April 16, 2025 • 34 mins
The good news is that home prices are cooling in some parts of the country, but just how affordable is “The American Dream?” National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has the results of a couple of new studies on homeownership.
The White House says more than ten countries have offered trade deals after President Trump imposed new tariffs. White House Correspondent JON DECKER looks at how those talks are going.
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you if you're just waking up. Former President Biden says
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the Trump administration has done so much damage, so much destructions,
it's breathtaking. A major Andy trust trial with Meta continued,
Mark Zuckerberg having to testify yesterday, and two service members
are dead and a third critically injured after a vehicle
accident near the US Mexican border. We'll have more on
that coming up. The good news is home prices are
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cooling a bit in parts of the country, But just
how affordable is the American dream? National correspondent Rory O'Neil
is here with the results of a couple of new
studies on home ownership. Good morning, Rory Michael, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
We are seeing some numbers that show that in some places,
especially in Florida and Texas, we are finding counties where
home prices are actually coming down and good quite measure,
I should point out here also big pockets of that
in Arizona, in Colorado, and of course California as well.
But a new survey from bank Rate out this morning
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does find that most Americans still see that owning a
home is the American dream.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's what eighty two percent of Americans.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Think, but more and more of them just find that
dream to be unattainable, largely because they can't scratch together
enough for that down payment. And if your average house
is going for nearly five hundred thousand dollars, that means
you're going to need about one hundred thousand dollars in
cash to get that down payment in there for a.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Traditional kind of mortgage. Yeah, one of the things I'm
grateful forward in having kids is being able to see
the world through their eyes, which is keeps me relevant.
I mean, you know, the demise of any talk shows
as they get older is, you know, to forget what
younger people are going through. Rory. This is single in singular,
like what you're seeing purpose. The number one concern of
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the youth that are my kid's age the notion that
they're going to ever make enough money to live like
their living or have a home close to like their living.
And I think we've seen a political shift in this
country over this worry. So make no mistake about it.
Home ownership is a big part of the American dream,
and for the younger people looking forward, they don't see
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its possibility yet and that's got huge political ramifications too,
but it is their number one worry.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I would concur right specifically, gen z ors in this
poll said they don't have enough income. Forty two percent
said honestly, they're just not ready yet to own a home.
Was one of the other factors these days, but obviously
it is still significant that the vast majority of people
in the poll still think that home ownership is the ideal.
And President Trump has talked a little bit about trying
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to spur home building in this country, because by some
estimates we're down about five million housing units, and that
would go a long way to stabilizing prices, maybe even
bringing them down.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well. That and interest rates, right, not just interest rates
in making the payment more affordable for those trying to
home own, but to get some of the older people
to release that inventory. Right now, if you're sitting I'm
sitting on a home at two point I can't remember
what it was. I think it's two point six percent.
You think I'm moving anytime soon and to where? And
what would I pay for it? And what would my
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interest rate now be? So interest rates are the second
half of it. The first half is that can be
addressed as inventory.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And the number three item on this list, by the way,
is the ongoing cost of homeownership. The people that do
get in there suddenly say, wait, insurance is how much?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
How much is it to replace the roof? How much
is that air condition to repair? I got to replace
the refrigerator. A lot of them tend to be bowled
over by just how expensive it is to own a
home these days.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You are one of the few people that have been
covering that since we launched the show a year and
a half ago, how crazy insurance has got and nobody
talks about it. It's amazing to me. Like the auto
insurance for me, my wife and my three children is
four hundred and eighty dollars more a month than my
first mortgage was when I bought a home. I mean,
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we're paying over thirteen hundred dollars a month for auto insurance.
Nobody talks about it. The same is true for homeowner's insurance.
It's something that has just run rampant, and you know,
you and I have discussed it, so you know, cars
are more money, so they're more money to replace. The
parts are more expensive, so they're more expensive to repair.
There's a lot of reasons for it. And the home
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values and replacement costs, that's what drives up the premiums.
So the two are related and they're separate two and
both need to be addressed. Good coverage. Are you also
are watching Joe Biden's big comeback speech last night or
we will be back in the third hour with his
review of that. As your morning show continues, we have
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wouldn't want to have this show without your voice. I
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to make a common or ask a question, just like
Tom did. Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'd like to know exactly how many billions of dollars
has been spent between the federal government and your cities,
sanctuary cities, especially on illegal aliens, housing and feeding and
other such things.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Enjoy your show a lot. Wow, what a great question, Tom,
A question they would you know, You would think the
Doge or President Trump would see if he could get
us that answer. You won't even get a straight answer.
And how many legals are in this country? And you
brought up federal and sanctuary cities. How about federal states
(06:30):
and not just cities. Take California for example, you say
how many billions? Don't be so sure it's not trillions
in California alone. Governor Knwsom just had to bail out
healthcare two point eight eight billion because it's being overrun
by illegal costs. Two point eight eight billion for healthcare
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alone in California alone. Oh imagine that number. And with
knowing that number, how it might impact people's views. Two
things I want to cover here we did earlier. Can't
redo everything. So that's why if you're listening on the podcast,
you just heard it a few minutes ago. But we
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were talking about the American people overwhelmingly behind the president
and not allowing illegals to vote, and voter identification, which,
by the way, Red brought up a great point. He
needs to start doing this more on the air, and
he doesn't. But it's bad democracy quite frankly. So when
we were doing that whole polling thing, eighty one percent
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of self identified conservative voters support voter identification as well,
this was safe act, right, not what they called it,
And then it was fifty nine percent of moderates, thirty
six percent of liberals. All right, well, take just a liberal,
even though the it's the minority. If thirty six percent
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of liberal voters support the say fact, proof of citizenship
before being allowed to vote, only four of two hundred
and twelve Democrats voted on the floor for that. That's
one point eight percent of the representatives not representing the
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thirty six percent of liberal voters who agreed with the
say fact, they're not representing the people. They're representing their
party and their agenda and their opposition stance as an
opposing party, and that that's bad democracy. You know, they're
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so fixated on democracy, even though we're a republic. That's
bad democracy. One point eight percent representation of thirty six percent.
So where are all these angry littles? Never mind, they're
all mounting their attack to take over the party. All right,
So you're going to hear a lot, you know Joe Biden.
