Still No Kings!

These protesters are amazing!  We have a Final Four, we have rain on the way, we have Tiger in another car accident, but we still don't have a King!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh my goodness, it's Monday morning and here we go.
Thank you so much for hanging out here with us.
This is Nebraska's Morning News. Craig Evans, Lucy Chapman. There
you just heard from Jim Rose. I am Scott Voorhees.
This is News Radio eleven ten kfab. There is so
much to celebrate here this morning, whether you're looking at

(00:20):
a beautiful day with the forecast, finally getting some rain
here across the metro throughout the remainder of the week
starting tomorrow night, and then rain chances every single day
after that. The final four is set. That's in a
very exciting time. Nebraska baseball keeps winning. There's so much
to celebrate here this morning. But I hate to start

(00:42):
off with bad news this morning, but I feel it
is my responsibility to do so. It turns out, Lucy, Jim,
that we have a king.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh no, we don't. We had rallies yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
No, there was Saturdays. There were a bunch of rallies
on Saturday, but not enough people showed up, and so
that gave license to the fact that now we have
a king. I'm just as surprised as you. I saw
all those people out there with their signs. They were
waiving signs, they were encouraging people to honk, and.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, who is it? Are you going to tell who
it is?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't know. I just I just know that they
just made an announcement. We have a king.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
And it's frustrating because so many of the exact same
people went out and protested again in the exact same places,
every single one of them someone who did not vote
for the President of the United States anytime that he
or any other Republican has run for any office. Same

(01:55):
with Governor Pillen. But they they decided to show up
there and tell us definite, we did not vote for
this person, nor if he were on the ballot again.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Would we vote for him?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Like, well, thank you, goodness, gracious me, thank you so
much for letting us know. But turns out just wasn't enough.
And and we have a king. I don't know if
it's Trump or not. We're waiting for more details to
come in, but I mean, the Trumpeters are.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Out, so is there going to be is there going
to be a coronation? I mean, do we get to
celebrate this? Lucy take an extra day off?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
His majesty will make these decisions in due time. Oh
if we had only had more incredibly angry and ignorant
people ut protesting throughout the country on Saturday. Oh my gosh,
the signs and the messages we saw out there. Here's
a report from the Nebraska Examiner. They talked to a

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seventeen year old kid who said that he was out
there protesting because he didn't want to be drafted into
a war in the Middle East for no reason at all.
Someone needs to tell seventeen year old Lincoln resident whose
first name is Ford, we do not have a draft.

(03:22):
Maybe if someone had told him that, Jim, maybe he
wouldn't have gone out there and protested. He apparently was very,
very scared that when he turns eighteen at some point
here in the months ahead, that he would be drafted
and it would be his boots on the ground in Iran.
So there's one.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Or his birking socks, one of the two. Uh, well,
probably he got a notice in the mail that all
eighteen year old men must register with a secret service,
a selective service. Yeah, yeah, and the selection no secrets right.
Excuse me, I'm sorry, Yes, the selective Service. You have
to register with the Selective Service. And then the Secret
Service doesn't call yet. Sure and ICE.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, he also thinks, apparently you have to register with
ICE and he'll be sent off either to Iran or
the Lincoln Airport to work.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
And you have no idea. That threw him for a
loop when he got the card in the mail that
said you have to register, got out of the post
office and register for selective service. That got him all confused.
And now he's got a protest because he's afraid he
might actually be sent to Vietnam.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
He says, people his age are going to take the
brunt of the president's mistakes. Right, Yeah, He says he
doesn't want to get drafted into a war in the
Middle East for no reason at all. Well, what if
there is a reason? Does he want to be drafted
into a war for some reason, even if he felt
there was a reason. Again, young man, we don't have

(04:46):
a draft. We could, I mean that could always be
a possibility, but we do not have a draft. So
I'm very happy to tell him and others it's not
nearly as bad as you I think it is. First
of all, no draft. Also, a lot of people felt
that we need to stop Trump so we can save
democracy in this country. We have to save democracy. Well,

(05:10):
I don't know if it's worthwhile to tell you America
is not a democracy. We are a representative republic. So
you're trying to save something that does not exist, so
you don't have to worry about that. And over again,
the entire message was we do not want a king

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in this country. And despite the music I played there
in the message, I provided a moment ago, it turns
out you guys once again saved us. We don't have
a king.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
I'm not sure that kids in school today understand what
a representative republic means.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
No.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
I don't think that they're taught that.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
No, so they can ask AI.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
So, but the point is I could almost understand them
mixing that up, not understanding that we're not.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
I'm going to I'm going to ask various AI in
just a moment here whether America has a democracy and
see what it says. Because this is they'll they would ask.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
No, yeah, interesting answers, Yeah, yeah, well we'll.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
See what it says.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
That's coming up here after traffic, weather and a news update,
sports brief.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Also next, a semi loaded with twelve tons of Kitcat
chocolate bars has been stolen in Europe. The truck was
carrying four hundred and thirteen seven hundred and ninety three
Kitcat bars worth three quarters of a million dollars street value.
The bars are marked with a unique batch number so
they can be traced. I'm Craig Evans. More News at
the bottom of the app We're at news radio eleven

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ten KFAB.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Did we just report on the street value of kit Cats?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Thank you for that, Craig Evans.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
This is Nebraska's morning news, news Radio eleven t KFAB.
Lucy Chapman, Jim Rose here as well. I am Scott Vorhees. Hey, man,
you want a kit Cat?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
No, man, I don't.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
I only do York's peppermint patties. I don't go into
that kit Cat stuff. You break those things apart. Now
you got two kit Cats and I just don't need
that much. Come on, man, everyone's doing kit cat the
street value of stolen kit cats. These gangs, I tell

(07:30):
you what, Maybe this is the bride side of raising
an entire generation of obese children. They're like, hey, we
could do some drive by shootings drive bys. I don't
even want to get my license when I'm sixteen. Can't
we just deal and stolen candy.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
That one astounds me more than any of them. Yeah,
when I was fourteen, fifteen, I was counting the hours,
oh until I could get the license.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
My dad took me out of school for an hour
so we could, you know, I could go get the
license and then drive back to school in the.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
I remember get that, you know. I brought it home
and I stared at it for like an hour. I mean,
I've never been more proud of anything in my life.
I'll tell them, Yeah, looking at that picture of you, going,
is that what I look like? Yeah? I look Actually
I look good in my first driver's license picture. But
that's beyond the point. The issue today is kids don't
even want to get it until sometimes they're in there
in the in college. What world are you in? Don't

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you do anything? No?

