Matt Kittle Thursday Edition in for Dan

Matt Kittle fills in for Dan again, this time discussing what the Left will bring back if they win, a parental win in California schools regarding trans kids, the SAVE Act with Rep. Bryan Steil, and why the "Free Britney" movement may not have been wise.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Keeping it real, keeping it right. It's a Dan O'Donnell's
show kittle. Here you are there, Thursday, getting dangerously close
to a weekend. Oh yes, need me some weekend. A
little bit busy this week, to say the very least.
Coming up in just a bit, we're gonna have a

(00:23):
conversation about a huge, huge win for parental rights. The
Supreme Court this week blocked California's insane law requiring public
schools to secretly transition children without their parents' knowledge. Carrie Severino,
president of jc N, joins us in just a bit

(00:45):
to talk more about the landmark Mirabelli versus Bonta case,
what it all means, where we go from here. Speaking
of that, this is what the left will bring you
if the Left wins, it takes over power in the midterms,

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really at any level. You remember how horrible life was
in the Biden years for so many reasons. We can
spend a very long time counting the ways. But one
of those big ways was the the constant virtue virtuos

(01:32):
virtual virtue signaling that turned into Na's we're going to
get that one of these days. That turned into this
agenda of re engineering society. Everything and it still is
for them. They just have been tamped down. They don't

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have the power to enforce these crazy, nutty things. Because Americans,
particularly parents, who saw what was happening during COVID, got
a birdseye view of just how crazy things were in
the leftist run classrooms on the college campuses. We've learned

(02:16):
a lot since then, and a lot of Americans said no,
that's enough, and they voted. They voted to change all
of that. Well, midterms are very difficult times, of course,
for the party in power. There's already some doom and
gloom setting in about the Republicans losing the House. Some
talk Democrats could take the Senate. It's a long shot,
but who knows. It depends on who's motivated and who's not.

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And let's face it, there are a lot of liberals
in America who are extremely motivated with their Trump derangement syndrome.
They live for this and they have a number of
ways they want to get there. But this, this is
what you can expect if the left takes control, if

(03:01):
they get the keys back to the vehicle USA.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
For me, pathetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon
with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty,
my own ego. It's a never ending process, and it's
a painful process.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
It was painful listening to that, but I want you
to listen to it again because it's extremely important. This
should be. There should be a red flag for anybody
who says, you know what, I am so sick of politics.
I'm gonna sit this one out. Yeah, the Left is
just driving me insane. But I'm so fatigued and tired

(03:40):
with all of their protest against ice and the screaming
and the destruction and you know, the protest, the riots
in the streets. I don't want anything to do with it.
Listen to this guy again. This guy, once again is
named James tell Erico. He is now the Democrats candidate

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for Senate US Senate in Texas, huge election coming up,
if he could possibly win there, and he'd say, well,
wait a minute, this is deep red state Texas. There's
no way can I submit to the record. Beto O'Rourke.

(04:27):
This guy is Beto O'Rourke on steroids. Listen to this again,
because this is what's coming down the pike if Democrats
take back power.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
For me, pathetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon
with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty,
my own ego. It's a never ending process and it's
a painful process.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
It is painful. That would be very painful if we
had to go back to this. This guy has been
co opting Christianity in his run, and of course the
accomplished media is eating this up. Oh look at here,
this Marxist leftist. He's using gospel, or misusing it quite frankly,

(05:14):
to make a case why you don't need to vote
if you're of the Christian faith, you don't need to
vote for those conservatives, those Bible belt conservatives. This guy
has absolutely bastardized the New Testament and the faith, and

(05:35):
you can hear it when he says things like prophets
like Christ. Christ isn't a prophet. To Christians. Christ is
their Lord and their savior and their ticket to eternal life.

(05:57):
He wasn't just seeing things and half having visions. He
is the Son of God. That's what it's all about.
But this, this sister is going to sell this snake
oil to a bunch of really dumb, vulnerable people in Texas,
this race is indicative of what's ahead. And if they

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get in to power, they will have guys like this
doing stuff like that. The DEE, the diversity, equity inclusion garbage,
all back in, mutilating kids at the altar of transgenderism.
You got it right back there. Medical Yeah, you just

(06:44):
want to talk about government, big government, Medicaid fraud. Yeah,
you ain't seen nothing yet. All kinds of stuff they
got planned. And let me tell you how they're gonna
get there. I just have a couple of minutes. You
can read the full story at the Federalist dot com.
I like this reporter on this story. This guy, he

(07:06):
gets it. Men. Here's the headline. Michigan's dirty and dead
ridden voter rolls escape scrutiny. It appears the dead will
continue to rest in peace on Michigan's dirty voter rolls.
The US Supreme Court this week summarily denied a request
to review two lower court decisions that rejected an election

(07:30):
integrity watchdog's lawsuit seeking to force Michigan's far left Secretary
of State Joscelyn Benson, who would very much like to
be Michigan's next governor, to remove the names of deceased
people from the voter files. It's not a handful, it's
not scores. It's thousands, tens of thousands of people who

(07:56):
have died, many of them years and years ago, that
still remain on the dirty voter rolls in Michigan, key
swing state, key elections coming up, center of power for
Democrats to try to get back the House, get back

(08:18):
into power. The Public Interest Legal Foundation did an analysis
of the state voter list. They identified almost twenty six
thousand likely deceased individuals registered to vote. Some of the
formerly breathing have been dead for decades. According to the
complaint of the suspect registrants, Nearly four thousand have been

(08:41):
dead for at least twenty years. According to the report,
one one dead guy apparently on the rolls passed in
eighteen twenty three, before Michigan became a state. Now why
do I say all of this sort of stuff, Well,

(09:02):
when you have dirty voter rolls, you can do a
lot of dirty things, and we have seen that from
the Democrat Party over the years, particularly in the Trump era.
And there is real legitimate concern that the people who
have been desperately trying to get back into power to

(09:25):
take Donald Trump out of power and the MAGA movement
out of power. They will do anything. They are desperate
and desperate times call for dead voters. Keep your eye
on it. You get the full story once again at

(09:47):
the Federalist dot Com. Stay tuned. Coming up next our
conversation with Carrie Severino. She's been working and piecing through
this critical Supreme Court decision this week that blocks California's
insane law requiring public schools to secretly transition children without

(10:09):
their parents' knowledge. We'll talk more about that straight ahead
on this edition of The Dan o'donnald Show with your
old radio amigo, Matt Kittle, Stay with us. The devil
went down to Georgia. He was looking for a soul
to steal. He was in a bind, he was way behind.
He's willing to make a deal. Oh that's a different
fiddle song. All right, I'll bet you you son of

(10:31):
a gun, I'm the best that's ever been. Hey, how
are you welcome to Thursday? Kittle? Here you are there,
Glad you're along with us on the Dan o'donald Show.
Got much to do as we work through the next
couple of hours of the show. But right here right now,
let's talk about a critical Supreme Court case when it

(10:55):
comes to parental rights. The Supreme Court this week block
California's law requiring public schools to secretly transition children without
their parents' knowledge. We certainly have seen that story play
out in the state of Wisconsin a number of schools,
perhaps most notably the leftist enclave of Madison. Under long

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established precedent, parents, not the state, have primary authority with
respect to the upbringing and education of children, the majority
said in an unsigned opinion. The right protected by these
precedents includes the right not to be shut out of
participation in decisions regarding their children's mental health, their children's

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mental health, of the schools, children, the parents children. JCN
President Carrie Severino joins us now for some perspective on
the landmark Marabelli versus Bonta. Carrie, thank you so much
for being here. What a massive case this is.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, this is incredibly exciting that the Court is continuing
its pattern here of both doing really closely to what
the Constitution requires and making sure that religious freedom rights
in particularly parental rights. We've seen that a lot in
the last term's case, and now so this term that
parental rights are being respected.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
What exactly know that California is California, But what exactly
did their law, by the way, signed on the books
by a guy who would like to be the next
president of the United States, leftist governor Gavin Newsom, what
did that law entail?

