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Speaker 1: you listen to podcasts. Here's what we're keeping an eye

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Speaker 1: on this afternoon. Nicholas Maduro, the deposed Venezuelan dictator, making

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Speaker 1: his first appearance in federal court in Manhattan today. He

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Speaker 1: pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges. Now, just

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Speaker 1: how repressive was this guy as the dictator of Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: According to Fox News reporter Paul Morrow, who is in

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Speaker 1: the courtroom this afternoon, Maduro was shocked at the rights

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Speaker 3: Cross Interestingly, he said after the judge Redham a version

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Speaker 3: Maduro said he was unaware of those rights, and it

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Speaker 3: none of the material that he has said outside the

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Speaker 3: it was interesting to see him sort of it taking

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the United Nations has convened an emergency session to

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Speaker 1: announce the arrest of Madera. Guess which country led this meeting.

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Speaker 1: You seriously cannot make this up. Somalia. Well, you and

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Speaker 1: Ambassador Mike Waltz made America's position on the matter crystal clear.

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Speaker 5: There is no war against Venezuela or its people.

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Speaker 4: We are not occupying a country. This was a law

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Speaker 5: In further rents of lawful indictments that have existed for decades,

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Speaker 4: With the rule of law for the crimes.

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Speaker 5: He's committed against our people for fifteen years.

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Speaker 1: Hey, speaking of Somalia, the Somali fraud scandal has now

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Speaker 6: I don't want to mince words here, Donald Trump and

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Speaker 1: We'll dive into that absolutely massive story in the four

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Speaker 1: that exact same fraud is going on here in Wis.

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Speaker 1: Early this morning, a twenty six year old man who's

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Speaker 1: Also in the five o'clock hour, we begin, though with

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Speaker 1: Much like with the assassination of Charlie Kirk four months ago.

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Speaker 1: It is clear that the Left has a decidedly vested

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Speaker 1: on with respect to Venezuela. Just how legal the arrest

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Speaker 1: Congress needed to be notified, and all of the rest.

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Speaker 1: Over the course of the next hour, we are going

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Speaker 1: to debunk every single left wing talking point about the

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Speaker 1: Venezuela raid. No, President Trump did not need congressional authorization. No,

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Speaker 1: this arrest did not violate international law. And no, the

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Speaker 1: of international law. Does it actually exist as a legally binding,

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Speaker 1: it does not exist as a tangible, enforceable concept. But

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Speaker 1: he needed congressional authorization, that somehow this was a tyrannical move,

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Speaker 2: Now, Congress does.

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Speaker 1: Under Article I Section eight of the Constitution hold the

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Speaker 1: power to declare war, but the President, under Article two,

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Speaker 1: correctly comparing this to the nineteen eighty nine capture of

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Speaker 1: addition to the inherent Article II commander in chief authority

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Speaker 1: that's vested in the president, the War Powers Resolution of

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three expressly authorizes this sort of incursion. The

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Speaker 1: include a very quickly arranged and quickly put together mission. Now, yes,

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Speaker 1: only did he post on truth social this second that

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Speaker 1: He did discuss what was going on. Democrats were not

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Speaker 1: to jeopardize American lives. I'm not necessarily sure. I believe

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Speaker 2: The war was over. There never was any war to

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Speaker 1: There was no declaration of war, just as there was

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Speaker 1: The only requirement that President Trump or any president is

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Speaker 1: an attack on the United States homeland. The Libya air campaign,

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Speaker 7: And today the US Empire bombed his grave.

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Speaker 1: They just want international order and international law upheld. So

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Speaker 1: This was not an active war, This was not an

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Speaker 8: Let's go after the drug lords where they live with

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Speaker 1: And they do thanks to President Trump. Mike Waltz, the

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Speaker 5: Similar action was taken in nineteen eighty nine against Manuel Noriega.

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Speaker 1: The United States absolutely can enforce warrants outside of its boundaries.

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Speaker 2: You can't try me. No, they absolutely can. In Friesbee v.

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Speaker 1: him to Michigan for trial. The court, citing Curvy Illinois,

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Speaker 1: reaffirmed that even a forcible abduction does not violate due

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Speaker 1: process under the fourteenth Amendment. It does not invalidate a

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Speaker 1: later conviction. The court explicitly stated, quote, the power of

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Speaker 1: impaired by the fact that he had been brought within

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Speaker 1: this doctrine has been very consistently applied even in modern cases.

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Speaker 1: existing federal law, there is what's known as extra territorial

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Speaker 1: jurisdiction of the enforcement of warrants for certain federal crimes

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Speaker 1: like drug trafficking and yes, narco terrorism indictments. Warrants for

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Speaker 1: forces invaded, They arrested him on drug trafficking indictments, brought

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Speaker 1: him to trial in Miami, and there were in fact

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Speaker 2: Challenges to his conviction.

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Speaker 1: Even before he was convicted, there were challenges to his

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Speaker 1: being tried based on international law violations, treating this as

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Speaker 1: with added protection by American military personnel. Courts rejected every

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Speaker 1: no enforcement mechanism. Who are the international police. Well, if

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Speaker 1: you're to believe Trey Parker and Matt Stone from their

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Speaker 1: International law operates by consent of the sovereign states. So

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Speaker 1: can withdraw or ignore treaties or agreements, even UN resolutions,

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Speaker 1: without any automatic repercussion. Now, this leads to a broader

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Speaker 1: philosophical discussion about what exactly the law is. If I

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Speaker 1: At the international level, there is no such automatic repercussion. Essentially,

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Speaker 1: states need to consent, Nations need to consent to falling

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Speaker 1: under the purview of international law. China violates international law

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Speaker 1: all the time, what repercussions does it ever face? The

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Speaker 1: more of an esoteric concept and not an actual argument

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Speaker 1: for the invalidity of the arrest of Nicholas Maduro. Coming

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Speaker 1: up in just a couple of minutes, the very first

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Speaker 1: unhinged Liberal of the Day in twenty twenty six, and

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Speaker 1: it is a duce made even more terrifying by the

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Speaker 1: fact that this woman actually has power in New York City.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned, as you can imagine a lot going on

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Speaker 1: in the daily Trump date today coming up after the

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Speaker 1: four o'clock hour Each and every day here on the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show, we run down the day in Trump.

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Speaker 1: Before the left wing media gets a chance to frame

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Speaker 1: everything that happened today, we just give you a straight

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Speaker 1: rundown of what happened. Also, the biggest news politically, former

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Speaker 1: VP nominee for the Dems and embattled Minnesota Governor Tim

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Speaker 1: Walls announces this morning that he is not seeking another term.

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Speaker 1: It's an extraordinary development that caps off an extraordinary investigation

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Speaker 1: that much of the mainstream media just refused to cover

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Speaker 1: into widespread Somali daycare fraud. We will dive into that

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Speaker 1: in the four o'clock hour right now, though, it is

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Speaker 1: time to name the unhinged, the liberal of the dat.

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Speaker 4: We are pre Nazi Germany.

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Speaker 7: OH prefers dangerous because he's evil.

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Speaker 2: America.

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Speaker 1: I own we're the very first unhinge liberal of the

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Speaker 1: day in this the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six is New New York City Mayor Zoran mom. Donnie's

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Speaker 1: tenant director Cia Weaver. Unearthed comments from her from years

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Speaker 1: ago show she well doesn't much like the concept of

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Speaker 1: individually owned property.

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Speaker 9: I think the reality is is that for centuries we've

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Speaker 9: really treated property as an individualized good and not a

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Speaker 9: collective good. And we are going to and transitioning to

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Speaker 9: treating it as a collective good and towards a model

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Speaker 9: of scher Deck will require that we think about it differently,

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Speaker 9: and it will mean that families, especially white families, but

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Speaker 9: some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going

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Speaker 1: So yes, this is the tenant director for the new

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Speaker 1: Mayor of New York City saying that especially white people

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Speaker 1: should rethink the concept of owning their own property and

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Speaker 1: that we need to transition to the idea that property

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Speaker 1: is a collective right.

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Speaker 2: You know who else thinks like that?

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Madura Cia Weaver, your very first Unhinged Liberal of

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Speaker 1: the Day in twenty twenty six. Also coming up in

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Speaker 1: the four o'clock hour, the role of free social media

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Speaker 1: in the ability of people to actually learn about significant

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Speaker 1: events that shaped their lives. If X was not purchased

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Speaker 1: by Elon Musk in twenty twenty two, there is no

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Speaker 1: chance you would have heard of Somali fraud. Tim Walls

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Speaker 1: would not be resigning, and in all likelihood he'd probably

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Speaker 1: be the vice president right now. It is ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: great to be back on the air after Christmas break.

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Speaker 1: It's actually been almost two weeks since I have been

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Speaker 1: on this radio show. Now, very astute listeners have been

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Speaker 1: able to pick up that I sound a little stuffed up.

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Speaker 1: I've been battling whatever head cold has been going around.

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Speaker 1: In fact, my family was calling this sick miss break

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Speaker 1: just everybody it seemed, had the sickness the ick at

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Speaker 1: some point over break. Now, I don't believe I've got influenza.

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Speaker 1: I was not just bedridden for days at a time,

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Speaker 1: as a number of family members were.

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Speaker 2: But I've just been battling a head cold.

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Speaker 1: And yes, for those who are pointing this out via

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Speaker 1: text and via email, I do believe I didn't do

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Speaker 1: myself any favors by jumping into Lake Michigan on New

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Speaker 1: Year's Day. Yes, I did the polar plunge for the

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Speaker 1: first time, and yes I did go all the way under.

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Speaker 1: I did not do just a little woosy polar plunge

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Speaker 1: where you just sort of wade out into the water.

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Speaker 1: Myself in about a thousand of my closest friends who

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Speaker 1: also apparently have some sort of brain imbalanced.

