March 1, 2025 • 40 mins
What exactly is taking the Trump Administration so long to release the Epstein Files? The short answer is the deep state.
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What exactly happened yesterday between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy? Podcast and radio host Kenny Webster joins us to break it down.
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Okay, we have a lot going on. I say that
every episode. I just kind of noticed this. I always
open every episode by saying we have a lot going on,
and that's true. We do have a lot going on.
Most episodes, we have a lot going on. It's a
very busy time in the news world. I don't know
why that is. Maybe it's the end times, so who knows.
I want to open this episode by talking about something
we didn't get the chance to talk about on Wednesday's episode.
(00:43):
There was just too much. This kind of ended up
falling on the scrap room floor. But I think we
have some time today we can dig into this a
little bit, just because I think it's frankly, it's funny.
We're gonna get to some more serious stuff a little
bit later on. I think it's worth opening with a
little bit of humor. And of course that humor comes
in the form of she who would be President, Kamala Harris.
(01:05):
This woman, just for her own good, needs to kind
of sync back into obscurity. I don't know why she
keeps trying so hard to continue to be important. It's
not a good look for her. She's not very good
at being important. I think we learned that, but she
really wants to be important, so even though she's not
good at it, she keeps trying. Take a listen to
(01:28):
her on the ground. This was uploaded on February twenty fourth,
so I don't know if this is when that was filmed,
but I think it's from that day because I read
some headlines about it too. Here she is on the
ground in the recovery areas of where the LA wildfires were,
and she's talking with Fox News about how things smell,
how the fires smell. It's just it's I legitimately don't
(01:51):
understand how you can be this bad at this. I'm
better than her at this, and I don't even do this.
Take a listen. It goes through your mind when you
see this. You're here, You're now seeing it up close.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's not only seeing it, Alex. You can smell it.
You can feel it, right, So it's seeing it with
our eyes and many people have seen it if you
all are covering it. But to literally be on the
ground here, you can smell the smoke that was here.
You can feel the toxicity, frankly, of the environment. You
(02:28):
can feel the energy of all of the folks who
are still here on the ground.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Madame Vice President, you're here on the scene of a
terrible tragedy. How does it feel to be here on
the scene of this terrible tragedy? What are you thinking? Well,
it smells bad, it looks bad. I can feel how
bad it is. And it smells and looks bad, and
it's toxicity. It's really bad and smells bad. How is
that your answer, Kamala Harris, here's the correct politician answer
(02:57):
to that question. By the way, just so you guys
know what she should have said, here's what she sort
of said. Madam Vice President, How does it feel? What
are you thinking about as you're here on the ground
in these LA wildfires? This is a terrible tragedy. I
feel really poorly for the people that lost everything, and
we're gonna do what we can to make sure that
they get back up on their feet, and we're gonna
(03:18):
take steps to make sure this never happens again. We're
gonna look at our policy and our legislation. We're gonna
make a ven diagram of what happened here and what
should happen here, and we're gonna make sure that that's
a perfect circle in the future. Because I love Van diagrams,
and we need to clear the road for the school buses.
But mainly anyway, you get the point. She should have
explained that what happened here is a result of bad policy,
(03:43):
and we need to look at what those policies are
and take steps to replace those with good policy. That's
what she should have said. Instead, she rambled for a
full minute and a half about how it smelled and
the feelings. We all know it smells bad. I think
anybody that's driven past, you know, a pile of garbage
on fire, knows it smells bad. Fire doesn't tend to
(04:05):
smell good unless you're just like burning natural wood and
maybe some plants to add a little bit of the spits.
But we all know this smells bad. You don't have
to point that out. Thank you for nothing. Everybody smell
burnt rubber doesn't smell good. We know that. How are
you gonna make sure this doesn't happen in the future,
because I have to assume that she's gonna take another
swing at politics. You'd start that race now, Kamala Harris,
(04:29):
if you're looking at some midterm race, if you want
to weasele your way back into the Senate maybe or
even state level politics. This is when you start campaigning
because you have to regain a whole lot of ground.
Every single ounce of positive public image that you had
you wasted on your presidential run, which means you need
to start building that backup asap. And that starts with
(04:51):
you actually coming up with some ideas on how to
prevent this, because I guarantee you these LA wildfires were
a preventable tragedy. The post mortem is ongoing on these,
but I feel like when it's finally done, we are
all going to see that this could have been prevented
and it wasn't all that to say. Kamala Harris truly
truly sucks at this, at just being a politician. She's
(05:12):
really bad at it. And I'm glad she's not the
President of the United States because if she was, we
wouldn't get what we saw at Trump's first cabinet meeting.
I want to take a quick minute to acknowledge something
that I think is very important. I'm a religious Christian.
I encourage everyone to be a religious Christian because that's great.
It's a good way to be without preaching a sermon
about it. So Trump held his first cabinet meeting on Wednesday,
(05:35):
like early afternoon on Wednesday, and he opened this cabinet
meeting with a prayer. And I'm going to play the
prayer for you because I think it's a really good prayer.
And then we're kind of going to break into why
it's important that this happened, because it is. I really
do believe that it is important that nations be kind
of involved religiously. Take a listen to the prayer that
(05:57):
Trump's hud secretary prayed right before their first candet meeting.
Say gration if they want of our meaning right, thank
you very much, thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Let's pray.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Father, We thank you for this awesome privileged father, to
be in your presence. Y'd thank you that you've allowed
us to see this day. The Bible says that your
mercis are new every morning, and Father, God would give
you the glory and the honor. Thank you God for
President Trump, Father for appointing us. Father God, thank you
for anointing us to do this job. Father, we pray
(06:30):
you will give the President the vice president wisdom, Father God,
as they lead. Father, I pray for all of our
colleagues that are here around the table and in this room,
Lord God, we pray that we would lead with a
righteous clarity, Father God, that as we serve the people
of this country and every prospective agency, every job that
we have, Father, we would humble ourselves before you, and
(06:52):
we would lead in a manner to called us to
lead and to sir Father, the Bible says the blessed
is a nation whose God is the Lord. Will Father,
we today honor you and in your rightful place, Father,
thank you for giving us this opportunity to restore faith
in this country and be a blessing to the people
of America. My Lord God, today in our meeting, we
pray to you will be glorified in our conversation in
(07:14):
Jesus' name.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
All right, here's why this is important. Just like he
pointed out, blessed is a nation whose God is the Lord.
I believe that's true. I really do. And despite what
the Left may tell you about the separation of church
and state, America is a nation that was founded on
Christian principles to be a Christian nation. It's good that
we have an administration that's not only acknowledging that but
putting it into practice in real, practical ways.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Like this.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I love to see it. All right, we got a
great show coming up, a lot to get you, a
whole lot to get you, So stay tuned. We're going
to be right back after this break. All right, let's
(08:17):
talk a little bit about the Epstein files. It's a
rough topic, I'm aware, but it's critically important. It's probably
one of the most important things happening in the United
States today, and I think everybody, at least on the
Republican conservative side of the aisle, everybody on the right,
says they want to see the files. Right, A lot
of people on the left are making that same claim
(08:38):
as well, all of the sudden, which is really shocking.
Like a couple of Democrat representatives, I think one of
them was Eric Swalwell. You'll know him as the guy
who was having an affair with a Chinese spy while
sitting on the Intelligence Committee. So that's a little concerning.
But he all of a sudden has started being very
vocal about wanting to see the Epstein files, despite not
(08:59):
really making any move his entire career in Congress to
get those files out to the public, which he could
have been doing. It's weird that he waited until the
Republican administration got into office to start complaining about this,
but at least he's speaking out because he is right.
