Speaker 1: This is the US Report with James Morrow.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the program. Here's what's coming
Speaker 2: up tonight. Bondie beached. Trump fires his attorney general. I'm
Speaker 2: going to bring you the what, where and why very shortly,
Speaker 2: plus disorder in the court. You're not going to believe
Speaker 2: the gobsmackingly dumb reason one justice had for granting birthright citizenship,
Speaker 2: and America is going back to the moon. About time.
Speaker 2: I say, but first, what is going on with the
Speaker 2: war and Iran? Well, I thought we should take a
Speaker 2: bit of a look at it and Donald Trump's big
Speaker 2: address to the American people and the world this week. Now,
Speaker 2: the aim of this speech was to give Americans both
Speaker 2: a status update and a justification for the war effort,
Speaker 2: which has gone on for more than a month now,
Speaker 2: and indeed it has been militarily a hell of a success.
Speaker 3: We are systematically dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America
Speaker 3: or project power outside of their borders. That means eliminating
Speaker 3: Iran's navy, which is now absolutely destroyed.
Speaker 2: Trump also laid out the long historical justification for this conflict.
Speaker 2: The fact of the matter is, and Trump is completely
Speaker 2: right here Iran had it coming.
Speaker 3: This fanacular regime has been chanting death to America, death
Speaker 3: to Israel for forty seven years. Their proxies were behind
Speaker 3: the murder of two hundred and forty one Americans and
Speaker 3: the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, the slaughter of hundreds
Speaker 3: of our service members with roadside bombs, and this.
Speaker 2: Bit here too. This was very important. So much of
Speaker 2: the reason why Iran has been so awful lately. Trump
Speaker 2: made the point that this is because of Barack Obama's
Speaker 2: Iran Deal, which saw literal paletts of cash flown to
Speaker 2: the Malahs.
Speaker 3: Obama gave them one point seven billion dollars in cash,
Speaker 3: green green cash, took it out of banks from Virginia, DC,
Speaker 3: and Maryland, all the cash they had, flew it by
Speaker 3: airplanes in an attempt to buy their respect and loyalty.
Speaker 4: But it didn't work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and let's never forget what an absolute disaster that
Speaker 2: Obama foreign policy was. But then things started to get
Speaker 2: a bit confused because Trump also said this.
Speaker 3: We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next
Speaker 3: two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back
Speaker 3: to the Stone Ages where they belong. In the meantime
Speaker 3: discussions are ongoing. Regime change was not our goal. We
Speaker 3: never said regime change, but regime change has occurred.
Speaker 2: So here's where I get a little bit confused. On
Speaker 2: the one hand, America has achieved all its goals, achieved
Speaker 2: regime change, but the bombing's gonna continue. Look, I'll be
Speaker 2: really honest with you. If you watch this show, you
Speaker 2: know we've got a lot of time here for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: And if you know me, well, you know that the
Speaker 2: disaster of the Iranian Revolution is something that I have
Speaker 2: been wanting to see reversed since I was literally a
Speaker 2: little kid when I watched American diplomats be paraded by
Speaker 2: Sheite Muslim thugs who'd seized the embassy in Tehran back
Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy nine. But I think ultimately Trump left
Speaker 2: a lot of us with this speech with a few
Speaker 2: more questions and answers. For one thing, if the objectives
Speaker 2: have been met, then why does there need to be
Speaker 2: a deal backed up with the threat of bombing Iran
Speaker 2: back to the Stone Age? Though I would argue for
Speaker 2: the people in charge of Iran, the Mullas and Iatolas,
Speaker 2: at least mentally well when it comes to the Stone Age,
Speaker 2: They're already there. And as far as fixing the whole
Speaker 2: problem with the oil coming out of the strain of
Speaker 2: Horror Moves, Trump told other nations that the strain of
Speaker 2: Horror Moves now wasn't America's problem.
Speaker 3: So to those countries that can't get fuel, many of
Speaker 3: which refuse to get involved in the decapitation.
Speaker 4: Of our end, we had to do it ourselves. I
Speaker 4: have a suggestion.
Speaker 3: Number one, by oil from the United States of America.
Speaker 5: We have plenty, We have so much. And number two,
Speaker 5: build up some delayed courage. Should have done it before,
Speaker 5: should have done it with us as we asked. Go
Speaker 5: to the Strait and just take it, protect it, use
Speaker 5: it for yourselves.
Speaker 2: Take it. But with what I mean I guess to
Speaker 2: ask the question, though, is to answer it. European nations,
Speaker 2: including once great seafaring people like the British and the French,
Speaker 2: have let their navies run to seed and have no
Speaker 2: no capacity, no capability to protect power even if they did.
Speaker 2: There's another problem, and that is that the borders of
Speaker 2: the Islamic world now squarely sit within their territories, and
Speaker 2: weak Western leaders like Keir Starmer and Emanuel mccrun don't
Speaker 2: dare offend their growing populations of Muslim voters by taking
Speaker 2: action against Iran, particularly not with the Great Satan Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: So yeah, all right, Look, we've got a dead Ayatola
Speaker 2: and a new one, this fellow bush Taba, who sounds
Speaker 2: like an HR Department's ultimate fantasy by the way I
Speaker 2: mean think about it. He's gay, Muslim, a person of color,
Speaker 2: and missing at least one leg. And we've also got Iran,
Speaker 2: we are told, unable to achieve its nuclear ambitions, which
Speaker 2: is unreservedly good. These are all good things, but we've
Speaker 2: now got the practical problem of a major strategic chow point,
Speaker 2: choke point left in the hands of the Mullahs. Look,
Speaker 2: I get Trump's point. European nations have been free riding
Speaker 2: for so long on American defense, ever since the end
Speaker 2: of World War Two, and they won't even let the
Speaker 2: US use their bases for missions against Iran. And yeah,
Speaker 2: the Europeans need a bit of a lesson here. And
Speaker 2: what's more, this bay also who knows all of this
Speaker 2: may be a big bluff before US briins go into Iran,
Speaker 2: take carg Island and finally choke the Iranian regimes economic
Speaker 2: lifeline once and for all now I hope so, and
Speaker 2: not just because I drive up thirsty V eight. Sorry, Greta, Okay, now,
Speaker 2: just quickly, I wanted to bring you a shocking story
Speaker 2: out of Providence for Rhode Island that I think pretty
Speaker 2: much sums up where the American left now sits on
Speaker 2: the politics of race, crime and free speech. I remember
Speaker 2: this woman, twenty three year old Ukrainian refugee, Irena Zaruska,
Speaker 2: brutally stabbed to death last year in Charlotte, North Carolina,
Speaker 2: as she made her way home from work, allegedly by
Speaker 2: this man to Carlos Brown Junior, a career criminal and
Speaker 2: diagnosed schizophrenic. Well in Providence, Rhode Island, local muralist Ian
Speaker 2: Gudreau decided that he wanted to memorialize Irena and her
Speaker 2: tragic death. That's the half finished mura that he drew there.
