The Government will Shut Down

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• The Government will shut down

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What we need is more common sense.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense.

Speaker 4 (00:12):
About how American common sense will.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
All Right, assuming that there's not a miracle going on
behind the scenes that I am not currently aware of,
the government will shut down tonight at eleven o'clock Houston time.
There will be a government shutdown. Now, whether that lasts
for day, a week, a month, however long that is
remains to be seen. I happen to be one of

(00:52):
those people because I don't work for the federal government,
who is not the least bit concerned about a federal
government down all it means. And I keep trying to
say this, but there are people who worry about it.
What about by Social Security check? You're going to have
your Social Security check, not to worry. That's considered essential.

(01:12):
You're on Medicare, not a problem, that's essential. You got
food stamps that's considered essential. We could argue about that,
but that that's not going to change. None of those
benefits are going to change.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
There are people working for the federal government who are
probably gonna have to wait to get a paycheck. That
might happen. There are departments within the federal government that
are not considered to be essential, in which case you
have to ask yourself, well, then why do they exist
if they're not essential. Maybe it's a good opportunity again

(01:46):
to see where we waste money, where we can still
continue to run a biable government and really don't need
to have all these people and all these departments. Maybe
it's just another good time to thin the so to speak.
Maybe that's what we'll find out during all this. But
I took the temperature our listeners this morning on KTRH

(02:07):
and feel free, you know, to leave us comments. We
have a talkback button on KPRC too. You go to
the Ihier radio app KPRC and then you hit the
talkback button. You got to thirty seconds and you can
let me know first name where you're calling from, and
you can comment on this, just like our KTRH listeners
do as well. But I was asking the question this morning,
are you worried about a government shutdown? And if you are,

(02:30):
what are you worried about? And as it turns out,
I don't think any of our listeners are the least
bit worried about a government shutdown.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
Shut it down, shut it all down, shut it down
for a month.

Speaker 7 (02:41):
And what we don't miss eliminate Jim in Texas. Shutdown
would be uh, wouldn't bother me a bit. It might
even be a good thing because it gives us a
chance to clean up some of the crap that has
accumulated over so many years.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Say shut it down, clean it up.

Speaker 7 (03:02):
It'll open back up soon.

Speaker 8 (03:06):
Corny, guys, this is Adena from Summerwood Terry. Happy belated birthday,
And with regards to the government shut down, they should
shut it down. So let it happen and then start over.
Fire a bunch of people, save us some money, reduce
the debt. You'll have a great day.

Speaker 9 (03:25):
America has to stop living paycheck to paycheck. Republicans have
to stop caving in every time. We have to stop
putting on a band aid over a band aid. If
the budget is so fragile, then let it break, let
it break, and let this president be the one to
actually fix it.

Speaker 5 (03:45):
Love it, love it, love it. I don't hear any
panic there. I don't not with our listeners anyway. I'm
sure there are people who are going to panic over
this because they don't understand how all this stuff works anyway,
But so far it's pretty.

Speaker 10 (04:00):
Jimmy, the only thing that I'm worried about this quote
shutdown is that both sides are going to blame each
other for the root cause of it. Of course, the
root cause is the looneys wanting the looney stuff while
the rational people want rational stuff.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
So pick a bat on that.

Speaker 11 (04:16):
Good morning, Jimmy and team Tracy and Cyprus. It seems
to me that the federal government is the only organization
where people scream like crazy when they talk about reorganizing
it or streamlining it, or in this case, shutting it down.
Businesses do it all the time. We do it in
our personal lives, and if we can get politicians to
talk about the benefits of a more efficient government instead

(04:40):
of screaming about the things that people might lose, we'd
be much better off.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
You know, there is maybe a little bit of a
difference with this government shutdown than past government shutdowns. I mean,
it does have a local impact to an extent. There
are approximately thirty six thousand federal workers here in Houston,
many of whom I'm guessing are working for NASA. Non
essential federal work would come to a halt at twelve

(05:08):
noon tomorrow if top Congression Republicans and Democrats. I thought
it was midnight tonights, not till noon tomorrow. Okay. If
top congressional Republicans and Democrats do not come to some
sort of an agreement, it's the Democrats who need to
come to an agreement, not the Republicans. The Republicans need
to stick to their guns and pass shutdowns. Employees have
been temporarily furloughed without pay until a budget dealers reached.

