Questioning Government - January 10th, Hour 1

The liberal media is racing to defend the Democrats in Los Angeles.  When is it okay to question the government's performance during major disasters?  The answer is, it's never too soon to get the truth and answers to very tough questions!  What we've seen in California is the promise of socialism.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, thank you, Scott Shannon, and thanks to all
of you for being with us. Write down our toll
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of any climatic the quote sentencing non sentence of Donald
Trump in this ridiculous case in New York that I

(00:21):
mean it will be overturned. I'm ninety nine point ercent
certain that that's going to be the case, regardless of
what the appellate court said about sentencing or the Supreme
Court said about sentencing. There are just too many issues
in play here where corruption existed, and it's frustrating. I

(00:44):
think the bigger argument, the better argument before the Supreme
Court was Levin's argument, which was they should use the
supremacy clause and how there wasn't any jurisdiction for Alvin
Bragg to come up with his novel legal theory to
bypass a statute of limitation that had come and gone.
And even on the federal side of this, I mean,

(01:04):
the Department of Justice has weaponized, as it is, had
passed on this very issue. And you know the fact
that they were stacking these charges one on top of
the other, added to the fact that the Supreme Court
decision I believe it was July one, on immunity, and meanwhile,
there were tons of evidence brought into play that of

(01:28):
Donald Trump's time as president that would literally render the verdict,
you know, meaningless. It should have been thrown out for
one hundred different reasons. It never should have been brought
to begin with, and it's sort of anti climatic. There
might be a silver lining in all of this, that
civil lighting being that Donald Trump can now get now

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that he's out of Juan Mershawan's courtroom, that would now
give him the ability to go to another court and
get this thing overturned for a whole host of reasons,
the least of which is they had no standing. The
first thing is Supreme Court, if you listen to oral arguments,
will have why are you here? Why are you before us?
Why is this a federal issue? And in this particular case,

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this was a New York issue a legal nda, and
Donald Trump made that point earlier today and getting indicted
for calling a legal expense a legal expense, which is
pretty much what it was, a legal nda put together
by a lawyer and identified as a legal expense that's
from and again the statute of limitations had run out.

(02:34):
How does this become what they turned it into, this
whole novel legal theory. As Johnathan Turley said, there was
no underlying crime in this case, but they managed to
conjure it all up. They get a corrupt, frankly abusively
biased judge in a very liberal jurisdiction. You know a
group of people that just don't like Donald Trump, and

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he didn't have a chance in hell in this particular case.
But he will win on appeal, which I've been saying
all throughout this, I mean even fake news CNN, I
it may even be worth playing that. With everything that
they've thrown at Donald Trump, legally, he has won every
single thing and he has not lost. And he's not
going to lose on this one. Listen, big picture.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Six months ago, he faced four criminal cases. He had
been convicted in the New York Hushmany case, which was
considered the least serious of the four. And now even
though he has been convicted, he has received really no
punishment there. The two federal cases against them have been dismissed,
and the Georgia case, the prosecutor has been disqualified. That

(03:38):
case is not completely dead, but it's basically on life support.
I mean, if we look at his legal defense team,
this is an extraordinary victory. Now, they got a couple
of big assists from the Supreme Court over the course
of the last two years, but the fact that they
have been able to keep their client from really facing
any consequences across four criminal cases is truly straordinary and

(04:00):
today is really the symbol of their successful defense of
their client.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well, in many ways, there are so many attorneys involved
in in this whole process, too many to properly count
on many different levels. I did notice when I was
on vacation that one of Joe Biden's biggest regrets is
that he picked Merrick Garland to be the the Age,
which is stunning to me considering how much the Department

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of Justice became weaponized under Garland. I mean, this this
whole special prosecutor issue, you know, both the one for
Hunter and the one designed that was going to give
Hunter the sweetheart deal. I mean that that was all
done with the with the wink and the nod of
the Justice Department this case in New York. Remember, you
had the third highest ranking Department of Justice official that

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left his position to go to New York to help
help Alvin Bragg try this case. That's how badly they
wanted to Donald Trump. None of this came into play
until Donald Trump announced that he was going to run
for president again. And never mind the lack of equal
justice or equal application of our laws. But certainly in

(05:13):
this case I would have appealed that the Supreme Court sooner.
I would have said the supremacy clause would have been
the Levin argument was the better argument. Election and appearance
would have been a good argument, and that they have
no standing would have been a good argument. And again,
all of this will come out, the immunity ruling will
come into play in the appeals process. But again it's

(05:37):
sort of anti climatic, it's meaningless. This whole, this whole
exercise was all designed to prevent him from running and winning.
That's what it was all designed the American people. To
your credit, otherwise, what you're seeing unfolding California would be
your reality right now, because this is the California represents

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that intersection of radical environment menalism. You know that that
sort of melds itself into what is radical socialism. Marxism, statism,
whatever you want to call it, because that's what's going
on out there, and radical environmentalism. I mean, you go
through the list of failures and it's just they're too

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numerous to mention, and it's like you can't even believe it.
It's like it's a bad movie that's been unfolding before
your eyes. It really is. And it's sad because California
is one of the you know, most beautiful states you've
ever been to. I did live out there in the
eighties for five years. That's where I got my radio start.

