Join us on The Kim Monson Show as we dive deep into the most pressing issues of our time, from the halls of the Statehouse to the implications of local and international policies on our freedom. In this episode, we analyze the fine line between force and freedom and why understanding the root of legislative changes is crucial for maintaining individual rights. Explore how historical figures have faced adversity and, in doing so, helped shape the future.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed. Let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You’re each treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Thursday, Producer Joe. Happy Thursday, Kim. And are you having fun with this new software system?
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Okay. Well, good. I love the fact that Crawford Broadcasting continues to invest to keep this independent broadcasting group and our independent voices on the air, and so I really do appreciate that. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You’ll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com. The text line, and I’d love to hear from you, is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And my friends, it’s never compassionate to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihoods, opportunities, lives. I think I may add in another one here, and that is childhood. I was down at the state capitol, and we’ll talk about that a little bit more, but I was down there yesterday, and we have people that are taking away children’s childhoods, and it breaks my heart. But force can be a weapon, a policy, unpredictable in excess of taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the World Economic Forum’s agenda, the globalist elite’s agenda. These are all now connected, moving into the United Nations, this Colorado state legislature agenda. This Colorado governor, land use code, zoning regulations, forest fees, conservation easements, national monument designations. All these things are an assault upon people’s property, their rights, their freedom. And Donald Trump, I think, is really working with the… These executive orders to get this all walked back, but we’ve got to get government back into its proper role. And these executive orders, we really don’t want to be ruled by executive orders, but I think he’s opening the door. We, the people, then need to go and reclaim our state, our counties, our municipalities, our country. and get government back into this proper role of a constitutional republic. But he doesn’t have a lot of time. The 2026 elections are right around the corner. He’s shedding light on so many things that’s going on. And so it’s a very exciting time, but it means that we the people have to step forward and we have to do our part as well. And so we’ll talk a lot more about that. And remember, if something’s a good idea, you should not have to use force. to implement it. Thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show. As I mentioned a little bit ago, we are an independent voice. And with the headlines that are out there, we’ll talk a little bit more about that independent voice. But let’s get into our words of the day. Our word of the day is equivocate, and it’s E-Q-U-I-V-O-C-A-T-E. Number two, it could be to use words or doubtful signification to express one’s opinion in terms which admit of different senses with intent to deceive, to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead. So it could be equivocal or ambiguous. And I think that maybe we might say this particular headline is USAID employees say staffers hid pride flags incriminating books when Doge arrived. And quite frankly, if you and this is from Fox News, if you are taking a stand on something, you need to make sure that you have the courage to take that stand in the light of day. And this this radical activist. The extremist agenda is embedded throughout government, throughout education. We’ve seen this throughout big tech. All these things are changing right now. But this article said a USAID worker said Monday that office employees scrambled to hide anything incriminating when the Department of Government Efficiency came knocking. Says Doge is not a government agency, but it’s been tasked by the White House’s executive office with dismantling wasteful spending initiatives. Great. And special government employee. This article didn’t finish that sentence. Long must most recent target in the U.S. agency for the international development agency. And the billionaires argued that the agency is beyond repair and said President Donald Trump agreed that USAID should be closed down. And so Musk moved rapidly to seize control of USAID and shut it down and move that into the State Department. Now, apparently USAID was created by an act of Congress, so we really need an act of Congress to shut it down. But it is so interesting to see so much that they have been spending money on that is anti-American. working to take down our country. And last night was so interested to see this headline come across that Politico faces payroll issues amid revelations of U.S. government funding. So Politico has been this is from Shore News. Politico has been a voice of the left, and apparently they’ve been getting government money to do so. And this article says Politico, a left-leaning political journalism outlet, has encountered a significant financial hiccup as it failed to pay its employees for the most recent pay period, leading to widespread confusion and concern among the staff. This payroll disruption comes in the wake of revelations that Politico has been receiving substantial funding from the U.S. government, raising questions about the financial interdependence of media and state. This is not the way it’s supposed to be. This is the way, my friends, this is in communist countries. And went on to say employees of Politico received several communications from the company indicating that there was a technical error responsible for the delay in salary disbursement. Despite these assurances, the exact cause of the payroll issue remains unclear with no direct connections established to the recent pause in the USAID funding or broader government spending freezes. And there have been reports that this went on to say that Under the Biden administration, Politicos received approximately $9.6 million in funding over just the last year. Now, my friends, when I talk about an independent voice, what that means is I purchased my airtime. And so I have total freedom in guest selection and subject selection. But that also means that we’re truly an entrepreneur. And I so appreciate all of our sponsors, such as the Harris family for their goal sponsorship. And I’m so pleased to have Teresa come on board. She is our partnership liaison. And so if you’re interested in sponsoring the show or becoming a presenting sponsor, let me know. Text me 720-605-0647, and I will get you connected with Teresa. Because we’re not getting any government money like Politico was. And I think that that’s an… Important to understand. So it sounds like though at USAID, these employees that were trying to equivocate their involvement in this whole DEI diversity, equity and inclusion agenda that Donald Trump is really rolling back. Our quote for the show is from Herodotus, and he was born in 484 BC. Actually, I don’t have that down here exactly right, so we’ll just continue on. But it was before Christ, and he was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city. of Halicarnassus, now Bodrum, Turkey, under Persian control in the 5th century BC. He was a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, among other subjects. And he said this, he said, adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence. Donald Trump has had so much adversity, and the way he and his family continue to walk through this, and I think it’s because he really loves our country, has been interesting to watch, and it has certainly brought out strength and qualities of him that we might not have known when he was just a billionaire real estate developer from New York. Our bill of the day, we’ll be talking about a bunch of different bills, but the first bill of the day that I wanted to mention is the Senate Bill 25017, and this is measures to support early childhood health. And it says integrating early childhood health care systems into communities after being down at the Capitol yesterday to testify in favor of 1068, which is Representative Scott Bottoms and Senator Mark Baisley’s bill to prevent the force in the insurance industry of forcing insurance. And also to not use tax dollars to pay premiums for malpractice insurance for transgender surgeries or pharmaceuticals on children. And I realized in talking with people how embedded this transgender, this extreme transgender agenda has been embedded in our society. We’ve not really realized the attack upon our children. And so I look at these things, such as this Senate Bill 25017, And these folks on the extreme left say they care about children. However, that’s if if they make it out of the womb because they’re all most all of them are very pro abortion. But once they get out of the womb, then these radical activists want to get their hands on these kids as fast as possible, boxing the parents out. so i find this senate bill 25017 of extreme concern and i wanted to get into the colorado union taxpayers way to end on this and we’re recommending a no vote on it the prime sponsor on this is senator lisa cutter And we said this government should not be interfering with private daycare and certainly not be tracking the mental health of our individual children. The relevance of health care to education is doubtful. This bill is expensive, intrusive and unclear about its purpose. Use of the safety clause is totally inappropriate and suspicious when this program involves collecting personal data about children. And so that is our bill of the day. But regarding this Senate Bill 1068, forcing insurance companies to provide malpractice insurance for transgender, they call it gender affirming care on children, did pass out a committee eight to four. And let’s see, let me get to the prime sponsors. Hold on this, there’s too many papers here that I got going on. Okay, here we go. The prime sponsors on 1068, oh, I mentioned that was Mark Baisley and Representative Scott Bottoms. And I thought I’d just share my comments on this that I made. And we had two minutes and there had been a number of, this was very troubling, a number of female doctors representing the Colorado Pediatric Association all in favor of transgender surgery, so against this bill. 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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. So pleased to have on the line with me Pam Long, and you know her. She’s a regular guest on the show. She writes such important essays for the Kim Monson Show as well. She’s the director of Children’s Health Defense Military Chapter. She’s a graduate of West Point and is an Army veteran, was a… I’m tripping over my words here. She was an Army veteran with the Medical Service Corps. She served as a medical intelligence officer for NATO Stabilization Forces. Pam Long, welcome to the show. Thank you, Kim, and good morning, Colorado. And I did it yesterday, Pam. I went down to the Capitol and I testified. It is a commitment to do it, but I’m glad that I did it in favor of this House Bill 1068, which Representative Scott Bottoms and Senator Mark Baisley had sponsored to get force out of the insurance industry business, forcing insurance companies to have to provide malpractice insurance for these transgender gender-affirming care. And so I did it, and I thought about you as I was sitting down there, Pam Long. Well, that’s what we need.
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We need people getting down there, and if you can’t get down there, I’m in and out of there almost on a daily basis by remote testimony. That is an option to our citizens to call in and testify.