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Well, Jim, we're in a world where we're afraid we're
going to lose our democracy. And as I said a
moment ago, I was going to ask AI, and I
went into the co pilot for Microsoft, that's their AI.
The first thing as I started to type in there
the question will America lose its democracy? It stopped me
for a second. AI just stopped me to verify that

(08:45):
I was human. That's the first thing that happened. I'm
not making that up. This thing that people have what
they feel to be real relationships with answering all of
their emotional and mental health issues. The first thing AI
was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're not a bot, aren't you?

(09:07):
You're a bot?

Speaker 2 (09:09):
So you're not making that up.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
No, I swear to you, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
I had to click the box and I didn't have
to choose which was the bicycle or whatever, but it
just said, verify you're human.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
What do you care?

Speaker 2 (09:21):
This sounds like it could be a problem.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Could be?

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Says will America lose its democracy? Microsoft Copilot says short answer,
No one can say America will lose its democracy, but
current expert assessments show serious democratic stress, especially rising executive power, polarization,
and election related conflicts, while also highlighting that democratic decline

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is reversible if institutions and citizens push back. Oh thank goodness.
It didn't say, well, technically, America doesn't have a winner
take all plurality rules democracy. It is a represent republic,
and let's teach you how the electoral college works. Didn't
say any of that. It just encouraged people. Hey, you

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know it's hanging on by a thread. Institutions and citizens
must push back. Well, thank goodness they are, because we
still don't have a king. Now we have a final four.
Now the eleven to ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief.
Here's Jim Rows.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
In case god, good morning, everybody up. We're down to
four of them. Three hundred and fifteen teams start the
year hoping to be one of these. Michigan, Arizona, Illinois,
and Connecticut are one of these Final four. Twenty twenty six,
Yukon Husky's overcame a nineteen point deficit to beat Duke
on this play in the last ten seconds. Star gets
it into camp Boozer, poo boozer, back to sar now

(10:44):
ahead to Cayton boozer and you kin't got a steal
caravan for bubbots. Four free body got it he hit,
He hit the long three pointer. Cuck a logo with
three kents of as get left to do. I don't
believe it. You CONTs take to believe logo three to

(11:06):
win the game. Mullins, the former Indiana Mister Basketball, will
lead the Huskies into the Final four. This weekend in Indianapolis,
says the moment chose him.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
I had the ball and I know Ak had just
hit once, so I threw him at four seconds left,
and man, he just threw the ball back to me.
I knew how to pull one up, so man, I'm
just happy that that was the one that went down tonight.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Epic collapse by the Blue Devils. No number one seed
in the history of the NCAA Tournament has ever lost
a lead that big. Earlier in the day, Michigan blows
out Tennessee. Now, how is Yukon now not the premier
basketball program in the country. They have a chance to
win the title for the third time in four years.
Coach News, it looks like Billy Donovan, who led Florida

(11:46):
to titles then off to the NBA, will come back
to college. Eleven years later. He will be hired as
coach at North Carolina. Hey, the money is just as
good for the players. Rick Patino signs a contract extension
to keep him at Saint John. He's seventy three. His
new deal is seven million a year, good for another
four years. Usually the first week in April we start

(12:08):
spring football practice at Nebraska, but this year we end
it before April spring game Saturday. What happened not much
accept some good action by the running backs, lots of
rushing yards. The big runs came against the fourth team defense.
But even so, I'm very happy with that group of backs,
says coach Matt Rule.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
We got a lot of questions about backs, whether it's
in here, but mainly we know when I go to
the store, if you catch me at a bar or
restaurant and people ask me about the running backs, and
we just I think, you know, we kind of on record.
Just we feel like we have good backs, and I
think we saw all of them do something positive today.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
One of the young backs shined, freshman Jamal Rule from Charlotte.
Rule didn't push the heisman after Saturday, but as glad
we have him.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
I think all of us have been really impressed with Jamal.
I think he's he's a natural runner, he's he's a freshman,
and he's I think probably already think he's already to ten.
He'll to way to ten. So he's big, he's fast,
he has good vision.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Offensive line was pretty good. But against what that is
always the question in spring when you have a bunch
of new guys. Baseball Huskers did the job, playing lower
division teams but winning again, up to eight and one
in the Big Ten with the sweep of Indiana twelve
to four yesterday. Dylan Carey keeps killing it at the plate.
He had another four for four day. Jay's win the

(13:23):
series against Sacramento State play host to Nebraska tomorrow. Un
O wins the series at Saint Thomas One on Sunday,
eleven to seven. A solid six and three in the
Summit that's good for second place. This morning, Big League Baseball,
Ken City Royals got their first win of the year
four to one over the Braves. The Rangers, Reds, Brewers,
and Rays won inter league games in Action League. Miami,

