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Speaker 2: single morning. So it is great to be sitting in
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Speaker 2: we start today? I was, I was. I did some
Speaker 2: shows last week, and I was on a Friday afternoon
Speaker 2: down the hall at seven hundred, and then Saturday came
Speaker 2: and I had a bunch of stuff to do with
Speaker 2: my brother, and I ran around with him for a
Speaker 2: large part of the day. Then I'm probably like a
Speaker 2: lot of you. I had to get the grass cut.
Speaker 2: With all the rain we've had over the last several weeks,
Speaker 2: I just have not been able to get a lawnmower
Speaker 2: on my yard and I and I finally said Saturday
Speaker 2: is the day. That was it, And so I got
Speaker 2: and that was it was a major operation it was
Speaker 2: multi hour task to get the to get the yard
Speaker 2: at least looking halfway it was it was like a
Speaker 2: miniature jungle out there. So I was able to get
Speaker 2: that done. And then of course Sunday was the Masters,
Speaker 2: and I spent part of Saturday watching the Masters as well.
Speaker 2: But the thing is when I sort of took that
Speaker 2: Saturday off and didn't look at a lot of news
Speaker 2: on Saturday, I uh, I watched the I watched a
Speaker 2: little bit of the Masters on Saturday once I got
Speaker 2: done with the yard work. Then my wife and I
Speaker 2: went out and got a little something to eat. We
Speaker 2: got home and I forget what we watched on TV.
Speaker 2: And then that was pretty much it. So I started
Speaker 2: preparing yesterday Sunday. What did we have? We had some
Speaker 2: we made some breakfast in the morning, my daughter came
Speaker 2: to the house. I had a few errands to run.
Speaker 2: Then we had a Sean McMahon we had We had
Speaker 2: a master's event in the Turnament, master's event in the
Speaker 2: neighborhood on Sunday. That sounds fun. A buddy of mine
Speaker 2: has installed a putting green in his backyard last summer
Speaker 2: and and we used it for a master's event. A
Speaker 2: Master's putting competition, which I won. By the way, I
Speaker 2: was about to ask, did you win? I won? I
Speaker 2: shut It's five holes and I made three aces on
Speaker 2: my first three putts. I shot three under par, new
Speaker 2: course record, and I won the trophy, I won the money,
Speaker 2: I won everything. Did you get a jacket? There's no jacket.
Speaker 2: No jacket, you know, that would be for the actual
Speaker 2: Master's competition. But this was just as good. It's pretty good.
Speaker 2: So I did that and I got done with that,
Speaker 2: and I got home the end. In the afternoon, I
Speaker 2: had the Masters on TV, and I'm preparing for the
Speaker 2: show this morning. And so it was a little more
Speaker 2: than twenty four hours since I had really looked at
Speaker 2: the news, and it is absolutely amazing the news cycle
Speaker 2: and all the stuff that I have to talk about today.
Speaker 2: And so I'm looking at the news, and I'm looking
Speaker 2: at the news and I'm thinking, what am I going
Speaker 2: to talk about? And then this pops up and Tommy
Speaker 2: Helms passed away on Sunday. Tommy Helms a great second
Speaker 2: basement for the Cincinnati Reds for so many years back
Speaker 2: in the Sevan. This was this was my childhood. Tommy
Speaker 2: Helms played for the Reds. Let me see if I
Speaker 2: can find this year. He was born in Carolina, North Carolina,
Speaker 2: in May fifth, nineteen forty one. Let's see was he
Speaker 2: was a Red third baseman for one season. Then he
Speaker 2: became the second basement in nineteen sixty seven, and I
Speaker 2: was a Wei Lad, a Wei Lad in nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 2: He was an All Star second basement in sixty seven
Speaker 2: and sixty eight, won a Gold Glove in nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: and nineteen seventy one. The Reds traded him in nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy one first baseman Lee May. In nineteen eighty three
Speaker 2: he came back to the Reds. It's part of the
Speaker 2: coaching staff. And the reason I I mean, and again
Speaker 2: you know those days listening to the Red it's Tommy
Speaker 2: Helms was such a great guy. And I actually years
Speaker 2: ago I got to play golf with Tommy Hilmes. I
Speaker 2: went to way a golf outing and I want to
Speaker 2: say it was I think Chris Collinsworth had his name
Speaker 2: on this particular event. And it was a golf course
Speaker 2: way out east. I cannot remember the name of it,
Speaker 2: but it was way out east and and uh, I
Speaker 2: was invited to go to that, and I went and
Speaker 2: got out there and I saw who I was paired
Speaker 2: with that day, and it was me and Tommy Helms
Speaker 2: and a couple of other guys. And I spent the
Speaker 2: day riding around the golf cart with him and just
Speaker 2: so many, so many great stories about his time with
Speaker 2: the Reds and his time in Major League Baseball. And
Speaker 2: you know, some other Reds players were there and they'd
Speaker 2: come up and and they and they you know, laugh
Speaker 2: and tell jokes and and Tommy Hilmes, he was he
Speaker 2: was very good golf. We had We didn't win that event,
Speaker 2: but man, we we played very very well that day.
Speaker 2: I was playing a lot of golf back then. Actually
Speaker 2: hit the ball fairly decent. And uh. At one point
Speaker 2: he turned to me, we had it was a tough
Speaker 2: part three and it was there, it was like a
Speaker 2: two hundred and something yard part three and I hit
Speaker 2: a shot in there, I don't know, four or five
Speaker 2: feet away from the hole, and he turned to me
Speaker 2: and said, I like the way you carry yourself. I
Speaker 2: was like, I'm going to remember that. Tommy Elms is
Speaker 2: he has given me a great compliment. But you know,
Speaker 2: for for a little kid who watched this guy play
Speaker 2: baseball and just just that whole you know when you
Speaker 2: talk about and really, when I was a kid, it
Speaker 2: was the big Red Machine days and the Reds were
Speaker 2: so special, and it was it was just a mesmerizing time.
Speaker 2: And to have the ability just that one day to
Speaker 2: hang out with a guy that I watched all those
Speaker 2: years and put on a pedestal. I don't want to
Speaker 2: say I idolized him, but it was.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 2: It just seemed like it was such a it's a
Speaker 2: big deal today when you're a kid and you know,
Speaker 2: you got sports heroes and people you look up to.
Speaker 2: But to have that time to spend that day with
Speaker 2: Tommy Hilmes, and it just left such a lasting impression
Speaker 2: on me. What a great guy. He was so funny,
Speaker 2: so great to be around, and we had such a
Speaker 2: great day together. It was one of the funnest events
Speaker 2: that I had ever been to in my life. And
Speaker 2: to see that he passed away yesterday, I believe at
Speaker 2: the age of eighty three. So God blessed Tommy Helms.
Speaker 2: And you know John Sadak was apparently talking about and
Speaker 2: I did not watch the Reds game yesterday. They announced
Speaker 2: this during the Reds game during the Reds broadcast, we
Speaker 2: had the Masters event on the at the function I
Speaker 2: was at, and John Sadak said during the broadcast, Reds
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer Tommy Helms passed away lost at the
Speaker 2: age of eighty three, National League Rookie of the of
Speaker 2: the Year, two time All Star, nineteen seventy nine Reds
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame inductee. I think I know, I didn't know.
Speaker 2: It was not like, you know, I'm thinking of something else,
Speaker 2: but nineteen seventy nine Hall of Fame inductee lost today,
Speaker 2: information shared by his wife Kathy. So all the best
Speaker 2: to Tommy Helms and his family, and God bless him.
Speaker 2: What a great guy, what great memories, and I'll never
Speaker 2: forget him watching him play, and especially that day, just
Speaker 2: having that lucky opportunity to spend that day with him
Speaker 2: and the fun that we had that day, I will
Speaker 2: never ever forget it. So God bless Tommy Elms and
Speaker 2: all that he stood for, and he will definitely be
Speaker 2: missed as one of the great. So many great guys
Speaker 2: on those years with the Reds, and I've been fortunate
Speaker 2: to have had the chance to meet and got to
Speaker 2: know a little bit some of them. But I was
Speaker 2: talking to Tom Brennman down the hall a little bit
Speaker 2: earlier this morning, and he was talking about so many
Speaker 2: of them are starting to starting to lose, far too
Speaker 2: many of them, and that's life. But God bless Tommy
Speaker 2: Helms a lot of stuff I want to get to today,
Speaker 2: and we will do that during the course of the show,
Speaker 2: and the phones will be open for you as well.
Speaker 2: Five one, three, seven, fifty five hundred. Of course we'll
Speaker 2: have Chris Smithman and the smith Event, and then Andrew
Speaker 2: Pappas will join us a little bit later on as well.
Speaker 2: So it's going to be a great day. I hope
Speaker 2: you can hang around as we well, we'll talk about
Speaker 2: the forecast after this, and it does not look that
Speaker 2: bad at all. It's Dan Carrolyn for Brian Thomas. I'm
Speaker 2: fifty five KRC the Talk Station.
Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC dot Com in this edition of the
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Speaker 2: Fifty five KRC the Talk Station, Dan Carrolyn for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 2: Sean McMahon running the big board in the fifty five
Speaker 2: KRC Command Center, and for Joe Strecker who is taking
Speaker 2: some much deserved time off. So we appreciate always appreciate
Speaker 2: Joe Strecker and and everything he does. But Sean McMahon
Speaker 2: is here today five one three seven if you want
Speaker 2: to pick up the phone. One of the most surprising
Speaker 2: things I saw as I was getting ready for the
Speaker 2: show today was this headline, Kamala Harris wants to reportedly
Speaker 2: create a Institute for Policy and Ideas. Yes, I said that,
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris. Can you imagine if Kamala Harris had her
Speaker 2: own museum or a somewhere where her great ideas could
Speaker 2: be on display, that would be a giant void. That
Speaker 2: would be a very empty to think about it. During
Speaker 2: the campaign, after she stepped in for Joe Biden, and
Speaker 2: we could go down that rabbit hole if we want,
Speaker 2: but for now I won't. But after she stepped in
Speaker 2: for Joe Biden, did she have a single policy idea
Speaker 2: that was legitimate, that was her own, that came from
Speaker 2: her own mind.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think the answer is no. Everything that she talked
Speaker 2: about was consultant driven, was focus grouped, was nothing but
Speaker 2: bromides and platitudes. It was all nonsense. And then when
Speaker 2: she was when she was pressed on those ideas, I
Speaker 2: mean and by friendly reporters, friendly interviewers. Even in you know,
Speaker 2: even on the View where it was a total love fest,
Speaker 2: she couldn't she couldn't articulate a single idea that made
Speaker 2: any sense at all. And now apparently she's considering a
Speaker 2: center for policy and Ideas. You know, a few months
Speaker 2: ago it was, you know, Kamala Harris has signed up
Speaker 2: with a talent agency, and she's going to be doing
Speaker 2: speaking event and there's going to be a book and
Speaker 2: maybe she'll do all these great things. Well, none of
Speaker 2: that has happened. It maybe some of it will. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but apparently she is seriously and I saw
Speaker 2: a piece over the weekend where her and her husband
Speaker 2: are plotting their strategy for political comeback for her and
Speaker 2: for the life of me, I just do not see it.
Speaker 2: I see her popping up at an event here and there,
Speaker 2: and when you listen to her speak, it sounds like
Speaker 2: she is three sheets to the wind. So I don't
Speaker 2: know if I know she drinks. And I'm not here
Speaker 2: criticizing anyone who enjoys a glass of wine. I mean that,
Speaker 2: God knows, I enjoyed bourbon. I had my share of
Speaker 2: beers over the weekend, but for her to appear in
Speaker 2: public like that, that would be like me, Sean McMahon,
Speaker 2: would you would you be surprised if I came on
Speaker 2: this microphone, behind this microphone or the one down the
Speaker 2: hall and I was three sheets to the wind. I'd
Speaker 2: be stunned. Yeah, yeah, I would. He would be stunned.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that because that's not how I roll. And
Speaker 2: if I was in public life, I would not go
Speaker 2: to an event or speak at an event. And she
Speaker 2: has done this multiple times where it just looks like
Speaker 2: she is hammered, And if she's not hammered, then that's
Speaker 2: even more of an indictment on the way her mind works.
Speaker 2: But the New York Times put out a piece talking
Speaker 2: about how you know, they're still processing her defeat. They're
Speaker 2: trying to find out what went wrong. All they got
Speaker 2: to do is look at her performance, look at what
Speaker 2: she did, and again when it came to her ideas,
Speaker 2: the interview that she did with Brett bhar was an
Speaker 2: absolute disaster because Brett bear was not about smoking mirrors,
Speaker 2: not about the puffery, not about him. He wanted to
Speaker 2: bear down on the serious issues, and once she got
Speaker 2: past her memorized talking points, and she had nothing else
Speaker 2: to offer, And then her people had to step in
Speaker 2: after she was I believe ten to fifteen minutes late
Speaker 2: for that interview, they had to step in and get
Speaker 2: her out of there. They had to throw in a towel.
Speaker 2: One possibility establishing an institute for policy and ideas? What policy?
Speaker 2: What ideas? Maybe she has some now, but anything that
Speaker 2: comes from Kamala Harris, how can you believe that that
Speaker 2: came from her and from some political consultants. And then
Speaker 2: of course we had the spectacle a few days ago
Speaker 2: where we had this professor on MSNBC who was saying, well,
Speaker 2: you know, we didn't vote for Kamala Harris. This nation
Speaker 2: is not ready to blue vote for a black woman
Speaker 2: to be president. Well, what a bounch of crap. No,
Speaker 2: we you know, were when the left makes these arguments
Speaker 2: that were racist because we didn't vote for somebody, it
Speaker 2: shows that they're out of arguments, that they have no
Speaker 2: genuine ideas. And you can go right down the line
Speaker 2: of all the nutty and crazy ideas that she had,
Speaker 2: and that was reason enough. The color of her skin
Speaker 2: doesn't figure in one iota, not one bit. Five point
Speaker 2: twenty five we got to get to a little break here,
Speaker 2: and we were roll on five one, three, seven hundred
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Speaker 2: on this Monday morning. Good morning, Dan Carroll and for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas. And look at this we've already got We've
Speaker 2: already got our first caller of the day and it's
Speaker 2: Larry in Moscow, Ohio. And Larry, you're on fifty five KRC.
Speaker 2: How's it going, okay, Damn on my way to work? Man, Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: I wasna.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I'll just go tell you. I googled it when
Speaker 7: uh she first started running for president, Kamala and uh, how.
Speaker 3: To pronounce her name?
Speaker 7: They had a they asked her if she had an
Speaker 7: article out about it herself, and it's like the comma
Speaker 7: in a sentence, so they it's Kamala. I guess what
Speaker 7: how she pronoun us her name? And I noticed she
Speaker 7: was saying Kamala, So maybe you could research that, but
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure it's it's like the sentence, Kama, it's
Speaker 7: Kamala and uh, that's all.
Speaker 8: That's really all I had.
Speaker 9: I wanted to start your day off right and uh
Speaker 9: and correct you and uh, but let you know that
Speaker 9: I love I love the show I love the show
Speaker 9: Man and uh, I'll listen.
Speaker 7: I listened every morning, and.
Speaker 10: Uh, you have a good day.
Speaker 2: Well, Larry, thank you very much for that. Larry wanted
Speaker 2: to start my day off right by giving me a
Speaker 2: slight correction. What what am I? I think I'm saying,
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, right, and then and and and maybe maybe
Speaker 2: it's Kamala Kamala. I don't when all I know is
Speaker 2: that when I first knew of Kamala Harris, when, uh,
Speaker 2: the first time I knew of Kamala Harris is when
Speaker 2: Barack Obama was present, and she was the Attorney General
Speaker 2: of the state of California, and Barack Obama was in
Speaker 2: California for whatever event it was, and he said, and
Speaker 2: I'm paraphrasing here, but he said, without a doubt, Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris is the best looking attorney general in the United
Speaker 2: States of America. And that you know, at the event
Speaker 2: that got a lot of cat calls and a lot
Speaker 2: of hooping and hollering that kind of stuff. And I said,
Speaker 2: when when he said that, at that time, that's when
Speaker 2: I started looking at at Kamala Harris and who she
Speaker 2: was and and I made the comment, I said, that
Speaker 2: is going to get Barack Obama in trouble with women,
Speaker 2: because women are going to look at that, and they're
Speaker 2: going to look at her, and they're going to look
Speaker 2: at themselves and they're going to think, you know what,
Speaker 2: I don't look like her, and they're going to say,
Speaker 2: you know, this is uh, this is the kind of
Speaker 2: woman that catches Barack Obama's eyes. And if I don't
Speaker 2: look like that, well, you know, that kind of puts
Speaker 2: me out of the running. And and it's sure enough, it
Speaker 2: wasn't but a month maybe a month and a half.
