January 15, 2026 • 51 mins
Omahans more upset by Facebook posts than the crimes those posts are about, and ICE agent has the nerve to try to save his own life in an attack, Nebraska kids can't read, it sounds like men are getting pregnant now -- we have a lot to talk about this morning (as always)!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott. He's here with you, Jim Rose, Craig Evans, Lucy Chapman.
This is Nebraska's Morning News, Courtney Donahoe as well, and
we're glad to have you part of this every single morning,
every single morning. I said to Jim Rose during one
of our breaks where we allow our sponsors to provide
the content for a few moments, I kind of looked
at him and said, so we do this every day then,
(00:23):
I mean, I've been a part of this show so
often for so many years, but not every day. We
every day. We do this every single day. Okay, I
don't Lucy takes a couple of days off here and
there to be sick as a dog. No one's calling
you a dog, sick dog. I'm gonna cough. I don't
(00:45):
know what you call. Okay, Okay, you say every day? Yeah, well,
weekend days don't count.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Only days where you show up and if you're at
your best, those are the only ones that count.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Craig Evans just provided the news a moment ago from
Douglas County, the Sheriff's Department. They've got a traffic stop
the other day that has brought into custody some members
of was this Taie gang the Kfam? Kay, I love
that radio station. Do you ever listen to Kfam?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I do?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It's so inspired it Yeah, it lifts me up. Don't
speak the language they speak Karen, and that's not a
woman named Karen who speaks I want to talk to
the manager. That's a type of language. And I want
to say Thailand. And I'll check myself in just a
moment here. But we've got the thirty year old guy,
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twenty two year old guy, seventeen year old guy. It
might be Vietnamese. And they, as Craig Evans just said, here,
let's see. We got guns. We've got open alcohol containers,
a ghost gun, all kinds of fun stuff. Now. Douglas
County Sheriff Aaron Hanson provided a bit more details on this,
(02:04):
saying gang challenges persist in the quickly growing Irvington area
of unincorporated Douglas County. Like this is kind of Omaha
to Blair. That don't say no Man's land, that's the
area there between, like you know the Blair Irvington exit there,
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and you've got a lot of farmland and apparently gang members,
foreign gang members, refugee gang members. So it says gang
challenges persist in the quickly growing Irvington area of unincorporated
Douglas County. Deputies routinely and routinely in counter members of
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the K Fam Gang, a refugee gang based in Douglas County,
in possession of weapons, committing serious felony crimes. Any member
of our refuge community who is concerned about their children
being coerced into gang activity should contact the Douglas County
Sheriff's Office. We'll discuss public safety gang intervention resources. So
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I reach out to the Douglas County Sheriff's Department and
it's talking about refugees and yeah, Thailand and me and
mar the K FAM gang, And I asked the Douglas
County Sheriff's Department. Are we to assume, based on the
Sheriff's comments that these individuals are in the country with
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refugee status or via their family's refugee status. The response
I received from Communications director Spencer Head Douglas County Sheriffs says,
we don't have access to federal databases to know their
legal status. For certain record show the juvenile. This is
the seventeen year old reported as being born in Utah.
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One of the adults reported he was born in Burma,
Me and Mar, and we don't have enough information on
the other adult to know for certain. The k famgang
short for Karen Family, consists primarily of refugees from Southeast Asia,
Me and Mar Thailand, who generally speak the language of Karen.
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Now we've got refugee gang members here in the Omaha area.
We have kids going from third to fourth grade who
can't read based on what the governor's passing along the
statistics that he has. We've got the Omaha Police Officers
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Association posting things on their social media saying, here are
some idiots who got arrested, and the community says, we
don't want you to point out people getting arrested and
make fun of them. We've got another shooting in Minneapolis
from I'm a guy who was getting beaten by three people,
including an illegal immigrant Venezuelan gang member, and the ICE
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official shot to save his life. He's being attacked by
three people, and people went to protest that. They went
to protest a guy trying to protect himself in a
one on three beating. Yeah, but you're one is an
ICE agent. You got to sit there and take it
and if you die, so be it. Quite a world
we're waking up to here. This morning. We had community
members get together. They had to have a meeting, a
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community meeting last night where they get together and complained,
we don't like these Facebook posts. All right, here's my
standard reply. No matter who is posting what on Facebook,
it is so easy to deal with this. If you're
following someone or friends with someone and you don't like
what they're saying, what you do is up where it
says friends or follow, you click on that thing and
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then you unfriend or unfollow. Please let me know if
I can help you with anything else in your life today.
I'm here all morning and I am so happy to
tell you what to do. What specifically were they mad about? Though?
Since this is well, this is the Omaha Police Officers Well,
it's the Omaha Police Officers Union. They have always, at
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least in the time that I've been back here for
almost twenty years, in my hometown of Omaha, they have
been social media darlings of sort. They have no problem provoking, poking, prodding, revealing,
putting a spotlight on things and what seems to be
that which got people mad This time was the mugshot
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of a fourteen year old girl. Now, this fourteen year
old girl was black. It was noted by the Police
Officers Association that they posted a couple of different things
with two different teenagers who got in trouble here in Omaha,
and people went nuts over, Hey, why are you guys
racist and you're posting what this black girl did? Well,
we also posted what this white guy did, and no
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one seemed to care about that. You only cared when
we showed the mugshot of someone who hears The post
from January twod early on that Friday morning at six
twenty seven am, Girl's Day with Bestie check, Manny and
Petty with Bestie Check, skip paying and walk out a
spot with Bestie. Check, get arrested by OPD while Bestie disappears.
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Realize you have cocaine in your purse, fight and bite
the cops. Check, turn a minor charge into a violent felony,
spend New Year's even the weekend in jail, Bestie still
goes to the party without you and doesn't put money
on your books check check check, And then it goes
on to talk about how this girl and her best
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friend stopped off at a local small salon near Midtown.
They didn't pay, they tried to take off. Police caught
one of them, took her to jail. She became combative,
struck an officer in the face, causing injury, and then
the officer. What started as a minor theft turned into
a violent felony assault. These incidents are becoming the new normal,
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and our officers are injured far too often. Thank you
to the families who continue to support us every day.
Stay safe, Omaha, and choose your bestie. Wisely, who had
a meeting in town so that community activists like Kamaras
Snipes could say, I would like to see their Facebook
page use for engaging and informing, not humiliation, especially before
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someone even goes to trial. Not humiliation of a fourteen
year old girl. What about why this kid and why
so many like her continue to engage in illegal activity?
A bigger and bigger problem. We had to have the
governor of the state of Nebraska yesterday promote that he's
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pushing for a bill to allow teachers to suspend students
in pre kindergarten through second grade. Currently, state law doesn't
allow that for kids that young, and they're pointing out
kids that young are committing horrible X and just terrible
behavior and three K yeah, y K yeah. And it's
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not it's not like, well, they don't know what they're doing.
It's willingly disruptive, rude, threatening behavior. And what are we
supposed to do about it? The answer can't be take
certain options off the table. That's part of what the
governor said. He also wants kids to learn to read.
We'll see what kind of pushback that gets in the legislature.
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By the way, the Governor's going to join us and
in twenty five hours and thirteen minutes from now, it's
seven thirty five tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He also wants to lock up Mikayla Cavalo. Yeah, let's
let's get in all of this.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Next from the A one United Heating, Air and Electrical
Time Saber Traffic Center, the bridge over for eighty on Farnum.
Farnum is gone, so that is definitely closed. That's a
look at your roads. I'm aluicy Chapmans.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Farnham is gone, so that means it's closed. Don't drive there,
you cannot. You know, they put when they close rose,
they generally put big signs up like this one. Ah
fifty yards. There's your eighties movie quote for this segment
of the weather forecast and traffic update. What movie, Lucy?
(10:23):
That would be?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Hooper?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Excellent? I wasn't expecting the guess of Hooper, by the way.
By the way, I think they pronounced it Hupper movie
the town. No, it's National Lampoon's vacation. Why Dad, I
bet you jumped that car fifty yards. It has nothing
to be proud of us fifty yards. The Zonkers custom
woods inbox is open for you, and that's Scott at
kfab dot com. Adams says, good morning kfab. Crazy Kavanaugh
(10:53):
needs to be arrested and put on trial for stealing
from the Nebraskan people. As I recall, no one is
above the law. J six her crazy buttocks rock on,
Signed Adam the Carpenter, Adam, thank you for the email.
Scott atkfab dot com. Governor Pillen shares that there should
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be an investigation in case you missed it. Last week
the legislature convened and they had a bunch of two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebratory posters put up around the
Nebraska Capitol Building in honor of America's two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary this year, State Senator MICHAELA. Kavanaugh of Omaha decided,
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these all need to come down. I don't like him.
There was certainly a push because some of the posters
came from praeger U, which has been determined to be conservative,
which means it's hateful and racist and misogynistic and anti
Native American or whatever. So we got to take all
this stuff down, which he gleefully did, smile on her face,
stuffed all the stuff in her office, and Governor Pillen says,
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as many Nebraskans and officials in the Capitol have expressed,
if a private citizen had engaged in similar conduct, there
would be a consequence for such misconduct. So he's consulted
with law enforcement and determined that the incident warrants a
criminal investigation by the Lancaster County Sheriff's Department. Now State
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Senator Kavanaugh initially defended her actions, saying, you're not allowed
to put stuff up in here, and I'm just defending
the rule. Uh huh. And then she apologized the other
day to her fellow state senators on the floor and
said she felt bad that they had to waste time
dealing with her actions, which she says she regrets.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Never been an issue before when she opens most of
her days down there by bursting into tears and slowing
the process down as they listened to her wail and
scream and whine about the world at large. But this
is about window dressing for the governor. This is red
meat for him his supporters, because the Sheriff's office is
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going to say, here's what happened, Mikayla Kavanaugh tore a
bunch of stuff down off the walls and put it
in her office. This investigation is going to take fifteen
seconds because they have the video and she's admitted doing it.
