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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Uh yeah, drinking from a firehouse is putting it mildly today.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
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Speaker 2 (01:11):
Now, says three, history being made part of it. In fact,
the latest in the details of the historic peace deal
some of those just continuing to come out as we speak.
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that both Israel and jama is signing off on the
Phase one of the Piece Deal, which includes the release
(01:53):
of all hostages and an Israeli troupe withdrawal to an
agreed upon timeline. I think I I've got to do
some dig and maybe Adam can look this up. Can
you find out what the timeline is for the peace Deal?
If this check X Twitter. I think I just heard
on the way in that we've got some sort of
twenty four hour ceasefire seventy two hours for all the
(02:16):
hostages to be released. And I believe that starts, but
it may be starting now. The clock might be ticking
as we speak. So this is this is historic in nature.
And again you and I I don't know that we've
ever seen anything like this in our lifetime. What's playing
(02:38):
out right now, Some may even say biblical in nature.
We continue to follow the stories that matter most, and
I'll dig more into that one in a little bit
this morning. The left, well, they originally blamed that deadly
California fire on climate change. Turns out it was actually
(02:59):
arson at the hands of one of their own. The
man responsible, twenty nine year old from Florida. At least
he's a resident there now. Jonathan Rindernecked was a Biden donor.
You remember all of this when it went down, Critics
rushing to politicize the strategy seg it was it was
climate change all along. Well, a man was changing the
(03:22):
climate and in a hurry, with a quickness. It turns
out it was it was with a match at that point.
In fact, all of the details about how he did this.
We'll dig in a little bit, thank you, a little
bit later on. But Greta can settle down. She's already
moved on to her next pause. They with that clotilla
(03:42):
the palace, I REQUI call me pleading that guilty. Yesterday
more breaking news. How do you stay on top of
all of this? Ex FBI director James call me in
federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, answering charges that he lied
the Congress and obstrud I have to do a chuck
today twenty twenty Congressional proceeding trial tatively scheduled for January
(04:06):
twenty twenty six. And uh, it in fact will be
the fifth one one day off. You can't make this
stuff up. It it's it's incredible. Yeah, we've got those
stories that matter most, the stories you won't hear anywhere else,
(04:26):
and yes we'll we'll be breaking them down before the
big ANTIFA meeting us to day. I don't know if
you got to see any of that. That was incredible.
Some of this already started leaking out what the president
was up to and what the news would might be
in the in the moments I had, this is this
is how it played out in moments. You'll hear and
(04:46):
see some of it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
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Speaker 2 (05:02):
All right, there you have it, folks. Here we go
part of what was said yesterday at that meeting at
the White.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
I was just dealing with people from the Middle East,
our people and other people on the potential peace deal
for the Middle East. Peace for the Middle East. So
it's a beautiful phrase and we hope it's going to
come true. But it's very close and they're doing very well.
We have a great team over there, great negotiators, and
they're unfortunately great negotiators on the other side also. But
(05:33):
it's something I think that will happen, got a good
chance of happening. I may go there sometime towards the
end of the week, maybe on Sunday actually, and we'll see,
but there's a very good chance to Negotiations are going
along very well. We're dealing with Hamas and many of
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the countries. As you know, we have Muslim all of
the Muslim countries are included, all of the Arab countries
are included. Very rich countries and some that are not
so rich. But just about everybody's included. It's never happened before,
nothing like that's happened before. In our final negotiation, as
you know, is with Amas and it seems to be
(06:14):
going well, so we'll let you know if that's the case.
We'll be leaving probably on Sunday, maybe Saturday, maybe a
little a little later than Saturday evening, but that seems
to be our schedule.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
That was an interesting moment. This is going to go
down in history too, like this moment that Marco Rubio's
secretary of State. I don't know if you saw this
video yet or the pictures of it, you will, you will,
mark my words. If you haven't seen it yet, you will.
It was the moment, he tells reporters, I was just
giving a note, given a note telling us that we're
(06:51):
very close. Marco Rubio leans over and whispers something into
the President's ere. That's this moment.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Well, they're smart, but they're not smart, and they oh,
my microphone's broken.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
He hands them a note and uh. President Trump reads
that note.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
They're smart, but they're not smart enough. They have been
covered by these liberal cities for so many years, and
that's why we're all working.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
With Missus BONDI speaking President Trump now looking back at
Marco Rubio as he reads that note, he makes a
face you could tell you'sh I aware please don't say.
I think he's kind of turned of a bit of
a poker face, trying to hide.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
A treasury with all these different departments.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Serious. He calls Rubio over, probably aware of the moment.
Instead of just wanting the note, he probably wanted this.
Rubio comes over, whispers into his ear the confirmation, and
that is the moment. That's the picture, that's the image
that will probably go down in history if this holes.
(07:58):
Now again to say that if this hole, they're still
working out pieces of it.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Now find the criminal conspiracy.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Okay, I'm President's getting bombarded by the press with questions.
He's got his finger up.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Yeah. I was just given a note by the Secretary
of States saying that we're very close to a deal
in the Middle East, and they'll get a need me
pretty quickly. So I will take a couple of more questions.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Please go ahead, please, Well an incredible moment. I mean,
you can't I watch that, think to myself, this is
something that they're going to be watching. They're going to
be watching this, like I say in the history books,
They're going to be watching this. They're going to be
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seeing this all play out for the years to come.
This is going to be something that is going to
be massive. So just keep that in mind as we
as we see this. Now, what did what did the other?
Great great question? What did the networks make of all this?
What did the mainstream wanted depressed? What did they all
(09:15):
make of this entire thing after after it played out?
The announcement? And of course we have some ongoing reporting
that we'll have to include as well here, But what
did what did they make of it all? Here's how
CNN and their first reaction is is reported, which I
think you'll find fascinating. Uh, just you know what, just
(09:41):
take a listen, actually take a listen for yourself and
see how they reported this.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Obviously, blessed are the peacemakers, indeed, but it is.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Worth wait it's a Papper, But.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
This is a ceasefire deal, right, This is not a
larger piece deal about a Palestinian state of any sword
and who gets to rule a Palestinian state and Israel
gets security guarantees.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Now it's phase one of all that, Tapper. I mean
you'd know that if you read anything.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Oh and all that that is still TBD, right, I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yes, yes, but because no, she doesn't want to tell
him no, Tapa, You're a moron. Come on the.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Yes, but part of that is that, yes, this is
the first phase of this deal where the two key
parts of that was a ceasefire and the release of
the hostages and also the release of Palestinian prisoners.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Do you think Hamas would be releasing these hostages if
they didn't agree to the larger portion picture of the deal? Tapper?
