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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chief Taschmatter, Omaha police chief sent a letter to Douglas
County Sheriff Aaron Hanson, and it said on the letter
not for public dissemination, but it got disseminated publicly, very
quickly after it went out. The letter said, stop acting
like you're in charge of Omaha. Essentially, you're not the
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boss of me. I'm the chief of police in this town,
and I know that you're the sheriff of Douglas County.
But some of the stuff you're doing, like we didn't
know that you were doing special operations group operations in
the city and that led to a guy getting shot
in the communities all man, we have to deal with it.
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And then you hired a guy that I fired in
the city of Omaha, and I don't like that. And
then you're going off on kfab and other media outlets
and social media posts, and you're talking to people like
you're in charge around here. Well you're not. I want
to have a good working relationship with you, but this
is not the way to do it. Sheriff Hansen responded
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that he is aware of the letter sent to him,
delineating interpretations of the interplay between the Sheriff's office and
the police department, and he looks forward to a fruitful conversation.
So not a whole heck of a lot there. In
the response from Sheriff Hansen, he says, Sheriff Hansen understands
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the best way to reach consensus is through direct conversation
versus a public back and forth. So the big question
here is why did this letter get sent and who
leaked it? Before I get to that, first up a
response to this letter. I have incredible respect for Chief
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Schmater and Sheriff Hansen. These guys have taken m I
think this letter from Chief Schmater. I can't get anything
from the response from Sheriff Hansen because he really didn't
have one because he knew that his response would be
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out there for the public. Chief Schmater didn't realize his
letter was going to be leaked to the public. So
maybe he would have been a bit more careful had
he known. But it seems to me that Chief Schmater's letter,
which he says, I am sadden to have to write
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this letter, did you have to write it because of
the circumstances or did you have to write it because
you have a new boss. Everyone's got a boss, right, Well,
not Sheriff Hanson boss. His boss is the voters of Omaha.
He's now an elected political official, and he's doing what
he thinks his bosses want him to do. Chief Schmater
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is doing I presume what he thinks or has been
told his boss wants him to do. And he says,
I am saddened to have to write this letter. Did
you have to write it because of the circumstances or
because of the pressure. That's question number one? And I'm
going to try and answer these questions. I think it's
a little bit of both. And I believe Chief Schmater
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agrees with me on this next part, which he couldn't
put into words, but I will. And I'm not doing
this on the Chief's behalf. He would probably distance himself
from these comments. Well, agreeing on some level. But the
first thing I have to think here is this letter
and the response of some of the public officials in
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Los Angeles is pretty bad because you're trying to figure out,
like all, right, tensions have been inflamed and who is
responsible for this? In Los Angeles, we had protesters out
there fighting with cops, chucking cinderblocks, at moving vehicles, chucking
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molotov cocktails at law enforcement, and setting fire to private
and public property. This was already happening, and then President
Trump said, well, if they're not going to do anything
about it, I will. I'll send in the National Guard.
And then you have this whole argument going. Hey, everyone
was leaving until Trump sent in the National Guard, and
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then they were what inspired to go fight the National Guard?
And that's Trump's fault. Who's to blame for that? The
criminals who have already been out there fighting with cops
and are apparently all too willing to fight with the
National Guard because immigration is forcing federal immigration law. Who's
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to blame for all this? The criminals fighting with the
cops here in Omaha. The first basis of this letter
from the police chief is, Hey, your Douglas County guys
went out there and then they had to shoot a guy,
and tensions were inflamed in our community and that makes
it hard for us to do our jobs at the
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Omaha Police Department. I can appreciate that, but who's to
blame for that? The sheriff's deputy has been exonerated from
charges from the Douglas County Attorney and it seems as
though when the public and certainly the victim's family has
a chance to see the bodycam footage from the sheriff's deputy,
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they're going to realize, Oh, maybe this kid who was
out there posing with guns on social media, being a
part of a gang, pointing guns at cars driving by,
and then not putting his hands up and dropping the
weapon when a law enforcement officer had the drop on him,
maybe he's to blame for what happened. I don't know, maybe,
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but it seems to me that who's to blame for
all of this? Criminals? He said, I didn't know that
your guys were out there of busting criminals, But who's
to blame for that? The criminals are to blame for that. Now,
Chief Schmater is he's too smart. He's a lot smarter
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than I am. He's not going to come out and go, hey,
what do you expect? You see this post on social
media All the time when something like this happens someone,
people are falling over each other to say, hey, play
stupid games, win stupid prizes, you know, that kind of thing.
But there's some element of truth in that. If you
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act like this, here is a very potential outcome of that.
By the way, did you know that a nineteen year
old kid was shot and killed in Omaha over the
weekend about sixty first in Camden Streets. Omaha police responded
to a shots fired call and they find a young
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man named Ashton lying dead in the street. Nineteen year
old kid looks like a nice kid. He was out
too late. His family says he maybe got in the
middle of something that he shouldn't have. I think that's
probably pretty accurate. There was someone who'd got in a
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fight with someone. He went to go check on this person,
and then suddenly here's a gunfire in the streets, about
a dozen shots fired. This young guy, nineteen year old
Ashton's caught in the middle of it. Did you even
hear about that? That happened Saturday overnight into early Sunday morning,
just a few days ago in Omaha. Did you hear
about it? Are you hearing about this for the first time? Probably?
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Do you know why? Because he wasn't killed by a cop.
Oh boy, the activists were excited. Oh a kid got shot.
Please tell me it was by a cop. Even better
if it's from Douglas County Sheriff's office. We hate those
guys right now. Oh, it wasn't from a cop, just
random a gang violeer gunfire from bad guys. All right,
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Everyone back to their homes. Nothing to see here, no
big deal. The activists didn't give what they wanted. They
didn't get a kid shot by a cop. When something
like this happens in our community, who is to blame?
In the overwhelming majority of the time, it's the criminals.
So to see cops fighting against other cops about, hey,
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I didn't know you're doing this, Well, I don't have
to tell you what I'm doing this. The root cause
of this criminal behavior not the actions of law enforcement.
All right. Back to the question of how and why
did this get leaked to the public. Well, let's take
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a look at who was copied on this. This email
letter that went to Sheriff Hansen, Chief Todd Schmader sentate.
So the first culprit is did did the chief send
it to the media. No, he doesn't. That's not his style.
He doesn't want to have this battle in the public. No,
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Chief Schmater didn't leak this, then Sheriff Hanson must have
no If Sheriff Hansen wanted this battle. His response to
it would have been a lot less measured than it was.
Chief Hanson and or sorry, Sheriff Hanson a Chief Schmater.
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They came up together through the Omaha Police Academy. They
have a good relationship, but they do have a bit
of a head butt relationship. And that goes back to
the time when Todd Schmater is the chief of Police,
he's management and Aaron Hanson is the head of the
Omaha Police Union, he's labor. Labor and management, doesn't it.
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They don't exactly get along all the time. That's not
their job. Their job is to butt heads. The butted
heads coming up to the academy. They butted heads in
the labor and management roles of the police union and
the chief, and now they're button heads as to who's
in charge around here. I think that these guys love
each other like brothers, but brothers sometimes fight. If you
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wanted the brothers to turn on you, then get in
the middle of a fight between two brothers, because they'll
gang up on you. Hey, I'm allowed to beat this
guy up, not you. These guys love each other like brothers,
but it doesn't mean they like each other. All the time.
You know there were other people copied on this email
though it says so right in the email copied Douglas
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County Board of Commissioners, City Council President Pete Festerson, Mayor
Jean Stothart, This went out yesterday, Mayor elect John Ewing. Again,
this went out yesterday before he was sworn in last night. Swarren,
Mayor's office, chief of staff for both the outcoming and
the new or the outgoing and the new mayor. And
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Matthew m Couzy, City attorney. All right, So which one
of these guys leaked at the city attorney knew? Absolutely
not Thomas Warren. No chance that guy is. His poker
face is legendary. He's not the one that's like, hey,
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you guys, when the media wants something, not his not
his thing. John Ewing, He's not going to come into
office and have his first day in office of mayor
be overshadowed by this. Jean Stothard. No, if she wanted
to say something, she'd say something, and maybe she will.
