May 5, 2025 • 40 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Savanah Hernandez and Holly Hansen. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jigana government sucks.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Suit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Radio is DeLux.
Speaker 4 (00:06):
Liberty and freedom will make you smile of a suit
of happy and us on your radio tole just as
cheeseburgers living.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It rise at food.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Ola muchacho's.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
I feel bad I didn't wear sombrero today, and I
love being racially insensitive. It's like my favorite thing. I
don't know how it slipped through the cracks today. I
apologize to those of you that were hoping to see
me marginalize an entire culture of people happy Cinco to
Myo kiddos, or as Mexicans worried about ice are calling
it may fifth. My advice for people planning to celebrate
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pepto bismo.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Probably a good way to go.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
You could tell it's sinco to Mayo because Pete Hagseth
is already passed out, and boy he does glug clug.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
That guy does love his booze. Everybody is. I don't
hate on him.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
I think I'd rather have a drunk Pete haig Seth
than any number of people from the Pentagon.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
I'd take him over General Millie any day of the week. Hi,
we're gonna talk about that today. We're going to talk
about emigration for those of you that are just getting connected.
A lot of people on the show today that I
am very excited about, Holly Hansen stopping by from the
Texan Dot News. That's a news website for people in Texas,
not shot. It's not just a clever name. You know
who else is joining us today? Another Texas journalist, Savannah Hernandez,
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is going to be here. She is you might know
her from the Tucker Carlson Show and local k TH
news reporter and Sunday KPRC Zoomer talk show hosts Ethan
Buchanan will be joining us any minute now. But since
it is saintko Demayo, so you know, I, guys, I
get into it. This is one of my favorite holidays.
I like all I like the I like the music, I.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Like the food.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I like the fact that it's a pointless holiday like
Saint Patrick's Day or Halloween. What even is it? It's
white guys Donnas Sombrero Day. There's no shortage of videos.
There's an infinite number of videos on the Internet of
white liberals. Usually I think they all are originate from
TikTok telling Trump supporters who clearly don't follow them on
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social media, so it doesn't matter telling them you ought
not celebrate Sinco to Mayo. You're the reason all these
brown people are scared right now. Shame on you, which
is hilarious because the white liberals on social media with
blue hair and septum piercings. A don't get to decide
who celebrate Sinco to Mayo and B kind of don't
realize that years ago they were telling us it was
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racist to celebrate it in the first place, but now
they could celebrate it.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
What even are the rules? Nobody knows?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
And why do they hate Trump so much over his
position on well, obviously not Sinco to Mayo, but immigration.
That's what this all stems from. It's funny you look
at the pulling data, and you know who doesn't hate Trump.
Hispanic voters, especially men, but women too. Multi generational Latino
voters from the United States tend to be pro life.
They're pro labor, pro working, pro having a job, they
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have big families, they're Catholic. Does that sound like a
group of people that are going to vote Democrats? No, no, no,
I get it. It just hopped over the border Central
American illegal immigrants probably not the most pro Trump, I
get it, but they're not supposed to be voting. They're
not even citizens, right. Look at all the crazy news
stories today originating out of Mexico and Central America. Stolen
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Mexico oil, smuggled into the US and then taken back.
According to Trump administration investigators, they're smuggling oil now, so
not don enough to just smuggle drugs and people. Even
oil gets smuggled. Here's a wild headline today would be
kidnappers now injecting victims with drugs in Mexico City. Mexico City,
that's supposed to be the one place in Mexico that's
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kind of like Europe, they claim, and yet at the
same time it's still Mexico. So all that being said,
couldn't ignore this one today, gun toting al Salvadoran gang
member arrested after Maryland authorities protection fails. I can't Why
are they always in Maryland? It's another Maryland dad?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Everybody? How many Maryland Dads are there?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Do you think that liberal Democrats even regret defending that guy?
What was his name, kilmore ironic name. I don't think
he killed anybody, but he did beat his wife, and
there's an audio recording of her begging for protection from
this guy. It reminds me of another weird news story today.
Follow the bouncing ball for a minute. Alec Baldwin was
involved in a lawsuit with the family members of Helena Hutchins,
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the cinematographer who he shot to death on the set
of that movie Rust. Well, Rust is now out in theaters,
and weirdly, two those family members of Helena Hutchins are
out promoting the movie, telling people she would have wanted
you to see it. That seems like a weird thing
to do, promoting the movie that killed your family member. Well,
it turns out part of the deal that they reached
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after they sued him for killing their family members a
civil lawsuit, he told them they could have the profits
from the movie Rust, which means if you don't go
see Rust, they don't get anything. Well, Rust looks like
a crap movie. Alec Baldwin thought he could do a
cowboy movie because Kevin Costner was the star of Yellowstone.
No people in Texas in Wyoming and they don't like
Alec Baldwin. Nobody believes he's a cowboy anyway, If you
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don't go see Russ. It's hurting Helena Hutchins family today.
And that reminds me of the wife of Maryland Dad.
The wife of Maryland Dad is now saying keep him
in the country. Why would she say that? There's this
guy beat you all the time. There's an audio recording
of you begging law enforcement in America to protect you
from this guy that was seen on camera purportedly smuggling
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humans across state lines, going back and forth from Tennessee
to Missouri to Maryland in a car filled with nine
migrants like hanging out. If this was a Rico case,
his association with MS thirteen gang members would have had
him in jail a year ago. And I don't like
Rico laws, but they exist. I don't get to decide that.
So if they affect you and I, why wouldn't they
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affect this guy. It's a good question, right And where
is he now? In Al Salvador prison? And I have
to wonder if he knew my blind date this weekend.
I got catfished this weekend by an illegal immigrant from
Al Salvador.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It's actually wilder than it sounds. I'll tell you the
story right after this.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Hang on one second everybody can instead of Kang.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
point fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
It is I Kenny Webster. I am.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
It's always interesting when hot button news stories affect us
in real life, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I think so?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Right, Like, most of you probably didn't have an opinion
about the fentanyl crisis until you knew somebody that was
affected by fentyl.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Right, many of you might not, but some of you
probably do.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
You know, you had a friend or a family member
that got addicted to the stuff, or somebody that accidentally
got exposed to it when they were trying to do
something else, whatever, and suddenly you had an opinion about fentyl.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Suddenly you cared.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
You never cared about the trade war until you realized
your uncle in the Rust belt lost his manufacturing job. Well,
this weekend, I Kenny Webster got catfished by an illegal immigrant.
You know who's in the studio right now. It's my
buddy Ethan Buchanan.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
What's up? What's up? Everybody? Somebody asked the other day
if you were my co host?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
I said no, no, no, But Ethan is a zoomer.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I like him. He's a good guy. He's twenty two
years old.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Ethan hosts a weekend afternoon show on our sister station, KTRH.
KPRC is on this station. But you're a journalist on KTRH,
which is cool because you're twenty two and you know
why you're a good journalist. You didn't go to a
liberal university's journalism school. No, I did not That would
make you a bad journalist.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Well, because now I can't put the perspective of you know,
gender ideology and open borders on all of my stories.
It's difficult. I don't have that lens to look at
everything for there anymore. So I have to do unbiased journalism,
which sucks.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Yeah, this weekend or this week, I think on Wednesday,
real ID goes into effect.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Real idea is for those that don't know, there's a
star in the corner of your driver's license. If you
got your driver's license in the last several years, you
probably already have a real ID. What is real ID? Basically,
the federal government just wants to be more. It's I
I'm not going to I'll give you a lazy explanation
of it, but they're making the ID process a little
more complicated if you're flying on Wednesday and you don't
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have a real ID, which you probably do have a
real ID, but if you don't bring your passport with
as an extra form of idea or you're gonna get
stuck in line. And the liberal media is already blaming
Trump for real ID. They are Should I blame Trump
forgetting catfish this weekend on a blind date?
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Should you blame Trump for getting catfish on a blind date?
That's a that's a difficult question. Yes, I think so
because it sounds like if he had done his job better,
she wouldn't have been in the country.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I've already had opinions about illegal immigrants, but now I
want to see real ID in dating apps.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I do. I went on it. No Ethan, you laugh.
I went on a date this weekend.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
I thought it was going to be a thirty year
old Latina and it was a It was a geriatric,
elderly plus sized woman that didn't speak She didn't speak English.
Do you know who the Do you know Tim Dillon
and Louis J. Gomez do a podcast together? You know
who Louis J. Gomez is?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You're the right demo for that.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
He was in town this weekend and I was I
had a date with a Latina.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
And I thought, oh, I'll take her to see Lewis J. Gomas.
She'll probably enjoy that. She did not. She didn't get
any of the joke.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Well, I show up. First of all, she's late for
the date by almost an hour. Oh, we were gonna
meet and get cocktails and then go on the date.