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And Gammy, who calls in pretty regularly to the show and keeps us very informed on things, she did do remote testimony. And there were a number of people that did. And the organizers of the In Favor… of this said that things are changing regarding this whole agenda because this was the first time they could remember that they had more people testifying in favor of something pushing back on this transgender agenda instead of all of the activists there. So they were really positive, even though it failed the committee. 8 to 4, and they thought that was very positive. But you’ve got something that you’re very concerned about, and I think rightfully so. So tell me about this. And this was at the same committee, the Health and Human Services Committee. But this was, what, earlier in the week?
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Yes, this was HB 25-1027, Update Disease Control Statutes. This is a Trojan horse where it’s being portrayed as we’re just updating some language. No big deal. I will give you three reasons to oppose this bill. It attempted to take state control of student vaccine records. This portion of the bill was amended out because of citizen activists showed that it would violate FERPA, which is a privacy, a federal law where schools cannot share student records with an outside agency without prior written parental consent. Good job, citizens, because our lawmakers need to know these things. They are not experts on every area of the law. Second, I would say this bill redefines crisis standards of care. This bill aims to expand CDPG’s control over any crisis as they define not just epidemics, with situation-specific control. So expect climate lockdown policies or anything is in the reach of CDPHE would fall under crisis standards of care that they would define, they would invent, they would control. We’re talking, this is COVID all over again. No lessons have been learned and the legislature is not holding them accountable. A third reason is Our emergency response committee will be replaced by the governor and CDPHE. What does that sound like? That’s COVID all over again. This bill removes the governor’s expert emergency epidemic response committee known as the GERC. It aims to give sole authority to CDPHE and the governor. to decide when an emergency starts and ends, and then the unelected director of CDPEG, this is an appointed person by the governor, would rule without input from parents, school administrators, or businesses, and CDPEG’s requirements for the public would be completely shielded from liability.
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Wow. So this made this out of committee. And you were very concerned about Republicans not understanding what this really was, correct?
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Oh, they understand, Kim. Let me tell you, two Republicans, and I will name them, betrayed their constituents in the HHS committee. Rep. Lori Garcia Sander and Rep. Dusty Johnson voted for in favor of this bill. And let me tell you why. Rep. Lori Garcia-Sander, you can go to her website, and she says she’s pro-local control, allegedly. And this bill is state control, state control, state control. But then you look and you see, oh, this makes sense now. She’s been endorsed by six medical lobby associations. Medical lobby associations, they love forcing medical testing, drugs, and vaccines on the public. They love all those mandates and all those coercion tactics you saw during COVID-19. They profit from it. They’re in favor of this. Rep. Dusty Johnson, her website says she will protect small businesses, and yet she’s endorsed by three medical associations. You know what happened during COVID? 38% of businesses were deemed nonessential, enclosed permanently, never to open again. These two people, we need people contacting the House Minority Leader, Rose Pugliese, and saying we need these two people who are conflicted about what their priorities are to their constituents removed from this committee. Yes, I’m asking you, the public, to ask House Minority Leader to remove these two representatives from this committee.
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And we do want to name some other names as well, because one of our listeners, I think Mark said, let us know who these sponsors are. So the prime sponsors on this House Bill 25-1027 is Representative Lindsey Gilchrist, Representative Kyle Brown, and he was the chair of that committee, and Senator Lindsey Doherty. And those are those that have pushed this forward. Now, it’s double-spaced, granted, but it’s about 17 pages long. And, Pam, what I’ve realized is that the radical activists, extremists, and those that really are pushing this agenda, they’re playing long ball. This is a long ball, Bill, and thank you for— You know, watching this, understanding this, because right now, while people are excited about what’s happening in Washington, D.C. with Donald Trump, you can see that the radical activists are, again, playing long ball. And Colorado is the place that they like to start all this. So we are right on them. on the front lines on this. And I think your frustration with these two Republican representatives is, yes, they are outnumbered on this committee nine to four. But we’ve got to take a stand. We’ve got to stand in the gap. We’ve got to shed light on this to the public so that they understand what’s going on, which is what you’re doing is really, really important. And we need to reach out to these. These are both new representatives. And so we do need to reach out to them and explain why this is such a problem. And, and because this, again, this is a long ball bill and underneath, under the camel’s nose, you know, under the tent, people aren’t paying attention except Pam Long. And we need to make sure that people know what’s going on.
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Right. And hold these people accountable. There is no excuse for amnesia of what happened during COVID. And if I could add one more bombshell that was just revealed last night is that legal services reviewed by analysis of how this bill would violate FERPA. And that part was amended out with the help of Brandy Bradley. I want to give a shout out to Brandy Bradley and Mary Bradfield, who did speak out, who did have the courage to speak out against this bill. Legal services not only said that this would violate FERPA, But that CDPHE, which has for years directed schools to upload student records to their database, their tracking system, their registry, which will include all people from birth to death and be linked to their ID for vaccine compliance, tracking, and coercion, that this is unlawful, illegal. Like, we need people engaged, so stand by. There will be directives in the near future of how you can – File a FERPA violation if your student’s records were uploaded illegally without your knowledge or consent to a state tracking database.
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So this bill, something’s going to happen with that today, yes? It goes to the House floor today for a vote. Okay, so is there anything, well, people should, okay, what action would you recommend for people to take today? Because it looks like it’s going to be 9 a.m. when things start on that.
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People can listen online to the House floor. They can be contacting their state representatives, and they can be expressing their concerns so that when your representative has a chance to go to the well and speak out in opposition to this bill, they will be informed.
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Okay, so Pam, regarding what to say exactly, I know you’ve put out some information to your team. Is that something that other people can have access to, or how would you recommend that they get their brain around these issues so they can make some intelligent comments on this?
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The main point is local control, not CDPHE control of the standards of care, not CDPHE replacing this epidemic committee, which would represent we the people. Those are the main talking points.
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Okay. Pam Long, thank you so much. And again, this is, is it 1027? Let me get to the top here. Yes. Okay. House Bill 25, 1027. And it’s very easy to find your legislator. You can put in a search for Colorado legislators and it will bring everything up, phone numbers and emails. So it’s very easy to do that. My friends, they’re playing long ball. We’ve got to step into the gap here and realize what’s happening and be active in this. It won’t take long to just send them a quick little email. Pam Long, I so appreciate you keeping us informed on all of these things that are happening because, again… They’re thinking into the future. We’re pretty excited about a lot of things that’s happening, and we need to understand what’s going on. And one other question, Pam. When I say that Colorado is at the tip of the spear on all this, because you do a lot of work with Children’s Health Defense, would you agree are we at the tip of the spear on all this craziness? Is there somebody that’s outdoing us on this, or what do you see as you see this nationally?
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Absolutely. We are the tip of the spear. We have bills that are tested here, and if they pass or fail, those are the blueprints for other states, other mostly liberal states, who then begin the process of introducing the bills in other states. Most of them, for all of these agendas, are tested right here in Colorado.
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Okay, Pam Long, thank you for all that you do. I so appreciate it. And that’s House Bill 25-1027. Send out at least one email to one of the legislators. And if you can send out a few more, that would be great. That’s going to be on the House floor today, and they would certainly hear from you. Brandy Bradley was really excellent yesterday regarding this 1068 and as well as Mary Bradfield. She had some very interesting perspective on that as well. So a shout out to them and thank you because they’re standing in the gap. Thank you, Pam Long. And boy, all this happens because of all of our sponsors. And for everything residential real estate, reach out to Karen Levine.
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Back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. And you can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I have to… And let you know, I was a little cranky about knowing that I was going to be taking at least a good half of the day to go down to the statehouse to testify. And I’m thinking to myself, why on earth are we at a spot where we… have to have legislation such as this House Bill 1068 that did not pass out a committee, but a very good bill saying that getting force out of this whole insurance equation, the force that insurers would have to provide malpractice insurance for people that are doing this, I have this in air quotes, gender affirming care, which is basically mutilation of our children. And so it was a very good bill, but there’d been a request to go down and support the bill. And I thought, I really need to do this. And so I’ve been a little cranky about going down. It was a good half day and time is so valuable, but I’m really glad that I did. And I really thought about it a lot today as well as our children. There is a generation that has been under attack. We haven’t realized it yet. regarding this whole transgender extremist agenda. And we must step up and protect our children. And if you need to understand the issue better, check out artclubmovie.com. It is the story of Aaron Lee and John Lee and their daughter. And it’s very important to understand what happened in a little town here in Colorado. It’s happening everywhere. And so we need to understand what’s going on. And I do thank all of those that showed up to testify yesterday. Pleased to have on the line with me the president of American Commitment, and that is Phil Kirpin. And that website is americacommitment.org. And Phil Kirpin, welcome to the show.
