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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA
director talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, You're
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(00:43):
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want to start out with a couple of short stories
that will lead into some of the longer stories later
in the program. But my friend John Solomon, who is
the editor publisher and owner of just the News website

(01:05):
broke a huge story yesterday that is not getting In fact,
there's two stories I want to talk about that I
don't think are getting nearly enough attention. And these are
the two short stories that I want to I want
to start the program out with. Just as you know,
you know, Trump likes to brage that you know, well,
I've been right about everything. Well he was proven right

(01:27):
yet again late Thursday evening about the FBI's participation in
the January sixth insurrection, you know, the riot, the mostly
peaceful insurrection. I don't even like to call it a
riot anymore. At first, the label was an insurrection because

(01:49):
the cabal wanted you to believe that somehow they were
about to topple United States government. Really, if you're about
to topple the United States government, don't you in the
National Guard. Don't you start, you know, scrambling jets from
every Air Force base possible. Don't you send in regular troops.
I mean, if it's an insurrection, then by gull it's insurrection.

(02:13):
No one. By the way, insurrection is a violation of
federal law. Yes, name me every individual who was charged
with insurrection from any and all activities on January six,
that's right, not one single person. So we don't call it,
or at least I refuse to refer to it as

(02:35):
the January sixth insurrection. Then we kind of said, well,
we didn't say, but the cabal started using the January
sixth riot. And while there was some violence on January six, however,
the only individual who was actually murdered was you know,
a member of the military, a civilian who was there protesting,

(02:58):
who was shot by a security officer out of Nancy
Pelosi's office, a captain on the US Capitol Police Force.
And there were some people outside that you know, broke
through barricades and you know, through some of the barricades
and got into some fisticuffs with some you know, some
cops and blah blah blah. But that was the minority,

(03:18):
because we always forget about all of the peaceful protesters
that were in the It would be the Northeast parking
lot where Alex Jones and ala Akbar the U, a
guy that worked in the Bush administration I knew quite well,
had a permit for a protest of the Electoral College,

(03:41):
and that's where most of the people were headed, was
to that northeast parking lot. Then we had all of
the people that were invited into the Capitol. And you've
seen the video, and if you watch, if you watch
the hours and the hours and hours of video of
January sixth, you'll realize that most people were there going
in because well, the Capitol police were holding the doors open,

(04:04):
and they would stroll in through one of the either
the north or South entryways. They might even come in
through the East Capital steps and they would walk through
and they would take photographs like a tourist take a photograph,
and they would wander around the rotunda. Yes, some broke
into some office doors, and of course you know the

(04:27):
Viking guy. He may I think he may be the
one that you see this is because it's so immaterial.
I don't remember, I don't care. He may be the
one that stole the lectern out of Nancy Pelosi's office.
And then there were some who took some papers off
some of the senators or actually the house desks and

(04:47):
walked off with some of those papers. Okay, well that's
vandalism and they should have been charged with vandalism. And
for those others other than the ones who may have
been shown on video actually engaged in pushing and shoving
with cops who should have been charged with assault and battery,
but they should have been allowed out the bond, a

(05:10):
minor bond. In my opinion, assault and battery is it's
a serious crime, Don't get me wrong. It's a serious crime.
But nobody was trying to kill anybody. They it was fisticuffs.
They were pushing and shoving and you know, maybe throwing
a few punches or whatever. But for someone without any
criminal record whatsoever, in any other circumstances, would probably be

(05:35):
charged with you know, first or second degree assault and battery.
They would get a bail of I don't know, let's
just pick a number over but fifty thousand dollars, so
they would have to pay you know, five thousand dollars
ten percent in order to get out, and then they
would be entitled to stay out, stay out and bail,
go back to their home state, and then return to

(05:56):
d C for their trial when their trial occurred. But that,
you know, no, we instead we threw them into the
hell hole that is the DC Metropolitan Police Department jail.
It's like a third world country there, and we held
them for months of years and some you know, never
got a trial until they got pardoned, and even then
they never had a trial, So I hesitate to even

(06:19):
call it a riot. So the protest of January sixth,
that we now know what we've known for a long
time that was in fact true, but had to wait
until the illegitimate Biden presidents he got safely tucked to
bed before we got the full truth about what was

