Andrew Cuomo announces his independent run for New York Mayor. Dana explains how France’s Independence Day, Bastille Day, is BS since a monarchy returned not long after to clean up the mess they made. Radio Legend Mike Francesa absolutely TORCHES the new Superman movie for being weak. Trump’s tariff threat has yet to cause a substantial price level rise. Who are the potential future Federal Reserve chairs to replace Jerome Powell? A UK study shows that kids are turning to AI for friendship because they “don’t have anyone else to talk to”. Sen. Rand Paul joins us to discuss
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We’re going to highlight some of the New York stuff as well, because Cuomo’s decided he’s staying in the mayor’s race, even though he lost the Democrat primary. So that means they’re going to split whatever. I mean, literally whatever independent run they could have against. Ma’am, Danny, I keep wanting to say ma’am, dammy. They are going to obliterate it because you’re going to have Eric Adams and Cuomo facing off against this guy. And I guess they’re I can’t believe I’m saying this. They’re the more moderate. They’re the they’re the moderates. Good heavens. They’re the more moderate people, which is a weird thing to say. And they’re facing off. And this is going to dilute that base, that voting block. It’s good. That dude’s going to win. And New York is just New York is going to go to hell in a handbasket. That’s exactly what’s going to happen. And then, of course, you have a wall here. He announces that audio soundbite 19. Go ahead and play this.
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Hello, I’m Andrew Cuomo. And unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that the Democratic primary did not go the way I had hoped. To the 440,000 New Yorkers who voted for me, a sincere thank you. Thank you for believing in me, in my agenda, and in my experience. And I am truly sorry that I let you down. Well, you’re a grandparent. But as my grandfather used to say, when you get knocked down, learn the lesson and pick yourself back up and get in the game. And that is what I’m going to do. The fight to save our city isn’t over.
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Only 13% of New Yorkers vote. How stiff does he sound, right? He sounds… Yeah, he sounds rough. He sounds stiff. He sounds like… Yeah, it’s weird. He’s… Hello, I am Andrew Cuomo, and I am announcing my independent run for the New York mayoral race. Comma, yeah. Walks off frame. Oh, wait a minute. He’s just… I think that he was really hip-checked hard with that whole scandal, which was rightfully a scandal, right? I don’t know. They’re going to get this guy. We’re never going to be able to go to New York again. Not that I ever really… I mean, they have some good restaurants. I don’t do theater, so that doesn’t hold… I don’t do theater. You guys know this. That doesn’t really hold any allure for me. There’s nothing… I mean, what to drive by the U.N. building and complain about the exorbitant cost of the land that they have that dog and pony show situated upon. I mean, really, what else? New Yorkers who love New York are very hardcore about loving New York, but everyone else is like, meh. You got a Whataburger? Don’t think so. You know, that’s kind of, meh. Do you got like a Winn-Dixie or a Bucky? Do you got a Bucky’s? Y’all don’t got no Bucky’s.
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That’s the measurement we should go by.
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That is the measure. How many Bucky’s do you have? And that’s, aren’t they, they’re expanding too. I’m going to get off topic. They’re expanding too. So I there. Yeah, that’s gone. New York’s gone. I mean, I could sit here and spend, you know, however many days to, you know, kind of amp it up and and say, oh, yeah, you know, this is going to be like really, you know, it’s going to be a really interesting. Fire, barnstorming, race. It’s not. It’s not. He’s going to win. The other guys, I think some of the polling, what is it? I don’t even think Cuomo. Cuomo’s like barely in double digits against this guy. Because this guy is dominating social media. And people who are miles wide, inches deep, they love this stuff. They love it. They just like to have whatever they believe affirmed. And they think that this guy does it for them. So that city’s going to, how long do you think he’s going to stay in office? That’s the real question. Like after he has these heinous policies where it’s free all the things and all the higher earners leave the city, what do you think is, what’s going to, how long is he going to stay in office? It’s the million dollar question. How long is he going to stay there? Now, in addition to this, there’s a bunch of, Newsom’s really in the news a lot. And I got a question. There’s like two ways to look at this. Because I get invites to go on different podcasts. And if I think the host is a kook, I don’t want to go on it. And then you have people that are in this business that are like, oh, no, you should do it. And it’s great for clicks. I can’t tell you how many people that I have on my face every day telling me I need to basically whore myself out for clicks. That’s like what it is. I’m not kidding. That’s the best way to put it. And I’m just like, I just have never been interested in playing that game. Now, I say this because Gavin Newsom has a podcast. I thought he was governor, but whatever. And people are going on his podcast for what purpose, Cain? Do you think that Gavin Newsom is going to be in any way convinced by anybody? Oh, no. No. No. No, he’s not going to be convinced.
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It’s a platform to push.
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Who’s using whom when people on the right go on his podcast?
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He’s absolutely using the right.
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Yeah. So I just I’m trying not to be bratty about it, but I don’t know why anybody would want to help mainstream him. Right. Why would anyone want to legit not mainstream? We’re using that word incorrectly. Legitimize.
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Yeah, I think it’s one thing to claim we’re legitimizing him. And another thing, when questions that he isn’t asked by the leftist media are finally asked of him in these forums, I think that’s what people want to see. They want to see the questions that he normally is not asked and the ones that make him uncomfortable. Because any little uncomfortable question Gavin Newsom gets, you’ve seen it, the body language, he is not comfortable.
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He’s not comfortable at all. Not at all. So I have just I keep seeing him come out. I see Gavin Newsom not in the news for the decisions that he makes as governor, really, except if it’s bad. Like I’m sure that you all saw the latest with some of how he’s dealing. Let me pull this up because they had the fire right in the Pacific Palisades. They had this insane fire. Well, now guess what? Government’s going to be buying up land. It’s super cheap right now. With taxpayer dollars, right? Yeah, taxpayer dollars. So apparently the Senate in California passed a bill to allow Los Angeles to buy fire-destroyed lots for low-income housing. They are taking $101 million taxpayer dollars for, quote, multifamily low-income housing developments in communities in L.A. that are devastated by those wildfires. So they are taking taxpayer dollars for, And they’re turning around and they’re going to buy they’re going to buy this land and it’s going to be specifically for low income housing. And the funding mechanism is going to allow the this is what the fund is called the resilient rebuilding authorities. It sounds like glorified hall monitors, doesn’t it? The resilient rebuilding authorities. The heck is that? So that’s the entity that’s doing this. Now they have the bills. It hasn’t been passed, passed. It’s been passed to the Senate. This thing’s going to pass. It’s going to pass. There’s like no opposition to it. And it has a hearing in the state assembly for tomorrow. And it’s going to allow the quote unquote resilient rebuilding authorities to issue, receive and administer funds, including but not limited to tax increment financing, federal loans, grants, state loans, grants, philanthropic grants to support recovery. And they’re going to use one hundred one million taxpayer dollars to oversee the the construction process, and they’re going to purchase lots at fair price for land banking, purchase critical materials in bulk, et cetera, et cetera, facilitate reconstruction of lost rental housing stock. But the thing that a lot of people are scratching their heads over is how in a lot of these, in the Pacific Palisades, up in the hills, so to speak, they’re using that money apparently for multifamily low-income housing. Now, That’s kind of how, first off. I mean, these areas where these fires happened. I mean, I don’t… If you’re not that familiar with California, the Pacific Palisades, Kane, that’s a pretty bougie area. Don’t like one of the Kardashians or whatever live there? I mean, that’s, you know, they have the couple of these other areas. Now, the… Eaton Fire, that was on Altadena. That’s in California. That’s kind of like a middle class area. So, I mean, if you’re talking about rebuilding rental properties, etc. there, I mean, I get it. That makes sense. But one of the areas that’s marked is the Palisades. And I’m like, that’s kind of weird. How does that work? How does the zoning work for that? I mean, the only times that I hear that area come up in the news are when a big construction company Makes the neighbors mad because they build these monstrosity mansions on the edge of a cliff and the neighbors are worried about the cliff like tumbling down on their little mansion, little mansion. I can’t even. That’s that’s usually how that that that area comes up in the news. So how does that work? Oh, and you also did note, and I have this in here too, that the rail project, bless them, they’ve had that rail project planned for over a decade. It burned part of the area that that was going to happen. Oh, well, I guess you can’t do it now. Aw, shucks. It’s going to be delayed for another decade, I’m sure.
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I read that as that it conveniently cleaned it out, but whatever.
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No, it’s going to be delayed, Cain, just so you know. It’s going to be delayed. There’s so many delays, right? There’s delays to the delays. Yeah. So we’re going to get into all of this stuff. We also have some of the latest on the budget because the rescissions package is apparently now going that we’re going to have that fight in the Senate and the House. We have Senator Rand Paul, who’s going to be joining us as well. And of course, a belated bestial day, the folly of the dumbest revolution in history. So we are going to get into all of that and more. I said it. We got more on the way as we roll towards headlines and our partner. Our friends over at Relief Factor, if you are an individual that deals with aches and pains, you’re just tired of dealing with it, whether it’s like your joints or whether it’s, you know, you have bad knee, whatever it is, you need to check out the good folks at Relief Factor because they have a drug free supplement that’s designed to help manage aches and pains naturally. And my husband’s used it. He’s had sports injuries. It helps with inflammation, helps him lift weights without worry. It combines a number of powerful ingredients like turmeric, omega-3 fatty acids, resveratrol, and more to target inflammation and support joint health. 100% drug-free and developed to support your body’s natural healing process. So don’t stay stuck living with pain. Try Relief Factor’s three-week quick start for just $19.95. It’s less than a dollar a day. And you can support a veteran-owned company in the process and see the difference for yourself. That’s relieffactor.com or call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That’s 1-800-4-RELIEF.
