Texas National Guard to Chicago

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• The Texas National Guard to Chicago

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
No, let me let me ask you a question to
start our show today. How handy are you? Are you
a handy person or are you not a handy person?
And I think the reason why I asked the question
is because I am not a handy person, not at all.
There's there's a handful of things that I am competent
at when it comes to fixing things. And I used

(00:53):
to I used to blame my dad for this because
my dad, my dad was a teacher. I think I've
told you that before that was a teacher. My dad's
philosophy was I'm a teacher. That's what I do. I
teach and I'm not a plumber. So if I have
a toilet that needs to be fixed, I'm going to
call a plumber because that's what a plumber does. If

(01:14):
I have an electrical problem, I'm going to call electrician
because that's what electrician does. They don't try to teach,
and I don't try to do their job. That's how
the American economy is supposed to work. At least, this
was his high horse. He said, up, this is how
the American economy is supposed to work. Here, we all
have our jobs, we all do our jobs. It works
out better this way. And to a certain extent, I

(01:37):
don't disagree, because as it turns out, I'm not the
least at hand either. I used to blame my father
from the standpoint, well, he never taught me how to
do anything. You know, I never learned how to do
it because he never taught me how to do it.
But then I sort of an epiphany with my son Brian.
Here's how this works. I have no talent whatsoever. I

(01:59):
did not, so I didn't have any fix it talent
to pass along to my kids. I have one son, Matt,
who like me, wouldn't mind doing some home improven things,
but really doesn't have the skill set to do it.
And then I have another son, Brian, who is unbelievably

(02:20):
good at it. He can put an addition on a house.
He you know, he finished his basement. It looks like
it was done by It looks better than anything I've
done seen done by a professional construction company, remodeling company.
He has, he's building, He's in the process right now
building his own deck. I think the deck's big enough
to land of seven forty seven eyes, the biggest thing

(02:41):
I've ever seen. And he's doing it all himself. And
I don't know where he learned it. I don't understand
where he got it from. He said, well, I do.
I finally figured out where he got it from. His grandfather.
My ex wife's father was an engineer Ford Motor Company,
and he he had an innate natural ability to analyze

(03:03):
things and to figure out how to fix things, and
he was very good at it, and he did many
of the same things my son Brian does. So that
tells me that, at least in part, being handy is
a part of heredity. You either get that gene or
you don't get that gene. Just like you could have

(03:23):
somebody who nobody in the family seemingly has any sort
of talent for there, but one kid does. Well, where
did they get it from? Well, they got it from somewhere.
It's the same thing we got a family where everybody's short,
and you got one kid who's like six foot two.
I mean, my dad was like five to ten, my
mom was like five to four, and I'm six two.
Where'd I get that from? Well, it turns out that
you go back in my family, we had some tall

(03:44):
men and that gene somehow got passed along. I think
it's the same kind of thing when it comes to
being a handy person. You either have the talent, at
least some talent, or you don't. Yes, you can learn
a few things, but you can't learn talent. Talent is
something you either had have or you don't have, whatever
that thing is. I would like to say that speaking

(04:05):
or expressing myself or doing a radio show is a
talent to a certain extent. I wasn't trained on how
to do it. I just I just did it. I
think that was something I was born to do. And
that's the keen life to me, is finding the thing
that you were born to do and figuring out how
to make a living doing it. I guess we've got

(04:26):
to be started on this whole thing. Is the story
about how there's a lot of people in white collar
jobs who are looking to switch over to a blue
collar job because it pays more money. If you're a
public school teacher making sixty thousand dollars a year and
you have a proclivity towards doing plumbing or electrical work,

(04:48):
you could make a lot more money. You could make
a six figure salary pretty easily being a plumber. If
you're a master plumber, you could make a quarter of
a million dollars a year. If you're limited by, you know,
how much a public school system can pay you. Why
wouldn't you take a look at that? Why didn't you
make that decision to begin with instead of wasting money

(05:09):
going to college to become something that is frustrating at
least at this point in life is frustrating and you
don't get paid that much money to do. And that
kind of evolved into our question, which is always, you know,
we always try to find a fun question to discuss
these things.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
So my question is this.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
If what is the craziest or hardest thing that you
ever fixed in how did you fix it? And bonus
points if it involves duct tape, because I think we've
all temporarily fixed something using gut, you know, using duct take.
Now I've fixed a basement before leaky basement wall before

