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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That big beautiful bill which officially was passed. Donald Trump
had a lot to say about it today on his
ex account where he said, this is arguably the most
significant piece of legislation that will ever be signed in
the history of our country. Now, I think there's going
to be a bit of fallout. The Senate still has
to debate it. You may have the defections of people
like Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins who seemingly are not willing,
(00:21):
despite being Republicans, willing to work with Donald Trump on
his agenda, especially on his timeline. Mitch McConnell also has
been a pretty wavering on some of this stuff. If
it ends up like that where those three defect, you
have no other room for airror. All the other Republicans
have to be in there. There was only one Republican
that decided not to vote in favor of the Big
(00:41):
Beautiful Bill in the House of Representatives, and I mean
that allowed for the Republicans in general as a whole
to vote and pass this like gosh, it was like
three in the morning, it was overnight. A lot of debate.
They want to get this done by the end of
the week, and the House has gotten it done. Whether
or not the Senate gets it done, we'll have to
pay attention to, and we will let you know on that.
But definitely something worth paying attention to is the discourse
(01:05):
that will come out of this, because both sides are
going to come completely out of the woodwork and tell
you all the things that you should be paying attention
to and why this stinks for you if you're a Democrat,
why this is good for you, if you're a Republican,
why this might be something that many people are saying.
I'm just not sure I'm going to experience much difference
in my day to day life. This will absolutely affec
people's day to day life, depending on where you are
(01:27):
in life. But there may be a lot of people
out there listening that you're not going to notice much
of a difference at all. I think if you look
hard enough, you're going to find something that's a bit
different or might be a bit more favorable for tax cuts,
if you will. But political pundits on the left are
going to say one thing. Political pundits on the right
are going to say one thing. And what I can
(01:47):
tell you is that our guy Gary Saddlemeayer in the
morning is going to be chatting with Congressman Adrian Smith
seven to fifteen am tomorrow morning. So you wake up,
grab your cup of Joe, have your breakfast in two
nine eleven to ten KFA at seven fifteen as Congressman
Adrian Smith will help talk a bit about what he
saw out of this from a Republican and conservative standpoint
(02:08):
on what this big, beautiful bill actually means and how
it could help and effect Nebraska lives, which is what
we're looking for here. It's five sixteen. I a memory songer.
We thank you for listening to us today. More on
the way on your Thursday afternoon national news. We got
to talk a bit about the alleged shooter which I
think we all know did it with the staffers at
(02:31):
the Israeli embassy in Washington, d C. I will talk
about the details and what we know next on NewsRadio
eleven ten KFAB. It's not something that anybody wants to
talk about, but it's a political violence essentially, is what
it amounts to. A thirty one year old from Chicago
named Elias Rodriguez. That's the last time I'm saying his
name shot allegedly two Israeli embassy staffers outside of the
(02:54):
Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, d C. As soon as
the shooter made this heinous crime, immediately yelled free Palestine. Now,
this is what we know of this couple. They were
a couple, They were working at the embassy. They, according
to their families, who are in love and set to
be engaged. I don't know all of the details, and
(03:17):
certainly there's a lot to unpack with the motivation of
something like this, but this isn't just a political violence
related murder. Two murders. This is an entire movement and
why it has spin so pivotal for our government and
for our institutions of higher learning and for the cities
(03:38):
across America to allow people to peacefully protest, but for
us to be very careful about the rhetoric involved in
these protests. When you have a crazy person like this
that decides what they're going to do is in the
life of two people that have nothing direct to do
with anything that is happening in Israel in Gaza, with
(03:59):
Palestinian peace in that conflict whatsoever. They are working in
the United States at the Israeli Embassy. What goes through
a person's mind now certainly, this is not a person
that I would anticipate being completely incognitively sharp and all there.
Luigi Manjoni, for whatever it's worth, seemed like he knew
exactly what he was doing and totally willing to accept
(04:20):
those consequences. I'm sure this person also felt the same way.