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And you could even go I think it's UC Davis.
You can go to many top universities. I've mentioned many
of them, Auburn University, University of Georgia, University of Florida.
I mean, there's so many universities where you can get
a degree in the science of forestry. And yet you
know here the simple things like well, why weren't the

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the fire hydrants working well? They Gavin Newsom, I'm not
sure what he's thinking, And when he answered, Anderson Cooper,
I guess asked them the question, well, they weren't designed
to deal with these types of fires. We'll slow down
a second here, because California is known to have wildfires,

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Santa Anna winds, and I lived out there, so I
know for a fact they are predictable. They're going to happen,
so you've got to prepare for the worst case scenario.
You know, they had a referendum on this very issue
in building water reservoirs out there from twenty fourteen, that's
eleven years ago. Not a single one of them were built.

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It's like they can't even build that. The train that
they want to build from Bakersfield to God knows where,
and it's already billions of dollars above budget. They have
plans for wind turbines that will cost billions. They allocated
six hundred and fifty state federal dollars for a project
to make the LA Ports green. I mean, how does

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that make any sense? Why do they have eight hundred
thousand dollars green street sweepers in Los Angeles? Why did
they cut the LA Fire Department budget by seventeen point
six million just a number of months ago. Why did
they want to even cut more money from this knowing
that they're not prepared. Why did I have to travel

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to California and Devin Nuna's district to cover the issue
of farms not getting water. I did it on behalf
of the farmers because I love farmers. I just do.
I mean, I just have a very keen understanding. And
maybe I don't think we appreciate farmers and ranchers as
much as we should, or truckers that deliver all these
goods to us at every store that we go to,

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but they're all part of the supply Chaine and farmers
couldn't farm out there, and the reason was that the
state put the lives of the delta the smelt above,
giving the which is a meno fish, an irrelevant mineral
fish in my mind, over the right of farmers to

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grow crops to feed people. I mean, that's how bizarre
this all is. But you know, they gave up on
clearing the brush and these controlled burns and the science
behind it. They didn't build the reservoirs. They didn't you know,
we now know, we learned today that the reservoir in
the Pacific Palisades was empty. How is that possible? How

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do you deny farmers thousands and thousands and thousands of
acres of farmland water, you know, to protect a little
minto fish called the Delta smelt. How do you cut
the LAFD fire budget by millions of dollars and yet
you allocate six hundred and fifty million for the LA
port to go green and spend eight hundred thousand dollars

(09:55):
per green street sweeper in LA. This is insane. It's
the highest time state in the country. There's plenty of
money allocated for illegal immigrants in the sanctuary state of California,
in the sanctuary city of Los Angeles, and I know
the people out there, and then you have a mayor
that comes back from Ghana when the fire started and
then is asked by a reporter and can't even get

(10:18):
the words out. My thoughts are with the people of
Los Angeles. We're doing everything we can do to remedy
the issues involving fire, hydrants that don't have water, and
getting the resources available to people, to protect as many
homes and property, as much property as possible, and to
save lives. Ten people at least that we know of,
are dead. You know, you have over ten thousand structures

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that have now been destroyed, homes and businesses, and if
you look at you know, the disqualifying conduct of this
mayor and the idiocy, and she goes, oh, let me
give you here's the website to go to the here's
the url. She doesn't even know what the website is.
This is the second time she spoke. The first time
she wouldn't answer a reporter's question. The LA Fire Department

(11:04):
deputy chief said, if she has to carry a man
out of a burning building, he's in the wrong place.
What hang on a second. I don't care if you're
a man or a woman in the fire department at all,
doesn't matter to me. But you got to be strong
enough to do the job. It's that simple, it is.