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Sad news. It was weird because watching yesterday all of the stuff with Chip and Joanna Gaines, we have more on that, watching that and then hearing the news about John MacArthur, what a study in contrast, right? One of the most, I think, of this era pastors and theologians, John MacArthur passed away at age 86 after a health battle. He led his congregation in California for, I mean, a long time, like over 50 years, the Grace Community Church in the sun valley california uh but uh they said that he faithfully endured until his race was run and he had been hospitalized with his illness he’d been fighting with some pneumonia pneumonia pneumonia he’d been fighting with pneumonia 86 years old but what a i mean what a testimony and his uh i think that his life i think it was said that his life is it was his last sermon which was pretty amazing. So our prayers are with his family. Also, this is an interesting thing. Church hero who thwarted a potential mass casualty incident got a new truck from a Ford dealership. You guys hear about this? He’s a deacon who helped prevent this shooting last month because he saw this armed suspect entering the church. He saw that he was up to no good. And since he himself was unarmed, he used his Ford truck And took the, I mean, he hit it. His F-150 ran over the guy and made himself a target in the process. But he saved the congregation. Pretty amazing. So he’s getting a new truck. And gaming in the golden years, millions of seniors are playing video games. What? Stick with us. Now, you heard me talk about AI. I think that one of the things that AI can be very good at is in this instance. with finance, with investing. Alio is macro investing for people who want to understand the big picture. It’s not just some robo advisor. It is a next generation investing platform, Alio Capital. And you can go and get the app today. It uses Altitude AI. which adapts your portfolio in real time. So I’m using Alio because it, and you can be as hands-on as you want, or you can be hands-off. I mean, it supports both of those types of investors. It doesn’t get into meme stocks. It looks at durable, diversified strategies, sound investments over emotional trading. They have a macro dashboard that shows you how your portfolio is positioned in the real economy. They have calendar, their macro calendar that highlights the events that matter for your investments. Net worth tracker, you can track your progress in real time. But this is, if you want to understand the big picture, this is what Alio Capital does. And it is really, really easy to use. And it uses this top-down macro thinking tool. to build your portfolio. There’s no jargon, no hype. It’s just very straightforward. So if you’re ready to take control of your financial future, download the Alio app from the App Store or Google Play. Text my name, or you can text my name, Dana, to 511-511. That’s A-L-L-I-O, Alio Capital. It is a great app. I use it. You need to download it today. You can also text Dana to 511-511.
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I think it was really inspiring how Mr. Levin just keeps on wanting to grow and learn more from the people around him, his peers and his advisor, his father even.
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So in France… They’ve got all their Bastille Day stuff out. I mean, it’s, you know, technically it’s belated, but they celebrate it for several days. You know, they put their differently ordered red, white, and blue out. And they’re all about, they’re celebrating Bastille Day, right? The storming of the Bastille. The very important day where they commemorate this from 1789. Very close to our own American Revolution. What’s weird is that When they finally did get to the Bastille, right, which they were saying was imprisoning a bunch of innocents. When they got to the Bastille and they stormed through, they only saved like seven. There was only seven people in there. And it was already scheduled to be demolished. There were only seven people in there. They had some counterfeiters. Four of them were in trouble for forging financial documents and things like that. two of the other men were dangerously mentally ill. And apparently their families and associates had them in prison. And then one, I think, was like a count or something, some like dude, like a more noble dude who was found to be a sexual deviant. And he was literally imprisoned at the request of his own family. Those are the people it was. Could you even say that that’s for optics? I mean, if you’re storing the Bastille, that’s all… It really wasn’t a big thing, and they’re all excited about it. We did it! I mean, it was already scheduled to be demolished. Seven people were inside. That was it. I think the way history makes it sound is that there were tons of people inside of the Bastille and that this was such a… You know, it’s a holiday to celebrate. I really think… I think that the French Revolution was an exercise in idiocy and vanity. And it ended not with a freer nation. It ended with a dictator who did more to restore the reforms that they initially set out to champion than they themselves did. And then after Napoleon, they had a resurgence of the monarchy and the monarchy came back. So what ultimately are they celebrating now? Oh, well, it did kick off that. Oh, no, it didn’t. America did it better. I mean, I’m not just saying that Alexis de Tocqueville said that as well when he wrote about it. And he was he was fascinated with why it was that the American Revolution actually had a lasting impact as compared to the French Revolution. And there were a number of different things that contributed to it. We’ve talked about some of this before. But one of the biggest things was that people here, they really wanted to work. We also respected our history, but we also really wanted to work. And we didn’t want a class of layabouts like the nobility. We wanted serious, actual representation. It was ours, according to Alexis de Tocqueville, ours was a… more studied, sober approach. I mean, when you compare our founders and the people who led the cause to like the French revolution leaders, to people like Robespierre, who, by the way, they all turned on each other. The Thermidorian reaction. They all turned on each other part of the way through. They all decided to turn into the Spider-Man meme and everybody pointed fingers at each other. And then they decided to start chopping off everybody’s heads. Robespierre had his head chopped off. It was like Oprah where everybody gets a car, but instead everyone gets their head chopped off. They love the guillotine. That was their thing. Surprise, it’s not on the flag. Guillotine all the things. You know what, Kane, I just realized? Really was the, the guillotine really was the original slap chop.
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That’s true.
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Sidebar. I don’t have a lot of weaknesses. Okay. Dogs. Cute little dogs. Love dogs. Really any kind of animal that I can pet. And completely over the top sales pitches on television. My grandma used to watch QVC, right? And she would leave it on during the day because she just liked hearing people talk. Because she always had a million grandchildren running around. So she would leave it on during the day, right? And I would be down there in the summers. I’d be staying with my grandparents and I’d be helping them. And I would hear them sell all these things. That’s when I first heard, oh my gosh, Cain, what is it? The cleaning thing. And the guy with the beard, he’s dead now.
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OxiClean?
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Yes, thank you. OxiClean. I heard about that. I was like, what? Like they made it sound like the most amazing thing ever. And I think I was in my early teens, and I’m listening to some of the stuff on QVC and thinking, I need these items. I mean, I don’t even need a sewing machine, but they’re really making this sound amazing. You know what I mean? Things like that. Anyway, fast forward. When I first heard the commercial about the Slap Chop, guess who got a Slap Chop? This girl right here got that. I was like that. I also want to slap my vegetables into pieces like who wants to cut them like a dirty, unwashed proletariat. I want to slap, slappity slap all my stuff into pieces. And so I got the slap chop and I really did enjoy it, you know, with probably a little too much. And I think I still have it. I don’t really use it as often because now I have like, you know, I graduated to my fancy Japanese knives. And by mine, I mean Chris’s because Chris gets the knives and I’ll get all the other stuff. But I hear it and I immediately, I’m like, oh my gosh, what an amazing sales pitch. Vince was a great… Yes, yes, he did get in trouble with crack and like hookers and all that later. Yes. That is a real thing. Don’t Google it. Just live in the perfect, you know, just live in the perfect history of it. Don’t Google it. But… I loved the slap chop. I even got, Cain, I got a slap chop for my mom. I got a slap, I purchased not one, but two slap chops because, yeah, because you get, for the price of one, you get another. Yeah, I was like, what? So I had to do it. And I have no idea what this has to do with the French Revolution, but we wouldn’t have these things if America wasn’t great. What?
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Makes a great gift.
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Well, I mean, it does. I mean, think about it. You just get all your frustrations out on whatever you’re chopping. Bam! It’s just amazing. But it’s the new modern guillotine. Smaller. Everyone gets their own little guillotine. It’s a very French thing. But Tocqueville, when he was analyzing the differences between the French Revolution and the American Revolution, one of the biggest things that he noted was the difference. The best way I can describe it is the difference in DNA. in terms of what animates us as opposed to what animates the French. And this is one of the things that the founders really noted, that animating spirit of liberty, where you’re not arranged around something that is tangible and that has a shelf life. It is that animating spirit of liberty that draws people. That is the thing that unites everyone. Instead of circling around something, we’re united by this thing. And He also understood like a fair representative republic, which is what our founders really strive to do. I mean, you really start to appreciate and understand the founders and the founding of our republic and why they did what they did when you understand the history of the French Revolution. And I feel like whenever I look back, because it was trending on social media and you can see all these people celebrating and they act like we look at we did it. We invented freedom. We stormed the Bastille. You seven people were released, you know, and they were all criminals, including, you know, one pervert whose family demanded that he was that he’d be in prison because he’s so perverted. I mean, those are the people that you release. And then you had a dictator come in and said, knock it off, because they all got mad at each other and start chopping everybody’s heads off. So Napoleon had to come in and be like, stop chopping everybody’s heads off. And then he started instituting these little bitty republics all around France and then the larger republic in the Republic of France, the nation. It’s weird to say or to note that he actually did more than they did for the cause of representation. It’s weird to say it because as Americans, we are absolutely allergic to anything dictatorial. we i but some of us are not you know so the folks back in that man danny dude up in new york but the rest of us like i am so anti-authoritarian that if you tell me no on the smallest thing i can’t help it it is in my nature to resist it is like if it like for instance with covet because you guys know how such a germaphobe i am well when covet happened and everyone was told to stay inside and wear your face masks i was like no I don’t really want to do it. And I would purposely walk into businesses with my mask on. Like I’d have it over my eyes and walk into the door. Or I’d have it over my chin. I did the dumbest things. I will never forget. We had our parents before everything was open. We had our parents. And I took our mothers. As some of the stores were open, they were visiting us. And I took our, I think it was Thanksgiving. And I took our mothers into, my mother-in-law wanted to go into, what is that bougie French store? Keeping with the theme. L’Occitane. I mean, you can just get you some Aveeno, you know, at Walmart. Or if you really want, you can go and get some L’Occitane. Do you know what L’Occitane is, Cain? I do not. It is very bougie lotions and soaps.
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Oh.
