January 24, 2025 • 28 mins
President Trump has been very critical of FEMA. Is it time to bring back the power of recovery to the States? President Trump thinks so!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, thank you Scott Channon, and thanks to all
of you for being with us. Right down our toll
free telephone number if you want to be a part
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one Sean if you'd like to join us. We've got
a lot coming up in the course of the program today.
We expect about the time that I come on TV
tonight that there will be a vote in the US
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Senate on the nomination of Pete Hegseth. It is expected
to be close, but you know, you can't say anything
with any degree of certainty when it comes to Washington,
d C. If you want a friend, get a dog.
There's the best advice I can give people. And at
this time, when it's freezing cold, you might want to
get an extra sweater and bundle up to the maximum level.
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I've got to give Donald Trump credit beyond moving forget
about the first hundred days, His first hundred hours have
been incredible. We're going to play part of my interview
with him in the Oval Office coming up later in
the program as well today and the President now and
just think about this for a second. You think that
Joe Biden could sit with me for over an hour
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and answer any question. And by the way, I don't
give him questions ahead of time, and sometimes it doesn't
even matter what questions I ask him. He wants to
talk about things. He wanted to talk a lot about California.
He went to North Carolina. We're going to talk about that.
He's headed to California. Gavin is planning on, you know,
sabotaging this. I don't. I don't know what is going
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on in Gavin Newsom's mind. But whoever's advising him, or
if he's just you know, running rogue, I just think
it's the wrong strategy in so many different ways. We'll
talk about that. But while he was in and he
said this to me in the interview in the Oval Office,
you know, while he was in North Carolina, he said
he may eliminate FEMA. And we, probably more than any
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other show, have chronicled the disaster that has been the
northeastern part of North Carolina, that it was devastated by
Hurricane Helene. It was devastated and that is a failure
of FEMA. Remember, we kept having the Operation Helo guys
on there. One of the guys was on yesterday. We
kept having Franklin Graham on the program. We kept talking
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to people that were raising money, and FEMA for weeks
was nowhere to be found. And he the President today
said he's considering an executive order that would eliminate FEMA,
blasting it as a failure, saying that the states should
oversee their own disaster recovery efforts. And if you think
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about North Carolina without neighbor helping neighbor and groups like
Samaritans Purse and groups like Operation Helo, these people would
be out in the freezing cold. I mean, just go
back a week and a half ago, or two weeks ago,
or a week ago, whatever it was. They were on
a one day deadline if you didn't fill out the
proper paperwork and you were being housed by FEMA. They
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were thinking of kicking out thirty five hundred people. And
it's freezing right now in North Carolina. I mean, we've
got this arctic blast that continues all throughout the country.
But what the President is saying here, he's not saying
that we're not going to help our fellow Americans in need,
just the opposite. He was in Asheville, North Carolina. He
surveyed the damage which is just devastating. He said a
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state response to the crisis would be faster and less expensive.
He've rightly pointed out FEMA's not done its job. And
where was Joe Biden, Where's Kamala Harris? During all of this,
we kept calling them out, saying, when are you going
to go help North Carolina? They never seem to care.
I have no doubt it had an impact on the election.
Early on, we were all worried whether or not people
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in the affected areas would even be able to vote,
But they voted. They voted in big numbers, and Donald
Trump carried the state by more than was anticipated. And
he just said FEMA has not done the job. And
I like, frankly, the concept when North Carolina gets hit
that the governor will take care of it. When Arty
gets hit, the governor takes care of it. And to
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have a group of people come in from an area
they don't even know where they're going to solve immediately
a problem is something that never worked for him. And
he's right, he's not saying not to give money. No,
We're going to give money to North Carolina, and North Carolinians,
you know, deserve the support of the American people, especially
in light of how much money we give foreign countries
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like Ukraine and others. It's a massive amount of money.
And you know, so the American people are absolutely the
most generous people on earth. They're willing to help the
people in North Carolina and the people in Los Angeles,
and we want them to rebuild. Now in Los Angeles
a little bit of a different situation because a lot
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a lot of things were not done properly. And if
we're going to give billions of dollars, and there's you know,
estimate estimates out there, you know, two hundred and fifty billion,
you know, up toward trillion dollars. It's not that high,
but two hundred and fifty billion dollars a taxpayer money.
You've got to give it with some conditions that prevent
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this from ever happening again, like practicing the science of forestry,
removing the brush controlled burns. You know, you build these
these areas, these these gaps where you know, even with
Santa Ana winds, Santa Ana winds are predictable. Wildfires in
California are predictable. These are events that can be stopped.
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These are events that could be handled. You don't cut
the firefighters budget. When the lead firefighter is saying that
you need twice the manpower if you ever have a
wildfire in the state. I mean, that's just that. That
is madness by its very definition. It's insane. And you
do need hydrants that actually have water in them. You
do need reservoirs that are filled. You can't be pouring
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you know, you know, hundreds of millions of gallons of
water into the Pacific every year from northern California when
southern California is very drought prone and you need that water,
and you can easily transport that water from the north
to the south in that state. It's not that complicated.
It is the highest tax state in the country. And
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all of this is just as basic, simple common sense.
The President also newly confirmed CIA director John Ratcliffe has
vowed to conclusively answer questions about the origins of COVID.
That was good news in my mind. Today we already
know the origins of COVID. We know that it happened
in the Wuhan virology lab. Why did Anthony Fauci, you know,
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why was he you know, feverishly texting in January of
twenty twenty as he was with other members of the
NIH knowing that they gave money to the Eco Health Alliance,
knowing that the Eco Health Alliance had given that money
to the Wuhan virology Lab that was known for gain
of function research. It's insane, but Trump continues to move
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at the speed of light, at a pace that Joe
Biden could never think of running at. Donald Trump today
pardoning twenty three abortion protesters convicted by the Biden DOJ.
