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Speaker 1 (00:13):
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widow of Patrick Herringer who was stabbed to death in
there over the Rhine apartment in front of her. He
died in her arms, and I just I cannot imagine
the horror of having to live through that. Sarah has
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closer to the goal of getting Patrick Herringer legislation passed.
We'll also get her a thought about what's going on
in downtown Cincinnati. In the meantime, without further ado in studio,
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I'm staring at him former Congressman now private citizen, Brad
winstercome back, my friend. It's always great having you here.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
It's always a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Brian, you lived it you as congressman. You've been through
this before. You remember shutdowns before, don't you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I do, I do all too well.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, got him resolved in the past. This one seems
to be a horse of a different color, because I
think it's just it's insanity. I mean, what is going
on now makes absolutely no sense. And did the extend
anybody who is paying attention to this, I don't. I
mean this the idea of the concept of who's gonna
win the blame game? Right, who's gonna get blamed for
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the shutdown? It seems to be the focus of everything.
Well in this particular case, to the extent you care.
How could the Democrats escape absolute ownership of this shutdown?
The Republicans cleared the deck of any argument that they
might have by passing that clean continued resolution keeping funding
levels under the Biden era funding levels that the Democrats
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fought for. So here, guys, we've got that. Let's keep
the government funded at your level until we get this
situation resolved. The twelve appropriations bills, so they got an
end date of what is it November? Is it twenty
first or something in the legislation. It's it's fast approaching.
So as I read Kimberly Strassel did an analysis of this,
you know, TikTok, TikTok. Are they really going to be
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able to accomplish anything even if they get this clean
cr pass in the Senate, which does not look likely yesterday?
Wouldn't even vote to pay military and f and air
traffic controllers. Just keep them paid while we work out
this mess. No, no, no, And I can read you
what Chuckie Schumer said, because it makes no sense whatsoever.
Chuckie Schumer called giving the the Capitol police and ice
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agents and federal certain congressional employees, the air traffic controllers,
the park rangers, federal law enforcement people that are critical nobs.
Nobody's denying this. People that are still essential workers. They're
working without a paycheck, so let's just give them their paycheck. No,
said Democrats, and Chuckie Schumer quoted as saying, it means
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the bill nothing more than another tool for Trump to
hurt federal workers and American families and to keep this
shutdown going on for as long as he wants. We
will not give Donald Trump a license to play politics
with people's livelihoods. That's why we oppose this. Does that
make any sense to you consider what was proposed? Not
at all.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It's exactly the opposite. He makes two cases and they
contradict each other. He said, this is a tool to
hurt people. It's a tool to pay people. I don't
think anyone ever feels hurt when they get paid, do you, Brian.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
No, absolutely, it's an expectation, honestly right.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And he says this is a tool to hurt the
American people in what way? And that's the other thing.
He makes these comments, and no one says, how is
paying people hurting? And no one asked that more funily,
paying people who are still working.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This isn't somebody who's non essential in sitting at home
contemplating their navel or playing you know, candy Crush or
whatever on their app These are people that are actually
going on and most notably some of the hardest work
that's being done. Ice agents on the front line are
of essentially like in the middle of a combat zone
and they're there and they're not getting paid. Now we
all know that it's just accruing that they will get
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paid once the government opens up if it does, but
how about getting these very very loyal and valuable people
paid right now.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Especially them, because you do have people that are sitting
at home, not by their own desire, but they are.
And what always happens in one of these shutdowns is
you retrospectively, you pay them, and you pay them for
not working for a month or however long it last. Yes,
I went through this in thirteen. You know, I thought
we were on the right side of things. Yeah, shut
down the government. Well you find out pretty quickly how
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even your friends and loyal constituents are upset because if
services they can't get, if they need their passport to
go travel, if they have a problem with Social Security,
the irs, and all these things are shut down, and
you learn you start opening them up. And so this
is what they're trying to do here, right, Let's open
up this. Let's just open this up right now and
pay these people. And he says, no, I don't know.
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This is a bizarre time in American history. And I
hope that enough people understand what is taking place here,
because this is the mentality of like an AOC. You
expect comments like that sure out of AOC because that's
who and what she has been.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And you don't really, at least historically up until recent history,
you wouldn't expect that out of a guy like Chuck.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Schumer, right, But now his back is against the wall,
right because AOC is I'm going to run for Senate.
I'm going to I might run for Senate, and then
he knows this and so he has to out AOC AOC.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So he's capitulated to the far left wing of the party.
If Chucky Schumer will say previously, I guess comparatively to
now a voice of reason, I mean, that's hard to
come out of my mouth. Well, it's called his prior
position within the Democratic Party somewhat reasonable, maybe in the center.
He is now at least acknowledging his capitulation to this
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far left wing. So there is no more practical centrist
right side of the eighty twenty issue Democrats anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
No, it doesn't say betterment, Yeah, exactly, and probably the
last person we thought who would be there, though it's
you know, you just never know what you're going to get, right,
But it's it's very interesting that they're just carrying this
on and the shutdown is the way, and you know,
people have got to understand, especially those that are suffering
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from this, need to say like, why are you doing this?
Not only that you said something when you open this up,
it's the Biden era policies that are still in place,
you know. And Republicans want to go through normal appropriations
process where the government is a function as our founders
had set it up, that we the people are going
to determine what we spend money on, et cetera, et cetera.
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Instead continuing resolution just keeps ongoing what's already in place
without a discussion. Basically, right, you're not going to fix
things that need to be fixed. You're not going to
get rid of things that don't need to be there.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Which is why Massy voted no on it because it
didn't contain cuts. He wanted substantial cuts in the CR,
and the Republicans said, collectively, as a chess game strategy, no, no, no, no,
we're going to keep that. We're not going to give
them any reason to complain. It's their level. I get
the math and the strategy for doing that. I'm obviously
with Massy on wishing that there were some cuts in
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the CR, but we're not getting either.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
So this doesn't mean, well, we all wish there were cuts.
I mean, but we're living with a government today and
in America today where they're a large swath of americaut
really doesn't care that we're going into more debt. I mean,
one of the things I always tried to say when
you look at any bill is will this bill make
Americans more free? And will the next generation say thank you?
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And when you're putting the next generation in further and
further debt, how would they possibly say thank you? And
that's where that's where Thomas is and and I get that,
but strategically, because half of America is that way. If
you want to get anything done and say that you
have a government that can actually function on behalf of
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the American people, you have to keep it open. And
so you think, okay, let's continue these debates. But the
thing is they're arguing about the subsidies for insurance companies
that aren't making anyone else healthier. I mean, that's the thing.
It's just insurance companies while it's getting healthier, And that's
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what they're arguing for that they want to keep those
subsidies going when you know, this is just an entity
that denies and delays your care anyway. It's not like
those subsidies suddenly make America healthier, you know, make America
healthy again, right, healthiest nation on the planet is we
were calling it before Maha came around. You know this
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is this is absurd. And not only that the CR
continues those subsidies for the time being.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
What what are you fighting before? The expiration date is
this year? Based upon the Democrats legislation, they put the
end date for the subsidies this counter year, December. They
own that they can't deny it. They saw this coming
for miles and miles away. They presumed that this current
president would not be president. They presumed that their guy
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or gals the case may be last minute which was
going to take over office, that Democrats would retain control,
and that they would then vote in these subsidies as permanent.
It didn't work out the way they thought it was
going to work out, but they still own the end date.
