4-10-25 - 6am - 911 Breakfast, Salvation Army Contract, Duck or Pigeon and Hegseth to Panama

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So what do you think about the about Trump lifting
the tariffs and everybody with China?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, should we talk about that today? Dragon?

Speaker 3 (00:11):
I mean, we spent what three hours yesterday till I
finally crashed and burned talking about tariffs and explaining the good,
the bad, and the ugly of tariffs and how this
was going to work.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
And and then I go home and I get.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
This call from the White House that said, did you
talk about tariffs today? And I said, well, yes, ma'am,
I did, and he go, well, we got some bad
news for you.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It doesn't seem like a significant event that he removed
all the put a pause on the tariffs, and the
stock market climbed almost three thousand points at one point
in time.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
I think it closed, like I thought, I heard on
the news this morning that closed. I haven't checked this morning,
but I thought the close was like up thirty nine
hundred points.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Oh say, by the time I left yesterday it was
almost three So yeah, all right, sure, it's nothingth mentioned
in today.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
No, I think we should just go on to I mean,
you've got some story over here about.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Let's see, I like that top one, the which was
I've moved them around what was your top one the
breakfast the breakfast breakfast operator. You know, if you'd learn
to use a stapler.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Why do we even have a stapler around here?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
I've got one hidden in my drawer if we.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Do, does it have staple? Oh, that's right, elects about
a staples?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yes, yeah, And then I brought one from homes and
now I have two stapers in my drawer. And no,
don't tell anybody I've got staplers.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
You just said it on the radio, so nobody's listening anyway.
It's fine, Well it's just using me talking. You think
anybody's listening right now? And you really are on some
sort of drugs this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Let's see dispatch DeLay's Chapham County dispatch her orders breakfast.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
On nine one one call.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
When you call nine one one, you're expect an immediate answer. Well,
they don't live in Denver, they don't live in Colorado.
But for many with them Chapman County, that may not always.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Be the case. Thousands of calls to the county's.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Nine to one to one center became abandoned or the
caller hangs up every single month. One Windsor Forest resident says,
you may not receive the answer. You're looking for this
Valentine's Day? What's the date April one?

Speaker 2 (02:25):
You know? Now, way this is dated April one? Uh huh,
And well that's fools April Fool's Day. So you think
this is.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
True or not true from a news source, So I
will I don't think, I.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Mean, we is this WTLC.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Although I saw some really stupid I know it's way
past April Fool's Day, but on April Fool's Day, I
saw like Denver International Airport had a post on Facebook
which I felt sorry for people who are truly looking
for a job, because the job was to be the washer,

(03:03):
the cleaner, the maintenance guy for Blucifer, the stupid horse
out there. And it went through and it described, you know,
the details, and you know you'd have to use a ladder,
and you'd be powerwashing, you'd be scrubbing, and you know, and.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
And and and and it is.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Kind of you know, you're gonna be people are gonna
be watching you, and people might take photos and everything.
And and I'm reading through this thinking this is an
April Fool's joke, but it was just on the edge
serious enough that I'm thinking, if there's somebody who's really
looking for a job and they're good with their hands
or working outdoors, they're they're used to working at on
heights or whatever. I felt sorry for them because there

(03:44):
was actually an application form.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Oh if it was just an article, that's a different thing.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
But no, there was an application form, and I thought
that was you know that that shows how out of
touch stupid politicians and stupid people are that run this
stupid state. By the way, yes, Alexa, I happened to
see the Jared polist last night, last yesterday evening sometime.
I think he's around five or six, six o'clock when

(04:11):
I saw it. Posted a thing about how well I
can read it to you because I've got the email
right here, these tears. I'm not gonna read the whole thing.
But these tariffs have reached havoc on America's businesses and
hardworking people. The uncertainty cause by Trump's tariff tax increase
means that more businesses will consider leaving the United States,

(04:32):
taking away good paying jobs, raising prices, and putting America last.
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And then he
gets ratioed. Now, for those of you aren't familiar with
the cool kids terms of ratioed on X. It means
that there were so many comments, degrading, debunking, mocking, laughing at,

(04:57):
sarcastically responding to whatever phrase words you want to use,
as opposed to those who were like, yeah, governor, you're
exactly right. He was like ten to one or something.
He got racialed last night.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
What an idiot? What an idiot?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Listene This Valentine's Day, Dylan Johnson called nine one one
when he thought somebody was breaking into his home. When
he finally made contact with a dispatcher, he said that she,
the dispatcher, was ordering breakfast. My wife called me while
I was at work about nine point thirty and said
someone was snooping around the house, knocking on the doors