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Speaker 2: It got to tell you, folks, it was exhilarating.

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Speaker 1: Dumb as all heck, but exhilarating four one, four, seven, nine, nine,

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Speaker 1: eleven thirty. If you would like to join The Dan

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Speaker 1: o'donald Show one one hundred and eight three eight nine,

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Speaker 1: four seven six our tool free talk and text line

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Speaker 1: email DD at iHeartMedia dot com, at Dan o'donalds show

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Speaker 1: on x on Facebook, on Instagram. You can find us

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Speaker 1: streaming live on YouTube anywhere and everywhere. Please do subscribe

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Speaker 1: to the Dan o'donald Show podcast on iHeartRadio or wherever

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Speaker 1: you listen to podcasts. Of course, it was a jam

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Speaker 1: packed weekend for the Trump administration and it is time

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Speaker 1: now to recap all of it in your daily Trump take.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna win so much you may even get tired

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Speaker 5: of winning.

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Speaker 2: Trump just keeps winning. It is a win for the administration.

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Speaker 4: It's also a big win for the United States.

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Speaker 2: We have to keep winning. We have to win more.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna win more.

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Speaker 1: Two days after he was arrested at his presidential palace

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Speaker 1: in Caracas, Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro as well as his both

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Speaker 1: in federal court today on narco terrorism and various other charges.

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Speaker 1: Fox News reporter Paul Morrow at the Federal courthouse in

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Speaker 1: New York City this morning said Maduro was stoic yet

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Speaker 1: remained defiant.

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Speaker 3: He made a statement about the fact that he is

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Speaker 3: not only innocent, but still the president of his country.

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Speaker 3: The takeaway, I think in a larger sense, is that everybody,

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Speaker 3: that is, he and his wife plead not guilty to

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Speaker 3: all counts. But as you say, his attorney, a man

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Speaker 3: named Pollock, did at one point stand up and when

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Speaker 3: they were talking about scheduling motion practice, did say, we

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Speaker 3: expect a voluminous and complicated process here.

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Speaker 1: Kudos to Fox News, by the way, for finding the

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Speaker 1: single most New York guy to report on the New

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Speaker 1: York trial of Nicholas Madua. Earlier today, you and Ambassador

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Speaker 1: Mike Waltz went before the UN in an emergency session

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Speaker 1: to explain the US's actions in Venezuela.

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Speaker 5: Colleagues, Maduro is not just an indicted drug trafficker. He

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Speaker 5: was an illegitimate so called president.

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Speaker 4: He was not a head of state.

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Speaker 5: For years, Maduro and his cronies have manipulated Venezuela's electoral

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Speaker 5: system to maintain their illegitimate grip on power. In fact,

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Speaker 5: just two years ago, in twenty twenty four, a UN

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Speaker 5: panel of experts report found that the election in that year.

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Speaker 4: Was absolutely and completely.

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Speaker 5: A farce and fell well short of the most basic

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Speaker 5: transparency integrity measures essential to upholding credible elections.

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Speaker 4: If the UN and the United Nations in this.

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Speaker 5: Body confers legitimacy on an illegitimate narco terrorist and the

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Speaker 5: same treatment in this charter of a democratically elected president

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Speaker 5: or head of state, what kind of organization is this?

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Speaker 4: We should note.

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Speaker 1: Book looks like we had a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: this is well within the president's domestic and international authority

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Speaker 1: to take into custody a narco terrorist. Now, in a

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Speaker 1: related story, President Trump has announced that the US set

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Speaker 1: a new liquefied natural gas export record, exporting over one

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Speaker 1: hundred million metric tons in twenty twenty five. America has

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Speaker 1: become the first country in world history to export this much.

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Speaker 1: And now it has control, or at least semi control

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Speaker 1: over Venezuelan oil fields, and it has taken back control

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Speaker 1: of American oil companies that were nationalized under Hugo Chavez

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Speaker 1: and Nicholas Maduro, making America the unquestioned energy power in

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Speaker 1: the world. President Trump today has responded to the announcement

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Speaker 1: that Tim Walls is not going to run for another

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Speaker 1: term as governor on Truth Social the President posting Minnesota's

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Speaker 1: corrupt governor will possibly leave office before his term is up,

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Speaker 1: but in any event, will not be running again because

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Speaker 1: he was caught red handed along with Elon Omar and

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Speaker 1: other of his Somali friends, stealing tens of billions of

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Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars. I feel certain the facts will come out

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Speaker 1: and they will reveal a seriously unscrupulous and rich group

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Speaker 1: of slime balls. Governor Walls has destroyed the state of Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: but others like Governor Gavin Newscomb, JB.

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Speaker 2: Pritzker, and Kathy Hokel.

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Speaker 1: Have done, in my opinion, an even more dishonest and

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Speaker 1: incompetent job. No one is above the law, all caps.

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Speaker 1: CBS News is reporting meanwhile, that up to two thousand

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Speaker 1: federal agents are now heading to Minneapolis to arrest illegal

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Speaker 1: aliens and investigate the massive fraud. CBS Border Commander Greg

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Speaker 1: Bovino CBS, rather says Border Commander Greg Bovino will reportedly

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Speaker 1: join them on the ground. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Speaker 1: has announced that the Department of War has initiated the

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Speaker 1: demotion process for Democrat Senator Mark Kelly after Kelly called

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Speaker 1: on troops to disobey orders from President Trump. Captain Kelly says,

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Speaker 1: heg Sith knows he is still accountable to military justice

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Speaker 1: and the Department of War and the American people expect justice. That,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, is your daily Trump date. Now, how

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Speaker 1: is the massive happening I guess, for lack of a

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Speaker 1: better word, in Venezuela impacting global markets?

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Speaker 2: Well, very positively. It was a big day on Wall Street.

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Speaker 1: But let's face it, this is a massive development not

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Speaker 1: only in geopolitics, but also in macroeconomics.

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Speaker 2: As Venezuela was.

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Speaker 1: Before the takeover of the country by the socialist Hugo Chavez,

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Speaker 1: one of the most oil rich nations in the world.

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Speaker 1: Now it is still oil rich, but Chavez and then

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Speaker 1: Maduro ensured that its people were not rich. Do you

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Speaker 1: realize that? And this stat still kind of blows my

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Speaker 1: mind that the GDP per capita in Venezuela is totally

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Speaker 1: unchanged from nineteen ninety nine. In fact, it's I believe,

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Speaker 1: twenty five percent lower. That is, each individual share of

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Speaker 1: the annual gross domestic product GDP per capita, which many

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Speaker 1: people find to be a much better gauge of a

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Speaker 1: nation's wealth than just straight GDP. It is lower to

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Speaker 1: day with twenty six years almost twenty seven years of

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Speaker 1: inflation and all of the oil riches that Venezuela has,

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Speaker 1: that its people are worse off in terms of GDP

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Speaker 1: per capita today January fifth, twenty twenty six than they

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Speaker 1: were the day before Hugo Chavez took power.

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Speaker 2: That is staggering.

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Speaker 1: But to discuss all of the economic ramifications of this

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Speaker 1: and more, we welcome Dave Spono, the president and CEO

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Speaker 1: of Annex Wealth Management. Oh, we don't have Dave yet. Okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: what is he in the bathroom or something? What do

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Speaker 1: you mean he's not here yet? Five minutes ago he

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Speaker 1: said he would be here in five minutes. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: I guess that gives me a brief amount of time

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Speaker 1: to discuss something that is It's been hotly debated in

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Speaker 1: conservative circles with respect to the deposition of Nicholas Maduro

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Speaker 1: with respect to his arrest, And that is whether this

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Speaker 1: is a legitimate function of the Make America Great Again movement,

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Speaker 1: If this is actually America First politics, did we as

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Speaker 1: conservatives really vote for this or is this more of

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Speaker 1: the neo con adventurism that we got under the George W.

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Speaker 1: Bush administration. Of course, the usual suspects in the libertarian

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Speaker 1: wing of the Republican Party, Ran Paul and Thomas Massey

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Speaker 1: already coming out and saying that this is not maga,

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Speaker 1: that this is not an American interest, that this is unlawful,

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Speaker 1: basically all of the same left wing talking points. But

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Speaker 1: at a philosophical level, is this actually in the interests

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Speaker 1: of America? Without question it is. This is not in

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Speaker 1: any way approachable to the quagmire that was Iraq, that

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Speaker 1: lasted for decades. Afghanistan two. President Trump is reimagining American

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Speaker 1: strength right before our eyes, reimagining the use of the

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Speaker 1: American military right.

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Speaker 2: Before our eyes.

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Speaker 1: The same people who today are predicting a long protracted

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Speaker 1: war in Venezuela were also six eight months ago predicting

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Speaker 1: World War III. When President Trump used a bunch of

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Speaker 1: B twos to take out the four to nuclear facility

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Speaker 1: in Iran. No such thing happened. Iran has been neutered

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Speaker 1: in the region, and as a result, there has been

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Speaker 1: a lasting cease fire between Israeli and Palestinian forces. Iran

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Speaker 1: no longer is a power player because it doesn't have

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Speaker 1: that implicit threat of a weaponized nuclear program. Because President Trump,

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Speaker 1: without any expenditure of American blood or American treasure in

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Speaker 1: a prolonged occupation of a foreign power, simply did what

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Speaker 1: was in American and world interests, and that's take out

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Speaker 1: the ability of Iran to spread its tentacles across the

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Speaker 1: Middle East and across the globe by becoming a nuclear power.

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Speaker 1: It's the same thing with respect to the narco terrorist

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Speaker 1: kingpin Nicholas Maduro. Is it in American interests not to

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Speaker 1: have the head of a cartel who's poisoning Americans by

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Speaker 1: importing drugs across our sovereign border?

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Speaker 2: Of course it is.

