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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Senator Chuck Grassley joins us in a half an hour,
and we start off here with former Trump Attorney General
and he just happened to be a tight end for
the Hawkeye football team, including that Big Roles Bowl win
in nineteen ninety one. Matt Whittaker joins us here on
news radio eleven ten kfab mister Attorney General, Sir, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh it's great to be with you. Can we talk
football for a minute?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Please?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Do I know you're a lot happier over there than
we are after the Hawkey's got the Gophers.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, yeah, I think Matt Rule is a great coach,
and so you know, I fear as a Hawkeye fan
and former player, what that's going to become with him
in a couple of years. I will also tell you
that Brett Bielma, the head coach of the alani Again,
I watched that game Friday night. Brett Bilman was a
teammate of mine in Iowa, and we came in his
freshman defensive ends together. He put on a lot more
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weight than I did, so we went to different positions ultimately,
but he's still, you know, obviously is enjoying the training table.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well yeah, and not only that, but also he's flourishing
as a football coach. I know a lot of Husker
fans were pretty upset and on Friday night, but you know,
we had a chance. His name was on a list
of coaches to come here to Nebraska. I think that
perhaps he wanted to and had a little edge coming
into this game, like, all right, here's what you passed
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up on.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, no, you're right. And again this is I mean,
if you look at sort of these teams like Illinois,
Nebraska commitment to building programs in the new USC UCLA,
and Oregon and Washington joining the conference, you know the
Big Ten is going to be in a position to
be quite strong for many, many years. And you know,
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I can't have had to give a shout out to
my friend also the Nebraska athletic director, who is I know,
new there, but I think he's committed to returning Nebraska
to their excellence and their standard. And so it says
a Hawkeye fan, you know, we're watching it, we're tracking
the day after Thanksgiving. This year should be a great game.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
All right, let me ask you one more question about football,
and by the way, we like Troy Dan and two
we're really glad to have him here. But you were
with some teams where you guys came in there, got
a couple of wins, We're feeling pretty good about yourself.
Maybe there was a little cockiness, some swagger around the
locker room. Then you go out and get beat. What
is that conversation like, not just after that game, but
in the week before the next game.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, to me, that's all about the players, all about
the players coming together understanding that you can't rest on
your laurels, that you know, a couple of wins doesn't
ensure additional wins. You know what always gave us confidence
was when we you know, we're to play a really
good team. We played Miami a couple of years when
I was there, We played North Carolina State, you know,
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we played some like national powers outside of the Big Ten,
Colorado we played against them, and so we I think,
you know, we're able to measure early in the season.
And I think it's important again that it's all about
improvement week after week. And that's what ference is broth
to the Alaha guys, as you know, it's just you know,
they're not the best September team. Although there's oftentimes forty
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but by you know, you get to later in the
season late October ly November, they're usually pretty styles.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well, talking about getting beat and then coming back stronger. Here,
let's talk about your former boss, as we're talking with
former Trump Attorney General Matt Whittaker with us here on
news radio eleven ten kfa B and Matt by the way,
is in town this Wednesday evening for a tribute to
patriots honoring the rule of law. Is this event with
(03:32):
the Douglas County Republican Party. I get a chance to
be there as MC Wednesday night a champions run and
if you want to be a part of this event,
check out all the details and make your reservation right
now at go opevent dot com. That's goopevent dot com.
And I'll give you those details again here in just
a few minutes. But what do you think about your
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former boss? You know, the election in twenty twenty asterisks
didn't go his way. I don't want to get into
that conversation this morning, a really ever, but you know
here he is retooled and coming back for the next game.
How do you think he's doing with that?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, they're running a discipline campaign, obviously focused hyper focused
on the swing states, the seven swing states, but you know,
we also have a as you know, a swing district
there in Nebraska. Lets the legislature. I don't think they're
going to do anything, but you probably would know better
than I do. Uh, you know, we got to make
sure that uh you know, Nebraska too is uh it
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turns Trump because that could that could swing the electoral College.
And so with all that being said, I think we're
you know, doing a great campaign. I think you know,
President is obviously focused on winning, uh in a winning message,
and you know, as I go around the country, you know,
I really talk about the five issues that this uh,
you know, this this election is going to hinge on.