We all do want to see it. So in February
twenty six, Wednesday night, Pambondi got up and she said, hey, guys,
(09:21):
we're going to release the Epstein files tomorrow. And now,
if you weren't following this situation, it gets very complicated
from there. So I'm going to try as best as
I can to take you through this step by step
because what happened here is incredibly important. So let's start
with Pambondy on primetime on Fox with Jesse Waters saying, Hey, tomorrow,
y'all are going to get some Epstein files. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
A lot of people are wondering because you said last
week that you have the Epstein files on your desk,
is when can we see them? And what's taking so
long to release them?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
I do, Jesse, there are well over this will make
you sick, two hundred victims two hundred, so we have
well over two hundred and fifty actually, so we have
to make sure that their identity is protected and their
personal information. But other than that, I think tomorrow, you
(10:14):
know the personal information of victims. Other than that, I
think tomorrow Jesse breaking news. Right now, you're going to
see some Epstein information being released by my office.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Well, kind are we going to see who was on
the flights? Are we going to see any evidence from
what he recorded? Because he had all of his homes
wired with recording devices.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Yeah, what you're going to see, hopefully tomorrow, is a
lot of flight logs, a lot of names at a
lot of information. But it's pretty sick what that man did.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Okay, well along with this co defendant.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Absolutely, and he had help, that's.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
For sure, did okay, So allow me to hit you
with a quick spoiler. We did not see anything new
from those files. So here's what happened after that. The
White House called a bunch of different influencers, social media journalists,
you know, the people that got Trump elected basically, to
the White House, and they gave them all a copy
(11:14):
of a binder that supposedly had a lot of Epstein information. Now,
what was in this binder was actually not anything new,
which really aggravated a whole lot of people. This binder
was labeled Epstein Files Phase One, and they made a
big show. I mean, they brought in big names Liz Wheeler,
d C, Draino, a lot of really popular big accounts
on X and they gave them this binder that essentially
(11:37):
had all the stuff we already knew in it. Okay,
that's not really what we were wanting. We already have
all this information. We want the stuff we don't have,
Like Jesse Waters pointed out, we want to know what
happened to all those tapes and whatnot and who those
tapes are of. Because Jeffrey Epstein had all of his
houses wired. He would record these disgusting acts used as blackmail,
(12:01):
and he saved all of those tapes and whatnot in
CDs that were in a safe in his New York house.
The government has those tapes, that data, what happened to it,
What are y'all doing with that information, who's on it?
And what are you doing to arrest those people? That's
what we want to know. That's not what was in here.
It was just a whole bunch of nothing. Okay, So
(12:23):
what was in the binders?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It was essentially just over one hundred pages as I
understand it. It includes a lot of flight logs, which
is stuff that we already had from Epstein's private plane,
a very very redacted contact book, which does nobody any good.
I assume some of that was to protect the victim's identities,
which sure, that's important, but you know, if we're redacting
(12:49):
so much that we don't even know, like who's guilty
of the crimes, well, what good does that do the
American people. One thing that is really interesting that was
in this binder is a list of evidence that was
collected that is critically important. That is worth having because,
like I said, a lot of this stuff was seized
from Epstein's house in New York, where it was kept
in a safe. So they made a list of all
(13:10):
the evidence that they seized, and that was in this binder.
That is worth having. But without the actual evidence, it
doesn't really do us all that much good. So what
this does is it does tell us what we're looking for.
We have a list of the evidence that was seized.
Where is that evidence? Now, who's got it? That's what
we want released. We want to know what evidence you
(13:31):
have against what people, because we want to know who
in our government, in our public life, was involved in
the disgusting acts that Jeffrey Epstein was doing. We all
have a vested interest in knowing that obviously make any
redactions necessary to protect the identity of victims. But we
have got to know who was committing these crimes.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Of course, as I've already said, a lot of this
we had already. This is a lot of stuff that
was already available through documents that were released during Gishline
Mackwells trial. So there's not really a whole lot here new.
So essentially what ended up happening is pam Bondi in
the administration ended up promoting basically, for twenty four hours,
(14:11):
a big nothing burger file drop right. Understandably, people are
pissed at that. We were promised groundbreaking documents and we
still haven't gotten them yet, So why is that?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
So?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Apparently what happened here, and this is according to a
number of people, including Pambondi herself, Basically lower level people
inside the DOJ screwed over Pambondi in the administration because
on day one, when she asked for all the Epstein files,
they gave her that and pretended that was it. Here
she is explaining this with kprc's Mark Levin on his
(14:44):
Fox show. Take a listen to what she says happened
and why we got this nothing burger file drop instead
of what we wanted, which is, you know, a list
of guilty parties.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
As you know, we released about one hundred and twenty
pages of documents. And I started asking for these documents
right when I came into office and before Cash Pttel
was in there. So I ended up getting about one
hundred and twenty pages. We carefully redacted.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
Them, of course, to be sure the two hundred and
fifty four young girls women who are victims of sex
crimes and sex trafficking, their personal information was redacted and
out of there to protect them.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
So going through it, and I kept saying, there has
to be more, there has to be more. I'm assured
that's it. Cash asked the same questions, assured there's no more.
Last I found out, you know, this week that a
source told me New York SD and Y they're sitting
on thousands of pages of documents regarding Epstein, thousands, thousands,
(15:46):
And of course you've seen the very strong letter. We
will get everything, we will have it in our possession.
We will redact it, of course to protect grand jury
information and confidential witnesses. But the amer Can people have
a right to know, and Donald Trump is the most
transparent president in our nation's history. So not only will
(16:07):
America get the full Epstein files, they will get JFK,
They will get Martin Luther King.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Okay, two things can be true at once here, I,
along with many other Americans, are tired of the excuses
when it comes to these Epstein files. Frankly, I'm sick
of it. We all are. We're tired of there always
being another reason we don't have it. At the same time,
what she's saying here is logical. Basically, the people at
the top of the administration were screwed over by the
people in the lower mid levels the deep State, quote unquote,
(16:35):
that's essentially what she's claiming happened here. I'm trying to
be an optimist. This makes sense. Elon Musk went on
Joe Rogan. He basically explained it like this. They've been
put in a position Trump, Pambondi, Cash, Bettel. They're essentially
walking onto the deck of a ship that was just
an enemy, right, and they've been put in charge of
(16:56):
this ship. Now they're the captains of this ship. Everybody
on the ship, all of the crew, was just trying
to kill them a second ago, and now they're on
the ship as the captain trying to get the crew
to cooperate with them. Obviously, that's going to be a
hard sell. That makes sense, I understand that. So I'm
willing to say, Okay, you have a little bit more
(17:17):
good grace here, Listen, that's gotta come with something. You
gotta give me something at some point. You have to
give the American people something. At some point. We want
to know what happened and who was involved. We have
a right to know that, and it's important that we
know that. Obviously. Unfortunately, this is going to take some time, though,
and I think we need to be prepared for that.
We're not going to get everything we want to get immediately.
(17:39):
It sucks, but that's the reality. Let's wait and see
what happens. Cross your fingers and hope it's soon. And
if they just don't give it to us, then we
can start having a conversation about, Okay, do we need
to move some people around here? Was Pambondi not the
right pick? All right, stay tuned, we'll be right back,
(18:14):
all right. We, like I said at the beginning of
the episode, have like a billion different things going on
and you know, when I have a guest, I kind
of have to pick a guest to go with a topic.
But I can't pick one particular topic for one particular guest,
So I grabbed the one guy I know that can
talk a little bit about just about everything, and that
is a M nine filter abstur Kenny, thank you for
(18:38):
taking the time. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
My brother Ethan, for those that listen to this podcast regularly,
I think Ethan's gonna be a big deal someday. He
is one of the youngest, smartest people at iHeartMedia Houston.
He's very talented, he's very involved, he's very interested in
what he does for a living, and I have high
hopes for this kid. But you know, I could be wrong.
Maybe next year he goes to prison for embezzlement.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Who knows, who knows? Well, let me start with this, Kenny.