And she's late. And I would if not for the
fact that I had tickets to something, I would have
just walked out. But I have tickets for something. She's
supposed to go with me, so I wait. She finally
shows up and she's like, Oh, are we going to
get drinks. I'm like, no, you're an hour late. We
have to go to the show now. So we go
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to the show. We get in and I'm like, do
you like Leuis J.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
Gomes?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
She says, I know speak a lot of English. I'm like,
this is I have been tricked. I So now I
want real idea.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
You know what this is? Tell me?
Speaker 8 (09:45):
So she's scrolling through whatever dating app and she sees
a strapping white man like yourself who's clearly a citizen,
and she thinks I'm getting my papers.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
It's not that I wouldn't marry someone for the you know,
to help them get citizenship, because I have no moral standards,
but I you know, but I want a little doray
me for this. I want some cash.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Where's the quid pro quill?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Wu tang quicker? Not getting papers for free cash rules
everything around me.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Cream, get the money, Get the denaro out, young lady. Anyway,
you're here today, Ethan, and you are a local journalist
who is doing work today. Apparently I want to get
to the thing about wit Meyer, but can we talk
about the other students for study story today? Immigrants driving
Houston's growth? What happens if Trump keeps them out? The
Houston Chronicle really wants you to think that the biggest
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city in Texas, the oil and gas headquarters of the world,
which is now actually profiting immensely off Donald Trump's energy policies,
is somehow going to suffer if we get rid of
all the trendy Aragua and MS thirteen gang members.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I'm sure you have a lot to say about this.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Yeah, it's it's kind of funny because they don't, I think,
know what point they're trying to make here because I mean,
just look at the headlines. Immigrants drive Houston's growth. What
happens if Trump keeps them out? Okay, well, what immigrants
are Trump keeping out? Right?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So far?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
They want to make it sound like they're deporting the
cleaning ladies and the kitchen workers, but they're not. It's
mostly just been criminal, dangerous criminals so far.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
And even if like the immigrants that are driving Houston's growth,
those are not the illegal aliens, right right, But Trump
says what happens or Crown says what happens if Trump
keeps them out? So they're trying to get you to
kind of think Trump is just cracking down on immigration.
That's not what's happening, right. No conservative is just cracking
down on illegal immigration. I mean a few are, but
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they're the fringe. No mainstream Republican is saying we don't
want any immigration. They're saying we don't want illegal immigration,
which should be a no brainer, right. The immigrants that
are driving Houston's growth, that are coming in, participating in
our economy and making the city and the country great,
as has been the American tradition for hundreds of years.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Are legal.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Yeah, the people that Trump is keeping out are like
you pointed out, the trend de Rago gang members, the
people that are actually a threat to Houstonians like Jocelyn Nungray.
So either Trump is hampering Houston's growth or we need
Houston's growth to be based off of criminal gang members
that come in and murder twelve year old girls. Which
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case are you trying to make cron because either way
you're wrong.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Yeah, the Houston Chronicle is garbage. You know, it's hurst
media obviously. But hey, while we're on the topic here,
Donald Trump was talking on Air Force one yesterday and
he was asked about the Mexican president declining his offer
to help out with the cartels down there.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I want to play a little bit of this audio
before we react to.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Jopes in to Mexico to take care of the cartowns.
She wants to know his debt true. Do you think
I'm going to answer that question? I will answer it.
Organization be They are horrible people that have been killing
people left and right, that have been They've made a
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fortune and selling drugs and destroying our people. With most
freens a thousand people to fit it all in drugs.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
It's always I know it's not the best audio because
he's onboard Air Force one. But he's talking about the
Mexican president declining his offer for help. And I don't
know how many people realize this. I assume most of
our audience does. But most of the Mexican government, all
the way up to the tippy tippy top of their
federal government, as AOC would describe it, are compromised by
the cartels's billions of dollars in money there and in
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Mexico they even it's a little bit like prohibition in
the United States back in the nineteen twenties. Mexican residents
are very divided on how they feel about the cartels.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Some of them like them, some of them don't.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
You know, in the nineteen twenties, there were people that
supported the prohibition, people that didn't. You know, it's politically
it's a little different down there. In America. It's left
verse right down there, it's pro cartel versus anti cartel,
to the point where even one of their most popular
music genres Narco Corridore, they're called drug ballots. It's a
subgenre of Mexican corrito's narrative ballads. Basically, if you hear
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this music in Mexico and you don't speak Spanish, you
wouldn't think much of it. It would sound like the music
you'd hear in the background at a chili's or at
a you know, at a tex mex restaurant, like PoCA waltz,
tuba trombone music. But they're singing about narrative ballads, telling
stories about how great the cartel leaders are. It's almost
kind of like Mexican gangster rap. But it wouldn't sound
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that way to you and I. We would just think
of it as the music we'd hear at a resort.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Yeah, And I mean it kind of makes sense because
Mexico on average is a very poor and disorderly country.
So if you have, you know, any group at all,
even if there are a cartel coming in and saying, hey,
we're gonna establish order and some form of opportunity. Maybe
that order is aside from all the gangs killing everybody
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all the time, the cartel runs this area. And now
I have the opportunity to advance to the cartel. Well
that's better than nothing to a certain extent for some people.
So yeah, I love the cartels. They're great. They gave
me a job.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Yeah, it's you know, the leader of l Salvador was
talking about this recently. There are people in academia, there
are people in the streets of some of these big
cities that will argue you can't just remove the criminal element.
And you're like, well, why not. Are you afraid of them?
They say, no, it'll damage the economy. These are the
only people feeding the poor. These are the only people
building the orphanages. These are the only people funding the schools.
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It's like, well, hang on a minute, they're the only
people doing that because we're allowing them to go out
and commit crimes and basically enslave everybody. You know, people
make this argument is like, all right, too much anarchy
leads back to authoritarianism.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
If you go far enough in any direction politically on
the political spectrum left versus right, you end up in
the same place the horses theory right, you go exactly.
You go too far into anarchy, you end up in authoritarianism.
You go too far into authoritarianism, you end up in anarchy.
Go too far into communism, you end up in fascism.
Too far into fascism, and so on and so forth.
I don't know why people think you can't just remove
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the criminal element and the society will somehow fail because
of that. But Kelli already proved that wasn't true. But
all that being said on that point, I want to
end this conversation on this note. Right here, there is
one group of people that seems to love the cartels
even more than the poor people in Mexico and these
little villages seem to love them, and that is CNN.
Over the weekends, CNN interviewed one of these I don't
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know if this is what exactly this guy's role was.
And the cartels, by the way people always go, it's
the cartel.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Well there's multiple cartels.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Sineloa, Los Seta's a golf cartel, and they don't all
get along with each other. But a cartel connected gunman
was interviewed on CNN this weekend, and they were basically
trying to bait the guy into making Trump bad while
simultaneously making this guy that murders people look like a hero.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
WA's what happened with the CNN journalist. It did not
end well.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Outing to the Trump administration, you are a terrorist. I mean,
the cartels have been labeled foreign terrorist organization. What do
you make of that.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Before he answers the question, she says, according to the
Trump administration, no, according to reality, they're terrorists. These people
blow up newspapers, they murder journalists, they be head journalists.
If this woman was a Mexican journalist instead of an
American journalist, and she was living at the border in Mexico,
she would be terrified for her life. They would be
blackmailing her all the time. One of her family members
would be locked in a a shipping crate somewhere. Yeah,
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we'll let him out when you write a positive story
about us. That happens all the time down there. These
American journalists in the liberal media acts like these people
in the cartels are Robinhood.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
They're absolutely not. They're more like Charles Manson.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Putting to the Trump administration, you are a terrorist. I mean,
the cartels have been labeled foreign terrorist organization.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
What do you make of that?
Speaker 6 (17:38):
What's your message to Donald Trump? If he's watching this.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I'm sorry I should have been translating this because it's
in Spanish and it just occurred to me. Not everybody
could see thee What he's saying is this he's saying
in my respect, According to him, he's looking out for
his people. But the problem is the consumers are in
the United States. If there weren't any consumers, we would stop.
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So what he's saying is the whole reason that we
sell drugs in America is because Americans want to buy drugs.
If they didn't buy drugs, we wouldn't sell it to them.
