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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Now, come man, folks. It is the start of a
hot one this weekend. At least, that's what we're here
in TIMPs. Gotta be up there over the next two days.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
We're gonna keep you updated. Hey, give you a lae
speaking that heating up.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
The news.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Never stops, never slows down, and no cool downs lately
except for one little cool down period of two weeks
at least. It sounds like President Trump with that decision
about Iran.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
We'll talk about that. And Moore coming up there. It's
a free for all Friday to stand by. Here we go,
use weather and traffic.
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Speaker 1 (01:45):
Number one.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Well, two weeks the President is decided to give a
rend time to come to the table. Meanwhile, another missile
slipping past the Iron Dome israelis tonight continue to target
the nuclear program in Iran with the.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Jets and.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Missiles, drones and more strategically off situation.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And I ran I know there has been a lot
of speculation amongst all of you in the media regarding
the President's decision making and whether or not the United
States will be directly involved. In light of that news,
I have a message directly from the President and I
quote based on the fact that there's a substantial chance
of negotiations that may or may not take place with
Iran in the near future. I will make my decision
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whether or not to go within the next two weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
There you have it. More coming out in.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Our conversation on the way here, folks, think bye for that.
Federal appeals court handing Trump a big win, lets him
keep control over the California National Guard at least for now,
until they see this all through. Another judge had block
Trump from tenny control of the troops used to quell
(03:02):
those riots in Los Angeles. This one says what he
did was okay, at least until they have a chance
to see it all the way through. They're gonna let
him continue on that path. And man, oh man, I'll
breaking it's a scorcher.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So my grandma used to say.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Heat waves spanning across the country, with some areas in
triple digits tomorrow into the beginning of next week. Here
in Michigan, we'll see tempts in the nineties. It'll be
hot today. I think you have a chance of some
showers understorm here or there, but we'll keep a eye
on it for you to make.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Sure that you're up to date with it.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
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Of course stay up today with the his news, weather
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Speaker 2 (04:16):
All right, let's break through some of this.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
In fact, Kyle Olsen will joined us in the Midwestern
of Midwestern have gotten mister stories inside the state coming up.
We got that big story yesterday that Michigan manufacturer here
in kit Wood wanting to spend another seventy million dollars.
You say, oh, that's fantastic and a new pantatory. Probably
biggest issue here though that factory will not be here
in Michigan. It'll create three hundred jobs in Indiana. That
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conversation is still yet on the way. Dana Nessel rating
Whitmer's e DC while Whitmer's down Under.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Don't confuse the two. It is.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It's an interesting conversation coming up with our good friend
Kyle Olsen and in the folks at the Midwestern by
the way, so.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Hang in for hanging there for that more on the
nukes in Iran, of.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Course, they continue that process of trying to make one.
That least is what we're hearing. That's what the secretary,
the Press secretary is telling us. Press Secretary Carolin Levitt
asked that question yesterday inside the briefing room, and here's
(05:29):
her response.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
When the President said a few weeks away, did he
mean obtaining enough enriched uranium to start building a weapon
or did he mean Iran is a few weeks away
from completing the production of a weapon.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I'm glad you asked that. Weja it's an important question,
and it's one frankly, the media has been getting wrong.
Let's be very clear, Iran has all that it needs
to achieve a nuclear weapon. All they need is a
decision from the Supreme Leader to do that, and it
would take a couple of weeks to complete the production
of that weapon, which would of course pose an existential
threat not just to Israel, but to the United States
(06:07):
into the entire world. And that is something that the
entire world, including countries like Russia, is in agreement with
that Iran should not and cannot obtain a nuclear weapon.
And that's why the President believes that. And he's believed
that again not just his political career, but frankly his
entire life.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, we got twitter expost was Twitter at the time.
Go back to like twenty eleven where he said that, Now,
I will tell you this, there's a lot of question
on that. Say, we've been hearing for years that they're
going to have a Niga writer around the corner from people.
I don't have a new I don't think it's ever
been more true. We certainly know they've wanted this. I mean,
(06:46):
this is obvious, it's part of the conversation. The question
really is is the response. And what I think you're
seeing play out here with the President particularly is expert
negotiation tactics, expert gamesmanship. He has really laid it on
the line. He said, we could destroy you if we
(07:06):
need to. He's told the Supreme Leader, we know where
you are. We will not take you out for now,
but we will if we need to. He's gone as
far as he needs to go on all of these airs.
But then he turns back around and he says, but
we want to make a deal. We want a Ran
to be able to prosper Now the question is whether
(07:27):
or not see the people of the Ran versus the
leadership Iran is the issue and the difference.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
People of Iran, that's what they like too.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
The long history of this country, obviously Persia, and the
going back into the last forty to fifty years and
beyond it, the long storied history and even the involvement
with America and how we got to the place where
we are today. It's a whole other piece of this.