(05:50):
by applying waterproofing pain and then going outside and raising
the level of the of the grounds of the ground
slopes away from that wall. And that fixed the problem,
to fix the problem while I was living in that house.
I don't know if it permanently fixed the problem or not.
I've you know, I have wired up before. Although I
don't like messing with electricity. I have wired up you know,

(06:14):
a dimmer, a light dimmer. I've done that before. That's
not particularly hard to do. But you you show me
something that involves reading instructions, especially instructions that were put
together by a foreign country, which a lot of things
you order come from a China or someplace like that.
Try reading those instructions. Figured it out? I am lost.
So anyway, here's the again, here's the question. Hardest thing

(06:37):
that you ever fixed? And how our craziest thing you
ever fixed it? How did you fix it?

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Dave on a lake conro Yeah, baling wire, duck tape
and WD forty man. You can fix anything. Ask guy Mike.
You're on stage and you got to put your mic
stand back together, take the drums down, fix the cords down.
You can figure anything told see things.

Speaker 6 (07:02):
I fixed my daughter's barbie car. I took bailey wire
and a whole bunch of duct tape and patched it up.
In fact, that you so much duct tape, I decided
to repaint it painted pink and looks really good.

Speaker 7 (07:16):
The hardest but best thing that I've ever fixed was
the alternator in my pickup truck, and that was several
years ago. I had to learned how to remove the
superenteine belt and get the clutchman out of the way
and a few other things out of the way. But
and then also connecting the wires and everything after I
bolted the alternator to the frame. Man, I tell you
what the satisfaction I got after doing that was absolutely awesome.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, David headed L five forty five and Walker County.
When it comes to fixing things, man, YouTube is your friend.
You can find videos on there to fix anything, including
the reptiles X function and constipation.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
He's not wrong about that. There's a YouTube how to
tutorial on any topic you can imagine. All right, quick
little break back with born them of a Jimmy Barrett show.
Here a named on nine fifty KPRC. All right, we

(08:32):
have sent some elite Texas National Guard troops to Chicago.
They weren't wanted. We were told they weren't needed. The
Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, not very happy that Governor
Abbott has sent these elite forces. But they are going there, well,

(08:52):
they're there already. They are there to protect federal installations.
They're there to protect ICE agents because Chicago is not
interested protecting ICE agents.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
But for some reason, huh, I can't imagine what.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
For some reason, Mayor Johnson seems to think that we're
all up in his business. You know, what are you
all doing sending these strips? What are you going to
be all up in my business? So here's the statement
from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson in reaction to it all
from Governor Greg Abbott, the.

Speaker 8 (09:23):
Governor of Texas should be worrying about Texas.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Why he all up in my business? Focus on Texas, Cameron,
and that's great, Governor into this. We wish you could
have seen your face. Why are you all up in
his business?

Speaker 9 (09:38):
Governor? So listen to both both the mayor and the
government of Illinois need to own up to the fact
that they are not doing their jobs to maintain the
safety and security of federal officials who are required to
enforce federal law in their city and in their state.
Because they were refusing to do that. Texas is using

(09:59):
just a I'm all part of our National Guard.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Know this.

Speaker 9 (10:02):
We still have thousands of National Guard on the border
as you and I are talking right now. But what
we sent to Illinois our Guard who were there already
in Illinois, who are part of the elite team of
a tactical force that I have utilized in the state
of Texas to provide backup support for the Texas Department
of Public Safety. They have specialized training to deal with

(10:24):
civil disturbances and they buyout trending to use for years
under the Biden administration where they had to confront a
civil unrest along the border, especially those who were coming
across the border. They're very experienced and being able to
back up the ICE agents and other federal agents to
make sure that they will be able to execute the
laws safely and effectively.

Speaker 10 (10:46):
Okay, So Governor Pritzker had more words for you, calling
you a tool of Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
So he's clueless. As typical.

