1 00:00:21,879 --> 00:00:27,359 Speaker 1: And hello, how are you happy Tuesday to you? Today 2 00:00:27,559 --> 00:00:32,119 is the sixth day of January, year of our lower 3 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:37,159 twenty twenty six. Yeah, it's jan sixth, the fifth anniversary 4 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:41,520 of the What do you want to call it? Some 5 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,079 people get mad if you call it an insurrection, but 6 00:00:44,119 --> 00:00:46,520 if you look up the definition of insurrection, it seems 7 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,640 to fit. Others say it's a it was a riot. 8 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,079 Others say it was a protest. So whatever you like. 9 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,039 Because one of the things on five years later is 10 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,560 we still don't I mean a lot of us I 11 00:01:02,679 --> 00:01:07,000 just don't agree on what happened on this day five 12 00:01:07,079 --> 00:01:10,159 years ago. The nation is still divided over not only 13 00:01:10,239 --> 00:01:13,680 what happened, but why it happened. So we'll get into 14 00:01:13,719 --> 00:01:15,239 a little bit of that as we go through the 15 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:19,319 program today. I want to start. I've got a couple 16 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,519 of things I want to tell you about Jason Lewis, 17 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:28,799 who you may remember after my filling in for Rush 18 00:01:28,879 --> 00:01:32,640 for years for a decade, more than a decade, and 19 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:37,400 then I went to Fox. Then Jason Lewis out of Minneapolis, 20 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,760 became the main fill in on Russia's show. And since 21 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:47,799 Jason has a long background back represented Minnesota in Congress, 22 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,439 so I want to reach out to him about what 23 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:57,000 is going on in Minnesota. We've got those. We've also 24 00:01:57,079 --> 00:02:01,200 got a surprise, a sad surprise. Doug LaMalfa, who was 25 00:02:02,159 --> 00:02:07,680 a congressman from northern California for years, passed away this morning. 26 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,080 So we have a little bit of a look back 27 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,479 and a tribute from the President about Doug LaMalfa. We'll 28 00:02:15,479 --> 00:02:19,319 get to all of that today. Let me start with 29 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:27,599 Venezuela and Denmark and where else is Canada still going 30 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,599 to be the fifty first date or not? Iran? We 31 00:02:31,719 --> 00:02:34,599 got a lot of things, oh in Colombia, the Colombian president, 32 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,080 So there's a lot of focus on lots of different 33 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:44,520 things out there. But we'll get into Wolso Harriet and 34 00:02:44,599 --> 00:02:50,319 has some reporting on are the Republicans split? Because I 35 00:02:50,479 --> 00:02:54,280 keep hearing these reports about the fact that in the 36 00:02:54,319 --> 00:02:57,520 Maga world there are a bunch of Maga people that 37 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,759 are not happy because the President is not focusing on 38 00:03:00,879 --> 00:03:06,599 America first. He's focusing all on again Denmark and Venezuela 39 00:03:06,719 --> 00:03:10,759 and Iran and Canada and what about us? What about 40 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,759 our cost of broccoli? I mean, you go, you go 41 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:15,199 through all of that. So we got we got a 42 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,719 lot to get into. But let me start with just 43 00:03:19,159 --> 00:03:21,719 the military aspect of it, and then we'll get into 44 00:03:21,759 --> 00:03:25,840 the legal aspect, which is still lots of questions and 45 00:03:25,879 --> 00:03:30,560 no answers because we don't know how the people of Venezuela. 46 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:36,680 We don't know about the installed leadership there, what they're 47 00:03:36,719 --> 00:03:39,520 going to do. How is everybody going to react to this, 48 00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:43,080 because I think when we start talking about oil and 49 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,360 there's a lot of focus on their oil, Venezuela has 50 00:03:46,439 --> 00:03:50,719 more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. They're the biggest oil 51 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,840 reserves in the world. It used to be, well, take 52 00:03:54,879 --> 00:03:58,000 a look at Saudi Arabia, one of the wealthiest countries 53 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,719 in the world, and Venice Whala is one of the 54 00:04:01,719 --> 00:04:08,120 poorest countries in the world because Hugo Chavez and Maduro 55 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:14,039 Nicholas Maduro stole all that money and where is that money? 56 00:04:14,639 --> 00:04:15,960 So we'll get into all of it. But let me 57 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:22,839 start was just the fact that the operation that our 58 00:04:22,879 --> 00:04:31,360 military pulled off, which was incredible. General Keane has his observations. 59 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 2: You know, well, I think you know, there was obviously 60 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:38,120 some remarkable decisions made here. Sell me in capturing and 61 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,480 extracting Maduro in of itself, which led to a very 62 00:04:41,519 --> 00:04:47,279 complicated operation that was executed flawlessly, and we all applauded. 63 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:53,519 And then came the next decision that the administration made 64 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,000 was not to depose the rest of the regime, which 65 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,399 would have taken a physical presence by the United States 66 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,319 military to be able to do that. And I think 67 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:08,480 they've got some sense, you know, as reported publicly from 68 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,600 our Central Intelligence Agency. It made me make more sense 69 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,879 given the success of the military operation, that will have 70 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:21,360 such leverage even with the Madua remnants. Now the acting President, 71 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:26,879 the Defense Minister, and Kibelo, who runs the Interior Ministry, 72 00:05:26,959 --> 00:05:31,079 and he's the main instrument to repress the people. The 73 00:05:31,079 --> 00:05:34,279 Defense Minister is also an indictment, as is the Minister 74 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,800 of Interior. And they are thugs and killers, to be sure, 75 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,319 and they got blood all over their hands, so these 76 00:05:39,319 --> 00:05:43,000 are evil people. But nonetheless, the thought was it would 77 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,360 be better to maybe, given the fact that we have 78 00:05:46,519 --> 00:05:50,839 coercion here, to intimidate them and bend them to our 79 00:05:50,879 --> 00:05:54,480 will is a much better option than trying to depose 80 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,240 them and the military and also will take some time. 81 00:05:58,399 --> 00:06:02,040 At the same time, resistance to that would likely take 82 00:06:02,079 --> 00:06:07,040 place so that option is always there, and I think 83 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,720 they made the right call here. There's certainly obvious risk 84 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,399 associated with it, because at some point Rodriguez, Petrino or 85 00:06:15,439 --> 00:06:18,680 Cabello could decide, well, I'm not going along with the 86 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:19,519 plans anymore. 87 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 3: But listen. 88 00:06:20,399 --> 00:06:23,519 Speaker 2: I mean, I would assuming we're having direct conversations with 89 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,360 all three of them, and I would imagine those conversations 90 00:06:27,399 --> 00:06:31,399 are quite pointed in terms of here are expectations. A 91 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:37,680 political objective, you're going to help us enable elections, security objectives. 92 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,399 No more narco trafficking, no more repressing the people with 93 00:06:41,519 --> 00:06:45,439 Columbian gangs and other militias and the military itself. 94 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:46,959 Speaker 3: That is over. 95 00:06:47,439 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 2: We're not going to distribute oil to our adversaries, and 96 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,079 going on down that list, this is what we intend 97 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:58,480 for you to do. Anything short of that, we're likely 98 00:06:58,519 --> 00:07:02,319 going to apply some leverage and listen in the back 99 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,560 of their minds if we haven't told them directly. Is 100 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,079 the fact that's so obvious. If we can penetrate where 101 00:07:10,199 --> 00:07:13,120 Maduro was sleeping with his wife and do that in 102 00:07:13,199 --> 00:07:17,040 three minutes, we can deal with any one of these three, 103 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,199 not only capture them, but obviously kill them. If we 104 00:07:21,319 --> 00:07:24,959 have to and certainly that has got to be in 105 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,399 their minds as they're making their decisions. It is still 106 00:07:28,439 --> 00:07:32,759 fraught with risk, and certainly the administration understands that, but 107 00:07:32,839 --> 00:07:35,759 so would be a physical presence of our forces on 108 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:36,639 the ground as well. 109 00:07:39,759 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: So the key takeaway there it is fraught with risk. 110 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,199 But if you're going to have all these options, General 111 00:07:47,319 --> 00:07:51,360 Keen thinks of sticking with the Maduro people. They know 112 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,439 that we could make life miserable for them. More than miserable, 113 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,519 we could make it worse than Maduro. So we have 114 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:03,199 the up hand on that. The trick here, and it 115 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,759 goes into all these other things about oil and some 116 00:08:05,879 --> 00:08:09,160 of the minerals and everything else, is we have to 117 00:08:09,279 --> 00:08:14,480 take the role of the big brother to come in 118 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:18,360 and help them, a system, the angel to come in 119 00:08:18,439 --> 00:08:22,439 and help them and set that country back up onto 120 00:08:22,519 --> 00:08:27,240 a road to riches. If we go in and start 121 00:08:27,279 --> 00:08:31,199 claiming that we own their minerals and we own their oil, 122 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,320 and we're going to look like the big bully. And 123 00:08:34,399 --> 00:08:38,720 the people of Venezuela are probably very supportive of us 124 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:43,159 and thankful for us, but that will go away quickly 125 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:50,000 if we start acting like we own their assets. So 126 00:08:50,039 --> 00:08:53,399 that was the military side. From the legal side, Jim Schultz, 127 00:08:54,240 --> 00:09:00,120 former White House lawyer, he talks about Maduro's defenses. 