WEBVTT 1 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:27.519 And hello, Hi, how are you? Welcome one and all 2 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:32.000 to the Big Podcast on this Tuesday. Today is the 3 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:36.479 seventh day of October, year of our Ward, twenty twenty five. 4 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:38.840 My name is Tom Sullivan. And as we get this 5 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:46.399 day underway, the seventh of October is the second anniversary 6 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:52.719 of the barbaric massacre on the people of Israel and 7 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:56.240 in their homes. It was a Saturday morning and here 8 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:02.479 it comes the Hamas fighters, one thousand, two hundred people 9 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:05.799 in their homes. And there were others at a at 10 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:09.159 a at a concert, a bunch of young people there. 11 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:12.400 So this is this is their nine to eleven and 12 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:17.840 no question about it. And so it's also sad but 13 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:23.799 hopeful that the talks to get the forty eight remaining hostages, 14 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:28.920 some dead, some alive after two years to get them released. 15 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:33.239 So we hope and pray that that actually takes place. 16 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:38.040 We have we have a lot to go over. We 17 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.519 can we can, I guess start with what's going on 18 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:45.079 with the with the shutdown, because it's starting to have 19 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:49.560 an impact. I was I got an alert last night 20 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:55.359 from I follow a couple of the LA stations, LA 21 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:59.280 television stations, and I got messages last night that they 22 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:04.400 were going to be shutting down Burbank Airport, at least 23 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:08.840 the control tower. And Burbank may sound like a joke, 24 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:13.120 but Johnny Carson used to make jokes about beautiful downtown Burbank. 25 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:17.639 But Burbank has a great airport. It's not a great, 26 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:21.159 big airport, but it's if you don't want to have 27 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:26.960 to hassle with Los Angeles International LAX, Burbank's great at 28 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:31.719 the small airport, you don't have to walk miles anyway. 29 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:37.360 It's the second largest airport in Los Angeles, fifteen thousand 30 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:42.639 passengers a day. And so last night at four fifteen 31 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:50.400 pm Pacific time, they had controllers, air traffic controllers who 32 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:54.439 had called in sick to the point where they did 33 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:58.159 not have enough air traffic controllers to staff the control 34 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:02.280 tower at Burbank Airport last night, so they closed it 35 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:06.520 down from four point fifteen pm to ten pm, which 36 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:08.319 at that point there's I don't know if there's any 37 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:11.439 flights coming or going. So basically four p fifteen they 38 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:17.639 shut it down. And this is a direct repercussion of 39 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:21.960 the shutdown of the government, because the air traffic controllers 40 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:26.400 are not getting paid, and so if they're not getting paid. 41 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:28.479 They're going wait a minute, they're probably, like a lot 42 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:32.080 of people in this country, they're probably living paycheck to 43 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:36.000 paycheck or a good portion of it, and so how 44 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:39.280 are they going to pay their rent, pay their mortgage, 45 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:44.800 buy groceries? And if they're not getting to paycheck, I mean, 46 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:48.840 will they get one later? Probably, Although there was some 47 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:51.520 news out of the White Eyes yesterday that they were 48 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:57.599 taking a look at maybe not paying the furloughed federal 49 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:01.520 employees their back pay. I think I think they will. 50 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:03.759 They always have in the past. But in the meantime, 51 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:07.199 how do you pay your bills? And so what happens 52 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:13.479 is air traffic controllers uh TSA officers, other people that 53 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:17.079 are federal employees. Guess what they're doing. They're going out 54 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:20.759 and getting part time jobs just so they can get 55 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:26.240 some money to pay their bills. So Sean Duffy, the 56 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:29.160 Secretary of Transportation, waited on this. 57 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:31.000 I want people when they travel, to get to where 58 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.600 they're going. So if we don't have controllers, we're going 59 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:35.279 to make sure the airspace is safe. So what we 60 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:39.079 do is we'll slow traffic, will shut down traffic. And 61 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:40.759 that's what you saw in Burbank we saw, you know, 62 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:42.800 significant delays because controllers weren't there. 63 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:46.720 So that was last night and again this morning. He 64 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:51.120 was a Secretary, Sean Duffy was at Newark Airport and 65 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:52.399 held a news company. 