I mean, you can't be that dense. You work for CNN,
but you can't be that dense. Do you think they
would give up the only thing that they have, Really,
they've been holding these hostages for a couple of years now,
the only thing that they have. If they didn't see
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and agree to the larger pictures of this.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
They're being held in Israel.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Obviously blessed are the peacemakers.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Obviously have to say something, pretend I know what I'm
talking about. But having the Trump talking about, in fact
last night, to use tariffs to hang on, let's restart that,
because it's going to get a little funky if we don't.
Here's Trump last night talking about how they were able
to pull this off, and wouldn't you know by the way,
(11:18):
it was, Oh boy, the left is gonna hate this.
He was on Hannity last night on the phone talking
about it. But it was the tariffs, the terriffs, the
economic portion of the deal that really made this come together.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Now having the ability to deal with trade, having the
ability to use tariffs to help me make a point,
the tariffs have brought peace to the world. I'm telling you,
they brought peace to the world. And not only here,
but with so many other deals. You know, I've made
seven piece deals where countries were in many cases thirty
(11:55):
thirty one years, one thirty five, one thirty seven years,
they've been fighting and millions of people being killed, and
I brought peace. And I did it through in not
all cases, but probably and at least five of the
seven that we've done so far, it was through trade
that we're not going to deal with people that fight,
(12:16):
We're not going to deal, and we're going to put
tariffs on you. We're not going to let you deal
in the United States, We'll put tariffs on you. And
without that, without the tariffs, I mean far more than
even the money that we're taking it, which is trillions
of dollars, essentially trillions of dollars, far much more important
it gives you a tremendous road to Piece and the
saving of millions of lives, just millions and millions of lives.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
It's an incredible it's an incredible moment. Again, this does
come on the caveat because Piece is fragile at times.
If this can't stand, we're going to pray that it does.
We'll pray for peace. Just one surprise out of everything
that I watched yesterday and the stuff that's come out
over time since this is something, there's one that I
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felt was kind of interesting about how this is all
being treated, how it's being reported. In fact, we'll talk
about that coming up in just a moment, but first
I want to give us a moment to break it down,
get into get into some headlines. We got more to report.
In just moments, we'll get into all of that and more.
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Speaker 10 (14:52):
Here are your headlines from The Midwesterner this Thursday, October ninth.
I'm Robin Hoffman. It's a Midwesterner dot news original store.
Ury Governor Whitmer signs into law a new state budget
that includes language that stripped Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson
of it oversight in her department as problems persist with
the nine million dollar website. The budget language requires Benson,
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who's running her own campaign for governor in twenty twenty six,
to delegate all responsibility for the website to the Department
of Technology, Management and Budget. The Michigan cannabis industry sues
to block what it calls an unconstitutional new twenty four
percent marijuana tacks, and President Trump secures a deal for
peace in the Middle East between Hamas terrorists and Israel.
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The twenty living hostages are scheduled to be released in
phase one of the deal. Close to two thousand Palestinian
prisoners being held in Israel also scheduled to be released.
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Midwesterner dot News, a surprising reaction to them.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Some of this stuff. We'll get to that coming up.
Congressman John Molnar joining us coming up this morning talking
about day now to the shutdown, the Schumer shutdown. We'll
get into that and his reaction to to this deal.
So here's here's what we're hearing. The historic being held
as historical. Historic win by Trump marks the largest step
toward ending the war Israel and Amas. The cabinet, that's
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Israel's cabinets set to ratify it today with the ceasefire
effective within twenty four hours. A. Moss has provided details
on the twenty living hostages, all men. Preparations are underway
for their handover via the Red Cross or mediators. So
we had heard some reports that some of the Red
(16:44):
Cross folks were headed there. Now we had some reports
of those vehicles on their way in. That would be
it would be fantastic. Here's what's kind of surprising. We're
getting reports that there were some there were some positive
reports on ABC of all places about what happened.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
May no mistake.
Speaker 11 (17:04):
It looks like President Trump has actually pulled off something
here that many presidents before him have failed to do.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
It may no mistake.
Speaker 11 (17:13):
It looks like President Trump h has actually pulled off
something here that many presidents before him have failed to do.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's wild to hear them give him that much credit
for it. Really fascinating. It is something that is deserved,
I'll tell you that. Yet, it's interesting to hear them
actually actually do that. Now. Like I said, we've got
more stories we've got to get to in speaking of
(17:41):
the media just not being very fair about stories they report.
The Attorney General out of Virginia and I don't know
if you've heard this story or not. We've covered a
little bit of it, but he he had said some
really bad things, talking of kind of joking about he'd
like to see his opponents and children of his opponents
(18:01):
killed in text messages and he would shoot them if
he had given the choice between him and his opponents
in Hitler. Just wild. What's happening and how much of
that was reported on the big mainstream media outlets. It's
interesting because we've got the details. They've done the research
on this, and we'll share it with you coming up
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Speaker 1 (19:48):
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Speaker 2 (19:54):
A f am Man, oh man. It's tough job, and
there's a tough job stand up today with all the stories,
all the news. There's so many of them, and just
are big three the day as we talked about the
peace deal. That's a historic moment. Call me pleading not
(20:15):
guilty yesterday getting arraigned. Massive story after story after story,
each of these you could spend you know, old days
talking about them. The day before we had that story
about is there spying Biden was spying on sitting members
of Congress. So we wait to try and do here
(20:36):
is break them down, give you context and you'll get
to hear from folks. And by the way, all of
this is happening, we're in the middle of day nine
of the Schumer shutdown. So originally we thought let's talk
about that. Congressman John Monarch joining us now to touch
on some of that story. But Congressman, welcome in. First
of all, I got I've gotta just get your take
and your reaction to the massive news of this historic
(21:00):
moment where President Trump, it seems, is going to secure
peace here in this this area that I just they've
had thousands of years of issues there, but it looks
like uh, and we're praying that it'll hold that that
we're on our way to seeing a deal made here.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Well, you're absolutely right. It is historic. It builds upon
the work that President Trump did with the Abraham Accords,
UH and building a coalition that wants to see peace
in the Middle East. We hope those hostages are returned
soon and that the violence and the destruction will stop.
