July 29, 2026 • 54 mins
We also hear today from a couple of people who DO answer questions: Deputy Secretary of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs Paul R. Lawrence who stops by the studio while here in Omaha, and Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine responding to his push to have SOMETHING done with this alleged perv in Southwest Omaha.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Nancy Pelosi was her usual self with me big hug
kiss telling everyone how great I am little embarrassing. Diane
Degett did the same thing. Mick Mulvaaney led the meeting,
and after about one hour, the President came in and
the first thing he said as he looked at me was, Anthony,
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you are really a famous guy. My good friend lou
Dobbs told me that you were one of the smartest, knowledgeable,
and outstanding persons he knows. He stayed for twenty minutes
and asked most of his questions of me. I was
surprised and very pleased, and the deputies were clearly stunned
and impressed. When Trump finally left, he said, Anthony.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Are we okay? I said, we are good.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
He smiled as he walked out of the room and said,
thanks again, Anthony, we are counting on you. Another doctor
Anthony Fauci diary moment. The Potus was not yet in
the room when he walked in with Milania. The first
thing he said was Anthony, come here and say hello
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to Milania. Then, to my embarrassment, in front of everyone,
he told Milania I was the smartest person in the world.
Press still hot and heavy about me, multiple stories per
day directly or indirectly involving me.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I tell you what.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Beautiful, isn't it? It is a beautiful thing. And this was,
of course, all if you're among those who feel like
COVID was killing scores of people every single day and
needed to be taken very seriously, and there are a
lot of people who certainly feel that way. They're looking
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at the journal entries by doctor Anthony Fauci, who was
an who's writing down not just things about, well, maybe
we should do this and may we should talk to
the Chinese about that kind of thing, but he was
also like, I'm going on CNN today and posting things
like that, and people are said, thousands of people were
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dying every single week from this virus, and you're on
there saying I'm going on wtop radio today. Boy, the
president sure thinks I'm smart. And they're not very impressed
by this. Now, Conservatives have been off the Fauci trade,
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and if they were ever on it, they've been off
it for quite some time. This of course, all coming
out because Kentucky Senator Ran Paul had released these journal entries,
which really doesn't do anything other than just embarrass the man,
and frankly, it's below my journalistic integrity to read these things.
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But as I misplaced my journalistic integrity, I guess I'm
just going to read these things. He's going before a
Senate committee this afternoon. What will that lead to?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Remember who pardoned him, President Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, the autopen pardon, the auto.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Pen known as President Joe Biden issued a blanket pardon
for anything that doctor fout you may have done or
not done in dealing with this pandemic, which was the
subject of an incredible commentary by Jim Rose yesterday. I
want to harken back to the very last part of
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that in just a moment, because Jim just dropped a bomb,
turned the mic off, and walked out of the studio
yesterday because we were out of time on the program.
Wait wait, you can't, you can't say that, and then
just say all right, we'll see you tomorrowy.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So tip your waitress.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You heard the end of the Rosie Degenozi, which sounded
exactly like this.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
He was flat wrong. He influenced others to be wrong.
His actions violated a sacred trust between the people and
their government health agencies. D h HS, the CDC, the
n i H that'll take a generation to be repaired,
if ever. But he's fine. Joe Biden gave him a pardon,
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so he'll never have to account for any of this.
He might be the most infamous person to ever get
away with alleged economic and social terrorism and accessory to murder.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
All right, That was Jim Ro's assessment of doctor Anthony Fauci.
Alleged social, social and economic terrorism and accessory to murder.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Alleged. Yeah, that that was the bomb. That was the pin.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You pulled from the grenade, You set it on the
by the microphone, and then you say, well, have a
great day everyone, wellmorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Glenn Beck show coming and you coming. Yeah. Look, I
believe it would. He would. He forecast, what he endorsed,
what he influenced, destroyed the American economy. It has literally
set back an entire generation of school kids because of
his advocacy for lockdowns. Now, he says he never publicly
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said it. Well, in his diary, he says and admits
that he told Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, and
Bill de Bosio, the mayor of New York City, lock
your place down. Lock your bars and restaurants down, lock
everything down. And because of his advocacy of these policies,
it really contributed to the deaths of millions of people
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across the world. Now, certainly in this country.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Is that on him or is that on whether it
is the mayor of New York, governor of California.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
He was the face. He was quote America's doctor. He
was the face of this message. He was the face
of the pandemic. Sure he advised two presidents.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
He could tell Omaha, Nebraska, lock everything down, and the
local health director, the county health director, whether it was
previously doctor Addie Porr or now doctor Lindsay Hughes, would say,
I think we need to do lockdowns, and we need
to have masks and all that, and then the city
council and the mayor would have to deal with all
of this stuff. So is that on Fauci or is
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that on everyone else, including President Trump and then President Biden.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It's on Fauci because Fauci was the medical expert. Fauci
was the doctor. He was national the national brain behind
the pandemic response. And what we're finding out now, as
we said at the time, and as he is admitted
in his diary. And look, you don't lie to your
own diary, Okay, he said, you tell the truth of
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the diary. You can lie to CNN, you can lie
to Jake Tapper, you can lie to the President, but
you don't lie to your own diary. This guy is
going to be tied, dyed and laid to the side
by the United States Senate today in about half an hour,
oh actually less than that, in about ten minutes. He's
going to appear before the seven thirty Eastern time. He's
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going to appear before a committee of United States Senators
who want him to be swinging from a lamppost will
because of what happened. We will be listening in my question.
My question is going to be this, Will there be
any Democrats because he was subpoenaed by the United States Senate?
Will there be any Democrats because they were apologists for
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this guy, They were apologists for the policies of the
Joe Biden administration who took over in January of twenty
twenty one. What's he get? What defense will they provide
for him? Because we know that Ran Paul and Ron Johnson,
who have been two of the most vocal critics and
vocal skeptics of Anthony Fauci from the start of this
entire dreaded episode, will lay this guy bear in the
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city square.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Well, if he didn't do anything, why did President Biden's
administration and the Auto pen look at everything that he
was alleged to have done and decide to give him
a blanket?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Pardon? There's a good question, yep.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Like I said, we'll be listening in throughout the morning
here on eleven to ten KFAB where it's now time
for the certified Transmissions Sports bree Here's Jim very.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Good skoy, Good morning everybody. First, six of the eighteen
teams were on the stage at Big ten media Days
in Chicago, among them Iowa. The Hawkeys under twenty year
head to twenty eight year head coach Kirk Farrens are
expected to be about where they've been for his twenty
eight middle of the pack think eight and four, maybe
nine to three, which for them is just fine. Farence
was slow to adapt to the transfer portaland nil, but
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he's there now. Still he doesn't like it. I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I'm concerned, and to me, that's our single biggest issue
right now.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Talking imbalance, with no salary cap, no rules, enforcement, no rules.
We're going back to the future.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And I got Taiwan eighty one. We went to the
Rose Bowl first time in nineteen years, we had a
winning season, first time in thirteen years. It's someone other
than two teams had been to the Rose Bowl. And
I would suggest, you know, the Big ten's been healthier
since nineteen eighty one than it was during the seventies.
That's just me as a participant. That's why I look
at it and I think, if we're not careful, we
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could go down that road again as a bigger enterprise.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
College football says the game was dominated by ten or
fifteen teams back then. Nebraska fans liked those days because
we were one of them. Nebraska isn't on the stage
up there at Big Ten media days until tomorrow. Trev Alberts,
who left Nebraska as a first team All American, remembers
that as a freshman, his and the other freshman status
in the program was so low the practice gear didn't
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even include a big red N. You had to earn
the right to even wear the N on your practice gear. Today,
a high school kid who has never taken a snap
in a practice is the face of the program. Trey Taylor,
a hotshot recruit who may not work out. The odds
foretell that sixty percent of recruits do not. Just signed
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another national nil deal. He is now hawking Rolex Date
just watches retail six thousand to thirty six thousand dollars apiece. Now,
how many of you are wearing a thirty six thousand
dollars wat me? Neither and I could afford one. He
also has deals with Adidas Subway and greg Young Chevrolet.
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He's a big social media stud considered by most recruiting
experts to be the number one high school quarterback in
the country. Are we talking about him or Dinan Royola?
Pretty soon in the college football jersey will look like
the outfield wallet. Werner Park schools are selling that real estate.
Ohio State does a deal with JP Morgan Chase logo
on all Buckeye jerseys seventeen million a year. Notre Dame
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does a deal with Sofar, the fintech company from Santa Clara, California,
same thing, logos on all jerseys twenty million a year
to the university. On August first, the NCAA rule limiting
images on the Jersey's end schools can have up to
four of them on there, but there is restraint. They
can only be four square inches in size. Baseball scores
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American League Detroit fourteen, Baltimore or nothing, Texas for Tampa one,
Minnesota three, the Royals two, the Yankees three, the White
Sox two. He used to beat the Angels and the
A's b T Boston National League. You hat Arizona, Miami,
the Cubs, Milwaukee in San Diego winning games. Atlanta and
New York postponed doubleheader day night doubleheader between the Cleveland
Guardians and the Cincinnati Reds. Cleveland wins the first one
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six to five. The Reds win the second one two
to nothing. Washington over Toronto, seattle'll beat the Dodgers. Sports
his news on Nebraska's News weathern Traffic station. We are
all here and we call ourselves Nebraska's Morning News. Thank
you very much for calling on us. This is a
place where we come to laugh, cry and get through
the day together right here on news radio eleven ten
kfab laugh, cry or get through the day together. Under
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which of those categories does this story fall yesterday? O
Moha mayor John ewing Well may he may or may
not have been wearing a Superman costume, which apparently he
just does. He have that hung up in a closet
somewhere at the Mayor's office. Every time I see a
social media post from Mayor Ewing, he's posing with a
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bunch of kids, and he's got on the Superman costume.
To his credit, it's not one of those with the
really tight tights and so forth. He's got like a
black Superman cost He's a very put together buff. He
about a decade or so ago, started working out and
got well. He was one of those guys just got
addicted to just working out and these cops and what's
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the point of working out if you don't take selfies
of yourself, you know, posing and all that. So he
was doing that anyway, waiting for the videos that the
social media videos him standing there and Sarah's boyd Epley
Shorts showing it off.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
They're on his Facebook. He's at the gun show in
there for a while.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So be liking to be nice if he'd spend some
of his time spraying weeds on Dodge Street. But that's
a separate issue.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That's that's what's a separate department. But he's the mayor
Buck stops there and so uh Mayor John Ewing or
as Chris Baker calls him. For that reason, Mayor Superman
announced that Omaha will join Bloomberg, coming straight from Courtney
Donahoe's office, Bloomberg Philanthropies Youth Climate Action Fund, which is
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providing money to support young people and mobilizing them to
design and deliver solutions aligned with Omaha's climate change philosophies.
