May 20, 2026 • 36 mins
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- Driving in the rain
- Trump endorses Paxton
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 4 (00:31):
All right, welcome to very soggy Houston, Texas. Careful out there,
but I do you do you have a vehicle that
you considered to be kind of, you know, heavy and
good in the rain. I have a a Chevy Sylvil
Rider pickup truck. Love that truck, and uh I drove
in this morning. It's really raining hard this morning. I
mean this is not Brandon hard just about all the
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time this between now and and Sunday. But I was
a hydro planning like nobody's business. They're just the the
rain was coming down, you know, consistently for so long
that the water has really been pondings on. I know,
you know, to be careful out there. I'm not here
to give you driving instructions. Lord knows I would say
this that I would give a little more slack today
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to people who are driving around with their flashers on.
I know it drives me crazy too, you know, people
people who drive really slow with their flashers on when
we're having a big, heavy rainstorm. But I've kind of
rearranged my thinking. Instead of being annoyed by that, I'm
only going to be annoyed if you're in the in
the left lane doing it. I don't even care if
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you're in the middle lane doing it, because I know
if you're in the middle lane, you're probably doing it
because you're trying to avoid the edge of the road
ways where the ponding is going to be more severe.
You're trying to get to the top of the crown
on the road where it's going to be the driest
or the least likelihood that there'sould be ponding going on.
But don't I don't care if you are afraid. Well,
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first of all, if you're afraid, you probably shouldn't be
out there driving, but you be if you were general
concerned about hydro planning. I don't blame you. I had
that happened to me this morning despite my best efforts
of trying to be very very careful. So you know,
give a little slack if you run into people who
are flashing their their hazard lights today because you know
it's it's really what out there and is causing some issues.
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All right, little follow up today on the show before
we get into the big endorsement yesterday President Trump endorsing
Ken Paxton. We've got that covered six ways to Sunday.
We'll do that in our next segment. But I wanted
to follow up in a story we did yesterday because
evidently the ankle Monitors story of two now two murder
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suspects who managed to get out of their ankle monitors,
one going to Italy, the other one just fleeing. We're
not sure where he is. You evidently needn't have much
of a problem getting out of the ankle monitor, and
I thought I would like to think those things are
more secure them that anyway, the people responsible for monitoring
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these people, you haven't been able to get a word
out of them. I mean, they've been quite as quiet
as can be. But Adrian Garcia, who of course used
to be sheriff, is the Precinct two commissioner. He is,
he's on top of it. I guess, well, he's on
top of the opportunity. I think this is an opportunity
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for good publicity for him. He probably sees it that way,
and it's in an area of expertise you would think
with a law enforcement background. But he hasn't said anything
yet about what he intends to do about it, other
than bring it up a commissioner's court. Here's the report
on all this from our television partner KPRC too.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Harris County Commissioner Adrian Garcia is promising to take a
plan to Commissioner's Court to strengthen the county's GPS ankle
monitoring program, Which comes just about twenty four hours after
we revealed a second Harris County murder defendant this month
is accused of cutting off his court ordered monitor just
before trial, and a statement to KPRC two news, Commissioner
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Garcia says recent stories of two first time defendants cutting
their monitors shows that these devices can be effective in
informing authorities of a potential escape. Making sure that this
technology can work to its fullest capability has always been
a concern of mind to bolster public safety. He added,
I know we can still do more to ensure compliance
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and accountability, especially from violent offenders. So these are the
two men who cut off their Ankle monitors before trial.
Walter Posos is a wanted fugitive tonight, accused of cutting
that GPS monitor off just two days before his murder
trial was scheduled to start last week. He's charged in
the twenty twenty three death of his passenger, who died
as he sped away from deputies and then legally is
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in custody in Italy after cutting off his monitor and
using a fake name to fly to Milan, where he
allegedly used forged travel documents and claimed asylum just weeks
before the capital murder trial for his pregnant wife, Christa
Bauer's twenty twenty four death. So tonight, the specifics for
any plans from the Commissioner are not being shared, and
the timing of all of this is expected to be
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over the summer, according to a spokesperson for his office. Tonight,
the executive director of Pre Trial Services that's the agency
in charge of monitoring these defendants who are on bond,
tells me that she is not sharing anything publicly about
these situations, and the Sheriff's office confirms that deputies tonight
are still looking for Posos, while Gilly still has court proceedings.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Pending in Italy.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
All right, so supposedly Adrian Garcia wants to strengthen the program.
He doesn't have any details because I don't think he's
had an opportunity to create any ideas at this point.
I think he's talking about this now because it's in
the news and because he's going to get publicity for
talking about it now. But it's something that they're going
to work on this summer. Well, what do we mean
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by that? June, July, August, those are the summer months.
You would think that it wouldn't take three months. I
would hope to come up with some ideas, not the
least of which is, you know, where where where do
we have the biggest problems as far as the monitoring
these of these monitors. Is there not something on these
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monitors that can indicate that they've been tampered with somehow?
And if there isn't, is there new technology that would
be available? Or is it possible that maybe they if
they've been really keeping an eye on these monitors, they
would have seen that they were being tampered with. You know,
that's the part I need to know more. I guess
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about how these monitors ankle monitors actually work before I
could have come up with what I would hope would
be some fairly good ideas of what can be done.
I think that generally speaking, the monitoring is probably relatively
la lax lax, thank you. I'm also guessing though, that
most of the time this isn't a problem. You know,
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it's it's highly unlikely that you would have two murder
suspects who had done something like this. You know, most
of the people who are on ankle monitors are on
ankle monitors for doing far less than killing somebody. Maybe
the problem is not that there's a problem with the
ankle monitor Maybe the problem is is that we decided
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to put ankle monitors on murder suspects, especially one a
guy who murdered his pregnant wife.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
That.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, that tells you that that that that would wreak
of especially somebody who has money, would wreak of desperation
in wanting to get away. Yeah, so maybe we just
don't put ankle monitors on murder suspects. Maybe we keep
them in jail or somewhat more secure where we can
really keep an eye on them. All right, quick little
break back with more in a moment. More on the
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The Paxton endorsement by President Trump coming up next during
a nine to fifty KPRC in The Jimmy Barrett Show,
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I've got a lot of audio to get in in
this next segment. Here, we may go just a little
bit long, because I did. This is the big story.
The surprise, at least to me, was a surprise, the
surprise endorsement that President Trump gave Ken Paxton. Not that
he shouldn't have endorse him. He should, but I didn't
think he was going to. And it's very very clear
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to me now that the endorsement has come out that
he is endorsing Ken Paxton if for no other reason
than John Thune and John Cornyn failed him yet again
they couldn't get the Save America Act passed. I think
this is the payback for not being able to get
it passed. If they had gotten it passed, then I
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think he would have remained at the very least, he
would have remained neutral and maybe even been willing to
give Cornan an endorsement. But when when they couldn't come
up with the Save americ Act, I think that that
sealed the fate of what was going to happen with
that endorsement. By the way, you can tell from the
press conference he did yesterday that Senator John Thune is
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not particularly happy that the President's giving Ken Paxson his endorsement.
