Another Attempt on the President's Life

Why is this happening so often, and why do so many think it's so funny?  (Maybe I just answered my own question.)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. Thank you very much for kicking off your
week with us here. Let's kick this week right in
the teeth shall Way.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm Scott Boor. He's here with Lucy Chapman and Craig Evans.
Jim Rose is here, and we're all here on Nebraska's
Morning News. Saturday night, some of you were getting soaked
at Memorial Stadium for a country concert that did eventually happen.
Saturday night, some of us were getting soaked in downtown

(00:27):
Omaha for a comedy show that happened to. Nate Bargatzi
and all of his friends were down at the Chi Center.
And then we dried off, and we checked our phones
and like, wait a second, what just happened? At the
White House correspondence dinner, a man who started sending messages
to his family before the attack on the Washington Hilton

(00:48):
described himself as a friendly federal assassin in the writings
assent to family members. Minutes before he, I guess went
down stairs at the Washington Hilton. He'd been staying at
the hotel. He had taken a train from California to Washington,

(01:08):
d C. Had been staying at this hotel where they
hold the White House correspondence dinner and then tried to
breach a security checkpoint, armed with multiple guns and knives.
Shots were fired, a Secret Service agent was shot. He
was wearing to protective vest, got shot in the vest.
As far as how awful this could have been, this

(01:30):
was the best possible outcome for this tragedy that definitely
could have been. And now we're seeing things, according to
the Associated Press, things that he had posted online. He's
not happy with President Trump, gave money to Kamala Harris.
This is what it is, and tell you what it's not,

(01:54):
Jim Rose. This is not a former Nebraska basketball player.
Did you see any of that on social media? A
Facebook post that says former Nebraska basketball player and then
the guy's name, and it's got a picture of him
wearing a Husker jersey, and then the same picture of
him you face down on the floor of the White House, Hilton,

(02:16):
look at this. This is him wearing a Husker jersey
and all the rest of.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
This stuff fake news. My buddy sent me this and said,
this is crazy. You know.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
I mentioned that the COVID is kind of like the flu.
I get banned from Facebook for sixty days. Yet this
kind of stuff is all over the place on social
tidy And how did I miss that guy?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, Jim, how did I'm usually on top of the roster,
but I don't remember that guy.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
How did Cole Allen do during his time playing with
coach Hoiberg?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Okay? So, you know, pretty scary stuff. And it has
once again gotten everybody a little bit amped up about
security for you know, these major events. And of course
the President seized on this to try and get more
support for his big ballroom slash security compound. Can you

(03:03):
blame him a white house? Which I can't blame him.
What stuns me, Scott, is how lax the security was
at that hotel. They took them down. Outside the hotel,
there was plenty of security, but once you got inside,
there were people walking around and flip flops, head to
the pool and the workout room. It's a hotel. It's
a hotel. And this guy was just one wall away

(03:26):
from a room full of important people, including the President,
the vice president, and virtually every cabinet member. So you know,
you wonder, how is that possible in the year twenty
twenty six.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's incredibly possible. You saw guys in suits who you
probably wouldn't have thought were members of the Secret Service
or security detail suddenly start brandishing weapons and running towards
the threat. The level of security is a lot higher
than the guys out there with the metal detectors and
holding the guns and wearing Nebraska National Guard camouflage, which,

(03:59):
by the way, as guy and Or pill And pointed out,
our Nebraska National Guard was there providing security around the hotel.
There was a lot of security here. He wasn't inside
the hotel. There was a level of security once you
got to the room where the event was being held,
but outside of that, you had guests there staying at
the hotel.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Which is again illustrative of why it is we have
to have the White House correspondence dinner in a public
hotel ballroom in the year twenty twenty six, now before
nine to eleven, and before all of this domestic terrorism
is going on. You might think it's no big deal.
Why is it that John F. Kennedy was driving through Dallas,
Texas in an open top car because there hadn't been

(04:39):
a John F. Kennedy before him, So this is where
we are. But it's also a llustrative I think of
just the history of our culture in this country. This
is a nation that was born on political violence. Now
this is not meant to imply this is a fist
bump for the guy. It's not, and we have things
we can do to tone it down. This country was

(05:00):
founded on political violence and it'll continue to exist because
we have a free country which allows people to be
unhappy with what's happening in DC and has to blame somebody.
And we've had a lot of presidents get shot at.
Gerald Ford got shot at twice in two years, and
one of them was remarkably get close range. So you
have presidents get shot at, you have activists get killed,

(05:24):
whether it's Medgar Evers or Malcolm X or Martin Luther King.
It's it's part of our culture. It's baked in because
we have a country that allows people to think freely,
behave freely, and we have to live with the consequences.
And thankfully nobody was killed. Thankfully this guy is still
alive enough to talk about it. Because in most cases,

(05:45):
when you take shots near the president, you don't live
to see the judge on Monday morning, but he will,
Oh goodie.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
So Jim is among those carping that's right Carping about
the level of security at the Washington Hilton. So I've
heard people say this, including Fox News radios. Jared Halpern
was on the Fox News rundown just after five o'clock
this morning. He was there at the Washington Hilton and
said he and a lot of guests were surprised that

(06:12):
there was some security. You know, on the streets around
the hotel, you couldn't just drive a rider truck up
against the hotel. There's security out there. Then once you
get in the hotel, there really wasn't much in the
way of security until you get to the main level
ballroom where the White House correspondence dinner is being held,
and that's where you've got the metal detectors and the
security guards. So between getting in the building and getting

(06:36):
in the ballroom, there wasn't as much security that they
could see. Now, this guy apparently thought, well, I don't
see much security, I'm going to go running headlong into
it with guns and knives, and they showed him that
there was a lot more security there than he thought. So,
Number one, there was security there. The fact that this
guy wasn't able to get into the ballroom proves that

