Speaker 1: Billy cunning into Great America. We've worked from the President
Speaker 1: about an hour ago. Well it did to the terrible
Speaker 1: crash on the Potomac River. It appears to be a
Speaker 1: circumstance that will take months and months to resolve, but
Speaker 1: pilot air comes into one's forefront of one's mind almost immediately.
Speaker 1: I think it is good that Pete Heseth, the Department
Speaker 1: of Defense Secretary, was relating information last night and this morning,
Speaker 1: and the White House is on top of it to
Speaker 1: describe what happened, but that doesn't lessen the pain of
Speaker 1: those who afflicted. Sixty seven souls met their maker last night.
Speaker 1: Will continue to follow that, but until then, many other
Speaker 1: issues are percolating. As you may know, there was some
Speaker 1: testimony on Tuesday night to the school board in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: from teachers that half of their students are missing, and
Speaker 1: they're blaming the so called ice raids by the federal government.
Speaker 1: And there's a concern and CPS that going to have
Speaker 1: a grossly less enrollment, which is the same thing happening
Speaker 1: in Columbus. I see out of the Columbus Dispatch. The
Speaker 1: school board is issuing memos to the teachers how to
Speaker 1: handle quote ice raids or attempts to pick up their
Speaker 1: students for certain criminal violations. Same thing happening in every
Speaker 1: major American city. Plus the Attorney General, David Yost, who's
Speaker 1: been there about six years, wants to be the next
Speaker 1: governor of Ohio, walking in the footsteps of Mike DeWine,
Speaker 1: has issued a memo to Costco about their DEI and
Speaker 1: whether or not that is raised discrimination by a different
Speaker 1: color throwning you nine now is the same David Yost.
Speaker 1: And first of all, mister Attorney General, the chief law
Speaker 1: enforcement officer in the state of Ohio. It is certainly
Speaker 1: available to these six or seven large cities that they
Speaker 1: are sanctuary cities in sanctuary counties. And there's this apprehension
Speaker 1: that the mayor have to have pearaval has that he's
Speaker 1: not going to cooperate with the ICE officials, Homeland Security,
Speaker 1: US Marshal Service in the FBI to assist in the
Speaker 1: enforcement of federal law. And you tell the American people
Speaker 1: whether after a peeraval is on solid footing or loose footing.
Speaker 2: Well, if I were the mayor, I'd be a little
Speaker 2: bit concerned about the positions I was taking and what
Speaker 2: I was ordering people to do in my city.
Speaker 3: Federal law makes it.
Speaker 2: A crime for state or local officials to obstruct, hinder,
Speaker 2: or fail to comply with a lawful command regarding immigration enforcement.
Speaker 2: And while they certainly cannot commandeer local police to run
Speaker 2: drag nets, and nobody's talking about that, you also can't
Speaker 2: get in a way of it. And some of the
Speaker 2: mayor's comments are troubling.
Speaker 1: Well at the present time, I don't know if we
Speaker 1: have a US attorney. I guess we might have one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Kenneth Parker is still there or not.
Speaker 1: So when the federal law says failed to comply, it
Speaker 1: appears that most cities in Ohio walking up to the
Speaker 1: line a failure to cooperate, failure to comply, which is
Speaker 1: I watched last night mister Attorney General Ken Kober, who
Speaker 1: as you know, is the Queen's City Lodge sixty nine
Speaker 1: head of the police union, who said it's our job
Speaker 1: to assist federal law enforcement. That is, when we have
Speaker 1: a raid or we doing something in CPD will often
Speaker 1: have ICE or FBI or the Marshall Service back up
Speaker 1: with equipment or with men and women to help us
Speaker 1: do that. And we have an agreement back and forth.
Speaker 1: And so the police are being told by their oath
Speaker 1: and by federal law to do one thing, and the
Speaker 1: city mayor and the vice mayor is telling the police
Speaker 1: to do another thing. What should a cop do? What
Speaker 1: advice would you give to a police officer getting an
Speaker 1: order to back up an ice raid somewhere in Arlington
Speaker 1: Heights and the cops are being told by their employer
Speaker 1: not to do it. What advice can you provide? If any?
Speaker 2: You know, the mayor is really put in the cops
Speaker 2: between the dog and the tree here.
Speaker 3: They don't have very good options. But the fact of the.
Speaker 2: Matter is the federal law is still supreme in this area,
Speaker 2: and the politicians that are trying to score cheap political
Speaker 2: points by getting in the way of finally enforcing federal
Speaker 2: immigration law are playing with fire.