In other words, we are paying money to teenagers to
come up with ideas to make Omaha more sustainable when
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it comes to climate change in the years and decades ahead.
What exactly are these teenagers supposed to do? If if
we if we have people not just here in Omaha
but around the world who we're looking at. If you
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were one of those who feels like climate change is
the biggest issue yeah, facing ours and future generations. Do
we not have very smart people who have looked at
this and provided some ideas and solutions. Why are we
paying teenagers here in Omaha to come up with solutions?
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Are we out of ideas? And what exactly are they
going to come up with that Some of the smartest
scientific minds of our time have yet to come up with.
Tell these teenagers, hey, we have some ideas for climate change.
Turn off your phones, stop needing to use all these
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data centers to do all of your computing and cloud storage,
and maybe a fewer video game and streaming hours on
your various devices. That could really help the energy crisis
and any climate change problems we might face. And see
how the teenagers deal with that one, because their parents
aren't telling them that apparently not.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
There is a video circulating across social media of a
really painful exchange between Louisiana Senator John Kennedy and one
of these This is a climate kid, that's what I
call him climate kids, and he was summoned to testify
before a United States Senate committee on climate change. And
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John Kennedy is pretty clearly steadfast in his skepticism of
the climate change industry and the costs associated with converting
us to a zero carbon economy. It's trillions and trillions
of dollars. So here came this kid who rides a bicycle.
That's his thing in life. He rides a bicycle. He's
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into competitive cycling, and he felt like he was a
climate expert and it was important for him to represent
the generation of those who believe that this current practice
is reckoned the planet, and John Kennedy turned this guy
into a gigantic load of Plato. He demonstrated the undeniable
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reality that is, most young people don't know anything. And
it's not because they're stupid. It's because they're young and
they don't know anything. Now, they're quite actually vulnerable to
hearing things from people and letting those things imprint on them,
and that was the case with this poor guy. But
he was asked some very simple, but serious and specific
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questions for which he had no answer. And that's where
we are today. Well, we have a lot of young
people who have an opinion because somebody of influence told
them that this is the way it is, but they
have absolutely no quantifiable data to back up their viewpoint.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
When you have young teenagers going up and scolding world
leaders at the United Nations, exactly, Greta how Tuneberg.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, well this is the deal. Now, let's get Let's
get teenagers. Let's get kids who need to be driven
to the UN by their mom to speak before war
world leaders, experienced people, business executives, scientists, educators, Let's tell
them what to do, and that's where this is. Now.
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I've met Michael Bloomberg. I think he's a really great guy.
I was visiting Courtney as a matter of fact, at
her office a few years ago, and there was Michael.
We met him, and he's a very successful man and
he's done very very well in media and finance. Why
his company is financing this fiasco defies common sense and logic.
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And I think it's great that we engage young people.
Young people need to be engaged in every aspect of
our political system, of our business community. But to turn
decision making over to them is nonsense, right.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Well, especially since if one of them has his or
her own idea about hey, if we do this, sure,
if we cut back three percent on that, then we
can have an impact. They would be a millionaire overnight.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Having to see them with whatever money this is, and
it sounds like it's not Omaha taxpayer money we have,
it's from Bloomberg, But we have the Omaha Youth Climate
Action Fund, which is a probably funds that I don't know.
I don't know if there's some public money in that,
but it was the Omaha City Council a few years ago.
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Remember they paid a consultant to come up with a
sustainability plan, and they spent a whole bunch of money
to do that. And I said, no, wait a second,
aren't other communities across the country hit in Albuquerque doing this?
Isn't Fort Wayne, Indiana doing this? What about Boston? Is
there anyone who is also coming up with this? Can't
we just take what they're doing gladly? I'm sure they
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gladly share it with us. This, after all, would save
the planet. They're not sharing this. We have to pay
and to come up with our own sustainability plan. Oklahoma
City and Tulsa aren't doing something that we can borrow from.
These guys are just chucking money at the issue and
it never ever ends.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
All right, let's I would like to know if that
Omaha Climate Fund has any public funding in it. I
don't know if we're going to get that answer. My
suspicion is know that it's private philanthropic money. And hey,
rich people are entitled to give to whatever causes they choose,
and God bless them for it. Some people believe that
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climate change is the single most important thing in the world.
We need to spend as much of the money that
I made. That's my life to do that. And you
you do there, you work on it, work on it.
But let me know what I'm supposed to do. Let's
not be turning decision making and policy, you know, suggestions
over to teenagers just yet.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, I'll turn off the lights when I leave the room.
You let me know what else you need me to do.
And talking about some of the the energy needs of
our nation, I think it's important Jim to look towards us.
A noted climatologist, economist, and really one of the smartest
minds of our time, Willie Nelson time is urging Americans
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to oppose the construction of data centers across the.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Nation all the way down line.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He says people need to fight against data centers invading
our land there.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Says they're using a lot of water.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
You know that water is recycled, not always not sure
if you know that. Well, they're moving closer and closer
to that direction all the time. But he says, I
grew up in Abbott, Texas, and I still have a
home there with foreign land. Or I can see stars
at night. I bet he sees stars just about everywhere
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he looks, And I don't mean celebrities, he says. Now,
our community, like many others, needs to fight against data
centers invading our land. Last thing we need is allowed
water thieve and light polluting data center anywhere near our town.
Water thievan water, thievn backstabbing, cowardly, back shooting, horse punching,
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water theater data center. We don't need that in our town.
So you guys got a fight. If anyone needs me,
I'll be on the bus. I'll beyond the bus, just
you know, doing Willie Nelson stuff. That's that's fantastic that
Willie has weighed in. We heard from Snoop Dogg on
this subject. Yet glad to have you a part of
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this on news radio eleven ten kfab And to each
of you, I say, with all due respect and no
hint of harassment, Happy Wiener Wednesday. That is the phrasing,
among other things, that got the mayor of Saint Paul,
Minnesota in trouble. The first female, the first openly female
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mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, is facing investigation overclaims of
sexual harassment against city employees, including her own police chief,
Police Chief Axel Henry not Axel Fully police chief Axel
Henry and other city employees have said that the mayor
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made sexualized comments and also had a number of interesting
emails and hands she got a little handsy on some cas.
That's part of the allegation. The letter to the city
attorneys includes a screenshot of a text message purportedly from
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the mayor of Saint Paul wishing a city employee a
quote happy Wiener Wednesday unquote and referencing eating hot dogs,
alongside a manipulated image that and this is from the
Associated Press, superimposed a Saint Paul police officer's face onto
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a AB's body with a sexually suggestive caption.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
What was the caption? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It sys all it says there's there's a lot wrong
with what I just had to read in a news report.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
That's uh yeah, it's it's Minnesota. Anything goes in Minnesota.
Something like an email, you know, from the mayor to
the police chief. I'd like to wear your cuffs? Yeah,
how about how about that gun belt? I don't I
don't know, but am I allowed to wish everyone a
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happy Wiener Wednesday? Yeh?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well, then happy Wiener Wednesday to you and yours here
in Omaha. We've got Douglas County Attorney Don Klein joining
us at eight thirty five this morning. Talked about this
yesterday a couple of times throughout yesterday morning. This was
an update from an April story where a couple of
young girls were in a Southwest Omaha park and being
chased around that park by someone was absolutely making sexualized
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comments to these young girls, a guy in his mid
thirties who was trying to grab them. They thought they
were going to be kidnapped, and then a judge just said, ah,
he didn't actually touch him, so he's got elemental disorders
and disabilities.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It was a game attack.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah, it's fine, And this did not sit well with
Douglas County Attorney Don Klink. Hear his reasoning. That's coming
up at eight thirty five, and I'm promoting ahead this
morning and now I am at seven thirty five this morning.
The US Department of Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary Paul R.
Lawrence is in Omaha. He's going to go visit the VA.
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How you guys doing down here, Well, he's doing more
than that. They're talking about streamlining services for our nation's
veterans and he's going to join us in the studio.
A little bit later in this hour of the program
coming up in fifteen minutes or so, doctor Anthony Fauci
is going to sit and be grilled mercilessly by some
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members of a Senate committee, Rand Paul among them, a
senator from Kentucky, said, there's one thing that he's never
heard doctor Fauci say that he'd like to hear. He said, quote,
I'd like to hear him say he's sorry. Can he
say he's sorry for funding the research was dangerous, the
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research in China, And everyone agrees with that. Unquote, that's
the quote there from Rand Paul. He wants to hear
doctor Fauci say, yeah, I'm sorry, sorry about all that.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
My bad. Yeah, I was looking at the wrong thing. Yeah,
this whole thing smelled like fish from the beginning because
he had a conflict of interest he was funding these
gain of function research labs in China. Now he's not
going to blame the lab for this, so he says, oh,
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you know, it came from that fish market. It was.
It was from animals. You know, some panda bear came
out of the world hoods and spread it to all
the rest of the world. He was never going to
admit that the gain of function research labs in Wuhan,
China were the reasons for this. Now he did in
his diary. Okay, he did in his diary. He didn't
come out and say he says. He says. He says
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the fish market quote unquote amplified the virus. Okay, it
didn't come from the fish market, it amplified. Well, I
don't even know if that's true. All I know is
this that he scared the daylights out of millions and
millions of people, and they got vaccines they didn't need
and in some cases, like young men who had inflamed
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hearts because they took these vaccines. Okay, this is the
this is the Anthony Fauci. Okay, that's on him. You
gotta take this vaccine. You take this vaccine, you won't
get sick a lie. You take this vaccine, you take
it a second time, you definitely won't get sick. A lie.
You take this vaccine. Don't worry. It's safe. Really, talk
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to all of the young men, the twenty year old
men who suffered major heart problems because of that vaccine
or the blood clots or some of the other things
that accelerated serious health problems with millions of Americans.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Here's what he said about what he thought to be
the origins of the virus and what we are hearing
from China. And this wasn't in twenty twenty one, two three.
This was in January of twenty twenty. This is as
we're just learning about some of these original cases.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
He said.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Quote, Remember, early on the Chinese were saying there is
no human to human transmission, and all the original twenty
seven cases were from the market. Now we know the
market was not the source. It was the amplifier, having
said that somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans.