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Council President Pete Festerson, he's the only one left on here.
It's got no, no, no, no, he's not And this isn't.
I don't think this is Festus in style either. I
don't think he gains anything by ooh, we got the
cops fighting with the sheriff. Who this is fun? I
don't think so well. Who else was copied on this?
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The Douglas County Board of Commissioners, and you've got two
at least two, maybe three, two and a half, but
certainly two. And I'm gonna focus. I'm gonna give you
a name as to who I think leaked this. I
think it comes down to if you're a betting man,
and I'm not. I don't have any of those apps
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on my phone, and I haven't gambled at a table
or a a slot machine or anything in several years.
But if I were a betting man, I say this
comes down to one of two people on the Douglas
County Board of Commissioners. You got the more liberal leaning commissioner,
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Chris Rogers. He's publicly, I think public and in board
meetings expressed concerns about the sheriff's office. Chris Rogers could
eleak this, after all, it's ostensibly you know, his community
hurting right now, as you've got black families out there
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saying cops are bad. If Chris Rogers wanted to fan
those flames, he would release this letter, but I don't
think he did. That leaves one name someone who has
publicly and privately battled against law enforcement, battled against Douglas
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County Sheriff Aaron Hanson, and this has gone into social
media posts and battles. It has to do with law enforcement,
it has to do with budget, it has to do
with Omaha's homeless problem. And it's someone who continually runs
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for the Douglas County Board as a Republican and then
in no way votes conservatively. And when you've got someone
who is as two faced as that, it's hard for
me to believe that it's any one other than Douglas
County Board member Marianne Borgson, who I believe leaked this
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to the media. She doesn't like Sheriff Aaron Hanson. Sherif
Aaron Hanson has exposed her ineptitude on the board several times,
and she has taken every opportunity in board meetings, in votes,
whether it's the Juvenile Justice Center, the homeless issue, the
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Sheriff's office is asking for a budget request for something no,
because she's been exposed by her coddling of juvenile thugs
and homeless people in this community, and Sheriff Hanson's called
her out on it time and time again. Who do
I think leaked this letter to say, ooh, chief Schmater
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is dressing down Aaron Hanson. It's about time someone put
him in his place. Send to the media. Who do
I think leak the letter? Mary Ann Borgison? Where's my proof?
I don't have any It's speculation, but I don't think
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it's baseless speculation.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Scott Boy.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
There's one other name that's brought up in this letter
from the police chief, Toad Schmater to the Douglas County Sheriff,
Aaron Hanson, where the chief Schmater is upset about this
and it has to do with the hiring by the
Douglas County Sheriff's office, the hiring of a guy who
was dismissed from the Omaha Police Department. It says, your
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hiring of a recently terminated OPD officer has further inflamed
the community, causing damage to law enforcement community relations. It's
perceived by many as a blatant disregard for the concerns
of the citizens. While you are free to hire whomever
you want. Common sense and professional courtesy would lead one
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to ask for the internal affairs file, notify me as
a heads up, or simply wait until the arbitration process
is complete, none of which you did. That's touch moder
to Aaron Hansen. All right, So who's he talking about?
Talking about a guy named Adam Vale? This last year?
It was last August. This was the no knock search
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warrant where a thirty seven year old Cameron Ford ended
up dead. Here's what The Douglas County Attorney Don Klin
did not press charges, and the police union stood with
Officer Vail, a seventeen year seventeen year law enforcement veteran
who was ordered to lead the entry during a high
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risk operation. It was him and a SWAT team tasked
with arresting a violent repeat felon in possession of a
high capacity rifle and who was distributing drugs fentanyl to
be specific. He willingly chose to serve in the SWAT team,
fully aware of the risk, put himself in harm's way,
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and when circumstances were such that he had to fire
his weapon, he did. He was dismissed because of the
no knock search warrant. The community is like, we don't
want no knock search warrants, all right, So you want
criminals to be able to sleep easy in our community?
I got youa like. I said, the people who are
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most mad about all this are criminals and thug coddlers.
And to see that the chief and the sheriff squabbling
over trying to keep those who are coddling thugs and
gang members and murderers and drug traffickers legally or illegally
in our community is not what I want to see
law enforcement doing. We'll switch gears in a moment. Fox
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News updates shortly. Senator Chuck Grassley on the Big Beautiful Bill,
the LA riots, Trump and Elon and more that's coming
up next. Scott Bories News Radio of Levin said, keyfab
welcoming on here, Iowa. Senator Chuck Grassley, always good to
talk with. Senator Grassley is senator, good morning.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Good morning, you, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Are we going to get tax really for what? What's
going on with the Big Beautiful Bill as you guys
are hacking away at it in the US Senate?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Okay, I'll give you a process answer. The Chairman of
the committee I used to chair that committees. Now it's
spree full of Idaho. He says, we're going to have
the text of the bill out on Friday, and that
there'll be uh next week for people to give and
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possibly some potential changes to it, and then the following
week it'll be voted on in the United States Senate,
and hopefully before July the fourth, the House will have
voted on it. And I just want to give you
one puestion that I have. There's been Senators saying, maybe
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a dozen of them, they're drawing a line in the
sand on this issue or that issue, or twelve different issues.
I haven't drawn the sign in line in the sand.
Because we have to get at least fifty one up
votes in the United States Senate to pass this bill.
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And as we rewrite the House bill, we have to
keep in the back of our mind that this bill
will only pass the House or Representatives by one bill,
so the margin is tight in the House Representatives. So
changes that we make in the United States Senator, we
have to take into consideration of how the House might
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react to them.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
What do you want to see remain in the bill
and is there anything you want to see removed from it.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I would like to see the cap on salt or
the state local taxes. We call it salt in this town.
I'd like the House raise it tremendously to forty thousand dollars.
It was ten thousand dollars when we passed in twenty seventeen.
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I think that's too high. In other words, that leaves
people in Nebraska and Iowa subsidized in high cost states
in New York and California, and I think that's wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
All right, what would you like to see removed from
the bill, because it seems like all the Senators say, well,
I don't know if we can do this. I don't
know if we can do that.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
At this point, I don't see anything that ought to
be removed. I see some things that ought to be
modified within. There's some farm provisions in the bill put
in the House Representatives, and they've raised the cap on
what one individual farmer can get from the farm program.
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I think that that should not be done. We shouldn't subsidi.
We should help the small and medium sized farmers, which
the President limit does, but we shouldn't subsidize big farmers
to get bigger. There's nothing wrong with big farmers getting bigger,
but I don't think we ought to subsidize it so
that they can drive up land prices and drive up
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khrant to the detriment of the young beginning farmer.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Senator Chuck Grassley with us here on News Radio eleven.
At least one of your cohorts, the one from Kentucky
named Rand Paul, says I won't vote for any of
this until we get rid of some of the spending
increase in here. Elon Musk struck the same tone over
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the weekend, leading to a battle with President Trump. Do
you share any concerns about spending increases with this bill.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I'd rather put that in the negative, as the House
decreased spending enough, even though the debt will go up,
has a decreases in US and we in the Senate
are committed to increasing the savings that comes from the
existing levels of expenditure.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Last question here on this bill, there are those that say,
across Iowa and Nebraska, there will be good people, family
people who will be cut from Medicaid and we're going
to be kicking them off of their benefits and leaving
them penniless and hungry, and they won't have any food
for them or their children. And this is very mean
of Republicans to do this to that. You would say, what, Senator.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
That's ridiculous. If you're a single mother with kids at home,
if you're a pregnant woman, if you're disabled, if your
grandma in the nursing home, you're getting Medicare today and
that will not be changed. What they're complaining about is
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the fact that we've got a lot of people that
aren't disabled, that are between the ages of nineteen and
sixty four, and they're getting Medicaid. And we are going
to put in this bill work requirements, just like we
have for other poverty programs, particularly the welfare program, particularly
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the food Stamp program, their work for requirements. We're going
to have work requirements for this. So you get a job,
that job only has to be twenty days a week,
or you can go to school, or you can take
care of grammar at home, or work for a nonprofit.