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, their state had a policy where they were not
going to tell parents if their child decided they wanted
to change their gender expression at school. So they had
parents that had one of the sets of parents in
this case, had no idea that their child was experiencing
gender dysphorios, having these mental health issues until the child's

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attempted suicide. Meanwhile, at school, they had been socially transitioning
to child using an opposite sex name and everything behind
the parents back. And their policy was even if parents
outright specifically asked the school is this happening, the school
was to deny it. And that is outrageous for parents,
who the court made very clear, these are the primary

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protectors of the kids, the primary educators the kid. These
are the people who need to be able to have information,
above all things about the child's mental health and the
schools cutting them out of that, and many of them
raised religious freedom issues as well, saying we have the
right to direct our child's religious education. The school can't
be stepping in like that.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well, here is the arrogance of that movement in a nutshell.
I remember a few years back, and I'm sure this
was not an isolated case, but it was writing a
story about a Madison Areas school and learned from some
parents that there was a sign on an elementary school
teacher's door and it said something to the effect, if

(14:19):
your parents don't recognize you and love you for who
you are, I'm your parent now. And I think that
really is at the core of what has gone on,
this crazy legislation, crazy laws in California and elsewhere, taking
basic essential rights away from parents. Where do you see

(14:44):
all of that coming from.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, and that type of science is really suggesting and
trying to drive a wedge between parents and their children's
which is the opposite of what schools are supposed to
be doing. We are funding these tools as our text.
We are, you know, voting for the school boards. We're
the ones who they should be representing. And I love
the court was very clear about that. They specifically said parents,

(15:12):
not the state, have primary authority with respect the upbringing
and education of their children. And it goes double for
the religious upbringing. You know, the state supplanting parents, it's
something that is really had been imported to our system
from places like communism and socialism, the idea that the
state is no better than the parents. And that's something

(15:33):
you know, Union love to do, right because because they
recognize the family is such a core block of society
deal where they will push back against the state. We
cannot allow the state to try to supplant the family,
and thankfully those rights are being protected now at the
Supreme Court.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Carrie Severino from JCN, President of JCN, You folks used
to be known for those who know your good work
over the years. It used to be the Judicial Crisis Network.
Right now you're JCM. Okay, just wanted to make sure. Yeah,
it's like KFC. You know, how long did we get

(16:13):
a you know, a bucket of Colonel's chicken? And now
we don't have to say the full Kentucky Fried Chicken.
We just say KFC. You said this posted this on
X following the decision. Because it's not just California lawmakers
and the executive branch. We have a judicial federal judicial branch,

(16:34):
an appeals court in California that allowed this to continue.
You said, the liberal Ninth Circuit disregarded the court's ruling
in Mahmood. Today, the justices reaffirmed the principles of its
landmark ruling and said that California's law substantially interferes with

(16:55):
the right of parents to guide the religious development of
their children. How did we get to a point where
we have any court saying, yeah, if you want to
go ahead and as a school, as a teacher, you
want to go ahead and be complicit in this secret

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activity that the parents don't know about, that's just fine.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, this is why her organizations started out talking about
a judicial crisis, right, because there is a real crisis
in the judiciary when there are judges who adopt those
kind of views that say, hey, the state should be
taking precedents over the family, that they aren't going to
be respecting those fundamental rights. What's almost more interesting here

(17:44):
is that a federal court in the Southern District of
California originally did say the parents should win at least
at this stage. Like, what was really happening here is
we're just saying, what is going to happen while this
case is being argued. Can California continue hiding this information
from parents across the state or do they have to
at least until this case is litigated, until we find

(18:07):
out for sure is this constitutional or not? Spoiler, it's
probably not right until that happens. Did they have to
put it on hold? A federal the Federal District Court
in California said yeah, you have to put this on hold.
This looks really fishy. And it was the Ninth Circuit,
which has long been one of the most liberal courts
in the nation because it has a lot of a

(18:27):
lot of people coming from California, these California senators who
are kind of stocking it. It was their their favorite
types of nominees. That court said, yeah, sir, this sounds
this sounds fine to us. What the good news is,
while this obviously was not a great decision from the
Ninth Circuit, today the Ninth Circuit looks a whole lot

(18:47):
better than it did, say ten years ago. We've made
progress there, but it's still is. You know, it's not
the sesspool at once was. But I wouldn't go swimming there.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Let's just say, yes, pretty dirty water like the waters
flowing around the swamp in DC. Now, a lot of
sewage issues they have over there, not just the swamp,
the sewer. Now, that to me, what you just talked about,
gives me hope. But then I look at the US Senate,

(19:18):
the do little US Senate, and the problems they've had
in getting President Trump's nominees through. If you're going to
have any chance at getting rid of or at least
lessening the impact of what I see as a judicial
coup in many circumstances out there, this Senate's going to

(19:41):
have to get off. It's took us, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Well, Yeah, although there's to some extent at this point
they're working pretty effectively as compared to what they again
used to be able to do, partly because of some
changes that went into effect during the first Trump administration
in terms of not allowing home state senators to actually
veto nominees. That's part of the reason Ninth Circuit so bad,

(20:05):
as you had these California senators vetoing anyone with half
a brain from being on the Ninth Circuit, and so
you had all very liberal judges there. Now, at least
for the appeals courts. That has gone away, but you
know there's still the constitutional check, which is the president
appoints and the Senate confirms. So you still can't get

(20:27):
judges on these courts who are going to be more
conservative than the president and importantly the Senate. We often
forget that, but you know, you could have the most
conservative president who wants to appoint another one hundred Scolias
and Thomas's to the courts, and if you have a
Senate that is not willing to confirm those people, you're
out of luck. And I think that is something we

(20:48):
have to real especially you know we're going into another
off year, off election year. This is what determines how
bold the president can be in terms of appointing constitutional
conservatives to these courts. There's a lot of work still
to be done to improve the judiciary, and every time

(21:09):
we get someone across the finish lines, that's a life tenure.
So absolutely the Senate needs to keep pedals of the
metal on these and we need to remember how important
it is to make sure that we are electing senators
who have that as a top priority to be willing
to confirm the right type of judges who are going
to be faithful to the Constitution.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Final question for you, then this is a critical election year.
Some would say, once again, an existential election year. The
guy who has got twenty eight on his mind, liberal,
smarmy Governor Gavin Newsom from California is the guy who
signed this crazy law on the books. Do you think

(21:54):
that the Supreme Court's rejection of this and I think
the difference in America of twenty twenty six then twenty twenty,
do you think that that will ultimately cause him some
electoral problems moving forward?

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Well, you know, we have such a divided country. I
think some people are going to be cheering him on
over this and say, heck, yeah, that's.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
What we want.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
I don't think that's where most of America is. I
hope that people will open their eyes and see the
kinds of policies that are really being advocated for. You know,
I live in Virginia where we have a Governor Spanberger
who campaigned as a nice moderate and then gets into
office and does absolutely crazy things.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
I think I'm sorry about that too.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, yeah, I mean we're going to see this in
a lot of places. I hope people recognize what the
actual policies are from You can sound really nice and
make a good speech, but if this is someone who's
going to try to be stripping constitutional rights from parents
when they get into office, boy, we'd better know that
before going to the voting booth.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, you're absolutely right. Spanberger was a leftist, is a
leftist in moderate clothing. Let me just play a quick
clip of a gentleman from Texas who is running for
Senate is in the same ilk.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
For me, pathetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon
with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty,
my own ego. It's a never ending process, and it's
a painful process.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
What a painful process would be if conservatives lose the
Congress to people like this, You're going to get more
laws like this. Even though the Court has said what
it said, there's going to be a constant effort to
push in this crazy nonsense moving forward. Carrie, thanks so

(23:55):
much for your time and your expertise. I very much appreciated.
Have a great days you too, JC and President Carrie
Severino joining us for a little perspective on the Supreme
Court's slapdown of the insane California law requiring public schools

(24:15):
to secretly transitioned children without their parents' knowledge. That was
the thing that really struck me when I was looking
into this issue in a number of schools across Wisconsin
in the country, and that sentiment, that sign from that
liberal teacher that said, if your parents don't accept you

(24:39):
for the gender you think you are, second grader, I'm
your mama now as hideous. That's a hideous thought. And
this Supreme Court ruling slap that notion back. The fight
goes on. We'll take a quick break. Coming up in
the next hour, a conversation with Congressman in style. I

(25:01):
hope you will stay with us the Thursday edition of
the Dan O'donnald Show with yours truly, Matt Kitt'll hang on.
Welcome back thrill seekers to our number two of our
little get together on this Thursday, March sixth, twenty twenty six,

(25:23):
in the year of Our Lord. What did I say sixth?
I guess I desperately want to I want to get
to Friday, don't I I desperately want to get to Friday.
I'm screwing up the schedule, good thing, and I'll have
to write a check today I'm still writing twenty three
on those things. Yes, thank you, sir. That's why Eric Paulson,

(25:44):
our extraordinary producer, is here and he's doing yeomen's work,
to say the very least, keeping this guy on the
straight and narrow. Yes, it is March fifth, tomorrow Friday
will be March six. That's what I have my eye on.
As Bretta used to say, keep your eye on the sparrow,

(26:06):
and that has nothing to do with what we just
talked about. It's just the fact that Beretta was taking
a lot of cocaine at that time and mishandling firearms.
If I recall, right, keep your eye yeah, yeah, yay
on the sparrow. You remember that one. Perhaps it's best
to leave it in the past. Yes, Kit, I don't know.

