Fort Stewart, Freedom, and More on The Brett Winterble Show

Tune in here to this Wednesday's edition of the Brett Winterble Show! 

Brett kicks off the program by talking about the developing situation at Fort Stewart, Georgia, where five soldiers were shot. Thankfully, no lives were lost, but details remain scarce as authorities prepare for a briefing. Brett draws comparisons to the Fort Hood shooting, criticizing past attempts to downplay such events as mere “workplace violence.

Later, Brett delivers a passionate monologue defending the foundational principles of America—freedom, opportunity, and resilience. He emphasizes that the nation’s greatness is not a myth but a measurable reality, citing economic strength, innovation, and cultural influence. Brett acknowledges America’s flaws but highlights its ability to evolve, reform, and lead through adversity. He warns against the dangers of socialism, anarchism, and nihilism, while also urging empathy and support for those facing mental health challenges. To preserve and renew the nation’s promise, he outlines a seven-point plan including civics education, economic access, community building, and open dialogue. With a challenge to listeners to pick up the mantle of American stewardship, Brett calls for renewed commitment to liberty, unity, and meaningful progress.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
It is the Brettwinable Show. It is great to be
with you our telephone number seven four five seven eleven
ten and on the WBT text line driven by Liberty
Buick GMC. We certainly are happy to have you guys
here spending time with us over the course of the
next three hours. Everything is fair game. If you want
to talk about it, we will. We will kick it around. Obviously,

(00:38):
we're waiting for an update on the shooting of five
soldiers at Fort Stewart there in Georgia. Thank god nobody
lost their lives, but we are trying to effort the
information as to who did it, why they did it,
and what in the heck happens next. This is not
the sort of stuff, by the way, that we should

(01:00):
take lightly. It's a lot of shades of what we
saw taking place there at Fort Hood in Texas back
in the battle days of the Biden Obama administration, when
they told you that was not that was not any
kind of a terrorist attack, it was just workplace violence,
which to me to this day still rubs me the

(01:23):
absolute wrong way, the idea of saying it's not terrorism,
it was workplace violence that occurred. And I always love
that sort of notion of it's just workplace violence. So
who in the workplace got up and decided that they
were going to shoot fellow soldiers? I don't know. As

(01:45):
I said, we're waiting for an update. They're going to
be doing a briefing, and once they do start that briefing,
we will effort, we will do our level best to
actually get it up on the air for you as well.
But we do know that five soldiers were shot at
Fort Stewart in Georgia. The suspect has been taken into custody, apprehended,

(02:06):
and we have no idea what the motivation was. I
shudder to think what this is going to end up being.
But as we continue this cycle of the wayward folks
who are coming out of the state of Texas running
around all over the country, I mean, this is an

(02:28):
incredible thing when you think about it, because they know
what the outcome is going to be. The outcome for
these folks is going to be losing their jobs number one,
number two, paying hefty fines. And I'm sorry, but Gavin
Newsom's not going to save you. You know, Kathy Hokl's
not going to save you. And JB. Pritzker is not

(02:51):
going to save you. Isn't it interesting that you see
a guy who happens to be the governor of the
of the commonwealth, I should say Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
He he is a very serious person who is a
very strong potential contender to run for office in the
next election cycle, and you're not seeing him hosting people
from outside the area to come and spend time there.
Isn't that an interesting dynamic? Isn't it an interesting dynamic

(03:27):
when you think about what this governor could do if
he wanted to write, Uh, you know, you're you're you're
looking at at Josh Shapiro, who I think is probably
a legit contender for for a Democrat nomination, although they
will probably go with a much more radical person. Uh
in that regard. If i'm if I'm looking down the

(03:49):
uh down the pipeline here. But the fact of the
matter is, this is a guy who's an adult. This
is a guy who's who's who wants to do business
with uh with with his fellow governors. And he's not
sitting They're saying, hey, yeah, come in, come into Pennsylvania. Man,
We're all good. We're gonna see protect you and do
all this sort of stuff. It's just the it's the
near dow Wells that are helping. It's the near dow

(04:09):
Wells in Massachusetts. It's the near new Wells in New York.
It's the near do Wells in Illinois. The most absolutely
most jerry mandered setup of all time. It's kind of
interesting because you would think that jerry mandering would be
much more popular in Boston since that was where Eldridge Jerry,

(04:33):
who was the original name on that list, was started.
But no, no, it's New York. It's the Crookeds, it's
the Crooked Too, It's the Crooked Too. It's New York
and it's Illinois. And there's no surprise in any way,
shape or form as we're looking at this. But I
gotta tell you something. I came across something that was

(04:55):
fascinating during the last twenty four hours. You want to
know what it is. Of course, I'm gonna tell you
what it is. Who do you think is helping to
fund the Schadaddlers of Texas. I'm just gonna refer to
them as the Scadaddlers of Texas. Do anybody know who
the who the folks were that were funding this from

(05:16):
the scabblers scadadlers of Texas. Well, I can tell you
right now, very interesting. Uh what if I told you
his name was, do you know? Come on, you're guessing
mister sexy himself representative Beto O'Rourke. Beto O'Rourke. He was

(05:37):
the guy who chartered the flight. He is the guy
that spent the money. He's the guy that got him
out of a dodge. And this is hilarious because if
if we got if we got Beto O'Rourke, a guy
I went to school with back in the day, way
back in the day, elementary school. All right, this this
this guy, this character. I'm not surprised because let me

(06:00):
tell you something. He is a dollar store version of AOC,
and AOC is a dollar store version of course of Mandani.
So you got a whole bunch of weirdos out there
running around knowing full well that they're going to lose
their seats, that they're going to lose their jobs. It's

(06:23):
going to be ugly. Nobody's going to put up with
this for much longer. And of course it's Betho O'Rourke
trying to be part of the Texas Fleers, and I
got to tell you it's incredible to think about what
it is that we're seeing. By the way, By the way,
I'm going to give you a breakdown in the next
forty five minutes about why I think it is that

(06:46):
we should be doing the resets in a much more
conventional way. We should absolutely be sitting back and demanding
that we reset all of these districts pretty much share
every two years at most. At most. There is nothing

(07:08):
wrong with this, and I can justify it and give
you all the good information that you will want to
have right there in front of you, no doubt about it. Also,
by the way, today today is the is the anniversary
eighty years ago a single bomb nicknamed little Boy was

(07:29):
dropped from a USB twenty nine bomber and in an instant,
the world entered the atomic age. All of that plus
your phone calls, everything's fair game. I'm not afraid to
talk to you, all right. We get comments from folks

(07:55):
coming in on the text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC.
A couple of great ones here, I thought, a couple
of great ones. We got one from Is this Dennis?
Is that his name? Oh? Dan, It's Dan, Dan says
that they should call them the fleocrats. He's Dan in Hendersonville.

(08:17):
By the way, He's given us some good, good content there.
I like that a lot. Also, we have this who
oh shan Sean says on the atomic bomb anniversary. I've
always found it interesting that the country that goes around
saying who can and who can't have these kinds of
bombs is the only one that has used them on civilians. Twice, Yes,

(08:45):
but only twice, Only twice in all of the years.
Think about all of the stuff that we've had to
put up with. We didn't use our nukes. We didn't
use our nukes. We used our nukes to end a
brutal war, and and it was a war by the way,
that had we not gotten the atomic bombs, we would

(09:08):
have been looking at a war that was going to
rage into who the heck knows, maybe nineteen forty eight,
maybe nineteen forty nine. And I mean, it would have
been impossible to have the Korean War then, because you know,
you had the Kamedis trying to grab territory. I'm not
being a wise guy, but the fact of the matter
is the only country in the world that I would

(09:29):
trust with nukes is US, and then that's me. But
then again, you know, I'm pro America. I don't want
to see any other country with the nukes. And unfortunately,
we've got countries that have nukes that shouldn't have nukes.
The Russians. Why should the Russians have nukes? They have
The Soviets were just absolutely brutal. Pakistan should have nukes,

(09:52):
India should have nukes. I mean, what are we doing.
There's no good you know, I trust the United States.
I trust some of the allies too. And by the way,
the reality is Japan has become an incredible partner with