Here he is, Senator Thune at that press conference, Kiven
that you've spent.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Months trying to encourage persuade the president to endorse John
corn in the Texas primary, given that the NRSC hasn't
invested heavily to help Cornan win that primary.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
How personally disappointed and feel frustrated are you with Press's
decision to endorse.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Kenny Pashton today.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Well, I think you all know my position on this issue.
I've made it very clear for months now, and Centaer
Cornan is a principal conservative. He is a very effective
senator for the state of Texas. And but I don't
none of us control what the president does. He made
his decision about that. That doesn't change the way I feel,
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and I am certain only supportive of will continue to
be supportive of Senator Cornyn and his re election.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
How much hearty, how much harder is the president's decision?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You're created for you is a number one job to
keep the Republican majority.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Given your concerns about Ken PAX's high ability as a candidate.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
We look at, you know, lots of races around the country,
and the majority runs through a lot of different states.
We have twenty four seats up this time. The Democrats
have only nine, so we've got a lot more ground
to defend. We also have a couple of offensive opportunities,
so that you know, one state doesn't determine the outcome
of this election, but obviously we care about every state
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and we care about helping see art incumbents succeed. That
being said, I feel very good about where we are.
As I've said before, I think when it comes to
winning elections, it starts with quality candidates. Then you've got
to have a record of accomplishment to run on. You've
got to have resources to get that message out, tell
that story of the American people, and then you've got
to have a really substantial effort to get out the vote,
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the ground game. And I feel confident in all those
elements in all the key states where we're going to
have competitive elections this year, and I'm very confident we'll
hang on and maybe even expand the majority of the
United States Senate, which is calenra I know to the
you know, sort of the narrative these days, but the
truth of the matter is we've got the right candidates
the right places, at the right time, and with the
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right resources, We're going to win some races.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
All right.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I'm going to be very curious to see if the
Republican Party puts a real effort into assuming that Ken
Paxton wins on Tuesday. I'm going to be very interested
to see if the Republican Party puts the same kind
of effort into getting packs and elected that they put
into trying to get John Cornyn saved in the primary,
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because I have a sneaking suspicion that they might not
do that, and if for no other reason then to
try to send Trump a message. But I also think
that if President Trump is endorsing him, that senator, that
the President Trump will be making a lot of trips
to Texas and that will make that'll make up for
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funding shortfalls that may occur as a result. So so
it'll probably all even on long all We'll have to
wait and see it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
All that.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
All right, let's let's get to Ken Paxon himself, obviously
very pleased to pick up the President's endorsement. Here he
is on the Will Kine Show, shortly after the President
announced his support.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
There's nothing like getting it getting endorsed by President Trump.
I think he's the most significant endorsement in at least
my life. Do if you get his endorsement better than
he It's the gold standard, and so you know, people
have a lot of respect for that, especially in the
Republican primary.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Did you speak to the President today? I assure did. Yeah.
He called me this morning. He said.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
He didn't say exactly what was going to happen. He
just said, I think you're going to like what I'm
doing today.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I bet that that was that a short conversation.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Was it a lot?
Speaker 10 (12:53):
Now we talked about it, he'll tell you why. Yeah,
he suggested that he thought I was the best candidate.
I don't want to get into details about everything he
said because it was a private conversation, but yeah, thinks
I'm the best candidate and that I will actually help
him get some of these things done, like the Save
America Act, which I have been promoting since they first
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passed it in the USU. So it's something that I've
been disappointed in that the Senate hasn't gotten done that.
John corn has not been successful. And I even challenged
him right up for the Primy. So look, he hasn't
accomplished anything in forty two years of anything good. No
one's been able to tell me what that is over
the last fourteen months.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I'll give him a chance.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
Maybe he can get this one really important thing done,
and I'll consider dropping out. And sure enough, he couldn't
get that done.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Here's what the President did say about Senator Cornyn. He
posted this as well on x He said, I've worked
closely with President Trump, or rather a corn and posted this,
I've worked closely with President Trump through both of his
presidential terms and voted with him more than ninety nine
percent of the time. He has consistently called me a
friend in this race. It is now time for Texas
Republican voters to decide if they want a strong nominee
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to help our GOP candidates down ballot and defeat Tall
Rico in November, or a week nominee who jeopardizes everything
we care about. I trust the Republican voters of Texas.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
So, first of all, he has not been a friend
of the president. In twenty sixteen, he said he was
an albatrust around our neck, and then in twenty twenty
four he said that his time had passed and he
insinuated that he was guilty of crimes. This guy has
been a friend of Donald Trump ever since I got
into the race a year ago, but has not been
a friend to him prior to that. And as soon
as this race is over, he will not be a
friend of Donald Trump. That is not his history, that
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is not his record. And he's been dishonest with the
voters of Texas trying to convince him that he's voted
ninety nine percent with the president.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
What does that even mean? But we know it's not true.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yeah, I would say that pretty much covers it all.
Speaker 11 (14:40):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I want to go one reaction, one more reaction to
share with you. It's from Orow Morning show.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Today.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I had Representative Mitch Little. He serves in the Texas House.
He was also one of the Paxton impeachment lawyers. They
did such a great job for Ken Paxton when they
were trying to impeach him. Here's my conversation from this
morning with Representative Mitch Little. Are you surprised by the
endorsement or if you are, I guess you're pleasantly surprised, right,
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very pleasantly surprised. You know, I think I'd kind of
given up on him in endorsing anybody in the race.
But now, Jimmy, we're in a spot where, you know,
incumbent senators do not lose primaries, and.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Now we had one.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
We had one in Louisiana and looks like we're about
to have another one in Texas. It's an amazing development
for conservatives.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Well, and last night you had Thomas Massey, who was
a primary dout the Trump candidate beat him.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Yeah, you just don't oppose President Trump on matters of policy.
And the United States Senate has still refused to move
the Save America Act, which was a signature piece of
legislation they should have already moved to protect our elections.
And it looks more and more every day like the
Senate is this large protected protection racket against Republican voters
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cannot continue. Yeah, the establishment not happy.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
As I saw John Thune's press conference, you could tell
he wasn't happy about it. But I think you just
put your finger on exactly what happened. I think the
President gave Thune and Paxton Thune and Cornyn one last
chance to get the Save America Acted through, and when
they couldn't do it, then he said, Okay, you can't
get the job done, I'm going to find somebody who can.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
They failed, and I think Kim Paxton is now that
he's that person.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
He's going to support the President's agenda.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
He's going to he will move these pieces of legislation
that should have already moved. I think voters are sick
of seeing legislation designed to protect our borders, protect voters,
protect our elections, not move in service of.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
A few moderate stalwarts in the Senate.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
I think the answer is John Thune just he never
had the votes to pass the Save America Act. I
think there were not enough Republicans to pass the Act.
