February 16, 2026 • 36 mins
And FICTIONAL President's Day! We also accuse Gov. Newsom of "treason light," look at the latest "woke garbage" that has upset Nebraska's governor, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
With Lucy Chavin, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, I'm Scott Voorhees.
Great to have you with us here on this Monday morning.
This is Nebraska's Morning News on this President's Day. Do
we need to do the standard who's the best worst president?
Do you have a favorite and least favorite president? I
think the worst president of all time is outside the
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boundaries of my lifetime. I was not born yet to
revel in the Great Society days launched by President Lyndon
Baines Johnson, who, due to the welfare state he put up,
he erected in this country that still thrives today. I
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think LBJ is the worst president of all time. My
favorite president of all time is the one I grew
up with, President Ronald W.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Reagan.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Jim Well, I think you kind of probably have to
separate him based on eras. I think Abraham Lincoln is
the greatest president of all time because he was president
during the Civil War.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It was a little bit of a dust up.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That cost about eight hundred thousand lives and nearly destroyed
the country.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Thank you ilhan Omar, who described nine to eleven as
some people did something. You just described the Civil War
as quote, a little bit of a dust up.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah unquote.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
That little dust up was quite a news event of
the day. Yeah, so we talked about it here on KFAB.
So for my money, Abraham Lincoln is number one. Some
would say, what's got to be George Washington, because it
wasn't for George Washington, we would have.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Had Abraham Lincoln. Today is his birthday.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
If you look at pure accomplishments, things that mattered in
the country and that have made a difference in the country. Again, Lincoln,
he was president when the slaves were freed. At the
same time, it was not a good deal for him. Yeah, okay,
you're free now, but your life is about to get
a lot worse.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, now what do you do? And he made that.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Clear, he said, this frees them, but this is not
going to make their lives any better. In fact, probably
gonna make it worse than it was for another one
hundred years. But if you look at pure accomplishments, Scott
Lbj's one of them. Yes, social programs are very arguable today,
but he was also the president of the civil rights
legislation was passed, and we look at we laugh at
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people like Chuck Schumer today who talk about Jim Crow
two point zero, Chuck Schumer doesn't know what he's talking about,
or Chuck Schumer's doing it just to appeal to his base.
But there really were serious Jim Crow laws in this
country that prohibited black people from voting and they did
not have a voice in government. They were victimized by it,
but they had no voice in it. So he was
certainly President Richard Nixon President LBJ.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Though he signed it. It was started by just.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Started by Kennedy, but it was stuck in the Senate.
It was Johnson who got it done.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, LBJ. Well he was he didn't want that.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, he was the bold guard, that old guard Democrat Party,
which is where the KKK came from. There's some there's
some argument for that, but you've got to read a
lot of history and he I don't think he did
it because he necessarily loved black people. I think he
did it to get votes for the Democrat Party. He
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knew that for the next one hundred years, if we
did this, black folks in this country will be locked
up by the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And largely they have been.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
And I'm not sure why, because it hadn't been for
Republicans like Henry Stinson that this bill never would have passed.
Richard Nixon, for his time in office, was extremely impactful.
Now a lot of people say, yeah, but he was
a bad guy. Yeah, and he probably was. And if
you listen to the White House tapes, he was a
rotten guy. But he got the Environmental Protection Agency passed,
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he got Titled nine passed, he ended the draft. There
was a lot of stuff that he got done. Teddy
Roosevelt got a lot of stuff done. So you know,
you look at it if you just check off a
list of things that they were able to do in
their time. There FDR Social Security, although I would tell
you that his policies actually prolonged the depression because of
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his approach to the money subblyet. He tried to pack
the Supreme Court in a few other things. But you
go back and look at Andrew Jackson. He was the
last president to oversee a bounus budget. Andrew Jackson, that's
one of the greatest presidents of all time right there.
He wrote, I wrote a check budget. He wrote a
check to pay off the government's debts, so we were
out of debt.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
When Andrew Jackson was president, he the last week.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
If not for President Andrew Jackson, we go right back
to being a colony.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
He won the Battle of New Orleans, which was the
turning point in the War of eighteen twelve. That guy
my favorite president based on history, and I was born
with John F. Kennedy was president, I guess I should
be loyal to him. My favorite president was Harry Truman.
What Harry Truman inherited and what Harry Truman did as president,
to me is really one of the great statesmanlike behaviors
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in the history of the White House, to say nothing
of his accomplishments the war in Korea, and he stood
up for uh the the blocking of the advance of communism,
but he integrated the United States Army, which was pretty
ballsy back in those days. And of course he ended
World War Two with a momentous decision to drop two
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atomic bombs on Japan. I think Harry Truman was one
of the really great presidents of our time, maybe of
all time.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And went right back to Missouri and just basically so
that's it went back to his life.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That's if you've not visited the Truman Library and independents Missouri,
Kansas City suburb.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It is very, very critical. Lucy.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You've often said your favorite president of all time is
Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Why is that?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Well, it was until just putting.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
In her mouth Carter Biden. Who do you think? Who's
your favorite president? Carter Biden? I'm not even well.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I think the most answer a question. You know, he
doesn't want to engage in this discussion.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
She does a favorite president?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, this is a very is he answer? No, hands down?
The greatest president Jed Bartlett a you.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Know what, from the West Wing. He was perfect fictional president.
Everything he touched.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I agree with you. Yeah, he was the best fictional president. Absolutely.
That's Martin president.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
The most unco the most uncommonly decent president we ever
had was Jerry Ford.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
His vice president that was Tim Matheson. Mostly I think
that switched up a little bit. But yeah, President Jed
Bartlett West Wing best fictional president of all no doubt.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
And he gave great speeches that were written by Sam Seaborn,
better known as.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Does he is Hot? Sorry? The hot still still is.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Here's a good question for you. Does is President Bartlett
from the West Wing? Is he a Democrat who gets
elected with today's Democratic Party. No, no, yeah, I all right,
quick quick answer. I had a few people email and say, Dave,
this is the guy who wasn't supposed to be president.
I've never seen that movie. I probably need to see that.
That's Kevin Klein.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Love that one.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I've heard it's pretty good. You know, there are a
lot of movies in that vein of someone who just
kind of ends up president. I think the Americans John
Goodman and Robin Williams did one. But yeah, an American
president that was Michael Douglas. That was pretty good. I've
seen that one, and Greg emails says, come on, no contest,
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it's President James Marshall. He's kicking butt on Air Force one. Yeah,
get off my plane.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
In that one, Washington has fallen or something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Oh well, well, Morgan Freeman played the president one movie
in one well movies, but the one that Lucy's referencing,
that's Jamie Jamie Fox with.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I don't remember the name of the movie, but I
only saw that here in the last couple of years
and thought, this is really good. That's Jamie Fox and
Channing Tatum is the guy kind of guarding the president and.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Weren't they like secret Service agents or something. Jenny Tatum was, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Well, and Morgan Freeman played the president in the Sun
of All Fears.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
White, White House Down, White House Down. Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Thinking, you know, I'd like to have Morgan Freeman be president. Absolutely,
he was president when a nuclear bomb went off in
a coke machine in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That that tests you.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That was a bad day for America. Yeah, it was president.