(10:13):
the with the these United States of America. I mean,
that's that's something that just cannot be in any way,
shape or form denied. And we rebuilt all of these countries.
It was the United States that rebuilt after the after
the war. The Russians didn't. I mean, go go look
at what the what the Russians did after the after

(10:34):
the end of the European War. My gosh, you could
still go back in the in the sixties and the seventies, uh,
and the eighties, the early eighties and see rubble laying
around in East Germany. I mean if you if you
ever went to the checkpoint Charlie position uh at that

(10:54):
period of time, it was incredible. The western part of
that area right the when when you were in West
Germany looked like Las Vegas lit up. When you looked
across the wall, it was pitch dark. It was unbelievable stuff.
I mean, not a not a good not a good,

(11:16):
not a good look at all. But when we think
about that, and and so I'll take I'll take a
I'll take a ride on this, Okay, I'll take a
ride on this nuclear weapons thing. Eighty years ago, on
August the sixth, nineteen forty five, at precisely eight fifteen
am local time, the sky over Hiroshima split open. A

(11:43):
single bomb nicknamed Little Boy, was dropped from a us
B twenty nine bomber, and in an instant, the world
entered the atomic age. You know, there was discussion in
the run up to our deploying the weapon. There was
a very brief debate that said, why not just go

(12:07):
get some of the folks in Japan and bring them
to the desert in New Mexico and show them what
we can do to them? You know, they they there
was a side conversation that said that that was kicking around,
and they just said, you know what, they're not going

(12:28):
to believe us. They're going to think this is fake.
They're going to whatever it is because nobody could imagine
that kind of power. Single bomb, little Boy dropped by
a us B twenty nine bomber, and in an instant
the world entered the atomic age. The blast leveled the city.

(12:51):
Tens of thousands died instantly. By year's end, the death
toll at Hiroshima reached approximately one hundred and forty. Three
days later, Nagasaki suffered a similar fate, with seventy thousand
more lives lost. These were civilians, men, women, children, caught

(13:13):
in the crosshairs of history. But to understand how we
got there, we have to rewind the clock. The Pacific
War was raging. Began on December seventh, nineteen forty one,
when we were attacked at Pearl Harbor, and the sprawling

(13:33):
conflict went across East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands.
It was the largest theater of World War two in
terms of geography and one of the bloodiests. Japan and
the Imperial Ambitions had already ignited a war earlier with China,
but after Pearl Harbor, the United States and the Allied

(13:54):
forces were drawn into a fight that lasted nearly four years.
Island by island, Allies pushed back Guadalcanal, Iwajima, Leti, Gulf, Okinawa.
The cost was staggering, the human cost unbelievable. By the
end of nineteen forty five, the Pacific Theater had claimed

(14:15):
over four million military deaths on the Allied side, over
two and a half million Japanese military deaths, more than
twenty six million civilian deaths, including those in China, Korea,
the Philippines, Southeast Asia. Those aren't just statistics, those are people.

(14:40):
Those are humans. So the decision to drop that bomb, well,
the goal was to try to end the war swiftly
and decisively. And it's important that we don't just sit
here and ra ra. We have to remember why this happened,
because we were attacked, and let's hope to God that

(15:05):
we never see this again. Who's Talk eleven ten, nine

(15:25):
ninety three w BT, It's the Brett Winner More Showgan
to be with You seven oh four five seven eleven ten, Parker,
Welcome to the program. What's on your mind? Parker?

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Just a real quick point. I didn't know if you
knew this or not, but Thomas Ferrabye is from North Carolina.
He is from Manxville and he was the bombader on
the NOLA Gay.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yes I've heard that name, yes indeed, uh huh.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
And then I went to the memorial memorial when they
had the big name uh road naming for him there
and Tibbets was there, and then Van Kirk was there.
But this morning on your show, earlier show, they mentioned
there was another North Carolinda person who had actually taken
a picture of the explosion. But anyway, I just want
to make sure y'all ware that we do have another

(16:14):
North carolind of person up there. And araby was the
bomb but here he actually did drop the bomb. So
I just wanted to make sure aware of that.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
That's a correct day.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Enjoyia's show.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Thank you, Parker, I appreciate the call. Thank you very
very much. Jim, welcome to the program. What's on your mind?

Speaker 5 (16:29):
Yeah, it is absolutely staggering the forward visionary technology we
brought to bear for that event. To think that just
as well, just by the luck of the draw, just
the fact that over cloudfirmations This just as well could
be called Kura Day or Yokohama Day, just for the

(16:51):
fact that the one simple meteorological thing it could have
changed changed the history.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
But yeah, that's true, absolutely, Jim, you nailed it in
that one. You just never know. Steve, Welcome to the show. Okay, sorry, Steve,
try back again if you want to call back. Let's
move into a couple of other things here too that
I think are hugely important. Do you guys remember when

(17:26):
you got all that money from the government to forgive
your student loans, especially if you didn't have any student loans.
Do you guys remember when you got all that money
from the Biden from the Biden crew. Do you guys?
Do you guys remember all that money that was sloshing around?
Do you got any of you guys remember this? I mean,
I know, I know most most of the people in

(17:48):
this audience probably got the doray me right. No, No,
it's not true, and it's not true at all, exactly right.
Shocking record explosion student loan delinquencies marks the start of
the next debt crisis. How did this happen?

Speaker 4 (18:07):
Well?

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Remember, total household debt rose by one hundred and eighty
five billion dollars in the second quarter of twenty twenty five,
a one percent rise from Q one and twenty twenty five.
Balances now stand at eighteen point three nine trillion dollars,
and they've increased by four point two four trillion since

(18:30):
the end of twenty nineteen, just before the Fauci pandemic
recession before, right before. So what do we have going on?

Speaker 4 (18:43):
Now?

Speaker 1 (18:44):
This is a pretty interesting deal when you look at
the total balance and its composition of all this money
that's out there. We have to go back and we
have to look at what Joe Biden did by forgiving
all as student loan setup. Remember how Yeah, he was
going to do it for the as far as the

(19:05):
eye can see, as far as the eye can see.
So it goes like this. While transition into early delinquency
held steady for nearly all the debt types, the exception
was for student loans, which saw another uptick in the
rate at which balances went from current to delinquent due

(19:30):
to the resumption of reporting delinquent student loans on credit
reports after a nearly five year pause due to the pandemic.
Student loan delinquencies have been on the rise since the
beginning of the year. Well what happened then, Well, at
the beginning of the year means it was after government

(19:54):
ended biden Year's freezing of the payments. So now people
have to pay back their student loans. When a bunch
of other people got a free ride, most of those
people who got the free ride were at the high
end of the community, the high end of you know,

(20:14):
the people who worked at the White House. There were
people who worked at the White House with Joe Biden
and Kamala Harris and all the folks that worked there
who got forgiven. These are people who were six figure
sort of fit people, Okay. And so we are now
learning that student loan delinquencies have been on the rise

(20:38):
since the beginning of the year. When people are supposed
to pay off or pay back their student loans. Now,
I don't know about you. I paid. I paid a
boatload of money and I paid my entire student loan.
It took me time, but I did it, didn't miss
any payments. Was a solid citizen and I was able

(21:00):
to pay it off. And I was doing it when
I was making zero point zero money. You know, would
I would, I would put it as a priority to
pay for that. As people can can understand, transition rates
have moved into serious delinquency, defined as ninety or more

(21:23):
days past due. They were largely stable for the period
of time in which Joe Biden was forgiving all that money.
Remember when the Supreme Court said, you can't do this,
it is illegal, you cannot do these things. They did
it anyways, and now people are having to pay it back.

