April 9, 2025 • 9 mins
Mike discusses an incident involving a bomb threat=, and the principal's hostile tone toward police. Plus, U.S. trade representative testifies on "President Trump's 2025 Agenda" Tariffs were a big topic
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line. Ryan Schmells,
Fox News on Capitol Hill. There were some hearings yesterday
and shockingly the topic was tariffs. Ryan, and there was
a US Trade representative, Jameison Greer testifying yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
What were his words, Well.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
His words were that the uh he's focused on Main
Street and not Wall Street. You know, the the the
pointed out some of the different trade deficits of the
United States is facing, especially when it comes to agricultural tariffs.
But you know, I think there were a number of
Republicans who just are are becoming a little more hesitant
to be, you know, fully on board with the administration
when it comes to this tariff policy because you know,
(00:39):
their states are are dealing with the brunt of this,
and I think that there's feel that maybe there is
a lack of plan in the long term to truly
uh rain this in and get to better trade deals.
And you know, I think maybe like the acknology someone
gave me is you know, it's kind of like when
your team is up by uh for you know, in
the fourth quarter of an NFL game, there's two minutes
(01:00):
left on the clock. The other teams in the in
the red zone and you let them score so that
you can have the ball last to drive down the field.
It's kind of like that analogy where it's kind of like, Okay,
well if that's your strategy, you better score on the
next play.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, So what what's is?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
There?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Are there more discussions today? What's next? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
They have another hearing today, but on the House side too,
and you know the House likes to get a little
rowdy at times compared to the Senate, So we will
see how this goes.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
All right, Ryan, thanks for that update. Appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And you know that the whole analogy of Wall Street
versus Main Street is important because you know, a lot
of folks just aren't invested in the stock market. You know,
they hear us talk about the futures, and they hear
the markets up and down and this and that, and
it doesn't really affect them because they're just these are
everyday guys and gals who are more concerned about the
price of stuff at storage.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
As I was just talking about about ten minutes ago.
It's not so much.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I mean maybe in your four O one K or
your IRA, but after that, that's all people really have.
It's mainly about what the price of groceries are. You know,
I would like to buy a new, big TV for
the living room. I really would. It's it's going on
five or six years old. It's starting to look it's
starting to look at it's starting to get a little
fuzzy for me. Maybe it's my eyes. But you know,
(02:16):
the TV upstairs is newer and much nicer. But do
I really want to go to best Buy or Costco
and spend one thousand dollars on a new nice TV.
I do not right now, I really don't. I'm going
to wait. I'm going to delay. I'm going to delay
my gratification and see what happens. And that's again the power.
(02:37):
We have the power the consumer, you know, So either
you can control the tariffs by what you buy, or
you can let the tariffs control you.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Is how I view it.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
At seven forty two, now this story is to me,
it's really interesting. It's the situation with this middle school teacher,
middle school principal rather which makes it even more egregious,
Ridgeview Middle School. This happened last month March seventeenth, Saint
Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I believe that was a Monday.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
There was a bomb threat that was called into Ridgeview
Middle School. So they followed protocol. They call Columbus City Police.
Police show up to investigate that threat, which, by the way,
the threat was nothing. There was no credible problem there. Thankfully,
Columbus Police had their body cameras rolling. They roll up
(03:29):
to the school and they were met with immediate resistance
from the school secretary. School secretary goes into a radio saying,
those this is a quote from the body cam. Those
guests you are expecting have arrived. Those guests you are
expecting have arrived. That sounds a little odd when the
(03:52):
police are here to investigate a bomb threat, you're going
to call them guests. So then the secretary says, you
have to wait until they come get you. You need
to wait for our security team to escort you back.
