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And with what happened on Friday, those jobs numbers looks
like those interest rates maybe certainly headed down this month
of details coming out soon and detail's pouring out this weekend.
An outrage growing after a horrific video shows the stabbing
death of a twenty three year old Ukrainian refuge She
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left war torn country there at home to come here
to America, only to be slaughtered on the street, literally
in a train ride that ended. As I mentioned in
tragedy Horror, she was killed by a man who never
should have been let out of the cage that he
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was one time kept then and yet that's exactly what happened.
This type of story is happening over and over and again.
In fact, it just hit home for me. I tell
you a story of personal story coming up. But the
justice system is broken, or maybe perhaps it's operating exactly
as it's intended to. We'll tell you the latest. That
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woman's name, Irena Zarutzka, happened in Charlotte, North Carolina, and
no one, no one talking about this. President has some
works for us, so we'll get into that coming up
over the weekend violence and grand rapids. A man shot
and killed at a park Saturday, twenty nine year old Garfield
Park is where it took place. Officers found in multiple
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gunshot wounds and of course still trying to put the
pieces of some of it togethered. Happened just to pour
four to two pm broad daylight. He later died at
the hospital. Police say the targeting shooting was targeted, not random.
No arrests have been made just yet. And no, it's
not war on Chicago, but the President is talking about
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targeting with federal aid the effort for the folks there
left behind in Chicago as the violence continues to rage.
There lots of well interesting protest over the weekend on
this in DC and in Chicago. Both President wang in
on it. Asked by one regretful it seems like anyway
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reporter after this whole ordeal about what he was going
to plan on doing there, I don't listen. Be quiet, listen,
be quiet. Wow, Market, she said, now you want a
war with Chicago News. I don't listen.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Be quiet, listen.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You don't listen.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You're never listened.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
That's why you're second grade.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
We're not going to war. We're going to clean up
our city.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
We're going to clean them up so they don't kill
five people every weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
That's not war.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
That's common sense.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, it certainly is. In folks. It's wild to watch
democrats defend this sort of thing. And one Michigan democrat
here we got a story a little bit later on
defending boys men in the girls' locker rooms and bathrooms
here in Michigan. This is just insanity. And they find
themselves on these these weird size of these, these kind
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of conversations all the time. You just it's wild what
Trump has done to the brain of some of these.
So not that it was firing on all cylinders to
begin with, but still, you know what I mean. Wow,
you'll let you way in this morning till you can
get in the conversation as we.
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Speaker 3 (05:05):
The video is hard to watch, although I think, you know,
it's something that we probably all must see at some point.
There's security camera footage coming out of this woman again.
She came here from Ukraine. She's coming onto the train.
You see the man sitting behind her. Lots of priors
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by the way she just sat down. He had his
head up against the glass. Uh, and there's maybe eighty
pounds soaking wet. Like I just it's hard. It's hard
to imagine that, just the unfathomable nature of what just
takes place here in this video. She sits down, starts
looking at her phone, this man resting her head his
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head there. She probably didn't think twice about this guy.
She just got off her shift there, I think at
the pizza place where she's working on her phone trying
to go. You can see in the video here released
by wb TV Channel three. I believe in Charlotte, he
gets a knife out of his pocket and then he
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got Now I'm not going to play the whole video here,
but that's when he goes in for the unfathomable. No,
he makes that unfathomable motion. Matter of fact, they pause
it on the video, so maybe I can show you.
I can show you that clip where they pause it
right before he gets there. I think you ought to
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see the unedited version. There's this man getting off. That's
him getting off, by the way. You can see the
blood dripping on the floor there. This is horrific, and
I apologize for the folks that are watching this. And
look at the people standing around. Maybe they don't know
that it occurred. They're facing the other way people. Now
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he continues to walk down through the train and he's
talking to himself. The reason twofold this is so horrific,
and and really it is. But the reason it's so
horrific in a number of ways when I watched this
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video thinking to myself about what happened here, is that
this type of thing never should have had the guy
had been arrested, an ex con with more than a
dozen arrests. Deafening silence coming out of the Democrats side
of things, and I don't think I saw it once
on national Now they'll be forced at some point to
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do some coverage of this. But the wave they'll twist
it is that, oh you know the rider Trump or
who are these just using this for some sort of
political That's the way they'll that's the way they'll handle
there was Trump said, was asked about this yesterday before
he I think got back from the tennis match the
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other day. God, we've got multiple crimes on a Charlotte subway.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
You've seen this video, and do you have any reaction
to it?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Where was the Subwhere was where she was in Charlotte
on a light frame and she's got multiple times by
the horrible No.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I haven't heard.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
When did this happen. It happened in August, but the
video just came out.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
See, yeah, I see the video. I'll know all.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
About it by tomorrow. Morning's back ye promising to get
down to the bottom of it, and uh and he will.
I want to tell you, you think that this kind
of thing can't happen. You hear about it in Washington, DC.
You hear about it in New York City, certainly Hyrack
in Chicago, right. You hear about these stories, and you
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have a tendency to think to yourself, Oh, there's just
nothing you know it's not gonna happen here, but let
me tell you a story. This literally just happened. I
visited my parents and I was out of town for
that family funeral, and five houses down from the home
that I grew up in, where my parents still lived
to this day, five houses down, it appears as though,
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and this is the report that's coming out, although he
hasn't officially been charged yet as far as I can tell,
but a man who had a laundry list, a Rahps
sheet like a mile long of incidents where he had
broken into homes. He was a serial burglar. He liked
to break in to people's homes when they were home
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at night. He liked to confront the people that were
inside the home. This man broke in and it appears
killed the woman who lived and now the woman who
lived in this home five homes down, I don't think
she lived there when I was living there and grow up,
but she was the mother of two people that I
went to school with. She was in her seventies, close
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age to my parents. And again five houses down, his
rap sheet looks like this sentenced to thirty five years back.
I think it was twenty thirteen. He only served thirteen
I think they think it was twelve thirteen years that
was it. And then they let him out. They let
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him out. They didn't even tell the people that he
victimized that he was out. Two of these women that
he broke into their homes, he sexually assaulted one they
say he tried to ripe, and one man he put
in the hospital. This is my hometown of maybe one
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hundred thousand peace, but it's a very it's not a
it's like a small city, even smaller than West Michigan here.