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Now he's also talking here in the same journal entry
from January that the China was saying that the virus
is being trans transmitted when people are asymptomatic. In other words,
I feel fine, I don't have any symptoms, but I
can still transmit it. And in January of twenty twenty,
before all the masking and the social distancing and all
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the rest of it, he said, I am very skeptical
about the Chinese interpretation of their data. So these are
some of the things to ask. We were just learning
about it now. Yeah, this is all part of a
Senate hearing. We'll be checking in on that throughout the
morning here on eleven ten KFAB. I'm Scott Vorhees, and
we also have another voice to add to the conversation
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this morning. He is the United States Department of Veterans
Affairs Deputy Secretary Paul Our Lawrence is here in Omaha
and in our studios. Deputy Secretary Lawrence, welcome to Omaha.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Hey, thank you so much, good morning, Thanks for having me, Thanks,
thanks for your concern.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
For our veterans.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Absolutely not only concern for our veterans, but also admiration
for Veterans Affairs. If someone has it's a specific medical issue,
being that mental, physical, whatever, there's lots of specialized places
they can go. The Veterans' Affairs is a catch all
for everyone. Everything and any of these issues that these
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veterans face today are as unique as the individuals who
walk through those doors. And the professionals in your department
have to be ready for anything, and so often they are.
So thank you very much for what you're doing. I
know you served under President Trump a different capacity. You
served in our United States Army before that. You have
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a lot of love for our veterans as well. What
brings you to Omaha on this front?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
So today, in the last couple of days, I've been
working with our facility here in Omaha to make sure
they're getting ready to roll out our new electronic health record.
We're developing a tool that will enable us to serve
our veterans better. Right now, if you come to us often,
your information isn't there. So we want all the information
from the time you served to the time you come
see us.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
To be there.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Veterans won't have to repeat the story, and our doctors
will spend more time providing care as opposed to looking
through different computer systems to get information. This is something
that's really going to enable us to bring veterans great
care as new technologies, AI and the like are development.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Now, I know that you're a man of a certain age,
so you are aware that computers have been in existence
for many, many decades. Now, why has it taken us
so long to get to this point? And as far
as this roll out you're talking about, it takes about
another year to finally get it online.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
What's the hold up here? Certainly?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Well, actually VAS a leader in this We developed our
own electronic health record about thirty years ago, so we
were a leader. But things get antiquated and new private
sector technology has just to overcome us. So we're installing
the latest technology which allows us to bring the medicine
and the things forward. It takes about a year because
this is big change. People have to be ready. Doctors
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have to understand we will change the way they do
medicine right, the work will be standardized, our patients will
be safer. So we have to go through this process.
It just takes a while, and so that's what that's
how it works. And basically we started this doing this again.
It started on the first Trump term. The last team
stopped it. We started again in Michigan in April and
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Ohio in June.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
So we know this.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Works and it works well, and folks are ready and
they're able to use it and provide care. It just
takes a while to teach and train things.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I know that VA hospitals are great for the economy,
and they certainly provide specific services. But mister Deputy Secretary,
if we provide benefits to veterans, especially those who served
in active duty, and we should as an obligation, this
country should fulfill. Why do we need VA hospitals? Just
give them a credit card and say go wherever you want.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Certainly, sir, our obligation is to provide veterans care, and
veteran is defined by law, so it's a broad category.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It doesn't matter if you served. However you served, we
provide care. So we do.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
We provide a couple options. We call it direct care
in our facilities and community care into the community to
provide the veterans have a choice, and that's something President
Trump is very proud of. You have that choice, and
it sort of depends where there's a lot of providers.
Veterans can go into the community and willingly do so.
It's a function of how long you have to wait
to get an appointment, how far you have to drive,
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and they like survey show veterans like going to VA hospital.
Something about the community and folks understanding the journey they've had. Also,
we are leaders in certain things for which there is
no private sector equivalent prosthetics, mental health. There are things
that folks come to us. So we want veterans to
have choice to do whatever works best for them based
on their situation as well as their preferences.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
You've got a couple more years at the president of
being in office, but with the midterms, anything that the
Congress might allow you to do could change after November.
So what is it that you're on a fast track
to try and also get done for our nation's veterans
through the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Yeah, Well, the really great thing about veterans issues is
there bipartisan so most folks should be both size the issues.
So I've seen that up close and personal. So what
we need to accomplish as part of the President's agenda
is really independent of the midterms. He was very clear
eliminate veteran homelessness, provide veterans choice, you know, execute the
things that I talk about, as well as pay attention
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to veterans. I want my benefits fast and quick. They're
more timely now than they've ever been in history. I
want to have access to care. We've opened thirty eight
new facilities and provide almost three million appointments outside of
non traditional hours. So we will continue to execute his
agenda in terms of veterans, regardless of what you know
the legislative branch consists of.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
So you're heading over to the VA here this morning,
just off of forty second and Woolworth Avenue. What are
you hoping to do and talk to here throughout the
morning today? I have a really great conversation coming up.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
As part of the.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Role out of this plan, we enlist select a staff
we call them super users, to get extra training on
the system so when it goes live there's somebody you
can turn to and ask and say, how does this work?
This group is invaluable and the role outside alluded to
in Michigan and Ohio. They were the one that answered
all the questions that got everybody comfortable. So this is
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a very special group. I want to hear from them better,
I understand, and really, quite frankly thank them because it
is a role that will require they do their regular
job and get extra training in preparation for what's going
to happen.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
We have a number of listeners to this radio station
who do use the VA if they have specific questions, concerns,
you know, maybe some helpful compliments and criticism that they
can pass along. How do they go about doing that, sir?
Speaker 4 (34:32):
The best way is reach out to us. You can
do it on the web at VA dot gov. Or
you could go into our facilities. But I'd like to
build on that because right now we're spending a lot
of time trying to find veterans who are not connected
to us. Then when folks, you know, harm themselves, seventy
percent of them have never been into our facilities. So
we're in a big, big push to say, please bring
your friends, have them connect with us. Understand these are
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benefits they have earned. Please connect with us. So just
come in and let us begin to figure out what
you've earned. And as you pointed out, the Secretary talks about,
these are not entitlements. Veterans don't get benefits. They earn benefits,
and this is what we do. We administer what they've earned.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You earned the Meritorious Service Medal, left the United States
Army with the role of airborne qualified Captain, now serving
as Deputy Secretary for our Department of Veterans Affairs. That
is Paul our Lawrence again, welcome to Omaha. Enjoy your
time over at the VA, and thank you very much
what you're doing and the Trump Administration's doing on behalf
of our nation's veterans. Thanks so much for having me
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right here on News Radio eleven ten kfab where I
don't think we're going to get anything in the way
of news out of this Senate Subcommittee hearing, where they've
got doctor Anthony Fauci in there. He was given a
few minutes to make an opening statement, which he did,
and then he started. Then he kind of laid out
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how he was going to speak and why he was
speaking this way the rest of the day.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
However, given Senator Paul's obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution,
his repeated slanderous comments about me, and recently his publicly
releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me,
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the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole
reason he is calling me before this committee is to
get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his
repeated public pledges that I end up in his words
quote behind bars unquote. Any reasonable person who has followed
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his unhinged obsession with me would readily come to the
same conclusion. Therefore, although it pains me to do so,
because of the respect I have for the legislative branch
of government and my decades long record of cooperating with
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Congress under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke
my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to
refrain from answering your questions.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Thank you, And then he just continued to say, I
plead the fifth.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
I plead the fifth. I plead the fifth.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I think he doesn't want to quarter soldiers. Oh wait,
that's the third this is but the Fifth Amendment protects
you against self incrimination. The former President of the United States,
Joe Biden Joseph Robinette Biden, gave this man blanket immunity.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
To twenty twenty fourteen, from the moment of his which
was to January twentieth of twenty twenty five. From that
moment back to twenty fourteen, but anything from that moment
to now is not covered by the pardon.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I thought he could come out and say I started
the virus. I created this thing. I put it in
a pangle in in the Wuhan wet market, and I
made sure that it got back here. So people in Omaha,
Nebraska would get penalized if they didn't wear a mask out.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
In public or just a Ran Paul, you suck. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
So Ran Paul then starts and he's still in the
midst of his grilling here, and he's it's the same
stuff we've heard when these guys go back and forth,
except Fauci used to come back at him. These guys
used to argue it would be some fireworks. But now
ran Paul is saying asking questions about gain of function
research and transmission from animals to humans with a type
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of coronavirus. And every time ran Paul stops and looks
at doctor Fauci, he says, my counsel has advised that
I plead the fifth and.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Not answer your questions. And I wonder that's all that's happening.
I wonderfuil answered any questions from any of the other senators.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
That's what I want to hear too, because there apparently
are at least a few Democrats who showed up for
this hearing, probably because they knew that Fauci was gonna
go the fifth.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Probably, I don't think anybody is surprised that he's doing it.
If they are surprised, maybe the media is surprised because
they were hoping for fireworks, indoor fireworks. But I don't
think rand Paul is surprised that he's doing this. In fact,
before he walked into the hearing room. He met with
a gaggle of reporters and said, I just would like
to hear him say I'm sorry for all the things
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that I did, and for all of the mistakes that
I made, and all of the policies I promoted, and
all of the activities that turned out to be disasters
for the country and got many state governments local governments
to follow because he was considered the world's expert in
this area. I just hope he'd say I'm sorry for it.
But he's not going to do that, at least not
with Raan Paul. He's not going to do that. And
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you know Rand Paul is a physician. Roger Marshall is
a physician. Roger Marshall is the Republican senator from Kansas.
He practiced for twenty some years before he ran for
public office. Same thing with Rand Paul. They've both been
to medical school. They understand this. This wouldn't be like
Jim Rose and Scott Vorhe's up there asking questions, although
I think if I were asking questions on a sentate panel,
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I'd be researched. I wouldn't have my assistant do it
and then just put a piece of paper in front
of me. I'd actually research. It would have been nice
if the news media had done that during the pandemic.
That didn't happen. They just lapped this up. But Rand
Paul knows what he's talking about. Roger Marshall will know
what he's talking about because they studied biology, they studied
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the human anatomy. They understand how this stuff works. So
you can't just dismiss them as simply politicos, which is
what Fauci and his totis in the news media have
been doing. Cranks, skeptics, conspiracy theorists, just looking for attention
and clicks. No, that isn't the case.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
It should be noted that Jim Rose read all of
that from a statement that handed to him from an
intern here at Radio eleven. This is not the first
time a government official has gone before a Senate hearing
and pled the fifth You remember Lois Lerner, Yes, the
IRS director under President Obama did the same thing. In fact,
we can go back into the archives and listen to
how some of that sounded.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
Can we have.
