We still have a Shutdown

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• The shutdown continues

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:10):
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Speaker 5 (00:31):
All right, welcome to our Monday show. You're an AM
nine fifty KPRC. We're back around the Monday again. Let's
let's see where we're at here with the government shutdown.
It is what is today? Day seven? I can't remember anyway,
we still have a government shutdown. They took a vote
on Friday. That vote failed. Supposedly they're taking another vote today.
That vote will fail at least, that's my prediction, and

(00:54):
the government shutdown will continue. And this really, when you
get right down to it, it's it's over one issue.
It is over one issue and one issue only at
this point, and that is about health care for illegal immigrants.
That that's what this is all about. Medicaid for illegal immigrants.
That's what the fight is over. If for no other reason,

(01:15):
then then maybe that is the only demographic right now.
The Democrats are doing well with and they and they're
trying desperately to you know, to bring that back because
if they don't have that, they've got nothing. So anyway,
here is by the way, and the ever obedient mainstream
media press keep asking the questions, what are we worried

(01:37):
about here? It's against the law to give illegals, you know,
to give them health care benefits. It's against the law.
So what are we even talking about here? Here's Caroline
Levitt handling a question like that, thank you at.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
The top of the briefing, umited statement about that the
Democrats are interested in giving me healthcare to illegal immigrants.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yes, they are.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
US will already prohibit them. It's a nineteen ninety six
law saying that they cannot give unauthorized immigrants any federally
subsidized healthcare coverage through Medicaid, the Affordable Care or the
Children's Health Insurance Program. There seems to be a disconnect
in the message.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Are you denying that Medicaid money has never gone to
illegal aliens in the United States of America?

Speaker 6 (02:22):
Anything?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm asking you if you can explain the disconnecting the message.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
I most certainly can. The Democrats proposal their continuing Resolution.
Let me just reiterate, the Republican's Continuing Resolution was a
clean continuing resolution. There was no partisan politics injected into it.
There were no conservative wish lists injected to it. What
the Republicans want and still want to this very second,
is a clean continuing resolution to fund the United States government.

(02:48):
What did the Democrats want in their continuing resolution? They
inserted a provision to undo a provision in the Working
Families Tax Cut, the One Big Beautiful Bill that ended
taxpayer funded healthcare illegal benefits for legal aliens. Democrats proposal
would require Medicaid to pay more for emergency care provided

(03:08):
to illegal aliens than Medicaid does for American patients who
are disabled, elderly, or children. And this bill would have
also allowed California to continue a gimmick that funds its
Medicaid for illegals program. Those are things that we ended.
The Trump administration ended with the passage and the signage
of the One Big Beautiful Bill. And it is an
undisputed fact, a fact that under the Biden administration, illegal

(03:31):
aliens were absolutely receiving taxpayer funded healthcare benefits. In fact,
in fiscal year twenty twenty four, Medicaid costs for emergency
services for legal immigrants skyrocketed by one hundred and forty
two percent from the previous year to nine point one
billion dollars. That's nine point one billion taxpayer dollars that

(03:51):
were going to emergency services for illegals.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
She is awesome, she is so good. She is so
good man. I mean, she's armed with the facts. She
has the facts. I mean, there's just no doubt about it.
She has the facts. Wow. So yeah, that's what this
is all about. Unless you think that that that's not
enough evidence, Let's bring on one more for you. Here.

(04:15):
Here is a representative James Comer over the weekend talking
about the same thing.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Well, the Democrat leadership that you showed on there, and
they're not being honest with the American people.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
And if you.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Don't believe the media, if you don't believe what I'm saying,
go to someone who works in a hospital who knows
about billing in the hospital and ask them if someone
illegal gets brought into the hospital who pays for their
health care, and they will tell you they get put
on Medicaid. That's the way it is in Kentucky. And

(04:46):
that's the way it is in a lot of states.
So you've got states where we believe, like Illinois and
New York, where they have a huge Medicaid population that's
comprised of illegals, as well as other provisions that allow
ill to get free health care. And this is the
one thing that I hear in Kentucky this week when
I'm listening to people talk about the government shutdown, is