(21:39):
And I really commend the President for taking on what
just seems to be a you know, never ending challenge,
but has shown tremendous leadership and working with partners and allies,
and it's moving in a very good direction.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It really is. We are very we're very happy to
hear you know. We just we just passed the two
year mark just a couple of days ago, and to
think that these people, the hostages particularly, have been separated
from their families after everything they had to go through
for two years. It's unthinkable.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
It is, it is, and and you just your heart
goes out to the one the families who have lost
loved ones, who have not known what the status of
their loved one is. And uh, for many this is
not going to bring, you know, satisfaction in terms of,
you know, what has happened. But clearly there is a
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resolution and sight and we're just very hopeful that, you know,
as things progress in the next few days, it holds
in a significant way.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Congressman John Molnar is with us right now on the
phone from Washington, d C. Speaking of progress, chipping away,
trying to get things done in a what's been an
interesting you know. We spoke with the chair McLain yesterday
about this Schumer shutdown, and she brought up some interesting points.
They said, you know, on one hand, I think, if
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it's just the average American I look at this, I
think to myself, I don't know if I felt the
pain of the government being shut down. And there's there's
some folks, you know, on our side of thinking here
that would say you know what, that's fine, keep the
government shut down. But then I also think about this,
which is, there are folks in the military serving overseas.
There are folks that are fighting right here on our
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streets to secure our borders, and and of course we've
seen what they've gone through in Portland and some of
these other places most recently being attacked and whatnot, and
they may not get paychecks in the very recent days ahead,
and we're we're staring down that very real possibility right now.
And again Democrats refuse to budge on this, and unfortunately
(23:53):
it's it's because they want to undo from what I understand,
that big beautiful bill and that they want to give
healthcare to illegal immigrants. So this is just wild for
the average person to believe. But that sounds like what's happening.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Well. And the sad thing is, you know, when you
think about in a shutdown, who the Democrats are leveraging.
They're leveraging the American people and people we rely on.
And it's you know, our service mendors, our border patrol,
air traffic controllers, and you think of women, children who
(24:29):
rely on food assistance. All of these people are being
put at risk because Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats
won't simply vote to extend business as usual, and they're
trying to leverage this, and unfortunately people suffer because of that.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
What's the cause? Do you have any details or figures
on what the cost is of a shutdown? Obviously it
impacts the economy, It impacts the country in a number
of different ways. But I've heard a little bit about this,
and I just didn't know if you had actual stats
on it.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
You know, I don't have a specific number for you,
but I do know this that it's not an efficient
way to govern. It's hundreds of millions of dollars, and
to restart the government costs money, and so you have
all these people living at risk financially. And now let
(25:24):
me just also say, you know, the Democrats are trying
to resist this idea of us taking on waste, fraud,
and abuse, and they have resisted that, and they want
to spend one point five trillion more in spending and
continue sort of the the COVID era spending pattern, and
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that's just not sustainable in the future, and so they're
trying to inject those priorities into something that should be
very straightforward and simple. You know, we did our job
three weeks ago. We passed a clean continuing resolution, which
basically means no new spending, no Republican priorities, no poison
pills or gimmicks for the Democrats to oppose. It just
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gave us seven more weeks to continue the appropriations process
where the negotiations over different priorities should occur, not with
the leverage against the American people.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Got a story on the hell here we just found
a shutdown costing US economy about fifteen billion dollars a week,
according to Hassett, who's given that that number out there.
It's interesting, but you make a great point here, Congressman
John Molnar with us as we speak, you know this
is this is not something that wasn't dealt with. The
(26:40):
House passed this and by the way, trying somehow Democrats
trying to figure out a way to blame Republicans for this.
But what's what's spent even more while to watch is
that Republicans have had you know, they've they've voted on this.
The Houses voted, there was a bipartisan effort there, and
then we had in the Senate Republicans picking off a
(27:01):
few Democrats to get there. But I don't think maybe
people understand, maybe most people understand, you've got to get
to sixty votes in the Senate. That means Democrats have
to come along to make this work. And a lot
of them, as the chair explained it yesterday, are afraid
to do that because Chuck Schumer leadership there in the
Senate apparently is so afraid that they held an election
(27:24):
today that AOC might beat him and become that senator
there from New York take his seat. And that's what's
holding all of this up.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
That is a very real factor. And when you look
at what's happening in New York politics, you got Schumer
worried about, you know, a primary for MAOC. You've got
a socialist mayor of New York who you know is
is kind of leading the way with the Democratic Party,
(27:55):
and you know, you have all these dynamics going on,
and the only thing the Democrats can agree on is
they want to fight Donald Trump. And so all they're
doing is just trying to say we're fighting Donald Trump,
and what they're really doing is fighting the priorities of
American people and not recognizing President Trump was elected as
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someone who would change the status quo in Washington, DC,
get rid of waste, fraud and abuse, and actually have
our institutions serve the people rather than the other way around.
And that's what this is all about. You know, this
bill that we supported in the House. The Democrats have
supported thirteen times during the last administration the same legislation.
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So what's the difference. They want to show the left
wing of their base that they're fighting.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Isn't that something? And no doubt, probably trying to raise money.
This is going to be a bit of a fundraiser
for them, I would think as well. As they're going about, Hey,
you've got some events coming up. In fact, I know
I'm going to be at a couple of them with you.
