June 13, 2025 • 36 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Sheriff Ed Gonzalez on preparing for the No Kings Protest
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Well, today, it's Friday at the thirteenth.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Are you having a good Friday at the thirteenth? I
usually have a very good Friday of the thirteenth. I've
always concidered Friday the thirteenth to be generally a lucky
day for me.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
The morning show started off a little rough today, so
I don't know, jerge out. Let's see how the afternoon
show goes before I make any judgment about what kind
of a Friday of the thirteenth it's going to be today.
But welcome to the show. Glad you're out there. Thank
you for listening. Do appreciate it. We've got a lot
of things to cover on our one hour together here
this afternoon, including some things we did not get to
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this morning. And one of the things I found very
interesting was the Blue state governor testimony the US House
had governors from blue states. These are governors from sanctuary states,
states that support illegal immigration through a whole variety of
different means, now, the least of which is not cooperating
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with Ice. And Republicans in the House decided they were
gonna have some fun and they were going to question
these people, and they were going to try to make
them as uncomfortable as humanly possible. And speaking of which,
let's start with Kathy Hochel. Kathy Hochel, the governor of
New York and Representative Jim Jordan. Here is the back
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and forth between those two from yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Who is Hey Susterrameo Hernandez.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
I don't have the details on every single person in
a state of twenty million people.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
San but this guy's citizen of Mexico to Porta seven times,
came to your state, assaulted one of your residents with
a machete, He choked a police officer, then when he
was in custody, assaulted a corrections officer. ICE finds out
this guy is in your state's custody and they send
you a detainer.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You're familiar with a detainer, right, yes?
Speaker 7 (02:13):
I am Notice of action immigration detainer from to Tompkins
County Jail from Syracuse Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Section one.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
They check a couple boxes.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
The first one they check is a final order of
removable against the alien has taken place. That means a
court has said this guy needs to go. This machete
wielding cop, choking corrections officer, assaulting guy needs to go.
Then they also check another box and they say biometric
confirmation of who this individual is, this alien's identity. So
they got the right guy and a court has said
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he needs to go. Any idea what Tompkins County Jail
decided to do with that detainer order?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I will tell you this the state of.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
The specific question did Tompkins County do?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Those?
Speaker 8 (03:03):
The descriptions you have put forth are absolutely chilling and disturbing.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
We're reprehensible to all of us, which my job is protection.
Why question, what did Tompkins County do? When I have responsibility?
We'll tell you, sir, you're not gonna answer.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
We cannot and will not hold mister Hernandez. We can't
keep the machete guy who would choke the police officer
and the solved the corrections officer.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
We can't keep him.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
In fact, we have the back and forth from Tompkins
County and Ice. On January twenty eighth of this year,
eight fifty six pm, Tompkins County tells Ice, We're not
gonna hold this guy. Seven minutes later, Ice responds back,
we will be there to take custody this evening. Twenty
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four minutes later, Thompson County reiterates we're not gonna have him.
We're not gonna turn him over ten forty five. Ice
arrives at the jail one hour and eighteen minutes later,
and guess what, mister Hernandez is not there. They couldn't
wait one hour and eighteen minutes for a guy who
assaulted one of your residents with the machete. He took
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the police officer, and then when in custody, assaulted corrections officers.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
And of course Kathy Holkle would tell you, well, I
can't do anything about that. I just control like state
police and state troopers and that kind of stuff. That's
a local jail. You take that up with them. That's
a bunch of bs. They all have their marching orders.
They know what is expected from the state government, and
the state government expects them to let these people go
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and they expect them to not cooperate with ICE, and
that's exactly what they're doing. So if you want to
be defiant, if you want to make a claim that
it's you know that we don't believe, we believe in
open borders, we do not believe that these illegal immigrants
should be sent back home. We are going to protect
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them in our state. Then say it, have the colonies
to say it. But of course she's in front of Congress,
and she doesn't want to say it in front of Congress.
All right, here's here's another blue state governor. His name
is Tim Waltz. You ever heard of him, the governor
of Minnesota. Tamp on Tim. Yeah, so I'm sure. I'm
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sure he's all about cooperating with ICE. Right, he doesn't
want illegals in his states. He gets questioned by Tennessee
Representative Tim Burchett.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
Governor Waltz, he said that, as long as you are governor,
immigrants will be welcome in Minnesota. Do you find a
difference between an immigrant and an illegal immigrant.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
By a difference their status?
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Is there a difference.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Legal status or otherwise?
Speaker 10 (05:46):
Well, the legal status is different, But in Minnesota, we
have a long tradition of welcoming okay.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
Ice in Saint Paul arrested a criminal illegal alien who
had been convicted of her possession of child child pernagorae
on a work computer. Do you still stand by your
statement that ICE agents are the modern day Gestapo.
Speaker 10 (06:09):
Ice agents need to do a job, but they need
to do it within the realm of due process and
the law. Wearing masks on no notice of who they are,
no notice of the vans, and picking people up off
the streets without that due process. I stand that that
is wrong in a road towards the theraitarianism, I certainly
stand by that.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You know, I have one rule.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
I have a couple of rules in my office, but
one of them have never compare anything dealing with the
Holocaust except for the Holocaust. I think that it it
desensitizes people about what really went on in Nazi Germany
by making any comparisons there. Does Minnesota receive federal tax
dollars for any programs that assist illegal immigrants.
Speaker 10 (06:52):
Minnesota's federal tax dollars are appropriated by you in Congress,
and then we use state dollars under under our loss.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
So no, no, we're not we're we're not spending any
of your money helping illegals. We're just spending our money
doing it. Okay, we're spending your money on things we
would normally pay for as estate, but in order to
have money to help the illegals, we're we're spending our money,
not your money, our money. See what he's trying to
do there. He's playing a little shell game, is what
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he's doing.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I again, I don't know what gets accomplished by any
of this. I guess if you're a member of Congress
and you're just pissed off about this stuff, you have
an opportunity to just, you know, go ahead and vent
and let these government officials know how you feel. But
you don't change their policies whatsoever. You don't hold them accountable.
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I doubt if there's any federal money that will go
missing as a result of their testimony. It's just an
opportunity for members of Congress to feel better about themselves.
I guess, all right, quick little break back with Bourn
in a moment Jimmy Barrett Show during the pribab of
the thirteenth Am ninth KPRC.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
All Right, a couple of things we can do here.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
In segment number two of our Pride of the thirteenth
show today, I'm gonna start with this one. Our television
partner k kPr C two did a report about President
Trump saying that he wants to eliminate FEMA. I mean,
there's no secret about that, right, we know that he's
not a fan. I don't think any of us are
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a fan of FEMA. Are you a fan of FEMA?
I'm certainly not a fan of FEMA. I don't think
anybody who lives in North Carolina or Florida in particular
fans of FEMA, because they saw what they did or
did not do in most cases, did not do after
a hurricane. I think that there's a lot more efficient
ways to get funding to states who declare a disaster,
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and FEMA just gets in the way as a middleman.
But KPRC two did a report on their news yesterday
about getting rid of FEMA and ed Emmett among others,
who expressed a little bit of concern, other words, who's
going to pick up the slack? Who's going to take over?
So I'll let you listen to the report and then
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we will discuss this a little further.