(05:09):
they can't believe that the Democrats have gone so far
left that they're willing to jeopardize our military, pay, the
TSA agents, the travel, all the federal parks, everything affiliated
with the federal government to try to keep giving free
health care to illegals. And this is an expense that

(05:29):
most Americans struggle to pay for. So when Chuck Schumer
says that Republicans have ruined health care, Democrats have ruined healthcare.
This Obamacare, it's winners and losers. If you're on Medicaid
and you don't have to pay for healthcare, you're a winner.
If you're a small business owner, or if you're someone
on an individual insured policy or struggling to pay for

(05:50):
a group plan, then you're a loser. And we're just
trying to get this fair to the American people. Trying
to put America first and trying to get health care
under control. But yet the Democrats are willing to shut
down the entire federal government to protect the one growing
part of their Democrat base, of their Democrat voters, that's
the illegals.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
And they will not they will not tell you that
it is health care for illegals is what they're fighting for.
They'll say health care for Americans is what they say
they're fighting for. And if you look at the protest
signs and the protesters, you know, health care for Americans
are more no more money for billionaires, that kind of thing.

(06:31):
You know that that that's that's the approach they're taking.
The problem is for them that I think the vast
majority of the American people have seen through it. You can,
you can claim what you want to claim, but nobody,
nobody's believing what they're selling, at least at this point.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
You know.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
In our next segment, I'm gonna bring on Jeff Bacall.
We've had Jeff Pacall on our morning show many times,
had them on again this morning. We're going to share it.
If you missed that interview, I'm to share a little
interview with he's at De Paul University. He I mean,
he teaches media. He tries very hard to approach things
with his students from a neutral point of view, from

(07:11):
a from a standpoint of this is this is what
a journalist is. A journalist reports the facts and lets
the public decide for themselves how they feel about a
particular issue. They're not there to represent a political party,
They're not supposed to be there to represent an agenda,
but clearly they are. And nothing has changed, and the

(07:32):
numbers have strongly been trending down for the mainstream media.
I think now we're down to a trust factor of
something like twenty eight percent. They finally have gotten into
the world where they're less trusted than the politicians they cover.
And that's that's saying something. So bring him on, get
his thoughts on where the media is headed in just
a moment. Jimmy Bairchow here on Am nine fifty KPRC.

(08:10):
All right, so before I begin the interview from this
morning with Jeff Forcall, let's throw another name one of
our favorites in the mix. I never ever ever passed
the opportunity to share audio from Senator John Kennedy also
talking about the government shutdown. Yeah, because the reporting on
the government shutdown right now is at least with the

(08:30):
mainstream media if you were to watch that, they're not
calling it the Schumer shutdown, obviously, they're not. Very few
of them are blaming Democrats or even indicating the Democrats
have much of anything to do with the shutdown as self.
But but we'll get to Jeffaccall in just a second. First, though,
here is Senator John Kennedy from the Weekend being asked

(08:51):
about the government shutdown and who is responsible for it.

Speaker 7 (08:54):
We are living in an unprecedented dangerous moment.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
Oh, here's Barney, maybe the crisis in America literally since
the Civil War. Yeah, right.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
Senator Schumer is getting a lot of the blame, and
Lord knows he deserves it because he instructed all the
Senate Democrats to vote to shut down government. But he's
not really calling the shots. The group calling the shots
is the socialist wing, the Moon wing of the Democratic Party,
because they're in control, and the head of the socialist

(09:26):
wing of the Democratic Party is Congresswoman Ocasio Cortes. She's
really calling these shots. In fact, Senator Schumer is trying
to ingratiate himself to the socialist wing of his party
and to the congresswoman. And I have to tell you,
I don't hate anybody. I don't mean any disrespect, but

(09:49):
based on her her policies and beliefs, Congresswoman Occasio Cortes
is single handedly trying to put an end too dumb
blonde jokes. I mean, based on her policies one point
five trillion dollars. She must be bilingual, she's speaking English

(10:13):
and stupid. There's no way we're going to go along
with this, and that's why we're in a shutdown.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
That explain is only he can explain it, and that's
why we're in a shutdown. God blessed Senator John Kennedy.
All right now, now let's get back to the mainstream media.
And I don't and by the mainstream media, I don't
necessarily I'm not even just talking ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC.