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Speaker 1: Is it in American interests to have a massive oil

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Speaker 1: exporting nation now once again on friendly terms with the

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Speaker 1: single biggest consumer of global oil in the world, that's

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Speaker 1: the United States of America. I mean, this is absolutely

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Speaker 1: a no brainer. Do we have Dave Sponno now no,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I think. We're having some technical difficulties.

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Speaker 1: He is at uh Annex Wealth Management's Southern Command in

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Speaker 1: Sunny South Florida, and we will check in with him

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Speaker 1: in just a second. When The Dan o'donald Show returns.

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Speaker 1: It's conservative thought, not just talk, a tour to force

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Speaker 1: of truth, the sort of truth the rest of the

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Speaker 1: media used to report but now covers up or actively

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Speaker 1: tries to ensure that you will never hear about it.

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Speaker 1: Is the Dan o'donald Show, Welcome back to it. No

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Speaker 1: better example of that than in the Somali fraud in Minneapolis,

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Speaker 1: the national media going into overdrive to try to debunk

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Speaker 1: YouTuber Nick Shirley's account of empty daycare centers, especially at

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Speaker 1: the hilariously type old Quality Leering Center. We'll get into

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Speaker 1: that in just a second. As Minnesota Governor Tim Walls

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Speaker 1: abandons his bid for reelection this morning, what does that

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Speaker 1: mean and is there similar fraud here in Wisconsin? Actually,

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Speaker 1: a Pulitzer prize winning report from almost sixteen years ago,

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Speaker 1: and the subsequent continuation of the nearly identical fraud that

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Speaker 1: we're seeing in Minneapolis suggests that it is. We'll dive

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Speaker 1: into that in just a second. First we bring in

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Speaker 1: Dave Spano, the CEO of Annex Wealth Management, helping, you know,

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Speaker 1: the difference between financial advisors and helping to make some

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Speaker 1: sense about the immediate impact on global markets of the

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Speaker 1: arrest of Venezuelan tyrant Nicholas Maduro. Happy New Year to you, Dave.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about all this?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: Thanks Dan. You know, there's a lot of questions that

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Speaker 10: still need to be answered. In fact, we're probably within

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Speaker 10: the next hour or two going to hear from Marco

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Speaker 10: Rubio on some more information on what's happening with Maduro.

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Speaker 10: But you know, there's a lot of questions that have

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Speaker 10: to be answered. In fact, who's truly in charge at

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Speaker 10: the moment in Venezuela, What is the legal authority they have,

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Speaker 10: is there going to be an election, and who's going

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Speaker 10: to control oil? These are all questions that the investing

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Speaker 10: public is looking for answers for and by the way,

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Speaker 10: we don't have any of that. And I think you're

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Speaker 10: going to see something here in the next couple of

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Speaker 10: days on who would they think they could even be

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Speaker 10: a legitimate regime to come in there, so a lot

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Speaker 10: of questions that are happening right now. But you did

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Speaker 10: see how the oil industry responded today, Haliburton up over

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Speaker 10: ten percent, and Exon and Chevron trading to the positive.

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Speaker 2: So this is why liberals are so upset.

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Speaker 1: Halliburton is up big, Remember the boogeyman from the old

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Speaker 1: Bush administration. Yeah, obviously a great day for oil stocks,

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Speaker 1: but sort of in a broader sense. While this is

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Speaker 1: a temporary bump, and I think undoubtedly this is a

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Speaker 1: good thing for markets, we are still independent of this

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Speaker 1: expecting big things from the stock market, because we're expecting

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Speaker 1: big things for GDP in the first quarter of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 10: We expect probably somewhere in the neighborhood of a five handle.

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Speaker 10: What do I mean by that? A GDP that begins

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Speaker 10: with five percent, that's a big number.

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Speaker 2: Massive.

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Speaker 10: So if you yeah, it's a master If you see

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Speaker 10: that as a GDP number, that really removes the doubt

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Speaker 10: that you're going to have a recession. Right, so recessions

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Speaker 10: back to back negative quarters of GDP, unless, of course

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Speaker 10: you change the definition. But a five percent GDP number

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Speaker 10: is a really good number. You've got the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 10: very likely going to lower interest rates, at least that's

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Speaker 10: what they're signaling. And they're going to do that because

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Speaker 10: unemployment rates have gone up slightly and inflation has begun

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Speaker 10: to moderate. The combination of those means that the Federal

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Speaker 10: Reserve can lower interest rate to try to enhance the economy.

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Speaker 10: And lastly, of course, you have the S and P

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Speaker 10: five hundred earnings expected to be double digits again in

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Speaker 10: twenty twenty five, Dan, that'll be four years in a

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Speaker 10: row that we've seen growth in the S and P

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Speaker 10: five hundred with double digits.

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Speaker 1: It's absolutely remarkable. And now we're very likely to see

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Speaker 1: a Federal Reserve president, and I think everybody just sort

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Speaker 1: of expects that it's going to be or Hassard, Yeah, Besson, Hassard,

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Speaker 1: Hassart Besen Hassen't Yeah, Well we haven't. Kevin here, guys,

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Speaker 1: your guy, Kevin Hassart is almost certain to be named

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Speaker 1: as Federal Reserve chairman, and he, like President Trump, supports

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Speaker 1: aggressive rate cuts. Could we see that when he comes

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Speaker 1: on board? And what is it may that we're going

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Speaker 1: to see. We're going to see continued rate cuts and

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Speaker 1: continued economic expansion.

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Speaker 10: As a result of that, yeah, you know, and then

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Speaker 10: not to lose really the story of the day about Maduro.

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Speaker 10: And I understand that some people, for whatever reason are

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Speaker 10: going to try to you know, defend what's happening there.

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Speaker 10: But Maduro stole that election in twenty four He decimated

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Speaker 10: their economy. You know, there's oppression to the people in

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Speaker 10: Venezuela with the oil sales to China, and not not

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Speaker 10: to mention the drug smuggling. But we're gonna have to watch,

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Speaker 10: of course, the new doctrine. Remember the you remember the

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Speaker 10: Monroe doctrine. He's calling the done down road.

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Speaker 2: I love trend.

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Speaker 10: So so DJT is added again. And so of course,

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Speaker 10: as you pointed out, you've got GDP in the positive,

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Speaker 10: you've got the Fed lowering interest rates, you've got the

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Speaker 10: S and P five hundred likely to continue in the

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Speaker 10: double digit path. All of this means that you've got

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Speaker 10: to have your portfolio set up to take care of this,

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Speaker 10: because that does not mean there isn't risks, and there is,

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Speaker 10: there's valuation risks, there's terrorifrists. There's still got labor labor market,

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Speaker 10: and we don't know what AI stocks are going to do.

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Speaker 10: So it won't be surprising to me to see there's

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Speaker 10: going to be some type of air gap in the

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Speaker 10: markets sometime before the election in November, so you.

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Speaker 2: Better be prepared for that.

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Speaker 10: If your portfolio isn't set up to do that, now,

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Speaker 10: now's the time to put your hands on it, to

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Speaker 10: make sure that you're aligned with what's happening in the

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Speaker 10: real world.

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Speaker 1: And the way to do that is by heading to

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Speaker 1: annexwealth dot com. Again, that's annexwealth dot com. Dave Sponos,

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Speaker 1: CEO of Annex, joins us each and every Monday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Monday morning.

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Speaker 1: The news that was not entirely unexpected, but Tim Walls

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Speaker 1: announcing that he is not going to seek reelection as

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Speaker 1: a direct result of massive public pressure surrounding the Somali

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Speaker 1: daycare fraud scandal. Now as expected, Walls, in his retirement

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Speaker 1: announcement was quite defiant, blaming President Trump and YouTube conspiracy

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Speaker 1: theorists for his ouster.

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Speaker 11: We've got conspiracy theorist right when YouTubers breaking into our

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Speaker 11: day cares demanding access to our children. We've got the

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Speaker 11: President of the United States demonizing our Somali neighbors and

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Speaker 11: wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on it's disgusting and

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Speaker 11: it's dangerous.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, this has been going on since about twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. There have been massive investigations that have led

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Speaker 1: to charges against ninety two people, and about eighty five

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Speaker 1: of those ninety two are Somali. Sixty of them have

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Speaker 1: already been convicted, including someone who posed with Tim Walls

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago as his Refugee of the Year.

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Speaker 1: The biggest case actually doesn't involve daycares, but rather feeding

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Speaker 1: our Future. This was a two hundred and fifty million

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Speaker 1: dollars scandal in which fraudulent claims were paid for child

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Speaker 1: meals during COVID nineteen. The funds didn't go to feeding

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Speaker 1: anyone future except scammers, money used for luxury items, kickbacks,

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Speaker 1: some money sent overseas. Unconfirmed reports from last month indicated

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Speaker 1: that they went to the terror network Al Shabab. Now

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Speaker 1: the YouTuber in question, Nick Shirley. His video spotlighted daycare

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Speaker 1: centers like the now infamous Quality Leering Center, which can

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Speaker 1: you believe got nearly.

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Speaker 2: Two million bucks.

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Speaker 1: In funding in twenty twenty five nearly ten million since

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, but didn't appear to take care of any

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Speaker 1: actual kids now. In one of the funniest aspects of

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Speaker 1: Nick Shirley's investigation, we were told that, well, the Quality

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Speaker 1: Leering Center was actually shut down. It wasn't operational, and

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Speaker 1: then the very next day they fixed the sign. I

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Speaker 1: call it the Quality Leering Center because if you're not

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Speaker 1: chronically online and you instead rely on television news or

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Speaker 1: news or mainstream media news sites to inform you, you

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Speaker 1: will never even know that the quote unquote Quality Learning

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Speaker 1: Center had its sign misspelled so it read Quality Leering

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Speaker 1: l e A RNNG center. It fixed the sign the

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Speaker 1: very next day after CBS News in Minnesota reported, well,

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Speaker 1: we went to all of the daycare centers that Nick

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Speaker 1: Shirley went to, and we found that they were operating normally.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, that Quality Leering Center, it had

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Speaker 1: been shut down. That's why there were no kids there. Well,

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Speaker 1: the very next day there were kids who were being

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Speaker 1: dropped off at the Quality Leering Center.