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Hey, Kim, my pleasure.
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And, boy, things have changed since the last time you were on the show. Donald Trump has been elected.
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It’s been quite a couple of weeks, huh?
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Yes. So what do you think about this Trump agenda? The headlines still keep coming. I’m just looking at my phone. Israel orders army to prepare for volunteer departure of Gazans after Trump unveils plan. Then I just saw another. headline that he’s getting us out of the G20 because of their focus on climate change and DEI. I can hardly keep up with the headlines.
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Yeah, well, he quit three really bad international agreements on the very first day. His day one pile included quitting the Paris Climate Agreement, quitting the World Health Organization. and quitting the OECD minimum tax cartel. So we got out of three disastrous international agreements on day one. I mean, the day one pile also had, you know, the regulatory freeze, the hiring freeze, the return to office order, the reversal of the electric vehicle mandates and all the appliance regulations. And then, you know, day two, I think it was, he got rid of 60 years of racial preferences. And it’s just one thing after another. I heard you in your intro there saying, uh, talking about the, uh, the transgender issue. He banned men from women’s sports yesterday. And, you know, a lot of people tell me that’s, you know, he has no power to actually do anything. It’s just a piece of paper within an hour. The NCAA said, we’re going to comply with this. We’re going to kick men out of college, collegiate women’s sports in compliance with the president’s executive order. So it really has been, uh, one thing after another. And, uh, he’s not just issuing press releases. He’s actually getting results. Things are happening. So it’s been a pretty remarkable couple of weeks.
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It has been really remarkable. And there are people that talk about their concerns of governing by executive order. And I understand that. I’m concerned as well. I agree with it.
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I agree with it, actually. But Kim, the thing is, that the only way you ever bring Democrats to the table on actually restoring power to Congress and reducing the amount of power that’s been delegated to the presidency, the only way you ever bring Democrats to the table on that is you make them feel the pain of what they’ve been doing to us by pushing back in the opposite direction using all the same powers and authorities that they’ve been using. And so I have no problem with Trump doing it, even though I would prefer – that the major laws and policy decisions get made by Congress. If they’re going to govern this way, the only way to get them to stop is to do the same thing right back.
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So, but don’t you think, and I love that these things are happening, and they have to happen quickly. If we waited for Congress, you know, last time they did a waiting game, we had Republicans in that first two years of his administration, they dragged their feet, they didn’t do immigration reform things, And so I think he learned that, hey, we need to take action. The 2026 elections are right around the corner. So there’s no time to waste. And I do get that. But this whole USAID thing has been crazy as I’ve looked at it. And I was down at the Capitol yesterday and then we went out and had a bite to eat with some of the people that were there and looked at my phone and said Politico was not making payroll. And then the reports are that Politico got anywhere from $8 to $9 million last year. Now, Phil, I’m an independent broadcaster, which means I purchased my own airtime. So that means we’re entrepreneurs. We’re out there hitting the pavement to make sure that we have this independent voice there. And then you’ve got Politico over there that’s acting like that they’re an independent voice, and they’re getting government money. NPR also. NPR. All of these public radio, all of those are getting government money to push their stories. And that’s not the proper way this is supposed to work, Phil.
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Including, by the way, the BBC, which gets U.S. taxpayer dollars for USAID. And that’s run by the British government. They have their own taxpayer money. They get our taxpayer money over there. That one was pretty crazy. I mean, this Politico thing – They’ve put out this indignant statement. We’ve never taken one dime of subsidy. Those are all subscription payments. And apparently they’ve got a version of Politico, Politico Pro, that they charge $10,000 per person per year for, and the government had 800 people getting it for $8 million, whatever it is. I’m sorry. That’s just a way to funnel money. There’s no way their product is worth that much and that we need that many people. in the federal government that are using it. It’s pretty shocking. And, of course, it helps explain why, you know, the political coverage has been so favorable towards USAID. And I think that President Trump has picked a very good target in USAID to have a debate about spending because there’s really no way to defend U.S. taxpayer dollars going to all of the crazy left-wing ideological stuff that they’re funding all over the world. and domestically as well with left-wing media outlets. And I think I saw they gave something like, I don’t know, $8 million to San Francisco for AIDS prevention. It’s like, how is that foreign aid? Like, why is that even in their purview? So I think they picked a very, very smart fight. Now, the legal question of whether the president can really shut them down or merge them into the State Department without going to Congress is complicated. It was created by executive order by President Kennedy in 1961, and the original Foreign Assistance Act under which he created it is very, very broad in its language. It basically gives all the powers to the president. He can designate anyone he wants. So if that were still the controlling statute, the president probably could shut it down and merge everything into the State Department. But ironically, Congress passed an anti-foreign aid law that Jesse Helms wrote in 1998 that actually – told Bill Clinton that he could shut down USAID if he wanted to and required him to issue a report and all this kind of stuff. Of course, Clinton vetoed it. It later passed as part of a bigger bill. But Clinton wasn’t going to shut down USAID, even though that’s what Jesse Helms wanted with that bill. But ironically, there’s a paragraph in that bill that says Congress recognizes that USAID exists, which it had not done for the previous 37 years. And now, A lot of the lawyers are saying, well, once Congress recognizes it exists, the president can’t get rid of it. And so I don’t know. I guess that would have to be litigated. But really, if Congress – it’s controlled by Republicans right now. And they should be on board with getting rid of this spending so that there’s no legal question about it.
SPEAKER 07 :
So they could do it, obviously. It would just take a simple majority for them to do that, correct? Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, they could definitely put it in the budget process and cut the funding to zero, I think. Whether they could actually officially dissolve it, maybe not. But it would be an agency with no money. It’s not a real agency. They could absolutely do that with a simple majority.
SPEAKER 07 :
So next question. What’s going to happen to all these people that have these jobs, these DEI jobs? What do you think is going to happen to all of them?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well… I hope that they’ll get new jobs that are actually productive and contribute something to the economy. And it’s going to be very interesting, particularly in the private sector, to see what happens because we’ve already got some major, major companies saying they’re going to comply with the president’s executive orders and they’re getting rid of their DEI and diversity programs. Google was the latest one that announced this yesterday. There have been similar announcements from Target, Walmart, McDonald’s. And if corporate America continues to have policies that explicitly discriminate on the basis of characteristics that are prohibited under the Civil Rights Act, race and sex and national origin, the whole list of things you’re not supposed to discriminate on, it’s been made very clear by the Trump administration that You know, there’s no more exception if the discrimination is against white people or the discrimination is against men that now you’re not allowed to discriminate at all. They can actually enforce the law as written. And, you know, companies that try to go against that, they’re potentially going to have lawsuits against them. And the new attorney general has already said that they’re looking at litigation against those companies. So it’ll be interesting to see the extent to which corporate America tries to resist that versus sort of saying, OK, we’re going to get with the program and stop discriminating.