But this happened on a very quiet, middle class street
where things like this ever never happened. I mean, out
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of the forty six years of my life, never remember
hearing anything that even comes close to that. So this
type of thing can happen and does happen when you
least expect it into places you do. So a couple
of messages here. Number one, be prepared, be ready to
protect yourself and your family at all times at ol Colost,
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because you just never know when something like this is
going to take place. Number two, mental illness is rampant
in this country, and until we actually sit down and
solve this issue, you're going to continue to see things
like this over and over again. Number three, until we
get rid of this woke ideology that's broken our justice
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system and we continue to release these people. The man
I just described to you breaking into house as a
serial burglar, assaults two women sexually, tries to rape another,
and then puts a man in the hospital. You think
that guy is rehabilitatable. I just don't think it's possible. Absolutely,
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drug addiction plays into this. But of what we're seeing,
and particularly with this situation the man on the subway
in North Carolina and what happened in Traverse City, folks,
this is mental illness. And I go a little step further.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood. The Good Book says,
Then it's true. I think it's never been more apparent
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to me that the problems, the things that we really
face in this day and age are a spirit there
of a spiritual nature. We're in a fight where in
a battle, whether you realize it or not, just is
it's a fact. You keep letting these people either way,
there's there's all kinds of you. You won't believe what
the mayor of North Carolina said. The woman from North Carolinas,
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and we're not just maybe we ought to be more
compassionate against homeless people. That's that's that's what she said.
This isn't about homeless people. This is about mental illness.
Not a lot of a lot of a lot of
homeless folks are mentally ill. That that doesn't end in
a situation like this. It is the disturbed, the criminally
mentally unstable, the mentally ill. Those are the folks who
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really are the biggest, biggest issue when it comes to violence.
We got so many problems, and I gotta tell you,
maybe the biggest out of all of this is that
these media types refuse to actually cover this. Now you
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you know why you flip this upside down in a
situation in a different way, and you know that it
would have been on wall to wall on every jub By.
In fact, do you remember the story of Daddy Pearl.
What happened to him when he stopped one of these
things from happening in New York City? They charged him,
tried to send him to prison, to marine. I'm ringing
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the alarm bell, folks. It's it's an incredibly sad absolutely,
it didn't even begin to describe what happened to this,
this young woman who had her whole life ahead of her. Again,
she came here from Ukraine and never made it home
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that day because of this evil man. What took place.
We'll let you join in the conversation as well. We're
going to get into it coming up. We got big
guests coming up today as well. We'll have the stories
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Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah, there's there's a cevil in the world, and that's
that's a fact. It's just no getting around it. Of
folks act like it's not there. And unfortunately, when good
men do nothing, it thrives. And that's what we're watching
play out. Letting these people out of jail. Some of
them should never see the light of day in the
media refusing to cover it. It's leftists. Unfortunately, a lot
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of those sooks on social media today that that we
stand with Ukraine flags and their bios are awfully silent
right now, have you noticed that? Well, I don't don't
give them too much, Uh, I wouldn't. You probably don't
even know that this even happened, although we know where
they would unfortunately probably stand find some way to blame
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her for something. Unfortunately in this in this scenario, in
this case, gosh, you know, there's a there's another. There's
another scenario that I think you're gonna want to take
a place look at too. Happened over the leak, and
I think there's I think there. I think a lot
of this is connected. In fact, it's like a spiritual
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side of this that I think has to be examined.
Do you see the woman at the Philadelphia Phillies baseball
game that went and snatched the uh stakes the ball
from a guy. He's a guy who won this there
he got this ball for this kid, and she went
over and talked him in the end the ball as
a Karen in full effect. Now nothing against you, Karen's
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uh out there, but she's she's been. There's two, there's
there's there's a couple of these these cases, by the way,
that that are flying around out there, and by the way,
I think, I think this it was so unbelievable, I
thought it might have been I actually thought it might
have been fake at one point. But this is the
video that's being shared online this morning and all throughout
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the week. And this guy, she chases the ball down,
gives it to his son, and this woman runs up
on him. She's like, that's my ball. I almost thought
this was fake. Now maybe it is. I don't know,
but the internet doesn't seem to think so. And who
knows this kid stuck between I rock and a hard place,
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this woman is yelling. He reaches over, gives her a
ball and tells her to go. Now that this Karen
is being evisceratd online. But I gotta blame this guy too.
I mean, in this scenario, in this situation, I just
it's it's sad to watch. But where are the dads
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in some of these cases? These are there's a guy.
Dad was there, but he still just gave her the
well now, I mean maybe he gave her the boss there.
Who knows what this woman is going to do? Let
me get her away from my kids. I don't know.
Maybe that's that's part of it. But you watch this
stuff and you, I don't know, you just you come
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you come back realizing that, gosh, society is sicker than
you thought. Right, we have the latest in fact, big
news coming up in the race for governor here in Michigan.
We'll try and solve all the world's problems, at least
maybe the problems in the state of Michigan. On the way,
we'll get to those stories and more after this. Congressman
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John James is in that race with a big announcement,
big news on the way, don't go any where. We're
back after this on West Michigan Live. Back after it.
President Trump talking about crime on the tarmac and joined
Bass Andrews over the weekend, and particularly crime in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Chicago is a very dangerous place. We have a governor
that doesn't care about crime. I guess we could solve
Chicago very quickly, but we're going to make a decision
as to where we go over the next.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Day or two. By the way, that's one of the
conversations I think that'll play in some of the talk
here even in Michigan. I think in twenty six I'll
tell you why, coming up here in just a second.
But first, big breaking news fore you got a new
pull out. These are leaked from the Daily Caller. Rep.
John James leading Michigan governor's Republican primary race, according to
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the latest and Congressman John James joins us on the
program right now. Thank you, sir for taking a time
be here with us and have the conversation on the
run up to twenty six Such a big year.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Yeah, it's the huge years. It's a huge year to
take back our state from those who've been taking in
the wrong direction for the past six years. We need
leadership that's been tested in battle tested in business, and
frankly has a clear vision to return the power back
to the people. Anybody who's saying they're going to ride
in the Lansing on their white horse, wave their magic
wand and change things doesn't quite get it. This is
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a state that belongs to ten million people and returning
that power to the people is what I'm focused on.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
You know, it's interesting to me because I do not
This is the thing that I like to consider, and
I think we all should have said to number one,
you got to win, right and in your situation, got
to win the primary and that poll is showing that
things are looking good for you right now. But then
you got to win the general. And after you win
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the general, the celebration may be momentary, but at the
end of the day, you have to get down the business.
And this is a state that, boy, there are so
many little well potholes. Maybe that's a good way to
put it. Unfortunately, but there are so many obstacles in
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your So let's talk about that. The person who gets
this job, it's an important one.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Yeah, first of all, I'm not doing this for my health.
I have three little boys, John's eleven, Hudson's ten, and
Christian six. My father came from the Jim Crow South
for opportunity. Now we live in a state whereas looking
like my children, if the trajectory does not change, we'll
have to leave to find that opportunity. That's not fair,
that's not right. Democrats have created our children's prospect our
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children's prospects, and right now our rate of growth is
forty ninth out of fifty. That needs to change, focusing
on things like academic excellence, economic mobility, public safety, government accountability.
I was just walking in Lancing this weekend to support
firefighters and I saw lobbyists in the same building as
our state senators. That let mean you look at that.