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Speaker 2: The sign is fixed.

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Speaker 1: Something tells me these people need to get their stories straight.

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Speaker 1: The reality is is that we have known that daycare

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Speaker 1: centers have been ripe for federal funding fraud since at

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Speaker 1: least the nineteen nineties.

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Speaker 2: And in fact, this.

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Speaker 1: Was so such a massive problem that a reporter for

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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel won a Pulitzer Prize back in

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Speaker 1: twenty ten for her reporting on this. Is it a

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Speaker 1: big problem in Wisconsin? Still, I looked at the numbers

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Speaker 1: and found, Yeah, it sure seems like it. We'll get

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Speaker 1: into that coming up next. My absolute favorite part of

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Speaker 1: the Nick Shirley investigations on YouTube in Minnesota with respect

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Speaker 1: to the massive, truly massive amounts of fraud perpetrated by

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Speaker 1: primarily Somali Americans who were brought into this country in

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Speaker 1: the wake of the attack at Mogadishu, made famous by

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Speaker 1: blackhawk Down, the fact that they interviewed one of the

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Speaker 1: daycare managers and he was trying to claim that there

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Speaker 1: was retaliation, that the awful white supremacists of Minneapolis were

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Speaker 1: targeting his business, that he actually got broken into, and

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Speaker 1: the thieves stole all the records you would need to

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Speaker 1: prove that it was actually a legitimate daycare.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, he can't prove it's a legitimate daycare. All those

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Speaker 2: records were stolen.

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Speaker 12: We saw that, unfortunately. We saw that there was important

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Speaker 12: documentation enrollment of the children and also employee.

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Speaker 2: Documentation that was gone all of it. There were also

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Speaker 2: check books that.

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Speaker 12: Are riffed from our check papers that were from our books.

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Speaker 12: This is devastating news and we don't know why this

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Speaker 12: is targeting are some on the community as one video

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Speaker 12: made by a specific individual made this all happen.

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Speaker 1: That video, by the way, has now been viewed an

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Speaker 1: estimated two hundred million times, a forty two minute video

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Speaker 1: that never would have seen the light of day if

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk did purchase X. Folks, this video did not

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Speaker 1: go megaviral on Facebook, on TikTok, on Instagram, anywhere it

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Speaker 1: went viral on X. People are informed about things because

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Speaker 1: X is actually a free speech platform. Facebook is doing better,

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Speaker 1: YouTube is doing better. They're not censoring people for saying

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Speaker 1: objectively true things anymore, but they are not going out

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Speaker 1: of their way to promote content from conservatives, even if

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Speaker 1: it is something that people need to see. This is

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Speaker 1: why Elon continues to be public enemy number one. Did

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Speaker 1: you see there was a picture that emerged and he

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Speaker 1: subsequently confirmed that he had dinner with Don and Milania

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Speaker 1: Trump down at mar A Lago a couple of days

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01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:52,920
Speaker 1: before the Venezuela strike, and that Elon is going to

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01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:56,960
Speaker 1: go all in in twenty twenty six, helping elect Republicans.

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Speaker 1: Democrats hate him because he destroyed their ability to simply

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Speaker 1: censor information that they did not like that said, quote unquote.

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Speaker 1: Mainstream media outlets used to do reporting just like Nick Shirley.

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Speaker 1: In fact, one Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter by the name

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Speaker 1: of Raquel Rutledge back in two thousand and nine twenty ten,

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Speaker 1: reported on this exact same scam. She called her series

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Speaker 1: Cashing In on Kids. It was a series on widespread abuse, fraud,

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Speaker 1: and absolutely no oversight in the Wisconsin Shares program, the

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Speaker 1: taxpayer funded subsidy that helps low income working parents pay

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Speaker 1: for childcare. It was funded to the tune of something

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Speaker 1: like three hundred and fifty million dollars per year. And

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Speaker 1: what Rutledge found simply by going around to these daycare

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Speaker 1: centers is that the providers and parents would con inspire

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Speaker 1: together to fake attendance records. They would build a state

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Speaker 1: for childcare that never actually happened. Centers would be closed

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Speaker 1: that they would be billing for non existent kids, They

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Speaker 1: would be billing for kids who were not in the center.

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Speaker 1: In some cases, parents even use their bogus employment info

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Speaker 1: to qualify for subsidies for the Wisconsin Shares Program that

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Speaker 1: they would then simply pocket and never ever ever take

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Speaker 1: their kids to these daycare centers. Kids were even held

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Speaker 1: out of kindergarten. They delayed in rolling their kids in

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Speaker 1: kindergarten in public school so that the providers of these

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Speaker 1: fraudulent daycare centers could continue to collect their subsidies. Now,

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Speaker 1: what Rutledge also found was that hundreds of people with

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Speaker 1: criminal records, including serious offenders, were licensed as providers. More

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Speaker 1: than a dozen centers had connections to drug dealers and

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Speaker 1: crime figures across the city of Milwaukee. This fraud was

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Speaker 1: described as a multi multi multi million dollar industry fleecing taxpayers. Now,

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Speaker 1: this did result in a tremendous amount of reform from

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Speaker 1: the Department of Children and Families. Thank Heavens, Governor Scott

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Speaker 1: Walker came to power immediately after all of this fraud

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Speaker 1: was uncovered. The DCF Department of Children and Families immediately

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Speaker 1: had much more stringent auditing and oversight. The legislature passed

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Speaker 1: new laws tightening eligibility as well as increasing oversight into

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Speaker 1: the Wisconsin Shares program. One hundred and seventy different daycare

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Speaker 1: centers were either suspended or closed.

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Speaker 2: But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: As a result of the changes in the law under

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Speaker 1: Governor Walker current legislative Republicans in twenty eleven through about

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen twenty fourteen, DCF currently publishes the list of

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Speaker 1: all of the suspended and terminated Wisconsin Shares daycare centers.

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Speaker 1: It's obvious this is still a massive problem. I went

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Speaker 1: to the website DCF dot Wisconsin dot gov slash wishares

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Speaker 1: slash Terminated dash providers. They are required to keep a

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Speaker 1: list of all of the daycare centers that are terminated

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Speaker 1: or are suspended. There were twenty six in calendar year

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, twenty one in twenty twenty four, twenty

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Speaker 1: three in twenty twenty three. That's an average, give or

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Speaker 1: take of about one daycare center being suspended or terminated

989
01:07:57,080 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 1: from the Wisconsin Shares program every two weeks.

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Speaker 2: And if they are finding.

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Speaker 1: This many one every two weeks in this state, how

992
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:11,680
Speaker 1: many do you suppose are still getting away with the

993
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 1: exact same fraud that has.

994
01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:17,000
Speaker 2: Been widely known since at least.

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01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 1: The nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties. One of the easiest

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01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 1: ways to commit fraud. It was well known. And by

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01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 1: the way, by the way, almost every single one of

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Speaker 1: these terminated or suspended daycare centers are in Milwaukee County.

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01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:32,719
Speaker 1: If you look a little bit closer, almost every single

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01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:36,679
Speaker 1: one is in the Milwaukee inner city. What will happen

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01:08:37,400 --> 01:08:40,160
Speaker 1: in the typical iteration of this fraud and it's not

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Speaker 1: It should be noted, it is not the Somali community

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Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. I'm not even sure there is a sizable

1004
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:51,160
Speaker 1: Somali community in Milwaukee. It is not, at least as

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01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:53,680
Speaker 1: far as I could tell by just a sort of

1006
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 1: cursory look at the numbers here. It is not a

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Speaker 1: Somali fraud ring. These are people who have been doing

1008
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Speaker 1: essentially the exact same sorts of fraud for decades.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: What would typically happen is, let's say producer Eric and

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01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:11,919
Speaker 1: I are in on this scheme together.

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01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:15,479
Speaker 2: Each of us has five kids.

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Speaker 1: I would claim that I am watching Eric's five kids,

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01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:23,559
Speaker 1: and I've got a daycare center. He would claim that

1015
01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:27,679
Speaker 1: he's watching my five kids. He opens a daycare center.

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01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 1: Nobody's actually watching anybody's kids. That we get involved with

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01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:34,280
Speaker 1: other people in the neighborhood, on the block or as

1018
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:39,040
Speaker 1: part of our criminal conspiracy. Everybody is registering their children

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01:09:39,240 --> 01:09:42,879
Speaker 1: for these fake daycare centers. This is exactly the scam

1020
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Speaker 1: that the Somalis were running. Now, you would think that

1021
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:50,639
Speaker 1: it's relatively easy to catch. You just take a look,

1022
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 1: like Nick Shirley, did you go to these daycare centers?

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01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:57,040
Speaker 1: Oftentimes they are at people's houses, and that's usually the

1024
01:09:57,160 --> 01:10:02,760
Speaker 1: dead giveaway. If it's my Mamma Eric's daycare center and

1025
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Speaker 1: it happens to be at producer Eric's house, I'm going

1026
01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 1: to take a while guess that Mama Eric isn't actually

1027
01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 1: watching any kids.

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01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:16,560
Speaker 2: The problem is.

1029
01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:20,599
Speaker 1: That there aren't enough people watching where exactly the money goes.

1030
01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:25,040
Speaker 1: And this is another reason that liberals hate Elon Musk

1031
01:10:25,479 --> 01:10:30,200
Speaker 1: because through Doge, he was laying bare exactly how these

1032
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:35,800
Speaker 1: fraud schemes work. That money just goes out to fraudulent

1033
01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 1: NGOs or fraudulent daycare providers and ultimately gets in the

1034
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Speaker 1: hands of people who the government doesn't necessarily want to

1035
01:10:45,680 --> 01:10:49,800
Speaker 1: have the money, but doesn't necessarily not want to have

1036
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 1: the money, if you're following me, this is seen in

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Speaker 1: liberal circles as something of a form of reparations.

