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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you enjoy listening to Donald Trump rip a journalist
a new Ahle, there will be at least two moments
on the show today where you will get to enjoy
that spectacle.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, it's a good time. I enjoyed it. I think
everybody will like it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Well, them was quick at short and punchy. The other
one was a little longer. But the punchy one of
course my favorite. But he does drift off sometimes Bloomberg
reporter in an ABC News reporter. But don't worry, we'll
get to that. That's not urgent, that's not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It was fun as At least one of them was
done in front of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
I believe it was sitting there with a falcon on
his shoulder or something.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I mean it was looking real regal.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, the Saudi Prince would be Mohammed Ben Salman Al Saw.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
People just call him MBS.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I don't feel that familiar.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I know, I get it, and frankly, I don't give
a damn about the Saudi spot.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I just called him CP or Crown Prince and be
done with it.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
That would be punch here than MS MBS. Yeah, yeah,
totally unrelated to that, but just something that had occurred
to me as we were mentioning his name. There is
a executive at Paramount named David Ellison who is partnering
with Saudi Arabia Cutter cutter A Katar.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
What do we like to say?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I still like Qatar, Yeah, and Abu Dhabi to try
to buy Warner Brothers. It's a seventy one billion dollar deal.
If you thought to yourself, wow, I wish Paramount and
Warner Brothers would merge together with help from a bunch
of Muslim nations who fun terrorism. Good news. There's a
guy working on that, David Ellison right now. Great news.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So well, but you know, again, not the most important
thing today. I think the most important thing in the
news today, and I'm sure we all agree, is uh
the realization that Bill Maher is the most reasonable person
in liberal media.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
It still upsets me a little bit, puts me off.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
That is, I'm not comfortable with normalcy coming out of
his mouth.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
No, no, no, that's not it either. We'll get to
that too. No, the thing everybody's talking.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
About today, and I'm sure most people already know this,
the Senate and the House yesterday, both voted to approve
the release of the Epstein files, and there was only
one guy in the whole federal government that voted no.
And lo and behold. He is a lawmaker from the
Walton Johnson listening area.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And we know him. We actually know this guy. I
sent him a text message last night. He did not reply.
I am speaking of course, about Congressman previously Captain Clay Higgins.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And isn't that the Cajun John Wayne. That's yeah, okay.
The only thing I know is that he didn't tell us.
He didn't call you back or text you back. But
he did say for the record the reason he voted
against it. And he's the only one apparently who cares
the victim's privacy.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Okay, so that's already being called into question. I really
want to give him a chance to defend himself. But
he said he had a principled no vote on the
bill because he says that, as you just pointed out,
in its current form, this type of broad reveal of
criminal investigative files released to a rabid media will absolutely
result in innocent people being hurt. Now, he posted that
(03:21):
on X last night, and he got fact checked very
quickly in the Community note system. Usually it doesn't happen
this quick. It usually takes a day or two. Congressman
Clay Higgins. According to the Community Note fact checking, that
would mean that several people, maybe dozens of them, had
to approve This comment has now been fact checked. It
(03:43):
says here Representative Higgins claim misrepresents House Resolution four four
zero five. The bill includes reactions for victims and uninvolved
individuals now. In his post here, he explains that he
voted no on this today for the same reason he
voted no on it three months ago. In the fact check,
it reveals that Congressman Thomas Massey explained because it's his bill,
(04:07):
victims can't release names due to lawsuits forcing them into homelessness,
and the petition was not yet eligible three months ago.
So the bill that he says he's voting no on
today or yesterday, he claims he voted no on three
months ago. It is a totally different bill.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
According to this It was the same subject though, right,
it was just worded differently every time they change it up.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But he's I mean talking in generalities.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I voted against releasing it then, I'm against releasing it now,
not specifically for that supposed reason.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Now here's where this gets a little heavy. And you
know we cover this on the show before. There's a
whole list of Epstein victims that want these documents released.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
It's gonna say the victims have made a commercial on television,
some of them. I think they're okay with their privacy
being touched.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Now, you could make the argument that people that were
neither victims nor you know, perpetrators of the crime, people
that didn't do anything wrong nor were victimized, could still
be mentioned in the files. And that's absolutely true. You
don't want innocent people to get thrown into the but
I think context is important if it explains why their
names are listed. You know, this guy was the accountant
(05:22):
to that man who traveled to the island. Doesn't necessarily
mean they've done anything wrong, you know. Well, like I said,
maybe we'll hear back from him. We got other stuff
to deal with in the meantime. We'll wait and see.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
But it hasn't made it all the way to the
president's desk yet. But I'm sure this morning, first thing,
when he comes down in his bathrobe and thosey slippers,
he'll probably see it. He'll probably sign it absolutely, and
I will just to leave one more thought on this one.
I like Clay Higgins. I think he's a good guy.
I've gotten a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Of messages from listeners that are mad at him about
this vote. I'd like to let him have a chance
to defend himself before anybody on this program craps on
the guy or you know, you know, he deserves to
have a chance.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So hopefully he replies to us. In the meantime, yesterday
we interviewed a candidate for a position in Texas, Alex Meeler. Yeah,
and she went on and on, I mean like not
on and on, like drugging on it. But we had
a long conversation with her about the new districts in
Texas and she's running for one of the new districts
and oh it's great.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, now, about one point thirty yesterday, after the show
was over, a federal court of three judges got together
and decided to tell Texas, you can't use your new map. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
California just decided to redraw their whole congressional map.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Out of spite for what Texas did. Odds are this
gets challenged.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Attorney General Ken Paxton has already filed an appeal.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Good on him. I like Ken. He's a good attorney general.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And if this climbs its way up the ladder of
the federal court system.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well, according to the story, a three judge panel has
already ruled on this. The only thing above them is
the Supreme Court. Correct. Yeah, so there's no winding its
way up. It's just going to the Supreme Court, or
it's going nowhere. But the youth is in the Supreme
Court moves a bit slow. Can get this settled in
(07:20):
three weeks or less.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Well, they have to do it before the primaries, and
they have to do it before December eighth, because after
that the election is set for the primaries in when March.