(06:39):
going on. Naturally, the story is being ignored by the cabal.
But just the News has all the details in a
story that they filed late on Thursday, and I want
to walk through the story. Here's the headline, two hundred
and seventy four. That's quite a few people. Two hundred

(07:03):
and seventy four agents sent to capital for j six
Many later complained they were political pawns. Oh, so, the
FBI secretly deployed more than two hundred and fifty playing
clothes agents to the US Capitol during the January sixth protest,

(07:23):
an operation that turned out to be is so disorganized
that it just unleashed searing frustrations among many in the
rank and file of the FBI because they were so
upset because the FBI had, according to the story, lost
its core competence to wokeness and was not only allowing,

(07:44):
but encouraging employees to become ponds in a political war.
According to an after action report kept from you and
me and out of view from you and me for
more than four years by the Biden administration, scores of
FBI agents, many from the bureau's premiere Washington Field Office,

(08:07):
probably the most professional field office. Now they're all great,
but that's the one. And obviously why because well, the
Washington Field Office encompasses obviously the National Mall, the District
of Columbia, parts of Virginia, the seat of the US government.

(08:27):
And in response to this using of these agents, we
got complaints to the after Action team that get detailed
in Just the News. What did they say? I'll tell you.
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(08:50):
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(09:10):
Weekend with Michael Brown. Glenn, have you with me. I
appreciate you tuning in. We're talking about this report. You
can go read the report. I don't think you have
to have a subscription to Just the News. I think
you can read it with ads. But John Solomon does
really great work Just the News. And I got to
know John Solomon when he was working for the Associated Press,
and he may have actually been the Washington bureau chief

(09:32):
for the AP at the time that I got to
know him back when I was the undersecretary, and he
was just always one of those reporters that I was
always willing to sit down and talk to because I
knew that I could either just say, hey, this is
this is this is off the off the recular background,
and he would respect that, and sometimes he might call, hey,
help me understand why holand Security is doing X, Y Z,

(09:54):
and I would do it and again do it off
the record, and then he would go find and confirm
what I said so he could find quotes. He was
just he was just one of those solid guys that
you knew, yeah, you're a journalist, you're a reporter, but
you truly do seem to try to keep your politics
out of all of it. Well, I think he got
fed I'm just speculating here that he got fed up

(10:16):
with kind of the whole crap going on with the media,
and so he left several years ago and started Just
the News. I don't I get no commission for this,
but if you want to read something that's, you know,
a lot better than the Drudge Report, for example, then
Just the News is not an aggregator like the Drudge Report.

(10:36):
It's an actual news site and you can subscribe to it,
which I think gets you a little additional content, and
you know, makes it somewhat ad free for you. At
least you don't have to wait for an ad to
read news or watch videos just thenews dot com, he writes.
In this story, the most persistent complaint from these field

(10:58):
agents the two hundred and seventy four that were assigned
to the January sixth protest. So think about this. You
pulled two hundred and seventy five agents out of that scenario.
Do you think you still have pushing and shoving? Yeah?
I think you A reasonable person could conclude that there
were some people there who were clearly there to cause trouble.

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But of course, now knowing that there were two hundred
and seventy five FBI agents plain closed people in that crowd,
how many of them were agents provocateur? How many half
of them, the third of them, all of them, I
don't know, but he writes the most persistent complaint was

(11:43):
that the FBI during the James Comby and Chris Chris
Ray era had become infected with political biases and liberal
ideology that treated the protesters from the summer of twenty
twenty Black Lives Matter riots, and those were riots we
saw the burning buildings, treated them far differently than those arrested.

(12:04):
In the aftermath of the January sixth episode, one employee
wrote in a stinging review quote, the FBI should make
clear to its personnel and the public that despite its
obvious political bias, it ultimately still takes its mission and
priorities seriously. It should equally and aggressively investigate criminal activity,

(12:30):
regardless of the offenders perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations.
And it should equally and aggressively protect all Americans, regardless
of perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations. That same FBI
agent urged FBI leaders to quote identify viable exit options

(12:55):
for FBI personnel who no longer feel it is legally
or morally acceptable to support a federal law enforcement and
intelligence agency motivated by political bias. One agent went on
to suggest that the problem extended beyond the Washington Field
office to the US Attorney's Office in DC, indicating that

