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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are good. Friend, Kyle Olson from the Midwestern and the
midwesternort News. Good morning, Kyle, how are you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm doing great? Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
It is one of those wild days here in the
Men because there's a lot happening. We've just been to
a start with the story for Mike Rogers last night
with this call to bring in the National Guard. You know,
I think it's interesting because it highlights a couple of things.
Number one, President's willingness to deal with these issues, and
Mike Rodgers issue is really his background in law enforcement
(00:31):
and willingness to back up President Trump, but also in
a governor's race, which is really starting to heat up
in Michigan, and right now he's being touted this dug
and guy. The mayor of Detroit is some sort of
you know, savior to that city. But if you look
at the data and you look at the truth on paper, unfortunately,
(00:51):
Detroit may have some pockets where it's it's kind of
nice and the hipsters like to go downtown and whatnot,
but on a hole, that city is still hurting.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah. We have published stories over the last couple of
years showing that, you know, it's just statistics, it's facts.
Detroit is one of the most dangerous cities in the country.
And Mayor Duggan was asked about this a week or
two ago, and he called it bad law enforcement strategy
and would not support the would not support the National
(01:25):
Guard going in and trying to police the city and
cut crime.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I don't think I want to take his word for
it when it comes to law enforcement strategy because he
hasn't really been doing such a bang up job to.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Begin with, precisely, and it's and it's worth asking him
why is clearly your strategy has not been working because
Detroit has has for the last several years been one
of the most dangerous cities in the entire country, not
just Michigan, but the entire country. So what I mean,
(01:57):
what why not try something different? And clearly this has
worked in Washington, d C. It's to see the statistics
in terms of murders and robberies and carjackings have dropped significantly.
So why not do something like this, partner with the
Trump administration and focus on cutting crime. And you know,
(02:20):
it's interesting because there was a tweet that surfaced yesterday
from Haley Stevens, who's running for the US Senate as
a Democrat in twenty sixteen she wanted the National Guard
deployed to Chicago, and now suddenly Democrats don't want the
National Guard deployed to places like Chicago and Detroit.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, make that make sense. And you know, unfortunately in
the situation with the Stevens, you know, this is another
one of these scenarios where you got people making these calls.
They don't want people to come in and actually clean up.
I think the problem with the left is they don't
want you to see that the job can actually be done,
and they don't want Trump to get a win. It's
(03:05):
Trump's arrangement syndrome. But at the end of the day,
it's really hurting the people Detroit, the people of Chicago,
the people where they won't allow these folks to come
in and clean on.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Right, they have this tolerance for crime, and I don't
understand it. You know, you look at the statistics from
last weekend, over fifty people shot, nearly in Chicago, nearly
ten people killed. They have had this tolerance for crime,
and President Trump has said, we're not It doesn't matter
(03:34):
if you voted for me or not, you shouldn't be
living like this. And there are a lot of people
who in these cities who don't want to live like this,
and so he's saying we have to do something about it.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
A good friend, Kyle Olsen from the Midwestern or the
Midwestern or Dot News or you can get updates on
these stories. I'm more sure out the state and beyond.
A couple of other big stories fact on the Midwestern
or today, General Motor scaling back parts of its electric
vehicle production and another blow to Governor Whitmer's promises that
the auto industry electric shift would supercharge Michigan's economy and
(04:08):
that just has not been the case.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And we'll have a story today that CEO Mary Bara
sold forty percent of her shares of GM. She's the
CEO of GM. The CEO of GM sold forty percent
of her shares last month, which is I think is
a very disturbing indicator of where she thinks the company
(04:32):
is going. And so there's a lot of questions that
need to be asked about why she would do that,
what is she seeing. But then also here you've got
Gretchen Whitmer today as we speak in Japan, trying to
recruit businesses while we have while we have legacy businesses
like GM, Ford, Stalantis, Chrysler, Stalantis, et cetera moving out
(04:57):
of Michigan, moving production shifting out of Michigan. And now
we've got the GM CEO selling forty percent of her stocks,
almost a million shares of her stocks are being sold.
So what exactly is going on and what exactly is
Gretchen Wentner focusing on.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Here's another point and to that point, in the auto
industry specifically. You know, it's bad for Democrats when you
have U A. W had coming out and.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
When when the Trump administration came out and said they
were looking at tariff's and auto, Yes, we embraced that.
We've reached out. We've been meeting with them weekly.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Sean Faine all in for Trump on CNBC.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
You know, Commerce Department and the US Trade Ambassador Greer,
Secretary Lutnik. You know, we've had a lot of really
good conversations and we've seen, you know, a lot of
the of the good come out of that. Already. In auto,
we've seen good signs where GM's already announced five billion
dollars in investment in bringing jobs back here in America.
