Speaker 1: All right, here we go fifty five k r C
Speaker 1: the talk station. It is Dan carroll in for Brian Thomas.
Speaker 1: I believe Brian Thomas taking the whole week off. I
Speaker 1: mean it is the week of Christmas, so Merry Christmas everyone.
Speaker 1: It's Dan carroll in for Brian Thomas. Glad to be here.
Speaker 1: I'll be here today and tomorrow, and then I believe
Speaker 1: maybe a little Kevin Gordon, maybe a little Gary Jeff Walker.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. But man, it's a brisk start
Speaker 1: to this morning. Nice twenty four degrees out there. Your
Speaker 1: car is going to have a lay or frost on
Speaker 1: it when you head outside, so don't be I want
Speaker 1: to This is one of those days you wonder how
Speaker 1: many people are going to work, right, It's a couple
Speaker 1: of days before Christmas. People love to take off. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people are here around the station
Speaker 1: are taking off. You want you want to see a play?
Speaker 1: It used to looks like a go town or ghost town.
Speaker 1: Come up here to the seven hundred studio, in the
Speaker 1: fifty five KRC studio and the iHeart property up here.
Speaker 1: Sean mcmanu'll agree with me on that one. To you
Speaker 1: even Joe Strecker is taking some time off, and Sean
Speaker 1: McMahon is running things in the fifty five krs control room.
Speaker 1: So glad to have him here and a lot to
Speaker 1: get to today. Sharon Coolidge is going to be here
Speaker 1: in the eight o'clock hour. I've got her set for
Speaker 1: eight thirty and we will hear from Sharon Coolidge. She
Speaker 1: is reflecting on ten years of covering city Hall, and
Speaker 1: I was reading the piece that was published that she
Speaker 1: published a few days ago talking about when she started
Speaker 1: covering city Hall and talking about some of the some
Speaker 1: of the stories that she recalls, and looking back on this,
Speaker 1: there's some stories in here that I forget got about.
Speaker 1: It's amazing how much water has gone under the bridge
Speaker 1: in the past ten years. But one of the ones
Speaker 1: she talks about first is the guy we were affectionately
Speaker 1: referred to as a PG Flippenfeld. And you know, the man,
Speaker 1: the young man who would have been mayor blinded by
Speaker 1: his own ambition. If that's not her saying that, that's
Speaker 1: me saying that this guy was on a rocket. Even
Speaker 1: though I never the times I interviewed him, I never
Speaker 1: agreed with his politics. I always thought much like our
Speaker 1: current mayor. There's one person that PG Flippenfeld was looking
Speaker 1: out for above all others, and that was PG flipping Feld.
Speaker 1: And I believe our our current mayor is in the
Speaker 1: same vein because he's got he's got his sight set
Speaker 1: on bigger, bigger things than being the mayor of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: And I think you can make that place. I mean,
Speaker 1: you look at the way this guy is playing his
Speaker 1: cards right now. I think he is definitely looking at that.
Speaker 1: But she talks about PG sitting Feld talking about when
Speaker 1: Harry black fired Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell talking about the
Speaker 1: street car. The streetcar. That's one of the overlapping stories
Speaker 1: that I mean, and that story had been around, I
Speaker 1: guess even just talking about it had been around for
Speaker 1: so long, but even that in the past ten years,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. I go back and I think about those
Speaker 1: days about talking about the streetcar, and it seemed like
Speaker 1: almost every show back then was they had some relationship
Speaker 1: to the streetcar. And I remember some of the other
Speaker 1: hosts on this station and some of the other stations
Speaker 1: just just would talk about how worn out they were
Speaker 1: talking about the streetcar and when and it's amazing we
Speaker 1: still haven't stopped talking about it, and there are still
Speaker 1: those who want to see the expansion of the street car.
Speaker 1: So when Chris Smitheman is going to be here at
Speaker 1: seven twenty this morning, and we will kick these and
Speaker 1: maybybe if I'll throw some of these up to Chris
Speaker 1: Smithman and see how he likes to reminisce on some
Speaker 1: of these. Let me see she talks about John John
Speaker 1: Cranley and Harry Black, the Gang of Five? How about that?
Speaker 1: And maybe maybe and maybe this is the time and
Speaker 1: maybe I'll get Chris Smithman's take on it. But I
Speaker 1: still have not forgiven Greg Landsman for his participation in
Speaker 1: the Gang of Five. Maybe I'm behind the curve on that.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's time to let that go. But to me,
Speaker 1: that whole thing was just so despicable, what these members
Speaker 1: of council did and the way they did it, and
Speaker 1: then the way they acted after they got caught, and
Speaker 1: the money that it cost the city that they never
Speaker 1: paid back. Now they'll claim they paid back some of it,
Speaker 1: or I guess what they considered their share of it
Speaker 1: to be. But no, the Gang of five? What else?
Speaker 1: What else? What else? The shooting downtown, the selling of
Speaker 1: the city's railroad, Cincinnati gets a soccer team, so a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff there, a lot of stuff there from
Speaker 1: Sharon Coolidge, and we'll reminisce and and and there was
Speaker 1: a time when my job was to cover city Hall.
Speaker 1: So I've got my own memories of I mean, probably
Speaker 1: not as well done as Sharon Coolidge's memories, my own
Speaker 1: memories of spending a lot of time in city Hall. Man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be We're gonna we're gonna stroll down memory Lane.
Speaker 1: That'll be at eight thirty this morning, So if you're around,
Speaker 1: we hope you can stick around for that. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: I've sent my my list of Christmas music to Sean
Speaker 1: McMahon and we'll be bumping in and out of the
Speaker 1: program with some of my favorite Christmas cuts today. If
Speaker 1: you want to tell me some of yours, I would
Speaker 1: love to hear that. But the the amazing thing about
Speaker 1: being on the radio right now today this year, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, December twenty third, twenty twenty four, is that
Speaker 1: normally this time of year is just an absolute desert
Speaker 1: when it comes to news. On this day, nothing could
Speaker 1: be further from the truth. And there is so many
Speaker 1: things to talk about, and we will get to those
Speaker 1: things on the other side of this as we look
Speaker 1: ahead to Christmas just a couple of days away. Sean McMahon,
Speaker 1: Can you believe Christmas is only two days away? Hardly,
Speaker 1: you can't believe it. But it is right there, right
Speaker 1: literally right around the corner. So five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 1: fifty five hundred. Those are the phone numbers to call
Speaker 1: if you feel so inclined. But we got to get
Speaker 1: to No, No, I'm looking at the clock wrong. I
Speaker 1: still got like four minutes here. I was thinking we
Speaker 1: were going to hit our first break and then come
Speaker 1: back and talk about weather. But we still got a
Speaker 1: few minutes. But no, the amount of news that has
Speaker 1: come out, A lot of the news has been different
Speaker 1: reports that came out. I sat in for Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: a couple of mondays ago and brad Winstrop was here
Speaker 1: and he was talking about he was talking about the
Speaker 1: the report that his committee did about the what I
Speaker 1: call the Wuhan virus, and it was absolutely amazing. And
Speaker 1: I remember the one thing he said, he said, this
Speaker 1: is the public report. There's also a classified version of
Speaker 1: this report. And I had someone ask me, why is
Speaker 1: there a classified version of this? And because when you
Speaker 1: look at what was going on with the gain of
Speaker 1: function research and what they were doing at the Wuhan lab,
Speaker 1: this whole thing gets into bioweapons, bioweapons research, and for
Speaker 1: good reason. I think a lot of that is classified.
Speaker 1: And the way the report reads and the way it's
Speaker 1: laid out, you look at and they, I mean, they
Speaker 1: really did a thorough job examining every aspect of what
Speaker 1: happened as it relates to the Wuhan virus. When you
Speaker 1: talk about the gain of function, when you talk about
Speaker 1: the labs, when you talk about the funding, when you
Speaker 1: talk about what the government response was Sean McMahon, who
Speaker 1: do you think the biggest purveyor of misinformation during the
Speaker 1: whole Luhan episode the episode was the federal government. See
Speaker 1: I think he's listened to me talk about this before
Speaker 1: a few times. But it is absolutely amazing. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why there's a classified version of that, because, I mean,
Speaker 1: this gets into some serious stuff and I would suggest
Speaker 1: that some of these things are classified for a good reason.
Speaker 1: Maybe someday we will pull the curtain back on that
Speaker 1: part of it, but just reading the unclassified stuff.
Speaker 2: Is.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of a lift slogging through that report,
Speaker 1: but well worth the effort if you're interested in what
Speaker 1: we like to call the scam demic. The scam not
Speaker 1: the pandemic, the scam demic, a term that I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure wasn't coined by our buddy Gary Jeff Walker,
Speaker 1: because I know he loves to say that. The US
Speaker 1: Central Command says, we shot down one of our own
Speaker 1: fighter jets over the Red Sea, over the way. I
Speaker 1: remember getting on the computer yesterday preparing for my show
Speaker 1: prep and looking at that and thinking to myself, wow,
Speaker 1: we shot down one of our own jets. And I'm
Speaker 1: looking I'm reading the story about this, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm saying to myself, this is where I'm at right now.
Speaker 1: I'm saying to myself, I'm not really sure I'm believing
Speaker 1: this narrative. I am super skepted. I'm not. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be that way. But it can't be helped
Speaker 1: because you just know that there's more to the story
Speaker 1: and what is being reported is phony, blooney, and that
Speaker 1: has the Then there's so many elements of news and
Speaker 1: reporting and what goes on with the government that you
Speaker 1: feel that way about so many of these things. So
Speaker 1: we we'll get to we'll touch on all that, and
Speaker 1: we'll check the weather and Sean, is Chuck going to
Speaker 1: be here today doing traffic as well. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: a little little t have a cupdate from Chuck later on.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll see. Yeah, there was a wreck on
Speaker 1: seventy five overnight that shut the highway down. A couple
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati police cars involved in a bad wreck out there.
Speaker 1: The Cincinnati police officers are okay. Thank god, Chuck Ingram
Speaker 1: is here. So we will have a little traffic later
Speaker 1: on today. So all that and more is we roll
Speaker 1: on through this December twenty third, this Monday morning, couple
Speaker 1: of days before Christmas. Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas on
Speaker 1: fifty five KRC The.
Speaker 3: Talks Day, fifty five KRC.
Speaker 1: AH the Charlie Brown Christmas Music. I know Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: loves it. I love it. I can just sit here
Speaker 1: for the rest of the show and let this play.
Speaker 1: You gotta just play the whole album. I got the
Speaker 1: whole album at home and I just put it on
Speaker 1: the uh the CD player. Yes, Sean McMahon, I still
Speaker 1: have a CD player. At home. I put a disc
Speaker 1: in there and I'll just let it run all day,
Speaker 1: all afternoon. Is fantastic. Vince Garaldi does great stuff. Give
Speaker 1: me just a few more seconds. Let's turn it up
Speaker 1: a little bit. So there you go. You got your
Speaker 1: favorite Christmas music, I've got mine. Call me up and
Speaker 1: tell me about it. Five point three. As we roll
Speaker 1: throughout this day, A couple of days before Christmas, a
Speaker 1: couple of this is one of that. I was a
Speaker 1: little bit shocked when I sat down and saw this
Speaker 1: headline yesterday. A couple of Navy pilots shot down over
Speaker 1: the Red Sea on Sunday, apparently in a friendly fire incident.
Speaker 1: The military set marking the most serious incident to threaten
Speaker 1: troops in over a year of America going after Yemen's
Speaker 1: hu to Hooti rebels, so again pulling the curtain back
Speaker 1: on the fact that we have troops in harm's way
Speaker 1: in the Middle East. Despite what Kamala Harris might have said,
Speaker 1: both aviators were able to eject from their Fa eighteen
Speaker 1: aircraft one, suffering minor injuries. They were both recovered. The
Speaker 1: shootdown underlines just how dangerous the Red Sea Quarter has
Speaker 1: become with ongoing attacks on shipping by Iranian back houties,
Speaker 1: despite US and European military coalitions patrolling the area. The
Speaker 1: military has conducted air strikes targeting Hoodi rebels. At the
Speaker 1: time of the friendly fire, int Central Command did not
Speaker 1: elaborate on what the pilot's mission was and did not
Speaker 1: respond to questions from the Associated Press or any other
Speaker 1: media outlet for that matter. F eighteen was shot down.
Speaker 1: It had just taken off from the deck of the
Speaker 1: USS Harry Truman. This happened on December fifteenth, and we're
Speaker 1: just learning about it today. Central Command acknowledge that Truman
Speaker 1: entered the Mid East, but hadn't specified the carrier and
Speaker 1: its battlegroup was in the Red Sea. The guided missile cruiser,
Speaker 1: the USS Gettysburg, which is part of the Harry Truman
Speaker 1: Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired and hit the F eighteen.
Speaker 1: The incident was not a result of hostile fire. A
Speaker 1: full investigation is underway, and don't we all have great
Speaker 1: confidence that this Department of Defense will be able to
Speaker 1: conduct a thorough investigation, find out what went wrong, and
Speaker 1: take corrective action. And by golly, if someone needs to
Speaker 1: be held responsible, then someone will face serious consequences, don't.
Speaker 1: We all have great confidence in that. And it pains
Speaker 1: me to say this, especially about the United States military,
Speaker 1: but we have such a lack of leadership starting at
Speaker 1: the very top. And yes, I'm talking about Joseph Robin
Speaker 1: at Biden. Where has this guy been ever since the election?
Speaker 1: Where has he been? And I'm going to get into
Speaker 1: this a lot during the day today about the report
Speaker 1: that came out from the Wall Street Journal talking about
Speaker 1: talking about Biden and his advisors, his overseers, his the
Speaker 1: people that are acting like the protectors of the president.
Speaker 1: Because this guy simply cannot function. We've known it, We've
Speaker 1: known it for a long time. We've known the White
Speaker 1: House has been lying about it almost since day one
Speaker 1: of this guy's administration. Kamala Harris is nowhere to be
Speaker 1: found these days. And we'll and we'll we'll get into that.
Speaker 1: But just getting back to the military here and the
Speaker 1: and the Gettysburg shooting down this f eighteen, It wasn't
Speaker 1: immediately clear how the Gettysburg could mistake in FA eighteen
Speaker 1: for an enemy aircraft or a missile. Really, so you're
Speaker 1: saying that we have a protocols in place you're saying
Speaker 1: that we have procedures in place. You're saying that, under
Speaker 1: the normal course of action, that we take steps to
Speaker 1: make sure that these things don't happen. But yet it
Speaker 1: did happen, and we're supposed to believe this narrative. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, look, you got the hoodies out there. They're
Speaker 1: shooting off all these drones, they're shooting missiles. There's so
Speaker 1: many things flying around in the sky. We just happened
Speaker 1: to shoot down one of our own. So on one hand,
Speaker 1: it's encouraging to see that the USS Gettysburg has the
Speaker 1: ability to shoot down an F eighteen. It's not the
Speaker 1: latest generation fighter, but they the F eighteen is pretty
Speaker 1: darn good aircraft, as I think anyone who's ever flown
Speaker 1: a F eighteen will tell you, still one of the
Speaker 1: baddest jets in the sky. Not top of the line anymore,
Speaker 1: but really really good. That the guys on the Gettysburg
Speaker 1: were able to shoot it down in and of itself,
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of accomplishment, but it's our jet.