(08:01):
But the people of Iran would like that. They would
like prosperity, They would like they become a peaceful and
I would think go to women in Iran would like
to be treated well and all of the things that
we enjoy in the western countries. But the rulers are
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this sort of extremist religious sect who are kind of
bent on destruction, and of course, through that ideology which
I laid out the other day, the Mahdi and all
this other stuff that they believe in, they want to
see that happen. And so you've got a very sort
of tense and very peculiar sort of tightrope that the
(08:45):
president has to walk here. I hope he can get
it done. You're talking about the man who I believe,
and just my perspective here, I think he's called for
such a time as this to be able to walk
through this. It just remains to be seen though. More
from Carolyn Levitt in the press briefing room.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
So, the President is always interested in a diplomatic solution
to the problems in the global conflicts in this world. Again,
he is a peacemaker in chief. He is the peace
through strength president, and so if there's a chance for diplomacy,
the President's always going to grab it, but he's not
afraid to use strength as well.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I will add that's exactly the thread that I'm talking about,
that needles that he's trying to walk out there. So
what does she say to folks in Magan, of course,
the rest of the world, the country watching all of
this play out. What does she say about all of this?
What is her advice from the press briefing room, Carolyn
(09:43):
Levitt trust.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
In President Trump. President Trump has incredible instincts. And President
Trump kept America in the world safe in his first
term as president in implementing a peace through strength foreign
policy agenda and with respect to Iran, Nobody should be
surprised by the President's position that Iran absolutely cannot obtain
(10:04):
a nuclear weapon. He's been unequivocally clear about this for decades,
not just as president, not just as a presidential candidate,
but also as a private citizen. In fact, I have
some quotes for you. In twenty eleven, President Trump said,
America's primary goal with Iran must be to destroy its
nuclear ambitions. We cannot allow this radical regime to acquire
a nuclear weapon that they will either use or hand
(10:26):
off to terrorists. In twenty fifteen, the President said, the
problem is that Iran poses an next essential threat to Israel,
our Middle Eastern allies in the United States. And of
course the President has repeated that in his first term
as president and his second term as president as well.
That's why he was adamantly opposed to the disastrous arounding
a nuclear agreement that was implemented by President Obama. And
(10:47):
it's why he has given great latitude and given a
lot of effort to achieving a diplomatic solution. But he's
been very clear. Iran went for sixty days when he
gave them that sixty day warning without coming to the table.
On day sixty one, Israel took action against Iran, and
as I just told you, from the president directly, he
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has he will make a decision within two weeks.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
There you have it, folks, And uh, you know that's
that's actually a very good point. He said that the
other day we were raising the flag. He said, he
got wait.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I told him, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Told him it may be too late. He said, I
told you sixty days And did they listen. No, thumb
their nose. But you got to realize too, They've always
had people that would make these veiled threats and they
just wouldn't follow through. That's not who we're dealing with
here this this Sunday at Newchapel. I'll be speaking giving
you a message today at Newchapel this Sunday, and there's
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three services, eight thirty ten and eleven thirty, eight thirty
ten and eleven thirty. It's freedom focused, it's not political,
it's biblical. But I'm telling you it's a message for
such a time as this. And if I'm not a
chance to meet you in person, or maybe you have,
but we just it's been a while and we need
to catch up. Love to see you there this week
in Newchapel is on four mile just off of Alpine
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there and again Sunday three services, eight thirty, ten and
eleven thirty and the message that again I can't I
just can't shake it. Love to invite you out. It
may even have a special gift for you when you
stop in. I'd love to see you there this Sunday
at Newchapel on Alpine.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
All right, let me grab the phone lines real quickly.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
We got some calls coming in at six one, six, seven, seven, four,
twenty four, twenty four.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Paul, I believe is Paul on the line?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Yes, mine, justin.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
How you doing appreciate it? Paul, welcome in.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Well, what I had was a possible suggestion for Donald
Trump and handling the Iran Israeli situation. During the Second
World War, we had what it's called the lend leased
program to the British where we would give them least
the military weapons and the like. And I'm thinking, well, gee,
why I wasn't Donald Trump just rent or lease a
(13:02):
B two bomber to the Israelis. We can paint the
start David on the side of it, and they can
buy whatever bombs that they.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Need do what they need to do, and then land
the thing at Tel Aviv so that the rest of
the world knows that the Israelis were the ones that
did the bombing, not us, and we were just following
historical presidents.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
That's my two cents.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
That's an interesting thought, and one of they thinks maybe
the technicalities of which they may want to be able
to work around, Paul, they said, it's a fantastic I
just one of the reasons I think they're waiting is
the question of whether or not this bunk or buster
bomb right would would actually work and get through that mountain.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's what I think.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Well, they still don't know some of that, and I
think that's part of the issue. And I you know,
that's a good question.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Well, actually there's with the current T two bomb, they
use two of them. They do one blast a whole
and then they take a second one to blast the
whole even deeper so they can go down over theoretically
about was it ninety meters? I mean, it's a ridiculous
depth that these things can go.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
To Fyi through a mountain. All right, Well, Paul, I
appreciate the call.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Thank you, my friend, Take care and joy and Jordi Cheryl, thank.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yes, sir, again, I don't know that we have completely
the answer now that we can do lots of things,
and we can do lots of things that we don't
even know about you and I haven't even been told about.
But I think one of the things that we got
to make sure is that we want to do those things.