(05:32):
This time, we are told, however, a government shutdown could
mean layoffs, with the White House Office of Management and
Budget telling agencies in a memo to prepare to eliminate
federal workers. In other words, you have a choice to make,
Chuck Schimmer. You can either agree to the continuing Resolution,
which leaves funding exactly where it is. But he's not
going to do that because he's scared to death of

(05:54):
being primaried by Alexandria A Cassio Cortes. He's trying to
be tough he's not going to accomplish what he wants,
which is to restore PBS funding and a whole bunch
of other things that went out with the big beautiful Bill.
He's not going to get that. The Republicans work too
hard to make that happen, to capitulate on that stuff.

(06:17):
So if that's not going to happen, sorry, it just isn't.
Elections have consequences. There you go. So if they shut
down the government, what's going to end up happening is
that this administration, the Trump administration, is basically going to say,
all right, anybody in anything we don't need, we're getting
rid of it, or we're not going to fund it.

(06:38):
We get we're getting rid of it. And there will
be layoffs instead of just furloughs, which means that you
are getting paid to do nothing while they Congress tries
to figure out what's going on. You get your back
paid when you come back to work. This time around,
there may actually be layoffs of a more permanent nature,
where departments are downsigned, where people are actually eliminated. And

(07:04):
if that happens, that's on Chuck Shimmer. We have a
totally evidently in Texas of two hundred and twenty four thousand,
three hundred federal workers that could be impacted by a
government shutdown. That's over. That's almost a quarter of a
million people just in Texas who work for the federal government.
Imagine if that multiply that number. Not that number obviously,

(07:26):
because we're a big state and we have a lot
of things here, but imagine taking a number like that
in or half of that even to multiplying it by
fifty states. How many federal workers unnecessary federal workers do
we have? The goal here should be to shrink the
federal government as a result of a government shutdown, not
to hold steady or stand pat. All right, quick little break.

(07:49):
We're back with more in a moment. Jimmy vershow here
on AM nine to fifty KPRC. All right, we have

(08:14):
several topics to discuss here during segment number two of
our show today, but let's start with this one. Did
you know that President Trump is buying up a bunch
of twenty four care of gold. I mean not gold
bouillon or gold bars, but evidently gold decorations. He loves gold,
He likes the look of gold. Well, if you've seen

(08:37):
pictures of Trump Tower, right, and the Trump Casinos and
Mary Lago maybe or his apartment he used to have
in New York, which was all I mean, it was
just over the top, ostentatious. I personally I don't care

(08:57):
for the look, but it looks like it looked like
his apartment in New York look like a palace, you know,
a gilded golden, gilded age palace for royalty, which to
me is over the top. Evidently President Trump still loves
all things gold, and he has been buying up the
cor twenty four carried gold the corps for the Oval

(09:19):
Office and for the cabinet room at the White House,
you know, to take it up a not so to speak.
And it's gotten some attention from people. Obviously don't like
it much. I'm again, as a as a decorating device,
I'm not that big on it. But as long as
he's not spending taxpayer dollars to do it, if he
wants to make a donation in jazz the place up

(09:41):
a little bit for a while he's there, that's cool.
But I would suggest if he is doing that that,
mister President, that you consider taking that stuff with you
when you go, because number one, it's your taste and
probably won't be the taste of the next person in
number two. If a Democrat comes into power, they're just
going to go. They're gonna hawk at all, They're gonna

(10:03):
sell it and pocket the money. Sure, Sure's sure, as
I am, you know, one hundred and fifty years old,
that's gonna happen. So I'm gonna suggest make that suggested first.
But they were talking about it on the gut Field
penal last night. Tom Shlou, filling in for Greg Gutfield Prez,
posted this.

Speaker 12 (10:18):
Video of the gold touches he's installed in the Oval Office.
He wrote, quote some of the highest quality twenty four
card gold used in the Oval Office and Cabinet Cabinet
room of the White House. Foreign leaders and everyone else
freak out when they see the quality and beauty. Best
Oval Office ever in terms of success and look what

(10:42):
a change from the Biden over to Oval Office. One
the only concern was whose bag of coke is this? Well, Julie,
I mean, this is the kind of thing I think.
This is why so many people, so many of the
elites hate Trump.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
They don't like his taste. They didn't like him from
the very beginning.