(13:45):
Pittsburgh and the Nationals get victories in the American League
Baltimore over Minnesota eight to six. Toronto beatda's Houston over
the Angels, and the Mariners defeated the Guardians eight to nothing.
Louisville ten to four over Omaha. That's a sweep for
Louisville over the Stormchains to start the year, and the
number nine Nebraska softball team gets a series victory over
number seven UCLA down at Bowlin Stadium and Lincoln Final yesterday,

(14:09):
eight to four better than eighty five hundred showed up
to watch those three games. That's a really nice crowd
for softball and a two to one series victory for Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
News Radio eleven ten kfab I saw a little bit
of the comment from Nebraska's quarterback Calandria after the game.
He'sa I like Lincoln. It's like a college town. Yes
it is.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yes, it's very much like he likes to eat in Omaha.
He drives all the way to Omaha for lunch. Yeah,
every day, because he said, they have good food here,
good food in Omaha, and Lincoln's like a college town,
so our oh, go to college there. Our little version
of Spacoli popped up again after the spring game, and
we'll chronicle that for you at about seven to twenty. Okay, good,

(14:52):
But this guy, this guy has a chance to be
one of those. We haven't had a quote machine down
there since in my opinion, Johnny Mitchell. Now, Sheldon Jackson
came close. He was the tight end in the late nineties,
But we haven't had a quote machine in quad a while.
This guy could be it. Jack Ganguish was fun. Jack
Ganguish was closed. He had the one year. Uh, and

(15:14):
of course Calandria is only going to get one year.
But when jack Ganguish decided to execute a raccoon, well
that got some attention too.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Well it's I mean, he was taking a selfie with
it and then the raccoon bit him.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
And then Jackie just responded just in the same way
everybody else does. Yeah, it's amazing is that it wasn't
rabbit and he was gonna need Bravy shots the next
six weeks. But anyway, Yeah, Anthony Calandria has a chance
to do something around here that we like, and that
is say something that you really you really wonder. Okay,
where did that come from? Like I said, it's another

(15:47):
Jeff Spacoli on our hands here.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
In the Zonker's custom was inbox which is open for
you anytime. Via Scott at kfab dot com. Kevin emails
and says no Kings and its pictures of Obama and Biden,
each wearing crowns Obama saying get my health care or
pay a fine. Biden says get my vaccine or lose
your job. It's something I saw on Facebook on Saturday

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during the No King's rallies from a guy named Jim.
Jim started going through a story, and I'm not going
to read the entire thing, but he said, as far
as the No King's stance, if I had to go
to one of these rallies, it would be for doctor
Anthony Fauci, because the American public, including employers, were forced

(16:36):
to get a vaccine shot or face losing your employment.
I couldn't afford to lose my job, so I took
two injections against my doctor's advice. Now again, we're just
taking his comments here at face value. And one of
the big things that's happened in this country is whatever
anyone says anything very strongly that is their opinion or

(16:59):
their reality from the COVID vaccine. The other side says,
there are a bunch of liars and criminals and should
probably be jailed for saying that. Here's what Jim is saying.
I couldn't afford to lose my job, so I took
two of the COVID injections against my doctor's advice. Showed
my papers kept my job. Next, the injections over the
next year put me into congestive heart failure. The only

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person to figure it out was my doctor. After being
hospitalized heart surgeons were clueless. Thousands of dollars owed for nothing.
My doctor wasn't recognized under my insurance, so I paid
out a pocket saved my life. But I was one
of seven patients he diagnosed the same way the COVID
shots caused my heart failure. He goes on and talks

(17:42):
about that. Now, I don't know. I know that there
are people who said, as suddenly you had an issue
with heart, whether it's an enlarged heart or abnormal heart
rhythms or in this case, full congestive heart failure after
taking the COVID shot. There were a lot of people
who said, well, you know what else could cause some

(18:04):
of those heart problems as COVID. So it could be
had COVID and didn't know it and that's what caused
his heart issue, which is very possible. Also it could
be seen as a convenient excuse. Will never know, but
the fact that people like Jim who say stuff like
that or asked questions about that are immediately shut down

(18:27):
as I think incredibly dangerous. I said this after RFK
got in there, because he was asking some of these questions,
and people were in sensed that someone asking these questions,
would be in a position to try and get some answers.
What is more American than asking questions and trying to
get the answers, trying to get to the bottom of this,

(18:48):
especially with something such a big deal as the COVID shot.
So that's what Jim said. Happened to him? Is he
not allowed to say that? I'm surprised Facebook hasn't taken
that down. A few years ago, they would have taken
that down. We've got traffic, weather news, the Husker buzz.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Oh, yes, you see, they have a new variant.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Oh, Lucy, I haven't heard of a new variant and
quite some times, sorry, I didn't know you wanted to
pop in there. I thought you were just waiting to
do traffic, like hurry up, Scott. Well, usually no, what
do we got here? The delta, the omega, the alpha,
the omicron?

Speaker 3 (19:26):
What do we got?

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Cicada?

Speaker 3 (19:28):
The cicada.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
But I'm thinking this might be a good name for it,
because maybe that means it only comes around every seventeen years.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
I was also thinking of a seventeen year joke saying, oh,
a cicada variant, I haven't seen that in seventeen.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Years, or maybe it was developed seventeen years ago.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Remember did I say developed two thousand and nine. I
didn't mean oh yeah, it was a hatch in a
lab and then released on an unsuspected public. Look I'm
people are like, you're a COVID denier, you're a vaccine No,
I'm not. I am pro asking questions. That's what I am.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
When I saw this the other day, I didn't realize
this was a comedian making this joke. But everyone, I
think everyone knows the song, even if they don't know
the words of the translation. It's one of the more
famous openings in movie history. So maybe you saw the

(20:28):
video the other day where some guys on a podcast
were talking to someone and I didn't have any idea
who they were talking to, but the guy who seemed
to know what he was talking about said, yeah, no
one has ever asked what is being said here in
the language being spoken song here in the opening to

