Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Conston's new video.
Speaker 2: Well, as so often happens, President Donald Trump finds himself
Speaker 2: once again surrounded in a bit of a controversy. Uh,
Speaker 2: this is kind of a big controversy. It involves a
Speaker 2: four hundred million dollar airplane. That's a big plane. The
Speaker 2: government of Qatar has apparently decided that it would like
Speaker 2: to gift to the United States. This a seven seven Now,
Speaker 2: according to I want to make sure I get all
Speaker 2: of this correct here, Okay, I believe this is the
Speaker 2: Washington Post. Yes, according to the Washington Post, the luxury
Speaker 2: Jeff Jet was moved five weeks ago, so we're talking
Speaker 2: about sometime in early April to San Antonio International Airport,
Speaker 2: The headline says, suggesting that preparations for improvements to the
Speaker 2: plane might already be underway. On Monday of this week,
Speaker 2: the President praised Cutter for offering his administration a free
Speaker 2: luxury jet, but current in former US military, defense and
Speaker 2: Secret Service officials said he'll likely have to waive existing
Speaker 2: security specifications to be able to use the plane. Yesterday,
Speaker 2: he was asked about this at a signing who was
Speaker 2: signing some executive orders and the question here, and Donald
Speaker 2: Trump's been through a couple of impeachments, and there is
Speaker 2: a clause in the US constitutions called the Emolument's Clause,
Speaker 2: which says that, you know, presidents and public officials cannot
Speaker 2: accept gifts from foreign governments. But Trump's position is this
Speaker 2: is not a gift to him. And although there's probably
Speaker 2: a lot of questions still to be answered here, the
Speaker 2: back story is that there apparently are two air Force one. Now,
Speaker 2: the Air Force one is never air Force one unless
Speaker 2: the president is flying on the plane. So if the
Speaker 2: plane is flown from I don't know, point Aid from
Speaker 2: Los Angeles to Washington and presidents it may be a
Speaker 2: plane that could be air Force one, but the president's
Speaker 2: presence on the plane is what signifies it as Air
Speaker 2: Force one. There apparently are two planes that during his
Speaker 2: first administration he signed some contracts with Boeing to have
Speaker 2: replacement planes, and those have fallen behind schedule, So I'm
Speaker 2: sure he's frustrated. That's a little bit of the backstory.
Speaker 2: And Cutter, which is very wealthy Middle Eastern country, which
Speaker 2: has been friendly to many of the overtures of the
Speaker 2: Trump administration, including the Abraham accords in which Middle Eastern
Speaker 2: countries would start to do business with Israel, which are wonderful,
Speaker 2: wonderful agreements that might eventually actually lay the groundwork for
Speaker 2: actual peace in the Middle East, particularly if Saudi Arabi
Speaker 2: would eventually get on board. So they you know from well,
Speaker 2: this is what the president said. Let's listen to what
Speaker 2: the president said about it. He was asked about it yesterday.
Speaker 2: He is claiming it is not a gift to him,
Speaker 2: It is a gift from the government of Cutter to
Speaker 2: the Department of Defense, and that the plane would eventually
Speaker 2: be used by him in his capacity as president. This
Speaker 2: is cut number one. Please, rob President, Why you say
Speaker 2: to people who.
Speaker 3: View got luxury jet as suppose it'll get to you?
Speaker 2: Why not leave it?
Speaker 3: You're ABC fake news, right because only ABC, well a
Speaker 3: few of you would, let me tell you, you should
Speaker 3: be embarrassed to ask him that question. They're giving us
Speaker 3: a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't
Speaker 3: give us. I want to pay you a million or
Speaker 3: four hundred million or whatever it is. Or I could
Speaker 3: say thank you very much. You know, there was an
Speaker 3: old golfer named Sam Sneve. Did you ever hear in
Speaker 3: one ad two tournament. Was a great golfer, and he
Speaker 3: had a motto. When they gave you a putt, you
Speaker 3: say thank you very much, You pick up your ball,
Speaker 3: and you walk to the next hole.
Speaker 4: A lot of people are stupid.
Speaker 3: They say no, no, I insist start putting it, and
Speaker 3: then they put it and they miss it and their
Speaker 3: partner gets angry.
Speaker 4: You know what, Remember that Sam sneed.
Speaker 3: When they give you a putt, you pick it up,
Speaker 3: and you walk to the next hall, and you say
Speaker 3: thank you very much.
Speaker 2: And of course there was more to the answer. So
Speaker 2: let's finish this off with cut one a.
Speaker 5: Ruby working at this and say, have you ever been
Speaker 5: given a gift worth millions of dollars in an OxyS?
Speaker 3: Not a gift to me, It's a gift to the
Speaker 3: Department of Defense. And you should know better because you've
Speaker 3: been embarrassed enough, and so has your network.
Speaker 4: Your network is a disaster. ABC is a disaster.
