August 25, 2025 • 23 mins
Dems contemplate nominating President Trump for a Nobel, a Rhode Island AG pulls a "do you know who I am", and the Mayor of Boston flips the bird to Pam Bondi. The world has been turned upside down as you will hear in our "did they really just say that" clips from this week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Damnus contemplate nominating President Trump for a Nobel A Rhode
Island d A G pulls a do you know who
I am? And the Mayor of Boston flips the bird
to Pam BONDI. The world has been turned upside down,
as you will hear and are did they really just
say that? Clips from this week. I'm Nancy Shack, I'm
Ben Parker. This is newspite. If President Trump were the
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architect of that, I'd nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'm an agent, I'm an agent.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Good for you, I'll give you.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We're going.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
To all the federal officials attacking communities that embody diversity, creativity,
and moral clarity. You are wrong on cities. The cities
that live in your minds are totally foreign to the
residents living in our cities, says.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Beautiful out of it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
That was a mariachi band. I'm not kidding about that,
but yeah, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu hired a mariachi band
to play at her Sanctuary City rally at City Hall.
Can you say, by the way stereotype, are there any
Mexican Americans out there who might be offended by what
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the mayor did by this type casting Mayor Wu basically was,
you know, is a very progressive mayor in a blue state,
and it takes great pride in the sanctuary city status
of Boston, which has a lot of economic problems, a
lot of which have to do with putting resources into
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people who don't pay tax and so that that's a
big issue. And the current administration, President Trump and Attorney
General Pambondy have put sanctuary city mayors on notice that
either they follow federal law or a couple things can happen,
one of which is all federal funding will be pulled
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from that city. And two, if you're breaking the law
by interfering with ICE agents who have lawful warrants, you
will be arrested. And that's what went out there, and
so Pam Bondi sent a letter to the mayors of
sanctuary city saying, Okay, we're giving you a window of
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opportunity here to clean up your act. You got to
stop interfering with federal agents, and you've got to follow
federal law when it comes to sanctuary cities or you're
going to lose your funding. And Mayor Wu's response was
to have a rally Cut five A.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Here is response, stop attacking our cities to hide your
administration's failures. Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law,
and Boston will not back down from who we are
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and what we stand for. We will not back away
from our community that has made us the safest major
city in the country and a leading example of why
cities around the country make this country safer, healthier, and
more prosperous for all Americans.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well, I don't think that's exactly true. First of all,
there's a lot wrong with what you said there. You know,
it's really easy to have the safest city in America
if you fudge these statistics, the crime statistics, to not
include statistics that would make you look bad. So there's that.
And secondly, so apparently we're making the community wonderful unless
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you are a tax paying member of the community, in
which case, no, screw you. And that's what that was
her response. But she wasn't She wasn't finished yet with
that cut five B.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
To all the federal officials attacking communities that embody diversity, creativity,
and moral clarity. We mayor said this in DC nearly
six months ago, and I'll say it again today. You
are wrong on the law, and you are wrong on safety.
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Most of all, you are wrong on cities. The cities
that live in your minds are totally foreign to the
residents living in our cities, and we are picking up
the pieces of your failures to deliver on your promises.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Okay, So there's a lot to impact there, one of
which is they're not wrong in the law. There's federal
law saying you can't hamper an ice agent, and Boston
is hampering ice agents, so they are in fact breaking law.
But meanwhile, while she's doing this, and she has a
mariachi band up there with her playing to the crowd.
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Cut six lasuen, does she know what the term stereotyping means.
You have an illegal alien rally and you have a
mariachi band playing it. I mean to me that that's
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just another sign that you know, we're completely out of touch.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
There's that, of course, But also I like me a
good mariachi band from time to time. I didn't really
hear the band though, I just heard the woman saying, well.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
It's because she had the mic.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Oh I see, okay, Well they would have been all right.
First of all, I get your point of course about
we're doing an illegal immigrant. We're not gonna is a
mariachi band. Yeah, But in all honesty, if you're gonna
have a mariachi band, I would have just given the
I would have just given the microphone to the band.
We don't need.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Singing, you know, if a member of the band.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Oh well, I understand. But what I'm saying round out
the musical instruments, which are basic.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
She was in bright blue too. She really stood out
from the black.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I don't even know how to say this. I mean,
obviously I've heard many bands in my life from all
kinds of ethnic backgrounds, et cetera, et cetera. Uh, the
musical instruments of the mariachi band to me, to me
are the best part of the band. So I could
have done without the singing. More mariachi band, less mariachi singing,
if that that's my point?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But but do I know so meanwhile, you know this
is up here in New England. Meanwhile on the southern
border band no, there could have been though, but no
HS Secretary Christy Nome guess what she was painting the
southern wall all black cut tency.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Remember that a nation without borders is no nation at all.