What's his face from Independence Day? Bill Pullman. He gave
maybe one of the best speeches of any president, fictional
or real. Today we celebrate our Independence Day. Pretty good
impersonation of Yeah. I think he made a great president.
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It's hard to day we beat the aliens. Of course
that wasn't due to him. That was Randy Quaid. Sure,
the drunken crop dust. But still he gets to be president.
We beat back the aliens, so that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Hard playing the president. But nobody, nobody touted like Martin Sheen. So,
I mean, every day people just wanted, we wanted Jed
Bartlett to be president. Couldn't we get him to be president? Now?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That was an old guard Democrat wet dream having had,
you know, Martin Sheen in there and in when that
show started, that was supposed to be a Rob Lowe show.
It was kind of surrounding his character, everyone else kind
of coming in out of his life, and Martin Sheen
was going to be a very very small part of
that that show West Wing, and then all the other
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characters suddenly got more interesting, Bradley Whitford, Josh Lyman especially,
and it was just such a such a such a
good show.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well it brilliant.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, they did more and more for President Bartlett and
the rest of those characters.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But probly did a lot for the presidency.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Local passing of note here in Omaha, Jim, you're a
man about town. Tell me about Mike Yanny.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well, he was probably one of Omaha's leading citizens, if
not one of Nebraska's most, really respected and honored philanthropists.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
From Carnie, Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Self made guy, did very very well in real estate
and banking and investment banking, and then committed most of
the last third of his life to philanthropy, big philanthropy,
and if you look at the development of the University
of Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC and the entire University
medical structure, it's largely the result of Mike Ynny. He
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not only donated a sizable amount, but he accessed big,
big money by other like minded philanthropists.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
He just passed away, Yeah, I just passed away here
at the age of either ninety two or ninety three
two and in which TV station reporting you believe. But
the guy started what ended up being Burlington Capital, r
This is a big investment firm, everything from residence halls
and apartment complexes, especially like students, low income and military
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throughout the country. That's just one of the things that
Burlington Capital was a part of. He was if there's
something happening somewhere on the globe, chances are Burlington Capital
probably had a hand in it. But it was a
company first called America First Companies, and it was founded
by mister Yanni, and it was designed to promote capitalism
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and especially in the emerging post communist Russia.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
So yeah, he was all over the world.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
He was respected by heads of state in many countries
when he would travel. The United States Department of State
was aware of it. He met with presidents and kings
and sultans and chikhs all over the world. And it
was to promote not only Nebraska, but to promote capitalism,
and so he was a great American in that way.
But he was truly an icon, and he was truly
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a leader and a mentor for the philanthropic movement. And
Buffett has been very, very outworn in his approach to philanthropy.
He believes philanthropy should have a capitalist tinge to it.
In other words, give money to generate jobs, generate economic development.
And Mike Yanny really wrapped his arms around that. But
he was also very engaged in metropolitan community college. He
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was supportive of at risk youth. He really believed that
the states should work hard to assist in the development
of young people.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So it's a huge loss. I got to know mister
Yanny very well.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I saw him probably once or twice every month or
two with a visit to his office downtown, and it
was a great experience for me, and I found that
to be a very very rare and wonderful privilege that
so many didn't have a chance to have. But I've
always believed this about philanthropy. Scott and I think great
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philanthropists like Walter Scott and Dick Holland and Buffett and
others here in Omaha, Well would say the same thing.
It only works if the next generation buys in. And
Mike Yanny, with Walter and with Bruce l Artson and
some others really worked hard. Al Anderson really worked hard
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to teach the next generation about the value of big
philanthropy accessing great wealth, some of it yours, some of
it somebody else's to make an impact in the community.
And he was a great mentor to the next generation
of philanthropists. So if we have success in the next
generation of Omahan's who do big projects like the previous
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generation has, it's because of Mike Yanny.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And he had the ear of influential Nebraska politicians. Among
those celebrating his life Governor Pillen, former governor now Senator
Pete Ricketts as well. Mike Yanny gone at the age
of ninety two, One of the people I just mentioned
is in the news today. Governor Jim Pillin says this
is woke garbage and we need to shut it down.
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He's he's talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Guy, This guy has no filter anymore. Well, can you
imagine what his last term is gonna be? Like?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
He's well, some people think maybe he's in his last term. Well, yeah,
he is softening his language from what we heard from
him recently. So this is woke garbage.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
What is it? Lincoln? We talk about him?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Is a forty four thousand dollars a year job in
the Lincoln Public Schools LPs is hiring an LGBTQ plus advocate.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
This is basically a counselor who only I guess works
with students who go wandering in like they I don't
I'm not exactly sure how this works. And pardon me
if I'm being an overly glib here, but are you
sitting there in social studies in fourth period and you think, yeah,
I felt it coming on for a while now, and
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let's just go be sure. And you go down to
the count the l GBTQ counselor and say, I've been wondering,
but I think I might be gay, kind of gay
at least is there a blood test? Or how does
this work now? Or if you already know you're gay,
what do you do? Like in seventh period, you're like,
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I need a little little break, gotta go see the
gay advocate. You go in there and go, I just
I can't focus on my math. I'm I'm pretty gay today,
and so I don't know, like.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
What, I'm pretty gay, I mean less gay tomorrow today,
I'm pretty pretty HOMOSEXU.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Pretty gay today, And and you have a counselor going well,
and then let's talk about it. What I'm what I'm
saying here is that are the other counselors not qualified
to deal with that which any student on amongst the
eighty seven genders and various shades of homosexuality we have today?
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Are the other counselors not qualified to deal with that?
I'm being bullied, i have problems at home. I'm having
a hard time focusing on my school work. I think
the teacher hates me. I mean whatever those issues are.