Speaker 1: And in fact, it's been warning from Tom Homan. I
Speaker 1: had him on a few months ago, and he talked
Speaker 1: about possibly indicting, arresting civil authorities that failed to comply
Speaker 1: with a federal law because it's their job. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen the oath of office of the mayor, but I
Speaker 1: would imagine it has something to do with support and
Speaker 1: defend the Ohio and US constitutions which provide for federal authority.
Speaker 1: And you know, this is a little bit of a
Speaker 1: historical reach, but you might recall seventy eighty ninety years
Speaker 1: ago the Democrats in the South refused to comply with
Speaker 1: federal law. Whether it was Governor Fobas or Governor Walla,
Speaker 1: there was a federal law that said you have to
Speaker 1: let black kids go into public schools, and the Democrats
Speaker 1: at that point in the South said, oh no, we're
Speaker 1: not going to comply with that. And I can recall
Speaker 1: Eisenhower and then Kennedy sending in federal troops to escort
Speaker 1: into Arkansas Little Rock and into Montgomery, Alabama, black kids
Speaker 1: when the local Democrats said we're not going to comply
Speaker 1: with federal law, and that matter was resolved. Do you
Speaker 1: see possibly a similar circumsays this time the same Democratic
Speaker 1: party is not complying with federal law because they don't
Speaker 1: want to. They say it doesn't fit our view of
Speaker 1: what it should be. And I would think that's playing
Speaker 1: with fire a little bit, because once again, half a
Speaker 1: century later, the same Democratic Party, with the best of intentions,
Speaker 1: of course, say we're not going to comply with federal law.
Speaker 1: Because we don't want to. What advice would you give
Speaker 1: the mayor, mister attorney general.
Speaker 2: The same advice I would give anybody, which is follow
Speaker 2: the law. If you don't like the law, run for
Speaker 2: Congress and change it. Oh wait, he tried that, didn't he.
Speaker 2: But in any event, this is not a This is
Speaker 2: not a close matter. If you want to, you know,
Speaker 2: be welcoming to immigrants, that's great. If you want to
Speaker 2: try to do things to make their assimilation into our
Speaker 2: country better, that's great. But we're talking about illegal immigration here.
Speaker 2: We're talking about people who came here not through the
Speaker 2: front door, but who are here unlawfully, and many of
Speaker 2: them are violent criminals with convictions on their record.
Speaker 3: This is not a close call.
Speaker 1: In fact, the school board is doing similar things. The
Speaker 1: school board is issuing memos to teachers and principles and
Speaker 1: schools about how to handle non compliance with federal law,
Speaker 1: what to do, what not to do. In fact, to
Speaker 1: give advice. This one story in the inquiry talks about
Speaker 1: the families are scared. Attendance is way down in the
Speaker 1: public school system. Have to have pure of all issue
Speaker 1: to statement the mayor saying that he's the child of
Speaker 1: immigrants from the Himalayans, and I think that's great. The
Speaker 1: differential is after have pure of all's parents, I assume
Speaker 1: are illegal and af to have pure of all. The
Speaker 1: mayor was born here, But somehow they obscure the line
Speaker 1: between legal and illegal. You're the attorney general. You deal
Speaker 1: with that line all the time. But the federal law
Speaker 1: says you must comply, and so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Secondly, you issued a memo and you and also the
Speaker 1: Iowa Attorney General and others about Costco, of which I
Speaker 1: used to be a member, and now Costco wants to
Speaker 1: discriminate against certain races based upon skin color and or
Speaker 1: sexual orientation. Tell the American people, first of all the
Speaker 1: dispute with Costco and how they want to implement discriminatory
Speaker 1: policies against some of their suppliers.
Speaker 2: Well, it's this whole dei thing. And let's start off
Speaker 2: by recognizing that it's fine to have a workplace.
Speaker 3: Where everybody is welcome.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's against the law to discriminate because somebody
Speaker 2: is gay, or black, or Hispanic or Jewish or what
Speaker 2: have you. That's against the law. But as a Supreme
Speaker 2: Court said, the way to end discrimination based on race
Speaker 2: is to end all of it and DEI and begins
Speaker 2: with the idea that we are what we appear to
Speaker 2: be externally, that all of us who are have a
Speaker 2: particular skin color, or a particular culture or religion, ethnic origin,
Speaker 2: all have the same characteristics. Of course, that's simply not true,
Speaker 2: and it's contrary to the basic premise of America. Costco
Speaker 2: is doubling down on that, and I and I believe
Speaker 2: it's nineteen other attorneys general have warned them that they're
Speaker 2: really running a risk here being bound to violate the law.