Speaker 2: But guess what this guy, Providence mayor and Democrats Brett
Speaker 2: Smiley said, No way to the mural. Take it down,
Speaker 2: he said, and you'll love the reason why. He said.
Speaker 2: It's just too divisive, which courses code for. This was
Speaker 2: a black on white crime that became a flashpoint for
Speaker 2: discussions about failed criminal justice policies and Smiley. The mayor
Speaker 2: was joined in this by Democrat Congressman David Morales.
Speaker 6: This mural behind us does not reflect Providence's values, nor
Speaker 6: does it reflect the creativity that we want to see
Speaker 6: in our stay.
Speaker 4: Ultimately, we want to.
Speaker 6: Make sure that every community member that calls Providence home
Speaker 6: feels safe.
Speaker 2: Wait, what you know, Teya? You know who didn't feel safe? Irena. Again,
Speaker 2: here's what's happening. The Democrats are just mad because this
Speaker 2: because Trump champion IRENA's case at the State of the Union.
Speaker 2: But it is worth noting that Providence has had no
Speaker 2: trouble celebrating other, yes divisive cases. Remember George Floyd who
Speaker 2: died in an encounter with Minneapolis police. When it later
Speaker 2: came out he had a massive amount of fentanyl and
Speaker 2: meth in his system that prompted riots and looting across
Speaker 2: the country, including in Providence Rhode Island, which makes Floyd
Speaker 2: I think a pre divisive figure in my book. But
Speaker 2: what did Providence do during all of that, Well, they
Speaker 2: used their own taxpayer funds to pay to great Big
Speaker 2: Black Lives Matter mural literally on their streets. Now, the
Speaker 2: difference of courses at the BLM riots of twenty twenty
Speaker 2: were all about a coordinated push to cost Donald Trump
Speaker 2: his reelection, and so promoting the BLM slogan was all
Speaker 2: about helping that narrative. But IRENA's case was taken up
Speaker 2: by Trump, and therefore, no matter how sad or wrong
Speaker 2: or tragic or death might have been, or the issues
Speaker 2: highlighting it highlights being so important, she has to be
Speaker 2: sent down the memory hole by the same people who
Speaker 2: glorified George Floyd. Well for all the breaking news, let's
Speaker 2: bring in our first guest, former White House Chief of
Speaker 2: Staff and senior advisor of Bondi Partners, Mick Malveigh. Mick,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the program. Happy Easter. A few days early,
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk about the big news here that
Speaker 2: President Trump has fired his Attorney General, Pam Bondy. Now,
Speaker 2: of course Pam Bondy has been controversial about the release
Speaker 2: of the Epstein files, but she's also had a lot
Speaker 2: of success prosecuting the White House's case in veryous appellate
Speaker 2: courts against the anti Trump Lawfair Mick, what's the latest,
Speaker 2: Who's going to replace her? And why do we reckon
Speaker 2: that she got the pink slip.
Speaker 4: Last question. First, there's a lot of discussion here tonight.
Speaker 1: James.
Speaker 4: By the way, it's great to see you. Happ Easter
Speaker 4: to you as well.
Speaker 7: That Trump really didn't like the way she had handled
Speaker 7: the Eric Swalwell matter. That there were some rumors unsubstantiated,
Speaker 7: but that's how Washington works sometimes.
Speaker 4: That Attorney General.
Speaker 7: Bondi had given Swalwell heads up on the investigation into
Speaker 7: his spy girlfriend.
Speaker 4: True or not.
Speaker 7: Sometimes perception is reality, and and apparently that was the
Speaker 7: straw that broke the camel's back. Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's
Speaker 7: personal lawyer and an assistant Attorney General, will take over
Speaker 7: on an acting basis for a temporary period of time.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of discussions whether or not Lee Zelden,
Speaker 7: another former colleague of mine, former House member from New York,
Speaker 7: currently the EPA Administrator, the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, is
Speaker 7: on a short list.
Speaker 4: Apparently for the replacement.
Speaker 7: But I've got to ask James, you know, just out
Speaker 7: loud in the Republicans circles, Ken Paxton is running for
Speaker 7: Senate as a Republican against John Cornyn in Texas, and
Speaker 7: I got to tell you, Ken Paxton is the sitting
Speaker 7: Attorney General in Texas.
Speaker 4: Moving Ken Paxton.
Speaker 7: To the Attorney General's office in Washington solves a lot
Speaker 7: of GOP problems.
Speaker 2: That's a very interesting one there, Ken, Paston, you heard
Speaker 2: it here. First. Let's see how that one plays out.
Speaker 2: But you mentioned Eric Swalwell, and I want to talk
Speaker 2: a little bit about this too, because there has been
Speaker 2: a lot of controrascy around this guy. And one of
Speaker 2: the things I found fascinating this week is that, you know,
Speaker 2: when it came to those Epstein files, he was a
Speaker 2: massive vocal advocate for the need to release the Epstein
Speaker 2: files in full. Oh, we've got to get them out there.
Speaker 2: We got a you know, full transparency. Who's in there,
Speaker 2: what's in there? But now this week his attorneys have
Speaker 2: said a cease and desist letter to FBI Director Cash Pttel,
Speaker 2: who was, as you suggested, preparing to release files relating
Speaker 2: to his purported ties to a suspected Chinese intelligence operative,
Speaker 2: i e. His girlfriend Fang Fang. Tell us about this
Speaker 2: and this hypocrisy around privacy. I mean, suddenly now we're
Speaker 2: clutching our pearls over investigations.
Speaker 7: Yeah, James, it's hard to know to start with Swallowell again,
Speaker 7: another former colleague of mine in the House. By the way,
Speaker 7: you needed to add a suffix to your introduction of
Speaker 7: Eric when you said he was a proponent of releasing
Speaker 7: the full files, a strong advocate for reaching the full files.
Speaker 7: He's been a strong advocate since Donald Trump has been president,
Speaker 7: advocating for any of these files to come out. During
Speaker 7: the Biden administration. Keep in mind, Biden had these files
Speaker 7: for four years, so you have to ask yourself what
Speaker 7: the motivation is there. But yeah, if you're asking me
Speaker 7: if there's a chance that politicians in Washington, DC are
Speaker 7: hypocritical when it comes to their own behavior, the answer
Speaker 7: is yes. But look, I know a lot of Republicans
Speaker 7: and some Democrats who have been concerned about this alleged
Speaker 7: girlfriend for a long time. She was in his office
Speaker 7: I think at the time, and I will stand corrected
Speaker 7: if I'm not right about it.
