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thought phoning O'Brien was the best late night media. I
was so mad when Jay Lemmo came back and took
them back off the air. Morning guys.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Uh, Today it's smartphones and AI romances.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Back in the day, it was rotary phones and blow
up dolls.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Tampa here.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
I just wanted to let you know there's a huge
backup to get into McDill Air Force Base this morning.
It's backed all the way up to the expressway. I
was wondering what was going on.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Love.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Flip. Thank you. The Department of War Secretary Pete Heseth
is in Tampa today. He will be at Central Command
to get an update on military operations in Iran. So
the arrival of the War Secretary is what's causing all
the delays and traffic in and around McDill Air Force Base.
I thought what he was going from rotary phone, too
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long cords. I remember, you know, trying with two older
brothers and with a mom and a kitchen full of
cigarettes and friends to try to find a place to
talk to my girlfriend on a phone. I would either
wind all the way through the kitchen into the living
room and not quite making the living room really kind
(01:58):
of be by that little half wall by the dining
room to talk. Or I would go into a pantry.
What I didn't expect was Woody to go in to
blow up dolls, That's for sure. The three big stories
today were Ellison, deceitful Walls, Thomas A Rock, and I
try not to say anything negative about anybody, but I
want in his defense. I want you to know, after
(02:18):
watching hours, he's really not a smart man. He's just
not bright. But they got shelled by Congress in hearing. Meanwhile,
an Iranian vessel got torpedoed, first time we've done that
since World War Two and sunk off the coast of
Sri Lanka. And then the War Powers Act that they
were trying to get through on the left in the Senate,
(02:40):
well it got shot down. Lost in all of this
was our Homeland Security Secretary, Christy nom And I don't
knowbou anybody else, but once Operation Epic three began, my
concern was terror tachs on the homeland more than anything else.
This would be a time to be focused on funding
fully homeland security. But she was having to address concerns
(03:03):
over border security and policy concerns. Roy O'Neil's here with
that story. Rory, good morning. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
And it was a lot of Democrats just trying to
go viral with some of the questions they were asking
the secretary. It was day two yesterday of the questioning
on Capitol Hill, this time by the House Judiciary and
an oversight capacity. The Democrats were focusing on what happened
in Minnesota, how ice officers are deployed, also looking at
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some of the spending being done by DHS. The spending
specifically on planes two smaller jets plus one seven thirty
seven that's currently being acquired by DHS, And yes they
went there. Some of the Democrats trying to stir the
pot about a reported relationship the Secretary may have with
Corey Lewandowski despite their marriages to other people. The Republicans, meanwhile, though,
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focused on a lot of success from DHS, namely what
they've seen at the southern border, zero crossings essentially for
the past ten months, big drops in ventnyl entering the US,
the lowest murder rate in one hundred and twenty years.
So two very different views unfolding in that committee room yesterday.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, we talked about in the origins of it and
how it happened, but we're living in bubbles now, so
we call it the Matrix. If you've seen the movie
The Matrix, because it's two simultaneous alternate universes, and it
was never more real than yesterday. I mean, watching real
fraud and real billions on one side and then this
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one on the other, and the two shall never meet,
it appears. But yeah, the same old chestnut, these two
that got killed, as opposed to what they did to
get shot. I mean nobody wants them to be dead.
Everybody wants them to be alive. But they did insert
themselves into police operations. But you know how long we're
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going to have these same arguments. And I would just
say this, Rory, if there is a terrorist attack and
it can ever come back to, well, we had frozen
funds and we just didn't have the personnel or innocent
Americans die while this political type games are going on.
And as the games go, I mean, they got the
short end of the stick because the American people are
on the side of immigration, they're not on the side
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of fraud. Ory's going to be back in the third hour.
We're going to get the very latest on Really what
we're talking about is the straight up horn moves specifically,
but how to get these tankers and cargo ships moving again.
And it may come to US ships escorting them, may
(05:38):
come to more torpedoes from some Marines. I don't know,
but somebody, and only Rory brings it up, has to
convince the insurance companies that were good to go to
allow these tankers for the oil to flow. All right,
twelve after the hour David's and I didn't even he
gave himself an assignment. Now, the one you watched didn't
have George W. Bush is one of the yeah they
can't diary. We definitely watched the same one. I was
(06:02):
struck by your comment and my missing it. But here's
here's the big, long setup. Where's Churchill today when you
need him? And the question is certainly not in Great Britain.
I mean, if Great Britain looks like anybody today, well
(06:24):
I guess it would be Neville Chamberlain with a growing
Nazi population at home. But I mean, you know, definitely
Great Britain's gone back. So where's the Churchill? Is it? Trump?
And I hadn't thought of this. Really, the Churchill in
this situation might be bb net and Yahoo.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, Prime Minister Net Yahoo is is very similar in
that regard. Of course, there's nobody that's ever going to
replace Winston Churchill. That's part of I think what any
documentary on Churchill will lead you to understand. It was
quite a unique character in British history and in the world.
But the point of it, if it is Michael is
the similarity is this Winston Churchill was telling the world
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for decades that Joe Stalin was a huge problem, that
communism is a huge problem. And pretty early into the conflict,
where the Big three were meeting together, Churchill discerned that
Stalin had plans after the war to divide up Europe
and to become the most dominant force, bringing Soviet Communism
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across the entire continent.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
That was he saw it. In the FDR didn't sense that,
and FDR was kind of playing at Churchill's expense.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Well, FDR was enamored by Stalin and he was bored
with Churchill. And because Churchill was basically the dodgy old
guy who kept saying remember, remember, remember, remember, And of
course at this stage in the game, we've got a
really challenge and question some of FDR's capacity because he
(07:56):
was in congestive heart failure, he was in involved in
a very covered up affair with a mistress in whose
arms he died in nineteen forty six.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
How different was America that nobody even knows that, nobody
even knows that, And that's not I mean, that's a
significant reality of what was going on during that period
of time.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
But Churchill was warning everyone that the greater danger than
Hitler was Stalin, and FDR would not listen to him.
He would not.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Well fog of war necessity of the moment. They wanted
to keep Nazi Germany from finishing the job on Russia
and really controlling everything from North Africa and all of Europe,
and all that would be left was Great Britain. So
they were kind of strange Brett bedfellows that were formed.
