Fremont Protest / Dan Osborn In / Lindstrom Out

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Watch for times due to construction as that morning rush
begins to build at seventy second lane restrictions both directions
just north of Sorenson. And if you're heading downtown, Tenth
Street still closed, Capital av to Dodge. That's a look
at your roads. And Lucy Chapman.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
I love when Lucy has an edge in her voice.
Do you detect that she takes edge well, that you
take the closures personally? And Capitol ass still close?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Oh I do.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
I guess I didn't realize it.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
And the trash you said you were going to take
out still not taken out from Tenth to Capital.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
The dishwasher needs lading.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, still the dishes you said you were going to
take care of still in the sink.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
H Happy Friday.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yes we are here on Friday. There's Lucy Chapman, Jim
Rose is here, Craig Evans, I am Scott Vorhees, and
it is the time to talk about Fremont here on
news radio eleven kfa B. All right to everyone, they go,
who's got what to say? We'll reset the stage. Here's
Craig Evans. Just told you the Fremont High School students

(01:09):
decided to start a demonstration outside of the school at
about two o'clock yesterday afternoon. School still goes till three,
three fifteen. Three fifteen was always that get out of
school time when I was a kid. So they were
faced with, hey, do you guys want to protest after school? Now,

(01:30):
I've got I got a lot of stuff to do
after school, but we can. We can leave class and
go protest. They always want to leave class and go protest.
You don't see a lot of students protesting after school
in the evening, certainly not on weekends. And we're doing
a protest on Saturday morning. We want to get started early,
like around six six thirty. You guys in, what are

(01:54):
you talking about it? No, if I can, if I
can get up in geometry class or walk out, I'm in.
You didn't even ask what the cause was. No, I
know the cause is getting me out of geometry class.
So once again students showing who they are, decide to
get up, walk out of class, and now we're protesting

(02:15):
outside the school. It said administrators were supervising the protest.
Did anyone say, hey, get back into class and at
one point students entered the street. Did the administrators do
anything about that seemingly not I saw the video of

(02:36):
a lot of Fremont High School tigers out there in
the streets, and then someone probably looking for a fight,
certainly looking for attention, drove down the streets. Not illegal
to drive down the street in front of the high
school protest dragging a Trump flag with a Trump twenty
twenty four flag out the back of the suv, certainly
not illegal. Freedom of speech. Those students did not appreciate

(02:59):
that speech, and they surrounded the car, and as the
driver probably wasn't sure what was going to happen, and
you have people surrounding the car, driver for whatever reason,
lurge the car forward, lurched the car forward. A student

(03:20):
was hit in that moment, knocked to the ground. Students
surrounded that girl, tried to get her up. I expect
that she's going to be okay. The whole situation is unfortunate.
You got students in the street, you got a driver
in the street, and then you got a girl hit
by a car that had had stopped and then started going.

(03:42):
So it's not like the guy went barreling's fifty five
miles per hour down the street and treated these student
protesters like bowling pins. But still it's disturbing to see
all of this, especially since there were alleged adults at
the school nearby.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
There's one who did Jack's squat right, there was one there.
He was in the street, a couple items. One hopeful
little the gal is okay, hope the young lady's okay.
It looked like she was okay. She was talking and
she was alert when the ambulance came to all her
off on the gurney, So that's good. Don't know today

(04:16):
what the status of the guy who hit her is.
They probably launched an investigation over there. They certainly could
find the vehicle and locate the driver. Will he be
arrested and charged with something?

Speaker 5 (04:29):
Good? Question?

Speaker 4 (04:31):
What were they doing in the streets got this?

Speaker 5 (04:33):
To me?

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Is just hard to believe. I'm going to give the
fine administrators of Fremont High School the benefit of the
doubt because this was not a school sanctioned event. You
really can't do that stuff on school grounds. But why
there wasn't some adult supervision to keep kids out of
the freaking street, I don't know. And if you're a
parent of a Freemont High School student, you ought to

(04:56):
be really worried about this. Was there any adult whatsoever.
Just because you're not sanctioned, it doesn't mean you can't
be around it and help to sort of manage it.
And the kids shouldn't have been in the street. Regardless
of whether this dude, this you know, maybe distant cousin
of a Proud Boy was looking for trouble, the fact
of the matter is they were in the street, and

(05:19):
that's not good management by the people in charge. So
I hope that this young lady is okay this It
was scary. I don't really know if those kids knew
what they were protesting. I saw some interviews on local
media last night. There was a gallon there who didn't
know what the hell she was talking about a student,
So who is educating these folks? What is the conversation

(05:43):
in Fremont High School? And can we apply that same
question to every other high school in the state.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Two things, the only thing I've seen the local Proud
Boys do around here is raise money for charity. And
then two, there are a lot of people saying I thought,
if you use your car as a weapon, you deserve
to get shot. That's what happened with Rene up in Minneapolis.
We'll address that Scott A. Kfab dot com and the
Zonker's custom was inbox after student protesters at Fremont High

(06:09):
School decided we're leaving class because that's how that works,
and then they went out at some point into the streets.
Here comes the vehicle with a Trump flag. I don't
believe that vehicle just happened to be driving by, but
certainly could. I mean, you see the Trump flags on
trucks and vehicles from time to time. Could just be
an interesting coincidence. But even if the guy drove down

(06:32):
the street on purpose, just to let those kids know, Hey, glad,
you guys are protesting here. By the way, the president
of the United States when you started this protest is
Donald J.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
Trump.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
The president of the United States when you end this
protest will still be Donald J.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
Trump.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Here's a flag in the back, just letting you guys know.
If that's all the intention was, great, seems like that's
probably all the intention was. He stopped, and the protesters
encircled the car, started trying to grab the flag, and
eventually did grab the flag from the back of the car.
I don't know that this guy feared for his life.

(07:10):
That's probably going out on a limb. I don't know
how i'd feel. How would you feel if suddenly you've
got a group of angry people around your car and
you're like, what am I supposed to do? I can't
drive backwards? They're over there. I drive forward. If I
stay here, I'm going to get my vehicle beat up.
What are you supposed to do? In that instance, Lucy.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
The people surrounding him was that all students?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Was it unclear it was all students? Well, it may
have been unclear to him, but it was all students.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
So these students.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Were peacefully protesting by surrounding his car and tearing his
leg down. Yeah, I mean, I mean just asking question.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
So he decides, all right, I'm getting out of this mess.
And there was some in interaction between the driver and
the students. I don't think it's going out on a
limb to say. The interaction might have been, get out
of the way in my car. I'm driving out, I'm driving.
I'm going to go. Get out of the way in
my car. He drove off. The car bumped the girl

(08:16):
to the ground forcefully, that's unfortunate, and students helped her up.
Looks like she's going to be okay, I certainly hope
that's the case. But what is the driver supposed to
do in that instance? People were saying, like, well, I thought,
if you use the car as a weapon, that means
that you get shot. All right, A group of angry

(08:37):
people surrounding your car with unknown intent is not the
same as law enforcement, because people are talking about what
happened to Renee up in Minneapolis. A law enforcement telling
you multiple times get out of the car, stop the car,
get out of the car, and then you drive off anyway.
When you have law enforcement there giving you instructions, that's
not the same as an angry mob circling your car.