Speaker 4: I think he was on the Intelligence Committee at the time.
Speaker 2: I believe it was.
Speaker 1: He.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you know, this is the type of thing
Speaker 7: that gets members of both parties interested and concerned. So
Speaker 7: hopefully that investigation will continue, and if he's innocent, that's great.
Speaker 7: Everybody's innocent until proven guilty. But if there's something there,
Speaker 7: I think we need to know about that just as
Speaker 7: much as we need to know about the Epstein files.
Speaker 2: So are we going to start to see some swallowl
Speaker 2: files come out? I mean, this was potentially the thing
Speaker 2: that caused Trump to get off side with Pam BONDI.
Speaker 2: Are we going to start to see more substantive allegations
Speaker 2: or evidence around what he's alleged to have possibly done
Speaker 2: with this alleged spy.
Speaker 7: And to be clear that the rumors about Bondi giving
Speaker 7: Swallow the heads up are just that they're not substantiated.
Speaker 7: I've not seen anything that really has any credibility. But
Speaker 7: if your question is should we expect to see some
Speaker 7: Swallwhell files coming out?
Speaker 4: The answer is yes. I think you would have seen
Speaker 4: them under PANM. Bondi.
Speaker 7: You'll absolutely see them under Todd Blanche or anybody else
Speaker 7: who comes into the Attorney General's office. And again, it's
Speaker 7: the type of thing that even in hyper parts in Washington,
Speaker 7: d C. There will be some Bi Parson interest in
Speaker 7: this because we just can't have spies, alleged spies working
Speaker 7: in congressional offices.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I think that. I think both sides of
Speaker 2: politics really should agree on that, but you know, parts
Speaker 2: of ithip is such a tricky thing these days.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 2: Also, while talking about the Department of Publand Security, there
Speaker 2: has finally been a deal to move ahead to reopen
Speaker 2: the Department of Hubland Security. We saw the TSA agents
Speaker 2: helped out by ICE agentscy the other day. But here's
Speaker 2: the interesting thing here. To me, it seems like Trump
Speaker 2: may have had a bit of a win here because
Speaker 2: the money is coming back to the agency, but there's
Speaker 2: not the restrictions on ICE and border patrol that the
Speaker 2: Democrats had called for. So chalk this one up for
Speaker 2: the White House.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the trade off was that there were none of
Speaker 7: the Democrat demands got passed into law. That being said,
Speaker 7: there was no funding for ICE, But as you and
Speaker 7: I have talked about before, there didn't need to be
Speaker 7: any funding for ICE, that's the Immigrations and custom enforcement
Speaker 7: because that funding came through a different avenue than one
Speaker 7: big beautiful bill. Now, the Republicans didn't originally want to
Speaker 7: sort of send the signal that they would cut ICE
Speaker 7: out of this new funding, but at the end of
Speaker 7: the day, everybody was frightened by the pictures you are
Speaker 7: just seeing, which was the tremendously long lines, And there
Speaker 7: were real concerns, James, about major airports in this country closing.
Speaker 7: You can imagine the effect that has on the economy. Plus,
Speaker 7: the Department of Homeland Security seems like the type of
Speaker 7: agency you might want to have fully funded during a
Speaker 7: war with Iran. All of that being said that the
Speaker 7: Republicans now are talking about funding ICE through a different mechanism, reconciliation,
Speaker 7: which you and I talked about previously, which doesn't require
Speaker 7: sixty votes in the Senate. And there's some discussion now
Speaker 7: about in the next couple of weeks taking up a
Speaker 7: separate reconciliation bill to fund IO.
Speaker 4: This story's not over yet.
Speaker 2: And finally, Mick, I just want to talk about Donald
Speaker 2: Trump's big address to the nation over the Iran war,
Speaker 2: the prosecution of that so far. Want to get your
Speaker 2: reaction generally to the speech, what she thought about how
Speaker 2: that went and how this war is going, and particularly
Speaker 2: about his talk about questioning the future of the US
Speaker 2: in NATO. Have a look at this.
Speaker 5: We didn't need them here either, To be honest, I
Speaker 5: was really asking because I wanted to see what they do.
Speaker 5: We didn't need it. We blasted the hell out of
Speaker 5: them out of their end, and the last thing I
Speaker 5: needed was NATO stepping in our way because they're not
Speaker 5: They're a paper.
Speaker 2: Tiger, mik. It's fascinating to me because on the one hand,
Speaker 2: I feel like Trump has a great deal of affection
Speaker 2: for Europe and the West. On the other, I feel
Speaker 2: like he really doesn't like a lot of the organizations
Speaker 2: that are associated with it, particularly NATO, which he's always
Speaker 2: said is a free riding operation. What do you do
Speaker 2: you make of the speech overall and this thread around NATO.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought it was a good speech.
Speaker 7: I thought it would have been a better speech thirty
Speaker 7: or thirty five days ago, at the outset of the war.
Speaker 4: But that's water under them.
Speaker 7: So but let's talk about that European relationship. Look, he's angry,
Speaker 7: and I got to tell you he's not the only one.
Speaker 7: I'm angry. I understand if the French and the Brits
Speaker 7: and the Italians come to us and say, look, we
Speaker 7: don't want to commit troops for XYZ. You didn't ask
Speaker 7: us about it beforehand, We're not prepared to do it,
Speaker 7: et cetera. But that's not what they're doing. At least
Speaker 7: that's not all they're doing here. They have denied American
Speaker 7: overflights and denied American refueling at American bases in their territory.
Speaker 7: That's a slap in the face, James. It really really
Speaker 7: is to fly from the UK to Iran, which some
Speaker 7: of our soldiers are doing right now. It's a lot
Speaker 7: easier and a lot safer if you go over France
Speaker 7: and or Italy.
Speaker 4: But they weren't allowing them on a couple of occasions.
Speaker 4: That's wrong.
Speaker 7: You don't do that to friends. I get the part
Speaker 7: about not committing troops. I get the part about being
Speaker 7: upset about not being consulted. That's all reasonable. But your
Speaker 7: closest ally in the whole country and the whole world says, look,
Speaker 7: can you at least let us fly over your nation
Speaker 7: on the way to Iran. The ANSWER's got to be yes.
Speaker 7: And if it's not, that speaks to something much deeper
Speaker 7: than I think exists. This is not from the Americans
Speaker 7: to the Europeans. This is the Europeans to the Americans.
Speaker 7: I think they just really hate Donald Trump and it's
Speaker 7: manifesting itself in these terrible decisions. As far as the
Speaker 7: long term status of the alliance goes.
