immigration Reform, which is fair if
AI R that is Joey Chester and Joey

1241
01:36:31.319 --> 01:36:34.920
welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show.
And Joey, can you tell the American

1242
01:36:34.960 --> 01:36:40.479
people the three or four things that
the Biden Executive Order which is now in

1243
01:36:40.560 --> 01:36:44.560
effect, is occurring and why it's
not a good idea because it doesn't really

1244
01:36:44.560 --> 01:36:46.840
solve the problem. But tell the
American people the three or four things the

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01:36:47.000 --> 01:36:51.159
order does do. Yeah, Bill, it's great to be with you.

1246
01:36:51.199 --> 01:36:56.199
And I just want to say this
is a desperate attempt by Joe Biden to

1247
01:36:56.199 --> 01:37:00.960
try to fool the American people.
It's political showmen ship. And this executive

1248
01:37:01.079 --> 01:37:06.199
order what it does is it causifies
his open borders policies. It doesn't do

1249
01:37:06.239 --> 01:37:11.640
anything to secure the border. So
one of the major issues is that allows

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01:37:11.920 --> 01:37:17.039
twenty five hundred encounters per day,
which is nine hundred thousand per year.

1251
01:37:17.159 --> 01:37:21.960
But that's not it. When you
apply the CBP one app which is where

1252
01:37:21.960 --> 01:37:26.439
you can make an appointment to get
into the United States, and if you

1253
01:37:26.600 --> 01:37:32.279
count the illegal HNV parole program where
illegal aliens are flown directly into the United

1254
01:37:32.279 --> 01:37:39.840
States to a city near you,
we hit at least at least one point

1255
01:37:39.880 --> 01:37:45.319
eight million illegal alien entries into the
United States on a yearly basis. That

1256
01:37:45.520 --> 01:37:50.359
is acceptable by the Biden administration.
That is Biden sending a message to the

1257
01:37:50.439 --> 01:37:55.640
cartels, to the human smugglers,
and the foreign nationals around the world that

1258
01:37:55.800 --> 01:38:00.199
we are okay with one point eight
million of you crossing our borders, and

1259
01:38:00.239 --> 01:38:03.039
in fact, you know, you
can make a phone appointment for it,

1260
01:38:03.119 --> 01:38:09.520
and you can fly directly into the
country if you're from a certain place.

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01:38:10.039 --> 01:38:15.359
Another issue, the executive order doesn't
apply to unaccompanied minors. That means that

1262
01:38:15.399 --> 01:38:18.159
the human smuggler is going to take
advantage of that to get these unaccompanied miners

1263
01:38:18.199 --> 01:38:25.399
across the border. It's going to
allow human smuggling of minor children to thrive.

1264
01:38:25.920 --> 01:38:30.199
It. It makes me really mad. The executive Order does not apply

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01:38:30.359 --> 01:38:38.199
to any alien who DHS authorizes to
enter due to operational considerations at the time

1266
01:38:38.279 --> 01:38:43.159
of the entry or encounter that warranted
the permitting of the non citizen to enter.

1267
01:38:43.279 --> 01:38:45.960
So that sounds like a lot of
discretion to me, where they can

1268
01:38:45.000 --> 01:38:49.920
basically say, oh yeah, the
conditions allow this guy to enter. So

1269
01:38:50.079 --> 01:38:55.600
all in all, what this does
is, like I said, it codifies

1270
01:38:55.680 --> 01:39:00.079
catch and release. This is not
closing the border. Why twenty five one

1271
01:39:00.119 --> 01:39:02.039
hundred you weekue aliens to day?
Why isn't it zero If you can do

1272
01:39:02.079 --> 01:39:08.199
it twenty five hundred, make it
a zero tolerance policy. Bill Biden is

1273
01:39:08.199 --> 01:39:10.840
trying to fool the American people,
But it's not going to work. I

1274
01:39:10.880 --> 01:39:14.680
hope not. But when I read
this about unaccompanied minors, so I think

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01:39:14.680 --> 01:39:17.079
the little boys and little girls,
some of the teenage years that don't count

1276
01:39:17.119 --> 01:39:21.159
against the twenty five hundred, and
they're coming into this country to perform slave

1277
01:39:21.239 --> 01:39:26.359
labor or slave sex work. That's
why they're coming and they don't count.

