12-17-24 YMS HR3

2024 foreign policy year in review.

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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Seven minutes after the hour.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Thanks for waking up with your morning show on the
air and streaming live on your iHeartRadio app. And welcome
to Tuesday, December, the seventeenth year of Our Lord, twenty
twenty four. Please say the shooter are open fire at
a Christian K through twelve school in Madison, Wisconsin, has
identified as a fifteen year old girl. TikTok is asking
the Supreme Court to block a law that could ban
the video app. A president like Trump claims, the government,

(00:54):
of course knows who's behind all these mysterious drones. The
military knows were garage they came from. Why doesn't the
administration just tell US and a record number of holiday
travels are travelers are gearing up to hit the road.
I am so grateful the twenty years ago we had
our first Christmas with my twin daughters and made the

(01:14):
decision Christmas will always be in our house. Anybody wants
to come, They're welcome. We would not make our Christmas
about traveling all over the country to families we were
born into. We were going to celebrate the family we
made and allow them to have their own Christmas memories.
And I think it's the best decision we ever made.

(01:35):
And all the horror stories of before children when we
did have to travel, seems like that's always when you
would spend a Christmas Eve somewhere in an airport stranded. Well,
twenty twenty four, it's that time of the year where
we look back, which is a good exercise because life,
as we always say, is best understood looking back, but
unfortunately has to be lived looking forward. Looking back, what

(01:57):
can we see as we move forward to twenty twenty
five from the Ukraine Russian War, fighting throughout the Middle
East with Iran ultimately, but it's proxies hamas as Belah,
the hoo Thies. What were the most significant military foreign
policy events of twenty twenty four, and what are the
two or three things we better keep our eye on.

(02:19):
Moving into twenty twenty five, Heritage Foundation expert Steven Bouchie,
again for Lieutenant Colonel James Tarafano, joins us on this
journey of discovery.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Good morning, Stephen, good morning, Thank you for having me
back again.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh it's always wonderful to talk to you. And Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year. So let's start with twenty
twenty four. Obviously we know the Ukraine Russian War. We
obviously know the war in the Middle East? Did I
miss anything? And then what is most significant about those
two wars itself?

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Okay, the look that for me, the bigger of the
two of those is that Israel's defeat of what people
refer to as the Shia Crescent. So Israel has not
just been fighting against Hamas, not just fighting against has Bulah.
They've destroyed Hamas, They've totally decapitated and defanged has Bulah.

(03:11):
They've revealed Iran itself the one behind all of this,
as especially a paper tiger. They're not the ten feet tall,
you know, boogeyman that everybody thinks and as an aside,
which I don't even think Israel is planning on. They've
managed to get rid of the regime of Bashi al

(03:33):
Assad in Syria. Now that last one, because it probably
wasn't on Israel's list, might be a two edged sword.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
We're not sure what's going to end up there.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Something ultimately right now, the folks that are there are
all not all that great.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, something's going to fill that void. And my guess
is it may be a Sunni brand of Sharia law,
which the very leader of the opposition that overthrew the
Asad government had a background with al Qaeda. Just to
give everybody a little moment of pause, you bring up
something very very important, very few people ever talk about,
and I don't know what keeps them from talking about it.

(04:08):
Maybe political correctness, I don't know. But you've got to
understand the enemy, and understanding the enemy is understanding the
difference between Shia and Sunni Islamists. Now, Ashia is a
jihadis first, they will provoke an action, they will make
a first strike they believe the moment is now. Sunnis

(04:29):
usually play patiently for the future. That's about the only difference.
Now there's a reason why we have Sunis and she
is and has to do with who took over after Mohammad.
Explain the difference between the two because Iran is not
defeated yet and they are the leader of the Shia,
but all their proxies are and they're left standing there
holding the bag.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Which is a profound point.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Look, it's, you know, without getting into the theology, who
pray how many times when?

