The Rod and Greg Show: Biden & Union Bureacrats; Gas Stoves; Reject Feminism, Honor Motherhood

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I had a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Did you here? Same here? It was played a little
bit of golf. I played a little bit of pickleball.
I did not, had a very nice dinner. It was
fun good.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah, weekends are when they're coming down to the end.
I mean school starts like Monday.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I think some kids are already back in school. Yep,
I think.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I don't know, but I know it's all I know.
The countdown's begun.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
You know.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
I like seeing I love seeing the little gremlins and
the peewee football kids. They've been they've been practicing all months.
You know, they had their little their little combines at
the end of July. They've been getting their getting their
plays down.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
My grandson scored two touchdowns this weekend. Football.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
That kid, that grandson of your But you get him
out of that soccer, keep him into football like soccer.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
You know what's sad to coaches demand one sport for
these kids, and it drives me nuts.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Tell that to Patrick Mahomes he got to play basketball
and football. Has it hurt him? How many? How many
multiple sport athletes to be seen?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, I'm with you on that. You with you on that? Well,
it's great to be with you on this on Monday afternoon.
We've got a great lineup for you today. We're all
talk about what Joe Biden did during the campaign, who
was up to his old shenanigans. Again. We'll talk about that.
We'll talk about states, and you'd know this better than
anyone else, greg being in the legislature. States can really
dig themselves into a hole if they take too much

(01:20):
federal money.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Right, It's like crack cocaine. They can, they can get
addicted to it.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, they sure do.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
The eatees have different percentages of their budgets that lean
on it, utahs on the lower side. But still I
would argue too much.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, too much. A little bit later on, remember this
wacky idea that the Biden administration came up with to
ban gas stoves because they would cause asthma. Yes, well,
new studies are revealing and not the case. They are
so full of bunk it wouldn't believe that. We'll talk
about that. We'll talk about rejecting feminism in favor of moms.
We'll get into that. So we got a lot to

(01:53):
get to today. Love to have you along for the ride.
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(02:14):
leave us a comment on that as well. All right,
Donald Trump in the news again today. That's right, cracking
down on crime in Washington, cracking down on the cartels,
and cracking down on Barack Obama. Yeah, if you haven't
heard before, we get into the DC crime stuff. Yes,

(02:34):
story out today. They're aghast that Donald Trump apparently has
exiled the presidential portrait of his predecessor, Barack Obama to
a less prominent position in the White House.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
I think it's a They called it like a seldom
used or secret stairwell.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
It's a staircase that leads up to the private sector
of the White House, so nobody goes up that way, right,
So you just.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Try wants to have a little personal moment. It's a
little one on one.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
But not only did he do that to Barack Obama,
he did it to George W. Bush as well.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
You know, you walk around your rock passes enough you
might want to start redecorating the place. It sounds like this,
what's happened?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, yeah. Sources are telling the outlet CNN that Trump
personally ordered his staffers to move Obama's portrait to the
top of the grand staircase leading to the White House residents,
a staircase that very few people go up.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, hey, you know, he gets to make the rules.
He's it's the boss place right now.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Heats the boss. Now. The big story of the day,
everybody's talking about the President calling in the National Guard
to crack down on crime in the nation's capital. You
just came back from there, Greg, what was your take?
I mean, did you see anything unusual? Did you feel
threatened at all? Now you kind of judged your hours,
didn't you.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah. So for us, we knew that when the when
the sun went down, that's when it got real. And
I've seen this in past trips to the capital that
at night is where it gets very very dangerous. Lou
Dice at night, Blue Dice in the daytime, not as much.
But we were talking to my son Holten, who was
able to point out just where that while he was there,
an intern was tragically killed shot and killed. It might

(04:17):
have been the wrong place, wrong time, but because of
all the violence, all the shootings and things, and that
was only two blocks from where we were, and he
it was daylight when he was shot, I believe. But anyway,
it's it's around and you know it and I and
there's in it, and it's so sporadic that it can
ignite anywhere at any time. You don't know when that's
going to happen. And so there's there is enough crime

(04:38):
going on there and I don't care what these people do.
There's in an act, there's an active investigation of the
police chief in DC who's been baking the numbers, taking
the data and pushing down felonies into misdemeanors and and
and making it look like their crime is going down.
So CNN and everybody else is complaining that, you know, really,
this is when you have Trump arrangement syndrome. When you

(04:59):
have a president that's trying to restore or stop lawlessness,
bring public safety and make it possible, and they want
to still criticize him for it, and they're showing numbers
of well, crime has gone down. You want to know
how a lot of these places make the crime number drop.
They just don't arrest.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, you don't arrest, don't charge anyone.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
And you would be amazed at how fast your crime
numbers drop. If you just don't arrest or charge anyone,
it's a miracle. It must be great police work. It's not.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
The crime didn't go away, you.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Just stopped arresting and enforcing the law. So, you know,
what he's doing should be a bipartisan Thank you. He's
not doing it forever, but they have got to get
control of what's going on.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah. Now, there are a couple arguments that I've heard
against this today. Okay. First of all, Muriel Bowser, who
is the mayor of DC came out shortly after the
Trump news conference today and said, look, we did see
a spike in crime right after COVID, but the numbers
have now gone down. The other excuse, Greg, I love
this one, is that the federal government keeps taking money

(06:00):
away from d C. So the number of police officers
on the street is now they're down like four hundred.
At one time they were down nine hundred, and they're
blaming it all on cuts going to d C. Now,
the President said today no more. Mister Knight's guy. They
are not going to play easy anymore. And then you
have this, uh Washington d C. Attorney General. Okay, he's

(06:22):
a guy who apparently handles all everything down there. And
until Jadine Piro got in, she was out there today.
He talked about the attack on big Balls, you know,
the guy with with those who was attacked. But before that,
you know what he said about miners breaking the law.
Kids will be kids. Yeah, that's that's kids. That's all
he could say. Kids. Carjacking a car is kids being kids. Yeah,

(06:45):
give me a break.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
And it's a it's an absolutely pathetic excuse. And look,
this is from you know, the NBC affiliate in Washington,
d C. Their news channel, their TV news channel. It's
and it's the DC police commanders suspended, accused of changing
crime statistics. Well, when you know that that's in real time,
what's happening? It is it is Uh, it is dizzying

(07:07):
to see CNN while they are covering the president's live
press conference announcing that he's going to put the National
Guard in place to help lower crime, they are posting
the crime statistics that this guy's being investigator. He's been suspended,
investigated for baking the data. They're showing that data to
prove that what he is saying he'd like to do
is unnecessary because crime has dropped. And you know what,

(07:31):
most of the regime media is following that narrative. But
there's a couple of voices out there from the regime
media that's coming clean about how the how, what the
what the truth really is.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, we've got one from ABC News. I believe it
is right. She describes what she saw even today in
the nation's capital.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
We've been talking so much about the numbers, and yeah,
usually that's how you played Devil's advocate, as you talk about, oh, well,
stats say crime is down. However, I can tell you
firsthand here in downtown d C where we work, right
here around our bureau, just in the past six months,
you know, there were two people shot. One person died
literally two blocks down here from the bureau. It was

(08:09):
within the last two years that I actually was jumped
walking just two blocks down from here. And then just
this morning one of my coworkers said her car was
stolen a block away from the bureau. So we can
talk about the numbers going down, but crime is happening
every single day because we're all experiencing at firsthand while

(08:32):
working and living down here.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's pretty amazing SoundBite. I mean, she refutes everything that
the legacy media is putting out there. And like you said, Greg,
even during the news conference today, here's CNN running a
graphic shoin how crime is down in the nation's capital. Well,
Trump is speaking about crime in the nation's capital.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
The chatter on social media on x today is that
if you speak again, if you speak for the way
she just did that, you'll get blackballed. You're not allowed
to speak against what happening in the city. Well, who
also has broken that rule is the union chairman of
the DC police. You know, you know their police department.
So the police they they're the police department. They are understaffed, overworked.

(09:12):
They'd like, we aren't attacking police, attacking police. They've got
a tough job it is. And what the what the
what the head of their police union says is that
they completely agree with President Trump that the crime in
the district of Columbia is out of control and something
needs to be done. And he also said to those
that were criticizing Trump, some of the voices that were
coming from DC City Hall, you're the reason it's real

(09:35):
convenient for you to be mad at President Trump, but
you're the reason why we're suffering with this out of
control crime. So it's it. You know, this is it
reminds me of me. It reminds me of after the
fourth of July and twenty seventeen, after we had three killings.
I mean one person was run over, there was a
person pummeled to death with the rock. We had three homicides.