And we're so thankful that we have a president that
understands that and understands that a secure border is important
to our country's future. Now, if you look at the
structure that's behind me, it's tall, which makes it very
very difficult to climb, almost impossible. It also goes deep
into the ground, which would make it very difficult, if
not impossible, to dig under. And today we are also
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going to be painting it black. That is specifically at
the request of the President, who understands that in the
hot temperatures down here, when something is painted black, it
gets even warmer and it will make it even harder
for people to climb. So we are going to be
painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure
that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally,
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to not break our federal laws, but that they will
abide and come to our country the right way so
that they can stay and have the opportunity to become
United States citizens and pursue the America.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
The rolling Stones would appreciate the color of painting.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Because I think they would as a matter of fact.
So what do you think good idea. You think it's
a good idea of paint on a black just make
it hot to the touch.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You got to paint it some color anyway, So if
there's a side benefit of painting it black, then I
guess it's a good idea. I'm guessing. And I don't
know anything about fence painting or what color border wall
should be. I mean, they didn't hire me to do this,
but yeah, I mean there's somebody who probably did and
they went, you know, if we painted black, here's what
we've got to do it, and then it gets hot,
and then so somebody figured it out, and yeah, I
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mean it makes sense to me.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Well, I think it was a stroke of genius myself.
So that's so that's you know, while Mayor Wu was
having a mariachi band on the City Hall Plaza, the
southern border is getting painted black by Christino. The only
thing that would have she was actually painting too. By
the way, the only.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Thing that would have perhaps made it better, but not
for heat purposes, would be if they had painted it
to a stunning red, white, and blue. But that would
have only been without the black being the reason for
making it hotter, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You know, and I think that Donald Trump. I think
you and Donald Trump are like this. I think you
guys have very similar coaches to things. Yeah, so I think,
without a doubt he would have gone with that because
he likes a pretty fence, so he likes to juge
everything up. So I think he would have gone with
that if there hadn't been a really good reason to
go with the basic yet still elegant black So I
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think that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I wonder I here's the question, and I don't want
to go down this rabbit hole. I'm just asking you,
is okay? So I get it. The sun's out, it's
shining on the desert, it's shining on the border, and
the walls getting hot, and the wall's getting hot, and
the walls getting hot. What about it night?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It's still hot?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, because I would think, okay, everybody meet at midnight,
we're gonna climb the wall.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, it's I think it's still hot. It's not as
hot as it is during the day, but I think
it's still I think it retains heat. But you know, okay,
okay with them speaking of southern borders. On the southern
border of Massachusetts is the little state of Rhode Island,
a little state, and they had an assistant in general
by the name of Devin Flann again, Devin Hogan Flann again,
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I believe. And guess what she did.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Oh, I know what she did.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, she was drinking and she got nabbed by a
steady state trooper. Well drunk, and this is what went down,
Cut number twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I ask you to turn off the body? Can you
have to turn it off? And that's your protocol.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
She's a lawyer, so.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
She knows, well, that's boy yourself. So that's not true.
So we gotta go. No it is, that's that's a law.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I'm an agent.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I'm an aging. Good for you. I don't give you.
Let's go, we're going.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Vase.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Put your hands off? Can you buy your children out
of here? Like, I don't know what, I'm sorry, why,
let's go full grown. I'm an aging. As she's let off,
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that is the sound of her career going down the toilet.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, because she was at first suspended. Has she been fired?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I don't know as of yet.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
No, I don't. I don't know, but I know she
was a minimal suspend. But I think fired was on
the table there.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I would guess you know, a lot of times, and
I don't know in this particular case, but you know
a lot of times when it's a police fire, the
teachers this particular thing, they suspend them, and of course
you're innocent until proven guilty. And although we know she's
guilty because the video. But maybe they're waiting until some
conviction or some something else. I don't. I have no
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idea what.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I don't think she was suspended for what from be
getting drunk. I think she's being suspended for what you
don't need a conviction for, which is do you know
who I am? I'm in ag right. I think that's
where the suspension comes from, and that's where the firing
would become coming from too. Nothing to do with whether
you were convicted or I have to do with your
public behavior, which is on tape now from the entire
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world to see. So I don't think they're for conviction.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
They also may be waiting because, as you know, in
this litigious society of ours, uh, there would be a
lawsuit not coming from from the police side, but from
from her side that she was unrightfully fired. So maybe
they're running it up there.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You have a very good point.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Make sure we fire her correctly, because it's it's better
to just suspend her, fire her in a month or
a week or whenever, and do it right. Yeah, and
screw sing up. And then the state of Rhode Island's
on the hook for five million dollar lawsuit or something. Again,
what do I know?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well, who knows with these people, but Lord knows that
she's nobody's going to hire her now, let's put it
that way, unless they're related to her. The big story
of the week, of course, was President Putin and President
Trump's summit in Alaska, with a subsequent meeting at the
White House with Ukrainian President Zelenski and all the EU
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leaders came. It was It was quite a It was
quite a moment. This is Trump in Alaska with a
President Putin cut number.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Two, mister President. That was very profound. And I will
say that I believe we had a very productive meeting.
