Speaker 1: Hop to be dug up what news will be next.
Speaker 2: I'm not a prophet. The Glenn Beck Program week days
Speaker 2: had nine on fifty five krc alrighty, then fifty five
Speaker 2: krc DE talk station five o five. On this Wednesday morning,
Speaker 2: the day after, the day after, I send in my
Speaker 2: tax returns Sean McMahon. I got him in under the wire,
Speaker 2: so that massive burden has been relieved from my shoulders.
Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like I'm walking around this
Speaker 2: morning twenty pounds later, well maybe one hundred pounds lighter
Speaker 2: at that's a lot to carry around, man. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: wallet was lightened considerably. But you know, just having that
Speaker 2: you know when when you when you press that button
Speaker 2: and you send them off and I did the electronic filing.
Speaker 2: It's sad to see that, uh, that check. You know,
Speaker 2: that that amount of money, uh, you know, the drift
Speaker 2: away and you know it'll it'll never see the light
Speaker 2: of day again. But it's a it's a it's a relief,
Speaker 2: and I imagine there's a lot of people listening to
Speaker 2: this show this morning they are feeling that same sense
Speaker 2: of relief that that their taxes have been taken care of.
Speaker 2: You got that behind you, and I'm swearing next year,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna wait until the last minute. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: will see, we will see what happens. But no, I said,
Speaker 2: I said, there, I do mine on the turbo tax
Speaker 2: and when you send it in, you get a you
Speaker 2: get an update when the federal government accepts your tax,
Speaker 2: RED says, you get a little email, you get a
Speaker 2: little text message, and it says, good news, Dan, your
Speaker 2: federal tax return has been accepted. And so the the
Speaker 2: early evening was waning on last night, and I had
Speaker 2: not received an update about my state taxes, and I
Speaker 2: went back and before I could put my head down,
Speaker 2: I went and made sure that my state taxes were
Speaker 2: indeed filed, but I had not had an update that
Speaker 2: my taxes were accepted. Literally two minutes ago, right as
Speaker 2: we came on the air with the newscast, I got
Speaker 2: an update that my state return had been accepted. So
Speaker 2: I'm in good shape. So I don't have that hanging
Speaker 2: over my head. What am I going to talk about today?
Speaker 2: It is that the show prep yesterday for this show
Speaker 2: and the show prep that I did this morning. It
Speaker 2: was one of those days where I had to tell
Speaker 2: myself it's time to stop it is. It is time
Speaker 2: to stop because there are so many things that are
Speaker 2: going on. To talk about. One of the things that
Speaker 2: we're going to do. In one hour from now, I'm
Speaker 2: going to be joined by a guest. First time I've
Speaker 2: had this guy on. His name is Charlton Allen. Charlton
Speaker 2: Allen is an attorney, former Chief Executive of Officer and
Speaker 2: Chief Judicial Officer of the North Carolina Industrial Commission. He
Speaker 2: is the founder of the Madison Center for Law and Liberty.
Speaker 2: He is the editor of The American Salient and the
Speaker 2: host of the Modern Federalist podcast. And Charlton Allen about
Speaker 2: a week or ten days ago wrote a piece and
Speaker 2: American Thinker. And American Thinker is a great website. I
Speaker 2: go there and enjoy some of the commentary, and sometimes
Speaker 2: I just flat out read him on the air because
Speaker 2: some of the commentary that you get there is just
Speaker 2: so outstanding. And I've been looking for I am not
Speaker 2: an expert when it comes to tariffs, when it comes
Speaker 2: to the economy, when it comes to international trade, things
Speaker 2: like that, So I look for the opinions. I look
Speaker 2: for information of others provided by others to round out
Speaker 2: my thinking on these ideas, and Charlton Allen wrote a
Speaker 2: piece entitled we didn't start the trade war, we finally
Speaker 2: joined it. And he goes on to talk about and
Speaker 2: make clear how other countries have had a leg up
Speaker 2: on the United States when it comes to trade policy,
Speaker 2: when it comes to terrors, when it comes to things
Speaker 2: like that, and he talks about how far America is
Speaker 2: behind in certain areas that are going to wind up
Speaker 2: being extremely important and should have been important for the
Speaker 2: United States and have been neglected for so for so long.
Speaker 2: Let's see, he writes this. Trump's teriffic tariffs expose the
Speaker 2: lie at the heart of the globalist dogma that trade
Speaker 2: liberalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats. It
Speaker 2: does not. This is particularly true when so called free
Speaker 2: trade is in fact one sided. The bitter truth is
Speaker 2: that our nation, or our national trade structure, has lifted
Speaker 2: luxury yachts in Shanghai, luxury sedans in Bavaria, while hallowing
Speaker 2: out steel mills machine shops in Ohio and Missouri factory towns.
Speaker 2: The larger context is even more damming. The United States
Speaker 2: no longer makes what it needs. We offshore our factories,
Speaker 2: outsource our supply chains, surrender our economy's core sectors to
Speaker 2: competitors and adversaries. China controls eighty percent of rare earth
Speaker 2: mineral processing, and there's news this morning about that actually
Speaker 2: broke yesterday about China and rareer So we will talk
Speaker 2: to him about that. Let me let me get to
Speaker 2: the let me get to the part where he talks
Speaker 2: about manufacturing and here in the United States, Where did
Speaker 2: that go? Where did that go? Let me know if
Speaker 2: I had it up here just a second. Of course,
Speaker 2: you know when you're when you're scrolling through and and
Speaker 2: you think you want to find something, But then in
Speaker 2: any case, the guy is going to be here. And
Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward to this conversation because he just
Speaker 2: has a way of writing about it and uh and
Speaker 2: laying it out that I think makes a lot of
Speaker 2: sense to everybody. And you know, I'll ask him to
Speaker 2: explain his position on some of these issues that he
Speaker 2: talks about. So I'm looking forward to that. It's unusual
Speaker 2: that I don't record a lot of interviews ahead of time.
Speaker 2: Every once in a while i'll record an interview and
Speaker 2: use it during the case during the course of the show.
Speaker 2: But this one is going to be live after the
Speaker 2: news at six, and so I invite you to to
Speaker 2: stay around. Stick around for that. Yeah, here's what he
Speaker 2: writes about the other countries. Germany taxes US automobiles at
Speaker 2: four times the rate we impose on THEIRS. France blocks
Speaker 2: US agricultural products through protectionist quotas and byzantine regulations. South Korea,
Speaker 2: despite a free trade degree, it maintains tariff and non
Speaker 2: tariff barriers on US beef, pork, and automotive parts. These
Speaker 2: aren't historical artifacts of little significance. They are systemic disadvantages
Speaker 2: designed to extract concessions from America while giving little or
Speaker 2: nothing in return. And so this is the sort of
Speaker 2: trade imbalance that that's the one sort of thing that
Speaker 2: the Trump looks at that I think drives him, you know,
Speaker 2: drives him crazy, almost more than anything else that they
Speaker 2: have all you know, all these other countries. I think
Speaker 2: China is a separate case, but all these other countries
Speaker 2: they have all this access to American markets and we
Speaker 2: do not have the same sort of access to THEIRS.
Speaker 2: And when you boil it down, I think that's really
Speaker 2: that's really the nut of the whole thing. Another guest
Speaker 2: is going to be Daniel Turner. That'll be in the
Speaker 2: eight o'clock hour. Power of the Future. Just a great commentary,
Speaker 2: great insight on all things happening, political, economic, and otherwise.
Speaker 2: And Daniel Turner is just a super smart guy. He's
Speaker 2: a regular. See he's a regular on Fox News, Fox
Speaker 2: Business News, and he's been a regular guest of mine
Speaker 2: on the other shows that I do. And he's going
Speaker 2: to be here at eight and then Ken Cober, the FOP.
Speaker 2: I talked a little bit about this when I had
Speaker 2: James Bogan on yesterday and we were talking about this
Speaker 2: young man, the twenty five year old father of two
Speaker 2: killed in Coryville over the weekend, and some information started
Speaker 2: coming out late what Monday into Tuesday about this fifteen
Speaker 2: year old who is accused of gunning this guy down
Speaker 2: and the teenager who was arrested by Cincinnati police. It
Speaker 2: has now the information has come out. Fox nineteen has
Speaker 2: had a look at the at the court records of
Speaker 2: this kid, and it turns out this guy's got a
Speaker 2: lengthy juvenile history. Several months ago, in November of twenty four,
Speaker 2: court records show the fifteen year old was accused of
Speaker 2: firing a gun. Ken kober says, if the teen had
Speaker 2: not been let out of juvenile attention for the November crime,
Speaker 2: myrack or Mirick, I'm sorry, it would still be alive.
Speaker 2: Who didn't see this coming. You look at his criminal record,
Speaker 2: you see more charges than he has years on this earth.
Speaker 2: Court documents show this team has sixteen previous charges starting
Speaker 2: from when he was just thirteen years old. So between
Speaker 2: the age thirteen and the age when he finally killed
Speaker 2: someone at fifteen, sixteen previous charges. And what's the use?
Speaker 2: What's the use if Cincinnati police go out and arrest
Speaker 2: these people, arrest these juveniles and they simply go through
Speaker 2: the revolving door in the court system here in Hamilton
Speaker 2: County and they're back out on the street, hanging out
Speaker 2: late at night. I don't know how late it was,
Speaker 2: but hanging out at night in possession of a gun,
Speaker 2: assaulting people, attacking people, and ultimately killing people. These judges
Speaker 2: that run the juvenile court over there, I'm tired of
Speaker 2: hearing about how there's you know, there's nothing they can do.
Speaker 2: I'm tired of it. You get so you get a
Speaker 2: kid with thirteen contacts with the juveniles system between the
Speaker 2: age of thirteen and fifteen. You got to do something.
Speaker 2: You gotta do something. I'm sure there are some kids
Speaker 2: out there that deserve a second chance. Some kids out
Speaker 2: there that I guess, depending on their situation, can put
Speaker 2: these sorts of things behind them, move on have a
Speaker 2: decent life. But some kids cannot be helped. I don't
Speaker 2: know the history of this kid. I don't know what
Speaker 2: his parental situation is, but at some point, responsible adults
Speaker 2: have to step in and protect the community. And that
Speaker 2: certainly appears that that did not happen in this particular case,
Speaker 2: and now a family is mourning the loss of a
Speaker 2: twenty five year old father. Five sixteen, We've got to
Speaker 2: get to a break. Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas. Fifty
Speaker 2: five krc DE talks the.
Speaker 1: Fifty five krc When You're Sump Pump.
Speaker 2: Fifty time krc DE talks Station Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas.
Speaker 2: And I didn't mean to go off on a little tangent,
Speaker 2: and I get stuck on this fifteen year old kid
Speaker 2: with the long juvenile record. I just wanted to sort
Speaker 2: of to go through some of the highlights or some
Speaker 2: of the headlines of stuff that we have to talk
Speaker 2: about during the course of today. But that's what happened.
Speaker 2: B Ken Kober will be here about eight thirty and
Speaker 2: we'll talk to him about that. Absolutely horrible. What are
Speaker 2: some of the headlines we've got today were rare earth
Speaker 2: minerals affected by China export ban, used in ebes, green energy,
Speaker 2: military at tech and apparently the United States has plenty
Speaker 2: of rare earth minerals, we just don't refine it, and
Speaker 2: so we need to get up to speed on that.
Speaker 2: And there's some thinking out there that that can happen
Speaker 2: rather quickly, and I would like to see that happen.
Speaker 2: This thing between Trump and Harvard getting very serious. Trump
Speaker 2: administration is freezing two point three billion in Harvard funding.
Speaker 2: Why does Harvard need two point three billion in funding
Speaker 2: from American taxpayers? Anyone got a good explanation for that?
Speaker 2: I don't see Harvard winning that one. Trump suggests that
Speaker 2: Harvard lose its tax exempt status because they they're not
Speaker 2: really going to do they. I guess they want to
Speaker 2: give some lip service when it comes to anti Semitic
Speaker 2: activity happening on the campus and Jewish students there in
Speaker 2: a constant state of danger. They're giving lips first to that.
Speaker 2: But probably not really looking to do anything serious about it.
Speaker 2: So the Trump administration is cutting off the money. We'll
Speaker 2: see how that goes. Let's see. You know, Harvard says
Speaker 2: that we'll not comply with the Trump administration is demands.
Speaker 2: So they're digging in and they've got a fifty three
Speaker 2: billion dollar endowment they don't need. They do not need
Speaker 2: any money from the federal government. They don't need it.
Speaker 2: I mean, if the endowment, what do what if if
Speaker 2: you know, the these schools have these endowments, We've got
Speaker 2: all this money socked away, what do they use that for?
Speaker 2: What's it there for? If? Is it a rainy day fund?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 2: And they you know, they've got all this money socked away,
Speaker 2: and they continue to have this huge stream of money
Speaker 2: that comes in from the federal government, that comes in
Speaker 2: from tuition, all this other stuff they've they've got that
Speaker 2: fifty three billion, you know, dig into that.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 2: Knock yourself out, Harvard. There's a guy who threatened to
Speaker 2: assassinate Tulsea Gabbard. He's been arrested. Trump is going to
Speaker 2: skip the White House correspondence dinner, which is kind of
Speaker 2: a shame because Trump can deliver jokes, probably better than
Speaker 2: the vast majority of people who are going to show
Speaker 2: up to the White House Correspondence Center, certainly better than
Speaker 2: the comedians or the entertainers that they typically bring into
Speaker 2: these events. But he is not going to be part
Speaker 2: of that, and I don't I really, I gave up
Speaker 2: watching those things a long time ago. Let's see Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris still thinking about her political future. Absolute Joe Joe
Speaker 2: Biden was out making some speeches or made a speech
Speaker 2: last night, and there was a lot of build up
Speaker 2: to this. Who in their right mind would go to
Speaker 2: a Joe Biden speech, But I guess he was in Chicago.
Speaker 2: I didn't see any video of the size of the crowd,
Speaker 2: but it sounded just based on the applause that I heard,
Speaker 2: it sounded sparse. It sounded like there was a lot
Speaker 2: of a lot of empty space in that room. Hard
Speaker 2: to tell when you can't you don't have pictures or
Speaker 2: video of the size of the crowd, But just based
Speaker 2: on what the applause sounded like, it didn't sound like
Speaker 2: there were a whole lot of people there. So we've
Speaker 2: got a couple of cuts of Joe Biden and the
Speaker 2: speech got off to a pretty rough start, so we'll
Speaker 2: roll some of that as the as the program rolls
Speaker 2: on today. But right now we got to get to
Speaker 2: a little break and we'll check traffic and weather. Well,
Speaker 2: we had traffic coming up in a little bit, but
Speaker 2: we'll check the weather at least a little news at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the hour. Now we don't that's the
Speaker 2: wrong station. We don't have we had searm Man. We
Speaker 2: don't have news at the bottom of the hour. Do
Speaker 2: negative you know I've been here for three days now
Speaker 2: you think I would I would know that. But a
Speaker 2: whole lot more to get to and we hope you
Speaker 2: can stick around for it.
Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC the talk station, fifty five KRC.
Speaker 2: Do you have a master? Five thirty on this the
Speaker 2: Wednesday morning? Damn Caeryl from Brian Thomas. We take a
Speaker 2: look at little local news and it turns out our
Speaker 2: Congressman Greg Landsman doing very well in the stock market.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to him. A Channel nine reporting that according to
Speaker 2: financial disclose or disclosure records, Greg Lansman and his wife
Speaker 2: recently sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stocks.