Speaker 5 (04:56):
And that's sort of saying.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
That, as you say, this goes all the way back
to who should have succeeded or who did succeed the
prophet Muhammad when he died. But the bottom line is
the the Iranians, who are Persians, are the leader of
the Shiah worlds. They're the biggest power in Shia Islam

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and they deliberately recruit, equip and try and manipulate every
Shia population center and organization out there. On the Sunni side,
it's kind of a toss up. You have the Saudis,
who are very powerful Sunni country, who even though they

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tolerate terrorism most of the time, try and work with us,
even though some of their cousins and brothers and all
that get involved with the extremists. But there's there's others.
There's also Egypt, who now has a military government or
a military originated government because they threw out the Muslim

(06:08):
Brotherhood guys who got elected but then immediately tried to
completely dismantle the democratic structures in Egypt. And there's also Turkey,
who is also a Muslim Brotherhood leader. Even though they
have a long history of being secular Muslims, right now
they are anything but. And mister Erdowan, the premiere of Turkey,

(06:33):
is a complete Muslim Brotherhood radical. So we've got trouble
on both ends of the spectrum potentially, but we've got
friends also, and we just have to watch them, don't
reflexively go one way or the other, but play the
players that are on the board.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
I was just gonna say, can I cut to the chase?

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Both spond aggressively to weakness, the key to both absolutely
his strength, and we've just gone through four years of
weakness now prior to that. Barack Obama, I think, and
I'm waiting for its to have its day, should be
credited with losing Turkey as an ally. That will be
one of his great mistakes, like Jimmy Carter's was meddling
in Iran that created the Islamic Republic. Stephen Bouchi filling

(07:19):
in for Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano looking back at twenty
twenty four in the top military foreign policy stories. Do
you agree with President Elect Trump that perhaps the most
difficult now might be Russia Ukraine, especially after allowing missiles
into Russian territory that he thought was a big mistake.

Speaker 6 (07:36):
I don't think that's going to be the most difficult.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
It is going to be a difficult one, and that
was one of the points I had on things to
watch going forward. I think Trump, stepping in with strength,
as you point out it implies not just in the
Middle East, but in Eastern Europe as well, has the
most potential to get us some sort of legitimate, peaceful

(08:02):
outcome from that conflict. I don't think there's anybody out
there but Trump who could sit down with both Zelenski
and Putin and get them both to give a little bit.
I don't think either of them are going to come
out of that negotiation happy, but I think Trump could
possibly get us to them to at least stop fighting,

(08:25):
and and that would be a net win for the
all the people who are dying in this conflict, not
to mention all the money that's being spent. So that
was one that I had on there, that that President
Trump might actually bring peace there a piece where nobody's
one hundred percent happy, but at least the size are separated,

(08:47):
people back off and and we can rebuild that poor
country that's been decimated and devastated by the Russians.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
I was gonna say, I promise this is a qu ueshtion.
And although it's going to sound like I'm grand standing,
all right, So for Vladimir Putin, I'm thoroughly convinced that
he's really trying to reassemble ultimately the Russian Empire MAP.
I don't think he's thrilled that the Soviet Union doesn't exist,
but I don't think it's about reassembling the Soviet Union

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as much as it is the territory of the Russian
Empire MAP. That's his ultimate goal. So that's always going
to be in the back of his mind as far
as Ukraine goes. It's been long, it's been drawn out,
he's not winning, it doesn't look like a victory is eminent.
So what is the way out? What can you offer him?

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Leave?

Speaker 1 (09:39):
And this you get no territory, but Ukraine will not
become a part of NATO.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
That is that the only way out? And is he
going to buy that?

Speaker 4 (09:49):
I think ultimately Ukraine will give up on trying to
get back some of the territory that it had before
the original Russian incursions in to Ukraine earlier in the century.
So you know, CRIMEA, chunks of the don boss the
eastern part of Ukraine. I don't think those are coming

(10:11):
back to Ukraine. It's unfortunate. It was a theft of
the highest magnitude, but I don't think they're going to
get him back, at least not in the foreseeable future.
But I think Prutin may accept that back up now
where we potentially have to deal with it again later perhaps,
but again at least it will stop the killing. I

(10:34):
do agree with you, by the way, I don't think
he wants to re establish the Soviet Union. He is
trying to re establish ancient Russia in the empire form
because he thinks that's really the way the world should be.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Why is it you and I are the only one
to talk about these things. Why is everybody else so
afraid to speak the truth about it? Is it political?
Correctness or what do you think it is?