But the other thing that makes the SoundBite so interesting
or video for those of you watching us on social
media not listening on the radio, is this guy is
actually admitting out loud, even though this liberal CNN journalist
hates Trump, he doesn't hate Trump. He has nothing but
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respect for Trump. I got a funny feeling here. He
probably didn't feel the same way about the Biden administration.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Hapiness Radio.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Most of you probably don't watch Meet the Press anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Thanks to X and Elon Musk, a lot of us
just watch these shows when they're in sixty second sound
bites and clips on the internet, because why bother tuning
in to watch people lie to you?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's, you know, things, interesting things happen.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
We often say, we watched CNN and CBS News and
those other networks, so you don't have to and meet
the presses.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
On NBC News over the.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Weekend, President Trump was asked about the low level activist
judges who are out right now trying to protect illegal
immigrants in foreign countries. There have been a lot of
these recently, but obviously the most famous is quote unquote
Maryland Dad. At first, they tried to make it sound
like this guy was an American who accidentally got deported,
and then they said, okay, he's not a citizen, but
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he still wasn't supposed to be deported. And then he realized, okay,
he actually was an illegal immigrant who skipped court a
couple times, and he beat his wife, and there's a
video of him smuggling migrants across the state lines. And
if this was a Rico case, he'd probably already be
in prison if he was an American because of his
association with MS thirteen. But don't let facts get in
the way of a good narrative. Here's Donald Trump over
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the weekend.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
We're doing great on illegal immigration. We are being hit
hard by judges that I think they've trying to take
away the power of the presidency. I was elected in
a massive landslide and a big, big vote. We won
the swing states, we won the popular vote, we won
the district votes by tremendous numbers. We want everything, And
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one of the reasons, one of the primary reasons I
was elected, was to get people out of our country
that were allowed. We have prisoners, we have murderers, we
have terrorists in our country. We have people from mental
institutions that are seriously insane. They all came in through
Biden's open border policy, and I was elected to get
them out and to seal the border, but to get
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them out. And we'll have judges.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
They're activist judges.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
They're saying, well, you know, you don't have the right
to take out murderers and people that you don't even
want to talk about. These are really some really bad
criminal people and they're here illegally.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I wanted them to say own braids. I miss when
they said bad own braids. Look, I could wax intellectual
on activist judges and tell you things you probably already
heard me day before. But instead of me doing that,
I'd love to turn it over to somebody probably a
little more versed on this topic. A lot of you
might follow Savannah Hernandez on ex Twitter.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
If you don't, you should.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
She describes herself as Savannah with one end, but I
would describe her as actually one of the best journalists
and reporters in the state. She is beautiful and brilliant,
and she has done a lot of work covering the
dangerous activist judges around our state and not only connected
to illegal immigration, but criminals getting released from prison. Savannah,
thank you so much for your time this afternoon.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
Kenny, really excited to be here.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Yeah, before we get to who you are, as I'd
love you to explain some of the work you do. Well,
it's still fresh on everyone's mind. What did you think
of what the President said in that SoundBite?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
Absolutely?
Speaker 11 (21:46):
I mean the reason why I started doing my deep
dive into the corrupt district court judges here in Texas
is because I was watching how district court judges kept
block the executive orders of the President. I mean, as
it stands, we've had Veniceuelans that have been stopped from
being deported in Texas. That you also have the Birthright
Citizenship executive Order that President Trump signed that's been stalled
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due to another District court judge. I believe the Supreme
Court is going to be hearing that case later on
this month. And then you have another judge in New
York who just blocked ICE agent from being allowed to
use Riker's Island. And then let's not forget the other
two judges who are recently just arrested for harboring or
even allowing illegal aliens to escape from ICE. So this
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is a really huge issue. And for a long time,
the right wing was focused in on a lot of
the protesters that were on the ground, wrecking havoc on
the streets of the United States. But now we've reached
a new level where we have judicial activists who are
not interpreting the law neutruly, but are instead working to
interpret the law through the lens of activism.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I think you explained that perfectly.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
And you know, Savannah, and know a lot of our
listeners have probably seen you before on Tucker Carlson or
they follow you on social media. But for those people
that don't, you're young, sharp, you're very energetic on this topic.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
How'd you get into this?
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Well?
Speaker 10 (23:08):
I work for Turning Point USA, I work with our
frontline's division. And I've been on the ground since really
the beginning of Donald Trump's presidency. I initially was doing
those fun and on the street videos, and I truly
wanted to get to the core of why people hated
Donald Trump. No one could ever give me an answer,
and from there it really just turned into investigative journalism,
(23:29):
into how we got to a period in America where
the media is lying to us, where our politicians and
now our district court judges are actively working against the
interests of the American people. So that's where I'm at
right now, is again really trying to investigate the judicial
branch of our country, because, like I said, we have
gotten so far away from what the founding fathers initially
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created this country to be, and it's madness.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yeah, we have a lot of people out in our
industry who you know, they're journalists, but most of the
work that they do is just on a computer or
in their house around their phone. You're actually one of
those journalists that goes out and does groundwork. There's a
video of you recently where you went to a quote
unquote harm reduction center and found piles of glass pipes
and needles on the street, and you don't strike me
(24:13):
as somebody who's like physically intimidating. But you're going to
dangerous places all the time. Do you ever feel unsafe?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (24:21):
Absolutely, Kenny. But that's why I go and do these
things because I want to understand what the average American
is living through. Over the past four years, I was
covering the drug and homeless crisis and also the illegal
immigration crisis, because every the Americans are having to live
around this, and I wanted to understand what was going on. So,
for example, I went to Philadelphia's Kensington Avenue. I've been
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to San Francisco, here in Austin, Seattle, Portland, and I
was covering the drug and homeless crisis, and I wanted
to be on the ground and show people what in
every day I guess afternoon looks like in these areas,
and they're absolutely terrifying. And this is a direct result
of a lot of soft on crime policy, a lot
of Democrat policy really that has created these harm reduction
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centers in which, instead of helping the drug addicted or
mentally ill on the streets, were instead enabling them by
giving them meals, by giving them glass pipes, basically giving
them everything they need to use drugs and live on
the streets short.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
Of the drugs themselves.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
So that was one of the reasons why I got
into again really focusing in on how America has degraded
so much. Of course, I then focused in on the
illegal immigration issue as well, because you know, we all
want to say for country, and where is all of
this crime coming from. Well, it's coming from again, the
district court judges that are allowing this type of criminal
activity to happen every single day. It's the NGO to
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then go and give paraphernalia to drug addicts or further
traffic illegal immigrants into the United States. And then of
course we have our federal government who who for the
past four years actively worked against the American people and
facilitated an invasion of our country. And now we're working
against the district court judges who are again stopping the
(26:04):
executive orders. I mean, Kenny, at the end of the day,
we gave Donald Trump the mandate, right, I mean, this
man won the electoral lost the popular votes. He won
with flying colors because the American people were tired. We
put him in office to fix these issues. And you
now have these district court judges across the United States
who are stalling executive orders, and it is, like I
(26:25):
said earlier, just straight up madness.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
I see it the same way as well. Like you,
I'm a resident of Texas. My support of Governor Rabbit
has always been like a roller coaster ride of doing things.
I didn't love him during the pandemic. I feel like
he stepped it up at the border. During Biden's time
in office, school choice great, and on this issue, I
feel like at least lately he's done a good job.
Last week he was here in Houston doing a roundtable
(26:50):
with crime stoppers and our moderate Democrat Mayor Whitmeyer, not
the worst Democrat, and he called a lot of attention
to this ACLU protesting against releasing danger orist criminals. We
just got to report last week about how the Harris
County magistrates handed out ten thousand pr bonds for felonies
in twenty twenty four, ten twenty times for felons in
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possession of a weapon.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
That it's Savannah. That is insane to me.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
You're somebody that follows this very specific topic very closely.
You've been doing it for years now, so I guess
this is a two part question. Do you feel like
it's improving considering who's in charge of the federal government
at the moment. And I know it's impossible to predictive elections,
but where do you see this going in the next
couple of years. Do you feel good about the midterms,
especially when it comes to this topic. Are the Democrats
waking up to the fact that they can't just empty
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the jails and open the borders?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
What do you think happens next?
Speaker 10 (27:41):
I'm really hoping that we can we continue on this
trajectory in which the American people are awake and understand
how our country has gotten as degraded as it has gotten.
I really hope that continues on a national level so
that way into the midterms we can elect the correct
people into leadership positions that are going to keep this
country safe. But again, Kenny, I think that you know,
(28:03):
you and I we were talking before this interview about
how we're both Texas citizens, and I think that's something
that I really try to direct a lot of people
toward is their local elections. Right So here in Texas,
for example, we have our own issues with district court
judges and Mike he were saying, these criminals being re
released time and time again. And we can look at
(28:23):
the federal level all day long and the midterms, but
until people get activated and wake up to what's happening
at a local level and start voting out the district
court judges, you know, start voting for the correct city
council members, that's where the real change happens. And I
really hope that people again start, you know, redirecting their
focus there. I've been working on a new series about
(28:45):
the district court judges in Harris County specifically because you know,
I was asking the question, why is it that Harris
County has the highest crime rate in all of Texas?