Speaker 1: Don't shoot down our jet, And that's what leads me
Speaker 1: to believe that there's more to this story. And as
Speaker 1: I sit here, today. I don't know that in three
Speaker 1: months or six months, or a year or five years
Speaker 1: from now, that we will still have the straight story
Speaker 1: about what really happened there. Maybe someone in the Trump
Speaker 1: administration will be able to get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 1: But if this administration follows suit with what they've been
Speaker 1: doing the entire time they've been in office, documents will disappear,
Speaker 1: information will go down the rabbit hole. Things will be
Speaker 1: covered up so obscured that we may never be able
Speaker 1: to get to the bottom up. Lloyd Austin, I'm sure
Speaker 1: has no I wonder if Lloyd Austin even Okay, Lloyd Austin,
Speaker 1: he's a Secretary of Defense. Does he know about Yeah,
Speaker 1: he knows about it. Does he have any interest in
Speaker 1: really telling the American people exactly what happened? I think not.
Speaker 1: But I'm late for a break, so let's go ahead.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break now, I'll finish up my thoughts
Speaker 1: on this, and then we'll continue on with the show.
Speaker 1: Dan Carrol for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRCV Talk station.
Speaker 4: This is fifty five krc and iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 1: I sent my list of favorite Christmas songs to Sean McMahon,
Speaker 1: who's in for Joe's record today. I know he's rolling
Speaker 1: out some of my favorites. I meant to do this
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, but I keep telling you,
Speaker 1: and I got to. I'll tell you, Christmas knuck up
Speaker 1: on me a little bit.
Speaker 2: This year.
Speaker 1: I've been sort of looking at the calendar and thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: I've still got a few days. Still got a few days,
Speaker 1: Still got a few days. Now you only have two days,
Speaker 1: and I still got some things I gotta get done. Sean,
Speaker 1: where are you standing on all that? You're good? Got
Speaker 1: everything sweared away? All right? He's got a you are
Speaker 1: you already gave them out? How about that I I got?
Speaker 1: I did get an early Christmas gift. And it is
Speaker 1: a It is one of those glasses that has the
Speaker 1: bullet in it. It's called from a company is called
Speaker 1: ben Shot, and it says Trump. It's got an etching
Speaker 1: with Trump forty seven, and it's got the bullet that's
Speaker 1: halfway into the glass. So very clever. A buddy of
Speaker 1: mine's got one that says Trump forty five on it.
Speaker 1: So we're going to get together and crack open a
Speaker 1: bottle of bourbon and enjoy some bourbon and our Trump
Speaker 1: our Trump glasses with the with the bullets in them.
Speaker 1: But getting back to just to finish up my thoughts
Speaker 1: on an American fighter jet being shot down by our
Speaker 1: own people, according to news reports over the Red Sea,
Speaker 1: Let's see, where did I where did I leave off
Speaker 1: on this? The F eighteen had just one off the
Speaker 1: deck of the Harry Truman, the Gettysburg, which is part
Speaker 1: of the crew of the Truman Carrier Strike Group. I mean,
Speaker 1: what must that be? Like I was in the service.
Speaker 1: I wasn't in the Navy. I was in the Air Force.
Speaker 1: But when you're in the Navy and part of your
Speaker 1: own group shoots down one of your own guys, one
Speaker 1: of your own jets, that's got to be that's got
Speaker 1: to be not really a good thing. Let's see, let's see,
Speaker 1: it's not immediately clear how the Gettysburg can mistake the
Speaker 1: FA teen Central Commands said warships and the aircraft earlier
Speaker 1: shot down multiple Hoodie drones and anti ship cruise minsiles
Speaker 1: launched by the rebels. Incoming hostile fire from the Hoodies
Speaker 1: has given sailors just seconds to make decisions. So I
Speaker 1: guess they're on a hair trigger now that they've been
Speaker 1: shooting down all these things that are flying around the
Speaker 1: Red Seat. Since Truman's arrival, the US has stepped up
Speaker 1: airstrikes targeting the Hoodies. Let's see, the deployment marked what
Speaker 1: the Navy has described as the most intense combat since
Speaker 1: World War Two. And if that's true, is it just
Speaker 1: me or are we really not hearing much reporting on
Speaker 1: this at all? Until this happened. Until this happened, I
Speaker 1: really I didn't really have a good handle at all
Speaker 1: about how much action was going on there in the
Speaker 1: Gulf of Aden or the Red Sea. On Saturday night
Speaker 1: and early Sunday, US warplanes conducted air strikes that shook
Speaker 1: the capital of Yemen, which the Hooties have held since
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. Central Command described the strikes as targeting missile
Speaker 1: storage facilities, command and control facilities. So we will find out, hopefully,
Speaker 1: we'll find out why why one of our aircraft was
Speaker 1: shot down by one of our own ships. It's not
Speaker 1: a good thing. It's not a good thing. Let's see,
Speaker 1: there was a crash involving a couple of Cincinnati police
Speaker 1: vehicles on southbound seventy five overnight. Now reading for Fox nineteen,
Speaker 1: All officers okay, after a crash with two Cincinnati Police
Speaker 1: Department vehicles shut down southbound seventy five. Happened just inside
Speaker 1: the city limits near Springfield Springfield Township just before midnight.
Speaker 1: One of the officers was already on the scene when
Speaker 1: their cruiser was hit. District for police say, and there's
Speaker 1: a picture of one of the one of the police
Speaker 1: cars involved in this wreck, and I mean the front
Speaker 1: end is just obliterated. The front end of this police
Speaker 1: cruiser just got hammered. That vehicle is definitely totaled. Minor
Speaker 1: injuries reported the scene. According to ken Kober, officers were
Speaker 1: taking the UC Medical Center out of an abundance of caution.
Speaker 1: All lanes of southbound seventy five opened earlier this morning,
Speaker 1: so that is good, but they had the whole thing
Speaker 1: shut down, but really no details on how that accident happened.
Speaker 1: There was, of course, that deadly wrong way accident on
Speaker 1: Cross County over the weekend, so that's that's a terrible thing,
Speaker 1: and driving the wrong way on Cross County Highway and
Speaker 1: that we've had that. It's not the first time we've
Speaker 1: had that, but that is a I covered traffic for
Speaker 1: a long time in this town. And that is a
Speaker 1: tough thing to do, get going the wrong way on
Speaker 1: on Cross County, but someone managed to do it. I've
Speaker 1: got to get to a break here and then we
Speaker 1: will continue on Dan carrollin for Brian Thomas on fifty
Speaker 1: five KRCV talk station.
Speaker 4: This is fifty five k r C and iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 4: Run a business and not thinking about.
Speaker 1: So here we are a couple of days for Christmas
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. I hope your Christmas is going to
Speaker 1: be spectacular. I'll find out what the a little bit
Speaker 1: later on what the Chris Smithman Christmas is like. I
Speaker 1: bet they just have a grand old Christmas. Victor Davis
Speaker 1: Hansen has written a great piece in well his pieces
Speaker 1: show up all over the place. But he's always a
Speaker 1: great guest on Fox News. Just a great commentary. And
Speaker 1: he's talking about the years of madness? Are they finally
Speaker 1: ending now that Biden's on his way way out? Never
Speaker 1: in US history as a president electmen welcome as the
Speaker 1: real president before January twentieth inauguration. And that is that
Speaker 1: is the interesting dynamic that we have been seeing going
Speaker 1: on about Trump and mar You know, Mike DeWine went
Speaker 1: down there tomorrow a lago would have a meeting with
Speaker 1: with Trump or at least someone in Trump's orbit. The
Speaker 1: reporting is that the Wine went down there. He's still
Speaker 1: making up his We don't know what they thought they
Speaker 1: might have talked about, but the speculation is is that
Speaker 1: the Wine was talking about with Trump who he may
Speaker 1: choose to replace Jade Vance in the Senate. And so
Speaker 1: we had all this struggling going on with the UH
Speaker 1: the budget deal that they were talking about up on
Speaker 1: Capitol Hill Wednesday and Thursday, Friday on into the weekend.
Speaker 1: Finally got a deal done I believe it was late
Speaker 1: Friday night. Avoided the shutdown of the federal government. Can't
Speaker 1: have that. So they reached a compromise deal. And I
Speaker 1: still don't like the idea that even though it was
Speaker 1: a continuing resolution and it was only I think the
Speaker 1: first one they rejected was one hundred and eighteen pages.
Speaker 1: I think the second one came out to one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty pages of memory serves and that was the
Speaker 1: one that they passed. But even that same day, create
Speaker 1: this bill, get it in front of Congress, pass it,
Speaker 1: and I believe I read yesterday where Joe Biden actually
Speaker 1: signed it, or maybe they put it under the auto
Speaker 1: sign and pressed the button and scribbled Joe Biden's signature
Speaker 1: on there. It didn't with the report that I saw
Speaker 1: didn't say that Joe Biden knew what he was signing,
Speaker 1: only that he signed it. And so it's been approved.
Speaker 1: And Victor Davis Hansen writes, one reason somebody are welcoming
Speaker 1: Trump return to is the universal, universally desperate hope that
Speaker 1: his election spelled an end to the collective madness at
Speaker 1: home and it's ripples abroad for the last four years.
Speaker 1: The result was the current global chaos, perhaps not seen
Speaker 1: since the late nineteen thirties. Is how Victor Davis Hanson
Speaker 1: describes what is happening in the world right now. Never
Speaker 1: has the US experience such an immigrant search. Never had
Speaker 1: more than fifty million and over fifteen percent of the
Speaker 1: resident American population been foreign born. And I've we've heard
Speaker 1: the stories about of how many non Americans are getting
Speaker 1: all these jobs that Biden talks about creating. Victor Davis
Speaker 1: Hanson goes on to talk about the FBI, the CIRA,
Speaker 1: the irl, US Department of Justice, the Pentagon weaponized so
Speaker 1: flagrantly and with impunity broken, the law abandoned their mission
Speaker 1: statements serve the political agendas rather than the American people.
Speaker 1: Not since j Augar Hoover has the FBI hierarchy serially
Speaker 1: lied under oath, stonewalled Congress, forged the court affidavit, partnered
Speaker 1: with the media to suppress the news. Has the FBI
Speaker 1: have rated the next president's home, spied on parents at
Speaker 1: school board meetings, monitored Catholics, tried to terrify or harassed
Speaker 1: pro life activists. Each one of these things is a
Speaker 1: huge scandal unto itself, and all we hear, we still
Speaker 1: hear the narrative from those on the left, how great
Speaker 1: this administration was, how great of a president Biden has been.
Speaker 1: There are people still out there still singing that song.
Speaker 1: One who is not is a former Democrat, big time fundraiser.
Speaker 1: I've got that sound bite ready to go, but we've
Speaker 1: still got we got to get a quick break in here.
Speaker 1: But we will hear that on the other side of this,
Speaker 1: So stick around for that. Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 1: fifty five KRC, The Talk.
Speaker 3: Station, fifty five KRC, fifty.
Speaker 1: Five KRC The Talk Station, Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas. So,
Speaker 1: as I was talking about before the break, you've got
Speaker 1: a lot of different people who are pulling the curtain
Speaker 1: back on what happened in the Biden administration. One of
Speaker 1: them was campaign advisor Lindy Lee. She's been on quite
Speaker 1: a bit lately and she's been talking about what really
Speaker 1: happened and what has been happening, and now she has
Speaker 1: decided that she has had enough. She was on with
Speaker 1: Piers Morgan, who has I don't know if it's considered
Speaker 1: a podcast or a regular show on the Fox Digital channel,
Speaker 1: but Piers Morgan has just been doing a great job
Speaker 1: and he had he had on I don't know, five
Speaker 1: or six different guests, and Lindy Lee was talking. She
Speaker 1: started talking about her time working with the Democrats and
Speaker 1: what is really happening with the Democrat Party. Some very
Speaker 1: interesting stuff here. Listen to this cut Sean McMahon, cut
Speaker 1: number seven. Please. The Democrats have got to move on quickly,
Speaker 1: haven't I?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I couldn't agree more. She's indulging delusions or running
Speaker 5: for governor in California in twenty twenty six, and perhaps
Speaker 5: e've been running for president in twenty twenty and I
Speaker 5: just want to echo what a lot of you guys
Speaker 5: already said. This past week has been heiring for me.
Speaker 5: This just this Saturday, I went on Fox and Friends
Speaker 5: and I said that Democrats have a stench of loser
Speaker 5: hangover them. As soon as I said that, there were
Speaker 5: boycott campaigns against me, unblock, unfollowed campaigns. I lost forty
Speaker 5: thousand followers in four days. People have called me the
Speaker 5: W word. I don't know what we're allowed to say,
Speaker 5: but you can fill them.
Speaker 1: Blank, say am I allowed to Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 5: Apparently I'm a well. They called me a whore, they
Speaker 5: called me the C word, They asked for me to
Speaker 5: be deported, and you can just you can just search
Speaker 5: for my name in those terms on X and you'll
Speaker 5: see a bunch of them. So, you know, all these
Speaker 5: so called Democrats, the Party of Inclusion, the Party of Diversity,
Speaker 5: masks off. And it's even worse because they pretend to
Speaker 5: occupy the moral high ground. They pretend to be, you know,
Speaker 5: so loving and caring and embracing of diversity. But all
Speaker 5: of a sudden, when I dare to issue, to utter
Speaker 5: any criticisms of the Goddess Come Harris, I get ostracized
Speaker 5: me after having raised tens of millions of dollars for
Speaker 5: the party. My donors are pissed. They raised two point
Speaker 5: five billion dollars across super Pack in the campaign. It's
Speaker 5: my responsibility, it's my duty of care, to ask what
Speaker 5: the hell happened with that money? Why did we spend it?
Speaker 5: Why did we spend millions of dollars on five star
Speaker 5: hotels for campaign staffers. Why did we spend five hundred
Speaker 5: thousand dollars essentially bribing Al Sharpton moments before he interviewed Kamala.
Speaker 5: These are legitimate questions, but no, in the cult, you
Speaker 5: can't ask questions. And leaving the Democratic Party, or even
Speaker 5: questioning the Democratic Party, it's like leaving a cult. It's terrifying.
Speaker 1: So there you go, there's Lendy Lee right there, and
Speaker 1: just listen to what she's saying and decipher that and
Speaker 1: ingest that for yourself. That is absolutely unvarnished truth, coming
Speaker 1: from a woman who has been there. And these are
Speaker 1: the people that Democrats value the most. They don't value you,
Speaker 1: they don't value the average voter, they don't value the
Speaker 1: average American people. They value the people that can bring
Speaker 1: in the money. And this is what she's been doing
Speaker 1: billions of dollars. And we know the Kamala Harris campaign
Speaker 1: ripped through a billion and a half dollars in the
Speaker 1: span of one hundred days. And she's talking about she's
Speaker 1: asking questions five star hotels for staff members, all this
Speaker 1: crazy spending going on. Now you can't ask those questions.
Speaker 1: And she sounds a lot like somebody I know. She
Speaker 1: sounds like the guy who's sitting behind this microphone now
Speaker 1: when she describes a Democrat Party trying to seek the
Speaker 1: moral high how many times have I said that. Sean
Speaker 1: McMahon has heard my show many times. He's heard me
Speaker 1: say that exact same phrase, and they try to act
Speaker 1: like and you know what, they're the party of openness,
Speaker 1: They're the party that welcomes diversity. Diversity with the Democrat
Speaker 1: Party only goes skin deep, It only goes to your genitalia,
Speaker 1: it only goes to your identity politics. You get that
Speaker 1: there is no diverse there is no room for diversity
Speaker 1: of thought when it comes to the Democrat Party. And
Speaker 1: Lindy Lee just rip the absolute cover off of it
Speaker 1: talking to Peters Morgan there. I may play that sound
Speaker 1: bite a little bit later on and she was scoffing
Speaker 1: at the notion that Kamala Harris would run for governor
Speaker 1: in California or run for the White House again. She's
Speaker 1: an absolute fraud, Kamala Harris says. And if you've seen
Speaker 1: the couple, there's been one or two videos that have
Speaker 1: popped up of her since the election, and she appears
Speaker 1: like she's hammered in both of them. If you've seen them,
Speaker 1: you know exactly what I'm talking about. Five point fifty five.