(10:43):
I think you could even throw Fox News in there,
because if we're going to be honest about assessing the media,
at the end of the day, what many Americans would
like to see is an unbiased media approach by all
media outlets. In other words, you report the facts, let
the viewer make up their own mind about how they
feel about a particular issue. They're all biased in some way, shape,

(11:07):
form or another, even Fox News. I mean, we're gonna
be honest about it. We like Fox News. We happen
to think that they're the best of the of the
bunch as far as that goes. But they are biased.
I mean, if you want something completely unbiased, I mean
that hasn't existed for a long long time. But if
you want something completely unbiased, then that's a horse of

(11:28):
a different color anyway. I had Jeff McCall media studies
professor de Paul University on our morning show today in KTRH.
Here we are talking about just how bad it is
in the media, just how low those poll numbers are
for people trusting the mainstream media. I feel like you
and I have a broken record conversation about this, Jeff,

(11:49):
because every time we talk to the number of poll
numbers for mainstream media have gone down even further, and
yet as usual, we see absolutely no change in the
way they're doing business.

Speaker 8 (11:59):
You right down to it. I think we could look
at the establishment news media and by now conclude that
they are absolutely oblivious to the problems that they've created
for themselves.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
And you get right.

Speaker 8 (12:11):
Down to it when you look at the Gallop polling,
which is the pole that you're referring to. You know,
trust in the media has declined to twenty eight percent,
and if you look at that in perspective, in the
late seventies, trust in the media was well into the
seventy percent range, and it started to decline in the
late seventies and into the eighties and nineties. But by

(12:34):
two thousand and four, the percentage of people who trusted
the media had fallen below fifty percent, and it continues
to fall. But we don't see any change in how
the mainstream media goes about their business. And so the
American people are speaking through this poll that the news
industry is not listening. They have not figured out that
their agenda for news doesn't match the agenda of the

(12:56):
American people, and they've not figured out that when they
try to be activist and advocacy that the American public
is not interested in that. The American public is interested
in having a news media that provides them some facts
and then let's the news. Let's the American public decide
what's important. You know, when you get right down to it,
you think about you know, George Stephanopolis is the leading

(13:19):
political reporter for ABC News. Everybody knows that he's a partisan.
And so why would you tune to ABC to get
political news knowing that it's run by a guy who
is absolutely partisan? And would you tune into CBS to
hear Gail King in the morning try to provide objective news?
And nobody trusts the New York Times of the Washington Posts.

(13:41):
They're clearly advocacy organizations. And even the Associated Press, which
for years had a great reputation, is now viewed as
a left of center news outlet by the All Sides
Media polling firm. And so the evidence is conclusive across
the board that the news media has become advocacy based
and the public doesn't want it. But the news industry

(14:02):
goes along their happy path destroying themselves, and it's really
not helpful for our democracy or for informing people, because
people are not going to tune into the media if
they don't trust it.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
Jeff Pacall, let me ask you, do we break it
down any further though you mentioned NBC or ABC or CBS.
You know, we always know that they're part of the
mainstream media. Who else is a part of that mainstream media?
We don't trust it? Is there any part of the
national media, I'll use a different term, national media that
generally people do find trustworthy. For example, do they separate
Fox News from ABC News?

Speaker 8 (14:36):
Well, Fox News is of course listed in the All
Sides media ratings as a right center organization, But I
think we probably when we look at Fox News, we
need to consider their news programming, which would be Brett
Baar and Martha McCallum and people like that, versus their
opinion shows. And I think a lot of the Fox
reputation comes from the people in the Evening like Jesse

(14:57):
Waters and Laura Ingram, who are partisan obviously, and they're
coming from a right of center perspective. But there are
some news organizations that get pretty good ratings in terms
of fairness. One of those is interestingly UH News Nation,
which is a cable company but doesn't seem to get
a lot of traction lately. And also there's a news
organization called The Hill, which is Washington, DC based political

(15:21):
news and all disclosure here I am a writer for
The Hill, but the Hill gets very good analysis in
terms of ratings from bias bias ratings. Also, there's a
news wire service called Reuter's which is generally considered to
be pretty fair. So there are some fair ones out there,
but the mainstream ones and the ones that are the