1278
01:39:26.600 --> 01:39:30.199
Add on top of this, there's
about a million a year, which is

1279
01:39:30.760 --> 01:39:33.960
three thousand a day, which at
about ten airplanes, ten to fifteen airplanes

1280
01:39:33.960 --> 01:39:40.600
that are flown directly from Central America, South America, Asia Africa directly into

1281
01:39:40.880 --> 01:39:43.960
a major American city. So you
can go to an embassy, you're going

1282
01:39:44.000 --> 01:39:46.920
to apply online and once accepted,
which is quite easy to get accepted instead

1283
01:39:46.960 --> 01:39:50.680
of going through the hassles. I've
taken a flight to Mexico and then walk

1284
01:39:50.840 --> 01:39:56.560
through the border, and I watched
a liberal over the weekend talk about you

1285
01:39:56.600 --> 01:40:00.479
know what this means is that the
human traffickers aren't going to better from this

1286
01:40:00.560 --> 01:40:04.039
as much because you pay transit fees
to come in the control of the human

1287
01:40:04.079 --> 01:40:08.840
traffickers to come across the southern border. But that's not the answer. The

1288
01:40:08.880 --> 01:40:13.680
answer is why do we allow into
this country a million people a year flown

1289
01:40:13.760 --> 01:40:15.680
directly into the cities all over the
country. On the top of that,

1290
01:40:16.680 --> 01:40:20.479
Joey, we have a million who
overstay their visas every year. By that,

1291
01:40:20.600 --> 01:40:25.239
I mean they apply for a visa
in some foreign country, they get

1292
01:40:25.239 --> 01:40:29.760
permission to come here to go on
vacation allegedly, or to go to school

1293
01:40:29.760 --> 01:40:33.000
here. And then a million on
top of that number just don't return after

1294
01:40:33.039 --> 01:40:38.439
the visa time, after the expiration
date, they stay here anyway, And

1295
01:40:38.520 --> 01:40:42.920
so we have one hundred thousand children
missing on the southern border. It was

1296
01:40:43.000 --> 01:40:45.199
a big deal, by the way, when Trump was in office, not

1297
01:40:45.239 --> 01:40:48.239
a big deal today. Two and
a half thousand a day at on top

1298
01:40:48.279 --> 01:40:53.279
of that, Miners, it's at
least a million a year before anything is

1299
01:40:53.319 --> 01:40:58.000
triggered, and what's being triggered is
impossible. I watched Jay Johnson this morning

1300
01:40:58.039 --> 01:41:01.279
and one of the talk shows say
he was a he was Obama's homeland security

1301
01:41:01.479 --> 01:41:05.319
He said, if we had a
day with one thousand, that was really

1302
01:41:05.319 --> 01:41:10.560
a bad day. We're talking twenty
fifteen, twenty sixteen. One thousand a

1303
01:41:10.640 --> 01:41:15.680
day is a bad day. Right
now, we're having three thousand a day

1304
01:41:15.720 --> 01:41:19.319
with the Biden program, another three
thousand a day from being flown into the

1305
01:41:19.359 --> 01:41:24.279
country, and another three thousand a
day who overstay their visas. Those are

1306
01:41:24.319 --> 01:41:28.359
the numbers, and so we have
about ten to twelve million illegals in the

1307
01:41:28.359 --> 01:41:32.359
country right now, living, working, many committing crimes in Venezuela. The

1308
01:41:32.399 --> 01:41:36.319
gangs are just unbelievable, vicious and
cruel. They have no connection. And

1309
01:41:36.399 --> 01:41:40.800
so Joe Biden wants to sell the
American people and the idea that it's the

1310
01:41:40.840 --> 01:41:44.359
fault of the Republicans. Those damn
Republicans won't let me do what I want

1311
01:41:44.399 --> 01:41:45.680
to do, So by executive order, I'm going to do it. But

1312
01:41:45.800 --> 01:41:51.680
what he does by executive order doesn't
change a damn thing. Correct, It

1313
01:41:51.720 --> 01:41:57.800
doesn't doesn't change anything. It literally
does nothing. It is just him.