Speaker 11 (09:30):
We are in the Meyerland area this morning talking about
this because if you'll remember, back in twenty seventeen, this
area flooded from Hurricane Harvey and was an area that
used FEMA funding. So we talked with former Harris County
Judge Ed Emmett, who was here during Hurricane Harvey, who
has questions as to what happens to that.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Is there going to be a way for some other
entity to take up that calls and do it better.
And you can't just throw it out there and hope
that that happens. There needs to be plan if you're
going to eliminate FEMA.
Speaker 11 (10:02):
And it has confidence in the state's Office of Emergency
Management director and personnel of the county OEM offices. This
all comes after President Trump announced his administration will begin
facing out FEMA once the current hurricane season ends. Trump
has long criticized FEMA as an effective and unnecessary. He
says federal disaster aid would instead come directly from the
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White House bypassing the agency.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
We think after this, Christians say, after.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
The hurricane season, we'll see yes stage.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Set up a FEMA council over the next couple of
months will be working on reforms and what FEMA will
look like in the future as a different agency as
under the Department of Homeland Security to the President's vision,
and it will empower governors to go out and respond
to emergency situations.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
Now, that was Christy Noam's voice off cameram in.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Response to this.
Speaker 11 (10:53):
Governor Abbott's office as in part quote, Texas has built
the strongest emergency management operation in the name and Governor
Abbott has pot convidence that the Texas Division of Emergency
Management will be able to swiftly take action when disasters strikes.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Okay, so how do we envision FEMA going forward? It
becomes a part evidently of it doesn't completely go away.
There will be a Federal Emergency Management Office, but it
will be a part of Homeland Security. And here's how
I envision it. I'm not sure if this matches what
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the President's vision is, but this is how I would
envision it is. Basically, it would be a very small
select committee of disaster specialists who would work in concert
with the governors of states impacted by a disaster, natural
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or otherwise, and coordinate with them as far as exactly
what it is, how much damage has happened, where it's happened,
how much how much resources it is going to take
in order to be able to solve the problem, to rebuild,
or do whatever it is you need to do. In
other words, kind of like kind of like you, kind
of like an insurance adjuster, only hopefully more fair than
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your average insurance agguester. Where they basically they go to
the state, they meet with the governor, they tour the damage,
and they help determine how much federal aid would be
necessary in order to be able to make the situation
whole again. Then they go back to Washington, d C.
And they make a recommendation to Congress as far as
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how much money is needed, and then Congress respectually approves
the money and it goes directly to the state involved.
No need to have a bunch of trailers, No need
to have you know, people who show up and take
up a bunch of hotel space, and and and and
do all that kind of stuff. Allow the states to
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coordinate for themselves where assets are needed, what assets are needed,
and put that in their hands. It's their state, it
is in their best interest to take care of their
own state. All FEMA needs to do is to help
with the appropriation of federal funds in order to help rebuild.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
You don't need an entire multi billion dollar department to
do that. You need a couple of really smart people
who are disaster experts who can help come up with
a figure that makes sense, and then just get the
money appropriated and give the money directly to the state.
I think that's the answer. You know that the problem
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with the government is the bureaucracy that's involved, the amount
of time that you spend spinning your wheels, the amount
of time you spend waiting for something to happen, the
amount of layers it has to go through before you
actually get to somebody who can make something happen. And
by that time, private groups and the states themselves have
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already they've already done begun the process themselves. If they
waited on the federal government, they'd be waiting for weeks.
So this makes a lot more sense. At least that's
that's how I imagined this is going to go in
the future. I would think it's gonna be something along
those lines, but we'll see.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
We'll see.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Also, a little update on the autopen I saw Representative
James Comber the autopen story. I saw James Comer on
Fox doing little Fox business in this case, doing a
little update. He was on with Maria Bartaroma doing a
an update on what's going on with the autopen story.
And they are investigating three or four or five people
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is a part of the Biden staff is as far
as being the ones that were operating the autopen. One
of them is a woman by the name of Lisa Monico.
I have no idea. I had no idea who Lisa
Monico is. She's a former Biden Deputy Attorney General. So
here's Representative Culver talking about her and some of the
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other things they've determined about the autopen.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
We know that there are sources that say that she
had a big impact on making decisions as to which
documents would be placed into the autopen. What we've identified
first for the four employees that we believe manually put
documents into the autopen, tresh the power button and signed
Joe Biden's name on them. Next match of people that
we're going to bring in are people like Ron Klain,
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and we'll get to the names that the President has
mentioned as well. Everyone that we've sent notice too that
we expect them to testify. Has agreed to testify thus far,
except the doctor, and I've subpoened him. You can come
in voluntarily and things work out a whole lot better
than if you have to come in via subpoena. So
I think this investigation is progressing and all the concerns
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that President Trump raised will be addressed in these In
these transcribed interviews and depositions, you know, there's more information
that's coming out daily. Luckily, we have a lot of
former employees like Jean Pierre, who are coming out with
books and interviews that are kind of painting a picture
that Joe Biden really didn't know what was going on
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in his White House. This is important to our investigation
because there were a lot of executive orders that were
signed using the autopen. There's really no excuse to use
the autopen on days when you're in the White House.
Many of the documents that were signed with the autopen
were days that Joe Biden was actually in the White House.
It's hard to explain that. With respect to the doctor.
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If you'll remember, Joe Biden did an interview several years
ago and said he had cancer. The White House quickly
issued a statement saying, oh, he missed folk. Now, how
many people do you know in the history of the
world that have missed folks saying they had cancer when
they really didn't. So, you know, there's evidence out there
that would suggest that there's been a cover of with
respect to his cancer for many years, just based on
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Joe Biden's own words. So we've got a lot of evidence.
There's more and more sources that are coming forward.
Speaker 12 (17:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
The key to a good congressional investigation Maria is having
whistle blowers. I don't know if you would classify Jean
Pierre and people Moody Jig as whistleblowers, but they're issuing
statements and doing interviews that are very incriminating to Joe Biden,
very incriminating to Joe Biden's doctor, and raise a lot
of questions as to who was authorizing the use.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Of that autopend.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Yeah, that's I think that's something they've kind of forgot
about in writing all these books. Is there it's a
literal paper trail of what was really going on at
the White House. You know, in their effort to try
to make money for themselves, they are basically outing themselves.
I mean not that we didn't already know all this stuff, right,
We already knew it, But I mean, it's just backing
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up the proof. So I don't think we're gonna let
go of this one. Is there gonna be punishment as
a result of it? Who knows? Probably not? Again, it
seems like there never is. But you know, we would
like to know the truth behind all this, wouldn't we?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
All Right?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Coming up next, by the way, from this morning show
on KTRH, you know, we have the No King's protest
happening all around the country tomorrow, including right here in Houston.