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I think it's about, uh, the issue of life and
how radical the Democrats are. I think it hinges on
uh national security, border, secure, the economy, and obviously for me,
law and order, which I think, you know, don't tell
most Americans that they're safer than they were four years
ago in their own homes and their own communities, because
we've seen a major spike in crime. So I'm looking
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forward to talking to the Douglas County Republicans on Wednesday.
It's going to be a great event for me, and
I hope they treat me very well as a hawkey
coming into Nebraska territory.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, regarding Nebraska and the winner take all thing with
our electoral college votes, Governor Pillen was on our radio
station just a few hours ago and said, you need
thirty three votes to pass this. If we can get
thirty three, I'll call a special session. Right now we
have thirty They're still working, I know, President Trump, Senator
Graham really working the unicameral members here in Nebraska. What
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do you think should should every state be a proportional
electoral college vote state like Nebraska and Maine? Or is
winner take all the best way of doing this?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I think winner take all is the best way of
doing it. You know, I've actually know if if we
were going to do sort of proportionate by district, then
we just you know, skip the electoral college and send
it to the House, because that's you know, the actual
proportionate and you know, our friending fathers didn't intend that,
and so you know, I think we got to look
at sort of the beautiful design that that Hamilton Madison
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and others put on this constitutional system. It's what makes
our the United States of America so strong and so unique,
and at the same time, you know, we need to
whatever the rules are and however the states decide to
run their elections, we need to make sure that we
have a strategy that uh, you know, addresses those unique
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rules and has a plan to win.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But those who want the popular vote to declare the
next president in terms of the entire election in America,
they point to what you just said and say, well, see,
that's why we should just go with the popular vote.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
To that, you would say, what, well, I mean again,
we we are a you know, nation of laws. Two
hundred and forty eight years ago, we were founded, our
constitution was passed. We just celebrated Constitution Day, and you
know that that's that's if the people won't have that discussion.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I don't think we should do that and go to
a popular vote. Remember, I think the other thing that
all of us of a of a sound mind and
and reason and common sense knows that one in ten
Americans live in California, and that's that California is not
as successful as it could be because of you know,
radical policies of the last and and you know, illegal
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immigration that's happened for the last like forty years. It's
changed the face of California, some for the better, but
some for the worse. You know, you have cities like
San Francisco that certainly I don't think you want to
import their values into Omaha and Des Moines and the
places that you know I care about. But that being said,
you know again, I here's the thing I think that
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people need to understand about me is as someone that
believes in the Constitution, that if you really disagree with system,
than do the hard work of you know, changing it,
of making your case to you and the American people.
I don't think it's going to happen. I think the
popular vote is you know, it's a pie in the
sky idea dreampt up by you know, university liberals. But
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you know, that being said, you know, we have a
playing field, we have the rules, and you know, let's
play the game this year and then we can have
you know, discussions that people want to have, you know,
into the future.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
One more a minute here with former Trump Attorney General
Matt Whitaker on eleven ten kfab. Several former members of
Trump's cabinet have come out in favor of him. Several haven't.
What do you think about those who have joined the
the Kamala Harris campaign here for the Presidency to speak
out and write books and try and profit off of
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their time in the Trump White House.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
You know, I saw and worked with a lot of
these people when I was in the cabinet, and I
know them. I just ran into one of those folks
that isn't supporting him. But it's not supporting Harris. I
just think, you know, there's there are because of the
environment we live in, there's people that you know, don't
feel comfortable speaking out and supporting Bredident Trump because their
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financial futures depend on it. It's really, you know, to me,
kind of sad. I mean, especially since most of their
careers were made and they were enthusiastic on the front
end of serving Donald Trump. And so, you know, don't
I don't spend much time worrying about those I know
that I joined people like Ben Carson and some of
the true patriots in supporting enthusiastically the president. And you know,
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even Bill Barr is supporting President Trump and said he
would vote for him.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I look forward to seeing you again on Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Matt.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Thank you very much for the time this morning and
save travels coming here to Omaha.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
That is former US Attorney General Matt Whittaker here on
news radio eleven to ten kfab. The former iowahaw guy
will be here with the Douglas County Republican Party. I've
been asked to MC this event, said absolutely Wednesday night,
six thirty at Champions Run one hundred and thirty eight
than just south of Maple There, one hundred and thirty
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eighth in Eagle Run Drive. And the event is online
for you to take a look at and see if
you want to buy tickets for this gop event. Dot
com is the website goopevent dot com. For the twenty
twenty four a Tribute to Patriots event, the special keynot speaker,
Matt Whittaker will be talking about honoring the rule of law.