1314
01:41:58.199 --> 01:42:00.680
You know, he knows the political
optic, he can read the poll numbers,

1315
01:42:01.000 --> 01:42:04.000
and he needs something to try to
say, Look, look, I

1316
01:42:04.359 --> 01:42:09.199
this is a shiny object. Look
what I've done. It's all in name

1317
01:42:09.319 --> 01:42:13.680
only. It literally, like I
said, it codifies open border policies.

1318
01:42:13.840 --> 01:42:17.239
It doesn't rescind any of his executive
orders or change any of his policies that

1319
01:42:17.399 --> 01:42:23.119
opened our borders. And it's really
infuriating when you hear President Biden try to

1320
01:42:23.119 --> 01:42:28.640
blame Congress for not doing anything because
he keeps houting this oh, bipartisan border

1321
01:42:28.640 --> 01:42:32.279
security bill, which was a fake
border security bill that failed once in the

1322
01:42:32.359 --> 01:42:35.399
Senate, and then Chuck Schumer brought
it up a second time and it failed

1323
01:42:35.439 --> 01:42:40.119
even worse than the first time,
and it had no bipartisan support. In

1324
01:42:40.159 --> 01:42:45.479
fact, it failed by a bipartisan
vote. The House passed HR two to

1325
01:42:45.520 --> 01:42:50.560
Secure the Border Act last May.
It's been over a year. It's collecting

1326
01:42:50.640 --> 01:42:56.399
dust on Chuck Schumer's desk. If
President Biden was serious about border security,

1327
01:42:56.600 --> 01:42:59.880
he would call up Chuck Schumer and
he would say, look, we've got

1328
01:43:00.079 --> 01:43:02.399
get a handle on this crisis.
You need to bring HR two up,

1329
01:43:02.880 --> 01:43:08.239
and you are going to tell the
Democrats and the Senate that we need to

1330
01:43:08.279 --> 01:43:11.760
pass this bill because we've got a
crisis at the border. If Biden was

1331
01:43:11.800 --> 01:43:16.119
serious, that's what he do.
His executive order is basically based on the

1332
01:43:16.159 --> 01:43:21.039
failed Senate Border security deal. It's
the same open Border's policies in that really

1333
01:43:21.159 --> 01:43:26.720
terrible piece of legislation. And so
yeah, when he says it's border security,

1334
01:43:27.239 --> 01:43:30.840
it's not. He just needs something, like I said, to point

1335
01:43:30.840 --> 01:43:33.880
to and say yes, I've done
something, but I will say what this

1336
01:43:34.159 --> 01:43:39.199
is. It is an admission by
President Biden that the border has become a

1337
01:43:39.279 --> 01:43:45.119
crisis and out of control under his
watch. And like we've said, he's

1338
01:43:45.159 --> 01:43:48.880
had executive authority all this time to
do something. Now he's using his executive

1339
01:43:48.920 --> 01:43:53.760
authority, but once again, it's
executive authority to keep the border open,

1340
01:43:54.239 --> 01:43:58.000
not secure it. And I think
it's it's infuriating. I think it's a

1341
01:43:58.039 --> 01:44:00.760
slap in the face to the American
people who are living day in and day

1342
01:44:00.800 --> 01:44:05.640
out with the consequences of these open
borders policies. You have a provision here

1343
01:44:05.680 --> 01:44:13.079
in this executive order by Biden that
says that Mexico must accept about thirty thousand

1344
01:44:13.159 --> 01:44:17.760
a month, which is a drop
in believe thirty thousand a month is a