I had Sheriff Harris County, sheriff Ed Gonzales, and Congressman
Wesley Hunt on the program this morning to talk about that,
and I'll share those interviews with you next.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Kirn AM nine fifty KDRC. This morning it was ready
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a seven forty KRH.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I had a couple of VIP guests on the program
to talk about the No King's protest here in Houston
coming up up tomorrow. First up was sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
Here's my interview with sheriff Ed Gonzalez on how they're
preparing for tomorrow's protest. Well, maybe there won't be a
law breaking going on in Harris County on Saturday. Maybe
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we'll just have a peaceful protest. I'm sure that's what
our next guest is hoping for anyway. Harris County Sheriff
at Gonzalez Joints.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
This Good morning, Sheriff, Hey, good morning, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You bet, I don't know if you heard the comments
by the Levard County Sheriff. I'm pretty sure that you're
not making any threats like that. What what are the
preparations like? What do you what in your heart of
hearts are you expecting to happen on Saturday. You think
everything's gonna be nice and peaceful, Well, that's that's our hope.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
We always, uh, you know, pray for the best, but
we prepare for war and we're ready for any kind
of contingencies the situations, as we know from past experience,
because Alays can always be dynamic. Sometimes most people are
peaceful and are just there to exercise their right to demonstrate,
but sometimes others, you know, when I out of line
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and they do, then we'll be ready to react swiftly
and effectively to make sure we stop any threats, any
damage to property, any harm to any law enforcement or
to the community at large, or disruption to traffic flows, etc.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I'm guessing if there was any violence, these are going
to be outside agitators that are going to do that,
and probably out of state agitators because your typical texts
and regardless of their political persuasion, has a respect for
law enforcement.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Absolutely, That's what we've seen time and time again. Harris
County does have a long history of seeing people exercising
their right to protest, and typically they've done it peacefully.
But again, we leave nothing to chance. So our folks
are well prepared and trained, and we're working closely with
our law enforcement partners and everyone involved so that we
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could make sure that everything goes according to plan.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Govern Rabbit has deployed the National Guard. He sent them
to San Antonio. There are a few people who are
upset that he did. Is there any plans for the
National Guard to be in Houston on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
We haven't heard that there's plans for them to be here. Obviously,
there's a lot of things happening around the state and
other cities as well, so I'm sure they're needed in
other areas and and there's more pressing needs, and then
you know, we support that. You know, we're never gonna
turn down any help if we need it. But I
think for now things are under control. There are a
number of protests around the region. So we'll make sure
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we continue to keep a close eye today going into tomorrow,
and if anything, if the needs arise, will definitely be
in contact and and not be shy about receiving help.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
About an hour from now, we're gonna be talking with
Congressman Wesley Hunt. He had offered to Harris County to
send in some federal help if you thought you needed it.
He made the same offer to the City of Houston
that those of offers from from the congressmen were turned down.
I take it that means that you folks don't feel
you need any additional help.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
At the moment.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I think we're set.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
You know.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
I don't know what other county leaders you know, have
done with those requests or anything like that. Uh, but
you know, in terms of our law enforcement posture, I
think we're we're set. We're good to go with what
we have. And again, we are appreciative of any any
offers for assistance if needed, and and we'll definitely call
if if that's the case.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Okay, can he kind of tell us where the line is,
Sheriff Gonzales on Saturday for the demonstrators, where do you
draw the line as far as peaceful protesting versus something
that you're not going to tolerate.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Yeah, well, I think it starts crossing the line when
you start seeing damage to property, to vehicles, throwing of items,
any any type of harm towards any law enforcement officer
that's out there just serving and protecting. Anything like that,
you know, obviously starts going out of lines. It's hard
sometimes to define exactly, you know, but but the obvious,
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you know, the throwing of items, obviously, any weapons, any
any attacks, physical attacks, swarts law enforcement or others, damaging
a property. You know, it's it's the white spectrum. So
and obviously disrupting traffic flows people. You know, it's a
busy region. We have people trying to get to and
from you know, kids, sporting events and work and other things,
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and you know they're entitled to also be able to
go about their business as well without any disruptions. There's
apple opportunities to protest and do it peacefully in a
you know, in a coordinated way, and that's what we
expect out of everybody.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
In other words, protest like a textan, not like a
Californian exactly. All right, Sheriff, thank you for your time today.
I appreciate it. That is Sheriff Ed Gonzalez Harriscouty, Sriff.
Also on our program this morning over on ktr H
Congressman Wesley Hunt. So, of course I'm going to ask
Congressman Hunt about the offer to send federal help and
what he thinks about what's going on in general with
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the protesting around the country, What is the what's the
purpose behind all this. I'm not predicting a riot in
Harris County, Los Angeles. Yes here, I doubted seven to
two our time here in Houston's Morning News. I don't
think our next guest is predicting a rite either, although
he did make a very generous offer that was turned
down by the city in Harris County to send some
federal help of week wealth we needed it. Congressman Wesley
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Hunt joint this good morning. Congressman, good morning.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
How are you having me on? You bet a pleasure
to have you on.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
So when you offered the help, what kind of a
response did you get from Houston and Harris County.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, keep in.
Speaker 12 (24:25):
Mind, I want everyone to know that I have full
faith and Mayor Witmyer that he is going to take
care of business and that we're going to have a
safe and peaceful protest in Houston, because quite frankly, that
is the Houston way. But I am concerned about what
I have seen in other major cities in the past,
from the Summer of Love a few years ago and
what just transpired in LA for the last week, and
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so I want to keep Houston safe. The number one
role of the federal government is to keep Houston safe.
I'm offering mild just in case it's needed. Now, Lena
head Doggle's office research at us and said we don't
want your help, and that's totally fine.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I understand that.
Speaker 12 (25:03):
But now we know that if she responds to me
from Paris wherever she is right now, I want them
to know that we did offer and I have full
faith that we're going to be okay. But again, the
offer is there if needed, because we want to keep
our citizens safe. We don't want to see rioting, we
don't want to see vehicles burning in our streets. We
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don't want to see our businesses pillage.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's all I want, I understand.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
But for the sake of argument, let's say that things
do goes out, they do go wrong, how quickly could
additional help arrive if additional help was needed, as quickly
as necessary.
Speaker 12 (25:42):
I think that's actually an excellent question. That things do
get out of hand, I can assure you it's not
going to precipitate for four or five six days like
we're seeing in LA. This is also Texas, so we
handle place quite differently. And I have already been in
contact with the White House that are aware of the
concerns that we are expressing in all these major cities,
and again they will be able to send assistance swiftly.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
You know, I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
By the way, about Texans and how Texans protests versus
the rest of the country. It's the outside agitators that
you have to worry about. And this No King's protest
is highly organized. You've got the American Federation of Teachers'
Union involved in this, You've got you know, several United
States Communist Party involved with this. I mean, I know
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there's been a lot of talking in Congress about following
the money of who the organizers are of these protests,
Who do you think is responsible for these protests, and
what can be done in the future to cut off
the money source from these things.
Speaker 12 (26:42):
Well, of course it's extreme liberal organizations as individuals like
George Soros, and again they are sitting outside agitators, and
you are correct, it is our job to stop them
from agitating. And what I also want to bring to
the intention of a lot of people is that a
lot of people forget that George Floyd was from Houston.
Now if you notice through an Endeorge Ford protest we
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had the Lake Syvester Turner may he rest in peace
did come out in our press conference and he did
say that we are not going to destroy our city.
And lo and behold, we did not destroy our city.
So you are correct. It's up to us to identify
where the money comes from, where it's going, and it's
usually not the citizens that live within the region. It's
usually outside agitators, which some participation from some extreme individuals
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that do.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Live in the city.