(26:30):
I didn't take the full pill today. The doctor has said,
don't break off the pills. Take the whole pill. Fair enough,
you live and you'll learn. Yes, Matt Kittle, your radio
talk show host Phil and Daddy doing just that, and
the Dan O'donnalds show on this Thursday, We've got to

(26:52):
We've got much coming up in this four o'clock hour,
including a conversation with Congress Brian Style, that's right, representing
the fighting first Congressional District of Wisconsin. He's also chairman
of the Houses Overseeing Administration Committee. They're in charge of

(27:16):
election reform and something else that I think is extremely
interesting that we'll talk about as well. They're in charge
of a bill that would stop congress members of Congress
from engaging in insider trading. That'd be nice, wouldn't it.
See there are a lot of perks that people don't

(27:38):
fully understand about being a member of Congress. You get
a sweetheart salary, you get the travel all over the place,
not on your bill. You get all kinds of perks.
You have a Cadillac health insurance plan and retirement. Oh
it's good, it's good. But there are other benefits as well.

(28:04):
You see, you can sit on a committee and talk
to people in business all over the place, and they
might tell you in those closed door sessions of conversations,
hey you better take a look at our stock. It's
about to go up because we're gonna do X and
then we're gonna do Y. And the congressman the senator

(28:28):
can say, oh, that's very interesting, thank you for that information,
and then immediately once the gentleman leaves get on the
phone and say hey, Murray, Yeah, this is Jim. I
got a tip today and I'm gonna go along on
Shreveport stockings. Get all of that what I've gotten to

(28:51):
Shreveport stockings. It's about to burst. Yeah. See that's a problem.
Nancy Pelosi has made a mint on this practice, and
she's not alone. Anyway. We'll talk a little bit more
about that with the Congressman Brian's Style coming up right
around four forty or so. Also a little bit later,

(29:13):
I want to delve into some interesting mechanics going on
behind the scenes. Not so much behind the scenes anymore.
There's in Trump endorsement that is on the line in
a huge Senate race, and there is a lot of

(29:33):
stuff going on behind that that actually ties into what
we have been talking about. What we will talk about
with Congressman Style, and that is the Save America Act,
the legislation that does a couple of simple, basic, and
most importantly republic saving things, a couple of things that

(29:57):
are absolutely essential to free and elections. It is the
ultimate election integrity bill, and so much is riding on it.
But it says, if you are a non citizen you
can't vote in US elections. Oh, I know the left
will tell you yet, Well they can't already. You know,
it's already against the law. It's already a felon if

(30:19):
they do that. Yeah, you know what it's all about.
Here's what the current system is. You check a box
to say that you are a US citizen and you
can vote in that election. That's it. It's an honor system.

(30:42):
And for folks who are already breaking the law coming
into this country illegally. And on top of that, there's
a you know, sizable percentage of people coming into the
country illegally that have committed all kinds of horrible crimes. Now,
what's going to stop them from voting in an election?

(31:05):
Helped out, of course by those very very helpful private
good government groups on the left, on the far left,
very very much interested in ultimately legalizing non citizens voting
in elections. Anyway, there's a lot of stuff going on
with that. We'll talk about it later this hour, but

(31:30):
let us begin here because Christy Nome, we hardly knew you,
that's right. The breaking news this afternoon, and there's been
a lot of breaking news, to say the very least
is that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome embattled
DHS Secretary. Christy Nome is DHS Secretary no more Fox News,

(31:56):
all kinds of media outlets reporting Christinome, the former South
Dakota congresswoman and governor who has led President Donald Trump's
Department of Homeland Security in his second term, was ousted
from her position on Thursday. That's how it is being described,
and there's a good deal of truth in that that

(32:17):
verb ousted. Trump announced on truth Social that he will
nominate Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, Republican from Oklahoma, to replace Nome,
effective March thirty first, Mark Wayne Mullen. We're going to
name our first child, Mark Wayne. And then we didn't.

(32:41):
The current Secretary, Christy Nome, who has served us well
and has had numerous and spectacular results, especially on the border,
will be moving to be Special Envoy for the Shield
of the Americas New Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere.

(33:02):
We are announcing on Saturday in durral Florida. I thank
Christy for her service at Homeland. That was a message
on truth Social by the President of the United States,
and a lot of folks are saying, if you can
read between the lines. I don't know. We can here
what the President is saying. Don't let the door hit

(33:25):
you on the way out. In her first official statement
on X following her departure, nom thanked Trump for her
upcoming appointment. Secretary Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete
Hegseth are incredible leaders and I look forward to working
with them closely to dismantle cartels that have poured drugs

(33:49):
into our nation and killed our children and grandchildren. Nome
posted on X talking about her upcoming new position, the
details of which will be further explained coming up over
the weekend. I know that my good friend and a
gentleman who joined us on the show yesterday, Breck and
Thieves are a federalist. White House correspondent, Pentagon's correspondent was

(34:15):
in Florida today and they were talking about this evolving
new cabinet agency that's about to be created. The Western Hemisphere,
Nome said, is absolutely critical for US security. In this
new role, I will be able to build on partnerships
and national security expertise. You know, the usual stunt Trump

(34:39):
and Mullen. Trump said, Mullen has done a tremendous job
in Congress and cited his resume as a former undefeated
MMA fighter. Yes, you got to be a fighter in Washington,
DC and sometimes literally. Did you see the clip of
Tim Shahey, the senator, big guy who helped break up

(35:07):
a rowdy character before a Senate hearing yesterday, Maybe we'll
play the clip of that. Let me tell you it
did not end well for the guy who's a marine.
Sad to see, he's also a Green Party candidate. He
hates the war in Iran. He's not alone on that accord.

(35:30):
There are a number of people who hate that as well.
But it would seem to me that he hates a
lot of things that Donald Trump is doing regardless as
a member of the Green Party, and he decided to
shout out, you know a lot of things during this
hearing yesterday, And while he was being forcibly removed, he

(35:51):
kept coming back for an encore tough to take down
that marine, there's no doubt about it. And the optics
weren't real good either, but yeah, all of a sudden,
he's trying to get back in, he gets his arm
caught in the door, and that's where things got auchy.
The videos out there everywhere Ullan is the first Native American.

(36:14):
By the way, he's the first Native American Senator in decades,
following Senator Ben Knighthrace Campbell of Colorado. He appeared just
as caught off guard by the announcement as the rest
of Washington. The scuttle butt behind the scenes is that
the President has not been real happy with Christy Nome,
particularly of late a couple of things. He wasn't crazy

(36:38):
about her testimony in Congress about what is happening, what
has happened at the Department of Homeland Security, particularly as
it relates to immigration and Customs enforcement border patrol. Obviously,
this has been a major issue and an issue that

(36:58):
the Left has tried to arley into electoral success. We'll
see how that plays out later this year, but there
have been some gaffes, and knowing some sources at DHS,
there have been a lot of conversation about a number
of things involving Christinome's leadership, not the least of which,

(37:24):
by the way, are some pretty salacious rumors that, according
to some sources, at least they say have been confirmed
by watching it. On that topic, we learn today that
Corey Lewandowski will be leaving DHS as well, not that

(37:47):
those two things are related, or are they. I don't
know AnyWho. That's it for Christino homes in the DHS.
The surprised Senator Mullen, Mark Wayne Mullen will have a
few days to get set and ready to go, and
then his governor in Oklahoma, a Republican, a Rhino at that,

(38:13):
will then have the opportunity to appoint his successor to
fill out his term. Oh won't that be fun. One
more thing before we get to a quick break and
get caught up on business, and that is this, mister Gonzalez.
We'd like you to leave now. We've already said.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
So long.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Congressman Gonzalez speaking a salacious This is more trouble. It's
more trouble.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
See.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
This is why it doesn't matter what side of the
isle it is. Politicians will always do really creepy things,
and some have a really difficult time keeping things in
their pants. House GOP leaders have asked embattled Representative Tony Gonzalez,

(39:14):
Republican from Texas, to drop his bid for reelection. This story,
as Paul Harvey used to say, it's a strange. The
Ethics Committee has announced an investigation into Congressman Tony Gonzalez's conduct,
and we urge them to act expeditiously. That means right there, hey,

(39:34):
get on the ball. Congressman Gonzalez has said he will
fully cooperate with the investigation. Statement by Speaker Mike Johnson
and other top Republican reads, mister Gonzalez, you've lost the House.
We have encouraged him to address these serious, very serious

(39:55):
allegations directly with his constituents and his colleagues. In the meantime,
leadership has asked Congressman Gonzalez to withdraw from the race
for re election because his conduct or alleged conduct, looks
really bad. Gonzalez's reelection bid has been plagued by scandal

(40:16):
for weeks, ever since allegations emerged. Here it comes that
he had an affair with his late aid and sent
her sexually explicit text messages his pseudonym Carlos Danger no no, no,
no different guy, altogether the same aid, Regina Santos Aviles.