Let's deliver on it, and.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
They sold it as we need to do this because
of COVID.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
COVID a great point and needed to be made seven
fifteen right now more with citizen private citizen Brad Weinstrip
on more topics. We'll talk to the ceasefire agreement, we'll
talk about the mainstream media, and got a variety of
other things to speak of. Stick around for the full
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station Happy Friday made extra special. Happy Private Citizen Brad Winster,
former Congressman, in studio going through the issues. He's been there,
done that, and speaks from authority and knowledge about the
craziness that's going on real quick here insofar as the shutdown,
who's getting paid who's not getting paid? Question for your congressman,
former Congressman Winstrom, is the CIA getting paid? We don't
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even know how much money they get every year. I
don't if they're carved out. They're so secret. We don't
even know what the American taxpayer spends running that organization.
I bet they're getting paid. I'm just saying that. You
don't have to comment, mister security level clearance guy, if
you can't speak to it.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
But well, I will say that where that is done,
and this is a unique situation for sure as far
as who's getting paid what and what we're spending money on,
and for good reason that is held you know, you
have that is held in the IAA. That's the Intelligence
Authorization Act, which is secret. Well it is, there's covert operations,
there's various things in there and then and usually that
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ends up being very bipartisan, and it's bipartisan. Members of
the Intelligence Committee sure that talk to the other members
of Congress and explain what the spending is.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
In remind every member of Congress and all the elected
officials that yes, the CIA does indeed have a dossier
on each and every one of them, and your damn
well better approve their budget and what they asked for
or they're going to leak the information out of the
general public. I've heard suggestions along those lines before.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Well, there certainly has been some nefarious behavior, especially as
it related to January sixth, and you've seen a lot
of that.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Coming out here Edgar Hoover days.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, the senators being investigated, and you know, I will
say that what has happened is is I hope continues,
at least in my time on Intelligence Committee, which I
was on till I left in January, we're now going
into the intelligence community. I think when I first started
on that committee, you would have briefs and they would
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just come in and tell you stuff. And now it's like, no, no, no,
we're telling you stuff. We want to work with you,
and we want to approve what you're doing, and we
want to know fully what you're doing. And you don't
just get to come in here and say this is
our policy and blah blah blah. No, we have oversight
over you. And it's being much more active than it
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ever was.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Good. It's good that you're certainly the oversight role because
that's what you've been elected to do. This is our money,
it's what we pay for. Are they doing things efficiently?
Are they answering the right questions? Are they hiding or
are they committing to farious acts behind the scenes. I
think we should all be entitled to know that kind
of stuffed Brad.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Well, we started fencing money, Brian, because when they weren't
telling us what we wanted to know. And this has
to do with COVID and for example, the origins of
COVID and the commission that Biden put out. And they
came and said, it's our policy not to tell you
who we talked to, and I said, no, no, no, no,
this is our government. I just want you to know
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you don't get to put a policy in place like that.
And the reaction was the Director of National Intelligence called
me two hours later because I said, by the way,
we created your agency and we fund your agency. So
she called me right away, and I'll never forget when
I got some of the information I wanted. She said,
do I get my ten million now? Because we started
holding money back. Oh so it's not all bad. We're
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sometimes doing some things to improve the situation.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
All right, Well there's my I got my problems with
the CIA out of my system on that one. So
over to where do you want to go on this?
I r s, well, we were going to talk peace fire.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, just you know, and it can blend into a
lot of things.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Donald Trum Abraham Accords. I don't care about the Nobel
Peace Prize, but someone's going to qualify a guy for
the Nobel Peace Prizes. It's negotiating piece with formerly basically
warring Middle East countries and century Israel for centuries. He
was able to successfully bring that about with a handful
of the Arab nations. Wants to extend the Abraham Accords
and negotiat peace with other countries now he's having great
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success doing that. In Lo and Behold, he gets at
least phase one of a negotiated settlement between of all
all people, Hamas and Israel. Everyone should have been celebrating that.
I was very happy about that. I mean, Hamas, as
far as I'm concerned, should be blown off the map
because just for that, the October seventh murderous spree they
went on. They're irredeemable. Fine, but you got to negotiate
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them because they run the territory, they represent the Palestinian
people there just voted office. At some point he's able
to bring about phase one. The world should be rejoicing.
And I know it didn't take completely. There are factions
within the Hamas community apparently who don't want to follow
the lead. But it's a great step in the right direction.
But he's getting no love for that, and he took
the effort, you know. But what happens, what happens within
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the media today is nothing. You know, is one article
said it's crickets from the ceasefire now brigade all the
people screaming for a ceasefire. You know, everybody, both sides
just yelling for ceasefire. More on the Israeli side. But
at the same time it gets done, you get a
cease fire and no one has anything to say. But
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Biden's former secretary of State said, oh, well, this was
set up by what Biden put in place. What did
he put in place? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
He put nothing in place. He got no one back.
You know, Blincoln was abysmal failure with what getting hostages
out or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Nothing, nothing actually happened. Seventh was on I believe Biden's watch,
brad Am, I remembering my history correctly, that's the slaughter
of the Israeli grand grandparents and children and babies. That
was Biden's administration. Yep, setting up that piece deal right there.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
And and what CNN said, Christian, I'm on, poor lord.
She said, well, the hostages were probably being treated better
than the average gossen while they were in captivity.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I mean, you've got to be kidding. We did it survive?
You mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, so how come they didn't all survive if they
were being treated better? I mean, this is just really unbelievable.
But this is what we're dealing with. I mean, Brian,
you have listeners that pay attention, and you have listeners
that you know, are seeking the truth as much as
anything else and not just going to mainstream media nodding
their head and going, I guess that's what it is.
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Or the biggest thing is the absence of information that
the media doesn't put out.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And for example, I wonder how many people actually reported
on the whistleblowers from the IRS that came forward about
Hunter Biden and how he wasn't paying his taxes and
his felonies and they got slammed.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Let's pause from them. We can talk with some of
the details on that as we here. We're at a
break here at seven twenty five more with brad Winstrop
seven twenty five right now fifty five Krcity Talk Station.
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Caar City Talk Station Brian Thomas with citizen brands Winstrip,
former Congressan brad Winstrip security clearance and everything he's seen, it,
been there, done, It knows where the skeletons are buried,
where they're hanging in. Can't tell us a lot of
that stuff because he's a subject to privacy rules or something.
Rad Winstrom just giving you a hard time. You were
talking about the IRS, and when you mentioned it to
me off air earlier in this morning, when you talked
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about the whistleblowers, I immediately gravitated, as old as I
am now to lowesst. Larner's weaponization of the IRS against
conservative organizations. I mean, really brazen, brazen attacks on Republican
conservative organizations. You know, it's just I can't believe that
more people weren't mad about that kind of thing. You
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hit the weaponization of the Justice Department of Eric Holder
going after banks, threatening him with compliance audits that they
didn't quit doing legitimate business with legitimate licensed businesses. Those revelations,
to me spoke volumes about the weaponization of these agencies
against the American people political to achieve political purposes. Now,
if it was the it was some great If Congressman
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Thomas Massey or Senator Ranpaul had organized this on behalf
of libertarian minded folks. So we're sticking in my wheelhouse here,
something I would. You know, the idea that people turn
libertary is great, But if they weaponized any of those
agencies to serve my political ends, I'd be mad as
hell about it, as much as I have about anyone
who was able to weaponize these agencies. It delegitimizes the
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American government, period and that creates a disrupting force in America.