(09:02):
Kevin says, is there any legal liability for the school
allowing this protest? Jim said he was inclined to give
the administrators a pass on this one because they didn't
sanction the protest, but they stood around and watched it
and do it, didn't do anything about it.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Technically, it was not on school grounds. It was right
now got into the street because it was on the street.
If it had been on school grounds, he answered, be yeah,
probably they have some liability, but it wasn't because they
didn't sanction it. The kids organize this. This is a
social media sort of sanctioned event across the country. At
that time of day, kids are supposed to get up, walk.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
Out of class.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
I thought they'd signs, grab some signs, walk around, say
stuff they don't really know what they're talking about, and
make it look like we care. And I don't know
how many other places in the country where this happened. Thankfully,
there weren't too many other places in the country where
a girl got run over by a car. But the
school can't really stop it. And that's the thing. They

(09:59):
knew that it was coming, and they say, okay, yeah,
you can do this, but you can't do it on
school grounds. Now, there is a park not far from there,
but they were gonna have to take it to the park,
which means they were gonna have to cross several busy
streets and miss algebra class. Craig says the student should
be ticketed for impeding traffic. They're the ones violating the

(10:21):
law by being in the street. Donald says, did Mike
Flood even watch the video? He says, you should be
able to protest safely. These students weren't protesting safely. Do
it on the side of the street.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
That's from Donnie said to Scott at kfab dot com,
our own White House correspondent. Kfab's John Decker, who was
in the White House Cabinet meeting with President Trump yesterday,
will be on at eight fifteen for a recap. The
noteworthy in that it was short. President Trump said he
wanted to keep that cabinet meeting short because he said
the last one went on too long and he got bored.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
So that's what he said.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
His wife's movies coming out tonight. I had a lot
going on.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
Jop Chop.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Let's go, got dictators to take into custody.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
Let's go. I got stuff to do.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Sit here talking to you guys, use guys would be
out doing the stuff I told you to do.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
I got Democrats that need to be arrested all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Speaking of politicians, Jim Rose, what do you think of
Brett Linstrom, a long time Omaha State senator. He's been
a part of that death penalty vote. He was big
on that one, and he's apparently dropped out. He's paused
his campaign in the congressional race. Here among the Republicans
looking to advance in the primary to take Nebraska's second

(11:33):
district seat, currently held by Don Bacon. Lindstrom says he
doesn't want to deal with the divisiveness anymore.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
I think that's part of it. I don't think that
Brett's heart was ever really in it. I think this
was the next natural step for him to take in
a political career. He tried hard to be governor and
came up pretty far short in the primary back in
twenty twenty two.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
Was it?

Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yeah, And you know he's looking around, going, okay, what's next,
opted not to challenge Genie Stothard in the mayoral race.
I don't know that Brett has the stomach for this.
He's a really nice guy. He's a smart guy, he's
a hard working guy, he's a he's a very spiritual guy.
He's a good family guy. And you know, he's got

(12:14):
a lot of friends, and he's got a lot of talents,
and he's got a great job right now over bridges trust.
So I don't Congress is a really, really rough road
to be on, especially in a state like this one
where you've got a campaign all the time, in a
in a very challenging environment. I don't think he was

(12:35):
going to win the primary. Brinker Harding is a tested,
battle tested politico. He knows where the bodies are buried,
he knows where the votes are buried. He knows how
to campaign. He knows retail politics very very well. And
I think that Brett just watching him over the last
several months, I'm thinking, Okay, when's Brett Liinsterm going to

(12:55):
start really campaigning?

Speaker 5 (12:57):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (12:57):
And he's then he said, well, oh, no cares until
after the first of the year in Lada, Da. I
just don't think his heart was ever in it. I
think his stomach was not in it. He's got a
young family, He's got a great wife, and when you're
a member of Congress, that's your wife. Okay, that's your family,
and that's not Brett Linstrom is a He's a decent man,

(13:18):
a good family man. And I think he looked at
the world and said, do I really want to be
in the United States Congress to feed my own ego?
When I got a great wife and a great family
and a great job and great friends back then er
in Omaha. Sometimes it takes a strong person to turn
away from that. Brinker's daughters are grown up. You know,
his wife is a very very successful architect in town.

(13:38):
Those two are a power couple. It's a different place
in the in the world for him than Brett. So
I'm a little bit surprised, but not wholly surprised. And
you know, I've known his dad a long long time,
Dan Linstrom, former Husker football player, very successful guy in
his own right. Brett walked on at Husker football under
Bill Callahan for playing quarterback in Mildard West, So you know,

(14:00):
he's a winner. I mean, he's a first class individual.
But this is a dirty business politics. It's a demanding business.
It's a divisive business. It's a corrupt business. It's a
smelly business. And that's not Brett Linstrom.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
I don't discount most of what you said there, especially
the part about Senator Brett Linstrom being a top class guy,
the first class guy he really is. I really like
that guy. But brinker Harding hadn't gotten out the long
knives in this campaign. So at this point to drop
out and say I don't like all the divisiveness existed

(14:35):
when he decided to run for Congress. That was his
family dynamic, is what it was when he decided to
run for Congress. I imagine at this point in the campaign.
If you drop out of the campaign, it's either because
you found something else you wanted to do and or
comes down to polling and money. The people who run
successful political campaigns that I've seen over the last couple

(14:57):
of decades in Omaha lined up behind your opponent Brinker Harding,
And that's my assessment.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
I think something and I think that was a part
of it. But one of the reasons he probably struggled
with money and with pollings because he hasn't been out campaigning,
you know, he hasn't been out doing the parades.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, we've seen Brinker all over the place.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Brinker is everywhere, and because Brinker knows how you win elections,
and you know, Brett, I think he was in his
element as a state senator because the world was a
little bit smaller and it is a demanding job, but
it's not as demanding and the travel isn't quite as
demanding as it is as a United States congressman. So
is there a future politically for Brett Linstrum. The answer

(15:38):
is yes. But sometimes you can want something too much
and it really dulls your priorities. And I think he
was afraid that might happen if you talk to a
guy like John Bruning, who's also I consider John a
personal friend. He finally woke up and said, you know,
all my life I grew up, I wanted to be
president of the United States, and he started that run,
and he became the attorney general, and he ran for

(16:00):
the Senate and lost, and he ran for governor and lost. Well,
sometimes that's a sign. Well, now he's one of the
most successful lobbyist corporate lawyers in the country. He's enjoying
vast riches he could never have enjoyed unless he was
ill haan Omar as a member of the body politics.
So maybe Brett saw that as do I want to

(16:23):
lose several elections before the light goes on? He wasn't
going to beat Brinker Brinker Harding is a veteran political
operative whose run winning campaigns. He knows how to do
this and he knows where you got to go to
get votes.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
That leaves Brinker Harding is the only Republican in this race.
They are a team of weightlifters holding down Dan Frye.