Speaker 2: Amid the ongoing US trade war and volatility in the
Speaker 2: stock market. Landsman, who represents Cincinnati, and his wife sold
Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stocks in March,
Speaker 2: though the exact amount is unclear. An analysis by The
Speaker 2: Journal News found that the sales combined are valued between
Speaker 2: three hundred and seventy nine thousand dollars and one point
Speaker 2: four four million dollars. So congratulations to Greg Landsman cashing
Speaker 2: in on the stock market. It's fantastic. In the fall
Speaker 2: of twenty four Landsman failed to disclose trading activities on time,
Speaker 2: it reached illegal requirements under the twenty twelve Stock Act.
Speaker 2: The law requires members of Congress to and certain family
Speaker 2: members to file reports within thirty to four five days
Speaker 2: after receiving notice of a transaction exceeding one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Several members of Congress from Ohio, both passed and president,
Speaker 2: are Stock Act violators, according to The Journal News, among
Speaker 2: them A Warren Davidson, Marcy Captor, Steve Shabbitt, and David
Speaker 2: Joyce of Bainbridge Township. The twenty twelve Stock Act really
Speaker 2: had one major purpose, which was to prevent members of
Speaker 2: Congress from insider trading, said David Nivin. You see political
Speaker 2: science professor insider trading. Hard to imagine that Greg Landsman
Speaker 2: has anything to do with that, isn't it. Landsman co
Speaker 2: sponsoring the Trust Act in Congress, which, if an active,
Speaker 2: would require Congress to an select family members to place
Speaker 2: investments in a blind trust to avoid potential conflicts of interests.
Speaker 2: But for now he's Uh, he's moving socks around and
Speaker 2: benefiting mightily, and good for him. That is a great news.
Speaker 2: Let's see what else do we have. Wah wah is open,
Speaker 2: Sean McMahon, you've been to a wah wah yet? No,
Speaker 2: But I've been to a BUCkies. I've been. He's been
Speaker 2: to I've been to a BUCkies. I have not been
Speaker 2: to a wah wah. The doors are open, and let's see,
Speaker 2: this is a Liberty Township, Ohio.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: The doors to the first wah wah are set to open.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: The popular convenience store chain officially opens. It says Wednesday,
Speaker 2: So I guess that's today. Some vi P customers got
Speaker 2: uh pture the store a little taste of wah wah.
Speaker 2: I wasn't invited to that event, so I guess I'm
Speaker 2: not a vi I P. The local was packed with
Speaker 2: enthusiastsic customers counting down to the moment. I would That's
Speaker 2: another thing I would not do. I would not wait outside.
Speaker 2: Remember when the Krispy Creams would open around here, there
Speaker 2: would always be a lining outside, people wanting to be
Speaker 2: the first one to get in the Krispy Creme that
Speaker 2: we the other there was some other I think the
Speaker 2: chick fil As. When the Chick fil As first started
Speaker 2: coming into the Tri State area, there would always be
Speaker 2: that line out there. And I guess that if at
Speaker 2: least with the Chick fil A, I think what you
Speaker 2: got was a year's worth of Chick fil A. I
Speaker 2: think you could go in there and get one or
Speaker 2: two sandwiches a day something like that for a year.
Speaker 2: So that's not a bad that's not a bad thing
Speaker 2: to have. I don't know if I would eat a
Speaker 2: Chick fil A every single day. I like Chick fil A.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I would eat one every single day,
Speaker 2: but you know, having that, having that in your back
Speaker 2: pocket is not a bad thing. But I still would
Speaker 2: not wait in line. But I guess apparently there are
Speaker 2: people waiting in line at the wall. If you've been
Speaker 2: to the wah Wah in Liberty Township. Fill us in,
Speaker 2: let us know what what you got there. The East
Speaker 2: Coach Stained unveiled its breakfast sandwiches, Coffee Hogy type sandwiches.
Speaker 2: So the wah Walls are opening in Greater Cincinnati. That
Speaker 2: is very cool. I have been to a BUCkies and
Speaker 2: it took me a while. I remember the first couple
Speaker 2: of times we saw one and we said, okay, we're
Speaker 2: going to stop in there, and then the line to
Speaker 2: get the cars that were waiting to go to the
Speaker 2: BUCkies that were backed off the ramp and onto the highway,
Speaker 2: so that if you actually had to come to a
Speaker 2: stop on the highway to get on the ramp to
Speaker 2: get off the ramp to go to the BUCkies. I said, no,
Speaker 2: I'm not doing that. So we waited and several weeks passed,
Speaker 2: and then we had a chance to go to another BUCkies,
Speaker 2: and this time we were able to actually pull into the
Speaker 2: parking lot there, find a place to park, and then
Speaker 2: walk on him. But I am not waiting. I am
Speaker 2: not waiting, especially I'm not parking on the on the
Speaker 2: highway waiting to get off the ramp to go to
Speaker 2: a BUCkies or any establishment for that matter. Five point
Speaker 2: thirty five Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC.
Speaker 1: The talk station fifty five KRC in this edition.
Speaker 2: On this Wednesday morning, the day after Tax Day, Dan
Speaker 2: Carroll for Brian Thomas saw this as I was getting
Speaker 2: ready for the show today, that Vaughn P. Drake has
Speaker 2: passed away, a Central Kentucky native, the oldest known survivor
Speaker 2: of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December seventh, nineteen
Speaker 2: forty one, Von P. Drake. According to Pacific Historic Parks, Drake,
Speaker 2: who was twenty three at the time, was serving in
Speaker 2: the US Army and he helped to build the barracks
Speaker 2: at the Kenoe Naval Air Station on the east side
Speaker 2: of O Wahoo. His job was to run a temporary
Speaker 2: power plant so the carpenters and had electricity for their equipment.
Speaker 2: We were getting ready to go to breakfast and we
Speaker 2: heard all these planes flying over, making a lot of noise,
Speaker 2: Drake said during an interview with the Lexington Herald Leader
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen. At first they thought it was the
Speaker 2: Army Air Corps doing maneuvers. They didn't pay much attention
Speaker 2: except to comment that they were putting on a good show.
Speaker 2: Then an officer told them that the island was under
Speaker 2: attack and they saw a bomb hit one of their buildings.
Speaker 2: He says, we knew by then that we had a
Speaker 2: real attack, Drake said. During the war he continued to
Speaker 2: serve with the Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific,
Speaker 2: including Saipan and the Marines of the Marianeras Campaign or
Speaker 2: the Marianas Campaign, I should say. When the war ended, Drake,
Speaker 2: who was from Winchester, returned to Kentucky, had a family,
Speaker 2: worked with General Telephone of Kentucky, was an engineer until retirement.
Speaker 2: His wife of sixty five Yearslina Wilson Drake, passed away
Speaker 2: in December of twenty eleven, survived by his son Sam,
Speaker 2: two grandsons, three great grandchildren. Drake was a member of
Speaker 2: the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers National Society of
Speaker 2: Professional Engineers, charter member and past president of the Bluegrass
Speaker 2: Chapter of the Kentucky Society of Professional Engineers. He was
Speaker 2: a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, former member
Speaker 2: of the Society of American Military Engineers, a member of
Speaker 2: the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. He was a lifetime
Speaker 2: member of the University of Kentucky Alumni Association and a
Speaker 2: life member of the Pearl Harbor's Survivor Association. So Vaughn P.
Speaker 2: Drake and to his family, we thank that good man
Speaker 2: for his service. Passed away at the age of one
Speaker 2: hundred and six, one hundred and six years old, oldest
Speaker 2: known survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. And
Speaker 2: that closes a chapter in this country that will that
Speaker 2: will likely never never be seen again. So we thank
Speaker 2: him for his service and wish him godspeed on his
Speaker 2: journey one hundred and six years on this earth. And
Speaker 2: God bless that good man. What else do we have
Speaker 2: going on? What else do we have going on? Let
Speaker 2: me see new documents. All new documents proved that Rushiagate
Speaker 2: was a hoax all along. But Letitia James is facing
Speaker 2: some difficulties now. This story broke last night. The Attorney
Speaker 2: General of New York, Latitia James, who managed to secure
Speaker 2: the guilty verdict against Donald Trump in February of twenty
Speaker 2: four for allegedly inflating the value of the Trump organization.
Speaker 2: Everyone remembers that, right we had this judge say that
Speaker 2: mar Lago was worth only eighteen million dollars when it's
Speaker 2: in fact worth closer to two hundred and fifty million dollars. Wow,
Speaker 2: you know, Letitia James out there looking out for the
Speaker 2: small people, because according to her, that you know when
Speaker 2: you know, when a big bad organization like the Trump
Speaker 2: organization falsely puts out the value of their property that
Speaker 2: they're using to secure a loan, well, that means there's
Speaker 2: less for everybody else. Never Mind that the bank did
Speaker 2: its own due diligence, never mind that there was no
Speaker 2: victim in this, never mind that anyone lost a dime
Speaker 2: in this whole procedure, But no, she pursued those criminal charges. Anyway,
Speaker 2: when the powerful break the law and take more than
Speaker 2: their fair share, there are fewer resources available for working people,
Speaker 2: small businesses, families. Everyday, Americans cannot lie to a bank
Speaker 2: about how much money they have in order to get
Speaker 2: a mortgage to buy a home, and if they did,
Speaker 2: the government should throw the book at them. That's what
Speaker 2: Latitia James said. Will Now, there's a little trouble for
Speaker 2: Latitia James because she has been referred for prosecution over
Speaker 2: the exact same type of crimes that accused Trump. Of
Speaker 2: the exact same type of crimes. Let's see where do we? Uh,
Speaker 2: I got to get to a break here, We'll do that.
Speaker 2: We'll get to a break, and then I'll lay out
Speaker 2: what the what the crimes that miss James is facing
Speaker 2: or will or has been referred to to the Justice Department.
Speaker 2: Absolutely amazing. How many times have we said it? When
Speaker 2: you have liberals or Democrats accusing people of doing things,
Speaker 2: it usually turns out they are doing the exact same
Speaker 2: things themselves. And we'll get into some of these details.
Speaker 2: And right after this on fifty five k r C
Speaker 2: the talk station, fifty five k the talk station when
Speaker 2: You're some pump fifty five krc DE Talk station. Well
Speaker 2: left off talking about the Tisha James, the New York
Speaker 2: Attorney General who brought the flimsy at the Flimsy cases
Speaker 2: against Donald Trump. And now it appears that she's had
Speaker 2: been referred to for prosecution on some of the exact
Speaker 2: same charges that she went after Trump for. If the
Speaker 2: allegations are accurate, and this is according to the Western Journal,
Speaker 2: the woman who went after Trump engaged in some very
Speaker 2: real property fraud of her own. According to a report
Speaker 2: that came out Wednesday night, the US Federal Housing Finance
Speaker 2: Agency Director William Poulte referred James to Attorney General Pam
Speaker 2: Bondi for irregularities in a series of loans that James
Speaker 2: obtained on two properties in the course of exercising US
Speaker 2: Federal Housing authority under the Federal Housing Enterprise, Financial Safety
Speaker 2: and Soundness Act. The US Federal Housing has identified matters
Speaker 2: that are appropriate for referral to the Department of Justice.
Speaker 2: Poulti wrote his letter to Bondi based on reports Leticia
Speaker 2: James has in multiple instances falsified bank documents and property
Speaker 2: records to acquire government back backed assistance and loans for
Speaker 2: more favorable terms. This has potentially included one falsifying residence
Speaker 2: status for a Norfolk, Virginia based home in order to
Speaker 2: secure a lower mortgage rate, and two misrepresenting property descriptions
Speaker 2: to meet stringent requirements for government backed loans and government assistants.
Speaker 2: In the case of the Virginia home. The more clear
Speaker 2: cut of the allegations, which is likely to represent a
Speaker 2: serious impediment to james continued rise through the Democrat ranks.
Speaker 2: The New York Attorney General reportedly listed it as her
Speaker 2: primary residence to banks and twenty twenty three documents in
Speaker 2: order to get a better deal on loans. Where have
Speaker 2: we heard that before? Despite being a statewide public officeholder
Speaker 2: in the state of New York at the same time
Speaker 2: and primarily residing in the state of New York. So
Speaker 2: she lives, works, and resides in the state of New York,
Speaker 2: but says that this home in Virginia is her primary residence.
Speaker 2: Primary residence mortgages receive more favorable loan terms, including lower
Speaker 2: interest rates, than secondary residence mortgages. Lenders view secondary residence
Speaker 2: mortgages as significantly riskier, as a borrower is more likely
Speaker 2: to continue paying off a primary residence during any financial hardship.
Speaker 2: Interest rates on secondary residence mortgages are typically between zero
Speaker 2: point two five and point five zero percent higher than
Speaker 2: their primary residence counterparts. So here's Letitia James telling the bank, Hey,
Speaker 2: look this home in Virginia. That's my primary home. Also,
Speaker 2: she could save a quarter to half a point on
Speaker 2: an interest loan. At the time of the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three Norfolk, Virginia Property Purchase and mortgage, Miss James was
Speaker 2: the sitting Attorney General of New York and required by
Speaker 2: law to have her primary residence in the state of
Speaker 2: New York. Even though her mortgage applications list her intent
Speaker 2: to have the Norfolk, Virginia property as her primary home.
Speaker 2: It appears Miss James property and mortgage mortgage related misrepresentations
Speaker 2: may have continued to her recent twenty twenty three Norfolk,
Speaker 2: Virginia property purchase in order to secure a lower interest
Speaker 2: rate and more favorable loan terms. How about that? So
Speaker 2: it looks like there's a lot of evidence out there
Speaker 2: referred to prosecution. Sorry, Letitia James sucks to be you,
Speaker 2: as Brian Thomas might say, But you know she she
Speaker 2: talked about white collar crime, white collar financial crime, not victimless.
Speaker 2: When the powerful break the law and take more than
Speaker 2: their fair share, there are fewer resources available for working people.
Speaker 2: That applied to Donald Trump. Now it's time to see
Speaker 2: if the same applies to the Attorney General of New York.
Speaker 2: Letitia James five fifty five on fifty five KRC, The
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Speaker 2: five On this Wednesday morning, I'm Dan Carroll. Brian Thomas
Speaker 2: taking the week off, so it's my pleasure to be
Speaker 2: here for him. I get to do it one more
Speaker 2: day tomorrow, So I'm looking forward to that and also
Speaker 2: looking forward to speaking with our next guest, and our
Speaker 2: first guest in the morning is Charlton Allen. Charlton Allen
Speaker 2: is an attorney. He is the former chief executive officer
Speaker 2: of the North Carolina Industrial Commission, the founder of the
Speaker 2: Madison Center for Law and Liberty, and the host of
Speaker 2: the Modern Federalist podcast. And he also is a regular
Speaker 2: contributor to American Thinker, which is a great website where
Speaker 2: that I look at just about every single day. And
Speaker 2: it is because of a piece that he wrote there
Speaker 2: that I reached out to him and asked him to
Speaker 2: be on the show this morning. And here he is,
Speaker 2: and Charlton Allen, thank you so much for being here,
Speaker 2: and good morning. It's great to have you on fifty
Speaker 2: five KRC. How are you today.
Speaker 5: I'm doing well, Dan, thanks for having.
Speaker 2: Me well, Thank you for being here. This piece that
Speaker 2: you wrote that really got my attention a few days ago.