(09:10):
First of all, when Joe Biden is trying to scare
people into thinking that President Trump is going after social Security,
he is not, and he'll throw her on stats. You know,
he's cutting administrative bloat, which will make social security more
sustainable and more liquid, by the way, and dealing with
these illegals. You're going to make it more sustainable and
(09:31):
more liquid to help our seniors. But he flips it
and makes them think he's cutting social security.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
It is damn right.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
So will you hear the clip? So well, wait a minute,
I got it. Why am I doing Joe Biden when
I have Joe Biden to do? Joe Biden.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
And social Security is more than the government program. It's
a sacred promise. Sacred promise, all right?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So but what is he what's he lying about? Yeah,
they went through and got rid of bureaucracy and administrative bloat,
and that equaled seven thousand jobs, has seven thousand people
to do or nothing? But what about how many people
through other areas have received benefits that shouldn't if what
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do you think this money saved is going to do.
It's going to make Social Security last longer and make
it have the funds to help people more, not less.
But never mind that game. Here's a quick little glimpse
of what the Democrats are calling cuts and Social Security
ending benefits for illegals. Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum
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aimed at stopping illegal aliens and other eligible people from
obtaining Social Security benefits. This includes and prioritizing enforcement actions
against grantees subgrantees that do not verifiably qualify and are eligible.
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It stops payments to the deceased or ineligible, pay ease,
and otherwise prevents ineligible aliens from receiving funds. So you
worked all your life, you paid in, and now your
sacred right is threatened by these people who came illegally
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and were given these benefits. Now, if you really get
these issues, and you're staring at Joe Biden, you're like,
what you did to us was criminal. Let alone turn
it around. It expands the Social Security Administration's Fraud Prosecutor
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program to at least fifty US Attorney's offices and establishes
Medicare and Medicaid fraud prosecution programs in fifteen US Attorney's offices.
This is for the protection of those who have paid
in for the protection of those who are depending on
and receiving. The memorandum requires that the Social Security Administration
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Inspector General investigate earnings reports for individuals age one hundred
or older. I think that's reasonable. It also directs the
Social Security Administration to consider whether to reinstate the use
of civil monetary penalties against individuals who engage in Social
Security fraud. Yeah. I mean, if you're pro fraud, if
you're pro illegals getting benefits they haven't paid in for,
(12:35):
you should be outraged at Donald Trump, if you like
a lot of government employees who aren't really working getting
paid and benefits, sending your paid in benefits to illegals
and those frauding the system. And by the way, don't
you know the greatest area of fraud is in disability
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bleeding social security dry. Yeah, if you're for all that,
you must hate the president, and rightly so. But if
you're free efficiency, protecting what these people paid into over
a lifetime for their dependency and security and retirement, I
suspect your supportive. Now does Joe Biden get all this?
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I don't know. I don't know if Joe knows who
Joe is. But all day while you're hearing Joe Biden's
criticism and claims that Donald trump is attacking a sacred
right in social security, it's just some employees that weren't
working and a lot of illegal immigrants that shouldn't have
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been receiving. Again, the only thing left shocking in life
is the truth. It's your Morning Show with Michael del Jorno,
just waking up. Two service members are dead a third
in critical condition after a vehicle accident near the US
Mexican border.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Officials said these service members were deployed in support of
Joint task for its southern border and were involved in
the accident Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Wherein ten thousand active.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Duty military members have been authorized for President Trump's border mission,
with Tuesday's accident marking the first fatalities associated with the plan.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I'm Mark Neefield for President. Joe Biden made his first
public appearance since leaving the White House. He spoke at
a conference focused on protecting social security in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
It's the administration has made done so much damma, so
much destruction. It's kind of breath taking securities more than
the government program. It's a sacred promise we made as
an as sacred promise.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Why the White House says President Trump wants Harvard University
to apologize for anti Semitism, The.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Federal government has frozen more than two billion dollars in
grants to the school.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
When it comes to Harvard.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
The President's position on this is grounded in common sense,
in the basic principle that Jewish American students or students
of any faith should not be illegally harassed and targeted
on our nation's college campuses.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Press Secretary Caroline Lovett said Harvard has not taken the
administration's demand seriously. The move came after the school said
it wouldn't accept the Trump administration's conditions to continue federal funding.
In a post on truth Social Tuesday, President Trump said
maybe Harvard should lose its tax exempt status if it
keeps pushing political ideology. I'm tammage for he O.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Legendary disc jockey former game show host Twink Martindale is
dead at the age of ninety one. Martindale, known for
hosting Tic Tac Dough high Rollers and other shows during
his career, passed away complications due to cancer in California,
surrounded by his family. I had the great fortune of
meeting him through the Elvis Festival, getting to know him.
I asked him for one of his old gaudy sport codes.
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He brought me one the next time he was in town.
Though it wasn't gaudy, it was gorgeous and I didn't
frame it and put next to my sports jerseys. In fact,
I still wear it. There's a special note the lapel,
and it's going to mean more than ever now in sports.
We did have that playing game in the NBA, and
it was Memphis falling to Golden State. One twenty one
to one sixteen. Tonight, the Sacramento Kings will take on
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the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
This is James from Greenwood, South Carolina, and my morning
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radio with preset buttons. We'd love to have you make
your morning show, either live or the podcast one of
your preset buttons if you're just waking up. Former President
Biden says the Trump administration has done so much to damaged,
so much destruction in two months. That's his big comeback.
And former game show host Wink Martindale is dead at
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the age of ninety one. A terrific, terrific human being
with a great disc jockey career. Early on, he was
instrumental in Elvis arriving on the scene by way of
Sun Records and getting his first airplay. You know him,
probably best for doing game shows and a major ani
trust trial. We'll continue today, although Zuckerberg did testify yesterday
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in the Meta monopoly testimony. The White House says more
than ten countries have offered trade deals after the imposed
new tariffs. We've heard numbers as high as seventy are
willing to negotiate, but ten have actually offered trade deals.