So this is all window dressing for the governor. Unless
there is a statue that will allow them to lock
her up for a while, which is probably.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
An she'll get a ticket.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
She didn't steal anything, she didn't try to settle it
on the black market, she didn't throw it away. She
just took it down off the wall. Because as you
point up, there's any question about it, Scott. She did
it because it was supported by a conservative institution, and
she hates conservatives. She hates conservative people, she hates conservative viewpoints,
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and she wakes up every day finding a way to
hope that everything conservative of this country falls into a
gigantic rift in the earth and then is molted into
fine dust. But in this case, there is no investigation,
there is no conclusion because we have it and this
is just about to create attention for his supporters in
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an election year. What I personally think it's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
To do that.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But when you've admitted you did it, and you admitted
you were wrong, this takes all of the suspense away.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
What should the punishment be. Were we seriously talking about
locking her up? I don't think it's a fireble offense.
I don't even want to find her because she's she'll
just ask the Democratic Party for money. They'll gleefully give
it to her. I think, you know the same thing.
Whereas if my son were damaging property and she's in
her last year, she's not running for reelection. If my
son were damaging property at his school, I would say
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I didn't realize he had so much energy and time
on your hands. You now get to help out the
custodial staff here at the school, and I go to
them and say, hey, he's available after school now for
the next couple of weeks. Maybe that's the idea. Let
him know what desks have the most gum under there,
and he can scrape him off with his fingers.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
So you're suggesting michaelas should go around to all forty
nine senators desks and see if there's gum under there
that she should scrape off.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, I'm sure Kathleen Kuth probably puts watts a gum
under her desk under the table there at the Unicameral
stay Senator Merman and Sorantino. They're probably just shove and
maybe if they knew that MICHAELA. Kavanaugh had to clean
the gum off from under it, suddenly they'd all be
a bunch of a hubba bubba bub delicious fans there
at the Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
How about we just have her walk up and down
the South Kennedy Freeway with those garbage pickers in an
orange jumpsuit and stuff garbage into a garbage bag for
an hour or two.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That I'm sure they can come up with something.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
This will be some sort of announcement on the floor
of the Unicameral to Senator mccavanaugh, We hope you don't
ever do that again. Please don't do that again. Now,
let's get to the business of the people. Yes, but
in an election year, this is the kind of thing
the governor would like to do to get attention from
his base and get a harump from his base, and
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he will.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Give the governor a harrum rump. Lucy, what movie I'll rum?
I didn't get off a rump all that guy. Lucy
always says jaws blazing saddles.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Cracking knuckles is not bad and will not cause arthritis.
Harvard Health said the sound is from gas bubbles and
joints popping. About fifty percent of people crack their knuckles.
Eighty percent of people find the sound annoying. I'm Craig
Evans More News at the top of the hour at
news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
And those of us who are knuckle crackers are all
popping them right now, And after hearing Craig talk about it,
I really wish I hadn't started. That can't stop anytime
I think like, all right, you want to pop your
knuckle right now? You don't have to. There's no reason
the world you have to. It feels like there's this
pulsing neon light type of sensation on my knuckle that
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just won't let up until I finally pop it. There
you go? Nice? Is that the first knuckle we've heard
war on the radio and one hundred plus years of
this radio station. If anyone pop their knuckles on the air,
I think they've done worse than pop their knuckles. Well,
I'm not suggesting that's the worst thing anyone's done. I'm
(17:12):
just wondering if it's the first look. Probably, if I
can't get by on talent, I at least want to
be known for something.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
This is a.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Bloomberg money minute. Flyers are shetting pounds and making planes lighter.
According to anlesat Jeffries, the growing use of weight loss
products may end up saving the biggest airlines as much
as five hundred eighty million dollars in fuel costs this year.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
With Courtney Donahoe, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, I'm
Scott Vorhees. This is Nebraska's morning News. Courtney just reported
the airlines are going to save a bunch of money
and fuel costs because people are losing so much weight.
And if we were transporting the same number of people
in the skies but they weigh thousands of pounds less collectively.
(17:52):
That's less fuel. I didn't realize that your fat but
was causing so much in fuel. Yeah, yeah, gas hog.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, there's been a movement to charge fat people for
two seats.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
On airlines for some time. I'd buy it.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I don't know that it's actually you don't need it,
but some people do. They should be paying for two seats.
Same thing in a football game. You know, if you've
got a piano sitting next to you, they're annexing your
seat and the one on the other side of them.
I hope that there are no long term side effects
from all of these drugs that people are taking where
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they're dropping one hundred pounds by noon, and it's amazing
the quick weight loss displayed by so many people, and
it's great.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
They're happier. I'm talking with people who are like I
had to go out and buy a whole new wardrobe.
So you know, the stores are happy, they're selling more clothes.
The airlines are happy they're using less fuel. Yeah, that's
a good question. Does that mean that our tickets are
going to cost less? Seems like if you're losing less fuel, oh,
come on, that you could lower the price of intingap
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between here in Orlando, so we can get out of
here this weekend when it's going to be butt cold.
All right, speaking of science, interesting give and take yesterday
in the United States Senate. I don't know exactly what
they were talking about. It was a Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor,
and Pension had to do with abortion. But they were
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talking to someone who provides reproductive care in Georgia and Massachusetts.
Her name is doctor Nisha Verma, and there was some
comment that she made that caused Senator Josh Holly of
Missouri to do a double take and try and drill
down a little closer as to what exactly she meant
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when she was vague on gender specifications of those who
can get and abortion.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
As a chairman, since you bring it up, why don't
we just start there, doctor Verma, I wasn't sure I
understood your answer to Senator Moody a moment ago, do
you think that men can get pregnant?
Speaker 8 (20:02):
I hesitated there because I wasn't sure where the conversation
was going or what the goal was. I mean, I
do take care of patients with different identities. I take
care of many women. I take care of people with
different identities, and so that's where I paused. I think, yeah,
I wasn't sure where you were going with that.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Well, the goal is is the truth? So can men
get pregnant?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Again?
Speaker 8 (20:24):
The reason I paused there is I'm not really sure
what the goal of the question.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Goal is is to establish a biological reality.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You just said a moment ago that science and evidence
should control not politics.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
So let's just test that proposition. Can men get pregnant?
Speaker 8 (20:39):
I take care of people with many identities.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
But can men get pregnant?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Anyway?
Speaker 8 (20:44):
Women that can get pregnant? I do take care of
people that don't identify as women.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
That can Can men get pregnant? Again? As I'm saying,
let me let me just remind you you testified to
a moment ago.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
This goes on for its painful for more minute. It's
painful to listen to. I posted it on social media
last night. He just kept saying, it's a yes or
no question, doctor, and she simply refused to answer it.
And she's a classic illustration of the woke progressive culture
that refuses to address reality in lieu of social contagion. Now,
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this is all she had to do to answer it,
Senator Holly, A cis gendered male cannot get pregnant aka male,
A guy, a transgendered male may think they can get pregnant,
and I respect their views.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Transgender male can get pregnant because it's a woman.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Right, I'm sorry, A trans woman, Okay, A guy born
biological who believes that he's a woman.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Now, I'm confused. I don't even know what you are. Yeah,
me neither.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Sometimes all she had to say was if a man,
if a guy is born with male reproductive organs and
they believe that they're a woman, they may think they
can get pregnant, and if you put a uterus and
ovaries in them, then potentially they could. Well, she's but
a biological male, no, Senator Holly, cannot get pregnant. They're
mentally or physically.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
They're talking about those born women who identify as men
who can get pregnant because they're women. That's they think
that they can, but they don't have the equipment. But
they refer to them as men, and so there this
they what she.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Refused to acknowledge in this exchange with Senator Holly, which again, folks,
I'm telling you this is painful to listen to. What
she refused to acknowledge is that a man, despite what
they think they can do, cannot get physically pregnant unless
they have a uterus and ovaries.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
There's what we refuse to acknowledge is it's not hateful
or demeaning to point out that men can't get pregnant,
not with that gear, because they're men. Traffic, weather and
a news update. Gotta have different gear, baby next right
here on Nebraska's morning news.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Maybe you can go to a home depot and get
the gear. I don't know, but the gear, we don't
have that gear.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Doc Scott at kfab dot com Zonker's Custom Woods inbox,
Kevin says that she should lose her medical license. The
This is the doctor down in Georgia that would not
answer the question eleven times post to her, can men
get pregnant? She could not would not answer that question,
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but she will be a Supreme Court justice, so that
she's got that going for Aaron is questioning my reference
in the forecast a moment ago that it's going to
be I believe the quote was butt cold, he says,
is that a reduction of its colder than a well
digger's Rearan. Now it's a quote. There's your nineties movie
(23:56):
reference for this segment of the radio program. It's Butt
Cole and I'm fresh out of beer. Lucy won't know
that one, but Jim Rose knows that one. That's one
of our favorites. That's anyone, anyone, grumpy old man. The
old man drop that fish, and Ronald emails and says,
when Meredith was in rare form in that moment, Oh
(24:18):
my gosh, everyone, the movies are perfect, Ronald says, when
a story about protesters and Lincoln protesting the arrest of
a person suspected of domestic violence who's also in the
country illegally. When that makes me grumpy, I can always
count on you and Lucy to make me smile again
with an image of people in traffic eating cake. Thank
(24:40):
you for helping me keep perspective on the day. That's
what we do here. We got to come together, find
some things to laugh about, say, find some things to
cry or get angry or commiserate or get frustrated about.
Got to do it together. Don't don't fall for what
they want you to do. They want you to unplug,
disconnect and just said I can't hand any more. I'm
(25:03):
not going to turn on the news. I just don't
want to know what's going on. That's what they want.
We need you to come together and hang out here
with us tomorrow at this time, at this time, said
a reminder on your phone. You can hear this. Governor
Jim Pillen will be our guest on the program just
ahead of the State of the State address, and a
couple of legislative priorities he introduced here in this legislative session,
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or asked state senator to introduce. One of them looks
to be held up by State Senator Terrell McKinney of
Northeast Omaha, and that is the one that says that
those who are in pre kindergarten through second grade in
Nebraska's public schools currently can't be suspended. Now, Governor Pillen's
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not saying suspend all of them and lock them up
and throw them out and all that. He's just saying,
and I'll quote from the governor's press release on this,
the feedback that I have received from teachers is that
our hands are tied when students act out in the classroom.