And that's our core problem in the and it we
don't have enough people of competence and principle to pass
this legislation.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So here comes to Ki.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Packs right, Well, it makescept Ken Paxton still has to
win his primary runoff, so that means that people have
to turn on and vote. I'm hoping that this is
not going to keep people going, Oh, he got the
Trump endorsement, and we don't have to worry about showing
up to vote. He'll be fine. Yeah, Well, I cast
my vote early Monday morning.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
I hope everybody's out early voting this week before the
Memorial Day weekend, out voting because this is going to
be a transformative primary.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It sincerely has.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
It has the makings of transforming a lot of things
down ballid for conservatives in Texas. I think we're going
to see more conservative primary opponents. We're going to see
the Texas House, which I serve in, and the Texas
Senate and our statewide officials begin to be transformed by
this process.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
If the polls Mitchell to be believed, it would be
a dead heat if the election were held today between
well either it doesn't matter which Republican candidate would win,
pretty much a dead heat with Tall Rico. Do you
buy these polls and what do you think would be
the big thing that could separate whoever the Republican candidate is,
particularly Ken Paxton from James tell Rico.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I don't buy that at all.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
I think what we need to be doing is going
back and looking at what the top five candidates on
the Democrat into the ballot have said. I have had
the great pleasure or displeasure of working with all these people,
James Tall, Rico, Gina Hanhosa, Vicky Goodwin, all the people
that are running for the statewide positions on the Democrat
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side of the ballot.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
They are crazy.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
You just need to listen to what it is that
they have to say about God being non binary, there
being six genders, wanting to take all of our guns away, etc.
If Texans understood everything that these people said, these racists
would not be close. And it's our job to educate
voters between now and November about who these people really are.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
That is again Mitch Representative Mitch Little, He's a state
representative and a former Paxton attorney for the impeachment trial.
All right, we're gonna take a little break. We'll continue
the conversation just a moment. Jimmy Verrett show here on
AM nine fifty KPRC. Right, let's continue on the Ken
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Paxton Trump endorsement train here for a few more minutes
before we switch up. I'm gonna bring on Mark Morano
before the end of this segment, though, Cole banking a
comeback because of what's been going on in the straight
of our moves and clean Cole that is, so we'll
talk to him about clean coal and oh and all
these scientists now all of a sudden backing off on
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the apocalypse. The climbate apocalypse is coming. Isn't that amazing
to watch? So we'll get to him in just a
few minutes, But first I want to get some more
thoughts here on the packs endorsement. It was topic A
still is topic A today. It certainly was yesterday afternoon
last night, including by the way, with JD. Vance. He
had a price conference. He's being asked about a whole
bunch of things, but obviously the topic of the Paxton
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endorsement did come up. Here's Jadie Vance.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Today, we saw the President endorse Ken Paxson over John
Cornyn and the Texas Senate race. Do you think that
sends a message going forward for the next cycle to senators,
you know, considering running for reelection, for any Megan aligned
potential candidates that are considering challenging them.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well, I say a couple of things. Nick. First of all,
the President's very.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
Gratified by the response that he's heard from the base
and from a lot of voters. I think we're passionate
about kin Paxon. We think Kim Paxson is going to
be a great Senator for the people of Texas, but
most importantly, a great United States Senator who can work
on solving the problems that all of us confront as
a country together. I've known John Cornyn for a long time,
but unfortunately, you know, when it really counted, Ken Paxson
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was there for or the country was there for the President.
And that's why he ultimately earned the President's endorsement. He
thinks he's going to be a better senator, thinks he's
going to make a better candidate, and so I do
think it sends a message. But really not just the endorsement,
but one of the things the President has done very
effectively going back ten years in his leadership of the
Republican Party and the country as President United States is
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he said, you know, I want.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
People who fight for the good.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
I want people who can't be bought by corporate lobbyists,
who can't be bought by Wall Street, who can't be
bought by special interists, who are going to go to
Washington and fight for the people who actually elected them
to those positions. And I think one of the things
we've seen in the Republican Party. While I can't say
that all of our representatives are perfect or all of
our senators are perfect, we have seen a much better
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crop of talent come into Washington since Donald Trump has
been the leader of the party and the leader of
the movement. I do think we're going to continue to
see that happening. But I think the message that people
should take from this is fundamentally, you have got to
serve the people who sent you, and if you don't
do that, you're going to find yourself out of step
with voters or out of step with the President of
the United States, and that's not a good place to
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be Politicallyah.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Jd vance Well said jd vance you know, remains at
least the press conferences, remains pretty impressive. I think I
think he's going to be the clear front runner to
take over for Trump next presidential election. No, not guaranteed.
There might be others out there. There might be Marco. I
don't know what level of interest Marco Rubio has on
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the job, but I would think that it would be
between the two of them if he is even interested
in the job. All Right, what more on the whole
Paxton thing, because we saw something else happened yesterday. This
is also worth mentioning Kentucky Representative Thomas Massey, a Republican,
you know, mainstream Rhino Republican establishment guy who opposed Trump
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and a whole bunch of stuff. He got his butt
whooped yesterday. Here is the winner of the Kentucky primary,
talking about the vote and the importance of President Trump
and his agenda.
Speaker 12 (23:08):
The winner of the race tonight is not so much
at Gal Ryan. I'll come back to that, but it's
the Republicans of Kentucky Congressional District for and their families
who I will be a champion for in Washington. They're
the last I want to thank a few folks and
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bear with me. I'll keep this short. I want to
thank President Trump for his support, his endorsement, and his
counsel as I navigated this campaign, which is a journey
of into itself, and for his courageous leadership of our
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nation at this critical time. I want to emphasize that
this critical time and juncture in history. Now, my focus
is on a answering the presidents and the party's agenda
to put America first in Kentucky always. I'm gonna keep
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this simple because again I speak fluent Kentucky. Because for
the same reasons I joined in nineteen eighty three to
serve our nation.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Remember I didn't join to be a Navy seal.
Speaker 12 (24:22):
I joined to make a difference and be in the
Navy Seal was a path to do that. Weren't no
books and movies, never met one. I learned to swim
in the Ohio River. That's ill advised, but that's what
I did.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
On the farm.
Speaker 12 (24:34):
Would it got a whoopinghead I found out at the
house or I did that? But for the same reason
I entered as a Navy Seal officer in nineteen eighty three,
because I had the audacity to think I could make
a difference, and I did. I will serve this district,
my party, in my nation with that same audacity to
make a difference.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
He's going to be audacious. Ed gall Rain is his name. Yep,
He's going to be running in November instead of Thomas Massey.
And that is a very very good thing. All right,
Let's move on enough of the Paxton endorsement and Republican
Party stuff. Let's get to something we can all get
excited about, and that is our climate. Because the climate scientists,
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the apocalyptic ones are backing off. Oh well, yeah, maybe
we are really killing the planet. Maybe the world isn't
coming to an end. I talked about that, and also
about this switchover, at least in some places switch over
to coal. You know, the price of oil being so
high right now in the straight of horror moves essentially
still being closed, that a lot of states are relooking
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at coal, especially if they have coal fired plants that
they can clean, burning coal fired plants that they can use.
Here's my conversation with a guy by the name of
Mark Morand or Morano rather Mark Morano. He's with the
Climate Depot. I know there's some environmentalists out there who
don't believe there's such a thing is clean coal. Could
you set them straight on that, Mark.
Speaker 13 (26:04):
Yes, If you go back to like the first Earth
Day nineteen seventy, coal plants were a problem. They had
brought cities from across the American Northeast to soot and
smog and horrible air quality. We've now had massive technological advances,
massive improvements. The modern day coal plants are not even
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anywhere a shadow of their former selves.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
There is such a.
