April 9, 2025 • 8 mins
Joe Concha joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the issue of the AP’s access to the White House and the latest reports on government waste spending.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Else. You watch him on Fox News. He's a contributor there.
The man is on like every show on the darn channel.
And of course he's also here at w O R.
Joe Concha. He has a new book coming up. You
could pre order it now at Amazon, The Greatest Comeback
Ever Inside Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign. Joe, I just gave
you a hell of a commercial here. I charge money
for these things.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Can send it to ven the Zell. I'll get you
your twelve percent. Right then, well done, perfectly executed.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I know you have teens if you're talking Venmo and Zel.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I got a nine year old next to me.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm taking an elementary school and an eleven year old,
so I have an almost team. No, that's all I use. Man,
I don't when I got to pay somebody and I
gotta go get cash from the bank or find my
check book, you.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Never know where it is, Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
What's a change?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Venmo is so easy?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Exactly get lost right, I got I did a speech.
I'm sorry, I don't need to go off on that tank.
I did a speech not too long ago locally, and
the guy pays me cash for it, and I'm like, oh,
something's gonna go wrong here, and sure enough it did.
All right, I put it in my wallet. My wallet
fell out of my bag, and then I.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Didn't call the no.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Because I didn't call the uber, I couldn't get in
touch with the guy. And by the time I got
in touch with the guy who called the uber, it
was gone.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So it's like you're.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Gonna be And I had a tracker in my wallet,
and I tracked to where the wallet was. I drove
by the house for the walles ended up that it
was a place I didn't want to walk into.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And they were throwing a big party.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, might go back to the guy and tell him
I lost your money.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
My g yea.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
My grandmother would say they needed it more than you.
So that's the way you can think about it.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
In this case.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Absolutely, they did. It look like the Mets lab out
of bringing that, I'm like, all I'm not going to
that place.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
No, All right, let's talk about Trump appointed judges. The
Trump appointed judge rather shining with the Associated Press in
the battle over the White House access and and the
AP not wanting to use Gulf of America. How do
you feel about this decision?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, the AP has obviously taking an activist position, right,
Obama and Biden they had changed things before, not something
as big as the golf, but as far as like
the name of mountains or of military bases, and the
AP went right along with it. So this is to
play the resistance. And they're supposed to be a wire service,
and most other news organizations are going along with it.
So I think they're just doing it for attention. Here
(02:18):
we are talking about it, so I guess it's working.
I suppose.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I mean, there's part of me I feel both ways.
I'm very libertarian. Part of me says, yeah, you know, what,
come on, do you're supposed to be a wire service?
World paying for this, all the organizations that use them.
It's not like it's free. We pay for this. And
if legally it is now the Gulf of American by
the way, last time I checked, Mexico and Canada were
part of the Americas, right, so it's not just Golf
of the United States of Americas. Golf of the Americas
(02:44):
in essence, so it is fairly representing all the countries,
so why not. But if the President signed off on it,
it is what it is. But part of me says,
you know what freedom of the press. It is the
people's house, et cetera. We should all have access to it.
So just because Obama at it by putting people in
the back of the room and not calling on them,
doesn't mean we should do the same.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Okay, that's that's that's all fair. I think in the end,
you know, Obama tried to bar Fox News from the
White House press pool. For example, Yes, he spied on
James Rosen, who was a Fox News correspondent at the time,
even spied on his parents. He sees ap phone record
secretly Obama did, uh. And then obviously Joe Biden tried
to establish what was called the Disinformation Board, the government
(03:28):
Disinformation Board, where an administration can decide what is accurate
information and what isn't. So if you said Hunter Biden's
laptop was actually not a product of Russian uh, you know, disinformation,
then you were considered to be a conspiracy theorist. If
you said that COVID didn't come from a lab in
Wuhan that literally studies coronaviruses, then you were labeled a
conspiracy theorist. So I don't think government should be involved
(03:50):
in policing of language in any way, shape or form.
