Speaker 1: This is the US Report with James Morrow. Good evening
Speaker 1: and welcome to the program. Here's what's coming up tonight.
Speaker 1: Voter ID passes the House of Representatives and everyone seems
Speaker 1: to want it except the Democrats. I wonder why. Plus
Speaker 1: the Democrats also take a hard left turn as more
Speaker 1: and more identified not as Democrats but Democrats socialists. What
Speaker 1: could go wrong? And I'll bring you the latest in
Speaker 1: the bizarre disappearance of Arizona eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie.
Speaker 1: But first let's have a chat, a bit of a
Speaker 1: chat about race in America. I know, light and fun stuff, right,
Speaker 1: and particularly the incredible hypocrisy of the progressive Democrat left,
Speaker 1: which is very quick to scream racism when it suits
Speaker 1: their purposes, while at the same time stoking a peculiar, bizarre,
Speaker 1: and some would say reverse racism the rest of the time. Now,
Speaker 1: a few days ago, the Democrats and most of the
Speaker 1: media lost their minds when Donald Trump's social media team
Speaker 1: posted a video about alleged fraud in the twenty twenty election,
Speaker 1: and somehow that included a few seconds from another parody
Speaker 1: video that had various Democrat figures portrayed as characters from
Speaker 1: the Lion King, including Barack and Michelle Obama as a
Speaker 1: couple of apes. Now, I don't want to relitigate this
Speaker 1: whole thing. If you weren't living under a rock the
Speaker 1: last week, you saw the outrage mostly confected. And I
Speaker 1: say confected because at the same time as the left
Speaker 1: was whipping up hysteria about the alleged racism of Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and his whole administration and anyone who ever put
Speaker 1: on a maga hat, well this video surfaced.
Speaker 2: I always tell people, the day the Latino, African, American,
Speaker 2: Asian and other communities realize that they are that they
Speaker 2: share the same oppressor, is the day we start winning
Speaker 2: because we are the majority in this country. Now we
Speaker 2: have the ability to take over this country and to
Speaker 2: do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.
Speaker 1: We have the ability to take over this country. Now.
Speaker 1: That wasn't some random professor of third world literature at
Speaker 1: a third rate community college. That was Jean Wu, a
Speaker 1: Democrat member of the Texas State Legislature, calling for non
Speaker 1: whites to unite against their common oppressor. And I think
Speaker 1: we know who he means in the name of fairness
Speaker 1: to do what needs to be done. Can you feel
Speaker 1: the tolerance, Can you just feel the racial healing? Naturally,
Speaker 1: there was no outrage of the media about what sounds like, frankly,
Speaker 1: a call to divide America, if not worse, by someone
Speaker 1: who came to America from communist China as a little boy,
Speaker 1: only to take his ticket into the land of equality
Speaker 1: and opportunity and use it to spread the worst sort
Speaker 1: of identity politics, pitting Americans against one another. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: sure Beijing is really proud of their favorite son here.
Speaker 1: But that clip was not the only one that made
Speaker 1: the rounds this week, but was ignored by all the
Speaker 1: usual suspects. There was this vision of former New York
Speaker 1: Representative Charles Barron talking about what, in any other circumstance
Speaker 1: would sound like ethnic cleansing.
Speaker 3: I have the distinct honor to be able to come
Speaker 3: before you and say I actually lost white population in
Speaker 3: my community.
Speaker 4: I lost them.
Speaker 3: They left, they left. I didn't ask them why they left.
Speaker 3: So if you see one or two or three or
Speaker 3: four or five whites in my neighborhood, they're passing through.
Speaker 1: And oh how they cheered, and oh how everyone who
Speaker 1: condemned and condemns Trump remained silent. But you can only
Speaker 1: imagine the reaction if the roles were reversed. Could you
Speaker 1: imagine it now, I mean, just think about it. Imagine
Speaker 1: a white politician talking about how he drove blacks out
Speaker 1: of his district while the crowd laughed. It would be
Speaker 1: rightly condemned as a clan meeting. And I mean, I
Speaker 1: thought the point of the racial harmony the left has
Speaker 1: preached my whole life was the idea that we would
Speaker 1: come together to live together in perfect harmony, just like
Speaker 1: that old coke commercial. Yet New York Magazine, a reliably
Speaker 1: liberal publication, just two days ago, ran this piece by
Speaker 1: writer Naomi Jackson entitled I miss my Black Brooklyn, and
Speaker 1: she writes, I once lived in a black mecca, but
Speaker 1: by the summer of twenty twenty two, my Toddler Son
Speaker 1: and I were often the only black folks on the
Speaker 1: place in Bedford Stuyvesant, a fact that felt both alienating
Speaker 1: and surreal. I'm very bizarre. Again, imagine if a white
Speaker 1: author talking about being replaced by black folks or feeling
Speaker 1: like a stranger in their own neighborhood because of demographic changes. Well,
Speaker 1: we know how that plays out. Yet this is what
Speaker 1: the left in America is pushing and pursuing behind closed
Speaker 1: doors where they don't think the rest of us are watching.
Speaker 1: And it's not just African Americans. This mentality has infected
Speaker 1: this entire side of politics and a phenomenon that started
Speaker 1: when Barack Obama was president and he picked over the
Speaker 1: countries healing racial scars by pushing the myth that there
Speaker 1: was an epidemic of white cops shooting unarmed blacks. I
Speaker 1: suggested that exploded in the BLM riots of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: And now this is gospel. This is what the left thinks.
Speaker 1: Here's Democrat at Kenned, Kentucky Representative Sarah Stalker.
Speaker 5: I'm going to be honest. I don't feel good about
Speaker 5: being white every day. I think we're missing an opportunity
Speaker 5: when kids, when kids have a moment to reflect about
Speaker 5: how the color of their skin does and does not
Speaker 5: allow them to move through the world. It's running running
Speaker 5: to them and trying to stifle that and trying to
Speaker 5: say you shouldn't feel bad. So we don't want to
Speaker 5: we don't want to ever expose you to something that
Speaker 5: is going to make you have to pause and have
Speaker 5: maybe some internal feelings it's a missed opportunity for some
Speaker 5: really good dialogue.