And then the other question becomes, if Texas can't do it,
why can California do it?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well, they're doing it just like we did. But then
a judge can just step up or a three panel judges,
and they can just say, hmm, no, you shouldn't do it.
Those same guys could decide California can, because that's that's
how politics works.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Texas Governor Gravit Gabbitt, who signed the map into law
of this summer, set in a statement, the state will
swiftly appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
So the court's decision is a major blow, obviously for
the Republicans, because if we can't redraw our biggest state,
why can the Liberals redraw their biggest state?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, well that's politics, baby, Yeah, that seems fair, right, sure, yeah?
Kill me? What day is puffday? Called? Wednesday?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Humpday? Someday?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I'm all right. Hump pump, pump, pump pump.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Walton and Johnson Radio Network in.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
The state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Right now, there seems to be an awful lot of
new people moving to town from the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Really, what's up with that?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, the governor noticed, Governor Greg Abbott yesterday and hold
your applause before we really dive deep into this, announced
that moving forward, the Muslim Brotherhood and CARE the Council
for Arabic and Islamic Relations will now be designated as
foreign terrorist organizations.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Rightfully, so, I think, all right, put aside the Muslim
Brotherhood for a second. We'll get back to that in
a minute. CARE has offices in Houston and Austin and
in the metroplex Dallas Fort Worth is Abbot gonna send
in a swat team to Like, if al Qaeda had
an office in a strip mall down the street from here,
we wouldn't let that happen.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Right, Something tells me this is gonna be a you
just fa fo. As long as you don't fa, you
won't fo. They have offices.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But if they do something, that's when they're gonna find
out what it's all about. Okay, well I'll play along,
like what like do what?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
They're not you know, blow something up ahead a bunch
of people something like that.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You know, what do you know? Muslims do sometimes?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Okay, are they doing that now? Or is that? But
if they do, being designated a terrorist organization means it's
kind of like a hate crime.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Oh, the punishment is so much worse.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Look, I'm not a big fan of Care. They went
out after Oh they're not a fan of us either.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
No they're not. No, it's certainly not. But it just
seems like if you're going to dec claires someone a
terrorist organization and then let them openly operate in your
state with multiple offices, ope, just right there with a
sign out front that says care, then you're not really
doing anything.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You're just talking. Hey, didn't Trump say the same thing
nationwide of federal law is the terrorist organization?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
But do anything about the ones that are already here?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Okay, so the United States government has not listed CARE
as a terrorist.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Are specifically I guess yeah that I didn't remember hearing
about that.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
But KRAS Texas operations have existed since nineteen ninety four.
They employed dozens of people around the state of Texas,
and they seem to be actively involved in building things
like the Valley Ranch Islamic Center and the Islamic Center
for Greater Austin and this new thing in Houston that
(10:56):
just popped up, not to mention the meadow.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Don't forget them.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It sounds so lovely, previously known as Epic City East
Plano Islamic Center. I don't claim to understand what he
hopes to accomplish here, but it sounds like Governor Abbot
telling everyone CARE is now a terrorist organization means nothing.
It's just him talking big and doing nothing, And words
(11:21):
without actions are meaningless.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I mean, why, what who's this for? But that's all
we do is words, just no action. Either shut down
the CARE offices tomorrow or today. I mean, it is
a terrorist organization. After all, you just said so, or
don't waste our time with this crap. The Governor Abbot
yesterday made a statement on the federal judicial nominees the people. Well,
(11:46):
it turns out these people that just overturned the new
congressional map were put in place by Governor Abbot. The
federal judge who smacked down the new Texas congressional map
started his career as a clerk for them, Texas Supreme
Court Justice Greg Abbott. Governor Rabbit applauded Trump's appointment of
Judge Brown to the federal bench. They put these guys
(12:07):
in power, and now they're the ones blocking the congressional
map in Texas. The three separate judges on this panel,
one was appointed by Obama, one by Reagan.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
How old is that guy?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
But the main guy Trump, Yeah, the main guy, according
to this was because of Abbot.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Abbot's the guy that introduced him to Trump. I think
he gets to appoint federal judges. But Trump did.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
No, he didn't, but he started his career. We're working
with Abbot, and it's claimed here by the Quorum Report
in Austin, Texas, Scott Braddock's news organization that that was
how he got the appointment.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Where the guy that Reagan appointed start his career.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Probably working for George Washington, I would imagine Lincoln. Yeah,
you exaggerate, sir. He's not that old. It's not being ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Okay, so his history for those interested on paper, he's
about as much of a Texas Republican as they come.
And yet he's the one that just shut this whole
thing down? Is Governor Abbot like a globalist?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Or what I mean?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
The governor is disappointed us so many times, and his
fingerprints are all over everything that seems to be falling
apart in the Texas Republican Party at the moment. While
he's out here making declarations and proclamations that do literally nothing. Yeah,
couldn't have done less. It's like he might as well
have made a declaration yesterday that Whatterburger is now considered magic.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Holy food, and the Walter Johnson Show is considered to
be a blessing and a gift from the Lord above.
We already knew that what day is it? Wednesday? Day
is it Wednesday? Did I stutter?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
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