We're talking pre k here through second grade. I think
the shade I think the issues are that first second
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grade class, and he says, you know, they act out
in the classroom. In some cases the behavior is not
just disruptive, it's downright rude and inappropriate, even among our
youngest students. This legislation will reinstitute a tool that teachers
lost with the passage of some other bill a few
years back, which is important in managing classroom behavior and
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creating a positive environment in which all students can learn. Now,
of course, this is like it was racists. Nothing raisis
about it. This is something that was passed now three
years ago, twenty twenty three, and it's just reinstituting a
tool that if some student is acting like a tool,
we can treat them as such. And before you think
there's no possible way, some sweet little first grader, oh
(26:56):
my good, just go talk to those teachers, talk to
the talk to the parents of the students who are
being threatened or bullied yet bullied or attacked or whatever
by a six year old, or how the entire classroom
has to shut down every single day because this kid.
(27:16):
Let me give you an example here in Omaha a
few years ago, recess first grade girl decides she's going
to climb up on the monkey bars and doesn't want
to come down. The teachers can't do anything at that point.
She is a first grader. They're not allowed to touch her,
they're not allowed to really threaten any punishment. So they
ended up having to call the police to come out
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and he come out and deal with the situation of
a first grade girl who won't get off the monkey
bars and come back in after recess. They had to
call the police.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
This is madness, now, Scott boor Hees, you're a smart guy.
You have a degree from the University of Nebraska. Carney,
I am yes. Why would Terrell McKinney be the guy
to first oppose this legislation?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Why do you think that is because he is the
leader of a district has a lot of black students
in schools. Say a minute, this isn't racist. Activists and
community alleged leaders have said that a lot of the
punishments that happen in school happen more often against black students,
and therefore we'll just remove the punishment that ought to
(28:23):
solve the problem. Look, it's worth having a debate about
all this stuff. I prefer to look in these instances,
not at the macro. I prefer to look at the micro,
not Mike rowe dirty jobs. I like him. But the
macro says, well, this percentage of students. All right, let's
look at the micro. Find me specific examples of a
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student who did something that you feel shouldn't merit any punishment,
and we'll see what the punishment is. And we'll see
where if a white kid does the exact same thing
and got lesser punishment, show me that specific example. They
won't do it. They just show data. Therefore, or I
don't put a lot of stock in some of the
arguments here. Now, the other thing that the governor has
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done is he's introduced or asked this is State Senator
Dave Merman of south Central Nebraska to put forth this
legislation that insures students should be able to read by
the time they reach the third grade. According to the
latest data. Listen to this. This is Nebraska data, seventy
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two percent of fourth graders in the state of Nebraska
are not proficient in reading. That's because of COVID no
and they I'm sure that these kids would say seventy
two percent, that's almost half because I'm guessing they're not
great at math either. It's not because of COVID, it's not. No,
it's because we have more and more students who can't
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speak English in our schools. And so all of those
again that's a macro thing. All of these things go
into the exact same thing. They say, Look, we're gonna
we're gonna say that you in third grade need to
be able to read, and if you can't, you're doing
third grade again and again and again until you read.
And immediately I'm sure people are incensed by this. Why
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wouldn't parents be looking at their kid and wondering why
this kid has now gone through to the level of
in third grade, you should not only be reading, you
should be doing basic math, full comprehension. You should be
doing a lot more than basic math third grade. But Scott, Scott,
do the calendar. A fourth grader is nine years old,
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nine to ten years old, okay, a fourth grader at
nine ten back up the calendar to twenty twenty one.
That means they were four or five years old at
the time. That's when they start learning basic reading and
writing and math skills, okay, rudimentary skills. They were not
in school at that age.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
In many cases, they didn't get back in school until
they might have been six or seven. And if that's
the case, all you need to do is look back
to that dreadful policy of locking kids out of school. Now,
it didn't happen in every school district in Nebraska. In fact,
a lot of school districts just did not pay attention
to these lockdown orders. But if you look at a
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very significant percentage of the kids that are struggling right
now in the third, fourth, and fifth grades, it's because
they didn't get the basics that they needed in first
and second grade.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I can't completely I can't completely discount that. And it's
sad that, well, where were those kids when they were
locked out of school walking around? They were at home
trying to get online with parents who were not helping
teach their kids how to read.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Or their parent wasn't home. They came from a single
family parent home, and they were home. There was an
adult there that should have been reading with the kid.
A lot of kids can read before they get into
kindergarten because parents help read with their kids and help
and encourage their kids along, and we've lost all of that.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
It's tragic. It's just to talk more about this and
a lot more with Governor pillin tomorrow morning. That's seven
thirty five right here in Nebraska's Minneapolis there borders are
Tom Homan talking with the media yesterday, and because ICE
is conducting these that has to do with border issues,
the legal immigration issues. The reporter is asking Trump's borders
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are Tom Homan at, what do you think about what's
going on in Minneapolis. ICE is up there clashing with protesters,
pulling people out of cars, pushing people in the street.
A couple of people have been shot, and they think
that this looks like Russia based on what the federal
military law enforcement officials are doing up there.
Speaker 10 (32:35):
That's ridiculous. You know what, in Minneapolis, they let's let's
let's let's remember who set the stage here. First of all,
the Biden administration let millions of people release millions of
illegal analysts in this country and violation of the law,
many of them criminals because they weren't property vetted.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
We're resting thousands of them.
Speaker 10 (32:56):
So first of all, they created the problem with with
min's of illegal alien criminals in this country. Second of all,
Minneapolis or sank Spurry City, you know, if they let
us send their damn jail, they stop being sanctuary city.
We could arrest the bad guy in the safety and
security of jail, but because they normally release them, now
we got to go in the community and find them.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Then they're mad we're in the community. Tom Homan Trump's
borders are a lot of people really upset with that guy.
I'm not one of them, especially, says the people are
upset by those comments. Think it's perfectly fine that you
had three people, including an illegal immigrant, who was targeted
by an ICE operation, ganging up on Why one ICE
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officer who had to fire a shot into the lego
one of these guys to be able to save his
own life, and they were mad that that happened. We
got hit by a snowshovel. He was getting hiden by
a shovel and attacked by three guys, and he can't
defend himself. He's Ice. He just needs to take it.
Is that what would come to?
Speaker 10 (33:56):
You know?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I feel really bad for people who are dying in
Minneapolis there. Maybe their kids got a volleyball game, maybe
they're there visiting family. We want to see the Great Mall,
and we're maybe we're staying downtown because we're gonna go
to catch a Timberwolves game or a show or something
like that, and they're staying at a hotel and they
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can't sleep because you got protesters out there, banging drums,
yelling into megaphone, setting stuff on firefighting with cops. You
got sirens going off because because there might be a
member of ICE staying in the same hotel, this would
be one of those times you want to get one
of those really really bad cheap motels, one of the
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hotel motels, because chances are on the taxpayer doll, ICE
isn't staying at a really bad hotel, so I'd stay
there because you want to have protesters running up and
down the halls all night, screaming and yelling, banging drums,
trying to wake up ICE like hey, you can't sleep,
You're no, We're not gonna give you any opportunity to rest.
You're destroying our community, and then fighting with them out
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in the streets.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
If I was staying in that hotel, like I was
there on business to you know, present a health insurance
planned a US bank, I'd give them. I'd put each
one of them in a submission hold. You would be
beaten to within an inch of your life. No, you
would want to mess with me? You versus dozens of protesters.
What exactly do you think would happen? Oh, I got
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all the moves, Dode, I come off the top rope.
There's no top row. Figure four leg hotel room. Oh,
I'd find a way, figure four leg lock, the tree
of Woe, Boston crab, tree of wall, camel clutch, camel clutch.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Put them in the camel clutch. Yeah. Uh, they they'd
be done, snap souplex.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Oh yeah, everyone one at a time, and then I'd
throw them out the third floor window and see if
they landed a snowbank.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
President Trump and Tom Homan are on the phone. They
want you to go to Minneapolis immediately, Jim, it's pretty rure. Yeah,
or Lincoln. You see the season. Things are heating up
in Lincoln. Huh, Northeast Lincoln. This was not last night.
This was Tuesday night. We got more details about it yesterday, Ashley,
pardon me. Was Tuesday afternoon is when it started. This
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is when Ice officials were keen in on someone who
was targeted in an operation. This person was in the
country illegally, a gang member, that kind of things. Now
they're they're getting on that guy, and then they're going
to his house to serve a federal warrant. This was
Department of Homeland Security ICE, FBI, US marshals all involved,
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and they're around this house in the area of thirty
second and Orchard Streets in northeast Lincoln in the afternoon. Well,
protesters heard about it and they're like, oh, Ice is here. Technically,
I I don't know exactly what they thought was going on.
They just saw federal officials get them, and so you
have an ever growing group of protesters there in the
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streets shouting and cursing at officers as they're serving the
warrant and trying to bring a dangerous felon in custody
who's here with a federal warrant. This is also described
as a multi unit residence there. I don't know if
that's big house, apartment, town home, whatever, But the protesters
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are there, they're getting in the way of cops. Now,
Lincoln Police Department then issues a statement saying, look, we
appreciate your ability, your every right to peacefully protest, but
when you've got people there in the streets are getting
in the way of cops we have you're forty feet
from federal agents, guns drawn surrounding a home. Inside the
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home is a dangerous guy who also have guns. You're
coming down here, You're getting in the middle of a
crime scene. You could get shot, you could get killed.
You're putting people in danger. You're distracting law enforcement from
their job to keep the public safe. You're putting everyone,
including yourself, in danger. We want you to be able
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to peacefully protest. But my goodness, this is not how
it's done. This. This wasn't Minneapolis, this wasn't tran this
was Lincoln. Did you hear anything from the mayor.
Speaker 8 (38:13):
No.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
The mayor's pretty woke, she's she's pretty liberal, and this
would be the kind of thing she'd step up and
talk about. Maybe not, Maybe she's stitting this one out.
It's really about leadership, Scott. I mean literally, if if
Jacob Fry, the extraordinarily limited mayor of Minneapolis, and Tim Wallas,
who may have mental incapacities that we don't even know
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about yet, if they would just stand up and say, guys, guys,
you're absolutely welcome to protest. You're absolutely welcome, you know,
to yell and scream and blow a whistle. If you want,
but if you get in the way, or if you
chuck something at one of these ice agents, you're getting
locked up.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Yeah, and we're not going to help you out.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
They keep saying that those who are down there fighting
with lawn fightment. That's not hell. No, and you're not
helping the undocumented workers in our community, is what we
heard in the Fox News update from the mayor of Minneapolis.
