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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Lock and load. Michael Very show is on the air.
This okay, it is not to rush, so you can
pull your comrade back. I will be very very strong
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in terms of law order. Is it not long order?
We're going to be taking very closely we go.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Those demonstrators are making your way down the ramp and
onto the one on one freeway. This is, I think
a concern that we had seen a little earlier. The
freeway had been shut down by law enforcement, and it
is now being shut.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Down by the other side.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Demonstrators are on the surface of the southbound one on
one freeway and blocking traffic.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Tear out the freeway officer down to hit with a rock,
a temple. They're there to restore order. Anyone who looks
at the scene on your TV, look at that. It's
out of control.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
What normal person, what member of the public feels comfortable
being in downtown and lay right now?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Nobody? So I don't know what he's talking about. He
needs to watch the TV and see what's going on.
It's out of control. And since he can't control the state,
he can't control the lawlessness, we will do it for him.
And that's what the president's doing. He's deploying the National Guard.
We will have order in the city of Los Angeles.
And I tell him them, nobody's gonna spit on our
police offices. Nobody's gonna spit on our military, which they
do is a common thing. They get up to him
(01:30):
just far away, and then it's like spitting in the face.
That happens. They get hit very hard, that violence that
you were referring to.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Just you can see that there's a car burning in
the background. And while they made a semicircle here on
the street, you can see that the Weimo over there
has been vandalized, and we understand that some cars over
there may also be waymos that have been set on fire.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
The gomn Neus some's a embarrassment for the stake. He's
the one that's feeding this at Mantra. He supports sanctuary cities,
he supports sancstory laws. If you cared to if you
cared about public stations, stay of California, he would not have.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
A sanctuary for criminals. For criminals get.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Released in the streets of this state every day because
of his part.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Just as I have told me, everything in la is staged,
every bit of it. It's all fake it is not
that a few folks were upset about the deportation of
their fellow illegal aliens, and so they gathered in the
square and more came, and you know, it was interesting
(02:30):
thing to be at, and it just grew and do
and grew. Remember they told us that with Tarier Square
and the Arab Spring. I remember there was there was
a film that had been released in Egypt and it
had upset people and as a result, then we had
the Arab Spring. You know, there was there was the
(02:50):
sweet fellow at the Kabab that the donut Kebab little cart,
and he was killed and there was a reaction because
he was a good man. And then that just you know,
there was there was bubbling beneath the bubbling beneath it
all in the secular Muslim nations, by which I mean
(03:16):
not uh Caliphate puppets. There were Muslims who felt they
were being wronged and they wanted they wanted democracy. And
Americans fell for this. Barack Obama pushed this Tyrear Square
and the Arab Spring, and this was a great moment.
This was their Thomas Payin moment. This was their declaration
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of independence. They wanted, they wanted self governance in Egypt,
and Mabarak would not give it to them, and so
he was a bad guy, and so they just and
since we support democracy, because democracy is always great, the
people should determine their own future. Democracy is wonderful, much
(03:59):
as we saw whatocracy did in nineteen seventy nine when
Komani came to power ousting Shah Paulavi and the Muslim
Shia takeover of Iran and it becoming a rogue state
came to pass. Did the majority of Irani's want that,
I don't know that they did. I think a small
(04:21):
I think a minority of very violent Irani's, well organized
pushed the law abiding Iranis out of the country and
took over the country and drove the shaw out. I
don't believe that was quote unquote democracy that became theocracy
that we should have supported, Nor do I believe that
(04:41):
the Arab Spring was anything of the sort. It was
a well planned effort to install the Muslim brotherhood, which
it did, and Egypt took a different direction as a
result of it. But hey, the people supposedly voted for it.
And then we go to this case of Greta Thunberg
(05:05):
and her pro Hamas yacht was on its way bound
for Gaza and the Israeli Defense forces stopped them and
to screen what was going on. Hey, we want to
figure out what you're doing. And Greta Thunberg coached as
she is because she again, nothing she does is real.
(05:28):
This isn't a little girl who just doesn't want the
earth to burn up. Notice how many causes she's involved with.
She said, Oh, we're just bringing aid to the people.
You want to know the aid they were bringing, the
supplies they were eating, Yeah, their picnic supplies. Yes, you
know she's twenty two years old. Now, Yeah, she was
(05:52):
hoisting a Palestinian flag with Game of Thrones actor Liam
Cunningham and Rema Hassa, a French member of the European
Parliament who is of Palestinian descent. These people are now
professional activists for every cause designed to bring down Western civilization.
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That's what's happening. If you were to see a compilation
of all the things that Chinese nationals do on American soil,
especially spying, bribing our elected officials, the Chinese were bribing
(06:40):
Hunter Biden. Where they were bribing Joe Biden. Hunter Biden
was the mule that used to carry the cash. You'll
remember Eric Fartwell was having sex with Fang Bang, who
was a confirmed spy sent by the Chinese government. She
wasn't only was Fang Bang banging Eric, she was also
(07:01):
banging a mayor of a city. You think it's at
the same time, it's not coincidence that she sleeps with politicians.