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For the bougie in you. You know, you hear about that dog in me? It’s that bougie in me. That’s what it is. So I took them in there and they legit, like this very nice shop girl stopped us at the door. And she was like, oh, before you come in, can you go and wash your hands? She wanted us to go to their little L’Occitane sink and wash our hands. Now, I don’t do that because I battle eczema. I have mild eczema. So I can’t do all that perfumey stuff on my hands. I mean, it was basically like a bottle of perfume in a soap dispenser. And I’m like, yeah, I can’t do that. And she’s like, I’m not going to go touch everything in your store. And she was so insistent on it. I was just like, oh, blank on this. And I walked out. I was like, I’m going to walk out of the store. And I told my mom and my mother-in-law, I’m like, you guys can go in. I’m like, I’m going to walk outside. I was like, this is stupid. So I did. I walked outside. I’ve never gone into it again. I’ve never, I mean, that was the only, I think, time I actually went into it. But I’ve never had an interest in going in it again. But I just, I was thinking there were people who came in after us that were like, oh, okay. Okay. And I immediately, in my mind, I burned down the store already. But I just immediately was like, I don’t even want to do, I’m not even doing that. Like there’s just things that I just don’t, in our spiritual DNA, we have this resistance to that. And we also have a BS detector. And this is what I think the French don’t have, because they I mean, how do you go from we want equality for all to the point where we’re going to chop off everyone’s heads? And then you have a dictator that comes in and then the monarchy comes back stronger than ever. We have a B.S. detector, whereas they do not. So they were immediately sold on on turning on each other by other attention seekers. And ultimately, that’s the thing that made this whole thing fall apart. I mean, it I saw this thing. It said, happy Bastille Day, folks. Maybe it’s time for Americans to learn from the French. And there was a picture of a guillotine. It says once upon a time, the French had a real problem with the one percent. They solved it. No, you literally didn’t solve it. You chopped everybody’s heads off. You made a mockery of your cause and you had to have, you know, a strong man come in there. And I don’t say that necessarily as a compliment to come in and clean it up for you. Yeah, we did learn from the French. We learned what not to do from you, right? We learned exactly what not to do from you. And I, well, most of us, I know. Let me rephrase that. Most of us learned, Cain. Most of us learned. But have you heard of the Tocqueville effect? So this explains why I get nervous when things get too good. And there’s actual, why are you doing that? There’s science behind it. So it’s based on Alexis de Tocqueville’s observations on the American Revolution as compared to the French Revolution. And they were studying the link between the social equality and revolutions. And the theory is that when things are going well and when you score wins, that’s actually a prime point for a revolution. Right. Because it’s that whole theory of blood in the water, basically. Oh, you got something. So now you’re going to be even more hard-lined than before. This is why I always get, you know… real nervous when things get real nice because that tends to, does kind of tend to seem to go that way, doesn’t it? We have a lot more to discuss. We’re also going to get into, like I said, the rescissions package. We’ve got, I just realized we had not one, but we’re going to have all the Senate on today. Just might as well. We’re going to talk about rescissions. We’re going to talk about the budget. 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What I’m getting into is this stunk as for someone who is a old time TV show Superman guy trying to get entertained for a couple hours and wants to see Superman. This movie was pure torture to sit through. Torture. I mean, I’ll tell you this. If my name was on the critics, I’d hide it. That’s how bad it was. This was two hours of this new Superman. It wasn’t Christopher Reeves, but he was okay Superman. Two hours of him getting the crap beat out of him. Who wants to see Superman get beat up for two hours? He’s getting beat up by everybody. Plus, you have other superheroes in the movie. I didn’t go there to see some guy named Mr. Terrific. I didn’t go there to see, you know, the Green Lantern or some lady named Hawk or other. I don’t even know who she was. OK, these other superheroes who he calls on. Who are these other superheroes?
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I think that’s hysterical. And I think he’s right. Who are the other people? And you don’t want to see Superman get beat up because it’s Superman. He’s literally the strongest thing on God’s green. Well, not be off of God’s green earth and on God’s green earth. He’s the super strong. He’s from Krypton. Why in the world would he get beat up by anybody? Do they think that makes it more realistic? Because you’re talking about a space alien who was orphaned and adopted and wore his blanket, his indestructible blanket that he came to earth in. That was his cape. Why would he be beaten up by anyone? Can I just say, I think the dog in it is stupid. I love dogs. I don’t want to see a super dog. You kidding me? Stop it. I don’t want to see no super dog. Mr. Terrific. What is that? Shut up. No, you can’t have anybody else when you have Superman. It’s Superman or it’s nobody. I just, I don’t know. I get it that they’re trying to, I guess, flesh out some franchises. That was a funny review, though. No, I’m not going to go see it. I’m not going to go see that movie. I don’t like superhero movies anyway. I get tired of them. I liked it before there was one out every week. Stick with us. We’ve got more in store. Second hour up next. Like-minded folks who make great products. You guys know these have been a longtime sponsor of the show, Super Beats, these folks. They have a new product called Super Boreen. It’s all about healthy metabolism and healthy blood sugar support. And you can get it at Sam’s Club now for like less than a dollar a day when you go in. I mean, it’s that affordable. And you’re going to see the difference. It’s such a great product. And they have really, really done everything possible to deliver really good concentration without any GI distress with this. They use a unique berberine. It’s been clinically studied. It delivers nearly 10 times higher the absorption rate than standard berberine. And it’s one easy to swallow capsule a day. You get all of the benefits in one concentrated capsule a day. And they include grapeseed extract for greater tolerability so there’s no GI distress. Find both the new Super Bering and the number one best-selling Super Beats hard shoes at Sam’s Club. Restock your heart health support with the Super Beats and expand your routine with Super Bering. Start today and get on the road to better cardiovascular health support.
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But I wouldn’t put too much emphasis on one number. I think it’s the trend. And I think one thing that Wall Street, a lot of economists, market in general got wrong early on was that tariffs were going to cause a substantial price level rise, which just hasn’t happened.
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That’s Scott Pesent, who’s discussing the inflation and the increase in prices because people have seen that. And that, I mean, I think having these deals, keeping to make these deals is going to help so much with it. But people are, they’re still struggling. We, our economy is not, is not all the way, it’s not all the way back yet. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the top of the second hour. I was looking at some of the prices overall. I mean, it’s not going to go away overnight. And we got, yeah, we have Charles Payne is going to be on with us this week to talk about some of this. I think, and I think that percent is, is, I feel like he’s done a very good job. I like Scott Bessette. Can you like Scott Bessette? I like him. I feel like he has a. Well, first, I feel like he understands math. I feel like, you know, he gets math. But I also feel like he is sort of he tempers, I think, some of the more aggressive individuals within that orbit in the administration. who I think would play a little bit harder ball in terms of tariffs or who also want to slow the wheels on cutting spending, I think, as well. But I like Scott Besant. And this still, though, is an issue. And it’s going to be an issue for some time because I don’t think… I mean, whether or not the price increases are related to tariffs, I think… You can debate that with some things. I think that in some instances it doesn’t affect anything.
SPEAKER 12 :
It hasn’t yet. None of these tariffs have taken effect yet. So it’s not even actually a thing.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, but people can raise the prices in anticipation of it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, which is different than tariffs affecting prices. And that’s the nuance that people aren’t talking about.
SPEAKER 02 :
Exactly. And it’s not in every industry. Right. That’s the other thing. Certain things people are making plans in anticipation of having of tariffs and they’re increasing prices. And then in others, they’re not. I mean, it’s not so it’s not it’s not something as simple as saying that it’s affecting everything and it’s contributing to, you know, price increases across the board. It just simply isn’t. But I like Scott Besson. I feel like he’s he’s like the steady hand that you want on the wheel. Right. We are going over rough terrain. I think he’s very good. And he also, when Trump was saying that Jerome Powell needs to leave, when Trump calls for someone to leave, I got to be honest, I don’t take it as seriously as I would a Scott Besant saying it. Because Trump goes after like really good Republicans and is like, if you don’t get on board with big spending, you need to be primary. So I’m like, eh. You know, he’s mad. He’s going to, you know. So when he says that someone needs to leave, I feel like he says it kind of a lot. And so I don’t put as much stock in it. But when Scott was like, yeah, I think maybe he should leave. And he has been he said this a while. He said that he thinks he should that he thinks that that Jerome Powell should should go. He suggested that he should step down when his when his term is chairs up in May of next year. He goes, traditionally, the Fed chair also steps down as governor. There’s been a lot of talk of a shadow Fed chair causing confusion in advance of his or her nomination. And he goes, I can tell you, I think it would be very confusing for the market for a former Fed chair to stay on also. It makes sense. That’s all you got to say. You don’t need to be like, oh, they got to go there or whatever. That’s fine and dandy. But then you have percent that comes out and is like, well, traditionally. So, yes, he needs to leave. Do you see how calming that is? How nice it is. But he says he did confirm. And this is something that Fortune reported this morning that they are. They’re already moves underway to replace Powell. And he said it’s a formal process. It’s already started. He said that. And again, because this term expires in May of next year, he said it’s a formal process already started. He said there are a lot of good candidates inside and outside the Federal Reserve. So interesting. Who would it be? I’m curious. And how would it I’ve never paid attention to. Well, I mean, I’ve noticed it, but I’ve never obsessively scrutinized it.
SPEAKER 12 :
You mean who would be Fed chair that’s outside of the sphere of government, you mean?