Speaker 9 (10:56):
So last year when Joe Biden was president, Texas was
fighting for our lives on the border, and I need
her to ensure that every National Guard member we had
available was doing the job that the federal government should
have been doing that Joe Biden should have been doing,
and that is to enforce the immigration laws of the
United States. Instead of trying to help out Joe Biden,

(11:18):
I was using our National Guard to enforce immigration laws.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Our national Guard.

Speaker 9 (11:22):
Were actually repelling people who are trying to enter the
country illegally and secure the border by building these border
barriers that no state in the history of America has
ever done before. So I'm proud that we had the
most elite national Guard in the country securing our border,
unlike any state in the history of the United States.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah, we may be up in your business, but we
don't care because your business is our business. President Trump
says he needs the help. We're sending the help because
after old Trump, Trump helps us will help Trump.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
All Right.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Here's something else to consider. As long as we're talking
about unrest in Chicago, the unrest continues in Portland as well.
A little different problem there because you basically have a
federal court or district court that I can't remember which
you have a court there that saying that no, no, no, no,
you can't come in here. And of course you have Portland,
you know, fighting even tougher against getting any sort of

(12:17):
you know, national guard in there to protect the and
that ice that ice station is legitimately well, both of
them are, but Portland has been under siege. That ice
facility has been under siege for quite some time. Jesse
Waters did a report on Portland undrest on his show
last night. Here's a little bit of that.

Speaker 11 (12:34):
The heat must be getting to them because we're noticing
dissension in the ANTIFA ranks.

Speaker 8 (12:39):
Before you get this time more and makes him more money,
before you get him more money.

Speaker 11 (12:55):
When ice vans are able to bust through the barricades
antifas thrown up around their building, they're nailing the worst first,
a fentanyl trafficker, a murder suspect, sex predators, pedophiles, all
iceed In Oregon, immigration police have been getting pelted with rocks,
laser beamed, and loogied, but Democrats say it's all smoke
and mirrors. Protesters are peaceful, but they have videographers behind them,

(13:19):
and then they start throwing down pepper balls and tear
gas to film it to try to create the impression
of chaos.

Speaker 12 (13:26):
Ah.

Speaker 11 (13:26):
Yes, the Vietnam War would have gone so much better
if it wasn't for those stupid people filming it.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Our hippie loving.

Speaker 11 (13:34):
Grandparents still think we're fighting Charlie in the jungles of
Southeast Asia while Grantifa serenades us with song.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
New York Times.

Speaker 11 (13:58):
Columnists are in Portland playing peek a boo.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Be careful.

Speaker 11 (14:06):
Portland is on fire, our president says, so the rival
gangs fighting, the clouds of tear gas all around us.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Be careful.

Speaker 11 (14:18):
But actually, this isn't a war zone, whatever Trump says,
It is perfectly peaceful. Legacy media doesn't have any reporters
filming the riots, and that's how the Chief of Police
likes it. What bothers him are the journalists who are
fair in balanced. What we're seeing, what the increased national
attention is bringing in nationally recognized influencers. They're going where

(14:42):
they can get the views and create the perception.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
That's Chief Bob Day.

Speaker 11 (14:47):
The Chief thinks the guy with the selfie stick at
the riots is the problem, not the loons trapped with
a machete.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Bob isn't just a police chief.

Speaker 11 (14:57):
He's a DEI consultant chief a hiatus during the summer
of Love to Go work for a DEI nonprofit called
the Red Door Project. What's their mission reimagine policing. This
is what Bob was doing with his time before Antifa
burnt down Portland the last time.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Now they have completely reimagined policing in Portland, Oregon, as
in no, no policing. You know, do your do your thing,
whatever your thing is. We won't get in your way,
we won't hurt you on and hey, what you're doing
with the federal facility. That's got nothing to do with us.
That's a federal facility. Well, and that's okay. I guess

(15:37):
if that's the attitude you want to take Portland, that
that belongs to the Feds and you don't need to
protect it or do anything for it, that's fine. But
please allow us to come in and protect ourselves. That
that would be That would be a very nice thing
to do if you were very nice, peaceful people, which
you obviously claimed to be. All right, here's here's something

