Hour 1: Hegseth doesn’t back down

Hegseth doesn’t back down.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Halfway through the week. Is it today any kind of
a special day, because it seemed like every single day
has been something, right, I mean yesterday, what was it?
It was travel Tuesday, and the day before that was
a cyber Monday, and then we had black Friday. What's Wednesday?

(00:20):
You know what Wednesday is? What?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's tree lighting day? Oh that's yeah, that's why it's special.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, that's special. But I meant like a big national thing.
Is it? Is it like Giving Wednesday or something like that?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
It was Tuesday?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh, they they honed in the travel people honed in
on the charity. Nice because it was also travel Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Right, No, it was Giving Tuesday yesterday, So blacky Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Haluky Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I'm sure something. But tree lighting is a good one.
You're right. The tree was lit in the big three,
two big special elections. Jersey City, the second largest city
in New Jersey, has a new mayor.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
I believe in the people of Jersey City.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
I believe.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
I've he's as entire state of New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, Councilman James Solomon. He's the new mayor. Jim McGreevy.
He was very gracious in saying thank you, but he
looked upset when he left this. This will probably no,
it will be the end of his political career. He
tried so hard for this comeback. We'll talk about it
later in the show, but he has been building for

(01:40):
this moment and now it's not going to happen for him.
And in Tennessee, a special election for a congressional seat
in what was supposed to be a razor close race
for the House seat. Remember that CNBC, NBC and everybody
has They were all saying, oh, this this is the

(02:02):
one to watch. It's gonna be razor close. It wasn't.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Well, Hello Tennessee, what a night, what a night. We
we did it, Thank you, thank you all. This is
just an incredible win, an incredible win tonight. You've sent
a message loud and clear. The people of Middle Tennessee
stand with President Donald J.

Speaker 6 (02:25):
Trump.

Speaker 7 (02:28):
Right.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
This was a big one for Donald Trump. He came
out heavy and so Van Epps ran with Trump too, uh,
and he won by all we're saying it was gonna
be won two three points. He won by nine points.
So it was it was almost double digits. And the
Republicans are all breathing a sigh relief that Democrats put
a fortune into this race, millions and millions of dollars.

(02:52):
But Republican Matt Van Epps is now a new Congressman,
and Aten Ben, another socialist, is going away now. We'll
probably won't hear much from her from now on because
she got beat a lot more than anybody thought. The
race scene is an important bell weather, by the way,
for the midterm election, so Republicans are breathing a sigh

(03:15):
of relief, especially after the off year elections in New York.
The incoming mayor Zorin Mamdani meets with the outgoing Mayor
Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion. Is the working man socialist
going to live in that mansion? That is the decision
I haven't yet made.

Speaker 8 (03:32):
The meeting came about as just part of a typical transition,
a transition where we're looking to have a conversation with
the current mayor about what it looks like to have
a smooth transfer between this administration and the next administration.
I've appreciated the work of his staff and ensuring that
it continues.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
To be smooth. It was raining that was his umbrella,
that noise that wasn't static. That was actually it was raining,
and that's what you heard hitting the umbrella. That's going
to be an interesting decision for him whether he's going
to live at Gracy Mansion. Secretary of War Pete Hegseeth
doesn't back down amidst a controversy about the second airstrike

(04:07):
on a boat that was already crippled in the Caribbean.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
I watched that first strike life, as you can imagine
that the Department of War, we got a lot of
things to do, so I didn't stick around for the
hour and two hours whatever where all the sensitive side
exploitation digitally occurs.

Speaker 9 (04:22):
So I moved on to my next meeting. A couple
of hours later, I learned that that commander had made
which he had the complete authority to do. And by
the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately
sink the boat.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
And eliminate the threat. Right so, and everybody is saying
now that no, he wasn't in the room, and he
did tell Admiral Bradley that you know you have might consent,
you know you're in charge right now. But man again,
once again, not only is the Washington Post embarrassed by

(04:55):
this because they their story, their big story was so wrong.
But the Democrats were called for war crimes on this.
It will talk more about this coming up, but this
is just embarrassing for them once again. The terrorists who
killed a National Guard member and wounded another in Washington,
d C appeared in court on video from his bed

(05:16):
in the hospital. It was a conference call to plead
not guilty to charges of terrorism and murder, and more
charges may be coming.