Speaker 2: Two months after that, there was a poll came out
Speaker 2: and it showed that Barack Obama was losing ground with
Speaker 2: suburban women. And so I was right on that. But
Speaker 2: but that is when my my bigger point is is
Speaker 2: that is when the way I pronounced her name sort
Speaker 2: of got ingrained into the way I say it or
Speaker 2: into my memory. So if that's if I'm not pronouncing
Speaker 2: it correctly or up to the standards of some Well,
Speaker 2: then you're just gonna have to deal with that. But
Speaker 2: the piece that I was reading from when Fox News
Speaker 2: was talking about some of the uh, some of the
Speaker 2: Twitter reactions to this notion that Kamala Harris is going
Speaker 2: to have a think tank or an institute for policies
Speaker 2: and ideas, and one person said that the Babylon b
Speaker 2: couldn't have come up with a better headline. Matt Wicklock,
Speaker 2: who was I believe Matt Whitlock is a regular on
Speaker 2: the Glenn Beck Show. The Kamala Harrison Institute for Policy
Speaker 2: and Ideas sounds like the Babylon BEE or if the
Speaker 2: Kardashians opened to think tank. Uh. Doug Powers posted Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris Center for the unburdening of what has been should
Speaker 2: provide a bottomless well of material. Let's see if there's
Speaker 2: any more good ones here. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see.
Speaker 2: I can only imagine the type of deep thinkers that
Speaker 2: will be affiliated with this venture. So that's Kamala Harris
Speaker 2: taken a couple of shots on this notion that she
Speaker 2: wants to open a think tank for different ideas. What
Speaker 2: else do we have? I got I've got some audio
Speaker 2: coming up from Stephen Miller. I don't have time to
Speaker 2: play it right now, but I'm going to play that
Speaker 2: a little bit later. Steven Millery, the Deputy White House
Speaker 2: Chief of Staff, is just fantastic. And that's one of
Speaker 2: the things that I really like about the Trump administration
Speaker 2: is that if you look at the Sunday shows, he's
Speaker 2: got his people all over the Sunday shows and they're
Speaker 2: doing a great job of putting a consistent message out there.
Speaker 2: And I want to talk about a little bit later
Speaker 2: on and maybe in the next segment, but I'm hearing
Speaker 2: a lot of criticism of the Trump administration right now,
Speaker 2: a lot of criticism of DOGE. I think some of
Speaker 2: it not totally unwarned. But you know, I was looking
Speaker 2: at my calendar and I was thinking Trump got sworn
Speaker 2: into office. If I'm not mistaken, January twentieth of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. Today is April fourteenth. Taxes are due tomorrow.
Speaker 2: By the way, if you haven't done that yet, Sean McMahon,
Speaker 2: you got your taxes done, I do. He does good
Speaker 2: and you're good for you already already assigned, sealed, delivered.
Speaker 2: All that stuff got your return to your giant tax
Speaker 2: return and all that, just waiting for the Feds to
Speaker 2: send the check. Just send the check. Check is in
Speaker 2: the mail. But Trump got sworn into office on January twentieth,
Speaker 2: So I'm looking at my counter. January twentieth to February twentieth,
Speaker 2: that's one month. February twentieth to March twentieth, that's two months.
Speaker 2: Then March twentieth to April fourteenth. He hasn't even been
Speaker 2: in office three months yet. In already we're hearing all
Speaker 2: this criticism of the Trump administration because well, we don't
Speaker 2: have the results. You know, we don't have you know,
Speaker 2: we don't have lower taxes, we don't have lower food prices.
Speaker 2: We don't have you know, Doge hasn't done this, hasn't
Speaker 2: done that, all this stuff. He hasn't been an off
Speaker 2: office for three months. Yet. Look at the ship of
Speaker 2: the United States of America, and especially the economy of
Speaker 2: the United States of America. That is a as a ship.
Speaker 2: It doesn't get any bigger than that, and a big
Speaker 2: ships take a long time to turn around. And I
Speaker 2: think we're going in the right direction. But to sit
Speaker 2: there and criticize because you don't have the results yet
Speaker 2: that you want when it hasn't been three months. I
Speaker 2: don't know about you, but I'm not pressed. I'm not
Speaker 2: pressed to get to the bottom line of all these
Speaker 2: den I know I'm late for a break here, but
Speaker 2: I'm not pressed to get to the bottom line of
Speaker 2: all these different issues. And if you look at what
Speaker 2: is happening, I mean, there are hundreds of balls that
Speaker 2: are being juggled in the air right now. Can we
Speaker 2: please just have a little bit of time to let
Speaker 2: some of these things settle out and filter out? Five
Speaker 2: point thirty seven. I'm late for a break, Dan Carroll
Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas. I'm fifty five krc the E Talk station.
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Speaker 2: and I was talking about lots of balls being up
Speaker 2: in the air with this administration. I mean, I've got
Speaker 2: stories here today on oil prices, I've got stories on
Speaker 2: the Panama Canal. I've got stories on what dog is
Speaker 2: finding the I mean, the things that Doge is finding
Speaker 2: continue to be just unbelievable. What about this one tariff talks.
Speaker 2: Trump Advisor reports one hundred and thirty countries are now
Speaker 2: seeking a deal. Number of countries that made contact with
Speaker 2: the United States since President Trump unveiled the Liberation Day
Speaker 2: tariffs has more than doubled over the past week. Kevin
Speaker 2: Hassett was on the Sunday talk shows on CNN with
Speaker 2: Jake Tapper and he was talking about this. So last week,
Speaker 2: right after the announcement about the terariffs, more than fifty
Speaker 2: countries reached out to the Biden administration. Then a day
Speaker 2: or two later it bumped up to seventy countries. Then
Speaker 2: Trump announced the ninety day pause on the tariffs, and
Speaker 2: that cut or put a hold on the ten percent
Speaker 2: rate that was going to cover most of the countries
Speaker 2: around the world. China went to more than one hundred
Speaker 2: percent though, And now they're saying that it's one hundred
Speaker 2: thirty countries that have responded and the Trump administration is
Speaker 2: negotiating with one hundred thirty different Think about that, one
Speaker 2: hundred thirty different countries right now looking to make trade
Speaker 2: deals with every single one of them. I don't know
Speaker 2: how you can look at that and then come to
Speaker 2: the conclusion that these things aren't going to work. And
Speaker 2: I'm working on getting a couple of good guests this
Speaker 2: week to talk about the tariffs, so I don't have
Speaker 2: anyone really today. Maybe Papas can talk about it a
Speaker 2: little bit, but maybe Chris Mother. He's a smart guy,
Speaker 2: he's a financial guy. But when you just look at
Speaker 2: what is happening in terms of the countries that want
Speaker 2: to negotiate and don't want to be on the wrong
Speaker 2: side of this, it's one hundred and thirty different countries
Speaker 2: and they're working with every single one of them. And
Speaker 2: I saw a great piece over the weekend that was
Speaker 2: talking about how we really when you look at everything
Speaker 2: in totality, when you add everything up, that the United
Speaker 2: States really has the upper hand on this when it
Speaker 2: comes to dealing with China. I mean short term, I
Speaker 2: can I can also see the argument how the outlook sucks.
Speaker 2: I can see the argument about how this is not
Speaker 2: going to be good. But when you look when you
Speaker 2: take a more long term view of it, I think
Speaker 2: you can see some of the you know, the way
Speaker 2: the wheels are turning, the way the gears are grinding
Speaker 2: right now that this thing is going to have a
Speaker 2: positive outcome. And again, not even three months in office yet,
Speaker 2: so we just got to give it a little breathing room.
Speaker 2: I know it's hard, give it a little breathing room.
Speaker 2: And if this thing doesn't work, well, then I'll be
Speaker 2: here to say, I guess I'll be here to I'm not,
Speaker 2: and I don't. I don't think I've said one time
Speaker 2: yet that I'm one hundred percent sure that this thing
Speaker 2: is going to work, but that I'm just looking at
Speaker 2: the things that are in motion right now, and the
Speaker 2: way I see it looks like those things are going
Speaker 2: in the right direction. You got to get to a
Speaker 2: break here. Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC,
Speaker 2: the talk station fifty five KRC, the talk station Claremont
Speaker 2: County Veterans. You'r DD two four fifty five KRC, the
Speaker 2: talk station five point fifty on this Monday morning. Dan
Speaker 2: Carroll in for Brian Thomas. Glad to be here, Glad
Speaker 2: you are here as well, the great audience of Brian Thomas.
Speaker 2: Always my pleasure to be here talking with you. Five
Speaker 2: one three seven fifty five hundred. Donald Trump has had
Speaker 2: his annual physical. He was talking to reporters on board
Speaker 2: Air Force one after his exam at Walter Reed and uh,
Speaker 2: it turns out he's the most fit president ever to
Speaker 2: occupy the Oval Office. How about that, Sean mcmahn. Not
Speaker 2: surprising at all, isn't it? He said? Is physical went well?
Speaker 2: He says, I've I felt I was in very good shape,
Speaker 2: good heart, good soul. I didn't know seul was something
Speaker 2: they could check during the course of a physical, but
Speaker 2: apparently in Trump's case, he's got a good passing grade
Speaker 2: on that. Says, I wanted to be a little different
Speaker 2: than Biden. I took a cognitive test, and I don't
Speaker 2: know what to tell you other than I got every
Speaker 2: answer right I've never had. I've never taken a cognitive test,
Speaker 2: and I don't know how. I don't know how those
Speaker 2: things go, but apparently Trump got them all right. What
Speaker 2: does it mean to be a Democrat today? Great piece
Speaker 2: by Eric got an American thinker, and he writes, let's
Speaker 2: think about that. To be a Democrat today, you must
Speaker 2: support vandalism of tesla in cities. You must support government waste, fraud, corruption, inefficiency,
Speaker 2: and abuse of taxpayers. You support theft and crime, whether
Speaker 2: committed by illegal aliens or homegrown citizens. You support torture, abortion, murder, assassination,
Speaker 2: assisted suicide, euthanasia, genital mutilation of children. And he in
Speaker 2: parentheses he talks about when you talk about torture, he
Speaker 2: says a moss abortion, planned parenthood, a murder of Luigi Mangioni,
Speaker 2: a general mutilation, gender affirming care, and he's not wrong
Speaker 2: on any of those. Moreover, you somehow believe that illegals,
Speaker 2: non citizens, and criminals should have more rights than your
Speaker 2: fellow law abiding citizens. You are vehemently against securing the borders.
Speaker 2: You approve of open borders and all that entails. You
Speaker 2: are effectively, or you effectively, believe that the LGBT community
Speaker 2: has more rights than hetero sexuals and the Muslims have
Speaker 2: more rights than Christians. You believe there is no systemic, substantive,
Speaker 2: moral or ethical difference between the United States and communist China.
Speaker 2: In fact, if you believe that Trump is a bigger
Speaker 2: threat to democracy than China's president, the Chairman Jijingping, you
Speaker 2: are loath to punish China for any of its myriad
Speaker 2: acts of deliberately detrimental that are deliberately detrimental to the
Speaker 2: United States. You believe that only white men are bright
Speaker 2: enough to figure out how to obtain a valid ID
Speaker 2: suitable for voting, or write a check, board a plane,
Speaker 2: purchase beer, drive a car, etc. Etc. Yet you claim
Speaker 2: to hate racism even while saying that white people are
Speaker 2: inherently racist because of their race. You claim invasive species
Speaker 2: are existential threats to our native ecosystem, but that undocumented
Speaker 2: immigrants are a boon to the economy in the way
Speaker 2: of life, because diversity is always good. What else does
Speaker 2: it mean to be a Democrat today? It means you
Speaker 2: must embrace projection, gas lighting, obfuscation, hypocrisy, and flat outline,
Speaker 2: it means you despise the truth. This is a staggering
Speaker 2: litany of stunningly damaging ideas and behaviors. Nonetheless, if you
Speaker 2: fervently support all of these unconstitutional, criminal and evil beliefs
Speaker 2: and actions, you still get roughly one third of the
Speaker 2: country to support you, and maybe more and increasingly violently,
Speaker 2: so remarkable and revolting. Ultimately, this means that you, not
Speaker 2: Trump and his supporters, are an existential threat to the Republic, which,
Speaker 2: when you get right down to it, might be the
Speaker 2: whole point. This should be the defining issue of our time,
Speaker 2: should it not? And I say Eric Utter makes a
Speaker 2: pretty good case there, all these things, all these beliefs
Speaker 2: are being exhibited by the left and by Democrats today,
Speaker 2: and when you talk about the left, I don't think
Speaker 2: there's any real separation from Democrats, even main street Democrats.
Speaker 2: Maybe a few individual cases, but by and large, I
Speaker 2: don't know how you can really argue with that. If
Speaker 2: you'd like to five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty
Speaker 2: five hundred, it's Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas on
Speaker 2: fifty five KRC the talk station fifty five KRC de
Speaker 2: talk station, Little van Halen rolling out on this Monday morning,
Speaker 2: Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas. So glad to be here.
Speaker 2: Glad you are here as well. Joe Trekker taking the
Speaker 2: week off too, So Sean McMahon is running the big board.
Speaker 2: I'm here Monday through Thursday. Then maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know who's in on Friday. Kevin Gordon's in
Speaker 2: on Friday, or old buddy Kevin Gordon. Always loved talking
Speaker 2: to him. Maybe I'll have him on as a guest.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe one of these days this week, Kevin Gordon
Speaker 2: and I we we start talking, man, we just it
Speaker 2: just goes on and on and on. But good stuff.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a big It's a big week
Speaker 2: for me. Always glad to be here with the great
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas audience. What do we have going on the
Speaker 2: first hour? I complained a lot about people who are
Speaker 2: jumping the gun. We just can't wait for all this, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, can't wait for results. Gotta have results right now, results, results, results,
Speaker 2: Just can we please just give it a little time.
Speaker 2: Haven't even been in month three office yet, or office
Speaker 2: three months yet, Pete, Pete heck Seth has been busy.
Speaker 2: He uh publicly firmed America's recognition of Panama sovereignty over
Speaker 2: the Panama Canal. Let's see, despite President Trump's repeated assertions
Speaker 2: the US would reclaim the strategic waterway, and we certainly
Speaker 2: respect the sovereignty of Panamanians, I said before he left
Speaker 2: Panama for Washington. So that is a probably a touchy
Speaker 2: diplomatic situation. And heg Seth is working to get the
Speaker 2: Panama Canal. Who knows what's going to happen there, but
Speaker 2: there's no doubt that China is on notice that and
Speaker 2: Panama's unnotice that we want something to happen there. So
Speaker 2: what's going to happen again? And I talked about all
Speaker 2: these different balls that were up in the air. This
Speaker 2: is one of them. What's going to happen with the
Speaker 2: Panama Canal. I know one of the things that is
Speaker 2: going on is there's been some firings and this is
Speaker 2: this is something that needs to happen. Colonel Susannah Myers
Speaker 2: has been fired. Susannah Myers was the officer in charge
Speaker 2: of the US Space Force Base in Greenland, stripped of
Speaker 2: her command after she sent out a mass email that
Speaker 2: distanced herself from statements by President J. D. Vance and
Speaker 2: the Trump administration after his visit last month. Commanders are
Speaker 2: expected to adhere to the highest standards of conduct, especially
Speaker 2: as it relates to remaining nonpartisan in the performance of
Speaker 2: their duties. The Space Command statement read. Myers assumed control
Speaker 2: of the eight to twenty first Space Based Group in
Speaker 2: July of twenty four, fired off a message to troops
Speaker 2: in her command stating that the views discussed by Vance
Speaker 2: during his visit are not reflective of Patufic Space Base.