Speaker 1: We got to get to a break news coming up
Speaker 1: top of the hour, but we will roll on on
Speaker 1: this Christmas special edition. Oh yeah, tomorrow too, but special
Speaker 1: because it's a couple of days before Christmas. Dan Carroll
Speaker 1: for Brian Thomas, fifty five k r CV talks to
Speaker 1: you really got me down six or five on this
Speaker 1: Monday morning, a little van Halen for you, a couple
Speaker 1: of days before Christmas. Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas, fifty
Speaker 1: five kr CV talk station five one, three, seven, four nine,
Speaker 1: fifty five hundred the number to call if you want
Speaker 1: to get on board. Sean McMahon running the U the
Speaker 1: big board there in the fifty five KRC Command Center.
Speaker 1: I appreciate him being here, and glad to see Joe
Speaker 1: Strecker taking a at least one day off. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: maybe he's taking a whole week off. Sewn you here tomorrow,
Speaker 1: not tomorrow. Maybe Joe Strecker is back tomorrow. So we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. But in any case, I'm glad to
Speaker 1: be here and glad you are here as well and
Speaker 1: get the chance to talk to the the great Brian
Speaker 1: Thomas audience. I turned my computer on today, brought in
Speaker 1: my laptop because there's a couple of things I wanted
Speaker 1: to uh have available on my x feed this morning,
Speaker 1: and it's a lot easier to do that with my laptop.
Speaker 1: I open up my laptop, it says it's updating, and
Speaker 1: this was a over an hour ago. It's been about
Speaker 1: an hour and twenty or twenty five minutes now. My
Speaker 1: update is eighty eight percent complete. And then it says
Speaker 1: your computer may restart a few more times. So the
Speaker 1: spinning around thing, the rendering thing, has been spinning NonStop
Speaker 1: since about twenty till five this morning. Unbelievable. Normally, when
Speaker 1: you do an update my laptop, my laptop seems to
Speaker 1: need to update all the time, it's three or four minutes.
Speaker 1: Boom okay, updates complete. You can turn your computer off.
Speaker 1: Not now, not today. Maybe it'll be done before the
Speaker 1: show is over, so we'll keep you posted on that one.
Speaker 1: What do I want to get to? The story out
Speaker 1: of New York is just terrific. I saw the unedited
Speaker 1: video on this, and again I was starting my show
Speaker 1: prep after I saw the story about the F eighteen.
Speaker 1: I saw the faighteen getting shot down in the Red Sea.
Speaker 1: I saw this about the F train in New York,
Speaker 1: and apparently there's a woman sleeping on the train, some
Speaker 1: bottles of booze laying around. Don't know if that had
Speaker 1: anything to do with it. And then this dude from Guatemala,
Speaker 1: according to witnesses, threw a match on her and she
Speaker 1: just it was engulfed in flame. How that happens without
Speaker 1: some sort of accelerant being around, I don't know. But
Speaker 1: this woman's dead, burned to death on the subway train,
Speaker 1: the video shows. In the video I saw there was
Speaker 1: you've got the platform there and there's a person sitting
Speaker 1: on the bench. Whoever was shooting the video was behind
Speaker 1: the bench, probably twenty five thirty feet away from the
Speaker 1: train and you can see the flames in the train.
Speaker 1: This person just sitting there on the bench like h
Speaker 1: look at that. No one making a move to help
Speaker 1: this woman. And they arrest this dude from Guatemala, a migrant,
Speaker 1: A migrant from Guatemala. Really, it's been a while since
Speaker 1: I've been on the subway in New York City. But
Speaker 1: if I ever go back to New York City, I
Speaker 1: think I'm staying away from the trains. It is not
Speaker 1: good what is happening down there. And Katy Hochele was
Speaker 1: talking about I wish I had that SoundBite with me.
Speaker 1: She was talking about how crime is down, and there
Speaker 1: was a reporter there who just just called her out
Speaker 1: and she turns to someone on her staff and says,
Speaker 1: you want to handle that question? Oh you I'm not
Speaker 1: going to answer that one. Just shot that one off
Speaker 1: to someone else who happened to be there. So all
Speaker 1: the reports are coming out about what's been going on
Speaker 1: with this administration. One came out from the House of
Speaker 1: Representatives Judiciary Committee chaired by Jim Jordan of Ohio, the
Speaker 1: Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, and
Speaker 1: that committee has come out with its report only seventeen
Speaker 1: thousand pages, A breezy A light breezy read seventeen thousand pages.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pretend as if I've read it,
Speaker 1: but I can tell you what Fox News had to
Speaker 1: say about it. The Weaponization Committee conducted rigorous oversight of
Speaker 1: the Biden Harris administration and the weaponization of government and
Speaker 1: uncovered numerous examples of federal government abuse. Jim Jordan told
Speaker 1: Fox News Digital. Through our oversight, we protected the First
Speaker 1: Amendment by investigating the censorship industrial complex, heard from numerous
Speaker 1: brave whistleblowers, stopped the targeting of Americans by the IRS,
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, and created serious legislative and policy
Speaker 1: changes that will benefit Americans. The report, obtained by Fox
Speaker 1: News Digital states the founding documents of the United States
Speaker 1: articulate the ideals of the American republican guarantee to all
Speaker 1: Americans or all American citizens fundamental rights and liberties. For
Speaker 1: too long, however, the American people have faced a two
Speaker 1: tiered system of government, one of favorable treatment for the
Speaker 1: politically favored class, one of intimidation and unfairness for the
Speaker 1: rest of the American citizens. Under Biden Harris, the contrast
Speaker 1: between these two these two tiers has become even more stark.
Speaker 1: The committee was created to stand up for the American people,
Speaker 1: highlighting its work to bring abuses by the federal government
Speaker 1: into the light for the American people, and to ensure
Speaker 1: that Congress, as their elected representatives, can take actions to
Speaker 1: remedy them. The mission of the sub Committee was to
Speaker 1: protect and strengthen the fundamental rights of America. The report says,
Speaker 1: noting that by investigating and uncovering and documenting executive branch misconduct,
Speaker 1: lawmakers have taken the important steps to ensure that the
Speaker 1: federal government no longer works against the American people. The
Speaker 1: work is not complete. Seventeen thousand pages, and the work
Speaker 1: is not complete. Think about that. Throughout the Biden Paris administration,
Speaker 1: multiple agencies, multiple federal agencies, including the White House, have
Speaker 1: engaged in a vast censorship campaign against so called miss
Speaker 1: dis or malinformation noting. The report states, noting that the
Speaker 1: Subcommittee revealed the extent of the censorship industrial complex and
Speaker 1: detailed how the federal government and law enforcement coordinated with academics, nonprofits,
Speaker 1: and other private entities to censor speech online. And that
Speaker 1: has been that whole notion about the government doing these
Speaker 1: things to censor the speech to the American people has
Speaker 1: been one of the fundamental themes that I've been talking
Speaker 1: about on this and other radio stations for the last
Speaker 1: couple of three years. It is again an absolute scandal
Speaker 1: that these things were able to take place. In the
Speaker 1: panelist touting its work, saying its oversight has a real
Speaker 1: effect in expanding the First Amendment, and a Supreme Court
Speaker 1: dissent three justices noted how these select Subcommittee's investigation revealed
Speaker 1: that valuable speech was suppressed, and a letter to the subcommittee,
Speaker 1: Facebook and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the Biden
Speaker 1: Harris administration pressured Facebook to censor Americans. Facebook gave into
Speaker 1: this pressure the mooting posts and content that was highly
Speaker 1: relevant to political discourse in the United States, and another
Speaker 1: win for the subcommittee. In response to its work, universities
Speaker 1: and other groups shut down their disinformation research, and federal
Speaker 1: agencies slowed their communications with big tech. And I remember
Speaker 1: back on July fourth, when a judge told these federal
Speaker 1: agencies that they had to stop doing this. What was
Speaker 1: the reaction of the Biden administration, Well, it was to
Speaker 1: go back to the court to seek an injunction and
Speaker 1: so they could continue to strong arm big tech and
Speaker 1: social media companies so they could do what shut down
Speaker 1: suppressed the speech that the government didn't like, not because
Speaker 1: it was disinformation, not because anyone was going to be
Speaker 1: harmed by reading it. They wanted to shut it down
Speaker 1: because it was a narrative that they did not like.
Speaker 1: It was a narrative that was not approved, not approved
Speaker 1: as fit for consumption by the American people by this administration.
Speaker 1: And the depths of which they engaged in this are
Speaker 1: absolutely scandalous and so the and this is just the
Speaker 1: latest report to come out from this committee on Weaponization.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have some more on this coming up, and
Speaker 1: if you have any thoughts on it. Five one three
Speaker 1: seven four nine seven seven thousand, five one three seven
Speaker 1: four nine fifty five hundred. As we roll on, Dan
Speaker 1: Carroll and for Brian Thomas on fifty five k r C,
Speaker 1: the Talk Station, fifty five KRC. Fifty five KRC the
Speaker 1: Talk Station. Sean McMahon rolling out my my favorite Christmas
Speaker 1: songs of all time. This one maybe maybe my all
Speaker 1: time favorite. This is the King Elvis Presley his rendition
Speaker 1: of Merry Christmas Baby. Okay, it goes on. It's like
Speaker 1: seven minutes long, it is, but it is. It is
Speaker 1: just fantastic. This is Elvis at his very best. So
Speaker 1: let's just hear a little bit of the King right
Speaker 1: here on fifty five KRC. Here we go, Marry Merry,
Speaker 1: Christmas Baby. Shoot it and you listen to this entire song.
Speaker 1: It's got this great bluesy feel to it, and I
Speaker 1: am Elvis just unleashes about five or six minutes into it.
Speaker 1: It is just fantastic. The music is great. Give me
Speaker 1: a Diamond Ring, Christmas, come on now. And every time
Speaker 1: I hear this song, it takes me back to the
Speaker 1: first time I ever heard it. That is a long story,
Speaker 1: and maybe i'll tell that one tomorrow. I could listen
Speaker 1: to this all day long. But getting back to the
Speaker 1: Weaponization Committee and the report they put out. You go
Speaker 1: to their website and the way they've done this is
Speaker 1: seventeen thousand pages, so it's not all one report, but
Speaker 1: it is dozens of separate reports, and they go on
Speaker 1: and they talk about how the Cybersecurity Agency colluded with
Speaker 1: big tech and disinformation disinformation partners to censor Americans. That's
Speaker 1: one report the FBI's collaboration with a compromised Ukrainian intelligence
Speaker 1: agency to censor American speech weaponization select subcommittees anarchus brief
Speaker 1: on Missouri versus Biden. That's the one. The Missouri versus
Speaker 1: Biden is the one where the judge came out and said,
Speaker 1: these government agencies need to stop doing this. The Biden
Speaker 1: Border Crisis. New data and testimony show how the Biden
Speaker 1: administration opened the Southwest border and abandoned interior immigration enforcement.
Speaker 1: Let's see, let's just open this. Let's see, let's just
Speaker 1: says do something at random here. The Biden Border Crisis.
Speaker 1: New data and testimony shows how the Biden administration open
Speaker 1: the Southwest border and abandon interior enforcement. Executive Summary. New
Speaker 1: data and information obtained by the Committee on the Judiciary
Speaker 1: and its Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity reveal that the Biden
Speaker 1: administration has failed to remove through immigration court removal proceedings
Speaker 1: over ninety nine percent of those illegal aliens who have
Speaker 1: been released into the country under President Joe Biden. This
Speaker 1: information contradicts the assertions of the administration and the statements
Speaker 1: of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorcis that the Southwest border
Speaker 1: is closed and illegal aliens are removed from the country quickly,
Speaker 1: and may orcusaid just in an interview this weekend where
Speaker 1: he is still lying about the Biden administration and what
Speaker 1: they did at the border. This new data reinforces widespread
Speaker 1: concern about the state of the border. More than two
Speaker 1: and a half years into Biden's term, his administration's border
Speaker 1: crisis continues unabated. Publicly available information so is that encounters
Speaker 1: of illegal aliens at the Southwest border surpassed one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand for the thirty first straight month thirty one straight
Speaker 1: months of one hundred thousand. Total Southwest border illegal alien
Speaker 1: encounters exceeded two point two million in the first eleven
Speaker 1: months of fiscal twenty three. In August of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: encounters of illegal aliens at the Southwest border skyrocketed to
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty nine nine hundred and seventy two,
Speaker 1: and the unreleased encounter numbers for September of twenty three
Speaker 1: or reportedly shattered previous records, exceeding two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: thousand encounters in a single month. Meanwhile, more than one
Speaker 1: point seven million known god aways have evated border patrol
Speaker 1: and escaped into the interior since January of twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: with untold numbers of unknown god aways avoiding detection during
Speaker 1: that period. So this is just one element of the
Speaker 1: report detailing the illegals that have crossed into into the
Speaker 1: United States since Biden took office. Customs and Border Protection
Speaker 1: has accounted more than six point two million illegal aliens
Speaker 1: along the southwest border. Of the more than five million
Speaker 1: illegal alien encounters from January twenty one through March thirty
Speaker 1: first to twenty three, at least two million, four hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty four thousand Eagle aliens remained in the United
Speaker 1: States as of March twenty twenty three. And there's all
Speaker 1: kinds of charts and graphs and talking about majorcis and
Speaker 1: I mean, just how this guy cannot tell the truth
Speaker 1: about these matters. So look that up the Weaponization Committee,
Speaker 1: Jim Jordan and again seventeen dow. That's a lot of stuff,
Speaker 1: but the way they break it down on the website
Speaker 1: very very interesting. Six twenty six Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 1: fifty five KRCD talk.
Speaker 3: Station fifty five krc.
Speaker 1: Fifty five KRCD talk station, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: Street Journal came out this past week Thursday with I
Speaker 1: think one of the most shocking stories, shocking reports about
Speaker 1: Joe Biden and how from the earliest days of the
Speaker 1: administration the people in his inner circle were running cover
Speaker 1: for him. Biden's aids were trying to hide his decline
Speaker 1: his first year in office. Of course, the networks didn't
Speaker 1: want to touch it. I've got some sound. O will
Speaker 1: play sound a little bit later, as Steve Doocy, who
Speaker 1: was really one of the few journalists who was all
Speaker 1: over this. But the story is absolutely shocking, and there's
Speaker 1: been a lot written about this over the last few days.
Speaker 1: And M. D. Kittle at the at the Federalist talks
Speaker 1: about how Biden had more meetings with his son's business
Speaker 1: associates than he did with his cabinet members. Peace published
Speaker 1: Thursday and the Wall Street Journal pools from dozens of
Speaker 1: sources who say Biden's inner circle of trusted aid's increasingly
Speaker 1: kept contact with the president at a minimum, including the
Speaker 1: people he should have had depended on the most to
Speaker 1: consult and advise for the good of the nation. The
Speaker 1: president who spent a good chunk of his term out
Speaker 1: of the office apparently was not all that keen on
Speaker 1: meetings with his cabinet secretaries. In fact, Biden may have
Speaker 1: met more often with his criminal sons sketchy clients than
Speaker 1: he did with his administration's top managers. Biden was such
Speaker 1: a political liability that his handlers hit him away. During
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty presidential campaign, he campaigned from his Delaware
Speaker 1: basement through the brunt of the election year. Strategy wasn't
Speaker 1: about to protect he calls him a feebled geezer from
Speaker 1: COVID as. It was designed to prevent the American voters
Speaker 1: from seeing what a physical and mental mess Biden really was.