(09:58):
And I said on the on the first war day
after that weekend, because we've been working on the Rio
Grand area and the homelessness and the drug cartels and
everything else, and I and I was not shy about it,
I said, what do we have to see here to
not call the National Guard? I mean, because we're seeing deaths,
we're seeing homicides, what do you need to see? I've
seen enough. I know what needs to be done. And

(10:18):
when we did put a large, multi jurisdictional law enforcement
presence there and we did get control of the lawlessness
and tame it down. You when the cartels didn't have
control of every street, you saw the crime go down.
You saw the ability to help those that were help
that were homeless. They're not being preyed upon or they're
not muling for you know, drugs. What President Trump's doing

(10:39):
by calling the National Guard, and what it takes to
get any of these urban areas right, This is going
to blow your mind. Follow the law and force the law.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
All force the law. Force the law. You don't need lawlessness,
you don't need new laws. You need a new president,
and we've got one, and now he's trying to do
something about it.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
You fight the lawlessness, and you'd be amazed at the fruit.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
That's what happened.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
All right.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
We've got a lot to get to today. More coming up.
Great to have you along for the ride on this
night's Monday afternoon here up and down the Watstaeds Front
and throughout the entire state of Utah. It is the
Rod and Gregg Show on Talk Radio one O five
nine knrs. Certainly is a pleasure being with you as
you work your way home. You know, no wonder the
unions loved Joe Biden. There's this story out today that taxpayers,

(11:23):
you and I we spent two hundred and seven million
dollars to pay bureaucrats to work for unions in Joe
Biden's final year. Pretty amazing story doing all the hard
work and the legwork on. This is our next guest
on our newsmaker line Tyler O'Neill, Managing editor at The
Daily Signal. Tyler, how are you welcome to the Rodding
Gregg Show. Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
Hey, always a pleasure.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Tyler, tell us about this report out the digging that
you've done two hundred and seven million dollars. What a
whopping figure.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (11:55):
So this is a report from the Office of Personnel Management,
and this is an issue I think most Americans would
be surprised to hear that your tax payer dollars. You know,
they don't just fund bureaucrats to do the jobs that
they're hired by the American people to do. They also

(12:17):
pay for bureaucrats to spend time working for labor unions
in the federal government. And so there's this policy called
official time, where a bureaucrat will build the tax payer
for hours they spend doing work for the union. And
some of this is clear, like helping negotiate contracts, like

(12:41):
things that you know, you would expect a union to do.
But then sometimes, you know, there was this really big
category that includes general general employee, you know, management, labor
negotiation or like, or a general work. Here's here's the
general labor management relations. And this category could include a

(13:06):
wide variety of things. Most likely it includes at least
a little bit of work on some of the lawsuits
that these labor unions are filing against Trump. Now, of course,
the data that I have is for fifcally year twenty
twenty four, so that you know that data doesn't apply

(13:26):
to when they were filing those lawsuits. So the two
hundred and seven million dollars, that's Biden's final year. But
right now, the tax you know, these bureaucrats are still
charging taxpayers for time they spend working for the union,
and these unions are busy suing the Trump administration to

(13:49):
prevent to prevent the president from making your government more
accountable to you.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
So, Tyler, I grew up in Pittsburgh where I had
family members that were members of unions, not unions, but
they had what they called shop days. They had they
had days where they had to go to the union,
they'd make copies, they do some administrative things at the
union shop, and then they could actually get counted for
a shop day if they that they carried a campaign
signed for a presidential visitor or something like that. This

(14:16):
looks this does not look like shop days. These look
like far more involved legal work, some of the some
of the breakdowns that you've done. I'm not good with
shop days period for the federal government or for the
public tax payer to pay for it. But is this
far and above what a shop day would be for
a union member, I believe so.

Speaker 7 (14:40):
So it's very interesting this this concept an official time.
It's a lot more entrenched, i'd say, than shop days
were or shop days are. I know they're probably still ongoing,
but in this case, official time is one of the
many giveaways the the compromised positions that the government made

(15:04):
with these unions that prevent so for instance, you know,
the very idea of public sector unions is problematic. Even
FDR opposed the idea of any federal employee unionizing at all,
because they're unionizing against the taxpayer. But in this you know,
what ended up happening was the unions gave up their

(15:29):
to strike, so federal employee unions cannot strike. But in
recompense for giving some of those things, giving up some
of those things, they got a sweetheart deal like this,
which I think is humongous. I mean, when you're talking
two hundred and seven million dollars, sure, that's not you know,
that's not that's huge when it comes to the overall

(15:52):
federal budget and deficit. But for everyday Americans, I mean,
we would love to have our tax dollars.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
That's turned to us. Yeah, amen to that. Who are
is there one or two agencies, one or two unions
that were the worst offender Tyler?

Speaker 7 (16:11):
Yeah, So the worst offender agencies those we don't Unfortunately,
I don't know who the the report did not say
who received which unions received the money, but the worst
offending agencies were the Department of Veterans Affairs, which build

(16:32):
taxpayers forty million dollars for working seven hundred and forty
six thousand hours for unions, the Department of Homeland Security, unfortunately,
which charged thirty four million dollars for working five hundred
and fifty seven thousand hours for unions, and then the
Defense Department, which charged twenty five million dollars for four

(16:56):
hundred and thirty two thousand union hours. One of the
weird things that really stood out to me in the
report from twenty nineteen, So this is this is yet
another example of the Biden administration hiding the truth from
the American people because this report didn't come out until
Trump decided to release it.

Speaker 8 (17:18):
The light.

Speaker 7 (17:19):
The last report that we've ever gotten on union time,
which is a phenomenon that continued very much in the
Biden administration, came in October twenty twenty when the Trump
administration published the twenty nineteen data, and that twenty nineteen
data showed I mean this is you got to hold

(17:40):
onto your seat for this A state relevant state department employees,
those who actually spent some of their time working for
the union and got paid for it, spent eighty two
percent of their time working for the union. That doesn't
mean eighty two percent of all state department employees. It
just means the eighty two percent of those who spend

(18:02):
their a usaide is something like fifty percent. Many employees
of the federal government are spending more than half of
their time not doing the job the taxpayer hired them
to do, but working for the union.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Pretty amazing, Tyler and hiding the truth. What a novel
idea that is. Tyler is always great haveing you on
the show. Thanks for your time, truth, Thank you for
your work. Thank you. Tyler Tyler O'Neil, managing editor of
The Daily Signal. Right here on the Rotten Greg Show,
dig into the president's announcement today that he wants to
do something about crime in our nation's capital. Greg, you

(18:39):
and I both agree our nation's capital should be a
shiny city on the hill.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
It really should.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
And I, oh yeah. Over the years, I go back
and forth to Washington occasionally, and you have two, Greg,
and I've seen how the city has changed during that
period of time. The classic example to me would be,
because I went through that several times, was the Union
Station and historic Yes rail station where Union troops were

(19:05):
transferred during the Civil War. One time, really nice place.
Nowadays it's a dump, it is, and half the stores
have closed. The restaurants they have some good restaurants in
there gone.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
You know, there's a lot of commentary from DC the
crime has gotten unspeakable in terms of its frequency, its rate,
and these numbers. Again, you know how you can make
a crime rates drop like a lead balloon. Stop arresting people,
stop charging them, and boom, your numbers just plummet. That
doesn't mean crime goes away, It just means your numbers
went down. And that's all you're seeing in DC, and

(19:35):
you see that in a lot of major metropolitan cities.
But the other thing is where DC, other than higher education,
where you have you know, George Mason and Washington, George
Washington University and Georgetown, they make nothing, They do nothing.
They just have the public treasury that arrives there. The
number of class A offices and condos and yachts and
things that have grown over since the eighties when I

(19:56):
started going to DC as a kid. That side of
it is pretty sickening to watch too.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
It is.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Well, let's talk about another subject. We'll get into that
in the five o'clock Cower both, Greg, you dealt with this.
Every state in the country gets money from the federal government.
But if we take too much, that can spell some trouble. Right,
if you don't watch what you're getting and the strings
attached to that money.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Oh yeah, you end up, I mean it does. They
can push you around. We saw this even with George W.
Bush No child left behind, where they were trying to
dictate education policy from the White House, which does not
work in our state or really any other state.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, well, let's talk about that. Joining us on Our
newsmaker line right now is Tony Wood. Leafy is with
the State Policy Network, their Center for Practical Federalism. Tony,
thank you for joining us. You right about this in
the Wall Street op ed piece about what's going on here?
Are states nervous now with Donald Trump in the White
House that they may be some cuts in federal money

(20:51):
going to states.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
I think they ought to be nervous. I don't know
if they are nervous, and I wouldn't say it's just
because of Donald Trump that they should be nervous. We've
got thirty seven trillion dollars in debt, and if the
country is not going to go bankrupt, we're going to
have to reign in some spending. And probably the number
one driver of our total national debt is the federal

(21:13):
government getting into activities that are properly the domain of
the states.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
It's like it's an addiction. I think that that getting money,
getting federal money, even cities, at least here in the
state of Utah hiring federal lobbyists to get transportation dollars.
It has gotten out of control and it doesn't leave
a state very independent. My question is, I don't know

(21:38):
that the states themselves will feel the insecurity of being
so dependent on the federal government. I do think the
federal government will have to pair that back. Can that
last more than a Trump administration? Can that be a movement?
Since nineteen ninety Your article points out how much more
dependent states have become on federal funds. Can we see
that tied go backwards even further and past a Trump administration?