But they won't let the Trump administration come in there
and help keep the peace. They said that would make
the situation worse. More law enforcement to stop violent protesters
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from damaging businesses, each other, law enforcement destroying the community.
If you want some help clean this up, No, no,
you don't got it. You can't. You're not quelling this.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
It's the same thing that happened in the George Floyd episode.
And that is the leadership in that community actually added
to the problem. Rather than keeping the peace, rather than
calming down tensions, rather than saying, come on, guys, now,
let's calm down a minute, let's work this out, they
made it worse. And I can't imagine that the people
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of Minnesota, and there are I don't know four million
people up in the state of Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Maybe more.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Maybe there's just four million in the Twin Cities area.
I haven't looked at the population numbers, but I just
can't believe, for the life of me, Scott, that the
people of Minnesota and that most of the residents of
the Twin Cities. When I say most, i'd say sixty
to sixty five to seventy percent of the residents of
the Minneapolis Saint Paul metropolitan area are okay with this,
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are happy that this is happening, that their town is
being destroyed, It's being lampooned and blasted nationally, It's being
made the butt of jokes and memes all over the
freaking social media sphere. I can imagine for one minute
that those people are okay with this.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
I'd be real curious how many people are selling homes
the last week or so in Minneapolis. We're trying to
We have the SpaceX trip that started off this past
August to go up to the International Space Station their
home now because someone was sick. One of those astronauts
was sick. And I wonder if this is the same
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thing everyone's been dealing with that they're place of work, Like, dude,
did you come up to the space station sick. No, no,
no sinus infection. Really it kind of seems like you
have all the symptoms of a cold. No, I don't,
but that is uh, I don't know. I suspect that
this person probably has more than a cold. Huh, I can't.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
I didn't even think about the fact that a flu
could actually be worse.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Wouldn't that be fun I mean, I hope if they
came back a month early, which is the case, and
they say there was an illness of one of the astronauts.
They didn't say which one. There's a couple of Americans, frenchy,
and then a Russian cosmonaut up there. I think there's
a Japanese astronaut up there as well. They all came
back because one of them is very, very sick and
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needs medical attention. That apparently you can get better attention
here on Earth than on the International Space Station makes sense.
I don't think it was someone who got up there
and then caught a cold in space, But wouldn't that
be funny? How do we get COVID up here? Everyone's
looking at the Japanese guy like, no, no, that was China,
you bunch of racists. That was China. Don't don't you dare?
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I'm Scott Vorhees, Welcoming News Radio eleven ten KFAB national
correspondent Rory O'Neill. Back to the program here as we
got some national polling out here. The Americans are letting
each other in the national media know what they think
about the president's actions when it comes to Venezuela, the
threats against Greenland, what's going on with Ukraine and Iran
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and more, Rory, what do the polls say?
Speaker 5 (42:37):
Yeah, there is a lot going on on Iran, which
of course is getting most of the attention now. Seventy
percent of voters think the US should not get involved
in Iran. Only eighteen percent think we should be taking
military action there. When you break it down and look independents,
eighty percent are really against this idea, about the same
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as Democrats. Republicans are a little bit more split on
the issue, but still don't want US getting involved, especially
putting boots on the ground. And another question by Quinnipiac
University asked, you know, if President Trump wants to take
military action in places like Venezuela and Iran, does he
need the consent of Congress? Seventy percent of voters think
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that in general, if any president decides to take military
action against another country, they should first receive approval from Congress.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
It's interesting that you turn on the TV and you
see waves of protesters and some clashing with law enforcement.
You don't know if you're looking at Buenos Aires, or
you're looking at Tehran, or you're looking at Minneapolis anymore.
It's I'm guessing that some of the especially Democrats, would
appreciate standing up for the protesters in America. They don't
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want to help the freedom loving protesters in Venezuela or Iran.
Speaker 5 (43:55):
Well, you know, that's what's interesting. We look at the
Venezuelan situation. The poll finds that we America is almost
equally divided. Forty seven percent support the Trump administration's move
to arrest Nicholas Maduro and his wife, forty five percent
oppose it, so within the margin of error, so it
coined to us. There Republicans by and large much more
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supportive of the action in Venezuela eighty five percent for.
Even the Democrats were eighty percent for. But independents are divided.
Only forty five percent supported it. So it's among those
independents where we see a lot more caution.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
I'm losing track of how many times Trump was going
to lead US into World War three and then didn't.
It's thankfully we're at one hundred percent not world War three.
That's what we all want, despite what some people say,
Rory a couple minus left here. We also have the
Trump administration taking some action when it comes to immigrant visas.
And it's not a Somalia thing. He's concerned about what
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and he's looking at who.
Speaker 5 (44:55):
Right, So the State Department is issuing a pause starting
on the twenty first of this month. They're putting a
pause on immigrant visas seventy to the citizens of seventy
five countries around the world. Somalia is one of them. Obviously,
it's been in the headlines for the corruption found in Minnesota,
but let me emphasize it. These are immigrant visas, not
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tourist visas. So if a Brazilian brazil is on this list,
if a Brazilian wants to come to the US this
year to watch the World Cup, they're welcome to do
so on a tourist visa, but don't be making any
plans to start moving here on an immigrant visa. The
State Department says that disproportionately, the people coming from these
seventy five countries are five years in more likely to
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be using welfare programs like food stamp benefits or Medicaid.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Rory, it's a great reporting as always. Also, I apologize,
I said Buenos Aires, I met Caracas. I think there
are some protests throughout South America. But my apologies to
the good people listening to us via iHeartRadio in South
America for screwing that up.
Speaker 6 (46:00):
Rory.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
Always always appreciate the time. Thank you very much. Thanks
Gott talk to you at his news radio eleven to
ten KFAV National correspondent Rory O'Neill. Here on Nebraska's Morning news.
A federal officer shot a person in the leg in
Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and a broom
and friends. This took place about four and a half
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miles from where the immigration agent fatally shot that woman
in the car who drove her car and an Ice
official a week ago yesterday, and protests been going on
ever since. It's amazing that you've got people who look
at the protesters there who apparently and protesters broke out
in the spot where this person was shot again.
Speaker 10 (46:46):
This was a.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Dangerous criminal in the country, illegally targeted by ICE and
they're conducting that operation. This guy turns on law enforce
and with the help of a couple of others and
the start beating three on one on this ICE official
who's able to pull a gun and fire into the
leg of one of his attackers and save his own life,
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didn't kill the guy. And then people start showing up
and officers had to fire tear gas into the crowd
that gathered where that shooting took place. Upset that it
took place. What would they have done had these three
people killed the ICE agent? Is that what they wanted?
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I would love for someone to ask them that. And
as we addressed a moment ago, you got the mayor
in Minneapolis, the governor of Minnesota, saying, we want people protesting,
but you know, don't be agitating and don't take the bait.
Is what Mayor Fry of Minneapolis said, Jim, don't take
the bait to what start ganging up on and beating
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an ICE official.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
Well, first of all, what self respecting Minnesota would suggest
Nobody take the bait In a land of ten thousand
lakes where fishing is pretty much a religion. So I
think somebody needs to call him out as the fraud
that he is. Just what foreign country are you from?
Speaker 1 (48:09):
Pal? Look, what does that mean? What does take de
bait mean?
Speaker 2 (48:13):
That means don't engage with a police officer or an
ICE officer in such a manner that you get arrested. Okay,
well here's the problem, Mayor Fried. These people are getting
paid to get arrested. These people are getting paid to
show up on social media. These people are doing this
for a reason. It's not because they're standing up for
some illegal alien that lives three blocks away. They're doing
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it so that they can get on television, they can
get on social media. They're collecting a check for this.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Can you imagine how awful would be to be one
of those who's tackled or shoved by ice and you're down,
face down the floor and you look around and you realize,
oh no, no one's filming this. Right, I'm not going
to be on social media. This was all for nothing. Hey,
can we do another? Take here? Hold on, police, get
up here. I'll stand in front of your car and
did all this stuff again. I'll chuck a freaking frozen
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water bottle. Aze.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
I'll hit you with a snowshovel like what happened last night,
just so I can get recorded, because the more clicks
I get, the more money I get from whoever it
is that's funding this.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
Oh something else that Trump did. He has reinstituted whole
milk into schools. They were afraid of whole milk, and
Michelle Obama was afraid that kids were getting fat because
they were drinking too much whole milk. They're getting fat
for a lot of reasons. Whole milk made down the list.
One of them they were drinking nothing but energy drinks
and eating garbage. So we now fed them edible garbage
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for lunch. The school lunches have gotten awful. There's not
enough protein, not enough calories. And at least now they've
got some milk. As we train an entire generation of
young people not to drink milk because they only gave
them skim in some cases, that stuff's garbage. That's horrible.
It's the dumpster water.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
Every time I see a story like this, so the
one you had last half hour about how nobody in
the third grade can read, you know what I need?
I need a DJ's Heroes event. Okay, I need to
wrap my arms around. I need to think back and
go to Zen and think back to the DJ's Heroes
event in May, the one that we do every May,
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which highlights ten or fifteen young people in this state
who are spectacularly successful despite odds that you can't imagine
how freaking tall the odds are that these kids even
get out of bed in the morning, let alone straight
a's help their community, volunteer, participate in sports and activities,
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mentor other kids in school. I mean, these are rock stars.
And every time I hear a story about how kids
are getting screwed over or they can't read, or they're
getting in trouble, or they act up and they won't
come off the monkey bars on the playground, I gotta
think of a DJ's Heroes event.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
On Nebraska's morning news Big Red Radio News Radio eleven
ten KFAV with the induction of endominkansu in to the
College Football Hall of Fame, I'm busting this out of
the archives here.
Speaker 11 (51:03):
You know we've seen it there we start now, he's
a senior room about to part as Canny one. He's
going to hurt him too, to keep your rye Onmandamakan.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
Such love the Nines will have no idea. And Cameroon
is the House of Spears.
Speaker 11 (51:21):
Six four, three hundred and no down. Keep your rye
Onmandamican su.
Speaker 1 (51:27):
There we go. That's the rock and railer. My friend
Jason Burnsteel of longtime Omaha group The Nines here producing
this one for news radio eleven ten kfab
Scott. He's here with you, Jim Rose, Craig Evans, Lucy Chapman.