Speaker 12 (10:59):
They don't like Trump Tower. They didn't like his casinos
in Atlantic City. It's like his his kind of braggadocio.
They don't like it, right.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, but I love it because it's his money. It's
not like he's going in and dipping into taxpayers money
like every other former Democratic president has. He's actually spending
his own money. I personally would have preferred white gold
or platinum. But I'm not going to criticize him because
I know he likes yellow gold, you know, and I
you know, but I mean, I think it's an interesting touch.
I don't I'm not a fan of this.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Look.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
I have to say, like all the gold on the
Trump buildings, I don't like it. I think it's tacky.

Speaker 12 (11:31):
You think it's tacky, but you don't hold it against him.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
This is the thing.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
No, it's his style.

Speaker 13 (11:36):
I don't care.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
If you want a gold you know, toilet bowl to
take a crop in, go for it.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
I would avoid putting a thrown in a gold throne.
I just dud. Yeah, where was it? Where was it
that they had the gold toilet? What wasn't that at
some museum? I think somewhere, you know, they actually had
a solid gold toilet can you imagine anyway? Yeah, decorating taste,
yet not my taste either. But hey, you know, you're

(12:03):
the They're you're the current occupant of the White House.
You're not doing anything. They can't be undone if the
next person doesn't like it. But again, I would suggest,
if that person is a Democrat, you take this stuff
down and take it with you, because otherwise, Lord knows
what's going to happen to it. All Right, here's here's
another question asked. And there's a lot of ways we
can take a look at this, but is culture changing?
Is culture changing? We've seen what's happened with Democrats. They

(12:29):
are fighting back because I think they sense that the
culture is kind of changing back to more traditional American
Maybe a good example of that is the UFC incredibly popular,
very manly, very masculine. You may have seen that Dana
White was on sixty Minutes on Sunday. Whoever, I forget

(12:52):
who did the interview with him, but whoever it is
wanted to to bring up toxic masculinity and the warssification
of America with Dana White. I mean, there's not anything
more testosterone driven or latent than the UFC. So here's
a little clip from that. You want to use the term.

Speaker 11 (13:12):
With me that I quoted you on the woosification of America.

Speaker 14 (13:15):
I think I said it, but yeah, I got it.
We're on sixty minutes.

Speaker 12 (13:19):
Yeah, has a pendulum swung the other way?

Speaker 14 (13:21):
I feel like it's it's starting to we're definitely unapologetically masculine.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
Can this bubble over to too much?

Speaker 13 (13:31):
When when you hear toxic masculinity?

Speaker 2 (13:33):
What's that mean?

Speaker 5 (13:34):
You tell me?

Speaker 3 (13:36):
When you hear what's the definition of toxic?

Speaker 14 (13:38):
How can somebody be too masculine? Is that a possibility?

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Can you be too masculine?

Speaker 5 (13:42):
Tell me? No, you think so?

Speaker 2 (13:44):
The answer is hell. Though I didn't like.

Speaker 15 (13:46):
The question, Yeah, the question was old.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
What's your fox?

Speaker 15 (13:51):
You realize how bad of the people of the networks are?

Speaker 2 (13:54):
I mean, it's like, that's why no.

Speaker 15 (13:56):
One is watching because this has already been litigated. This
is so twenty six. I see men have taken the
place back in society. You don't ask a question that
has already been proven be true. It's no longer toxic anymore.
It is what's in? That should have been the question,
how's it in? How do we relate more to the
young men out there. Not the toxic question. We don't

(14:17):
even use that word anymore.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
Oh, there's still some people who use that term, you know.
Toxic masculinity was all about the idea that testosterone is
a bad thing, that being a traditional male is a
bad thing, that being a traditional male is to be
too aggressive, to not have enough sensitivity, that we need

(14:42):
to feminize our men. And there was a long standing
effort to feminize men, and for a while there I
think it was really kind of working. But I think
that what we have seen, especially with young men, is
they have revolted against this. They seem to understand that, yeah,
this is not exactly what nature intended. This is, this

(15:04):
is not what we want our men to be. We
don't want to feminize our men, you know, we want
a more traditional male role, which is not to say
we have to turn back the clock for women. It
doesn't mean that we have to turn women into barefoot
and pregnant in housewives, but it means that, you know,
men fill a role in society, at least they used