66 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:54.519 I want to see your flight not be delayed. I 67 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:56.160 don't want you don't I don't want you to cancel, 68 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:59.279 but our priorities are safety, and so if we have 69 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:03.639 a additional sick calls, we will reduce the flow consistent 70 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:07.240 with a rate that's safe for the American people. 71 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:12.199 Bill above over at CNBC, who covers transportation. This is 72 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:13.800 his observation of what's going on. 73 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:16.920 Depends on the airport, depends on the time, and depends 74 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:19.839 on your definition of major. We didn't hear about many 75 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:24.279 delays until yesterday, and that's when the Secretary of Transportation, 76 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:27.480 Sean Duffy, held a press conference in Newark and he said, 77 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.680 we're seeing a slight uptick and sick calls. There were 78 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:33.920 delays yesterday in Denver and Newark. The Burbank tower was 79 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:37.399 briefly unmanned, so they had to cancel in delay flights 80 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:41.360 at that airport. But it's emblematic of a fragile air 81 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.079 traffic control system. We reached out by the way to 82 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:48.040 the Air Traffic Controllers Union regarding the staffing issues the 83 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:50.439 company or the union set in response. It is normal 84 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:53.199 for a few air traffic controllers to call in sick 85 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:56.319 on any given day, and this is the latest example 86 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:59.160 of how fragile our aviation system is. In the midst 87 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:02.639 of a national source shortage of these critical safety professionals, 88 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:04.319 they go on to say a number of other things, 89 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:06.839 pretty much what you would expect. Let's get this resolved 90 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.879 in Washington. Bottom line is this. The longer this goes, 91 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:13.759 the greater the likelihood is that you will see more 92 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:18.319 air traffic controllers or TSA agents others not coming into 93 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:21.079 their job or calling in sick if they're going without pay. 94 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:23.839 The longer it goes, the more likely it is that 95 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:26.600 you will see fewer people reporting to work. 96 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:30.319 But now the question is how many other airports are 97 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:32.879 going to do the same thing, how many other air 98 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:37.720 traffic control facilities people are The controllers are obviously aware 99 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:42.120 of what happened at Burbank last night, So I dialed 100 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:46.560 up one of my trustee flight trackers and I tuned 101 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:50.879 into air traffic control at Burbank. There is a technique 102 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:55.800 that you learn when you are when you start flying, 103 00:06:56.439 --> 00:07:03.199 and primarily it's used at airports, small airports, little airports 104 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:05.959 that don't have a control tower, not all. In fact, 105 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:09.040 most air most airports do not have a control tower. 106 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:11.519 They only have them in the medium in large cities. 107 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:14.240 So in the smaller cities and smaller airports, there was 108 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:21.040 a radio procedure where you basically have dialogue that says 109 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:24.279 where you are, what you're doing, and everybody, all the 110 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:27.959 other pilots know and listen and respond, and it's a 111 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:29.920 it's a radio communication. 112 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:31.279 And it was. 113 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:35.720 I don't want to say it was it was humorous, 114 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:38.079 but I thought it was kind of almost kind of 115 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:42.319 cute because here are these pilots from major airlines that 116 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:45.920 are flying in and out of Burbank last night, and 117 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:49.160 they had to be very separated, I mean way way 118 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:52.879 way separated before they could move anywhere at the airport, 119 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:55.759 and they reverted back to what they learned when they 120 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:59.000 were young pilots. So it was it was good to 121 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:03.480 see the system work, but it really slowed down everything, 122 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.000 and the airlines obviously are just canceling a lot of 123 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:09.839 flights that would go into or out of an airport 124 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:14.079 without a control tower. So let's see if this spreads. 125 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:17.000 I'm betting on it will. So we're in the day 126 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:20.759 seven of the government shutdown, and it doesn't look like 127 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:25.920 that's going to turn around anytime soon. Tom Cotton, the 128 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:31.519 Senator from Alabama, was talking about not only the shutdown, 129 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:34.679 the fight between everybody's pointing fingers at each other. But 130 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:39.240 there's a big event coming up on October eighteenth. That 131 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:42.720 may be why Chuck Schumer is holding out. 132 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.600 We've seen it now for months in the Senate. Chuck 133 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:51.519 Schumer is scared first of Alexandra Ocasio Cortez and second 134 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:54.600 of his radical left wing base. That's why we're in 135 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:58.080 