This is Nebraska's Morning News, Courtney Donahoe as well, and
we're glad to have you part of this every single morning,
every single morning. I said to Jim Rose during one
of our breaks where we allow our sponsors to provide
the content for a few moments, I kind of looked
at him and said, so we do this every day then,
(00:23):
I mean, I've been a part of this show so
often for so many years, but not every day. We
every day. We do this every single day. Okay, I
don't Lucy takes a couple of days off here and
there to be sick as a dog. No one's calling
you a dog, sick dog. I'm gonna cough. I don't
(00:45):
know what you call. Okay, Okay, you say every day? Yeah, well,
weekend days don't count.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Only days where you show up and if you're at
your best, those are the only ones that count.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Craig Evans just provided the news a moment ago from
Douglas County, the Sheriff's Department. They've got a traffic stop
the other day that has brought into custody some members
of was this Taie gang the Kfam? Kay, I love
that radio station. Do you ever listen to Kfam?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I do?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It's so inspired it Yeah, it lifts me up. Don't
speak the language they speak Karen, and that's not a
woman named Karen who speaks I want to talk to
the manager. That's a type of language. And I want
to say Thailand. And I'll check myself in just a
moment here. But we've got the thirty year old guy,
(01:41):
twenty two year old guy, seventeen year old guy. It
might be Vietnamese. And they, as Craig Evans just said, here,
let's see. We got guns. We've got open alcohol containers,
a ghost gun, all kinds of fun stuff. Now. Douglas
County Sheriff Aaron Hanson provided a bit more details on this,
(02:04):
saying gang challenges persist in the quickly growing Irvington area
of unincorporated Douglas County. Like this is kind of Omaha
to Blair. That don't say no Man's land, that's the
area there between, like you know the Blair Irvington exit there,
(02:27):
and you've got a lot of farmland and apparently gang members,
foreign gang members, refugee gang members. So it says gang
challenges persist in the quickly growing Irvington area of unincorporated
Douglas County. Deputies routinely and routinely in counter members of
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the K Fam Gang, a refugee gang based in Douglas County,
in possession of weapons, committing serious felony crimes. Any member
of our refuge community who is concerned about their children
being coerced into gang activity should contact the Douglas County
Sheriff's Office. We'll discuss public safety gang intervention resources. So
(03:11):
I reach out to the Douglas County Sheriff's Department and
it's talking about refugees and yeah, Thailand and me and
mar the K FAM gang, And I asked the Douglas
County Sheriff's Department. Are we to assume, based on the
Sheriff's comments that these individuals are in the country with
(03:36):
refugee status or via their family's refugee status. The response
I received from Communications director Spencer Head Douglas County Sheriffs says,
we don't have access to federal databases to know their
legal status. For certain record show the juvenile. This is
the seventeen year old reported as being born in Utah.
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One of the adults reported he was born in Burma,
Me and Mar, and we don't have enough information on
the other adult to know for certain. The k famgang
short for Karen Family, consists primarily of refugees from Southeast Asia,
Me and Mar Thailand, who generally speak the language of Karen.
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Now we've got refugee gang members here in the Omaha area.
We have kids going from third to fourth grade who
can't read based on what the governor's passing along the
statistics that he has. We've got the Omaha Police Officers
(04:42):
Association posting things on their social media saying, here are
some idiots who got arrested, and the community says, we
don't want you to point out people getting arrested and
make fun of them. We've got another shooting in Minneapolis
from I'm a guy who was getting beaten by three people,
including an illegal immigrant Venezuelan gang member, and the ICE
(05:07):
official shot to save his life. He's being attacked by
three people, and people went to protest that. They went
to protest a guy trying to protect himself in a
one on three beating. Yeah, but you're one is an
ICE agent. You got to sit there and take it
and if you die, so be it. Quite a world
we're waking up to here. This morning. We had community
members get together. They had to have a meeting, a
(05:29):
community meeting last night where they get together and complained,
we don't like these Facebook posts. All right, here's my
standard reply. No matter who is posting what on Facebook,
it is so easy to deal with this. If you're
following someone or friends with someone and you don't like
what they're saying, what you do is up where it
says friends or follow, you click on that thing and
(05:51):
then you unfriend or unfollow. Please let me know if
I can help you with anything else in your life today.
I'm here all morning and I am so happy to
tell you what to do. What specifically were they mad about? Though?
Since this is well, this is the Omaha Police Officers Well,
it's the Omaha Police Officers Union. They have always, at
(06:14):
least in the time that I've been back here for
almost twenty years, in my hometown of Omaha, they have
been social media darlings of sort. They have no problem provoking, poking, prodding, revealing,
putting a spotlight on things and what seems to be
that which got people mad This time was the mugshot
(06:36):
of a fourteen year old girl. Now, this fourteen year
old girl was black. It was noted by the Police
Officers Association that they posted a couple of different things
with two different teenagers who got in trouble here in Omaha,
and people went nuts over, Hey, why are you guys
racist and you're posting what this black girl did? Well,
we also posted what this white guy did, and no
(06:59):
one seemed to care about that. You only cared when
we showed the mugshot of someone who hears The post
from January twod early on that Friday morning at six
twenty seven am, Girl's Day with Bestie check, Manny and
Petty with Bestie Check, skip paying and walk out a
spot with Bestie. Check, get arrested by OPD while Bestie disappears.
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Realize you have cocaine in your purse, fight and bite
the cops. Check, turn a minor charge into a violent felony,
spend New Year's even the weekend in jail, Bestie still
goes to the party without you and doesn't put money
on your books check check check, And then it goes
on to talk about how this girl and her best
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friend stopped off at a local small salon near Midtown.
They didn't pay, they tried to take off. Police caught
one of them, took her to jail. She became combative,
struck an officer in the face, causing injury, and then
the officer. What started as a minor theft turned into
a violent felony assault. These incidents are becoming the new normal,
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and our officers are injured far too often. Thank you
to the families who continue to support us every day.
Stay safe, Omaha, and choose your bestie. Wisely, who had
a meeting in town so that community activists like Kamaras
Snipes could say, I would like to see their Facebook
page use for engaging and informing, not humiliation, especially before
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someone even goes to trial. Not humiliation of a fourteen
year old girl. What about why this kid and why
so many like her continue to engage in illegal activity?
A bigger and bigger problem. We had to have the
governor of the state of Nebraska yesterday promote that he's
(08:52):
pushing for a bill to allow teachers to suspend students
in pre kindergarten through second grade. Currently, state law doesn't
allow that for kids that young, and they're pointing out
kids that young are committing horrible X and just terrible
behavior and three K yeah, y K yeah. And it's
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not it's not like, well, they don't know what they're doing.
It's willingly disruptive, rude, threatening behavior. And what are we
supposed to do about it? The answer can't be take
certain options off the table. That's part of what the
governor said. He also wants kids to learn to read.
We'll see what kind of pushback that gets in the legislature.
(09:33):
By the way, the Governor's going to join us and
in twenty five hours and thirteen minutes from now, it's
seven thirty five tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He also wants to lock up Mikayla Cavalo. Yeah, let's
let's get in all of this.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Next from the A one United Heating, Air and Electrical
Time Saber Traffic Center, the bridge over for eighty on Farnum.
Farnum is gone, so that is definitely closed. That's a
look at your roads. I'm aluicy Chapmans.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Farnham is gone, so that means it's closed. Don't drive there,
you cannot. You know, they put when they close rose,
they generally put big signs up like this one. Ah
fifty yards. There's your eighties movie quote for this segment
of the weather forecast and traffic update. What movie, Lucy?
(10:23):
That would be?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Hooper?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Excellent? I wasn't expecting the guess of Hooper, by the way.
By the way, I think they pronounced it Hupper movie
the town. No, it's National Lampoon's vacation. Why Dad, I
bet you jumped that car fifty yards. It has nothing
to be proud of us fifty yards. The Zonkers custom
woods inbox is open for you, and that's Scott at
kfab dot com. Adams says, good morning kfab. Crazy Kavanaugh
(10:53):
needs to be arrested and put on trial for stealing
from the Nebraskan people. As I recall, no one is
above the law. J six her crazy buttocks rock on,
Signed Adam the Carpenter, Adam, thank you for the email.
Scott atkfab dot com. Governor Pillen shares that there should
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be an investigation in case you missed it. Last week
the legislature convened and they had a bunch of two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebratory posters put up around the
Nebraska Capitol Building in honor of America's two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary this year, State Senator MICHAELA. Kavanaugh of Omaha decided,
(11:36):
these all need to come down. I don't like him.
There was certainly a push because some of the posters
came from praeger U, which has been determined to be conservative,
which means it's hateful and racist and misogynistic and anti
Native American or whatever. So we got to take all
this stuff down, which he gleefully did, smile on her face,
stuffed all the stuff in her office, and Governor Pillen says,
(11:59):
as many Nebraskans and officials in the Capitol have expressed,
if a private citizen had engaged in similar conduct, there
would be a consequence for such misconduct. So he's consulted
with law enforcement and determined that the incident warrants a
criminal investigation by the Lancaster County Sheriff's Department. Now State
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Senator Kavanaugh initially defended her actions, saying, you're not allowed
to put stuff up in here, and I'm just defending
the rule. Uh huh. And then she apologized the other
day to her fellow state senators on the floor and
said she felt bad that they had to waste time
dealing with her actions, which she says she regrets.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Never been an issue before when she opens most of
her days down there by bursting into tears and slowing
the process down as they listened to her wail and
scream and whine about the world at large. But this
is about window dressing for the governor. This is red
meat for him his supporters, because the Sheriff's office is
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going to say, here's what happened, Mikayla Kavanaugh tore a
bunch of stuff down off the walls and put it
in her office. This investigation is going to take fifteen
seconds because they have the video and she's admitted doing it.
So this is all window dressing for the governor. Unless
there is a statue that will allow them to lock
her up for a while, which is probably.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
An she'll get a ticket.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
She didn't steal anything, she didn't try to settle it
on the black market, she didn't throw it away. She
just took it down off the wall. Because as you
point up, there's any question about it, Scott. She did
it because it was supported by a conservative institution, and
she hates conservatives. She hates conservative people, she hates conservative viewpoints,
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and she wakes up every day finding a way to
hope that everything conservative of this country falls into a
gigantic rift in the earth and then is molted into
fine dust. But in this case, there is no investigation,
there is no conclusion because we have it and this
is just about to create attention for his supporters in
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an election year. What I personally think it's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
To do that.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But when you've admitted you did it, and you admitted
you were wrong, this takes all of the suspense away.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
What should the punishment be. Were we seriously talking about
locking her up? I don't think it's a fireble offense.