SPEAKER 07 :
So, yes, Pam Bondi was just recently confirmed by the Senate, and she’s going to take action on a lot of things, it looks like. Correct? Is that what you see?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I mean, she’s got a long agenda because the last Department of Justice was so bad on so many things, and that is one of the memos that reportedly was circulated, that they’re going to enforce discrimination laws against private companies that don’t comply with the DEI orders. But yeah, I mean, she’s got a lot of other things to do as well. And, you know, we’ve still got the president still has to name all the U.S. attorneys. And, you know, they’ve got to, I mean, that place is, it’s a very, very large bureaucracy and reorienting it is going to be a big challenge. But they’ve already done a significant amount. I can tell you here in the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, they’ve already laid off, I think, 30 of the lawyers who did the January 6th prosecutions, and they’re going to try to reorient that office towards actually prosecuting violent criminals in D.C. The last U.S. attorney here under Biden non-prosecuted 67 percent of D.C. criminal arrests. They spent all their time on January 6th and the city crime rates skyrocketed. We’ve got a carjacking epidemic and so forth. And so I think, you know, I know the local situation because I live here, but I think that kind of thing is happening everywhere, that just the federal law enforcement priorities were wildly out of whack with anything that makes sense. And they tasked for the DOJ now is to reorient things backwards, what they should have been doing all along.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, we have been so far off the rails, and I think we all felt it. But now that the veil is coming off on all of this stuff, and I think you’re right on this USAID, when we look at the list that Caroline Levitt had talked about things that we had been funding, people were like, this is crazy. And so we’re going to continue the discussion with the president of American Commitment, Phil Kirpin. We have these important discussions because of our sponsors for Everything Mortgages. Reach out to Lauren Levy.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. I did want to mention the two nonprofits that I really support on the show, the USMC Memorial Foundation. is just a great nonprofit to support. They’re raising money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial, and you can get all the plans and everything by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org, and then the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo, Colorado. on the beautiful Riverwalk, and it’s such a special place, and they’re going to have a great event. I can’t make it. I have a previous engagement, but next Wednesday, February 12th, Drew Dix, co-founder of the center, along with Brad Padula, Drew will be presenting on the real Cold War, and Drew’s a Medal of Honor recipient for actions he took during the Vietnam War, but he was stationed in Greenland, for a while, and we’d actually had him on the show to talk about it. I know it’s going to be super interesting. So more information, reach out to them at AmericanValuesCenter.org. And then one of our listeners had a text question, and that was that bill that Pam Long and I were talking about that will be on the House floor today here in Colorado is House Bill 25-1027, and the title is Update Disease Control Statutes. And so, again, that’s House Bill 25-1027. So Phil Kirpin, first thing, these U.S. attorneys, and Phil is the president of American Commitment, and that website is AmericanCommitment.org. And actually, before we get into all that, give us a little bit more information and what all the people can find at your website.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, we’re a national free market advocacy group. We work mostly on the fiscal, economic, and regulatory issues, and we try to Zero in on the fights where a little bit more citizen education and engagement might make the difference. So we do a lot of emails out where there’s a big vote coming up in Congress that could go either way or when we think there’s a regulatory docket where people can make a difference. And we just try to make it easy for people to get engaged on these federal policy issues. And all our stuff is on the website you mentioned, AmericanCommitment.org.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, great. So next question, you mentioned these U.S. attorneys. So these serve at the pleasure of the president, so Donald Trump can get rid of these and put other people in, or what does that look like exactly, Phil?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, traditionally, when a new president comes in, all the U.S. attorneys from the previous president will send their resignation letters, and the president usually accepts most of them. He might, you know, keep a few of the old ones on here and there, but generally will accept most of them and put his own people in. And that’s because, you know, these are the prosecutors all over the country that are implementing the policies of the administration by bringing, you know, all the various lawsuits and prosecutions. And so he really, you know, they’re kind of the implementers of everything at the Department of Justice, kind of at the local court level, district court level. And so, They typically are appointed by the president. He’s got acting people in most of them now. I think the only nomination he’s made so far was the Southern District of New York. He nominated Jay Clayton, but I’ve not seen any others. And, of course, wherever you are, that U.S. attorney is a very important job in that area, and there’s one everywhere. So at some point we’ll start getting lists of them, but I haven’t seen them yet.
SPEAKER 07 :
And then do they have to be approved by Congress?
SPEAKER 12 :
Every one of them needs to be confirmed by the Senate, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, interesting. Okay, Phil Kirpin, what about tariffs? And in fact, Eric, one of our listeners had said that Trump is the tariff sheriff, but that certainly has gotten a lot of attention, and he’s getting results. And it seems like it’s an important tool in his toolbox, but a lot of free market people are saying that they really don’t like tariffs. So what do you say to that?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I mean, it’s… I mean, I really do not like tariffs as a policy. I think they’re a very destructive tax, and they invite retaliation, and there’s a reason we’ve been so hesitant to use them. That said, I mean, one of the things this president did quite a lot in his first term and has now done sort of spectacularly already in his second term is put a tariff on to extract concessions on other foreign policy issues, and then pull it back. I mean, a tariff is really only very useful twice, when you’re putting it on and when you’re taking it off, when you can use it to get concessions either on the front end by threatening it or in exchange for removing it. You don’t really want to keep them in place for a long period of time, though, because they’re very disruptive to international trade. They divert resources. They raise prices. And so they’re not a great tax. There are other taxes that are less destructive. But if you’re not willing to use them at all, then you give up a very important diplomatic weapon. And it’s very hard to coerce other countries into doing the things you want. And, you know, one of the things we’ve already seen with President Trump is Colombia said, we’re not going to take our worst hardened criminals back. And he said, yes, you are. I’m going to tariff you. And then they said, OK, we’ll take them, send them back on. And then he said, I’m going to put big tariffs starting tomorrow on Canada and Mexico. And both those presidents, the president of Mexico and the prime minister of Canada called him and said, we’re going to spend a lot of money on border. We’re going to cooperate with you. And he said, all right, I’ll delay it 30 days. We’ll talk again then. And so, and in the first term, of course, he got European countries to spend more on defense to meet their NATO obligations by threatening tariffs. He got Mexico to adopt the remaining Mexico policy by threatening tariffs. And so, yeah, It’s hard to argue with the results, Kim. He’s been using them not as a tax that’s disrupting trade and commerce, but as a diplomatic threat that he uses to get key foreign policy concessions. And so I think it’s hard to argue with the results. He certainly has used the tariff weapon very effectively to advance American interests. But, you know, I’m a free market guy. I still don’t like tariffs if they’re actually kind of in place as a way to raise revenue. But certainly as a threat and as a tool, the way he’s been using them, they’ve been very effective.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and Chuck Schumer decided to do a photo op holding an avocado and a Corona beer, saying that your Super Bowl party is going to be more expensive because of these tariffs. But what he has not said is because of their terrible policies, all of this debt that they’ve incurred, printing money, All of that is created this inflation that everything is a lot more expensive. There’s I would say there has been a tariff on the American people because of terrible policy by the Biden-Harris administration.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I mean, look, the inflationary policies of the last administration are far, far worse than any price effect that we would get from tariffs. And of course, you know, the. The other Trump policies all push in the direction of lower prices, right? Because he wants to cut all these other taxes. He wants to boost economic growth through deregulation. There’s a very long list. Energy policies, increasing production. There’s a very long list of things this administration is doing that will tend to lower prices. And then potentially, if the tariffs are used as more than a threat or actually put in place, they’ll counteract that a little bit. But on net, This is going to be a much, much better administration for affordability than the last one was because they’ve got a laundry list of 15 things they’re doing that will tend to result in lower prices. And the tariffs, at least so far, have mostly been a threat, not even something that’s been implemented. So this idea that Trump is going to make things more expensive is a little bit ridiculous considering we had four years of Trump and prices really didn’t rise much at all. And then we had four years of Biden where they went like crazy through the roof. And so I don’t think that’s a very strong argument. I don’t buy that argument. The one thing I really worried about with these tariffs, particularly on Canada, was that they would raise the price of crude, which would raise the price of gasoline at the pump. And, you know, if he had put the full 25 percent tariff on Canadian crude, it probably would have resulted in about a 30 or 40 cent increase at the pump pretty quickly. Interestingly, he did not do that, actually. The tariff which he delayed, the 30-day tariff, it had a carve-out for Canadian crude oil. Canadian crude was taxed at a 10% tariff rather than the 25% that he put on everything else. So he still wanted that threat to be part of the mix because of what a big part of the trade relationship crude is. But I think he understood that you don’t really want to whack crude oil with a huge tax because people really feel the impact of that. So that’s the one thing that I really worry about in terms of the price impact would be if it did apply to crude oil. But, you know, the president was sort of sensitive to that by having to lower rate on that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Goodness. We’ve got just about 15 seconds left, Phil Kirpin. This has been so interesting. And that website is American Commitment dot org. Your final thought.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I just also mentioned the other website that I work on with Steve Moore is UnleashProsperity.com if people want to get a free daily newsletter we do through there. And my X name, I’m on there. I’m a little bit of an addict. It’s my last name, Kerpen, K-E-R-P-E-N, if people want to follow me on there.
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Okay, Phil Kirpin, thank you so much. And it is a new day for sure. And our quote for the end of the show is from Herodotus. He said this, great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. So today be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals. And like Superman, stand for truth, justice and the American way. And I guess I just have a little bit longer here to mention that we’ve got a lot planned for you in the next hour as well. I will just tell you that. So be sure and stay tuned for our number two as we look at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. So we’re going to have some more conversations. Stay tuned for our number two.