Speaker 7 (41:18):
You authenticate simply the questions and answers previously given to
the Inspector General. I plead the fifth is it possible
that we could narrow the scope of questions and that
there are some areas that you would be able to
answer any questions on here today.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
No, but I can tell you that I plead the.
Speaker 7 (41:36):
Physics learner, would you be willing to answer questions specifically
related to the earlier statements made under oath before this committee.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Three?
Speaker 7 (41:58):
For this reason, I have no choice but to excuse
the witness.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah, they cut that off, and we'll see how this
goes here with doctor Fauci pleading.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
The fifth Now, there is a little bit of skirmish
going on between Rand Paul and I believe Anthony Fauci's attorney,
who is sitting next to him. All right, well, well,
Rand Paul has said the next time you utter a word,
you'll be removed from this chamber. You are not recognized,
you have not been invited. I think that's who that is,
all right, I tell you certain. And by the way,
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there are just two Democrat senators in this hearing, Gary
Peters from Michigan, who is the vice chair of the committee,
and I believe Jean Shaheen, the Democrat senator from New Hampton. Yeah,
I see this.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
We will jump up to that portion in the proceedings
here and listen to how that's sounding. In just a
moment he's having removed. He goes, all right, you will
hear this. In just a moment, as Doctor Anthony Fauci
was responding by not responding to any of Senator rand
Paul's questions by saying he's pleading the fifth, he says,
all right, well, there could be repercussions for you not
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answering these questions, and then he throws it to the
Democrat on the panel. But as he's doing so, you
don't hear him in this part of the the audio.
But doctor Fauci's attorney starts lipping off to ran Paul,
and here's how it sounded in the wake of that moment.
Speaker 8 (43:19):
You're not recognized. You're not recognized. If you are unruly,
you will be removed from the proceeding. You are not
you are not recognized. And you you are not recognized, sir, sir,
you are not recognized. You are not recognized.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Securit him so you don't actually hear what we will.
Speaker 8 (43:39):
We'll hold off, but you will respect these proceedings.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
You were told not to sit at the table.
Speaker 8 (43:44):
You insist on sitting at the table, and we told
you you would not be recognized. You are not invited
here for testimony. Sir, you are being disruptive. Would you
behave this way in a courtroom? No, because the judge
would put you in jail. I can't do that today,
but I can have you escorted from the premises. So
I would say, sir, sit quietly and don't say another word.
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I said, sit quietly, you are not recognized. Another word
and you're gone.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
And then he was. And then he said he couldn't
bring himself to adhere to the rules.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
Chairman, I'd like to hear what the attorney has to say.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
That's gary.
Speaker 8 (44:22):
He is not recognized by the committee or the chair.
If he speaks again, he will be removed from the room.
This testimony is from Anthony Fauci. This is not a
game with his lawyers. He can advise. His lawyers can
give him advice. He's got a half dozen here. They're
all allowed to talk to him. Yes, all right, but
the attorneys are not recognized. In fact, the attorney was
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told not to sit at the table, and he's not
obeying that recommendation. There's a row behind you, sir, that's
where you were told to sit and you're not, and
now you're disrupting the proceedings. And so look, this is
the way Anthony Fauci.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Wants to be remembered.
Speaker 8 (44:58):
For a lawyer not listening to the rule, that's the
way you want to be remembered, and that's what you're
going to do. You are not recognized, Sir, Security, Please
removing from the room.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Yeah, man, that is exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Plus here man pep rally behind Ran Paul. That's going
to be a heck of a diary entry by doctor Fauci.
Tonight talked about this a lot yesterday in the wake
of a Douglas County judge looking at the situation from
mid April Southwest Omaha. It's a couple of young girls
who are out in the park and this guy in
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his mid thirties starts chasing them around, trying to grab them,
saying he wants to have sex with them. The judge
looked at this guy and said, well, he's got some
developmental issues and so therefore, ah, he didn't actually touch him.
I don't see any crime here. Douglas County Attorney Don
Klein disagrees with this assessment and joins us now here
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on news radio eleven ten KFAB Good morning, coach, you're.
Speaker 6 (46:00):
Warning Scott and Jim and Lucy. It's good to be
with you.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
It's great to have you here. Why do you disagree
with the judges assessment? After all, she says he's got
a number of different things, autism, bipolar, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 6 (46:13):
Sure, there's no question about that. But the issue is,
at the time, was he attempting and that's what we
charged him with, attempted child's abuse, putting the children in
a situation of danger. We thought it was either that
or attempted sexual assault. And he admits that he wants
to have sex with him and he's chasing them. I mean,
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these girls were terrified. So the judges missed it. We
respectfully disagree. But there's another avenue. I'm not going to
rest on this. I think that the public. My job
is to protect the public. And there's something called the
Developmental Disabilities Court Ordered Custody Act to provide a procedure
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for which the court can play somebody in custody and
treatment for a person to develop I mean developmentally disabled
when they pose a threat of harm to others, so
we found that petition to be before the court because
you know, this person, even with the issues that he
may have, was not even being supervised. There was no
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monitoring him. He was just out in the park by himself.
And that's not I don't think appropriate under the situation
when he has these thoughts and ideas and he's had
them previously.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Oh okay, let's talk about what previously this guy has
ever done. Is this something where the family or whoever
care givers are for him should have known that to
allow him to roam free in a park around kids
was a bad idea.
Speaker 6 (47:48):
I believe so. I mean, the caregiver who the residents
he was staying said told the officers that he has
these thoughts about sexual activity with younger people. He previously
had had been at the zoo and had an issue
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of a similar nature. He was assessed by people who
are experts in the area that he's a high risk.
So I mean, I guess to me, that's what the
purpose of this act is. At least, let's make sure
that this person is monitored, that they're restricted, and maybe
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they're where they can be or who they're with. And
that wasn't happening and so I don't want to wait
till something even worse than what's already happened happens, and
so I want to prevent that from happening, and I'm
going to do everything I can stop that.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
Jim rose Don, who is responsible for this guy?
Speaker 6 (48:59):
Well, I mean he he has some adopted parents, but
he was staying in a residence where somebody was supposed
to be keeping an eye on him, but obviously they weren't.
He was out walking in the park by himself. And
so that's that's very troubling to me, and I think
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it should be to the public. So hopefully this judge
understands that, and we'll see. We're going to put the
evidence on that shows his history, his assessment, and the
judge will make a determination of what restrictions to put
on him or maintain testody of him.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Is So, is that caregiving operation in any way culpable
for his behavior? Can you can you process any legal
action against them or it?
Speaker 6 (49:52):
Well, at this point, I mean, if something more probably happened,
maybe so, But to me there should certainly weren't doing
their job from the standpoint of I don't know what
the contract was with them as far as what their
duties or responsibilities were. We'll find out, but certainly this person,
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because of the nature of his problems, should be supervised.
Obviously he shouldn't be out by himself around little kids.
And we see what.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Happened, Coach.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
I can put myself in the shoes of the caregivers
of this guy, and they've had their house vandalized, people
been doing neighborhood watching the sidewalk out there saying there's
a you know, creep who lives here, and I imagine
this has been miserable for them. I can also put
myself in the shoes of a father of a little
girl who's been chased around by this guy in the park,
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who then found out that nothing's going to happen to
this guy. Have you gotten any feedback from the family
of the girls who were chased.
Speaker 6 (50:56):
Oh, we're going to talk to them. We wanted to
get this on file and then we'll kind of let
them know the process and procedure. But certainly, I mean,
like I said, these young ladies, young girls were terrified,
and thank god anything more didn't happen than it did
that he never got to the point where he could
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do what he said he desired to do so. I mean,
we're going to do everything we can to prevent anything
from happening here. And to me, you know, Scott, Jim,
this this benefits Kim as much as it benefits the public.
I mean, this guy needs to be supervised. He needs
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not to be walking around if you can't control those
thoughts or ideas that he has, and it protects him
and protects the public.
Speaker 1 (51:47):
Great point. Douglas County Attorney Don Klin. Always appreciate the conversation.
Thank you very much for coming on here.
Speaker 6 (51:53):
You guys have a great day, you too.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
On news radio eleven kfab full disclosure. He was my
little league coach, so I refer to him with the
greatest title I can bestow on another human being, and
that is coach.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
And how did you do? I was terrible, but that
wasn't his fault. Traffic whether coaches all coaches can't change players.
You can only change coach that it wasn't his fault.
You can only do so much with this this thing here.
What's frightening about it, Scott, is that we have we
had a warning sign. Okay, he was out chasing little
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girls around a park.
Speaker 6 (52:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
The next stage is he catches one of them. Yeah, well,
and I didn't know that he'd had an issue with
the zoo. That's new information. Yeah, so he's working on that. Well,
we'll get updates going down this road. Under advice to counsel,
I am going to take my constitutionally protected Fifth Amendment
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against self incrimination and not answer any more of your questions,
Jim Rose, and I'll be saying that over and over
and over. That's what's happening in the Senate Committee hearing.
Doctor Anthony Fauci is up there, and for someone who
previously apparently enjoyed speaking so much, whether it's to Congress
or the media or to the American people, he is
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not saying anything though, other than that. That's after his
opening statement, which essentially was, I did so many of
these hearings with you guys. He used to respect it,
and I respect this, but after Senator ran Paul leaked
my diary and my diary and.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
In his view, slanted him and made it clear that,
you know, my future should be behind bars. Other than that,
it's been on advisive council. I choose to exercise my
right under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution
now we have Danang, Dick Blumenthal, Richard Blumenthal, he's the
Senator from Connecticut. He's up there and he showed up
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late the war heroes. So now we have we actually
have three Democrat senators there, Gary Peters, I said, gen Shah.
I met Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire. She's a Democrat.
She's there, and Blumenthal is there. Maybe another one I
don't know, maybe Bernie will wander in. I don't know.
He's a member of the Homeland Security Committee.
Speaker 1 (54:12):
I don't know why they're still doing it. They're all
just listening to themselves talk. He's not answering any of
their questions. He's really not even paying attention. I don't
think the Democrats are asking him questions, because that would
put him in a position where now you'd have to
tell his friends on that side of the aisle that
he's not going to answer their questions. I don't think
they're actually asking him. They're just taking their opportunity just
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to talk and talk and talk and talk, which, by
the way, we're pretty good at that.