Speaker 2: So I think we understand that there's a couple of
Speaker 2: interpretations here. Now believe it or not. I should say
Speaker 2: not believe it or not, but believe it because it's true.
Speaker 2: Many allies of President Trump are uncomfortable with this set
Speaker 2: of circumstances. They are uncomfortable with accepting funds of this magnitude,
Speaker 2: a gift of this magnitude, I should say, they are
Speaker 2: uncomfortable with security concerns that could exist. I mean, do
Speaker 2: you want the president of the United States flying around
Speaker 2: in a plane that you'd have to, I guess make
Speaker 2: sure that there were no bugs on it. I don't
Speaker 2: understand why. I can understand why it might. Apparently this
Speaker 2: is a really a big time luxury jet. Okay, this
Speaker 2: is not a small jet by any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 2: So the question is that I ask you, I don't
Speaker 2: I'd love to know if I would assume most critic
Speaker 2: of Donald Trump would see this as echoes of past
Speaker 2: controversies and just another moment in time where Donald Trump
Speaker 2: is walking too close to the line. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, there are people who were allies of his
Speaker 2: who have at least raised concerns about this. This is
Speaker 2: an article out of the Boston Globe from earlier today.
Speaker 2: Mega Allies criticized Trump's planning to accept four hundred million
Speaker 2: dollar jet from cutter As Air Force one. They quote,
Speaker 2: amongst others, and some of these are clearly critics, and
Speaker 2: some are not. Senate Majority leader of Chuck Schumer says
Speaker 2: President Trump's pension for corruption and grift has risen to
Speaker 2: a new label, a new level, with the news his
Speaker 2: presidency is for sale. If you happen to have four
Speaker 2: hundred million dollars, that's Chuck Schumer. Meanwhile, as we just heard,
Speaker 2: Trump told reporters that the aircraft would be eventually decommissioned
Speaker 2: and placed in his future presidential library, and he said
Speaker 2: he would not use it after leaving office. Air Force
Speaker 2: one is a symbol of America. Republican Senator Lindsay Graham
Speaker 2: of South Carolina said, when it lands or flies, it
Speaker 2: is America flying and landing. And I want to make
Speaker 2: sure that this whole thing is kosher. Time will tell.
Speaker 2: Ted Cruz raised concerns that accepting the free jet from
Speaker 2: Cutter posed a significant espionage and surveillance problems. Senate Majority
Speaker 2: Leader John Toon today told reporters there will be plenty
Speaker 2: of scrutiny on Trump's decision to accept the Boeing seven
Speaker 2: forty seven jet from Cutter. I don't think there's anything
Speaker 2: official out there. This is hypothetical, Tune said Tuesday. If
Speaker 2: and when it's no longer hypothetical. I can ensure you
Speaker 2: there'll be plenty of scrutiny of whatever that arrangement might
Speaker 2: look like. And Senator Ran paula Kentucky, a vocal critic
Speaker 2: of Trump's tariff tariff policies, said he thought that Trump
Speaker 2: planned to accept the luxury jet from Cutter was a mistake.
Speaker 2: Whether it's improper or not, I don't think it's worth it.
Speaker 2: Rie and Paul said on Tuesday anyway, Lisa Mkowski or
Speaker 2: Alaska Republicans, says she has lots of questions about whether
Speaker 2: accepting the jet would violate the Constitutions and Molument's clause
Speaker 2: that provision profitces prohibits US government officials from receiving gifts
Speaker 2: from any king, prince, or foreign state without congressional approval.
Speaker 2: So I think what President Trump should do is seek
Speaker 2: congressional approval. As a matter of fact, even one of
Speaker 2: his most ardent supporters, Laura Lumer, who The Globe describes
Speaker 2: as a right wing activist and Trump's supporter. She's from
Speaker 2: Colorado member of the House, was also quick to criticize
Speaker 2: the office, saying it would be such a stain on
Speaker 2: the administration. Loomer is quoted as saying I love President Trump.
Speaker 2: I would take a bullet for him, but I have
Speaker 2: to call a spade a spade. We cannot accept a
Speaker 2: four hundred million dollar gift from jehardiest and suits. Loomer
Speaker 2: wrote on x I'm so disappointed. So that's one final one.
Speaker 2: Republican Senator Kevin Kramer, he's a conservative from North Dakota,
Speaker 2: defended the gift but said the US government would need
Speaker 2: to quote do the most thorough security sweep we've ever done.
Speaker 2: My sense is people want to support Donald Trump around
Speaker 2: the world because he's engaged with them. Kramer said on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's a bad thing, as long
Speaker 2: as there's no sort of quid pro quo attached to it,
Speaker 2: or an expectation that you're going to get preferential treatment
Speaker 2: of some sort six one, seven, two, five, four ten
Speaker 2: thirty six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty. Your thoughts,
Speaker 2: your thoughts? Should Donald Trump accept this gift? Accept this
Speaker 2: gift from Cutter a four hundred million dollar jet. Join
Speaker 2: the conversation. We'll be right back on night side. It's
Speaker 2: you and me for the rest of the evening. Let's
Speaker 2: get it going right after.