(15:25):
to fill a role in society. Do you see what
happens in some societies where we degrade fatherhood or we
just don't think those having a man around is an
important thing. Look what's happened to a lot of American
families where there is no father figure. Has that been
good for America? I don't think any of us can

(15:47):
make a case of it's been good for America. But
this whole idea that we're in a cultural shift right
now is interesting to me. I think in many ways
we are. I wonder where we're going to be because
I think both sites are fighting very hard, and the
progressive left I think it's panicked over this. I think
they sense that all the work they've done for the

(16:09):
last twenty or thirty years, especially in the education system,
might be starting to slip away a little bit, that
young men again are resisting this and are ready to
go in a different direction. And I hope that is
indeed the case. Bill O'Reilly was talking about it on
Newsbacks last night. Here's what Bill O'Reilly had to say.

Speaker 16 (16:29):
There's a just savage war going on right now, and
Trump is doing a lot of damage. Ultimately, it's impossible
to predict whether the leftist media will go back to
where it was, but right now it's hard to run
and paying out. As you mentioned, an enormous amount of

(16:52):
money to President Trump for past indiscretions. There's an article
in the Wall Street Journal today about Kimmel, and I
said this last week on NewsNation that this Kimmel's suspension
and then reinsertment into the ABC lineup wasn't what the
press was reporting. It had nothing to do with freedom

(17:14):
of speech at all. And the Journal today lays out
what I said last week is that the talent agencies
in Los Angeles, all left wing, threatened Disney and Bob
iger and said, if you don't put Keim Moll back
on the air, a lot of our client's not going

(17:35):
to do business with you. That means you're not going
to get actors and producers and writers and directors. Take
it to another studio. Iigert surrendered on the spot, and
then Kimmel went back, Now, think about that. Think about
the power that the left in Hollywood has to bring
a company like Disney to its knees.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Not that Disney was that resistance.

Speaker 16 (17:59):
I mean Trump's sixteen year a company too.

Speaker 13 (18:02):
You say it's doing all this damage, Is it worth
the damage to the country.

Speaker 16 (18:07):
You have to understand when you say succeeding at some
level he is. But these people are so powerful, these people,
movie studios, a television studios, all they're so powerful that
I think they're treading water now.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
They don't want to go up against Trump.

Speaker 16 (18:27):
Trump can hurt him, all right, directly hurt them, But
once he's gone in three years, they'll reassert themselves.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
And that's the danger, and that's why the fight will continue,
because they're looking at the Trump phenomenon as a not
a full cultural shift, but a temporary change, and they're
going to go back to their old tactics as soon
as he's gone. And I understand what O'Reilly is saying
there about about Trump damaging the medium. YouTube. YouTube just
settled for twenty four and a half million dollars. I mean,

(18:59):
the president so far has gotten well over one hundred
million dollars in damages from a variety of different media
outlets over the way that they treated the president both
in his first term and when he was running for
office for a second term. So yeah, they're they don't
want they don't want anymore Trump because they're losing on

(19:20):
a consistent basis. But after Trump, well we'll have to
see what happens after Trump. All right, quick, Low break
Back with Borne Moments Jimmy Verirtt Show here on AM
nine fifty KPRC. Let's talk a little bit of a

(19:48):
crime here in our third segment today together on AM
nine fifty KPRC and the Jimmy Veret Show, We'll start
with Portland, Oregon, which claims they do not have a problem.
They don't have a crime problem, they don't have an
Antifa problem. Their streets are safe, their parks are beautiful.

(20:10):
We're just hanging out, riding bikes and going to restaurants
here in Portland, Oregon. That's what we're doing. That's what
they're trying to say. Their lesbian governor went out of
our way to try to say that. In fact, their
governor and her wife were in downtown Portland. Now, what
you don't see in the cameras all the security that's

(20:31):
there behind her, and they're walking like they're going to
go out to eat, and hey, everything's great, and we
don't need any federal troops here. We don't want any
federal help. In fact, y'all need to stay away. Meanwhile,
over at the local ice facility, you've got Antifa where
they've been for weeks, rioting, threatening causing problems. All that

(20:54):
Trump wants to do is to send the National Guard
to protect federal agents that are in Portland, Oregon, not
to patrol the streets, not to help the police department
with crime, just to do what the police department evidently
has been instructed not to do, which is to protect
the federal facility. So if the local police won't do it,

