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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Paul de Marco joins us in studio now former state
representative and former chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party. Paul,
I got to tell you welcome back in first of all,
but lightning speed of everything going on with Donald Trump
and getting things done.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
What a week, hotly moldly.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
You can't even keep up with it. I mean you
put your news feed down for an hour where you've
missed something.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Seriously, Keet hag Seth, now looks pretty good. You went
through a sentence.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
One of the main areas that need to reform is
the United States military. Rebuild, recruiting, rebuild, morale, rebuild, give
our fighting men and women the tools they need that
to be what they are, which is defend this nation.
It's not about climate change, it's not about woke politics.
(00:48):
It's about defending the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, back to know what it was developed for and
what this nation stands for and patriotism and protection and
securing our borders and being a strong nation globally.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And yeah, this DEI stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Is not having a secretary defense that goes a wall
on you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
All right, doesn't call anybody. I'm gonna be out sick today. Well, okay,
if you worked at a you know, a golf shop
and you you know you're supposed to open the store
and sell golf shoes and clothing, that's one thing. But
if you if you're the Secretary of Defense and you're
you're not going to be showing up to work, you'd
think you want to call ahead and let some people know.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Or the General Millie that called China, Hey, I'm going
to warn you.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm gonna call you and we're gonna warn you if
if Trump does something, I mean, see you can you
believe this was the top echelon of the Pentagon?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Listen, there are a lot of administration people from the
Bion years and a lot of people still trying to
hang on to the the whole woke policies that administration
and not letting it go. And did you see where
Kamala Harris wants to get together with Hillary Clinton and
talk about what she can do next because she's not
going away.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Overwhelmingly the nation spoke, don't want any more of this.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Look the tell all book of what really went on
who was running this country the past four years. I'm
not talking about Joe Biden, who was really running this country,
is going to sell.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
A lot of books.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, when they have, somebody says, hey, I'm going to
tell you what really was going on behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I think you think you will ever see that?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Oh yeah, somebody's going to make a little money there.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And be a turn cot in the Democratic Party maybe.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
And hey, you know, money talks, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well, let's talk about First of all, we'll get to
Birmingham mayor Wood and upset with Trump's DEI executive orders
here actually calling it the alabamafication of the US government,
like we're the more conservative than the nation is in general,
and we're doing this and the changes are coming to
Washington as if Alabama's in charge of everything.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yay, good, I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
But first, what's going on with our Space Command headquarters.
It's in Colorado Springs now and it was so common
sense that it'll be here, but Biden says, ah, that's
too conservative in Alabama. We're going to liberal Colorado. We're moving.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
If that's all there is to it. Things could be
a change.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
In well, you know, this is our newest armed forces service.
In Congress and Mike Rodgers over in and Andison had
a big part of it. But and obviously Donald Trump
when he was office the first time, and they had
a nationwide search where is going to be the permanent
home of the Space Command US Space Command? And they
looked around the country. They looked at places like Nebraska
and Texas and Florida, and right now it's temporarily in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Springs.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well, they said, Huntsville, Alabama meets every objective requirement infrastructure, education, workforce,
everything they needed. Plus you've got all the defense contractors,
You've got Redstone, Arsenal, you've got NASA.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
It's a no brainer.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
They picked it. And then what happened. Joe Biden is
elected and Yanks it sure well.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I think Senator Tommy Turberville is instrumental in doing this,
and yesterday he said he has discussed the move with
Donald Trump and feels pretty and good about it. You
know that between Alabama and Colorado, this is going to
be settled in our favor well, and.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
It should be because objectively they won. The first time
politics had got involved in Joe Biden punished Alabama and
took it away, and now it needs to go rightfully
where it was objectively picked in Huntsville, Alabama. And this
will be a huge feather of the plume for Alabama.
I have the United States Space Command based in our state.