(05:35):
and banging on windows and stuff. He called the county's
non emergency line first, followed by nine to one one
three times, finally getting an answer by nine thirty one
am after trying for about six minutes. According to his
phone's luck call log, I was panic. My wife was
home alone with my five month old daughter. I was
I was coming home, not knowing what I was going

(05:55):
to come home to. After about three minutes into Johnson's call,
you can hear the dispatcher talking to others around her
and appearing to order breakfast. WTLC investigates obtained the nine
one one call. The dispatcher appears to say, hmmm, mcgriddle costs,

(06:16):
I'm sorry what On the call, Johnson says he was
stunned by what he heard. Quote, I really couldn't believe it.
If I didn't, if it didn't happen to me, I
would I wouldn't believe that it happened to somebody else.
That's how unbelievable it was. When the popo arrived, Johnson says,
whoever was there at his house had already left. He
says his wife was shaking up, but his family was okay.
Chathan County oversees all nine one one operators within the county.

(06:37):
We sat down with the county commissioner to talk to
ask him about this. He says, the dispatcher dispatcher's actions
are under review, meaning we know what happened, but we're
not ready to say anything yet because we haven't quite
figured out legally what we can do or not do.
So we're just going to tell you that it's under review. Uh,

(06:58):
said the commissioner. Chess ellis that should never happen. Okay,
you're ordering breakfast should be different from answering a call.
I'm just wondering if you should if you're a nine
one one operator, should should you be ordering breakfast while
you're at work? Anyway, That's kind of what I'm wondering.
WTC investigates obtained county data that shows just last year,

(07:22):
twenty four percent of calls were marked as abandoned. Now
they tell you that twenty four percent is nearly one
in four. Thank you for telling us that. Prior year
show a similar trend. In twenty twenty three, abandoned calls
were twenty seven percent. That's up for more than eighteen
percent in twenty twenty two, nineteen percent and twenty twenty

(07:42):
one and fourteen percent in twenty twenty. The A County
Commissioner says, Now, remember the story, says twenty five percent
of calls are abandoned, meaning they just they give up
or they are they been shot dead. But you know
you're called nine one one, what's your emergency? Someone's breaking
into my house with a gun. Please hold And then

(08:04):
they come back on and there's nobody there, that's an
abandoned call. Chatham County has been working toward building a
new eighty three thousand square foot multi agency public safety
facility that would house the county's E ninety one to
one center and new dispatch equipment, but still doesn't have
anyone to build it. The county hosted a groundbreaking last

(08:25):
May checks calendar almost May again, but has had to
go back to the drawing board on contractors, putting the
project out forbid.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
For a third time.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Ella says that prior applicants violated the procurement process. We
can't build squat in this country. We can't build anything
in this country. Let's see. Now the search is on
for a new contractor. They're accepting applications till April fifteen
checks calendar, five more days. If you're a contractor, you

(08:56):
want to build something in Chatham County, you got to
go out and do it real quickly. Now here's here's
the money. Quote the county commissioner said, quote, when someone
is calling nine one one they need help, I want
them to treat everything as an emergency. I thought nine

(09:16):
one one was the emergency line, and that you called
nine one one when you needed help. Ellis says, once
the dispatcher's supervisors complete their review of what happened on
Johnson's call, they'll submit a report to him. He will
then't discuss with the Board of County Commissioners. Now doesn't
say this, but let let's think about this for a moment.

(09:38):
Here's why he told what is it? WTC WTC, Savannah, Georgia.
So he said that you know, it's under review. Then
he says it's at the end. Once the dispatcher's supervisor
completes their review, they'll submit that report to him, the

(09:59):
county commissioner. He will then discuss it with the Border
County Commissioners. And then I'm going to add and then
the Border County Commissioners will discuss it with the lawyers.
And then the lawyers will turn the bill for a
while because they're charging by the hour, so they will
build it, you know, until they get you know, built
up to whatever their retainer is for the month. And

(10:20):
then they'll go back to the board and they will
call it an executive session and they will discuss it
some more. By that time, this dispatcher will have lawyered
up and then they will have a discussion between the lawyers,
and then they'll bring that back to the county commissioner.
Now we're talking today's Thursday, April ten, twenty twenty five,
and by Thursday April ten, or whatever the date is,

(10:41):
April ten or twenty twenty six, they might have reached
the conclusion and the new public safety building will still
not have been built and or completed. Denver activists less
want to end city Salvation Army contracts. I love the

(11:03):
Salvation Army. Why protesters? Who cares? This is what happens
when he hands me this crap. Protesters on April eight
call from the city of Denver to stop signing contracts
with the Salvation Army and in contracts that are currently
in place. Worried about violence and poor service at Denver's

(11:25):
largest homeless shelters, local activists are questioning whether the city
should keep signing the million dollar contracts with the Salvation Army.
Amy Beck, an activist with Together Denver, a group supporting
homeless residents, says they've been poor performers for many years.
You know what the problem is without even looking any further.