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We've had already one guest from Iowa on the program
this hour, and that was former Hawkeye tight End, who
also happened to be the US Attorney General for a
time under President Trump. Now will welcome someone who has
been a Senator from Iowa throughout the Biden presidency, Trump presidency,
the Obama president. It goes back away Senator Chuck Grassley's
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here with us on eleven ten kfa B. Good morning, Senator.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Thank you for having me, Scott, I appreciate you very much.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yes, Matt Whittaker was the opening act to you this
morning on the program. It's all Iowan's here on the
show today.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Well, I'm glad that Iowans can share our knowledge with
the people in Nebraska and Kansas and South Dakota and
Missouri and all those people. We're glad to do that.
We're not self.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Eash, Iowan, No, not at all. Let's talk about Nebraska
though for a second. Have you been following some of
the drama about Nebraska's electoral college issue that's a little
different from almost every other state. There's a lot of
push here for Nebraska to do what Iowa does, and
that is winner take all with the electoral college votes.
Have you been watching this? Do you have any thoughts
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on what Nebraska should do?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, they should win or take all take all, because
Omaha in this instance, if they were to vote Democrat
for Harris, it wouldn't speak for the majority of Nebraskan's.
I think Nebraska's ought to stick together and I just
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heard the Irhay you had, and about all the housing
problems that Harris is going to help with. I just
wonder if she stops to think if they hadn't allowed
eight to ten million people illegally enter our country as migrants,
we might not have the shortage of housing we have,
and we wouldn't have rent so high.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Is that the issue we have with housing right now?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Well, yeah, she's going to give a twenty five thousand
dollars thing that's just going to drive up a price
of houses for twenty five thousand dollars because people know
that if the governor's kicking in some money, we might
as well raise the price of housing. So I don't
see how it's going to help people get affordable housing.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Is helping with affordable housing? Is that a tenant of government?
When did the United States government start becoming more like
a game show host than a government operating for the
national offense, roads and bridges, that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Nineteen thirty nine, when the Public Housing Bill first past
the Congress of the United States, I think that's the
history of it. Well, it's never gotten to a point.
It's never gotten to a point though, where the government
was given out money to people buy houses. There was
tax credits to encourage people to invest in housing and
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things of that nature, but never to outright buy a house.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Well there, certainly it's become very popular for the federal
government to do certain things. I know a lot of
people were excited about President Biden saying I'll forgive your
student loans, But I think that at the same time,
once someone pushes back and says that's not what the
federal government should be doing, then that's why we have
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trillions and trillions of dollars of debt and deficit and
inflation and everything. I could talk about this for days
and probably say nothing, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
We forgot the Tamta mandment. All powers not specifically given
to the federal government are reserved to the states and
to the people. And those powers that are specific be
given to the federal government are in the eighteen powers
that are listed in Article one of the Constitution. Nothing
else can the federal government do.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
That's going to be a big issue in this election
because of all the abortion tenants on the ballots for
a lot of states, including Nebraska. Since the last time
we've talked, Senator, we've had Kamala Harris according to most
experts other than President Trump himself, Kamala Harris soundly defeated
Trump in a presidential debate, and we almost had a
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guy take the president's life in a second assassination attempt
on that man. As you look at what's going on
with this election, what are your thoughts as to how
America is leaning and what will be those issues as
we get to election day, all I.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Can say is that she is providing of a administration
and she wants to think for the future and not
thinking back. I think of Trump looking to the future
to undo all the unconstitutional things that this administration's trying
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to do to spend more money, gets further in debt,
high taxes, and all that, and that's the future. This
country is going to rest upon the individual initiatives that
we have in the United States, not government initiatives, because
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the government is decided by five hundred and thirty five
people in Congress, as opposed to three hundred and thirty
million people doing on their own what they want to
do with their money and their ingenuity. And that's what
has made americaa great not big government programs.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Since the previous the first assassination attempt on President Trump.
You are very active on social media providing body cam footage.
We learned a lot, a lot more than what the
media was passing along or even what some senators like
yourself seemed to be interested in in terms of talking
to the FBI, to the Secret Service. Now we've had
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a second one. Have you received the answers you want
on the first assassination attempt and what answers do you
want to get after this second attempt here in Florida
the other day.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well, first of all, the reason I released everything almost
within a few days that I received it after the
July thirteenth assassination attempt is to embarrass the federal government
into not doing what they did as the result of
the JFK assassination. We still are raising questions about it.
