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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our good friend kyl Olsen back fresh back from Mackinac
Island and the I GOP Leadership Conference. Had a great
time there and uh and welcome in. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good morning, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
So, I don't know, may we talked about There's so
many things to talk about, but straw poll coming up
here in a little bit, how that played out, which
you noticed on mcinall. Maybe some of those issues, but
let's start. I gotta start top of the list today.
And that's call me indicted. Holy smokes. The find out
era is in full effect.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, it's it's I wouldn't say it's surprising. There's been
a lot of I think signals that this this is
the direction that the DJ is going. But you know,
I think most people would say they would look at
they would look at what happened during the Biden era
and how Trump was prosecuted. You know, so many things
happened to his aids and his attorneys that this is
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not the way America operates, and we expect the DJ,
the FBI to be above board. And and what we
have seen really since all of the Trump you know,
indictments and everything happened was a massive erosion in confidence
in the in the FBI and the DJ, and so
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I think the Trump administration then the current DJ is
saying we're not going to let the FBI behave this way.
And so we're now seeing, you know, we're seeing that fallout.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, and anybody that says or tries to convince you
that there's any sort of issue here when it comes
to well, let's just be honest, going after your political
enemies things like that. Okay, they went after Trump, they
rated Marlocle, they did all these different things. Look at
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what they tried to do. You're trying to tell me
that they were above the board. That's just not the case.
The d o J, speaking of which, you also suing
Michigan and a few other states, handful of others over
voter data. And this is data. As we just talked
to Monica Utuma, the winner of the straw poll on
mckinaw with the Midwesterner and the SOS candidate, their secretary
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of State here in Michigan about this story. It's a
big one, it really is. It shows how I think
important it is to make sure look as simple as this.
When you were in school, somebody just said to me
the matheint mathod. Well, when when you were in school,
didn't the teacher say you got to show me your
math in math class? How did you get here? That's
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sort of what we're asking for is full transparency and accountability.
You say, we have x amount of voters and X
amount of votes came in this election. Let's find out
who they were. We need to know exactly how we
got here.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Right, and there's a process for removing voters. Is that
being followed. You would think that it's interesting if you
can trans Michigan with Ohio. The Ohio Secretary of State
Frank LeRose said, come in see whatever you want. We
will share whatever we whatever you want to see. We
are fully transparent. And yet Joscelyn Benson is not operating
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like that. And these are these are public records. The
public deserves to know who's registered to vote, Are illegal
aliens voting? Are people who are non citizens voting? We
deserve to have those answers. And and so far Joscelyn
Benson has been very cagy. She's only provided she's only
released information to the public that I think you know
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serves her purposes. And the Department of Justice Attorney Assistant
Attorney General Harmey Dylan in particular is saying that's not
good enough, and so they are they're taking Michigan and
several other states to court to provide some transparency so
citizens are can rest assured that only citizens are voting.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Kyle Olson from the Midwest and the Midwesterner News. The
stories don't stop today. We got another one here. Whitmer
Hall brings all and outs of framework for a budget
deal late Thursday night. Looks like they're going to have
money for the schools again, as they mentioned, but also
money for road repairs. What do you know about what's
in it and what does it mean?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, it's interesting. We're gonna have a story today. Matt Hall,
the Speaker of the House, he put he put together
a roads plan that was that would dedicate three point
one billion dollars for roads. It was county roads, local roads,
state roads, because what Whitmer has been doing is she
has just been focusing on state roads and sort of
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leaving local communities languishing. And those are the roads that
most of us drive on every day. And so he
put together a plan three point one billion dollars. It
didn't raise taxes, it took money away from corporate welfare
and you know, and moved some other things around. And
what was interesting to me is that here you had
the Republican Speaker of the House saying, let's put three
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point one billion dollars towards roads. But then you had
the governor who initially campaigned on fixing the damn roads.
They agreed to one point five billion dollars. So what
is what exactly is the priority? But then he said
it is press conference yesterday that the Sore Fund, which
is the corporate welfare fund, that's going away. So we're
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gonna have to wait and see. They haven't actually formally
passed anything yet. They have an agreement, so we're gonna
have to wait and see what actually what the details are,
but it seems like it's a step in the positive,
in the right direction. There is one tax increase. They
voted on it yesterday. It's it's a marijuana increase in
marijuana tax, and that arguably is going to go and
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you know, help fund the roads and some other things. Otherwise,
it looks like they're cutting spending. They increased that one tax,
and Matt Hall and the House Republicans are getting sort
of back to basics when it comes to government spending.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Kyle Olson with the Midwestern the Midwestern or done this
one other story? I think it's important to mention today
and there's like we got a dump of like massive stories.
Any other day, I think any one of these stories
would probably be top of you know, top of your list.
But here's here's this one. We've known it for a
while now, but the FBI finally admitting, at least part
of a congressional testimony, they had two hundred and seventy
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four plane close agents embedded in the crowds at the
Capitol on January sixth. According to a congressional.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Source, it it's it's very disturbing to see, and it
certainly lends credibility to the idea that January sixth, and
specifically what happened at the Capitol was a setup. There's
there's one video it's making the rounds again of a
guy breaking a window. And when I was when I
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was a house page way back, when I stood right
in that window, well and watch the fireworks on July fourth,
so I immediately recognized that window and where it was. And
this video shows the guy breaking the window and one
of the Trump supporters calls him out for breaking this
window and he just he you know, runs And I
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watched that video back when it first came out, and
I thought, that is not that is something is going
on there.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And looks like a fat he's got a radio, he's
got an earpiece in. This guy looks like a professional.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Correct. So there's a lot of there's a lot of
answers that still need to be obtained, and so it
looks like some of those questions are finally being answered.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Kyle Olson, the Midwestern or the Midwesterner dot News don't chest. Yeah,
I'll book mark it, definitely do that, but put in
your email and that way you can get all of
the updates as they come out with him on the
daily isis and so many more. Kyle, Like I said,
this a find out era, and uh, we're finding out
more and more news every single day. The stories just
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don't stop. We appreciate all you do and of course
your help quickly before we get out of here. Your
polls for Mackinaw Island, We've got lots of those online
and lots of interviews and things as well. From a
chance to talk with folks there, anything stand out to you.
It was an really interesting weekend.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I think probably the governor's race. Eric Nesbit, the Senate
Republican leader one. In the governor's race, Tom Leonard came
in second, Mike Cox came in third, John James came
in fourth. We'll be releasing I'm doing a series of
diner interviews with the candidates at Marlenez in Holland, and
(08:50):
I filmed one with Eric Nesbit this week. We'll be
releasing that probably maybe Saturday, probably Monday, and where we
just get to know the candidates. And so I thought
that worked out perfectly that he won the straw poll
and then he's the first one that we're talking to.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Very interesting. Always a pleasure, Kyle. Appreciate you taking the
time to be here with us today, and we'll have
more over the week, and I'm sure the news never stops.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Thank you, You got it.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
God bless