In fact, there's a masquerade ball Lincoln Day dinner happening
coming up if folks would like to come out and
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see you. Plus our good friend, Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, who
is the Millimeter Miracle guy. You all have seen him,
You've seen his work, He spoke at the inauguration. He's
fantastic pastor from Detroit area. This is coming up on
October thirty first, so a big, big day in fact
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Ionia County is doing this and are right here in
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coming up, and then we'll be at Macosta County over
the weekend on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Well, there's a lot of energy people who want to
hear some of our excellent candidates who are running statewide,
and people want to support the work that the Republican
Party is doing and leading to help get America back
on the right track. And we're looking forward to seeing everybody.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
We would love to see you as well. Don't we
appreciate you being there of course, as always, thank you
Congressman Molinar for all you did.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Come back.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Please give us updates as they come out, and we'll
make sure that folks stay up to date on these
stories and more. As there's so much happened in these days.
It's never a dull moment, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
That's true. Thank you. Justin good to be with you today.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Thank you sir, you too, God bless Congressman John Mallin
ar Michigan Second District. And the latest on the shutdown,
of course, the Schumer shut down. We'll have more coming
up as these stories continue to break this morning. The
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original story here in Michigan, Speaker of the House Republican
Matt Hall announcing lawmakers have made progress and eliminating so
called ghost employees from the state budget. These are fake
positions used to inflate spending programs, but no real jobs
(32:38):
actually are attached to them. The Michigan cannabis industry sues
to block what it calls an unconstitutional new twenty four
percent marijuanatacks. In other news, Governor Whitmer signs into law
a new state budget that includes language that Strip's Secretary
of State, Jocelyn Benson, of it oversight in her department.
This has problems persist with the nine million dollar website
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and the art of the deal on full display as
President Trump secures a deal for peace in the Middle
East between Hamas terrorists and Israel. Israeli celebrating in the
streets as word the twenty living hostages scheduled to be
released and phase one of this deal as early as Monday.
Close to two thousand Palestinian prisoners, including two hundred and
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Speaker 2 (33:36):
Take a look at the markets this morning and the
latest CNBC, their reaction to maybe this piece deal and
some of the other things that's going on. Hassaw gold
and silver up. We're going to do that a little
bit later on. Not really a lot of change's mixed
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and some of them make it to the air, some
of them don't. By the way, everything we talk about
gets up in the stack each and every day at
justin barclay dot com. But I found this interesting. There's
that story about the man that said he's running for
attorney general. By the way, this is not who you
want to be the top cop in any place, state
(35:28):
or country. But the man's running for attorney join named
Jay Jones, and the guy had made some statements about
wanting to kill well, let's take a listen to this
report and the report on the reporting of all of
this news substantial race in an off year election, sixty
three seconds coverage on NBC. Nothing on the other two
(35:49):
big networks. None of these these networks covered this story.
The guy was caught in text messages saying that he
not only wanted to kill his opponent, but their children.
This is the quote. Just let me read this to you.
And by the way, did ABCCBS or PBS find it
like you necessary to run? By the way, NBC only
(36:09):
sixty three seconds, mainstream Democrat zero seconds of coverage on
any of those other states. J Jones say wants to
shoot Republican officials and their children and urinate on their graves.
I'm sorry if you're still just having your morning coffee.
Nobody wants to hear this any point in time, but
it is a fact. It is a story. You wonder
(36:30):
why some of the weird and wild things, that evil
things that are happening in this world, it's because rhetoric
like this nothing on PBS. It's like this never happened.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Well, that is not surprising in any way, because most
of the corporate media view their job as existing to
help out the Democrat Party with their campaigns, and so
it happens on literally every issue, whether it's an actual
race and a candidate that they're trying to help out.
We know that if this were a Republican candidate, it
would be leading every single news show and every Republican
official in America would be forced to ask about it.
(37:01):
We now have a situation in the Democrat Party where
there's open support for left wing violence and nobody's really
getting asked hard questions substantial race.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
That's a problem. Nobody's getting asked hard questions. They had
a panel on Antifa. We're going to dive a little
bit deeper into that coming up. Here in just a
little bit during the after show. The show after the show,
we stream that live at all those different places justin
Barkley dot com and whatnot, but also the iHeartRadio app
(37:31):
where you can catch this show live or archive. But
we put the podcast up every day so you can
go in and take a look. A bit of a
moment of levity yesterday when the Silver Brandy Krauss, she's
a reporter cruise rather formerly she's a recovering a member
of the TDS. She had TDS. She's a victim of TDS.
She explains to the President during that panel. It'st the
(37:53):
same time he got that note passed to him about
this historic peace deal. She explained that she's recovering and
her life has been said. She's recovered.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
Jack.
Speaker 8 (38:02):
This living proof that you can recover from TDS. I
had strong Trump derangement syndrome for probably eight years. Yeah,
it's this is one of the reasons I recovered from it.
And by the way, it's much better to not have TDS.
I'm happier, I'm healthier, more successful. I even think I
(38:22):
got a little more attractive. Yes, you know, I watched
I'm a reporter in Seattle, and frankly, I could not
care any less what any of you have to say
about this meeting, could not care any less. We're not
here for you. I'm not here to convince any of
you that Antifa is a real thing, because if you
have not come to that conclusion by now, you are
never going to come to that conclusion because you don't
(38:43):
want to see it, and you're going to go and
you're gonna say it's a bunch of right wing conservative
influencers who are here spinning a tail. I was one
of you. I was a mainstream reporter in Seattle for
ten years. I was a TV reporter on the streets
doing my and I was still assaulted by antifa.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
It is incredible. The rest of her statement will play,
But look at people are waking up, folks, one by one,
We'll take them all. Little hope, little encouragement for the
times that we're in back with more. Wishing you the
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Uh yeah, drinking from a firehouse is putting it mildly today.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Oh we cow.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Never a dull moment, and the news never stops, So
I guess we can't either. Really Essentially this fine, We're
gonna think, Hey, but there are lots of good stories
we got to share with you.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It may never even heard the the is the iceberg
tip of it being scraped at this point, but we're
gonna make sure that we get you up to date
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Speaker 2 (01:11):
Now, says three, history being made part of it. In fact,
the latest in the details of the historic peace deal
some of those just continuing to come out as we speak.
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that both Israel and jama is signing off on the
Phase one of the Piece Deal, which includes the release
(01:53):
of all hostages and an Israeli troupe withdrawal to an
agreed upon timeline. I think I I've got to do
some dig and maybe Adam can look this up. Can
you find out what the timeline is for the peace Deal?