(11:24):
You know, by the way, some of the money that
was spent in La gay choirs, trans cafes, the social
justice art. You know, the fire chief warning the Democratic
mayor these budget cuts would severely limit fire response. She
didn't pay attention to it. These hundreds of hydrants were
stolen for scrap before the fires in La. Now everybody's

(11:47):
worried about the amount of looting that that they anticipate
is going to happen. LA Water Power officials rake in
fat salaries, some people being paid hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of dollars being paid more than Donald Trump, who
gives all of his salary to charity. You know, we'll
play it later in the program. This mother confronting Gavin

(12:08):
Newsom on the horrific response and the lack of water,
and I mean his answer was all I'm calling I'm
on with Joe Biden. Well, I'm trying to call Joe Biden.
It just is one thing after another. Then we have
an insurance crisis that we've warned about. The insurance was
the canary in the coal mine when the insurance companies

(12:29):
pulled out. They pulled out for a reason. They pulled
out because they knew that this was likely to occur.
They took an objective view of what the policies in
the state were and they said, we can't ensure this.
The risk is too great, the payout will be too
great and will be bankrupt. So they pulled out. California

(12:50):
Democrats and the sad reality is too is I still
don't have any hope that the people of California would
wake up realize that the promises of government that they overpromise,
they under deliver, that they mismanage, and this is the fake.
This is the promise of socialism. They'll promise you the moon.

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You're going to guarantee your cradle to your grave, from
the womb to the two. Everything's going to be taken
care of. And yet we have Social Security and Medicare
on the verge of insolvency. We have some of the
worst schools in the industrialized world, even though we pay
them war per capita for student we have. They can't
keep basic law in order because they believe in defund dismantled,

(13:34):
no bail laws. They can't control the border. We let
in terrorists and murderers and rapists and cartel members and
gang members, and then they don't want to expel them.
They want to give them pre sex change operations, housing, food, healthcare,
and education. Explain that in insanity to me. But all
the promises of Obamacare, none of them are fulfilled, none

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of them. They squandered the money with Social seecurity, there
was no lock box, the school systems, the disaster. They
don't keep law in order, and people still want to
put their faith, their hope, their trust in government. I
urge all of you to never do that, to assume
the worst, to assume they're never going to be there. Look,
President Trump and This really did define his first term,

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and I think it will define his second term. And
that is the things that he said on the campaign
trail are not just slogans, They're not just words. I
think this is his agenda. It's not going to be
earth shattering to people. The left will do their predictable
They hate Donald Trump. They hate Donald Trump, they hate

(14:43):
Donald Trump. I mean, that's what's so anti climatic about
the sentencing today. And I wonder when this case finally
gets overturned, and it will, I wonder what kind of
news coverage that'll get, especially compared to all of the
coverage of all of the cases that have all fallen apart,
because it was all designed by a weaponized Department of Justice, unfortunately,

(15:06):
a politicized, weaponized FBI, and a politicized and weaponized intelligence community,
you know, which they have been working, you know, to
get Donald Trump since the day came down the escalator
and you know, for three years nothing but a Russia
hoax and live pedal to the country. He literally was
in the Ritz Carlton in Moscow with hookers urinating on

(15:30):
it and they were urinating on him. I'm like, huh, Okay, first,
he's the biggest GERM fobe in the world. It never happened.
He wasn't there. It didn't matter, The truth never mattered.
PAISA warrants where they used his opponents dirty bought and
paid for Russian disinformation. Dossier would made up lies as

(15:54):
the basis of getting a PISA warrant, not one, but
for them. They ruined the life of Carter Page. Donald Trump.
They spied on him as a candidate, as a president.
This went on for a full year. Nobody's ever been
held accountable. The double standard. You don't have equal justice
under the law. You know, Joe Biden, he wasn't covered

(16:15):
by the Presidential Records Act. Donald Trump was. Hillary Clinton
wasn't covered by the Presidential Records Act. Donald Trump was.
They raided mar A Lago. They shuffled through all of
Llania's clothes, all of Baron's close And meanwhile, they had
been there, not that not that long before, and the

(16:37):
FBI had full and complete access to all of mar
A Lago. We know that now to be a fact.
We know that the FBI even called there was one
particular room where they saw things. I don't know why
they if they saw something that shouldn't have been there.
Why didn't they take it with him? Then? Why didn't
they asked to take it with them? Then? Why did
they call back and say would you mind putting another
lock on that door? Which they complied with? I mean,

(16:59):
why didn't they come back? They've nobody denied the access.
The first time Joe Biden at top secret classified information
in four different locations, they didn't raid any one of
those locations. They didn't rate his home with his beautiful corvette,
and they didn't raid any of the They didn't raid
his home on the beach in Delaware. Interesting how he's

(17:21):
able tome in Delaware? Isn't it on a senator's salary?
You don't exactly get rich serving in Congress, But that
isn't aside for another day. Same with Hillary Clinton thirty
three thousand deleted subpoenaed emails. You know, no reasonable prosecutor
would prosecute devices destroyed with hammers and sim cards removed