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01:10:59,240 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 2: In fact, I actually heard that word.

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01:11:02,200 --> 01:11:07,040
Speaker 1: Used with respect to the Somali daycare scam, that this

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01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:10,719
Speaker 1: is simply and this is folks, There's no other way

1041
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:12,080
Speaker 1: around this.

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01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:13,480
Speaker 2: This has been, at least.

1043
01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:19,679
Speaker 1: In Milwaukee, a primarily black run scam, the daycare fraud

1044
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:23,880
Speaker 1: scam still to this day, based on the criminal records

1045
01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:26,720
Speaker 1: of all of the people running these scams, they are

1046
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Speaker 1: primarily African American, They are primarily located in inner city Milwaukee.

1047
01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:36,400
Speaker 1: There have actually been liberals on social media saying that

1048
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:39,840
Speaker 1: it's good that they're engaged in this scam because of

1049
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 1: all of the free labor that was exploited from them

1050
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 1: during the era of slavery. What does that even mean?

1051
01:11:50,080 --> 01:11:54,280
Speaker 1: This is fraud. It shouldn't simply result in the closure

1052
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:57,280
Speaker 1: of a daycare center, the suspension of a daycare center.

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01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:02,160
Speaker 1: It should result in referrals for criminal charges, just like

1054
01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 1: what's happening in Minnesota. And thank Heavens, the Trump administration

1055
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Speaker 1: is flooding the zone in Minneapolis with thousands of agents

1056
01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 1: looking into exactly what is going on here. I believe

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis and Milwaukee are simply the tip of the proverbial iceberg,

1058
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Speaker 1: that in fact, the fraud schemes in New York and

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles and Chicago, which have been going on for

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Speaker 1: decades and decades and decades. Just in terms of pure numbers.

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Speaker 1: Given the size of those cities, dwarf what's going on

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Speaker 1: in mid size cities like Milwaukee and Minneapolis. We will

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Speaker 1: name the unsung hero of the day. When The Dan

1064
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 1: O'Donnell Show returns, plus Judge Hannah Dugan announces her resignation.

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01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:50,479
Speaker 1: It is so great to be back on the air.

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01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:54,719
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Yes, I love my annual Christmas break off.

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01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:59,560
Speaker 1: I'm sure you folks do too. Being sarcastic because a

1068
01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:03,080
Speaker 1: number of you emailed me, say, Dan, why are you

1069
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 1: taking so much time off? There is a whole lot

1070
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Speaker 1: of reporting on the Somali daycare fraud that you need

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01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:13,479
Speaker 1: to be doing. It's, dear listener, to recharge my batteries.

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Speaker 1: Turns out I did a really poor job of it,

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Speaker 1: since I came back on the air sick and frankly,

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01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:20,040
Speaker 1: right now, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Kind of hitting the wall.

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Speaker 1: I think my day quill is starting to wear off,

1077
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Speaker 1: so I might need another dose, although I guess I'm

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Speaker 1: heading toward night quill territory. Although I don't want to

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Speaker 1: go to bed by seven thirty, so I might just

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Speaker 1: have to greet and Barrett for one more hour, and

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Speaker 1: in that hour jam packed full of stuff.

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Speaker 2: We have got breaking news. Do you remember Lake.

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Speaker 1: Country Classical Academy, The big scandal there we reported on

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Speaker 1: because they simply flat out refuse to open up a

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Speaker 1: turning point chapter. It's a conservative school that would not

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01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:01,599
Speaker 1: open a turning point chapter. In the wake of Charlie

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01:14:01,640 --> 01:14:06,760
Speaker 1: Kirk's assassination, well, a big update there, We will share

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Speaker 1: that for you at the top of the hour. Judge

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01:14:09,320 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 1: Hannah Dugan calls it a career before she can be

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Speaker 1: impeached and removed from office. And also a potential terror

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Speaker 1: attack at the personal residence of Vice President jd Vance,

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01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 1: raising again the specter of left wing violence which became

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01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:32,240
Speaker 1: a massive issue in twenty twenty five. We will discuss

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01:14:32,320 --> 01:14:36,040
Speaker 1: that and more, plus the sudden resignation and replacement of

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01:14:36,200 --> 01:14:40,959
Speaker 1: Bucks President Peter Fagan, what that means about the future

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Speaker 1: of the Milwaukee Bucks with respect to ownership, and also

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01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:48,960
Speaker 1: superstar Giannis Anteta Kumpo. Plenty of stuff to get to.

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Speaker 1: First note, time to name the unsung hero of the day,

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Speaker 1: Today's sung heroes of the day. Are the UW. River

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01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 1: Falls Falcon football players who captured the Stag Bowl Championship.

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01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:16,000
Speaker 1: They are NCAA Division Three champions for the very first

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Speaker 1: time in program history. They were facing off against North

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Speaker 1: Central in Illinois. North Central had a twenty nine game

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Speaker 1: winning streak. River Falls was down as much as fourteen

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Speaker 1: to three early on. It looked like yet another shalacking

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Speaker 1: by North Central, but thanks to heroics by Caleb Blaha

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Speaker 1: in the late stages of the game, as well as

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Speaker 1: some help from the defense, the Falcons were able to

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Speaker 1: rally back and win twenty four to fourteen. They shut

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Speaker 1: down North Central twenty one to zero in the second half.

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Speaker 2: Blaja through for four.

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Speaker 1: Hundred and nineteen yards and three touchdowns in the win.

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Speaker 1: In the process, he broke the all time record for

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Speaker 1: yards in a season with six thousand, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty nine, nearly one hundred yards more than the prior

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Speaker 1: record holder one Joe Burrow, set for LSU back in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 2: Caleb Blaha and the entire UW.

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Speaker 1: River Falls Falcons football team your unsung heroes of the

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Speaker 1: day coming up again in the five o'clock hour. We

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01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:31,759
Speaker 1: are going to get to a whole ton of stories

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01:16:31,840 --> 01:16:35,640
Speaker 1: kicking things off, some breaking news about the Lake Country

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Speaker 1: Classical Academy that infamously refused to open up a turning

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Speaker 1: point chapter. A new chapter in that story coming up

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Speaker 1: after the news. Welcome Back, Final Hour, the very first

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell show of twenty twenty six, at least the

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Speaker 1: very first one that features Dan O'Donnell. My thanks to

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Speaker 1: Jessica McBride as well as Jason Gotch and everybody else

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Speaker 1: met who filled in while I was able to take

1130
01:17:02,720 --> 01:17:06,919
Speaker 1: some much needed time off. Look, my family celebrates Christmas

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Speaker 1: for like six straight days and then we go straight

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Speaker 1: into New Year's Eve, and then of course I got

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Speaker 1: myself sick by doing the Polar Bear plunge. So it

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Speaker 1: was a very eventful break. And I do hope, ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, that each and every one of you check

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Speaker 1: out Jason's new show in my old time slot nine

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Speaker 1: to eleven. A. M. Ben Yaut who took over for

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Speaker 1: me when I took over for Mark Belling, who to

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01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:36,840
Speaker 1: answer your questions, is yes on his hiatus once again,

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Speaker 1: just because he is doing podcasting full time. He is

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01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:44,280
Speaker 1: still taking his four month sabbatical. He will return with

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Speaker 1: the Mark Belling podcast coming up in early May, and

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01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:53,520
Speaker 1: right about April or May is when the Jayweber podcast

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01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:57,400
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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five and in twenty twenty six is

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01:18:01,439 --> 01:18:04,599
Speaker 1: going into the brave new, semi new at least world

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Speaker 1: of podcasting along with Mark, and that means there is

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Speaker 1: a new on air lineup here in twenty twenty six

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01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 1: on our flagship station, News Talk eleven thirty WYSN Ben

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01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 1: yet six to nine am, then Jason gotch nine to eleven.

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01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:22,639
Speaker 1: Of course you've still then got Clay and Buck from

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Speaker 1: eleven to two, Vicky McKenna from two to three, and

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Speaker 1: then I host the afternoon shift three two six pm.

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Speaker 1: We do hope that you tune in every single day.

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Speaker 1: It is a new era for not just WYSN, but

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Speaker 1: for talk radio and conservative content as well. Toward that end,

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01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:44,360
Speaker 1: I am very excited to be working on a brand

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Speaker 1: hope to be able to unveil for all of you.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, stay tuned is all I can say.

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, I will be here espousing conservative thought,

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Speaker 1: listen to podcasts. A quick update on the thing that

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Speaker 1: with three chances to win here on the Dan O'Donnells Show,

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Speaker 1: each and every afternoon. Well, you might remember, in the

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01:20:16,439 --> 01:20:21,560
Speaker 1: days and weeks after Charlie Kirk's tragic assassination in September,

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01:20:22,280 --> 01:20:26,439
Speaker 1: there was a massive amount of interest in starting new

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01:20:26,600 --> 01:20:32,280
Speaker 1: Turning Point USA chapters. There are now far more Turning

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01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:37,280
Speaker 1: Point Chapters than ever before, making Charlie Kirk a martyr

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01:20:37,479 --> 01:20:42,200
Speaker 1: for free and open expression and the exchange of conservative

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01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:46,720
Speaker 1: ideas that aren't always welcome on college and high school campuses.