128 00:08:59,639 --> 00:09:02,919 Speaker 4: In to start off with the judge tamp down his 129 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,360 rhetoric right away. So this wasn't the right place in 130 00:09:05,399 --> 00:09:07,080 the right time, and the judge was right about that. 131 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,000 There is going to be a time to make legal arguments. 132 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,039 I think what Maduro was getting at, and what his 133 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,600 lawyers have already signaled, is that they're looking at the 134 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:16,200 violation of the UN Charter and argue that there was 135 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,960 a violation of the UN Charter and therefore a violation 136 00:09:19,039 --> 00:09:21,759 of international law, and therefore that this was some type 137 00:09:21,759 --> 00:09:23,440 of an illegal act on the part of the United 138 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,480 States that would prohibit him from being arrested. 139 00:09:25,759 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 3: That's nonsense. 140 00:09:26,919 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: So here's why. 141 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,279 Speaker 4: So the UN Charter is, you know, the United States, 142 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,679 under US law is permitted to go in and make 143 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:36,720 an arrest in another country for someone who commits a 144 00:09:36,759 --> 00:09:39,200 crime against the United States, and they are permitted to 145 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,639 do so with the protection of the military. That's been 146 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,519 long standing law. There was a nineteen eighty nine opinion 147 00:09:44,759 --> 00:09:49,440 authored by then Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ Bill Barr, 148 00:09:49,919 --> 00:09:53,120 which said precisely that Fourth Amendment rights are not violated 149 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,519 as a result of going in. It's not an illegal search, 150 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:57,960 it's not an illegal seizure. By going in and taking 151 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,960 someone out of one country and bringing the United State 152 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,399 dates for justice to be served here in the United States, 153 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,559 that's perfectly lawful to do what they will argue also 154 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,360 argues that he is a head of state, and the 155 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:11,559 question is to whether someone's ahead of state. The real 156 00:10:11,639 --> 00:10:15,000 question is does the United States of America recognize that 157 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,240 person as a head of state. I think Secretary of 158 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:21,360 State Rubio has made very clear that it was not 159 00:10:21,399 --> 00:10:23,799 a legitimate government, that he was not a legitimate head 160 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:25,519 of state. He could say it all he wants in 161 00:10:26,879 --> 00:10:29,799 the hearing before the judge. That doesn't make it true. 162 00:10:29,879 --> 00:10:31,759 And I think it's a very uphill battle for the 163 00:10:31,799 --> 00:10:33,960 defense team here to make those arguments. 164 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: So the argument's being kicked around is was this a 165 00:10:36,519 --> 00:10:42,240 military exercise or was this a law enforcement exercise. Mike 166 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:47,080 Walter's of the UN Ambassador was addressing the United Nations 167 00:10:47,159 --> 00:10:48,240 yesterday with this. 168 00:10:48,519 --> 00:10:53,879 Speaker 5: As Secretary Rubio has said, there is no war against 169 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:58,440 Venezuela or its people. We are not occupying a country 170 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,600 this was a law enforcement operation. 171 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: So that from our UN ambassador, and then the Speaker 172 00:11:08,639 --> 00:11:10,679 of the House, Mike Johnson also weighed in. 173 00:11:10,639 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 6: But terry operation in Venezuela was a decisive and justified 174 00:11:14,159 --> 00:11:17,200 action with regard to the war powers and the compliance 175 00:11:17,279 --> 00:11:21,120 with federal law. We are not at war. We do 176 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,720 not have US armed forces in Venezuela, and we are 177 00:11:23,759 --> 00:11:27,000 not occupying that country. This is not a regime change. 178 00:11:27,919 --> 00:11:30,080 This is a demand for change of behavior by a regime. 179 00:11:30,519 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: Well, Turo, we don't have boots on the ground. We 180 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:38,639 got boots at sea, something like fifteen thousand sailors marines. 181 00:11:39,519 --> 00:11:40,519 Back to Jim Schultz. 182 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 4: At its core, this was a law enforcement operation and 183 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:49,559 arrest was made. The former president and the president Maduro 184 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:53,840 or you know it was Modua was arrested, his wife 185 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,799 was arrested. They were brought to the United States. They 186 00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:59,720 were charged in the United States. At its core, this 187 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:04,360 was law enforcement operation, you know, advanced by the military 188 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,919 to protect that law enforcement operation. That's perfectly fine to 189 00:12:08,039 --> 00:12:10,399 the law, and there is no there is no requirement 190 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,720 that they go in brief Congress, notwithstanding the fact that 191 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:16,840 there is some violation of the sovereignty there a lawful 192 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:19,360 violation of the sovereignity of that country in order to 193 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,399 go in and make that arrest. That being said, I'm 194 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:24,519 sure Congress is rightfully going to have a lot of 195 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,080 questions about what happens next in that country because the 196 00:12:28,159 --> 00:12:32,080 person we arrested was, you know, was the person who 197 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,720 was running the country, even though he was illegitimately running 198 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,159 the country and not recognized as someone that was running 199 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:41,679 the country and unlawfully running that country. You know, I 200 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,559 think that at this point in time, because he was 201 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:46,759 the person there taken out, we have a new person 202 00:12:46,799 --> 00:12:49,519 that was sworn in as an acting president, so you 203 00:12:49,639 --> 00:12:52,000 have those issues to deal with, and what we do 204 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,879 with that country going forward is something that Congress and 205 00:12:54,919 --> 00:12:56,720 the executive branch are going to have to have a 206 00:12:56,759 --> 00:12:57,759 lot of discussions about. 