(08:53):
But what I found fascinating, David, is this concept of
and I kind of pulled it from this documentary and
I pull it from real life. Although I can tell
you about twenty two years ago on the air, there
was people that didn't know who bb Netne who was,
and if they did, loved him at home very church
like either loved or despised. He's either the solution or
(09:18):
he's the problem. And what's interesting is Churchill and Netna
who share this. Sometimes when we don't like somebody we
really hate, when they end up being right, think of
let that soak in for a second, because that's really
what because they're both going to end up being right.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, And in this particular case, what Churchill was telling Roosevelt,
he just didn't want to hear I just like Roosevelt
didn't want to hear about the Jewish slaughter that was happening,
just like Roosevelt didn't want to hear that he needed
to get America in the war because he was more
concerned about what Charles Lindbergh and Walt Disney we're doing
(10:00):
with the America First Movement, which was the original America
First Movement, and to keep the United States out of war.
FDR was playing politics. Well, millions of people were dying. Now, ironically,
sadly and tragically, Churchill was right. He predicted that Stalin
would be a much larger murderer of humanity than Hitler,
(10:24):
and he was right by at least fourfold, depending on
whose numbers you're using.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, well, think about that if we could go back
in time, and we can't expect, although Churchill did, we
can't expect any of them know that. But you're sitting
fighting Nazi Germany that the armchair quarterback looking back, understanding
would tell you, very deadly guy, but a half a
decade problem. And then you're sitting with these Big three
(10:52):
and you're trying to fight what's going to end up
being a three year problem. And you're at the table
with somebody's going to create a three four decade problem,
and you don't even know it. And and Churchill discerned it. Yeah,
and he discerned it. He had it.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He had it right, just like Netanyahu's been trying for
fifty years to awaken the West that the theocratic state
based on Sharia law and radical Islam is a grave
danger to all humanity. And along comes Donald Trump, and
at least, for whatever reason, in this period of time,
he seems to have gotten the message. Yeah, and he
(11:26):
seems to be frustrated that Great Britain hasn't. We're not
We're not certain how that's going to play out, you,
Michael Irony upon Irony.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, really, I mean, well this is why you love
history so much though, right, I mean, we are flying
without instrumentation, without the perspective of history. It's that simple,
and you'll get away with it on a sunny day,
but when it gets stormy and you're in the cockpit alone,
you're dead meat without it. I'm the older I and
(11:54):
by the way, I like him, But the older I get,
the more I realize instinctively how right you have been.
I remember I used to laugh at you. I'm like David,
I need to read all these books. I'll just wait
for the documentary I'm one over par what are you?
And then you realize you better read or watch, but
you better get accurate history. It only gives you all
(12:16):
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This is your Morning show with Michael del Chrono.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We're visiting with David Zanati, our senior contributor and the
CEO of the American Policy Roundtable. I guess I created
this theme. I stumbled on the Netflix documentary on Churchill, which,
despite some of the leftist voices that come in and
out of it, the actual original documentation and the storytelling
of his biographical life and the geopolitical crisis that led
(14:27):
to World War Two was very accurate, David. What should
never be missed in the lesson of Winston Churchill.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Well that he was right, that he was right about
the isms, that he was right about communism, that he
was right about the godless equation as opposed to Western society,
and that he was probably if he had had enough time,
he would have gotten onto the subject of Islam and
told us that we should never look at something like Wikipedia,
(14:56):
the largest website in the world, most visib web site
in the world. When you go on to this morning,
the first thing you see is Wiki loves Ramadan to
twenty twenty six. In other words, there's an entire reality
going on right now trying to soft pedal the dangers
of radical Islam. Bibi Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Netnah, who
(15:17):
has been trying to warn culture for five decades that
you cannot take the ism, you cannot take radical Islam,
you cannot take a theocratic surial loss state lightly. There
are consequences in geopolitical realities globally and locally. Doesn't matter
whether you're in Dearborn or in London, or now whether
(15:39):
you're facing Iran. This is a conversation about ideas, and
ideas do have consequences, and Churchill got it, knew it,
and Prime Minister Netnyaho has been trying to tell us
this for a long long time.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You don't have to, I guess the documentary would want
you early to learn the lesson that damaged childhoods usually
create great leaders. That was an interesting angle early on.
It's probably you get overwhelmed with so many other bigger
lessons you forget that one that could be true. You know,
we know the funniest people on earth are people that
(16:10):
have had the saddest lives or tragic childhood. I get that.
I honed it on something different, and that was you know,
you go back to his early days as a soldier,
and he would re enlist often and put his life
tremendously at risk, to the point where some people thought
he had a death wish. He didn't. He just he
just knew that only God knows when I'm leaving, and
no matter what I do, he is either going to
(16:31):
protect me or was my time. But he was a
he was a writer in battle. He was a great communicator.
We continue with the exception of Donald Trump, who me not.
I mean, in some ways he's a brilliant communicator in
his style, not not necessarily like like a Churchill or
a Reagan, but great communicator, great thinker, just and was right.
(16:53):
I mean, that's that's the bottom line. Who is it today?
You might be right, it's either Trump or it's net Yahoo,
and I think it's done.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I don't recommend the Netflix special just because the people
that are doing the commentating are trying to deconstruct the
truth by acknowledging parts of it leaving others empty.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
So I won't.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I don't want to be I don't want people to
have to call out and say that was I watched
the thing and I saw blat yeats there. There's a
lot of stuff in there that if you have.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It's everywhere. It's the problem. Yeah, it's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I got like there, it's front page of Wikipedia.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
There, it is every day. All right, We're going to
go back to Feast to seven Fishes after this, David,
thanks for your timeled talk again very soon.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
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Speaker 9 (18:05):
Morning from Philadelphia to let you know how old I am.
My very first job was at Duncan Donuts on the
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made each and every donut in store each night. I
hope there's nothing wrong with Duncan Donuts vanilla iced coffee.