Speaker 10 (05:25):
We are pursuing everything. There is nothing off the table
right now. This is an individual about whom we don't
know a lot, but we will trust me for it's over.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Wait a second. They should know everything about him, shouldn't they.
I mean, he was so properly vetted. Remember, we should
know everything about him. How do they Why do they
have to search for information at this point because we
werelied to. He wasn't vetted. And that's what people have
been saying all along. There was no vetting. There's no
records in Afghanistan of him. And crazy Tim Walls, the

(05:59):
governor of Minnesota and the failed Democratic Vice president nominee,
is responsible for a billion dollars in fraud under his watch.
Most of the fraud from Somalian immigrants that Waltz welcomed in.

Speaker 11 (06:15):
Al Shabab controls all the financial infrastructure in Somalia. That's right,
This money has gone back to Somalia. Ergo common sense
would tell you that millions of dollars taxpayer dollars from
Minnesotans has gone to terrace known as Al Shabab in Somalia.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Now Trump has announced the new Trump Accounts. One thousand
dollars is going to be put into the accounts of
babies born after January to lower or middle class families
and can be withdrawn when they are ready for college.

Speaker 7 (06:48):
Trump Accounts will be the first I guess you could
say real trust funds for every American child, allowing family members, employers, corporations,
generous donors to contribute money that will be invested in
grow over the course of a child's life to be
used for their benefit after they turn eighteen.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
We should mention that philanthropists Steven and Susan Dell are
also contributing six billion dollars for all of the children
not born after January twenty five, So they're putting two
hundred and fifty dollars into accounts for children up to
ten years old by January twenty twenty five, so that'll

(07:30):
cover the all the way back to twenty fifteen. You
get two hundred and fifty dollars in your account. How
great was that though, that they that they gave all
that money. How great would it would be to have
six point two billion dollars laying around that you're able
to contribute in a fund? And most of us got rain,
but some people, some people got their first snowfall of

(07:54):
the season, and they couldn't be happier.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
It snows a lot more here than if they didn't Wane.

Speaker 12 (08:00):
But I'll put up with it because it's just such
a nice area to live in New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
How about that? Aren't you in that area?

Speaker 2 (08:08):
I am. We had snow yesterday.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
How much snow? Not much?

Speaker 2 (08:12):
I saw the town next us reported just under an inch,
but honestly it turned to slush so fast.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
I don't know if you ever really got to see
the inch. Yeah, they were complaining about the kind of snow. Yeah,
it was like that wet, yeah, yucky snow. But I
guess when you go upstate in New York, even to
Orange County, they got to then schools were closed, kids
were off.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
And they were saying, hey, people who aren't going to
go skiing this weekend, it's a you know, a nice
addition because you got some fresh snow, which you know
usually don't have this early in the season. That pre
made snow.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah right, I was. I don't know if you caught
it when I was talking to Race stage of yesterday
and talking about a winter forecast, and I said, no,
not as the TV stations we had meteorologists do, especially
at the beginning of Sweeps, the big winter forecast, and
you promoted it like hell because weather, by the way,
in case people don't know when they when they do

(09:08):
surveys about you, why you watch local news far and away,
it's the weather. It's like eighty five percent of the
people say that's the most important thing, and so we
promote weather. But raced Age of Gifts today was being
extremely diplomatic. They are not any good those winter forecasts.

(09:30):
Oh that's all made up. Thing.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, he even said, you know, he doesn't like to
do predictions that, you know, seasonal predictions, I think he
called it. But the hurricane season, which everybody was predicting
was going to be you know, slightly active, was pretty quiet.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
This year. Oh no, they were, you know.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I mean obviously there was a terrible thing that happened
in Jamaica, but the people in Florida went whoa.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah through this one. It was like that storm and
then that was it. Nothing else really hit land, And
there was a lot of threat, yes, but nothing hit land.

Speaker 9 (10:02):
No.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
I guess this isn't a news flash whether people are
wrong a lot.