Everybody is talking about what we saw yesterday from Vladimir's
Lensky and Donald Trump, and honestly, I think that it
was funny, but at the same time, it's a little
bit concerning, just because it really exposes the situation we're
(19:26):
in with Ukraine. Vladimir's Lensky walked in in his pajamas
like he owned the place, and then made a bunch
of demands from the President of the United States and
then got kicked out. What do you make of all that?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Okay, So, something that people often misunderstand or something I
maybe it would be better to say they overlook, is that
our relationship with the oligarchy in this part of the
world goes back a long way. Right. To really understand
what's going on right now in Ukraine and Russia, you
have to understand the Biden's relationship with these countries, which
(19:59):
is easy for people to understand that was a few
months ago, right, But similarly, a lot of people seem
to forget. During the Trump years, there was this over
analysis of how Trump was colluding with Russia. Colluding with Russia. Well,
why did they say that? Because we had two or
three years of congressional hearings to prove he was colluding
with Russia. We could never prove that. And the reason
(20:21):
why they kept making that point is because the opposition
party in the American political system knew they had poked
to the Russian bear so much that at some point
Russia was going to invade Ukraine. They knew that. We've
known that for years. We've known it for a very
long time. In twenty fourteen, Russia invaded Crimea. We initiated
(20:42):
a coup in Ukraine, a CIA infiltrated coup to take
a pro Russia leader out of power, and in doing
so we really upset the region. Now, the region was
already pretty upset. But I say all that to make
this point. Yesterday there was this very messy meeting with
Zolensky and Trump, and what Trump wants to do is
get the war to end. Now, it doesn't necessarily mean
(21:04):
that Ukraine's going to win the war, or that we're
going to negotiate a deal that gives Ukraine more power.
This region of this country that he wants to continue
to obtain and doesn't want to give over to Putin.
Russia controlled it for a very long time, right up
until the Soviet Union dissolved. And that's the thing that
(21:25):
a lot of people misunderstand is that we assume, because
it's called Ukraine, because the leader is anti Russia, that
everybody there must also be anti Russia. It's just not true. Ethnically,
it's pretty divided there. It's about half Russia. It's about
half Ukrainian right Slavic people would be another way of
(21:45):
explaining it. And believe it or not, a lot of
these people don't like Selinsky. Many of them are sympathetic
to put the people that have lived there for generations
who are sympathetic to the Russian government, which is why
they can't have elections, which is why Zilencia he made
the opposition party illegal. Right, And so you ask yourself
as you hear people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
(22:07):
repeat over and over again, isn't this all for democracy? Well, know,
it's certainly not for democracy. If it was for democracy,
we would have an election. If it was for democracy,
it would look a lot different. They these people culturally
are not like US. Americans want to put everything into
the framework of what American democracy looks like, or American
(22:29):
ciberal rights or American liberalism. They got rid of elections
over there right when this war started. And then what
did they do? And then they legalized gay marriage, right, Well,
that sounds exactly what like something that Sean Penn would want,
or like something that Angelina Joe would want. The very
Hollywood celebrities that went over to this quote unquote war
(22:50):
and had a photo op over there. As Americans, we
are being conned into believing that this will make Ukraine
or this will make Eastern Europe more like America. And
there's really a deeper question to be asked there, ethan,
why do we want that? Why do we want Afghanistan
to be like America? Why is it so important to us?
(23:11):
What have we done to convince ourselves that culturally, yeah, okay, fine,
equal rights, gay rights, I get all that right, But culturally,
why are we so determined to make the rest of
the world see and feel and think the way that
we do, to the point where it's to our own detriment,
to the point where we're willing to go into debt.
(23:32):
We're willing to starve children, We're willing to have poisonous water,
We're willing to have roadways that don't operate properly, crime
in the streets, rampant amount of corruption in our own system,
so that we can convince people in Yemen that gay
rights and abortion matter. So, really, what this meeting was
about yesterday, and I know I really still haven't answered
(23:52):
the question for you was a guy that probably should
never have been in power, flexing his own ego on
the world stage, thinking that he could shake down Donald
Trump in front of the TV cameras. They were not
supposed to be having that negotiation yesterday. None of that
was ever supposed to happen. Those guys were not supposed
to be sitting down, looking at each other face to
(24:13):
face and deciding in front of the TV cameras what
mineral rights Ukraine will trade to the United States in
exchange for US to go to war for them, because
that's really what it amounts to. One of the former
one of Obama's biggest consultants on Ukraine was David Axelrod.
And I could talk about David Axelrod for a long time.
(24:34):
He was one of the strategists in Obama's cabinet. And
I could go on and on about David Axelrod for
a liphany of reasons. But just to break down this
one subject for you, David Ascelrod is on social media
today a Barack Obama Neo Khan warmonger and noted I say,
Barack Obama is part of the neocon machine as well.
(24:55):
David Ascelrod is on social media today comparing Zolensky to
Winston Churchill. He's comparing it to It's like, which is
a stupid analogy. But okay, I'll play along with that analogy.
If Zolensky is Winston Churchill. According to these Barack Obama
neocons who are criticizing, you know, Joe Biden is not
the leader of that movement. Nobody ever thought he was.
(25:15):
These is the Barack Obama neocon wing of the Democrat
Party comparing Zolensky to Churchill. What is that? Think about
what that analogy means. Even for that analogy to make sense,
Who's Hitler?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
That would make Putin Hitler?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
So if Putin's Hitler and and Zolensky is Churchill, right,
I bet, I bet everybody listening to me knows where
this is going. What did we have to do to
take out Hitler?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
We had to basically sacrifice a whole bunch of Americans.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
And and and what did we do to Germany? Did
we negotiate a peace deal and trade minerals against one
of their enemies, or did we invade and do a
regime change? Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, we completely topped down, toppled their government and placed
it with one that we created.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
There are three forces in the world right now. There's NATO,
there's China, and there's Russia. NATO is US, We're NATO,
NATO is US and a bunch of people that freeload
off of US for national security purposes, Germany and Australia
and so on and so forth. So there's NATO, there's China,
and there's Russia. China has strategically not gotten involved in this.
They would rather sell us all things. They're more concerned.
(26:26):
They're nationalists. I mean, they're communists, but they're also nationalists.
They're more concerned with their own bottom line. What's good
for their own people, right at least it seems that way,
and what's good for their own people. You know, it's
a very complicated question in China, because they're collectivists. They're
willing to sacrifice an individual for the will of the
for the for the better part of the group. That's
(26:47):
how collectivism works. But that's a conversation for another day.
What the Barack Obama democrats are saying right now, what
the Barack Obama neocons are saying right now, in so
many words, is that they want us to go to
war with Russia. They want boots on the ground in Russia,
And there are people your age, Ethan that do this
for a living, that are parenting those talking points who
(27:07):
don't realize it. Ethan, you're in your early twenties. There
are people your age out there right now, paid by
the Democrat Party to write tweets for a living, who
don't even necessarily realize that they're advocating for war, and
they're advocating for a war that people their age would
have to fight in if that war took place. So
anybody out here that's mad that the eighteenth District of
(27:31):
Kiev might pretty soon be handed to Russia, I ask
you this, what would you rather have some part of
an Eastern European country you've never been in before leave
Ukraine and gets dissolved by Russia, or you and everyone
you know gets on a plane applies to Eastern Europe
and fights in a war that's going to make America
go deeper into debt. Your father's going to lose his job,
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the value of the money in your bank account will
be severely diminished, and all for what. So a different
Eastern European oligarchy can control a region of the world
you would have never visited otherwise. So that's what happened yesterday.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Even fantastic, and it's worth noting none of them are
actually going to volunteer to fight this war. I think
you pointed this out on Twitter yesterday with one of
those influencer kids you just mentioned. You could buy a
plane ticket to Ukraine right now, pick up a rifle
and go fight if you really care that much. But
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they're not doing that. They're sitting at home, They're writing
tweets and they're complaining about it. They're complaining about the
fact that America is not getting involved here when they
could be go getting involved. And we have seen that,
we have seen some people that have traveled over there
to go fight. They're not doing that. They're comfortable to
sit at home and complain about the blanket of freedom
that Donald Trump provides that the United States provides. Just
(28:48):
kind of like what Zelenski did. He walked into the
Oval office and he complained, let's talk a little bit
about what's happening here now, because that's global. We've got
our own issues here at home that we need to
be dealing with, particularly here in Harris County. We had
this case of this Harris County Sheriff's office deputy that
was murdered allegedly by these two individuals. And I say
(29:10):
allegedly because they haven't been tried and convicted and I
don't want to get in trouble. So they were held
in prison because they I believe, admitted to actually committing
this crime, and then they got bonds, and at least
one of them is already out on this bond now.
