Interview with AG Ken Paxton - TUE 6.2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I heard there's going to be another Can on the
show besides you and meet. That's true.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
There are three people on this radio show named Kenneth
at the exact same moment.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
That's got to be very confusing. Well, not yet, but
there will be, if you know, if Ken calls.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
But only one of them led anti human trafficking at
for efforts that included the arrest of Backpage dot Com
ceo and the platforms shut down. Only one of them
strengthen child support enforcement to the twoe of four point
eight billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
You're welcome, No you didn't.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Only one of them fought federal overreach, filing dozens of
lawsuits against both the Obama administration and the Biden administration
with over a seventy five percent favorable ruling. Only one
of them secured one point three seventy five billion dollars
settlement against Google for illegal data tracking. Only one of
them won major cases on immigration, school rights, EPA regulations,

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and religious freedom.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
I've already forgot who we're talking about now.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, only one of them negotiated a fifty million dollars
settlement with Volkswagen over emissions violations.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
One of who, well, only one of who the three
people named Kenneth that are on this show.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Right now, there's three stooges who I don't know what.
There's you, there's me, there's him, that's him. Yeah, this
guy on the phone, that's the attorney General, Ken Paxton,
probably the best attorney general in the country. I think
you General Paxton. I think, well, that's what our friend
Tony Busby calls him. All right, Dan, what is the
right attorney general, Ken Paxton? Tony calls you general Paxton?

(01:24):
Is that what we're supposed to say?

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Oh, you can call me Ken. It's the official title
always for an attorney general. That's just me obviously, any
state attorney general, US attorney general is you refer to
him as general whatever their last name is, General Bondie
or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Feels pretty good? Huh. I think that's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
But I've never heard anyone say it anywhere in the
media or anywhere except Tony Busby, who, for the record,
does know quite a bit about the law.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
He's a pretty good lawyer like you. He's coming along.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
I'd have to agree with you on that. He's pretty good,
and he's coming along.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Ken. You are obviously on friend friendly grounds, right Now.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
I don't know if you read my op ed in
the Chronicle recently or any of my tweets, but we
are not big fans of this neo con stooge, warmonger,
parasite politician that you're going up against right now for
some Yeah yeah right, I oh yeah, that'd probably be
a good one.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Don't like we don't like John. What do we do
about that?

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Well, that's uh, you keep talking about it because you know,
obviously he's going to spend a ton of money from Washington,
d C. To try to convince us that the old
John doesn't exist, that the new John that suddenly became
a conservative and loves Trump is the real John CRN.
But we all know that that's the fake John Corn
that we got to tell people about.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
I will say this, if you if you look at
his commercials, him and Trump are like this man, They're tight.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
They're like Siamese Twins.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, but he deceptively edited one of his TV commercials
to make it sound like he was being impeached.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Is that ken?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Is that legal? It seemed like that. That seems unethical
at the very least.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Right, Uh, it does seem escal. I mean John is
running in Uneescal campaign is completely acting like he's loved
Trump his whole life, well, when the reality is that's
just not true. He's not been a Trump supporter, who's
been against him. He didn't support him in this last election,
he didn't support him in the previous election. He was
telling us that he was even insinuating that he was

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guilty of this Russian hoax.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
So sure that's true.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Now, I find none of the two things I'm about
to tell you that he's been telling.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
People to be true.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
But supposedly the corn In campaign, led by a guy
named Matt mccoyac, who some allege used his Venmo account
to hire a Lady of the night, I am told
that they've been telling donors that they needed seventy million
dollars to beat you in the primary, or the donors
would have to cough up two million dollars for you
to beat Beto O'Rourke.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
I can't wait to hear your reaction to that.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, they were saying that it would
cost two hundred million for me to win. It's another
made up fact. They have no basis for that, because
I've won statewide after a state wide election, after statewide election,
and so this idea that somehow they're going to have
to spend more on even with him. The polling doesn't
indicate that, and they don't have any basis in fact
for saying it. They just make stuff up there.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah they yep, all right, So I love this today.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
One of the news stories that broke in the last
forty eight hours here that frankly should get more attention.
Batolrouric funded these guys to go up to Chicago, the
rogue Democrat lawmakers. You are now trying to shut down
that political organization. This is the perfect example of right
wing populism at work. Most people don't even realize this
as possible. Can you explain what's going on here?

