1-7-26 Bill Cunningham Show

Willie with Mehek Cooke about the daycare fraud being found in Ohio and other places. Also Jason Isaac explains what is going to happen to the Venezuelan oil being seized by the United States. Finally Ohio Governor Mike DeWine weighs in on the daycare scandal and his support for Vivek Ramaswamy.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Bill Cunningham, the Grant America. Well, welcome this Wednesday afternoon.
The tries did coming up on Friday. It's a big
news conference with Duke Tobin in the direction of the Bengals.
But until then, Mayet Cook, you're a Fox News contributor
and attorney, and you've done a lot of investigations in
the state of Ohio, which is piggybacked on what's happening
in Minnesota. The hearings are underway there and also in

(00:28):
the state of Maine. And I can only imagine the
fraud that's present in the so called Blue Cities and
Blue states when it comes to daycare fraud and autism fraud,
and medicaid fraud, transportation fraud, foods and fraud. But maheck Cook,
first of all, can you tell the American people what
is happening? What is your investigation shown so far in
the Columbus area and the great state of Ohio.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
I am looking both at home health care services and daycares.
I have visited a building with about thirty four home
healthcare services here in Columbus, Ohio, and was able to
talk to one or two businesses. One was not able
to provide much information about how home healthcare services work.
So if you have an aging grandparent or a parent,

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she said she really didn't know how it worked.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
And the second office did sit.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Me down and explain to me that I could go
through a process with insurance, But for the most part,
the lights were off, the doors were locked, nobody was available.
This is my third visit there, and I'm just wondering
how these businesses are operating given that they're getting state funding.
Who are they How are they operating? How do you

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operate a business when you don't show up for three days?
And unfortunately, the last day that I was there, I
was encountered.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
By three individuals.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
That were of Somalian descent that cornered me and said
that they would not be providing services, and I said
that was fine, and then they continued to scream at
me and try to intimidate me and say that I
should not be asking these questions. That I am Indian
and not white, but has nothing to do with the
fact that anybody can walk through a door and ask

(02:09):
simple questions. But I think they have a real problem.
They think for some reason they're going to scare me
with the racist word that they can't because I'm not white.
And this is what the whole community has continued to say,
You're not white. This is not a white or black issue.
This is a are you committing fraud or not?

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Issue? And so that has.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Been insanely disturbing to me that you can't answer simple questions.
And then on the daycare front, I mean, I'll be honest,
we're not seeing any kids. We've maybe seen one facility
with a few kids, but the kids were both referring
to the owner or the individual talking to us as mom,
which is fine. You can take care of your kids
in a daycare. Many of them are run down, many

(02:51):
of them are filthy. I've had three assaults of three
different daycares by just simply knocking you. Hear a click,
they let you in, and then they're violently attacking you.
Most of these daycares don't have children. There's only two
that have allowed me to come in and ask basic questions,
and only one of them has actually been able to
give me an application for a child and tell me

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how much it costs. So when you ask questions about attendance,
I also learned that you can basically forget to sign
in your child. According to the State of Ohio, we
have the best system, but you can forget to sign
in your child and they can retroactively sign in children.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
So suddenly I have questions about attendance.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
I mean, these are issues in our compliance and our
audit system, and we should be asking questions. And the
elephant in the room right now is yes, majority are
Somalian owned.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
This isn't targeted.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
This is the community that is running these daycares and
home healthcare centers, and that's what we're looking into.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Talk about the scam relative to home healthcare. I've seen
all your videos, and one of the videos I saw
looked as if these guys are about to assault you.
They use the F bomb, use racial epithets, and they're Somalis,
but nonetheless seem to work in Minnesota. You simply raise
their racial flag and seeming like the Ellison and Waltz

(04:07):
and Fry, the mayor, the attorney General of the governor
of Minnesota simply back off completely. In fact, Keith Ellison,
I watch it so you don't have to on MS
now and he was talking about, yes, there is some fraud,
however it's being handled internally. There have been numerous convictions,
dozens of convictions for fraud, with ninety five percent being
of Somali origin. But how does the healthcare scandal work?

(04:31):
And not just in Ohio, guess in every state? How
does one sign up to care for an aging parent
and have the government pay you?

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, look, I think it's going to be different in
every state, but Ohio, Pennsylvania, obviously, Minnesota, their standards are
I would say lower. You are allowed as a child
to take care of your aging parent or a grandparent.
So the way that the alleged fraud is occurring right
now in Ohio is I sign up to take care

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of my mother. I take her to a doctor. I
ask that doctor to approve her for home health care
because she is old and she has a lot of.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Aches and pains.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
The providers pushed back and said, your mother doesn't qualify. Well,
then I go and find another doctor who's willing to
There's several doctors in town that have now been identified as.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Part of this alleged fraud. They'll rubber stamp it.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Many of them allegedly are getting a kickback because now
that you've rubber stamped it, I'm making money Right between
twelve hours. So let's say I need a lot of
care for my mother twenty four hours, so I can
sit at home and apparently take care of my mother
for seventy five to ninety thousand dollars. Now I say
my dad needs home health care, that's one hundred and
eighty thousand.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Then I moved my husband's parents into my home.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
I mean, all of this racks up for individuals that
many of them don't need home health care services, and
there's one individual, one provider that's basically pocketing the money,
and many of them are allegedly getting kickbacks for helping.
Some of these individuals are going door to door to
recruit more individuals, and the services are not being provided
because many of these people really don't need home healthcare services.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
It's a massive scam. It needs to be looked into.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
We need to revise the way that we're just handing
out taxpair dollars. And my bigger issue with all of
this is how do you come from another country to
America The first thing you sign up for is welfare.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
That's a red flag for me.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Well, it happened in Minnesota and Columbus is the second
highest population of Somalis. Is this a Somali problem or
is it a welfare problem? Because most of those who
have gained the system so far have been Somalis, most
not even here legally, most are not citizens. But is
this a Somali problem or an American problem?

Speaker 2 (06:49):
It's both.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
It's both to sit and demonize, and I will not
do this. I know people love to corner me on this.
I think you would agree with me. I think immigrants
value to our country. But what I have unfortunately seen
from the Somali population, many of them have benefited off
of a welfare system, and many of them, at least
in Minnesota, based on indictments, there's alleged fraud. So there's

(07:14):
a massive problem in the system, and there's a massive
problem in the population.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
And it's not only Somali. I said this many.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Weeks ago on Sean Hannedy's show, it's bootees, And look,
President Trump just came out with the truth social thing.
Boot needs are the number one recipients of welfare. So
when you put blocks of people in the United States
together who've never been asked to assimilate, who don't speak
English well, and then somebody is teaching them how to
gain the system, whether it's welfare and home healthcare or daycares.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
That's how fraud occurs.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
And then in the state of Ohio, we have to
actually audit our audit system because there's loopholes. We need
to get in a room with US attorneys and the
DOJ to talk about all the problems with our legislature,
all the problems with the Department of Youth Services, and
come up with a plan, a better audit, a better checklist.
The fact that people are saying in government there's nothing

(08:07):
to see here as a red flag to me because
they're not doing their job. They're just pushing paperwork back
and forth. Paperwork doesn't tell you if there's fraud. You
actually have to use your.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Eyes and ears.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
That's what I want from state officeholders today to actually
take this seriously and to change the system.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Well, one other area of fraud, and Nick Shirley is
doing great work. I can't imagine a twenty two year
old YouTuber uncovering billions of dollars worth of fraud in Minnesota.
He posted a video he said, in Minnesota, there's more
than one thousand fraudulent medical transportation companies. In fact, one
transportation company received four million dollars in one month for

(08:48):
transporting patients to and from appointments when there was It's
impossible when you do the math for this one company
to have done that. And is that another area ripe
with fraud? To say, some patient has an appointment with
a doctor who's on the take, you take them from
your home to the doctor and doctor and back and

(09:09):
do that repeatedly. Is that also ripe with fraud? The
Medicaid transportation system with all these ambulances so to speak,
that don't exist.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yes, all of the anytime you have taxpayer dollars going out,
it's not my money or your money, it's our collective
money that is going in. And the state then is
abusing the system by allowing for something like this to occur.
We have to audit every welfare program. I have not
looked into medical transport. I am up to my ears

(09:40):
between individuals that have come out as whistleblowers that are
giving me evidence, but one hundred percent, I mean, this
is a systematic issue with the American system of welfare,
and so we have to look at ourselves too and
say what did we do wrong and how do we
fix it?

Speaker 2 (09:55):
But we can't say it's the cost of doing business.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
We actually have to roll up our sleep and do
something different otherwise this is a definition of insanity.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
To me.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
You used the term cost of doing business. There was
an interview that one of the PR directors for Governor
Mike DeWine who said that some fraud is the cost
of doing business. And when I saw that, I thought,
are you kidding me? How's that a cost of doing business?
And I guess, as in ohioan most of the other
states are blue cities, blue states completely controlled by the

(10:26):
Democratic Party, Ohio is the only state which is a
so called republican state having similar problems. Since you live here,
are you particularly concerned that if the state government is saying, well,
fraud is the cost of doing business, that's a problem.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
It is. I don't accept the status quo.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
And look, I believe every bureaucrat that tells me that
they did the audits through paperwork. But my problem with
the audit system is it's broken. When you go into
a daycare and you see feces, you see bottles that
haven't been cleaned, see there's no betting, crib blood stains
on sheets, and then you allow them to operate on

(11:05):
a conditional license and don't come back for three to
five months. That's a red flag that means our system
is broken. The cost of fraud is exponential. And I
have to ask any person listening today, when you get
a thirty dollars charge on your whether it's Chase Bank
or any bank you use, and it's not your charge,
I guarantee you ninety percent of the audience called the

(11:27):
bank to say this wasn't my charge. So imagine if
it's millions of dollars. You don't think the government has
a duty to protect us because if they're rolling up
their sleeves and saying our hands are clean, I have
a huge issue with that because they're then complicit by
giving our tax dollars and not protecting us.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
May Cook.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
I also spoke to the state office holders that I'll
reference the auditor, the attorney general of the Governor's office,
and they're saying this can't happen in Ohio in a
broad fashion because we don't deal with enrollment. We deal
with attendant and so that's the key hook they hang
their hat on that there's not massive fraud because we
have an attendance when you go to these so called

(12:07):
daycare centers. How much attendance do you see?

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Not much?