What's in him? What do they look like? White House
correspondent John Decker's here with that story. Good morning, John.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
That is the unknown answer, and I don't have an
answer for you because the White House not transparent. They
typically are, but they're not transparent with this. They are
not saying which countries are speaking in extended trade talks
with the United States. They're not saying how advanced those
trade talks are. And the number has dropped considerably from
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seventy five down to ten. And as you know, with
the USMCA trade agreement that took one full year to negotiate,
and the President has given a ninety day reprieve on
those reciprocal tariffs. You multiply seventy five times one year,
it's going to take an awfully long time to work
out all the trade deals that the White House says
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they are talking about.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, and we originally we're told too that Japan would
be the first to be heard in no word if
they're one of the ten. Right, Well, that's right.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
What we also know as it relates to Japan, is
that Japan's Prime minister recently spoke to his parliament and
he indicated that he's not going to give away the sto,
as he says it, in terms of these trade talks.
So he intends to drive a hard bargain against the
person who wrote the book The Yard of the Deal.
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See how that all works out for Japan. As you know,
they face considerable reciprocal tariffs that are on hold, as
do a number of Asian countries that the US has
very strong trade relations with historically.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So help us all understand, John, if you know if
this is the ten at the White House. More, First
of all, i'd have to start with more than ten.
How many more than ten? Seventy more than ten? But yeah,
and then which ten would make a difference? And We
don't have answers to any of it, so it's hard
to really judge how this is going. But there's a
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lot of work that's got to be done in ninety days,
and I don't know how many more than ten. I
don't know which ten, And I don't know how you
know concrete the offers are or you know, closeable the
offers are. Not a lot to do with this story.
And it's funny how quick we went from tariff obsessed
(20:02):
to now we can't get me to focus on the
tariffs or even be forthright with with what the details are.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
The one country we're not talking about is China. China,
of course, is the third largest trading partner of the
United States. The President has imposed one hundred and forty
five percent tariffs on Chinese goods coming into the US,
and there are note talks scheduled anytime soon with China
in terms of lowering the temperature as it relates to
the trade war playing out with that country.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
All right, interesting developments, John Decker following it, White House Correspondent.
We'll talk again tomorrow. Appreciate your time. We wanted to
just kind of revisit a couple of things. One was
our first poll that we did in the five o'clock
hour that I think is significant. I kind of chalked
it up to, okay, this this is another example of
majoring in majors. What got the Democrats in trouble majoring
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in minors. They were majoring in open borders. The American
people wanted a secured border, in law enforcement, they were
majoring in wokeness, in social political correct issues. America wasn't
interested in that at all, and they wanted solutions for
the economy. So now what do the Democrats do. Yesterday's
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polling shows that they're clearly going to go left. There
was only less than twenty percent interested in going towards
the center. The majority of the Democrats want to continue
to go left. Seems like a recipe for obviously more losses,
if not extinction. We'll talk more about that with David
Sanati next hour. But this one's fascinating. This one's talking
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about election integrity. And you remember how we were fighting
in this country over election integrity. Anybody that would question
election integrity would be accused of insurrection four years ago. Now,
sixty four percent of the American people favor the Save Act.
Voters overwhelmingly considered it important to keep illegal immigrants from
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voting in American elections. Nearly two thirds support the legislation
to require proof of citizenship two thirds, and I would
imagine at least half, if not more than half, of
those two thirds are Democrats, and four out of two
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hundred and twelve Democrats in Congress voted for this. It
even represented thirty six percent support among liberals and the
Democrat Party. That's the level of underrepresentation. That's the failure
of democracy and all this that's partisan politics, over serving constituents,
over common sense, over right and wrong. And according to
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the poll, seventy five percent of like the US voters
believe it's important to prevail or to prevent illegal immigrants
from voting in the US, including fifty one percent of
Saverian or only twenty two percent don't think it's important.
And sixty four percent of voters believe Congress should enact
the law requiring proof of citizenship, and only four to
a two hundred and twelve Democrat numbers of Congress voted
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for its astounding Then we got to this story, and
I'm not so sure the two are not related. So
real quickly Bernie Sanders would have been the nominee in
twenty sixteen, not Hillary Clinton. He had it in the bag.
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They had to do Shenanigans and gymnastics in the DNC
to get her over, using super delegates and other manipulation.
So the people, the Democrat voters in the primary process
would have done Bernie. The DNC gave him Hillary and
then she lost. In twenty twenty, they would have done
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Bernie again, but the cut a deal in South Carolina
and they substituted with old Joe, Joe who came in
fourth in New Hampshire, fourth and Iowa seventh in New Hampshire,
and Joe wins. Then in twenty twenty four, Joe wasn't
looking like he was going to win, wasn't looking he
was cognitively sound. They waited throughout the primary for him
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to get enough votes to secure the nomination. Then they
throw him on a stage oddly before debates even happen,
before the conventions, expose him for what he is se nile,
and then replace him with Kamala Harris. Again, the voters
probably would have gone Bernie, they didn't get a say,
and then he lost. So that sets up twenty twenty eight.
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Now Bernie can't run. He's in his mid eighties, so
he has I would just ask this in the form
of a question, could Bernie Sanders have done more in
the last sixty days to pass the torch doc? I mean,
how many public appearances with him handing the torch AOC
does he have to host before you get it? She's
the We don't know who the Democrat Party voice is
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and leader and who their candidate will be, but we
do know who the heir apparent of the Socialist Democrat
movement within the Democrat Party. It's AOC. So just as
we said Bernie would have got it in twenty twenty,
Bernie would have got it in twenty sixteen, probably would
have got it in twenty twenty four. Would that suggest
that AOC would be in line to get it in
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twenty twenty eight. I'm telling you absolutely yes. Now, whether
they pulled a stunt like they did with Barack Obama
and throw her in the Senate and get rid of
Chuckie Schumer and then have a run for president sixty
days later, or she runs from the House, she's it
and suddenly her fundraising's gone to nine point six million
dollars as they're doing this, stop by, stop by, stop
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handing the torch from Bernie to her. Meanwhile, the civil
war in the Democrat Party is on, like Donkey Kong.