Speaker 13 (26:32):
Thing as clean coal. To remove all the harmful pollutants
and chemicals. Now the big thing about coal isn't really
pollution anymore, it's about carbon dioxide. So the reason in
recent years all these countries from across Asia and Europe
have been getting rid of all their domestic coal production
is so they can meet accounting tricks with UN climate
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goals dealing with global warming, and that put them in
very vulnerable position. And that's where we are right now
because coal is the most national security friendly energy source period.
By the way, America is the Saudia Arabia of coal,
and we have more coal than anyone else in the
world that we can if we access it. And the
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thing about coal is it's a local issue. It's not
a global market. So no matter how much oil the
United States produces, unless we nationalize our oil industry, we
are subject to the global price. So if there's a
conflict in the Middle East, our price at the pump
is going to go up. Other prices related to oil
are going to go up.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
And because of.
Speaker 13 (27:37):
That, coal really shines during a time of conflict and war.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Mark Morono I saw where several scientific groups now are
starting to come out and they're backing off on their
apocalyptic view of climate change and admitting that, yeah, no,
we aren't really killing the planet. The planet's not going
to die. We're going to be pretty much just fine.
Are the prize that we have scientists. They're finally willing
to come forward and say that. And you think the
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United Nations, the UN, will ever step up and say, well,
we've got to take a look at the science that
admit that this all those climate alarmism is really a great,
big lie.
Speaker 13 (28:15):
They're never going to say that because they are a
self serving lobbying organization. The UN formed a climate panel
nineteen eighty eight with the goal of saying how carbon
dioxide is destroying the Earth. If they fail to find,
you know, global warming emergency, they fail to have a
reason to exist.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
And not only do they get to do.
Speaker 13 (28:32):
The scientific convererenceas they get to do the solution, they
get to be in charge of the global carbon taxes
they're trying to impose one on shipping. They get to
be in charge of all these UN climate agreements. So
what's happening here, and this is very significant. Even Donald Trump,
not as President Trump tweeted out, whatever truth social about this.
The UN has climate model so think of polar bears.
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Polar bears are at or near historic population highs.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
They've never counted this many.
Speaker 13 (28:58):
Even the indigenous people of the Arctics, they they've never
seen this many polar bears. But guess what, For years
we've been told polar bears are going extinct. This is
the most dires is how are they doing that When
current reality failed to alarm, they made scarier and scarier
predictions of the future. So what's significant here is the
UN Climate Panel is now acknowledging that these climate models
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using extreme scenarios are not plausible, they're not valid, and
they're going to stop using them, which means all the
doomsday climate literally evaporates overnight. And this is a shocking,
shocking development because this was invented by Tom Steier, Michael Bloomberg,
Hank Paulson, all these billionaires got together in twenty twelve
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at Tom Steyer's house and they said, how do we
make climate feel real? In this whole scenario of extreme
climate modeling, extreme climate predictions came out of a billionaire's
idea of how to impose.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Climate emergency on the world.
Speaker 13 (29:56):
And now it took what fifteen years and We're coming
out of the hay of this nonsense, even the UN
saying they're not going to do these extreme climate predictions anymore.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Thank god, thank god. I mean, there's still gonna be
some climate alarmists out there, but it'll be tougher to
to fight that fight when you don't have the scientists
behind you. All Right, quick little break, final pycment coming up.
Stick around, please, Jimmy Baird show here on Linham nine
fifty k PRC. All Right, one more story I want
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to tackle before we call the day, and that is
from my buddy. Oh I wish he was my buddy,
Senator John Kennedy. He has more fun than a human
being should be allowed to have. I think doing what
he does, he is particularly a depth of course most
really good country attorneys are. He's really good at asking
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questions and leading the witness. In this case, the witness
was Todd Blanche. Now Todd Blanche is the acting Attorney
General of the United States, and I'm not sure, well,
I guess I do don't. Fraud was something that they
were talking about in this set of committee yesterday, and
they were talking to Todd Blanche, the Attorney General. I
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assume presume about fraud charges potential fraud charges against California
as it relates to things like Medicare and medicaid. Is
there any doubt in our minds that there's a horrible
amount of money being wasted in those programs in virtually
every state, but in particular in a place like California.
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And one thing I never have really understood about how
the federal government handles Medicare and Medicaid is they put
the states in charge. They give the states the money,
but they put the state's in charge of spending the money. Now,
in a perfect world with responsible politicians, I guess that
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works because who should know better about what is needed
by the residents of the state than the state government.
But that also is an invitation by the state to
just recklessly spend on anything that they want to spend
on because they're not paying for it. They're in control
of it, but they're not paying for it. So here
is Senator Kennedy talking with the Attorney General about some
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of the crazy things that the Medicaid program in California
will pay for.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Because some states like California not only want to pay,
we put too broader brush. It's not everybody in California
state government. But there's a lot of them. They see
this as free money, don't they.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
They're not paying for it.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yes, isn't it a fact that, for example, Medicaid in
California will pay a provider to provide tribal prayers.
Speaker 12 (32:58):
I looked all this up.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I mean, I'll accept that. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
But yes, that California will actually pay a healthcare provider.
I didn't know this was some medical expertise to pay
for exorcisms.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Is all right, I'll accept that center, But that's that's
they pay.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
The California Medicaid program will pay for herbal medicines, meal deliveries,
They pay for housing. I don't know what housing has
to do with healthcare.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Is that correct? Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Were you aware that that the Medicaid program, using federal money,
taxpayer money, will pay for an in home chef.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yes, okay if it's a family member.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
They'll even pay for for gymnasium fees through Medicaid in California.
They'll pay for bicycles, scooters, gym memberships.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Did you know that? Yes? Say stupid California does for sure.
Damn the even repay your student loans. Were you aware
that I was not aware of the student loans repair.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, they'll repay somebody's student loans to encourage them to
become a healthcare provider. I mean California, they're just setting
all kinds of records.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Yeah, but it's hard to get past the exorcism, I guess.
I guess if you're spitting up pea soup like Linda
Blair did in The Exorcist, then maybe maybe that that
has health implication. It's hard to be healthy when the
devil's inside you, I guess. But some of that other
stuff that's pretty dull gone tough to explain, isn't it.
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That's where I think we need to balance the idea
that these states are capable of making their own rules
about what gets paid for with medicaid. I think we're
at the point where we need to have a very
specific federal guideline. It's the federal government's might. Well, it's
your money. In my mind, it's taxpayers, but it's coming
from the federal government to the state. So, just like
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with SNAP, they have every right if you are relying
on SNAP, the government has every right to tell you
what you can and cannot eat and the federal government
had to come in and tell some states about what
they could or could not cover with snap benefits. Now
they need to do the same thing with Medicaid. This
is what you can cover with Medicaid funds. This is
what you can't. You can't have home chiefs, you can't
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you can't do exorcisms.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
That should be common sense, That should be pretty obvious.
All right, listen, y'all, have a great day. Be careful
out there. We've got brain coming for the next few days,
so we're gonna be dealing with this semester for a
little while. I'll see all tomorrow morning, bright nearly at
five AM over our news radio seven forty KTRH. We
are back here at four on AM nine to fifty KPRC.