Speaker 3 (12:12):
And here's here's the key to attendance today. When I asked,
if I forget to enroll my child as they're walking
through the door because I was running with their lunchbox,
how do I change the attendance numbers? They said that
every administrator can go back and change attendance numbers. They
just have to use a phone number and they're able

(12:34):
to do it. And by the way, most of these
compliance reports that I've read, the biggest issue is attendance. Well,
if the biggest issue is attendance, are you paying them
State of Ohio or are you not? And if you're allowing
people to change attendance records, that's another red flag. So
again there's loopholes and you can't just strictly stay based
on attendance. We know that they're doing everything they should

(12:55):
be doing. That's like a cover up of your audit system.
Why not ask the question why are people changing the
numbers of enrollment if they've forgotten to check in their child,
that sounds like a loophole to me. And secondly, if
it purely is attendance, who's checking those records. Are you
checking records at midnight? I don't know any state office

(13:16):
holder who's work until midnight?

Speaker 5 (13:17):
Do you no, not exactly?

Speaker 1 (13:21):
I don't think so. And medicaid fraud is another thing
ripe for the abuse and the Somalis. In a sense,
individual Somalis that are here under temporary protective status and
most of a lot of that's been pulled, are simply
part of a system. They may be in their own minds,
their think they came from a war ravaged country where
most Somalis at home living garbage dumps, and they come

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here and all of a sudden, they may think themselves,
this is like part of the deal, this is what
living in America is that I get paid. And so
I like to think there's some innocence on the behalf
of individuals Solly's, for example, because they don't know what
they're doing. Do you have some empathy for individuals who
think this is the way we operate?

Speaker 2 (14:08):
One hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
I sat down with the Somalian business owner that didn't
want to be on camera because she didn't.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Have the best English.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
I thought she was perfectly fine, who shared that she
immigrated went to the Ohio State university, graduated. One of
her kids is going to be a doctor, the other
one is still working. She owns a daycare today, she
owns and operates it. She's ethical and above board. She
walked through the entire process of the check in and

(14:35):
how kids it's all based on attendance. But again, I
can have empathy but still ask questions. And the one
thing that raised a red flag to me is she
said that every parent that comes in with their child
checks in. I saw a parent walk in and they
didn't check in their child. Now is she going to
go back and audit that and add a child checked in?
I mean, this is where there's a problem with the

(14:57):
state system. They think it's so strong. I don't I
challenge that. And I'd like to have them sit down
with the US Attorney's office and go through all of
the issues that we have with their audit process. It's
not just me claiming issues. I bet you other attorneys
and auditors and tax experts could sit there and school
them on the issues. But yes, I have empathy for

(15:17):
any immigrant community that's trying to achieve the American dream.
I don't have empathy for somebody who is committing fraud
assault or intimidating anybody out there, including me.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
All I know a couple more quick inquiries. One is
that I'm told by state officials about fifty percent of
the Medicaid and daycare and autism and food stamps are
paid by the state and about fifty percent paid by
the Feds. The Feds are not the investigator, so to speak.
Each state should have their own investigation. I would also
note that the permanent representative of Somalia to the United

(15:52):
Nations is linked to a home healthcare agency in Cincinnati,
Ohio that was prosecuted for Medicaid fraud. His name is
Akbard had Osman. And according to Health and Human Services
that the actual ambassador from Somalia who as at the
United Nations is linked to a fraud in Cincinnati, Ohio.

(16:15):
And I would ask, well, I live here. Why isn't
that a bigger story? When the UN ambassador is part
of the fraud from Somalia, isn't that a big story?

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yes, he's blocked.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
I mean, everybody's scared of being called racists today and
we have to stop. I don't care what anybody looks like,
I don't care what anybody sounds like. If you're committing fraud.
It's wrong, and every new station should be asking questions.
The fact that they're not racist red flags. I mean,
I went to the Somalian Education Resource Center, let me

(16:46):
tell you, four different offices, and I finally found the
forty two million dollar door with.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
A group of friends and there was nobody there.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Lights out, And we have questions about what they did
with the fourteen million dollars they received in the state
of Ohio in twenty twenty five. Nobody's answering our questions.
But at some point we have to get reporters and
real journalists who want the truth to ask these questions
and stop fearing the loudest critics because the loudest critics
definitely have something to hide, and race baiting is no

(17:16):
longer acceptable.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
I mean, look at what Chambondi did. She didn't care
what anybody looked like. She is indicting in Minnesota. We
have to do the same thing here.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
If they're fraud, deal with a conduct and not color.
There's TSA agents in Minneapolis who testified that they had
suitcases filled with American cash one hundred dollars bills going
in Somalia. We also have circumstances where in Minnesota, the
daycare providers who are Somalis gave to the state Democratic
Party in Minnesota twenty four million dollars. Not too many

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daycare providers that are legitimate are spending off that kind
of money. It's a protection racket operated by the Democratic
Party to keep them in power. MAYA Cook, we have
to run What is your website? How to those who
want to be whistleblowers get a hold of you.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Anybody can email me at cookfo Ohio at gmail dot com.
It's Cook with an E. Please include evidence and information.
We're getting a lot of tips, and my handle on
Twitter is just at the heck cook or Instagram. That's
where I've done a lot of the posting. And I
appreciate everybody who is trusting me. I'm never going to

(18:22):
share their name with.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
The state and be protective. I continue to work with
them to get to the bottom of this.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
May I Cook, thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
You're a great American and don't let the cries the
false claims of racism stop reality. May I Cook, thank
you very much, Thank you, thank you. Let's continue with
more news coming up. You're home of the Beangals and
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(18:50):
The Great American and once again, the oil is at
the forefront of what's happening with many foreign policy of perspectives.
And then there's a group and many groups out there
in America that are working hard to make sure that
we don't have access to cheap energy. The American Energy
Institute has a report and a letter sent to the
congressional leaders that raise national security and energy policy concerns

(19:13):
about a dark money network funded activist trying to obstruct
us energy development to make sure that you pay five
dollars a gallon at the gas at the tank at
when you fill up, and let's face it, in Ohio,
we're spending about two dollars and thirty nine cents a gallon,
which only because of the policies that allow for free

(19:34):
flow of energy. Joan, you and I now is Jason Isaac.
He's the CEO of the American Energy Institute. And Jason Isaac,
welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. But first of all, Jason,
I see all the seizure of these so called dark
tankers off Venezuela and now that I guess the Trumpster's
now in charge of Venezuela, and I watched a lot

(19:57):
of the commentaries of the radical leftists tell us that's
got nothing to do with US energy policy, and they
tell us that the US government only buys oil to
put in this strategic petroleum reserve, and that essentially the
oil companies themselves are the ones that are investing in
oil production. So as far as what's happening now in

(20:18):
Venezuela with the not the kidnapping, but the arrest of Maduro,
what impact on American energy prices, everything happening in Venezuela
actually have on us.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Yeah, you should see a little bit more, even more
stability and lowering of energy prices because we're cutting out
a huge transportation factor of importing that heavy crude oil
from the Middle East. Now we're going to be getting
it from Venezuela that owes American businesses billions of dollars.
International courts have repeatedly ruled that the Maduro regime and

(20:51):
the Chavez regime before him, took billions of dollars of assets,
lost profits, lost revenue from America oil companies that had
risked their bottom lines to go in there and produce
oil in Venezuela. There's also the critical minerals, the rail
earth elements that China has been looking to seize, and

(21:12):
they're threatening the market of the supply of those, which
we need for our military weapons, our technology, our computers. AI.
China has a stranglehold on that and they've been threatening
withholding it. And you look, eight out of ten barrels
from Venezuela goes to China. They're buying it on the
black market. And for the first time ever, in the

(21:32):
last year, China has started to export energy. It's never
happened before. They've expanded their refining capacity built in the
backbone of cheap electricity from coal. It's not big and
beautiful like it is here in the United States, but regardless,
it's cheap. They've expanded their refining capacity. They're exporting diesel,
jet fuel, and home heating oil to the global market,

(21:54):
and they're doing it buying black market oil, violating sanctions.
So what we should see is leveling off and returning
to market a lot of the oil that's in the
market right now. So this is this is a great
move for American consumers and really the global consumer as well.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
And Jason Isaac it appears that compensate the oil companies
that were ripped off by billions of dollars, that twenty
five to fifty million barrels of oil. I don't know
if that's the day, a week, or a month are
going to come out of Venezuela now to pay off
those debts. And that's heavy crude. Explain the differential many
of us don't know. I just go up to Amico

(22:32):
and I put my put the nozzle in my car,
my Chevy, and away I go, and I like the prices.
But why is Venezuelan crude oil not as good as
maybe American energy production out of the premium base. What's
the differential between those kinds of crude oil?

Speaker 4 (22:52):
Well, if you look at we were importing oil for
decades going back to the seventies, and so our refinings,
our refineries were built to to process and refine heavy
crude oil imported from the Middle East and other places
around the globe and turn that into diesel, gasoline, jet fuel,
home heating, oil, propane, plastics, a myriad of things that

(23:14):
we depend on our daily lives. And so about eighty
percent of the refining in the Gulf Coast is used
to that heavy crude oil. Now, some of them started
to over the last two decades started to retrofit their
operations so they could handle this lighter suite. But a
lot of the lighter, sweet crude out of the Permium
Basin is exported onto the global market, and then we

(23:34):
in turn import heavy crude to refine that into those products.
So now we're going to be seeing a lot of
that Venezuelan crude coming north just into the Gulf of
America and being refined into good products. Here we're fined
more responsible than anywhere else in the planet, might I add,
So this will be really good at giving us a
supply that's much closer than what we've previously gotten a

(23:56):
supply from.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Plus American jobs. Do you see the Landsman? Do you
see what's happening on some of the some of the
special series, Billy, Bob Thorton, all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
Is that real?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
The Landman?

Speaker 4 (24:10):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Do you watch that at all?

Speaker 4 (24:13):
I do, And I have boys that have worked in
the oil field the Permium basin, and I've got a
lot of my members that are there as well. It's
a little sensational life. I'll just say that much.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
I love that stuffy and it reminds me of you know, Montana.
It reminds me what's happening there. And so you do is.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
That a little bit real?

Speaker 6 (24:35):
It is?