And again you have multiple Democrat judges who have a
pattern of releasing That one is Hillary Hunger. She released
eight defendants who then went on to commit murder. I
just put a video out about Judge Wory Chambers Great
(29:05):
she released ten defendants who then went on to commit murder.
So you have these patterns of these judges somehow getting
re elected into office and then continuing this cycle of
crime degradation and working against the interest of not only Texans,
but again, if you look at the federal level the
American people. So I really just hope that anybody who
hears this starts taking a hard look at who their
(29:29):
district court judge is, who is on their city council,
who is running their state, and really focusing on the
local level, because until we fix things locally, you know,
it's harder to fix things federally, because like we're dealing
with right now, these district court judges that are stopping
these executive orders, they need to be dealt with on.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
A local level.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Savannah, you I'm a big fan of what you do.
For those that don't know who Savannah Hernandez as, she
is absolutely nails on these topics and she's I'm glad
she's on the good guys side. You could follow her
on x, Instagram, YouTube, She's got a website, She's on Rumble.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
It's not hard to find her.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
But if you just want to find her on exit's
at sav underscore saz underscore yeah, as says excuse me,
underscore Yeah. To just look for Savannah Hernandez with one end.
She is fantastic at what she does. You'll be glad
you follow her. Hey quick Break more with Holly Hanson
of the Texan Do News.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Right after this, Ladies and Gentlemen, Pursuit of Happiness Radio
You and now a sad.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Kind of an unintended theme for the second half the
show here of having beautiful, brilliant female journalists on the show,
we now go from Savannah Hernandez, who you absolutely must
follow if you're a Texan and you care about activist judges,
to Holly Hansen, who you absolutely must follow if you're
a Texan and you care about activist judge. True, they're
both covering different stories, but it's scary how much is
(30:50):
happening and how much of this stuff's related, and before
we get to any of that, and we'll be brief
about this. Every time Holly Hanson's on the show. A
common question I get from some of our male listeners is, Kenny,
can you set me up on a date with her?
And I cannot do that. Holly Hansen has a boyfriend. Now,
is that correct?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Holly?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Oh, that's the rumor. Okay, well, but you're not denying it,
is what I'm taking Okay, great, well, Holly, that's not
why you're here today. Holly's a real journalist. This isn't
a romance discussion. Show well araw my dirty laundry, not Holly's.
But all that being said, Holly Hansen has been covering
the feud between the in the inner civil War of Houston,
(31:33):
Texas Democrats for as long as she's been writing at
The Texan. And I just we go from Sylvester Turner
to Whitmeyer and Sheila Jackson Lee rest in peace to
two of those three people, and Kim Ogg and Rodney Ellis.
And you think that Lena hedalgo, these people are all
in the same political party.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
They must all get along with each other. They don't.
They don't.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
They laugh at us as Republicans because we don't matter.
But you know, wit Meyer probably needs us. I think
there's a story today in the Chronicle, a headline here,
Mayor Whitmeyer's smart to play nice with Republicans, it says,
it's in the opinion section. It's from last week, but whatever,
it's still there if you want to go read the article.
And it makes a lot of sense because the moderate Democrats,
(32:13):
who actually seem to mostly control this city right now
but not completely, are at odds with the far left
pinko commi nut jobs, particularly Kim Ogg Holley.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Why don't we start off with this today?
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Rodney Ellis, who basically controls the Harris County Democrats, even
though he's not technically the county judge, is saying this
about kim Ogg. Hang On, I lost the tweet here.
He said there's a special place in hell for Kim Ogg.
So dramatic. Good lord, if that's what he thinks of
Kim Ogg, Holly, what must he think of us?
Speaker 9 (32:47):
Yeah? Those are pretty harsh words coming from Commissioner Ellis,
And as you noted, he seems to be the main
power in the Democratic Party here in Harris County. And
what he's talking about is the fact that Ogg last
year brought charges, or actually we should say a grand
jury indicted a former Harris County Public Health Director, Barbie Robinson.
(33:09):
There were questions about how the county contracted with these
two entities that Robinson exchanged a lot of emails with
using her personal email address. One of the companies appears
to have offered her a job, a paid legal consulting job,
and offered a consulting job to her husband, who she
(33:31):
since filed our divorce from, all while trying to obtain
this contract with Harris County. There was a Texas Rangers investigation.
They filed with the first set of charges last November,
second set of charges in December, and then turned the
cases over to the Texas Attorney General's office. But in January,
(33:53):
when kim Aug's success took over, his name is Sean Tier.
He was endorsed by Rodney Ellis Harris County Judge land Hidalgo,
and we took over. He filed to bring those cases
back to Harris County and then on Friday announced that
all of the four felony charges pending against Director Robinson
(34:14):
would be dropped. The interesting thing is there's some search
for and appidavits. They do appear in the article that
we are publishing at the Texan News so that readers
can read them for themselves. In the you know, there
seems to be a lot of smoke there. So whether
or not these are appropriately dismissed is a big question.
(34:36):
Now kim Ogg is calling for the federal government to
get involved in this case. She's worried now that there
will be destruction of some of this evidence that was
documented by the Texas Rangers and additional evidence that may
be out there in those appidavits, notably between the time
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the first charges were filed and the second charges came
a parent that the county and the legal representation for
the county and Barbie Robinson had not turned over all
of the emails and they only discovered them a little
bit later in the investigation. So augusts very concerned. She
(35:17):
would like for the FBI, in the US Attorney here,
for our district to get involved in this case and
at least preserve the evidence. She believes that, you know,
this is something that should go before the you know,
a jury hear in Harrison County so people can see
exactly what happened, because we're talking about millions of dollars
(35:39):
in contracts. One sub contract amounts to about thirty two million,
another contract about six million dollars. Just so you know,
County Commissioner's Court actually voted to sever ties with one
of these companies because of the performance and a lot
of questions swirling about, you know, their credibility and the
(36:01):
relationship that they had with Barbie Robinson.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Okay, let's talk about Attorney General Ken Paxton's connection to
all of this. Ken Paxton had the case in his hands,
the Texas Rangers, the keim Ogg, they gave him the
case against Lena Headalgo's staff members for the COVID vaccine
outreach trial. It was done, it was wrapped up with
(36:24):
a beautiful bow on it, and Ken Paxton famously dropped
charges against all of Lena Headalgo's staff members.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Some have claimed, you.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Know that Paxton was making a deal with Lena Headalgo
or a deal with the local Democrats.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
We never really got an explanation on that.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
I know, you don't know, Holly Hansen of Vtexan Dot News,
one of my favorite news websites.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
But have you heard rumors about this?
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Like what We never really got a good answer about
why he dropped charges.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
What the hell happened?
Speaker 9 (36:54):
Yeah, you know, there was a lot of questions swirling
about that too. Now to be fair, and Ken Paxton
himself was not personally involved in prosecuting those cases. They
were assigned to a prosecutor within the Oag's office, the
Attorney General's office. But the community year was pretty much
shocked when they found out the charges were being dismissed.
(37:16):
One of them went to defer to adjudication and basically
the slap on the wrist and it will be dismissed
as well, because also in those cases, we had some
lengthy search worm affidavits indicating that there were a lot
of communications. There's a lot of smoke, and I think that.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
A lot of people are observing these public corruption cases
are concerned that, you know, we have certain individuals who
are indicted, but there may have been people higher up
on the.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
Food chain, so to speak, who may have been implicated too.
And so part of Kim Ogg's comments on this is
that these higher ups, you know, we're trying to do
everything they could to make these cases go away so
that there would not be any further indictments. Now, I
don't know if that's true. I'm just reporting on, you know,
(38:06):
what has been said by these officials. You know, Kim
Augs obviously knew a lot of details about these cases,
and you know, was able to talk to a grand jury,
and you know, her prosecutors did come back with four
felony indictments. Now she is saying that this is a
(38:27):
quid pro quote between Rodney Ellis and other officials at
Harris County and the new District Attorney, Shawn Tier. So,
you know, a lot of back and forth, a lot
of heated rhetoric about these cases and August saying, you know,
you can't really count on this new DA to prostitute
public corruption. And you know, I think a lot of
(38:47):
people are wondering what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
All right.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
I've heard rumors that Shawn Tier eats tacos with a fork.
I've heard he eat rumors that he eats vegan brisket.
I have heard that when he stops at Buggies he
doesn't even get beaver nuggets. Can you have you found
proof that any of those rumors are not true?
Speaker 9 (39:06):
Yeah? I would. I cannot confirmer deny that it's you know,
not it within the scope of my own investigative journalism.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
But you know, cool, anybody, well, you couldn't.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
You couldn't confirm or deny that you now have a boyfriend,
and I know that you do. So I think we could.
