WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:10.560 All right, here we go fifty five k r C 2 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:13.800 the talk station. It is Dan carroll in for Brian Thomas. 3 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:17.839 I believe Brian Thomas taking the whole week off. I 4 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:21.600 mean it is the week of Christmas, so Merry Christmas everyone. 5 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:24.719 It's Dan carroll in for Brian Thomas. Glad to be here. 6 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:28.600 I'll be here today and tomorrow, and then I believe 7 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.479 maybe a little Kevin Gordon, maybe a little Gary Jeff Walker. 8 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:37.200 We'll see what happens. But man, it's a brisk start 9 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:40.960 to this morning. Nice twenty four degrees out there. Your 10 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:42.560 car is going to have a lay or frost on 11 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:45.280 it when you head outside, so don't be I want 12 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:47.679 to This is one of those days you wonder how 13 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:51.880 many people are going to work, right, It's a couple 14 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:55.600 of days before Christmas. People love to take off. I 15 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:57.240 know a lot of people are here around the station 16 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:00.000 are taking off. You want you want to see a play? 17 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.399 It used to looks like a go town or ghost town. 18 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:05.879 Come up here to the seven hundred studio, in the 19 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:10.319 fifty five KRC studio and the iHeart property up here. 20 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:13.200 Sean mcmanu'll agree with me on that one. To you 21 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:17.799 even Joe Strecker is taking some time off, and Sean 22 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:20.840 McMahon is running things in the fifty five krs control room. 23 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:24.920 So glad to have him here and a lot to 24 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:27.159 get to today. Sharon Coolidge is going to be here 25 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:31.040 in the eight o'clock hour. I've got her set for 26 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:33.439 eight thirty and we will hear from Sharon Coolidge. She 27 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:39.239 is reflecting on ten years of covering city Hall, and 28 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:42.719 I was reading the piece that was published that she 29 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:46.920 published a few days ago talking about when she started 30 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:51.920 covering city Hall and talking about some of the some 31 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:56.519 of the stories that she recalls, and looking back on this, 32 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:00.599 there's some stories in here that I forget got about. 33 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:04.599 It's amazing how much water has gone under the bridge 34 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:08.599 in the past ten years. But one of the ones 35 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:12.879 she talks about first is the guy we were affectionately 36 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:18.360 referred to as a PG Flippenfeld. And you know, the man, 37 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:23.039 the young man who would have been mayor blinded by 38 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.000 his own ambition. If that's not her saying that, that's 39 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:33.120 me saying that this guy was on a rocket. Even 40 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:37.360 though I never the times I interviewed him, I never 41 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:42.159 agreed with his politics. I always thought much like our 42 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:47.840 current mayor. There's one person that PG Flippenfeld was looking 43 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:51.800 out for above all others, and that was PG flipping Feld. 44 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:56.599 And I believe our our current mayor is in the 45 00:02:56.639 --> 00:03:02.680 same vein because he's got he's got his sight set 46 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:06.080 on bigger, bigger things than being the mayor of Cincinnati. 47 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:09.240 And I think you can make that place. I mean, 48 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:10.680 you look at the way this guy is playing his 49 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:16.000 cards right now. I think he is definitely looking at that. 50 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:24.919 But she talks about PG sitting Feld talking about when 51 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:31.039 Harry black fired Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell talking about the 52 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:36.719 street car. The streetcar. That's one of the overlapping stories 53 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:42.919 that I mean, and that story had been around, I 54 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:46.240 guess even just talking about it had been around for 55 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:52.759 so long, but even that in the past ten years, 56 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:54.719 it's amazing. I go back and I think about those 57 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:58.520 days about talking about the streetcar, and it seemed like 58 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:03.800 almost every show back then was they had some relationship 59 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:07.080 to the streetcar. And I remember some of the other 60 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:10.360 hosts on this station and some of the other stations 61 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:13.400 just just would talk about how worn out they were 62 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:18.639 talking about the streetcar and when and it's amazing we 63 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:22.040 still haven't stopped talking about it, and there are still 64 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:27.800 those who want to see the expansion of the street car. 65 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:30.639 So when Chris Smitheman is going to be here at 66 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:34.680 seven twenty this morning, and we will kick these and 67 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:36.519 maybybe if I'll throw some of these up to Chris 68 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:42.519 Smithman and see how he likes to reminisce on some 69 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:46.000 of these. Let me see she talks about John John 70 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:52.279 Cranley and Harry Black, the Gang of Five? How about that? 71 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:58.120 And maybe maybe and maybe this is the time and 72 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:00.720 maybe I'll get Chris Smithman's take on it. But I 73 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:07.160 still have not forgiven Greg Landsman for his participation in 74 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:11.040 the Gang of Five. Maybe I'm behind the curve on that. 75 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:16.720 Maybe it's time to let that go. But to me, 76 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:20.920 that whole thing was just so despicable, what these members 77 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:23.519 of council did and the way they did it, and 78 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:29.079 then the way they acted after they got caught, and 79 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:34.600 the money that it cost the city that they never 80 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:38.759 paid back. Now they'll claim they paid back some of it, 81 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:42.079 or I guess what they considered their share of it 82 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:50.639 to be. But no, the Gang of five? What else? 83 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:56.199 What else? What else? The shooting downtown, the selling of 84 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:02.399 the city's railroad, Cincinnati gets a soccer team, so a 85 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:05.439 lot of stuff there, a lot of stuff there from 86 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:09.759 Sharon Coolidge, and we'll reminisce and and and there was 87 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:13.639 a time when my job was to cover city Hall. 88 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:18.360 So I've got my own memories of I mean, probably 89 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:23.560 not as well done as Sharon Coolidge's memories, my own 90 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:29.240 memories of spending a lot of time in city Hall. Man, 91 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.800 it's gonna be We're gonna we're gonna stroll down memory Lane. 92 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:34.439 That'll be at eight thirty this morning, So if you're around, 93 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:36.680 we hope you can stick around for that. In the meantime, 94 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:42.399 I've sent my my list of Christmas music to Sean 95 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.120 McMahon and we'll be bumping in and out of the 96 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:49.800 program with some of my favorite Christmas cuts today. If 97 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:51.759 you want to tell me some of yours, I would 98 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:54.920 love to hear that. But the the amazing thing about 99 00:06:54.959 --> 00:07:01.439 being on the radio right now today this year, twenty 100 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:06.439 twenty four, December twenty third, twenty twenty four, is that 101 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:12.240 normally this time of year is just an absolute desert 102 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:17.319 when it comes to news. On this day, nothing could 103 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:19.920 be further from the truth. And there is so many 104 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:21.879 things to talk about, and we will get to those 105 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:27.399 things on the other side of this as we look 106 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.120 ahead to Christmas just a couple of days away. Sean McMahon, 107 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:33.040 Can you believe Christmas is only two days away? Hardly, 108 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.000 you can't believe it. But it is right there, right 109 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:40.160 literally right around the corner. So five, one, three, seven, four, nine, 110 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:42.279 fifty five hundred. Those are the phone numbers to call 111 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:44.680 if you feel so inclined. But we got to get 112 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:47.360 to No, No, I'm looking at the clock wrong. I 113 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:51.040 still got like four minutes here. I was thinking we 114 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:52.480 were going to hit our first break and then come 115 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:53.959 back and talk about weather. But we still got a 116 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:59.480 few minutes. But no, the amount of news that has 117 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:03.519 come out, A lot of the news has been different 118 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:07.040 reports that came out. I sat in for Brian Thomas 119 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:10.399 a couple of mondays ago and brad Winstrop was here 120 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:20.000 and he was talking about he was talking about the 121 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.839 the report that his committee did about the what I 122 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:30.000 call the Wuhan virus, and it was absolutely amazing. And 123 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.840 I remember the one thing he said, he said, this 124 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:37.320 is the public report. There's also a classified version of 125 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:40.960 this report. And I had someone ask me, why is 126 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:45.080 there a classified version of this? And because when you 127 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:46.919 look at what was going on with the gain of 128 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:52.200 function research and what they were doing at the Wuhan lab, 129 00:08:54.039 --> 00:09:01.720 this whole thing gets into bioweapons, bioweapons research, and for 130 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.080 good reason. I think a lot of that is classified. 131 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:11.320 And the way the report reads and the way it's 132 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:13.480 laid out, you look at and they, I mean, they 133 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:17.639 really did a thorough job examining every aspect of what 134 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:22.279 happened as it relates to the Wuhan virus. When you 135 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:25.200 talk about the gain of function, when you talk about 136 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:27.600 the labs, when you talk about the funding, when you 137 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:34.360 talk about what the government response was Sean McMahon, who 138 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:37.799 do you think the biggest purveyor of misinformation during the 139 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:42.360 whole Luhan episode the episode was the federal government. See 140 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:44.360 I think he's listened to me talk about this before 141 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:54.240 a few times. But it is absolutely amazing. But yeah, 142 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:56.960 that's why there's a classified version of that, because, I mean, 143 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:02.240 this gets into some serious stuff and I would suggest 144 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:05.679 that some of these things are classified for a good reason. 145 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:10.720 Maybe someday we will pull the curtain back on that 146 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:14.440 part of it, but just reading the unclassified stuff. 147 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:15.720 Is. 148 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:21.440 It's a little bit of a lift slogging through that report, 149 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:24.840 but well worth the effort if you're interested in what 150 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:28.960 we like to call the scam demic. The scam not 151 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.799 the pandemic, the scam demic, a term that I'm not 152 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:36.440 so sure wasn't coined by our buddy Gary Jeff Walker, 153 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:40.639 because I know he loves to say that. The US 154 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:43.080 Central Command says, we shot down one of our own 155 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:45.960 fighter jets over the Red Sea, over the way. I 156 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:50.600 remember getting on the computer yesterday preparing for my show 157 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:59.000 prep and looking at that and thinking to myself, wow, 158 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:06.120 we shot down one of our own jets. And I'm 159 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:08.960 looking I'm reading the story about this, and I'm thinking, 160 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.440 I'm saying to myself, this is where I'm at right now. 161 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.360 I'm saying to myself, I'm not really sure I'm believing 162 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:24.799 this narrative. I am super skepted. I'm not. I don't 163 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:27.799 want to be that way. But it can't be helped 164 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:32.159 because you just know that there's more to the story 165 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:40.440 and what is being reported is phony, blooney, and that 166 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:44.360 has the Then there's so many elements of news and 167 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:48.120 reporting and what goes on with the government that you 168 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:52.039 feel that way about so many of these things. So 169 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:54.159 we we'll get to we'll touch on all that, and 170 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:57.279 we'll check the weather and Sean, is Chuck going to 171 00:11:57.320 --> 00:11:59.200 be here today doing traffic as well. We're gonna have 172 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:01.320 a little little t have a cupdate from Chuck later on. 173 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:04.679 All right, we'll see. Yeah, there was a wreck on 174 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:09.159 seventy five overnight that shut the highway down. A couple 175 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:11.960 of Cincinnati police cars involved in a bad wreck out there. 176 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:17.840 The Cincinnati police officers are okay. Thank god, Chuck Ingram 177 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:19.720 is here. So we will have a little traffic later 178 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:22.159 on today. So all that and more is we roll 179 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:25.320 on through this December twenty third, this Monday morning, couple 180 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:28.559 of days before Christmas. Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas on 181 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:31.000 fifty five KRC The. 182 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:33.919 Talks Day, fifty five KRC. 183 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:57.000 AH the Charlie Brown Christmas Music. I know Brian Thomas 184 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:03.600 loves it. I love it. I can just sit here 185 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:04.960 for the rest of the show and let this play. 186 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:06.480 You gotta just play the whole album. I got the 187 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:09.960 whole album at home and I just put it on 188 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:16.120 the uh the CD player. Yes, Sean McMahon, I still 189 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:19.000 have a CD player. At home. I put a disc 190 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:22.720 in there and I'll just let it run all day, 191 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:29.639 all afternoon. Is fantastic. Vince Garaldi does great stuff. Give 192 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:31.360 me just a few more seconds. Let's turn it up 193 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:39.440 a little bit. So there you go. You got your 194 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:41.840 favorite Christmas music, I've got mine. Call me up and 195 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:46.240 tell me about it. Five point three. As we roll 196 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:48.720 throughout this day, A couple of days before Christmas, a 197 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:50.799 couple of this is one of that. I was a 198 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:52.600 little bit shocked when I sat down and saw this 199 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:57.399 headline yesterday. A couple of Navy pilots shot down over 200 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:01.480 the Red Sea on Sunday, apparently in a friendly fire incident. 201 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:06.840 The military set marking the most serious incident to threaten 202 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:11.879 troops in over a year of America going after Yemen's 203 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:17.960 hu to Hooti rebels, so again pulling the curtain back 204 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:21.600 on the fact that we have troops in harm's way 205 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:26.600 in the Middle East. Despite what Kamala Harris might have said, 206 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:32.720 both aviators were able to eject from their Fa eighteen 207 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:39.120 aircraft one, suffering minor injuries. They were both recovered. The 208 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:42.360 shootdown underlines just how dangerous the Red Sea Quarter has 209 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:47.320 become with ongoing attacks on shipping by Iranian back houties, 210 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:52.919 despite US and European military coalitions patrolling the area. The 211 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:57.960 military has conducted air strikes targeting Hoodi rebels. At the 212 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:02.279 time of the friendly fire, int Central Command did not 213 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:05.759 elaborate on what the pilot's mission was and did not 214 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:09.679 respond to questions from the Associated Press or any other 215 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:15.320 media outlet for that matter. F eighteen was shot down. 216 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:17.039 It had just taken off from the deck of the 217 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:22.159 USS Harry Truman. This happened on December fifteenth, and we're 218 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.759 just learning about it today. Central Command acknowledge that Truman 219 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:30.960 entered the Mid East, but hadn't specified the carrier and 220 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:35.519 its battlegroup was in the Red Sea. The guided missile cruiser, 221 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.080 the USS Gettysburg, which is part of the Harry Truman 222 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:44.000 Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired and hit the F eighteen. 223 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:48.200 The incident was not a result of hostile fire. A 224 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:51.000 full investigation is underway, and don't we all have great 225 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:55.919 confidence that this Department of Defense will be able to 226 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:00.720 conduct a thorough investigation, find out what went wrong, and 227 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:05.200 take corrective action. And by golly, if someone needs to 228 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:10.720 be held responsible, then someone will face serious consequences, don't. 229 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:14.919 We all have great confidence in that. And it pains 230 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:17.919 me to say this, especially about the United States military, 231 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:24.559 but we have such a lack of leadership starting at 232 00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:27.240 the very top. And yes, I'm talking about Joseph Robin 233 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:33.200 at Biden. Where has this guy been ever since the election? 