(40:41):
This is horrible. This story gets worse and worse and worse.
And I want to buffer you for this because this
is not just you know, a sexual scandal in Congress.
This is a merry Joe Kapecne kind of thing, Kennedy
kind of thing. If you remember this, the aid committed

(41:03):
suicide by setting herself on fire outside her home late
last year. Dear Lord, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Richard Hudson,
leader of the House GOP campaign ARM, told Fox News Digital,
I agree with the Speaker and the rest of leadership.

(41:24):
Tony should withdraw from the runoff and allow the ethics
process to move forward while focusing on his family and
serving his constituents for the remainder of his term. Well,
it seems like the focus on the family is little lacking,
to say the least. Stay tuned. There is definitely more

(41:46):
on this story coming up. More on the mechanics of
passing the Save America Act straight ahead on this Thursday
edition with the Dan O'donnalds Show. With yours truly, Matt Kittle,
stay with us. I am zam Fear, master of the
pan Flute. Thank you for joining us today. Think I

(42:10):
can pull that off? Eric Zamfiar, Well, I'll tell you
what made my late nights something else back in the day,
and I could hear those commercials the best of zam
Fear It his magic flute. At least that's what he
called it. Anyway, he's into naming things.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
Kittle.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Here you are there in the Dan O'Donnells Show, Thursday
edition coming up in just a few minutes. Congressman Brian
Style from the Fighting first Congressional District. He is chair
of the Administration Committee, and we're going to talk all
about the Save America Act, the Election Integrity Bill of

(42:55):
of all. I mean, really, at the end of the day,
this really could go a long way in making sure
that the fundamental thing that we all should agree on
is in place, that confidence comes back. Neo elections, free
in fair elections are truly back in play. No more shenanigans,

(43:17):
no more nonsense, no more working to bring in ineligible voters.
We'll talk more about that coming up in just a bit.
The headline this hour, speaking of the Save America Act,
it's all tied in together, but some of the machinations
going on behind the scenes very interesting. The headline this

(43:41):
hour from the Federalist, you can read it at the
Federalist dot com is this Trump despises rhinos. So why
is he reportedly about to endorse one of the Swamp's biggest.
It goes a little something like this. If President Donald
Trump is looking for a senator who embodies the spirit

(44:02):
and action of Republican in name only, he couldn't find
He couldn't find a better man than milk toast. Texas
Senator John Cornyn, the four term Rhino locked in a
contentious GOP primary runoff battle against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,

(44:26):
boasts a storied senate career of genuflecting at the altar
of the swamp. Cornan has been begging for Trump's platinum
endorsement more shamelessly than he's prostituted himself for establishment cash,
and it's looking like he might get the President's seal
of approval if you can believe the Trump hating Atlantic

(44:50):
and other prov depressed publications. President Trump's political advisors expect
him to endorse Senator John Cornyn in Texas's May twenty
six Republican primary runoff election, following the incumbents better than
expected finish against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the
first round of voting. Tuesday, three people briefed on the

(45:14):
deliberations told us the Atlantics, Michael Shear and Ashley Parker
wright is that to publish today. It doesn't matter. That's
what all the talk is. Anyway, Republican strategists, the corporate
reporters assert hope the endorsement will make the Texas Senate
race less expensive and less competitive. So there's a lot

(45:39):
of concern from the establishment that Ken Paxton has. He's
got a few things. I wouldn't say skeletons in his closets,
because the skeletons are all out, and we were talking
about scandals and things like. That's dealing with his own

(46:02):
But one thing conservatives in Texas tell me, and what
I gather from that very very heated and contentious race,
is that the core of the conservative movement, the grassroots,
they far in a way, want to see paxst and

(46:23):
win the thing. They do not want another six years,
a fifth sixth year term by John Cornyan, who has
done everything he can to be a company man. They
don't want to see that anymore. This is the guy
who helped John Thune and Glitchen Mitch McConnell back in

(46:50):
twenty two come up with a very gun control lobby
friendly restriction on Second Amendment rights. That's the kind of
guy John Cornyn is. He's also been very vocal in

(47:10):
his support for the Save America Act, the aforementioned Save
America Act, but sources say that he didn't want to
see this thing come up for a vote because that
might be difficult for him in a Texas general election anyway.
So as of the last hour, a lot of folks

(47:33):
were hearing that President Trump was going to endorse Cornyn
and he was a little upset that Ken Paxton said, well,
endorsement or not, I'm staying in this race. Trump said,
in his usual Trump style, that's bad, and maybe I'm
just gonna throw my endorsement over to somebody right now.

(47:57):
As of yet, that hasn't happened. There are a lot
of conservatives saying, woo, hold up, and they're saying that
in large part because Cornon is not just a rhino.
He has also had all kinds of issues supporting the

(48:20):
president and wanted to it seemed, dance on his political
grave after the first term, when Donald Trump faced a
lot of the multi front assault lawfare assault we all
know about right now here is the thing. Trump hates rhinos,

(48:41):
and rightfully so, he said so many many times. Just
ask Indiana's pathetic in quotes State Senate State Senate rhinos
who got a collective tummy ache over a midterm redistricting
bill pushed by Trump that would have boosted GOP membership

(49:02):
in a wafer thin Republican majority House. Meanwhile, Democrats are
redrawing blue state maps left and left they get a
leg up on the midterms. You see, that's the thing
these Republicans. They keep saying, well, we have to stand
by our principles, and without our principles, there's nothing. You
are not going to be re elected. You are out

(49:26):
of power. The Supreme Court said you can do this.
They said that to California, which has already one of
the most jerry mandered states for Democrats there is, and
now they've decided to change their principled way of redrawing
maps every decade and turn it into a leftist free

(49:50):
for all. Yeah, Texas did it. You bet they did
it because they could. California followed suits and other Republican
states said okay, well we're going to get it and
on the act. And then they said, well, jeez, if
we do this, we could start this horrible redistricting war.
And well, if the Democrats are gonna do it, fine,

(50:10):
but we have to stand by our principles, and then
they stand by their principles as they're walking out Congress door.
You can ask John Cornan, by the way. In twenty
twenty two, Trump blasted Cornyn for bowing alongside then Senate

(50:31):
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to the invidious gun control lobby,
the aforementioned deal, and another thing. Trump loves loyalty. We
should all know that by now right, he's been pretty
clear on that. I mean, he really loves loyalty. It

(50:53):
is perhaps his most defining leadership requisite, responsible for the
President's unprecedented politicals se excesses and some of his head
scratching foibles. Cornan is as loyal to Trump and the
MAGA movement as he is to five dollars donors. That

(51:14):
is to say, not much. Cornan and his establishment pals
have prematurely written Trump's political obituary too many times to trust.
In twenty twenty three, as Trump was mired in a
multi front leftist warfare campaign to keep him off the
ballot and put him in prison, Cornan was writing off

(51:36):
the GOP's eventual nominee and walking away from him when
Trump needed him most a couple of quotes. By the way,
you want to go on the way back machine, and
I always do. I think President Trump's time has passed
him by. Cornan claimed in twenty twenty three. I don't

(51:57):
think President Trump understands that when you run in a
general election, you have to appeal to voters beyond your base.
You know, in politics, unless you can win an election,
then you're pretty much irrelevant. Cornan later said I have
concerns about the President's ability to win. In November. Coryn's