Speaker 1: This is what she wants to teach kids now. I
Speaker 1: talk about this not just because it's important to point
Speaker 1: out the hypocrisy who jump on Trump for a racist
Speaker 1: social media clip, but so also at the same time
Speaker 1: spread the worst of the actual poison on their own side.
Speaker 1: But I also want to point out why the fight
Speaker 1: over these things is so vital, because, as we have
Speaker 1: talked about time and time again on this program, there
Speaker 1: is a real danger of the US coming apart as
Speaker 1: it approaches its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary this July. Remember,
Speaker 1: just a few weeks ago we had Minnesota Governor Tim
Speaker 1: Waltz saying he feared a Fort Sumter moment in the
Speaker 1: United States. Fort Sumter being where the first shots in
Speaker 1: the Civil War were fired, a fight not over immigration enforcement,
Speaker 1: but a fight over anti slavery enforcement again by the
Speaker 1: federal government against again recals Democrats. This is why what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, this racial separatism by the party that
Speaker 1: claims to want everyone to get along, feels like a
Speaker 1: build up to something frankly, far far worse. Well, Republicans
Speaker 1: had a huge win in the House of representatives this
Speaker 1: week after they voted to pass the Save America Act,
Speaker 1: which changes the voting rules by requiring how revolutionary voter
Speaker 1: id when going to vote and restricting mail in voting.
Speaker 1: The legislation passed two eighteen to two hundred and thirteen votes,
Speaker 1: but it still faces an uphill battle in the Senate.
Speaker 1: REPREISDENTI of chip Roy is one of those who has
Speaker 1: been pushing for the legislation, and he spoke shortly after
Speaker 1: the vote.
Speaker 6: It was on a bipartisan basis, we had a Democrat
Speaker 6: join us. So now it heads to the Senate. So
Speaker 6: the question now is whether the Senate will take it up.
Speaker 6: And I hope they will take it up, but not
Speaker 6: just take it up. Take it up and press the
Speaker 6: rules of the Senate to force members of the Senate
Speaker 6: onto the floor and to debate and go ahead and
Speaker 6: tell the American people why you don't support common sense legislation.
Speaker 1: Joining me to talk about this and a whole lot
Speaker 1: more is former White House Chief of Staff and Senior
Speaker 1: Advisorate Bontai Partners, Mick mulvaney. Mick, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining me tonight here. I don't get this issue at
Speaker 1: all because polls show. That's something like eighty four percent
Speaker 1: of Americans, and I'm talking black, white, Hispanic Republicans, even
Speaker 1: Democrats all support this legislation. They think it's common sense stuff.
Speaker 1: And yet Democratic legislators are trying to stop this. It
Speaker 1: looks like they will stop it in the Senate. It
Speaker 1: looks kind of almost well, I don't want to be cynical,
Speaker 1: but it looks a little suspicious that they're so against
Speaker 1: people having to show ID when they exercise their democratic franchise, when,
Speaker 1: as you know, you have to show an ID to
Speaker 1: get on a plane, to buy a six pack of beer,
Speaker 1: and do a million other things in American life.
Speaker 7: Yeah, James, it probably comes as surprise to a lot
Speaker 7: of folks down there that we don't have to show
Speaker 7: our ID in a lot of states. Keep in mind,
Speaker 7: this is done state by state. Right now, I must
Speaker 7: show a voter ID here in Florida, where I live.
Speaker 7: You don't have to show it in other states, predominantly
Speaker 7: Democrat states like California. Say so, it's been an issue
Speaker 7: now for a long time. You would think it's a
Speaker 7: common sense issue. Here's the issue. Here's what Democrats say
Speaker 7: is that it disenfranchises people who can't get IDs. And yes,
Speaker 7: that sounds as crazy to you as it does to me.
Speaker 7: And if your cynicism is as healthy as mine is,
Speaker 7: you have to wonder are they really just interested in
Speaker 7: trying to get people who aren't supposed to vote to
Speaker 7: be able to vote. And that's going to be the debate.
Speaker 7: What you just saw Chip Roy referencing there is the
Speaker 7: Senate filibuster. Keep in mind, this is one of those
Speaker 7: pieces of legislation that will take Democrat votes in the Senate.
Speaker 7: In order to pass it will need sixty votes, which
Speaker 7: means they'll need Democrat votes and they've only got one
Speaker 7: of those so far, Senator Fetterman from Pennsylvania. It's going
Speaker 7: to be a very very difficult task to pass this
Speaker 7: because Democrats simply want to have people who don't have
Speaker 7: IDs be able to vote.
Speaker 1: Gosh, and you know, you can only wonder why. I'll
Speaker 1: leave that to our viewers to work out their own
Speaker 1: list of potential reasons for that. But I want to
Speaker 1: also talk about another big piece of news this week
Speaker 1: out of Washington again, and I don't know, it seems
Speaker 1: like everybody wanted the Epstein files release and then now
Speaker 1: they don't because US Attorney General Pam Bondi have Bondi
Speaker 1: has defended the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files
Speaker 1: at a hearing this week, as lawmakers, including Republicans, expressed
Speaker 1: frustration about the amount of material that was put out
Speaker 1: there and then redacted. The day started with a call
Speaker 1: from survivors demanding more names being released.
Speaker 8: The people who have harmed us. They are hidden while
Speaker 8: survivors have been exposed. Abusers' names and contact information is redacted,
Speaker 8: while our faces and stories are left on full display.
Speaker 1: And survivors of Epstein's abuse even released this announcement on
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Sunday.
Speaker 5: After years of being kept apart. We're standing together, standing
Speaker 5: together because this girl deserves.
Speaker 3: The truth, because she deserves the truth, because we all
Speaker 3: deserve the truth.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get any bigger than that. And we finally
Speaker 1: got to the hearing of Attorney General Pambon, except it
Speaker 1: was more than an attack than an actual hearing. When
Speaker 1: Bondi was ambushed. I have a look at this.
Speaker 9: Merrick Garland sat in this chair twice.
Speaker 1: Attorney General.
Speaker 10: Okay, I'm going to finish my answer.
Speaker 4: No, I'm going to reclaim my time.
Speaker 11: You're not going to answer this question.
Speaker 4: So let me just hare what a massive question.
Speaker 10: When you restore her time, the witness is interrupted?