Speaker 2: The headline is we didn't start the trade war, We've
Speaker 2: just finally joined it. And you make the case. First
Speaker 2: of all, the first thing you talk about is how
Speaker 2: the media really fails to deliver any context as it
Speaker 2: relates to tariffs. Do you believe that this is because
Speaker 2: they're pursuing an agenda that they don't want to provide
Speaker 2: real context. I think they have the ability to provide context,
Speaker 2: but they simply choose not to provide context and really
Speaker 2: wind up just parroting the talking points that come from
Speaker 2: the DNC and other organizations who are opposed to this administration.
Speaker 2: I think this is a heavy.
Speaker 5: Part of it, but I don't necessarily believe that's all
Speaker 5: of it.
Speaker 2: Let me explain this, okay.
Speaker 5: I think we have reached a point in our nation,
Speaker 5: and particularly in terms of the legacy media. They are
Speaker 5: very much coastal on plays and they have for generations
Speaker 5: ignored the plight of states like your state, Ohio, my state,
Speaker 5: North Carolina, and all the states in between the two coasts.
Speaker 5: And as a consequence, yeah, I have come to conclude unfortunately,
Speaker 5: a lot of the legacy media sees there themselves as
Speaker 5: having more in common with Europe, for example, than the
Speaker 5: rest of America. And I think there is a deep
Speaker 5: philosophical and cultural divide that you know, is a schism
Speaker 5: between those media elites and the rest of us in
Speaker 5: this country. And I think as a major factor as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think most Americans have have an
Speaker 2: idea that that we have a very large trade and
Speaker 2: balance when it comes to dealing with China. I think
Speaker 2: a lot of Americans might have been surprised though, to
Speaker 2: recognize the amount of tariffs that and then really how
Speaker 2: unli level the playing field is when it when you
Speaker 2: talk about the rest of the world, when you when
Speaker 2: you look at all the other tariffs that all these
Speaker 2: countries impose on the United States, and the United States
Speaker 2: for so long essentially had had little or no tariffs
Speaker 2: on many of these other countries. And I think when
Speaker 2: you when you look at a guy like Trump, it
Speaker 2: is that sort of imbalance that that really bothers him
Speaker 2: more than anything else. That you know, we have all
Speaker 2: this access for all these other countries into our markets,
Speaker 2: but yet we don't have the same access to theirs.
Speaker 5: That's exactly the point. And you know, in terms of
Speaker 5: approaching it, I think you have to one hand take China,
Speaker 5: and China is a unique and over arching problem that's
Speaker 5: separate and apart from the rest of the world. And
Speaker 5: the reason why I say that is because China is,
Speaker 5: you know, by and large one of our largest trading partners,
Speaker 5: and they manipulate the markets, They manipulate trade. They have
Speaker 5: barriers upon barriers to trade. In China, they have things
Speaker 5: such as Golden chairs, which give the Chinese Communist Party
Speaker 5: control over entities in China into corporations that you know,
Speaker 5: frankly did the fact that that is the case and
Speaker 5: those companies are dealing in securities in the United States
Speaker 5: is long overdue for the SEC to be involved.
Speaker 4: But China is.
Speaker 5: A problem in and of itself. Europe is another problem,
Speaker 5: and you know, I would take it a step further,
Speaker 5: not just Europe, but also Canada. We have significant trade imbalances.
Speaker 5: Europe in particular, and Canada as well rely on the
Speaker 5: United States for national security. There is no way in
Speaker 5: the world that the Canadian armed forces can protect the
Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty one thousand miles of coastline in
Speaker 5: Canada or the four million square miles of aerospace in Canada.
Speaker 5: There's no way they rely on us to provide security.
Speaker 5: Same with Europe, and yet there are barriers to our
Speaker 5: penetration of both of those markets, in particular Europe, where
Speaker 5: if the United States company wants to sell a car
Speaker 5: they're slacked with a ten percent tariffone on our cars,
Speaker 5: and then europe christ foul when we demand reciprocity. For
Speaker 5: decades since World War Two, we have subsidized European comfort
Speaker 5: with American sacrifice. And that era is over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you wrote a piece that appeared in an American
Speaker 2: Thinker yesterday talking about Canada's free ride is finally over.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you a couple more questions about that.
Speaker 2: But just getting back to China for a moment, I
Speaker 2: guess the latest move was by China talking about how
Speaker 2: they're going to put a pause or a hold on
Speaker 2: China shipping out these rare earth minerals. And I was
Speaker 2: I was reading about this that the United States actually
Speaker 2: is a major producer of rare earth minerals. It's just
Speaker 2: that the refining process is shipped overseas, shipped over to
Speaker 2: China where those minerals are refined, and then they are
Speaker 2: sent back to the United States and to other parts
Speaker 2: of the world as well. And I think I think
Speaker 2: Trump has a pretty good handle on this. And so
Speaker 2: when you look at or at least when I look
Speaker 2: at what I perceive to be the bargaining position that
Speaker 2: Trump wants to put this country into when it comes
Speaker 2: to tariffs. It's not only to level the playing field,
Speaker 2: but to reinvigorate these manufacturing processes, and so we are
Speaker 2: able to self sustain ourselves here in the United States
Speaker 2: and no longer be reliant on places like China for pharmaceuticals,
Speaker 2: for rare earth, for things like this that American consumers
Speaker 2: need on a daily basis.
Speaker 5: Exactly, the twentieth century was one by tanks and oil.
Speaker 5: The twenty first century will be one by chips energy
Speaker 5: and who controls the tech stack. China knows this, and
Speaker 5: they have tried to corner the market not just on
Speaker 5: rare earth production, but rare earth refinery refineries such as
Speaker 5: what you discussed. And we need to cut through the
Speaker 5: barriers here in our own country so that we cannot
Speaker 5: only mine rare earth minerals that we need in just
Speaker 5: about every facet and modern electric and electronic computing and AI.
Speaker 5: We need to cut those barriers down so that we
Speaker 5: are not only competitive, but that we are surpassing China
Speaker 5: in those key factors. Because if we do not have
Speaker 5: control of pharmaceuticals, we do not control our own energy future.
Speaker 5: We do not control our access to rare earth minerals.
Speaker 5: We will not be an independent nation much longer. You know,
Speaker 5: China is You know, this is something epic. Is one
Speaker 5: of the greatest failures of American policy makers over the
Speaker 5: past fifty years. Despite its deep market penetration in the
Speaker 5: United States, China has remained a one party state, and
Speaker 5: that party is the Chinese Communist Party. And one of
Speaker 5: those great failures about our policy makers and politicians was
Speaker 5: they misread China's economic opening in the nineteen seventies as
Speaker 5: a repudiation or rejection of Marxism.
Speaker 4: It wasn't.
Speaker 5: It was a rebranding. At its core, Marxism is about
Speaker 5: wealth redistribution from the economically successful to the unsuccessful, from
Speaker 5: the havels to the have not, and for the last
Speaker 5: several generations, accelerating dramatically after china submission to the wt
Speaker 5: O in the granting of Most Favored Nation status, we've
Speaker 5: watched that redistribution play out in a global scale. What
Speaker 5: China has executed is a wholesale transfer of wealth from
Speaker 5: the United States to the People's Republic. It's been wrapped
Speaker 5: into seductive packaging of cheap consumer goods, but the core
Speaker 5: transaction is unmistakable. We sit them our industries or supply
Speaker 5: chains and our leverage, and in return we've got plastic
Speaker 5: trinkets and mounting death.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And and I think if China, if China sees
Speaker 2: that the United States is serious about about taking up
Speaker 2: this manufacturing process that we have that we have ceded
Speaker 2: to them, then I think I think that'll be even
Speaker 2: more leverage that'll get that will get the Chinese to
Speaker 2: the bargaining table and uh and be something that will
Speaker 2: work in the favor of the United States. Charleston Allen,
Speaker 2: we get we have to get to a quick break,
Speaker 2: so let me ask you to hold on right there.
Speaker 2: We'll do a quick little traffic in weather and then
Speaker 2: we'll continue on with Charlton Allen from the great state
Speaker 2: of North Carolina. So we appreciate him being here on
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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning. Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, continuing our conversation
Speaker 2: with Attorney Charlton Allen, and mister Allen, let me ask
Speaker 2: you this when it comes to when it comes to
Speaker 2: the criticism that has been brought against President Trump and
Speaker 2: the way he's going about I don't think that. I
Speaker 2: don't think that this whole, this whole trade war, if
Speaker 2: you want to call it that, or the tariffs that
Speaker 2: Trump has been using for leverage, is as haphazard as
Speaker 2: the media would have you believe. But I think there's
Speaker 2: I think there's some legitimate criticism and especially when people
Speaker 2: look at their savings, when they look at their four
Speaker 2: oh one k's, when they look at their retirement accounts,
Speaker 2: their stock market investment portfolios, things like that, that that
Speaker 2: there has been a lot of volatility there. There's been
Speaker 2: you know, so at least some some temporary damage done
Speaker 2: to these to these things, and I think people have
Speaker 2: genuine concerns about that. When when you get asked or
Speaker 2: people want to talk about that, what is your response
Speaker 2: to them about the game, the pain that is associated
Speaker 2: with the with the policies, and and what what Trump
Speaker 2: is trying to accomplish here.
Speaker 5: I appreciate from several angles. First of all, we cannot
Speaker 5: be dissuaded from what I believe is the right course
Speaker 5: of action based upon short term results and pain. Uh,
Speaker 5: there was always going to be no matter how the
Speaker 5: President tried to implement UH tariffs, whether he did it
Speaker 5: in the manner he has done, or if he took
Speaker 5: a more longer term approach and phased it in more gradually,
Speaker 5: there was going to be uncertainty. And the market reacts
Speaker 5: to uncertainty, and the market's job is to react. The
Speaker 5: President's job is to act. And I think President Trump's
Speaker 5: doctrine may rattle some of the hedge funge managers, but
Speaker 5: it reassures the factory floors, and that's where the real
Speaker 5: strength of this country's always been. And you know, I
Speaker 5: will also say that a lot of the companies that
Speaker 5: are traded on the public exchanges, the equities, they are
Speaker 5: very much leveraged into trade with China. And I will
Speaker 5: also point I've discussed this in an article last week. Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, or Treasury Secretary has made a very strong
Speaker 5: point of this, just how much of a schism there
Speaker 5: is within the United States the people who actually.
Speaker 2: Participate in Wall Street.
Speaker 5: I believe it is something along the lines that twelve
Speaker 5: percent of Americans own eighty percent of stock. That is,
Speaker 5: you know, that gives you an idea of just how
Speaker 5: much you know there is a diconomy between those who
Speaker 5: are participating in the market and those are not. The
Speaker 5: long term play I think is going to be following
Speaker 5: the approach the approach to president is going to follow.
Speaker 5: China is going to require some significant sacrifice to decouple
Speaker 5: from the Chinese Communist Party because it is more than
Speaker 5: just a trade issue. They have infiltrated our economy in
Speaker 5: a very parasitic manner. One of the largest employers in
Speaker 5: North Carolina is smith phil Foods, which is owned by China.
Speaker 5: They have purchased a lot of agribusiness. They are heavily
Speaker 5: leveraged in the pharmaceutical industry, which is another big employer
Speaker 5: in the state of North Carolina. So decoupling from China
Speaker 5: is going to be a very long term process, but
Speaker 5: it is going to be necessary for our sovereignty because
Speaker 5: if China controls through Rare Earth and Other Technology or
Speaker 5: National Security Center, if they control our pharmaceutical sector, if
Speaker 5: they control consumer and business electronics, and then they're making
Speaker 5: a strong play in AI. Where is our future, not
Speaker 5: just in terms of our economy, but our national security.
Speaker 5: It's very much in doubt when you have a geopolitical
Speaker 5: adversary rolling all the key sectors of the economy and
Speaker 5: they want to subdue the United States.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then and then getting back to Canada here as
Speaker 2: we as we wrap this up, you talked, you talk
Speaker 2: about Canada and the United States and Canada are are
Speaker 2: the our big trading partners, but China is is intertwined
Speaker 2: quite deeply into Canada as well. Is that is that
Speaker 2: a hindrance moving forward with Canada? Does Does Canada have
Speaker 2: to be concerned about, you know, any repercussions from China
Speaker 2: as it seeks to uh, you know men fences with
Speaker 2: the United States, Yes, they do.
Speaker 5: They have to be very significant serns concerns of my view,
Speaker 5: not just with China but also with Russia and incursions
Speaker 5: within Canada's shipping lanes and access to the Arctic Ocean
Speaker 5: and the Northern Pacific and the Northern Atlantic oceans. Uh,
Speaker 5: They're going to have very significant concerns in Canada really
Speaker 5: needs to step up to the plate and you know,
Speaker 5: get involved in the end of Pacific in a way
Speaker 5: that they have not been, get invested in their national security,
Speaker 5: which they have not been. They are won the worst
Speaker 5: performing nations in NATO and have been for generations, and
Speaker 5: they have not taken their obligations under NATO seriously. They
Speaker 5: are stuck at about one point three percent of their
Speaker 5: GDP contributing to their own national security when NATO has
Speaker 5: set a goal, and it's not an unreasonable goal two percent.
Speaker 5: But it's not just Canada that we have to watch.
Speaker 5: In terms of China, Mexico is a very big deal
Speaker 5: as well. Mexico has been used as a basically a
Speaker 5: trojan horse for China to get their goods assembled in
Speaker 5: Mexico and then enter the United States tara free, and
Speaker 5: that has calls a spike in the Mexican trade surplus
Speaker 5: with the United States. Last year between twenty four it
Speaker 5: sored to nearly one hundred and seventy two billion dollars.
Speaker 5: A big reason for that was Chinese goods assembled to
Speaker 5: Mexico and then shipped to the United States.
Speaker 2: Well, Charleston Allen, I'll tell you what. You make some
Speaker 2: great points in the commentaries that I find on American Thinker.
Speaker 2: And you know, when I look at this, I look
Speaker 2: at a situation that you know, so many of these
Speaker 2: situations have gone unaddressed for so long in any sort
Speaker 2: of meaningful way that when it does come time to
Speaker 2: deal with it, which I think we're just you know,
Speaker 2: dipping our toe into the water here on this, that
Speaker 2: there's going to be some you know, ripping that band
Speaker 2: aid office doesn't come without any consequences. So I think
Speaker 2: it's something that needs to be done, and you know,
Speaker 2: long term, I think it's going to be wind up
Speaker 2: being a good thing for the United States. But Charleston Allen,
Speaker 2: we have to run. I want to thank you for
Speaker 2: the time today and the Madison Center for Law and
Speaker 2: Liberty and the Modern Federalist podcast. Where can people find
Speaker 2: that podcast, The Modern Federalist?
Speaker 5: You could find it on all the major podcast providers,
Speaker 5: Apple Podcasts for example, your Podbeans, Spotify.
Speaker 4: So forth.
Speaker 7: So on.
Speaker 5: We're out there and season two's about the launch.
Speaker 2: All right, well, Charlton Allen, great having you on the
Speaker 2: show today. I look forward to future conversations and with
Speaker 2: your permission, we'll be calling on you again before too long.
Speaker 2: That'd be great.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, there you go, Charlton Allen and look up
Speaker 2: his writings on American Thinker. You will be glad that
Speaker 2: you did. It is six twenty eight, little late for
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Speaker 2: Fifty five KRC the talk station six thirty two. We
Speaker 2: roll on till nine this morning. I want to thank
Speaker 2: Charlton for being here. First time I've had a chance
Speaker 2: to talk to him and enjoyed that conversation. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's going to be tough. There's a lot going
Speaker 2: on as it relates to tariffs, but it's something that
Speaker 2: needs to be done and I think a long term
Speaker 2: this country is going to benefit mightily from what happens.