(21:44):
What the heck did they think it was going to
be free money forever. Of course they did. That's exactly
what they did. I mean, you look at this, it's crazy.
One hundred and thirty one thousand consumers had banks coruptcy
notations added to the credit reports in quarter two. Joe

(22:05):
Biden stuck it to the people, and it's not surprising.
It's not surprising at all, because money's not free. Money
is not free. Joe Biden lied to all of those
people who were relying on the promises that were coming

(22:26):
from him, and unfortunately it ran out kind of like
he did. It's not it's not you, it's me. That's

(22:51):
what Joe Biden should be saying to the people who
were expecting all that money coming back in. It's not you,
it's me. We just can't do this anymore. We can't
do this anymore. I'm just really sorry about this. It's terrible,
it's awful. It's the worst possible thing. Let's talk to
Billy next. Billy, Welcome to the program.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
Sir, Hey, you know I agree the loans should be
paid back. That you know, those people are just following
advice from their uncle.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
From their uncle uncle Sam, uncle Sam. Yes, yes, very.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
Well, think about it. Think about it, you know. I
mean the government does the same thing. You know, it
doesn't excuse it, but I'm just saying this, this is
what this country's turning into.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Well listen, listen, the problem is you and I. If
we went and printed money, we're going to go to jail.
The government doesn't go to jail.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
Yeah, it's it's just it's just bad. People aren't responsible,
they don't take responsibility.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Horrible, it's the way. It's really bad. I mean, when
we think about this, I mean, what's what's a free ride?
I mean, what do you get for a free ride?
Probably not much, you know, probably not. But I like
I like your I like your take, good take good take. Dave,
Welcome to the program, Dave, Hey Vett, how are you today,

(24:08):
I'm well, thanks for calling him.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Good.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Hey listen, now I've retired marine. Just wanted to give
you God what we talked for it. It's been a
long time. I wanted to put something in perspective that
I could for your listeners that you had alluded to,
and then bring you something up to date on the
Anola Gay.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Uh, you know, I went into West Berlin in nineteen
eighty one. I went into East Bolin. I say, from
West Berlin in nineteen eighty one. Wow, heir of the
Cold War. Spend a day on the east side and
you're right, Uh, the east you know, West Berlin was
like a metropolis.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
East Berlin was still bobbed help Yep. They were parts
of East Brilin that had never been rebuilt since the
war and it was completely decimated. Their economy was in
the ruins. It was horrible. Secondly, and what I wanted
to bring up was the Anola Gay. You know, generally
to be a colonel, it's a eighteen to twenty two

(25:01):
year progression in career. Career progression are Colonel Tibbets at
the time who later became a general General Tibbets that
dropped the bomb was only twenty eight years old. He
had made full colonel in six years wow, and it
was the way of the world was on his shoulders
at that time. All the crew members of the Anola

(25:23):
Gay were in their twenties.

Speaker 7 (25:25):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
I think the youngest one was about nineteen or twenty one.
Dutch van Kirk, who was the navigator of the Annola Gay,
his son is a member who lives here in Charlotte.
His son was one of the editors of the Charlotte Observer,
and Dutch was currently all was often in Charlotte, and

(25:47):
I'd met him out at the Charlotte Air Museum about
twenty years ago, and heck of a nice guy. But
the last point I wanted to bring up on the
Aonola Gay was General Shibbits, who dropped the bomb. His
grandson became a bomber pilot wow, and was a one

(26:07):
and three missions over either Iraq or Afghanistan or both.
I can't remember which of the two. Wow. That the
grandson commanded the same unit that the grandfather had commanded
during the Second World War time of the bombing, No kidding, Yeah,
the Fible ninth Bomber group, and they would put him
in charge of the same unit that his grandfather had

(26:28):
had time he dropped the bomb.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, so you know, it's it's it's kind of interesting,
I'm getting I'm getting I would be I'm curious to
just ask for your perspective on this because people I'm
getting a little bit of pushback from people, and I
think their their hearts are in the right place, but
they're saying, this isn't something that we should be celebrating.
I don't. I don't think it's a celebration. I think
it's a it's a commemoration, but it's certainly nothing to

(26:53):
be you know, happy about. I mean, I can't imagine
that any of those folks who were doing their duty
to try to and the war would think about it
as a celebration. Am I Am I wrong there?

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Colonel, Well, You're not wrong. What I would like to
say though, on that respect. And I've always remembered this
quote from General Tibbets that dropped the bomb. He had
said several years later he said, my position was not
to question a military order. I was given an order,
I was instructed to drop the bomb, and I dropped

(27:28):
that bomb, and I have no regrets.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
You couldn't possibly, that's absolutely right way to go.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
And he said, I think he is exactly what was.
I was instructed to carry out a military mission and
I did so, and I have no regrets in having
ever done so. So, I mean, and he lived without
his whole life, but he never changed his perspective on
the fact that he dropped the bomb, and it was
important to do and it was the right thing to
do at that particular point in time, and it saved
millions of lives, Amen of the Allies, because we brought

(27:55):
Japan to their knees.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Absolutely right, great stuff, Dave. I appreciate you being on
the show, my friend.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yes, sir, a great date.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
It's my pleasure. Absolutely. Taylor, what are you thinking about? Taylor?

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Hey, it's me again.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
You're going to hang up on me because you're free.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh yeah, I am going to hang up on you
again because the problem is, if you're not going to
give me your real name, I can't have you on
the program. This is the problem, you understand. I mean,
I'm sorry. If you want to call in and you
want to use your real name, I'll take the call.
But if you just want to call in and try

(28:34):
to be a you know, just a goof. I'm not
going to take the call. And you know what, nobody
in the audience wants to hear your odd ball theories
and things unless you're going to attach it to your
actual real name. And that's really what it comes down to.
I love my job, and you know what, I use

(28:55):
my real name, so why don't you use yours? And
I think it's it's illustrative to folks who already are
suspicious of trouble makers, and of course folks who want
to be out there trying to mix it up. It's

(29:16):
not working. Look, Stern did a really good job. You know,
he was really entertaining. When you come in and try
to deliver the goods, it's boring. You're a boring caller.
I've had you on, I've talked to you, I've talked
to you extensively, and I know exactly what you deal is.
You're from New Jersey, You're from Florida. You go you

(29:38):
call all the shows because well you don't have much
to do. There is much to do, two more hours worth.
And I hope, with all the best intentions, that you,
my friend, find peace in an otherwise complicated world. Venny V.

(30:00):
VC News Talk eleven ten, not at nine three WBT.

(30:21):
It's the Brett Witterbule Show. It is great to be
with you on this auspicious day. Why is it an
auspicious day? Because anytime we get to wake up in
the United States of America, it should be auspicious. It
should be not suspicious. Don't don't wake up suspicious. You know,
we want you to be happy and and and jovial
and joyful and all that sort of stuff. But I mean,

(30:44):
I'm dead serious. I think we have got such a
great opportunity in this country. How so, Brett Whitterble, what
makes you say that you can do anything you want
if you apply your mind to it. And I'm not
I'm not trying to gussy up or any of that

(31:05):
sort of stuff. This is really true. You can go
home tonight, you can sit quietly after the kids have
gone to bed, after you've spent a great time with
your with your spouse, and you could sit there in
the quiet of the evening and you can come up
with an invention. You could come up with a book

(31:28):
you want to write, You can come up with with
anything you want to do. You are free to do that.
And why is that important? Do you understand? I mean,
even I don't understand fully the blessings of our country.
And I'm going to have a special commentary in the

(31:50):
next hour about this because I think for so many people,
we take for granted the opportunity here in this country.
We just figure, you know what, I'll get around to
doing something great at some point, but I don't really
know what it's going to be. People, and and I'm
and I'm serious about this. People who want to do

(32:12):
something really great, something that's important. Sometimes sometimes you aim
too high and you say, I it was, what was
I thinking? I can't possibly do this? This is this
is an opportunity in this country like nobody's ever seen before,
to quote the President of the United States, and it's

(32:33):
it's one of these things that that we can chart
our own we can chart our own course. And it's
it's pretty cool, you know. One of the things I
had a conversation with somebody in the last couple of
months when we were on our trip actually, and we

(32:54):
were having a conversation about a number of things about
someone was talking about like, Okay, I like that Trump
does this, I don't like that Trump does that. And
one of the things that they said was, well, I
think he's I think he's a warmonger. And I did

(33:14):
a double take. I said, wait a minute, you think
that Donald Trump is as like a warmonger. He's a
guy who's trying to stop wars, Like he's a builder.
Even if you don't like Republicans, or you don't like Democrats,
or you don't like politics, if you're a builder, that

(33:36):
says something about you, Like, for example, we know that
Witkoff went to go to meet with Putin in Russia
because President Trump is still hopeful for getting a deal
done to end the war in Ukraine. And there's a
lot of really bad stuff that's going on in Ukraine.