Nancy Pelosi was her usual self with me big hug
kiss telling everyone how great I am little embarrassing. Diane
Degett did the same thing. Mick Mulvaaney led the meeting,
and after about one hour, the President came in and
the first thing he said as he looked at me was, Anthony,
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you are really a famous guy. My good friend lou
Dobbs told me that you were one of the smartest, knowledgeable,
and outstanding persons he knows. He stayed for twenty minutes
and asked most of his questions of me. I was
surprised and very pleased, and the deputies were clearly stunned
and impressed. When Trump finally left, he said, Anthony.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Are we okay? I said, we are good.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
He smiled as he walked out of the room and said,
thanks again, Anthony, we are counting on you. Another doctor
Anthony Fauci diary moment. The Potus was not yet in
the room when he walked in with Milania. The first
thing he said was Anthony, come here and say hello
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to Milania. Then, to my embarrassment, in front of everyone,
he told Milania I was the smartest person in the world.
Press still hot and heavy about me, multiple stories per
day directly or indirectly involving me.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I tell you what.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Beautiful, isn't it? It is a beautiful thing. And this was,
of course, all if you're among those who feel like
COVID was killing scores of people every single day and
needed to be taken very seriously, and there are a
lot of people who certainly feel that way. They're looking
(01:50):
at the journal entries by doctor Anthony Fauci, who was
an who's writing down not just things about, well, maybe
we should do this and may we should talk to
the Chinese about that kind of thing, but he was
also like, I'm going on CNN today and posting things
like that, and people are said, thousands of people were
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dying every single week from this virus, and you're on
there saying I'm going on wtop radio today. Boy, the
president sure thinks I'm smart. And they're not very impressed
by this. Now, Conservatives have been off the Fauci trade,
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and if they were ever on it, they've been off
it for quite some time. This of course, all coming
out because Kentucky Senator Ran Paul had released these journal entries,
which really doesn't do anything other than just embarrass the man,
and frankly, it's below my journalistic integrity to read these things.
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But as I misplaced my journalistic integrity, I guess I'm
just going to read these things. He's going before a
Senate committee this afternoon. What will that lead to?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Remember who pardoned him, President Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, the autopen pardon, the auto.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Pen known as President Joe Biden issued a blanket pardon
for anything that doctor fout you may have done or
not done in dealing with this pandemic, which was the
subject of an incredible commentary by Jim Rose yesterday. I
want to harken back to the very last part of
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that in just a moment, because Jim just dropped a bomb,
turned the mic off, and walked out of the studio
yesterday because we were out of time on the program.
Wait wait, you can't, you can't say that, and then
just say all right, we'll see you tomorrowy.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So tip your waitress.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You heard the end of the Rosie Degenozi, which sounded
exactly like this.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
He was flat wrong. He influenced others to be wrong.
His actions violated a sacred trust between the people and
their government health agencies. D h HS, the CDC, the
n i H that'll take a generation to be repaired,
if ever. But he's fine. Joe Biden gave him a pardon,
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so he'll never have to account for any of this.
He might be the most infamous person to ever get
away with alleged economic and social terrorism and accessory to murder.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
All right, That was Jim Ro's assessment of doctor Anthony Fauci.
Alleged social, social and economic terrorism and accessory to murder.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Alleged. Yeah, that that was the bomb. That was the pin.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You pulled from the grenade, You set it on the
by the microphone, and then you say, well, have a
great day everyone, wellmorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Glenn Beck show coming and you coming. Yeah. Look, I
believe it would. He would. He forecast, what he endorsed,
what he influenced, destroyed the American economy. It has literally
set back an entire generation of school kids because of
his advocacy for lockdowns. Now, he says he never publicly
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said it. Well, in his diary, he says and admits
that he told Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, and
Bill de Bosio, the mayor of New York City, lock
your place down. Lock your bars and restaurants down, lock
everything down. And because of his advocacy of these policies,
it really contributed to the deaths of millions of people
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across the world. Now, certainly in this country.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Is that on him or is that on whether it
is the mayor of New York, governor of California.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
He was the face. He was quote America's doctor. He
was the face of this message. He was the face
of the pandemic. Sure he advised two presidents.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
He could tell Omaha, Nebraska, lock everything down, and the
local health director, the county health director, whether it was
previously doctor Addie Porr or now doctor Lindsay Hughes, would say,
I think we need to do lockdowns, and we need
to have masks and all that, and then the city
council and the mayor would have to deal with all
of this stuff. So is that on Fauci or is
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that on everyone else, including President Trump and then President Biden.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It's on Fauci because Fauci was the medical expert. Fauci
was the doctor. He was national the national brain behind
the pandemic response. And what we're finding out now, as
we said at the time, and as he is admitted
in his diary. And look, you don't lie to your
own diary, Okay, he said, you tell the truth of
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the diary. You can lie to CNN, you can lie
to Jake Tapper, you can lie to the President, but
you don't lie to your own diary. This guy is
going to be tied, dyed and laid to the side
by the United States Senate today in about half an hour,
oh actually less than that, in about ten minutes. He's
going to appear before the seven thirty Eastern time. He's
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going to appear before a committee of United States Senators
who want him to be swinging from a lamppost will
because of what happened. We will be listening in my question.
My question is going to be this, Will there be
any Democrats because he was subpoenaed by the United States Senate?
Will there be any Democrats because they were apologists for
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this guy, They were apologists for the policies of the
Joe Biden administration who took over in January of twenty
twenty one. What's he get? What defense will they provide
for him? Because we know that Ran Paul and Ron Johnson,
who have been two of the most vocal critics and
vocal skeptics of Anthony Fauci from the start of this
entire dreaded episode, will lay this guy bear in the
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city square.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Well, if he didn't do anything, why did President Biden's
administration and the Auto pen look at everything that he
was alleged to have done and decide to give him
a blanket?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Pardon? There's a good question, yep.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Like I said, we'll be listening in throughout the morning
here on eleven to ten KFAB where it's now time
for the certified Transmissions Sports bree Here's Jim very.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Good skoy, Good morning everybody. First, six of the eighteen
teams were on the stage at Big ten media Days
in Chicago, among them Iowa. The Hawkeys under twenty year
head to twenty eight year head coach Kirk Farrens are
expected to be about where they've been for his twenty
eight middle of the pack think eight and four, maybe
nine to three, which for them is just fine. Farence
was slow to adapt to the transfer portaland nil, but
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he's there now. Still he doesn't like it. I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I'm concerned, and to me, that's our single biggest issue
right now.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Talking imbalance, with no salary cap, no rules, enforcement, no rules.
We're going back to the future.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And I got Taiwan eighty one. We went to the
Rose Bowl first time in nineteen years, we had a
winning season, first time in thirteen years. It's someone other
than two teams had been to the Rose Bowl. And
I would suggest, you know, the Big ten's been healthier
since nineteen eighty one than it was during the seventies.
That's just me as a participant. That's why I look
at it and I think, if we're not careful, we
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could go down that road again as a bigger enterprise.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
College football says the game was dominated by ten or
fifteen teams back then. Nebraska fans liked those days because
we were one of them. Nebraska isn't on the stage
up there at Big Ten media days until tomorrow. Trev Alberts,
who left Nebraska as a first team All American, remembers
that as a freshman, his and the other freshman status
in the program was so low the practice gear didn't
(09:25):
even include a big red N. You had to earn
the right to even wear the N on your practice gear. Today,
a high school kid who has never taken a snap
in a practice is the face of the program. Trey Taylor,
a hotshot recruit who may not work out. The odds
foretell that sixty percent of recruits do not. Just signed
(09:45):
another national nil deal. He is now hawking Rolex Date
just watches retail six thousand to thirty six thousand dollars apiece. Now,
how many of you are wearing a thirty six thousand
dollars wat me? Neither and I could afford one. He
also has deals with Adidas Subway and greg Young Chevrolet.
(10:06):
He's a big social media stud considered by most recruiting
experts to be the number one high school quarterback in
the country. Are we talking about him or Dinan Royola?
Pretty soon in the college football jersey will look like
the outfield wallet. Werner Park schools are selling that real estate.
Ohio State does a deal with JP Morgan Chase logo
on all Buckeye jerseys seventeen million a year. Notre Dame
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does a deal with Sofar, the fintech company from Santa Clara, California,
same thing, logos on all jerseys twenty million a year
to the university. On August first, the NCAA rule limiting
images on the Jersey's end schools can have up to
four of them on there, but there is restraint. They
can only be four square inches in size. Baseball scores
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American League Detroit fourteen, Baltimore or nothing, Texas for Tampa one,
Minnesota three, the Royals two, the Yankees three, the White
Sox two. He used to beat the Angels and the
A's b T Boston National League. You hat Arizona, Miami,
the Cubs, Milwaukee in San Diego winning games. Atlanta and
New York postponed doubleheader day night doubleheader between the Cleveland
Guardians and the Cincinnati Reds. Cleveland wins the first one
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six to five. The Reds win the second one two
to nothing. Washington over Toronto, seattle'll beat the Dodgers. Sports
his news on Nebraska's News weathern Traffic station. We are
all here and we call ourselves Nebraska's Morning News. Thank
you very much for calling on us. This is a
place where we come to laugh, cry and get through
the day together right here on news radio eleven ten
kfab laugh, cry or get through the day together. Under
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which of those categories does this story fall yesterday? O
Moha mayor John ewing Well may he may or may
not have been wearing a Superman costume, which apparently he
just does. He have that hung up in a closet
somewhere at the Mayor's office. Every time I see a
social media post from Mayor Ewing, he's posing with a
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bunch of kids, and he's got on the Superman costume.
To his credit, it's not one of those with the
really tight tights and so forth. He's got like a
black Superman cost He's a very put together buff. He
about a decade or so ago, started working out and
got well. He was one of those guys just got
addicted to just working out and these cops and what's
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the point of working out if you don't take selfies
of yourself, you know, posing and all that. So he
was doing that anyway, waiting for the videos that the
social media videos him standing there and Sarah's boyd Epley
Shorts showing it off.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
They're on his Facebook. He's at the gun show in
there for a while.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So be liking to be nice if he'd spend some
of his time spraying weeds on Dodge Street. But that's
a separate issue.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That's that's what's a separate department. But he's the mayor
Buck stops there and so uh Mayor John Ewing or
as Chris Baker calls him. For that reason, Mayor Superman
announced that Omaha will join Bloomberg, coming straight from Courtney
Donahoe's office, Bloomberg Philanthropies Youth Climate Action Fund, which is
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providing money to support young people and mobilizing them to
design and deliver solutions aligned with Omaha's climate change philosophies.