1345
01:44:17.840 --> 01:44:21.479
drop in the bucket. It doesn't
solve the issue at all. What solves

1346
01:44:21.479 --> 01:44:27.079
the issue is shut down the southern
border, stay in Mexico, stop the

1347
01:44:27.119 --> 01:44:30.960
flights into the country, revoke the
visas, and look for individuals that are

1348
01:44:30.960 --> 01:44:33.000
overstaying their welcome. Now, that
would change things, but that's not going

1349
01:44:33.039 --> 01:44:34.880
to happen. Can you tell them, Mayor? Of course, we know

1350
01:44:35.279 --> 01:44:39.640
the answers basically, but tell them
may if you live in northern Kentucky,

1351
01:44:39.840 --> 01:44:44.520
if you live in Iowa or Minnesota
somewhere, how does illegal immigration affect you,

1352
01:44:44.560 --> 01:44:46.920
Because you think this is a New
York problem, a California problem.

1353
01:44:47.079 --> 01:44:50.800
Every city, every state is now
a border city of border state. Explain

1354
01:44:50.880 --> 01:44:58.640
what's happening. Well, we know
that illegal aliens aren't just going to the

1355
01:44:59.119 --> 01:45:02.439
big cities. So I'm from originally
I live in DC now, but i'merginally

1356
01:45:02.439 --> 01:45:06.960
from a small town in Montana.
And even in this small town in Montana,

1357
01:45:08.039 --> 01:45:12.960
there was outrage because illegal aliens showed
up on an airplane and showed up

1358
01:45:13.000 --> 01:45:16.800
at the sheriff's office because they said, we've been flown into rural Montana.

1359
01:45:17.239 --> 01:45:19.920
We don't know what to do,
we don't know where to go. And

1360
01:45:19.960 --> 01:45:25.720
so what inevitably happens is, you
know, either some local NGO or some

1361
01:45:25.840 --> 01:45:28.800
national NGO put them up in a
shelter, might be a government fund a

1362
01:45:28.840 --> 01:45:33.039
shelter, depending on where you are, and the taxpayers have to bear that

1363
01:45:33.119 --> 01:45:36.800
burden. But if you're in a
small town somewhere and illegal aliens are coming,

1364
01:45:36.800 --> 01:45:42.199
if they have kids, their kids
are going to be in your school,

1365
01:45:42.760 --> 01:45:45.720
you may have to hire a teacher
who can either teach in Spanish or

1366
01:45:45.720 --> 01:45:50.680
whatever language, or a translator so
that those kids can be in school.

1367
01:45:50.720 --> 01:45:54.920
So that's a burden. You know, schools run on tight budgets already,

1368
01:45:55.439 --> 01:46:00.960
there's more kids in the classroom,
police fire in all of that's burden when

1369
01:46:00.960 --> 01:46:05.720
there's more people. If illegal aliens
are committing crimes, that harms the local

1370
01:46:05.760 --> 01:46:10.399
community. Again, it harms citizens, but then the police have to respond,

1371
01:46:10.640 --> 01:46:13.840
and so it's burdened on the police, it's burdened on the courts.

1372
01:46:14.039 --> 01:46:16.279
And then you have if the illegal
alien goes to the hospital they get hurt,

1373
01:46:16.720 --> 01:46:20.079
well, the hospital's going to pay
for it. We allow people to

1374
01:46:20.079 --> 01:46:24.560
show up at the er and you're
going to get taken care of because that's

1375
01:46:24.600 --> 01:46:27.920
that's what we do. But chances
that they're going to pay their bill is

1376
01:46:28.039 --> 01:46:33.560
small. So that's an absorption by
the taxpayers once again. So not only

1377
01:46:33.680 --> 01:46:39.640
are Americans all across the country living
with the things that they can see,

1378
01:46:39.680 --> 01:46:43.479
it's the things that they can also
feel, and that's in their their pocketbook.