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The perception of impropriety, the corruption that's deep in Lancing
must be rooted out by people who weren't a part
of building it. Making sure that we protect our constitutional
rights and our children's futures are not negotiable. They are
table stakes for anybody who wants to help lead the state.
And remembering that, frankly, we don't even get to the
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table if we don't win the primary and if we
don't win the general. Right now, according to what I've heard,
I'm leading in the polls, but frankly, the people matter
more than the polls. That's why I'm getting out all
over the state and listening. I've learned in leadership and
battle leadership and business and leadership around the tenth Congressional
District that people want somebody who reflects their values and
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who will be willing to fight for them to get
the mission accomplished. I've been doing that for my entire
adult life, and I'm not going to stop now. I'm
excited for the opportunity to not just win the primary,
but actually be able to win the general. Because if
you have somebody in the Republican Party who can't win
the general, then what.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Are we been talking about.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
We need to have someone who can win both races
and then lead for the right reasons for the people
moving forward for the next four to eight years.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Well, I got to ask you, I'm looking at the
We can look at the Republican field of the primary,
can take a look at the different candidates and assess
where they are. But looking further into the field for
the general, we've got a really interesting race, a really
interesting matchup here. We've got Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson,
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who seems to be even yet more extreme, more radical
than Governor Gretchen Whitmann. We've seen what nearly eight years
has gotten us with her at the helm. And then
you've got the Democrat mayor of Detroit. Well, now he's
an independent, but let's not be fooled. This man was
always and he has always been a Democrat. And Duggan.
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And one of the things that I want to ask
you about, particularly as we look at this field, and
maybe we'll examine Duggan here, but you know he's running
right now, is this real common sense, sort of middle
of the road guy, which he's not. And then you
know he's running on a record of success, particularly in
business in Detroit and that side of the state. And
there may be a little bit of a resurgence in
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a pocket there in Detroit, and we should all celebrate that.
But at the same time, if you look at crime
in the city of Detroit, and as we're watching city
to city right now, I don't know we had earlier
this week former Congressman running for Senate now Mike Rogers
last Friday on he says Dougan ought to call in
the National Guard here along with Trump's help and clean
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up crime in Detroit. What's interesting to me, Congressman saying
Dougan is he talks a good game when it comes
to business in these little pockets of Detroit, but he's
left the people of Detroit really out in the cold.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Yeah, you know, don't believe the words of a politician,
believe their behavior. You can look at Mike Duggan's record
and even what he even mentioned a couple of weeks
ago when asked what he would change about his positions,
and he said nothing about the Democrat policies frankly, that
have left the neighborhoods out in the cold. When you
look at the crime that's still out there in the
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city of Detroit, yes, you may have a number of
pockets of of bright spots that you shine the spotlight
on a national television but overwhelmingly the remaining six hundred
and sixty thousand people who live in Detroit are looking
at failing schools, they're looking at failing economic prospects, and
they're looking at the seventh highest rates of crime of
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any city in the entire nation. We need leadership that's
going to be working with the president to make sure
that all racist colors increased in Michigan feel safe in
their homes. People are talking about what we need to
do to lower housing prices. Well, the first thing you
can do, maybe in places in blue run cities all
over the country, is maybe focus on crime. Letting these
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criminals like the ones that we've seen who've been caught,
captured and let back out because of these failed, woke
policies that are keeping our streets less safe. This animal,
I won't even call them the man, this animal. There's
this criminal who stabbed and killed an innocent person on
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a subway on a light rail in North Carolina. These
types of people do not belong in normal, civilized society,
has let out fourteen times by activist judges and prosecutors.
We need to make sure that we're working where these
people are not working. Against the people that we're keeping
our streets safe and they're held accountable for their cash
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lists bailed, and their failed soft on crime policies. We're
going to make sure that we uphold law and order
in the state of Michigan, and we're going to make
sure that we keep all people safe, regardless of what
they look like, because frankly, nobody wants to live in
a place where they can't be safe.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Congressman John James good point, let me let me ask you,
because it's one of the things that's top of the list. Generally,
we don't have a lot of time. We'll have you
back on we'll talk more about these conversies. One of
the things that I think is the top of the list,
and you just now it is cost a living, but
particularly in Michigan right now, has caused the energy It's
it's not just for the consumer for folks and residential
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side of things, because my energy be I don't know
about you, but I keep looking every time I go
look at that light bulb keeps going up. But it's
also on the side of business and manufacturing and by
the way, that deters companies from wanting to come here.
You know more about this anybody else, and and that
that really hurts our jobs prospects as well. What can
we do we look down the road here in the
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days ahead tackling this issue. With energy costs continue to.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
Rise, Democrats have sunk so much of our taxpayer dollars
into these in the solar when it's it's cloudy most
of the year in Michigan, into to wind farms that
are that require frankly fossil fuels to even operate. I'm
all of the above energy approach. We need to have
everything natural, gas, coal, wind, solar, we need to have nuclear,
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we need to have everything online to make sure we
lower these energy prices. And then finally, we need to
make sure that we're deregulating, that we're that we're working
to increase the reliability and lower cost. I think increase
in competition is a great way to go about doing that.
Michigan has among the highest costs of energy for residents,
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and you also amongst its midwestern piers, and then you
also have the least reliability. We have brown outs, blackouts
more so than most people who in our region. That's
driving up cost, is pushing business out, and it's making
things more expensive focusing on energy, Michigan could be a
resurgent state. We're surrounded by fresh water. We must keep
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our air and our water clean. We have to have
fairness and safety, and we can do that, but we
need to make sure that we focus on this regulatory
reform of government choking out business, choking out investment and
opportunity that would bring additional generation online, which would lower
the cost for industries, for commercial uses, and most importantly
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for the consumer. So that's specifics on lowering energy costs,
and I haven't even had the time to get on
lowering property taxes and getting out of this litigious environment
that we have in the state of Michigan. We have
much work to do, but frankly, I think that starting
by rooting out the corruption and lansing is exactly where
you think you might find a lot of the skeletons hiding.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
And Congressman John James and the race for governor. Get
the brand new leak for the polls there and the
Daily Caller. That's a big story, and so of the others.
I have more time to talk to talk to you,
Congressman in the days ahead. We appreciate you taking the
time to be here with us, so folks will find
out more, maybe volunteer, get out there and be a
part of what's going on. What's the best way for
them to do that.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Well, you can find me online or on socials at
John JAMESMI dot com or John JAMESMI dot com or
John James AMI on the socials. Since I've been in Congress,
I've focused on making Michigan a better place for our
families and for our children. And I'd be so excited
for your support.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Thank you so much, Absolutely my pleasure, John James, thank
you so much for being here with us today. Of
course you got it. Hey back in moments, folks kind
of take a quick quick break. You're going to give
you a chance to reload with us coming up in
just moments. And yeah, we the conversation continues. It's not
going anywhere. I want to tell you about. This is
something else that's been really over the weekend. It's it's
(31:22):
kind of been getting to I want to discuss this.