Speaker 2: Petufic pu Ffik the Patufic Space Base. I spent the
Speaker 2: weekend thinking about Friday's visit, the actions taken, the word spoken,
Speaker 2: and how it must have affected each of you, she
Speaker 2: wrote to her subordinates. I do not presume to understand
Speaker 2: current politics, but what I do know is the concerns
Speaker 2: of the US administration discussed by the Vice President on
Speaker 2: Friday are not reflective of the Patufic Space Base. I
Speaker 2: commit that for as long as I'm lucky enough to
Speaker 2: lead this base, all of our flags will proudly fly together. Well,
Speaker 2: you know what, she wasn't in charge very long after that,
Speaker 2: and I say, good, you can't have this kind of
Speaker 2: stuff going on in the military. A total of six
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty men and women, including civilian contractors, from Greenland, Denmark,
Speaker 2: and Canada, live and work at the Patufic Space Base.
Speaker 2: Actions to undermine the chain of command or subvert President
Speaker 2: Trump's agenda will not be tolerated at the Department of Defense.
Speaker 2: Set Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Sean Parnell
Speaker 2: Vance Press Secretary Taylor van Kirk said the Vice President
Speaker 2: Vance is grateful for his visit to the base and
Speaker 2: for the opportunity to have our brave servicemen and women
Speaker 2: a station there. President Trump has made his vision for
Speaker 2: an enhanced security footprint in the Arctic the Arctic abundantly clear,
Speaker 2: and the Vice President is committed to implementing the President's agenda.
Speaker 2: This includes strengthening the partnership and cooperation between the United
Speaker 2: States and Greenland, which is critical for both America American
Speaker 2: national security and the safety of our partners worldwide. And
Speaker 2: if this base commander can't get on board with that, well,
Speaker 2: guess what it's time to go. And Kurt Slickter has
Speaker 2: written a really great piece on this and talking on
Speaker 2: in town hall dot com, and of course he is
Speaker 2: I think he's still a colonel in the reserves right now,
Speaker 2: and he talks about the Space Force colonel in command
Speaker 2: of Greenland, formerly in command of Greenland, who ran her
Speaker 2: full mouth to undermine her commander in chief, demonstrates to
Speaker 2: an all common and all too common problem with today's
Speaker 2: senior military officers. We keep seeing these passive, aggressive and
Speaker 2: mostly not so passively aggressive officers acting out and throwing
Speaker 2: childish tantrums of resistance to the president. And that the
Speaker 2: people of the United States elected it's inconceivable to those
Speaker 2: of us from the military who won the Cold War.
Speaker 2: We stayed the hell out of politics. Somehow they must
Speaker 2: have missed that civilian control, block of instruction. Nonpartisanship is
Speaker 2: a vital principle to our officer corps. To be political
Speaker 2: on duty is a violation of our oaths, it's a
Speaker 2: violation of our ethos as an officer, and it's got
Speaker 2: to be brutally crushed. Even Barack Obama understood that when
Speaker 2: he properly can General Stanley McCrystal for having a staff
Speaker 2: that thought it was okay to diss the president the reporters,
Speaker 2: So that you know, this firing of these officers is
Speaker 2: nothing new, and it shouldn't be anything new, and it
Speaker 2: should happen with regulation, and it has happened with regularity
Speaker 2: under the Trumpster and Pete Hegseth. The fact that you're
Speaker 2: a senior leader, even when you are in a command position,
Speaker 2: does not mean make you the main character, save that
Speaker 2: for the personal psychodrama that is your life. Call it
Speaker 2: servant leadership or just plain leadership. But you never leverage
Speaker 2: the authority you've been entrusted with to pose posture or pontificate.
Speaker 2: That's because your rank does not belong to you. And
Speaker 2: he talks about how he had the rank of colonel,
Speaker 2: but he talked about how that rank was on loan
Speaker 2: from the American people. Your politics don't matter when you're
Speaker 2: a military leader at all. Politics have no place in
Speaker 2: the military none. But apparently some officers these days think
Speaker 2: that there is a Trump exception to their duty as
Speaker 2: officers to be a political just as there appears to
Speaker 2: be a Trump exception for every rule, regulation, norm and
Speaker 2: standard in our society and government. They are wrong and
Speaker 2: utterly bass conception of their duties as leaders as poisonous
Speaker 2: to the organization. If you aren't loyal to the commander
Speaker 2: in chief, then who are you loyal to your own
Speaker 2: personal conception of right and wrong. Well, if that's true,
Speaker 2: then soldier, you're in the wrong career field. There are
Speaker 2: a wide range of jobs where you can do and
Speaker 2: freely share your thoughts about our political leadership and its policies,
Speaker 2: but being a military leader is not one of them.
Speaker 2: And he goes on to sort of give some examples
Speaker 2: like that, or of that. He says, some are clowns,
Speaker 2: like permanent election loser Ami McGrath, who embarrassed herself even
Speaker 2: more than usual by supporting this despicable lack of support
Speaker 2: for the civilian chain of command. General Barry McCain effort,
Speaker 2: he tweeted, responsible Air Force commander true to her oath
Speaker 2: of office, he says, it's heartbreaking, but McCafferty is eighty
Speaker 2: two solid Democrat for Clinton appoint you whose ex timeline
Speaker 2: betrays his full blown trumped arrangement syndrome. Yeah, so they
Speaker 2: you know, these examples creeping up in the military, these
Speaker 2: different leaders who was he had the one gal that
Speaker 2: wouldn't hang up the it's you know, so petty that
Speaker 2: she wouldn't hang up the photos of Trump and heg
Speaker 2: seth and she got fired, And I say, good, get
Speaker 2: him out of there. Politics has no place when you're
Speaker 2: when you when you're in a position like that to
Speaker 2: lead troops and you think you know better than the president,
Speaker 2: the commander in chief and the chain of command, it's
Speaker 2: nice time for you to go. If you can't put
Speaker 2: that aside and do your duty, it's definitely time for
Speaker 2: you to go. And for too long, it's gone all
Speaker 2: the way up to those who are even right next
Speaker 2: to the president and that's how we largely a large
Speaker 2: part of it is how we find ourselves in the
Speaker 2: position that we're in today. Six fifteen. We got to
Speaker 2: get to a break five one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 2: fifty five hundred Dan Carol for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC.
Speaker 1: The talk station, fifty five KRC.
Speaker 2: Monday morning on fifty five KRC, one day before your
Speaker 2: taxes are due. If you haven't got it done yet,
Speaker 2: you gotta get that done. I put myself on lockdown
Speaker 2: last week so I could I can get mine done.
Speaker 2: And uh, we'll be finishing that up here probably today.
Speaker 2: I've got just a few clicks left and I will
Speaker 2: be finished. I'll be finished with mine and I'll be
Speaker 2: able to not think about it for another year. Always
Speaker 2: I always tell myself, I'm not going to do to
Speaker 2: wait until the last minute, But I always do. I
Speaker 2: don't know why, but I always do. What do we
Speaker 2: have going on? What's going on? Gus of economic news?
Speaker 2: Rising deficits continue to set records, which is not good.
Speaker 2: The nation's deficits so far in fiscal twenty five set
Speaker 2: a record. As the House GOP moves forward with its
Speaker 2: budget reconciliation bill, which includes more than five trillion in
Speaker 2: tax cuts and protected and projected economic growth that would
Speaker 2: cover only about sixteen percent of its cost. And that's
Speaker 2: I think that's the thing that Trump is relying on
Speaker 2: more than anything else, is economic growth. And I think
Speaker 2: there's a lot of indicators out there that that that
Speaker 2: growth is coming our way. But you know, it takes
Speaker 2: a while to get that ball rolling two. Takes a
Speaker 2: lot of effort to get that train rolling down the track.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, that was started happening during
Speaker 2: the first administration. But when when Biden comes in and
Speaker 2: it does all the crazy economic things that he did, well,
Speaker 2: that just puts a big, you know, throws a big
Speaker 2: old ranch into that. According to the latest Treasury data
Speaker 2: released on Thursday, the deficit has hit one point three
Speaker 2: trillion for the first six months of the fiscal year,
Speaker 2: about one hundred and forty billion more than the same
Speaker 2: time frame of the previous fiscal year. So we just
Speaker 2: continue to spend way, way, way too much money. One
Speaker 2: point three trillion dollar figure represents the second largest six
Speaker 2: month deficit on record. Budget resolution that the Republican House
Speaker 2: let the public Republican Ledhouse set in motion on Thursday
Speaker 2: carries a hefty priced egg, and economic growth alone won't
Speaker 2: cover the cost of the tax cuts and the benefit package.
Speaker 2: Conservatives and Congress are calling for spending cuts far above
Speaker 2: the amounts outlined in the resolution. According to the Tax Foundation,
Speaker 2: if the resolution is passed and signed into law, extending
Speaker 2: the expiring twenty seventeen Tax Cuts and Job Act would
Speaker 2: decrease federal revenue tax revenues by four point five trillion
Speaker 2: from twenty twenty five through twenty thirty four. So that
Speaker 2: is a nine year long forecast. I would have to
Speaker 2: and I hope there's someone that does this, and I
Speaker 2: would imagine with AI that this can be this could
Speaker 2: be done. Maybe not that I don't know that much
Speaker 2: about any Sean mcmannon, you know anything about AI. Do
Speaker 2: you've done anything with that yet? Not really, not really
Speaker 2: me either, But I would imagine with AI, you could
Speaker 2: go back and look at that and look at these
Speaker 2: projections by the White House Budget Office, you know, Congressional
Speaker 2: Budget Service, all these different organizations whose job it is
Speaker 2: to forecast these things and to you know, examine different
Speaker 2: policies and the rest of that and then say what
Speaker 2: the outcomes are likely to be in a you know,
Speaker 2: an economic sense. I would imagine you go back and
Speaker 2: look at those works and see and see how right
Speaker 2: they are, and see where the flaws and the analysis are.
Speaker 2: But this one's talking about, you know this that that
Speaker 2: if these tax cuts, the Trump tax cuts, stick around
Speaker 2: from twenty seventeen, that revenue is going to be decreased
Speaker 2: by four point five trillion. And in so many times
Speaker 2: when these tax cuts have taken place, the resulting economic
Speaker 2: activity has actually boosted money that's gone into the treasury.
Speaker 2: But every time that money gets boosted well and wean,
Speaker 2: it winds up getting spent again. And that's it. That in,
Speaker 2: you know, is wherein lies the problem. Not only do
Speaker 2: we spend that money, we spend well above that figure too.
Speaker 2: For far too long now. The GOP comressional leaders have
Speaker 2: said the final package is going to include more than
Speaker 2: four billion in spending reductions. We will see about that,
Speaker 2: but the spending reductions needs to get up to the
Speaker 2: hundreds of billions and maybe even beginning with a te
Speaker 2: a trillion to really start making any difference. So we'll
Speaker 2: see what happens with that. I mean, there's all kinds
Speaker 2: of economic, great economic activity out there on the horizon.
Speaker 2: But again, it takes a while to get that ball rolling.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if all that sort of stuff
Speaker 2: has been included in this analysis, but maybe one of
Speaker 2: these days we'll find out. Five twenty five, five twenty five,
Speaker 2: six twenty five. On this Monday morning, Dan Carroll for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, DE Talk.
Speaker 1: Station fifty five KRC.
Speaker 2: Are you looking? Six thirty on this Monday morning? I
Speaker 2: guess this is going to be a Van Halen kind
Speaker 2: of day. Jess Strucker always rolls out to the Van Halen.
Speaker 2: We don't have to do it every single break there.
Speaker 2: Sean McMahon, you know, top of top of the Houra.
Speaker 2: I know you weld. I love Van hall I can
Speaker 2: listen to it all day, but you know we don't
Speaker 2: want to. We don't want to wear it out. So
Speaker 2: but you know what, that's your call, brother, that's your call.
Speaker 2: I don't you know. I'll stay I'll stay in my
Speaker 2: lane and we'll see what happens. How about a little
Speaker 2: local news. How about a little local news? Uh, three
Speaker 2: shootings in five and a five hour span overnight. I
Speaker 2: believe this is the span from Saturday night into Sunday.
Speaker 2: So It's busy night for since a law enforcement according
Speaker 2: to Channel five, started just before ten steps away from
Speaker 2: the University of Cincinnati's campus, where a man was killed
Speaker 2: another hospitalized. After that shooting on Short Vine, a fifteen
Speaker 2: year old arrested in connection with that shooting. Just before midnight,
Speaker 2: police were called to Newfield Avenue in response to another shooting.
Speaker 2: They found a victim on the scene with a gunshot wound.
Speaker 2: That person taken to UC non life threatening injuries. Springfield
Speaker 2: Township police went to Hamilton Avenue north of Adams Road
Speaker 2: about two thirty in the morning. This was yesterday morning.
Speaker 2: Person shot in the lake. There so far too many
Speaker 2: shootings going on in and around the city of Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: and this one with the fifteen year old who was
Speaker 2: charged in that just terrific. And it was a day
Speaker 2: later yesterday. The family got together to remember that young
Speaker 2: man's life. Kyle Merrick m I r ic K suffered
Speaker 2: a gunshot wound just twenty five years old on Short Vine.
Speaker 2: Taken to the hospital, but he died from his injuries.
Speaker 2: A fifteen year old fifteen years old arrested in charge
Speaker 2: with the murder. They gathered at Clifford Park last night
Speaker 2: in Colrane Township. More than fifty family and friends came
Speaker 2: together released balloons in his honor. He makes everybody laugh,
Speaker 2: lights up the room, said Bryant Merrick. His father just
Speaker 2: a wonderful guy, loved the Lord, loves his family. He
Speaker 2: always said God's got me. One of eleven children. The
Speaker 2: father told Local twelve news that his son worked two jobs.
Speaker 2: The father of two kids pretty big on social media,
Speaker 2: said he does TikTok famous, so he's famous on TikTokers.
Speaker 2: His father said, just wanted to make everybody laugh. Wanted
Speaker 2: to get out there on his YouTube. That was his
Speaker 2: main goal, build up his YouTube. His sister said Jakekeisha
Speaker 2: McDonald didn't know Kyle or his family, but said she
Speaker 2: witnessed the shooting. I was just in the car listening
Speaker 2: to music. Once I heard all the shots ring out,
Speaker 2: I turned the music off, hopped out of the car.
Speaker 2: Didn't know where the shots were coming out we're coming from.
Speaker 2: So once I hopped out, and I says, I seen
Speaker 2: her brother running down the street holding his chest and
Speaker 2: like him taking his literally seeing him take his last breath.
Speaker 2: And it's just our fifty to fifteen year old charging
Speaker 2: that murder on short Vine just horrific. Oh what else?
Speaker 2: What else? What else? Harrison Township four thousand people lived
Speaker 2: there and no longer going to get full police protection.
Speaker 2: Sheriff's office notified Harrison Township that it will only respond
Speaker 2: to non emergencies there. Harrison Townships in the far western
Speaker 2: part of Hamilton County, right on the end of Indiana border.
Speaker 2: Sheriff's Office has provided service patrols there since twenty eleven
Speaker 2: without compensation, but that all came to an end last week.
Speaker 2: Roads are a problem, Traffic is a mess. Is traffic
Speaker 2: really a mess in Harrison Township? That's what some of
Speaker 2: the locals are saying. That's all, but the regular Sheriff's
Speaker 2: patrols there are a thing of the past. Township got
Speaker 2: a letter from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office says there
Speaker 2: were no longer be patrols or written tickets or ticket writing.
Speaker 2: Deputies will no longer respond to theft, criminal damaging, other
Speaker 2: non emergency calls unless the crime is in progress. There's
Speaker 2: a if there's an injury wrecked, they'll go to that.