I think we could form our own opinion on this one.
Happy Seko to Mayo, to my fellow Catholic Holly Hanson,
and all the people out there listening.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
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Speaker 5 (00:22):
I feel bad I didn't wear sombrero today, and I
love being racially insensitive. It's like my favorite thing. I
don't know how it slipped through the cracks today. I
apologize to those of you that were hoping to see
me marginalize an entire culture of people happy Cinco to
Myo kiddos, or as Mexicans worried about ice are calling
it may fifth. My advice for people planning to celebrate
(00:44):
pepto bismo.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Probably a good way to go.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
You could tell it's sinco to Mayo because Pete Hagseth
is already passed out, and boy he does glug clug.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
That guy does love his booze. Everybody is. I don't
hate on him.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
I think I'd rather have a drunk Pete haig Seth
than any number of people from the Pentagon.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
I'd take him over General Millie any day of the week. Hi,
we're gonna talk about that today. We're going to talk
about emigration for those of you that are just getting connected.
A lot of people on the show today that I
am very excited about, Holly Hansen stopping by from the
Texan Dot News. That's a news website for people in Texas,
not shot. It's not just a clever name. You know
who else is joining us today? Another Texas journalist, Savannah Hernandez,
(01:23):
is going to be here. She is you might know
her from the Tucker Carlson Show and local k TH
news reporter and Sunday KPRC Zoomer talk show hosts Ethan
Buchanan will be joining us any minute now. But since
it is saintko Demayo, so you know, I, guys, I
get into it. This is one of my favorite holidays.
I like all I like the I like the music, I.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Like the food.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I like the fact that it's a pointless holiday like
Saint Patrick's Day or Halloween. What even is it? It's
white guys Donnas Sombrero Day. There's no shortage of videos.
There's an infinite number of videos on the Internet of
white liberals. Usually I think they all are originate from
TikTok telling Trump supporters who clearly don't follow them on
(02:05):
social media, so it doesn't matter telling them you ought
not celebrate Sinco to Mayo. You're the reason all these
brown people are scared right now. Shame on you, which
is hilarious because the white liberals on social media with
blue hair and septum piercings. A don't get to decide
who celebrate Sinco to Mayo and B kind of don't
realize that years ago they were telling us it was
(02:26):
racist to celebrate it in the first place, but now
they could celebrate it.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
What even are the rules? Nobody knows?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
And why do they hate Trump so much over his
position on well, obviously not Sinco to Mayo, but immigration.
That's what this all stems from. It's funny you look
at the pulling data, and you know who doesn't hate Trump.
Hispanic voters, especially men, but women too. Multi generational Latino
voters from the United States tend to be pro life.
They're pro labor, pro working, pro having a job, they
(02:54):
have big families, they're Catholic. Does that sound like a
group of people that are going to vote Democrats? No, no, no,
I get it. It just hopped over the border Central
American illegal immigrants probably not the most pro Trump, I
get it, but they're not supposed to be voting. They're
not even citizens, right. Look at all the crazy news
stories today originating out of Mexico and Central America. Stolen
(03:17):
Mexico oil, smuggled into the US and then taken back.
According to Trump administration investigators, they're smuggling oil now, so
not don enough to just smuggle drugs and people. Even
oil gets smuggled. Here's a wild headline today would be
kidnappers now injecting victims with drugs in Mexico City. Mexico City,
that's supposed to be the one place in Mexico that's
(03:38):
kind of like Europe, they claim, and yet at the
same time it's still Mexico. So all that being said,
couldn't ignore this one today, gun toting al Salvadoran gang
member arrested after Maryland authorities protection fails. I can't Why
are they always in Maryland? It's another Maryland dad?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Everybody? How many Maryland Dads are there?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Do you think that liberal Democrats even regret defending that guy?
What was his name, kilmore ironic name. I don't think
he killed anybody, but he did beat his wife, and
there's an audio recording of her begging for protection from
this guy. It reminds me of another weird news story today.
Follow the bouncing ball for a minute. Alec Baldwin was
involved in a lawsuit with the family members of Helena Hutchins,
(04:19):
the cinematographer who he shot to death on the set
of that movie Rust. Well, Rust is now out in theaters,
and weirdly, two those family members of Helena Hutchins are
out promoting the movie, telling people she would have wanted
you to see it. That seems like a weird thing
to do, promoting the movie that killed your family member. Well,
it turns out part of the deal that they reached
(04:41):
after they sued him for killing their family members a
civil lawsuit, he told them they could have the profits
from the movie Rust, which means if you don't go
see Rust, they don't get anything. Well, Rust looks like
a crap movie. Alec Baldwin thought he could do a
cowboy movie because Kevin Costner was the star of Yellowstone.
No people in Texas in Wyoming and they don't like
Alec Baldwin. Nobody believes he's a cowboy anyway, If you
(05:04):
don't go see Russ. It's hurting Helena Hutchins family today.
And that reminds me of the wife of Maryland Dad.
The wife of Maryland Dad is now saying keep him
in the country. Why would she say that? There's this
guy beat you all the time. There's an audio recording
of you begging law enforcement in America to protect you
from this guy that was seen on camera purportedly smuggling
(05:24):
humans across state lines, going back and forth from Tennessee
to Missouri to Maryland in a car filled with nine
migrants like hanging out. If this was a Rico case,
his association with MS thirteen gang members would have had
him in jail a year ago. And I don't like
Rico laws, but they exist. I don't get to decide that.
So if they affect you and I, why wouldn't they
(05:45):
affect this guy. It's a good question, right And where
is he now? In Al Salvador prison? And I have
to wonder if he knew my blind date this weekend.
I got catfished this weekend by an illegal immigrant from
Al Salvador.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It's actually wilder than it sounds. I'll tell you the
story right after this.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Hang on one second everybody can instead of Kang.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
point fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
It is I Kenny Webster. I am.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
It's always interesting when hot button news stories affect us
in real life, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I think so?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Right, Like, most of you probably didn't have an opinion
about the fentanyl crisis until you knew somebody that was
affected by fentyl.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Right, many of you might not, but some of you
probably do.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
You know, you had a friend or a family member
that got addicted to the stuff, or somebody that accidentally
got exposed to it when they were trying to do
something else, whatever, and suddenly you had an opinion about fentyl.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Suddenly you cared.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
You never cared about the trade war until you realized
your uncle in the Rust belt lost his manufacturing job. Well,
this weekend, I Kenny Webster got catfished by an illegal immigrant.
You know who's in the studio right now. It's my
buddy Ethan Buchanan.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
What's up? What's up? Everybody? Somebody asked the other day
if you were my co host?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
I said no, no, no, But Ethan is a zoomer.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I like him. He's a good guy. He's twenty two
years old.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Ethan hosts a weekend afternoon show on our sister station, KTRH.
KPRC is on this station. But you're a journalist on KTRH,
which is cool because you're twenty two and you know
why you're a good journalist. You didn't go to a
liberal university's journalism school. No, I did not That would
make you a bad journalist.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Well, because now I can't put the perspective of you know,
gender ideology and open borders on all of my stories.
It's difficult. I don't have that lens to look at
everything for there anymore. So I have to do unbiased journalism,
which sucks.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Yeah, this weekend or this week, I think on Wednesday,
real ID goes into effect.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Real idea is for those that don't know, there's a
star in the corner of your driver's license. If you
got your driver's license in the last several years, you
probably already have a real ID. What is real ID? Basically,
the federal government just wants to be more. It's I
I'm not going to I'll give you a lazy explanation
of it, but they're making the ID process a little
more complicated if you're flying on Wednesday and you don't
(08:05):
have a real ID, which you probably do have a
real ID, but if you don't bring your passport with
as an extra form of idea or you're gonna get
stuck in line. And the liberal media is already blaming
Trump for real ID. They are Should I blame Trump
forgetting catfish this weekend on a blind date?
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Should you blame Trump for getting catfish on a blind date?
That's a that's a difficult question. Yes, I think so
because it sounds like if he had done his job better,
she wouldn't have been in the country.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I've already had opinions about illegal immigrants, but now I
want to see real ID in dating apps.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I do. I went on it. No Ethan, you laugh.
I went on a date this weekend.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
I thought it was going to be a thirty year
old Latina and it was a It was a geriatric,
elderly plus sized woman that didn't speak She didn't speak English.
Do you know who the Do you know Tim Dillon
and Louis J. Gomez do a podcast together? You know
who Louis J. Gomez is?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You're the right demo for that.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
He was in town this weekend and I was I
had a date with a Latina.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
And I thought, oh, I'll take her to see Lewis J. Gomas.
She'll probably enjoy that. She did not. She didn't get
any of the joke.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Well, I show up. First of all, she's late for
the date by almost an hour. Oh, we were gonna
meet and get cocktails and then go on the date.