These were peaceful pro life protesters. They should not have
been prosecuted, he said. Many of them were elderly people.
This is insane should they never should have been prosecuted.
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This is a great honor to sign this. And he
issued the pardons on the eve of the annual March
for Life on DC, a massive anti abortion protest that
will take place in Washington to mark the Supreme Court's
Roe v. Wade decision in nineteen seventy three. Back to
California for a minute. We still have fires as of
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today going on in multiple areas in southern California. You know,
you have the huge fire off the Pia Canyon Road
which is ongoing, and you have other firefighters working to
prevent the spread of that fire. And in the last day,
hundreds of very tired, weary firefighters because they're undermanned and
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understaffed and underpaid. Frankly a battled multiple fire fires in
the hills of Los Angeles, in Ventura County and other
areas that are threatened like Brentwood and bel Air, and
Mayor Bass says her brother lost her home in the
Palisades fire. Okay, but they're not practicing basic fire management.
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And then you got to look at how they spend
their money while they're cutting back. They don't have enough
firefighters to fight a wildfire, according to the fire chief,
and that yet they still cut the firefighters budget. But
then they allocate over six hundred and fifty million federal
and state dollars to make the Port of Los Angeles green.
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This is insane. I read this article today. It was
in Politico, hardly a conservative publication. That Gavin Newsom has
now said, you know, he's yet to hear from Donald
Trump and whether he's invited or not. Newsom confirmed he's
planning to show up at the airport for a customary greeting.
You know, I look forward to being there in the
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tarmac to thank the president, welcome him. And making sure
that all the resources he needs for successful briefing are
provided to him. I mean this, this is no way
to communicate with the president. I don't know who's advising Gavin,
but it's really bad advice. You know, Trump to visit California,
and he's been very critical of a lot of basic, basic, simple,
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you know, forest management items that have not been handled,
including the water, including the hydrants, including the reservoirs, including
cutting the firefighters budget, including money billions set aside for
you know, turbines, and all this other nonsense and all
these other green products. So that'll be interesting to watch.
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I'm not sure exactly if Newsom's you know, doing this
for show, but we'll see what happens when he gets
out there. I don't think the President's going out there
not to help the people of California's going out to
help them, but they do, they do have to make
some changes out there. It's simple, basic, common sense. A
lot of reaction to Donald Trump's signing in order to
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declassify the files on JFK, RFK and the MLK assassinations.
He had promised to declassify the previously classified documents during
the twenty twenty four campaign yesterday. It was when I
actually saw the tape of it, it was more of
a beatdown than I thought it was. A President Trump
did it in a pretty nice way, calling out the
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Bank of American Chief Brian moynihan during the World Economic
Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He did it visa via a
zoom link. But these are all important items for the president.
We know that the President's nominations, the way things look
like they're going tonight, that it looks like Senator Murkowski
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Lisa Murkowski will be a no vote on Pete hagg
Seth Collins will be a no vote on Pete hagg Seth.
And while Mitch McConnell did vote to move the bill
to the Senate floor, there is absolutely no guidance at
all from his office. I called over myself personally today
as to which way he's going to vote, and so
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in that sense, it does hang in the bounds.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
JD.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Vans will be on hand in case he needs to
be a tie breaking vote. Our friend John Kennedy from
Louisiana gave some pretty hilarious advice to one o' donald
Trump's nominees during his confirmation hearing. Russell Voight, Trump's nominee
to head the Office of Management and Budget, had his
second hearing on Tuesday ahead of his confirmation. Void previously
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served in the OMB during the first Trump administration. He
wants fiscal reform, tackling the administrative deep state. Anyways, said
many people also call. He said, you served to Washington
for years. You're going to be challenging the status quo.
You're going to be called crazy. Many people thought, Noah
and the Bible was crazy equipped and then he and
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then the rains came and all the fact checkers died.
You have to persevere. You gotta love this guy. Anyway,
So this major hurdle yesterday. But we still don't know
about Senator Mitch McConnell. There's been some rumblings that others
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there might be some discontent among others until this vote
takes place. You know, I don't count votes until they're
actually cast. But this is an important vote because we
need a Secretary of Defense and we need one in quickly.
John Ratcleff was born in as CIA director. After the
vote on Pete, heg seth, I believe they're going to
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vote next to and debate on PHS Secretary nominee Christy
Nome is not a problem expected in that area. Hawaii's
Urano is the only Senator to vote know on Collins,
continuing partisan streak of the hearings. Anyway, the only lawmaker
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on the Senate Veterans Affair Committee to oppose Trump's nominee
to the Department of Veterans Affairs. That's Doug Collins, former
representative from Georgia. So that's the latest on the nominee front.
And there's a lot there. We have a ton of
immigration news we've got to get to today Donald Trump
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more economic news. The economy he is inheriting is an
unmitigated disaster for the American people. That means all of
you out there listening, and we'll give you that information
so you know exactly where Donald Trump is starting as
he begins the process of hopefully getting this economy humming
again and getting prices down, and getting energy prices down,
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and getting inflation down and getting interest rates down. It
won't happen overnight, but hopefully it can happen pretty quickly.
Watching the people in North Carolina today, it is unbelievable.
When when did Hurricane Helene actually Hitlinda. Was it October November?
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In November, the end of September, right the end of September.
It's been such a long time. Anyway, here's President Trump.