The officer, who I give a ton of credit to,
Keith Connor, remained incredibly calm and cool the whole this
whole time. He's like, I'm actually the police. I'm here
(04:13):
on official police business. I have authority over your safety
administrator here on campus. And the secretary replies, well, you
don't have authority over my principal. Again, I don't think
that's the way it's supposed to go. But so they
kind of go back and forth for a few minutes. Finally,
(04:36):
finally the principal, Natalie James, comes out and is immediately.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Defiant with the officers. Again, this is all on body cam.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It's all been recorded, and you know, the cop, Keith
Connor's going, look, I'm not here for my health, I'm
out here for party time.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You called us. That is incredibly important. By the way,
the school called the.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Cops, and both the school secretary and the school principal
were just jerks and defiant and disrespectful to someone that
they should be welcoming because they are here to help.
So here's what we have. Two quick clips of Natalie James.
She is the Ridgeview Middle School principal. Here's cut one.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I followed district protocol and our reasonable is to be honest.
I do not feel comfortable even interacting with you right now.
My reason why I came out because there was something
going on in the office.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
The only reason I came out is because there's something
going on in the office. Well, no, you called the cops.
They're here now. They'd like to talk to you about
what happened in the school. All right, and she followed
district protocol. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, you got a
bomb threat, you follow a protocol, but then let the
cops back to your office to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
All right. Then here she is again, I personally.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Do not feel comfortable even speaking with you, to be
quite honest, because of the way that because I believe
that you do not even have my safety in.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Mod I don't believe you have my safety in mind.
I would suggest to Natalie James, principal at Ridgeview Middle School,
that is literally, quite literally, the police officer's job. Your
safety is his job. What grounds would she make that
statement other than she has a predetermined.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Concept of the police.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
She is not a fan of the police, and you
can tell and credit to Chuck Douglass, host of The
Power Hour at six o'clock. He had Brian Steele on
the head of the FOP. They did some research and
it turns out shockingly that Natalie James has a police record.
She's had a couple of confrontations with Columbus police in
(06:55):
the past, so it's quite obvious that she has it
out for the cops.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
The odd thing about when you hear the audio is
that It almost makes it sound like she didn't call them,
you know what I mean, Like she's like, what are
you guys doing here?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And that's I came out because there was a scuffle
in the office.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, and then I don't feel comfortable because I don't
think you have my safety mind. But you guys, you
called someone.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Maybe it wasn't her necessarily, but someone at her direction
called the cops.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I mean, you got a bomb threat. So what do
you do?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You go to the top person in the school, right,
which is the principle, and said, what should we do?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Boss? Somebody called the cops.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Well, the cops do what they do, and they showed
up and they're trying to help fix the problem. And
she's a jerk. I wish I could use a stronger
term than a jerk on the radio, but I can't.
And the thing that bothers me is Natalie James is
a principle of a middle school. These are eleven, twelve,
and thirteen year old kids. I've got an almost thirteen
year old kid. I know what they're paying attention to now,
(07:52):
and these kids are starting to become aware of the world.
These aren't fourth graders, right, They are being now taught
by this administrator, Natalie James Ridgeview Middle School principle to
have great sustain for the police. This is how this happens.
This isn't just teaching math and reading and social studies.
You're learning about life at that age. And they're seeing
(08:14):
how this woman acts towards the police. And this is
why there's a mistrust with youth and the police. It's
because jerk adults are treating them like this.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Well, what I'm hoping is and I'm hoping because there
was a bomb threat called in that hopefully the kids
were evacuated and didn't see that and don't watch the news,
you know what I mean. Like, you know, you can
hope for the best case here. I see where're getting at.
I just I'm hoping that that is the best case.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Of it came out right, But we don't know what's
happening in the classroom when there's not body cameras rolling.
It was my point that this woman clearly has great
sustain for authority for whatever reason. Yeah, and who knows
what the kids are being taught off the record. Nobody
has any accountability for That's what's bothersome. Yeah, you know,
(09:04):
and again the police officer Connor was a rock star
in this situation. He's like, you called me, this is
my job. You know, I'm not gonna beg you. Like,
I'm here to help if there's a bomb on the school,
I'm here to be the.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Guy to help. Yeah, that's why we're here.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's unbelievable. So Dave Yos got a hold of this.
He's all over it. It's been put in front of
about forty two thousand different people and everyone's going to
weigh in, and it should be a really simple decision.