(06:58):
there was security, but let's just follow this through because
I feel like, and I'm looking at Lucy Chapman here,
I feel like we're all adults this morning and can
have this conversation which maybe doesn't exactly meet to the
best end, and that is people say like, all right, well,
we've got to have metal detectors for the ballroom. Okay,

(07:20):
so you have that, and then this guy causes trouble
outside that. All right, then we got to move the
security and the metal detectors outside the ballroom to the
entire hotel. Okay, So you move all of that out here,
and now you've got all that security presence out there.
So someone causes problems for people waiting in line to
get into the hotel. So now you've got the people saying, well,

(07:41):
we've got to move the security and the metal detectors
and everything now outside the hotel. And then someone causes
a problem, maybe drives a car or something to where
people are waiting in line to get there, and then
you say, well, then obviously we have to move this.
Where does it end with a new ballroom. People criticize

(08:01):
the president for playing politics, saying we have to fund
the Department of Homeland security, which includes your Secret Service.
And we have to have this secure, brand new ballroom
at the White House, which will provide more security. And
you're not going to have hotel guests like this guy
who was staying at the hotel mingling about all night.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Is the president wrong? No? No?

Speaker 3 (08:22):
And do you think that if this I'm assuming when
this gets built, do you think that future democratic presidential regimes?

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yes, good word, won't use it, of course, still use it,
and they'll appreciate it. And to both of us, sit down.
Always good advice, Thank you, Lucy. So Jim was saying that, look,
we have a history of political violence in this country
all the way back. I'm saying, you can't have security

(08:54):
everywhere all the time to stop every single threat that
you don't even know where it's coming from. And to
prove both points. Do you know where President Reagan was
shot at the Washington Hilton outside outside the Washington Hilton
where this event was held Saturday night, But they have
not allowed any president to use that exit since Well,

(09:17):
then you have someone staying at the hotel or you
have someone coming up there. I don't know how you
want to do all this. Maybe the answer is for
people to stop feeling emboldened to take shots at this
president knowing that they will be a martyr, knowing that
they will be a hero, because this president apparently has
a big target on his back that a lot of

(09:38):
people would celebrate if someone were to actually get to him.
And that's a bigger problem than the security that does
or doesn't exist around the president of the United States.
It's the basis for our conversation all morning.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Be a part of it.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
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Speaker 6 (13:25):
Hey, good morning and not so happy Monday. On again
the third, if you want to count big Ones assassination
attempts on our president again. I'm to the right of
Rush and the left of God. But what you're gonna
start hearing again is we've toned down the rhetoric and
as always, what it's on both sides, well bull crap.
If I was a mentally unstable lefty nutcase and I

(13:46):
kept getting told that Hitler is in charge, we have
to stop him, and you can stop Hitler, I'd probably
do something too. You guys need to knock it off
before Trump gets killed.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
I think he's talking not to us, but you know
those guys who seem to But it's okay to refer
to the president as Hitler, and as Jimmy Kimmel did
on Thursday night in his mock White House Correspondence dinner bit,
make jokes like this.

Speaker 7 (14:12):
Of course, our first lady Malania is here. Look at
more so beautiful missus Trump. You have about glow like
an expectant widow.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
You have a glow that guy, mas.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Jim is what is wrong with Jimmy care There's a
reason nobody's watching him because he's not funny, he's not
that talented, and he's just playing to this anti Trump
crowd and fails to recognize that late night television is
supposed to be funny, lighthearted, and the last thing that
happened to me before I go to bed. Instead, he

(14:50):
just pisses everybody off. The crowd thought that was pretty funny.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Listen to that fun Yeah, it's his two hundred and
fifty people in the studio about the first Lady of
the United States. You have the glow of an expectant widow,
was the joke. This is the reason nobody watches these guys.
This is the reason nobody, by comparison, watches Stephen Colbert.
This is the reason that these people on these other

(15:14):
liberal channels have no real audience.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
They're not that funny. The stuff they say is offensive often,
and they are not in step with the country. The
country would not find that observation funny. He and his
cadre of people would find it funny. But it reminds
me of the two liberals who sat around the morning
after the nineteen seventy two election, in which Richard Nixon
won forty nine states, and they looked at each other

(15:39):
and said, I don't know what happened. All of our
friends voted for George McGovern how did he lose? And
this is the point. These people are out of step
with the country. Now, somebody at ABC must like him
because they keep giving him massive contracts to continue to
do this program that gets virtually no audience, at least
with Gutfeld and the folks, to do the Gutfeld Show,

(16:01):
which kicks routinely kicks these guys rear ends at least
with them. You know what you're getting. You're getting political satire,
you're getting comedy. You're getting people who are funny and
fresh and have fresh takes. They don't.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
There is a big difference between making Obviously, there's so
much that makes fun of the President of the United States.
It doesn't matter who the president is. You've got institutions
like your late night hosts, like the Daily Show, like
Saturday Night Live, that should always make fun of the president,
make fun of Congress, that's fine. But to think that

(16:35):
in a mainstream late night talk show host like Jimmy Kimmel,
to make a joke about the first Lady being having
the look of an expectant widow mainstream.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
What it makes the guy mainstream? He's on one of
the three networks. He's on a mainstream network channel. Yeah,
he's not mainstream, but he's on a network channel.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Sure, well, you know, yeah, he's not mainstream in terms
of the American people. But for the the people who
can't stand the president, there are a lot of people
who think that joke's pretty edgy and pretty funny, you know,
joking about the president dying someway.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Based on the ratings, not many.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
The fact that it happened a little less than forty
eight hours before someone took another shot at the president
is something that people are looking at, going can we
stop making these jokes? Can we stop trying to mainstream
jokes about the president? Or even if they're not jokes.
All the social media posts where you were celebrating people