There were many, many points that we agreed on most
of them, I would say, a couple of big ones
that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've made some headway.
So there's no deal until there's a deal. I will
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call up NATO in a little while I will call
up the various people that I think are appropriate, and
of course call up Presidents Olynsky and tell them about
today's meeting. It's ultimately up to them, and I have
to agree with what Marco and Steve and some of
the great people from the Trump administration who've come here,
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Scott and John Ratcliffe, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So that's what's happening Alaska.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So incomes the liberal left who is really not happy
that Trump is making a positive showing on ending the
war with Russian Ukraine because their God couldn't do it,
and so to have Trump do it they view as
a black eye to the party. So you have some
interesting things happening. One is here you have a former
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Russian ambassador, Michael McFall. He's on MSNBC and he's trying
to pooh pooh the whole thing with putin cut number fourteen.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
I was trying to think of a time when, with
all of this engagement, with all this friendship and the clapping,
when he comes up that President Trump has done both
in his first term and now in his second term,
is there one tangible thing that the American people have
gotten out of all of that. Are we more secure,
Are we wealthier? Are we defending our values better? I
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can't think of one deliverable, as we used to say
in the State Department, that we've achieved from that strategy.
So I hope he changes his strategy because this strategy
is not working.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
So poo poo that. Right now, Mark, our Secretary of
Saint Marco Rubio is on face the Nation with Margaret
Brennan and so, and we're getting ready for the meeting
was Zelensky at the White House and all the EU
leaders are coming because that's been set up well in advance.
And this is the liberal take that Margaret Brennan puts
into Marco Rubio's head. Cut twelve.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
There's concern from the Europeans that President Zelensky is going
to be bullied into signing something away. That's why you
have these European leaders coming as back up tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
Can you no? It is that's that's not true, But
that's not why why that's not true. They're not coming
here tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied. They're not
coming very over.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
They're coming here to market the television cameras where President Zelenski.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
You know how many meetings then Oh, no.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
I know, And I was just up the one with
Vladimir Putin where red carpet rules.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
We've had more meetings we've had we've had We've had
one meeting with Putin and like a dozen meetings with Zelenski.
So that but that's not true. They're not coming here
tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied. They're coming here
tomorrow because we've been working with the Europeans. We talked
to them last week. There were meetings in the UK
over the the previous.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Weekend and.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
As early as Thursday.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So this is what's happening right here's and I got
interrupted you.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
So here's the problem I have. And we've had this
problem so many times with so many people. So I'm
not specifically picking on Margaret Brennan, but since when, since
when do journalists reporters get into full blown debates with
their secretary of state. Well, I don't even care if
it's the secretary.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Of state or the secretary of state.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
You interview people, listen.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
But this is your June, the electrician from Ohio who
did something interesting. True, this is the secretary.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Of state, right, but whoever it is. If you're an interview.
If you're a reporter. Now, look, I understand there are
there are people like Sean Hannity and and and some
of the other talking heads of the world. That's their job,
you know. They If you're going to present yourself as
a full blown unbiased reporter, then you need to do that.
You can't go back and forth between well I am
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a reporter. By tomorrow, I'm going to argue with the
President and the Secretary of State. I just the whole
thing and again, not picking a market printing because we've
seen it a million times. The whole thing of how
this news journalism works, as someone who's been in the
business for forty years, sometimes makes me sick.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, so that's what's going on, right, And then they
have the meeting at the White House with Zolensky and
it's fantastic meeting. Everybody is happy with the meeting. Here's Zolensky,
he's happy with the meeting. Cut twenty A.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Mister President, would you like to say something you have
the media if you want, you could come over and
you could stand, you could use mine, or you could
just turn around, whichever you feel comfortable with.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
I can speak without microphone.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Thank you too much.
Speaker 10 (17:49):
I think that we had a very good conversation with
presidents from very good and it really was the best one,
or sorry, maybe the best one will be in the future,
but it is really good. And we spoke about very
sensitive points. The first one is security guarantees. And we
are very happy with President that all the leaders are here.