Speaker 2: A homicide, they'll go to that. People in Harrison Township
Speaker 2: pretty much on their own. Tom Low's Cap says of
Speaker 2: the Harrison Township Board of Trustees, we just don't have
Speaker 2: the money. How can you pay for something that you
Speaker 2: don't have. They don't have the money. Township could not
Speaker 2: afford to sign a contract with the sheriff's office would
Speaker 2: have cost forty grand a year for the next two years,
Speaker 2: more than double that in twenty twenty seven. So Harrison
Speaker 2: town no more, no more full time police protection. So
Speaker 2: please don't commit crimes there. That's please all criminals, please
Speaker 2: stay out of Harrison Township. Please. They need a break.
Speaker 2: That doesn't strike me as a high crime area to
Speaker 2: begin with. And I don't know the announcing that you're
Speaker 2: not going to have regular sheriff's patrolser anymore really that
Speaker 2: creative a thing. But it's in the news and I'm
Speaker 2: talking about it. It is six point thirty six. I'm
Speaker 2: a little late for a break. Dan Carroll for Brian
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Speaker 2: five hundred. DOGE continues to come out with just a
Speaker 2: jaw dropping information. On Sunday, they revealed that illegal immigrants
Speaker 2: with criminal or terrorist records received public health benefits under
Speaker 2: performer President Biden. Under the Biden administration, it was routine
Speaker 2: for border patrol to admit aliens into the United States
Speaker 2: with no legal status and minimal screening. So far, CPB
Speaker 2: identified a subset of six point three thousand individuals parolled
Speaker 2: into the United States since twenty twenty three on the
Speaker 2: FBI's Terrorist Screening Center watch list or with criminal records.
Speaker 2: Six thousand more than six thousand individuals coming in to
Speaker 2: the United States who were one on a terrorist watch
Speaker 2: list or two I had criminal records. These parole leagues
Speaker 2: have since been terminated, or these paroles, I should say,
Speaker 2: have since been terminated with immediate effect. Right a DOGE post.
Speaker 2: Despite having no other legal status, paroled aliens are able
Speaker 2: to file for work authorization and receive Social Security numbers.
Speaker 2: The agency added a DOGE found that of that group,
Speaker 2: six three hundred illegals nine hundred and five collecting medicaid,
Speaker 2: including four on the terror watch list. See this is
Speaker 2: the kind of stuff that I think bugs me more
Speaker 2: than anything else. Got all these illegals coming in. The
Speaker 2: Biden administration just waved them through and then they immediately
Speaker 2: start collecting government assistants in one form or another. So
Speaker 2: you got even ones who were on the terror watch list.
Speaker 2: Oh you're on there. Here you go have some free
Speaker 2: you have some free medical care. Here's some walking around money.
Speaker 2: We know you're a terrorist or impossible terrorist, but that's
Speaker 2: okay by us. You know, I said, I read that
Speaker 2: piece earlier talking about it. If you're a Democrat these days,
Speaker 2: this is the kind of stuff that you have to
Speaker 2: believe in. Two hundred and seventy six thousand dollars would
Speaker 2: paid out forty one collecting unemployment insurance, receiving forty two
Speaker 2: thousand dollars in benefits, twenty two receive federal student loans.
Speaker 2: Student loans. That's fantastic. So you can be a criminal,
Speaker 2: an illegal alien, on the terror watch list, and by god,
Speaker 2: if you want money to go to school, we're here
Speaker 2: to give it to you. That is just fantastic. Four
Speaker 2: hundred and nine of these individuals received tax refunds. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and that that cost us seven hundred and fifty one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. And then they talk about the food stamps,
Speaker 2: the snap benefits, and that part is to be determined. Uh,
Speaker 2: Steven Miller was on talking about this, and you know,
Speaker 2: I don't have time to play that cut right now.
Speaker 2: We'll do that after the after the next news and
Speaker 2: traffic update, not right, not news, but the weather and
Speaker 2: traffic update coming up here in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2: There is also a new narrative that is starting to
Speaker 2: emerge amongst those on the left when it comes to
Speaker 2: you know, one of the things that Trump wants to
Speaker 2: do with the tariffs is get companies to start making
Speaker 2: things in the United States again, right maybe all you know,
Speaker 2: all those jobs that are overseas and those factories over
Speaker 2: there people are working. He wants that to happen here.
Speaker 2: But there's a new narrative now on the left talking
Speaker 2: about how well you know you gonna have those factories
Speaker 2: move back in here. And I guess those jobs, just
Speaker 2: those sorts of jobs just aren't satisfactory to those on
Speaker 2: the left. And so we'll get into that a little
Speaker 2: bit later. Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, the.
Speaker 1: Talk station fifty five KRC. When divorce places your home.
Speaker 2: I had a good Monday morning to you. Once again,
Speaker 2: It's Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas. Six point fifty
Speaker 2: on this Monday morning. I hope you had a great weekend,
Speaker 2: had fun watching the Masters over the weekend, participating in
Speaker 2: a little event that we had in the neighborhood, and
Speaker 2: brought the trophy home. I brought home the hardware. Sean McMahon,
Speaker 2: you gotta love that a win, A win is a win,
Speaker 2: as I always.
Speaker 10: Like to say.
Speaker 2: Uh, Doge was talking about I was talking about Doge
Speaker 2: the last segment talking about all the illegals that came
Speaker 2: in and you know, the ones on the terror watch list,
Speaker 2: the criminals and so forth, getting all the government all
Speaker 2: the government benefits.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: Stephen Miller was talking about the illegals and and why
Speaker 2: they came in and really confirming what I had been
Speaker 2: saying about this whole notion, this whole idea of allowing
Speaker 2: so many to cross the illegally into our country the
Speaker 2: entire time. And Steven Miller was laying this out over
Speaker 2: the weekend. Sean McMahon, can we hear cutting number two please?
Speaker 2: And it was by design. That's their that's their belief.
Speaker 11: It is is absolutely by design. You've summarized it for
Speaker 11: your audience perfectly, Sean.
Speaker 2: This was not a loophole.
Speaker 11: The Biden administration Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Majorkis devised
Speaker 11: a scheme to fly illegal aliens into the country and
Speaker 11: then to escort them in mass across the board by
Speaker 11: the millions, and to give them something known as parole,
Speaker 11: which gives them a work permit, which gives them which
Speaker 11: gives them a Social Security number, which gives them access
Speaker 11: to the voting booth. This was the plan all along
Speaker 11: to get them here illegally so they can get free
Speaker 11: government benefits, get hooked to welfare, and be able to
Speaker 11: participate in American elections. This was an attack on democracy
Speaker 11: by the Democrat Party. It's the same attack that we
Speaker 11: see Sean when you have California, a sanctuary state that
Speaker 11: is refusing to turn over even illegal alien criminals and
Speaker 11: gang members to ICE. So these are illegal aliens in
Speaker 11: California who have been arrested by California police, by California
Speaker 11: law enforcement for serious crimes, for crimes against children, for felonies,
Speaker 11: for crimes that threatn pup look safety, and they are
Speaker 11: refusing to hand these criminal illegal aliens over to ICE. Instead,
Speaker 11: they're freeing them back into the cities to offend and
Speaker 11: offend again. By any definition, what California is doing is criminal.
Speaker 2: It is a violation of our laws.
Speaker 11: It is one of the most heinous things that I
Speaker 11: have seen in my entire life in Washington.
Speaker 2: So there's Stephen Miller, and I sort of have a
Speaker 2: policy on my radio shows that whenever I get a
Speaker 2: chance to play his soundbites, I'm going to do that.
Speaker 2: I have one going to I'll play a little bit
Speaker 2: later another one and talking about the tariffs, and they
Speaker 2: the information that is really wrongly being reported about the
Speaker 2: moves that Trump made over the weekend.
Speaker 3: But this.
Speaker 2: Appearance by Stephen Miller is part of a larger effort
Speaker 2: by the Trump administration to combat another phony narrative that
Speaker 2: is being pushed out there that all these deportations are
Speaker 2: rounding up individuals who, for one reason or another, don't
Speaker 2: really deserve to be kicked out of the country. And
Speaker 2: Marco Rubio wrote a great piece, a great op ed
Speaker 2: about this. As a Secretary of State, and he starts
Speaker 2: this way, visiting America is not an entitlement. It is
Speaker 2: a privilege extended to those who respect our laws and values.
Speaker 2: As Secretary of State, I will never forget that US
Speaker 2: law lays out clear rules about who can and cannot
Speaker 2: come to the United States. The State Department consular offices.
Speaker 2: Our officers are required to apply these rules in each
Speaker 2: of the millions of these applications around the world each year.
Speaker 2: Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, aliens who endorse or
Speaker 2: espouse terrorist activity, or persuade others to endorse or expouse
Speaker 2: terrorist activity, or support a terrorist organization such as AMAS,
Speaker 2: are ineligible for a US visa. What's more, the INA
Speaker 2: gives broad authority to revoke a visa. This authority is
Speaker 2: fundamental to safeguarding our national security, as well as protecting
Speaker 2: Americans and lawful visitors within our borders. The Trump Administration's
Speaker 2: commitment to security and the enforcement of our immigration laws
Speaker 2: is unprecedented and unwavering. We expect, and the law requires
Speaker 2: all visa holders to demonstrate their eligibility every day their
Speaker 2: visa is valid. This includes respecting our laws, behaving appropriately
Speaker 2: according to their visa type, and continuing to meet these
Speaker 2: standards throughout their stay in our country. The US visa
Speaker 2: holders should know in no uncertain terms that the US
Speaker 2: government's rigorous security vetting does not end once a visa
Speaker 2: is granted. And there's more on this, but I got
Speaker 2: to get to a break. But this is why I
Speaker 2: like Mark Arrubio. This is to my way of thinking,
Speaker 2: explaining this in the clearest way possible. But yet Democrats
Speaker 2: and our friends on the left will have you believe
Speaker 2: that all these kicking out of illegal aliens in our
Speaker 2: country is somehow wrong and the due process rights of
Speaker 2: these individuals is not being upheld. And I tend to
Speaker 2: disagree with that, and I think Mark Rubio is right
Speaker 2: on the money. Six fifty five Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 2: fifty five KRCV Talk Station, fifty five R talk station,
Speaker 2: Good morning, seven o five on this Monday morning, April fourteenth,
Speaker 2: one day away from tax Day. And then that got
Speaker 2: that great what you want to be reminded of? First
Speaker 2: thing this morning. It's Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas. Glad
Speaker 2: to be here. Glad you are here as well. Phone
Speaker 2: lines are open. Five one, three, seven, nine, fifty five hundred.
Speaker 2: At the at the end of the last hour, I
Speaker 2: was talking about Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, who wrote
Speaker 2: just a very powerful hoped for Fox News and it's
Speaker 2: entitled why making America Safer Means revoking VISUS when threats arise,
Speaker 2: and Marco Rubio makes a great point talking about visiting
Speaker 2: America is not an entitlement, it is a privilege, and
Speaker 2: if you violate the sanctity of that privilege, well then
Speaker 2: we have every right to kick your sorry ass out
Speaker 2: of here. Sorry. That's uh. That that that's the bottom line.
Speaker 2: And you know, we see all this handwringing, all these
Speaker 2: different individuals on uh, you know, on on TV, and
Speaker 2: it is increasing in regularity, mostly because this one dude,
Speaker 2: this dude at Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, who was an
Speaker 2: agitator at Columbia University, is now facing deportation. And you
Speaker 2: got all these judges saying, oh, you got to bring
Speaker 2: him back, you can't kick him out. All this other stuff. Well,
Speaker 2: Marco Rubio is making the case that you know, just
Speaker 2: because you have a visa doesn't mean that that you're
Speaker 2: somehow special. And he talks about a US visa holder
Speaker 2: should know and no on certain terms, that the government
Speaker 2: is rigorous and uh when in its security vetting, and
Speaker 2: that that does not end once the visa is granted.
Speaker 2: Working together with Department of Homeland Security and other law
Speaker 2: enforcement agencies. We continuously monitor and review these cases. The
Speaker 2: vigilance is essential because circumstances can and do change. For example,
Speaker 2: visas may be revoked if the visa holder has engaged
Speaker 2: in violent crime or drunk driving, supporting terrorism, overstaying the
Speaker 2: time permitted for their visa, performing illegal work, or anything
Speaker 2: else to violate the terms of which we granted them
Speaker 2: this privilege or compromises the safety of our fellow Americans.
Speaker 2: When information about such activities comes to the Department's attention,
Speaker 2: our expert staff review it and assess it and whether
Speaker 2: revocation is appropriate. Recent events have underscored why our commitment
Speaker 2: to enforcing THENA and protecting public safety is particularly vital. Today,
Speaker 2: there are over one point one million four instancedents in
Speaker 2: the United States, including at our nation's most elite universities.
Speaker 2: In the aftermath of October seventh, twenty twenty three, terrorist
Speaker 2: attack against Israel, some of these foreign student visitors engaged
Speaker 2: in anti Semitic activities and intimidation of Americans, many who
Speaker 2: happen to be of the Jewish faith. These foreigners shut
Speaker 2: down college campuses for American citizens, harassed Jewish students, blocked hallways,
Speaker 2: blocked highways and storm buildings. The Trump administration is committed
Speaker 2: to taking the necessary steps to stop these activities at
Speaker 2: American universities. As Secretary of State, I will continue exercising
Speaker 2: my authority to support President Trump's zero tolerance approach to
Speaker 2: foreign nationals who abet terrorist organizations or participate in activities
Speaker 2: that threaten our national security, your compromise a compelling foreign
Speaker 2: policy interest. The Supreme Court has made clear for decades
Speaker 2: that visa holders or other aliens cannot use the First
Speaker 2: Amendment to shield otherwise impermissionable actions taken to support designated
Speaker 2: foreign terrorist organizations like AMAST, Hezbollah, or the Hoodies, or
Speaker 2: violate other US laws. They will continue to face consequences,
Speaker 2: including visa denial, revocation, or deportation. And last week I
Speaker 2: was talking with Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies,
Speaker 2: and he wrote a piece about how some of these
Speaker 2: people on the border or on the border that there
Speaker 2: are judges who are hearing these cases and many of
Speaker 2: these individuals are coming who are in the country illegally,
Speaker 2: and you know, here we're talking about visa holders, but
Speaker 2: he was talking about people who are here illegally and
Speaker 2: they're going before a judge, and many times they'll do
Speaker 2: a month or three months in the United States facility,
Speaker 2: then they'll be shipped from to back, you know, wherever
Speaker 2: they came from. And so you know, we again we
Speaker 2: have all these talking heads on TV trying to tell
Speaker 2: us how that this Trump administration is out of control
Speaker 2: and depriving these people of their their due process rights. Well,
Speaker 2: I mean listen to what Marco Rubio is saying. Then
Speaker 2: doesn't work that way. You know, you when you get
Speaker 2: a visa to come into our country, you understand the
Speaker 2: terms under which that visa is granted, and you violate
Speaker 2: those terms, well we are perfectly at least the Secretary
Speaker 2: of State is within his authority to kick you out,
Speaker 2: and he sums it up like this. My first responsibility
Speaker 2: is to keep the American public safe. While I am Secretary,
Speaker 2: we will never hesitate to act decisively and in close
Speaker 2: coordination with our US government partners when information indicates a
Speaker 2: visa holder could compromise our security, has violated the US law,
Speaker 2: or visa revocation is otherwise warranted. US visas are a
Speaker 2: privilege rather than a right, reserved for those who make
Speaker 2: the United States better, not seek to destroy it. From
Speaker 2: the inside. And I don't really don't know how you
Speaker 2: can say it any better than that. And Marco Rubio,
Speaker 2: to my way of thinking, is doing a great job.
Speaker 2: I want to play this cut by I've got to
Speaker 2: cut here from John Carl of ABC News, who is
Speaker 2: on with Howard Lutnik of the Trump administration this weekend.
Speaker 2: And again this goes back to the tariffs and Trump
Speaker 2: wanting to bring manufacturing back to the United States. Well,
Speaker 2: now all of a sudden, the narrative is coming out that,
Speaker 2: you know what, some of those jobs may not be
Speaker 2: that great. And here's how John Carl put it to
Speaker 2: Lutnik over the weekend on ABC News, and this is
Speaker 2: cut number cut number one.
Speaker 12: The President also said there's going to be a transition cost,
Speaker 12: transition problems. I mean, we are going to see higher
Speaker 12: prices in America's real. It's like you can open a
Speaker 12: factory tomorrow to build iPhones or to make sneakers shoes.