And why Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, you know, didn't give
North Carolina at the time of day, is unfathomable to me.
Telling the people in North Carolina, the victims, that you're
not forgotten and how badly they were treated by the
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last administration.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
We've come to North Carolina with a simple message for
all the people of this region who were hit so
hard by Hurricane Helene. And that message is very simple.
You are not forgotten any longer. You were treated very
badly by the previous administration. And I'm here after a
few days of the administration. We're going to California in
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Los Angeles. They got hit hard, as you know, a
lot of that could have been prevented. I think of
the head water, which they had plenty of, but they
didn't use it. But I'm going there. But we set
up to go there, and they said, what about North Carolina?
They said, well, what would you? I said, I have
to stop there first. I'm stopping in North Carolina. So
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we made the stop. I wanted to come here, and
before I went anywhere, frankly, in the campaign, I promised
that I'd come back to western North Carolina to help
the people of the state. And today here I am
to deliver on that promise. And we have a lot
of things in mind, and we're getting the core of
the Army Corps of Engineer engineers all set. You need
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your riverbanks fixed, you need a lot of roads fixed,
and we're going to get it done and rapid time.
And I've asked Susie Wiles and all of my people
to start calling up, get the corps ready, and they're
going to get ready to go.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I don't know what took so long for the other administration,
but remember I wasn't here for the first four months
or three months, whatever it may be. See, we can
only start as of essentially one or two days ago,
and we've made a lot of progress over the last
couple of days. Michael, I understand. We're going to get
you the resources you need and the support that you deserve,
and we'll be at de side through every step of
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the rebuilding. And no American is going to be left behind.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
No American is going to be left behind, and we
don't need FEMA to do it. Let's go back to
October Joe Biden telling another lie like the border's secure
and the borders closed, and inflation is transitory, and all
the Democrats saying, what a cognitive genius he is. I'm
a young person. He runs circles around four or five
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of us at one time. He's so energetic, which we
also know is a lie. But him promising that the
victims of Hurricane Helene were getting everything they need in
spite of everybody on the ground telling us the exact
op Listen, well, what are.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
The states in the storm phone?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
What do they need after.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
What you saw today?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh on the storm zone, Yes, sir, I'm going what
storm is groving of?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, they don't ever there they need.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
They're very happy across the board.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
So we're just trying to have to go back to
the content and listen more money with.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Her to President.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Now, I will say this, if you want to know
what really was going on on the ground of the time,
let's listen to one of the victims that spoke out today,
She saying she'd been fighting with FEMIS in September the
twenty seventh Listen.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I've been fighting with FEMA since day one. Our community
there's like thirty two homes. We don't have a road
in the bridge. We're driving through our neighbor's property. You know.
I went to EMS and I said, look, my concern
is if we have a fire or we have an
emergency out here, you're not going to get to us.
You can't get those big trucks up here. And and
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I've called and called and called FEMA, and you know,
I said, it's this happened on September twenty seventh. That's
four months ago. Well for us, today is still September
twenty seventh. You know, we haven't had help. And so
when I talk to FEMA, I'm explaining the road and
the bridge, and they send me a letter that tells
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me to basically fix it and send in my receipts
and they'll refund me some money. I'm on looking at
a road and bridge that honestly, the bridge itself is
probably going to be three hundred thousand dollars in the
road could be close to that. Also, because we have
to have the community has to have big boulders brought in.
We're not a rich community. We can't fix it ourselves, you.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Know, It's just.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
And as far as like house repairs, I'm still pending.
I can't get money from FEMA until I fix the
road and bridge and send in my my my proof
that it's fixed and everything. It's just it's been a
nightmare and I totally feel that we have been forgotten.
If it had not been for for our fellow American
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citizens who stepped up to help us, I don't know
what we would have done. I have. I have five
neighbors around me who completely lost everything. You know, I
have damage to my house, and I feel I don't
feel entitled. I'm embarrassed to even say I need help
because you know, and sometimes there's even that that that
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that survivors guilt us what they're calling it. But you
feel guilty even be alive sometimes, you know, when you
look around, you see your neighbors that are gone, and
it's just, you know, we need help. I wrote a
letter that to send to Congress. You know, I don't
understand what's going on. If we can get FEMA help,
then will you guys help us? Will you step up
and be our fellow citizen? Will you step up? And
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be our neighbor and send us something, help us, help
us get our community back. It's I could go on,
it's just a I don't know. It's just heartbreaking. God
appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Rebuild and will send you a check. Give us the receipt.
What do they think people have hundreds of thousands of
dollars just standing by to build a new house. Are
they out of their minds? I've never This is why
government I always say, don't trust them, don't count on them.
And if you need any more evidence, look at government schools.
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They can't keep towns in cities safe and secure. Social Security,
Medicare is headed towards insolvency. Obamacare a disaster, not one
promise of Obamacare, and they want a green new deal.
Cradle to grave, womb to the tomb, society. That's real
life what that lady is describing. And again, neighbor helping neighbor,
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Samaritan's purse. Franklin Graham was with the President today. He
grew up right near where the where hurricanes lean struck,
and he pointed out Trump's not coming there for votes.
The election is over. He's not running for office again.
He wants to make life better to the people in
North Carolina that have been abandoned. Oh, just just send
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us your receipts. Well, you can't get through the roads
and there's no bridges. How are you going to get
the building materials there? You're going to fly him in
on a helicopter. These people out of their minds. It's unreal.
They abandoned them. They abandon our fellow Americans, you know.