If this check X Twitter. I think I just heard
on the way in that we've got some sort of
twenty four hour ceasefire seventy two hours for all the
(02:16):
hostages to be released. And I believe that starts, but
it may be starting now. The clock might be ticking
as we speak. So this is this is historic in nature.
And again you and I I don't know that we've
ever seen anything like this in our lifetime. What's playing
(02:38):
out right now, Some may even say biblical in nature.
We continue to follow the stories that matter most, and
I'll dig more into that one in a little bit
this morning. The left, well, they originally blamed that deadly
California fire on climate change. Turns out it was actually
(02:59):
arson at the hands of one of their own. The
man responsible, twenty nine year old from Florida. At least
he's a resident there now. Jonathan Rindernecked was a Biden donor.
You remember all of this when it went down, Critics
rushing to politicize the strategy seg it was it was
climate change all along. Well, a man was changing the
(03:22):
climate and in a hurry, with a quickness. It turns
out it was it was with a match at that point.
In fact, all of the details about how he did this.
We'll dig in a little bit, thank you, a little
bit later on. But Greta can settle down. She's already
moved on to her next pause. They with that clotilla
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the palace, I REQUI call me pleading that guilty. Yesterday
more breaking news. How do you stay on top of
all of this? Ex FBI director James call me in
federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, answering charges that he lied
the Congress and obstrud I have to do a chuck
today twenty twenty Congressional proceeding trial tatively scheduled for January
(04:06):
twenty twenty six. And uh, it in fact will be
the fifth one one day off. You can't make this
stuff up. It it's it's incredible. Yeah, we've got those
stories that matter most, the stories you won't hear anywhere else,
(04:26):
and yes we'll we'll be breaking them down before the
big ANTIFA meeting us to day. I don't know if
you got to see any of that. That was incredible.
Some of this already started leaking out what the president
was up to and what the news would might be
in the in the moments I had, this is this
is how it played out in moments. You'll hear and
(04:46):
see some of it.
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Speaker 2 (05:02):
All right, there you have it, folks. Here we go
part of what was said yesterday at that meeting at
the White.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
I was just dealing with people from the Middle East,
our people and other people on the potential peace deal
for the Middle East. Peace for the Middle East. So
it's a beautiful phrase and we hope it's going to
come true. But it's very close and they're doing very well.
We have a great team over there, great negotiators, and
they're unfortunately great negotiators on the other side also. But
(05:33):
it's something I think that will happen, got a good
chance of happening. I may go there sometime towards the
end of the week, maybe on Sunday actually, and we'll see,
but there's a very good chance to Negotiations are going
along very well. We're dealing with Hamas and many of
(05:53):
the countries. As you know, we have Muslim all of
the Muslim countries are included, all of the Arab countries
are included. Very rich countries and some that are not
so rich. But just about everybody's included. It's never happened before,
nothing like that's happened before. In our final negotiation, as
you know, is with Amas and it seems to be
(06:14):
going well, so we'll let you know if that's the case.
We'll be leaving probably on Sunday, maybe Saturday, maybe a
little a little later than Saturday evening, but that seems
to be our schedule.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
That was an interesting moment. This is going to go
down in history too, like this moment that Marco Rubio's
secretary of State. I don't know if you saw this
video yet or the pictures of it, you will, you will,
mark my words. If you haven't seen it yet, you will.
It was the moment, he tells reporters, I was just
giving a note, given a note telling us that we're
(06:51):
very close. Marco Rubio leans over and whispers something into
the President's ere. That's this moment.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Well, they're smart, but they're not smart, and they oh,
my microphone's broken.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
He hands them a note and uh. President Trump reads
that note.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
They're smart, but they're not smart enough. They have been
covered by these liberal cities for so many years, and
that's why we're all working.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
With Missus BONDI speaking President Trump now looking back at
Marco Rubio as he reads that note, he makes a
face you could tell you'sh I aware please don't say.
I think he's kind of turned of a bit of
a poker face, trying to hide.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
A treasury with all these different departments.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Serious. He calls Rubio over, probably aware of the moment.
Instead of just wanting the note, he probably wanted this.
Rubio comes over, whispers into his ear the confirmation, and
that is the moment. That's the picture, that's the image
that will probably go down in history if this holes.
(07:58):
Now again to say that if this hole, they're still
working out pieces of it.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Now find the criminal conspiracy.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Okay, I'm President's getting bombarded by the press with questions.
He's got his finger up.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Yeah. I was just given a note by the Secretary
of States saying that we're very close to a deal
in the Middle East, and they'll get a need me
pretty quickly. So I will take a couple of more questions.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Please go ahead, please, Well an incredible moment. I mean,
you can't I watch that, think to myself, this is
something that they're going to be watching. They're going to
be watching this, like I say in the history books,
They're going to be watching this. They're going to be
(08:52):
seeing this all play out for the years to come.
This is going to be something that is going to
be massive. So just keep that in mind as we
as we see this. Now, what did what did the other?
Great great question? What did the networks make of all this?
What did the mainstream wanted depressed? What did they all
(09:15):
make of this entire thing after after it played out?
The announcement? And of course we have some ongoing reporting
that we'll have to include as well here, But what
did what did they make of it all? Here's how
CNN and their first reaction is is reported, which I
think you'll find fascinating. Uh, just you know what, just
(09:41):
take a listen, actually take a listen for yourself and
see how they reported this.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Obviously, blessed are the peacemakers, indeed, but it is.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Worth wait it's a Papper, But.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
This is a ceasefire deal, right, This is not a
larger piece deal about a Palestinian state of any sword
and who gets to rule a Palestinian state and Israel
gets security guarantees.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Now it's phase one of all that, Tapper. I mean
you'd know that if you read anything.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Oh and all that that is still TBD, right, I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yes, yes, but because no, she doesn't want to tell
him no, Tapa, You're a moron. Come on the.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Yes, but part of that is that, yes, this is
the first phase of this deal where the two key
parts of that was a ceasefire and the release of
the hostages and also the release of Palestinian prisoners.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Do you think Hamas would be releasing these hostages if
they didn't agree to the larger portion picture of the deal? Tapper?