this Schumer shutdown. Chuck Schumer knows better. For the four 136 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.679 years he ran the Senate, he put thirteen bills just 137 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.080 like this one on the floor, short term funding bills 138 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:08.360 to allow the parties to continue to negotiate. He voted 139 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:11.080 for all thirteen of them. Of course, now he refuses 140 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:13.919 to vote for them because he's scared of his own 141 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:19.440 political base, and particularly he's scared this big left wing 142 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:23.399 protest in Washington, c coming next Saturday, October eighteenth, and 143 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:27.679 apparently is willing to shut down nutritional programs for young 144 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:30.679 children and pay for our troops so he can get 145 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:34.840 beyond that protest on October eighteenth and not face any blowback. 146 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:37.200 It's outrageous political gamesmanship. 147 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:40.120 So keep an eye on your calendar for October eighteenth. 148 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:42.480 I don't know what this big event is, but apparently 149 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:47.840 far left organizations are going to gather in Washington. That's 150 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:52.080 the weekend after this next so that apparently, at least 151 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:55.960 Tom Cotton's theory is that Juck Schumer is afraid of 152 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:59.159 the far left. So on top of the government shutdown, 153 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:03.600 we also have the tariffs are still going strong out there. 154 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.639 Mark Carney, who is the Premier of Canada, is in 155 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:10.919 the White House today meeting with the President trying to 156 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:15.200 work out some sort of agreement. Dug Ford, the Premiere 157 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:20.600 of the province of Ontario, was asked about what he 158 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:25.440 sees as the stumbling blocks between Canada and the US. 159 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.679 Well, well, the question is what are the American population 160 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:32.639 going to do. You rely on the aluminum coming from 161 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:37.000 Canada to build military and aerospace and manufacturing. You rely 162 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:40.159 on steel as well coming from Canada, and thirty percent 163 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:43.360 of the lumber to build homes is coming from Canada. 164 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:46.639 The way to create more jobs is make a deal 165 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:50.320 with Canada. The way to reduce inflation is make a 166 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:54.399 deal with Canada and increase the economy is make a 167 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:57.919 deal with Canada, your number one export country in the 168 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:02.440 entire world. That's what needs to happen. And it's a 169 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:06.360 shame that President Trump is doing this. It's just going 170 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:10.039 to create more unemployment. You see, John Deere is laying 171 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:13.039 off two hundred and eighty people and costing them hundreds 172 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.080 of millions of dollars, and the list keeps going on 173 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:19.240 and on and on. The auto sector, they've seen increased 174 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:22.399 cost of over one hundred and seven billion dollars because 175 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:26.480 auto parts travel back and forth across the border eight times. 176 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:32.080 Are you know our economy is so integrated, so intertwined. 177 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:37.000 Canada is not the problem, We're the solution. And he 178 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:39.759 has to start looking at other countries like China. 179 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:42.120 So you hear from economists that the tariffs are not 180 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:47.039 really hitting the economy that hard, but it's working its 181 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:50.600 way into the economy. And what Doug Ford has talked 182 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:54.039 about the fact that yes, we rely upon Canada for 183 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:57.200 a lot of products that we use, especially the automakers, 184 00:11:57.759 --> 00:11:59.799 and so if you're out looking for a car. The 185 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:06.919 latest numbers coming from Detroit show that the used car 186 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:10.080 market is picking up because people are finding out they 187 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:14.480 can buy use cars without any tariffs on them. New 188 00:12:14.519 --> 00:12:17.360 car prices are going higher because of the fact that 189 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:22.080 steel and aluminum are being tariffed. Until the prices of 190 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:24.639 those cars are going up. The automakers are taking a 191 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:28.279 huge hit trying not to pass on the higher cost. 192 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:32.600 But that's not going to last forever. In other news, 193 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:37.399 we've got Chicago is still having problems in Chicago and 194 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:43.600 Portland about the troops. Should the president send troops or not? Listen, 195 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:45.440 I got to tell you, I don't like the idea. 196 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:49.720 I don't like it looks like some third world country 197 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:53.480 where you got the military in fighting the citizens. But 198 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:58.080 as I told you yesterday, what's going on is we've 199 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:03.799 got immigration law is the purview of the federal government 200 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:09.720 and they are rounding up illegal immigrants in Chicago and Portland, 201 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:15.360 