(52:18):
political instincts, of course, were as shaky as his loyalty.
Suffice to say, the senator's comments didn't age well, Defying
the odds and a political silencing campaign like no other.
Trump won in twenty twenty four, and he won big
lee when he did. Guess who was back to curry

(52:40):
political favor. That's right, Rhino John. And it goes on
and on and on again. This is a guy who
has repeatedly stymied the Trump agenda. He and his Rhino
pals in the Senate have done very little to advance

(53:05):
the executive orders that the President has signed and moved
them into law. And he's a guy that recently talked
about wanting to return to the Senate so he could
work on an amnesty bill.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
M hm.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
All this trouble we're going through right now to clean
up the messes of the previous four years of the
Biden administration, the Auto Pen presidency. This guy wants to
undo all of the cleanup work. I hope that the president,
who has exhibited a lot of good judgment in a

(53:42):
lot of good policy over the last several years in
this country. I do hope he reconsiders he has not
endorsed at this point. Maybe that is still Sage strategy.
Let it play out however it's going to do in
this runoff. But standing behind a rhino will get you

(54:04):
the horn every time. All right, we're gonna talk a
little bit more about some of the stuff surrounding this
straight ahead. Congressman Brian Style, first District Congressman Wisconsin, joins
us next to talk about the Save America Act. Stay
right where you are. It's Matt Kittle, year old radio
amigo here on the Dan O'donnald Show. Here's what you do.

(54:28):
You do a little dance, you make a little love,
you get down tonight. I can save it up for Friday.
I understand, but we're getting close and that feels good. Hey,
I got that Friday mindset. Believe me. Weekend can't get
here soon enough. Well, let's ask the important question, because

(54:51):
it is an existential question. I think, who will save
the Save America Act? Congress? He's been Brian's Style, Republican
representing Wisconsin's fighting first congressional district, also Chairman of the
House is overseeing Administration committee, joins us with the latest

(55:11):
from the swamp. Good afternoon, sir, Thank you so much
for joining us.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
Good afternoon, Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
Before we get to the Save Act, and we got
a lot of stuff to do on that front. But
I wanted to talk to you about today's critical vote
in the House. Apparently enough Democrats said, you know what,
with a war in Iran and the last administration's open
door policy that let a number of terrorists on the
watch list into this country, perhaps it's a good idea

(55:41):
to have a fully funded Department of Homeland Security. How
did that go down, because as I understand it, forty
four Democrats still voted against it.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
Well, this is where the spending process in Washington, d C.
Is so absolutely broken. We should not be shutting down
our federal government period full stop. It's not helpful, it's
not productive. The spending process is completely busted. But then
when you look at where the national radical Democrats want

(56:12):
to take this country, you see it very clearly where
they're voting against funding the Department of Homeland Security. The
department charge was keeping the homeland stafe and at a
period of time after millions of individuals came into the
country unchecked during the Biden administration, float into the United
States at a period of heightened risk based on what's

(56:32):
taking place right now in the Middle East, knowing that
Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism around the
globe and would love to do harm to the United States.
This is the absent moment where a vote to fund
and make sure that the men and women on the
front lines or the Department of Homeland Security are getting
paid should pass unanimously. But it doesn't because it shows
you exactly where radical Democrats are and House representatives in

(56:57):
across the country.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Just amazing. And now we pivot, of course to the
underpinning of all of this, and that is election integrity.
To make sure that we have confidence in our elections.
So that the people who are elected are actually officially
elected to do whatever they're going to do, shut down
the government or whatever it is. We just want to
know that there's a legitimate outcome there. You folks in

(57:23):
the House have done your job repeatedly. You have passed
the Save Act a number of times. And he passed
the Save America Act in a way where it goes
to the Republican controlled Senate as a markup, which means
that they have to prioritize this. But it seems like
that's too much to ask because what they're going to

(57:45):
need to do is do some work. What are you
hearing now in the Senate on where all of this
is at and where it's going.

Speaker 4 (57:53):
Well, for the same reason, our nations let's secure from
a national security perspective because of the Biden broken border.
Our elections are less secure because of the Biden broken border.
It is why you need to pass the Same America Act.
Two key principles. One, only US citizens should be voting
in US elections, and you should verify that when an
individual registers to vote. And two you need to show

(58:16):
photo identification that you are who you say you are.
Basic core common sense election integrity principles, we pass this
through the House. The Conservatives in the House have shown
time and again that we can move legislation that's essential
for this country. It's frustrating to many of us in
the House that the Senate has not yet moved this forward.

(58:37):
There's a large debate. Is the Senate going to break
the filibuster? Are we going to pass legislation with fifty
votes plus one, or are we going to continue to
allow the sixty vote threshold to continue. We'll see how
the Senate plays this out, but I think it's absolutely
essential that we force the vote in the Senate. Let
the chips fall, Let's put pressure on the Senate to

(58:57):
actually pass this because this is common sense legislation that
we have a huge opportunity with to actually make sure
that we're moving this forward and getting this done to
the American people in advance of the November election.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Are you hearing what I'm hearing about some Republicans in
the Senate, just a handful. There are a couple, obviously,
who have come out and said we don't want to
see this bill become a law for reasons that are
odd to me, that don't make any sense. Why wouldn't
you want what eighty percent of the voters want and

(59:32):
voter verification. But that said, there are a number there
are some Republicans in the Senate who have been very
vocal in their support of the bill, but do not
want to have to deal with the talking filibuster, the
hard work that that will take, the potentially weeks that
this would string out the process. They say, well, we

(59:55):
have more important things to do. They're not passing anything
of you know, measure anyway. Have you heard that there
are some senators who would rather see this thing go away?
Have John Thune said, well, we tried, but sorry, can't
do anything about it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
Democrats, Yeah, we hear the parliamentary procedure arguments from the
Senate time and again. I think that's what frustrates a
lot of us. We want to see action, we want
to see results. We have a moment in time where
we control the United States Senate, the House Representatives, and
the presidency. The Conservatives are united behind driving this agenda forward.

(01:00:31):
But it seems time and again there's a small number
of folks in the Senate that have hit this and
caused us to hit a roadblock. A lot has been
done so we looked the one big, beautiful bill. We
were able to drive that forward with only Republican votes.
We've confirmed people into essential positions in this administration. We
hold the Supreme Court with conservatives, and we know we

(01:00:52):
will continue to do that as President Trump is in
office and Republicans hold the United States Senate. But it
is frustrating when the gymnastics of parliamentary procedure getting the
way from real and substantive progress. There's two things we
can think about. One, apply pressure to the Senate to
make sure that these things get across the line. In two,

(01:01:12):
elect more conservative Republicans to the United States Senate so
we never have this type of a problem in the future.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Amen. Amen to that. Now. You have been taking this
Save America Act a step farther, not too long ago,
you introduced a bill I believe it's called the Mega Act,
or you should say, the Make Elections Great Again Bill,
and that includes a number of provisions on election integrity,

(01:01:43):
election security. If you could, what else is in that
beyond voter verification? And where does that bill stand today?

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
We introduced the megabill Mega Elections Great Again because it's
my belief that we have to have comprehensive of election
integrity reform to secure our elections and give Americans confidence
in our election system. We absolutely need the two key
provisions in the Save America Act. We do need citizenship
verification in photo ID, but I think we have to

(01:02:15):
go a long ways beyond that. I think you need
paper ballots that are auditible. I think you need to
ban rank choice voting and ban ballot harvesting. I think
you need to have elections and on election day, I
think you need to make sure that we are cleaning
up our voter roles. In a host of other provisions
are needed. The Mega Act is as it sounds, It

(01:02:38):
is the comprehensive reforms that are needed. It builds on
the two provisions of the Save America Act and says, yes,
we do need those, but in fact, if we're going
to clean this up and make our elections the gold
standard that they should be, here are the reforms that
are needed. And I think what we have as an
opportunity here with President Trump at the White House, who

(01:03:00):
was acutely attuned to the exact challenges we face in
elections and the need to reform them, that this is
our moment in time to substantively fix US elections so
that Americans once again have full confidence in the results
we see as tallied on election night.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Absolutely and with a big election night coming up, extremely
consequential in November, more important than ever that the Congress
moves on all of this stuff. I wish we had
some more time because I really wanted to get into
another piece of legislation you have, and I think so
many Americans are glad to hear it, glad to see it.
It's about insider trading in Congress. We're up against the clock,

(01:03:42):
but we will definitely have to have you back on
soon to talk a little bit more about that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:46):
Okay, look forward to it. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
You bet. Congressman Brian's style representing the fine folks in
the fighting first Congressional district, talking about how we go
about saving this republic. You know how you do it?
Pass the damn Save America Act. Eighty percent of the
American voters want to see this. They want to see

(01:04:13):
election integrity laws that actually deliver election integrity. How about that?

