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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, welcome in, folks.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
One and day.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The sun is shining little for the fall temp sem alive.
Let's stay that way at least the foreseen future in
the forecast. Then we making back into the seventies next week.
But I HI for one, welcome this sun and cooler temperatures.
It's like what big big men like me or waving before.
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We're just loving it. And you get kind of a
little bit of the Shortston Honey season Midsten, which is
always a lot of fun. Hey wats some folks waiting
on the score on the show shutdown. We may have
some answers today.
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Speaker 2 (01:15):
Three special guests coming up. Congress Woman Lisa McLain from Michigan.
She holds a very important position in UH in the
house there in Congress, and she's gonna give us an
update on the latest coming up a little bit of
around what's a nine thirty five this morning, So we'll
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who put bounties on the heads of federal agents in Illinois,
a ten thousand dollars hit on top of the US
Water Patrol commanders had The Department of Homeland Security has
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nabbed him. They use snapchat, Now, that's funny, what a
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solicit the solicit the murder of Chief Gregory Bovino is
what David put it out, who's been leading the major
border operations there in Chicago. The Feds moving and fast
(03:04):
and uncovering the plot with these also offered two thousand
dollars for tips on the commander's whereabouts. Ice meanwhile on
track to deport six hundred thousand on top of the
two million who have already self deported. Again, those numbers
are happening because of President Trump and his policies tough
(03:27):
at the border nowhere, tough cleaning out the country. The
Governor Whitmer has signed it. It's official. The state budget
has been signed into law, walking in a targeted tax
relief that both Democrats and Republicans are touting together. They're
very excited about. It's an eighty one billion dollar budget,
(03:48):
so it's a lot of go either way, but at
the end of the day, it's going to save you.
According to reports, folks eliminate tax on hips. When it
comes to the state level, overtime and social Security income
as well, we'll see relief, according to reports, impacting over
(04:09):
half a million residents. Whitmer praising the deal is fiscally responsible.
Republicans touting cuts to thousands of ghost jobs without layoffs,
and of course they avoided that shutdown. More on that
coming on here. And third, tariffs will feed seven million
mothers and babies during the shutdown, and they may in
(04:29):
fact feed you too with a little bit of a check,
a little bit of extra dough coming your way from
from Trump. But they're getting in so much money right now,
so much revenue from them from the Trump tariffs, according
to the latest reports, they're going to be able to
use it to actually fund portions of the government that
(04:52):
are maybe not funded as we speak. A major move
during the shutdown of White House saying tapping tariff revenue
keep the WICK, that's Women and Infant Children Food Aid
program active, insuring assistance continues for about seven million mothers,
infants of young children who rely on it. They've dubbed
it a creative workaround amid the political dead luck. Uh. Now,
(05:15):
the question is what about your two thousand dollars check? Now,
I I know I want to hear about this too,
but I'm also, yeah, a little bit concerned. Well, well,
well we'll roll this out coming up here in just
a second, and that I've deep into it. Do you want
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Speaker 2 (05:47):
So, here's what the money looks like according to some
reports anyway, that Trump stimulus. They're considering the stimulus. I
will I will say this, and I at the same time,
I think when you hear this, you think to yourself, Okay, hey,
that sounds fantastic. I'd like a two thousand dollars check.
But you know, we're kind of fighting inflation as it
(06:09):
is right now, and some folks may wonder, well, what's
that gonna do to inflation? Well, I I guess I would.
I would ask that same question and tell you that
it's probably gonna make things a little more because you
got all this money just flying out and people don't
really tend to hang on to it, do they. I
(06:30):
mean that Trump Trump stimulus, no matter where the money's
coming from, at the end of the day, well, it's
it's gonna fly right out the window because we that's
we've got a problem here America. It's not it's not
just the country, it's we got a better homes too.
It's we spend more than we make. And that's that's
that's not a good things. That's not a good thing. Now,
(06:54):
I do think it's a good idea that they're going
to use that money in a good way to fund
the WIG program that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Few moments ago more than two hundred billion coming into
the coffers in tariffs, and now we're learning where some
of that money will go. The White House has just
announced that the Women and Children at Food program will
not be cut off while the government is shut down.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Some of them.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
That's that's interesting because you know, there's a lot of
Democrats out there, a lot of Democrats out there sort
of making the case. Yeah, everything's scary town, and you
ought to be. I would tell you just one thing.
And we were just talking about this. We know some
folks that are flying next week and the question is
will we or be able to get on their flights. Well,
(07:38):
for the most part, we haven't really seen much disruption
there yet other than that. I there's one one airport
they sat down in Burbank, but that's Burbank, folks. It's like,
it's not a it's an air traffic control tower. Wasn't
an a report and then they switched over control to
other towers. It wasn't a big deal. I Uh, I
(08:01):
haven't felt anything that way. It is a big story
because the local news has got to make a deal
out at anything that ties in local to especially when
it deals with Trump. But there's a big story about
people not being able to go see art prize at
the Gerald R. Ford Museum in way that may not.
That may be inconvenience, not the end of the world.
So when you're feeling like any pain or anybody really
(08:23):
feeling the pain from the shutdown, on one hand, I'd say, hmm,
I haven't seen that yet. Now we are about to
inter a face here soon and I think this is
probably what we'll talk with Cherry McClain about coming up
here in a little bit. With the folks who are
out there, These are the essential folks, but not probably
not getting paid during all of this. They're putting it
all on the line to go out and to do
(08:47):
what it is that they do every day is to
protect you mean, everyone else. And but what if they
don't get to pay to that's not gonna be good news.
And all of this because Democrats dragging their feet because
they want free healthcare for really aliands. So we'll ask
that question coming up here in a little bit. But
when it comes to that idea of debt, here's what
(09:07):
the President says. This is not o Ann. I don't
know how long ago this was, but it's interesting. This
is what he says about debt and getting out of
it versus growing out of it.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well, ultimately, yeah, because we're talking about just kicking in.
They're just starting to kick in. But ultimately your tariffs
are going to be over at trillion dollars a year.
In my opinion, we're going to do something. We're looking
at something where number one, we're paying down debt because
people have allowed the debt to go crazy. But you know,
with growth, with the kind of growth we have now,
(09:37):
the debt is very little Rother were speaking. You grow
yourself out of that debt. It's not a question of
paying it. You grow yourself out. And the numbers are
so much bigger than they ever were. The numbers we
have now are bigger than they ever were. So when
you have thirty six trillion dollars in debt a year
ago or two years ago, and you have a lot
less revenue coming in, then you have thirty seven or
(09:58):
thirty eight yet, but it will be.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Well, I've gotta I gotta show this to you too.