207 00:12:58,639 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 1: Oh, that's the understate of the day. The Congress and 208 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,639 the President are going to have a lot of discussions 209 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:06,840 about this and want to get to the court, which 210 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:08,799 a lot of the lawyers say it's going to take 211 00:13:08,799 --> 00:13:11,159 a year before they even get in front of the 212 00:13:11,279 --> 00:13:16,159 court to decide all these questions. So that's why I 213 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,840 come to you again today with I've got a lot 214 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,039 of questions, many many more questions. I don't have a 215 00:13:23,039 --> 00:13:24,679 lot of answers. We've got to wait to see what 216 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:29,039 people are going to do. The lady who was the winner, 217 00:13:30,399 --> 00:13:34,879 the proxy winner of the election last year to be president, 218 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:40,480 Maria Corina Machado, she also a lot of people asking 219 00:13:40,639 --> 00:13:45,879 why are we not installing her? Oh, she very very well, 220 00:13:45,919 --> 00:13:48,879 maybe someday, But I think what we're going to be 221 00:13:48,879 --> 00:13:54,159 pushing the current group is to get elections started, and 222 00:13:54,159 --> 00:13:57,000 they can't take place next week. That's going to take 223 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:01,080 months for putting that together as well. But you can 224 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:08,200 tell that Maria Karina Marchado is being nice about how 225 00:14:08,279 --> 00:14:10,279 President Trump pulled this whole thing off. 226 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 7: I do want to say today on behalf of the 227 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:18,120 Venislan people, how grateful we are for his sturageous vision, 228 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:24,360 the actions historic elections he has taken against these Narcolo 229 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:30,279 terrorist regime to start dismantling this structure and bringing Madudo 230 00:14:30,399 --> 00:14:34,600 to justice, which means that thirty million Venezuelans are now 231 00:14:34,759 --> 00:14:38,200 closer to freedom, but also that the United States of 232 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:41,320 America is a safer country nowadays. 233 00:14:41,559 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: Other that was a big thank you, thank you America. 234 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,159 She's waiting in the wings to see whether or not 235 00:14:47,159 --> 00:14:49,279 they can get an election going and hope that she 236 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,320 can win that thing again. As far as the overall 237 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:58,120 support behind this, Harry Enton, the statistician over at CNN, 238 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:00,000 has these results. 239 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 8: It's been a dramatic change in a direction that I 240 00:15:02,639 --> 00:15:04,440 think the President of the United States will like. Because 241 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,559 what are we looking out here? Okay, US military ousting Maduro? 242 00:15:07,759 --> 00:15:10,360 Pre ousting, what you saw was the clear plurality of 243 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,559 Americans opposed at forty seven percent, just twenty one percent support. 244 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,279 Come over to this side of the screen after the ousting. 245 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,639 Look at that the support through the roof. Now we're 246 00:15:18,679 --> 00:15:21,720 talking about thirty seven percent, well within the margin of 247 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:24,200 error right here of the opposition thirty eight percent. It 248 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,559 turns out Americans like what they deem to be successful 249 00:15:27,639 --> 00:15:30,919 foreign policy operations, and in this case, they view the 250 00:15:30,919 --> 00:15:33,120 ousting Maduro, at least up to this point as a 251 00:15:33,159 --> 00:15:35,720 success want and therefore the support way up. 252 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so people like it. What about putting Maduro, 253 00:15:40,759 --> 00:15:42,559 bringing him to the United States to put him on 254 00:15:42,679 --> 00:15:43,799 trial here. 255 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,039 Speaker 8: Part of the reason why I think that the success 256 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:47,759 number is way up. And you saw it here. What 257 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,240 was it was twenty six points in favor of opposition 258 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,639 now within the margin of error, is because they simply 259 00:15:52,679 --> 00:15:56,440 put don't like Nicholas Mduro. In fact, they believe that 260 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,000 he should be on trial for drug trafficking. Look at this, 261 00:15:59,279 --> 00:16:03,279 fifty percent of Americans favor compared to just fourteen percent 262 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,519 who opposed, So there are very few Americans here who 263 00:16:06,519 --> 00:16:11,240 oppose it. Even among Democrats, the opposition number is below 264 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:16,000 Get this, just twenty four percent is below twenty five percent. 265 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,840 So this is something that unites Republicans, it divides Democrats, 266 00:16:19,879 --> 00:16:22,720 and at this particular point, support for the operation way up. 267 00:16:23,039 --> 00:16:25,200 And in terms of those who favor the drug trafficking 268 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,720 trial for Madureau, that is a clear plar outle. And 269 00:16:27,799 --> 00:16:31,399 over time it turns out that Americans like success. That 270 00:16:31,559 --> 00:16:33,879 is what they like in Forum posse. They like success, 271 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,879 and it's not just so far in Venezuela. We can 272 00:16:36,919 --> 00:16:38,960 go back to those Iran strikes right in the middle 273 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,200 of last year and take a look here net approval 274 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,559 for the US air strikes on those Iran nuclear facilities 275 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,320 and June the net approval rating was minus nine points, 276 00:16:46,399 --> 00:16:49,080 but by July it was plus four points. So I 277 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:54,480 think the two major US operations overseas militarily, those airstrikes 278 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,240 on Iran and so far what we're seeing in Venezuela. 279 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:59,639 Both of those, the American people were quite skeptical at 280 00:16:59,679 --> 00:17:02,080 first and then came much more around to it, much 281 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:03,960 more around to Donald Trump's point of view once the 282 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,039 military chuk action. 283 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,640 Speaker 1: So people are supportive. They seem to be, but this 284 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,519 says a long road to go, and they'll be twisting 285 00:17:11,559 --> 00:17:13,440 turns and some people will be upset about it and 286 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,519 some won't. I go back again to how we handle 287 00:17:16,559 --> 00:17:19,160 this is going to be very delicate. If we come 288 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,599 in as the big brother to help them put their 289 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:24,799 country back on the road to riches and the people 290 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:27,880 will benefit from all of that, then it's going to 291 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,640 be a big celebration. If we go in and say 292 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,839 we want your oil, I think they will be feeling 293 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:38,720 like we are taking advantage of them. So we'll see. 294 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:44,119 Another country that's pushing back is Denmark because the President 295 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:49,400 has been making more comments about we need to get Denmark. 296 00:17:49,759 --> 00:17:55,880 Stephen Miller even chimed in about the fact that it's necessary. 297 00:17:55,519 --> 00:17:58,839 Speaker 9: For the United States to secure the Arctic region to 298 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:02,599 protect and defend NATO and NATO interests obviously Greenland should 299 00:18:02,599 --> 00:18:04,279 be part of the United States. And so that's a 300 00:18:04,279 --> 00:18:06,839 conversation that we're going to have as a country, that's 301 00:18:06,839 --> 00:18:08,960 the process we're going to have as a as a 302 00:18:09,079 --> 00:18:09,960 community of nation. 303 00:18:10,279 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: So he's pretty clear about the fact that it's a 304 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:16,119 conversation that we're going to have. That's that's the fun, 305 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:18,799 that's that's good to hear that there will be a conversation. 306 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:25,440 But remember, Denmark is a NATO nation and Greenland is 307 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,319 belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark, and Denmark, like I said, 308 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,759 being a NATO nation, then the NATO rule comes in 309 00:18:34,279 --> 00:18:38,480 about if one, if anybody attacks any NATO nation, all 310 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:42,279 the other NATO nations must come together to attack the attacker. 311 00:18:42,759 --> 00:18:45,519 So this is this is I don't know if the 312 00:18:45,559 --> 00:18:50,480 president is pulling people's ropes just to try to see 313 00:18:50,519 --> 00:18:53,119 if they can get a reaction. I don't know about 314 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:57,000 about Steven Miller what he's thinking at all, but I 315 00:18:57,039 --> 00:18:59,799 don't I mean, there's lots of ways to be involved 316 00:18:59,839 --> 00:19:06,480 with Denmark. In Denmark, especially Greenland could use investment. And 317 00:19:06,519 --> 00:19:09,279 if they have minerals, which we know they do, and 318 00:19:09,319 --> 00:19:11,559 they have all kinds of wonderful things that we would 319 00:19:11,839 --> 00:19:14,440 like to have access to then let's set up some 320 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:18,319 joint venture, have companies go in, spend lots of money there. 321 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,960 It'll make them richer, and we will get what we 322 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,160 want without having to take over a country. I don't 323 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,319 know where all this is going. I'm uncomfortable with it. 324 00:19:29,759 --> 00:19:33,920 I don't like it. One other news item I do 325 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,359 not like is the whole business about Minnesota. I don't 326 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:39,720 think they're alone. I think there's other states as well 327 00:19:39,759 --> 00:19:43,359 that have had lots of government fraud. But the fraud 328 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:47,839 in Minnesota has been so blatant and so clear that 329 00:19:48,039 --> 00:19:51,519 it's awfully hard to look the other way. Michael Holt 330 00:19:51,599 --> 00:19:55,000 is a state senator in the state of Minnesota. This 331 00:19:55,079 --> 00:19:58,160 is what he has to say about about Tim Wall 332 00:19:58,279 --> 00:20:00,480 saying that he's not going to run for real life. 333 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,440 That was the news that broke yesterday. And so Tim 334 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,759 Wall says he's going to stay for the rest of 335 00:20:05,799 --> 00:20:09,200 his term, but he's not going to run for re election. 