It was Tim Kaine. Somebody asked about it. I think
it was one of the folks in the VIP and
the Freedom Family. On Friday, Tim Kaane came out with
this comment and in especially what we've seen over the
weekend this story in recent other stories, Tim Kay's real
rights come from government, not God. Made a big deal
out about this, and I wanted to kind of weigh
(31:43):
into at if I could, because I think it's something
that needs to be addressed. The ice rate of the
Georgia Hyundai plant as well. All coming up, folks, don't
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Woke nonsense continues right here in Michigan. Senate President pro
Tem Democrat Jeremy Moss promising to ensure girls' school bathrooms
remain available to biological male students who identify as the
opposite gender. Meanwhile, House Republicans are trying to protect girls
(34:00):
privacy and dignity here in Michigan schools. A Michigan woman
facing federal charges for her involvement in international smuggling operation
that allegedly helped illegal aliens cross the northern US border
into Vermont, and Secretary of State Democrat Jocelyn Benson skips
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(34:21):
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Speaker 3 (34:30):
Way to do It, hang out here we go. Oh
we did it another another fantastic weekend. I don't know
about you, but man, I just love getting out, enjoying
and not just Michigan Fall winners, but we went out
Heidi's farmstand and Lowell. I don't know if you've been
there before, but they had the donuts, the pumpkins already out,
(34:52):
and of course they've got the really cool this big
like tube slide uh that kids loved. Of course they don't.
I mean they're in hey, you just say the word
donut and they loved it. If we coat the pumpkin
donuts are out and in full full bloom right now,
and the pumpkins and the pumpkin patch have already come
together as well. We like to make a little bit
(35:13):
of a tour as we can this time of year
round of the different places. There's so many different farm stands. Yeah,
I can't name on Robin Nats and they just to
tell you, we love getting around and going to these places. Schwalliers.
They love pet and the goats there and all that.
It's it's it's just incredible. And you see the look
on their face just light up. They just light up
(35:35):
when I get to be a part of this stuff.
But I again my reminder for you is, look, there
was a time when I didn't look forward to doing
any of this stuff because my feet hurt too much,
leg pain, back pain, you know what I'm talking about.
Maybe you've even been there yourself in this summer. Maybe
you've had enough after everything you've gone through it. Maybe
you've you just you wish you wish you could just
(36:02):
be done with it. Now's the time. Maybe you wish
you could take place in all those activities that you
missed out on. I'd go through the Good Feet Store
and see if there's any way they can help you
like they help me. I'm telling you, I knew like
the instant I tried on the personalized art supports, just
in a moment. They were a game turger. I could
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feel it. My back pain was gone, felt more balanced,
feet got into form. I gotta tell you, you're not
gonna regret this. You're ready to tackle maybe some of
the big fall to do list. While the weather's getting
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So I mentioned as Senator Tim King, we're going to
talk about this on the after show. It they don't
(37:06):
want to get into it. It happened last week. There's
so many audio clips, so many videos that we never
get a chance to get to it all, especially while
we're on the full hour show here but here it
was last week trying to make the case that your
rights don't come from God, they come from government.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come
from the government, but come from the Creator. That's what
the Iranian government believes. It's a theocratic regime that bases
its rule on Shiah law.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
No, they don't believe in rights, by the way, it's
the other way around there.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
And target soonies behinds Jews, Christians and other religious minorities.
And they do it because they believe that they understand
what natural rights are from their creator. So the statement
that our rights do not come from our laws or
our governments is extremely troubling.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
The No, it's troubling your view here, Senator Difference, I
mean grossly from way the founders thought about all of this.
I need to talk about that coming up, the ice
rate of the Georgia plant. Did you find out how
many people were there working inside that plant in Georgia?
(38:21):
The Hyundai Georgia plant, I believe an lg part of
this too, where they built batteries. Lots of South Korean
citizens sent to that plant to help build it, and
apparently lots of them not here legally and doing the
work that Americans should haven't could have done, and probably
getting paid pennies at the time to do it as well.
(38:41):
That's a big story that you're probably not hearing as
much about, and we want to make sure that you are.
You're up to speed on as well. Coming up, so
we'll get into that. And oh man, oh man, you
may remember Marlena Well, she's still in the fight back
in court. I heard this story the other day and
I couldn't believe it. I forgot how this thing is
(39:02):
still going on. The Holland restaurant owner Martlena Hackney, and
of course she's still in court after being persecuted during
the pandemic. It just reminded me. You know this fight
isn't over, folks. A lot of people think that what
happened in twenty twenty and a little bit further back
that you know that we just got to let some
of this go and we're back to normal now, and
(39:24):
it doesn't matter. There are people still fight in that fight.
I'll give you the story and a little bit of
an update on her coming up here in a little
bit in the after show. The show, after the show,
in fact, you want to join you Ken at justin
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That's where we downloaded. You could course stream at all
there as well and the iHeartRadio app. You can download
(39:45):
the podcast there or wherever you get your podcast. Best
way to do it. All right, that's gonna do. Don't forget.
We got more yet coming up tomorrow. We'll be back
with all of it. You miss a moment, you can
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And with what happened on Friday, those jobs numbers looks
like those interest rates maybe certainly headed down this month
of details coming out soon and detail's pouring out this weekend.
An outrage growing after a horrific video shows the stabbing
death of a twenty three year old Ukrainian refuge She
(01:49):
left war torn country there at home to come here
to America, only to be slaughtered on the street, literally
in a train ride that ended. As I mentioned in
tragedy Horror, she was killed by a man who never
should have been let out of the cage that he
(02:12):
was one time kept then and yet that's exactly what happened.
This type of story is happening over and over and again.
In fact, it just hit home for me. I tell
you a story of personal story coming up. But the
justice system is broken, or maybe perhaps it's operating exactly
as it's intended to. We'll tell you the latest. That
(02:33):
woman's name, Irena Zarutzka, happened in Charlotte, North Carolina, and
no one, no one talking about this. President has some
works for us, so we'll get into that coming up
over the weekend violence and grand rapids. A man shot
and killed at a park Saturday, twenty nine year old Garfield
Park is where it took place. Officers found in multiple
(02:54):
gunshot wounds and of course still trying to put the
pieces of some of it togethered. Happened just to pour
four to two pm broad daylight. He later died at
the hospital. Police say the targeting shooting was targeted, not random.
No arrests have been made just yet. And no, it's
not war on Chicago, but the President is talking about
(03:17):
targeting with federal aid the effort for the folks there
left behind in Chicago as the violence continues to rage.