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And the security in Ukraine depends on the United States
and on you and on those leaders who are with
us in our hearts. They have been online before yesterday
and etc. So a lot of countries on the side
of Ukraine, our people and all of us want to
finish this word, stop soup Russia, and stop this world.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
So all of a sudden they can't hang their hats
on a narrative anymore. That Zonsky is being both Zonsky
is thrilled. But Maloney is there, Ma Kron is there,
Italian right, said her? Already I finished. President Alexander's Tubb
is there, the Mark Root, the Native Secretary. They're all
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thrilled to pieces. So what happens I'm telling you right now?
A pig just flew by the window cut number nine.
President Trump were the architect of then I'd nominate him
for a Nobel Peace Prize. If this works, Hillary Clinton
will nominate him for So where are the dam's supposed
to go with this? Now, Hillary Clinton? You know, the
arc anti trumpist has just said that this is worth
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a Nobel if this works, and it looks like it's working.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Behater of the Basketful of Deplorables exactly is now saying.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
So then Michael McFall, who you heard before, US ambassador
to Russia, now goes, Now he's on who's on MSNBC,
Now he's on NBC goes Wait a minute, cut twenty three.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I think there was a very positive meeting, and whoever
had the idea to bring all these European leaders together,
in addition to President's Lensky that that was a brilliant,
brilliant idea, and having it come so quickly after Alaska
was also very important because now they've changed the talking
points here just in this meeting alone, they've walked back
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some of the positions that the president was echoing when
he met with President Putin. So this is very positive progress.
The fact that they're talking about a ceasefire again. Chancellor
Merch brought it up in particular. There's no logic. I
want to underscore this, this idea that a ceasefire gets
on the way of negotiations, that is not historically true.
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And why should people continue to die while they're negotiating.
So I'm glad that's back on the table.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
So he heard it. He completely within twenty four hours,
completely switch because it looked like what Donald Trump did
was working. He settled five other wars for christ sake.
And so now if we're saying he can't do it,
he can't do it, he can't do it. They're bullying
the EU leaders that are protect Selensky. We have to
change the narrative overnight. Otherwise we have slid our own throats.
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And that's what you saw happen. It was the most amazing.
It's like Lazarus rising from the dead. Hillary going, you know,
oh oh no, no, Yeah, he's doing a good job.
I mean twenty four hours. Twenty four hours, that's what
it took for them to do that.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Everybody's hat on and everybody's happy. But yeah, changing changing
the tunes, well, you know, listen, which way is the
wind blowing. I gotta you know, I got to make
sure I'm going in that direction. That's how a lot
of these people think. And we see it all the
time in all different avenues of politics.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
We do, we do, and it was it was amazing,
It was absolutely amazing. Now we end each week with
a truth control and I have a really interesting one
for this week. It is, of course Donald Trump, because
he's the king of all of truth control. But when
he was in the office with President Zelensky, he noticed
he made a reference to President Zelensky how President Zelensky
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had canceled elections in Ukraine because of the war, and
that gave Donald Trump an idea cut ten b legal elections.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
So you say, during it, during the war, you can't
have elections. So let me just see three and a
half years from now. So you mean if we happen
to be in a war with somebody, no more.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So I wonder what the.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Mm hmmm. So what do you think is President Trump thinking,
huh war, no elections, I could stay in office or
is he just having it on with the liberal left
who are having kittens over that? Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I think he loves to poke the bear. So I'm
pretty sure he's doing that. And by the way, yeah,
there's no in this country. I know when other countries.
A lot of things done differently than here for a
number of different reasons. But you know, in this country,
we voted when we were at war with Afghanistan and
after nine to eleven, and after the Vienam War and
after the Korean War. I mean, so if there's no
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he's poking the bear because we don't do that here.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, maybe even if we.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Went to war.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well, don't forget, this is only like a week after
he's standing in the White House gift shop with the
President of Azerbaijan and he's handing him a Trump twenty
twenty eight hat. So I mean it is an ongoing
It is an ongoing troll. I agree with you, but
I think it's an ongoing troll. I guess he was
just feeling his oats that morning and goes, well, let's
see what we can do with the press today because
they're looking a little too comfortable. And there he goes.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You know, if a month before the twenty twenty eight
presidential election, Donald Trump declares war on half the world.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Then we know then we know it was truthful, but
we won't know for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You don't have an election. Yeah yeah, so yeah, no.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
He was We'll find out in twenty twenty eight. But
I think you're right and we'd like to know what
you think. Do you think he's truthing or trolling?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
There?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
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Damnus contemplate nominating President Trump for a Nobel A Rhode
Island d A G pulls a do you know who
I am? And the Mayor of Boston flips the bird
to Pam BONDI. The world has been turned upside down,
as you will hear and are did they really just
say that? Clips from this week. I'm Nancy Shack, I'm
Ben Parker. This is newspite. If President Trump were the
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architect of that, I'd nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'm an agent, I'm an agent.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Good for you, I'll give you.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We're going.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
To all the federal officials attacking communities that embody diversity, creativity,
and moral clarity. You are wrong on cities. The cities
that live in your minds are totally foreign to the
residents living in our cities, says.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Beautiful out of it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
That was a mariachi band. I'm not kidding about that,
but yeah, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu hired a mariachi band
to play at her Sanctuary City rally at City Hall.