336 00:20:10,279 --> 00:20:13,960 Does this Michael Holtz think that that will help him. 337 00:20:15,799 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 10: He thinks that that doing this is going to get 338 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:20,559 him off the hook. And the reality is it's not 339 00:20:20,599 --> 00:20:25,640 good enough. Minnesotans deserve and demand an immediate resignation. And honestly, 340 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,440 to that point, Donald Trumping, the dj should be looking 341 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:29,119 at charges. 342 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,599 Speaker 1: So the state Senator Michael Holt says, this won't get 343 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,039 him off the hook. Here's a whistleblower by the name 344 00:20:35,079 --> 00:20:38,079 of Scott Stillman who talks a little bit about what 345 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:39,039 he's seen. 346 00:20:39,559 --> 00:20:43,039 Speaker 11: I was a deputy sheriff with the Washington County Sheriff's Department. 347 00:20:43,079 --> 00:20:45,559 I was a detective in My job was to investigate 348 00:20:45,559 --> 00:20:47,640 computer crimes. Some of the things that I worked on 349 00:20:49,319 --> 00:20:53,759 they were daycare frauds based out of hart Many Human 350 00:20:53,799 --> 00:21:00,960 Services and they were significant. They were overwhelming. The dollar 351 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:08,480 amounts were upwards a fifteen million. I was overwhelmed with 352 00:21:08,519 --> 00:21:09,680 the data that I was received. 353 00:21:09,799 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 1: So Liz Colin is a reporter in Minneapolis and she's 354 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:20,000 been following this fraud for years. This is her latest 355 00:21:20,039 --> 00:21:21,799 update on what's going on in that state. 356 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,880 Speaker 12: Few wild weeks here in Minnesota, and we are getting, 357 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,920 since it's certainly not over by any means, all hands 358 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,000 on deck from the federal government. As we've heard these 359 00:21:30,079 --> 00:21:34,039 multiple investigations ongoing. You're right, the Walls has been in 360 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:37,079 office seven years as governor, but we're hearing again and 361 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,599 again that you know, this goes very deep. I've personally 362 00:21:39,599 --> 00:21:42,200 done reporting on this for more than a decade. It's 363 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,640 been in the news cycle in some way, shape or form. 364 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,240 But we've heard back then ten years ago that these 365 00:21:47,279 --> 00:21:51,440 cases simply were not prosecuted. That has changed and there 366 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,880 have been many prosecutions here these last few years in Minnesota. 367 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,119 So now that Governor Tim Walls has made it official 368 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,240 that he is not running for reelection, will there be 369 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,079 some kind of swap with Senator Amy Klobashar running for 370 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,960 governor in Minnesota? Will Walls avoid any accountability in this? 371 00:22:07,279 --> 00:22:10,279 But this really does run very deep, and it's easy 372 00:22:10,319 --> 00:22:14,720 to see how many people could perhaps be involved when 373 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,319 this is baked in in many cases in our legislation. 374 00:22:17,599 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 1: So apparently this isn't a surprise to anybody. The investigators 375 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,920 have been investigating and have found all kinds of fraud. 376 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,359 One time after another, they turned it over, they send 377 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:34,480 it to the prosecutors, and apparently nothing gets nothing happens. 378 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:39,000 But I mean, there's no question this has been found. 379 00:22:39,079 --> 00:22:42,640 The fraud has been found over and over and over, 380 00:22:43,279 --> 00:22:47,799 and everybody looks a different way as a blind eye heard. 381 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,559 Speaker 12: You know, from TSA agents. We've heard from HSI investigators 382 00:22:51,559 --> 00:22:53,880 back then that they would they would turn this over 383 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:55,960 again and again, they would document this, they would spend 384 00:22:56,039 --> 00:22:59,240 months on task forces going out and investigating these daycares. 385 00:22:59,279 --> 00:23:02,640 Turn these cases is then over to prosecutors where they've 386 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,920 failed to prosecute. And we're hearing from a lot of 387 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,480 those folks now, but two thousand Homeland Security investigators on 388 00:23:08,519 --> 00:23:12,240 the ground. Now we've heard federal money has been frozen 389 00:23:12,279 --> 00:23:16,200 as well, pouring into some of these programs in the past. 390 00:23:16,319 --> 00:23:18,400 So a lot has happened just in the last couple 391 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,480 of weeks, whereas it seemed so much did not a 392 00:23:21,519 --> 00:23:22,079 decade ago. 393 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:28,039 Speaker 1: So Amy Klobucharate, the Senator from Minnesota, she is apparently 394 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,640 being asked to run for governor, or maybe she wants 395 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,559 to run for governor. So what does she think about 396 00:23:34,599 --> 00:23:35,599 this whole mess? 397 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 13: He tries to stoke division and make people hate each other. 398 00:23:39,759 --> 00:23:42,519 Speaker 3: And here are the facts. In the state of Minnesota. 399 00:23:42,799 --> 00:23:46,079 Speaker 13: You have a state which he also condemned. Our entire 400 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,559 state is in the top five for Fortune five hundred 401 00:23:49,799 --> 00:23:54,240 companies per capita. Then decided to blame the Somalian population 402 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,160 eighty thousand of which, by the way, work in our schools, 403 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,880 work in our airports, help take care of our seniors, 404 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,759 and are the vast majority of which are citizens of 405 00:24:03,839 --> 00:24:05,200 the United States of America. 406 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 1: Okay, that's nice, but was there criminal activity taking place 407 00:24:09,079 --> 00:24:13,240 with any of anybody, some allions or non some alliens. 408 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 12: Well, you know, Republican lawmakers have called Minnesota government a 409 00:24:17,319 --> 00:24:20,880 racketeering operation. Some are calling for a forensic audit of 410 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,799 Minnesota's state budget to get to the bottom of all this. 411 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,960 But I've seen this for myself. There is no this 412 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,559 fraud really has been out in the open. I've seen 413 00:24:28,559 --> 00:24:31,319 these empty businesses for myself. I've seen the luxury vehicles 414 00:24:31,799 --> 00:24:35,119 parked outside. And what's interesting is, I can't tell you 415 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,039 the dramatic difference we have seen at some of these 416 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,200 sites since that viral video from a couple of weeks ago. 417 00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 1: We have busloads of children on site. 418 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 12: Now we're doing these spot checks as well, So there 419 00:24:48,519 --> 00:24:51,119 certainly has been a difference. And if there was nothing 420 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,640 to hide before, then why this increase in activity, I guess. 421 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 5: So. 422 00:24:55,319 --> 00:24:58,079 Speaker 1: The other day I got an email from Mark who 423 00:24:59,279 --> 00:25:03,720 reminded me of about Jason Lewis. Jason was a talk 424 00:25:03,759 --> 00:25:08,400 show host of Minneapolis, and he also was after I 425 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,400 had gone to Fox. I couldn't do fill ins for 426 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:15,039 Rush anymore. Jason Lewis was one of the main villains 427 00:25:15,519 --> 00:25:20,400 on the Rush Limbaugh Show. I knew of him from that, 428 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:24,400 but then he ran for Congress and won, so he 429 00:25:24,559 --> 00:25:31,279 was a congressman in Minneapolis. Well, let me play. I 430 00:25:31,319 --> 00:25:34,279 called him up when we had a nice conversation. This 431 00:25:34,319 --> 00:25:39,039 is two days ago, and there's a clipping in this 432 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,480 conversation that I'll play for you of him back in 433 00:25:42,519 --> 00:25:49,279 twenty eighteen raising Cain about the fact that that was 434 00:25:49,319 --> 00:25:53,799 so much fraud being reported in Minneapolis and Minnesota back 435 00:25:53,839 --> 00:25:58,119 in twenty eighteen. Here is my conversation with Jason Lewis. 436 00:25:58,599 --> 00:26:00,960 First of all, tell me what you're up to. 437 00:26:01,559 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 3: Well, you know what. I love Minnesota. My mother was 438 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,480 born and raised in Minnesota. I did my career in 439 00:26:09,559 --> 00:26:12,880 talk radio in Minnesota, and I represented Minnesota. But now 440 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:17,400 I've escaped. Well, I am in Florida. Been in Florida 441 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:18,519 since twenty three. 