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
I got to take a quick break five o'clock hours
straight ahead in the Dan O'Donnell Show with Matt Kittle,
Hang on, did somebody say poltato o'lays? Oh, it's always fun.
The conversations you have that aren't on the air, the
vast majority of them should never, including rough times at

(01:04:47):
death con two?

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Eric Paulson aur excellent producer. No comments otherwise, Hello, how
are you? Thrill seekers? Welcome back to the third and
final hour of this Thursday edition of The Dan O'Donnell
Show with your radio talk show host Phil and Daddy

(01:05:13):
Matt Kittle. How are you? We got a few things
we need to take care of. This hour going to
get into a couple of things. I'm not going to
have a chance to do it today. I wish I did,
because I think there are a lot of people in
the state of Wisconsin that are confused, and I am

(01:05:34):
one of them. By what the hell is going on
with this sports betting legislation? Seems like a tug of
war going on between the tribes, which of course have
the exclusive right in the state of Wisconsin at the
constitution to run casinos, gambling operations, what have you. And

(01:05:55):
now there's this whole plan to expand to bring into
Wisconsin statewide sports betting and the sports betting industry is
ticked off about this, as far as I understand it,
for some reasons. Absolutely, I get it. There is the
concern about the monopoly. There definitely is the concern about

(01:06:20):
Tony Evers negotiating a deal that goes on for a
long time. Now, what could possibly go wrong with Tony
Evers negotiating a deal that goes on for oh, I
don't know, four hundred years. Well, check your property tax bill.

(01:06:42):
You'll see exactly what can go wrong when that happens. Anyway,
the other side obviously says, well, wait a minute. These guys,
the sport betting industry, you know, they want to control everything,
and you won't get your money here, and with Wisconsin
they're going to be out of state, all these sorts
of things. I wanted to get a clearer understanding of

(01:07:06):
what is going on. I know I've talked to a
number of folks who feel the same way. They're also
very concerned about some backroom deals that are going on
that shouldn't be going on. And anyway, that's a topic
perhaps for tomorrow, and we'll see what we can do
on that front. Let us begin here, though, I mean

(01:07:27):
right here, what is that by the way. Oh, it
is some breaking news on the voting front. As we
told you about earlier today. Last hour, the House passed
a measure, how about this, to fund the Department of

(01:07:48):
Homeland Security. That's a good idea, it really is to
fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, you know, with
your Transportation Security Administration, with your FEMA, your Emergency Agency,
your cyber security intelligence, all of that sort of stuff,

(01:08:09):
and a lot of law enforcement law related officials tied
to it, not necessarily ice or border patrol, but so
many people depending on a functioning government, and it's particularly
important to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security when

(01:08:30):
the homeland is under increased threat. And I think enough
Democrats got that through their thick skulls today that they
voted in favor of fully funding the DHS. It took
long enough, but we're here. The House passed the measure
to fund the Department of Homeland Security this afternoon, but

(01:08:51):
Senate Democrats blocked similar legislation across the Capital, meaning the
partial government shut down that's right, will continue for now.
So you're not out of the woods yet, but at
least enough Democrats in the House got it passed. There
forty four Democrats, as I understand it, said, no, don't

(01:09:14):
worry about the thousands of people who are either actually
on terrorist watch list or part of a terror nexus,
or just really hate America. Don't worry about that while
the war in Iran is going on, because what we're

(01:09:35):
really concerned about is we want to stop the law
enforcement officers who are enforcing immigration law. We don't want
them to do their jobs anymore. I mean literally, they'll
tell you that it's well, we want reforms in there
because this agency is out of control, they've killed people.

(01:09:58):
Of course, what they all always refuse to mention is
what they really want is no law enforcement whatsoever. These
are the same people that brought you the defund the police.
These are the same people obviously in Milwaukee, as we
talked about yesterday. They want to abolish ice. They don't

(01:10:18):
want any cooperation with local law enforcement officials to bring
in violent, criminal, illegal immigrants. It's a very dangerous world.
Lawmakers shouldn't make it more dangerous any who. The House
approved the measure to fund DHS through September in a

(01:10:43):
two one hundred twenty one to two hundred nine vote,
so you got about what half a year and then
it's back to this stupidity again. Earlier in the day,
the Senate voted fifty one to forty five to move forward,
failing for a third time to reach a sixty vote

(01:11:03):
threshold needed to advance. Good lord, listen, I understand the
filibuster is critical to stop insane legislation, and there's clearly
a lot of insane legislation, aren't there, because frankly, there
are a lot of insane lawmakers out there. But you

(01:11:29):
can't get to a sixty vote threshold on something like
making sure the homeland is secure. Listen. I have met,
I have been part of some really dysfunctional families in
my fifty plus years. This is the most dysfunctional family

(01:11:51):
you will ever meet. These people cannot be in the
same room together. They have shown that over and over again.
A number of them need interventions, a lot of different
interventions at that GOP leaders have called on their colleagues

(01:12:12):
across the aisle to support a bipartisan agreement that appropriators
reached earlier this year to fund DHS through September. But
that deal was reached before a second fatal shooting by
federal agents in Minneapolis in January, which prompted Democrats to
go batgwana crazy and say, hey, you see, this is

(01:12:36):
rampant violence going on from the people the law enforcement
agents who have experienced an eight thousand uptick, an eight
thousand percentage point uptick in violence against them, So therefore
we will not fund them. Meanwhile, the perhaps the JV team,

(01:13:05):
as Obama like to call them, setting up shop somewhere
in Topeka or god knows where. President Trump announced shortly
before the Senate vote that he was replacing DHS Secretary
Christine Nome And so the pieces kind of fall together
on that politically, don't they, adding a new twist and negotiations.

(01:13:27):
Some Democrats indicated the move could help lead to a compromise.
Democrat Senator Richard Stolen Valor Blumenthal of Connecticut said earlier
that it might be easier for us to negotiate on
DHS funding if no one was fired. Well, guess what happened,

(01:13:52):
So that might make some sense. A lot of talk
that Trump was not real happy with Christy Nohm anyway,
for a number of reasons, including her testimony before Congress
this week and so expendable. Sure, Okay, there you go.
I wouldn't say it's a sacrificial lamb. I think that

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christinom had some bigger issues going on within the management
of DHS that a lot of Homeland Security folks found troubling.
And I'm not talking about the nut jobs in the
usual bureaucracy. But she did a lot of good things too.

(01:14:35):
Let's call the record for what it was. I mean,
if you liked getting a border back, she did a
great job at that. If you like law and order
in immigration in America, I think she did a pretty
good job at that. I think that she had some
messaging problems. I think that she was way too concerned

(01:14:59):
about making video in Camo, those sexy Camo outfits. I
think just kind of that. We're a disconnect the different
hats and what did they spend it. It was an
ungodly amount millions upon tens upon millions of dollars. I

(01:15:23):
don't know what the exact price tag was. But they
were videos produced starring Christineome that were made to tell
illegal immigrants, Hey, we have a deal for you. Okay,
you get the hell out of here. Before you do,
we'll cut you check you had self and at some

(01:15:48):
point you can go through the legal process, and we
won't bar you from that. You don't do that, you
don't get the money, you never get a chance to
go through the process. You're barred from coming in at all,
and you're screwed. And that was a message that I

(01:16:14):
think obviously was quite successful. A lot of illegal immigrants
took the federal government up on that sweetheart deal. Christy
Knaam did a lot of these videos, except they seem
to all be running on Fox News.