And I think more than anything, more than even doing
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the things that we can.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Do or the things that we don't even know we
can do.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
But I think President Trump wants more than anything as
he wants to deal because he's a deal maker. Blessed
are well not the deal makers, but blessed are the peacemakers.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And I think I think you leg a chance to
get that done too.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
But it's this whole thing, threading this needle, making sure
that I will tell you, folks, continue to pray.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Because we are.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
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With us today.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Good morning, Thanks for having me so help.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Me understand this.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
What is she trying to drum up some business? Because
here here's the business that I got problems with. This
is this is really what it is. It's her policies
that are the real issue. And what I mean by
that is we got all of this manufacturing, reshoring and
expanding here in the country right now thanks to President
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Trump and his policies. By the way, is approval rating
Trafalgar groups got it just came out for June fifty
three point seven percent approve of his job as president.
He's still in the positive. No matter how much mainstream
media wants to hammer at him on a daily basis.
People still happy, particularly probably with the border initiatives. The
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fact that we had zero we had this number, Yes,
we talked about zero return right set free, set loose
inside the country, as opposed to the thousands that Biden
had the year before yesterday. So these are big numbers,
big stories. He's bringing people and they've heard everything we've
heard about the terrace, but he's bringing work in manufacturing
(17:52):
bank and he's also this is trickling down. They say
this trickle down, this doesn't happen. Well, it's trickling down.
We see that blue collar wage growth as just shot
through the roof. We had that story earlier this week
as well. These are all big stories. But the thing
that concerns me the most, and I talked about this
was speaker Matt Hall the other day, and again I
(18:12):
just can't help but keep coming back to it. She's
down under in Australia trying to shake the trees for
I don't know whatever it is that they have down
in Australia, shrimp on the barbie or whatever whatever else.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But right back at home, we got problems.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
There's this story that you all had yesterday, and it's look,
it's it's to me and just look at this and
you go, I can't believe it. We got a plant
that wants to invest seventy million dollars in a new factory,
create three hundred new jobs, but they won't do it
in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
They're going to Indiana. And it's a it's a company
that's right here in Kentwood. It's just boggles my mind,
floors me.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Yeah, I think that Gretcha Whitmer goes to Australia, to
the United Kingdom, to pan to the Middle East because
they don't understand. I think that the people around the
world don't understand the intricate intricacies of the Michigan economy
and how in the terrible conditions that she's created, and
(19:16):
she's going to try and throw corporate welfare around trying
to lure companies. But what's interesting to me is she's
not going to Ohio, she's not going to Indiana. She's
not even going to Illinois, which is a worse state
than Michigan. She's going to other countries. And I think
it's really what's going on is she's going and she's
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getting pictures and she's getting video, and she's trying to
build this sort of foreign policy resume as a reason
why she should run for president, and she's doing it
at our expense. She is wasting time going around all
of these countries when she should be fixing the Michigan economy.
She should be going to certainly neighboring states, but other
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states as well, trying to lure businesses here. But she's
not doing that.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Weller resume, I think speaks much louder than any of
those pr photo ops that she might be trying to get,
and hopefully folks throughout the country will see that as well.
I mean, we got this, we got this announcement for Ford,
the four billion dollars. That's a beautiful thing, right, But
I just wonder how much we're missing out on when
it comes to some of the other major manufacturers that
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have announced plans and expansion in other places throughout the country.
To me, I just hate to see Michigan missing out.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Yeah. Well, and I think what we're seeing right now
is manufacturers like Ford, like GM but others are saying
we're going to bring business back to America because it's
because of the tariffs it will be cheaper to do
production in America than it will be to you know,
be in Mexico or somewhere else or Canada and then
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bring those products, you know, pay the tariffs and bring
those products in. And so I think it's pretty clear
that President Trump's strategy, tariff strategy is working now. The
Democrats are you know, have been crying about that. Gretchen
Whitmer was was, you know, wringing her hands about what
that was going to do. But she was very quick
to take credit for the jobs that GM announced, and
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so on the one hand, she was attacking the tariffs,
but GM was pretty clear that they're moving the production
back to America because of the tariffs, and so she's
claiming credit for the production moving back, and so she's
I mean, she's trying to have it both ways. But
I think I think a lot of people see through that.
And so what I think one of the maybe the
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most stunning story this week and maybe of the month
or the year, is that while Gretchen Whitmer is in Australia,
executives from the MEDC, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Dana Nenessel,
also a Democrat, raids the MEDC for documents and also
(22:13):
raids the home of Fabe Done, who is a Democrat
donor and h and was an appointee by Gretchen Whitmer
to the MEDC board. And she's the one that in
one of the recent budgets got a twenty million dollar
earmark to create a business and they allocated the money
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and then she created the business. And Dana Nenessel, the
Attorney General, actually raided the MEDC. I don't think the
significance of this can be understated, and it was while
the MEDC was halfway across the world with the governor.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
What do you think is going on there? What's her
what's the endgame for for nessl.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Well, I think this is one of those ear marks
that got a lot of attention. And it's interesting because
the woman who got the ear mark is so closely
tied to the Democratic Party, to all these individuals involved,
and there was a lot of you know, there was
a lot of coverage about some of the ways that
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she spent money. She spent forty five hundred dollars on
a coffee maker, she spent eleven thousand dollars on tickets
to Budapest, she spent forty thousand dollars on office furniture,
et cetera. And that got a lot of attention. But
of course the bigger question is, Okay, she got twenty
million dollars, where did that go? What are her results?