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That’s on all KLZ platforms, KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. We will post the shows with a written summary on my website, kimmonson.com, and then you can listen to the shows via podcast streaming services such as iTunes, Spotify. And all that. So be sure and check all that out. Our word of the day is equivocate. And it is spelled E-Q-U-I-V-O-C-A-T-E. So that’s E-Q-U-I-V-O-C-A-T-E. It’s an intransitive verb, and it could be to use unquivocal language to deceive someone or avoid committing oneself to a position. Number two, to use words of equivocal or doubtful as signification to express one’s opinions in terms which admit of different senses with intent to deceive, to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead. And I would really say that some of the arguments yesterday when I was down at the state house regarding this House Bill 1068, which is a good bill sponsored by Representative Scott Bottoms and Senator Mark Baisley to remove force from forcing insurance companies or using taxpayer dollars to pay premiums for malpractice insurance. on these transgender gender affirming care. I have that in air quotes on our children. And I would say that we had doctors that came in. In fact, there were a number of female doctors said that they were with the Colorado Pediatric Association that were in favor of this and they were equivocating their argument. They were saying that these surgeries are evidence-based. But yet, if they’re so evidence-based, then why on earth would they be so concerned about having malpractice insurance on that? So I really felt that they were equivocating the argument on that. So your challenge is to use the word equivocate in a sentence today and impress your friends and family. Our quote of the day is from Herodotus. He was a Greek philosopher. He lived about 400 years before Christ, living in Turkey, Italy. He said this, and it’s Herodotus. Gosh, I thought I had that. He said this, adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence. And these truths are… are true throughout history and our founders realize that they realize man man’s nature doesn’t change and so that they’d studied all all kinds of things to come up with this constitutional republic that we have and so again that quote is adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence And then this House Bill 25-1027 that Pam Long was on earlier in the first hour. Update disease control statutes. The prime sponsors on this are Representative Lindsey Gilchrist, Representative Kyle Brown, Senator Lindsey Doherty. It had passed out of the Health and Human Services Committee, and it is now going to be on the House floor today. So Ginny had texted and wondered what the status was on that, and that is where that is. A couple of other things from first hour. This is from Mark. We talked with Phil Kirpin about tariffs. He said, we need Alberta’s oil because the Biden-Harris administration have made U.S. oil uninvestable. And so not able to invest in it in the near term. And many of our wildcatters are gone here in Colorado. We are seeing legislation, regulations that are trying to keep our natural gas, our oil in the ground. And and so we’ve got this fight right here in Colorado on the national level. Obviously, Trump is back. taking action regarding our energy independence. And the fact that Chris Wright, who is the CEO or was of Liberty Energy, he’s now the new secretary of energy, and he’s right here from Colorado. So he understands all of these issues. So he’s going to be working obviously at the federal level, but we’ve got much work to do here in Colorado. And, of course, property rights are so important, and a great right is to own property. And, of course, owning your own home is a pretty big deal if you want to. And Karen Levine is on the line, and she can help you if you’re looking for a new home or if you’re going to sell your home or looking at a new build. Karen Levine, welcome. Good morning, Kim. Good morning. And lots happening down at the Statehouse. We continue to talk about housing, affordability, opportunity. What’s the latest that you can tell us about owning a home in the metro area?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, as far as what’s happening at the Statehouse, I have very little to update you on because I’ve been quite busy taking care of my buyers and sellers. And so I can tell you that as we start typically see this time of year, homes are coming on the market. And it looks like in the last seven days, about 1,200 homes, new opportunities have come on the market. But also, the market is really sensitive to pricing. And so we’ve seen close to 1,100 price reductions. So there’s, again, opportunity out there. I currently have two great for first-time homebuyers or investors that are priced under $500,000 and would love to get those sold for my sellers and working with some buyers that are finding more options than they have found in the past and trying to make good housing decisions. I do have my government affairs meeting this afternoon, so it will be interesting to see what the temperament is of local government and, you know, what’s happening in our cities and our counties. But it’s a busy time of year.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, that’s good. And so price reductions, we saw these significant price increases which played out in higher property taxes. If we have price reductions and comparables go down, the next time we do these evaluations, do you think that we’ll see our property taxes go down?
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I don’t know if we’ll see our property taxes go down because that is determined by two factors, your assessed value and the mill levy. So government is known for not liking their budgets to get shrunk. And so they figure out ways to raise our mill levies. But with that said, the next round of tax assessments, in many cases, we should see values come down significantly. Not dramatically, very little, but they should go down.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. And so if you’re buying a home, hearing a price reduction is exciting. If you’re selling a home, people probably don’t like to hear price reductions. So what do you say to that, Karen Levine?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, in most cases, sellers have experienced a lot of appreciation because of how quickly our values went up over the sort of COVID era. and when interest rates doubled then we had pressure on pricing pressure on values and we’re seeing a stabilization because interest rates are staying around that six and a half to seven and a quarter kind of place and so that’s the new market and sellers are having then to be realistic if they’re motivated to sell to find where’s the sweet spot for the market and um We’re finding it’s very, very local. So you need a realtor who knows your community, knows the market. I believe I’m that person, of course. But we see some communities that they have very little downward pressure on values than we see other communities. Maybe there’s not as much competition for those homes. And so that does create more opportunity for a buyer to negotiate or a seller to have to make more significant price reductions.
SPEAKER 07 :
Fascinating. It’s such a fascinating market. You’ve been in the business for a long time and seen all kinds of things. From watching from afar and just how you take care of your clients, there are a lot of different things to consider when buying or selling a home. And I had a listener that has said that he successfully did his own buying of a home or selling of his home. And that is possible if you know what you’re doing and you take the time. A lot of people don’t know what’s going on, and you need an expert in that case. And I’ve watched from afar just what you’ve done, and you’ve got a whole group of experts to help with inspections and all kinds of things. And so I was really impressed with that, Karen Levine.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, thank you, Kim, and yes, you can certainly go out and buy a home or sell a home on your own. The thing is, is that the typical homeowner, home buyer doesn’t do that, but every decade or so. And with that said, we’ve seen a lot of changes contractually, a lot of expectations, a lot of changes in code. And those changes is hard to keep up on. And like when you are ill, you typically can, on the Internet, diagnose your symptoms and figure out maybe what’s wrong with you, but ultimately you’re going to get your best care by seeking a professional in the medical field. So the same is true in real estate.
SPEAKER 07 :
And how can people reach you, Karen Levine?
SPEAKER 08 :
They can reach me by either texting or giving me a call at 303-877-7516.
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And that’s Karen Levine. If you’re going to buy a home, sell a home, a new build, 303-877-7516. Karen, we will talk to you next week.
SPEAKER 08 :
That sounds great. Thanks, Kim.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You’ll get first look at our upcoming guests and our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. And our text line is 720-605-0647. And do check out the website for the Center for American Values. It’s AmericanValueCenter.org. and you’ll get more information about their On Values presentation next Wednesday, February 12th. Drew Dix, who is a co-founder of the center, along with Brad Padula. Drew is a Medal of Honor recipient, and he’s going to present on the real Cold War when he was stationed in Greenland. Of course, Greenland’s been in the the news. And I think that they’re getting to capacity, but reach out to them and let them know that you’d like to attend. And that website is AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. Pleased to have on the line with me, Chris Harris. He’s a retired Border Patrol agent from the San Diego sector. And we’ve had him on regarding immigration, the border. A lot has happened since we talked last time. Chris Harris, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thank you, Kim. Always a pleasure to be on and always appreciate you having me on, letting me talk to your audience and letting them know what’s really going on out there and now what they might be hearing from certain other media sources.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, yes. So let’s jump into it. Donald Trump is president and day one, he’s taking action. So what should people know?
SPEAKER 14 :
There’s several things that people should know. Things are looking better. What would disappoint me a lot, you know, I do public speaking, speaking engagements. For the last few years, it’s been really difficult doing these speaking engagements because I had to go from positive several years ago to really negative what was going on at the borders, the worst it’s ever been, probably since the beginning of the Border Patrol in 1924 by our numbers. Certainly, I worked under five administrations. It’s getting tremendously better very quickly. I don’t want us to sit back and rest on our laurels. but things are getting better. The numbers are plummeting on the border. And it’s funny because the previous administration, and I hate being really political, but the previous administration said we can’t do anything, the president can’t do anything, Congress. Well, remarkably, in two weeks, this president has accomplished what would almost be considered miracles on the border. What I really want to talk about, though, Kim, besides before I get into your local area, Aurora and Denver, which is very interesting, is that I want the people listening to know what’s really happening in And unfortunately, people on the left – and I differentiate between liberals and leftists, but people on the left, all they have left is fear-mongering, and that’s what they’re doing. There’s no good argument to say what he’s doing is wrong or it’s not good or it’s not helpful for the United States. It’s fear-mongering. The other thing I’d like you to know, Kim, and your listeners to know is back when I was a union official for National Border Patrol Council and I was doing legislative and political affairs, I met with a lot of activist groups to try to build some bridges, to have some connectivity with them. And I found out from them off the record two things. They need money. They want people to donate money. That’s how they operate. And two things get people to crack their checkbooks, fear and anger. And that’s what they’re still trying to do. We had a protest out here in San Diego the other day, albeit much smaller than they used to be, and also in L.A., and again, much smaller than they had been in years previous. But that’s – they’re rattling the tree. They want money. So what I want to get across to you and your listeners is that there’s no reason for fear-mongering. And I’ll get right into that. People are like, oh, they’re going to come into our neighborhoods and start doing raids and knocking on everybody’s doors and checking if you’ve got brown skin. It’s not going to happen, and it’s not happening. I mean, my wife’s from Mexico. It’s not happening. So if you have any questions on that, please jump in, or I can just keep rolling right along. As you know, I’m Irish, and I don’t shut up.