I mean, I'm gonna show you what the Democrat take
is going to be on this. Well, it'll be the
opposition whether it's Democrat, it could be some libertarians, this
could be it could google both ways on this. But
I just want to just show you what the take
is going to be. You're not getting new money, free money,
(10:24):
You're getting your own money back. Well that's it to be,
ladies and gentlemen, I've got breaking news. Anytime the government
sends you a check for anything, it's your money. And yes,
you're getting your own money you're getting your own money back.
That's how it works. So I don't want to hear
this nonsense. Well, well, yeah, we're just getting our own
(10:48):
money back. Well, of course you are. It's it's always,
it's always your money. So lots of conversations going to
be happening about this, whether two thousand dollars checks are
gonna come or not, whether that what that would look like,
and where that would where that would all fall out.
But I just want to just wanted to sort of
touch on it today because it is a conversation. And
(11:10):
by the way, you know, the thing that I think
is probably getting lost in this for the most part
that needs to be highlighted more than anything, is they
said this tariff stuff wouldn't work. This is the key.
They said, Oh that terror says it's not gonna work.
(11:30):
Oh it's gonna be look at all the problems we're
gonna have. And have we have we seen that play out?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
In fact, we now are at a position, as the
President said, we're we're bringing in all of this money.
So it is it is a fair point. Whether you
want that two thousand dollars check or out, whether you're
forwarding it, you cannot deny that the Airs are working
and getting those deals done. In fact, we had on
(11:56):
news yesterday. I don't know if you saw the meeting
with the Prime mister from Canada yesterday, so one country
there's still working on trying to get deal done there.
But there was a funny moment we have to share
inside the Oval from yesterday. We'll get into that all
coming up this morning, so don't go anywhere. We'll check
our news headlines coming up in just a moment as well.
(12:18):
But first, please, if you're able, choice and rise for
the national anthem.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
F YI, like literally, it's West Michigan Live with Justin
Barclay on News Radio Wood thirteen hundred and one oh
six nine FM.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Wednesday, October eighth.
I'm Robin Hoffman. It's a Midwesterner dot news original story
China involving itself in Michigan's marijuana industry. This comes at
a time when businesses here are concerned about adding a
new twenty four percent tax. The House Homeland Security Subcommittee
on Oversight, highlighting recent busts of massive marijuana grow operations
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in Michigan tied to multi layered networks in China. In
other news, Democrat Governor Whitmer signing the budget making Michigan
number one in.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
The nation for the highest fees on evs electric vehicles
House Spill forty one eighty three passing with a provision
that significantly raises registration costs for evs.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
As a result, annual fees for EV drivers will rise
by one hundred bucks, making the cost two sixty per car.
And President Trump hosting the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney
at the White House. The two talking trade and tariffs
and a deal not yet done.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Well, it's a complicated agreement, more complicated maybe than any
other agreement we have on trade because you know, we
have natural conflict. We also have mutual love.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You know, we have great love for each other. I
love this, I love Canada, the people of Canada.
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Speaker 2 (15:03):
Another way to jump in on the fund today is
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(15:26):
I don't know how much you're going to see this
on the mainstream media, but it is a story that
you you really ought to hear. And I have sun
about this. As I read the headline today, I go,
you know, there's actually something missing out of this. But
let me get to that in a second. First, Biden
intervened the block CIA report on Ukraine concerns over Hunter's
(15:46):
corrupt dealings. Is back in twenty sixteen. He was still
at the time still the vice president, and we now
know a courtesy of the CIA recently declassified memos revealing
that the then president vice president rather Joe Biden's team
had stepped in. Now we've known this for a while, right,
(16:08):
but now we know this, we get the receipts February
twenty sixteen, they stepped in, blocking the CIA report from
being distributed. One detailed how senior Ukrainian officials viewed Hunter
Biden's business dealings. The memo sites a directive to quote
not disseminate the document, sparking fresh allegations of suppression of intelligence.
(16:35):
And by the way, you remember, this is what they
tied in the Russia, Russia, Russia, all of that nonsense
and it again shows you where the real corruption lies. Now,
what's interesting about this? And I thought it was kind
of you know, I read the headline it's thinking for
just a moment and it hit me, you know, this
is talking about Hunter's corruption. But what they leave out
(16:58):
a lot of the stories, even the good places that
are reporting, is actually tied into Joe's because ten percent
for the big guy. I don't think that Hunter was
on some board with the Ukrainian gas company just you know,
just for himself. Yeah, it was all all of that
was going back ten percent. It was getting kicked backed
(17:19):
up to the big guy. So while this story and
it is, it is a story that needs to be shared.
It's a big story, right, It's a story that again,
like I said, you're probably not going to see on
the nightly news of the Today's Show, But it is
a story that ought to get shared and it ought
to go wide. And yet when they do, they probably
(17:41):
going to leave out the fact that this was directly
tied into Biden and the scan they had going on
the entire time. So report released yesterday Able to seeis
director John Ratcliffe compiling reactions from senior Ukrainian leaders following
Biden's December twenty fifteen trip to Kiev. It revealed that
(18:01):
Ukrainian officials were concerned about what they described as the
Biden families quote corrupt business ties again Biden family, but
Biden sought to keep the assessment under wraps. I just
spoke with the VPNSA and he would strongly prefer that
the report not be disseminated. Thanks for understanding, the Vice
(18:22):
President's presidential daily briefer, whose name was redacted, wrote to
the CIA. According to the memo, during the twenty fifteen visit,
Biden pressure then President Petro Poroshenko. You probably remember this
to fire the country's top prosecutor, Victor Choken, threatening to
withold one billion dollars. You remember the story, Biden, We
(18:43):
know this. Who's your source? Biden? He told us. Remember
he told us himself in that hole now infamous video
we watched of him kind of telling off at the CFI.
You remember that wild times and now we have the
documentation to prove it all. Anyway, just a story that
(19:09):
I thought you probably should be up on. Speaking of,
we're gonna get the latest on the shutdown coming up
in just moments. You're gonna get the story behind the story, Cherilee,
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Let's get the latest on the shutdown, and of course
I call it the Schumer shutdown because that's exactly what
(20:32):
we're watching. Let's get to details straight from inside all
of it, maybe even some news that you haven't heard yet.
Cher Lisa McClain joins us right now live from Washington. Chair,
thank you so much for being here with us today.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Thanks for having me different than Hillary Skulton. Really, I
am not on vacation. I really am working and I
really am in Washington. But don't let the facts get
away a good story. Hillary.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
You know that is so interesting we say this. She
got buzzed the other day and she said, well, I
can't believe they're not working. And uh, she was sitting
in her in her in her living room here back
in West Michigan. What what is all that? I You know,
it is interesting you you are working. Lots of folks, uh,
still trying to continue to hammer some things out here.