and the local authorities are fighting that well. The police 202 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:18.840 should be able to handle most of the battle. The 203 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:22.960 problem is the police chiefs work for the mayor, and 204 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:25.840 the mayor in Portland and especially the mayor in Chicago 205 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:29.440 are big lefties and they want to do anything they 206 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:34.000 can to thwart Donald Trump, including the Mayor of Chicago, 207 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:40.120 Brandon Johnson, has declared that there are areas in the 208 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:44.320 city of Chicago that are no ice zones. Yeah that 209 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:48.000 he thinks as the mayor of Chicago, he can declare 210 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:53.960 that federal law enforcement cannot enter certain areas of his city. 211 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:58.279 Raymond Lopez, one of the aldermen in Chicago, is shaking 212 00:13:58.320 --> 00:13:58.960 his head. 213 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:00.480 You know, to be perfectly honest. So I don't know 214 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:04.159 exactly what the mayor's latest executive order means with regards 215 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:07.879 to making Chicago parts of Chicago ice free zones. Apparently 216 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:11.279 he doesn't understand that Chicago exists within the United States 217 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:13.960 of America and is subject to its laws. What we 218 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:16.279 do know is this is that the mayors trying to 219 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:21.080 embolden individuals to believe that somehow they are exempt from immigration, 220 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:24.360 they are exempt from ice, they are exempt from federal enforcement, 221 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:27.639 and that is inciting individuals to take up arms, to 222 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:31.320 take up very aggressive action against our federal partners. As 223 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:34.600 we saw play out this weekend. It's a very dangerous 224 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:36.559 game of chicken that the mayor is setting up and 225 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:38.799 the only losers are going to be the residence of 226 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:40.480 the communities of the city of Chicago. 227 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:44.480 It does feel like the temperature is rising and this 228 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.679 is going to wind up someplace that's probably not a 229 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:50.759 good place. Here's the president talking about it from the 230 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:51.679 old opera. 231 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.919 Find out who's going after our federal agents. So when 232 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.879 you look at Chicago, it's like a war zone. And 233 00:14:57.919 --> 00:14:59.799 then I listened to the governor and the may get 234 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:01.879 up and say how they have it under control. 235 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:02.279 They don't. 236 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:06.759 It's probably worse than almost any city in the world. 237 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:09.240 You can go to Afghanistan, you can go to a 238 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:12.639 lot of different places and they probably marvel at how 239 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:13.480 much crime we have. 240 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:17.320 And here's the mayor of Brandon Johnson talking about it. 241 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:18.559 From his point of view. 242 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:23.360 I said very candidly that the right wing in this 243 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:28.440 country once a rematch of the Civil War. I just 244 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:30.639 I want that to city in right now, because the 245 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:34.000 President of the United States of America has declared war 246 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:37.399 on the people of Chicago and people across America. 247 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:39.960 Back to Alderman and Raymond flores. 248 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:42.480 Well, it's outrageous to hear the mayor the city of Chicago, 249 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:45.159 the third largest city in the nation say that the 250 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:49.000 President is trying to have a second Civil War. He 251 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:53.120 oftentimes refers to the descendants of the Confederacy as fighting 252 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:55.399 against Chicago, and that couldn't be further from the truth. 253 00:15:55.480 --> 00:15:57.799 What we know is this is that there were two 254 00:15:57.879 --> 00:16:01.679 thousand individuals who were high priority targets for ICE and 255 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:04.360 homeland security that were allowed to come to the city 256 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:08.399 of Chicago under the previous Biden Harris administration, and that 257 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:11.480 Donald Trump wants to work with Tom Holman to go 258 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:14.279 after those individuals because they know how dangerous they are. 259 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:17.440 Biden knew how dangerous they were and let them come 260 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:20.879 to Chicago anyway. And yet the mayor and our Governor J. B. 261 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:26.159 Prisker continue to try to use their rhetoric to somehow 262 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:29.159 shame the federal government from trying to keep communities safe 263 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:32.759 every day. Chicagoans aren't buying it. However, They are playing 264 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:36.759 to a very small yet hyper aggressive sect in Chicago 265 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:39.799 that are taking extreme actions against ICE and are going 266 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:43.080 to put Chicago p D in a very unfortunate predicaments. 267 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:46.159 It's going to end very badly unless we start working together. 268 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:50.399 Because the way this trajectory is heading it's towards a 269 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:51.679 showdown that nobody wants. 