(11:45):
There's several problems here.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
I can tell you.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
I can tell you what the problem is not even
reading the rest of the story. One Amy Beck, who's
the activist with together Denver's upset because the Salvation Army
is not really the typical NGO that you give a
homeless contract to.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Because there's no kickback.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
There's no kickbacks going back to your preferred Democrats within
the city in county at Denver.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
You mean to say that the Salvation Army puts the
money to good use.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
The Salvation Army does what their contracts says are supposed
to do.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Weird. I know, it's very weird. I like the way
you say weird. It's very weird, weird. And then the other.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Problem is this the city and County at Denver because
the Salvation Army I doubt, because the Salvation Army is
not a law enforcement agency, So the Salvation Army is
not the one that's providing the security to the hotel
motels out on seventy where my friend who works for
the for a homeless group tells me that they won't

(12:38):
even go out there without Denver PD because the drug.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Overdoses, the crime, the.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Prostitution, that everything going on is so bad that they
won't they won't even approach going out there without security,
by the way, what else she told me?

Speaker 2 (12:57):
And this has been a couple of weeks ago, so
I may have got it, I mean get a little wrong.
But as soon as as soon as one of the
new hotels was an asked, I don't know which one.
Could be the one, you know, the old Ramada end,
it could be the you know the Double TREEO. I
forget what she has. She has a funny name for it,
but whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
As soon as it was announced that it was going
to be a new homeless shelter, somebody put in a
liquor store right across the street. Ah, let's see, an
employee the Salvation Army operated shelter at the Double Tree
Hotel forty forty Quebec Street was arrested for sexually assaulting

(13:37):
a resident. The incident happened a year after a double
homicide which was later called Murder Tree the Murder Tree
of the Trouble Tree Hotel, ah by both the house
and the unhoused Denver residents, both the homeless and the unhomeless,
the homeless and the not homeless. No one's been arrested.
Let's see. The sexual assault involved a former convict uh

(14:00):
Denver Council blamed the sexual assault as their reason for
rejecting a three million, three year contract with the Salvation Army. Yeah,
that's their excuse, But they want to give it to
somebody that they can make sure they get money too.
Since Johnston announced an effort to house one thousand people
in six months in later twenty twenty three, the Salvation

(14:21):
has since been in charge of three city owned homeless shelters,
the Double Tree, the Best Western, and the Tamarack Family Shelter.
The city paid ten million twenty twenty four, nine point
two million, and twenty twenty five to oversee the largest
city owned sheltered, the three. Can you imagine a three?
This is like the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, a

(14:43):
three hundred room Double Tree, which has been renamed the
Aspen Shelter. You know, because there's so much correlation, there's
so much similarity between Aspen, Colorado and the Aspen Double
Tree Hotel out in Quebec Street. When I think of
the what like say, the Little Nell Hotel in Aspen,
I often think of the Double Tree out in Quebec.

(15:05):
I'm like, hey, sweetheart, do you want to go to
Aspen for the weekend and say at the Little Nell,
or do you want to go out to go back
and stay in the Double Tree, the murder Tree, the
what was the double tree? That was the other name
the double tree and the what tree? Double tree? And
where is the double tree? The trouble Tree, Oh, murder
tree and trouble Tree, murder Tree. You wanna go to
the Little Nell? Do you wanna go to the murder

(15:26):
Tree or the trouble Tree? Camera, I'm sure we'd want
to go to the trouble Tree. She likes trouble.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Uh geegee geege.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Higopian, who's been living there for about a month, says,
as someone who is in there and as someone who
is around people who are in its shelters, we don't
want that, and we we're the ones who should They
should be listening to, not the city and definitely not
the Salvation Army. There's constantly staff scrambling because something's happening. Well, yes,

(15:58):
because these drugged out, crazy homeless people are always doing something,
so of course the Salvation Army always has to be
hopping around doing something. Eric Alinas dealt with pests like cockroaches,
bed bugs, and rats during multiple stays at the crossroad
shelter over the years, and now he wants the Salvation
Army out of business completely because of his experience.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Get rid of them, Get them out of here, he says.
They need to go.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Even their Santa Claus ringing bells and inflecting money outside
grocery stores for them, They shouldn't be in any kind
of business anymore. Oh, everybody's all down on the Salvation Army.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Nothing of that too, Nothing of that? What else you got? Draggon?