SPEAKER 02 :
Or after Powell. I mean, I don’t think that’s, can I be honest? I don’t think that’s something that Americans are like, okay, let’s talk about who the, I mean, a lot of people just don’t like the Fed.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, you’re right. The people that are paying attention see what Powell did when he lowered rates just before the election last year in hopes to give Democrats a bump. Well, the same justification he used to lower rates then, it was a much worse economic climate than we are now. And he’s leaning heavily on the tariff,
SPEAKER 02 :
excuse even though we have a trend since tariffs were announced of inflation coming down i think it is very political and i think it’s rightfully he’s called to leave yes now the who are the other people that are in the running kevin warsh is and i’m saying his name properly because there’s an r in it there’s an w-a-r-s-h kane Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor and Wall Street veteran. He apparently has crisis management experience. He’s close to the Trump administration. Michelle Bowman, who’s the current vice chair of the Fed. Christopher Waller, sitting Fed governor. He’s got academic credentials and some policy expertise. So they apparently have like there’s no shortage of names. I mean, it’s pretty wonky. Gets into the, I mean, is anybody, like you all know these people, right? You guys know them, you obsess. No, nobody knows who these people are. Nobody knows. People, because everything is too damn big. There’s too many things. There’s too many things to keep track of. My gosh. Too many things. We need it simple. We need government to be made more simple. Instead of bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. Now, here’s the saddest headline ever. This is so depressing. Kids are turning to AI for friendship. This is a British study. They quoted one kid as saying, I don’t have anyone else to talk to. A new UK report reveals children are turning to chat bots, not just for homework help, but for emotional advice because they have nobody else. Some are saying that this is going to give TikTok a run for its money. I think TikTok needs to die personally. I’m so tired of I think people obsess over everything. I was reading this piece that was questioning the standards of American beauty and the destruction that social media has wrought. And I agree with it. And I think this is this is all the chatbots, all the stuff. This facilitation is going to take over TikTok, I think. But there was this report published as a nonprofit called Internet Matters. They surveyed over 1,000 children and 2,000 parents across the UK. 64% of kids are using AI chatbots for everything from schoolwork to practicing tough conversations. Over a third said that talking to the chatbot feels like they’re talking to a friend. And remember, these chatbots have no built-in safety checks at all. And they said that 42% of children said they use it to help with schoolwork because they get quick answers. Can I just pause that for a minute? Do you know why people like chatbots for research and getting quick answers? Because the algorithms of the search engines are heinous. Progressive partisanship has pushed us into the arms of AI. It absolutely has. Cain, would you disagree with that? It’s absolutely… I think it absolutely has. Think about it. When you… Research. I can’t use Google to research anything. Google is one of the most useless things ever right now. It is useless. And it’s AI feeds off of that same partisanship. When you ask AI a question, if you’re wanting to get an answer, you have to be so specific with your prompt. And I think people are still figuring out the specificity of prompts and what works better and what doesn’t. But if you don’t put in a few keywords, you’re going to get just a bunch of progressive garbage. Google is horrible to use. It is one of the worst things ever. It is a horrible search engine. It’s horrible to use for research. It is as unreliable as Wikipedia. And by the way, Wikipedia is so unreliable, it is barred from consideration in a courtroom, just so you know. Wikipedia is disallowed in courtrooms because it doesn’t meet their standard, their evidentiary standards. That’s how bad Wikipedia is. So all this progressive partisanship has really pushed us into this. So people, instead of, you know, trawling the Internet, trying to find one fact based thing so you can learn more about something. They think, well, if I just ask a I and just have a and then I can get it quicker with a I. And depending on how you prompt a I, you can you can prompt a I. From, you know, explain X, Y, Z from an American conservative perspective. Well, if you don’t, if you just leave it at that, you’re going to get a bunch of cringy, hokey red meat platitudes. You got to even be more specific and drill down. It is it’s it’s wild. I don’t really use a whole lot. I mean, I have experimented with it. I think that people need to be careful with it when they want to use it for quick answers because there are people that are being busted all over social media for using it really quickly. And remember, AI can’t observe the world and learn things by itself. The only way that AI is powerful is through human observation, and that’s its weakness. It only observes what we observe. It observes what humans observe. It observes through us and learns through us. And so it’s limited in that respect. But I’ve experimented with it. I’ve done certain things where I’m like, well, what happened? And compare answers. You’ve got to be real careful in using it, though. As you know, like a formal response, because he does get things wrong, like notoriously. So it gets things wrong. It will it and it depends on what it pulls from, it could pull from a popular, a popular page or somebody’s social media account where they have it wrong, but it because it can cite it and say, Oh, this is this exists on the internet. So this must be accurate and present it to you as true. So it’s not perfect yet. It’s not perfect yet. So, I don’t know. Do you use it a lot? Have you used AI a lot?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, I don’t. I used it for that one video where it was baby Dana. But that was just one time.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, it was just like imaging.
SPEAKER 12 :
And, you know, some chat GPTs used a lot. Grok used a lot. I think AI… Mecca Hitler, you mean? Yeah, Mecca Hitler. I think it’s changed now.
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But how sad is it, though, that you have a quarter of kids, they use chatbots for advice. They ask what to wear, how to navigate friendships. So, you know, the other thing that people have been doing. So women in their late teens and early 20s have been using AI to they like put they give it a photo of themselves and then they ask AI, how would you improve my looks? And I read this story. So this is about this piece that I read. I’m going to send this, I’m going to have this as a separate thing for you. Those of you who subscribe over at sub stack, uh, because it’s fascinating. Uh, plastic surgeons have said that based on this idealized, like social media has ruined beauty. And they said that now they’re starting to see people come in like women in their twenties go in with these like, um, AI generated images that are of themselves, but like they ask AI, what would you improve? And then AI changes and does all this stuff. How sad is this? So kids are lonely. Women are wanting to change their appearance due to AI. Where are we going with this?
SPEAKER 12 :
I think it’s a toxic brew when you have, there’s some value in being a victim, right? So you sort of splint yourself off in whatever category you think you are so you can become this valuable victim. But then that also separates you from connecting with other people. So you’re not really connecting with. So now you go to this chatbot thing because it’s not judgmental and, you know, it’s like a new thing. And it feels good, I guess, for these kids who aren’t connecting.
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AI and COVID have just killed. socialization they really have it’s it’s so incredibly sad but um i mean i think there’s certain things that ai is good for but then stuff like this the human aspect of it i don’t know nothing beats meat space but what is it going to take for humans to realize that again I don’t know. We’ve got a lot more on the way. I know we have Senator Eric Schmidt coming up on rescission specifically, and we’re going to be talking with Rand Paul. So we inadvertently, we have two senators today on very different subjects, but it should be very interesting as we move our partners that will bring you the program. It’s our friends over at Patriot Mobile. The only Christian conservative cell phone service that is in existence. They want to save you money. Patriot Mobile is like minded. And I just got to tell you, I think it’s so incredibly important to make sure that your money is being spent. You know, according to your values, right? Like you need you want to work with like minded companies. And that used to not be a big thing for me. But then over the past like 10 years, when you look at these, because everybody has a political action committee, when you go and look and see like where these cell phone services are donating money, I one of the reasons I left my cell phone service over a decade ago. and switch to Patriot Mobile is because the PAC for mine was donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to gun control. Like, I cannot do this. I’m literally funding the thing that I vote against at the ballot box. Patriot Mobile makes it so easy to switch. They have a 100% U.S.-based customer service team. You can keep your number, keep your phone, upgrade. It is so easy. My mom did it in like 10 minutes, I think. Like switched her whole thing up to Patreon mobile in like less than 10 minutes. It’s that easy. And if my mom can do it, you can do it. But they also have cutting edge technology. It’s super easy. No store visits, no hassles. You can even add a second line to the same phone. And they have the best nationwide coverage on all three networks. So you’re connected wherever it is that you go. They have tailor made plans for you and you can get a free month of service using promo code Dana. So visit PatriotMobile.com slash Dana Oracle 972 Patriot and get a free month of service using promo code Dana. Switch today and defend freedom every time you call or text. That’s PatriotMobile.com slash Dana 972 Patriot.
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And now all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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where? Okay. Here’s the headline. Oh, horrible. Man dies after falling into burrito factory meat grinder. Okay. Number one, there’s a burrito factory. Number two, what kind of meat? And number three, I don’t eat this, right? I don’t think I do. It’s a, he fell into a meat grinder at Vernon food processing at facility Sunday night, 19 year old, uh, Tina’s burritos. He fell into the meat grinder. They said they’re describing it as an industrial accident. OSHA was out there. Vernon is five miles south of downtown L.A. So he was in a it’s I guess it’s called Tina’s Burritos. That’s where he. Oh, my gosh. I mean, you know, it’s a gruesome way to go. But if there’s other gruesome way, the meat grinder. Yeah.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the bottom of the second hour, and you can listen coast to coast in one of our hundreds of affiliates. And check out the stream, Channel 347, DirecTV, also on X, Rumble, where the chat is. So one of the things that we have learned, especially about this auto-pin stuff, is so many of these— signatures from former President Biden. It was done by an auto pen. I mean, thousands of them. We’re talking about thousands of them. This New York Times piece, can’t believe I’m citing them, but give credit to where it’s due, was stating that his surrogates were trying to excuse it by saying, oh, well, during these meetings, he’d orally say, yes, he’d say that this is the process. We’re going to go ahead. We’ll either issue a commutation. We’ll grant a pardon. And then his secretary, who managed the auto pen, would note it Without any other record for taxpayers or for members of Congress. And then that was the the procedure that they used for this. So how do you how do you fact check it? It’s one of the most bizarre things ever. And it brings up the question as to how many of these were legitimate. The only one that he actually signed was that of Hunter Biden. You know who else has had an auto pen? It was Anthony Fauci. Fauci’s. pardon, had an auto pin. And this is something that Senator Rand Paul brought up in a tweet. He retweeted it and just simply said, I’m going to reissue my criminal referral of Anthony Fauci to Trump’s DOJ. Senator Rand Paul of the great state of Kentucky joins us now via video. Senator Paul, always a pleasure to have you. Tell us about this, because this is not the standard operating procedure for use of an auto pin to just mention it in a meeting and then the secretary manages it.