(21:20):
Let's just set the table for folks. So again, we
know we're in this shutdown, and it's hard sometimes to
walk this out because on one end, you know, tare An,
there's some folks to say, hey, let it shut down.
We we kind of like this, uh in some ways.
You see folks who are are are you know, these
are people that are going to be going without paychecks
or some of them. You know that we we we
(21:40):
really want to make sure we're taken care of.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I saw Congressman Heisinger had that bill that he wanted
to make sure some of those folks got taken care of.
He's very concerned about that as well. And uh, but
at the same time I watched I think I haven't
felt anything yet. Now I don't know. I've got a
friend who's going in fact, he's flying next week, is
going to He's going to take a tour of a
couple of places he said he's never been. I said,
(22:05):
I don't know that this is the time to go.
But so you may have some shutdowns museums and things
like that. We've got the Ford Museum shut down here
in Grand Rapids. But it's kind of a back and
forth on this. At the end of the day, that
people need to understand, is any pain, any issues that
you're feeling, or any uncomfort. Really it's coming because of
(22:26):
Schumer and in the shutdown, he won't budge. I don't understand,
like we're not seeing this in the media. A lot
of times people just miss it, but it is. It's
the fact that they wanted to shove in after you
all took it out with the one big beautiful bill,
this funding of healthcare for illegal aliens. Am I missing
something here?
Speaker 8 (22:45):
No, you're not missing anything. That's exactly what's happening. The
one piece that I really want to hammer home that
I think will help is typically when you do a CR,
the party that's in charge puts a bunch of policy
part of and policy writers on that CR. You know,
we put through funding projects. So for example, where the
(23:06):
Republicans were in charge, what we normally would do was
put policy writers in there that are very partisan and
fund a bunch of our of our priorities. What Republicans
did this time, as said, listen, we're not going to
play any games, We're not going to use any gimmicks.
We are going to pass the exact same CR funding
(23:28):
levels that the Democrats put in place number one and
number two, that the ones that the Democrats voted for
for thirteen times prior. So no gimmicks, no nothing. So
there's really nothing even to negotiate in that CR because
it's the exact same CR that you voted for in March.
That's why we call it a clean cr So when
(23:50):
the dat's say, oh, we want to negotiate, there's nothing
to negotiate because we didn't put any policy writers in there.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
So if it was put in the form, and why
all of a sudden is it not good enough now?
I mean, is the dirty secret they're using this type
of thing to raise money, fundraising things like that.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
No, I don't think that's it. Well, that may be
part of it.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Here's the real truth. The Democratic Party right now isn't
the Democratic Party of your mom and dad or grandma
and grandpa. These are the problem with the Democrat Party
right now is they are beating controlled. Schumer is being
controlled by the radical left wing of his parties, the aocs,
(24:31):
the Mandami's, you know, the Rashida Tahleibs, the radical Socialists
of the Democratic Party, and quite frankly, Chuck Schumer is
shaken in his boots because he doesn't want to get
primaried by AOC. It's self preservation. That's the problem. Why
the Democrats don't want to vote to open the government
(24:53):
up right now. It's a clean cre They voted for
it thirteen times.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
That is such a fantastic point and one that I am.
I guess they didn't consider it completely because you're right,
they have been completely pulled far to the left. And
you're right. You know what's happened a lot of these people,
in fact we've seen it through the years is President
Trump's been running. A lot of these people were Democrats
and they said, look, I didn't leave the party of
the party left me, and they end up voting for
President Trump and Republicans.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
I mean, they are complete black of udles on the life.
I mean, you see it in New York right. Look
at these democratic run cities. Look at the lack of
law and order. I mean, it's the craziest thing you've
ever seen. But the problem is, if you're a moderate Democrat,
if you are a normal Democrat, you're shaken in your
boots right now because you know, if you buck the
(25:39):
radical left wing of that party. I mean, they're going
to crush you in social media, they're going to primary you,
and you're going to be out of a job. That's
why that's why you see everyone silent right now, because
they're shaken in their boots from the radical left.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
It's a comment from the chat right now, Ruth says,
I heard Schumer's all for the shutdown because with Mom
Donnie's popularity in New York City, he's real that he's
lost his base in New York City. According to what
you just said, it's very true. She says, he's all
for the shutdown to hold on to power as long
as he can. And how sad that that's what asks me. Yes,
it happened. So what are you hearing? As far as
(26:14):
you know, another president wants to get things back on track,
but he's also prepared to do what needs to be done.
What are you hearing?
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Yeah, listen, the Republicans, we did our job, we voted yes,
and anything that happens is solely on the hands of
the Democrats. Right now, what I'm hearing is, listen, we're
willing to talk to negotiate, but you've got to be
a little bit reasonable, right and right now, the radical
left they're not reasonable. And if you think we're going
(26:44):
to negotiate on unreasonable terms, you're gravely mistaken. We don't
need to. And let me share with you why we
don't need to. Other than being right, Let's take a
look at the facts. So I did a poll at
the beginning of the shutdown, like where everyone was, and
to be honest with you, both sides are getting some
blame for it, right, but Democrats were getting the blame
(27:06):
and they were six points up in the blame game.
Right now, today we did another poll. As of yesterday,
the results came back. Democrats went from getting a six
point to ten points. So the trend is people are
blaming the Democrats even more for the shutdown. That's not
going to bode well for them. So listen, we want
(27:26):
to get the government open. We want to govern. We
passed twelve appropriation bills out of committee, three off the floor.
We've done our job. The Democrats, especially the progressive wing
of the Democrats, don't want regular order.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
We do.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
So let's get back to holding the American stop holding
the American people hostage, and get back to regular order
and let's work for the American people.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
I mean, it's.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Simple, Chairwoman, Lisa McClain. And you know the most interesting
thing about this is you make that final point there
is that this cr is only just for the next
a few weeks. Yeah, it's it's we're not talking about
a long time. We're talking about a very short time,
just to keep things moving so that you can continue conversations.
(28:09):
I don't think it's ever been more clearer the Schumer shutdown.
Thank you for updating us. We would love to continue
to talk with you if you have more details in
the in the coming days. Sure, we're the welcome to
come back. Always a pleasure.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
I appreciate it. Have a good day, stay warmed.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I thk you. I think it's gonna be. We're gonna
get to like sixty something today, so it's not too
it's fall. We're used to it. You know, we'll take it.
Thank you so much. Good luck today in the swamp
with the rain and everything else there. Thank you so much.
Thank you, God bless there's a chair. Lisa McClain with
the latest on the shutdown out of Washington, DC. We
have more coming up after this. Don't go anywhere details.