1379
01:46:43.840 --> 01:46:48.079
You have our latest cost study shows
one hundred and fifty point seven billion

1380
01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:54.000
dollars that you, legal immigration costs
the United States every single year. That

1381
01:46:54.439 --> 01:46:58.199
is a crazy amount of money.
And illegal aliens pay a drop in the

1382
01:46:58.319 --> 01:47:04.159
bucket towards the cost that they cost
American taxpayers. So you're either living with

1383
01:47:04.199 --> 01:47:12.279
it by the literal physical effects of
illegal immigration, or you're paying for it.

1384
01:47:12.399 --> 01:47:16.720
You know, we see stories about
illegal aliens allegedly shooting cops. We

1385
01:47:16.800 --> 01:47:23.479
have the death of Lincoln Riley,
and it goes on. I had On

1386
01:47:23.600 --> 01:47:28.239
dan Stein a couple months ago,
president of your organization is a good man,

1387
01:47:28.399 --> 01:47:30.479
and that one hundred and fifty billion
does not take into account the ancillary

1388
01:47:30.560 --> 01:47:34.800
expenses such as the broken windows,
has stolen vehicles, the drug sales,

1389
01:47:34.840 --> 01:47:39.760
the human trafficking of girls and boys
for profit. None of that can be

1390
01:47:39.840 --> 01:47:42.560
monetized in a sense to make part
of the one hundred and fifty billion,

1391
01:47:42.880 --> 01:47:46.399
but every community. I had on
the superintendent of Schools of Cincinnati about eight

1392
01:47:46.439 --> 01:47:49.520
months ago. By the way,
she's been fired because the six labor unions

1393
01:47:49.520 --> 01:47:55.159
didn't want her in Cincinnati. And
they have thousands of illegal children that show

1394
01:47:55.239 --> 01:47:58.319
up in the school system who are
like nine, ten, eleven, twelve

1395
01:47:58.399 --> 01:48:01.960
years old with no education foundation at
all, and isn't just Spanish. There's

1396
01:48:01.960 --> 01:48:06.000
about one hundred different languages and dialects, and the law says each must be

1397
01:48:06.039 --> 01:48:10.000
taught in their native language. I
see a number out of the New York

1398
01:48:10.039 --> 01:48:14.199
Post that there's eighty thousand school children
in New York City public schools. There's

1399
01:48:14.199 --> 01:48:17.479
over a million in the school system
that now have special needs because they're twelve

1400
01:48:17.560 --> 01:48:20.600
years old. They can't read,
can't write, and so the school district

1401
01:48:20.640 --> 01:48:25.920
is supposed to hire interpreters to sit
there with the language of the dialect being

1402
01:48:26.039 --> 01:48:30.239
used by that student to help that
kid learn, which takes away complete educational

1403
01:48:30.239 --> 01:48:34.680
opportunities of the other kids in school
because they're sitting in a classroom go over

1404
01:48:34.720 --> 01:48:38.359
it again and again in time and
a time. They're not part of the

1405
01:48:38.399 --> 01:48:41.680
culture and they're not part of the
educational foundation. Even if you're in a

1406
01:48:41.760 --> 01:48:44.920
terrible school district, by the time
in the first, second or third grade,

1407
01:48:44.960 --> 01:48:46.720
you might be able to read and
write. But these kids are just

1408
01:48:46.840 --> 01:48:51.239
dropped in the middle parachute into school
districts. They have no chance of graduating.

1409
01:48:51.279 --> 01:48:55.079
Of course, you can't flunk anybody
anymore. And in your number of

1410
01:48:55.079 --> 01:48:59.359
one hundred and fifty some billion doesn't
take into account the horror of being thrown

1411
01:48:59.359 --> 01:49:01.800
into sexual slavery as a boy or
a girl. And wouldn't it be great

1412
01:49:01.800 --> 01:49:05.680
if the media did a long term
study of what happens on the Southern border

1413
01:49:05.840 --> 01:49:10.479
with the sex trafficking of boys and
girls. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Wouldn't

1414
01:49:10.479 --> 01:49:14.279
it be wonderful if they talked about
the crimes being committed by the illegal immigrants,