I forgot my locker combination. Are there other people within
Lincoln Public Schools, at each of the schools there in
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Lincoln not qualified to handle these issues? We need someone
who's specifically attuned to the LGBTQ plus experience, because well,
you could go in there and have some issue about
you know, I'm just feeling a little down today because
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I'm having problems at home. My parents are getting a divorce,
and I just need someone to talk to. And then
the counselor is like, well, I could help you, but
you're gay, so you're gonna have to go next door
and see that counselor. What in the world is different
about that experience in school that we need someone who's
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sitting right there with a rainbow flag out front to
let you know which counselor you're going to see, who's
only going to talk to students about this issue. To
some people, that sounds like perhaps perhaps depending on the issue,
sounds like perhaps some either grooming or the kind of
thing where someone says like, yeah, someone was picking on
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me because I had this shirt on and they said
it was quote gay unquote and the teachers like the
counselor is like, maybe you aren't Gay's there, let's talk
about this, Let's try and get you, get you out
the closet there.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Look, I don't have little kids anymore. And to you
folks out there who are parents of young children today
that are in public schools today, man, that's that is
a roller coaster ride every day. But the thing that
worries me, just as an outsider looking in, is if
we continue to promote these kinds of positions and we
legitimize this kind of behavior in children. Okay, we're not
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talking about consenting adults. We're talking children, grade school kids,
middle school kids. To me, this is the social contagion
that is at the root of the LGBTQ movement in
this country. To suggest to a seven year old, you know,
you might not be a little boy, right, Okay, come on, now,
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that's what we're talking That's the kind of thing that
social media is doing to kids who are lonesome, who
go on these chat rooms, who get discussed with stuff
that they shouldn't be talked about. And that was who's
regulating these people? What are they saying to kids?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Are there issues that if you have a kid who
has questions about this, you'd like to have a counselor
who's specifically interested in those issues. Yes, you can do
that on your own outside of school time.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Now that's what worries me about it. And now who's regulating.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
These ELEABE Certified Transmission Sports brief.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Here's Jim Row Very.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Good, scuy, Good morning everybody. Basketball Huskiers from the week
with a tough one tomorrow night at Iowa. Hawks are
not bad. Big ten yesterday, Illinois beats Indiana. Huscar women
play Iowa and Lincoln today at eleven am. Must figure
the President's Day crowd will show uscar fans got a
disappointing email from the athletic department. Season ticket holders, most
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of them anyway, will not have access to NCAA basketball
tournament tickets through Nebraska. Usually, if you have season tickets,
you move to the front of the line, but not
for NCAA tournament games, You'll have to go through the
venue or a ticket broker. There will be an opening
at Kansas State. The university fired Jerome Tang yesterday. They
say it's because he was way off base blasting his
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own guys after the loss to Cincinnati last week.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Remember this, this was embarrassing.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
These dudes do not deserve to wear this uniform. There
will be very few of them in it next year.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
How about this one mean something to wear?
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Case State uniform means something to put on this purple
man our like everything this university's about and all that
it's been about, why I love this place? Man like.
They don't love this place, so they don't deserve to
be here.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Very refreshing for the fans, but it loaded the gun
for his bosses, who then used the remarks as quote
damaging to the university's reputation unquote please. They fired him
because they have one big twelve win this year, but
this allows them to screw Tang out of the nineteen
million they owe him on his contract. Bad night for
the Supernova's got swept by Orlando. Hit just six to
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three with just seven blocks.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That's too bad.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Eleven thousand on Pinkout Night to raise awareness for breast cancer.
ESPN commentator Steven A. Smith, who spends every waking minute
of his days inside the five yard line, wants to
get into presidential politics. He thinks he'll run as a
Democrat in twenty twenty eight. He knows he can't win.
He just wants on the debate stage to drive up
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his social media followers. Baseball games down in Arizona, Nebraska
looked really good on the first week end of the season.
The Huskers scored twenty eight runs, wrapped out forty four hits,
and goes three for three at least three for the
first three. Beat Grand Canyon You nine nine to one yesterday,
will play Stanford to two o'clock today to try to
complete the tournament. Four and oh, Great and Blue Jays
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go two and one at Saint Mary's out in California.
U and O was swept at Arizona State Sports. His
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Speaker 1 (21:24):
With Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, I am Scott Vorhees.
Are you guys getting caught up in the hype surrounding
these athletes that two weeks ago we had never heard of.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
When it comes to the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Sorry, I've never heard of them.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
No, It's here's how it works. Two weeks ago, you're
living your life. You're going to work, you're punching a
time card, you're trying to get your kids to whatever
practice is going on, and you're confused about where are
you supposed to be? I thought today was Tuesday, and
it's you know, that's your entire life. And then here
go the commercials and you're like, all right, I'll aimlessly
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kind of stare at the Olympics, and then you catch
someone's story. This Olympic athlete out of America was born
with this spleen on the outside of his body. Is
parents didn't have any money for any kind of medical abilities,
so they looked online and said, how do you put
someone's spleen back in their body? And their father, armed
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with only a pen knife and a dream, managed to
put his spleen back and get him stitched up. And
then they put some ice skates on him. And then
this guy turned into the greatest athlete of all time.
And you kind of get caught up in the story
of Jati's guy.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
He caught up in the story if you want to.
We were just talking about this last night. This is
what ruined AGT. America's got talent and maybe a little
bit of American idol. This is what ruined it. We
don't want the backstory.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I love that stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And well, another show that does that and you don't
always know if it's going to end well or not
is American Ninja Warrior. Every once in a while they'll say,
here's a teaching Yeah, I love American Ninja Warrior. It's
one of the few shows you can watch with your kids. Yeah,
And so our family enjoyed watching that once in a while.
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We didn't watch it every single week. It's all the
same plot. You've got an obstacle course and people trying
to complete the course. But once in a while they say,
now here's a young woman who and you get the
whole backstory. You know who walked to school both ways
uphill ten feet of snow and all that stuff with
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only bread bags over her feet. Oh wait, that's Joni Ernst. Anyway,
here's this person's story, and you get all caught up
in it. And that either means that this person's about
to complete the obstacle course and record time and be
surrounded by crying family and friends like.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You did it. You did such a wonderful job.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Or they're gonna flame out on the very first obstacle
and fall right in the water. Same thing with the Olympics.
You get all caught up in someone's life story and
hype and all that, and well, this person must be
the greatest ice skater of all time, after all, they
call him the quad God. And then you sit there
and watch this stuff. I can't tell the difference between
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technically what this ice skater is doing and how many
turns and twirls that ice skater is doing. It all
looks exactly the same to me and the French judge.
And then the person loses and you're like, how is
that possible? They gave him a nickname? This is like
nineteen ninety two, the Rebok campaign with the greatest athlete
rivalry Dan and Dave. This was gonna be the two
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great Americans competing against each other to see who the
best athlete in the world was. Well, one of them
didn't even qualify for the Olympic team. The other one
got bronze. Jim Sinys, I don't think you're gonna have
this in the sports I hope you'll grant me the
grace to tell you what got someone disqualified during the
Olympic ski jump here just you're going to.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Talk about the curling, but please yeah, fill u sin
on the ski. Oh, the curling, big, big controversy with
the curling. Tom Brady was inflating the stones and there's
a problem there.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Now, this is.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
The Austrian ski jumper, Daniels offen Naken.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, that's how you say his name. I think so,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
So he got kicked out of the men's large hilled
ski jumping individual event after someone said, hey, check his boots,
and they checked his boots and they found out that
his boots were exactly four millimeters bigger than regulations allow
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four millimeters.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
You would think that that would be a problem, that
it'd be a heavier load.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You would think, I'm not sure exactly the load of
four millimeters worth of boot. But they he said, hey,
rules or rules? They said, Now, what if he's just
got big feet? What if what if shaquillok neil is
going down there in a size twenty is or whatever
the guy has, And who wouldn't want to watch shack
go down the downhill?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Here we go? That'd be fun.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
So, yeah, he got disqualified four millimeters and ladies, he's
singles all right now our news radio eleven ten kfab
White House correspondent John Decker joins us. Now is the question,
which has been there for a long time is can
the president actually do this? Can any president do this?
This is an executive order. If Congress doesn't do what
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President Trump wants, Trump says he'll do it before the midterms.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
John, what are we talking about here this morning?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Well, we're talking about the President suggesting that he'd sign
an executive orderer that would contain essentially the same legislative
language containing legislation that is languished in the US Senate.