(21:18):
then we're going to have to send the National Guard
in in order to be able to get that done.
Here's Jesse Waters discussing this on the show last night.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
Every weekend, ATIFA has been on the warpath and TIF

(21:47):
has tried everything arson, battering rams, they barricaded the buildings,
thrown smoke grenades, blinding officers with lasers, assaultant battery. They've
even slashed the building's fiber optics. You won't hear any
of this in the mainstream media, So liberals think of
the guards coming in out of the blue. But enough
is enough. The governor, Tina Kotec, hasn't done a thing

(22:10):
about it. This has been going on for months. Tina,
who has armed security around the clock, says she can
take her wife out on a date and it's no Problamoh.

Speaker 13 (22:20):
Portland is not war ravaged. There's no insurrection, there's no
threat to national security, and there's no need for military troops.
I thought I would take to the streets myself. Right
here in downtown Portland. I'm standing just blocks away from
the waterfront, overlooking the beautiful will Lamtae River, Portland City Hall,
the Federal Courthouse, and dozens of shops and restaurants. Here

(22:40):
in the central city.

Speaker 6 (22:42):
I can show you one beautiful beach in Haiti and say, see,
Haiti's totally safe. In the last four years, homicides have doubled,
aggravated assaults up Arson, up Tina does not have Portland
under control. Look at this scene. Does this look like
a safe place to grab a.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Bite to eat?

Speaker 6 (23:02):
Or did you just lose your appetite? Another Democrat says,
maybe not dinner. Why don't you take your girlfriend for
a stroll in our parks If that's the best looking
park Portland has. Forget the guard. Trump needs to send
in the landscapers. Not a great place for a picnic.
You might get pricked by a syringe like brow.

Speaker 10 (23:22):
Everybody's tugging me on the sun.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
It's wait, stop.

Speaker 7 (23:27):
Over.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
You literally have to harvest God in order to.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
Censor me, you know, just your average everyday crazy homeless person,
of which there are plenty of those in Portland, because
that kind of behavior is encouraged. It's encouraged in Portland. Yeah,
that's what happens in these ultra blue cities. They're not
just a blue city Portland, they're ultra blue, they're super blue.

(23:57):
And that's what you get. You get cry you get rioting,
you get drug use, you get rampid homelessness, and evidently
they're just fine with that. Well, okay, that's the kind
of city you want. I don't have a problem with that.
Just let the federal agents there do their job and

(24:19):
it's all good. They'll leave you, for the most part alone,
unless you're illegal, and we'll leave you alone. You can
just have a really crappy city and just keep our
federal agents safe. Oh but you won't do that, Okay,
Well then see, that's why we have to bring in
the National Guard. That's why we have to take care
of that stuff ourselves.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
All right.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
Speaking of crime here in the great State of Texas,
DPS is able to focus now on something other than
rounding up illegal aliens. Now, it's about rounding up illegal
criminals working on the car tel those types of things.
Operation Loan Start two point oh different than one point

(25:00):
oh because Trump has secured to the border. Here's Lieutenant
Chris Olivers from the Texas DPS. Now that we have
illegal immigration completely under control, Lieutenant, I guess we can
move on to other things like crime.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Well, exactly. Good morning, Jimmy.

Speaker 17 (25:15):
Great to be with you and of course with your
listeners today this morning. You know, as we as we
look back the last four years, you know, we saw
an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration at the border, and
that's why Governor Abbit launched Operation Loan Start back in
March of twenty twenty one. And now today with the
new administration, we've seen a historic low.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
In illegal border crossings.

Speaker 17 (25:34):
When normally we would average anywhere from eight to ten
thousand illegal border crossings a day to now we're down
to anywhere between two to three hundred for the entire
southwest border. So that significant change from one administration to
the next. And now with that, now that we have
a partner now with the federal governments, now we are
expanding Operation Loan Star to what it is now, Operation

(25:56):
Loan Star two point zero, which is now focusing more
on interior enforcement, working with ICE agents, working with border patrol,
trying to locate the worst of the worst criminal legal aliens.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
That are in our state.