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Speaker 4 (00:31):
All right, welcome to very soggy Houston, Texas. Careful out there,
but I do you do you have a vehicle that
you considered to be kind of, you know, heavy and
good in the rain. I have a a Chevy Sylvil
Rider pickup truck. Love that truck, and uh I drove
in this morning. It's really raining hard this morning. I
mean this is not Brandon hard just about all the
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time this between now and and Sunday. But I was
a hydro planning like nobody's business. They're just the the
rain was coming down, you know, consistently for so long
that the water has really been pondings on. I know,
you know, to be careful out there. I'm not here
to give you driving instructions. Lord knows I would say
this that I would give a little more slack today
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to people who are driving around with their flashers on.
I know it drives me crazy too, you know, people
people who drive really slow with their flashers on when
we're having a big, heavy rainstorm. But I've kind of
rearranged my thinking. Instead of being annoyed by that, I'm
only going to be annoyed if you're in the in
the left lane doing it. I don't even care if
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you're in the middle lane doing it, because I know
if you're in the middle lane, you're probably doing it
because you're trying to avoid the edge of the road
ways where the ponding is going to be more severe.
You're trying to get to the top of the crown
on the road where it's going to be the driest
or the least likelihood that there'sould be ponding going on.
But don't I don't care if you are afraid. Well,
(01:56):
first of all, if you're afraid, you probably shouldn't be
out there driving, but you be if you were general
concerned about hydro planning. I don't blame you. I had
that happened to me this morning despite my best efforts
of trying to be very very careful. So you know,
give a little slack if you run into people who
are flashing their their hazard lights today because you know
it's it's really what out there and is causing some issues.
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All right, little follow up today on the show before
we get into the big endorsement yesterday President Trump endorsing
Ken Paxton. We've got that covered six ways to Sunday.
We'll do that in our next segment. But I wanted
to follow up in a story we did yesterday because
evidently the ankle Monitors story of two now two murder
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suspects who managed to get out of their ankle monitors,
one going to Italy, the other one just fleeing. We're
not sure where he is. You evidently needn't have much
of a problem getting out of the ankle monitor, and
I thought I would like to think those things are
more secure them that anyway, the people responsible for monitoring
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these people, you haven't been able to get a word
out of them. I mean, they've been quite as quiet
as can be. But Adrian Garcia, who of course used
to be sheriff, is the Precinct two commissioner. He is,
he's on top of it. I guess, well, he's on
top of the opportunity. I think this is an opportunity
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for good publicity for him. He probably sees it that way,
and it's in an area of expertise you would think
with a law enforcement background. But he hasn't said anything
yet about what he intends to do about it, other
than bring it up a commissioner's court. Here's the report
on all this from our television partner KPRC too.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Harris County Commissioner Adrian Garcia is promising to take a
plan to Commissioner's Court to strengthen the county's GPS ankle
monitoring program, Which comes just about twenty four hours after
we revealed a second Harris County murder defendant this month
is accused of cutting off his court ordered monitor just
before trial, and a statement to KPRC two news, Commissioner
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Garcia says recent stories of two first time defendants cutting
their monitors shows that these devices can be effective in
informing authorities of a potential escape. Making sure that this
technology can work to its fullest capability has always been
a concern of mind to bolster public safety. He added,
I know we can still do more to ensure compliance
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and accountability, especially from violent offenders. So these are the
two men who cut off their Ankle monitors before trial.
Walter Posos is a wanted fugitive tonight, accused of cutting
that GPS monitor off just two days before his murder
trial was scheduled to start last week. He's charged in
the twenty twenty three death of his passenger, who died
as he sped away from deputies and then legally is
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in custody in Italy after cutting off his monitor and
using a fake name to fly to Milan, where he
allegedly used forged travel documents and claimed asylum just weeks
before the capital murder trial for his pregnant wife, Christa
Bauer's twenty twenty four death. So tonight, the specifics for
any plans from the Commissioner are not being shared, and
the timing of all of this is expected to be
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over the summer, according to a spokesperson for his office. Tonight,
the executive director of Pre Trial Services that's the agency
in charge of monitoring these defendants who are on bond,
tells me that she is not sharing anything publicly about
these situations, and the Sheriff's office confirms that deputies tonight
are still looking for Posos, while Gilly still has court proceedings.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Pending in Italy.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
All right, so supposedly Adrian Garcia wants to strengthen the program.
He doesn't have any details because I don't think he's
had an opportunity to create any ideas at this point.
I think he's talking about this now because it's in
the news and because he's going to get publicity for
talking about it now. But it's something that they're going
to work on this summer. Well, what do we mean
(05:49):
by that? June, July, August, those are the summer months.
You would think that it wouldn't take three months. I
would hope to come up with some ideas, not the
least of which is, you know, where where where do
we have the biggest problems as far as the monitoring
these of these monitors. Is there not something on these
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monitors that can indicate that they've been tampered with somehow?
And if there isn't, is there new technology that would
be available? Or is it possible that maybe they if
they've been really keeping an eye on these monitors, they
would have seen that they were being tampered with. You know,
that's the part I need to know more. I guess
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about how these monitors ankle monitors actually work before I
could have come up with what I would hope would
be some fairly good ideas of what can be done.
I think that generally speaking, the monitoring is probably relatively
la lax lax, thank you. I'm also guessing though, that
most of the time this isn't a problem. You know,
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it's it's highly unlikely that you would have two murder
suspects who had done something like this. You know, most
of the people who are on ankle monitors are on
ankle monitors for doing far less than killing somebody. Maybe
the problem is not that there's a problem with the
ankle monitor Maybe the problem is is that we decided
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to put ankle monitors on murder suspects, especially one a
guy who murdered his pregnant wife.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
That.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, that tells you that that that that would wreak
of especially somebody who has money, would wreak of desperation
in wanting to get away. Yeah, so maybe we just
don't put ankle monitors on murder suspects. Maybe we keep
them in jail or somewhat more secure where we can
really keep an eye on them. All right, quick little
break back with more in a moment. More on the
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The Paxton endorsement by President Trump coming up next during
a nine to fifty KPRC in The Jimmy Barrett Show,
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I've got a lot of audio to get in in
this next segment. Here, we may go just a little
bit long, because I did. This is the big story.
The surprise, at least to me, was a surprise, the
surprise endorsement that President Trump gave Ken Paxton. Not that
he shouldn't have endorse him. He should, but I didn't
think he was going to. And it's very very clear
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to me now that the endorsement has come out that
he is endorsing Ken Paxton if for no other reason
than John Thune and John Cornyn failed him yet again
they couldn't get the Save America Act passed. I think
this is the payback for not being able to get
it passed. If they had gotten it passed, then I
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think he would have remained at the very least, he
would have remained neutral and maybe even been willing to
give Cornan an endorsement. But when when they couldn't come
up with the Save americ Act, I think that that
sealed the fate of what was going to happen with
that endorsement. By the way, you can tell from the
press conference he did yesterday that Senator John Thune is
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not particularly happy that the President's giving Ken Paxson his endorsement.
Here he is, Senator Thune at that press conference, Kiven
that you've spent.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Months trying to encourage persuade the president to endorse John
corn in the Texas primary, given that the NRSC hasn't
invested heavily to help Cornan win that primary.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
How personally disappointed and feel frustrated are you with Press's
decision to endorse.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Kenny Pashton today.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Well, I think you all know my position on this issue.