(05:58):
Stalanus unfortunately, is still dragging their feet trying to lobby
their way out. But you know the one thing I'll
say with this administration, we're looking forward to continuing to
work with them. When it comes to their review in
the heavy truck industry we.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Had, that's got to be a tough day for Democrats.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I would think, well, and think about it. He was
one of the nastiest people out there talking about Donald
Trump during the election. They were banking in Kamala Harris.
The UAW vowed that they were going to win the
election for Kamala Harris. They obviously didn't do that. He
(06:33):
has been very nasty about Donald Trump. And yet when
President Trump announced he was going to issue tariffs in
order to bring jobs home, one of the first people
praising or one of the first groups praising that was
the UAW and Sean Fain. And now he's continuing to
do that because he's seeing the tariffs are good for
(06:54):
American workers, they're good for American jobs in American companies,
companies that are if they want to sell products in America,
they have to build them in America. And he is
seeing that that's good for his union and for his
members and so. And the reality is if his candidate
(07:14):
would have won this would not be happening because she
would still be she would be trying to spend government
money art Michigan taxpayer money on propping up companies on subsidies.
One of I think one of the reasons that Mary
Bara sold her stocks is because the seventy five dollars
(07:34):
rebate that the Biden administration was issuing for evs is
going away at the end of this month, which is
I think another one of the reasons why the ev
market is going to continue to decline. And companies like
GM are shifting production because they see consumers don't want this,
(07:55):
They don't want these products, and and Donald Trump is
letting the mark decide. He's letting consumers decide. While you know,
the Biden administration was attempting to force consumers into evs.
They were spending our taxpayer money on rebates and all
of that. And even now the UAW is seeing that
(08:17):
Trump policies are working.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Now, I got to get to a couple more really quickly.
But Johnson Denson's proposed election rule changes make it easier
to cheat, harder to challenge illegal votes. This after we've
seen this last election chock full possibly of illegal votes
at least one we know of them, the man from
China voting in the last election and fleeing the country
(08:41):
under her watch. Big story on the Midwesterner right now.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yes, she is. So she's holding a hearing today at
nine point thirty. In about ten minutes, we'll be live
streaming that across all of our platforms, so so Michigan
residents and anyone can see exactly what she's proposed. But
she basically what she wants to do is she wants
to make it harder to challenge illegal votes. She wants
to really sort of tie the hands of not only
(09:09):
of clerks, but of groups election integrity groups to be
able to see exactly what's going on. She is actually
following the process this time around. The reason that she
was hauled into court so many times in twenty twenty
and twenty twenty two. In twenty twenty four is because
she wasn't following the rule process of taking public comment,
(09:32):
of holding hearings. She just was changing the rules. And
so she now is it appears like she's following the process,
but will at nine point thirty we'll be live streaming
net and I would encourage everyone to and we'll have
a story about it afterwards on what she'll be able
to find on the Midwesterner.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Now, what about this last, but not least a bill
out there that prevents secretary of state from running their
own election to higher office like in Arizona. And what
we're seeing now with Joscelyn Benson here in Michigan too
much opportunity to unfairly influence the outcomes here on the Midwesterner.
I think that's a good move.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, and what we saw in twenty twenty four is
that she wants to influence the outcome of elections. And
of course you do that by who's on the ballot.
Rfk wanted to be off the ballot. She refused to
let him be removed from the ballot. Cornell West wanted
to be on the ballot. She wouldn't let him be
on the ballot because she knew that how those two
(10:34):
candidates were going to either We're going to take away
votes from either candidate. So she has demonstrated she wants
that's how she is going to manipulate elections. And I
remain convinced that Mike Duggan is a he is a
the threat to Joscelyn Benson because they're dividing the vote
(10:54):
in Detroit, and he is going to eat into her
base and she can not allow him to be on
the ballot, and I think she will do whatever she
can to keep him off the ballot.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Interesting, interesting times for sure. More to the Midwestern or
the newly designed Midwestern the Midwestern or do news looks great?
By the way, man, fantastic, Yeah, fantastic new design on
the website. Let' check it out, folks, book market, don't
just do that. Put your information in your email c
and get updates all the time. My friend Kyle Olsen
and by the way, we just kind of announced this
(11:27):
the other day, but we're going to be involved on
a panel together up at mac and All and the
mi I g OP where we're talking I guess about
media in Michigan. Man, I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, it's going to be great. And the Midwesterner is
going to be organizing the strawpol of all the attendees
so we can we can gauge the sentiments of attendees
on President Trump's performance, on who they like for the
various state wide offices, who they like in twenty twenty eight.
So it's going to be an interesting, interesting result and
(12:00):
would be bringing that to you.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
A couple of weeks from the day. Always a pleasure,
my friend. Thank you, Kyle, happy to thanks you got it.