Speaker 4 (24:35):
I mean, you get out of the oil field and
I've been on frack sites, I've been on drilling rigs,
I've been out of production facilities, gathering facilities, and look,
there are men out there that are working really hard.
They come home from work really dirty. They're working twelve
hour shifts for two weeks on then they get a
week off. In some cases some are doing fourteen on
fourteen off. But there is no doubt about it. These

(24:57):
men are working hard to provide affordable and reliable American
energy produced more responsible than anywhere else in the planet.
And you look at some of the people that are
investing in these oil and gas companies, whether it's the
majors or the smaller independence companies that I represent, it's
the pensions around the country, These teachers and firefighters and
first responders and other government employees that have entrusted, therefore

(25:21):
one K dollars or their pension dollars to the management
of companies that are then investing it. And so when
Venezuela steals billions of dollars from these oil companies, they're
actually stealing it from teachers, from firefighters, those first responders,
people in the military that are dependent on on a pension,
people that have invested in four one case. So it's
going to be great to repatriate some of those assets

(25:44):
back into our country.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Oh, Yellowstone Landman Billy Bob Thornton doesn't get much better
than that. I like to think guys like that are
out there maybe have hoods on their heads getting beaten
by the drug cartel. Billy Bob is wonderful. Let's get
back to reality. Are as. The group's well funded environmental
groups fund that I might add by the Sierra Club
and Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, etc. Union of Concerned Scientists.

(26:10):
Talk about who's funding them. Why don't they want American
energy independence? Why don't they want us to pay two
dollars and fifty cents a gallon? They want us to
pay five dollars a gallon? Explain what these groups are
all about.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Well, there's these networks like Arabella Advisors and the Tides
Foundation and these tax exempt groups that get billions of dollars,
and a lot of that comes from foreign money. Just
recently reported over four billion dollars from Chinese Communist Party
aligned organizations directing money into our institutions of higher education

(26:44):
here in the US. They're directing billions in the nonprofits
into think tanks, trying to out have policy outcomes that
benefit China, the benefit Russia, the benefit Iran, that are
a complete detriment to the United States. So when you
have groups like the Union of Concerned Scientists, this is
an organization that refused to look at the origins of

(27:04):
COVID because they didn't receive a request from the governments
to do it. But when the Trump administration comes out
and says we're going to move to rescind the Endangerment Finding,
this Obama Area era deep state finding that was put
in place in two thousand and nine that says that
CO two A gas is necessary for life on Earth,
is harmful to the environment and human health, couldn't be

(27:25):
further from the truth. The Trump administration is moving to
rescind it. The Union of Concerned Sciences immediately came out
issuing strong opinions made up some fake studies submitted comment,
just as Lete Pauling, you know who else submitted comment
and opposition to rescinding the endangerment finding in the greenhouse
gas reporting program. The Chinese Communist Party directly submitted comment

(27:48):
through the federal government. That's resulted in a policy proposal
already being filed. We uncover that broke that as well.
You look at Greenpeace. I think green Peace is getting
millions of dollars from around the world, but they got
this judgment against them in North Dakota, over six hundred
million dollar judgment because they damaged some things there on

(28:10):
a pipeline for energy transfer trying to do these protests.
They were coordinating these terrorist activities. That was reduced to
a little over three hundred million. But what does the
green Peace do. They use the courts, and that's where
all these groups are coordinated. They're using courts here in
the US, and green Peace is using the EU now
to sue an American based company, energy Transfer, that doesn't

(28:32):
even have operations in Europe. So they're trying to use
these courts to their advantage. They've been funding and training
and painting judges around the United States with false climate
alarmist materials, so it is a really an interwoven web,
and it's really deceitful to the American economic prosperity. And lastly,

(28:52):
I'll just say you look at how quick the coordination
was after Maduro, this narco Paris has he got to
head who you put on him? The groups within hours
had already started putting posters together. The printing posters. You
can see the exact same designs used around the country.
This is the climate alarmist and the leftist narrative. They

(29:13):
go out and they pay these actors to go out
and protest. I saw some of these protests. It's interesting
it's old, white, wealthy people that show up at these
protests while the Venezuelans are screaming for freedom out of
the streets in Venezuela and also around the globe. But
they're very coordinated in their efforts. It's the same thing
with the climate alarmist anti.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Energy movement and Jason Isaac with the American Energy Institute.
It simply is paid for astro turf protesters with nothing
better to do with their time than to hold up
pre printed posters, acting as if they're independent when they're not.
If you would take out of course I'm not going
to find myself in California anytime soon. Well, what approximately
is the cost for a gallon of gasoline in California.

(29:52):
In the Midwest is between two thirty five and two
seventy five a gallon? What is it in California. Yeah,
you're nearing five dollars a gallon.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
You look in California and dates like Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
those are four of the highest five states in the
US for fuel taxes. So really the national gallon average
is closer to two dollars a gallon, but when you
add in these states with really high fuel taxes and
penalties on certain types of fuel, it's much higher. It

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matters where you live, and more importantly, it matters who
you elect. In places like California are attacking American affordable
and reliable energy to the detriment of the people live
in California.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
And lastly, I tell the story and when my mother
was a girl, they had coal delivered through the basement
in a shoot. Then they pick up the coal, put
it into the furnace and away you go. And then
once a week they would have to clean the coal
dust out of the inside of the house. That accumulated

(30:53):
on tables and chairs on the floor. Had to clean
the coal dust out of the home. By the way,
my mother lived to be almost ninety years old. That's
another story, but explain how clean coal is a different
beast than it was decades ago. In fact, clean coal
is a wonderful way of heating homes at a low
cost because we have hundreds of years supply what technologically

(31:17):
is happening now that makes whether it's natural gas, oil,
or coal, a much better alternative than being cold in
the winter and warm in the summer. What's happening technologically, no.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
Abilly, It's been amazing. Over the last fifty years, the
United States has become a world leader in clean air.
We've reduced pollution the six criteria pollutants that in certain
concentrations are said to impact human health. We've produced that
nearly eighty percent over the last five decades. And it's
because of pollution control technology. I've set testified in front
of Congress multiple times, and I've said, of all the

(31:51):
technology the Chinese steal from us, it'd be nice I
would utilize our pollution control technology. But that's about effective
as their missile defense systems In Venezuela. They don't use it.
It's not effective in China, and so there's actually cold
us dropping in southern California. Over sixty percent of the
pollution in Southern California is Asian air pollution because they

(32:11):
don't use pollution control technology like we do here in
the United States, and that technology is primarily bag houses
in scrubbers. They're like giant filters that go on power
plants in industry to capture the pollutants. During the COVID lockdowns,
we took half the cars off the road to the
United States because our government shut us down, locked us
in our homes, closed businesses. People are losing their lives.

(32:33):
They are losing their livelihoods. And what happened to the
air quality in this country. Nothing. It got worse in
some cities. It was slightly improved in others, but it
was negligible. There's no meaningful improvement in air quality, and
you take half the cars off the road. Our air
story is one that's not told. It's unfortunate. Over sixty
percent of the population doesn't know about it. We're also

(32:55):
number one in access to clean and safe drinking water.
That's something seven billion people on the planet would love
to experience access to clean and safe drinking water. That's
seven eighths of the global population would love to have
we take for granted here in the United States. It's
all powered by our economic prosperity, our environmental leadership, which

(33:16):
is made possible only possible with access to affordable and
reliable energy. That's natural gas, that's coal, that's oil, and
that's nuclear.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
And it's not windmills, it's not solar panels. So you're
saying a chunk of the air pollution in California is
coming from China, who refuses to use our technology.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Correct, that's absolutely right. And as the California increases regulations,
the business just move over to China because it's the
lower cost to do business there. They move over to China,
they move over across the border into Mexico, and so
we're actually exporting jobs and we're importing the pollution.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Well, Karen Bess is an idiot, and she's very popular,
and I'm certain Gavin Newsom, if he wants to be
continue to run as the governor, he can do that.
He's popular, I think. But imagine if California's energy policies
was put in the lap of Gavin Newsom as the
president in twenty twenty eight, what America would look like then?

(34:14):
We would not recognize, more people would be on government help,
There'd be more welfare fraud, We'd have lesser, fewer cars,
less economic development, less technological advances. And that's what's on
the ballot, including this November and in twenty twenty eight.
Well we have to run in Jason isiac. What is
your website if.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
Any American Energyinstitute dot com?

Speaker 1 (34:37):
You're a great American.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Jason.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
God bless you and God bless America. And thanks for
coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Jason, God
bless you, Billy, thanks for having me on. Well, let's
continue with more. Well, the truth will set us free.
Do you want to live in a society with six
and seven dollars a gallon gasoline? Or what's happening now?
The environment we live in now is the result of technology.

(35:00):
Keep it going, Bill Cunningham, seven hundred WLW by Bill Cunningham,
The Great.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
Merit and I'm working again coming up there.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
So we're after two o'clock today. We have Governor Mike
DeWine on to discuss his endorsement of a Ake Ramaswami.
There's been some speculation there was some angst between the
governor and Ramaswami. So we're going to get into that
after two o'clock today. As you know, Amy Acton, Doctor
Amy Acton is the Democratic nominee. You're in Ohio is

(35:35):
uh was one of the devotees of Governor Mike DeWine
during the COVID disaster, and so we're going to ferret
out from Governor Mike DeWine. Wise he's endorsing vi Ake Ramaswami,
and of course Uh not endorsing doctor Amy Acton, who
was in charge of all the lockdowns in the state
of Ohio. But until then, the great John Lott l

(35:56):
Ott John Lott worked for years in the Trump administry
in the first term. He's an expert researcher when it
comes to guns and violence, more guns, less crime, and
author He's done many things, great degrees from many of
the great universities. And I noticed in the New York
Post a few days back there was a big headline
new data reveals the horrific truth about illegal immigrant crime

(36:20):
and John Lott. Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show,
and first of all John. What I hear from the
radical left, from CNN, MS Now and so many others
is that immigrant crime immigrants commit fewer crimes than American citizens,
and therefore they should be welcome because there's such a benefit.
We've had on guests before, May Cook and many others

(36:40):
Ken Blackwell et cetera. Talking about the amount of illegal
activities involving welfare, whether it's daycare, autism, medicaid, foods and fraud,
home health fraud. It's massive. But one thing that is
a predicate of inviting into our country more citizens from
third world country, this is the fact they don't commit crime. Now,

(37:02):
can you tell the American people what are the facts
about aliens, illegal aliens or immigrants committing crime relative to
native born Americans. Give us a full report, right, thanks,
Happy New Year.

Speaker 7 (37:15):
Look, the type of data looking at immigrants as a
whole mixes together illegal and legal immigrants. Legal immigrants do
tend to commit crime at very low rates. Unfortunately, illegal
immigrants tend to commit crime at extremely high rates compared
to native born Americans. And we can see this with

(37:39):
some recent data that just came out for the state
of New York.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
New York.