I absolutely adore it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Duncan don't well. Duncan Donuts and McCafe have probably risen,
maybe even more so over Starbucks in the last decade
as the choice of coffee. I mean, they really. My
grandmother tried to work for the Dunkin Donuts on Campbell
and Arlington Heights and didn't get the job because she
failed a lie detector test. I imagine they were doing
lie detector tests for Dunkin Donuts, but they asked my
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grandmother if she if she's ever lied or cheated, and
she said no, And of course she cheated at cards
every night. We think that's why she failed the lie detector.
Good morning, thirty six minutes after the hour. A lot
of drama. Yesterday we had ag Keith Ellison along with
Governor Tim Walls getting shelled by Congress and a hearing.
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We fired our first torpedo in over eighty years and
sunk of an Iranian vessel off the coast of Sri Lanka.
And then the War Powers restrictions got shot down by
the Senate, and we still have John Decker following everybody
that is in the wrong place at the wrong time
(19:35):
and needs to now be evacuated from this very dangerous
area that might have been vacationing. That's a lot to cover,
John Decker. No wonder you have a podcast called the
White House Briefing Room. Good Morning.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
I cover all of that today in the podcast. But
in any case, as it relates to those Americans, there
are thousands that are still stranded for one reason or
another in the Middle East. They could be working and
living in the Middle East, they could be visiting as
a vacation in the Middle East, but it's difficult for
them to get back because so many flights, as you
(20:06):
can imagine, have been canceled because of this ongoing conflict.
And so the State Department is working to get out
those Americans that want to get out. There was one
flight yesterday and there will be more flights in the
days ahead, no cost. Is what the President said to
those Americans that wish to depart.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
The Middle East. Well, you just you just brought up
three questions that I think I might even guess the
answers to. All Right, so we're going to prioritize those
that are perceivably in the most dangerous places. Secondly, we're
not going to wait for airlines to be able to
do it. We're going to use probably military aircraft. Is
that pretty much the way this is going. We got
to get them out, exactly right.
Speaker 10 (20:49):
Yeah, that's that's exactly right, you know, and you know
with military aircraft you can obviously protect that kind of
an aircraft better than a commercial aircraft. And you know,
I think this is one of those things where if
the administration had a do over, they would have had
a better plan in place as it relates to evacuating
those Americans. You don't get due overs, but you can
(21:11):
improve what, you know, the initial effort in terms of
getting those Americans out, and that's what they're trying to
do right now.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
You know.
Speaker 10 (21:18):
It's one of those things that sometimes you don't think
about when you're planning for military common want about those.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, no, I think they knew what they were going
to do. I don't think they knew the exact moment.
Remember we had this conversation where they wait until after
the Olympics, where they wait after this stay the end.
Know they were waiting because of intelligence when they were
all in the same room. But you're right, they could
have pre thought, well, whenever this does happen, likely this
will be a situation, what's our protocol? But we're only
days after and they're getting to it and getting them out,
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and that is those that want to leave, and I
would presume virtually nine out of ten want to get
the heck out of there. Yesterday was a real Yesterday
was a real matrix day, wasn't it. I mean the
matrix if you've seen the movie, are too alternate realities
happening simultaneously, and the left is having theirs, the right
is having theirs. Social media plays a role in this.
The media plays a role in this. But we have
(22:09):
two separate bubbles. In one bubble you had Keith Ellison
and Tim Walls, and then in another bubble, you know,
you had the Democrats, you know, drilling, I'm blazing her name,
Christy nol And so you know, and and here's what,
(22:29):
here's the elephant the room that nobody wants to say
out loud. With this particular enemy, they will retaliate with
missiles in the region, and they will retaliate with terrorist
attacks in other areas. So is America vulnerable to sleeper cells?
Of course, loan attackers. Of course, this would be the
worst time to not be funding TSA, the worst time
(22:52):
to not be funding homeland security, let alone you know,
harassing it. And all it's going to take is a
terrorist attack at this particular timing where someone put politics
over the security of the American people, that I would
think would be a disaster. But you couldn't find two
more completely different hearings going it just to me, it
just screamed how dysfunctional we are at home?
Speaker 10 (23:14):
Yeah, the timing wasn't good, certainly, you know, as far
as the Christy gnome hearing for the reasons that you
just mentioned. So if you are the head of the
House Judiciary Committe where that hearing took place, you have
to decide do we, you know, put it off, do
we put it off for a week or two, or
do we have it, you know, while this conflict is
(23:35):
going on and while there potentially could be this danger
to our homeland within our country. And so there was
a decision to have this particular hearing yesterday.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And that's exactly what took place. Well, the best news
for Keith Ellison, who I thought was very deceitful, and
for Tim Wallas, who I thought looked like a deer
in headlights and not very bright, was it was pretty
low on the radar. And there are so few people
left objective in your line of work. I don't ever
want to draw you into talk radio, but you know,
(24:06):
like you, if I don't have something good to say
about somebody, I usually say nothing at all. But I
was really taken, and I think a lot of the
questioners were taken by Tim Walls not being a very
sharp knife in the drawer, and that this is a
very serious issue of fraud. It's one that has to
be pursued and get beyond this personality politics or character flaws.
(24:28):
I wonder where that's going. That needs to go somewhere,
and it needs to be stopped and identified. I don't
know that much progress was made there. Anything else I'm
missing that'll be on the White House briefing room today.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
Well, yeah, there was actually a loss that the administration
suffered in a legal sense, and that has to do
with the potential for tariff refunds in the tens of
billions of dollars. Now, it's just an initial ruling by
a judge at the federal level, and it will be
appealed by theministration, but it's not a good start because
(25:02):
potentially hundreds of billions of dollars could be refunded to
importers who've spent a lot of money on tariffs over
the course of the past years. So talking certainly about
that today and then talking about the difficulty for some
Americans to get out from the Middle East. We touched
on that just now, but further exploring that and what
(25:25):
the administration is doing to rectify that issue.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And I guess under the headline of much to do
about nothing, the DOJ is deciding to drop all the
auto pen stuff with Joe Biden, so we can say
goodbye to that chapter as well. It is the White
House Briefing Room with John Decker. It's a daily podcast
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You'll find it on the iHeart Appen when you do
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every morning. I highly recommend the White House Briefing Room
with John Decker. Thanks for your time, John. All right,
if you're just waking up. These are the top five
stories of ze I just mentioned in passing the Department
of Justice ending its investigation in a former Biden's use
of the auto pen Mark Mayfield's following that story.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Things failed to gain traction after the DOJ failed to
build a criminal case and it was never presented to
a grand jury. President Trump wanted an investigation after criticizing Biden,
saying that he and his aides broke the law in
using the auto pen to sign presidential documents. It's unclear
how often Biden used an autopen, as there is no
official government record of when it is used by.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Mark Mayfield, Well, what's all this talk about Dunkin Donuts
and Starbucks? Health in Human Services Secretary RFK Junior is
calling out some major coffee chains. Tammy Trehillo has details.
