April 21, 2026 • 55 mins
I think this Air Force base is restricted, Wang, so don't tell 'em you're Jewish. Also, we talk today about the creepy man-child of Gretna, the NE-02 Dem Dilemma, and more -- as well as talk with Sen. Ricketts about Iran, taxes, and potential trouble at home (you can thank Rosie for that one).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You'll use the radio in your car more than anything
else when buying a new car. Make sure the AMFM
is simple, clear, and convenient.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I don't know that that's accurate, To be honest, I
strive for accuracy if nothing else. And the guy says
that you'll use the radio in your car more than
anything else. The door, the gas pedal, the steering wheel
comes in handy.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, but he's probably right when he's talking about the blinker.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
If we're talking about some of the accessories beyond those things,
I mean the car seat. I use that almost every
time I drive. Not the baby seat, I mean the
seat where I sit there in the car.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You use that more?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yeah, I do use that a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
But Congress isn't trying to take any of those things
away yet. Actually it's not Congress, it's the auto manufacturer's
going AM radio. Who needs that kind of thing? Well,
I'm I'm glad that you do, or at least you
got tricked into listening this morning, and here you are,
and we might as well put on a show.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Right. This is Nebraska's Morning News. That's Lucy Chapman.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Just heard from Craig Evans, and you will four times
every single hour throughout the program. Jim Rose talks whenever
he wants, which is not enough. I'm Scott Vorhees, I
talk way too much. And we're all here on news
radio eleven ten kfab All right, now, what as we
surmise yesterday this guy in Gretna who on Thursday was
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chasing a couple of girls aged eleven and twelve through
a park. He was menacing, chasing after them, thirty some
year old thirty four year old guy I think he is.
And when police caught up with him, they said what
are you doing? He goes, I want to have sex
with those girls. So they arrested him and then was
(01:50):
let out on bail. Yesterday we're all gnashing our teeth
and wringing our hands. Gone high in the world, does
anyone let the thing. It's a Douglas County Corrections at
a sign a risk assessment score to this individual, and
he was given a score of one out of four.
And we were all decrying that yesterday as we were
looking at this guy's mugshot.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
There.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
You don't want to come on the radio and just
look at a guy's face and go this guy looks
like he's got diminished mental capabilities, because even with the
charges against him, you kind of hate to pile on
if the guy is like, what are you talking about.
I'm the CEO of a fortune five hundred company and
(02:37):
I'm running for Congress.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Oh sorry, I looked at your face and thought there
was something wrong with you. As it happens, the investigators,
the family of this guy, and those who are looking
at how to defend and prosecute this case are looking
at this individual and saying he has the mental capability
of a ten year old. All right, so now what
(03:03):
do you do, Jim? Now, what do you do? This guy?
He's a man child. He's chasing girls. He's got the
mental capability of a ten year old. At the same time,
you can't have a ten year old chasing girls around
and telling police he wanted to attack them.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So that happened. Now to ten year olds chase girls,
I want to have sex with girls.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Now, I don't know, that's maybe a different conversation. This
guy's not ten, he's thirty four. He's got the mentality
of a ten year old.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
He's got the mentality of well, but I'll joking aside.
This is what we talked about last week. What do
we do with these people? Okay, for a long long time,
society said, you families, you take care of them. It's
your problem. Okay, you know, this is your guy, this
is your gal. You know, don't let the state take
care of your You need to take responsibility for your
(03:52):
own family. Okay, Well, he's pretty much been living with family, right.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I don't know, because we also reported yesterday that the
house where he was reported to have lived was all vandalized.
Someone marked up the side of the house and the
fence going along this corner lot and spray painted or something,
all kinds of junk all over it.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
They go out and try and cover it up.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And now you've got to report here that says that
this guy doesn't even live there. It's where his caregivers, Okay,
live probably parents. So is it the wrong answer to
look at a family and say, same as if you
have an animal like you gotta make sure that this
they don't get out, potential threat is secured.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I think that's a fair observation. But what are we
going to do with the mentally ill? It's the fundamental question,
what do we do with people who are mentally unstable?
To the point of either damaging themselves or harming others.
And the question used to be answered with, well, it's
that big building over there on the other side of town.
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And then we got rid of the big buildings over
there on the other side of town because they were
quote unquot to inhumane. Well, rather than making them more humane,
we just shut them down and said, okay, you know
this one here, this Boo Radley gets to walk the streets, okay.
Or maybe they'll stay at home with a parent who
works and maybe they'll get out. Or in the case
(05:18):
of Naomi Geese Guzmann, she'll just run rampant up and
down Dodge Street. She'll get arrested and a judge will say,
I can't do anything, so you leave.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
She did that.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Maybe that's the same case with this guy. But we
have to fundamentally address what we do with mentally ill people.
And if we're going to require families, which is the
way it used to be, I mean for decades in
this country, families we didn't have these hospitals in the seventeenth, eighteenth,
nineteenth century. What a families do? They just they take
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care of them. Well, if that's the case, some families
simply don't have the capacity to do that, especially if
it's an adult child. Okay, we does what what do?
What does the richest country on Earth do with the
least of its citizens, the folks who came out of
the birth canal one chromosome short or in some cases
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two or three. We have fundamentally cut back on the
public support for mental health in this country to a
point now where it's a real huge health crisis. I
think everyone's saying we ought to have more mental help.
But right now, that's a counselor you check in with
once in a while. It's not a place you can
take someone and say you live here now. Well, obviously
(06:30):
have this conversation way too much. If you want to
join in, you're welcome to It's Scott at kfab dot
com and the Zonker's custom was inbox. Jim says that
we've got to listen in on Corey Booker's speech to
the Mission Democratic Women's Caucus yesterday.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Michigan. Isn't that what I said? I said, Mission Admission Michigan. Well,
that's what I meant. It was on a mission in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, it's and it's a swing state, so Democrat contenders
were all all hanging out.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Now, is there any swearing in this not, because when
it comes to politicians anymore, you never know.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
He lost his mind.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So he's he's all fired up, he's I don't know
if you're aware of this, but the senator from New
Jersey is not a fan of the President of the
United States. Let's listen in on a little bit of
his speech in Michigan. This is New Jersey Democrat Senator
Corey Spartacus Booker.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
See, we have a.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Powerful man in office right now, and I'm going to
tell you this, he cannot be the main character of
the American story. We are the main character of our
story and it is time for a new deal again
because the current deal is not working when Americans can't
afford their health insurance.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
The current deal is not working when people can't afford
to buy a hole. The current deal is not.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Working when you can't afford childcare.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
What that was? That was minimal? That was that was
the ease. That was a soft style.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, you know, he talked about well, he ranted and
raved and yelled and screamed and waved his arms around
about how democracy is at risk. Donald Trump is risking
democracy and people aren't safe, and people are getting a
raw deal, to which I would say to mister Booker,
who is a senator from one of the most liberal
states in the country, to all these Democrats out there
(08:23):
who only run on one thing, and that is we
hate Donald Trump, they have no answers, even though he
actually did offer that if I'm ever president, I'm going
to raise taxes.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
That's what Cory Booker said.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But these people are part of a blue an ocean
of blue cities that have been run by these people
for decades. And if you're not safe in Newark, New Jersey,
or if you're not safe in Detroit, Michigan, or wherever
these people come from, if you're not safe in Chicago, whose.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Fault is that?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It's not Donald Trump's fault, It's not a Republican's fault
because you people have been running these cities for decades.
Your police departments, your taxes, your crime, your economic woe, all.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Of that is on you.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So I keep thinking these Democrats are going on and
on and on about how bad it is in this
country in my communities.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Who's been running your communities.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
There's also one particular mindset that encourages kids to become
social justice warriors, not able bodied individuals, able to think
and work for themselves. And these people take out a
giant amount of student loans orchestrated by the federal government
under President Obama, they end up with a job that
or end up with a degree and a job that
(09:35):
they can't get. They had to get on federal health
care Medicaid in many instances, Obamacare, it's a subsidy Obamacare,
so you get the subsidy on that. That's all gone
away as they knew that it would. When so many
people are on Medicaid and healthcare of workers. Hospitals say,
we only get reimbursed at twenty cents on the dollar
(09:56):
for every time so that you come in. So everyone
else has to have their health insurance raise to cover
all the burgeoning number of people on federal government healthcare
health insurance. That's what makes things unaffordable. When it comes
to housing, you guys have let the Chinese come in
here and buy up the entire country and then run
it back to us. That is jacking up housing as
(10:16):
well as spending crises. When it comes to raising our
property Texas, because most of that goes to the schools.
Who's in charge of schools in these big cities. So
these big cities are run by gigantic cadres of liberal
thinkers who have allowed these schools to just rot in decay.
He's welcome to blame the president of the United States.
(10:37):
There's plenty there to blame him for if you want.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Not that.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I'm not hearing anything there that you can blame the
president for. Remember he's only been in office for what
five years now, Donald Trump. These guys have been in
there for our entire lives, many of them.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Who is the last Republican mayor of Chicago.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Exactly? Jeene Stothera.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The eleven to ten KFAB transmission Sports Free with Jim Rows.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Okay, very good, Scott, Good morning, everybody. Beat goes on
for Husker baseball tonight, zooman. After that series sweep of USC,
Nebraska may be playing a better team. Number sixteen Kansas
at home second game against them this season. Came up
to Lincoln two weeks go and beat the Huskers. Jayhawks
lead the Big Twelve, top twenty and walks and home
runs per game. They are fourteen and two at home. Meanwhile,
(11:24):
down the road in Kansas City, The Royals were dreadful again,
lost to the Orioles in twelve innings, seven to five.
It was one to nothing Kse when the O's were
down to their last strike in the ninth inning, tied
the game before the heroics in the twelfth. The Royals
blew massive opportunities, bases loaded in the first and third
nobody out scored none.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
We feel terrible, you know.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I mean, it's a game that you think you have
and gets away and then it is back and forth
and extra innings.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
That's manager Macquataro's at the end of his rope. Blows
a great outling from starter Seth Lugo. Eight The feats
in a row. American League Boston eight six over the Tigers,
Houston nine to two over Cleveland, Toronto five to two
over the Angels, and Oakland defeated Seattle six to four.
In the National League, it was Miami and the Braves, Cubs,
and Dodgers all getting wins. Cincinnati six to one over
(12:16):
the Rays. Omaha is playing at Toledo to open up
a series tonight NBA Playoffs Cleveland one fifteen, Toronto one
oh five. So the Cavs lead that series two games
to none. The Atlanta Knicks series is tied at one
as the Hawks win Game two, as is the Timberwolves
Nuggets series, tied at one after Minnesota wins Game two.
(12:36):
NHL Playoffs in Game two Philadelphia three, Pittsburgh nothing. Game two,
Carolina three, Ottawa two. So Philadelphia and Carolina lead those
series two games to none. It was Dallas four to
two over the Wild. That series is tied up at
one to one. In Edmonton in Game one, defeated at
Anaheim four to three. The Nebraska softball team keeps rising.
(12:59):
That sweep of Minnesota pretty impressive. Takes Nebraska in the
first place in the Big Ten and fourth in the
country according to the ESPN National Softball Poll, only Alabama, Oklahoma,
and Texas Tech are ahead of Nebraska. History in the
NBA San Antonio Center, Victor Wembayama is not just the
league's a defensive Player of the Year, he's the first
(13:21):
ever unanimous choice average three blocks a game. So announced yesterday,
Sports' news on Nebraska's news weathern traffic station.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
We are Nebraska's morning News. We're right here on news
radio eleven ten kfab our various names in no particular order.