If you don't trust your government, Uh, what are you
fighting for? That's right, and we had that continuation. Though
this issue you're gonna mention with the wistars was post
lawis Lerner This fast forward a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Here, but it tells you how long this type of
attitude has existed. Yes, that you may know in your
mind what's right and wrong, but if you find a
way to justify what you were doing. See, it's sort
of like the communist rule. And that's where I think
the left is going today obviously, but it's like it's
not it's not a lie if it benefits the party, because.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Is okay if it serves our ends.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yes, because it because we know what's best for the country,
and it's not good for the country. If Hunter Biden
is actually committing crimes and it's revealed, because that's really
what happened, and he was committing crimes. I mean, if
you if you think about what was taking place, you know,
and what was later discovered and I was there House Republicans,
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we found Hunter Biden and his associates hauled in twenty
seven million from foreign service foreign sources during and after
Joe Biden's vice presidency, and this money was coming from
individuals and companies in Ukraine, Romania, China, oligarchs, oligarchs. Joe Biden,
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on his way out of the door said, Trump's going
to run the entry by oligarchs. Well, you know what
if he does, at least still be American oligarchs, And
therein lies a huge difference because you know, hopefully we're
seeing our oligarchs working towards the benefit of America and
not for self interest only.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So well, their self interest can work in the benefit
of American people. I point to the data centers. You
get these massive, multi, multi billion billion dollar corporations like
alphabet They need energy and they can afford to buy
their own small modular reactors. They can build them themselves.
They can deliver to the American people. With our elected
officials refuse to give us, which is small footprint, abundant,
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unlimited power to serve our needs and needs of these
big oligarch companies, evil as they may be, They're going
to deliver on that. At some point in my lifetime,
and that's a great thing.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Well, the private sector is going to need to do
more and more, and we can talk.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
On that well, free of the regulatory burden out here
in the private sector, we will.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
But these whistleblowers came forward and they just got beaten
down by media and by the irs itself, I mean
the people that were coming forward. For example, they know
the difference between right and wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Right making a democrat, he kissed all the checkbox for
the woke agenda in his rest exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And he stood there he said, he said, look, I
am a Democrat, I am gay, but there's right and wrong.
And I was doing my job. And the other gentleman
was a Republican and said, we were doing our job.
We were discovering what was taking place. We discovered the felonies,
We discovered the tax vaults of Hunter Biden, his.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Taxes on the millions that he was taken in from
the caligarchs.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
So he wasn't paying these taxes. And they were told
to stand down, and then they came forward as whistleblowers,
and then they're being berated and they were told to
either resign or accept a lesser position, and all of
us going on. They testified in front of our committee,
and it is really amazing. Now they have a settlement,
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and that's why it's in the news, and that's why
I wanted to bring it up today because it's in
the news that they got their settlement and from the
IRS and from the DOJ for illegal retaliation against them
as whistleblowers.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
But they also said there.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Needs to be a requirement this is part of the
settlement for new training for federal prosecutors. That's part of
their settlement. Like you now, we have to teach right
and wrong, and that's part of the settlement. I mean,
it's a good thing. I credit them for doing that.
And what the Trump administration did for them is actually
promoted them within the IRS, because these are the type
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of people you want to have in the IRS, because
right is right and wrong is wrong, and we have
to drum out the lowest learners. And all these other
people that have been in these agencies been there a
long time, Brian. They know that they can wait out
any administration and if they can make things, you know,
water under the bridge, then then so be it. And
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you know, this ties into what Tulsea Gamber did by
the Trump administration taking away the security clearances of the
fifty one people that signed the letter saying that Hunter's
laptop was Russian disinformation. It looks like Russian disinformation, carefully worded, right,
But they never checked. They never went and looked. And
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what we discovered is that they were told, we're doing
this to help Joe Biden in his debate against Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
And after, after, long after the FBI had already determined
that the Hunter Biden laptop was in fact authentic. That
was information known to the FBI when that letter came out.
More with brad Winstrip stick around seven to thirty five
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You're listening to Lee thirty nine here fifty five KRCIT
talk station. Citizen brad Weinstrip congressman in studio going through
all the issues. And I had had to go at
the CIA earlier, sort of the tongue in cheek kind
of go but I figured they were getting paid during
the shutdown regardless, And moving forward, I saw John Brennan.
His name's made it back in the news. It has.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
He's been referred by House Republicans for allegedly lying to
Congress about the Steele dossier. But if you follow the
statements that he made and then what you discover that
the CIA and the FBI did with it. For example,
with the Steele Dossian they put it in their Intelligence
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Community assessment, in spite of high level CIA officials saying, no,
this thing is unverified. There's we got nothing here, and
they knew where it came from. Also, yeah, and you
should not be putting this in the assessment, and but
lo and behold they did. And you know, so he's
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kind of tracked with the things that he has said.
And he said that the CIA was not involved at
all with the Stile Dassie.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You forgot about that pesky paper trail, didn't he? I
guess he did.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And you know, but like you said, the thing has
many flaws. We can't verify it. But you know, the agency,
the agencies are such the authoritarian threat to democracy. That's
that's our problem. You know, no one voted for people
in the agency right at all, and they sit there longer.
That's where we need term limits. By the way, is
you know, people should be there just like the military.
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You serve and when your time comes, you move on.
If you're not promoted to get out. I've said that
many times. But still in all you can see the
power that they wield, and they're doing things for political
purposes because they didn't want Donald Trump. They don't like
Donald Trump, and therefore these actions continue to be taken.
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So now you have you know, Tulsey Gerbert, and she
is leading the charge to look into the weaposition of government.
There's an interagency Weaponization working Group, and they're looking back
at everything and looking at the things that were done,
especially during the last four years under the Biden administration,
and the conduct that took place in there. I mean,
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it's pretty interesting when you start finding things in burn
bags that we're supposed to have been burned and destroyed,
and you're getting a lot of information. Maybe somebody left
a gift, or maybe it's a god thing that wants America,
the American people to have truth in things. But you know, Brian,
there's a big difference between law, fair weaponization, revenge, and
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actual truth and justice, which used to be the American way.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, and no greater illustration of that. We can talk
about the impeachment here has been talking with the allegations
but predicated upon a lie. The Steele dossier, that of
course was whole cloth created by the Democratic Party and
handed over and of course then leaked because it was
in fact attached to that CIA assessment, even though the
agent said it had no basis in truth or fact.
It was attached for the purpose of getting it leaked
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to the press. That's how we all came to realize
it was even a Steele dossier out in the world.
And then it was pedaled as absolute truth. Oh, Donald
Trump's over there urinating off prostitutes or something. Now some
fill in the blank, fec non compliant word made that up.
So we're living under the umbrella of those lies, repeated
over and over again. So and it was first they
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created all of this in an effort to Brendan from
getting elected, and then after being elected, they used all
of this to undermine anything he was trying to do
during his first presidency, so they failed to keep him
out of office, and then continued the lie to subject
him to impeachment hearings. But go over to New York
where he's being prosecuted for overinflating the value of his
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real estate. That to me is number one. I even
talked about that with Eric Trump about his new book,
and I brought it up because I'm so glad you
brought that up. He said, Nobody ever asked me about
that because I know about the litigation. These are sophisticated
parties to the contract. Donald Trump says, I want to
borrow money. The bank one of the biggest banks in
the world. They have their own real estate evaluation team.
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They can know what something is or isn't. They don't
have to take his word for it, and who would.
So they loan in the money. They're paid back interest.
In all, he's one of their best customers. They testified
in court there was no damage. This wasn't even a
justiciable controversy, and yet he ultimately was found guilty. That,
just to me, was the greatest illustration of actual lawfare.