(17:30):
who killed Charlie Kirk, you're celebrating people who take shots
at the president. You're wishing death upon the president. This
is mainstream. You see this a lot on social media.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well, again, I don't know that it is. I think
what it is is it's a platform that makes it
appear as though they're amplified. The only difference between the
colonists who took the battles of Lexington and Concord, which
happened before the actual declaration of independence, and today is
social media Okay, it took a long time for all

(18:04):
of us to find out what happened at Lexington and Concord.
It takes fourteen seconds to find out when somebody says
something stupid like that, or something not funny, or something
that is really quite scary. So social media has emboldened
these people. It has created a community of anarchists. It
used to be we'd have these political dissidents, whether it

(18:25):
was Bill Ayres or Bernadine Dorn from the Weather Underground,
or klansmen in Revena, Nebraska or wherever they may be,
which was actually no offense to well, that was the
epicenter of the Klan in Nebraska. The point is only
they knew about it. Okay, we didn't know all about it.
If there had been social media during the height of
the Ku Klux Klan, who knows how big a deal

(18:47):
that could have been, you wouldn't. Well, they don't wear
sheets anymore. I'm talking about the people who are ugly,
horrible people, but they're behind the keyboard, they're behind their
two thumbs, and they've manage to look like they're bigger
deal than they are.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
The differences, of course, it only takes one I don't
know what your social media feed looks like, but I
was on there. I didn't get on there yesterday because
I didn't want to find out that, Oh, a friend
of mine from college thought it was pretty cool that
someone took another shot at the president. Used to be
to your point, something like this happens, you wouldn't know
that your next door neighbor or friend from high school
or what, or your aunt, you know, thought it was

(19:22):
a great thing. You could just say, well, I'm sure
the country is in mourning right now and grateful that
more harm wasn't done. Now you get on social media
and you're proven wrong over and over again. Here's how
it sounded on sixty minutes as the President sat down
with host Nora O'Donnell on CBS in response to the
attempt on the president's life another one Saturday night at

(19:46):
the White House correspondence dinner in Washington, d C.

Speaker 8 (19:49):
He also wrote this, I'm no longer willing to permit
a pedophile, rapist, and trader to coat my hands with
his crimes. What's your reaction, Well, I.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
Was waiting for you to read that because I knew
you would, because you're you're horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah,
he did write that I'm not a rapist. I didn't
rape anybody.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
I think.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from some
sick person. I got associated with stuff that has nothing
to do with me. I was totally exonerated. You should
be ashamed of yourself reading that because I'm not any
of those things. Excuse me, you shouldn't be reading that.

(20:35):
In sixty minutes, You're a disgrace.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
That's the president responding there. I'll look, the President could
have responded better. But when the host there says, oh,
do you think he was referring to you? Oh, come on,
Norah O'Donnell is a ding bat.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Okay, this is this is a classic case if somebody
who was promoted up the chain at CBS News for
some reason unrelated to her capacity as a reporter, what
do you mean do you think he was referring to No, Oh,
he was referring to Marco Rubio, he was referring to jd. Vance,
the Secretary of the Interior. He was referring to Sean

(21:15):
Duffy because he has nine kids. Please. The President was
one percent justified in that response. She was bringing up
things that were absolutely proven to be untrue, and whether
or not this guy used them as motivation to do
what he did is irrelevant. That was classic gotcha and

(21:36):
I'm glad he responded the way he did. I can't
believe he didn't get up and leave the interview.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, the gunman had a whole manifesto that the that
the media now has, and you've heard some of it,
you've seen bits of it. He said a lot of
different things in addition to that. That's of course the
poll quote that they wanted to come out there. And
then when she is all incredulous, like, oh, did you
think he was referring to you, like the big gotcha moment? Oh,

(22:01):
are you suggesting that maybe you are a rapist and
a pedophile, mister president. Yeah, that's just it's ugly all.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
The way around. It's disappointing.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
None of it is as ugly as once again a
guy trying to assassinate the President of the United States.
As there was chaos at the Washington Hilton in the
event of a gunman trying to get his way, trying
to shoot his way into the White House correspondence dinner
on Saturday night, video picked up one guy older gentleman

(22:31):
wearing a tuxedo. While everyone was ducking under the tables
or rushing out of there, or trying to figure out
what was going on, this guy sat there and calmly
and collectively ate his salad. We now know who this is.
He is an agent with Creative Artists Agency. The guy

(22:52):
is Michael Glance, big name agent, and he works with
a lot of these journalists, celebrity types like Wolf Blitzer.
So everyone's getting under the tables and he's just sitting
there eating a salad. He talked with The New York
Times and said, first of all, I'm a New Yorker.
We have sirens and chaos all the time. It's really
not a big deal. And then he said he has

(23:13):
a bad back, so he wasn't going to get down
on the floor. But he also described himself as a
hygiene freak and said, quote, there was no freaking way
I was getting in my new tucks down on the
dirty Hilton floor. It was not happening, unquote. So he
sat there and ate a salad.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Okay, Well, they were all worried about getting sprayed with bullets.
And you know, if I'd been in the room, maybe
I'd have been worried too. But the most compelling picture
to me in the wake of the shooting were the
reporters stealing the champagne bottles off of the tables.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Did they see that? No, did they pull a oh
shoot Spalding? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's just going around just
drinking wine glasses.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Well, they weren't drinking and they were putting the bottles
in their purses and onder their coats. Well, so they
were stealing the sh champagne. Maybe they didn't steal it,
maybe they feel like they were entitled to it. But
that was not a good look for the Washington Press
Corps to see some of those people ripping off the.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Champagne, and that really happened. He's just making the No,
it's the video, you know, hey, if if you're if
if you really think, hey, this could be it, take
the champagne?

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Regarding the gunman from the talkback Mike here and the
Zuker's custom was inbox.