That's certainly for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And you recall that the New York Post was deplatformed
because they did the story about the laptop and and
it was called disinformation.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I mean, the.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Everybody involved in deep platforming, everybody involved in calling a
disinformation should literally be hauled before Congress right now. That
to me, I mean, that's what takes away all our
credibil credibility when you have such clear partisans doing this.
This is pure propagada and they shouldn't be allowed to
get away with it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Change better, no speech exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I agree with you. Federal reagencies have spent four point
six billion dollars on furniture office furniture since twenty twenty one,
despite most employees either working from home or not being
into the office at all during COVID et cetera. I mean,
four point six billion dollars will be the equivalent to
something like nine million Americans getting a new kitchen table.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I always proud of myself when I had an apartment
in Hobook and during my single days, that I was
able to furnish that thing for under five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
The fact that you made a great point four point
six billion dollars for furniture in buildings where ninety four
percent of five workers aren't showing up for work. You know,
they're in the pajamas watching Captain Kangaroo and doing their
jobs from home. But remember, ken Elon Musk is the.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Problem, not what he's finding.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Nope, actually it's the opposite.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And now you have people on the left, fifty five
percent of Democrats in this recent survey saying that they
would favor or they have no objection to the assassination
of Elon and the president. These people are crazy, and
this is a survey of twelve hundred and sixty six people.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I mean, look, when Luigi MANGEONI shoots the guy in
the back who's the father of two a husband that's
obviously Brian Thompson, who is the CEO of United Healthcare,
and MANGIONI can raise a million dollars on GoFundMe, and
you have people actually protesting on his behalf that he
(05:48):
was actually right to do what he did. That's fifty
five percent number would surprise me before that happened, and afterwards,
I guess I kind of expected it's I was at
those protests in Brian Park for Fox covering that over
the weekend, and I couldn't believe how many people would
say that it is actually right to firebomb and to
shoot at Tesla dealerships because they want to save democracy,
(06:10):
which I can't quite connect that dot, but yeah, that's
where we are. Democrats are the part not only a censorship,
but the party of violence when a majority believed that,
that's a big problem. And that's why so many people
now are you know, we've kind of shrugged when Donald
Trump was nearly assassinated. What I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Seven to ten war. You're listening to Joe Kancha Fox
News contributor Ken Rosanto in for Larry Today, and Joe,
you know when you go to these protests, do you
see anything other than super young and super old. It's
like the super older reliving their hippie days and the
super young don't know any better in their propagandas to college.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You know, I didn't think.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
About that, but you're right.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It was mostly older people, you know, seventy plus. There
was one woman that we filmed who stood in front
of a fire truck while the truck was trying to
get to an emergency. And then when I interviewed her afterwards,
She's like, what was with them? They're trying to stiley
putting on their sirens, Like nothing, weren't. They're trying to
do a freaking fire, you freak you know.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
So that was that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But yeah, it's either like twenty something or seventy something,
but not a lot in between. So yeah, I didn't
think of the demographic, but that that appears to be
where we are. But it's it's a scary time to
be in this country.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I know, you gotta go.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
No, Well, we got thirty seconds IRS agreeing to unprecedented
measures of sharing text details of illegal migrants with the
DHS for deportation efforts.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Your opinion, I'm shocked, or even paying taxes, I mean exactly.
That's a good point. Yeah, incredible.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Hopefully the eighty seven thousand that Biden added were eliminated
their jobs because running on, oh we need more IRS
agents was not a good idea for the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
We'll put them at the border, let them, let them
do some different work. That's what we did. That's a
good thing, all right, Joe gotcha, Fox News contributor, Thank
you so much. Your new book is coming out. Pre
order it now at Amazon, The greatest comeback ever. Inside
Trump's big beautiful campaign, my friend, always good watching you
on TV and hearing you right here.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Then no, you're all set there.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Thank you, Joe, my friend.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You bet
Else. You watch him on Fox News. He's a contributor there.