1415
01:49:14.359 --> 01:49:20.000
overwhelmingly poorly educated young males who are
the criminal groups in America. And

1416
01:49:20.520 --> 01:49:25.439
then you're also throw on top of
that the Chinese military age men. There's

1417
01:49:25.439 --> 01:49:30.319
about fifty thousand Chinese military ah men
seeking across the Southern border that are working

1418
01:49:30.359 --> 01:49:33.800
in the pot farms, the pot
factories, all illegal to take over the

1419
01:49:33.800 --> 01:49:39.640
control of marijuana in order to give
Chinese government billions of dollars. I'm looking

1420
01:49:39.680 --> 01:49:43.800
at this total collapse, and Joe
Biden says he's helped to solve the problem.

1421
01:49:44.199 --> 01:49:47.920
I would say this, Joey Chester, are you kidding me? I

1422
01:49:49.239 --> 01:49:55.239
almost wish he was joking, but
he's not. He thinks he's done something.

1423
01:49:55.439 --> 01:49:59.640
He has it. There's no way
and that's why I say it's a

1424
01:49:59.640 --> 01:50:01.800
complete flap in the face, and
there's no way he read the order.

1425
01:50:02.159 --> 01:50:06.279
I mean, he did not rescind
the hundreds of other orders that he's issued.

1426
01:50:06.560 --> 01:50:10.279
Someone sticks something in front of him, he can't read it, He

1427
01:50:10.439 --> 01:50:14.439
signs it, changes his adult diaper, and then goes to a news conference

1428
01:50:14.439 --> 01:50:16.199
as allows a job in the media, gives him a complete free pass,

1429
01:50:16.760 --> 01:50:21.039
and it goes on and on.
You point out that today's executive orders,

1430
01:50:21.399 --> 01:50:26.760
this was a few days ago,
does not repeal hundreds of other executive orders,

1431
01:50:26.760 --> 01:50:30.439
policy memoranda, or final rules issued
in the last three and a half

1432
01:50:30.520 --> 01:50:34.000
years that have weakened the nation's immigration
enforcement capabilities. That has nothing to do

1433
01:50:34.079 --> 01:50:38.880
and the media that mainstream media refuses
to cover it. I'll give you one

1434
01:50:38.960 --> 01:50:42.920
last factoy, Joey Chester, and
that is this that if an American gets

1435
01:50:43.439 --> 01:50:47.359
most of not all, their news
from ABC, CBS and NBC, the

1436
01:50:47.399 --> 01:50:51.600
morning shows, the view, late
night comics, and the nightly news,

1437
01:50:53.720 --> 01:50:58.640
supporting Joe Biden is fifty five to
thirty five over Donald Trump because none of

1438
01:50:58.640 --> 01:51:01.600
these issues are aired out by anyone
in the mainstream media. For those of

1439
01:51:01.640 --> 01:51:06.960
us that look outside, it's a
different story. I agree, and I

1440
01:51:08.000 --> 01:51:13.720
do think that we may be starting
to see a shift happen in places like

1441
01:51:13.800 --> 01:51:17.520
New York, in Chicago, Boston, these sanctuary cities that are now having

1442
01:51:17.560 --> 01:51:21.640
to live with the consequences of being
sanctuary cities. You know, the average

1443
01:51:21.640 --> 01:51:28.000
person in these places are having to
live with the consequences, and their mindset

1444
01:51:28.039 --> 01:51:32.319
may be shifting. I wrote a
story not long ago about a group of

1445
01:51:33.039 --> 01:51:36.199
soccer players in New York City.
It was a couple of high school teams,

1446
01:51:36.199 --> 01:51:40.600
and they showed up at the local
local soccer field to play a game

1447
01:51:40.800 --> 01:51:43.640
they have been scheduled for. They'd
reserved the fields, and they get there

1448
01:51:44.279 --> 01:51:47.960
and there's a group of illegal aliens
on the field and they refuse to leave.