234 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:37.159 Where has he been? And I'm going to get into 235 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:41.559 this a lot during the day today about the report 236 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:45.759 that came out from the Wall Street Journal talking about 237 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:52.879 talking about Biden and his advisors, his overseers, his the 238 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:59.519 people that are acting like the protectors of the president. 239 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:07.160 Because this guy simply cannot function. We've known it, We've 240 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:12.039 known it for a long time. We've known the White 241 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:16.200 House has been lying about it almost since day one 242 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:22.960 of this guy's administration. Kamala Harris is nowhere to be 243 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:29.200 found these days. And we'll and we'll we'll get into that. 244 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:35.160 But just getting back to the military here and the 245 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:39.599 and the Gettysburg shooting down this f eighteen, It wasn't 246 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:43.160 immediately clear how the Gettysburg could mistake in FA eighteen 247 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:48.759 for an enemy aircraft or a missile. Really, so you're 248 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:53.279 saying that we have a protocols in place you're saying 249 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:58.240 that we have procedures in place. You're saying that, under 250 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:04.759 the normal course of action, that we take steps to 251 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:07.279 make sure that these things don't happen. But yet it 252 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:11.920 did happen, and we're supposed to believe this narrative. Well, 253 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:15.759 you know, look, you got the hoodies out there. They're 254 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:19.400 shooting off all these drones, they're shooting missiles. There's so 255 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:22.200 many things flying around in the sky. We just happened 256 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:26.920 to shoot down one of our own. So on one hand, 257 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:35.880 it's encouraging to see that the USS Gettysburg has the 258 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:43.119 ability to shoot down an F eighteen. It's not the 259 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:47.039 latest generation fighter, but they the F eighteen is pretty 260 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:50.599 darn good aircraft, as I think anyone who's ever flown 261 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:55.799 a F eighteen will tell you, still one of the 262 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:59.680 baddest jets in the sky. Not top of the line anymore, 263 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:05.119 but really really good. That the guys on the Gettysburg 264 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:07.720 were able to shoot it down in and of itself, 265 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:10.519 that's a little bit of accomplishment, but it's our jet. 266 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:17.160 Don't shoot down our jet, And that's what leads me 267 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:20.759 to believe that there's more to this story. And as 268 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:23.880 I sit here, today. I don't know that in three 269 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:26.240 months or six months, or a year or five years 270 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:29.039 from now, that we will still have the straight story 271 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:32.599 about what really happened there. Maybe someone in the Trump 272 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:35.079 administration will be able to get to the bottom of it. 273 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:38.599 But if this administration follows suit with what they've been 274 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:43.440 doing the entire time they've been in office, documents will disappear, 275 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:47.559 information will go down the rabbit hole. Things will be 276 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:51.880 covered up so obscured that we may never be able 277 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:56.960 to get to the bottom up. Lloyd Austin, I'm sure 278 00:19:57.119 --> 00:20:01.640 has no I wonder if Lloyd Austin even Okay, Lloyd Austin, 279 00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:03.839 he's a Secretary of Defense. Does he know about Yeah, 280 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:06.400 he knows about it. Does he have any interest in 281 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:09.920 really telling the American people exactly what happened? I think not. 282 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:13.079 But I'm late for a break, so let's go ahead. 283 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:15.400 We'll take a break now, I'll finish up my thoughts 284 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:17.440 on this, and then we'll continue on with the show. 285 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:20.400 Dan Carrol for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRCV Talk station. 286 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:23.960 This is fifty five krc and iHeartRadio station. 287 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:42.839 I sent my list of favorite Christmas songs to Sean McMahon, 288 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:47.200 who's in for Joe's record today. I know he's rolling 289 00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:54.680 out some of my favorites. I meant to do this 290 00:20:54.759 --> 00:20:59.039 a couple of weeks ago, but I keep telling you, 291 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:01.319 and I got to. I'll tell you, Christmas knuck up 292 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:02.000 on me a little bit. 293 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:02.440 This year. 294 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:07.759 I've been sort of looking at the calendar and thinking, Okay, 295 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:09.720 I've still got a few days. Still got a few days, 296 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:12.160 Still got a few days. Now you only have two days, 297 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:16.559 and I still got some things I gotta get done. Sean, 298 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:19.079 where are you standing on all that? You're good? Got 299 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:22.279 everything sweared away? All right? He's got a you are 300 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:29.599 you already gave them out? How about that I I got? 301 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:32.759 I did get an early Christmas gift. And it is 302 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:38.759 a It is one of those glasses that has the 303 00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:43.599 bullet in it. It's called from a company is called 304 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:48.279 ben Shot, and it says Trump. It's got an etching 305 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:52.400 with Trump forty seven, and it's got the bullet that's 306 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:58.039 halfway into the glass. So very clever. A buddy of 307 00:21:58.079 --> 00:21:59.920 mine's got one that says Trump forty five on it. 308 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.640 So we're going to get together and crack open a 309 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:06.240 bottle of bourbon and enjoy some bourbon and our Trump 310 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:10.559 our Trump glasses with the with the bullets in them. 311 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:13.519 But getting back to just to finish up my thoughts 312 00:22:13.559 --> 00:22:17.599 on an American fighter jet being shot down by our 313 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:22.599 own people, according to news reports over the Red Sea, 314 00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:28.160 Let's see, where did I where did I leave off 315 00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:30.480 on this? The F eighteen had just one off the 316 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:34.319 deck of the Harry Truman, the Gettysburg, which is part 317 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:37.279 of the crew of the Truman Carrier Strike Group. I mean, 318 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:41.400 what must that be? Like I was in the service. 319 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:43.200 I wasn't in the Navy. I was in the Air Force. 320 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:46.000 But when you're in the Navy and part of your 321 00:22:46.039 --> 00:22:48.079 own group shoots down one of your own guys, one 322 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:51.319 of your own jets, that's got to be that's got 323 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:56.000 to be not really a good thing. Let's see, let's see, 324 00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:59.480 it's not immediately clear how the Gettysburg can mistake the 325 00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:04.720 FA teen Central Commands said warships and the aircraft earlier 326 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:09.119 shot down multiple Hoodie drones and anti ship cruise minsiles 327 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:15.759 launched by the rebels. Incoming hostile fire from the Hoodies 328 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:20.440 has given sailors just seconds to make decisions. So I 329 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:22.279 guess they're on a hair trigger now that they've been 330 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:25.240 shooting down all these things that are flying around the 331 00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:29.519 Red Seat. Since Truman's arrival, the US has stepped up 332 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:38.160 airstrikes targeting the Hoodies. Let's see, the deployment marked what 333 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:41.640 the Navy has described as the most intense combat since 334 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:46.720 World War Two. And if that's true, is it just 335 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:49.480 me or are we really not hearing much reporting on 336 00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:55.880 this at all? Until this happened. Until this happened, I 337 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:58.880 really I didn't really have a good handle at all 338 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:01.720 about how much action was going on there in the 339 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:06.799 Gulf of Aden or the Red Sea. On Saturday night 340 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:09.799 and early Sunday, US warplanes conducted air strikes that shook 341 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:14.200 the capital of Yemen, which the Hooties have held since 342 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:19.880 twenty fourteen. Central Command described the strikes as targeting missile 343 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:28.559 storage facilities, command and control facilities. So we will find out, hopefully, 344 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:35.559 we'll find out why why one of our aircraft was 345 00:24:35.599 --> 00:24:38.160 shot down by one of our own ships. It's not 346 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:42.720 a good thing. It's not a good thing. Let's see, 347 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:44.960 there was a crash involving a couple of Cincinnati police 348 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:49.599 vehicles on southbound seventy five overnight. Now reading for Fox nineteen, 349 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:54.119 All officers okay, after a crash with two Cincinnati Police 350 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:57.880 Department vehicles shut down southbound seventy five. Happened just inside 351 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:03.599 the city limits near Springfield Springfield Township just before midnight. 352 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:07.480 One of the officers was already on the scene when 353 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:12.359 their cruiser was hit. District for police say, and there's 354 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:17.799 a picture of one of the one of the police 355 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:19.680 cars involved in this wreck, and I mean the front 356 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:24.359 end is just obliterated. The front end of this police 357 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:30.640 cruiser just got hammered. That vehicle is definitely totaled. Minor 358 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:35.759 injuries reported the scene. According to ken Kober, officers were 359 00:25:35.799 --> 00:25:39.880 taking the UC Medical Center out of an abundance of caution. 360 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:45.759 All lanes of southbound seventy five opened earlier this morning, 361 00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:50.720 so that is good, but they had the whole thing 362 00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:56.519 shut down, but really no details on how that accident happened. 363 00:25:57.559 --> 00:26:02.319 There was, of course, that deadly wrong way accident on 364 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:07.119 Cross County over the weekend, so that's that's a terrible thing, 365 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:12.680 and driving the wrong way on Cross County Highway and 366 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:14.640 that we've had that. It's not the first time we've 367 00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:18.200 had that, but that is a I covered traffic for 368 00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:19.960 a long time in this town. And that is a 369 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:22.640 tough thing to do, get going the wrong way on 370 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:26.759 on Cross County, but someone managed to do it. I've 371 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:28.519 got to get to a break here and then we 372 00:26:28.599 --> 00:26:32.799 will continue on Dan carrollin for Brian Thomas on fifty 373 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:34.200 five KRCV talk station. 374 00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:37.759 This is fifty five k r C and iHeartRadio station. 375 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:40.720 Run a business and not thinking about. 376 00:26:58.680 --> 00:27:00.720 So here we are a couple of days for Christmas 377 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:05.480 twenty twenty four. I hope your Christmas is going to 378 00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:09.079 be spectacular. I'll find out what the a little bit 379 00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:11.720 later on what the Chris Smithman Christmas is like. I 380 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:17.720 bet they just have a grand old Christmas. Victor Davis 381 00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:26.359 Hansen has written a great piece in well his pieces 382 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:30.559 show up all over the place. But he's always a 383 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:36.000 great guest on Fox News. Just a great commentary. And 384 00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:42.160 he's talking about the years of madness? Are they finally 385 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:47.480 ending now that Biden's on his way way out? Never 386 00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:50.000 in US history as a president electmen welcome as the 387 00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:53.559 real president before January twentieth inauguration. And that is that 388 00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:58.160 is the interesting dynamic that we have been seeing going 389 00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:01.480 on about Trump and mar You know, Mike DeWine went 390 00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:04.440 down there tomorrow a lago would have a meeting with 391 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:15.359 with Trump or at least someone in Trump's orbit. The 392 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:18.880 reporting is that the Wine went down there. He's still 393 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:21.440 making up his We don't know what they thought they 394 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:26.039 might have talked about, but the speculation is is that 395 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:29.039 the Wine was talking about with Trump who he may 396 00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:35.319 choose to replace Jade Vance in the Senate. And so 397 00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:40.039 we had all this struggling going on with the UH 398 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:44.960 the budget deal that they were talking about up on 399 00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:50.480 Capitol Hill Wednesday and Thursday, Friday on into the weekend. 400 00:28:50.599 --> 00:28:54.160 Finally got a deal done I believe it was late 401 00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:59.440 Friday night. Avoided the shutdown of the federal government. Can't 402 00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:03.920 have that. So they reached a compromise deal. And I 403 00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:09.200 still don't like the idea that even though it was 404 00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:14.200 a continuing resolution and it was only I think the 405 00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:17.240 first one they rejected was one hundred and eighteen pages. 406 00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:18.960 I think the second one came out to one hundred 407 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:22.319 and twenty pages of memory serves and that was the 408 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:27.799 one that they passed. But even that same day, create 409 00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:30.480 this bill, get it in front of Congress, pass it, 410 00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:34.359 and I believe I read yesterday where Joe Biden actually 411 00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:39.920 signed it, or maybe they put it under the auto 412 00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:44.359 sign and pressed the button and scribbled Joe Biden's signature 413 00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:49.000 on there. It didn't with the report that I saw 414 00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:51.359 didn't say that Joe Biden knew what he was signing, 415 00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:55.359 only that he signed it. And so it's been approved. 416 00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:59.720 And Victor Davis Hansen writes, one reason somebody are welcoming 417 00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:04.920 Trump return to is the universal, universally desperate hope that 418 00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:07.519 his election spelled an end to the collective madness at 419 00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:10.799 home and it's ripples abroad for the last four years. 420 00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:16.079 The result was the current global chaos, perhaps not seen 421 00:30:16.119 --> 00:30:22.720 since the late nineteen thirties. Is how Victor Davis Hanson 422 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:29.559 describes what is happening in the world right now. Never 423 00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:33.880 has the US experience such an immigrant search. Never had 424 00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:36.559 more than fifty million and over fifteen percent of the 425 00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:43.480 resident American population been foreign born. And I've we've heard 426 00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:49.079 the stories about of how many non Americans are getting 427 00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:56.640 all these jobs that Biden talks about creating. Victor Davis 428 00:30:56.680 --> 00:30:59.200 Hanson goes on to talk about the FBI, the CIRA, 429 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:05.359 the irl, US Department of Justice, the Pentagon weaponized so 430 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:10.400 flagrantly and with impunity broken, the law abandoned their mission 431 00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:14.680 statements serve the political agendas rather than the American people. 432 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:20.240 Not since j Augar Hoover has the FBI hierarchy serially 433 00:31:20.440 --> 00:31:26.359 lied under oath, stonewalled Congress, forged the court affidavit, partnered 434 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.759 with the media to suppress the news. Has the FBI 435 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.319 have rated the next president's home, spied on parents at 436 00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:38.400 school board meetings, monitored Catholics, tried to terrify or harassed 437 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:46.519 pro life activists. Each one of these things is a 438 00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:53.119 huge scandal unto itself, and all we hear, we still 439 00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:57.200 hear the narrative from those on the left, how great 440 00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:01.279 this administration was, how great of a president Biden has been. 441 00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:04.839 There are people still out there still singing that song. 442 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:13.799 One who is not is a former Democrat, big time fundraiser. 443 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:16.799 I've got that sound bite ready to go, but we've 444 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:18.519 still got we got to get a quick break in here. 445 00:32:18.559 --> 00:32:21.200 But we will hear that on the other side of this, 446 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:24.960 So stick around for that. Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, 447 00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:26.720 fifty five KRC, The Talk. 448 00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:37.440 Station, fifty five KRC, fifty. 