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I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner dot news original story
here in Michigan. More than three hundred and fifty thousand
residents facing steep bills from the Michigan Unemployment Agency to
fixed mistakes made by Democrat Governor Whitmer's administration during the
coronavirus pandemic. One single mom of three, for example, hit
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forty two year old forced to apply for unemployment for
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Governor Whitmer clearly not looking out for your finances as
she signs a bill and makes Michigan number one in
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significantly raises registration costs for evs. As a result, annual
fees for EV drivers will now rise by one hundred bucks,
making the cost two sixty per car per year. China
involving itself in Michigan's marijuana industry. This comes at a
time when businesses here are concerned about adding a new
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Oversight highlighting recent busts of massive marijuana grow operations here
in Michigan, and they are tied to multi layered networks
in China. For these stories and more, visit the Midwesterner
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That's very very helpful. So you can stay up to
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Speaker 5 (32:33):
You're in a lock box, put that lock box in
a vault, and then put that vault in a cyber
place where no one can see or search these files.
They're called restricted access and prohibited access. Restricted access means
some people get to see it. Prohibited access you put
it in there when you want to hide it from
the world, and that takes the authorization of the Attorney
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General and the director of the FBI. So not only
did they weaponize this law enforcement, but when we got
in there, and when I got in as the FBI director,
from my experience as Russia Gate, I knew where to
look and what rooms to open and what doors to
kick down. And that's what we did. We found this
information to expose to politicization by Jacksmith and the prior
Department of Justice. I mean, just think about it. Eight
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city United States senators phone records were gathered in subpoena
through the grand jury process, and it was buried and wormholed.
It was the hope that no one would find it.
So we're just scratching the surface here, but accountability is coming.
You're darn right I fired those agents. You're darn right.
I blew up CR fifteen, the public corruption squad that
led the weaponization at the w Washington Field Office. We're
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just warming up, but we are running our investigations to
the ground. We are finding every single person involved. We
will not leave a single room locked. We will go
in through all the prohibited access requirements and we will
find the material and show the American public, like we
have done in this FBI more transformative and transparent than
any in the US history, to bring accountability the American people.
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And we were working with our partners in Congress, who
should be fear at the prior administration's leadership and weaponization
in singular politicization of law enforcement. The American public sees
what we're doing, Sean with the statue just rot off
in the beginning. They see what we're doing here to
unseal the vault and show the world how the deep
state actually operated.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
You know, it's interesting again, it's a story. You would
think it's bigger than Watergate. I mean it's massive. This size,
the scope, the scale of it is massive. It is
so much bigger than Watergate that was spying on a
camp and this is spying on sitting members of Congress.
And the fact that people haven't heard more about this,
(34:38):
it's just insane to me. The fact that people aren't
more outraged about this is just a sign of the times.
The Democrats. Where are the Democrats saying, well, this is
this is not right, you know, just to the point
that Cher Maclin made earlier, this is not your Granddad's
(34:59):
Democrat Party. It really isn't anymore. These people have gone
so far left, so far to the extrand, and I
don't know that there's any pull on them back the
very thing, and they accuse the right of doing they
do all day long and worse, this sole authoritarian thing,
(35:20):
this sole you know, this is this is wild to
me to watch. Of course, now they're talking about weaponizing government,
Are you kidding me? As if we haven't been through
the last four years, again, we haven't watched what they
were doing. Cash went on to say the director of
the FBI that in Chicago. They have a real problem.
(35:42):
I don't know, I've never seen this number before, but
it is something one hundred and ten thousand gang members
in the city of Chicago, and they've got real problem.
This is why they need help.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Taking the juggernaut that is demolishing the weaponization law enforcement
bringing into places like Chicago and there. Today with Todd,
we learned that the Chicago city streets have one hundred
and ten thousand gang members. That's right, you heard me right.
They had twelve hundred shootings this year alone, three hundred
and sixty homicides. When politicians choose to side with those
(36:14):
metrics and not their citizenry. Thank god, we have President
Trump and this Department of Justice and this FBI going
in there and crushing violent crime. And President Trump sent
us into these cities quietly to set the stage, to
set up for the National Guard to see the success
that we saw in Washington, d C. In Memphis. The
FBI has been leading the charge in every single one
of these streets because we know how to gather ground
level intelligence, and we know how to put handcuffs on
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the bad guys, and we know that we have the
backing of this administration. And most importantly, the agents at
the FBI know that they have the backing of the
American people and their governments.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Can you imagine living in one of these countries and
having to deal with some of the things that the
air DA countries communities.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
As he's on breaking news alerts from the Wood radio
news route.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Now we've got the latest right now, looks like we're
awaiting breaking those Jim Cammi, former FBI director, about ready
to be arraigned at some point today. Get to urge
at these charges be brought.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
BONDI had some tense exchanges about that on Capitol Hill yesterday.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
I'd like to know from you what conversations you've had
with President Trump about the indictment of James.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
Call me, Senator.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
I am not going to discuss any conversations I have
or have not had with the President of.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
The United States.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
You're an attorney, you have a law degree, and you
know that I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Bunny's message was, no one is above the law.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Now, this courtroom does not allow recording, so we are
going to be at a bit of delay on the
information that comes out of it today.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Bill, Okay, right, we'll be waiting for your word there.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Alexandria Hall, thank you outside of the courtroom.
Speaker 8 (37:46):
More courthouse, I should say more coming up momentarily.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
You know what I would have liked to see here.
I don't know about you, but I would like to
see in the six am, you know, early in the morning,
no knock, just like they did with so many others
including well, yeah, I remember Roger Stone, and we even
(38:11):
had people here in West Michigan that were on the
other side of those things. So we're waiting on that.
It could come at any time earlier. And I told
you if people weren't upset, well, I should have mentioned
Josh Holly was very upset yesterday. In fact, he's asking
for a special prosecutor to go after the special prosecutor
and spying on these folks in Congress. He let them
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have it yesterday and the Attorney General, Pam Bondi was there.
Speaker 9 (38:37):
Mat Attorney General. I think we need a special prosecutor
to be appointed whose sole responsibility will be to get
to the bottom of what has happened in every instance
that I have just named. I think we need to
know exactly who approved the wiretaps on United States centers,
who knew about it, what agents were involved at DOJ
or the FBI. I think we need to know exactly
(39:00):
who signed off on the Catholic memo, the spying memo,
who was involved with it, how far did it go.
I think we need to know exactly who authorized the
prosecution of Mark Houck, who terrorized pro lifers and tried
to intimidate them. I think we need to know that.
Mister Chairman, this committee needs to do oversight hearings. We
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need to have thorough hearings into what has happened these
last four years and this abuse that has now just
been uncovered, because we have to ensure that it stops.
As you just said, Attorney General BONDI, we have to
ensure that it stops. This chapter in American history needs
to come to a close, never to be opened again.