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We shouldn't be raising any questions about these now. I
don't know exactly what the answer is, but every information
I get, I'm going to make public to make sure
that nothing is covered up. And that still doesn't mean
that some things might not be covered up. But I
think they're getting the notice from Congress that we expect
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answers sooner than later, and we shouldn't have to wait
till after the election. In fact, I believe that we're
going to get some reports now. When I say we,
I'm speaking more for the House of Representatives that has
the power of subpoena that I don't have as an
individual minority member of the Senate. I think they're pushing
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hard to get that information. And I think with the
news conference you saw on Friday by the acting Director
of Secret Service that he's trying to calm people down.
But there's still a lot of unanswered questions that we
ought to have, And the most important one is what's
going to be done to the people that's screwed up
and just about killed? Let Trump be killed?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
What would you like to see done?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Well, if you've heard me say over all the years
you've been interviewing me, if heads don't roll in Washington,
nothing changes.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
That's a.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I thought they're shared by several Right now, finally, Senator,
we seem to have averted a government shutdown for now.
What just happened? How much is it going to cost us?
And is this going to be an issue right before
election day?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I don't know. I don't think so. If the House
passes it, without a doubt, this is going to pass it,
it will continue the spending at the current level until
December the twentieth, and then at December twenties got to
go through the same question that you're asking me now,
will government shut down? I hope government doesn't shut down
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because it costs money to shut the government down. It
cost money to open the government up. Government is supposed
to be a service for the American people. And and
you can't serve if you are if the if the
if the departments aren't opening and the employees on the job.
And in fact this may sound strange, but it is
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even Uh, it costs money this week to think about
shutting down the government as bureaucracies go through. What's going
to happen if we don't get this thing passed by
a week from tonight, Well.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
We'll have to wait and see. Senator.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Thank you very much for your time this morning. As always,
have a great week.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
God bless you.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Buy
Senator Chuck Grassley joins us in a half an hour,
and we start off here with former Trump Attorney General
and he just happened to be a tight end for
the Hawkeye football team, including that Big Roles Bowl win
in nineteen ninety one. Matt Whittaker joins us here on
news radio eleven ten kfab mister Attorney General, Sir, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh it's great to be with you. Can we talk
football for a minute?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Please?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Do I know you're a lot happier over there than
we are after the Hawkey's got the Gophers.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, yeah, I think Matt Rule is a great coach,
and so you know, I fear as a Hawkeye fan
and former player, what that's going to become with him
in a couple of years. I will also tell you
that Brett Bielma, the head coach of the alani Again,
I watched that game Friday night. Brett Bilman was a
teammate of mine in Iowa, and we came in his
freshman defensive ends together. He put on a lot more
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weight than I did, so we went to different positions ultimately,
but he's still, you know, obviously is enjoying the training table.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well yeah, and not only that, but also he's flourishing
as a football coach. I know a lot of Husker
fans were pretty upset and on Friday night, but you know,
we had a chance. His name was on a list
of coaches to come here to Nebraska. I think that
perhaps he wanted to and had a little edge coming
into this game, like, all right, here's what you passed
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up on.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, no, you're right. And again this is I mean,
if you look at sort of these teams like Illinois,
Nebraska commitment to building programs in the new USC UCLA,
and Oregon and Washington joining the conference, you know the
Big Ten is going to be in a position to
be quite strong for many, many years. And you know,
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I can't have had to give a shout out to
my friend also the Nebraska athletic director, who is I know,
new there, but I think he's committed to returning Nebraska
to their excellence and their standard. And so it says
a Hawkeye fan, you know, we're watching it, we're tracking
the day after Thanksgiving. This year should be a great game.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
All right, let me ask you one more question about football,
and by the way, we like Troy Dan and two
we're really glad to have him here. But you were
with some teams where you guys came in there, got
a couple of wins, We're feeling pretty good about yourself.
Maybe there was a little cockiness, some swagger around the
locker room. Then you go out and get beat. What
is that conversation like, not just after that game, but
in the week before the next game.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, to me, that's all about the players, all about
the players coming together understanding that you can't rest on
your laurels, that you know, a couple of wins doesn't
ensure additional wins. You know what always gave us confidence
was when we you know, we're to play a really
good team. We played Miami a couple of years when
I was there, We played North Carolina State, you know,
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we played some like national powers outside of the Big Ten,
Colorado we played against them, and so we I think,
you know, we're able to measure early in the season.