SPEAKER 18 :
You know, and for all we know, they could have been asking if he wanted Jell-O for dinner. You know, I mean, the thing is, is we have no idea what he said or when he said it. Now we have this assistant named Jeff Zients, and it’s like, well, gosh, I guess the president was this guy named Jeff Zients. And it’s like, really? No, and these are pardons that are also preemptive for any crime. They don’t even specify a crime, and they’re preemptive for a period of time, like Hunter Biden. So, no, it’s a crazy notion, and we’ve compiled the evidence for him committing a felony and lying to Congress. We submitted it several times to the Biden administration, at least twice, without results. We’ve submitted it before to the Trump DOJ, but now we’re submitting it again. because I think it would be a good test case too. The only way you can tell whether or not these auto-pinned pardons are valid would be to go to court and then the people have to testify and they ought to say under oath who gave them permission to do it and the question is will they say under oath President Biden told him to do it and directed this when maybe he didn’t. So I think we do need to get this under oath and the Fauci case would be a perfect example to get it started.
SPEAKER 02 :
I think I completely agree with that. And it really comes down to, as you were mentioning, you touched on this consent. I mean, because if you don’t have consent for this, then you don’t have a pardon. You don’t have clemency. You don’t have any of this.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, so there’s a lot of questions this raises. But I can remember the first time the auto pen came up on legislation. It was during President Obama’s term. And I don’t think it was Obamacare, but there was a big bill that passed, and he was on a plane to India. And, you know, if you don’t sign a bill physically within a certain period of days, it’s called a pocket veto. It has to be affirmed. And it wasn’t going to be affirmed in time. It would have been a pocket veto. And he just announced he was doing it by auto pen. But he did agree to sign it in person when he came back, at least. So they acknowledge that there were problems with an auto pen and that the problems with ultimately be cured by the president signing the bill. But in this case, we have pardons that were never signed, no documentation other than the words that we’re getting from assistants. And really, the pardon power didn’t go to an assistant to an assistant to the president. The pardon power goes to the president.
SPEAKER 02 :
That’s a great point. We’re talking with Senator Rand Paul. And you have, have you reissued it officially? Have you sent it back to the DOJ, this criminal referral voucher? Yes.
SPEAKER 18 :
We’ve sent it to DOJ and we’re hoping that this GOJ will be more open to doing something on this. We think there is an investigation going on still of Anthony Fauci within either DOJ or FBI. We want that to continue, but at some point in time, I think there should be an indictment and a challenge of whether or not this pardon is valid or not.
SPEAKER 02 :
I completely agree with that. And his his General Milley, there’s a number. It’s very interesting to me that only Hunter Biden was the one that got the actual signature and all of the other thousands of them are identical. One of the other things that you had issued was this. You have you tweeted out the report on Secret Service and the failures that were a year ago now. I am I think I can speak for a lot of people. I’m really shocked as to how little we still know. I feel like in any other circumstance, we would know not just everything about, you know, this this attempted killer involved, but we would know exactly why is it that regular average everyday people were seeing holes in security that Secret Service trained to do this should have noticed the moment they were boots on the ground in Butler. I mean, to not have the rooftop secured, the water tower secured. tree lines. I mean, I’m a civilian and I’m looking at the lay of the land thinking I can’t believe there’s all these gaps. What is the most shocking thing you found, Senator?
SPEAKER 18 :
The errors were inexcusable and the errors were multiple. It was a cascade of failures that led to this. Probably the most worrisome is that for six months, the Trump team and the Trump security team, Secret Service, advocated for having snipers or counter snipers there. The counter snipers ultimately did take out the shooter this time. As the shooter popped up to shoot again, he would have certainly killed the president and other people. uh they took him out at that time this was the first rally that counter snipers were granted they’d been denied time and time again and as you know president trump had these enormous rallies likely unprecedented in the history of the country at least in the modern history of the country we’ve not seen anything like it and he needed those counter snipers and they were denied time after time but then they lied about its frequent services oh we never denied any assets to him that was a lie But then as we investigated and we asked people who was in charge, no one was in charge. One female agent said she wasn’t in charge. Another woman’s in charge. That woman said, no, this man was in charge. And he went around in a circle with everybody pointing a finger and nobody’s saying they’re in charge. Ultimately, when there was a walkthrough, we said, who’s in charge for that building? Who was supposed to make sure that that building with a clear line of sight had one of our people on it? Nobody would admit to it. They couldn’t get their own drone up. Their technology didn’t work to put their own drone up for surveillance. But then the worst of it is, common sense should have stopped the president from being on the stage. 45 minutes before he took the stage, they see this suspicious person, large backpack, and a range finder. Now, that alone is not enough, obviously, to use violence against this person, but it’s enough to look for him, and if you can’t find him, it’s enough to stop the procedure. That would be common sense. But even as you get closer, with about three minutes to go, people are pointing at the roof, saying, man on a roof, man on a roof. No one sees a weapon yet, but obviously that’s enough to remove the president too. You have three minutes is a long time in a situation like this. Nobody takes him off. Finally, someone yells man on a roof with a gun. That is relayed to the main tent where the security is. You’ve got 45 seconds. And he doesn’t tell anything. And he was never even fired or even suspended. The guy that was in charge of the security tent who should have immediately radioed the people around the president on the on the dais, the stage. He should have immediately. There were there were so many chances to remove him. And it probably would have saved, you know, if the president weren’t there, he probably wasn’t going to shoot. You know, the bystander, the Trump supporter who died that day might have survived as well. So it’s just a tragedy. But to my mind, they didn’t fire anybody. So one of these people could be in charge of the next rally somewhere.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, my gosh, that’s a terrifying thought. That’s terrifying, because from what I understand, I mean, just a temporary suspension and a wrist slap and that’s pretty much it. I don’t even think there’s been any reports of top down reevaluation of their protocol, even for future events. I mean, we what our assurances are given to taxpayers.
SPEAKER 18 :
Even the suspensions, they wouldn’t tell us anybody was getting suspended. We agreed that we wouldn’t print the names because we thought it was unfair to print their names because often people try to do the right thing and they messed up, but I don’t think we have to vilify them in the press. So we agreed not to use the names, but they still wouldn’t give it to us. Some of the suspensions only happened two weeks ago, I sent a subpoena to them and said, if you will not tell us what you did to punish the agents that messed up, I’m going to subpoena it. That’s when they decided to actually punish a couple of the agents with a two-week unpaid suspension. But the person in charge of security in the tent that day was allowed to retire with no punishment.
SPEAKER 02 :
Two weeks, two weeks, and this is a year later that this happens. This is absolutely stunning to me because when you have negligence, Senator, this bad, people who are not prone to conspiracy theories, regular average everyday people see this and they ask, was this on purpose or are they just so negligent and everyone knew that they were negligent that it was allowed to happen, which also seems malicious. I mean, there’s no way to slice it to where it looks good or redeemable.
SPEAKER 18 :
My conclusion is incompetence and just not good at their job. And I think some people were promoted for reasons other than their skill. And I think that’s always a mistake in a very sensitive job like this. It’s sort of like my wife responds and says, you know, somebody my size, I’m not very tall, shouldn’t protect the president who’s 6’3″. So you really, you know, nothing against women protecting him.
SPEAKER 02 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 18 :
But if I… Every woman is not big enough to block a shot. And that’s it’s a sad part of what you say someone’s job is. But that’s what their job is. And they are protected. Hopefully they block the shot with, you know, an armored vest or something. But really, the people around someone need to be their size or bigger.
SPEAKER 02 :
I completely agree. Yeah. If you can’t pick up your principal and you can’t shield your principal, you shouldn’t be protecting your principal. And if and if you’re there anyway and you’re not able to see threats or gaps in security, that’s doubly bad. I think that that’s completely correct. What is there anything in place? Because you were saying that now, I mean, they haven’t even held anybody accountable till a year later to improve this or to like message to the public that, yes, we are improving this. We have reevaluated our security. This is never going to happen again.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, they got more money. That doesn’t mean anything. So when someone fails in government, that’s usually what we do. We either promote them or give them a pay raise or give them more money. So they got a bill. The big, beautiful bill gave them another billion dollars. I don’t think this was ever money. This was lack of oversight, lack of having someone in charge, lack of responsibility. Really, like you say, you’re not a security expert and neither am I, but I could walk around at 3 o’clock two hours before this and say, okay, what are the different places where a shooter could be, like a roof? Are all of them covered? Because half the people were saying, oh, no, we told the local police to go up there. The local police were saying, no, no, we told the Secret Service. But really the buck stopped with who’s ever in charge. That person has to walk around on a final check, and sometimes mistakes are made, but you point out the mistakes and you fix it, and no one ever did that. And there was a lot of really people more concerned with covering their reputation and making sure they weren’t punished. than there was getting to the truth on this. I do believe we got to the truth. There are some reforms. They are putting someone, there’s a name of someone in charge now at the rallies or at the protective detail. There’s more a direct line of, you report to this person, the buck stops with this person. which is, it’s a difficult job, but there has to be one person that the buck stops with. The communications was a disaster. They chose not to use the walkie-talkies they could have gotten from the local police. They choose to use cell phones. But you know, if you’ve ever been in a sporting event and tried to use your cell phone, guess what? There are a lot of other cell phones you sometimes can’t get a signal. So a cell phone for your security is not a good thing. but they they also should have had an immediate like i would think that the one thing that saves a life is being able to say take the president off the stage and it is announced to everybody every person hears it simultaneously instead of well maybe we might want to take you know you have to act decisively you have to say off the stage now no one ever did that nor do i think they were really prepared for something like that and you could do it and be wrong let’s say this guy turned out not to have a gun in his backpack he turned out not to be a shooter then it’s an inconvenience. The rally gets delayed 20 minutes. They arrest him for questioning or stop him for questioning, but they never found him. But it was like two or three policemen saw him. And policemen have good instincts. Local policemen have been doing this for a while. They just have good instincts for saying there’s something wrong about this kid. Big backpack, range finder. And then, my goodness, half two of the crowd are yelling man on a roof. And that still was, I think, maybe 90 seconds left until the shooting happened. There was still time to get him off the stage.