If I'm in, if I'm involved in this conversation. She
is out of a job by the end of the
school day today
The Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line. Ryan Schmells,
Fox News on Capitol Hill. There were some hearings yesterday
and shockingly the topic was tariffs. Ryan, and there was
a US Trade representative, Jameison Greer testifying yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
What were his words, Well.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
His words were that the uh he's focused on Main
Street and not Wall Street. You know, the the the
pointed out some of the different trade deficits of the
United States is facing, especially when it comes to agricultural tariffs.
But you know, I think there were a number of
Republicans who just are are becoming a little more hesitant
to be, you know, fully on board with the administration
when it comes to this tariff policy because you know,
(00:39):
their states are are dealing with the brunt of this,
and I think that there's feel that maybe there is
a lack of plan in the long term to truly
uh rain this in and get to better trade deals.
And you know, I think maybe like the acknology someone
gave me is you know, it's kind of like when
your team is up by uh for you know, in
the fourth quarter of an NFL game, there's two minutes
(01:00):
left on the clock. The other teams in the in
the red zone and you let them score so that
you can have the ball last to drive down the field.
It's kind of like that analogy where it's kind of like, Okay,
well if that's your strategy, you better score on the
next play.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, So what what's is?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
There?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Are there more discussions today? What's next? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
They have another hearing today, but on the House side too,
and you know the House likes to get a little
rowdy at times compared to the Senate, So we will
see how this goes.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
All right, Ryan, thanks for that update. Appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And you know that the whole analogy of Wall Street
versus Main Street is important because you know, a lot
of folks just aren't invested in the stock market. You know,
they hear us talk about the futures, and they hear
the markets up and down and this and that, and
it doesn't really affect them because they're just these are
everyday guys and gals who are more concerned about the
price of stuff at storage.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
As I was just talking about about ten minutes ago.
It's not so much.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I mean maybe in your four O one K or
your IRA, but after that, that's all people really have.
It's mainly about what the price of groceries are. You know,
I would like to buy a new, big TV for
the living room. I really would. It's it's going on
five or six years old. It's starting to look it's
starting to look at it's starting to get a little
fuzzy for me. Maybe it's my eyes. But you know,
(02:16):
the TV upstairs is newer and much nicer. But do
I really want to go to best Buy or Costco
and spend one thousand dollars on a new nice TV.
I do not right now, I really don't. I'm going
to wait. I'm going to delay. I'm going to delay
my gratification and see what happens. And that's again the power.
(02:37):
We have the power the consumer, you know, So either
you can control the tariffs by what you buy, or
you can let the tariffs control you.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Is how I view it.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
At seven forty two, now this story is to me,
it's really interesting. It's the situation with this middle school teacher,
middle school principal rather which makes it even more egregious,
Ridgeview Middle School. This happened last month March seventeenth, Saint
Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I believe that was a Monday.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
There was a bomb threat that was called into Ridgeview
Middle School. So they followed protocol. They call Columbus City Police.
Police show up to investigate that threat, which, by the way,
the threat was nothing. There was no credible problem there. Thankfully,
Columbus Police had their body cameras rolling. They roll up
(03:29):
to the school and they were met with immediate resistance
from the school secretary. School secretary goes into a radio saying,
those this is a quote from the body cam. Those
guests you are expecting have arrived. Those guests you are
expecting have arrived. That sounds a little odd when the
(03:52):
police are here to investigate a bomb threat, you're going
to call them guests. So then the secretary says, you
have to wait until they come get you. You need
to wait for our security team to escort you back.
The officer, who I give a ton of credit to,
Keith Connor, remained incredibly calm and cool the whole this
whole time. He's like, I'm actually the police. I'm here
(04:13):
on official police business. I have authority over your safety
administrator here on campus. And the secretary replies, well, you
don't have authority over my principal. Again, I don't think
that's the way it's supposed to go. But so they
kind of go back and forth for a few minutes. Finally,
(04:36):
finally the principal, Natalie James, comes out and is immediately.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Defiant with the officers. Again, this is all on body cam.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It's all been recorded, and you know, the cop, Keith
Connor's going, look, I'm not here for my health, I'm
out here for party time.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You called us. That is incredibly important. By the way,
the school called the.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Cops, and both the school secretary and the school principal
were just jerks and defiant and disrespectful to someone that
they should be welcoming because they are here to help.