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the lion King in that song circle of Life, and
what he said the opening African chant translates to look,
there's a lion. Oh my goodness, there's a lion. And
people started sharing that all over social media, saying this
is what the chant at the start of the Lion

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King means just that look, graze, look there's a lion.
Oh my gosh, that's a lion. So that that was
what's going around the other day. Well, got back to
the composer of the song. Turns out that was a joke.
That is not what the chance says. He says it

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translates to all hail the King, we all bow in
the presence of the King. Now, the protesters on Saturday
here in Omahan, Lincoln and across the country are not
going to like that. I don't know if they're okay
with a lion king. They said, well, probably not. They said,
no Kings, it would be lion Kings. That would be

(21:57):
the Los Angeles Kings hockey team, the sacrament King's basketball team,
King Burger King, Rodney King.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
They don't like any of that King's restaurant.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
No, they hate that.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
No Kings, No Kings means no kings, Lucy, I don't
know how much they can be.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
They don't like that.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
So not only did the guy who composed that song say, no,
that was a joke, that's not what it means, he's
suing the comedian who made the.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Joke for he can't do that for.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Twenty seven million dollars.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
That's dumb.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Of course it's dumb, he says. He says that.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
If people think that the lyrics he wrote are really
that dumb, then it could negatively impact his reputation and
a state. So therefore it diminishes the song's value, and
he's seeking more than twenty seven million dollars in damages.
I think everyone already bought the soundtrack in nineteen ninety four.

(23:04):
I don't know how it's going to impact, especially since,
as everyone admits, including the comedian. No, No, it was
just it's a joke. You're not allowed to make jokes anymore.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
No.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Chris Rock made that joke at the Academy Awards and
Will Smith slapped him. Howie Mandel made a joke when
talking to Kelly Rippa on the TV the other day.
He just apologized for it today. The joke was Kelly
Rippa was saying, oh, yeah, I can't believe how good
you look, and Howie Mandel, who's self deprecating and admittedly

(23:41):
kind of a jerk, he starts firing back like, oh,
that's such a backhanded compliment. It's always like, oh, you
look good for your age, Howie Mandel is like, seventy.
It's just a nice way of saying like, wow, I
can't believe you're still alive. You know, you look good
for your age. He's like, no, I'm not saying that,
and you look really good. Oh, I know what it means.
It's like saying you're pretty smart for a stupid person.

(24:03):
Now again jokes, but people got mad, and Howie Mandel
had to come out and say, I'm not accustomed to
apologizing for a joke, but I will admit this joke
didn't land very well. I love Kelly Rippas, she's great.
Sorry if you were offended or whatever he said by it. So, yeah,

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you're not allowed to joke anymore. Thankfully. I've never said
anything funny and I'm not going to start today. You
know why the president does this, right, He sees these
no Kings rallies and he basically sits there with his
advisers and says, what can we do to really tick

(24:46):
him off today? Well, mister President, there's that idea that
Dan had, but we can't do it. It's constitutionally, it's
just not going to work out. There's a lot of hurdles. Great,
let's do it. Do you want to know what it is? Mister, Nope,
do it so for the first time, you know, they'd

(25:08):
floated putting his face, the president's face on money, on currency,
three dollars bill or whatever it is that they wanted
to do it on. And they say, well, you can't
put the president's face on money. There's a lot of
rules about that. He goes, all right, how about my signature?

(25:28):
And they said, Hm, usually new money bears the signature
of the Secretary of the Treasury. Well, what if Scott bessn't?
The Treasury Secretary says, I defer to the commander in
chief and will put his signature on money. So, for
the first time, a sitting US president's signature will appear

(25:53):
on American paper money. The announcement came late last week
from the Treasury departm saying that Donald J. Trump will
go on all denominations of paper US currency. He's gonna
sign it all himself, just seeing if Lucy's paying attention.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
No, I am, And that's that's really too bad that
this is happening.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Why is it too bad?

Speaker 2 (26:17):
I just think it's a bad look.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
He doesn't care. I know, he does not give a rip.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
The change ends a run dating back to eighteen sixty
one of displaying only the Treasurer's signature on federal notes.
The first one hundred dollars bills carrying Trump's signature, along
with Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessant, are scheduled to
be printed in June. Other denominations will follow. So it's
Trump's signature on money. And I know that there'll be

(26:50):
a lot of people who will see this, and they'll
they'll have a very visceral reaction to it. A lot
of people be very very unhappy. And I encourage you
to take those bills and bring them to the radio
station fifty ten Underwood Avenue here at the Gary Sadlemeyer
Building in beautiful Dundee, USA, Omaha, Nebraska six eight one

(27:12):
three two. You can just drop them off and we
will take those from you. I would hate for you
to have to see Trump's signature on your paper money.
After all, someone else worked very very hard for that
money and you somehow got it. And if it's going
to be a problem, just drop it by or mail

(27:34):
it to the radio studio. We don't have any so
we'll we'll take yours. Why do you think it's unfortunate
that the president's doing this, other than it's childish and
just like.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Him, are you asking me? Yeah, well for those reasons,
for sure, but it just it's just a bad look.
This is not this is not the way things are
suppose to go. Now, if he ends up, uh staying
in politics, maybe being the treasurer in the next administration,

(28:09):
well then fine.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
No president will put him in their cabinet because that's
probably true, because it would be like he was in charge.
All right, shut up, mister president, to let me handle it. Sir,
you're the secretary of the Interior. I don't know what
that means. No one does. I'm in charge here. We
just we just bombed Syria. Mister secretary, you can't do that.