I mean, you can't be that dense. You work for CNN,
but you can't be that dense. Do you think they
would give up the only thing that they have, Really,
they've been holding these hostages for a couple of years now,
the only thing that they have. If they didn't see
(10:52):
and agree to the larger pictures of this.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
They're being held in Israel.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Obviously blessed are the peacemakers.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Obviously have to say something, pretend I know what I'm
talking about. But having the Trump talking about, in fact
last night, to use tariffs to hang on, let's restart that,
because it's going to get a little funky if we don't.
Here's Trump last night talking about how they were able
to pull this off, and wouldn't you know by the way,
(11:18):
it was, Oh boy, the left is gonna hate this.
He was on Hannity last night on the phone talking
about it. But it was the tariffs, the terriffs, the
economic portion of the deal that really made this come together.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Now having the ability to deal with trade, having the
ability to use tariffs to help me make a point,
the tariffs have brought peace to the world. I'm telling you,
they brought peace to the world. And not only here,
but with so many other deals. You know, I've made
seven piece deals where countries were in many cases thirty
(11:55):
thirty one years, one thirty five, one thirty seven years,
they've been fighting and millions of people being killed, and
I brought peace. And I did it through in not
all cases, but probably and at least five of the
seven that we've done so far, it was through trade
that we're not going to deal with people that fight,
(12:16):
We're not going to deal, and we're going to put
tariffs on you. We're not going to let you deal
in the United States, We'll put tariffs on you. And
without that, without the tariffs, I mean far more than
even the money that we're taking it, which is trillions
of dollars, essentially trillions of dollars, far much more important
it gives you a tremendous road to Piece and the
saving of millions of lives, just millions and millions of lives.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
It's an incredible it's an incredible moment. Again, this does
come on the caveat because Piece is fragile at times.
If this can't stand, we're going to pray that it does.
We'll pray for peace. Just one surprise out of everything
that I watched yesterday and the stuff that's come out
over time since this is something, there's one that I
(13:00):
felt was kind of interesting about how this is all
being treated, how it's being reported. In fact, we'll talk
about that coming up in just a moment, but first
I want to give us a moment to break it down,
get into get into some headlines. We got more to report.
In just moments, we'll get into all of that and more.
Come on, give you a chance to weigh in. Two
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Speaker 10 (14:52):
Here are your headlines from The Midwesterner this Thursday, October ninth.
I'm Robin Hoffman. It's a Midwesterner dot news original store.
Ury Governor Whitmer signs into law a new state budget
that includes language that stripped Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson
of it oversight in her department as problems persist with
the nine million dollar website. The budget language requires Benson,
(15:16):
who's running her own campaign for governor in twenty twenty six,
to delegate all responsibility for the website to the Department
of Technology, Management and Budget. The Michigan cannabis industry sues
to block what it calls an unconstitutional new twenty four
percent marijuana tacks, and President Trump secures a deal for
peace in the Middle East between Hamas terrorists and Israel.
(15:39):
The twenty living hostages are scheduled to be released in
phase one of the deal. Close to two thousand Palestinian
prisoners being held in Israel also scheduled to be released.
For these stories and more, visit The Midwesterner at The
Midwesterner dot News, a surprising reaction to them.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Some of this stuff. We'll get to that coming up.
Congressman John Molnar joining us coming up this morning talking
about day now to the shutdown, the Schumer shutdown. We'll
get into that and his reaction to to this deal.
So here's here's what we're hearing. The historic being held
as historical. Historic win by Trump marks the largest step
toward ending the war Israel and Amas. The cabinet, that's
(16:23):
Israel's cabinets set to ratify it today with the ceasefire
effective within twenty four hours. A. Moss has provided details
on the twenty living hostages, all men. Preparations are underway
for their handover via the Red Cross or mediators. So
we had heard some reports that some of the Red
(16:44):
Cross folks were headed there. Now we had some reports
of those vehicles on their way in. That would be
it would be fantastic. Here's what's kind of surprising. We're
getting reports that there were some there were some positive
reports on ABC of all places about what happened.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
May no mistake.
Speaker 11 (17:04):
It looks like President Trump has actually pulled off something
here that many presidents before him have failed to do.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
It may no mistake.
Speaker 11 (17:13):
It looks like President Trump h has actually pulled off
something here that many presidents before him have failed to do.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's wild to hear them give him that much credit
for it. Really fascinating. It is something that is deserved,
I'll tell you that. Yet, it's interesting to hear them
actually actually do that. Now. Like I said, we've got
more stories we've got to get to in speaking of
(17:41):
the media just not being very fair about stories they report.
The Attorney General out of Virginia and I don't know
if you've heard this story or not. We've covered a
little bit of it, but he he had said some
really bad things, talking of kind of joking about he'd
like to see his opponents and children of his opponents
(18:01):
killed in text messages and he would shoot them if
he had given the choice between him and his opponents
in Hitler. Just wild. What's happening and how much of
that was reported on the big mainstream media outlets. It's
interesting because we've got the details. They've done the research
on this, and we'll share it with you coming up
(18:22):
in just moments. Don't go anywhere. Like I said, the
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Speaker 2 (19:54):
A f am Man, oh man. It's tough job, and
there's a tough job stand up today with all the stories,
all the news. There's so many of them, and just
are big three the day as we talked about the
peace deal. That's a historic moment. Call me pleading not
(20:15):
guilty yesterday getting arraigned. Massive story after story after story,
each of these you could spend you know, old days
talking about them. The day before we had that story
about is there spying Biden was spying on sitting members
of Congress. So we wait to try and do here
(20:36):
is break them down, give you context and you'll get
to hear from folks. And by the way, all of
this is happening, we're in the middle of day nine
of the Schumer shutdown. So originally we thought let's talk
about that. Congressman John Monarch joining us now to touch
on some of that story. But Congressman, welcome in. First
of all, I got I've gotta just get your take
and your reaction to the massive news of this historic
(21:00):
moment where President Trump, it seems, is going to secure
peace here in this this area that I just they've
had thousands of years of issues there, but it looks
like uh, and we're praying that it'll hold that that
we're on our way to seeing a deal made here.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Well, you're absolutely right. It is historic. It builds upon
the work that President Trump did with the Abraham Accords,
UH and building a coalition that wants to see peace
in the Middle East. We hope those hostages are returned
soon and that the violence and the destruction will stop.