But you've got to have some activity that knows that
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you're out trying to improve yourself and or you won't
get Medicaid. But you get such a job, let's say
twenty hours a week, you're still going to get medicaid. Now,
the idea isn't just to get people off the bench
in their home. The idea is we have a policy
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with medicaid that distancentivizes people work, and we shouldn't have
any federal policy disincentivizing work. It's very important to be
in the world of work if you're going to get
out of poverty. We learn that under the administration a Democrat,
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can you believe it, advocated welfare reform because at that
time we had three generations of families in welfare, and
we decided that we need to encourage people to work
because if you don't work, you're never going to get
out of a life of poverty. And it was very
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successful then about forty percent reduction in the people on welfare,
and that reduction still holds today, and we ought we
ought to do this have the same flosi behind able
bodied people working if they're going to get medicaid. But
that's the only major change in the program. I can
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give you another one. It doesn't save quite as much money.
But if you're on Medicaid in Nebraska, you move to
Iowa and you used medicaid Nebraska would be getting reimburse
from the federal government on it, just like Iowa would
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legitimately get reimbursed. There's no clearing house to know if
you're drawing in two states and we're going to have
a clearing house that will end at so a federal
government would only reimburse the state where you're living and
got the help.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Well, there are those that say that Republicans are mean
they're going to kick people off of Medicaid, and your
cohort from Iowa Senator Joni Earnst, in response to someone saying,
but people are going to die, she said, we're all
going to die. And people said, see that shows Republicans
are heartless and they don't care if people die. Your response, well, yeah,
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she was reacting as I would react.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
She was trying to legitimately answer a question of somebody
that asked a legitimate question on this very subject, and
she was in the middle of answering it and somebody
in the back of room yelled out, you're going to
cause people to die. That's sort of interference and a
legitimate dialogue between a senator and a constituum shouldn't take place.
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And she was flustered, and she didn't meet in any
way to be to want people to die. But it
is a fact that I'm ninety one years old. I
got to realize I'm going to die someday.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
When's that going to be? Senator, do you have a date?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah? God decides.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Okay, Well I hope it's not anytime soon. We're expecting
another twenty five years from you. One more minute left
with Senator to Grassley, and one more thing to ask
you about your thoughts on what's going on in Los
Angeles with the fights between rioters and law enforcement and
now the National Guarden.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Just thinking of the hypocrisy of the Democrats that say
that that Biden ought to abide by the law, and
he's abiden by the law by enforcing the immigration laws,
and the Democrats are blaming him for what's going on
in California, Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Trump, you mean President. Democrats are saying Trump ought to
abide by the law.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, okay, yes, and he's enforcing the law right now
in California and Los Angeles. And so they're hypocritical when
they say this is a Biden problem. It's not a
Biden problem. Biden was elected in forced law. It shouldn't
surprise anybody that he thinks that people are illegally entering
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the country in violation of our law ought to be removed,
and that's what they're trying to do. He's trying to
enforce the law.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Again. You're saying, Biden, you mean Trump? Is the auto
pen still there?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well, there's auto pins in every senator's office, and we
have rules to use them. The question is, did Biden
have rules to use them or just somebody Willy Nelly
was signing bills, signing executive orders and citing partners or
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did Biden know about it. We're going to get to
the bottom of this in various hearings in the Senate,
in the House.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
All right, Senator, always a pleasure talking with you. Thank
you very much for the time for us this morning
right here on news Radio eleven ten kfab. We know
he meant President Trump. Scott voices. Throughout this hour of
the program, I provided my thoughts on this little dust
up that became public between the chief of police and
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the Douglas County Sheriff, including telling you who I think
leaked that letter. Am I gonna make you wait until
that whole segment is posted on the podcast link. No,
I don't remind you right now, I think it's Douglas
County Board member Marianne Borgson is who. I think. No
one's told me that. I don't have anyone saying, hey,
what you need to do is go on the radio
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and out. I know, I swear to you. I swear
to you. I haven't talked with anyone about anything related
to this. I've heard from some people, not the chief
or the sheriff, within various departments who have thoughts on this.
And I can tell you in the people I've talked
with with both Omaha Police and Douglas County sheriffs, there's
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one overriding emotion with all that, and that is frustration.
They're like, why is this going on in the public? Police,
law enforcement? They kind of like taking care of their
business in house, and I imagine that this will continue
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to be taken care of in house. Away from copying
members of the Douglas County Board. That's the most likely
culprit in who said, oh, look, the chief is dressing
down the sheriff. I don't like the sheriff. Let's make
sure the media sees this. That seems like a tactic
from Douglas County Board member Mary Anne Borgson. I had
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a lot more thoughts on that earlier in the program.
It will be posted later today on the Vintage Vorheats
podcast link Scott Vorheats page at kfab dot com. Because
Sheriff Hansen has called out Mary Anne Borgson for juvenile
justice and homeless coddling, here's another example of homeless coddling.
A twenty seven year old guy is in jail. The
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story from WWT six news where at eleven o'clock Saturday morning,
he rings the doorbell of a home near thirtieth in Blondo.
Thirteen year old girl opens the door. This guy is
wearing a black martial arts outfit with a white belt.
He's a white belt whatever that means, and then tries
to hug family members until grabbing the girl and trying
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to carry her away from the home. Family responded. Turns
out this guy is not much in the way of
karate and police were able to arrest a twenty seven
year old guy. He gave an address the Sienna Francis
House for Homeless People. It's just a homeless guy, like,
I'm gonna go look at that house. Hello, anyone here
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I can eat? The heck is going on here?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Scott Boy.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
The story out of Los Angeles is just it's so sad.
It's sad because you honestly have people speaking of singers.
They had the BET Awards, Black Entertainment Television Awards on
TV last night, and I don't I should have taken
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the time to learn how to pronounce this. I guess
you call her a rapper because it calls her a singer,
and then it says a rapper as she's says here.
The third woman to win a Grammy for Best Rap Album,
and I was able to name the first one. It's like, well,
that's got to be Lauren Hill for the Miseducation of
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Lauren Hill. I couldn't think of the second one and
I had to look it up. Cardi B. Cardi B
also won Best Rap Album as a Woman. Yeah, and Lucy,
if you think Cardi B is good, you ought to
hear Cardi A.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
And Cardi C waiting in the wings.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Hey, it's Father's Day week. Dad jokes abound. So Lauren Hill,
Cardi B. And then I want to say doughci my
apologies if that's not how you pronounce it. She's got
a song called Anxiety, and she has some anxiety because
in accepting her award. Let I don't know if she
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was presenting or got an award. I don't really know.
It says, see being named Best Female Hip Hop Artist,
her first ever BET award, and congratulations she gets her award,
and then she starts talking and she says, there are
ruthless attacks that are creating fear and chaos in our communities.
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In the name of law and order, Trump is using
military forces to stop a protest. I want you all
to consider what kind of government it appears to be
when every and this is the part that got me.
This just made me really sad because there are people
who truly believe this. She says, every time we exercise
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our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.
She said that, and people applauded. And that makes me
sad because people, like I said, people believe that. People
think that people are out there peacefully protesting. And President
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Trump is watching from some elon Musk satellite feed, so
all right, show me the protesters, all right, send in
the Marines. I will not have people peacefully protesting on
my watch. And he just sends the military out to
gun them down. There are people who believe that's what's happening.
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Every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the
military is deployed against us. On a lighter note, Kevin
Hart hosted the event, and he started off saying, there
won't be any after parties tonight. Things could get slippery
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a baby oil p Diddy reference that guy is obsessed.
He and Dave Chappelle joking about the baby oil. This
man's got crates and crates of baby oil, which is
terrible anyway. Uh so that's what she said last night
at these awards.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
But yes, wouldn't you or couldn't you say that it's
fair to say that the people who would believe that
without any thought. There are also people who believe that
Trump has never done anything wrong, has never planned anything,
never going to do anything wrong. Everything he says is
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one rainbows and sunshine. So I mean you can see that.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
It's that's why you.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Got to think for yourself. Whatever side you're.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
On, right, I don't care. That's why it's a spectrum
and not a harmonious circle. You've got people all across
the spectrum. But I it it just makes me so
sad that there are people out there. I don't know.