Speaker 7 (37:46):
ICE put out indicated that they had seven and thirteen
detainers on those who are currently incarcerated in New York
State prisons in jails. You know, you're talking about individuals.
One hundred and forty eight were there for homicides, you
had them there for child rape, hundreds, you know, seven

(38:08):
hundred for assaults and so on. And the thing is,
if you compare that to their share of the overall
prison and jail populations in the state, which is about
fifty thousand people total there, that's fourteen percent. And you
can compare that then to the share of the population

(38:30):
that illegals reportedly have in New York. The highest estimate
from Pew comes from Pew when they say it's about
four percent. So you compare that fourteen percent to the
four percent that they make up in the general population,
they're way over represented. And the problem is that four
percent is very clearly an underestimate.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
For many reasons.

Speaker 7 (38:53):
One reason is New York as a sanctuary state, is
not assisting ICE in identifying who might be an illegal
who's incarcerated in the state.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
There Also, as you may know, ICE will go and.

Speaker 7 (39:12):
Stay at different courthouses for when illegals are either convicted
or whether they're charged with the crimes and pick them
up and deport them right at that point, so they
never make it in to the prison or jail populations
in the state. CBS had a report that just over

(39:33):
a two month period.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
This last year, just in New York.

Speaker 7 (39:38):
City alone, there were four hundred and sixty of those
illegal aliens who were picked up at the courthouse and
deported at that stage. So, you know, four hundred and
sixty just from two months, just from one place in
the state. You know that you can see that that
seven one hundred could be a big underestimate. And there

(40:00):
are other reasons we can go into too, but it's
very clear, and this doesn't even take into account the
almost seven thousand illegal aliens who had been convicted and
served time in prison and jails who were released this
last year.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Also, I look at these numbers according to the Homeland
Security one hundred and forty eight homicides, seven hundred and
seventeen assaults, one hundred and thirty four burglaries, one hundred
and six robberies, two hundred and thirty six dangerous drug offenses,
one hundred and fifty two weapons offenses, two hundred and

(40:39):
sixty sexual predatory offenses. And you often talk about there's
a differential between crimes committed on one hand and arrest
and conviction on the other, that the arrest and conviction
is a small number of the crimes committed. So explain
that to the American people.

Speaker 7 (40:57):
Right, Well, we know, in general, only about forty percent
of violent crimes and only about thirty percent of property
crimes are reported to police.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
And there are lots of reasons for that.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Whether or not people think that the.

Speaker 7 (41:10):
People are going to be caught and punished has a
significant role in that. But this is particularly important when
you're talking about crimes by illegals, and the reason is
that criminals tend to commit crimes against people who are
similar to them. You know, ninety percent of blacks are
murdered by other blacks. Hispanics is about eighty percent are

(41:35):
murdered by other Hispanics, for example. And if illegals tend
to commit crimes against other illegals, which is pretty clearly
the case, not exclusively, but if they disproportionately tend to
do that, then what happens is you're going to underrepresent

(41:58):
their share of reported crimes because illegals might be unwilling
to go and report crimes to the police, no.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Question about it, because they don't want to be identified
as victims and may be deported. So the seven and
fourteen number is a small number compared to the crimes committed.
And I also would point out that you were involved
in the Uvalde situation as far as talking about the
police and what they did and didn't do. One of

(42:28):
the officers is on trial in Uvalde, Texas for not
responding appropriately to that deranged criminal that went into a
classroom and killed a bunch of students, and there were
no armed teachers. There's no one around in that situation,
which feeds into many things you've said, which means more guns,
less crime. And so one thing that's happened in my

(42:49):
home state of Ohio is that there are local sheriffs
who have trained personnel, like in Butler County where Richard K. Jones,
who are teachers vice principals principles to discreetly carry weapons
to make it less likely someone's going to pick that
particular school to commit an offense. Another thing that weighs
into this is sanctuary status of cities and states right now,

(43:11):
because if you're a sanctuary city, and you won't share
information like Minnesota, which is having terrible problems. And I'm
glad that Governor Tim Waltz is not going to run
for reelection. I fear that citizens of Minnesota would probably
re elect him, and that there are many county jails
and city jails that don't share information. So instead of
arresting someone with a federal criminal warrant in prison, which

(43:35):
is protecting of both parties, they let them go and
then once they get into the community, then there has
to be an entire raid to arrest someone with a warrant.
So what are the dangers like in the blue cities
and blue states when they don't participate in the federal
function of law enforcement? And the act is if the
Feds or shall I say, an invading force. In fact,

(43:56):
this incident with a ice of officials were tried to
be rammed by a woman in a white pickup truck
and she was shot and as a consequence, it creates
havoc and turmoil. And so how much easier is it
if you have red cities, red states that will tell
the Feds this person is here, we will honor your detainer,

(44:20):
pick them up that's safer for everyone, correct, Yeah, of course.

Speaker 7 (44:27):
Look, I mean I think one of the reasons why
we've seen this huge record dropped and murders in the
United States, it looks like we're going to be on
track for the lowest murder rate ever recorded in US
history this past year. It has to do with many things.
You know, obviously, the FBI has doubled the number of

(44:48):
arrests this last year compared to what they were in
twenty twenty four, but also what Trump has been doing
with regard to deporting criminal illegal aliens.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
You know, not only do you go and you.

Speaker 7 (45:00):
Take the criminals off the street there, but even the
ones that you haven't caught, they don't want to get deported.
And so what they do is they want to keep
off of police radar. And how do you keep off
of police radar. You stop committing or commit fewer crimes,
so you're not going to be as much of a
target for the police to go after. And so, you know,

(45:22):
it's not a coincidence that we've seen what looks like,
at least for the first nine months of the year,
a twenty percent drop in murders. And my guess is
when the data comes out for all the crimes. It's
coming September for last year, it's going to show a

(45:43):
big drop in violent crimes across the board. You just
to get people an idea of what we're talking about
in terms of percentages. You know, we just had during
the Biden administration, the largest percentage increase in violent crime
over for a year period time that's ever been recorded.
It went up by fifty nine percent. There's no time

(46:07):
that's even remotely close to that. It's like a little
bit more than half or twice what it was previously.
And so you know, here, I think you're going to
see violent crime reverse that trend that occurred.

Speaker 4 (46:23):
And with murders.

Speaker 7 (46:26):
In twenty twenty four, we had about five murders per
one hundred thousand people.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
The highest or the.

Speaker 7 (46:34):
Lowest that we'd previously had was four point five per
one hundred thousand. But we're on track right now to
have about four or slightly less than four per hundred thousand.
That's a huge that's a huge difference from one of
was the lowest that we'd ever previously recorded.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
And you point out in your story in the New
York Post a few days ago, the Biden administration admitted
the nine percent of the seven point four million non
detained illegal immigrants at ittality already had criminal records. And
you also point out in your story of the cost
we're worried about the cost of fraud somalis when it
comes to daycare or medicaid or food stamps or home health.

(47:15):
What are the cost just in one city or one
state in New York about housing illegals who commit crime?
And let's face it, the majority of people brought in
by the Biden administration I contend illegally for those four years.
We're young, poorly educated, unattached males who are the formula
for more crime being committed. But what are the costs

(47:36):
in New York City and New York State to the
taxpayers that are born indirectly by all of us when
you start detaining thousands and thousands of illegal aliens shouldn't
be here in the first place. How much money does
it cost?

Speaker 7 (47:49):
That costs a lot. Look, we can't get an exact
figure because we don't know how many of these individuals
that Ice issued detainers on were in the prison system
versus the jail system. Those two systems have different costs
of incarcerating people. But if you the prison system costs
are less, and if you assume that all of the

(48:10):
illegals who are incarcerated are incarcerated in the prison system,
you're talking about a billion dollars a year. You know,
that's a billion dollars a year the State of New
York could save if they let Ice take those individuals
and deport them. But you know, you mentioned the data

(48:31):
that finally came out before the election in twenty twenty
four showing that nine percent of the so called non
detained individuals who were at least in the country had
criminal records.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
The problem is that's.

Speaker 7 (48:45):
Clearly a huge underestimate. The reason is is because many
of those illegals came from countries like Venezuela, for example,
that refuse to provide information on the criminal back grounds
of those individuals. So the Biden administration just put them down.
As you know, we don't know whether they had criminal backgrounds,

(49:08):
and we know Venezuela, for example, in other countries released
people from prisons in jails in order to have them
come to the United States. They were not exactly people
that they wanted to go and have to spend their
own money on keeping in prison, So you know, there
are multiple reasons for you know, the thing is, these

(49:31):
non detained individuals were almost exclusively individuals who voluntarily turned
themselves into the border. Those are not the ones that
you should be most concerned about. You know, we had
about two point one million so called guideways that came
into the United States during the Biden administration. These are

(49:51):
people that we saw coming across the border but we
didn't catch. And then we have untold millions that we
never even saw come across the border. And the reason
is that the Buying administration had pulled seventy six percent
of the border agents off of guarding the border and
instead we're using them.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
To go and process illegals.

Speaker 7 (50:14):
And also about thirty percent of the passive monitoring equipment,
the cameras and other things were broken during the Buying
administration and they were not fixing them. So between pulling
agents off the border and having broken equipment over large
parts of the border that weren't even you know, monitoring

(50:35):
people coming across, we have no idea how many more millions,
And those are the ones that you should be most
concerned about. There's a reason why they didn't turn themselves
in at the border and get you know, the the
prepaid credit cards, and get housing and get food and
get you know, transportation to wherever in the country they
wanted to go.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Well, I want to put a sharper pont in something
you say in the story in the New York Post.
It's hardly surprising. The violent crime surged by a record
fifty nine percent during Joe Biden's four years in office,
the largest percentage increase ever over any four year period
in American history. At the same time, the United States
experience and then president influx of illegal aliens. It's almost

(51:19):
as if one intends the logical consequences of one's behavior,
which means Joe Biden, etc. Wanted to flood the country
with illegals. Get them incorporated into societies largely all over
the country. Give them day care benefits, autism benefits, medical benefits,
food stamp benefits, home health care benefits. Get them registered

(51:42):
to vote as quickly as possible. Minnesota has a system
where a sponsor can vouch for eight other people who
are voting without an ID and that's how Democrats stayed
in power and in Minnesota in one year, the so
called daycare providers gave to the Democrats twenty three million
dollars in political donations. I don't know too many daycare

(52:03):
providers throwing off that kind of money. It was the
protection racket that's finally going to be broken. We got
to run John Lott Crimeresearch dot Org. All the doubt
is there crimeresearch dot Org. And once again, John Lott,
thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And the
truth will set us all free. John Lot, thank you
very much.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
Thank you for being there.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Bill, God bless you. Let's continue with more. One other
great reason to support Donald Trump is what John Lott
just said. Bill Cunningham seven hundreds WLW.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
Here.