Can you say, by the way stereotype, are there any
Mexican Americans out there who might be offended by what
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the mayor did by this type casting Mayor Wu basically was,
you know, is a very progressive mayor in a blue state,
and it takes great pride in the sanctuary city status
of Boston, which has a lot of economic problems, a
lot of which have to do with putting resources into
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people who don't pay tax and so that that's a
big issue. And the current administration, President Trump and Attorney
General Pambondy have put sanctuary city mayors on notice that
either they follow federal law or a couple things can happen,
one of which is all federal funding will be pulled
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from that city. And two, if you're breaking the law
by interfering with ICE agents who have lawful warrants, you
will be arrested. And that's what went out there, and
so Pam Bondi sent a letter to the mayors of
sanctuary city saying, Okay, we're giving you a window of
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opportunity here to clean up your act. You got to
stop interfering with federal agents, and you've got to follow
federal law when it comes to sanctuary cities or you're
going to lose your funding. And Mayor Wu's response was
to have a rally Cut five A.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Here is response, stop attacking our cities to hide your
administration's failures. Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law,
and Boston will not back down from who we are
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and what we stand for. We will not back away
from our community that has made us the safest major
city in the country and a leading example of why
cities around the country make this country safer, healthier, and
more prosperous for all Americans.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well, I don't think that's exactly true. First of all,
there's a lot wrong with what you said there. You know,
it's really easy to have the safest city in America
if you fudge these statistics, the crime statistics, to not
include statistics that would make you look bad. So there's that.
And secondly, so apparently we're making the community wonderful unless
(04:05):
you are a tax paying member of the community, in
which case, no, screw you. And that's what that was
her response. But she wasn't She wasn't finished yet with
that cut five B.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
To all the federal officials attacking communities that embody diversity, creativity,
and moral clarity. We mayor said this in DC nearly
six months ago, and I'll say it again today. You
are wrong on the law, and you are wrong on safety.
(04:38):
Most of all, you are wrong on cities. The cities
that live in your minds are totally foreign to the
residents living in our cities, and we are picking up
the pieces of your failures to deliver on your promises.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Okay, So there's a lot to impact there, one of
which is they're not wrong in the law. There's federal
law saying you can't hamper an ice agent, and Boston
is hampering ice agents, so they are in fact breaking law.
But meanwhile, while she's doing this, and she has a
mariachi band up there with her playing to the crowd.
(05:18):
Cut six lasuen, does she know what the term stereotyping means.
You have an illegal alien rally and you have a
mariachi band playing it. I mean to me that that's
(05:43):
just another sign that you know, we're completely out of touch.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
There's that, of course, But also I like me a
good mariachi band from time to time. I didn't really
hear the band though, I just heard the woman saying, well.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
It's because she had the mic.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Oh I see, okay, Well they would have been all right.
First of all, I get your point of course about
we're doing an illegal immigrant. We're not gonna is a
mariachi band. Yeah, But in all honesty, if you're gonna
have a mariachi band, I would have just given the
I would have just given the microphone to the band.
We don't need.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Singing, you know, if a member of the band.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Oh well, I understand. But what I'm saying round out
the musical instruments, which are basic.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
She was in bright blue too. She really stood out
from the black.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I don't even know how to say this. I mean,
obviously I've heard many bands in my life from all
kinds of ethnic backgrounds, et cetera, et cetera. Uh, the
musical instruments of the mariachi band to me, to me
are the best part of the band. So I could
have done without the singing. More mariachi band, less mariachi singing,
if that that's my point?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But but do I know so meanwhile, you know this
is up here in New England. Meanwhile on the southern
border band no, there could have been though, but no
HS Secretary Christy Nome guess what she was painting the
southern wall all black cut tency.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Remember that a nation without borders is no nation at all.