(39:42):
The use of the most powerful law enforcement bodies in
the world against ordinary citizens and political opponents must end
once and for all. And we have a chance to
do it, and it needs to be done with a
thorough investigation, full transparency.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Here here. By the way, more on that coming up
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, welcome in, folks.
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One and day.
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The sun is shining little for the fall temp sem alive.
Let's stay that way at least the foreseen future in
the forecast. Then we making back into the seventies next week.
But I HI for one, welcome this sun and cooler temperatures.
It's like what big big men like me or waving before.
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We're just loving it. And you get kind of a
little bit of the Shortston Honey season Midsten, which is
always a lot of fun. Hey wats some folks waiting
on the score on the show shutdown. We may have
some answers today.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
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Three special guests coming up. Congress Woman Lisa McLain from Michigan.
She holds a very important position in UH in the
house there in Congress, and she's gonna give us an
update on the latest coming up a little bit of
around what's a nine thirty five this morning, So we'll
hear from her. And we got some stories we need
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One of them is a fa fo as they say,
fool round and find out a Latin King's gang member
who put bounties on the heads of federal agents in Illinois,
a ten thousand dollars hit on top of the US
Water Patrol commanders had The Department of Homeland Security has
(02:42):
nabbed him. They use snapchat, Now, that's funny, what a
story for tech Talk next week, and used snapchat to
solicit the solicit the murder of Chief Gregory Bovino is
what David put it out, who's been leading the major
border operations there in Chicago. The Feds moving and fast
(03:04):
and uncovering the plot with these also offered two thousand
dollars for tips on the commander's whereabouts. Ice meanwhile on
track to deport six hundred thousand on top of the
two million who have already self deported. Again, those numbers
are happening because of President Trump and his policies tough
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at the border nowhere, tough cleaning out the country. The
Governor Whitmer has signed it. It's official. The state budget
has been signed into law, walking in a targeted tax
relief that both Democrats and Republicans are touting together. They're
very excited about. It's an eighty one billion dollar budget,
(03:48):
so it's a lot of go either way, but at
the end of the day, it's going to save you.
According to reports, folks eliminate tax on hips. When it
comes to the state level, overtime and social Security income
as well, we'll see relief, according to reports, impacting over
(04:09):
half a million residents. Whitmer praising the deal is fiscally responsible.
Republicans touting cuts to thousands of ghost jobs without layoffs,
and of course they avoided that shutdown. More on that
coming on here. And third, tariffs will feed seven million
mothers and babies during the shutdown, and they may in
(04:29):
fact feed you too with a little bit of a check,
a little bit of extra dough coming your way from
from Trump. But they're getting in so much money right now,
so much revenue from them from the Trump tariffs, according
to the latest reports, they're going to be able to
use it to actually fund portions of the government that
(04:52):
are maybe not funded as we speak. A major move
during the shutdown of White House saying tapping tariff revenue
keep the WICK, that's Women and Infant Children Food Aid
program active, insuring assistance continues for about seven million mothers,
infants of young children who rely on it. They've dubbed
it a creative workaround amid the political dead luck. Uh. Now,
(05:15):
the question is what about your two thousand dollars check? Now,
I I know I want to hear about this too,
but I'm also, yeah, a little bit concerned. Well, well,
well we'll roll this out coming up here in just
a second, and that I've deep into it. Do you want
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Speaker 2 (05:47):
So, here's what the money looks like according to some
reports anyway, that Trump stimulus. They're considering the stimulus. I
will I will say this, and I at the same time,
I think when you hear this, you think to yourself, Okay, hey,
that sounds fantastic. I'd like a two thousand dollars check.
But you know, we're kind of fighting inflation as it
(06:09):
is right now, and some folks may wonder, well, what's
that gonna do to inflation? Well, I I guess I would.
I would ask that same question and tell you that
it's probably gonna make things a little more because you
got all this money just flying out and people don't
really tend to hang on to it, do they. I
(06:30):
mean that Trump Trump stimulus, no matter where the money's
coming from, at the end of the day, well, it's
it's gonna fly right out the window because we that's
we've got a problem here America. It's not it's not
just the country, it's we got a better homes too.
It's we spend more than we make. And that's that's
that's not a good things. That's not a good thing. Now,
(06:54):
I do think it's a good idea that they're going
to use that money in a good way to fund
the WIG program that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Few moments ago more than two hundred billion coming into
the coffers in tariffs, and now we're learning where some
of that money will go. The White House has just
announced that the Women and Children at Food program will
not be cut off while the government is shut down.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Some of them.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
That's that's interesting because you know, there's a lot of
Democrats out there, a lot of Democrats out there sort
of making the case. Yeah, everything's scary town, and you
ought to be. I would tell you just one thing.
And we were just talking about this. We know some
folks that are flying next week and the question is
will we or be able to get on their flights. Well,
(07:38):
for the most part, we haven't really seen much disruption
there yet other than that. I there's one one airport
they sat down in Burbank, but that's Burbank, folks. It's like,
it's not a it's an air traffic control tower. Wasn't
an a report and then they switched over control to
other towers. It wasn't a big deal. I Uh, I
(08:01):
haven't felt anything that way. It is a big story
because the local news has got to make a deal
out at anything that ties in local to especially when
it deals with Trump. But there's a big story about
people not being able to go see art prize at
the Gerald R. Ford Museum in way that may not.
That may be inconvenience, not the end of the world.
So when you're feeling like any pain or anybody really
(08:23):
feeling the pain from the shutdown, on one hand, I'd say, hmm,
I haven't seen that yet. Now we are about to
inter a face here soon and I think this is
probably what we'll talk with Cherry McClain about coming up
here in a little bit. With the folks who are
out there, These are the essential folks, but not probably
not getting paid during all of this. They're putting it
all on the line to go out and to do
(08:47):
what it is that they do every day is to
protect you mean, everyone else. And but what if they
don't get to pay to that's not gonna be good news.
And all of this because Democrats dragging their feet because
they want free healthcare for really aliands. So we'll ask
that question coming up here in a little bit. But
when it comes to that idea of debt, here's what
(09:07):
the President says. This is not o Ann. I don't
know how long ago this was, but it's interesting. This
is what he says about debt and getting out of
it versus growing out of it.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well, ultimately, yeah, because we're talking about just kicking in.
They're just starting to kick in. But ultimately your tariffs
are going to be over at trillion dollars a year.