Speaker 1: And even then, even when he was campaigning from his basement,
Speaker 1: there were so many gaffs and so many flaws, and
Speaker 1: so many pregnant pauses, so many disjointed sentences and conversations,
Speaker 1: things that didn't make any sense at all. Of course,
Speaker 1: the media was not about calling out any of that.
Speaker 1: We were, but that was just a total and complete,
Speaker 1: complete lapse of what the media is there to do,
Speaker 1: and they just totally gave up on what their job was.
Speaker 1: Over the past six week, presidential nominee Joe Biden has
Speaker 1: been running his campaign from his Delaware base. CBS News
Speaker 1: reported in April of twenty twenty, showcasing a fluff piece
Speaker 1: from The New York Times about how Team Biden was
Speaker 1: attempting to keep his campaign relevant during the pandemic the
Speaker 1: occasional program zoom calls, notwithstanding, keeping Biden relevant meant keeping
Speaker 1: him hidden, literally underground. Quaintly back then, Axios in its
Speaker 1: corporate media bedfellows were trying to convince America not to
Speaker 1: believe your lying eyes that there were two Biden's, the
Speaker 1: eighty one year old who had recently frozen up like
Speaker 1: so much freezer piece in his debate with former President
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and the viral campaigning Joe Biden. Turns out,
Speaker 1: Biden wasn't just hiding from voters, he was ducking his
Speaker 1: own cabinet. Interactions between Biden and many of his cabinet
Speaker 1: members were relatively infrequent, often tightly scripted. At least one
Speaker 1: cabinet member stopped requesting calls with the President because it
Speaker 1: was clear such requests wouldn't be welcome, a former senior
Speaker 1: cabinet aide said. The story further noted the cabinet members,
Speaker 1: including powerful secretaries such as Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense
Speaker 1: Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, were infrequent or grew
Speaker 1: less frequent. Some legislative leaders had a hard time getting
Speaker 1: the presidents here at key moments, including ahead of the
Speaker 1: US disastrous pull out of Afghanistan. As The Federalist has reported,
Speaker 1: Biden is alleged to have interacted with Hunter Biden's suspected
Speaker 1: clients countless times. So he did all that, but when
Speaker 1: it came to meeting with his cabinet members, they were
Speaker 1: few and far between. And I'm going to roll us
Speaker 1: in the next couple of segments. I'm going to roll
Speaker 1: some sound on this and it's it all makes sense
Speaker 1: now when you listen to the way Krine John Pierre
Speaker 1: was talking about it and what some of the some
Speaker 1: of the Biden supporters are still saying today. So we'll
Speaker 1: get to all that as we roll on throughout the
Speaker 1: morning until nine o'clock this morning. Dan Carrol for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 1: fifty five k r CV Talk station.
Speaker 4: This is fifty five KRC an iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 5: This is Ashley and.
Speaker 1: Gotta set the Moon a couple of days away from Christmas.
Speaker 1: You gotta love it. You listen to it all day long. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's what I'll do when I'm done today, I'll just
Speaker 1: go home and just play Christmas music all day, at
Speaker 1: least the stuff that I like. It would be fantastic.
Speaker 1: Sean McMahon, thank you for that. Let's hear a little bit.
Speaker 1: This is Karin John Pierre and this is a cut
Speaker 1: that goes back a little way. I'm I'm exactly sure
Speaker 1: on the date on this, but this was around the
Speaker 1: time that if you remember when Joe Biden did that
Speaker 1: event with Barack Obama, I believe it was out in California,
Speaker 1: and George Clooney was the one that put this event together.
Speaker 1: And then then there was a time towards the end
Speaker 1: of that event when Joe Biden was sort of just
Speaker 1: standing out there on stage and sort of in space
Speaker 1: and lost, who really didn't know where he was going,
Speaker 1: and Barack Obama walked up to him and escorted him
Speaker 1: off the stage. And it was after that event when
Speaker 1: George Clooney wrote the letter talking about how this guy
Speaker 1: cannot be the nominee, And so Karin John Pierre was
Speaker 1: asked about that, and this is what it sounded like
Speaker 1: back in the day. I believe that is cut Number
Speaker 1: two there Sean McMahon. There seems to be a sort
Speaker 1: of rash of videos that have been edited to make
Speaker 1: the president up here especially frail or mentally confused. I'm
Speaker 1: wondering the.
Speaker 6: White Houses especially worried about the fact that this this
Speaker 6: appears to be a pattern.
Speaker 7: Number thing more about Yeah, and I think you all
Speaker 7: have called this the cheap fakes video, and that's exactly
Speaker 7: what they are. They are cheap fakes video. They are
Speaker 7: done in bad fight and in some of your news
Speaker 7: organization have been very clear have stressed that these right wing,
Speaker 7: the white wing critics of the president have a credibility
Speaker 7: problem because of the fact checkers have repeatedly caught them
Speaker 7: pushing misinformation, disinformation, And so we see this and this
Speaker 7: is something coming from your part of the world, calling
Speaker 7: them cheap fakes and misinformation. And I'll quote the Washington
Speaker 7: Post where they wrote they wrote about this and they said,
Speaker 7: how are but can use misleading videos to attack Biden
Speaker 7: in a twenty four hour period?
Speaker 1: No, okay, that's enough right there. That was Karinn John Pierre,
Speaker 1: And based on the reporting that we had from the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, people who were there, people who saw
Speaker 1: what was going on. They couldn't have meetings, didn't meet
Speaker 1: with his cabinet members. And you wonder why Kriinn John
Speaker 1: Pierre seemed like she was so out of the loop
Speaker 1: so many times when she would come out there to
Speaker 1: try and answer questions from the meetings, because there was
Speaker 1: no loop. She wasn't having regular meetings with it. She
Speaker 1: claimed that she did, but she couldn't sit down and
Speaker 1: have a meaningful conversation. He was incapable of doing it.
Speaker 1: And if you go back even a little bit further,
Speaker 1: this was Steve doocey, but not Steve do but Peter Doocy,
Speaker 1: White House correspondent for he was asking all the right questions.
Speaker 1: So Sean McMahon, if we have cut number one ready,
Speaker 1: I would like to hit that one. But this is
Speaker 1: Steve Doocy, not Steve, but I keep getting Steve Doocy's
Speaker 1: his dad, he's on Fox in front. But Peter Doocy
Speaker 1: again was one of the only reporters who had the
Speaker 1: a wherewithal to throw these questions out. Not just that
Speaker 1: he was asking, but we were all asking. And this
Speaker 1: is the main question right here, cut number one. If
Speaker 1: the Special.
Speaker 6: Council says President Biden's got significant limitations on his memory,
Speaker 6: then who is helping.
Speaker 1: Him run the country?
Speaker 7: The President of the United States runs the country.
Speaker 4: The commander and she runs the country.
Speaker 1: Not true with the nuclear codes.
Speaker 6: If I get that, you're saying that nobody in the
Speaker 6: building would say that he's got an issue with his memory.
Speaker 6: But just the little part of what we get to
Speaker 6: see made mistake after mistake after mistake after a mistake on.
Speaker 1: Camera this week.
Speaker 7: So I'm going to be very clear here. The reality
Speaker 7: is that report, that part of the report does not
Speaker 7: live in reality.
Speaker 8: It just doesn't. It is it is, it is, it is.
Speaker 7: It was gratuitous. You heard from you heard from Ian
Speaker 7: Sam's my colleague. It is unacceptable and it does not.
Speaker 3: Live in reality.
Speaker 9: That is just the facts.
Speaker 7: And and look it is a close case. That is
Speaker 7: what the Special Council said. And what matters is here
Speaker 7: is that the president in the last three years has
Speaker 7: delivered on the economy, has delivered on healthcare, has turned
Speaker 7: this country around after the last president left us with
Speaker 7: an economy that was in a temp.
Speaker 1: All right, that's enough. That's another corin. John Pierre just lying, lying, lying,
Speaker 1: and Dousey said there saying, look, we can see this
Speaker 1: with our own eyes. He's pointing to example after example,
Speaker 1: not stuff that is pulled from here, there and everywhere
Speaker 1: else this week. And you remember when the special counsel,
Speaker 1: the guy's name was her, came out and said he
Speaker 1: interviewed Joe Biden. And the only reason that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: wasn't facing criminal indictment or further action is because this
Speaker 1: guy was incapable of defending himself. He was essentially incapable
Speaker 1: of contributing to his defense. Not that he would have
Speaker 1: had well, obviously if this would have happened, he would
Speaker 1: have loayed up. But he was so compromised, so brain dead.
Speaker 1: And it was a bombshell report back then, and Deucey's
Speaker 1: asking the simple question that we've all been asking over
Speaker 1: the last three and a half four year years, who
Speaker 1: is running the country, and Karin John Pierre, well, the
Speaker 1: president is no, No, he's not. It was a lie then,
Speaker 1: and they continue to lie about it. And we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that on the other side of this. Dan Carrol
Speaker 1: for Brian Thomas, fifty five k R C the talk station.
Speaker 3: Fifty five k the talk station Shopping.
Speaker 1: Fifty five k R see the talk station, Dan Carroll
Speaker 1: and from Brian Thomas, Sean mcman. You loving this Christmas music.
Speaker 1: This is great stuff, isn't it. Come on now, give
Speaker 1: me a little bit of See this is the kind
Speaker 1: of stuff that you that you don't hear every day.
Speaker 1: I could listen to this all day long. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get back to what we were talking about here.
Speaker 1: Chris Coons was on with Dana Bash on CNN over
Speaker 1: the weekend and they brought up there is surprisingly they
Speaker 1: actually brought up this Wall Street Journal report talking about
Speaker 1: how people in the White House were keeping Biden hidden
Speaker 1: away from not only the American people, but members of
Speaker 1: his cabinet. And so Dana Bash asked Chris Coons about this. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, Chris Coons became a Senator in twenty ten.
Speaker 1: So in twenty ten, Joe Biden was a vice president
Speaker 1: of the United States, and he's one of the ones
Speaker 1: who well he's not the one, but he is the
Speaker 1: one who's sworn the vice presidents wears in members of
Speaker 1: the Senate because the vice president is the president of
Speaker 1: the Senate. So if you've seen the video of this
Speaker 1: when Chris Coons is there, Chris Coons back in twenty ten,
Speaker 1: he's got a daughter, and she was very young back then.
Speaker 1: And if you've seen the video of Joe Biden doing
Speaker 1: these swearing INDs, you know that when it came the
Speaker 1: picture time, he would always position the little kid that
Speaker 1: was there with whatever senator and he would put them
Speaker 1: in a position where he was able to grope them
Speaker 1: gratuitously and disgustingly. And the one where he puts his
Speaker 1: paws all over Chris Coons's daughter is one of the
Speaker 1: most disgusting plays I've ever seen. And he does it
Speaker 1: right in front of Coons, right in front of his wife,
Speaker 1: and he gets away with it because he's the big guy,
Speaker 1: and Chris Coons is still carrying water for this guy.
Speaker 1: Absolutely unbelievable. Sean, can we hear cut number four? Please?
Speaker 2: You're a long time ally of Joe Biden. You sit
Speaker 2: in his former Senate seat. There was a report in
Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal that was pretty detailed and pretty
Speaker 2: well sourced outlining concerns about the president's mental and physical
Speaker 2: fitness going back to the start of his presidency, even
Speaker 2: cabinet members who were kept at arm's length.
Speaker 3: Is that true?
Speaker 10: I don't know whether cabinet officials were or were not
Speaker 10: kept at arm's length, where I know that four years
Speaker 10: the way I communicate with President Biden is not by
Speaker 10: hanging out at his house on the weekend or traveling
Speaker 10: with him overseas, but he calls me when he's got
Speaker 10: questions or concerns. And I'll remind you, in just the
Speaker 10: fight of the last couple of days, there are Republicans
Speaker 10: who've been saying that Joe Biden once again outsmarted them politically.
Speaker 10: So which one is it. Is he a savvy political
Speaker 10: operator who outsmarted them, someone who had the sense to
Speaker 10: step back and let them keep fighting with each other
Speaker 10: and in the end got exactly the spending bill that
Speaker 10: he and his administration and Democrats and Congress have been
Speaker 10: fighting for.
Speaker 1: Or is he someone who's completely a wall I think
Speaker 1: it's the former.
Speaker 10: And if you look at the record of his administration,
Speaker 10: how many massive legislative accomplishments he had as president, and
Speaker 10: the ways he made us safer and stronger at home
Speaker 10: and abroad, I'll take that record any day.
Speaker 2: You told Fox this week that you didn't realize that
Speaker 2: there might be something wrong until our debate. You know,
Speaker 2: looking back, are you comfortable with your support the fact
Speaker 2: that you were a co chair of his campaign, the
Speaker 2: whole thing.
Speaker 1: I still support Joe Biden.
Speaker 10: I think he's a compassionate and decent man who has
Speaker 10: been a consequential president.
Speaker 1: But that was true.
Speaker 10: The first time I saw or heard anything that made
Speaker 10: me really question his fitness to service second term.
Speaker 1: Was that to be Oh, it was so. It was
Speaker 1: the debate, not until that. I know Joe Biden perfectly fine, perfectly, lucid,
Speaker 1: perfectly on the ball, fit to serve, on top of everything.
Speaker 1: He didn't have any problem. And then and this notion
Speaker 1: that there are Republicans just the other day saying dog
Speaker 1: Gunnet got out smarted by Joe Biden. Again, Wow, it's
Speaker 1: so tough to get the upper hand on that, dude.
Speaker 1: Never happened. It happened back in twenty twenty three. There
Speaker 1: were a couple of Republicans saying that. But the other day,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Chris Coons is an absolute clown
Speaker 1: and a disgrace. Now it still gaslighting about Joe Biden
Speaker 1: and his ability to be President of the United States.
Speaker 1: Right there with him, great job, Chris, right there with him. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Five point fifty six on this Monday morning, a couple
Speaker 1: of days before Christmas on fifty five KRC, The Talk Station.
Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC the Talk Station. Good morning, it is
Speaker 1: seven of six on this Monday morning. Dan Carroll in
Speaker 1: for Brian Thomas. You get to be here tomorrow as well.
Speaker 1: Always love talking to the great Brian Thomas audience. A
Speaker 1: couple of days before Christmas. Joe Strecker also taking a
Speaker 1: day off. So Sean McMahon is here rolling out the
Speaker 1: Van Hallen for us this morning. Is that one of
Speaker 1: your favorites are Sean? Yeah, he loves this one. Well,
Speaker 1: that's good stuff. We have you well. Joe Biden has
Speaker 1: been busy this morning. Right after five this morning, Joe
Speaker 1: Biden announced that he has commuted the death sentences of
Speaker 1: child killers and mass murderers a couple. It's a fest
Speaker 1: of its miracle brought to us by the White House.
Speaker 1: That's just fantastic. Joe Biden this morning this morning commuted
Speaker 1: the sentences of thirty seven of forty men on federal
Speaker 1: death row, a list that includes at least five child
Speaker 1: killers and several mass murderers, in an act of clemency.