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And this is really one of the fundamental problems of
the way Lancing operates is up until the latest, the
latest budget in the in what Matt Hall is doing,
the way he's changed ear marks, and we need to
see how that's still going to play out. Because the
budget's not yet completed. But up to this point it
was just a free for all and there was in
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the state. Legislators would just give millions and millions of
dollars to these companies and then everybody would just move on.
There was no accountability, there was no Why didn't you
send us a report in the next year and tell
us how you spent this money? There wasn't any of that.
And so things are changing under Matt Hall's leadership. Again,
(24:27):
there's not a budget that's really been hashed out yet,
so we've got to see how that's going to play out.
But this sort of thing is not It seems to
be coming to an end and it needs to.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, I will tell you I.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
All of this that's happening, and I think maybe we're
coming to the end of the line here on this.
You've got to wonder what's Nessl's next move. Where does
she go after she's the attorney jo She clearly is
not going to be able to run for anything.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Her political career is over.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I think you could argue Whitmer's is over, although I
don't think she's realized that yet. And Benson wants to
step up into the next ring oversee her her own election,
with all the questions and the chaos that surround her
position as a Secretary of State. It really is a
wild time here in Michigan. And you just you're watching
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all of this happen. It's it's like I said, never
a dull moment. But you know who really hurts in
the in the long terms, the people in Michigan. Somebody
just said in the chat, by the way, I can't
believe you're surprised by this. You know, business is leaving
the state. I said, not surprised, I'm saddened by it.
That's that's the thing that makes me. I think the
most upset is that it is wiping out again the
(25:43):
middle class, the people who built this country. Really this
state put the world on wheels, right, And we've got
the opportunity, We've got the ability to be a part
of the next Golden Age, right, We've got the ability
to be a part of this the opportunity here, but
it's being squandered by these folks who are trying to
sell us out and down the river. And again this
(26:06):
just goes to show elections have consequences, and just as
consequential as I believe the twenty twenty four election was
for not just a nation, but the entire world. I
think the same could be said for Michigan in twenty
twenty six. This is make or break with this next
election here in Michigan. We have the opportunity. We're out
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of crossroads. Can we get the state back on track
or is it lost?
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Well, that remains to be seen. But I don't know.
You asked about Dana Ness. I don't know what her
end strategy is. She's not running for governor, she's not
running for Senate. I don't know if she's got something
else in mind, or she wants an appointment, or I
don't know. Jocelyn Benson, obviously you and I have talked
(26:56):
about her at length. I think that I think that
Joscelyn Benson is infinitely worse than Gretchen Whitmer. I think
Gretchen Whitmer it was just sort of her career path
to get to be to run for governor, and you know,
the Lansing establishment was behind her and she won. Joscelyn
(27:17):
Benson is a very different person, and I think Joscelyn
Benson knows much better than Gretchen Whitmer. How to weaponize government,
and if she has, if she has control over the
entire state bureaucracy, the MEDC, the Eagle, and all of
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the other state police, all of the other agencies, it
will be a disaster for Michigan. So people need to
realize that. Yes, I think you're right, twenty twenty six
is a major, major year.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And I think it goes also to the point of
what you're making about Benson in her background, how she
came up, the Soros ties and what that looks like.
I mean, you talk about radical what she wants to do.
If you thought Whitmer was bad, she's just a walk
in the park. When you talk about the background of
Benson and really essentially what she wants to pull off
(28:14):
in the days ahead, folks, I don't think it's I
really don't think it's possible to overstate it here. Hey,
let me ask you one other question, when are we
going to get that special election? We've got an entire district,
entire area. And noted that Nessel was out at these
No King's Day protests that kind of flopped over the weekend.
She was out of a couple in fact, in that
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area where these people are not being represented right now,
taxation without representation in that area where they just should
be holding that special election for the Senate, and Whitmer
is just dragging her feet. She's down in Australia. What
does she care? When are we going to get one
or are we going.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
To get one?
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Well, that's a very good question, and it wouldn't surprise
me if she calls it next year, in twenty twenty six,
and so you could basically have two elections, two campaigns
were working almost simultaneously, and it's I think it's shameful
what she's doing. There is a twenty there is a
nineteen eighteen Democrat majority in the state Senate and clearly
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I don't think there's any other explanation other than she's
afraid that Democrats will lose that election and if they do,
it's a nineteen nineteen tie and then she really can't
get anything done and so she's just not calling the
election now. Darlin Gilchrist, the Lieutenant Governor, has come out
and said there should be an election. Dana Nessels has
(29:43):
said the same. Garland Gilchris when Gretchen Witmer is out
of the state, Yes, Darlen Gilchrist, the Lieutenant governor is
the acting governor. He could call it right now, power
of the governor, he could call it right now. And
he was asked about that and he stood down. He
then drunk from the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
And I guess he's just disqualified himself from from being
a leader. If you can't lead in the tough moments, Gar,
why do you think we're going to give you the
job when it comes to full on in twenty twenty six.
I mean, you're going to stand in Whitmer's shadow. Are
you going to stand up and be a man? And
I guess the answer is clear, yep.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
I think I think we found that out this week.
And so I don't know what is you know what
Democrat voters would find compelling about him when he's not
willing to be a leader. But the voters in Midland
and Bay and that area don't have leaders, don't have
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leadership Saganaw County as well, they don't have leadership or
in the state Senate and representation. And it's a shame.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Kyle Olson, the Midwestern or the Midwestern or dot is
always a pleasure.