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Well, you talk about money, but what we’re learning is that there’s a bunch of NGOs, non-governmental organizations that have been receiving our money, taxpayer money or borrowing from our kids in the form of debt that have been down like Darien Gap that have been down there. almost recruiting people to come across the border illegally under the Biden-Harris administration. And so when we talk about money, there’s been this money tree. And of course, have you watched this whole thing with USAID? That’s been remarkable, Chris Harris.
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So I won’t get into USAID too much because that’s not really my purview, and I like to – and I’ve talked about this before. I stay in my wheelhouse where I’m a subject matter expert on border security and how it relates to crime and national security. I was a cop in New York and in 20-some years with the federal government. But I will talk about the NGOs because I’ve dealt with them directly. My wife actually even volunteered for one of them, and I won’t say their name, and she was so disgusted by what she saw. But, yeah, there’s several of them. Catholic Charities is one of the biggest. Jewish Family Services. The Episcopalian Church has a huge thing. The more liberal branch of Lutheranism, ELCA, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, which I used to be part of, they have it. They basically get paid by the U.S. government, and a lot of it gets paid by how many people they bring across the border, how many people they’re serving. So it’s in their self-interest to bring more people across. And these NGOs have been out of control, and they’re getting hundreds of millions of dollars. They’re paying for hotels. If you see a hotel with a chain-link fence and with tarps on the fence to keep it private, that’s probably been paid for by an NGO to house people that have come here illegally. So the amount of money the taxpayers have been putting that they’re not aware of is insane. And what these groups are doing is not really – I’m sure some of the boots-on-the-ground volunteers are doing it for good reasons – But higher up, this is money. They’re getting money from this. And my wife said, again, from Mexico, she’s a very Catholic girl. She goes to mass three, four times a week. But she’s told her good father she’s not donating any money if she thinks she’s going to Catholic charities because it is sham. And what they’re doing is not good. And so, yeah, American people should start paying attention where their money – they have a right to know where their money is going. And it’s been going to these NGOs who, like you said, are down the Darien Gap. They’re in Mexico. They’re on the border. They’re helping fly these people around the country. My wife did escorts where she brought them to the airport. They had no ID, but they were able to go through and get on planes without – you try doing that. Try getting on a plane without ID.
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Last time I flew, I thought, hmm, this is so interesting. And I always just politely declined to have my photo taken. But here everybody’s dutifully going through security, giving their information. ID, having everything scanned. And I thought, this is really a little bit of a scam because we have heard the reports of people that are here illegally, clearly, probably don’t have ID. And they’re just putting them on planes and they’re not having to pay for it. I have to pay for my plane ticket. And they’re flying them all over the country. I’m thinking, Chris, what’s wrong with this picture?
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It’s true. My wife was one of the escorts that brought them to the airport. She saw it firsthand, and I’ve seen it when we were working at the airport. So this is something that’s been going on. Another little thing to digress, but back from New York, there was a motel that was housing homeless veterans, and this made the local news. It won’t make the national media, but it made the local news big time that they were all kicked out to house illegal aliens. Because the NGOs and or the government were paying a lot more money to the motel to house them than the homeless veterans. That happened out in San Diego. The homeless veterans were staying in certain places, and I proved it. They were kicked out to house family units. God bless, but you’re kicking out homeless veterans. to do that. But that’s going to stop. That’s starting to stop. And you’re going to see this administration is playing a pretty smart chess game, I think. They’ve had years to think this through. They have Tom Holman, who I’ve met. We did back-to-back radio shows together in D.C. Putting him as border service was very smart. The man that’s now the commissioner of CBP, Customs and Border Protection, He was the chief in the Border Patrol, two stars out here in the San Diego sector. I had a great rapport with him as a union official. And, you know, there’s usually a tension between union management. We got along great. We worked together. We had the same goals, trying to do the best for the Border Patrol. He did so well that he ended up being a four-star, the chief of the whole U.S. Border Patrol. He was forced out under Biden. He’s back now as the commissioner of CBP at a much higher level. So we got these pieces in place, these people in place, unlike the first term. And they’re working in a concerted effort, which is the synergistic effort, which is really paying dividends already. And so they’re working together. They have a game plan, and they’re hitting it at different levels. So they’re cutting off the money to the NGOs. That’s one spigot of money that’s stopping. And by naming some of these groups terrorist organizations, that’s other ways to go after the money. And then there’s going to be the physical security aspect of making arrests, and going after bad guys and bad women. And we’re doing that. So they’re being hit at a lot of levels. Now I expect the left to fight back. I mean, this is their money. This is their rice bowl. So people are getting very upset. You see them going after USAID. And again, I don’t want to get into too much, but they’re protesting because, well, that money was going to places. It’s almost like bribery. And, you know, for shame that you don’t want us to be able to audit where our money’s going. You’re good with spending our money, but we don’t know where it went. But specifically, I do want to talk about, Kim, is about what ICE and these task forces are doing. And they’re very smart. They’ve finally gotten these other three-letter agencies to work with border security. Because that was the thing, immigration, border security, none of these agencies through my career really wanted to get involved with that. It was like the third rail. They didn’t want to touch immigrations. And now they’re jumping in. Like Aurora right now, they just did another raid. It’s like the second in one week. And the task force is made up of ICE, CBP, DEA, ATF, FBI, U.S. Marshals. They all bring something to the table. They all have different authorities and powers and investigatory tools. And so they went after 100 trender Aragua the other day in Aurora. Now, whether they got all 100, I don’t know, but they targeted them. So this is the synergistic effect of having all this government working together to in a good way, to go after bad guys. And that’s what they’re doing. And this is what I want to say, Kim, and I’m going to hammer it home as long as you let me talk about it throughout this interview, is that they are targeting bad people. We’re talking about criminal elements. We’re talking about gangbangers. We’re talking about cartel. We’re talking about potential terrorists. We’re talking about intelligence operators from foreign nation states that hate us, that are against us, China and all that. And I dealt with some of these people when I was still working. So that’s who we’re going after. And there’s millions of them. So, you know, to think that they’re going to start doing raids in your neighborhood and it’s just not happening. That’s not that, you know, they say, oh, we’re going to deport everybody. They’re not. It’s not just physically not possible, but they’re not going to. If somebody has been here for 30 years and he’s here illegally, but he’s worked, he’s kept his nose clean, he’s raised his family. He’s got nothing to worry about with one caveat. And Tom Holman spoke about this and they call it collateral arrests. We used to call it collateral damage. And in the past, we were forbidden to do so. And I’ll give you an example. When we targeted somebody in the city in San Diego or whatever, when we went to get them, everybody in the room is going to sit on the floor, sit down, and we’re going to check all their immigration stats. But we’re only allowed to take the target. The other people, even if they were illegal, they got a free ride. That’s changing. And Tom Holman explained why. If you want to be a sanctuary city or a sanctuary state, and prevent us from going to the courthouses, to the jails, to the prisons, which are the easiest and safest places for us to get these guys because they’re unarmed. If you’re not going to let us do that, we’re going to go into the neighborhoods or the workplaces to target these bad guys. And if you’re with them and you’re illegal, you’re going to go too. And that’s already happened a little bit. They popped an MS-13, a Marisalva Trucha 13 gangbanger, and a guy was with him who was illegal. He wasn’t a target. They took him too. So the only way you need to worry about is if you’re illegally and you keep your nose clean is if you’re hanging out with the wrong people or living with the wrong people.
SPEAKER 07 :
Interesting. And I’m talking with Chris Harris. He is a retired Border Patrol agent. Is that right?
SPEAKER 14 :
Retired, yeah. I did 21 years in patrol and 26 years in federal law enforcement, 36 years in total law enforcement.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. So pleased to be talking with Chris Harris. He’s a retired Border Patrol agent from the San Diego sector, and he’d been a union official. And Chris, before we get into some of my other questions regarding your wife and figuring this out, first of all, I know probably exactly where she was. She was wanting to do her faithful duty in helping these immigrants. And so many people have the heart for others because of our Christian faith or because just concern for others. But the minute you figure out that they’ve used your charity and they’ve not been honest with you, That is really frustrating. And I had a similar experience. I’d served on the board of Lutheran Family Services. And once you have that trust that has kind of that implicit trust that’s been kind of stomped all over, it changes the relationship a bit.