Speaker 1: This Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: By the way, the hits just keep on coming here.
Speaker 2: The Red Sox just lost nine to eight in extra
Speaker 2: intings in Detroit. They have gone up in the top
Speaker 2: of the elevens. I think got up eight to six
Speaker 2: on a two run homer by one of the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: And wow, the hits just keep coming here for Boston
Speaker 2: sports teams. Let's get to the phones see what people
Speaker 2: think on this one. I think it's an interesting issue.
Speaker 2: It's it's almost as if Donald Trump is this juggler
Speaker 2: and he's got fifty balls in the air and he's
Speaker 2: got to have fifty one. Let's go to John and Boston. Hey, John,
Speaker 2: you were first this hour and Nightside. Love to know
Speaker 2: if you're a Trump supporter generally and what you think
Speaker 2: of this idea.
Speaker 6: Well, Dan, I think it's interesting because the United States
Speaker 6: accept the Statue of Liberty. I believe it's from France,
Speaker 6: and that would probably cost a lot more than that
Speaker 6: particular jet. Every year, Boston accepts a Christmas tree from
Speaker 6: Halifax Nova Scotia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not a bad point.
Speaker 6: The company has no problem accepting gifts. I think it's
Speaker 6: I believe it seems like it's a gift. So Biden
Speaker 6: has allowed millions of people to come here legally cost
Speaker 6: it billions of dollars in the United States, many deaths
Speaker 6: of Americans by drug over doses and murders and rape.
Speaker 6: So now I don't think the president should be used
Speaker 6: for the President's air Force one, but maybe they could
Speaker 6: use the jet to bring the illegals that came here
Speaker 6: from the Middle East back to the Middle East. That's
Speaker 6: what I think they should use the jets for.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, that's that's an interesting take. Let me
Speaker 2: ask you this. I'm assuming I'm gonna make the assumption
Speaker 2: that the the offer of the plane is in good faith.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're not uh sending it to do any mischief.
Speaker 2: I mean to you know, you'd have to check it
Speaker 2: for security. I assume there's you know, who knows who
Speaker 2: had possession of it at some point. What could be
Speaker 2: implanted there? Why do you think President Trump seems to
Speaker 2: always be willing to go through these these battles that
Speaker 2: are a little irrelevant to what his purpose is, and
Speaker 2: that is to get the economy back on track and
Speaker 2: get the border closed, and you know, you get the
Speaker 2: big beautiful tax package, you get, get all all the
Speaker 2: things done that he promised, and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: this comes in as another distraction. Why why does do
Speaker 2: you think he's he's willing to engage in these distractions.
Speaker 2: He seems to enjoy it.
Speaker 6: But what do you mean by a battle? Why is
Speaker 6: it a battle? There if a country offers a point,
Speaker 6: and what's I don't see, what's the big deal someone
Speaker 6: comes over to you at a restaurant, office you or
Speaker 6: at appetizer. I mean, where's the battle that say? I'm
Speaker 6: a little confused.
Speaker 2: Well, well, one one, I'm not the president of the
Speaker 2: United States, so the emolument's clause or things like that
Speaker 2: doesn't impact me. All I'm just saying is that he's
Speaker 2: got enough fights on his hands. And when you hear
Speaker 2: did you did you hear all the conservative senators Ted
Speaker 2: Cruz and Ran Paul and others raising concerns and issues.
Speaker 2: I mean, John toon, you know, I just did.
Speaker 6: It's pretty simple to just use it to bring it
Speaker 6: legal aliens back to the countries they came from. I
Speaker 6: don't know, It's just it's a it's a free gift
Speaker 6: from a country. And I don't think Donald Trump should
Speaker 6: be in his personal collection, but use it as a
Speaker 6: free gift to the United States and bring the illegals
Speaker 6: back then there.
Speaker 2: I guess that would be one way to diffuse it,
Speaker 2: but I'm not sure that that would necessarily diffuse it either.
Speaker 2: But that's okay, John, You're thinking outside the box, and
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 7: What.
Speaker 6: I think the media is having a lot of fun
Speaker 6: with it. It's in terms of nuclear war between India
Speaker 6: and Pakistan, Dan and everything that's going on with Russia Ukraine.
Speaker 6: The media is having a lot of fun with this.
Speaker 6: I think the media is creating a distraction here. And
Speaker 6: it's like with the issues we got going on with
Speaker 6: the economy and people trying to afford houses here in Massachusetts,
Speaker 6: it's almost a non issue. It's like, except the plane,
Speaker 6: don't have the president flying in it for his own
Speaker 6: personal safety. I don't think it should be used that,
Speaker 6: But use it to bring illegals back to their countries.
Speaker 8: They can get it from you.