(28:33):
And I'm putting my picture on money. Now, you can't
put a president's picture on money. And putting my picture
on money, then nothing in there that.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Believe it or not. There's a lot of Trump supporters
that are not loving this guy.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Uh No, there are.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
A lot of people who look at this and go,
why do you do this? And I'm I'll tell you
why he does it. He does it because it ticks
a lot of people off who hate them who hate
him and by and here's the other thing, all the
people out their protests, and this is a part of
a longer rant that's coming up at nine oh five
this morning. The people out there protesting on Saturday, saying

(29:07):
no Kings, no kings. What they don't really what they
really really don't like is you for having the audacity
to vote for that man.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
They hate you.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
They wish you didn't exist, They wish that you did
not have a voice, whether it's in American politics, social media, whatever.
They hate your guts. And the President just likes to
tweak these people by finding funny little ways, childish, immature,
admittedly funny little ways to tick people off. And this

(29:37):
is just the latest way. And they'll probably be nine
more this week. Nebraska's Morning News here with you every
weekday morning. I'm Scott Vorhees. I get a chance to
hang out with Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, Dan Schwartzman,
and for Courtney Dnahoe. We're all here on news radio
eleven ten. Kfab Scott at kfab dot com. Share an

(29:58):
email says, I really don't care whose face or a
signature is on my cash as long as it pays
for my unhealthy big Max. That's from Sharon sent to
Scott atkfab dot com. And Rich is I would say
mildly disappointed in Lucy Chapman's assessment that President Trump doesn't

(30:18):
need to put his signature on money, which I also
said was childish, immature, par for the course, and it'll
probably be one of nine things the president does this
week simply just to tweak the people who can't stand him.
That's what he does. But Rich says Jim Schumer is contagious.

(30:40):
Now he's infected.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Lucy, I don't understand what he's getting in Schumer.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
I think it's the way it works is if you
ever say anything that's even slightly negative against the president, though,
you're either completely with us or you're against us. Rich
also congratulates me though on being now able to outdrive
Tiger Woods. So Rich is firing. No one's safe from

(31:10):
Rich's emails this morning.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Hey, Rich, let me just ask this. Yeah, if you know,
you know, but we don't want Trump to be universally
around the world loved because that could spell disaster. And
if you know, you know.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Well, okay, I don't know that I know, but there's
a if you're not familiar with how this.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
Works, sounds like Lucy has a conspiracy theory.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
So sw we do this on this program. And Lucy
now says follow the money and then just backs away
from the microphone with a very very satisfied smile on
her face. I was just all right, I'm just looking
by the way to see if there was a statement
from a Tiger Woods camp on the latest car accident,
and there still is not. But he also hasn't ruled

(32:06):
out playing in the Masters next week, So who knows
what Eldrick might do.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Well, you're right, Trump doesn't care what people think. And
the situation with Tiger Woods is really taking a negative
turn because it appears Vanessa Trump, who is now his girlfriend,
and being the girlfriend of Tiger Woods is probably something
you're gonna want to be really careful about hanging your
hat on. Who's Vanessa Truck that's Donald Junior's ex. She's

(32:34):
been dating Tiger and it's been really good for you know,
that publicity hound kai Trump because anytime she can hang
around Tiger Woods, she gets more clicks on her social
media account. Anytime Tiger Woods, Hey, why does she stand
next to grandpa because it's good for business.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Maybe business. Maybe she likes her grandpa. Yeah, she's working
on being a golfer in her own right.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
She she's and she's got an nil deal for the
one thousand, seven hundred and fiftieth rank golfer in the country.
She's got a pretty good nil deal anyway. That's besides Vanessa.
Trump allegedly allegedly told TMZ or one of those websites
he better get strained out or I'm out of here.
And my thinking is, no, you're not. She didn't. You're

(33:17):
gonna hang around as long as you can. Well.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Trump had a quote even about Tigers, saying it's very
unfortunate he's not gonna play in the Masters. But he
said that before Tiger's car accident on Friday. That was
out Friday morning. The President said, no, Tiger's not going
to play in the Masters. And then he didn't say,
you know, in a Hillary Clinton way, he's gonna have
a bad car accident later today, probably around one. You know,

(33:40):
he didn't he didn't say any of that. I'm glad
Tiger's okay, I'm glad everyone's okay.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Well, the amount of don't think Tiger's okay, Tiger, maybe
a lot of things. Okay, may not be one of them.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Let me put it differently. I'm glad Tiger's not badly
injured as a result of this rollover crash.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
The thing about it is, and we don't know until
the investigation is complete. He refused a UR analysis. He
didn't actually blow the necessary amount to be picked up
for DUI, but he failed to field sobriety test and
refused to undergo a UR analysis. Now that could be

(34:19):
for a bunch of reasons. Don't jump to conclusions that
he's hiding something. But the truth is that he's probably
been on so much painkilling medication since the Achilles' heel
rupture to on top of the nearly losing of his leg,
on top of all of his other injuries, that that
mixture of painkilling medication might qualify as something you should

(34:45):
not have in your system when you climb behind the wheel.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
It happens people a lot who take a very different
cocktail of prescription drugs and suddenly they don't know what
planet they're on. A lot of people people say, and
I don't think it's wrong to point this out. Tiger
Woods has more money than most second world nations. He

(35:08):
could probably find someone to drive him around, and at
this point he probably should.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Wait.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
But still it's no statement from Tiger's camp on any
of this. He's very very secretive about his personal life,
but you're putting people in danger on the road, you
should probably say something about it.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Well, the mystery is just what you mentioned, Scott. This
guy has, even after the divorce, upwards of several hundred
million dollars. You'd think that he could find somebody for
one hundred k a year to drive him around. But
you know, he likes to get behind the wheel. He
likes the freedom of getting behind the wheel of his
own escalade, probably one of several escalades.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
I think he's moved on well because he was doing
buick there for a while than Genesis. He's crashed all
these cars, and the car companies keep saying, please, don't
tell people what car you're driving. Don't think any car
dealership or company wants Tiger driving their cars right now.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
So but look, can Uber can he participate in the Masters? Hell?