I've made it very clear for months now, and Centaer
Cornan is a principal conservative. He is a very effective
senator for the state of Texas. And but I don't
none of us control what the president does. He made
his decision about that. That doesn't change the way I feel,
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and I am certain only supportive of will continue to
be supportive of Senator Cornyn and his re election.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
How much hearty, how much harder is the president's decision?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You're created for you is a number one job to
keep the Republican majority.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Given your concerns about Ken PAX's high ability as a candidate.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
We look at, you know, lots of races around the country,
and the majority runs through a lot of different states.
We have twenty four seats up this time. The Democrats
have only nine, so we've got a lot more ground
to defend. We also have a couple of offensive opportunities,
so that you know, one state doesn't determine the outcome
of this election, but obviously we care about every state
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and we care about helping see art incumbents succeed. That
being said, I feel very good about where we are.
As I've said before, I think when it comes to
winning elections, it starts with quality candidates. Then you've got
to have a record of accomplishment to run on. You've
got to have resources to get that message out, tell
that story of the American people, and then you've got
to have a really substantial effort to get out the vote,
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the ground game. And I feel confident in all those
elements in all the key states where we're going to
have competitive elections this year, and I'm very confident we'll
hang on and maybe even expand the majority of the
United States Senate, which is calenra I know to the
you know, sort of the narrative these days, but the
truth of the matter is we've got the right candidates
the right places, at the right time, and with the
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right resources, We're going to win some races.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
All right.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I'm going to be very curious to see if the
Republican Party puts a real effort into assuming that Ken
Paxton wins on Tuesday. I'm going to be very interested
to see if the Republican Party puts the same kind
of effort into getting packs and elected that they put
into trying to get John Cornyn saved in the primary,
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because I have a sneaking suspicion that they might not
do that, and if for no other reason then to
try to send Trump a message. But I also think
that if President Trump is endorsing him, that senator, that
the President Trump will be making a lot of trips
to Texas and that will make that'll make up for
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funding shortfalls that may occur as a result. So so
it'll probably all even on long all We'll have to
wait and see it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
All that.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
All right, let's let's get to Ken Paxon himself, obviously
very pleased to pick up the President's endorsement. Here he
is on the Will Kine Show, shortly after the President
announced his support.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
There's nothing like getting it getting endorsed by President Trump.
I think he's the most significant endorsement in at least
my life. Do if you get his endorsement better than
he It's the gold standard, and so you know, people
have a lot of respect for that, especially in the
Republican primary.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Did you speak to the President today? I assure did. Yeah.
He called me this morning. He said.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
He didn't say exactly what was going to happen. He
just said, I think you're going to like what I'm
doing today.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I bet that that was that a short conversation.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Was it a lot?
Speaker 10 (12:53):
Now we talked about it, he'll tell you why. Yeah,
he suggested that he thought I was the best candidate.
I don't want to get into details about everything he
said because it was a private conversation, but yeah, thinks
I'm the best candidate and that I will actually help
him get some of these things done, like the Save
America Act, which I have been promoting since they first
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passed it in the USU. So it's something that I've
been disappointed in that the Senate hasn't gotten done that.
John corn has not been successful. And I even challenged
him right up for the Primy. So look, he hasn't
accomplished anything in forty two years of anything good. No
one's been able to tell me what that is over
the last fourteen months.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I'll give him a chance.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
Maybe he can get this one really important thing done,
and I'll consider dropping out. And sure enough, he couldn't
get that done.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Here's what the President did say about Senator Cornyn. He
posted this as well on x He said, I've worked
closely with President Trump, or rather a corn and posted this,
I've worked closely with President Trump through both of his
presidential terms and voted with him more than ninety nine
percent of the time. He has consistently called me a
friend in this race. It is now time for Texas
Republican voters to decide if they want a strong nominee
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to help our GOP candidates down ballot and defeat Tall
Rico in November, or a week nominee who jeopardizes everything
we care about. I trust the Republican voters of Texas.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
So, first of all, he has not been a friend
of the president. In twenty sixteen, he said he was
an albatrust around our neck, and then in twenty twenty
four he said that his time had passed and he
insinuated that he was guilty of crimes. This guy has
been a friend of Donald Trump ever since I got
into the race a year ago, but has not been
a friend to him prior to that. And as soon
as this race is over, he will not be a
friend of Donald Trump. That is not his history, that
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is not his record. And he's been dishonest with the
voters of Texas trying to convince him that he's voted
ninety nine percent with the president.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
What does that even mean? But we know it's not true.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yeah, I would say that pretty much covers it all.
Speaker 11 (14:40):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I want to go one reaction, one more reaction to
share with you. It's from Orow Morning show.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Today.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I had Representative Mitch Little. He serves in the Texas House.
He was also one of the Paxton impeachment lawyers. They
did such a great job for Ken Paxton when they
were trying to impeach him. Here's my conversation from this
morning with Representative Mitch Little. Are you surprised by the
endorsement or if you are, I guess you're pleasantly surprised, right,
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very pleasantly surprised. You know, I think I'd kind of
given up on him in endorsing anybody in the race.
But now, Jimmy, we're in a spot where, you know,
incumbent senators do not lose primaries, and.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Now we had one.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
We had one in Louisiana and looks like we're about
to have another one in Texas. It's an amazing development
for conservatives.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Well, and last night you had Thomas Massey, who was
a primary dout the Trump candidate beat him.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Yeah, you just don't oppose President Trump on matters of policy.
And the United States Senate has still refused to move
the Save America Act, which was a signature piece of
legislation they should have already moved to protect our elections.
And it looks more and more every day like the
Senate is this large protected protection racket against Republican voters
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cannot continue. Yeah, the establishment not happy.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
As I saw John Thune's press conference, you could tell
he wasn't happy about it. But I think you just
put your finger on exactly what happened. I think the
President gave Thune and Paxton Thune and Cornyn one last
chance to get the Save America Acted through, and when
they couldn't do it, then he said, Okay, you can't
get the job done, I'm going to find somebody who can.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
They failed, and I think Kim Paxton is now that
he's that person.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
He's going to support the President's agenda.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
He's going to he will move these pieces of legislation
that should have already moved. I think voters are sick
of seeing legislation designed to protect our borders, protect voters,
protect our elections, not move in service of.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
A few moderate stalwarts in the Senate.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
I think the answer is John Thune just he never
had the votes to pass the Save America Act. I
think there were not enough Republicans to pass the Act.
And that's our core problem in the and it we
don't have enough people of competence and principle to pass
this legislation.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So here comes to Ki.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Packs right, Well, it makescept Ken Paxton still has to
win his primary runoff, so that means that people have
to turn on and vote. I'm hoping that this is
not going to keep people going, Oh, he got the
Trump endorsement, and we don't have to worry about showing
up to vote. He'll be fine. Yeah, Well, I cast
my vote early Monday morning.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
I hope everybody's out early voting this week before the
Memorial Day weekend, out voting because this is going to
be a transformative primary.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It sincerely has.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
It has the makings of transforming a lot of things
down ballid for conservatives in Texas. I think we're going
to see more conservative primary opponents. We're going to see
the Texas House, which I serve in, and the Texas
Senate and our statewide officials begin to be transformed by
this process.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
If the polls Mitchell to be believed, it would be
a dead heat if the election were held today between
well either it doesn't matter which Republican candidate would win,
pretty much a dead heat with Tall Rico. Do you
buy these polls and what do you think would be
the big thing that could separate whoever the Republican candidate is,
particularly Ken Paxton from James tell Rico.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I don't buy that at all.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
I think what we need to be doing is going
back and looking at what the top five candidates on
the Democrat into the ballot have said. I have had
the great pleasure or displeasure of working with all these people,
James Tall, Rico, Gina Hanhosa, Vicky Goodwin, all the people
that are running for the statewide positions on the Democrat
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side of the ballot.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
They are crazy.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
You just need to listen to what it is that
they have to say about God being non binary, there
being six genders, wanting to take all of our guns away, etc.