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PDA charges predicated on nothing.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Look, every homeowner knows what an appraiser does. Yeah right,
I mean, this isn't Donald Trump setting a value. There
are appraisers, and banks are going to rely on appraisers.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Banks are going to rely on their own appraisers. That's
what I mean. Yeah, yeah, So, and again they got
the benefit of the contractual bar and willow on the
X at this interest rate. He paid back x with
the interest. Great customers do that. He didn't fall behind,
he didn't breach the contract. It's not it's not an issue.
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It's not a just dishable controversy, and yet he was
found guilty on that. It's just that shows you how
corrupt the court system is in New York as well
as the Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Well, and that's why attorneys are always fighting for the
right venue and hopefully they'll get a fair shake somewhere.
You know, we're kind of, I think overall lucky to
be in the Midwest. I don't know about Hamilton County. Yeah,
well anymore, but I'm glad you qualified that. Yes, the
elections coming up, early voting going on. Make sure you
have selected the appropriate judges, which include Judge Berkowitz.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Stick around. We got one more with Congressman wins or
former Congressman Winzroup. It's seven forty five right now, fifty
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Green for the Cincinnai Police de farment. God bless them
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and all they do for the city. We're gonna catch
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Welcome back, Happy Friday, Good morning, So bad girl this week?
CA are we looking for?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
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Bellomo is wanting for a felony escape and misdemeanor SAT.
On August fourteenth of twenty twenty five, Miss Bellamo normally
walked away from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center Hospital
before being placed back into police custy for her original
charge of fess. Yolanda BelOMO is a female White. She's
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If we know where she might be, Please call.
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We'll be looking for her pictures on my blog page
fifty five KRC dot com. Back to Brad, weinstrap Brad.
What are we going to conclude on? What topics you
want to go over in this final segment here with
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my listeners.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
On this Well, you know, I think there's a lot
of things we can we can talk about things that
I'm still working on, or things with biotech.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I think we're in a we're in a position.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Brian, in a way where we have to advance ourselves.
And it's kind of like pre World War Two if
you think about it. You know, we were kind of
isolationists at that time, and Germany was just going forward
with advanced engineering and all types of things that made
him a dominant force.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
And I think that we're.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
In that kind of a situation with China today, and
so I think we're going to see a lot of
private industry working with government to try and advance as
there's a national National Security Commission on Emerging Biotech, and
you can see what they've done online. There's an unclassified
version and it makes a lot of suggestions, and I
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would recommend all people to be thinking about what it
is out there that we need to go. You were
talking before about energy and AI and things like that.
We have to be forward thinking like this stuff because
it's here to stay and we want to be the
dominant factor.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
We know anything by way that you can measure something
that would be called success or failure. Donald Trump is
bringing in some very successful outcomes, one of which is
you saw the literally billions and billions of dollars of
commitments from a variety of different pharmaceutical companies to build
new facilities, to hire new people, develop drugs here in
the United States, manufacture them here in the United States.
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That is a painful lesson we all woke up to
out of COVID nineteen Jeez Luiz, our entire military, including
the American population or all reliant upon China for pharmaceuticals.
If we got in a fighting war, do you think
they deliver our pharmaceutical request? Well?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
That right, And that's one of the things the tools
they have in their chest is they cut it off?
CEO and Europe said, if they cut us off, our
shelves are empty in two months, right. I mean that's
you know, I asked the question, you know, as a
as a soldier, how did our military let this happen?
That we rely on an enemy? And well, we're addressing
(33:28):
it today. But we've got to make a lot of changes.
And this is the type of stuff that Donald Trump
can orchestrate that we've got to do these types of things,
and here's how we're going to go about doing it.
But it all comes down even to the active pharmaceutical ingredients.
It's not just making them, it's they control what goes
into them. That's the problem. Same with batteries and rare earth.
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And so you're seeing that address more and more, and
this is where the private sector is going to come
into play. But I did like something that was said
in the Wall Street Journal over the week. He said,
if you hate Trump, maybe you just hate the times
we live in. For Trump is the zeitgeist on a
golf cart. And we were talking about that off the air.
(34:10):
He's the person for the time and we are in
a different time.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Ronald Reagan was my favorite and he's a hero. But
this is a different time and Trump is adjusting to
the times that we're living in and where technology is
and where social media is and what needs to be done.
And everyone was concerned about him being an isolationist. Who's
making the peace deals, you know, Gaza, he got a
(34:36):
ceasefire with Iran in Israel.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And well, blowing up cartel boats in the international waters
two thousand miles away is not being isolationist. And I've
got a real problem with that, congressman. I think congress people,
the elected officials, should have some say over who we're
dropping bombs on. That is an act of war. I
don't care that they're evil people being targeted. They're going
to make it to internet. They're going to make it
to US waters at some point. If you can track
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in a submarine and find it in fifteen hundred miles away,
I think you can keep attrack of it until it
gets into US waters. Sorry, man, I just I cannot
abide that.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Well, that's an argument that can be made. But if
you're taking the approach that this is these are terrorists
than they are, I mean you you know, we went
to war for twenty years after nine to eleven, when
three thousand people died sadly, but we've had over one
hundred thousand between eighteen and forty five dying of overdoses
for the last several years. Until the Trump administered a.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Situation over which those individuals had a choice and control.
We had no choice in getting bombed on nine to eleven. Well,
it's got to our hands. If somebody wants to use drugs,
they're the problem. You got me there.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I mean, I agree with you on that, But when
you think you're taking something else.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
That's a different story. You're being duped. You're out buying
drugs on the street, it's going to have fentonyl in it.
We've all learned that by now. Everything on the street,
from cocaine to something you think is an oxyconton tablet,
it's gonna have fentanyl in it. That's a full foretold, forewarned.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
So and that's why there's education hopefully taking place in
high schools, et cetera. Is like, I mean, I'm talking
to my kids and it's like, no, you don't take
anything from anybody else, period, only for mom and dad.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Amen. Sound advice. Then again, you're a parent who cares
about the future of their children, and you are who
you know, make their lives important better. You probably are
raising them with ethics and morals and trying to get
them and guide them to make locals rationals. The world
doesn't hitough pique like families that I grew up in.
That's the biggest link weekly in the chain is the
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really clear family. Man. I hate to end on that point,
but I really had to make it because it's I mean,
you keep going back. People are looking for government solutions
for problems that start literally in the home. And if
that home line structure had changed and people cared more
about their own children, we wouldn't have a nation full
of dependence.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
It's the same with health and everything else. And you've
got to start early. And you know you talk about
you know, DEI, you can't put someone in med school
at twenty two that isn't prepared for it. You got
to you got to start with getting him a good
education in grade school and high school and then college.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Those are the building blocks, the foundation to be a doctor.
You see, now, you just scared the living crap out
of me. Right there a nation full of doctors that
grew up and were educated in a woke DEI environment
filled with great inflation. Oh that's comforting, Brad Weinster. I
hate to leave on that end note, but it's true.
So we'll take better care of yourself. You probably want
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end up in front of a doctor, folks. Sarah Heringer
is going to join me in studio, coming up after
the top of the hour News. I hope you know.
Sarah is a widow. Her husband was killed in there
over the Rhine apartment. He was supposed to have an
ankle monitor on and we've all found out. Yeah, that
ankle monitor program
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We'll also get her a thought about what's going on
in downtown Cincinnati. In the meantime, without further ado in studio,
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I'm staring at him former Congressman now private citizen, Brad
winstercome back, my friend. It's always great having you here.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
It's always a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Brian, you lived it you as congressman. You've been through
this before. You remember shutdowns before, don't you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I do, I do all too well.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, got him resolved in the past. This one seems
to be a horse of a different color, because I
think it's just it's insanity. I mean, what is going
on now makes absolutely no sense. And did the extend
anybody who is paying attention to this, I don't. I
mean this the idea of the concept of who's gonna
win the blame game? Right, who's gonna get blamed for
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the shutdown? It seems to be the focus of everything.