And then I go to the economic numbers. I was
pointing out earlier, higher mortgage rates, record home prices, you know,
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sales Now, US home sales in twenty twenty four, the
last year of Biden fell to the lowest level in
nearly thirty years. This is two years in running. It's
been a disaster. What do you think that is? Higher
mortgage rates, record home prices, you know, kept sales subdued
for the second straight year. People cannot afford it. I've
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been there. I know what it's like. It sucks. It
just does. Then we have you know that more people
are paying the minimum payment on as credit card balances
of rising. You know, in the third quarter of twenty
twenty four, nearly eleven percent of active credit card accounts
paid only the minimum balance well, you know, with twenty
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one twenty two percent interest rates, you're never going to
pay that money off. And people using that money not
for extravagance. They're not going to air mace and sacks,
Fifth Avenue and expensive stores. No, they're going to grocery stores.
They're putting gas in their cars that is way too expensive.
You know, whether it's a busted refrigerator, car trouble, medical issues,
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unexpected cost of any kind. It's a part of life.
But even routine curveballs are now spelling serious financial trouble
for many Americans. According to a new report that came
out surveying one thousand US adults about their ability to
handle a surprise bill like that, they found fifty nine
percent of Americans starting out this year don't have enough
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savings to cover an unex expected one thousand dollars emergency expense.
I mean, I mean that's the bare minimum, a thousand dollars.
Most people can't afford that this has had. This is
what paying twelve thousand dollars more year because of Biden
Harrison Plation does to people. By the way, Trump is
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ordered the halt of the wind energy and these ugly
windmills by the way, California, you know, they're cutting the
firefighters budget, but they put aside billions for that disaster.
And by the way, don't forget it was Donald Trump
that got Elon Musk. You know that's been attacked because
he's friends with Donald Trump. Uh to get you know,
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starlink communications up for the people in north northeastern northwestern
North Carolina so they can have communications back. And Trump's
call what the Saudi Crown prince has resulted in a
six hundred billion dollar pledge and investment to our country.
And call it the Trump effect, you know, Trump warning
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economic leaders at Davos, you know, make your products in
America or face tariffs. I mean, we can't even buy
a dozen eggs. I eat eggs and meat, and the
egg supply is now strained because of bird flew. Most
people around the country paid nine bucks, you know, for
a dozen eggs. I know for a fact, that's what
it cost. I like to get organic, large cage free eggs,
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you know, trying to eat a little healthier, and it
cost eleven dollars a dozen. Now I can afford it,
and that's the diet of my choice. But still that's
a lot of money for a lot of people. I
remember when eggs were, you know, just a couple of dollars,
a couple of dollars, a dozen. Now Donald Trump is
using military cargo planes, fulfilling his promise on the border
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to fly Biden illegals back across the border. The President
has shuddered the Biden administrations immigration offices in Latino, Memora, America.
Donald Trump and Ice have raided, you know, make these
raids even in sanctuary states and cities. They're finding tedophiles,
gang bangers, and a suspected terrorist. You know, they're up
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to hundreds and hundreds of people, including new arrests of teedofiles,
gang members and a suspected terrorist in New York. And
this crackdown continues. Illegal alien gangs have been targeting the
homes of NFL players, we find out according to the
Daily Caller, I mean, we've been reading all about these
NFL players. Tom Homan says that the Haitian illegal who
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vowed he'd never returned to Haiti is being returned to Haiti.
And he was trashing Trump and praising Joe Biden and
Barack Obama. The judge that block Trump's birthright citizenship Reform
gave an anti cop rioter, according to the Justice Department website,
who tried to burn down a Seattle police headquarters a
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slap on the wrist two years sentence. Gee, because you're
appointed by a Republican doesn't mean a whole hell of
a lot. Los Angeles suburb unanimously voting to become a
non sanctuary city to support Donald Trump. On the other hand,
then you have other cities vowing to fight Donald Trump.
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I mean, this is insanity. It's not my job, says
the sheriff. Vows that Vegas police will not assist with
Trump's illegal immigration roundups. Why not. That's called enforcing the law.
The law enforcement Ice. You know, it's pretty unbelievable. Massachusetts
Massachusetts District is instructing school bus drivers to harbor illegals
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from Ice. By the way, James Carvell has spoken out.
He's calling on Joe Biden to disappear into retirement, wondering
if he tries to steer the party forward that will
have a negative impact. Your last act was terrible. Just
get out of the way. Your party is moving on.
And he's not wrong, and he said he should go
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to his home in Rehobeth and Delaware and just stay there. Ouch.
Uh not exactly the nicest goodbye from James Carvill. James
Comer warning that the Trump DOJ now has the power
to subpoena Joe Biden's personal bank records, and they should.
Trump pulled the plug on Anthony Fauci security detail. After
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all we know about what he knew about the origins
of COVID. I believe he flat out lied to us.
I want a full investigation and he can't plead the
fifth anyway. We got so much news to get to.
Oh and by the way, Kamala Harris and her husband
were caught using plastic bags after going to the grocery store,
but they wanted to ban plastic straws. You can request,
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by the way, and you can you have reusable bags.
Because I like the reusable bags. I buy them and
then I bring them with me. I know, I'm like
a little old lady when I go to the grocery store, Alynd,
I know you're laughing, because I buy them and they're
much stronger and they don't breakastic ones in the paper
one's break. I don't want to breaking
All right, thank you Scott Channon, and thanks to all
of you for being with us. Right down our toll
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a lot coming up in the course of the program today.
We expect about the time that I come on TV
tonight that there will be a vote in the US
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Senate on the nomination of Pete Hegseth. It is expected
to be close, but you know, you can't say anything
with any degree of certainty when it comes to Washington,
d C. If you want a friend, get a dog.