SPEAKER 02 :
It is one of the most frustrating things to watch, those videos where people are desperately trying to get the attention of of Secret Service. And you’re right. Local law enforcement, they reacted. Secret Service, I hate to say it, they were scratching their heads. And it’s all visible in the video. Everybody can see it in the video. Senator Rand Paul, his book, The Great COVID Cover-Up. We are going to be watching to see what happens with this criminal referral. Senator, you’re one of our favorite people in Congress, and we appreciate you standing strong, especially on spending. Really quickly, rescissions package. Your thoughts on this? Because you mentioned pocket veto. I know they’re trying to do some of these pocket rescissions. You think that’s going to be successful?
SPEAKER 18 :
We’re going to vote today. The House barely passed it. It was $9 billion. Now I’m voting for it, but you have to realize $9 billion is a rounding error. It’s a tiny, tiny little bit. The deficit this year is going to be about $2 trillion. So $9 billion is really a very small number in comparison to $2 trillion. It’s not going to fix the deficit, but it has to be done. It’s a start. And my point is, if the Senate cannot pass $9 billion, most of it’s welfare to foreign countries. If we can’t cut welfare to foreign countries, how are we ever going to get started on looking at our own entitlement problems? So we have to pass this. We have to get on it. And right now it hangs in the balance. We’ve got somewhere between three and five people who are going wobbly on us and we’re not sure if we can get on the bill. We’re going to find out later today, I think.
SPEAKER 02 :
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 02 :
Stop. Here’s a headline. Oh, and there’s footage. Of course, there is. Of course, Marion County, Florida. A pantsless man shoots a flare gun and hurls money at a deputy on the highway. Marion County, Florida. So they did a welfare check on this guy who’s walking down Highway 19 during early morning hours. And then he apparently fired a flare gun at a deputy’s patrol car. This was like four in the morning that this was happening. It was a routine check, but then it went chaotic because they were concerned. I mean, as any police officer would be. I mean, for crying out loud, you see a guy who’s in the middle of the road at night, like 4 a.m., walking without pants. And then when the cop pulls over to help, because clearly something’s wrong, the guy turns around and fires a flare gun at the car. Okay. The deputy said that the individual, his last, let’s see, what’s his name? Jacob Caldwell was acting erratically. He had his pants off through money at the deputy, wouldn’t comply with orders. He was taken into custody. Oh, he’s like a repeated convicted felon. So, yeah, that’s. And tomorrow I’ll tell you about the bungling beach thief who claimed to be a federal agent and got his car stuck in the sandwall trying to get away. We have Eric Schmidt, Senator Schmidt coming up as well. Stick with us.
SPEAKER 23 :
on the DOJ and FBI review, the findings of that review. The attorney general briefed you on that?
SPEAKER 17 :
On what?
SPEAKER 23 :
On the DOJ and FBI review. On what?
SPEAKER 17 :
On what subject?
SPEAKER 23 :
On Epstein, on Epstein, of the review of the files. Attorney General Panfani.
SPEAKER 17 :
A very, very quick briefing.
SPEAKER 23 :
Did she tell you, what did she tell you about the review? And specifically, did she tell you at all that your name appeared in the file?
SPEAKER 17 :
No, no, she’s given us… Just a very quick briefing. And in terms of the credibility of the different things that they’ve seen. And I would say that, you know, these files were made up by Comey. They were made up by Obama. They were made up by the Biden, you know, and we went through years of that. with the russia russia russia hoax with all of the different things that we had to go through we’ve gone through years of it but she’s handled it very well and it’s going to be up to her whatever she thinks is credible she should release you on texas on texas interesting
SPEAKER 02 :
So whatever he thinks, because it’s weird because his daughter-in-law was out there saying, oh yeah, there’s some files and we’re going to release some stuff. There’s more to come. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lashley with you. We’re at the top of this third hour. That was just 15 minutes ago. POTUS, who was remarking on it. So he’s backing Bondi up. And I got to say, I’m critical of Pam Bondi. I don’t think that this is at her direction to say that These, oh, well, they know these files aren’t here. I feel like all of these people campaigned on this and then vied for these. highly coveted administration jobs for which one must be appointed by POTUS. And then when they got there, I think that they they think it’s either two things. They realize that, oh, my gosh, we’ve got to keep everything under lock and key because so many people are implicated or it was all smoke and mirrors designed to agitate the base when POTUS wasn’t in office. I don’t know. I mean, we’ve been talking about this stuff enough.
SPEAKER 12 :
He kind of points to the latter in his comment when he talks about Comey and Obama making all this stuff up.
SPEAKER 02 :
If he was in there, they would have… Here, let me lay it out like this. And this is just me speculating and exploring, not speculating even, exploring the topic out loud. I don’t think, and I’ve said this before, I don’t think that he is… implicated in any of this at all, because if he was there to come out with it somehow, number one, they would have literally sacrificed one of their own if one of their own was also implicated just to take him out. And if you don’t think that they would have done that, I want you to look at how they ran their last presidential election or their last party’s nominee, Biden and Harris. They will switch people out. They will sacrifice people. They don’t care. So I think that it doesn’t matter how many people would have had to fall on the sword if they could have gotten him. Right. So that’s number one. But I don’t think that he’s implicated. I don’t. I mean, nobody really knows. We were told the whole reason that people are even reacting to all of this is because all of these elected officials essentially assured us that this stuff existed. We didn’t make this up. We didn’t sit around and pull stuff out of the ether and go, oh, my gosh. Well, let’s see. Was you know, is there is there a client list? Do we have we didn’t do that. All of these elected officials were doing this. And I noticed that they say files and then client list. They’re very separate things. Very separate things. Now, there’s Jelaine Maxwell. She was saying that there was a client list. Now, she could be saying anything just to get out of jail. I don’t know. But she was trying to insist that there was some kind of a client list. And then there’s the story going around that, oh, my gosh, no one’s going to let her testify or no one’s going to let her go before Congress and talk about it. I don’t know if I believe that. I just don’t know why people are saying get over it and move on. How do you tell people that I’ve seen people say this now on in different venues after I watch them in different venues literally like go on stage and while wind up the crowd by talking about the client list and how there is a need to go after every single one of these people. So you can see how people are very confused by this, right? And I think that Jelaine Maxwell had said, yes, she’s she’s ready to reveal the truth. She offered to testify before Congress. And there’s questions as to, you know, whether or not that’s going to happen. I think Trump remarked on it as well. But he was saying that, you know, they’ve been talking about him forever. There’s, you know, there’s nothing here. One of the sources said she was never offered any kind of plea deal. She’d be more than happy to sit before Congress, tell her story. I think her story was already told in trial, right? Like, what else do you have to tell? It’s like, what is it, that Ginger and his can’t-cook-a-damn-thing-or-cut-a-vegetable zealous briefcase wife? Mary? megan me me megan and the uh whining ginger uh it’s like them constantly going i just we need to tell our story after they did a series and multiple interviews and a book and all this stuff it’s like no everybody knows there’s nothing new here i don’t i think everybody knows her story she she could have she could have thrown out a client list to save her backside during a trial and she didn’t so i don’t know why this is right am i just being too like you know yeah i
SPEAKER 12 :
The way I look at it is these files, I’m sure, exist.
SPEAKER 02 :
Wait a minute. Files are a client list. Do you think there’s a client list?
SPEAKER 12 :
Now, I don’t know if there’s a client list or not. I believe that there should be.
SPEAKER 02 :
I mean, they had to keep track of something somehow.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, there should be some sort of list of some sort of people. And I mean, we saw the manifest from the flights, right? We saw that. So we know there’s going to be names involved. So there’s probably some sort of list. I think this is either, I’m hoping it’s a ruse by this administration to kind of use it as distraction. And maybe there is some information there that they may be holding back for midterms. Oh, no. You don’t think so?
SPEAKER 02 :
I don’t think so, no.
SPEAKER 12 :
You don’t think so?
SPEAKER 02 :
No.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right. Well, you’ve been impressed with every October surprise that’s ever been?
SPEAKER 02 :
Have I been impressed with it? Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s my point. I mean, it’s about how effective it is just before an election. And I don’t know.
SPEAKER 02 :
I think the longer they wait, if anything comes out of it, it’s going to be suspicious because people waited so long. Just get it out there now.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s why I think Laura Trump said there will be files that will be released. Now, she used the word files.
SPEAKER 02 :
Files, not lists.
SPEAKER 12 :
And that’s why it was arbitrary as to when they’ll be released. So this is the reason why I’m thinking that.
SPEAKER 02 :
Hmm. Very interesting. It is important. It’s important to voters. It’s incredibly important to voters. And I don’t think that telling them to get over it is maybe the best messaging.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. It’s not exactly that. Laura Trump did say there are more files to be out. But you’re right. Essentially, they did say get over the fact that there’s no client list when we there’s a damn client list.