Speaker 6 (16:47):
At this moment, police in Fort Worth, Texas are investigating
a deadly shooting over an order of French fries Wednesday evening.
Investigators say that the suspect shot the victim for refusing
to share his fries. Craig Evans more News at the
top of the hour at news Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
I have no problem with that. I think that.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
You can you can shoot a guy if there was
a reasonable expectation of French fries sharing and then you
get no French fries. How many French fries coming to
pack of French fries forty? You can't share one or
two fries.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Where are you getting fries? It's only like twenty mine.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
I get them at well, you know, you got five
guys burgers and fries. That's only five fries. I go
to forty guys fries. I get forty burgers and forty fries.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
I like to have.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Are you okay there? Fine that Lucy has fallen down,
everything's fine.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
No delays.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
Heer' dropped her fries.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
A little Star Wars reference, I did I miss.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Thank you very much for that Lucy having there. Craig Evans,
Jim Rows sports Breeve. In just a couple of minutes,
I'm Scott Voor. He's Scott at KFAB dot com this
is the email address here back to Fremont.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
If you missed the news earlier.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
There was a walkout of students at Fremont High School
yesterday about two o'clock. Some of the students decided that
they needed to take that protest out.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
To the street.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
We're going to the street. Driver comes down the street
with a Trump flag. Whether coincidental or not, I don't know.
It shouldn't make any different. Students surrounded the car. The
driver decided I got to get out of here, and
in so doing, after there was a long standoff a
student protester, a girl, got knocked to the ground as

(18:39):
the vehicle vehicle shoved her out of the way. The
video I saw students helped her up. Looks like she's
going to be okay. I can't imagine that she enjoyed
getting hit by the car. I would not like to
get hit by a car at any speed. If you
don't want to have that happen, best not to impede traffic. Yeah,
you might want to use the sidewalk. Dennis says uninformed

(19:02):
youngsters being supervised or not by irresponsible adults, teachers and administrators.
The adults likely had prior notice of the protest, but
failed to nipp it in the bud nippot by announcing
suspensions or other disciplinary action for participating. And now we
have this dispatch from West Side High School. Dear WHS families,

(19:27):
we want to make you aware that a student led
walkout is being organized for Friday, February sixth, Friday week
from to day from two thirty to three o'clock. Right now,
the eighth period teacher is like, how comes during my class?
We're gonna do scarlet letter next Friday. Student organizers shared

(19:47):
this walkout as related to concerns about ICE. Does Ice
have anything to do with Westside High School?

Speaker 5 (19:54):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (19:55):
And there's also a nationwide shutdown planned for today, Friday,
January thirtieth. At this time, we have no indication that
this activity will impact west Side. The school will operate
a schedule today January thirtieth. We support and affirm students'
rights to free speech. Those who wish to participate in
the walkout must have parent permission and be excused from

(20:17):
class to two thirty. So, Jim, your kid comes to
you and says.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
Oh want walk out of class. I don't like what's
going on with Ice? Can you call me out early
so I can be a part of the protest.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Well, the first thing I would do is say, well,
you and I are going to have a civics test
right here. Let's talk about ice. Let's talk about what
ice is. Let's talk about what ice is doing. Tell
me what ice stands for. And it's a good way
to start. If you can actually tell me what ice
stands for. That's the first step. But you're gonna have
a ten question quiz and if you don't go ten
for ten, you're not protesting anything.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
How about that? Can you raise my kids because I'm not.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Send them my way? Baby, Lucy?

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Is there something Is there a cause or something in
your life that you're incredibly passionate about?

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Sure? I mean so many things that I'm passionate about.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
The word cake coming in free.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
I could not even list them all. Yes, I'm very passionate,
very very passionate.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Okay, So if you don't, if it's personal to you
and you don't want to tell us what cause you're
super super passionate about, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Oh you'd have to describe that, but go on.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
All right, But if let's say you have something, anything
in your head right now, you're dog why? Yes, Okay,
so you're passionate about dogs. Yes, And I'm wondering why
you're at work today.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Oh well, I wonder that myself so much.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Well, I ask because there are a lot of people
who are very passionate about this whole immigration thing and
Ice and all this stuff. There are businesses that are
going to shut down today because they're so passionate about
what Ice is doing in the streets of America. They're
going to walk off the job today. So they're passionate

(21:59):
about that. You're passionate about dogs. I'm wondering why you're
why if anyone's really really fired up about something, why
are you working right now?

Speaker 5 (22:09):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (22:10):
I guess I just didn't need the day off.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Potentially because not showing up to work or closing your
business down wouldn't have Jack shy Nola to do about
that cause about which you are passionate.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Look, we should all have the ability to protest, to
show our emotions on something as long as we're doing
it peacefully, and we should be allowed to do that.
I don't have to agree with it. You don't have
to agree with it.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
I'd rather agree with it, but go on.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Let's just presume that I don't know that it would
be I don't know that it's going to be a
productive for anything. Me staying home because I'm passionate about
dogs wouldn't be productive.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
It wouldn't been helping dogs.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
It wouldn't, he asked sarcastically. So then why in the
world are people shutting down their businesses. Several Omaha businesses
planned to close today as part of a national strike
protesting ICE. So let's say you shut down the Silelytown
Market Plant nursery in southeast Omaha. That's a little Italy

(23:15):
part of Omaha. Because the owner of that place, her
name is Ameilia, and she tolls First Alert six news.
She knows she's going to lose money by closing today,
but considers it important.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Quote.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
We are standing in solidarity and hopefully a national general
strike to impress upon the violence that we are seeing
by ICE on our own communities. Unquote. I'm not sure
how a nursery in South o closing down for one

(23:49):
day impacts anything, but your ability to allow people to
come pick up shrubs.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Well, it they're getting talked about. Their cause is getting
talked about. I applaud them for that, you've got a cause.
That's fantastic. I think we should all have a cause
to support.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
I don't know if you've guys ever heard of news before,
but the cause that they're talking about has been talked
about a lot in the news, yes, over the last
several days.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
But the other thing is the depth of the conversation.
If you were to sit down and this is not
meant to demean or mock high school kids, but if
you were to sit down with ten of those who
walked out into the street in Fremont yesterday afternoon and said,
let's talk about immigration and customs enforcement? Do you know
what that is? Well, we know what ICE is. Do