Our Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose. My name is
Scott Vorhees Scott atkfab dot com email address. You can
also send a message with your own voice via the
talkback Mike on iHeartRadio, or if you have truth Social
(13:53):
and there's only one person in the whole country I
think who has truth Social, and he's very busy this morning.
The President has been first of all, a note to
Virginia voting today, Virginia, vote no to save your country. Well,
that's awfully specific. What's that about. Well, Virginia, like a
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lot of these states, is among those voting to read
district to everything and set things up for that which
would be in the most benefit for the ruling party
of the state. Texas did it, California did a Virginia's
going to do it. And the President would like Virginia
to vote no on redistricting and to give more Democrats
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to Congress to save the country of the United States.
Do you think Virginia the Democrats they are interested in
saving the country and giving Republicans as much, if not
more power in Congress. Survey says no, they are not.
The President also says here Iran has violated the ceasefire
numerous times. That's ominous. I think that guy wants to
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blow up some bridges. So that's a little bit here
this morning. Well markets, President.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Markets are responding to his optimistic tone on truth social
which has been spotty. They are rising today because he
did send his envoy or two over there, including his
son in law, and Iran, according to the Pakistanis will
send their delegation as well. The problem is who's making
(15:22):
the decisions over there. The people that are in the
meeting in Pakistan are not necessarily the ones making the decision.
So either something gets done today or Trump says We're
going to blow up every bridge, We're going to blow
up every power plant in Iran, and that would be unfortunate.
Good clarification. Not in Virginia. Not in Virginia, though he'd
(15:43):
like to right now. Virginia has eleven members of the
House of Representatives, and I believe it's eleven, maybe it's nine.
I can't recall, but anyone. The Democrats have one more
than the Republicans. If this goes through, the Democrats will
have nine of the ten, or ten of the eleven,
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or eight of the nine. I can't recall if the
two senators are included in that number of Congressional representatives anyway,
that in a state that has voted for a Republican
governor in the last five years and a Republican lieutenant
governor and a Republican attorney general. It is in a
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state where Kamala Harris, despite ridiculously high numbers in northern Virginia,
the DC area only be Donald Trump by about four
and a half percentage points in the twenty twenty four election.
So you're talking about a pretty purple state. It's much
like a lot of them. Like Illinois, there's a turnus
concentration of Democrats and liberals up north, but then the
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rest of the state is extremely conservative and very red.
Same with Oregon. You get Oregon Portland. Same thing in Washington.
So this is a big bell weather for the coming
midterm elections. And Governor Glenn Youngkin, who I think is
a really terrific person. I think he's remarkably sccessful business guy,
and he did a great job as governor of Virginia.
(17:11):
Just look at what he did there. Almost overnight. He's
been very, very active. He didn't run for reelection because
by law, you can't run for reelection of Virginia. You
can only serve one four year term at a time.
He could come back in three years and run again,
but he can only go one at a time. And
that's sad. But the truth is this is going to
(17:33):
be an indicator of other states that may try to
do the same thing. I don't know if it's unconstitutional
in the state of Virginia. I don't know if a
Supreme Court decision could be handed down before the midterms,
but this could shift the balance of power in Washington,
d C. If suddenly they get five more seats in
one state. Well, they're all blaming Texas, but the state's
(17:56):
redistrict all the time based on the population shift and
so forth. When Texas started to do that as states
normally do, suddenly it now was unfair. Well, now it's
gonna benefit And maybe it was, but they said, Texas,
don't do this because if you do it, all the
rest of the states are gonna do it. We're gonna
bounce it out. Indiana chose not to Indiana, which is
a very red state. Their state senate said no, we're
(18:19):
not going to do this. Will redistrict every ten years
when your census comes out.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
They're happy they got a national championship football team there.
They don't care about the Congress. Hey, it's tell a
friend Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Today.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You go find a friend. You say, Hey, hey, friend,
I'd love for you to join me in listening to KFAB.
Why don't you come over at the house first thing
in the morning. I'll make some break bacon, an egg,
some breakfast and we can listen to the radio together.
I tell you what you do that you're gonna find,
not just a friend, You're gonna have a best friend.
I'm Scott Vorhees. There's Lucy Chapman, Greig Evans, Jim Rose,
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a sports brief in a moment. We were talking a
moment ago about we're not even sure who's in charge
of Iran right now? Is the presidents like all right,
you you and you go over to the Pakistan and
you deal with the Iranians, and the Iranians are like,
all right, who's who's left over here? And it looks
like the it looks like when hot Lips and Radar
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would go under the tent and mash. It's just a
bunch of people in charge of Iran. They're all bandaged
up and they got little crutches and they got hot
water bottles on their heads. And then that's what's left
of the people in Iran and the Iranian state media.
They're TV, which is run by the Islamo fascists that
run that country for the last fifty years. They're the
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ones out there saying like, oh, no, Iran hasn't agreed
to any of this.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
The last time we heard from Iranian State TV is
when there was one of the commentators over there talking
about death to Israel, death to America, and then we
blew up the TV station during that report. Yes, we
happened to have how that sounded on Tehran Tva Yegoro? Right,
(20:12):
none of them died in there. I'm allowed to laugh
at that. Don't you wish you could do that to
the radio? And Jim rows on here, going I tell
you another thing, and all of a sudden just.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Boom, and then you're going to miss out on a
lot of good stuff if it just goes boom.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Right then, welcoming back to the program right now, eleven
to ten kfab National correspondent Rory O'Neil. We're going to
go international here, Ony, Rory, what's the latest from Iran.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Well, we've got a lot of moving parts and a
lot of conflicting statements about exactly what's going on. Vice
President JD. Bans may be leaving for Islamabad within the hour.
President Trump has a media appearance coming up at the
bottom of the hour, so we may learn more then
as well. The President has put one truth social post
out saying that Iran has violated the ceasefire multiple times.
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But that's about all that was posted there. And then
Iran has said it will not participate in the next
round of talks because they're angry with the US Navy
for taking that cargo ship. And late word that an
oil tanker of Iran has also been seized in the
Indian Ocean as part of these ongoing operations. So an
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awful lot of moving parts, not a lot written in
stone right now.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, And the Iranian State TV says we don't agree
to any of this and we're not sending anyone over there.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Who's in charge.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Well, that's the issue too. Even when it came to
the Strait of horm moved over the weekend, you had
the Foreign Minister saying, yes, the straits open. Everyone sales, sales, sale,
but the IRGC, the Iranian military is saying, oh no,
it's not stay right where you are. So it's been
a lot of miss messaging going back and forth. And
whether or not this gollybop, this minister, this parliamentary speaker
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there in Iran, whether or not he has the support
of the military and the people, that's still a bit
of an open question. I know that this is the
face that the Trump administration has been dealing with, but
whether or not Glibob actually has the backing of the
military and the people, that's still a bit of an
untested question.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So we're sending over our envoy team to meet with
potentially nobody.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Well, and that's the thing, right, if we send our team,
they're more likely to send somebody and it's a much
longer flight for JD Vance. So the idea being once
they see Air Force two go wheels up, the Iranians
still have time to say, all right, I guess we
better get up to Islamabad for these talks. So we
think that seeing vans will go a long way to
showing how committed the US is to this trying to
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get some sort of a breakthrough here. Otherwise, the ceasefire
ends at eight pm Eastern time tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
That's right, all right, Rory, thank you very much for
the reporting. We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Eleven ten kfab National correspondent Rory O'Neill here on Nebraska's
More News. That's about the most vice presidential thing ever
or hey, Vice President Dvance, this is a very very
important mission. We're sending you over to Pakistan or going
clear over there, and the meetings that you are heading
up there could lead to finally some level of if
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not peace in the Middle East, maybe peace in the world,
or at least trying to get this Islamic fundamentalist state
to stop trying to get nuclear weapons to blow up
Israelis and Americans, or maybe no one will be there
and you can turn around and come back home. Take
your golf clubs with you in case it gets boring.
I that's about the most VP thing that ever veeped
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right there. And meanwhile, you've got members of Congress and
Jim Rows I know that you share my opinion on this,
as we've got a couple of members of Congress Swallwell
California and Gonzales of Florida, that apparently every single woman
across to America has come forward and said.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
He attacked me.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
And so now you've got a congressional hearing saying we
want any victims of sexual abuse at the hands of
members of Congress or staff to come to us, come
to this Congressional committee and tell us about what happened
to you. Why Why wouldn't people just you know, go
to the police. Why are they going to Congress. Well,
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we know that this is a rhetorical question. We know
the answer because they hold this information for when it
can have the most impactful political damage. And that's what's
going on. The same thing happened with Brett Kavanaugh. Kind
of started with Clarence Thomas and then took a little
bit of a break, and now it's into Brett Kavanaugh.
And now with Brett Kavanaugh's you know, rigorous, unfortunate experience
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and trying to become confirmed as a member of the
United States Supreme Court, this sort of opened the floodgates.
And now what we have are a bunch of people
who say that they were assaulted, who say that they
were wronged. Nobody ever called the police, Nobody ever called
law enforcement, nobody ever said this happened to me. All
of this stuff is bubling up now because it can
have the most impact politically on somebody who's either ahead
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in the polls or behind in the polls, or both.
And what we're finding now is the same thing. Whether
Tony Gonzales, the Congressman from Texas or Eric Swallwell, the
congressman from California, said any of those things or did
any of those things, is immaterial. The key is get
them out of the way politically. Either get somebody in
there who's a better Republican than Tony Gonzalez or a
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better governor of California than Eric Swalwell. It's a shame,
but this is where our politics is today, Scott. It's
gotcha politics. You got people like Matt Gates. Why is
it that nobody was talking about Matt Gates until it
became politically expeditious for them to do so when he
was up for the job as Attorney General of the
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state or the United States and the Trump administration the
chief law enforcement officer of the US. Now in his case,
there was some discussion about his behavior off the floor.
I uh, Kevin McCarthy, and it was Gates who stopped
Kevin McCarthy multiple times from becoming Speaker of the House
because he was asking questions that were uncomfortable. But that's
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a rare occasion when uh, you know, until it becomes
critically important politically to tear this guy down. People are
mum about it. And with all due respect to the
women who've been assaulted, why why didn't you call the police?
I know, and there's look, that's a separate conversation, and
you'll have victims advocates say, well, it's all right. But
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if you're gonna come out now, now, go to the
police now. Don't go to don't go to already, don't
go to Congressman Flood's office.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Go to the cops.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
That's my If you're gonna come out now because you're
afraid that Eric Swalwell may become governor of California, don't
go to Gloria Allread, okay, the celebrity lawyer.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Go to somebody who can arrest the guy. Lucy Chapman,
I have a traffic question for you.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
How is it now that you're going on six eighty
northbound and trying to merge on to Dodge and that lane,
especially if you're going off of Pacific and you're trying
to do Yeah, you're trying to merge on to Dodge.