442 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,799 Speaker 1: So that's so nice because you're you're not up to 443 00:26:22,839 --> 00:26:25,480 your ears in snow today, so good for you. 444 00:26:26,039 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 3: Oh it's horrible, and I got tired of the snow 445 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,559 and it was a little bit of sort. I told 446 00:26:32,559 --> 00:26:35,359 you so aspect to it. Tom, to be honest with you, 447 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:39,359 the famous Blue state exodus, that's happening. Thought sometimes you 448 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,119 gotta you've got to put your feet where your mouth is. 449 00:26:42,319 --> 00:26:45,519 And so all left and said enough and it's getting 450 00:26:45,519 --> 00:26:47,599 worse and worse. So you know, it wasn't like we 451 00:26:47,759 --> 00:26:48,440 didn't warn them. 452 00:26:48,519 --> 00:26:53,039 Speaker 1: Well I, I, uh, you talked to me. I had 453 00:26:53,039 --> 00:26:56,480 the brilliant idea of moving from California to New York. 454 00:26:57,279 --> 00:26:57,720 What did. 455 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 3: Stepping out of the from be I got the. 456 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 1: Wrong directions I should have. There was a right turn 457 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,599 in there to go to Florida, but I missed it anyway. 458 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,559 Speaker 3: So well, you know they always say, if hell shits's over, 459 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,039 that's New York. Hell is over. 460 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:16,799 Speaker 1: That's true. So you've got you. I knew of you 461 00:27:17,599 --> 00:27:19,839 from the fact that you and I belonged to a 462 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,319 very small exclusive club. We both were fill in the 463 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:28,200 host for the Rush Limbaugh Show, and it was it 464 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:29,960 was an honor and a treat to do that. But 465 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,079 that's how I was first introduced to you. I heard 466 00:27:33,079 --> 00:27:35,119 you doing Russia show one day and I thought, man, 467 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,480 this guy's good. I liked it. Well. 468 00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:40,079 Speaker 3: It's kind of a small club and a close knit one, 469 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,279 even though often, as in our case, we didn't meet. 470 00:27:43,759 --> 00:27:45,440 I think I only met Rush once. 471 00:27:46,279 --> 00:27:49,799 Speaker 1: Oh you're kidding, wow, because he would. 472 00:27:49,799 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 3: I mean naturally when I was in New York even. 473 00:27:51,759 --> 00:27:54,440 Speaker 1: Gone, that's right. I mean, when you fill in for him, 474 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,920 it's because he's not there, so that that makes all 475 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:02,480 all the sense in the world. But I knew about 476 00:28:02,519 --> 00:28:05,480 the fact you were big success in Minneapolis Saint Paul, 477 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:11,480 and then you were syndicated by Premier, which is part 478 00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:16,440 of the iHeart family. And then I thought, where you 479 00:28:16,519 --> 00:28:18,640 are You Are you doing a podcast? Did you fall 480 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:19,640 into the same trap. 481 00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:23,039 Speaker 3: I thought I was just going to do early retirement 482 00:28:23,079 --> 00:28:25,799 and write. I do enjoy writing, written a couple of books, 483 00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:30,599 and write my substack Newslaughter still to this day. So 484 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,680 I thought I would do that. But then this congressional 485 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,319 seat opened up, and I thought, you know, maybe again, 486 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,000 you got to put your money where your mouth is. 487 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,079 And I opted to run for Congress and we shocked 488 00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:44,119 a lot of people in twenty sixteen and actually won. 489 00:28:44,759 --> 00:28:48,720 First thing I did the next morning was demand or recount, 490 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:54,599 but we so we did that, and then after I 491 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,640 ran for the Senate in twenty twenty, And there's some 492 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:01,319 interesting aspects to that in Minnesota, given that I totaled 493 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,039 the most votes of any statewide Minnesota candidate in history. 494 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,480 I think it still holds to one point four million, 495 00:29:08,079 --> 00:29:10,400 and yet we lost, were lost by one hundred and 496 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,319 fifteen hundred and sixty thousand votes. Well, if you look 497 00:29:13,359 --> 00:29:15,759 at the Somali block, it's about one hundred thousand now. 498 00:29:16,279 --> 00:29:18,960 So there are some questions starting to be raised about 499 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,720 how bad Minnesota's ballot integrity really was. And I can 500 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,920 tell you I wrote about it in my book Party Animal. 501 00:29:25,359 --> 00:29:30,480 It was horrible. Sixty percent, not six, sixty percent of 502 00:29:30,599 --> 00:29:34,319 all ballots in twenty twenty in Minnesota were absentee ballots. 503 00:29:35,039 --> 00:29:38,160 Then the Secretary of State, Mister Simon, cut a deal, 504 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,839 a consent decree with a number of left wing activist 505 00:29:40,839 --> 00:29:46,119 groups to remove the witness signature requirements, to extend deadlines, 506 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:47,680 to do all of things. 507 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 14: And so as all of these things sort of come 508 00:29:51,039 --> 00:29:55,519 to fruition or come to come to light now, it 509 00:29:55,559 --> 00:29:57,640 does have me wondering just how close we might have 510 00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:58,720 been or who knows. 511 00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:00,799 Speaker 3: Well I'm in that. 512 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: I mean, people look at me, and they call me 513 00:30:03,519 --> 00:30:07,200 a you know, an old coadure or whatever, because I 514 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,359 do not I understand the mail in ballot thing is 515 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,640 easy for a lot of people. And I grew up 516 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,839 in Seattle, so state of Washington is one of the first. 517 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,000 Oregon was first, Washington followed pretty closely with mail in mandatory. 518 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,880 Everybody gets a mail in ballot and that's what right. 519 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,440 But to me, if you really think voting is important, 520 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,920 get off your pink pillow and go down to your 521 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,799 local firehouse or wherever you vote and and do your thing. 522 00:30:34,319 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 3: But well, of course, and you you know, voting is 523 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,559 both a right and a privilege. If you have the 524 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,960 right to vote, illegal citizens don't. If you do have 525 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,599 the right to vote, it is a privilege, But if 526 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,880 you don't have it, it's not a privilege. So I'm 527 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:53,279 tired of these people talking about voting is an inherent right. No, 528 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,559 it's a privilege, and then it's the right. So and 529 00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,839 we don't get that. And so when you add you know, 530 00:31:00,079 --> 00:31:02,680 Minnesota they have same day SDRs, what it's called same 531 00:31:02,759 --> 00:31:06,400 day registration where if you bring someone who can vouch 532 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:11,279 for you, not a bill, not an ID, not a picture, 533 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,279 someone who is willing to vouch. They can cast about it. 534 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,519 So yet a storm. 535 00:31:18,759 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 1: It is a perfect storm. So I don't I don't know. 536 00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:25,319 I don't know the whole thing about the Somali community. 537 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,440 They're getting a lot of grief right now. And I mean, 538 00:31:28,519 --> 00:31:30,640 I mean, I'm I'm in New York City, man. This 539 00:31:30,799 --> 00:31:34,599 is like ethnic neighborhood one, two, three, four, five down 540 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,839 the list. And they're fine. They do what they do 541 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,480 and they enjoy their company and their ethnic grocery stores 542 00:31:41,519 --> 00:31:43,279 and all that sort of stuff. But what's with the 543 00:31:43,319 --> 00:31:45,319 Somalis in Minnesota. 544 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 3: Well, it's a classic case. And why at one point 545 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,720 in our history we had immigration quotas do you mention 546 00:31:51,839 --> 00:31:55,480 New York and the old Ellis Island era, we would 547 00:31:55,480 --> 00:32:00,720 have never let a super large community is established in 548 00:32:00,759 --> 00:32:03,519 a small state. You went to the melting bottom of 549 00:32:03,559 --> 00:32:06,160 New York and then there were still limits on the numbers. 