Speaker 9: Got her with this woman?
Speaker 1: Let me have my you showed it.
Speaker 9: I find it.
Speaker 1: How many have you.
Speaker 9: Ex Excuse me, I'm going to answer the question.
Speaker 1: I answer my question.
Speaker 8: I'm going to answer the question the way I want
Speaker 8: to answer the question.
Speaker 12: You can answer the.
Speaker 1: Question I asked.
Speaker 10: You can let her filibuster all day long, but not
Speaker 10: on our watch, not on our time, no way. And
Speaker 10: I told you about that Attorney general before you.
Speaker 1: You don't tell me.
Speaker 8: I did tell you because you saw what you did
Speaker 8: in the Senate lawyer not even a lawyer.
Speaker 1: Mick, that was less a Senate than Jerry Springer? What
Speaker 1: did you make of it all?
Speaker 7: James Listen, I've been to those hearings. I've been on
Speaker 7: both sides of those hearings. I've been sitting behind the
Speaker 7: die is asking the questions. I've been the person answering
Speaker 7: the questions. They are theatrical by design. Anyway, You very
Speaker 7: rarely find anything out new or interesting in these hearings.
Speaker 7: Most members are just trying to members of Core, trying
Speaker 7: to get material for their social media. But I've never
Speaker 7: seen one like this. I felt like buying popcorn and
Speaker 7: just heading back and watching the show. But put the
Speaker 7: hearing aside.
Speaker 9: It's hard to.
Speaker 7: Imagine the administration handling the Epstein situation any worse. The
Speaker 7: next day after that hearing, the Republican chairman of the
Speaker 7: Oversight Committee came out and said that he was going
Speaker 7: to continue to hold hearings until he got to the
Speaker 7: bottom of things. These are Republicans, these and these are
Speaker 7: not anti Trump Republicans. These are folks who like Donald Trump,
Speaker 7: support Donald Trump, were coming out to say. Now that
Speaker 7: the Epstein thing is not going away, it's hard to
Speaker 7: imagine that the administration, the Department of Justice handling it
Speaker 7: any worse. They have this slow trickle of new information
Speaker 7: is going to come out. Keep in mind we've only
Speaker 7: seen roughly, by some estimates, half of the documents so far.
Speaker 7: This is going to be the gift that keeps on
Speaker 7: giving that nobody wants in this administration.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it does look like it's having a
Speaker 1: lot of repercussions around the world. I suspect Keir Starmer's
Speaker 1: government in the UK is going to fall as results
Speaker 1: of some of the revelations in these files. But in
Speaker 1: the US. It strikes me that the politics of this
Speaker 1: actually should be playing Trump's way, and they aren't, because,
Speaker 1: you know, Epstein has almost now become a byword for
Speaker 1: the billionaire elite class that everybody hates as part of
Speaker 1: the general populist vibe. Why isn't it cash and fire
Speaker 1: more for Trump in the other direction?
Speaker 7: Populism? That's a great question, by the way, and not
Speaker 7: heard anybody here ask it. This is the answer. There's
Speaker 7: a populist movement right now on the left and the
Speaker 7: right in the United States, all around the world, but
Speaker 7: especially here. And it's the populace who say to themselves,
Speaker 7: you know what, we don't care who the rich and
Speaker 7: powerful are with. They're Democrats for Republicans. We're sick and
Speaker 7: tired of them getting treated differently than ordinary folks. That's
Speaker 7: sort of a populist message. And it's folks on the
Speaker 7: populist left and the populist right who are not going
Speaker 7: to let this go. And keep in mind, the populist
Speaker 7: right is Donald Trump's base. They love Donald Trump, they
Speaker 7: really do. But he ran saying that he would expose
Speaker 7: the Epstein files. They expect him to do, to disclose
Speaker 7: the Epstein files. It hasn't happened fully yet, and they're
Speaker 7: they're going to They're not going to forgive him forever.
Speaker 7: The administration needs to figure out how to handle this
Speaker 7: better than they have because the base is the folks
Speaker 7: right now demanding that there'd be better disclosure on these files.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does sort of feel like we could be
Speaker 1: in a situation where as I was saying, goes the
Speaker 1: revolution eats its own. I want to turn to foreign
Speaker 1: policy here because Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Yahu, he's been
Speaker 1: at the White House this week with Iran dominating the agenda. Now.
Speaker 1: Both leaders signaled that there's plenty of work to do
Speaker 1: still to reach some sort of deal with Tehran. On
Speaker 1: Truth's Social following the meeting, Trump said that if a
Speaker 1: deal cannot be reached with Tehran, we will just have
Speaker 1: to see what the outcome will be. Last time I
Speaker 1: Ran decided that they were better off not making a deal,
Speaker 1: they were hit with midnight hammer. Nyahoo also finally committed
Speaker 1: to joining Israel's joining Trump's Board of Peace in Gaza.
Speaker 1: A lot to unpack from this, but we're still not
Speaker 1: seeing the big action that Trump seem to have been
Speaker 1: foreshadowing on Iran. What's the hold up? Is it actually
Speaker 1: just maybe too complicated a mission to try and topple
Speaker 1: these leaders with air strikes in Tehran.
Speaker 7: Two things, and you and I may have talked about
Speaker 7: this last week. What would be the two things that
Speaker 7: would keep Trump from moving right now? Number one, that
Speaker 7: there aren't ready physically, they don't have the assets in
Speaker 7: the area. Now they have been moving assets into the
Speaker 7: air this reporting here in the last twenty four hours
Speaker 7: that there's a second aircraft carrier headed to that part
Speaker 7: of the world. But the other issue is this, I'm
Speaker 7: not sure the administration is convinced yet that sort of
Speaker 7: a political decapitation taking out the leadership of Iran would
Speaker 7: make things better or might make it worse. In Venezuela,
Speaker 7: they knew what would happen. They take Maduro out and
Speaker 7: the vice president could take over, and there'd be a
Speaker 7: government to run the country. It wouldn't descend into immediate chaos.
Speaker 7: I'm not sure they've satisfied themselves yet that of what
Speaker 7: would happen in Iran if they take out the senior leadership.