Speaker 2: I got you suggestion. Let's see what others have to say.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, Thanks John, Thanks then as always appreciated. Six
Speaker 2: one seven, two, five, four ten thirty one line there
Speaker 2: one line at six one seven nine, Well John's thinking
Speaker 2: outside the box. He's saying, accept it, but use it
Speaker 2: for different purpose. Let me go to Christine and debt him. Christine,
Speaker 2: what do you think about this?
Speaker 9: I don't think you should accept it? I I I mean,
Speaker 9: what do they want? What do they want in return?
Speaker 9: That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking this is a broad
Speaker 9: I I really do. I don't think he should.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I think that a lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of the uh, the Democrats are saying, you know what,
Speaker 2: this is a quid pro quo. Uh, They're gonna want
Speaker 2: something down the line. At the same time, as much
Speaker 2: as four hundred million dollars means to you know, people
Speaker 2: like you and me, probably to the government of Cutter.
Speaker 2: It's not a big drop. That's not a it's a
Speaker 2: it's a it's a big drop. But it's there's there's
Speaker 2: a lot of drops in that bucket, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. It's not that's not the end of the world.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're just looking for for for our continued friendship.
Speaker 2: I mean that if I was the head.
Speaker 9: Of Cutter, I don't trust that I did that. I
Speaker 9: don't know, Dann, like you said, that plan could be
Speaker 9: bounds or running that I would trust it.
Speaker 2: Well, it could be worse than bugged. I mean, you
Speaker 2: could always have a device in any plane. That Rob
Speaker 2: was saying during the break that if there are big
Speaker 2: screen TVs, you'd have to take those big screen TVs
Speaker 2: apart piece by piece and make sure that there wasn't
Speaker 2: something hidden in there. There could be. Yeah, they could
Speaker 2: be activated remotely. I mean, I know that that sort
Speaker 2: of sounds like something from the movies. But hey, we've
Speaker 2: all that, you know, so many things are possible. Let
Speaker 2: me ask you the question, why do you think Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: why would Donald Trump not say to them, look, thank
Speaker 2: you very much. I so appreciate your offer. It shows
Speaker 2: me what great friends you are to our country. Thank
Speaker 2: you for what you've done on the Abraham Accords. But
Speaker 2: I'm not in a position that I can accept that
Speaker 2: behalf of you know, as the president of the United States.
Speaker 9: And you know, because to me, Donald Trump is a dictator.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you think he would really like to have this,
Speaker 2: uh and when his presidency ends or whatever, that he'd
Speaker 2: like to make sure it's part Okay, fair enough, all right,
Speaker 2: all right, Christine, I got your I got your point
Speaker 2: of view in here. Loud and clearly. Thank you so
Speaker 2: much as always appreciate your call.
Speaker 9: Thank you. Okay, good bye.
Speaker 2: Talk to you and Christine. Have a great night. Good night. Okay,
Speaker 2: only one line at six one, seven, two, four, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Let's keep it rolling. I think we're going to have
Speaker 2: an interesting another ninety minutes to talk about this. Love
Speaker 2: to get your point of view. Coming back on night
Speaker 2: Side right after this.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right. During the break, Rob was saying, and again,
Speaker 2: I think it's a good point. I didn't want to
Speaker 2: debate John, but statue liberty a little different than an airplane.
Speaker 2: It was a gift from UH from France, which which
Speaker 2: we appreciated. The tree that we get from what's at
Speaker 2: Nova Scotia every year. It's it's just it's it's not
Speaker 2: planted and doesn't go to the government's backyard. It's planted
Speaker 2: on the common for all to see, as of course,
Speaker 2: is the Statue of Liberty. But that's oh, you know,
Speaker 2: different points and again the idea here is to is
Speaker 2: to get as many different points of view as possible.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Joe and came or see what Joe says, Hey, Joe,
Speaker 2: what's your thought on this. I'll be interested to see
Speaker 2: where you come down.
Speaker 10: Honestly, Dan, I thank you for taking my call. I
Speaker 10: don't I don't know what's problem with it.
Speaker 2: I don't, okay, So let me when you say, when
Speaker 2: you say you don't have a problem with it, so
Speaker 2: you don't have a problem with the plane coming here.
Speaker 2: It would have to be certainly a humongous, a huge
Speaker 2: security suite, would have to be done on a lane
Speaker 2: that came from outside the country. Okay, it would become
Speaker 2: Air Force one, and then according to the president, it
Speaker 2: would it would be decommissioned at the end of his
Speaker 2: term and then would become a centerpiece or a part
Speaker 2: of his presidential library. And that's what he's saying would
Speaker 2: happen to It's you're okay with that?
Speaker 10: I think, well, no, when you say that's what he said,
Speaker 10: I think and I think he's saying a lot of
Speaker 10: what he's saying to get under the you know Democrats
Speaker 10: skins and a lot of these you know mainstream media
Speaker 10: news agencies. I mean, so you think he's.
Speaker 2: Trolling, He's I mean, I think he's trolling on Greenberg,
Speaker 2: on Greenland and on Canada.