Speaker 11 (26:42):
At a rally last week in Texas, Kennedy said his
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Duncan Donuts and Starbucks show us the safety data that
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The secretary said he didn't think they'd be able to
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Speaker 4 (29:19):
O'Brien served as the headliner at the twenty thirteen WHCA dinner,
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He likened the experience to the oscars and said, you
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just my two cents.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I'm Michael.
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This is Michael from eleven and Oh Hive.
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I have never had a cup of cops that I
have God's nectar every day diet.
Speaker 12 (32:52):
Found Michael, I do recall maybe even a week before,
the Space Department telling Americans to clear out.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
When they start, we're.
Speaker 12 (33:00):
Telling you that we're removing non essential personnel from embassies.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
That should give you a heads up. Yeah. Well, I
mean if we go back and remember, and I could
flip back, I say, every day's notes. I also have
photographic memories. I can see it in my own handwriting.
You know, there was the Netnahu visit to the White House,
there were the ships both being brought in just off
(33:28):
the coast. There was the last and final meeting that
was unproductive, and then there was the warning warning for
citizens to get out. Yeah, that's how we knew it
was imminent. Now at what point and time will tell?
We know how they started tracking. I mean they infiltrated
(33:48):
every camera and Tehran. So they had been following Israeli intelligence, drivers,
security and top leaders, developing the patterns of their life.
I think the miscalculation was, well, the US, if they bombased,
it's going to be at night, and so they were
just having meetings during the day. I think they were
(34:08):
waiting for the right meeting where the most people attended.
It's kind of like when you watch the movie Valkyrie,
they had the right meeting to blow up and take
out Hitler. He just somehow survived. But that's kind of
what it was waiting for. But all those warnings were given.
Red is right to point out they're too busy right
(34:29):
now trying to block funding of homeland security. So they're
having a Ice argument about two people that did everything
they could to get themselves killed. I mean, if I
behaved as those two individuals, I'd be dead today too.
The man killed, they've completely misrepresented him, including changing his
(34:52):
face with Ai. The woman, it was all captured on tape,
ginned up by her lesbian wife. She goes in reverse,
and she goes and forward and she starts trying to
run over an ICE agent. I'm gonna get you shot
every time. But they're overplaying that false narrative. They're trying
to defund not just Homeland Security, but TSA at a
(35:15):
time where we need to be protected from a terrorist attack,
at a time of war. All it's going to take
as a terrorist attack, and this is going to really
look bad. The Democrats are playing an old story partisan
political game while a real threat was being eliminated. Talk
(35:35):
about blowing up in your face. And that's if anybody
was not watching what really blew up in their face,
the fraud in Minnesota. That's what they ought to be.
They ought to be focused on keeping Americans safe right now,
and how the heck did all that money get to
terrorists from Minnesota? And they're fighting tooth and nail on
the opposite sides of those This is a really bad
(35:58):
optic for the Democrats. That would become irreversible and destructive
if a terrorist attack is pulled off at such a time.
They just don't look like very serious people next hour,
so much focus on the disruption of crude flow and
(36:19):
how that will impact is at the pump or in general,
how might epic fury impact our economy and market money?
Was an economist David Bonsen will join us, and I
know it's kind of become almost an opinion, a position,
or a television event for you. But if you're living
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in Israel and sirens are going off, and you've got
fifteen seconds to get to a shelter, and that's your
children in your arms, frightened, hearing bombs, and when it stops,
coming out and seeing the destruction, it's a real life event.
What is it like inside Israel today? Fixtinal join us
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from the IFCJ from Israel next hour as well. We're
all in this together.
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thought phoning O'Brien was the best late night media. I
was so mad when Jay Lemmo came back and took
them back off the air. Morning guys.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Uh, Today it's smartphones and AI romances.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Back in the day, it was rotary phones and blow
up dolls.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Tampa here.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
I just wanted to let you know there's a huge
backup to get into McDill Air Force Base this morning.
It's backed all the way up to the expressway. I
was wondering what was going on.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Love.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Flip. Thank you. The Department of War Secretary Pete Heseth
is in Tampa today. He will be at Central Command
to get an update on military operations in Iran. So
the arrival of the War Secretary is what's causing all
the delays and traffic in and around McDill Air Force Base.
I thought what he was going from rotary phone, too
(01:35):
long cords. I remember, you know, trying with two older
brothers and with a mom and a kitchen full of
cigarettes and friends to try to find a place to
talk to my girlfriend on a phone. I would either
wind all the way through the kitchen into the living
room and not quite making the living room really kind
(01:58):
of be by that little half wall by the dining
room to talk. Or I would go into a pantry.
What I didn't expect was Woody to go in to
blow up dolls, That's for sure. The three big stories
today were Ellison, deceitful Walls, Thomas A Rock, and I
try not to say anything negative about anybody, but I
want in his defense. I want you to know, after
(02:18):
watching hours, he's really not a smart man. He's just
not bright. But they got shelled by Congress in hearing. Meanwhile,
an Iranian vessel got torpedoed, first time we've done that
since World War Two and sunk off the coast of
Sri Lanka. And then the War Powers Act that they
were trying to get through on the left in the Senate,
(02:40):
well it got shot down. Lost in all of this
was our Homeland Security Secretary, Christy nom And I don't
knowbou anybody else, but once Operation Epic three began, my
concern was terror tachs on the homeland more than anything else.