(16:00):
to think about too, here's something on your day. Actually, uh, well,
maybe I'll save that for a next segment with Liz
Peak one of the one of the casual I shouldn't
call it a casualty. One of the things about the
government shut down is that we have fewer air traffic
controllers working. We have some sick ends going on, mainly

(16:22):
right now in places like California, where I know Burbank
Airporting California was shut down for a while, and the
reason why they were shut down is because they didn't
have you know, they didn't have any air traffic controllers
for about six hours. So it's a little tough to
you know, to have landings at your airport are a
little tougher to have landings, take offs and landings at
the airport. We have no air air traffic control, so

(16:45):
that is a bit of a problem. Healthcare, however, is
not a problem that I don't think we're having any
issues as it relates to healthcare. But here's here's here's
what we are having. We're having a federal government that's
made new COVID nineteen recommends, and the Department of Health
and Human Services and the CDC are making different recommendations

(17:07):
now than they were during the Biden administration. And the
reason being is that what we've learned about the COVID
nineteen vaccine tells us that the pruven thing to do
would be to not let pregnant women take it, or
certainly not advice pregnant women to take it. But you
have all these healthcare institutions, including right here in Houston,
who can't seem to figure it out or don't want

(17:28):
to figure out that perhaps the COVID nineteen vaccine is
not the best thing ever. Doctor Mary Tally Bowden was
on our show this morning. She's been fighting the fight
against this, the COVID nineteen vaccine for quite some time.
She was a guest on our show this morning. Here's
a little bit of my conversation with her. Why are
they still so hell bent on on temping this vaccine

(17:49):
that we know has major problems or the very least
doesn't work.

Speaker 12 (17:52):
Yeah, it's amazing to me. I agree what I see clinically,
COVID is the cold. I worry more patients said the
flu by far than COVID. There's no need to take
an experimental mRNA shot with no long term safety data.
I continue to see problems with this on a daily basis.
People to whose lives have been completely destroyed by these shots.

(18:16):
The CDC is backing away from it, not far enough
in my opinion. I think it should be completely taken
off the market. But they're backing away from it. The
Texas Medical Association is doubling down. They sent out a
letter to the doctors basically saying, look beyond the CDC,
look to other sources of information, because they basically want

(18:38):
Texas doctors to continue to recommend that all babies get
three mRNA shots by the time they're nine months old.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
I can only assume at this point that this is
about money. Is this simply just about money the medical evidence,
I believe, unless these people have just completely convinced themselves
that into an alternate reality of what the COVID nineteen
vaccine is capable of doing, it's got to be about
the money.

Speaker 12 (19:05):
Well money, but alternate reality is true as well. I mean,
these people just are locked into this narrative, refuse to
open their eyes and dig a little deeper. It's really sad.
It's a testament to how poorly our medical system where

(19:26):
we've gone. It's sort of embarrassing for our medical system.
But you know, that pediatrician who's dolling out these shots.
Part of it's money, but part of it is, just
like you said, alternate reality.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Well, at some point you'd like to think that something
is going to change. What piece of information do you
think is out there that may ultimately come out that
will force the Texas Medical Association and other groups to
relook at how they're treating this vaccine, to back down
from trying to get everybody in the brother to take it.

Speaker 8 (20:02):
We have an.

Speaker 12 (20:03):
Enormous amount of information. We have more than enough information
to justify pulling these shots off the market. I think
the strongest that we have now is about the DNA contamination.
I mean, that's irrefutable. There have been at least ten
studies showing that there are their DNA contamination exceeding the
loud levels in these shots, and that can be very

(20:24):
problematic in terms of cancer autoimmune disease. The CDC is
protecting the cancer information. They have not released the information
since twenty twenty two, which seems purposeful in my opinion,
because we need to know what cancer is doing because
antecdotally we're all hearing about an explosion. I have friends

(20:45):
at MD Anderson who said they've never seen anything like
this with cancer. We just need the CDC to release
that information.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
Okay, and you mentioned cancer. Last question for you. You mentioned cancer.
What types of cancer do you believe we're seeing as
a result of the vaccine.