Speaker 4 (22:01):
That is first of all, I just I love how
you pointed out the lobbying by cities. My organization Center
for Practical Federalism at State Policy Network, one of the
things we put out is a federalism scorecard where we
rank the states based on how vulnerable they are to
undo federal influence. And one of the things we look

(22:21):
at is how much money do they spend per capita
lobbying the federal government with no legislative disability or oversight.
And so that's one area where you see the federal
agencies getting in there and handing out money. Maybe we
shouldn't be taken so the question of can you reverse this, well, Gottley,
given the trends we see mathematically, I'd be inclined to pessimism,

(22:44):
but I think the reality is if we don't, sooner
or later, we're going to have a Congress, whether they
like it or not. They can't keep playing musical chairs
with regards to our federal debt because they can't keep
borrowing anymore, and so they're going to have to start
to make some relatively minor adjustments to how much money

(23:05):
is going out to states and to cities and make
those states and cities start sharing more of the load
if they want that money. It's just inevitable. But of
course every Congress wants to kick the can down the road.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, Tony maya co host sitting across a microphone from me,
as a former speaker of the Utah House and the
Utah Lawmakerial'll probably want to take credit for this guy.
But I notice that you point out that Utah is
one of I think three states which passed the law
requiring their state agencies to disclose the federal directives they receive.

(23:40):
Why is that so important, do you think, Tony.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
Well, I was so happy to see them do that.
In fact, they've done the most expansive version of that law.
The reason it's important is we've seen in many states
that are ostensibly controlled by conservatives, what will happen is
federal agencies send out all kinds of directives called guidance. Now,
guidance is not supposed to be legally binding. It's supposed

(24:05):
to be an agency's opinion about what the law means.
But under President Obama and then absolutely furthermore under President Biden,
we saw agencies issue those opinion letters and use them
to create new regulations. And what happened was state agencies
when they receive those letters, they assume it's law and

(24:26):
they implement it. And then when the lawmakers say, hey,
what's going on with these transgender bathrooms in or high
schools or whatever it may be, their own state agency
officials say, well, that's the law, we have to do it.
And so our effort has been to educate lawmakers and
help them understand you do not have to do this,
you do not have to comply with these stettled directives.

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And so step one is making your state agencies disclose
to you when they get those directives.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
It's such a good I'm telling you that they do.
Sometimes they are an entity under themselves, and they do
circumvent governor or certainly the legislative body. Well I heard
this is way back. This dates me, but when we
when we as states were debating Obamacare expansion Medicaid expansion.
From a speaker, then Paul Ryan's lips to my ears,

(25:13):
he said, if the federal government were to ever be
serious about pairing back or pulling back its funding or
trying to get not spend deficits spend so much, the
easiest thing they can do is just lower the percentage
of a match. So if Medicaid, if Obamacare expansion, is
a ninety percent federal match, they don't have to they
don't have to part with a single dollar to one

(25:34):
day say we'll make it a seventy percent match or
a fifty percent match, but that dependency that the state
has it at that money, that would so the states
would bear the federal balancing of their budget at least
in this category, and they can do the same thing
with traditional medicaid. I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet. I
thought that would happen sooner than later. Is that day
coming where the match the federal matches that the federal

(25:57):
government gives to incentivize their federal program, they just start
pulling back the percentages because they don't have to spend
any money to do it.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
They're making tiny, tiny progress. And to me, this is
a moral issue because what happened under Obamacare is that
we began to hand out more dollars from the federal government.
For every dollar of state spends on an able bodied
to dealt without small children to care for, then we
give to a disabled child. And that to me is

(26:27):
a complete inversion of the purpose of government. If you're
going to have government be in the business of trying
to help the needy, well goodness, let's help the truly needy.
And so we created all these perverse incentives the states
to spend more and more money on the least vulnerable
parts of their population at the expense, i would say,
of the most vulnerable. And it becomes this fifty state

(26:50):
kind of fraud, where then the states will tax their
healthcare providers, which are overcharging for these services in first place,
and everybody makes out accept the taxpayer. And the day
is coming when we have to answer to that.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
On our Newsmaker line. We appreciate that conversation with Tony Woodleaf,
with the State Policy Network and the Center for Practical Federalism.
Utah's doing something about this.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah, it's a tough issue. I tell you, you're going
to pay the piper. It's coming sooner than later. And
Utah is in a good position, but it still has
its percentage of federal money it depends on. But I
think we're stronger than we actually have that number. Lawmakers
will look at that every single year. That percentage. I
think some states don't even pay attention to.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, they should, all right, more coming up the Rod
and Gregg Show on this Monday afternoon and Utah's Talk
Radio one oh five nine k nrs.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Give it get it out on the air.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Listen. Remember during the Biden years, after Joe Biden became
President of the United States, construction on the border wall stopped.
And remember seeing pictures of all that I guess was
steel just sitting there, rusting out, trying to sell it,
and he's trying to get rid of Well, guess what
the Trump administration wants it back.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
I heard this. I actually heard there's a way to
get it back to.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, the the global government surplus auction house that listed
unused components as part of that border wall. Apparently they've
been contacted by the Trump administration and said we want
it back and what are.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
They going to say. No, I think I think they'll say, yes, okay,
yeah we can, we can do that.

Speaker 6 (28:26):
Yeah we can.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
We can actually make that happen.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah. Apparently they're now working on a deal to get
it back. We I guess we must have sold it.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Right, Yeah, they were science pennies on the dollar.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
That's what it was.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
It was a fire sale, it was. They were basically
giving it that way. Yeah, they did give it away.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah. Yeah. Well, apparently Utah has one of the most
confuming confusing state names. According to an analysis of online
research questions about what to call residents of various states.
People don't know what to call us in Utah.

Speaker 7 (28:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
This has been a this has been an under the
radar problem. The spell checks of all of the computers
and all the stuff we used word and all that.
They keep saying, we are utah Hans. We're not.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
We're Utahs.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Were Utahs. And that's how it's a great tell when
you have some national special interest group coming in town
and they're like Utah Hans, you know, and I look
at that poster and I think you are not from
the state.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Well, apparently lawmakers have adopted the official name of Utah, yes,
not Utah Hans.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
No, it's not the utah Hans.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
The other state that has problem, Massachusetts. How do you
how do you commies? We're good comm commies. That's what
do you give to someone from in Massachusetts?

Speaker 1 (29:44):
A massachuchuts and it's Massachusettes.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
They don't making this, They don't, they don't know how.
But apparently this one story says Utah and Massachusetts are Tuesdays.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
You say Massachusetts Massachusetts, Oh, Massachusetts.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
No.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Two states that confused people as to what what we
should call each other.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
In Utah's problem is that your word, your your spell
check lies to you about how to spell what a
Utah is. It says h a n s not Utah Hans. Yeah, hans,
utahs the bear's ears. When we were President Trump was coming,
all these protesters that were there, they were all utah Hans,
and we knew they were all all right.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
The president he's ready to crack down on crime in
the nation's capital. Well, weigh in with our thoughts on
that and get your thoughts as well. That's coming up
on the Rod and Greg Show. Stay with us.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
My dog doesn't really like the heat.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Most dogs don't, by the way, you're just learning that
she's pinching pants a lot. Well, welcome to the show.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
I'm Rod Arquette, I'm citizen Greg Hughes.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
All right, Well, the talk of the country right now
is you know Donald Trump. He he what was the
old slogan that Nike had, Just do it? Yes, Well
that's what Donald Trump is doing. He doesn't sit around.
He sees an issue and he attacks it because he
knows he has the support of the American people, so
he's just doing it. He has always had a bias

(31:13):
towards action. He is going to act. He's not going
to talk.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
He's not going to circle it, he's not gonna He
has a bias towards action. And I think that's I mean,
you only have four years and midterms are coming up.
I think his pace is exactly what this country needs.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, and he's not He's going after Washington now and
that city despite the efforts on the right. Well, let
me play this. This is a brief demonstration. Some angry
residents in DC this afternoon got together and decided to
voice their opinion about Donald Trump trying to bring law
and order to the nation's capital.