Speaker 2: And look, I don't know how all this is going
Speaker 2: to play out, but I think we've got the upper
Speaker 2: hand in a lot of these situations. And so are
Speaker 2: we doing You got to go on a little bit
Speaker 2: of faith here, I think so. So if you want
Speaker 2: to talk about that, five PET three seven, four, nine
Speaker 2: fifty five hundred the number to call if you want
Speaker 2: to get on board. DOGE has been busy. Haven't seen
Speaker 2: really seen a lot from DOGE in the last couple
Speaker 2: of days, but they they put some stuff out and
Speaker 2: they talk about virtually every member, every staff member of
Speaker 2: the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service is resigning as Doge cleans stage,
Speaker 2: is replacing the team far left Silicon Valley tech ees
Speaker 2: dubbed the SWAT Team of Nerds and heading their duties
Speaker 2: over to the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office under
Speaker 2: pressure from Elon Musk. The Elon Musk led Department of
Speaker 2: Government Efficiency nearly all staff at the Defense Digital Service,
Speaker 2: the Pentagon's fast tracked tech development arm, are resigning in
Speaker 2: the coming month. According to the director of three current
Speaker 2: members of the office granted anonymity to discuss their job status.
Speaker 2: The resignations will effectively shut down the decade old program
Speaker 2: at the end of April. The Defense Digital Service was
Speaker 2: created in twenty fifteen to help the Pentagon adopt fast
Speaker 2: tech fixes during national security crises and push Silicon Valley
Speaker 2: style innovations inside the Pentagon. It built rapid response tools
Speaker 2: for the military during the Afghanistan withdrawal? How well did
Speaker 2: that work out? Databases to transfer Ukrainian military and humanitarian
Speaker 2: aid drone detection technologies are more Without the program, some
Speaker 2: key efforts to streamline the DODS tech talent pipeline and
Speaker 2: counter adversarial drones will be sunseted. One soon to be
Speaker 2: former employee said, or once dubbed the Pentagon Swat Team
Speaker 2: of nerds. D DS was one of the department's earliest
Speaker 2: efforts to inject Silicon Valley ethos into its massive bureaucracy.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if Silicon Valley ethos is the
Speaker 2: thing that we really want winding its way through the
Speaker 2: Department of Defense. Speaking of the Department of Defense, an
Speaker 2: advisor for Secretary Pete Hegseth has been put on lead
Speaker 2: if Dan Caldwell escorted from the Pentagon for an unauthorized disclosure.
Speaker 2: According to Ruters, details of the unauthorized disclosure are unclear.
Speaker 2: According to Ruters, this comes after our March twenty first
Speaker 2: memo ordering a Pentagon investigation into leaks, ordered by Pete Hegsath,
Speaker 2: chief of Staff. So this guy was a senior advisor
Speaker 2: to the Defense Secretary and it turned out that you know,
Speaker 2: there some some of the leaking may involve have involved him.
Speaker 2: So they kicked him out. Didn't wait around, found out
Speaker 2: this guy was maybe not to be trusted. Who knows.
Speaker 2: Dan Caldwell was included in the Mike Wallas Hoody chat
Speaker 2: and will be interesting to see how this removal is
Speaker 2: tied to that campaign. So get him out of there,
Speaker 2: and don't wait around. You find out someone's not following
Speaker 2: the rules. Pete he Seth says, kick him out, and
Speaker 2: I don't have any problem with that at all. Six
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Speaker 2: fifty five KRC and talking about Doge and what they've
Speaker 2: been up to. Got a bunch of far left Silicon
Speaker 2: Valley techies out of the Pentagon. I love this. The
Speaker 2: State Department has acted over two hundred million and foreign
Speaker 2: grants funded by taxpayer dollars. The Secretary of State Marco
Speaker 2: Rubio slashed about two hundred and fourteen million from one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty nine grants, which focused on foreign assistant programs,
Speaker 2: including a media sustainability program for Moldova. A media sustainability
Speaker 2: program for Moldova. It costs fourteen and a half million
Speaker 2: dollars fourteen point six million, media sustainability for Moldova. What
Speaker 2: is that? Why is the United States concerned about media
Speaker 2: sustainability in Moldova? Is that just someone there collecting money,
Speaker 2: fourteen million and a half dollars worth of American money,
Speaker 2: doing god knows what with it. That's what it sounds
Speaker 2: like to me. Let's see, we've got a five point
Speaker 2: two million dollar Diversity in Media grant for the United Kingdom.
Speaker 2: The State Department was apparently concerned about media issues, but yeah,
Speaker 2: they had to have. I guess the UK was suffering
Speaker 2: from a lack of diversity in media, and so the
Speaker 2: State Department saw fit to spend five point two million
Speaker 2: dollars on it. But Marco Rubio says, no, I don't
Speaker 2: think so. No more. Let's see five hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: to Armenia for environmental resilience, just one of one grant
Speaker 2: among many others. According to the Washington Free Beacon, can
Speaker 2: anyone can anyone tell me what environmental resilience mean? The
Speaker 2: cuts were made with the aid of the Department of
Speaker 2: Government Efficiency, so thank god to that. American taxpayers should
Speaker 2: not be funding misguided programs like building migrant domestic worker
Speaker 2: led movement in Lebanon or get the trolls out in
Speaker 2: the United Kingdom. Marco Rubio said, we are cleaning up
Speaker 2: the mess of the previous administration and rebuilding an agency
Speaker 2: that is focused on putting America first. Shouldn't that what
Speaker 2: the State the State Department, Shouldn't that be what their
Speaker 2: major concern is, America first. You know, they're there to
Speaker 2: implement the foreign policy of the President of the United States,
Speaker 2: and Donald Trump wants to put America first. So that's
Speaker 2: what the State Department should be about, not sending money
Speaker 2: to Moldova for god knows what reason, or five hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars to Armenia for environmental resilience Elsewhere in the
Speaker 2: DOGE world. They've are continuing with their program to audit
Speaker 2: and get rid of unused and unneeded credit cards in
Speaker 2: the federal government. They thirty different agencies. After seven weeks,
Speaker 2: about four hundred seventy thousand cards have been deactivated, four
Speaker 2: hundred seventy thousand credit cards. Sean McMahon, does that sound
Speaker 2: like a lot, four hundred and seventy thousand credit cards deactivated? Well,
Speaker 2: four hundred seventy thousand cards is really just a drop
Speaker 2: in the bucket those rights. As a reminder, at the
Speaker 2: start of the audit there were four point six million
Speaker 2: active cards, credit cards and accounts, so they say there
Speaker 2: is still more work to do. Yes, four hundred seventy
Speaker 2: thousand credit cards sounds like a lot. You've got thirty
Speaker 2: agencies there. I don't know you, but you divide thirty
Speaker 2: into four hundred and seventy what do you get? But
Speaker 2: it turns out there's more than four and a half million.
Speaker 2: When they started this active credit cards and they are
Speaker 2: shutting them down. The story a few weeks ago when
Speaker 2: they were talking about cutting some of these credit cards
Speaker 2: and a federal judge said you can't do that. So
Speaker 2: they came back and they changed the amount on the
Speaker 2: credit card that they were only good for a dollar.
Speaker 2: So that was a clever way to get around that
Speaker 2: judges ruling. And we've got more from Doache, so we'll
Speaker 2: talk about that on the other side of this fifty
Speaker 2: five krs.
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Speaker 2: Continuing with a little bit of the Doge news that
Speaker 2: has been coming out over the last day or so.
Speaker 2: The Treasury Secretary of Scott has sent. I think this
Speaker 2: guy's just terrific. Yeah, the interviews he's been doing as
Speaker 2: approach to fiscal policy, as approached to the markets and
Speaker 2: everything else, I think has really been very sensible, especially
Speaker 2: when you compare what he talks about the Janet yelling
Speaker 2: and Scott Pissent writes this, the IRS has removed non
Speaker 2: technical people from technical leadership roles in engineering and replaced
Speaker 2: them with experienced engineers. Going forward, skilled engineers will drive
Speaker 2: technical decisions. The IRS has its fair share of software talent.
Speaker 2: These men and women will have long served the IRS.
Speaker 2: They need to be empowered to make decisions. Then he
Speaker 2: talks about the IRS has successfully saved two billion dollars
Speaker 2: without any operational disruptions by eliminating wasteful contracts such as
Speaker 2: auto renewed licenses unused for years. So all these spending
Speaker 2: cuts far from the doom and gloom that those on
Speaker 2: the other side, not Republicans but Democrats. What have you believed?
Speaker 2: And really the wasteful spending is really just complete junk,
Speaker 2: just junk, get.
Speaker 4: Rid of it.
Speaker 2: It's it's in the millions and in some cases the
Speaker 2: billions of dollars. And they want to act like these
Speaker 2: agencies are being cut to the bone. I mean it
Speaker 2: is really just barely scratching the surface on a lot
Speaker 2: of these different agencies and issues. William, William, what's what's
Speaker 2: going on this morning? How you doing all right?
Speaker 10: My question is this, yes, sir, is about the cuts.
Speaker 10: How did they get these fundings? How did they get started?
Speaker 5: Who started it?
Speaker 10: Who is responsible for putting this program together?
Speaker 2: Well, I think what we've seen is that there are
Speaker 2: all these are you familiar with the term NNGO non
Speaker 2: governmental organizations. You get that, yeah, you get you get
Speaker 2: all these lawmakers that that have their friends or their
Speaker 2: family members or you know, former staffers. They go out
Speaker 2: and they form these different NGOs and they say, well,
Speaker 2: you know, we we're really concerned about the environment. And
Speaker 2: then they come up with a program. And in a
Speaker 2: lot of cases, these programs are in foreign countries, and
Speaker 2: you know, they talk about, well, you know, there's really
Speaker 2: inequity when it comes to women working in Malaysia or
Speaker 2: Indonesia or some foreign country like this. So they go there,
Speaker 2: they set up essentially a post office box, and then
Speaker 2: they've got a friend in Congress who's able to you know,
Speaker 2: carve out a ten million dollar grant, a twenty million
Speaker 2: dollar grant, or in the case of Stacy Abrams, two
Speaker 2: billion dollars so she can put you know, you know,
Speaker 2: new appliances in in in homes across the country using
Speaker 2: two billion federal taxpayer dollars. So it's it's it's just
Speaker 2: one huge grift and it has spread so far and wide,
Speaker 2: and it went on unchecked for so many years, and
Speaker 2: that's why, you know, it's it's so much low hanging
Speaker 2: fruit that they found. You know, when it comes to
Speaker 2: the overall size of the budget, it's you know, I
Speaker 2: think less than one percent or about one percent. But
Speaker 2: when it comes to putting money in an individual's pocket,
Speaker 2: you know, five hundred grand or one point two million
Speaker 2: doesn't make a lot of difference to the federal budget.
Speaker 2: But William, if someone put that kind of money in
Speaker 2: your pocket, would that make a difference to you?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 11: That's what That's what's bothering me is we're really it's
Speaker 11: been a problem that it just goes back and shows
Speaker 11: us how these people are getting elected, they get richer,
Speaker 11: and you know, you're making state safety Abrams. From what
Speaker 11: I've heard, that money is actually circled back to her.
Speaker 2: Well, it circles back to her. And do you think
Speaker 2: Stacy Abram Abrams has a lot of ends in Congress?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And do you think some of that winds up
Speaker 2: circling back to them as well? Yeah.
Speaker 10: Now the question now becomes, how do we fix it
Speaker 10: other than looking at every one we vote for objectively
Speaker 10: and say what did you approve? And I think we
Speaker 10: would wind up with a whole new Congress, whole new Senate, every.
Speaker 2: Space Well, the first part of fixing it is exposing it,
Speaker 2: and then you have to cut it off. And then
Speaker 2: eventually there needs to be prosecutions if these people wound
Speaker 2: up broken the law, and that's the name of that too.
Speaker 2: And as far as I'm concerned, it's time to start
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Speaker 2: Good morning, glad you are here. Always my pleasure to
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Speaker 2: no place I'd rather be in the morning. Five three
Speaker 2: hundred the number to call, just to wrap up. While
Speaker 2: I was talking about with the Department of Government Efficiency
Speaker 2: and the Secretary of Rubio posted this some of the
Speaker 2: wasteful grants that they got rid of one point four
Speaker 2: million for the preventing Internet fragmentation in Brazil. Preventing Internet
Speaker 2: fragmentation in Brazil one point four million dollars to that.
Speaker 2: And like I was talking to the to the caller
Speaker 2: I had right before the break, you know, there's probably
Speaker 2: some NNGO, some nonprofit organization that you know, has looked
Speaker 2: at the Internet in Brazil and said, wow, for you know,
Speaker 2: for just a little bit of money, we can really
Speaker 2: help out these people get on the Internet in Brazil.
Speaker 2: Really is the Internet the answer to anyone's problem? Obviously
Speaker 2: it has its useful purposes. But if people in Brazil
Speaker 2: want the Internet, shouldn't that be on them? Why should
Speaker 2: it be up to the United States to spend one
Speaker 2: point four million dollars to prevent Internet fragmation fragmentation? I
Speaker 2: don't even know what that means. Sean McMahon. You're you're
Speaker 2: younger guy than me. You you're up on all the
Speaker 2: Internet stuff. What does internet fragmentation mean? I could not
Speaker 2: tell you. He doesn't know. And it's saying nobody knows,
Speaker 2: nobody knows what any of this stuffy I mean, if
Speaker 2: you're really being honest about it, nobody knows what most
Speaker 2: of this stuff even means. But we but we spend
Speaker 2: money on it anyway, And again it is absolute chump change.
Speaker 2: When you look at the size of the federal budget,
Speaker 2: but when that money lands in the pocket of an
Speaker 2: individual who's on the grift, it's life changing, absolutely life changing.
Speaker 2: And we're bringing all this stuff is well, I would
Speaker 2: I'm probably premature to say that we're going to bring
Speaker 2: it all to a stop, but at least some of it.
Speaker 2: We're bringing it to a stop because I have no
Speaker 2: doubt there's a lot more out there that we haven't
Speaker 2: even come close to finding yet. A million dollars for
Speaker 2: building trust and keeping hope alive in Sri Lanka? What
Speaker 2: the heck does that mean? Building trust and keeping hope
Speaker 2: alive in Sri Lanka? Keeping hope alive? Is that an
Speaker 2: Obama thing? Obviously there's some friend of Obama that's in
Speaker 2: Sri Lanka. I know they've had their issues there with
Speaker 2: civil war and the like. But building trust and keeping
Speaker 2: hope alive in Sri Lanka? Really a million dollars for that?
Speaker 2: The State Department, they said, no, how about two million
Speaker 2: dollars for advancing democratic culture in America or I I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: not America but Armenia. If our media wants a democratic culture,
Speaker 2: then that's up to them to advance and promote that
Speaker 2: not the United States. And then a five point two
Speaker 2: million to Media Diversity for programs like get the Trolls Out,
Speaker 2: an anti disinformation program in the United Kingdom. It may
Speaker 2: serve you a useful purpose. I don't know, but you know,
Speaker 2: five million from the federal government that needs to come
Speaker 2: to an end. Let's go to Tim and Batesville and
Speaker 2: Tim seven hundred, not seven hundred, but fifty five KRC.