She wants information to send back at the direction of
the Chinese government. Diane Feinstein, who's on a very important
Senate committee regarding America's national security, her driver of over
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ten years was a Chinese national who it was confirmed
was buying on behalf of the Chinese government. They have infiltrated
our government from top to bottom, from absolute top to bottom.
And how many Americans were killed from the virus they
unleashed upon us, which our own government was funding the
research that led to that. Well, we add to all
(07:43):
of this theme of the Chinese or not our friends,
they are out to destroy us with a story that
I met you hadn't heard of. Kind of seems important.
A Chinese national who was a researcher at a lab
at the University of Michigan, along with her boyfriend, have
been arrested for smuggling into our country a crop killing
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fungus in what the Department of Justice calls a case
of quote potential agro terrorism, one administration official saying, this
is an attack on the American food supply. These are
the sorts of things that China does. They come in
and destroy your industry so that you are reliant on them.
(08:30):
You'd think that President Trump would get more credit for
taking on the Chinese, but how could he? They bought
all the people who should be standing beside him. Here's
Fox News with the story.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Well, FBI Director Cash Bettel called this a direct threat
to national security end quote. This case is a sobering
reminder that the Chinese Communist Party continues to deploy operatives
and researchers to infiltrate our institutions and target our food
supply and act that could cripple our economy and endanger
American lives. Federal prosecutors who charged a Chinese couple, Young
Qing Chian and zanjug Liu, was smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen,
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the government says. In July, Leo flew from China to Detroit,
where customs officials found a fungus stashed in his backpack,
one prosecutors call a potential agro terrorism weapon. They say
Leo wanted to conduct research on it at the University
of Michigan, where his girlfriend, Jion worked. The FBI says
it searched Gion's phone and found a form describing her
membership in and loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party, and
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that she previously tried smuggling this same substance into the
United States. As some Republicans say, the US should prohibit
any foreign national affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party from
getting a student visa. The University of Michigan says it's
cooperating with law enforcement end quote. We strongly condemn any
actions that seek to cause harm threat national security. It
is important to note that the university has received no
funding from the Chinese government in relation to research conducted
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by the accused individuals. Gion is in federal custod depending
on here in tomorrow afternoon. Official say Leo, her boyfriend
was denied entry into the US last year and returned
to China after customs official seiz's backpack. The Chinese Embassy
in DC says the Chinese government requires its cit this
is to abide by local laws.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So imagine, oh, mid nineteenth century, and you're seeking to
cripple Ireland, and you introduce some sort of a fungus,
some sort of a beetle, some sort of an insect,
whatever that may be, that will destroy the Irish potato crop,
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you can bring the nation to its knees. Or imagine
you are seeking to cripple the American South's cotton crop.
The bowl weavil did exactly that. It migrated to the
United States from Mexico in the late nineteenth century, so
the late eighteen hundreds, and by the nineteen twenties it
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had infested America's cotton growing regions. In the industry was devastated.
It wrought so much much suffering on people who worked
in various aspects of that industry. Or you know, you
(11:07):
could find a similar example the BP explosion or BP
spill that hit southern Louisiana so bad. Plackhaman's Parish was just,
you know, one big oil dump. It's not just the
people who work in the industry, it's the fishermen. In
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that case, it's the people who supply the fishermen. It's
the people who drive the fish. It's the people who
provide the gas, to those who drive the fish. You know,
when you do damage to an industry, you do damage
to an entire circle of folks that rely on that customer.
(11:54):
So how many of these cases do we have to
have until we take strong action and say, or instance, China,
you've done it too many times. We are deporting every
Chinese national that would get their attention, or China we
are no longer, no longer allowing anyone from China into
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this country. And people go, well, that's not fair to
those people. Okay, how else do you get China's attention?
Because they know that we won't do this, and they
continue to do harm to our country, to our systems,
to our you name it right, And so they will
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because eventually she's going to get this fungus, she's going
to get it into the fields, and she's going to
hurt the American commony, probably a lot of Americans in
the process. Michael Berryshaw I owned a place called the
Redneck Country Club and we booked David allen Coe to play,
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and I was so excited. I love his music, I
love his writing, and he's famous for walking off stage
if he doesn't like if the air conditioning is on
because he says it bad for his voice. If someone
screams out you never even called me by my name
because they want to hear his most famous song, He'll
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walk off stage, he'll throw stuff, he'll cuss people out,
he'll cut the night short. So I had warned our
members at our club. You know, if you buy tickets
to see David Allen Cole, you gotta understand. If you're
the reason he gets kicked out, you'll never be allowed
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back in again. So I had everybody prepared with an
email to every member of the club. Then I got
on stage before he went out, and I said, all right, guys,
you should have received an email. But in case some
of you are with the person who got the email
and they haven't told you about it, you are not
(14:06):
to call out and request songs. This is David Allen
Cooch show, not yours, and he can be difficult, and
I want him to finish the event now. On the weekend,
before that event, he had walked off after one song
or two because something had upset him. I don't remember what.