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Yay?

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Can he can do whatever he wants whatever the the
organizers invite him to do that. This is not the
kind of thing that typically gets you xed out of
the masters.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
I think Tiger would be a great endorsement spokesperson for Uber.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
At this point, Scott at kfab dot com is the
email address. Will says Tiger is too cheap to hire
a driver. Will and Eldrick are apparently close friends. He
knows that. Thank you for checking in Brian emails and says, actually,
I would think the car companies would want everyone to
know that Tiger was driving their brand. They just need

(36:47):
to word Smith and add something along the lines of
our car is safe enough for Tiger, so think about
how safe it'll be for you and your loved ones.
That's a fledgling marketing exits executive Brian in the Zonker's
custom was inbox as well Scott atkfab dot com and

(37:07):
I can see messages piling up in the talkback mic
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You can send that message in with your own voice
via the talkback mic right there on your screen. Speaking
of automobiles, this woman had was driving a really nice Mercedes,

(37:28):
the Mercedes C three hundred. Well, I started idling after
a tank of bad gas, so she had it towed
to a Mercedes Benz dealership near Memphis, Tennessee, and it
was there for several days. Several days. That's red flag

(37:49):
number one. Well, the other night, she gets a notification.
At seven o'clock on a Friday night, she gets a
notification from her car, which is very very smart, that
her car is on the move. From seven pm to
one am, she watched her car travel between different bars,
and rather than call the cops, she got up and

(38:11):
drove to one of the bars. One of the cars, Yeah,
one of the bars in her loner car, and her
car was sitting there using her spare key to access
the vehicle, confirming the car was hers. That's when she
called the police. They find the coat belonging to a
guy who is inside the bar. His name's Derek. He
works at the dealership, and he tries to say, I

(38:33):
have permission, we have to drive these cars to make
sure they're okay. While intoxicated in the middle of the night,
from bar to bar. She's going after the dealership. The
dealership says that they've still employed this guy and are
asking her not to press charges, saying, ah, he's a
really good kid. Our guys say you know, we had
to test drive vehicles all the time to diagnose problems.

(38:56):
You should be thanking this guy. I don't, no, no,
She says she had her vehicle towed there several days ago,
and they haven't had a chance to do to flock.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
The mileage when they drop a car off. I guess
they could change it.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Yeah, at least they weren't doing that thing from Ferris
Bueller where they're flying through the air in this guy's
sports car and Cameron's dad sports car. I'm worried about
Craig Evans. Craig, he takes this news so personally. He
turned off his microphone after throwing it to Timesaver traffic
and was just sitting there in the news booth sobbing.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
I looked up. I saw him drying his eyes with
a tissue. Stock market crash. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
I think he just has so much empathy for the
people in the news.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
He's a very wealthy man, so this big dip in
the market's probably weighing on him deeply. Very wealthy.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
But it could be just the same allergies everyone else
has been experiencing. It's been so dry that rain is
going to be really nice here this week, and then
if it really rains hard and we all get rain
on our faces, you won't know that Craig has been crying.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
You we need we need hard rain for about five
straight days.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
I'm surprised that people at that No King's rally on
Saturday didn't blow away. Yeah, put you got to put
flaps in your sign so it doesn't lift you into
the air and take you over to Pottawatamee County.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Well, Scott, I'm very confused because this was the No
King's rally that didn't have a lot of people attended,
you know, across the country didn't. And I'm wondering who
they're protesting because as I look at what's going on
in Washington, d c. And it's probably an oligarchy on
some level. Bernie Sanders has been the United States Congress

(40:40):
for forty years. Joe Biden had been in it for
fifty years. Yeah, Chuck Schumer has been in it for
fifty two years. Donald Trump has been in it for
five So who are the Kings now basketball team in Sacramento? Yeah, Yeah,
that's that's a very inconvenient point. Jim Rose. Facts are

(41:02):
very stubborn and can be extremely inconvenient. Yes, so I'm
just thinking, Okay, where was the anti Chuck Schumer sign?
This guy has been on the public trough for fifty
two years.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Will you give Chuck Schumer a break? The guy has
a face like a melting candle. He's got it bad
enough as it is.

Speaker 3 (41:23):
Now.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
They're also out there protesting Jim Pillen. I saw some
of the anti Jim Pillen signs well in office for
four Yes. Now the lawmaker this is a former state
lawmaker who was one of the plaintiffs in the case
suing Governor Pillen saying you can't use that jail in
McCook as a jail and allow federal authorities to house

(41:46):
those detained by ice at this jail in McCook. This
is a former state senator from Lincoln, Diana Shimmeck, who
is originally from Holdridge in that area in the country,
but she served in the unicameral out of Lincoln and the.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
School board and the Lincoln school Board.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Was she she's well, she's been around, she's she's somewhere
in the mid eighties.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
She's she's she's been up and down the halls.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Yeah, which is totally fine, but it seems like you
can't in Lincoln file a lawsuit on behalf of people
in McCook and say I don't like that the governor did.
It turns out they they felt that she didn't have
standing in the case, and so the lawsuit against the
governor regarding the use of a jail as a jail

(42:37):
has been dismissed.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
But my understanding is that's a federal action that Jim
Pillen was just an accessory to the crime. Pardon the pun. Yes,
And if she's going to sue somebody DJ Trump because
this resident Department of Homeland Security go after Tom Holman,
you know, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and customs. There