Speaker 5 (52:39):
I'll answer any questions you guys want.

Speaker 4 (52:44):
Hello quiet, I'm broadcasting.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
Oh id segment. There's so much to talk about, so
nothing to talk about. Got xavior basketball, give me a
full report segment. I need sports and I need it now.

Speaker 6 (53:02):
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(53:24):
say Willie. We lead off with the sixteen and oh
Miami RedHawks beating Western Michigan last night eighty seven seventy six,
the first team in the nation with that record and
is a school record twenty fourth straight win at Malett Hall.
And on the other side, West Virginia rallies late to
beat the Bearcats sixty two to sixty in Morgantown. Bearcats

(53:48):
up fifty seven to fifty two with under five to go,
you see just three points the rest of the way.
Mountaineers go on a ten oh run and get the win. Overall,
the Bearcats are eight seven to zero and two now
into Big twelve under mister Wes Miller, the Bearcatcher. He
is three and fifty when when trailing with five minutes

(54:12):
remaining in a game, Well, I.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
Say that again, six percent, three fifty. Yep, that's not
good segment, that's not good.

Speaker 6 (54:22):
As you said, Well, he has Zavi's back. In action
to night at Marquette six thirty here on seven hundred WLW.
Missouri will take on Kentucky at seven on ESPN fifteen thirty.
Let's see Bengals update brought to you my good spirits
winding to Baco on Party Town thirteen convenient locations in
northern Kentucky. The Cleveland Browns have requested an interview with
Bengals offensive coordinator Dan Pitcher in regarding their head coaching vacancy.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
What about that segment.

Speaker 6 (54:49):
I guess they want to talk to him, and Bengals
can say yeay or nay, but they got a lot
of I mean, I think I think if I was
Dan Pitcher, I'd stay here with Joe Burrow story instead
of going to the you know what hole of Cleveland
with the Browns where they've had seventeen thousand different quarterbacks
in like six months.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
If I'm Dan Pitcher, who sounds like a baseball but nonetheless,
if I'm Dan Pitcher and I want to coach an offense,
I'm not sure I'm going to Cleveland, And no, I'm
not going there.

Speaker 6 (55:21):
You want to go from Joe Burrow to Shader Sanders. No, No, No,
Red's Update. Get the latest on the Reds tonight. The
Hot Stove League gets six O five here on seven
hundred WLW get the latest tonight. Willie Tommy Thrall gets
married this weekend in Saint Lucia, really, and they'll have
all the latest there on that. And then also, I

(55:43):
don't know if you missed it yesterday, but the cowboy
named Ohio sportscaster of the Year deserves it, no question.
So we try to get him on, but he's en
route to Saint Lucia. I don't know where he thinks, man,
I'm not sure. I think he knows where that is
the Caribbean somewhere. Soccer FC Cincinnati makes it official by

(56:03):
signing Cincinnati native Kyle Smith. He's a graduate of LaSalle,
the home of the Lancers, and an MLS veteran. Also,
former Winton Woods soccer star Taylor White has signed a
two year deal with Racing Louisville Football Club in the
National Women's Soccer League.

Speaker 4 (56:22):
What else is going on here? Let's see?

Speaker 1 (56:24):
How about former Bengal wide receiver hospitalized with severe burn.

Speaker 6 (56:28):
I was just about to mention that, yes, Jordan Shipley, Yes,
I hurt badly and his farm and I guess ranch
in Texas, and they said he's burned like thirty percent
of his body. So we just thoughts in prayers for him.
And then former Bengals quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner. Carson

(56:49):
Palmer is the twenty twenty five Max Preps National High
School Football Coach of the Year. He led his team,
He led his team to state title in California.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
Carson Palmer might come back to the Bengals to be
the head football coach. Would Mike Brown accept him back?

Speaker 4 (57:07):
What do you think?

Speaker 6 (57:08):
No, no, no, I don't think so. And how about
the Ravens parting ways with John Harball?

Speaker 1 (57:14):
Well, I've seen stories on the national media about John
Harball versus Zach Shuler, Zach Taylor and who should have
got fired? Who shouldn't have got fired? And shall we
say John Harball is going to be a very prized
commodity for maybe the New York Giants. What about that?

Speaker 6 (57:30):
Well, apparently, I guess.

Speaker 4 (57:31):
I guess.

Speaker 6 (57:31):
Right after his firing, in about fifteen minutes, he got
seven teams calling him. And he's in Miami today. But
they already have a head coach because they could gass
Mike McDaniel and put John Harball in Miami. You don't know,
I don't know where he's going.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Well, who did a better job this year? Taylor or Harball.

Speaker 6 (57:53):
Well, Harball went eight and nine because they I think
they lost like six to seven in a row because
of you know, Lamar Jackson won healthy. Of course, the
Bengals weren't healthy either. With Joe Burrow out, Bengals won
six and eleven.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
And John Harbaugh spent how many years that you see
Bearcats right as a defensive backfield coach. Everything in the
world segment is relatable to Cincinnati. You know what I'm saying.
Everything happening, it's right here, Harrorball.

Speaker 6 (58:22):
And one of the one of the candidates now by
the Ravens job as former defensive assistant of the Ravens
in twenty seventeen and eighteen is a Chargers defensive coordinator,
Jesse Minter, who went to Mount Saint Joe can a
son the son of Rick Minner.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Well, I've done some research on everything's connected. The Ravens
one of the best teams in the AFC in the
last eighteen years. Right, John Harbaugh went one ninety three
and one twenty four, won a Super Bowl, only had
three losing seasons in eighteen and what to continue, would
have gone to the playoffs except for that missed field
goal by number thirty three, who should be cut somewhat time.

(59:05):
That was the only field goal he missed in the year,
the only one he had made he missed, right, not good?

Speaker 4 (59:11):
No, not good.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
So we'll see what happens with Harball. But if he
wants to But he's sixty three years old, he's getting
old segment. By the time you're in your mid sixties,
you should stop working anyway, would you agree.

Speaker 6 (59:22):
I think that social security is in and he's probably
headed to the Pro Football Hall of Fame or maybe
a TV gig.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Well, I don't know if he's loquacious like Chris Collin's
Worth and Rocky Boyman. Well, let's face it, he's one
of the most successful coaches of the twenty fourth century.

Speaker 6 (59:38):
And I think they've only had three. Like Pittsburgh is
what had like four head coaches in their in their
entire existence. I think the going back to the Colts,
they've only had three head coaches over the last upteen years.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
Oh about the Bengals were about the same. I mean
we went through went through Marvelo Marvin. He was here
about fourteen years. He took the Ravens to the Super Bowl.
Defensively that team in two thousand was with all due
respect to the nineteen eighty five Chicago Bears, that team
was the greatest defensive team ever and they won one

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Super Bowl one and Harball did the same thing. And
is not good enough for Piscotti, who's the owner of
the Ravens, he wants to do better and might you
might recall Mike Brown from the first thirty years as
the general manager, mikey Boy Brown won a total of
zero playoff games. And the first thirty years that's not good. Segment,

(01:00:35):
that's not good.

Speaker 6 (01:00:36):
You're correct, that's not good.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
And then then the other factor is you talk about
what's happening at UC right now. I mean, I think
Wes Miller's basketball, which one's in worst shape?

Speaker 6 (01:00:50):
Well, flip a coin.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
I don't know. But at least Scott Sounderfield went to
a playoff, went to a Bowl game. But Wes Miller,
if he didn't make it in the Big Show this
year is like, according to many, it's over with And
that's what Joe Frederick tells me he's done. But on
the other hand, that the tough part of the UC
Barcott schedule is coming up. They've already played the easy.

Speaker 6 (01:01:13):
Part, right I think they've got Iowa State and a
few other ones upcoming here and what woa not good
will he? So I don't know what to tell you.
But other than that, that's about That's about it. And uh,
you know, so we'll see what happens. U See plays

(01:01:34):
up against U c F on the road this Sunday,
so we'll see if they can come back. And you know,
hopefully Xavier can right the ship tonight against Marquette after
dropping a couple of games, and we'll see what happens.

Speaker 4 (01:01:49):
So that's about it.

Speaker 6 (01:01:52):
So I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, give
me out of the stott will he in honor of
a beautiful day here in a trice eight, we leave
you with the immortal words of the Stooge Report.

Speaker 8 (01:02:06):
At some point, the foolishness has got to stop.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
A segment of things go Well, Mike DeWine is supposed
to call in about two oh five to day to
talk about his endorsement of a Veke Ramaswami over doctor
Amy Acton.

Speaker 6 (01:02:21):
Well, what about David Pepper joining Amy Acton? What's up
with that?

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
I say, just add Pepper. That's all That's all you
can do, is just add Pepper. That's what she did well,
and then they got no chance to win. I don't think,
but I never know.

Speaker 6 (01:02:35):
Yeah, you never know.

Speaker 4 (01:02:37):
Yeh, all right, we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
Down the road. But uh, you know, Amy Acton was
a person, shall we say that that was endorsed and
loved by Mike DeWine. You might recall back in the
beginning of the pandemic in March in April of twenty twenty,
the two of them hold held daily news conferences that
we carried live, right, And so I think Doc Jeremie Acton,

(01:03:00):
you know, she was a favorite of Mike Dwine, not
so much anymore. And after all, Mike DeWine is a Republican,
and God bless the Republicans. So I think after two
of five today, we'll see what happens with him. So
I supposed to call an he's having a speech right
now in Cleveland. So seg will continue with more. Let's
continue with more scheduling Mike Dwine about two of five today,

(01:03:23):
all on news radio seven hundred WW. Then I'm pretty
sure you may be aware that a woman in Minneapolis
was shot and killed by ice agents about an hour
ago after allegedly using her car to ram and kill

(01:03:45):
ICE agents. This will be weaponized by the media right
now as an excuse to not enforce federal law in
many blue cities and blue states. In fact, the so
called mayor of Minneapolis, a clown named David Frye, is
marching around you in the F bomb at a news
conference broadcasted live all over the country, using the F
word to describe ICE. The Department of Homeland Security said

(01:04:09):
in a statement issued about an hour ago that rioters
began blocking ICE officials when one of the riders allegedly
attempted to weaponize her vehicle to hit law enforcement officials,
and what they described as an active domestic terrorism fearing
for his life in the lives of his fellow police
officers and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.