(14:29):
He's volatile. So we have the event. I'm on pins
and needles, tenterhooks, the whole time the event goes off,
he leaves and he's back in the green room. Except
the green room because we haven't opened inside, we only
have the outdoor side of the venue is just an
(14:50):
area under construction with an old glider recliner sitting there
for two people. And his manager comes to get me.
You're the owner, Yes, I am, mister Cole would like
to talk to you, I said, oh lord, So I
start walking back. I figure he's gonna cuss me out.
The man's served serious time in prison, and you know,
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he's legendary for his temper tantrums and for being violent.
And so my brother and my best friend both think
they're serving as my security. They're following behind me, and
I turned back because I'm pretty sure he's gonna cust
me out over something. And I don't mind being cussed out.
If nobody else sees it, I don't even need to
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tell anybody it happened. So I turned back and kind
of pushed them with my you know, on my hands, like, hey, guys, y'all,
don't follow me. I don't want you near me. And
so they stop, but little do I know, they still
followed me. So I walk in and he's sitting there
and he makes eye contact with me, and he pats
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the seat beside him to sit down beside him. So
I do, and he turns and he stares at me. Well,
I know what this is. It's a power play, my move.
He wants to see what I'm going to say. I
had not prepared for this. I was there to react
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to what he says. He doesn't say a word, He
hasn't said a word yet. He has padded the seat
beside him to sit down beside him, So we're both
facing forward, and he swivels his head to look at me,
and I swilled my head to look at him. And
he pauses and he kind of gives a half shrug, like,
(16:39):
what are you going to say? Well, hell, you invited
me back here. I don't know what I'm going to say. Well,
what I do know, having done my research, is he
doesn't want me to bring up the song you never
even call me by my name. He's played that song
so many thousand times. He don't want to play it again.
They won't talk about it. Well, I'm a deep I'm
a fan of the deep work and writings of David
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on Co. And I said, your version of Pledging My
Love and your tribute to Johnny Ace moves me to tears.
That's what we just played for you. What I just played,
what Ramon just played right there. It's Johnny Ace's birthdays.
Why are we doing this? Ninety six he would have
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been ninety six today. And he looks at me, squinched
his eyes, and he puts his index finger in my chest,
and he said, you you're a real fan. People call
out and to me, you never even called me by
my name. That's probably the only song you know, but
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you you are a real fan, because that's the first
thing that came to my mind. I hadn't prepared for this.
I hadn't prepared to meet him. I was just glad
he came and didn't cuss anybody out or shoot the
place up, and he finished the show. That moment was
so powerful to him. When he was in the he
grew up in correctional institutes. He was a juvenile delinquent
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and one of the guards took pity on him when
Johnny Ace had died suddenly and told him and his
favorite song by Johnny Ace was Pledging My Love, and
he had always wanted to perform that on stage as
a tribute to Johnny Ace, but he was never able to.
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And one time live in concert he did it, and
he told that story. He has taken all these years
for me to be able to pay tribute.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Johnny As had died. He was twenty five years old.
He had been touring for a year, and he was
performing in Houston at the City Auditorium on Christmas Day
in nineteen fifty four, and there was a break between
sets and he was playing around with a thirty two
caliber revolver and his band members said he would do
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this often. Johnny Ace had shot to the top. He'd
only been famous for but boy, he was famous. He
was big. His band members said, as they were driving along,
they didn't have a tour bus at that point. The
drive along in the car, he would shoot road signs
out the window. He was playing with this gun. A
lot of people have claimed that he was playing Russian
(19:17):
Roulette with the pistol and and that's how he ended
up dying. But his bass player Curtis Tillman was in
the room right next to him when it happened, and
he says, quote, I'll tell you exactly what happened. Johnny
Ace had been drinking and he had this little pistol
he was waving around the table and somebody said, be
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careful with that thing, and he said, it's okay. This
gun's not loaded, see and he put it in himself,
with a smile on his face, pulled the trigger. Sad,
sad thing. Big Mama ran out of the dressing room.
He's talking about talking about Big Mama Thornton because she
was on tour with him, yelling, Johnny Ace just killed himself.
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Well to a young, impressionable David allen Coe who loved
that song. That moment stuck with him when he sang
about it on stage. And isn't it interesting, No matter
how big you get, no matter how rich, no matter
how famous, you can still take yourself back to that
moment when you were a fan of another person and
their music or their art or their acting or their writing,
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or they're pitching or they're shooting, you've got them. Michael
Berry show The latest break in the very odd story
of a former Arkansas police chief who went to prison
for rape and murder and then he escaped from prison.
(20:50):
The really funny thing about that is, in my odd
should I say inmates hate law enforcement. When law enforcement
officers are facing trial, there's a higher than usual likelihood
that they will commit suicide. And the reason is because
doing time for them is going to be much worse
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because the other inmates are going to mess with them.
So Grant Harden, who was a former police chief in
the small town of Gateway, Arkansas, town on the Arkansas
Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape
the crews. Then he got out. He escaped. The crews
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had been using bloodhounds, they had officers on horseback, they
had drones, they had helicopters. I mean, the whole deal.