Well in this particular case, to the extent you care.
How could the Democrats escape absolute ownership of this shutdown?
The Republicans cleared the deck of any argument that they
might have by passing that clean continued resolution keeping funding
levels under the Biden era funding levels that the Democrats
(01:55):
fought for. So here, guys, we've got that. Let's keep
the government funded at your level until we get this
situation resolved. The twelve appropriations bills, so they got an
end date of what is it November? Is it twenty
first or something in the legislation. It's it's fast approaching.
So as I read Kimberly Strassel did an analysis of this,
you know, TikTok, TikTok. Are they really going to be
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able to accomplish anything even if they get this clean
cr pass in the Senate, which does not look likely yesterday?
Wouldn't even vote to pay military and f and air
traffic controllers. Just keep them paid while we work out
this mess. No, no, no, And I can read you
what Chuckie Schumer said, because it makes no sense whatsoever.
Chuckie Schumer called giving the the Capitol police and ice
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agents and federal certain congressional employees, the air traffic controllers,
the park rangers, federal law enforcement people that are critical nobs.
Nobody's denying this. People that are still essential workers. They're
working without a paycheck, so let's just give them their paycheck. No,
said Democrats, and Chuckie Schumer quoted as saying, it means
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the bill nothing more than another tool for Trump to
hurt federal workers and American families and to keep this
shutdown going on for as long as he wants. We
will not give Donald Trump a license to play politics
with people's livelihoods. That's why we oppose this. Does that
make any sense to you consider what was proposed? Not
at all.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It's exactly the opposite. He makes two cases and they
contradict each other. He said, this is a tool to
hurt people. It's a tool to pay people. I don't
think anyone ever feels hurt when they get paid, do you, Brian.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
No, absolutely, it's an expectation, honestly right.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And he says this is a tool to hurt the
American people in what way? And that's the other thing.
He makes these comments, and no one says, how is
paying people hurting? And no one asked that more funily,
paying people who are still working.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This isn't somebody who's non essential in sitting at home
contemplating their navel or playing you know, candy Crush or
whatever on their app These are people that are actually
going on and most notably some of the hardest work
that's being done. Ice agents on the front line are
of essentially like in the middle of a combat zone
and they're there and they're not getting paid. Now we
all know that it's just accruing that they will get
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paid once the government opens up if it does, but
how about getting these very very loyal and valuable people
paid right now.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Especially them, because you do have people that are sitting
at home, not by their own desire, but they are.
And what always happens in one of these shutdowns is
you retrospectively, you pay them, and you pay them for
not working for a month or however long it last. Yes,
I went through this in thirteen. You know, I thought
we were on the right side of things. Yeah, shut
down the government. Well you find out pretty quickly how
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even your friends and loyal constituents are upset because if
services they can't get, if they need their passport to
go travel, if they have a problem with Social Security,
the irs, and all these things are shut down, and
you learn you start opening them up. And so this
is what they're trying to do here, right, Let's open
up this. Let's just open this up right now and
pay these people. And he says, no, I don't know.
(05:03):
This is a bizarre time in American history. And I
hope that enough people understand what is taking place here,
because this is the mentality of like an AOC. You
expect comments like that sure out of AOC because that's
who and what she has been.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And you don't really, at least historically up until recent history,
you wouldn't expect that out of a guy like Chuck.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Schumer, right, But now his back is against the wall,
right because AOC is I'm going to run for Senate.
I'm going to I might run for Senate, and then
he knows this and so he has to out AOC AOC.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So he's capitulated to the far left wing of the party.
If Chucky Schumer will say previously, I guess comparatively to
now a voice of reason, I mean, that's hard to
come out of my mouth. Well, it's called his prior
position within the Democratic Party somewhat reasonable, maybe in the center.
He is now at least acknowledging his capitulation to this
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far left wing. So there is no more practical centrist
right side of the eighty twenty issue Democrats anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
No, it doesn't say betterment, Yeah, exactly, and probably the
last person we thought who would be there, though it's
you know, you just never know what you're going to get, right,
But it's it's very interesting that they're just carrying this
on and the shutdown is the way, and you know,
people have got to understand, especially those that are suffering
(06:30):
from this, need to say like, why are you doing this?
Not only that you said something when you open this up,
it's the Biden era policies that are still in place,
you know. And Republicans want to go through normal appropriations
process where the government is a function as our founders
had set it up, that we the people are going
to determine what we spend money on, et cetera, et cetera.
(06:52):
Instead continuing resolution just keeps ongoing what's already in place
without a discussion. Basically, right, you're not going to fix
things that need to be fixed. You're not going to
get rid of things that don't need to be there.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Which is why Massy voted no on it because it
didn't contain cuts. He wanted substantial cuts in the CR,
and the Republicans said, collectively, as a chess game strategy, no, no, no, no,
we're going to keep that. We're not going to give
them any reason to complain. It's their level. I get
the math and the strategy for doing that. I'm obviously
with Massy on wishing that there were some cuts in
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the CR, but we're not getting either.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
So this doesn't mean, well, we all wish there were cuts.
I mean, but we're living with a government today and
in America today where they're a large swath of americaut
really doesn't care that we're going into more debt. I mean,
one of the things I always tried to say when
you look at any bill is will this bill make
Americans more free? And will the next generation say thank you?
(07:48):
And when you're putting the next generation in further and
further debt, how would they possibly say thank you? And
that's where that's where Thomas is and and I get that,
but strategically, because half of America is that way. If
you want to get anything done and say that you
have a government that can actually function on behalf of
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the American people, you have to keep it open. And
so you think, okay, let's continue these debates. But the
thing is they're arguing about the subsidies for insurance companies
that aren't making anyone else healthier. I mean, that's the thing.
It's just insurance companies while it's getting healthier, And that's
(08:28):
what they're arguing for that they want to keep those
subsidies going when you know, this is just an entity
that denies and delays your care anyway. It's not like
those subsidies suddenly make America healthier, you know, make America
healthy again, right, healthiest nation on the planet is we
were calling it before Maha came around. You know this
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is this is absurd. And not only that the CR
continues those subsidies for the time being.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
What what are you fighting before? The expiration date is
this year? Based upon the Democrats legislation, they put the
end date for the subsidies this counter year, December. They
own that they can't deny it. They saw this coming
for miles and miles away. They presumed that this current
president would not be president. They presumed that their guy
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or gals the case may be last minute which was
going to take over office, that Democrats would retain control,
and that they would then vote in these subsidies as permanent.
It didn't work out the way they thought it was
going to work out, but they still own the end date.
Let's deliver on it, and.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
They sold it as we need to do this because
of COVID.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
COVID a great point and needed to be made seven
fifteen right now more with citizen private citizen Brad Weinstrip
on more topics. We'll talk to the ceasefire agreement, we'll
talk about the mainstream media, and got a variety of
other things to speak of. Stick around for the full
hour fifty five krc The Toxication seven, nineteen KRCD talk
(10:00):
station Happy Friday made extra special. Happy Private Citizen Brad Winster,
former Congressman, in studio going through the issues. He's been there,
done that, and speaks from authority and knowledge about the
craziness that's going on real quick here insofar as the shutdown,
who's getting paid who's not getting paid? Question for your congressman,
former Congressman Winstrom, is the CIA getting paid? We don't
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even know how much money they get every year. I
don't if they're carved out. They're so secret. We don't
even know what the American taxpayer spends running that organization.