(15:42):
highest profile that I think the people in the gallop
hole are responding to are the ones that have just
dug in their heels and continue to be activists. And
the problem here is that they continue to hire people
who are just like them. They have not expanded their
range of employment to hire some people who come in
to the CNN newsroom and maybe don't think like all

(16:04):
the people there, so they they've really got group think
going on in these newsrooms. And it's very very sad
for them because the drift is that people will stop
consuming news altogether and become news bystanders, which is even
worse for the nation.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
Right, and then Lord knows where they're getting their information from,
because any other other sources such as the Internet and
you know, in social media can be just as biased.
Yeah they can. And you know, if somebody who I
actually you know, have been on well, for example, CNN,
I used to do when I was in Richmond, Virginia,
a long long time ago. This is probably back around

(16:40):
two thousand and three, two thousand and four, somewhere in
that some of that category when when CNN was more
a weary news, twenty four to seven news, that's what
we do, and you would they were just starting to
introduce a little bit of opinion into things, just a
little bit. And Carol Costello, if you remember her, was

(17:03):
doing a morning show on CNN, and I would be
on that show usually about once a week, and we
talk about a particular issue. And I remember being on
with her talking about if you remember the Washington d
c sniper, you know, the guy that was picking people

(17:24):
off in parking lots of shopping centers and that type
of thing. And I remember being on with her quite
a bit about that and several other things as well.
And it was quite amazing because I mean, I could
tell she was a liberal, but despite her liberal bias,
she wasn't allowing that bias to get into her newscast.

(17:46):
She was still playing it straight. And I want to
say that is around the time when about the last
of the time that we had news organizations that were
playing it straight. And at that time CNN was the
number one cable network number one source for news. It
was beating Fox News and just about anybody else in

(18:06):
the news game because they were first to doing this
twenty four to seven news, the twenty four to seven
news cycle. To me, that's also been part of the
problem is because the twenty four to seven news cycle.
I mean, think of all the news organizations we have
now that are in twenty four seven news, Fox News, CNN,
News Nation, et cetera, et cetera. There's a whole variety

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of them, and they all have to feed the monster,
and they all have to cover the same stories, and
they all have to do something other than news because
despite the fact that news is the twenty four to
seven thing, there's just not enough news to fill all
the time. And that's when they started doing political shows
and throwing politics in there and opinion in there, and

(18:47):
that kind of became the money maker, that became the
audience draw, especially if Fox News. That's what separated them
from CNN, is bringing in the political commentary and that
type of thing. And now with gut Filled, they've taken
that political commentary and taken it to an entertainment level.
And I don't think we're going back from that at least,
I'd be shocked if we did. All right, quick little

(19:08):
break back with more in a moment. Jimmy Bairrett Show,
AM ninety fifty KPRC. All right, I've got another interview

(19:31):
for the morning show. We'll share with you in a minute,
But first, more reaction to Trump OURX. This kind of
goes along with our conversation coming up with Sid Miller
because it involves the FDA. Sid Miller's our Texas AGA commissioner.
He stopped by in the studio this morning. So I'll
share that with you in a moment. But first though,
I want to I want to share this with you,

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and that is Trump OURX. Trump our X, which I
think we're all just kind of starting to learn a
little bit more about it theoretically eliminates the middleman when
it comes to drugs, an opportunity for people like you
and me to order drugs directly from Broyd. You have
a prescription, of course, directly from the producer of those drugs.

(20:13):
Pfizer is the first one decide onto this. Supposedly other
ones we'll sign on as well. Doctor Marty McCarry, who's
the head of the FDA, was on Fox over the
weekend talking about describing a Fox Business talking about Trump
RX and what it means for the consumer.

Speaker 9 (20:35):
Well, look, what the President is doing is ending the
great American ripoff. We pay four hundred and twenty two
percent higher for the same drug as Europe and other
countries around the world that are wealthy. These are not
poor countries. These are comparable countries. And let's remember the
growth and drug spend in the United States is the
fastest area of growth of healthcare costs.

Speaker 5 (20:57):
So when the.