The problem is is that the Constitution has essentially supremacy
over everything. An executive order cannot overrule the US Constitution,
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and the Constitution says Article one, Section four, Clause one
of the other Constitution indicates that it's the states that
decide the time, the place, the matter of elections. The
president has no role in this whatsoever. So if the
President goes ahead signs that executive order, it will most
certainly be challenged in federal court if it works its
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way all the way up to the US Supreme Court.
Now I'm putting my lawyer hat on the Supreme Court.
Even those conservative justices will say, no, you cannot do that.
As president.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
This is something that the states could do. Why isn't
I wonder why the President is not leaning on state
legislators to get this done, But.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I mean he is.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I'm sure someone near the president is telling him what
you just said, Like you, mister President, this is something
you can't do. I mean, it's constitutionally impossible. Do you
imagine that he knows that and he's just going to
force the issue anyway, just to put Democrats on the defensive.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
I think that may be part of it, you know,
And I don't know whether or not the White House
Council is, you know, informing the president this is something
you cannot do. The President, as you know, has signed
executive orders before that have been challenged in the federal courts.
In fact, you may recall the president assign an executive
order related to birthright citizenship, and that executive order is
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being challenged. The Supreme Court actually will hear oral arguments
concerning that on April the first, so just a few
months away. I think that's what the President is hoping that,
you know, this case does work its way through the
Supreme Court and the Supreme Court rules on his side.
I don't think that the court will, and I also
don't think that the changes that the President has in
mind would actually be able to occur before the midterm elections,
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just because it will be tied up in the federal court.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Great reporting as always, John, thank you very much for
the time on this President's Day. It's John Decker. That's
Kfab White House correspondent and attorney John Decker here on
News Radio eleven ten. Kfab, Jim, did you note that
at the Munich Security Conference, we had leaders from both
parties go there and talk to our European allies and
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they all said very different things. Secretary of State Marco
Rubio said, Yeah, here's what the president's doing. As you know,
he's very transparent of what he wants to do, not
just in terms of tariffs, but also trying to have
peace in the Middle East and get Russia out of
Ukraine and tell Iran stop doing that and all the
rest of this stuff. And then Governor Gavin Newsom showed up,
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not sure why the I mean, California is obviously influential
state here in America, but to have Governor Newsom go
to this, this worldwide conference and tell our European allies quote,
Donald Trump is temporary, He'll be gone in three years unquote.
I mean that's actually factually true. It is factually true.
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But when we're trying to we have our Secretary of
State working with our out to get some important things
done here Russia, Iran, the Middle East. And then Governor
Newsom's like, don't listen to these guys. Hey, there's a
chance I might be in charge here in a few years.
Don't listen to these guys. It's it's not treasonous, but
it's pretty close. It's dancing towards that line. And that's
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what he was doing. Who invited this guy, Well, he
has no power over this.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
What was AOC doing AOC has no more capacity to
be there than she should be running a brazier store
above a shoe store in Brickln. Look, this is the
bottom line. These people feel like this is a chance
for them to get some video that they can turn
into a campaign pledge. Ask, they can look like they
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are really truly the assertive, dominant, powerful leader of the future.
So see what I did in front of all these
European leaders. Now give me money so I can run
for president. That's what it's all about, or run for Congress,
or run for reelection, whatever it may be. These people
are doing things as a matter of political fact. Get
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me some material that I can use in a campaign.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Ask.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
And I don't know whether Gavin Newsom is going to
be the next president of the United States. I don't
think so, because I think there are better Democrats out
there that have a much better chance to win over independence.
I don't moderate Republicans, whether it's Josh Shapiro or Andy Bursheer.
But this guy right here is a closet almost certifiable narcissist.
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And this is what you get. And now what Marco
Rubio had to say, I would encourage and Trump's not
We're not talking about Trump. We're talking about what happened
to the Munich security coup. If you really want to
know what a statesman sounds like, you need to go
back and watch Marco Rubio speech.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I love. Marco Rubio speech.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Was one of and I was trying to put it
into context. I don't recall hearing a non president make
a speech of that caliber in my lifetime before an
important collection of people who want to know is the
US with us or against us? And what Mark Rubio
said is We're with you if you're with us.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
President, the people that Trump has surrounded himself with in
this term so much better than that round one from
Vance to Rubio in a sense you mentioned it. This
is Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, a congressman from New York such
as sophomore, talking about what are we going to do
with China? Should should we need to defend the.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
US actually commit US troops to defend Taiwan if China
were to move, You.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Know, I think that this is such a you know,
I think that.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
This is a.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
This is of course a very long standing policy of
the United States, and I think what we are hoping
for is that we want to make sure that we
never get to that point, and we want to make
sure that we are moving in all of our economic
research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
After that question to even arise, Yeah, China and we
may want her in power, Solfa.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
We made fun of Sarah Palin and we made fun
of Kamala Harris. That is right out of the Kamala
Harris how to handle a question without knowing anything playbook.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Sure, I don't mind someone taking a pause for a
moment to get their thoughts in order, especially on a
big issue, to be able to answer it. She'd never
conceived of the notion of standing up to China. She'd
never conceived of what we would do in terms of
an alliance with Taiwan. And she starts babbling about our
economic research. What does that mean? China doesn't care about anything.
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She just says, yeah, they want someone like her in
power so badly.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
The answer that she gives is, you know, I'm a
member of Congress, and I'm very familiar with the President's
policy on China, and I'm very familiar with our policy
toward Taiwan. It would be inappropriate for me to discuss
a military confrontation with another country as a member of
the United States Congress. If articles of war come to us,
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we'll vote for them on the merit. But in the meantime,
it's inappropriate for anyone other than the President of the
United States to talk about foreign policy in a setting
such as this. Now, if you want to come to
Congress and visit with a committee, our Foreign Relations Committee
or a National Security committee, then we can have a
more substantive conversation. But that's how you answer that question
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if you're AOC. But she's a sophomore. She doesn't know anything.
She's been embarrassed by Tom Homan on camera when she
talks about letting people in the country. She doesn't know
the basic laws of the country. That's not her point.
Her point is not to know the laws. Her point
is to be what she is, which is an under
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capable jen Wire.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
That's what she is.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
My son is a sophomore, and I think he would
answer that question better by saying, Taiwan, No, they make
all my basketball stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
We have to protect them.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
And this is where our commander in chief gets in
trouble by when asked that question, he says, look, we
don't want to have to go into China, but if
we have to commit nukes and ground troops, we'll do
it to tell China knock that stuff off. And people
are like, he just threatened China. Now he gave them
something to think about, because he's crazy enough just to
do it. Think the Chinese, and I'm not saying they're wrong.
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That's the kind of answer that they understand well.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
In Reagan, the Russians weren't sure if Ronald Reagan was
ready to drop nukes on them. Sometimes the threat of
what the United States will do is enough. It's the
old Teddy Roosevelt walks softly but carry a big stick.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah, it's uh. And Trump's my stick is the biggest
one we've had.
With Lucy Chavin, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, I'm Scott Voorhees.
Great to have you with us here on this Monday morning.