1449
01:51:48.239 --> 01:51:51.079
Even after the police were called,
they refused to leave. The police

1450
01:51:51.119 --> 01:51:55.760
did nothing to help. They basically
said, we can't we can't help with

1451
01:51:55.760 --> 01:52:00.079
this situation. And the high schoolers
have to cancel the soccer and they're afraid

1452
01:52:00.159 --> 01:52:04.279
to go back to this field now
and play because of the consequences if they

1453
01:52:04.279 --> 01:52:10.000
maybe confront these illegal aliens. So
I think you are starting to see that.

1454
01:52:10.199 --> 01:52:14.920
Everyday people are encountering situations like that
and they're saying, wait a second,

1455
01:52:15.439 --> 01:52:17.840
this isn't right. I thought the
American people were supposed to come first,

1456
01:52:17.840 --> 01:52:23.000
and that we were supposed to decide
our immigration laws and who gets to

1457
01:52:23.000 --> 01:52:27.960
come here and why and when,
and so I hope that people are starting

1458
01:52:27.960 --> 01:52:30.039
to wake up in some of these
places. Well, wait about thirty seconds

1459
01:52:30.039 --> 01:52:33.600
remaining. If come November the fifth
and sixth Biden is still in charge,

1460
01:52:33.960 --> 01:52:38.800
Kamala Harris will take over within six
months. They'll pull the twenty fifth Amendment

1461
01:52:39.000 --> 01:52:43.119
him in a heartbeat, and then
these policies will be cemented into place for

1462
01:52:43.239 --> 01:52:45.279
years and years to come, and
the character and the pedigree of this country

1463
01:52:45.319 --> 01:52:50.720
will be completely destroyed. But Joey
Chester of a Fair Federation for American Immigration

1464
01:52:50.800 --> 01:52:55.279
Reform, Joey thanks again for coming
on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you,

1465
01:52:55.359 --> 01:52:59.680
Joey, Bill, Thank you,
God bless America. Let's continue with

1466
01:52:59.720 --> 01:53:02.640
more Bill Cunningham, The Grand American
Live with you every Sunday night. Billy

1467
01:53:02.640 --> 01:53:06.239
Cunningham, thanks for listening tonight.
And as I began talking about Father's Day

1468
01:53:06.239 --> 01:53:10.680
a week from now, I wanted
to give you my experiences with it to

1469
01:53:10.760 --> 01:53:15.159
maybe in the future sometime this week. If you're a strange from your dad,

1470
01:53:15.239 --> 01:53:17.039
whether a daughter or a son,
and You've been a strange for a

1471
01:53:17.039 --> 01:53:20.600
long period of time, and you
have a week to get this together by

1472
01:53:20.640 --> 01:53:26.800
next Sunday night, and I would
hope that you would try during the living

1473
01:53:26.880 --> 01:53:30.000
years to reach back and to say, Dad, no matter what the relationship

1474
01:53:30.039 --> 01:53:32.840
has been between you and I in
the past, I want to forge a

1475
01:53:32.880 --> 01:53:36.720
new one right now. So I
would urge you not to do what I

1476
01:53:36.840 --> 01:53:42.119
did, and that is blocked my
own dad from meeting with me at the

1477
01:53:42.199 --> 01:53:45.239
moments of his death because of what
he did to me and what he did

1478
01:53:45.279 --> 01:53:47.520
to the family, Because looking back
in time, I wish I had that

1479
01:53:47.640 --> 01:53:50.800
precious time with him. So in
the next week, if you're a strange

1480
01:53:50.800 --> 01:53:55.279
from your dad, now's the time, and now's the hour on Monday,

1481
01:53:55.279 --> 01:53:58.359
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, getting ready for Father's Day

1482
01:53:58.399 --> 01:54:00.880
next Sunday, to make that cannet, make one more effort to see if

1483
01:54:00.880 --> 01:54:04.319
you two can connect during the living
years. Don't do what I did.

1484
01:54:05.039 --> 01:54:09.079
Bill cunning and the Great American with
you every Sunday night,