Speaker 7 (24:26):
Yeah, what happened to the guys closed just try to
run through their.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Naked Yeah, he I think they had to kind of
remove him to see if he was wie.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
For a bomb, see if he had anything on him.
There yeah, it wasn't. This didn't happen in Florida. He
didn't show up at the hotel shirtless, you know. Yeah,
they they had to strip him and.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
To strip him down to make sure there wasn't a
you know, pineapple strap to his belly button.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
And again, if you saw this on social media, the
the gunman in Washington did not ever play for the
Nebraska Cornhuskers basketball.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
I don't know who did that one. There's got to
be an Iowa guy doing that. Very conceit.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Now, I got people telling you quit picking on Iowa here,
and they're using bad language, so I can't play that
talk back Mike on the air. But they say they're
accusing you of being some here. I get my time.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Had seven guys drafted, which is six more than Nebraska
had only you know, five more, or Sex six more
than the city of Aurora had drafted, only five more
than than Navy had drafted, by the way, but seven
iowahaw guys got drafted. That's impressive.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Greg Email says, it's terrific. Emma Johnson went to the Chiefs.
I'm surprised though he wasn't selected higher in the draft.
Do you think the lackluster performance of the Nebraska football
team contributed to his sinking in the draft.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
No, I don't think so, But then again, you know,
I don't see all the metrics that these guys use.
They typically don't place of the team's performance as a
higher criteria for whether or not this guy is a
draft eligible player than his own capacity. The combines and
the evaluations are pretty thorough, and they know what they're getting.

(26:10):
You can get a good back anymore. Used to be
back generation to go. You wanted to take a great
back in the first round, and so you saw a
lot of great backs go in the first round. Now
you can get a great back in the third, fourth, fifth,
sixth round, and the Chiefs just did, and the Chiefs did.
You don't really need to spend a bunch of money
on a running back because there are a lot of them.

(26:34):
And in an NFL offensive system now where there's a
premium on receivers and obviously a quarterback, which you want
is edge rushers and you want people who can cover,
and that's usually the prand offensive lineman. That's the premium.
So there isn't the emphasis on the running back that
there once was. Plus you're afraid that if you make
a running back your number one pick or even your

(26:55):
number two pick, the problem is that they typically don't
last long in the league. The average I think age
or average tenure for a running back in the NFL's
five years. So why don't you spend a third or
fourth or fifth or sixth round pick on a back
as opposed to a one or two I.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Know a lot of NFL offenses are pretty pass happy,
but you can't really get the pass executed unless you
have the threat of a running game, and Emma Johnson
provides that for the Chiefs, especially since Pacheco has been
a little banged up.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
I like that pick.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
I think he could be a starter for this team
by the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
And I think he is. I think he's a neat guy.
I think he's a he's a tremendous ambassador for Nebraska football.
I think he will be better if he doesn't get injured.
I think he'll stick just like a Meer has for
a long time. But I'm thrilled for Emmett. He went
through a lot, you know, the quarterback problems this last year.
He's gone through offensive coordinators. He's always been doubted he

(27:50):
wanted to go to U of M, and they ignored him.
You know what does that say about PJ. Fleck That
here's a guy that was just drafted into the NFL.
He was your high school player of the year. Now
I don't think he can help us. You don't think
he can help you. I love it.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
I love what you said in the last hour of
one of your sports updates that Emma Johnson has been
playing with the cosplay version, yes, Patrick Mahomes, and now
he gets to play with the real thing. All right,
back to the White House Correspondence Dinner and it's never
gonna happen. But people are saying, Jimmy Kimmel needs to
be fired. All right, that's up to ABC. Here's how
you can fire Jimmy Kimmel if you think comments like

(28:25):
this from Thursday nights broadcast where he was doing a
joke version of the White House Correspondence Dinner, if you
think comments like this are particularly disgusting, and.

Speaker 7 (28:34):
Of course our first Lady Malania is here. Look at well,
it's so beautiful, Missus Trump. You have a glow like
an expectant widow, you know Mlanie's.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, if you think that that's a disgusting comment making
jokes about the first lady being widowed because the president
dies somehow, and everyone finds that real funny. If you
think that's disgusting, here's how you can fire Jimmy Kimmel.
When that show comes on. You don't watch it. There
you go, let me know if I can solve any

(29:04):
other problems for you. But Jim and I were talking
about that, saying it's it's so ugly that it's so
mainstream to make jokes about killing the president, to make
social media posts about celebrating another attempt on the president
wishing that it had been successful. This is mainstream now,
And Jim said, now, now, Jimmy Kimmel's not mainstream. This

(29:26):
guy is so outside the boundaries of most Americans. Well,
we got an email here sent to Scott at kfab
dot com and the zunker's custom was inbox from James
that says Scott, with Trump support at thirty percent, I
think seventy percent would think Kimmel's funny. The MAGA crowd
thinks it's not funny. They're the ones not in step.

(29:50):
Is that it that if you if you're not a
big fan of the president, you have to wish him dead.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
See, this is just a warped approach to life. Umber
one again. MAGA has been hijacked by the news media
in this country to depict some knuckle dragon, toothless crazies
hold up in some ruby ridge hideout in the hills
of Montana or Idaho. When you say make America great Again,

(30:18):
what you're essentially saying is, I believe in life. I
believe in the Constitution. I believe in personal responsibility. I
believe the government should be smaller, not larger. I believe
that boys should be on boys teams and girls should
be on girls teams, and that parents shouldn't be allowed
to change their child's sex while they're nine years old.
That's a capsule of what a MAGA approaches. They've depicted

(30:41):
MAGA people as crazy right wing clansmen doing everything from
lynching people they don't like to burning crosses on yards,
none of which is true. It's never been true. The
Make America Great Again movement is to get back to
a traditional lifestyle in this country that was pretty good
for a long time. Now. That said, just because you