Speaker 10: I think serious here, Yeah, no, And I was listening
Speaker 10: to a podcasts earlier when I was walking around, you know,
Speaker 10: getting steps in the last week's podcast about Alcatraz. So
Speaker 10: he was trolling them on them to a certain degree,
Speaker 10: I think he is. But here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Thank you, by the way listening to the podcast. I
Speaker 2: appreciate that that's a loyal listener.
Speaker 8: Right ahead, I got.
Speaker 10: My steps in for two hours Boston, Cambridge and back,
Speaker 10: and I was listened to all your podcast from last week.
Speaker 10: So yeah, you're welcome. So yeah, I do think to
Speaker 10: a degree now, you know, if you break it down,
Speaker 10: you didn't really think about it.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 10: Worst case scenario, he accepts this gift, this gift, Now,
Speaker 10: I do agree. I do agree that he should get
Speaker 10: its sanctioned and get permission from Congress. This way, he's
Speaker 10: he's off the hook. If they approve it, he's off
Speaker 10: the hook and he doesn't have to worry about it.
Speaker 10: So you know, if he doesn't end up using it,
Speaker 10: obviously has to go through the massive security sweeps. Worst
Speaker 10: case scenario, he accepts it, he doesn't use it. I
Speaker 10: do like your earlier caller, John that suggested alternative alternative uses.
Speaker 10: I would go step beyond just shipping out all the
Speaker 10: illegal or the violent criminals. But I mean, if you
Speaker 10: think about the possibilities, it could be used for all
Speaker 10: sorts of humanitarian you know purposes, you know, natural disasters
Speaker 10: here in the United States. It could be used for
Speaker 10: worldwide global humanitarian needs, you know, to ship you know,
Speaker 10: goods services, medical ship, you know, victims all around, five
Speaker 10: them around. There's a number of things that could be used.
Speaker 10: And either way he would come out looking, you know, incredible.
Speaker 10: So I think it's a win win if it does
Speaker 10: go through. I think you should go through the proper channels.
Speaker 10: But the fact that everybody's calling him a dictator again,
Speaker 10: you know, they're all, you know, coming down on him,
Speaker 10: and he accepting business. Let's say it, every president, every president,
Speaker 10: for the most part, they all accept lavish gifts. I
Speaker 10: saw the CNN report from twenty twenty three where they
Speaker 10: CNN kind of came down hard on the Bidens for
Speaker 10: accepting what you get a twenty thousand dollars diamond from
Speaker 10: India and he got a bunch of you know, several
Speaker 10: you know, I know that at a total one hundred
Speaker 10: and thirty two thousand dollars in gifts. I know it's
Speaker 10: not four hundred million or billion whatever this thing costs.
Speaker 10: But and ultimately did what did they do? They covered
Speaker 10: themselves and said they donated it to the archives. I
Speaker 10: don't think you should put it a plane. I don't
Speaker 10: think you should, you know, retire it and put it
Speaker 10: in some climb of archives. If he does accept it
Speaker 10: and it get sanctioned, there's a lot of good that
Speaker 10: can be done with the use of that plane, fair enough.
Speaker 2: It's interesting. By the way, the Globe tomorrow is going
Speaker 2: to I sort of read part of the piece that
Speaker 2: you'll see the Globe tomorrow. Trump's plan to accept a
Speaker 2: luxury Katari plane is facing backlash from Magan Democrats alike.
Speaker 2: And they quote Laura Luma, who never quoted positively before.
Speaker 2: I'm so disappointed, But it's the only time Laura Lula
Speaker 2: will be hurt, saying it would be such a stain
Speaker 2: of the administration anyway.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but again they keep saying, but they can't. But
Speaker 10: I love how they keep spending this giving it to him.
Speaker 10: It's being given to the government, you know, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 10: he loves to play with the media and get them
Speaker 10: all riled up, and you know, do the Sam Snead
Speaker 10: comment and you know allude to you know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 10: But in the end it is a gift to the
Speaker 10: United States. All Right, I got you, you know.
Speaker 2: I've got you in there. Hey, Joe. For those of
Speaker 2: us in the audience who do do not know this,
Speaker 2: they can listen to our podcast at nightside Underman dot
Speaker 2: com and thank you very much for getting your exercise in,
Speaker 2: uh and getting your steps. Are you one of these
Speaker 2: guys who tries to get the six thousand steps every day?
Speaker 2: I think that's the figure that a lot.
Speaker 10: I got fifteen thousand in today over six miles. Good
Speaker 10: I hold loop Boston, Cambridge back.
Speaker 2: You know, well, you got the good weather coming forward
Speaker 2: from now on, you got hopefully nothing but good weather.
Speaker 2: Joke state, stay healthy, stay in shape. Great, great, Thank
Speaker 2: thanks Dan, good night, Let's keep rolling. You're going to
Speaker 2: go to Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill, love to know what
Speaker 2: you think on this one. What do you think?