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Never stops, never slows down, and no cool downs lately
except for one little cool down period of two weeks
at least. It sounds like President Trump with that decision
about Iran.
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Well, two weeks the President is decided to give a
rend time to come to the table. Meanwhile, another missile
slipping past the Iron Dome israelis tonight continue to target
the nuclear program in Iran with the.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Jets and.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Missiles, drones and more strategically off situation.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And I ran I know there has been a lot
of speculation amongst all of you in the media regarding
the President's decision making and whether or not the United
States will be directly involved. In light of that news,
I have a message directly from the President and I
quote based on the fact that there's a substantial chance
of negotiations that may or may not take place with
Iran in the near future. I will make my decision
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whether or not to go within the next two weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
There you have it. More coming out in.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Our conversation on the way here, folks, think bye for that.
Federal appeals court handing Trump a big win, lets him
keep control over the California National Guard at least for now,
until they see this all through. Another judge had block
Trump from tenny control of the troops used to quell
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those riots in Los Angeles. This one says what he
did was okay, at least until they have a chance
to see it all the way through. They're gonna let
him continue on that path. And man, oh man, I'll
breaking it's a scorcher.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So my grandma used to say.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Heat waves spanning across the country, with some areas in
triple digits tomorrow into the beginning of next week. Here
in Michigan, we'll see tempts in the nineties. It'll be
hot today. I think you have a chance of some
showers understorm here or there, but we'll keep a eye
on it for you to make.
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All right, let's break through some of this.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
In fact, Kyle Olsen will joined us in the Midwestern
of Midwestern have gotten mister stories inside the state coming up.
We got that big story yesterday that Michigan manufacturer here
in kit Wood wanting to spend another seventy million dollars.
You say, oh, that's fantastic and a new pantatory. Probably
biggest issue here though that factory will not be here
in Michigan. It'll create three hundred jobs in Indiana. That
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conversation is still yet on the way. Dana Nessel rating
Whitmer's e DC while Whitmer's down Under.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Don't confuse the two. It is.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It's an interesting conversation coming up with our good friend
Kyle Olsen and in the folks at the Midwestern by
the way, so.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Hang in for hanging there for that more on the
nukes in Iran, of.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Course, they continue that process of trying to make one.
That least is what we're hearing. That's what the secretary,
the Press secretary is telling us. Press Secretary Carolin Levitt
asked that question yesterday inside the briefing room, and here's
(05:29):
her response.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
When the President said a few weeks away, did he
mean obtaining enough enriched uranium to start building a weapon
or did he mean Iran is a few weeks away
from completing the production of a weapon.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I'm glad you asked that. Weja it's an important question,
and it's one frankly, the media has been getting wrong.
Let's be very clear, Iran has all that it needs
to achieve a nuclear weapon. All they need is a
decision from the Supreme Leader to do that, and it
would take a couple of weeks to complete the production
of that weapon, which would of course pose an existential
threat not just to Israel, but to the United States
(06:07):
into the entire world. And that is something that the
entire world, including countries like Russia, is in agreement with
that Iran should not and cannot obtain a nuclear weapon.
And that's why the President believes that. And he's believed
that again not just his political career, but frankly his
entire life.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, we got twitter expost was Twitter at the time.
Go back to like twenty eleven where he said that, Now,
I will tell you this, there's a lot of question
on that. Say, we've been hearing for years that they're
going to have a Niga writer around the corner from people.
I don't have a new I don't think it's ever
been more true. We certainly know they've wanted this. I mean,
(06:46):
this is obvious, it's part of the conversation. The question
really is is the response. And what I think you're
seeing play out here with the President particularly is expert
negotiation tactics, expert gamesmanship. He has really laid it on
the line. He said, we could destroy you if we
(07:06):
need to. He's told the Supreme Leader, we know where
you are. We will not take you out for now,
but we will if we need to. He's gone as
far as he needs to go on all of these airs.
But then he turns back around and he says, but
we want to make a deal. We want a Ran
to be able to prosper Now the question is whether
(07:27):
or not see the people of the Ran versus the
leadership Iran is the issue and the difference.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
People of Iran, that's what they like too.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
The long history of this country, obviously Persia, and the
going back into the last forty to fifty years and
beyond it, the long storied history and even the involvement
with America and how we got to the place where
we are today. It's a whole other piece of this.
(08:01):
But the people of Iran would like that. They would
like prosperity, They would like they become a peaceful and
I would think go to women in Iran would like
to be treated well and all of the things that
we enjoy in the western countries. But the rulers are
(08:23):
this sort of extremist religious sect who are kind of
bent on destruction, and of course, through that ideology which
I laid out the other day, the Mahdi and all
this other stuff that they believe in, they want to
see that happen. And so you've got a very sort
of tense and very peculiar sort of tightrope that the
(08:45):
president has to walk here. I hope he can get
it done. You're talking about the man who I believe,
and just my perspective here, I think he's called for
such a time as this to be able to walk
through this. It just remains to be seen though. More
from Carolyn Levitt in the press briefing room.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
So, the President is always interested in a diplomatic solution
to the problems in the global conflicts in this world. Again,
he is a peacemaker in chief. He is the peace
through strength president, and so if there's a chance for diplomacy,
the President's always going to grab it, but he's not
afraid to use strength as well.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I will add that's exactly the thread that I'm talking about,
that needles that he's trying to walk out there. So
what does she say to folks in Magan, of course,
the rest of the world, the country watching all of
this play out. What does she say about all of this?