Murdering a police officer in Harris County is in the
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state of Texas, I should say, is a capital murder offense,
which means, at a minimum, if you're convicted, and this
guy already admitted to it, which means he's gonna get convicted.
That's at least a life sentence. So this guy's got
no reason to stay. He's probably gonna run, and if
they try to go catch him, we already know that
he has no problem killing police officers.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
This is a.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Massive threat that has now been let out on the
streets to do more damage, probably by a radical left
Hars County judge.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Make sense, Okay, So it's tired to make sense of it.
People who live in gated communities, rich white liberals are
very comfortable telling you that endangering the lives of low
income black and Hispanic and even you know, and white
people that live in low income communities is for their
(30:24):
own good. In fact, they'll tell you that endangering the
lives of these people is something they're doing as in
an effort to stop racism. Right, there have been so
many examples of dangerous criminals being freed from jail over
the last several years on little to no bonds in
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the name of civil rights, who went back out onto
the street and immediately killed the person they had been
arrested for attacking. One of those people was a pregnant woman.
Ethan that one. That story always makes me mad. And
there are a lot of examples of this. But back
in twenty eighteen, Republican conservative judges pretty much controlled this
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area and then they lost a big election. They lost
a big election to a group of female judges who
called the who marketed themselves as quote unquote black girl Magic.
Black Girl Magic was a bunch of judges that they
were supposed to be civil rights. They were empowered black females.
And you know, I can't speak for all of them,
but I could certainly tell you that one of them
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got involved in a very contentious divorce case with a
with a Saudi, a Middle Eastern, a wealthy Middle Eastern
attorney who was involved in something that Wayne Delchafino called
the Sharia divorce. The Sharia divorce was this wealthy, rich,
misogynist man who wanted to divorce his wife. So he
(31:51):
took her overseas to the Mid East and he told
her I divorce you, I divorce you, I divorce you,
and then he left her and came home, and under
Middle East in Sharia law, that divorce meant she did
nothing right. So here in America, she was saying, wait,
I'm an American. I you know I'm entitled to half
of your things, this office building, these cars, this money
in the bank account. And he was trying to make
(32:13):
the argument that in a foreign court we got we
got divorced overseas where the laws are different, that doesn't
apply here. It was a very crafty thing to do.
And the woman he was dating at the time as
all this was happening was his judge. It was his judge.
It was a woman involved in it in the group
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Black Girl Magic. Now this is an elected official I
had I'm gonna let you in a little dirt here
I've spent time around these people. I sat with these
people at a dinner party once, and it blew my
mind just how how awful they are. They say that
they're trying to do things for women, they say they're
trying to do things for minorities. They're not. It's the
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exact opposite of that. Now, obviously, the Sharia court saying
that's that's one anecdotal story about one of these corrupt
judges doing something that was clearly wrong, right, But at
the same time, it speaks to the culture of what
was essentially not even black people, but black liberal Democrat
judicial candidates in Southeast Texas trying to convince the populace
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that we have to empty out the jails for the
good of our own people. Now, remember these candidates didn't
just get elected on their own. They were funded by
affluent white liberals. I could tell you I don't want
to get myself into trouble here, but there's a lobbyist
in the city of Houston who got very mad ones
and even threatened to assume me because I talked about
(33:43):
how these two local billionaires. I'm sure some people know
who I'm talking about, we're funding these judges you know,
these local people who are funding candidates all over the
country happened to live in Houston, so they've hyper focused
on what is essentially really bad candidates here on our
own backyard. And when I say that, I just mean
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if you're a fan of law and order, common sense issues,
things that you would expect from local judges, keep criminals
in jail if they're a danger, satisfy contracts the way
that they were written. Don't use foreign courts is a
weird way to get around, to create legal loopholes to
(34:24):
get around American laws. That's kind of what we're dealing
with here. The word bond reform gets thrown around a
lot on this topic, and that could be confusing to
people that aren't really regularly keeping up with this because
what bond reform meant a few years ago is different
than what bond reform means now. A few years ago,
bond reform meant that we were trying to create a
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system where criminals could get out of jail without having
to pay a lot of money for bond bail, right,
same thing, And now it means the opposite, because now
that's become the norm. Now, the way the laws are
written a criminal can get out of jail very quite easily.
That if they can convince the judge to give them
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low bond, which they often do, they can walk out
onto the streets a dangerous criminal. And it's not just
this cop killing guy from last year that's really upset
people in mid national nations. That guy's a real scumbag. Obviously,
if what we've been told about him is true, you know,
innocent until proven guilty, YadA YadA, yadam. I think he
deserves this fair shaken court like anybody does. But if
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what we know about the guy's true, yeah, he really
looks to be guilty. He doesn't look to me, it
seems like he's guilty. That's not even the only one
of these cases. Even there is a long list of illy,
dangerous illegal immigrants that should not have been in the city,
should not have been on the streets, some of them
released here in our own communities, some of them released
by judges with similar ideological beliefs in other big cities
(35:56):
around the country. But it all goes back to the
same place. Rich affluent white liberals funding the campaigns of
judges pretending to be civil rights advocates, when all they're
really doing is emptying out the jails, and I'm not
really sure what their end goal is, but it does
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bother me that it took a while for people to
figure out. It took several years before people figured out
this was happening because it's not a front page news story.
It's complicated, it's confusing. People look at a news story
like this and they think, Okay, you're not supposed to
shoot and kill people. That happens. Sometimes change the gun laws,
like no, ninety five percent of the crimes are committed
(36:38):
by the same five percent of people. You lock those
people up, the crimes stop happening. It's as simple as
that I didn't break the law. Right, I should be
allowed to own a knife, or a hammer or a
gun because I'm not a danger to the general public,
as are most of your listeners. Even so, what this
really boils down to is a broken system. This is
one tiny example of an almost countless number of examples
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of how of why we need we need to reform,
bond reform. We need to change this, and fortunately there
are bills circulating around in Austin, Texas at the moment
for our state legislatures that could potentially correct this, but
that's a longer discussion because at the same time that's
become quite political, as some of those Republicans are really
(37:24):
Democrats in disguise.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah, nothing's ever going to get done there. I haven't
lost all faith at this point in the Texas House.
At least, I think the Senate will be able to
get things done. But without the House, they can't do anything.
In the House, won't do anything.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
That's correct. Yeah, there's a lot of problems with Hang.
I'm sorry, I'm eating a breakfast sandwich. I thought you
were going to talk longer.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I can opine a little bit.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Yeah, it's okay. I have something to say about that.
The House is where shenanigans happen at, right. The State
Senate has more eyes on them. It was it was
harder to get those positions. There's less of them, more
is expected of them. The House is a different machine.
It's a bigger place. It's an easier place for shenanigans
(38:18):
than tom hoolery to happen, and it's generally the place
where things get held up because there's so many more
working parts in the House. Right, there's more people, there's
more going on, there's more committees, more caucuses, that sort
of thing. In the House, there is more ability for
an outside force, say like a lobbyist from a casino
in China, to pay somebody off and get a vote
(38:40):
a certain way, and that happens.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, it's a it's a real problem. And I think
that's a simple symptom I should say of the fact
that we've we've put our politics, at least on a
state level, on autopilot. We like to talk about the
federal issues. We like to talk about what's going on
in Washington. People don't realize there's a lot of stuff
going on at the state level in Austin too. There
(39:07):
are people that are dead right now that may be
alive if we were putting more of a focus and
demanding more action from the people that are in Austin.
And lord knows if that'll ever happen, But I cross
my fingers and hope one day people will realize there's
more politics than just Washington, d C. And the stuff
in Washington, d C. Tends to matter a little bit
(39:29):
less than the stuff happening in Austin. Kenny, that's all
I've got time for. Thank you very much for taking
the time.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Than you have a great part you're gonna be. You're
gonna go big, big places, my man, people that listen
to you and follow you. You have invested your time
in an upcoming challenge. I have high hopes Frees and
I think one day he will become one of the
most dominant forces in the media here in this in
this part of the country. Listening to this podcast is
a great investment of your listening opportunities.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Kenny, you're making me blushed. All right, That's all I've
for us today. Thank you guys very much for listening
Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness wherever you get your podcasts
or on AM nine fifty KPRC. We'll see you next week.