(31:04):
don't like what the president is doing in office, and
a poll question may depict that doesn't mean you want
the guy dead, Okay, Otherwise we'd have had a whole
lot of presidents, from Barack Obama to George W. Bush
to Jimmy Carter and Linda Johnson all taken out on
the street corner. I'm not so dumb to think that

(31:27):
there aren't people who had these feelings. Certainly there are,
but it wasn't mainstream. And I don't remember anyone in
my Facebook A sphere, or people with whom I'm communicating with,
people send emails into this inbox who were wishing President
Obama or President Biden dead. I don't remember any of that.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
There was some harsh criticism of these guys, a lot
of names called, and all the rest of that stuff.
I don't remember anyone doing that, And nor do I
remember people taking shots at these guys. And they were
out on the golf course, at the White House course,
spot as dinner, or at rally, And no.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Doubt Barack Obama got death threats, but nobody ever took
a shot at him.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Yeah, many of us were very surprised to get the
notification on Saturday night that there was anything beyond a
disruption by Triumph, the insalt comic dog at the White
House Correspondence dinner in DC. He was there, by the way,
he being the cigar smoking puppet attached to the hand
of the Great Robert Smigel. But I mean for a

(32:27):
lot of people, they were ducking and covering in Lincoln
at the Zach Bryan concert at Memorial Stadium, that was
a are they going to do this show or not?

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Situation? Lucy.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
There were several college girls. They're not dressed for the conditions.
One of them was my daughter, who was a drowned cat, freezing.
No jacket, no poncho, no nothing.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
My mom, sometimes those are the best concerts.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
My wife, her mother was mortified going. Doesn't she know
enough not to be out there in the rain without
dress for the conditions. Meanwhile, I took my wife down
to the Nate Bargazzi show at chi Omaha and parked
on the south side of the Old Market. So we
come out afterwards, and here we are, too, grown adults
walking through the rain and the big puddles in downtown,

(33:16):
not dressed for the elements, not ready to do so.
Now we know where she gets it. But we come
out of there and I'm checking my phone and I'm thinking,
oh my gosh, what in the world happened while we
were in there, laughing, yucking it up at Nate Bargatzi
And they did eventually do most of that Zach Bryan shows.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Oh, I thought they only did about half of it.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah, he said he had to cut six songs or so,
but they did a lot of it. They had to
cut the opening at Kings of Leon. Oh no, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Oh, I know. You know this means what nots a
three hundred million to put a roof on the place. Yeah,
we got it. Well, maybe we can do that in
the Memorial Stadium upgrade.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
Maybe they can just have the concerts. Someplaces already has
a roof.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Oh we're gonna if we're gonna have the stadium, be
an ATM machine for the athletic department, you gotta have
it's in there. And if it's going to rain, this
could dampen the spirits of any promoter who wants to
come in here. So we've got to have to have
a roof for anywhere.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Else we can get money. We could stop the portal
and we can stop nil.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
We have a lot of money then. But now the
Garth Brooks show, I saw a Memorial Stadium. Outside at
Memorial Stadium was one of the best shows I've ever
seen anywhere.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
You can.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Sometimes you plan stuff outside and sometimes it doesn't work out.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
But I'll tell you what. The college kids out there
were having fun. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
My daughter, who got back to her dorm room at
four am in Manhattan, Kansas, said, oh, it's awesome, and
then she slept all day Sunday. She was going to
do that anyway, she's a college kid. But we get
out and we find out that yet another would be
assassin was stopped before he got to his target. His target,
according to what he told his family, was any high

(34:52):
ranking administration officials prioritized from highest ranking to lowest. He
sent a message to his family. I started off with
hello everybody, So I may have given a lot of
people a surprise today. I apologized my parents. Apparently he
told them he was heading to DC for an interview.
He says, I said I had an interview. I didn't

(35:14):
specify it was for America's Most Wanted, he told He
apologized to his work colleague, saying he had a personal emergency,
and he said that he wanted to take out the
administration officials from highest ranking to lowest when we heard
the news that someone had once again tried to bust

(35:36):
into where the president was with a gun and knives.
In this case, I think everyone had a pretty good
idea what this was all about. But they went and
talked to President Obama and said what do you think
about this? He goes, well, I don't know anything about it.
This was after the manifesto was released. Well, we don't
know his motive. We don't. This is the third would
be assassin of the President of the United States going

(35:59):
someplace where the president is, with a lot of people
out there wanting to take a shot at this president,
celebrated by a lot more people on social media and
some late night hosts, and they go to President Obama
and say, what do you think about this? Well, we
don't know his motive. Oh yeah, maybe he was just
in a rush to go clean his guns. Maybe that

(36:19):
was it. Maybe he wanted to show the president his knife.
Look what I got, mister president. We don't know the motive.
So this is a little bit what's out there in
the wake of what happened on Saturday night. A lot
of people, I think we're surprised and also not the
least bit surprised to hear that this happened again. Many

(36:41):
people saying we need to have more security around the president. Hey,
security did his job, and some of that security was
from Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
And this was.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Posted on ex Twitter in the wake of the latest
attempt on the president. This one's Saturday night in DC
at the White House correspondence dinner and the post comes
from Governor Pillen. So I want to share with fellow
Nebraskans something special I learned in a briefing this morning.
This was posted yesterday morning in the midst of our

(37:10):
gratitude that the President, the Vice President of the Cabinet,
and other attendees are safe after the attack. We can
take special pride knowing that several of our Nebraska National
Guard troops, who were already deployed to Washington for the
DC's Safe and Beautiful mission, were on site during the
attack and helped Secret Service and law enforcement respond and

(37:31):
secure the scene after shots rang out. You can see
them in a video running toward danger to help neutralize
a bad guy and protect others. I'm beyond proud, and
Nebraskans should be two.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
And then he.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Shared a couple of little picture emojis one of corn
and the other of an American flag, and the Nebraska
National Guard still out there trying to clean up DC,
making sure that people aren't taking a bath in that
reflecting pool, or causing crime, or racing cars up and

(38:06):
down Pennsylvania Avenue, or whatever the heck's going on out there.
And you can't see them. They're wearing their military fatigues.
They're at the hotel. So I don't know what people
are saying, like there wasn't enough security here. The guy's
staying at the hotel. It's a hotel, and he was
stopped before he got into the secure area. What do
you want?