Speaker 9 (31:47):
See, is it about what Trump is trying to do
to d C in order to take over DC and
silence them, trying to repress some people, be causing real
harm to real communities in the process.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Free d C, Free d C. And he's preventing us
from talking to each other. I know, you know what
he's preventing is from people shooting each other, stealing your
car and stabbing you. That's what he's trying to prevent.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
I mean, we live in a time right now where
public safety attacking lawlessness is not a bipartisan issue. You
have CNN, you have, you have all the regime media
except for a couple of rare sources who have had
who've experienced the violence and the crime enough of themselves
that they're coming clean with it, which I'm sure they'll
probably be punished by their network for saying it. But
you've got that that clown Andrew McCabe, you know, who

(32:48):
should you know, should be indicting in jail saying this
is gonna this, you know, going out trying to clean
up DC and bring safety there is going to threaten
the safety of the whole country. And hyperbole and absolute
they're direct rangement about this man means that you can't
even coalesce around helping and saving people from being from
being victims of crime. When when Trump says when there's crime,

(33:10):
we need to prosecute it. That's now there's universal opposition.
You've got talking heads on Santon saying, what's he trying
to distract us from? What must what is going wrong
in his presidency? Epstein files musk he must be running
from it because he wants to work on public safety
in Washington, d C. This should be the easiest. I mean,

(33:31):
he's got the union head of the DC Police Department
on his side. He's got, you know, the poor mother
of the intern that was killed this summer tragically, who's
who's been pleading for there to be more safety and
accountability so that people don't aren't killed in that town.
You have so many people that know how dangerous it is,
and yet the Democrats, because Trump wants to make it safe,

(33:51):
they have to oppose it.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
It was funny earlier Today's cut a little bit of
Fox News after the news conference, and here's this this
very liberal democrat. I think I think he's from the
Third Way, that's very liberal organization. Right. John Roberts asked him,
just face to face are you safe walking the streets
of Washington, DC at night. Oh yes, I feel fine.
I don't feel threatened at all. He went on, and

(34:13):
A and Roberts looked at him and said, are you nuts?
He basically said, even in the middle of the day.
And Fox News is about a block away from where
the nation's capital lives. Said, when I walk down the street,
I'm always looking back over my shoulder making sure someone
is coming after me. And you've got a comment from
a reporter. What was it with ABC today talking about

(34:36):
what she has experienced in the nation's capital in just
one day?

Speaker 1 (34:40):
And we're going to play this because I'll bet you
anything the official that new NBABC News, because this is
not the talking points that they're supposed to be embracing today.
Because she does share her first hand experience. I'll bet
you she doesn't say it twice. I'll bet you well,
we're going to play here. This is the only place
you're going to hear this if you didn't see it live.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
We've been talking so much about the numbers and bi
usually that's how you played Devil's advocate as you talk
about Oh well, stat's say crime is down. However, I
can tell you firsthand here in downtown d C where
we work, right here around our bureau. Just in the
past six months, you know, there were two people shot.
One person died literally two blocks down here from the bureau.

(35:18):
It was within the last two years that I actually
was jumped walking just two blocks down from here. And
then just this morning one of my co workers said
her car was stolen a block away from the bureau.
So we can talk about the numbers going down, but
crime is happening every single day because we're all experiencing

(35:39):
it firsthand while working and living down here.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
They're they're experiencing firsthand. But other than her, they're afraid
to tell the truth. So people afraid to tell the truth.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
So I have the at Citizen Hughes execounts and I've
been posting a lot over the weekend everything, And this
morning when I was going on this story, I had
there was some comments back where someone who is an
educator at the end of DC schools for a long
time and said that there is absolutely a culture that
if you ever complain about DC there is a blowback.

(36:11):
You cannot do it. And it's it's with the media,
it's with the politicians, it's with the community. You cannot
do it. You have to stay quiet about the lawlessness
and the danger that's going on there. And you see
it in all of the coverage here. You don't find
anything other than this rare moment here and maybe some others,
certainly President Trump and those that will tell you the truth.

(36:33):
It begs this question, how much does the regime media
hate Donald Trump? They hate him so much that they
can't even get behind save public safety. They can't get
behind lawlessness. They can't get behind people not being murdered,
people being harmed, their cars being stolen. Violent crime is okay.

(36:56):
It's only not okay unless Trump is involved. If Trump's involved,
then we'd rather have the violent crime. Yeah, I mean,
that's Trump derangement syndrome. It just keeps revealing itself more.
It's mutating, it's getting worse.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Well, and you would think, you know, there's a lot
that divide us, all right, let's be honest, But wouldn't
you think the issue of safety would be an issue
that we may have disagreements about how to approach it,
But isn't the issue to make our homes and our
communities and our streets safer Instead of dividing us. Shouldn't

(37:29):
that be uniting us, where people coming together say what
do we need to do about this, Let's fix this,
let's get after it. Instead you have those on the
left and the Legacy meetings that well, crime is actually
down and the numbers are better, and mister Trump is
trying to be a dictator and ruling over every city
in America. He's sending a message that our nation's capital,
greg should be that shining city on a hill, and

(37:52):
it isn't right now to allow And maybe some of
our listeners out there have had experiences being in the
nation's capital. I just heard from someone the other day
they took their whole family to DC and enjoyed going
to the national monuments, the centers that they enjoyed so much.
That's what people should be looking forward to. Yet there
are a lot of people say, I'm not going there anymore.

(38:13):
I'm not going to DC, especially at night.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
You know, the regime media rod they must to be
opposed to what President Trump's trying to do. Is I
think about it, It's not just how much they revile
and hate Donald Trump. They must have a complete cavalier
or even hatred towards you people. Yes, people in individual people.
If it hasn't, if this reporter, this person on ABC

(38:36):
News didn't have it happened to her herself or her
immediate work colleagues, she'd probably be parroting the same rule lines.
And we know that people are being harmed. They don't care.
They absolutely don't care about the American people. If they
can still find a political objection about Donald Trump that
comes at the expense of the safety of those people,
they'd still rather be against Donald Trump. It's not just

(38:58):
Donald Trump. They don't like. I don't like the everyday people. Yeah, now,
I really think it's that. I don't think that's overstated.
I think it's true.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
All right, we want to hear from you tonight. I mean,
this is happening in the nation's capital. We understand that.
But they're you know, there are crime issues in every
major city in this country. I Salt Lake City, Try
Salt Lake City. Let's try other cities as well. Donald
Trump is saying in the city that I have power
over and can attempt to control, I am going to
do it. And that's what he's trying to do right now.

(39:27):
That should be a message to every resident of every
major city in this country. When you, mister mayor or
mister city councilmen or miss city councilwoman, going to do
something about the crime in the streets in our community.
When are you going to do something about it?

Speaker 1 (39:41):
These major cities are war zones, They're homicide rates are up.
The crime is unbelievable. There's people fleeing these metropolitan areas
and they're all run by Democrats. When are they accountab
before what they're doing?

Speaker 4 (39:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah, And you've got Mendani who's probably going to free
every criminal in New York. And then I read yesterday
up in Seattle, they've got a female version of men
Donnie who's running for Mere Pride or prize. All right,
your calls eight eight eight five seven o eight zero
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(40:14):
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The Rod and Gregg Show. We've lost yet another one.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Another What I never know with you? I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
But then Trump just announced a few moments ago that
he plans to nominate EJ and Tony as the new
commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. OURJ EJ one
of the economists, great economists that we turn to to
help us analyze the numbers, and now he's leaving us.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Do you understand what's happening? They're listening to this show.
All of our guests are regular guests, that are our people.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Trump's thinking they keep taking them away.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
They are Team Rod and Gregg show, and they poach
them right away from us.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Hasn't asked us to do anything.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
You know, I'm not even gonna worry about that. Probably
it's probably coming. It's in the mail going there, yea
that request. Antony.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Look, he's been so many times.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
We love him. Yeah, well, now he's going to be
a big deal. Had a Bureau of Labor Statistics. I'll
tell you what though, with the articles he's written in
the things we've discussed, you can trust that guy who's
going to look at it.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Hopefully we're going to get it right and every month
they won't be downgrading or revising the month. After four months.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
We haven't had him as a regular on the show
because he's a you know, he's a shill for the bureaucracy. No,
he's been a critical thinker, and that's good to see
him that way. If he's not going to be on here,
let him, you know, let him help the whold.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
That he's helping, you know, mister Trump. Anything we can
do to help mister Trump, will we'll try.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Apparently we do.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Yeah, so a lot, all right? Eight eight eight five
seven o eight zero one zero triple eight five seven
o eight zero one zero on your cell phone dial
pound two fifty and on our talk back lying and
leave us a message. The President today said he's had enough.
He's going to crack down on the crime in the
nation's capital, even though there are the critics out there,
like Greg was saying before the break, you know, apparently