This would be a time to be focused on funding
fully homeland security. But she was having to address concerns
(03:03):
over border security and policy concerns. Roy O'Neil's here with
that story. Rory, good morning. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
And it was a lot of Democrats just trying to
go viral with some of the questions they were asking
the secretary. It was day two yesterday of the questioning
on Capitol Hill, this time by the House Judiciary and
an oversight capacity. The Democrats were focusing on what happened
in Minnesota, how ice officers are deployed, also looking at
(03:30):
some of the spending being done by DHS. The spending
specifically on planes two smaller jets plus one seven thirty
seven that's currently being acquired by DHS, And yes they
went there. Some of the Democrats trying to stir the
pot about a reported relationship the Secretary may have with
Corey Lewandowski despite their marriages to other people. The Republicans, meanwhile, though,
(03:54):
focused on a lot of success from DHS, namely what
they've seen at the southern border, zero crossings essentially for
the past ten months, big drops in ventnyl entering the US,
the lowest murder rate in one hundred and twenty years.
So two very different views unfolding in that committee room yesterday.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, we talked about in the origins of it and
how it happened, but we're living in bubbles now, so
we call it the Matrix. If you've seen the movie
The Matrix, because it's two simultaneous alternate universes, and it
was never more real than yesterday. I mean, watching real
fraud and real billions on one side and then this
(04:32):
one on the other, and the two shall never meet,
it appears. But yeah, the same old chestnut, these two
that got killed, as opposed to what they did to
get shot. I mean nobody wants them to be dead.
Everybody wants them to be alive. But they did insert
themselves into police operations. But you know how long we're
(04:55):
going to have these same arguments. And I would just
say this, Rory, if there is a terrorist attack and
it can ever come back to, well, we had frozen
funds and we just didn't have the personnel or innocent
Americans die while this political type games are going on.
And as the games go, I mean, they got the
short end of the stick because the American people are
on the side of immigration, they're not on the side
(05:17):
of fraud. Ory's going to be back in the third hour.
We're going to get the very latest on Really what
we're talking about is the straight up horn moves specifically,
but how to get these tankers and cargo ships moving again.
And it may come to US ships escorting them, may
(05:38):
come to more torpedoes from some Marines. I don't know,
but somebody, and only Rory brings it up, has to
convince the insurance companies that were good to go to
allow these tankers for the oil to flow. All right,
twelve after the hour David's and I didn't even he
gave himself an assignment. Now, the one you watched didn't
have George W. Bush is one of the yeah they
can't diary. We definitely watched the same one. I was
(06:02):
struck by your comment and my missing it. But here's
here's the big, long setup. Where's Churchill today when you
need him? And the question is certainly not in Great Britain.
I mean, if Great Britain looks like anybody today, well
(06:24):
I guess it would be Neville Chamberlain with a growing
Nazi population at home. But I mean, you know, definitely
Great Britain's gone back. So where's the Churchill? Is it? Trump?
And I hadn't thought of this. Really, the Churchill in
this situation might be bb net and Yahoo.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, Prime Minister Net Yahoo is is very similar in
that regard. Of course, there's nobody that's ever going to
replace Winston Churchill. That's part of I think what any
documentary on Churchill will lead you to understand. It was
quite a unique character in British history and in the world.
But the point of it, if it is Michael is
the similarity is this Winston Churchill was telling the world
(07:03):
for decades that Joe Stalin was a huge problem, that
communism is a huge problem. And pretty early into the conflict,
where the Big three were meeting together, Churchill discerned that
Stalin had plans after the war to divide up Europe
and to become the most dominant force, bringing Soviet Communism
(07:25):
across the entire continent.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
That was he saw it. In the FDR didn't sense that,
and FDR was kind of playing at Churchill's expense.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Well, FDR was enamored by Stalin and he was bored
with Churchill. And because Churchill was basically the dodgy old
guy who kept saying remember, remember, remember, remember, And of
course at this stage in the game, we've got a
really challenge and question some of FDR's capacity because he
(07:56):
was in congestive heart failure, he was in involved in
a very covered up affair with a mistress in whose
arms he died in nineteen forty six.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
How different was America that nobody even knows that, nobody
even knows that, And that's not I mean, that's a
significant reality of what was going on during that period
of time.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
But Churchill was warning everyone that the greater danger than
Hitler was Stalin, and FDR would not listen to him.
He would not.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Well fog of war necessity of the moment. They wanted
to keep Nazi Germany from finishing the job on Russia
and really controlling everything from North Africa and all of Europe,
and all that would be left was Great Britain. So
they were kind of strange Brett bedfellows that were formed.
(08:53):
But what I found fascinating, David, is this concept of
and I kind of pulled it from this documentary and
I pull it from real life. Although I can tell
you about twenty two years ago on the air, there
was people that didn't know who bb Netne who was,
and if they did, loved him at home very church
like either loved or despised. He's either the solution or
(09:18):
he's the problem. And what's interesting is Churchill and Netna
who share this. Sometimes when we don't like somebody we
really hate, when they end up being right, think of
let that soak in for a second, because that's really
what because they're both going to end up being right.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, And in this particular case, what Churchill was telling Roosevelt,
he just didn't want to hear I just like Roosevelt
didn't want to hear about the Jewish slaughter that was happening,
just like Roosevelt didn't want to hear that he needed
to get America in the war because he was more
concerned about what Charles Lindbergh and Walt Disney we're doing
(10:00):
with the America First Movement, which was the original America
First Movement, and to keep the United States out of war.
FDR was playing politics. Well, millions of people were dying. Now, ironically,
sadly and tragically, Churchill was right. He predicted that Stalin
would be a much larger murderer of humanity than Hitler,
(10:24):
and he was right by at least fourfold, depending on
whose numbers you're using.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, well, think about that if we could go back
in time, and we can't expect, although Churchill did, we
can't expect any of them know that. But you're sitting
fighting Nazi Germany that the armchair quarterback looking back, understanding
would tell you, very deadly guy, but a half a
decade problem. And then you're sitting with these Big three
(10:52):
and you're trying to fight what's going to end up
being a three year problem. And you're at the table
with somebody's going to create a three four decade problem,
and you don't even know it. And and Churchill discerned it. Yeah,
and he discerned it. He had it.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He had it right, just like Netanyahu's been trying for
fifty years to awaken the West that the theocratic state
based on Sharia law and radical Islam is a grave
danger to all humanity. And along comes Donald Trump, and
at least, for whatever reason, in this period of time,
he seems to have gotten the message. Yeah, and he
(11:26):
seems to be frustrated that Great Britain hasn't. We're not
We're not certain how that's going to play out, you,
Michael Irony upon Irony.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, really, I mean, well this is why you love
history so much though, right, I mean, we are flying
without instrumentation, without the perspective of history. It's that simple,
and you'll get away with it on a sunny day,
but when it gets stormy and you're in the cockpit alone,
you're dead meat without it. I'm the older I and
(11:54):
by the way, I like him, But the older I get,
the more I realize instinctively how right you have been.