In my opinion, we're going to do something. We're looking
at something where number one, we're paying down debt because
people have allowed the debt to go crazy. But you know,
with growth, with the kind of growth we have now,
(09:37):
the debt is very little Rother were speaking. You grow
yourself out of that debt. It's not a question of
paying it. You grow yourself out. And the numbers are
so much bigger than they ever were. The numbers we
have now are bigger than they ever were. So when
you have thirty six trillion dollars in debt a year
ago or two years ago, and you have a lot
less revenue coming in, then you have thirty seven or
(09:58):
thirty eight yet, but it will be.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Well, I've gotta I gotta show this to you too.
I mean, I'm gonna show you what the Democrat take
is going to be on this. Well, it'll be the
opposition whether it's Democrat, it could be some libertarians, this
could be it could google both ways on this. But
I just want to just show you what the take
is going to be. You're not getting new money, free money,
(10:24):
You're getting your own money back. Well that's it to be,
ladies and gentlemen, I've got breaking news. Anytime the government
sends you a check for anything, it's your money. And yes,
you're getting your own money you're getting your own money back.
That's how it works. So I don't want to hear
this nonsense. Well, well, yeah, we're just getting our own
(10:48):
money back. Well, of course you are. It's it's always,
it's always your money. So lots of conversations going to
be happening about this, whether two thousand dollars checks are
gonna come or not, whether that what that would look like,
and where that would where that would all fall out.
But I just want to just wanted to sort of
touch on it today because it is a conversation. And
(11:10):
by the way, you know, the thing that I think
is probably getting lost in this for the most part
that needs to be highlighted more than anything, is they
said this tariff stuff wouldn't work. This is the key.
They said, Oh that terror says it's not gonna work.
(11:30):
Oh it's gonna be look at all the problems we're
gonna have. And have we have we seen that play out?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
In fact, we now are at a position, as the
President said, we're we're bringing in all of this money.
So it is it is a fair point. Whether you
want that two thousand dollars check or out, whether you're
forwarding it, you cannot deny that the Airs are working
and getting those deals done. In fact, we had on
(11:56):
news yesterday. I don't know if you saw the meeting
with the Prime mister from Canada yesterday, so one country
there's still working on trying to get deal done there.
But there was a funny moment we have to share
inside the Oval from yesterday. We'll get into that all
coming up this morning, so don't go anywhere. We'll check
our news headlines coming up in just a moment as well.
(12:18):
But first, please, if you're able, choice and rise for
the national anthem.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
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Speaker 6 (13:43):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Wednesday, October eighth.
I'm Robin Hoffman. It's a Midwesterner dot news original story
China involving itself in Michigan's marijuana industry. This comes at
a time when businesses here are concerned about adding a
new twenty four percent tax. The House Homeland Security Subcommittee
on Oversight, highlighting recent busts of massive marijuana grow operations
(14:07):
in Michigan tied to multi layered networks in China. In
other news, Democrat Governor Whitmer signing the budget making Michigan
number one in.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
The nation for the highest fees on evs electric vehicles
House Spill forty one eighty three passing with a provision
that significantly raises registration costs for evs.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
As a result, annual fees for EV drivers will rise
by one hundred bucks, making the cost two sixty per car.
And President Trump hosting the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney
at the White House. The two talking trade and tariffs
and a deal not yet done.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Well, it's a complicated agreement, more complicated maybe than any
other agreement we have on trade because you know, we
have natural conflict. We also have mutual love.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You know, we have great love for each other. I
love this, I love Canada, the people of Canada.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
For these stories and more, visit Midwesterner at the Midwesterner
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Speaker 2 (15:03):
Another way to jump in on the fund today is
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I don't know how much you're going to see this
on the mainstream media, but it is a story that
you you really ought to hear. And I have sun
about this. As I read the headline today, I go,
you know, there's actually something missing out of this. But
let me get to that in a second. First, Biden
intervened the block CIA report on Ukraine concerns over Hunter's
(15:46):
corrupt dealings. Is back in twenty sixteen. He was still
at the time still the vice president, and we now
know a courtesy of the CIA recently declassified memos revealing
that the then president vice president rather Joe Biden's team
had stepped in. Now we've known this for a while, right,
(16:08):
but now we know this, we get the receipts February
twenty sixteen, they stepped in, blocking the CIA report from
being distributed. One detailed how senior Ukrainian officials viewed Hunter
Biden's business dealings. The memo sites a directive to quote
not disseminate the document, sparking fresh allegations of suppression of intelligence.
(16:35):
And by the way, you remember, this is what they
tied in the Russia, Russia, Russia, all of that nonsense
and it again shows you where the real corruption lies. Now,
what's interesting about this? And I thought it was kind
of you know, I read the headline it's thinking for
just a moment and it hit me, you know, this
is talking about Hunter's corruption. But what they leave out
(16:58):
a lot of the stories, even the good places that
are reporting, is actually tied into Joe's because ten percent
for the big guy. I don't think that Hunter was
on some board with the Ukrainian gas company just you know,
just for himself. Yeah, it was all all of that
was going back ten percent. It was getting kicked backed
(17:19):
up to the big guy. So while this story and
it is, it is a story that needs to be shared.
It's a big story, right, It's a story that again,
like I said, you're probably not going to see on
the nightly news of the Today's Show, But it is
a story that ought to get shared and it ought
to go wide. And yet when they do, they probably
(17:41):
going to leave out the fact that this was directly
tied into Biden and the scan they had going on
the entire time. So report released yesterday Able to seeis
director John Ratcliffe compiling reactions from senior Ukrainian leaders following
Biden's December twenty fifteen trip to Kiev. It revealed that
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Ukrainian officials were concerned about what they described as the
Biden families quote corrupt business ties again Biden family, but
Biden sought to keep the assessment under wraps. I just
spoke with the VPNSA and he would strongly prefer that
the report not be disseminated. Thanks for understanding, the Vice
(18:22):
President's presidential daily briefer, whose name was redacted, wrote to
the CIA. According to the memo, during the twenty fifteen visit,
Biden pressure then President Petro Poroshenko. You probably remember this
to fire the country's top prosecutor, Victor Choken, threatening to
withold one billion dollars. You remember the story, Biden, We
(18:43):
know this. Who's your source? Biden? He told us. Remember
he told us himself in that hole now infamous video
we watched of him kind of telling off at the CFI.
You remember that wild times and now we have the
documentation to prove it all. Anyway, just a story that
(19:09):
I thought you probably should be up on. Speaking of,
we're gonna get the latest on the shutdown coming up
in just moments. You're gonna get the story behind the story, Cherilee,
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Let's get the latest on the shutdown, and of course
I call it the Schumer shutdown because that's exactly what
(20:32):
we're watching. Let's get to details straight from inside all
of it, maybe even some news that you haven't heard yet.