I bet they're getting paid. I'm just saying that. You
don't have to comment, mister security level clearance guy, if
you can't speak to it.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
But well, I will say that where that is done,
and this is a unique situation for sure as far
as who's getting paid what and what we're spending money on,
and for good reason that is held you know, you
have that is held in the IAA. That's the Intelligence
Authorization Act, which is secret. Well it is, there's covert operations,
there's various things in there and then and usually that
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ends up being very bipartisan, and it's bipartisan. Members of
the Intelligence Committee sure that talk to the other members
of Congress and explain what the spending is.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
In remind every member of Congress and all the elected
officials that yes, the CIA does indeed have a dossier
on each and every one of them, and your damn
well better approve their budget and what they asked for
or they're going to leak the information out of the
general public. I've heard suggestions along those lines before.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Well, there certainly has been some nefarious behavior, especially as
it related to January sixth, and you've seen a lot
of that.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Coming out here Edgar Hoover days.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, the senators being investigated, and you know, I will
say that what has happened is is I hope continues,
at least in my time on Intelligence Committee, which I
was on till I left in January, we're now going
into the intelligence community. I think when I first started
on that committee, you would have briefs and they would
(11:58):
just come in and tell you stuff. And now it's like, no, no, no,
we're telling you stuff. We want to work with you,
and we want to approve what you're doing, and we
want to know fully what you're doing. And you don't
just get to come in here and say this is
our policy and blah blah blah. No, we have oversight
over you. And it's being much more active than it
(12:20):
ever was.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Good. It's good that you're certainly the oversight role because
that's what you've been elected to do. This is our money,
it's what we pay for. Are they doing things efficiently?
Are they answering the right questions? Are they hiding or
are they committing to farious acts behind the scenes. I
think we should all be entitled to know that kind
of stuffed Brad.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Well, we started fencing money, Brian, because when they weren't
telling us what we wanted to know. And this has
to do with COVID and for example, the origins of
COVID and the commission that Biden put out. And they
came and said, it's our policy not to tell you
who we talked to, and I said, no, no, no, no,
this is our government. I just want you to know
(12:57):
you don't get to put a policy in place like that.
And the reaction was the Director of National Intelligence called
me two hours later because I said, by the way,
we created your agency and we fund your agency. So
she called me right away, and I'll never forget when
I got some of the information I wanted. She said,
do I get my ten million now? Because we started
holding money back. Oh so it's not all bad. We're
(13:21):
sometimes doing some things to improve the situation.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
All right, Well there's my I got my problems with
the CIA out of my system on that one. So
over to where do you want to go on this?
I r s, well, we were going to talk peace fire.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, just you know, and it can blend into a
lot of things.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Donald Trum Abraham Accords. I don't care about the Nobel
Peace Prize, but someone's going to qualify a guy for
the Nobel Peace Prizes. It's negotiating piece with formerly basically
warring Middle East countries and century Israel for centuries. He
was able to successfully bring that about with a handful
of the Arab nations. Wants to extend the Abraham Accords
and negotiat peace with other countries now he's having great
(14:02):
success doing that. In Lo and Behold, he gets at
least phase one of a negotiated settlement between of all
all people, Hamas and Israel. Everyone should have been celebrating that.
I was very happy about that. I mean, Hamas, as
far as I'm concerned, should be blown off the map
because just for that, the October seventh murderous spree they
went on. They're irredeemable. Fine, but you got to negotiate
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them because they run the territory, they represent the Palestinian
people there just voted office. At some point he's able
to bring about phase one. The world should be rejoicing.
And I know it didn't take completely. There are factions
within the Hamas community apparently who don't want to follow
the lead. But it's a great step in the right direction.
But he's getting no love for that, and he took
the effort, you know. But what happens, what happens within
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the media today is nothing. You know, is one article
said it's crickets from the ceasefire now brigade all the
people screaming for a ceasefire. You know, everybody, both sides
just yelling for ceasefire. More on the Israeli side. But
at the same time it gets done, you get a
cease fire and no one has anything to say. But
(15:08):
Biden's former secretary of State said, oh, well, this was
set up by what Biden put in place. What did
he put in place? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
He put nothing in place. He got no one back.
You know, Blincoln was abysmal failure with what getting hostages
out or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Nothing, nothing actually happened. Seventh was on I believe Biden's watch,
brad Am, I remembering my history correctly, that's the slaughter
of the Israeli grand grandparents and children and babies. That
was Biden's administration. Yep, setting up that piece deal right there.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
And and what CNN said, Christian, I'm on, poor lord.
She said, well, the hostages were probably being treated better
than the average gossen while they were in captivity.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I mean, you've got to be kidding. We did it survive?
You mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, so how come they didn't all survive if they
were being treated better? I mean, this is just really unbelievable.
But this is what we're dealing with. I mean, Brian,
you have listeners that pay attention, and you have listeners
that you know, are seeking the truth as much as
anything else and not just going to mainstream media nodding
their head and going, I guess that's what it is.
(16:23):
Or the biggest thing is the absence of information that
the media doesn't put out.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And for example, I wonder how many people actually reported
on the whistleblowers from the IRS that came forward about
Hunter Biden and how he wasn't paying his taxes and
his felonies and they got slammed.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Let's pause from them. We can talk with some of
the details on that as we here. We're at a
break here at seven twenty five more with brad Winstrop
seven twenty five right now fifty five Krcity Talk Station.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
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Speaker 1 (17:00):
Caar City Talk Station Brian Thomas with citizen brands Winstrip,
former Congressan brad Winstrip security clearance and everything he's seen, it,
been there, done, It knows where the skeletons are buried,
where they're hanging in. Can't tell us a lot of
that stuff because he's a subject to privacy rules or something.
Rad Winstrom just giving you a hard time. You were
talking about the IRS, and when you mentioned it to
me off air earlier in this morning, when you talked
(17:22):
about the whistleblowers, I immediately gravitated, as old as I
am now to lowesst. Larner's weaponization of the IRS against
conservative organizations. I mean, really brazen, brazen attacks on Republican
conservative organizations. You know, it's just I can't believe that
more people weren't mad about that kind of thing. You
(17:43):
hit the weaponization of the Justice Department of Eric Holder
going after banks, threatening him with compliance audits that they
didn't quit doing legitimate business with legitimate licensed businesses. Those revelations,
to me spoke volumes about the weaponization of these agencies
against the American people political to achieve political purposes. Now,
if it was the it was some great If Congressman
(18:07):
Thomas Massey or Senator Ranpaul had organized this on behalf
of libertarian minded folks. So we're sticking in my wheelhouse here,
something I would. You know, the idea that people turn
libertary is great, But if they weaponized any of those
agencies to serve my political ends, I'd be mad as
hell about it, as much as I have about anyone
who was able to weaponize these agencies. It delegitimizes the
(18:29):
American government, period and that creates a disrupting force in America.