Speaker 1: Just two days before Christmas, Biden gave the reprieve to
Speaker 1: the nation's most violent murderers, nine of whom were found
Speaker 1: too dangerous to live after butchering fellow inmates. This is
Speaker 1: according to The New York Post. As part of his
Speaker 1: effort of ensuring a fair and effective justice system, the
Speaker 1: White House said, make no mistake, I condemned these murderers,
Speaker 1: grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache
Speaker 1: for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,
Speaker 1: Biden said in a statement. But guided by my conscience
Speaker 1: in my experience as a public defender, what was Joe
Speaker 1: Biden ever a public defender? He was also chairman of
Speaker 1: the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice president, and now President. I
Speaker 1: am more convinced than ever that we must stop the
Speaker 1: use of the death penalty at the federal level. In
Speaker 1: good conscious, I cannot stand back and let a new
Speaker 1: administration resume the executions that I halted. Biden, who opposes
Speaker 1: the death penalty, lowered each of the thirty seven sentences
Speaker 1: to life in prison without parole, did not say why. Specifically,
Speaker 1: he considered the original penalties unjust. Among those receiving the
Speaker 1: holiday year is Thomas Sanders, who in twenty ten, kidnapped
Speaker 1: and then shot twelve year old Lexus Roberts four times
Speaker 1: and then cut her throat in Louisiana. This days after
Speaker 1: the girl watched the Sanders murdered her mother on a
Speaker 1: road trip near the Grand Canyon. Christmas came early for
Speaker 1: Anthony Battle, who murdered an Atlanta prison guard with a
Speaker 1: hammer in nineteen ninety four. While serving a life sentence
Speaker 1: for raping and murdering his wife, a US marine. At
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven at Camp Lejune, North Carolina, Jorge A
Speaker 1: Via Torres sexually assaulted and stabbed a death two girls,
Speaker 1: Laura Hobbs eight and Crystal Tobias, nine, who had been
Speaker 1: riding their bicycles in their neighborhood in a suburb north
Speaker 1: of Io in two thousand and five. Four years later,
Speaker 1: he strangled a naval officer, Amanda Snell, just twenty years old,
Speaker 1: in her barracks in Arlington, Virginia. Laurie McHale, another clemency recipient,
Speaker 1: was convicted of murdering five Russian and Georgia immigrants after
Speaker 1: kidnapping them for ransom, which in some cases was paid
Speaker 1: before he killed them anyway. Caboni Savage meanwhile, was convicted
Speaker 1: of committing or ordering the deaths of twelve people, including
Speaker 1: four children, as a Philadelphia drug dealer. James Rohan Junior
Speaker 1: participated in the murder of eleven people as a drug
Speaker 1: dealer in Richmond, Virginia. Three of the men on federal
Speaker 1: death row who did not get a commutation Boston Marathon
Speaker 1: Bomber zoekarr Sonarev, who along with his brother killed three
Speaker 1: people in twenty thirteen. Robert Bowers killed eleven people at
Speaker 1: a Pittsburgh synagogue in twenty eighteen, and Dylan Roofe, who
Speaker 1: killed nine people at a black Charleston church and in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen did not did not get the sentences commuted.
Speaker 1: The retiring president on December first, issued a blanket pardon
Speaker 1: for his own son, Hunter Biden, wiping the slate of
Speaker 1: his June conviction of three federal gun felonies, and in
Speaker 1: September his guilty plead a one point four million in
Speaker 1: tax fraud. Biden also commuted the sentence of fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: people at December twelfth who had been temporarily released from
Speaker 1: prison during the COVID nineteen pandemic, including Josephine Gray, the
Speaker 1: Black widow who killed two of her ex husbands and
Speaker 1: a third lover. Also readA Crunwell, a comptroller of Dixon
Speaker 1: and Illinois stole nearly fifty four million from fifteen thousand
Speaker 1: the fifteen thousand person town over two decades. So there
Speaker 1: you go, Joe Biden, What a great leader, what a
Speaker 1: great president, and spreading some Christmas cheer and holiday joy
Speaker 1: and a Festivus miracle to a bunch of death row inmates.
Speaker 1: That is just fantastic. It couldn't come from a And
Speaker 1: this whole notion that Joe Biden I saw on my
Speaker 1: Twitter feed over the weekend that Joe Biden is a
Speaker 1: great guy, a decent guy, and people are really wishing
Speaker 1: him well as he heads off to wherever he's headed
Speaker 1: after January twentieth. Just that's going to be sad to
Speaker 1: see him go. And I'm here to tell you nothing
Speaker 1: could be further from the truth. The guy. He is
Speaker 1: not a good guy or a decent guy in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Let's see, let's see, let's see what. Here's a SoundBite
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to Scott Jennings is uh is
Speaker 1: just fantastic on CNN and he it's surprising to me,
Speaker 1: they keep him around, but he's he's a sensible guy,
Speaker 1: a former member of Congress, I believe, and he sits
Speaker 1: on all these different panels on these different CNN shows,
Speaker 1: which means no one sees him because he's on CNN.
Speaker 1: But when his time comes to an end at CNN,
Speaker 1: I certainly hope he gets a more high profile position
Speaker 1: because he deserves it. And here he is talking about
Speaker 1: it is so much of the conversation this weekend is
Speaker 1: about Elon Musk, and no, we gotta we gotta be careful,
Speaker 1: we gotta be aware of Elon Musk. And they're using
Speaker 1: words like ola, gark and and all these terrible things
Speaker 1: that he's making don Donald Trump his puppet. And they
Speaker 1: were talking about Elon Musk over the weekend on CNN
Speaker 1: and Scott Jennings was just on fire shooting them down.
Speaker 1: And here's the here's the audio of that. And Sean McMahon,
Speaker 1: if we could please hear cut number five.
Speaker 2: Is this gonna wear thin with Donald Trump soon?
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 11: I mean, look, they appear to be getting along well.
Speaker 11: Musk was very instrumental in his victory. And I hear Democrats,
Speaker 11: you know, criticizing the idea that we have unelected people
Speaker 11: with too much influence over the government. I invite them
Speaker 11: to pick up the Wall Street Journal from this week
Speaker 11: and find out that unelected people have been running the
Speaker 11: government for the last four years. I hear Democrats criticism
Speaker 11: criticizing the influence of billionaires on our politics when you've
Speaker 11: got this Soros punk running around collecting Democrat politicians.
Speaker 1: Like my kids collect Pokemon cards.
Speaker 11: So I think all the criticism of Musk coming from
Speaker 11: the left is totally hypocritical, totally over the top. And
Speaker 11: he is doing something interesting, bringing some transparency to the
Speaker 11: federal government. It's not a terrible and.
Speaker 1: There you go, there's Scott Jennings. Pick up the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal. Now you want to talk about unelected people
Speaker 1: running the government. That's exactly what's been hiding or been
Speaker 1: happening with the Biden administration. And so you know, all
Speaker 1: this handwringing about Elon Musk, and look the Democrats they're
Speaker 1: not upset about a rich guy using his influence, and
Speaker 1: really that's all Elon Musk is. He's a rich guy
Speaker 1: who's got some influence. He's going to be heading up
Speaker 1: the doge along with vik Ramaswami and it's going to
Speaker 1: be it's going to going to be just some some
Speaker 1: of the most fun we've ever had talking about politics
Speaker 1: when the Doge gets up and running. But they're they're
Speaker 1: not upset that that a rich guy is having some influence.
Speaker 1: They're upset that Elon Musk is showing through his ownership
Speaker 1: of X and through what he has been doing, that
Speaker 1: the American people have easier, much easier access to information
Speaker 1: about what is really going on, and it's exposing the
Speaker 1: absolute garbage that these lawmakers in DC are trying to
Speaker 1: shove down our throats. Seven sixteen, A little late for
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Speaker 1: and Christmas meeting like it used to be one of
Speaker 1: my all time favorites Christmas Eve, and with that we
Speaker 1: welcome in a guy who's going to have a great Christmas.
Speaker 1: This year, Chris Smitherman, I'm looking at your ex feed
Speaker 1: and you put up a picture of the first grandchild,
Speaker 1: and uh that that is going to be just a
Speaker 1: fantastic Christmas at your house. So congratulations to you and
Speaker 1: your family. How are you today, Oh.
Speaker 8: Thank you, I'm good. I'm good, Dan, thank you so
Speaker 8: much for having me on. And what a great Christmas
Speaker 8: present to see my oldest son and his wife, you know,
Speaker 8: come through the door with a two month old baby boy.
Speaker 8: So I'm very happy for them, proud of them, and
Speaker 8: happy to see the next generation continue. So it is
Speaker 8: an exciting time. And I tell you, I don't know
Speaker 8: where all the time went then. I don't know. Uh,
Speaker 8: you know, I feel like I just graduated from from
Speaker 8: high school and with that prom and now I'm a grandfather. Crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't get any better than that, does it.
Speaker 8: It doesn't get any better than that. And I'm so
Speaker 8: I'm so blown away. Brother. I can just tell you
Speaker 8: to pivot into what I'm seeing in New York because
Speaker 8: I think I think then, and I've been listening listening
Speaker 8: to the show and about all the pardons that the
Speaker 8: President Biden is doing, and kind of like the schizophrenia
Speaker 8: of it all. But you know, when I look at
Speaker 8: what happened in New York where you have and a
Speaker 8: lot of your your listeners might not know this story
Speaker 8: where a man gets on a subway and sets a
Speaker 8: woman on fire who is sleeping, that's not an exaggeration.
Speaker 8: Then goes to a bench and watches her be on fire,
Speaker 8: and at some point there's even video out there showing
Speaker 8: him stanning the woman while she's on fire, giving the
Speaker 8: fire oxygen.
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I've seen that video. That's terrific.
Speaker 8: It is absolutely horrific. And the context of two weeks
Speaker 8: ago with the veteran who was on a subway system
Speaker 8: in New York Underground and got involved with a man
Speaker 8: who said I'm going to kill people and I don't
Speaker 8: care what happens to me. He intervened, and prosecutor brags
Speaker 8: puts him on trial where he's facing fifteen years in prison.
Speaker 8: Imagine today if Penny had been at that point found
Speaker 8: guilty and you and I were sitting here watching a
Speaker 8: woman on fire, and that fire was set by somebody
Speaker 8: from Guatemala who was in this country illegally and most
Speaker 8: likely because I don't know the fact pattern. The woman
Speaker 8: that was set on fire most likely is an American.
Speaker 8: So you have someone who's here in our country illegally
Speaker 8: on a New York subway where a woman is sleeping
Speaker 8: and sets her on fire. She's guilty of sleeping. And
Speaker 8: we're sitting around as a country talking about and these
Speaker 8: are mayors and governors across the country then saying they're
Speaker 8: not going to cooperate with Ice, that they're going to
Speaker 8: have sanctuary cities or sanctuary states like California. And you
Speaker 8: and I are just worried about getting rapists and murderers
Speaker 8: off the street, whether they're Americans or whether they're illegally
Speaker 8: in our But there's something that just rubs us really
Speaker 8: wrong as an American to have somebody illegally here who
Speaker 8: came across our border without our permission, who kills an American.
Speaker 1: It's a horrific thing. And the thing is this story
Speaker 1: is not a one off. This is the kind of
Speaker 1: thing that has been happening almost on a daily basis,
Speaker 1: Chris Smith. And under this administration, you've got people out there,
Speaker 1: You've got what is it the trend de Argua, the
Speaker 1: group from Guatemala that is up here running roughshot over
Speaker 1: these apartment complexes in Texas and other states, and thank
Speaker 1: God for Tom Home and he called them out over
Speaker 1: the weekend saying that they're number one on the list
Speaker 1: and he's going to get those people out of here.
Speaker 1: But the fact that this has been allowed to happen,
Speaker 1: and that there have been so many American lives that
Speaker 1: have been disrupted and absolutely ruined because of these policies
Speaker 1: that allow these things to happen is an absolute disgrace. Chris,
Speaker 1: we got to get to a quick break here, but
Speaker 1: we'll continue with you on the other side. It is
Speaker 1: the Smither Vent on this Monday morning, Dan Carolyn for
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas on fifty five krc DE Talk Stays fifty
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Speaker 1: A couple of days before Christmas, and that means we
Speaker 1: because it's a Monday, we are glad to have always
Speaker 1: glad to have Chris Smitheman on for the smith event
Speaker 1: and Chris Smithman a little bit later on this morning,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be talking with Sharon Coolidge of the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Inquirer. She is reflecting on ten years of covering
Speaker 1: City Hall, and she published a piece a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago, taking a little walk down memory Lane about
Speaker 1: some of the greatest hits at City Hall, and one
Speaker 1: that jumped out to me. She talks about covering the
Speaker 1: streetcar back in twenty sixteen and all the all the
Speaker 1: all the talk to it seemed like back in that time,
Speaker 1: if you remember, it was all we talked about on
Speaker 1: talk radio was was the streetcar and what was happening
Speaker 1: with that? And you know, at this point in time,
Speaker 1: are you able to look at the streetcar and say
Speaker 1: that it has been a success by by any measure
Speaker 1: at all? Or and you know, am I wrong on that?
Speaker 1: Are is there something that we can point to and say, yes,
Speaker 1: the streetcar has been good for Cincinnati in this way,
Speaker 1: this way, and this way.
Speaker 8: Well, I think we now I'm going to tie things together.
Speaker 8: We now can say that there were a lot of
Speaker 8: people who were promoting the streetcar who are providing a
Speaker 8: lot of information that we know now the media gets
Speaker 8: it wrong very often. That is not where Sharing Coolidge was.
Speaker 8: I'm talking about broadly, when you turned on the TV,
Speaker 8: the people out there that were saying this was a
Speaker 8: great project. It was one hundred and fifty million capital project,
Speaker 8: ninety four million in debt, and we were told that
Speaker 8: the writers were going to be paying as much as
Speaker 8: two sixty five at the time of the discussion when
Speaker 8: we were collecting signatures and trying to place the issue
Speaker 8: on the ballot for voters to say yes or no
Speaker 8: to the project. And what I will share with you
Speaker 8: is that we all we know now that you can
Speaker 8: get on a streetcar this loop, this three mile loop
Speaker 8: downtown that really goes nowhere, that is costing taxpayers five
Speaker 8: million at a minimum to operate it, and five million
Speaker 8: a year to service the debt. So we're ten million
Speaker 8: dollars of our budget, your hard earned tax dollars across
Speaker 8: fifty two neighborhoods. This is one neighborhood where ten million
Speaker 8: is coming out. We know the street car was a debacle.
Speaker 8: And by the way, I was someone working with Todd
Speaker 8: Purtun when I was sitting on what was called the
Speaker 8: Transportation Improvement District supporting heavy rail from the stadiums to Dayton. Well,
Speaker 8: we've blown that out of the water because voters now
Speaker 8: don't even trust city Hall to put forth some type
Speaker 8: of viable train transportation system because they called that heavy rail,
Speaker 8: they called that transportation, and it really is just a ride.
Speaker 8: Like at King's Island. It was a debacle, very very
Speaker 8: bad decisions by those who supported it at City Hall.
Speaker 8: And I tell you there's probably a lot of people
Speaker 8: who are looking at this, who voted for it, who
Speaker 8: are listening to our conversation, who now can see the ideas.
Speaker 8: Just like the nineteen ninety six stadium deal, where people
Speaker 8: said great, great, great, it wasn't great. It has been
Speaker 8: defined as the worst stadium deal in the United States
Speaker 8: of America. And if we don't watch out, we'll find
Speaker 8: ourselves in another situation. So these capital projects I share
Speaker 8: with you, they define city Hall. I agree with sharing Coolidge.
Speaker 8: It is clearly a defining moment. And as you and
Speaker 8: I are talking, they're planning on trying to connect the
Speaker 8: streetcar up Vine to you see, we can't afford it,
Speaker 8: Dan Carroll. It's not about whether you and I are
Speaker 8: sharing Coolidge or somebody says whether we support streetcars or not.
Speaker 8: I'm simply saying it's something we can't afford. It's not
Speaker 8: a priority. There's so many other things that we should
Speaker 8: be doing with those scarce resources.