And I think it's important again that it's all about
improvement week after week. And that's what ference is broth
to the Alaha guys, as you know, it's just you know,
they're not the best September team. Although there's oftentimes forty
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but by you know, you get to later in the
season late October ly November, they're usually pretty styles.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well, talking about getting beat and then coming back stronger. Here,
let's talk about your former boss, as we're talking with
former Trump Attorney General Matt Whittaker with us here on
news radio eleven ten kfa B and Matt by the way,
is in town this Wednesday evening for a tribute to
patriots honoring the rule of law. Is this event with
(03:32):
the Douglas County Republican Party. I get a chance to
be there as MC Wednesday night a champions run and
if you want to be a part of this event,
check out all the details and make your reservation right
now at go opevent dot com. That's goopevent dot com.
And I'll give you those details again here in just
a few minutes. But what do you think about your
(03:53):
former boss? You know, the election in twenty twenty asterisks
didn't go his way. I don't want to get into
that conversation this morning, a really ever, but you know
here he is retooled and coming back for the next game.
How do you think he's doing with that?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, they're running a discipline campaign, obviously focused hyper focused
on the swing states, the seven swing states, but you know,
we also have a as you know, a swing district
there in Nebraska. Lets the legislature. I don't think they're
going to do anything, but you probably would know better
than I do. Uh, you know, we got to make
sure that uh you know, Nebraska too is uh it
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turns Trump because that could that could swing the electoral College.
And so with all that being said, I think we're
you know, doing a great campaign. I think you know,
President is obviously focused on winning, uh in a winning message,
and you know, as I go around the country, you know,
I really talk about the five issues that this uh,
you know, this this election is going to hinge on.
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I think it's about, uh, the issue of life and
how radical the Democrats are. I think it hinges on
uh national security, border, secure, the economy, and obviously for me,
law and order, which I think, you know, don't tell
most Americans that they're safer than they were four years
ago in their own homes and their own communities, because
we've seen a major spike in crime. So I'm looking
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forward to talking to the Douglas County Republicans on Wednesday.
It's going to be a great event for me, and
I hope they treat me very well as a hawkey
coming into Nebraska territory.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, regarding Nebraska and the winner take all thing with
our electoral college votes, Governor Pillen was on our radio
station just a few hours ago and said, you need
thirty three votes to pass this. If we can get
thirty three, I'll call a special session. Right now we
have thirty They're still working, I know, President Trump, Senator
Graham really working the unicameral members here in Nebraska. What
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do you think should should every state be a proportional
electoral college vote state like Nebraska and Maine? Or is
winner take all the best way of doing this?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I think winner take all is the best way of
doing it. You know, I've actually know if if we
were going to do sort of proportionate by district, then
we just you know, skip the electoral college and send
it to the House, because that's you know, the actual
proportionate and you know, our friending fathers didn't intend that,
and so you know, I think we got to look
at sort of the beautiful design that that Hamilton Madison
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and others put on this constitutional system. It's what makes
our the United States of America so strong and so unique,
and at the same time, you know, we need to
whatever the rules are and however the states decide to
run their elections, we need to make sure that we
have a strategy that uh, you know, addresses those unique
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rules and has a plan to win.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But those who want the popular vote to declare the
next president in terms of the entire election in America,
they point to what you just said and say, well, see,
that's why we should just go with the popular vote.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
To that, you would say, what, well, I mean again,
we we are a you know, nation of laws. Two
hundred and forty eight years ago, we were founded, our
constitution was passed. We just celebrated Constitution Day, and you
know that that's that's if the people won't have that discussion.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I don't think we should do that and go to
a popular vote. Remember, I think the other thing that
all of us of a of a sound mind and
and reason and common sense knows that one in ten
Americans live in California, and that's that California is not
as successful as it could be because of you know,
radical policies of the last and and you know, illegal
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immigration that's happened for the last like forty years. It's
changed the face of California, some for the better, but
some for the worse. You know, you have cities like
San Francisco that certainly I don't think you want to
import their values into Omaha and Des Moines and the
places that you know I care about. But that being said,
you know again, I here's the thing I think that
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people need to understand about me is as someone that
believes in the Constitution, that if you really disagree with system,
than do the hard work of you know, changing it,
of making your case to you and the American people.