(42:05):
we can't even come together on safety, but they're attacking
the president saying, oh, crime is down. He doesn't have
the authority, Yes he does, but crime is down. But
like you said, Greg, can't report crime. If you can't
cite crime going up, if you don't report.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Crime, No, it's it would be like a high school saying,
you know, we have one hundred percent graduation of seniors,
and you go, wow, you must be a great school. No,
what if they just graduate every kid, Yeah, without without
any proficiency at all. Just if you're if you're a senior,
by the by virtue of you breathing, you are now graduated.
So you could have one hundred percent graduation rate in
a high school. And that doesn't necessarily mean you have

(42:40):
a great school. It's teaching kids to get raised, you know,
for graduation. If you have a low crime rate and
the crime is raging, what you're doing is you're not
arresting and charging people for crimes. The crime statistics go down,
the crime gets worse because there's no accountability. And I
got to tell you, as we were saying before, I
want to play this clip from the CNN reporter who

(43:00):
says that the packet that they were given of some
of the work that the Trump administration is already trying
to curb the lawlessness and the crime just over this weekend.
It wasn't going to be big, but just some of
the just giving them a taste of what they're going
to try and address. She really downplays it and says
that it's low level and it's not a big deal.
I'd love to tell you. I'm going to tell you

(43:21):
after we played if we can, we play the clip. Okay,
after we play the clip, I'll tell you what's in
this packet of arrests that happened that she actually doesn't mention.
Let's have a listen.

Speaker 10 (43:30):
And the briefing, they gave us a packet of information
to show us some of the arrests that were made
over the weekend as this starting to ramp up or
increase in federal law enforcement took place, and they were
fairly low level criminals. It was somebody with possession or
a DUI at one point, and there were only five

(43:51):
of them, I believe, listed in this packet. So it's unclear.
You know, he's talking about this major escalation in violent crime,
but that is not quite clear from a packet of information.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
They gave it. D UI is low level.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
To talk to somebody who's lost a family member or
a loved one to a driver under the influence and
you call that low level.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Yeah. And let me give you some other ones that
she omitted from that small packet and small number of examples.
Arrested multiple individuals for illegally carrying firearms, seized dangerous drugs,
and picked up a man who had an active warrant. Uh,
that's not how that was framed, was it. She You
have thought they were picking up Jaywalker the way she
was talking. Hey, they you walked, you didn't walk on

(44:33):
the light. We're gonna get you.

Speaker 11 (44:34):
Heay.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
No, they are downplaying this, and again it shows a
contempt for everyday people. It shows a contempt for this
present that they can't even coalesce around public safety. It's
just it's just ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Did you now you your son Holden just got back
from doing an internship he did all summer long back
in DC. Was he ever nervous about things? Did he
share anything with you?

Speaker 1 (44:56):
He had the time when he was coming and going
and make sure that it was light out and that
there are a lot of people around. He kept that
on his mind for sure. Yeah, it is. It is
a dangerous place, and it's it's their pockets where you know,
crime can erupt anywhere and you don't. You can't. I
mean when when that intern he was an intern at
the same time an intern was killed. It was only

(45:16):
a couple of blocks from where he is normally his
route from the bus, you know, from where he was
living to the bus to the capitol. It's only a
couple of blocks away from him. And so yeah, it's
something that's on their mind.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
You know.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
And years ago gregut and experienced My wife and I
had we were back there. I can't remember for something.
It was a convention or something, and I had I
had become sick and felt I had a sinus infection.
Called my doctor. He said, yeah, it sounds like you've
got one. Go to this this drug, this pharmacy, and
I'll get you some antibiotics. Right, we'll get My wife

(45:49):
and I went in a car. We had a car.
I drove around the block. She ran into the store
to get it. I said, do not come out until
you see my car pull up in front, and I'll
pick you up. I mean we're both nervous. Yes, And
this was years ago. In certain sections of DC, you
do get a little nervous and you do things they
have protect yourself. And this is a huge convention town.

(46:13):
Greg gives you well known. They have a lot of
conventions and a lot of because it's the seed of
power for this country, a lot of people go there
for meetings for conventions. You got a lot of tourists
when they say today a million people or so, maybe
more than that going to that city each and every year.
I tell you what, it's a dangerous place for a
lot of people. Anymore, they won't go.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
No, and again, any anything that would would contribute to
public safety. Addressing the lawlessness, especially with the way you're
seeing teenagers, and you've said this to me, I do
believe that these miners, these teenagers are being used by
organized crime in gangs, because if you are a juvenile, juvenile,
justice isn't like an adult that's being tried for a crime,
and you can that rare, you can get expunged. There's

(46:53):
a lot that they can coerce the young people. And look,
these kids have, you know, just single moms at home,
They already gravitate to a mill father figure or a
mal figure. I think that these teens in DC are
being highly manipulated to commit these crimes, and they're doing
it at a rate we've never seen before in terms
of frequency.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
And a point that you made earlier, and this this
a perplexing question, Greg, why is it everybody wants to
be safe, so why is trying to be safe, divide
us only only in America today.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
You call do that with Biden. We will not be
upset if Biden was trying to improve in the public
safety in DC.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Your calls eight eight eight five seven eight zero one
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we're taking your phone calls on that. He also announced
that he wants to do something about the cartels they're

(47:51):
trying to figure out. You know, the president of Mexico
has basically said no boots on the ground. I think
there are other ways to get after him, Greg and
I think we should. And and then late Souffnoony announced
one of the frequent guests on our show, he's taking
away shame on him and Tony from the Heritage Foundation
going to be going to be nominated to be the

(48:11):
new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We may
get some real numbers when it comes to unemployment in
this country, which would be nice.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Yeah, I think that again, if we just want to
see we want to move the needle and see the
status quo interrupted. I think the President's on a hot pace.
I think it's good. And if the Democrats their only
position is going to be right now going forward into
the midterms and throughout the President Trump's term in office,
is that whatever Trump does, we oppose. Well, that's just that.

(48:42):
I think it's a dead end streat because if when
you're fighting public safety, when you're fighting drug cartels, when
you're trying to keep the border you know, safe and
not being crossed illegally, when you're trying to redo trade
agreements with the rest of the world that are more fair,
that have fair opportunities for the country or for our country,
I don't know how Trump bad is going to keep

(49:02):
carrying the day.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
All right, let's go to our phone calls tonight, as
we talked about the president and en z effort to
clean up our nation's capital. We begin tonight in Salem
with Hell Hel. How are you welcome to the Rodden
Greg Show. Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 11 (49:14):
Hel, You're welcome, Thanks for having me. I just wanted
to mention you talked about the crime in Washington and
then you mentioned the crime in Salt Lake and in Utah.
And one of the things that just infuriated me last
year was the fact that they lowered the age of
consent in seventeen and then just here over the weekend,

(49:35):
I think it was, they lowered it again, the age
of sexual consent to age thirteen. And the implication is
that it was done by Stuart Adams to protect his
nephew who was doing stuff he shouldn't have been doing
with a thirteen year old. And that's where it's got

(49:56):
to start. It's got to start from the top. And
we've got a up at the lawmakers who are making
the laws to help themselves out. I don't know if
you've looked into that or not, but it really concerns me.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Yeah, good point. It's good to point. Hell and yes,
we have looked into it.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
So yeah, and here and here's the there is a
challenge with that. And look, this set this subject is
just there's no winning on any front on this and
it's it's one that but I will tell you this,
and this is when I was the legislator, we saw
this as well. We don't know what to do in
a society with an eighteen year old it's in high school.
If you're a teacher and you're an adult and you
and you were to have relations with an eighteen year
old who's an illegal adult, but they are still in

(50:35):
high school, we have deemed that a crime and it's inappropriate.
When you have these these crimes that are happening, you
have there there is some there is you have to
acknowledge some environment where these are still you know, kids
to some degree or at least. And I hate this.
I always tell the college kids, you're eighteen and you're
an adult to what be drafted, be charged an adult,

(50:57):
but you're not going to smoke, You're not gonna you
have to wear a helmet to you're twenty one on
a motorcycle. Drink you can't drink. We don't know what
to do with people that on midnight. If they were
seventeen in high school and they turn and they're eighteen
the next day, that they went from a juvenile court
that day, and then on the next day of school,
so on Monday they were a juvenile. On Tuesday at school,

(51:19):
they're now considered an adult. And so there's levels that
the state goes on and they create these severities and
if it's coerced or forced. It's a sticky wicket for sure.
I think though, that if you get into those laws
and you see some of the unattended consequences and you
dive into it, there's a longer story to be told.
But don't mistake anything I've just said for condoning any

(51:42):
inappropriate conduct with a thirteen year old, because I don't
condone it. I'm just saying that some of these statutes,
when I've stared at them and we've had issues that
have come up, it gets a lot more complicated.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
All right, Let's go back to the phones. Mike is
in Midvale tonight on the road in Greg Show. Hi, Mike,
how are you.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
Guys?