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
I don't know about you, but I think it's a
safe bet that a slim portion, a slim percentage of
Fox's viewing audience are illegal immigrants. I'm just saying, Oh,
they ran on Newsmax too, Yes, even better. So you

(01:16:57):
got to know your marketplace. And that wasn't it that AnyWho? So,
Christy's gone. The hope was that you would get the House,
which you did, and then you get the Senate, and
now we'd have funding for DHS. You don't because once
again you have people that have put their posturing and

(01:17:22):
their performance above public safety. And so here we are.
Is there hope that this thing could come to an
end soon? Never holds your breath. Republicans have argued that
ending the impasse has grown more urgent since the beginning

(01:17:43):
of the war with Iran. They do that because that
is reality. Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota
said this week that quote, there are always threats to
the homeland that have to be addressed, but the stakes
are higher now. Yes, again, anyone with a lower level

(01:18:06):
IQ understands that, I'll Speaker Mike Johnson said in a
statement Tuesday that military action in Iran makes it all
the more urgent and crucial to have a fully staffed,
fully funded Department of Homeland Security across departments. If we
are being wise, now is the time to be vigilant

(01:18:28):
at home and to ensure that all of our doors
are locked, so to speak. Johnson said, Obviously everyone understands
that it's a heightened threat environment. Global tensions are high,
Threats are constantly evolving, and America's adversaries are watching for
any sign of weakness on our part. Not everyone understands that. Clearly.

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If they did, then DHS would be fully funded right now.
That's not to say that the Department of Homeland Security
is going to stave off every threat out there. They
clearly haven't, nor will the FBI working with their partners

(01:19:19):
in local law enforcement. But if you have the people
in place, the technology, the intelligence in place, it makes
your job a lot easier, and it makes the odds
of a nasty attack much less, much lower. Now it's

(01:19:42):
time for everyone to get that idea. We shall see,
we shall see coming up next. This is a bad idea,
or at least it has come to be a bad idea.
And I'm going to sell you. Tell you something. I
thought this was a bad idea long before coming to pass.

(01:20:03):
Maybe free Brittany hashtag free Brittany was such a good idea.
After all, we'll delve into the latest on that front.
And before we check out today, this headline poop spread
illness is on the rise, just in time for dinner.
I hope you will stay with us. It is the

(01:20:24):
Dan O'Donnell's Show with your old radiomego, Matt Kittle, hang
on caving it real, keeping it right. It's Dan o'donalds Show,
Thursday edition. Kittle, here you are there. I'm glad you
are welcome to the ride home. One more day. Baby,

(01:20:45):
It's pay dirt the weekend smell it. I love the
smell of weekend in the afternoon, don't you you sure do?

Speaker 4 (01:20:56):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
I said, this was a bad idea at the time.
There were some people in my household, there are some
people in my life who said, no, how can you
be so cruel? How can you be so mean? Britney.
Brittany is a prisoner of her father's making. By God,

(01:21:20):
set that woman free. And I said, I get what
you're saying, but kind of a lunatic and this could
end very badly for everyone. No, no, no, no no,
they said, everyone deserves to be free. She's an adult.
She should be able to make her own decisions about

(01:21:42):
her life, her finances, the people she has in or
out of her life. I said, yeah, all of that
sounds good on the surface, but have you seen this
young woman not so young anymore, this young woman's track record.
It's like a portfolio, I always say, except it's the

(01:22:06):
exact opposite. They say, the past is not indicative of
the future. It's not an indicator of the future. But
in this case, it's all just a little bit of
history repeating, and here we are. At least it feels
kind of like we're back at the square one. You

(01:22:27):
sure did, Brittany, See now, I Who would have thought
this girl could have gone so wrong in her tight
red rubbers suit gyrating about I know it, I know
that's been the problem. So so here it is the story,

(01:22:52):
the Brittany story, the latest one from Fox News This Hour.
Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night in Cali. I'm going
to file this away under the heading of least surprising
story of the day. Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night

(01:23:14):
in California. The California Highway Patrol arrested Spears around nine
to twenty eight pm, According to records viewed by Fox
News Digital. The Baby One More Time singer was booked
at three h two am. No not booked to perform.

(01:23:34):
It was booked by law enforcement authorities. Released around six
oh seven am on Thursday. Authorities arrested Spears for allegedly
driving under the influence, a source told Fox News Digital.
TMZ was the first to report the arrest. As you
might expect is what TMZ do. This was an unfortunate

(01:23:57):
incident that is completely inexcusable. A rep for Spears told
Fox News Digital, Brittany is going to take the right
steps and comply with the law and Hopefully this can
be the first step in a long overdue change that
needs to occur in Britney's life. They freed Brittany. That

(01:24:23):
was the bottom line, right, That was what the big documentary,
That was the big story several years back, pretty sure
that that was the case. It was all about Brittany
getting control of her life, getting her life back together,
showing the court that was involved in all of this

(01:24:43):
that she could get her life. And the court had
misgivings and all of those sorts of things. And they
still have no matter what, they still have a representative
who has to talk in a scolding tone when she
deals with this. What is she thirty something? Now she's
forty something. I know those little I think she's forty

(01:25:05):
something too. I know those puppet faced kids on that
he's forty four. Yes, good lord, she's not that innocent.
I'm trying to tell you, what were those twins from
that show? They look like little puppets to me. The

(01:25:29):
Wilson Twins, Flip Wilson's kids. Oh, the Olsen Twins. Okay,
so you're taking me way back in television history. The
Olsen Twins, that's right. On that Full House show, the
one where Bob Saggatt was a clean freak dad who
loved his kids and then at night would go do

(01:25:50):
some of the raunchiest comedy that you'd ever hear. Right
after TV's Funniest home videos were people were always always
doing horrible things to their crutches. They they're in their
forties now too, aren't they? The Olsen twins. They gotta

(01:26:10):
be all of these kids, you know. My mom used
to say this, and I'm getting to an age where
I know this more and more so, just a tad
younger than Britney spears. They're not that innocent, as the
song goes. My mom used to tell me this before

(01:26:31):
she passed. She said, everybody I used to watch on
television and at the movies and listen to on the
radio are dead. It was. It's not an uplifting thought,
it was it was true. You know, eventually all the

(01:26:53):
people you know. It's the same thing now. Britney spheares, Oops,
I did it again, and baby one more time can
be heard on old these stations. You want to feel
real old. There you go. So anyway, back to Britney's troubles,

(01:27:13):
As her rep says, Britney is going to take the
right steps and comply with the law, and hopefully this
can be the first step and a long overdue change
that needs to occur in Britney's life. Yes, the journey
of a thousand steps begins with one or twelve, as

(01:27:34):
this case may show. Hopefully she can get the help
and support she needs during this difficult time. Her boys
are going to be spending time with her, her loved
ones are going to come up with an overdue needed
plan set her up for success for well being. It

(01:27:54):
is crazy, though, isn't it. I mean again, it was
a huge star. I think she was on The Mickey
Mouse Club or something years ago. She was on some
Disney show, right, and so she came out of there
and then she's this big, massive celebrity star pop queen.
Then all of a sudden she's topless in places and

(01:28:19):
caught on camera doing things and just spiraling out of control.
And we've seen that with a lot of Hollywood celebrities,
not alone, a lot of people and regular Joe's in
life have done that, but Brittany in particular had quite
the wipeout, and apparently it was so bad that her

(01:28:40):
dad and people in her life had to step in
and say you just can't do it anymore, and we're
going to set up like a trust, a conservatorship. We're
going to have the court involved in this. We're going
to oversee every aspect of your life. And that's, of course,
when all of the a Free Britney campaign came out

(01:29:03):
saying that she was she was being oppressed by her
oppressors and oops, she did it again. Dispatch audio obtained
by Fox News Digital indicated that the California Highway Patrol
followed Spears for a while on the Freeway and other
roads in the Greater Los Angeles area before pulling her over.

(01:29:27):
Driver is out of the vehicle. Police can be heard saying,
just talking with the driver, someone said and immediately said,
oh my god, it's Britney Spears. Should she be allowed
to drive? No, I didn't say that. They were thinking
that though. They said do they need a venture a
supervisor to roll out? That's police lingo for saying maybe

(01:29:51):
we need some support here. While dispatch asked officers if
they'd like a supervisor, It's unclear if one was needed anyway.
Fox News Digital has reached out to California Highway Patrol.
None of that is really necessary. What is really relevant
to the story is, according to Fox, the Gimme Moore

(01:30:13):
singer is no stranger to public scrutiny. Spears struggle with
mental health in the early two thousands led to a
controversial conservatorship, as we noted before, helmed by her father,
Jamie Spears. Some of her fans said the dad was
a tyrant and again she should be in control of

(01:30:36):
her own life, her own destiny. Following two involuntary psychchiatric
holds in two thousand and eight, Jamie was granted a
temporary conservative ship over his daughter. At the end of
the year, the court order became permanent and Jamie was
appointed conservator, with attorney Andrew Wallet named as co conservator.