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 7: I'm doing good, Dan, Thanks for taking my call. Yes, air, Hey,
Speaker 7: I wanted to talk about the credit cards that the
Speaker 7: government uses. It's been twenty years since I was in
Speaker 7: the Navy and I had my credit cards I had won.
Speaker 7: It was an American Express card that we used for travel.
Speaker 7: And you know, if somebody was going to travel, you've
Speaker 7: got a credit card and you had that card until
Speaker 7: you got rid of it. Now, you couldn't use it
Speaker 7: for like regular purchases, you know, but in travel, you know,
Speaker 7: buying your plane ticket, you're you know, authorized travel could
Speaker 7: use it. And if you did, if you did use
Speaker 7: the credit card for your own personal uses, it was
Speaker 7: upon you to pay it off. If you didn't sure,
Speaker 7: you know, then the command got involved. The other credit
Speaker 7: card I had was also in the the process of
Speaker 7: my job. It was for purchasing, and you know, at
Speaker 7: a command they cut out a lot of the contracting
Speaker 7: for things so that the commands themselves could purchase items,
Speaker 7: you know, to complete the command's mission. You know, you
Speaker 7: had various resources to go to to purchase items, and
Speaker 7: you know, you could go on the open market if
Speaker 7: it was cheaper. And a case in point, to buy
Speaker 7: a ceiling fan from the Navy stock system it was
Speaker 7: about two and twenty five dollars just regular ceiling fans.
Speaker 7: To go to dan Fan City, it was twenty five
Speaker 7: dollars to buy it. So which way do you think
Speaker 7: that I would have went to purchase the ceiling fan.
Speaker 7: I would have went thee Dan Fan City and I
Speaker 7: could use that credit card to purchase it once I
Speaker 7: was authorized to use it. Well, you know why there's
Speaker 7: a lot of credit cards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when when I went when I was in the military,
Speaker 2: there was I was in the Air Force. It probably
Speaker 2: before you were in the Navy, but I remember at
Speaker 2: that time there was a lot of discussion about that
Speaker 2: about simply uh, you know, working outside the military procurement system,
Speaker 2: even for the most simplest of things. I think for
Speaker 2: for a long time, there was a there was some
Speaker 2: sort of ingrained ideology that if if you were going
Speaker 2: to make a purchase or a military unit was going
Speaker 2: to make a purchase for I mean, you know, just
Speaker 2: about anything under the sun, that it had to go
Speaker 2: through a very strict and regimented process. And so at
Speaker 2: that time, I know they were trying to break out
Speaker 2: of that. But when you look at the overall size
Speaker 2: of the and I think that you know, there are
Speaker 2: there are probably some perfectly acceptable times and and and
Speaker 2: perfectly good reasons for individuals within the federal government to
Speaker 2: have access to credit cards. But when I look at
Speaker 2: the DOGE talking about four and a half million active
Speaker 2: credit card accounts within the federal government, that uh and
Speaker 2: and who knows what kind of abuses because look, you know,
Speaker 2: Tim that if people have access to these credit cards,
Speaker 2: and we and if we went and looked, we could
Speaker 2: find story after story after story of someone who's using
Speaker 2: a government credit card to make it rain at the
Speaker 2: strip club. You know, who's buying a sports car. You know,
Speaker 2: they're paying for their daughter's prom, paying for a wedding,
Speaker 2: stuff like that. You know, that kind of stuff has happened.
Speaker 2: And so when you've got four and a half million
Speaker 2: credit cards out there, that to me sounds like a
Speaker 2: really big number and that needs to uh at least
Speaker 2: at the very least be checked and reined in at
Speaker 2: some point.
Speaker 7: Right, I get that. And you know, we did have that.
Speaker 7: We had a group of people that outfitted a bar
Speaker 7: that they were running with the uh the simple SIED
Speaker 7: purchase card and they got caught, you know. But uh,
Speaker 7: you know, and then if like I said, with the
Speaker 7: travel card, that was it was we've gotten through the government,
Speaker 7: but you were responsible, you know, as an individual to
Speaker 7: pay for your card so you could use it. It's
Speaker 7: just uh uh it didn't go towards your credit or
Speaker 7: anything like that. It was just kind of like, uh,
Speaker 7: you know, government backed, but the government didn't pay for it.
Speaker 7: You paid for it. And if you didn't pay it,
Speaker 7: then you paid it anyway because they would take the
Speaker 7: money from you. Well, uh, that's that's how travel card works.
Speaker 2: Well, Tim, I appreciate the insight on that, and I
Speaker 2: thank you for your service in the Navy, sir, thank
Speaker 2: you for your hows how's everything in Batesville. I used
Speaker 2: to I used to live in Batesville.
Speaker 7: I just go up there to pick up stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, all right, Tim, I appreciate the call
Speaker 2: this morning. All right, all right, there you go, Tim.
Speaker 2: He used to use the government credit card. And again,
Speaker 2: I mean, all this stuff is there, you know, is there?
Speaker 2: There's some things that you know, maybe not you know,
Speaker 2: are not the strictest under the you know, the strictest
Speaker 2: terms that you know, falling or putting on the periphery
Speaker 2: of the federal government. That it makes sense the fund,
Speaker 2: I think there is. But when you just look at
Speaker 2: the I mean, ever since Dode started putting all this
Speaker 2: stuff out, when you look at just the nonsense we
Speaker 2: are paying for. Sean mcman, do we have that cup
Speaker 2: from yesterday? This is Marjorie Tailor Green. Marjorie Tailer Green's
Speaker 2: been holding a lot of different hearings on wasteful spending
Speaker 2: and the dough and here's one item that she came
Speaker 2: up with the other day. And Sean, do we have
Speaker 2: that cup from yesterday? Let's go ahead and roll that
Speaker 2: Marjorie Tailor Green and listen to what she's talking about here.
Speaker 12: In twenty twenty one, the CDC spent almost a quarter
Speaker 12: million dollars on solar powered picnic tables. The CDC at
Speaker 12: the time was telling people to socially distance with masks
Speaker 12: and basically forcing a vaccine that many Americans didn't want.
Speaker 12: So what use would its employees have for this new
Speaker 12: picnic table that has quite the price?
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's quite expensive, and you know, the social distancing
Speaker 11: guideline suggested they shouldn't be seated at that table while
Speaker 11: they were spending to.
Speaker 1: Look at them. Look at those seats. Look at those seats.
Speaker 12: That's not social distancing.
Speaker 2: They're quite close.
Speaker 1: There's a close proximity of the c's to the other.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Real quick, I've just got a short amount of time yet,
Speaker 12: I'd like to ask God, just basically, just for the
Speaker 12: general audience, is two hundred and thirty eight thousand spent
Speaker 12: on solar powered picnic tables at the CDC appropriate? I
Speaker 12: think the American people think, so that's disgusting. Is seven
Speaker 12: hundred thousand spent by the SEC for their New York
Speaker 12: regional office conference room appropriate of taxpayer dollars? I don't
Speaker 12: think so. What about six point five million spent on
Speaker 12: high end furniture to redecorate the EPE office? No, and
Speaker 12: then two hundred and eighty four thousand and Herman Miller
Speaker 12: furniture for femas headquarters, conference center and appropriate use of
Speaker 12: taxpayer dollars, I would argue not. I'm definitely over time.
Speaker 12: So thank you, gentlemen, Herman Miller furniture.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what that is. I guess that's
Speaker 2: some high end really, I would imagine. But can you
Speaker 2: do with something that maybe is not high end and
Speaker 2: not as fancy smancy? I would think so. And then uh, sean,
Speaker 2: what was the price tag on that two hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty seven thousand, thirty eight thousand for a solar powered
Speaker 2: picnic table? I can build a picnic table, and I
Speaker 2: would do it. I would gladly do it nonsolar powered
Speaker 2: for about half the price. I'll be glad. I'll be
Speaker 2: glad to crank out two or three or four of
Speaker 2: those a week. That'd be for that money, that'd be fantastic.
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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas here for four in exchange fifty five KRC
Speaker 2: the Talk Station. Joe Biden came out of wherever he's
Speaker 2: been hiding lately, and made some his first public remarks
Speaker 2: since leaving office. This is how CBS News reported it.
Speaker 2: During his speech at the Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for
Speaker 2: the Disabled conference in Chicago. Biden has sailed President Trump's
Speaker 2: ad administration, but did not name mister Trump directly. He
Speaker 2: also didn't address his departure from last year's presidential race.
Speaker 2: Former president called social Security a sacred promised how died
Speaker 2: his administration's efforts to cut Social Security fraud. Really, I
Speaker 2: don't remember talking about that. I don't remember the Biden
Speaker 2: administration going after any fraud at all. He mock claims
Speaker 2: by the Trump administration that scores of implausibly old people
Speaker 2: are collecting payments. It's not what the it's not what
Speaker 2: not what they said when Elon Musk came out with
Speaker 2: that about Social Security, they talked about how they had
Speaker 2: all these people were over one hundred years old, some older.
Speaker 2: I think there was one person who was older than
Speaker 2: the country itself, but tens of thousands of people who
Speaker 2: were between the ages of one hundred and thirty and
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty who were still active on the
Speaker 2: database at Social Security Now, he never said that these
Speaker 2: people were receiving checks. He said that they were still
Speaker 2: active as far as Social Security was concerned. That these
Speaker 2: people say, as far as Social Security was concerned, these
Speaker 2: people were still alive and capable of getting checks. So
Speaker 2: they went back in and they looked at it, and
Speaker 2: they found out that some of these checks are still
Speaker 2: not to all of them, but to some of them.
Speaker 2: And Biden says, by the way, those three hundred y
Speaker 2: old folks getting Social Security, I want to meet them.
Speaker 2: Hell man, the hell of a thing. Man, I'm looking
Speaker 2: for longevity. But I've got a couple of audios sound
Speaker 2: bites from the the Biden speech last night. And let's
Speaker 2: start with uh Sean, let's start with cut number one
Speaker 2: and the uh and and you're gonna hear you'll hear
Speaker 2: some music here, and then you'll hear very faintly Biden
Speaker 2: in the background because he started talking before the music stopped,
Speaker 2: so he got off to a rough start. This is
Speaker 2: what that sounded like. Cut one.
Speaker 5: We deserve help and pay for him.
Speaker 2: They had. They had to cut the music off abruptly.
Speaker 2: There couldn't just fade it down because Joe Biden just
Speaker 2: got out there and started talking almost as if he's
Speaker 2: never done this before. You know, you would think a
Speaker 2: guy who's been around that long would have some sense
Speaker 2: of when to start talking. You go out there, you
Speaker 2: acknowledge the crowd, you know, you say thank you, You
Speaker 2: look around to see people, you know whatever, point to people.
Speaker 2: So the politicians always do that. They get up on
Speaker 2: stage and they point to people like I know you. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: I got off to a little bit of a rough start.
Speaker 2: I got a couple of more soundbites. I'll get to
Speaker 2: here in just a minute, but we'll do a little
Speaker 2: take a little break here quickly, and then we'll get
Speaker 2: into that. On fifty five KRC, the talk station.
Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC.
Speaker 2: How many realtors do you know that? Fifty five KRC,
Speaker 2: the talk station, continuing on with some of the soundbites
Speaker 2: from Joe Biden's much anticipated speech, first speech since leaving
Speaker 2: the Oval Office. Much anticipated. I don't know, Sean, did
Speaker 2: you see any of that? Yeah? He, I mean I
Speaker 2: saw some of the video of that man. I mean,
Speaker 2: he just looked like he was I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: know what they what they drugged him up with, but
Speaker 2: you know he had that you know, the wide eyed.
Speaker 2: Look his hair looked you know, someone else is doing
Speaker 2: his hair now. His hair looked a little bit different
Speaker 2: than it did before. But Joe was walking down memory
Speaker 2: Lane for some reason and decided to tell a just
Speaker 2: a heartwarming tale of the first time he saw black people.
Speaker 2: And that's your cut number two.
Speaker 13: And I had never seen I'd never seen hardly any
Speaker 13: black people scranting at the time when I and I
Speaker 13: was only going on fourth and I remember seeing kids
Speaker 13: going by at the time, called colored kids on a bus.
Speaker 2: Going by fourth grade. I haven't we heard time and
Speaker 2: time and time again how Joe Biden was brought up
Speaker 2: in the Black church or was that the Catholic Church
Speaker 2: or the Synagogue? Didn't he tell the heartwarming stories about
Speaker 2: how he used to go to Sunday Mass, and then
Speaker 2: he'd run over to temple and commune with all his
Speaker 2: Jewish friends, and then on it was on to the
Speaker 2: Baptist Church and hanging out with all the different communities
Speaker 2: around Scranton. There haven't we heard multiple tales of Joe Biden,
Speaker 2: you know, moving freely between all these great ethnic communities.
Speaker 2: And then he talks about being in the fourth grade.
Speaker 2: How old are you when you were in the fourth grade, ten, eleven, twelve,
Speaker 2: not exactly sure, maybe ten, I don't know. Eight. I
Speaker 2: think you're older than eight, maybe nine, somewhere around there.
Speaker 2: But he always tells the story about how he was
Speaker 2: a kid and that was his upbringing, how he's brought
Speaker 2: up in the Hispanic community and really raised by the
Speaker 2: black folks. Tells all those stories about that, and even
Speaker 2: after all this time, still feels the need. He must
Speaker 2: have seen some black people in the audience, and he
Speaker 2: still feels the need to try and convince them that
Speaker 2: he is one of them. I am one of you.
Speaker 2: Saw black people on a bus when I was in
Speaker 2: the fourth grade. First time. Terrific tale. And then he
Speaker 2: went on to talk about social security or something here.
Speaker 2: Not exactly sure what you tell me? Cut number three there, Sean.
Speaker 13: The quote is move fast, break things. They're certainly breaking things.
Speaker 13: They're shooting first and even later as a result. The
Speaker 13: result is a lot of needless pain and sleepless nights.
Speaker 13: My friend, Governor O'Malley knows what they're really up to,
Speaker 13: he says, and I love his quote. Do you want
Speaker 13: to wreck it so they can rob it? Do you want
Speaker 13: to wreck it so they could rob it. Why do
Speaker 13: they want to rob it in order to deliver huge
Speaker 13: tax cuts to billionaires in big corporations and keep it going?
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyone know what he's talking about there? And first
Speaker 2: I thought he was talking about social security. Then he
Speaker 2: you know, he might have been talking about Medicare or medicaid,
Speaker 2: you know, whether based something that the government spends big
Speaker 2: money on. Might have been talking about tax cuts. I mean,
Speaker 2: who knows. They want to wreck it so they can
Speaker 2: run of it. Now you've got Trump, who was a
Speaker 2: billionaire on in his own right. You've got Musk, who
Speaker 2: is the richest guy on the planet. He you know,
Speaker 2: Joe Biden can't even escape the the day to day
Speaker 2: fully wang that that is put out by the Democrat
Speaker 2: Party when it comes to describing this administration and the
Speaker 2: you know, the one narrative that never ever ever changes
Speaker 2: is they want tax cuts. They want you know, they
Speaker 2: they want to give tax cuts to their rich friends
Speaker 2: and have the you know, the the regular work in
Speaker 2: schleps pay for it. That never changes. And you heard
Speaker 2: the applause there aring that extremely weak applause line, Did
Speaker 2: it sound like that was a packed house? Did it
Speaker 2: sound like, you know, he he filled that room with
Speaker 2: enthusiastic supporters. I don't think so. But you know who
Speaker 2: is drawing big, fairly big crowds is Okasio Cortez and
Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders. And I've got a sound bite from Bernie
Speaker 2: Sanders coming up. We'll roll that after this on fifty
Speaker 2: five KRCV talk station fifty five KRC cyber returned fifty
Speaker 2: five KRC the talk station seven forty. You know, we
Speaker 2: were talking a little while ago about Paul rolled some
Speaker 2: of the sound bites from that really compelling speech given
Speaker 2: by Joe Biden at whatever event he was at yesterday.