(33:57):
Like there's a ton of really bad stuff. They are
the Russians are bringing in all kinds of mercenaries from
around the world to come in and fight and to
and to you know, they don't follow by the rules
of war or any of that sort of stuff. It's
a really tragic situation. And so here he sends Witkoff

(34:18):
over to talk to Putin. They have a conversation, they
come back to the to the conversation with President Trump,
and President Trump said said or alluded to saying that
he wants to meet putin face to face, wants to
talk to him face to face. Now, that's not a warmonger.

(34:40):
That's not a warmonger. A warmonger is somebody who wants
to just go to war twenty four to seven, three
sixty five. I mean there is a there is a
lane in that world that exists in the world of politics, right,
that would be the neo con kind of methodology. We
need to go into a rock and blow it all up.
We need to go to Iran and blow it all up.

(35:02):
We have to go to you know, places like Libya
and blow them all up, and all that stuff like that.
When you think about the President of the United States
right now, and he is a builder, it would be
anathema for him to want to go and blow up
a whole bunch of stuff. In fact, when Hesath and
the team were working on the bombing run in Iran,

(35:29):
what was their mission? Their mission wasn't to just carpet
bomb civilians and kill a whole bunch of people. In fact,
President Trump was saying for a number of days, get
out of get out of Tehran, Get out of Tehran,
Get out of Teh run a lot of them went
out of Tehran, and they targeted surgically as as surgically
as you can the facilities that were built over the

(35:54):
course of many, many years. And now what do you
have in this stage of the game. Well, you've destroyed
the fdah if San and the other one. They rendered
them unusable. That's a surgical strike. Could have just blown

(36:16):
everything up. You could have blown up Tehran. But what's
the benefit in that regard? President Trump has said oftentimes
how sad he is looking at the damage that has
happened over in Kiev, over in Ukraine. Now I'm not
a big fan of Zelenski, but I believe that Zelenski
probably wants that war to end. I mean, it would

(36:37):
be crazy not to want that war to end, especially
when you're on the whoopen side of Putin, right, I mean,
that's that's a problem. And so you have these people
who are rough and tough kind of people, right, But
it doesn't mean that they want to kill innocent civilians, children,

(37:00):
It's that's not that's not the driving sort of thing
that that they want. And when when you kind of
sit back and you say, okay, he's a builder, so
obviously he wants to destroy everything. What that doesn't make
any sense. Vladimir Putin wants to destroy everything, and he

(37:20):
wants to render you know, Ukraine into you know, rubble.
I'm sure about that. But if Witkoff is having a
conversation with him and Trump is starting to say, okay,
I want to talk to him, well, then isn't that
fundamentally a good thing. We have not engaged in warfare.
We've actually engaged in a sort of an economic blockade

(37:45):
slash diplomacy with with a bike behind it, as opposed
to saying, well, if you, if you, if you just,
if you just penetrate a little bit into the Ukraine,
then we're not going to go to war. That's what
Joe Biden famously said. That's not necessary. We don't have
to go to war. We don't have to go to war.
Imagine we can retain all of our weaponry, not having

(38:09):
to use it, but having it available should it need
to be used. He's talk eleven ten nine A nine
to three WBT, It's the Brett Waterbow Show. Good to

(38:29):
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driven by Liberty Buick GMC. So let's let's look at
a couple of clips. Let's listen to a couple of clips. Okay,

(39:14):
And I just want to kind of get your thoughts
about this. I think there's a there's a great appetite
for hearing from the left. I know you want to
hear from the left. I want to hear from the left.
Let's let's let's go on with Brian Harrison. This is
going to be cutting number twenty eight. Brian Harrison is
a Republican in the Texas Legislature, and he befuddles Caitlin Collins,

(39:41):
who tries to trip him up. He's a guy who's
saying Listen, these folks need to come back from these
far flung destinations. They've got to be here in the
United States. They've got to be in the great state
of Texas, and we got to be able to get
business back on track. Cutting up UBER twenty eight police.

Speaker 8 (40:01):
Real Democrats and the upcoming the term a.

Speaker 9 (40:03):
Leg Do you have a problem if typically this only
happens after the census comes out. Obviously we see other
states to do this all the time. You mentioned what
happened in Illinois, and that's a fair point to make there.
But if that's how it happens, are you fine with
other states, Democrat run states changing this in the middle
of the decade as well.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Well, it's their prerogative to do it.

Speaker 8 (40:22):
But I mean, I do have to point out that
I don't know of any just about any major media
CNN included the drag Governor Prisker on TV and ask
him to justify the jerrymandering in his state or California
where I'm looking at right now. Republicans have forty percent
of the vote in California, but they only give seventeen
percent of their seats to Republicans. Same thing in New York.

(40:42):
These are more gerrymandered than anything we're contemplating down here
in the state of Texas.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
And quite frankly, what we're talking about doing is.

Speaker 8 (40:49):
Legal, it's constitutional, it's permissible, we should do it.

Speaker 9 (40:52):
Well, what you're saying is it's bad when Democrats are jerrymandering.
That's obviously what Republicans are being accused of doing. But
will you say you know that no one's covered it.
I mean seen it, certainly covered it. I heard you
say this earlier, so I looked this up. We've written
many articles about it, and also it's been talked about
on TV listen to this.

Speaker 8 (41:10):
In states, though, like Illinois, Oregon, Maryland, Democrats are also
engaged in germandering congressional districts, and as a result, Democrats
have really tried to put Republicans in difficult places.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Particularly in downstate Illinois.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
One possible reason for Kensinger's decision his Illinois district is
being redrawn.

Speaker 9 (41:33):
So I just want to be clear we have covered
it when democrats as well, Sir.

Speaker 8 (41:38):
Well, Caitlyn, I know, I gotta tell you, I'm incredibly
flattered the amount of time CNNM must have spent fact
checking what I said earlier Today to come up with
those clips. But if those are the best clips you
can find, then my point seeing I was proven correct
because at no point was he asked to justify those maps.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
But here's the point.

Speaker 8 (41:54):
It wasn't that I was saying good, bad, right or wrong,
whether they could or should or shouldn't. The point is
what talking about in the state of Texas to something
that is constitutional.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
It's legal.

Speaker 8 (42:04):
The Supreme Court has said we can do things like this.
And my main criticism of the liberal Democrat governors in California,
New York, Illinois and other places isn't so much with
the winging on the merits of their maps. It's the
rank hypocrisy and the fake outrage these democrats, my Democrat
colleagues that fled the state to go hide behind Governor Prisker.

(42:24):
They're not mad that states are engaging in redistricting to
maximize partisan political advantage. What they're mad about, but they
won't say it. They're mad that a Republican state is stepping.

Speaker 10 (42:34):
Up and do it.

Speaker 8 (42:35):
That's the real problem. That's the hipocalypsty that I'm trying
to point out here.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Okay, so we do we do redistricting, right, they do
redistricting they do. They charge the lines every time ten years,
every ten years. They're doing this right, every ten years. Okay, wonderful.
So why don't we just change it up? Why don't
we just say, instead of every ten years, we're going
to do it in a different sort of a way.
Redistricting every national election cycle isn't just reform, it's renewal.

(43:05):
We should do it after every election cycle. We should
our democracy. Our democracy must reflect the people as they
are now, not as they were a decade ago. Districts
should evolve with population shifts, voter preferences, and community growth.

(43:27):
There's no problem with that. We're able to walk and
chew gum. As they like to say, they're in the
Biden auto pen White House. The threat of infrequent redistricting,
Oh my gosh. Malaportionment. When one district balloons, another stagnates,

(43:47):
votes lose equal weight, entrenched jerrymandering, well partisan maps stay
locked for ten years, even as voter sentiment changes. Under representation,
fast growing communities, oftentimes minorities or urban areas get left behind.