There lots of well interesting protest over the weekend on
this in DC and in Chicago. Both President wang in
on it. Asked by one regretful it seems like anyway
(03:37):
reporter after this whole ordeal about what he was going
to plan on doing there, I don't listen. Be quiet, listen,
be quiet. Wow, Market, she said, now you want a
war with Chicago News. I don't listen.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Be quiet, listen.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You don't listen.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You're never listened.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
That's why you're second grade.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
We're not going to war. We're going to clean up
our city.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
We're going to clean them up so they don't kill
five people every weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
That's not war.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
That's common sense.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, it certainly is. In folks. It's wild to watch
democrats defend this sort of thing. And one Michigan democrat
here we got a story a little bit later on
defending boys men in the girls' locker rooms and bathrooms
here in Michigan. This is just insanity. And they find
themselves on these these weird size of these, these kind
(04:35):
of conversations all the time. You just it's wild what
Trump has done to the brain of some of these.
So not that it was firing on all cylinders to
begin with, but still, you know what I mean. Wow,
you'll let you way in this morning till you can
get in the conversation as we.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
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Speaker 3 (05:05):
The video is hard to watch, although I think, you know,
it's something that we probably all must see at some point.
There's security camera footage coming out of this woman again.
She came here from Ukraine. She's coming onto the train.
You see the man sitting behind her. Lots of priors
(05:26):
by the way she just sat down. He had his
head up against the glass. Uh, and there's maybe eighty
pounds soaking wet. Like I just it's hard. It's hard
to imagine that, just the unfathomable nature of what just
takes place here in this video. She sits down, starts
looking at her phone, this man resting her head his
(05:48):
head there. She probably didn't think twice about this guy.
She just got off her shift there, I think at
the pizza place where she's working on her phone trying
to go. You can see in the video here released
by wb TV Channel three. I believe in Charlotte, he
gets a knife out of his pocket and then he
(06:13):
got Now I'm not going to play the whole video here,
but that's when he goes in for the unfathomable. No,
he makes that unfathomable motion. Matter of fact, they pause
it on the video, so maybe I can show you.
I can show you that clip where they pause it
right before he gets there. I think you ought to
(06:40):
see the unedited version. There's this man getting off. That's
him getting off, by the way. You can see the
blood dripping on the floor there. This is horrific, and
I apologize for the folks that are watching this. And
look at the people standing around. Maybe they don't know
that it occurred. They're facing the other way people. Now
(07:01):
he continues to walk down through the train and he's
talking to himself. The reason twofold this is so horrific,
and and really it is. But the reason it's so
horrific in a number of ways when I watched this
(07:22):
video thinking to myself about what happened here, is that
this type of thing never should have had the guy
had been arrested, an ex con with more than a
dozen arrests. Deafening silence coming out of the Democrats side
of things, and I don't think I saw it once
on national Now they'll be forced at some point to
(07:44):
do some coverage of this. But the wave they'll twist
it is that, oh you know the rider Trump or
who are these just using this for some sort of
political That's the way they'll that's the way they'll handle
there was Trump said, was asked about this yesterday before
he I think got back from the tennis match the
(08:06):
other day. God, we've got multiple crimes on a Charlotte subway.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
You've seen this video, and do you have any reaction
to it?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Where was the Subwhere was where she was in Charlotte
on a light frame and she's got multiple times by
the horrible No.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I haven't heard.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
When did this happen. It happened in August, but the
video just came out.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
See, yeah, I see the video. I'll know all.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
About it by tomorrow. Morning's back ye promising to get
down to the bottom of it, and uh and he will.
I want to tell you, you think that this kind
of thing can't happen. You hear about it in Washington, DC.
You hear about it in New York City, certainly Hyrack
in Chicago, right. You hear about these stories, and you
(08:56):
have a tendency to think to yourself, Oh, there's just
nothing you know it's not gonna happen here, but let
me tell you a story. This literally just happened. I
visited my parents and I was out of town for
that family funeral, and five houses down from the home
that I grew up in, where my parents still lived
to this day, five houses down, it appears as though,
(09:21):
and this is the report that's coming out, although he
hasn't officially been charged yet as far as I can tell,
but a man who had a laundry list, a Rahps
sheet like a mile long of incidents where he had
broken into homes. He was a serial burglar. He liked
to break in to people's homes when they were home
(09:46):
at night. He liked to confront the people that were
inside the home. This man broke in and it appears
killed the woman who lived and now the woman who
lived in this home five homes down, I don't think
she lived there when I was living there and grow up,
but she was the mother of two people that I
went to school with. She was in her seventies, close
(10:10):
age to my parents. And again five houses down, his
rap sheet looks like this sentenced to thirty five years back.
I think it was twenty thirteen. He only served thirteen
I think they think it was twelve thirteen years that
was it. And then they let him out. They let
(10:36):
him out. They didn't even tell the people that he
victimized that he was out. Two of these women that
he broke into their homes, he sexually assaulted one they
say he tried to ripe, and one man he put
in the hospital. This is my hometown of maybe one
(10:59):
hundred thousand peace, but it's a very it's not a
it's like a small city, even smaller than West Michigan here.
But this happened on a very quiet, middle class street
where things like this ever never happened. I mean, out
(11:20):
of the forty six years of my life, never remember
hearing anything that even comes close to that. So this
type of thing can happen and does happen when you
least expect it into places you do. So a couple
of messages here. Number one, be prepared, be ready to
protect yourself and your family at all times at ol Colost,
(11:40):
because you just never know when something like this is
going to take place. Number two, mental illness is rampant
in this country, and until we actually sit down and
solve this issue, you're going to continue to see things
like this over and over again. Number three, until we
get rid of this woke ideology that's broken our justice
(12:04):
system and we continue to release these people. The man
I just described to you breaking into house as a
serial burglar, assaults two women sexually, tries to rape another,
and then puts a man in the hospital. You think
that guy is rehabilitatable. I just don't think it's possible. Absolutely,
(12:29):
drug addiction plays into this. But of what we're seeing,
and particularly with this situation the man on the subway
in North Carolina and what happened in Traverse City, folks,
this is mental illness. And I go a little step further.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood. The Good Book says,
Then it's true. I think it's never been more apparent
(12:49):
to me that the problems, the things that we really
face in this day and age are a spirit there
of a spiritual nature. We're in a fight where in
a battle, whether you realize it or not, just is
it's a fact. You keep letting these people either way,
there's there's all kinds of you. You won't believe what
the mayor of North Carolina said. The woman from North Carolinas,
(13:12):
and we're not just maybe we ought to be more
compassionate against homeless people. That's that's that's what she said.
This isn't about homeless people. This is about mental illness.
Not a lot of a lot of a lot of
homeless folks are mentally ill. That that doesn't end in
a situation like this. It is the disturbed, the criminally
mentally unstable, the mentally ill. Those are the folks who
(13:34):
really are the biggest, biggest issue when it comes to violence.