There's the best advice I can give people. And at
this time, when it's freezing cold, you might want to
get an extra sweater and bundle up to the maximum level.
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I've got to give Donald Trump credit beyond moving forget
about the first hundred days, His first hundred hours have
been incredible. We're going to play part of my interview
with him in the Oval Office coming up later in
the program as well today and the President now and
just think about this for a second. You think that
Joe Biden could sit with me for over an hour
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and answer any question. And by the way, I don't
give him questions ahead of time, and sometimes it doesn't
even matter what questions I ask him. He wants to
talk about things. He wanted to talk a lot about California.
He went to North Carolina. We're going to talk about that.
He's headed to California. Gavin is planning on, you know,
sabotaging this. I don't. I don't know what is going
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on in Gavin Newsom's mind. But whoever's advising him, or
if he's just you know, running rogue, I just think
it's the wrong strategy in so many different ways. We'll
talk about that. But while he was in and he
said this to me in the interview in the Oval Office,
you know, while he was in North Carolina, he said
he may eliminate FEMA. And we, probably more than any
(01:50):
other show, have chronicled the disaster that has been the
northeastern part of North Carolina, that it was devastated by
Hurricane Helene. It was devastated and that is a failure
of FEMA. Remember, we kept having the Operation Helo guys
on there. One of the guys was on yesterday. We
kept having Franklin Graham on the program. We kept talking
(02:13):
to people that were raising money, and FEMA for weeks
was nowhere to be found. And he the President today
said he's considering an executive order that would eliminate FEMA,
blasting it as a failure, saying that the states should
oversee their own disaster recovery efforts. And if you think
(02:34):
about North Carolina without neighbor helping neighbor and groups like
Samaritans Purse and groups like Operation Helo, these people would
be out in the freezing cold. I mean, just go
back a week and a half ago, or two weeks ago,
or a week ago, whatever it was. They were on
a one day deadline if you didn't fill out the
proper paperwork and you were being housed by FEMA. They
(02:56):
were thinking of kicking out thirty five hundred people. And
it's freezing right now in North Carolina. I mean, we've
got this arctic blast that continues all throughout the country.
But what the President is saying here, he's not saying
that we're not going to help our fellow Americans in need,
just the opposite. He was in Asheville, North Carolina. He
surveyed the damage which is just devastating. He said a
(03:20):
state response to the crisis would be faster and less expensive.
He've rightly pointed out FEMA's not done its job. And
where was Joe Biden, Where's Kamala Harris? During all of this,
we kept calling them out, saying, when are you going
to go help North Carolina? They never seem to care.
I have no doubt it had an impact on the election.
Early on, we were all worried whether or not people
(03:41):
in the affected areas would even be able to vote,
But they voted. They voted in big numbers, and Donald
Trump carried the state by more than was anticipated. And
he just said FEMA has not done the job. And
I like, frankly, the concept when North Carolina gets hit
that the governor will take care of it. When Arty
gets hit, the governor takes care of it. And to
(04:02):
have a group of people come in from an area
they don't even know where they're going to solve immediately
a problem is something that never worked for him. And
he's right, he's not saying not to give money. No,
We're going to give money to North Carolina, and North Carolinians,
you know, deserve the support of the American people, especially
in light of how much money we give foreign countries
(04:24):
like Ukraine and others. It's a massive amount of money.
And you know, so the American people are absolutely the
most generous people on earth. They're willing to help the
people in North Carolina and the people in Los Angeles,
and we want them to rebuild. Now in Los Angeles
a little bit of a different situation because a lot
(04:47):
a lot of things were not done properly. And if
we're going to give billions of dollars, and there's you know,
estimate estimates out there, you know, two hundred and fifty billion,
you know, up toward trillion dollars. It's not that high,
but two hundred and fifty billion dollars a taxpayer money.
You've got to give it with some conditions that prevent
(05:09):
this from ever happening again, like practicing the science of forestry,
removing the brush controlled burns. You know, you build these
these areas, these these gaps where you know, even with
Santa Ana winds, Santa Ana winds are predictable. Wildfires in
California are predictable. These are events that can be stopped.
(05:30):
These are events that could be handled. You don't cut
the firefighters budget. When the lead firefighter is saying that
you need twice the manpower if you ever have a
wildfire in the state. I mean, that's just that. That
is madness by its very definition. It's insane. And you
do need hydrants that actually have water in them. You
do need reservoirs that are filled. You can't be pouring
(05:52):
you know, you know, hundreds of millions of gallons of
water into the Pacific every year from northern California when
southern California is very drought prone and you need that water,
and you can easily transport that water from the north
to the south in that state. It's not that complicated.
It is the highest tax state in the country. And
(06:14):
all of this is just as basic, simple common sense.
The President also newly confirmed CIA director John Ratcliffe has
vowed to conclusively answer questions about the origins of COVID.
That was good news in my mind. Today we already
know the origins of COVID. We know that it happened
in the Wuhan virology lab. Why did Anthony Fauci, you know,
(06:39):
why was he you know, feverishly texting in January of
twenty twenty as he was with other members of the
NIH knowing that they gave money to the Eco Health Alliance,
knowing that the Eco Health Alliance had given that money
to the Wuhan virology Lab that was known for gain
of function research. It's insane, but Trump continues to move
(07:03):
at the speed of light, at a pace that Joe
Biden could never think of running at. Donald Trump today
pardoning twenty three abortion protesters convicted by the Biden DOJ.
These were peaceful pro life protesters. They should not have
been prosecuted, he said. Many of them were elderly people.