(21:39):
And I really commend the President for taking on what
just seems to be a you know, never ending challenge,
but has shown tremendous leadership and working with partners and allies,
and it's moving in a very good direction.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It really is. We are very we're very happy to
hear you know. We just we just passed the two
year mark just a couple of days ago, and to
think that these people, the hostages particularly, have been separated
from their families after everything they had to go through
for two years. It's unthinkable.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
It is, it is, and and you just your heart
goes out to the one the families who have lost
loved ones, who have not known what the status of
their loved one is. And uh, for many this is
not going to bring, you know, satisfaction in terms of,
you know, what has happened. But clearly there is a
(22:38):
resolution and sight and we're just very hopeful that, you know,
as things progress in the next few days, it holds
in a significant way.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Congressman John Molnar is with us right now on the
phone from Washington, d C. Speaking of progress, chipping away,
trying to get things done in a what's been an
interesting you know. We spoke with the chair McLain yesterday
about this Schumer shutdown, and she brought up some interesting points.
They said, you know, on one hand, I think, if
(23:11):
it's just the average American I look at this, I
think to myself, I don't know if I felt the
pain of the government being shut down. And there's there's
some folks, you know, on our side of thinking here
that would say you know what, that's fine, keep the
government shut down. But then I also think about this,
which is, there are folks in the military serving overseas.
There are folks that are fighting right here on our
(23:31):
streets to secure our borders, and and of course we've
seen what they've gone through in Portland and some of
these other places most recently being attacked and whatnot, and
they may not get paychecks in the very recent days ahead,
and we're we're staring down that very real possibility right now.
And again Democrats refuse to budge on this, and unfortunately
(23:53):
it's it's because they want to undo from what I understand,
that big beautiful bill and that they want to give
healthcare to illegal immigrants. So this is just wild for
the average person to believe. But that sounds like what's happening.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Well. And the sad thing is, you know, when you
think about in a shutdown, who the Democrats are leveraging.
They're leveraging the American people and people we rely on.
And it's you know, our service mendors, our border patrol,
air traffic controllers, and you think of women, children who
(24:29):
rely on food assistance. All of these people are being
put at risk because Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats
won't simply vote to extend business as usual, and they're
trying to leverage this, and unfortunately people suffer because of that.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
What's the cause? Do you have any details or figures
on what the cost is of a shutdown? Obviously it
impacts the economy, It impacts the country in a number
of different ways. But I've heard a little bit about this,
and I just didn't know if you had actual stats
on it.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
You know, I don't have a specific number for you,
but I do know this that it's not an efficient
way to govern. It's hundreds of millions of dollars, and
to restart the government costs money, and so you have
all these people living at risk financially. And now let
(25:24):
me just also say, you know, the Democrats are trying
to resist this idea of us taking on waste, fraud,
and abuse, and they have resisted that, and they want
to spend one point five trillion more in spending and
continue sort of the the COVID era spending pattern, and
(25:45):
that's just not sustainable in the future, and so they're
trying to inject those priorities into something that should be
very straightforward and simple. You know, we did our job
three weeks ago. We passed a clean continuing resolution, which
basically means no new spending, no Republican priorities, no poison
pills or gimmicks for the Democrats to oppose. It just
(26:07):
gave us seven more weeks to continue the appropriations process
where the negotiations over different priorities should occur, not with
the leverage against the American people.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Got a story on the hell here we just found
a shutdown costing US economy about fifteen billion dollars a week,
according to Hassett, who's given that that number out there.
It's interesting, but you make a great point here, Congressman
John Molnar with us as we speak, you know this
is this is not something that wasn't dealt with. The
(26:40):
House passed this and by the way, trying somehow Democrats
trying to figure out a way to blame Republicans for this.
But what's what's spent even more while to watch is
that Republicans have had you know, they've they've voted on this.
The Houses voted, there was a bipartisan effort there, and
then we had in the Senate Republicans picking off a
(27:01):
few Democrats to get there. But I don't think maybe
people understand, maybe most people understand, you've got to get
to sixty votes in the Senate. That means Democrats have
to come along to make this work. And a lot
of them, as the chair explained it yesterday, are afraid
to do that because Chuck Schumer leadership there in the
Senate apparently is so afraid that they held an election
(27:24):
today that AOC might beat him and become that senator
there from New York take his seat. And that's what's
holding all of this up.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
That is a very real factor. And when you look
at what's happening in New York politics, you got Schumer
worried about, you know, a primary for MAOC. You've got
a socialist mayor of New York who you know is
is kind of leading the way with the Democratic Party,
(27:55):
and you know, you have all these dynamics going on,
and the only thing the Democrats can agree on is
they want to fight Donald Trump. And so all they're
doing is just trying to say we're fighting Donald Trump,
and what they're really doing is fighting the priorities of
American people and not recognizing President Trump was elected as
(28:16):
someone who would change the status quo in Washington, DC,
get rid of waste, fraud and abuse, and actually have
our institutions serve the people rather than the other way around.
And that's what this is all about. You know, this
bill that we supported in the House. The Democrats have
supported thirteen times during the last administration the same legislation.
(28:40):
So what's the difference. They want to show the left
wing of their base that they're fighting.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Isn't that something? And no doubt, probably trying to raise money.
This is going to be a bit of a fundraiser
for them, I would think as well. As they're going about, Hey,
you've got some events coming up. In fact, I know
I'm going to be at a couple of them with you.