And we're so thankful that we have a president that
understands that and understands that a secure border is important
to our country's future. Now, if you look at the
structure that's behind me, it's tall, which makes it very
very difficult to climb, almost impossible. It also goes deep
into the ground, which would make it very difficult, if
not impossible, to dig under. And today we are also
(07:25):
going to be painting it black. That is specifically at
the request of the President, who understands that in the
hot temperatures down here, when something is painted black, it
gets even warmer and it will make it even harder
for people to climb. So we are going to be
painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure
that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally,
(07:50):
to not break our federal laws, but that they will
abide and come to our country the right way so
that they can stay and have the opportunity to become
United States citizens and pursue the America.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
The rolling Stones would appreciate the color of painting.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Because I think they would as a matter of fact.
So what do you think good idea. You think it's
a good idea of paint on a black just make
it hot to the touch.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You got to paint it some color anyway, So if
there's a side benefit of painting it black, then I
guess it's a good idea. I'm guessing. And I don't
know anything about fence painting or what color border wall
should be. I mean, they didn't hire me to do this,
but yeah, I mean there's somebody who probably did and
they went, you know, if we painted black, here's what
we've got to do it, and then it gets hot,
and then so somebody figured it out, and yeah, I
(08:31):
mean it makes sense to me.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Well, I think it was a stroke of genius myself.
So that's so that's you know, while Mayor Wu was
having a mariachi band on the City Hall Plaza, the
southern border is getting painted black by Christino. The only
thing that would have she was actually painting too. By
the way, the only.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Thing that would have perhaps made it better, but not
for heat purposes, would be if they had painted it
to a stunning red, white, and blue. But that would
have only been without the black being the reason for
making it hotter, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You know, and I think that Donald Trump. I think
you and Donald Trump are like this. I think you
guys have very similar coaches to things. Yeah, so I think,
without a doubt he would have gone with that because
he likes a pretty fence, so he likes to juge
everything up. So I think he would have gone with
that if there hadn't been a really good reason to
go with the basic yet still elegant black So I
(09:23):
think that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I wonder I here's the question, and I don't want
to go down this rabbit hole. I'm just asking you,
is okay? So I get it. The sun's out, it's
shining on the desert, it's shining on the border, and
the walls getting hot, and the wall's getting hot, and
the walls getting hot. What about it night?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It's still hot?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, because I would think, okay, everybody meet at midnight,
we're gonna climb the wall.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, it's I think it's still hot. It's not as
hot as it is during the day, but I think
it's still I think it retains heat. But you know, okay,
okay with them speaking of southern borders. On the southern
border of Massachusetts is the little state of Rhode Island,
a little state, and they had an assistant in general
by the name of Devin Flann again, Devin Hogan Flann again,
(10:04):
I believe. And guess what she did.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Oh, I know what she did.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, she was drinking and she got nabbed by a
steady state trooper. Well drunk, and this is what went down,
Cut number twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I ask you to turn off the body? Can you
have to turn it off? And that's your protocol.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
She's a lawyer, so.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
She knows, well, that's boy yourself. So that's not true.
So we gotta go. No it is, that's that's a law.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I'm an agent.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I'm an aging. Good for you. I don't give you.
Let's go, we're going.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Vase.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Put your hands off? Can you buy your children out
of here? Like, I don't know what, I'm sorry, why,
let's go full grown. I'm an aging. As she's let off,
(11:02):
that is the sound of her career going down the toilet.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, because she was at first suspended. Has she been fired?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I don't know as of yet.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
No, I don't. I don't know, but I know she
was a minimal suspend. But I think fired was on
the table there.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I would guess you know, a lot of times, and
I don't know in this particular case, but you know
a lot of times when it's a police fire, the
teachers this particular thing, they suspend them, and of course
you're innocent until proven guilty. And although we know she's
guilty because the video. But maybe they're waiting until some
conviction or some something else. I don't. I have no
(11:36):
idea what.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I don't think she was suspended for what from be
getting drunk. I think she's being suspended for what you
don't need a conviction for, which is do you know
who I am? I'm in ag right. I think that's
where the suspension comes from, and that's where the firing
would become coming from too. Nothing to do with whether
you were convicted or I have to do with your
public behavior, which is on tape now from the entire
(11:58):
world to see. So I don't think they're for conviction.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
They also may be waiting because, as you know, in
this litigious society of ours, uh, there would be a
lawsuit not coming from from the police side, but from
from her side that she was unrightfully fired. So maybe
they're running it up there.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You have a very good point.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Make sure we fire her correctly, because it's it's better
to just suspend her, fire her in a month or
a week or whenever, and do it right. Yeah, and
screw sing up. And then the state of Rhode Island's
on the hook for five million dollar lawsuit or something. Again,
what do I know?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well, who knows with these people, but Lord knows that
she's nobody's going to hire her now, let's put it
that way, unless they're related to her. The big story
of the week, of course, was President Putin and President
Trump's summit in Alaska, with a subsequent meeting at the
White House with Ukrainian President Zelenski and all the EU
(12:52):
leaders came. It was It was quite a It was
quite a moment. This is Trump in Alaska with a
President Putin cut number.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Two, mister President. That was very profound. And I will
say that I believe we had a very productive meeting.