If you don't trust your government, Uh, what are you
fighting for? That's right, and we had that continuation. Though
this issue you're gonna mention with the wistars was post
lawis Lerner This fast forward a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Here, but it tells you how long this type of
attitude has existed. Yes, that you may know in your
mind what's right and wrong, but if you find a
way to justify what you were doing. See, it's sort
of like the communist rule. And that's where I think
the left is going today obviously, but it's like it's
not it's not a lie if it benefits the party, because.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Is okay if it serves our ends.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yes, because it because we know what's best for the country,
and it's not good for the country. If Hunter Biden
is actually committing crimes and it's revealed, because that's really
what happened, and he was committing crimes. I mean, if
you if you think about what was taking place, you know,
and what was later discovered and I was there House Republicans,
(19:37):
we found Hunter Biden and his associates hauled in twenty
seven million from foreign service foreign sources during and after
Joe Biden's vice presidency, and this money was coming from
individuals and companies in Ukraine, Romania, China, oligarchs, oligarchs. Joe Biden,
(19:57):
on his way out of the door said, Trump's going
to run the entry by oligarchs. Well, you know what
if he does, at least still be American oligarchs, And
therein lies a huge difference because you know, hopefully we're
seeing our oligarchs working towards the benefit of America and
not for self interest only.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So well, their self interest can work in the benefit
of American people. I point to the data centers. You
get these massive, multi, multi billion billion dollar corporations like
alphabet They need energy and they can afford to buy
their own small modular reactors. They can build them themselves.
They can deliver to the American people. With our elected
officials refuse to give us, which is small footprint, abundant,
(20:40):
unlimited power to serve our needs and needs of these
big oligarch companies, evil as they may be, They're going
to deliver on that. At some point in my lifetime,
and that's a great thing.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Well, the private sector is going to need to do
more and more, and we can talk.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
On that well, free of the regulatory burden out here
in the private sector, we will.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
But these whistleblowers came forward and they just got beaten
down by media and by the irs itself, I mean
the people that were coming forward. For example, they know
the difference between right and wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Right making a democrat, he kissed all the checkbox for
the woke agenda in his rest exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And he stood there he said, he said, look, I
am a Democrat, I am gay, but there's right and wrong.
And I was doing my job. And the other gentleman
was a Republican and said, we were doing our job.
We were discovering what was taking place. We discovered the felonies,
We discovered the tax vaults of Hunter Biden, his.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Taxes on the millions that he was taken in from
the caligarchs.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
So he wasn't paying these taxes. And they were told
to stand down, and then they came forward as whistleblowers,
and then they're being berated and they were told to
either resign or accept a lesser position, and all of
us going on. They testified in front of our committee,
and it is really amazing. Now they have a settlement,
(22:06):
and that's why it's in the news, and that's why
I wanted to bring it up today because it's in
the news that they got their settlement and from the
IRS and from the DOJ for illegal retaliation against them
as whistleblowers.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
But they also said there.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Needs to be a requirement this is part of the
settlement for new training for federal prosecutors. That's part of
their settlement. Like you now, we have to teach right
and wrong, and that's part of the settlement. I mean,
it's a good thing. I credit them for doing that.
And what the Trump administration did for them is actually
promoted them within the IRS, because these are the type
(22:45):
of people you want to have in the IRS, because
right is right and wrong is wrong, and we have
to drum out the lowest learners. And all these other
people that have been in these agencies been there a
long time, Brian. They know that they can wait out
any administration and if they can make things, you know,
water under the bridge, then then so be it. And
(23:07):
you know, this ties into what Tulsea Gamber did by
the Trump administration taking away the security clearances of the
fifty one people that signed the letter saying that Hunter's
laptop was Russian disinformation. It looks like Russian disinformation, carefully worded, right,
But they never checked. They never went and looked. And
(23:29):
what we discovered is that they were told, we're doing
this to help Joe Biden in his debate against Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
And after, after, long after the FBI had already determined
that the Hunter Biden laptop was in fact authentic. That
was information known to the FBI when that letter came out.
More with brad Winstrip stick around seven to thirty five
right now here fifty five KRCIT.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Talk station, fifty five KARC.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
You're listening to Lee thirty nine here fifty five KRCIT
talk station. Citizen brad Weinstrip congressman in studio going through
all the issues. And I had had to go at
the CIA earlier, sort of the tongue in cheek kind
of go but I figured they were getting paid during
the shutdown regardless, And moving forward, I saw John Brennan.
His name's made it back in the news. It has.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
He's been referred by House Republicans for allegedly lying to
Congress about the Steele dossier. But if you follow the
statements that he made and then what you discover that
the CIA and the FBI did with it. For example,
with the Steele Dossian they put it in their Intelligence
(24:38):
Community assessment, in spite of high level CIA officials saying, no,
this thing is unverified. There's we got nothing here, and
they knew where it came from. Also, yeah, and you
should not be putting this in the assessment, and but
lo and behold they did. And you know, so he's
(24:59):
kind of tracked with the things that he has said.
And he said that the CIA was not involved at
all with the Stile Dassie.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You forgot about that pesky paper trail, didn't he? I
guess he did.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And you know, but like you said, the thing has
many flaws. We can't verify it. But you know, the agency,
the agencies are such the authoritarian threat to democracy. That's
that's our problem. You know, no one voted for people
in the agency right at all, and they sit there longer.
That's where we need term limits. By the way, is
you know, people should be there just like the military.
(25:34):
You serve and when your time comes, you move on.
If you're not promoted to get out. I've said that
many times. But still in all you can see the
power that they wield, and they're doing things for political
purposes because they didn't want Donald Trump. They don't like
Donald Trump, and therefore these actions continue to be taken.
(25:55):
So now you have you know, Tulsey Gerbert, and she
is leading the charge to look into the weaposition of government.
There's an interagency Weaponization working Group, and they're looking back
at everything and looking at the things that were done,
especially during the last four years under the Biden administration,
and the conduct that took place in there. I mean,
(26:18):
it's pretty interesting when you start finding things in burn
bags that we're supposed to have been burned and destroyed,
and you're getting a lot of information. Maybe somebody left
a gift, or maybe it's a god thing that wants America,
the American people to have truth in things. But you know, Brian,
there's a big difference between law, fair weaponization, revenge, and
(26:42):
actual truth and justice, which used to be the American way.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, and no greater illustration of that. We can talk
about the impeachment here has been talking with the allegations
but predicated upon a lie. The Steele dossier, that of
course was whole cloth created by the Democratic Party and
handed over and of course then leaked because it was
in fact attached to that CIA assessment, even though the
agent said it had no basis in truth or fact.
It was attached for the purpose of getting it leaked
(27:07):
to the press. That's how we all came to realize
it was even a Steele dossier out in the world.
And then it was pedaled as absolute truth. Oh, Donald
Trump's over there urinating off prostitutes or something. Now some
fill in the blank, fec non compliant word made that up.
So we're living under the umbrella of those lies, repeated
over and over again. So and it was first they
(27:31):
created all of this in an effort to Brendan from
getting elected, and then after being elected, they used all
of this to undermine anything he was trying to do
during his first presidency, so they failed to keep him
out of office, and then continued the lie to subject
him to impeachment hearings. But go over to New York
where he's being prosecuted for overinflating the value of his
(27:53):
real estate. That to me is number one. I even
talked about that with Eric Trump about his new book,
and I brought it up because I'm so glad you
brought that up. He said, Nobody ever asked me about
that because I know about the litigation. These are sophisticated
parties to the contract. Donald Trump says, I want to
borrow money. The bank one of the biggest banks in
the world. They have their own real estate evaluation team.
(28:15):
They can know what something is or isn't. They don't
have to take his word for it, and who would.
So they loan in the money. They're paid back interest.
In all, he's one of their best customers. They testified
in court there was no damage. This wasn't even a
justiciable controversy, and yet he ultimately was found guilty. That,
just to me, was the greatest illustration of actual lawfare.