In other words, we are paying money to teenagers to
come up with ideas to make Omaha more sustainable when
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it comes to climate change in the years and decades ahead.
What exactly are these teenagers supposed to do? If if
we if we have people not just here in Omaha
but around the world who we're looking at. If you
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were one of those who feels like climate change is
the biggest issue yeah, facing ours and future generations. Do
we not have very smart people who have looked at
this and provided some ideas and solutions. Why are we
paying teenagers here in Omaha to come up with solutions?
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Are we out of ideas? And what exactly are they
going to come up with that Some of the smartest
scientific minds of our time have yet to come up with.
Tell these teenagers, hey, we have some ideas for climate change.
Turn off your phones, stop needing to use all these
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data centers to do all of your computing and cloud storage,
and maybe a fewer video game and streaming hours on
your various devices. That could really help the energy crisis
and any climate change problems we might face. And see
how the teenagers deal with that one, because their parents
aren't telling them that apparently not.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
There is a video circulating across social media of a
really painful exchange between Louisiana Senator John Kennedy and one
of these This is a climate kid, that's what I
call him climate kids, and he was summoned to testify
before a United States Senate committee on climate change. And
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John Kennedy is pretty clearly steadfast in his skepticism of
the climate change industry and the costs associated with converting
us to a zero carbon economy. It's trillions and trillions
of dollars. So here came this kid who rides a bicycle.
That's his thing in life. He rides a bicycle. He's
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into competitive cycling, and he felt like he was a
climate expert and it was important for him to represent
the generation of those who believe that this current practice
is reckoned the planet, and John Kennedy turned this guy
into a gigantic load of Plato. He demonstrated the undeniable
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reality that is, most young people don't know anything. And
it's not because they're stupid. It's because they're young and
they don't know anything. Now, they're quite actually vulnerable to
hearing things from people and letting those things imprint on them,
and that was the case with this poor guy. But
he was asked some very simple, but serious and specific
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questions for which he had no answer. And that's where
we are today. Well, we have a lot of young
people who have an opinion because somebody of influence told
them that this is the way it is, but they
have absolutely no quantifiable data to back up their viewpoint.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
When you have young teenagers going up and scolding world
leaders at the United Nations, exactly, Greta how Tuneberg.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, well this is the deal. Now, let's get Let's
get teenagers. Let's get kids who need to be driven
to the UN by their mom to speak before war
world leaders, experienced people, business executives, scientists, educators, Let's tell
them what to do, and that's where this is. Now.
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I've met Michael Bloomberg. I think he's a really great guy.
I was visiting Courtney as a matter of fact, at
her office a few years ago, and there was Michael.
We met him, and he's a very successful man and
he's done very very well in media and finance. Why
his company is financing this fiasco defies common sense and logic.
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And I think it's great that we engage young people.
Young people need to be engaged in every aspect of
our political system, of our business community. But to turn
decision making over to them is nonsense, right.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Well, especially since if one of them has his or
her own idea about hey, if we do this, sure,
if we cut back three percent on that, then we
can have an impact. They would be a millionaire overnight.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Having to see them with whatever money this is, and
it sounds like it's not Omaha taxpayer money we have,
it's from Bloomberg, But we have the Omaha Youth Climate
Action Fund, which is a probably funds that I don't know.
I don't know if there's some public money in that,
but it was the Omaha City Council a few years ago.
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Remember they paid a consultant to come up with a
sustainability plan, and they spent a whole bunch of money
to do that. And I said, no, wait a second,
aren't other communities across the country hit in Albuquerque doing this?
Isn't Fort Wayne, Indiana doing this? What about Boston? Is
there anyone who is also coming up with this? Can't
we just take what they're doing gladly? I'm sure they
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gladly share it with us. This, after all, would save
the planet. They're not sharing this. We have to pay
and to come up with our own sustainability plan. Oklahoma
City and Tulsa aren't doing something that we can borrow from.
These guys are just chucking money at the issue and
it never ever ends.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
All right, let's I would like to know if that
Omaha Climate Fund has any public funding in it. I
don't know if we're going to get that answer. My
suspicion is know that it's private philanthropic money. And hey,
rich people are entitled to give to whatever causes they choose,
and God bless them for it. Some people believe that
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climate change is the single most important thing in the world.
We need to spend as much of the money that
I made. That's my life to do that. And you
you do there, you work on it, work on it.
But let me know what I'm supposed to do. Let's
not be turning decision making and policy, you know, suggestions
over to teenagers just yet.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, I'll turn off the lights when I leave the room.
You let me know what else you need me to do.
And talking about some of the the energy needs of
our nation, I think it's important Jim to look towards us.
A noted climatologist, economist, and really one of the smartest
minds of our time, Willie Nelson time is urging Americans
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to oppose the construction of data centers across the.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Nation all the way down line.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He says people need to fight against data centers invading
our land there.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Says they're using a lot of water.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
You know that water is recycled, not always not sure
if you know that. Well, they're moving closer and closer
to that direction all the time. But he says, I
grew up in Abbott, Texas, and I still have a
home there with foreign land. Or I can see stars
at night. I bet he sees stars just about everywhere
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he looks, And I don't mean celebrities, he says. Now,
our community, like many others, needs to fight against data
centers invading our land. Last thing we need is allowed
water thieve and light polluting data center anywhere near our town.
Water thievan water, thievn backstabbing, cowardly, back shooting, horse punching,
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water theater data center. We don't need that in our town.
So you guys got a fight. If anyone needs me,
I'll be on the bus. I'll beyond the bus, just
you know, doing Willie Nelson stuff. That's that's fantastic that
Willie has weighed in. We heard from Snoop Dogg on
this subject. Yet glad to have you a part of
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this on news radio eleven ten kfab And to each
of you, I say, with all due respect and no
hint of harassment, Happy Wiener Wednesday. That is the phrasing,
among other things, that got the mayor of Saint Paul,
Minnesota in trouble. The first female, the first openly female
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mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, is facing investigation overclaims of
sexual harassment against city employees, including her own police chief,
Police Chief Axel Henry not Axel Fully police chief Axel
Henry and other city employees have said that the mayor
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made sexualized comments and also had a number of interesting
emails and hands she got a little handsy on some cas.
That's part of the allegation. The letter to the city
attorneys includes a screenshot of a text message purportedly from
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the mayor of Saint Paul wishing a city employee a
quote happy Wiener Wednesday unquote and referencing eating hot dogs,
alongside a manipulated image that and this is from the
Associated Press, superimposed a Saint Paul police officer's face onto
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a AB's body with a sexually suggestive caption.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
What was the caption? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It sys all it says there's there's a lot wrong
with what I just had to read in a news report.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
That's uh yeah, it's it's Minnesota. Anything goes in Minnesota.
Something like an email, you know, from the mayor to
the police chief. I'd like to wear your cuffs? Yeah,
how about how about that gun belt? I don't I
don't know, but am I allowed to wish everyone a
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happy Wiener Wednesday? Yeh?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well, then happy Wiener Wednesday to you and yours here
in Omaha. We've got Douglas County Attorney Don Klein joining
us at eight thirty five this morning. Talked about this
yesterday a couple of times throughout yesterday morning. This was
an update from an April story where a couple of
young girls were in a Southwest Omaha park and being
chased around that park by someone was absolutely making sexualized
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comments to these young girls, a guy in his mid
thirties who was trying to grab them. They thought they
were going to be kidnapped, and then a judge just said, ah,
he didn't actually touch him, so he's got elemental disorders
and disabilities.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It was a game attack.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah, it's fine, And this did not sit well with
Douglas County Attorney Don Klink. Hear his reasoning. That's coming
up at eight thirty five, and I'm promoting ahead this
morning and now I am at seven thirty five this morning.
The US Department of Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary Paul R.
Lawrence is in Omaha. He's going to go visit the VA.
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How you guys doing down here, Well, he's doing more
than that. They're talking about streamlining services for our nation's
veterans and he's going to join us in the studio.
A little bit later in this hour of the program
coming up in fifteen minutes or so, doctor Anthony Fauci
is going to sit and be grilled mercilessly by some
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members of a Senate committee, Rand Paul among them, a
senator from Kentucky, said, there's one thing that he's never
heard doctor Fauci say that he'd like to hear. He said, quote,
I'd like to hear him say he's sorry. Can he
say he's sorry for funding the research was dangerous, the
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research in China, And everyone agrees with that. Unquote, that's
the quote there from Rand Paul. He wants to hear
doctor Fauci say, yeah, I'm sorry, sorry about all that.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
My bad. Yeah, I was looking at the wrong thing. Yeah,
this whole thing smelled like fish from the beginning because
he had a conflict of interest he was funding these
gain of function research labs in China. Now he's not
going to blame the lab for this, so he says, oh,
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you know, it came from that fish market. It was.
It was from animals. You know, some panda bear came
out of the world hoods and spread it to all
the rest of the world. He was never going to
admit that the gain of function research labs in Wuhan,
China were the reasons for this. Now he did in
his diary. Okay, he did in his diary. He didn't
come out and say he says. He says. He says
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the fish market quote unquote amplified the virus. Okay, it
didn't come from the fish market, it amplified. Well, I
don't even know if that's true. All I know is
this that he scared the daylights out of millions and
millions of people, and they got vaccines they didn't need
and in some cases, like young men who had inflamed
(26:38):
hearts because they took these vaccines. Okay, this is the
this is the Anthony Fauci. Okay, that's on him. You
gotta take this vaccine. You take this vaccine, you won't
get sick a lie. You take this vaccine, you take
it a second time, you definitely won't get sick. A lie.
You take this vaccine. Don't worry. It's safe. Really, talk
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to all of the young men, the twenty year old
men who suffered major heart problems because of that vaccine
or the blood clots or some of the other things
that accelerated serious health problems with millions of Americans.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Here's what he said about what he thought to be
the origins of the virus and what we are hearing
from China. And this wasn't in twenty twenty one, two three.
This was in January of twenty twenty. This is as
we're just learning about some of these original cases.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
He said.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Quote, Remember, early on the Chinese were saying there is
no human to human transmission, and all the original twenty
seven cases were from the market. Now we know the
market was not the source. It was the amplifier, having
said that somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans.