(24:38):
you know that ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
So let's just break down each of those words, one
at a time. Immigration, customs Enforcement. If you were to
sit there and visit with these young people about laws
and about following laws and enforcement of laws, that would
take a while because it would be a real learning

(24:59):
experience for them. That's number one. Number two, all of
the things that you've seen on social media, that you've
heard from your friends, or you've heard from the left
wing media or whatever platform you subscribe to every day
is probably ten percent accurate. You know, the stuff about
how ice agents are going into people's houses and yanking

(25:21):
guys out of showers and thrown them in the back
of black vans with a with a five year old
under each army with a five year old under each
arm and then putting them in cages and stuff like that.
All of that stuff that you've been told is happening,
isn't happening, has never happened.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
I only get on Facebook right now pretty much to
wish people a happy birthday. The first thing I see
on Facebook is something like yesterday, Jesus would have been
out in the street helping that woman that was shoved
by the ice agent.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
No, Jesus would have been following laws.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Jesus probably wouldn't have been spitting an ice agents and
kicking out tail lights.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
But maybe I don't know Jesus.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
I know that this is going to be a real
shock to the system. But for those of you who
prop up Jesus as the leader of this movement, you
should know that in the Bible, Jesus says follow laws
multiple times. In the Bible, Jesus says pay your taxes
multiple times. All right, so if you really want to

(26:20):
go there, you're gonna want to brush up on the
New Testament. Jesus also said for those who are thinking
about protesting by walking out of school today, Jesus said,
and I quote, don't be a fool, stay in school.
Unquote that or he'd say get your facts.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
Wait a minute, that might have been mister t It.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Was one of the two. And he'll say check your facts.
Fool too, Max your facts, fool.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
All right, we got traffic weather in a news update
coming up here in just a couple of minutes. Dan
Osborne is running for the US Senate as an independent
against Pete's Ricketts. Try that again, as an independent against Rickets,
Pete Ricketts. Pete's have Rickets for Pete's sake, Rickets, and
we'll talk Dan's Osborne coming up here at seven thirty
five on news Radio eleven ten KFAB. We have a

(27:06):
statement from Omaha City Councilman Brinker Harding, now the only
Republican in the second District congressional race leading to the
primary here to succeed Don Bacon in Nebraska's fight and
second as Brett Linstrom, the former Omaha state senator. This
morning has paused his campaign, seemingly dropping out of the race.

(27:28):
A statement from Harding says, I want to thank Brett
Linstrom for his years of public service and for running
a clean and positive campaign. Brett brought thoughtfulness and integrity
to this race, and our party is better for it.
I wish Brett and his family all the best and
look forward to working with him to elect Republicans up
and down the ballot. As a unified Republican team, we

(27:48):
are now in the strongest possible position to win n
e two and retain the House at from Brinker Harding
this morning. Now he's poised to a lot of people
think it's going to be John Cavanaugh, who he runs
against in November, but there's a Democratic primary too.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
I don't see how that goes.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
You don't you think the Democrats don't want a straight
white guy to represent them in Nebraska's second district campaign.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
I think this campaign is going to be so splintered
on the Democrat side. You've got the activists, those people
who will split the vote between John Cavanaugh and Crystal Rose.
And I believe the Denise Powell will be the Democrat nominee.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
All Right, you heard it here from Jim Rose, and
I warned, always do I warn't brinker Harding of that.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
I said, you need to worry. I warrened Jean stout
there about John Ewing two months before the primary, said
that's the one you have to worry about. They ignored me.
Bad mistake. I told brinker Harding, you need to worry
about Denise Powell, and he's saying you're onto something.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
I got another.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
I got another statement here, this one from Douglas County
Sheriff Aaron Hanson on what we've been talking about a
lot this morning, and that is the protest in Fremont
that left a student knocked to the ground by a
vehicle as that protest went out to the streets. Sheriff
Hansen says it would appear that the vehicle versus protester
incident in Fremont yesterday involved young people on both sides.

(29:11):
I've heard from people in Fremont that say it was
a student who was driving the vehicle. Adults, please take
this opportunity for reflection and hopefully pause, turn down the temperature.
Our kids are watching all of this, watching us. Our
kids emulate what we do. Our kids deserve better role
models on all sides. Don't drag our kids into our

(29:34):
adult mess. We must all strive to do better. It's
not that we disagree that matters, it's how we disagree.
Douglas County Sheriff Aaron Hanson, the state of Nebraska over
the last few years has gotten to know Dan Osborne.
And he's in another race here, this one in Nebraska
Senate race against Pete Ricketts. Had a good battle against

(29:55):
dev Fisher this last go around, and now it's Senator
Ricketts who voted last night with other Republicans and Democrats
to avoid a partial government shutdown. It might have a
couple of hours of shutdown, it goes back to the House.
But Dan, you are not enamored by that vote. Why not?

Speaker 5 (30:13):
Well, I would have.

Speaker 7 (30:14):
Voted with the seven Conservatives, you know, to basically separate
that funding because I think seventy five million dollars has
already been earmarked in the big beautiful bill for Department
Homeland Security, specifically Immigration Custom Enforcement. And you know, we

(30:34):
have one point eight trillion dollars in debt. For me,
it's about the money, right, and it's about that one
point eight trillion dollars in debt. You could argue is
a big reason for inflation. The cause of inflation, and
people are struggling. I know what the value is of
a dollar. My dad taught me that. He was a
Dodge County Conservative commissioner years ago, and you know, taught

(30:55):
me the value of a dollar. I get a paycheck
every week. I know how much comes in. I know
much goes out. And it's tough right now. And you
know the way our government is spending money, it's it's
out of control. So I think you know, come come November.
If you're if you're an old school can Nebraska conservative,
I think you got to vote the independent route because
Pete Ricketts, you know, he doesn't understand what it's like

(31:18):
to put Christmas on a credit card. He's a he's
a you know, he's a NEPO baby son of a billionaire,
no fault of his own. But you know, I think
when I approach any kind of legislation or policy, I'm
going to do so based off of my life experiences
of punching the clock and working for a living.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
Thing is though you oppose the working family's tax cut, Dan,
and that provided a lot of tax really for middle
class Americans and fifty billion dollars for rural hospitals, and
there are a few of them out there that are
going to need to vote for you to win. So
why would the working families tax cut not be some
you'd support?

Speaker 7 (31:52):
Well, I think I think what I would support a
working family's tax cut if the billionaires weren't getting the
lion's share, right, the ultra getting a line's share of
that tax cut. And quite frankly, it's not going to
help me out a whole lot. With the way the
inflation is rising versus stagnant paychecks, I would argue that

(32:12):
it's not really going to help people out when it
when it comes to, you know, if they need a
new automobile or shoot the price of beef right now.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yeah, but if you're a if you're a bartender, or if
you're a waitress, if you drive a taxi cab, no
tax on tips. I mean, that's free money the rest
of us have to pay on all of our income.
They don't. That's a working class, a segment of America's
working class. This bill provided for them. No other bill
provided for them. The tax credit for kids went up,

(32:42):
Seniors got another six thousand dollars in their personal exemption.
These are not billionaires, These arep of that does matter
to somebody.