The man is on like every show on the darn channel.
And of course he's also here at w O R.
Joe Concha. He has a new book coming up. You
could pre order it now at Amazon, The Greatest Comeback
Ever Inside Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign. Joe, I just gave
you a hell of a commercial here. I charge money
for these things.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Can send it to ven the Zell. I'll get you
your twelve percent. Right then, well done, perfectly executed.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I know you have teens if you're talking Venmo and Zel.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I got a nine year old next to me.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm taking an elementary school and an eleven year old,
so I have an almost team. No, that's all I use. Man,
I don't when I got to pay somebody and I
gotta go get cash from the bank or find my
check book, you.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Never know where it is, Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
What's a change?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Venmo is so easy?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Exactly get lost right, I got I did a speech.
I'm sorry, I don't need to go off on that tank.
I did a speech not too long ago locally, and
the guy pays me cash for it, and I'm like, oh,
something's gonna go wrong here, and sure enough it did.
All right, I put it in my wallet. My wallet
fell out of my bag, and then I.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Didn't call the no.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Because I didn't call the uber, I couldn't get in
touch with the guy. And by the time I got
in touch with the guy who called the uber, it
was gone.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So it's like you're.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Gonna be And I had a tracker in my wallet,
and I tracked to where the wallet was. I drove
by the house for the walles ended up that it
was a place I didn't want to walk into.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And they were throwing a big party.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, might go back to the guy and tell him
I lost your money.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
My g yea.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
My grandmother would say they needed it more than you.
So that's the way you can think about it.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
In this case.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Absolutely, they did. It look like the Mets lab out
of bringing that, I'm like, all I'm not going to
that place.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
No, All right, let's talk about Trump appointed judges. The
Trump appointed judge rather shining with the Associated Press in
the battle over the White House access and and the
AP not wanting to use Gulf of America. How do
you feel about this decision?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, the AP has obviously taking an activist position, right,
Obama and Biden they had changed things before, not something
as big as the golf, but as far as like
the name of mountains or of military bases, and the
AP went right along with it. So this is to
play the resistance. And they're supposed to be a wire service,
and most other news organizations are going along with it.
So I think they're just doing it for attention. Here
(02:18):
we are talking about it, so I guess it's working.
I suppose.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I mean, there's part of me I feel both ways.
I'm very libertarian. Part of me says, yeah, you know, what,
come on, do you're supposed to be a wire service?
World paying for this, all the organizations that use them.
It's not like it's free. We pay for this. And
if legally it is now the Gulf of American by
the way, last time I checked, Mexico and Canada were
part of the Americas, right, so it's not just Golf
of the United States of Americas. Golf of the Americas
(02:44):
in essence, so it is fairly representing all the countries,
so why not. But if the President signed off on it,
it is what it is. But part of me says,
you know what freedom of the press. It is the
people's house, et cetera. We should all have access to it.
So just because Obama at it by putting people in
the back of the room and not calling on them,
doesn't mean we should do the same.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Okay, that's that's that's all fair. I think in the end,
you know, Obama tried to bar Fox News from the
White House press pool. For example, Yes, he spied on
James Rosen, who was a Fox News correspondent at the time,
even spied on his parents. He sees ap phone record
secretly Obama did, uh. And then obviously Joe Biden tried
to establish what was called the Disinformation Board, the government
(03:28):
Disinformation Board, where an administration can decide what is accurate
information and what isn't. So if you said Hunter Biden's
laptop was actually not a product of Russian uh, you know, disinformation,
then you were considered to be a conspiracy theorist. If
you said that COVID didn't come from a lab in
Wuhan that literally studies coronaviruses, then you were labeled a
conspiracy theorist. So I don't think government should be involved
(03:50):
in policing of language in any way, shape or form.