These are not celebrated events. This is not something that
anyone should be saying is these are heroic performances by
people who are committing the worst crime imaginable, ending someone
else's life for no reason other than political statements or
political gain. Luigi Mangioni, who if you remember shot Brian Thompson,
(04:45):
who is who was in charge of United Healthcare and
this was a statement against what the healthcare industry is
in the United States and the system itself. I don't
know how many people who were saying, oh, yeah, insurance
companies are great, it's a revolution now now, I don't
think anybody sees the healthcare industry like that in the
United States. The man was doing a job, he was
(05:07):
in charge, he was making a lot of money. I
understand that that makes him a targeted to an individual.
Many people saying that's the person that should be surrounded
by security at all times. I understand, totally get it. However,
the idea that one person just decides this is going
to be good for a movement I am trying to create.
Is there been a stronghold. Were there people out there
that were like, oh, yeah, actually I do hate insurance companies. Yeah,
(05:28):
now I'm rooting for violence against insurance people. No, I
don't see that happening. For this moron who decided that
he was going to kill two young people simply because
they were Israeli embassy workers staffers, because of a conflict
that has been perpetrated. It takes two to tango, So
I get that Israel. Many people who are not fans
(05:50):
of Israel see blood on their hands. Also, there's a
lack of humanitarian aid going into Gaza right now. The
United Nations says they can't really get into the places
they need to go because of the Israeli offensive which
is still going on. It's making many many countries, those
who also say that they are allies of Israel very uncomfortable.
These are not things that we see in twenty twenty five.
(06:12):
All that often this conversation as a greater whole, I
don't think is going to change at all with Gaza,
because some guy who wanted to say free Palestine and
decide to commit murder in the name of the Palestinians
here in the United States, which is not still directly
involved in this conflict, somehow was going to make a
bigger statement and turn people into fans of their plight,
(06:35):
the free Palestine plight. I don't think that's going to
be how it works. If I'm somebody who has been
peacefully protesting and trying to get the United States government
and pressuring them to pressure Israel to get this over
with and to help the people of this region and
to allow the people who live in Gaza, the Palestinian people,
to at least exist in some form of peace. I'm
(06:58):
mad at this guy. I think that this is a
a horrible thing to happen to our movement. This is
anti Semitism at its finest, and by finest, I mean
it's the worst possible thing that you can you can
think of. It reeks shades of the Nazi regime. It
reeks shades of all of the people in world history
that have persecuted anyone of any race because of the
(07:19):
way they look or what their heritage is what the
religion is, what their culture and their practices are. We
don't celebrate people like that for a reason. If anything,
this is harming any forward movement that the United States
government would be making. When Donald Trump suggested to Benjamin
Netanyahu that he needs to wrap it up, I'm becoming
impatient here. This needs to be ending as quickly as possible.
(07:40):
Who knows if Israel is listening or paying attention. And yes,
certainly you can say that Israel hasn't cared too much
about a lot of the civilian deaths that have been
going on in the Middle East. That's an argument that
has been made for a year and a half. There's
also the argument that Hamas is using all of the
civilians as human shield to try to protect themselves and
continue their operations to try to eradicate the Israeli people.
They have a right thing to defend themselves too. It
(08:01):
is a complicated situation, and people are following on both
sides of that and wanting to make their voices heard
because people like having something to fight for. Unfortunately, fighting
doesn't necessarily have to equate to murdering people, so I'm
sure the motive is pretty easy to figure out. This
person is hopefully going to be locked up and put
(08:21):
in a place where we'll never see or hear from
him again. Hopefully this is a is going to serve
as an example for people who even consider or even
think about political violence in the United States. And we
need a strong condemnation from the people on the political
left who have been waving their Palestinian flags and saying
we need to free Palestine and Israel is the bad
(08:42):
guy here. They need to denounce and condemn this also. Man,
they are slow to doing that, and that is one
thing that you need to really pay close attention to
because if they don't, and there's even kind of a
little bit of a population of representatives around the country
that have no problem with this kind of thing happening
and they won't speak out against it. These are people
that you absolutely can say do not care about the
(09:05):
people of the United States of America, no matter what
their background is. It's absolutely abhorrent and inexcusable. We'll see
what the next chapter on this is as we move forward,
but terrible, terrible stuff out of note Washington, DC here
five twenty nine. Thanks for listening to us. We'll have
more fun here in the bottom half of the hour.