I don't think it's going to happen. I think the
popular vote is you know, it's a pie in the
sky idea dreampt up by you know, university liberals. But
(08:15):
you know, that being said, you know, we have a
playing field, we have the rules, and you know, let's
play the game this year and then we can have
you know, discussions that people want to have, you know,
into the future.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
One more a minute here with former Trump Attorney General
Matt Whitaker on eleven ten kfab. Several former members of
Trump's cabinet have come out in favor of him. Several haven't.
What do you think about those who have joined the
the Kamala Harris campaign here for the Presidency to speak
out and write books and try and profit off of
(08:45):
their time in the Trump White House.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
You know, I saw and worked with a lot of
these people when I was in the cabinet, and I
know them. I just ran into one of those folks
that isn't supporting him. But it's not supporting Harris. I
just think, you know, there's there are because of the
environment we live in, there's people that you know, don't
feel comfortable speaking out and supporting Bredident Trump because their
(09:08):
financial futures depend on it. It's really, you know, to me,
kind of sad. I mean, especially since most of their
careers were made and they were enthusiastic on the front
end of serving Donald Trump. And so, you know, don't
I don't spend much time worrying about those I know
that I joined people like Ben Carson and some of
the true patriots in supporting enthusiastically the president. And you know,
(09:30):
even Bill Barr is supporting President Trump and said he
would vote for him.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I look forward to seeing you again on Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Matt.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Thank you very much for the time this morning and
save travels coming here to Omaha.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
That is former US Attorney General Matt Whittaker here on
news radio eleven to ten kfab. The former iowahaw guy
will be here with the Douglas County Republican Party. I've
been asked to MC this event, said absolutely Wednesday night,
six thirty at Champions Run one hundred and thirty eight
than just south of Maple There, one hundred and thirty
(10:02):
eighth in Eagle Run Drive. And the event is online
for you to take a look at and see if
you want to buy tickets for this gop event. Dot
com is the website goopevent dot com. For the twenty
twenty four a Tribute to Patriots event, the special keynot speaker,
Matt Whittaker will be talking about honoring the rule of law.
(10:24):
We've had already one guest from Iowa on the program
this hour, and that was former Hawkeye tight End, who
also happened to be the US Attorney General for a
time under President Trump. Now will welcome someone who has
been a Senator from Iowa throughout the Biden presidency, Trump presidency,
the Obama president. It goes back away Senator Chuck Grassley's
(10:47):
here with us on eleven ten kfa B. Good morning, Senator.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Thank you for having me, Scott, I appreciate you very much.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yes, Matt Whittaker was the opening act to you this
morning on the program. It's all Iowan's here on the
show today.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Well, I'm glad that Iowans can share our knowledge with
the people in Nebraska and Kansas and South Dakota and
Missouri and all those people. We're glad to do that.
We're not self.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Eash, Iowan, No, not at all. Let's talk about Nebraska
though for a second. Have you been following some of
the drama about Nebraska's electoral college issue that's a little
different from almost every other state. There's a lot of
push here for Nebraska to do what Iowa does, and
that is winner take all with the electoral college votes.
Have you been watching this? Do you have any thoughts
(11:36):
on what Nebraska should do?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, they should win or take all take all, because
Omaha in this instance, if they were to vote Democrat
for Harris, it wouldn't speak for the majority of Nebraskan's.
I think Nebraska's ought to stick together and I just
(11:59):
heard the Irhay you had, and about all the housing
problems that Harris is going to help with. I just
wonder if she stops to think if they hadn't allowed
eight to ten million people illegally enter our country as migrants,
we might not have the shortage of housing we have,
and we wouldn't have rent so high.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Is that the issue we have with housing right now?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Well, yeah, she's going to give a twenty five thousand
dollars thing that's just going to drive up a price
of houses for twenty five thousand dollars because people know
that if the governor's kicking in some money, we might
as well raise the price of housing. So I don't
see how it's going to help people get affordable housing.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Is helping with affordable housing? Is that a tenant of government?
When did the United States government start becoming more like
a game show host than a government operating for the
national offense, roads and bridges, that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Nineteen thirty nine, when the Public Housing Bill first past
the Congress of the United States, I think that's the
history of it. Well, it's never gotten to a point.