Speaker 10: Hey, I like what that last gentleman said.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 10: I'm with him on that. He made a lot of sense.
Speaker 10: Let me just make a couple of comments there. Uh,
Speaker 10: has anybody heard anything in the news the last two
Speaker 10: or three days about Garcia down in Al Salvador. It's
Speaker 10: it's amazing how these legacy uh so called journalists.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they kind of forgot about forgot about this gentleman,
Speaker 2: the Maryland dad.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the Maryland dad. Now when they found when when
Speaker 10: they when they finally found out that the lady okay,
Speaker 10: the wife uh has got pictures of her you know,
Speaker 10: wounds and all that. Boy, they dropped that real quick.
Speaker 10: And the other thing. The other thing is is uh
Speaker 10: this aircraft that that uh and I think part of
Speaker 10: it is is that he's uh, he's just uh, you know,
Speaker 10: trolling people. But listen, so so he's going to get
Speaker 10: a free aircraft and we can he once we get it,
Speaker 10: but he can we can use it any way we
Speaker 10: want to. Uh, A brand new seven forty seven. I
Speaker 10: looked it up today, a brand new seven forty seven
Speaker 10: from Boning, Okay, cost about six hundred about six anywhere
Speaker 10: between six hundred and and eight hundred uh.
Speaker 8: Uh was it?
Speaker 10: Let me say? Six hundred billion?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Billion? Yeah, I assure you have a couple of those.
Speaker 2: Do you have a couple of those in your garage?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 10: No, but but uh so, But but anyways, so so
Speaker 10: we we can get a free a free seven forty seven.
Speaker 10: The one he's flying around in is about forty years old.
Speaker 10: I guess this one here is only about four years old.
Speaker 10: But so we can get that and we can use
Speaker 10: it anyway we want to. Okay, that's that's Trump over
Speaker 10: here on the right. Okay, now on the left hand side. Okay,
Speaker 10: we got Biden and his guys who left, Okay, who
Speaker 10: just left about at least okay, at least ten billion
Speaker 10: dollars worth of aircraft, most of them being brand new,
Speaker 10: some of them brand new Blackhawks. Kyle was all kinds
Speaker 10: of helicopters.
Speaker 2: I think it was much more than that. I saw
Speaker 2: figures as high as eighty two billion dollars.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable, Dan. But anyways, out
Speaker 10: of that eighty billion, I'm saying about at least ten
Speaker 10: billion of it was aircraft, and just left him and
Speaker 10: left him to uh to the enemy. Okay over there
Speaker 10: in the sands.
Speaker 2: Well, the teleban that they didn't they don't have that
Speaker 2: hopefully they don't know how to fly that stuff. But
Speaker 2: you're right, and that was, of course, when they made
Speaker 2: the mistake of of leaving Bagram Air Base. That stuff
Speaker 2: should have been destroyed before we.
Speaker 10: Left boxes, yes, absolutely, But here here, here's Trump.
Speaker 2: And by the way, not one one upper level military officer,
Speaker 2: to the best of my knowledge, and I stand corrected here,
Speaker 2: there was not one military officer who was fired over
Speaker 2: that debacle, which also, of course included the deaths of
Speaker 2: thirteen US military.
Speaker 10: Service that those are the men and women who paid
Speaker 10: for that blunder. But another thing is Dan right now, Okay,
Speaker 10: I've seen more news on TV okay about Diddy, Puff Daddy,
Speaker 10: Puff Diddy. Okay, Now.
Speaker 2: I think I think it's I think Puff Daddy's a different,
Speaker 2: different dude. I think I don't want to just did
Speaker 2: just Diddy.
Speaker 10: Okay, Okay, I'm seeing all that stuff about him and
Speaker 10: and and and here's the correlation. Okay, Okay, He's dragging
Speaker 10: his poor girl through this hallways in Los Angeles at
Speaker 10: a hotel. This happened years ago, that that video has
Speaker 10: been out for a long time. And now the correlation
Speaker 10: between that him beating up his girlfriend and okay, the
Speaker 10: father from UHL from Maryland beating up his wife. Okay,
Speaker 10: there's that correlation. American people, Why I'm buying this crap.
Speaker 2: All right, Bill, you pulled a lot of thoughts together.
Speaker 2: A great call. Thank you much, all righty much stock
Speaker 2: Soon we take a break, coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, back to the phones we go. Let's keep
Speaker 2: rolling here. We got a lot of folks calling in.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Joe and Lynn. Joe, you were
Speaker 2: next on Nightside.
Speaker 8: Welcome, hey, Dan, Thank you for taking my call. I
Speaker 8: was discussing with my friend in Brighton earlier today, and
Speaker 8: I don't think he should take the plane. Those people
Speaker 8: don't like him. I'm disappointed now. He shouldn't build his
Speaker 8: own plane, retire that plane if they want to, but
Speaker 8: don't take a plane from another country which doesn't like us.