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According to a federal government he used his training and
saved his own life and that of fellow officers. The
alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased now according to others.
And this is all going to be on video, and
the state has not released its video, but the Feds
have great video looking forward to it being released. There
was previous video being shot that seemed to indicate a snowy,

(01:04:53):
icy environment. Several dozen so called protesters standing on an
icy road in front of in front of ICE officials
trying to make arrest of criminals in Minneapolis, and a
member of the ICE, of which is Immigration and Customs
enforcement at the scene said a driver of vehicle was
shot as she tried to run down police officers doing

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their job. And right now the Democratic Party is on
the side for the legal aliens, to those who are
chiseling the system for personal benefit and TRIPA McLaughlin to
Fox News the incident was a direct consequence of constant
attacks and demon is eight of our police officers by
sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage random assaults on police

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officers and ICE officials have suffered at fourteen increase in
assaults against them eight thousand increase in death threats. So
much like historically Democrats who kept the slaves, who fought
a war to keep the slaves, who after a civil
war made sure that African Americans living in the South

(01:06:02):
to not have civil rights, and then for years but
together the ku Klux Klan in the nineteen fifties and
sixties refused to allow federal law to be enforced in
cities in the South, requiring Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy and
Johnson just sent in federal officials because Democrats not that
the federal law to apply in their jurisdiction. In reality,

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it does. And I would hope that these ice officials
are safe in the conduction of their duties. And I
hope at some point the Democratic Party becomes to its
census and recognize the federal law has got to apply
in every city, in every county, in every state in
the company we continue with. We've scheduled Governor Mike Wine
in about seven or eight minutes that show them the

(01:06:44):
reds Bangles and the Bearcats. There's Radio seven hundred WL Cincinnati.
After putting him to the American a few hours ago,
there was a note that Governor Mike DeWine is going
to endorse Vike Ramaswami. That should not be great shocked

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because both are Republicans, but there's also some indication earlier
in the year, that end of last year that he
wasn't going to make an endorsement yet, Jona, you and
I now is Governor Mike DeWine and Governor DeWine welcome
again to the Bill Cunningham show, and Governor, can you
announce now why you're endorsing Viveke Ramaswami now and didn't
do it a few weeks ago.

Speaker 8 (01:07:28):
Well, I could give you the answer that this is
a little humor here this afternoon, I could give you
the answer that Governor Rose gave when he endorsed Reagan,
and the reporters and well, governor, Governor, why why today?
And he said, well, yesterday would have been too soon
and tomorrow would be too late. I'm not sure that
was a good answer for him, But the press didn't

(01:07:51):
do much. It's going to shook their heads and walked away,
I guess. So, look, I think that you know, he.

Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
Made the first.

Speaker 8 (01:08:00):
The first big decision a president makes, or presidential nominee makes.
The first big decision that a governor makes, is picking
the running mate, and in this case, he picked Rob McCully,
who was the Senate president from northwest Ohio, someone very
well respected. And so I think that, you know, that

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was a very very good decision. I wanted to praise
that and congratulate him, and it just seemed, you know,
I talked to Dubake yesterday, I talked to him today
we've been we have been talking. Uh, and so I'm
you know, happy to endorse him.

Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:08:39):
I think he'll be a good governor. This is you know,
will be a significant race.

Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:08:46):
You know, we're electing a governor and uh, it's a big,
a big job in a big, big position. But I
think he really hit a home run today with with
Rob McCully. Good good choice, very very very good choice.
And you know, Bill, we have to continue to grow
a hile and we have to continue to bring companies

(01:09:08):
in from California and New York. And I think the
Dake has the ability to do that. I think he
has the inclination to do that. I think he has
the instinct to do it, knows how to do it.
So continued economic growth for Ohio, it's just so very
very important.

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
You know, Governor. When this came out a few weeks ago,
that you were equivocating a bit, there was some thought
among some conservatives that you might lean toward doctor Amy
acting because you two worked together March April, May June
July of twenty twenty. In fact, you filled a very
important one hour time spot between one and two o'clock

(01:09:48):
with me with doctor Amy acting at your side. Do
you think doctor Amy Acting is in a sense not
qualified to be the governor.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
I'm not going to go into that.

Speaker 8 (01:10:00):
I mean, you know, I worked I worked with her.
I think she did a good job. I know some
people criticized, you know, what was done during that period
of time. And I've pointed out that I'm the governor.
So if people got a complaintation, complaint, you know, they
complaints with me. Bok always stopped with the governor. It's
not the governor's members of the cabinet. But look, I
think she did a good job in that position. I

(01:10:21):
enjoyed working with her. Uh, But we're now talking about
a very different position. We're talking about being governor for
the whole state, twelve million people. You know, Bill, after
having done this for seven years, I can tell you
that every day, Uh, there is something happening that the
governor has to deal with that's important and that maybe

(01:10:43):
was unexpected. You know, We've had a lot of unexpected
things since I've been governor. Every governor faces that you
focus on so many different things if you think about it.
You know, we have seventy six state parks, we have
you know, forty five thousand people who are in prison,
so we're running a big state prison system. Economic development

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is so very important. Education probably the most important thing
of all is something that you know, we put a big,
big emphasis on frand with a Vali partner Imagination Library Library,
getting free books to kids. We're now over I think
four hundred and fourteen thousand kids every month get a
free book, getting kids ready for kindergarten, the science of reading,

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which we are spreading around the state in every one
of our schools now. It's really the best way to
teach kids how to read. So all these things, you know,
there's just a lot going on every every single day,
and it's just important to have, you know, a leader
and someone who not just is a leader, but someone

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who can deal with all the all the different things
that the governor has to deal with.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
And Governor de one I had on a couple of
hours ago may I Cook, who's doing her own investigation
about daycare and autism fraud, and medicaid fraud in Ohio
and food stamp fraud, home health fraud. And there was
a report that one of your spokesmen said that the
cost of some fraud is the cost of doing business.
Do you have a sense that Ohio under your leadership,

(01:12:18):
is doing a much better job than appears to be
in Minnesota. Are you on top of the fraud? Some
talk about enrollment versus attendance. What do you say to
the critics who say that Ohio may have massive fraud
in the Somali community, or in the Mareitanian community, or
in the Haitian community. What would you say about that?

Speaker 8 (01:12:39):
Well, I had a whole press conference the other day
about this bill. As you know, I wanted to lay
out for people to say, Ohio exactly where we were.
I know some people are saying, look, you have Haite
or you have smallions in Minnesota, You've got to Ohio
and particularly the Plumbas area. Therefore, if you have h

(01:13:00):
fraud in Minnesota, you must have fraud in Ohio. I'm
just not sure that's the way we are to look
at this. I'm not sure if it's not factual.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Uh, we have.

Speaker 8 (01:13:12):
I think a very good system in place. It doesn't
mean there is some fraud that gets biased, that does happen.
No fraud is acceptable. We have no tolerance for fraud
at all. I don't have the statistics in front of me,
but I gave out the other day. But you know,
we have pulled the plug on a number of daycare centers,

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some run by some audients, some run by not some audions.
You know, if we see that there is fraud there,
if we see, for example, that they don't have records,
they're always supposed to keep their records. Uh, We've pulled
some just because they didn't have their records. So we're
going to continue continue.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
To do that.

Speaker 8 (01:13:51):
We do things differently than some states do. For example,
we pay and maybe they'd set the stage if I could.
We're about one hundred thousand children who are in daycare
in the state of Ohio where their parents probably couldn't

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afford it, but you know, they want to work. We
want them to work, want the parents to work, and
so we subsidized to some extent that daycare for that
particular child. So it's one hundred thousand kids at one
time are getting some subsidy, their favors are getting some
subsidy to help them pay for that child child care.

(01:14:33):
We have about fifty two hundred fifty two hundred daycare
centers in the state that I have kids in there
who the state is paying part of the tuition basically,
we have a lot more daycare centers now, but fifty
two hundred. So it's fifty two hundred, you know that

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we are looking at Last year we did ten thousand,
ten thousand punt announced inspections. But in addition to that,
you know, we if we see something wrong or paperwork,
you know, we go in.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:15:10):
We also encourage I would say this to any any
of your listeners. I know you, you're clear, you know
from Cincinnati, clear almost the flebo people listening to you.
But if anyone has suspicion that daycare center or any
other kind of fraud that's going on any place uh
involved in the Stable High we don't want to hear
about it. And so when we get these these tips,

(01:15:33):
I'll just call them tips. When we get them in,
we check them all out. Some of them amount to nothing,
but some of them have amounted to something. And as
a result of those tips from citizens in the Stable HIO,
we've been able to take action and to stop uh,
you know, the fraud that was going on, stop money
going out when it should not have been going out.

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So we encourage that bill.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
Do you say loud and proud there is not massive
fraud in the state of Ohio when it comes to
subsidized daycare or medicaid, and which transportation companies make up
trips from the home to a care center or maybe
home health, and which somebody can claim. You know, I'm
caring for my mom or dad twenty four hours a day.

(01:16:19):
I make seventy eighty thousand dollars a year living with
my mom, and I get paid for all that. The
allegations I know you're aware of this out of Minnesota
are absurd. And there's been seventy eight indictments ninety five
percent of Somali's there's been seventy four convictions in Ohio.
That does happen here too. But are you saying, as

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our governor, there is not massive fraud supporting the immigrant
communities in Ohio similar to what's happening in Minnesota.

Speaker 8 (01:16:49):
Well, I don't know exactly what's happening in Minnesota. You
just recounted it, you know, so I can't see exactly
what's happening there. All I know is the same thing
we all know is what's been reported. What I can
tell you is, UH, you know that we're vigil about
about fraud. Uh, is there some fraud that occurs. Yeah,
you've you've got fifty two hundred daycare centers. Uh. You know,

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is there some sometimes uh fraud there, Yeah, but it's
not it's not anything massive. I mean we do things
like you know, we only count. We only let them
count and get paid for when that child actually shows up.