Speaker 2: And Nick, there's a long history of that. Of course,
Speaker 2: we all remember Robald Reagan having his over flights to
Speaker 2: Bob Olivia tonight, I think in nineteen eighty four for memory, Mick,
Speaker 2: thanks so much for your time, appreciating Happy.
Speaker 4: Eastern Thanks James.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, there's a lot going on in the courts
Speaker 2: this week here to talk about this, so let's bring
Speaker 2: in political journalist John Fund. John a huge story out
Speaker 2: of the US this week around birthright citizenship. It started
Speaker 2: with President Trump signing an executive order stopping the US
Speaker 2: from granting citizenship automatically to children of undocumented migrants and
Speaker 2: temporary visitors. Now, the administration argues that it's necessary in
Speaker 2: order to curb illegal migration, but opponents argue it would
Speaker 2: change more than a century of precedent. And this has
Speaker 2: been argued now in the Supreme Court, where there was
Speaker 2: a fascinating argument for one Justice Justice Katanji Brown Jackson,
Speaker 2: who argued that illegal aliens have birthright citizenship by saying
Speaker 2: that if she stole someone's wallet in Japan, well she
Speaker 2: might somehow, I don't know, try it make sense of.
Speaker 8: This clip, I was thinking, you know, I'm ius citizen
Speaker 8: and visiting Japan. You know, if I steal someone's wallet
Speaker 8: in Japan, the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me.
Speaker 8: Even though I'm a temporary traveler, I'm just on vacation
Speaker 8: in Japan. I'm still locally owing allegiance in that sense.
Speaker 8: Is that the right way to think about it? And
Speaker 8: if so, doesn't that explain why both temporary residents and
Speaker 8: undocumented people would have that kind of quote unquote allegiance
Speaker 8: just by virtue of being in the United.
Speaker 2: States, John, make this make sense to me? If I
Speaker 2: go to a foreign country and commit a crime, I
Speaker 2: get a vote.
Speaker 9: Well, I think if the judge had been a travel agent,
Speaker 9: it would have been an interesting conversation about what your
Speaker 9: rights and responsibilities are to the local laws. But as
Speaker 9: a judge, it makes absolutely no sense. Look, I'm apparently
Speaker 9: glad that the judges lost your wallet, but it's clear
Speaker 9: that she's lost her mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is quite it's quite extraordinary that. But John,
Speaker 2: tell us more about where this all winds up going
Speaker 2: with this birthright citizenship case, because they're saying that this
Speaker 2: is just simply pretindent, it can't change. Do you think
Speaker 2: there's any chance as Supreme Court will give Trump a
Speaker 2: win on this or is birthright citizenship something that the
Speaker 2: US is just stuck with.
Speaker 9: Well, let's say that the Court, if it were going
Speaker 9: to vote for Donald Trump, the odds might have been
Speaker 9: a little bit better if Donald Trump didn't call them
Speaker 9: all those names. You know, talk about spread. You know,
Speaker 9: honey gets you more than vinegar. The problem here is this. Obviously,
Speaker 9: if the American people voted on this issue a national referendum,
Speaker 9: they would say worthright citizenship is outmoded in an era
Speaker 9: of jet travel and people can fly into this country,
Speaker 9: give birth and their child is automatic citizen. However, there
Speaker 9: is one hundred years of precedent, and I have to
Speaker 9: say the Solicitor General, who is the top Trump lawyer
Speaker 9: from the Justice Department who arguet this case, got tripped
Speaker 9: up a couple of times. Justice Mesitch, for example, said, Okay,
Speaker 9: you know you say that people who aren't automatically born
Speaker 9: here aren't citizens. Well what about Native Americans? And he
Speaker 9: was flummixed. He didn't have an answer. That was a
Speaker 9: bad look. In addition, the Solicitor General said to Justice
Speaker 9: Chief Justice Roberts said, you know, this is a brave
Speaker 9: new world.
Speaker 1: This is a completely new world.
Speaker 9: You know, the entire world is just one plane flight
Speaker 9: away from coming in and establishing you know, permanent residents
Speaker 9: and citizenship for people born here. And the Justice looked
Speaker 9: down in them and said, you're right, it's a new world,
Speaker 9: but it's the same old constitution we've always had.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an interesting one. Well, I think we're gonna
Speaker 2: probably not see a win for Trump on that. It
Speaker 2: doesn't sound like, but half its other interesting case this
Speaker 2: week that do show how this whole sort of continuing
Speaker 2: fight around the law and the president's interpretations versus others goes.
Speaker 2: There was another ruling that said that Trump was unable
Speaker 2: to terminate the residency of about a million migrants who
Speaker 2: came in through an app that the Biden administration gave them.
Speaker 2: And they said, well, no, no, no, you can't take
Speaker 2: it away. They already got it. But explain this to
Speaker 2: me how Joe Biden or his administration can say, oh, well,
Speaker 2: we're going to change the rules so you can use
Speaker 2: an app to become a resident of the US, But
Speaker 2: then suddenly the next president has no authority to say no, no, no,
Speaker 2: that was a horrific idea. It seems like this direction
Speaker 2: runs in one direction only.
Speaker 9: Called the ratchet. It always leads to more government control
Speaker 9: and less civil order.
Speaker 1: Look. I searched through some law.
Speaker 9: Books before I came on your show tonight, and I
Speaker 9: looked really long and really hard, and I couldn't find
Speaker 9: the principle that if you already are on an app
Speaker 9: somehow that gives you that means possession is nine tenths
Speaker 9: of the law in making you a citizen possession of
Speaker 9: that app. I'm sorry, I just couldn't find that in
Speaker 9: the long books.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, will this one then wind up going following the
Speaker 2: pattern that we've seen? You know, it gets settled in
Speaker 2: one way against Trump by an activist judge, and then
Speaker 2: eventually this one also winds up having to make it
Speaker 2: sway up to the Supreme Court. Is that what happens
Speaker 2: to this one?
Speaker 1: Rinse shampoo, repeat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, John, also want to talk about another case.
Speaker 2: I mean, this just shows how nuts some of these
Speaker 2: judges are. They seem to just want to make a headline, frankly,
Speaker 2: because they've now had a federal judge halt construction on
Speaker 2: the White House Ballroom project. US District Judge Richard Leon
Speaker 2: said no statute comes close to granting Trump the authority
Speaker 2: to claim he has to execute the four hundred million
Speaker 2: dollar project, barring at He's barred constructions can coining until
Speaker 2: Congress authorizes the completion. I thought Trump had a fun
Speaker 2: reaction to this here, but.
Speaker 5: Basically he's saying I need congressional approval, and he's so wrong.