This is Nebraska's Morning News on this President's Day. Do
we need to do the standard who's the best worst president?
Do you have a favorite and least favorite president? I
think the worst president of all time is outside the
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boundaries of my lifetime. I was not born yet to
revel in the Great Society days launched by President Lyndon
Baines Johnson, who, due to the welfare state he put up,
he erected in this country that still thrives today. I
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think LBJ is the worst president of all time. My
favorite president of all time is the one I grew
up with, President Ronald W.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Reagan.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Jim Well, I think you kind of probably have to
separate him based on eras. I think Abraham Lincoln is
the greatest president of all time because he was president
during the Civil War.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It was a little bit of a dust up.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That cost about eight hundred thousand lives and nearly destroyed
the country.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Thank you ilhan Omar, who described nine to eleven as
some people did something. You just described the Civil War
as quote, a little bit of a dust up.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah unquote.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
That little dust up was quite a news event of
the day. Yeah, so we talked about it here on KFAB.
So for my money, Abraham Lincoln is number one. Some
would say, what's got to be George Washington, because it
wasn't for George Washington, we would have.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Had Abraham Lincoln. Today is his birthday.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
If you look at pure accomplishments, things that mattered in
the country and that have made a difference in the country. Again, Lincoln,
he was president when the slaves were freed. At the
same time, it was not a good deal for him. Yeah, okay,
you're free now, but your life is about to get
a lot worse.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, now what do you do? And he made that.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Clear, he said, this frees them, but this is not
going to make their lives any better. In fact, probably
gonna make it worse than it was for another one
hundred years. But if you look at pure accomplishments, Scott
Lbj's one of them. Yes, social programs are very arguable today,
but he was also the president of the civil rights
legislation was passed, and we look at we laugh at
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people like Chuck Schumer today who talk about Jim Crow
two point zero, Chuck Schumer doesn't know what he's talking about,
or Chuck Schumer's doing it just to appeal to his base.
But there really were serious Jim Crow laws in this
country that prohibited black people from voting and they did
not have a voice in government. They were victimized by it,
but they had no voice in it. So he was
certainly President Richard Nixon President LBJ.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Though he signed it. It was started by just.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Started by Kennedy, but it was stuck in the Senate.
It was Johnson who got it done.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, LBJ. Well he was he didn't want that.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, he was the bold guard, that old guard Democrat Party,
which is where the KKK came from. There's some there's
some argument for that, but you've got to read a
lot of history and he I don't think he did
it because he necessarily loved black people. I think he
did it to get votes for the Democrat Party. He
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knew that for the next one hundred years, if we
did this, black folks in this country will be locked
up by the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And largely they have been.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
And I'm not sure why, because it hadn't been for
Republicans like Henry Stinson that this bill never would have passed.
Richard Nixon, for his time in office, was extremely impactful.
Now a lot of people say, yeah, but he was
a bad guy. Yeah, and he probably was. And if
you listen to the White House tapes, he was a
rotten guy. But he got the Environmental Protection Agency passed,
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he got Titled nine passed, he ended the draft. There
was a lot of stuff that he got done. Teddy
Roosevelt got a lot of stuff done. So you know,
you look at it if you just check off a
list of things that they were able to do in
their time. There FDR Social Security, although I would tell
you that his policies actually prolonged the depression because of
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his approach to the money subblyet. He tried to pack
the Supreme Court in a few other things. But you
go back and look at Andrew Jackson. He was the
last president to oversee a bounus budget. Andrew Jackson, that's
one of the greatest presidents of all time right there.
He wrote, I wrote a check budget. He wrote a
check to pay off the government's debts, so we were
out of debt.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
When Andrew Jackson was president, he the last week.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
If not for President Andrew Jackson, we go right back
to being a colony.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
He won the Battle of New Orleans, which was the
turning point in the War of eighteen twelve. That guy
my favorite president based on history, and I was born
with John F. Kennedy was president, I guess I should
be loyal to him. My favorite president was Harry Truman.
What Harry Truman inherited and what Harry Truman did as president,
to me is really one of the great statesmanlike behaviors
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in the history of the White House, to say nothing
of his accomplishments the war in Korea, and he stood
up for uh the the blocking of the advance of communism,
but he integrated the United States Army, which was pretty
ballsy back in those days. And of course he ended
World War Two with a momentous decision to drop two
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atomic bombs on Japan. I think Harry Truman was one
of the really great presidents of our time, maybe of
all time.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And went right back to Missouri and just basically so
that's it went back to his life.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That's if you've not visited the Truman Library and independents Missouri,
Kansas City suburb.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It is very, very critical. Lucy.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You've often said your favorite president of all time is
Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Why is that?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Well, it was until just putting.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
In her mouth Carter Biden. Who do you think? Who's
your favorite president? Carter Biden? I'm not even well.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I think the most answer a question. You know, he
doesn't want to engage in this discussion.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
She does a favorite president?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, this is a very is he answer? No, hands down?
The greatest president Jed Bartlett a you.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Know what, from the West Wing. He was perfect fictional president.
Everything he touched.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I agree with you. Yeah, he was the best fictional president. Absolutely.
That's Martin president.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
The most unco the most uncommonly decent president we ever
had was Jerry Ford.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
His vice president that was Tim Matheson. Mostly I think
that switched up a little bit. But yeah, President Jed
Bartlett West Wing best fictional president of all no doubt.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
And he gave great speeches that were written by Sam Seaborn,
better known as.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Does he is Hot? Sorry? The hot still still is.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Here's a good question for you. Does is President Bartlett
from the West Wing? Is he a Democrat who gets
elected with today's Democratic Party. No, no, yeah, I all right,
quick quick answer. I had a few people email and say, Dave,
this is the guy who wasn't supposed to be president.
I've never seen that movie. I probably need to see that.
That's Kevin Klein.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Love that one.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I've heard it's pretty good. You know, there are a
lot of movies in that vein of someone who just
kind of ends up president. I think the Americans John
Goodman and Robin Williams did one. But yeah, an American
president that was Michael Douglas. That was pretty good. I've
seen that one, and Greg emails says, come on, no contest,
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it's President James Marshall. He's kicking butt on Air Force one. Yeah,
get off my plane.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
In that one, Washington has fallen or something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Oh well, well, Morgan Freeman played the president one movie
in one well movies, but the one that Lucy's referencing,
that's Jamie Jamie Fox with.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I don't remember the name of the movie, but I
only saw that here in the last couple of years
and thought, this is really good. That's Jamie Fox and
Channing Tatum is the guy kind of guarding the president and.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Weren't they like secret Service agents or something. Jenny Tatum was, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Well, and Morgan Freeman played the president in the Sun
of All Fears.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
White, White House Down, White House Down. Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Thinking, you know, I'd like to have Morgan Freeman be president. Absolutely,
he was president when a nuclear bomb went off in
a coke machine in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That that tests you.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That was a bad day for America. Yeah, it was president.
What's his face from Independence Day? Bill Pullman. He gave
maybe one of the best speeches of any president, fictional
or real. Today we celebrate our Independence Day. Pretty good
impersonation of Yeah. I think he made a great president.