Speaker 4 (01:17:28):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:17:28):
The buid administration wanted us to switch over and we
refuse to do it. They wanted us to switch over
to uh paying buy an enrollment, and we said, no,
We're not gonna pay just because someone who will what
happens and they don't, you know, the kid doesn't show
up uh for a week, two weeks three, We're not
gonna pay. We're not gonna pay for that. Uh. So

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we you know, we do we do that differently as
I say you do the unannounced uh visitations. Uh when
we when we go in and we're not only just
woking for fraud, we're also looking, frankly, to make sure
those daycare centers are good and to make sure that
you know, they're taking care of kids properly. I mean,
we you know, we are concerned about that.

Speaker 4 (01:18:12):
You know, one of the.

Speaker 8 (01:18:13):
Things that we've seen in the Columbus area. We've seen
some people who've shown up at these daycare centers and
filmed themselves and then stood out there and said, well,
I'm shocked they won't let me into the daycare center.
And these are just people. We have no businesses a
daycare center. And you know, if your child is in
the daycare center, you wouldn't want that daycare center open

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to anybody he just just to walk in. You can't
do that in the school today, and you shouldn't be
able to do that in the daycare centers. So these
daycare centers shouldn't be opening up and like just someone
who wants to film it and say they want to
want to go in. That's not how we run daycare

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centers in the state of Ohio or probably a place
out we've got to protected protect you to do in case.

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
We proceed govin are you more sensitive to this than
you otherwise might have been because of what's happening in Minnesota?
Do you notice when one of your representatives said, well,
you know, fraud's are cost of doing business, it kind
of didn't sound like that quote.

Speaker 8 (01:19:17):
Look, look I don't I don't like that quote. That's
not my quote. Uh, you know, well, we want to
be honest. Just fraud occur. I can tell you it's
occurred because we've caught it, so I know it's scarred.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:19:29):
And do we catch everything? Well, probably not everything. Uh,
there's just a lot of a lot of going on,
but we're vigilant. Is important.

Speaker 9 (01:19:38):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:19:38):
We owe this to the taxpayers to be the ever
vigilant about this. This is taxpayers dollars that we're dealing with.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
Lastly, viveg Ramaswami's floating a trial balloon of maybe getting
rid of all the real estate taxes in fact, uh
and maybe he also said get rid of state income tax.
So those are the main drivers of funding government. And
I can't imagine what the sales tax would be if
you got rid of real estate taxes and got rid
of income taxes? Are those aspirational goals? Practically could Ohioans

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get rid of the real estate tax and or the
state income tax and have government function?

Speaker 8 (01:20:21):
Well, I don't see how you do both of those known,
I don't. I mean I think that is you know, Bill,
in every budget I've signed for budgets, we have cut
the state income tax. So we were very very comparative
today with other states. We didn't used to be, but
we certainly, we certainly are today. Real estate taxes. I

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just signed a series of bills that will make some
significant reforms and I think bring some meaningful relief to
the tax payers of the state of Ohio. It's a problem,
as you and I have discussed, when a couple that's
say they're seventy five years and they've lived in this
house for years, they've paid off their mortgage, the kids
are groom and they wake up one day and in

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the mail there's a bill that shows that their real
estate taxes is going up thirty five forty percent. That's
not right, and that's you know, that's what's pausing some
of the people who want to put this on the
ballot to completely do the way with the real estate
tax I don't think you know, the people behind that initiative.
I don't think that makes any sense. I don't think
you can do that. Can you have reform?

Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:21:28):
And I think we, you know, were starting to achieve
that kind of reform.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
All right, Governor, thanks for setting the records trade in
those regards, and I have on guests now and then
to say things like the massive fraud. There's a sense
because you had which I think was a meritorious event,
you and your wife had a Haitian orphanage that somehow
your bend over backwards to assist those other entities. How
would you address the fact that the kindness you showed

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for twenty years in Haiti is kind of weaponized against
you to say as if he might agree with some
of this fraud going on.

Speaker 8 (01:22:01):
Well, well, look what we have done in Haiti is
working with father Tom Hagen, who runs the school down there.
He's got five thousand kids in school. His kids wouldn't
be going to school any other way but for Father Tom.
And you know we we were help them away with him.

Speaker 4 (01:22:21):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:22:22):
And that's just something we do as individuals. It's not
something I do as governor. It's something you do is
as individuals. So it doesn't doesn't change my attitude. I
don't think about anything in the in the United States.
I mean, you know, we're gonna be visuals for any
time we see fraud. We're going to be focused on
on Ohio and focused on this country.

Speaker 1 (01:22:42):
All right, Governor, thank you very much. I want to
get a quick comment by David Pepper, selected by Amy
Acton to be the lieutenant governor. He's in Ohio, and
I know David Pepper, He's run for many offices unsuccessfully.
What's your thoughts about him being the lieutenant governor? Or
really be the lieutenant governor with Amy Acton.

Speaker 8 (01:23:00):
Well, I saw that announcement today, so you know again,
you know, I simply simply go back. I think that
what Prevate did today dredge that first first big decision.
I think in Bob mcpellay made a good decision as
far as what the Democrats are doing. I left the
Democrats were about that.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
Hi, Governor, thanks for coming on. I called you on
the sly because I wanted to get to may A
cook On and make look in Columbus there's disasters happening
all over the place. And she was almost physically assaulted
by a couple of Somalis who went after her, and
I said, down nine to one one get the cops there.
But I just have a sense that between you, the
attorney General, the auditor and others, that there may be

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some fraud in the Columbus, which is a blue city.
But I always said Ohio is a red state that
we don't function the way California functions, and the way
that Minnesota functions because the governor spent years as the prosecutor,
spent years as the attorney general, and Mike the Wine
doesn't have a corrupt bone in his body, and so
I'd be shocked if had the same level. But are

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there some mistakes. Absolutely, But uh, thanks for coming on
and setting the record straight. We'll do it all right.

Speaker 6 (01:24:15):
Talking with you, We'll do it.

Speaker 8 (01:24:17):
We'll talk about the reps next time.

Speaker 4 (01:24:18):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
Rets, we only got about five weeks. What advice would
you give to Mike Brown of the Bengals to tell
Mike Brown to do what?

Speaker 8 (01:24:28):
Well, let's let's uh, I'm yeah, I don't know. It's uh.
We got a great quarterback, we've got great receivers and uh,
you know, there's a lot of good players on that team.
But there's some things that have to be done, just
like things have to be done to Reds. So you know,
and those of us who are Reds fans.

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
Y, Yeah, well, at least the rest made the playoffs.
At least they got to the playoffs. We'll see what happens.
But Governor Mike Dwine, thank you very much. And uh,
I reached out to Vivek Ramaswami. He's going to come
on Monday to talk about uh, the income tax, the
property tax and all that stuff. We'll see what happens.
But Governor Mike Dwaine, thanks for coming on the Bill
Cunning m Show. Once again. Thank you Mike, Thank you, Governor,

(01:25:08):
thank you. You see. Now let's continue with more news next.
You're home of the Bengals and Reds and the Bearcats.
News Radio seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 4 (01:25:17):
You know, I've had this feeling in my gud of
like I'm holding Ohio in my arms and.

Speaker 10 (01:25:22):
Unlike single handedly like Deacon virus, stay.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
Out, Hello, Hello, Hello, Yet I'm broadcasting like Rocket. We
just got on Governor Mike Dwine your reaction to the
arms being folded around the state of Ohio, and he's
endorsing not Amy Acton, who was his running mate, and

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all those news conferences. Now he's with a aake rama swampy.
I love saying that. Yeah, Rock is on.

Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
Yes, I'm back, I'm here.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
I'm back. All right, Rock, give me your reaction to
the governor uh endorsing to make promise for me.

Speaker 11 (01:26:03):
They seem to have their differences earlier, but I think
the Wine is smart enough to know a winner when
he sees one. He knows he's at least gonna win
the primary hands down. Who win that by eighty percent?
Will he win the general? I think so, but we
shall see. I did find it curious though, he said
there's no corruption with the day care facilities or transportation

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facilities correction.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
Ohio, in Ohio, in Ohio, but the Minnesota. He said,
he's not paying much attention to Minnesota. He's got enough
problems here. The ice officials in Minneapolis have their own
difficult You're not kidding, and I had on at some
point the foolishness has got to stop im. And he
says in Ohio, if we find them, we prosecute, we

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turn off the money. In Minnesota, they encourage him to
continue and make donations to the Democrat them.

Speaker 5 (01:26:56):
Well, I know you know, and I know you've had
her on.

Speaker 11 (01:26:58):
Ma Hate Cook is visited some places around Ohio, and
it seems people are not too fired up about her
being there taking a look under the hood.

Speaker 6 (01:27:09):
David Pepper, what about Pepper?

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
How about Dave? How about this? David Pepper is a
good friend of segment. Dennison now reacted, it's just add pepper.

Speaker 5 (01:27:19):
Little added little pepper to That's all you need.

Speaker 6 (01:27:22):
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standers or the seventy five thousand other guys that are
going to be quarterbacks in Cleveland? What do you do?

Speaker 11 (01:28:11):
I would if I were advising Dan Pitcher and I
was were his agent, I would say, don't go near
that franchise was a pole unless you you got to
go in with a stud quarterback. Any job you want
to take, and they don't have one, no matter what,
Haslam says. I would advise him to stay away from
that organization.

Speaker 6 (01:28:33):
John Harball out in Baltimore.

Speaker 11 (01:28:37):
Action does does Stefansy go to Baltimore go inner division?

Speaker 5 (01:28:43):
Lead them? They could do worse? Like I was a
two time NFL.

Speaker 6 (01:28:46):
Coach of the Year, right, good point.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
How does Baltimore look at the performance of John Harball
over the last eighteen years He's won sixty percent of
his games, but in the playoffs twelve of the eighteen
times ring How does uh Buziati at the owner of
the Ravens, book at that guy and say, you know
what we got? We got to get rid of him.

Speaker 5 (01:29:07):
So here's what I've read today.

Speaker 11 (01:29:09):
And who knows, but I think John Harball goes in
and says, look, what are we going to do about
Lamar Jackson? Like he was fantastic, but he really wasn't
the same guy this year? What is the future plans?
And there might have been some arguments about that because
the owner what was his name, Steve Biscotti, is probably like,
I mean this, this guy's like the biggest thing in Baltimore.

(01:29:31):
We're not moving on from Lamar Jackson? What are you
talking about? And you know, Harball is like, look, I
was like eight and four in the playoffs without Lamar Jackson,
and I'm I think three and five with him. So
are we going to talk about I don't know if
that's true or not, but that's just kind of some
of the things I'm reading.

Speaker 5 (01:29:48):
He's maybe questioning that.