Speaker 2 (38:26):
He wasn't really stopped. He ran past a checkpoint, and
if he'd had a little bit more strategic movement, he
probably could have gotten something closer to the door. But
when you're doing this in a public place where you
know there are people milling about, because this is a
hotel and there were people staying in the hotel for

(38:47):
reasons other than the White House correspondence dinner, you know,
you run the risk of having it be a soft
target or a softer target. Look, they did a great job.
The Street Secret Service obviously killed it, and they did
a wonderful job, not only protecting all of the dignitaries,
but you know, not even losing a single life, including
the guy who did all of this. So I mean,

(39:09):
you can be very, very pleased with the performance of
the especially since they're not getting paid. You know, they're
part of Homeland Security, and we're into day seventy three
without funding the Department of Homeland Security. But top to bottom,
it was another warning that gets sent our way about
how in our country, if you don't like the way

(39:33):
things are going, and you don't think anybody's listening to you,
you take action. And this has been a consistent part
of our American history from the very beginning, and it
probably won't change until somebody comes along like Adolf Hitler
did in the nineteen thirties and say, nobody else gets
to have guns but us. And that's when the government

(39:56):
owns you. When the government strips from you your freedom
to defend yourself, your freedom to protest, your freedom to
even do stupid stuff like this, that's when the government's
grown too big stupid. You don't have freedom to do
stupid stuff like this, Well, you talk, you have the
freedom to make that choice. It's not a good choice.
Nobody around here thinks it was a good idea. But

(40:16):
you still have the freedom to choose to be a
dumbass and do this sort of thing. And unfortunately people
sometimes get killed. But that's the nature of an open
and free country, it is. I think I know what
you're saying. Political violence is. We're going to clean it
up a little bit. Warning, political violence exists because people

(40:36):
are free to do it.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
We'll try again later. I'm looking over at the president's
truth social posts. One of those he posted last night
is Hey, I'm going to be on sixty minutes.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
You got to watch.

Speaker 8 (40:46):
And he also wrote this, I'm no longer willing to
permit a pedophile, rapist, and trader to coat my hands
with his crimes. What's your reaction.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
Well, I was waiting for you to read that because
I knew you would, because you're horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah,
he did write that, I'm not a rapist. I didn't
rape anybody.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
I think he was me.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
I'm not crime.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
You read that crap from some sick person. I got
associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me.
I was totally exonerated. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Reading that because I'm not any of those things. Excuse me,
you shouldn't be reading that in sixty minutes. You're a disgrace.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Excuse excuse, excuse me. Oh do you think he was
talking about you? No, he was actually, mister president, I
was talking about Caroline Levitt.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Yeah, we have a manifesto from this would be assassin
number three of those who have been either shot and
taken out or arrested and now charged with all kinds
of gun crimes related to trying to try and shoot
administra officials, specifically the President of the United States. He

(42:03):
calls out as he as you just heard there these
ugly terms that have been attached to the President by
a lot of people who can't stand him, and sixty
minutes reads that. The President responds, and then she has
the audacity to say, oh, did you think he was
talking about you? Then why did you read it? Norah O'Donnell.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Come on, She's a nitwit and has been from the beginning.
She's not that bright. She doesn't ask intelligent questions. She
was propped up by CBS because she does serve on
sixty minutes. But uh, this is the kind of thing
that has the Trump people and his followers and everyday

(42:46):
Americans tired and tired and tired more tired of the
traditional news media. Whether it's Katie Curic who went off
on anybody that would attend the White House Correspondent's dinner,
suggests that this president is less friendly to the media
than any president in history. Really, this guy does a
news conference from the men's room of Air Force One. Yeah,

(43:10):
this guy is the most accessible president in my lifetime.
And I suspect in every lifetime, how many times did
Biden go out there and talk to the media. How
many people got deep platformed on social media during the
Biden administration cuns media members. So yeah, I get why
people get upset by the way that the president reacts here. Actually,

(43:32):
I think Nora O'Donnell on sixty Minutes on CBS there
was justified in reading that quote to give the president
an opportunity to say, yeah, these are the things that
people have been saying about me. It's been repeated by
a lot of different people and emboldens those who think
that I'm someone who needs to be taken out. That's
how that conversation really should have gone. Well, But where

(43:54):
I part company with Nora O'Donnell is when she has
the audacity, did do you think I was talking about you? Well?
And I don't believe it was germane to the overall
political climate that exists, rhetoric political rhetorical climate that exists
in our country today. People have accused him of this
for the last ten years. It's not news. Okay, it's

(44:17):
been debunked. It has been completely disregarded. Now those who
just choose to accept it and just embrace it and
use that as the foundation of their hatred for the president.
You can't change them.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
But there are a lot of what happened night way
and some of them try and kill the president.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
What happened last night, Saturday night, Saturday night. To me,
he was much more an example of how a disaffected
individual doesn't believe anybody's listening to him anymore. This is
a disaffected This is not a dummy. This guy got
a degree from Caltech, which may be the most rigorous
academic environment in the country today. He's not dumb, but

(44:55):
he feels disaffected. His world is being turned up side
down by the president and his administration. So to suggest
that this guy has been hanging on the rapist, pedophile
stuff and finally he'd been fed up by that and
decided to take matters into his own hands. Is nonsense.