Speaker 7: So it's those two things that the assets, the military
Speaker 7: assets in theater, I think are going to be solved
Speaker 7: here in probably the next couple of days. But if
Speaker 7: you continue to see a delay by the Trump administration
Speaker 7: on military kinetic action, it's because I don't think they're
Speaker 7: convinced yet that it would make things that much better
Speaker 7: and could make things worse.
Speaker 1: And is there a danger just very quickly that you all,
Speaker 1: politics is local that people who voted for Trump saying
Speaker 1: no more foreign wars would just say, oh, we did
Speaker 1: not vote to get involved in this sort of stuff
Speaker 1: in the Middle East.
Speaker 7: No, I don't think that's part of the deal here
Speaker 7: as long as there's not a prolonged engagement. The base
Speaker 7: may have reacted negatively in a very short term to Venezuela,
Speaker 7: but they're not penalizing the president because we don't have
Speaker 7: permanent boots on the ground. There's not an extensive engagement
Speaker 7: of soldiers on the ground there in Venezuela, and the
Speaker 7: same would be true in around Yeah, you're right, you
Speaker 7: put troops on the ground in Iran, there could be
Speaker 7: a backlash, But sort of this tomahawk diplomacy tactical strikes
Speaker 7: I think would be politically very palatable here right now.
Speaker 1: Mick Malvanie, Thanks so much for your time. Always fun
Speaker 1: to talk it all through.
Speaker 7: Thanks Ed.
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's go over to Minnesota now, where
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's borders are. Tom Homan has said that an
Speaker 1: immigration crackdown will end after two very high profile months,
Speaker 1: and this follows widespread protests about deportations and the death
Speaker 1: of two American citizens who were shot and killed in
Speaker 1: the process of those protests. Now, Tom Homan called the
Speaker 1: operation overall a success. But joining me now to discuss
Speaker 1: this and more is Republican strategist and former spokesman for
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz Ron Naering Ron. What do you make of
Speaker 1: the Trump administration's moves in Minnesota? The governor Tim Waltz
Speaker 1: has certainly been furious about ICE's presence. Is there a
Speaker 1: danger that the optics of this are giving the left
Speaker 1: a win?
Speaker 13: Well, let's start with every American deserves to be safe
Speaker 13: and feel safe in their own community. But there's a
Speaker 13: problem today, and that is that so many criminal aliens
Speaker 13: have been allowed into the country and many of those
Speaker 13: people are committing crimes that many of these neighborhoods have
Speaker 13: become unsafe. And we've also seen some of the measures
Speaker 13: of fraud that have been committed by those criminal elements
Speaker 13: in states like Minnesota and elsewhere as well. So we
Speaker 13: start with first principles. The Trump administration is going to
Speaker 13: continue to work hard to remove those people who are
Speaker 13: in the country illegally who've committed violent crimes and other
Speaker 13: forms of crime, so to make our streets safe again,
Speaker 13: so to make our parks and our sidewalks and our
Speaker 13: neighborhoods safe once again. I think the Democrats will try
Speaker 13: to paint this to some type of win, but in
Speaker 13: the long term, the Democrats have to try to defend
Speaker 13: the fact that they are fundamentally opposed to a program
Speaker 13: to take people who are violent criminals who are in
Speaker 13: the country illegally. We have the opportunity to send them
Speaker 13: out of the country where they will not make more
Speaker 13: Americans into victims of whatever crime they're committing. And this
Speaker 13: is the position which a Democratic party finds myself in
Speaker 13: right now. They're reversing who the true victims are, Which
Speaker 13: are the victims of these of criminal aliens who are
Speaker 13: committing crimes. Those are the people who the President's looking
Speaker 13: out for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and absolutely right, Ron, But one of the things
Speaker 1: that we're seeing here is that this fight over immigration
Speaker 1: is part of a much bigger discussion within the left
Speaker 1: and within the Democrats. But what sort of party they
Speaker 1: are becoming? And I've note that the Democrat socialist movement
Speaker 1: has really been taking off lately. We've seen it in
Speaker 1: New York and now in LA a radical Democrat socialist
Speaker 1: group has published a forty page manifesto which I think
Speaker 1: would frankly transform the city into a socialist tellhold. Among
Speaker 1: the things they want to do are ban Airbnbs, use
Speaker 1: golf courses for public housing, allow non citizen immigrants to
Speaker 1: vote in local elections, and enforce a school curriculum that
Speaker 1: supports social justice. Well, I suspect it already kind of
Speaker 1: does that already in California. But Ron, this is part
Speaker 1: of a bigger identity crisis on the left, now, isn't it.
Speaker 13: Sure? This is straight out of the Cuba Plan, the
Speaker 13: Venezuela Plan, the North Korea Plan. And there's really no
Speaker 13: distinction between what you find in this radical document and
Speaker 13: what some people in the Democratic Party, like AOC or
Speaker 13: the new Mayor of New York are openly advocating for.
Speaker 13: This is a straight on war on America's middle class.
Speaker 13: And just like in Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea. Whenever
Speaker 13: one of these socialist dictatorships take over, the first group
Speaker 13: that they target is the middle class, because that's where
Speaker 13: resistance comes from. These people want to confiscate all private
Speaker 13: housing in Los Angeles so that you don't get to
Speaker 13: own a home anymore. They're coming after your home equity,
Speaker 13: which is the single greatest generator of wealth for American families,
Speaker 13: and make everyone have to rent housing from the government. Well,
Speaker 13: you've seen how government run housing in America works. It
Speaker 13: doesn't work. It creates slums and places which are deeply
Speaker 13: unsafe and destroys the economic vitality. The problem with the
Speaker 13: Democratic Party today is the Democratic Party's immune system has
Speaker 13: broken down. Healthy part can contain the radicals in their party,
Speaker 13: but the Democratic Party's immune system is broken. And so
Speaker 13: you literally have these radicals like AOC and Mom Dami
Speaker 13: in New York. They get elected and then the Democratic
Speaker 13: establishment comes right in behind them. There's no longer a
Speaker 13: line being drawn between the socialist wing of the Democratic
Speaker 13: Party and the rest. They've become one and the same.