Speaker 12 (27:29):
So again it's our job to stop the agitators from
agitating so that we could have peaceful protests and the
ability for people to express their First Amendment rights, the
rights that somebody like me fought for us to have,
and do it in a.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Very peaceful way.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
And thank you again for your service, sir the Congressman
Wesley Hunters. Well, this one last question for you, and
that has to do with, I guess the future of
these these types of events and these types of protests.
What do you think the end goal is here? Is
the end goal to create enough chaos to try to
overturn capitalism? Or is it just to try to make
Trump look as bad as possible, in other words, blame
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the rioting on President Trump and then have people be
upset at President Trump for what's going on.
Speaker 12 (28:09):
Well, our persons believe that a lot of this is
politically motivated, because you've noticed the less is no longer
talking about what's happening at the border because the border
is fixed.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
No one's talking about.
Speaker 12 (28:18):
Inflation because inflation is fixed. No one's talking about gas
prices because gas prices are down. No what's talking about
eggs because eggs are now down. And so now the
only thing left is to call President Trump an authoritarian.
That's what this cool thing is about. Is politically motivated.
And then the undertones of this are always the idea
of ending capitalism and ending the American way, and this
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happens about.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Every forty years.
Speaker 12 (28:41):
You see this uptick in, this upswing of communism, Marxism,
all the isms that you could possibly imagine wearing their
ugly head to try to destroy this country from within.
And that's why it's up to us to fight every
generation to ensure that that doesn't happen. But again, a
lot of this is politically motivated because President Trump is
actually doing pretty well, and he is doing what seventy
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seven million people voted for him to do. And the
first version now is what do we do because liberals
have no leader and they are absolutely rudderless.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
So all we can do now is just blandthromp.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
That is Congressman Wesley Hunt. All right, quick little break
back with more in a moment, Jimmy Barrett show.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
You're on a name of nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Why more words on the riot scene because again I
got riots on the mind. I don't again, I don't
think we get a riot here in Harris County tomorrow.
I think we're fine. I'm not saying that there won't
be any altercations. I'm just saying, I don't think I
don't think it's our style to burn cars. That's that's
not how we do things here in Houston. We we
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we had two World championships. You can tell a lot
about a city based on how they celebrate a sports victory.
For example, Los Angeles, you know, they like to ride
in LA when they win a sports championship. Mercifully they
don't win that many, uh, but they like like to riot.
It's it's kind of like the the comparison I used
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to make in college football between Michigan fans and Ohio
State fans, or or in this case, Michigan and Michigan
State fans, would be more appropriate. When Michigan State won
a national title in basketball, they're burning couches, they're setting
stuff on fire, they're climbing, they're climbing up lamp posts,
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they're they're they're you know, they're just they're destroying cars.
They're just, you know, they're growing nuts in and I
were much more quiet, you know, a little bit more classy.
When the Detroit Tigers won a world championship. Then we're
going way back nineteen eighty four. They were burning cars.
In Detroit and carrying on. What happens with these things,
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It's kind of like what happens with the riots. You
get the professional agitators who come out, you get the
people like to just come out and destroy things. There's
a lot of people like that who live in California. Mercifully,
there's not very many people like that who live here
in Texas. It's not how we celebrate. When we won
two world championships, nobody was setting cars on fire, please
cars or any other cars on fire. Nobody was burning
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anything down. We were peacefully enjoying a World championship of
the Astros. None of that other craziness was going on.
I'd like to think to part of it maybe is
that we just as a society here, we just don't
tolerate that kind of stuff. Nobody, nobody's going to mess Generally,
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speaking with Texas law enforcement, we have a healthy respect
is I was discussing with the sheriff Gonzales. We have
a healthy respect for law enforcement, just like we have
a healthy respect for our military, same kind of thing.
There are places where they don't. Now I don't know
if Brevard County, Florida, is one of those places that
doesn't have that level of respect. But I too know
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their sheriff was not afraid to just say exactly what
was on his mind about what he thinks is going
to happen. If somebody wants to mess with his officers,
if somebody wants to commit a violent act, if somebody
wants to point a gun to the police, if somebody
wants to pick up a brick and throw it at
the police, here's the Brevard County sheriff laying down the law.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
We're going to talk about a new program that we're
executing to protect ICE agents around.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
The country, especially in California.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
You're seeing a new effort where leftist groups are attacking
ICE agents.
Speaker 13 (32:53):
The peaceful protests are part of our democracy. We invite
people to share their opinions. That's what our country is
all about. If you let it turn violent, who you
do not want to do.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
That in Brevard County.
Speaker 13 (33:07):
If you throw a brick, a fire bomb, or point
a gun at one of our deputies, we will be
notifying your family where to collect your remains at because
we will kill you graveyard dead.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Dang wow.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
We will notify your family where to pick up your
remains because we will kill you graveyard dead. That's quite
a statement. And I'm guessing if you are somebody who's
willing to make that statement in public, then you're somebody
who's willing to make good on the statement. Right, I
would assume that, Yes, I would. I would not miss
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with anybody in Brevard County law enforcement. No, sir, I
don't think so. I think the man means exactly what
he says. Hey, one more thing about all of this
writing thing, and it's the thing that it always drives
me crazy about the progressive left. They claim that what
nobody in Los Angeles will admit to the fact that
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they're having a riot there. The governor won't admit they're
having a riot. The mayor won admit they're having a riot.
You know, they want to call what happened on January
the sixth and insurrection and a riot, but they don't
want to call what's happening there a riot though. No, No,
this is mostly peaceful protesting. This is not a riot.
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You know, the fact that stores are getting looted and
it's costing billions of dollars in damage, I mean, that
doesn't happen during a mostly peaceful protest, doesn't billions of
dollars worth the damage. Here's Jesse Waters on the five
riffing with one of the Democrat panelists on you know
what a riot is? And how yeah? I think pretty
much what happened in LA and what is happening in
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Los Angeles qualifies as a riot.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
They were a billion dollars in damage.
Speaker 14 (34:52):
That's what the small business administrator just said on Fox.
If this wasn't a riot, why the mayor had to
call curfew for the entire area of downtown. If this
wasn't a riot, why the mayor begged all the business
community to come help clean it up. If this wasn't
a riot, why do we see videos of the Apple
store and T mobile getting looted in seven eleven?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Why have we seen interviews with small.
Speaker 14 (35:16):
Business owners crying because their entire jewelry store was looted?
If this is what looks like when LA Lakers win
the championship, they don't celebrate for six days.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Jessica, this is a six day riot.
Speaker 14 (35:33):
And by the way, January sixth lasted six hours.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
This is going on for six days. And why if
Trump is provoking it with a national guard?
Speaker 14 (35:44):
Has it spread to Seattle and New York City because
there's no National Guarden in Seattle in New York City, So.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
How is he involved with that? Exactly? Yeah, No, I
think you got to call it what it is. It's
a riot. You know what's good hap up in here
in Houston. I don't believe it's going to be a
ride of any stretch of the imagination. I think we
can we can tell the difference, right, we know the
difference between a riot and not in just a mostly
peaceful protest. All right, listen, have a great Friday the thirteenth,
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Are you having a good Friday at the thirteenth? I
usually have a very good Friday of the thirteenth. I've
always concidered Friday the thirteenth to be generally a lucky
day for me.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
The morning show started off a little rough today, so
I don't know, jerge out. Let's see how the afternoon
show goes before I make any judgment about what kind
of a Friday of the thirteenth it's going to be today.