And she's late. And I would if not for the
fact that I had tickets to something, I would have
just walked out. But I have tickets for something. She's
supposed to go with me, so I wait. She finally
shows up and she's like, Oh, are we going to
get drinks. I'm like, no, you're an hour late. We
have to go to the show now. So we go
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to the show. We get in and I'm like, do
you like Leuis J.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
Gomes?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
She says, I know speak a lot of English. I'm like,
this is I have been tricked. I So now I
want real idea.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
You know what this is? Tell me?
Speaker 8 (09:45):
So she's scrolling through whatever dating app and she sees
a strapping white man like yourself who's clearly a citizen,
and she thinks I'm getting my papers.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
It's not that I wouldn't marry someone for the you know,
to help them get citizenship, because I have no moral standards,
but I you know, but I want a little doray
me for this. I want some cash.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Where's the quid pro quill?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Wu tang quicker? Not getting papers for free cash rules
everything around me.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Cream, get the money, Get the denaro out, young lady. Anyway,
you're here today, Ethan, and you are a local journalist
who is doing work today. Apparently I want to get
to the thing about wit Meyer, but can we talk
about the other students for study story today? Immigrants driving
Houston's growth? What happens if Trump keeps them out? The
Houston Chronicle really wants you to think that the biggest
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city in Texas, the oil and gas headquarters of the world,
which is now actually profiting immensely off Donald Trump's energy policies,
is somehow going to suffer if we get rid of
all the trendy Aragua and MS thirteen gang members.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I'm sure you have a lot to say about this.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Yeah, it's it's kind of funny because they don't, I think,
know what point they're trying to make here because I mean,
just look at the headlines. Immigrants drive Houston's growth. What
happens if Trump keeps them out? Okay, well, what immigrants
are Trump keeping out? Right?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So far?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
They want to make it sound like they're deporting the
cleaning ladies and the kitchen workers, but they're not. It's
mostly just been criminal, dangerous criminals so far.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
And even if like the immigrants that are driving Houston's growth,
those are not the illegal aliens, right right, But Trump
says what happens or Crown says what happens if Trump
keeps them out? So they're trying to get you to
kind of think Trump is just cracking down on immigration.
That's not what's happening, right. No conservative is just cracking
down on illegal immigration. I mean a few are, but
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they're the fringe. No mainstream Republican is saying we don't
want any immigration. They're saying we don't want illegal immigration,
which should be a no brainer, right. The immigrants that
are driving Houston's growth, that are coming in, participating in
our economy and making the city and the country great,
as has been the American tradition for hundreds of years.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Are legal.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Yeah, the people that Trump is keeping out are like
you pointed out, the trend de Rago gang members, the
people that are actually a threat to Houstonians like Jocelyn Nungray.
So either Trump is hampering Houston's growth or we need
Houston's growth to be based off of criminal gang members
that come in and murder twelve year old girls. Which
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case are you trying to make cron because either way
you're wrong.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Yeah, the Houston Chronicle is garbage. You know, it's hurst
media obviously. But hey, while we're on the topic here,
Donald Trump was talking on Air Force one yesterday and
he was asked about the Mexican president declining his offer
to help out with the cartels down there.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I want to play a little bit of this audio
before we react to.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Jopes in to Mexico to take care of the cartowns.
She wants to know his debt true. Do you think
I'm going to answer that question? I will answer it.
Organization be They are horrible people that have been killing
people left and right, that have been They've made a
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fortune and selling drugs and destroying our people. With most
freens a thousand people to fit it all in drugs.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
It's always I know it's not the best audio because
he's onboard Air Force one. But he's talking about the
Mexican president declining his offer for help. And I don't
know how many people realize this. I assume most of
our audience does. But most of the Mexican government, all
the way up to the tippy tippy top of their
federal government, as AOC would describe it, are compromised by
the cartels's billions of dollars in money there and in
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Mexico they even it's a little bit like prohibition in
the United States back in the nineteen twenties. Mexican residents
are very divided on how they feel about the cartels.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Some of them like them, some of them don't.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
You know, in the nineteen twenties, there were people that
supported the prohibition, people that didn't. You know, it's politically
it's a little different down there. In America. It's left
verse right down there, it's pro cartel versus anti cartel,
to the point where even one of their most popular
music genres Narco Corridore, they're called drug ballots. It's a
subgenre of Mexican corrito's narrative ballads. Basically, if you hear
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this music in Mexico and you don't speak Spanish, you
wouldn't think much of it. It would sound like the music
you'd hear in the background at a chili's or at
a you know, at a tex mex restaurant, like PoCA waltz,
tuba trombone music. But they're singing about narrative ballads, telling
stories about how great the cartel leaders are. It's almost
kind of like Mexican gangster rap. But it wouldn't sound
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that way to you and I. We would just think
of it as the music we'd hear at a resort.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Yeah, And I mean it kind of makes sense because
Mexico on average is a very poor and disorderly country.
So if you have, you know, any group at all,
even if there are a cartel coming in and saying, hey,
we're gonna establish order and some form of opportunity. Maybe
that order is aside from all the gangs killing everybody
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all the time, the cartel runs this area. And now
I have the opportunity to advance to the cartel. Well
that's better than nothing to a certain extent for some people.
So yeah, I love the cartels. They're great. They gave
me a job.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Yeah, it's you know, the leader of l Salvador was
talking about this recently. There are people in academia, there
are people in the streets of some of these big
cities that will argue you can't just remove the criminal element.
And you're like, well, why not. Are you afraid of them?
They say, no, it'll damage the economy. These are the
only people feeding the poor. These are the only people
building the orphanages. These are the only people funding the schools.
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It's like, well, hang on a minute, they're the only
people doing that because we're allowing them to go out
and commit crimes and basically enslave everybody. You know, people
make this argument is like, all right, too much anarchy
leads back to authoritarianism.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
If you go far enough in any direction politically on
the political spectrum left versus right, you end up in
the same place the horses theory right, you go exactly.
You go too far into anarchy, you end up in authoritarianism.
You go too far into authoritarianism, you end up in anarchy.
Go too far into communism, you end up in fascism.
Too far into fascism, and so on and so forth.
I don't know why people think you can't just remove
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the criminal element and the society will somehow fail because
of that. But Kelli already proved that wasn't true. But
all that being said on that point, I want to
end this conversation on this note. Right here, there is
one group of people that seems to love the cartels
even more than the poor people in Mexico and these
little villages seem to love them, and that is CNN.
Over the weekends, CNN interviewed one of these I don't
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know if this is what exactly this guy's role was.
And the cartels, by the way people always go, it's
the cartel.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Well there's multiple cartels.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Sineloa, Los Seta's a golf cartel, and they don't all
get along with each other. But a cartel connected gunman
was interviewed on CNN this weekend, and they were basically
trying to bait the guy into making Trump bad while
simultaneously making this guy that murders people look like a hero.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
WA's what happened with the CNN journalist. It did not
end well.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Outing to the Trump administration, you are a terrorist. I mean,
the cartels have been labeled foreign terrorist organization. What do
you make of that.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Before he answers the question, she says, according to the
Trump administration, no, according to reality, they're terrorists. These people
blow up newspapers, they murder journalists, they be head journalists.
If this woman was a Mexican journalist instead of an
American journalist, and she was living at the border in Mexico,
she would be terrified for her life. They would be
blackmailing her all the time. One of her family members
would be locked in a a shipping crate somewhere. Yeah,
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we'll let him out when you write a positive story
about us. That happens all the time down there. These
American journalists in the liberal media acts like these people
in the cartels are Robinhood.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
They're absolutely not. They're more like Charles Manson.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Putting to the Trump administration, you are a terrorist. I mean,
the cartels have been labeled foreign terrorist organization.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
What do you make of that?
Speaker 6 (17:38):
What's your message to Donald Trump? If he's watching this.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I'm sorry I should have been translating this because it's
in Spanish and it just occurred to me. Not everybody
could see thee What he's saying is this he's saying
in my respect, According to him, he's looking out for
his people. But the problem is the consumers are in
the United States. If there weren't any consumers, we would stop.
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So what he's saying is the whole reason that we
sell drugs in America is because Americans want to buy drugs.
If they didn't buy drugs, we wouldn't sell it to them.