Speaker 3 (16:40):
As long as we're doing it. Oh, this one's kind
of interesting, and then we'll get to the real news.
Warning this news.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Huh what these stories are? Real news?

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Warning?

Speaker 3 (16:52):
This article contains content that some readers may find distressing.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
A Chinese restaurant, Uh, what's the data on this? A
Chinese restaurant has been forced to close after an investigation
found that the roast duck it was serving was actually
dead Street Pigeons Regulars that a Chinese restaurant in Madrid

(17:23):
may never want to eat crispy duck again after discovering
what they were really eating as part of a horrifying
police investigation which has seen the eatery close down and
the owners placed under investigation. The Jingju restaurant in the
Usara district of the Spanish capital was raided by the
Popo last month, and what they found was pretty disgusting.
Footage showed bowls full of plucked and cooked pigeon.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
While wood pigeon can.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Be a delicacy in some upper class restaurants, you wouldn't
want to have one snaped from the street and put
straight on your plate. Oh and there's something you hear
about illegal sea cucumbers creek pigeons. Can I get the
peking pigeon? I want the peking pigeon. The peaking pigeons

(18:09):
when I went for breakfasts.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Them are not ducks with them ducks right where, right where?

Speaker 3 (18:22):
You know what I like about Trump's cabinet. They're all
in on his agenda. They're operating as a team. They're
operating like a great orchestra. Now I do get a
little tired. I know people may disagree with me about this,
but call somebody that cares. I'm kind of thick of
the christy known commercials that are directed toward illegal aliens,

(18:49):
basically telling them not to come here, because I really
doubt the illegal aliens are watching the cable news channels,
so it's more of just a PR stunt.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
But be that as it may.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Nonetheless, my understanding is by the way I had, I had.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
A meeting, not a meeting. We got together.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
One of my friends, who is a member of the
White House Press Corps, was in town last weekend, and
so we got together and spent a few hours just
you know, shooting the ball and you know, telling each
other lies and talking about what was going on. And
I was trying to get all the inside scoop about
what's really happening.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
You know.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
What he told me, which obviously I'm not going to
tell you who this was, but what he told me
was that all immigration stuff, all the stuff that Tom
Homan is doing, Christy Knowle's been told stay away, leave
him alone. It's not part of your portfolio.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Now.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
She's the Secretary of Homeland Security, and she is the
one who is legally in charge of everything going on
in Department of Homeland Security. And she's the one that
I suppose even if things get screwed up, if Tom
Homan screws something up, she's gonna get the blame for it,
because well, Congress is you know, having been through this myself.
I can tell you that Congress is gonna call you

(20:11):
and they're gonna ask you the question, not gonna ask
the person who actually did the screw ups. They're not
gonna call Ray Nagan, They're not gonna call it Governor Blancle.
They're gonna call Michael Brown. So but anyway, that was
I thought that was an interesting tidbit that the President
has told, uh, Christy, Noan, leave him alone. He's gonna
go do everything with respect immigration. Uh, you just rubber

(20:33):
stamp everything that he says that he's doing.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
And that's the.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Rumor anyway going around around the White House Press Corps.
If it's true, then that's why you see all of
the commercials on television where she's trying to do a
PR tour.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
No.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
What made me think about how they're operating as as
a team is Pete Haigs. That's the Defense Secretary, wrapped
up his tour of Panama yesterday and in doing so,
he inked he signed two critical MOUs memorandum of understandings
with officials of Panama in order to get more support

(21:11):
investment in protection from the United States. In exchange for there,
I would just call her Sino China skepticism. The trip
was a lot larger than you would expect. Forty seven
staffers went along, had a three day itinerary included much

(21:36):
in the way of what I would consider based on
my experiences of high level diplomatic negotiations. And then he
also threw in a big dollop of troop morale, really
boosting the troops or in the region. And he went
out of his way aboard the USS chosen a guided
missile cruiser that arrived in Panama City just days ago