This is insane should they never should have been prosecuted.
(07:25):
This is a great honor to sign this. And he
issued the pardons on the eve of the annual March
for Life on DC, a massive anti abortion protest that
will take place in Washington to mark the Supreme Court's
Roe v. Wade decision in nineteen seventy three. Back to
California for a minute. We still have fires as of
(07:47):
today going on in multiple areas in southern California. You know,
you have the huge fire off the Pia Canyon Road
which is ongoing, and you have other firefighters working to
prevent the spread of that fire. And in the last day,
hundreds of very tired, weary firefighters because they're undermanned and
(08:09):
understaffed and underpaid. Frankly a battled multiple fire fires in
the hills of Los Angeles, in Ventura County and other
areas that are threatened like Brentwood and bel Air, and
Mayor Bass says her brother lost her home in the
Palisades fire. Okay, but they're not practicing basic fire management.
(08:30):
And then you got to look at how they spend
their money while they're cutting back. They don't have enough
firefighters to fight a wildfire, according to the fire chief,
and that yet they still cut the firefighters budget. But
then they allocate over six hundred and fifty million federal
and state dollars to make the Port of Los Angeles green.
(08:51):
This is insane. I read this article today. It was
in Politico, hardly a conservative publication. That Gavin Newsom has
now said, you know, he's yet to hear from Donald
Trump and whether he's invited or not. Newsom confirmed he's
planning to show up at the airport for a customary greeting.
You know, I look forward to being there in the
(09:12):
tarmac to thank the president, welcome him. And making sure
that all the resources he needs for successful briefing are
provided to him. I mean this, this is no way
to communicate with the president. I don't know who's advising Gavin,
but it's really bad advice. You know, Trump to visit California,
and he's been very critical of a lot of basic, basic, simple,
(09:36):
you know, forest management items that have not been handled,
including the water, including the hydrants, including the reservoirs, including
cutting the firefighters budget, including money billions set aside for
you know, turbines, and all this other nonsense and all
these other green products. So that'll be interesting to watch.
(09:56):
I'm not sure exactly if Newsom's you know, doing this
for show, but we'll see what happens when he gets
out there. I don't think the President's going out there
not to help the people of California's going out to
help them, but they do, they do have to make
some changes out there. It's simple, basic, common sense. A
lot of reaction to Donald Trump's signing in order to
(10:18):
declassify the files on JFK, RFK and the MLK assassinations.
He had promised to declassify the previously classified documents during
the twenty twenty four campaign yesterday. It was when I
actually saw the tape of it, it was more of
a beatdown than I thought it was. A President Trump
did it in a pretty nice way, calling out the
(10:40):
Bank of American Chief Brian moynihan during the World Economic
Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He did it visa via a
zoom link. But these are all important items for the president.
We know that the President's nominations, the way things look
like they're going tonight, that it looks like Senator Murkowski
(11:02):
Lisa Murkowski will be a no vote on Pete hagg
Seth Collins will be a no vote on Pete hagg Seth.
And while Mitch McConnell did vote to move the bill
to the Senate floor, there is absolutely no guidance at
all from his office. I called over myself personally today
as to which way he's going to vote, and so
(11:23):
in that sense, it does hang in the bounds.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
JD.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Vans will be on hand in case he needs to
be a tie breaking vote. Our friend John Kennedy from
Louisiana gave some pretty hilarious advice to one o' donald
Trump's nominees during his confirmation hearing. Russell Voight, Trump's nominee
to head the Office of Management and Budget, had his
second hearing on Tuesday ahead of his confirmation. Void previously
(11:46):
served in the OMB during the first Trump administration. He
wants fiscal reform, tackling the administrative deep state. Anyways, said
many people also call. He said, you served to Washington
for years. You're going to be challenging the status quo.
You're going to be called crazy. Many people thought, Noah
and the Bible was crazy equipped and then he and
(12:09):
then the rains came and all the fact checkers died.
You have to persevere. You gotta love this guy. Anyway,
So this major hurdle yesterday. But we still don't know
about Senator Mitch McConnell. There's been some rumblings that others
(12:29):
there might be some discontent among others until this vote
takes place. You know, I don't count votes until they're
actually cast. But this is an important vote because we
need a Secretary of Defense and we need one in quickly.
John Ratcleff was born in as CIA director. After the
vote on Pete, heg seth, I believe they're going to
(12:50):
vote next to and debate on PHS Secretary nominee Christy
Nome is not a problem expected in that area. Hawaii's
Urano is the only Senator to vote know on Collins,
continuing partisan streak of the hearings. Anyway, the only lawmaker
(13:12):
on the Senate Veterans Affair Committee to oppose Trump's nominee
to the Department of Veterans Affairs. That's Doug Collins, former
representative from Georgia. So that's the latest on the nominee front.
And there's a lot there. We have a ton of
immigration news we've got to get to today Donald Trump
(13:32):
more economic news. The economy he is inheriting is an
unmitigated disaster for the American people. That means all of
you out there listening, and we'll give you that information
so you know exactly where Donald Trump is starting as
he begins the process of hopefully getting this economy humming
again and getting prices down, and getting energy prices down,
(13:54):
and getting inflation down and getting interest rates down. It
won't happen overnight, but hopefully it can happen pretty quickly.
Watching the people in North Carolina today, it is unbelievable.
When when did Hurricane Helene actually Hitlinda. Was it October November?
(14:15):
In November, the end of September, right the end of September.
It's been such a long time. Anyway, here's President Trump.
And why Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, you know, didn't give
North Carolina at the time of day, is unfathomable to me.