And look, it doesn't matter if you live in Birmingham
(04:28):
or Mobile or Montgomery. Having it in Huntsville, what that
will mean for the entire state of Alabama will be
a huge deal.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, it was long overdue the changes that were needed
for this country. And this is just one example of
hundreds that Joe Biden took us in the wrong direction,
and now the ship is being righted.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So all right, let's talk very quickly. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
I mean in one hundred days.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
How about the first hundred hours of this guy's quickly
before we move on to what's happening here in our
city with Mayor Randall woodfind and where we are in
the crime situation, his whole opinion as he was on
CNN and saying that the nation is being Alabamafication is
happening right now in the US government with the removing
(05:12):
the DEI policies. Well, the DEI policies, Paul to me,
are a slap in doctor King's face. You remember this
part of his dream speech, right, I.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Have a dream my four little children.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Will one day live in a nation where they will.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Not be judged by the color of their skin, but
by the content of that character.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I have a dream today. That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's it right there, if we're going to get to
that point where we don't judge people by the color
of their skin, as Christ would have us do. In
God's eyes, the color of the skin is all under God.
All of us are under God. It doesn't matter about
color of skin. And to separate it and call one
out versus the other is racist on both sides. So
(06:06):
doctor King's dream is to base people's worth or whatever
on their character and not the color of their skin.
DEI is racist out of the gate in that it
does judge. First, we're gonna check boxes. We're gonna look
at categories like race, gender, identity.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I mean, the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You remember when Cringeon Pierre said right there in the
White House Press Secretary office to the press, we've had
a couple of resignations, and the first place we're going
to look to replace them will be in the LGBTQ community.
Women and color of skin not merit, not qualifications. So
(06:54):
there's a problem with DEI out of the gate. Everybody, Oh,
this is terrible. It's gonna Randall Wood and has come
out and said, you know, this is not good. The
DEI needs to stick around, he says, Listen. The unfortunate
part of this conversation of stripping DEI. You know, Americans
are witnessing the alabamafication of the federal government. We've seen
(07:17):
in Alabama legislations create laws to get rid of DEI,
and the governor citing the law to remove it, you know,
is going in the wrong direction. Why no, this is
completely wrong. It needs to go away. So my thoughts
on that.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
There, My thoughts are in Birmingham. The biggest problem is crime.
That should be the one hundred percent focus is own.
The epidemic, the plague, the record breaking homicides we had
in twenty twenty four in Birmingham, Alabama, ninety.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
One year record. He just beat it for violent crime.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Homicides in this city over one hundred and fifty on
a yearly would be like forty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
We're at one hundred and fifty plus for twenty twenty four,
you know.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And he talked about how he's he hasn't really committed
on whether or not he's going to cooperate with Tom
Holman and people coming in and we've had a raid already here.
That's right, talking about moving a lightning speed. Tom Holman's
not playing we're coming after illegal criminals now. He said
we're a welcoming city. We always have been. He declined
(08:29):
to sign a measure that did declare Birmingham a sanctuary city.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
We know that, but.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I don't see the will from him to fight crime
like it needs to be fought the way police officers
should be allowed to do their job. There's still rains
and bridles on the police department.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And that's why it's going to take the legislature and
two week state leaders to come in and pass legislation
since it's not getting handled at the local level, with
more truth and sentencing, with more multi agent see task
force like they've done in Montgomery, bringing in state working
with local officials. It's going to take because he's just
not getting handled here. It's just not getting handled here,
(09:10):
and so you're going to have to have both either
at the courthouse is not being handled and not enough
police officers. So that should be the one focus, not
talking about the EI.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
A Amen, Amen, and look he's either going to get
on board or the city's going to continue to have
problems and crumble. Okay, we have an example of this
in Chicago. Those residents in Chicago have had enough of
that mayor up there, and he's still not budgeting. He's
doubling down. And look, it's out of control here in
(09:43):
our city. Get it fixed, and it's not going in
the right direction.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
No, no, And that that mayor in Chicago got turned
out for the one before him.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
He learned out.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, mayors in California got turned out because they wouldn't
do anything about crime. People are paying attention when it
comes to public safety because it should be the number
one priority, just like Donald Trump has said national security
is his number one priority, protecting.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The station the nation.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Once it fixed, seventy five percent of America said we
want something different than what we've had for the last
four years.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
On both sides.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Okay, it was an overwhelming statement by the American people
that we need to get back on track. And those
Democrats that want to hold on to the way it
was for the last four years with Biden and where
we are in the nation, I don't think it's going
to end well. They'll be voted out, they'll be moved out,
they'll be railroaded out by the citizens of these cities
that are having to put.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Up with this.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh yeah, and you've already got them push it. But
like I said, is the American public spoke and Donald
Trump is delivering.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. Well, good to see our
Paul de Marco joins us in studio now former state
representative and former chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party. Paul,
I got to tell you welcome back in first of all,
but lightning speed of everything going on with Donald Trump
and getting things done.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
What a week, hotly moldly.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
You can't even keep up with it. I mean you
put your news feed down for an hour where you've
missed something.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Seriously, Keet hag Seth, now looks pretty good. You went
through a sentence.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
One of the main areas that need to reform is
the United States military. Rebuild, recruiting, rebuild, morale, rebuild, give
our fighting men and women the tools they need that
to be what they are, which is defend this nation.