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (04:31):
So my job as Attorney zentis oversee charities, public charities,
make sure they're not deceiving people. We were pretty convinced
that bet o'rok and his organization we're telling people who
were raising money for political contributions, but in reality it
was to fund these legislators that left Texas and pay
for their personal expenses. So we got a temporary restraining order.

(04:51):
We stopped the funding, which I think largely contributed to
them coming back because only would be paying their five
hundred dollars day fines by paying all of their expense.
As soon as we got a restraining order to stop that,
guess what, the Democrats showed back up because there's nobody
paying the bills anymore.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Did they accomplish anything by leaving?

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Because now they're back and there's gonna well there's another
special session, right, so won't they still be required to vote?

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yes? They will.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
And you know they're claiming that it was a big
success they stopped the first special session, but I mean
it's a pyrrhic victory. There's nothing special about making it.
Slowing down the voting process by thirty days. They just
they just slowed things down. I got a lot of attention,
and you know, we're going to move on to get
this thing done.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
I think the most exciting part for those Democrats that
took off was the fact that Barack Obama came along
and hugged them. And you know that that's worth well.
I mean, you can't put a price tag on something
like that. It was a big supporter. Now you know
one other thing that might get you some some positive publicity.
I don't know if you've seen what the Trump was

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doing yesterday, trying to negotiate a piece between Russia and Ukraine.
You're sure, right, yeah, maybe you could, you know, negotiate
some kind of a peace agreement between the Aggies and
the Longhorns. That's a great question, Attorney General Paxton.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Can that be done?

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Well? You know, I think that the negotiation was to
get them to play football against each other again. That's happening.
I think most Texans both schools are happy about that,
even though they may not be rooting for the other team.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
That's I say it like that.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
That's a good I don't fix it because it's probably
best if they are and more with each other in
the sec.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
That's that's how you live, all right.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
In all seriousness, it is breakfast time right now, and
this isn't nothing. People always associate RFK Junior with the
MAHA movement, but you as well have made great leaps
and bounds to accomplish things for them. The Kellogg's agreement
pretty big news here because of you. Kellogg's is going
to take some dangerous chemicals out of their breakfast cereal.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Why was that on you?

Speaker 2 (06:58):
The Attorney General at ken That seems like something the
federal government should have done, and yet you're the one
that stepped up and did it.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, it's a good question why it wasn't done sooner,
because clearly these chemicals that they put in the serials
are doing damage to our kids. There's you know, studies
on different effects that are very negative, and so I
don't know, just we just started really realizing that nothing
had been done, that the federal government wasn't doing anything
about it. So we started the investigation and thankfully Kellogg's

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agreed to take these dies and other chemicals out of
their serials that we believe are harming children.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Oh my god, I forgot to ask you about this.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
John Cornyn recently claimed on Twitter that he doesn't remember
in twenty twenty two June twenty third, twenty twenty two,
when he helped pass the bipartisan Safer Communities Actor red
Flag law for Joe Biden. Is it possible that John
Cornyn suffers from the same bit of dementia that the
former president had.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Well, that's you know, that's a question. I don't know
his men mental health, but that is either a lie
or he is suffering some type of mental health issue,
whatever that is. If he can't remember being a part
of He was congratulated by Joe Biden for helping restrict
our Second Amendment rights, and now he's acting like he
doesn't remember that. It's it's a little little shocking.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
He has had some very embarrassing moments on Twitter recently.
That obviously was one of them. He also posted a
photo of himself reading art of the Deal, like forty
years after the book came out. He posted a photo
of himself at trump Berger, which I guess is now
in the news because it was apparently owned by an
illegal alien or some one.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Of the silent owners was illegal.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
And then, and then, who could forget the photo of
his brisket which he cooked in the oven, covered in
ketchup jack awful?

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Do you know how to do you make a good brisket?

Speaker 3 (08:48):
There?

Speaker 4 (08:48):
General, Well, I can make one better than what I
saw him cooking it. Do not look appetizing.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
I'll say that it was nasty.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
If you had to just pick one, which of those
moments on social media was his most embarrassing?