(45:16):
This This guy doesn't believe anybody's listening to him, and
that's why he acted.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
This guy should have continued to focus on what he
was developing as a career, a prototype for a new
type of emergency break for wheelchairs. And now because he's
in federal custody and he'll never see the light of
day again, I would have I don't know that to
be true.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
John Hinckley's out, but you never know. Sales convicted of
being criminally insane, not a criminal.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Yeah, so now we're going to have, you know, your
grandma running into traffic because she can't stop our wheelchair
because this is the only guy that could have saved her.
And now he's in federal Custody's naked, face down on
the floor of the Hilton.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
I think he left the notes for the other guys
in the office, so I think Grandma will be preserved
in ah ohiel chair.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
The President, though, has moved on both in true social
posts and and on Saturday night, we'll address that coming
up here shortly on Nebraska's morning News.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
By the way, Lucy. It turns out I had just
decided I'm gonna take Wednesday off too.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
I saw that email. I thought I missed something.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
No, I actually I sent an email to the staff
say I'm gonna take off Thursday and Friday, and then
change my mind. It's actually I'm gonna take off Wednesday too.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
I might leave. Now he's going to work for you.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
No, Gary's gonna do the show, Gary Saddle because we
promised five months ago when Gary retired that at some
point I would take a day off and Gary would
host the show, and that hasn't happened yet. And so
I'm giving you a double dose of Saddlelemeyer. That's coming
up Wednesday and Thursday, and then Emory on Friday because
Gary's not available on Friday. So that's gonna be a

(46:53):
lot of fun. Now back to the year. I'm gonna
make the most of our time together.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
So you know, he's going to open the show on
Wednesday by saying, yeah, Varnie, he's experiment fail. I'm back.
That's fine that you know what, He's totally fine.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
I'll just do the nine o'clock hour and then everyone
be very very happy. Back to the President, he's already
moved on. First of all, on true social he is
retruthed tweeted whatever, someone who says I want Trump to
change ICE to the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency,

(47:28):
So the media has to say nice agents all day
every day. Trump retweets that and says, great idea, do it.
And on Saturday night, so they they hustle the administration
officials out of the Hilton ballroom there for the White
House Correspondence dinner, and they neutralize the shooter and they

(47:49):
and apparently Trump's like, all right, do we got the guy?
All right, let's go back out and do the show.
And people are like, mister President, this is now a
crime scene. We can't do the show. Oh, come on,
everyone's here, Let's do the show. It's not like people
are leaving right now. Let's do the correspondentent or let's go.
The President's like, hey, people are taking a shot at
me all the time. Now all the journalists and other
cabinet officials and their spouses might think differently than that.

(48:11):
What do you think the President said, I want to
do this again in the next month. We'll reschedule this.
Do you want to be close to the president right now,
more and more people taking shots at him. Did people
not know that before Saturday?

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Though?

Speaker 1 (48:25):
I guess if you get an invitation, it's something you'll
have to think about. Right now, let's go to the
eleven ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Post Basketball Transfer Portal. ESPN has its way too early
bracket for the twenty twenty seven NCAA Tournament. And get this,
They've got Nebraska as a five seed playing high Point
in the first round in the East Regional. Don't worry,
Creighton fans, you're in. They are a ten seed playing
Vanderbilt in the first round of the West Region. I

(48:53):
don't want to play high Point. They're good. They were good,
and it's really good.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
If we got a notification from inside the office today
that we are apparently draining raw sewage downstairs on our
sales department, and I'd like to tell them thanks for listening.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
As a metaphor there, it probably is applicable to a
lot of businesses in the Omaha metropolitan They're like.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
You guys are just leaking raw sewage up there. I'm like,
I didn't think the show was that bad, but apparently
there is literal raw sewage raining down on our sales
team downstairs from our upstairs bathroom areas. So I tell
you what the Gary Sandelmeyer Building's falling apart, he leaves,
what happens? We got to get him back here. He'll

(49:38):
be back hosting the show Wednesday and Thursday, Emery Songer
on Friday. If it's all the same to you, all,
hang out with you the next couple of days and
read emails like this PEG says that this shooter in
DC marinated himself in propaganda and decided to ensure there
will be no kings by appointing himself. God does that

(50:00):
clear it up for you, mister Obama. That's in response
to President Obama saying, hey, I don't know what this
guy's motive was. Let's think about this. This is the
third assassination attempt on the president. The manifesto is already released,
saying he was going after administration officials from highest ranking

(50:21):
to lowest ranking. That suggests he was going after the President,
who he referred to in various forms in his manifesto.
And then President Obama says, hey, let's not jump to
conclusions here about what this guy's motive was. Maybe he
just wanted to show the president his knife and gun collection.

(50:41):
So Dennis says, if only we had a big ballroom
at the White House, then this wouldn't have happened. The
security challenges grow exponentially when events like these occur in
public places. Y if people accuse the president of playing politics,
and some of course have suggested that this whole thing
was staged so the president can get his ballroom. That

(51:02):
judges keep holding up. That's nonsense. And by the way,
that judge has been overruled. The construction continues tragically for
the president. He's not going to get a chance to
enjoy it. It'll probably open right after he leaves office.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
So if JD. Vance is the next president who's a Republican,
or Josh Shapiro the governor of Pennsylvania, or Marco Rubio,
they get to enjoy the iron studded, bulletproof glass ballroom
and the super duper security conclave directly beneath it. It's
not a two hundred and fifty million dollar ballroom. It's

(51:38):
about a thirty million dollar ballroom and a two hundred
and twenty million dollars security enclave downstairs. Yeah, and then of.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Course he said, we need to fully fund Department of
Homeland Security, they fund social or the Secret Service. Yeah,
the Secret Service was funded.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
They were there.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
They showed up unlike some TSA agents, and though it's
kind of hard to blame them. This is what Senator
pe Ricketts said on social media and the wake of
what happens Saturday night in DC. He said, the assassination
attempt serves as an important reminder that our homeland must
be defended and the effort to do so fully funded.