Speaker 7 (32:49):
No, it absolutely does, and I agree with that part
of the bill. But I think again, I wouldn't have
had I couldn't get behind the lion's share of the
tax cuts going to folks who don't need it. And
you know, my wife been a waitress and working at
a sports bar and grill my daughter. Does you know,
I've worked for tips a big portion of my life.

(33:11):
I understand the value of no tax on tips. I think.
I don't know if you remember, but I was preaching
it before the Big Way, before the big beautiful bill.
And no tax on overtime too. I've lived my whole
life on working overtime. So but yeah, things, those things
are important. But again I fundamentally disagree with the lion's
share going to the uber Ridge.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
We've been talking to Dan Osborne since you were walking
to picket line outside of Kellogg's and then certainly in
that race against Fisher. Now Ricket's Dan Osborne with us
here on Nebraska's Morning News. A lot of the people
that I see, what they're interested in right now is
what's going on in the streets of America. A lot
of people have a lot of strong feelings about ICE.
What are your things thoughts on that issue?

Speaker 7 (33:53):
No, I think you know what where most people land
that I talk to every day is they fundamentally agree
with the mission of ICE.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
Right.

Speaker 7 (34:03):
The mission of immigration is to enforce the laws of
the land. If you don't like the laws of the land,
the fight should be in Congress to get some immigration reform,
some meaningful immigration reform that works for everybody, whether that's
holding employers accountable for sponsoring their workers. I mean, there's
a multitude of ways that you can help fix immigration.

(34:24):
That's where the I think the fight should lie. And
we haven't had any meaningful immigration in this country since
I've been alive. Right, it just hasn't happened. So you
have to ask yourself why. And I think it's because
it's the corporations that benefit from exploiting the labor, paying
them next to nothing and enriching themselves. Those are the
folks that can afford to buy a senator or a congressman.

(34:47):
I don't take corporate pack money. I don't want to
be a part of that world. I just know I
have over thirty thousand individual donors my campaign's powered by
the people. The way this was all meant to be
a government buying for the people, I feel like this
is a government for the one percent and you know
the corporations right now, And I think that's so campaign

(35:10):
finance reform, if you circle it all the way back,
I think that's the most important issue of our time.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Our guest in the studio for a few more minutes
is Senate candidate Dan Osborne, Independent. Last time in the
race against Republican dev Fisher, where you came up short,
a lot closer and then a lot of people thought
you would get you didn't have the support of the
state Democrat party. You certainly didn't have it from the Republicans,
and now without a candidate of their own, the Democrats

(35:35):
are like, we like this guy. The accusation last time
was you were getting a lot of donor money from Democrats,
especially East Coast Democrats. The accusation is Dan Osborne is
really a Democrat but knows he can't get elected in
the state of Nebraska as a Democrat, so he's a
fake Independent. Please respond, Yeah, Well, the fact.

Speaker 7 (35:55):
Of the matter is, if you look at the voter
file going back, I think it goes back twenty years,
is all you could find. I've been a registered independent
from the time I could vote. I've never bought into
the fact that I have to accept set of values
over here reject the other set on the other side.

Speaker 5 (36:09):
To be a part of a party.

Speaker 7 (36:11):
I think there's pieces and parts from both sides that
you know, can help continue to move this country forward
that people should be adopting. Whether it's being a conservative
fiscal person or if you're on the other side, maybe
a social issue here and there that you agree with
that the other side doesn't agree with it.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
I don't get that.

Speaker 7 (36:31):
But the fact of the matter is is the money again,
it goes back. I've raised over two million dollars this
cycle and again thirty thousand individual donors. Now, whether those
whether those donors live in Omaha or whether they live
in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh or Seattle. You know, this is

(36:52):
a nationwide race. We've gotten a lot of nationwide coverage.
And you know we open I open envelopes all day
long with small dollars and I'm ten dollars, fifteen dollars
people who like the message, and you know, the overall
message is is we have to stop this consolidation in
our industries, whether it's ag or healthcare, I mean in
every facet of our life.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
Youth sports is.

Speaker 7 (37:15):
You know, getting consolidated now and people are making a
ton of money off of it. And I think, you know,
that's something that I want to go into Washington, DC
and I want to fight for.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Why are you using a consulting firm called the Fight Agency,
which most recently is responsible for getting Zorroon Mandani elected
mayor of New York City. And when you have an
opportunity to consult with other political minds, you know you
got to pick and choose who they are, because this
is one of the things that makes people think you're
a communist when you deal with organizations that are very

(37:48):
close to communist beliefs. To say nothing of the fact
that one of their leading spokespeople believes in defunding police.

Speaker 7 (37:55):
Right well, I certainly don't believe in defunding police. I
want to make that clear right now. I am pro
law enforcement. You know, they have a mission and that's
to keep us safe, to protect and service right on
their cars. Right as far as Fight Agency goes, First
of all, I don't pay attention to New York politics.
I don't care what happens in New York. I live

(38:15):
in Nebraska, and this is my concern is here. But
as far as Fight Agencies concerned, they make ads and
they make darn good ads. And I was working with
Fight Agency before Mondami in New York, actually after Fetterman
they got Fetterment elected. I hire them because there it
was down to three agencies and they had the best ads.

(38:40):
But they don't formulate my message. All they do is
film ads, plain and simple, and they do darn good ones.
So like last cycle when I was cutting TVs in
half with the blowtorch, that was my idea, right that
was All of these are my ideas, and they just
bring them to life.

Speaker 5 (38:54):
That's all they do.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Is a lot of Republicans like you. They see you
as kind of a Trump like figure in a someone
who is getting in here and disrupting politics and state
of Nebraska. A lot of Democrats might be inclined to
like you because you're not a Republican. But you don't
come out and call Trump and his gestapo Hitler and
Nazis and all the rest of that stuff. How do
you then warm up Democrats when you say things like,

(39:17):
I don't want to defend law a defund law enforcement.
And I don't think Trump is hitler because there's a
big block of people on that side of the political
spectrum who think other than that.

Speaker 7 (39:26):
Sure, you know, the whole idea when I set out
to do this is to bring people together. You could
drive around any town, Nebraska in twenty twenty four and
you could see Osborne signs next to Trump signs, and
then drive down the block and see Osborne signs next
to Harris signs. It's the overarching message again of trying
to make life more affordable for people through creating an

(39:50):
economic environment that favors competition, because right now there's not
a lot of competition in industry.

Speaker 5 (39:56):
So that's the message.