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a bleach bit something nobody had ever heard of, being
used to wipe clean the hard drives and the servers
of Hillary Clinton. You know she had top secret classified
information more than they found at mar A Lago with
Donald Trump, didn't they raid her house, her office. Why
wasn't she put under the same type of scrutiny. Why

(18:05):
wasn't there a special prosecutor. I didn't finish the thought earlier,
But you know, the idea that Joe Biden is angry
at Merrick Garland as one of his worst appointments is laughable,
considering Merrick Garland did everything he could do to weaponize
that Department of Justice and the FBI in the process.
James Comy was the one that famously said no reasonable
prosecutor would prosecute before the twenty sixteen election. The only

(18:29):
reason that he came out with this information was because
there were other law enforcement officials that were aware of
Anthony Wiener's laptop and the top secret classified information Visa
v I guess Uma Abadeen, who's worked for Hillary at
the time, but Hillary's emails, not hers and anyway, and

(18:51):
that it was going to come out and he had
to get ahead of it. But they were trying to
protect him, just like the Department of Justice tried to
protect Hunter. And this guy investigated doing nothing for four
years and then all of a sudden comes up with
a sweetheart deal. They thought that the judge would sign
off on it, not read it. The judge actually did
her job, read read the plead deal and turns to

(19:14):
the prosecution and the defense and says, I've never seen
a deal like this my entire career. Have any of
you ever seen it? And the defense had to even
acknowledge No, they'd never had. So the plan was to
give Hunter a sweetheart deal where he wouldn't be held
accountable for anything. The judge, unfortunately didn't go along with
their scheme. Unfortunately. For if you believe in the truth

(19:39):
in the case of Donald Trump, no he look at
what they have put this guy through for the last
nine years. And this is the amazing part of the election.
I keep focusing on him because it's so amazing is
that the American people heard this every single minute, every
hour of every twenty four hour day, every seven day week.

(20:00):
This is all they focus on. And if you watch
the mob, the state run media mob, they're doing it again.
You know, some people are saying, well, the media's gone
quite quiet and they're more compliant. It's all going to change.
Let me once these hearings begin for the nominations, you know,
when they bring up Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondy and

(20:21):
Cash Battel and RFK Junior and Tulci Gabbard that they're
going to go back to doing what they do best.
The Democrats. You think Adam Shift's character has changed, You
think Chuck Schumer's character has changed. Now there's smear merchants.
They will smear, slander, besmirched to try and destroy every

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single person that Donald Trump wants in his cabinet. And
they're going to pick and choose who to go harder
at because and and they're going to try and do
what they did to Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas and
Justice Kevanaugh. They're going to try and do that a
lot of the Trump nominees. They will be true to form.

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It's predictable as the day is long. And the hope
is is that Republicans will give Donald Trump the cabinet
that he wants so that he can fulfill his promises
as your president. That's why when you look at what
he has planned on day one, and this was kind
of revealed when he had a closed door meeting with
Republican senators, is apparently a list of about one hundred

(21:25):
executive orders for prioritizing border security, domestic energy production, and
he was in the meeting. Apparently Homeland Security advisor Steven
Miller was there. I talked to a number of Senators
in the room. They said it was extraordinarily productive, that
the President was dialed in, funny not along with everybody.

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Listen to them. The only question that came up was
whether there should be one bill or two bills. There's
two schools a thought on it. I'll let them work
out the details, but I kind of think Newt had
the right idea, one big, beautiful bill, get it all
done now, and get it done so the economy can
start revving up as quickly as possible. Trump said he'd

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also sign at least twenty five executive voters on the
first day of his second term, and based on those
statements and the statements on the campaign trail, he ran
heavily on these focused promises that he wanted to secure
the border on day one and dedicated to carrying out
the largest deportation operation in US history, reversing the Harris

(22:34):
Biden open borders policy, which has created the biggest national
security crisis in our lifetime. So he's going to stop
illegal immigrants and the flights from the southern border to
other parts of the US. He's going to shut down
the acceptance of asylum applications. He's going to bar US

(22:54):
born children of illegal immigrants from automatically receiving American citizenship,
which he should do. Used to be a term probably
politically incorrect. Now I don't know. I mean, I can't
keep up with what you can and cannot say. But
you know, an anchor baby, somebody would come from another
country into this country, they'd give birth, and that child

(23:16):
automatically being born birthright citizenship. I under those circumstances, I
think it's done, you know, outside of the spirit of
what was intended. And yeah, he's going to pardon. There
were a lot of people that were persecuted about January sixth.
There were some bad people there that day. They did