Speaker 13 (10:08):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Else. By the way, while we're on it, the ten
day forecast is no good at all. Just don't ignore it.
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Speaker 14 (11:08):
When we say goodbye to McGreevy, as we certainly are,
I can't help but think how long it was for
him to bring his wife to the podium, and for
that matter, Anthony Weener too, to do that to your
best friend, to humiliate them, what they did to their spouses,
That's what all always think about McGreevy.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Just terrible to do that to your spouse. Have a
great day, guys. Yeah, I know it was a long
time ago. I think people can change, and if there's
anybody that's tried a lot to change, and I agree
with everything you said, by the way, but I've seen
him since then. I mean, he went through the he
went through the seminary, he has been helping people readjust

(11:51):
after being in prison. He's done a lot to make
up for what he did, and he was building to
this moment and now it's over. So he did a
lot of good though since then You're right, though, it
was an awful moment for him, and people forget that,
you know. They all talk about the fact that he
had an affair with a guy he used to be

(12:13):
his head of homeland security. But he also would funnel
some funds, so it's not like he's Anybody forgets that.
Nobody forgets that. But I do love to see a
comeback story like that. And now the comeback story's over.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
You're talking about weather forecasting. My grandfather was a professor
of economics, and we used to joke with him that
his people and weathermen could change jobs and nobody'd ever know.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Makeup numbers either way.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
I will tell you though, And here's the nice thing.
The meteorologist at these stations feel the same way you do.
They know sometimes, no, all the time. They know, I'm
not going to say sometimes they know that the ten
day forecasts are for gayzy. Is that the right way
to say it? For Gayzy? They know that, They absolutely

(13:06):
get that. They don't want it. They fight against it
all the time.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
They do. They're only doing it because of us, because
we pressure them. We want longer forecasts, we want extended forecasts.
We want seasonal forecasts.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, but it's if they wouldn't do it just for us.
It's their bosses. It's their bosses that insist on that,
because you're gonna get mad if you don't do it.
But whatever, I mean, they do it because, so think
about it for a second, they're doing something they know
is probably false to get ratings. And so everything about

(13:42):
local news and news is about getting ratings and surviving.
And by the way, when they're smart, they play into
it because it means they get more money too.

Speaker 11 (13:51):
Well.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
That's why I respect Ray because he really does. He
never gives us a ten day forecast that I mean,
you know, he sends us a forecast every day, usually
only a few days out, and he's really particular with that,
and if you press him on it, he'll always tell
you this is not my thing.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
It's the best, the absolute best. We've had this conversation before, though,
I mean, about what he thinks of ten I've asked
him on the air, what do you think of ten
day forecast? And I press him. He doesn't want to
say anything because he doesn't want to put down other meteorologists.
But I press him and he goes, well, I'd say
they're valid two days of that ten days, and that's

(14:31):
exactly right. That's exactly right. So I just wanted to
warn you that if you make plans on a ten
day forecast, you're being fooled. You can't do it all right.
Have you ever given your kids an allowance?

Speaker 2 (14:44):
You know, I think a few times, but basically, we're
with a family. Do you need something, Okay, we'll give
you money. We never had a set schedule like, Okay,
if you clean your room, it's this much money. If
you throw out the garbage, it's this much money. We
never did that, or.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
A weekly thing. Yeah. A new survey of two thousand
US parents reveals that kids today receive an average allowance
of fifty two dollars per month ooh, which is thirty
six more hours and their parents earned at the same age.
About seventy five percent of parents give regular allowances. Wow,

(15:19):
that was surprising to me. That is surprising. You know what.
My allowance has always been my credit card, and I
still don't know what they're charging all my credit cards,
my two youngest sons.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
That's not good.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
No, it's not good at all. I always wonder why
I don't have any money. I guess I should take
a closer line.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
My favorite part of this though, was what kids do
with their allowance. So first off, most of them blow
it the first first day, just all out.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's like all of this. When they grow up they
do the same thing.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
But listen to some of the stuff that they've used
their allowance on. Live spiders, baby chickens, kock off collectibles.
Now this is my favorite.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Bags of cheese, bags of cheese. Cheese is good. Cheese
is really good.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Kids just buy whenever they want impulse buys.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
It's better than buying candy. If they're gonna buy cheese,
it's like, oh, cheese's okay, fine now. Jacqueline Carl with
the six thirty News Jacqueline Larry.