Telling the people in North Carolina, the victims, that you're
not forgotten and how badly they were treated by the
(14:36):
last administration.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
We've come to North Carolina with a simple message for
all the people of this region who were hit so
hard by Hurricane Helene. And that message is very simple.
You are not forgotten any longer. You were treated very
badly by the previous administration. And I'm here after a
few days of the administration. We're going to California in
(15:00):
Los Angeles. They got hit hard, as you know, a
lot of that could have been prevented. I think of
the head water, which they had plenty of, but they
didn't use it. But I'm going there. But we set
up to go there, and they said, what about North Carolina?
They said, well, what would you? I said, I have
to stop there first. I'm stopping in North Carolina. So
(15:21):
we made the stop. I wanted to come here, and
before I went anywhere, frankly, in the campaign, I promised
that I'd come back to western North Carolina to help
the people of the state. And today here I am
to deliver on that promise. And we have a lot
of things in mind, and we're getting the core of
the Army Corps of Engineer engineers all set. You need
(15:41):
your riverbanks fixed, you need a lot of roads fixed,
and we're going to get it done and rapid time.
And I've asked Susie Wiles and all of my people
to start calling up, get the corps ready, and they're
going to get ready to go.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I don't know what took so long for the other administration,
but remember I wasn't here for the first four months
or three months, whatever it may be. See, we can
only start as of essentially one or two days ago,
and we've made a lot of progress over the last
couple of days. Michael, I understand. We're going to get
you the resources you need and the support that you deserve,
and we'll be at de side through every step of
(16:18):
the rebuilding. And no American is going to be left behind.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
No American is going to be left behind, and we
don't need FEMA to do it. Let's go back to
October Joe Biden telling another lie like the border's secure
and the borders closed, and inflation is transitory, and all
the Democrats saying, what a cognitive genius he is. I'm
a young person. He runs circles around four or five
(16:46):
of us at one time. He's so energetic, which we
also know is a lie. But him promising that the
victims of Hurricane Helene were getting everything they need in
spite of everybody on the ground telling us the exact
op Listen, well, what are.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
The states in the storm phone?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
What do they need after.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
What you saw today?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh on the storm zone, Yes, sir, I'm going what
storm is groving of?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, they don't ever there they need.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
They're very happy across the board.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
So we're just trying to have to go back to
the content and listen more money with.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Her to President.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Now, I will say this, if you want to know
what really was going on on the ground of the time,
let's listen to one of the victims that spoke out today,
She saying she'd been fighting with FEMIS in September the
twenty seventh Listen.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I've been fighting with FEMA since day one. Our community
there's like thirty two homes. We don't have a road
in the bridge. We're driving through our neighbor's property. You know.
I went to EMS and I said, look, my concern
is if we have a fire or we have an
emergency out here, you're not going to get to us.
You can't get those big trucks up here. And and
(18:00):
I've called and called and called FEMA, and you know,
I said, it's this happened on September twenty seventh. That's
four months ago. Well for us, today is still September
twenty seventh. You know, we haven't had help. And so
when I talk to FEMA, I'm explaining the road and
the bridge, and they send me a letter that tells
(18:20):
me to basically fix it and send in my receipts
and they'll refund me some money. I'm on looking at
a road and bridge that honestly, the bridge itself is
probably going to be three hundred thousand dollars in the
road could be close to that. Also, because we have
to have the community has to have big boulders brought in.
We're not a rich community. We can't fix it ourselves, you.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Know, It's just.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
And as far as like house repairs, I'm still pending.
I can't get money from FEMA until I fix the
road and bridge and send in my my my proof
that it's fixed and everything. It's just it's been a
nightmare and I totally feel that we have been forgotten.
If it had not been for for our fellow American
(19:05):
citizens who stepped up to help us, I don't know
what we would have done. I have. I have five
neighbors around me who completely lost everything. You know, I
have damage to my house, and I feel I don't
feel entitled. I'm embarrassed to even say I need help
because you know, and sometimes there's even that that that
(19:29):
that survivors guilt us what they're calling it. But you
feel guilty even be alive sometimes, you know, when you
look around, you see your neighbors that are gone, and
it's just, you know, we need help. I wrote a
letter that to send to Congress. You know, I don't
understand what's going on. If we can get FEMA help,
then will you guys help us? Will you step up
and be our fellow citizen? Will you step up? And
(19:51):
be our neighbor and send us something, help us, help
us get our community back. It's I could go on,
it's just a I don't know. It's just heartbreaking. God
appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Rebuild and will send you a check. Give us the receipt.
What do they think people have hundreds of thousands of
dollars just standing by to build a new house. Are
they out of their minds? I've never This is why
government I always say, don't trust them, don't count on them.
And if you need any more evidence, look at government schools.
(20:25):
They can't keep towns in cities safe and secure. Social Security,
Medicare is headed towards insolvency. Obamacare a disaster, not one
promise of Obamacare, and they want a green new deal.
Cradle to grave, womb to the tomb, society. That's real
life what that lady is describing. And again, neighbor helping neighbor,
(20:46):
Samaritan's purse. Franklin Graham was with the President today. He
grew up right near where the where hurricanes lean struck,
and he pointed out Trump's not coming there for votes.
The election is over. He's not running for office again.
He wants to make life better to the people in
North Carolina that have been abandoned. Oh, just just send
(21:07):
us your receipts. Well, you can't get through the roads
and there's no bridges. How are you going to get
the building materials there? You're going to fly him in
on a helicopter. These people out of their minds. It's unreal.
They abandoned them. They abandon our fellow Americans, you know.