But welcome to the show. Glad you're out there. Thank
you for listening. Do appreciate it. We've got a lot
of things to cover on our one hour together here
this afternoon, including some things we did not get to
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this morning. And one of the things I found very
interesting was the Blue state governor testimony the US House
had governors from blue states. These are governors from sanctuary states,
states that support illegal immigration through a whole variety of
different means, now, the least of which is not cooperating
(01:26):
with Ice. And Republicans in the House decided they were
gonna have some fun and they were going to question
these people, and they were going to try to make
them as uncomfortable as humanly possible. And speaking of which,
let's start with Kathy Hochel. Kathy Hochel, the governor of
New York and Representative Jim Jordan. Here is the back
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and forth between those two from yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Who is Hey Susterrameo Hernandez.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
I don't have the details on every single person in
a state of twenty million people.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
San but this guy's citizen of Mexico to Porta seven times,
came to your state, assaulted one of your residents with
a machete, He choked a police officer, then when he
was in custody, assaulted a corrections officer. ICE finds out
this guy is in your state's custody and they send
you a detainer.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You're familiar with a detainer, right, yes?
Speaker 7 (02:13):
I am Notice of action immigration detainer from to Tompkins
County Jail from Syracuse Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Section one.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
They check a couple boxes.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
The first one they check is a final order of
removable against the alien has taken place. That means a
court has said this guy needs to go. This machete
wielding cop, choking corrections officer, assaulting guy needs to go.
Then they also check another box and they say biometric
confirmation of who this individual is, this alien's identity. So
they got the right guy and a court has said
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he needs to go. Any idea what Tompkins County Jail
decided to do with that detainer order?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I will tell you this the state of.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
The specific question did Tompkins County do?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Those?
Speaker 8 (03:03):
The descriptions you have put forth are absolutely chilling and disturbing.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
We're reprehensible to all of us, which my job is protection.
Why question, what did Tompkins County do? When I have responsibility?
We'll tell you, sir, you're not gonna answer.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
We cannot and will not hold mister Hernandez. We can't
keep the machete guy who would choke the police officer
and the solved the corrections officer.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
We can't keep him.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
In fact, we have the back and forth from Tompkins
County and Ice. On January twenty eighth of this year,
eight fifty six pm, Tompkins County tells Ice, We're not
gonna hold this guy. Seven minutes later, Ice responds back,
we will be there to take custody this evening. Twenty
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four minutes later, Thompson County reiterates we're not gonna have him.
We're not gonna turn him over ten forty five. Ice
arrives at the jail one hour and eighteen minutes later,
and guess what, mister Hernandez is not there. They couldn't
wait one hour and eighteen minutes for a guy who
assaulted one of your residents with the machete. He took
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the police officer, and then when in custody, assaulted corrections officers.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
And of course Kathy Holkle would tell you, well, I
can't do anything about that. I just control like state
police and state troopers and that kind of stuff. That's
a local jail. You take that up with them. That's
a bunch of bs. They all have their marching orders.
They know what is expected from the state government, and
the state government expects them to let these people go
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and they expect them to not cooperate with ICE, and
that's exactly what they're doing. So if you want to
be defiant, if you want to make a claim that
it's you know that we don't believe, we believe in
open borders, we do not believe that these illegal immigrants
should be sent back home. We are going to protect
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them in our state. Then say it, have the colonies
to say it. But of course she's in front of Congress,
and she doesn't want to say it in front of Congress.
All right, here's here's another blue state governor. His name
is Tim Waltz. You ever heard of him, the governor
of Minnesota. Tamp on Tim. Yeah, so I'm sure. I'm
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sure he's all about cooperating with ICE. Right, he doesn't
want illegals in his states. He gets questioned by Tennessee
Representative Tim Burchett.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
Governor Waltz, he said that, as long as you are governor,
immigrants will be welcome in Minnesota. Do you find a
difference between an immigrant and an illegal immigrant.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
By a difference their status?
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Is there a difference.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Legal status or otherwise?
Speaker 10 (05:46):
Well, the legal status is different, But in Minnesota, we
have a long tradition of welcoming okay.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
Ice in Saint Paul arrested a criminal illegal alien who
had been convicted of her possession of child child pernagorae
on a work computer. Do you still stand by your
statement that ICE agents are the modern day Gestapo.
Speaker 10 (06:09):
Ice agents need to do a job, but they need
to do it within the realm of due process and
the law. Wearing masks on no notice of who they are,
no notice of the vans, and picking people up off
the streets without that due process. I stand that that
is wrong in a road towards the theraitarianism, I certainly
stand by that.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You know, I have one rule.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
I have a couple of rules in my office, but
one of them have never compare anything dealing with the
Holocaust except for the Holocaust. I think that it it
desensitizes people about what really went on in Nazi Germany
by making any comparisons there. Does Minnesota receive federal tax
dollars for any programs that assist illegal immigrants.
Speaker 10 (06:52):
Minnesota's federal tax dollars are appropriated by you in Congress,
and then we use state dollars under under our loss.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
So no, no, we're not we're we're not spending any
of your money helping illegals. We're just spending our money
doing it. Okay, we're spending your money on things we
would normally pay for as estate, but in order to
have money to help the illegals, we're we're spending our money,
not your money, our money. See what he's trying to
do there. He's playing a little shell game, is what
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he's doing.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I again, I don't know what gets accomplished by any
of this. I guess if you're a member of Congress
and you're just pissed off about this stuff, you have
an opportunity to just, you know, go ahead and vent
and let these government officials know how you feel. But
you don't change their policies whatsoever. You don't hold them accountable.
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I doubt if there's any federal money that will go
missing as a result of their testimony. It's just an
opportunity for members of Congress to feel better about themselves.
I guess, all right, quick little break back with Bourn
in a moment Jimmy Barrett Show during the pribab of
the thirteenth Am ninth KPRC.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
All Right, a couple of things we can do here.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
In segment number two of our Pride of the thirteenth
show today, I'm gonna start with this one. Our television
partner k kPr C two did a report about President
Trump saying that he wants to eliminate FEMA. I mean,
there's no secret about that, right, we know that he's
not a fan. I don't think any of us are
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a fan of FEMA. Are you a fan of FEMA?
I'm certainly not a fan of FEMA. I don't think
anybody who lives in North Carolina or Florida in particular
fans of FEMA, because they saw what they did or
did not do in most cases, did not do after
a hurricane. I think that there's a lot more efficient
ways to get funding to states who declare a disaster,
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and FEMA just gets in the way as a middleman.
But KPRC two did a report on their news yesterday
about getting rid of FEMA and ed Emmett among others,
who expressed a little bit of concern, other words, who's
going to pick up the slack? Who's going to take over?
So I'll let you listen to the report and then
(09:27):
we will discuss this a little further.
Speaker 11 (09:30):
We are in the Meyerland area this morning talking about
this because if you'll remember, back in twenty seventeen, this
area flooded from Hurricane Harvey and was an area that
used FEMA funding. So we talked with former Harris County
Judge Ed Emmett, who was here during Hurricane Harvey, who
has questions as to what happens to that.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Is there going to be a way for some other
entity to take up that calls and do it better.