449 00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:48.519 Five KRC The Talk Station, Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas. So, 450 00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:50.720 as I was talking about before the break, you've got 451 00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:54.039 a lot of different people who are pulling the curtain 452 00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:56.359 back on what happened in the Biden administration. One of 453 00:32:56.400 --> 00:33:01.160 them was campaign advisor Lindy Lee. She's been on quite 454 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:04.880 a bit lately and she's been talking about what really 455 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:08.319 happened and what has been happening, and now she has 456 00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:10.200 decided that she has had enough. She was on with 457 00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:15.640 Piers Morgan, who has I don't know if it's considered 458 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:20.079 a podcast or a regular show on the Fox Digital channel, 459 00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:22.519 but Piers Morgan has just been doing a great job 460 00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:27.200 and he had he had on I don't know, five 461 00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:30.519 or six different guests, and Lindy Lee was talking. She 462 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:35.039 started talking about her time working with the Democrats and 463 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:38.319 what is really happening with the Democrat Party. Some very 464 00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:41.440 interesting stuff here. Listen to this cut Sean McMahon, cut 465 00:33:41.599 --> 00:33:45.240 number seven. Please. The Democrats have got to move on quickly, 466 00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:45.680 haven't I? 467 00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:49.799 Yeah, I couldn't agree more. She's indulging delusions or running 468 00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.759 for governor in California in twenty twenty six, and perhaps 469 00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:55.279 e've been running for president in twenty twenty and I 470 00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:56.720 just want to echo what a lot of you guys 471 00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:59.519 already said. This past week has been heiring for me. 472 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:02.880 This just this Saturday, I went on Fox and Friends 473 00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:05.200 and I said that Democrats have a stench of loser 474 00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:08.679 hangover them. As soon as I said that, there were 475 00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:13.480 boycott campaigns against me, unblock, unfollowed campaigns. I lost forty 476 00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:17.920 thousand followers in four days. People have called me the 477 00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:19.840 W word. I don't know what we're allowed to say, 478 00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:20.599 but you can fill them. 479 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:25.760 Blank, say am I allowed to Yeah, I'm. 480 00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:28.719 Apparently I'm a well. They called me a whore, they 481 00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:31.440 called me the C word, They asked for me to 482 00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:33.800 be deported, and you can just you can just search 483 00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:36.280 for my name in those terms on X and you'll 484 00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:38.599 see a bunch of them. So, you know, all these 485 00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:42.039 so called Democrats, the Party of Inclusion, the Party of Diversity, 486 00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:46.960 masks off. And it's even worse because they pretend to 487 00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:50.119 occupy the moral high ground. They pretend to be, you know, 488 00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:54.119 so loving and caring and embracing of diversity. But all 489 00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:57.000 of a sudden, when I dare to issue, to utter 490 00:34:57.199 --> 00:35:02.320 any criticisms of the Goddess Come Harris, I get ostracized 491 00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:05.239 me after having raised tens of millions of dollars for 492 00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:09.599 the party. My donors are pissed. They raised two point 493 00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:13.000 five billion dollars across super Pack in the campaign. It's 494 00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:16.559 my responsibility, it's my duty of care, to ask what 495 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:19.559 the hell happened with that money? Why did we spend it? 496 00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:22.639 Why did we spend millions of dollars on five star 497 00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:25.960 hotels for campaign staffers. Why did we spend five hundred 498 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:31.480 thousand dollars essentially bribing Al Sharpton moments before he interviewed Kamala. 499 00:35:32.440 --> 00:35:35.559 These are legitimate questions, but no, in the cult, you 500 00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:39.239 can't ask questions. And leaving the Democratic Party, or even 501 00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:44.519 questioning the Democratic Party, it's like leaving a cult. It's terrifying. 502 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:50.000 So there you go, there's Lendy Lee right there, and 503 00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:54.639 just listen to what she's saying and decipher that and 504 00:35:54.920 --> 00:36:01.159 ingest that for yourself. That is absolutely unvarnished truth, coming 505 00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:05.719 from a woman who has been there. And these are 506 00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:11.119 the people that Democrats value the most. They don't value you, 507 00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:16.320 they don't value the average voter, they don't value the 508 00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:19.599 average American people. They value the people that can bring 509 00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:22.840 in the money. And this is what she's been doing 510 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:28.239 billions of dollars. And we know the Kamala Harris campaign 511 00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:33.000 ripped through a billion and a half dollars in the 512 00:36:33.079 --> 00:36:36.880 span of one hundred days. And she's talking about she's 513 00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:43.119 asking questions five star hotels for staff members, all this 514 00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:47.000 crazy spending going on. Now you can't ask those questions. 515 00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:53.280 And she sounds a lot like somebody I know. She 516 00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:56.000 sounds like the guy who's sitting behind this microphone now 517 00:36:56.360 --> 00:36:59.519 when she describes a Democrat Party trying to seek the 518 00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:03.079 moral high how many times have I said that. Sean 519 00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:05.639 McMahon has heard my show many times. He's heard me 520 00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:10.880 say that exact same phrase, and they try to act 521 00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:13.440 like and you know what, they're the party of openness, 522 00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:18.840 They're the party that welcomes diversity. Diversity with the Democrat 523 00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:23.960 Party only goes skin deep, It only goes to your genitalia, 524 00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:29.480 it only goes to your identity politics. You get that 525 00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:33.239 there is no diverse there is no room for diversity 526 00:37:33.280 --> 00:37:37.400 of thought when it comes to the Democrat Party. And 527 00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:43.719 Lindy Lee just rip the absolute cover off of it 528 00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:47.880 talking to Peters Morgan there. I may play that sound 529 00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:51.280 bite a little bit later on and she was scoffing 530 00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:54.800 at the notion that Kamala Harris would run for governor 531 00:37:55.679 --> 00:38:03.119 in California or run for the White House again. She's 532 00:38:03.159 --> 00:38:08.719 an absolute fraud, Kamala Harris says. And if you've seen 533 00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:12.440 the couple, there's been one or two videos that have 534 00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:15.480 popped up of her since the election, and she appears 535 00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:19.079 like she's hammered in both of them. If you've seen them, 536 00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:21.719 you know exactly what I'm talking about. Five point fifty five. 537 00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:23.360 We got to get to a break news coming up 538 00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:25.440 top of the hour, but we will roll on on 539 00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:30.760 this Christmas special edition. Oh yeah, tomorrow too, but special 540 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:33.920 because it's a couple of days before Christmas. Dan Carroll 541 00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:36.239 for Brian Thomas, fifty five k r CV talks to 542 00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:56.039 you really got me down six or five on this 543 00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:58.559 Monday morning, a little van Halen for you, a couple 544 00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:03.599 of days before Christmas. Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas, fifty 545 00:39:03.639 --> 00:39:06.960 five kr CV talk station five one, three, seven, four nine, 546 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:10.719 fifty five hundred the number to call if you want 547 00:39:10.760 --> 00:39:13.719 to get on board. Sean McMahon running the U the 548 00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:16.400 big board there in the fifty five KRC Command Center. 549 00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:19.280 I appreciate him being here, and glad to see Joe 550 00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:23.320 Strecker taking a at least one day off. Maybe he's 551 00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:25.840 maybe he's taking a whole week off. Sewn you here tomorrow, 552 00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:29.719 not tomorrow. Maybe Joe Strecker is back tomorrow. So we'll 553 00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:32.400 see what happens. But in any case, I'm glad to 554 00:39:32.440 --> 00:39:34.039 be here and glad you are here as well and 555 00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:37.760 get the chance to talk to the the great Brian 556 00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:42.000 Thomas audience. I turned my computer on today, brought in 557 00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:45.760 my laptop because there's a couple of things I wanted 558 00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:50.760 to uh have available on my x feed this morning, 559 00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:53.880 and it's a lot easier to do that with my laptop. 560 00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:59.480 I open up my laptop, it says it's updating, and 561 00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:02.760 this was a over an hour ago. It's been about 562 00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:06.400 an hour and twenty or twenty five minutes now. My 563 00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:11.280 update is eighty eight percent complete. And then it says 564 00:40:11.639 --> 00:40:15.920 your computer may restart a few more times. So the 565 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:19.960 spinning around thing, the rendering thing, has been spinning NonStop 566 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:27.280 since about twenty till five this morning. Unbelievable. Normally, when 567 00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:31.039 you do an update my laptop, my laptop seems to 568 00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:34.599 need to update all the time, it's three or four minutes. 569 00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:37.360 Boom okay, updates complete. You can turn your computer off. 570 00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:41.639 Not now, not today. Maybe it'll be done before the 571 00:40:41.679 --> 00:40:46.559 show is over, so we'll keep you posted on that one. 572 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:49.719 What do I want to get to? The story out 573 00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:54.360 of New York is just terrific. I saw the unedited 574 00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:58.880 video on this, and again I was starting my show 575 00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:02.119 prep after I saw the story about the F eighteen. 576 00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:05.320 I saw the faighteen getting shot down in the Red Sea. 577 00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:09.119 I saw this about the F train in New York, 578 00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:14.199 and apparently there's a woman sleeping on the train, some 579 00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:16.679 bottles of booze laying around. Don't know if that had 580 00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:20.159 anything to do with it. And then this dude from Guatemala, 581 00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:24.480 according to witnesses, threw a match on her and she 582 00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:31.400 just it was engulfed in flame. How that happens without 583 00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:35.599 some sort of accelerant being around, I don't know. But 584 00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:39.199 this woman's dead, burned to death on the subway train, 585 00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:44.239 the video shows. In the video I saw there was 586 00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:49.840 you've got the platform there and there's a person sitting 587 00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:56.079 on the bench. Whoever was shooting the video was behind 588 00:41:56.159 --> 00:42:00.840 the bench, probably twenty five thirty feet away from the 589 00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:04.079 train and you can see the flames in the train. 590 00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:06.159 This person just sitting there on the bench like h 591 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:11.039 look at that. No one making a move to help 592 00:42:11.119 --> 00:42:17.320 this woman. And they arrest this dude from Guatemala, a migrant, 593 00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:25.440 A migrant from Guatemala. Really, it's been a while since 594 00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:29.639 I've been on the subway in New York City. But 595 00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:33.760 if I ever go back to New York City, I 596 00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:37.559 think I'm staying away from the trains. It is not 597 00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:43.079 good what is happening down there. And Katy Hochele was 598 00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:46.199 talking about I wish I had that SoundBite with me. 599 00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:50.039 She was talking about how crime is down, and there 600 00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:52.679 was a reporter there who just just called her out 601 00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:58.760 and she turns to someone on her staff and says, 602 00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:03.800 you want to handle that question? Oh you I'm not 603 00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:07.800 going to answer that one. Just shot that one off 604 00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:13.400 to someone else who happened to be there. So all 605 00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:15.559 the reports are coming out about what's been going on 606 00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:21.000 with this administration. One came out from the House of 607 00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:27.679 Representatives Judiciary Committee chaired by Jim Jordan of Ohio, the 608 00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:32.679 Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, and 609 00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:36.800 that committee has come out with its report only seventeen 610 00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:44.239 thousand pages, A breezy A light breezy read seventeen thousand pages. 611 00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:46.119 I'm not going to pretend as if I've read it, 612 00:43:48.679 --> 00:43:51.760 but I can tell you what Fox News had to 613 00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:57.239 say about it. The Weaponization Committee conducted rigorous oversight of 614 00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:01.519 the Biden Harris administration and the weaponization of government and 615 00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:07.800 uncovered numerous examples of federal government abuse. Jim Jordan told 616 00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:12.599 Fox News Digital. Through our oversight, we protected the First 617 00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:18.800 Amendment by investigating the censorship industrial complex, heard from numerous 618 00:44:18.880 --> 00:44:23.440 brave whistleblowers, stopped the targeting of Americans by the IRS, 619 00:44:24.239 --> 00:44:28.960 the Department of Justice, and created serious legislative and policy 620 00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:33.480 changes that will benefit Americans. The report, obtained by Fox 621 00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:36.840 News Digital states the founding documents of the United States 622 00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:40.320 articulate the ideals of the American republican guarantee to all 623 00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:45.760 Americans or all American citizens fundamental rights and liberties. For 624 00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:48.199 too long, however, the American people have faced a two 625 00:44:48.239 --> 00:44:52.800 tiered system of government, one of favorable treatment for the 626 00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:58.519 politically favored class, one of intimidation and unfairness for the 627 00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:02.920 rest of the American citizens. Under Biden Harris, the contrast 628 00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:08.800 between these two these two tiers has become even more stark. 629 00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:12.639 The committee was created to stand up for the American people, 630 00:45:13.079 --> 00:45:16.679 highlighting its work to bring abuses by the federal government 631 00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:20.960 into the light for the American people, and to ensure 632 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:26.079 that Congress, as their elected representatives, can take actions to 633 00:45:26.320 --> 00:45:30.400 remedy them. The mission of the sub Committee was to 634 00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:34.320 protect and strengthen the fundamental rights of America. The report says, 635 00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:41.000 noting that by investigating and uncovering and documenting executive branch misconduct, 636 00:45:41.119 --> 00:45:44.840 lawmakers have taken the important steps to ensure that the 637 00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:50.039 federal government no longer works against the American people. The 638 00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:54.000 work is not complete. Seventeen thousand pages, and the work 639 00:45:54.079 --> 00:46:00.920 is not complete. Think about that. Throughout the Biden Paris administration, 640 00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:06.199 multiple agencies, multiple federal agencies, including the White House, have 641 00:46:06.320 --> 00:46:11.440 engaged in a vast censorship campaign against so called miss 642 00:46:11.639 --> 00:46:17.039 dis or malinformation noting. The report states, noting that the 643 00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:20.920 Subcommittee revealed the extent of the censorship industrial complex and 644 00:46:21.079 --> 00:46:27.039 detailed how the federal government and law enforcement coordinated with academics, nonprofits, 645 00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:33.440 and other private entities to censor speech online. And that 646 00:46:33.679 --> 00:46:39.760 has been that whole notion about the government doing these 647 00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:42.400 things to censor the speech to the American people has 648 00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:46.920 been one of the fundamental themes that I've been talking 649 00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:49.079 about on this and other radio stations for the last 650 00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:55.199 couple of three years. It is again an absolute scandal 651 00:46:56.920 --> 00:47:03.719 that these things were able to take place. In the 652 00:47:03.800 --> 00:47:07.000 panelist touting its work, saying its oversight has a real 653 00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:09.960 effect in expanding the First Amendment, and a Supreme Court 654 00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:15.360 dissent three justices noted how these select Subcommittee's investigation revealed 655 00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:21.960 that valuable speech was suppressed, and a letter to the subcommittee, 656 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:26.760 Facebook and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the Biden 657 00:47:26.840 --> 00:47:34.320 Harris administration pressured Facebook to censor Americans. Facebook gave into 658 00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:37.880 this pressure the mooting posts and content that was highly 659 00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:43.960 relevant to political discourse in the United States, and another 660 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:46.920 win for the subcommittee. In response to its work, universities 661 00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:51.880 and other groups shut down their disinformation research, and federal 662 00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:59.639 agencies slowed their communications with big tech. And I remember 663 00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:04.880 back on July fourth, when a judge told these federal 664 00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:08.880 agencies that they had to stop doing this. What was 665 00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:11.480 the reaction of the Biden administration, Well, it was to 666 00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:14.199 go back to the court to seek an injunction and 667 00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:20.360 so they could continue to strong arm big tech and 668 00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:25.480 social media companies so they could do what shut down 669 00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:31.800 suppressed the speech that the government didn't like, not because 670 00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:36.079 it was disinformation, not because anyone was going to be 671 00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:41.119 harmed by reading it. They wanted to shut it down 672 00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:45.239 because it was a narrative that they did not like. 673 00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:49.760 It was a narrative that was not approved, not approved 674 00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:53.599 as fit for consumption by the American people by this administration. 675 00:48:55.880 --> 00:49:00.800 And the depths of which they engaged in this are 676 00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:06.599 absolutely scandalous and so the and this is just the 677 00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:10.800 latest report to come out from this committee on Weaponization. 678 00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:14.360 I'm gonna have some more on this coming up, and 679 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:17.679 if you have any thoughts on it. Five one three 680 00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:20.559 seven four nine seven seven thousand, five one three seven 681 00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:24.679 four nine fifty five hundred. As we roll on, Dan 682 00:49:24.800 --> 00:49:26.960 Carroll and for Brian Thomas on fifty five k r C, 683 00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:44.880 the Talk Station, fifty five KRC. Fifty five KRC the 684 00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:51.639 Talk Station. Sean McMahon rolling out my my favorite Christmas 685 00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:57.800 songs of all time. This one maybe maybe my all 686 00:49:57.920 --> 00:50:02.039 time favorite. This is the King Elvis Presley his rendition 687 00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:05.400 of Merry Christmas Baby. Okay, it goes on. It's like 688 00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:08.840 seven minutes long, it is, but it is. It is 689 00:50:09.039 --> 00:50:12.960 just fantastic. This is Elvis at his very best. So 690 00:50:13.079 --> 00:50:14.559 let's just hear a little bit of the King right 691 00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:17.280 here on fifty five KRC. Here we go, Marry Merry, 692 00:50:17.400 --> 00:50:29.400 Christmas Baby. Shoot it and you listen to this entire song. 693 00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:35.360 It's got this great bluesy feel to it, and I 694 00:50:35.440 --> 00:50:41.119 am Elvis just unleashes about five or six minutes into it. 695 00:50:41.239 --> 00:50:45.000 It is just fantastic. The music is great. Give me 696 00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:53.039 a Diamond Ring, Christmas, come on now. And every time 697 00:50:53.079 --> 00:50:54.639 I hear this song, it takes me back to the 698 00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:57.440 first time I ever heard it. That is a long story, 699 00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:02.480 and maybe i'll tell that one tomorrow. I could listen 700 00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:05.559 to this all day long. But getting back to the 701 00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:08.679 Weaponization Committee and the report they put out. You go 702 00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:12.280 to their website and the way they've done this is 703 00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:17.000 seventeen thousand pages, so it's not all one report, but 704 00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:22.800 it is dozens of separate reports, and they go on 705 00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:27.400 and they talk about how the Cybersecurity Agency colluded with 706 00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:35.119 big tech and disinformation disinformation partners to censor Americans. That's 707 00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:40.079 one report the FBI's collaboration with a compromised Ukrainian intelligence 708 00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:45.559 agency to censor American speech weaponization select subcommittees anarchus brief 709 00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:49.840 on Missouri versus Biden. That's the one. The Missouri versus 710 00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:53.000 Biden is the one where the judge came out and said, 711 00:51:53.559 --> 00:51:58.559 these government agencies need to stop doing this. The Biden 712 00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:02.079 Border Crisis. New data and testimony show how the Biden 713 00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:07.519 administration opened the Southwest border and abandoned interior immigration enforcement. 