What is her advice from the press briefing room, Carolyn
(09:43):
Levitt trust.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
In President Trump. President Trump has incredible instincts. And President
Trump kept America in the world safe in his first
term as president in implementing a peace through strength foreign
policy agenda and with respect to Iran, Nobody should be
surprised by the President's position that Iran absolutely cannot obtain
(10:04):
a nuclear weapon. He's been unequivocally clear about this for decades,
not just as president, not just as a presidential candidate,
but also as a private citizen. In fact, I have
some quotes for you. In twenty eleven, President Trump said,
America's primary goal with Iran must be to destroy its
nuclear ambitions. We cannot allow this radical regime to acquire
a nuclear weapon that they will either use or hand
(10:26):
off to terrorists. In twenty fifteen, the President said, the
problem is that Iran poses an next essential threat to Israel,
our Middle Eastern allies in the United States. And of
course the President has repeated that in his first term
as president and his second term as president as well.
That's why he was adamantly opposed to the disastrous arounding
a nuclear agreement that was implemented by President Obama. And
(10:47):
it's why he has given great latitude and given a
lot of effort to achieving a diplomatic solution. But he's
been very clear. Iran went for sixty days when he
gave them that sixty day warning without coming to the table.
On day sixty one, Israel took action against Iran, and
as I just told you, from the president directly, he
(11:08):
has he will make a decision within two weeks.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
There you have it, folks, And uh, you know that's
that's actually a very good point. He said that the
other day we were raising the flag. He said, he
got wait.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I told him, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Told him it may be too late. He said, I
told you sixty days And did they listen. No, thumb
their nose. But you got to realize too, They've always
had people that would make these veiled threats and they
just wouldn't follow through. That's not who we're dealing with
here this this Sunday at Newchapel. I'll be speaking giving
you a message today at Newchapel this Sunday, and there's
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three services, eight thirty ten and eleven thirty, eight thirty
ten and eleven thirty. It's freedom focused, it's not political,
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but we just it's been a while and we need
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in Newchapel is on four mile just off of Alpine
(12:07):
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Speaker 2 (12:27):
All right, let me grab the phone lines real quickly.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
We got some calls coming in at six one, six, seven, seven, four,
twenty four, twenty four.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Paul, I believe is Paul on the line?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Yes, mine, justin.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
How you doing appreciate it? Paul, welcome in.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Well, what I had was a possible suggestion for Donald
Trump and handling the Iran Israeli situation. During the Second
World War, we had what it's called the lend leased
program to the British where we would give them least
the military weapons and the like. And I'm thinking, well, gee,
why I wasn't Donald Trump just rent or lease a
(13:02):
B two bomber to the Israelis. We can paint the
start David on the side of it, and they can
buy whatever bombs that they.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Need do what they need to do, and then land
the thing at Tel Aviv so that the rest of
the world knows that the Israelis were the ones that
did the bombing, not us, and we were just following
historical presidents.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
That's my two cents.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
That's an interesting thought, and one of they thinks maybe
the technicalities of which they may want to be able
to work around, Paul, they said, it's a fantastic I
just one of the reasons I think they're waiting is
the question of whether or not this bunk or buster
bomb right would would actually work and get through that mountain.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's what I think.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Well, they still don't know some of that, and I
think that's part of the issue. And I you know,
that's a good question.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Well, actually there's with the current T two bomb, they
use two of them. They do one blast a whole
and then they take a second one to blast the
whole even deeper so they can go down over theoretically
about was it ninety meters? I mean, it's a ridiculous
depth that these things can go.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
To Fyi through a mountain. All right, Well, Paul, I
appreciate the call.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Thank you, my friend, Take care and joy and Jordi Cheryl, thank.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yes, sir, again, I don't know that we have completely
the answer now that we can do lots of things,
and we can do lots of things that we don't
even know about you and I haven't even been told about.
But I think one of the things that we got
to make sure is that we want to do those things.
And I think more than anything, more than even doing
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the things that we can.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Do or the things that we don't even know we
can do.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
But I think President Trump wants more than anything as
he wants to deal because he's a deal maker. Blessed
are well not the deal makers, but blessed are the peacemakers.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And I think I think you leg a chance to
get that done too.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
But it's this whole thing, threading this needle, making sure
that I will tell you, folks, continue to pray.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Because we are.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
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With us today.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Good morning, Thanks for having me so help.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Me understand this.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
What is she trying to drum up some business? Because
here here's the business that I got problems with. This
is this is really what it is. It's her policies
that are the real issue. And what I mean by
that is we got all of this manufacturing, reshoring and
expanding here in the country right now thanks to President
(17:07):
Trump and his policies. By the way, is approval rating
Trafalgar groups got it just came out for June fifty
three point seven percent approve of his job as president.
He's still in the positive. No matter how much mainstream
media wants to hammer at him on a daily basis.