And you can't just throw it out there and hope
that that happens. There needs to be plan if you're
going to eliminate FEMA.
Speaker 11 (10:02):
And it has confidence in the state's Office of Emergency
Management director and personnel of the county OEM offices. This
all comes after President Trump announced his administration will begin
facing out FEMA once the current hurricane season ends. Trump
has long criticized FEMA as an effective and unnecessary. He
says federal disaster aid would instead come directly from the
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White House bypassing the agency.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
We think after this, Christians say, after.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
The hurricane season, we'll see yes stage.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Set up a FEMA council over the next couple of
months will be working on reforms and what FEMA will
look like in the future as a different agency as
under the Department of Homeland Security to the President's vision,
and it will empower governors to go out and respond
to emergency situations.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
Now, that was Christy Noam's voice off cameram in.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Response to this.
Speaker 11 (10:53):
Governor Abbott's office as in part quote, Texas has built
the strongest emergency management operation in the name and Governor
Abbott has pot convidence that the Texas Division of Emergency
Management will be able to swiftly take action when disasters strikes.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Okay, so how do we envision FEMA going forward? It
becomes a part evidently of it doesn't completely go away.
There will be a Federal Emergency Management Office, but it
will be a part of Homeland Security. And here's how
I envision it. I'm not sure if this matches what
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the President's vision is, but this is how I would
envision it is. Basically, it would be a very small
select committee of disaster specialists who would work in concert
with the governors of states impacted by a disaster, natural
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or otherwise, and coordinate with them as far as exactly
what it is, how much damage has happened, where it's happened,
how much how much resources it is going to take
in order to be able to solve the problem, to rebuild,
or do whatever it is you need to do. In
other words, kind of like kind of like you, kind
of like an insurance adjuster, only hopefully more fair than
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your average insurance agguester. Where they basically they go to
the state, they meet with the governor, they tour the damage,
and they help determine how much federal aid would be
necessary in order to be able to make the situation
whole again. Then they go back to Washington, d C.
And they make a recommendation to Congress as far as
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how much money is needed, and then Congress respectually approves
the money and it goes directly to the state involved.
No need to have a bunch of trailers, No need
to have you know, people who show up and take
up a bunch of hotel space, and and and and
do all that kind of stuff. Allow the states to
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coordinate for themselves where assets are needed, what assets are needed,
and put that in their hands. It's their state, it
is in their best interest to take care of their
own state. All FEMA needs to do is to help
with the appropriation of federal funds in order to help rebuild.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
You don't need an entire multi billion dollar department to
do that. You need a couple of really smart people
who are disaster experts who can help come up with
a figure that makes sense, and then just get the
money appropriated and give the money directly to the state.
I think that's the answer. You know that the problem
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with the government is the bureaucracy that's involved, the amount
of time that you spend spinning your wheels, the amount
of time you spend waiting for something to happen, the
amount of layers it has to go through before you
actually get to somebody who can make something happen. And
by that time, private groups and the states themselves have
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already they've already done begun the process themselves. If they
waited on the federal government, they'd be waiting for weeks.
So this makes a lot more sense. At least that's
that's how I imagined this is going to go in
the future. I would think it's gonna be something along
those lines, but we'll see.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
We'll see.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Also, a little update on the autopen I saw Representative
James Comber the autopen story. I saw James Comer on
Fox doing little Fox business in this case, doing a
little update. He was on with Maria Bartaroma doing a
an update on what's going on with the autopen story.
And they are investigating three or four or five people
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is a part of the Biden staff is as far
as being the ones that were operating the autopen. One
of them is a woman by the name of Lisa Monico.
I have no idea. I had no idea who Lisa
Monico is. She's a former Biden Deputy Attorney General. So
here's Representative Culver talking about her and some of the
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other things they've determined about the autopen.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
We know that there are sources that say that she
had a big impact on making decisions as to which
documents would be placed into the autopen. What we've identified
first for the four employees that we believe manually put
documents into the autopen, tresh the power button and signed
Joe Biden's name on them. Next match of people that
we're going to bring in are people like Ron Klain,
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and we'll get to the names that the President has
mentioned as well. Everyone that we've sent notice too that
we expect them to testify. Has agreed to testify thus far,
except the doctor, and I've subpoened him. You can come
in voluntarily and things work out a whole lot better
than if you have to come in via subpoena. So
I think this investigation is progressing and all the concerns
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that President Trump raised will be addressed in these In
these transcribed interviews and depositions, you know, there's more information
that's coming out daily. Luckily, we have a lot of
former employees like Jean Pierre, who are coming out with
books and interviews that are kind of painting a picture
that Joe Biden really didn't know what was going on
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in his White House. This is important to our investigation
because there were a lot of executive orders that were
signed using the autopen. There's really no excuse to use
the autopen on days when you're in the White House.
Many of the documents that were signed with the autopen
were days that Joe Biden was actually in the White House.
It's hard to explain that. With respect to the doctor.
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If you'll remember, Joe Biden did an interview several years
ago and said he had cancer. The White House quickly
issued a statement saying, oh, he missed folk. Now, how
many people do you know in the history of the
world that have missed folks saying they had cancer when
they really didn't. So, you know, there's evidence out there
that would suggest that there's been a cover of with
respect to his cancer for many years, just based on
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Joe Biden's own words. So we've got a lot of evidence.
There's more and more sources that are coming forward.
Speaker 12 (17:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
The key to a good congressional investigation Maria is having
whistle blowers. I don't know if you would classify Jean
Pierre and people Moody Jig as whistleblowers, but they're issuing
statements and doing interviews that are very incriminating to Joe Biden,
very incriminating to Joe Biden's doctor, and raise a lot
of questions as to who was authorizing the use.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Of that autopend.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Yeah, that's I think that's something they've kind of forgot
about in writing all these books. Is there it's a
literal paper trail of what was really going on at
the White House. You know, in their effort to try
to make money for themselves, they are basically outing themselves.
I mean not that we didn't already know all this stuff, right,
We already knew it, But I mean, it's just backing
(17:55):
up the proof. So I don't think we're gonna let
go of this one. Is there gonna be punishment as
a result of it? Who knows? Probably not? Again, it
seems like there never is. But you know, we would
like to know the truth behind all this, wouldn't we?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
All Right?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Coming up next, by the way, from this morning show
on KTRH, you know, we have the No King's protest
happening all around the country tomorrow, including right here in Houston.