714 00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:12.559 Let's see, let's just open this. Let's see, let's just 715 00:52:12.639 --> 00:52:16.920 says do something at random here. The Biden Border Crisis. 716 00:52:17.039 --> 00:52:21.719 New data and testimony shows how the Biden administration open 717 00:52:21.800 --> 00:52:27.159 the Southwest border and abandon interior enforcement. Executive Summary. New 718 00:52:27.239 --> 00:52:30.039 data and information obtained by the Committee on the Judiciary 719 00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:34.119 and its Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity reveal that the Biden 720 00:52:34.119 --> 00:52:37.559 administration has failed to remove through immigration court removal proceedings 721 00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:42.239 over ninety nine percent of those illegal aliens who have 722 00:52:42.360 --> 00:52:47.760 been released into the country under President Joe Biden. This 723 00:52:47.960 --> 00:52:52.239 information contradicts the assertions of the administration and the statements 724 00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:57.280 of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorcis that the Southwest border 725 00:52:57.400 --> 00:53:01.519 is closed and illegal aliens are removed from the country quickly, 726 00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:07.519 and may orcusaid just in an interview this weekend where 727 00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:11.519 he is still lying about the Biden administration and what 728 00:53:11.639 --> 00:53:17.599 they did at the border. This new data reinforces widespread 729 00:53:17.639 --> 00:53:20.280 concern about the state of the border. More than two 730 00:53:20.320 --> 00:53:23.679 and a half years into Biden's term, his administration's border 731 00:53:23.719 --> 00:53:28.760 crisis continues unabated. Publicly available information so is that encounters 732 00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:31.960 of illegal aliens at the Southwest border surpassed one hundred 733 00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:36.519 thousand for the thirty first straight month thirty one straight 734 00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:41.519 months of one hundred thousand. Total Southwest border illegal alien 735 00:53:41.559 --> 00:53:45.719 encounters exceeded two point two million in the first eleven 736 00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:49.039 months of fiscal twenty three. In August of twenty twenty three, 737 00:53:49.119 --> 00:53:53.119 encounters of illegal aliens at the Southwest border skyrocketed to 738 00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:55.639 two hundred and thirty nine nine hundred and seventy two, 739 00:53:57.320 --> 00:54:00.360 and the unreleased encounter numbers for September of twenty three 740 00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:05.000 or reportedly shattered previous records, exceeding two hundred and sixty 741 00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:09.280 thousand encounters in a single month. Meanwhile, more than one 742 00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:14.920 point seven million known god aways have evated border patrol 743 00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:19.199 and escaped into the interior since January of twenty twenty one, 744 00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:23.800 with untold numbers of unknown god aways avoiding detection during 745 00:54:23.880 --> 00:54:30.159 that period. So this is just one element of the 746 00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:40.480 report detailing the illegals that have crossed into into the 747 00:54:40.639 --> 00:54:44.519 United States since Biden took office. Customs and Border Protection 748 00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:48.199 has accounted more than six point two million illegal aliens 749 00:54:48.199 --> 00:54:52.599 along the southwest border. Of the more than five million 750 00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:56.239 illegal alien encounters from January twenty one through March thirty 751 00:54:56.280 --> 00:54:58.920 first to twenty three, at least two million, four hundred 752 00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:01.719 and sixty four thousand Eagle aliens remained in the United 753 00:55:01.760 --> 00:55:07.599 States as of March twenty twenty three. And there's all 754 00:55:07.719 --> 00:55:12.639 kinds of charts and graphs and talking about majorcis and 755 00:55:13.119 --> 00:55:16.639 I mean, just how this guy cannot tell the truth 756 00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:24.159 about these matters. So look that up the Weaponization Committee, 757 00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:29.440 Jim Jordan and again seventeen dow. That's a lot of stuff, 758 00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:32.320 but the way they break it down on the website 759 00:55:34.119 --> 00:55:37.559 very very interesting. Six twenty six Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, 760 00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:39.199 fifty five KRCD talk. 761 00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:41.440 Station fifty five krc. 762 00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:57.280 Fifty five KRCD talk station, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas 763 00:56:00.119 --> 00:56:05.960 Street Journal came out this past week Thursday with I 764 00:56:06.079 --> 00:56:11.239 think one of the most shocking stories, shocking reports about 765 00:56:11.320 --> 00:56:14.760 Joe Biden and how from the earliest days of the 766 00:56:15.159 --> 00:56:20.119 administration the people in his inner circle were running cover 767 00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:26.480 for him. Biden's aids were trying to hide his decline 768 00:56:26.599 --> 00:56:31.760 his first year in office. Of course, the networks didn't 769 00:56:31.800 --> 00:56:34.320 want to touch it. I've got some sound. O will 770 00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:36.360 play sound a little bit later, as Steve Doocy, who 771 00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:41.320 was really one of the few journalists who was all 772 00:56:41.400 --> 00:56:49.920 over this. But the story is absolutely shocking, and there's 773 00:56:49.960 --> 00:56:52.840 been a lot written about this over the last few days. 774 00:56:52.880 --> 00:56:57.719 And M. D. Kittle at the at the Federalist talks 775 00:56:57.719 --> 00:57:04.079 about how Biden had more meetings with his son's business 776 00:57:04.119 --> 00:57:09.599 associates than he did with his cabinet members. Peace published 777 00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:11.880 Thursday and the Wall Street Journal pools from dozens of 778 00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:16.400 sources who say Biden's inner circle of trusted aid's increasingly 779 00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:20.599 kept contact with the president at a minimum, including the 780 00:57:20.679 --> 00:57:23.960 people he should have had depended on the most to 781 00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:28.199 consult and advise for the good of the nation. The 782 00:57:28.320 --> 00:57:30.440 president who spent a good chunk of his term out 783 00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:32.760 of the office apparently was not all that keen on 784 00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:37.280 meetings with his cabinet secretaries. In fact, Biden may have 785 00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:40.559 met more often with his criminal sons sketchy clients than 786 00:57:41.280 --> 00:57:46.760 he did with his administration's top managers. Biden was such 787 00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:49.599 a political liability that his handlers hit him away. During 788 00:57:49.639 --> 00:57:53.760 the twenty twenty presidential campaign, he campaigned from his Delaware 789 00:57:53.880 --> 00:57:59.159 basement through the brunt of the election year. Strategy wasn't 790 00:57:59.159 --> 00:58:04.440 about to protect he calls him a feebled geezer from 791 00:58:04.519 --> 00:58:07.920 COVID as. It was designed to prevent the American voters 792 00:58:07.960 --> 00:58:11.079 from seeing what a physical and mental mess Biden really was. 793 00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:15.159 And even then, even when he was campaigning from his basement, 794 00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:20.719 there were so many gaffs and so many flaws, and 795 00:58:20.840 --> 00:58:26.800 so many pregnant pauses, so many disjointed sentences and conversations, 796 00:58:26.840 --> 00:58:30.519 things that didn't make any sense at all. Of course, 797 00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:33.559 the media was not about calling out any of that. 798 00:58:33.760 --> 00:58:42.920 We were, but that was just a total and complete, 799 00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:47.559 complete lapse of what the media is there to do, 800 00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:52.239 and they just totally gave up on what their job was. 801 00:58:53.840 --> 00:58:58.079 Over the past six week, presidential nominee Joe Biden has 802 00:58:58.079 --> 00:59:00.920 been running his campaign from his Delaware base. CBS News 803 00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:05.679 reported in April of twenty twenty, showcasing a fluff piece 804 00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:08.280 from The New York Times about how Team Biden was 805 00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:13.039 attempting to keep his campaign relevant during the pandemic the 806 00:59:13.159 --> 00:59:18.079 occasional program zoom calls, notwithstanding, keeping Biden relevant meant keeping 807 00:59:18.159 --> 00:59:25.639 him hidden, literally underground. Quaintly back then, Axios in its 808 00:59:25.679 --> 00:59:29.519 corporate media bedfellows were trying to convince America not to 809 00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:33.079 believe your lying eyes that there were two Biden's, the 810 00:59:33.159 --> 00:59:36.400 eighty one year old who had recently frozen up like 811 00:59:36.519 --> 00:59:39.119 so much freezer piece in his debate with former President 812 00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:43.440 Donald Trump and the viral campaigning Joe Biden. Turns out, 813 00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:46.480 Biden wasn't just hiding from voters, he was ducking his 814 00:59:46.559 --> 00:59:51.559 own cabinet. Interactions between Biden and many of his cabinet 815 00:59:51.599 --> 00:59:55.880 members were relatively infrequent, often tightly scripted. At least one 816 00:59:55.960 --> 00:59:58.920 cabinet member stopped requesting calls with the President because it 817 00:59:59.039 --> 01:00:04.159 was clear such requests wouldn't be welcome, a former senior 818 01:00:04.239 --> 01:00:10.880 cabinet aide said. The story further noted the cabinet members, 819 01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:15.159 including powerful secretaries such as Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense 820 01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:19.639 Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, were infrequent or grew 821 01:00:19.800 --> 01:00:23.760 less frequent. Some legislative leaders had a hard time getting 822 01:00:23.760 --> 01:00:26.760 the presidents here at key moments, including ahead of the 823 01:00:26.960 --> 01:00:36.000 US disastrous pull out of Afghanistan. As The Federalist has reported, 824 01:00:38.760 --> 01:00:41.800 Biden is alleged to have interacted with Hunter Biden's suspected 825 01:00:41.840 --> 01:00:46.440 clients countless times. So he did all that, but when 826 01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:48.440 it came to meeting with his cabinet members, they were 827 01:00:48.480 --> 01:00:52.440 few and far between. And I'm going to roll us 828 01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:54.159 in the next couple of segments. I'm going to roll 829 01:00:54.239 --> 01:00:59.239 some sound on this and it's it all makes sense 830 01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:03.039 now when you listen to the way Krine John Pierre 831 01:01:03.199 --> 01:01:09.880 was talking about it and what some of the some 832 01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:13.119 of the Biden supporters are still saying today. So we'll 833 01:01:13.119 --> 01:01:15.519 get to all that as we roll on throughout the 834 01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:18.320 morning until nine o'clock this morning. Dan Carrol for Brian Thomas, 835 01:01:18.360 --> 01:01:20.079 fifty five k r CV Talk station. 836 01:01:20.360 --> 01:01:23.639 This is fifty five KRC an iHeartRadio station. 837 01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:25.159 This is Ashley and. 838 01:01:50.199 --> 01:01:53.280 Gotta set the Moon a couple of days away from Christmas. 839 01:01:54.840 --> 01:02:00.760 You gotta love it. You listen to it all day long. Hey, 840 01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:02.320 that's what I'll do when I'm done today, I'll just 841 01:02:02.360 --> 01:02:05.639 go home and just play Christmas music all day, at 842 01:02:05.719 --> 01:02:07.599 least the stuff that I like. It would be fantastic. 843 01:02:08.440 --> 01:02:12.159 Sean McMahon, thank you for that. Let's hear a little bit. 844 01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:16.679 This is Karin John Pierre and this is a cut 845 01:02:16.760 --> 01:02:19.159 that goes back a little way. I'm I'm exactly sure 846 01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:21.559 on the date on this, but this was around the 847 01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:26.440 time that if you remember when Joe Biden did that 848 01:02:26.559 --> 01:02:29.400 event with Barack Obama, I believe it was out in California, 849 01:02:29.679 --> 01:02:34.239 and George Clooney was the one that put this event together. 850 01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:38.119 And then then there was a time towards the end 851 01:02:38.159 --> 01:02:41.360 of that event when Joe Biden was sort of just 852 01:02:41.440 --> 01:02:44.559 standing out there on stage and sort of in space 853 01:02:44.719 --> 01:02:46.880 and lost, who really didn't know where he was going, 854 01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:49.800 and Barack Obama walked up to him and escorted him 855 01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:52.599 off the stage. And it was after that event when 856 01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:54.920 George Clooney wrote the letter talking about how this guy 857 01:02:55.039 --> 01:02:58.920 cannot be the nominee, And so Karin John Pierre was 858 01:02:58.960 --> 01:03:01.079 asked about that, and this is what it sounded like 859 01:03:01.199 --> 01:03:03.599 back in the day. I believe that is cut Number 860 01:03:03.639 --> 01:03:06.280 two there Sean McMahon. There seems to be a sort 861 01:03:06.280 --> 01:03:09.079 of rash of videos that have been edited to make 862 01:03:09.119 --> 01:03:13.639 the president up here especially frail or mentally confused. I'm 863 01:03:13.679 --> 01:03:15.119 wondering the. 864 01:03:15.119 --> 01:03:17.039 White Houses especially worried about the fact that this this 865 01:03:17.119 --> 01:03:19.119 appears to be a pattern. 866 01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:21.639 Number thing more about Yeah, and I think you all 867 01:03:21.719 --> 01:03:24.679 have called this the cheap fakes video, and that's exactly 868 01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:27.199 what they are. They are cheap fakes video. They are 869 01:03:27.239 --> 01:03:30.840 done in bad fight and in some of your news 870 01:03:31.079 --> 01:03:35.840 organization have been very clear have stressed that these right wing, 871 01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:39.159 the white wing critics of the president have a credibility 872 01:03:39.320 --> 01:03:43.320 problem because of the fact checkers have repeatedly caught them 873 01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:48.199 pushing misinformation, disinformation, And so we see this and this 874 01:03:48.400 --> 01:03:51.880 is something coming from your part of the world, calling 875 01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:56.599 them cheap fakes and misinformation. And I'll quote the Washington 876 01:03:56.679 --> 01:03:59.239 Post where they wrote they wrote about this and they said, 877 01:03:59.519 --> 01:04:02.679 how are but can use misleading videos to attack Biden 878 01:04:02.760 --> 01:04:04.519 in a twenty four hour period? 879 01:04:04.800 --> 01:04:08.079 No, okay, that's enough right there. That was Karinn John Pierre, 880 01:04:09.800 --> 01:04:11.840 And based on the reporting that we had from the 881 01:04:11.840 --> 01:04:16.400 Wall Street Journal, people who were there, people who saw 882 01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:20.920 what was going on. They couldn't have meetings, didn't meet 883 01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:23.760 with his cabinet members. And you wonder why Kriinn John 884 01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:26.239 Pierre seemed like she was so out of the loop 885 01:04:27.119 --> 01:04:29.039 so many times when she would come out there to 886 01:04:29.639 --> 01:04:32.280 try and answer questions from the meetings, because there was 887 01:04:32.440 --> 01:04:37.679 no loop. She wasn't having regular meetings with it. She 888 01:04:37.840 --> 01:04:42.280 claimed that she did, but she couldn't sit down and 889 01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:45.079 have a meaningful conversation. He was incapable of doing it. 890 01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:50.559 And if you go back even a little bit further, 891 01:04:52.159 --> 01:04:55.280 this was Steve doocey, but not Steve do but Peter Doocy, 892 01:04:55.960 --> 01:05:03.840 White House correspondent for he was asking all the right questions. 893 01:05:05.840 --> 01:05:08.039 So Sean McMahon, if we have cut number one ready, 894 01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:11.440 I would like to hit that one. But this is 895 01:05:11.480 --> 01:05:15.440 Steve Doocy, not Steve, but I keep getting Steve Doocy's 896 01:05:15.440 --> 01:05:18.199 his dad, he's on Fox in front. But Peter Doocy 897 01:05:19.119 --> 01:05:22.719 again was one of the only reporters who had the 898 01:05:22.880 --> 01:05:27.039 a wherewithal to throw these questions out. Not just that 899 01:05:27.119 --> 01:05:29.639 he was asking, but we were all asking. And this 900 01:05:29.840 --> 01:05:32.880 is the main question right here, cut number one. If 901 01:05:32.920 --> 01:05:33.719 the Special. 902 01:05:33.440 --> 01:05:38.360 Council says President Biden's got significant limitations on his memory, 903 01:05:38.559 --> 01:05:40.079 then who is helping. 904 01:05:39.880 --> 01:05:40.960 Him run the country? 905 01:05:41.599 --> 01:05:43.519 The President of the United States runs the country. 906 01:05:43.639 --> 01:05:45.360 The commander and she runs the country. 907 01:05:45.480 --> 01:05:48.480 Not true with the nuclear codes. 908 01:05:48.760 --> 01:05:52.320 If I get that, you're saying that nobody in the 909 01:05:52.400 --> 01:05:55.519 building would say that he's got an issue with his memory. 910 01:05:56.039 --> 01:05:58.760 But just the little part of what we get to 911 01:05:58.880 --> 01:06:03.559 see made mistake after mistake after mistake after a mistake on. 912 01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:04.800 Camera this week. 913 01:06:05.440 --> 01:06:10.679 So I'm going to be very clear here. The reality 914 01:06:11.239 --> 01:06:14.079 is that report, that part of the report does not 915 01:06:14.199 --> 01:06:14.880 live in reality. 916 01:06:14.960 --> 01:06:18.599 It just doesn't. It is it is, it is, it is. 917 01:06:19.079 --> 01:06:22.079 It was gratuitous. You heard from you heard from Ian 918 01:06:22.320 --> 01:06:26.079 Sam's my colleague. It is unacceptable and it does not. 919 01:06:26.280 --> 01:06:27.239 Live in reality. 920 01:06:27.480 --> 01:06:29.159 That is just the facts. 921 01:06:29.719 --> 01:06:34.119 And and look it is a close case. That is 922 01:06:34.159 --> 01:06:38.880 what the Special Council said. And what matters is here 923 01:06:39.320 --> 01:06:42.039 is that the president in the last three years has 924 01:06:42.159 --> 01:06:46.840 delivered on the economy, has delivered on healthcare, has turned 925 01:06:47.039 --> 01:06:51.119 this country around after the last president left us with 926 01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:52.800 an economy that was in a temp. 927 01:06:52.719 --> 01:06:58.880 All right, that's enough. That's another corin. John Pierre just lying, lying, lying, 928 01:06:59.239 --> 01:07:03.360 and Dousey said there saying, look, we can see this 929 01:07:03.559 --> 01:07:09.159 with our own eyes. He's pointing to example after example, 930 01:07:09.480 --> 01:07:13.079 not stuff that is pulled from here, there and everywhere 931 01:07:13.119 --> 01:07:17.440 else this week. And you remember when the special counsel, 932 01:07:18.599 --> 01:07:22.360 the guy's name was her, came out and said he 933 01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:27.360 interviewed Joe Biden. And the only reason that Joe Biden 934 01:07:27.519 --> 01:07:32.440 wasn't facing criminal indictment or further action is because this 935 01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:38.400 guy was incapable of defending himself. He was essentially incapable 936 01:07:38.519 --> 01:07:41.440 of contributing to his defense. Not that he would have 937 01:07:41.519 --> 01:07:44.280 had well, obviously if this would have happened, he would 938 01:07:44.280 --> 01:07:51.599 have loayed up. But he was so compromised, so brain dead. 939 01:07:52.559 --> 01:07:56.199 And it was a bombshell report back then, and Deucey's 940 01:07:56.239 --> 01:07:58.719 asking the simple question that we've all been asking over 941 01:07:58.760 --> 01:08:01.000 the last three and a half four year years, who 942 01:08:01.159 --> 01:08:04.960 is running the country, and Karin John Pierre, well, the 943 01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:10.519 president is no, No, he's not. It was a lie then, 944 01:08:11.320 --> 01:08:13.639 and they continue to lie about it. And we'll talk 945 01:08:13.679 --> 01:08:15.519 about that on the other side of this. Dan Carrol 946 01:08:15.559 --> 01:08:18.720 for Brian Thomas, fifty five k R C the talk station. 947 01:08:18.840 --> 01:08:22.800 Fifty five k the talk station Shopping. 948 01:09:02.600 --> 01:09:08.239 Fifty five k R see the talk station, Dan Carroll 949 01:09:08.319 --> 01:09:13.840 and from Brian Thomas, Sean mcman. You loving this Christmas music. 950 01:09:14.279 --> 01:09:19.119 This is great stuff, isn't it. Come on now, give 951 01:09:19.159 --> 01:09:28.880 me a little bit of See this is the kind 952 01:09:28.920 --> 01:09:30.840 of stuff that you that you don't hear every day. 953 01:09:32.760 --> 01:09:35.000 I could listen to this all day long. All right, 954 01:09:35.079 --> 01:09:36.760 let's get back to what we were talking about here. 955 01:09:37.039 --> 01:09:41.840 Chris Coons was on with Dana Bash on CNN over 956 01:09:41.920 --> 01:09:45.279 the weekend and they brought up there is surprisingly they 957 01:09:45.319 --> 01:09:48.840 actually brought up this Wall Street Journal report talking about 958 01:09:48.920 --> 01:09:52.560 how people in the White House were keeping Biden hidden 959 01:09:52.600 --> 01:09:55.279 away from not only the American people, but members of 960 01:09:55.359 --> 01:10:00.119 his cabinet. And so Dana Bash asked Chris Coons about this. Oh, 961 01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:03.960 by the way, Chris Coons became a Senator in twenty ten. 962 01:10:04.720 --> 01:10:08.520 So in twenty ten, Joe Biden was a vice president 963 01:10:08.600 --> 01:10:11.119 of the United States, and he's one of the ones 964 01:10:11.159 --> 01:10:13.319 who well he's not the one, but he is the 965 01:10:13.359 --> 01:10:15.600 one who's sworn the vice presidents wears in members of 966 01:10:16.399 --> 01:10:19.359 the Senate because the vice president is the president of 967 01:10:19.439 --> 01:10:22.640 the Senate. So if you've seen the video of this 968 01:10:23.800 --> 01:10:27.000 when Chris Coons is there, Chris Coons back in twenty ten, 969 01:10:27.359 --> 01:10:30.439 he's got a daughter, and she was very young back then. 970 01:10:31.479 --> 01:10:35.680 And if you've seen the video of Joe Biden doing 971 01:10:35.720 --> 01:10:37.720 these swearing INDs, you know that when it came the 972 01:10:37.880 --> 01:10:42.720 picture time, he would always position the little kid that 973 01:10:43.000 --> 01:10:46.039 was there with whatever senator and he would put them 974 01:10:46.079 --> 01:10:48.119 in a position where he was able to grope them 975 01:10:48.640 --> 01:10:54.800 gratuitously and disgustingly. And the one where he puts his 976 01:10:55.039 --> 01:10:59.000 paws all over Chris Coons's daughter is one of the 977 01:10:59.079 --> 01:11:01.960 most disgusting plays I've ever seen. And he does it 978 01:11:02.119 --> 01:11:04.600 right in front of Coons, right in front of his wife, 979 01:11:06.840 --> 01:11:09.399 and he gets away with it because he's the big guy, 980 01:11:10.239 --> 01:11:12.760 and Chris Coons is still carrying water for this guy. 981 01:11:13.760 --> 01:11:17.680 Absolutely unbelievable. Sean, can we hear cut number four? Please? 