There were many, many points that we agreed on most
of them, I would say, a couple of big ones
that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've made some headway.
So there's no deal until there's a deal. I will
(13:22):
call up NATO in a little while I will call
up the various people that I think are appropriate, and
of course call up Presidents Olynsky and tell them about
today's meeting. It's ultimately up to them, and I have
to agree with what Marco and Steve and some of
the great people from the Trump administration who've come here,
(13:44):
Scott and John Ratcliffe, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So that's what's happening Alaska.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So incomes the liberal left who is really not happy
that Trump is making a positive showing on ending the
war with Russian Ukraine because their God couldn't do it,
and so to have Trump do it they view as
a black eye to the party. So you have some
interesting things happening. One is here you have a former
(14:14):
Russian ambassador, Michael McFall. He's on MSNBC and he's trying
to pooh pooh the whole thing with putin cut number fourteen.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
I was trying to think of a time when, with
all of this engagement, with all this friendship and the clapping,
when he comes up that President Trump has done both
in his first term and now in his second term,
is there one tangible thing that the American people have
gotten out of all of that. Are we more secure,
Are we wealthier? Are we defending our values better? I
(14:42):
can't think of one deliverable, as we used to say
in the State Department, that we've achieved from that strategy.
So I hope he changes his strategy because this strategy
is not working.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
So poo poo that. Right now, Mark, our Secretary of
Saint Marco Rubio is on face the Nation with Margaret
Brennan and so, and we're getting ready for the meeting
was Zelensky at the White House and all the EU
leaders are coming because that's been set up well in advance.
And this is the liberal take that Margaret Brennan puts
into Marco Rubio's head. Cut twelve.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
There's concern from the Europeans that President Zelensky is going
to be bullied into signing something away. That's why you
have these European leaders coming as back up tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
Can you no? It is that's that's not true, But
that's not why why that's not true. They're not coming
here tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied. They're not
coming very over.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
They're coming here to market the television cameras where President Zelenski.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
You know how many meetings then Oh, no.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
I know, And I was just up the one with
Vladimir Putin where red carpet rules.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
We've had more meetings we've had we've had We've had
one meeting with Putin and like a dozen meetings with Zelenski.
So that but that's not true. They're not coming here
tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied. They're coming here
tomorrow because we've been working with the Europeans. We talked
to them last week. There were meetings in the UK
over the the previous.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Weekend and.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
As early as Thursday.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So this is what's happening right here's and I got
interrupted you.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
So here's the problem I have. And we've had this
problem so many times with so many people. So I'm
not specifically picking on Margaret Brennan, but since when, since
when do journalists reporters get into full blown debates with
their secretary of state. Well, I don't even care if
it's the secretary.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Of state or the secretary of state.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
You interview people, listen.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
But this is your June, the electrician from Ohio who
did something interesting. True, this is the secretary.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Of state, right, but whoever it is. If you're an interview.
If you're a reporter. Now, look, I understand there are
there are people like Sean Hannity and and and some
of the other talking heads of the world. That's their job,
you know. They If you're going to present yourself as
a full blown unbiased reporter, then you need to do that.
You can't go back and forth between well I am
(16:59):
a reporter. By tomorrow, I'm going to argue with the
President and the Secretary of State. I just the whole
thing and again, not picking a market printing because we've
seen it a million times. The whole thing of how
this news journalism works, as someone who's been in the
business for forty years, sometimes makes me sick.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, so that's what's going on, right, And then they
have the meeting at the White House with Zolensky and
it's fantastic meeting. Everybody is happy with the meeting. Here's Zolensky,
he's happy with the meeting. Cut twenty A.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Mister President, would you like to say something you have
the media if you want, you could come over and
you could stand, you could use mine, or you could
just turn around, whichever you feel comfortable with.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
I can speak without microphone.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Thank you too much.
Speaker 10 (17:49):
I think that we had a very good conversation with
presidents from very good and it really was the best one,
or sorry, maybe the best one will be in the future,
but it is really good. And we spoke about very
sensitive points. The first one is security guarantees. And we
are very happy with President that all the leaders are here.