Speaker 2: I believe it was in Chicago. But you know who
Speaker 2: has been drawing noticeable crowds. And look, I really I
Speaker 2: am not I am not interested at this point of
Speaker 2: trying to handicap the race for twenty twenty eight, the
Speaker 2: presidential race, whether it's jade E Vance or a Vague
Speaker 2: or Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis, I am not interested
Speaker 2: in that. I still think, at least to my way
Speaker 2: of thinking, it's way too early for that. But Bernie Sanders,
Speaker 2: I thinks this is the great time to strike. Bernie
Speaker 2: Sanders has been touring the country on his no OLIGACKI
Speaker 2: now we're gone going to be a country of oligox oligocic.
Speaker 2: I saw a video of him the other day and
Speaker 2: it goes back to I think it starts about twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: and then it goes twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, all the way up to twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: and he is talking about Oligarch's oligarch. So he's been
Speaker 2: he's been. Bernie Sanders got to give him credit. He
Speaker 2: was ahead of the curve when it comes to warning
Speaker 2: about the oligarchs taking over the United States, and so
Speaker 2: all the way from the earliest one of those clips
Speaker 2: it's him talking about oligarchs, and then it goes all
Speaker 2: the way up to twenty twenty five and he says,
Speaker 2: I think the oligarchy is here. So he's been warning.
Speaker 2: Bernie sand I'll give him credit for that. He's been
Speaker 2: warning about the oeb oligarchy for a long long time,
Speaker 2: and he was out there talking about it again at Coachella.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know what Coachella was, Sean, do you
Speaker 2: know what Coachella is? Yeah, I've had friends who go
Speaker 2: to that contge. Yeah, it's an annual arts and music
Speaker 2: festival held in Indio, California. I've been to Indio, California,
Speaker 2: and I guess it's, you know, kind of a I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's a woodstock like thing, but you know,
Speaker 2: you get to one a bunch of hippies and drug
Speaker 2: users out there, and they they have some singing and
Speaker 2: festival activities and things like that, and they also have
Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders. And Bernie is out there making a speech
Speaker 2: in Coachella. I would I would dare say Bernie Sanders
Speaker 2: had more people listening to him speak than Joe Biden did.
Speaker 2: And at the same time he's doing all this, he's
Speaker 2: paling around with Ocasio Cortes. I saw a headline today
Speaker 2: that Ocasio Cortes has already raised more than nine million
Speaker 2: dollars and not really for a presidential run, but for
Speaker 2: a run to possibly challenge Chuck Schumer. So that'll be interesting.
Speaker 2: But again, I am not getting into handicapping the presidential race.
Speaker 2: But here's what Bernie Sanders had to say at Coachella
Speaker 2: the other day. Cut four Oh, we.
Speaker 3: Need you to send up to fight for justice, to
Speaker 3: fight for economic justice, social justice, and racial justice. Now
Speaker 3: we got a president of the United States who I
Speaker 3: agree he thinks that climate change is a hoax.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 3: He is dangerously wrong. And you and I, you and
Speaker 3: I are gonna have to stand up to the fossil
Speaker 3: fuel industry and tell them to stop destroying disciplinet.
Speaker 2: Stop right there, stop right there. A second. Bernie Sanders
Speaker 2: would not be able to make that speech were it
Speaker 2: not for the fossil fuel industry. Look, climate change is
Speaker 2: not a hoax. The idea of man made and man
Speaker 2: driven and man controlled climate change is. And these people
Speaker 2: are out there, I guess they're you know, they're probably
Speaker 2: smoking the doobies, passing the ball around. Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 5: Woo.
Speaker 2: No, but that event in Coachella could not happen were
Speaker 2: it not for fossil fuels. And Bernie Sanders is flying
Speaker 2: first class all over the country. I think he's traveling commercial.
Speaker 2: But you know those airplanes don't run on solar panels.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, roll the bike all over this country. Not
Speaker 2: in California, not in Vermont.
Speaker 3: Where I'm from, but in Florida, where Maxwell is from.
Speaker 3: Many of the states politicians are trying to take away
Speaker 3: a woman's right to control our own body. We need
Speaker 3: you to stand up and fight.
Speaker 2: For women's rights.
Speaker 3: We have an economy today that is working very well
Speaker 3: for the billionaire class, but not for working families.
Speaker 2: All right, stop right there. You know, we talked yesterday,
Speaker 2: or at least I did, about how Trump has not
Speaker 2: been in office for three months yet and already the
Speaker 2: economy is he's giving Trump a credit for the economy
Speaker 2: for everything that's going on with the economy. He wants
Speaker 2: to give Trump credit for all that that it's working
Speaker 2: for billionaires. And Henie Bernie Sanders is able to divine
Speaker 2: that after Donald Trump has not been in office for
Speaker 2: ninety days and Bernie Sanders is out there passing judgment
Speaker 2: on what the economy is already doing under Trump. This
Speaker 2: guy is absolutely amazing. And listen to these fools just
Speaker 2: eating this stuff up. Do we have a little bit
Speaker 2: of that sound bite? Left?
Speaker 4: Roll it?
Speaker 3: We need you to help us to create an economy
Speaker 3: that works well for everybody, not just the one percent.
Speaker 2: Well, boy, I mean they can't even come up with
Speaker 2: a new line. Hey, all this stuff this is this
Speaker 2: is all right out of the Democrat liberal leftist playbook
Speaker 2: that Kamala Harris tried to sell to the American people,
Speaker 2: and the American people aren't buying it. I mean, Bernie Sanders,
Speaker 2: come on, at least come up with something new. Is
Speaker 2: that asking too much? Apparently it is. But then again,
Speaker 2: I won't be out there at Coachella seven forty seven
Speaker 2: on fifty five KRC DE.
Speaker 1: Talk station fifty five KRC.
Speaker 2: These times of massive inflation have people fifty five KRC
Speaker 2: DE talk station Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas. Another reason
Speaker 2: I would never go to Coachella is tickets for that
Speaker 2: thing cost six hundred and seventy nine from six hundred
Speaker 2: seventy nine dollars to seven hundred and seventy nine dollars.
Speaker 2: Sean McMahon, does that sound like a bargain to you?
Speaker 2: Not to me? No VIP package twelve hundred to fourteen
Speaker 2: hundred bucks, at least not for modern artists. No, I'm
Speaker 2: not paying. I'm not paying between seven and eight hundred
Speaker 2: bucks for a ticket, especially if Bernie Sanders is going
Speaker 2: to show up. Absolutely not. But Lady Gaga was there too,
Speaker 2: so I guess that was something. Now I'm not I
Speaker 2: am not paying, and I would not pay. I don't
Speaker 2: think i'd pay eighty dollars to see Lady Gaga. I
Speaker 2: don't think so. I think she's a talented singer, but
Speaker 2: not my cup of tea. What else? What else means
Speaker 2: so many things? I've got let me see, I got
Speaker 2: don't have time. I think I got time for one
Speaker 2: more SoundBite. Here. A lot's been made in the media
Speaker 2: lately about this guy that you know got you know,
Speaker 2: the Maryland Father, the Maryland Man. The guy's he's a
Speaker 2: he's a gangbanger, he's the MS thirteen transferred to the
Speaker 2: prison down there in El Salvador. L Salvador's president was
Speaker 2: at the White House the other day, and the media
Speaker 2: is making a big deal about this. No, there have
Speaker 2: been two separate judges that have found this guy is
Speaker 2: in the country, not only in the country illegally, but
Speaker 2: also an MS thirteen gang member. And Caroline Levitt was
Speaker 2: dealing with that because the media still wants to push
Speaker 2: this narrative that the Trump administration is unlawfully sending people
Speaker 2: like this out of the country, and Caroline Levitt wasn't
Speaker 2: having it at the White House, so she spelled it
Speaker 2: out for all the media morons. Let's hear cut number.
Speaker 6: Five Democrat and media outrage over the deportation of Abrigo
Speaker 6: Garcia in MS thirteen l Salvadorian, a legal alien criminal
Speaker 6: who was hiding in Maryland, has been nothing short of despicable.
Speaker 6: Based on the sensationalism of many of the people in
Speaker 6: this room, you would think we deported a candidate for
Speaker 6: Father of the Year. That's because unfortunately many in this
Speaker 6: country care more about this quote unquote Maryland father, a
Speaker 6: legal alien MS thirteen gang member, then a Maryland mother,
Speaker 6: and an American citizen who was brutally murdered at the
Speaker 6: hands of a different illegal alien. Of course, I am
Speaker 6: referring to Rachel Morin And if you didn't see, yesterday,
Speaker 6: a Maryland jury found illegal alien victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez
Speaker 6: guilty of murdering Rachel Moren in August.
Speaker 14: Of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 6: She was a thirty seven year old mother of five
Speaker 6: who was jogging in an otherwise safe community northeast of
Speaker 6: Baltimore when this monster ambushed, strangled, and beat her to
Speaker 6: death before stuffing her brutalized body in a tunnel drain.
Speaker 6: The more Infan family finally got justice yesterday, but they
Speaker 6: will never get Rachel back our hearts go out to
Speaker 6: Rachel's family, her five children and her mother, Patty, who
Speaker 6: has suffered the unimaginable loss of her daughter.
Speaker 2: So there's Caroline Levitt out laying it out, and really,
Speaker 2: I think, as plainly and as powerfully as you really can,
Speaker 2: she's just terrific. And that makes the case right there.
Speaker 2: You know, these legacy media people, these mainstream media people,
Speaker 2: they never talk about the victims of these crimes, those
Speaker 2: who get murdered, those who get raped, those who get aimed,
Speaker 2: those who get ruined for life, those who those children
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty thousand to three hundred thousand missing,
Speaker 2: sex trafficked, human trafficked, all the all the rest. They
Speaker 2: never want to talk about the human toll of all this.
Speaker 2: They just want to cry crocodile tears over some dude
Speaker 2: who's who's a gangbanger, but he's got he's got an
Speaker 2: expensive lawyer saying how he shouldn't be in that prison.
Speaker 2: In El Salvador seven fifty five Dan Carrol for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 2: fifty five kr SE the talk station, all right, fifty
Speaker 2: five KRC the talk station eight or nine. We finally
Speaker 2: have our act together and Daniel Turner is joining us
Speaker 2: now from Power the Future and Daniel Turner, I saw
Speaker 2: where you were on a podcast the other day with
Speaker 2: Don Junior. How about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a great chance to talk to him
Speaker 4: and his pretty big audience about these energy issues. And
Speaker 4: I'm always grateful to be on any program, especially yours,
Speaker 4: who's one of my favorite. You know, talk about these issues.
Speaker 2: Well, you know when you're you know when you're I mean,
Speaker 2: because look, I see you on Fox News all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're on Fox Business News and the fact that you
Speaker 2: carve out sometime for little old Dan Carroll here in
Speaker 2: Cincinnati is a big deal to me. So I appreciate you, brother.
Speaker 4: Well, I love being on and you know, these are
Speaker 4: important things and they deserve they deserve our attention. And
Speaker 4: a lot of times we spend much of our media
Speaker 4: hours talking on just nonsense, when the big issues that
Speaker 4: matter to people's lives and livelihoods just get glossed over
Speaker 4: or just told, you know, have this just the way
Speaker 4: it is. Take yesterday, text day. Yeah, when was the
Speaker 4: last time we've had a serious conversation about taxes? President
Speaker 4: Trump's tried to talk about it, but he gets glossed
Speaker 4: over because the media wants to talk about trans athletes,
Speaker 4: so they want to talk about you know, those are
Speaker 4: important issues, don't get me wrong, But for the most
Speaker 4: Americans would much rather talk about a fair tax code
Speaker 4: than the ongoing saga of the trans community.
Speaker 2: But Daniel Turner, far be it from me to call
Speaker 2: you uninformed. But apparently you didn't listen to the Joe
Speaker 2: Biden speech last night because he said the truth about taxes.
Speaker 2: He talked about how Donald Trump wants to cut taxes
Speaker 2: so he can give tax breaks to his billionaire friends.
Speaker 2: That's what Joe Biden said yesterday. And I think that's
Speaker 2: an important message for the country, don't you.
Speaker 4: It's the most boring talking point that Democrats have said
Speaker 4: for all of my fifty years on this earth.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't make any ense. Oh they they that
Speaker 2: playbook never changes.
Speaker 4: It's completely nonsensical and and but and it's just it's
Speaker 4: just boring rhetoric. You know, they want to cut your
Speaker 4: taxes so they can give their billionaire friends a tax
Speaker 4: credit or tax break. And no one really knows what
Speaker 4: that what that means. Even you know that the same
Speaker 4: people who are saying that Elon Musk is rating social
Speaker 4: security so that he can keep it for himself. And
Speaker 4: you scratch your head and say, like, this is the
Speaker 4: best you have, This is the best you can offer. So,
Speaker 4: you know, it's unsurprising the Democrats don't have a winning
Speaker 4: message on anything, because that's why they've lost their last
Speaker 4: couple of elections and why they continue to be pouring
Speaker 4: so poorly. You know, they can bash President Trump all
Speaker 4: they want for whatever his tax proposals are, but boy,
Speaker 4: they have to do some internal reckoning because they're they're
Speaker 4: trending a little bit lower than than than explosive diarrhea
Speaker 4: right now. So they have a lot of problems as
Speaker 4: a party.
Speaker 2: On Barney Sanders out there at Coachella talking about environmental
Speaker 2: justice and social justice and racial justice and all this.
Speaker 2: But the the the a little bit of a scary
Speaker 2: part of that is, you know, he's paleling around with
Speaker 2: a Casio Cortez right now, and she's she's raised like
Speaker 2: nine million dollars so far, and I guess she's gonna run,
Speaker 2: as you know, and try to you know, bump up
Speaker 2: or bump out Chuck Schumer. But the fact that that
Speaker 2: she I'm frankly a little surprised that Acasio Cortez is
Speaker 2: able to to raise that kind of money right now, yeah.
Speaker 4: You know. And and the Bernie rallies just just going
Speaker 4: on that first, They for me are everything that encapsulates
Speaker 4: the life and the service to this nation of Bernie Sanders,
Speaker 4: which is is really Macbeth right, it is. It is
Speaker 4: full of sound and fury signifying nothing. Bernie Sanders is
Speaker 4: doing these rallies at a time that they are absolutely
Speaker 4: meaninglessening concert Quinchel. When he had the chance to affect change,
Speaker 4: Bernie took the buyout and dropped out of the presidential
Speaker 4: race because they offered him a lot of money and
Speaker 4: he disappeared and he bought more houses with it. So
Speaker 4: during these rallies, now what end? They make Bernie feel good? Right,
Speaker 4: They make Bernie feel good the way some idiot lighting
Speaker 4: at Tesla on fire makes him feel good. But they
Speaker 4: really are for someone who says that he wants to
Speaker 4: be in charge and he wants the reigns of powers,
Speaker 4: he really doesn't. He just wants to make noise. So
Speaker 4: the Bernie rallies for me right now are absolutely emblematic
Speaker 4: of forty years of Bernie Sanders babbling about absolutely nothing
Speaker 4: with no consequence. He's never authored significant legislation, he's never
Speaker 4: held a significant hearing. The things he can do as
Speaker 4: a senator, and senators have a lot of power, He's
Speaker 4: done nothing. All he does is make noise. So I
Speaker 4: am just so sick and tired of the Bernie's AOC.