Speaker 1: And Ron, I mean, just on this question of immigration,
Speaker 1: I've been fascinated by the evolution of the Democrats. I
Speaker 1: remember when Barack Obama was known as the deporter in
Speaker 1: chief and when Hillary Clinton used to say that, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't have people coming in illegally and taking work
Speaker 1: from Americans. How did that immune system break down? What
Speaker 1: happened to them? What broken their brains? Was it Trump?
Speaker 6: I think?
Speaker 13: Look, I think that we are in an age of
Speaker 13: polarization in the West. I think you've seen this in Europe,
Speaker 13: You're seeing this in the United States. But a healthy
Speaker 13: political party is able to isolate those fringes and continue
Speaker 13: to make the case to middle class America. Whichever party
Speaker 13: wins the support of the middle class this country gets
Speaker 13: to run the country. And the Democratic Party this has broke.
Speaker 13: This is fundamentally broken down through I think a variety
Speaker 13: of factors that think social media is one of them.
Speaker 13: But at least in the Republican Party, that immune system
Speaker 13: is working. When there are crazy people or anti semites,
Speaker 13: for someone who pops up, the immune system works and
Speaker 13: isolates that and moves it out. That's not happening in
Speaker 13: the Democratic Party. Watch what happened with the mayor of
Speaker 13: New York. The Democratic establishment opposed, but then once he
Speaker 13: got elected, they all fell into line, and that tells
Speaker 13: you the direction this party is going into in the
Speaker 13: midterms and in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I think that's exactly right. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: be talking a bit about zoron Mom Donnie later in
Speaker 1: the program. But also, it's not just social media to Ron,
Speaker 1: it's regular media. There was a bombshell revelation which I
Speaker 1: think kind of confirms things we already knew here this
Speaker 1: week that investigative journalist Catherine Herridge. She revealed that when
Speaker 1: she was at CBS, CBS executives deliberately buried the Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden laptop story and ordered her to wait to talk
Speaker 1: about it until after the twenty twenty two midterms, not
Speaker 1: just the twenty twenty election, in order to help the
Speaker 1: Democrats have a look at this.
Speaker 14: I went to a lot of effort to get the
Speaker 14: cleanest copy of the laptop data, the same data that
Speaker 14: was provided to the FBI, because I didn't want to
Speaker 14: have any professional journalistic risk for CBS News. I wanted
Speaker 14: this thing to be totally locked down when we did
Speaker 14: the story, we did it after the midterms. I argued
Speaker 14: against that because it was ready before the midterms. And
Speaker 14: my training is that you should always do the story
Speaker 14: when it's ready to go. You should not be dictated
Speaker 14: by the political cycle.
Speaker 1: Ron is it any wonder that Americans don't trust the
Speaker 1: mainstream media and that as a result, places like the
Speaker 1: Washington Post are having to lay off journalists by the score.
Speaker 13: Look, every American deserves to have access to understand what
Speaker 13: the facts are, what's happening in the world around us.
Speaker 13: But CBS News, would has been representative of the legacy
Speaker 13: media has not been doing a good job with that.
Speaker 13: Twenty two years ago, Dan Rather ran with a story
Speaker 13: that was completely made up and fabricated about memos had
Speaker 13: allegedly showed that President Bush when he was in the
Speaker 13: Texas Air National Guard got special treatment, and Dan Rather
Speaker 13: ran with it, and then he doubled down on it,
Speaker 13: and it turned out it was completely bogus and it
Speaker 13: was easily refuted once they ran with the story. It
Speaker 13: looks like not much a change at CBS News, But
Speaker 13: what has changed is that Americans trust in the legacy
Speaker 13: media has only continued to drop because there are too
Speaker 13: many people involved in the media who have a particular
Speaker 13: political agenda, and they've stopped just sharing the truth or
Speaker 13: being objective or even trying to be balanced. And we
Speaker 13: saw that very cleanly in this Hunter Byn laptop story.
Speaker 13: I saw the same video that you just showed, and
Speaker 13: I'm just shocked that it was so blatant an attempt
Speaker 13: to move a past the midterm election to give the
Speaker 13: Democrats so one less thing to worry.
Speaker 1: About, ed Ron. It's not just you know, CBS, this
Speaker 1: other great American institutions that have also become frankly corrupted,
Speaker 1: Harvard as well. Of course, we all know what's happened
Speaker 1: there in the Pentagon. This week is announced there ending
Speaker 1: a lot of cooperation with that once great institution. Have
Speaker 1: a look at what Defense Secretary Pete heiks As that's say, the.
Speaker 11: Ivy League as a whole has pervasive institutional bias and
Speaker 11: a lack of viewpoint diversity, including the coddling of toxic
Speaker 11: ideologies that undercuts our mission right here in this building.
Speaker 11: That is why, in two weeks time, components of all
Speaker 11: of our departments Army, Navy, and Air Force will evaluate
Speaker 11: all existing graduate programs for active duty service members at
Speaker 11: all Ivy League universities and other civilian universities.
Speaker 1: Aron, We've only got thirty seconds here. Is the Secretary
Speaker 1: wrong about this?
Speaker 13: No, I don't think he is wrong at all. But
Speaker 13: what I think he's doing is he's sending a warning
Speaker 13: shot to all of the academic institutions that work with
Speaker 13: the Defense Department that they need to keep focused on
Speaker 13: pursuit of active truth and leave the politics aside when
Speaker 13: it comes to working with our men and women in uniform.
Speaker 1: Ronnreck, love your clarity on these issues. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining me on the US Report. Now don't
Speaker 1: go away because political journalist John Fund is up next.
Speaker 1: But first again, let's go back to Minnesota and they're
Speaker 1: still doing those protest blockades about ice. Let's go see
Speaker 1: how they're going. And frankly, I think it's inspiring to
Speaker 1: see all these normal, employed and not at all weird
Speaker 1: people standing up for immigrants there. Wow, did you get
Speaker 1: a load of that guy? Yes, you can't get laid
Speaker 1: at a renaissance fair. There's always the localized blockade. Stick
Speaker 1: around because John Fund is next after the break, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the program. A federal grand jury has opted
Speaker 1: not to indict several Democratic lawmakers over a video they
Speaker 1: recorded urging members of the military not to follow what
Speaker 1: they called illegal orders. Let me just quickly remind you
Speaker 1: a bit of what they said right now.
Speaker 2: The threats to our constitution aren't just coming from a
Speaker 2: broad but from right here at home.