Cher Lisa McClain joins us right now live from Washington. Chair,
thank you so much for being here with us today.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Thanks for having me different than Hillary Skulton. Really, I
am not on vacation. I really am working and I
really am in Washington. But don't let the facts get
away a good story. Hillary.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
You know that is so interesting we say this. She
got buzzed the other day and she said, well, I
can't believe they're not working. And uh, she was sitting
in her in her in her living room here back
in West Michigan. What what is all that? I You know,
it is interesting you you are working. Lots of folks, uh,
still trying to continue to hammer some things out here.
(21:20):
Let's just set the table for folks. So again, we
know we're in this shutdown, and it's hard sometimes to
walk this out because on one end, you know, tare An,
there's some folks to say, hey, let it shut down.
We we kind of like this, uh in some ways.
You see folks who are are are you know, these
are people that are going to be going without paychecks
or some of them. You know that we we we
(21:40):
really want to make sure we're taken care of.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I saw Congressman Heisinger had that bill that he wanted
to make sure some of those folks got taken care of.
He's very concerned about that as well. And uh, but
at the same time I watched I think I haven't
felt anything yet. Now I don't know. I've got a
friend who's going in fact, he's flying next week, is
going to He's going to take a tour of a
couple of places he said he's never been. I said,
(22:05):
I don't know that this is the time to go.
But so you may have some shutdowns museums and things
like that. We've got the Ford Museum shut down here
in Grand Rapids. But it's kind of a back and
forth on this. At the end of the day, that
people need to understand, is any pain, any issues that
you're feeling, or any uncomfort. Really it's coming because of
(22:26):
Schumer and in the shutdown, he won't budge. I don't understand,
like we're not seeing this in the media. A lot
of times people just miss it, but it is. It's
the fact that they wanted to shove in after you
all took it out with the one big beautiful bill,
this funding of healthcare for illegal aliens. Am I missing
something here?
Speaker 8 (22:45):
No, you're not missing anything. That's exactly what's happening. The
one piece that I really want to hammer home that
I think will help is typically when you do a CR,
the party that's in charge puts a bunch of policy
part of and policy writers on that CR. You know,
we put through funding projects. So for example, where the
(23:06):
Republicans were in charge, what we normally would do was
put policy writers in there that are very partisan and
fund a bunch of our of our priorities. What Republicans
did this time, as said, listen, we're not going to
play any games, We're not going to use any gimmicks.
We are going to pass the exact same CR funding
(23:28):
levels that the Democrats put in place number one and
number two, that the ones that the Democrats voted for
for thirteen times prior. So no gimmicks, no nothing. So
there's really nothing even to negotiate in that CR because
it's the exact same CR that you voted for in March.
That's why we call it a clean cr So when
(23:50):
the dat's say, oh, we want to negotiate, there's nothing
to negotiate because we didn't put any policy writers in there.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
So if it was put in the form, and why
all of a sudden is it not good enough now?
I mean, is the dirty secret they're using this type
of thing to raise money, fundraising things like that.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
No, I don't think that's it. Well, that may be
part of it.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Here's the real truth. The Democratic Party right now isn't
the Democratic Party of your mom and dad or grandma
and grandpa. These are the problem with the Democrat Party
right now is they are beating controlled. Schumer is being
controlled by the radical left wing of his parties, the aocs,
(24:31):
the Mandami's, you know, the Rashida Tahleibs, the radical Socialists
of the Democratic Party, and quite frankly, Chuck Schumer is
shaken in his boots because he doesn't want to get
primaried by AOC. It's self preservation. That's the problem. Why
the Democrats don't want to vote to open the government
(24:53):
up right now. It's a clean cre They voted for
it thirteen times.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
That is such a fantastic point and one that I am.
I guess they didn't consider it completely because you're right,
they have been completely pulled far to the left. And
you're right. You know what's happened a lot of these people,
in fact we've seen it through the years is President
Trump's been running. A lot of these people were Democrats
and they said, look, I didn't leave the party of
the party left me, and they end up voting for
President Trump and Republicans.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
I mean, they are complete black of udles on the life.
I mean, you see it in New York right. Look
at these democratic run cities. Look at the lack of
law and order. I mean, it's the craziest thing you've
ever seen. But the problem is, if you're a moderate Democrat,
if you are a normal Democrat, you're shaken in your
boots right now because you know, if you buck the
(25:39):
radical left wing of that party. I mean, they're going
to crush you in social media, they're going to primary you,
and you're going to be out of a job. That's
why that's why you see everyone silent right now, because
they're shaken in their boots from the radical left.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
It's a comment from the chat right now, Ruth says,
I heard Schumer's all for the shutdown because with Mom
Donnie's popularity in New York City, he's real that he's
lost his base in New York City. According to what
you just said, it's very true. She says, he's all
for the shutdown to hold on to power as long
as he can. And how sad that that's what asks me. Yes,
it happened. So what are you hearing? As far as
(26:14):
you know, another president wants to get things back on track,
but he's also prepared to do what needs to be done.
What are you hearing?
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Yeah, listen, the Republicans, we did our job, we voted yes,
and anything that happens is solely on the hands of
the Democrats. Right now, what I'm hearing is, listen, we're
willing to talk to negotiate, but you've got to be
a little bit reasonable, right and right now, the radical
left they're not reasonable. And if you think we're going
(26:44):
to negotiate on unreasonable terms, you're gravely mistaken. We don't
need to. And let me share with you why we
don't need to. Other than being right, Let's take a
look at the facts. So I did a poll at
the beginning of the shutdown, like where everyone was, and
to be honest with you, both sides are getting some
blame for it, right, but Democrats were getting the blame
(27:06):
and they were six points up in the blame game.
Right now, today we did another poll. As of yesterday,
the results came back. Democrats went from getting a six
point to ten points. So the trend is people are
blaming the Democrats even more for the shutdown. That's not
going to bode well for them. So listen, we want
(27:26):
to get the government open. We want to govern. We
passed twelve appropriation bills out of committee, three off the floor.
We've done our job. The Democrats, especially the progressive wing
of the Democrats, don't want regular order.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
We do.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
So let's get back to holding the American stop holding
the American people hostage, and get back to regular order
and let's work for the American people.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
I mean, it's.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Simple, Chairwoman, Lisa McClain. And you know the most interesting
thing about this is you make that final point there
is that this cr is only just for the next
a few weeks. Yeah, it's it's we're not talking about
a long time. We're talking about a very short time,
just to keep things moving so that you can continue conversations.
(28:09):
I don't think it's ever been more clearer the Schumer shutdown.
Thank you for updating us. We would love to continue
to talk with you if you have more details in
the in the coming days. Sure, we're the welcome to
come back. Always a pleasure.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
I appreciate it. Have a good day, stay warmed.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I thk you. I think it's gonna be. We're gonna
get to like sixty something today, so it's not too
it's fall. We're used to it. You know, we'll take it.