David Hog, Yes, that David Hog from Parkland, Florida school
shooting a young liberal activist and now the vice chairman
of the DNC. I think Red says it best when
he says, now they got themselves in a wolf in
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the henhouse, because what have we been setting up? They
would have succeeded with Bernie probably three times twice for sure,
and the DNC cut their legs off. Now they're coming
back with AOC, and you know the DNC's gonna try
to cut their legs off, probably with Romney, Manuel and
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Wes Moore. But now you got a wolf in the
hen house, David Hawk, and he's leading the effort to
unsee the party's older lawmakers and primaries. Justice justice Democrats, socialists,
doo AOC yourself took out a ten term Democrat to
get that seat in New York, squelching voices in their
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own party. I know what you're thinking, how open minded,
how inclusive of the Democrats to us, to me less
than three months after, the young political activist David Hogg
was elected as vice chair of the DNC. He's undertaking
a new project that's sure to get the Democrats attention,
spending millions of dollars to oust Democrat members of Congress
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in primary elections next year. Hog, who emerged on the
political scene being an outspoken survivor of the twenty eighteen
school shooting, now just twenty five years old, said his
party must squelch a pervasive culture of seniority politics that
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has allowed older and less effective lawmakers to continue to
hold office. Look, I know what the view is my
age of these people staying till totag. I can't imagine
how old they look to this twenty five year old.
So he's planning through a separate organization where he serves
as president leaders we deserve to intervene in primaries and
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solidly Democrat districts as part of a twenty million dollar
effort to quote unquote elect younger leaders and to encourage
a more combative posture against President Trump further left and
much younger. Or is this all a part of the
socialist Democrat movement and the AOC movement and with him
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taking out what's left of the party which we used
to call progressive. But these socialist Democrats, Justice Democrats. They
call themselves progressives, but they're not. They're socialists and they're
getting rid of because there's no such thing as a
conservative Democrat. There's nothing left of the establishment Democrat party
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or traditional Democrat party. All there is is really progressive
and super progressives. This is that civil war playing out.
And if we just look at dollar amounts, there's twenty
million dollars from this twenty five year kid the target
establishment Democrats. What for the purposes of more progressive socialists
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and younger candidates to go along with the ten million
aocs already stockpiled, and we're just getting started. We kind
of put those two stories together and what you can
get a clear picture of the war is still on.
The Socialist Democrats would have won twice, maybe even three times,
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but they got a better plan to make sure they
win the fourth time. And then remember the analogy of
the parasite. In this case, the parasite would win, but
when the parasite wins, the host dies, and when the
host dies, the parasite dies with it. Question if they
pulled this off and the Socialist Democrats take over the party.
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They only represent about sixteen to twenty percent of the party.
They could take the Democrat Party in a two party
system to a fringe, thus ending the Democrat Party as
a part of the two party system, and they would
have done it by the end of the decade. Oh,
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I gotta do a third This is your Morning show
with Michael dale Chno.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Hello, Michael dale Jiorno from Modesto, California. I'd like to
know if Daniel Martindale is related to the recently passed
Wink Martindale.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
All right, brother, I have a good show. All right, Well,
I did something funny. I thought just it could be
just my birthplace of Michigan on my mind. I don't
know why I was thinking. He was saying Don Martindale,
who is called Wink Martindale the coach of the Wolverines.
So I was going to confirm that he's not. But
I don't think Daniel the Spy is either. Is he bred?
(30:54):
There's no relation there now and Wink Martindale, the former
disc jockey and tik Tacto, along with other game show hosts,
did pass away in California at the age of ninety one.
Surrounded by his family, had been battling cancer and battling
it pretty well and then just a sudden, quick turn
in the last two weeks. I had the great pleasure
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of getting to meet him through the Elvis Festival because
of his role with Sun. Like really you could credit
Wink Martindale and that Memphis radio station for launching Elvis
Presley after the Sun Records recording, but he went on
to have a great, great radio career as most of
those game show hosts in Los Angeles were disc jockeys.
(31:37):
Yeah that you know, while I guess Ryan Seacrest would
be your latest example, right, but he was just I
don't know how to express to you. He was one
of the most interesting, gracious, wonderful gentleman I have ever met.
And I told the story, I have this room and
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I have, like you know, all my sports memorabilia, autographed baseball,
autographed helmets, hockey sticks. I've got Mike Ruzione's jersey thanks
to Scott Hamilton from the Miracle Team. I've got Joe
Namas college and NFL jerseys all autographed, along with Steve Largin.
And so one day when and I were talking and
I said, you know, I used to skip school and
(32:21):
watch you every day. I mean, I was a huge fan,
and I used to love those loud jackets. Do you
have any of them? You know? And he went, give
me the body five hundreds and I said, yeah, it's
the body five hundreds. So the next time he came
to town, we got together and he shows up and
he's got this sport coat draped on his arm. But
it wasn't one of those gaudy plaid ones like he
used to wear when I was a kid. It was really,
(32:43):
quite frankly, a gorgeous, timeless sport coat. And he slips
it on me and it fit like a glove. In fact,
if I could drop ten pounds, it fit like a
glove again. And this may inspire me to do it
under the lapel. He surprised me and wrote me a note,
And so for the longest time I never framed it
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because it wouldn't have been like if he brought me
a gaudy one. It would have been hilarious, you know,
NFL star, hockey star football stock boom plaid jacket, but
you got to show it off. But for the longest
time I wore it and oh, is it going to
mean something to me now. Wink Martindale just one of
the really, really great men I've ever met in my
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life and one of the nicest human being he will
ever meet. Ninety one years old, dies of cancer, surrounded
by his family. All right, when we come back, you know,
we've kind of been laying the groundwork for all of this.
Yesterday's polls in today's poles all point to a party
that you would think would want to get back and
step with the American people. But all indications are they
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planning to go further out of step and further to
the left. So, after losing the White House control of
both chambers of Congress, polling showing they want to go
even further left rather than pivot towards the American people.