I don't even want to find her because she's she'll
just ask the Democratic Party for money. They'll gleefully give
it to her. I think, you know the same thing.
Whereas if my son were damaging property and she's in
her last year, she's not running for reelection. If my
son were damaging property at his school, I would say
(14:38):
I didn't realize he had so much energy and time
on your hands. You now get to help out the
custodial staff here at the school, and I go to
them and say, hey, he's available after school now for
the next couple of weeks. Maybe that's the idea. Let
him know what desks have the most gum under there,
and he can scrape him off with his fingers.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
So you're suggesting michaelas should go around to all forty
nine senators desks and see if there's gum under there
that she should scrape off.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, I'm sure Kathleen Kuth probably puts watts a gum
under her desk under the table there at the Unicameral
stay Senator Merman and Sorantino. They're probably just shove and
maybe if they knew that MICHAELA. Kavanaugh had to clean
the gum off from under it, suddenly they'd all be
a bunch of a hubba bubba bub delicious fans there
at the Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
How about we just have her walk up and down
the South Kennedy Freeway with those garbage pickers in an
orange jumpsuit and stuff garbage into a garbage bag for
an hour or two.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That I'm sure they can come up with something.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
This will be some sort of announcement on the floor
of the Unicameral to Senator mccavanaugh, We hope you don't
ever do that again. Please don't do that again. Now,
let's get to the business of the people. Yes, but
in an election year, this is the kind of thing
the governor would like to do to get attention from
his base and get a harump from his base, and
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he will.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Give the governor a harrum rump. Lucy, what movie I'll rum?
I didn't get off a rump all that guy. Lucy
always says jaws blazing saddles.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Cracking knuckles is not bad and will not cause arthritis.
Harvard Health said the sound is from gas bubbles and
joints popping. About fifty percent of people crack their knuckles.
Eighty percent of people find the sound annoying. I'm Craig
Evans More News at the top of the hour at
news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
And those of us who are knuckle crackers are all
popping them right now, And after hearing Craig talk about it,
I really wish I hadn't started. That can't stop anytime
I think like, all right, you want to pop your
knuckle right now? You don't have to. There's no reason
the world you have to. It feels like there's this
pulsing neon light type of sensation on my knuckle that
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just won't let up until I finally pop it. There
you go? Nice? Is that the first knuckle we've heard
war on the radio and one hundred plus years of
this radio station. If anyone pop their knuckles on the air,
I think they've done worse than pop their knuckles. Well,
I'm not suggesting that's the worst thing anyone's done. I'm
(17:12):
just wondering if it's the first look. Probably, if I
can't get by on talent, I at least want to
be known for something.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
This is a.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Bloomberg money minute. Flyers are shetting pounds and making planes lighter.
According to anlesat Jeffries, the growing use of weight loss
products may end up saving the biggest airlines as much
as five hundred eighty million dollars in fuel costs this year.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
With Courtney Donahoe, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, I'm
Scott Vorhees. This is Nebraska's morning News. Courtney just reported
the airlines are going to save a bunch of money
and fuel costs because people are losing so much weight.
And if we were transporting the same number of people
in the skies but they weigh thousands of pounds less collectively.
(17:52):
That's less fuel. I didn't realize that your fat but
was causing so much in fuel. Yeah, yeah, gas hog.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, there's been a movement to charge fat people for
two seats.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
On airlines for some time. I'd buy it.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I don't know that it's actually you don't need it,
but some people do. They should be paying for two seats.
Same thing in a football game. You know, if you've
got a piano sitting next to you, they're annexing your
seat and the one on the other side of them.
I hope that there are no long term side effects
from all of these drugs that people are taking where
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they're dropping one hundred pounds by noon, and it's amazing
the quick weight loss displayed by so many people, and
it's great.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
They're happier. I'm talking with people who are like I
had to go out and buy a whole new wardrobe.
So you know, the stores are happy, they're selling more clothes.
The airlines are happy they're using less fuel. Yeah, that's
a good question. Does that mean that our tickets are
going to cost less? Seems like if you're losing less fuel, oh,
come on, that you could lower the price of intingap
(19:02):
between here in Orlando, so we can get out of
here this weekend when it's going to be butt cold.
All right, speaking of science, interesting give and take yesterday
in the United States Senate. I don't know exactly what
they were talking about. It was a Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor,
and Pension had to do with abortion. But they were
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talking to someone who provides reproductive care in Georgia and Massachusetts.
Her name is doctor Nisha Verma, and there was some
comment that she made that caused Senator Josh Holly of
Missouri to do a double take and try and drill
down a little closer as to what exactly she meant
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when she was vague on gender specifications of those who
can get and abortion.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
As a chairman, since you bring it up, why don't
we just start there, doctor Verma, I wasn't sure I
understood your answer to Senator Moody a moment ago, do
you think that men can get pregnant?
Speaker 8 (20:02):
I hesitated there because I wasn't sure where the conversation
was going or what the goal was. I mean, I
do take care of patients with different identities. I take
care of many women. I take care of people with
different identities, and so that's where I paused. I think, yeah,
I wasn't sure where you were going with that.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Well, the goal is is the truth? So can men
get pregnant?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Again?
Speaker 8 (20:24):
The reason I paused there is I'm not really sure
what the goal of the question.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Goal is is to establish a biological reality.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You just said a moment ago that science and evidence
should control not politics.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
So let's just test that proposition. Can men get pregnant?
Speaker 8 (20:39):
I take care of people with many identities.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
But can men get pregnant?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Anyway?
Speaker 8 (20:44):
Women that can get pregnant? I do take care of
people that don't identify as women.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
That can Can men get pregnant? Again? As I'm saying,
let me let me just remind you you testified to
a moment ago.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
This goes on for its painful for more minute. It's
painful to listen to. I posted it on social media
last night. He just kept saying, it's a yes or
no question, doctor, and she simply refused to answer it.
And she's a classic illustration of the woke progressive culture
that refuses to address reality in lieu of social contagion. Now,
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this is all she had to do to answer it,
Senator Holly, A cis gendered male cannot get pregnant aka male,
A guy, a transgendered male may think they can get pregnant,
and I respect their views.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Transgender male can get pregnant because it's a woman.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Right, I'm sorry, A trans woman, Okay, A guy born
biological who believes that he's a woman.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Now, I'm confused. I don't even know what you are. Yeah,
me neither.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Sometimes all she had to say was if a man,
if a guy is born with male reproductive organs and
they believe that they're a woman, they may think they
can get pregnant, and if you put a uterus and
ovaries in them, then potentially they could. Well, she's but
a biological male, no, Senator Holly, cannot get pregnant. They're
mentally or physically.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
They're talking about those born women who identify as men
who can get pregnant because they're women. That's they think
that they can, but they don't have the equipment. But
they refer to them as men, and so there this
they what she.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Refused to acknowledge in this exchange with Senator Holly, which again, folks,
I'm telling you this is painful to listen to. What
she refused to acknowledge is that a man, despite what
they think they can do, cannot get physically pregnant unless
they have a uterus and ovaries.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
There's what we refuse to acknowledge is it's not hateful
or demeaning to point out that men can't get pregnant,
not with that gear, because they're men. Traffic, weather and
a news update. Gotta have different gear, baby next right
here on Nebraska's morning news.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Maybe you can go to a home depot and get
the gear. I don't know, but the gear, we don't
have that gear.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Doc Scott at kfab dot com Zonker's Custom Woods inbox,
Kevin says that she should lose her medical license. The
This is the doctor down in Georgia that would not
answer the question eleven times post to her, can men
get pregnant? She could not would not answer that question,
(23:33):
but she will be a Supreme Court justice, so that
she's got that going for Aaron is questioning my reference
in the forecast a moment ago that it's going to
be I believe the quote was butt cold, he says,
is that a reduction of its colder than a well
digger's Rearan. Now it's a quote. There's your nineties movie
(23:56):
reference for this segment of the radio program. It's Butt
Cole and I'm fresh out of beer. Lucy won't know
that one, but Jim Rose knows that one. That's one
of our favorites. That's anyone, anyone, grumpy old man. The
old man drop that fish, and Ronald emails and says,
when Meredith was in rare form in that moment, Oh
(24:18):
my gosh, everyone, the movies are perfect, Ronald says, when
a story about protesters and Lincoln protesting the arrest of
a person suspected of domestic violence who's also in the
country illegally. When that makes me grumpy, I can always
count on you and Lucy to make me smile again
with an image of people in traffic eating cake. Thank
(24:40):
you for helping me keep perspective on the day. That's
what we do here. We got to come together, find
some things to laugh about, say, find some things to
cry or get angry or commiserate or get frustrated about.
Got to do it together. Don't don't fall for what
they want you to do. They want you to unplug,
disconnect and just said I can't hand any more. I'm
(25:03):
not going to turn on the news. I just don't
want to know what's going on. That's what they want.
We need you to come together and hang out here
with us tomorrow at this time, at this time, said
a reminder on your phone. You can hear this. Governor
Jim Pillen will be our guest on the program just
ahead of the State of the State address, and a
couple of legislative priorities he introduced here in this legislative session,
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or asked state senator to introduce. One of them looks
to be held up by State Senator Terrell McKinney of
Northeast Omaha, and that is the one that says that
those who are in pre kindergarten through second grade in
Nebraska's public schools currently can't be suspended. Now, Governor Pillen's
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not saying suspend all of them and lock them up
and throw them out and all that. He's just saying,
and I'll quote from the governor's press release on this,
the feedback that I have received from teachers is that
our hands are tied when students act out in the classroom.
We're talking pre k here through second grade. I think
the shade I think the issues are that first second
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grade class, and he says, you know, they act out
in the classroom. In some cases the behavior is not
just disruptive, it's downright rude and inappropriate, even among our
youngest students. This legislation will reinstitute a tool that teachers
lost with the passage of some other bill a few
years back, which is important in managing classroom behavior and
(26:33):
creating a positive environment in which all students can learn. Now,
of course, this is like it was racists. Nothing raisis
about it. This is something that was passed now three
years ago, twenty twenty three, and it's just reinstituting a
tool that if some student is acting like a tool,
we can treat them as such. And before you think
there's no possible way, some sweet little first grader, oh
(26:56):
my good, just go talk to those teachers, talk to
the talk to the parents of the students who are
being threatened or bullied yet bullied or attacked or whatever
by a six year old, or how the entire classroom
has to shut down every single day because this kid.