(43:00):
there's lots of material out there for you, Senator Shimmick.
But the governor basically was told, here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna use your building, and we're gonna pay you
for it.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Senator, if the governor and the President get together and
they say we have run out of places and all
the jails and El Salvador and you've gone down other
places won't take them. So you're going to house some
of these federal detainees in your home, then I will
join you in the lawsuit. But the lawsuit, like, I
don't think it's right for him to use a jail

(43:32):
as a jail. Well, that's seems a little flimsy to me.
How about the Juvenile Justice Center? How about the juvenile in.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
The event that we sort of get stacked up on
the illegals that need to go, and it's open, and
it's it's right on a rail line and a river,
why don't we use that. At last report, it's unoccupied.
It is available. I'm not sure why it remains unoccupied,
but it is right.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Well, since the no Kings ralliers all feel that Ice
the President's gestapo is out there just grabbing kids out
of first grade classrooms, at least put them in a
place that is sized for the juvenile population. I think
everyone would be have small chairs. Thrilled by this. Small chairs, yeah,
little coat room hook low countertops, yeah yeah, yeah, the

(44:19):
smaller drinking fountains. When listening to us, you can send
us a message with your own voice via the talkback Mike.

Speaker 7 (44:27):
Hey, God bless you, Rosie. And I'm a right wing conservative.
I'm to the right of Rush and the left of God.
But do you want to start talking to oligarchy and
who's been in Congress. River, don't forget about Sender Grassley.
The guy recommended me to the Air Force Academy when
I graduated high school in nineteen ninety. In nineteen ninety,
I could have had a full career in the military.

(44:48):
I retired or got out anyway, But anyway, I could
have had a full career, been out and had another job.
And he's still in Congress.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
So it goes both ways. Brother, Oh yeah, sure it does.
He's been there for a long time. Since he's been there,
since he's been there since the Jackson administration. Or it
seems like, you know what about term limits, I mean
that's a that's a half dozen of one six to another.
Not I can tell you that the term limits that
are that were passed in Nebraska, what was it, two

(45:15):
thousand and six, something like that whenever they wanted to
get rid of earning Ny Chambers.

Speaker 6 (45:19):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
It's probably had a net negative effect on Nebraska policy
and legislation because it has taken out very experienced, to
capable negotiators that are policy people and replace them. And
this is no criticism of them, but they came to
the uncamera with one issue and that's it, and that

(45:40):
makes them not really qualified to do policy, because if
you come with a political issue to a place like
a legislature, whether it's the Nebraska Unicameral or the House
US House of Representatives, that means you're not thinking policy,
you're thinking change. The problem is policy hangs around through
good times and times. And what we're finding out right

(46:02):
now because of our perilous financial situation, is we had
a lot of people show up and say I want
mine now, and that's that. Well, that doesn't usually foretell
of good policy. It's a very.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Diplomatic way of saying that there are a lot of
people at the Unicameral who are treating that body as
their own private no King's rally every single day and
just obstructing and chanting and carrying on and crying and
throwing temper tantrums.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Well put, we've had some really great people in my
lifetime serving that Unicameral for very little money, Jerome Warner,
Var Johnson, Terry Carpenter, among others. These are people that
were thoughtful, Mike Flood. These were people that are very thoughtful,
very intelligent, and they saw the broad horizon of how

(46:45):
policy can do good things. Doug Christiansen might have been
the best speaker we've ever had. These guys understood the look,
we can't do what you want to do exactly the
way you want to do it today, because we got
to come back to work tomorrow and there's going to
be somebody after us that is going to inherit your problem.
And when you have governors and you have senators who

(47:06):
come with a one issue mindset, you can get into
deep trouble. And we are. We have a huge financial
problem in this state because we didn't think policy, we
thought politics, and now we still don't have property tax relief,
but we got big debts coming. That was a little
early rosie to appetizer. Yeah, it's Holy week, so I've

(47:28):
turned the page. It's my assessment off here.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Every day the president says exactly the same thing, and
some days the stock market hears it and says, oh, fine,
fantastic news, God jolly good. And then the next day
the president says the same thing. They're like, that guy's
lying and I'm selling everything. Let's burn this Wall Street
down right down to the nubs.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Yeah, let's do that. What's going on here? The President
says the same thing, because it says the first minute
of this. It's because today, in light of our media age,
the market reads headlines, not fundamentals. The market reads and
listens to policymakers. They don't look at the fundamentals of
the economy. Now we're going to have the earnings report

(48:10):
here in a couple of days, and that tells you
that used to be the harbinger that would be okay,
how our corporation's doing. They're making a lot of money. Great,
the stock market is up. But now they listen to headlines.
They listen to people that say this is what's happening,
with no real knowledge of it. And that's why the
market is up and down and all around. But the

(48:32):
president does need to be careful, Scott, because he might
be writing checks he can cash. This conflict has to
end in a couple of weeks or we're going to
have problems with the global economy because hey, look a
lot of the rest of the world uses oil out
of the Straits of Hormuz and the Middle East. We

(48:53):
don't we now produce our own. We used to. We
now produce our own, But Europe and Asia use is
a lot of that oil. And if you've got thirty
forty tankers stopped up in the Straits of Hormuz because
they're afraid of getting sunk by bad guys. That affects
the economy. The other issue is, of course, the terrorists
this country. Iran supports hesbalah Hamas and the Huthis. These

(49:17):
are the free agents that go out there and shoot
at people willy nilly. The challenge, of course for them
is if Iran has no economy, which right now it
does not because we've blown up pretty much all of
their oil exportation facilities, not the actual oil producing facilities,
then there's no money to pay them or buy their guns,