It used to be you had that entire ramp over
to where you get off for west Roads or Regency,
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and now you've got about three feet.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, they need to close that, that is.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And I don't understand why that entire right hand lane
where you either then merge over from six eighty northbound
to go Dodgy's bound, or merge on to six eighty
from Pacific, why why are they even doing anything? That
whole lane is all barricaded shut down. If you're in
that right lane on six eighty northbound past Pacific anyway,
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I always feel like I'm gonna start scraping against that
hall there. Yeah, I feel like I don't have a
right there. I don't have enough room. The guy next
to me in the middle lane, he's probably on his phone,
and so I'm watching going I can't move over, I'm
gonna rub the wall. And this isn't a NASCAR race,
this is six eighty. And then here comes someone off
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of Pacific, and I realize they've only got about three
feet to merge. They got to get up to speed
and merge now how is anyone still alive over there?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Well, because there you do have people that are paying attention.
Some but if you name one, well I can't name them.
I mean, I'll name myself. I was paying attention when
I was through there yesterday. But if you are trying
to get onto six eighty northbound, do not do it
from Pacific.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Just don't do it. You don't have room.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
There's not enough room to get on, especially at peak periods,
which would be right now. I just don't do it.
And if you are on six' eighty northbound from it
starts at about Center Street, maybe a little bit further
than that, but that's where those lanes narrow and they shift,
and it is im I'm really happy. I'm glad. But
we haven't had a crash yet. Well, actually we did.
(29:02):
We did have a crash a couple of days ago,
like Friday, Thursday or Friday. So yeah, it's it's you
really have to pay attention and you have to go
fifty five. I hope police are there and kind of
enforcing that fifty five. It's it looks you can't really
go any faster.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It looks incredibly dangerous. I just think about that person
because if I'm not thinking about it. I'm getting up
to speed on that ramp onto six't eighty northbound from Pacific,
thinking I've got all the time in the world to
merge over. And then suddenly you realize not only do
you not have room, but you got to barricade here
on your right and all the cars coming on your left,
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and now you slam on the brakes of people hit
from behind it. I mean, it's dangerous.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Well, when you think about it as often as you're
over on six eighty northbound and you think about it,
how many people actually use that anyway? It's not there
often where you see somebody, even when before this construction,
where you see somebody coming down that ramp. Just shut
it temporarily, just shut it down.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Lucy wants to shut it down. Shut it down. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Your first crack at one thousand bucks comes up here
in just under half an hour from now, at eight
oh five. Senator Pete Ricketts joins us. In an hour
from now, this is Nebraska's Morning News with Lucy Chapman,
Jim Rose, Craig Evans, I'm Scout four.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
He's the report.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
A moment ago from Craig by the Chinese national arrested
here taking photographs at various military bases, including off At
Air Force Base, which he's alleged to have done back
on March thirty first. In fact, he was getting ready
to play golf at nearby Willow Lakes Golf Course when
he was taking pictures across the Kennedy Freeway of off
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At Air Force Base, and news Radio eleven ten kfab's
microphones picked it up.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Hey Wayne, what's for the pictures? It's a parking lot.
Come on, will you?
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I think this place is restricted way, so don't tell
you you're Jewish?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Okay, fine, hey kid, I'm out Chervich.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
I'm playing with Drew Scott today.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
This is my guess, mister Wang of yeah, it turns
out Willow Lake's golf course across the street, there's not restricted.
Mister Wang's religion is not a factor in that one.
But actually it's pronounced Lang. I believe Tian Rui Lang
was arrested on April seventh at.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I'm sorry, he says, what's put the pictures? It's a
parking lot. Well, so he was arrested.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
He I believe he photographed it off At Air Force
Base March thirty first, he pulled off the side of
the road on Harlan, had a camera with a telescopic lens,
took photos of the Offit Air Force Base, flight line
and aircraft. He did the same thing. He made a
stop at Ellsworth Air Force Base that's in South Dakota
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and was heading over to Tinker in Oklahoma after his
stop at off It. So the question is is this
a Chinese national who was a bally arrested accused of
doing espionage for the Chinese or is this just a
tourist who loves taking pictures of military installations. It could
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be he's an aficionado of Air Force Basis. And I
know that this is probably not going to go over
well with everybody. But there's a reason why that clip
there from Caddyshack is.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
It kind of true?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
And that is if you've been in places where you
have a lot of Chinese tourists, they're taking pictures as
if it's their job in life to document everything. I
was at the Louver in Paris, and even though you
can see the Mona Lisa in any book, any website
all over the place, I had a hard time seeing
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this incredible portrait there because of all of the tourists
there from China who are holding up exactly the same
thing those old cameras and taking multiple picture of it. Like, look,
just take a picture, take a selfie to prove you
were here, and please get out of the way. But
people are photographing this like this is my only chance.
This is humanity's only chance to photograph this. Otherwise no
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one's going to see it. And a lot of times
the culture of the Chinese is they like taking a
lot of pictures.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Well maybe they figured this is my only chance to
ever be in this country, so I better capture it
as best I can and then save all the photos
and then at Christmas time we'll do a slideshow for
the family. This is what Sheboygan, Wisconsin looks like. This
is Omaha. This is the Bushwood Country Club, the parking
lot of the Bushwood Country Club.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
There's no other explanation. Excuse me, sir.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
If we kill all the golfers, they'll lock us up
and throw away the key. So if this guy is
pulled off the road and taking pictures of off it,
is that not the same thing that anyone can see
when driving by. I mean, I'm not looking to get
a potential Chinese spy off the hook. I'm not Eric Swallwell,
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I'm not going to jump in the sack with a
Chinese spy. We'll start telling you fang thing. But that's right,
fangs so nice they named her twice. But what exactly
is the huge problem here? It's not like he crept
into the air ducks and was hacking into computers or anything,
but any excuse to play a clip in caddy shack.
(34:28):
I guess I got a couple of messages here, guys.
I'm going to forward these messages to both of you
and you guys can have it out. I'm talking here
about this Chinese national arrested after driving around the Midwest
and taking pictures of Air Force bases, including pulling off
to the side of Harlan Road and holding a camera
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with a telescopic lens aka a camera he was taking
photos of off at air Force base with taking pictures
of that which you can see from the road and
probably on Google Earth. And I'm saying, look, I don't
want to be I don't want to be called out
for excusing the behavior of a potential Chinese spy.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
But exactly what here?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
So I got these emails one here Scott at kfab
dot com from Brian says, Scott, stop being glib and flip.
I'm being both glib and flip. What radio station are
they on, Lucy the Glib and Flip Show.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
That is the Glib and Flip Show out of Sacramento
Air in Sacramento, and they are super not fun to
listen to.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Really, well, they don't seem to take too much too seriously. Yeah, well,
one of them is stop being glib and flip about
the Chinese national arrested at off It for taking pictures
of the air Force base. As a retired FBI counter
espionage agent, I can assure you this is real and serious.
(36:00):
The Chinese are known to use non traditional collectors to
obtain intelligence information. These include tourists, professors, business people, not
just traditional spies. If you read the reporting, he took
close up picks of the RC one thirty five. With
those picks, the PRC what is you are in the government?
I don't know, can ascertain what equipment's being you? Oh,
(36:22):
the People's Republic of China can ascertain what equipment is
being used and build countermeasures for them. I hope your
future reporting on such issues is a little more serious
as this issue is. That's from Brian. Well, Brian, I'm
not a counter terrorism agent. I'm just asking questions and
(36:43):
I don't exactly report on anything. As Senator Chuck Hagel
once told me, you're in the entertainment business, and he
did not mean that as a compliment. Matt says the
same thing I am, He says, I don't want to
be that guy. But if this is top secret, why
is it out in the open. Why does the government
have a right to privacy and the public eye when
citizens don't have a great guy? That's from Matt. So
(37:05):
I'll forward the emails to each other. You guys can
have it out, and I'll just act like I'm not
in the middle of it. I'm not the only one
getting hammered in these Zonkerer's custom woods inbox. This morning
we got a what is Jim Rose talking about here?
Let me set this up. We started off a couple
of hours ago talking about as we'd figured yesterday, but
(37:25):
didn't really want to come right out and say, the
guy who is accused of chasing around a couple of
girls aged eleven and twelve in Gretna out in the
neighborhood of like one hundred and ninety eighth in Q
has diminished mental capabilities. Yeah, we knew that he's chasing
around this. Yeah, but they say he's he's basically got
(37:47):
the mental capacity of a ten year old. Well, a
ten year old knows the difference between right and wrong.
And you put a ten year old brain, apparently an
over sexualized ten year old brain, into the body of
a creepy looking thirty four year old guy and you
let them loose to chase girls around the park. That
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doesn't exactly say like, oh, okay, never mind, we'll just
send him home, and hey, if this happens, you will just.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Be like, Zach, stop that.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Uh, there's obviously there's something that needs to be done.
And Jim was saying, as a lot of people have said,
we have the ability to bring back a place that
people used to be able to go. And they have
some nice coloring books, and some people would color in
the books, other people would lick them or whatever you
(38:37):
want to do, and you'd have this nice room with
those nice young men and those nice white coats and
they're coming to take me away. Well, we talked about
that earlier. We got this via the talkback mic. Anywhere
you are with our free iHeartRadio app, you can tap
that little microphone icon and send us a message.
Speaker 7 (38:53):
What is Jim Rose talking about? Or the richest nation
in the world. What is our state deficit? This our
federal deficit? What are the forty nine fulbrinces you call them,
going to do about this? Chimo running around one hundred
and ninety six and Q zero because they're incapable of
doing anything meaningful. Parents teach your children to stay out
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of vulnerable situations, and parents stay vigilant.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
That's it, Chimo. Well, he's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
That is something we should all be doing, asking our
kids to, you know, be aware of their surroundings. I
know we tried to make sure our kids knew theyir
a home phone number at the time they were five
years old. And parents should be vigilant. I don't know
that that's changed through the generations. Parents should always be vigilant.
But the point that we're making is that our country
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has stopped investing in mental health facilities and the mental
health crisis in this country. Maybe it's been brought on
by nutrition, Maybe it's been brought on by prescription medications
that have been pumped into kids for the last fifty years.
Maybe it's society, maybe it's social media, maybe it's all
of those things. But my point is this, we have
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an issue in our state that isn't growing smaller, and
that is a growing mental health crisis.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
And these people are out there.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
This incident backed up by the incident involving Niami Gusman,
who was an outrageous act of violence against that three
year old little boy. She should never have been unrestrained.
She should have been heavily restricted in her ability to
move around town. Same thing with this guy. Well, what
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are we going to do about it? Are we just
going to be upset or are we going to take action?
And my point is this, our tax system in this
state is so bast awkwards and is so adequated, and
those people down there, the forty nine refuse to do
the heavy work, the real heavy lifting, which is reform
this tax code so we can spread out the tax
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burden and provide for more resources that can be channeled
into this public human service. We don't have the money
to do it because we're spending so much money in
this area and so much money in that area to
mitigate a property tax crisis that could be addressed by
two things. You cap valuations and you cap levees, and
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cities and schools have to learn to do with.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
A little more of more.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Okay, they're getting an increase every year, they just aren't
getting as much. And then we'll have and then you
broaden the sales tax base so we have the revenues
to support all of these programs. But when you're pouring
three four five hundred million dollars a year into a
property tax relief fund forgetting that there's a hole at
the bottom of that bucket, you'll never keep up with
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rising valuations. Until you address it legislatively, we won't have
the kinds of funds necessary to address a mental health crisis.
I'm not saying all the money should go to mental health,
but we need to spend more than we're spending now.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Well, I'm really surprised that the forty nine individuals who
are retired people, social justice warriors, and Glorified Homeowners' Association's
presidents making twelve thousand dollars a year can't fix all
of our problems. I'm sarcastically shocked.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
They don't have the will.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Well, when you go to the people, And you say,
should dangerous people be locked up?