Speaker 7 (39:57):
When I go out door knocking, I knock. If there's
a Trump flag, I go and knock on their door
because I want to understand them and I want to
talk to them. And most people, whether they're on the
left or on the right, agree on a lot more
than we think. But mostly it's people fiercely want to
defend their children and they love their family.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
Why didn't you run for governor? A governor can have
a lot bigger impact on the cost of property, casually, insurance,
property taxes, health care, insurance, health and healthcare, and Nebraska
than one of one hundred senators who wake up every
morning and think they ought to be president.

Speaker 7 (40:30):
Yeah, well, I think you're onto something right there, because
I'm getting killed on my taxes.

Speaker 5 (40:35):
I know that for a fact.

Speaker 7 (40:37):
It's and it's tough, but I think ultimately, you know,
the US Senate seat is important to me because I
do think I can go in and make a difference.
I want to shake it up, like you mentioned that.
That's why people who voted for Trump like me also
because I am trying to buck the establishment and challenge

(40:57):
the establishment. I'm not going to caucus with either party
because again, it needs to be challenged because this two
party doom loop that we're in isn't working for anybody.
Campaign website Osborne for Senate dot Com.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
And your opponent in this race, Senator Pete Rickets, will
be on the program Tuesday morning, nine thirty five right
here on eleven ten KFAB. That's Dan Osborne. Always good
to talk to you, Thank you very much for coming in.
Thanks guys, just kind of a rundown on what we've
been dealing with Just this morning, the President has announced
that Kevin Walsh will be the replacement for Jerome Powell

(41:31):
as the FED chairman. That's Kevin Walsh wash Walsh, at
least that's how some people will spell it.

Speaker 5 (41:41):
It is with an R. By the way, if he
does his job right, no one will have any idea
who he is.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
We also have been talking about the fact that Brett Linstrom,
the former Omaha state senator who is vying for the
Republican nomination in Nebraska's second congressional district Grace Don Bacon
leaving brinker Harding Brett Linstrom, the Republicans who were battling
to try and replace him get out of that primary.
Lenstrom has suspended his campaign, seemingly dropping out of the race.

(42:12):
He said it's because he doesn't like the political climate.
Political climate existed when he decided to get into this race.
He's aware of the political climate. I imagine this comes
down to funding and polling. Doesn't discount the fact that
Brett Linstrom is a super, super good guy. I would
say the same thing about brinker Harding. He said as

(42:33):
much in his statement, wishing Brett Linstrom the best and
working with him to get Republicans elected all over the place.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
He is a good guy and he's a thoughtful guy. Politically,
he took some big risks when he bucked Pete Ricketts
on the veto override regarding the death penalty. It's one
thing to say I don't believe in the death penalty
and vote against it, but when you vote against a
veto override, it's political and that really hurt him. His
fundraising was pretty powerful when he ran for governor four

(43:01):
years ago, but it was fairly centered on a few folks.
He didn't have widespread support. He did okay. He didn't
do spectacularly well, but he did okay. That was a
really crowded race. It was with some high dollar competitors.
Both Charles Herbster and Jim Pilon did a lot of
their own self funding. They're both very, very wealthy guys.

(43:22):
But sometimes you got to pick your spots. And you know,
the legislature is a very challenging job. You get paid nothing,
but you work full time, and not just during the session,
You're working all the time. But is there another gig
out there for Brett if he wants to be in politics?
And the answer is, I don't know. I mean, there
aren't a lot of high profile gigs in the state

(43:44):
of Nebraska. You got your federal offices, you got the
governor's office. That's about it. Okay, it's important to be
a state senator. But I just wonder, because of where
he is in his station in life and his kids,
if this is a good use of his time. And
I would say this is a good move for you, Brett,
because this means you're not going to be distracted by

(44:05):
a the business of politics and b the demands on
your time, which are dramatic.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
We had Senate candidate Dan Osborne here in the studio
with us in the last hour. He's running against Pete Ricketts.
We got this via the talkback. Mike, Hi, this is
Vince and Lincoln. I'd like mister Osborne to answer this question.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
If he's elected, how long will he be before he
introduces a bill to seize all our properties?

Speaker 5 (44:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
I don't think Dan Osborne is going to introduce a
bill to seize all of your properties. I think that
they might just do it. I mean, if you're going
to seize property, just do it. I don't introduce a bill. Yeah,
this Senate has voted on a bill they voted up
a bill to seize everyone's property. Has been signed by
the president right now, President Mom Donnie has signed the
bill and it's we're seasing all your property. Don Lemon

(45:00):
has been seized. He went into that church of Minneapolis,
went back home to Los Angeles. They got him in
Los Angeles. I didn't know why they waited so long.
That was a few weeks ago. So that's also happened
this morning. There's a lot going on, and we had
that issue in Fremont where a student driving a car
with a Trump flag was surrounded by students who were
protesting Trump and Ice. He hit one of his fellow students.

(45:22):
They're back in class today together. How's that kinda go.
We got a lot to deal with here this morning.

Speaker 4 (45:29):
Yeah, we got you smudge the front of my car
with your body. What are you gonna do about that?

Speaker 2 (45:33):
You're gonna eat all your McNuggets. Yeah, you hit me
with your car. Give me a McNugget, Give me a tot. Traffic,
weather and news update. John Decker was in that White
House Cabinet meeting yesterday and he joins us next year
and eleven ten KFA be welcoming Now News Radio eleven
ten kfab White House correspondent John Decker, who was there
at the cabinet meeting yesterday. This one was a lot

(45:54):
shorter because the President said the last one got boring
and went on too long. What is your assessment of
what we learned yesterday in this cabinet meeting? Oh my gosh, sorry,
I we got all our wires crossed. We got Do
you still want to talk to me about We talk

(46:17):
about Don Lemon too, by the way, Yo, that's fine. Sorry,
I wires got crossed. That's fine. This is Rory O'Neill.

Speaker 5 (46:26):
All right.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Uh here, we'll start the whole thing over. Let's see
here there we go. Hey, it's the eleven hen game.
Our national correspondent Roy O'Neill is here, and sorry about that.
I thought we had John set up here. I must
have done something wrong that that will happen just all
the time. Rory O'Neill here with us.

Speaker 5 (46:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
We were just responding to that news that Don Lemon
was picked up in Los Angeles. This is after we
went into that church live streaming the protesters going up
there in Minneapolis.

Speaker 5 (46:58):
Rory, what the heck?

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Yeah, we know that he and one other journalist have
been arrested. Lemon was taken into custody in Los Angeles
around eleven o'clock last night. Now, we haven't seen the
paperwork specifically outlining the accusations. This case is interesting, though,
because a magistrate, a local magistrate there in Minnesota, had
already told the Justice Department, don't you arrest Don Lemon

(47:19):
on this. He was just doing his job as an observer.
But maybe they presented this case to a grand jury
got something different. Again. We're sort of waiting for the
paperwork to come through to see if this is even
related to this Minnesota case. Not exactly sure that's what
we suspect, But look, Don Lemon has been a thorn
in the President's side for a long long time now,

(47:41):
and let's see what the charge is. Later today, it.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Looked like the President and Senator Schumer had kind of
struck a deal that might avert a partial government shutdown.
That's looking like it's getting frayed right now.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
Is that your assessment as well? Idiots?