Speaker 4: You know, she's a force to be reckoned with. It
Speaker 4: doesn't surprise me that she draws a crowd, she's an
Speaker 4: inflammatory speaker, et cetera, et cetera. I will go on
Speaker 4: record confidently saying there is no way in hell she
Speaker 4: is going to beat Chuck Schumer in New York City
Speaker 4: and New York Chuck Schumer has been in New York
Speaker 4: politics longer than I've been alive. And I was born
Speaker 4: in seventy four. Chuck Schumer has been an elected official
Speaker 4: longer than I have been alive. He is not giving
Speaker 4: up his seat to absolutely anyone, let alone someone he
Speaker 4: has very little respect for.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. And then I played the sound bite from
Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders a little while ago, and he's talking about,
Speaker 2: you know that they have to do something about global warming,
Speaker 2: and you know, says Donald Trump thinks that climate change
Speaker 2: is a hoax, And you know, we got to do
Speaker 2: something about the fossil fuel industry, and he would not
Speaker 2: be able to go to Coachella, he would not be
Speaker 2: able to make that speech, and those people would not
Speaker 2: be able to end that event at eight hundred bucks
Speaker 2: a pop were it not for the fossil fuel industry.
Speaker 2: And it's you know, it's so, it's so I think
Speaker 2: entertaining to listen to these people rail against the fossil
Speaker 2: fuel industry, but you know, none of the things that
Speaker 2: they are able to do, you know, Bernie fly in
Speaker 2: first class all over the country would exist but for
Speaker 2: the fossil fuel industry.
Speaker 4: It's a great point, and it's why we celebrate this
Speaker 4: industry and fight really hard for it, and of course
Speaker 4: the millions of men and women who work directly in
Speaker 4: the industry, but also the quality of life it provides
Speaker 4: the American people. And it's Joe Biden's administration is proof
Speaker 4: that if you tinker with this industry, you will not
Speaker 4: have the same quality of life at the same price point.
Speaker 4: Joe Biden tinkered right, and he put in green mandates,
Speaker 4: and he stopped the drilling permits, and he cut off
Speaker 4: land access, and he made it impossible really for the
Speaker 4: fossil fuel industry to operate at its at what was
Speaker 4: its car pace in twenty twenty one, and where did
Speaker 4: we end up after four years? Everything was thirty percent
Speaker 4: more expensive. We talk about brownouts and blackouts. We made
Speaker 4: our enemies obviously a heck of a lot richer Russia
Speaker 4: and Iran, China as well. So it's this is an
Speaker 4: industry that if you want to maintain where you are
Speaker 4: as an American at this price point, then you have
Speaker 4: to let it flourish. And they hide behind the climate change,
Speaker 4: the global warming again, the fear mongering for all of
Speaker 4: our life as well. And you know, you can go
Speaker 4: back to the early eighties and nineties and see Bernie
Speaker 4: talking about how the end is nigh from climate You know,
Speaker 4: you just get so tired of hearing this crap year
Speaker 4: after year. This is it, We're all going to die
Speaker 4: from climate change. Gore has been saying this for thirty years.
Speaker 1: You know, all of them live in.
Speaker 4: Mansions, they'll fly around the world on private jets, and
Speaker 4: it's just a gigantic racket. The entire climate movement is
Speaker 4: just one gigantic wye.
Speaker 2: China has decided that they want to stop shipping out
Speaker 2: rare earth minerals. And I look, I look at this,
Speaker 2: and and and maybe they I don't know if they
Speaker 2: think this is their ace up the sleeve. But when
Speaker 2: it comes to rare earth minerals, it seems to me
Speaker 2: that America has an abundance of rare earth minerals. America
Speaker 2: digs up plenty of rare earth minerals. But when it
Speaker 2: comes to refining rare earth minerals and and you know,
Speaker 2: turning them into useful products, that is where we fall
Speaker 2: a little bit short, and maybe a lot short on
Speaker 2: rare earth minerals. And I guess we haven't had the
Speaker 2: political will because of the environmental lobby, to to build
Speaker 2: these facilities that can refine these materials and make them useful.
Speaker 2: I was reading a piece a day or so ago
Speaker 2: talking about how that really could be changed in short order.
Speaker 2: And and rare earth minerals are you know, they're the
Speaker 2: flavor of the month right now. And if if the
Speaker 2: United States gets its act to get on that end
Speaker 2: of the deal, I don't know how China really has
Speaker 2: that much more to hold over us to you.
Speaker 4: No, And it's really important. Again, these are the issues
Speaker 4: we talked about at the beginning where I said, these
Speaker 4: are the things that matter that we gloss over because
Speaker 4: we talk about what's titillating. Rare earth are not necessarily
Speaker 4: an exciting talking point, but we couldn't be having this
Speaker 4: conversation without rare earth's and you're absolutely right, we have
Speaker 4: them in abundance here in America. And just for your
Speaker 4: reader's edification and care you listeners edification, I guess they
Speaker 4: don't know they're only cold rare earth, not because they
Speaker 4: themselves are rare, but because they're found in trace amounts
Speaker 4: when you do other type of mining. Right, So you
Speaker 4: don't mind for rare earth, you mind for gold, ors inc,
Speaker 4: or copper or lithium, And in that mining process, what
Speaker 4: is extracted or trace amounts of these other I believe
Speaker 4: nineteen elements that are essential for technology, for military weaponry,
Speaker 4: et cetera. Dean Paing fifty years ago said, you know
Speaker 4: the world, the West has oil, but China has rare earths.
Speaker 4: And he predicted this, and he knew they were going
Speaker 4: to capitalize on it. And far be it from me
Speaker 4: from being an awful Christian. But I was the other
Speaker 4: day on social media and I called out the dead
Speaker 4: senator Dianne Feinstein and reminded the American people that as Senator,
Speaker 4: she led the charge to stop rare earth mining in
Speaker 4: the United States because of course climate change. Diane Feinstein
Speaker 4: also had a Chinese spy on her stats for twenty years,
Speaker 4: and she's at her death was worth around one hundred
Speaker 4: million dollars. So Diane Feinstein may have escaped the I
Speaker 4: think jail, which would have been appropriate for someone who
Speaker 4: betrayed her country. Maybe she will not escape God's judgment
Speaker 4: for what she did. But people like Diane Feinstein led
Speaker 4: the charge to stop rare earth mining refining here in America.
Speaker 4: They hid behind CLI time a change, but somehow they
Speaker 4: became very rich in the process, and our number one enemy,
Speaker 4: China benefited as a result. I think that's the type
Speaker 4: of investigation that I would like to see more of
Speaker 4: by this current Department of Justice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Daniel Turner. One of the things I
Speaker 2: found interesting over the weekend, and it is a narrative
Speaker 2: that was trying to be spun by the left and
Speaker 2: by the media, is that if Donald Trump is able
Speaker 2: to bring a renaissance in manufacturing back to the United States,
Speaker 2: that the jobs that will come along with that are
Speaker 2: simply jobs where you know, people will have to live
Speaker 2: in the drudgery of a factory work style, a factory life.
Speaker 2: You know, we're going to go and we're going to
Speaker 2: make iPhones. John Carl said, what are we going to do?
Speaker 2: Become a nation of cobblers and make Nike shoes. So
Speaker 2: here's the Democrat Party and those on the left who
Speaker 2: for decades have told us that, you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: concerned servatives and Republicans who denigrate work, who look down
Speaker 2: upon those. But here they are saying that the types
Speaker 2: of jobs that Donald Trump wants to bring back are really,
Speaker 2: you know, jobs that are for other people, and the
Speaker 2: you know, they're sort of beneath the dignity of Americans
Speaker 2: to go to work in places like this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, imagine reducing the whole of American manufacturing to menial
Speaker 4: labor like that. And you know what, Sadly, a lot
Speaker 4: of libertarians also have taken this this this angle, and
Speaker 4: I've seen a number of articles and social media posts
Speaker 4: and talking heads on TV that say, you know, we
Speaker 4: should not return to a country of people sewing sneakers together.
Speaker 4: And I think that is just beyond insulting and myopic
Speaker 4: and really degrading. To put all of manufacturing and the
Speaker 4: millions of factories across America that just five, ten, fifteen
Speaker 4: years ago had started to have continue need to disappear.
Speaker 4: To reduce all of American manufacturing to menial toiling labor
Speaker 4: is embarrassing. But you know what, even if that is
Speaker 4: absolutely right, what the hell do you care if someone
Speaker 4: is happy to work eight hours in a factory putting
Speaker 4: widget A on widget B, if they get paid a
Speaker 4: fair wage, if they can support their family, if they
Speaker 4: can build their community they want to live in their
Speaker 4: little small town outside of Akron, Ohio or whatever other
Speaker 4: rust belts, What the hell do you cool? This is
Speaker 4: that class of angels who think they have the right
Speaker 4: to order society. Who the hell do you think you
Speaker 4: are to determine what other people's labor should be. And
Speaker 4: in that process of saying I am going to save
Speaker 4: you from the menial task and give you a grand,
Speaker 4: glorious job in the new green economy or in the
Speaker 4: tech world, all you've done is taken away their livelihood
Speaker 4: and plunge them into poverty. Green jobs never came, the
Speaker 4: text jobs never came. The few tech jobs we have
Speaker 4: We'd rather have h one b visas from India and
Speaker 4: fill them with those jobs. So I just find that line.
Speaker 4: We can hear the anger in my voice. This is
Speaker 4: the disdain that our elite have for regular working class Americans,
Speaker 4: and our elite are some of the worst people in
Speaker 4: this country. And Bernie Sanders is an absolute elite, right,
Speaker 4: John Kerry is an elite, and yet the multi billionaires
Speaker 4: who are in this administration, Donald Trump and Elon Musk
Speaker 4: are not. And I find that absolutely marveling that these
Speaker 4: people who are rich and wealthy and with gold accents
Speaker 4: and the Oval Office, yet have more respect for the
Speaker 4: working class than any president I've seen in my lifetime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Thomas Soul refers to these people as the as
Speaker 2: the anointed, and it really will, you know, when they
Speaker 2: make comments like this, it really is revealing of the
Speaker 2: the arrogance and the condescension that they have towards the
Speaker 2: you know, the the rank and file of the American people.
Speaker 2: Before we let you go, Daniel Turner, this thing with
Speaker 2: Harvard looks like it's getting serious. Trump says he's going
Speaker 2: to freeze two point three billion dollars in funding for Harvard,
Speaker 2: and why on earth does Harvard need two point three
Speaker 2: billion of our taxpayer dollars when they have an endowment
Speaker 2: that is fifty three or fifty four billion dollars. Why
Speaker 2: does Harvard need want penny from the American taxpayer.
Speaker 4: No more research grants, as far as I'm concerned, No
Speaker 4: more research grants, No more pell grams. You are not
Speaker 4: going to charge ninety thousand dollars a year and then
Speaker 4: tell some student that take out a government loan to
Speaker 4: pay for it. No more grants, you know what. No
Speaker 4: more foreign visas. Why why should we be giving you know,
Speaker 4: a couple hundred spots to people from communist China or
Speaker 4: from other countries to go study at Harvard on the
Speaker 4: American taxpayer's dime. Would I would put the screws to
Speaker 4: Harvard again? These these elites, these anointed as you said,
Speaker 4: that great quote from Thomas Soul, these universities do an
Speaker 4: awful lot of damage because they think they are above
Speaker 4: the American people, that think they are above the American ethos.
Speaker 4: And you know, they gleefully want to persecute Jewish students
Speaker 4: and they want to think that's okay, and they want
Speaker 4: to think it's okay that hamas sympathizers are allowed to
Speaker 4: lock down buildings and scare the crap out of Jewish students,
Speaker 4: or they think it's okay that some guy decides to
Speaker 4: put on a skirt and say, look now I'm on
Speaker 4: the field on the girls field hockey team and beat
Speaker 4: the crap out of female athletes. If Harvard wants to
Speaker 4: play that role, they can absolutely, but I would make
Speaker 4: their life miserable. I'm at this stage that people worried
Speaker 4: Donald Trump would be, which he hasn't be, and I
Speaker 4: don't think he ever will. I am at the stage
Speaker 4: of absolute unleashing the Kraken. I want revenge on all
Speaker 4: of these awful people, these awful institutions that have done
Speaker 4: tremendous damage, and places like Harvard and people like John Kerry.
Speaker 4: Their come up and has arrived, and I hope they
Speaker 4: go hard on Harvard and other universities that continue to
Speaker 4: foment unrest in our country. Remember there is a quote
Speaker 4: in the Constitution aligning the Constitution about the president's responsibility
Speaker 4: of preserving domestic tranquility, and this is his job. Harvard
Speaker 4: is fomenting the opposite, and it is the President's job
Speaker 4: to kick these people out of the country and kick
Speaker 4: those people out of the school if they're going to
Speaker 4: continue to make cause civil strife and unrest.
Speaker 2: All right, well, Daniel Turner, we got to run. But
Speaker 2: as always, it's great to have you on. I'll direct
Speaker 2: people to town hall dot com where you have a column
Speaker 2: up there right now, meet the Coletown the Democrats destroyed,
Speaker 2: and you've got some quotes from Joe Burrow in there.
Speaker 2: And you know, people love reading about our quarterback here
Speaker 2: in Cincinnati. So Daniel Turner, always great to have you on,
Speaker 2: and I will certainly look forward to the next time
Speaker 2: we get a chance to talk again.
Speaker 4: Always a pleasure day, and thank you so much.
Speaker 2: All right, Daniel Turner, power the few. Check out his
Speaker 2: website when you get a chance. Fifty five KRC E
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Speaker 2: the Talk Station. Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas, want
Speaker 2: to thank Daniel Turner for being here. Always loved talking
Speaker 2: to that guy. I always enjoy having this guy on too.
Speaker 2: The main man at the FOP of Cincinnati Fraternal Order
Speaker 2: Police is Kenkober, and Ken Cober is our guest this morning,
Speaker 2: and Ken Kober, thanks for being here. Always appreciate your time.
Speaker 4: Sir.
Speaker 14: Hey, good morning, Dan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about this case. I don't know why this
Speaker 2: case just bothers me so much, but you know, last week,
Speaker 2: on last Saturday night on short Vine, twenty five year
Speaker 2: old Kyle Merrick was standing there, apparently minding his own
Speaker 2: business when he was confronted by some fifteen year old
Speaker 2: dude who. Accordingly, when you look at the video, it
Speaker 2: looks like this guy, unprovoked, just pulled out a gun
Speaker 2: and stuck it in the midsection of twenty five year
Speaker 2: old Kyle Merrick, who attempted to run away. Turned out
Speaker 2: he had a weapon of his own turned in fire,
Speaker 2: and then he in turn was shot by this fifteen
Speaker 2: year old. Now he's dead, his family is in mourning,
Speaker 2: and Ken Kober, it certainly appears that this fifteen year
Speaker 2: old had no business being on the streets whatsoever, without
Speaker 2: a doubt.
Speaker 15: I mean, it's a senseless murder that absolutely could have
Speaker 15: been prevented.