Speaker 9 (20:57):
President is working with individual companies to cut the price
of drugs by forty to fifty eighty five percent, that
has enormous implications for our healthcare system. And I've seen
it as a cancer surgeon, Maria, these poor families, as
if having cancers not hard enough, they have go fundme campaigns,
and the churches are passing around offering plates and for

(21:21):
what for the US to subsidize the R and D
of the world's drugs. So the President does not like
to see other wealthy countries not pay their fair share,
and now they will. We're going to get the best
price for drugs among comparable countries in the world. It's
called most Favored nation status. Pricing, and we secured it
with one country, and we're going to sorry with one company,

(21:43):
and we're going to see more and more of these
announcements come out in the coming weeks.

Speaker 7 (21:47):
That's right.

Speaker 9 (21:47):
This is not the administration selling drugs as some are alleging.
This is a simple place where we have curated the
where people can go to find the price of drugs
and it will connect them directly to the direct sale
sites bypassing the middleman of healthcare. Remember the middleman of healthcare,
the PBMs and all the other parties involved markup drugs significantly.

(22:14):
Now you're going to be able to go direct. And
this is not just a theoretical We're talking about Medicaid
getting most Favored Nation status pricing for all prescription drugs.
That's going to have a significant impact in cutting the
waste in the Medicaid program, which has been a commitment
of this administration. And we're talking about real drugs here.
Of rheumatoid arthritis drug zel Jans is going to be

(22:37):
decreased by forty percent. There's an osteoporosis postmenopausal medication duave
made by Poser. The team at CMS and the administration
secured an eighty five percent discount. So we're talking about
real lower drug price, not one or two percent reductions.
We're not talking about the previous administration trying intego pennies

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on just a small subset of drugs. We're talking about
an eighty five percent reduction. I think the average reduction
is eighty to eighty five percent.

Speaker 7 (23:09):
Wow, that is a big deal.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
Yeah, it's impressive. It is suppressive. Okay, up to eighty
five percent. In other words, I can get it for
you whole sale. It's it a retail you get it wholesale. Now,
does this work with your insurance if you have prescription insurance?
Is this just for the folks who are don't have

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prescription insurance and are buying it on their own or
don't have insurance that will cover that particular drug. I mean,
those are the ones who are obviously going to befit
the most, and those are the ones who should you know,
if you've got a life threatening illness and the drug
that you're taking out of pockets costing you thousands of
dollars every month, and you can get that reduced by
eighty percent, then that's yeah, that could be a family

(23:53):
saver right there. If it turns out to be that way,
all right. We did have Sid Miller, the Texas agg Commissioner,
on our show this morning. We did talk about drugs
because there's little something called the screw worm which is
threatening the Texas cattle industry. But before that, we got
into the whole government shutdown thing and whether or not
the federal government shutdown has any impact at all on

(24:16):
what happens here in Texas with agriculture. Here's my conversation
from earlier this morning on KTRH with Texas agg Commissioner
Sid Miller. So, the government shutdown, I think, you know,
we know what it impacts at the federal level. I
think a lot of people don't realize what it does
at the state level. How's it impacting Texas agriculture? You know,
actually we don't miss the federal government that much. But

(24:40):
you know, about ninety five cents out of every dollar
I spend is federal money. So we do a lot
of the federal programs. The biggest one is I feed
five million school mills each day. So we're going to
continue to feed the kids. We're not going to you know,
and nothing's interrupted there, so right, we're going to might
have school breakfast this morning, we have school munch. Actually

(25:01):
actually this month is National school uh lunch lunch month,
So we're we're working on that.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Well, but does the federal money get interrupted? Do you
have to supplement that until the until the government reopens
some things?

Speaker 7 (25:14):
If we go long enough, it does, but it you know,
it takes thirty days for it to get into that.
But we we have contingency plans. It's not the first
shutdown that you know, I went through, So we're we're
well prepared.

Speaker 5 (25:26):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (25:26):
Uh, you know, we we're you know, all my people
are very worthy of handling this. So nothing nothing to
worry about for the public. Will continue to do our job.
Your food's going to be safe, you know. Uh, everything's
going to operate. We're going to make sure that the
pesticides regulated. Uh, we're going to deliver real health care
on time.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (25:47):
Every everything we do will will continue to operate. We're
we're very well prepared for that.