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Yeah, I actually switched churches from one Lutheran branch to another because it had to do with COVID-19 more or less because they shut down when Governor Newsom told them to. And I try to remind them that I’m law enforcement. I believe in obeying the laws, but render unto God what belongs to God. Render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar. Render unto God what belongs to God. And closing the church was not rendering unto God what belongs to God. But that’s a side note. But I get what you’re saying, and she was very disillusioned for a number of cases. And I really can’t talk about it because I think she did an NDA. I know what happened, but she was disillusioned more than once to the point where she left. And she did. She wanted to help out and see what was going on. And, you know, these are poor people coming here, claiming asylum. And that wasn’t always the case. And what they were doing with some of these young girls was reprehensible, who they were releasing them to. You know, we’re missing a lot of kids in this country. Far, far more under this administration, Biden’s administration, than they claimed under Trump. You know, 300,000 kids are missing. It’s reprehensible and it’s disgusting. And hopefully under this administration, they’ll do a deep dive into what HHS and others were doing and the NGOs were doing with these kids. Because I truly believe some of them are very much involved with – in the government and in these NGOs with smuggling young men and women, mostly women, young girls. But that’s a whole different story. Right, right. She was disillusioned from volunteering.
SPEAKER 07 :
And, yeah, I understand that. So next thing, are we seeing people self-deport because of these new policies of the Trump administration? Yes.
SPEAKER 14 :
I can’t speak on that directly. I’ve heard some anecdotal stories that they are. I mean, there’s even pictures of people getting on flights. Look, the president of Mexico, she’s super socialist, and she caved very quick with Trump. Everybody’s like, oh, he’s raising tariffs. She caved very quickly. She’s telling people in the U.S. that are Mexican citizens, come on back to Mexico. Okay, let’s see what it takes her up on. She says, we’re going to give you, you know, we’re going to hook you up with housing. You can take care of the people you’ve got now, but God bless if you can, if people want to go back to their homeland. And again— If you take pride in your heritage, that’s great. I get a little annoyed. Even my wife gets a little annoyed. She doesn’t have a Mexican flag. She’s naturalized. She’s a U.S. citizen. You see people running around with Mexican flags. There’s a country just south of us that you can actually be proud of flying that flag and go back. I’m not saying you have to, but if that’s your big thing, go ahead. So Columbia, their socialist president is telling the Colombians in the U.S., come on back. She’s saying, okay, let’s see if people start taking them up on it, if it’s worthwhile to them. If you’re so proud of your country that you came from, by all means, they’re inviting you back. I think a lot of them aren’t going to because you get free stuff here. That might be cut back somewhat, but a lot of that’s in the hands of the state. So New York and California is not going to cut that back. But if you get free stuff, why leave? And some do. But as far as the self-deportation, I’ve heard some stories that some people are – maybe they think it’s better for me to go back voluntarily than be deported. But we’ll have to wait and see how that plays out. But I have heard some stories that, yes, some people are saying, you know what? I’m going to go back. You saw people that come here from Mexico to work the fields, and they’re not the only ones. It’s not only Mexicans who work in the fields. I mean, they did a day of No Mexicans Monday again, and nothing happened. The country didn’t come to a situation. Anybody from a third world nation generally will work hard in the field because it’s better than from where they came. But there’s still people that will come here for like six months, work the fields, and go back to their homes in Mexico. God bless. They’re not on welfare. They’re not on getting EBT or this or that or any kind of programs. So I have my hats off to them. They work hard. They make their money. They go back to Mexico. Again, God bless.
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Well, and we need to have a legal way to do that. Yes. A legal way to do that. Yeah, exactly. So let’s go back to you had sent over this New York Post article, ICE raids target 100 trend Aragua gangbangers in Aurora months after the Colorado governor stated that they didn’t exist. So that’s pretty interesting.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, the council member out there in Aurora, and again, I mentioned before that one of our families is stationed out there. So, you know, we worry about his safety. He’s actually in Aurora. So, you know, you have a council member out there, Danielle Jarenski. She must be feeling pretty darn vindicated because polls had basically said it’s all in her imagination several months ago. I noticed the Denver mayor, Mike Johnson, is pretty quiet about this. And amazingly, most of the national media did not cover this story because they covered it earlier and like, oh, it doesn’t exist. There’s no real trend. There are people going crazy. It’s right-wing conspiracy. Well, they did a raid last week where they hit like a homemade nightclub and they arrested dozens of them, including that pink cocaine and weapons and this stuff. And this time – I mean it was hardcore. They were using – DEA was using flashbangs to get some people in custody. So they exist. There’s a lot of them in Aurora and Denver because they felt welcomed there by the elected officials. They go where they feel welcomed and where they feel they’re going to be left alone to do their criminal activity. Now, understand this. All these groups – and I’m going back to the mafia and other groups. They generally start preying on their own people first. So the Italians didn’t start going into WASP neighborhoods. They preyed on other Italians, the mafia. And most gangs do that. When the Russians came over in the late 70s and early 80s a lot, and then later on, little Odessa and Queens and New York City, they preyed on other Russians at first. So it’s that local community that gets hurt the hardest at first. New York City, they did raids on Trendy Aragua and MS-13 and others because they’ve both been named terrorist organizations. There is video. You won’t see it on mainstream media, but you’ll see it on smaller sources. Locals were taking videos on their phone, and this was in a minority of people of color neighborhood. People were clapping and saying, you know, get these a-holes out of our neighborhood. They’re raising their families there. They don’t want pedophiles. They don’t want drug dealers. They don’t want gangbangers. They don’t want people like that in their neighborhood. And it makes everybody safer. So the people that are defending these people, you have to wonder why. What’s in it for you? Why are you actually defending criminals? Why do you not want them removed? And so you just have to ask yourself that question. If you see a politician absolutely going crazy because they’re – or people like Selena Gomez that are going crazy, and all they’re removing basically right now are criminals, why? What is the endgame for you? What are you getting out of it that you want to protect criminals and keep them in this country? And I think just decent-minded people, moderates, independents should be asking that question. Because up to several years ago when I was doing the union stuff, legislative political affairs, I meet with Democratic elected senators and congresspeople, and they all up to 2016 were like, we’re good with deporting criminals, Chris. And somehow that flipped. And I don’t get that, Kim. Why do you not want us to remove convicted criminals that are here already illegals? And I suggest people ask themselves that and ask why others are defending them. What is their game plan? Why do they want – California, my county, San Diego County, it went from a moderate to conservative board of supervisors to a very progressive one. They voted – I think it’s like $6 million every few months. to provide money to illegals that are facing deportation that are criminals to defend them. Why are you doing that? Why would you defend? We’re not talking about, oh, my gosh, they picked up Jose or maybe some Roma, some gypsy, and they’re deporting them, and they’ve got a family. Oh, my gosh, they did nothing wrong. We’re talking about hardening criminals. Why are we spending taxpayer money, and why are people so adamant to defend them and keep them from being removed? I don’t get it. So you have to ask yourself those critical thinking. Use your critical thinking skills. Ask yourself these hard questions. Who and what and why are they trying to prevent bad guys, criminals, cartel, gangbangers, terrorists from being removed from our country?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and the Denver mayor, Mike Johnston, you mentioned him and you said he’s been quiet. Initially, he had quite a bit of bravado regarding saying that he was going to stand against Trump and that he was going to get all of these well-educated liberal women at the border of Denver to prevent the Trump administration from deporting hardened criminals. And I’ve got to think the hardened criminals, probably one of the first targets that they’d like is those wealthy suburban women that were standing up for them. That’d probably be some of their first targets because there’d probably be some pretty good stuff to steal.