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Now he's also talking here in the same journal entry
from January that the China was saying that the virus
is being trans transmitted when people are asymptomatic. In other words,
I feel fine, I don't have any symptoms, but I
can still transmit it. And in January of twenty twenty,
before all the masking and the social distancing and all
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the rest of it, he said, I am very skeptical
about the Chinese interpretation of their data. So these are
some of the things to ask. We were just learning
about it now. Yeah, this is all part of a
Senate hearing. We'll be checking in on that throughout the
morning here on eleven ten KFAB. I'm Scott Vorhees, and
we also have another voice to add to the conversation
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this morning. He is the United States Department of Veterans
Affairs Deputy Secretary Paul Our Lawrence is here in Omaha
and in our studios. Deputy Secretary Lawrence, welcome to Omaha.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Hey, thank you so much, good morning, Thanks for having me, Thanks,
thanks for your concern.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
For our veterans.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Absolutely not only concern for our veterans, but also admiration
for Veterans Affairs. If someone has it's a specific medical issue,
being that mental, physical, whatever, there's lots of specialized places
they can go. The Veterans' Affairs is a catch all
for everyone. Everything and any of these issues that these
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veterans face today are as unique as the individuals who
walk through those doors. And the professionals in your department
have to be ready for anything, and so often they are.
So thank you very much for what you're doing. I
know you served under President Trump a different capacity. You
served in our United States Army before that. You have
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a lot of love for our veterans as well. What
brings you to Omaha on this front?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
So today, in the last couple of days, I've been
working with our facility here in Omaha to make sure
they're getting ready to roll out our new electronic health record.
We're developing a tool that will enable us to serve
our veterans better. Right now, if you come to us often,
your information isn't there. So we want all the information
from the time you served to the time you come
see us.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
To be there.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Veterans won't have to repeat the story, and our doctors
will spend more time providing care as opposed to looking
through different computer systems to get information. This is something
that's really going to enable us to bring veterans great
care as new technologies, AI and the like are development.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Now, I know that you're a man of a certain age,
so you are aware that computers have been in existence
for many, many decades. Now, why has it taken us
so long to get to this point? And as far
as this roll out you're talking about, it takes about
another year to finally get it online.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
What's the hold up here? Certainly?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Well, actually VAS a leader in this We developed our
own electronic health record about thirty years ago, so we
were a leader. But things get antiquated and new private
sector technology has just to overcome us. So we're installing
the latest technology which allows us to bring the medicine
and the things forward. It takes about a year because
this is big change. People have to be ready. Doctors
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have to understand we will change the way they do
medicine right, the work will be standardized, our patients will
be safer. So we have to go through this process.
It just takes a while, and so that's what that's
how it works. And basically we started this doing this again.
It started on the first Trump term. The last team
stopped it. We started again in Michigan in April and
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Ohio in June.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
So we know this.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Works and it works well, and folks are ready and
they're able to use it and provide care. It just
takes a while to teach and train things.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I know that VA hospitals are great for the economy,
and they certainly provide specific services. But mister Deputy Secretary,
if we provide benefits to veterans, especially those who served
in active duty, and we should as an obligation, this
country should fulfill. Why do we need VA hospitals? Just
give them a credit card and say go wherever you want.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Certainly, sir, our obligation is to provide veterans care, and
veteran is defined by law, so it's a broad category.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It doesn't matter if you served. However you served, we
provide care. So we do.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
We provide a couple options. We call it direct care
in our facilities and community care into the community to
provide the veterans have a choice, and that's something President
Trump is very proud of. You have that choice, and
it sort of depends where there's a lot of providers.
Veterans can go into the community and willingly do so.
It's a function of how long you have to wait
to get an appointment, how far you have to drive,
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and they like survey show veterans like going to VA hospital.
Something about the community and folks understanding the journey they've had. Also,
we are leaders in certain things for which there is
no private sector equivalent prosthetics, mental health. There are things
that folks come to us. So we want veterans to
have choice to do whatever works best for them based
on their situation as well as their preferences.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
You've got a couple more years at the president of
being in office, but with the midterms, anything that the
Congress might allow you to do could change after November.
So what is it that you're on a fast track
to try and also get done for our nation's veterans
through the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Yeah, Well, the really great thing about veterans issues is
there bipartisan so most folks should be both size the issues.
So I've seen that up close and personal. So what
we need to accomplish as part of the President's agenda
is really independent of the midterms. He was very clear
eliminate veteran homelessness, provide veterans choice, you know, execute the
things that I talk about, as well as pay attention
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to veterans. I want my benefits fast and quick. They're
more timely now than they've ever been in history. I
want to have access to care. We've opened thirty eight
new facilities and provide almost three million appointments outside of
non traditional hours. So we will continue to execute his
agenda in terms of veterans, regardless of what you know
the legislative branch consists of.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
So you're heading over to the VA here this morning,
just off of forty second and Woolworth Avenue. What are
you hoping to do and talk to here throughout the
morning today? I have a really great conversation coming up.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
As part of the.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Role out of this plan, we enlist select a staff
we call them super users, to get extra training on
the system so when it goes live there's somebody you
can turn to and ask and say, how does this work?
This group is invaluable and the role outside alluded to
in Michigan and Ohio. They were the one that answered
all the questions that got everybody comfortable. So this is
(34:07):
a very special group. I want to hear from them better,
I understand, and really, quite frankly thank them because it
is a role that will require they do their regular
job and get extra training in preparation for what's going
to happen.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
We have a number of listeners to this radio station
who do use the VA if they have specific questions, concerns,
you know, maybe some helpful compliments and criticism that they
can pass along. How do they go about doing that, sir?
Speaker 4 (34:32):
The best way is reach out to us. You can
do it on the web at VA dot gov. Or
you could go into our facilities. But I'd like to
build on that because right now we're spending a lot
of time trying to find veterans who are not connected
to us. Then when folks, you know, harm themselves, seventy
percent of them have never been into our facilities. So
we're in a big, big push to say, please bring
your friends, have them connect with us. Understand these are
(34:53):
benefits they have earned. Please connect with us. So just
come in and let us begin to figure out what
you've earned. And as you pointed out, the Secretary talks about,
these are not entitlements. Veterans don't get benefits. They earn benefits,
and this is what we do. We administer what they've earned.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You earned the Meritorious Service Medal, left the United States
Army with the role of airborne qualified Captain, now serving
as Deputy Secretary for our Department of Veterans Affairs. That
is Paul our Lawrence again, welcome to Omaha. Enjoy your
time over at the VA, and thank you very much
what you're doing and the Trump Administration's doing on behalf
of our nation's veterans. Thanks so much for having me
(35:30):
right here on News Radio eleven ten kfab where I
don't think we're going to get anything in the way
of news out of this Senate Subcommittee hearing, where they've
got doctor Anthony Fauci in there. He was given a
few minutes to make an opening statement, which he did,
and then he started. Then he kind of laid out
(35:53):
how he was going to speak and why he was
speaking this way the rest of the day.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
However, given Senator Paul's obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution,
his repeated slanderous comments about me, and recently his publicly
releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me,
(36:23):
the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole
reason he is calling me before this committee is to
get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his
repeated public pledges that I end up in his words
quote behind bars unquote. Any reasonable person who has followed
(36:50):
his unhinged obsession with me would readily come to the
same conclusion. Therefore, although it pains me to do so,
because of the respect I have for the legislative branch
of government and my decades long record of cooperating with
(37:12):
Congress under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke
my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to
refrain from answering your questions.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Thank you, And then he just continued to say, I
plead the fifth.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
I plead the fifth. I plead the fifth.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I think he doesn't want to quarter soldiers. Oh wait,
that's the third this is but the Fifth Amendment protects
you against self incrimination. The former President of the United States,
Joe Biden Joseph Robinette Biden, gave this man blanket immunity.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
To twenty twenty fourteen, from the moment of his which
was to January twentieth of twenty twenty five. From that
moment back to twenty fourteen, but anything from that moment
to now is not covered by the pardon.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I thought he could come out and say I started
the virus. I created this thing. I put it in
a pangle in in the Wuhan wet market, and I
made sure that it got back here. So people in Omaha,
Nebraska would get penalized if they didn't wear a mask out.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
In public or just a Ran Paul, you suck. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
So Ran Paul then starts and he's still in the
midst of his grilling here, and he's it's the same
stuff we've heard when these guys go back and forth,
except Fauci used to come back at him. These guys
used to argue it would be some fireworks. But now
ran Paul is saying asking questions about gain of function
research and transmission from animals to humans with a type
(38:48):
of coronavirus. And every time ran Paul stops and looks
at doctor Fauci, he says, my counsel has advised that
I plead the fifth and.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Not answer your questions. And I wonder that's all that's happening.
I wonderfuil answered any questions from any of the other senators.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
That's what I want to hear too, because there apparently
are at least a few Democrats who showed up for
this hearing, probably because they knew that Fauci was gonna
go the fifth.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Probably, I don't think anybody is surprised that he's doing it.
If they are surprised, maybe the media is surprised because
they were hoping for fireworks, indoor fireworks. But I don't
think rand Paul is surprised that he's doing this. In fact,
before he walked into the hearing room. He met with
a gaggle of reporters and said, I just would like
to hear him say I'm sorry for all the things
(39:32):
that I did, and for all of the mistakes that
I made, and all of the policies I promoted, and
all of the activities that turned out to be disasters
for the country and got many state governments local governments
to follow because he was considered the world's expert in
this area. I just hope he'd say I'm sorry for it.
But he's not going to do that, at least not
with Raan Paul. He's not going to do that. And
(39:54):
you know Rand Paul is a physician. Roger Marshall is
a physician. Roger Marshall is the Republican senator from Kansas.
He practiced for twenty some years before he ran for
public office. Same thing with Rand Paul. They've both been
to medical school. They understand this. This wouldn't be like
Jim Rose and Scott Vorhe's up there asking questions, although
I think if I were asking questions on a sentate panel,
(40:16):
I'd be researched. I wouldn't have my assistant do it
and then just put a piece of paper in front
of me. I'd actually research. It would have been nice
if the news media had done that during the pandemic.
That didn't happen. They just lapped this up. But Rand
Paul knows what he's talking about. Roger Marshall will know
what he's talking about because they studied biology, they studied
(40:38):
the human anatomy. They understand how this stuff works. So
you can't just dismiss them as simply politicos, which is
what Fauci and his totis in the news media have
been doing. Cranks, skeptics, conspiracy theorists, just looking for attention
and clicks. No, that isn't the case.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
It should be noted that Jim Rose read all of
that from a statement that handed to him from an
intern here at Radio eleven. This is not the first
time a government official has gone before a Senate hearing
and pled the fifth You remember Lois Lerner, Yes, the
IRS director under President Obama did the same thing. In fact,
we can go back into the archives and listen to
how some of that sounded.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
Can we have.