Speaker 12: I mean, we buy a lot of shoes in this country.
Speaker 12: Ninety nine percent of them are made elsewhere. I mean,
Speaker 12: you are we going to become a nation of cobblers again,
Speaker 12: I mean, what this is going to mean? Higher prices
Speaker 12: isn't it.
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 2: John Carl is upset that, according to him, the kind
Speaker 2: of factories that are going to come back to the
Speaker 2: United States are going to be shoe factories or maybe
Speaker 2: you think, you know, you make an iPhone a cell phone,
Speaker 2: and really aren't those sorts of jobs? John Carl beneath
Speaker 2: the American people, and did he stop to think for
Speaker 2: one second that there might be a good number of
Speaker 2: people in the United States that a job like that
Speaker 2: would be would be fantastic. I don't know how much
Speaker 2: those jobs are going to pay, but I think we
Speaker 2: have a lot of people that could fill those jobs.
Speaker 2: Are we going to be a come a nation of
Speaker 2: cobblers people who put shoes together? How belittling is that?
Speaker 2: How I mean, how arrogant, how condescending? And this has
Speaker 2: been part and parcel of what the media has always
Speaker 2: been when it comes to issues like this. They are
Speaker 2: losing this argument on the merits, and now they want
Speaker 2: to turn it to this notion that, well, you know,
Speaker 2: these factories might be coming back, these jobs might be
Speaker 2: coming back to the United States, but they're really they're
Speaker 2: not that great a jobs. They're just not you know,
Speaker 2: we all can't be network news anchors like this guy,
Speaker 2: Bobby Jay, what say you?
Speaker 3: Good morning, my brother, Happy Monday to you.
Speaker 2: Happy Monday man. How are you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, my friend. I've got a few things
Speaker 3: to talk about the border and some things that people
Speaker 3: aren't really aware of.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: On January the twenty, the first day our president came
Speaker 3: into office, he went ahead to the Department of Defense
Speaker 3: National Security Council to go ahead and give them a
Speaker 3: ninety day window to see if there's enough issues and
Speaker 3: problems for them to go ahead and have the eighteen
Speaker 3: oh seven insurrection acting place. It's coming up the twentieth
Speaker 3: of this month, sometime after Easter, we will do it.
Speaker 3: And sometime after it's one hundredth day. And give you
Speaker 3: another example, Friday, they went ahead and assumed sixty foot
Speaker 3: back from that wall will be a military installation for
Speaker 3: about thousand miles, and any on the federal reserves, the
Speaker 3: Roosevelt for example, there, we'll go ahead and put their
Speaker 3: military bases there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got I've got to actually I was going
Speaker 2: to get to that a little bit later on about
Speaker 2: how Trump has made this move to put the military
Speaker 2: along the border. Yeah, and on the southern border board.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what they will end up doing, sixty
Speaker 3: foot back of the wall. That way, anybody that steps
Speaker 3: in that area will be on a federal installation which
Speaker 3: will be charged for that. Also.
Speaker 2: Well, it's this is the this is a move by
Speaker 2: the Trump administration, and it may seem a little bit drastic,
Speaker 2: but you gotta you gotta secure that border. And the
Speaker 2: border has largely been secured, although I think we're still
Speaker 2: getting about about seven I think the number is right
Speaker 2: is between like four thousand and seven thousand a month
Speaker 2: over the last couple of months. To my way of thinking,
Speaker 2: that's still too many. And you got to, you know,
Speaker 2: you got to take steps to get that down. But Bobby,
Speaker 2: we got about give me, give me about one more minute,
Speaker 2: and then we got to.
Speaker 3: Run one thing. Also, they talk about the jobs and
Speaker 3: everything and and the companies and things are becoming this country.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a preview to war. We have
Speaker 3: no manufacturing base at all of this country. And we
Speaker 3: got to get the facilities in place of buildings and
Speaker 3: all the utilities and everything for those buildings to go
Speaker 3: ahead and be prepared for it because it is coming.
Speaker 2: Well, I I hope, I hope you think you're wrong
Speaker 2: about that. I hope you're wrong about that, because war
Speaker 2: is never a good thing, and I think war is
Speaker 2: the absolute last thing that Trump really wants. So let's
Speaker 2: hope that prediction doesn't come true. We on the same page.
Speaker 3: Here, Yes, sir.
Speaker 2: Bobby. I appreciate you listening, and I always appreciate the
Speaker 2: call man. Thank you very much, and we got to run.
Speaker 2: We got it a little late. For a break. Dan
Speaker 2: Carroll for Brian Thomas, Chris Smithman. The smither Vent is
Speaker 2: coming up on fifty five KRC, the Talk Station.
Speaker 5: This is fifty five KRC, an iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 2: Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas. Fifty five KRS the
Speaker 2: Talk Station.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One of the great things I always look forward to
Speaker 2: whenever I get to sit in for Brian Thomas, especially
Speaker 2: on a Monday, is this segment right here where Chris
Speaker 2: Smithman joins us and we have we like to call
Speaker 2: the smither Vent. And Chris Smitherman, welcome again to fifty
Speaker 2: five KRC. I hope you had a great weekend.
Speaker 8: I did, Dan, thank you so much. My my grandson
Speaker 8: came to visit with his beautiful parents, Christopher and my
Speaker 8: Bill and he's five months old, and it was just
Speaker 8: a great opportunity to spend some.
Speaker 7: Time with him.
Speaker 3: So had I had.
Speaker 8: I had a great weekend. I'll have to send you
Speaker 8: a picture after the after the show. So let me
Speaker 8: tell you. Let me tell you, Dan Carroll, I want
Speaker 8: to establish some common sense things in this first segment.
Speaker 8: Send me some things that I know that I know
Speaker 8: are going to be obvious, but I think they need
Speaker 8: to go out over the airways.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 8: Number one is that China, China, China, their government is
Speaker 8: the political enemy of the United States of America period.
Speaker 8: They want to dominate the world, and they view the
Speaker 8: United States of America as in their way. I'm a
Speaker 8: person that shops at Lawmart, our Target, our Costco, our
Speaker 8: Sam's Club, and I think over the last thirty years,
Speaker 8: when I look at products, it says made in China. Okay.
Speaker 8: And so this notion that all of a sudden people
Speaker 8: are saying that the United States is being aggressive towards
Speaker 8: China as it relates to tariff, It's not. China has
Speaker 8: been aggressive towards the United States with their tariffs for
Speaker 8: the last thirty or forty years and making it very difficult.
Speaker 8: Dan Carroll for the United States companies to do business
Speaker 8: in China. So far, I think I'm one hundred percent
Speaker 8: on everything I've just said. This is not about the
Speaker 8: Chinese people. Meaning when I say the Chinese government, I'm
Speaker 8: being very specific, the Chinese government, not Chinese Americans that
Speaker 8: are living in our countries who are patriots of the
Speaker 8: United States of America. I'm talking about the Chinese government
Speaker 8: wants to dominate us. That is why they have warships,
Speaker 8: It's why they're buzzing over Taiwan. And they were punking
Speaker 8: out President Biden, and they just found out that there's
Speaker 8: a new sheriff in town. His name is President Donald Trump,
Speaker 8: and he's saying, listen, I'm not going to allow you
Speaker 8: to continue to treat American goods and services poorly. If
Speaker 8: you want to do business in America and you want
Speaker 8: to charge our American company's tariffs, We're gonna have reciprocal
Speaker 8: tariffs for you.
Speaker 3: So far, it all.
Speaker 8: Makes common sense to me. And so I've been watching
Speaker 8: the news over the weekend, and I've listened to all
Speaker 8: these globalists who seem to be advocating and cheerleading for China. Meanie,
Speaker 8: I'm sitting there going. Man, we're really concerned about charge
Speaker 8: and what's going on with the Chinese manufacturing there. What
Speaker 8: is their middle class gonna do. That's what President Trump
Speaker 8: ran on. He said, Look, I've been going through places
Speaker 8: like West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and basically i'm those that
Speaker 8: there's three examples, and I'm seeing towns that have just
Speaker 8: blown apart because they don't have the same manufacturing infrastructure
Speaker 8: that they had thirty or forty years ago. I wonder why,
Speaker 8: because the global is said to our country that if
Speaker 8: you just open up our borders, you do what they
Speaker 8: call free trades, that the middle class is going to
Speaker 8: be Okay, that's not what happened. All of our jobs
Speaker 8: were shipped over to China, Nike being one of those
Speaker 8: companies with sweatshops over there, and then they bring their
Speaker 8: products back to the United States without tariffs. So they
Speaker 8: set up shop around the world, whether it's Taiwan, whether
Speaker 8: it's Vietnam, whether it's China. They put all of their
Speaker 8: manufacturing their Dan Carroll and then they bring their products
Speaker 8: back here and they've left out the middle class, the
Speaker 8: people that used to be able to make enough money
Speaker 8: to buy a house. Then their children to college, right,
Speaker 8: have a decent retirement. They don't want to live off
Speaker 8: the government. They're not here saying, man, I'm trying to
Speaker 8: get on food stamps. I want you to subsidize my apartments.
Speaker 8: These are hard working men and women who want to
Speaker 8: get up every day and go to work in their country,
Speaker 8: and they deserve that dignity. That is what is at
Speaker 8: stake right now, Dan Carroll, as we go into what
Speaker 8: I consider a short term fight for a long term game.
Speaker 2: Well, and you know what I want to get into that.
Speaker 2: I want to explore that a little bit more of
Speaker 2: you Christman, because are Chris Smithman? Because I think you're
Speaker 2: right on the money with all of this. And you know,
Speaker 2: there are so many now who are expressing this expectation
Speaker 2: and this frustration that none of this has come to
Speaker 2: fruition yet. And I was talking about that this morning.
Speaker 2: I look at my calendar. Donald Trump hasn't been in
Speaker 2: office for three months yet, and already we're expecting or
Speaker 2: supposed to have results, tangible results for all these things
Speaker 2: that are going on. And somehow this is equating to
Speaker 2: a failure on behalf of this administration because the results
Speaker 2: aren't in yet. But Chris Smitheman stay right there. We'll
Speaker 2: do a little traffic and weather together here and then
Speaker 2: we'll get right back to Chris Smitheman and the smith
Speaker 2: Event on fifty five KRC the Talk Station.
Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC.
Speaker 2: Fifty five KRC the Talk Station. Dan caroll in for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, continuing on now with Chris Smithman and the
Speaker 2: Smither Vent and Chris Smithvan. Always great to have you here,
Speaker 2: and you laid out the case I think pretty well
Speaker 2: about what is happening with China. But you know, there's
Speaker 2: all these narratives that the left continues to throw out
Speaker 2: there to try and undermine Trump and everything is he
Speaker 2: and that he is doing. And the narrative that's getting
Speaker 2: a lot of play right now, there's two of them
Speaker 2: that are developing out there right now. And number one
Speaker 2: is that we're not seeing any results from this. This
Speaker 2: has gone on too long. The American people are on
Speaker 2: the precipice of peril with their four oh one k's
Speaker 2: and their investments and everything that's all going to go
Speaker 2: down the drain as long key, as long as Trump
Speaker 2: keeps up this war with China, this trade war with China,
Speaker 2: and then the other narrative is that if Trump wants
Speaker 2: manufacturing to come back to the United States. And I
Speaker 2: just played the cut from John Carr from ABC News.
Speaker 2: He's talking about, well, those factories make iPhones, and they
Speaker 2: make and they make shoes, and he says, are we
Speaker 2: going to become a nation of cobblers, as if somehow
Speaker 2: these manufacturing jobs really are beneath the dignity of the
Speaker 2: American people to go out there and go to work
Speaker 2: and be productive in this sort of way.
Speaker 8: What say you, brother, We've got some incredibly ignorant people
Speaker 8: out there. It's just amazing to me mail that lack
Speaker 8: common sense and they just absolutely lie, like Senator Shift.
Speaker 10: But let me say this.
Speaker 8: When President Barack Obama took over the presidency, approximately the
Speaker 8: Dow was at sixty five hundred. We hit forty five
Speaker 8: thousand on the Dow. Ten percent corrections are normal. The
Speaker 8: correction we had was orderly. So when I see the
Speaker 8: market down ten or twelve or fifteen percent, I just
Speaker 8: want to share with Americans who are hearing our voices.
Speaker 8: Markets just don't go up. Sometimes they come down, and
Speaker 8: that's a part of the process of kind of pushing
Speaker 8: out the excesses that are in the market so that
Speaker 8: the market can find a floor and then move higher.
Speaker 7: So first, I'm not.
Speaker 8: Concerned about paper losses. I don't think that Donald Trump
Speaker 8: is hitler, and I don't think Key plans on bringing
Speaker 8: the end of the world. And so the Democratic Party
Speaker 8: keeps pushing these crazy narratives about what is happening, and
Speaker 8: it is causing people to panic. Look China, China, China
Speaker 8: owns approximately seven hundred the seven hundred and fifty billion
Speaker 8: dollars of our debt, and I think what happened is
Speaker 8: China started to sell that debt on the open market,
Speaker 8: pushing our rates down, which would have caused us to
Speaker 8: have a spike in our in our long term rates,
Speaker 8: and the White House probably got concerned about it. Now,
Speaker 8: everything that I just said right there is speculation, But
Speaker 8: the reality of it is, why did future past presidents
Speaker 8: allow the Chinese government to buy seven hundred and fifty
Speaker 8: or seven hundred and sixty or eight hundred billion dollars
Speaker 8: of our debt? Why did future past governments allowed the
Speaker 8: Chinese government to walk in and buy our agricate cultural
Speaker 8: farms are small farmers, They're buying land all around us,
Speaker 8: Dan Carroll, which makes no sense to me. The Congress
Speaker 8: and the Senate has been they've been sitting on their hands.
Speaker 8: You know why, speculation. I believe China's been buying them
Speaker 8: all off. Nancy Pelosi, she makes a couple hundred thousand
Speaker 8: dollars a year. Somebody explained to me why this woman
Speaker 8: is worth a hundred million dollars? How does that happen?
Speaker 8: And I'm saying to everybody China, We've got to focus
Speaker 8: on them. We've got to give this president, that Congress,
Speaker 8: and the Senate the opportunity and the space in order
Speaker 8: for them to reset our relationship with China. We've got
Speaker 8: to send the message to China now at some point
Speaker 8: we've got to draw a line.
Speaker 7: Into saying I say, let's do it now.
Speaker 8: It's economic today, maybe one day it's World War three.
Speaker 8: I'm not calling on that. I'm just saying, we can't
Speaker 8: allow China to push us around. That's why that's why
Speaker 8: Russia is taking Ukraine. Under Biden, we had a week president,
Speaker 8: You've see China taking Taiwan right now. We can't allow this.
Speaker 8: And so this notion that all of a sudden, this
Speaker 8: president has caused a trade war is crazy. We're already
Speaker 8: in a trade war. We're getting our butt kicked, and
Speaker 8: we have a president that says no.
Speaker 2: More, you know, Chris Smith. And we've had so many
Speaker 2: different companies announce their intentions to build factories in the
Speaker 2: United States, to have manufacturing here, not just big pharmaceutical
Speaker 2: but chip factories and apple and car manufacturers and all
Speaker 2: the rest. And I believe the number right now is
Speaker 2: near seven trillion dollars of investment in the United States.
Speaker 2: But these things take a little bit of time to
Speaker 2: come into fruition. But this whole notion that we're supposed
Speaker 2: to start seeing results now, that we need to have
Speaker 2: results now. And again, you know, the United States economy
Speaker 2: is the biggest ship out there, and it takes a
Speaker 2: little while to turn these things around. So how do
Speaker 2: you get the notion out there that we need to
Speaker 2: have a little bit of patience when again, we have
Speaker 2: the constant drumbeat that this whole notion that Trump wants
Speaker 2: to have manufacturing come back to the United States is
Speaker 2: going to be a failure. And there's one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty countries out there now that there and the Trump
Speaker 2: administration is negotiating with every single one of them. And
Speaker 2: when I see all these gears in motion, and I
Speaker 2: see all these sort of things that are happening, it
Speaker 2: looks to me like they are aligning in the way
Speaker 2: that they need to align for the bigger picture to
Speaker 2: all come together. Is it going to take a little while.