982 01:11:18.680 --> 01:11:23.319 You're a long time ally of Joe Biden. You sit 983 01:11:23.399 --> 01:11:26.000 in his former Senate seat. There was a report in 984 01:11:26.039 --> 01:11:28.960 the Wall Street Journal that was pretty detailed and pretty 985 01:11:28.960 --> 01:11:33.399 well sourced outlining concerns about the president's mental and physical 986 01:11:33.439 --> 01:11:37.560 fitness going back to the start of his presidency, even 987 01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:40.359 cabinet members who were kept at arm's length. 988 01:11:41.399 --> 01:11:41.920 Is that true? 989 01:11:42.920 --> 01:11:45.239 I don't know whether cabinet officials were or were not 990 01:11:45.439 --> 01:11:48.079 kept at arm's length, where I know that four years 991 01:11:48.560 --> 01:11:50.800 the way I communicate with President Biden is not by 992 01:11:50.960 --> 01:11:53.600 hanging out at his house on the weekend or traveling 993 01:11:53.680 --> 01:11:56.039 with him overseas, but he calls me when he's got 994 01:11:56.159 --> 01:11:59.279 questions or concerns. And I'll remind you, in just the 995 01:11:59.319 --> 01:12:02.359 fight of the last couple of days, there are Republicans 996 01:12:02.560 --> 01:12:05.960 who've been saying that Joe Biden once again outsmarted them politically. 997 01:12:06.319 --> 01:12:08.319 So which one is it. Is he a savvy political 998 01:12:08.399 --> 01:12:11.560 operator who outsmarted them, someone who had the sense to 999 01:12:11.640 --> 01:12:13.720 step back and let them keep fighting with each other 1000 01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:16.720 and in the end got exactly the spending bill that 1001 01:12:16.840 --> 01:12:19.399 he and his administration and Democrats and Congress have been 1002 01:12:19.439 --> 01:12:19.760 fighting for. 1003 01:12:20.199 --> 01:12:22.600 Or is he someone who's completely a wall I think 1004 01:12:22.640 --> 01:12:23.239 it's the former. 1005 01:12:23.479 --> 01:12:25.800 And if you look at the record of his administration, 1006 01:12:26.359 --> 01:12:30.439 how many massive legislative accomplishments he had as president, and 1007 01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:33.399 the ways he made us safer and stronger at home 1008 01:12:33.520 --> 01:12:35.680 and abroad, I'll take that record any day. 1009 01:12:35.920 --> 01:12:38.239 You told Fox this week that you didn't realize that 1010 01:12:38.319 --> 01:12:42.560 there might be something wrong until our debate. You know, 1011 01:12:42.760 --> 01:12:45.560 looking back, are you comfortable with your support the fact 1012 01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:47.800 that you were a co chair of his campaign, the 1013 01:12:47.920 --> 01:12:48.800 whole thing. 1014 01:12:49.000 --> 01:12:50.199 I still support Joe Biden. 1015 01:12:50.239 --> 01:12:52.720 I think he's a compassionate and decent man who has 1016 01:12:52.760 --> 01:12:54.279 been a consequential president. 1017 01:12:54.840 --> 01:12:55.680 But that was true. 1018 01:12:55.800 --> 01:12:58.159 The first time I saw or heard anything that made 1019 01:12:58.199 --> 01:13:01.520 me really question his fitness to service second term. 1020 01:13:01.640 --> 01:13:03.399 Was that to be Oh, it was so. It was 1021 01:13:03.520 --> 01:13:11.119 the debate, not until that. I know Joe Biden perfectly fine, perfectly, lucid, 1022 01:13:12.399 --> 01:13:16.319 perfectly on the ball, fit to serve, on top of everything. 1023 01:13:18.560 --> 01:13:20.840 He didn't have any problem. And then and this notion 1024 01:13:23.199 --> 01:13:27.159 that there are Republicans just the other day saying dog 1025 01:13:27.279 --> 01:13:33.159 Gunnet got out smarted by Joe Biden. Again, Wow, it's 1026 01:13:33.439 --> 01:13:35.960 so tough to get the upper hand on that, dude. 1027 01:13:37.439 --> 01:13:42.079 Never happened. It happened back in twenty twenty three. There 1028 01:13:42.119 --> 01:13:45.199 were a couple of Republicans saying that. But the other day, 1029 01:13:45.279 --> 01:13:51.159 I don't think so. Chris Coons is an absolute clown 1030 01:13:51.279 --> 01:14:00.840 and a disgrace. Now it still gaslighting about Joe Biden 1031 01:14:01.399 --> 01:14:04.239 and his ability to be President of the United States. 1032 01:14:05.479 --> 01:14:09.319 Right there with him, great job, Chris, right there with him. Unbelievable. 1033 01:14:09.800 --> 01:14:13.479 Five point fifty six on this Monday morning, a couple 1034 01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:17.880 of days before Christmas on fifty five KRC, The Talk Station. 1035 01:14:29.720 --> 01:14:32.560 Fifty five KRC the Talk Station. Good morning, it is 1036 01:14:32.640 --> 01:14:36.840 seven of six on this Monday morning. Dan Carroll in 1037 01:14:36.960 --> 01:14:40.640 for Brian Thomas. You get to be here tomorrow as well. 1038 01:14:40.800 --> 01:14:45.279 Always love talking to the great Brian Thomas audience. A 1039 01:14:45.359 --> 01:14:51.119 couple of days before Christmas. Joe Strecker also taking a 1040 01:14:51.199 --> 01:14:53.319 day off. So Sean McMahon is here rolling out the 1041 01:14:53.439 --> 01:14:58.600 Van Hallen for us this morning. Is that one of 1042 01:14:58.640 --> 01:15:02.479 your favorites are Sean? Yeah, he loves this one. Well, 1043 01:15:02.560 --> 01:15:06.079 that's good stuff. We have you well. Joe Biden has 1044 01:15:06.119 --> 01:15:10.359 been busy this morning. Right after five this morning, Joe 1045 01:15:10.399 --> 01:15:13.800 Biden announced that he has commuted the death sentences of 1046 01:15:14.039 --> 01:15:17.359 child killers and mass murderers a couple. It's a fest 1047 01:15:17.439 --> 01:15:21.039 of its miracle brought to us by the White House. 1048 01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:29.920 That's just fantastic. Joe Biden this morning this morning commuted 1049 01:15:29.960 --> 01:15:33.319 the sentences of thirty seven of forty men on federal 1050 01:15:33.600 --> 01:15:37.439 death row, a list that includes at least five child 1051 01:15:37.600 --> 01:15:41.560 killers and several mass murderers, in an act of clemency. 1052 01:15:41.800 --> 01:15:45.880 Just two days before Christmas, Biden gave the reprieve to 1053 01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:49.359 the nation's most violent murderers, nine of whom were found 1054 01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:53.960 too dangerous to live after butchering fellow inmates. This is 1055 01:15:53.960 --> 01:15:58.920 according to The New York Post. As part of his 1056 01:15:59.079 --> 01:16:02.520 effort of ensuring a fair and effective justice system, the 1057 01:16:02.600 --> 01:16:06.920 White House said, make no mistake, I condemned these murderers, 1058 01:16:08.039 --> 01:16:11.520 grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache 1059 01:16:11.720 --> 01:16:16.920 for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss, 1060 01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:21.880 Biden said in a statement. But guided by my conscience 1061 01:16:22.439 --> 01:16:25.439 in my experience as a public defender, what was Joe 1062 01:16:25.479 --> 01:16:29.439 Biden ever a public defender? He was also chairman of 1063 01:16:29.479 --> 01:16:33.920 the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice president, and now President. I 1064 01:16:34.039 --> 01:16:37.600 am more convinced than ever that we must stop the 1065 01:16:37.760 --> 01:16:41.600 use of the death penalty at the federal level. In 1066 01:16:41.720 --> 01:16:46.119 good conscious, I cannot stand back and let a new 1067 01:16:46.199 --> 01:16:53.279 administration resume the executions that I halted. Biden, who opposes 1068 01:16:53.359 --> 01:16:56.199 the death penalty, lowered each of the thirty seven sentences 1069 01:16:56.600 --> 01:17:02.199 to life in prison without parole, did not say why. Specifically, 1070 01:17:03.279 --> 01:17:08.960 he considered the original penalties unjust. Among those receiving the 1071 01:17:09.039 --> 01:17:12.439 holiday year is Thomas Sanders, who in twenty ten, kidnapped 1072 01:17:12.479 --> 01:17:15.600 and then shot twelve year old Lexus Roberts four times 1073 01:17:16.359 --> 01:17:20.520 and then cut her throat in Louisiana. This days after 1074 01:17:20.600 --> 01:17:23.439 the girl watched the Sanders murdered her mother on a 1075 01:17:23.560 --> 01:17:28.720 road trip near the Grand Canyon. Christmas came early for 1076 01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:32.600 Anthony Battle, who murdered an Atlanta prison guard with a 1077 01:17:32.680 --> 01:17:36.279 hammer in nineteen ninety four. While serving a life sentence 1078 01:17:37.000 --> 01:17:40.279 for raping and murdering his wife, a US marine. At 1079 01:17:40.399 --> 01:17:45.479 nineteen eighty seven at Camp Lejune, North Carolina, Jorge A 1080 01:17:45.600 --> 01:17:50.000 Via Torres sexually assaulted and stabbed a death two girls, 1081 01:17:50.119 --> 01:17:56.319 Laura Hobbs eight and Crystal Tobias, nine, who had been 1082 01:17:56.399 --> 01:17:59.560 riding their bicycles in their neighborhood in a suburb north 1083 01:17:59.600 --> 01:18:03.920 of Io in two thousand and five. Four years later, 1084 01:18:04.079 --> 01:18:07.760 he strangled a naval officer, Amanda Snell, just twenty years old, 1085 01:18:07.920 --> 01:18:18.600 in her barracks in Arlington, Virginia. Laurie McHale, another clemency recipient, 1086 01:18:19.079 --> 01:18:23.960 was convicted of murdering five Russian and Georgia immigrants after 1087 01:18:24.119 --> 01:18:28.159 kidnapping them for ransom, which in some cases was paid 1088 01:18:28.279 --> 01:18:33.439 before he killed them anyway. Caboni Savage meanwhile, was convicted 1089 01:18:33.479 --> 01:18:37.840 of committing or ordering the deaths of twelve people, including 1090 01:18:37.920 --> 01:18:44.039 four children, as a Philadelphia drug dealer. James Rohan Junior 1091 01:18:44.439 --> 01:18:48.920 participated in the murder of eleven people as a drug 1092 01:18:49.000 --> 01:18:57.000 dealer in Richmond, Virginia. Three of the men on federal 1093 01:18:57.079 --> 01:19:01.159 death row who did not get a commutation Boston Marathon 1094 01:19:01.279 --> 01:19:06.439 Bomber zoekarr Sonarev, who along with his brother killed three 1095 01:19:06.520 --> 01:19:12.279 people in twenty thirteen. Robert Bowers killed eleven people at 1096 01:19:12.319 --> 01:19:16.479 a Pittsburgh synagogue in twenty eighteen, and Dylan Roofe, who 1097 01:19:16.600 --> 01:19:20.479 killed nine people at a black Charleston church and in 1098 01:19:20.640 --> 01:19:26.640 twenty fifteen did not did not get the sentences commuted. 1099 01:19:28.840 --> 01:19:32.000 The retiring president on December first, issued a blanket pardon 1100 01:19:32.079 --> 01:19:34.920 for his own son, Hunter Biden, wiping the slate of 1101 01:19:35.039 --> 01:19:38.720 his June conviction of three federal gun felonies, and in 1102 01:19:38.800 --> 01:19:42.319 September his guilty plead a one point four million in 1103 01:19:42.439 --> 01:19:47.399 tax fraud. Biden also commuted the sentence of fifteen hundred 1104 01:19:47.399 --> 01:19:50.000 people at December twelfth who had been temporarily released from 1105 01:19:50.039 --> 01:19:55.359 prison during the COVID nineteen pandemic, including Josephine Gray, the 1106 01:19:55.439 --> 01:19:58.119 Black widow who killed two of her ex husbands and 1107 01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:04.119 a third lover. Also readA Crunwell, a comptroller of Dixon 1108 01:20:04.159 --> 01:20:08.039 and Illinois stole nearly fifty four million from fifteen thousand 1109 01:20:09.079 --> 01:20:15.079 the fifteen thousand person town over two decades. So there 1110 01:20:15.159 --> 01:20:20.600 you go, Joe Biden, What a great leader, what a 1111 01:20:20.720 --> 01:20:26.239 great president, and spreading some Christmas cheer and holiday joy 1112 01:20:27.239 --> 01:20:32.479 and a Festivus miracle to a bunch of death row inmates. 1113 01:20:33.800 --> 01:20:39.359 That is just fantastic. It couldn't come from a And 1114 01:20:39.439 --> 01:20:42.840 this whole notion that Joe Biden I saw on my 1115 01:20:42.920 --> 01:20:46.319 Twitter feed over the weekend that Joe Biden is a 1116 01:20:46.399 --> 01:20:50.399 great guy, a decent guy, and people are really wishing 1117 01:20:50.479 --> 01:20:54.479 him well as he heads off to wherever he's headed 1118 01:20:54.520 --> 01:20:58.680 after January twentieth. Just that's going to be sad to 1119 01:20:58.720 --> 01:21:04.279 see him go. And I'm here to tell you nothing 1120 01:21:04.359 --> 01:21:10.000 could be further from the truth. The guy. He is 1121 01:21:10.079 --> 01:21:13.520 not a good guy or a decent guy in my opinion. 1122 01:21:15.119 --> 01:21:18.760 Let's see, let's see, let's see what. Here's a SoundBite 1123 01:21:18.760 --> 01:21:22.039 I wanted to get to Scott Jennings is uh is 1124 01:21:22.239 --> 01:21:27.640 just fantastic on CNN and he it's surprising to me, 1125 01:21:27.720 --> 01:21:30.600 they keep him around, but he's he's a sensible guy, 1126 01:21:31.039 --> 01:21:35.399 a former member of Congress, I believe, and he sits 1127 01:21:35.439 --> 01:21:37.960 on all these different panels on these different CNN shows, 1128 01:21:38.000 --> 01:21:40.319 which means no one sees him because he's on CNN. 1129 01:21:40.439 --> 01:21:43.880 But when his time comes to an end at CNN, 1130 01:21:43.960 --> 01:21:46.359 I certainly hope he gets a more high profile position 1131 01:21:46.439 --> 01:21:50.880 because he deserves it. And here he is talking about 1132 01:21:51.319 --> 01:21:53.920 it is so much of the conversation this weekend is 1133 01:21:53.960 --> 01:21:57.640 about Elon Musk, and no, we gotta we gotta be careful, 1134 01:21:57.680 --> 01:22:01.680 we gotta be aware of Elon Musk. And they're using 1135 01:22:01.760 --> 01:22:05.439 words like ola, gark and and all these terrible things 1136 01:22:05.520 --> 01:22:11.960 that he's making don Donald Trump his puppet. And they 1137 01:22:12.000 --> 01:22:14.720 were talking about Elon Musk over the weekend on CNN 1138 01:22:15.079 --> 01:22:18.960 and Scott Jennings was just on fire shooting them down. 1139 01:22:19.039 --> 01:22:22.920 And here's the here's the audio of that. And Sean McMahon, 1140 01:22:22.920 --> 01:22:24.560 if we could please hear cut number five. 1141 01:22:25.479 --> 01:22:27.279 Is this gonna wear thin with Donald Trump soon? 1142 01:22:27.640 --> 01:22:28.239 I don't think so. 1143 01:22:28.439 --> 01:22:30.960 I mean, look, they appear to be getting along well. 1144 01:22:31.640 --> 01:22:35.479 Musk was very instrumental in his victory. And I hear Democrats, 1145 01:22:35.600 --> 01:22:39.039 you know, criticizing the idea that we have unelected people 1146 01:22:39.159 --> 01:22:41.600 with too much influence over the government. I invite them 1147 01:22:41.600 --> 01:22:43.199 to pick up the Wall Street Journal from this week 1148 01:22:43.239 --> 01:22:45.319 and find out that unelected people have been running the 1149 01:22:45.359 --> 01:22:48.319 government for the last four years. I hear Democrats criticism 1150 01:22:48.600 --> 01:22:52.199 criticizing the influence of billionaires on our politics when you've 1151 01:22:52.199 --> 01:22:56.319 got this Soros punk running around collecting Democrat politicians. 1152 01:22:55.840 --> 01:22:57.479 Like my kids collect Pokemon cards. 1153 01:22:57.520 --> 01:23:00.359 So I think all the criticism of Musk coming from 1154 01:23:00.399 --> 01:23:03.800 the left is totally hypocritical, totally over the top. And 1155 01:23:04.000 --> 01:23:07.760 he is doing something interesting, bringing some transparency to the 1156 01:23:07.800 --> 01:23:10.439 federal government. It's not a terrible and. 1157 01:23:10.479 --> 01:23:12.560 There you go, there's Scott Jennings. Pick up the Wall 1158 01:23:12.600 --> 01:23:15.560 Street Journal. Now you want to talk about unelected people 1159 01:23:15.640 --> 01:23:18.520 running the government. That's exactly what's been hiding or been 1160 01:23:18.640 --> 01:23:22.920 happening with the Biden administration. And so you know, all 1161 01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:28.199 this handwringing about Elon Musk, and look the Democrats they're 1162 01:23:28.279 --> 01:23:34.079 not upset about a rich guy using his influence, and 1163 01:23:34.239 --> 01:23:38.199 really that's all Elon Musk is. He's a rich guy 1164 01:23:38.239 --> 01:23:40.319 who's got some influence. He's going to be heading up 1165 01:23:40.319 --> 01:23:46.279 the doge along with vik Ramaswami and it's going to 1166 01:23:46.319 --> 01:23:49.319 be it's going to going to be just some some 1167 01:23:49.439 --> 01:23:52.520 of the most fun we've ever had talking about politics 1168 01:23:53.399 --> 01:23:57.800 when the Doge gets up and running. But they're they're 1169 01:23:57.880 --> 01:24:01.680 not upset that that a rich guy is having some influence. 1170 01:24:01.720 --> 01:24:06.600 They're upset that Elon Musk is showing through his ownership 1171 01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:11.399 of X and through what he has been doing, that 1172 01:24:11.560 --> 01:24:16.319 the American people have easier, much easier access to information 1173 01:24:16.439 --> 01:24:19.880 about what is really going on, and it's exposing the 1174 01:24:20.279 --> 01:24:24.399 absolute garbage that these lawmakers in DC are trying to 1175 01:24:24.399 --> 01:24:27.000 shove down our throats. Seven sixteen, A little late for 1176 01:24:27.039 --> 01:24:29.399 a break here, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas. Fifty five 1177 01:24:29.479 --> 01:24:31.199 KRC the Talk station. 1178 01:24:31.560 --> 01:24:36.039 This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station. The new 1179 01:24:36.079 --> 01:24:38.520 and improved free iHeartRadio. 1180 01:24:37.840 --> 01:24:38.279 App is. 1181 01:24:53.439 --> 01:24:55.039 Sama's halfway gone. 1182 01:24:57.800 --> 01:24:58.960 And the snool. 1183 01:25:07.720 --> 01:25:14.199 Christmas Time has come in, but the blue keep behind well. 1184 01:25:16.000 --> 01:25:21.239 Fifty five KRCD Talk Station. This is jumping Joe Whiting 1185 01:25:21.319 --> 01:25:24.439 and Christmas meeting like it used to be one of 1186 01:25:24.479 --> 01:25:30.159 my all time favorites Christmas Eve, and with that we 1187 01:25:30.319 --> 01:25:34.000 welcome in a guy who's going to have a great Christmas. 1188 01:25:34.079 --> 01:25:36.600 This year, Chris Smitherman, I'm looking at your ex feed 1189 01:25:38.199 --> 01:25:41.960 and you put up a picture of the first grandchild, 1190 01:25:43.000 --> 01:25:45.880 and uh that that is going to be just a 1191 01:25:46.000 --> 01:25:49.079 fantastic Christmas at your house. So congratulations to you and 1192 01:25:49.159 --> 01:25:51.319 your family. How are you today, Oh. 1193 01:25:51.239 --> 01:25:54.000 Thank you, I'm good. I'm good, Dan, thank you so 1194 01:25:54.119 --> 01:25:56.560 much for having me on. And what a great Christmas 1195 01:25:56.680 --> 01:26:00.359 present to see my oldest son and his wife, you know, 1196 01:26:00.520 --> 01:26:03.159 come through the door with a two month old baby boy. 1197 01:26:04.520 --> 01:26:06.840 So I'm very happy for them, proud of them, and 1198 01:26:07.560 --> 01:26:11.159 happy to see the next generation continue. So it is 1199 01:26:11.239 --> 01:26:12.880 an exciting time. And I tell you, I don't know 1200 01:26:12.920 --> 01:26:15.359 where all the time went then. I don't know. Uh, 1201 01:26:15.439 --> 01:26:18.119 you know, I feel like I just graduated from from 1202 01:26:18.239 --> 01:26:22.079 high school and with that prom and now I'm a grandfather. Crazy. 1203 01:26:22.439 --> 01:26:24.439 I mean, it doesn't get any better than that, does it. 1204 01:26:25.640 --> 01:26:30.079 It doesn't get any better than that. And I'm so 1205 01:26:30.479 --> 01:26:32.920 I'm so blown away. Brother. I can just tell you 1206 01:26:33.000 --> 01:26:36.920 to pivot into what I'm seeing in New York because 1207 01:26:36.920 --> 01:26:40.800 I think I think then, and I've been listening listening 1208 01:26:40.840 --> 01:26:44.319 to the show and about all the pardons that the 1209 01:26:44.399 --> 01:26:48.800 President Biden is doing, and kind of like the schizophrenia 1210 01:26:48.920 --> 01:26:52.399 of it all. But you know, when I look at 1211 01:26:52.439 --> 01:26:55.800 what happened in New York where you have and a 1212 01:26:55.880 --> 01:26:58.880 lot of your your listeners might not know this story 1213 01:26:59.600 --> 01:27:04.840 where a man gets on a subway and sets a 1214 01:27:04.880 --> 01:27:09.279 woman on fire who is sleeping, that's not an exaggeration. 1215 01:27:09.600 --> 01:27:14.399 Then goes to a bench and watches her be on fire, 1216 01:27:14.600 --> 01:27:18.760 and at some point there's even video out there showing 1217 01:27:19.000 --> 01:27:23.000 him stanning the woman while she's on fire, giving the 1218 01:27:23.119 --> 01:27:24.239 fire oxygen. 1219 01:27:24.439 --> 01:27:28.039 I've seen it. I've seen that video. That's terrific. 1220 01:27:29.319 --> 01:27:33.600 It is absolutely horrific. And the context of two weeks 1221 01:27:33.640 --> 01:27:38.840 ago with the veteran who was on a subway system 1222 01:27:39.399 --> 01:27:44.039 in New York Underground and got involved with a man 1223 01:27:44.119 --> 01:27:46.880 who said I'm going to kill people and I don't 1224 01:27:46.920 --> 01:27:51.399 care what happens to me. He intervened, and prosecutor brags 1225 01:27:51.479 --> 01:27:55.960 puts him on trial where he's facing fifteen years in prison. 1226 01:27:56.680 --> 01:28:01.560 Imagine today if Penny had been at that point found 1227 01:28:01.600 --> 01:28:04.560 guilty and you and I were sitting here watching a 1228 01:28:04.680 --> 01:28:08.960 woman on fire, and that fire was set by somebody 1229 01:28:09.079 --> 01:28:15.600 from Guatemala who was in this country illegally and most 1230 01:28:15.880 --> 01:28:18.359 likely because I don't know the fact pattern. The woman 1231 01:28:18.479 --> 01:28:21.680 that was set on fire most likely is an American. 1232 01:28:22.760 --> 01:28:25.720 So you have someone who's here in our country illegally 1233 01:28:26.359 --> 01:28:29.920 on a New York subway where a woman is sleeping 1234 01:28:29.960 --> 01:28:33.800 and sets her on fire. She's guilty of sleeping. And 1235 01:28:34.399 --> 01:28:39.359 we're sitting around as a country talking about and these 1236 01:28:39.399 --> 01:28:42.640 are mayors and governors across the country then saying they're 1237 01:28:42.760 --> 01:28:45.840 not going to cooperate with Ice, that they're going to 1238 01:28:45.920 --> 01:28:51.199 have sanctuary cities or sanctuary states like California. And you 1239 01:28:51.359 --> 01:28:55.399 and I are just worried about getting rapists and murderers 1240 01:28:55.840 --> 01:28:59.359 off the street, whether they're Americans or whether they're illegally 1241 01:28:59.520 --> 01:29:02.920 in our But there's something that just rubs us really 1242 01:29:03.039 --> 01:29:07.680 wrong as an American to have somebody illegally here who 1243 01:29:07.880 --> 01:29:13.359 came across our border without our permission, who kills an American. 1244 01:29:15.399 --> 01:29:18.920 It's a horrific thing. And the thing is this story 1245 01:29:19.319 --> 01:29:21.800 is not a one off. This is the kind of 1246 01:29:21.920 --> 01:29:24.720 thing that has been happening almost on a daily basis, 1247 01:29:24.800 --> 01:29:29.279 Chris Smith. And under this administration, you've got people out there, 1248 01:29:29.600 --> 01:29:33.319 You've got what is it the trend de Argua, the 1249 01:29:34.520 --> 01:29:38.079 group from Guatemala that is up here running roughshot over 1250 01:29:38.159 --> 01:29:42.000 these apartment complexes in Texas and other states, and thank 1251 01:29:42.079 --> 01:29:44.520 God for Tom Home and he called them out over 1252 01:29:44.600 --> 01:29:47.079 the weekend saying that they're number one on the list 1253 01:29:47.479 --> 01:29:49.359 and he's going to get those people out of here. 1254 01:29:49.800 --> 01:29:53.439 But the fact that this has been allowed to happen, 1255 01:29:53.960 --> 01:29:57.000 and that there have been so many American lives that 1256 01:29:57.119 --> 01:30:01.960 have been disrupted and absolutely ruined because of these policies 1257 01:30:02.000 --> 01:30:05.359 that allow these things to happen is an absolute disgrace. Chris, 1258 01:30:05.439 --> 01:30:06.920 we got to get to a quick break here, but 1259 01:30:07.479 --> 01:30:09.600 we'll continue with you on the other side. It is 1260 01:30:09.720 --> 01:30:13.079 the Smither Vent on this Monday morning, Dan Carolyn for 1261 01:30:13.159 --> 01:30:16.920 Brian Thomas on fifty five krc DE Talk Stays fifty 1262 01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:18.439 five KRC dot com. 1263 01:30:19.079 --> 01:30:23.359 Forever has a natural beginning, Start your Future Together. 1264 01:30:30.079 --> 01:30:34.000 Fifty five KRC DE Talk Station, Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas. 1265 01:30:34.039 --> 01:30:41.479 A couple of days before Christmas, and that means we 1266 01:30:42.079 --> 01:30:45.760 because it's a Monday, we are glad to have always 1267 01:30:45.800 --> 01:30:48.119 glad to have Chris Smitheman on for the smith event 1268 01:30:49.239 --> 01:30:51.279 and Chris Smithman a little bit later on this morning, 1269 01:30:51.319 --> 01:30:53.600 I'm going to be talking with Sharon Coolidge of the 1270 01:30:53.640 --> 01:30:58.119 Cincinnati Inquirer. She is reflecting on ten years of covering 1271 01:30:58.199 --> 01:31:01.039 City Hall, and she published a piece a couple of 1272 01:31:01.159 --> 01:31:04.720 days ago, taking a little walk down memory Lane about 1273 01:31:04.760 --> 01:31:07.279 some of the greatest hits at City Hall, and one 1274 01:31:07.359 --> 01:31:10.720 that jumped out to me. She talks about covering the 1275 01:31:10.800 --> 01:31:14.920 streetcar back in twenty sixteen and all the all the 1276 01:31:15.319 --> 01:31:18.319 all the talk to it seemed like back in that time, 1277 01:31:18.800 --> 01:31:20.520 if you remember, it was all we talked about on 1278 01:31:20.600 --> 01:31:23.680 talk radio was was the streetcar and what was happening 1279 01:31:23.760 --> 01:31:27.079 with that? And you know, at this point in time, 1280 01:31:27.560 --> 01:31:31.439 are you able to look at the streetcar and say 1281 01:31:31.560 --> 01:31:35.000 that it has been a success by by any measure 1282 01:31:35.640 --> 01:31:38.399 at all? Or and you know, am I wrong on that? 1283 01:31:38.760 --> 01:31:42.199 Are is there something that we can point to and say, yes, 1284 01:31:42.359 --> 01:31:46.560 the streetcar has been good for Cincinnati in this way, 1285 01:31:46.680 --> 01:31:47.479 this way, and this way. 1286 01:31:48.680 --> 01:31:51.279 Well, I think we now I'm going to tie things together. 