That's certainly for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And you recall that the New York Post was deplatformed
because they did the story about the laptop and and
it was called disinformation.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I mean, the.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Everybody involved in deep platforming, everybody involved in calling a
disinformation should literally be hauled before Congress right now. That
to me, I mean, that's what takes away all our
credibil credibility when you have such clear partisans doing this.
This is pure propagada and they shouldn't be allowed to
get away with it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Change better, no speech exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I agree with you. Federal reagencies have spent four point
six billion dollars on furniture office furniture since twenty twenty one,
despite most employees either working from home or not being
into the office at all during COVID et cetera. I mean,
four point six billion dollars will be the equivalent to
something like nine million Americans getting a new kitchen table.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I always proud of myself when I had an apartment
in Hobook and during my single days, that I was
able to furnish that thing for under five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
The fact that you made a great point four point
six billion dollars for furniture in buildings where ninety four
percent of five workers aren't showing up for work. You know,
they're in the pajamas watching Captain Kangaroo and doing their
jobs from home. But remember, ken Elon Musk is the.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Problem, not what he's finding.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Nope, actually it's the opposite.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And now you have people on the left, fifty five
percent of Democrats in this recent survey saying that they
would favor or they have no objection to the assassination
of Elon and the president. These people are crazy, and
this is a survey of twelve hundred and sixty six people.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I mean, look, when Luigi MANGEONI shoots the guy in
the back who's the father of two a husband that's
obviously Brian Thompson, who is the CEO of United Healthcare,
and MANGIONI can raise a million dollars on GoFundMe, and
you have people actually protesting on his behalf that he
(05:48):
was actually right to do what he did. That's fifty
five percent number would surprise me before that happened, and afterwards,
I guess I kind of expected it's I was at
those protests in Brian Park for Fox covering that over
the weekend, and I couldn't believe how many people would
say that it is actually right to firebomb and to
shoot at Tesla dealerships because they want to save democracy,
(06:10):
which I can't quite connect that dot, but yeah, that's
where we are. Democrats are the part not only a censorship,
but the party of violence when a majority believed that,
that's a big problem. And that's why so many people
now are you know, we've kind of shrugged when Donald
Trump was nearly assassinated. What I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Seven to ten war. You're listening to Joe Kancha Fox
News contributor Ken Rosanto in for Larry Today, and Joe,
you know when you go to these protests, do you
see anything other than super young and super old. It's
like the super older reliving their hippie days and the
super young don't know any better in their propagandas to college.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You know, I didn't think.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
About that, but you're right.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It was mostly older people, you know, seventy plus. There
was one woman that we filmed who stood in front
of a fire truck while the truck was trying to
get to an emergency. And then when I interviewed her afterwards,
She's like, what was with them? They're trying to stiley
putting on their sirens, Like nothing, weren't. They're trying to
do a freaking fire, you freak you know.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
So that was that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But yeah, it's either like twenty something or seventy something,
but not a lot in between. So yeah, I didn't
think of the demographic, but that that appears to be
where we are. But it's it's a scary time to
be in this country.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I know, you gotta go.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
No, Well, we got thirty seconds IRS agreeing to unprecedented
measures of sharing text details of illegal migrants with the
DHS for deportation efforts.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Your opinion, I'm shocked, or even paying taxes, I mean exactly.
That's a good point. Yeah, incredible.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Hopefully the eighty seven thousand that Biden added were eliminated
their jobs because running on, oh we need more IRS
agents was not a good idea for the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
We'll put them at the border, let them, let them
do some different work. That's what we did. That's a
good thing, all right, Joe gotcha, Fox News contributor, Thank
you so much. Your new book is coming out. Pre
order it now at Amazon, The greatest comeback ever. Inside
Trump's big beautiful campaign, my friend, always good watching you
on TV and hearing you right here.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Then no, you're all set there.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Thank you, Joe, my friend.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You bet
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