Speaker 13 (16:19):
The man accused of killing a National Guard member in Washington,
d C. Is being formally charged with murder. The twenty
nine year old Afghan national appeared in Coreps Tuesday on
video from a hospital bed where he's recovering from gunshot
wounds suffered during last week's shooting. He pleaded not guilty
to the charges. And the Major League Baseball pitchers accused

(16:40):
of taking bribes in an alleged gambling scheme are headed
to trial.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Cleveland Guardian's pitcher Emmanuel Klassan his teammate Luis Ortiz were
in Brooklyn Federal Court, where a judge set May fourth
as the start of jury selection. Prosseer's estimate the trial
will last two weeks. Class at Ortiza pleaded not guilty
to charges accusing the pictures of accepting bribes from in
exchange for intentionally throwing balls to help the betters. Prosecutors
are now turning evidence over to the pitcher's lawyers. I'm

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skappringle wrdw's.

Speaker 13 (17:09):
So sexism is alive and well when it comes to clothing.
According to NDTV, a Chinese men's clothing company is facing
backlash over a laundry tag that many people are calling
sexist because it is the tag found on a coat
made by Guzu kang Zen, which is so I'm probably

(17:30):
not saying it right, so they probably the backlash is
going to be too hard on them. Garment company says, quote,
please give it to your beloved woman. She knows everything
in both Chinese and English. I agree, we do know everything,
but it doesn't necessarily mean about laundry. A spokeswoman said,
they notice many male customers. I'll have that now, and

(17:53):
then they push the spokeswoman forward. They noticed many male
customers were ruining clothes by washing them wrong, and women
tend to know more about fabricare.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Eh, fabricare?

Speaker 1 (18:03):
How does that?

Speaker 13 (18:05):
How does that sit with you? Do you agree?

Speaker 10 (18:07):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (18:07):
God?

Speaker 13 (18:08):
What I don't know about fabricare could fill libraries.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
I've lasted a long time in this business by not
getting involved in these conversations.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
I'm just gonna say anytime. You know, my husband's pretty good.
But you know, if my son when he was younger,
Oh yeah, I don't want to cook this, or I
don't know how to clean this. Do you know how
to read? Because if you know how to read, you
can help and you can clean because you just follow
the directions.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, okay, he does that now?

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Oh yeah, oh wow, helly yeah, no, my son cooks
and clean. And then he said, I need two hundred
dollars laundry. I don't know how clean things are.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
But he does his own laundry.

Speaker 13 (18:51):
That's wonderful. That's wonderful. So he doesn't have to give
it over to his beloved woman because she knows everything.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Though love the tag it must have been a big tag.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
I love those translations. There's a great beloved woman.

Speaker 6 (19:06):
I know.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
The handing it over to your beloved woman sounds like
a nice life though, doesn't It's.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
I wish I had a beloved woman to give my
laundry over to.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Don't we all? Thanks so much? Jacqueline carl Secretary of
War Pete Hegsath is not backing down from Democratic accusation
that he committed a war crime after there was a
second strike on a Narco boat in the Caribbean, with
survivors allegedly holding on to the sinking ship. Hear what

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he has to say next. I don't know why the
Democrats just don't get tired of being on the wrong
side of all these things. And I don't know why
the media keeps trusting these sources that have read led
them the wrong way and been embarrassing for them so
many times. And I think that it's just the fact
that they feel like in the this news cycle, things

(20:01):
are happening so quickly you forget about what happened last league,
Like we don't talk about the government shutdown anymore, even
though it still affects us. We don't even talk about
that anymore. Every single day in this news cycle, something
new happens, something new happens. We forget what happened. But
it's important for us to look back, and it's important
to us to remember that we have been led astray

(20:22):
since Donald Trump has been in office by both the
media and the Democrats. Well the media is just towed
along by the Democrats, but by the Democrats. Everything they
have said, everything they claim was going to happen, all
the calamities they promised was what were going to happen.
Because Donald Trump was elected president is not true. It's

(20:43):
just not true. And he's going through doing everything that
he promised to do. And one of the things he
promised to do was to stop the influx of drugs
from South America, especially fentanyl that has killed hundreds of
thousands of young people in this country. If this was

(21:08):
all these people dying in war, they'd be protest on
the streets. But instead they're dying in their bedrooms. Many
of them are getting drugs off the internet, like just
to stay up for an exam, and it's laced with fentanyl,
and then they die. Happened time and time again. Sometimes

(21:28):
there's so much fentanyl in a drug that when police
make a raid, the police have to be narcam to
be brought back. That's how destructive feanyl has been to
our society, and the drugs coming from the South have
been to our society from our society. So now the
Democrats have put themselves on the other side of stopping that.