Speaker 5 (25:52):
I know the FDA has approved a new drug that
deals with the screw worm in cattle. That's that's becoming
an increasingly bigger problem here in Texas. I assumed the
problem is that isolated towards the border at this point
or is it spreading well that the new.

Speaker 7 (26:06):
Drug is something I've been working on for about six months.
We finally got it. You know. The problem is we
move at the speed of government and the FDA. Finally,
Uh we went up about a month ago and had
had lunch with Bobby Kennedy Jr. Laid all this out
and he's, you know, very savvy. He understood. So we
got that done. Uh right now.

Speaker 5 (26:27):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (26:27):
Prior to that, the whole plan was to use seventy
year old technology to fight the screw arm invasion.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
But we've got good, good new technology.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (26:37):
Dect to max is the drug you're talking about. Ivermectin
is another one. Uh. So we we can use those
and put it in animal feed.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (26:46):
Feed it to our deer, feed it to our livestock,
and it will call it will make them immune.

Speaker 5 (26:53):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (26:53):
It's it's it's a preventative and a cure. So it's
it's that's that's big. If we ever we don't have
it yet.

Speaker 5 (26:59):
Yeah, Clo.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
This this one we've had is seventy miles south of
the Little Rado and it was isolated incidents, but unfortunately
it continues to move north out of southern Mexico.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
Well, and for those of us who love beef, and
Lord knows, I've eat my fair share of beef in
over the years. You know, the high price right now,
beef is through the roof. I mean, you go to
the grocery store in your family shops like everybody else's
family shops, not like you're getting a discount on beef.
We know that. You know, a lot of this goes
back to the drought and COVID nineteen a lot of

(27:30):
other things that caused ranchers to have to you know,
pare down their herds, make their herds smaller. Is that
starting to turn away? Are we starting to see an
increase in livestock? Well, actually it's it's compounded. The screw
worm has compounded that because we get about fifteen percent
of our feeder cattle out of Mexico. Well we've shut
the border down, so we haven't gotten any cattle out

(27:51):
of Mexico since last January, so ten months, you know, backlog.
So that's that's it's very you know, it's it's compounding
the problem. So that's another fifteen percent off the market,
which reflects in the process so hopefully we can get
this screwworm under control. I am pushing a fly bait.
I mean, it's kind of cowboy logic. If you want

(28:12):
to kill some flies, put out some bait. But I
just can't get the USDA to buy in on it.
They actually used it. They developed this bait back in
nineteen seventy six. Hang on, they developed it, but you
can't convince them to use it. No, it's to me,
it's the stupidest thing I ever heard of. I said, well,
why don't we use the bait again? It kills ninety
percent of the screwworms. They said, well, it's environmentally insensitive.

(28:35):
I said, he what are you talking about. That's what
I expect to hear from the Biden administration, not from
the Trump administration.

Speaker 7 (28:41):
Well, they say it will kill the good flies. Good flies,
which good flies are those that has that of good
fire ins. I mean, what is that you're gonna kill?
You're afraid to kill the house flies or stable flies
or I don't know what that is. But yeah, oh
my gosh, it's like banging my head against the wall.
But we're gonna can tinue to push that. It's the
quick fix. It's the sure fix, it's the only fix

(29:05):
right now. They want to use seventy year old technology,
which is sterile male flies. So this this screwer and
fly mates one time, so if you get enough sterile
males out there through attrition. We eliminated them last time
by doing this, but it took it took thirty nine
years to do it. We don't have that, No, we don't.
You're right, this bait will knock them out. Ninety percent

(29:27):
of them in thirty days.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
There weren't hang up. I'm still still trying to digest
that the federal government is worried about killing perfectly good
flies because we need flies. Because why do we need flies? Anyway?
That's THEAG commissioner, said Miller. Right quick, a little break
back with our final segment in justin Moment Jimmy Barrett Show,
You're an AM ninety fifty KPRC. All right, I thought