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It's hard to day we beat the aliens. Of course
that wasn't due to him. That was Randy Quaid. Sure,
the drunken crop dust. But still he gets to be president.
We beat back the aliens, so that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Hard playing the president. But nobody, nobody touted like Martin Sheen. So,
I mean, every day people just wanted, we wanted Jed
Bartlett to be president. Couldn't we get him to be president? Now?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That was an old guard Democrat wet dream having had,
you know, Martin Sheen in there and in when that
show started, that was supposed to be a Rob Lowe show.
It was kind of surrounding his character, everyone else kind
of coming in out of his life, and Martin Sheen
was going to be a very very small part of
that that show West Wing, and then all the other
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characters suddenly got more interesting, Bradley Whitford, Josh Lyman especially,
and it was just such a such a such a
good show.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well it brilliant.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, they did more and more for President Bartlett and
the rest of those characters.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But probly did a lot for the presidency.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Local passing of note here in Omaha, Jim, you're a
man about town. Tell me about Mike Yanny.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well, he was probably one of Omaha's leading citizens, if
not one of Nebraska's most, really respected and honored philanthropists.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
From Carnie, Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Self made guy, did very very well in real estate
and banking and investment banking, and then committed most of
the last third of his life to philanthropy, big philanthropy,
and if you look at the development of the University
of Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC and the entire University
medical structure, it's largely the result of Mike Ynny. He
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not only donated a sizable amount, but he accessed big,
big money by other like minded philanthropists.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
He just passed away, Yeah, I just passed away here
at the age of either ninety two or ninety three
two and in which TV station reporting you believe. But
the guy started what ended up being Burlington Capital, r
This is a big investment firm, everything from residence halls
and apartment complexes, especially like students, low income and military
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throughout the country. That's just one of the things that
Burlington Capital was a part of. He was if there's
something happening somewhere on the globe, chances are Burlington Capital
probably had a hand in it. But it was a
company first called America First Companies, and it was founded
by mister Yanni, and it was designed to promote capitalism
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and especially in the emerging post communist Russia.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
So yeah, he was all over the world.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
He was respected by heads of state in many countries
when he would travel. The United States Department of State
was aware of it. He met with presidents and kings
and sultans and chikhs all over the world. And it
was to promote not only Nebraska, but to promote capitalism,
and so he was a great American in that way.
But he was truly an icon, and he was truly
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a leader and a mentor for the philanthropic movement. And
Buffett has been very, very outworn in his approach to philanthropy.
He believes philanthropy should have a capitalist tinge to it.
In other words, give money to generate jobs, generate economic development.
And Mike Yanny really wrapped his arms around that. But
he was also very engaged in metropolitan community college. He
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was supportive of at risk youth. He really believed that
the states should work hard to assist in the development
of young people.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So it's a huge loss. I got to know mister
Yanny very well.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I saw him probably once or twice every month or
two with a visit to his office downtown, and it
was a great experience for me, and I found that
to be a very very rare and wonderful privilege that
so many didn't have a chance to have. But I've
always believed this about philanthropy. Scott and I think great
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philanthropists like Walter Scott and Dick Holland and Buffett and
others here in Omaha, Well would say the same thing.
It only works if the next generation buys in. And
Mike Yanny, with Walter and with Bruce l Artson and
some others really worked hard. Al Anderson really worked hard
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to teach the next generation about the value of big
philanthropy accessing great wealth, some of it yours, some of
it somebody else's to make an impact in the community.
And he was a great mentor to the next generation
of philanthropists. So if we have success in the next
generation of Omahan's who do big projects like the previous
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generation has, it's because of Mike Yanny.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And he had the ear of influential Nebraska politicians. Among
those celebrating his life Governor Pillen, former governor now Senator
Pete Ricketts as well. Mike Yanny gone at the age
of ninety two, One of the people I just mentioned
is in the news today. Governor Jim Pillin says this
is woke garbage and we need to shut it down.
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He's he's talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Guy, This guy has no filter anymore. Well, can you
imagine what his last term is gonna be? Like?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
He's well, some people think maybe he's in his last term. Well, yeah,
he is softening his language from what we heard from
him recently. So this is woke garbage.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
What is it? Lincoln? We talk about him?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Is a forty four thousand dollars a year job in
the Lincoln Public Schools LPs is hiring an LGBTQ plus advocate.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
This is basically a counselor who only I guess works
with students who go wandering in like they I don't
I'm not exactly sure how this works. And pardon me
if I'm being an overly glib here, but are you
sitting there in social studies in fourth period and you think, yeah,
I felt it coming on for a while now, and
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let's just go be sure. And you go down to
the count the l GBTQ counselor and say, I've been wondering,
but I think I might be gay, kind of gay
at least is there a blood test? Or how does
this work now? Or if you already know you're gay,
what do you do? Like in seventh period, you're like,
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I need a little little break, gotta go see the
gay advocate. You go in there and go, I just
I can't focus on my math. I'm I'm pretty gay today,
and so I don't know, like.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
What, I'm pretty gay, I mean less gay tomorrow today,
I'm pretty pretty HOMOSEXU.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Pretty gay today, And and you have a counselor going well,
and then let's talk about it. What I'm what I'm
saying here is that are the other counselors not qualified
to deal with that which any student on amongst the
eighty seven genders and various shades of homosexuality we have today?
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Are the other counselors not qualified to deal with that?
I'm being bullied, i have problems at home. I'm having
a hard time focusing on my school work. I think
the teacher hates me. I mean whatever those issues are.
I forgot my locker combination. Are there other people within
Lincoln Public Schools, at each of the schools there in
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Lincoln not qualified to handle these issues? We need someone
who's specifically attuned to the LGBTQ plus experience, because well,
you could go in there and have some issue about
you know, I'm just feeling a little down today because
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I'm having problems at home. My parents are getting a divorce,
and I just need someone to talk to. And then
the counselor is like, well, I could help you, but
you're gay, so you're gonna have to go next door
and see that counselor. What in the world is different
about that experience in school that we need someone who's
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sitting right there with a rainbow flag out front to
let you know which counselor you're going to see, who's
only going to talk to students about this issue. To
some people, that sounds like perhaps perhaps depending on the issue,
sounds like perhaps some either grooming or the kind of
thing where someone says like, yeah, someone was picking on
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me because I had this shirt on and they said
it was quote gay unquote and the teachers like the
counselor is like, maybe you aren't Gay's there, let's talk
about this, Let's try and get you, get you out
the closet there.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Look, I don't have little kids anymore. And to you
folks out there who are parents of young children today
that are in public schools today, man, that's that is
a roller coaster ride every day. But the thing that
worries me, just as an outsider looking in, is if
we continue to promote these kinds of positions and we
legitimize this kind of behavior in children. Okay, we're not
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talking about consenting adults. We're talking children, grade school kids,
middle school kids. To me, this is the social contagion
that is at the root of the LGBTQ movement in
this country. To suggest to a seven year old, you know,
you might not be a little boy, right, Okay, come on, now,
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that's what we're talking That's the kind of thing that
social media is doing to kids who are lonesome, who
go on these chat rooms, who get discussed with stuff
that they shouldn't be talked about. And that was who's
regulating these people? What are they saying to kids?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Are there issues that if you have a kid who
has questions about this, you'd like to have a counselor
who's specifically interested in those issues. Yes, you can do
that on your own outside of school time.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Now that's what worries me about it. And now who's regulating.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
These ELEABE Certified Transmission Sports brief.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Here's Jim Row Very.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Good, scuy, Good morning everybody. Basketball Huskiers from the week
with a tough one tomorrow night at Iowa. Hawks are
not bad. Big ten yesterday, Illinois beats Indiana. Huscar women
play Iowa and Lincoln today at eleven am. Must figure
the President's Day crowd will show uscar fans got a
disappointing email from the athletic department. Season ticket holders, most
(19:18):
of them anyway, will not have access to NCAA basketball
tournament tickets through Nebraska. Usually, if you have season tickets,
you move to the front of the line, but not
for NCAA tournament games, You'll have to go through the
venue or a ticket broker. There will be an opening
at Kansas State. The university fired Jerome Tang yesterday. They
say it's because he was way off base blasting his
(19:40):
own guys after the loss to Cincinnati last week.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Remember this, this was embarrassing.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
These dudes do not deserve to wear this uniform. There
will be very few of them in it next year.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
How about this one mean something to wear?