Are good. Friend, Kyle Olson from the Midwestern and the
midwesternort News. Good morning, Kyle, how are you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm doing great? Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
It is one of those wild days here in the
Men because there's a lot happening. We've just been to
a start with the story for Mike Rogers last night
with this call to bring in the National Guard. You know,
I think it's interesting because it highlights a couple of things.
Number one, President's willingness to deal with these issues, and
Mike Rodgers issue is really his background in law enforcement
(00:31):
and willingness to back up President Trump, but also in
a governor's race, which is really starting to heat up
in Michigan, and right now he's being touted this dug
and guy. The mayor of Detroit is some sort of
you know, savior to that city. But if you look
at the data and you look at the truth on paper, unfortunately,
(00:51):
Detroit may have some pockets where it's it's kind of
nice and the hipsters like to go downtown and whatnot,
but on a hole, that city is still hurting.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah. We have published stories over the last couple of
years showing that, you know, it's just statistics, it's facts.
Detroit is one of the most dangerous cities in the country.
And Mayor Duggan was asked about this a week or
two ago, and he called it bad law enforcement strategy
and would not support the would not support the National
(01:25):
Guard going in and trying to police the city and
cut crime.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I don't think I want to take his word for
it when it comes to law enforcement strategy because he
hasn't really been doing such a bang up job to.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Begin with, precisely, and it's and it's worth asking him
why is clearly your strategy has not been working because
Detroit has has for the last several years been one
of the most dangerous cities in the entire country, not
just Michigan, but the entire country. So what I mean,
(01:57):
what why not try something different? And clearly this has
worked in Washington, d C. It's to see the statistics
in terms of murders and robberies and carjackings have dropped significantly.
So why not do something like this, partner with the
Trump administration and focus on cutting crime. And you know,
(02:20):
it's interesting because there was a tweet that surfaced yesterday
from Haley Stevens, who's running for the US Senate as
a Democrat in twenty sixteen she wanted the National Guard
deployed to Chicago, and now suddenly Democrats don't want the
National Guard deployed to places like Chicago and Detroit.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, make that make sense. And you know, unfortunately in
the situation with the Stevens, you know, this is another
one of these scenarios where you got people making these calls.
They don't want people to come in and actually clean up.
I think the problem with the left is they don't
want you to see that the job can actually be done,
and they don't want Trump to get a win. It's
(03:05):
Trump's arrangement syndrome. But at the end of the day,
it's really hurting the people Detroit, the people of Chicago,
the people where they won't allow these folks to come
in and clean on.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Right, they have this tolerance for crime, and I don't
understand it. You know, you look at the statistics from
last weekend, over fifty people shot, nearly in Chicago, nearly
ten people killed. They have had this tolerance for crime,
and President Trump has said, we're not It doesn't matter
(03:34):
if you voted for me or not, you shouldn't be
living like this. And there are a lot of people
who in these cities who don't want to live like this,
and so he's saying we have to do something about it.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
A good friend, Kyle Olsen from the Midwestern or the
Midwestern or Dot News or you can get updates on
these stories. I'm more sure out the state and beyond.
A couple of other big stories fact on the Midwestern
or today, General Motor scaling back parts of its electric
vehicle production and another blow to Governor Whitmer's promises that
the auto industry electric shift would supercharge Michigan's economy and
(04:08):
that just has not been the case.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And we'll have a story today that CEO Mary Bara
sold forty percent of her shares of GM. She's the
CEO of GM. The CEO of GM sold forty percent
of her shares last month, which is I think is
a very disturbing indicator of where she thinks the company
(04:32):
is going. And so there's a lot of questions that
need to be asked about why she would do that,
what is she seeing. But then also here you've got
Gretchen Whitmer today as we speak in Japan, trying to
recruit businesses while we have while we have legacy businesses
like GM, Ford, Stalantis, Chrysler, Stalantis, et cetera moving out
(04:57):
of Michigan, moving production shifting out of Michigan. And now
we've got the GM CEO selling forty percent of her stocks,
almost a million shares of her stocks are being sold.
So what exactly is going on and what exactly is
Gretchen Wentner focusing on.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Here's another point and to that point, in the auto
industry specifically. You know, it's bad for Democrats when you
have U A. W had coming out and.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
When when the Trump administration came out and said they
were looking at tariff's and auto, Yes, we embraced that.
We've reached out. We've been meeting with them weekly.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Sean Faine all in for Trump on CNBC.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
You know, Commerce Department and the US Trade Ambassador Greer,
Secretary Lutnik. You know, we've had a lot of really
good conversations and we've seen, you know, a lot of
the of the good come out of that. Already. In auto,
we've seen good signs where GM's already announced five billion
dollars in investment in bringing jobs back here in America.