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Yes, what about dangerous people who are criminally insane?
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
No, they're going to let them run around the park,
chase after our kids and try and stab our kids
in a Walmart parking lot. I don't know what the
disconnect is, Lucy.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
What about the dangerous people that were elected into our legislature?
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Well, if they are running for governor of California, then
someone will step up and finally say something other than that.
It's apparently not that big a deal. I just asked
that at least they be entertaining if they're going to
be dangerous and run for office. Oh on that front,
thank you for Then. We don't have a revenue problem
in Nebraska. We have a spending problem. We have a
(43:00):
lot of problems. But you know there are problems, and
we're here too, As Chris Baker says, we just chronicle
the madness here in Nebraska's morning news on the running
for office front. Interesting give and take on the second
congressional district race. We'll have that for you next. Tom
Emails via the Zonker's custom was inbox Scott at kfab
(43:22):
dot com because I called the guy who was a
creepy thirty four year old chasing young girls in a park,
A creepy guy, and Tom said, Scott, that's someone's son.
Could be someone's brother, uncle, or friend. Where is your compassion?
The girls he was chasing and when police caught him,
he said, I wanted to have sex with them. Could
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be someone's daughter, someone's friend, someone's sister. There's my compassion.
Thank you very much for the email, though, if you
don't want to be called a creepy thirty four year old,
don't be a creepy thirty four year old.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
Now.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
I know he's got diminishmenttal capabilities and so forth. And
if he's just sitting there, you know, licking a balloon
or something like that, I'm not going to go after him,
you know, good for him.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
But when you're.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Chasing girls for the purpose of attacking them, yeah, I
might get upset. Now the second congressional district race here,
the accusation is if John Cavanaugh wins and Governor Pillen
wins reelection, then Pillen is going to take the that
seat that's long been held by Democrats and appoint a
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Republican and give the Republicans a potential super majority. In
the next legislature. And so therefore, what we can't have
John Cavanaugh as the Democratic candidate for Congress, and we
certainly can't have him win because then we get a
Republican in that seat, and then Republicans can do winner
take All and attack a various LGBTQ Nebraskans and all
(44:56):
the other stuff they're talking about. So the Democrats are
kind of tying themselves a pretzel here on this one, Jim.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
They are to this extent, He's the front runner. He
has the highest name recognition, even though Crystal Rhodes has
been on a lot of ballots over the last fifteen
twenty years. This is a very tricky, dicey election from
this standpoint. Donald Trump has not done well in District two,
but Don Bacon has. Republicans have, especially with the way
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District two stretches out toward Saunders County, which there are
more people in there than you think that would vote Republican.
So what about John Kavanaugh. He has a record of
supporting a lot of lefty causes, and that's the best
thing Brinker Harding has gone for him. If I'm Brinker
I'm saying I don't want to have Donald Trump come
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anywhere near this district for me or anybody else, because
he's zero for three in this district. Meanwhile, Don Bacon
was three for three. This is an issue. But you
should also know that even if Jim Pillon loses the election,
he can still appoint a replacement for John Kavanhaugh before
Lynn Walls, potentially who would defeat him in the election
(46:05):
in November. He can still do that before he leaves office.
So if you're a Democrat and you're worried about that,
I wouldn't because a lot of Republicans in the Nebraska Unit,
Cameron forget that at key moments.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Oh yeah, and Kavanaugh says, look, we have enough opportunities
for liberal people to pick up seats in other districts.
So I don't know if that's true. I'll worry about mine, But.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
There are plenty of Republicans who don't act like it.
In key moments in the Nebraska Unit, there.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Are always a couple. This is Nebraska's warning News. Welcoming
on here. Nebraska Senator Pete rickets to the program. Senator
the President says, oh yeah, we Iron wants to make
a deal. They want to give up nukes. They want
to watch farmer takes a wife and they want to
have Western culture and peace. Do you believe any of
(46:53):
this when it comes from Iran because we don't have
any idea with whom we are negotiating over there.
Speaker 8 (47:01):
Well, that would be the goal that we need to
get to is to get Iran to give up their
nuclear weapon ambitions, and that, of course is the reason
for this conflict. Is the President knows that it's very
dangerous to allow Ron to have a nuclear weapon, and
they've alreay admitted they've got enough for ten and a
missile look reached the United States, and we know they've
got a mist look and reach London in Paris, which
means that they're not far behind, maybe months away from
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having a missile reach us. So that's the purposeless conflict
degree that degrade those capabilities. The challenge we have is
that you've got these radicals, these people who are really
extremists at the IRGC that believe that if they start
aren't getting they go to heaven. So we've got to
be able to make sure that who we're dealing with
(47:45):
is actually going to live up to the deal, which
is what happened earlier in the week when the figure
of the Parliament said, hey, the straits of hormones are open,
and then the IRGC started shooting at ships. So I
believe there's somebody who can get this done. It's going
to be President Trump, and it's going to require that
we understand that the Iranians and tactics on this are
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delayed to lay delay, and they've got to know there's
a cost for the delay. So if we don't get
a deal done, the President's going to have to impose
a cost on them.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
At the same time, a lot of Trump's supporters, people
who have voted for him numerous times, are looking at
things he's saying and doing, whether it's We're going to
wipe out a civilization, he's fighting with the Pope. He's
posting pictures on true socials as him as Jesus and saying,
what's going on with our commander in chief right now? Senator,
you're close there on Capitol Hill, what's going on with
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our commander in chief right now?
Speaker 8 (48:39):
President Trump has always been unorthodox, and that's really been
one of the strengths for how he's gotten elected and
how he's been effective. And recall that in his first term,
we had some of the best economy we've ever had
in our nation's history, and the president knows that we've
got to be able to keep this country safe, and
that we're on with a nucle weapon of missiles is
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a big danger to that. So I think that his
adversaries like Iran have a hard time figuring him out
because he is an Orthodox and he has a goal
here though, to keep it safe, and that's what we
got to keep working toward. Because again we know now
because this conflict, Iran's got enough nuclear material for ten
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nuclear bombs. If they admitted that much, they got more.
And we know now they've got a misslig and fire
more than two thousand miles, which means they're not far
from in the United States. So this is really why
the President is making sure that we're trying to keep
Iran from having that capability because that would be really,
really dangerous.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
Yeah, keeping nukes away from Iran and sending a message
to our enemy is Look, this is a president who
will do what he says very important. Also, some of
the things he's done with tax cuts. I love the
McDonald's trip to the Oval office the other day and
trying to tout the tax cuts. Obviously, some of the
other things the President does and says will overshadow some
good things happening in the economy. Senator, what are those
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things that you want the people in Nebraska to know
that are happening good with the economy right now?
Speaker 8 (50:09):
Well, let's talk about the president's leadership. You know, last
year the President said, hey, I want this working family
tax cut passed by July fourth. Was a that was
a tall order. Yet his leadership got it done, and
that's how we got the bill. It's going to have
no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, a bonus
deduction for seniors such that eighty eight percent of seniors
(50:29):
will not be paying federal income tax on Social Security.
I was just talking to a restaurant manager was telling
me that one of his waitresses had her w two
reported wrong, where her overtime pay got loved into a
regular pay, and where they got it sorted out, she
got an extra fifteen hundred dollars back from the federal government.
That's like a house payment or more moneys for gas
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or groceries. I mean, that's what the Working Family tax
cut is doing. And we're already seeing the benefit everybody's
tax returns are on an average more than ten percent
higher than this year, the average of thirty four hundred
dollars per person who's filing their taxes. So that's one
of the big benefits. It's like so far back into
you know, people getting back about two hundred in total,
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about two hundred and seventy four billion dollars. And not
only will there be more money in people's pockets, but
that's going to help squurre the economy. It's also got
great stuff for businesses to invest in things like childcare
and pay family medical leave. It's also going to encourage
businesses to invest in innovation and open up manufacturing plants.
So there's a lot that's really going to benefit the
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economy because the working family taxes we passed last year. Obviously,
the news and Iran is one of the things that's
on the headlines every day, but this is the stuff
that's you know, the stuff that we're doing with working
family task cut is impacting people's everyday lives.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
Missiting with the US Senator Pete Ricketts, Let's turn to
something that's really important.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
How are you and your wife getting along these days?
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Because we've got a big, big, rugged campaign common and
she has not yet sought your public endorsement, even though
you kind of gave it in a written statement. Will
you be appearing on behalf of your wife a solid
Democrat in this regent's race.
Speaker 8 (52:09):
My wife is quite capable of running her campaign and
getting through the primary here in this regent's race on
her own, because she is a very competent, capable woman,
and she would do a fantastic job. And really I
think part one of the things she could do is
help bring Republicans Democrats together on that board of regents.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Does she are you bothered that she has been running
from you in this Does she's rarely drop your name publicly?
Speaker 4 (52:33):
Does that bother you at all?
Speaker 8 (52:36):
My wife is working as the campaign fact actual on
Sunday she was out walking doors, knocking doors. She is
running a great campaign.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
Yeah, I mean I haven't seen too many signs for
UNO student regent Michael scas or actually former are you
and O employee Michael scos or any of these other
former and current student regents running against her? So would
high confidence be a way to describe the shore for
regent race?
Speaker 4 (53:03):
Right now?
Speaker 8 (53:05):
You never take anything for granted. Every race. You got
to go out and work hard and every single race
and that's the That's what I've learned it over twenty
years of being in this business. And Suzanne has seen
that firsthand. So she is running hard and suck. Every
race is tough and you never know.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Jim, Well, you quit trying to break up Pete Rickets
and Suzanne Shores.
Speaker 4 (53:23):
We got it.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
This is one of the great political phenomenons of our
time that these two have not been at each other's throats.
Speaker 4 (53:30):
I think it's great.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
It shows people can then come together about what's really important.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
This is the Mary Madeline James Carville of Nebraska. But
those two didn't run for office.
Speaker 2 (53:41):
Just because they're both bald does not mean you have
to compare James Carville and Pete Ricketts.
Speaker 4 (53:47):
They both had superior wives. I'll say that.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
Senator. It's always a pleasure. Thank you very much for
putting up with us this morning. As always my pleasure.
Speaker 8 (53:55):
Thanks very much for having me on.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Senator Pete Ricketts here on news radio eleven ten K
fair with you.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
Well, I mean she's she's a solid liberal. I mean
she and personally I've always said to Pete people like
her a lot more than they like you. If you've
ever met her, she's a delightful woman.
Speaker 5 (54:13):
Man.
Speaker 1 (54:13):
She's really fun to be around and very casual and
extremely comfortable in her own skin. She's not one of
these Chuck Hagel style wives who just did not want
to be seen in public. His wife wanted nothing to
do with his public career. She rarely was in Omaha,
she was never around. She moved to Virginia when he
won the Senate seat and barely ever came back. Unlike
(54:35):
you know, Lily bet Hegel, this one, she's really been
out there and saying, look, he's this, I'm that. But
we have a lot more in common than we have indifference.
And I would just wonder, okay, how many fundraisers for
suit sand sure as Pete attended and has his skin
begun to crawl with all of those liberal democrats in
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the room.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
I don't go to my wife's workplace and hold her
hand all day. This is no different they did. They
have weird jobs, that's all. I think she has a
really good chance.