Speaker 5: This is being financed privately. It's a donation that's being
Speaker 5: given by companies, very rich companies, very rich people, so
Speaker 5: that for one hundred and fifty years they've wanted a
Speaker 5: ballroom here. We're going to have the finest form, I
Speaker 5: believe anywhere in the world.
Speaker 2: I mean, it has always struck me odd John that
Speaker 2: state dinners and massive events have to be held on
Speaker 2: the lawn under tents. They do need some sort of
Speaker 2: function space. But what's the plan here? A judge just says, oh, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: you're just going to have a big unfinished hole in
Speaker 2: the ground because we don't like Trump.
Speaker 9: Well, the principle here is very simple. The White House
Speaker 9: sits on land that is occupied by the executive branch
Speaker 9: of the government. The executive branch of the government in
Speaker 9: our divided powers system is supposed to control its executive branch. Now,
Speaker 9: what would Congress feel like if, for example, they decided
Speaker 9: to renovate the US capital and Donald Trump sent over
Speaker 9: an order saying, no, I'm President of United States, you
Speaker 9: can't renovate it. What if the Supreme Court wanted to
Speaker 9: remodel its offices and Donald Trump said, well, I'm President
Speaker 9: United States, you can't remodel your offices. It would be preposterous.
Speaker 9: Everyone would be outraged. Look, the White House has evolved over.
Speaker 1: Many, many years. It has changed Teddy Roosevelt completely rediditary, gouded.
Speaker 9: It, and just today, just a couple of hours ago,
Speaker 9: the National Capital Planning Commission, which is in charge of
Speaker 9: all of these changes on monuments and other things in Washington,
Speaker 9: rule that Trump had the power to go forward. In fact,
Speaker 9: the chairman said, many might wish for history in the
Speaker 9: world to stand still, but the White House complex has
Speaker 9: constantly evolved and meet the needs of the federal government.
Speaker 9: This ballroom will be considered every bit as an echine
Speaker 9: national treasure as the other key opponents of the White House,
Speaker 9: and I think in five ten years after this is built,
Speaker 9: this will be a complete non issue, becase, because I've
Speaker 9: looked at the ballroom it looks beautiful. Now the plans
Speaker 9: for the new Trump Library in Miami, which is luckily
Speaker 9: is privately financed as well, that seems to me a
Speaker 9: little bit too much of the Gilded Age.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, and perhaps so, of course, the Obama Library
Speaker 2: has been too much of the brutallest age. John Fun,
Speaker 2: thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I know Obama Library looks like a prison, it does.
Speaker 2: It looks it looks like some place where they burn
Speaker 2: books rather than store them. John Fun, thank you so
Speaker 2: much for your time. As always, Now stick around. We
Speaker 2: gonna have a lot more on the show here. And
Speaker 2: you know how there used to be a show called
Speaker 2: Kids Say the Darnedest Thing. And you know the show
Speaker 2: was all about video clips of youngsters doing silly stuff. Well,
Speaker 2: guess what I reckon we could take that title and
Speaker 2: repurpose it for all the clips we're seeing of young
Speaker 2: people out there at those no Kings marches against Trump
Speaker 2: like you know this, I'm not sure, fella, do you
Speaker 2: hate Trump? You seem young?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 11: I hate Trump because well, he's doing everything. He's making
Speaker 11: it a crime to be trans He's immigrant. He's deporting
Speaker 11: people who are like legal immigrants, and he supporting people
Speaker 11: who an't eve immigant people are born here. He's just
Speaker 11: doing all these horrible, horrible things, and he doesn't even
Speaker 11: like he's a nine climate chrings exist. And then he's
Speaker 11: starting the world. How's he making it a crime to
Speaker 11: be trans? I've heard that in an article and from
Speaker 11: some of my friends, but I don't know if that's
Speaker 11: true or not. But I wouldn't put it past him.
Speaker 11: Are you trans?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: No, I am not. Yeah.
Speaker 10: I think there's still trans people.
Speaker 2: I saw a few in them all.
Speaker 11: I am pand sexual though, okay, yeah, yeah, And what
Speaker 11: does that mean? It means that I don't really mind
Speaker 11: gender at all. If I like someone, I.
Speaker 2: Like them pan sexually. You say, well, maybe we'll catch
Speaker 2: this one on only pans get it anyway? All right,
Speaker 2: I'll get my coat, but you don't go anywhere. Adam B.
Speaker 2: Cooleba is back after the break. Welcome back to the program.
Speaker 2: So much to talk about, with elections coming up in
Speaker 2: no and then talking about this and a whole lot more,
Speaker 2: Let's bring my good friend author Adam B. Coleman. Adam,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the program. It is already starting to be
Speaker 2: election season in the US, and already there's concern about integrity.
Speaker 2: To over in Palm Beach, Florida home tomorrow, Lago an
Speaker 2: election count supervisors apparently facing felony charges after he stole
Speaker 2: allegedly an encrypted USB process key. Now the fellow is
Speaker 2: seen on surveillance taking the device from a voter registration
Speaker 2: kiosk and putting this in his pocket. Officials said it
Speaker 2: could have been tampered with for all sorts of reasons,
Speaker 2: and now this ties into Trump signing a broader executive
Speaker 2: order cracking down on mail in voting. Adam, tell us
Speaker 2: all about this is election integrity. I've always been told
Speaker 2: never worried about an American elections and privilege secure. Is
Speaker 2: there a concern here?
Speaker 12: There should always be a concern when it comes to
Speaker 12: our elections. That's what the whole save actor is. It's
Speaker 12: about the integrity of our elections. Granted, this is talking
Speaker 12: about a poll worker, but we should care about who
Speaker 12: we're allowing to actually go to the polls just to
Speaker 12: vote in the first place. So, yeah, election integrity is
Speaker 12: something that we should tremendously care about, and it's actually
Speaker 12: something that both parties pretend to care.
Speaker 1: About when they're not in power.
Speaker 12: So I've seen this for many many years.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I mean we have seen this for many,
Speaker 2: many years. But one of the things that I find
Speaker 2: really remarkable here is that the Democrats are so resistant
Speaker 2: to things that you know, eighty ninety percent of Americans
Speaker 2: seem to think it's perfectly normal. I mean, a lot
Speaker 2: of states do require voter I d are they saying
Speaker 2: that those states that do require they shouldn't even have
Speaker 2: to require you to show your driver's license. It seems
Speaker 2: absolutely absurd, and it leads me to believe that they
Speaker 2: only have this some sort of nefarious purpose in mind here.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and I tend to not be the person that
Speaker 12: goes automatically to the various means, But the only thing
Speaker 12: that makes sense to me is that they understand potentially
Speaker 12: having illegal immigrants voting is a benefit to them, and
Speaker 12: even if they're not voting, this was one of the
Speaker 12: reasons why they're going after illegal immigration.