It's not about climate change, it's not about woke politics.
(00:48):
It's about defending the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, back to know what it was developed for and
what this nation stands for and patriotism and protection and
securing our borders and being a strong nation globally.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And yeah, this DEI stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Is not having a secretary defense that goes a wall
on you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
All right, doesn't call anybody. I'm gonna be out sick today. Well, okay,
if you worked at a you know, a golf shop
and you you know you're supposed to open the store
and sell golf shoes and clothing, that's one thing. But
if you if you're the Secretary of Defense and you're
you're not going to be showing up to work, you'd
think you want to call ahead and let some people know.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Or the General Millie that called China, Hey, I'm going
to warn you.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm gonna call you and we're gonna warn you if
if Trump does something, I mean, see you can you
believe this was the top echelon of the Pentagon?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Listen, there are a lot of administration people from the
Bion years and a lot of people still trying to
hang on to the the whole woke policies that administration
and not letting it go. And did you see where
Kamala Harris wants to get together with Hillary Clinton and
talk about what she can do next because she's not
going away.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Overwhelmingly the nation spoke, don't want any more of this.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Look the tell all book of what really went on
who was running this country the past four years. I'm
not talking about Joe Biden, who was really running this country,
is going to sell.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
A lot of books.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, when they have, somebody says, hey, I'm going to
tell you what really was going on behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I think you think you will ever see that?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Oh yeah, somebody's going to make a little money there.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And be a turn cot in the Democratic Party maybe.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
And hey, you know, money talks, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well, let's talk about First of all, we'll get to
Birmingham mayor Wood and upset with Trump's DEI executive orders
here actually calling it the alabamafication of the US government,
like we're the more conservative than the nation is in general,
and we're doing this and the changes are coming to
Washington as if Alabama's in charge of everything.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yay, good, I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
But first, what's going on with our Space Command headquarters.
It's in Colorado Springs now and it was so common
sense that it'll be here, but Biden says, ah, that's
too conservative in Alabama. We're going to liberal Colorado. We're moving.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
If that's all there is to it. Things could be
a change.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
In well, you know, this is our newest armed forces service.
In Congress and Mike Rodgers over in and Andison had
a big part of it. But and obviously Donald Trump
when he was office the first time, and they had
a nationwide search where is going to be the permanent
home of the Space Command US Space Command? And they
looked around the country. They looked at places like Nebraska
and Texas and Florida, and right now it's temporarily in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Springs.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well, they said, Huntsville, Alabama meets every objective requirement infrastructure, education, workforce,
everything they needed. Plus you've got all the defense contractors,
You've got Redstone, Arsenal, you've got NASA.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
It's a no brainer.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
They picked it. And then what happened. Joe Biden is
elected and Yanks it sure well.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I think Senator Tommy Turberville is instrumental in doing this,
and yesterday he said he has discussed the move with
Donald Trump and feels pretty and good about it. You
know that between Alabama and Colorado, this is going to
be settled in our favor well, and.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
It should be because objectively they won. The first time
politics had got involved in Joe Biden punished Alabama and
took it away, and now it needs to go rightfully
where it was objectively picked in Huntsville, Alabama. And this
will be a huge feather of the plume for Alabama.
I have the United States Space Command based in our state.