270 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:56.120 It's all stems from cities and states declaring that they 271 00:16:56.159 --> 00:17:00.639 are sanctuary somehow not subject to the laws of the 272 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:06.279 United States. And again I'm a big believer in states rights. 273 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:09.160 In the city of Chicago, the state of Illinois should 274 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:11.599 be able to come up with their own rules. That's 275 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:17.000 founding fathers decided on that, and I thought it was genius. 276 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:20.279 But the one area they enumerated for the federal government 277 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:27.000 was immigration and immigration officers ICE. Immigration police are there 278 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:31.319 to arrest illegals, and the city of Chicago's fighting back. 279 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:34.680 I don't get it because these are yes, they're picking 280 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:37.519 up people that aren't dangerous, but they're also looking for 281 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:41.680 dangerous criminals that are among the people of Chicago. You 282 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:45.240 would think the city leaders would cooperate with that one 283 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:48.240 more doozy about government. But this one is within the 284 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:52.039 federal government. We found out today there was a hearing. 285 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.519 Pambondi had a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and 286 00:17:56.680 --> 00:18:00.240 in that hearing, Chuck Grassley, who was the chairman of 287 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:04.519 the Judiciary Committee, disclosed the fact that he just found 288 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:07.839 out within the last I believe day or two that 289 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:14.200 the FBI had something called artick Frost and what artic 290 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:19.400 frost was. It was during the Biden administration that Jack Smith, 291 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:27.079 the federal prosecutor, and the FBI combined to spy on 292 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:32.640 and tap into the phone calls of eight Republican senators. 293 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:37.680 The senators that they that they were spying on Lindsey Graham, 294 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:42.599 Bill Haggerty from Tennessee, Josh Holly from Missouri, Dan Sullivan 295 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:48.000 from Arkansas, I'm sorry from Alaska, Tommy Tuberville from Alabama, 296 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:52.920 Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, Cynthia Loomis from Wyoming, and Marshall 297 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:57.839 Blackburn from Tennessee. What were they doing? What were they 298 00:18:57.880 --> 00:18:59.920 spying on? Here's Chuck Grassler. 299 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:04.960 Found out about this last Thursday and range this meeting 300 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:10.480 for my colleagues, eight of them to be brief by 301 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:16.240 the FBI. And they were totally shocked that Jack Smith 302 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:23.079 at the time that he was prosecuting Trump as a 303 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:26.640 citizen at that time. So we're talking about the twenty 304 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:31.759 three twenty four time frame they solicited the phone numbers 305 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:35.599 and who they talked to from these eight senators. It's 306 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:40.960 a violation of privacy. We're getting the FBI to get 307 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:44.839 us further information. They said, they give us more information 308 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:48.680 by the end of the week, then I'll have to 309 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:50.880 decide what I'm going to do. But I think I 310 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:54.640 have a reputation for following the facts where they lead 311 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:59.599 us and get to a conclusion. And this information was 312 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:03.319 given to us by a whistleblower. So it just shows 313 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:07.279 you how important it is people lower levels in the 314 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:13.000 FBI to squeal on people that were violating the law 315 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:18.440 and breaking all FBI rules to get this information. The 316 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:21.799 FBI is going to follow up on that as a 317 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:25.440 result of our briefing yesterday. That's what they promise, and 318 00:20:25.480 --> 00:20:27.839 you can be sure that I'll follow up on it. 319 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:31.599 But right now I don't know of anymore than the 320 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:35.960 eight people. One of them was a Congressman Kelly from 321 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:40.839 Congressman Mike Kelly, but the rest of them are all Senators. 322 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:43.920 Want to say the least, the Senators are not thrilled 323 00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:48.480 to find out about this. Josh Holly from Missouri put 324 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:51.680 out a tweet today the truth comes out. Biden Stasse, 325 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:54.920 who claimed to be saving our democracy, in fact worked 326 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:59.359 over time to destroy it all for power. They spied 327 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:04.039 on Catholic churches, prosecuted pro lifers deployed the FBI against 328 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:08.960 parents at school board meetings and to tap and tried 329 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:11.759 to tap the phones of their political enemies, including mine. 330 00:21:12.359 --> 00:21:15.920 This is an abuse of power beyond Watergate, beyond Jay 331 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:20.440 Edgar Hoover, one that directly strikes at the Constitution, the 332 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:24.839 separation of powers and the First Amendment. That's from Josh Holly. 