But the other thing that makes the SoundBite so interesting
or video for those of you watching us on social
media not listening on the radio, is this guy is
actually admitting out loud, even though this liberal CNN journalist
hates Trump, he doesn't hate Trump. He has nothing but
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respect for Trump. I got a funny feeling here. He
probably didn't feel the same way about the Biden administration.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Hapiness Radio.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Most of you probably don't watch Meet the Press anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Thanks to X and Elon Musk, a lot of us
just watch these shows when they're in sixty second sound
bites and clips on the internet, because why bother tuning
in to watch people lie to you?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's, you know, things, interesting things happen.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
We often say, we watched CNN and CBS News and
those other networks, so you don't have to and meet
the presses.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
On NBC News over the.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Weekend, President Trump was asked about the low level activist
judges who are out right now trying to protect illegal
immigrants in foreign countries. There have been a lot of
these recently, but obviously the most famous is quote unquote
Maryland Dad. At first, they tried to make it sound
like this guy was an American who accidentally got deported,
and then they said, okay, he's not a citizen, but
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he still wasn't supposed to be deported. And then he realized, okay,
he actually was an illegal immigrant who skipped court a
couple times, and he beat his wife, and there's a
video of him smuggling migrants across the state lines. And
if this was a Rico case, he'd probably already be
in prison if he was an American because of his
association with MS thirteen. But don't let facts get in
the way of a good narrative. Here's Donald Trump over
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the weekend.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
We're doing great on illegal immigration. We are being hit
hard by judges that I think they've trying to take
away the power of the presidency. I was elected in
a massive landslide and a big, big vote. We won
the swing states, we won the popular vote, we won
the district votes by tremendous numbers. We want everything, And
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one of the reasons, one of the primary reasons I
was elected, was to get people out of our country
that were allowed. We have prisoners, we have murderers, we
have terrorists in our country. We have people from mental
institutions that are seriously insane. They all came in through
Biden's open border policy, and I was elected to get
them out and to seal the border, but to get
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them out. And we'll have judges.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
They're activist judges.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
They're saying, well, you know, you don't have the right
to take out murderers and people that you don't even
want to talk about. These are really some really bad
criminal people and they're here illegally.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I wanted them to say own braids. I miss when
they said bad own braids. Look, I could wax intellectual
on activist judges and tell you things you probably already
heard me day before. But instead of me doing that,
I'd love to turn it over to somebody probably a
little more versed on this topic. A lot of you
might follow Savannah Hernandez on ex Twitter.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
If you don't, you should.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
She describes herself as Savannah with one end, but I
would describe her as actually one of the best journalists
and reporters in the state. She is beautiful and brilliant,
and she has done a lot of work covering the
dangerous activist judges around our state and not only connected
to illegal immigration, but criminals getting released from prison. Savannah,
thank you so much for your time this afternoon.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
Kenny, really excited to be here.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Yeah, before we get to who you are, as I'd
love you to explain some of the work you do. Well,
it's still fresh on everyone's mind. What did you think
of what the President said in that SoundBite?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
Absolutely?
Speaker 11 (21:46):
I mean the reason why I started doing my deep
dive into the corrupt district court judges here in Texas
is because I was watching how district court judges kept
block the executive orders of the President. I mean, as
it stands, we've had Veniceuelans that have been stopped from
being deported in Texas. That you also have the Birthright
Citizenship executive Order that President Trump signed that's been stalled
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due to another District court judge. I believe the Supreme
Court is going to be hearing that case later on
this month. And then you have another judge in New
York who just blocked ICE agent from being allowed to
use Riker's Island. And then let's not forget the other
two judges who are recently just arrested for harboring or
even allowing illegal aliens to escape from ICE. So this
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is a really huge issue. And for a long time,
the right wing was focused in on a lot of
the protesters that were on the ground, wrecking havoc on
the streets of the United States. But now we've reached
a new level where we have judicial activists who are
not interpreting the law neutruly, but are instead working to
interpret the law through the lens of activism.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I think you explained that perfectly.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
And you know, Savannah, and know a lot of our
listeners have probably seen you before on Tucker Carlson or
they follow you on social media. But for those people
that don't, you're young, sharp, you're very energetic on this topic.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
How'd you get into this?
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Well?
Speaker 10 (23:08):
I work for Turning Point USA, I work with our
frontline's division. And I've been on the ground since really
the beginning of Donald Trump's presidency. I initially was doing
those fun and on the street videos, and I truly
wanted to get to the core of why people hated
Donald Trump. No one could ever give me an answer,
and from there it really just turned into investigative journalism,
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into how we got to a period in America where
the media is lying to us, where our politicians and
now our district court judges are actively working against the
interests of the American people. So that's where I'm at
right now, is again really trying to investigate the judicial
branch of our country, because, like I said, we have
gotten so far away from what the founding fathers initially
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created this country to be, and it's madness.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yeah, we have a lot of people out in our
industry who you know, they're journalists, but most of the
work that they do is just on a computer or
in their house around their phone. You're actually one of
those journalists that goes out and does groundwork. There's a
video of you recently where you went to a quote
unquote harm reduction center and found piles of glass pipes
and needles on the street, and you don't strike me
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as somebody who's like physically intimidating. But you're going to
dangerous places all the time. Do you ever feel unsafe?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (24:21):
Absolutely, Kenny. But that's why I go and do these
things because I want to understand what the average American
is living through. Over the past four years, I was
covering the drug and homeless crisis and also the illegal
immigration crisis, because every the Americans are having to live
around this, and I wanted to understand what was going on. So,
for example, I went to Philadelphia's Kensington Avenue. I've been
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to San Francisco, here in Austin, Seattle, Portland, and I
was covering the drug and homeless crisis, and I wanted
to be on the ground and show people what in
every day I guess afternoon looks like in these areas,
and they're absolutely terrifying. And this is a direct result
of a lot of soft on crime policy, a lot
of Democrat policy really that has created these harm reduction
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centers in which, instead of helping the drug addicted or
mentally ill on the streets, were instead enabling them by
giving them meals, by giving them glass pipes, basically giving
them everything they need to use drugs and live on
the streets short.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
Of the drugs themselves.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
So that was one of the reasons why I got
into again really focusing in on how America has degraded
so much. Of course, I then focused in on the
illegal immigration issue as well, because you know, we all
want to say for country, and where is all of
this crime coming from. Well, it's coming from again, the
district court judges that are allowing this type of criminal
activity to happen every single day. It's the NGO to
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then go and give paraphernalia to drug addicts or further
traffic illegal immigrants into the United States. And then of
course we have our federal government who who for the
past four years actively worked against the American people and
facilitated an invasion of our country. And now we're working
against the district court judges who are again stopping the
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executive orders. I mean, Kenny, at the end of the day,
we gave Donald Trump the mandate, right, I mean, this
man won the electoral lost the popular votes. He won
with flying colors because the American people were tired. We
put him in office to fix these issues. And you
now have these district court judges across the United States
who are stalling executive orders, and it is, like I
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said earlier, just straight up madness.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
I see it the same way as well. Like you,
I'm a resident of Texas. My support of Governor Rabbit
has always been like a roller coaster ride of doing things.
I didn't love him during the pandemic. I feel like
he stepped it up at the border. During Biden's time
in office, school choice great, and on this issue, I
feel like at least lately he's done a good job.
Last week he was here in Houston doing a roundtable
(26:50):
with crime stoppers and our moderate Democrat Mayor Whitmeyer, not
the worst Democrat, and he called a lot of attention
to this ACLU protesting against releasing danger orist criminals. We
just got to report last week about how the Harris
County magistrates handed out ten thousand pr bonds for felonies
in twenty twenty four, ten twenty times for felons in
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possession of a weapon.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
That it's Savannah. That is insane to me.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
You're somebody that follows this very specific topic very closely.
You've been doing it for years now, so I guess
this is a two part question. Do you feel like
it's improving considering who's in charge of the federal government
at the moment. And I know it's impossible to predictive elections,
but where do you see this going in the next
couple of years. Do you feel good about the midterms,
especially when it comes to this topic. Are the Democrats
waking up to the fact that they can't just empty
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the jails and open the borders?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
What do you think happens next?
Speaker 10 (27:41):
I'm really hoping that we can we continue on this
trajectory in which the American people are awake and understand
how our country has gotten as degraded as it has gotten.
I really hope that continues on a national level so
that way into the midterms we can elect the correct
people into leadership positions that are going to keep this
country safe. But again, Kenny, I think that you know,
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you and I we were talking before this interview about
how we're both Texas citizens, and I think that's something
that I really try to direct a lot of people
toward is their local elections. Right So here in Texas,
for example, we have our own issues with district court
judges and Mike he were saying, these criminals being re
released time and time again. And we can look at
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the federal level all day long and the midterms, but
until people get activated and wake up to what's happening
at a local level and start voting out the district
court judges, you know, start voting for the correct city
council members, that's where the real change happens. And I
really hope that people again start, you know, redirecting their
focus there. I've been working on a new series about
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the district court judges in Harris County specifically because you know,
I was asking the question, why is it that Harris
County has the highest crime rate in all of Texas?