Speaker 8: I think that just causing a lot of problems. You
Speaker 8: don't know what bugs are hidden in any way. So
Speaker 8: that's how I feel. What you feel.
Speaker 2: Directed to the point. I think that what amazes me
Speaker 2: is how many different controversies he wants to be swirling
Speaker 2: around him. Most presidents like to sort of have fewer controversies.
Speaker 2: He seems to.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he has a ton, he has a ton.
Speaker 2: But he also seems to invite them. It's like one
Speaker 2: just follows upon the other. I mean, he's dealing with
Speaker 2: a lot of important issues. I mean, I don't look
Speaker 2: at what he's doing on the border as a controversy.
Speaker 2: It is controversial, but it's something that he said he
Speaker 2: would do. That's one thing.
Speaker 8: But two, I'm glad doing that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and I am as well. Okay, but there
Speaker 2: are other things. The idea of well we're going to
Speaker 2: look at Greenland, we're going to look at Canada.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's crazy. Leave them alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly unnecessary. It's almost like unforced errors in tennis. Joe.
Speaker 8: We agree on something, Dan Harvard. I kind of feel
Speaker 8: he's in the right and that they should have no
Speaker 8: prejudices towards any race or anything.
Speaker 2: Of course they shouldn't have. But I also think that
Speaker 2: he should be small enough to be able at some
Speaker 2: point to say, Okay, I've turned them around on this,
Speaker 2: and sometimes it's it's important to uh to accept the
Speaker 2: victory or them around.
Speaker 8: My question, how do you turn them around?
Speaker 10: Dan?
Speaker 8: How do you turn those people?
Speaker 2: Turned them around a lot. I think that the beginning
Speaker 2: with the resignation of Claudine Gay I think that Harvard
Speaker 2: has turned quite a bit, to be honest with you.
Speaker 8: Well, I hope so, because he just took some more
Speaker 8: money away from them today.
Speaker 2: I heard he's very cross.
Speaker 8: Thanks, thanks, thank you.
Speaker 2: Good night. Let me go next to Mary in Stoneham. Mary,
Speaker 2: you are next on nightside. How are you?
Speaker 7: Oh, thank you very much. I have a couple of thoughts,
Speaker 7: and oh, I'm older than dua and I should side
Speaker 7: my retirement is something. He said, something like, you know,
Speaker 7: this is the time to buy. That's nice, but already
Speaker 7: I've gone from one hundred thousand that I worked very
Speaker 7: high for fifty years to eighty thousand. I can't afford
Speaker 7: that because he doesn't have the experience of living.
Speaker 10: I guess your favorite.
Speaker 2: I hope you're not selling Mary, hold it. No, I'm
Speaker 2: not giving you financial advice, but I would suggest that
Speaker 2: when the market took a big hit in April, resist
Speaker 2: the urge to sell, because over the long term, Oh.
Speaker 7: Card, I'm so glad you said that.
Speaker 2: No, i'mous, I'm serious.
Speaker 7: My grandson said exactly what you've said.
Speaker 2: I mean, thank you, because because what happens is they're
Speaker 2: the wise guys out there who look for the market dip.
Speaker 2: They know that people are going to sell and then
Speaker 2: they buy, you know, they buy low and yeah, no yet,
Speaker 2: I will bet you this, Mary, I don't know when.
Speaker 2: Do you know when do you get your referral? Do
Speaker 2: you get a monthly statement?
Speaker 10: Yes? When do you see?
Speaker 2: Right? But I will bet you that if you your
Speaker 2: next monthly statement. Look, the market has come back since April,
Speaker 2: since April second, and the market and so if there
Speaker 2: might have been a period where you're one hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollars nest Egg had had reduced, But don't look at
Speaker 2: it every day because.
Speaker 10: It's like I won't.
Speaker 7: Oh, I just wanted to say about Trump. Absolutely not.
Speaker 7: I've worked for government all the way through. It was
Speaker 7: a law not more than twenty five dollars. I looked
Speaker 7: at the library and can and skid is the pace
Speaker 7: Now you can get Justin's placement.
Speaker 8: Two.
Speaker 7: You do not accept more than twenty five dollars, right,
Speaker 7: all right?
Speaker 2: As a gift?
Speaker 7: Yep, Absolutely one of those things. And wait a second,
Speaker 7: he's getting that gas juggler oil or something to run wrong? Now,
Speaker 7: my lord, you know it's bigger than anything. No, I
Speaker 7: I just don't think it looks good even if he's
Speaker 7: really room with that guy.
Speaker 10: We don't know that.
Speaker 1: We did not know that.
Speaker 7: And thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Mary, thank you.
Speaker 7: Okay, you have a good day and keep your show.
Speaker 7: I turn it on and I've got a good story, lady,
Speaker 7: and tell you about it. O T bye.
Speaker 2: Thanks Mary, appreciate it very much.
Speaker 10: You love by.