Speaker 1 (55:06):
Like I said, there's a UNO employee named Michael Scots,
and then a couple of student regents that are running
for that seat. So she looks good for at least
getting through the primary in the top two, and then
we'll see
You'll use the radio in your car more than anything
else when buying a new car. Make sure the AMFM
is simple, clear, and convenient.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I don't know that that's accurate, To be honest, I
strive for accuracy if nothing else. And the guy says
that you'll use the radio in your car more than
anything else. The door, the gas pedal, the steering wheel
comes in handy.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, but he's probably right when he's talking about the blinker.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
If we're talking about some of the accessories beyond those things,
I mean the car seat. I use that almost every
time I drive. Not the baby seat, I mean the
seat where I sit there in the car.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You use that more?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yeah, I do use that a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
But Congress isn't trying to take any of those things
away yet. Actually it's not Congress, it's the auto manufacturer's
going AM radio. Who needs that kind of thing? Well,
I'm I'm glad that you do, or at least you
got tricked into listening this morning, and here you are,
and we might as well put on a show.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Right. This is Nebraska's Morning News. That's Lucy Chapman.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Just heard from Craig Evans, and you will four times
every single hour throughout the program. Jim Rose talks whenever
he wants, which is not enough. I'm Scott Vorhees, I
talk way too much. And we're all here on news
radio eleven ten kfab All right, now, what as we
surmise yesterday this guy in Gretna who on Thursday was
(01:30):
chasing a couple of girls aged eleven and twelve through
a park. He was menacing, chasing after them, thirty some
year old thirty four year old guy I think he is.
And when police caught up with him, they said what
are you doing? He goes, I want to have sex
with those girls. So they arrested him and then was
(01:50):
let out on bail. Yesterday we're all gnashing our teeth
and wringing our hands. Gone high in the world, does
anyone let the thing. It's a Douglas County Corrections at
a sign a risk assessment score to this individual, and
he was given a score of one out of four.
And we were all decrying that yesterday as we were
looking at this guy's mugshot.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
There.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
You don't want to come on the radio and just
look at a guy's face and go this guy looks
like he's got diminished mental capabilities, because even with the
charges against him, you kind of hate to pile on
if the guy is like, what are you talking about.
I'm the CEO of a fortune five hundred company and
(02:37):
I'm running for Congress.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Oh sorry, I looked at your face and thought there
was something wrong with you. As it happens, the investigators,
the family of this guy, and those who are looking
at how to defend and prosecute this case are looking
at this individual and saying he has the mental capability
of a ten year old. All right, so now what
(03:03):
do you do, Jim? Now, what do you do? This guy?
He's a man child. He's chasing girls. He's got the
mental capability of a ten year old. At the same time,
you can't have a ten year old chasing girls around
and telling police he wanted to attack them.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So that happened. Now to ten year olds chase girls,
I want to have sex with girls.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Now, I don't know, that's maybe a different conversation. This
guy's not ten, he's thirty four. He's got the mentality
of a ten year old.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
He's got the mentality of well, but I'll joking aside.
This is what we talked about last week. What do
we do with these people? Okay, for a long long time,
society said, you families, you take care of them. It's
your problem. Okay, you know, this is your guy, this
is your gal. You know, don't let the state take
care of your You need to take responsibility for your
(03:52):
own family. Okay, Well, he's pretty much been living with family, right.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I don't know, because we also reported yesterday that the
house where he was reported to have lived was all vandalized.
Someone marked up the side of the house and the
fence going along this corner lot and spray painted or something,
all kinds of junk all over it.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
They go out and try and cover it up.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And now you've got to report here that says that
this guy doesn't even live there. It's where his caregivers, Okay,
live probably parents. So is it the wrong answer to
look at a family and say, same as if you
have an animal like you gotta make sure that this
they don't get out, potential threat is secured.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I think that's a fair observation. But what are we
going to do with the mentally ill? It's the fundamental question,
what do we do with people who are mentally unstable?
To the point of either damaging themselves or harming others.
And the question used to be answered with, well, it's
that big building over there on the other side of town.
(04:55):
And then we got rid of the big buildings over
there on the other side of town because they were
quote unquot to inhumane. Well, rather than making them more humane,
we just shut them down and said, okay, you know
this one here, this Boo Radley gets to walk the streets, okay.
Or maybe they'll stay at home with a parent who
works and maybe they'll get out. Or in the case
(05:18):
of Naomi Geese Guzmann, she'll just run rampant up and
down Dodge Street. She'll get arrested and a judge will say,
I can't do anything, so you leave.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
She did that.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Maybe that's the same case with this guy. But we
have to fundamentally address what we do with mentally ill people.
And if we're going to require families, which is the
way it used to be, I mean for decades in
this country, families we didn't have these hospitals in the seventeenth, eighteenth,
nineteenth century. What a families do? They just they take
(05:49):
care of them. Well, if that's the case, some families
simply don't have the capacity to do that, especially if
it's an adult child. Okay, we does what what do?
What does the richest country on Earth do with the
least of its citizens, the folks who came out of
the birth canal one chromosome short or in some cases
(06:10):
two or three. We have fundamentally cut back on the
public support for mental health in this country to a
point now where it's a real huge health crisis. I
think everyone's saying we ought to have more mental help.
But right now, that's a counselor you check in with
once in a while. It's not a place you can
take someone and say you live here now. Well, obviously
(06:30):
have this conversation way too much. If you want to
join in, you're welcome to It's Scott at kfab dot
com and the Zonker's custom was inbox. Jim says that
we've got to listen in on Corey Booker's speech to
the Mission Democratic Women's Caucus yesterday.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Michigan. Isn't that what I said? I said, Mission Admission Michigan. Well,
that's what I meant. It was on a mission in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, it's and it's a swing state, so Democrat contenders
were all all hanging out.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Now, is there any swearing in this not, because when
it comes to politicians anymore, you never know.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
He lost his mind.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So he's he's all fired up, he's I don't know
if you're aware of this, but the senator from New
Jersey is not a fan of the President of the
United States. Let's listen in on a little bit of
his speech in Michigan. This is New Jersey Democrat Senator
Corey Spartacus Booker.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
See, we have a.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Powerful man in office right now, and I'm going to
tell you this, he cannot be the main character of
the American story. We are the main character of our
story and it is time for a new deal again
because the current deal is not working when Americans can't
afford their health insurance.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
The current deal is not working when people can't afford
to buy a hole. The current deal is not.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Working when you can't afford childcare.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
What that was? That was minimal? That was that was
the ease. That was a soft style.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, you know, he talked about well, he ranted and
raved and yelled and screamed and waved his arms around
about how democracy is at risk. Donald Trump is risking
democracy and people aren't safe, and people are getting a
raw deal, to which I would say to mister Booker,
who is a senator from one of the most liberal
states in the country, to all these Democrats out there
(08:23):
who only run on one thing, and that is we
hate Donald Trump, they have no answers, even though he
actually did offer that if I'm ever president, I'm going
to raise taxes.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
That's what Cory Booker said.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But these people are part of a blue an ocean
of blue cities that have been run by these people
for decades. And if you're not safe in Newark, New Jersey,
or if you're not safe in Detroit, Michigan, or wherever
these people come from, if you're not safe in Chicago, whose.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Fault is that?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It's not Donald Trump's fault, It's not a Republican's fault
because you people have been running these cities for decades.
Your police departments, your taxes, your crime, your economic woe, all.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Of that is on you.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So I keep thinking these Democrats are going on and
on and on about how bad it is in this
country in my communities.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Who's been running your communities.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
There's also one particular mindset that encourages kids to become
social justice warriors, not able bodied individuals, able to think
and work for themselves. And these people take out a
giant amount of student loans orchestrated by the federal government
under President Obama, they end up with a job that
or end up with a degree and a job that
(09:35):
they can't get. They had to get on federal health
care Medicaid in many instances, Obamacare, it's a subsidy Obamacare,
so you get the subsidy on that. That's all gone
away as they knew that it would. When so many
people are on Medicaid and healthcare of workers. Hospitals say,
we only get reimbursed at twenty cents on the dollar
(09:56):
for every time so that you come in. So everyone
else has to have their health insurance raise to cover
all the burgeoning number of people on federal government healthcare
health insurance. That's what makes things unaffordable. When it comes
to housing, you guys have let the Chinese come in
here and buy up the entire country and then run
it back to us. That is jacking up housing as
(10:16):
well as spending crises. When it comes to raising our
property Texas, because most of that goes to the schools.
Who's in charge of schools in these big cities. So
these big cities are run by gigantic cadres of liberal
thinkers who have allowed these schools to just rot in decay.
He's welcome to blame the president of the United States.
(10:37):
There's plenty there to blame him for if you want.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Not that.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I'm not hearing anything there that you can blame the
president for. Remember he's only been in office for what
five years now, Donald Trump. These guys have been in
there for our entire lives, many of them.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Who is the last Republican mayor of Chicago.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Exactly? Jeene Stothera.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The eleven to ten KFAB transmission Sports Free with Jim Rows.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Okay, very good, Scott, Good morning, everybody. Beat goes on
for Husker baseball tonight, zooman. After that series sweep of USC,
Nebraska may be playing a better team. Number sixteen Kansas
at home second game against them this season. Came up
to Lincoln two weeks go and beat the Huskers. Jayhawks
lead the Big Twelve, top twenty and walks and home
runs per game. They are fourteen and two at home. Meanwhile,
(11:24):
down the road in Kansas City, The Royals were dreadful again,
lost to the Orioles in twelve innings, seven to five.
It was one to nothing Kse when the O's were
down to their last strike in the ninth inning, tied
the game before the heroics in the twelfth. The Royals
blew massive opportunities, bases loaded in the first and third
nobody out scored none.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
We feel terrible, you know.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I mean, it's a game that you think you have
and gets away and then it is back and forth
and extra innings.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
That's manager Macquataro's at the end of his rope. Blows
a great outling from starter Seth Lugo. Eight The feats
in a row. American League Boston eight six over the Tigers,
Houston nine to two over Cleveland, Toronto five to two
over the Angels, and Oakland defeated Seattle six to four.
In the National League, it was Miami and the Braves, Cubs,
and Dodgers all getting wins. Cincinnati six to one over
(12:16):
the Rays. Omaha is playing at Toledo to open up
a series tonight NBA Playoffs Cleveland one fifteen, Toronto one
oh five. So the Cavs lead that series two games
to none. The Atlanta Knicks series is tied at one
as the Hawks win Game two, as is the Timberwolves
Nuggets series, tied at one after Minnesota wins Game two.
(12:36):
NHL Playoffs in Game two Philadelphia three, Pittsburgh nothing. Game two,
Carolina three, Ottawa two. So Philadelphia and Carolina lead those
series two games to none. It was Dallas four to
two over the Wild. That series is tied up at
one to one. In Edmonton in Game one, defeated at
Anaheim four to three. The Nebraska softball team keeps rising.
(12:59):
That sweep of Minnesota pretty impressive. Takes Nebraska in the
first place in the Big Ten and fourth in the
country according to the ESPN National Softball Poll, only Alabama, Oklahoma,
and Texas Tech are ahead of Nebraska. History in the
NBA San Antonio Center, Victor Wembayama is not just the
league's a defensive Player of the Year, he's the first
(13:21):
ever unanimous choice average three blocks a game. So announced yesterday,
Sports' news on Nebraska's news weathern traffic station.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
We are Nebraska's morning News. We're right here on news
radio eleven ten kfab our various names in no particular order.