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Speaker 1: He literally died espousing conservative beliefs on a college campus. Sorry, leftists,

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01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:58,000
Speaker 1: He absolutely is a martyr for free speech, and he

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Speaker 1: lives on in the organization and that he founded. Well,

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Speaker 1: there has been significant pushback on many of those campuses

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Speaker 1: to a new Turning Point chapter. The most head scratching

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Speaker 1: of all was at the Lake Country Classical Academy principal

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01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:23,040
Speaker 1: Margaret Hagadorn, the wife of alleged conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court

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01:21:23,240 --> 01:21:32,920
Speaker 1: Justice Brian Hagadorn, or wife ex wife. I eh, now

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01:21:32,960 --> 01:21:36,080
Speaker 1: that I say wife. I thought the two had divorced.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, I don't want to get into

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Speaker 1: the personal stuff. But she was at one point possibly

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Speaker 1: still married to Brian Hagadorn. She may not be anymore,

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01:21:46,160 --> 01:21:50,800
Speaker 1: I don't know. She flat out refused to start a

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01:21:50,840 --> 01:21:51,880
Speaker 1: Turning Point chapter.

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01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:54,080
Speaker 2: I don't know what it was.

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01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:57,680
Speaker 1: She said, okay, okay. Instead, we're going to have a

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01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:03,719
Speaker 1: civics club. Okay, Well this students didn't want a civics club.

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01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:08,240
Speaker 1: They wanted a chapter of Turning Point USA. She wouldn't

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Speaker 1: allow it. She said, no, no, no, it's a political organization.

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Speaker 1: We can't allow plate. It's a five oh one C three.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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01:22:14,520 --> 01:22:21,360
Speaker 1: Lake Country Classical Academy is an overtly conservative educational institution.

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Speaker 1: So she battled the board for months over this, and

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Speaker 1: apparently now could battle no more. She has announced that

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Speaker 1: she is resigning as the principle of Lake Country Classical Academy.

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Speaker 1: She said in her resignation letter to parents today, the

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Speaker 1: board has decided to fundamentally restructure leadership at LCCA Lake

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Speaker 1: Country Classical Academy. Specifically, the board is hiring a new

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Speaker 1: executive director who will take on the vast majority of

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Speaker 1: my responsibilities and to whom I would report. Although will

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01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:03,240
Speaker 1: I do not understand or agree with this decision, I

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Speaker 1: respect the board's authority to chart a different course moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Given the board's decision to hire new leadership for LCCA.

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Speaker 1: I have determined it is time for me to step away.

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Speaker 1: The decision weighs heavily on me, as my heart remains

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Speaker 1: fully committed to our students, our faculty, our staff, and

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Speaker 1: the classical vision we share. During the coming weeks, I

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Speaker 1: will diligently support a smooth transition and in short continuity

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Speaker 1: for our students and school. Her last day is going

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01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:35,200
Speaker 1: to be March twentieth, twenty twenty six. Now why is

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Speaker 1: it that the board felt that it needed to go

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01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:41,880
Speaker 1: in this new direction because it didn't think it would

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Speaker 1: be able to fire Margaret Hagadorn, who had an employment contract.

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Speaker 1: But there was no way that Margaret Hagadorn's vision for

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Speaker 1: the again overtly conservative classical learning institution matched up with

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Speaker 1: the vision of the board. Do you know who is

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Speaker 1: on that board, former Governor Scott Walker. Why this woman

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Speaker 1: could not simply allow a turning point chapter just absolutely

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01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:22,240
Speaker 1: blows my mind. Your students wanted, your parents wanted, your

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Speaker 1: board wants it. It is very obviously not in violation

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Speaker 1: of the LCCA charter.

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Speaker 2: It was nothing of the sort.

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Speaker 1: In fact, when we first reported on this in September

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Speaker 1: maybe October, I actually went to the organization, the parent

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01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 1: organization that runs LCCA went into the pilast.

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Speaker 2: It's absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: The Lake Country Classical Academy is associated with Hillsdale Correct

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01:24:55,040 --> 01:24:59,600
Speaker 1: Hillsdale College. Guess what there is on the campus of

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01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:04,400
Speaker 1: hill Sale, the conservative learning institution. A turning point chapter.

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Speaker 1: The idea that it wouldn't be allowed at Lake Country

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01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:12,559
Speaker 1: Classical Academy was a classic cop out by someone who

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01:25:12,640 --> 01:25:19,120
Speaker 1: frankly was not particularly comfortable with those kind of conservatives,

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01:25:19,160 --> 01:25:24,320
Speaker 1: you know, the maga types, the ones who aren't country

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Speaker 1: club Republicans like the Hagadorns.

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Speaker 2: Folks.

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Speaker 1: It is a new conservative movement, it is a new

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Speaker 1: Republican party.

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Speaker 2: Everyone is welcome.

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Speaker 1: But this sort of gatekeeping, this idea that the unwashed

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01:25:43,479 --> 01:25:48,440
Speaker 1: masses are not welcome into the upper echelons of the movement.

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Speaker 2: That's over. That's done with.

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Speaker 1: Just as we've seen a broad based philosophical realignment on

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01:25:55,360 --> 01:25:59,639
Speaker 1: the issues of trade, on the issues of foreign interventionism.

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01:25:59,720 --> 01:26:03,200
Speaker 1: Although President Trump over the weekend gave us some good

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01:26:03,320 --> 01:26:09,960
Speaker 1: old fashioned Bush era neo conservatism, just done in a

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01:26:10,320 --> 01:26:17,080
Speaker 1: brand new way. There is also a geographic and socioeconomic

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01:26:17,360 --> 01:26:21,400
Speaker 1: realignment for a long time, and I don't exactly know

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01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:24,560
Speaker 1: how well, actually I do know how Conservatism and the

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01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:29,680
Speaker 1: Republican Party got this stereotype of being the upper crust snobs,

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Speaker 1: when it always has been the bougie Libs who form

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Speaker 1: the upper crust of American society. Seriously, for several decades now,

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Speaker 1: Democrats have been the party of the very very rich

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Speaker 1: and the very very poor, the great unwashed middle They're

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Speaker 1: all conservatives now, primarily because many of them are upwardly

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01:26:57,720 --> 01:27:00,840
Speaker 1: mobile white people, going from the lower middle class to

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Speaker 1: the middle class to the upper middle class. They have

1275
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:06,599
Speaker 1: been called racist since the dawn of the Black Lives

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01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:10,920
Speaker 1: Matter movement during the Obama administration, when Barack Obama made

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Speaker 1: the conscious decision to start dividing Americans by race. I

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01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:18,040
Speaker 1: can pinpoint the exact moment he did it. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: can too, when he said, if I had a son,

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Speaker 1: he would look like Trayvon, adding fuel to the fire

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Speaker 1: that this was just some innocent kid, could have been

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Speaker 1: the president's son skipping home while eating skittles, just in

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01:27:33,920 --> 01:27:38,080
Speaker 1: the wrong neighborhood, and some white Hispanic a term that

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01:27:38,160 --> 01:27:42,040
Speaker 1: had never before been used and has never been used since,

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Speaker 1: but was used to describe the obviously obviously Hispanic gentleman

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01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:52,680
Speaker 1: named George Zimmerman who shot Trayvon as Trayvon was viciously

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01:27:52,800 --> 01:27:59,040
Speaker 1: beating him after being confronted about being potentially not in

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01:27:59,200 --> 01:28:05,880
Speaker 1: the neighborhood. Since that moment, many middle class and working

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Speaker 1: class white people have been expressly alienated by the Democrat Party.

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01:28:11,680 --> 01:28:14,200
Speaker 1: They have come over to the Republican Party. As a result.

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Speaker 1: There are a whole lot of traditional Democrat views that

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01:28:18,720 --> 01:28:21,880
Speaker 1: are sort of infused in the modern Republican Party, in

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Speaker 1: the Maga movement, in trump Ism, in whatever it is

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Speaker 1: that you care to call it. It is a new

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Speaker 1: vision of conservatism that's far more rooted in conservative populism

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Speaker 1: than it is in traditional William F. Buckley dogmatic conservatism.

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Speaker 1: There is far less reliance on the idea of a

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Speaker 1: global free market to sort of sort things out, and

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Speaker 1: there is much more of a feeling that America needs

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Speaker 1: to be active in protecting its borders on trade and

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01:28:57,240 --> 01:29:01,280
Speaker 1: protecting American manufacturing than ever before. And this idea that

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Speaker 1: America needs to be the policeman of the world was,

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01:29:05,080 --> 01:29:09,280
Speaker 1: up until about two forty nine am on January third,

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01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:11,680
Speaker 1: thought to be a relic of the past. Now this

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01:29:11,840 --> 01:29:15,920
Speaker 1: is the thing about what the Trump administration did, it's

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Speaker 1: that it is able to sort of bridge that gap

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Speaker 1: between the Bush era and the War on Terror and

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Speaker 1: where I think we're going, and it's able to do

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Speaker 1: so based on the remarkable technology that we now have

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Speaker 1: as a country militarily. There is no other country that's

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01:29:36,920 --> 01:29:39,519
Speaker 1: just able to kind of go ooop. Now all your

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01:29:39,600 --> 01:29:42,720
Speaker 1: national defense is shut down, and we're going to go

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01:29:42,800 --> 01:29:46,759
Speaker 1: in and your vaunted air defense system the very best

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Speaker 1: that the Chinese and the Russians could manufacture.

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Speaker 2: It did nothing.

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Speaker 1: It did absolutely nothing, and we were able to go

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Speaker 1: into the very heart of the capital of a country

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01:29:57,760 --> 01:30:01,400
Speaker 1: and take the president around him, read him his rights,

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Speaker 1: and get him back to the United States before the rest.

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Speaker 2: Of the world even woke up. People like.