Speaker 11 (01:29:49):
And they said, the only person that is guaranteed to
stay here is Lamar Jackson and not you boom See,
you wouldn't want to be.

Speaker 1 (01:29:57):
Well, compare to John Harbaugh does Taylor and make that
comparison who got fired or who didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:30:04):
It's it's tough.

Speaker 11 (01:30:05):
I mean, I mean, Baltimore is a very very very
well run franchise. So I guess they have their reasons
for things, and they always seem to do things the
right way and seem to be, you know, one foot
ahead of everybody else. But I think we'll find out
more as things come out on that.

Speaker 6 (01:30:23):
Please continue well the college basketball Tonight, the Xavier Musketeers
are in Milwaukee to take on Marquette, probably in a
key Big East matchup at six thirty here on seven
hundred WLW. Missouri and Kentucky at seven on ESPN fifteen thirty.
Indiana up against Maryland, of course, Last night, the Miami
RedHawks went to sixteen and oh while beating Western Michigan,

(01:30:45):
but West Virginia rally late to beat the Bearcats in
Morgantown sixty two to sixty.

Speaker 9 (01:30:51):
I don't care about the noise, Dan, I don't care.
I don't care what people think. I only care about
my team and I care about my program. And you
know what, it's almost common cool. We'll get a break.
We just got to stay together and stay brilliant. It's
us against the whole world. We know that we're gonna
get a break. We're gonna keep going. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:31:08):
Not good, not good, not good.

Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
West Miller could be gone.

Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
Please continue.

Speaker 6 (01:31:15):
Let's see college football. Georgia Southern transfer quarterback J C.
French is joining the bear Cats.

Speaker 5 (01:31:23):
So I have called J. C.

Speaker 11 (01:31:25):
French led games, I want to say, four or five
times in the past. I've had Georgia Southern and he
has a lot of experience and there's some things he
does well. But at this point, I'm not impressed with
that signing. I'll just say that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:42):
What about Notre Dame losing that half back?

Speaker 6 (01:31:46):
Welcome?

Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
I mean, but Notre Dame log lost the star half back?

Speaker 11 (01:31:52):
Yeah, money, it came home, which is interesting because you
know Jeremiah Love is going in the draft, so you
think there'd be a vacancy there. But look, maybe it's
not opportunity. He can play and have a great career.
I mean, the Bearcats certainly need a need a running back.
They lost their top two guys.

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
I would say, what does UC Bearcats have? The Notre
Dame doesn't. How come a player like that wants to
ignore South Bend and come home to Cincinnati. Is there
something wrong maybe with Marcus Freeman. It's something right with
Scott I.

Speaker 11 (01:32:22):
Don't think so, because Marcus Freeman's name gets brought up
with every NFL job, which is and he's not even
gonna go to the NFL, but his name is still
brought up.

Speaker 5 (01:32:31):
So there's my comment on that.

Speaker 4 (01:32:33):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:32:33):
Well, college football though, Miami and Old Miss tomorrow night
in the Fiesta Bowl, and of course Indiana and Oregon
Battle of the uh which well is it?

Speaker 4 (01:32:43):
Oh? What? Uh? None matter?

Speaker 6 (01:32:45):
In Atlanta, Kyle Schwarver is going to be the honorary
captain for the Indiana Hoosiers Friday at the Peach Bowl.

Speaker 11 (01:32:52):
So I called a couple of years ago, I had
JMU when they had a head coach named Kurt Signetti and.

Speaker 5 (01:32:59):
Yeah, yeah, it was it was yeah, Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:33:02):
I feel Willie that some sometimes in life people just
just got it right. I mean, you know, there's great
coaches out there, and then there's Kurt Signetti that can
with with no five stars and you know, bringing players
over from.

Speaker 5 (01:33:18):
JMU and look, and they got good players.

Speaker 11 (01:33:20):
It's not to say they don't, you know, nobody wins
without good players, but just an unbelievable job. I just
feel like he's one of those, like on the level
of Saban, that he just knows football better than anybody else,
just does.

Speaker 1 (01:33:34):
Who's the see not hire him? The Bearcats could have
had Signetti as their coach, and my brother John Cunningham said, no,
he won with Scott Soaderfield. Was that a mistake?

Speaker 9 (01:33:44):
Rock? I think?

Speaker 11 (01:33:46):
I mean, as much as like Scott Saderfield, I would
have to imagine, uh, passing on Kurt Signetti that they
would redo that if they could, you think, so, yeah,
I'm certain about that.

Speaker 6 (01:33:59):
And who's the guy, uh, speaking of Indiana, who's the
Dallas Mavericks owner that's on the shark tank? Yeah, what's
the big guy Mark?

Speaker 4 (01:34:10):
What's his name?

Speaker 5 (01:34:11):
Willie uh Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:34:13):
It's on the tip of my tongue, not Mark Levin, Mark.

Speaker 5 (01:34:16):
Uh Cuban, Indiana.

Speaker 6 (01:34:18):
He's made another considerable contribution to the n I L
Bank bank account to the Indiana.

Speaker 11 (01:34:27):
So do you think there's any there's it's a coincidence
that Indiana's all of a sudden winning, No, it's not.

Speaker 9 (01:34:34):
Is it?

Speaker 11 (01:34:34):
Is there a coincidence that the SEC is now kind
of getting their brains beat in a little bit like
in all these Bowl games, because now everyone else has
has the money and has more money, getting a little moreried.
It's it's you have to be at a place that
has that is well healed. You have to be at
a place that has a Mark Cuban or a uh

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you know, Phil Knight out of Oregon. You have to
have those kind of people because money drives the ship.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
If somebody had told you that the Hoosiers this year
was going to beat Ohio State, win the Big Ten,
they were going to beat Oregon, and now they're in
the Final four, you would not have put a dollar
on that rock. Somehow, this signetic character and their heisman
quarterback are doing things with magical dusts. I can't imagine
them winning. Are they going to beat the Hurricanes too?

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Is that possible?

Speaker 11 (01:35:26):
And wouldn't bet against the The guys found a way
and they got the right quarterback, which is all the
biggest thing you gotta do is get the right quarterback,
and those is a real deal.

Speaker 5 (01:35:40):
Great kid too, great kid.

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:35:42):
I mean, it's unbelievable that Indiana had the second worst
record in the history of football Division one all time,
and now they're marching. If they go to the national title,
that would be more than incredible. And the other thing
is Miami almost stuck in because the to be did
not want Notre Dame. They did not want Notre Dame,

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so they put Miami in. Would Notre Dame be doing
what Miami the Hurricanes you're doing.

Speaker 5 (01:36:08):
I think so, and certainly would have been played better
than Alabama. I don't think you can.

Speaker 6 (01:36:13):
That's for sure.

Speaker 5 (01:36:14):
Deny that one.

Speaker 1 (01:36:15):
Yeah, and in the end has already been Oregon one.

Speaker 11 (01:36:17):
Notre Dame should have got in over Alabama. I think
that I would would I said that before and now
it's I'm even more certain about that.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
Lastly, I'm glad you brought that up. Why's the SPC
failing magnificently? They're not doing well at all. You know,
the blue Bloods aren't doing well. Uh SEC and Notre Dame,
perhaps the greatest college football program of all time, not
doing well. And then you have like Old Miss they're
doing well.

Speaker 11 (01:36:44):
They lost two games by a combined three points. One
was a muff extra point. I mean, that's how razor
thing we're talking here.

Speaker 1 (01:36:51):
They were denied. They were denied. They weren't even in
the top twelve. They wouldn't want Notre Dame. Now you
have ACC and Old Miss is not the blue blo
just Georgia, Alabama and LSU, and you got an all
missed in and they don't have coaches. The OC went there,
came back, and he went to LSU, came back. Who
knows what's going to happen there. I look from Miami
to play Indiana and for all the marbles a week

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from Monday night, who wins between the Hoosiers and the Hurricanes.

Speaker 10 (01:37:18):
We gonna pick the Hoosiers, me too, Indiana all the
way with Ted McKay, team of destiny, do the ray
and the knee, and Notre Dame wants the best team
in Indiana football wise, is Indiana and not Notre Dame,
Am I right or wrong about that?

Speaker 4 (01:37:36):
Seg?

Speaker 6 (01:37:36):
Give me out of stuge report, please Rock in honor
of the first full first team Stooge Report of the year. Yes,
we leave you with the immortal words of the Stooge Report.

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
Here.

Speaker 5 (01:37:51):
I'll answer any questions you guys want.

Speaker 1 (01:37:53):
Oh, okay, coach, get ready Miller time. I don't know
if it's going to be a Miller time much longer.
He better start winning immediately. When you lose to West Virginia,
say they were up by five points at the end?

Speaker 9 (01:38:04):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (01:38:05):
Seg? What was that record? Tell the Rock to record
about the Bearcats under west Miller?

Speaker 6 (01:38:10):
They are what West Miller has a record of three
wins and fifty losses when he's when his team's are
trailing with five minutes to go into game fifty three
and fifty.

Speaker 5 (01:38:24):
Rock, how we looking not good?

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
That the best football team in Indiana is the Hoosiers
and not the Irish. That's all I can say.

Speaker 5 (01:38:36):
Welcome back, Rock, So good to be here, so glad
to see you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:38:40):
Am I right or wrong?

Speaker 5 (01:38:42):
You're breaking up? I can't hear what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (01:38:44):
Say did that earlier? And now we're back strong? Gotta run. Guys,
thank you, let's continue that rock. What do you have
on the big show this afternoon if any.

Speaker 11 (01:38:52):
Prior the gate, we have your good friend Steve good Non,
former city councsman, local attorney, gonna talk about aftab said
we got to raise tack. Now was that a part
of his his plan when he was running for mayor?
Did he mention that at all you're gonna raise taxes. Okay,
so he's gonna raise taxes to increase the uh uh,
the safety of the citizens. Maybe we should make sure

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you know that the daycarees aren't receiving money. And then
we got Dave Hatter, our tech guy at four, I'm
gonna talk about there's a lot of I'm sure you've
seen this the discussion on X. There's like AI drived
nude pictures out there. Everyone's freaking out about it.

Speaker 9 (01:39:31):
But what do you do.

Speaker 11 (01:39:32):
It's not like a real person, so it's not like,
you know, child whatever it's it's a it's fake, but
it looks real.

Speaker 5 (01:39:39):
Does that make sense to go?

Speaker 1 (01:39:40):
But the mayor cannot keep safe playgrounds for eleven year
old girls? Are given the money to protesters that don't
deserve the money. Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundred WULW