It was quite the to do, if you will. But
he has been located and as it turns out, very
close to the prison from which he had escaped. Almost
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two weeks ago. News Name with the story the.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
First images of him being apprehended by law enforcement. He
was taken into custody by a border patrol their Tactical
Union out of West Texas. And this is a group
but that is taught and trained to search and find
individuals alike this. And we spoke to some people who
live here who say that they are somewhat frustrated though
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because they feel like they were telling local police and
local shriff deputies that something was off in certain areas
of town, and they don't feel like they were listened
to until a Border patrol came in. And now we
did speak are one of our local affiliates with one
of the women who lives right next to where they
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found hardened, and this is what she had to say
last night.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
After the Border patrol showed up.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Today, all of a sudden, trucks came from everywhere in SUVs.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
There was and want to say, there's twenty or thirty
of them.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
I don't know for sure, but they all took off
down this way and next thing we know, they're hauland
Grant Harden out from back here out of the woods.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
And Harden has a long past in law enforcement throughout
the years, especially in northwest Arkansas. I spoke with some
people who live in the communities where he used to
be a constable Minton County, and they tell me that
he was the kind of person who was supposed to
be preventing crime, but instead he was creating crime, and
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so a lot of frustration there. But as you guys
can see, that capture by Border patrol yesterday is definitely
a welcome sign for the people who live here.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
In this community. It's not easy to do a report
in the field as a reporter. Anchors are reading from
a teleprompter, and that's a skill in and of itself
to make it seem natural, and it's a practiced skill.
(24:00):
Are doing it on the fly. But old girl there,
she's uh, she's in need of some more training, shall
we say? She is kind of you know, as she's
doing the report. Uh, she's she's struggling. It's tough to
listen to, you know. The unfortunate part of the elon
(24:24):
Trump spat is that it has distracted from the good
work that Doge has done. There's another example. A USDA
US Department of Agriculture employee, along with five other well,
along with five others, has been charged in a multimillion
(24:46):
dollar food stamp fraud and bribery scheme more than sixty
six million dollars. The Department of Justice calls it one
of the largest food stamp frauds in America history. This
is the Agriculture secretary. I don't know how many secretaries
cabinet secretaries you can name, but I'll bet you fewer
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than ten percent of you can name who the agriculture
secretary is right now. You could probably do Homeland Security.
You probably do, Department of Defense, you probably do Secretary
of State. Many of you, fewer could probably do Treasury.
(25:31):
Some of you could do labor. But I'll bet you
fewer than ten percent could tell who the Secretary of
Agriculture is. Extra credit to you if you can here
is that individual. I won't tell your name until the end.
Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
It's time for real effective change. Part of that two
hundred billion dollar annual program. The best sort of estimate
is between twenty to thirty percent of that is fraud,
wasted abuse. This sixty six million that was announced yesterday
on behalf of USDA and the others that were part
of that, again is just the tip of the spear
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and the way that works, Maria.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
The EBT cards is.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
What USDA, the government uses to provide that supplemental nutrition assistance,
which is the food stamps, and that it's a you know,
fairly easy thing to do.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
We're trying to lock it down right now.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
To ensure that it doesn't keep happening. But when you've
got employees that you know basically don't follow the law,
then we've got to fix it, and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
There's going to be.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Real consequences for breaking the law across America's federal government
with President Trump. But this is just one of many
more to come.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Brook Rollins is her name, the Agriculture Secretary brook Rollins.
You know, the amount of fraud in the food stamp program,
for instance, It'll never be stopped. And the reason is
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nobody actually wants it to stop the only reason we're
hearing about this is that Brooks brook Rollins wants to
further her own career, and fraud stories make for good
media stories, but nobody is actually interested in stopping this nonsense.
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The Department of Justice will bring the case because you know,
it's there's two reasons. It's a it's a notch on
your belt. If you're a prosecutor, you know, hey, here
here's when you leave the Department of Justice and you
go to a litigation firm. Here's the big cases I handled.
And there are some actual do gooders. There are some
actual prosecutors who who hate crime, who hate fraud, who
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hate this sort of deception and law breaking, and they
want to nail those people to the wall. Thank God
for them. But these programs don't care because, as my
dad always says, it's not their money. It's not their
money they're wasting, it's not their money they're giving away.
And so there's no reason to care that there's all
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this fraud, and there's so much fraud in every different department.
The kind of people that are on it, some of them,
not all, many of them, I suspect probably the vast
majority will commit fraud if they think I can get
away with it. And the truth is, I suspect a
goodly portion of the number of people who work in
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levels of government, the kind of people who are attracted
to jobs like that, are attracted to fraud and taking bribes.
You're not getting the best in bribers. I do believe that.
And so at the end of the day, you either
cut the program or you just bake in, build in,
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assume there's going to be all this trouble. And I'm
forgoting proble. He's eteleman Alms has let opportunity. Thank you,
and good night.
Lock and load. Michael Very show is on the air.
This okay, it is not to rush, so you can
pull your comrade back. I will be very very strong
(00:24):
in terms of law order. Is it not long order?