Thank you so much. Good luck today in the swamp
with the rain and everything else there. Thank you so much.
Thank you, God bless there's a chair. Lisa McClain with
the latest on the shutdown out of Washington, DC. We
have more coming up after this. Don't go anywhere details.
(28:49):
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it's the fastest hour in radio and it's just flying by.
But we'll do our best to make sure you're covered
on all of it.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
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Speaker 5 (32:33):
You're in a lock box, put that lock box in
a vault, and then put that vault in a cyber
place where no one can see or search these files.
They're called restricted access and prohibited access. Restricted access means
some people get to see it. Prohibited access you put
it in there when you want to hide it from
the world, and that takes the authorization of the Attorney
(32:54):
General and the director of the FBI. So not only
did they weaponize this law enforcement, but when we got
in there, and when I got in as the FBI director,
from my experience as Russia Gate, I knew where to
look and what rooms to open and what doors to
kick down. And that's what we did. We found this
information to expose to politicization by Jacksmith and the prior
Department of Justice. I mean, just think about it. Eight
(33:14):
city United States senators phone records were gathered in subpoena
through the grand jury process, and it was buried and wormholed.
It was the hope that no one would find it.
So we're just scratching the surface here, but accountability is coming.
You're darn right I fired those agents. You're darn right.
I blew up CR fifteen, the public corruption squad that
led the weaponization at the w Washington Field Office. We're
(33:36):
just warming up, but we are running our investigations to
the ground. We are finding every single person involved. We
will not leave a single room locked. We will go
in through all the prohibited access requirements and we will
find the material and show the American public, like we
have done in this FBI more transformative and transparent than
any in the US history, to bring accountability the American people.
(33:57):
And we were working with our partners in Congress, who
should be fear at the prior administration's leadership and weaponization
in singular politicization of law enforcement. The American public sees
what we're doing, Sean with the statue just rot off
in the beginning. They see what we're doing here to
unseal the vault and show the world how the deep
state actually operated.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
You know, it's interesting again, it's a story. You would
think it's bigger than Watergate. I mean it's massive. This size,
the scope, the scale of it is massive. It is
so much bigger than Watergate that was spying on a
camp and this is spying on sitting members of Congress.
And the fact that people haven't heard more about this,
(34:38):
it's just insane to me. The fact that people aren't
more outraged about this is just a sign of the times.
The Democrats. Where are the Democrats saying, well, this is
this is not right, you know, just to the point
that Cher Maclin made earlier, this is not your Granddad's
(34:59):
Democrat Party. It really isn't anymore. These people have gone
so far left, so far to the extrand, and I
don't know that there's any pull on them back the
very thing, and they accuse the right of doing they
do all day long and worse, this sole authoritarian thing,
(35:20):
this sole you know, this is this is wild to
me to watch. Of course, now they're talking about weaponizing government,
Are you kidding me? As if we haven't been through
the last four years, again, we haven't watched what they
were doing. Cash went on to say the director of
the FBI that in Chicago. They have a real problem.
(35:42):
I don't know, I've never seen this number before, but
it is something one hundred and ten thousand gang members
in the city of Chicago, and they've got real problem.
This is why they need help.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Taking the juggernaut that is demolishing the weaponization law enforcement
bringing into places like Chicago and there. Today with Todd,
we learned that the Chicago city streets have one hundred
and ten thousand gang members. That's right, you heard me right.
They had twelve hundred shootings this year alone, three hundred
and sixty homicides. When politicians choose to side with those
(36:14):
metrics and not their citizenry. Thank god, we have President
Trump and this Department of Justice and this FBI going
in there and crushing violent crime. And President Trump sent
us into these cities quietly to set the stage, to
set up for the National Guard to see the success
that we saw in Washington, d C. In Memphis. The
FBI has been leading the charge in every single one
of these streets because we know how to gather ground
level intelligence, and we know how to put handcuffs on
(36:36):
the bad guys, and we know that we have the
backing of this administration. And most importantly, the agents at
the FBI know that they have the backing of the
American people and their governments.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Can you imagine living in one of these countries and
having to deal with some of the things that the
air DA countries communities.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
As he's on breaking news alerts from the Wood radio
news route.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Now we've got the latest right now, looks like we're
awaiting breaking those Jim Cammi, former FBI director, about ready
to be arraigned at some point today. Get to urge
at these charges be brought.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
BONDI had some tense exchanges about that on Capitol Hill yesterday.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
I'd like to know from you what conversations you've had
with President Trump about the indictment of James.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
Call me, Senator.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
I am not going to discuss any conversations I have
or have not had with the President of.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
The United States.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
You're an attorney, you have a law degree, and you
know that I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Bunny's message was, no one is above the law.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Now, this courtroom does not allow recording, so we are
going to be at a bit of delay on the
information that comes out of it today.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Bill, Okay, right, we'll be waiting for your word there.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Alexandria Hall, thank you outside of the courtroom.
Speaker 8 (37:46):
More courthouse, I should say more coming up momentarily.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
You know what I would have liked to see here.
I don't know about you, but I would like to
see in the six am, you know, early in the morning,
no knock, just like they did with so many others
including well, yeah, I remember Roger Stone, and we even
(38:11):
had people here in West Michigan that were on the
other side of those things. So we're waiting on that.
It could come at any time earlier. And I told
you if people weren't upset, well, I should have mentioned
Josh Holly was very upset yesterday. In fact, he's asking
for a special prosecutor to go after the special prosecutor
and spying on these folks in Congress. He let them
(38:34):
have it yesterday and the Attorney General, Pam Bondi was there.
Speaker 9 (38:37):
Mat Attorney General. I think we need a special prosecutor
to be appointed whose sole responsibility will be to get
to the bottom of what has happened in every instance
that I have just named. I think we need to
know exactly who approved the wiretaps on United States centers,
who knew about it, what agents were involved at DOJ
or the FBI. I think we need to know exactly
(39:00):
who signed off on the Catholic memo, the spying memo,
who was involved with it, how far did it go.
I think we need to know exactly who authorized the
prosecution of Mark Houck, who terrorized pro lifers and tried
to intimidate them. I think we need to know that.
Mister Chairman, this committee needs to do oversight hearings. We
(39:21):
need to have thorough hearings into what has happened these
last four years and this abuse that has now just
been uncovered, because we have to ensure that it stops.
As you just said, Attorney General BONDI, we have to
ensure that it stops. This chapter in American history needs
to come to a close, never to be opened again.
(39:42):
The use of the most powerful law enforcement bodies in
the world against ordinary citizens and political opponents must end
once and for all. And we have a chance to
do it, and it needs to be done with a
thorough investigation, full transparency.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
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