I have to assume she honestly believes this, because if
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she doesn't, if she's like, this is really gonna whip
people into a frenzy and create more discord in our
in our country, then I'm gonna say that just to
tick people off. Why would she do that, Why would
she appear to tell especially young people don't worry about that.
Young people don't watch TV anymore, so, but they'll probably
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they'll watch a video clip and they'll see her if
they like her say, every time we exercise our democratic
right to protest, the military is deployed against us. That's
amazing because I see protesters at seventy second and Dodge,
or at Memorial Park on that pedestrian bridge. I see
them all the time, and it's only like it's not
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every single time, but like every other time where people
are on that pedestrian bridge and here come the fighter
jets blow them right off the bridge. We have to
rebuild that pedestrian bridge every month. People, if you're listening
to us outside Omaha, maybe you don't know, Uh yeah,
there are people protesting and holding signs and waving their
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arms and protesting something on that pedestrian bridge between Memorial
Park and Uno and Trump's like nope, and he sends
the fighter chats out and he blows up the bridge again.
That creates problems for Lucy's TIMESAB traffic reports because there's
like a big crater in the ground and you know,
there's people just sprayed everywhere and people got cleaned that up,
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you know, and there's like some of it gets in
the pool and Elmwood and it's it's just gross and
we got to clean it all up.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
And it's because people are democratically protesting and not causing
any problems whatsoever. Is that what she believes apparently. Scott
Boarhez News Radio eleven KFAB. I am being I'm lost
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in some emails here. I'm just gonna file.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
That take over for you.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I'm just gonna I thought about this is someone on
that letter we talked quite a bit about at the
start of the program just after nine, the letter that
got leaked from the chief to the sheriff, and I
had a lot of thoughts on that. It'll all be
posted later this morning on the Vintage Warheats podcast link.
Scott Vorheas page at kfab dot com but I got
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kind of a deep throat email, like Scott, you gotta know.
I'll just say this.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
They ask you to meet in the parking garage.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yes, they'll be in the parking garage smoking. Yeah. I
want to meet you in a place where there's there's
no one around Crossroads parking garage. How'd you know? I'll
be there in the shadows smoking, like you can stand
out in the everywhere, no one there. There won't be
anyone there for years. It's fine. I'll just say this
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about this email. The emailer seems to believe that my assessment,
my take on the entire situation, was correct.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
The plot thickens now somebody believes you.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
I'm gonna throw out a shoulder all the back patent
I do for myself. I'll read this email because it's
more recent. In the program we're talking about this. The
artist do Chi Doechi Doechii, do Chai. Sorry that was
really loud. Anyway, she won the BET Award for Best
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Female Hip Hop Artist. She got the mic. I said,
thank you. By the way, every time we exercise our
democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.
Trump is using military forces to stop a protest, and
I gave you my reaction to that, which was a
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verbal form of vomit. But Brian emails and says, you
can't call a riot a protest, nor can you riot
and not expect there to be action taken to suppress
and or prevent these kinds of actions. Nowhere is there
a right granted to inflict harm to people or property,
the right to people to peacefully assemble and to petition
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the government for a redress of grievances. Brian says, it
makes me so uneasy when those who are not capable
of understanding this are given opportunities to voice their distorted
thoughts to our distorted thoughts of reality to the masses. Yeah,
well that's their right as well. No one said she
had to know what she was talking about. She just
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had the right to say it. And you know, President
Trump is like, let's defund BEET. Like, mister President, that's
not like NPR and PBS. You can't, like, I don't
care defund him.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
He didn't say that, probably not.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
He probably wants to. Let's see here, Oh yeah, the
story here in Omaha, we had another incredible prison break, Lucy.
This one was so daring. You know the guys in
New Orleans. It's thought that they paid off a prison
guard or threatened like, we were gonna kill your family
if you don't let us out of here. And the
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prison guard didn't think, how are you gonna kill my
family when you're here in jail? Didn't think that, So
he's like okay, and turned off the water to the
plumbing so they could smash out from behind a toilet
and apparently the wall where the toilet is just backs
up on freedom and it's a very thin wall. All
you gotta do is just slam through the wall. And
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there's there's no fence or guards or dogs. I know,
it's just you just slammed through the wall. Oh yeah,
And next thing you know, like you're in a neighborhood.
It's amazing. I didn't I've never been there, but apparently
that's how it is. It's just it's just dry wall.
Apparently it's a amazing. So we had that prison break,
and now we have something even more daring. This guy
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must have been like Houdini the way he did this.
He must have had a full schematic of the prison,
probably paid off some guards, and this is how this
inmate was able to escape from the Douglas County Community
Correction Center. You want to hear how he did this.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
I'm on the edge of my seat literally, because who
knows when you might need this information.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yeah, he here's what he did. First of all, we're
talking about a guy named Dustin. Dustin started his sentence
in October of twenty twenty two for theft and operation
of a motor vehicle to avoid arrest. So he has
a history of stealing and fleeing. He's thirty six years
old and has a tentative release date of about a
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year from now. If he behaves himself, he'll be out
earlier than that, I imagine. So he didn't have that much
longer to wait. But he apparently couldn't wait any longer
because here was a girl. Here was his I don't know,
but here was his daring escape from the Community Correction Center.
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He asked if he could leave the prison on a
religious furlough and they said sure, and then they he
left on what's referred to here. The story from k
e TV News Watch seven is he was allowed to
leave the correction center on a religious furlough and then
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he didn't come back.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Well, you know, the furlough could just still be happening.
I mean, he could be having a really surely religious experience.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
I imagine he is.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Maybe he went all the way to another country on.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
A yes and what is your religion? I don't know
whichever one is out of Tibet, because that's where I'm
I want to go. So apparently it says pilgrimage.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
I couldn't think of it on a pilgrimage.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Or a Hajaj says here that you know, practicing religion
allows prisoners a way to cope with feelings of depression
and social exclusion that a company a prison sentence. Yeah,
apparently when they're in prison they feel excluded from society
and then they're depressed about that. So if we let
them out of jail to practice their religion and go
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on a religious furlough, then they'll feel better. So apparently
we just let people out now. I know that some
inmates have some work release as a way to transitions.
Let's see if you can handle a little bit of freedom.
If you don't come.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Back, well before they can.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
If you don't come back, we're going to find you
and it's going to be bad for you. This guy
apparently took advantage of that. You can also it says
attend religious services without direct supervision. Who's sitting next to
you in the puce, you know, if he's got shackles.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
On, God can see you.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
That's that's your clue. So I understand the Community Correction
center is a lower custody level. But if he's still
supposed to be away from society for another year and
he has a history of fleeing from authorities, maybee like,
I don't know that the guy is dangerous, but you
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know i'd close your garage door. Well, this guy is out.
But is this really how easy it is? I don't
want to be here. You're gonna be here till the
day you die. Can I go on a religious furlough?
Speaker 3 (46:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Just make sure you come back. Oh he didn't come back. Man,
we get taken advantage of a lot.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
Be fair. Yes, I always close my garage door, So
don't anybody take offense if my garage door is closed.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Actually, your garage door's open now, No it isn't. Didn't
my wife text you? She said she drove by your
house and your garage door's wide open.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (47:15):
Is that where you want to be when Jesus comes
back lying to me.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
I just want to freak you out a little bit. Also,
you left the oven on, and that refrigerator door that
you thought closed didn't close all the way. All your
stuff's going to be spoiled.
Speaker 3 (47:28):
That is possible, right.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Are you sure you turn that faucet off before you
came to work. Is any of this freaking you out?
Speaker 3 (47:36):
No, not in the least. Whatever happens happens.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
I'm going to be watching Lucy for the next few
minutes to see if she gets on her phone to
check any of her cameras. Scott Byes News Radio eleven
ten k FAD
Chief Taschmatter, Omaha police chief sent a letter to Douglas
County Sheriff Aaron Hanson, and it said on the letter
not for public dissemination, but it got disseminated publicly, very
quickly after it went out. The letter said, stop acting
like you're in charge of Omaha. Essentially, you're not the
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boss of me. I'm the chief of police in this town,
and I know that you're the sheriff of Douglas County.