We're going to be taking very closely we go.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Those demonstrators are making your way down the ramp and
onto the one on one freeway. This is, I think
a concern that we had seen a little earlier. The
freeway had been shut down by law enforcement, and it
is now being shut.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Down by the other side.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Demonstrators are on the surface of the southbound one on
one freeway and blocking traffic.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Tear out the freeway officer down to hit with a rock,
a temple. They're there to restore order. Anyone who looks
at the scene on your TV, look at that. It's
out of control.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
What normal person, what member of the public feels comfortable
being in downtown and lay right now?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Nobody? So I don't know what he's talking about. He
needs to watch the TV and see what's going on.
It's out of control. And since he can't control the state,
he can't control the lawlessness, we will do it for him.
And that's what the president's doing. He's deploying the National Guard.
We will have order in the city of Los Angeles.
And I tell him them, nobody's gonna spit on our
police offices. Nobody's gonna spit on our military, which they
do is a common thing. They get up to him
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just far away, and then it's like spitting in the face.
That happens. They get hit very hard, that violence that
you were referring to.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Just you can see that there's a car burning in
the background. And while they made a semicircle here on
the street, you can see that the Weimo over there
has been vandalized, and we understand that some cars over
there may also be waymos that have been set on fire.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
The gomn Neus some's a embarrassment for the stake. He's
the one that's feeding this at Mantra. He supports sanctuary cities,
he supports sancstory laws. If you cared to if you
cared about public stations, stay of California, he would not have.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
A sanctuary for criminals. For criminals get.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Released in the streets of this state every day because
of his part.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Just as I have told me, everything in la is staged,
every bit of it. It's all fake it is not
that a few folks were upset about the deportation of
their fellow illegal aliens, and so they gathered in the
square and more came, and you know, it was interesting
(02:30):
thing to be at, and it just grew and do
and grew. Remember they told us that with Tarier Square
and the Arab Spring. I remember there was there was
a film that had been released in Egypt and it
had upset people and as a result, then we had
the Arab Spring. You know, there was there was the
(02:50):
sweet fellow at the Kabab that the donut Kebab little cart,
and he was killed and there was a reaction because
he was a good man. And then that just you know,
there was there was bubbling beneath the bubbling beneath it
all in the secular Muslim nations, by which I mean
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not uh Caliphate puppets. There were Muslims who felt they
were being wronged and they wanted they wanted democracy. And
Americans fell for this. Barack Obama pushed this Tyrear Square
and the Arab Spring, and this was a great moment.
This was their Thomas Payin moment. This was their declaration
(03:37):
of independence. They wanted, they wanted self governance in Egypt,
and Mabarak would not give it to them, and so
he was a bad guy, and so they just and
since we support democracy, because democracy is always great, the
people should determine their own future. Democracy is wonderful, much
(03:59):
as we saw whatocracy did in nineteen seventy nine when
Komani came to power ousting Shah Paulavi and the Muslim
Shia takeover of Iran and it becoming a rogue state
came to pass. Did the majority of Irani's want that,
I don't know that they did. I think a small
(04:21):
I think a minority of very violent Irani's, well organized
pushed the law abiding Iranis out of the country and
took over the country and drove the shaw out. I
don't believe that was quote unquote democracy that became theocracy
that we should have supported, Nor do I believe that
(04:41):
the Arab Spring was anything of the sort. It was
a well planned effort to install the Muslim brotherhood, which
it did, and Egypt took a different direction as a
result of it. But hey, the people supposedly voted for it.
And then we go to this case of Greta Thunberg
(05:05):
and her pro Hamas yacht was on its way bound
for Gaza and the Israeli Defense forces stopped them and
to screen what was going on. Hey, we want to
figure out what you're doing. And Greta Thunberg coached as
she is because she again, nothing she does is real.
(05:28):
This isn't a little girl who just doesn't want the
earth to burn up. Notice how many causes she's involved with.
She said, Oh, we're just bringing aid to the people.
You want to know the aid they were bringing, the
supplies they were eating, Yeah, their picnic supplies. Yes, you
know she's twenty two years old. Now, Yeah, she was
(05:52):
hoisting a Palestinian flag with Game of Thrones actor Liam
Cunningham and Rema Hassa, a French member of the European
Parliament who is of Palestinian descent. These people are now
professional activists for every cause designed to bring down Western civilization.
(06:13):
That's what's happening. If you were to see a compilation
of all the things that Chinese nationals do on American soil,
especially spying, bribing our elected officials, the Chinese were bribing
(06:40):
Hunter Biden. Where they were bribing Joe Biden. Hunter Biden
was the mule that used to carry the cash. You'll
remember Eric Fartwell was having sex with Fang Bang, who
was a confirmed spy sent by the Chinese government. She
wasn't only was Fang Bang banging Eric, she was also
(07:01):
banging a mayor of a city. You think it's at
the same time, it's not coincidence that she sleeps with politicians.
She wants information to send back at the direction of
the Chinese government. Diane Feinstein, who's on a very important
Senate committee regarding America's national security, her driver of over
(07:22):
ten years was a Chinese national who it was confirmed
was buying on behalf of the Chinese government. They have infiltrated
our government from top to bottom, from absolute top to bottom.