Speaker 6 (10:58):
I think it's the combinations.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
These conversations Stephen, I only have with you, and you
only fill it a couple times a year, and yet
I think it's But I do think Donald Trump gets
it and the advisors around him all right, I agree
on closing moments with Stephen, Butchi filling in the Lieutenant
Colonel James Carafano our last foreign policy military visit of
the year.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
You alluded to one of them.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
I suspect everybody because I believe in peace through strength,
and because Donald Trump says what he means, and means
what he says, and has a track record of following
through I suspect he can calm everything down with Russia
and North Korea. I suspect, as you outlined the defeat
of the Shia element and now Iron is left standing

(11:42):
alone and holding the bag, I would think all these
radical Islamic groups are going to lay low and wait
and see who wins in twenty twenty eight. So I'm
pretty optimistic in general. But what are some things to
keep our eye on heading into twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
Well, a good thing is because of Trump's victory, I
think we've massively pushed forward to confer around the world,
not just in America, but in other governments and in
other countries. I think the refocusing of military capability versus
social policy in the military and frankly in law enforcement,

(12:23):
I think will change things in America and change things
around the world so that there is a better chance
of that extended piece you're referring to so and I
think that's also going to have effects in the economic world,
particularly with regard to energy. I think America is going

(12:44):
to change the energy landscape, and that is going to
affect the power balance around the world as well, all
positive things. Potentially, if Joe Biden doesn't put into place
at so much stuff that at hamstrings Trump again, we
have a chance for some real victories here.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Stephen Boucie.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
How lucky are we to have you fill in for
Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano, and how lucky are we to
have access If you want to read any of the
great work of the people at Heritage Foundation, go to
Heritage dot org.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Stephen.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
On a personal note, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. I
hope we see you more in the new year.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
I do too, and Merry Christmas.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
In a blessed new Year to you too.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
This is your morning show with Michael De Tuono.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
You can't have your morning show without your voice, So
let's start with Roger listening to Kate ste and Sacramento Porne.

Speaker 7 (13:34):
Michael, just happened to wake up right when you are
talking about the shooting just a moment ago, and that
is an amazing perspective. I'm grateful for your wisdom and insight.
It gives people a lot to think about, including myself.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Have a great day, that's nice. What's with all the
compliments today? It's the holiday season. Yes, maybe let's go
to Ames Iowa, Kate.

Speaker 8 (13:59):
As I love to show Michael, Hey, we have the
same situation here where I work. An employee was in
the closet threatening herself or himself or whatever she called herself,
and then she got canned. Some months later, she's threatened
to blow up a school and she's now in jail.
So anyway, they will find it eventually, but they'll only

(14:20):
show their colors when they do something.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
And you have a good day.

Speaker 8 (14:23):
You're exactly right to this manifesto tells the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Anyway, Have a good day, Merry Christmas. Oh Merry Christmas
to you on the manifesto front.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
The manifesto was asked about when Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes,
and he responded, well, we haven't been able to verify
that it's authentic. It comes by way of apparently the
shooter's boyfriend, and she self identifies in the manifesto. Now

(14:59):
you can interrupt yourself real quickly and say this was
nowhere on anyone's radar. Well, if the boyfriend was aware
of the manifesto, he certainly should have made her parents
in the school and local law enforcement available. That's one
thing we can do better in the future. If proven true.
The author identifies themself as Samantha Eruptnout, now identified as

(15:20):
the shooter according to screenshots of the post on x.
In the manifesto, called War against Humanity, the author, now
the deceased shooter, writes that they have grown to hate
people and society, calls her own parents scum. The author
also writes that they acquired weapons by lies and manipulation

(15:43):
and my father's stupidity, and describes wanting to die by suicide,
but felt like carrying out a shooting was a better,
better evolution rather than just one stupid, boring, suicide, notoriety,
mental illness, perhaps hatred for parents in schools, or maybe

(16:06):
as simple as well, if I'd have just killed myself,
I wouldn't have made the news. This seemed more exciting,
how tragic, and Joe Biden immediately calls for gun legislation.
All you're looking for is the gun. You're never going
to solve this problem.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
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Speaker 9 (16:58):
The allegedly opened fire in a class room during study
hall late yesterday morning, killing one teacher, killing a fellow student,
wounding six others before she apparently took her own life.
Of those six wounded, two of them still in critical condition,
and police say the parents are cooperating with the investigation
and trying to really find out where all this came from.

(17:21):
Probably for this morning Anyway, the big discussion is the manifesto,
a manifesto apparently her boyfriend ex boyfriend posted on x
She identifies herself as the author, and local law enforcement
has not I guess, confirmed the authenticity of this yet,
so they won't comment, but they're pretty good odds this

(17:43):
manifesto may belong to her, and it paints a picture
a very troubled person who ultimately, rather than committing suicide,
thought you'd take a few people with her mental illness.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Screams is a potential motive.