In fact, there's a masquerade ball Lincoln Day dinner happening
coming up if folks would like to come out and
(29:08):
see you. Plus our good friend, Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, who
is the Millimeter Miracle guy. You all have seen him,
You've seen his work, He spoke at the inauguration. He's
fantastic pastor from Detroit area. This is coming up on
October thirty first, so a big, big day in fact
(29:28):
for folks to come out and join in factor three
counties coming together to make this event possible. And there'll
be a number of folks that are running for various
offices governor, etc. Throughout the state, but Alligan Berry and
Ionia County is doing this and are right here in
our own backyard at Bay Point Woods, which is an
absolutely fabulous destination for folks. But you got that one
(29:49):
coming up, and then we'll be at Macosta County over
the weekend on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Well, there's a lot of energy people who want to
hear some of our excellent candidates who are running statewide,
and people want to support the work that the Republican
Party is doing and leading to help get America back
on the right track. And we're looking forward to seeing everybody.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
We would love to see you as well. Don't we
appreciate you being there of course, as always, thank you
Congressman Molinar for all you did.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Come back.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Please give us updates as they come out, and we'll
make sure that folks stay up to date on these
stories and more. As there's so much happened in these days.
It's never a dull moment, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
That's true. Thank you. Justin good to be with you today.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Thank you sir, you too, God bless Congressman John Mallin
ar Michigan Second District. And the latest on the shutdown,
of course, the Schumer shut down. We'll have more coming
up as these stories continue to break this morning. The
details you won't get anywhere else. We've got more breaking
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Speaker 10 (32:16):
Here are your headlines from the Midwestern Or this Thursday,
October ninth, Thime Robin Hoffman. It's a Midwesterner dot News
original story here in Michigan, Speaker of the House Republican
Matt Hall announcing lawmakers have made progress and eliminating so
called ghost employees from the state budget. These are fake
positions used to inflate spending programs, but no real jobs
(32:38):
actually are attached to them. The Michigan cannabis industry sues
to block what it calls an unconstitutional new twenty four
percent marijuanatacks. In other news, Governor Whitmer signs into law
a new state budget that includes language that Strip's Secretary
of State, Jocelyn Benson, of it oversight in her department.
This has problems persist with the nine million dollar website
(33:01):
and the art of the deal on full display as
President Trump secures a deal for peace in the Middle
East between Hamas terrorists and Israel. Israeli celebrating in the
streets as word the twenty living hostages scheduled to be
released and phase one of this deal as early as Monday.
Close to two thousand Palestinian prisoners, including two hundred and
(33:22):
fifty people serving life sentences, also scheduled to be let go.
For these stories and more, visit the Midwesterner at the
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Speaker 2 (33:36):
Take a look at the markets this morning and the
latest CNBC, their reaction to maybe this piece deal and
some of the other things that's going on. Hassaw gold
and silver up. We're going to do that a little
bit later on. Not really a lot of change's mixed
across the board this morning if you're taking a look
at CNBC and the Red and the Green. But the
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I gotta got it. We got to this on the
the behind the scenes livestream which day. If you ever
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the radio programs going on each and every day, we
talk about things and we share little bits and pieces,
and some of them make it to the air, some
of them don't. By the way, everything we talk about
gets up in the stack each and every day at
justin barclay dot com. But I found this interesting. There's
that story about the man that said he's running for
attorney general. By the way, this is not who you
want to be the top cop in any place, state
(35:28):
or country. But the man's running for attorney join named
Jay Jones, and the guy had made some statements about
wanting to kill well, let's take a listen to this
report and the report on the reporting of all of
this news substantial race in an off year election, sixty
three seconds coverage on NBC. Nothing on the other two
(35:49):
big networks. None of these these networks covered this story.
The guy was caught in text messages saying that he
not only wanted to kill his opponent, but their children.
This is the quote. Just let me read this to you.
And by the way, did ABCCBS or PBS find it
like you necessary to run? By the way, NBC only
(36:09):
sixty three seconds, mainstream Democrat zero seconds of coverage on
any of those other states. J Jones say wants to
shoot Republican officials and their children and urinate on their graves.
I'm sorry if you're still just having your morning coffee.
Nobody wants to hear this any point in time, but
it is a fact. It is a story. You wonder
(36:30):
why some of the weird and wild things, that evil
things that are happening in this world, it's because rhetoric
like this nothing on PBS. It's like this never happened.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Well, that is not surprising in any way, because most
of the corporate media view their job as existing to
help out the Democrat Party with their campaigns, and so
it happens on literally every issue, whether it's an actual
race and a candidate that they're trying to help out.
We know that if this were a Republican candidate, it
would be leading every single news show and every Republican
official in America would be forced to ask about it.
(37:01):
We now have a situation in the Democrat Party where
there's open support for left wing violence and nobody's really
getting asked hard questions substantial race.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
That's a problem. Nobody's getting asked hard questions. They had
a panel on Antifa. We're going to dive a little
bit deeper into that coming up. Here in just a
little bit during the after show. The show after the show,
we stream that live at all those different places justin
Barkley dot com and whatnot, but also the iHeartRadio app
(37:31):
where you can catch this show live or archive. But
we put the podcast up every day so you can
go in and take a look. A bit of a
moment of levity yesterday when the Silver Brandy Krauss, she's
a reporter cruise rather formerly she's a recovering a member
of the TDS. She had TDS. She's a victim of TDS.
She explains to the President during that panel. It'st the
(37:53):
same time he got that note passed to him about
this historic peace deal. She explained that she's recovering and
her life has been said. She's recovered.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
Jack.
Speaker 8 (38:02):
This living proof that you can recover from TDS. I
had strong Trump derangement syndrome for probably eight years. Yeah,
it's this is one of the reasons I recovered from it.
And by the way, it's much better to not have TDS.
I'm happier, I'm healthier, more successful. I even think I
(38:22):
got a little more attractive. Yes, you know, I watched
I'm a reporter in Seattle, and frankly, I could not
care any less what any of you have to say
about this meeting, could not care any less. We're not
here for you. I'm not here to convince any of
you that Antifa is a real thing, because if you
have not come to that conclusion by now, you are
never going to come to that conclusion because you don't
(38:43):
want to see it, and you're going to go and
you're gonna say it's a bunch of right wing conservative
influencers who are here spinning a tail. I was one
of you. I was a mainstream reporter in Seattle for
ten years. I was a TV reporter on the streets
doing my and I was still assaulted by antifa.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
It is incredible. The rest of her statement will play,
But look at people are waking up, folks, one by one,
We'll take them all. Little hope, little encouragement for the
times that we're in back with more. Wishing you the
bless the best, make it a great one, and God
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