We thank you as always for being a part of
the show with Emery Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
(09:27):
Emery Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB
That big beautiful bill which officially was passed. Donald Trump
had a lot to say about it today on his
ex account where he said, this is arguably the most
significant piece of legislation that will ever be signed in
the history of our country. Now, I think there's going
to be a bit of fallout. The Senate still has
to debate it. You may have the defections of people
like Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins who seemingly are not willing,
(00:21):
despite being Republicans, willing to work with Donald Trump on
his agenda, especially on his timeline. Mitch McConnell also has
been a pretty wavering on some of this stuff. If
it ends up like that where those three defect, you
have no other room for airror. All the other Republicans
have to be in there. There was only one Republican
that decided not to vote in favor of the Big
(00:41):
Beautiful Bill in the House of Representatives, and I mean
that allowed for the Republicans in general as a whole
to vote and pass this like gosh, it was like
three in the morning, it was overnight. A lot of debate.
They want to get this done by the end of
the week, and the House has gotten it done. Whether
or not the Senate gets it done, we'll have to
pay attention to, and we will let you know on that.
But definitely something worth paying attention to is the discourse
(01:05):
that will come out of this, because both sides are
going to come completely out of the woodwork and tell
you all the things that you should be paying attention
to and why this stinks for you if you're a Democrat,
why this is good for you, if you're a Republican,
why this might be something that many people are saying.
I'm just not sure I'm going to experience much difference
in my day to day life. This will absolutely affec
people's day to day life, depending on where you are
(01:27):
in life. But there may be a lot of people
out there listening that you're not going to notice much
of a difference at all. I think if you look
hard enough, you're going to find something that's a bit
different or might be a bit more favorable for tax cuts,
if you will. But political pundits on the left are
going to say one thing. Political pundits on the right
are going to say one thing. And what I can
(01:47):
tell you is that our guy Gary Saddlemeayer in the
morning is going to be chatting with Congressman Adrian Smith
seven to fifteen am tomorrow morning. So you wake up,
grab your cup of Joe, have your breakfast in two
nine eleven to ten KFA at seven fifteen as Congressman
Adrian Smith will help talk a bit about what he
saw out of this from a Republican and conservative standpoint
(02:08):
on what this big, beautiful bill actually means and how
it could help and effect Nebraska lives, which is what
we're looking for here. It's five sixteen. I a memory songer.
We thank you for listening to us today. More on
the way on your Thursday afternoon national news. We got
to talk a bit about the alleged shooter which I
think we all know did it with the staffers at
(02:31):
the Israeli embassy in Washington, d C. I will talk
about the details and what we know next on NewsRadio
eleven ten KFAB. It's not something that anybody wants to
talk about, but it's a political violence essentially, is what
it amounts to. A thirty one year old from Chicago
named Elias Rodriguez. That's the last time I'm saying his
name shot allegedly two Israeli embassy staffers outside of the
(02:54):
Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, d C. As soon as
the shooter made this heinous crime, immediately yelled free Palestine. Now,
this is what we know of this couple. They were
a couple, They were working at the embassy. They, according
to their families, who are in love and set to
be engaged. I don't know all of the details, and
(03:17):
certainly there's a lot to unpack with the motivation of
something like this, but this isn't just a political violence
related murder. Two murders. This is an entire movement and
why it has spin so pivotal for our government and
for our institutions of higher learning and for the cities
(03:38):
across America to allow people to peacefully protest, but for
us to be very careful about the rhetoric involved in
these protests. When you have a crazy person like this
that decides what they're going to do is in the
life of two people that have nothing direct to do
with anything that is happening in Israel in Gaza, with
(03:59):
Palestinian peace in that conflict whatsoever. They are working in
the United States at the Israeli Embassy. What goes through
a person's mind now certainly, this is not a person
that I would anticipate being completely incognitively sharp and all there.
Luigi Manjoni, for whatever it's worth, seemed like he knew
exactly what he was doing and totally willing to accept
(04:20):
those consequences. I'm sure this person also felt the same way.