How does that make any sense? And what does it
mean for the future of the Democrat Party if there
is one. We're all in this together. This is your
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way of talk, a new way of understanding it, because
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April the sixteenth, iovon Mile twenty twenty five. So glad
you would join us this morning. We're happy to serve
you if you're just waking up. Former President Biden says
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the Trump administration has done so much damage, so much destructions,
it's breathtaking. A major Andy trust trial with Meta continued,
Mark Zuckerberg having to testify yesterday, and two service members
are dead and a third critically injured after a vehicle
accident near the US Mexican border. We'll have more on
that coming up. The good news is home prices are
(01:07):
cooling a bit in parts of the country, But just
how affordable is the American dream? National correspondent Rory O'Neil
is here with the results of a couple of new
studies on home ownership. Good morning, Rory Michael, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
We are seeing some numbers that show that in some places,
especially in Florida and Texas, we are finding counties where
home prices are actually coming down and good quite measure,
I should point out here also big pockets of that
in Arizona, in Colorado, and of course California as well.
But a new survey from bank Rate out this morning
(01:41):
does find that most Americans still see that owning a
home is the American dream.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's what eighty two percent of Americans.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Think, but more and more of them just find that
dream to be unattainable, largely because they can't scratch together
enough for that down payment. And if your average house
is going for nearly five hundred thousand dollars, that means
you're going to need about one hundred thousand dollars in
cash to get that down payment in there for a.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Traditional kind of mortgage. Yeah, one of the things I'm
grateful forward in having kids is being able to see
the world through their eyes, which is keeps me relevant.
I mean, you know, the demise of any talk shows
as they get older is, you know, to forget what
younger people are going through. Rory. This is single in singular,
like what you're seeing purpose. The number one concern of
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the youth that are my kid's age the notion that
they're going to ever make enough money to live like
their living or have a home close to like their living.
And I think we've seen a political shift in this
country over this worry. So make no mistake about it.
Home ownership is a big part of the American dream,
and for the younger people looking forward, they don't see
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its possibility yet and that's got huge political ramifications too,
but it is their number one worry.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I would concur right specifically, gen z ors in this
poll said they don't have enough income. Forty two percent
said honestly, they're just not ready yet to own a home.
Was one of the other factors these days, but obviously
it is still significant that the vast majority of people
in the poll still think that home ownership is the ideal.
And President Trump has talked a little bit about trying
(03:19):
to spur home building in this country, because by some
estimates we're down about five million housing units, and that
would go a long way to stabilizing prices, maybe even
bringing them down.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well. That and interest rates, right, not just interest rates
in making the payment more affordable for those trying to
home own, but to get some of the older people
to release that inventory. Right now, if you're sitting I'm
sitting on a home at two point I can't remember
what it was. I think it's two point six percent.
You think I'm moving anytime soon and to where? And
what would I pay for it? And what would my
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interest rate now be? So interest rates are the second
half of it. The first half is that can be
addressed as inventory.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And the number three item on this list, by the way,
is the ongoing cost of homeownership. The people that do
get in there suddenly say, wait, insurance is how much?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
How much is it to replace the roof? How much
is that air condition to repair? I got to replace
the refrigerator. A lot of them tend to be bowled
over by just how expensive it is to own a
home these days.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You are one of the few people that have been
covering that since we launched the show a year and
a half ago, how crazy insurance has got and nobody
talks about it. It's amazing to me. Like the auto
insurance for me, my wife and my three children is
four hundred and eighty dollars more a month than my
first mortgage was when I bought a home. I mean,
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we're paying over thirteen hundred dollars a month for auto insurance.
Nobody talks about it. The same is true for homeowner's insurance.
It's something that has just run rampant, and you know,
you and I have discussed it, so you know, cars
are more money, so they're more money to replace. The
parts are more expensive, so they're more expensive to repair.
There's a lot of reasons for it. And the home
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values and replacement costs, that's what drives up the premiums.
So the two are related and they're separate two and
both need to be addressed. Good coverage. Are you also
are watching Joe Biden's big comeback speech last night or
we will be back in the third hour with his
review of that. As your morning show continues, we have
a talkback button because it's your morning show and we
can't have this show without your voice. Beyond that, we
(05:22):
wouldn't want to have this show without your voice. I
know what I think, I know what I see, I
know what I understand, But collectively we can understand so
much better together and asking each other's questions is a
big part of that. So use that talkback button on
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(05:43):
to make a common or ask a question, just like
Tom did. Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'd like to know exactly how many billions of dollars
has been spent between the federal government and your cities,
sanctuary cities, especially on illegal aliens, housing and feeding and
other such things.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Enjoy your show a lot. Wow, what a great question, Tom,
A question they would you know, You would think the
Doge or President Trump would see if he could get
us that answer. You won't even get a straight answer.
And how many legals are in this country? And you
brought up federal and sanctuary cities. How about federal states
(06:30):
and not just cities. Take California for example, you say
how many billions? Don't be so sure it's not trillions
in California alone. Governor Knwsom just had to bail out
healthcare two point eight eight billion because it's being overrun
by illegal costs. Two point eight eight billion for healthcare
(06:55):
alone in California alone. Oh imagine that number. And with
knowing that number, how it might impact people's views. Two
things I want to cover here we did earlier. Can't
redo everything. So that's why if you're listening on the podcast,
you just heard it a few minutes ago. But we
(07:16):
were talking about the American people overwhelmingly behind the president
and not allowing illegals to vote, and voter identification, which,
by the way, Red brought up a great point. He
needs to start doing this more on the air, and
he doesn't. But it's bad democracy quite frankly. So when
we were doing that whole polling thing, eighty one percent
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of self identified conservative voters support voter identification as well,
this was safe act, right, not what they called it,
And then it was fifty nine percent of moderates, thirty
six percent of liberals. All right, well, take just a liberal,
even though the it's the minority. If thirty six percent
(08:03):
of liberal voters support the say fact, proof of citizenship
before being allowed to vote, only four of two hundred
and twelve Democrats voted on the floor for that. That's
one point eight percent of the representatives not representing the
(08:26):
thirty six percent of liberal voters who agreed with the
say fact, they're not representing the people. They're representing their
party and their agenda and their opposition stance as an
opposing party, and that that's bad democracy. You know, they're
(08:49):
so fixated on democracy, even though we're a republic. That's
bad democracy. One point eight percent representation of thirty six percent.
So where are all these angry littles? Never mind, they're
all mounting their attack to take over the party. All right,
So you're going to hear a lot, you know Joe Biden.