If Texans understood everything that these people said, these racists
would not be close. And it's our job to educate
voters between now and November about who these people really are.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
That is again Mitch Representative Mitch Little, He's a state
representative and a former Paxton attorney for the impeachment trial.
All right, we're gonna take a little break. We'll continue
the conversation just a moment. Jimmy Verrett show here on
AM nine fifty KPRC. Right, let's continue on the Ken
(19:28):
Paxton Trump endorsement train here for a few more minutes
before we switch up. I'm gonna bring on Mark Morano
before the end of this segment, though, Cole banking a
comeback because of what's been going on in the straight
of our moves and clean Cole that is, so we'll
talk to him about clean coal and oh and all
these scientists now all of a sudden backing off on
(19:51):
the apocalypse. The climbate apocalypse is coming. Isn't that amazing
to watch? So we'll get to him in just a
few minutes, But first I want to get some more
thoughts here on the packs endorsement. It was topic A
still is topic A today. It certainly was yesterday afternoon
last night, including by the way, with JD. Vance. He
had a price conference. He's being asked about a whole
bunch of things, but obviously the topic of the Paxton
(20:13):
endorsement did come up. Here's Jadie Vance.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Today, we saw the President endorse Ken Paxson over John
Cornyn and the Texas Senate race. Do you think that
sends a message going forward for the next cycle to senators,
you know, considering running for reelection, for any Megan aligned
potential candidates that are considering challenging them.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well, I say a couple of things. Nick. First of all,
the President's very.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
Gratified by the response that he's heard from the base
and from a lot of voters. I think we're passionate
about kin Paxon. We think Kim Paxson is going to
be a great Senator for the people of Texas, but
most importantly, a great United States Senator who can work
on solving the problems that all of us confront as
a country together. I've known John Cornyn for a long time,
but unfortunately, you know, when it really counted, Ken Paxson
(20:59):
was there for or the country was there for the President.
And that's why he ultimately earned the President's endorsement. He
thinks he's going to be a better senator, thinks he's
going to make a better candidate, and so I do
think it sends a message. But really not just the endorsement,
but one of the things the President has done very
effectively going back ten years in his leadership of the
Republican Party and the country as President United States is
(21:22):
he said, you know, I want.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
People who fight for the good.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
I want people who can't be bought by corporate lobbyists,
who can't be bought by Wall Street, who can't be
bought by special interists, who are going to go to
Washington and fight for the people who actually elected them
to those positions. And I think one of the things
we've seen in the Republican Party. While I can't say
that all of our representatives are perfect or all of
our senators are perfect, we have seen a much better
(21:46):
crop of talent come into Washington since Donald Trump has
been the leader of the party and the leader of
the movement. I do think we're going to continue to
see that happening. But I think the message that people
should take from this is fundamentally, you have got to
serve the people who sent you, and if you don't
do that, you're going to find yourself out of step
with voters or out of step with the President of
the United States, and that's not a good place to
(22:07):
be Politicallyah.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Jd vance Well said jd vance you know, remains at
least the press conferences, remains pretty impressive. I think I
think he's going to be the clear front runner to
take over for Trump next presidential election. No, not guaranteed.
There might be others out there. There might be Marco. I
don't know what level of interest Marco Rubio has on
(22:32):
the job, but I would think that it would be
between the two of them if he is even interested
in the job. All Right, what more on the whole
Paxton thing, because we saw something else happened yesterday. This
is also worth mentioning Kentucky Representative Thomas Massey, a Republican,
you know, mainstream Rhino Republican establishment guy who opposed Trump
(22:54):
and a whole bunch of stuff. He got his butt
whooped yesterday. Here is the winner of the Kentucky primary,
talking about the vote and the importance of President Trump
and his agenda.
Speaker 12 (23:08):
The winner of the race tonight is not so much
at Gal Ryan. I'll come back to that, but it's
the Republicans of Kentucky Congressional District for and their families
who I will be a champion for in Washington. They're
the last I want to thank a few folks and
(23:30):
bear with me. I'll keep this short. I want to
thank President Trump for his support, his endorsement, and his
counsel as I navigated this campaign, which is a journey
of into itself, and for his courageous leadership of our
(23:51):
nation at this critical time. I want to emphasize that
this critical time and juncture in history. Now, my focus
is on a answering the presidents and the party's agenda
to put America first in Kentucky always. I'm gonna keep
(24:12):
this simple because again I speak fluent Kentucky. Because for
the same reasons I joined in nineteen eighty three to
serve our nation.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Remember I didn't join to be a Navy seal.
Speaker 12 (24:22):
I joined to make a difference and be in the
Navy Seal was a path to do that. Weren't no
books and movies, never met one. I learned to swim
in the Ohio River. That's ill advised, but that's what
I did.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
On the farm.
Speaker 12 (24:34):
Would it got a whoopinghead I found out at the
house or I did that? But for the same reason
I entered as a Navy Seal officer in nineteen eighty three,
because I had the audacity to think I could make
a difference, and I did. I will serve this district,
my party, in my nation with that same audacity to
make a difference.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
He's going to be audacious. Ed gall Rain is his name. Yep,
He's going to be running in November instead of Thomas Massey.
And that is a very very good thing. All right,
Let's move on enough of the Paxton endorsement and Republican
Party stuff. Let's get to something we can all get
excited about, and that is our climate. Because the climate scientists,
(25:19):
the apocalyptic ones are backing off. Oh well, yeah, maybe
we are really killing the planet. Maybe the world isn't
coming to an end. I talked about that, and also
about this switchover, at least in some places switch over
to coal. You know, the price of oil being so
high right now in the straight of horror moves essentially
still being closed, that a lot of states are relooking
(25:43):
at coal, especially if they have coal fired plants that
they can clean, burning coal fired plants that they can use.
Here's my conversation with a guy by the name of
Mark Morand or Morano rather Mark Morano. He's with the
Climate Depot. I know there's some environmentalists out there who
don't believe there's such a thing is clean coal. Could
you set them straight on that, Mark.
Speaker 13 (26:04):
Yes, If you go back to like the first Earth
Day nineteen seventy, coal plants were a problem. They had
brought cities from across the American Northeast to soot and
smog and horrible air quality. We've now had massive technological advances,
massive improvements. The modern day coal plants are not even
(26:28):
anywhere a shadow of their former selves.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
There is such a.