550 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,599 And what that did, tom as you well know, is 551 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,480 it forced people to assimilate. So, yeah, they've got their 552 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,079 ethnicity and they've got their grocery stores and that's all wonderful, 553 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:19,599 but they became Americans. Well, when you transplant a large 554 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,440 number of people from Somalia from Mogadishu, who don't understand 555 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,319 American history, who don't abide by American history, who don't 556 00:32:26,319 --> 00:32:29,200 treasure American history, and you put them in large enough 557 00:32:29,319 --> 00:32:31,720 numbers where they can take over an entire neighborhood in 558 00:32:31,759 --> 00:32:36,359 Minneapolis called Cedar Riverside and it's literally called Little Mogadishu. Now, 559 00:32:37,319 --> 00:32:41,200 the failure of assimilation becomes acute. And that is what's 560 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:45,000 happening under these refugee programs. Not only are we taking 561 00:32:45,039 --> 00:32:48,400 in people who are not political refugees, they're just in 562 00:32:48,519 --> 00:32:53,880 gang torn communities or in violence prone neighborhoods. Well, that 563 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,640 was never the intent of the United Nations refugee admissions program. 564 00:32:58,079 --> 00:32:59,839 I mean it was for people from Cuba who had 565 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:05,160 been persecuted for their politics. So what we had there 566 00:33:05,279 --> 00:33:07,359 or what we still have there, is a number so 567 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,559 large that it's sort of taking on a life of 568 00:33:10,559 --> 00:33:15,160 its own. And then you give politicians like Walls who 569 00:33:15,279 --> 00:33:18,519 see it as a voting block. Jacob Fry, the mayor 570 00:33:18,519 --> 00:33:21,200 of Minneapolis, he's in his voting block. So they're not 571 00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:24,079 going to be good stewards of the taxpayer, they're not 572 00:33:24,119 --> 00:33:26,720 going to be watchdogs. They are going to curry favor 573 00:33:26,799 --> 00:33:29,839 with these people, and they're getting away with a very 574 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:34,319 large scandal that everybody knew about going back to twenty seventeen, 575 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:35,240 twenty eighteen. 576 00:33:36,519 --> 00:33:38,799 Speaker 1: So let me ask you about that. What sparked my 577 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,319 reason to reach out to you, Jason Is. I got 578 00:33:41,319 --> 00:33:44,119 an email from a gentleman by the name of Mark 579 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,920 Wise and he said, he said, I've been listening to 580 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:50,839 your show for over ten years. I used to listen 581 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,839 to Jason Lewis's show before he became a congressman, So 582 00:33:56,039 --> 00:33:58,920 that would be an interesting conversation because he said, I 583 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,200 raised a good question about Tom Emmer and the other 584 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,480 Parlazota ren taste, and so I did. The other day 585 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,519 I was talking, I said, well, Emmer was talking about 586 00:34:07,519 --> 00:34:11,760 the politicians in Minnesota. Why are they're sleep of this witch? 587 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,239 And I thought, well, wait a minute, you're a politician. 588 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,960 And Jason Shavitt was hosting to Talk a Box show 589 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:23,840 the other day and had Emmer on and asked him saying, hey, 590 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,880 Basically he said, what were you What were you doing? 591 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,679 So what do you make of all that? 592 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,400 Speaker 3: Well, I'm not going to speak for Tom, but I 593 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,000 can tell you what I was doing at a house 594 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:42,440 Educational Workforce Committee hearing. I told the country about this 595 00:34:42,559 --> 00:34:45,960 scandal back in twenty eighteen, and I said, there are 596 00:34:46,039 --> 00:34:49,199 daycare centers being defrauded with a kickback to a parent 597 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,559 who pretends to have a child. They get the money 598 00:34:51,559 --> 00:34:54,719 from the government, federal, end state, and then they send 599 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:58,239 it off through MSP Airport. And I said it in committee, 600 00:34:58,480 --> 00:34:58,920 and it's on. 601 00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 1: You know, that's really all right? All right, hold on 602 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,039 just a second. Let me see if I can engineer 603 00:35:05,079 --> 00:35:07,960 this whole thing, because what Mark sent me was a 604 00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:11,239 connection from a woman named Liz Collins. Let's see if 605 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:15,960 we can bring this up. This is you in twenty eighteen. 606 00:35:17,639 --> 00:35:20,519 Speaker 15: Situation in my home state of Minnesota, where we've got 607 00:35:20,559 --> 00:35:24,880 a number of daycare providers that are openly violating federal 608 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,800 and state laws and regulations, taking money for personal use, 609 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,079 using the money to set up a fraudulent childcare client, 610 00:35:32,159 --> 00:35:35,239 and then providing a kickback. Has been reported. This is 611 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,039 a major issue. There are allegations that well, not just several, 612 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,400 You've got twenty three childcare daycare centers either closed or 613 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,920 under investigation. The fraud may go as high as one 614 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,280 hundred million dollars. Now, think about that in fiscal year 615 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,880 twenty eighteen, Minnesota received one hundred and twenty million in 616 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:56,079 federal funding. The state contributed about fifty million and matching 617 00:35:56,119 --> 00:35:58,599 and maintenance funds. And we may have a fraud case 618 00:35:58,639 --> 00:36:01,639 of nearly one hundred million in this state, with money 619 00:36:01,679 --> 00:36:05,360 then being transferred out of the country via MSP airport. 620 00:36:05,519 --> 00:36:07,840 This is a big issue in my home state of Minnesota. 621 00:36:08,039 --> 00:36:10,199 Can you share with me what your agency is doing 622 00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,599 to investigate this? And I'm just wondering if we could 623 00:36:13,599 --> 00:36:17,760 not come up with some form of stricter enforcement to 624 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,159 monitor the states that are receiving these funds, to make 625 00:36:21,199 --> 00:36:23,519 certain that there's some sort of oversight here. This is 626 00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:25,199 very thank you for your testimony today. 627 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,280 Speaker 1: How you Beck, Thank you very much. Mister Lewis, Well, 628 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:33,039 there you go. That's twenty eighteen. And what's fascinating about 629 00:36:33,079 --> 00:36:36,559 you also brought up you were representing, of course, your 630 00:36:36,599 --> 00:36:41,840 district in Minnesota, but I'm hearing the state of Washington, 631 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:47,880 state of California. I suspect this is going on wherever everywhere. 632 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,920 Speaker 3: Well think about it. I said, one hundred million, that'd 633 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,599 be a bargain compared to what they're uncovering today. Yes, 634 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:58,000 so had somebody paid attention to this, had somebody done 635 00:36:58,119 --> 00:37:00,760 something about it. I tried to bring it to the forefront. 636 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,400 I asked for an investigation, and of course I lost 637 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:08,159 in twenty eighteen. So my successor, Representative, Angie Craig came 638 00:37:08,159 --> 00:37:11,960 in and dropped it like a lead balloon, and all 639 00:37:12,119 --> 00:37:15,960 in the rest of the Minnesota delegation did Tina Smith, 640 00:37:16,079 --> 00:37:19,719 Amy Kobishar, obviously Tim Walls. These people were in on 641 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,920 the link and nod Tom had to be That's what 642 00:37:23,079 --> 00:37:25,159 everybody's going, Oh my gosh, why didn't they do something 643 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,280 because it was benefiting them? As I mentioned earlier, they 644 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:32,320 looked at these people as one hundred thousand person voting block. 645 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:36,880 Speaker 1: Do they operate like some of the teachers' unions where 646 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:41,400 they collect their money together and they support a Democrat 647 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,119 ninety nine point nine percent of the time, and then 648 00:37:44,159 --> 00:37:48,559 the Democrat gets elected and then here comes a gravy train. 649 00:37:49,039 --> 00:37:50,000 Is that the way it works? 650 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:56,400 Speaker 3: Well? Not really. The difference is that is legal fraud. 651 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,119 What the public unions do when they lack people, They 652 00:38:01,159 --> 00:38:04,039 then go and negotiate their contract. Think about that for 653 00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:07,119 uson I know, I think any first year law student 654 00:38:07,159 --> 00:38:09,320 would see that as a conflict of interest. You elect 655 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,519 Tim Walls, then you sit down across from the negotiating 656 00:38:12,559 --> 00:38:14,119 table with him. What do you think he's going to do? 657 00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:14,400 Speaker 13: Right? 