(09:10):
First of all, when Joe Biden is trying to scare
people into thinking that President Trump is going after social Security,
he is not, and he'll throw her on stats. You know,
he's cutting administrative bloat, which will make social security more
sustainable and more liquid, by the way, and dealing with
these illegals. You're going to make it more sustainable and
(09:31):
more liquid to help our seniors. But he flips it
and makes them think he's cutting social security.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
It is damn right.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
So will you hear the clip? So well, wait a minute,
I got it. Why am I doing Joe Biden when
I have Joe Biden to do? Joe Biden.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
And social Security is more than the government program. It's
a sacred promise. Sacred promise, all right?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So but what is he what's he lying about? Yeah,
they went through and got rid of bureaucracy and administrative bloat,
and that equaled seven thousand jobs, has seven thousand people
to do or nothing? But what about how many people
through other areas have received benefits that shouldn't if what
(10:25):
do you think this money saved is going to do.
It's going to make Social Security last longer and make
it have the funds to help people more, not less.
But never mind that game. Here's a quick little glimpse
of what the Democrats are calling cuts and Social Security
ending benefits for illegals. Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum
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aimed at stopping illegal aliens and other eligible people from
obtaining Social Security benefits. This includes and prioritizing enforcement actions
against grantees subgrantees that do not verifiably qualify and are eligible.
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It stops payments to the deceased or ineligible, pay ease,
and otherwise prevents ineligible aliens from receiving funds. So you
worked all your life, you paid in, and now your
sacred right is threatened by these people who came illegally
(11:32):
and were given these benefits. Now, if you really get
these issues, and you're staring at Joe Biden, you're like,
what you did to us was criminal. Let alone turn
it around. It expands the Social Security Administration's Fraud Prosecutor
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program to at least fifty US Attorney's offices and establishes
Medicare and Medicaid fraud prosecution programs in fifteen US Attorney's offices.
This is for the protection of those who have paid
in for the protection of those who are depending on
and receiving. The memorandum requires that the Social Security Administration
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Inspector General investigate earnings reports for individuals age one hundred
or older. I think that's reasonable. It also directs the
Social Security Administration to consider whether to reinstate the use
of civil monetary penalties against individuals who engage in Social
Security fraud. Yeah. I mean, if you're pro fraud, if
you're pro illegals getting benefits they haven't paid in for,
(12:35):
you should be outraged at Donald Trump, if you like
a lot of government employees who aren't really working getting
paid and benefits, sending your paid in benefits to illegals
and those frauding the system. And by the way, don't
you know the greatest area of fraud is in disability
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bleeding social security dry. Yeah, if you're for all that,
you must hate the president, and rightly so. But if
you're free efficiency, protecting what these people paid into over
a lifetime for their dependency and security and retirement, I
suspect your supportive. Now does Joe Biden get all this?
(13:22):
I don't know. I don't know if Joe knows who
Joe is. But all day while you're hearing Joe Biden's
criticism and claims that Donald trump is attacking a sacred
right in social security, it's just some employees that weren't
working and a lot of illegal immigrants that shouldn't have
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been receiving. Again, the only thing left shocking in life
is the truth. It's your Morning Show with Michael del Jorno,
just waking up. Two service members are dead a third
in critical condition after a vehicle accident near the US
Mexican border.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Officials said these service members were deployed in support of
Joint task for its southern border and were involved in
the accident Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Wherein ten thousand active.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Duty military members have been authorized for President Trump's border mission,
with Tuesday's accident marking the first fatalities associated with the plan.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I'm Mark Neefield for President. Joe Biden made his first
public appearance since leaving the White House. He spoke at
a conference focused on protecting social security in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
It's the administration has made done so much damma, so
much destruction. It's kind of breath taking securities more than
the government program. It's a sacred promise we made as
an as sacred promise.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Why the White House says President Trump wants Harvard University
to apologize for anti Semitism, The.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Federal government has frozen more than two billion dollars in
grants to the school.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
When it comes to Harvard.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
The President's position on this is grounded in common sense,
in the basic principle that Jewish American students or students
of any faith should not be illegally harassed and targeted
on our nation's college campuses.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Press Secretary Caroline Lovett said Harvard has not taken the
administration's demand seriously. The move came after the school said
it wouldn't accept the Trump administration's conditions to continue federal funding.
In a post on truth Social Tuesday, President Trump said
maybe Harvard should lose its tax exempt status if it
keeps pushing political ideology. I'm tammage for he O.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Legendary disc jockey former game show host Twink Martindale is
dead at the age of ninety one. Martindale, known for
hosting Tic Tac Dough high Rollers and other shows during
his career, passed away complications due to cancer in California,
surrounded by his family. I had the great fortune of
meeting him through the Elvis Festival, getting to know him.
I asked him for one of his old gaudy sport codes.
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He brought me one the next time he was in town.
Though it wasn't gaudy, it was gorgeous and I didn't
frame it and put next to my sports jerseys. In fact,
I still wear it. There's a special note the lapel,
and it's going to mean more than ever now in sports.
We did have that playing game in the NBA, and
it was Memphis falling to Golden State. One twenty one
to one sixteen. Tonight, the Sacramento Kings will take on
(16:12):
the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
This is James from Greenwood, South Carolina, and my morning
show is your Morning Show with Michael Dojorna.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
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(16:46):
radio with preset buttons. We'd love to have you make
your morning show, either live or the podcast one of
your preset buttons if you're just waking up. Former President
Biden says the Trump administration has done so much to damaged,
so much destruction in two months. That's his big comeback.
And former game show host Wink Martindale is dead at
(17:07):
the age of ninety one. A terrific, terrific human being
with a great disc jockey career. Early on, he was
instrumental in Elvis arriving on the scene by way of
Sun Records and getting his first airplay. You know him,
probably best for doing game shows and a major ani
trust trial. We'll continue today, although Zuckerberg did testify yesterday
(17:29):
in the Meta monopoly testimony. The White House says more
than ten countries have offered trade deals after the imposed
new tariffs. We've heard numbers as high as seventy are
willing to negotiate, but ten have actually offered trade deals.