Speaker 2: I got to get at least one more in here.
Speaker 2: Let me go next to Mike and Beverley. Mike here
Speaker 2: next door nights.
Speaker 5: I go ahead, Mike, Hey, Dan good, can hear anybody?
Speaker 2: I can hear you, perfec, go right. I know you're
Speaker 2: a big Trump guy. I'll be interested in what you
Speaker 2: think about this.
Speaker 5: It's not going to happen. Then it's all the big
Speaker 5: smoke screen. Trump's playing everyone's cords and so. Browling can
Speaker 5: move because EP on the plane in the last term, okay,
Speaker 5: and pulling is behind like two or three, probably four
Speaker 5: years behind schedule as far as uh the their plane
Speaker 5: things go. You know, that's all it's about. And people
Speaker 5: are freaking out. And point of information, Dan, we have
Speaker 5: paid that country. I heard the figures out a little
Speaker 5: while ago on military land and some other numbers. I
Speaker 5: can't in the exact number because I'm on the road.
Speaker 5: But fire seeing that plane money. We've paid that money
Speaker 5: on other things also, So that's the point of information.
Speaker 11: Okay, all right, But the other thing, Dan, listen, can
Speaker 11: you focus on Masters issues please and stop the Trump stuff.
Speaker 11: Masters has enough issues going on a Master, were the
Speaker 11: two politicians taking illegal money the same mar Haley.
Speaker 5: Gas on the ass on the on the sanctuary stopped.
Speaker 2: Like you listened to the show a lot. I mean
Speaker 2: during the night, Joe, during the nine o'clock hour tonight,
Speaker 2: I hope you were listening. We talked about Boston City
Speaker 2: Councilor Fernandez Anderson, who was indicted and has pled guilty
Speaker 2: to federal crimes, to a federal crime, and she has
Speaker 2: as yet not resigned her seat on the city council.
Speaker 2: We had we had ed Flynn with us, who tomorrow
Speaker 2: he had another councilor going to offer a resolution in
Speaker 2: which they want that matter of discuss. So yeah, we
Speaker 2: talked about that in the in the nine o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: We've talked about all sorts of Massachusetts issues. But at
Speaker 2: the same time, I can't ignore federal issues because my
Speaker 2: audience is is larger than just Massachusetts and just New
Speaker 2: England and most you know, again, you may want me
Speaker 2: only to focus on mistakes that more healing makes, but
Speaker 2: or mistakes that that Ed Markey makes. But I'm I
Speaker 2: have to take a broader view here. I I you know, please,
Speaker 2: I don't want to lose you as a listener.
Speaker 5: But at the same time, damn, because I'm getting tired
Speaker 5: of it.
Speaker 2: Because well, if I got to lose you as a listener, Mike,
Speaker 2: I'm going to lose you as a listener. But I'm
Speaker 2: not going to spend every night talking about We deal
Speaker 2: with a lot of issues on this program. It is
Speaker 2: a white swath. We do twenty hours a week here
Speaker 2: on Nightside, Mike.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I know, but.
Speaker 5: I can't work. I can't do it again, only work
Speaker 5: later on later on.
Speaker 2: Well why did I change what I'll do this, Mike,
Speaker 2: is I will change my programming to accommodate you. So
Speaker 2: what I will do is I will do all of
Speaker 2: the Trump issues. What hours do you want me to
Speaker 2: do those? What?
Speaker 5: What hours do you want at Josh Show? You've been
Speaker 5: done a long time.
Speaker 11: I understand that.
Speaker 5: I just get you know, the whole sanctuary stuff is
Speaker 5: really boiling me. And then I run out of it, Beday.
Speaker 2: Do you know how many hours? Do you know how
Speaker 2: many hours I have done on sanctuary stuff? Everything from
Speaker 2: you know, for the Martha's Vineyard, Uh, situation where they
Speaker 2: threw people off Martha's Vineyard. You've listened to my show
Speaker 2: enough to understand where I feel.
Speaker 11: I get it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just don't understand that people in the state
Speaker 5: on the situation. I mean, you know, I don't get it.
Speaker 2: I got it. I got it, Mike, Thank you much.
Speaker 2: Drive carefully, Okay, thanks very much. A right, Okay, we'll
Speaker 2: take a quick break. I'm coming back with Jerry and
Speaker 2: Jim and Rick. They will lead us off. Uh in
Speaker 2: that well, gonna go Jerry, Rick and Jim leading off.
Speaker 2: I have one line at six one, seven, five, four
Speaker 2: to ten thirty, one line at six one, seven, nine, three,
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. I get requests all the time, do
Speaker 2: this story, do that story. Look, I have to do
Speaker 2: what I think is best for my show in my
Speaker 2: aut audience, and that's believe me. I have more people
Speaker 2: making suggestions, which I appreciate, and many of those suggestions
Speaker 2: we incorporate into the show. Anyway, feel free to join
Speaker 2: the conversation back on nightside, right after this,