Speaker 1 (08:59):
And how do we try it?

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Back to his con director Matthew Venmo Mkoyak, if you
had to, I guess they all are associated with him right, Yep.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yes they are. He Makoviak is working for John Corner
is his communications director, which is an interesting choice, Matt
being not the most respected communications director in the world.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
I don't expect most people to know who that is
that are listening to morning talk radio.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Matt is like the most hated guy in Texas politics.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
After we pointed out the Venmo thing on social media,
just someone else reported it, not us, I started getting
phone calls and text messages for people I'd never even
heard of telling me what an absolute disgrace that guy is. Ken.
We cannot get you into that Senate position fast enough.
If it's a two man race between you and him,
I think it's a no brainer that he's got to go.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
How do people support your campaign?

Speaker 4 (09:50):
We need we need help at kempexan dot com, I
mean kimpex. That comment at kimpex and tx is our
Twitter handle, But we definitely need we need help because
he raises a lot of money in DC. We're having
to raise it from this regular people who want a change,
and so if people have the ability, please contribute whatever
you can.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
As an attorney, what advice would you have given to
Matt mccoiac about the Venmo thing if any but don't
do that.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Oh, I don't know. I don't know the details is purple.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Are you currently ahead in this race according to pollsters?

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yes, every poll I've seen has me head that. You know,
John corn is trying to pitch some new poles that
says he's closing the gap. I don't think that's true.
I think we're still very far ahead of him, and
he's going to continue to try to tell people that,
you know, he's gaining ground. He's spending millions of dollars,
and you know people are being fooled by his rhetoric.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Ken, we are We're behind you, man, We want you
to win. We got to go to break. If you
could hang for twenty seconds, we want to ask you
something off the air real quick. That's kind of funny.
Sure cool, Hey, you're keeping no trust me. It's where
a quick break.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
We'll be right battuned for more. Waltman Johnson.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
So I just did a quick polling around the radio
station here this morning. Uh turns out the more Kins
you have on the show, the better the show is.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Dude, you are not wrong. I am in such a
good mood right now. This morning has gone awesome so far.
He must have said yes off the air. Sounded a
little romantical, little And I want to ask you something
really important.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Did he say yes? We're not talking yes to the dress.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
I can't talk about it on the air, but I
could tell you at some point in the not too
distant future, something very funny is going to happen involving
Ken Paxton and Senator Cornyn, and it may or may
not have us connected to it.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'm just gonna leave it. We won't say anything else
other than the fact that you're pretty sure you won't
be arrested afterwards. Right, No, no, no, I've got a
really good legal advice. Okay, I've got it right.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
I've got Paxton and Buzzby on my side, among other people.
I dare someone tossue me right now. I'm sure I
regret saying that out loud. No, not at all, But
in all seriousness, it is nice to have the friendship
of two very powerful attorneys while you're going out throwing
stones at powerful people.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
It's nice to have them on your side, pecking at
scabs or whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
It's only Tuesday, and I will tell you I have
started a fights with a lot of people in politics
this week.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
I now, don't you have an extra duty tonight?

Speaker 2 (12:23):
As a matter of fact, tonight we will be speaking
at the Maverick Dinner in Baton Rouge. It's a private
function for oil and gas people.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Well will they be holding the Maverick Donna. I don't
know if I'm allowed to say that on the radio
or not.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
I just whispered to me at a prominent venue in
the state capital of Louisiana, in the capitol in the
state captain.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
The city is the capital, but is.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
It the.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
It's the Arby's on Nineteenth is nice? That is so nice?
You know they brought back the five for five. I
really like that. Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
You know, people think Arby's barbecue sauce isn't as good
as real barbecue sauce.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
And they're right, sure. But but if that's what you got,
you eat it well.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Speaking of Louisiana, the state police said a man over
in Venting is in a little trouble because he stole
a crane, big old construction crane. Now, maybe hijacked would
be a better word. Over the weekend, they said that
Matthew here from Venting unlawfully entered the construction site around

(13:26):
five point thirty am and climbed into the big crane
there and started controlling it. Manipulated the boom over the
westbound lanes of Highway one eight there, causing multiple vehicles
to strike the crane cables, and of course that made
a lot of crashes. They said, at least four separate crashes.