I remember I used to laugh at you. I'm like David,
I need to read all these books. I'll just wait
for the documentary I'm one over par what are you?
And then you realize you better read or watch, but
you better get accurate history. It only gives you all
(12:16):
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This is your Morning show with Michael del Chrono.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We're visiting with David Zanati, our senior contributor and the
CEO of the American Policy Roundtable. I guess I created
this theme. I stumbled on the Netflix documentary on Churchill, which,
despite some of the leftist voices that come in and
out of it, the actual original documentation and the storytelling
of his biographical life and the geopolitical crisis that led
(14:27):
to World War Two was very accurate, David. What should
never be missed in the lesson of Winston Churchill.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Well that he was right, that he was right about
the isms, that he was right about communism, that he
was right about the godless equation as opposed to Western society,
and that he was probably if he had had enough time,
he would have gotten onto the subject of Islam and
told us that we should never look at something like Wikipedia,
(14:56):
the largest website in the world, most visib web site
in the world. When you go on to this morning,
the first thing you see is Wiki loves Ramadan to
twenty twenty six. In other words, there's an entire reality
going on right now trying to soft pedal the dangers
of radical Islam. Bibi Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Netnah, who
(15:17):
has been trying to warn culture for five decades that
you cannot take the ism, you cannot take radical Islam,
you cannot take a theocratic surial loss state lightly. There
are consequences in geopolitical realities globally and locally. Doesn't matter
whether you're in Dearborn or in London, or now whether
(15:39):
you're facing Iran. This is a conversation about ideas, and
ideas do have consequences, and Churchill got it, knew it,
and Prime Minister Netnyaho has been trying to tell us
this for a long long time.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You don't have to, I guess the documentary would want
you early to learn the lesson that damaged childhoods usually
create great leaders. That was an interesting angle early on.
It's probably you get overwhelmed with so many other bigger
lessons you forget that one that could be true. You know,
we know the funniest people on earth are people that
(16:10):
have had the saddest lives or tragic childhood. I get that.
I honed it on something different, and that was you know,
you go back to his early days as a soldier,
and he would re enlist often and put his life
tremendously at risk, to the point where some people thought
he had a death wish. He didn't. He just he
just knew that only God knows when I'm leaving, and
no matter what I do, he is either going to
(16:31):
protect me or was my time. But he was a
he was a writer in battle. He was a great communicator.
We continue with the exception of Donald Trump, who me not.
I mean, in some ways he's a brilliant communicator in
his style, not not necessarily like like a Churchill or
a Reagan, but great communicator, great thinker, just and was right.
(16:53):
I mean, that's that's the bottom line. Who is it today?
You might be right, it's either Trump or it's net Yahoo,
and I think it's done.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I don't recommend the Netflix special just because the people
that are doing the commentating are trying to deconstruct the
truth by acknowledging parts of it leaving others empty.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
So I won't.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I don't want to be I don't want people to
have to call out and say that was I watched
the thing and I saw blat yeats there. There's a
lot of stuff in there that if you have.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It's everywhere. It's the problem. Yeah, it's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I got like there, it's front page of Wikipedia.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
There, it is every day. All right, We're going to
go back to Feast to seven Fishes after this, David,
thanks for your timeled talk again very soon.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
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Duncan don't well. Duncan Donuts and McCafe have probably risen,
maybe even more so over Starbucks in the last decade
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(18:51):
grandmother if she if she's ever lied or cheated, and
she said no, And of course she cheated at cards
every night. We think that's why she failed the lie detector.
Good morning, thirty six minutes after the hour. A lot
of drama. Yesterday we had ag Keith Ellison along with
Governor Tim Walls getting shelled by Congress and a hearing.
(19:13):
We fired our first torpedo in over eighty years and
sunk of an Iranian vessel off the coast of Sri Lanka.
And then the War Powers restrictions got shot down by
the Senate, and we still have John Decker following everybody
that is in the wrong place at the wrong time
(19:35):
and needs to now be evacuated from this very dangerous
area that might have been vacationing. That's a lot to cover,
John Decker. No wonder you have a podcast called the
White House Briefing Room. Good Morning.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
I cover all of that today in the podcast. But
in any case, as it relates to those Americans, there
are thousands that are still stranded for one reason or
another in the Middle East. They could be working and
living in the Middle East, they could be visiting as
a vacation in the Middle East, but it's difficult for
them to get back because so many flights, as you
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can imagine, have been canceled because of this ongoing conflict.
And so the State Department is working to get out
those Americans that want to get out. There was one
flight yesterday and there will be more flights in the
days ahead, no cost. Is what the President said to
those Americans that wish to depart.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
The Middle East. Well, you just you just brought up
three questions that I think I might even guess the
answers to. All Right, so we're going to prioritize those
that are perceivably in the most dangerous places. Secondly, we're
not going to wait for airlines to be able to
do it. We're going to use probably military aircraft. Is
that pretty much the way this is going. We got
to get them out, exactly right.
Speaker 10 (20:49):
Yeah, that's that's exactly right, you know, and you know
with military aircraft you can obviously protect that kind of
an aircraft better than a commercial aircraft. And you know,
I think this is one of those things where if
the administration had a do over, they would have had
a better plan in place as it relates to evacuating
those Americans. You don't get due overs, but you can
(21:11):
improve what, you know, the initial effort in terms of
getting those Americans out, and that's what they're trying to
do right now.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
You know.
Speaker 10 (21:18):
It's one of those things that sometimes you don't think
about when you're planning for military common want about those.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, no, I think they knew what they were going
to do. I don't think they knew the exact moment.
Remember we had this conversation where they wait until after
the Olympics, where they wait after this stay the end.