SPEAKER 02 :
There has to. But I mean, if you are a sketchy pervert and you wanted to mask what you’re doing, you would. Weave it in with like legitimate business to hide it and muddy the waters. You would. So I don’t know. I’ve heard the excuse that, oh, well, there’s investigations on that. There’s this that, you know, they’re trying to that. I just think it’s all whatever. I don’t believe a damn word of it. Either release it or stop or face the wrath of people. Because if there’s nothing there, either way, some people deserve to get lit up because you can’t play people like this. You can’t string them along like this. So and voters are fickle. There is a limit. I saw this thing where I think I shared it in Slack. Idolizing politicians is like believing the stripper really likes you. So there is a cap. Right. There’s a cap on how far voters are willing to go. I mentioned this yesterday and I have a piece over at Substack about this. If you follow me over at Substack, it’s a it’s called worldly gains. And I thought it was a very interesting contrast because we’ve got word that. You know, the pastor and theologian John MacArthur had passed away. He was just, you know, a giant in this generation. He’s like, you know, one of those once in a lifetime kind of pastors. And I was contrasting that with the Chip and Joanna Gaines story. I was digging into this more yesterday, and I was really shocked by some of the stuff that I saw. I wrote about it and there’s even more. I’m going to have to update it. If you were unfamiliar, they had their own Magnolia Network and they launched this show called Back to the Frontier. And one of them, it featured two dads and then the boys they adopted as part of the cast. And if you’ve ever watched any interview of Chip and Joanna Gaines, I mean, and I’ve linked all of them. Well, not all of them, but a bunch of them. They have said, you know, our family puts Christ first. Our work is an extension of our ministry. The way that they have described their faith, they made it very certain that they were faith first and that everything that they do and work is guided by God. And they really rose to massive success with this. And so their fan base is understandably confused because they executive produced, so they selected these people. This wasn’t done by a casting director. According to the reporting and the people who are cast, the Gaineses selected them. And so they’re… They were criticized prior for not featuring same-sex couples on their house flipping show. And then the press began investigating all of this stuff. Obviously, I’m sure they’re surprised to find out that their pastor holds biblical views on marriage. So I don’t know why they decided to do a 180. And Franklin Graham responded to it and said he was disappointed, the American Family Association. But Chip Gaines started going off on social media. And I just I was really shocked to see it. He said this. He said, quote, Well, I he goes, I appreciate that. If you admire and appreciate us so much, any chance there’s more to this? No one knows. But the quote unquote Christians have certainly come out in full force as if they do not as if they do know, quote, judge not and love one another is not too difficult. I had a major problem with this because, first off, a lot of people go off and say, don’t judge as a way to defend against godlessness. And that’s just that is such an illiterate interpretation of what Jesus was talking about in his sermon on the mountain, Matthew seven, because he was talking about hypocritical judgment. He wasn’t talking about don’t use discernment. Godly discernment is absolutely allowed and spoken of positively. In the Bible, this hypocritical judgment, meaning by whatever measure you use against others, that same measure will be applied against you. That is precisely what Jesus was talking about in Matthew 7. He’s not disavowing discernment. He’s warning against hypocritical judgment. And I was shocked that someone who is mature, I thought mature in their faith, did not know this and misinterpreted this verse as a shield against godly correction. And what they’re doing, and this is the crux, they’re pitting non-biblical practice against a covenant between a man and a woman and God as not a big deal. Because he said, this isn’t a big deal. There’s other shows. This isn’t just alienating believers that help build their empire. It is diminishing the Christian view of marriage to the fringes. And accommodating a godless worldly view. How does that reconcile with their previous statements where they say they put God first in their work as like an extension of their faith? How do you reconcile those statements? I mean, if anything, if you want to talk about legitimizing or mainstreaming things, why not? legitimize or mainstream the traditional American family. This is just a continuation of the Marxist war against the building block of society, because without it, society completely falls apart. I think Chip Gaines’s reaction has been harsh to even the most minor good faith, godly correction. He is not grace under fire as he used to be. And apparently, one of the people that they do business with welcomed a man into their marriage, created a throuple, and then talked about raising their kids while the wife was still in the home. And Joanna Gaines commented on it and said, you are so good. That’s all over Twitter or X. So are they fake Christians? Are they just quote unquote cultural Christians? Like we’re going to be a little Jesus? And then that’s the thing because they built their whole empire on this. I was absolutely shocked to see Chip Gaines’s reaction and his ungodly responses to some of this. It’s not what I expected from them. And it bothers me because we don’t have enough of icons like this in society. I want you to compare and contrast Chip Gaines and John MacArthur. John MacArthur never bent a knee at the He stood strong even as churches were being pressured to make it be like Buddy Jesus and to get people in the pews and make it more commercial instead of making it about saving souls. It is not easy to follow Jesus. Jesus said this. This is the hard road and not everyone can follow it. And that’s something that Chip and Joanna Gaines are proving right now.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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A Wisconsin nurse has pled no contest to amputating a man’s foot without permission. The nurse said that she had hoped Oh, wow. Display the foot in her family’s taxidermy shop with a sign that says, wear your boots, kids. Oh, my gosh. She pled no contest. It was negligent abuse of a patient. Mary K. Brown, Pierce County. So she has two felony charges against her physical abuse of an elder person intentionally causing great bodily harm and mayhem. She was working at a senior living home. And a 62-year-old was being treated after a fall in his home. And he had severe frostbite in his feet. They became necrotic. And reportedly, he was moved to hospice. And she apparently said that it would make the quality of life better for him, the amputation. So she apparently did it herself. I can’t even imagine. She didn’t get permission and apparently didn’t even tell his physician. And he died days after he died days after the amputation. Oh, my gosh. That’s that’s a horror film. That’s it’s like misery. Oh, Kathy Bates. An experiment finds that what yogurt yogurt can lower the house temperature. What? I don’t even know what this means. They said that applying yogurt to the outside windows could lower your temperature. Who’s going to put yogurt on their windows? This is a stupid survey. It’s like these people got drunk and decided to do crazy stuff. I don’t know. German customs officials show images of tarantulas hidden in sponge cake boxes after a smuggling bust. No. No, thank you. Oh, my gosh. There’s photos. Oh, I don’t. I’m done with this story. If you guys want to know more, I’ll put it in your headlines for a sub stack. But I can’t. It’s spiders. I can’t deal with it. We have Senator Eric Schmidt next. Stick with us.
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SPEAKER 02 :
Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. And one of the things that we’ve talked about for quite a bit, several, like, I mean, a lot is this situation with the budget, right? And the rescission package and the pocket rescissions. And if this is going to be something that actually goes through, we were talking to Senator Rand Paul about it and he was in favor of it. I mean, he’s he’s all for cutting anything. I mean, obviously, the nine point four billion rescissions package is a drop in the bucket. I get that, but it is a cut. I’m not saying, I’m not going, it’s a cut. And you have people already fighting about it. Congress is already, House and Senate are already at odds. Of course they are. And this is one of the strategies, remember, that we were hearing about. You have the rescissions package, put that out there, and then maybe get pocket rescissions and allow that to expire, and then you’ll get cuts that way. Fait accompli. We’re going to be talking with Senator Eric Schmidt from my beautiful show me state home state of Missouri here. He’s literally on the floor doing his job for voters right now. So we got to let him do his job. He’s coming off the floor and he’s going to be joining us about this because he’s already talked to POTUS about this. And some of this is the federal spending that has already been appropriated, trying to get some of that back and save taxpayers some money. And then the likelihood of a pocket rescission that actually might happen. I think this is going to be a good indicator of whether or not I mean, obviously, that’s something that’s doable. But already you have the House and Senate kind of going at it. And Congress has to uphold their end of the deal. I think it’s going to be a lot harder for Congress than it is the Senate with us.
SPEAKER 12 :
I wish they would give us a number on what those pocket rescissions exactly would eliminate because we know this rescissions package, $9.4 billion. What’s the total amount that could be essentially expired out of the taxpayer’s responsibility? How much is that? I would like to know.
SPEAKER 02 :
I don’t even think that’s anything that they can telegraph yet because isn’t that part of the strategy? Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Actually, that’s a good point.
SPEAKER 02 :
You’re probably right. Because you don’t want Congress to know. Yeah, exactly. You want to drop it on them like kind of at the last. You don’t want it to know. You want to drop it on them at the last minute and then let it expire and then, you know. So, yeah, you don’t really. That’s the one time where I’m going to be like, yeah, I think it’s good to be surreptitious about this.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, play it close to the chest.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah. House conservatives are, they’re warning the Senate to leave the rescissions package intact. as the deadline is looming to mull this over, to consider this. They have till Friday, right, to deal with this. I know Senator Paul was saying that they’re voting today. They have till Friday to deal with this. And this is the legislative version, if you don’t know what the rescissions package is, it’s the legislative version of a White House request. It’s basically the president saying, these funds have already been allocated by Congress for spending. Can we not spend it, please? It’s like basically you’re requesting to not spend the money that you have earmarked for things. And so that’s apparently what they’re – well, that’s what they’re considering, $9.4 billion. A lot of it, you know, from what we’ve heard is, you know, you’ve got a lot of foreign spending, things like that. Any cut could be – any cut is good. We’ve got to get started somewhere. They’ve got to get used to the idea of cutting things. Yeah. So it’s kind of weird for them, right? Because they spin, spin, spin. Now they have to pull back the purse strings and get used to the idea of cutting spending.