658 00:38:15,079 --> 00:38:19,400 Speaker 3: But that's sensibly legal. This is more undercover. This is 659 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,400 more under the table stuff. As as the scandal is 660 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:23,519 now revealing. 661 00:38:23,679 --> 00:38:28,400 Speaker 1: Well, and the money, they're accusing the Somali community in 662 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,880 Minnesota of taking the money and sending it to Al 663 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:37,239 Shabad in the terrorist group in Mogad. Issue is that 664 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:38,159 you think that's right? 665 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:38,719 Speaker 2: Go right? 666 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,800 Speaker 3: And there there ever been a number of people who 667 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,400 worked at TSA, who were employees of MSP Minneaples Saint 668 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,360 Paul Airport, who said they saw bags or suitcases of 669 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,920 the one hundred dollars bills. I mean, yes, that's why 670 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,719 I mentioned it. But the quick pro quote here was 671 00:38:57,519 --> 00:39:00,320 they didn't want to be transparent about this for obvious reasons. 672 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,239 But there's a reason here we are seven eight years later, 673 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,840 nine years later and nothing was done. What do you 674 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,639 suppose that reason is? It is the unmentioned I think 675 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:16,559 the legal scholars call it an implicit implicit agreement as 676 00:39:16,559 --> 00:39:20,679 opposed to explicit. We won't do much about this, We'll 677 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:22,920 drive our feet and you just keep voting for us, 678 00:39:24,519 --> 00:39:27,800 which again takes me back to the twenty twenty election. 679 00:39:28,639 --> 00:39:33,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, I so I was honored. I had I had. 680 00:39:33,199 --> 00:39:36,320 The Republican Party in California asked me to run for Congress, 681 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,119 and a friend of mine called me up and he said, 682 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,280 he said, Tom, He says, I know you can do 683 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,199 the job. The only problem is the murder rate in 684 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,760 Washington would go up. And I thought it was funny. 685 00:39:51,079 --> 00:39:52,920 But I mean, I don't know how you did it. 686 00:39:53,119 --> 00:39:56,159 I mean, were you pulling your hair out? What was 687 00:39:56,159 --> 00:39:57,119 it like being. 688 00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,480 Speaker 3: And well, I think one of the biggest problems is 689 00:40:02,519 --> 00:40:08,039 the swap continually conflats being busy with getting something done. 690 00:40:08,599 --> 00:40:11,199 So you live in fifteen minute increments on the hill 691 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,360 and they give you these nice little scheduled cards at 692 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,480 the end of each day and literally they're divided in 693 00:40:15,559 --> 00:40:19,159 fifteen minutes. You're meeting with this person, you're going to committee, 694 00:40:19,159 --> 00:40:21,280 you're going to a vote series, and you're raising money. 695 00:40:21,519 --> 00:40:24,039 Then you're back talking to constituents in your office. And 696 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,920 it all benefits the swamp because you become so busy. 697 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,840 Most people, if they're not well versed in the issues 698 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:31,000 before they get. 699 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,000 Speaker 15: There, never have time to drill down and know what's 700 00:40:34,039 --> 00:40:34,760 really important. 701 00:40:35,039 --> 00:40:37,360 Speaker 1: So as frankly, I think it's by design well and 702 00:40:37,519 --> 00:40:40,760 and the result being that you raised the red flag 703 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,320 and nothing happened, and it's died until now. 704 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:48,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, until now, until now. And if it weren't for 705 00:40:48,519 --> 00:40:50,880 the Internet finally living up to its promise, it may 706 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,119 not may not have ever serviced. 707 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,519 Speaker 1: I wonder how it's it's I wonder how. 708 00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,800 Speaker 3: You where the tentacles are going to go? 709 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,440 Speaker 1: Well, well, do you think is going to be pressured 710 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:02,599 to step down? 711 00:41:04,079 --> 00:41:09,599 Speaker 3: Here's where. Here's where Minnesota or New York or Keel 712 00:41:09,679 --> 00:41:13,360 County or Illinois problem lies. And that is the people 713 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:17,280 who should be to watch dogs. The opposition is nothing 714 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,639 of the sort. They are enablers. They call it Minnesota nice. 715 00:41:20,679 --> 00:41:22,239 So you don't want to name names. You don't want 716 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:26,440 to be too. The reason CNN went after me over 717 00:41:26,519 --> 00:41:28,800 and over and over again when I was in Congress 718 00:41:29,119 --> 00:41:31,400 is because I was a threaten. I was naming names 719 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:33,480 and they couldn't allow that. 720 00:41:33,639 --> 00:41:33,840 Speaker 1: Right. 721 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:38,920 Speaker 3: So in Minnesota, you've got a lot of these business groups. 722 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,480 You've got Republicans who turned over to Harris Walls and 723 00:41:42,519 --> 00:41:45,360 now support them because they just can't support Donald Trump. 724 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:50,679 The opposition is a fake one and they are enablers 725 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,920 that allow and frankly, there's an argument to be made 726 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,800 that they feel they've got a coming. You've got sort 727 00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:00,239 of this lily white, self loathing Lutheran community that wants 728 00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,320 to smell the burning tires during the riots, like Gwn 729 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,840 Walls said she did, because you know what, Lord at fault. 730 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:11,360 It's systemic, it's our fault. This again hurt us more? Yeah, 731 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,760 and then tell me get a real opposition. Here's what 732 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,039 I think might happen, and that is Walls. The walls 733 00:42:17,039 --> 00:42:19,840 aren't closing in on Walls, which is a wonderful iteration, 734 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,840 isn't it. But they are closing in. But then they'll 735 00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,760 they'll get somebody like an Amy Klobashar or another popular 736 00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,599 dfl or Democrat farm labor party to run in Minnesota, 737 00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:35,800 and the media will circle the wagons, the business partnerships 738 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:40,519 will circle the wagons, and the same won't change. 739 00:42:41,199 --> 00:42:47,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I I imagine it was a wonderful education. 740 00:42:47,519 --> 00:42:51,800 You got that out of it. But it sounds it 741 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,119 sounds like it sounds like that if you had stuck 742 00:42:55,159 --> 00:42:57,400 around that. Yeah, the murder rate would have gone up, 743 00:42:57,559 --> 00:43:00,079 you would you would have had it. 744 00:43:00,199 --> 00:43:02,559 Speaker 3: Well, look, it's one of the reasons I ran for 745 00:43:02,599 --> 00:43:04,239 the Senate. I didn't want to run every two years 746 00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,039 in a swing district, that's true, But I thought I 747 00:43:07,039 --> 00:43:09,639 could do more in the Senate too, senator where a 748 00:43:09,639 --> 00:43:11,679 lot of good bills go to die. So I thought 749 00:43:11,679 --> 00:43:14,239 we could help with that a little bit. But be 750 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,599 that as it name, it was very gratifying to actually 751 00:43:17,639 --> 00:43:20,440 pass legislation. We passed the tax cutting jobs at we 752 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:24,239 started the deregulation movement. We did. We were formed to 753 00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,400 be a We did a number of things, and we 754 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,639 pushed on the border hard. We actually shut the government 755 00:43:28,679 --> 00:43:31,320 down over lack of border funding in twenty eighteen, and 756 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,480 I was proud to stand by that, not run away 757 00:43:33,519 --> 00:43:38,159 from it. So it was an interesting one hundred and 758 00:43:38,199 --> 00:43:41,360 fifteenth Congress. But there are so many, as I say, 759 00:43:41,519 --> 00:43:45,440 systemic problems the way things are done that the people 760 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,599 of the power are the committee staffs. The people of 761 00:43:47,679 --> 00:43:52,159 the power are the lobbyists, labor and corporate And it's 762 00:43:52,199 --> 00:43:53,239 a real problem out. 763 00:43:53,079 --> 00:43:59,320 Speaker 1: There, sounds like it. So how can people keep in 764 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,760 touch with you? What are you doing that people can 765 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:02,400 touch base with? 766 00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:06,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Thanks Tom. If people want to find out 767 00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,559 the real Minnesota and what's really behind the scandal and 768 00:44:09,599 --> 00:44:12,119 all everything else, then go to my newsletter at Jason 769 00:44:12,199 --> 00:44:16,400 Lewis dot substack dot com. It's Jason Lewis dot substack 770 00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,320 dot com. Or pick up a book where I've got 771 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,079 it all in there and my experience in Washington called 772 00:44:21,119 --> 00:44:24,039 Party Animal The Truth about President Trump, power, politics and 773 00:44:24,079 --> 00:44:24,880 the partisan press. 