What's in him? What do they look like? White House
correspondent John Decker's here with that story. Good morning, John.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
That is the unknown answer, and I don't have an
answer for you because the White House not transparent. They
typically are, but they're not transparent with this. They are
not saying which countries are speaking in extended trade talks
with the United States. They're not saying how advanced those
trade talks are. And the number has dropped considerably from
(18:11):
seventy five down to ten. And as you know, with
the USMCA trade agreement that took one full year to negotiate,
and the President has given a ninety day reprieve on
those reciprocal tariffs. You multiply seventy five times one year,
it's going to take an awfully long time to work
out all the trade deals that the White House says
(18:32):
they are talking about.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, and we originally we're told too that Japan would
be the first to be heard in no word if
they're one of the ten. Right, Well, that's right.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
What we also know as it relates to Japan, is
that Japan's Prime minister recently spoke to his parliament and
he indicated that he's not going to give away the sto,
as he says it, in terms of these trade talks.
So he intends to drive a hard bargain against the
person who wrote the book The Yard of the Deal.
(19:07):
See how that all works out for Japan. As you know,
they face considerable reciprocal tariffs that are on hold, as
do a number of Asian countries that the US has
very strong trade relations with historically.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So help us all understand, John, if you know if
this is the ten at the White House. More, First
of all, i'd have to start with more than ten.
How many more than ten? Seventy more than ten? But yeah,
and then which ten would make a difference? And We
don't have answers to any of it, so it's hard
to really judge how this is going. But there's a
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lot of work that's got to be done in ninety days,
and I don't know how many more than ten. I
don't know which ten, And I don't know how you
know concrete the offers are or you know, closeable the
offers are. Not a lot to do with this story.
And it's funny how quick we went from tariff obsessed
(20:02):
to now we can't get me to focus on the
tariffs or even be forthright with with what the details are.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
The one country we're not talking about is China. China,
of course, is the third largest trading partner of the
United States. The President has imposed one hundred and forty
five percent tariffs on Chinese goods coming into the US,
and there are note talks scheduled anytime soon with China
in terms of lowering the temperature as it relates to
the trade war playing out with that country.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
All right, interesting developments, John Decker following it, White House Correspondent.
We'll talk again tomorrow. Appreciate your time. We wanted to
just kind of revisit a couple of things. One was
our first poll that we did in the five o'clock
hour that I think is significant. I kind of chalked
it up to, okay, this this is another example of
majoring in majors. What got the Democrats in trouble majoring
(20:56):
in minors. They were majoring in open borders. The American
people wanted a secured border, in law enforcement, they were
majoring in wokeness, in social political correct issues. America wasn't
interested in that at all, and they wanted solutions for
the economy. So now what do the Democrats do. Yesterday's
(21:18):
polling shows that they're clearly going to go left. There
was only less than twenty percent interested in going towards
the center. The majority of the Democrats want to continue
to go left. Seems like a recipe for obviously more losses,
if not extinction. We'll talk more about that with David
Sanati next hour. But this one's fascinating. This one's talking
(21:41):
about election integrity. And you remember how we were fighting
in this country over election integrity. Anybody that would question
election integrity would be accused of insurrection four years ago. Now,
sixty four percent of the American people favor the Save Act.
Voters overwhelmingly considered it important to keep illegal immigrants from
(22:05):
voting in American elections. Nearly two thirds support the legislation
to require proof of citizenship two thirds, and I would
imagine at least half, if not more than half, of
those two thirds are Democrats, and four out of two
(22:25):
hundred and twelve Democrats in Congress voted for this. It
even represented thirty six percent support among liberals and the
Democrat Party. That's the level of underrepresentation. That's the failure
of democracy and all this that's partisan politics, over serving constituents,
over common sense, over right and wrong. And according to
(22:51):
the poll, seventy five percent of like the US voters
believe it's important to prevail or to prevent illegal immigrants
from voting in the US, including fifty one percent of
Saverian or only twenty two percent don't think it's important.
And sixty four percent of voters believe Congress should enact
the law requiring proof of citizenship, and only four to
a two hundred and twelve Democrat numbers of Congress voted
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for its astounding Then we got to this story, and
I'm not so sure the two are not related. So
real quickly Bernie Sanders would have been the nominee in
twenty sixteen, not Hillary Clinton. He had it in the bag.
(23:37):
They had to do Shenanigans and gymnastics in the DNC
to get her over, using super delegates and other manipulation.
So the people, the Democrat voters in the primary process
would have done Bernie. The DNC gave him Hillary and
then she lost. In twenty twenty, they would have done
(23:58):
Bernie again, but the cut a deal in South Carolina
and they substituted with old Joe, Joe who came in
fourth in New Hampshire, fourth and Iowa seventh in New Hampshire,
and Joe wins. Then in twenty twenty four, Joe wasn't
looking like he was going to win, wasn't looking he
was cognitively sound. They waited throughout the primary for him
(24:21):
to get enough votes to secure the nomination. Then they
throw him on a stage oddly before debates even happen,
before the conventions, expose him for what he is se nile,
and then replace him with Kamala Harris. Again, the voters
probably would have gone Bernie, they didn't get a say,
and then he lost. So that sets up twenty twenty eight.
(24:45):
Now Bernie can't run. He's in his mid eighties, so
he has I would just ask this in the form
of a question, could Bernie Sanders have done more in
the last sixty days to pass the torch doc? I mean,
how many public appearances with him handing the torch AOC
does he have to host before you get it? She's
the We don't know who the Democrat Party voice is
(25:06):
and leader and who their candidate will be, but we
do know who the heir apparent of the Socialist Democrat
movement within the Democrat Party. It's AOC. So just as
we said Bernie would have got it in twenty twenty,
Bernie would have got it in twenty sixteen, probably would
have got it in twenty twenty four. Would that suggest
that AOC would be in line to get it in
(25:27):
twenty twenty eight. I'm telling you absolutely yes. Now, whether
they pulled a stunt like they did with Barack Obama
and throw her in the Senate and get rid of
Chuckie Schumer and then have a run for president sixty
days later, or she runs from the House, she's it
and suddenly her fundraising's gone to nine point six million
dollars as they're doing this, stop by, stop by, stop
(25:49):
handing the torch from Bernie to her. Meanwhile, the civil
war in the Democrat Party is on, like Donkey Kong.