And how many Americans were killed from the virus they
unleashed upon us, which our own government was funding the
research that led to that. Well, we add to all
(07:43):
of this theme of the Chinese or not our friends,
they are out to destroy us with a story that
I met you hadn't heard of. Kind of seems important.
A Chinese national who was a researcher at a lab
at the University of Michigan, along with her boyfriend, have
been arrested for smuggling into our country a crop killing
(08:08):
fungus in what the Department of Justice calls a case
of quote potential agro terrorism, one administration official saying, this
is an attack on the American food supply. These are
the sorts of things that China does. They come in
and destroy your industry so that you are reliant on them.
(08:30):
You'd think that President Trump would get more credit for
taking on the Chinese, but how could he? They bought
all the people who should be standing beside him. Here's
Fox News with the story.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Well, FBI Director Cash Bettel called this a direct threat
to national security end quote. This case is a sobering
reminder that the Chinese Communist Party continues to deploy operatives
and researchers to infiltrate our institutions and target our food
supply and act that could cripple our economy and endanger
American lives. Federal prosecutors who charged a Chinese couple, Young
Qing Chian and zanjug Liu, was smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen,
(09:04):
the government says. In July, Leo flew from China to Detroit,
where customs officials found a fungus stashed in his backpack,
one prosecutors call a potential agro terrorism weapon. They say
Leo wanted to conduct research on it at the University
of Michigan, where his girlfriend, Jion worked. The FBI says
it searched Gion's phone and found a form describing her
membership in and loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party, and
(09:25):
that she previously tried smuggling this same substance into the
United States. As some Republicans say, the US should prohibit
any foreign national affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party from
getting a student visa. The University of Michigan says it's
cooperating with law enforcement end quote. We strongly condemn any
actions that seek to cause harm threat national security. It
is important to note that the university has received no
funding from the Chinese government in relation to research conducted
(09:46):
by the accused individuals. Gion is in federal custod depending
on here in tomorrow afternoon. Official say Leo, her boyfriend
was denied entry into the US last year and returned
to China after customs official seiz's backpack. The Chinese Embassy
in DC says the Chinese government requires its cit this
is to abide by local laws.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So imagine, oh, mid nineteenth century, and you're seeking to
cripple Ireland, and you introduce some sort of a fungus,
some sort of a beetle, some sort of an insect,
whatever that may be, that will destroy the Irish potato crop,
(10:23):
you can bring the nation to its knees. Or imagine
you are seeking to cripple the American South's cotton crop.
The bowl weavil did exactly that. It migrated to the
United States from Mexico in the late nineteenth century, so
the late eighteen hundreds, and by the nineteen twenties it
(10:47):
had infested America's cotton growing regions. In the industry was devastated.
It wrought so much much suffering on people who worked
in various aspects of that industry. Or you know, you
(11:07):
could find a similar example the BP explosion or BP
spill that hit southern Louisiana so bad. Plackhaman's Parish was just,
you know, one big oil dump. It's not just the
people who work in the industry, it's the fishermen. In
(11:31):
that case, it's the people who supply the fishermen. It's
the people who drive the fish. It's the people who
provide the gas, to those who drive the fish. You know,
when you do damage to an industry, you do damage
to an entire circle of folks that rely on that customer.
(11:54):
So how many of these cases do we have to
have until we take strong action and say, or instance, China,
you've done it too many times. We are deporting every
Chinese national that would get their attention, or China we
are no longer, no longer allowing anyone from China into
(12:17):
this country. And people go, well, that's not fair to
those people. Okay, how else do you get China's attention?
Because they know that we won't do this, and they
continue to do harm to our country, to our systems,
to our you name it right, And so they will
(12:43):
because eventually she's going to get this fungus, she's going
to get it into the fields, and she's going to
hurt the American commony, probably a lot of Americans in
the process. Michael Berryshaw I owned a place called the
Redneck Country Club and we booked David allen Coe to play,
(13:05):
and I was so excited. I love his music, I
love his writing, and he's famous for walking off stage
if he doesn't like if the air conditioning is on
because he says it bad for his voice. If someone
screams out you never even called me by my name
because they want to hear his most famous song, He'll
(13:26):
walk off stage, he'll throw stuff, he'll cuss people out,
he'll cut the night short. So I had warned our
members at our club. You know, if you buy tickets
to see David Allen Cole, you gotta understand. If you're
the reason he gets kicked out, you'll never be allowed
(13:46):
back in again. So I had everybody prepared with an
email to every member of the club. Then I got
on stage before he went out, and I said, all right, guys,
you should have received an email. But in case some
of you are with the person who got the email
and they haven't told you about it, you are not
(14:06):
to call out and request songs. This is David Allen
Cooch show, not yours, and he can be difficult, and
I want him to finish the event now. On the weekend,
before that event, he had walked off after one song
or two because something had upset him. I don't remember what.
(14:29):
He's volatile. So we have the event. I'm on pins
and needles, tenterhooks, the whole time the event goes off,
he leaves and he's back in the green room. Except
the green room because we haven't opened inside, we only
have the outdoor side of the venue is just an
(14:50):
area under construction with an old glider recliner sitting there
for two people. And his manager comes to get me.