(44:09):
Why are we waiting for every ten years to do this?
How often do you throw out the garbage at your house?
How often do you go out and clean the closet
or the h or the garage every ten years? Every
ten years? No, do it after every election. Voter disenfranchisement
splits communities. They lose their voice, they lose their cohesion,

(44:32):
and it's an erosion of trust. Outdated maps make voters
feel unheard, disillusioned, and disconnected. So what are these leftists
afraid of? Why? Why do people fear frequent redistricting? They
fear it'll become a tool for manipulation every two years, yay,

(44:54):
it's every two years. They worry about confusion, the lack
of continuity and instant ability, yay, every two years. Concerned
about costs, hearings, data analysis, legal reviews, too bad, too bad,
it's too bad. Distrust the process itself, often seeing it rigged.

(45:16):
Some say, let the dest the districts breathe, But what
if they're suffocating democracy? I mean, I could give you
twenty five reasons why this should be done in this way.
I might give you a few straight ahead dudes Talk

(45:50):
eleven ten ninety nine three WBT Brett, Whatable Show, Good
to be with You? Seven o four five seven zero
eleven ten. Okay, So I'm defend this move. I'm defending
this move, and I'm proud to defend this move, this
idea of why it is we can't just keep doing
what we're doing with all of the democracy protection. Guess

(46:14):
what it is, really, it's democracy protection. And I just
gave you some arguments in this regard. Right there are
people who will fear that it'll become a tool of
manipulation every two years, But it's every two years. See,
this is what makes it really good. It's every two years.
Worry about confusion, lack of continuity and instability, what does

(46:36):
that mean exactly? People move in every day to Charlotte.
People move out every day from Charlotte. Sometimes they go
across the border into South Carolina. Sometimes they go into Virginia,
sometimes they go into California. Why you would I don't know,
none of my business worried about confusion? But would you

(46:59):
rather have we like everybody's looking at the everybody's looking
at the World Cup? Right, Well, the World Cup is
what every four years? But they still play soccer in between,
they still play side. They don't just wait every four
years to go do it? So why in a world

(47:19):
that is so fluid gender and Otherwise, why are we
freaking out about how the elections go? Costs, hearings, data analysis,
legal reviews, Nope, nope, nope, and nope. Distrust the process
itself often seen as rigged. There's there's people who walk

(47:44):
around and say this is rigged. Right, So these amateur people,
and you know who they are. They're in your life, Okay,
they're they're gonna say something like, well, well I'd love
to vote, but my vote doesn't matter, and it's all rigged.
Who's rigging it? Who's rigging it? The way you unrig
it is to make it more more readily available to

(48:08):
the people, not waiting ten years, not waiting ten years.
Do you guys remember during COVID how suspicious people were
when you rang their doorbell, and how the people that
were demanding that you fill out the census form and
a lot of people were like, I'm not filling that
thing out. They're just coming to try to take us

(48:29):
away and put us in a camp or there were
people like that. You know that, and I know that.
But over the course of time, it died down. It
went down. Some say, let the districts breathe, but what
if they're suffocating democracy? Amen, that's exactly the problem. Solutions

(48:52):
to address the fears. How about this independent commissions like
California's and Michigan's to keep politics out of the process.
Maybe we could do that. I don't know, it depends.
You already have Gavin Newsom who wants to just blow
up any Republican that sets foot inside the assembly. Transparent criteria,

(49:15):
population equality, compactness, continuity. I don't know. That feels like
a way to try to get people much more not involved,
tech driven efficiency, automated mapping, and public access portals that
no humans have to do this, citizen engagement, public hearings,

(49:37):
open source feedback tools. Okay, maybe we do that. Okay,
you got to always find somebody because they've got to
pick up a contract that's worth six hundred and seven
hundred thousand dollars and they look like they're doing something
to make the democracy work. But we understand how the
democracy works. What do we need? Very easy, not hard,
ensure equal representation and capturing demographic shifts, so easy you

(50:04):
can do that. Reducing the lifespan of gerrymandering absolutely. Encouraging
accountability from the elected officials never gonna happen. Let's be
honest aligns districts with voter preferences and internal migration. I
like that. So what happens if you're living in a

(50:26):
particular neighborhood and you're still in the same city, but
you move to a different neighborhood and now you're in
a different district or whatever that is. Shouldn't that account
I mean, this is this is important stuff. Strengthens minority

(50:48):
voting power and civic engagement. Yes, this is the sixtieth
anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, and I don't know
how many people have talked about that over the course
of the day. But the fact of the matter is
LBJ decided that he was gonna sign it. He got
it done, and it was. It was completed, and people
have been enfranchised. People have been enfranchised to vote. But

(51:11):
it also means that you shouldn't have to wait ten
years to see what the new picture looks like. You
know what could happen in ten years. Understand, in ten years,
that's gonna be, that's gonna be twenty thirty five. If
we did it from now, Gosh, what are we gonna do.
You got to adapt to economic hubs, You've got climate migration,

(51:33):
and that I'm not buying that got emerging neighborhoods. Don't
know what that means. But the fact of the matter is,
redistricting every two years is not chaos. It's correction. It
is correction. It's a commitment to fairness, flexibility, and fidelity

(51:55):
to the people. We never want to give any fidelity
to the people, do we? Never? Not now? Not ever?
We need to stop treating districts as static monuments and
start treating them as democratic mirrors. So the question is

(52:15):
can we redistrict every cycle? The question is whether we must? Yes,
we should every cycle. Just do it every cycle. And
I know people are gonna complain, But I used to
go to that other polling place, but now I go
to this polling place, and now I got to go
to that other polling place, and I'm gonna sue you,
and I'm really angry and all that stuff. But don't

(52:37):
you want to have an accurate count of representation in
these different places? You see? How did you see the
weirdo map that came out from Colbert was last night?
It looks like a scorpion. Give me a break. I
don't want that to be the case. I don't want

(52:59):
that to be. You would lose your mind. I promise
you you'd lose your mind if we took the the
a football field and we put all kinds of weird
stuff like, hey, you can when you're running the ball back,
You've got to stay within this little scorpion shape that

(53:19):
you got to run. And if you step out, it's
not gonna be the ones on the outside. It's gonna
be if you stepped into the other territory, You're down.
That's insane, that's crazy. We have to get this thing right.

(53:43):
News Talk eleven ten, nine nine to three WBT. It's
the Brettwintererble Show. Seven oh four five seven zero eleven
ten as we as we soldier on. Okay, So I've
given you all I can on the whole thing with
the with the idea of the jerry mandering and that stuff.
How about this. This is cut number thirty. Christy Nome

(54:07):
big announcement this morning while she was talking to Lawrence
Jones over on the Fox of Fox and Friends. Listen
to this. You might have a future in front of you.
A cut number thirty.

Speaker 11 (54:20):
This is one of the things that I'm so excited
about because we've seen our ice officers be terrorized by activists,
by violent people who want to do them harm, and
they have continued to go out bravely and do their
jobs and make sure that they're upholding the rule of law.
And so our recruitment efforts to hire ten thousand new
ICE officers has been extremely successful. Lawrence. As of today,

(54:43):
we have over eighty thousand applicants for those ten thousand
positions already, people and patriots across this country that say
we want to join, we want to help and be
a part of this effort. It's overwhelming to see the
amount of response and support that our ICE officers have
gotten and people who want to join their So I
would tell everybody go to join dot ice dot gov

(55:04):
and go there and sign up be a part of
this team that is helping make America safe again with
President Trump. And the other thing, Lawrence I would say
is we've removed any of the age barriers. We no
longer have a cap on how old you can be
or you can continue at age eighteen. Sign up for
ICE and join us and be a part of it.
We'll get you trained and ready to be equipped to

(55:25):
go out on the streets and help protect families.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
So it is interesting because once upon a time, and
that was just like last week, we were talking about
the fact that there's a there's an age limit, that
there is an age limit as to how you can apply.
But now she's saying, no, there's no age limit. If
you want to go and put in your application, you
can actually do that. It's not a problem. You can
you can figure it out. But they've got eighty thousand

(55:51):
people that have already applied, and I don't know, I
think they're ten thousand. They got ten thousand that are
that are available. Now maybe they'll maybe they will move,
you know, to a different sort of a model. I
don't know what that looks like, but I can tell
you this. One of the the big challenges is the

(56:12):
way you have seen ice officers treated by mayors in cities.
Karen Bass comes to mind, Brandon Johnson comes to mind.
Eric Adams he hasn't really come down hard on ice,
but he is certainly going to be having to deal

(56:32):
with with a new paradigm. If if you end up
with Mandani, who wants to you know, ban all the
ice people, doesn't want cops around. I mean, it's really
it's a really freaky situation. There. And so when you
when you look at all this sort of stuff and
what's happening, right, you are now starting to see a

(56:55):
cat and mouse game that has begun in Earnest. What
are you talking about, Brett?