I had Sheriff Harris County, sheriff Ed Gonzales, and Congressman
Wesley Hunt on the program this morning to talk about that,
and I'll share those interviews with you next.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Kirn AM nine fifty KDRC. This morning it was ready
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a seven forty KRH.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I had a couple of VIP guests on the program
to talk about the No King's protest here in Houston
coming up up tomorrow. First up was sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
Here's my interview with sheriff Ed Gonzalez on how they're
preparing for tomorrow's protest. Well, maybe there won't be a
law breaking going on in Harris County on Saturday. Maybe
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we'll just have a peaceful protest. I'm sure that's what
our next guest is hoping for anyway. Harris County Sheriff
at Gonzalez Joints.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
This Good morning, Sheriff, Hey, good morning, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You bet, I don't know if you heard the comments
by the Levard County Sheriff. I'm pretty sure that you're
not making any threats like that. What what are the
preparations like? What do you what in your heart of
hearts are you expecting to happen on Saturday. You think
everything's gonna be nice and peaceful, Well, that's that's our hope.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
We always, uh, you know, pray for the best, but
we prepare for war and we're ready for any kind
of contingencies the situations, as we know from past experience,
because Alays can always be dynamic. Sometimes most people are
peaceful and are just there to exercise their right to demonstrate,
but sometimes others, you know, when I out of line
(20:00):
and they do, then we'll be ready to react swiftly
and effectively to make sure we stop any threats, any
damage to property, any harm to any law enforcement or
to the community at large, or disruption to traffic flows, etc.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I'm guessing if there was any violence, these are going
to be outside agitators that are going to do that,
and probably out of state agitators because your typical texts
and regardless of their political persuasion, has a respect for
law enforcement.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Absolutely, That's what we've seen time and time again. Harris
County does have a long history of seeing people exercising
their right to protest, and typically they've done it peacefully.
But again, we leave nothing to chance. So our folks
are well prepared and trained, and we're working closely with
our law enforcement partners and everyone involved so that we
(20:47):
could make sure that everything goes according to plan.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Govern Rabbit has deployed the National Guard. He sent them
to San Antonio. There are a few people who are
upset that he did. Is there any plans for the
National Guard to be in Houston on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
We haven't heard that there's plans for them to be here. Obviously,
there's a lot of things happening around the state and
other cities as well, so I'm sure they're needed in
other areas and and there's more pressing needs, and then
you know, we support that. You know, we're never gonna
turn down any help if we need it. But I
think for now things are under control. There are a
number of protests around the region. So we'll make sure
(21:22):
we continue to keep a close eye today going into tomorrow,
and if anything, if the needs arise, will definitely be
in contact and and not be shy about receiving help.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
About an hour from now, we're gonna be talking with
Congressman Wesley Hunt. He had offered to Harris County to
send in some federal help if you thought you needed it.
He made the same offer to the City of Houston
that those of offers from from the congressmen were turned down.
I take it that means that you folks don't feel
you need any additional help.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
At the moment.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I think we're set.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
You know.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
I don't know what other county leaders you know, have
done with those requests or anything like that. Uh, but
you know, in terms of our law enforcement posture, I
think we're we're set. We're good to go with what
we have. And again, we are appreciative of any any
offers for assistance if needed, and and we'll definitely call
if if that's the case.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Okay, can he kind of tell us where the line is,
Sheriff Gonzales on Saturday for the demonstrators, where do you
draw the line as far as peaceful protesting versus something
that you're not going to tolerate.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Yeah, well, I think it starts crossing the line when
you start seeing damage to property, to vehicles, throwing of items,
any any type of harm towards any law enforcement officer
that's out there just serving and protecting. Anything like that,
you know, obviously starts going out of lines. It's hard
sometimes to define exactly, you know, but but the obvious,
(22:50):
you know, the throwing of items, obviously, any weapons, any
any attacks, physical attacks, swarts law enforcement or others, damaging
a property. You know, it's it's the white spectrum. So
and obviously disrupting traffic flows people. You know, it's a
busy region. We have people trying to get to and
from you know, kids, sporting events and work and other things,
(23:13):
and you know they're entitled to also be able to
go about their business as well without any disruptions. There's
apple opportunities to protest and do it peacefully in a
you know, in a coordinated way, and that's what we
expect out of everybody.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
In other words, protest like a textan, not like a
Californian exactly. All right, Sheriff, thank you for your time today.
I appreciate it. That is Sheriff Ed Gonzalez Harriscouty, Sriff.
Also on our program this morning over on ktr H
Congressman Wesley Hunt. So, of course I'm going to ask
Congressman Hunt about the offer to send federal help and
what he thinks about what's going on in general with
(23:50):
the protesting around the country, What is the what's the
purpose behind all this. I'm not predicting a riot in
Harris County, Los Angeles. Yes here, I doubted seven to
two our time here in Houston's Morning News. I don't
think our next guest is predicting a rite either, although
he did make a very generous offer that was turned
down by the city in Harris County to send some
federal help of week wealth we needed it. Congressman Wesley
(24:12):
Hunt joint this good morning. Congressman, good morning.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
How are you having me on? You bet a pleasure
to have you on.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
So when you offered the help, what kind of a
response did you get from Houston and Harris County.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, keep in.
Speaker 12 (24:25):
Mind, I want everyone to know that I have full
faith and Mayor Witmyer that he is going to take
care of business and that we're going to have a
safe and peaceful protest in Houston, because quite frankly, that
is the Houston way. But I am concerned about what
I have seen in other major cities in the past,
from the Summer of Love a few years ago and
what just transpired in LA for the last week, and
(24:47):
so I want to keep Houston safe. The number one
role of the federal government is to keep Houston safe.
I'm offering mild just in case it's needed. Now, Lena
head Doggle's office research at us and said we don't
want your help, and that's totally fine.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I understand that.
Speaker 12 (25:03):
But now we know that if she responds to me
from Paris wherever she is right now, I want them
to know that we did offer and I have full
faith that we're going to be okay. But again, the
offer is there if needed, because we want to keep
our citizens safe. We don't want to see rioting, we
don't want to see vehicles burning in our streets. We
(25:24):
don't want to see our businesses pillage.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's all I want, I understand.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
But for the sake of argument, let's say that things
do goes out, they do go wrong, how quickly could
additional help arrive if additional help was needed, as quickly
as necessary.
Speaker 12 (25:42):
I think that's actually an excellent question. That things do
get out of hand, I can assure you it's not
going to precipitate for four or five six days like
we're seeing in LA. This is also Texas, so we
handle place quite differently. And I have already been in
contact with the White House that are aware of the
concerns that we are expressing in all these major cities,
and again they will be able to send assistance swiftly.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
You know, I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
By the way, about Texans and how Texans protests versus
the rest of the country. It's the outside agitators that
you have to worry about. And this No King's protest
is highly organized. You've got the American Federation of Teachers'
Union involved in this, You've got you know, several United
States Communist Party involved with this. I mean, I know
(26:27):
there's been a lot of talking in Congress about following
the money of who the organizers are of these protests,
Who do you think is responsible for these protests, and
what can be done in the future to cut off
the money source from these things.
Speaker 12 (26:42):
Well, of course it's extreme liberal organizations as individuals like
George Soros, and again they are sitting outside agitators, and
you are correct, it is our job to stop them
from agitating. And what I also want to bring to
the intention of a lot of people is that a
lot of people forget that George Floyd was from Houston.
Now if you notice through an Endeorge Ford protest we
(27:04):
had the Lake Syvester Turner may he rest in peace
did come out in our press conference and he did
say that we are not going to destroy our city.
And lo and behold, we did not destroy our city.
So you are correct. It's up to us to identify
where the money comes from, where it's going, and it's
usually not the citizens that live within the region. It's
usually outside agitators, which some participation from some extreme individuals
(27:27):
that do.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Live in the city.
Speaker 12 (27:29):
So again it's our job to stop the agitators from
agitating so that we could have peaceful protests and the
ability for people to express their First Amendment rights, the
rights that somebody like me fought for us to have,
and do it in a.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Very peaceful way.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
And thank you again for your service, sir the Congressman
Wesley Hunters. Well, this one last question for you, and
that has to do with, I guess the future of
these these types of events and these types of protests.