Speaker 2: I think so. But according to the left and according
Speaker 2: to the news media, we should be seeing results now.
Speaker 8: Well, first, you're right that this is going to take
Speaker 8: some time to reset, and I believe that time period
Speaker 8: is going to be greater than ninety days. We'll see
Speaker 8: a lot of great trade deals that will come down
Speaker 8: through the White House. But this is going to be
Speaker 8: a process, as you have clearly outlined for your listening audience.
Speaker 8: But skilled labor is a natural security issue. If we
Speaker 8: happen to go to war, we need people that know
Speaker 8: how to build ships, build tanks, build planes. Now, whoever's
Speaker 8: out here talking about widgets, let me just explain something.
Speaker 8: Why is the UAW so behind Trump? Because they understand
Speaker 8: that they want to see their corvettes rolling through China.
Speaker 8: They're tired of the teriffs. They want to see their
Speaker 8: month things. If you are a Ford lover, they want
Speaker 8: to see the Cobra down the streets of China, not
Speaker 8: with a thirty four, forty or one hundred percent caraf
Speaker 8: We want to see the Porsches over here, people love them,
Speaker 8: but what we want to see our Corvette in Germany.
Speaker 8: We're tired of our European partners and our Asian partners
Speaker 8: pushing us around. Basic coming since that if you sell
Speaker 8: more cars, you make more stability, greater workers, more workers
Speaker 8: Here in the United States of America, think about a
Speaker 8: company like Voeing. Now they're only competitors' air Bus, but
Speaker 8: the more planes they sell. Do you know what China
Speaker 8: has been doing to Voeing over the last four years.
Speaker 8: They literally listen to this. Boeing doesn't get paid until
Speaker 8: they deliver a plane. Dan Carroll, they they built about
Speaker 8: eighty four planes for China, the Chinese airline industry, each
Speaker 8: one of those planes worth about two hundred and sixty
Speaker 8: one million dollars Under Biden, those planes have been sitting
Speaker 8: somewhere in a warehouse because China has been refusing to
Speaker 8: take ownership for planes that they purchased that they told
Speaker 8: Boeing to, So they put a deposit down and then
Speaker 8: Boeing cannot deliver these planes and capture the two hundred
Speaker 8: and sixty one million dollars per plane. I'm tired of
Speaker 8: China pushing us around. We've got to show, oh, the
Speaker 8: rest of the world, it doesn't matter whether you're African American,
Speaker 8: whether you're a Latino American, whether you're a Jewish American
Speaker 8: or white American. We are Americans. And then let me
Speaker 8: tell you, if you travel anywhere out of the United
Speaker 8: States of America, they say you're an American. I don't
Speaker 8: care if you're African American, Jewish, they hear your accent,
Speaker 8: that's an American. We better understand that we're in the
Speaker 8: same ship here. It's not about race. What China has
Speaker 8: been trying to do with their money is make a
Speaker 8: fight about race. They've been using the Democratic Party, the
Speaker 8: Socialist Party, the Communist Party, like the AOC pushing this
Speaker 8: crazy agenda that I shouldn't like you just because of
Speaker 8: the color of your skin. And then they put out
Speaker 8: people like Representative Crockett that reinforces her own congressional member
Speaker 8: who's married to a white woman all of a sudden
Speaker 8: is not African Americans because of his selection of who
Speaker 8: he loves, and the children that he makes that was
Speaker 8: representative Crocket. We got to push back on all of
Speaker 8: these narratives. Come together as Americans, give the executive branch
Speaker 8: of this government the opportunity to clean it up, make
Speaker 8: sure that trade is fair so that we are a
Speaker 8: stronger country one hundred years from now for our children.
Speaker 8: I hope I've answered that question for you, Dan Carroll.
Speaker 8: We need to give this executive branch the time and
Speaker 8: the space to take on our partners, which by the way,
Speaker 8: is also Europe, not just our enemies, but it's also
Speaker 8: places like Europe.
Speaker 2: Chris Smitheman's stay right there. We've got one more segment
Speaker 2: to go, and when we come back, I want to
Speaker 2: ask you about this poll that shows about half of
Speaker 2: those who are on the left believe that killing Musk
Speaker 2: or killing Trump may be justified. And I'll get your
Speaker 2: thoughts on that as we continue on with the Smith
Speaker 2: event on fifty five KRZ the talk station.
Speaker 5: This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 2: Fifty five KRC the talk station seven forty three. Dan
Speaker 2: Carroll in for Thomas and we continue with Chris Smitherman
Speaker 2: and the Monday Smith Event and Chris Smitheman. This is
Speaker 2: I read this over the weekend about Rutgers University did
Speaker 2: a study of mostly left of center people and they
Speaker 2: found that forty eight to fifty five percent of left
Speaker 2: of center people were able to somewhat justify the murder
Speaker 2: of Elon Musk or President Trump. And this, to me
Speaker 2: is a very disturbing finding. That number should be zero.
Speaker 2: How do we get to the point in this country
Speaker 2: where you've got so many And it doesn't say the
Speaker 2: ages of the people that they that they talk to,
Speaker 2: but as I read this, I get the sense that
Speaker 2: it's predominantly younger people. But how do we get to
Speaker 2: the point in this country to where the justifying of
Speaker 2: political assassination is something that the people can abide and
Speaker 2: abiding this by any degree whatsoever, it should be totally
Speaker 2: and completely unacceptable, But somehow it is amongst you know,
Speaker 2: a certain segment of our population.
Speaker 8: Well, first, let me thank Elon Musk for his service
Speaker 8: in the Doze group and his team that are exposing
Speaker 8: for all of us the waste, the fraud, the abuse
Speaker 8: that's happening at the federal level.
Speaker 3: Number one.
Speaker 8: Number two, there's never a place in our society for
Speaker 8: violence political or otherwise, and so I love that you're
Speaker 8: denouncing it. Number Three, our mass media outlets have been
Speaker 8: calling Elon Musk and President Donald Trump a Nazi. Now, now,
Speaker 8: the Nazis killed six million Jews. So this notion that
Speaker 8: this language that they're using, they are inciting the violence,
Speaker 8: Dan Carroll. They're basically saying it's okay to kill Hitler.
Speaker 8: And so you and I I understand that Elon Musk,
Speaker 8: nor President Trump, nor anyone in his cabinet, or the
Speaker 8: Congress Democrat or Republican or Independent, or in the Senate,
Speaker 8: none of those people are Hitler. And so they keep
Speaker 8: pushing this narrative on MSNBC, on CNN, on on whatever
Speaker 8: liberal news channel that you can you can listen to,
Speaker 8: trying to justify that killing somebody in any way, shape
Speaker 8: or form is okay. It's a scary time that we're
Speaker 8: currently living in. And let me say to all of
Speaker 8: you that if we get to the point where killing
Speaker 8: people is the option, you know, we are in a
Speaker 8: very very very bad place as a country.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But is it is it the schools? Is it the parents?
Speaker 2: Is it the media? Is that all these things combined?
Speaker 2: Because they, to my way of thinking, This needs to
Speaker 2: be examined thoroughly, because we have if if we can't,
Speaker 2: if we can get through to groups of people that
Speaker 2: you know, the way to settle your differences is through
Speaker 2: elections or through coming to the table, through having discussion,
Speaker 2: I mean really meaningful discussions and not some of the
Speaker 2: you know, some of the nonsense that we're subject to
Speaker 2: when it comes to people having roundtables or consultant driven
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, but real face to face and human
Speaker 2: interaction that that is the way to resolve your differences
Speaker 2: instead of just going out and eliminating what you consider
Speaker 2: to be a threat. If you don't like that threat
Speaker 2: in a political.
Speaker 8: Sense, absolutely, But look, we've had leaders in our country
Speaker 8: which is incredibly scary, the dark history in the sixties
Speaker 8: where people were saying that doctor Martin Luther King was
Speaker 8: a communist, he was a threat to our culture, threat
Speaker 8: to our society. The FBI, the CIA, everybody was looking
Speaker 8: at this guy, a light upon him, and they dehumanized
Speaker 8: him so far that people thought it was okay to
Speaker 8: take them out to kill them. Here's the bottom line.
Speaker 8: We now understand that doctor King was one of the
Speaker 8: greatest Americans to ever live. He was one of those
Speaker 8: men who understood the Constitution. He understood that being conservative
Speaker 8: and saying that all of us are made equal, no
Speaker 8: matter the color of your skin. Right. Obviously, Representative Crockett
Speaker 8: has lost that right. Maybe she's missed something in her teaching,
Speaker 8: in her history of America. But you can dehumanize somebody
Speaker 8: far enough, Dan Carroll, that you can then come to
Speaker 8: these conclusions that it's okay to kill them. I put
Speaker 8: this right at the at the footsteps of mass mainstream media.
Speaker 8: They continue to push these narratives and dehumanize the leaders
Speaker 8: that you just identified, and if they get away with
Speaker 8: it right, which we hope they won't, shame on all
Speaker 8: of us. So you being outspoken about it, I think
Speaker 8: is incredibly critical. Democrats right now just don't have any solutions.
Speaker 8: That's why they're bathing in all of this. You know,
Speaker 8: when you sit back and you say, well, what is
Speaker 8: your solution to the disparity in trade? I don't have
Speaker 8: a solution to that. So what do you think your
Speaker 8: solution is? When we're dealing with China stealing our secrets,
Speaker 8: meaning our technology companies have been screaming from the rooftops
Speaker 8: that China is literally stealing our intellectual property. Democrats, what
Speaker 8: is your solution to that? See at the end of
Speaker 8: the day, these elections locally, That's why I'm supporting this
Speaker 8: guy named Corey Bowman here in Cincinnati for mayor who's
Speaker 8: running as a Republican because I'm tired of the status quo.
Speaker 8: I'm tired of my potholes. I'm tired of bridges falling.
Speaker 8: I'm tired of flood's happening and we don't know where
Speaker 8: the mayor is. I'm tired of all of these no
Speaker 8: answers and this cultural warfare that we're having. I love Americans,
Speaker 8: I love this country. I'm glad that I'm an American.
Speaker 8: I'm going to fight for this country, and I'm betting
Speaker 8: on America. I'm betting on the executive branch. I'm betting
Speaker 8: off President Trump and whoever was the president. I've always
Speaker 8: been a person to bet on America, it didn't matter
Speaker 8: who was in the White House. We're living in a
Speaker 8: time now where people think it's okay as an American
Speaker 8: to bet against our own country. That is absolutely up sane, obscene,
Speaker 8: and a complete shameful thing for anyone to say China
Speaker 8: is the target China wants to take us over the
Speaker 8: government of China. Not the people are the enemy of
Speaker 8: the United States of America, and they've made that very clear. Please, please, listening, audience,
Speaker 8: give the executive branch the opportunity to solve some of
Speaker 8: these big problems. Because most politicians were wan to kick
Speaker 8: the can down the road. They don't want to deal
Speaker 8: with the big problems. That's what you're talking about, Dan Carroll.
Speaker 8: If you give the executive branch the opportunity to deal
Speaker 8: with the big problems, we know they'll be short term pain,
Speaker 8: but there will be long term gain.
Speaker 2: All right, man. With that, Chris Smitherman, we've got to run.
Speaker 2: You are the best every Monday morning the smith event
Speaker 2: right here on fifty five KRC. Chris Smithman. Always great
Speaker 2: to talk to you, my friend, and all the best
Speaker 2: to you. You take care of your follow.
Speaker 8: Me at vote Smitherman. At vote Smitherman. I just said
Speaker 8: something to you at.
Speaker 2: Vote smith Man. Chris Smitheman will talk to you again
Speaker 2: before too long. It just ain't Monday morning without that guy.
Speaker 2: He is the absolute best. Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas
Speaker 2: on fifty five KRC DE Talk.
Speaker 1: Station fifty five KRC.
Speaker 2: Fifty five KRC de Talk Station. Want to thank Chris
Speaker 2: Smithman for the smith events as always. And you know
Speaker 2: I was talking about that that poll that found out
Speaker 2: that you know, these people think it's okay to go
Speaker 2: around killing people like President Trump. Well, here's a seventeen
Speaker 2: year old in Wisconsin allegedly killed his parents in pursuit
Speaker 2: of the financial means and autonomy to hopefully assassinate assassinate
Speaker 2: President Trump. The FBI was talking about that. Here's another
Speaker 2: guy in monper Pencil, Sean manper is his name Butler Pennsylvania,
Speaker 2: thirty two years old, charged with making threats to assault
Speaker 2: and murder President Trump, Musk and others. And this is
Speaker 2: two cases just from this weekend. This has got to stop.
Speaker 2: I mean, these should be warning signs that should be
Speaker 2: taken very seriously, and hopefully the FBI and the Secret
Speaker 2: Service is on top of this and we will not
Speaker 2: see a repeat of what we saw last summer seven
Speaker 2: fifty six. Gotta get a little news here at the
Speaker 2: top of the hour, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty
Speaker 2: five KRC the Talk Station coming ubout eight o five
Speaker 2: on this Monday morning. Dan Carroll and for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 2: still drinking my coffee. Sean McMahon running the big board
Speaker 2: there in the command center fifty five KRC five one
Speaker 2: three seven fifty five hundred. Our buddy Andrew Pappus will
Speaker 2: be joining us at the bottom of the hour. He
Speaker 2: just recently went on another honor flight and now he
Speaker 2: is actually working with the Honor Flight people, which I
Speaker 2: know is a very big deal to him, and so
Speaker 2: I'll be looking to hear all about his, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: his his new assignment with the Honor Flight people and
Speaker 2: the most recent trip that he took. So that's going
Speaker 2: to be at the bottom of the hour. I've got
Speaker 2: I brought it in a fair amount of audio today
Speaker 2: and I have I can't believe it's the last hour already,
Speaker 2: so many things to talk about. I just get on
Speaker 2: a roll, and I've played a little bit of this,
Speaker 2: but I want to start with this one. And I've
Speaker 2: talked about this several times. How this administration I think
Speaker 2: has been really really good on getting ahead of the
Speaker 2: different narratives that get spun by the left. I mean,
Speaker 2: they do not quit every time you turn around the
Speaker 2: talking heads, and many times the talking heads, the political pundits,
Speaker 2: the Pelosis, the Schumers, the dick Urbans, they're all reading
Speaker 2: from the same playbook. And Fox News does a great
Speaker 2: job of this, but they cobble all these things together,
Speaker 2: and you see how they're all sort of saying the
Speaker 2: same things. And the Trump administration, Caroline Levitt does a
Speaker 2: great job of staying ahead of this and cutting a
Speaker 2: lot of these narratives off at the knees before they
Speaker 2: really have any time to take root and become part
Speaker 2: of the everyday talking points. And it is a constant battle.
Speaker 2: And so Mike Johnson, Speaker Johnson, who's obviously not part
Speaker 2: of the administration, but he is reading from the Trump playbook,
Speaker 2: which is good, and he would on with Maria Bartiromo
Speaker 2: over the weekend. And of course tariffs are the big topic.
Speaker 2: And I've got a couple of cuts here on the tariffs. Well,
Speaker 2: let's go at this one first with Speaker Johnson and
Speaker 2: Sean McMahon. That's cut number five.
Speaker 13: There was also a movement to put boundaries in place
Speaker 13: for President Trump issuing tariffs. Do you want Congress to
Speaker 13: have a say in stopping President Trump's authority instituting tariffs?
Speaker 14: Listen, my background's in constitutional law, Maria and I believe
Speaker 14: very firmly in separation of powers. I also believe that
Speaker 14: the executive branch has the runway to do what President
Speaker 14: Trump is doing. He clearly the president, the commander in chief,
Speaker 14: has the right to deal with countries that are engaging
Speaker 14: in unfair trade practices with our nation.
Speaker 2: Well, sure, the president has the authority to do that.