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Case State uniform means something to put on this purple
man our like everything this university's about and all that
it's been about, why I love this place? Man like.
They don't love this place, so they don't deserve to
be here.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Very refreshing for the fans, but it loaded the gun
for his bosses, who then used the remarks as quote
damaging to the university's reputation unquote please. They fired him
because they have one big twelve win this year, but
this allows them to screw Tang out of the nineteen
million they owe him on his contract. Bad night for
the Supernova's got swept by Orlando. Hit just six to
(20:30):
three with just seven blocks.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That's too bad.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Eleven thousand on Pinkout Night to raise awareness for breast cancer.
ESPN commentator Steven A. Smith, who spends every waking minute
of his days inside the five yard line, wants to
get into presidential politics. He thinks he'll run as a
Democrat in twenty twenty eight. He knows he can't win.
He just wants on the debate stage to drive up
(20:54):
his social media followers. Baseball games down in Arizona, Nebraska
looked really good on the first week end of the season.
The Huskers scored twenty eight runs, wrapped out forty four hits,
and goes three for three at least three for the
first three. Beat Grand Canyon You nine nine to one yesterday,
will play Stanford to two o'clock today to try to
complete the tournament. Four and oh, Great and Blue Jays
(21:16):
go two and one at Saint Mary's out in California.
U and O was swept at Arizona State Sports. His
news on Nebraska's News Weather in Traffic station.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
With Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, I am Scott Vorhees.
Are you guys getting caught up in the hype surrounding
these athletes that two weeks ago we had never heard of.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
When it comes to the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Sorry, I've never heard of them.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
No, It's here's how it works. Two weeks ago, you're
living your life. You're going to work, you're punching a
time card, you're trying to get your kids to whatever
practice is going on, and you're confused about where are
you supposed to be? I thought today was Tuesday, and
it's you know, that's your entire life. And then here
go the commercials and you're like, all right, I'll aimlessly
(22:00):
kind of stare at the Olympics, and then you catch
someone's story. This Olympic athlete out of America was born
with this spleen on the outside of his body. Is
parents didn't have any money for any kind of medical abilities,
so they looked online and said, how do you put
someone's spleen back in their body? And their father, armed
(22:22):
with only a pen knife and a dream, managed to
put his spleen back and get him stitched up. And
then they put some ice skates on him. And then
this guy turned into the greatest athlete of all time.
And you kind of get caught up in the story
of Jati's guy.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
He caught up in the story if you want to.
We were just talking about this last night. This is
what ruined AGT. America's got talent and maybe a little
bit of American idol. This is what ruined it. We
don't want the backstory.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I love that stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And well, another show that does that and you don't
always know if it's going to end well or not
is American Ninja Warrior. Every once in a while they'll say,
here's a teaching Yeah, I love American Ninja Warrior. It's
one of the few shows you can watch with your kids. Yeah,
And so our family enjoyed watching that once in a while.
(23:09):
We didn't watch it every single week. It's all the
same plot. You've got an obstacle course and people trying
to complete the course. But once in a while they say,
now here's a young woman who and you get the
whole backstory. You know who walked to school both ways
uphill ten feet of snow and all that stuff with
(23:31):
only bread bags over her feet. Oh wait, that's Joni Ernst. Anyway,
here's this person's story, and you get all caught up
in it. And that either means that this person's about
to complete the obstacle course and record time and be
surrounded by crying family and friends like.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You did it. You did such a wonderful job.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Or they're gonna flame out on the very first obstacle
and fall right in the water. Same thing with the Olympics.
You get all caught up in someone's life story and
hype and all that, and well, this person must be
the greatest ice skater of all time, after all, they
call him the quad God. And then you sit there
and watch this stuff. I can't tell the difference between
(24:12):
technically what this ice skater is doing and how many
turns and twirls that ice skater is doing. It all
looks exactly the same to me and the French judge.
And then the person loses and you're like, how is
that possible? They gave him a nickname? This is like
nineteen ninety two, the Rebok campaign with the greatest athlete
rivalry Dan and Dave. This was gonna be the two
(24:35):
great Americans competing against each other to see who the
best athlete in the world was. Well, one of them
didn't even qualify for the Olympic team. The other one
got bronze. Jim Sinys, I don't think you're gonna have
this in the sports I hope you'll grant me the
grace to tell you what got someone disqualified during the
Olympic ski jump here just you're going to.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Talk about the curling, but please yeah, fill u sin
on the ski. Oh, the curling, big, big controversy with
the curling. Tom Brady was inflating the stones and there's
a problem there.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Now, this is.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
The Austrian ski jumper, Daniels offen Naken.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, that's how you say his name. I think so,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
So he got kicked out of the men's large hilled
ski jumping individual event after someone said, hey, check his boots,
and they checked his boots and they found out that
his boots were exactly four millimeters bigger than regulations allow
(25:38):
four millimeters.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
You would think that that would be a problem, that
it'd be a heavier load.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You would think, I'm not sure exactly the load of
four millimeters worth of boot. But they he said, hey,
rules or rules? They said, Now, what if he's just
got big feet? What if what if shaquillok neil is
going down there in a size twenty is or whatever
the guy has, And who wouldn't want to watch shack
go down the downhill?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Here we go? That'd be fun.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
So, yeah, he got disqualified four millimeters and ladies, he's
singles all right now our news radio eleven ten kfab
White House correspondent John Decker joins us. Now is the question,
which has been there for a long time is can
the president actually do this? Can any president do this?
This is an executive order. If Congress doesn't do what
(26:33):
President Trump wants, Trump says he'll do it before the midterms.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
John, what are we talking about here this morning?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Well, we're talking about the President suggesting that he'd sign
an executive orderer that would contain essentially the same legislative
language containing legislation that is languished in the US Senate.