But some of the stuff you're doing, like we didn't
know that you were doing special operations group operations in
the city and that led to a guy getting shot
in the communities all man, we have to deal with it.
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And then you hired a guy that I fired in
the city of Omaha, and I don't like that. And
then you're going off on kfab and other media outlets
and social media posts, and you're talking to people like
you're in charge around here. Well you're not. I want
to have a good working relationship with you, but this
is not the way to do it. Sheriff Hansen responded
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that he is aware of the letter sent to him,
delineating interpretations of the interplay between the Sheriff's office and
the police department, and he looks forward to a fruitful conversation.
So not a whole heck of a lot there. In
the response from Sheriff Hansen, he says, Sheriff Hansen understands
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the best way to reach consensus is through direct conversation
versus a public back and forth. So the big question
here is why did this letter get sent and who
leaked it? Before I get to that, first up a
response to this letter. I have incredible respect for Chief
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Schmater and Sheriff Hansen. These guys have taken m I
think this letter from Chief Schmater. I can't get anything
from the response from Sheriff Hansen because he really didn't
have one because he knew that his response would be
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out there for the public. Chief Schmater didn't realize his
letter was going to be leaked to the public. So
maybe he would have been a bit more careful had
he known. But it seems to me that Chief Schmater's letter,
which he says, I am sadden to have to write
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this letter, did you have to write it because of
the circumstances or did you have to write it because
you have a new boss. Everyone's got a boss, right, Well,
not Sheriff Hanson boss. His boss is the voters of Omaha.
He's now an elected political official, and he's doing what
he thinks his bosses want him to do. Chief Schmater
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is doing I presume what he thinks or has been
told his boss wants him to do. And he says,
I am saddened to have to write this letter. Did
you have to write it because of the circumstances or
because of the pressure. That's question number one? And I'm
going to try and answer these questions. I think it's
a little bit of both. And I believe Chief Schmater
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agrees with me on this next part, which he couldn't
put into words, but I will. And I'm not doing
this on the Chief's behalf. He would probably distance himself
from these comments. Well, agreeing on some level. But the
first thing I have to think here is this letter
and the response of some of the public officials in
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Los Angeles is pretty bad because you're trying to figure out,
like all, right, tensions have been inflamed and who is
responsible for this? In Los Angeles, we had protesters out
there fighting with cops, chucking cinderblocks, at moving vehicles, chucking
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molotov cocktails at law enforcement, and setting fire to private
and public property. This was already happening, and then President
Trump said, well, if they're not going to do anything
about it, I will. I'll send in the National Guard.
And then you have this whole argument going. Hey, everyone
was leaving until Trump sent in the National Guard, and
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then they were what inspired to go fight the National Guard?
And that's Trump's fault. Who's to blame for that? The
criminals who have already been out there fighting with cops
and are apparently all too willing to fight with the
National Guard because immigration is forcing federal immigration law. Who's
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to blame for all this? The criminals fighting with the
cops here in Omaha. The first basis of this letter
from the police chief is, Hey, your Douglas County guys
went out there and then they had to shoot a guy,
and tensions were inflamed in our community and that makes
it hard for us to do our jobs at the
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Omaha Police Department. I can appreciate that, but who's to
blame for that? The sheriff's deputy has been exonerated from
charges from the Douglas County Attorney and it seems as
though when the public and certainly the victim's family has
a chance to see the bodycam footage from the sheriff's deputy,
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they're going to realize, Oh, maybe this kid who was
out there posing with guns on social media, being a
part of a gang, pointing guns at cars driving by,
and then not putting his hands up and dropping the
weapon when a law enforcement officer had the drop on him,
maybe he's to blame for what happened. I don't know, maybe,
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but it seems to me that who's to blame for
all of this? Criminals? He said, I didn't know that
your guys were out there of busting criminals, But who's
to blame for that? The criminals are to blame for that. Now,
Chief Schmater is he's too smart. He's a lot smarter
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than I am. He's not going to come out and go, hey,
what do you expect? You see this post on social
media All the time when something like this happens someone,
people are falling over each other to say, hey, play
stupid games, win stupid prizes, you know, that kind of thing.
But there's some element of truth in that. If you
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act like this, here is a very potential outcome of that.
By the way, did you know that a nineteen year
old kid was shot and killed in Omaha over the
weekend about sixty first in Camden Streets. Omaha police responded
to a shots fired call and they find a young
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man named Ashton lying dead in the street. Nineteen year
old kid looks like a nice kid. He was out
too late. His family says he maybe got in the
middle of something that he shouldn't have. I think that's
probably pretty accurate. There was someone who'd got in a
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fight with someone. He went to go check on this person,
and then suddenly here's a gunfire in the streets, about
a dozen shots fired. This young guy, nineteen year old
Ashton's caught in the middle of it. Did you even
hear about that? That happened Saturday overnight into early Sunday morning,
just a few days ago in Omaha. Did you hear
about it? Are you hearing about this for the first time? Probably?
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Do you know why? Because he wasn't killed by a cop.
Oh boy, the activists were excited. Oh a kid got shot.
Please tell me it was by a cop. Even better
if it's from Douglas County Sheriff's office. We hate those
guys right now. Oh, it wasn't from a cop, just
random a gang violeer gunfire from bad guys. All right,
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Everyone back to their homes. Nothing to see here, no
big deal. The activists didn't give what they wanted. They
didn't get a kid shot by a cop. When something
like this happens in our community, who is to blame?
In the overwhelming majority of the time, it's the criminals.
So to see cops fighting against other cops about, hey,
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I didn't know you're doing this, Well, I don't have
to tell you what I'm doing this. The root cause
of this criminal behavior not the actions of law enforcement.
All right. Back to the question of how and why
did this get leaked to the public. Well, let's take
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a look at who was copied on this. This email
letter that went to Sheriff Hansen, Chief Todd Schmader sentate.
So the first culprit is did did the chief send
it to the media. No, he doesn't. That's not his style.
He doesn't want to have this battle in the public. No,
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Chief Schmater didn't leak this, then Sheriff Hanson must have
no If Sheriff Hansen wanted this battle. His response to
it would have been a lot less measured than it was.
Chief Hanson and or sorry, Sheriff Hanson a Chief Schmater.
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They came up together through the Omaha Police Academy. They
have a good relationship, but they do have a bit
of a head butt relationship. And that goes back to
the time when Todd Schmater is the chief of Police,
he's management and Aaron Hanson is the head of the
Omaha Police Union, he's labor. Labor and management, doesn't it.
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They don't exactly get along all the time. That's not
their job. Their job is to butt heads. The butted
heads coming up to the academy. They butted heads in
the labor and management roles of the police union and
the chief, and now they're button heads as to who's
in charge around here. I think that these guys love
each other like brothers, but brothers sometimes fight. If you
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wanted the brothers to turn on you, then get in
the middle of a fight between two brothers, because they'll
gang up on you. Hey, I'm allowed to beat this
guy up, not you. These guys love each other like brothers,
but it doesn't mean they like each other. All the time.
You know there were other people copied on this email
though it says so right in the email copied Douglas
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County Board of Commissioners, City Council President Pete Festerson, Mayor
Jean Stothart, This went out yesterday, Mayor elect John Ewing. Again,
this went out yesterday before he was sworn in last night. Swarren,
Mayor's office, chief of staff for both the outcoming and
the new or the outgoing and the new mayor. And
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Matthew m Couzy, City attorney. All right, So which one
of these guys leaked at the city attorney knew? Absolutely
not Thomas Warren. No chance that guy is. His poker
face is legendary. He's not the one that's like, hey,
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you guys, when the media wants something, not his not
his thing. John Ewing, He's not going to come into
office and have his first day in office of mayor
be overshadowed by this. Jean Stothard. No, if she wanted
to say something, she'd say something, and maybe she will.
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Council President Pete Festerson, he's the only one left on here.
It's got no, no, no, no, he's not And this isn't.
I don't think this is Festus in style either. I
don't think he gains anything by ooh, we got the
cops fighting with the sheriff. Who this is fun? I
don't think so well. Who else was copied on this?