David Hog, Yes, that David Hog from Parkland, Florida school
shooting a young liberal activist and now the vice chairman
of the DNC. I think Red says it best when
he says, now they got themselves in a wolf in
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the henhouse, because what have we been setting up? They
would have succeeded with Bernie probably three times twice for sure,
and the DNC cut their legs off. Now they're coming
back with AOC, and you know the DNC's gonna try
to cut their legs off, probably with Romney, Manuel and
(26:32):
Wes Moore. But now you got a wolf in the
hen house, David Hawk, and he's leading the effort to
unsee the party's older lawmakers and primaries. Justice justice Democrats, socialists,
doo AOC yourself took out a ten term Democrat to
get that seat in New York, squelching voices in their
(26:56):
own party. I know what you're thinking, how open minded,
how inclusive of the Democrats to us, to me less
than three months after, the young political activist David Hogg
was elected as vice chair of the DNC. He's undertaking
a new project that's sure to get the Democrats attention,
spending millions of dollars to oust Democrat members of Congress
(27:19):
in primary elections next year. Hog, who emerged on the
political scene being an outspoken survivor of the twenty eighteen
school shooting, now just twenty five years old, said his
party must squelch a pervasive culture of seniority politics that
(27:40):
has allowed older and less effective lawmakers to continue to
hold office. Look, I know what the view is my
age of these people staying till totag. I can't imagine
how old they look to this twenty five year old.
So he's planning through a separate organization where he serves
as president leaders we deserve to intervene in primaries and
(28:00):
solidly Democrat districts as part of a twenty million dollar
effort to quote unquote elect younger leaders and to encourage
a more combative posture against President Trump further left and
much younger. Or is this all a part of the
socialist Democrat movement and the AOC movement and with him
(28:22):
taking out what's left of the party which we used
to call progressive. But these socialist Democrats, Justice Democrats. They
call themselves progressives, but they're not. They're socialists and they're
getting rid of because there's no such thing as a
conservative Democrat. There's nothing left of the establishment Democrat party
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or traditional Democrat party. All there is is really progressive
and super progressives. This is that civil war playing out.
And if we just look at dollar amounts, there's twenty
million dollars from this twenty five year kid the target
establishment Democrats. What for the purposes of more progressive socialists
(29:06):
and younger candidates to go along with the ten million
aocs already stockpiled, and we're just getting started. We kind
of put those two stories together and what you can
get a clear picture of the war is still on.
The Socialist Democrats would have won twice, maybe even three times,
(29:27):
but they got a better plan to make sure they
win the fourth time. And then remember the analogy of
the parasite. In this case, the parasite would win, but
when the parasite wins, the host dies, and when the
host dies, the parasite dies with it. Question if they
pulled this off and the Socialist Democrats take over the party.
(29:48):
They only represent about sixteen to twenty percent of the party.
They could take the Democrat Party in a two party
system to a fringe, thus ending the Democrat Party as
a part of the two party system, and they would
have done it by the end of the decade. Oh,
(30:14):
I gotta do a third This is your Morning show
with Michael dale Chno.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Hello, Michael dale Jiorno from Modesto, California. I'd like to
know if Daniel Martindale is related to the recently passed
Wink Martindale.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
All right, brother, I have a good show. All right, Well,
I did something funny. I thought just it could be
just my birthplace of Michigan on my mind. I don't
know why I was thinking. He was saying Don Martindale,
who is called Wink Martindale the coach of the Wolverines.
So I was going to confirm that he's not. But
I don't think Daniel the Spy is either. Is he bred?
(30:54):
There's no relation there now and Wink Martindale, the former
disc jockey and tik Tacto, along with other game show hosts,
did pass away in California at the age of ninety one.
Surrounded by his family, had been battling cancer and battling
it pretty well and then just a sudden, quick turn
in the last two weeks. I had the great pleasure
(31:15):
of getting to meet him through the Elvis Festival because
of his role with Sun. Like really you could credit
Wink Martindale and that Memphis radio station for launching Elvis
Presley after the Sun Records recording, but he went on
to have a great, great radio career as most of
those game show hosts in Los Angeles were disc jockeys.
(31:37):
Yeah that you know, while I guess Ryan Seacrest would
be your latest example, right, but he was just I
don't know how to express to you. He was one
of the most interesting, gracious, wonderful gentleman I have ever met.
And I told the story, I have this room and
(32:00):
I have, like you know, all my sports memorabilia, autographed baseball,
autographed helmets, hockey sticks. I've got Mike Ruzione's jersey thanks
to Scott Hamilton from the Miracle Team. I've got Joe
Namas college and NFL jerseys all autographed, along with Steve Largin.
And so one day when and I were talking and
I said, you know, I used to skip school and
(32:21):
watch you every day. I mean, I was a huge fan,
and I used to love those loud jackets. Do you
have any of them? You know? And he went, give
me the body five hundreds and I said, yeah, it's
the body five hundreds. So the next time he came
to town, we got together and he shows up and
he's got this sport coat draped on his arm. But
it wasn't one of those gaudy plaid ones like he
used to wear when I was a kid. It was really,
(32:43):
quite frankly, a gorgeous, timeless sport coat. And he slips
it on me and it fit like a glove. In fact,
if I could drop ten pounds, it fit like a
glove again. And this may inspire me to do it
under the lapel. He surprised me and wrote me a note,
And so for the longest time I never framed it
(33:04):
because it wouldn't have been like if he brought me
a gaudy one. It would have been hilarious, you know,
NFL star, hockey star football stock boom plaid jacket, but
you got to show it off. But for the longest
time I wore it and oh, is it going to
mean something to me now. Wink Martindale just one of
the really, really great men I've ever met in my
(33:25):
life and one of the nicest human being he will
ever meet. Ninety one years old, dies of cancer, surrounded
by his family. All right, when we come back, you know,
we've kind of been laying the groundwork for all of this.
Yesterday's polls in today's poles all point to a party
that you would think would want to get back and
step with the American people. But all indications are they
(33:45):
planning to go further out of step and further to
the left. So, after losing the White House control of
both chambers of Congress, polling showing they want to go
even further left rather than pivot towards the American people.
How does that make any sense? And what does it
mean for the future of the Democrat Party if there
is one. We're all in this together. This is your
(34:09):
Morning Show with Michael Del Joano.
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