Speaker 17 (26:08):
Right now, we have nearly six thousand criminal legal aliens
in a state of Texas that have felony warrants, that
have committed dangerous crimes such as assaults, sex crimes, murder.
So those are the people that we want to locate,
and by working with federal agencies, it gives us a
much more robust border security operation, hence operational on Star

(26:32):
two point zero. So this is all part of Governor
Abbot's expansive border of mission, and that's what we continue
to do today, and that's our commandment, moving forwards locating
those criminal legal aliens in the state of Texas, also
working along the border as well, trying to prevent those
that are trying to sneak into the country as well.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Okay, so obviously there's gonna be an emphasis on the
cartel because the cartail is responsible for a lot of
illegal activities, right, Oh.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Absolutely, Jimmy. And that's what thing too. You know, the cartels,
you know, they're very sophisticated, They know exactly what going on.

Speaker 17 (27:00):
They're well aware the policy changes, the administration, the consequences.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
I mean, they're very discrete.

Speaker 17 (27:05):
Now it's more challenging, more difficult for them to smuggle
people across the border or even drugs because there's so
much more law enforcement presence on the border of both
state and federal.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
But again doesn't mean that the cartails are going to stop.
I mean they're gonna try to find their way to
make their money somehow.

Speaker 17 (27:20):
I mean they were making billions of dollars the last
four years off of human smuggling. Now that has changed
because there's a low volume now at the.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Border of people acrossing the border.

Speaker 17 (27:29):
So what they're gonna do now is they're going to
focus more on drugs, cocaine and meth, and we have
seen an increase in those types of drugs, but also
still trying to smuggle people across the border, but in
small numbers, a small volume of people and charge them
more double triple than what they normally would charge.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
And I give an example.

Speaker 17 (27:46):
You know, we had an operation that were working with
border patrol and we came across people from Central America
and they paid costs to six thousand dollars to get
across the border from Mexico to the United States, when
normally before they're paying about two to three thousand per person,
So the cart are standing their operations as well. I mean,
that's why we continue to, you know, focus our efforts
in trying to combat them as much as we can,

(28:07):
because again, we do know they're going to try to
make their money and make their profits somehow, and that's
one thing that we have to keep a close eye on.

Speaker 5 (28:14):
What is the most effective way to try to locate
these criminals the ones where you're you're not sure where
they are. I know you're you're relying on some federal
health here, But how how important is is the public
involved in giving up information about people, especially people that
they know to be criminals, because I'm thinking there's the
fair amount of the public that wants them gone too.

Speaker 17 (28:33):
Oh absolutely, I mean that's the biggest help I can
tell you right now. Yes, we have you know, we
have intel services and divisions within the DPS that provide
US intel and locating some of these criminals, also working
with our federal partners, but no one helps more than
the general public by providing information on anybody they may
see that they see in their communities that may be suspicious.

(28:55):
That's why we have I Watched Texas, which is an
app or you can even go online to a suspicious activity.
That helps us tremendously. Also, the governor has launched a
Crime Stoppers hotline where you can actually call in and
you can actually earn up to five thousand dollars if
it does need to an arrest for one of these
criminal legal aliens. So that is our crime Stoppers hotline.

(29:16):
So the public plays a very vital role in trying
to locate these criminals as well as reporting suspicious activity.
You know, right now, Jimmy, in the city of Texas,
we face more threats now than we've ever had.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
We see all these domestic threats that.

Speaker 17 (29:27):
Are taking place across the state, even across the country,
these ice facilities, border patrol facilities.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
It's very dangerous times for now.

Speaker 17 (29:35):
And that's why the public plays a vital role in
reporting suspicious activity.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
And that is Lieutenant Chris Oliver's Texas DPS from our
morning show today and Kat right, quick little break back
with more stick around please Jimmy Baird Show here on
the AM nine KR all right, before we end the

(30:09):
show today. Let's do this. Let's discuss the night of
I saw on the news, a night of I mentioned
on the Morning show today, and I realized when I
said it, it's really harsh. I'm not normally a really
harsh kind of person, at least I don't think I am.
But in this case, I'm feeling very harsh. It's about

(30:30):
Charlie Kirk's killer. I'm not going to use his name.
And the reason why I'm not going to use his
name is because, you know, not that anybody cares about
what I say, but I don't like adding to anybody's
notoriety when they've done something heinous. So I'm not going
to mention this guy's name. We all know who he is.
He is in jail currently, there's amount of evidence against him.