1287 01:31:51.600 --> 01:31:54.680 We now can say that there were a lot of 1288 01:31:54.800 --> 01:31:58.920 people who were promoting the streetcar who are providing a 1289 01:31:59.000 --> 01:32:03.319 lot of information that we know now the media gets 1290 01:32:03.359 --> 01:32:07.199 it wrong very often. That is not where Sharing Coolidge was. 1291 01:32:07.560 --> 01:32:10.279 I'm talking about broadly, when you turned on the TV, 1292 01:32:10.840 --> 01:32:13.000 the people out there that were saying this was a 1293 01:32:13.119 --> 01:32:16.840 great project. It was one hundred and fifty million capital project, 1294 01:32:17.399 --> 01:32:22.319 ninety four million in debt, and we were told that 1295 01:32:23.399 --> 01:32:25.920 the writers were going to be paying as much as 1296 01:32:25.960 --> 01:32:28.960 two sixty five at the time of the discussion when 1297 01:32:28.960 --> 01:32:31.600 we were collecting signatures and trying to place the issue 1298 01:32:31.640 --> 01:32:34.199 on the ballot for voters to say yes or no 1299 01:32:34.359 --> 01:32:36.760 to the project. And what I will share with you 1300 01:32:36.920 --> 01:32:39.840 is that we all we know now that you can 1301 01:32:39.880 --> 01:32:42.840 get on a streetcar this loop, this three mile loop 1302 01:32:43.279 --> 01:32:48.720 downtown that really goes nowhere, that is costing taxpayers five 1303 01:32:48.840 --> 01:32:52.399 million at a minimum to operate it, and five million 1304 01:32:52.600 --> 01:32:56.000 a year to service the debt. So we're ten million 1305 01:32:56.119 --> 01:33:00.399 dollars of our budget, your hard earned tax dollars across 1306 01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:04.199 fifty two neighborhoods. This is one neighborhood where ten million 1307 01:33:04.600 --> 01:33:08.079 is coming out. We know the street car was a debacle. 1308 01:33:08.359 --> 01:33:11.520 And by the way, I was someone working with Todd 1309 01:33:11.640 --> 01:33:14.239 Purtun when I was sitting on what was called the 1310 01:33:14.319 --> 01:33:20.880 Transportation Improvement District supporting heavy rail from the stadiums to Dayton. Well, 1311 01:33:20.920 --> 01:33:23.880 we've blown that out of the water because voters now 1312 01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:27.920 don't even trust city Hall to put forth some type 1313 01:33:27.960 --> 01:33:34.680 of viable train transportation system because they called that heavy rail, 1314 01:33:35.039 --> 01:33:39.319 they called that transportation, and it really is just a ride. 1315 01:33:39.560 --> 01:33:42.960 Like at King's Island. It was a debacle, very very 1316 01:33:43.079 --> 01:33:47.439 bad decisions by those who supported it at City Hall. 1317 01:33:47.800 --> 01:33:49.680 And I tell you there's probably a lot of people 1318 01:33:50.119 --> 01:33:52.439 who are looking at this, who voted for it, who 1319 01:33:52.479 --> 01:33:56.359 are listening to our conversation, who now can see the ideas. 1320 01:33:56.520 --> 01:33:59.880 Just like the nineteen ninety six stadium deal, where people 1321 01:34:00.079 --> 01:34:03.359 said great, great, great, it wasn't great. It has been 1322 01:34:03.439 --> 01:34:07.840 defined as the worst stadium deal in the United States 1323 01:34:07.880 --> 01:34:11.239 of America. And if we don't watch out, we'll find 1324 01:34:11.319 --> 01:34:15.479 ourselves in another situation. So these capital projects I share 1325 01:34:15.520 --> 01:34:19.600 with you, they define city Hall. I agree with sharing Coolidge. 1326 01:34:19.920 --> 01:34:22.600 It is clearly a defining moment. And as you and 1327 01:34:22.720 --> 01:34:25.359 I are talking, they're planning on trying to connect the 1328 01:34:25.439 --> 01:34:29.479 streetcar up Vine to you see, we can't afford it, 1329 01:34:30.119 --> 01:34:33.039 Dan Carroll. It's not about whether you and I are 1330 01:34:33.119 --> 01:34:37.199 sharing Coolidge or somebody says whether we support streetcars or not. 1331 01:34:37.680 --> 01:34:41.600 I'm simply saying it's something we can't afford. It's not 1332 01:34:41.800 --> 01:34:45.279 a priority. There's so many other things that we should 1333 01:34:45.279 --> 01:34:47.760 be doing with those scarce resources. 1334 01:34:48.159 --> 01:34:51.439 One of the things I recall doing talk radio back 1335 01:34:51.479 --> 01:34:55.960 when the streetcar was the main issue, was that there 1336 01:34:56.039 --> 01:34:59.600 were several meetings that happened at Cincinnati City Hall about this, 1337 01:35:00.319 --> 01:35:03.000 and it would it would come out after the fact 1338 01:35:03.439 --> 01:35:06.039 that Milton Dehoney, who was a city manager at the time, 1339 01:35:06.560 --> 01:35:12.720 would have information about a feasibility study or information about 1340 01:35:12.720 --> 01:35:17.319 the streetcar that he did not share with members of 1341 01:35:17.399 --> 01:35:21.359 city Council until after a key vote, and important vote 1342 01:35:21.520 --> 01:35:25.159 was taken that took the next step in the production 1343 01:35:25.319 --> 01:35:28.039 of the streetcar. And I remember thinking about that, and 1344 01:35:28.119 --> 01:35:30.840 I'm thinking that with this guy's the city manager of 1345 01:35:30.960 --> 01:35:35.319 the City of Cincinnati, he's got a fiduciary responsibility, but 1346 01:35:35.479 --> 01:35:40.399 yet he's withholding this information from council members so the 1347 01:35:40.479 --> 01:35:44.199 vote goes his way. And as I recall, he was 1348 01:35:44.319 --> 01:35:47.039 never called out for that, he was never taken the 1349 01:35:47.159 --> 01:35:50.600 task for that, he never paid any political price or 1350 01:35:50.880 --> 01:35:56.439 a personal price for withholding important information from members of 1351 01:35:56.520 --> 01:35:58.079 council before they took votes on this. 1352 01:35:59.319 --> 01:36:03.479 Look seen, and you're right about his administration, meaning the 1353 01:36:03.520 --> 01:36:07.880 administration that attempted to sell all parking in the city 1354 01:36:07.920 --> 01:36:10.880 of Cincinnati. It wasn't just parking downtown, it was parking 1355 01:36:10.960 --> 01:36:13.640 across the city of Cincinnati. We would have looked like 1356 01:36:13.800 --> 01:36:17.479 Chicago's parking. They also tried to sell our water system. 1357 01:36:17.560 --> 01:36:21.880 They tried to charge us a trash fee of nineteen fifty, 1358 01:36:21.920 --> 01:36:24.399 which probably would be fifty thousand a month. It was 1359 01:36:24.520 --> 01:36:27.319 nineteen fifty per month at the time. And let me 1360 01:36:27.399 --> 01:36:29.560 share with those that are in the region who pay 1361 01:36:29.600 --> 01:36:32.439 a trash fee, it's different for the people who live 1362 01:36:32.479 --> 01:36:35.520 in the city of Cincinnati who are paying an income tax. 1363 01:36:35.840 --> 01:36:38.520 So we're paying an income tax that they are not paying, 1364 01:36:38.760 --> 01:36:41.520 and we pay that tax for basic services in the 1365 01:36:41.560 --> 01:36:43.399 city of Cincinnati. So if they want to get rid 1366 01:36:43.399 --> 01:36:46.319 of the earning tax and then bring in some fee structure, 1367 01:36:46.520 --> 01:36:49.720 that might make sense. But that was double taxation. You're 1368 01:36:49.800 --> 01:36:52.479 already charging me to pick up my trash at the 1369 01:36:52.560 --> 01:36:55.520 time when you were charging me two point one percent 1370 01:36:55.840 --> 01:36:58.439 in income tax. So I was going to clarify that 1371 01:36:58.680 --> 01:37:01.079 for those who are listening. And then, of course they 1372 01:37:01.720 --> 01:37:04.920 sold the railroad, which I still believe today as I 1373 01:37:05.039 --> 01:37:08.600 sit here, was a horrible financial decision for us to 1374 01:37:09.119 --> 01:37:11.920 get rid of that bring in one point six billion 1375 01:37:11.960 --> 01:37:15.359 dollars and put it in, you know, behind a board, 1376 01:37:15.760 --> 01:37:18.439 and now we don't know what exactly is going on 1377 01:37:18.720 --> 01:37:21.560 and how many dollars are flowing into the city to 1378 01:37:21.680 --> 01:37:24.960 deal with Our roads are basically our infrastructure. So City 1379 01:37:25.039 --> 01:37:27.680 Hall is off track, There's no question about it. The 1380 01:37:27.800 --> 01:37:30.159 mayor of the City of Cincinnati is off track. And 1381 01:37:30.600 --> 01:37:33.319 at the bottom line, I want to know, will mayor 1382 01:37:33.439 --> 01:37:38.239 pure vol cooperate with ICE, meaning we are a sanctuary city. 1383 01:37:38.600 --> 01:37:41.239 If we have criminals in the city of Cincinnati, will 1384 01:37:41.359 --> 01:37:45.840 this council, will this mayor put a resolution forward that 1385 01:37:46.039 --> 01:37:50.960 says we will cooperate with ICE. They are not the KKK, 1386 01:37:51.520 --> 01:37:55.039 as the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris 1387 01:37:55.119 --> 01:37:59.239 has indicated that the ICE is not the KKK. Our 1388 01:37:59.359 --> 01:38:03.960 family is from the South, Dan Carroll, my father from Birmingham, Alabama, 1389 01:38:04.239 --> 01:38:08.399 my mother from Montgomery, Alabama. They met at Tuskegee Institute. 1390 01:38:08.600 --> 01:38:11.960 And let me tell you, from a Southern family, we 1391 01:38:12.199 --> 01:38:14.880 know what the KKK is and it is not ICE. 1392 01:38:15.159 --> 01:38:17.439 And that was one of the most ridiculous things that 1393 01:38:17.680 --> 01:38:20.159 Vice President Harris said. And at the end of the day, 1394 01:38:20.479 --> 01:38:22.760 will our mayor will the city has since that, we 1395 01:38:22.840 --> 01:38:25.800 talk about Chicago. We talk about New York. We live 1396 01:38:25.840 --> 01:38:28.479 in Cincinnati. Will they cooperate with ICE? 1397 01:38:29.319 --> 01:38:32.680 Well, I think it would serve this community well if 1398 01:38:32.680 --> 01:38:34.840 they would come out and make a declarative statement on 1399 01:38:34.920 --> 01:38:37.239 that one way or the other. Because Tom Homan has 1400 01:38:37.319 --> 01:38:40.680 come out and said, look, if you've got these mayors 1401 01:38:40.840 --> 01:38:44.800 or governors or municipalities that want to stand in our way, 1402 01:38:45.319 --> 01:38:48.640 then he's prepared for that. He is ready to take 1403 01:38:48.680 --> 01:38:55.000 the steps necessary to work around that, and even if 1404 01:38:55.039 --> 01:38:59.199 that might include some possible criminal charges for those who 1405 01:38:59.479 --> 01:39:01.560 want to stand in the way of him getting the 1406 01:39:01.640 --> 01:39:04.039 job done that he seeks to do. So it's going 1407 01:39:04.119 --> 01:39:07.960 to be an interesting time, I think when after January, 1408 01:39:08.239 --> 01:39:10.479 because he's ready to go on day one, he is, 1409 01:39:10.600 --> 01:39:12.880 he is ready to Tom Homan is ready to go 1410 01:39:13.039 --> 01:39:15.920 on the first day and uh and start implementing that 1411 01:39:16.039 --> 01:39:20.199 policy of those mass deportations. Chris smitheman, one more quick, 1412 01:39:20.880 --> 01:39:22.880 let me take a quick break here and then go ahead, 1413 01:39:22.960 --> 01:39:23.159 got it? 1414 01:39:23.239 --> 01:39:23.560 You got it? 1415 01:39:23.560 --> 01:39:24.279 Okay, let's take. 1416 01:39:24.199 --> 01:39:27.319 Quick I'm gonna say I'm gonna say, Dan Carroll, why 1417 01:39:27.520 --> 01:39:31.279 is it that Democrats are Republicans and independence or whoever 1418 01:39:31.800 --> 01:39:35.520 are arguing over we over us wanted to get criminals 1419 01:39:35.760 --> 01:39:36.680 out of our community. 1420 01:39:36.800 --> 01:39:39.600 I don't know, it seems to me like it and 1421 01:39:39.880 --> 01:39:42.399 because that that's where it's all going to start. But 1422 01:39:42.560 --> 01:39:46.079 yet CBS was up in Springfield, Ohio this weekend, UH 1423 01:39:46.239 --> 01:39:49.279 talking with people and uh and and and trying to 1424 01:39:49.479 --> 01:39:53.520 to pull up the heartstrings of the American people, talking 1425 01:39:53.600 --> 01:39:56.000 about these uh, you know, the these these poor put 1426 01:39:56.079 --> 01:39:59.079 upon immigrants who've come to this cint just looking for 1427 01:39:59.199 --> 01:40:01.760 a better way of life. Life, that's all they want, 1428 01:40:02.359 --> 01:40:05.039 and you know, don't want to hurt anyone, don't want to. No, 1429 01:40:05.720 --> 01:40:08.439 it's the criminal element is going to be the first 1430 01:40:08.479 --> 01:40:11.560 ones targeted. And I think that's a good place to start. 1431 01:40:11.840 --> 01:40:13.880 Chris Smithvan stay right there. We'll work in a quick 1432 01:40:13.920 --> 01:40:16.479 break and then continue on with the Smith event on 1433 01:40:16.560 --> 01:40:18.800 fifty five KRC DE talk station. 1434 01:40:19.079 --> 01:40:22.680 This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio Station. 1435 01:40:29.000 --> 01:40:33.000 Fifty five KRC seven. Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas. 1436 01:40:34.680 --> 01:40:37.479 I got a cool it's cold today, but it's not 1437 01:40:37.520 --> 01:40:39.359 going to be that cold on Christmas Day. But we 1438 01:40:39.479 --> 01:40:43.600 are continuing Chris Smithaman and the Smith event and Chris Smith. 1439 01:40:43.680 --> 01:40:46.920 We were talking about Sharon Coolidge and her reminiscence of 1440 01:40:47.039 --> 01:40:50.079 ten years covering City Hall. If I let me throw 1441 01:40:50.199 --> 01:40:51.880 some names out at you and you tell me the 1442 01:40:51.920 --> 01:40:54.880 first thing that jumps to mind. Here, okay, here, here 1443 01:40:54.920 --> 01:41:00.560 are the names, uh pg sitting feld Tamaya, Denard great Landsman, 1444 01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:04.359 Chris Sielbach, and Wendell Young. If I throw those five 1445 01:41:04.479 --> 01:41:07.920 names out at the Gang of five, that's a little 1446 01:41:07.920 --> 01:41:09.840 trip down memory lane, isn't it not? Not not a 1447 01:41:09.920 --> 01:41:12.600 great one? But uh is it just me? 1448 01:41:12.760 --> 01:41:13.479 Am I wrong? 1449 01:41:14.319 --> 01:41:18.479 That I have not really totally forgiven these people for 1450 01:41:18.880 --> 01:41:22.960 for this, uh, this egregious trap. This to me was assumption, 1451 01:41:22.960 --> 01:41:26.399 an affront to the to the people of Cincinnati. Uh, 1452 01:41:26.520 --> 01:41:30.079 the way they carried on and just uh really, the 1453 01:41:30.319 --> 01:41:34.439 the disgusting nature of this, this whole episode of the 1454 01:41:34.520 --> 01:41:37.439 whole Gang of five. And and to my way of thinking, 1455 01:41:37.840 --> 01:41:41.600 they may have paid a political price for it, but 1456 01:41:41.720 --> 01:41:44.560 when it comes to what they did to me, it 1457 01:41:44.720 --> 01:41:46.439 was just completely inexcusable. 1458 01:41:47.680 --> 01:41:52.399 Well what blew me away was how the Democratic voters 1459 01:41:52.520 --> 01:41:57.560 advanced Now congressmen are Landsman. Yeah, and so even after 1460 01:41:57.680 --> 01:41:59.520 the Gang of Five, and these are people that say 1461 01:42:00.039 --> 01:42:02.840 that they are so into the Constitution and they're so 1462 01:42:03.079 --> 01:42:08.159 worried about the subversion of democracy. And here's a guy 1463 01:42:08.279 --> 01:42:14.520 who literally was texting amongst his colleagues to undermine city 1464 01:42:14.640 --> 01:42:18.680 voters on what was taking place with their government. That's 1465 01:42:18.760 --> 01:42:20.399 what they were doing at the heart of it. And 1466 01:42:21.520 --> 01:42:25.119 you know, Judge Rueman said they should never be reelected 1467 01:42:25.600 --> 01:42:28.840 for being involved with it. And it was disgusting, clearly. 1468 01:42:29.640 --> 01:42:33.640 But we now you know this, our community has now 1469 01:42:33.760 --> 01:42:36.960 advanced him to Congress, and that's why there's so many 1470 01:42:37.039 --> 01:42:41.399 voters out there who get disenfranchised or get so concerned 1471 01:42:41.439 --> 01:42:44.479 about about their government. You know, I want to pivot 1472 01:42:44.640 --> 01:42:46.520 and just talk about one of the things, which is 1473 01:42:46.600 --> 01:42:51.239 Fanny Willis down in Georgia, who this week was disqualified 1474 01:42:51.359 --> 01:42:55.399 by the Supreme Court to move forward on this case 1475 01:42:55.680 --> 01:42:59.520 where they were saying that now President elect Trump in 1476 01:42:59.640 --> 01:43:04.399 some way had interfered in their election. And so finally, right, 1477 01:43:04.520 --> 01:43:07.479 some adults have come in the room and said, listen, 1478 01:43:08.239 --> 01:43:11.359 what you do in your personal life is no business 1479 01:43:11.439 --> 01:43:14.159 of ours. We don't even care about it. But what 1480 01:43:14.279 --> 01:43:17.119 we do care about is if you're in a relationship 1481 01:43:17.159 --> 01:43:21.279 with your employee and you're paying them six hundred and 1482 01:43:21.319 --> 01:43:25.279 fifty or seven hundred thousand dollars in an area where 1483 01:43:25.399 --> 01:43:33.359 he has no professional experience to prosecute a case like this. 1484 01:43:34.199 --> 01:43:37.560 This has been clearly documented. But now you want to 1485 01:43:37.600 --> 01:43:40.399 say you want to pursue the President of the United 1486 01:43:40.439 --> 01:43:43.479 States of America. So I'm glad to see that the 1487 01:43:43.520 --> 01:43:47.439 appellate court said, listen, we're putting you in time out, 1488 01:43:48.319 --> 01:43:51.000 and all of your entire office you're in time out. 1489 01:43:51.319 --> 01:43:54.079 And let's see if a grown up comes in another 1490 01:43:54.159 --> 01:43:57.960 special prosecutor and says, guess what, we are dropping these 1491 01:43:58.119 --> 01:44:01.279 charges that should never have been brought. We're now looking 1492 01:44:01.359 --> 01:44:04.079 at it with fresh eyes, and we can see this 1493 01:44:04.279 --> 01:44:06.840 is a case that should never have gone forward. So 1494 01:44:06.960 --> 01:44:09.680 you see what's happening in Georgia. We see what's happening 1495 01:44:09.800 --> 01:44:12.159 in New York where they're saying, we're gonna hold this 1496 01:44:12.319 --> 01:44:14.880 case for four years. We're going to try to hold 1497 01:44:14.920 --> 01:44:17.000 this over the head of the presidency of these day 1498 01:44:17.159 --> 01:44:21.800 charges which were all no pun intended, trumped up, which 1499 01:44:21.880 --> 01:44:26.119 made no sense as it relates to what is happening 1500 01:44:26.199 --> 01:44:29.000 in the New York case. But when will we as 1501 01:44:29.079 --> 01:44:32.239 a country just step back and say you cannot use 1502 01:44:32.680 --> 01:44:37.600 the law to undermine your political adversaries. The people that 1503 01:44:37.680 --> 01:44:39.960 are running against you. So to me, all of that 1504 01:44:40.159 --> 01:44:43.079 is tied in the Gang of Five. We've now advanced 1505 01:44:43.119 --> 01:44:46.079 one of them to Congress. We now have these cases 1506 01:44:46.159 --> 01:44:50.640 in Georgia, we were in Florida, in New York as examples, 1507 01:44:50.920 --> 01:44:54.640 meaning using the law, using the government, using the system 1508 01:44:55.039 --> 01:44:58.399 to subvert the American public. 1509 01:45:00.079 --> 01:45:03.920 And it all ties in even further if you ask me, 1510 01:45:04.079 --> 01:45:07.159 because over the last few days we've had this budget 1511 01:45:07.199 --> 01:45:10.279 battle that's been going on a Capitol Hill, and there 1512 01:45:10.319 --> 01:45:14.199 are so many Democrats now who are complaining because Elon 1513 01:45:14.359 --> 01:45:19.560 Musk took the lead and dared to expose some of 1514 01:45:19.600 --> 01:45:24.439 the things that were contained in this fifteen hundred page 1515 01:45:24.960 --> 01:45:30.560 budget bill that included protections for the January sixth Committee 1516 01:45:30.560 --> 01:45:33.640 and members of Congress were they to be investigated. So 1517 01:45:33.800 --> 01:45:36.760 they wanted to continue on with this two tier justice system, 1518 01:45:37.000 --> 01:45:41.199 and that was shoved into the budget bill. So the 1519 01:45:41.520 --> 01:45:45.159 ability for the American people to know and understand what 1520 01:45:45.399 --> 01:45:48.840 is going on behind the curtain in the halls of government. 1521 01:45:49.680 --> 01:45:52.920 That this was exposed, and the American people saw it 1522 01:45:53.319 --> 01:45:55.800 and demanded of their members of Congress that they not 1523 01:45:56.000 --> 01:45:58.760 approved this, I think is what a lot of these 1524 01:45:59.159 --> 01:46:01.960 Democrats a lot of those on the left are really 1525 01:46:02.039 --> 01:46:06.760 upset about because they they have been doing this for 1526 01:46:07.000 --> 01:46:10.439 so long now, just carrying on and getting their way 1527 01:46:10.520 --> 01:46:13.239 and doing whatever they want. We all remember when Nancy 1528 01:46:13.279 --> 01:46:16.279 Pelosi said, we have to pass the bill to find 1529 01:46:16.319 --> 01:46:18.840 out what's in the bill. And they've been operating under 1530 01:46:18.880 --> 01:46:22.479 this notion that the American people somehow don't have the 1531 01:46:22.640 --> 01:46:26.279 right or shouldn't have the ability to know what's in 1532 01:46:26.399 --> 01:46:28.920 it and to comment on it before they vote on it. 1533 01:46:29.199 --> 01:46:32.880 And so the whole, this whole notion that you know, 1534 01:46:33.000 --> 01:46:35.439 they are the ones who are suppressing freedom of speech, 1535 01:46:35.680 --> 01:46:38.279 but yet when that same freedom of speech is used 1536 01:46:38.359 --> 01:46:41.880 to expose the truth, well they just they get all 1537 01:46:41.920 --> 01:46:44.239 bent out of shape about Look. 1538 01:46:44.319 --> 01:46:51.560 Elon Musk is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in 1539 01:46:51.680 --> 01:46:56.720 the last two hundred years, bottom line, in the world. 1540 01:46:57.279 --> 01:47:03.800 And remember Elon Musk, well, the Democratic Party's poster person, 1541 01:47:04.079 --> 01:47:08.760 meaning they loved him because of Tesla and his push 1542 01:47:08.880 --> 01:47:14.239 for electric cars and his push for space travel which 1543 01:47:14.279 --> 01:47:17.880 has been which has been phenomenal private space travel. And 1544 01:47:18.000 --> 01:47:21.159 so this notion now that when he bought Twitter, that 1545 01:47:21.279 --> 01:47:24.720 he now has branded X for forty four or forty 1546 01:47:24.800 --> 01:47:28.439 five billion dollars. He now has become the enemy of 1547 01:47:28.640 --> 01:47:34.119 the Democratic Party because he is actually exercising the democracy 1548 01:47:34.359 --> 01:47:38.119 of information, meaning you can now go on his platform 1549 01:47:38.560 --> 01:47:42.760 and actually put out the truth and allow the public 1550 01:47:42.840 --> 01:47:45.119 to decide whether they want to read it or not 1551 01:47:45.279 --> 01:47:48.239 read it. That was not happening under the last leadership 1552 01:47:48.640 --> 01:47:52.439 of the owners of Twitter. And so this, this leveling 1553 01:47:52.520 --> 01:47:56.159 of the democracy has put what I would say mainstream 1554 01:47:56.279 --> 01:47:59.600 media back on its heels because now you have a 1555 01:47:59.680 --> 01:48:02.840 present that who's willing to go around the podcast, go 1556 01:48:03.079 --> 01:48:07.640 around to places like Twitter in order to get their 1557 01:48:07.840 --> 01:48:11.039 their their message out about what's happening. I want to 1558 01:48:11.119 --> 01:48:13.520 just touch on those partons that you were talking about, 1559 01:48:14.399 --> 01:48:17.560 you know, I think about that that judge who was 1560 01:48:17.840 --> 01:48:21.159 who was taking cash for putting young people in private 1561 01:48:21.239 --> 01:48:24.520 prison and one of those young people committed suicide that 1562 01:48:24.680 --> 01:48:31.239 President Biden pardoned. No one knows what he's doing. I 1563 01:48:31.319 --> 01:48:33.560 don't think he knows what he's doing. I think these 1564 01:48:33.560 --> 01:48:38.840 are people within his administration who are leveling out these 1565 01:48:38.960 --> 01:48:41.640 partons that he's signing off on. But I tell you 1566 01:48:42.000 --> 01:48:45.600 they are really really outrageous. And you saw the governor 1567 01:48:45.680 --> 01:48:50.840 of Pennsylvania, who is Governor Shapiro, who is, by the way, 1568 01:48:51.000 --> 01:48:54.279 a Democrat who had to speak out about the parton 1569 01:48:54.640 --> 01:48:57.159 of the judge who was taking money for cash to 1570 01:48:57.359 --> 01:49:00.159 put young people in private prisons. I don't know what 1571 01:49:00.279 --> 01:49:02.920 the White House is doing. I think that the biggest 1572 01:49:02.920 --> 01:49:06.239 scandal of the White House is actually his health status. 1573 01:49:06.520 --> 01:49:09.000 And ultimately all of that is going to come out 1574 01:49:09.239 --> 01:49:13.079 in the next six months as the new administration takes power. 1575 01:49:13.760 --> 01:49:16.840 All right, well, christ Mitherman, the time always flies by. 1576 01:49:17.000 --> 01:49:18.880 This is the last time we'll probably have a chance 1577 01:49:18.920 --> 01:49:22.079 to talk before Christmas. I'll give you the last word. 1578 01:49:22.199 --> 01:49:25.039 Do you have a couple of thoughts fall or two 1579 01:49:25.119 --> 01:49:28.680 on Christmas? As we as Mary sign off for this. 1580 01:49:30.199 --> 01:49:32.439 I would just say, Merry Christmas to you, Dan Carroll 1581 01:49:32.520 --> 01:49:34.560 and happy New Year. And I would say, as a 1582 01:49:34.640 --> 01:49:39.199 financial planner, put your budgets together, stay within the budget 1583 01:49:39.359 --> 01:49:43.399 for your Christmas holiday shopping, don't try to overdo it, 1584 01:49:44.439 --> 01:49:49.079 and make sure that you are saving accordingly for your 1585 01:49:49.800 --> 01:49:53.159 deferred issues like retirement, because Social Security is just not 1586 01:49:53.359 --> 01:49:55.439 going to take care of you. I think if people start, 1587 01:49:55.720 --> 01:49:57.399 if they do that, they don't get hurt over the 1588 01:49:57.439 --> 01:50:01.039 holidays with over shopping, and they put a plan together 1589 01:50:01.399 --> 01:50:03.520 to begin to save on a monthly basis in the 1590 01:50:03.600 --> 01:50:05.840 new year. It will be a great New Year's resolution. 