(21:52):
It is insane that there's a knee jerk reaction. Well,
Donald Trump's doing it. It's bad, We're gonna stop it.
So now we have this boat strike, and they were
all excited. They thought they had him, they had him,
they had Pete hag Seth. They were going to embarrass him,
and Chuck Schumer getting up in saying that, you know,

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as possibly war crimes. There has to be an investigation.

Speaker 12 (22:17):
This is such a serious matter that Secretary Hegseth himself
should come before the Congress to testify under oath about
the nature of his order, the evidence supporting the strikes,
and an explanation for what the goals are.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Well, they've given an explanation and they can give it
to you in person if you like. And Pete hagg
Seth is not backing down. You got to remember there's
a big difference, and Natalie and I were just talking
about it during the break. There's a big difference from
people who actually served in war, know what it's like
to put on the uniform, know what it's like to

(22:52):
be shot at and have to fire back. Then it
is from somebody like Chuck Schumer who has been a
politician his whole life and has never had to say.
Most of the people now, unfortunately, who are in Congress
haven't served. Most of our presidents haven't served. They're professional
politicians and they should leave the military stuff to the

(23:14):
military because they have no idea what it's like. I
don't have any idea what it's like. I'm not pretending
I do, But I have such great honor for the
people that have to make those decisions that I will
often bend to what they say because they've been there before.

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They know what it's like to serve, they know what
it's like to have a mission, they know what a
chain of command is about. So Pete Hegsath says he
did watch some of the strikes in the beginning, but
he didn't see this one.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
We've only just begun striking narcot boats and putting Narco
terras at the bottom of the ocean because they've been
poisoning the American people.

Speaker 9 (23:59):
And Joe Biden tried to approach him with kick loops.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
And allowed him to come across the border. A cartel's
takeover community.

Speaker 9 (24:06):
Twenty million people, hundreds of thousands of Americans poisoned.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
So he's going to keep up. This is going to continue.
You heard at the top of the show when I
played for you, We'll play it again. I'll play it again.
Where he says he wasn't in the room, Admiral Bradley
had full control because he had left the room after
the initial strikes.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
I watched that first strike life, as you can imagine,
at the Department of War, we got a lot of
things to do, so I didn't stick around for the
hour and two hours whatever where all the sensitive side
exploitation digitally occurs.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
So I moved on to my next meeting.

Speaker 9 (24:40):
A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander
had made the which he had the complete authority to do.
And by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision
to ultimately sink the boat and.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Eliminate the threat. And they're going to continue striking boats.
Only one problem.

Speaker 9 (24:55):
We've had a bit of a pause because it's hard.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
To find boats to strike right now, which is the
entire point.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Think about that they have stopped these narco boats from
trying to make it across the Caribbean to bring fentanyl
and other drugs to this country. So it's worked. Shouldn't
we be celebrating that.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
You said that the follow up strike was lawful. What
law is it that allows no survivors.

Speaker 13 (25:26):
The strike conducted on September second was conducted in self
defense to protect Americans in vital United States interests.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
The strike was conducted.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
In international waters and in accordance with the law of
armed conflict.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
By the way, that was Jackie Heinrich from Fox News
who asked that question, which I thought it was interesting.
She was from Fox News. My wife, who is more
conservative than I am. My wife hates her. My wife
says that she's a rhino and she shouldn't be working
at Fox News. I'd love to hear what you think

(25:58):
about Jackie Heinrich, if you feel the same way. But
to the point that we don't understand unless you wore
the uniform, you don't understand what it's like to be
in these situations, and many times you need to yield
to the explanations you're given from the actual people who

(26:20):
fight these wars. And so one of my favorite people,
Dan Crenshaw, who, by the way, you don't hear a
lot anymore because he came out against Donald Trump, and
so now he's been put in the punish room by
the rest of the Republican Party, but he was out yesterday.
He used to fight on task forces. He's had to

(26:44):
kill a lot of people in battle. And this is
what he had to say about it. This is why
we don't understand this mentality.