You're the owner, Yes, I am, mister Cole would like
to talk to you, I said, oh lord, So I
start walking back. I figure he's gonna cuss me out.
The man's served serious time in prison, and you know,
(15:13):
he's legendary for his temper tantrums and for being violent.
And so my brother and my best friend both think
they're serving as my security. They're following behind me, and
I turned back because I'm pretty sure he's gonna cust
me out over something. And I don't mind being cussed out.
If nobody else sees it, I don't even need to
(15:34):
tell anybody it happened. So I turned back and kind
of pushed them with my you know, on my hands, like, hey, guys, y'all,
don't follow me. I don't want you near me. And
so they stop, but little do I know, they still
followed me. So I walk in and he's sitting there
and he makes eye contact with me, and he pats
(15:56):
the seat beside him to sit down beside him. So
I do, and he turns and he stares at me. Well,
I know what this is. It's a power play, my move.
He wants to see what I'm going to say. I
had not prepared for this. I was there to react
(16:18):
to what he says. He doesn't say a word, He
hasn't said a word yet. He has padded the seat
beside him to sit down beside him, So we're both
facing forward, and he swivels his head to look at me,
and I swilled my head to look at him. And
he pauses and he kind of gives a half shrug, like,
(16:39):
what are you going to say? Well, hell, you invited
me back here. I don't know what I'm going to say. Well,
what I do know, having done my research, is he
doesn't want me to bring up the song you never
even call me by my name. He's played that song
so many thousand times. He don't want to play it again.
They won't talk about it. Well, I'm a deep I'm
a fan of the deep work and writings of David
(17:01):
on Co. And I said, your version of Pledging My
Love and your tribute to Johnny Ace moves me to tears.
That's what we just played for you. What I just played,
what Ramon just played right there. It's Johnny Ace's birthdays.
Why are we doing this? Ninety six he would have
(17:22):
been ninety six today. And he looks at me, squinched
his eyes, and he puts his index finger in my chest,
and he said, you you're a real fan. People call
out and to me, you never even called me by
my name. That's probably the only song you know, but
(17:43):
you you are a real fan, because that's the first
thing that came to my mind. I hadn't prepared for this.
I hadn't prepared to meet him. I was just glad
he came and didn't cuss anybody out or shoot the
place up, and he finished the show. That moment was
so powerful to him. When he was in the he
grew up in correctional institutes. He was a juvenile delinquent
(18:07):
and one of the guards took pity on him when
Johnny Ace had died suddenly and told him and his
favorite song by Johnny Ace was Pledging My Love, and
he had always wanted to perform that on stage as
a tribute to Johnny Ace, but he was never able to.
(18:27):
And one time live in concert he did it, and
he told that story. He has taken all these years
for me to be able to pay tribute.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Johnny As had died. He was twenty five years old.
He had been touring for a year, and he was
performing in Houston at the City Auditorium on Christmas Day
in nineteen fifty four, and there was a break between
sets and he was playing around with a thirty two
caliber revolver and his band members said he would do
(18:57):
this often. Johnny Ace had shot to the top. He'd
only been famous for but boy, he was famous. He
was big. His band members said, as they were driving along,
they didn't have a tour bus at that point. The
drive along in the car, he would shoot road signs
out the window. He was playing with this gun. A
lot of people have claimed that he was playing Russian
(19:17):
Roulette with the pistol and and that's how he ended
up dying. But his bass player Curtis Tillman was in
the room right next to him when it happened, and
he says, quote, I'll tell you exactly what happened. Johnny
Ace had been drinking and he had this little pistol
he was waving around the table and somebody said, be
(19:39):
careful with that thing, and he said, it's okay. This
gun's not loaded, see and he put it in himself,
with a smile on his face, pulled the trigger. Sad,
sad thing. Big Mama ran out of the dressing room.
He's talking about talking about Big Mama Thornton because she
was on tour with him, yelling, Johnny Ace just killed himself.
(20:03):
Well to a young, impressionable David allen Coe who loved
that song. That moment stuck with him when he sang
about it on stage. And isn't it interesting, No matter
how big you get, no matter how rich, no matter
how famous, you can still take yourself back to that
moment when you were a fan of another person and
their music or their art or their acting or their writing,
(20:24):
or they're pitching or they're shooting, you've got them. Michael
Berry show The latest break in the very odd story
of a former Arkansas police chief who went to prison
for rape and murder and then he escaped from prison.
(20:50):
The really funny thing about that is, in my odd
should I say inmates hate law enforcement. When law enforcement
officers are facing trial, there's a higher than usual likelihood
that they will commit suicide. And the reason is because
doing time for them is going to be much worse
(21:13):
because the other inmates are going to mess with them.
So Grant Harden, who was a former police chief in
the small town of Gateway, Arkansas, town on the Arkansas
Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape
the crews. Then he got out. He escaped. The crews
(21:36):
had been using bloodhounds, they had officers on horseback, they
had drones, they had helicopters. I mean, the whole deal.