1591 01:50:06.159 --> 01:50:07.520 Merry Christmas and happy New Year. 1592 01:50:07.640 --> 01:50:09.800 Chris Smithervent all the best to you, my friend, and 1593 01:50:10.520 --> 01:50:12.760 we definitely hope to talk to you again in the 1594 01:50:12.840 --> 01:50:13.199 new year. 1595 01:50:14.279 --> 01:50:14.800 Thank you brother. 1596 01:50:14.840 --> 01:50:16.880 All Right, there you go, Chris Smitheman and the smith Event. 1597 01:50:16.960 --> 01:50:20.279 That guy is the absolute best. Seven fifty two Dan 1598 01:50:20.359 --> 01:50:24.039 Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC The Talk Station. 1599 01:50:24.319 --> 01:50:28.239 Fifty five KRC the talks Station. Since two thousand and eight, 1600 01:50:28.319 --> 01:50:30.159 Linder Center of Hope has served as a lifeline the 1601 01:50:30.239 --> 01:50:33.039 tens of thousands who faced mental illness or addiction. You know, 1602 01:50:33.119 --> 01:50:40.960 one in four Americans. Bill will be you mangan. 1603 01:50:50.720 --> 01:50:51.520 To have. 1604 01:50:53.239 --> 01:50:56.520 Fifty five KRC the Talk Station, Dan Carroll for Brian 1605 01:50:56.600 --> 01:50:59.640 Thomas a couple of days away for Christmas twenty twenty 1606 01:50:59.680 --> 01:51:04.000 four thanks to Chris Smithman always makes time. When I 1607 01:51:04.079 --> 01:51:06.199 get to fill in for Brian Thomas on a Monday morning, 1608 01:51:06.199 --> 01:51:09.720 I always appreciate him being here. Really one of these 1609 01:51:09.960 --> 01:51:12.920 just one of the all time great guests that you 1610 01:51:13.000 --> 01:51:17.479 can possibly have on So I appreciate him and congratulations 1611 01:51:17.560 --> 01:51:22.079 to him and check out his twiz x feed and 1612 01:51:22.199 --> 01:51:25.399 you'll see the picture of him with that brand new uh, 1613 01:51:26.159 --> 01:51:29.520 that brand new grandchild in his arms. It's just a 1614 01:51:29.600 --> 01:51:32.079 great picture. And if that doesn't bring a smile to 1615 01:51:32.159 --> 01:51:34.479 your face, I don't know what will. So congratulations to 1616 01:51:34.560 --> 01:51:38.000 Chris Smitherman and and his beautiful family. Let's open up 1617 01:51:38.000 --> 01:51:40.199 the phone lines five, one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty 1618 01:51:40.239 --> 01:51:42.720 five hundred. I've been yacking a lot this morning. If 1619 01:51:42.720 --> 01:51:44.920 you want to join in, I'd love to hear some 1620 01:51:45.079 --> 01:51:47.000 of your thoughts on the other side of the news 1621 01:51:47.039 --> 01:51:48.520 here at the top of the hour, and then at 1622 01:51:48.560 --> 01:51:50.800 the bottom of the hour, we'll be checking in with 1623 01:51:50.960 --> 01:51:54.560 Sharon Coolidge of the Cincinnati Inquirer as she reflects on 1624 01:51:54.840 --> 01:51:57.920 ten years of covering City Hall and do you talk 1625 01:51:57.960 --> 01:52:01.239 about a little trip down memory lane? That will be 1626 01:52:01.319 --> 01:52:03.079 some good stuff with her, So we invite you to 1627 01:52:03.159 --> 01:52:05.159 stay tuned for that as we roll on till nine 1628 01:52:05.159 --> 01:52:09.399 o'clock this morning on fifty five KRC, the talk stays. 1629 01:52:09.720 --> 01:52:12.359 There's no shortage of stuff to talk about in twenty 1630 01:52:12.439 --> 01:52:18.359 twenty five. The conversation is happening here on fifty five KRC, 1631 01:52:18.960 --> 01:52:19.880 the talk station. 1632 01:52:20.359 --> 01:52:27.359 This reporter, Good morning, fifty five KRC the talk station 1633 01:52:27.520 --> 01:52:32.439 eight oh five Dan Carroll in Fort Brian Thomas a 1634 01:52:32.520 --> 01:52:36.960 couple of days away from Christmas. Today is Monday, December 1635 01:52:37.039 --> 01:52:41.000 twenty third, Christmas Day. Of course on Wednesday, I get 1636 01:52:41.039 --> 01:52:42.760 to be here tomorrow for Brian Thomas too, so I'm 1637 01:52:42.760 --> 01:52:45.199 looking forward to that. I hope you can be here 1638 01:52:45.279 --> 01:52:48.640 as well. I've been talking all morning about some of 1639 01:52:48.680 --> 01:52:52.359 the reports that have come out really uncovering what's been 1640 01:52:52.439 --> 01:52:54.720 going on in the last four years in the Biden administration. 1641 01:52:55.800 --> 01:52:58.319 And the most shocking one, I think is the Wall 1642 01:52:58.359 --> 01:53:01.479 Street Journal report that came out on Thursday. They talking 1643 01:53:01.560 --> 01:53:05.359 about how Joe Biden really has been unfit to serve 1644 01:53:06.119 --> 01:53:08.880 the entire really the entire time. And then and look 1645 01:53:08.920 --> 01:53:11.279 at they had meetings that had to be cut short, 1646 01:53:12.560 --> 01:53:16.880 kept kept cabinet members away, and just did all sorts 1647 01:53:16.880 --> 01:53:22.399 of things unelected people in the White House who had 1648 01:53:22.439 --> 01:53:24.760 to put up a wall between Joe Biden and the 1649 01:53:24.840 --> 01:53:28.359 people that needed to deal with him on a daily basis. 1650 01:53:30.680 --> 01:53:32.840 And then you have this piece in bright part that 1651 01:53:33.000 --> 01:53:36.279 the Biden administration deported about three hundred and ninety thousand 1652 01:53:36.439 --> 01:53:40.560 fewer illegals over the last four years than Donald Trump did, 1653 01:53:41.920 --> 01:53:44.239 and they and they like to talk now about how 1654 01:53:45.359 --> 01:53:49.439 they're you know, they're getting the border under control. May 1655 01:53:49.560 --> 01:53:51.439 Orcus was doing an interview. Let me see, if I 1656 01:53:52.600 --> 01:53:54.119 let me hold on one second, I see if I 1657 01:53:54.159 --> 01:53:56.399 got that interview with may Orcus, would I got the 1658 01:53:56.479 --> 01:53:59.720 report on it? Anyway? But may Orcus was talking about 1659 01:53:59.760 --> 01:54:06.239 over the weekend about executive action could have here He 1660 01:54:06.399 --> 01:54:10.359 is right here. May Orcus admitted, in hindsight, executive action 1661 01:54:10.520 --> 01:54:14.840 could have been taken account of the irresponsible politics that 1662 01:54:15.039 --> 01:54:19.399 killed the bipartisan border negotiations. Now, I'm so sick and 1663 01:54:19.479 --> 01:54:22.840 tired of the people like him and others acting as 1664 01:54:22.920 --> 01:54:28.079 if this bipartisan border deal was the ticket to salvation 1665 01:54:28.800 --> 01:54:32.399 as it relates to illegal immigrants and all the rest 1666 01:54:32.439 --> 01:54:34.880 of it, that border deal was going to be an 1667 01:54:35.000 --> 01:54:40.000 absolute disaster. And let me see, here's may Arcus. Remember 1668 01:54:42.000 --> 01:54:44.600 where we were when the president took office. Mayarcus said, 1669 01:54:44.600 --> 01:54:47.039 we're in the midst of COVID nineteen. He was on 1670 01:54:47.159 --> 01:54:50.199 face the nation this weekend. We were in the midst 1671 01:54:50.199 --> 01:54:54.800 of COVID nineteen pandemic, the prior administration everything, Hey, have 1672 01:54:54.920 --> 01:54:57.479 you noticed that when it comes to this administration, everything 1673 01:54:57.560 --> 01:55:01.359 they talk about every problem that they had, couldn't get 1674 01:55:01.399 --> 01:55:05.039 the economy going because of the pandemic, had border crisis 1675 01:55:05.119 --> 01:55:09.279 because of the pandemic. Everything because of the pandemic. And 1676 01:55:09.399 --> 01:55:12.199 they talk about how they know as if they were 1677 01:55:12.279 --> 01:55:15.000 the only ones that did have the wherewithal to deal 1678 01:55:15.079 --> 01:55:20.119 with the pandemic. But everything was wrong because of the pandemic. 1679 01:55:20.199 --> 01:55:24.039 And so we've been overcoming that had a lot of 1680 01:55:24.079 --> 01:55:28.079 work to do their overcome that pandemic. But he talks 1681 01:55:28.119 --> 01:55:32.479 about the pandemic. Prior administration imposed Title forty two Public 1682 01:55:32.560 --> 01:55:38.239 Health Authority and enabled the US to expel individuals, to 1683 01:55:38.439 --> 01:55:41.119 continue to expel individuals at the border as the prior 1684 01:55:41.159 --> 01:55:45.359 administration done. There was tremendous pressure to remain to maintain 1685 01:55:45.520 --> 01:55:48.880 the working of Title forty two until May twenty three. 1686 01:55:49.359 --> 01:55:55.319 But it doesn't matter. They still let thousands and millions 1687 01:55:55.359 --> 01:55:59.439 of illegals in. Where was the vetting there? Where was 1688 01:55:59.560 --> 01:56:03.359 the the health screenings when all these people were coming in? 1689 01:56:04.000 --> 01:56:05.840 Now you and I had to be on lockdown and 1690 01:56:05.920 --> 01:56:09.319 wear masks and all the rest of it. And he 1691 01:56:09.439 --> 01:56:12.640 goes on and on and on talks about the bipartisan 1692 01:56:12.720 --> 01:56:19.760 border bill, But the real border bill was the Secure 1693 01:56:19.840 --> 01:56:23.880 Border Act of twenty twenty three that was passed by 1694 01:56:23.920 --> 01:56:28.279 the House and sent to the Senate. Some of the 1695 01:56:28.359 --> 01:56:31.960 things that border bill, and this is the real border bill. 1696 01:56:32.720 --> 01:56:36.439 So anyone who anytime you hear someone like Majorcists or 1697 01:56:36.520 --> 01:56:39.720 some Democrat or anyone else talk about well they you know, 1698 01:56:39.800 --> 01:56:42.479 the Republicans, they didn't they did want to pass this 1699 01:56:42.600 --> 01:56:49.159 border bill, bipartisan deal. There was already a bipartisan deal 1700 01:56:49.479 --> 01:56:53.880 was that was already approved in the House. Some of 1701 01:56:53.920 --> 01:56:56.279 the things this bill would have done required the Department 1702 01:56:56.319 --> 01:57:01.800 of Homeland Security to resume activities to construct all along 1703 01:57:01.880 --> 01:57:06.279 the border. Not only did the Bide administration not want 1704 01:57:06.319 --> 01:57:11.119 to construct the wall as we speak, they are selling 1705 01:57:11.319 --> 01:57:16.319 portions of the materials used to build that wall that 1706 01:57:16.439 --> 01:57:18.159 have been sitting around for the last three and a 1707 01:57:18.199 --> 01:57:22.640 half four years. They're selling those things for pennies on 1708 01:57:22.760 --> 01:57:28.479 the dollar, all that material. It would have provided statut 1709 01:57:28.960 --> 01:57:34.399 statutory authorization for Operation Stone Garden, which provides grants to 1710 01:57:34.600 --> 01:57:40.880 law enforcement agencies for border security operations. Prohibits of DHS 1711 01:57:41.720 --> 01:57:48.840 from processing the entry of non US nationals arriving between 1712 01:57:48.960 --> 01:57:55.039 ports of entry, prohibits Department of Homeland Security from processing 1713 01:57:55.159 --> 01:57:58.439 the entry of non US nation. This border bill that 1714 01:57:58.520 --> 01:58:03.680 may Orkis is talking about would have accelerated that. They 1715 01:58:03.800 --> 01:58:06.119 talk about, Oh, we're going to get all these border agents. 1716 01:58:06.119 --> 01:58:08.840 Why they weren't there to keep people out. They were 1717 01:58:08.920 --> 01:58:13.600 there to facilitate the entry of people into the country. 1718 01:58:18.039 --> 01:58:20.279 They were going to expand the types of crimes that 1719 01:58:20.439 --> 01:58:25.479 make an individual ineligible for asylum, such as conviction for 1720 01:58:25.640 --> 01:58:30.279 driving while intoxicated causing another person serious bodily injury or death. 1721 01:58:34.159 --> 01:58:37.159 But no, we know that because of the report that 1722 01:58:37.239 --> 01:58:39.640 came out a couple of months ago talking about the 1723 01:58:39.720 --> 01:58:42.840 high number of criminals, the people who had been convicted 1724 01:58:44.279 --> 01:58:49.800 of murder or drug dealing or trafficking or any number 1725 01:58:50.479 --> 01:58:55.760 of horrible crimes. Somehow this administration saw fit to just 1726 01:58:55.880 --> 01:58:58.760 overlook all that and allow those people to come in 1727 01:58:58.840 --> 01:59:04.560 with no problem at all. And now Breitbart over the 1728 01:59:04.600 --> 01:59:09.399 weekend put out this story about the number of deportations. 1729 01:59:09.439 --> 01:59:13.319 From fiscal twenty one through fiscal twenty four, the Biden 1730 01:59:13.319 --> 01:59:17.600 administration deported five hundred and forty five thousand illegal aliens 1731 01:59:17.640 --> 01:59:20.319 from the United States. Sounds like a lot, doesn't it. 1732 01:59:21.000 --> 01:59:24.840 Five hundred thousand people deported get out of here. Well, 1733 01:59:24.880 --> 01:59:29.439 that's just a fraction of the estimated eight million that 1734 01:59:29.640 --> 01:59:33.640 came in over that same period, So eight million in 1735 01:59:33.960 --> 01:59:40.239 five hundred thousand out not exactly an equal equation. While 1736 01:59:40.279 --> 01:59:45.560 deportations spiked in fiscal twenty four or yeah twenty four 1737 01:59:45.600 --> 01:59:49.439 to nearly two hundred and seventy one thousand, Biden's insistence 1738 01:59:49.520 --> 01:59:52.359 on drastically cutting deportations in his first three years in 1739 01:59:52.439 --> 01:59:57.840 office has ensured hundreds of thousands fewer illegal aliens had 1740 01:59:57.920 --> 02:00:01.880 been deported than otherwise would have been. For example, in 1741 02:00:01.960 --> 02:00:07.319 Trump's first term, from fiscal twenty seventeen through fiscal twenty twenty, 1742 02:00:07.800 --> 02:00:12.279 more than nine hundred and thirty five thousand illegals were 1743 02:00:12.319 --> 02:00:16.880 deported from the United States. Compared to Trump's first term, 1744 02:00:16.960 --> 02:00:23.960 Biden's reduced deportations by more than forty one percent. More importantly, 1745 02:00:24.079 --> 02:00:28.720 perhaps the Biden administration slash deportations of illegals removed from 1746 02:00:28.760 --> 02:00:31.640 the interior of the United States by more than half 1747 02:00:33.239 --> 02:00:37.800 compared to Trump's first term. So that's all I've heard 1748 02:00:37.840 --> 02:00:42.960 over these last several weeks is these people trying to 1749 02:00:43.039 --> 02:00:47.840 talk about how Biden's immigration policies are actually tougher than Trump's. 1750 02:00:50.840 --> 02:00:56.239 But nothing could be further from the truth. So it's 1751 02:00:56.359 --> 02:01:03.319 just just just keeps piling on and these people cannot 1752 02:01:03.359 --> 02:01:08.199 be gone soon enough. Let me see, I was going 1753 02:01:08.279 --> 02:01:10.840 to play another got some more audio. I want to 1754 02:01:10.880 --> 02:01:12.680 get to what we've got it. We are break coming 1755 02:01:12.760 --> 02:01:15.279 up here and then we'll hit some more audio on 1756 02:01:15.399 --> 02:01:18.600 the other side of this, And this one is I've 1757 02:01:18.600 --> 02:01:25.079 got another cut from Peter Doocy and Don Todd Lemon. 1758 02:01:25.439 --> 02:01:29.119 Don Lemon, formerly a CNN is out there now and 1759 02:01:29.279 --> 02:01:32.960 I don't know. I think he's had a couple of 1760 02:01:33.079 --> 02:01:35.239 job opportunities that dropped up, and I think he's trying 1761 02:01:35.279 --> 02:01:37.159 to do his own thing on I don't know if 1762 02:01:37.199 --> 02:01:39.880 he's got a YouTube channel or what. But he walks 1763 02:01:39.960 --> 02:01:42.640 around the streets and doing man on the Street and 1764 02:01:42.640 --> 02:01:46.399 interviews with a microphone, and he was talking to some 1765 02:01:46.600 --> 02:01:50.000 dude in New York and just got just got completely owned. 1766 02:01:50.000 --> 02:01:53.000 It's pretty good. So we'll play that on the other 1767 02:01:53.079 --> 02:01:56.680 side of this, but yeah, stick around for that. That's 1768 02:01:56.680 --> 02:01:58.039 going to be pretty good. Then at the bottom of 1769 02:01:58.039 --> 02:02:00.680 the hour, we'll talk with Sharon Coolidge as she talks 1770 02:02:00.720 --> 02:02:04.279 about her her ten years covering City Hall, So stick 1771 02:02:04.279 --> 02:02:06.520 around for that. Dan Carroll from Brian Thomas on fifty 1772 02:02:06.560 --> 02:02:10.039 five KRC The Talk Station, fifty five KRC. 1773 02:02:11.079 --> 02:02:13.560 It's the most wonderful time of the year now through 1774 02:02:13.640 --> 02:02:14.600 December twenty fifth. 1775 02:02:14.680 --> 02:02:27.039 Jeff Ruby Gibbon Silverbus, Silverbus is Christmas time and listity, 1776 02:02:28.159 --> 02:02:31.560 fifty five KRC, The talk Station, getting ready for Christmas, 1777 02:02:32.079 --> 02:02:39.640 rolling out the Christmas musically. Hear them ray side Christmas. 1778 02:02:40.039 --> 02:02:41.840 I hear, I hear these songs playing, and I just 1779 02:02:41.920 --> 02:02:44.439 want to be quiet. Let them play. Absolutely love it. 1780 02:02:45.640 --> 02:02:48.239 Oh where are we at here? You got I gotta 1781 02:02:48.239 --> 02:02:49.760 get a hit A couple more soundbites here. 1782 02:02:51.199 --> 02:02:51.319 Uh. 1783 02:02:51.960 --> 02:02:56.199 Peter Doocy was on Fox News when this story broke 1784 02:02:56.239 --> 02:03:01.520 about Joe Biden and how the wah Rejournal put out. Hey, 1785 02:03:01.640 --> 02:03:05.520 they talked to fifty people at the White House who 1786 02:03:07.359 --> 02:03:12.600 talked about what happened during the administration. And on the 1787 02:03:12.680 --> 02:03:14.479 face of it, I may sound like I'm being a 1788 02:03:14.479 --> 02:03:18.640 little bit hypocritical because I think about the Pete hag 1789 02:03:18.800 --> 02:03:23.039 Seth hit pieces they came out where they said, this 1790 02:03:23.359 --> 02:03:30.760 was the New York Times that oh, we've got ten 1791 02:03:30.840 --> 02:03:32.960 people from Fox News and they're saying that, you know, 1792 02:03:33.119 --> 02:03:36.479 Pete hagg Seth was late to work and he was 1793 02:03:36.840 --> 02:03:39.479 you know, could spell alcohol in his breath and it 1794 02:03:39.680 --> 02:03:43.600 wasn't prepared and it really just I'm not making good 1795 02:03:43.640 --> 02:03:47.439 decisions and it really shouldn't be Secretary of Defense. Well, 1796 02:03:47.479 --> 02:03:52.560 what happened when that piece came out? What happened? People 1797 02:03:52.640 --> 02:03:55.760 that knew, people that know Pete hagg Seth, people that 1798 02:03:55.920 --> 02:04:00.680 worked with Pete hagg Seth privately and publicly came out 1799 02:04:00.720 --> 02:04:05.640 and said these stories are not true. Reporter after anchor 1800 02:04:05.760 --> 02:04:11.159 after anchor, producers, people behind the scenes, people that I 1801 02:04:11.279 --> 02:04:14.399 know personally that work at Fox News told me that 1802 02:04:14.520 --> 02:04:20.239 these stories were not even close to being true. By 1803 02:04:20.399 --> 02:04:25.399 contrast this story with these sources talking about what happened 1804 02:04:25.439 --> 02:04:29.319 in the Biden White House. Has the White House come 1805 02:04:29.399 --> 02:04:35.560 out and refuted any of this other than Chris Coons, 1806 02:04:36.520 --> 02:04:40.119 who I played that SoundBite earlier, who even said, well, 1807 02:04:40.199 --> 02:04:42.439 I didn't see anything wrong with Trump, not up until 1808 02:04:42.479 --> 02:04:47.319 the debate that might have noticed a little something. That's 1809 02:04:47.359 --> 02:04:49.399 about the best defense that we've had of Biden so 1810 02:04:49.560 --> 02:04:53.239 far on this. People are not coming out and putting 1811 02:04:53.279 --> 02:04:57.920 their names on this and saying this story is false. 1812 02:04:58.399 --> 02:05:03.159 This is not how the administration rant. I haven't I 1813 02:05:03.239 --> 02:05:05.560 didn't see corre I didn't see anything over the weekend 1814 02:05:06.479 --> 02:05:10.760 to suggest that this story is not true. And so 1815 02:05:11.840 --> 02:05:14.840 Pete Doocey was talking about this with his friends on 1816 02:05:15.000 --> 02:05:20.039 Fox News and he was like, look, I called it 1817 02:05:20.119 --> 02:05:22.079 out in real time. I was there. I saw it 1818 02:05:22.159 --> 02:05:24.680 all happen. Listen to Pete Deosey talk about it. Cut five. 1819 02:05:26.159 --> 02:05:28.079 I had a front row seat to a lot of 1820 02:05:28.119 --> 02:05:31.520 this and at various times was basically told not to 1821 02:05:31.600 --> 02:05:34.479 believe what I was seeing or hearing. The president misspoke 1822 02:05:34.640 --> 02:05:37.840 the president as a cold But now the damn appears 1823 02:05:37.840 --> 02:05:41.760 to be breaking. This Wall Street Journal item interviewed fifty 1824 02:05:41.920 --> 02:05:46.159 people familiar with Biden's operation, and it raises a lot 1825 02:05:46.199 --> 02:05:49.479 of questions about who was making key decisions. Er you 1826 02:05:49.600 --> 02:05:54.319 mentioned the Afghanistan withdrawal. If the president was as diminished 1827 02:05:54.479 --> 02:05:58.079 as this story makes it sound, that would be a 1828 02:05:58.199 --> 02:06:02.039 huge problem, and it could explain why certain decisions were 1829 02:06:02.079 --> 02:06:04.760 made that turned out to be catastrophic and why no 1830 02:06:04.920 --> 02:06:09.079 apologies were ever made. To your point, Brian, when the 1831 02:06:09.279 --> 02:06:13.119 cabinet met all nine times, which is the least in 1832 02:06:13.199 --> 02:06:16.279 the last several decades that a president has had their 1833 02:06:16.319 --> 02:06:19.960 whole cabinet together in an entire term, there was a 1834 02:06:20.000 --> 02:06:23.359 different item a few months ago, where cabinet secretaries were 1835 02:06:23.399 --> 02:06:26.680 being asked to submit their questions for the president behind 1836 02:06:26.760 --> 02:06:29.800 closed doors in advance, and they were being told to 1837 02:06:29.920 --> 02:06:33.199 keep it quick because the way that it worked was 1838 02:06:33.479 --> 02:06:35.399 they would ask a question that was pre screened and 1839 02:06:35.439 --> 02:06:37.880 then the president would have a card with the answer, 1840 02:06:38.039 --> 02:06:41.760 even in a closed setting. And I hear a lot 1841 02:06:41.800 --> 02:06:45.600 of the complaints about and there was a bite in 1842 02:06:45.680 --> 02:06:49.199 the open. Why wasn't there more coverage of the president's 1843 02:06:49.359 --> 02:06:53.000 age and acuity earlier? Well, a lot of the stories 1844 02:06:53.159 --> 02:06:56.760 that you hear kept asking, I kept asking the whole time, 1845 02:06:57.159 --> 02:06:58.880 And a lot of the stories that we would hear 1846 02:06:59.039 --> 02:07:02.399 that we would try to report out our second hand. 1847 02:07:02.560 --> 02:07:04.960 But it's a lot of stuff like, oh, you would 1848 02:07:04.960 --> 02:07:06.760 hear from somebody on the staff or somebody that works 1849 02:07:06.800 --> 02:07:08.359 at the White House. It looked like the president was 1850 02:07:08.640 --> 02:07:13.520 falling asleep somewhere. Okay, hard to confirm that, but we 1851 02:07:13.680 --> 02:07:17.960 have tape of him falling asleep as recently as his 1852 02:07:18.079 --> 02:07:20.000 most foreign most recent foreign trip. 1853 02:07:21.319 --> 02:07:21.880 So there you go. 1854 02:07:22.000 --> 02:07:25.960 There's Peter Doocy talking about what was going on, things 1855 02:07:26.000 --> 02:07:29.359 that he knew, things that he saw, and the questions 1856 02:07:29.399 --> 02:07:32.159 that he was asking the same questions the rest of 1857 02:07:32.239 --> 02:07:36.399 us were asking, who is running the country? I am 1858 02:07:36.520 --> 02:07:39.479 seeing these things with my own eyes, what is really 1859 02:07:39.600 --> 02:07:44.359 going on? And I played earlier Karin John Pierre as 1860 02:07:44.439 --> 02:07:47.720 she responded to that, Well, look, this just doesn't comport 1861 02:07:47.760 --> 02:07:51.479 with the facts. The facts are totally different than what 1862 02:07:51.640 --> 02:07:54.760 you're seeing. And well, this was really a hallmark of 1863 02:07:54.840 --> 02:07:58.319 that entire administration. And think about when you have a 1864 02:07:58.399 --> 02:08:04.119 cabinet meeting, when you have your closest advisors, the secretaries 1865 02:08:04.159 --> 02:08:07.279 of all these different departments, and you're the president of 1866 02:08:07.359 --> 02:08:13.000 the United States, do you want to have questions written down, 1867 02:08:13.079 --> 02:08:15.720 submitted in writing, and then have a pre programmed answer. 1868 02:08:17.479 --> 02:08:21.279 Is that the way that's supposed to work. Isn't this 1869 02:08:21.399 --> 02:08:24.119 how you get to the root of a matter, the 1870 02:08:24.279 --> 02:08:27.560 root of a problem, by having a free wheeling discussion, 1871 02:08:28.159 --> 02:08:31.119 by having back and forth, give and take, asking questions 1872 02:08:31.199 --> 02:08:35.960 in real time. And it's not just the cabinet member, 1873 02:08:36.119 --> 02:08:40.359 the cabinet secretary, the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary 1874 02:08:40.399 --> 02:08:44.000 of the Interior or whatever is. The Secretary of State 1875 02:08:44.079 --> 02:08:46.159 comes in, Oh, I've got a question for the president. 1876 02:08:46.239 --> 02:08:47.960 Write it down and we'll have an answer for who's 1877 02:08:47.960 --> 02:08:52.960 writing those answers. If Joe Biden doesn't have the capacity 1878 02:08:53.079 --> 02:08:58.960 to discuss these things in full with members of his cabinet, 1879 02:09:00.319 --> 02:09:06.279 then who is We still don't have those answers, and 1880 02:09:06.359 --> 02:09:08.600 you wonder if we'll ever get it. We got to 1881 02:09:08.600 --> 02:09:11.279 get to a break here and then after the at 1882 02:09:11.319 --> 02:09:13.319 the bottom of the hour, Sharon Coolidge from The Inquirer 1883 02:09:13.399 --> 02:09:15.520 is going to be here and I'm looking forward to 1884 02:09:15.600 --> 02:09:18.760 talking with her about her ten years of covering Cincinnati 1885 02:09:18.880 --> 02:09:21.319 City Hall. So stick around for that. Dan Carroll for 1886 02:09:21.399 --> 02:09:24.479 Brian Thomas on fifty five KRCV Talk. 1887 02:09:24.359 --> 02:09:27.680 Station fifty five KRC Dale Donovan here for. 1888 02:09:36.760 --> 02:09:40.880 Fifty five krc the talk station eight thirty one on 1889 02:09:41.079 --> 02:09:45.840 this Monday morning, a couple of days before Christmas in 1890 02:09:46.079 --> 02:09:49.880 the land snows business. And I gotta tell you, I 1891 02:09:50.239 --> 02:09:52.680 saw this story a couple of days ago that Sharon 1892 02:09:52.760 --> 02:09:55.880 Coolidge is celebrating ten years of covering City Hall, and 1893 02:09:58.800 --> 02:10:00.600 I said, you know what, I'm going to and see 1894 02:10:00.600 --> 02:10:02.760 if she'll come on the show. And dog gone it 1895 02:10:02.800 --> 02:10:06.319 wouldn't you know that? She said yes? And Sharon Coolidge, 1896 02:10:06.319 --> 02:10:08.079 it's great to have you back on the radio. How 1897 02:10:08.159 --> 02:10:08.920 are you this morning? 