Speaker 6 (57:01):
All Right?

Speaker 1 (57:02):
I had a video. I looked at a video right
before I came on the show this afternoon, and the
ICE guys and the Border Patrol guys are running a
whole new sort of pattern. I mean, you got to remember,
first contact is always going to be the messiest contact,

(57:27):
because what will happen when you get into sort of
the back and forth. And I don't want to call
this warfare because it's not warfare, and it should never
be warfare. It's the implementation of policy that requires people
to have authorization to be in the United States period.
That's all this is. But you had all these activists

(57:48):
early on who were throwing garbage at these ICE agents,
who were firing fireworks at the ICE agents, who in
some cases were physically assaulting these agents. But now things
have changed. So you can go and find this video.
It's readily available. And what happened was they loaded up

(58:11):
a truck like a delivery truck with about forty or
fifty Border Patrol agents and they're driving around in Los
Angeles and they were gonna go make a bust at
a home depot. And what happens is they roll up,
the truck is rolling up into the parking lot, and

(58:34):
then all of a sudden, they throw the wind, they
throw the back open, and they swarm all of these
people who are not supposed to be in the United States. Now,
you can argue, and we could debate, and we can
say this is horrible, it's the worst thing ever. But
this is how tactics develop over a cat and mouse game.

(58:56):
Once upon a time, you know, we didn't have a
crack epidelt. Then we did have a crack epidemic. And
what did you have to have You had to have
the police department, you know, evolve what happened with fentanyl.
Same thing. You have to sit back and say, Okay,
how are we going to approach these sorts of challenges
that we've got. So this is what we've now, this

(59:16):
is what we've now got coming this way? And is
it fair? Is it nice? It's really neither. It's not
fair and it's not nice. It's the law. There is
a law. Joe Biden could have passed a law that
said everybody's going to get amnesty. He never did it.

(59:38):
He did sort of like side pocket amnesty. But this
is a difficult This is a difficult approach that we're
looking at. But there's even more. You know that people
are leaving the United States of America. How do you
know that they're leaving because the remittances have gone way down.

(59:59):
The the countries around the world who were totally comfortable
sending people to the United States, we're benefiting greatly with
money getting sent back to home countries. Well, now the
issue is there are no big time sort of ways

(01:00:24):
to get your money out of the country, and the
peaceover at zero. Hedge says cash sent home by Mexican
by Mexicans craters sixteen point two percent in June as
more immigrants leave the US workforce. Once upon a time,

(01:00:45):
the remittances were at sixty five percent going home, and
that we're talking about this is during the Obama Biden days.
Now it's cratered to minus sixteen point two percent. And
what's happening now is executives at Western Union admitted on

(01:01:06):
an earnings call that the outflow of hot money from
the United States has slowed amid the crackdown on illegal aliens. Now,
there were people who sent money back to their home countries.
In fact, back in twenty twenty four, in the bad
old days when Joe Biden was president, illegals sent fifty

(01:01:29):
six billion dollars back to their home countries. Fifty six
billion dollars sent out of America while they received free housing, healthcare, food,
et cetera. And by the way, they probably didn't pay
taxes on It's that fair? Is that fair for the
United States? They take your money, they take their money.

(01:02:09):
News Talk eleven ten, ninety nine to three WBT, It's
the Brett Winterbow Show. It is great to be with you.
Seven oh four five seven zero eleven ten. In case
you're just jumping into the car. Today, we had a
shooting that took place at George's Fort Stewart Injures five soldiers.
US Army sergeant was somebody who has taken into custody

(01:02:30):
as a result of all of this, and Fort Stewart
shooting suspect has been identified as Cornelius Radford. He's now
in custody. The suspect has been identified and he's a
US Army active duty automated automated logistics sergeant from Jacksonville, Florida,

(01:02:52):
who was assigned to the installation. Army officials said Radford
allegedly used a personal handgun in the shoot and was
tackled by other officers or by other soldiers before being
taken into custody. He had not deployed to combat these soldiers,
without a doubt, prevented further casualties, said Brigadier General John

(01:03:13):
Loubis of the third Infantry Division and Fort Stewart Hunter
Army Airfield Commander wrote in a statement, right now, our
primary focus is on supporting the family members of the
victims and the soldiers of the Spartan Brigade. In terms
of a motivation that is not clear at this stage

(01:03:35):
of the game. This began about ten fifty six this morning.
The suspect was apprehended at eleven thirty five this morning,
and comment coming from President Trump to be still to
be heard from. I've not seen the statement yet, but
the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt wrote on social

(01:03:56):
media that the Defense Secretary Pete Hexseth and the Homeland
Security Secretary Christinome had also been briefed and they are
aware of what has gone on here. So now it's
going to be a matter of figuring out what was
the motivation for this. This military installation, by the way,
is about forty miles southwest of Savannah, Georgia, and covers
nearly two hundred and eighty thousand acres. So thank god

(01:04:22):
that nobody lost their lives. But now we have to
go about the work of trying to figure out what
is it that happened, why did it happen, and how
can it be prevented again in the future. This is
a big deal, a huge deal, and we've got to
take a deep look at what it was that happened there.

(01:04:44):
Yesterday and last night we heard from President Trump alluding
to an assault that took place in Washington, d C.
And x an x DOGE staffer nicknamed Big Bo left
bloodied after a savage DC carjacking attempt by ten ten juveniles.

(01:05:10):
A nineteen year old former Department of Government Efficiency DOZE
staffer was beaten and bloodied by a mob of ten
miners early Sunday as he was thwarting a carjacking attempt
in the nation's capital, according to DC police. Now you
know what his nickname was already, and this is a

(01:05:33):
guy going one on ten. I mean, what are we
what do we got going on here? Well, his name
is Edward Corstein, whose LinkedIn handle earned him the name
Big Balls at Doge. And there was a woman near
Downtown d C when he saw a group of juveniles

(01:05:54):
approach their car and make a comment about taking her vehicle,
according to the Metropolitan Police Department incident, it was obtained
by the washing by the New York Post. At that point,
she was worried for her safety. Corsatine pushed his significant

(01:06:17):
other into the vehicle and turned to deal with the suspects.
They dealt with him, and he dealt with them, but
the suspects then began to assault Courstine, the ex DOGE
staffer with the colorful name. Officers patrolling the fourteen hundred

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block of Swan Street Northwest, a popular area with several shops, bars,
and restaurants about a mile north of the White House,
noticed a group of approximately ten juveniles surrounding the complainants
and their vehicle, so the officer immediately exited their vehicles.

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The juveniles all began to flee on foot. The police said.
DC police were able to nab only two of the
young suspects, who were later positively identified by the victim,
a fifteen year old male and a fifteen year old female,
both from Hyattsville, Maryland, were arrested and charged with unarmed carjacking.

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Courstein was treated on the scene by DC fire and
EMS for injuries sustained in the assault. A group of
teenagers shouted about taking a woman's car and then they
ran across the street just before they started to beat Corsatine.
So this is an issue that's going to have to
be dealt with now. The President was late last night

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put out the warning. He said, DC is totally out
of control. Local youths and gang members, some only fourteen,
fifteen or sixteen, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting
innocent citizens at the same time knowing that they will
almost mediately be released. That's one of the big that's

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one of the big knocks in DC is that you've
got people who commit terrible crimes and they don't really
get any kind of incarceration or jail time or anything
like that, and that that is something that's got to change.
And he's threatening now to take over the city of DC.

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They do he does have that ability, it remains to
be seen how that would be welcomed. I can't imagine
it would be welcomed. Well, but you never know, all right.