People still happy, particularly probably with the border initiatives. The
(17:30):
fact that we had zero we had this number, Yes,
we talked about zero return right set free, set loose
inside the country, as opposed to the thousands that Biden
had the year before yesterday. So these are big numbers,
big stories. He's bringing people and they've heard everything we've
heard about the terrace, but he's bringing work in manufacturing
(17:52):
bank and he's also this is trickling down. They say
this trickle down, this doesn't happen. Well, it's trickling down.
We see that blue collar wage growth as just shot
through the roof. We had that story earlier this week
as well. These are all big stories. But the thing
that concerns me the most, and I talked about this
was speaker Matt Hall the other day, and again I
(18:12):
just can't help but keep coming back to it. She's
down under in Australia trying to shake the trees for
I don't know whatever it is that they have down
in Australia, shrimp on the barbie or whatever whatever else.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But right back at home, we got problems.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
There's this story that you all had yesterday, and it's look,
it's it's to me and just look at this and
you go, I can't believe it. We got a plant
that wants to invest seventy million dollars in a new factory,
create three hundred new jobs, but they won't do it
in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
They're going to Indiana. And it's a it's a company
that's right here in Kentwood. It's just boggles my mind,
floors me.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Yeah, I think that Gretcha Whitmer goes to Australia, to
the United Kingdom, to pan to the Middle East because
they don't understand. I think that the people around the
world don't understand the intricate intricacies of the Michigan economy
and how in the terrible conditions that she's created, and
(19:16):
she's going to try and throw corporate welfare around trying
to lure companies. But what's interesting to me is she's
not going to Ohio, she's not going to Indiana. She's
not even going to Illinois, which is a worse state
than Michigan. She's going to other countries. And I think
it's really what's going on is she's going and she's
(19:38):
getting pictures and she's getting video, and she's trying to
build this sort of foreign policy resume as a reason
why she should run for president, and she's doing it
at our expense. She is wasting time going around all
of these countries when she should be fixing the Michigan economy.
She should be going to certainly neighboring states, but other
(20:01):
states as well, trying to lure businesses here. But she's
not doing that.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Weller resume, I think speaks much louder than any of
those pr photo ops that she might be trying to get,
and hopefully folks throughout the country will see that as well.
I mean, we got this, we got this announcement for Ford,
the four billion dollars. That's a beautiful thing, right, But
I just wonder how much we're missing out on when
it comes to some of the other major manufacturers that
(20:30):
have announced plans and expansion in other places throughout the country.
To me, I just hate to see Michigan missing out.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Yeah. Well, and I think what we're seeing right now
is manufacturers like Ford, like GM but others are saying
we're going to bring business back to America because it's
because of the tariffs it will be cheaper to do
production in America than it will be to you know,
be in Mexico or somewhere else or Canada and then
(21:05):
bring those products, you know, pay the tariffs and bring
those products in. And so I think it's pretty clear
that President Trump's strategy, tariff strategy is working now. The
Democrats are you know, have been crying about that. Gretchen
Whitmer was was, you know, wringing her hands about what
that was going to do. But she was very quick
to take credit for the jobs that GM announced, and
(21:28):
so on the one hand, she was attacking the tariffs,
but GM was pretty clear that they're moving the production
back to America because of the tariffs, and so she's
claiming credit for the production moving back, and so she's
I mean, she's trying to have it both ways. But
I think I think a lot of people see through that.
And so what I think one of the maybe the
(21:51):
most stunning story this week and maybe of the month
or the year, is that while Gretchen Whitmer is in Australia,
executives from the MEDC, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Dana Nenessel,
also a Democrat, raids the MEDC for documents and also
(22:13):
raids the home of Fabe Done, who is a Democrat
donor and h and was an appointee by Gretchen Whitmer
to the MEDC board. And she's the one that in
one of the recent budgets got a twenty million dollar
earmark to create a business and they allocated the money
(22:36):
and then she created the business. And Dana Nenessel, the
Attorney General, actually raided the MEDC. I don't think the
significance of this can be understated, and it was while
the MEDC was halfway across the world with the governor.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
What do you think is going on there? What's her
what's the endgame for for nessl.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Well, I think this is one of those ear marks
that got a lot of attention. And it's interesting because
the woman who got the ear mark is so closely
tied to the Democratic Party, to all these individuals involved,
and there was a lot of you know, there was
a lot of coverage about some of the ways that
(23:21):
she spent money. She spent forty five hundred dollars on
a coffee maker, she spent eleven thousand dollars on tickets
to Budapest, she spent forty thousand dollars on office furniture,
et cetera. And that got a lot of attention. But
of course the bigger question is, Okay, she got twenty
million dollars, where did that go? What are her results?
(23:42):
And this is really one of the fundamental problems of
the way Lancing operates is up until the latest, the
latest budget in the in what Matt Hall is doing,
the way he's changed ear marks, and we need to
see how that's still going to play out. Because the
budget's not yet completed. But up to this point it
was just a free for all and there was in
(24:05):
the state. Legislators would just give millions and millions of
dollars to these companies and then everybody would just move on.
There was no accountability, there was no Why didn't you
send us a report in the next year and tell
us how you spent this money? There wasn't any of that.
And so things are changing under Matt Hall's leadership. Again,
(24:27):
there's not a budget that's really been hashed out yet,
so we've got to see how that's going to play out.