1898 02:10:10.159 --> 02:10:13.279 Good morning? Celebrating is a stretch more. 1899 02:10:13.279 --> 02:10:17.800 Like, you know, I feel a certain kinship there because 1900 02:10:17.880 --> 02:10:20.079 back in my news days, my beat with city Hall 1901 02:10:20.720 --> 02:10:23.199 and uh and I used to run around City Hall 1902 02:10:23.279 --> 02:10:26.079 when people like Nick Veer was there, and I go 1903 02:10:26.199 --> 02:10:28.079 all the way back to John Merle scene. And one 1904 02:10:28.079 --> 02:10:30.239 of my favorite things was to talk to to Tom 1905 02:10:30.359 --> 02:10:33.399 Luken back in the day and do interviews with him. 1906 02:10:33.439 --> 02:10:34.960 What an absolute blast. 1907 02:10:35.079 --> 02:10:39.479 But you know, absolutely I overlapped a little bit there 1908 02:10:39.640 --> 02:10:42.720 with him. You know, not a fan of the street car, 1909 02:10:43.000 --> 02:10:45.840 so that was something that I did cover, So I did. 1910 02:10:46.399 --> 02:10:49.680 I did have an opportunity to interview him on occasion, 1911 02:10:49.800 --> 02:10:54.960 and that was history. That's history Cincinnati. 1912 02:10:55.359 --> 02:10:58.079 Yeah, Tom Lucan was was an absolute blast to sit 1913 02:10:58.159 --> 02:11:01.279 there and just have a conversation. You know, back when 1914 02:11:01.319 --> 02:11:03.680 I when I was covering City Hall, I used to 1915 02:11:03.720 --> 02:11:06.479 be able to go there, walk around the halls and uh, 1916 02:11:06.960 --> 02:11:09.600 if the if you know, just pop into one of 1917 02:11:09.640 --> 02:11:12.880 the council members offices, sit around and then you know, 1918 02:11:12.960 --> 02:11:15.119 it didn't always have the camera roll and it wasn't 1919 02:11:15.119 --> 02:11:17.720 always on the record. Just sit around to chew the fat, 1920 02:11:17.840 --> 02:11:20.520 you know, do a little background talk about things that 1921 02:11:20.560 --> 02:11:23.439 were going on. Does that sort of thing still happen 1922 02:11:23.479 --> 02:11:24.319 at City Hall today. 1923 02:11:26.000 --> 02:11:29.239 You know, it does around meetings more because there's just 1924 02:11:29.359 --> 02:11:31.880 so many different ways to communicate. Because certainly when I 1925 02:11:32.000 --> 02:11:36.279 started covering just things in general in Cincinnati, it was 1926 02:11:36.479 --> 02:11:40.000 more that. But there's so many different ways to communicate. 1927 02:11:40.079 --> 02:11:43.479 We're not tied to a landline and so but I 1928 02:11:43.600 --> 02:11:46.039 do definitely do that. You cannot do that in the 1929 02:11:46.079 --> 02:11:50.479 Mayor's office, and that is something I have to say 1930 02:11:50.640 --> 02:11:54.600 I miss because I wasn't covering city Hall but stopping 1931 02:11:54.800 --> 02:11:59.800 in Charlie Lucan's office with Brendan Call. I mean, you 1932 02:12:00.039 --> 02:12:02.279 would sit down and you would be there for hours, 1933 02:12:02.359 --> 02:12:05.760 and then you'd come out and you'd write stories until 1934 02:12:05.840 --> 02:12:09.359 midnight or one am, and you might take a break 1935 02:12:09.399 --> 02:12:14.640 to go have a drink. But it's, uh, it's twenty 1936 02:12:14.640 --> 02:12:17.720 four hour news. Now there's less sitting around. But the 1937 02:12:17.800 --> 02:12:21.039 mayor's office is locked off. You know, in the land 1938 02:12:21.119 --> 02:12:25.279 of security, higher security and things, you cannot just go 1939 02:12:25.399 --> 02:12:29.399 into mayor's office. But I'm familiar enough with things. There's 1940 02:12:29.399 --> 02:12:32.960 actually security guard on the third floor. But because I 1941 02:12:33.159 --> 02:12:36.560 know the security guard and I can you know, she 1942 02:12:36.680 --> 02:12:39.399 knows who I am, I can walk around freely as 1943 02:12:39.520 --> 02:12:42.239 we had in the past, but it is very different. 1944 02:12:42.640 --> 02:12:45.800 Yeah, we uh, it was, it was. It was a 1945 02:12:45.880 --> 02:12:48.159 lot and and you know a lot of mine goes 1946 02:12:48.239 --> 02:12:51.520 back to uh pre nine eleven. So yeah, the concern 1947 02:12:51.680 --> 02:12:56.079 the security concerns were a lot different back and back 1948 02:12:56.159 --> 02:12:59.840 then than they are now. So Sharon Coolidge ten ten, 1949 02:13:00.479 --> 02:13:03.520 I guess it only feels like twenty years covering City Hall. 1950 02:13:03.600 --> 02:13:06.119 But I guess when I guess when you look back 1951 02:13:06.159 --> 02:13:09.640 on it, the ten years really probably has blown by 1952 02:13:09.840 --> 02:13:10.600 pretty fast for you. 1953 02:13:10.680 --> 02:13:14.560 I would imagine, you know, it really has. And the 1954 02:13:14.640 --> 02:13:18.840 whole story just came out of me talking about it 1955 02:13:19.039 --> 02:13:22.840 in a meeting and to some younger reporters and saying 1956 02:13:23.399 --> 02:13:25.399 and they were kind of blown away, and my editors 1957 02:13:25.479 --> 02:13:28.800 like that story, write that story, and so that's what 1958 02:13:28.840 --> 02:13:31.359 we ended up doing. But we didn't just I went 1959 02:13:31.399 --> 02:13:35.279 to basically ten stories ten years now. It turned out 1960 02:13:35.319 --> 02:13:39.000 like eighteen stories ten years. There's only so much room 1961 02:13:39.119 --> 02:13:41.960 even on the Internet apparently that you got to cut 1962 02:13:42.039 --> 02:13:46.680 this down, girl. So that's kind of where it came from. 1963 02:13:46.760 --> 02:13:48.359 And I ended up doing a lot of behind the 1964 02:13:48.439 --> 02:13:51.039 scenes and saying a little bit of my thoughts were 1965 02:13:51.119 --> 02:13:53.039 never really going to say what I think because I 1966 02:13:53.159 --> 02:13:55.640 have to be fair, right and stay unbiased. But it 1967 02:13:55.720 --> 02:13:59.920 was some behind the scenes what I'm thinking in there, 1968 02:14:00.039 --> 02:14:02.199 and it ran in the forum section and not the 1969 02:14:02.279 --> 02:14:02.760 news section. 1970 02:14:03.760 --> 02:14:06.680 Yeah, and I'm telling you, I look at this piece 1971 02:14:06.720 --> 02:14:09.439 and I had Chris Smitheman on later or not later, 1972 02:14:09.520 --> 02:14:12.239 but earlier this morning, and we took a little walk 1973 02:14:12.279 --> 02:14:15.439 down Memory Hall, and I asked him about the streetcar 1974 02:14:15.720 --> 02:14:20.159 and we talked about the selling of the railroad, the 1975 02:14:20.239 --> 02:14:22.279 Gang of Five and all those sorts of things. And 1976 02:14:22.359 --> 02:14:23.880 I want to hit some of those with you. So 1977 02:14:24.479 --> 02:14:26.279 Sharon Coolidge, stay right there. We're going to go a 1978 02:14:26.319 --> 02:14:28.199 little break in here and then we'll continue on the 1979 02:14:28.239 --> 02:14:28.640 other side. 1980 02:14:28.680 --> 02:14:30.560 Okay, sound good? 1981 02:14:30.640 --> 02:14:32.840 All right? Sharon Coolidge from the Inquirer is our guest, 1982 02:14:32.920 --> 02:14:35.720 and we will continue on talking about her ten years 1983 02:14:36.039 --> 02:14:38.399 covering City Hall as we roll on this morning on 1984 02:14:38.479 --> 02:14:40.239 fifty five KRC the talk station. 1985 02:14:40.520 --> 02:14:45.560 This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station Runabiles. 1986 02:14:49.199 --> 02:14:53.039 Fifty five KRC DE talk station eight thirty nine. Now 1987 02:14:53.239 --> 02:14:57.199 we we are talking with Sharon Coolidge of the Cincinnati Inquirer. 1988 02:14:57.840 --> 02:14:59.680 As we listened to a little that's a little Elvis there, 1989 02:14:59.720 --> 02:15:02.399 isn't it? Yeah, a little Elvis. Nothing wrong with Elvis 1990 02:15:02.479 --> 02:15:06.760 on Christmas Day, although we're a couple of days away 1991 02:15:06.760 --> 02:15:10.520 from us. But Sharon Coolidge, you talk about some of 1992 02:15:10.600 --> 02:15:13.720 the stories that you that you covered over the over 1993 02:15:13.760 --> 02:15:15.520 the ten years, and again no way to get them 1994 02:15:15.560 --> 02:15:18.039 all in there. But you're right that you were stunned 1995 02:15:18.640 --> 02:15:23.119 when you learned that PG Sittenfeld was indicted on federal 1996 02:15:23.199 --> 02:15:26.039 corruption charges. I mean, you look at this guy, and 1997 02:15:26.640 --> 02:15:29.640 I didn't agree with this politics, but this guy had 1998 02:15:29.680 --> 02:15:34.399 all the ingredients and all the everything there for it 1999 02:15:34.520 --> 02:15:38.479 to become a political superstar. And I guess you know, 2000 02:15:38.600 --> 02:15:41.119 ironically or sadly, however you want to look at it, 2001 02:15:41.479 --> 02:15:43.880 he's really going to wind up being really no more 2002 02:15:43.920 --> 02:15:47.800 than a footnote in the in the history of Cincinnati politics. 2003 02:15:48.960 --> 02:15:52.560 Well we'll talk about that in a second. But I 2004 02:15:53.760 --> 02:15:57.520 was so stunned. I heard before it happened it was 2005 02:15:57.600 --> 02:15:58.119 going to happen. 2006 02:15:59.600 --> 02:16:01.359 I I don't know. 2007 02:16:01.359 --> 02:16:02.800 I don't think I wrote this in the story about 2008 02:16:02.840 --> 02:16:06.399 We'll just say it turned white as a ghost. I 2009 02:16:06.520 --> 02:16:09.319 knew that there was Remember Ta Maya and Jess had 2010 02:16:09.399 --> 02:16:12.800 already been indicted, and there's a third person. There's a 2011 02:16:12.880 --> 02:16:17.239 third person. They never ever suspected that it would be Eg. 2012 02:16:17.600 --> 02:16:21.560 I talked to PG every day of my knife, like 2013 02:16:21.800 --> 02:16:24.000 he just he did so many things at city Hall. 2014 02:16:24.439 --> 02:16:27.520 He just really he was going he was going to 2015 02:16:27.600 --> 02:16:30.000 be the mayor, Like there's there's no other way around that. 2016 02:16:30.399 --> 02:16:32.840 Plus but he did so much stuff on council. He 2017 02:16:33.040 --> 02:16:36.000 was just really a leader and had a lot of 2018 02:16:36.120 --> 02:16:38.639 ideas and championed a lot of things. And I wrote 2019 02:16:38.639 --> 02:16:41.520 a lot of stories about him and went I didn't 2020 02:16:41.520 --> 02:16:44.079 even believe it at first. I turned white as a ghost. 2021 02:16:44.159 --> 02:16:46.680 My husband walks in the kitchen and is like, oh 2022 02:16:46.719 --> 02:16:49.120 my god, are you gonna faint? He didn't know that 2023 02:16:49.239 --> 02:16:51.239 I was on the phone or what was happening. I 2024 02:16:51.440 --> 02:16:56.559 was that white and in shock. And then I had 2025 02:16:56.600 --> 02:16:58.840 to keep a secret for a little bit. And plus 2026 02:16:58.920 --> 02:17:01.959 you don't even really sources and everything, but you know, 2027 02:17:02.079 --> 02:17:06.559 until something happens, it doesn't really happen. And so then 2028 02:17:06.600 --> 02:17:08.719 it was kind of like, well, what's really going to 2029 02:17:08.760 --> 02:17:10.680 be next? And that was a pretty quick turnaround, but 2030 02:17:10.760 --> 02:17:15.000 it was really just unbelievable to think. But I have 2031 02:17:15.120 --> 02:17:19.360 to say, we are still waiting. DG has appealed. Every 2032 02:17:19.559 --> 02:17:22.239 part of the case with CG has been studying from 2033 02:17:22.280 --> 02:17:26.520 that very first moment the fact his conviction. That moment, 2034 02:17:27.399 --> 02:17:29.280 I sat in there and I listened to all of 2035 02:17:29.360 --> 02:17:31.520 the testimony, and I did think the jury was going 2036 02:17:31.559 --> 02:17:32.760 to do it. But then you think, oh no, the 2037 02:17:32.840 --> 02:17:33.879 jury's really not going. 2038 02:17:33.799 --> 02:17:34.120 To do it. 2039 02:17:34.200 --> 02:17:37.399 And then you hear that in court and you hear 2040 02:17:38.760 --> 02:17:41.600 you know, his his reaction, his family's reaction, like kind 2041 02:17:41.639 --> 02:17:45.280 of like there's silent reaction. Just seeing it. That was stunning, 2042 02:17:45.360 --> 02:17:48.639 and you're trying to grapple with all of that. But 2043 02:17:48.799 --> 02:17:53.479 then for him, he's appealing to be let out of 2044 02:17:53.639 --> 02:17:57.840 prison during his appeal. That was the day that Donald 2045 02:17:57.879 --> 02:18:01.079 Trump was in town. JD Vance hosts did a big 2046 02:18:01.440 --> 02:18:04.200 lunch in Indian Hill for him, a fundraiser, and Donald 2047 02:18:04.200 --> 02:18:08.639 Trump's head. I'm at the airport waiting for Donald Trump's 2048 02:18:08.680 --> 02:18:10.479 plane to land. Now you don't really get to talk 2049 02:18:10.479 --> 02:18:13.040 to him or anything. Basically, you're just okay, he landed 2050 02:18:13.200 --> 02:18:15.760 and he's on the move on the way the Indian 2051 02:18:15.799 --> 02:18:19.440 Hell cut his story and our court reporter is, uh, 2052 02:18:20.200 --> 02:18:24.239 the appeals court just let TG out of prison. I'm like, no, no, 2053 02:18:25.120 --> 02:18:28.520 stop it, and he's like, oh no, oh no. I 2054 02:18:28.600 --> 02:18:31.399 wrote that for I sat down a rock outside of 2055 02:18:31.440 --> 02:18:34.360 the CVG and wrote that story with our court reporter 2056 02:18:35.479 --> 02:18:37.239 while we were waiting for Donald Trump. 2057 02:18:38.319 --> 02:18:41.520 Yeah, but this guy was a he was He was 2058 02:18:41.680 --> 02:18:43.920 like a rocket ship straight to the mayor's office. And 2059 02:18:44.000 --> 02:18:47.319 then obviously I think he definitely had his sights set 2060 02:18:47.399 --> 02:18:48.600 well beyond the mayor's office. 2061 02:18:50.000 --> 02:18:53.559 Now PG has granted one interview in all of this time, 2062 02:18:53.639 --> 02:18:55.440 and it's not to me, and I don't suspect that 2063 02:18:55.520 --> 02:18:58.879 it ever will be to me. And then it was 2064 02:18:59.000 --> 02:19:03.120 to the Princeton lam My magazine, and that in that story, 2065 02:19:03.200 --> 02:19:07.440 in that very friendly article where of his alumni magazine's 2066 02:19:07.479 --> 02:19:10.360 an odd place to give an interview, he said that 2067 02:19:10.479 --> 02:19:14.639 he would he's not interested in pursuing running for office again. 2068 02:19:15.239 --> 02:19:19.120 So you say, okay, but I'm sorry if he If 2069 02:19:19.159 --> 02:19:24.000 this appeal gets overturned and we're again waiting any minute, 2070 02:19:24.040 --> 02:19:26.280 we could hear this. His whole case can get overturned. 2071 02:19:26.600 --> 02:19:31.159 It basically resets the clock to twenty twenty. It's he 2072 02:19:31.399 --> 02:19:34.879 will have If it gets overturned, they'll say, no, he 2073 02:19:34.920 --> 02:19:39.360 didn't do anything wrong. I would never say never to 2074 02:19:39.479 --> 02:19:44.079 PG sitting filed running for office again. I just if 2075 02:19:44.159 --> 02:19:48.079 that happens, it resets well where he started. 2076 02:19:48.360 --> 02:19:52.680 If that happens, that will be a very compelling political 2077 02:19:52.760 --> 02:19:56.520 story and something that I think that we have never 2078 02:19:56.600 --> 02:19:59.360 seen here in the city of Cincinnati. I'm glad you 2079 02:20:00.040 --> 02:20:04.200 you included the story about the sewer District. To my 2080 02:20:04.360 --> 02:20:07.879 way of thinking, this was a story that really got 2081 02:20:08.559 --> 02:20:12.319 far less coverage than it deserves. And I still can't 2082 02:20:12.399 --> 02:20:15.079 help but think to this day there's still a lot 2083 02:20:15.159 --> 02:20:18.680 more to the sewer District story than has ever met 2084 02:20:18.719 --> 02:20:19.000 the eye. 2085 02:20:19.079 --> 02:20:23.639 What say you, Oh, I agree with you. It was 2086 02:20:23.760 --> 02:20:27.159 a huge story at the time that we're going back 2087 02:20:27.159 --> 02:20:32.680 to twenty sixteen, though, And you know, do I think 2088 02:20:32.799 --> 02:20:37.079 that things were looked at and maybe not done. I do, 2089 02:20:37.440 --> 02:20:40.200 but I you know, you can't prove these things. There 2090 02:20:40.280 --> 02:20:42.440 was a lot of civil fallout. People did have to 2091 02:20:42.479 --> 02:20:45.559 pay back money. I mean that was gratifying. And you 2092 02:20:45.680 --> 02:20:48.079 do hope that your work has impact, and every day 2093 02:20:48.120 --> 02:20:52.239 is not that day. But the people who you know, 2094 02:20:52.559 --> 02:20:54.639 myself and I worked on that story with Dan Horn 2095 02:20:54.879 --> 02:20:57.639 found not to have done work and had these contracts 2096 02:20:57.680 --> 02:21:00.680 and we're just getting paid. They have to pay that 2097 02:21:00.920 --> 02:21:04.239 money civilly, uh and for the taxpayers, and that is 2098 02:21:04.319 --> 02:21:07.600 a very gratifying thing to have happened, to have happened. Yeah, 2099 02:21:07.760 --> 02:21:10.280 so at least there was something came out of it. 2100 02:21:10.799 --> 02:21:12.959 Yeah. Man, you talk about the six hundred and eighty 2101 02:21:13.040 --> 02:21:16.079 million dollar memo in that and and I've I've always 2102 02:21:16.120 --> 02:21:18.799 looked at that and I've said to myself, when there's 2103 02:21:18.840 --> 02:21:21.479 that kind of money change in hands, there's going to 2104 02:21:21.559 --> 02:21:24.719 be a lot of people that want to get their 2105 02:21:24.760 --> 02:21:28.719 fingers in that pie. I think the another giant story 2106 02:21:29.000 --> 02:21:33.000 was the Gang of Five, and it uh that that 2107 02:21:33.200 --> 02:21:35.520 is a story, another story that has stuck with me 2108 02:21:36.159 --> 02:21:41.559 for for these years now, and just it I remember 2109 02:21:41.639 --> 02:21:44.200 reading about it at the time it was happening, and 2110 02:21:44.399 --> 02:21:48.479 this was just I just couldn't believe, you know, when 2111 02:21:48.639 --> 02:21:51.440 when I was covering city Hall, these kind of things 2112 02:21:51.520 --> 02:21:54.879 were not done at city Hall. But yet you know, 2113 02:21:54.959 --> 02:21:59.040 you've got sitting felled, Tom Lenard, Greg Landsman, seal Bach 2114 02:21:59.120 --> 02:22:02.280 and Wendell Young who were who were doing this. And 2115 02:22:02.559 --> 02:22:05.520 maybe it's not the most egregious thing ever, but it 2116 02:22:05.719 --> 02:22:09.559 just it just seemed it just the whole thing just 2117 02:22:09.719 --> 02:22:12.159 rubbed me the wrong way, and I think it rubbed 2118 02:22:12.159 --> 02:22:15.000 a lot of people in Cincinnati the wrong way. But 2119 02:22:15.319 --> 02:22:17.079 you know, it turned out to be, well, you know, 2120 02:22:17.159 --> 02:22:19.319 it is what it is. I don't know. I don't 2121 02:22:19.319 --> 02:22:20.399 know how to slice it up. 2122 02:22:22.120 --> 02:22:26.719 To me, that story is the kind of story that 2123 02:22:26.959 --> 02:22:29.559 never needed to happen. First of all, don't have a 2124 02:22:29.719 --> 02:22:32.680 side meeting in texts or whatever. Right, I'm of course, 2125 02:22:33.879 --> 02:22:36.479 just don't do that. I do think that it happened, 2126 02:22:37.840 --> 02:22:40.440 but instead of admitting it. I mean, this goes back 2127 02:22:40.479 --> 02:22:43.760 to pg's hitting felt the different. I didn't even file 2128 02:22:43.840 --> 02:22:48.799 the sauces. This is Brian shrib this is outsider saying 2129 02:22:49.600 --> 02:22:51.360 we see that you did this, and that was that 2130 02:22:51.559 --> 02:22:54.399 time at city Hall. You remember the Gang of Fi 2131 02:22:54.559 --> 02:22:58.239 was going on at the same time as so many things, 2132 02:22:58.840 --> 02:23:01.879 and it was the home camps were happening. I mean, 2133 02:23:01.920 --> 02:23:04.959 I look back at those years and I'm like, how 2134 02:23:05.000 --> 02:23:05.879 did I even function? 2135 02:23:06.399 --> 02:23:06.440 Like? 2136 02:23:06.520 --> 02:23:08.719 There was others so much all at once, all at 2137 02:23:08.760 --> 02:23:13.239 one time, and you know you don't do that. But 2138 02:23:13.440 --> 02:23:18.159 that story ended up being so huge because PG wanted 2139 02:23:18.200 --> 02:23:21.159 to deny it at every turn. No, I don't want 2140 02:23:21.159 --> 02:23:23.120 to settle it and admit it. Right, That's how these 2141 02:23:23.200 --> 02:23:27.840 cases end when there's like allegations of you had had 2142 02:23:28.200 --> 02:23:30.920 private meetings or you didn't give some public records like 2143 02:23:31.000 --> 02:23:33.920 you were supposed to, and in like pretty tepid settlement, 2144 02:23:34.280 --> 02:23:38.200 sometimes without even money, just turning over the records and saying, okay, oops, 2145 02:23:38.239 --> 02:23:40.600 we should have given you those and you have to 2146 02:23:40.680 --> 02:23:44.120 fight for them, and that's never ideal. But no, we're 2147 02:23:44.120 --> 02:23:46.639 not going to do that. Then they did try, and 2148 02:23:47.120 --> 02:23:49.719 you know, we had that John Do case and try 2149 02:23:49.760 --> 02:23:53.159 and drag Christopher's Mitherman into it, which Christopher all friend 2150 02:23:53.200 --> 02:23:56.479 of your show, I know, had nothing to do with that, 2151 02:23:57.079 --> 02:24:00.440 try and drag him in the courts, say no, that 2152 02:24:00.680 --> 02:24:04.719 story could have been so and we filed the lawsuit. 2153 02:24:04.840 --> 02:24:07.239 We're going to write about if this happened. And then 2154 02:24:07.319 --> 02:24:10.319 here's the second story. They settled and this is what happened. 2155 02:24:10.760 --> 02:24:14.239 But it was one story after another after another after 2156 02:24:14.319 --> 02:24:18.079 another event. Judge Woven, he was not playing around. He 2157 02:24:18.200 --> 02:24:20.239 released those texts and that was a very big deal 2158 02:24:20.559 --> 02:24:24.000 to see what everyone was saying. So I just feel 2159 02:24:24.079 --> 02:24:28.360 like it became much bigger than even it really needed 2160 02:24:28.399 --> 02:24:28.600 to be. 2161 02:24:30.000 --> 02:24:34.760 Yeah, do you think that that story still reverberates through 2162 02:24:34.840 --> 02:24:35.639 city Hall today? 2163 02:24:37.920 --> 02:24:38.120 You know. 2164 02:24:40.840 --> 02:24:41.760 It yet? Yes? 2165 02:24:41.879 --> 02:24:44.760 And no, of course people do remember it, But I 2166 02:24:44.840 --> 02:24:46.799 can't tell you how many times I have to be like, 2167 02:24:48.200 --> 02:24:53.120 don't text me that, just call me. Just call me, 2168 02:24:53.239 --> 02:24:56.959 because my text to them about city business could also 2169 02:24:57.000 --> 02:25:00.719 be considered uh, city business. If somebody else need a 2170 02:25:00.719 --> 02:25:05.319 public records request, h are we texting? Stop texting? Or 2171 02:25:05.399 --> 02:25:07.360 I'll make a public records request and you'll get some 2172 02:25:07.479 --> 02:25:10.319 text back and emails and it's like, are you email 2173 02:25:10.360 --> 02:25:14.120 and texting? We've already been warned. We know those are 2174 02:25:14.159 --> 02:25:16.639 not even those could be public records. This is an 2175 02:25:16.680 --> 02:25:21.520 old adage in news papering and the political work political world. 2176 02:25:22.319 --> 02:25:24.120 If you don't want to see it on the front page, 2177 02:25:24.520 --> 02:25:27.239 don't put it in writing, all right, because you never know. 2178 02:25:27.719 --> 02:25:29.040 And again IFI is really. 2179 02:25:28.920 --> 02:25:31.319 Proof of that, Yeah, you never know. Well, sharing cool 2180 02:25:31.440 --> 02:25:33.040 is that there's so much more we can talk about, 2181 02:25:33.079 --> 02:25:36.319 but we're up against the clock. Congratulations on ten years. 2182 02:25:36.360 --> 02:25:37.600 Do you have another ten years in you? 2183 02:25:38.680 --> 02:25:38.840 Oh? 2184 02:25:39.000 --> 02:25:41.040 Yeah, kidding. You know what the best thing about it 2185 02:25:41.239 --> 02:25:43.959 is it changes under me. I don't cover the same 2186 02:25:44.000 --> 02:25:47.159 beat every day because it's constantly changing over there, and 2187 02:25:47.319 --> 02:25:49.840 so I still learn things and I definitely have ten 2188 02:25:49.879 --> 02:25:50.520 more years than. 2189 02:25:50.440 --> 02:25:54.760 Me outstanding Well, Sharon Coolidge is it is always great 2190 02:25:54.760 --> 02:25:56.399 when I have the chance to talk to you and 2191 02:25:56.760 --> 02:25:59.879 you always give us the time and I always appreciated Mary. Chris, 2192 02:26:00.079 --> 02:26:01.559 miss to you and yours and have a great new 2193 02:26:01.639 --> 02:26:05.799 year and I certainly look forward to talking again. Same 2194 02:26:06.639 --> 02:26:09.159 all right, Sharon Coolidge of the Inquirer, thank you very much, 2195 02:26:09.239 --> 02:26:11.040 and with that we'll get to a break. Dan Carroll 2196 02:26:11.079 --> 02:26:13.879 for Brian Thomas fifty five KRCV. 2197 02:26:13.440 --> 02:26:16.799 Talks Days fifty five krc Hey, it's this Ney from 2198 02:26:16.799 --> 02:26:18.000 on air with Ryan Seacrest. 2199 02:26:25.879 --> 02:26:34.760 Have your shirl, Oh Mary Little Christmas. Let your home 2200 02:26:35.840 --> 02:26:45.360 be loved. From now on, our troubles will be out. 2201 02:26:47.079 --> 02:26:48.319 And that pretty much says it all. 2202 02:26:48.399 --> 02:26:48.639 On this. 2203 02:26:50.399 --> 02:26:53.040 December twenty third, two days before Christmas. I get to 2204 02:26:53.079 --> 02:26:55.120 come back tomorrow morning and do it all again, and 2205 02:26:55.200 --> 02:26:57.840 I hope you can be here as well, Oh Mary 2206 02:26:58.559 --> 02:27:01.639 Little Christmas Man. Thank you. I want to thank Chris 2207 02:27:01.680 --> 02:27:05.799 Smitheman for being here. Sharon Coolidge. Great to hear her 2208 02:27:05.920 --> 02:27:08.520 and talk about her ten years at covering City Hall. 2209 02:27:08.600 --> 02:27:10.280 She says she's got ten more years left in her 2210 02:27:11.600 --> 02:27:13.479 so that'll be a great coverage from her for the 2211 02:27:13.520 --> 02:27:17.000 next ten years from the Cincinnati Inquiry. So thank you 2212 02:27:17.120 --> 02:27:20.840 to everyone. And if we do not talk between now 2213 02:27:20.879 --> 02:27:22.760 and Christmas. I hope you have a great Christmas and 2214 02:27:22.840 --> 02:27:26.079 a great New Year, and we will see what happens tomorrow. 2215 02:27:26.920 --> 02:27:29.440 I'm going to go home right now and get ready 2216 02:27:29.440 --> 02:27:32.600 for tomorrow's show, so we will see what we have then. 2217 02:27:32.959 --> 02:27:35.639 But until then, thanks for listening, and we'll see you 2218 02:27:35.760 --> 02:27:39.440 tomorrow here on fifty five krc B Talk station. 2219 02:27:40.040 --> 02:27:45.959 Your voice refreshing your country for reasonable American. 2220 02:27:46.200 --> 02:27:51.200 Fifty five krc D Talk station. This report is sponsored 2221 02:27:51.200 --> 02:27:51.280 by