Okay, we have a lot going on. I say that
every episode. I just kind of noticed this. I always
open every episode by saying we have a lot going on,
and that's true. We do have a lot going on.
Most episodes, we have a lot going on. It's a
very busy time in the news world. I don't know
why that is. Maybe it's the end times, so who knows.
I want to open this episode by talking about something
we didn't get the chance to talk about on Wednesday's episode.
(00:43):
There was just too much. This kind of ended up
falling on the scrap room floor. But I think we
have some time today we can dig into this a
little bit, just because I think it's frankly, it's funny.
We're gonna get to some more serious stuff a little
bit later on. I think it's worth opening with a
little bit of humor. And of course that humor comes
in the form of she who would be President, Kamala Harris.
(01:05):
This woman, just for her own good, needs to kind
of sync back into obscurity. I don't know why she
keeps trying so hard to continue to be important. It's
not a good look for her. She's not very good
at being important. I think we learned that, but she
really wants to be important, so even though she's not
good at it, she keeps trying. Take a listen to
(01:28):
her on the ground. This was uploaded on February twenty fourth,
so I don't know if this is when that was filmed,
but I think it's from that day because I read
some headlines about it too. Here she is on the
ground in the recovery areas of where the LA wildfires were,
and she's talking with Fox News about how things smell,
how the fires smell. It's just it's I legitimately don't
(01:51):
understand how you can be this bad at this. I'm
better than her at this, and I don't even do this.
Take a listen. It goes through your mind when you
see this. You're here, You're now seeing it up close.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's not only seeing it, Alex. You can smell it.
You can feel it, right, So it's seeing it with
our eyes and many people have seen it if you
all are covering it. But to literally be on the
ground here, you can smell the smoke that was here.
You can feel the toxicity, frankly, of the environment. You
(02:28):
can feel the energy of all of the folks who
are still here on the ground.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Madame Vice President, you're here on the scene of a
terrible tragedy. How does it feel to be here on
the scene of this terrible tragedy? What are you thinking? Well,
it smells bad, it looks bad. I can feel how
bad it is. And it smells and looks bad, and
it's toxicity. It's really bad and smells bad. How is
that your answer, Kamala Harris, here's the correct politician answer
(02:57):
to that question. By the way, just so you guys
know what she should have said, here's what she sort
of said. Madam Vice President, How does it feel? What
are you thinking about as you're here on the ground
in these LA wildfires? This is a terrible tragedy. I
feel really poorly for the people that lost everything, and
we're gonna do what we can to make sure that
they get back up on their feet, and we're gonna
(03:18):
take steps to make sure this never happens again. We're
gonna look at our policy and our legislation. We're gonna
make a ven diagram of what happened here and what
should happen here, and we're gonna make sure that that's
a perfect circle in the future. Because I love Van diagrams,
and we need to clear the road for the school buses.
But mainly anyway, you get the point. She should have
explained that what happened here is a result of bad policy,
(03:43):
and we need to look at what those policies are
and take steps to replace those with good policy. That's
what she should have said. Instead, she rambled for a
full minute and a half about how it smelled and
the feelings. We all know it smells bad. I think
anybody that's driven past, you know, a pile of garbage
on fire, knows it smells bad. Fire doesn't tend to
(04:05):
smell good unless you're just like burning natural wood and
maybe some plants to add a little bit of the spits.
But we all know this smells bad. You don't have
to point that out. Thank you for nothing. Everybody smell
burnt rubber doesn't smell good. We know that. How are
you gonna make sure this doesn't happen in the future,
because I have to assume that she's gonna take another
swing at politics. You'd start that race now, Kamala Harris,
(04:29):
if you're looking at some midterm race, if you want
to weasele your way back into the Senate maybe or
even state level politics. This is when you start campaigning
because you have to regain a whole lot of ground.
Every single ounce of positive public image that you had
you wasted on your presidential run, which means you need
to start building that backup asap. And that starts with
(04:51):
you actually coming up with some ideas on how to
prevent this, because I guarantee you these LA wildfires were
a preventable tragedy. The post mortem is ongoing on these,
but I feel like when it's finally done, we are
all going to see that this could have been prevented
and it wasn't all that to say. Kamala Harris truly
truly sucks at this, at just being a politician. She's
(05:12):
really bad at it. And I'm glad she's not the
President of the United States because if she was, we
wouldn't get what we saw at Trump's first cabinet meeting.
I want to take a quick minute to acknowledge something
that I think is very important. I'm a religious Christian.
I encourage everyone to be a religious Christian because that's great.
It's a good way to be without preaching a sermon
about it. So Trump held his first cabinet meeting on Wednesday,
(05:35):
like early afternoon on Wednesday, and he opened this cabinet
meeting with a prayer. And I'm going to play the
prayer for you because I think it's a really good prayer.
And then we're kind of going to break into why
it's important that this happened, because it is. I really
do believe that it is important that nations be kind
of involved religiously. Take a listen to the prayer that
(05:57):
Trump's hud secretary prayed right before their first candet meeting.
Say gration if they want of our meaning right, thank
you very much, thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Let's pray.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Father, We thank you for this awesome privileged father, to
be in your presence. Y'd thank you that you've allowed
us to see this day. The Bible says that your
mercis are new every morning, and Father, God would give
you the glory and the honor. Thank you God for
President Trump, Father for appointing us. Father God, thank you
for anointing us to do this job. Father, we pray
(06:30):
you will give the President the vice president wisdom, Father God,
as they lead. Father, I pray for all of our
colleagues that are here around the table and in this room,
Lord God, we pray that we would lead with a
righteous clarity, Father God, that as we serve the people
of this country and every prospective agency, every job that
we have, Father, we would humble ourselves before you, and
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we would lead in a manner to called us to
lead and to sir Father, the Bible says the blessed
is a nation whose God is the Lord. Will Father,
we today honor you and in your rightful place, Father,
thank you for giving us this opportunity to restore faith
in this country and be a blessing to the people
of America. My Lord God, today in our meeting, we
pray to you will be glorified in our conversation in
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Jesus' name.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
All right, here's why this is important. Just like he
pointed out, blessed is a nation whose God is the Lord.
I believe that's true. I really do. And despite what
the Left may tell you about the separation of church
and state, America is a nation that was founded on
Christian principles to be a Christian nation. It's good that
we have an administration that's not only acknowledging that but
putting it into practice in real, practical ways.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Like this.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I love to see it. All right, we got a
great show coming up, a lot to get you, a
whole lot to get you, So stay tuned. We're going
to be right back after this break. All right, let's
(08:17):
talk a little bit about the Epstein files. It's a
rough topic, I'm aware, but it's critically important. It's probably
one of the most important things happening in the United
States today, and I think everybody, at least on the
Republican conservative side of the aisle, everybody on the right,
says they want to see the files. Right, A lot
of people on the left are making that same claim
(08:38):
as well, all of the sudden, which is really shocking.
Like a couple of Democrat representatives, I think one of
them was Eric Swalwell. You'll know him as the guy
who was having an affair with a Chinese spy while
sitting on the Intelligence Committee. So that's a little concerning.
But he all of a sudden has started being very
vocal about wanting to see the Epstein files, despite not
(08:59):
really making any move his entire career in Congress to
get those files out to the public, which he could
have been doing. It's weird that he waited until the
Republican administration got into office to start complaining about this,
but at least he's speaking out because he is right.