Speaker 6 (52:00):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Okay, we sure can go ahead, Mike.

Speaker 6 (52:04):
Well, guys, I was stationed in in DC from eighty
seven to ninety and in the Navy, and I did
recruiting the medical side of it, and there were areas
where we wouldn't go. I mean those some of those tenements,
they're like bird cages. And we had a kid. We

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were trying to get him in the Navy and he
was seventeen, so we needed his parents consent, and his
dad was two John to sign the papers and I'm like, hey,
you know what, I'll get the signature you guys if
we at the card. And I'm like, no, we got
to come back and I'm like, I'm not coming back
here in my dress lights. We need this. And he's

(52:48):
probably commanding a submarine somewhere under the polar Ice cap
right now. Wow, the kid was brilliant. And you know,
you're talking navy guys and marines. You won't even go
into areas of DC. You know, it was terrified.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
My thank you for that perspective. I mean, you don't
hear that very often. I mean, that's and that's how
dangerous that that city has become. It's it's insane. And
I'm going to tell you that again. Go let's go
back to Salt Lake City for a second. We have
cartels and I'm telling you from experience from eight years ago,
and it hasn't gotten better. They are running, They're drug
trafficking and human trafficking is highly successful. It's the only

(53:28):
supply chain during COVID that was still still working thanks
to Biden. But but no, these are the lawlessness and
the public safety eroding. Until you solve that, you can't
get any of these other social ills taken care of.
You've got to get to the to the cartels and
the criminals. And that's what I think, that's what Trump's doing,
and that should be applauded. And that should be seen

(53:49):
as a multi jurisdictional law enforcement issue where they come
together and do it four and on behalf of the
people and not one person should complain.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
And it should be a unifying factor. And it's not.
It's more division out there. But we all know the
cause of it. Anything that Donald Trump says or does,
the left is going to attack.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
You know.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
And I'm done actually even letting it, let them, letting
them off the hook there. I'm gonna say. They have
to have a contempt for the people, the everyday people,
to allow that contempt for Trump to allow for people
to be harmed, knowingly harmed. When that CNN reporter can't
honestly tell the people that of these low, low level crimes,
we're talking carrying firearms illegally, we're talking dangerous drugs, we're

(54:32):
talking a warrant, outstanding warrant. She didn't describe it like that.
She's again she doesn't care, she doesn't care about the
people that they that are at risk.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Well, apparently do that report of that. So I'm by
you aired earlier. Duy is a low offense?

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Yeah, did you know that? We take it pretty seriously.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Talk to families who've lost a loved one as a
result of an action involving d uy, you tell them
if it's a low crime. All right, more coming up.
It is the Roder and Greg Show with you on
this Monday afternoon right here on Utah's Talk radio one
oh five nine k NRS. He has had it with
crime in the nation's capital. He wants to cling things
up right. He call in the National Guard if necessary,

(55:11):
and titan the nation's capitol and stop the crime that
is taking place. The politicians on the left and the
legacy media all saying, well, crime is down. He really
doesn't need to do this. We aren't so sure. We
applaud what the president is trying to do. It is
the nation's capital and it should be a place that
people want to go and not be afraid to go.

(55:31):
And we're getting your calls and comments eight eight eight
five seven o eight zero one zero eight eight eight
five seven eight zero one zero on your cell phone.
I'll pound two to fifty and say hey Rod or
leave us a talkback message as well. So let's go
to the phones.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
Let's go to Mark from West Point Mark, thank you
for holding. Welcome to the Ron and Greg show.

Speaker 12 (55:51):
Good afternoon, gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
How are you good? Thank you.

Speaker 8 (55:54):
All right?

Speaker 12 (55:55):
Two thousand and nine, if there were fifty five of
us that came from all over the nation out to
Bowling Air Force Base in DC to stand up a
brand new command called Air Force Little Strike Command, day one.
The first briefing we got is where you shall not
go when you come out of the basic Bowling. You

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can turn left onto the interstate or right of the interstate,
that you do not go straight into anacostia. And this
is exactly how they explained it. If you're in uniform,
that's good. They will still rob you, but they probably
won't kill you. So if you find yourself in there,

(56:42):
turn around and get back on to the north or
southbound lane to get on the interstate. That's exactly how
they started.

Speaker 4 (56:50):
RTD.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Well, well that's a pret powerful.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
Our.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
How surprised were you when you heard that?

Speaker 12 (57:00):
Well, because I'm just the way I am. What did
I do? About three weeks later on a Sunday when
I was coming out of work. I decided to drive
in there anyway because I'm not real smart. I made
it two and a half blocks turn around, and that
little Chevrolet HHR did not know it had that much
of power.

Speaker 6 (57:20):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Wow that bad.

Speaker 12 (57:21):
Huh Yeah, it is that bad?

Speaker 2 (57:25):
All right, Mark, thank you for sharing that. All right,
let's go to our talkback lines. This in is Brett
in Ogden. He's got a thought on this.

Speaker 7 (57:34):
Hey, guys, Brett in Logdon in regards see Trump and
getting Washington, DC cleaned up?

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Trump, do it, do what you do best. You're the
rock star.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
Is there?

Speaker 12 (57:46):
The cable guy would say, get her done.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
I love you man. Speak to President Trump and there
you have. You know, there's a comment Greg. A lot
of people are saying, clean up bad city. I mean,
you know, we don't live in those other cities. But really,
in a way, Greg gets them Washington all our city.
It's a natural city and our city. And I'll have
to look it up.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
I mean there's there's actually there's they have legal authority
over that. That the other distiction too, there's an area
where they do have it. They've you know, they give
the washingt d C the city latitude to do it.
But it's it's it's authority on loan from the federal
government because they do have a jurisdiction there. So it
makes all the sense in the world. And again maybe

(58:30):
it's just a tell when you know who's complaining, Uh,
which side you should be on something like this. Let's
go to well, let's see, is it ready?

Speaker 6 (58:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (58:38):
I think it is. Blade.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Let's go to Blade, Blade. Welcome to the Rod and
Greg show.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
Hi guys, you doing well? Thank you? Yes, go ahead.

Speaker 13 (58:46):
Hey, I have a I have a calm a solution
to the problem with the right to consent and the
and Goose's response to that being eighteen and still in
high school. That statute is already written in law for
anybody that's paying child support, you have to pay for
that child until they're eighteen or until they get out

(59:07):
of school. See, should not apply in this situation.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Well, yeah, I think see there' that's the that's if
we're looking from thirty thousand feet above the ground. And
I don't I mean, I don't know enough about any
of the specifics, but I do know that we have
this problem about this age. If you are a student
to your point when you graduate from until you graduate
from high school, you are still considered this a kid
and I and I'm telling you that it's it's a
very it's a sticky wicket. But we do not treat

(59:34):
society just does not know what to do with eighteen
year olds. We want them to adults. Sometimes we don't others.
There's no there's no clear policy to it, though it
really isn't. All right.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
We'll change gears when we come back. While I'm talking
about gas stoves and ads on, I'm coming up next
Tower number three of the Riding Great Show. The two
leading conservative voices in the entire state of Utah.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
I think the that would be correct?

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Would that be correct that in this state?

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
Yes? None, I don't think so. That's why we're here
for you folks, bringing you home every day.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
Drive time. Well, remember all the foolishness of the Biden
administration over the years, all the green efforts. Let's see
the shower, what else was it? There was the shower,
the paper straws, I mean, the list went on and on.
Some just silly stuff, right yes, and really silly stuff.
And then you had the gas stoves, a ban on
gas stoves, well, you talked to my wife and your wife.