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, that’s true. I mean, we’ve seen a huge rise, including out here in San Diego and rich areas, La Jolla and other areas, of these either home invasions or burglaries. And a lot of these teams are from South America, and they rotate through. So by the time that the police and law enforcement get a bead on them, they’ve rotated back to South America. And some of it involves violence. They just popped to New York City. They were involved in breaking into a famous NFL player’s mansion and stealing a bunch of stuff. So – and he had a term for the women out there in Denver that were from a certain area that were – it’s kind of like the main line in Philadelphia. And I don’t remember what the term is. And I wonder if they really – if all those women were on board with that. But at first he had to walk it back because he was basically saying they were going to stand up – like he was going to use the police and everything to stand up against federal agents. He had to walk that back. But now you’ve got the New Jersey governor saying crazy things. Now, he’s terming it out. But first he said he was housing an illegal woman in a garage over, you know, at the governor’s mansion. And his people had to walk that one back because Tom Holman said, well, I’m looking into it. And if he is, he’ll be arrested. So they walked that back. Then he came out with another crazy thing the other day that he took his protective detail, which is New Jersey state troopers. He heard they were going to hit a raid – do a raid in some area. ISIS was going to do a raid, and they went there and parked and got out and stood there. Well, they never – the defense never showed up, so he goes, I don’t know. We scared them off. So people are getting a little annoyed with that, going like, you’re willing to put the Jersey State Police in a possible armed confrontation with federal agents? What is wrong with you? And again, Tom Holman said if he wants to do that and he actually does it, we’ll arrest him. And so I believe Tom Holman means it when he says between the secretary at DHS and the attorney general at DOJ and the new U.S. attorneys that are being appointed, we will go after you, and we will arrest you, and we’ll proffer charges for if you’re impeding 8 U.S.C. 1324, which has to do with smuggling, harboring, and all that. So maybe Mike Johnson has been – maybe he has some advisors that have said, hey, dude, you’ve got to cool your jets because they actually mean business. And just because you’re a mayor does not give you, you know, carbons to break federal law. And so maybe they’re realizing, again, the new sheriff’s in town and you can’t do the normal old Biden will run top cover for us. That’s not happening.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens. Freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. I have on the line with me retired Border Patrol agent from the San Diego sector, and that’s Chris Harris. And a lot of things coming in on the text line 720-605-0647. Chris, you mentioned this New Jersey governor. Phil Murphy. And I had seen this headline that he said that he was going to step up to the plate, walk his, you know, walk his talk and would house an illegal immigrant in the apparently apartment above the garage. And I did not realize that he had walked that back. And I thought, well, at least good for him. He’s walking his talk, but maybe not so much, huh?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, so he didn’t actually do it. His people did. You know, his handlers, his people walked it back. Oh, that’s not what he said. She’s just – she’s like a green card. But, you know, nobody stayed here. So it was just – they realized, like, oh, you overstepped. And Tom Holman said you’re on his radar, and he’s going to have people look into it. And if you did that, they’re going to come for you. So his people walked it back. And then on another – left this talk show he he said oh yeah we we went down to this this neighborhood and we parked and we got out and stood on the corner and my protective detail and i because we heard ice was going to do a raid and i watched the video clip i’m not just saying it secondhand And so he can get away with that because, one, people can tell stories, you know, corn pop. So, you know, my uncle was eaten by cannibals. So, you know, you could be a storyteller, especially as a politician. So there’s nothing really criminal about that. And he actually didn’t do it. He goes, well, they didn’t show up, so we don’t know if we scared them off or whatever. Or it was just a figment of your imagination. Or you heard a rumor, you went there, and ICE was never even going to go to that neighborhood. So there’s nothing really criminal about that. So that one he gets a pass on. But if he wants to sit there and say, again, these housing illegals in the governor’s mansion, yeah, they’ll pay him a visit. So you get these politicians, these elected officials. They’re used to saying what they want. This administration, Tom Holman has made it very clear. And, again, the good thing is he’s working well with the new attorney general, the secretary of DHS, DOD. All of them are working on the same page. So there’s a lot of synergistic energy going on there where when Tom says we’ll look into you, that means they’ll look into you. And if you’re breaking the law, you’re not going to get a pass this time. You’re not going to get top cover as under the previous administration. We will enforce the law and don’t care if you’re a mayor or governor, we will arrest you. If you’re impeding us – so there’s one thing, Kim. I just want to clear that. Nobody can force local law enforcement, state law enforcement to enforce immigration law. That’s the purview of the U.S. government. There are some programs we can cross-designate you, but what you can’t do – you don’t have to help. You can be neutral. We’re just not going to help you, but you can’t impede. So if you’re going to impede or obstruct federal agents in the performance of duty, there’s a thing called supremacy in federal law. And I’m a big state rights fan, but on certain things – uh federal law has supremacy so so i mean like california can’t say we’re kicking all border patrol agents out of california because we passed the state law uh or we’re disarming them the border patrol agents be on the board but they can’t carry weapons the federal government comes and you can’t do that too bad so sad so you can’t impede or obstruct or violate federal law uh and if they want to cross that that rubicon cross that bridge then then This administration is going to come down on you, and I’m waiting for somebody to go too far, and I think now he’s backed off a little bit, but the Denver mayor or the mayor of Chicago or a few other places. I think this administration will gladly – Tom Holmes said, you want to get arrested? We’ll oblige you. We have a cell for you. So I think a lot of them are going to try to go to the edge, to the line, and run their mouth for their constituency or what they perceive as a constituency, which is funny because polls have said even Democrats agree with deporting certain people. But so they have to run their mouth. But if they cross that line and actually start doing things, I truly believe people are going to get arrested no matter who they are. I will point out that ICE, I just want to throw this in, ICE under Biden was doing a little bit over 300 arrests a day. They’re now over 1,000. So that’s a triple-fold increase. So, yay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. We have a listener that asks if they know of somebody that’s here illegally. Is there a hotline to report anything?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, there is. Let me see if I can find that right quick. Sure. Do you want me to give you the number?
SPEAKER 19 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 14 :
So it’s 1-866-347-2423. That’s 866-347-2423. And that’s for ICE HSI. That’s Homeland Security Investigations tip line. So you can report an immigration violation. Now, here’s what I would like to say to your listeners and all that. Please don’t misuse this. Don’t because I don’t like my neighbor and his name is Jose or he’s from, you know, an Eastern European country or whatever. And I don’t like him. You know, if you really believe that there’s like there’s a load house next to you, they’re smuggling, there’s human trafficking. They’re criminals that are illegal. Please, by all means, call. Please, by all means, call. You know, people do. I was a police officer. People give us tips, and we very much appreciate it. Neighborhood watches, things like that. You just don’t want to be misused. You know, the COVID-19 drop a dime on your neighbor hotline was great. I think, you know, disgustingly misused by people that didn’t like their neighbors or had their own political agenda. Let’s be righteous. Let’s be decent people because we can enforce our laws in this country, be they immigration laws, be they national security laws, be they just criminal laws. We’re a good country. We can do it humanely and justly. So use this number if you truly believe there’s some nefarious activity that has to do with immigration violations going on around you. Please, please call. Let’s be above what maybe the left did and not misuse it. Not saying we would, but let’s do it righteously.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. 866-347-2423. Chris Harris, there have been reports that George Soros has purchased a whole bunch of radio stations and that there was a Spanish station that had alerted regarding a raid. Have you heard of that?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I do know that that’s happened before. I mean that’s been going on for years where these activist groups or certain media outlets, if they find out through their own tips that ICE or CBP or whatever is going to do a raid, they’re going to let everybody know. I mean I can remember us doing a targeted raid in San Diego. I was part of it. I was in a MARC unit. I was supposed to – I had certain weapons with me in case things went bad, plainclothes agents were doing a raid. And, yeah, they have a network, and it involves media and activists where if they suspect that there’s going to be a raid, they’re making phone calls. They’re letting people know. They’re broadcasting it. It happens. There’s a fine line between First Amendment and other things. Look, they were going to hit Chicago right after the president was elected with raids. and I hate calling them raids, but you know, targeted enforcement, they canceled it because somebody ran their mouth. I don’t know what an ice or somebody overheard something. Um, so they canceled it because they, you just don’t, when I was doing narcotics as a detective in New York, you don’t want the bad guys to know you’re coming. That’s how people cops get killed. So it happens. Uh, allowed for George Soros to buy a substantial amount of, allegedly a substantial amount of radio stations. I have a feeling they’ll be looking into that, the legality of it, or if it violated rules and regulations of the FCC. But yeah, no doubt that – look, Chicago, they sent a bunch of teams out the other day, and they ended up only with two people because Chicago, from the elected officials at the city level, the state level, to the media, to the schools, they are schooling these people. Don’t answer your doors. Don’t talk to them. It’s just – You have your constitutional rights. I get that. I’m a big supporter of that. But they’re really walking the line, too, of telling people how to get away with breaking the law. And that’s what it’s about.
SPEAKER 07 :
Chris Harris, this has been absolutely fascinating. The text line people are asking for that number, 866-347-2423. And to your point, be judicious on this. If you know there’s nefarious activities going on, certainly give a call on that. Chris Harris, fascinating. I so greatly appreciate the conversation.
SPEAKER 14 :
Kim, thank you, as always, for having me on, and I look forward to talking to you and your listeners again. God bless.
SPEAKER 07 :
God bless you as well. And our quote for the end of the show is from Herodotus, and he said this, Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
SPEAKER 19 :
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