Speaker 1: In the first place.
Speaker 12: Having them just be there asset of census gives them
Speaker 12: more electoral power. And we already know that Democrats control
Speaker 12: most of the major cities in America, So the entire
Speaker 12: thing is about election integrity, even before the election even starts.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a fantastic point, Adam, and I think
Speaker 2: people here might not realize it, but that when you
Speaker 2: are in the country, no matter whether you're there on
Speaker 2: a green card, you're a citizen as a tourist, or
Speaker 2: you're there illegally, you count for the census and that's
Speaker 2: what determines electoral votes. That is hugely important and people
Speaker 2: need to get that. But we're getting into now the
Speaker 2: midterm season. More broadly, Adam, what is your sense of
Speaker 2: how the midterms are going to play out for the Republics.
Speaker 2: Because Trump's got this war and Iran, You've got some
Speaker 2: oil price shocks, although of course not as great in
Speaker 2: Australia because hey, you guys are smart enough to drill
Speaker 2: your own oil. But how is this going to roll
Speaker 2: for the Republicans? Trump, I think wants to take a
Speaker 2: very leading role in the campaign. Is that a smart idea?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 12: Despite everything that's going on, Trump is still seen favorably.
Speaker 12: What I would say is, I'm not too optimistic though
Speaker 12: when it comes to the Republican field. There are still
Speaker 12: problems when it comes to Trump and voters translate whatever
Speaker 12: is happening in the presidency for the party that's in power,
Speaker 12: they translate it into the people that are going to
Speaker 12: potentially vote for whether there's excitement there or whether there's
Speaker 12: rage against the current political party in power to go
Speaker 12: against them in the in the polls. So I think
Speaker 12: this is going to come down to the economy is
Speaker 12: going to come down to the war and how it's progressed. Well,
Speaker 12: if it's over by the time the election actually comes about,
Speaker 12: a lot can happen between now in the midterms. So
Speaker 12: you know, we'd like to think that right now, that's it,
Speaker 12: it's over, But in two weeks we'll be talking about
Speaker 12: something else, completely different, and the vibe can absolutely shift.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, two weeks is a long time in politics,
Speaker 2: as they say. But I also want to talk to you, Adam,
Speaker 2: about something else that I just think is insane. You know,
Speaker 2: we saw that Minnesota fraud around Medicare and welfare earlier
Speaker 2: in the year. But this story out of California that
Speaker 2: has broken City Journal, a great publication. Chris Ruffo has
Speaker 2: written an amazing expose. Apparently California lost as much as
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty billion dollars to fraud, including through
Speaker 2: its medical program, every single year. This despite the state,
Speaker 2: or maybe because, the state collects some of the country's
Speaker 2: highest income taxes, business taxes, fueld taxes, and spends more
Speaker 2: than three hundred billion dollars a year. Putting aside what
Speaker 2: this means for Gavin Newsom, I'm really starting to get
Speaker 2: the sense, Adam, that there's a whole, huge shadow economy
Speaker 2: in the US. It's just based on government corruption and
Speaker 2: particularly allowing favored client groups to loot the treasury in
Speaker 2: exchange for votes. Am I being too cynical here?
Speaker 1: No, not at all.
Speaker 12: As a matter of fact, when I saw those numbers,
Speaker 12: I thought that's it.
Speaker 1: Like I thought it was going to.
Speaker 12: Be more than that, because I've accepted that California is
Speaker 12: not one of is the most corrupt state within our country.
Speaker 12: Nothing about California makes sense if you go by sector
Speaker 12: by sector, the amount of money they'd taken for taxes,
Speaker 12: the lack of accountability for all the money that is
Speaker 12: generated there. Right, they love to talk about how what
Speaker 12: are they like the fifth largest economy and blah blah
Speaker 12: blah blah, But what are they actually doing with the
Speaker 12: tax base? Why are people leaving. If everything is just
Speaker 12: so hunky dory in California, and it's because everyone knows,
Speaker 12: it's an open secret that that tax money that is
Speaker 12: going to the state goes to absolutely nothing of you,
Speaker 12: absolutely nothing. And so where is that money actually going
Speaker 12: is going into the pockets of contractors, is going to
Speaker 12: the pockets of friends of politicians, into the pockets of
Speaker 12: politicians in general, city officials who get paid two hundred
Speaker 12: thousand dollars to do what exactly nothing we solve with
Speaker 12: the la fires. How much money these people are making
Speaker 12: and they're completely inept. So we already know the homeless issue,
Speaker 12: how many hundreds of millions of dollars they've been spending
Speaker 12: on that, and nothing has actually changed, and nothing's gotten
Speaker 12: any better. So of course that money is going to
Speaker 12: a series of complexes, and they don't want the fraud
Speaker 12: to stop because then we'll actually discover who the puppeteers
Speaker 12: have been.
Speaker 2: So, if you've got basically the situation where Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 2: the governor of California, is sitting atop this empire of
Speaker 2: fraudulent contracts and everything else, what does that say about
Speaker 2: his rates for the presidency.
Speaker 12: Well, I think this really just depends on how much
Speaker 12: people who don't live in California learn about Avenuwsom, like
Speaker 12: truly learn about Avenuesom. Not that he's a guy who
Speaker 12: can show up a nice smile and tell a joker
Speaker 12: to once in a while, but I'm talking about how
Speaker 12: does he actually govern?
Speaker 1: So whoever he's going to also.
Speaker 12: Be run up against, that's going to be the top
Speaker 12: thing that they're going to have to show what is
Speaker 12: California actually done for itself since he's been in power.
Speaker 12: And if every time they turn around there's a new
Speaker 12: fraud scandal that they're uncovering within California, that's not going
Speaker 12: to help him from a pr standpoint.
Speaker 2: And finally, Adam, I all hated to get your thoughts
Speaker 2: on what I thought was an absoutely historical moment this week.
Speaker 2: Have a look, and here we go.
Speaker 6: Four three two one booster ignition and lift off the
Speaker 6: crew of Artemis two, now bound for the.
Speaker 7: Moon, three miles in altitude, traveling more than twelve hundred.
Speaker 1: Miles per hour.
Speaker 2: Adam, I thought this was great, the Artemist mission launching
Speaker 2: to go. Have another look at the mood. It's the
Speaker 2: furthest men have been away from the planet since I
Speaker 2: think before either of us were born. Your thoughts on
Speaker 2: this and this there's a reels of optimism around this.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 12: It's hard to it's hard to put into words as
Speaker 12: to why. But there's something about space exploration, especially in
Speaker 12: the United States, that actually becomes like a unifying factor.