(21:59):
to and reward those servicemen and women in trade. There's
already become a hallmark of his tenure. Anytime he's out,
he's either running, exercising, doing push ups, with eating with
whatever with the troops, which is his Baileywick. But as
long as he's got a good balance between really relating

(22:22):
to the troops at the same time story reminding them
that he's the boss and he's going to set the policy,
then that's really good leadership. And I really think he's
growing into this position well. Anyway, at this since conference
Central Security Conference yesterday morning, he delivered he delivered this

(22:45):
kind of overarching message about his trip. He said We
do not seek war with China, and war with China
is certainly not inevitable. We do not seek it in
any form. But together we must prevent war by robustly
and vigorously deterring Chinese threats in this hemisphere. It's about time,

(23:07):
as opposed to running to China with your suitcase so
you can load it full of money and bring cash
back so you can do business, you know, so your
son can do business with Chinese companies. This is this
is this is a complete one degree turnaround. And while
he's at it, he does not mince any words about
the Chinese Communist Party. He took almost every opportunity that

(23:28):
he was there to warn, to warn and warn and warn,
and stared down all the efforts that they're doing in
the Western hemisphere, a task for which the Biden government
just totally ignored. China could do anything in South America,
Central America, or for that matter, China could do anything
in this country, and the Biden administration could have cared less.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Couldn't.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
No, I'm sorry, I could not have cared less. At
one point he said this, Haigsa said this based companies
are capturing land and critical infrastructure in strategic sectors such
as energy and telecommunications. China's military has too large of
a presence in the Western hemisphere. They operate military facilities

(24:12):
and ground stations to extend their reach into space. They
exploit natural resources and land to fuel China's global military ambitions.
China's factory fishing fleets are stealing food from our nations
and from our people. Make no mistake, Beijing is investing
and operating in this region for military advantage and unfair

(24:34):
economic gain. Now clearly everything that I read his most
significant ire was directed obviously at the Chinese Communist Party.
But he gets I think, real joy, real pleasure of
talking to the grunts, talking to the servicemen and women.

(24:59):
You know, spend what I think maybe at least two
decades since he served, and anytime he does this it
looks like it sounds like that he's really drawing upon
his personal experiences and his concerns as an infantryman to
really connect with those that are on active duty. He
gets it, he tells them, he gets it. He's been there,

(25:20):
done that. He says. The thing that you need most,
I think, is for your leaders to have your back
and for all the apparatus and the machinery and the
organizational structure that's around you to be in tune with
what do they need? How can I make their job better,
more effective? Maybe not easier, because you can't always make

(25:42):
someone's job easier, but you can certainly recognize and understand.
You know, they're getting ready to do something today. I
got this call last night about something that the salespeople
are doing today, and they ask if I could kind
of give a I'm not if I could do something

(26:02):
to kind of I don't. I wouldn't say boost their morale,
but they kind of encourage them, and I'm like, well, sure,
I'll do that. But you know what I was thinking,
Dragon was kind of in that your job kind isn't
that what you're I mean, I'm just a lowly talent.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Well when I think of Happy, go Lucky and somebody
who should boost everybody's morale, and I first thought, I
think of his Michael Brown.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
They're such an ass. It's just such an ass.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Now, in reading three or four stories about this trip
to Panama, there were a few things that I think
Hags was a little more coy about, Like he had
this press conference along the Panamanian Security Minister of Brigo
I think is his name.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
He did that yesterday afternoon after the show.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Ask if there have been any discussions about Panama refusing
to recognize Taiwan since twenty seventeen, They just completely ignored
the question altogether. Well, oh, you know what I happened done, Dragon,
I got so enamored with your stupid pigeon story.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
For at least it's not a double click this time.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Oh do I have to double click this one too? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (27:25):
Twenty seventeen to tell it will come up in your
conversations this week.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
How is that something you will pursue again?

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Think?

Speaker 5 (27:33):
Well, I don't know anything about blackmail, appreciate the question,
but I do know about strength through strength.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Your question was about, you know, are the uh IS
a Chinese communist party blackmailing the Panamanian officials?