(13:50):
Two people injured. They also damaged the crane, had an
interstate closure. I mean, it's just got you know, they
went kind of Florida in Louisiana. It does sound kind
of Florida, is yeah, but you know they booked him
into Calcashoe Correctional there simple burglary, obstruction of a highway,

(14:11):
a hit and run driving five counts, a hitting run
because he hit him with a crane. Uh, what about
hijacking a crane? I don't see that one in here,
but maybe that's what the burglary is. UH investigation is
going on. Want to see maybe the what else this
boy's been up to?

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Right, Yeah, it's an interesting question, but just can't act right,
you know, to your point, Louisiana having a little Florida
and it I think, if we're being honest, every Gulf
coast state's got a little Florida.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
And not Let's face it, we've all wanted to operate
one in big cranes. But you can't swinging out over
the traffic and start causing people to crash into each other.
That's I think where he maybe went too far.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
That sound is like a challenge right there, That's what
I think. Not come on, Billy, are you saying you
couldn't pull it up off with you? I could do
it easy. I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
But you know you don't have just because you won't
get in there and operate the controls of that crane.
You want to swing it around, just don't hang it
out over the freeway, all right?

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (15:11):
But look, didn't you once get arrested for hanging it
out over the freeway.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
That's a rumor. It wasn't a freeway. It was a
farm to market road. Oh isn't that fum style thing?

Speaker 3 (15:21):
And basically, you know, if the wind hadn't blown at
bush away, I don't even think i'd have been caught.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
I didn't realize that bushes were even around it them
bush isn't there?

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yesterday Trump met with Ukrainian President Voladi.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Muir Zelyinski and a bunch of other people from Europe,
A lot of other cool people. Georgia Maloney.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
That was it.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Actually the rest of them kind of sucked, if we're
being honest. Emmanuel Macron and his training wife, the British
Prime Minister Kayir star Mar.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
How did candas the ones get up in the middle
of old is No, she was not invited. Well that's
a shame because I know she would like to sit
down with have French dude's wife man of a wife
he got.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, she is has really big hands, doesn't she.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Do you think Trump could somehow broke her some sort
of a peace agreement between Candice Owns and mill Mademoil Mahon.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Boy, I really, you know, I'm impressed with how you
pronounced your name like that. It was so French, it
sounded a little Islamic. You know.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
That's close.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, you do you think that's why the Arabics went there,
because if you really think about it, French, that's kind
of like the Arabic of Europe.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
You know, it's a lot of hawk the Arabic of Europe. Yeah,
speak English or American at least anyway.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
A lot of people were there yesterday, the German Chancellor
Friedrich Murrz and obviously Georgia Maloney was there with her
beautiful cheek bones and her fashionista outfit on, very looking.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Very pretty good English, you know, for a foreigner.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
She is easily my favorite European leader and it's not
even close. I don't know who would be in second place.
Maybe the Polish guy, he seems cool.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
And Finland you guys talked about the Finland guy. He
was praising Trump for somebody finally doing something about this.
And Trump's brokered a lot of peace between other countries
at war. They're not as big and popular as this
Ukraine Russia thing, but they were still at war, and
he told him to knock it off.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Don't make me stop this car. He was very kind
to Donald Trump. But on the other hand, and I
hate to be the guy to ask this question, like
what do we need Finland there for?

Speaker 1 (17:23):
You know, I don't know what they're doing. Has there
ever been a fight?

Speaker 2 (17:26):
And somebody was like, you know, we need Finland's help now,
And like eight guys show up with a crape or
what do they eat there?

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Not crapes? I guess that's French. Yeah, what is it
they have something else? Right? Fish? Smoked fish smoked or salted,
or boats.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
I don't hate smoked fish. I just don't think it's
gonna help you in a fight with Russia.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, but they have to do that because, you know,
winters are harsh and you have to keep things on
standby and supplies must run high. I guess it's like
you can just go down and get sushi anytime you want,
you know, Yeah, exactly, this isn't I guess you could.
There's all a lot of water around Finland. Yeah, you
never noticed sticks way out in the water.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
We should invade Finland. I've been witch hunt since day one.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
So did I divide the city? Yes?

Speaker 2 (18:15):
No, the city was divided before I even stepped.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
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