It was quite the to do, if you will. But
he has been located and as it turns out, very
close to the prison from which he had escaped. Almost
(21:57):
two weeks ago. News Name with the story the.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
First images of him being apprehended by law enforcement. He
was taken into custody by a border patrol their Tactical
Union out of West Texas. And this is a group
but that is taught and trained to search and find
individuals alike this. And we spoke to some people who
live here who say that they are somewhat frustrated though
(22:22):
because they feel like they were telling local police and
local shriff deputies that something was off in certain areas
of town, and they don't feel like they were listened
to until a Border patrol came in. And now we
did speak are one of our local affiliates with one
of the women who lives right next to where they
(22:43):
found hardened, and this is what she had to say
last night.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
After the Border patrol showed up.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Today, all of a sudden, trucks came from everywhere in SUVs.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
There was and want to say, there's twenty or thirty
of them.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
I don't know for sure, but they all took off
down this way and next thing we know, they're hauland
Grant Harden out from back here out of the woods.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
And Harden has a long past in law enforcement throughout
the years, especially in northwest Arkansas. I spoke with some
people who live in the communities where he used to
be a constable Minton County, and they tell me that
he was the kind of person who was supposed to
be preventing crime, but instead he was creating crime, and
(23:30):
so a lot of frustration there. But as you guys
can see, that capture by Border patrol yesterday is definitely
a welcome sign for the people who live here.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
In this community. It's not easy to do a report
in the field as a reporter. Anchors are reading from
a teleprompter, and that's a skill in and of itself
to make it seem natural, and it's a practiced skill.
(24:00):
Are doing it on the fly. But old girl there,
she's uh, she's in need of some more training, shall
we say? She is kind of you know, as she's
doing the report. Uh, she's she's struggling. It's tough to
listen to, you know. The unfortunate part of the elon
(24:24):
Trump spat is that it has distracted from the good
work that Doge has done. There's another example. A USDA
US Department of Agriculture employee, along with five other well,
along with five others, has been charged in a multimillion
(24:46):
dollar food stamp fraud and bribery scheme more than sixty
six million dollars. The Department of Justice calls it one
of the largest food stamp frauds in America history. This
is the Agriculture secretary. I don't know how many secretaries
cabinet secretaries you can name, but I'll bet you fewer
(25:09):
than ten percent of you can name who the agriculture
secretary is right now. You could probably do Homeland Security.
You probably do, Department of Defense, you probably do Secretary
of State. Many of you, fewer could probably do Treasury.
(25:31):
Some of you could do labor. But I'll bet you
fewer than ten percent could tell who the Secretary of
Agriculture is. Extra credit to you if you can here
is that individual. I won't tell your name until the end.
Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
It's time for real effective change. Part of that two
hundred billion dollar annual program. The best sort of estimate
is between twenty to thirty percent of that is fraud,
wasted abuse. This sixty six million that was announced yesterday
on behalf of USDA and the others that were part
of that, again is just the tip of the spear
(26:08):
and the way that works, Maria.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
The EBT cards is.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
What USDA, the government uses to provide that supplemental nutrition assistance,
which is the food stamps, and that it's a you know,
fairly easy thing to do.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
We're trying to lock it down right now.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
To ensure that it doesn't keep happening. But when you've
got employees that you know basically don't follow the law,
then we've got to fix it, and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
There's going to be.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Real consequences for breaking the law across America's federal government
with President Trump. But this is just one of many
more to come.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Brook Rollins is her name, the Agriculture Secretary brook Rollins.
You know, the amount of fraud in the food stamp program,
for instance, It'll never be stopped. And the reason is
(27:04):
nobody actually wants it to stop the only reason we're
hearing about this is that Brooks brook Rollins wants to
further her own career, and fraud stories make for good
media stories, but nobody is actually interested in stopping this nonsense.
(27:25):
The Department of Justice will bring the case because you know,
it's there's two reasons. It's a it's a notch on
your belt. If you're a prosecutor, you know, hey, here
here's when you leave the Department of Justice and you
go to a litigation firm. Here's the big cases I handled.
And there are some actual do gooders. There are some
actual prosecutors who who hate crime, who hate fraud, who
(27:50):
hate this sort of deception and law breaking, and they
want to nail those people to the wall. Thank God
for them. But these programs don't care because, as my
dad always says, it's not their money. It's not their
money they're wasting, it's not their money they're giving away.
And so there's no reason to care that there's all
(28:15):
this fraud, and there's so much fraud in every different department.
The kind of people that are on it, some of them,
not all, many of them, I suspect probably the vast
majority will commit fraud if they think I can get
away with it. And the truth is, I suspect a
goodly portion of the number of people who work in
(28:37):
levels of government, the kind of people who are attracted
to jobs like that, are attracted to fraud and taking bribes.
You're not getting the best in bribers. I do believe that.
And so at the end of the day, you either
cut the program or you just bake in, build in,
(29:00):
assume there's going to be all this trouble. And I'm
forgoting proble. He's eteleman Alms has let opportunity. Thank you,
and good night.
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