Speaker 1: One of the things I recall doing talk radio back
Speaker 1: when the streetcar was the main issue, was that there
Speaker 1: were several meetings that happened at Cincinnati City Hall about this,
Speaker 1: and it would it would come out after the fact
Speaker 1: that Milton Dehoney, who was a city manager at the time,
Speaker 1: would have information about a feasibility study or information about
Speaker 1: the streetcar that he did not share with members of
Speaker 1: city Council until after a key vote, and important vote
Speaker 1: was taken that took the next step in the production
Speaker 1: of the streetcar. And I remember thinking about that, and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that with this guy's the city manager of
Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati, he's got a fiduciary responsibility, but
Speaker 1: yet he's withholding this information from council members so the
Speaker 1: vote goes his way. And as I recall, he was
Speaker 1: never called out for that, he was never taken the
Speaker 1: task for that, he never paid any political price or
Speaker 1: a personal price for withholding important information from members of
Speaker 1: council before they took votes on this.
Speaker 8: Look seen, and you're right about his administration, meaning the
Speaker 8: administration that attempted to sell all parking in the city
Speaker 8: of Cincinnati. It wasn't just parking downtown, it was parking
Speaker 8: across the city of Cincinnati. We would have looked like
Speaker 8: Chicago's parking. They also tried to sell our water system.
Speaker 8: They tried to charge us a trash fee of nineteen fifty,
Speaker 8: which probably would be fifty thousand a month. It was
Speaker 8: nineteen fifty per month at the time. And let me
Speaker 8: share with those that are in the region who pay
Speaker 8: a trash fee, it's different for the people who live
Speaker 8: in the city of Cincinnati who are paying an income tax.
Speaker 8: So we're paying an income tax that they are not paying,
Speaker 8: and we pay that tax for basic services in the
Speaker 8: city of Cincinnati. So if they want to get rid
Speaker 8: of the earning tax and then bring in some fee structure,
Speaker 8: that might make sense. But that was double taxation. You're
Speaker 8: already charging me to pick up my trash at the
Speaker 8: time when you were charging me two point one percent
Speaker 8: in income tax. So I was going to clarify that
Speaker 8: for those who are listening. And then, of course they
Speaker 8: sold the railroad, which I still believe today as I
Speaker 8: sit here, was a horrible financial decision for us to
Speaker 8: get rid of that bring in one point six billion
Speaker 8: dollars and put it in, you know, behind a board,
Speaker 8: and now we don't know what exactly is going on
Speaker 8: and how many dollars are flowing into the city to
Speaker 8: deal with Our roads are basically our infrastructure. So City
Speaker 8: Hall is off track, There's no question about it. The
Speaker 8: mayor of the City of Cincinnati is off track. And
Speaker 8: at the bottom line, I want to know, will mayor
Speaker 8: pure vol cooperate with ICE, meaning we are a sanctuary city.
Speaker 8: If we have criminals in the city of Cincinnati, will
Speaker 8: this council, will this mayor put a resolution forward that
Speaker 8: says we will cooperate with ICE. They are not the KKK,
Speaker 8: as the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris
Speaker 8: has indicated that the ICE is not the KKK. Our
Speaker 8: family is from the South, Dan Carroll, my father from Birmingham, Alabama,
Speaker 8: my mother from Montgomery, Alabama. They met at Tuskegee Institute.
Speaker 8: And let me tell you, from a Southern family, we
Speaker 8: know what the KKK is and it is not ICE.
Speaker 8: And that was one of the most ridiculous things that
Speaker 8: Vice President Harris said. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 8: will our mayor will the city has since that, we
Speaker 8: talk about Chicago. We talk about New York. We live
Speaker 8: in Cincinnati. Will they cooperate with ICE?
Speaker 1: Well, I think it would serve this community well if
Speaker 1: they would come out and make a declarative statement on
Speaker 1: that one way or the other. Because Tom Homan has
Speaker 1: come out and said, look, if you've got these mayors
Speaker 1: or governors or municipalities that want to stand in our way,
Speaker 1: then he's prepared for that. He is ready to take
Speaker 1: the steps necessary to work around that, and even if
Speaker 1: that might include some possible criminal charges for those who
Speaker 1: want to stand in the way of him getting the
Speaker 1: job done that he seeks to do. So it's going
Speaker 1: to be an interesting time, I think when after January,
Speaker 1: because he's ready to go on day one, he is,
Speaker 1: he is ready to Tom Homan is ready to go
Speaker 1: on the first day and uh and start implementing that
Speaker 1: policy of those mass deportations. Chris smitheman, one more quick,
Speaker 1: let me take a quick break here and then go ahead,
Speaker 1: got it?
Speaker 8: You got it?
Speaker 1: Okay, let's take.
Speaker 8: Quick I'm gonna say I'm gonna say, Dan Carroll, why
Speaker 8: is it that Democrats are Republicans and independence or whoever
Speaker 8: are arguing over we over us wanted to get criminals
Speaker 8: out of our community.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it seems to me like it and
Speaker 1: because that that's where it's all going to start. But
Speaker 1: yet CBS was up in Springfield, Ohio this weekend, UH
Speaker 1: talking with people and uh and and and trying to
Speaker 1: to pull up the heartstrings of the American people, talking
Speaker 1: about these uh, you know, the these these poor put
Speaker 1: upon immigrants who've come to this cint just looking for
Speaker 1: a better way of life. Life, that's all they want,
Speaker 1: and you know, don't want to hurt anyone, don't want to. No,
Speaker 1: it's the criminal element is going to be the first
Speaker 1: ones targeted. And I think that's a good place to start.
Speaker 1: Chris Smithvan stay right there. We'll work in a quick
Speaker 1: break and then continue on with the Smith event on
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Speaker 1: I got a cool it's cold today, but it's not
Speaker 1: going to be that cold on Christmas Day. But we
Speaker 1: are continuing Chris Smithaman and the Smith event and Chris Smith.
Speaker 1: We were talking about Sharon Coolidge and her reminiscence of
Speaker 1: ten years covering City Hall. If I let me throw
Speaker 1: some names out at you and you tell me the
Speaker 1: first thing that jumps to mind. Here, okay, here, here
Speaker 1: are the names, uh pg sitting feld Tamaya, Denard great Landsman,
Speaker 1: Chris Sielbach, and Wendell Young. If I throw those five
Speaker 1: names out at the Gang of five, that's a little
Speaker 1: trip down memory lane, isn't it not? Not not a
Speaker 1: great one? But uh is it just me?
Speaker 12: Am I wrong?
Speaker 1: That I have not really totally forgiven these people for
Speaker 1: for this, uh, this egregious trap. This to me was assumption,
Speaker 1: an affront to the to the people of Cincinnati. Uh,
Speaker 1: the way they carried on and just uh really, the
Speaker 1: the disgusting nature of this, this whole episode of the
Speaker 1: whole Gang of five. And and to my way of thinking,
Speaker 1: they may have paid a political price for it, but
Speaker 1: when it comes to what they did to me, it
Speaker 1: was just completely inexcusable.
Speaker 8: Well what blew me away was how the Democratic voters
Speaker 8: advanced Now congressmen are Landsman. Yeah, and so even after
Speaker 8: the Gang of Five, and these are people that say
Speaker 8: that they are so into the Constitution and they're so
Speaker 8: worried about the subversion of democracy. And here's a guy
Speaker 8: who literally was texting amongst his colleagues to undermine city
Speaker 8: voters on what was taking place with their government. That's
Speaker 8: what they were doing at the heart of it. And
Speaker 8: you know, Judge Rueman said they should never be reelected
Speaker 8: for being involved with it. And it was disgusting, clearly.
Speaker 8: But we now you know this, our community has now
Speaker 8: advanced him to Congress, and that's why there's so many
Speaker 8: voters out there who get disenfranchised or get so concerned
Speaker 8: about about their government. You know, I want to pivot
Speaker 8: and just talk about one of the things, which is
Speaker 8: Fanny Willis down in Georgia, who this week was disqualified
Speaker 8: by the Supreme Court to move forward on this case
Speaker 8: where they were saying that now President elect Trump in
Speaker 8: some way had interfered in their election. And so finally, right,
Speaker 8: some adults have come in the room and said, listen,
Speaker 8: what you do in your personal life is no business
Speaker 8: of ours. We don't even care about it. But what
Speaker 8: we do care about is if you're in a relationship
Speaker 8: with your employee and you're paying them six hundred and
Speaker 8: fifty or seven hundred thousand dollars in an area where
Speaker 8: he has no professional experience to prosecute a case like this.
Speaker 8: This has been clearly documented. But now you want to
Speaker 8: say you want to pursue the President of the United
Speaker 8: States of America. So I'm glad to see that the
Speaker 8: appellate court said, listen, we're putting you in time out,
Speaker 8: and all of your entire office you're in time out.
Speaker 8: And let's see if a grown up comes in another
Speaker 8: special prosecutor and says, guess what, we are dropping these
Speaker 8: charges that should never have been brought. We're now looking
Speaker 8: at it with fresh eyes, and we can see this
Speaker 8: is a case that should never have gone forward. So
Speaker 8: you see what's happening in Georgia. We see what's happening
Speaker 8: in New York where they're saying, we're gonna hold this
Speaker 8: case for four years. We're going to try to hold
Speaker 8: this over the head of the presidency of these day
Speaker 8: charges which were all no pun intended, trumped up, which
Speaker 8: made no sense as it relates to what is happening
Speaker 8: in the New York case. But when will we as
Speaker 8: a country just step back and say you cannot use
Speaker 8: the law to undermine your political adversaries. The people that
Speaker 8: are running against you. So to me, all of that
Speaker 8: is tied in the Gang of Five. We've now advanced
Speaker 8: one of them to Congress. We now have these cases
Speaker 8: in Georgia, we were in Florida, in New York as examples,
Speaker 8: meaning using the law, using the government, using the system
Speaker 8: to subvert the American public.
Speaker 1: And it all ties in even further if you ask me,
Speaker 1: because over the last few days we've had this budget
Speaker 1: battle that's been going on a Capitol Hill, and there
Speaker 1: are so many Democrats now who are complaining because Elon
Speaker 1: Musk took the lead and dared to expose some of
Speaker 1: the things that were contained in this fifteen hundred page
Speaker 1: budget bill that included protections for the January sixth Committee
Speaker 1: and members of Congress were they to be investigated. So
Speaker 1: they wanted to continue on with this two tier justice system,
Speaker 1: and that was shoved into the budget bill. So the
Speaker 1: ability for the American people to know and understand what
Speaker 1: is going on behind the curtain in the halls of government.
Speaker 1: That this was exposed, and the American people saw it
Speaker 1: and demanded of their members of Congress that they not
Speaker 1: approved this, I think is what a lot of these
Speaker 1: Democrats a lot of those on the left are really
Speaker 1: upset about because they they have been doing this for
Speaker 1: so long now, just carrying on and getting their way
Speaker 1: and doing whatever they want. We all remember when Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi said, we have to pass the bill to find
Speaker 1: out what's in the bill. And they've been operating under
Speaker 1: this notion that the American people somehow don't have the
Speaker 1: right or shouldn't have the ability to know what's in
Speaker 1: it and to comment on it before they vote on it.
Speaker 1: And so the whole, this whole notion that you know,
Speaker 1: they are the ones who are suppressing freedom of speech,
Speaker 1: but yet when that same freedom of speech is used
Speaker 1: to expose the truth, well they just they get all
Speaker 1: bent out of shape about Look.
Speaker 8: Elon Musk is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in
Speaker 8: the last two hundred years, bottom line, in the world.
Speaker 8: And remember Elon Musk, well, the Democratic Party's poster person,
Speaker 8: meaning they loved him because of Tesla and his push
Speaker 8: for electric cars and his push for space travel which
Speaker 8: has been which has been phenomenal private space travel. And
Speaker 8: so this notion now that when he bought Twitter, that
Speaker 8: he now has branded X for forty four or forty
Speaker 8: five billion dollars. He now has become the enemy of
Speaker 8: the Democratic Party because he is actually exercising the democracy
Speaker 8: of information, meaning you can now go on his platform
Speaker 8: and actually put out the truth and allow the public
Speaker 8: to decide whether they want to read it or not
Speaker 8: read it. That was not happening under the last leadership
Speaker 8: of the owners of Twitter. And so this, this leveling
Speaker 8: of the democracy has put what I would say mainstream
Speaker 8: media back on its heels because now you have a
Speaker 8: present that who's willing to go around the podcast, go
Speaker 8: around to places like Twitter in order to get their
Speaker 8: their their message out about what's happening. I want to
Speaker 8: just touch on those partons that you were talking about,
Speaker 8: you know, I think about that that judge who was
Speaker 8: who was taking cash for putting young people in private
Speaker 8: prison and one of those young people committed suicide that
Speaker 8: President Biden pardoned. No one knows what he's doing. I
Speaker 8: don't think he knows what he's doing. I think these
Speaker 8: are people within his administration who are leveling out these
Speaker 8: partons that he's signing off on. But I tell you
Speaker 8: they are really really outrageous. And you saw the governor
Speaker 8: of Pennsylvania, who is Governor Shapiro, who is, by the way,
Speaker 8: a Democrat who had to speak out about the parton
Speaker 8: of the judge who was taking money for cash to
Speaker 8: put young people in private prisons. I don't know what
Speaker 8: the White House is doing. I think that the biggest
Speaker 8: scandal of the White House is actually his health status.
Speaker 8: And ultimately all of that is going to come out
Speaker 8: in the next six months as the new administration takes power.
Speaker 1: All right, well, christ Mitherman, the time always flies by.
Speaker 1: This is the last time we'll probably have a chance
Speaker 1: to talk before Christmas. I'll give you the last word.
Speaker 1: Do you have a couple of thoughts fall or two
Speaker 1: on Christmas? As we as Mary sign off for this.
Speaker 8: I would just say, Merry Christmas to you, Dan Carroll
Speaker 8: and happy New Year. And I would say, as a
Speaker 8: financial planner, put your budgets together, stay within the budget
Speaker 8: for your Christmas holiday shopping, don't try to overdo it,
Speaker 8: and make sure that you are saving accordingly for your
Speaker 8: deferred issues like retirement, because Social Security is just not
Speaker 8: going to take care of you. I think if people start,
Speaker 8: if they do that, they don't get hurt over the
Speaker 8: holidays with over shopping, and they put a plan together
Speaker 8: to begin to save on a monthly basis in the
Speaker 8: new year. It will be a great New Year's resolution.
Speaker 8: Merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Speaker 1: Chris Smithervent all the best to you, my friend, and
Speaker 1: we definitely hope to talk to you again in the
Speaker 1: new year.
Speaker 8: Thank you brother.
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Speaker 1: eight oh five Dan Carroll in Fort Brian Thomas a
Speaker 1: couple of days away from Christmas. Today is Monday, December
Speaker 1: twenty third, Christmas Day. Of course on Wednesday, I get
Speaker 1: to be here tomorrow for Brian Thomas too, so I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. I hope you can be here
Speaker 1: as well. I've been talking all morning about some of
Speaker 1: the reports that have come out really uncovering what's been
Speaker 1: going on in the last four years in the Biden administration.