And again you have multiple Democrat judges who have a
pattern of releasing That one is Hillary Hunger. She released
eight defendants who then went on to commit murder. I
just put a video out about Judge Wory Chambers Great
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she released ten defendants who then went on to commit murder.
So you have these patterns of these judges somehow getting
re elected into office and then continuing this cycle of
crime degradation and working against the interest of not only Texans,
but again, if you look at the federal level the
American people. So I really just hope that anybody who
hears this starts taking a hard look at who their
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district court judge is, who is on their city council,
who is running their state, and really focusing on the
local level, because until we fix things locally, you know,
it's harder to fix things federally, because like we're dealing
with right now, these district court judges that are stopping
these executive orders, they need to be dealt with on.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
A local level.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Savannah, you I'm a big fan of what you do.
For those that don't know who Savannah Hernandez as, she
is absolutely nails on these topics and she's I'm glad
she's on the good guys side. You could follow her
on x, Instagram, YouTube, She's got a website, She's on Rumble.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
It's not hard to find her.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
But if you just want to find her on exit's
at sav underscore saz underscore yeah, as says excuse me,
underscore Yeah. To just look for Savannah Hernandez with one end.
She is fantastic at what she does. You'll be glad
you follow her. Hey quick Break more with Holly Hanson
of the Texan Do News.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Right after this, Ladies and Gentlemen, Pursuit of Happiness Radio
You and now a sad.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Kind of an unintended theme for the second half the
show here of having beautiful, brilliant female journalists on the show,
we now go from Savannah Hernandez, who you absolutely must
follow if you're a Texan and you care about activist judges,
to Holly Hansen, who you absolutely must follow if you're
a Texan and you care about activist judge. True, they're
both covering different stories, but it's scary how much is
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happening and how much of this stuff's related, and before
we get to any of that, and we'll be brief
about this. Every time Holly Hanson's on the show. A
common question I get from some of our male listeners is, Kenny,
can you set me up on a date with her?
And I cannot do that. Holly Hansen has a boyfriend. Now,
is that correct?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Holly?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Oh, that's the rumor. Okay, well, but you're not denying it,
is what I'm taking Okay, great, well, Holly, that's not
why you're here today. Holly's a real journalist. This isn't
a romance discussion. Show well araw my dirty laundry, not Holly's.
But all that being said, Holly Hansen has been covering
the feud between the in the inner civil War of Houston,
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Texas Democrats for as long as she's been writing at
The Texan. And I just we go from Sylvester Turner
to Whitmeyer and Sheila Jackson Lee rest in peace to
two of those three people, and Kim Ogg and Rodney Ellis.
And you think that Lena hedalgo, these people are all
in the same political party.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
They must all get along with each other. They don't.
They don't.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
They laugh at us as Republicans because we don't matter.
But you know, wit Meyer probably needs us. I think
there's a story today in the Chronicle, a headline here,
Mayor Whitmeyer's smart to play nice with Republicans, it says,
it's in the opinion section. It's from last week, but whatever,
it's still there if you want to go read the article.
And it makes a lot of sense because the moderate Democrats,
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who actually seem to mostly control this city right now
but not completely, are at odds with the far left
pinko commi nut jobs, particularly Kim Ogg Holley.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Why don't we start off with this today?
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Rodney Ellis, who basically controls the Harris County Democrats, even
though he's not technically the county judge, is saying this
about kim Ogg. Hang On, I lost the tweet here.
He said there's a special place in hell for Kim Ogg.
So dramatic. Good lord, if that's what he thinks of
Kim Ogg, Holly, what must he think of us?
Speaker 9 (32:47):
Yeah? Those are pretty harsh words coming from Commissioner Ellis,
And as you noted, he seems to be the main
power in the Democratic Party here in Harris County. And
what he's talking about is the fact that Ogg last
year brought charges, or actually we should say a grand
jury indicted a former Harris County Public Health Director, Barbie Robinson.
(33:09):
There were questions about how the county contracted with these
two entities that Robinson exchanged a lot of emails with
using her personal email address. One of the companies appears
to have offered her a job, a paid legal consulting job,
and offered a consulting job to her husband, who she
(33:31):
since filed our divorce from, all while trying to obtain
this contract with Harris County. There was a Texas Rangers investigation.
They filed with the first set of charges last November,
second set of charges in December, and then turned the
cases over to the Texas Attorney General's office. But in January,
(33:53):
when kim Aug's success took over, his name is Sean Tier.
He was endorsed by Rodney Ellis Harris County Judge land Hidalgo,
and we took over. He filed to bring those cases
back to Harris County and then on Friday announced that
all of the four felony charges pending against Director Robinson
(34:14):
would be dropped. The interesting thing is there's some search
for and appidavits. They do appear in the article that
we are publishing at the Texan News so that readers
can read them for themselves. In the you know, there
seems to be a lot of smoke there. So whether
or not these are appropriately dismissed is a big question.
(34:36):
Now kim Ogg is calling for the federal government to
get involved in this case. She's worried now that there
will be destruction of some of this evidence that was
documented by the Texas Rangers and additional evidence that may
be out there in those appidavits, notably between the time
(34:56):
the first charges were filed and the second charges came
a parent that the county and the legal representation for
the county and Barbie Robinson had not turned over all
of the emails and they only discovered them a little
bit later in the investigation. So augusts very concerned. She
(35:17):
would like for the FBI, in the US Attorney here,
for our district to get involved in this case and
at least preserve the evidence. She believes that, you know,
this is something that should go before the you know,
a jury hear in Harrison County so people can see
exactly what happened, because we're talking about millions of dollars
(35:39):
in contracts. One sub contract amounts to about thirty two million,
another contract about six million dollars. Just so you know,
County Commissioner's Court actually voted to sever ties with one
of these companies because of the performance and a lot
of questions swirling about, you know, their credibility and the
(36:01):
relationship that they had with Barbie Robinson.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Okay, let's talk about Attorney General Ken Paxton's connection to
all of this. Ken Paxton had the case in his hands,
the Texas Rangers, the keim Ogg, they gave him the
case against Lena Headalgo's staff members for the COVID vaccine
outreach trial. It was done, it was wrapped up with
(36:24):
a beautiful bow on it, and Ken Paxton famously dropped
charges against all of Lena Headalgo's staff members.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Some have claimed, you.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Know that Paxton was making a deal with Lena Headalgo
or a deal with the local Democrats.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
We never really got an explanation on that.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
I know, you don't know, Holly Hansen of Vtexan Dot News,
one of my favorite news websites.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
But have you heard rumors about this?
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Like what We never really got a good answer about
why he dropped charges.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
What the hell happened?
Speaker 9 (36:54):
Yeah, you know, there was a lot of questions swirling
about that too. Now to be fair, and Ken Paxton
himself was not personally involved in prosecuting those cases. They
were assigned to a prosecutor within the Oag's office, the
Attorney General's office. But the community year was pretty much
shocked when they found out the charges were being dismissed.
(37:16):
One of them went to defer to adjudication and basically
the slap on the wrist and it will be dismissed
as well, because also in those cases, we had some
lengthy search worm affidavits indicating that there were a lot
of communications. There's a lot of smoke, and I think that.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
A lot of people are observing these public corruption cases
are concerned that, you know, we have certain individuals who
are indicted, but there may have been people higher up
on the.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
Food chain, so to speak, who may have been implicated too.
And so part of Kim Ogg's comments on this is
that these higher ups, you know, we're trying to do
everything they could to make these cases go away so
that there would not be any further indictments. Now, I
don't know if that's true. I'm just reporting on, you know,
(38:06):
what has been said by these officials. You know, Kim
Augs obviously knew a lot of details about these cases,
and you know, was able to talk to a grand jury,
and you know, her prosecutors did come back with four
felony indictments. Now she is saying that this is a
(38:27):
quid pro quote between Rodney Ellis and other officials at
Harris County and the new District Attorney, Shawn Tier. So,
you know, a lot of back and forth, a lot
of heated rhetoric about these cases and August saying, you know,
you can't really count on this new DA to prostitute
public corruption. And you know, I think a lot of
(38:47):
people are wondering what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
All right.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
I've heard rumors that Shawn Tier eats tacos with a fork.
I've heard he eat rumors that he eats vegan brisket.
I have heard that when he stops at Buggies he
doesn't even get beaver nuggets. Can you have you found
proof that any of those rumors are not true?
Speaker 9 (39:06):
Yeah? I would. I cannot confirmer deny that it's you know,
not it within the scope of my own investigative journalism.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
But you know, cool, anybody, well, you couldn't.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
You couldn't confirm or deny that you now have a boyfriend,
and I know that you do. So I think we could.
I think we could form our own opinion on this one.
Happy Seko to Mayo, to my fellow Catholic Holly Hanson,
and all the people out there listening.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
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(39:53):
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