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So I got an observation that came in my way.
I wish I don't have the name. I don't have
the name, but but I have. So I just got
a question. Why would you not federalize DC if you
have the opportunity to rid yourself of a derelict group
of leaders and make the city straights, the city streets

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safe again. I don't understand what the what the hold
up is? I think every city should have an incredible
downtown and people should be willing to do the work
that it takes to make these cities amazing. Why is
it that we put up with this? Like do you

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want to step over? I'm serious about this, Do you
want to step in? You know, poop and dirt and
all kinds of stuff like that. No nobody wants to
go to a town like that, So what's the upside
to it? I can't figure it out. I have I
have a suspicion about the man whose name cannot be
cannot be uttered, But I mean, I just I sit back,

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and I go, what's the upside to having a beautiful
city and just derewlicks everywhere? I can't understand it at all. Now,
this is a big bit of news that's coming out
of the pipeline here. Putin. Vladimir Putin has proposed a

(01:10:26):
summit with Trump that according to the White House, Russian
President Vladimir Putin proposed a summit with President Trump during
his meeting Wednesday with US Envoy Steve Whitkoff. White House
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt reported why does this matter? A

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White House official said a meeting between Trump and Putin
could take place as soon as next week, but that
no location has been set. Levitt said that Trump was
opened to meeting with both President Vladimir Putin and Zelensky
because he wants the brutal war to end. Trump told

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European leaders after the call that he plans to meet
Putin next week and hopes to hold a trilateral summit
with Ukrainian President Zelenski soon afterwards. Putin has previously proposed
the idea of a leader level summit on Ukraine before backtracking.

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He has continued to reject Trump's proposals for an unconditional ceasefire.
Ukrainian officials see the proposal as a diplomatic maneuver aimed
at trying to soften Trump's current position towards Russia and
ease his frustration with Putin. Okay, well, you can't negotiate

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with somebody who's not in the room. Obviously Zelansky has
to be in the room. Obviously Putin has to be
in the room, and obviously President Trump has to be
in the room. The question is where do you have
this meeting. Zelansky's not going to go into Russia for

(01:12:22):
a meeting with Putin. Putin is not going to come
out to Europe because he's basically a wanted criminal for
all intents and purposes, because of all the atrocities that
have been committed in this war. He's not going to
come to the United States. I don't think I would
be shocked if Vladimir Putin came to the United States.

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So it's going to have to be a neutral site.
I guess you could, even though it's a in theory,
it's an ally. Maybe you could go to Turkey, suck
it's close to where Zelensky is, go across the Bosporus

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and go see if you could get that negotiation done,
I can't. I'm just trying to think, like, where else
could you possibly have this happen Azerbaijan. You're not gonna
be able to do it in the in the NATO world.
The NATO world's not going to happen. It could, Okay,

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I'll tell you where it could be. I'll tell you
where you could do this. You could do this at
the United Nations. You could have putin fly into the
United Nations. It's in New York. You could have President
Trump be in New York, and you could have Vladimir

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Voladimir Zolensky uh there as well. That's that's probably an
outside possibility. All Right, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go,
on the record, Turkey, not the Sandwich. I'm gonna go Turkey.
I'm gonna go United Nations. Outside chance, super outside chance,

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either China or South Korea. South Korea is like a
neutral arbiter there. Now, if Trump wanted to really stick it,
he could say, all right, we're gonna meet. We're gonna

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meet in North Korea. Little rocket Man is gonna host.
But you can't that that that that ship has sailed.
That was he's not gonna he's not gonna do that again.
And that's just not gonna happen. So I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna go Turkey, I'm gonna go China, and I'm
gonna go United Nations because United Nations is neutral territory

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and they bring they regularly bring in dirt bags, losers
and weirdos like it's it's as Rush Limbaugh used to
famously say, it looks the United Nations looks just like
the bar scene in Star Wars. I mean, it's just
it's all these weirdos and freaks. So I don't know,

(01:15:22):
this is interesting. I don't believe for a minute that
Trump can have him at the White House. That is
too much of a reward to allow Putin to fly
into the nation's capital and to do and to do
his thing. I no, I don't think that's fair. Did

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you hear what they said that that's not fair? Really?
You think that they would have a meeting at Adam
Shift's house? What are you doing, Adam Schiff in Maryland? What?
No way? He Oh my god, they should do it.
They could do it. Maybe they could do it in
the cabin. Maybe they can do it in the cabin

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where Fanny was kicking it back way back when when
they were trying to put Trump in jail. Judge Murshan's
Judge Murshan, he might be able to host the meeting.
I don't think so. I'm gonna stick with South Korea, China, Turkey,
and I'm gonna add on there for good measure, very

(01:16:30):
good measure, the United Nations. That's what I think. But
here's the question for you, and I think it's an
important thing for you to talk about, and that's this.
Do you want Trump to talk to putin face to face,
not on the not on the hotline, not on all
that kind of stuff. Do you want to hear from
him face to face? Seven oh four, five, seven, zero eleven, ten.
Will take your calls. I've got a very special commentary

(01:16:53):
coming up on the backside of this particular segment. So
we're ready to go. It's it's gonna be awesome. You're
gonna like it. It's why I believe America is still
the indispensable country. It is why we are still the
greatest country in the history of It is the brett

(01:17:23):
Water Bowl Show. Great to be with you all as
we soldier on and look at all the big stories
that are out there, moving in real time. I want
you to think about our country and I want you
to understand why it is that it is the greatest
place in the world. It's not just to honor a nation,
but to make a case, a bold case, one grounded

(01:17:45):
in reason, reinforced by history, and of course charged with hope.
I believe that America is and must remain the greatest
place in the world. In America, datom isn't a luxury.
It's a birthright. Our Constitution enshrines it, our Bill of

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Rights guarantees it, and our culture cherishes it. Where else
can a person speak freely, worship freely, defend themselves freely,
and pursue their dreams without oppressive state control. Freedom isn't
just a policy, it's identity. With a GDP of over
twenty five trillion dollars, we don't just participate in the

(01:18:30):
global economy, we define it. We've pioneered the Internet, GPS,
our tech hubs like Silicon Valley and thousands of small
businesses are proof that we reward risk, nurture creativity, and
let it run free. The American dream isn't a cliche.

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It is measurable reality. Ninety percent of those born in
nineteen eighty out earned their parents by the time they
turn thirty. Where else does opportunity ring that loud. We're
a mosaic. Foreign Born citizens make up nearly fourteen percent
of our population, and they bring vitality, ideas, and drive.

(01:19:16):
We've endured wars, recessions, pandemics, the social unrest, but we
don't just survive. We adapt, We unite. We grow stronger
through strength and service. America leads with eight hundred and
seventy seven billion dollars being spent annually on defense. We

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deter tyranny with fifty five billion in humanitarian aid. We
uplift the suffering, and with over a million international students
flocking to our universities every year, we shape tomorrow's thinkers,
and we have the strength enough to educate the haters

(01:19:56):
as much as the people who want to be American.
Let's not forget our soft power music, movies, brands. They
echo liberty across continents. America doesn't hide its flaws, it
fixes them. We abolished slavery, We expanded voting rights. The
anniversary is today. We passed the Civil Rights Act. As

(01:20:19):
I said, debate and reform are our lifeblood where other
nations in Trench America evolves. And now to those who
challenge our greatness, socialists, anarchists, and neolists, and yes, those
burdened by mental health struggles, Here's what I would say.

(01:20:40):
Your pain is real, Your concerns might be valid, but
your solutions they threaten the very fabric that makes this
nation great. Socialism. Look at Venezuela, innovation withers, poverty thrives anarchism.
Look at Somalia without governmentinans chaos reigns niholism. It means

(01:21:05):
denying all meaning. But this nation is meaning. From moon
landings to billion dollar charity drives mental health despair. It
demands empathy, treatment and reintegration, not alienation. But folks, we
can't be held back. I've got seven ideas for renewal.