Speaker 7 (41:18):
You authenticate simply the questions and answers previously given to
the Inspector General. I plead the fifth is it possible
that we could narrow the scope of questions and that
there are some areas that you would be able to
answer any questions on here today.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
No, but I can tell you that I plead the.
Speaker 7 (41:36):
Physics learner, would you be willing to answer questions specifically
related to the earlier statements made under oath before this committee.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Three?
Speaker 7 (41:58):
For this reason, I have no choice but to excuse
the witness.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah, they cut that off, and we'll see how this
goes here with doctor Fauci pleading.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
The fifth Now, there is a little bit of skirmish
going on between Rand Paul and I believe Anthony Fauci's attorney,
who is sitting next to him. All right, well, well,
Rand Paul has said the next time you utter a word,
you'll be removed from this chamber. You are not recognized,
you have not been invited. I think that's who that is,
all right, I tell you certain. And by the way,
(42:28):
there are just two Democrat senators in this hearing, Gary
Peters from Michigan, who is the vice chair of the committee,
and I believe Jean Shaheen, the Democrat senator from New Hampton. Yeah,
I see this.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
We will jump up to that portion in the proceedings
here and listen to how that's sounding. In just a
moment he's having removed. He goes, all right, you will
hear this. In just a moment, as Doctor Anthony Fauci
was responding by not responding to any of Senator rand
Paul's questions by saying he's pleading the fifth, he says,
all right, well, there could be repercussions for you not
(42:58):
answering these questions, and then he throws it to the
Democrat on the panel. But as he's doing so, you
don't hear him in this part of the the audio.
But doctor Fauci's attorney starts lipping off to ran Paul,
and here's how it sounded in the wake of that moment.
Speaker 8 (43:19):
You're not recognized. You're not recognized. If you are unruly,
you will be removed from the proceeding. You are not
you are not recognized. And you you are not recognized, sir, sir,
you are not recognized. You are not recognized.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Securit him so you don't actually hear what we will.
Speaker 8 (43:39):
We'll hold off, but you will respect these proceedings.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
You were told not to sit at the table.
Speaker 8 (43:44):
You insist on sitting at the table, and we told
you you would not be recognized. You are not invited
here for testimony. Sir, you are being disruptive. Would you
behave this way in a courtroom? No, because the judge
would put you in jail. I can't do that today,
but I can have you escorted from the premises. So
I would say, sir, sit quietly and don't say another word.
(44:07):
I said, sit quietly, you are not recognized. Another word
and you're gone.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
And then he was. And then he said he couldn't
bring himself to adhere to the rules.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
Chairman, I'd like to hear what the attorney has to say.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
That's gary.
Speaker 8 (44:22):
He is not recognized by the committee or the chair.
If he speaks again, he will be removed from the room.
This testimony is from Anthony Fauci. This is not a
game with his lawyers. He can advise. His lawyers can
give him advice. He's got a half dozen here. They're
all allowed to talk to him. Yes, all right, but
the attorneys are not recognized. In fact, the attorney was
(44:44):
told not to sit at the table, and he's not
obeying that recommendation. There's a row behind you, sir, that's
where you were told to sit and you're not, and
now you're disrupting the proceedings. And so look, this is
the way Anthony Fauci.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Wants to be remembered.
Speaker 8 (44:58):
For a lawyer not listening to the rule, that's the
way you want to be remembered, and that's what you're
going to do. You are not recognized, Sir, Security, Please
removing from the room.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Yeah, man, that is exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Plus here man pep rally behind Ran Paul. That's going
to be a heck of a diary entry by doctor Fauci.
Tonight talked about this a lot yesterday in the wake
of a Douglas County judge looking at the situation from
mid April Southwest Omaha. It's a couple of young girls
who are out in the park and this guy in
(45:32):
his mid thirties starts chasing them around, trying to grab them,
saying he wants to have sex with them. The judge
looked at this guy and said, well, he's got some
developmental issues and so therefore, ah, he didn't actually touch him.
I don't see any crime here. Douglas County Attorney Don
Klein disagrees with this assessment and joins us now here
(45:56):
on news radio eleven ten KFAB Good morning, coach, you're.
Speaker 6 (46:00):
Warning Scott and Jim and Lucy. It's good to be
with you.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
It's great to have you here. Why do you disagree
with the judges assessment? After all, she says he's got
a number of different things, autism, bipolar, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 6 (46:13):
Sure, there's no question about that. But the issue is,
at the time, was he attempting and that's what we
charged him with, attempted child's abuse, putting the children in
a situation of danger. We thought it was either that
or attempted sexual assault. And he admits that he wants
to have sex with him and he's chasing them. I mean,
(46:35):
these girls were terrified. So the judges missed it. We
respectfully disagree. But there's another avenue. I'm not going to
rest on this. I think that the public. My job
is to protect the public. And there's something called the
Developmental Disabilities Court Ordered Custody Act to provide a procedure
(46:55):
for which the court can play somebody in custody and
treatment for a person to develop I mean developmentally disabled
when they pose a threat of harm to others, so
we found that petition to be before the court because
you know, this person, even with the issues that he
may have, was not even being supervised. There was no
(47:18):
monitoring him. He was just out in the park by himself.
And that's not I don't think appropriate under the situation
when he has these thoughts and ideas and he's had
them previously.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Oh okay, let's talk about what previously this guy has
ever done. Is this something where the family or whoever
care givers are for him should have known that to
allow him to roam free in a park around kids
was a bad idea.
Speaker 6 (47:48):
I believe so. I mean, the caregiver who the residents
he was staying said told the officers that he has
these thoughts about sexual activity with younger people. He previously
had had been at the zoo and had an issue
(48:11):
of a similar nature. He was assessed by people who
are experts in the area that he's a high risk.
So I mean, I guess to me, that's what the
purpose of this act is. At least, let's make sure
that this person is monitored, that they're restricted, and maybe
(48:37):
they're where they can be or who they're with. And
that wasn't happening and so I don't want to wait
till something even worse than what's already happened happens, and
so I want to prevent that from happening, and I'm
going to do everything I can stop that.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
Jim rose Don, who is responsible for this guy?
Speaker 6 (48:59):
Well, I mean he he has some adopted parents, but
he was staying in a residence where somebody was supposed
to be keeping an eye on him, but obviously they weren't.
He was out walking in the park by himself. And
so that's that's very troubling to me, and I think
(49:20):
it should be to the public. So hopefully this judge
understands that, and we'll see. We're going to put the
evidence on that shows his history, his assessment, and the
judge will make a determination of what restrictions to put
on him or maintain testody of him.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Is So, is that caregiving operation in any way culpable
for his behavior? Can you can you process any legal
action against them or it?
Speaker 6 (49:52):
Well, at this point, I mean, if something more probably happened,
maybe so, But to me there should certainly weren't doing
their job from the standpoint of I don't know what
the contract was with them as far as what their
duties or responsibilities were. We'll find out, but certainly this person,
(50:16):
because of the nature of his problems, should be supervised.
Obviously he shouldn't be out by himself around little kids.
And we see what.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Happened, Coach.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
I can put myself in the shoes of the caregivers
of this guy, and they've had their house vandalized, people
been doing neighborhood watching the sidewalk out there saying there's
a you know, creep who lives here, and I imagine
this has been miserable for them. I can also put
myself in the shoes of a father of a little
girl who's been chased around by this guy in the park,
(50:48):
who then found out that nothing's going to happen to
this guy. Have you gotten any feedback from the family
of the girls who were chased.
Speaker 6 (50:56):
Oh, we're going to talk to them. We wanted to
get this on file and then we'll kind of let
them know the process and procedure. But certainly, I mean,
like I said, these young ladies, young girls were terrified,
and thank god anything more didn't happen than it did
that he never got to the point where he could
(51:17):
do what he said he desired to do so. I mean,
we're going to do everything we can to prevent anything
from happening here. And to me, you know, Scott, Jim,
this this benefits Kim as much as it benefits the public.
I mean, this guy needs to be supervised. He needs
(51:37):
not to be walking around if you can't control those
thoughts or ideas that he has, and it protects him
and protects the public.
Speaker 1 (51:47):
Great point. Douglas County Attorney Don Klin. Always appreciate the conversation.
Thank you very much for coming on here.
Speaker 6 (51:53):
You guys have a great day, you too.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
On news radio eleven kfab full disclosure. He was my
little league coach, so I refer to him with the
greatest title I can bestow on another human being, and
that is coach.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
And how did you do? I was terrible, but that
wasn't his fault. Traffic whether coaches all coaches can't change players.
You can only change coach that it wasn't his fault.
You can only do so much with this this thing here.
What's frightening about it, Scott, is that we have we
had a warning sign. Okay, he was out chasing little
(52:28):
girls around a park.
Speaker 6 (52:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
The next stage is he catches one of them. Yeah, well,
and I didn't know that he'd had an issue with
the zoo. That's new information. Yeah, so he's working on that. Well,
we'll get updates going down this road. Under advice to counsel,
I am going to take my constitutionally protected Fifth Amendment
(52:52):
against self incrimination and not answer any more of your questions,
Jim Rose, and I'll be saying that over and over
and over. That's what's happening in the Senate Committee hearing.
Doctor Anthony Fauci is up there, and for someone who
previously apparently enjoyed speaking so much, whether it's to Congress
or the media or to the American people, he is
(53:14):
not saying anything though, other than that. That's after his
opening statement, which essentially was, I did so many of
these hearings with you guys. He used to respect it,
and I respect this, but after Senator ran Paul leaked
my diary and my diary and.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
In his view, slanted him and made it clear that,
you know, my future should be behind bars. Other than that,
it's been on advisive council. I choose to exercise my
right under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution
now we have Danang, Dick Blumenthal, Richard Blumenthal, he's the
Senator from Connecticut. He's up there and he showed up
(53:53):
late the war heroes. So now we have we actually
have three Democrat senators there, Gary Peters, I said, gen Shah.
I met Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire. She's a Democrat.
She's there, and Blumenthal is there. Maybe another one I
don't know, maybe Bernie will wander in. I don't know.
He's a member of the Homeland Security Committee.
Speaker 1 (54:12):
I don't know why they're still doing it. They're all
just listening to themselves talk. He's not answering any of
their questions. He's really not even paying attention. I don't
think the Democrats are asking him questions, because that would
put him in a position where now you'd have to
tell his friends on that side of the aisle that
he's not going to answer their questions. I don't think
they're actually asking him. They're just taking their opportunity just
(54:34):
to talk and talk and talk and talk, which, by
the way, we're pretty good at that.
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