Speaker 12 (21:01):
Well, there's there's a recent study that was just published.
It's from South Korea. The most the biggest uptick was
in prostate and thyroid cancer, but it covered all sorts
of cancer.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Interesting because I know a few people who've been diagnosed
with prostate cancer here in the last couple of years.
I think there's any tie in there. You have to wonder,
don't you. All Right, quick little break back with more
more on the government shutdown, including the problem with air
traffic control, coming up next here on a nine fifty
KPRC Jimmy Parrett Show. All Right, the government shutdown has

(21:52):
not been felt by most of us, and the reason
being is that most of us don't work for the
federal government. But Eric maybe end up being felt a
little bit more because air traffic controllers do work for
the federal government. Their job is essential. Essential people are
still working. The problem is they're not being paid. So

(22:12):
you've got air traffic controllers who are on the job.
We already have a shortage of air traffic controllers and
they're on the job and they're not getting paid, and
as has happened many times before, we're starting to see
them call in sick because they don't like working without
being paid. Go figure. Here is a report. By the way,
we're seeing it, We've seen it on the West Coast

(22:32):
in some other cities. I think we're starting to see
it a little bit here in Houston. So I would
advise if you have a flight here over the next
week or so, that you check ahead of time to
make sure there hasn't been a delay or a cancelation
as a result of this problem. But here's a report
on what was going on yesterday at least in Los
Angeles from KTLA television.

Speaker 10 (22:52):
Air Traffic controllers are back on the job here at
Burbank Airport, but there are more problems, more cancelations at
more airports, and now more passengers are getting that dreaded
flight canceled text disruptions for air travelers across the US.
As the FAA warns tonight, this is just the beginning

(23:14):
of flight delays and cancelations because of the week long
government shutdown.

Speaker 13 (23:19):
It will happen at other airports, as the shutdown continues.
Remember all these essential federal workers, whether it's air traffic controllers,
TSA agents, customs and border protection, they're being asked to work,
but they're not being paid.

Speaker 10 (23:32):
Tonight, eight major airports Las Vegas, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Nashville,
and Newark all experiencing air traffic control tower staffing issues.
The control tower workers calling in sick because they will
not be paid until the shutdown ends. The National Air
Traffic Controllers Association president clearly frustrated.

Speaker 14 (23:54):
We do not have time to waste on the unnecessary
distractions created by this.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Down, So our message is clear.

Speaker 10 (24:02):
In the shutdown last night, Hollywood Burbank Airport was without
control tower staff for about six hours, and that led
to twelve canceled and fifty six delayed flights. Operations had
to be handled remotely by a crew more than one
hundred and thirty miles away. In San Diego, air traffic
controllers are tasked with keeping passenger planes safe during takeoff

(24:25):
and landing. The Secretary of Transportation.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Loop's cut off there for some reason.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
All right, that's okay, You get the idea that you know,
we're starting to see those particular issues, and if you
are somebody has to fly for business or whatever, you
may ultimately be impacted from all this. But I think
here's a more interesting or bigger question, which is when
is this going to come to an end? Liz Peak,
she's a columnist, she also is a contributor on Fox Business.

(24:52):
Talked to her this morning about the government shutdown and
when it's all going to come to an end. But
it is an opportunity for the president to do some
drastic cuts. Are you surprised he hasn't already started, No.

Speaker 15 (25:04):
Because I think it's a bargaining ship for the administration. Look,
the White House doesn't want this shutdown to go on
and on.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
They've got a lot of business that they want to
get done.

Speaker 15 (25:13):
And as you probably have read, they have furloughed a
good percentage of the White House staff, and you know
that's crimping what they can actually accomplish. But I think
also this is a stupid shutdown from the beginning. Chuck
Schumer basically is terrified of being primary.

Speaker 12 (25:31):
From the left.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
We know this is true.

Speaker 15 (25:34):
He came under tremendous fire in March when he went
along with a government with a Republican sponsored spending bill,
and so now he's dug at his heels on a
bill that basically allows the government to stay open for
seven or weeks while they craft their new budget and
spending program. So it's all kind of performative politics. You know,

(25:55):
the hatred of Donald Trump is running the show. But
in terms of laying off Pete, well, even in a shutdown,
it isn't easy. I mean, already the government employees union
has sued to block mass firings. That probably was expected,
but it throws another roadblock in front of the administration's

(26:15):
ability to do it. And look, there are politics here.
I mean there are you know, races going on in
nearby Virginia. A lot of government employees work in Virginia
and they're probably pretty skittish about having a lot of
layoffs announced just before the election there, so you know,
there's a gubernatory election and other officials in the states.