(18:10):
And the security in Ukraine depends on the United States
and on you and on those leaders who are with
us in our hearts. They have been online before yesterday
and etc. So a lot of countries on the side
of Ukraine, our people and all of us want to
finish this word, stop soup Russia, and stop this world.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
So all of a sudden they can't hang their hats
on a narrative anymore. That Zonsky is being both Zonsky
is thrilled. But Maloney is there, Ma Kron is there,
Italian right, said her? Already I finished. President Alexander's Tubb
is there, the Mark Root, the Native Secretary. They're all
(18:52):
thrilled to pieces. So what happens I'm telling you right now?
A pig just flew by the window cut number nine.
President Trump were the architect of then I'd nominate him
for a Nobel Peace Prize. If this works, Hillary Clinton
will nominate him for So where are the dam's supposed
to go with this? Now, Hillary Clinton? You know, the
arc anti trumpist has just said that this is worth
(19:14):
a Nobel if this works, and it looks like it's working.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Behater of the Basketful of Deplorables exactly is now saying.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
So then Michael McFall, who you heard before, US ambassador
to Russia, now goes, Now he's on who's on MSNBC,
Now he's on NBC goes Wait a minute, cut twenty three.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I think there was a very positive meeting, and whoever
had the idea to bring all these European leaders together,
in addition to President's Lensky that that was a brilliant,
brilliant idea, and having it come so quickly after Alaska
was also very important because now they've changed the talking
points here just in this meeting alone, they've walked back
(19:57):
some of the positions that the president was echoing when
he met with President Putin. So this is very positive progress.
The fact that they're talking about a ceasefire again. Chancellor
Merch brought it up in particular. There's no logic. I
want to underscore this, this idea that a ceasefire gets
on the way of negotiations, that is not historically true.
(20:20):
And why should people continue to die while they're negotiating.
So I'm glad that's back on the table.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
So he heard it. He completely within twenty four hours,
completely switch because it looked like what Donald Trump did
was working. He settled five other wars for christ sake.
And so now if we're saying he can't do it,
he can't do it, he can't do it. They're bullying
the EU leaders that are protect Selensky. We have to
change the narrative overnight. Otherwise we have slid our own throats.
(20:47):
And that's what you saw happen. It was the most amazing.
It's like Lazarus rising from the dead. Hillary going, you know,
oh oh no, no, Yeah, he's doing a good job.
I mean twenty four hours. Twenty four hours, that's what
it took for them to do that.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Everybody's hat on and everybody's happy. But yeah, changing changing
the tunes, well, you know, listen, which way is the
wind blowing. I gotta you know, I got to make
sure I'm going in that direction. That's how a lot
of these people think. And we see it all the
time in all different avenues of politics.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
We do, we do, and it was it was amazing,
It was absolutely amazing. Now we end each week with
a truth control and I have a really interesting one
for this week. It is, of course Donald Trump, because
he's the king of all of truth control. But when
he was in the office with President Zelensky, he noticed
he made a reference to President Zelensky how President Zelensky
(21:36):
had canceled elections in Ukraine because of the war, and
that gave Donald Trump an idea cut ten b legal elections.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
So you say, during it, during the war, you can't
have elections. So let me just see three and a
half years from now. So you mean if we happen
to be in a war with somebody, no more.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So I wonder what the.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Mm hmmm. So what do you think is President Trump thinking,
huh war, no elections, I could stay in office or
is he just having it on with the liberal left
who are having kittens over that? Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I think he loves to poke the bear. So I'm
pretty sure he's doing that. And by the way, yeah,
there's no in this country. I know when other countries.
A lot of things done differently than here for a
number of different reasons. But you know, in this country,
we voted when we were at war with Afghanistan and
after nine to eleven, and after the Vienam War and
after the Korean War. I mean, so if there's no
(22:41):
he's poking the bear because we don't do that here.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, maybe even if we.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Went to war.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well, don't forget, this is only like a week after
he's standing in the White House gift shop with the
President of Azerbaijan and he's handing him a Trump twenty
twenty eight hat. So I mean it is an ongoing
It is an ongoing troll. I agree with you, but
I think it's an ongoing troll. I guess he was
just feeling his oats that morning and goes, well, let's
see what we can do with the press today because
they're looking a little too comfortable. And there he goes.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You know, if a month before the twenty twenty eight
presidential election, Donald Trump declares war on half the world.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Then we know then we know it was truthful, but
we won't know for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You don't have an election. Yeah yeah, so yeah, no.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
He was We'll find out in twenty twenty eight. But
I think you're right and we'd like to know what
you think. Do you think he's truthing or trolling?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
There?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You can contact Ben and I at x on news
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new episode every Monday, so please check back next Monday
and see what new offerings we have. Meanwhile, have a
great week. I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker. This is
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