Speaker 9 (17:55):
Certainly, and then that's something that police are definitely looking
to get to the bottom of. You know, we're talking
talking about a teenage girl, so you know any sort
of online presence and social media presence is going to
be probably playing a big role in trying to identify
and understand this person.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
All right, So you know, obviously the most practical thing
we can do is hardened targets. You had reported earlier.
What do we know about this particular private school. I
know there were no metal detectors, and their protocols, as
the same listener wanted me to do that Donald Trump
story sent me, their protocols included cameras that are monitored,

(18:32):
but there was no reference of any resource officers.

Speaker 9 (18:36):
I thought I saw something about a resource officer. I'm
you know, I I know that like you said that
the metal detectors were not present at the school. I
thought that I did see something about resource officers, but he.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Said I read it thoroughly, and they did not specify.
They said they were trained by local law enforcement and
they had procedures, but they wouldn't elaborate on what those
procedures were. So I don't know if we had, you know,
some teachers that were or maybe had access to a
weapon for protection. The one thing that was really specified
was a camera system that is monitored from the office.

(19:08):
That would clearly be a reoccurring lesson that must be learned.
We've got to harden these targets as well as we
got to address real problems like mental illness, and all
we do is focus on the guns.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
All right, Let's turn to Amazon.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Some workers at Amazon are threatening to strike at Christmas.

Speaker 9 (19:26):
Yeah, I mean, certainly that would be a my list.
That would be a frustrating thing for folks. This is
really focused mainly in the New York area. It's a
Staten Island fulfillment center known as JFK eight. This was
the first Amazon warehouse to ever vote successfully to unionize.
That happened back in twenty twenty two, and the Teamsters
union says that they've been trying to get Amazon to

(19:47):
come to the table to negotiate a deal ever since
that vote was taken, so they have now voted to
authorize a strike. There's a delivery station in Queens known
as DBK four.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
They're also a part of it.

Speaker 9 (19:58):
So right there between those two facilities, we're talking about
five thousand workers. Late yesterday, workers at a warehouse in Skokie, Illinois,
also voted to join. They had previously set a deadline
for Amazon of December fifteenth. That deadline has obviously come
and gone, and the notice to strike has already been made,
So we'll have to see exactly what the next move is,

(20:21):
you know, as far as packages that you're still waiting
on to get delivered or much of the rest of
the country. I have a feeling this will be fairly localized,
at least around the New York area and potentially around Skokey, Illinois,
if a strike were to take place here in the
days leading up to Christmas. Amazon has hundreds of warehouses
across the country.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, Crowble, the great reporting as always. We'll talk again soon.
John Decker's going to be joining us.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Just a little over a month until Inauguration Day, Donald
Trump met with reporters the Palm Beach presser of the decade.
He covered everything, not the least of which was drones.
Speaking of drones, that's our top story, one of our
top stories.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Today.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Lawmakers and residents both want answers about the unknown drone
activity in the United States.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Lisa Taylor has more.

Speaker 10 (21:09):
Unidentified Object insider and podcaster Stephen Diner says he is
concerned that the drone activity is escalating when.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
It comes to September. This has been happening longer than that.
New Jersey grabs the headlines, but a lot of people
don't remember that this was also happening over Virginia Langley
Air Force Base just recently over the weekend that White
Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

Speaker 10 (21:29):
Drones and the serious lights have been reported in several states,
including New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, California, and Oregon. Homeland
Security Secretary Alejandro Maiorcis says the reason there's so many
drones is that in September of twenty twenty three, the
FAA changed the rules so that drones could fly at night.
Final Lisa Taylor.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
The FBI is reportedly warning some US lawmakers that Chinese
Communist Party is working to create bogus stories to portray
them in a negative light.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Mark Mayfield has the details.

Speaker 11 (21:57):
NBC News reports that the CCP is doing this because
of the lawmaker's hawkish views of Beijing and support for Taiwan.
The report site unnamed US officials, saying the FBI has
held classified briefings with those lawmakers. Officials say one of
the stories being concocted by the Chinese is the lawmakers
are promoting pro Taiwan views because they are taking bribes
from Taiwan. What official tells NBC News that CCP is

(22:20):
trying to undermine congressional support for Taiwan's democracy and to
paint it as corrupt.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Trump with clear warnings to the North and the South.
Brian shook me all morning long as our road to
the White House.