(26:36):
So it's all complicated. But the bottom line is there
are two million federal employees. I think, without a doubt,
the American public sixty two percent of Americans think that
we should trim the workforce without a doubt that's true.
I mean, they're just particularly in an era. When AI
is reducing headcounts at private sector jobs, where is AI

(27:00):
in the federal government.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
The answer is.

Speaker 15 (27:01):
Nowhere, and it needs to be adopted. The government needs
to become more efficient just like the private sector. And
by the way, there are still shortages of trained and
capable people out there looking for jobs. So here's a
source of workers for profit enterprise, which, by the way,

(27:22):
is a good thing. You want people leaving the government
and going to work in the private sector that enhances
productivity and growth.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
Yeah. Well, I saw where they got rid of about
eight hundred agents and special agents and other personnel that
the FBI. I think some of that was weeding people
out that they know are working behind the scenes for
the other side. So far, your average American list peak
probably has not really unless you work for the federal government,
you really haven't felt this yet. But it's looking more

(27:51):
and more like we're seeing slow downs and sickouts in
our nation's airports. So people who are traveling, if they
aren't noticing yet, they might soon know this.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (28:01):
I think that's probably the number one place where people
are going to start saying, hey, get this finished. I've
got a business trip, and can you know, they just
cancel my flight because of a shortage of air traffic controllers.
I think that's pretty reprehensible. There is a sick out
going on apparently in the air traffic controllers world, and
it means an all p lot of I think it

(28:22):
was yesterday thirty five hundred flights delayed or something. Actually,
I think there's always a pretty big number of flights.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Delayed, but it's getting worse.

Speaker 15 (28:30):
And yes, you're completely right. Unless you're traveling and you
want to go to a federal park or a monument
and it's closed, or if you're trying to get your
passport renewed quickly.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Things like that, it does begin to pile up.

Speaker 15 (28:44):
And so yes, they need to get the government open again,
in part because they need to pass a spending program
for next year. What we're working with now is pretty
much the spending program from the Biden era.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
We need to change that.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
I don't know what the betting odds in Vegas are
and who blinks first, but what does lis peak say
about that who blinks first?

Speaker 15 (29:05):
I think both sides will Frankly, I think the Republicans
will make some sort of guarantee to take up the
whole issue of the enhanced subsidies for Obamacare, and I
think Democrats know that this is not a winning thing
for them, and they will step back. I think they
were smart to pin this all on healthcare, and Republicans
were smart to counter with the charge that a lot

(29:26):
of healthcare dollars are going to illegals. Both those things
are true. Obamacare is unaffordable to an awful lot of people,
which is why I think it's a failed program. And
it's also true that an awful lot of illegals are
showing up in emergency rooms and getting healthcare from the government.
So but the point is, you know, nobody should be

(29:47):
happy with this. We need to get the government back
to work, and so I think there will be behind
the scenes with Matt I've heard this that Schumer's going
around telling Democrat colleagues, please go ahead and vote for
the reopening. Let's get back in business, and we will
have won if the Republicans put Obamacare and HANTS subsidies

(30:08):
into the next bill. And I think there will be
some move to do that.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Okay, So it sounds like both sides, at least in
Lizabek's world, both sides blank quick little break back with
war in a moment Jimmy Barrett Show here on AM
nine fifty KPRC. All right, as long as we're still

(30:38):
kind of on the topic here of the government shutdown,
let me share another clip with you. I think I
promised it earlier I did blade, So here it is.
This is Senator James Langford. This is from the floor
of the Senate. Every day, somebody has been getting up
on the Republican side and testifying about the government shutdown

(31:00):
and who's being hurt by the government shutdown and who
is responsible for the governor shut the government shutdown. They've
done a very good job Republicans have of you know,
depending that on Chuck Shimmer, the Shimmer shut down. But
they also have done a pretty good job of highlighting
the fact that nobody on the left is in favor

(31:22):
of a government shutdown until they're in favor of a
government shutdown. To be fair, both sides could be criticized
for doing that. It depends on who's shutting it down
and why they're shutting it down. You know, the Democrats
are all in favor of the government shutdown because they
say they're protecting healthcare. As you've already heard and of
course Republicans are happy to criticize them for doing it

(31:43):
because their idea of healthcare on the left is to
take care of illegal aliens. But Senator James Lankfort thought
this would be a good opportunity to get up there
and to talk a little bit about, you know, what
the shutdown is all about. So there's part one of
what he had to say.