Our Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose. My name is
Scott Vorhees Scott atkfab dot com email address. You can
also send a message with your own voice via the
talkback Mike on iHeartRadio, or if you have truth Social
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and there's only one person in the whole country I
think who has truth Social, and he's very busy this morning.
The President has been first of all, a note to
Virginia voting today, Virginia, vote no to save your country. Well,
that's awfully specific. What's that about. Well, Virginia, like a
(14:14):
lot of these states, is among those voting to read
district to everything and set things up for that which
would be in the most benefit for the ruling party
of the state. Texas did it, California did a Virginia's
going to do it. And the President would like Virginia
to vote no on redistricting and to give more Democrats
(14:34):
to Congress to save the country of the United States.
Do you think Virginia the Democrats they are interested in
saving the country and giving Republicans as much, if not
more power in Congress. Survey says no, they are not.
The President also says here Iran has violated the ceasefire
numerous times. That's ominous. I think that guy wants to
(14:57):
blow up some bridges. So that's a little bit here
this morning. Well markets, President.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Markets are responding to his optimistic tone on truth social
which has been spotty. They are rising today because he
did send his envoy or two over there, including his
son in law, and Iran, according to the Pakistanis will
send their delegation as well. The problem is who's making
(15:22):
the decisions over there. The people that are in the
meeting in Pakistan are not necessarily the ones making the decision.
So either something gets done today or Trump says We're
going to blow up every bridge, We're going to blow
up every power plant in Iran, and that would be unfortunate.
Good clarification. Not in Virginia. Not in Virginia, though he'd
(15:43):
like to right now. Virginia has eleven members of the
House of Representatives, and I believe it's eleven, maybe it's nine.
I can't recall, but anyone. The Democrats have one more
than the Republicans. If this goes through, the Democrats will
have nine of the ten, or ten of the eleven,
(16:05):
or eight of the nine. I can't recall if the
two senators are included in that number of Congressional representatives anyway,
that in a state that has voted for a Republican
governor in the last five years and a Republican lieutenant
governor and a Republican attorney general. It is in a
(16:27):
state where Kamala Harris, despite ridiculously high numbers in northern Virginia,
the DC area only be Donald Trump by about four
and a half percentage points in the twenty twenty four election.
So you're talking about a pretty purple state. It's much
like a lot of them. Like Illinois, there's a turnus
concentration of Democrats and liberals up north, but then the
(16:50):
rest of the state is extremely conservative and very red.
Same with Oregon. You get Oregon Portland. Same thing in Washington.
So this is a big bell weather for the coming
midterm elections. And Governor Glenn Youngkin, who I think is
a really terrific person. I think he's remarkably sccessful business guy,
and he did a great job as governor of Virginia.
(17:11):
Just look at what he did there. Almost overnight. He's
been very, very active. He didn't run for reelection because
by law, you can't run for reelection of Virginia. You
can only serve one four year term at a time.
He could come back in three years and run again,
but he can only go one at a time. And
that's sad. But the truth is this is going to
(17:33):
be an indicator of other states that may try to
do the same thing. I don't know if it's unconstitutional
in the state of Virginia. I don't know if a
Supreme Court decision could be handed down before the midterms,
but this could shift the balance of power in Washington,
d C. If suddenly they get five more seats in
one state. Well, they're all blaming Texas, but the state's
(17:56):
redistrict all the time based on the population shift and
so forth. When Texas started to do that as states
normally do, suddenly it now was unfair. Well, now it's
gonna benefit And maybe it was, but they said, Texas,
don't do this because if you do it, all the
rest of the states are gonna do it. We're gonna
bounce it out. Indiana chose not to Indiana, which is
a very red state. Their state senate said no, we're
(18:19):
not going to do this. Will redistrict every ten years
when your census comes out.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
They're happy they got a national championship football team there.
They don't care about the Congress. Hey, it's tell a
friend Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Today.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You go find a friend. You say, Hey, hey, friend,
I'd love for you to join me in listening to KFAB.
Why don't you come over at the house first thing
in the morning. I'll make some break bacon, an egg,
some breakfast and we can listen to the radio together.
I tell you what you do that you're gonna find,
not just a friend, You're gonna have a best friend.
I'm Scott Vorhees. There's Lucy Chapman, Greig Evans, Jim Rose,
(18:52):
a sports brief in a moment. We were talking a
moment ago about we're not even sure who's in charge
of Iran right now? Is the presidents like all right,
you you and you go over to the Pakistan and
you deal with the Iranians, and the Iranians are like,
all right, who's who's left over here? And it looks
like the it looks like when hot Lips and Radar
(19:13):
would go under the tent and mash. It's just a
bunch of people in charge of Iran. They're all bandaged
up and they got little crutches and they got hot
water bottles on their heads. And then that's what's left
of the people in Iran and the Iranian state media.
They're TV, which is run by the Islamo fascists that
run that country for the last fifty years. They're the
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ones out there saying like, oh, no, Iran hasn't agreed
to any of this.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
The last time we heard from Iranian State TV is
when there was one of the commentators over there talking
about death to Israel, death to America, and then we
blew up the TV station during that report. Yes, we
happened to have how that sounded on Tehran Tva Yegoro? Right,
(20:12):
none of them died in there. I'm allowed to laugh
at that. Don't you wish you could do that to
the radio? And Jim rows on here, going I tell
you another thing, and all of a sudden just.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Boom, and then you're going to miss out on a
lot of good stuff if it just goes boom.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Right then, welcoming back to the program right now, eleven
to ten kfab National correspondent Rory O'Neil. We're going to
go international here, Ony, Rory, what's the latest from Iran.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Well, we've got a lot of moving parts and a
lot of conflicting statements about exactly what's going on. Vice
President JD. Bans may be leaving for Islamabad within the hour.
President Trump has a media appearance coming up at the
bottom of the hour, so we may learn more then
as well. The President has put one truth social post
out saying that Iran has violated the ceasefire multiple times.
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But that's about all that was posted there. And then
Iran has said it will not participate in the next
round of talks because they're angry with the US Navy
for taking that cargo ship. And late word that an
oil tanker of Iran has also been seized in the
Indian Ocean as part of these ongoing operations. So an
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awful lot of moving parts, not a lot written in
stone right now.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, And the Iranian State TV says we don't agree
to any of this and we're not sending anyone over there.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Who's in charge.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Well, that's the issue too. Even when it came to
the Strait of horm moved over the weekend, you had
the Foreign Minister saying, yes, the straits open. Everyone sales, sales, sale,
but the IRGC, the Iranian military is saying, oh no,
it's not stay right where you are. So it's been
a lot of miss messaging going back and forth. And
whether or not this gollybop, this minister, this parliamentary speaker
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there in Iran, whether or not he has the support
of the military and the people, that's still a bit
of an open question. I know that this is the
face that the Trump administration has been dealing with, but
whether or not Glibob actually has the backing of the
military and the people, that's still a bit of an
untested question.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So we're sending over our envoy team to meet with
potentially nobody.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Well, and that's the thing, right, if we send our team,
they're more likely to send somebody and it's a much
longer flight for JD Vance. So the idea being once
they see Air Force two go wheels up, the Iranians
still have time to say, all right, I guess we
better get up to Islamabad for these talks. So we
think that seeing vans will go a long way to
showing how committed the US is to this trying to
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get some sort of a breakthrough here. Otherwise, the ceasefire
ends at eight pm Eastern time tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
That's right, all right, Rory, thank you very much for
the reporting. We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Eleven ten kfab National correspondent Rory O'Neill here on Nebraska's
More News. That's about the most vice presidential thing ever
or hey, Vice President Dvance, this is a very very
important mission. We're sending you over to Pakistan or going
clear over there, and the meetings that you are heading
up there could lead to finally some level of if
(23:16):
not peace in the Middle East, maybe peace in the world,
or at least trying to get this Islamic fundamentalist state
to stop trying to get nuclear weapons to blow up
Israelis and Americans, or maybe no one will be there
and you can turn around and come back home. Take
your golf clubs with you in case it gets boring.
I that's about the most VP thing that ever veeped
(23:36):
right there. And meanwhile, you've got members of Congress and
Jim Rows I know that you share my opinion on this,
as we've got a couple of members of Congress Swallwell
California and Gonzales of Florida, that apparently every single woman
across to America has come forward and said.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
He attacked me.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
And so now you've got a congressional hearing saying we
want any victims of sexual abuse at the hands of
members of Congress or staff to come to us, come
to this Congressional committee and tell us about what happened
to you. Why Why wouldn't people just you know, go
to the police. Why are they going to Congress. Well,
(24:17):
we know that this is a rhetorical question. We know
the answer because they hold this information for when it
can have the most impactful political damage. And that's what's
going on. The same thing happened with Brett Kavanaugh. Kind
of started with Clarence Thomas and then took a little
bit of a break, and now it's into Brett Kavanaugh.
And now with Brett Kavanaugh's you know, rigorous, unfortunate experience
(24:42):
and trying to become confirmed as a member of the
United States Supreme Court, this sort of opened the floodgates.
And now what we have are a bunch of people
who say that they were assaulted, who say that they
were wronged. Nobody ever called the police, Nobody ever called
law enforcement, nobody ever said this happened to me. All
of this stuff is bubling up now because it can
have the most impact politically on somebody who's either ahead
(25:05):
in the polls or behind in the polls, or both.
And what we're finding now is the same thing. Whether
Tony Gonzales, the Congressman from Texas or Eric Swallwell, the
congressman from California, said any of those things or did
any of those things, is immaterial. The key is get
them out of the way politically. Either get somebody in
there who's a better Republican than Tony Gonzalez or a
(25:28):
better governor of California than Eric Swalwell. It's a shame,
but this is where our politics is today, Scott. It's
gotcha politics. You got people like Matt Gates. Why is
it that nobody was talking about Matt Gates until it
became politically expeditious for them to do so when he
was up for the job as Attorney General of the
(25:48):
state or the United States and the Trump administration the
chief law enforcement officer of the US. Now in his case,
there was some discussion about his behavior off the floor.
I uh, Kevin McCarthy, and it was Gates who stopped
Kevin McCarthy multiple times from becoming Speaker of the House
because he was asking questions that were uncomfortable. But that's
(26:11):
a rare occasion when uh, you know, until it becomes
critically important politically to tear this guy down. People are
mum about it. And with all due respect to the
women who've been assaulted, why why didn't you call the police?
I know, and there's look, that's a separate conversation, and
you'll have victims advocates say, well, it's all right. But
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if you're gonna come out now, now, go to the
police now. Don't go to don't go to already, don't
go to Congressman Flood's office.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Go to the cops.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
That's my If you're gonna come out now because you're
afraid that Eric Swalwell may become governor of California, don't
go to Gloria Allread, okay, the celebrity lawyer.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Go to somebody who can arrest the guy. Lucy Chapman,
I have a traffic question for you.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
How is it now that you're going on six eighty
northbound and trying to merge on to Dodge and that lane,
especially if you're going off of Pacific and you're trying
to do Yeah, you're trying to merge on to Dodge.