(01:00:35):
We have a gas stove in our house. She would
cook with nothing less than a gas stove. She just
loves her gas stove, as to a lot of chefs
at restaurants all around this this state and the country.
But apparently the Biden administration cited study after study saying
we got to shut him down because they cause asthma

(01:00:56):
didn't quite work.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Imagine that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Imagine that. Joining us on our Newsmaker line to talk
more about that is Leslie Eachman. She is a writer
at Legal Insurrection. Always great to have Leslie on the show. Leslie,
how are you welcome to the Rodden Greg Show.

Speaker 8 (01:01:10):
Thanks for joining us, Leslie, happy to be on once again.
And greetings from the People's Republic of California.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Oh, cory on, hang onorry about that, Sorry about that.
Let's let's let's talk about the nuttiest surrounding gas stoves.
You've been digging into this story. Have found some new
research or what the research is revealing? What have you
found out?

Speaker 7 (01:01:32):
Well, here's the.

Speaker 8 (01:01:33):
Thing, there's one correction to a statement you made. It
wasn't multiple studies Biden referenced. It was one study from
California manipulated the data.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Okay, now we've got it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
Huh all that reverse engineering you know?

Speaker 8 (01:01:47):
Yes, yeah, so another organization, uh decided And this one
is not a trivial one. This one comes from the Lancets.
It was funded by the World Health Organization. So these
are not like super conservative right wingers who put this
stuff together. It is a scientific publication funded by the

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World Health Organization, and you can make of it what
you want. But they took a look at one hundred
and sixteen separate studies, gathered all the data. That was
a meta analysis, and when they crunched the numbers, they
found there was no significant increase in alsthma risk to
anybody using the.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
Natural gas stoves.

Speaker 8 (01:02:32):
And in fact, if you looked at the numbers and
compared them to coal and kerosene, the reduction in risk
was substantial. And as an additional bonus, there was no significant,
really significant impact if each switched to electrical it wasn't
buying much extra health benefit. So the real big jump

(01:02:55):
comes from using the natural gas stoves we all.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
Love and enjoy. So how do you how do you
put the toothpaste back in the tube? How do you
get this back. I mean you had I don't Trump
Biden wasn't successful. But they've tipped their hand, and I
think that's all about control. They want to take away
the wood burning stoves that pizza places use gas burning stoves.
We all have limited our options. Is the are these

(01:03:21):
studies robust enough that we don't have to worry that
this this will come back? Is this dead and gone forever?
Or or do we have this situation which depending on
the administrator, the party that's in charge of the executive branch,
we're gonna have to deal with this going forward.

Speaker 8 (01:03:36):
Well, I think it's going to be a struggle. But
because the media still is promoting the you know, gas,
fossil fuels, bad electrical good, despite the fact your more
sufficient energy sources are either fossil fuels or nuclear, and
they pushed neither. So they're running into technological realities. And

(01:04:00):
right now Trump and his team have rolled back a
lot of the insanity that has given us the war
on appliances and the war on fossil fuels, which is great,
a lot of really great developments in getting rid of
you know, various and sundry policies that have restricted and
moved us toward.

Speaker 7 (01:04:21):
The green energy grift.

Speaker 8 (01:04:23):
But as long as this black minded people get in place,
and people are made aware through these wonderful talk show
hosts and social media of the realities of the studies
that were being used to drive the green grift narrative,
I think we'll be in much better shape.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
Let's you also mention you mentioned this a moment ago
as well, that natural gas it burns differently from coal
and kerosene. Are there more benefits on the burning of
natural gas versus colon kerosene, Well.

Speaker 8 (01:04:55):
It's not much. The burning products for colon kerosene have
a more, more denser and differently structured carbon compounds. The
natural gas tends to burn cleaner to just carbon dioxide
and water, So you're not taking in particulates, you're not
taking in higher level carbon compounds that land in your

(01:05:16):
lungs and give you lung problems. And that is financial.
Gas is a great energy source. And let's remember plants
need CO two. If we don't have CO two, plants
can't live. And if they can't live, neither can we
because they generate the oxygen we breed. So it's benefit
to produce some CO two in sensible amounts that actually

(01:05:39):
it helps green up the planet and they make the
plants make the oxygen, so it's a wonderful little cycle.
Nature is built in for us. So panicking about carbon
dioxide is a green hust Gas is senseless because it's
a trace gas in the atmosphere and actually we are
in a carbon dioxide samine, so we could use substantially more.

(01:06:01):
So here's but that's for people who follow science.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
So Leslie, you know, the media is now today saying
that Washington, DC is the safest place in America. There's
no reason for Trump to have to go through the
law enforcement. So of course that's the same regime media
that wants to tell you that the gas stoves are
so dangerous. Here in Utah, we have unique deposits. We
have a lot of natural gas. But you know, the
extraction industry has been under assault for quite some time.

(01:06:26):
What would you say to our listeners when we know
that Utah has natural gas we have we forget about
energy independent for the country. We are here in Utah.
Should we be advocating for and expecting more of our
natural gas to be part of our lives and being
actually healthy and cleaning the air all at the same time.

Speaker 8 (01:06:44):
Absolutely, it makes a great case that really do see
drops in the level of CO two that our country
is generated simply because we went to a natural gas
system and we're using more natural gas. It's a great price,
but it should be paired with other sensible energy options

(01:07:05):
like nuclear and it looks like Energy Secretary Chris Right
is on track to develop our nuclear energy power sources.
And also, you know, more of our rare earth as
we've discussed before, all the minerals, all the fossil fuels,
everything on the table, nothing left behind because of quack

(01:07:27):
studies pushed by narrative science scientists to support agendas from
progressives who really want to control our lives and redirect
it in ways that are not to benefit for our country.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Leslie is always great having you on the show. Thank
you so much. Be safe there in the People's Republic
of California. I know it's very difficult, but seek freedom
and you'll be okay.

Speaker 8 (01:07:54):
I would like to ask your listeners to add me
to their prayers if I could really use them.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
We'll do that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
We have your back. Let We'll do that, Leslie. Thank you, Leslie,
Leslie Eastman. She writes for legal insurrection out to your prayers,
vote prayers. She's living in Lalla Land in California. Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
That's a tough place.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
It's a tough place.

Speaker 6 (01:08:19):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
She is right. We should be doing everything we can
greg to use every energy resource that we have available.
The demands are only going to go up, and we
need to find them in cold like you've said many times.
So we have some of the cleanest burning coal in
the country right here in Utah. I don't know why
we ignored nuclear, but hopefully there are efforts now to
bring it back. Natural gas. You know who was it

(01:08:42):
someone said the other day. I think it was BP
just discovered a huge oil deposit off the coast of
South America down near Brazil. We have the energy, folks, now,
we just need to take advantage of it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
I always regretted that Questar went and became went and
was sold to Dominion, which was a power company out
of Virginia now, and it just it took the local
leadership away from Questar Gas. It became Dominion. Then what
did Dominion do? They sold it off. They just broke
it off to another company. I don't believe that's a
Utah company either. Why I don't like that is I,

(01:09:15):
as I said in our interview, there's so much we
have so much resources of natural gas here in Utah
and Wyoming. There's just a lot we have that we
can do. And our energy costs, whether it's oil, gas, coal,
we have some of the lowest energy costs in America.
And that's a good that's good for the household, but
that's good for economy.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
Yes, it is all right. More coming up on the
Rod and Greg Show and Talk Radio one O five
nine can ars.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
So it starts getting short. The days get every every.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
Day after the first day of I guess summer, they
started getting twenty first.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
Twenty first. That's I hate that. I love it when
it stays out like.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Long days because we go home in the dark during
the winter.

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
Yeah, it's kind of I like it when I still
light out.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Well, everybody in the Democratic Party, Greg, is fun to
watch this, all these guys trying to jockey to be
the leader of the party. Like, let's see, you got
Gavin Newsom, You've got AOC Bernie Sanders. Was it Dana Bash?
What did she say about Bernie Sanders this weekend? That
he's the most admired person in the world or something
like that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
Polls show that he's the only person in America that's
more popular than Bernie Sanders. Is the pope?

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
You know?

Speaker 6 (01:10:27):
Really?