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well, I don't really think about blackmail, but I do know.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
And you're seeing strength from President Trump with tariffs, with
reciprocal tariffs, recognizing that he's willing to protect American industries
and American workers from unfair trade practice practices that have
existed for decades and no one stood up on behalf
of America. President Trump is doing that in real time

(28:15):
right now and at the Defense Department, whether it was
our trip to the Indo Pacific from the Philippines, Japan
and Guam and elsewhere, or here in the Panama Canal
and with our Panamanian partners, we're standing up to malign
Chinese influence and simply saying, a strong America that deters
that influence in our own backyard in our hemisphere is

(28:37):
good for us, but for our partners and creates opportunities
for freedom in the future. So again, this is not
about we want peace.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
We seek peace.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
We don't seek.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
Conflict, but we believe that conflict does not come as
stronger we are, and we're happy to speak it clearly,
which President Trump has always been.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Willing to speak that clearly.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
Which is why we point out here clearly the malign
influence of the communist Chinese and their attempt to leverage
it in the Panama Canal or Panama Canal area, which
does not serve Panamanian interests or American interests, and that's
something we will stand up for every day.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
And then the Security Minister goes on to ignore the
whole point too, and you can't really hold that against them,
but it does kind of reveal a newness to these efforts,
because I think a more seasoned political person would have
had no problem parlaying the question into one that they
wanted to answer or using it to their advantage. So

(29:44):
kind of ignoring the question entirely kind of makes it
like they were cut off guard and perhaps to embarrass
to say, no, we don't want to discuss Taiwan, and
we don't discuss anything about bribery.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
But there can be no.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Greater snub to China, as the Deaf SEC was clearly
in town to elictit than recognition of Taiwan's independence. But
between his diplomacy movements and his troop touches is mingling
with the troops in locations like old Fort Sherman, for example,
where so many of America's greatest warfighters learn their chops

(30:18):
an extremely hard way. He really does appear to be
settling into his role pretty well. In fact, I'm quite pleased.
I had a little bit of doubt about whether he
could pull this off or not. Now he hasn't really
been tested. We haven't had anything really blow up yet.
I mean, we got the hooties, but that's been driven

(30:39):
more by the White House than his has been by
the Pentagon. So I think the only pitfalls that loom,
which I'm sure he's probably already finding, is the overwhelming
number of career Department Defense staffers who are going to
try to style me everything that he does, and that's
going to be the most It's the biggest challenge that

(31:01):
Pete Hegsath, I think is going to have Mike.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
Where do I find an unbiased opinion as to whether
we should move space Force to Alabama or not? Just
wondering it would be interesting if there was such a thing.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
I don't think there is such a thing because it's
purely political.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
There. I think there are reasons for it to be
in either place.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Alabama, we already there's already a lot of space stuff
down in Alabama. But here we got nor Red. We
got a lot of space stuff right here in Colorado Springs.
So you can make the case for both of them.
It's just a it's purely political in my opinion, but
I haven't and that's why I really haven't paid much

(31:54):
attention to it, because.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
It, let's put it.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
This way, if you've got a couple of Republican senators
versus a couple of Democrat senators, and you have a
majority Democrat delegation versus a majority of Republican delegation, and
you have a Republican White House, and they're trying to
make a decision. What do you think is going to
be the overriding factor? Oh yeah, probably politics. In other news,

(32:25):
the US Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Will now screen social.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Media posts of visa applicants so they can figure out
whether or not they support or interact with any terrorist organizations,
and in particular, they're going to focus on anti Semitic terrorism.
The Department of Whole Land Securities USCIS is the one
that handles all these visa applications, particularly students and those

(32:56):
that want permanent residency, and the leftist crew.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
For the college campuses are already upset.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Trician McLaughlin, the DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, said
that there's no room in the US for the rest
of the world's terrorist sympathizers, and we are under no
obligation to admit them or let them stay here. That
is factually correct, but the idea we're going to start

(33:24):
checking that has caused a lot of consternation among those
who are here. Protesting on the campuses. I heard this
morning there was a story on Fox News this morning
coming in about these anti Semitic protests going on, no,
not at Columbia, but at Princeton, and some student at

(33:48):
Princeton spoke up and wrote a really skating letter to
the president of Princeton outlining all the security breaches, all
the security failures, how they were actually the university was
supporting these antisemitic terrorists and demanding certain changes you know,
occur very well, very well spoken, But unbeknownst to the anchor,

(34:14):
the person who was doing the interview made the comment that, yeah,
we don't hear much about Princeton. We only hear about
Columbia because, well, Colombia's right here in New York. And
I thought, wow, you just admitted that you think New
York is the center of the universe. And while Princeton
is not that far away from New York City, you

(34:36):
can't be troubled to go across the Hudson and drive
down and get some pictures of the protests. But you
could go up to the Upper West Side and get,
you know, be the ro of Columbia. They're so self
centered and they're so lazy that they were shocked to
something that was going on at Princeton.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Brief Yeah,