We all do want to see it. So in February
twenty six, Wednesday night, Pambondi got up and she said, hey, guys,
(09:21):
we're going to release the Epstein files tomorrow. And now,
if you weren't following this situation, it gets very complicated
from there. So I'm going to try as best as
I can to take you through this step by step
because what happened here is incredibly important. So let's start
with Pambondy on primetime on Fox with Jesse Waters saying, Hey, tomorrow,
y'all are going to get some Epstein files. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
A lot of people are wondering because you said last
week that you have the Epstein files on your desk,
is when can we see them? And what's taking so
long to release them?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
I do, Jesse, there are well over this will make
you sick, two hundred victims two hundred, so we have
well over two hundred and fifty actually, so we have
to make sure that their identity is protected and their
personal information. But other than that, I think tomorrow, you
(10:14):
know the personal information of victims. Other than that, I
think tomorrow Jesse breaking news. Right now, you're going to
see some Epstein information being released by my office.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Well, kind are we going to see who was on
the flights? Are we going to see any evidence from
what he recorded? Because he had all of his homes
wired with recording devices.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Yeah, what you're going to see, hopefully tomorrow, is a
lot of flight logs, a lot of names at a
lot of information. But it's pretty sick what that man did.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Okay, well along with this co defendant.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Absolutely, and he had help, that's.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
For sure, did okay, So allow me to hit you
with a quick spoiler. We did not see anything new
from those files. So here's what happened after that. The
White House called a bunch of different influencers, social media journalists,
you know, the people that got Trump elected basically, to
the White House, and they gave them all a copy
(11:14):
of a binder that supposedly had a lot of Epstein information. Now,
what was in this binder was actually not anything new,
which really aggravated a whole lot of people. This binder
was labeled Epstein Files Phase One, and they made a
big show. I mean, they brought in big names Liz Wheeler,
d C, Draino, a lot of really popular big accounts
on X and they gave them this binder that essentially
(11:37):
had all the stuff we already knew in it. Okay,
that's not really what we were wanting. We already have
all this information. We want the stuff we don't have,
Like Jesse Waters pointed out, we want to know what
happened to all those tapes and whatnot and who those
tapes are of. Because Jeffrey Epstein had all of his
houses wired. He would record these disgusting acts used as blackmail,
(12:01):
and he saved all of those tapes and whatnot in
CDs that were in a safe in his New York house.
The government has those tapes, that data, what happened to it,
What are y'all doing with that information, who's on it?
And what are you doing to arrest those people? That's
what we want to know. That's not what was in here.
It was just a whole bunch of nothing. Okay, So
(12:23):
what was in the binders?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It was essentially just over one hundred pages as I
understand it. It includes a lot of flight logs, which
is stuff that we already had from Epstein's private plane,
a very very redacted contact book, which does nobody any good.
I assume some of that was to protect the victim's identities,
which sure, that's important, but you know, if we're redacting
(12:49):
so much that we don't even know, like who's guilty
of the crimes, well, what good does that do the
American people. One thing that is really interesting that was
in this binder is a list of evidence that was
collected that is critically important. That is worth having because,
like I said, a lot of this stuff was seized
from Epstein's house in New York, where it was kept
in a safe. So they made a list of all
(13:10):
the evidence that they seized, and that was in this binder.
That is worth having. But without the actual evidence, it
doesn't really do us all that much good. So what
this does is it does tell us what we're looking for.
We have a list of the evidence that was seized.
Where is that evidence? Now, who's got it? That's what
we want released. We want to know what evidence you
(13:31):
have against what people, because we want to know who
in our government, in our public life, was involved in
the disgusting acts that Jeffrey Epstein was doing. We all
have a vested interest in knowing that obviously make any
redactions necessary to protect the identity of victims. But we
have got to know who was committing these crimes.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Of course, as I've already said, a lot of this
we had already. This is a lot of stuff that
was already available through documents that were released during Gishline
Mackwells trial. So there's not really a whole lot here new.
So essentially what ended up happening is pam Bondi in
the administration ended up promoting basically, for twenty four hours,
(14:11):
a big nothing burger file drop right. Understandably, people are
pissed at that. We were promised groundbreaking documents and we
still haven't gotten them yet, So why is that?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
So?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Apparently what happened here, and this is according to a
number of people, including Pambondi herself, Basically lower level people
inside the DOJ screwed over Pambondi in the administration because
on day one, when she asked for all the Epstein files,
they gave her that and pretended that was it. Here
she is explaining this with kprc's Mark Levin on his
(14:44):
Fox show. Take a listen to what she says happened
and why we got this nothing burger file drop instead
of what we wanted, which is, you know, a list
of guilty parties.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
As you know, we released about one hundred and twenty
pages of documents. And I started asking for these documents
right when I came into office and before Cash Pttel
was in there. So I ended up getting about one
hundred and twenty pages. We carefully redacted.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
Them, of course, to be sure the two hundred and
fifty four young girls women who are victims of sex
crimes and sex trafficking, their personal information was redacted and
out of there to protect them.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
So going through it, and I kept saying, there has
to be more, there has to be more. I'm assured
that's it. Cash asked the same questions, assured there's no more.
Last I found out, you know, this week that a
source told me New York SD and Y they're sitting
on thousands of pages of documents regarding Epstein, thousands, thousands,
(15:46):
And of course you've seen the very strong letter. We
will get everything, we will have it in our possession.
We will redact it, of course to protect grand jury
information and confidential witnesses. But the amer Can people have
a right to know, and Donald Trump is the most
transparent president in our nation's history. So not only will
(16:07):
America get the full Epstein files, they will get JFK,
They will get Martin Luther King.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Okay, two things can be true at once here, I,
along with many other Americans, are tired of the excuses
when it comes to these Epstein files. Frankly, I'm sick
of it. We all are. We're tired of there always
being another reason we don't have it. At the same time,
what she's saying here is logical. Basically, the people at
the top of the administration were screwed over by the
people in the lower mid levels the deep State, quote unquote,
(16:35):
that's essentially what she's claiming happened here. I'm trying to
be an optimist. This makes sense. Elon Musk went on
Joe Rogan. He basically explained it like this. They've been
put in a position Trump, Pambondi, Cash, Bettel. They're essentially
walking onto the deck of a ship that was just
an enemy, right, and they've been put in charge of
(16:56):
this ship. Now they're the captains of this ship. Everybody
on the ship, all of the crew, was just trying
to kill them a second ago, and now they're on
the ship as the captain trying to get the crew
to cooperate with them. Obviously, that's going to be a
hard sell. That makes sense, I understand that. So I'm
willing to say, Okay, you have a little bit more
(17:17):
good grace here, Listen, that's gotta come with something. You
gotta give me something at some point. You have to
give the American people something. At some point. We want
to know what happened and who was involved. We have
a right to know that, and it's important that we
know that. Obviously. Unfortunately, this is going to take some time, though,
and I think we need to be prepared for that.
We're not going to get everything we want to get immediately.
(17:39):
It sucks, but that's the reality. Let's wait and see
what happens. Cross your fingers and hope it's soon. And
if they just don't give it to us, then we
can start having a conversation about, Okay, do we need
to move some people around here? Was Pambondi not the
right pick? All right, stay tuned, we'll be right back,
(18:14):
all right. We, like I said at the beginning of
the episode, have like a billion different things going on
and you know, when I have a guest, I kind
of have to pick a guest to go with a topic.
But I can't pick one particular topic for one particular guest,
So I grabbed the one guy I know that can
talk a little bit about just about everything, and that
is a M nine filter abstur Kenny, thank you for
(18:38):
taking the time. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
My brother Ethan, for those that listen to this podcast regularly,
I think Ethan's gonna be a big deal someday. He
is one of the youngest, smartest people at iHeartMedia Houston.
He's very talented, he's very involved, he's very interested in
what he does for a living, and I have high
hopes for this kid. But you know, I could be wrong.
Maybe next year he goes to prison for embezzlement.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Who knows, who knows? Well, let me start with this, Kenny.
Everybody is talking about what we saw yesterday from Vladimir's
Lensky and Donald Trump, and honestly, I think that it
was funny, but at the same time, it's a little
bit concerning, just because it really exposes the situation we're
(19:26):
in with Ukraine. Vladimir's Lensky walked in in his pajamas
like he owned the place, and then made a bunch
of demands from the President of the United States and
then got kicked out. What do you make of all that?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Okay, So, something that people often misunderstand or something I
maybe it would be better to say they overlook, is that
our relationship with the oligarchy in this part of the
world goes back a long way. Right. To really understand
what's going on right now in Ukraine and Russia, you
have to understand the Biden's relationship with these countries, which
(19:59):
is easy for people to understand that was a few
months ago, right, But similarly, a lot of people seem
to forget. During the Trump years, there was this over
analysis of how Trump was colluding with Russia. Colluding with Russia. Well,
why did they say that? Because we had two or
three years of congressional hearings to prove he was colluding
with Russia. We could never prove that. And the reason
(20:21):
why they kept making that point is because the opposition
party in the American political system knew they had poked
to the Russian bear so much that at some point
Russia was going to invade Ukraine. They knew that. We've
known that for years. We've known it for a very
long time. In twenty fourteen, Russia invaded Crimea. We initiated
(20:42):
a coup in Ukraine, a CIA infiltrated coup to take
a pro Russia leader out of power, and in doing
so we really upset the region. Now, the region was
already pretty upset. But I say all that to make
this point. Yesterday there was this very messy meeting with
Zolensky and Trump, and what Trump wants to do is
get the war to end. Now, it doesn't necessarily mean
(21:04):
that Ukraine's going to win the war, or that we're
going to negotiate a deal that gives Ukraine more power.