Speaker 12: But I'm glad that we're actually doing stuff like this again.
Speaker 12: And also I'm glad we're sticking it to China. Sorry,
Speaker 12: that's just my viewpoint, but I think that there's something
Speaker 12: about thank you. I do think that there is something
Speaker 12: great about actually continuing space space exploration. And also, you know,
Speaker 12: there's a lot to be had as far as advancement
Speaker 12: and technology things in that nature. So there's a ton
Speaker 12: of benefits that will come from going back into space.
Speaker 2: I just I agree with the addam, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: And yeah, this is just a good, inspiring, positive moment.
Speaker 2: Hopefully people can get around that altogether. Adam being cold,
Speaker 2: Thank its much for your time. Really appreciate it. Now
Speaker 2: stick around because after the break, the Great Alex Stein
Speaker 2: is going to join me to tell us why you
Speaker 2: soon won't be able to call a woman good looking
Speaker 2: in New York crazy, I know, but first, hey, we're
Speaker 2: just talking about space. Well, here's another case of people
Speaker 2: taking all the wrong lessons from America's new moonshot.
Speaker 13: They are going for all humanity this time. You know,
Speaker 13: Apollo was all white men and this time it's not.
Speaker 13: And I think that really speaks volumes for the journey
Speaker 13: that NASA has been on. And this is a much
Speaker 13: more representative crew.
Speaker 2: Just for the record, that was Sky News UK, not US. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I think that guy brings a whole new meaning to
Speaker 2: the phrase space Race, Don't go away. Alex Stein's with
Speaker 2: us after the breaking back to the program. Well, I'm
Speaker 2: absolutely thrilled to bring in my next guest, good friend
Speaker 2: of the program and good friend of mine, the great
Speaker 2: comedian Alex Stein. Alex, Welcome to the US Report. I'm
Speaker 2: want to start with a story out of Florida that's
Speaker 2: raised a few hackles in lefty land. Apparently two major
Speaker 2: landmarks bringing Donald Trump's name are going to be out there.
Speaker 2: Palm Beach Airport particularly is going to be renamed Donald
Speaker 2: Trump Airport or I guess DJT. But people are upset
Speaker 2: about this, and yet I fly to JFK all the time,
Speaker 2: You've got Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, d C. The
Speaker 2: FBR Drive in New York. Why are people so upset
Speaker 2: about this?
Speaker 10: Well, you know, if they're upset about this, just wait
Speaker 10: till he is the fifth president on Mount Rushmore. They're
Speaker 10: going to lose their mind. So I honestly like it.
Speaker 6: I mean, these airports, you can't ever hardly remember their
Speaker 6: airport code PBI, and I'm putting in the wrong place
Speaker 6: and I'm flying it the wrong place.
Speaker 10: So I like it. Donald J.
Speaker 6: Trump, to me, the guy is well, forget about even
Speaker 6: him being a president. He's one of the biggest celebrities
Speaker 6: in the world. So I love it, and it makes
Speaker 6: it easier to remember. So I think this is actually
Speaker 6: very beneficial for society even and if it pisses off
Speaker 6: the left, good, I kind of want to make them mad.
Speaker 2: But why is it, Alex that the left always seems
Speaker 2: to fall into this trap of getting all outraged and
Speaker 2: stuff about things that are perfectly normal. This has been
Speaker 2: going on for over a decade now. Don't they see
Speaker 2: what they're doing to themselves?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 6: But I mean you saw what happened with this No
Speaker 6: Kings protest. I mean, these people are just disconnected with reality.
Speaker 6: We haven't had a king in two hundred and fifty
Speaker 6: years here in America and they're protesting it, so they're
Speaker 6: just disconnected with reality.
Speaker 10: There are a lot of them are on.
Speaker 6: All kinds of pharmaceutical drugs, so their judgment is way off.
Speaker 6: So really, at the end of the day, like I said,
Speaker 6: if they're getting triggered from it, that's really their problem.
Speaker 10: And it's the airport code DJT that.
Speaker 6: People are going to be able to easily remember. So
Speaker 6: that that's what we need to do, is we need
Speaker 6: to make travel better now. I hope it actually encourages
Speaker 6: Donald Trump, which he did say that he's going to
Speaker 6: pay the TSA agents.
Speaker 10: I hope that we get a lot of this airport
Speaker 10: security change.
Speaker 6: I wish they would actually use private security because every
Speaker 6: time I go through there, I set off the thing
Speaker 6: and the next thing, you know, I'm basically getting, you know.
Speaker 10: Sexually abused by a TSA agent.
Speaker 6: And that's me being very friendly with describing my situation
Speaker 6: sometimes going through the TSA.
Speaker 10: So I love it.
Speaker 6: I want Donald Trump to be more involved when it
Speaker 6: comes to our air travel.
Speaker 2: I'd love to see him be more involved. But I
Speaker 2: think you're absolutely right. I said on this program just
Speaker 2: last week, the best thing Donald Trump could do would
Speaker 2: be to eliminate the TSA, send it back to private security.
Speaker 2: It actually works great here in Australia and you don't
Speaker 2: have all the riga roll with your shoes and the
Speaker 2: pat downs and everything else. But hey, I want to
Speaker 2: move then up from Palm Beach to New York City.
Speaker 2: And I don't know quite how to approach the story
Speaker 2: because it's like, you know, Alex, you're a good looking guy.
Speaker 2: But if I called you and said, hey, Alex, you're
Speaker 2: so good looking in New York City, I could be
Speaker 2: in trolled because Mayor's ziorn mom Donnie. There's nothing else
Speaker 2: to spend their money on. Apparently they're rolling out a
Speaker 2: two one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ad campaign in
Speaker 2: the subways and construction sites and all sorts of things
Speaker 2: to crack down on cat calling. And it'll see posters
Speaker 2: like these ads in English and Spanish across one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty locations. Alex, the last time I checked, the
Speaker 2: old hometown was going broke. Why are they doing this?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, this is especially egregious in my opinion,
Speaker 6: because I'm famous for cat calling AOC. I mean, I
Speaker 6: wouldn't even be the pampon at WIMP. I wouldn't be
Speaker 6: sitting here on your program if it wasn't for cat calling.
Speaker 6: And you know, there's something about going to New York
Speaker 6: and being a pretty lady and getting cat called by
Speaker 6: a construction worker that helped your confidence. So as long
Speaker 6: as these people aren't saying something disgusting to these women,
Speaker 6: complimenting a woman should not be a crime. But that's
Speaker 6: the problem in New York City is they're more worried
Speaker 6: about doing these unnecessary rules instead of actually helping the
Speaker 6: citizens of New York. You know, you see mom, Donnie's
Speaker 6: going into their you know, emergency fund to pay the
Speaker 6: bills for you know, all of the free subway.