Speaker 1: So by favoring one race over another, that's illegal to
Speaker 1: favor one adult over another based upon the kind of
Speaker 1: sex you enjoy, and Costco with the best of intentions,
Speaker 1: this is the real evil. Part of what Costco's decision
Speaker 1: is is this that they have tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: suppliers of products that are sold in their store at Costco,
Speaker 1: by the way, has been a great American company, and
Speaker 1: so it isn't just customers or employees being affected by
Speaker 1: this racial discrimination. What it is is telling hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of small business owners who want to sell products
Speaker 1: at Costco that in order to do so, you must
Speaker 1: comply with our DEI requirements. So to sell a widget,
Speaker 1: to sell a cloth, to sell a TV set, to
Speaker 1: sell a piece of hardware to Costco, if you're a
Speaker 1: small supplier, you must sign a written statement that I
Speaker 1: hereby comply with DEI requirements of Costco. That's that's even worse.
Speaker 1: And I thought we had that wedding cake case that
Speaker 1: was determined out west somewhere that had a wedding cake
Speaker 1: that the maker was a what was a fundamentalist Christian
Speaker 1: that did not want to make a wedding cake for
Speaker 1: a gay wedding. Yeah, and then Supreme Court said you
Speaker 1: can do that. And so have you gotten any response
Speaker 1: from Costco at this point?
Speaker 3: We have not.
Speaker 2: We asked for them to respond within thirty days. But
Speaker 2: you know, it's worth noting that the entire corporate world
Speaker 2: is recognizing the DEI. However well intended it was to
Speaker 2: begin with, and however much the inclusivity part of that
Speaker 2: acronym might have been the goal, that it is actually
Speaker 2: entrenched racism, and it has demeaned the very many people
Speaker 2: from formerly marginalized communities who have achieved great success through
Speaker 2: hard work, merit and talent you know the phrase, dee
Speaker 2: I hire. My wife was with somebody yesterday from California,
Speaker 2: a person of color with purple hair, who probably would
Speaker 2: not have voted anything like I do. But this woman
Speaker 2: was brilliant and she was talking to a group of people,
Speaker 2: and afterwards she was talking to my wife and just
Speaker 2: railing about DEI because people assumed that because of the
Speaker 2: way she looks, that she was given some kind of
Speaker 2: unfair press preference.
Speaker 3: That's not fair to her either.
Speaker 2: It's divisive to our country, and companies from McDonald's onward
Speaker 2: are abandoning these policies because they just don't work, and
Speaker 2: in fact, they're actually perpetuating the racial divisions among us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it also demeans the good contributions of legal
Speaker 1: immigrants and also persons of color who may certainly have
Speaker 1: obtained with the head through merit and that their skin color.
Speaker 1: I don't want a person's skin color to be a
Speaker 1: benefit or a cost. The kind of sex that I
Speaker 1: enjoy should not be relevant in the employment situation, and
Speaker 1: to require your employees.
Speaker 2: I don't want to talk about what kind of sex
Speaker 2: you enjoy, Bill, No one does.
Speaker 1: And so if someone's gay, bisexual, intersex I think there's
Speaker 1: two sexes. I think there's two genders. I can maybe identify,
Speaker 1: maybe I can speak through a different gender, but that
Speaker 1: doesn't change XX and XY. It is what it is.
Speaker 1: I'm never going to be able to have a baby,
Speaker 1: despite my desire to have one. I don't think is
Speaker 1: ever going to happen. But to have a corporate structure
Speaker 1: that would say, you know, we're going to hire fire
Speaker 1: and spend millions of dollars with a supplier based upon
Speaker 1: your adherence to left wing principles is almost anti American.
Speaker 2: I would say not almost, It just is, and it's
Speaker 2: time to correct it. Now.
Speaker 1: What is the response from Costco at this point if any.
Speaker 2: Well, their official you know, to the media response is
Speaker 2: they don't discriminate against anybody, no way, no how, and
Speaker 2: their DEI doesn't do anything of the sort, and everybody
Speaker 2: is just a big misunderstanding, you know. That's the press statement.
Speaker 2: We'll see what the actual facts are. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2: And I'm not threatening anything from Ohio. And I don't
Speaker 2: know what my colleagues are going to do, but there's
Speaker 2: nineteen attorneys general that are honest. It only takes one
Speaker 2: to start an investigation and press releases aren't going to
Speaker 2: cut it. Facts are what matters in the proof of
Speaker 2: the case and the proof of a thing. And I
Speaker 2: have a feeling that somebody is going to go digging
Speaker 2: if you know, they want to play the stonewall game, and.