(49:38):
so it eventually they're going to run out of stuff.
In the meantime, they could cause trouble and it's not
gonna stop tomorrow a couple of months. They're not gonna
do it for free. Then they're not gonna do I.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
It's been paying them saying, look, you blow yourself up, right,
you're gonna get dozens and dozens of virgins and your
family will be paid.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Well and they're going to buy gear right when that.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
So when that doesn't happen, what incentive is there for
someone to go and blow himself up other than just
for the love of the game.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
Yeah, or they hate juice. They really really hate Jews
more than about anything in the world. So this is
our problem. But you're right. Your observation is we'll hear
something from the president, the market will go up twenty
two percent. We'll hear something from somebody else, they're going
to go down twenty two percent. Well, we haven't had
that kind of wild swing. No, But the president, the

(50:26):
president is he's a media force more than any president
we've ever had. He understands this is how I get
it out there. That's why he does a news conference
every fifteen minutes, and he does it for an hour
and a half and he says the exact same thing.
Joe Biden did this. He was stupid. We let stupid

(50:47):
people run the show that allowed all these immigrants in here.
That's why this problem is this problem. Iran has a nuke.
We can't let them have a nuke. We got to
get the four hundred pounds of a uranium out of there.
And if we don't think, build a bomb and they
could sell it to the houthies who will blow up
a pop machine in Tel Aviv.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
But the media, you're saying that they just read the
headlines that the media provides the people, Walls Street, whatever. Well,
the Wall Street Journal just came out with this headline
that Trump considers risky US mission to seize Iran's uranium.
Now I glancing the story and it's exactly as I figured.

(51:27):
They go and ask the President, would you put military
boots on the ground in Iran to go and seize
the enriched uranium from Iran? The President says what he
always says, Hey, you maybe you know, you never know.
All options are on the table. We're not going to
take any options off the table. And suddenly here comes
the media. The President did not rule out. Of course,

(51:49):
he's not going to rule it out. He never rules
anything out. He says the same stuff over and over again.
He said the same stuff when he was asked over
the weekend, would you just go ahead and hake Iran's oil?
He's like, yeah, that'd be great. He says we could
do it very easily, and dismissed any critics as stupid people,
and we would just take their oil. He didn't say

(52:12):
that's what we're going to do. Someone asked him a question,
would you do this? Would you not do this, and
he said the same thing he always says, yeah, maybe
who knows, and we'll love it. Everyone will love it,
everyone will be very happy with it. We'll give everyone oil.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
This is a risk to the president. The President could
have kicked this can down the road and said, well,
if they get one, yeah, you can blame Joe Biden
and Barack Obama because they gave him five hundred billion
dollars in some sort of a faux deal to stop
their nuclear program. But what happens if a nuclear bomb
goes off. The global economy is off the cliff. So

(52:49):
you got to give this president. And it's risky because
we're only what seven months from the midterms. This president
is doing a risky political move in a real critical time.
But it was clear to him if we don't act,
they're gonna get a weapon. And if they get a weapon,
they're not going to sit on it. They're not going
to be part of the International Nuclear Atomic Energy Commission.

(53:12):
They're going to sell it to somebody, some bad group
that will blow up somebodace very very important to us.
It might be in Europe because those borders are so soft.
It might be in Israel, it might be in this
country who knows. So I give him credit for that,
but it's at a considerable risk. Scott. This economy is fragile.

(53:33):
People are very unhappy because prices aren't down. Prices are
going way back up again for gas, and healthcare costs
are not even slowing down, let alone going down. People
are very very on edge. They don't know what The
interest rates have not dropped like he promised.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Well, the President is not worried about this Iran deal
being an impact in the midterm elections, because there'll be
seventeen outrages an hour between now and then. We got
seven months. It might as well be seventeen million years.
Speaking of oil, the President last night said he had
no problem with a Russian oil tanker that's just hanging
out off the coast of Cuba. What year is this,

(54:16):
he said, Yeah, Cuba has been pretty much destroyed. He goes,
we got a tanker out there. We don't mind having
somebody get a boat load of oil because Cuba needs
it to survive. So if would the tanker be allowed
to reach Cuba? He says, I told them, if a

(54:37):
country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now,
I have no problem whether it's Russia or not. This
oil tanker with approximately seven hundred and thirty thousand barrels
of oil was just off the eastern tip of Cuba
last night, slated to arrive in Mazantsis. If I'm not
saying that correctly by tuesday. Do they have an oil

(54:59):
refin in Cuba?

Speaker 3 (55:02):
I don't know. That seems like a pretty tall order
to me an oil refinery, and if they do have one,
it's probably not very young.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
So they said, you know, Russia hanging out around Cuba's
historically not been a great thing for America, especially when they.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
Have nuclear missiles. But well, we think it's just oil
on here, and let's check it out. You know this.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
The President said, well, it doesn't help Putin to give
oil to Cuba. He loses one boat load of oil,
that's all. If he wants to do that, other countries
want to do that doesn't bother me much. But Cuba
is finished. It's not going to have an impact. Cuba
has a bad regime. An interesting point. If Russia, who
needs oil, wants to give away all these barrels oil

(55:49):
to Cuba, fine, now they've.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Got their own. It's pretty rough stuff, but they have
their own oil. The thing that struck me last week
when Trump was talking about making Cuba basically an American
principality again, that would be in direct violation of the
deal that was made between JFK and Tikita Kruzchev, which

(56:12):
is we'll take the missiles out of Turkey. This is
in October of nineteen sixty two, when we came pretty
close to a nuclear war. We'll take our missiles out
of Turkey, Jupiter missiles out of Turkey. And you never
ever ever take stuff like that into Cuba. And in
addition to us taking the missiles out of Turkey, we

(56:32):
promised never to invade Cuba, and that came from the
President of the United States. Now, there was no contract,
there was no treaty. It was just an understanding that
every General Secretary and president thereafter has honored. But now
here's Trump saying, now, I think we want to go
back to the nineteen fifties Cuba, when all of our
rich folks on the East Coast went down there for

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a vacation. President's disrupting something that's shocking.