SPEAKER 12 :
It shouldn’t be weird for them. It should not be weird for them.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I agree. I mean, yes, I agree that it shouldn’t it shouldn’t be weird. And it did barely pass the House 20 or 214 to 212. You had four Republicans that voted against it because they wanted to keep local. They wanted to keep public government stations. They wanted to have funding for AIDS research in Africa. I mean, I think we know where it comes from. Do we still need to keep spending billions on it? is there any other nation there that can spend money on it? Yeah. Okay. Then why aren’t we doing that? Like, yes, make cutting spending. That doesn’t sound as good. Great again. M C S G A. Yeah. It doesn’t work as well. It doesn’t work as well. So they have till July 18th to, to approve this rescission package. One of the, they’re looking at 8.3 billion in foreign aid, 1.1 billion for a corporation for public broadcasting. That’s NPR and PBS. Um, and that’s, it’s funny that Elmo got hacked and then he went to do a video with, uh, uh, Robert Reich, who isn’t he like a Robert Reich? Isn’t he like a journalist over at New York Times? My friend Dave Burge was saying that Elmo went to the next Reich after he got hacked. So they need to john thune who i’m told just pulled senator schmidt majority leader john thune is delaying our interview right now he’s he’s got to get a 53 seat majority and already it’s getting wobbly it has to have a simple majority to pass so they can’t have a democrat filibuster but there are some republicans that are kind of dragging their feet at some of these cuts why would you drag your feet at any of this Why? Look, if you’re upset, if you’re a Republican senator and you’re upset that NPR and PBS are the corporation for public broadcasting, which funds all of that with government money that they’re getting cut. I’ve got a great idea for you. It’s you remember that viral video where it was get a checkbook, you know, don’t Google it. Oh, my gosh. Don’t do that because it’s and don’t play it loudly at work. You’ll so get fired. But I feel like they need to listen to that video, though, those lawmakers get out your checkbook. Right. Write that check to Corporation for Public Broadcasting yourself because the rest of us don’t need to do it. And eight point three billion in foreign aid programs. Now, the foreign aid programs has nothing to do. I don’t I fail to see how anything how any of that has to do with American interests because it’s welfare programs. And yes, I’m using just a universal term because that’s all it is. It’s not like we’re putting a drone base inside of a nation, which would be cool. But it’s all welfare spending. That’s what it is. $8.3 billion. And so… This is the tiniest of cuts you could make. Listen to me. Isn’t this what we spend in a day, basically? A day and a half. I think it’s a day and a half. We spend $9.4 billion a day and a half, I think. So it’s the tiniest little cut. And you already have some, and I’m saying Republicans, some Senate Republicans that are dragging their feet on this. So, I don’t know. This idea that, oh, this is going to impact public news. That is such a lie. Public news gets its money from local advertising and national advertising, right? And you don’t need government-sponsored public broadcasting when you have the internet. You have social media. You have different websites. This idea of having a government-funded news… This was before the advent of all of social media instant news at your fingertips. It is completely anachronistic to keep this going. There’s no reason for it. No reason. And we don’t need to be spending, you know, good grief, AIDS research on Africa. Sorry, but no. We know where it comes from. We know where it comes from. Stop. I made the mistake of looking at the U.S. debt clock. Don’t do that. Don’t do that. Don’t look at it. No, no, don’t do it. Here, I’ll send it to you.
SPEAKER 20 :
Didn’t they add something? Oh, go ahead. Can we quote Dana from two years ago?
SPEAKER 02 :
Maybe you need to spend less, pimp. Maybe you do.
SPEAKER 12 :
Some opinions never change.
SPEAKER 02 :
Some, you know, they never go out of style. I’m saying. But this idea that, oh, we need to make sure that we’re spending money for corporation of public broadcasting so local news isn’t affected. Local news is not going to be affected. Like I said, these people don’t even know how news works. They don’t know how local broadcasting works. If you have a local news station, you have a local news station that’s always an affiliate of one of the big ones. You have your NBC, your CBS, your ABCs. You have… All of the other, like Fox ones you have, the CNNs, you have all of these other affiliate networks that get national advertising. They sell local advertising. They also get financial assistance from some of these and resource assistance from the bigger networks. and they have their local affiliates. That’s why you have like, oh, affiliate, NBC affiliate, whatever. NBC affiliate, KSDK, Channel 5 in St. Louis, right? That’s an NBC affiliate. So you don’t need, it’s not affecting public newsrooms. It’s not affecting how you get your local news. That’s a lie. It is an absolute lie that they’re telling you. And there’s so many alternatives to public broadcasting, right? It’s made it, it has made the government sponsored public broadcasting, entirely obsolete. So there is no excuse to not cut any of the funding for this, none at all whatsoever. He came in off the floor, fresh off the floor from doing his job for Missouri voters. Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt, one of our favorites. He joins us now via video. Senator, we know you’re working hard. We appreciate your time. We know that you got pulled over by Majority Leader John Thune. How is this 53 majority with the rescissions package? I read it was getting a little shaky. Is it a little solid? Is it getting solid?
SPEAKER 08 :
I feel good about it. You never know until the votes are actually cast. By the way, it’s good to see you again, my friend. But, yeah, look, I think this is, you know, you talk about appointments and the nominations. You talk about reconciliation. Now we’ve got rescissions. This is a big part of President Trump’s agenda to try to rein in this ridiculous spending we saw with USAID, but also with NPR. I mean, there’s just no excuse for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. Right. to be getting taxpayer funded dollars.
SPEAKER 02 :
Not to interrupt you, but let me ask you this because I read that there were some, and I was shocked that they didn’t name everybody, but some Republican senators that were a little nervous about cutting because they keep thinking that it’s going to affect local programming and it doesn’t affect local news at all. They can just write a check themselves if they’re worried.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. I think some of that was trying to inform. There were a lot of questions last week, which is probably where that information is coming from. There were a lot of questions about how would this impact their states. And what we really spent a lot of time on the last couple of days especially is explaining of how this doesn’t touch the emergency broadcast system. This doesn’t touch at all how FEMA communicates with people. in emergency situations or weather events. This has nothing to do with that. PBS is glomming onto this idea with the hopes of saving themselves when they’ve completely lost the trust and the faith of the American people. They don’t do anything different than what a local station would do in St. Louis or in Dallas or in Houston. They don’t serve any particular purpose in that way beyond what a normal station does because we have an emergency response system that’s out there that informs people outside of PBS. So I think that’s an important point. Once we clarified that and walk people through it, I think they got a lot more comfortable with it.
SPEAKER 02 :
And also included in this is 8.3 billion in foreign aid programs. And I was explaining to our audience, you know, this is not defense spending. This isn’t anything about securing American interests. I mean, it’s really welfare spending.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, it is. And it’s actually crazier than that. I mean, this is the stuff like DEI in Burma and Iraqi Sesame Street and Guatemalan sex changes. I mean, this is what happens when you have a wandering foreign policy establishment here in Washington that’s super liberal and super woke and they find ways to spend taxpayer money in nobody. And well, very few people in America would actually support that. So that’s what’s being clawed back, all that craziness. So it’s not getting rid of all foreign aid. We’re just going to make sure that that foreign aid with President Trump is aligned with American interests and cut out this woke, crazy nonsense.
SPEAKER 02 :
So this is I mean, it seems like this is an easy thing to get both chambers behind. I mean, I don’t know why anybody, I mean, you have, you know, even the Rand Paul’s and the Massey’s that like this. I mean, it’s right. I know they want more, but this is, it’s a cut. I mean, and I, from what I understand, there’s also, and I don’t want you to give away any of your cards. You know, there’s also the possibility of further cuts with pocket rescissions too.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, well, and by the way, there’s also opportunities for successful here, which I hope we are, for more recisions to come down. When everybody talked about having the trifecta, the Republican House, Republican Senate, and the White House, there are opportunities that you have, particularly in the Senate, because we don’t need 60 votes to do this. We only need… 51 votes to do this. And so that’s why we were able to move reconciliation with our priorities. That’s why we should be able to move this recisions package. It’s why we could have more recisions packages. And it’s also why we could theoretically have two more reconciliation packages between now and November of last year. So in my view, Dana, we need to take full advantage of this opportunity the American people have given us and operate with a sense of urgency, which is why we need to pass this rescissions package. You know, tomorrow is likely when we would vote on it after the voterama. And then we have time to go to the House because it has to be done by Friday.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, it has to be done by Friday. We’re talking to Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt. And this it looks like you’re going to keep, you know, the votes needed to keep together the votes needed to pass this for future rescissions. It sounds like you kind of already have a game plan as to what would be included in those.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes. I mean, I think, again, this is a very, very important first step in that. So we need to make sure we do that. But then, yeah, I think there’s more that could be identified. I guess to put it in perspective, if you notice, the first thing that Doge and that whole effort kind of went after was USAID because the fraud and the abuse happened. and the laundering, really, of money. And by the way, money that goes to NGOs, Dana, that fueled mass migration. It goes to NGOs that fueled censorship of Americans and Europe and all these kind of crazy ideas the left has had. That’s kind of been their piggy bank and their sandbox. And so Doge went after it first. It’s why it’s the first precision package here. This is some of the lowest hanging fruit that is out there, along with Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And then once we get past this, I think you can move to some more things because there’s more savings to be had.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, absolutely. Last quick thing before we go. I know you’re introducing legislation to double the maximum federal penalty for assaulting or impeding ICE agents. Great to see. We have like less than 60 seconds left. I’ll give you a last word on that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, we’ve seen assaults on ICE agents rise, you know, go up 700 percent in recent weeks. They’re under attack. Democrat politicians won’t condemn it. They won’t say let these ICE agents do their job. So the concern is that this is going to continue. They need to be able to they’re doing dangerous work. They have families. They deserve to be protected. And if anybody assaults an ICE officer, we want to double those penalties so you could potentially spend 80 years in prison.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, that’s good to see that. All good things. We’re going to keep our eyes on this and hope this rescissions package passes and we’ve got more to come. Senator Eric Schmidt, we’re short on time right now, but we’d love to have you back. God bless, my friend. Keep fighting for the American people. Appreciate it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thanks, Dana.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, we’re going to watch how that rescissions package goes. In the meantime, Mike Johnson poured some gas on the Epstein fire saying that Pam Bondi needs to come forward. I don’t think that that story is going to go away. Yeah, it’s not going to go away. We’re going to see how this unravels. In the meantime, today in stupidity came.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s Anna Navarro. She’s made up her blood type is 100% hyperbole and burrito supremes. This is what she has to say. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 22 :
Now is to oppose something. I am hoping that next year there will be policy debates between Republicans and Democrats running for Congress. And we will get to hear real policy differences and policy proposals. Also, I want to respond to you saying that I was hyperbolic when I talked about a reign of terror. No, it might be hyperbolic for you as a white man. Oh, my gosh. Not hyperbolic for me as a Latino. No, I’m not being racist.
SPEAKER 02 :
Anna, what’s her face? Cannot go for 60 seconds without trying to invoke her ethnicity because that’s the only reason that she’s sitting at that table. Let’s be real. Because it’s not for smarts. That does it for us today. Find us over at Substack Chapter and Verse. Also YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe. I’ll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow.