Speaker 12 (22:33):
Road to the White House.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Twenty twenty four.

Speaker 12 (22:35):
President elect Trump says Mexico and Canada are on notice
over the border crisis. Speaking from his Marra A Lago
residence in Palm Beach Monday, Trump criticized the Biden administration
over reports its auctioning off pieces of the border wall.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
And what they're doing is really an act. It's almost
a criminal act. They know we're going to use it.
If we don't have it, we're going to have to
rebuild it.

Speaker 12 (22:58):
Trump touched on several subjects, adding he's spoken to Israeli
leader Benjamin net Yahoo, and Trump once again promised all
hell will break loose if Hamas does not release the
hostages before he takes office. Trump also claimed the government
knows what's behind the mysterious drones flying over the US.
In Washington, I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
A Senate investigation is accusing Amazon of tweaking workplace injury
data to make its warehouses seem safer. Strikes aren't the
only problems for Amazon. Tammy Trihilo has more.

Speaker 13 (23:30):
The report, released Sunday by the Senate Health, Education, Labor
and Pension Committee comes after an eighteen month probe into
seven years of Amazon workplace injury data. Among the findings
where that Amazon warehouses are less safe than the industry
average and that Amazon workers are twice as likely to
be injured compared to employees at other warehouses. Amazon rejected
the findings, arguing it has made significant safety improvements and

(23:54):
accusing the committee of twisting information to support a false narrative.
I'm Tammy Trihio.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Country music stars Shania Twain is announcing plans for a.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Very short headlining tour in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
The seven D eight run comes on the heels of
Twain's Las Vegas Come On Over residency. It launches next
July and Buffalo, New York wraps up in August and Hollywood, Florida.
Tickets go on sale next Friday.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Chno.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Thanks for bringing us along with you. This is your
morning show. I am Michael del journal Jeffrey Lyons has
the audio controls. We don't know what Red's doing. He's
keeping an eye on content. He has confirmed. I get
as much as you can confirm with multiple reports that
there doesn't appear to have been a metal detector or
a resource officer at the school where the shooting took

(24:47):
place in Madison, Wisconsin yesterday.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
I didn't think there was.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
President like Trump claims that the government knows who walls
behind the mysterious drones that was in our Sound of
the day. He goes, well, of course the government knows.
They need to just go ahead and tell you. Our
military knows where all these drones originated, what garage they
came out of. Why does this continue to fester? I mean,

(25:12):
I didn't think it was that big of a thing
because usually most drones are not drones. They turned out
to be helicopter's planes. But you know, the more this
drags on, Okay, clearly these are drones, and clearly the
government knows. Why aren't they telling us? Is this one last, one,
last embarrassment, one last uh failure from this administration? Well,

(25:40):
they certainly began non transparent and they're ending non transparent.
The members of Congress are wanting answers, and they're wanting them. Today,
TikTok is asking the Supreme Court to block a law
that would ban the video app. A record number of
holiday travelers are preparing to hit the road, and police
say the shooter that opened fire on the Christian K
through twelve school in Madison, Wisconsin was a fifteen year

(26:01):
old girl. Now, most of the conversation is centered around
a manifesto that was posted on formerly Twitter now X
from her ex boyfriend. So again, I think this is
going to be less of a transgender issue, more of
a mental illness perhaps social dilemma issue. In the manifesto,
a clear hatred for all humans, including herself, clearly a

(26:25):
hatred for her parents. And then the ultimate gee, I
could kill myself but no one would notice. So I
think I'll kill some others and then myself. Now, if
this manifesto is authenticated and it is real, you mean
to tell me her ex boyfriend was aware of this,
didn't call her parents, didn't call the school, didn't call

(26:48):
local law enforcement, but posted it and then everybody that
read it on X was reading it commenting, but nobody
put this on law enforcements radar. Well, there's an actionable
lesson to be learned coming out of this. Of course,
the bigger question is are we interested and really addressing

(27:08):
the spiritual bankruptcy, the mental illness, the social dilemma, the
softening of the target, the things that could actually prevent
the next one? Are we more interested in professional victimhood?
Our thought for the day is, as long as we're
focused only on a gun, which is always a solution
and the problem in each one of these cases, you'll

(27:29):
never get to the real solution, all right. With a
little over a month until inauguration day, though it seems
like he's already president, Donald Trump had a presser of
all pressers, a Palm Beach presser yesterday, where he went
on and on and on with great candor, great specificity,
and great control. Question for John Decker, our White House correspondent,

(27:49):
why are you in DC covering whatever that is and
not the one that's already president.