Speaker 1: I would imagine it through a discovery you can find
Speaker 1: out every email, every costco policy, everything possible to ferret
Speaker 1: out whether or not they discriminate based upon race, which
Speaker 1: of course is the heart of DEI is favoring one
Speaker 1: person over another because your membership and a race, or
Speaker 1: because of your alternative lifestyles, that somehow you can discover
Speaker 1: that completely. And so getting back quickly because of this
Speaker 1: issue which is going to percolate Butler County jails accepting
Speaker 1: ice detainee, same thing in Iaga County elsewhere And as far,
Speaker 1: I'm pulling up from a website about a teacher and
Speaker 1: I'm sure she's well intended. Her name is Adelaine Cruisy,
Speaker 1: a signed teacher at Aiken New Tech High School. She
Speaker 1: addressed the school board on Monday, sharing stories from the
Speaker 1: immigrant students she teaches that come from the Republic of
Speaker 1: the Congo, from Syria, and from Venezuela. And she said quote,
Speaker 1: these students have fought through tremendous evil for the privilege
Speaker 1: to study here in Cincinnati. Crusy and two other district
Speaker 1: teachers said half their students didn't come to school last week.
Speaker 1: She said, our students currently are living in fear they're
Speaker 1: going to be deported. And I'm thinking, well, yes, and
Speaker 1: it's not their fault that they're here, but they're parents
Speaker 1: or whoever brought them here legally, they don't belong here,
Speaker 1: and they should have a fear having committed crime of
Speaker 1: being deported. I have sympathy for a ten year old
Speaker 1: or a fourteen year old that is not an adult
Speaker 1: and manipulated to come here by certain means. And if
Speaker 1: I was in Congo, I'd want to come to America too,
Speaker 1: But damn it, it's got to be legal. If they
Speaker 1: don't enforce the law, it's kind of a what, mister
Speaker 1: Attorney General, would you make to the school board and
Speaker 1: the mayor's especially after a perival about what he's doing.
Speaker 2: Well, I said what I have to say to the officials,
Speaker 2: But I have something to say to your listeners and
Speaker 2: particularly the ones who are recognizing that this is uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: that this is even a tragedy for some of it
Speaker 2: from some of the people involved.
Speaker 3: There's going to be heartbreak. This is not the fault
Speaker 3: of the law.
Speaker 2: It is not the fault of the current administration or
Speaker 2: law enforcement officials that are carrying out their duties and
Speaker 2: following their oath. All of this belongs to Joe Biden
Speaker 2: and Kamala Harris and their band of Mary rebels who
Speaker 2: ignored the law, violated their oaths for years, and allowed
Speaker 2: this situation to develop. Ohio and America have always welcomed
Speaker 2: legal immigrants, immigration and immigrants. I'm the grandson of immigrants.
Speaker 2: My wife is the daughter of immigrants.
Speaker 3: You do it right.
Speaker 2: And the heartbreak and the tragedy that's going on in
Speaker 2: different places, the individual stories are exactly why the American
Speaker 2: people rejected the Democrats and their progressive ideas. And now
Speaker 2: we got to clean up.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, in the situation for two or three hundred years,
Speaker 1: the Democrats ignored federal law and brutalized black folks for centuries,
Speaker 1: and now here we are in the twenty first century,
Speaker 1: they want to again ignore federal law, ignore the civil
Speaker 1: rights of so many, and simply impose what they think
Speaker 1: they law ought to be in the same Democratic Party
Speaker 1: that stood in the doorway in Little Rock, Arkansas is
Speaker 1: now telling students to violate federal law. It doesn't stop.
Speaker 1: But David yos and lastly, about a minute remaining, are
Speaker 1: you going to run for the position of governor next year?
Speaker 2: We made a formal announcement last week, and I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to being in every county, every community, and talking
Speaker 2: with the people of this great state as I make
Speaker 2: my case for why I can lead this state into
Speaker 2: not only its former glory, but even better higher places.
Speaker 1: Do you fear for veg Ramaswami?
Speaker 2: No, I mean I do respect him. I'm just feel
Speaker 2: a little bad for my friend because just like Iowa,
Speaker 2: where he came in fourth with three percent of the vote,
Speaker 2: I'm concerned he's going to while he's making me better,
Speaker 2: competition's spend an awful lot of money for nothing. He's
Speaker 2: got a lot of that. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: David Yose, mister attorneys, mister attorney general, thanks for coming
Speaker 1: on the Bill Cunningham Show, and David, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Good to talk to you.
Speaker 1: God bless you all. Let's continue with more. There's the
Speaker 1: message failure to comply with federal law. Tell the Democrats
Speaker 1: once again is a crime, it's a felony, and the
Speaker 1: law will be enforced on seven hundred WLW