Speaker 15 (26:52):
I can't recall any time in my history of doing
counter tears on operations where we strike a group, whether
that's a building boat or a vehicle, and then we
were like, oh, well they're survivors, we have to go.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
We can't kill them. Of course we killed them, he
said that, so matter of factfully, of course we killed them,
because if you don't kill them, they're gonna kill you
or your buddy or somebody else, and you'll be responsible.
It's the same with those Narco boats. Whoa though, did
we get lucky that the Democrats lost, Otherwise we may

(27:24):
have had that idiot governor of Minnesota as vice president.
Wait until you hear the mess he's in now that's next. Well, man,
did we miss a bullet Not only the fact that
Donald Trump won and Kamala Harris lost. That would have
been hellish. We would be in so much trouble right now.
Think about what the country would be like right now

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if Kamala Harris came in and continued Joe Biden's policies.
Where this country would be right now? And then just
imagine Tim Walls there a heart beat away from the presidency.
We would not be sending immigrants back, our border would

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not be closed. There's no chance to be peace in
the Middle East. I mean, it would be a completely
different world. Crime would still be running rampant in the
major cities. We don't think enough about the alternative. We
don't think enough about the bullet that we missed by

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not having Kamala Harris and the fact that she picked
Tim Walls, of all people, maybe the worst politician in
the country. Thank god she did, because had she picked
Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania, who is a better politician than

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she is, a better speaker than she is, they may
have won. They certainly would have won Pennsylvania, it would
be a lot closer, and probably a couple of other
swing states just because of Shapiro. And by the way,
the talk is that she was afraid that he would
upstage her, and he would have. It would have been

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hard to But anyway, Tim Walls right now is in
the middle of this huge scandal where billion, over a
billion dollars of money was taken from the government in
a fraud, a giant fraud campaign, mostly by some Somalians
who were here under Joe Biden. He welcomed them, Oh,

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come on in, and then they were all al Shabab,
which is a terrorist group linked to al Qaeda in Somalia,
and they funneled movie money using fraud techniques from the
Minnesota government to send back to Somalia. And I know,
I'll give Kristen Welker a lot of credit. She asked

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him right to his face this past week on Meet
the Press. Do you take response ability for failing to
stop this fraud in your state?

Speaker 16 (30:03):
Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail.
Governors don't get to just talk theoretically, we have to
solve problems. And I will note it's not just Somali's.
Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota's a prosperous days, a
well run state. Were triple A bond rated, But that
attracts criminals. Those people are going to jail. We're doing
everything we can, but to demonize an entire community on

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the actions of a few, it's lazy.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Well, we're not blaming a few, we're blaming you. This
all happened under your watched and all you kept doing
was putting more money back into the account so they
could steal it.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
By liking that to someone saying, hey, someone's stealing all
the cookies out of the cookie jar, and the government
just running over itself to refill it as fast.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
As it can and by the way, get to the
root of the problem. No, absolutely not. Now, there were
arrest just recently, but this has been happening since the pandemics,
been happening for years under his watch. Now he was
too busy running for vice president and refilling the coffers.
A lot of it was COVID money that was taken,
and there are people in prison at this point, all

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Somalian immigrants. Twenty eight of the twenty five active cases
are Somalians. And it's all hooked back to Al Shabab.

Speaker 11 (31:26):
Al Shabab controls all the financial infrastructure in Somalia. That's right,
This money has gone back to Somalia. Ergo. Common sense
would tell you that millions of dollars taxpayer dollars from
Minnesotan's has gone to terrace known as Al Shabab in Somalia.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
And it didn't go to the children that needed it.

Speaker 17 (31:47):
The money was supposed to go to the neediest of all,
people who were hungry, the homeless, families who have children
with autism. They rely on those sorts of resources that
were stolen and sent to Somalia.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yet, so thank god he's not our vice president. Thank
god Kamala Harris isn't our president the country, it'd be
in such a mess right now. Could you imagine the
economy and what would be on the world stage at
this point. But think about this. Nobody's defending walls. And

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it was Democrats really that kind of turned him in.

Speaker 17 (32:24):
That Democrats do not want him on the main stage
in twenty twenty eight, and that's why you're starting to
see mainstream sources of media fight against him right now.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, would you want him on the main stage. This
man may be going to jail. Luigi Mangioni was in
court yesterday for his second day of a pre trial hearing.
We'll talk with Hope, high profile defense attorney. Coming up
next right after the seven o'clock