(13:20):
at least some people believe there was a more widespread
problem with political bias. Well, Shezam, this is just confirmation
of what you and I have known in our hearts
and souls to be true, is just now verified, one

(13:40):
agent wrote. Currently, the US Attorney's Office is dictating what
it is that gets investigated. This is a dangerous precedent
because we can barely get them to prosecute investigations that
clearly meet thresholds needed for federal prosecutions. However, their willingness
to conduct a search warrant on someone's life for a
misdemeanor seems ridiculous. It is unreasonable for the FBI to

(14:05):
conduct investigations involving misdemeanor violations at a federal level. That
is not our role. But you remember that Christopher Ray
and James Comy both said to the effect. We will
go to the ends of the earth to find these people.
We will take as long as it takes, We will

(14:26):
use as much resources as needed. We will do whatever
it is to find everybody that we can identify through
facial recognition or other mechanisms, to identify everybody in the
Capitol grounds that day, and we will go find them
and knock on their door and drag them out and
throw them in jail and charge them with something. One

(14:49):
thing that's occurring. I just want to take time out.
I want you to think about this. We're in the
middle of a great upheaval, a great upheaval where the
truth is being revealed to us. And naturally, when the
dark corners of our society, like cockroaches, get light shined

(15:10):
on them, they scurry into hiding, and like other animals
that get cornered, they lash out. And I think that's
what's happening, is you're seeing the cabal, that all of
the members of the cabal beginning to lash out because
they're being exposed. And this is going to be a
great battle and we have to be ready for it.

(15:35):
The story continues, added another I wish you all would
pay attention, pay more attention to our safety than what
type of masks we wear. Remember this is twenty twenty one.
If you're going to deploy, deploy us to a riot situation,
then give us the proper damn safety equipment, helmet, fac shield,

(15:56):
protective clothing, and training. So this report is fifty pages
in all. It was located by Cash Bettel, the current
FBI director and his team as they start trying to
dig through to find all of the documentation, all the
evidence they can of the politicization of the FBI, and

(16:18):
of course they're turning over these documents to the House
Judiciary Committee and the Special sub committee investigating all of
the security failures and weaponization of law enforcement during the
January sixth protest. This is what Nancy Pelosi's j six Committee,
This is what this committee was formed to try to

(16:39):
cover up. The Biden presidency did everything they could for
four years to hide this from you and me and
to hide it from members of Congress, the Democrats, the
Democrat Democrats. The Democrats rigged their twenty twenty nomination for Biden,

(17:00):
not despite the fact that he was already senile, but
because of the fact that he was senile, because that
made him easier to manipulate, easier to control than any
person who still had their faculties in place. But maybe
the exception of Kamala Harris, the entire four year Biden
presidency we're now learning was nothing more than an endless
succession of hoaxes and scams, perpetrated with the knowing and

(17:23):
willing complicity of the media portion of the cabal to
keep you and me in the dark. If you don't
understand that reality, then you might be brain dead. So Tooche,
to Cash Betel and his team, and too shay to

(17:43):
John Solomon for reporting this, and shame on every other
news outlet that's trying to ignore it. Go read the
story just thenews dot com. I'll be right back tonight.
Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of
talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing

(18:06):
a heck of a job the Weekend with Michael Brown. Hey,
welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to
have you with me. You know, if you like what
we do during the weekend, I would encourage you on
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(18:29):
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then you can listen to me live Monday through Friday
from six to ten Mountain time. Because what we do
during the weekday is pretty much what we do on
the weekend. The other story, so I just told you
about the just the news article about two hundred and
seventy five FBI agents plain clothes air dropped in well

(18:56):
not literally air dropped, but dropped into the J six protests. Gee,
I wonder what they were doing and why does it
take four years in a new administration for us to
find out what we presumed to be true, and that
was that, oh they were in that group, and how

(19:17):
much were they actually provoking some of the riot and
some of the mischief. And then think about ray Epps.
You know, ray Epps gets I think he got convicted
of a misdemeanor. Ray Epps was the guy that you see,
you know, go in the building, go in the building.
You know, he's shouting out, shouting out, and then once