Speaker 2: Talk about some of the criminal history over the last
Speaker 2: couple of days has started to come to light on
Speaker 2: this guy. Can you tell us a little bit about that?
Speaker 15: Well, I mean it started at the age of thirteen thirteen,
Speaker 15: obstructing official business, running from the police. It recently escalated
Speaker 15: in November two and aggravated assault that was involved with
Speaker 15: the shooting, improper or improper transferation to believe of a
Speaker 15: firearm and then discharging a firearm into a habitation.
Speaker 2: That's the case that he should have.
Speaker 14: Been held for.
Speaker 15: And unfortunately, on April second was released from EMU. They
Speaker 15: had already let him out of detention, but they put
Speaker 15: him on EMU and they even released him from that
Speaker 15: on April second.
Speaker 14: And then here's Saturday. We have a tragedy. I mean,
Speaker 14: this is not really a surprise.
Speaker 15: This is I mean the very the basis of things
Speaker 15: that we see all the time. You little crimes that
Speaker 15: turn into big crimes real quick.
Speaker 2: Is it just me or does it seem like if
Speaker 2: you have someone who is thirteen years old and they have,
Speaker 2: between the ages of thirteen and fifteen, have sixteen separate
Speaker 2: contacts with the juvenile court system here in Hamilton County,
Speaker 2: is it just me or does that seem like a
Speaker 2: lot or is that par for the course for a
Speaker 2: lot of these kids that get involved in the juvenile system.
Speaker 15: That is certainly in excess, But you know, a lot
Speaker 15: of these things would have been prevented had there been
Speaker 15: actual consequences. I don't know on the first charge, the
Speaker 15: fifth charge, the tenth charge. It's something that there's absolutely
Speaker 15: no accountability whatsoever.
Speaker 14: So it doesn't surprise me that these kind of things
Speaker 14: are happening.
Speaker 2: Let me read to you a piece that I found
Speaker 2: on the WLWT website. This is from May of last year. Okay,
Speaker 2: last month, three teenagers were arrested after a woman was
Speaker 2: brutally attacked on a metro bus in Colerain Township. All
Speaker 2: three teenagers were released from the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention
Speaker 2: Center the same day. The same day, Juvenile Court Judge
Speaker 2: Kerry Bloom says, there's only so much the law allows
Speaker 2: her to do. Quote, in juvenile court, we focus on rehabilitation,
Speaker 2: which is to include consideration of how do we make
Speaker 2: sure the kid doesn't do this again, how do we
Speaker 2: make sure we protect the community. You know, Chen Kober,
Speaker 2: It's one thing to have a judge say something like that.
Speaker 2: It is another thing when, to my way of thinking,
Speaker 2: it is well within her power and her ability to
Speaker 2: prevent these sorts of things from happening. But she doesn't
Speaker 2: lift a finger to make any of that happen, simply
Speaker 2: have these kids come in and then right back out
Speaker 2: the revolving door. And in this case, for teenagers who
Speaker 2: beat up a woman on a metro bus, they're out
Speaker 2: on the street the exact same day.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean we've seen this time after time after time.
Speaker 15: You know, kids with gun charges, kids with violent selony
Speaker 15: offenses that are letting right out. We're not talking about,
Speaker 15: you know, a kid that stole a bag of chips
Speaker 15: from Kroger.
Speaker 14: Because he's hungry.
Speaker 15: We're talking about kids that are that are committing heinous,
Speaker 15: violent crimes that are endangering the community, and they're let
Speaker 15: right back out. And this, unfortunately is the end result.
Speaker 15: You know, I feel terrible for you know, the Myrak
Speaker 15: family that they have to go through this, but they're
Speaker 15: just the latest.
Speaker 14: I mean, this happens time and time again where we.
Speaker 15: Have kids that are victimizing people or they're becoming victims
Speaker 15: of gun violence themselves because the choices they make because
Speaker 15: they're let out of the juvenile court system.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable. Ken Kober, we got to get a quick break
Speaker 2: in here. Can you hang around and I got a
Speaker 2: couple more questions for you on the other side. Sure,
Speaker 2: all right, Ken Kober, stay right there and we'll continue
Speaker 2: on with him on fifty five KRCV talk station. All right,
Speaker 2: fifty five KRCV talk station, we continue our conversation with
Speaker 2: the FOP president, Ken Kober, and Ken Kober, you know
Speaker 2: it's not like this. This kid was on the fringes
Speaker 2: of the system. We are talking about this kid at
Speaker 2: the age of thirteen. Let's see, he was placed on probation.
Speaker 2: He was let's see, he was found guilty of attempted
Speaker 2: grand theft. He was on the property of Procter and
Speaker 2: Gamble running from police. He was is stay at the
Speaker 2: Ohio Department of Youth Services was suspended as long as
Speaker 2: he fought. He was supposed to follow these court orders
Speaker 2: until he turned twenty one, but a few months later,
Speaker 2: in November twenty four, arrested again accused of receiving stolen property.
Speaker 2: He was on probation for the previous twenty twenty three offense.
Speaker 2: Was in the Hamilton County juvenile system. Also in November
Speaker 2: last year, in a case that is still pending, he
Speaker 2: was charged with aggravated assault while in possession of a
Speaker 2: gun and improperly discharging a firearm So here's a kid
Speaker 2: that is obviously showing all sorts of signs of trouble,
Speaker 2: unable to follow the rules, obviously has no parental supervision,
Speaker 2: and they find this guy is eligible to be released
Speaker 2: and placed on GPS monitoring. Is how many cases are
Speaker 2: like this in the juvenile system right now? Do you
Speaker 2: have any idea?
Speaker 15: Far too many. It happens every day. They're releasing kids
Speaker 15: that are involved in gun violence, They're releasing kids that
Speaker 15: are just carrying weapons, stealing cars, you name it, all
Speaker 15: the violent crime that's going on.
Speaker 5: It's pretty much, unless you.
Speaker 15: Murder someone as a juvenile, you're going to be released.
Speaker 15: And that's the problem.
Speaker 2: Don't we have people that can look at this in
Speaker 2: any you know, so many times, you know, we've talked
Speaker 2: about Government Square and the bus situation down there, and
Speaker 2: I saw peace today where the arrests are down fifty
Speaker 2: percent in that area. So it seems to me that
Speaker 2: when an effort is made, a good faith effort is
Speaker 2: made to turn our attention to a specific situation, we
Speaker 2: can start seeing some results. But for some reason, whatever's
Speaker 2: going on in the juvenile system, and you've got these
Speaker 2: kids who are serious offenders at the age of fifteen,
Speaker 2: if you're you know, involved in stolen property and discharge
Speaker 2: a firearm and things like that, that to me seems
Speaker 2: like a serious thing. But yeah, we just sort of,
Speaker 2: you know, to turn our heads at that and say, uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: put them on a GPS monitor. Does a GPS monitoring
Speaker 2: system really serve any purpose at all? Does it really
Speaker 2: do any good at all?
Speaker 15: Only for those that are interested in actually following the law,
Speaker 15: because it's not something that's monitored twenty four hours a day, even.
Speaker 2: Though it's on you.
Speaker 5: You know, you don't. They don't.
Speaker 15: You don't have a probation officer sitting in a room,
Speaker 15: you know, monitoring every GPS unit.
Speaker 2: They just it's impossible.
Speaker 14: They don't. They don't have the manpower to be able
Speaker 14: to do that.
Speaker 15: It just doesn't happen to I understand that this same
Speaker 15: juvenile was actually accused of cutting off as monitor once
Speaker 15: before or as it was, so it's not surprising that
Speaker 15: that things.
Speaker 2: Have escalated the way they have it. So, so what's
Speaker 2: the issue is it the people who make the decisions
Speaker 2: are is there not enough manpower to follow up on
Speaker 2: the If it seems to me, if someone cuts off
Speaker 2: a monitoring device that should be uh you know that
Speaker 2: that that should be cause to have I don't know,
Speaker 2: a probation officer, someone from the court, may you know,
Speaker 2: make a visit to that individual and find out what's
Speaker 2: going on. Are are we not able to do those
Speaker 2: sorts of things.
Speaker 15: Well, ISSU is not not finding these kids and arresting
Speaker 15: them issues keeping them, And it's these judges and magistrates
Speaker 15: that are making the decision that we're not going to
Speaker 15: keep these people. And unfortunately, this is what the visit
Speaker 15: the citizens of Hamilton County voted for. The only way
Speaker 15: that we're going to have any kind of change is
Speaker 15: the next election. You find out what judges, you know,
Speaker 15: specifically these juvenile court judges, which ones are going to
Speaker 15: support law and order, which ones are going to take
Speaker 15: the safety of the community seriously, and those are who
Speaker 15: you have to vote for.
Speaker 14: That's the only way that these these things are ever
Speaker 14: going to change.
Speaker 2: So this happened on short Vine. Is this totally being
Speaker 2: handled by UC police or our campus police involved in
Speaker 2: this as well? Now this is this is off campus.
Speaker 15: This is a Sinciet Police department is investigating this homicide.
Speaker 2: They're the ones that may be around. Okay, yeah, because
Speaker 2: I mean literally, it's what one two blocks away from
Speaker 2: the campus that U see. So I didn't know if
Speaker 2: if if you had a role in this or not.
Speaker 15: Yeah, there's a lot of college kids that live in
Speaker 15: that area, but this was solely the jurisdiction of the
Speaker 15: City of Cincinnati's plice.
Speaker 2: All right, Ken Kober, Is there any way to uh
Speaker 2: to uh let people know about the amount of frustration
Speaker 2: that that you have over issues like this? And what's
Speaker 2: the what's the disposition of this kid right now that
Speaker 2: he get hit? Is he is he in the hospital
Speaker 2: recovering from an injury right now? What's the disposition of
Speaker 2: this kid?
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's my understanding.
Speaker 15: He is in custody, but I believe he's being treated
Speaker 15: for some injuries. And then we'll end up at twenty
Speaker 15: and we'll see how long he's there.
Speaker 2: All right? And then I mean, if is there anything
Speaker 2: you want to say before we let you go that
Speaker 2: that they can make any sort of difference in this
Speaker 2: at all other than I mean you already talked about
Speaker 2: you know, you got to pay attention to who you're
Speaker 2: voting for sure.
Speaker 15: I Mean that's the biggest question I get, is you know,
Speaker 15: from citizens from officers the community is what can we do? Well,
Speaker 15: the answer is what you can do is get out
Speaker 15: and vote for people that are going to support law
Speaker 15: in order. That's that's ultimately what this is going to take.
Speaker 15: If you value safety in Hamilton County, you're going to
Speaker 15: have to vote for a judge that supports law in
Speaker 15: order and that that really, really is the bottom line
Speaker 15: is you have to pay attention to who these people are,
Speaker 15: what they stand for, and make sure that you know
Speaker 15: they align with safety in Hamilton County.
Speaker 14: That's the only thing we're going to be able to
Speaker 14: get a safer county.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if red flags like this sixteen contacts with
Speaker 2: the juvenile system, uh, you know you've got receiving stolen property,
Speaker 2: improper discharge of a firearm, possession of a firearm when
Speaker 2: you're already under disability. If those sorts of things don't
Speaker 2: raise red flags, what sorts of things do raise red flags?
Speaker 2: I mean these are serious, these are serious offenses.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you have to.
Speaker 15: Under san The magistrate that actually signed off on releasing
Speaker 15: this juvenile from EMU was also the same magistrate that
Speaker 15: told a child that ran from Coleraine Townships Police Department
Speaker 15: that sometimes there is a need just to get away
Speaker 15: from the police. So with that kind of ideology, what
Speaker 15: do you expect. That's exactly what's coming out of the
Speaker 15: juvenile court system.
Speaker 2: For God's sake. All right, Ken Kober, as always, I
Speaker 2: appreciate the time, keep up the great work and stay
Speaker 2: safe out there. Brother. We'll talk to you again, saying
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for having me, Dan
Speaker 2: take it all right, there you go, Ken Kober from
Speaker 2: the FOP sixteen contacts with the juvenile system, improper discharge
Speaker 2: of a firearm, receiving stolen property. These are very very
Speaker 2: serious things. And now this kid is again ino is
Speaker 2: it until proven guilty, But you've seen the video, looks
Speaker 2: like like he actually, you know, is wound up being
Speaker 2: involved and is charged with murder now of a twenty
Speaker 2: five year old guy. Father and Kyle Merrick. It can
Speaker 2: only imagine the hell their family is going through, and
Speaker 2: all because of some judge or some magistrate who is
Speaker 2: just looking at this in the completely wrong way. We
Speaker 2: got to get to a break, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas.
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Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 2: Fifty five KRC, the talk station. I want to thank
Speaker 2: Ken Cober for being here. I want to thank Daniel
Speaker 2: Turner for being here, and just a couple of great
Speaker 2: guests this morning. Also, I want to thank Charlton Allen
Speaker 2: who was here in the six o'clock hour. If you
Speaker 2: didn't get a chance to listen to that, go back
Speaker 2: and listen to that, and just some great insight on
Speaker 2: the tariffs and economic issues and Ken Kober talking. I'll
Speaker 2: just say, I'm really bent out of shape about this kid,
Speaker 2: this fifteen year old kid who's on the street with
Speaker 2: a gun. After all this you know, criminal history with
Speaker 2: the juvenile system, and it's just the way we deal
Speaker 2: with these kids. Something really has to change. I understand
Speaker 2: the impulse to want to, you know, rehabilitate kids, to
Speaker 2: want to correct them from the error of their ways.
Speaker 2: I really think I understand all that stuff. But at
Speaker 2: some point, and if you've got you know, between the
Speaker 2: ages of thirteen and fifteen, if you've got sixteen contacts
Speaker 2: with the juvenile courts system, that doesn't happen by mistake.
Speaker 2: It doesn't happen just because that kid was in the
Speaker 2: wrong place at the wrong time, doesn't happen just because
Speaker 2: they were hanging out with the wrong crowd. Doesn't happen,
Speaker 2: you know, a good kid caught up in a bad circumstance. No,
Speaker 2: maybe once, maybe a couple of times, I don't, you know,
Speaker 2: But sixteen times in the span of less than two years,
Speaker 2: I don't think so. And when you're talking about, you know,
Speaker 2: unlawful discharge of a firearm, receiving stolen property, some of
Speaker 2: the other some of the other things that this this
Speaker 2: kid was involved in, and then you can see fit
Speaker 2: to have this kid out on the streets in possession
Speaker 2: of a gun again. Now, of course, the court had
Speaker 2: no way of knowing this kid was in possession of
Speaker 2: a gun once again. But if they were in possession
Speaker 2: of a gun wet one time, what would make you
Speaker 2: think that they wouldn't do it again? Cutting off the ankle, monitor,
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. Let it slide, Let it slide,
Speaker 2: let it slide, and then someone winds up paying the
Speaker 2: ultimate price with their life. It just really it just
Speaker 2: when I saw this story, I thought to myself, and
Speaker 2: it was a fifteen year old kid that you know,
Speaker 2: we are going to find out that this kid already
Speaker 2: had a history and I hate it when I'm right
Speaker 2: about these kind of things. It is time for me
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: Sean McMahon, thank you very much. Glenn Beck is coming
Speaker 2: up next. I got one more day to be with
Speaker 2: you tomorrow, and God only knows what's going to happen
Speaker 2: between now and then, but we'll be talking about it
Speaker 2: tomorrow morning, bright and early, about five am. I hope
Speaker 2: you can be there, and until then, have a great day.
Speaker 2: On fifty five KRC, the talk station