It used to be you had that entire ramp over
to where you get off for west Roads or Regency,
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and now you've got about three feet.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, they need to close that, that is.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And I don't understand why that entire right hand lane
where you either then merge over from six eighty northbound
to go Dodgy's bound, or merge on to six eighty
from Pacific, why why are they even doing anything? That
whole lane is all barricaded shut down. If you're in
that right lane on six eighty northbound past Pacific anyway,
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I always feel like I'm gonna start scraping against that
hall there. Yeah, I feel like I don't have a
right there. I don't have enough room. The guy next
to me in the middle lane, he's probably on his phone,
and so I'm watching going I can't move over, I'm
gonna rub the wall. And this isn't a NASCAR race,
this is six eighty. And then here comes someone off
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of Pacific, and I realize they've only got about three
feet to merge. They got to get up to speed
and merge now how is anyone still alive over there?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Well, because there you do have people that are paying attention.
Some but if you name one, well I can't name them.
I mean, I'll name myself. I was paying attention when
I was through there yesterday. But if you are trying
to get onto six eighty northbound, do not do it
from Pacific.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Just don't do it. You don't have room.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
There's not enough room to get on, especially at peak periods,
which would be right now. I just don't do it.
And if you are on six' eighty northbound from it
starts at about Center Street, maybe a little bit further
than that, but that's where those lanes narrow and they shift,
and it is im I'm really happy. I'm glad. But
we haven't had a crash yet. Well, actually we did.
(29:02):
We did have a crash a couple of days ago,
like Friday, Thursday or Friday. So yeah, it's it's you
really have to pay attention and you have to go
fifty five. I hope police are there and kind of
enforcing that fifty five. It's it looks you can't really
go any faster.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It looks incredibly dangerous. I just think about that person
because if I'm not thinking about it. I'm getting up
to speed on that ramp onto six't eighty northbound from Pacific,
thinking I've got all the time in the world to
merge over. And then suddenly you realize not only do
you not have room, but you got to barricade here
on your right and all the cars coming on your left,
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and now you slam on the brakes of people hit
from behind it. I mean, it's dangerous.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Well, when you think about it as often as you're
over on six eighty northbound and you think about it,
how many people actually use that anyway? It's not there
often where you see somebody, even when before this construction,
where you see somebody coming down that ramp. Just shut
it temporarily, just shut it down.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Lucy wants to shut it down. Shut it down. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Your first crack at one thousand bucks comes up here
in just under half an hour from now, at eight
oh five. Senator Pete Ricketts joins us. In an hour
from now, this is Nebraska's Morning News with Lucy Chapman,
Jim Rose, Craig Evans, I'm Scout four.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
He's the report.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
A moment ago from Craig by the Chinese national arrested
here taking photographs at various military bases, including off At
Air Force Base, which he's alleged to have done back
on March thirty first. In fact, he was getting ready
to play golf at nearby Willow Lakes Golf Course when
he was taking pictures across the Kennedy Freeway of off
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At Air Force Base, and news Radio eleven ten kfab's
microphones picked it up.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Hey Wayne, what's for the pictures? It's a parking lot.
Come on, will you?
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I think this place is restricted way, so don't tell
you you're Jewish?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Okay, fine, hey kid, I'm out Chervich.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
I'm playing with Drew Scott today.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
This is my guess, mister Wang of yeah, it turns
out Willow Lake's golf course across the street, there's not restricted.
Mister Wang's religion is not a factor in that one.
But actually it's pronounced Lang. I believe Tian Rui Lang
was arrested on April seventh at.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I'm sorry, he says, what's put the pictures? It's a
parking lot. Well, so he was arrested.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
He I believe he photographed it off At Air Force
Base March thirty first, he pulled off the side of
the road on Harlan, had a camera with a telescopic lens,
took photos of the Offit Air Force Base, flight line
and aircraft. He did the same thing. He made a
stop at Ellsworth Air Force Base that's in South Dakota
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and was heading over to Tinker in Oklahoma after his
stop at off It. So the question is is this
a Chinese national who was a bally arrested accused of
doing espionage for the Chinese or is this just a
tourist who loves taking pictures of military installations. It could
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be he's an aficionado of Air Force Basis. And I
know that this is probably not going to go over
well with everybody. But there's a reason why that clip
there from Caddyshack is.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
It kind of true?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
And that is if you've been in places where you
have a lot of Chinese tourists, they're taking pictures as
if it's their job in life to document everything. I
was at the Louver in Paris, and even though you
can see the Mona Lisa in any book, any website
all over the place, I had a hard time seeing
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this incredible portrait there because of all of the tourists
there from China who are holding up exactly the same
thing those old cameras and taking multiple picture of it. Like, look,
just take a picture, take a selfie to prove you
were here, and please get out of the way. But
people are photographing this like this is my only chance.
This is humanity's only chance to photograph this. Otherwise no
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one's going to see it. And a lot of times
the culture of the Chinese is they like taking a
lot of pictures.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Well maybe they figured this is my only chance to
ever be in this country, so I better capture it
as best I can and then save all the photos
and then at Christmas time we'll do a slideshow for
the family. This is what Sheboygan, Wisconsin looks like. This
is Omaha. This is the Bushwood Country Club, the parking
lot of the Bushwood Country Club.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
There's no other explanation. Excuse me, sir.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
If we kill all the golfers, they'll lock us up
and throw away the key. So if this guy is
pulled off the road and taking pictures of off it,
is that not the same thing that anyone can see
when driving by. I mean, I'm not looking to get
a potential Chinese spy off the hook. I'm not Eric Swallwell,
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I'm not going to jump in the sack with a
Chinese spy. We'll start telling you fang thing. But that's right,
fangs so nice they named her twice. But what exactly
is the huge problem here? It's not like he crept
into the air ducks and was hacking into computers or anything,
but any excuse to play a clip in caddy shack.
(34:28):
I guess I got a couple of messages here, guys.
I'm going to forward these messages to both of you
and you guys can have it out. I'm talking here
about this Chinese national arrested after driving around the Midwest
and taking pictures of Air Force bases, including pulling off
to the side of Harlan Road and holding a camera
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with a telescopic lens aka a camera he was taking
photos of off at air Force base with taking pictures
of that which you can see from the road and
probably on Google Earth. And I'm saying, look, I don't
want to be I don't want to be called out
for excusing the behavior of a potential Chinese spy.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
But exactly what here?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
So I got these emails one here Scott at kfab
dot com from Brian says, Scott, stop being glib and flip.
I'm being both glib and flip. What radio station are
they on, Lucy the Glib and Flip Show.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
That is the Glib and Flip Show out of Sacramento
Air in Sacramento, and they are super not fun to
listen to.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Really, well, they don't seem to take too much too seriously. Yeah, well,
one of them is stop being glib and flip about
the Chinese national arrested at off It for taking pictures
of the air Force base. As a retired FBI counter
espionage agent, I can assure you this is real and serious.
(36:00):
The Chinese are known to use non traditional collectors to
obtain intelligence information. These include tourists, professors, business people, not
just traditional spies. If you read the reporting, he took
close up picks of the RC one thirty five. With
those picks, the PRC what is you are in the government?
I don't know, can ascertain what equipment's being you? Oh,
(36:22):
the People's Republic of China can ascertain what equipment is
being used and build countermeasures for them. I hope your
future reporting on such issues is a little more serious
as this issue is. That's from Brian. Well, Brian, I'm
not a counter terrorism agent. I'm just asking questions and
(36:43):
I don't exactly report on anything. As Senator Chuck Hagel
once told me, you're in the entertainment business, and he
did not mean that as a compliment. Matt says the
same thing I am, He says, I don't want to
be that guy. But if this is top secret, why
is it out in the open. Why does the government
have a right to privacy and the public eye when
citizens don't have a great guy? That's from Matt. So
(37:05):
I'll forward the emails to each other. You guys can
have it out, and I'll just act like I'm not
in the middle of it. I'm not the only one
getting hammered in these Zonkerer's custom woods inbox. This morning
we got a what is Jim Rose talking about here?
Let me set this up. We started off a couple
of hours ago talking about as we'd figured yesterday, but
(37:25):
didn't really want to come right out and say, the
guy who is accused of chasing around a couple of
girls aged eleven and twelve in Gretna out in the
neighborhood of like one hundred and ninety eighth in Q
has diminished mental capabilities. Yeah, we knew that he's chasing
around this. Yeah, but they say he's he's basically got
(37:47):
the mental capacity of a ten year old. Well, a
ten year old knows the difference between right and wrong.
And you put a ten year old brain, apparently an
over sexualized ten year old brain, into the body of
a creepy looking thirty four year old guy and you
let them loose to chase girls around the park. That
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doesn't exactly say like, oh, okay, never mind, we'll just
send him home, and hey, if this happens, you will just.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Be like, Zach, stop that.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Uh, there's obviously there's something that needs to be done.
And Jim was saying, as a lot of people have said,
we have the ability to bring back a place that
people used to be able to go. And they have
some nice coloring books, and some people would color in
the books, other people would lick them or whatever you
(38:37):
want to do, and you'd have this nice room with
those nice young men and those nice white coats and
they're coming to take me away. Well, we talked about
that earlier. We got this via the talkback mic. Anywhere
you are with our free iHeartRadio app, you can tap
that little microphone icon and send us a message.
Speaker 7 (38:53):
What is Jim Rose talking about? Or the richest nation
in the world. What is our state deficit? This our
federal deficit? What are the forty nine fulbrinces you call them,
going to do about this? Chimo running around one hundred
and ninety six and Q zero because they're incapable of
doing anything meaningful. Parents teach your children to stay out
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of vulnerable situations, and parents stay vigilant.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
That's it, Chimo. Well, he's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
That is something we should all be doing, asking our
kids to, you know, be aware of their surroundings. I
know we tried to make sure our kids knew theyir
a home phone number at the time they were five
years old. And parents should be vigilant. I don't know
that that's changed through the generations. Parents should always be vigilant.
But the point that we're making is that our country
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has stopped investing in mental health facilities and the mental
health crisis in this country. Maybe it's been brought on
by nutrition, Maybe it's been brought on by prescription medications
that have been pumped into kids for the last fifty years.
Maybe it's society, maybe it's social media, maybe it's all
of those things. But my point is this, we have
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an issue in our state that isn't growing smaller, and
that is a growing mental health crisis.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
And these people are out there.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
This incident backed up by the incident involving Niami Gusman,
who was an outrageous act of violence against that three
year old little boy. She should never have been unrestrained.
She should have been heavily restricted in her ability to
move around town. Same thing with this guy. Well, what
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are we going to do about it? Are we just
going to be upset or are we going to take action?
And my point is this, our tax system in this
state is so bast awkwards and is so adequated, and
those people down there, the forty nine refuse to do
the heavy work, the real heavy lifting, which is reform
this tax code so we can spread out the tax
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burden and provide for more resources that can be channeled
into this public human service. We don't have the money
to do it because we're spending so much money in
this area and so much money in that area to
mitigate a property tax crisis that could be addressed by
two things. You cap valuations and you cap levees, and
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cities and schools have to learn to do with.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
A little more of more.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Okay, they're getting an increase every year, they just aren't
getting as much. And then we'll have and then you
broaden the sales tax base so we have the revenues
to support all of these programs. But when you're pouring
three four five hundred million dollars a year into a
property tax relief fund forgetting that there's a hole at
the bottom of that bucket, you'll never keep up with
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rising valuations. Until you address it legislatively, we won't have
the kinds of funds necessary to address a mental health crisis.
I'm not saying all the money should go to mental health,
but we need to spend more than we're spending now.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Well, I'm really surprised that the forty nine individuals who
are retired people, social justice warriors, and Glorified Homeowners' Association's
presidents making twelve thousand dollars a year can't fix all
of our problems. I'm sarcastically shocked.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
They don't have the will.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Well, when you go to the people, And you say,
should dangerous people be locked up?