Speaker 10: Rides that he didn't give us that he promised.
Speaker 6: So if you look at the mismanagement of New York,
Speaker 6: arguably the greatest city on earth, it's gone in a
Speaker 6: horrible direction where an a legal immigrant gets more rights
Speaker 6: and better accommodations, like a free hotel in Midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 6: When I go there, I got to piny only four
Speaker 6: hundred bucks to stay at the Holiday Inn. So there
Speaker 6: are some serious problems that are not being addressed in
Speaker 6: New York City, and they address these unnecessary problems that
Speaker 6: aren't even a big deal in order to distract us
Speaker 6: so that we don't actually fix a city that was
Speaker 6: once the greatest city on Earth.
Speaker 2: Well, and it'll come back. New York always comes back.
Speaker 2: But Alex, you know, I mean, you're in Texas right now.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of talking about people coming down from
Speaker 2: Texas to avoid mom Donnie and all the high taxes.
Speaker 2: Are you starting to see any evidence of that? Yet?
Speaker 2: Our real estate agent is kind of getting in on
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 10: Are you kids?
Speaker 6: Everybody is in Texas or Florida? I mean that is
Speaker 6: not I mean the governor of New York was saying
Speaker 6: everybody needs to come back to New York because there's
Speaker 6: no industries alive. So that is not a conspiracy. That's
Speaker 6: one hundred percent true. Because the tax rate, some people
Speaker 6: in New York City are getting taxed over fifty percent.
Speaker 6: I mean, imagine paying half of the money that you
Speaker 6: make to taxes that go to homeless people that are
Speaker 6: doing fitanyl on the street all night long and robbing
Speaker 6: the doughnut shops and pizza parlors. So anybody with half
Speaker 6: a brain or any common sense would get out of there.
Speaker 6: And now they're seeing the consequences of their actions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fifty percent tax, Well try try austray yourself. Blame.
Speaker 2: My friend finally had on t I with this Trump
Speaker 2: superfan Kid Rock, who was in the news this week
Speaker 2: because he posted a video of an Apache attack helicopter
Speaker 2: hovering over his Nashville home as he saluted. Now, apparently
Speaker 2: there was a whole investigation into this which led to
Speaker 2: this reaction from the President.
Speaker 1: There was a viral video this week.
Speaker 9: I don't know if you saw army helicopters cover your
Speaker 9: kid Rocks house in Nashville.
Speaker 5: If you see that, I didn't see no, but I'm
Speaker 5: sure they had a good time.
Speaker 9: Said the cruise of these helicopters that venicususpended.
Speaker 1: What do you think of that?
Speaker 4: What depends are they? Well, they probably shouldn't have been
Speaker 4: doing it.
Speaker 5: Yes, you're not supposed to be playing games, right, But
Speaker 5: I'd take a look at it.
Speaker 4: They like Kid Rock, I like Kid Ruck. Maybe they
Speaker 4: were trying to defend him.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It seems like he's got a bit more of a
Speaker 2: sense of humor than some of the Pentagon Brass.
Speaker 10: Oh, exactly right.
Speaker 6: I mean, Donald Trump is the world's greatest comedian. Nobody
Speaker 6: is funnier than Donald Trump. And let's be real, those
Speaker 6: those soldiers Kid Rock, there's a bunch of wild parties.
Speaker 6: They're probably trying to see, you know, some naked ladies
Speaker 6: or something. So really, I don't blame them for going
Speaker 6: over and checking out Kid Rock's parties. I would be
Speaker 6: doing the same thing if I could buy that helicopter.
Speaker 10: So you know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: They?
Speaker 6: You know, maybe they didn't follow a proper protocol, but
Speaker 6: it's not the end of the world. And let's not
Speaker 6: you know, make a mohill a maun out of nothing.
Speaker 2: Exactly right. But Alex, as long as they didn't cat
Speaker 2: call any of those those ladies who were going to
Speaker 2: the Kid Rock party, that's the important bit. Alex s Teid.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time. As always, Now
Speaker 2: stick around because Only in America is coming up after
Speaker 2: the break. But first, a hilarious scene has just emerged
Speaker 2: from the US where Democrat Representative Shomari Figurez went to
Speaker 2: a black church to make the case that Vooter Id
Speaker 2: was racist because he said black people supposedly don't have ID.
Speaker 2: So to prove his point, he asked the congregation to
Speaker 2: put their hands up if they didn't have any. To
Speaker 2: prove his point, the most.
Speaker 9: Common home idea that everybody has is driving us right
Speaker 9: with a different era, of a different generation. I probably
Speaker 9: feel a little bit different year about Washington.
Speaker 1: How many be you in here?
Speaker 8: Do not.
Speaker 1: Everybody else? That right? So my thoughts all a little bit.
Speaker 2: There yet, And that did not go as expected. Turns
Speaker 2: out they all did have ID. And I'm glad Hanks
Speaker 2: has a driver's license because he had to shift gears
Speaker 2: pretty quickly there. Anyway, don't go away, because Only in
Speaker 2: America is next. Welcome back to the program, and now
Speaker 2: it's time for a little segment we like to call
Speaker 2: only in America. So last weekend were those big no
Speaker 2: Kings protests against Donald Trump around the US, and a
Speaker 2: lot of people had something to say about what they
Speaker 2: see as the terrible state of the world, including how
Speaker 2: absolutely homophobic it is that we are all so focused
Speaker 2: on the straits of Hormuz. I mean, what about the
Speaker 2: gaze of Hormoz?
Speaker 14: Isn't it a little bit homophobic that was so focused
Speaker 14: on the straits of hormus and not the gaze of homoses.
Speaker 11: I agree, yes for sure.
Speaker 1: Why do you.
Speaker 14: Think something to leave the gaze of homos behind?
Speaker 11: I think it's just some history historically, like you know,
Speaker 11: gays have always been very discriminated against. It just takes
Speaker 11: more reform in government obviously, and then also educating society.
Speaker 14: Just feel like, if we're gonna go and say we
Speaker 14: can leave the gay people behind, I don't think we
Speaker 14: should go and say at all, But if we're going
Speaker 14: to gays of formos, we could turn it into faire
Speaker 14: Island for sure.
Speaker 2: What about the pan sexuals of Hoboz. Thanks to get
Speaker 2: a Legend Lionel from No cap On God for that
Speaker 2: amazing interview. I don't know. I wonder if people don't
Speaker 2: really have any idea about what they're protesting. Maybe they
Speaker 2: just want to look cool. I know I'm being cynical. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's all the time we have this week. See you
Speaker 2: next time. Happy Easter, Bye bye,