Speaker 4: Our laws are clear.
Speaker 11: You can refuse illegal orders.
Speaker 2: You can refuse illegal orders, you must refuse illegal orders.
Speaker 14: No one has to carry out orders that violate the
Speaker 14: law or our constitution.
Speaker 1: Joining me now to talk us through this and a
Speaker 1: whole lot more is good front of the program political
Speaker 1: journalist John Fund, John, thank you so much for joining
Speaker 1: me this evening. Look, I don't know about you, but
Speaker 1: that video really seemed to sail very close to the
Speaker 1: line of calling for a break in the commander in
Speaker 1: chief's order of business in terms of being the chain
Speaker 1: of command. What did you make of that video? And
Speaker 1: do you think the grand jury got it right here
Speaker 1: in not going further with it.
Speaker 4: Well, Look, anyone who goes to our military academies and
Speaker 4: ultimately commands troops is trained that you don't have to
Speaker 4: obey an illegal order, and there are scenarios and discussions
Speaker 4: about what constitutes an illegal order. At the most charitable interpretation,
Speaker 4: this was a political ploy by a bunch of publicity
Speaker 4: seeking congressmen and women to beat their chests and pretend
Speaker 4: to be big boys and girls. I think it was
Speaker 4: a political stunt. I think it backfired, and I think
Speaker 4: rather than the grand jury indicting them, I think just
Speaker 4: leaving them in a sort of mild ridicule is probably
Speaker 4: the best course of action. I don't think anyone wanted
Speaker 4: to try it here, and I think a trial would
Speaker 4: only have turned them into martyrs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now, look, I think you're right about that, But boy,
Speaker 1: it is concerning when you see people in positions of
Speaker 1: responsibility acting so irresponsibly. John, I want to ask you
Speaker 1: about another report here which I think has implications not
Speaker 1: just for the US, but also here in Australia. A
Speaker 1: report has warned that the far left group Democrats Socialists
Speaker 1: of America or the DSSA, is, in its words, undermining
Speaker 1: the US by driving protests. Something called the Network Contagion
Speaker 1: Research Institute has found that the dssay's rhetoric matches the
Speaker 1: anti US propaganda of foreign adversaries. They've been involved in
Speaker 1: these anti ice protests in the wake of the Minneapolis
Speaker 1: shootings and the protests against supermarket giant Target. How concerning
Speaker 1: is the prospect of foreign interference driving left wing politics
Speaker 1: in the US.
Speaker 4: Well, there's one guarantee such allegations are made, and of
Speaker 4: course they're always dismissed by the legacy media. Well, in
Speaker 4: the nineteen eighties, we now know that the Soviet Union
Speaker 4: was financing the anti nuclear efforts against the installation of
Speaker 4: US missiles in Germany and other places. We know that
Speaker 4: during the pandemic, many of the anti Semitic demonstrations at
Speaker 4: Colombian other places had Iranian money behind it. So should
Speaker 4: it surprise anyone that the Democratic Socialists of America are
Speaker 4: being supported by their socialist comrades overseas. We may not
Speaker 4: be able to attach bank account to signs being made
Speaker 4: right away, but I suspect in a few months we'll
Speaker 4: have that information.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Iranian link is very curious given how little
Speaker 1: protest there has been about the regime in Iran and
Speaker 1: the abuse is it's committing against its citizens, versus the
Speaker 1: outrage there has been about Israel and their conduct in Gaza. Hey,
Speaker 1: I want to also talk about another massive move here
Speaker 1: in the US, where just hours ago President Trump overturned
Speaker 1: obama irregulation called the Endangerment Finding, which was apparently used
Speaker 1: for all sorts of environmental regulations, including that thing in
Speaker 1: your car that makes the engine turn off when you
Speaker 1: hit a stoplight. Here's a little bit what Trump said earlier.
Speaker 15: Under the process just completed by the EPA, we are
Speaker 15: officially terminating the so called Endangerment Finding, a disastrous Obama
Speaker 15: era policy that's severely damaged the American auto industry and
Speaker 15: massively drove up prices for American consumers. Prices went up
Speaker 15: incredibly for a worse product.
Speaker 1: You know, I know, there's been a lot of talk
Speaker 1: about Trump getting the Nobel Prize. I reckon just for
Speaker 1: getting rid of that stupid, annoying little glitch that they
Speaker 1: put in your cars. Should he should possibly get some
Speaker 1: sort of international recognition? What do you reckon?
Speaker 4: Remember you also got rid of the restrictions on toilets
Speaker 4: and washers and other things. Soon we'll have appliances that
Speaker 4: actually work and do the job they're intended to do.
Speaker 4: The Endangerment Finding repeal is a big deal. Our constitution.
Speaker 4: Your constitution is set up so that the legislature makes
Speaker 4: the laws, the executive carries them out. But in the
Speaker 4: United States and in many other countries, unelected bureaucrats have
Speaker 4: been handed that responsibility. And even though Congress would never
Speaker 4: never have passed this, in two thousand and nine under Obama,
Speaker 4: they passed this endangerment finding, saying climate change is so
Speaker 4: endangering the planet that we have to have unelected bureaucrats
Speaker 4: regulate greenhouse gas emissions, regulate the auto industry, regulate the
Speaker 4: fuel mileage on cars. Well, they didn't have any authority
Speaker 4: to do that. The Supreme Court, in a series of
Speaker 4: recent decisions has made that clear. So now finally we're
Speaker 4: having that rolled back. If you want to change public policy,
Speaker 4: actually have to go out and convince people to then
Speaker 4: convince their members of Congress to pass the law. Otherwise
Speaker 4: you can't play dictation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. Hey, finally, John, you know, we started
Speaker 1: talking about chain of commands. Let's end by talking about
Speaker 1: chain of commands. There was a hearing involving a Democrat
Speaker 1: sheriff from North Carolina, and it was all about that
Speaker 1: terrible story of that Ukrainian woman, that refugee who was
Speaker 1: burned in Charlotte, North Carolina. Well Sheriff Gary McFadden, he
Speaker 1: turns out, wasn't so hot on chade of command and
Speaker 1: how the government works. Just have a look at this end,
Speaker 1: try not to cringe too much.
Speaker 10: What branch of government do you operate under?