These are not celebrated events. This is not something that
anyone should be saying is these are heroic performances by
people who are committing the worst crime imaginable, ending someone
else's life for no reason other than political statements or
political gain. Luigi Mangioni, who if you remember shot Brian Thompson,
(04:45):
who is who was in charge of United Healthcare and
this was a statement against what the healthcare industry is
in the United States and the system itself. I don't
know how many people who were saying, oh, yeah, insurance
companies are great, it's a revolution now now, I don't
think anybody sees the healthcare industry like that in the
United States. The man was doing a job, he was
(05:07):
in charge, he was making a lot of money. I
understand that that makes him a targeted to an individual.
Many people saying that's the person that should be surrounded
by security at all times. I understand, totally get it. However,
the idea that one person just decides this is going
to be good for a movement I am trying to create.
Is there been a stronghold. Were there people out there
that were like, oh, yeah, actually I do hate insurance companies. Yeah,
(05:28):
now I'm rooting for violence against insurance people. No, I
don't see that happening. For this moron who decided that
he was going to kill two young people simply because
they were Israeli embassy workers staffers, because of a conflict
that has been perpetrated. It takes two to tango, So
I get that Israel. Many people who are not fans
(05:50):
of Israel see blood on their hands. Also, there's a
lack of humanitarian aid going into Gaza right now. The
United Nations says they can't really get into the places
they need to go because of the Israeli offensive which
is still going on. It's making many many countries, those
who also say that they are allies of Israel very uncomfortable.
These are not things that we see in twenty twenty five.
(06:12):
All that often this conversation as a greater whole, I
don't think is going to change at all with Gaza,
because some guy who wanted to say free Palestine and
decide to commit murder in the name of the Palestinians
here in the United States, which is not still directly
involved in this conflict, somehow was going to make a
bigger statement and turn people into fans of their plight,
(06:35):
the free Palestine plight. I don't think that's going to
be how it works. If I'm somebody who has been
peacefully protesting and trying to get the United States government
and pressuring them to pressure Israel to get this over
with and to help the people of this region and
to allow the people who live in Gaza, the Palestinian people,
to at least exist in some form of peace. I'm
(06:58):
mad at this guy. I think that this is a
a horrible thing to happen to our movement. This is
anti Semitism at its finest, and by finest, I mean
it's the worst possible thing that you can you can
think of. It reeks shades of the Nazi regime. It
reeks shades of all of the people in world history
that have persecuted anyone of any race because of the
(07:19):
way they look or what their heritage is what the
religion is, what their culture and their practices are. We
don't celebrate people like that for a reason. If anything,
this is harming any forward movement that the United States
government would be making. When Donald Trump suggested to Benjamin
Netanyahu that he needs to wrap it up, I'm becoming
impatient here. This needs to be ending as quickly as possible.
(07:40):
Who knows if Israel is listening or paying attention. And yes,
certainly you can say that Israel hasn't cared too much
about a lot of the civilian deaths that have been
going on in the Middle East. That's an argument that
has been made for a year and a half. There's
also the argument that Hamas is using all of the
civilians as human shield to try to protect themselves and
continue their operations to try to eradicate the Israeli people.
They have a right thing to defend themselves too. It
(08:01):
is a complicated situation, and people are following on both
sides of that and wanting to make their voices heard
because people like having something to fight for. Unfortunately, fighting
doesn't necessarily have to equate to murdering people, so I'm
sure the motive is pretty easy to figure out. This
person is hopefully going to be locked up and put
(08:21):
in a place where we'll never see or hear from
him again. Hopefully this is a is going to serve
as an example for people who even consider or even
think about political violence in the United States. And we
need a strong condemnation from the people on the political
left who have been waving their Palestinian flags and saying
we need to free Palestine and Israel is the bad
(08:42):
guy here. They need to denounce and condemn this also. Man,
they are slow to doing that, and that is one
thing that you need to really pay close attention to
because if they don't, and there's even kind of a
little bit of a population of representatives around the country
that have no problem with this kind of thing happening
and they won't speak out against it. These are people
that you absolutely can say do not care about the
(09:05):
people of the United States of America, no matter what
their background is. It's absolutely abhorrent and inexcusable. We'll see
what the next chapter on this is as we move forward,
but terrible, terrible stuff out of note Washington, DC here
five twenty nine. Thanks for listening to us. We'll have
more fun here in the bottom half of the hour.
We thank you as always for being a part of
the show with Emery Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
(09:27):
Emery Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB
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