(01:21:28):
Number one, teach civics boldly. You know only forty seven
percent of Americans can name the three branches of government.
Let's change that. Enlightened minds, resist radical ideologies. Expand economic access,
vocational training, stem education, small business grants. When prosperity spreads,

(01:21:52):
extremism shrinks, Build stronger communities, mentorships, faith, groups, volunteer news networks.
Those are the antidote to isolation and ideological drift. We
can invest in mental health. We must identify support and

(01:22:12):
care before despair becomes destruction. Create dialogue, absolutely not echo chambers.
Debate socialism versus capitalism, Question authority, but back it up
with facts, with truth, and with respect. Celebrate achievements loudly.

(01:22:36):
Let's launch a why America Works campaign. Tell the stories
of everyday heroes and enforce law with integrity. When law
is fair, authority is trusted, and when justice prevails, anarchy
loses its grip. So I ask you, in all sincerity,

(01:22:59):
not just as citizens, but the stewards of a legacy.
Are you ready? Will you pick up that mantle to
defend liberty with knowledge? Will you fight to spare with opportunity?
Will you meet division with unity? This is America. It's
not a perfect place, but a proven one. We should

(01:23:23):
ensure the next generation doesn't just inherit a great nation,
they build an even greater one.

Speaker 7 (01:23:33):
Radio has changed our lives, and they change our lives.
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Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
News Talk eleven ten nine three, WBT, Brettweinterable Show, Good
to be with you. Let's j about and talked to
some of the great people who were holding on seven
oh four, five, seven eleven ten. Everything is fair game
for the next ten minutes. Here is Stan. Hello, Stan,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 12 (01:24:10):
How are you doing, Breton, I'm doing great. Question for you.
You said that when justice is their anarchy can't succeed,
and you like that wasn't put the point I wanted
to make. And you said something about Donald Trump and
him taking over the police and Washington, d C. Which
by the way, is a federal territory if not one
to fifty states, right, and then you said that you

(01:24:31):
didn't know how that would go over right. So my
question to you is, obviously there are some people who
want anarchy, yes, because they know what you just said
is true. How is it then that you couldn't get
at least a majority of the people living in an
area to not want anarchy.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
Well, okay, I think the only way you could get
people to not want anarchy.

Speaker 12 (01:24:54):
Work in DC, like because I'm saying yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
Think you'd have to use and induce meant of paying
them or something. I mean, the only thing that I
can think of see anarchy and so there's there's there
is chaos, right, you have chaos out there, and then
you have something that's that's totally different in anarchy. Anarchy
is a you know, is a way of life. It's

(01:25:20):
it's akin to what goes on with the people who
are like like the folks you know, antiphon, things like that.
All right, you're not going to be able to tamp
them down. However, there are ways you can appease. And
I don't mean to appease the bad guys. I mean
appease the people who are of goodwill who want to

(01:25:41):
stay in the community, right, And I think once people
feel like they have a stake in what's happening, they
will take it up. But the problem is, once you
have gone into a community and you have basically laid
waste to it, driven people out, families out, all that

(01:26:01):
sort of stuff, it's very difficult to come back from that.
But holistically, for the entirety of the United States, the
United States is a machine. We we are a machine.
There are far more people who want to be left alone,
who want to raise their families, who want to do
those things than the anarchists are and Washington, d C.

(01:26:22):
Let's be honest, Washington, d C is a construct that
is designed to have the haves and the have nots,
and unfortunately it's it's it's not working because you can
either have law and order or you can have chaos.
You can't have them both side by side. It doesn't work, right,

(01:26:46):
So I mean, that's that's that's the way I would
I would look at it.

Speaker 12 (01:26:50):
So, so Donald Trump attempts to do this, how do
you see it playing out?

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
You're gonna have the You're gonna have the Summer of
Love and all that kind of stuff that you saw
in twenty twenty. I mean, I mean, I'm being I'm
being honest. I'm giving you an honest opinion.

Speaker 12 (01:27:04):
And every radical group is gonna come in there.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
Of course, of course it's gonna be it's yeah, it's
it's gonna be bloody Kansas. Okay. When that when that
fight was going on about whether or not the direction
of the country was going to be hanging on the
on the decision coming through Kansas, and.

Speaker 12 (01:27:21):
This is our nicest capital, so it ought to reflect well.

Speaker 1 (01:27:24):
Wow, what we are and who we Okay, but but
let's be honest here, Okay, a lot of capitals are
not great, go to go to Mexico City. It's that
that's their capital, right, that's their capital. Look at any
of these other places around London is terrible. Now, Dublin, Dublin,
when I was in Dublin is Dublin's a great city.

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But you've got a lot of you got a lot
of people that are that are operating on their own
accord and not following the rules.

Speaker 10 (01:27:54):
Look at Paris, want to go now, Paris is? I
mean Paris is I mean absolutely devastating. It's it's a terrible.
It's a terrible reality that you're looking at New York City, Chicago.
You're old enough to remember when you could have gone
to Chicago and taken a trip and gone and seen
a baseball game and had some fun in New York

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the same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:28:15):
Boston is getting rough.

Speaker 12 (01:28:16):
Now, Well I actually did go to Chicago and do
that in twenty nineteen, so yeah, I remember it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:22):
Right, So there you go, right, I mean, look I
was when we went when we went to the convention
in twenty sixteen in Cleveland, it was Cleveland was amazing.
Cleveland was phenomenal. Okay, but back then in twenty sixteen,
so was Los Angeles. So was San Francisco to a
certain extent was so was you know, the cities around

(01:28:44):
the country. What has happened is we we have gotten
to a place where people tolerate homelessness. But worse than homelessness,
you have people that are that are basically zombies who
were walking the streets. Again, this is not to indict
the United States of America. This is to indict the

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cities that are not doing what they're supposed to do
because they'd rather be more popular. I would not, I would.
I would no further go to San Francisco then I would.
Then I would shave my tongue.

Speaker 12 (01:29:21):
Okay, honestly bringing it local. Yes, I used to go
down to Beard Park, okay five years ago that it
was a great place to go. Now that is the pit.
I wouldn't go down there for nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
But but but the thing is, there's opportunities to fix
these problems like like the The good thing is you're
not gonna be able to implement a full takeover of Washington, DC.
I don't see it going that way. I just don't
see that it's gonna it's gonna happen. What I think
is going to happen is they're gonna they're gonna be
able to like take overs this piece of the territory

(01:29:53):
and that piece of the territory and the other stuff
like that, and then try to police it because you've
got the thing that is is is hardest of all
is the demoralization of law enforcement broadly broadly. Right.

Speaker 12 (01:30:07):
Uh, You've got areas in this country where law enforcement
just doesn't go and it's like we've ceded that territory
to some other authority.

Speaker 1 (01:30:17):
Well we have to we.

Speaker 12 (01:30:18):
Can't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:30:18):
Well again, as I mentioned, I mentioned this yesterday. One
of the great crises is that you have people who
fly into the United States to commit crime. They fly
in from South America to commit crimes, and then they
fly home with their booty, and so that that's that's
a that's a massive problem. People. When you have Karen Bass,

(01:30:41):
when you have you know, anybody else, Kathy Hochel, Pritzker,
all those people, they are not good stewards for their states.
And it's a shame, but I guess they're they're probably
making good money off of off of the decay that's
happening in those places.

Speaker 12 (01:30:59):
Wow, well well bred, I all listen joy step by
the way kudos A twenty four in this past weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
Yes, very much, very much. I'm I'm very very well,
said my friend. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. I don't have a
I don't have a car anymore. I'm like I used
to have a car. I don't have a car anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:31:15):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:31:15):
Kurt Bush retired and I'm like, I'm I'm like, I'm done.
I'm just gonna like just kind of watch the races,
and that's what I'm gonna do. But i mean, you know,
whatever else happens, happens coming up next. You know what's
coming up next. We got breaking Brett Jensen's gonna come
by and he's got a one heck of a show tonight,
and then you're gonna have two hours of one of

(01:31:36):
my favorite people in the whole world, and that's TJ. Ritchie.
He's gonna be coming in and doing doing his thing,
and you're gonna learn, you're gonna love, you're gonna laugh,
you're gonna have a great time. Thanks again for joining
us here. Thanks to Anna and Pam and of course
uh my good friends here in studio, uh Lonnie and Nick.

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We'll do it again tomorrow. News Talk eleven, ten ninety
nine three WBT