But this sort of thing is not It seems to
be coming to an end and it needs to.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, I will tell you I.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
All of this that's happening, and I think maybe we're
coming to the end of the line here on this.
You've got to wonder what's Nessl's next move. Where does
she go after she's the attorney jo She clearly is
not going to be able to run for anything.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Her political career is over.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I think you could argue Whitmer's is over, although I
don't think she's realized that yet. And Benson wants to
step up into the next ring oversee her her own election,
with all the questions and the chaos that surround her
position as a Secretary of State. It really is a
wild time here in Michigan. And you just you're watching
(25:21):
all of this happen. It's it's like I said, never
a dull moment. But you know who really hurts in
the in the long terms, the people in Michigan. Somebody
just said in the chat, by the way, I can't
believe you're surprised by this. You know, business is leaving
the state. I said, not surprised, I'm saddened by it.
That's that's the thing that makes me. I think the
most upset is that it is wiping out again the
(25:43):
middle class, the people who built this country. Really this
state put the world on wheels, right, And we've got
the opportunity, We've got the ability to be a part
of the next Golden Age, right, We've got the ability
to be a part of this the opportunity here, but
it's being squandered by these folks who are trying to
sell us out and down the river. And again this
(26:06):
just goes to show elections have consequences, and just as
consequential as I believe the twenty twenty four election was
for not just a nation, but the entire world. I
think the same could be said for Michigan in twenty
twenty six. This is make or break with this next
election here in Michigan. We have the opportunity. We're out
(26:28):
of crossroads. Can we get the state back on track
or is it lost?
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Well, that remains to be seen. But I don't know.
You asked about Dana Ness. I don't know what her
end strategy is. She's not running for governor, she's not
running for Senate. I don't know if she's got something
else in mind, or she wants an appointment, or I
don't know. Jocelyn Benson, obviously you and I have talked
(26:56):
about her at length. I think that I think that
Joscelyn Benson is infinitely worse than Gretchen Whitmer. I think
Gretchen Whitmer it was just sort of her career path
to get to be to run for governor, and you know,
the Lansing establishment was behind her and she won. Joscelyn
(27:17):
Benson is a very different person, and I think Joscelyn
Benson knows much better than Gretchen Whitmer. How to weaponize government,
and if she has, if she has control over the
entire state bureaucracy, the MEDC, the Eagle, and all of
(27:40):
the other state police, all of the other agencies, it
will be a disaster for Michigan. So people need to
realize that. Yes, I think you're right, twenty twenty six
is a major, major year.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And I think it goes also to the point of
what you're making about Benson in her background, how she
came up, the Soros ties and what that looks like.
I mean, you talk about radical what she wants to do.
If you thought Whitmer was bad, she's just a walk
in the park. When you talk about the background of
Benson and really essentially what she wants to pull off
(28:14):
in the days ahead, folks, I don't think it's I
really don't think it's possible to overstate it here. Hey,
let me ask you one other question, when are we
going to get that special election? We've got an entire district,
entire area. And noted that Nessel was out at these
No King's Day protests that kind of flopped over the weekend.
She was out of a couple in fact, in that
(28:36):
area where these people are not being represented right now,
taxation without representation in that area where they just should
be holding that special election for the Senate, and Whitmer
is just dragging her feet. She's down in Australia. What
does she care? When are we going to get one
or are we going.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
To get one?
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Well, that's a very good question, and it wouldn't surprise
me if she calls it next year, in twenty twenty six,
and so you could basically have two elections, two campaigns
were working almost simultaneously, and it's I think it's shameful
what she's doing. There is a twenty there is a
nineteen eighteen Democrat majority in the state Senate and clearly
(29:22):
I don't think there's any other explanation other than she's
afraid that Democrats will lose that election and if they do,
it's a nineteen nineteen tie and then she really can't
get anything done and so she's just not calling the
election now. Darlin Gilchrist, the Lieutenant Governor, has come out
and said there should be an election. Dana Nessels has
(29:43):
said the same. Garland Gilchris when Gretchen Witmer is out
of the state, Yes, Darlen Gilchrist, the Lieutenant governor is
the acting governor. He could call it right now, power
of the governor, he could call it right now. And
he was asked about that and he stood down. He
then drunk from the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
And I guess he's just disqualified himself from from being
a leader. If you can't lead in the tough moments, Gar,
why do you think we're going to give you the
job when it comes to full on in twenty twenty six.
I mean, you're going to stand in Whitmer's shadow. Are
you going to stand up and be a man? And
I guess the answer is clear, yep.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
I think I think we found that out this week.
And so I don't know what is you know what
Democrat voters would find compelling about him when he's not
willing to be a leader. But the voters in Midland
and Bay and that area don't have leaders, don't have
(30:42):
leadership Saganaw County as well, they don't have leadership or
in the state Senate and representation. And it's a shame.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Kyle Olson, the Midwestern or the Midwestern or dot is
always a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Just a quick reminder.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
This weekend Sunday three Services eight, third d ten and
eleven thirty at Newchapel. That's four mile right there off
of Alpinaneuchapel dot com. I've got a message for you.
They've asked me to speak and I've got something that
can't just can't shake it, a message that's on my
heart for you. It's not just political, it's biblical. It's
(31:17):
all about freedom and like I said, I just can't
wait
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