774 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:30,039 Speaker 1: Sounds interesting. I will read it. I will go get that. 775 00:44:30,039 --> 00:44:33,880 That'd be great, all right, Jason, finally, nice to meet you. 776 00:44:34,039 --> 00:44:36,960 This way, maybe I can figure out a way to 777 00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,440 go to Florida and get some sunshine and stop buying. 778 00:44:40,559 --> 00:44:42,199 Speaker 3: Yeah, and we'll see it up. 779 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you can buy lunch or okay, I'll buy lunch. 780 00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:48,840 Speaker 3: Well. The great the great thing about people like you 781 00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,559 and me, Tom, is we can say it's finally good 782 00:44:51,559 --> 00:44:53,559 to meet you and at the same time say it's 783 00:44:53,559 --> 00:44:54,679 great to hear your voice again. 784 00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:59,519 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, because I I did. I was. 785 00:44:59,639 --> 00:44:59,960 Speaker 2: I was. 786 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,800 Speaker 1: I was introduced to you via your work with the 787 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:09,480 Russell Inbar Show, and I thought you yeah, so and 788 00:45:09,599 --> 00:45:12,280 me with you, my friend. All right, Jason, thank you 789 00:45:12,599 --> 00:45:15,480 very much. Have a wonderful twenty twenty twenty six and 790 00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:17,239 hopefully we can touch base again. 791 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,920 Speaker 3: You bet Tom and send me a copy and I'll 792 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:22,159 get it out there on social too. 793 00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,480 Speaker 1: Perfect. Thank you, Achuli. 794 00:45:24,639 --> 00:45:27,719 Speaker 3: Happy to do it. Bye bye, okay bye byeye. 795 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:32,039 Speaker 1: So an interesting guy who was a very talented Takshaw 796 00:45:32,039 --> 00:45:37,079 host now doing writing instead. One more item before we 797 00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:41,840 I know we're going long today, but I got word 798 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:46,880 this morning that Doug LaMalfa, who was a congressman in 799 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:53,360 the California First Congressional District, which represented a big piece 800 00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:57,119 of northern California, and a lot of you think California 801 00:45:57,159 --> 00:45:59,679 is nothing but a bunch of blue blue blue Democrats. 802 00:46:00,519 --> 00:46:04,400 Not in northern California, not in the section that LaMalfa 803 00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:13,400 was representing, very pro Trump, very Republican, and this is 804 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:18,159 an area that with the new redistricting maps, Doug LaMalfa, 805 00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,519 after being a congressman therefore, I don't know, twelve fourteen 806 00:46:21,599 --> 00:46:26,320 years something like that, was going to have to run 807 00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:31,239 against a Bay Area people, which is very Democrat. They've rechanged. 808 00:46:31,599 --> 00:46:34,440 They basically he was a target they wanted to get 809 00:46:34,519 --> 00:46:38,840 rid of, and sadly he passed away this morning. The 810 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,760 only word I have is that it was emergency surgery 811 00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:47,280 and he passed away at the hospital, so it was 812 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:53,199 brought up today. The President was over at a GOP 813 00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:58,760 start off the year meeting with all the Republicans from Congress, 814 00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:04,480 and he started the meeting off with this comment about 815 00:47:04,599 --> 00:47:05,679 Doug Lomalfa. 816 00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,360 Speaker 16: And that's why I want to just say that before 817 00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,760 we go any further, I want to express our tremendous 818 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,360 sorrow at the loss of a great member, great, great, 819 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:20,079 great member, Congressman Doug LaMalfa, who passed away yesterday, as 820 00:47:20,079 --> 00:47:24,280 you probably have heard, and he was the leader of 821 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:29,039 the Western Caucus, a fierce champion on California water issues. 822 00:47:29,079 --> 00:47:30,360 Speaker 3: He was great on water. 823 00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:34,320 Speaker 16: He wanted to release the water hit screamed out, A 824 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:38,119 true defender of American children, he was a defender of everybody. 825 00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,039 And our hearts go out to his wife, Jill and 826 00:47:41,119 --> 00:47:43,559 his entire family. You know, he voted with me one 827 00:47:43,599 --> 00:47:47,199 hundred percent of the time. And with Doug, I never 828 00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,880 had a call. He was with us right from the beginning. 829 00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:51,760 I love those guys, I must say, I probably love 830 00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,719 them the best. You know, the guys that I don't 831 00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:56,840 have to call. They know we're doing the right thing. 832 00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,760 And you know, I spoke to Doug, but I didn't 833 00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:03,559 speak about I mean, I've had a problem and I 834 00:48:03,679 --> 00:48:08,400 was really I was really saddened by his passing and 835 00:48:08,639 --> 00:48:11,880 was thinking about not even doing the speech in his honor. 836 00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,599 But then I decided that I have to do it 837 00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,119 in his honor. I'll do it in his honor because 838 00:48:18,199 --> 00:48:20,719 he would have wanted it that way, would have wanted 839 00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:24,400 it that way. He would have do that speech. Are 840 00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,440 you are you kidding me? Do the speege big guy. 841 00:48:28,199 --> 00:48:31,280 But he was a fantastic person. Man that that was. 842 00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:32,280 Speaker 3: A quick one. I don't know. 843 00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:35,559 Speaker 16: I don't know quite yet what happened, but boy, it's 844 00:48:35,559 --> 00:48:36,199 a tarp one. 845 00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,519 Speaker 3: He was just with us. He was our friend, all 846 00:48:38,559 --> 00:48:39,559 of us, every one of us. 847 00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:43,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, he was very popular, very well liked. And the 848 00:48:43,519 --> 00:48:48,039 problem with this redistrict he map is that who the governor. 849 00:48:48,079 --> 00:48:54,199 Governor Newsom has fourteen days to basically call for an election, 850 00:48:55,159 --> 00:48:59,239 and then after that has to be held I don't 851 00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:02,760 know before the couple of months something like that. But 852 00:49:03,159 --> 00:49:07,079 the point is there's going to be another Congressman, probably 853 00:49:07,159 --> 00:49:10,599 Republican because it's a very red part of California, that 854 00:49:10,639 --> 00:49:12,639 will be elected. But then we'll have to go up 855 00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:17,719 against Democrats in the San Francisco Bay Area and the 856 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:22,559 two don't have anything in common. Way up in northern California, 857 00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:28,639 it's not anything like the Bay Area. So it's it's 858 00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:33,599 it's sad. It's a sad story. Well liked man will 859 00:49:33,639 --> 00:49:39,039 be greatly missed. Sixty five years of age and a 860 00:49:39,119 --> 00:49:43,559 rice farmer that the great big guy was, that he 861 00:49:43,639 --> 00:49:50,679 knew water and agriculture issues backward and forward. So rest 862 00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:55,119 in peace, Douglamalfa, and our prayers for his family. So 863 00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:58,880 with that, let's take a look at how Wallstreet did today, 864 00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:05,880 because is pretty exciting. Records all over the place. The 865 00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:12,599 Dow Jones Industrials up four hundred eighty four to forty 866 00:50:12,679 --> 00:50:15,039 nine thousand and four to sixty two. That's a new 867 00:50:15,079 --> 00:50:20,119 record high. SMP up forty two to sixty nine forty four, 868 00:50:20,199 --> 00:50:23,519 that's a new record high. The Nasdaq up one hundred 869 00:50:23,519 --> 00:50:27,599 and fifty one to twenty three thousand and five forty seven. 870 00:50:27,639 --> 00:50:30,960 I believe that's a new record high. Gold up fifty 871 00:50:31,079 --> 00:50:34,239 four dollars. That is a new record high four thousand, 872 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,000 five hundred and five dollars for an ounce of gold. 873 00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:41,159 The only minus sign I see on the majors oil 874 00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:45,159 down a buck today, down to fifty six dollars now 875 00:50:45,679 --> 00:50:48,599 for one barrel of oil. So that's it for today. 876 00:50:48,679 --> 00:50:52,760 Thank you for coming by. We will be back again tomorrow. 877 00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:53,880 Hope to see you then