(52:14):
I'm thankful for our brave Secret Service agents for keeping
the President and other members of our cabinet safe. President
or Governor Pillen said that the military you saw on
some of the video were members of the Nebraska National Guard.
Now Congressman Mike Flood was there, he said, just left
the White House correspondence dinner after shots were fired in

(52:35):
the building. Everyone near me hid under tables, and we
are now safe, including President Trump. While details are still emerging,
one thing is clear. Political violence is rising in our country.
We need to do more than simply toned down polarizing rhetoric.
We need to return to engaging in sensible policy debates

(52:56):
rather than engaging in constant hyperbole. Thankful for the Secret
Service and other law enforcement agencies for stepping up tonight
and quickly detaining the shooter. That from Congressman Mike Flood
on his social media feed. Now, Don Bacon, Nebraska's second
District congressman, has taken a different tact on his social media.

(53:18):
He's going after people allegedly associated with Scott Peterson. Have
you been following it all the mostly online give and
take between those running for Nebraska Secretary of State. You
got Bob Evden, the incumbent, and then Scott Peterson, who's
been a Republican Party officials county chair. He's been in

(53:39):
those circles now for several years. Scott Peterson's running against
Bob Ebden. Don Bacon is looking at a couple of people.
He says they're associated with the the Peterson campaign for
Secretary of State and says that his inner circle is
anti Semitic. The post range from, according to the story

(54:00):
MTV three, a general language about Jewish people and foreign
policy to the death of Charlie Kirk. The authors of
the posts did not respond to Channel three when asked
for a response, but Scott Peterson.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Said he says that.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
He's told these guys look your posts are coming back
on my campaign. The media will will take anything they
say and try and twist it into a negative, try
and attribute it to my campaign. Bob Evnon just says
that he's running a positive campaign. Didn't want to respond
to it. But Bacon has continued posting online about Scott

(54:38):
Peterson and alleged anti Semitism. So this is as Bob
Ebnen says, I want to run a positive campaign, has
a piece out there showing Scott Peterson dressed as a clown.
It says we have enough clowns in politics. We don't
need another one. It's getting a little weird here in

(54:59):
the and the race for secretary of State. This is
ahead of the primary that's just a few weeks away.
I don't even know if the Democrats have put anyone
up for secretary of State. A lot of times in
these statewide races, the Democrats don't even put up a candidate.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
So well, that's weird. Yeah, you know, I know both
of them. I know Bob very well. I think Bob
Evnon is probably the most intelligent elected official in the
state of Nebraska right now. He's also a Jew. But
that's what might be fueling some of this. I've really
struggled to find a quantifiable difference between these two guys. Now,

(55:36):
Scott Peterson will say people don't trust election systems, whether
right or wrong. It's a problem. It needs to be addressed.
People don't trust them. And Bob Evnen is the chief
election officer in the state of Nebraska. Now, Evnon has
been tireless in his efforts to promote voter id in Nebraska.
The integrity of elections has always been at the top

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of his priority. I guess I'd like to see from
Challenger Peterson show me chapter and verse on how Evnan
has failed in this area. Well, they maybe he has,
but I haven't seen it. You know, he's a point
Evnan is. He's handed over data the Trump administration requested
to the US Department of Justice that involved the election.

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And I got to tell you, if we're splitting hairs here,
why change. But that said, a lot of people have
Scott Peterson signs in their yards. I've seen more of
them around the state of Nebraska than I probably would
have expected going up against a fairly popular incumbent conservative republic.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Well, like I said, Scott's been around Republican politics here
in this area for a long time. Very likable guy,
and I think he's running the same kind of campaign
a lot of these guys have, whether it's local or
state secretary of state races or election commissioner, and that
is we know there's fraud in there, and if you
me in there, all uncover it. And then some of
those guys have been elected and they have not uncovered anything,

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or not as much as they thought they would. Evnan,
by the way, is coming to Omaha on Wednesday to
take a look at all the election systems and answer questions.
In fact, he'll be a guest on this program with you,
Gary good Now. Just after eight o'clock Wednesday, you got
media members pouring over the manifesto from a thirty one
year old is only charged with two counts related to

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firing a gun and one count of assaulting a federal officer.
So when we say that this guy may never see
the light of day, it's quite possible that he will
absolutely see the light of day. Not probably, not while
the president is still in office. But you look over
this manifesto he sent to family members. Jim, he doesn't

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talk about his time playing for the Nebraska Cornhusker basketball team.
This was a fake post meme across social media that
showed that he does look like a member of the
basketball team. They took a picture of him, put a
jersey a big Husker emblem on there and said, yeah,
this guy you played for coach Hoiberg. Yeah, this has

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ile written all over it. He's a part time teacher
in California. Tutor, he's a tutor. Yeah, he's sprinted through
a security checkpoint at the hotel exchange gun fire with
law enforcement. What did these people think? You got highly
trained Secret Service law enforcement and members of the Nebraska
National Guard there, and you think I'm going to go

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in there and I have a real chance. It's amazing
that he wasn't killed.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Yeah, it's remarkable that he wasn't killed. He was clearly
he got a shot off and he hit a Secret
Service agent who was wearing a kevlar vest. So he
has a bruise, but he's okay. You figure after the
first shot got fired at a Secret Service agent, he'd
get plugged with ten pounds of lead. But either they

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had him cordoned off, roped and he didn't shoot anymore
and they were able to subdue him. But he's going
to appear before the judge today. But if anybody thinks
that judge is going to grant bail, oh jeez, they
would in Omaha, well right in d C.