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Yes, what about dangerous people who are criminally insane?
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
No, they're going to let them run around the park,
chase after our kids and try and stab our kids
in a Walmart parking lot. I don't know what the
disconnect is, Lucy.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
What about the dangerous people that were elected into our legislature?
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Well, if they are running for governor of California, then
someone will step up and finally say something other than that.
It's apparently not that big a deal. I just asked
that at least they be entertaining if they're going to
be dangerous and run for office. Oh on that front,
thank you for Then. We don't have a revenue problem
in Nebraska. We have a spending problem. We have a
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lot of problems. But you know there are problems, and
we're here too, As Chris Baker says, we just chronicle
the madness here in Nebraska's morning news on the running
for office front. Interesting give and take on the second
congressional district race. We'll have that for you next. Tom
Emails via the Zonker's custom was inbox Scott at kfab
(43:22):
dot com because I called the guy who was a
creepy thirty four year old chasing young girls in a park,
A creepy guy, and Tom said, Scott, that's someone's son.
Could be someone's brother, uncle, or friend. Where is your compassion?
The girls he was chasing and when police caught him,
he said, I wanted to have sex with them. Could
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be someone's daughter, someone's friend, someone's sister. There's my compassion.
Thank you very much for the email, though, if you
don't want to be called a creepy thirty four year old,
don't be a creepy thirty four year old.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
Now.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
I know he's got diminishmenttal capabilities and so forth. And
if he's just sitting there, you know, licking a balloon
or something like that, I'm not going to go after him,
you know, good for him.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
But when you're.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Chasing girls for the purpose of attacking them, yeah, I
might get upset. Now the second congressional district race here,
the accusation is if John Cavanaugh wins and Governor Pillen
wins reelection, then Pillen is going to take the that
seat that's long been held by Democrats and appoint a
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Republican and give the Republicans a potential super majority. In
the next legislature. And so therefore, what we can't have
John Cavanaugh as the Democratic candidate for Congress, and we
certainly can't have him win because then we get a
Republican in that seat, and then Republicans can do winner
take All and attack a various LGBTQ Nebraskans and all
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the other stuff they're talking about. So the Democrats are
kind of tying themselves a pretzel here on this one, Jim.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
They are to this extent, He's the front runner. He
has the highest name recognition, even though Crystal Rhodes has
been on a lot of ballots over the last fifteen
twenty years. This is a very tricky, dicey election from
this standpoint. Donald Trump has not done well in District two,
but Don Bacon has. Republicans have, especially with the way
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District two stretches out toward Saunders County, which there are
more people in there than you think that would vote Republican.
So what about John Kavanaugh. He has a record of
supporting a lot of lefty causes, and that's the best
thing Brinker Harding has gone for him. If I'm Brinker
I'm saying I don't want to have Donald Trump come
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anywhere near this district for me or anybody else, because
he's zero for three in this district. Meanwhile, Don Bacon
was three for three. This is an issue. But you
should also know that even if Jim Pillon loses the election,
he can still appoint a replacement for John Kavanhaugh before
Lynn Walls, potentially who would defeat him in the election
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in November. He can still do that before he leaves office.
So if you're a Democrat and you're worried about that,
I wouldn't because a lot of Republicans in the Nebraska Unit,
Cameron forget that at key moments.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Oh yeah, and Kavanaugh says, look, we have enough opportunities
for liberal people to pick up seats in other districts.
So I don't know if that's true. I'll worry about mine, But.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
There are plenty of Republicans who don't act like it.
In key moments in the Nebraska Unit, there.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Are always a couple. This is Nebraska's warning News. Welcoming
on here. Nebraska Senator Pete rickets to the program. Senator
the President says, oh yeah, we Iron wants to make
a deal. They want to give up nukes. They want
to watch farmer takes a wife and they want to
have Western culture and peace. Do you believe any of
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this when it comes from Iran because we don't have
any idea with whom we are negotiating over there.
Speaker 8 (47:01):
Well, that would be the goal that we need to
get to is to get Iran to give up their
nuclear weapon ambitions, and that, of course is the reason
for this conflict. Is the President knows that it's very
dangerous to allow Ron to have a nuclear weapon, and
they've alreay admitted they've got enough for ten and a
missile look reached the United States, and we know they've
got a mist look and reach London in Paris, which
means that they're not far behind, maybe months away from
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having a missile reach us. So that's the purposeless conflict
degree that degrade those capabilities. The challenge we have is
that you've got these radicals, these people who are really
extremists at the IRGC that believe that if they start
aren't getting they go to heaven. So we've got to
be able to make sure that who we're dealing with
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is actually going to live up to the deal, which
is what happened earlier in the week when the figure
of the Parliament said, hey, the straits of hormones are open,
and then the IRGC started shooting at ships. So I
believe there's somebody who can get this done. It's going
to be President Trump, and it's going to require that
we understand that the Iranians and tactics on this are
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delayed to lay delay, and they've got to know there's
a cost for the delay. So if we don't get
a deal done, the President's going to have to impose
a cost on them.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
At the same time, a lot of Trump's supporters, people
who have voted for him numerous times, are looking at
things he's saying and doing, whether it's We're going to
wipe out a civilization, he's fighting with the Pope. He's
posting pictures on true socials as him as Jesus and saying,
what's going on with our commander in chief right now? Senator,
you're close there on Capitol Hill, what's going on with
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our commander in chief right now?
Speaker 8 (48:39):
President Trump has always been unorthodox, and that's really been
one of the strengths for how he's gotten elected and
how he's been effective. And recall that in his first term,
we had some of the best economy we've ever had
in our nation's history, and the president knows that we've
got to be able to keep this country safe, and
that we're on with a nucle weapon of missiles is
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a big danger to that. So I think that his
adversaries like Iran have a hard time figuring him out
because he is an Orthodox and he has a goal
here though, to keep it safe, and that's what we
got to keep working toward. Because again we know now
because this conflict, Iran's got enough nuclear material for ten
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nuclear bombs. If they admitted that much, they got more.
And we know now they've got a misslig and fire
more than two thousand miles, which means they're not far
from in the United States. So this is really why
the President is making sure that we're trying to keep
Iran from having that capability because that would be really,
really dangerous.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
Yeah, keeping nukes away from Iran and sending a message
to our enemy is Look, this is a president who
will do what he says very important. Also, some of
the things he's done with tax cuts. I love the
McDonald's trip to the Oval office the other day and
trying to tout the tax cuts. Obviously, some of the
other things the President does and says will overshadow some
good things happening in the economy. Senator, what are those
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things that you want the people in Nebraska to know
that are happening good with the economy right now?
Speaker 8 (50:09):
Well, let's talk about the president's leadership. You know, last
year the President said, hey, I want this working family
tax cut passed by July fourth. Was a that was
a tall order. Yet his leadership got it done, and
that's how we got the bill. It's going to have
no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, a bonus
deduction for seniors such that eighty eight percent of seniors
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will not be paying federal income tax on Social Security.
I was just talking to a restaurant manager was telling
me that one of his waitresses had her w two
reported wrong, where her overtime pay got loved into a
regular pay, and where they got it sorted out, she
got an extra fifteen hundred dollars back from the federal government.
That's like a house payment or more moneys for gas
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or groceries. I mean, that's what the Working Family tax
cut is doing. And we're already seeing the benefit everybody's
tax returns are on an average more than ten percent
higher than this year, the average of thirty four hundred
dollars per person who's filing their taxes. So that's one
of the big benefits. It's like so far back into
you know, people getting back about two hundred in total,
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about two hundred and seventy four billion dollars. And not
only will there be more money in people's pockets, but
that's going to help squurre the economy. It's also got
great stuff for businesses to invest in things like childcare
and pay family medical leave. It's also going to encourage
businesses to invest in innovation and open up manufacturing plants.
So there's a lot that's really going to benefit the
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economy because the working family taxes we passed last year. Obviously,
the news and Iran is one of the things that's
on the headlines every day, but this is the stuff
that's you know, the stuff that we're doing with working
family task cut is impacting people's everyday lives.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
Missiting with the US Senator Pete Ricketts, Let's turn to
something that's really important.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
How are you and your wife getting along these days?
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Because we've got a big, big, rugged campaign common and
she has not yet sought your public endorsement, even though
you kind of gave it in a written statement. Will
you be appearing on behalf of your wife a solid
Democrat in this regent's race.
Speaker 8 (52:09):
My wife is quite capable of running her campaign and
getting through the primary here in this regent's race on
her own, because she is a very competent, capable woman,
and she would do a fantastic job. And really I
think part one of the things she could do is
help bring Republicans Democrats together on that board of regents.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Does she are you bothered that she has been running
from you in this Does she's rarely drop your name publicly?
Speaker 4 (52:33):
Does that bother you at all?
Speaker 8 (52:36):
My wife is working as the campaign fact actual on
Sunday she was out walking doors, knocking doors. She is
running a great campaign.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
Yeah, I mean I haven't seen too many signs for
UNO student regent Michael scas or actually former are you
and O employee Michael scos or any of these other
former and current student regents running against her? So would
high confidence be a way to describe the shore for
regent race?
Speaker 4 (53:03):
Right now?
Speaker 8 (53:05):
You never take anything for granted. Every race. You got
to go out and work hard and every single race
and that's the That's what I've learned it over twenty
years of being in this business. And Suzanne has seen
that firsthand. So she is running hard and suck. Every
race is tough and you never know.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Jim, Well, you quit trying to break up Pete Rickets
and Suzanne Shores.
Speaker 4 (53:23):
We got it.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
This is one of the great political phenomenons of our
time that these two have not been at each other's throats.
Speaker 4 (53:30):
I think it's great.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
It shows people can then come together about what's really important.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
This is the Mary Madeline James Carville of Nebraska. But
those two didn't run for office.
Speaker 2 (53:41):
Just because they're both bald does not mean you have
to compare James Carville and Pete Ricketts.
Speaker 4 (53:47):
They both had superior wives. I'll say that.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
Senator. It's always a pleasure. Thank you very much for
putting up with us this morning. As always my pleasure.
Speaker 8 (53:55):
Thanks very much for having me on.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Senator Pete Ricketts here on news radio eleven ten K
fair with you.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
Well, I mean she's she's a solid liberal. I mean
she and personally I've always said to Pete people like
her a lot more than they like you. If you've
ever met her, she's a delightful woman.
Speaker 5 (54:13):
Man.
Speaker 1 (54:13):
She's really fun to be around and very casual and
extremely comfortable in her own skin. She's not one of
these Chuck Hagel style wives who just did not want
to be seen in public. His wife wanted nothing to
do with his public career. She rarely was in Omaha,
she was never around. She moved to Virginia when he
won the Senate seat and barely ever came back. Unlike
(54:35):
you know, Lily bet Hegel, this one, she's really been
out there and saying, look, he's this, I'm that. But
we have a lot more in common than we have indifference.
And I would just wonder, okay, how many fundraisers for
suit sand sure as Pete attended and has his skin
begun to crawl with all of those liberal democrats in
(54:56):
the room.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
I don't go to my wife's workplace and hold her
hand all day. This is no different they did. They
have weird jobs, that's all. I think she has a
really good chance.
Speaker 1 (55:06):
Like I said, there's a UNO employee named Michael Scots,
and then a couple of student regents that are running
for that seat. So she looks good for at least
getting through the primary in the top two, and then
we'll see
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