Know they were waiting because of intelligence when they were
all in the same room. But you're right, they could
have pre thought, well, whenever this does happen, likely this
will be a situation, what's our protocol? But we're only
days after and they're getting to it and getting them out,
(21:47):
and that is those that want to leave, and I
would presume virtually nine out of ten want to get
the heck out of there. Yesterday was a real Yesterday
was a real matrix day, wasn't it. I mean the
matrix if you've seen the movie, are too alternate realities
happening simultaneously, and the left is having theirs, the right
is having theirs. Social media plays a role in this.
The media plays a role in this. But we have
(22:09):
two separate bubbles. In one bubble you had Keith Ellison
and Tim Walls, and then in another bubble, you know,
you had the Democrats, you know, drilling, I'm blazing her name,
Christy nol And so you know, and and here's what,
(22:29):
here's the elephant the room that nobody wants to say
out loud. With this particular enemy, they will retaliate with
missiles in the region, and they will retaliate with terrorist
attacks in other areas. So is America vulnerable to sleeper cells?
Of course, loan attackers. Of course, this would be the
worst time to not be funding TSA, the worst time
(22:52):
to not be funding homeland security, let alone you know,
harassing it. And all it's going to take is a
terrorist attack at this particular timing where someone put politics
over the security of the American people, that I would
think would be a disaster. But you couldn't find two
more completely different hearings going it just to me, it
just screamed how dysfunctional we are at home?
Speaker 10 (23:14):
Yeah, the timing wasn't good, certainly, you know, as far
as the Christy gnome hearing for the reasons that you
just mentioned. So if you are the head of the
House Judiciary Committe where that hearing took place, you have
to decide do we, you know, put it off, do
we put it off for a week or two, or
do we have it, you know, while this conflict is
(23:35):
going on and while there potentially could be this danger
to our homeland within our country. And so there was
a decision to have this particular hearing yesterday.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And that's exactly what took place. Well, the best news
for Keith Ellison, who I thought was very deceitful, and
for Tim Wallas, who I thought looked like a deer
in headlights and not very bright, was it was pretty
low on the radar. And there are so few people
left objective in your line of work. I don't ever
want to draw you into talk radio, but you know,
(24:06):
like you, if I don't have something good to say
about somebody, I usually say nothing at all. But I
was really taken, and I think a lot of the
questioners were taken by Tim Walls not being a very
sharp knife in the drawer, and that this is a
very serious issue of fraud. It's one that has to
be pursued and get beyond this personality politics or character flaws.
(24:28):
I wonder where that's going. That needs to go somewhere,
and it needs to be stopped and identified. I don't
know that much progress was made there. Anything else I'm
missing that'll be on the White House briefing room today.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
Well, yeah, there was actually a loss that the administration
suffered in a legal sense, and that has to do
with the potential for tariff refunds in the tens of
billions of dollars. Now, it's just an initial ruling by
a judge at the federal level, and it will be
appealed by theministration, but it's not a good start because
(25:02):
potentially hundreds of billions of dollars could be refunded to
importers who've spent a lot of money on tariffs over
the course of the past years. So talking certainly about
that today and then talking about the difficulty for some
Americans to get out from the Middle East. We touched
on that just now, but further exploring that and what
(25:25):
the administration is doing to rectify that issue.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And I guess under the headline of much to do
about nothing, the DOJ is deciding to drop all the
auto pen stuff with Joe Biden, so we can say
goodbye to that chapter as well. It is the White
House Briefing Room with John Decker. It's a daily podcast
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You'll find it on the iHeart Appen when you do
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give it a preset that way, it's waiting for you
every morning. I highly recommend the White House Briefing Room
with John Decker. Thanks for your time, John. All right,
if you're just waking up. These are the top five
stories of ze I just mentioned in passing the Department
of Justice ending its investigation in a former Biden's use
of the auto pen Mark Mayfield's following that story.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Things failed to gain traction after the DOJ failed to
build a criminal case and it was never presented to
a grand jury. President Trump wanted an investigation after criticizing Biden,
saying that he and his aides broke the law in
using the auto pen to sign presidential documents. It's unclear
how often Biden used an autopen, as there is no
official government record of when it is used by.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Mark Mayfield, Well, what's all this talk about Dunkin Donuts
and Starbucks? Health in Human Services Secretary RFK Junior is
calling out some major coffee chains. Tammy Trehillo has details.
Speaker 11 (26:42):
At a rally last week in Texas, Kennedy said his
agency was going to demand to see the safety data.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Duncan Donuts and Starbucks show us the safety data that
show that is okay for a teenage girl drink an
ice coffee with one hundred and fifteen grams of.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Sugar in it.
Speaker 11 (26:59):
The secretary said he didn't think they'd be able to
do it. Massachusetts Democratic Governor Mara Heally is hitting back
at the demand aimed at Duncan, a mass based institution.
She posted a flag on X Wednesday similar to the
one used in the eighteen thirty five Texas Revolution, declaring,
come and take it. I'm Tammy Trhuillo.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Well, we just had this conversation yesterday. I don't know.
We were talking to Monica Nelson, and I said if
I had one advice to young people, it would be
invest in a four to one K as early as possible,
as much as possible as possible, especially if companies are matching,
and then resist touching it. It is not an emergency fund.
The reality is life happens, and we do end up
(27:38):
tapping it. In fact, the record number of workers are
rating their four oh one K for financial emergencies as
we speak.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
New data from Fidelity Investments shows the average four oh
one K balance rows eleven percent in twenty twenty five,
but a recent Vanguard report also found an uptick in
hardship withdrawals. Vanguard data shows roughly six percent of workers
took a hardship withdrawal in twenty twenty five, marking a
record high. Divergent economy has given people record retirement savings,
(28:05):
but it has also created a bigger need to dig
into them.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I'm Chris Karangio.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
I've had so many wonderful thrills and experiences, and I've
always been proud of Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I've always been proud of you. Lou Holtz, former Notre
Dame football coach, the legend Lou Holtz, has died at
the age of eighty nine. He died in Orlando, Florida,
surrounded by family, entered hospice care. Sometime in January, college
football Hall of Famer reached the one hundred win mark.