(30:50):
The judge yesterday, Judge Tony Groff and Provo, emphasizing transparency
and upholding the rights of the accused and victims in
the Gravel proceedings, said that they will have a public trial,
an open public trial, and the defendant will be allowed
to appear in person to engage with his attorneys. That
wouldn't have to be the case, especially with somebody like

(31:12):
this who himself. I guess could be the target of
an assassination from Charlie kirk Fan who wants to come
in and provide some justice. But they're going to have
a public trial anyway. The prosecutors are going to provide
discovery material, they say, within five days, acknowledging that they
have a lot of evidence against him. He is, in fact,

(31:35):
his defense attorney public appointed defense attorney already requesting to
postpone detention related arguments and the preliminary hearing due to
the extent of scope of discovery. In other words, they
have so much evidence against him, he's going to take
the defense a while to go through it and figure
out how they're going to try to defend their client.
So the next stearing is not going to be until
October the thirtieth, which is more than a month. It's

(31:59):
a month from now, exactly a month from now. Lord
knows when this thing will actually go to trial. Lord
knows how long the trial will take once found guilty.
And I feel very confident in saying he will be
found guilty, and if he's assigned the death penalty, we
all know how that goes, right, seven eight, nine years
before he faces the death penalty. So this is a

(32:20):
long road. We're looking at ten twelve, probably ten eleven
or twelve years from now before there's any opportunity for
this guy to meet his executioner. Is the way our
system works? The question becomes at this point, what about
Let's assume he's found guilty. Let's assume he gets the
death penalty. Let's assume that because one of the methods

(32:44):
of doing it in fact the preferred method in Utah's
firing squad. Should we have a public execution of this guy?
Should we consider public executions like they had back in
the old days, when they'd hang people up, hang him
in the town square? Is that just a called thing
to suggest? Is that a potential deterrent for anybody who

(33:07):
wants to be involved in this kind of activity? Do
you have a very public execution or is that more
about satisfying our bloodlust for what this guy did to
Charlie Kirk? I'm just asking the question, all right, last story,
it's a local story. It's a strange one out of
Liberty County. You may have heard about this. A mom
evidently administered some sort of a drug cocktail to her

(33:30):
kids and then took them down to the pond and
put them in the pond. Evidently this looks like it
was going to be some sort of murder suicide here
it's out of Liberty County. Here's a report from our
television partner KPRC two.

Speaker 18 (33:43):
There are still a lot of missing pieces to this
story this time. It's unclear who's up fault. Investigators say
they are looking at both some mom and dad. Detectives
say that the dad is cooperating. He was questioned and
is now at a family member's house who his wife
and children are still covering in this hospital. Sky too
flew over this Liberty County property off FM ten eighty.

(34:07):
It's where first responders rushed to the home moments after
our father's frantic nine one one call.

Speaker 19 (34:15):
Four kids there are arm will mark. They're given a
multiple bottle of the night blow. They're going to have
a high pat one on ig email unconscious for breathing.
You're going to have four kids get the online quill,
the multible bottle of arm.

Speaker 18 (34:33):
Game Captain David Myers with the Liberty County Sheriff's Office
says it's unclear if niquil or alcohol we're actually given
to the children.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
I don't know if that came from patrol arriving on
scene and seeing alcohol near the area, or if he
stated it when he called nine to one one. That's
still up in ere. I'm not sure that of that
at this time.

Speaker 19 (34:53):
You're gonna have an agent email for breathing you jumped
real water after a kid.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
The father is the one that was the that called
nine to one one to report the incident. He stated
he heard some commotion in the front yard, possibly yelling
from the kids. The father comes outside, calls nine to
one one, and it's our belief that the father is
the one that pulled some of the kids out of

(35:24):
the water.

Speaker 18 (35:25):
The mother and her eleven year old daughter seriously hurt.
Neighbors say the family typically kept to themselves.

Speaker 19 (35:31):
We you know, might have seen them pull out of
their driveway a time or two, but never met him.

Speaker 18 (35:38):
Investigators now trying to interview the fifteen and six year
old to figure out what happened.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
What the heck did happen? That's just a Is this
like an Andrea Yates kind of story, you know, voices
in her head or whatever. I have no idea. If
we will, we will watch with interest and bollow up
with you when we know more. Hey, listen, you'll have
a great day. We see you tomorrow morning, bright and early,
starting at five am over on kt I r H.
Hope to have you here tomorrow afternoon at four on

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a nine fifty K t r C