We got so many problems, and I gotta tell you,
maybe the biggest out of all of this is that
these media types refuse to actually cover this. Now you
(13:55):
you know why you flip this upside down in a
situation in a different way, and you know that it
would have been on wall to wall on every jub By.
In fact, do you remember the story of Daddy Pearl.
What happened to him when he stopped one of these
things from happening in New York City? They charged him,
tried to send him to prison, to marine. I'm ringing
(14:21):
the alarm bell, folks. It's it's an incredibly sad absolutely,
it didn't even begin to describe what happened to this,
this young woman who had her whole life ahead of her. Again,
she came here from Ukraine and never made it home
(14:42):
that day because of this evil man. What took place.
We'll let you join in the conversation as well. We're
going to get into it coming up. We got big
guests coming up today as well. We'll have the stories
that matter most all on the way, So don't go anywhere.
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After this, setting the record straight, It's West Michigan Live
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Here are your headlines from The Midwesterner this Monday, September seventh.
I'm Robin Hoffman. It's a Midwesterner dot News original story.
Secretary of State Democrat Jocelyn Benson skips her own meeting
on proposed election rule changes. Meanwhile, Benson's proposed tweaks make
it easier to cheat and harder to challenge illegal votes.
Here in Michigan. More woke nonsense, Michigan Senate President pro
(15:50):
Tem Democrat Jeremy Moss promising to ensure girls' school bathrooms
remain available to biological mail students who identifies the opposite gender.
House Republicans, meanwhile, are trying to protect girls privacy and
dignity in Michigan schools, and a Michigan woman is charged
with smuggling illegal aliens across our northern border. For these
(16:11):
stories and more, visit the Midwesterner at the Midwesterner dot news.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah, there's there's a cevil in the world, and that's
that's a fact. It's just no getting around it. Of
folks act like it's not there. And unfortunately, when good
men do nothing, it thrives. And that's what we're watching
play out. Letting these people out of jail. Some of
them should never see the light of day in the
media refusing to cover it. It's leftists. Unfortunately, a lot
(16:47):
of those sooks on social media today that that we
stand with Ukraine flags and their bios are awfully silent
right now, have you noticed that? Well, I don't don't
give them too much, Uh, I wouldn't. You probably don't
even know that this even happened, although we know where
they would unfortunately probably stand find some way to blame
(17:09):
her for something. Unfortunately in this in this scenario, in
this case, gosh, you know, there's a there's another. There's
another scenario that I think you're gonna want to take
a place look at too. Happened over the leak, and
I think there's I think there. I think a lot
of this is connected. In fact, it's like a spiritual
(17:30):
side of this that I think has to be examined.
Do you see the woman at the Philadelphia Phillies baseball
game that went and snatched the uh stakes the ball
from a guy. He's a guy who won this there
he got this ball for this kid, and she went
over and talked him in the end the ball as
a Karen in full effect. Now nothing against you, Karen's
(17:51):
uh out there, but she's she's been. There's two, there's
there's there's a couple of these these cases, by the way,
that that are flying around out there, and by the way,
I think, I think this it was so unbelievable, I
thought it might have been I actually thought it might
have been fake at one point. But this is the
video that's being shared online this morning and all throughout
(18:15):
the week. And this guy, she chases the ball down,
gives it to his son, and this woman runs up
on him. She's like, that's my ball. I almost thought
this was fake. Now maybe it is. I don't know,
but the internet doesn't seem to think so. And who
knows this kid stuck between I rock and a hard place,
(18:36):
this woman is yelling. He reaches over, gives her a
ball and tells her to go. Now that this Karen
is being evisceratd online. But I gotta blame this guy too.
I mean, in this scenario, in this situation, I just
it's it's sad to watch. But where are the dads
(18:56):
in some of these cases? These are there's a guy.
Dad was there, but he still just gave her the
well now, I mean maybe he gave her the boss there.
Who knows what this woman is going to do? Let
me get her away from my kids. I don't know.
Maybe that's that's part of it. But you watch this
stuff and you, I don't know, you just you come
(19:17):
you come back realizing that, gosh, society is sicker than
you thought. Right, we have the latest in fact, big
news coming up in the race for governor here in Michigan.
We'll try and solve all the world's problems, at least
maybe the problems in the state of Michigan. On the way,
we'll get to those stories and more after this. Congressman
(19:41):
John James is in that race with a big announcement,
big news on the way, don't go any where. We're
back after this on West Michigan Live. Back after it.
President Trump talking about crime on the tarmac and joined
Bass Andrews over the weekend, and particularly crime in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Chicago is a very dangerous place. We have a governor
that doesn't care about crime. I guess we could solve
Chicago very quickly, but we're going to make a decision
as to where we go over the next.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Day or two. By the way, that's one of the
conversations I think that'll play in some of the talk
here even in Michigan. I think in twenty six I'll
tell you why, coming up here in just a second.
But first, big breaking news fore you got a new
pull out. These are leaked from the Daily Caller. Rep.
John James leading Michigan governor's Republican primary race, according to
(20:38):
the latest and Congressman John James joins us on the
program right now. Thank you, sir for taking a time
be here with us and have the conversation on the
run up to twenty six Such a big year.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Yeah, it's the huge years. It's a huge year to
take back our state from those who've been taking in
the wrong direction for the past six years. We need
leadership that's been tested in battle tested in business, and
frankly has a clear vision to return the power back
to the people. Anybody who's saying they're going to ride
in the Lansing on their white horse, wave their magic
wand and change things doesn't quite get it. This is
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a state that belongs to ten million people and returning
that power to the people is what I'm focused on.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
You know, it's interesting to me because I do not
This is the thing that I like to consider, and
I think we all should have said to number one,
you got to win, right and in your situation, got
to win the primary and that poll is showing that
things are looking good for you right now. But then
you got to win the general. And after you win
(21:39):
the general, the celebration may be momentary, but at the
end of the day, you have to get down the business.
And this is a state that, boy, there are so
many little well potholes. Maybe that's a good way to
put it. Unfortunately, but there are so many obstacles in
(21:59):
your So let's talk about that. The person who gets
this job, it's an important one.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Yeah, first of all, I'm not doing this for my health.
I have three little boys, John's eleven, Hudson's ten, and
Christian six. My father came from the Jim Crow South
for opportunity. Now we live in a state whereas looking
like my children, if the trajectory does not change, we'll
have to leave to find that opportunity. That's not fair,
that's not right. Democrats have created our children's prospect our
(22:28):
children's prospects, and right now our rate of growth is
forty ninth out of fifty. That needs to change, focusing
on things like academic excellence, economic mobility, public safety, government accountability.
I was just walking in Lancing this weekend to support
firefighters and I saw lobbyists in the same building as
our state senators. That let mean you look at that.