And earned a national championship, all while he was coaching
the Fighting Irish from nineteen eighty six to ninety six.
(28:36):
Holtz also coached at William and Mary, NC State, Arkansas, Minnesota,
South Carolina, and for one season in the NFL for
the Jets. He later went on to become a college
football analyst and in studio analyst at ESPN. He was
legendary as an analyst, legendary as a coach, legendary as
(28:58):
an inspirational voice and human being. Lou Holtz gone at
the age of eighty nine. Well. Former White House Correspondence
Association dinner headliner Conan O'Brien is sharing his experience on
the difficulty of entertaining such a crowd of attendees.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
O'Brien served as the headliner at the twenty thirteen WHCA dinner,
and he says the audience at the black tie event
is far from a comedian's typical crowd. According to O'Brien,
attendees are thinking a lot about their own world, and
he explained that an entertainer needs to be funny, but
you can't act like you know too much because then
they'll resent you for that or think you don't belong.
He likened the experience to the oscars and said, you
(29:40):
got to calculate, then have fun.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Well, today's a day for snacking, especially those of either
don't mind orange fingers.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
It's National Cheese Doodle Day, celebrating the not founded nature
orange cheddar coated snack. We've been eighty them since the fifties.
They're actually a mistake created by an animal feed machine
that was says corn meal. Someone bake them and cover
them with geese, and a snack was made. Your mission
today is easy, open a bag and don't stop eating
(30:08):
until you've achieved full cheetle. That's when your fingers turn orange.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I'm Bree Tennis. Where does she come up with this stuff?
Speaker 10 (30:15):
All?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Right? In sports, thunder beat the next one oh three
it was close. Oh we got this saga one oh three,
one hundred over the Knicks, Blazer's one twenty two fourteen
over the grizz Clippers blew out the Pacers one thirty
one oh seven on the ice. Red Wings lost in overtime,
but we do get a point four to three to
the Golden Knights lose one three to two over the
Kraken and the Duck's Easy five to one over the Islanders.
(30:38):
Birthdays Today Magician Penjulette is seventy one years old. Today,
actress Ava Mendez is fifty two. In former Philly and
Chicago Gubby Kyle Schwarb thirty three. It's your birthday, Happy birthday.
We are so glad you were born and thanks for
making us a part of your big day. Well, you
stand in line at the DMB, you pay your fee,
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you smile for that terrible photo, and then guess what
DMV does. They turn around and sell you your name, your address,
your accident history, your court records, all exposed to hundreds
of companies. Think about that. You're the customer, and they
turn you into the product. And it gets worse. The
data brokers take your DMV information, layer it with your
credit score, your shopping habits, your social media. Now they
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have a digital file on You're ready for sale, and
insurers use that to raise your rates. You go get
a new license, you end up paying higher insurances. Cameras
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Speaker 2 (32:30):
It's your morning show with Michael del Joano and this
is a stepping from Orange beside stret Churchville pattent Joal
Patton also he that stall needed to be dealt with
just my two cents.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I'm Michael.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
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Speaker 1 (32:47):
I have never had a cup of cops that I
have God's nectar every day diet.
Speaker 12 (32:52):
Found Michael, I do recall maybe even a week before,
the Space Department telling Americans to clear out.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
When they start, we're.
Speaker 12 (33:00):
Telling you that we're removing non essential personnel from embassies.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
That should give you a heads up. Yeah. Well, I
mean if we go back and remember, and I could
flip back, I say, every day's notes. I also have
photographic memories. I can see it in my own handwriting.
You know, there was the Netnahu visit to the White House,
there were the ships both being brought in just off
(33:28):
the coast. There was the last and final meeting that
was unproductive, and then there was the warning warning for
citizens to get out. Yeah, that's how we knew it
was imminent. Now at what point and time will tell?
We know how they started tracking. I mean they infiltrated
(33:48):
every camera and Tehran. So they had been following Israeli intelligence, drivers,
security and top leaders, developing the patterns of their life.
I think the miscalculation was, well, the US, if they bombased,
it's going to be at night, and so they were
just having meetings during the day. I think they were
(34:08):
waiting for the right meeting where the most people attended.
It's kind of like when you watch the movie Valkyrie,
they had the right meeting to blow up and take
out Hitler. He just somehow survived. But that's kind of
what it was waiting for. But all those warnings were given.
Red is right to point out they're too busy right
(34:29):
now trying to block funding of homeland security. So they're
having a Ice argument about two people that did everything
they could to get themselves killed. I mean, if I
behaved as those two individuals, I'd be dead today too.
The man killed, they've completely misrepresented him, including changing his
(34:52):
face with Ai. The woman, it was all captured on tape,
ginned up by her lesbian wife. She goes in reverse,
and she goes and forward and she starts trying to
run over an ICE agent. I'm gonna get you shot
every time. But they're overplaying that false narrative. They're trying
to defund not just Homeland Security, but TSA at a
(35:15):
time where we need to be protected from a terrorist attack,
at a time of war. All it's going to take
as a terrorist attack, and this is going to really
look bad. The Democrats are playing an old story partisan
political game while a real threat was being eliminated. Talk
(35:35):
about blowing up in your face. And that's if anybody
was not watching what really blew up in their face,
the fraud in Minnesota. That's what they ought to be.
They ought to be focused on keeping Americans safe right now,
and how the heck did all that money get to
terrorists from Minnesota? And they're fighting tooth and nail on
the opposite sides of those This is a really bad
(35:58):
optic for the Democrats. That would become irreversible and destructive
if a terrorist attack is pulled off at such a time.
They just don't look like very serious people next hour,
so much focus on the disruption of crude flow and
(36:19):
how that will impact is at the pump or in general,
how might epic fury impact our economy and market money?
Was an economist David Bonsen will join us, and I
know it's kind of become almost an opinion, a position,
or a television event for you. But if you're living
(36:39):
in Israel and sirens are going off, and you've got
fifteen seconds to get to a shelter, and that's your
children in your arms, frightened, hearing bombs, and when it stops,
coming out and seeing the destruction, it's a real life event.
What is it like inside Israel today? Fixtinal join us
(37:00):
from the IFCJ from Israel next hour as well. We're
all in this together.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
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