(05:58):
Stalanus unfortunately, is still dragging their feet trying to lobby
their way out. But you know the one thing I'll
say with this administration, we're looking forward to continuing to
work with them. When it comes to their review in
the heavy truck industry we.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Had, that's got to be a tough day for Democrats.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I would think, well, and think about it. He was
one of the nastiest people out there talking about Donald
Trump during the election. They were banking in Kamala Harris.
The UAW vowed that they were going to win the
election for Kamala Harris. They obviously didn't do that. He
(06:33):
has been very nasty about Donald Trump. And yet when
President Trump announced he was going to issue tariffs in
order to bring jobs home, one of the first people
praising or one of the first groups praising that was
the UAW and Sean Fain. And now he's continuing to
do that because he's seeing the tariffs are good for
(06:54):
American workers, they're good for American jobs in American companies,
companies that are if they want to sell products in America,
they have to build them in America. And he is
seeing that that's good for his union and for his
members and so. And the reality is if his candidate
(07:14):
would have won this would not be happening because she
would still be she would be trying to spend government
money art Michigan taxpayer money on propping up companies on subsidies.
One of I think one of the reasons that Mary
Bara sold her stocks is because the seventy five dollars
(07:34):
rebate that the Biden administration was issuing for evs is
going away at the end of this month, which is
I think another one of the reasons why the ev
market is going to continue to decline. And companies like
GM are shifting production because they see consumers don't want this,
(07:55):
They don't want these products, and and Donald Trump is
letting the mark decide. He's letting consumers decide. While you know,
the Biden administration was attempting to force consumers into evs.
They were spending our taxpayer money on rebates and all
of that. And even now the UAW is seeing that
(08:17):
Trump policies are working.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Now, I got to get to a couple more really quickly.
But Johnson Denson's proposed election rule changes make it easier
to cheat, harder to challenge illegal votes. This after we've
seen this last election chock full possibly of illegal votes
at least one we know of them, the man from
China voting in the last election and fleeing the country
(08:41):
under her watch. Big story on the Midwesterner right now.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yes, she is. So she's holding a hearing today at
nine point thirty. In about ten minutes, we'll be live
streaming that across all of our platforms, so so Michigan
residents and anyone can see exactly what she's proposed. But
she basically what she wants to do is she wants
to make it harder to challenge illegal votes. She wants
to really sort of tie the hands of not only
(09:09):
of clerks, but of groups election integrity groups to be
able to see exactly what's going on. She is actually
following the process this time around. The reason that she
was hauled into court so many times in twenty twenty
and twenty twenty two. In twenty twenty four is because
she wasn't following the rule process of taking public comment,
(09:32):
of holding hearings. She just was changing the rules. And
so she now is it appears like she's following the process,
but will at nine point thirty we'll be live streaming
net and I would encourage everyone to and we'll have
a story about it afterwards on what she'll be able
to find on the Midwesterner.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Now, what about this last, but not least a bill
out there that prevents secretary of state from running their
own election to higher office like in Arizona. And what
we're seeing now with Joscelyn Benson here in Michigan too
much opportunity to unfairly influence the outcomes here on the Midwesterner.
I think that's a good move.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, and what we saw in twenty twenty four is
that she wants to influence the outcome of elections. And
of course you do that by who's on the ballot.
Rfk wanted to be off the ballot. She refused to
let him be removed from the ballot. Cornell West wanted
to be on the ballot. She wouldn't let him be
on the ballot because she knew that how those two
(10:34):
candidates were going to either We're going to take away
votes from either candidate. So she has demonstrated she wants
that's how she is going to manipulate elections. And I
remain convinced that Mike Duggan is a he is a
the threat to Joscelyn Benson because they're dividing the vote
(10:54):
in Detroit, and he is going to eat into her
base and she can not allow him to be on
the ballot, and I think she will do whatever she
can to keep him off the ballot.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Interesting, interesting times for sure. More to the Midwestern or
the newly designed Midwestern the Midwestern or do news looks great?
By the way, man, fantastic, Yeah, fantastic new design on
the website. Let' check it out, folks, book market, don't
just do that. Put your information in your email c
and get updates all the time. My friend Kyle Olsen
and by the way, we just kind of announced this
(11:27):
the other day, but we're going to be involved on
a panel together up at mac and All and the
mi I g OP where we're talking I guess about
media in Michigan. Man, I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, it's going to be great. And the Midwesterner is
going to be organizing the strawpol of all the attendees
so we can we can gauge the sentiments of attendees
on President Trump's performance, on who they like for the
various state wide offices, who they like in twenty twenty eight.
So it's going to be an interesting, interesting result and
(12:00):
would be bringing that to you.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
A couple of weeks from the day. Always a pleasure,
my friend. Thank you, Kyle, happy to thanks you got it.
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