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The Douglas County Board of Commissioners, and you've got two
at least two, maybe three, two and a half, but
certainly two. And I'm gonna focus. I'm gonna give you
a name as to who I think leaked this. I
think it comes down to if you're a betting man,
and I'm not. I don't have any of those apps
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on my phone, and I haven't gambled at a table
or a a slot machine or anything in several years.
But if I were a betting man, I say this
comes down to one of two people on the Douglas
County Board of Commissioners. You got the more liberal leaning commissioner,
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Chris Rogers. He's publicly, I think public and in board
meetings expressed concerns about the sheriff's office. Chris Rogers could
eleak this, after all, it's ostensibly you know, his community
hurting right now, as you've got black families out there
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saying cops are bad. If Chris Rogers wanted to fan
those flames, he would release this letter, but I don't
think he did. That leaves one name someone who has
publicly and privately battled against law enforcement, battled against Douglas
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County Sheriff Aaron Hanson, and this has gone into social
media posts and battles. It has to do with law enforcement,
it has to do with budget, it has to do
with Omaha's homeless problem. And it's someone who continually runs
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for the Douglas County Board as a Republican and then
in no way votes conservatively. And when you've got someone
who is as two faced as that, it's hard for
me to believe that it's any one other than Douglas
County Board member Marianne Borgson, who I believe leaked this
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to the media. She doesn't like Sheriff Aaron Hanson. Sherif
Aaron Hanson has exposed her ineptitude on the board several times,
and she has taken every opportunity in board meetings, in votes,
whether it's the Juvenile Justice Center, the homeless issue, the
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Sheriff's office is asking for a budget request for something no,
because she's been exposed by her coddling of juvenile thugs
and homeless people in this community, and Sheriff Hanson's called
her out on it time and time again. Who do
I think leaked this letter to say, ooh, chief Schmater
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is dressing down Aaron Hanson. It's about time someone put
him in his place. Send to the media. Who do
I think leak the letter? Mary Ann Borgison? Where's my proof?
I don't have any It's speculation, but I don't think
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it's baseless speculation.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Scott Boy.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
There's one other name that's brought up in this letter
from the police chief, Toad Schmater to the Douglas County Sheriff,
Aaron Hanson, where the chief Schmater is upset about this
and it has to do with the hiring by the
Douglas County Sheriff's office, the hiring of a guy who
was dismissed from the Omaha Police Department. It says, your
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hiring of a recently terminated OPD officer has further inflamed
the community, causing damage to law enforcement community relations. It's
perceived by many as a blatant disregard for the concerns
of the citizens. While you are free to hire whomever
you want. Common sense and professional courtesy would lead one
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to ask for the internal affairs file, notify me as
a heads up, or simply wait until the arbitration process
is complete, none of which you did. That's touch moder
to Aaron Hansen. All right, So who's he talking about?
Talking about a guy named Adam Vale? This last year?
It was last August. This was the no knock search
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warrant where a thirty seven year old Cameron Ford ended
up dead. Here's what The Douglas County Attorney Don Klin
did not press charges, and the police union stood with
Officer Vail, a seventeen year seventeen year law enforcement veteran
who was ordered to lead the entry during a high
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risk operation. It was him and a SWAT team tasked
with arresting a violent repeat felon in possession of a
high capacity rifle and who was distributing drugs fentanyl to
be specific. He willingly chose to serve in the SWAT team,
fully aware of the risk, put himself in harm's way,
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and when circumstances were such that he had to fire
his weapon, he did. He was dismissed because of the
no knock search warrant. The community is like, we don't
want no knock search warrants, all right, So you want
criminals to be able to sleep easy in our community?
I got youa like. I said, the people who are
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most mad about all this are criminals and thug coddlers.
And to see that the chief and the sheriff squabbling
over trying to keep those who are coddling thugs and
gang members and murderers and drug traffickers legally or illegally
in our community is not what I want to see
law enforcement doing. We'll switch gears in a moment. Fox
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News updates shortly. Senator Chuck Grassley on the Big Beautiful Bill,
the LA riots, Trump and Elon and more that's coming
up next. Scott Bories News Radio of Levin said, keyfab
welcoming on here, Iowa. Senator Chuck Grassley, always good to
talk with. Senator Grassley is senator, good morning.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Good morning, you, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Are we going to get tax really for what? What's
going on with the Big Beautiful Bill as you guys
are hacking away at it in the US Senate?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Okay, I'll give you a process answer. The Chairman of
the committee I used to chair that committees. Now it's
spree full of Idaho. He says, we're going to have
the text of the bill out on Friday, and that
there'll be uh next week for people to give and
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possibly some potential changes to it, and then the following
week it'll be voted on in the United States Senate,
and hopefully before July the fourth, the House will have
voted on it. And I just want to give you
one puestion that I have. There's been Senators saying, maybe
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a dozen of them, they're drawing a line in the
sand on this issue or that issue, or twelve different issues.
I haven't drawn the sign in line in the sand.
Because we have to get at least fifty one up
votes in the United States Senate to pass this bill.
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And as we rewrite the House bill, we have to
keep in the back of our mind that this bill
will only pass the House or Representatives by one bill,
so the margin is tight in the House Representatives. So
changes that we make in the United States Senator, we
have to take into consideration of how the House might
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react to them.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
What do you want to see remain in the bill
and is there anything you want to see removed from it.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I would like to see the cap on salt or
the state local taxes. We call it salt in this town.
I'd like the House raise it tremendously to forty thousand dollars.
It was ten thousand dollars when we passed in twenty seventeen.
(20:39):
I think that's too high. In other words, that leaves
people in Nebraska and Iowa subsidized in high cost states
in New York and California, and I think that's wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
All right, what would you like to see removed from
the bill, because it seems like all the Senators say, well,
I don't know if we can do this. I don't
know if we can do that.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
At this point, I don't see anything that ought to
be removed. I see some things that ought to be
modified within. There's some farm provisions in the bill put
in the House Representatives, and they've raised the cap on
what one individual farmer can get from the farm program.
(21:26):
I think that that should not be done. We shouldn't subsidi.
We should help the small and medium sized farmers, which
the President limit does, but we shouldn't subsidize big farmers
to get bigger. There's nothing wrong with big farmers getting bigger,
but I don't think we ought to subsidize it so
that they can drive up land prices and drive up
(21:52):
khrant to the detriment of the young beginning farmer.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Senator Chuck Grassley with us here on News Radio eleven.
At least one of your cohorts, the one from Kentucky
named Rand Paul, says I won't vote for any of
this until we get rid of some of the spending
increase in here. Elon Musk struck the same tone over
(22:16):
the weekend, leading to a battle with President Trump. Do
you share any concerns about spending increases with this bill.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I'd rather put that in the negative, as the House
decreased spending enough, even though the debt will go up,
has a decreases in US and we in the Senate
are committed to increasing the savings that comes from the
existing levels of expenditure.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Last question here on this bill, there are those that say,
across Iowa and Nebraska, there will be good people, family
people who will be cut from Medicaid and we're going
to be kicking them off of their benefits and leaving
them penniless and hungry, and they won't have any food
for them or their children. And this is very mean
of Republicans to do this to that. You would say, what, Senator.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
That's ridiculous. If you're a single mother with kids at home,
if you're a pregnant woman, if you're disabled, if your
grandma in the nursing home, you're getting Medicare today and
that will not be changed. What they're complaining about is
(23:33):
the fact that we've got a lot of people that
aren't disabled, that are between the ages of nineteen and
sixty four, and they're getting Medicaid. And we are going
to put in this bill work requirements, just like we
have for other poverty programs, particularly the welfare program, particularly
(23:57):
the food Stamp program, their work for requirements. We're going
to have work requirements for this. So you get a job,
that job only has to be twenty days a week,
or you can go to school, or you can take
care of grammar at home, or work for a nonprofit.