(19:37):
they go in the building, then he tries to escape
real quickly. Obviously an agent provocatur in my mind, Well,
they finally track him down after public pressure, and they
finally arrested him. He was I think he was in
Arizona the entire time, or some one of the southern states,
southwestern states, and so they nabbing. They allays butt back
to DC and I think it was just Judge Bo's,

(20:00):
same judge that was going after Trump gives him a
sentence of basically probation while others languished in jail for
the same charge. As he gets probation, another indication to
me that there's some foul play going on here. There's
some favoritism going on. So that story gets buried, and

(20:21):
that story just gets broken open by just the news
And then I watched to see how much coverage everybody
else covers it, and I realized, this is why I
call the cabal the cabal. There's another story that's not
getting the kind of coverage that I think it needs
to get. Build malusion Fox News on let me see it.

(20:42):
Let me pull up his Twitter account, his ex account,
and I don't see this was yesterday at twelve I
assume twelve fifty five in the afternoon Eastern time. But
I'm not sure where he was when he posted it,
so some in the country at twelve fifty five in
the afternoon. It has now received more than six point

(21:05):
six million views as of this moment. Here's how I
would if I had to give it a headline. Here's
how I would put it. School district superintendent is illegal
alien now detained by ICE. Now just let that sink in.

(21:26):
A school superintendent gets hired by a school board and
you don't know he's an illegal alien, or even worse,
you do know he's an illegal alien, and then we
find out there's a criminal record. Hell's bells, come on,
do a background check. So what happened? Well, the headline

(21:49):
would be US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the
superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, an illegal alien with
a prior weapons or rest who fled from officers. Some
idiot by the name of doctor Ian Andre Roberts, an

(22:10):
illegal alien from Guyana. This is all according to ICE
agents and the Iowa State Patrol arrested yesterday, Friday, September
twenty sixth in Des Moines, Iowa. I come on, what
are we doing here? The arrest of this superintendent took

(22:33):
place during a targeted enforcement operation. Now, according to a
few different news reports, and according to Bill Mallusion, which
is my primary source, Roberts reportedly fled in his vehicle
when the ice agents revealed their identity, and that led
to a car chase that ended up with this superintendent

(22:55):
abandoning his car and hiding in some bushes. Isn't that
the kind of person you went overseeing the school that
your kids go to? Yes? Oh is your name Roberts? Yes? Here,
Let me show you my shield, Let me show you
my badge. My name is you know? Or I'm agent

(23:19):
you know, forty six ninety five with the Immigrations and
Customs and Enforcement, and we're here to arrest you. Let
me jump in my car and drive off. Hope they're
catching up with me. Let me jump in the bushes
and hide. That's your superintendent, des moines, that's your superintendent.
He was eventually located and taking into custody with the

(23:40):
assistance of an Iowa State Police canine unit. You got
to have a dog hunt down your superintendent, which begs
the question, do you know who your school superintendent is?
And you know it's it's ten pm? Do you know
where your school superintendent is he may be hiding in
the bushes. During the arrest of this superintendent, they discovered

(24:02):
a load of glock nineteen, a fixed blade hunting knife,
and three thousand dollars in cash in his vehicle. Now,
I don't know, but I would think, you know, the
lawyer brain in me says, wait a minute, did you
were you always carrying a glock nineteen, which is a
pretty good gun for a concealed carry? Are you carrying

(24:24):
a glock nineteen and a fixed blade hunting knife and
always had three thousand dollars in cash with you just
in case Immigrations and Enforcement comes to look for you.
Do you walk around the school like that? Well, that's
prompted an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, on, firearms, oh,
and explosives, I should say, because federal law prohibits individuals

(24:47):
without legal status from possessing firearms or AMMO. This guy
entered the United States on a student visa in nineteen
ninety nine. He had been ordered to be removed from
the country in May of last year. Now, I slowly
want to repeat that he came on a student visa

(25:11):
in nineteen ninety nine. Obviously, he must have graduated or
I don't know, maybe he did have a degree. Maybe
des Moines doesn't care whether you have a degree or
not to be your superintendent. I'm not saying it's necessary.
I'm just saying maybe they don't care. And then in
May of last year, an immigration court issues a removal order,
so this dirt bag from Yanna has received his due process. Now.