What do you think the end goal is here? Is
the end goal to create enough chaos to try to
overturn capitalism? Or is it just to try to make
Trump look as bad as possible, in other words, blame
(28:04):
the rioting on President Trump and then have people be
upset at President Trump for what's going on.
Speaker 12 (28:09):
Well, our persons believe that a lot of this is
politically motivated, because you've noticed the less is no longer
talking about what's happening at the border because the border
is fixed.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
No one's talking about.
Speaker 12 (28:18):
Inflation because inflation is fixed. No one's talking about gas
prices because gas prices are down. No what's talking about
eggs because eggs are now down. And so now the
only thing left is to call President Trump an authoritarian.
That's what this cool thing is about. Is politically motivated.
And then the undertones of this are always the idea
of ending capitalism and ending the American way, and this
(28:39):
happens about.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Every forty years.
Speaker 12 (28:41):
You see this uptick in, this upswing of communism, Marxism,
all the isms that you could possibly imagine wearing their
ugly head to try to destroy this country from within.
And that's why it's up to us to fight every
generation to ensure that that doesn't happen. But again, a
lot of this is politically motivated because President Trump is
actually doing pretty well, and he is doing what seventy
(29:03):
seven million people voted for him to do. And the
first version now is what do we do because liberals
have no leader and they are absolutely rudderless.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
So all we can do now is just blandthromp.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
That is Congressman Wesley Hunt. All right, quick little break
back with more in a moment, Jimmy Barrett show.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
You're on a name of nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Why more words on the riot scene because again I
got riots on the mind. I don't again, I don't
think we get a riot here in Harris County tomorrow.
I think we're fine. I'm not saying that there won't
be any altercations. I'm just saying, I don't think I
don't think it's our style to burn cars. That's that's
not how we do things here in Houston. We we
(30:07):
we had two World championships. You can tell a lot
about a city based on how they celebrate a sports victory.
For example, Los Angeles, you know, they like to ride
in LA when they win a sports championship. Mercifully they
don't win that many, uh, but they like like to riot.
It's it's kind of like the the comparison I used
(30:28):
to make in college football between Michigan fans and Ohio
State fans, or or in this case, Michigan and Michigan
State fans, would be more appropriate. When Michigan State won
a national title in basketball, they're burning couches, they're setting
stuff on fire, they're climbing, they're climbing up lamp posts,
(30:50):
they're they're they're you know, they're just they're destroying cars.
They're just, you know, they're growing nuts in and I
were much more quiet, you know, a little bit more classy.
When the Detroit Tigers won a world championship. Then we're
going way back nineteen eighty four. They were burning cars.
In Detroit and carrying on. What happens with these things,
(31:10):
It's kind of like what happens with the riots. You
get the professional agitators who come out, you get the
people like to just come out and destroy things. There's
a lot of people like that who live in California. Mercifully,
there's not very many people like that who live here
in Texas. It's not how we celebrate. When we won
two world championships, nobody was setting cars on fire, please
cars or any other cars on fire. Nobody was burning
(31:33):
anything down. We were peacefully enjoying a World championship of
the Astros. None of that other craziness was going on.
I'd like to think to part of it maybe is
that we just as a society here, we just don't
tolerate that kind of stuff. Nobody, nobody's going to mess Generally,
(31:55):
speaking with Texas law enforcement, we have a healthy respect
is I was discussing with the sheriff Gonzales. We have
a healthy respect for law enforcement, just like we have
a healthy respect for our military, same kind of thing.
There are places where they don't. Now I don't know
if Brevard County, Florida, is one of those places that
doesn't have that level of respect. But I too know
(32:19):
their sheriff was not afraid to just say exactly what
was on his mind about what he thinks is going
to happen. If somebody wants to mess with his officers,
if somebody wants to commit a violent act, if somebody
wants to point a gun to the police, if somebody
wants to pick up a brick and throw it at
the police, here's the Brevard County sheriff laying down the law.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
We're going to talk about a new program that we're
executing to protect ICE agents around.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
The country, especially in California.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
You're seeing a new effort where leftist groups are attacking
ICE agents.
Speaker 13 (32:53):
The peaceful protests are part of our democracy. We invite
people to share their opinions. That's what our country is
all about. If you let it turn violent, who you
do not want to do.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
That in Brevard County.
Speaker 13 (33:07):
If you throw a brick, a fire bomb, or point
a gun at one of our deputies, we will be
notifying your family where to collect your remains at because
we will kill you graveyard dead.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Dang wow.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
We will notify your family where to pick up your
remains because we will kill you graveyard dead. That's quite
a statement. And I'm guessing if you are somebody who's
willing to make that statement in public, then you're somebody
who's willing to make good on the statement. Right, I
would assume that, Yes, I would. I would not miss
(33:44):
with anybody in Brevard County law enforcement. No, sir, I
don't think so. I think the man means exactly what
he says. Hey, one more thing about all of this
writing thing, and it's the thing that it always drives
me crazy about the progressive left. They claim that what
nobody in Los Angeles will admit to the fact that
(34:05):
they're having a riot there. The governor won't admit they're
having a riot. The mayor won admit they're having a riot.
You know, they want to call what happened on January
the sixth and insurrection and a riot, but they don't
want to call what's happening there a riot though. No, No,
this is mostly peaceful protesting. This is not a riot.
(34:25):
You know, the fact that stores are getting looted and
it's costing billions of dollars in damage, I mean, that
doesn't happen during a mostly peaceful protest, doesn't billions of
dollars worth the damage. Here's Jesse Waters on the five
riffing with one of the Democrat panelists on you know
what a riot is? And how yeah? I think pretty
much what happened in LA and what is happening in
(34:47):
Los Angeles qualifies as a riot.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
They were a billion dollars in damage.
Speaker 14 (34:52):
That's what the small business administrator just said on Fox.
If this wasn't a riot, why the mayor had to
call curfew for the entire area of downtown. If this
wasn't a riot, why the mayor begged all the business
community to come help clean it up. If this wasn't
a riot, why do we see videos of the Apple
store and T mobile getting looted in seven eleven?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Why have we seen interviews with small.
Speaker 14 (35:16):
Business owners crying because their entire jewelry store was looted?
If this is what looks like when LA Lakers win
the championship, they don't celebrate for six days.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Jessica, this is a six day riot.
Speaker 14 (35:33):
And by the way, January sixth lasted six hours.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
This is going on for six days. And why if
Trump is provoking it with a national guard?
Speaker 14 (35:44):
Has it spread to Seattle and New York City because
there's no National Guarden in Seattle in New York City, So.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
How is he involved with that? Exactly? Yeah, No, I
think you got to call it what it is. It's
a riot. You know what's good hap up in here
in Houston. I don't believe it's going to be a
ride of any stretch of the imagination. I think we
can we can tell the difference, right, we know the
difference between a riot and not in just a mostly
peaceful protest. All right, listen, have a great Friday the thirteenth,
(36:13):
what's left of it. I will see you Monday morning,
bright and early at five AM over our news radio
seven forty ktr H. We are back here at four
on AM nine fifty KPRC.
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