(28:38):
PDA charges predicated on nothing.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Look, every homeowner knows what an appraiser does. Yeah right,
I mean, this isn't Donald Trump setting a value. There
are appraisers, and banks are going to rely on appraisers.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Banks are going to rely on their own appraisers. That's
what I mean. Yeah, yeah, So, and again they got
the benefit of the contractual bar and willow on the
X at this interest rate. He paid back x with
the interest. Great customers do that. He didn't fall behind,
he didn't breach the contract. It's not it's not an issue.
(29:13):
It's not a just dishable controversy, and yet he was
found guilty on that. It's just that shows you how
corrupt the court system is in New York as well
as the Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Well, and that's why attorneys are always fighting for the
right venue and hopefully they'll get a fair shake somewhere.
You know, we're kind of, I think overall lucky to
be in the Midwest. I don't know about Hamilton County. Yeah,
well anymore, but I'm glad you qualified that. Yes, the
elections coming up, early voting going on. Make sure you
have selected the appropriate judges, which include Judge Berkowitz.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Stick around. We got one more with Congressman wins or
former Congressman Winzroup. It's seven forty five right now, fifty
five kerrs the talk station, fifty five KRC. Ready to
get your carpets pears the talk station Friday And before
we get back to add one strip in the studio
from a congressman. We're going to talk to Officer Tivity
Green for the Cincinnai Police de farment. God bless them
(30:05):
and all they do for the city. We're gonna catch
ourselves a bad guy, actually bad girl the week, Tiffany Green,
Welcome back, Happy Friday, Good morning, So bad girl this week?
CA are we looking for?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
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Bellomo is wanting for a felony escape and misdemeanor SAT.
On August fourteenth of twenty twenty five, Miss Bellamo normally
walked away from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center Hospital
before being placed back into police custy for her original
charge of fess. Yolanda BelOMO is a female White. She's
(30:40):
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We'll be looking for her pictures on my blog page
fifty five KRC dot com. Back to Brad, weinstrap Brad.
What are we going to conclude on? What topics you
want to go over in this final segment here with
(31:26):
my listeners.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
On this Well, you know, I think there's a lot
of things we can we can talk about things that
I'm still working on, or things with biotech.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I think we're in a we're in a position.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Brian, in a way where we have to advance ourselves.
And it's kind of like pre World War Two if
you think about it. You know, we were kind of
isolationists at that time, and Germany was just going forward
with advanced engineering and all types of things that made
him a dominant force.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
And I think that we're.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
In that kind of a situation with China today, and
so I think we're going to see a lot of
private industry working with government to try and advance as
there's a national National Security Commission on Emerging Biotech, and
you can see what they've done online. There's an unclassified
version and it makes a lot of suggestions, and I
(32:19):
would recommend all people to be thinking about what it
is out there that we need to go. You were
talking before about energy and AI and things like that.
We have to be forward thinking like this stuff because
it's here to stay and we want to be the
dominant factor.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
We know anything by way that you can measure something
that would be called success or failure. Donald Trump is
bringing in some very successful outcomes, one of which is
you saw the literally billions and billions of dollars of
commitments from a variety of different pharmaceutical companies to build
new facilities, to hire new people, develop drugs here in
the United States, manufacture them here in the United States.
(32:54):
That is a painful lesson we all woke up to
out of COVID nineteen Jeez Luiz, our entire military, including
the American population or all reliant upon China for pharmaceuticals.
If we got in a fighting war, do you think
they deliver our pharmaceutical request? Well?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
That right, And that's one of the things the tools
they have in their chest is they cut it off?
CEO and Europe said, if they cut us off, our
shelves are empty in two months, right. I mean that's
you know, I asked the question, you know, as a
as a soldier, how did our military let this happen?
That we rely on an enemy? And well, we're addressing
(33:28):
it today. But we've got to make a lot of changes.
And this is the type of stuff that Donald Trump
can orchestrate that we've got to do these types of things,
and here's how we're going to go about doing it.
But it all comes down even to the active pharmaceutical ingredients.
It's not just making them, it's they control what goes
into them. That's the problem. Same with batteries and rare earth.
(33:49):
And so you're seeing that address more and more, and
this is where the private sector is going to come
into play. But I did like something that was said
in the Wall Street Journal over the week. He said,
if you hate Trump, maybe you just hate the times
we live in. For Trump is the zeitgeist on a
golf cart. And we were talking about that off the air.
(34:10):
He's the person for the time and we are in
a different time.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Ronald Reagan was my favorite and he's a hero. But
this is a different time and Trump is adjusting to
the times that we're living in and where technology is
and where social media is and what needs to be done.
And everyone was concerned about him being an isolationist. Who's
making the peace deals, you know, Gaza, he got a
(34:36):
ceasefire with Iran in Israel.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And well, blowing up cartel boats in the international waters
two thousand miles away is not being isolationist. And I've
got a real problem with that, congressman. I think congress people,
the elected officials, should have some say over who we're
dropping bombs on. That is an act of war. I
don't care that they're evil people being targeted. They're going
to make it to internet. They're going to make it
to US waters at some point. If you can track
(35:00):
in a submarine and find it in fifteen hundred miles away,
I think you can keep attrack of it until it
gets into US waters. Sorry, man, I just I cannot
abide that.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Well, that's an argument that can be made. But if
you're taking the approach that this is these are terrorists
than they are, I mean you you know, we went
to war for twenty years after nine to eleven, when
three thousand people died sadly, but we've had over one
hundred thousand between eighteen and forty five dying of overdoses
for the last several years. Until the Trump administered a.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Situation over which those individuals had a choice and control.
We had no choice in getting bombed on nine to eleven. Well,
it's got to our hands. If somebody wants to use drugs,
they're the problem. You got me there.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I mean, I agree with you on that, But when
you think you're taking something else.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
That's a different story. You're being duped. You're out buying
drugs on the street, it's going to have fentonyl in it.
We've all learned that by now. Everything on the street,
from cocaine to something you think is an oxyconton tablet,
it's gonna have fentanyl in it. That's a full foretold, forewarned.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
So and that's why there's education hopefully taking place in
high schools, et cetera. Is like, I mean, I'm talking
to my kids and it's like, no, you don't take
anything from anybody else, period, only for mom and dad.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Amen. Sound advice. Then again, you're a parent who cares
about the future of their children, and you are who
you know, make their lives important better. You probably are
raising them with ethics and morals and trying to get
them and guide them to make locals rationals. The world
doesn't hitough pique like families that I grew up in.
That's the biggest link weekly in the chain is the
(36:41):
really clear family. Man. I hate to end on that point,
but I really had to make it because it's I mean,
you keep going back. People are looking for government solutions
for problems that start literally in the home. And if
that home line structure had changed and people cared more
about their own children, we wouldn't have a nation full
of dependence.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
It's the same with health and everything else. And you've
got to start early. And you know you talk about
you know, DEI, you can't put someone in med school
at twenty two that isn't prepared for it. You got
to you got to start with getting him a good
education in grade school and high school and then college.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Those are the building blocks, the foundation to be a doctor.
You see, now, you just scared the living crap out
of me. Right there a nation full of doctors that
grew up and were educated in a woke DEI environment
filled with great inflation. Oh that's comforting, Brad Weinster. I
hate to leave on that end note, but it's true.
So we'll take better care of yourself. You probably want
(37:37):
end up in front of a doctor, folks. Sarah Heringer
is going to join me in studio, coming up after
the top of the hour News. I hope you know.
Sarah is a widow. Her husband was killed in there
over the Rhine apartment. He was supposed to have an
ankle monitor on and we've all found out. Yeah, that
ankle monitor program
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