Speaker 3 (48:00):
And one of the issues is Senator Lindsey Graham from
South Carolina. In the Big Beautiful Bill last year, Senator
Graham's tucked in a provision that says senators who had
their phone records reviewed by the Special Council Jack Smith
in the January sixth investigation and weren't notified about that.
Those senators, according to this now law, could go and

(48:21):
sue the government potentially for millions of dollars for conducting
those investigations. So the House just put in a provision
saying we're going to x that out, and that provision
is in this bill that is now being disputed. So
we were supposed to vote on these six bills last night.
Five of them fund the government through the end of

(48:42):
the fiscal year, one on homeland security just for a
couple of weeks while they address other issues. But you
need unanimous consent. They don't have it. Graham is upset
about the House stripping out his ability to sue over
the phone record search. When the Senate reconvens in about
ninety minutes, let's see if a wants to change his mind.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Right, even if they get it all ironed out today,
even if they get it all figured out here, if
it ends up getting kicked back to the House, there
will at least be a partial government shutdown until the
House does something about this, But do we have any
more clarification of what a partial government shutdown looks like
this time around. It's not like what we dealt with

(49:21):
last fall exactly.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
And look, a lot of these agencies got a lot
of money with the big beautiful bill, and a lot
of them have the funding they need, so they can
sort of fudget for a few days and let the
accountants worry about it. I think that's in practical terms,
that's what it's going to look like. Let's see again
how Graham wants to insist on this provision being changed.
But look, the House is out of session. They're not

(49:44):
even there, so they have to go through the bomb
cyclone to come back, and then when they do get back,
there's no guarantee they're all going to be on the
same page on some of these provisions.

Speaker 5 (49:54):
You know what, I'm glad we had you and not
John Decker today.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
Ah, although John has one better hair, Jo, you got hair.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
It's all good, Rory. You're always welcome here. You can
wheel yourself onto the show anytime you want. Fourth by way,
have a great weekend, Rory O'Neil, that's sorry. Eleven to
ten kf Abe, National Corresponding.

Speaker 5 (50:15):
Knock off now and take the next two days off.

Speaker 6 (50:17):
I hello, test one too, one two three four five
one two one two three four five.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
Who are these people?

Speaker 6 (50:23):
These fricking people?

Speaker 5 (50:24):
Why are they here?

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast.

Speaker 5 (50:28):
Oh guess what day it is?

Speaker 3 (50:31):
Now?

Speaker 5 (50:32):
I can say.

Speaker 8 (50:35):
I got one hundred dollars walking in my beautiful I
know what I'll say that Barby's burning, I do my
boggetin and do my skim.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
Come on in morning, I'll be brown cock.

Speaker 5 (50:49):
I see find Friday.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
I'm freeing here.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
I've done my motor running again.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
Find forget nor time.

Speaker 5 (51:04):
Yeah, put a child here?

Speaker 1 (51:08):
That what over there?

Speaker 4 (51:11):
How about that for me?

Speaker 5 (51:12):
I'm a man.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
A little girl needs her daddy.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
What's up?

Speaker 5 (51:15):
I don't really have to believe in this stuff? Do
ill that got a shut up?

Speaker 3 (51:18):
That got a shut it?

Speaker 8 (51:20):
I mean, I'm gonna be hurting my head in and
the ice June the army wondering if I never said
Wednesday Anna thirty armies slowly tunedy Friday.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
I'll be in up my moner up.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Find that Friday.

Speaker 8 (51:36):
I'm freaking again.

Speaker 5 (51:37):
I got my motor running bow again.

Speaker 7 (51:40):
All right from the time out of control forget.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
She do it? I got my mother running bow lady again.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Everybody got time for getting again? That sounds fight you
or should I do a better job?

Speaker 5 (52:08):
There we go. It's Friday.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Thank you so much for being with us here on
Nebraska's Morning News with Jim Rose, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans,
and always at least the Specter of Gary Sadlemeyer. I
am Scott Vorhees. The Specter actually popped in here yesterday
about this time. Good to see Gary.

Speaker 5 (52:27):
He's welcome here. Anytime we tell him that, he's.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
Like, he goes, I want to work. What work are
you doing?

Speaker 2 (52:36):
If you missed that yesterday or any part of the show.
Alleged highlights of this program are lumped together in the
podcast under Nebraska's Morning News at kfab dot com. You
can find the whole program up there. Now after the show,
got some emails here people demanding that you respond to somethings. First,

(52:57):
il han Omar you you just went ahead and declared
that it was faked.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
It was.

Speaker 5 (53:04):
It was staged, completely staged. She knew the guy.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
They were best friends, maybe another one of her brothers.
And yeah, she she told the guy like, all right,
I'm gonna say this and you come up and squirt
me with the apple cider. Well, he's he's been taken
into disgustody now the Justice Department. He's already in custody.
But the Justice Department hope so charge this guy with

(53:27):
forcibly assaulting and intimidating Minnesota Congressman Ilhan Omar when she
was performing her official duties at a town hall in Minneapolis.
He also faces Minnesota charges of assault and making violent threats.
So people are like, so Jim Rose said, this is
all fake and stage. How come he's got all these

(53:50):
charges here from the Justice Department. I hope he gets charged.
Look at what happened, But it's all planned.

Speaker 5 (53:56):
Now.

Speaker 4 (53:56):
Check back in a month and see if he's still
in jail, or if he's got a court date, or
if somehow the charges got dropped or somehow they were
pled down to something like jaywalking. That's what's gonna happen here.
They're going to figure that the news cycle will forget
about this in a couple of days, maybe three, four
days a week or two, and then he'll walk away

(54:17):
and it'll all be forgotten because she'll say, ah, you know.
I don't want to pursue this. You know, this is
part of the challenge of being an elected representative. And
nobody was hurt and I wasn't hurt. This is what's
gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (54:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
I'm never gonna do jail time, He's never gonna might
have to pay a fine in George Soros's organization will
pay that.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Yeah, this guy's been posting pro Trump, anti Omar Biden
stuff for years.

Speaker 5 (54:42):
I don't think.

Speaker 4 (54:43):
Perfect candidate to do this.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
This isn't a Jesse small Ed or Jesse Somalia thing.
Someone here in the inbox called her the other day.
I don't think, but Jim Rose knows, and I don't
want to argue with you.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
That's what I looked at the video. I looked at
the behavior of the two. Compare that to any other
occasion when somebody threatens them.