It's never gotten to a point though, where the government
was given out money to people buy houses. There was
tax credits to encourage people to invest in housing and
(13:26):
things of that nature, but never to outright buy a house.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Well there, certainly it's become very popular for the federal
government to do certain things. I know a lot of
people were excited about President Biden saying I'll forgive your
student loans, But I think that at the same time,
once someone pushes back and says that's not what the
federal government should be doing, then that's why we have
(13:54):
trillions and trillions of dollars of debt and deficit and
inflation and everything. I could talk about this for days
and probably say nothing, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
We forgot the Tamta mandment. All powers not specifically given
to the federal government are reserved to the states and
to the people. And those powers that are specific be
given to the federal government are in the eighteen powers
that are listed in Article one of the Constitution. Nothing
else can the federal government do.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
That's going to be a big issue in this election
because of all the abortion tenants on the ballots for
a lot of states, including Nebraska. Since the last time
we've talked, Senator, we've had Kamala Harris according to most
experts other than President Trump himself, Kamala Harris soundly defeated
Trump in a presidential debate, and we almost had a
(14:47):
guy take the president's life in a second assassination attempt
on that man. As you look at what's going on
with this election, what are your thoughts as to how
America is leaning and what will be those issues as
we get to election day, all I.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Can say is that she is providing of a administration
and she wants to think for the future and not
thinking back. I think of Trump looking to the future
to undo all the unconstitutional things that this administration's trying
(15:26):
to do to spend more money, gets further in debt,
high taxes, and all that, and that's the future. This
country is going to rest upon the individual initiatives that
we have in the United States, not government initiatives, because
(15:46):
the government is decided by five hundred and thirty five
people in Congress, as opposed to three hundred and thirty
million people doing on their own what they want to
do with their money and their ingenuity. And that's what
has made americaa great not big government programs.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Since the previous the first assassination attempt on President Trump.
You are very active on social media providing body cam footage.
We learned a lot, a lot more than what the
media was passing along or even what some senators like
yourself seemed to be interested in in terms of talking
to the FBI, to the Secret Service. Now we've had
(16:30):
a second one. Have you received the answers you want
on the first assassination attempt and what answers do you
want to get after this second attempt here in Florida
the other day.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well, first of all, the reason I released everything almost
within a few days that I received it after the
July thirteenth assassination attempt is to embarrass the federal government
into not doing what they did as the result of
the JFK assassination. We still are raising questions about it.
(17:03):
We shouldn't be raising any questions about these now. I
don't know exactly what the answer is, but every information
I get, I'm going to make public to make sure
that nothing is covered up. And that still doesn't mean
that some things might not be covered up. But I
think they're getting the notice from Congress that we expect
(17:27):
answers sooner than later, and we shouldn't have to wait
till after the election. In fact, I believe that we're
going to get some reports now. When I say we,
I'm speaking more for the House of Representatives that has
the power of subpoena that I don't have as an
individual minority member of the Senate. I think they're pushing
(17:49):
hard to get that information. And I think with the
news conference you saw on Friday by the acting Director
of Secret Service that he's trying to calm people down.
But there's still a lot of unanswered questions that we
ought to have, And the most important one is what's
going to be done to the people that's screwed up
and just about killed? Let Trump be killed?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
What would you like to see done?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Well, if you've heard me say over all the years
you've been interviewing me, if heads don't roll in Washington,
nothing changes.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
That's a.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I thought they're shared by several Right now, finally, Senator,
we seem to have averted a government shutdown for now.
What just happened? How much is it going to cost us?
And is this going to be an issue right before
election day?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I don't know. I don't think so. If the House
passes it, without a doubt, this is going to pass it,
it will continue the spending at the current level until
December the twentieth, and then at December twenties got to
go through the same question that you're asking me now,
will government shut down? I hope government doesn't shut down
(19:06):
because it costs money to shut the government down. It
cost money to open the government up. Government is supposed
to be a service for the American people. And and
you can't serve if you are if the if the
if the departments aren't opening and the employees on the job.
And in fact this may sound strange, but it is
(19:28):
even Uh, it costs money this week to think about
shutting down the government as bureaucracies go through. What's going
to happen if we don't get this thing passed by
a week from tonight, Well.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
We'll have to wait and see. Senator.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Thank you very much for your time this morning. As always,
have a great week.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
God bless you.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
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