333 00:21:24.920 --> 00:21:27.240 This is a brand new story. Who knows where this 334 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:32.240 is going to go, but and Cash Pattel obviously now 335 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:35.559 the FBI director, I'm sure he is digging into that, 336 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:40.599 so we'll follow up on where that story goes. Finally, 337 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:44.640 there is a person running for attorney General in the 338 00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:51.599 state of Virginia. And this guy's name is Jay Jones 339 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:57.200 and he is a delegate to the He was a 340 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:02.119 farmer delegates the House of Delegates, the state legislature in Virginia. 341 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:09.640 But it's come out now revelations about him that he 342 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:16.200 is a very twisted person, I mean, a moral monster 343 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:19.599 is what National Review, who broke this story, is calling 344 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:24.440 him of the first degree. They are blockbuster reporting about 345 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:28.119 the fact that this guy, through text messages and phone 346 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:32.000 conversations he had with a friend that he that he 347 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:34.960 had when he was in the House of Delegates. State 348 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:40.440 Republican Delegate Terry Cooinner texted her, talked to her, and 349 00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:46.000 he was having a conversation with her about should his 350 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:51.640 opponents predecease him. He literally said he would go to 351 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:56.960 their funerals and piss on their graves. This is this 352 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:00.640 is a guy who has a long history of being vulgar, 353 00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:08.599 morally decayed. So he continued to talk to Terry Coiner 354 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:14.680 and he revealed his thoughts are just dark. He said 355 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:16.519 that if he was trapped in a room with a 356 00:23:16.599 --> 00:23:22.200 gun and two bullets alongside Hitler, Polpot and Todd Gilbert 357 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:27.039 Todd Gilbert was the then Republican speaker of the State House, 358 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:32.480 that he would shoot Gilbert twice. And he says that 359 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:34.880 this isn't a crude joke. He says that if you 360 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:39.039 think that he said it in haste. He then called 361 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:42.880 miss Kanyer explaining himself too clearly. It wasn't like he 362 00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:45.039 called it. Oh man, I don't know what I wrote 363 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:47.160 in that text. I was, you know, drinking, or I 364 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:51.119 was out of my No. He doubled down and he 365 00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:55.319 said he wasn't kidding. He proceeded to make an impassioned 366 00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:59.519 argument in defense of the slaughter of innocence, and he 367 00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:03.799 declared that he thought at least some Republicans deserve to 368 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:08.680 die for their politics, and he extended his death warrant 369 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:12.640 to their children as well. He said the only way 370 00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:18.319 public policy changes is when they feel the pain themselves. 371 00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:23.359 At one point, he suggested that Gilbert's wife could watch 372 00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:26.759 her own children die in her arms so that Gilbert 373 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.519 might reconsider his political views. Again, he was the Republican 374 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:35.880 speaker of the legislature, and so he doubled, tripled down. 375 00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:38.359 Talking to this lady, he says, yes, I've told you 376 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:41.839 this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they 377 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:50.599 move on policy. This is not the behavior of a 378 00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:56.119 psychologically healthy person. This guy is mentally off. And he 379 00:24:56.359 --> 00:25:01.680 is the Democrat nominee running for the attorney general, the 380 00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:04.279 top cop, the top law enforcement officer for the state 381 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:07.240 of Virginia. They have a guy in there right now 382 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:11.799 who's perfectly normally. He's a Republican, but he's not some 383 00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:17.000 psychopath that's running for office. So this guy, I mean, 384 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:22.519 he called back to further make his points, and he 385 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:26.559 called back to further explain that his political enemy should 386 00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:31.480 die and that their children should as well. And he 387 00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:35.519 called back to justify his desire to see the mother 388 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:42.480 of these children be punished for their Republican views by 389 00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:45.839 the death of their children. He said, they're breeding little 390 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:53.119 fascist So, I mean, I know that in Virginia they 391 00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:59.559 are a purple state. And in the race for attorney general, 392 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:03.880 it's pretty close actually between he and the and the Republican. 393 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:11.359 The Democrat running for governor of Virginia is Glenn Youngkin 394 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:16.720 is turned out. So the person running for Abigail Spendburger 395 00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:19.759 is it. I believe she's she's leading in the polls. 396 00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:21.759 But when it comes to the attorney general, it's a 397 00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:25.559 fairly close race between the current attorney general and this guy. 398 00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:29.240 And I would think that the people of Virginia, people 399 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:34.599 of anywhere would not want to have a psychopath as 400 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:38.480 there in any form of authority, let alone the attorney 401 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:42.640