And look, it doesn't matter if you live in Birmingham
(04:28):
or Mobile or Montgomery. Having it in Huntsville, what that
will mean for the entire state of Alabama will be
a huge deal.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, it was long overdue the changes that were needed
for this country. And this is just one example of
hundreds that Joe Biden took us in the wrong direction,
and now the ship is being righted.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So all right, let's talk very quickly. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
I mean in one hundred days.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
How about the first hundred hours of this guy's quickly
before we move on to what's happening here in our
city with Mayor Randall woodfind and where we are in
the crime situation, his whole opinion as he was on
CNN and saying that the nation is being Alabamafication is
happening right now in the US government with the removing
(05:12):
the DEI policies. Well, the DEI policies, Paul to me,
are a slap in doctor King's face. You remember this
part of his dream speech, right, I.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Have a dream my four little children.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Will one day live in a nation where they will.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Not be judged by the color of their skin, but
by the content of that character.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I have a dream today. That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's it right there, if we're going to get to
that point where we don't judge people by the color
of their skin, as Christ would have us do. In
God's eyes, the color of the skin is all under God.
All of us are under God. It doesn't matter about
color of skin. And to separate it and call one
out versus the other is racist on both sides. So
(06:06):
doctor King's dream is to base people's worth or whatever
on their character and not the color of their skin.
DEI is racist out of the gate in that it
does judge. First, we're gonna check boxes. We're gonna look
at categories like race, gender, identity.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I mean, the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You remember when Cringeon Pierre said right there in the
White House Press Secretary office to the press, we've had
a couple of resignations, and the first place we're going
to look to replace them will be in the LGBTQ community.
Women and color of skin not merit, not qualifications. So
(06:54):
there's a problem with DEI out of the gate. Everybody, Oh,
this is terrible. It's gonna Randall Wood and has come
out and said, you know, this is not good. The
DEI needs to stick around, he says, Listen. The unfortunate
part of this conversation of stripping DEI. You know, Americans
are witnessing the alabamafication of the federal government. We've seen
(07:17):
in Alabama legislations create laws to get rid of DEI,
and the governor citing the law to remove it, you know,
is going in the wrong direction. Why no, this is
completely wrong. It needs to go away. So my thoughts
on that.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
There, My thoughts are in Birmingham. The biggest problem is crime.
That should be the one hundred percent focus is own.
The epidemic, the plague, the record breaking homicides we had
in twenty twenty four in Birmingham, Alabama, ninety.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
One year record. He just beat it for violent crime.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Homicides in this city over one hundred and fifty on
a yearly would be like forty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
We're at one hundred and fifty plus for twenty twenty four,
you know.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And he talked about how he's he hasn't really committed
on whether or not he's going to cooperate with Tom
Holman and people coming in and we've had a raid already here.
That's right, talking about moving a lightning speed. Tom Holman's
not playing we're coming after illegal criminals now. He said
we're a welcoming city. We always have been. He declined
(08:29):
to sign a measure that did declare Birmingham a sanctuary city.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
We know that, but.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I don't see the will from him to fight crime
like it needs to be fought the way police officers
should be allowed to do their job. There's still rains
and bridles on the police department.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And that's why it's going to take the legislature and
two week state leaders to come in and pass legislation
since it's not getting handled at the local level, with
more truth and sentencing, with more multi agent see task
force like they've done in Montgomery, bringing in state working
with local officials. It's going to take because he's just
not getting handled here. It's just not getting handled here,
(09:10):
and so you're going to have to have both either
at the courthouse is not being handled and not enough
police officers. So that should be the one focus, not
talking about the EI.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
A Amen, Amen, and look he's either going to get
on board or the city's going to continue to have
problems and crumble. Okay, we have an example of this
in Chicago. Those residents in Chicago have had enough of
that mayor up there, and he's still not budgeting. He's
doubling down. And look, it's out of control here in
(09:43):
our city. Get it fixed, and it's not going in
the right direction.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
No, no, And that that mayor in Chicago got turned
out for the one before him.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
He learned out.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, mayors in California got turned out because they wouldn't
do anything about crime. People are paying attention when it
comes to public safety because it should be the number
one priority, just like Donald Trump has said national security
is his number one priority, protecting.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The station the nation.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Once it fixed, seventy five percent of America said we
want something different than what we've had for the last
four years.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
On both sides.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Okay, it was an overwhelming statement by the American people
that we need to get back on track. And those
Democrats that want to hold on to the way it
was for the last four years with Biden and where
we are in the nation, I don't think it's going
to end well. They'll be voted out, they'll be moved out,
they'll be railroaded out by the citizens of these cities
that are having to put.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Up with this.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh yeah, and you've already got them push it. But
like I said, is the American public spoke and Donald
Trump is delivering.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. Well, good to see our
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