Speaker 2: But you've got people now like Elizabeth Warren who are
Speaker 2: crying about Trump and Congress needs to somehow make a
Speaker 2: move to either sanctioned Trump or take his ability away
Speaker 2: to uh to go forward with ease tariffs. I mean,
Speaker 2: she is completely losing her mind. And I think, I
Speaker 2: really think a lot of this is driven. You know,
Speaker 2: when Trump came out and made the announcement that the uh,
Speaker 2: there was going to be a ninety day pause and
Speaker 2: that uh, you know, he was gonna do whatever he's
Speaker 2: going to do with China, right and then and then
Speaker 2: over the weekend, the you know, the the headline was, oh,
Speaker 2: well Trump is going to exempt now electronics and and
Speaker 2: these other different things. And Steven Miller is going to
Speaker 2: comment on that in a second. But when that when,
Speaker 2: you know, when that happened and the stock market shot up.
Speaker 2: I believe, what was it Tuesday? I think last week,
Speaker 2: maybe Wednesday, it doesn't matter. But he had all the
Speaker 2: you know, you have the Elizabeth warrens, he had Bernie
Speaker 2: Sanders complain, He had all these people on the and
Speaker 2: the you know, the Democrat Party complaining. And I really
Speaker 2: think they were complaining is because they didn't get advanced
Speaker 2: notice to this. And had they had advanced notice of this,
Speaker 2: they would have cashed in. They would have used all
Speaker 2: their insider trading skills to boost their own particular stock portfolios.
Speaker 2: And since they didn't have that opportunity, well, this was
Speaker 2: a great opportunity to talk about how Trump is the
Speaker 2: one who's engaging in insider trading. Well, they haven't been
Speaker 2: able to come within a football field of being able
Speaker 2: to prove that. So Elizabeth Warren's all bent out of shape.
Speaker 2: And now she's the one who is saying that we
Speaker 2: need to take these powers away from the president. And
Speaker 2: that's what Mike Johnson was talking about there, separation of powers.
Speaker 2: Guess what, elections have consequences. So you just need to
Speaker 2: shut up because you lost, and you know, these different
Speaker 2: types of things you're trying to do are not working
Speaker 2: at all, and so back on tariffs, and we've got
Speaker 2: Mississippi Jans on hold, we'll talk to him in a second.
Speaker 2: But Steven Miller was to talking about how the media
Speaker 2: again is mischaracterizing what Trump did when it came to
Speaker 2: electronics and the way it was reported that Trump changed
Speaker 2: his mind again on tariffs and things that were going
Speaker 2: to be sanctioned as far as it goes with the
Speaker 2: sanctions and the tariffs against the Chinese and what can
Speaker 2: come into this country and what's going to be tarificed
Speaker 2: and what's not. And Stephen Miller says, you know, for
Speaker 2: anyone that would have bothered to pay attention, they would
Speaker 2: have known that this was always part of the plan.
Speaker 2: And here's how he broke it down with Maria Bartiromo,
Speaker 2: cut number three.
Speaker 13: You were targeting specific items from day one. Walk us
Speaker 13: through these exemptions, Stephen and.
Speaker 7: What they mean.
Speaker 11: Yes, this is just another great example of how President
Speaker 11: Trump had a detailed plan from the beginning that's being
Speaker 11: executed exactly as directed, and unfortunately some in the media
Speaker 11: are deliberately misportraying the plan. The original twenty percent AIPA,
Speaker 11: that's the International Emergency Economic Powers Act for China poisoning
Speaker 11: our citizens with fentanyl. That twenty percent rate is and
Speaker 11: continues to be applied to all imports from China. When
Speaker 11: the President issued his reciprocal tariffs, our government at the
Speaker 11: time specifically said that chips and semiconductors, which are critical
Speaker 11: components of our national security, we're going to be dealt
Speaker 11: with to a separate commerce authority known as the two
Speaker 11: to thirty two. That was always the plan because those
Speaker 11: components are so essential to our national security, we need
Speaker 11: to have a separate process for dealing with how to
Speaker 11: reshore those essential industries.
Speaker 2: When the tariff rate.
Speaker 11: Went up to the full rate of one twenty five
Speaker 11: on top of the twenty it was necessary to publish
Speaker 11: a more detailed list from Customs and Border Protection explaining
Speaker 11: the rates and how they're applied.
Speaker 2: There are no exemptions.
Speaker 11: Everyone paid at least the twenty percent, and these particular
Speaker 11: components have been put through a separate process controlled by
Speaker 11: the Department of Commerce, which is the two thirty two.
Speaker 11: So this is a sophisticated, elegant, detailed plan to deal
Speaker 11: with Chinese economic aggression against the United States.
Speaker 2: So it was always part of the plan. According to
Speaker 2: Stephen Miller and the left wood have you believe that
Speaker 2: Trump is just wildly out of control, doesn't know what
Speaker 2: he's doing, is reacting to the day to day reaction
Speaker 2: from the stock market and from the media and from
Speaker 2: those who want to sit around and complain about this
Speaker 2: when nothing could be apparently further from the truth. So
Speaker 2: all I'm doing is and look, I didn't realize this
Speaker 2: was part of the plan either. But I haven't criticized
Speaker 2: the tariffs. I haven't criticized the bigger plan for all
Speaker 2: of this because I still feel that in along, based
Speaker 2: on everything I've read and the individuals I've talked to,
Speaker 2: that this is going to wind up being a good thing.
Speaker 2: But these parts of the plan were always there, and
Speaker 2: Steven Miller laid it out I think quite nicely. Let's
Speaker 2: go to the phones and uh, this is Mississippi James
Speaker 2: and Mississippi James. You're on fifty five KRC. How you
Speaker 2: doing today?
Speaker 10: Doing pretty good? I want to thank you for setting
Speaker 10: in for Brian this morning.
Speaker 2: My pleasure, all right, And I want to do my.
Speaker 10: New prolog I come in peace, love everybody, and there's
Speaker 10: nothing you can do about it. It's my new prolog.
Speaker 10: Now I'll get to my point. But first I was
Speaker 10: listening to you talking about.
Speaker 2: Sound about selling my buddy Stephan prior, but go ahead, Hey,
Speaker 2: that's part of it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we budd it too. But uh, you know you
Speaker 10: kept saying, when did it become okay to kill people's on.
Speaker 3: A view that you don't like?
Speaker 10: And as I listened to you, I kept warning you,
Speaker 10: hear you say, when did we get back to that?
Speaker 10: We've been here before killing people about things they didn't say,
Speaker 10: depending on the swan, we got away from that, and
Speaker 10: for whatever reason, we were back to that killing and
Speaker 10: swinging back to that now. I hope it don't go
Speaker 10: too far.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I was taught you probably you're probably referring
Speaker 2: to when I was asking Chris Chris Smithman that question,
Speaker 2: because this was just a new poll that came out
Speaker 2: after the assassination of President Trump, and you know, you've
Speaker 2: got all these people on and they were talking about
Speaker 2: people on the left. I believe the number was thirty
Speaker 2: I don't have it up in front of me right
Speaker 2: the second, but it was like thirty eight to fifty
Speaker 2: five percent. We're able to at least excuse the idea
Speaker 2: or the notion that it would be okay to assassinate
Speaker 2: Trump or or Musk And even if they said they
Speaker 2: wanted to assassinate Biden and Kamala Harris, I would say,
Speaker 2: I would say the same thing, that that sort of attitude,
Speaker 2: that sort of thinking needs to be totally unacceptable. And
Speaker 2: I just don't know how we can be in a
Speaker 2: position in this country in the year what year is
Speaker 2: this twenty twenty five that we think that any sort
Speaker 2: of activity like that is acceptable in any sort of way.
Speaker 2: And then as a country, Mississippi James, I think we all,
Speaker 2: no matter what our political leanings are, need to if
Speaker 2: we can't come together on this issue, what can we
Speaker 2: possibly come together on If we can't say in one
Speaker 2: voice that this sort of thing should not be happening,
Speaker 2: this sort of attitude should not be out there. If
Speaker 2: we can't say that in one voice, what can we say?
Speaker 10: I agree with you one hundred percent, brother, but against
Speaker 10: The word back kept popping into my head. When did
Speaker 10: we get back to this Because we've been here before,
Speaker 10: we got away from it, thought we were going forward,
Speaker 10: ending the swung, We back to it, So hey, let's
Speaker 10: flush it out before it get going. We don't need it.
Speaker 10: You know, Let's come together as a nation of the
Speaker 10: world or whatever. We can come together, all right, My
Speaker 10: next point then I move on.
Speaker 2: Okay, have you heard have you heard.
Speaker 10: Anything about the research that Eon Musk supposed to be
Speaker 10: doing looking at the ancient Bible and indigenous peoples. That
Speaker 10: was the part of it, and it could be fake news,
Speaker 10: but they say through computer generated AI he's supposed to
Speaker 10: be doing the research looking at the ancestrals from biblical
Speaker 10: time that ancient indigenal people's doing that time.
Speaker 2: Well, if Elon Musk is doing something like that, it
Speaker 2: seems to me like he's got an awful lot on
Speaker 2: his plate right now. I don't know how time he
Speaker 2: could how much you know, how you have time to
Speaker 2: dedicate himself to that seems like it would be a
Speaker 2: made you're undertaking. I don't know how he's got time
Speaker 2: to deal with that. I have not read that particular
Speaker 2: story or seen any headlines along that, you know, that
Speaker 2: sort of thing. But uh, you know, if that's something
Speaker 2: he wants to pursue him, then then God bless him.
Speaker 2: But I have not. I have not heard or read
Speaker 2: about that particular issue.
Speaker 10: Right I don't know whether I was in the dark
Speaker 10: corner corner one of those Internet that's something front and center.
Speaker 2: So that's reading.
Speaker 10: I'm just putting it out there to see, you know,
Speaker 10: is it common knowledge? Is it common is it happening
Speaker 10: or whatever? But we'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the dog which you revealed in the light. Would
Speaker 2: you agree with me that Elon Musk has quite a
Speaker 2: few items on his plate right now and maybe he
Speaker 2: doesn't need to be biting off that one.
Speaker 10: Hey, I don't know whether what he needed to be
Speaker 10: biting off. I'm not you know, some stuff that he
Speaker 10: got you to go. I didn't think he's some stuff.
Speaker 10: I didn't think he should have would have changed either
Speaker 10: cut it would have changed. So I don't think he
Speaker 10: should have done it.
Speaker 2: So all right, day we're on the same page.
Speaker 10: We just have a good day.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the phone call this morning, James, thank you
Speaker 2: very much. And with that we got to get to
Speaker 2: a break. On fifty five KRCV Talks Days fifty five
Speaker 2: the talk station Spring is here eight twenty two on
Speaker 2: this Monday morning, Ken Carroll sitting in for Brian Thomas.
Speaker 2: I get to be here at least through Thursday this week,
Speaker 2: so I am looking forward to that Sarah McBride is
Speaker 2: a Democrat from Delaware in the House. This is the
Speaker 2: guy who likes to dress in women's clothing. And I
Speaker 2: guess is I guess it is transgender? I suppose. But
Speaker 2: for some reason, Sarah McBride has been the spokesperson or
Speaker 2: is the current spokesperson for the Democrat Party when it
Speaker 2: comes to bashing Trump about immigration and his deportation policies
Speaker 2: and all the rest. And Sarah McBride made a video
Speaker 2: about this and this is what it's and it sounds
Speaker 2: like And Sean McMahon, let's hear that cut that is
Speaker 2: cut number I want to say, it's cut number six.
Speaker 6: Don't let people tell you we have to choose between
Speaker 6: securing our borders and upholding the rule of law. Don't
Speaker 6: let anyone tell you the way we keep people safe
Speaker 6: is by dismantling.
Speaker 2: All right, stop right there, securing the She is saying
Speaker 2: that we have to choose between securing our borders and
Speaker 2: upholding the rule of law. That that that is a
Speaker 2: false that's a false comparison. That's completely completely false and phony.
Speaker 2: The rule of law allows us to secure our borders.
Speaker 2: There's no choice to be made.
Speaker 8: There.
Speaker 2: It is all part and parcel of the same thing.
Speaker 2: It is the Biden administration and largely Democrats, and I
Speaker 2: guess to some extent Republicans that came before, but even
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama talked about securing the border. No,
Speaker 2: the the whole notion that you know, open borders are
Speaker 2: the rule rather than than the exception, is what they're
Speaker 2: trying to peddle here. And nothing could be further from
Speaker 2: the truth. Okay, go on.
Speaker 6: Is by dismantling due process. The Trump administration's tactic right
Speaker 6: now is to overwhelm us with infra.
Speaker 2: Getting it again, here we go at this narrative about
Speaker 2: to do process. Yeah, I read the piece from the
Speaker 2: Secretary of State Marco Rubio a little while ago. Being
Speaker 2: in this country, even if you have a visa, is
Speaker 2: a privilege, It is not a right. And when you
Speaker 2: come into this country under a student visa, work visa,
Speaker 2: whatever the case may be, then you are obliged to
Speaker 2: live up to our rules and to the things that
Speaker 2: maintain law and order. You cannot come in and espouse,
Speaker 2: you know, being a terrorist or engaging terrorist activities or
Speaker 2: activities that threaten and intimidate and endanger others. You can't
Speaker 2: do it, and if you do, then the United States
Speaker 2: has the right under the rule of law. There, Sarah McBride,
Speaker 2: to revoke that particular visa. Go ahead.
Speaker 6: Forrewellnus with information with the sole purpose of distracting, demeaning,
Speaker 6: and dividing us. This administration is invoking a two hundred
Speaker 6: and twenty seven year old law to speed up mass duplications.
Speaker 2: Stop right there, stripping people. What does it matter how
Speaker 2: old the law is. The law is on the books,
Speaker 2: it is still a law. And judges and there's already
Speaker 2: been rulings on this that Trump is perfectly within his
Speaker 2: rights to exercise that law. Just because you don't want
Speaker 2: to live up to it, just because it doesn't suit
Speaker 2: your particular sensibilities, doesn't mean that so that it cannot
Speaker 2: be brought into play and brought into use.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, stripping people of due process. This law, known
Speaker 6: as the Alien Enemies Act, was created in seventeen ninety
Speaker 6: eight with the purpus of expanding the president's power to
Speaker 6: deport non citizens from the United States.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with that?
Speaker 6: Times of war? During times of war and.
Speaker 2: Stop right there. The President has declared these groups ms thirteen.
Speaker 2: These other groups trend a arguais terrorist groups and when
Speaker 2: these terrorists infiltrate our country, that is an act of war.
Speaker 2: A twenty six. We got to get to a break.
Speaker 2: Andrew Praptis, go and join us at the bottom of
Speaker 2: the hour. Fifty five krcd talk Station fifty five KRC
Speaker 2: dot Com fifty five KRC talk Station eight thirty one
Speaker 2: on this Monday morning, Dan Carroll and for Brian Thomas
Speaker 2: Glenn Beck coming up the top of the hour. But
Speaker 2: right now we are joined by everyone's buddy Andrew Pappis.
Speaker 2: And Andrew Pappas, Welcome again to fifty five KRC. Thanks
Speaker 2: for getting up so early in the morning. I know,
Speaker 2: I know that's a that's a stretch.
Speaker 15: For you, you know, Dan, You know, Dan, I'm amazed
Speaker 15: that you're up and at him this morning giving your
Speaker 15: herculean effort yesterday.
Speaker 2: You've got to be texted physically.
Speaker 15: You usually don't get that much physical exercise in a
Speaker 15: day with your masters Win.
Speaker 2: Well, I did what I could. You know, a little
Speaker 2: neighborhood competition is always a good thing.
Speaker 3: And are you sore?
Speaker 2: How's the rotator CAF this morning? Sure, I'll be all right.
Speaker 2: You know, a good stretching routine is always it is
Speaker 2: always an important thing to it here to and I
Speaker 2: did my You are you are the When I think
Speaker 2: of you, I think of Limber.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: I did my stretching routine before the event yesterday, and
Speaker 2: it paid off quite handsomely.
Speaker 15: Yes, I can see you doing yoga just about every morning.
Speaker 2: I didn't say yoga, but you know, a little, a
Speaker 2: little stretching goes a long way. But you're personally blueberry
Speaker 2: yogurt is my favorite.
Speaker 10: But go ahead.