(25:37):
Despite the removal order, he continued to serve as the
superintendent of the des Moines Public schools without proper work authorization. Hey,
des Moines, I got some questions. Sam Olsen, who is
the ice enforcement to removal operations, the ers as they
call him for the Saint paul Field office expressed concern

(26:01):
over how Roberts was hired despite the fact he was
an illegal alien and the fact that he had prior
weapons charges, emphasizing the importance of federal officers ongoing efforts
to ensure public safety. I I don't live in des Moines.

(26:22):
I've been to des Moines. I used to have relatives
that lived in Des Moines. No longer. But because des
Moines in the United States of America, can I just
say to everyone listening in the des Moines area or
that has relatives in the Des Moines era. You need
a new school board. You need a new school board.

(26:43):
This is absolutely I mean, I don't know why I'm chuckling,
other than have you thought about how absurd this story
is utterly absurd, and yet nobody seems to care about
this story Fox, according to Bill Malusis, and Fox has
told that doctor Roberts. Doctor Roberts also has a weapons

(27:04):
arrest from twenty twenty, though the disposition of that charge
of that case is unclear, and we have the mugshot
from his prior arrest compared to what he looks like today.
Prior arrest. Yeah, I'm not sure anyone to encountered this
guy in a dark alley somewhere, But today he's dressed
nicely in a blue jack blue suit and white shirt

(27:26):
and a nice, really colorful bow tie and some really
cool glasses. Big smile. I think that's an American flag.
It's not an American flag. Always going to say he
was wearing an American flag on his lapel, but when
I blow the picture up, it's not. I wonder what
that is. And of course they've got a copy of
the Ice has provided the Fox News with a photo

(27:49):
of the Block nineteen in a nice concealed carry holster
that was in his car. When are we going to recognized?
Once again, going back to the first story about the
agents provocateur, the the two hundred and seventy four agents
from the FBI secretly milling around in the crowd on

(28:10):
the J six protest. And now we've got a guy
arrested who is an illegal alien subject to a removal
order from an immigration judge, who has been found I
shouldn't say found guilty, but was charged with a weapons charge.
And nobody was to talk about this. We guess, singing

(28:31):
back to Yanna, maybe we should send him to Yemen.
And how soon before the NGOs and all the you know,
immigrants support groups come out and scream old racism and
something else racism my butt des Moines school board. You
got some spleening to do this The Weekend with Michael Brown.
Text lines open three three one zero three, keyword Micha

(28:53):
or Michael. I'll be right back. Hey, you're listening to
the Weekend with Michael Brown, and I'm really glad that
you're doing it. Thanks for tuning in. Text Line is
always opened three three one zero three used the keyword,
mic Ro Michael. I read them all, and in fact
I wanted to use one that just well actually came in.

(29:14):
Oh I did it came in earlier this morning? Uh
gooble number seventy one oh five, Rights Michael, I'm sure
you are finalizing your show prep for this morning. No,
I did that earlier. I was walking the dogs this morning.
But I hope that you chased the squirrel a little bit.
On foxnews dot com, they're talking about the Obama Center
in Chicago and his lack of providing funding. Well, that's

(29:37):
not the squirrel. That may not be a squirrel, but
it is a good squirrel. What the hell is he
building there? Sunday one oh five, Rights. I had to
do a double take because I thought it was concept
art that things looks like it is straight out of
North Korea. It really looks like a filthy communist dictator concept.

(29:58):
Now with the story about the lack of it makes
it sound like the Hotel of Doom in Pyongyang. You
probably wouldn't know this, but I's probably been a couple
of months ago. The University of Chicago, they have the
Institute of Politics in the University of Chicago campus and
they had invited me to come and speak on a

(30:21):
It seems like it was on a Monday night or
Tuesday night. So I decided to make a little short
vacation of it. So, you know, because no place to
vacation like Chicago, right, I mean, let's go to the
South Side and dodge bullets. So I decide to go
in a little early and stay until that evening and
do my speech and then leave the next day. So

(30:42):
I had a couple of days too, because I hadn't
been in Chicago for a while, and you know, there's
great pizza, and there's great food, and you know, the
Museum of Science and Industry and you know Wrigley Field all.
You know. I just I like Chicago. I hate to
admit it, but I like Chicago. I hate Chicago politics,
but I like Chicago. The first afternoon that I'm there,