So here's what we have. Two quick clips of Natalie James.
She is the Ridgeview Middle School principal. Here's cut one.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I followed district protocol and our reasonable is to be honest.
I do not feel comfortable even interacting with you right now.
My reason why I came out because there was something
going on in the office.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
The only reason I came out is because there's something
going on in the office. Well, no, you called the cops.
They're here now. They'd like to talk to you about
what happened in the school. All right, and she followed
district protocol. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, you got a
bomb threat, you follow a protocol, but then let the
cops back to your office to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
All right. Then here she is again, I personally.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Do not feel comfortable even speaking with you, to be
quite honest, because of the way that because I believe
that you do not even have my safety in.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Mod I don't believe you have my safety in mind.
I would suggest to Natalie James, principal at Ridgeview Middle School,
that is literally, quite literally, the police officer's job. Your
safety is his job. What grounds would she make that
statement other than she has a predetermined.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Concept of the police.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
She is not a fan of the police, and you
can tell and credit to Chuck Douglass, host of The
Power Hour at six o'clock. He had Brian Steele on
the head of the FOP. They did some research and
it turns out shockingly that Natalie James has a police record.
She's had a couple of confrontations with Columbus police in
(06:55):
the past, so it's quite obvious that she has it
out for the cops.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
The odd thing about when you hear the audio is
that It almost makes it sound like she didn't call them,
you know what I mean, Like she's like, what are
you guys doing here?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And that's I came out because there was a scuffle
in the office.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, and then I don't feel comfortable because I don't
think you have my safety mind. But you guys, you
called someone.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Maybe it wasn't her necessarily, but someone at her direction
called the cops.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I mean, you got a bomb threat. So what do
you do?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You go to the top person in the school, right,
which is the principle, and said, what should we do?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Boss? Somebody called the cops.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Well, the cops do what they do, and they showed
up and they're trying to help fix the problem. And
she's a jerk. I wish I could use a stronger
term than a jerk on the radio, but I can't.
And the thing that bothers me is Natalie James is
a principle of a middle school. These are eleven, twelve,
and thirteen year old kids. I've got an almost thirteen
year old kid. I know what they're paying attention to now,
(07:52):
and these kids are starting to become aware of the world.
These aren't fourth graders, right, They are being now taught
by this administrator, Natalie James Ridgeview Middle School principle to
have great sustain for the police. This is how this happens.
This isn't just teaching math and reading and social studies.
You're learning about life at that age. And they're seeing
(08:14):
how this woman acts towards the police. And this is
why there's a mistrust with youth and the police. It's
because jerk adults are treating them like this.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Well, what I'm hoping is and I'm hoping because there
was a bomb threat called in that hopefully the kids
were evacuated and didn't see that and don't watch the news,
you know what I mean. Like, you know, you can
hope for the best case here. I see where're getting at.
I just I'm hoping that that is the best case.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Of it came out right, But we don't know what's
happening in the classroom when there's not body cameras rolling.
It was my point that this woman clearly has great
sustain for authority for whatever reason. Yeah, and who knows
what the kids are being taught off the record. Nobody
has any accountability for That's what's bothersome. Yeah, you know,
(09:04):
and again the police officer Connor was a rock star
in this situation. He's like, you called me, this is
my job. You know, I'm not gonna beg you. Like,
I'm here to help if there's a bomb on the school,
I'm here to be the.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Guy to help. Yeah, that's why we're here.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's unbelievable. So Dave Yos got a hold of this.
He's all over it. It's been put in front of
about forty two thousand different people and everyone's going to
weigh in, and it should be a really simple decision.
If I'm in, if I'm involved in this conversation. She
is out of a job by the end of the
school day today
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