Speaker 5 (55:04):
It was not fake.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
Somebody threatens an elected official or some celebrity in a
public place, her reaction is very different than most reactions.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
Now, I'm curious in your thoughts on this. Jason didn't
demand you you answer this, but I can't wait to
ask Jim's thoughts on this. Jason email Scott at kfab
dot com. Zonker's custom woods Inbox says, I hate political correctness.
Trump is not politically correct now. This has garnered him
enemies far and wide, because I think the majority of
the people in this country and maybe the world, would

(55:35):
rather be lied to nicely like Obama would do, than
told the truth bluntly like Trump does. It's a simple
lack of critical thinking ability. I support Trump for his actions,
just like I supported Bo Polini. I'm curious if you
guys see any similarity between the two. Our country has
become too has become too feminized. As from Jason, do

(55:57):
you see similarities between President Trump and coach Polini?

Speaker 4 (56:00):
Well, from a personality standpoint, yeah, there's some Bo was
not politically correct, no doubt about that. Although he didn't
say insulting things publicly very often, only two reporters well,
and he really actually didn't do that if you go
back and look at his most contentious moments with reporters.
The most famous, of course, is that one on one

(56:23):
challenge with Dirk Chadelay of the World Herald after the
Ohio State Game. But you know, he didn't go out
of his way to insult people. He didn't go out
of his way to make fun of people, not bow Now.
On the sidelines, he was a wild man, and I
think that actually hurt his ball club when he would
jump up and down and go crazy and lose it
on either players or the officials. I think that that

(56:44):
was very negative for the guys because they will follow
their coach. They will follow. Look at Fred Hoiberg. Look
at how he behaves on the sideline, unflappable, unemotional. He
keeps his poise, keeps his discipline, and the kids reflect that. Conversely,
a coach that's jumping up and down, wild running around,
yelling and screaming, throwing his head set around, the kids
follow that guy too.

Speaker 5 (57:05):
Is Trump hurting his team?

Speaker 4 (57:07):
Uh, He's not hurting his team right now as much
as Christy Noman Stephen Miller are hurting his team. When
they make declarative statements about ice investigations and shootings, and
they start making accusations about individuals they don't know anything about.
That hurts Trump's team.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
It's all fun and games when they bust out the fiddles,
and we're gonna we're gonna talk about them both this week,
both game and parks.

Speaker 5 (57:32):
Joo booms and.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
As Greg Wagner joins Nebraska's morning news here on news
radio eleven ten kfa B, what's going on, Greg Wagner,
all kinds of things.

Speaker 5 (57:48):
Yeah, so we've have some ice. Now, we've got ice.
We've got it. We've got enough ice.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
I don't know if next week at this time we'll
be saying that ice fishing is gonna be decent. We're
gonna be in the four maybe near fifty in a
few days.

Speaker 9 (58:02):
Ice for a while yet, we had widespread ice for
ice fishing, my friend, But we still have dangerous spots.
I'm not just saying that on all these lakes like
Prairie Queen around the dam there's some open water. I mean,
you've got dangerous spots. So you got to be careful.
This isn't Minnesota, Scottie, where you're driving your big suv

(58:23):
on a lake.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
You you've seen those guys have to do the ice run,
taking a semi eighteen wheeler across I sliding all over
the place.

Speaker 5 (58:33):
Man's that's yeah, So we've got ice. Don't do that, Yeah,
don't do that at all. We've got ice, got good catch.

Speaker 9 (58:40):
Reports from Cunningham Lake, Flannagan Lake everybody using waxworms, catching bluegill, crappie,
the usual game, fish suspects or water. So a lot
of holes being drilled. Watch out for the ankle breakers.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Yes, what about that which people might be looking to
get that has feathers on it? Last stretch today and
tomorrow For rooster, pheasant hunting, quail hunting, grouse hunting in Nebraska,
hunt the afternoons gonna be your best bet. It's gonna
be chilly out there, but hunt the afternoon hours. That's
when you know the birds are gonna be out and about.

(59:18):
They're gonna be probably doing some late afternoon feeding.

Speaker 5 (59:21):
And you know, we still have some.

Speaker 9 (59:22):
Goose hunting along the Platte River and they're gonna have
wind today, So that's what the goose hunters need. So
that's a good thing.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
So get out Sunday.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
A little bit of snow here by Sunday morning, but
up into the forties by Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 5 (59:37):
It'd be a good day to get out. Good day
to get out.

Speaker 9 (59:39):
You know, do you take advantage of any of these
days or parts of days where you have nice, warmer
winter weather. Sunday afternoon looks really good the grounds to
our state parks are all open for all kinds of
outdoor recreation. Going to bring your own stuff, but pretty
neat deal. Yeah, let's take advantage of this nice weather

(01:00:01):
when we get it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
Did I hear you say fifty?

Speaker 9 (01:00:03):
Maybe Wednesday?

Speaker 5 (01:00:05):
At this point?

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
Well, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday are kind of looking at you. Now,
that might be revised a little bit, but it could
be a few degrees up or down. It's not going
to be forty below. Pretty confidentday three on Sunday, forty
on Monday and Tuesday.

Speaker 5 (01:00:19):
And as I said, Thursday up around fifty.

Speaker 4 (01:00:22):
So what are you risky now that far out?

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Hey, I'm telling you what the Weather Service says. They're
the Weather Service. They do the service of weather. What
if people wanted to get in this weekend? What's going
on in our state parks and Valentine's coming up?

Speaker 5 (01:00:34):
Yeah, you know we need to pass along.

Speaker 9 (01:00:37):
We've got cabin rentals available, we have weekday discounts Sundays
through Thursdays excluding the holidays. Need to pass that along.
And we have Valentine specials. We're talking lodging meals, maybe
a little flower action. We might provide some firewood. Really,
I'm looking at Jim Rose right now.

Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
Wow, this is Rose.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Yeah, he needs he needs Valentine's action more than anyone
I know, and this may not be a bad idea. Finally,
on the outdoor bulletin board, Greg, Well, we have coyotes
that are being seen.

Speaker 9 (01:01:09):
They're breeding right now, very active, howling, moving around and
so no prohibitive regulations.

Speaker 5 (01:01:15):
By the way on the coyotes.

Speaker 9 (01:01:16):
So lot of bald eagles and waterfowl in the area.
And the groundhog Groundhog Day coming up. Yes, groundhogs mostly
they're hibernating. The males might be out looking for a
girlfriend maybe with this warmer weather next week, but by
and large they're they're hybridating. They pull that little rat
out of its cave. Just after six o'clock a MAHA time,

(01:01:39):
Monday morning, we've got eleven to ten kfab Junior Cup
Reporter Matt Innis on the scene of punks to Tony,
they're a guy of update just after six Monday on
Groundhog Day.

Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
Greg Wagner, you man have a great weekend. Two