Speaker 6 (27:55):
That was.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Quite a presser yesterday. It had it all.

Speaker 10 (27:59):
It was.

Speaker 14 (28:00):
Yeah, I was frustrating watching it on television and not
being there, I have to tell you, But that'll happen
in due course, you know, five weeks time. That's when
Donald Trump has sworn in, and I'll be at all
those press conferences. But that one yesterday, taking place at
Mar A Lago, it was Donald Trump's first press conference
since winning the election last month. Hard to believe that

(28:21):
was last month.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
It seems like it was six months ago.

Speaker 14 (28:24):
But in any case, I took a variety of questions
over the course of an hour, answered questions on domestic policy,
foreign policy, on drones, whatever it was the people that
were down there at mar Lago, journalists that were down
there on mar a Lago had in mind. They asked
the President and.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
He responded, you bring up the one that I featured
in our Sounds of the day when the drones came up.
The presidents like, of course the government knows. Of course
the military knows the garage they started in.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
So why is nobody telling us.

Speaker 14 (28:57):
You're asking me why, I don't know. I don't know
the answer to that. I'm not the person that would know.
I think, you know, ask that question as someone who
works at DOT or the Department of Homeland Security, if
indeed that's the case. They put out a joint statement
last night, which is unusual, a joint statement from the DHF,
the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the FAA, the

(29:19):
DOG And in that statement that came out nine to
thirty last night, they say, we have not identified anything
anomalous and do not assess the activity today to present
a national security or public safety risk over the civilian
airspace in New Jersey or other states in the Northeast.
So that coming from all of those agencies last night

(29:40):
in that joint statement, and I don't think that will
in any way mollify the concerns that people have regarding
these drone sightings that have taken place since late late November.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
So they'll tell us that they you know, there's no danger,
but they won't tell us what they are and whose
they are. Trump will adds to a lot of them
are over a place He's not going to visit anytime soon.
Is this some do these drones belong to the government potentially?

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Well, the statement that was put.

Speaker 14 (30:11):
Out indicates, without answering that question directly, saying, look, there
are a million drones that are registered with the FAA.
There are thousands of drones in the sky every day
of the year. The drones are civilian drones, they're commercial drones. There,
you know, military drones. All of those things are happening.

(30:32):
And so I can't speak to every instance of someone
seeing a drone over their house or you know, in
their neighborhood. But that is what the statement that was
put out yesterday from those joint agencies indicated.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Closing moments of White House correspondent John Decker on your
morning show. So I thought the other big statement was
when they brought up foreign policy. He kind of reeled
off a lot of mistakes that the current administration has
made and how that relates to finding a solution for
Russia and Ukraine, and he thinks that's going to be
the most difficult, far more than the Middle East, because
of the use of missiles into Russian territory that got

(31:09):
North Korea involved, and he thought that was a big mistake.
I thought that was a pretty pretty detailed conversation. But
in general, no matter what the topic, was a much
different look than the previous four years, a much different
look than Donald Trump eight years ago. This is a
different guy taking office.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
Well, it is a different guy, you know.

Speaker 14 (31:30):
I remind people, you know that sometimes forget about all
the things that have happened as it relates to Donald
Trump's life this past year, running for president, winning the presidency,
two assassination attempts, a criminal trial, even what we spoke
about just the other day, winning a defamation lawsuit against
the ABC News. He has had I think one could

(31:51):
argue the most significant.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Year of his life.

Speaker 14 (31:56):
And you know, I think that accounts for the way he,
you know, it sort of carries himself as he prepares
to be America's forty seventh president.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
He may even sue the Des Moines Register for that
last bias poll before the election. We'll see if you
don't think he'll sue you for having your electoral college wrong,
do you.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
I had to bring it up before the end of
the year. I had to and I won that.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Which, by the way, I'm going to hold I'm going
to hold off and take my victory trip to the
White House Press Corps for when Trump is president.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
That shouldn't be I told you to do that. I
said that to you.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Of course, I want to see the real deal. Always
great reporting, John, have a great day. We'll talk again tomorrow.
Fifteen minutes after the hour. I you know he mentioned,
can you believe that's only a month ago? That the
election does seem a lot longer ago than that. Time flies.
They're having fun or not.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
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