But you've got to have some activity that knows that
(24:20):
you're out trying to improve yourself and or you won't
get Medicaid. But you get such a job, let's say
twenty hours a week, you're still going to get medicaid. Now,
the idea isn't just to get people off the bench
in their home. The idea is we have a policy
(24:41):
with medicaid that distancentivizes people work, and we shouldn't have
any federal policy disincentivizing work. It's very important to be
in the world of work if you're going to get
out of poverty. We learn that under the administration a Democrat,
(25:01):
can you believe it, advocated welfare reform because at that
time we had three generations of families in welfare, and
we decided that we need to encourage people to work
because if you don't work, you're never going to get
out of a life of poverty. And it was very
(25:23):
successful then about forty percent reduction in the people on welfare,
and that reduction still holds today, and we ought we
ought to do this have the same flosi behind able
bodied people working if they're going to get medicaid. But
that's the only major change in the program. I can
(25:46):
give you another one. It doesn't save quite as much money.
But if you're on Medicaid in Nebraska, you move to
Iowa and you used medicaid Nebraska would be getting reimburse
from the federal government on it, just like Iowa would
(26:06):
legitimately get reimbursed. There's no clearing house to know if
you're drawing in two states and we're going to have
a clearing house that will end at so a federal
government would only reimburse the state where you're living and
got the help.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Well, there are those that say that Republicans are mean
they're going to kick people off of Medicaid, and your
cohort from Iowa Senator Joni Earnst, in response to someone saying,
but people are going to die, she said, we're all
going to die. And people said, see that shows Republicans
are heartless and they don't care if people die. Your response, well, yeah,
(26:47):
she was reacting as I would react.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
She was trying to legitimately answer a question of somebody
that asked a legitimate question on this very subject, and
she was in the middle of answering it and somebody
in the back of room yelled out, you're going to
cause people to die. That's sort of interference and a
legitimate dialogue between a senator and a constituum shouldn't take place.
(27:14):
And she was flustered, and she didn't meet in any
way to be to want people to die. But it
is a fact that I'm ninety one years old. I
got to realize I'm going to die someday.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
When's that going to be? Senator, do you have a date?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah? God decides.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Okay, Well I hope it's not anytime soon. We're expecting
another twenty five years from you. One more minute left
with Senator to Grassley, and one more thing to ask
you about your thoughts on what's going on in Los
Angeles with the fights between rioters and law enforcement and
now the National Guarden.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Just thinking of the hypocrisy of the Democrats that say
that that Biden ought to abide by the law, and
he's abiden by the law by enforcing the immigration laws,
and the Democrats are blaming him for what's going on
in California, Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Trump, you mean President. Democrats are saying Trump ought to
abide by the law.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, okay, yes, and he's enforcing the law right now
in California and Los Angeles. And so they're hypocritical when
they say this is a Biden problem. It's not a
Biden problem. Biden was elected in forced law. It shouldn't
surprise anybody that he thinks that people are illegally entering
(28:48):
the country in violation of our law ought to be removed,
and that's what they're trying to do. He's trying to
enforce the law.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Again. You're saying, Biden, you mean Trump? Is the auto
pen still there?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well, there's auto pins in every senator's office, and we
have rules to use them. The question is, did Biden
have rules to use them or just somebody Willy Nelly
was signing bills, signing executive orders and citing partners or
(29:24):
did Biden know about it. We're going to get to
the bottom of this in various hearings in the Senate,
in the House.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
All right, Senator, always a pleasure talking with you. Thank
you very much for the time for us this morning
right here on news Radio eleven ten kfab. We know
he meant President Trump. Scott voices. Throughout this hour of
the program, I provided my thoughts on this little dust
up that became public between the chief of police and
(29:54):
the Douglas County Sheriff, including telling you who I think
leaked that letter. Am I gonna make you wait until
that whole segment is posted on the podcast link. No,
I don't remind you right now, I think it's Douglas
County Board member Marianne Borgson is who. I think. No
one's told me that. I don't have anyone saying, hey,
what you need to do is go on the radio
(30:14):
and out. I know, I swear to you. I swear
to you. I haven't talked with anyone about anything related
to this. I've heard from some people, not the chief
or the sheriff, within various departments who have thoughts on this.
And I can tell you in the people I've talked
with with both Omaha Police and Douglas County sheriffs, there's
(30:38):
one overriding emotion with all that, and that is frustration.
They're like, why is this going on in the public? Police,
law enforcement? They kind of like taking care of their
business in house, and I imagine that this will continue
(30:58):
to be taken care of in house. Away from copying
members of the Douglas County Board. That's the most likely
culprit in who said, oh, look, the chief is dressing
down the sheriff. I don't like the sheriff. Let's make
sure the media sees this. That seems like a tactic
from Douglas County Board member Mary Anne Borgson. I had
(31:20):
a lot more thoughts on that earlier in the program.
It will be posted later today on the Vintage Vorheats
podcast link Scott Vorheats page at kfab dot com. Because
Sheriff Hansen has called out Mary Anne Borgson for juvenile
justice and homeless coddling, here's another example of homeless coddling.
A twenty seven year old guy is in jail. The
(31:42):
story from WWT six news where at eleven o'clock Saturday morning,
he rings the doorbell of a home near thirtieth in Blondo.
Thirteen year old girl opens the door. This guy is
wearing a black martial arts outfit with a white belt.
He's a white belt whatever that means, and then tries
to hug family members until grabbing the girl and trying
(32:05):
to carry her away from the home. Family responded. Turns
out this guy is not much in the way of
karate and police were able to arrest a twenty seven
year old guy. He gave an address the Sienna Francis
House for Homeless People. It's just a homeless guy, like,
I'm gonna go look at that house. Hello, anyone here
(32:29):
I can eat? The heck is going on here?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Scott Boy.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
The story out of Los Angeles is just it's so sad.
It's sad because you honestly have people speaking of singers.
They had the BET Awards, Black Entertainment Television Awards on
TV last night, and I don't I should have taken
(32:54):
the time to learn how to pronounce this. I guess
you call her a rapper because it calls her a singer,
and then it says a rapper as she's says here.
The third woman to win a Grammy for Best Rap Album,
and I was able to name the first one. It's like, well,
that's got to be Lauren Hill for the Miseducation of
(33:16):
Lauren Hill. I couldn't think of the second one and
I had to look it up. Cardi B. Cardi B
also won Best Rap Album as a Woman. Yeah, and Lucy,
if you think Cardi B is good, you ought to
hear Cardi A.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
And Cardi C waiting in the wings.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Hey, it's Father's Day week. Dad jokes abound. So Lauren Hill,
Cardi B. And then I want to say doughci my
apologies if that's not how you pronounce it. She's got
a song called Anxiety, and she has some anxiety because
in accepting her award. Let I don't know if she
(33:57):
was presenting or got an award. I don't really know.
It says, see being named Best Female Hip Hop Artist,
her first ever BET award, and congratulations she gets her award,
and then she starts talking and she says, there are
ruthless attacks that are creating fear and chaos in our communities.
(34:19):
In the name of law and order, Trump is using
military forces to stop a protest. I want you all
to consider what kind of government it appears to be
when every and this is the part that got me.
This just made me really sad because there are people
who truly believe this. She says, every time we exercise
(34:43):
our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.
She said that, and people applauded. And that makes me
sad because people, like I said, people believe that. People
think that people are out there peacefully protesting. And President
(35:07):
Trump is watching from some elon Musk satellite feed, so
all right, show me the protesters, all right, send in
the Marines. I will not have people peacefully protesting on
my watch. And he just sends the military out to
gun them down. There are people who believe that's what's happening.
(35:33):
Every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the
military is deployed against us. On a lighter note, Kevin
Hart hosted the event, and he started off saying, there
won't be any after parties tonight. Things could get slippery
(35:54):
a baby oil p Diddy reference that guy is obsessed.
He and Dave Chappelle joking about the baby oil. This
man's got crates and crates of baby oil, which is
terrible anyway. Uh so that's what she said last night
at these awards.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
But yes, wouldn't you or couldn't you say that it's
fair to say that the people who would believe that
without any thought. There are also people who believe that
Trump has never done anything wrong, has never planned anything,
never going to do anything wrong. Everything he says is
(36:34):
one rainbows and sunshine. So I mean you can see that.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
It's that's why you.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Got to think for yourself. Whatever side you're.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
On, right, I don't care. That's why it's a spectrum
and not a harmonious circle. You've got people all across
the spectrum. But I it it just makes me so
sad that there are people out there. I don't know.