(27:16):
Let me give you an example here in Omaha a
few years ago, recess first grade girl decides she's going
to climb up on the monkey bars and doesn't want
to come down. The teachers can't do anything at that point.
She is a first grader. They're not allowed to touch her,
they're not allowed to really threaten any punishment. So they
ended up having to call the police to come out
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and he come out and deal with the situation of
a first grade girl who won't get off the monkey
bars and come back in after recess. They had to
call the police.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
This is madness, now, Scott boor Hees, you're a smart guy.
You have a degree from the University of Nebraska. Carney,
I am yes. Why would Terrell McKinney be the guy
to first oppose this legislation?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Why do you think that is because he is the
leader of a district has a lot of black students
in schools. Say a minute, this isn't racist. Activists and
community alleged leaders have said that a lot of the
punishments that happen in school happen more often against black students,
and therefore we'll just remove the punishment that ought to
(28:23):
solve the problem. Look, it's worth having a debate about
all this stuff. I prefer to look in these instances,
not at the macro. I prefer to look at the micro,
not Mike rowe dirty jobs. I like him. But the
macro says, well, this percentage of students. All right, let's
look at the micro. Find me specific examples of a
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student who did something that you feel shouldn't merit any punishment,
and we'll see what the punishment is. And we'll see
where if a white kid does the exact same thing
and got lesser punishment, show me that specific example. They
won't do it. They just show data. Therefore, or I
don't put a lot of stock in some of the
arguments here. Now, the other thing that the governor has
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done is he's introduced or asked this is State Senator
Dave Merman of south Central Nebraska to put forth this
legislation that insures students should be able to read by
the time they reach the third grade. According to the
latest data. Listen to this. This is Nebraska data, seventy
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two percent of fourth graders in the state of Nebraska
are not proficient in reading. That's because of COVID no
and they I'm sure that these kids would say seventy
two percent, that's almost half because I'm guessing they're not
great at math either. It's not because of COVID, it's not. No,
it's because we have more and more students who can't
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speak English in our schools. And so all of those
again that's a macro thing. All of these things go
into the exact same thing. They say, Look, we're gonna
we're gonna say that you in third grade need to
be able to read, and if you can't, you're doing
third grade again and again and again until you read.
And immediately I'm sure people are incensed by this. Why
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wouldn't parents be looking at their kid and wondering why
this kid has now gone through to the level of
in third grade, you should not only be reading, you
should be doing basic math, full comprehension. You should be
doing a lot more than basic math third grade. But Scott, Scott,
do the calendar. A fourth grader is nine years old,
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nine to ten years old, okay, a fourth grader at
nine ten back up the calendar to twenty twenty one.
That means they were four or five years old at
the time. That's when they start learning basic reading and
writing and math skills, okay, rudimentary skills. They were not
in school at that age.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
In many cases, they didn't get back in school until
they might have been six or seven. And if that's
the case, all you need to do is look back
to that dreadful policy of locking kids out of school. Now,
it didn't happen in every school district in Nebraska. In fact,
a lot of school districts just did not pay attention
to these lockdown orders. But if you look at a
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very significant percentage of the kids that are struggling right
now in the third, fourth, and fifth grades, it's because
they didn't get the basics that they needed in first
and second grade.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I can't completely I can't completely discount that. And it's
sad that, well, where were those kids when they were
locked out of school walking around? They were at home
trying to get online with parents who were not helping
teach their kids how to read.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Or their parent wasn't home. They came from a single
family parent home, and they were home. There was an
adult there that should have been reading with the kid.
A lot of kids can read before they get into
kindergarten because parents help read with their kids and help
and encourage their kids along, and we've lost all of that.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
It's tragic. It's just to talk more about this and
a lot more with Governor pillin tomorrow morning. That's seven
thirty five right here in Nebraska's Minneapolis there borders are
Tom Homan talking with the media yesterday, and because ICE
is conducting these that has to do with border issues,
the legal immigration issues. The reporter is asking Trump's borders
(32:15):
are Tom Homan at, what do you think about what's
going on in Minneapolis. ICE is up there clashing with protesters,
pulling people out of cars, pushing people in the street.
A couple of people have been shot, and they think
that this looks like Russia based on what the federal
military law enforcement officials are doing up there.
Speaker 10 (32:35):
That's ridiculous. You know what, in Minneapolis, they let's let's
let's let's remember who set the stage here. First of all,
the Biden administration let millions of people release millions of
illegal analysts in this country and violation of the law,
many of them criminals because they weren't property vetted.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
We're resting thousands of them.
Speaker 10 (32:56):
So first of all, they created the problem with with
min's of illegal alien criminals in this country. Second of all,
Minneapolis or sank Spurry City, you know, if they let
us send their damn jail, they stop being sanctuary city.
We could arrest the bad guy in the safety and
security of jail, but because they normally release them, now
we got to go in the community and find them.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Then they're mad we're in the community. Tom Homan Trump's
borders are a lot of people really upset with that guy.
I'm not one of them, especially, says the people are
upset by those comments. Think it's perfectly fine that you
had three people, including an illegal immigrant, who was targeted
by an ICE operation, ganging up on Why one ICE
(33:40):
officer who had to fire a shot into the lego
one of these guys to be able to save his
own life, and they were mad that that happened. We
got hit by a snowshovel. He was getting hiden by
a shovel and attacked by three guys, and he can't
defend himself. He's Ice. He just needs to take it.
Is that what would come to?
Speaker 10 (33:56):
You know?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I feel really bad for people who are dying in
Minneapolis there. Maybe their kids got a volleyball game, maybe
they're there visiting family. We want to see the Great Mall,
and we're maybe we're staying downtown because we're gonna go
to catch a Timberwolves game or a show or something
like that, and they're staying at a hotel and they
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can't sleep because you got protesters out there, banging drums,
yelling into megaphone, setting stuff on firefighting with cops. You
got sirens going off because because there might be a
member of ICE staying in the same hotel, this would
be one of those times you want to get one
of those really really bad cheap motels, one of the
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hotel motels, because chances are on the taxpayer doll, ICE
isn't staying at a really bad hotel, so I'd stay
there because you want to have protesters running up and
down the halls all night, screaming and yelling, banging drums,
trying to wake up ICE like hey, you can't sleep,
You're no, We're not gonna give you any opportunity to rest.
You're destroying our community, and then fighting with them out
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in the streets.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
If I was staying in that hotel, like I was
there on business to you know, present a health insurance
planned a US bank, I'd give them. I'd put each
one of them in a submission hold. You would be
beaten to within an inch of your life. No, you
would want to mess with me? You versus dozens of protesters.
What exactly do you think would happen? Oh, I got
(35:24):
all the moves, Dode, I come off the top rope.
There's no top row. Figure four leg hotel room. Oh,
I'd find a way, figure four leg lock, the tree
of Woe, Boston crab, tree of wall, camel clutch, camel clutch.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Put them in the camel clutch. Yeah. Uh, they they'd
be done, snap souplex.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Oh yeah, everyone one at a time, and then I'd
throw them out the third floor window and see if
they landed a snowbank.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
President Trump and Tom Homan are on the phone. They
want you to go to Minneapolis immediately, Jim, it's pretty rure. Yeah,
or Lincoln. You see the season. Things are heating up
in Lincoln. Huh, Northeast Lincoln. This was not last night.
This was Tuesday night. We got more details about it yesterday, Ashley,
pardon me. Was Tuesday afternoon is when it started. This
(36:11):
is when Ice officials were keen in on someone who
was targeted in an operation. This person was in the
country illegally, a gang member, that kind of things. Now
they're they're getting on that guy, and then they're going
to his house to serve a federal warrant. This was
Department of Homeland Security ICE, FBI, US marshals all involved,
(36:33):
and they're around this house in the area of thirty
second and Orchard Streets in northeast Lincoln in the afternoon. Well,
protesters heard about it and they're like, oh, Ice is here. Technically,
I I don't know exactly what they thought was going on.
They just saw federal officials get them, and so you
have an ever growing group of protesters there in the
(36:56):
streets shouting and cursing at officers as they're serving the
warrant and trying to bring a dangerous felon in custody
who's here with a federal warrant. This is also described
as a multi unit residence there. I don't know if
that's big house, apartment, town home, whatever, But the protesters
(37:19):
are there, they're getting in the way of cops. Now,
Lincoln Police Department then issues a statement saying, look, we
appreciate your ability, your every right to peacefully protest, but
when you've got people there in the streets are getting
in the way of cops we have you're forty feet
from federal agents, guns drawn surrounding a home. Inside the
(37:43):
home is a dangerous guy who also have guns. You're
coming down here, You're getting in the middle of a
crime scene. You could get shot, you could get killed.
You're putting people in danger. You're distracting law enforcement from
their job to keep the public safe. You're putting everyone,
including yourself, in danger. We want you to be able
(38:03):
to peacefully protest. But my goodness, this is not how
it's done. This. This wasn't Minneapolis, this wasn't tran this
was Lincoln. Did you hear anything from the mayor.
Speaker 8 (38:13):
No.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
The mayor's pretty woke, she's she's pretty liberal, and this
would be the kind of thing she'd step up and
talk about. Maybe not, Maybe she's stitting this one out.
It's really about leadership, Scott. I mean literally, if if
Jacob Fry, the extraordinarily limited mayor of Minneapolis, and Tim Wallas,
who may have mental incapacities that we don't even know
(38:36):
about yet, if they would just stand up and say, guys, guys,
you're absolutely welcome to protest. You're absolutely welcome, you know,
to yell and scream and blow a whistle. If you want,
but if you get in the way, or if you
chuck something at one of these ice agents, you're getting
locked up.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Yeah, and we're not going to help you out.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
They keep saying that those who are down there fighting
with lawn fightment. That's not hell. No, and you're not
helping the undocumented workers in our community, is what we
heard in the Fox News update from the mayor of Minneapolis.
But they won't let the Trump administration come in there
and help keep the peace. They said that would make
the situation worse. More law enforcement to stop violent protesters
(39:19):
from damaging businesses, each other, law enforcement destroying the community.