Speaker 1: And the most shocking one, I think is the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal report that came out on Thursday. They talking
Speaker 1: about how Joe Biden really has been unfit to serve
Speaker 1: the entire really the entire time. And then and look
Speaker 1: at they had meetings that had to be cut short,
Speaker 1: kept kept cabinet members away, and just did all sorts
Speaker 1: of things unelected people in the White House who had
Speaker 1: to put up a wall between Joe Biden and the
Speaker 1: people that needed to deal with him on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: And then you have this piece in bright part that
Speaker 1: the Biden administration deported about three hundred and ninety thousand
Speaker 1: fewer illegals over the last four years than Donald Trump did,
Speaker 1: and they and they like to talk now about how
Speaker 1: they're you know, they're getting the border under control. May
Speaker 1: Orcus was doing an interview. Let me see, if I
Speaker 1: let me hold on one second, I see if I
Speaker 1: got that interview with may Orcus, would I got the
Speaker 1: report on it? Anyway? But may Orcus was talking about
Speaker 1: over the weekend about executive action could have here He
Speaker 1: is right here. May Orcus admitted, in hindsight, executive action
Speaker 1: could have been taken account of the irresponsible politics that
Speaker 1: killed the bipartisan border negotiations. Now, I'm so sick and
Speaker 1: tired of the people like him and others acting as
Speaker 1: if this bipartisan border deal was the ticket to salvation
Speaker 1: as it relates to illegal immigrants and all the rest
Speaker 1: of it, that border deal was going to be an
Speaker 1: absolute disaster. And let me see, here's may Arcus. Remember
Speaker 1: where we were when the president took office. Mayarcus said,
Speaker 1: we're in the midst of COVID nineteen. He was on
Speaker 1: face the nation this weekend. We were in the midst
Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen pandemic, the prior administration everything, Hey, have
Speaker 1: you noticed that when it comes to this administration, everything
Speaker 1: they talk about every problem that they had, couldn't get
Speaker 1: the economy going because of the pandemic, had border crisis
Speaker 1: because of the pandemic. Everything because of the pandemic. And
Speaker 1: they talk about how they know as if they were
Speaker 1: the only ones that did have the wherewithal to deal
Speaker 1: with the pandemic. But everything was wrong because of the pandemic.
Speaker 1: And so we've been overcoming that had a lot of
Speaker 1: work to do their overcome that pandemic. But he talks
Speaker 1: about the pandemic. Prior administration imposed Title forty two Public
Speaker 1: Health Authority and enabled the US to expel individuals, to
Speaker 1: continue to expel individuals at the border as the prior
Speaker 1: administration done. There was tremendous pressure to remain to maintain
Speaker 1: the working of Title forty two until May twenty three.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter. They still let thousands and millions
Speaker 1: of illegals in. Where was the vetting there? Where was
Speaker 1: the the health screenings when all these people were coming in?
Speaker 1: Now you and I had to be on lockdown and
Speaker 1: wear masks and all the rest of it. And he
Speaker 1: goes on and on and on talks about the bipartisan
Speaker 1: border bill, But the real border bill was the Secure
Speaker 1: Border Act of twenty twenty three that was passed by
Speaker 1: the House and sent to the Senate. Some of the
Speaker 1: things that border bill, and this is the real border bill.
Speaker 1: So anyone who anytime you hear someone like Majorcists or
Speaker 1: some Democrat or anyone else talk about well they you know,
Speaker 1: the Republicans, they didn't they did want to pass this
Speaker 1: border bill, bipartisan deal. There was already a bipartisan deal
Speaker 1: was that was already approved in the House. Some of
Speaker 1: the things this bill would have done required the Department
Speaker 1: of Homeland Security to resume activities to construct all along
Speaker 1: the border. Not only did the Bide administration not want
Speaker 1: to construct the wall as we speak, they are selling
Speaker 1: portions of the materials used to build that wall that
Speaker 1: have been sitting around for the last three and a
Speaker 1: half four years. They're selling those things for pennies on
Speaker 1: the dollar, all that material. It would have provided statut
Speaker 1: statutory authorization for Operation Stone Garden, which provides grants to
Speaker 1: law enforcement agencies for border security operations. Prohibits of DHS
Speaker 1: from processing the entry of non US nationals arriving between
Speaker 1: ports of entry, prohibits Department of Homeland Security from processing
Speaker 1: the entry of non US nation. This border bill that
Speaker 1: may Orkis is talking about would have accelerated that. They
Speaker 1: talk about, Oh, we're going to get all these border agents.
Speaker 1: Why they weren't there to keep people out. They were
Speaker 1: there to facilitate the entry of people into the country.
Speaker 1: They were going to expand the types of crimes that
Speaker 1: make an individual ineligible for asylum, such as conviction for
Speaker 1: driving while intoxicated causing another person serious bodily injury or death.
Speaker 1: But no, we know that because of the report that
Speaker 1: came out a couple of months ago talking about the
Speaker 1: high number of criminals, the people who had been convicted
Speaker 1: of murder or drug dealing or trafficking or any number
Speaker 1: of horrible crimes. Somehow this administration saw fit to just
Speaker 1: overlook all that and allow those people to come in
Speaker 1: with no problem at all. And now Breitbart over the
Speaker 1: weekend put out this story about the number of deportations.
Speaker 1: From fiscal twenty one through fiscal twenty four, the Biden
Speaker 1: administration deported five hundred and forty five thousand illegal aliens
Speaker 1: from the United States. Sounds like a lot, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Five hundred thousand people deported get out of here. Well,
Speaker 1: that's just a fraction of the estimated eight million that
Speaker 1: came in over that same period, So eight million in
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand out not exactly an equal equation. While
Speaker 1: deportations spiked in fiscal twenty four or yeah twenty four
Speaker 1: to nearly two hundred and seventy one thousand, Biden's insistence
Speaker 1: on drastically cutting deportations in his first three years in
Speaker 1: office has ensured hundreds of thousands fewer illegal aliens had
Speaker 1: been deported than otherwise would have been. For example, in
Speaker 1: Trump's first term, from fiscal twenty seventeen through fiscal twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: more than nine hundred and thirty five thousand illegals were
Speaker 1: deported from the United States. Compared to Trump's first term,
Speaker 1: Biden's reduced deportations by more than forty one percent. More importantly,
Speaker 1: perhaps the Biden administration slash deportations of illegals removed from
Speaker 1: the interior of the United States by more than half
Speaker 1: compared to Trump's first term. So that's all I've heard
Speaker 1: over these last several weeks is these people trying to
Speaker 1: talk about how Biden's immigration policies are actually tougher than Trump's.
Speaker 1: But nothing could be further from the truth. So it's
Speaker 1: just just just keeps piling on and these people cannot
Speaker 1: be gone soon enough. Let me see, I was going
Speaker 1: to play another got some more audio. I want to
Speaker 1: get to what we've got it. We are break coming
Speaker 1: up here and then we'll hit some more audio on
Speaker 1: the other side of this, And this one is I've
Speaker 1: got another cut from Peter Doocy and Don Todd Lemon.
Speaker 1: Don Lemon, formerly a CNN is out there now and
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think he's had a couple of
Speaker 1: job opportunities that dropped up, and I think he's trying
Speaker 1: to do his own thing on I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's got a YouTube channel or what. But he walks
Speaker 1: around the streets and doing man on the Street and
Speaker 1: interviews with a microphone, and he was talking to some
Speaker 1: dude in New York and just got just got completely owned.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good. So we'll play that on the other
Speaker 1: side of this, but yeah, stick around for that. That's
Speaker 1: going to be pretty good. Then at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour, we'll talk with Sharon Coolidge as she talks
Speaker 1: about her her ten years covering City Hall, So stick
Speaker 1: around for that. Dan Carroll from Brian Thomas on fifty
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Speaker 1: Oh where are we at here? You got I gotta
Speaker 1: get a hit A couple more soundbites here.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Peter Doocy was on Fox News when this story broke
Speaker 1: about Joe Biden and how the wah Rejournal put out. Hey,
Speaker 1: they talked to fifty people at the White House who
Speaker 1: talked about what happened during the administration. And on the
Speaker 1: face of it, I may sound like I'm being a
Speaker 1: little bit hypocritical because I think about the Pete hag
Speaker 1: Seth hit pieces they came out where they said, this
Speaker 1: was the New York Times that oh, we've got ten
Speaker 1: people from Fox News and they're saying that, you know,
Speaker 1: Pete hagg Seth was late to work and he was
Speaker 1: you know, could spell alcohol in his breath and it
Speaker 1: wasn't prepared and it really just I'm not making good
Speaker 1: decisions and it really shouldn't be Secretary of Defense. Well,
Speaker 1: what happened when that piece came out? What happened? People
Speaker 1: that knew, people that know Pete hagg Seth, people that
Speaker 1: worked with Pete hagg Seth privately and publicly came out
Speaker 1: and said these stories are not true. Reporter after anchor
Speaker 1: after anchor, producers, people behind the scenes, people that I
Speaker 1: know personally that work at Fox News told me that
Speaker 1: these stories were not even close to being true. By
Speaker 1: contrast this story with these sources talking about what happened
Speaker 1: in the Biden White House. Has the White House come
Speaker 1: out and refuted any of this other than Chris Coons,
Speaker 1: who I played that SoundBite earlier, who even said, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't see anything wrong with Trump, not up until
Speaker 1: the debate that might have noticed a little something. That's
Speaker 1: about the best defense that we've had of Biden so
Speaker 1: far on this. People are not coming out and putting
Speaker 1: their names on this and saying this story is false.
Speaker 1: This is not how the administration rant. I haven't I
Speaker 1: didn't see corre I didn't see anything over the weekend
Speaker 1: to suggest that this story is not true. And so
Speaker 1: Pete Doocey was talking about this with his friends on
Speaker 1: Fox News and he was like, look, I called it
Speaker 1: out in real time. I was there. I saw it
Speaker 1: all happen. Listen to Pete Deosey talk about it. Cut five.
Speaker 6: I had a front row seat to a lot of
Speaker 6: this and at various times was basically told not to
Speaker 6: believe what I was seeing or hearing. The president misspoke
Speaker 6: the president as a cold But now the damn appears
Speaker 6: to be breaking. This Wall Street Journal item interviewed fifty
Speaker 6: people familiar with Biden's operation, and it raises a lot
Speaker 6: of questions about who was making key decisions. Er you
Speaker 6: mentioned the Afghanistan withdrawal. If the president was as diminished
Speaker 6: as this story makes it sound, that would be a
Speaker 6: huge problem, and it could explain why certain decisions were
Speaker 6: made that turned out to be catastrophic and why no
Speaker 6: apologies were ever made. To your point, Brian, when the
Speaker 6: cabinet met all nine times, which is the least in
Speaker 6: the last several decades that a president has had their
Speaker 6: whole cabinet together in an entire term, there was a
Speaker 6: different item a few months ago, where cabinet secretaries were
Speaker 6: being asked to submit their questions for the president behind
Speaker 6: closed doors in advance, and they were being told to
Speaker 6: keep it quick because the way that it worked was
Speaker 6: they would ask a question that was pre screened and
Speaker 6: then the president would have a card with the answer,
Speaker 6: even in a closed setting. And I hear a lot
Speaker 6: of the complaints about and there was a bite in
Speaker 6: the open. Why wasn't there more coverage of the president's
Speaker 6: age and acuity earlier? Well, a lot of the stories
Speaker 6: that you hear kept asking, I kept asking the whole time,
Speaker 6: And a lot of the stories that we would hear
Speaker 6: that we would try to report out our second hand.
Speaker 6: But it's a lot of stuff like, oh, you would
Speaker 6: hear from somebody on the staff or somebody that works
Speaker 6: at the White House. It looked like the president was
Speaker 6: falling asleep somewhere. Okay, hard to confirm that, but we
Speaker 6: have tape of him falling asleep as recently as his
Speaker 6: most foreign most recent foreign trip.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: There's Peter Doocy talking about what was going on, things
Speaker 1: that he knew, things that he saw, and the questions
Speaker 1: that he was asking the same questions the rest of
Speaker 1: us were asking, who is running the country? I am
Speaker 1: seeing these things with my own eyes, what is really
Speaker 1: going on? And I played earlier Karin John Pierre as
Speaker 1: she responded to that, Well, look, this just doesn't comport
Speaker 1: with the facts. The facts are totally different than what
Speaker 1: you're seeing. And well, this was really a hallmark of
Speaker 1: that entire administration. And think about when you have a
Speaker 1: cabinet meeting, when you have your closest advisors, the secretaries
Speaker 1: of all these different departments, and you're the president of
Speaker 1: the United States, do you want to have questions written down,
Speaker 1: submitted in writing, and then have a pre programmed answer.
Speaker 1: Is that the way that's supposed to work. Isn't this
Speaker 1: how you get to the root of a matter, the
Speaker 1: root of a problem, by having a free wheeling discussion,
Speaker 1: by having back and forth, give and take, asking questions
Speaker 1: in real time. And it's not just the cabinet member,
Speaker 1: the cabinet secretary, the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary
Speaker 1: of the Interior or whatever is. The Secretary of State
Speaker 1: comes in, Oh, I've got a question for the president.
Speaker 1: Write it down and we'll have an answer for who's
Speaker 1: writing those answers. If Joe Biden doesn't have the capacity
Speaker 1: to discuss these things in full with members of his cabinet,
Speaker 1: then who is We still don't have those answers, and
Speaker 1: you wonder if we'll ever get it. We got to
Speaker 1: get to a break here and then after the at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, Sharon Coolidge from The Inquirer
Speaker 1: is going to be here and I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: talking with her about her ten years of covering Cincinnati
Speaker 1: City Hall. So stick around for that. Dan Carroll for
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas on fifty five KRCV Talk.
Speaker 3: Station fifty five KRC Dale Donovan here for.
Speaker 1: Fifty five krc the talk station eight thirty one on
Speaker 1: this Monday morning, a couple of days before Christmas in
Speaker 1: the land snows business. And I gotta tell you, I
Speaker 1: saw this story a couple of days ago that Sharon
Speaker 1: Coolidge is celebrating ten years of covering City Hall, and
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I'm going to and see
Speaker 1: if she'll come on the show. And dog gone it
Speaker 1: wouldn't you know that? She said yes? And Sharon Coolidge,
Speaker 1: it's great to have you back on the radio. How
Speaker 1: are you this morning?
Speaker 9: Good morning? Celebrating is a stretch more.
Speaker 1: Like, you know, I feel a certain kinship there because
Speaker 1: back in my news days, my beat with city Hall
Speaker 1: and uh and I used to run around City Hall
Speaker 1: when people like Nick Veer was there, and I go
Speaker 1: all the way back to John Merle scene. And one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things was to talk to to Tom
Speaker 1: Luken back in the day and do interviews with him.
Speaker 1: What an absolute blast.
Speaker 9: But you know, absolutely I overlapped a little bit there
Speaker 9: with him. You know, not a fan of the street car,
Speaker 9: so that was something that I did cover, So I did.
Speaker 9: I did have an opportunity to interview him on occasion,
Speaker 9: and that was history. That's history Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tom Lucan was was an absolute blast to sit
Speaker 1: there and just have a conversation. You know, back when
Speaker 1: I when I was covering City Hall, I used to
Speaker 1: be able to go there, walk around the halls and uh,
Speaker 1: if the if you know, just pop into one of
Speaker 1: the council members offices, sit around and then you know,
Speaker 1: it didn't always have the camera roll and it wasn't
Speaker 1: always on the record. Just sit around to chew the fat,
Speaker 1: you know, do a little background talk about things that
Speaker 1: were going on. Does that sort of thing still happen
Speaker 1: at City Hall today.
Speaker 9: You know, it does around meetings more because there's just
Speaker 9: so many different ways to communicate. Because certainly when I
Speaker 9: started covering just things in general in Cincinnati, it was
Speaker 9: more that. But there's so many different ways to communicate.