Speaker 14 (32:02):
My Democratic colleagues have brought their own proposal, which is
one point five trillion dollars in spending edition, and they
include a couple new little nuggets in there, and other
matters they throw in like section one thirty five which
has a new element on carbon management expenditures dealing with

(32:25):
fossil fuels. They have a new section on climate change
initiatives that are built into their and other matters.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
They have section one.

Speaker 14 (32:34):
Point fifty four, which is getting additional funding to the
Corporation for public broadcasting. They have Section twenty three oh six,
which allows a new extension of electric vehicles getting access
to HOV lanes. These are the demands that they put
in to say we will not reopen the government unless

(32:57):
we get electric vehicles into HOV and additional money.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
For the Corporation for public.

Speaker 14 (33:03):
Broadcasting and carbon management expenditures. And oh, by the way,
there was a fifty billion dollar rural healthcare fund that
Republicans passed in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
They also want to get rid of that.

Speaker 14 (33:17):
Fifty billion dollar rerural healthcare fund, saying we need to
wipe that out. Can I tell you rural hospitals really
need the help. Fifty billion would really be a huge
help for them. We have called that the moonshot to
be able to bring real healthcare up to the standards
that they need to be across the country. They just

(33:40):
wiped that out and included that in there in other
matters section.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
So it turns out it's more than just the healthcare stuff.
Huh yeah, I mean public broadcasting. What does that got
to do with healthcare? Nothing?

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Not a dog.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
So yeah, when they try to say it's all about
you know, it's all about health care, it's a lot
more than about healthcare. I'd be healthcare is not one
point five trillion, which is what they want. It's a
whole lot of other things, you know, greendew deal stuff,
whole bunch of other things that the Trump administration has
gotten rid of that they're trying to claw back. All right,
But again, my favorite part of this whole thing is

(34:23):
when Senator Lankford uses Democrats' own words against them.

Speaker 14 (34:28):
We have disagreements on things. It's not just a different parties.
We come from different states in different areas, we have
different perspectives. Welcome to America. We have different opinions on things.
That's what this body is supposed to be about. But
when we have disagreements, we should be able to actually
sit down like grown ups and talk to each other

(34:50):
and figure out how to be able to solve it.
That's what actually should be done. This is not a
radical concept. This is a pretty straightforward concept. Surprisingly enough,
my colleagues have agreed with me in the past on this.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Let me just give you some examples.

Speaker 14 (35:10):
My colleague Sooner Benray Luhan in September of last year,
said shutting down the government should be a non starter.
My colleague Senator Mark Warner said government shutdowns unleashed chaos
on federal workers, delay pay for service members, and weaken
our position on the global stage. My colleague Bernie Sanders

(35:33):
said shutting down the government is a serious and dangerous
action that we must do everything possible to prevent shutting
down the government would impact tens of millions of our
fellow Americans who would be unable to access government services.
My colleague and friend Jackie Rosen said a government shutdown
would be devastating to Nevada families. It would increase housing costs,

(35:57):
take away food assistance for seniors and children in need.
My colleague, Senator Mark Kelly September of twenty twenty three,
so that a government shutdown would have serious impacts. Service
members won't get their paychecks, airports would have major delays.
Nutrition assistance for children could be cut off. We can't
let any of that happen.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
No, but it's all happening until again, somebody blinks, somebody
changes their mind. All right, listen, y'all have a great day.
Thank you for listening. I do appreciate it. We will
see you, I hope tomorrow morning. Burton early five am
over a news radio seven forty KRH. We're back here
at four on of ninth, fifty KPRC