Speaker 13 (26:32):
Thing as clean coal. To remove all the harmful pollutants
and chemicals. Now the big thing about coal isn't really
pollution anymore, it's about carbon dioxide. So the reason in
recent years all these countries from across Asia and Europe
have been getting rid of all their domestic coal production
is so they can meet accounting tricks with UN climate
(26:55):
goals dealing with global warming, and that put them in
very vulnerable position. And that's where we are right now
because coal is the most national security friendly energy source period.
By the way, America is the Saudia Arabia of coal,
and we have more coal than anyone else in the
world that we can if we access it. And the
(27:17):
thing about coal is it's a local issue. It's not
a global market. So no matter how much oil the
United States produces, unless we nationalize our oil industry, we
are subject to the global price. So if there's a
conflict in the Middle East, our price at the pump
is going to go up. Other prices related to oil
are going to go up.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
And because of.
Speaker 13 (27:37):
That, coal really shines during a time of conflict and war.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Mark Morono I saw where several scientific groups now are
starting to come out and they're backing off on their
apocalyptic view of climate change and admitting that, yeah, no,
we aren't really killing the planet. The planet's not going
to die. We're going to be pretty much just fine.
Are the prize that we have scientists. They're finally willing
to come forward and say that. And you think the
(28:04):
United Nations, the UN, will ever step up and say, well,
we've got to take a look at the science that
admit that this all those climate alarmism is really a great,
big lie.
Speaker 13 (28:15):
They're never going to say that because they are a
self serving lobbying organization. The UN formed a climate panel
nineteen eighty eight with the goal of saying how carbon
dioxide is destroying the Earth. If they fail to find,
you know, global warming emergency, they fail to have a
reason to exist.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
And not only do they get to do.
Speaker 13 (28:32):
The scientific convererenceas they get to do the solution, they
get to be in charge of the global carbon taxes
they're trying to impose one on shipping. They get to
be in charge of all these UN climate agreements. So
what's happening here, and this is very significant. Even Donald Trump,
not as President Trump tweeted out, whatever truth social about this.
The UN has climate model so think of polar bears.
(28:54):
Polar bears are at or near historic population highs.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
They've never counted this many.
Speaker 13 (28:58):
Even the indigenous people of the Arctics, they they've never
seen this many polar bears. But guess what, For years
we've been told polar bears are going extinct. This is
the most dires is how are they doing that When
current reality failed to alarm, they made scarier and scarier
predictions of the future. So what's significant here is the
UN Climate Panel is now acknowledging that these climate models
(29:18):
using extreme scenarios are not plausible, they're not valid, and
they're going to stop using them, which means all the
doomsday climate literally evaporates overnight. And this is a shocking,
shocking development because this was invented by Tom Steier, Michael Bloomberg,
Hank Paulson, all these billionaires got together in twenty twelve
(29:41):
at Tom Steyer's house and they said, how do we
make climate feel real? In this whole scenario of extreme
climate modeling, extreme climate predictions came out of a billionaire's
idea of how to impose.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Climate emergency on the world.
Speaker 13 (29:56):
And now it took what fifteen years and We're coming
out of the hay of this nonsense, even the UN
saying they're not going to do these extreme climate predictions anymore.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Thank god, thank god. I mean, there's still gonna be
some climate alarmists out there, but it'll be tougher to
to fight that fight when you don't have the scientists
behind you. All Right, quick little break, final pycment coming up.
Stick around, please, Jimmy Baird show here on Linham nine
fifty k PRC. All Right, one more story I want
(30:38):
to tackle before we call the day, and that is
from my buddy. Oh I wish he was my buddy,
Senator John Kennedy. He has more fun than a human
being should be allowed to have. I think doing what
he does, he is particularly a depth of course most
really good country attorneys are. He's really good at asking
(31:01):
questions and leading the witness. In this case, the witness
was Todd Blanche. Now Todd Blanche is the acting Attorney
General of the United States, and I'm not sure, well,
I guess I do don't. Fraud was something that they
were talking about in this set of committee yesterday, and
they were talking to Todd Blanche, the Attorney General. I
(31:24):
assume presume about fraud charges potential fraud charges against California
as it relates to things like Medicare and medicaid. Is
there any doubt in our minds that there's a horrible
amount of money being wasted in those programs in virtually
every state, but in particular in a place like California.
(31:44):
And one thing I never have really understood about how
the federal government handles Medicare and Medicaid is they put
the states in charge. They give the states the money,
but they put the state's in charge of spending the money. Now,
in a perfect world with responsible politicians, I guess that
(32:06):
works because who should know better about what is needed
by the residents of the state than the state government.
But that also is an invitation by the state to
just recklessly spend on anything that they want to spend
on because they're not paying for it. They're in control
of it, but they're not paying for it. So here
is Senator Kennedy talking with the Attorney General about some
(32:28):
of the crazy things that the Medicaid program in California
will pay for.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Because some states like California not only want to pay,
we put too broader brush. It's not everybody in California
state government. But there's a lot of them. They see
this as free money, don't they.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
They're not paying for it.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yes, isn't it a fact that, for example, Medicaid in
California will pay a provider to provide tribal prayers.
Speaker 12 (32:58):
I looked all this up.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I mean, I'll accept that. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
But yes, that California will actually pay a healthcare provider.
I didn't know this was some medical expertise to pay
for exorcisms.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Is all right, I'll accept that center, But that's that's
they pay.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
The California Medicaid program will pay for herbal medicines, meal deliveries,
They pay for housing. I don't know what housing has
to do with healthcare.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Is that correct? Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Were you aware that that the Medicaid program, using federal money,
taxpayer money, will pay for an in home chef.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yes, okay if it's a family member.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
They'll even pay for for gymnasium fees through Medicaid in California.
They'll pay for bicycles, scooters, gym memberships.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Did you know that? Yes? Say stupid California does for sure.
Damn the even repay your student loans. Were you aware
that I was not aware of the student loans repair.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, they'll repay somebody's student loans to encourage them to
become a healthcare provider. I mean California, they're just setting
all kinds of records.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Yeah, but it's hard to get past the exorcism, I guess.
I guess if you're spitting up pea soup like Linda
Blair did in The Exorcist, then maybe maybe that that
has health implication. It's hard to be healthy when the
devil's inside you, I guess. But some of that other
stuff that's pretty dull gone tough to explain, isn't it.
(34:42):
That's where I think we need to balance the idea
that these states are capable of making their own rules
about what gets paid for with medicaid. I think we're
at the point where we need to have a very
specific federal guideline. It's the federal government's might. Well, it's
your money. In my mind, it's taxpayers, but it's coming
from the federal government to the state. So, just like
(35:05):
with SNAP, they have every right if you are relying
on SNAP, the government has every right to tell you
what you can and cannot eat and the federal government
had to come in and tell some states about what
they could or could not cover with snap benefits. Now
they need to do the same thing with Medicaid. This
is what you can cover with Medicaid funds. This is
what you can't. You can't have home chiefs, you can't
(35:27):
you can't do exorcisms.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
That should be common sense, That should be pretty obvious.
All right, listen, y'all, have a great day. Be careful
out there. We've got brain coming for the next few days,
so we're gonna be dealing with this semester for a
little while. I'll see all tomorrow morning, bright nearly at
five AM over our news radio seven forty KTRH. We
are back here at four on AM nine to fifty KPRC.
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