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The perception of impropriety, the corruption that's deep in Lancing
must be rooted out by people who weren't a part
of building it. Making sure that we protect our constitutional
rights and our children's futures are not negotiable. They are
table stakes for anybody who wants to help lead the state.
And remembering that, frankly, we don't even get to the
(23:08):
table if we don't win the primary and if we
don't win the general. Right now, according to what I've heard,
I'm leading in the polls, but frankly, the people matter
more than the polls. That's why I'm getting out all
over the state and listening. I've learned in leadership and
battle leadership and business and leadership around the tenth Congressional
District that people want somebody who reflects their values and
(23:29):
who will be willing to fight for them to get
the mission accomplished. I've been doing that for my entire
adult life, and I'm not going to stop now. I'm
excited for the opportunity to not just win the primary,
but actually be able to win the general. Because if
you have somebody in the Republican Party who can't win
the general, then what.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Are we been talking about.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
We need to have someone who can win both races
and then lead for the right reasons for the people
moving forward for the next four to eight years.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Well, I got to ask you, I'm looking at the
We can look at the Republican field of the primary,
can take a look at the different candidates and assess
where they are. But looking further into the field for
the general, we've got a really interesting race, a really
interesting matchup here. We've got Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson,
(24:16):
who seems to be even yet more extreme, more radical
than Governor Gretchen Whitmann. We've seen what nearly eight years
has gotten us with her at the helm. And then
you've got the Democrat mayor of Detroit. Well, now he's
an independent, but let's not be fooled. This man was
always and he has always been a Democrat. And Duggan.
(24:37):
And one of the things that I want to ask
you about, particularly as we look at this field, and
maybe we'll examine Duggan here, but you know he's running
right now, is this real common sense, sort of middle
of the road guy, which he's not. And then you
know he's running on a record of success, particularly in
business in Detroit and that side of the state. And
there may be a little bit of a resurgence in
(24:58):
a pocket there in Detroit, and we should all celebrate that.
But at the same time, if you look at crime
in the city of Detroit, and as we're watching city
to city right now, I don't know we had earlier
this week former Congressman running for Senate now Mike Rogers
last Friday on he says Dougan ought to call in
the National Guard here along with Trump's help and clean
(25:20):
up crime in Detroit. What's interesting to me, Congressman saying
Dougan is he talks a good game when it comes
to business in these little pockets of Detroit, but he's
left the people of Detroit really out in the cold.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Yeah, you know, don't believe the words of a politician,
believe their behavior. You can look at Mike Duggan's record
and even what he even mentioned a couple of weeks
ago when asked what he would change about his positions,
and he said nothing about the Democrat policies frankly, that
have left the neighborhoods out in the cold. When you
look at the crime that's still out there in the
(25:55):
city of Detroit, yes, you may have a number of
pockets of of bright spots that you shine the spotlight
on a national television but overwhelmingly the remaining six hundred
and sixty thousand people who live in Detroit are looking
at failing schools, they're looking at failing economic prospects, and
they're looking at the seventh highest rates of crime of
(26:17):
any city in the entire nation. We need leadership that's
going to be working with the president to make sure
that all racist colors increased in Michigan feel safe in
their homes. People are talking about what we need to
do to lower housing prices. Well, the first thing you
can do, maybe in places in blue run cities all
over the country, is maybe focus on crime. Letting these
(26:39):
criminals like the ones that we've seen who've been caught,
captured and let back out because of these failed, woke
policies that are keeping our streets less safe. This animal,
I won't even call them the man, this animal. There's
this criminal who stabbed and killed an innocent person on
(27:00):
a subway on a light rail in North Carolina. These
types of people do not belong in normal, civilized society,
has let out fourteen times by activist judges and prosecutors.
We need to make sure that we're working where these
people are not working. Against the people that we're keeping
our streets safe and they're held accountable for their cash
(27:21):
lists bailed, and their failed soft on crime policies. We're
going to make sure that we uphold law and order
in the state of Michigan, and we're going to make
sure that we keep all people safe, regardless of what
they look like, because frankly, nobody wants to live in
a place where they can't be safe.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Congressman John James good point, let me let me ask you,
because it's one of the things that's top of the list. Generally,
we don't have a lot of time. We'll have you
back on we'll talk more about these conversies. One of
the things that I think is the top of the list,
and you just now it is cost a living, but
particularly in Michigan right now, has caused the energy It's
it's not just for the consumer for folks and residential
(28:01):
side of things, because my energy be I don't know
about you, but I keep looking every time I go
look at that light bulb keeps going up. But it's
also on the side of business and manufacturing and by
the way, that deters companies from wanting to come here.
You know more about this anybody else, and and that
that really hurts our jobs prospects as well. What can
we do we look down the road here in the
(28:22):
days ahead tackling this issue. With energy costs continue to.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
Rise, Democrats have sunk so much of our taxpayer dollars
into these in the solar when it's it's cloudy most
of the year in Michigan, into to wind farms that
are that require frankly fossil fuels to even operate. I'm
all of the above energy approach. We need to have
everything natural, gas, coal, wind, solar, we need to have nuclear,
(28:51):
we need to have everything online to make sure we
lower these energy prices. And then finally, we need to
make sure that we're deregulating, that we're that we're working
to increase the reliability and lower cost. I think increase
in competition is a great way to go about doing that.
Michigan has among the highest costs of energy for residents,
(29:13):
and you also amongst its midwestern piers, and then you
also have the least reliability. We have brown outs, blackouts
more so than most people who in our region. That's
driving up cost, is pushing business out, and it's making
things more expensive focusing on energy, Michigan could be a
resurgent state. We're surrounded by fresh water. We must keep
(29:37):
our air and our water clean. We have to have
fairness and safety, and we can do that, but we
need to make sure that we focus on this regulatory
reform of government choking out business, choking out investment and
opportunity that would bring additional generation online, which would lower
the cost for industries, for commercial uses, and most importantly
(29:59):
for the consumer. So that's specifics on lowering energy costs,
and I haven't even had the time to get on
lowering property taxes and getting out of this litigious environment
that we have in the state of Michigan. We have
much work to do, but frankly, I think that starting
by rooting out the corruption and lansing is exactly where
you think you might find a lot of the skeletons hiding.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
And Congressman John James and the race for governor. Get
the brand new leak for the polls there and the
Daily Caller. That's a big story, and so of the others.
I have more time to talk to talk to you,
Congressman in the days ahead. We appreciate you taking the
time to be here with us, so folks will find
out more, maybe volunteer, get out there and be a
part of what's going on. What's the best way for
them to do that.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Well, you can find me online or on socials at
John JAMESMI dot com or John JAMESMI dot com or
John James AMI on the socials. Since I've been in Congress,
I've focused on making Michigan a better place for our
families and for our children. And I'd be so excited
for your support.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Thank you so much, Absolutely my pleasure, John James, thank
you so much for being here with us today. Of
course you got it. Hey back in moments, folks kind
of take a quick quick break. You're going to give
you a chance to reload with us coming up in
just moments. And yeah, we the conversation continues. It's not
going anywhere. I want to tell you about. This is
something else that's been really over the weekend. It's it's
(31:22):
kind of been getting to I want to discuss this.