The problem is is that the Constitution has essentially supremacy
over everything. An executive order cannot overrule the US Constitution,
(27:01):
and the Constitution says Article one, Section four, Clause one
of the other Constitution indicates that it's the states that
decide the time, the place, the matter of elections. The
president has no role in this whatsoever. So if the
President goes ahead signs that executive order, it will most
certainly be challenged in federal court if it works its
(27:23):
way all the way up to the US Supreme Court.
Now I'm putting my lawyer hat on the Supreme Court.
Even those conservative justices will say, no, you cannot do that.
As president.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
This is something that the states could do. Why isn't
I wonder why the President is not leaning on state
legislators to get this done, But.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I mean he is.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I'm sure someone near the president is telling him what
you just said, Like you, mister President, this is something
you can't do. I mean, it's constitutionally impossible. Do you
imagine that he knows that and he's just going to
force the issue anyway, just to put Democrats on the defensive.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
I think that may be part of it, you know,
And I don't know whether or not the White House
Council is, you know, informing the president this is something
you cannot do. The President, as you know, has signed
executive orders before that have been challenged in the federal courts.
In fact, you may recall the president assign an executive
order related to birthright citizenship, and that executive order is
(28:23):
being challenged. The Supreme Court actually will hear oral arguments
concerning that on April the first, so just a few
months away. I think that's what the President is hoping that,
you know, this case does work its way through the
Supreme Court and the Supreme Court rules on his side.
I don't think that the court will, and I also
don't think that the changes that the President has in
mind would actually be able to occur before the midterm elections,
(28:48):
just because it will be tied up in the federal court.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Great reporting as always, John, thank you very much for
the time on this President's Day. It's John Decker. That's
Kfab White House correspondent and attorney John Decker here on
News Radio eleven ten. Kfab, Jim, did you note that
at the Munich Security Conference, we had leaders from both
parties go there and talk to our European allies and
(29:11):
they all said very different things. Secretary of State Marco
Rubio said, Yeah, here's what the president's doing. As you know,
he's very transparent of what he wants to do, not
just in terms of tariffs, but also trying to have
peace in the Middle East and get Russia out of
Ukraine and tell Iran stop doing that and all the
rest of this stuff. And then Governor Gavin Newsom showed up,
(29:33):
not sure why the I mean, California is obviously influential
state here in America, but to have Governor Newsom go
to this, this worldwide conference and tell our European allies quote,
Donald Trump is temporary, He'll be gone in three years unquote.
I mean that's actually factually true. It is factually true.
(29:56):
But when we're trying to we have our Secretary of
State working with our out to get some important things
done here Russia, Iran, the Middle East. And then Governor
Newsom's like, don't listen to these guys. Hey, there's a
chance I might be in charge here in a few years.
Don't listen to these guys. It's it's not treasonous, but
it's pretty close. It's dancing towards that line. And that's
(30:19):
what he was doing. Who invited this guy, Well, he
has no power over this.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
What was AOC doing AOC has no more capacity to
be there than she should be running a brazier store
above a shoe store in Brickln. Look, this is the
bottom line. These people feel like this is a chance
for them to get some video that they can turn
into a campaign pledge. Ask, they can look like they
(30:44):
are really truly the assertive, dominant, powerful leader of the future.
So see what I did in front of all these
European leaders. Now give me money so I can run
for president. That's what it's all about, or run for Congress,
or run for reelection, whatever it may be. These people
are doing things as a matter of political fact. Get
(31:06):
me some material that I can use in a campaign.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Ask.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
And I don't know whether Gavin Newsom is going to
be the next president of the United States. I don't
think so, because I think there are better Democrats out
there that have a much better chance to win over independence.
I don't moderate Republicans, whether it's Josh Shapiro or Andy Bursheer.
But this guy right here is a closet almost certifiable narcissist.
(31:35):
And this is what you get. And now what Marco
Rubio had to say, I would encourage and Trump's not
We're not talking about Trump. We're talking about what happened
to the Munich security coup. If you really want to
know what a statesman sounds like, you need to go
back and watch Marco Rubio speech.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I love. Marco Rubio speech.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Was one of and I was trying to put it
into context. I don't recall hearing a non president make
a speech of that caliber in my lifetime before an
important collection of people who want to know is the
US with us or against us? And what Mark Rubio
said is We're with you if you're with us.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
President, the people that Trump has surrounded himself with in
this term so much better than that round one from
Vance to Rubio in a sense you mentioned it. This
is Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, a congressman from New York such
as sophomore, talking about what are we going to do
with China? Should should we need to defend the.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
US actually commit US troops to defend Taiwan if China
were to move, You.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Know, I think that this is such a you know,
I think that.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
This is a.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
This is of course a very long standing policy of
the United States, and I think what we are hoping
for is that we want to make sure that we
never get to that point, and we want to make
sure that we are moving in all of our economic
research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
After that question to even arise, Yeah, China and we
may want her in power, Solfa.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
We made fun of Sarah Palin and we made fun
of Kamala Harris. That is right out of the Kamala
Harris how to handle a question without knowing anything playbook.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Sure, I don't mind someone taking a pause for a
moment to get their thoughts in order, especially on a
big issue, to be able to answer it. She'd never
conceived of the notion of standing up to China. She'd
never conceived of what we would do in terms of
an alliance with Taiwan. And she starts babbling about our
economic research. What does that mean? China doesn't care about anything.
(34:01):
She just says, yeah, they want someone like her in
power so badly.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
The answer that she gives is, you know, I'm a
member of Congress, and I'm very familiar with the President's
policy on China, and I'm very familiar with our policy
toward Taiwan. It would be inappropriate for me to discuss
a military confrontation with another country as a member of
the United States Congress. If articles of war come to us,
(34:27):
we'll vote for them on the merit. But in the meantime,
it's inappropriate for anyone other than the President of the
United States to talk about foreign policy in a setting
such as this. Now, if you want to come to
Congress and visit with a committee, our Foreign Relations Committee
or a National Security committee, then we can have a
more substantive conversation. But that's how you answer that question
(34:49):
if you're AOC. But she's a sophomore. She doesn't know anything.
She's been embarrassed by Tom Homan on camera when she
talks about letting people in the country. She doesn't know
the basic laws of the country. That's not her point.
Her point is not to know the laws. Her point
is to be what she is, which is an under
(35:10):
capable jen Wire.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
That's what she is.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
My son is a sophomore, and I think he would
answer that question better by saying, Taiwan, No, they make
all my basketball stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
We have to protect them.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
And this is where our commander in chief gets in
trouble by when asked that question, he says, look, we
don't want to have to go into China, but if
we have to commit nukes and ground troops, we'll do
it to tell China knock that stuff off. And people
are like, he just threatened China. Now he gave them
something to think about, because he's crazy enough just to
do it. Think the Chinese, and I'm not saying they're wrong.
(35:42):
That's the kind of answer that they understand well.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
In Reagan, the Russians weren't sure if Ronald Reagan was
ready to drop nukes on them. Sometimes the threat of
what the United States will do is enough. It's the
old Teddy Roosevelt walks softly but carry a big stick.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah, it's uh. And Trump's my stick is the biggest
one we've had.
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