(23:37):
horrible things and they should be held accountable, and they
were held accountable. But then there were people that never
even entered the capital that were tried and convicted. Those
people never should have been convicted. I mean, you've got
a guy in New York eighty seven prior arrests outstabbing
people on the subway last weekend. You got this guy
in the Daniel Penny case Neely, you know, forty two

(24:01):
previous encounters with law enforcement, and yet he's on the
train threatening to kill people, and they wanted to put
Penny in jail. The President is also going to end
this last minute attempt of sabotage by Joe Biden on
his energy agenda. This to me is one of the
most important parts of his agenda. If we're going to

(24:22):
get this economy running again and we're going to deport
people and we have to find them to deport them,
that's going to be very expensive. We're going to need
a lot of manpower. If the President is going to
restore or refund the police and restore law and order
in the country. If the President is going to prop
up social security and Medicare, which is headed towards insolvency.

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If the President is going to create the next generation
of warfare again, Russia and China have hypersonic missile technology,
why don't we We are falling behind. It's a gap
of vulnerability. If he's going to really build a iron dome,
all of this research is going to cost a fortune.
We're going to have to invest that money, because if

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we don't have a secure country. We don't will never have,
will never have freedom, and we'll always have a vulnerability
that we ought we ought never have. And both Kamala
Harris and Joe Biden they have neglected on military, so
we're going to have to spend money there. And then
the President has promised no tax on tips, no tax
on social security, no tax on overtime. He will fulfill

(25:28):
those promises, but that also in the beginning especially, it
will stimulate economic growth over time, which will result in
more revenues, not less revenues. But in and he's got
to extend the Trump tax cuts. I would advise that
he make them permanent. But if he's going to do
all of these things, they all cost money. Now, the

(25:50):
biggest revenue source we have well, you know you hear
about you know, these oil rich nations, these energy rich countries.
The beauty is, we have more energy resources in the
United States of America than all of these countries pretty
much combined. We have Western Europe that has allowed itself

(26:11):
to become reliant on natural gas from Russia. In light
of what Russia did with Ukraine, I don't think it's
a reliable partner. So there's an opportunity for America to
produce all of the energy needs of all of Western Europe,
and we have the benefit of earning a lot of

(26:32):
money financially. We become a rich country. One of the
things Alaska does that I always loved about Alaska is
as they produce energy, as they produce minerals, and they
mine the earth and whatever they're producing, their natural gas,
whatever it happens to be. The people, the citizens of Alaska,
they don't pay a state income tax. They get a

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check from the state every year, a percentage of what
the profit that they may from the resources that they
share as members of that state. I mean, we have
thirty seven trillion dollars in debt. We've got to pay down.
These are enormous problems we have. So this is the
single best way to pay down our debt, salvage social

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security of medicare, deport these people that shouldn't be here,
refund the police, you know, end this military gap of vulnerability,
prepare for the next generation of warfare, which will be
fought in air conditioned offices, not on battlefields. And the
single best thing we can do is to produce energy,
you know, to the extent we're capable now There's going

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to be a lot of reluctance and resistance among energy
companies to do it because Donald Trump only has a
four year term, and I think the best way around
that is to give them an unbreakable, you know, fifty
hundred year lease on certain areas of the country that
the government cannot go back on, and that has to
be binding. They have to make it binding, and if

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that takes Congressional action, then so be it. Now there's
a lot of things Trump can do on his own.
But then there's gonna be times when we come on
this program and we give out the phone number in
Congress and the Senate, and you're gonna have to you
just can't vote for Trump and say good luck, I
did my part. I'm done because we don't have big
enough margins in the House and Senate. And some of

(28:26):
these people are not exactly you know, fearless leaders. Some
of them have very weak spines, and some of them
are scared to death, and some of them only care
about their reelection. And we may have to help them
stiffen their spine. You know, God forbid if a moment
ever comes and somebody breaks into your house, your home,

(28:46):
your business, and you have to protect your life, your
family's life, your employees life. You know what. That's a
tough situation to be and I hope nobody ever has
to live through that. But the reality is we do
live through moments like that, and defending your actions in
today's justice system, that's where your nightmare can start. We
live in a time where government overreaches all too real. Prosecutors, politicians,

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when we come back. We got a lot of ground
to cover today. Adam Carolla, we thought his house burned
on the ground, A lot of helms around him. Did
He will join us. That's coming up at the top

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of the hour. We'll get into Juan Mershan's decision with
Greg Jarrett and David Show, and later on Sarah Carter
she used to live in California, And here Davis will
join us about why this was so preventable. Straight ahead,