If you want some help clean this up, No, no,
you don't got it. You can't. You're not quelling this.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
It's the same thing that happened in the George Floyd episode.
And that is the leadership in that community actually added
to the problem. Rather than keeping the peace, rather than
calming down tensions, rather than saying, come on, guys, now,
let's calm down a minute, let's work this out, they
made it worse. And I can't imagine that the people
(39:52):
of Minnesota, and there are I don't know four million
people up in the state of Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Maybe more.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Maybe there's just four million in the Twin Cities area.
I haven't looked at the population numbers, but I just
can't believe, for the life of me, Scott, that the
people of Minnesota and that most of the residents of
the Twin Cities. When I say most, i'd say sixty
to sixty five to seventy percent of the residents of
the Minneapolis Saint Paul metropolitan area are okay with this,
(40:18):
are happy that this is happening, that their town is
being destroyed, It's being lampooned and blasted nationally, It's being
made the butt of jokes and memes all over the
freaking social media sphere. I can imagine for one minute
that those people are okay with this.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
I'd be real curious how many people are selling homes
the last week or so in Minneapolis. We're trying to
We have the SpaceX trip that started off this past
August to go up to the International Space Station their
home now because someone was sick. One of those astronauts
was sick. And I wonder if this is the same
(40:58):
thing everyone's been dealing with that they're place of work, Like, dude,
did you come up to the space station sick. No, no,
no sinus infection. Really it kind of seems like you
have all the symptoms of a cold. No, I don't,
but that is uh, I don't know. I suspect that
this person probably has more than a cold. Huh, I can't.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
I didn't even think about the fact that a flu
could actually be worse.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Wouldn't that be fun I mean, I hope if they
came back a month early, which is the case, and
they say there was an illness of one of the astronauts.
They didn't say which one. There's a couple of Americans, frenchy,
and then a Russian cosmonaut up there. I think there's
a Japanese astronaut up there as well. They all came
back because one of them is very, very sick and
(41:47):
needs medical attention. That apparently you can get better attention
here on Earth than on the International Space Station makes sense.
I don't think it was someone who got up there
and then caught a cold in space, But wouldn't that
be funny? How do we get COVID up here? Everyone's
looking at the Japanese guy like, no, no, that was China,
you bunch of racists. That was China. Don't don't you dare?
(42:10):
I'm Scott Vorhees, Welcoming News Radio eleven ten KFAB national
correspondent Rory O'Neill. Back to the program here as we
got some national polling out here. The Americans are letting
each other in the national media know what they think
about the president's actions when it comes to Venezuela, the
threats against Greenland, what's going on with Ukraine and Iran
(42:34):
and more, Rory, what do the polls say?
Speaker 5 (42:37):
Yeah, there is a lot going on on Iran, which
of course is getting most of the attention now. Seventy
percent of voters think the US should not get involved
in Iran. Only eighteen percent think we should be taking
military action there. When you break it down and look independents,
eighty percent are really against this idea, about the same
(42:57):
as Democrats. Republicans are a little bit more split on
the issue, but still don't want US getting involved, especially
putting boots on the ground. And another question by Quinnipiac
University asked, you know, if President Trump wants to take
military action in places like Venezuela and Iran, does he
need the consent of Congress? Seventy percent of voters think
(43:19):
that in general, if any president decides to take military
action against another country, they should first receive approval from Congress.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
It's interesting that you turn on the TV and you
see waves of protesters and some clashing with law enforcement.
You don't know if you're looking at Buenos Aires, or
you're looking at Tehran, or you're looking at Minneapolis anymore.
It's I'm guessing that some of the especially Democrats, would
appreciate standing up for the protesters in America. They don't
(43:50):
want to help the freedom loving protesters in Venezuela or Iran.
Speaker 5 (43:55):
Well, you know, that's what's interesting. We look at the
Venezuelan situation. The poll finds that we America is almost
equally divided. Forty seven percent support the Trump administration's move
to arrest Nicholas Maduro and his wife, forty five percent
oppose it, so within the margin of error, so it
coined to us. There Republicans by and large much more
(44:16):
supportive of the action in Venezuela eighty five percent for.
Even the Democrats were eighty percent for. But independents are divided.
Only forty five percent supported it. So it's among those
independents where we see a lot more caution.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
I'm losing track of how many times Trump was going
to lead US into World War three and then didn't.
It's thankfully we're at one hundred percent not world War three.
That's what we all want, despite what some people say,
Rory a couple minus left here. We also have the
Trump administration taking some action when it comes to immigrant visas.
And it's not a Somalia thing. He's concerned about what
(44:52):
and he's looking at who.
Speaker 5 (44:55):
Right, So the State Department is issuing a pause starting
on the twenty first of this month. They're putting a
pause on immigrant visas seventy to the citizens of seventy
five countries around the world. Somalia is one of them. Obviously,
it's been in the headlines for the corruption found in Minnesota,
but let me emphasize it. These are immigrant visas, not
(45:15):
tourist visas. So if a Brazilian brazil is on this list,
if a Brazilian wants to come to the US this
year to watch the World Cup, they're welcome to do
so on a tourist visa, but don't be making any
plans to start moving here on an immigrant visa. The
State Department says that disproportionately, the people coming from these
seventy five countries are five years in more likely to
(45:39):
be using welfare programs like food stamp benefits or Medicaid.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Rory, it's a great reporting as always. Also, I apologize,
I said Buenos Aires, I met Caracas. I think there
are some protests throughout South America. But my apologies to
the good people listening to us via iHeartRadio in South
America for screwing that up.
Speaker 6 (46:00):
Rory.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
Always always appreciate the time. Thank you very much. Thanks
Gott talk to you at his news radio eleven to
ten KFAV National correspondent Rory O'Neill. Here on Nebraska's Morning news.
A federal officer shot a person in the leg in
Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and a broom
and friends. This took place about four and a half
(46:23):
miles from where the immigration agent fatally shot that woman
in the car who drove her car and an Ice
official a week ago yesterday, and protests been going on
ever since. It's amazing that you've got people who look
at the protesters there who apparently and protesters broke out
in the spot where this person was shot again.
Speaker 10 (46:46):
This was a.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Dangerous criminal in the country, illegally targeted by ICE and
they're conducting that operation. This guy turns on law enforce
and with the help of a couple of others and
the start beating three on one on this ICE official
who's able to pull a gun and fire into the
leg of one of his attackers and save his own life,
(47:10):
didn't kill the guy. And then people start showing up
and officers had to fire tear gas into the crowd
that gathered where that shooting took place. Upset that it
took place. What would they have done had these three
people killed the ICE agent? Is that what they wanted?
(47:32):
I would love for someone to ask them that. And
as we addressed a moment ago, you got the mayor
in Minneapolis, the governor of Minnesota, saying, we want people protesting,
but you know, don't be agitating and don't take the bait.
Is what Mayor Fry of Minneapolis said, Jim, don't take
the bait to what start ganging up on and beating
(47:54):
an ICE official.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
Well, first of all, what self respecting Minnesota would suggest
Nobody take the bait In a land of ten thousand
lakes where fishing is pretty much a religion. So I
think somebody needs to call him out as the fraud
that he is. Just what foreign country are you from?
Speaker 1 (48:09):
Pal? Look, what does that mean? What does take de
bait mean?
Speaker 2 (48:13):
That means don't engage with a police officer or an
ICE officer in such a manner that you get arrested. Okay,
well here's the problem, Mayor Fried. These people are getting
paid to get arrested. These people are getting paid to
show up on social media. These people are doing this
for a reason. It's not because they're standing up for
some illegal alien that lives three blocks away. They're doing
(48:36):
it so that they can get on television, they can
get on social media. They're collecting a check for this.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Can you imagine how awful would be to be one
of those who's tackled or shoved by ice and you're down,
face down the floor and you look around and you realize,
oh no, no one's filming this. Right, I'm not going
to be on social media. This was all for nothing. Hey,
can we do another? Take here? Hold on, police, get
up here. I'll stand in front of your car and
did all this stuff again. I'll chuck a freaking frozen
(49:02):
water bottle. Aze.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
I'll hit you with a snowshovel like what happened last night,
just so I can get recorded, because the more clicks
I get, the more money I get from whoever it
is that's funding this.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
Oh something else that Trump did. He has reinstituted whole
milk into schools. They were afraid of whole milk, and
Michelle Obama was afraid that kids were getting fat because
they were drinking too much whole milk. They're getting fat
for a lot of reasons. Whole milk made down the list.
One of them they were drinking nothing but energy drinks
and eating garbage. So we now fed them edible garbage
(49:35):
for lunch. The school lunches have gotten awful. There's not
enough protein, not enough calories. And at least now they've
got some milk. As we train an entire generation of
young people not to drink milk because they only gave
them skim in some cases, that stuff's garbage. That's horrible.
It's the dumpster water.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
Every time I see a story like this, so the
one you had last half hour about how nobody in
the third grade can read, you know what I need?
I need a DJ's Heroes event. Okay, I need to
wrap my arms around. I need to think back and
go to Zen and think back to the DJ's Heroes
event in May, the one that we do every May,
(50:13):
which highlights ten or fifteen young people in this state
who are spectacularly successful despite odds that you can't imagine
how freaking tall the odds are that these kids even
get out of bed in the morning, let alone straight
a's help their community, volunteer, participate in sports and activities,
(50:35):
mentor other kids in school. I mean, these are rock stars.
And every time I hear a story about how kids
are getting screwed over or they can't read, or they're
getting in trouble, or they act up and they won't
come off the monkey bars on the playground, I gotta
think of a DJ's Heroes event.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
On Nebraska's morning news Big Red Radio News Radio eleven
ten KFAV with the induction of endominkansu in to the
College Football Hall of Fame, I'm busting this out of
the archives here.
Speaker 11 (51:03):
You know we've seen it there we start now, he's
a senior room about to part as Canny one. He's
going to hurt him too, to keep your rye Onmandamakan.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
Such love the Nines will have no idea. And Cameroon
is the House of Spears.
Speaker 11 (51:21):
Six four, three hundred and no down. Keep your rye
Onmandamican su.
Speaker 1 (51:27):
There we go. That's the rock and railer. My friend
Jason Burnsteel of longtime Omaha group The Nines here producing
this one for news radio eleven ten kfab
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