I have to assume she honestly believes this, because if
(37:09):
she doesn't, if she's like, this is really gonna whip
people into a frenzy and create more discord in our
in our country, then I'm gonna say that just to
tick people off. Why would she do that, Why would
she appear to tell especially young people don't worry about that.
Young people don't watch TV anymore, so, but they'll probably
(37:30):
they'll watch a video clip and they'll see her if
they like her say, every time we exercise our democratic
right to protest, the military is deployed against us. That's
amazing because I see protesters at seventy second and Dodge,
or at Memorial Park on that pedestrian bridge. I see
them all the time, and it's only like it's not
(37:52):
every single time, but like every other time where people
are on that pedestrian bridge and here come the fighter
jets blow them right off the bridge. We have to
rebuild that pedestrian bridge every month. People, if you're listening
to us outside Omaha, maybe you don't know, Uh yeah,
there are people protesting and holding signs and waving their
(38:15):
arms and protesting something on that pedestrian bridge between Memorial
Park and Uno and Trump's like nope, and he sends
the fighter chats out and he blows up the bridge again.
That creates problems for Lucy's TIMESAB traffic reports because there's
like a big crater in the ground and you know,
there's people just sprayed everywhere and people got cleaned that up,
(38:38):
you know, and there's like some of it gets in
the pool and Elmwood and it's it's just gross and
we got to clean it all up.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
And it's because people are democratically protesting and not causing
any problems whatsoever. Is that what she believes apparently. Scott
Boarhez News Radio eleven KFAB. I am being I'm lost
(39:08):
in some emails here. I'm just gonna file.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
That take over for you.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I'm just gonna I thought about this is someone on
that letter we talked quite a bit about at the
start of the program just after nine, the letter that
got leaked from the chief to the sheriff, and I
had a lot of thoughts on that. It'll all be
posted later this morning on the Vintage Warheats podcast link.
Scott Vorheas page at kfab dot com but I got
(39:34):
kind of a deep throat email, like Scott, you gotta know.
I'll just say this.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
They ask you to meet in the parking garage.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yes, they'll be in the parking garage smoking. Yeah. I
want to meet you in a place where there's there's
no one around Crossroads parking garage. How'd you know? I'll
be there in the shadows smoking, like you can stand
out in the everywhere, no one there. There won't be
anyone there for years. It's fine. I'll just say this
(40:06):
about this email. The emailer seems to believe that my assessment,
my take on the entire situation, was correct.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
The plot thickens now somebody believes you.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
I'm gonna throw out a shoulder all the back patent
I do for myself. I'll read this email because it's
more recent. In the program we're talking about this. The
artist do Chi Doechi Doechii, do Chai. Sorry that was
really loud. Anyway, she won the BET Award for Best
(40:43):
Female Hip Hop Artist. She got the mic. I said,
thank you. By the way, every time we exercise our
democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.
Trump is using military forces to stop a protest, and
I gave you my reaction to that, which was a
(41:04):
verbal form of vomit. But Brian emails and says, you
can't call a riot a protest, nor can you riot
and not expect there to be action taken to suppress
and or prevent these kinds of actions. Nowhere is there
a right granted to inflict harm to people or property,
the right to people to peacefully assemble and to petition
(41:26):
the government for a redress of grievances. Brian says, it
makes me so uneasy when those who are not capable
of understanding this are given opportunities to voice their distorted
thoughts to our distorted thoughts of reality to the masses. Yeah,
well that's their right as well. No one said she
had to know what she was talking about. She just
(41:48):
had the right to say it. And you know, President
Trump is like, let's defund BEET. Like, mister President, that's
not like NPR and PBS. You can't, like, I don't
care defund him.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
He didn't say that, probably not.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
He probably wants to. Let's see here, Oh yeah, the
story here in Omaha, we had another incredible prison break, Lucy.
This one was so daring. You know the guys in
New Orleans. It's thought that they paid off a prison
guard or threatened like, we were gonna kill your family
if you don't let us out of here. And the
(42:24):
prison guard didn't think, how are you gonna kill my
family when you're here in jail? Didn't think that, So
he's like okay, and turned off the water to the
plumbing so they could smash out from behind a toilet
and apparently the wall where the toilet is just backs
up on freedom and it's a very thin wall. All
you gotta do is just slam through the wall. And
(42:46):
there's there's no fence or guards or dogs. I know,
it's just you just slammed through the wall. Oh yeah,
And next thing you know, like you're in a neighborhood.
It's amazing. I didn't I've never been there, but apparently
that's how it is. It's just it's just dry wall.
Apparently it's a amazing. So we had that prison break,
and now we have something even more daring. This guy
(43:08):
must have been like Houdini the way he did this.
He must have had a full schematic of the prison,
probably paid off some guards, and this is how this
inmate was able to escape from the Douglas County Community
Correction Center. You want to hear how he did this.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
I'm on the edge of my seat literally, because who
knows when you might need this information.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yeah, he here's what he did. First of all, we're
talking about a guy named Dustin. Dustin started his sentence
in October of twenty twenty two for theft and operation
of a motor vehicle to avoid arrest. So he has
a history of stealing and fleeing. He's thirty six years
old and has a tentative release date of about a
(43:55):
year from now. If he behaves himself, he'll be out
earlier than that, I imagine. So he didn't have that much
longer to wait. But he apparently couldn't wait any longer
because here was a girl. Here was his I don't know,
but here was his daring escape from the Community Correction Center.
(44:17):
He asked if he could leave the prison on a
religious furlough and they said sure, and then they he
left on what's referred to here. The story from k
e TV News Watch seven is he was allowed to
leave the correction center on a religious furlough and then
(44:38):
he didn't come back.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Well, you know, the furlough could just still be happening.
I mean, he could be having a really surely religious experience.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
I imagine he is.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Maybe he went all the way to another country on.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
A yes and what is your religion? I don't know
whichever one is out of Tibet, because that's where I'm
I want to go. So apparently it says pilgrimage.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
I couldn't think of it on a pilgrimage.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Or a Hajaj says here that you know, practicing religion
allows prisoners a way to cope with feelings of depression
and social exclusion that a company a prison sentence. Yeah,
apparently when they're in prison they feel excluded from society
and then they're depressed about that. So if we let
them out of jail to practice their religion and go
(45:29):
on a religious furlough, then they'll feel better. So apparently
we just let people out now. I know that some
inmates have some work release as a way to transitions.
Let's see if you can handle a little bit of freedom.
If you don't come.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Back, well before they can.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
If you don't come back, we're going to find you
and it's going to be bad for you. This guy
apparently took advantage of that. You can also it says
attend religious services without direct supervision. Who's sitting next to
you in the puce, you know, if he's got shackles.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
On, God can see you.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
That's that's your clue. So I understand the Community Correction
center is a lower custody level. But if he's still
supposed to be away from society for another year and
he has a history of fleeing from authorities, maybee like,
I don't know that the guy is dangerous, but you
(46:36):
know i'd close your garage door. Well, this guy is out.
But is this really how easy it is? I don't
want to be here. You're gonna be here till the
day you die. Can I go on a religious furlough?
Speaker 3 (46:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Just make sure you come back. Oh he didn't come back. Man,
we get taken advantage of a lot.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
Be fair. Yes, I always close my garage door, So
don't anybody take offense if my garage door is closed.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Actually, your garage door's open now, No it isn't. Didn't
my wife text you? She said she drove by your
house and your garage door's wide open.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (47:15):
Is that where you want to be when Jesus comes
back lying to me.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
I just want to freak you out a little bit. Also,
you left the oven on, and that refrigerator door that
you thought closed didn't close all the way. All your
stuff's going to be spoiled.
Speaker 3 (47:28):
That is possible, right.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Are you sure you turn that faucet off before you
came to work. Is any of this freaking you out?
Speaker 3 (47:36):
No, not in the least. Whatever happens happens.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
I'm going to be watching Lucy for the next few
minutes to see if she gets on her phone to
check any of her cameras. Scott Byes News Radio eleven
ten k FAD
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