Speaker 9: We're not tied to a landline and so but I
Speaker 9: do definitely do that. You cannot do that in the
Speaker 9: Mayor's office, and that is something I have to say
Speaker 9: I miss because I wasn't covering city Hall but stopping
Speaker 9: in Charlie Lucan's office with Brendan Call. I mean, you
Speaker 9: would sit down and you would be there for hours,
Speaker 9: and then you'd come out and you'd write stories until
Speaker 9: midnight or one am, and you might take a break
Speaker 9: to go have a drink. But it's, uh, it's twenty
Speaker 9: four hour news. Now there's less sitting around. But the
Speaker 9: mayor's office is locked off. You know, in the land
Speaker 9: of security, higher security and things, you cannot just go
Speaker 9: into mayor's office. But I'm familiar enough with things. There's
Speaker 9: actually security guard on the third floor. But because I
Speaker 9: know the security guard and I can you know, she
Speaker 9: knows who I am, I can walk around freely as
Speaker 9: we had in the past, but it is very different.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we uh, it was, it was. It was a
Speaker 1: lot and and you know a lot of mine goes
Speaker 1: back to uh pre nine eleven. So yeah, the concern
Speaker 1: the security concerns were a lot different back and back
Speaker 1: then than they are now. So Sharon Coolidge ten ten,
Speaker 1: I guess it only feels like twenty years covering City Hall.
Speaker 1: But I guess when I guess when you look back
Speaker 1: on it, the ten years really probably has blown by
Speaker 1: pretty fast for you.
Speaker 9: I would imagine, you know, it really has. And the
Speaker 9: whole story just came out of me talking about it
Speaker 9: in a meeting and to some younger reporters and saying
Speaker 9: and they were kind of blown away, and my editors
Speaker 9: like that story, write that story, and so that's what
Speaker 9: we ended up doing. But we didn't just I went
Speaker 9: to basically ten stories ten years now. It turned out
Speaker 9: like eighteen stories ten years. There's only so much room
Speaker 9: even on the Internet apparently that you got to cut
Speaker 9: this down, girl. So that's kind of where it came from.
Speaker 9: And I ended up doing a lot of behind the
Speaker 9: scenes and saying a little bit of my thoughts were
Speaker 9: never really going to say what I think because I
Speaker 9: have to be fair, right and stay unbiased. But it
Speaker 9: was some behind the scenes what I'm thinking in there,
Speaker 9: and it ran in the forum section and not the
Speaker 9: news section.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm telling you, I look at this piece
Speaker 1: and I had Chris Smitheman on later or not later,
Speaker 1: but earlier this morning, and we took a little walk
Speaker 1: down Memory Hall, and I asked him about the streetcar
Speaker 1: and we talked about the selling of the railroad, the
Speaker 1: Gang of Five and all those sorts of things. And
Speaker 1: I want to hit some of those with you. So
Speaker 1: Sharon Coolidge, stay right there. We're going to go a
Speaker 1: little break in here and then we'll continue on the
Speaker 1: other side.
Speaker 9: Okay, sound good?
Speaker 1: All right? Sharon Coolidge from the Inquirer is our guest,
Speaker 1: and we will continue on talking about her ten years
Speaker 1: covering City Hall as we roll on this morning on
Speaker 1: fifty five KRC the talk station.
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Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC DE talk station eight thirty nine. Now
Speaker 1: we we are talking with Sharon Coolidge of the Cincinnati Inquirer.
Speaker 1: As we listened to a little that's a little Elvis there,
Speaker 1: isn't it? Yeah, a little Elvis. Nothing wrong with Elvis
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day, although we're a couple of days away
Speaker 1: from us. But Sharon Coolidge, you talk about some of
Speaker 1: the stories that you that you covered over the over
Speaker 1: the ten years, and again no way to get them
Speaker 1: all in there. But you're right that you were stunned
Speaker 1: when you learned that PG Sittenfeld was indicted on federal
Speaker 1: corruption charges. I mean, you look at this guy, and
Speaker 1: I didn't agree with this politics, but this guy had
Speaker 1: all the ingredients and all the everything there for it
Speaker 1: to become a political superstar. And I guess you know,
Speaker 1: ironically or sadly, however you want to look at it,
Speaker 1: he's really going to wind up being really no more
Speaker 1: than a footnote in the in the history of Cincinnati politics.
Speaker 9: Well we'll talk about that in a second. But I
Speaker 9: was so stunned. I heard before it happened it was
Speaker 9: going to happen.
Speaker 8: I I don't know.
Speaker 9: I don't think I wrote this in the story about
Speaker 9: We'll just say it turned white as a ghost. I
Speaker 9: knew that there was Remember Ta Maya and Jess had
Speaker 9: already been indicted, and there's a third person. There's a
Speaker 9: third person. They never ever suspected that it would be Eg.
Speaker 9: I talked to PG every day of my knife, like
Speaker 9: he just he did so many things at city Hall.
Speaker 9: He just really he was going he was going to
Speaker 9: be the mayor, Like there's there's no other way around that.
Speaker 9: Plus but he did so much stuff on council. He
Speaker 9: was just really a leader and had a lot of
Speaker 9: ideas and championed a lot of things. And I wrote
Speaker 9: a lot of stories about him and went I didn't
Speaker 9: even believe it at first. I turned white as a ghost.
Speaker 9: My husband walks in the kitchen and is like, oh
Speaker 9: my god, are you gonna faint? He didn't know that
Speaker 9: I was on the phone or what was happening. I
Speaker 9: was that white and in shock. And then I had
Speaker 9: to keep a secret for a little bit. And plus
Speaker 9: you don't even really sources and everything, but you know,
Speaker 9: until something happens, it doesn't really happen. And so then
Speaker 9: it was kind of like, well, what's really going to
Speaker 9: be next? And that was a pretty quick turnaround, but
Speaker 9: it was really just unbelievable to think. But I have
Speaker 9: to say, we are still waiting. DG has appealed. Every
Speaker 9: part of the case with CG has been studying from
Speaker 9: that very first moment the fact his conviction. That moment,
Speaker 9: I sat in there and I listened to all of
Speaker 9: the testimony, and I did think the jury was going
Speaker 9: to do it. But then you think, oh no, the
Speaker 9: jury's really not going.
Speaker 1: To do it.
Speaker 9: And then you hear that in court and you hear
Speaker 9: you know, his his reaction, his family's reaction, like kind
Speaker 9: of like there's silent reaction. Just seeing it. That was stunning,
Speaker 9: and you're trying to grapple with all of that. But
Speaker 9: then for him, he's appealing to be let out of
Speaker 9: prison during his appeal. That was the day that Donald
Speaker 9: Trump was in town. JD Vance hosts did a big
Speaker 9: lunch in Indian Hill for him, a fundraiser, and Donald
Speaker 9: Trump's head. I'm at the airport waiting for Donald Trump's
Speaker 9: plane to land. Now you don't really get to talk
Speaker 9: to him or anything. Basically, you're just okay, he landed
Speaker 9: and he's on the move on the way the Indian
Speaker 9: Hell cut his story and our court reporter is, uh,
Speaker 9: the appeals court just let TG out of prison. I'm like, no, no,
Speaker 9: stop it, and he's like, oh no, oh no. I
Speaker 9: wrote that for I sat down a rock outside of
Speaker 9: the CVG and wrote that story with our court reporter
Speaker 9: while we were waiting for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this guy was a he was He was
Speaker 1: like a rocket ship straight to the mayor's office. And
Speaker 1: then obviously I think he definitely had his sights set
Speaker 1: well beyond the mayor's office.
Speaker 9: Now PG has granted one interview in all of this time,
Speaker 9: and it's not to me, and I don't suspect that
Speaker 9: it ever will be to me. And then it was
Speaker 9: to the Princeton lam My magazine, and that in that story,
Speaker 9: in that very friendly article where of his alumni magazine's
Speaker 9: an odd place to give an interview, he said that
Speaker 9: he would he's not interested in pursuing running for office again.
Speaker 9: So you say, okay, but I'm sorry if he If
Speaker 9: this appeal gets overturned and we're again waiting any minute,
Speaker 9: we could hear this. His whole case can get overturned.
Speaker 9: It basically resets the clock to twenty twenty. It's he
Speaker 9: will have If it gets overturned, they'll say, no, he
Speaker 9: didn't do anything wrong. I would never say never to
Speaker 9: PG sitting filed running for office again. I just if
Speaker 9: that happens, it resets well where he started.
Speaker 1: If that happens, that will be a very compelling political
Speaker 1: story and something that I think that we have never
Speaker 1: seen here in the city of Cincinnati. I'm glad you
Speaker 1: you included the story about the sewer District. To my
Speaker 1: way of thinking, this was a story that really got
Speaker 1: far less coverage than it deserves. And I still can't
Speaker 1: help but think to this day there's still a lot
Speaker 1: more to the sewer District story than has ever met
Speaker 1: the eye.
Speaker 9: What say you, Oh, I agree with you. It was
Speaker 9: a huge story at the time that we're going back
Speaker 9: to twenty sixteen, though, And you know, do I think
Speaker 9: that things were looked at and maybe not done. I do,
Speaker 9: but I you know, you can't prove these things. There
Speaker 9: was a lot of civil fallout. People did have to
Speaker 9: pay back money. I mean that was gratifying. And you
Speaker 9: do hope that your work has impact, and every day
Speaker 9: is not that day. But the people who you know,
Speaker 9: myself and I worked on that story with Dan Horn
Speaker 9: found not to have done work and had these contracts
Speaker 9: and we're just getting paid. They have to pay that
Speaker 9: money civilly, uh and for the taxpayers, and that is
Speaker 9: a very gratifying thing to have happened, to have happened. Yeah,
Speaker 9: so at least there was something came out of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, you talk about the six hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: million dollar memo in that and and I've I've always
Speaker 1: looked at that and I've said to myself, when there's
Speaker 1: that kind of money change in hands, there's going to
Speaker 1: be a lot of people that want to get their
Speaker 1: fingers in that pie. I think the another giant story
Speaker 1: was the Gang of Five, and it uh that that
Speaker 1: is a story, another story that has stuck with me
Speaker 1: for for these years now, and just it I remember
Speaker 1: reading about it at the time it was happening, and
Speaker 1: this was just I just couldn't believe, you know, when
Speaker 1: when I was covering city Hall, these kind of things
Speaker 1: were not done at city Hall. But yet you know,
Speaker 1: you've got sitting felled, Tom Lenard, Greg Landsman, seal Bach
Speaker 1: and Wendell Young who were who were doing this. And
Speaker 1: maybe it's not the most egregious thing ever, but it
Speaker 1: just it just seemed it just the whole thing just
Speaker 1: rubbed me the wrong way, and I think it rubbed
Speaker 1: a lot of people in Cincinnati the wrong way. But
Speaker 1: you know, it turned out to be, well, you know,
Speaker 1: it is what it is. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know how to slice it up.
Speaker 9: To me, that story is the kind of story that
Speaker 9: never needed to happen. First of all, don't have a
Speaker 9: side meeting in texts or whatever. Right, I'm of course,
Speaker 9: just don't do that. I do think that it happened,
Speaker 9: but instead of admitting it. I mean, this goes back
Speaker 9: to pg's hitting felt the different. I didn't even file
Speaker 9: the sauces. This is Brian shrib this is outsider saying
Speaker 9: we see that you did this, and that was that
Speaker 9: time at city Hall. You remember the Gang of Fi
Speaker 9: was going on at the same time as so many things,
Speaker 9: and it was the home camps were happening. I mean,
Speaker 9: I look back at those years and I'm like, how
Speaker 9: did I even function?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 9: There was others so much all at once, all at
Speaker 9: one time, and you know you don't do that. But
Speaker 9: that story ended up being so huge because PG wanted
Speaker 9: to deny it at every turn. No, I don't want
Speaker 9: to settle it and admit it. Right, That's how these
Speaker 9: cases end when there's like allegations of you had had
Speaker 9: private meetings or you didn't give some public records like
Speaker 9: you were supposed to, and in like pretty tepid settlement,
Speaker 9: sometimes without even money, just turning over the records and saying, okay, oops,
Speaker 9: we should have given you those and you have to
Speaker 9: fight for them, and that's never ideal. But no, we're
Speaker 9: not going to do that. Then they did try, and
Speaker 9: you know, we had that John Do case and try
Speaker 9: and drag Christopher's Mitherman into it, which Christopher all friend
Speaker 9: of your show, I know, had nothing to do with that,
Speaker 9: try and drag him in the courts, say no, that
Speaker 9: story could have been so and we filed the lawsuit.
Speaker 9: We're going to write about if this happened. And then
Speaker 9: here's the second story. They settled and this is what happened.
Speaker 9: But it was one story after another after another after
Speaker 9: another event. Judge Woven, he was not playing around. He
Speaker 9: released those texts and that was a very big deal
Speaker 9: to see what everyone was saying. So I just feel
Speaker 9: like it became much bigger than even it really needed
Speaker 9: to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think that that story still reverberates through
Speaker 1: city Hall today?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 8: It yet? Yes?
Speaker 9: And no, of course people do remember it, But I
Speaker 9: can't tell you how many times I have to be like,
Speaker 9: don't text me that, just call me. Just call me,
Speaker 9: because my text to them about city business could also
Speaker 9: be considered uh, city business. If somebody else need a
Speaker 9: public records request, h are we texting? Stop texting? Or
Speaker 9: I'll make a public records request and you'll get some
Speaker 9: text back and emails and it's like, are you email
Speaker 9: and texting? We've already been warned. We know those are
Speaker 9: not even those could be public records. This is an
Speaker 9: old adage in news papering and the political work political world.
Speaker 9: If you don't want to see it on the front page,
Speaker 9: don't put it in writing, all right, because you never know.
Speaker 9: And again IFI is really.
Speaker 1: Proof of that, Yeah, you never know. Well, sharing cool
Speaker 1: is that there's so much more we can talk about,
Speaker 1: but we're up against the clock. Congratulations on ten years.
Speaker 1: Do you have another ten years in you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, kidding. You know what the best thing about it
Speaker 9: is it changes under me. I don't cover the same
Speaker 9: beat every day because it's constantly changing over there, and
Speaker 9: so I still learn things and I definitely have ten
Speaker 9: more years than.
Speaker 1: Me outstanding Well, Sharon Coolidge is it is always great
Speaker 1: when I have the chance to talk to you and
Speaker 1: you always give us the time and I always appreciated Mary. Chris,
Speaker 1: miss to you and yours and have a great new
Speaker 1: year and I certainly look forward to talking again. Same
Speaker 1: all right, Sharon Coolidge of the Inquirer, thank you very much,
Speaker 1: and with that we'll get to a break. Dan Carroll
Speaker 1: for Brian Thomas fifty five KRCV.
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Speaker 13: Have your shirl, Oh Mary Little Christmas. Let your home
Speaker 13: be loved. From now on, our troubles will be out.
Speaker 1: And that pretty much says it all.
Speaker 2: On this.
Speaker 1: December twenty third, two days before Christmas. I get to
Speaker 1: come back tomorrow morning and do it all again, and
Speaker 1: I hope you can be here as well, Oh Mary
Speaker 1: Little Christmas Man. Thank you. I want to thank Chris
Speaker 1: Smitheman for being here. Sharon Coolidge. Great to hear her
Speaker 1: and talk about her ten years at covering City Hall.
Speaker 1: She says she's got ten more years left in her
Speaker 1: so that'll be a great coverage from her for the
Speaker 1: next ten years from the Cincinnati Inquiry. So thank you
Speaker 1: to everyone. And if we do not talk between now
Speaker 1: and Christmas. I hope you have a great Christmas and
Speaker 1: a great New Year, and we will see what happens tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go home right now and get ready
Speaker 1: for tomorrow's show, so we will see what we have then.
Speaker 1: But until then, thanks for listening, and we'll see you
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