(01:31:00):
In nineteen excuse me twenty twenty one. November of that year,
Spears was freed, just as the people demanded hashtag free Britney.
She was freed from a conservatorship Jamie controlled for more
than thirteen years. While addressing the court when her term ended,

(01:31:20):
Spears said, I just want my life back. All I
want is to own my money and for my boyfriend
to be able to drive me in his car. Mm hm.
And now it appears her boyfriend is going to have
to drive her in her car if she is convicted

(01:31:41):
of this operating while intoxicated sitch. Anyway, there is your
Britney update now, and for all of those who said passionately,
vehemently free Britney spears last night, early this morning she
was in custody once again, we'll take a quick break

(01:32:03):
coming up. We've got a few other things. I want
to get to a few spare thoughts as we wrap
this baby up. Stay with us. It's the Dan o'donald Show,
with yours truly, Matt Kittle. You can tell by the
way I walk I'm a woman's man. No time to talk.
And then some hey, how are you Kittle? Here? You

(01:32:25):
are there wrapping it up just a few fleeting moments
in this Thursday edition of The Dan o'donald Show. And
I got too much going on here. I don't think
we're going to get to everything, but let's start here
a little fun and frivolity. Eric, you got a little
extra cash line around, Okay, if you can put whatever

(01:32:54):
you have together, let's you and I we go in
on this deal. Six Flags Entertainment selling off seven of
its amusement parks in the United States and Canada. You ready, eh,
let's get out of this this radio business. Well, let's
see what do they have on the list. On Thursday,

(01:33:15):
the company said it would sell off Michigans Where'd that go? Michigan's,
Uh got to hate when they do that Adventure, Michigan's
Adventure and Muskegon Michigan Schlitterbond excuse me? Water Park in Galveston, Texas,

(01:33:37):
Six Flags Great Escape in Queensbury, New York, Six Flags
Laurent in Montreal, Six Flags Saint Louis in Missouri. How
about that?

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
You ever been there? That is a big one. Oh man,
did we have some fun back in the day there?
Valley Fair in Minneapolis is on the market as well,
and World's have Fun in Kansas City for listen, if
you can get this whole thing, this sweetheart deal, six

(01:34:13):
adventure land parks all together for the low low price
of three hundred and thirty one million dollars. What do
you think going on? Is that a yes vote? Let
me check my wallet here. Let's see. I don't think

(01:34:36):
four Bucks is gonna cut it, and not he'ven even
gonna cut it for poker tomorrow night. I better do
something else consistent with our strategy. This divestiture enables us
to concentrate our capital, leadership and operational focus on the
properties that we believe generate the strongest returns and offer
the greatest long term upside. Six Flags Entertainment Corporation Chief

(01:34:59):
Executive John said in a news release. So, all of
these parks, and I've been to a couple of them.
I know that our mutual friend in the iHeart Madison
Milwaukee Chain, Sean Preeble, has done like a tour of
at least the Midwest big amusement parks and maybe beyond that.

(01:35:22):
I don't know if he went to if he's gone
to Schlitterbond. But you ever had that at Octoberfest. It's
really good. You put a little mustard on that Schlitterbond
and with a cold mug of beer. But I know
he does the the schlitter Bond. You can drive as

(01:35:43):
fast as you want on the schlitter Bond, but holy Schlitterbon.
There have been some crashes out there, that's for sure. Anyway,
I was glad to see that one of the places
that I love to go to and we would try
to do it when I was a kid. Once a
summer at least was Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, the

(01:36:08):
Chicago area, and I rode all of those roller coasters
all of the time. And I could do that when
I was eleven years old. As a fifty something year
old man with vertigo, that is a literal death sentence.
I can tell you that we were at Little America

(01:36:29):
when the kids were little, outside of Madison, and they
just had you know, they have the big, big roller coasters,
they're the fun sized kid roller coasters, and they had
something called the Bullet and my son, who was maybe
six seven years old at the time, he said, Dad,
we got to go on that. We've got to go
on that. And every man must know his limitations, and

(01:36:53):
I knew mine, but he was really insistent, and I
wanted to be the brave and courageous dad my young
son's eyes, and so I stupidly decided to get into
that coffin like space with a little air breathing vent

(01:37:14):
wiry vent up top. And there were two of these pods.
We got into one there was another dad and his
son and the other one and the thing would just
shoot down and then come back up like a bullet
into the ground, and oh my god, like within fifteen

(01:37:36):
seconds twenty seconds of this ride, I was out of
my head. Like I said, I have vertigo, and so
things get really not good in that situation. So things
were getting crazy. I was seeing double I was very,
very nauseous, and I just remember screaming to the Carnie below, Okay,

(01:38:00):
that's good, I'm good. You can stop it now, give
other kids a chance. There's like a minute end of
this thing, and I look and what I can see
in my blurred vision is this very malicious, malevolent Carnie
who looked up at me and he gave me a

(01:38:22):
greasy thumbs up and just smiled and smiled. I said, no, no, no,
you don't understand. I'm going back and forth very much
on the verge. Things were gonna get pretty vomity. He
never did, never came to that. And after what seemed
like a century, that son of a gun let us down,

(01:38:46):
and my boy was so excited. Oh Dad, wasn't that funny?
He thought I was being a funny guy when I
was saying, okay, that's enough, now, slower down. Could we
get off, Dad, You're so funny. I'm so sick son.
I'm so so very sick and wobbly, so the roller

(01:39:06):
coasters and the spinny things are not good for me.
But I always like to enjoy the kids on there
having fun. I did when I could handle it, and
so yes, it'd be a great, great fun adventure to
own six adventure Land or not Adventureland, Great America parks,
six Flags parks across the country for the low low

(01:39:29):
price of three thirty one million dollars. Okay, let's close
with this story, just a warning and a bit of
a really, how do we get here again? And shouldn't
we alert FDR. The headline is that the Centers for

(01:39:49):
Disease Control and Prevention warns of polio risk. That's right,
polio in over thirty countries as spring breaks, travel ramps up. Polio.
That's the thing that got Franklin Delan a Roosevelt in
a wheelchair. That's the thing. You look at these black
and white photos from the nineteen fifties, the Eisenhower years,

(01:40:12):
and you see kids in those iron lungs, just terrible
tragic things. And then all of a sudden, the guy
comes along. He's got a sugar cube, and there's no
polio anymore in the country. Hey, it's gone, it's gone,
it's back. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has

(01:40:37):
issued a warning about circulating poliovirus in over thirty countries
the level two practiced enhanced precautions. Wow, that does sound serious.
The alert was published earlier this week. Before any intentional travel,
make sure you are up to date on your polio vaccines,

(01:40:59):
the age and he said, shaking the agency's head, saying, really,
polio black death coming next. Yes. The announcement comes as
Americans begin their Spring break Travels and countries such as Spain,

(01:41:19):
the United Kingdom, and Germany are among those listed in
the warning. So if you plan to travel over the pond,
remember polio is on the rise. Travelers are told they
can prevent the illness by making sure that both adults
and children are up to date on their polio vaccines

(01:41:41):
and comes pre standard it has for a long time.
Adults who previously completed the full routine polio vaccine series
may receive a single lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine.
The CDC recommends wait a minute, Wait a minute, this

(01:42:02):
isn't one of those bait and switch things. The I'll
switch aroo. Is it you're gonna say? It's polio? And
it's the fifteenth version of the COVID update. This applies,
by the way, to any Americans who are planning on
traveling to countries listed. The CDC warns that the disease

(01:42:25):
is crippling, as Franklin delanor Roosevelt could have testified, and
can be deadly impacting the nervous system. Good hand washing
practices can help prevent the spread of this disease. The
CDC notes, it's always good advice because basically where this
is coming from. And I realize it's getting too close

(01:42:48):
to dinner time, but I want you to be aware
and I want you to be warned because the virus
that causes polio lives in the feces aka a poop
of an infected person. People infected with the disease can
spread it to others when they do not wash their

(01:43:10):
hands well after number two. Well, actually the quote is
I love it when you have to force the CDC
to use in a press release to use the term pooping.
I said, this happens if you don't wash your hands

(01:43:32):
very well after defecating parentheses pooping, you got it. What's
the way. Wait a minute, now, what's that defecating? I
don't do that, and it's pooping. Oh god, god, yeah
I do that. Okay. I just wanted you to be
alert and to be warned. I've got to go. You
have yourself a great night until we talk again, Kittle

(01:43:52):
saying goodbye, so long, God bless