(30:09):
we'd this is not a very happy topic, but I
thought we should probably cover it anyway, We'll lend the
show with it. Today we had another heinous crime involving
a mom and maybe I shouldn't be shocked anymore by this,
but violent crimes, especially violent crimes involving guns and women

(30:33):
is still a relatively rare thing. It is an extremely
rare thing for a mother to take a weapon and
use it on her own children, in this case, her
four children, evidently in a car. This happened in Brazoria
County on Saturday, the family coming headed back home from

(30:54):
Bissouria County to Montgomery County where they were living. Not
for very long have they been living there. We'll get
to that in a second. But here is here's the
reportland it. We don't know what happened. We don't know.
We have still very little sketchy information as far as
why she did what she did. We know she's in jail.
We know that she has a fourteen million dollar bond,

(31:17):
so she's firmly in ssconsin in jail. We don't know
her mental health, although one can presume it's not particularly
good based on what happened here. But at any rate,
here he is a little bit of the press conference
with the Bassouria County sheriff. That is, let's see what
is the Brasouria kunt of shares name both Stallman Sheriff

(31:39):
bo Stallman from Saturday.

Speaker 10 (31:41):
Evidence indicates that the driver of the vehicle identify as
as a thirty one year old bo Ninda Romolas. She's
the mother of the four children involved. All four children
have to stay gunshot wounds. Sadly, a thirteen year old
old boy and the three year old girl did not survive.

(32:05):
We are thankful to report that an eight year old
boy and a nine year old girl are now in
stable condition. We believe that the evidence shows that this tragedy,
that this tragedy has occurred inside of the vehicle, and
that Romless, the mother of the children, is a shooter.

(32:27):
At four forty eight am yesterday, Rawless called the Bassouri
County Sheriff's office. When deputies arrived, they immediately began providing
life saver measures to each children until medical help could arrive.
The two surviving children were life lighted into a Huston
Aaria hospital, where they remain in stable condition. Ramless was

(32:50):
later arrested and charged with two counts of murder and
two counts of.

Speaker 5 (32:55):
Aggravated assault.

Speaker 10 (32:58):
Aggravated assault with the weapon, with a total bond set
at fourteen million dollars. Ramless is the current resident other
than is of the Montgomery County here in Texas.

Speaker 8 (33:11):
Where a sheriff.

Speaker 10 (33:13):
Sheriff Wesley Doolittle is the sheriff there of Montgomery County,
and he's here with us today. His office has assisted
us with investigative task that have taken place there in
Montgomery County. Our investigators, along with responding agencies, continue to
collect and analyze evidence in this case and this ongoing investigation.

Speaker 5 (33:36):
Okay, there's not a lot there, but I did notice
something listening to that this time that I guess I
hadn't noticed the four at the very beginning. Let me
play the very beginning of that again. See if you
hear how the sheriff describes the mother. Let's take a

(33:56):
listen this one more time. I'll stop it after I
get to the point I want to emphasize here.

Speaker 10 (34:00):
Evidence indicates that the driver of the vehicle identifies as
a thirty one year old romolus.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
What does that mean identifies as? Is that some sort
of new cops speak or does that mean something else?
Does that mean that it is a it's a mom,
an actual birth mother, actual female, or is it somebody

(34:29):
who identifies as the children's mother who's not actually a female?
And the only reason why I asked the question, Remember
how I began this whole thing by asking I mean,
that's just so weird to put identifies as I began
this whole thing by asking the question about you know,
how is it that we have these mothers doing these

(34:51):
things to their children, you know, violence, especially gun violence.
That's so unusual for a woman to use a gun
for anything, especially gun violence against our own children. That
is just not something ninety nine point of women would do.
Is are we dealing with something else there? We just

(35:11):
haven't learned more about it yet. Is that a possibility?
We know that the mother is from Haiti originally, it
has only been in Montgomery for like three or four months,
and when before that was in Georgia. I mean, but
that's really all we know at this point. I just

(35:32):
found that very strange that the sheriff used the term
identifies as HM. You have to keep following this one,
all right, Listen, you all have a great day. Thank
you for listening. We'll see you tomorrow morning. Burt at
early five am, we we're on news radio seven forty KTRH.
We are back here at four on Am nine fifty KTRC.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
Balder decreed for theft