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
She says, A poll shows that, and then she says,
are you going to run again? And you could see
the googly out when she says it. It's a I look,
I don't know if anyone remembers nineteen eighty four Rod
Stewart's song infatuation. This is an infatuation. If I'm Rod Stewart,
I'm re releasing the song, dedicating it to Dana Bash
from CNN and running with infatuation again. That she is
just Google eyes over Bernie Sanders. It's embarrassing Bernie. Bernie's

(01:10:51):
eighty four yes, and he said as kind of makes
the decision, and she's tell she doesn't want She's so
crispalled by the answer he gives. She wants them to
be president.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Another individual who is trying to get some attention going
around the country listening to people is the boy Wonder
Pete Mayor of Notre Dame, who became Transportation Secretary and
spent more money on DEI programs instead of making our
sky Safer.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Yeah, I'm telling you only he could make roads gay,
I'm telling that. But it's true. I mean he had
to make it. He made it a social issue, is true.
You saw the wreck, you know, the train derailment in Palestine,
Ohio with the chemical spill. You saw the the mid
air you had that. You had the bridge in Baltimore

(01:11:38):
that he came crashing down. You had more transportation catastrophes
on that guy's watch than we ever saw before. And
he's worried about de I and transportation. What these roads,
these are, the rail the seas we have to really
look at, you know, sexual orientation when when considering our
modes of transportation.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
Yeah. Well, apparently he was the subject to on Bill
Maher this weekend on HBO Real Time had a great,
great panel Stephen A. Smith and doctor Phil interesting panel,
but they brought up the latest numbers on Pete Boudha Judge.

Speaker 14 (01:12:11):
Listen, do this Democratic primary voters sixteen percent would support
Buddha Jedge. That's the highest of any candidate Pete Bootagege.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
I don't believe it. Wait, I think that I think
that's the suppolled number. I can't see that happening.

Speaker 14 (01:12:22):
Well, Okay, but wait, sixteen percent black voters zero zero.
You don't usually see zero anywhere. Zero's low.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
So bluta jet, I'll explain that.

Speaker 14 (01:12:37):
I mean, why do black voters have this? I mean
he's a nice guy.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
Yeah, he's under indexing a little bit with black voters.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
Show little what is that all about?

Speaker 15 (01:12:50):
He doesn't move us. I respect the man I've interviewed form,
very nice man, highly intell, but you gotta be able
to move us. Bro, you can speculate as to why
that is.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
I'm not going there. He doesn't move us. Steven A.
Smith says Pete Bojed does not move Black Americans.

Speaker 6 (01:13:19):
I don't think.

Speaker 1 (01:13:21):
I look, I'm not black, and I'm not I'm I'm
in the same camp that steven A. Smith's talking about.
Doesn't does not do it for me. Look when he
took when he and his suburban crew, you know he's
a cabinet secretary, take the suburbans just you know what,
three hundred yards or whatever from the Capitol. Then he
gets out, they get out the back, they get his
bike out, so he can take his bicycle the last

(01:13:41):
like literally one hundred yards or two hundred yards the
last league. So he can look like he's being very
you know, he just it's yeah, it's he's such a bony.
When you get caught doing that, you shouldn't have any
credibility for anything else. That should be it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
Well, later in the show, Doctor Phil and mar got
into a bit of a debate over ill legal immigration
and ice raids. As a matter of fact, he tried
to get Doctor Phil into it and he got cooked
for a list of this exchange when Bill Barr asked
Doctor Phil, well, if you're all for families, then why
are you going along with ice raids that split up family?

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
The sights I've been on, I've seen the files. They've
got a wrap sheet twelve fourteen different cases long of
child predators that they're taking off the street. These are
the worst first that they're taking off the streets. Who
would want them back in their community?

Speaker 14 (01:14:34):
We all agree with that, Doctor, Still, that was no
answered the question.

Speaker 3 (01:14:39):
Who wants those people back in there?

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
I just criminals.

Speaker 14 (01:14:42):
I keep answering your questions, and you keep saying I'm
not answering your question.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
Nobody nobody wants that. But well, I wonder if people
want people killed on the streets of Washington, DC. As well,
you know, yeah, apparently fine with that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
Yeah. I just I just really want the left. I
want the regime media. I want the leftists. I want
them to just say, with a straight face, there is
no crime that we can't already handle. These streets are safe,
there's nothing to see here, folks, mostly peaceful protests. The
building burns behind their back. Just keep saying that. I
just think, I mean, because Trump's gonna do is, He's
gonna protect people, sure, and so they're the people won't

(01:15:16):
be harmed because of their attitudes. But I want them
to keep arguing that Washington, DC is like little house
in the prayer, It's like Mayberry, It's Mayberry RFD. I
want them to keep saying that is the rests pile
up as these juveniles gangs that are out there marauding
all over the middle of the night in DC, is
they're apprehended. I want the Democrats to keep saying, there's

(01:15:38):
nothing to see here, it's mostly peaceful here. Just keep
doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
Here's the challenge, I think greg for Trump and his team,
I don't know if you can solve this in thirty days.
If you can get in there a month, you can
increase presence scare people away, but they're going to come
back unless Greg. I think you have to have long
term planned and I think that's what we need to hear.
What is your law long term plan to make this

(01:16:02):
city safer again?

Speaker 1 (01:16:03):
Yeah, you do. It's true. When we did the operation
Real Grand we were we had to be in for
the longer, a longer haul, because what we've what we
learned was that the cartels can pause for true, for
some you know, big sweep that you're going to do,
and they can wait, and then when law enforcement disappears
or in this case, the National Guard, they'll do the
two for one balloons of heroin discounts and they'll get

(01:16:25):
all their people up and running again very quickly. So
you've got to have you have to have some sustained
planned It's true. Yeah, but I think there's some smart
people in Trump's cabinet they understand that as well. But
I think you can actually turn that around quicker than
people realize with that kind of presence, and I think
you'll see a difference, a measure difference very quickly. And
I think when that happens, I think the people there,

(01:16:45):
even if they don't want to say it, to America.
They're going to want to stay safe. Yeah, because they'll
feel safe.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
Yeah they will. All right. More coming up on the
Rod and Greg Show right here on Utah's Talk Radio
one oh five nine k n RS. It is so
refreshing to see a little laughter around the president. I mean,
it was all so serious with Joe Biden and the
first time with Donald Trump, they didn't trust him. But
he has certainly, I don't know if he's lightened up,

(01:17:11):
but maybe the media has become a little more human.

Speaker 1 (01:17:14):
Well you remember there to say that lunatic cost and
the cost would make and he would just fight the
way and fight and Biden barely ever had these type
press conferences. But listen this morning. This is a different
I think that you'll hear just in the in the
audio of this, the different atmosphere. At least they might
get outside the press room and still criticize what he's doing,
but at least the banter with the media is very,

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very different than his first term. Let's have a listen.

Speaker 16 (01:17:38):
Everybody in this room. They may not express it, but
they all want that to happen. You know, they want
to be safe, and they have families too, so it's
an honor to have such a large group. I've done
this for years now, hard to believe. I've never seen
this room so packed. In fact, I'm sure it's a
violation of every fire code. But we'll let you say anyway,

(01:18:01):
you take it a chance.

Speaker 6 (01:18:03):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
And with that we'll say.

Speaker 16 (01:18:05):
Maybe if you could, oh well, we can be here
all day long.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
So you have that, and then later I think it
might be Peter juicy, somebody wants a nicer you got
you got you, You got a great beautiful ballroom. How
about a new pressure room. Let's hear what I had
to be saying.

Speaker 3 (01:18:24):
You're building a big, beautiful ballroom, could we build a big,
beautiful briefing room.

Speaker 16 (01:18:33):
I don't want to do I don't want you to
be comfortable. No, I don't want to make I don't
want to make life comfortable.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
So can you hear the laughter? So again he's making
himself so available. I think there's a familiarity with this
present with the press cords now, and they were very
smart and getting new types of press into the more the.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
Social media, the newer media.

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
Media that's there. They didn't just go straight legacy media.
But I just think that that the laughter it's just
something you haven't heard in a long time. So while
we get tough on the regime media and how they
can't and the leftists and how they want to tell
you that, DC's completely say nothing to see here. I
think there's there's some something going on with the president,
his relationship with the news, at least to the press

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corps at the White House.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
It is going to be so interesting in the future,
Greg to see if any future president can match up
to Donald Trump and his dealings with the media. He's
very comfortable in front of a camera. He says what
he believes in. He has a little fun with people,
and he's you know, he on his rallies, I remember
he drops some lines that were just hilarious. Then you've

(01:19:41):
got then you've got a story like we we mentioned
earlier today where under his directions, the presidential portraits I
know Barack Obama and George W. Bush have been moved
to an area that the public will rarely, if at all, see,
which I think is just absolutely hilarious.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
Yes I do too, but you know it's a place
where he can see it all the time. It's well,
he uses to go to private residence, so maybe he
just wanted to have an old personal moment.

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
All all the personal. Yeah, he wanted to walk by
and looked at Barack and go, and you know he
just saw you can do that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
We launched that intelligence community assessment.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
On a boy, you're gonna get it all right. Well,
that does it for us tonight. Been great to be
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