Speaker 6: Mecinburg County?
Speaker 10: What branch of government do you operate under? Sheriff?
Speaker 1: Constitution of the United States?
Speaker 10: Correct, that is what establishes the branches of government. I'm
Speaker 10: asking which branch you fall.
Speaker 1: Under, Mecimburg County. Mduley Sworn Meckinberg County Sheriff.
Speaker 10: We answer to the people of Mecca County. This was
Speaker 10: not where I was anticipating getting stuck. Are you aware
Speaker 10: how many branches of government there are?
Speaker 1: No sounds like the sheriff needs to go back to school.
Speaker 4: Well, it's even worse than that. He's a former veteran,
Speaker 4: he's a former police officer. You would have thought at
Speaker 4: some point in his training he would have been taught
Speaker 4: this or maybe retained this, and obviously he didn't. It
Speaker 4: is frightening. We've heard about the collapse of civic education
Speaker 4: the United States. Here is exhibit A, B, and C.
Speaker 4: We have somebody who we pay to enforce the laws,
Speaker 4: to carry a gun, to basically command dozens and dozens
Speaker 4: of troopers, and he doesn't know the first thing about
Speaker 4: where his authority comes from.
Speaker 1: Unbelievably shocking. John John Funn, thank you so much, as
Speaker 1: always for your time. Now stick around because after the
Speaker 1: break we've got more mom Donnie madness. But first, the
Speaker 1: world's first American pope, Pope Leo Old Chicago White, has
Speaker 1: weighed in on one of the greatest theological debates of
Speaker 1: all times. No, not faith, faithless works, but mustard versus ketchup.
Speaker 1: Have a look, had more hot dogs and.
Speaker 13: Any hilt of history.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bless you, only with the Holy Father has spoken
Speaker 1: mustard only on your hot dogs. Amen, your holiness. Now
Speaker 1: New York's a mess and getting worse. We're talking about
Speaker 1: that after the break. Welcome back to the program. Now,
Speaker 1: guess who's in the news again for all the wrong reasons.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's our old friend, socialist democrat mayor of
Speaker 1: New York, Zoran Mamdani. He committed a cardinal sin, becoming
Speaker 1: the first city mayor in nearly one hundred years and
Speaker 1: possibly ever, to skip the installation of the new local archbishop,
Speaker 1: a tradition that's gone back to at least ninety thirty nine.
Speaker 1: But mom Donie decided he had better things to do
Speaker 1: than help honor the new leader of one of the
Speaker 1: largest groups of Catholics in the country joining me now
Speaker 1: to discuss this and a lot more is Proud New Yorkers.
Speaker 1: Senior consultant at Beck and Stone, Emma Joe Morris, Emma Joe,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the program. I did some quick numbers on it.
Speaker 1: New York has had I think four Catholic, three Protestant,
Speaker 1: and I think three Jewish mayors. Every one of them
Speaker 1: has gone to this sort of installation. It seems like
Speaker 1: a bit of a snub too. What is I think
Speaker 1: still a pretty important religious group in New York City.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's for sure.
Speaker 12: I wonder how intentional it was that he snubbed Catholics,
Speaker 12: or that he just has no real regard for the
Speaker 12: seriousness of religion. I see him as sort of this
Speaker 12: anti religious progressive who doesn't seem to respect the institution
Speaker 12: at all. But that said, it's easy. This is just
Speaker 12: part of a series of moments of incompetence for mom Donnie,
Speaker 12: and this has basically been since day one. It's stunning
Speaker 12: how he's been able to do this rapid succession of
Speaker 12: disasters in almost record time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, this is a really interesting thing to me.
Speaker 1: Evan Joe's. You know, like I grew up in New
Speaker 1: York City, and I know that in New York it's
Speaker 1: a place unlike anywhere else I've ever lived. When the
Speaker 1: government changes and when policy is dialed in, you feel
Speaker 1: the results on the streets almost immediately, unlike you know
Speaker 1: when Congress or Parliament here passes a law. And we
Speaker 1: saw this again with these new deadly low temperatures in
Speaker 1: New York City. Data has revealed that ninety six percent
Speaker 1: of please to Help homeless people through a special hotline
Speaker 1: never actually led to any assistance. They were urged to
Speaker 1: call a number three one one to help put people
Speaker 1: in homeless shelters, but in virtually every case that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: This is real crisis of government stuff from supposedly a
Speaker 1: Democrat socialist who is supposedly, what's to help the poorest
Speaker 1: of the poor? Are you the homeless?
Speaker 9: Not only but specifically said the warmth of collectivism is
Speaker 9: what we would all feel.
Speaker 12: Apparently, the dozen dead homeless people during the winter storm
Speaker 12: that just passed, it's really unfortunate, it's really sad that
Speaker 12: was the result of him Galaxy brain, deciding to take
Speaker 12: away a policy.
Speaker 9: Where when the temperatures are going to reach a.
Speaker 12: Certain level, the police go and basically kind of forcibly
Speaker 12: take homeless people into shelters. And he decided that I
Speaker 12: suppose was cruel or right wing or something, and just
Speaker 12: stopped stopped it from happening. So you had a bunch
Speaker 12: of dead homeless people. Obviously, this wasn't an exercise of
Speaker 12: law enforcement per se. It was moving people out of
Speaker 12: the way of hypothermia and death.
Speaker 9: So that was that.
Speaker 12: And you're right though, you know that's the thing is
Speaker 12: like people treated, especially this one, treated this New York
Speaker 12: mayoral election like a national election.
Speaker 9: It's not.
Speaker 12: It's a local election for the people who live here.
Speaker 12: Maybe it's a national election for progressives who think that
Speaker 12: this is going to be somehow some sort of litmus
Speaker 12: test for the future of the Democratic Party, which is
Speaker 12: how it was treated by talking heads. But for the
Speaker 12: people who are just taxpayers here, who are walking down
Speaker 12: the streets here.
Speaker 9: I mean, I was walking down the street last week.
Speaker 12: Looking at a dead rat frozen in a ice snow
Speaker 12: bank next to a pile of garbage that was four
Speaker 12: feet top.
Speaker 9: That's a Democratic prize.