It was Tim Kaine. Somebody asked about it. I think
it was one of the folks in the VIP and
the Freedom Family. On Friday, Tim Kaane came out with
this comment and in especially what we've seen over the
weekend this story in recent other stories, Tim Kay's real
rights come from government, not God. Made a big deal
out about this, and I wanted to kind of weigh
(31:43):
into at if I could, because I think it's something
that needs to be addressed. The ice rate of the
Georgia Hyundai plant as well. All coming up, folks, don't
go anywhere. We're back after this. Check it a look
at the markets. You know, it's some action all over
the place last week. In fact, we've sad some record
(32:03):
breaking days, record breaking days for gold too, seeing some
red on the screen for the Dow this morning, s
and P five hundreds in the Grand Nasdacs integreen. But look,
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Speaker 1 (33:28):
With Toalin Wells breaking down the story, It's West Michigan
Live with Justin Barkley on News Radio one thirteen hundred
and one oh six nine a f M.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Monday, September
seventh time. Robin Poffman, it's a Midwesterner dot news original story.
Woke nonsense continues right here in Michigan. Senate President pro
Tem Democrat Jeremy Moss promising to ensure girls' school bathrooms
remain available to biological male students who identify as the
opposite gender. Meanwhile, House Republicans are trying to protect girls
(34:00):
privacy and dignity here in Michigan schools. A Michigan woman
facing federal charges for her involvement in international smuggling operation
that allegedly helped illegal aliens cross the northern US border
into Vermont, and Secretary of State Democrat Jocelyn Benson skips
her own meeting on proposed election rule changes. Meanwhile, Benson's
(34:21):
proposed tweaks make it easier to cheat and harder to
challenge illegal votes here in Michigan. For these stories and more,
visit the Midwesterner at the Midwesterner dot News.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Way to do It, hang out here we go. Oh
we did it another another fantastic weekend. I don't know
about you, but man, I just love getting out, enjoying
and not just Michigan Fall winners, but we went out
Heidi's farmstand and Lowell. I don't know if you've been
there before, but they had the donuts, the pumpkins already out,
(34:52):
and of course they've got the really cool this big
like tube slide uh that kids loved. Of course they don't.
I mean they're in hey, you just say the word
donut and they loved it. If we coat the pumpkin
donuts are out and in full full bloom right now,
and the pumpkins and the pumpkin patch have already come
together as well. We like to make a little bit
(35:13):
of a tour as we can this time of year
round of the different places. There's so many different farm stands. Yeah,
I can't name on Robin Nats and they just to
tell you, we love getting around and going to these places. Schwalliers.
They love pet and the goats there and all that.
It's it's it's just incredible. And you see the look
on their face just light up. They just light up
(35:35):
when I get to be a part of this stuff.
But I again my reminder for you is, look, there
was a time when I didn't look forward to doing
any of this stuff because my feet hurt too much,
leg pain, back pain, you know what I'm talking about.
Maybe you've even been there yourself in this summer. Maybe
you've had enough after everything you've gone through it. Maybe
you've you just you wish you wish you could just
(36:02):
be done with it. Now's the time. Maybe you wish
you could take place in all those activities that you
missed out on. I'd go through the Good Feet Store
and see if there's any way they can help you
like they help me. I'm telling you, I knew like
the instant I tried on the personalized art supports, just
in a moment. They were a game turger. I could
(36:24):
feel it. My back pain was gone, felt more balanced,
feet got into form. I gotta tell you, you're not
gonna regret this. You're ready to tackle maybe some of
the big fall to do list. While the weather's getting
back in shape here a little cooler, it looks a
little easier to do some workoutside. Or you just want
to have fun with the kids or the grandkids. Find
(36:45):
out how they can help you today at the Good
Feed Store on twenty eighth Street, right in front of Costco,
or in Portage on Westidge in front of Cole's come
in and experience a good feet feeling for yourself today
at the Good Feed Store where you could live life
to the fullest and pain free at the Good Feet Store.
So I mentioned as Senator Tim King, we're going to
talk about this on the after show. It they don't
(37:06):
want to get into it. It happened last week. There's
so many audio clips, so many videos that we never
get a chance to get to it all, especially while
we're on the full hour show here but here it
was last week trying to make the case that your
rights don't come from God, they come from government.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come
from the government, but come from the Creator. That's what
the Iranian government believes. It's a theocratic regime that bases
its rule on Shiah law.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
No, they don't believe in rights, by the way, it's
the other way around there.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
And target soonies behinds Jews, Christians and other religious minorities.
And they do it because they believe that they understand
what natural rights are from their creator. So the statement
that our rights do not come from our laws or
our governments is extremely troubling.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
The No, it's troubling your view here, Senator Difference, I
mean grossly from way the founders thought about all of this.
I need to talk about that coming up, the ice
rate of the Georgia plant. Did you find out how
many people were there working inside that plant in Georgia?
(38:21):
The Hyundai Georgia plant, I believe an lg part of
this too, where they built batteries. Lots of South Korean
citizens sent to that plant to help build it, and
apparently lots of them not here legally and doing the
work that Americans should haven't could have done, and probably
getting paid pennies at the time to do it as well.
(38:41):
That's a big story that you're probably not hearing as
much about, and we want to make sure that you are.
You're up to speed on as well. Coming up, so
we'll get into that. And oh man, oh man, you
may remember Marlena Well, she's still in the fight back
in court. I heard this story the other day and
I couldn't believe it. I forgot how this thing is
(39:02):
still going on. The Holland restaurant owner Martlena Hackney, and
of course she's still in court after being persecuted during
the pandemic. It just reminded me. You know this fight
isn't over, folks. A lot of people think that what
happened in twenty twenty and a little bit further back
that you know that we just got to let some
of this go and we're back to normal now, and
(39:24):
it doesn't matter. There are people still fight in that fight.
I'll give you the story and a little bit of
an update on her coming up here in a little
bit in the after show. The show, after the show,
in fact, you want to join you Ken at justin
Barclay dot com, Facebook, Twitter, xs, Rumble, get her locals YouTube.
That's where we downloaded. You could course stream at all
there as well and the iHeartRadio app. You can download
(39:45):
the podcast there or wherever you get your podcast. Best
way to do it. All right, that's gonna do. Don't forget.
We got more yet coming up tomorrow. We'll be back
with all of it. You miss a moment, you can
always catch up with the stack. We put these stories
online at justin Barklay dot com. The Glennbeck Program. Glenn
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