This region of this country that he wants to continue
to obtain and doesn't want to give over to Putin.
Russia controlled it for a very long time, right up
until the Soviet Union dissolved. And that's the thing that
(21:25):
a lot of people misunderstand is that we assume, because
it's called Ukraine, because the leader is anti Russia, that
everybody there must also be anti Russia. It's just not true. Ethnically,
it's pretty divided there. It's about half Russia. It's about
half Ukrainian right Slavic people would be another way of
(21:45):
explaining it. And believe it or not, a lot of
these people don't like Selinsky. Many of them are sympathetic
to put the people that have lived there for generations
who are sympathetic to the Russian government, which is why
they can't have elections, which is why Zilencia he made
the opposition party illegal. Right, And so you ask yourself
as you hear people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
(22:07):
repeat over and over again, isn't this all for democracy? Well, know,
it's certainly not for democracy. If it was for democracy,
we would have an election. If it was for democracy,
it would look a lot different. They these people culturally
are not like US. Americans want to put everything into
the framework of what American democracy looks like, or American
(22:29):
ciberal rights or American liberalism. They got rid of elections
over there right when this war started. And then what
did they do? And then they legalized gay marriage, right, Well,
that sounds exactly what like something that Sean Penn would want,
or like something that Angelina Joe would want. The very
Hollywood celebrities that went over to this quote unquote war
(22:50):
and had a photo op over there. As Americans, we
are being conned into believing that this will make Ukraine
or this will make Eastern Europe more like America. And
there's really a deeper question to be asked there, ethan,
why do we want that? Why do we want Afghanistan
to be like America? Why is it so important to us?
(23:11):
What have we done to convince ourselves that culturally, yeah, okay, fine,
equal rights, gay rights, I get all that right, But culturally,
why are we so determined to make the rest of
the world see and feel and think the way that
we do, to the point where it's to our own detriment,
to the point where we're willing to go into debt.
(23:32):
We're willing to starve children, We're willing to have poisonous water,
We're willing to have roadways that don't operate properly, crime
in the streets, rampant amount of corruption in our own system,
so that we can convince people in Yemen that gay
rights and abortion matter. So, really, what this meeting was
about yesterday, and I know I really still haven't answered
(23:52):
the question for you was a guy that probably should
never have been in power, flexing his own ego on
the world stage, thinking that he could shake down Donald
Trump in front of the TV cameras. They were not
supposed to be having that negotiation yesterday. None of that
was ever supposed to happen. Those guys were not supposed
to be sitting down, looking at each other face to
(24:13):
face and deciding in front of the TV cameras what
mineral rights Ukraine will trade to the United States in
exchange for US to go to war for them, because
that's really what it amounts to. One of the former
one of Obama's biggest consultants on Ukraine was David Axelrod.
And I could talk about David Axelrod for a long time.
(24:34):
He was one of the strategists in Obama's cabinet. And
I could go on and on about David Axelrod for
a liphany of reasons. But just to break down this
one subject for you, David Ascelrod is on social media
today a Barack Obama Neo Khan warmonger and noted I say,
Barack Obama is part of the neocon machine as well.
(24:55):
David Ascelrod is on social media today comparing Zolensky to
Winston Churchill. He's comparing it to It's like, which is
a stupid analogy. But okay, I'll play along with that analogy.
If Zolensky is Winston Churchill. According to these Barack Obama
neocons who are criticizing, you know, Joe Biden is not
the leader of that movement. Nobody ever thought he was.
(25:15):
These is the Barack Obama neocon wing of the Democrat
Party comparing Zolensky to Churchill. What is that? Think about
what that analogy means. Even for that analogy to make sense,
Who's Hitler?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
That would make Putin Hitler?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
So if Putin's Hitler and and Zolensky is Churchill, right,
I bet, I bet everybody listening to me knows where
this is going. What did we have to do to
take out Hitler?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
We had to basically sacrifice a whole bunch of Americans.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
And and and what did we do to Germany? Did
we negotiate a peace deal and trade minerals against one
of their enemies, or did we invade and do a
regime change? Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, we completely topped down, toppled their government and placed
it with one that we created.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
There are three forces in the world right now. There's NATO,
there's China, and there's Russia. NATO is US, We're NATO,
NATO is US and a bunch of people that freeload
off of US for national security purposes, Germany and Australia
and so on and so forth. So there's NATO, there's China,
and there's Russia. China has strategically not gotten involved in this.
They would rather sell us all things. They're more concerned.
(26:26):
They're nationalists. I mean, they're communists, but they're also nationalists.
They're more concerned with their own bottom line. What's good
for their own people, right at least it seems that way,
and what's good for their own people. You know, it's
a very complicated question in China, because they're collectivists. They're
willing to sacrifice an individual for the will of the
for the for the better part of the group. That's
(26:47):
how collectivism works. But that's a conversation for another day.
What the Barack Obama democrats are saying right now, what
the Barack Obama neocons are saying right now, in so
many words, is that they want us to go to
war with Russia. They want boots on the ground in Russia,
And there are people your age, Ethan that do this
for a living, that are parenting those talking points who
(27:07):
don't realize it. Ethan, you're in your early twenties. There
are people your age out there right now, paid by
the Democrat Party to write tweets for a living, who
don't even necessarily realize that they're advocating for war, and
they're advocating for a war that people their age would
have to fight in if that war took place. So
anybody out here that's mad that the eighteenth District of
(27:31):
Kiev might pretty soon be handed to Russia, I ask
you this, what would you rather have some part of
an Eastern European country you've never been in before leave
Ukraine and gets dissolved by Russia, or you and everyone
you know gets on a plane applies to Eastern Europe
and fights in a war that's going to make America
go deeper into debt. Your father's going to lose his job,
(27:52):
the value of the money in your bank account will
be severely diminished, and all for what. So a different
Eastern European oligarchy can control a region of the world
you would have never visited otherwise. So that's what happened yesterday.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Even fantastic, and it's worth noting none of them are
actually going to volunteer to fight this war. I think
you pointed this out on Twitter yesterday with one of
those influencer kids you just mentioned. You could buy a
plane ticket to Ukraine right now, pick up a rifle
and go fight if you really care that much. But
(28:26):
they're not doing that. They're sitting at home, They're writing
tweets and they're complaining about it. They're complaining about the
fact that America is not getting involved here when they
could be go getting involved. And we have seen that,
we have seen some people that have traveled over there
to go fight. They're not doing that. They're comfortable to
sit at home and complain about the blanket of freedom
that Donald Trump provides that the United States provides. Just
(28:48):
kind of like what Zelenski did. He walked into the
Oval office and he complained, let's talk a little bit
about what's happening here now, because that's global. We've got
our own issues here at home that we need to
be dealing with, particularly here in Harris County. We had
this case of this Harris County Sheriff's office deputy that
was murdered allegedly by these two individuals. And I say
(29:10):
allegedly because they haven't been tried and convicted and I
don't want to get in trouble. So they were held
in prison because they I believe, admitted to actually committing
this crime, and then they got bonds, and at least
one of them is already out on this bond now.
Murdering a police officer in Harris County is in the
(29:34):
state of Texas, I should say, is a capital murder offense,
which means, at a minimum, if you're convicted, and this
guy already admitted to it, which means he's gonna get convicted.