Speaker 2: You recently went on another another Honor flight, and not
Speaker 2: only not only that, but you are now working with
Speaker 2: the Honor Flight people, which I know is a big
Speaker 2: deal for you. Tell us about that, and tell us
Speaker 2: about this latest trip. Which was it mostly Vietnam veterans
Speaker 2: or or Korean veterans or a mix.
Speaker 15: It was a little bit of a mix, but it
Speaker 15: was it seemed to be mostly Vietnam veterans. Okay, all right,
Speaker 15: you know we when we get to the Korea. First
Speaker 15: of all, I'd like to just tip my hat to
Speaker 15: all the volunteers, and there are many many, too many
Speaker 15: didn't mention. I was introduced to Honor Flight years and
Speaker 15: years ago by Chryln Tom Popo who have been running
Speaker 15: it for for literally decades and have put their heart
Speaker 15: and souls into Honor Flight, and I appreciate them. And
Speaker 15: and as as you know, I think everyone is so
Speaker 15: said what Honor Flight does. And recently their board expanded
Speaker 15: and I was just just by the grace of God,
Speaker 15: they asked me to be on the Honor Flight board
Speaker 15: and I accepted, And we've joined some very good people
Speaker 15: and have some large shoes to fill. But you know,
Speaker 15: we are just our flight on last Tuesday, a week
Speaker 15: ago tomorrow was.
Speaker 2: Was the first flight of the year.
Speaker 15: And we have another one coming up here in believe
Speaker 15: it's in May, and.
Speaker 2: You know, we we just try to serve the veterans.
Speaker 2: And you know, I can't thank enough.
Speaker 15: If you saw the video, I think we head close
Speaker 15: to two thousand people welcoming the veterans.
Speaker 2: How about that? That is fantastic. That is outstanding there.
Speaker 15: And given that it's mostly now it seems to be
Speaker 15: transitioning mostly to Vietnam, that is actually the most amazing
Speaker 15: part of it, because as you and I both know,
Speaker 15: the Vietnam veterans were were not and let's be fair.
Speaker 2: Honor flight is open to any veteran.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be a combat you don't have
Speaker 2: to serve in theater honor flight.
Speaker 15: If you serve the country and you sign up you
Speaker 15: were able to go on honor flight, you are to
Speaker 15: be honored as well. And but the Vietnam veterans especially
Speaker 15: were not treated well by this country back in the
Speaker 15: day when they came home, and you know that the
Speaker 15: tears flowed and the the the emotions were real, and
Speaker 15: it was just an amazing experience.
Speaker 2: They're they're posting, i believe on the on the website.
Speaker 2: They've posted video already.
Speaker 15: And the welcome home ceremony, you know, during the honor
Speaker 15: flight is an amazing experience. But the Vietnam Memorial, if
Speaker 15: you've been there, is really the one that touches most
Speaker 15: of the veterans very very emotionally because they can point
Speaker 15: and touch the name of someone they served with, an
Speaker 15: that didn't make it home, and it's very it's a
Speaker 15: very raw and emotional day at the Vietnam Memorial, and
Speaker 15: you know, we try to you try to give the
Speaker 15: veteran obviously their space because it's a private moment and
Speaker 15: we want them to enjoy their private moment and and
Speaker 15: and you know, just cherish it. And for some of
Speaker 15: them it's the first time going to the Vietnam Memorial.
Speaker 15: For some not but the fact that we have so
Speaker 15: many veterans and great guardians that make sure the veterans
Speaker 15: are assisted. Some need you know, help walking, some are
Speaker 15: in wheelchairs. We just really try to try to make
Speaker 15: it all about the veteran. And I think that that
Speaker 15: that shows through with Honor Flight Try State being one
Speaker 15: of the I hear time and time again from different ones.
Speaker 15: We do see other honor flights, but Honor Flight Try
Speaker 15: State is simply head and shoulders one of the best
Speaker 15: run honor flights in the nation.
Speaker 2: I feel, yeah, I have another question for you about
Speaker 2: the Vietnam Memorial. We got to get to a quick
Speaker 2: break right now, but Andrews stay right there and we
Speaker 2: will continue on with you on the other side of
Speaker 2: this little traffic and weather quick break. And we'll continue
Speaker 2: on with Andrew Pappis on fifty five KRC the talk station.
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Speaker 2: Hey neighbor, fifty five KRC eight thirty nine and Carroll
Speaker 2: and for Brian Thomas, continuing our conversation with Andrew Pappis,
Speaker 2: who was on an honor flight last week and is
Speaker 2: now on the board of Honor Flight. And Andrew, you know,
Speaker 2: you and I criticize Washington the swamp and for good reason.
Speaker 2: But I think despite all that criticism, the one thing
Speaker 2: that Washington does quite well our monuments and memorials and
Speaker 2: things of that nature. And you know, when you go
Speaker 2: on the honor flight, you see those sorts of things.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad you talked about the Vietnam Memorial because
Speaker 2: I think all those memorials and those places are great
Speaker 2: in d C. But for some reason, I think the
Speaker 2: the Vietnam Memorial just has a different sort of impact
Speaker 2: than than the other ones that that you encounter on
Speaker 2: that trip.
Speaker 15: Now, there's no question the Vietnam Memorial just pretty much
Speaker 15: it just grasps and and and and and and signifies
Speaker 15: what the country, you know, how how the Vietnam War
Speaker 15: kind of affected the country. That the monument was designed
Speaker 15: to appear as a scar upon the land. It slowly rises,
Speaker 15: you know, it's not it's not something that's large and
Speaker 15: grandiose and celebratory, the way that World War II Memorial
Speaker 15: is which.
Speaker 2: Is a great memorial.
Speaker 15: And I also Korea has been expanded. They have now
Speaker 15: had Korea has the memorial in Korea War has been expanded.
Speaker 15: It's a very reflective. Uh, it's a very reflective memorial
Speaker 15: as well, with the with the platoon of military statues
Speaker 15: coming up to the Korean memorials.
Speaker 2: Whose are really breadtaking, they really are.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 15: The Vietnam Memorial though, with it with the trio of
Speaker 15: soldiers that that was added after that come over peer
Speaker 15: to come over the hill and and and then gaze
Speaker 15: at the Vietnam Memorial and then with the names. You know,
Speaker 15: the Vietnam Memorial is really about the names because that's
Speaker 15: what it is, and the and the the the the
Speaker 15: way the Vietnam Memorial has you can get very great
Speaker 15: reflective pictures in the Vietnam Memorial.
Speaker 2: So it's wonderful.
Speaker 15: It's a great memorial and it's just it's it's it's
Speaker 15: just a very appropriate for the what it represents and
Speaker 15: what it's honoring.
Speaker 2: So if people want to find out about an upcoming
Speaker 2: honor flight, where do they go to do that honor flight?
Speaker 15: Tri State dot org and you can you can register
Speaker 15: there as either a guardian if you want to be
Speaker 15: a guardian, or you can register there as a veteran
Speaker 15: as well. So if you want to go on, or
Speaker 15: you have someone that wants to go on the honor flight,
Speaker 15: just go there and register. And you do have to register,
Speaker 15: and every year you do have to. If you say,
Speaker 15: well I filled it out last year, please sign up again,
Speaker 15: because you know, sometimes we the database needs to be updated.
Speaker 2: And I just think it's a it's a great thing
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 15: And I don't think that you're too, you know, I
Speaker 15: don't want anyone to downplay their service. I mean, Dan Carroll,
Speaker 15: I know that you served. I would one day like
Speaker 15: to push you, maybe in a wheelchair through the memorial, so.
Speaker 2: That comes up, so I volunteer to do that. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't need a wheelchair yet. Let's let's not rush
Speaker 2: to get to that point.
Speaker 15: All right, You got it, and you may but I'm
Speaker 15: always there.
Speaker 2: You may be there, you may be there before me,
Speaker 2: so well doubt it. So we'll see what happens. But
Speaker 2: I don't know if you did. Did did you hear
Speaker 2: the comments of Sarah McBride that I was playing before
Speaker 2: before you came on for your interview?
Speaker 10: I did not.
Speaker 2: I was it did not, okay, But but you know,
Speaker 2: Sarah McBride in the left, are our try to spend
Speaker 2: this narrative now that the Trump administration is out of control,
Speaker 2: that they don't want to follow the rule of law,
Speaker 2: that individuals who are being deported or somehow denied due process,
Speaker 2: and that this is something that's going to lead to
Speaker 2: the division and the downfall of our country if this
Speaker 2: is allowed to continue. And then you have Elizabeth Warren
Speaker 2: who is calling for the powers of the presidency. She's
Speaker 2: calling on Congress to strip away the powers of the
Speaker 2: presidency and for Donald Trump to be able to continue
Speaker 2: on and doing what he's doing. Have these people lost
Speaker 2: their minds? I mean, they've lost the narrative when it
Speaker 2: comes to having any ideas or really any effective policies.
Speaker 2: But now it seems like saying that they're grasping for
Speaker 2: straws seems like a little bit of an understate.
Speaker 15: Well, Dan, I did hear earlier when you were talking
Speaker 15: about the fact that now a plurality of Democrats think
Speaker 15: that somehow assassination is justified, or violence againstservatives and or
Speaker 15: the president.
Speaker 2: And Musk is justified. But we've crossed the line.
Speaker 15: And there's no question that violence is accepted by the
Speaker 15: Democrat Party. And until I see a plurality of Democrat
Speaker 15: leaders denouncing this call to violence, it's not going to stop.
Speaker 15: And the mainstream media, as you well document, it is
Speaker 15: complicit because they continue to refer to Donald Trump and
Speaker 15: musk As using terms as Hitler and Nazi. It's just
Speaker 15: disgusting and I think it needs to stop and stop today,
Speaker 15: if not yesterday.
Speaker 2: You know, I was talking to Chris Smitheman a little
Speaker 2: while ago, and the question I put to him was
Speaker 2: Trump has been in office for less than three months,
Speaker 2: less than three months. And again, the one of the
Speaker 2: multiple narratives that is trying to be spun right now
Speaker 2: is that somehow we should be seeing results. We should
Speaker 2: you know, we shouldn't have to be going through this
Speaker 2: period of what may be some tough economic times, some
Speaker 2: people being suffering or you know, being made to suffer
Speaker 2: because of the you know, higher rices that might be
Speaker 2: experienced which have not happened yet to my knowledge, but
Speaker 2: you know, we keep hearing that these things are coming.
Speaker 2: But you know, the notion that you can turn all
Speaker 2: this around, get it going the other way and already
Speaker 2: have tangible results in less than three months time. Is
Speaker 2: completely ridiculous. But yet they continue to harp on this
Speaker 2: narrative that somehow these policies of the Trump administration are
Speaker 2: ineffective because we haven't seen the bottom line results on
Speaker 2: these things.
Speaker 8: Yet.
Speaker 15: I can't agree with you more, Dan. You know, it's
Speaker 15: it's it's it's simply, you know, the timeline that they
Speaker 15: have set for themselves to have results is just ridiculous,
Speaker 15: and they don't, you know, they didn't hold their guy
Speaker 15: to that, and they're holding Donald Trump. I'd like to say,
Speaker 15: I think the timeline on the on the border has
Speaker 15: clearly worked. I mean, we see that the border UH
Speaker 15: apprehensions down significantly, and you know, we really just need
Speaker 15: to ignore the Democrat narrative and the Democrats what they're
Speaker 15: doing and what they're saying, and just focus on supporting
Speaker 15: Donald Trump and maybe giving him a little time and
Speaker 15: leeway to get his policies in place.
Speaker 2: And I think we'll we'll bear the results.
Speaker 15: And I did hear Christopher Smitherman, and I agree with
Speaker 15: him wholeheartedly.
Speaker 2: And before I let you go, I want to get
Speaker 2: your thoughts on this, Kamala Harris is in the in
Speaker 2: the process of making her political comeback, and one of the.
Speaker 15: Things, well, I'll wait, I'll wait to see that one.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 2: One of the things she wants to do is open
Speaker 2: a Kamala Harris Center for Policy and Ideas, Kamala Harris Center.
Speaker 2: That Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris Center for Policy and Ideas,
Speaker 2: Andrew Poppins, they should.
Speaker 15: I think they should probably find the nearest I think
Speaker 15: they just find the nearest roundabout and just name it
Speaker 15: Kamala Harris Roundabout, because you never really get anywhere, you
Speaker 15: just keep talking in circles, So that might.
Speaker 2: Well, k I mean, can you name one policy or
Speaker 2: idea that she was able to articulate during this most
Speaker 2: recent campaign cycle.
Speaker 15: I can't think of anything she was able to articulate,
Speaker 15: much less a campaign policy or any policy, because she's
Speaker 15: just incapable of cotent thought and putting a sentence together
Speaker 15: without just simply confusing everybody.
Speaker 2: All right with that, Andrew, we will let you go.
Speaker 2: I always appreciate the time.
Speaker 3: Brother Carol.
Speaker 15: Always a pleasure, sir, and you're doing your great job.
Speaker 15: I can't wait for your own show full.
Speaker 2: Time here, Dan Well we'll see what happens with that.
Speaker 2: But Andrew, you're the best and we'll see you soon.
Speaker 2: Take care. All right, there you go, The one and
Speaker 2: only Andrew Pappis eighty eight on fifty five KRC. He
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Speaker 2: of Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas coming to a close.
Speaker 2: I want to thank Chris Smitherman for being here in
Speaker 2: the smither event, and followed up by Andrew Pappas good
Speaker 2: conversations there, and Sean McMahon, thank you for being sewanmc
Speaker 2: man you're here tomorrow, me and you. Shaun mc mannon's
Speaker 2: you're all week, So there you go, and I appreciate
Speaker 2: him being here. And thank god Joe Strecker's taking a
Speaker 2: little time off, well deserved. There What else do we have?
Speaker 2: I don't know how I missed this, but the Prime
Speaker 2: Minister of Canada has said that Canada is going to
Speaker 2: enter into bilateral negotiations with the United States, and that
Speaker 2: really leaves pretty much China as the only foreign government
Speaker 2: resisting bilateral trade talks with the United States. Canadian Prime
Speaker 2: minister announced Friday his country would enter into the talks.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump moved to impose reciprocal tariffs on nations that
Speaker 2: have not retaliated against the United States a ten percent
Speaker 2: to allow for time for a negotiation. And we learned
Speaker 2: today that that number is up to one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty countries, including Canada. And I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: So the whole idea of getting all these countries aligned,
Speaker 2: all these countries negotiating with the United States, and then
Speaker 2: over here you've got China, I think that's going to
Speaker 2: be an effective policy. So we'll see what happens with that.
Speaker 2: We'll see what kind of news comes. I think Trump
Speaker 2: is going to hold another press availability today, so we
Speaker 2: will see what comes of that. And I was asking
Speaker 2: Andrew Pappus about this whole notion that Kamala Harris is
Speaker 2: going to run for president again. Steven Sean McMahon, can
Speaker 2: you imagine for one minute what it would be like
Speaker 2: to have Steven A. Smith as President of the United States?
Speaker 2: Not hardly would that be fantastic, But people are asking
Speaker 2: him about it. I mean, this guy, look, he just
Speaker 2: signed a huge I don't think he can take the
Speaker 2: pay cut he just signed. I want to say it
Speaker 2: was like one hundred million dollar deal with ESPN. I
Speaker 2: mean big money. Big. I mean, the guy is getting paid.
Speaker 2: But Steven A. Smith, he's I think I enjoy him.
Speaker 2: I enjoy his style, I enjoy his rhetoric. I think
Speaker 2: he is quite well informed on most of the major issues.
Speaker 2: He can he can cover just about any subject under
Speaker 2: the sun, whether it's sports or celebrity or politics. Now
Speaker 2: and look, he's tired of what he is seeing out
Speaker 2: there as it relates to the Democrat Party. And I
Speaker 2: don't know if he would run as a Democrat, but
Speaker 2: he's saying he might have to, you know, might not
Speaker 2: have any choice but to put himself out there. And
Speaker 2: I say, Steven A. Smith, if you want to do it,
Speaker 2: the entertainment value would be spectacular. So I would have
Speaker 2: no opposition and no problem with that at all. But
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. That's it for me today. Glenn
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