Speaker 1: And I mean, is this what Democrats are thinking? Now, Oh,
Speaker 1: we're going to run on the Mom Donnie kind of platform. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean, do they think they're going to win the
Speaker 1: midterms running sort of a bunch of Mom Donnie style campaigns?
Speaker 9: Well, the demo of.
Speaker 12: The progress part of the Democratic Party does. I don't
Speaker 12: know if your viewers are super familiar with this. It
Speaker 12: may be deep cuts, but the Democratic Party now is
Speaker 12: undergoing a civil war between progressives and the establishment. So
Speaker 12: I think like Nancy Pelosi versus AOC in a very
Speaker 12: superficial web, and the Progressives are really vying for leadership here,
Speaker 12: and they think that Mom Donnie was a Bellweather that
Speaker 12: he shows that No, this is actually the democratic future.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, that's be interesting to see on a national stage. Hey,
Speaker 1: speaking of other stories on a national stage, here, this
Speaker 1: story is the world here at the moment, the one
Speaker 1: out of Arizona, and people in Australia too are absolutely
Speaker 1: fascinated by. This is the case of eighty four year
Speaker 1: old Nancy Guthrie, the mother of TV hosts Savannah Guthrie.
Speaker 1: She is still missing after what appears to have been
Speaker 1: some sort of abduction. Tell us what is happening with
Speaker 1: this story and why do you think it has gripped
Speaker 1: not just some nation, but the world. I was thinking
Speaker 1: about this earlier. It almost feels like kind of our
Speaker 1: version of the Lindbergh Baby or something.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it is. It's just this horrifying thing.
Speaker 12: And why it's scripted the nation, I mean, yeah, I'm
Speaker 12: sure it's definitely the same in Australia. I guess, like
Speaker 12: The Morning Morning Show is kind of the show that
Speaker 12: is in everybody's household. Everybody knows Savannah Guthrie and feels
Speaker 12: like they have some sort of personal relationship with her
Speaker 12: just as a newscaster.
Speaker 9: And the story.
Speaker 12: Itself is like one of the most horrific, mortifying things
Speaker 12: you can imagine. Obviously, everybody loves their mother and to
Speaker 12: imagine this mystery falling on you and this horror falling
Speaker 12: on your family is just chilling. So, yeah, she was abducted.
Speaker 12: And what I thought really really kind of brought the
Speaker 12: story to life was when they released the photo of
Speaker 12: the which you can see on her tree next to
Speaker 12: me the bureau there is.
Speaker 9: Him, and it's just like this.
Speaker 12: Like it it feels like like you're living in a
Speaker 12: living nightmare or in a horror movie or something. Imagining
Speaker 12: that demon entering your home and abducting your eighty five
Speaker 12: year old mother. There's something I think particularly disgusting, repulsive, horrific,
Speaker 12: sinful about the abuse and harm of a child or
Speaker 12: an elderly woman or an elderly person. And I think
Speaker 12: that the fact that she is eighty five or eighty six,
Speaker 12: like just really hits a specific nerve. She's a mother
Speaker 12: that hits a specific nerve. She is the mother of
Speaker 12: a woman who we are all familiar with as Americans.
Speaker 12: That hits another nerve, and it's just driving people insane,
Speaker 12: I think understandably.
Speaker 1: Hey, just one more thing before I let you go,
Speaker 1: because the Winter Olympics are on at the moment, and
Speaker 1: I love the Winter Olympics much more than the summer ones.
Speaker 1: That's just me. Jd Vance, the Vice president here, he
Speaker 1: had a nice old shot at some of these athletes
Speaker 1: who are using platforms to discuss politics. Hey, look at this.
Speaker 10: My advice to them would be to try to bring
Speaker 10: the country together.
Speaker 11: And when you're representing the country, you're representing Democrats and Republicans.
Speaker 10: You're there to play a sport and you're there to.
Speaker 4: Represent your country, and hopefully when a medal, you're not
Speaker 4: there to pop off about politics.
Speaker 1: I mean, amen to that, but this was after us
Speaker 1: gear hunter Hess said he had mixed emotions about representing
Speaker 1: the country. Your reaction, Yeah.
Speaker 9: It's pretty despicable.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 12: I love the Winter Olympics too, and there was a
Speaker 12: day maybe in my teenagehood when I was bombing down hills.
Speaker 12: Maybe it discasses these guys.
Speaker 9: But yeah, it's pretty despicable.
Speaker 12: Sports is supposed to be a unifying thing that we
Speaker 12: can all love, and the sports heroes that we have
Speaker 12: are aspirational and wholesome, and this is supposed to be
Speaker 12: is one thing. You'd hope that politics doesn't have to contaminate,
Speaker 12: but alas apparently.
Speaker 9: That's impossible because Orange Man bad as.
Speaker 1: Usual, Orange Man Bad, going for gold. Emma Joe Morris,
Speaker 1: always so good to get your thoughts, to have a chat.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for coming on the program. Now, don't
Speaker 1: go anywhere, because only in America is coming at you
Speaker 1: in just a moment. But first, this may have been
Speaker 1: the most exciting moment in last Sunday's Super Bowl. Late
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of the game, a shirtless man
Speaker 1: made it onto the field and through the wonder of technology,
Speaker 1: well behold streaker cam.
Speaker 16: How you guys, you guys done, you guys done me?
Speaker 1: Yes, that was Patriots wide receiver Kyle Williams with the
Speaker 1: assist there that Patriots fans wish she showed that sort
Speaker 1: of gusto during the actual game. Stick around because only
Speaker 1: in America is mixed. Welcome back to the program, and
Speaker 1: now it's time for your favorite segment and mine, Only
Speaker 1: in America. Well, we all enjoyed bad Bunny at the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl halftime show, didn't we. No, of course we didn't.
Speaker 1: But you know who really didn't like it? This patriotic
Speaker 1: all American grandma.
Speaker 17: Oh put the gang back home. I can't stand this.
Speaker 17: Tell me, I mean, what in the world is ours?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 9: Thank you? Get off the stage, please, Jaegels.
Speaker 1: You tell them get off the stage and get me
Speaker 1: off the stage too. Because that's all the time we
Speaker 1: have for this week. I'll see you next time and
Speaker 1: see us Briday and early Sunday morning for Outsiders. Bye bye,