That's at least a life sentence. So this guy's got
no reason to stay. He's probably gonna run, and if
they try to go catch him, we already know that
he has no problem killing police officers.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
This is a.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Massive threat that has now been let out on the
streets to do more damage, probably by a radical left
Hars County judge.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Make sense, Okay, So it's tired to make sense of it.
People who live in gated communities, rich white liberals are
very comfortable telling you that endangering the lives of low
income black and Hispanic and even you know, and white
people that live in low income communities is for their
(30:24):
own good. In fact, they'll tell you that endangering the
lives of these people is something they're doing as in
an effort to stop racism. Right, there have been so
many examples of dangerous criminals being freed from jail over
the last several years on little to no bonds in
(30:46):
the name of civil rights, who went back out onto
the street and immediately killed the person they had been
arrested for attacking. One of those people was a pregnant woman.
Ethan that one. That story always makes me mad. And
there are a lot of examples of this. But back
in twenty eighteen, Republican conservative judges pretty much controlled this
(31:07):
area and then they lost a big election. They lost
a big election to a group of female judges who
called the who marketed themselves as quote unquote black girl Magic.
Black Girl Magic was a bunch of judges that they
were supposed to be civil rights. They were empowered black females.
And you know, I can't speak for all of them,
but I could certainly tell you that one of them
(31:28):
got involved in a very contentious divorce case with a
with a Saudi, a Middle Eastern, a wealthy Middle Eastern
attorney who was involved in something that Wayne Delchafino called
the Sharia divorce. The Sharia divorce was this wealthy, rich,
misogynist man who wanted to divorce his wife. So he
(31:51):
took her overseas to the Mid East and he told
her I divorce you, I divorce you, I divorce you,
and then he left her and came home, and under
Middle East in Sharia law, that divorce meant she did
nothing right. So here in America, she was saying, wait,
I'm an American. I you know I'm entitled to half
of your things, this office building, these cars, this money
in the bank account. And he was trying to make
(32:13):
the argument that in a foreign court we got we
got divorced overseas where the laws are different, that doesn't
apply here. It was a very crafty thing to do.
And the woman he was dating at the time as
all this was happening was his judge. It was his judge.
It was a woman involved in it in the group
(32:34):
Black Girl Magic. Now this is an elected official I
had I'm gonna let you in a little dirt here
I've spent time around these people. I sat with these
people at a dinner party once, and it blew my
mind just how how awful they are. They say that
they're trying to do things for women, they say they're
trying to do things for minorities. They're not. It's the
(32:56):
exact opposite of that. Now, obviously, the Sharia court saying
that's that's one anecdotal story about one of these corrupt
judges doing something that was clearly wrong, right, But at
the same time, it speaks to the culture of what
was essentially not even black people, but black liberal Democrat
judicial candidates in Southeast Texas trying to convince the populace
(33:20):
that we have to empty out the jails for the
good of our own people. Now, remember these candidates didn't
just get elected on their own. They were funded by
affluent white liberals. I could tell you I don't want
to get myself into trouble here, but there's a lobbyist
in the city of Houston who got very mad ones
and even threatened to assume me because I talked about
(33:43):
how these two local billionaires. I'm sure some people know
who I'm talking about, we're funding these judges you know,
these local people who are funding candidates all over the
country happened to live in Houston, so they've hyper focused
on what is essentially really bad candidates here on our
own backyard. And when I say that, I just mean
(34:04):
if you're a fan of law and order, common sense issues,
things that you would expect from local judges, keep criminals
in jail if they're a danger, satisfy contracts the way
that they were written. Don't use foreign courts is a
weird way to get around, to create legal loopholes to
(34:24):
get around American laws. That's kind of what we're dealing
with here. The word bond reform gets thrown around a
lot on this topic, and that could be confusing to
people that aren't really regularly keeping up with this because
what bond reform meant a few years ago is different
than what bond reform means now. A few years ago,
bond reform meant that we were trying to create a
(34:50):
system where criminals could get out of jail without having
to pay a lot of money for bond bail, right,
same thing, And now it means the opposite, because now
that's become the norm. Now, the way the laws are
written a criminal can get out of jail very quite easily.
That if they can convince the judge to give them
(35:10):
low bond, which they often do, they can walk out
onto the streets a dangerous criminal. And it's not just
this cop killing guy from last year that's really upset
people in mid national nations. That guy's a real scumbag. Obviously,
if what we've been told about him is true, you know,
innocent until proven guilty, YadA YadA, yadam. I think he
deserves this fair shaken court like anybody does. But if
(35:33):
what we know about the guy's true, yeah, he really
looks to be guilty. He doesn't look to me, it
seems like he's guilty. That's not even the only one
of these cases. Even there is a long list of illy,
dangerous illegal immigrants that should not have been in the city,
should not have been on the streets, some of them
released here in our own communities, some of them released
by judges with similar ideological beliefs in other big cities
(35:56):
around the country. But it all goes back to the
same place. Rich affluent white liberals funding the campaigns of
judges pretending to be civil rights advocates, when all they're
really doing is emptying out the jails, and I'm not
really sure what their end goal is, but it does
(36:16):
bother me that it took a while for people to
figure out. It took several years before people figured out
this was happening because it's not a front page news story.
It's complicated, it's confusing. People look at a news story
like this and they think, Okay, you're not supposed to
shoot and kill people. That happens. Sometimes change the gun laws,
like no, ninety five percent of the crimes are committed
(36:38):
by the same five percent of people. You lock those
people up, the crimes stop happening. It's as simple as
that I didn't break the law. Right, I should be
allowed to own a knife, or a hammer or a
gun because I'm not a danger to the general public,
as are most of your listeners. Even so, what this
really boils down to is a broken system. This is
one tiny example of an almost countless number of examples
(37:02):
of how of why we need we need to reform,
bond reform. We need to change this, and fortunately there
are bills circulating around in Austin, Texas at the moment
for our state legislatures that could potentially correct this, but
that's a longer discussion because at the same time that's
become quite political, as some of those Republicans are really
(37:24):
Democrats in disguise.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah, nothing's ever going to get done there. I haven't
lost all faith at this point in the Texas House.
At least, I think the Senate will be able to
get things done. But without the House, they can't do anything.
In the House, won't do anything.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
That's correct. Yeah, there's a lot of problems with Hang.
I'm sorry, I'm eating a breakfast sandwich. I thought you
were going to talk longer.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I can opine a little bit.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Yeah, it's okay. I have something to say about that.
The House is where shenanigans happen at, right. The State
Senate has more eyes on them. It was it was
harder to get those positions. There's less of them, more
is expected of them. The House is a different machine.
It's a bigger place. It's an easier place for shenanigans
(38:18):
than tom hoolery to happen, and it's generally the place
where things get held up because there's so many more
working parts in the House. Right, there's more people, there's
more going on, there's more committees, more caucuses, that sort
of thing. In the House, there is more ability for
an outside force, say like a lobbyist from a casino
in China, to pay somebody off and get a vote
(38:40):
a certain way, and that happens.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, it's a it's a real problem. And I think
that's a simple symptom I should say of the fact
that we've we've put our politics, at least on a
state level, on autopilot. We like to talk about the
federal issues. We like to talk about what's going on
in Washington. People don't realize there's a lot of stuff
going on at the state level in Austin too. There
(39:07):
are people that are dead right now that may be
alive if we were putting more of a focus and
demanding more action from the people that are in Austin.
And lord knows if that'll ever happen, But I cross
my fingers and hope one day people will realize there's
more politics than just Washington, d C. And the stuff
in Washington, d C. Tends to matter a little bit
(39:29):
less than the stuff happening in Austin. Kenny, that's all
I've got time for. Thank you very much for taking
the time.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Than you have a great part you're gonna be. You're
gonna go big, big places, my man, people that listen
to you and follow you. You have invested your time
in an upcoming challenge. I have high hopes Frees and
I think one day he will become one of the
most dominant forces in the media here in this in
this part of the country. Listening to this podcast is
a great investment of your listening opportunities.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Kenny, you're making me blushed. All right, That's all I've
for us today. Thank you guys very much for listening
Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness wherever you get your podcasts
or on AM nine fifty KPRC. We'll see you next week.
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