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Speaker 1: Margaret Hagadorn, and I'm willing to wager her, either current

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01:30:16,080 --> 01:30:23,719
Speaker 1: or ex husband, absolutely despise the idea that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: and people like him now have the reigns of power

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Speaker 1: not only for the country, but for the conservative movement

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Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future. That it's become something that is

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01:30:34,560 --> 01:30:38,400
Speaker 1: alien to them, something that they now look down their

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01:30:38,600 --> 01:30:42,640
Speaker 1: noses at, and that I firmly believe in covering this

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01:30:42,760 --> 01:30:46,760
Speaker 1: story so extensively when it first broke several months ago.

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01:30:46,960 --> 01:30:50,960
Speaker 1: That was at its heart. Oh, we don't want that

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01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:56,599
Speaker 1: sort of conservatism here at Lake Country Classical Academy. Well,

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Speaker 1: Lake Country Classical Academy, said to Margaret Hagadorn, we no

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Speaker 1: longer want that level of snobbery. Speaking of resignations, we

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Speaker 1: will get into Hannah Dugan calling it a career after

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Speaker 1: her criminal conviction. That's coming up next. It is a

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Speaker 1: new generation of talk radio. Jay and Mark have retired

1336
01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:25,680
Speaker 1: and gone on to the brave new world of podcasting.

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Speaker 1: And it is sort of weird since I'm by far

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Speaker 1: the youngest member of the wis AND on air talk

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Speaker 1: show host staff. Yet I'm one of the last OG's left.

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Speaker 1: I'm the most veteran member of this staff. Actually, I

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Speaker 1: guess Vicky. It's hard because Vicky does her show out

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Speaker 1: of Madison. I'm talking about like the people who are

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Speaker 1: here in Milwaukee. Obviously, Vicky is a great member of

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Speaker 1: the WISN team, but we always here. Oh, she's in Madison.

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Speaker 1: You know, she's been in Madison for her entire career.

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01:32:00,439 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 1: I am like the veteran and I'm like ten years

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Speaker 1: younger than Ben and Jason.

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Speaker 2: How does that work? Welcome back. It is the Dan

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Speaker 2: O'Donnell show.

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Speaker 1: Big news broken on Saturday that was absolutely lost in

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01:32:18,200 --> 01:32:22,760
Speaker 1: the shuffle of the incursion into Venezuelan air space that

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01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:27,200
Speaker 1: led to the arrest and now criminal charges against Nicholas Maduro. Today,

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01:32:27,280 --> 01:32:32,519
Speaker 1: he pleaded alongside his wife, not guilty to all charges. Well,

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01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:38,120
Speaker 1: Hannah Dugan, now former Milwaukee County judge, did not take

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Speaker 1: a plea deal, and it was instead found guilty of

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Speaker 1: the more serious of two federal charges against her, obstruction

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Speaker 1: of process after she helped an illegal alien, violent criminal

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Speaker 1: sneak out her jury room door and avoid ICE agents

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Speaker 1: who had gathered outside the courtroom.

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Speaker 2: To arrest him.

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Speaker 1: In a letter of resignation to governors, Dugan remained defiant.

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Speaker 1: Know this woman still does not believe she did anything wrong.

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Speaker 1: Listen to what she writes to Evers. As you know,

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Speaker 1: I am the subject of unprecedented federal legal proceedings which

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01:33:18,040 --> 01:33:23,720
Speaker 1: are far from concluded, but which present immense and complex

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Speaker 1: challenges that threaten the independence of our judiciary.

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Speaker 2: BARF.

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Speaker 1: I am pursuing this fight for myself and for our

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Speaker 1: independent judiciary. However, the Wisconsin citizens that I cherish deserve

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Speaker 1: to start the year with a judge on the bench

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Speaker 1: in Milwaukee County Branch thirty one, rather than have the

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Speaker 1: fate of that court rest in a partisan fight in

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Speaker 1: the state legislature. Therefore, Governor, with a heavy heart, I

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Speaker 1: admit submit to you this letter of recommendate. My goodness,

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Speaker 1: it's been a long first day back. It is the

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Speaker 1: day quill. Thank you, producer, Eric. Let's just start that

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Speaker 1: sentence over. Therefore, Governor, with a heavy heart, I submit

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Speaker 1: to you this letter of resignation and respectfully requests that

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Speaker 1: you give it immediate effect. By faith in God and

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Speaker 1: in our legal system leads me to trust that in

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Speaker 1: the long run, justice will be served for our independent

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Speaker 1: judiciary and for me as always forward and on Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: Hannah C. Dugan, she signs it, the honorable Hannah C. Dugan,

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Branch thirty one. Ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: there is absolutely nothing honorable about this woman whatsoever. She

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Speaker 1: is a federal criminal. She is always going to be

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Speaker 1: a federal criminal. Yes, the next time there is a

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Speaker 1: Democrat president, he is unfortunately probably going to pardon her.

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Speaker 1: The reality is if she cared that much about the

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Speaker 1: people of Wisconsin. If she cared that much about the

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Speaker 1: judiciary and an independent judiciary, she wouldn't have done what

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Speaker 1: she did. Ultimately, at its essence, what is it that

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Speaker 1: she did. Forget for a moment that these were ice

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Speaker 1: agents who were waiting outside the court to arrest this

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Speaker 1: violent criminal. Forget for a moment in fact, that he

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Speaker 1: was even an illegal Hannah dugan because she didn't like

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Speaker 1: the fact that a specific law enforcement agency was conducting

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Speaker 1: an operation outside of her courtroom. Not in her courtroom,

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Speaker 1: but outside of her courtroom. Because you can just stop

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Speaker 1: at she didn't like that specific federal agency. She decided

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Speaker 1: to take the law into her own hands, and instead

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Speaker 1: of using the power, the awesome power vested in her

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01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:03,639
Speaker 1: as a judge by the people of Wisconsin, to acquit

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01:36:03,920 --> 01:36:07,479
Speaker 1: or dismiss the charges against the violent criminal before her,

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01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:13,040
Speaker 1: she attempted to ensure that he would face no consequences

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01:36:13,400 --> 01:36:17,720
Speaker 1: for viciously assaulting and strangling his roommate as well as

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Speaker 1: the roommate's girlfriend, because she wanted him to be completely

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01:36:22,600 --> 01:36:26,200
Speaker 1: out of the courthouse, completely away from the law enforcement

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01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:30,439
Speaker 1: agency that she didn't like. Knowing full well knowing full

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01:36:30,479 --> 01:36:33,920
Speaker 1: well that he was never ever ever going to come

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Speaker 1: back to answer to the charges that he faced, very

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01:36:37,800 --> 01:36:43,160
Speaker 1: serious charges of physical violence. He would be free, in

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01:36:43,280 --> 01:36:47,920
Speaker 1: other words, to commit violent assaults against anyone else who

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01:36:47,960 --> 01:36:50,800
Speaker 1: would have been unfortunate enough to cross paths with him,

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01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:56,280
Speaker 1: because Hannah Dugan decided that her dislike of Ice trumped

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01:36:56,320 --> 01:36:59,240
Speaker 1: the rights of every other person in Wisconsin, every other

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Speaker 1: person in this country.

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Speaker 2: To be free from a violent.

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Speaker 1: Offender who deserved to face justice. She didn't want him

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Speaker 1: to face justice. She wanted him to run back to Mexico,

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Speaker 1: run back to his apartment, be able to assault whoever

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Speaker 1: he damn well pleased, simply because of.

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Speaker 2: Her personal politics.

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Speaker 1: And for her to now say I am in a

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01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:30,840
Speaker 1: fight for the independent judiciary, that's probably the most nauseating

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01:37:30,920 --> 01:37:35,680
Speaker 1: statement of all. And folks, I had to suppress my

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01:37:35,880 --> 01:37:40,719
Speaker 1: gag reflex multiple times with her quote unquote dream team

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01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:46,920
Speaker 1: of attorneys Steve Biscupik and Jason Luzac making preposterous argument

1429
01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:49,599
Speaker 1: after preposterous argument at trial.

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Speaker 2: This is the most stomach turning statement at all.

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Speaker 1: She's trying to present herself as some sort of freedom

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01:37:57,400 --> 01:38:02,640
Speaker 1: fighter standing up against the incursion into the judiciary of Trump. No,

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Speaker 1: ICE agents have long been able to operate. And I

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01:38:09,520 --> 01:38:11,240
Speaker 1: hate to break this to you, and I hate to

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01:38:11,280 --> 01:38:15,679
Speaker 1: break this to every Lefty who defends and has defended

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01:38:15,720 --> 01:38:20,000
Speaker 1: Hannah Dugan who has been unable to answer this very

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01:38:20,040 --> 01:38:22,040
Speaker 1: simple point.

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01:38:22,439 --> 01:38:23,240
Speaker 2: Federal law.

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01:38:24,040 --> 01:38:31,440
Speaker 1: Trump's state law ergo federal law, which says ICE agents

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01:38:31,640 --> 01:38:36,280
Speaker 1: are able to submit their own warrants. They're known as

1441
01:38:36,360 --> 01:38:39,680
Speaker 1: administrative warrants. They have the exact same effect as a

1442
01:38:39,760 --> 01:38:43,719
Speaker 1: judicial warrant. This goes right back to the nineteen ninety

1443
01:38:43,720 --> 01:38:48,919
Speaker 1: six Immigration and Naturalization Act signed into law by Democrat

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01:38:48,960 --> 01:38:54,120
Speaker 1: President Bill Clinton. ICE can manufacture its own warrants. They

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01:38:54,160 --> 01:38:57,920
Speaker 1: have the exact same effect as judicial warrant. ICE can

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01:38:58,040 --> 01:39:02,120
Speaker 1: act on those warrants in whatever city it wants to

1447
01:39:02,240 --> 01:39:08,200
Speaker 1: as a federal agency, state law, or some sort of

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01:39:08,880 --> 01:39:11,920
Speaker 1: municipal order. Coming from the chief judge saying no, we

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01:39:11,960 --> 01:39:15,240
Speaker 1: don't want ICE agents in our courtroom. That doesn't supersede

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01:39:15,280 --> 01:39:15,800
Speaker 1: federal one.