(31:06):
I land at O'Hare, grab an uber, and I head
to the campus of the Universe of Chicago, where there's
a hotel right on the edge, and I'm staying there.
But as you come down Lake Shore Drive, you kind
of get into I forget the name of the park,
but you get into this park area and I'm approaching.
I'm looking at this building. Now, it's been a few

(31:29):
years since I've been to Chicago. Buildings come and go,
but I'm looking at this edifice and I'm thinking, what
is that? And I don't say anything to my Uber
driver for a little while because I want to get
a little closer. You know how you see something in
the distance and you think, well, you know it's going
to look different as I get closer. And the closer
and closer that I get to this building, the more

(31:49):
I think, what the hell is that? Here's what I'm
not exaggerating, I thought, And I also thought why. My
biggest question was why? But I thought, why is the
city of Chicago building a high rise jail in this
area of town. This is a really nice area of town.

(32:13):
It's just a few blocks away from the University of Chicago.
It's there, there are some wonderful homes. It's wonderful areas.
And this is right on not technically Lakeshore Drive, but
it's one of the one of the offshoots of Lake
Shore Drive. Now, I say a high rise jail building
because for example, downtown Oklahoma City has a high right

(32:35):
high rise jail. But you wouldn't know it was a
jail until you look closely and realize that it looks
kind of like some of these buildings that you might
see in downtown areas that contain nothing but there's they're
high rise server farms, or they might be the old
you know, in downtown Denver, there's I think it has
since been torn down, but there was one for Mountain Bell,

(32:57):
the old Bell telephone system, and they'll have just little,
very narrow windows across the top, you know, not at
eye level, but a top near the ceiling. So I'm
thinking high rise jail. And then as I get closer,
I realize it really is kind of a dark gray,

(33:18):
almost black color, and it's kind of odd shape, so
I'm not really sure it's a jail. So he finally
get up to it, and as this person describes it,
it really does look like it's straight out of North Korea.
It looks like a filthy communist dictator concept. And I
finally asked the uber driver, what's that building? And he
turns and he obviously despises Barack Obama and starts telling me, how,

(33:43):
oh that's his. Now, remember he's not calling it a
presidential library. He's not even calling it a presidential library.
He's just calling it a presidential center, and I think
presidential center and conference center or something. It's going to
house all of his papers. But it's not really designed
to be a typical presidential library like you might see

(34:05):
the LBJ Library or the Eisenhower Library. It's not designed
to be like that, even the Nixon Library or the
Reagan Library. This is a multi story, kind of odd
shaped building that is dark black, does not fit into
the neighborhood. They've torn down probably thousands of trees for

(34:26):
this edifice. And the uber driver pulls over so I
can look at it, and then he just launches into
this tirade about how the city of Chicago permitted it,
residents opposed it, remember Chicago's hometown. It looks like, as

(34:50):
this listener describes, it looks like something I would have
seen in my earlier travels to the old Soviet Union.
It looks like some of the buildings in Russia today,
except that rather than just being the cinder block gray,
this is almost black, which I find kind of ironic.

(35:10):
Almost black because you're like Obama is almost black, you know,
because he has a white mother and a black father.
But we call him black. And I looked at it,
and I said, so, what did the locals do? The
locals protested. They did everything. They went to the zoning board,
they went to the city council, they went to their
their their county supervisors, they went to everybody, they went

(35:32):
to the mayor's office at the time, everybody. But now
they're building it and it's it's just like, we'll tell
you what. It's like a middle finger to Chicago. It's
like a middle finger to that neighborhood. It's like a
middle finger to the country, which doesn't surprise me. And
I think that's an appropriate way to describe it, because

(35:53):
that's pretty much what Barack Obama during his eight years
in office did to the country. Just gave us the
middle finger. If you have a chance, go on to
your Come on, you can do this. I think even
some of you, you know, even some of you old farts,
can figure this out. Go on to Google images and
go to that. Just google Obama Presidential Center, Obama Presidential Library.

(36:19):
It'll come up with something. Now I want you to
look at it, and then just for fun, send me
a text message and you tell me how you would
describe it. How would you describe that building? Does it
look presidential to you? Because if it does, you might
not be a goober? Is the weekend with Michael Brown?
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