And then I go to the economic numbers. I was
pointing out earlier, higher mortgage rates, record home prices, you know,
(21:30):
sales Now, US home sales in twenty twenty four, the
last year of Biden fell to the lowest level in
nearly thirty years. This is two years in running. It's
been a disaster. What do you think that is? Higher
mortgage rates, record home prices, you know, kept sales subdued
for the second straight year. People cannot afford it. I've
(21:51):
been there. I know what it's like. It sucks. It
just does. Then we have you know that more people
are paying the minimum payment on as credit card balances
of rising. You know, in the third quarter of twenty
twenty four, nearly eleven percent of active credit card accounts
paid only the minimum balance well, you know, with twenty
(22:12):
one twenty two percent interest rates, you're never going to
pay that money off. And people using that money not
for extravagance. They're not going to air mace and sacks,
Fifth Avenue and expensive stores. No, they're going to grocery stores.
They're putting gas in their cars that is way too expensive.
You know, whether it's a busted refrigerator, car trouble, medical issues,
(22:35):
unexpected cost of any kind. It's a part of life.
But even routine curveballs are now spelling serious financial trouble
for many Americans. According to a new report that came
out surveying one thousand US adults about their ability to
handle a surprise bill like that, they found fifty nine
percent of Americans starting out this year don't have enough
(22:58):
savings to cover an unex expected one thousand dollars emergency expense.
I mean, I mean that's the bare minimum, a thousand dollars.
Most people can't afford that this has had. This is
what paying twelve thousand dollars more year because of Biden
Harrison Plation does to people. By the way, Trump is
(23:18):
ordered the halt of the wind energy and these ugly
windmills by the way, California, you know, they're cutting the
firefighters budget, but they put aside billions for that disaster.
And by the way, don't forget it was Donald Trump
that got Elon Musk. You know that's been attacked because
he's friends with Donald Trump. Uh to get you know,
(23:41):
starlink communications up for the people in north northeastern northwestern
North Carolina so they can have communications back. And Trump's
call what the Saudi Crown prince has resulted in a
six hundred billion dollar pledge and investment to our country.
And call it the Trump effect, you know, Trump warning
(24:02):
economic leaders at Davos, you know, make your products in
America or face tariffs. I mean, we can't even buy
a dozen eggs. I eat eggs and meat, and the
egg supply is now strained because of bird flew. Most
people around the country paid nine bucks, you know, for
a dozen eggs. I know for a fact, that's what
it cost. I like to get organic, large cage free eggs,
(24:27):
you know, trying to eat a little healthier, and it
cost eleven dollars a dozen. Now I can afford it,
and that's the diet of my choice. But still that's
a lot of money for a lot of people. I
remember when eggs were, you know, just a couple of dollars,
a couple of dollars, a dozen. Now Donald Trump is
using military cargo planes, fulfilling his promise on the border
(24:51):
to fly Biden illegals back across the border. The President
has shuddered the Biden administrations immigration offices in Latino, Memora, America.
Donald Trump and Ice have raided, you know, make these
raids even in sanctuary states and cities. They're finding tedophiles,
gang bangers, and a suspected terrorist. You know, they're up
(25:13):
to hundreds and hundreds of people, including new arrests of teedofiles,
gang members and a suspected terrorist in New York. And
this crackdown continues. Illegal alien gangs have been targeting the
homes of NFL players, we find out according to the
Daily Caller, I mean, we've been reading all about these
NFL players. Tom Homan says that the Haitian illegal who
(25:35):
vowed he'd never returned to Haiti is being returned to Haiti.
And he was trashing Trump and praising Joe Biden and
Barack Obama. The judge that block Trump's birthright citizenship Reform
gave an anti cop rioter, according to the Justice Department website,
who tried to burn down a Seattle police headquarters a
(25:56):
slap on the wrist two years sentence. Gee, because you're
appointed by a Republican doesn't mean a whole hell of
a lot. Los Angeles suburb unanimously voting to become a
non sanctuary city to support Donald Trump. On the other hand,
then you have other cities vowing to fight Donald Trump.
(26:17):
I mean, this is insanity. It's not my job, says
the sheriff. Vows that Vegas police will not assist with
Trump's illegal immigration roundups. Why not. That's called enforcing the law.
The law enforcement Ice. You know, it's pretty unbelievable. Massachusetts
Massachusetts District is instructing school bus drivers to harbor illegals
(26:40):
from Ice. By the way, James Carvell has spoken out.
He's calling on Joe Biden to disappear into retirement, wondering
if he tries to steer the party forward that will
have a negative impact. Your last act was terrible. Just
get out of the way. Your party is moving on.
And he's not wrong, and he said he should go
(27:01):
to his home in Rehobeth and Delaware and just stay there. Ouch.
Uh not exactly the nicest goodbye from James Carvill. James
Comer warning that the Trump DOJ now has the power
to subpoena Joe Biden's personal bank records, and they should.
Trump pulled the plug on Anthony Fauci security detail. After
(27:22):
all we know about what he knew about the origins
of COVID. I believe he flat out lied to us.
I want a full investigation and he can't plead the
fifth anyway. We got so much news to get to.
Oh and by the way, Kamala Harris and her husband
were caught using plastic bags after going to the grocery store,
but they wanted to ban plastic straws. You can request,
(27:45):
by the way, and you can you have reusable bags.
Because I like the reusable bags. I buy them and
then I bring them with me. I know, I'm like
a little old lady when I go to the grocery store, Alynd,
I know you're laughing, because I buy them and they're
much stronger and they don't breakastic ones in the paper
one's break. I don't want to breaking
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