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01:39:15,800 --> 01:39:17,040
Speaker 2: You know what really.

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01:39:16,760 --> 01:39:21,919
Speaker 1: Doesn't supersede federal law. The independent judgment of a crooked

1453
01:39:22,040 --> 01:39:25,080
Speaker 1: now former judge saying that I'm going to help this

1454
01:39:25,280 --> 01:39:30,240
Speaker 1: violent criminal illegal escape and potentially victimize more people because

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01:39:30,360 --> 01:39:34,000
Speaker 1: I hate President Trump, and I hate his ice gestapo

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01:39:34,200 --> 01:39:38,840
Speaker 1: that much. Good riddance, Hannah Dugan. I know he won't,

1457
01:39:39,160 --> 01:39:42,800
Speaker 1: but I am sincerely hoping that the federal judge who

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01:39:42,840 --> 01:39:45,760
Speaker 1: presided over your trial throws the book at you and

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01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:49,160
Speaker 1: you actually go to prison again. She clearly won't, but

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01:39:49,200 --> 01:39:55,439
Speaker 1: here's open. So yes, I am just getting over a cold.

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01:39:56,680 --> 01:39:58,200
Speaker 1: And of course, what do you think I have to

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01:39:58,200 --> 01:40:03,520
Speaker 1: do immediately after this show is over? Not go to bed, Nope,

1463
01:40:03,800 --> 01:40:06,840
Speaker 1: got a coach a soccer game. And the worst part

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01:40:06,920 --> 01:40:10,240
Speaker 1: is I think my daughter is injured, so I don't

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01:40:10,280 --> 01:40:12,599
Speaker 1: think she's gonna be able to play. She got pelted

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01:40:12,640 --> 01:40:16,320
Speaker 1: by a ball during a game yesterday, So no rest

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01:40:16,400 --> 01:40:20,680
Speaker 1: for the weary I about an hour ago just absolutely

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01:40:20,800 --> 01:40:23,560
Speaker 1: hit the wall, ladies and gentlemen, all of the medicine

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01:40:23,560 --> 01:40:26,400
Speaker 1: that has been keeping me upright, I think war off.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, you could probably hear it in

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Speaker 1: my voice. Nothing serious, just a bad head cold. But

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Speaker 1: it's it's sort of like that old story. Do you remember,

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01:40:35,720 --> 01:40:39,080
Speaker 1: Gayta Lease did Frank Sinatra has a cold? Just one

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01:40:39,120 --> 01:40:43,240
Speaker 1: of the one of the absolute greatest bits of journalism

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01:40:43,479 --> 01:40:47,519
Speaker 1: in the history of the medium of magazine article writing

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01:40:47,560 --> 01:40:50,880
Speaker 1: and basically set the tone for pretty much every long

1477
01:40:51,040 --> 01:40:57,439
Speaker 1: form profile of a celebrity or anyone else to come.

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01:40:57,760 --> 01:41:00,760
Speaker 1: It's like Dan O'Donnell has a cold. It's yes, no,

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01:41:00,800 --> 01:41:04,160
Speaker 1: I'm obviously not Frank Sinatra, but it's sort of I

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01:41:04,439 --> 01:41:08,479
Speaker 1: use my voice and if I sound like crap and

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01:41:09,080 --> 01:41:11,280
Speaker 1: my head is so stuffed up, I'm not able to

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01:41:11,320 --> 01:41:17,800
Speaker 1: think straight. I am obviously not at one hundred percent capacity.

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01:41:18,439 --> 01:41:21,200
Speaker 1: I do need to mention this because I do think

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01:41:21,240 --> 01:41:24,479
Speaker 1: it has major ramifications for the Milwaukee Bucks.

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01:41:25,120 --> 01:41:27,520
Speaker 2: The Bucks and Feiser.

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01:41:27,200 --> 01:41:32,000
Speaker 1: Forum president Peter Fagan is moving out of that role

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01:41:32,200 --> 01:41:35,880
Speaker 1: after twelve seasons. He is stepping down and he is

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01:41:35,960 --> 01:41:40,200
Speaker 1: going to be replaced by Josh Glessing. He is a

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01:41:40,240 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 1: Wisconsin native and right now the chief of strategy and

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01:41:43,560 --> 01:41:48,519
Speaker 1: corporate development for the Haslam Sports Group. The owners and

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01:41:48,640 --> 01:41:53,800
Speaker 1: managers of that group, Jimmy and d Haslam, also happen

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01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:56,720
Speaker 1: to be twenty five percent owners of the Bucks. They

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01:41:56,760 --> 01:42:02,240
Speaker 1: bought the share sold by Mark Lasry back in twenty

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01:42:02,320 --> 01:42:06,880
Speaker 1: twenty three. Now, the Haslim Sports Group also owns the

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01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:11,160
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns of the NFL, which just today announced that

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01:42:11,200 --> 01:42:15,240
Speaker 1: they are firing head coach Kevin Stefanski, who is going

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01:42:15,280 --> 01:42:18,479
Speaker 1: to very quickly catch on elsewhere. He is a very

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01:42:18,600 --> 01:42:22,559
Speaker 1: very well regarded coach. They also own the Columbus Crew

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01:42:22,840 --> 01:42:27,960
Speaker 1: of Major League Soccer, and Glessing had spent the years

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three to twenty five as the interim president

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01:42:32,040 --> 01:42:34,400
Speaker 1: of business.

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01:42:33,360 --> 01:42:35,840
Speaker 2: For the Crew.

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01:42:36,120 --> 01:42:42,040
Speaker 1: Peter Fagan was long seen as a Wes Eden's guy

1504
01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:48,719
Speaker 1: that he was very very tight with the other co

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01:42:48,800 --> 01:42:52,000
Speaker 1: owner of the Bucks, one of the other owners, who

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01:42:52,040 --> 01:42:55,600
Speaker 1: is now the governor of the Bucks. Do you know

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01:42:55,640 --> 01:42:59,160
Speaker 1: what the governor is? We used to call it the owner.

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01:42:59,560 --> 01:43:03,400
Speaker 1: But then Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors pitched

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01:43:03,400 --> 01:43:08,040
Speaker 1: a hissy fit because owning a team, he said, was

1510
01:43:08,280 --> 01:43:13,439
Speaker 1: akin to owning slaves. You get it because basketball teams

1511
01:43:13,479 --> 01:43:17,360
Speaker 1: are primarily black men, and the owners of the teams

1512
01:43:17,360 --> 01:43:22,200
Speaker 1: are primarily white men. So there's an obvious connotation of slavery.

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01:43:23,120 --> 01:43:26,200
Speaker 1: I don't recall the slaves getting paid twenty five million

1514
01:43:26,280 --> 01:43:30,120
Speaker 1: dollars a year, and I don't remember the slaves getting

1515
01:43:30,160 --> 01:43:35,240
Speaker 1: to claim load management every fifth day. But it's just

1516
01:43:35,400 --> 01:43:40,320
Speaker 1: like slavery, according to Draymond Green. So the NBA no

1517
01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:42,280
Speaker 1: longer calls owners.

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01:43:43,920 --> 01:43:47,120
Speaker 2: Owners. They're governors the governor of the.

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01:43:47,040 --> 01:43:51,240
Speaker 1: Bucks, and each team has to have a governor, has

1520
01:43:51,320 --> 01:43:55,599
Speaker 1: to have someone who speaks on behalf of the team

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01:43:56,200 --> 01:44:00,559
Speaker 1: at owners meetings, at when they handle league business. Rule

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01:44:00,680 --> 01:44:04,200
Speaker 1: changes that sort of thing, So there is one designated person.

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01:44:04,240 --> 01:44:07,840
Speaker 1: Even if there are multiple owners or excuse me, governors,

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01:44:08,120 --> 01:44:10,800
Speaker 1: there's only going to be one governor who is officially

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01:44:10,840 --> 01:44:14,479
Speaker 1: recognized by the NBA. Right now, that's Wes Eden's and

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01:44:14,640 --> 01:44:22,880
Speaker 1: I say right now, it is very strongly believed that

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01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:27,599
Speaker 1: this move signals that Wes Edens is looking to share

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01:44:28,200 --> 01:44:31,639
Speaker 1: his stake, are looking to sell his shares, his stake

1529
01:44:31,880 --> 01:44:37,679
Speaker 1: in the box, and is looking to get out. I'm

1530
01:44:37,680 --> 01:44:42,080
Speaker 1: telling you folks right now, there is no better time

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01:44:42,520 --> 01:44:45,240
Speaker 1: to sell a professional sports franchise.

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01:44:45,800 --> 01:44:47,400
Speaker 2: None.

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01:44:48,600 --> 01:44:53,479
Speaker 1: The Denver Broncos just sold for something like six point

1534
01:44:53,560 --> 01:45:00,360
Speaker 1: five billion dollars. These things have just exploded in value less.

1535
01:45:00,520 --> 01:45:04,800
Speaker 1: Eden's paid for the Bucks what a decade ago when

1536
01:45:04,920 --> 01:45:08,479
Speaker 1: he and Lazry bought the team from Herb Cole is

1537
01:45:08,520 --> 01:45:14,360
Speaker 1: a pittance compared to what his stake is worth now.

1538
01:45:14,479 --> 01:45:19,320
Speaker 1: It is widely believed that either Haslam and his wife

1539
01:45:20,040 --> 01:45:27,439
Speaker 1: through their HSG organization, Haslim Sports Group, are going to

1540
01:45:27,600 --> 01:45:31,880
Speaker 1: buy out Eden's share entirely, or they are going to

1541
01:45:31,920 --> 01:45:35,559
Speaker 1: buy up some percentage of it that they are going

1542
01:45:35,640 --> 01:45:40,920
Speaker 1: to become the governors of the Milwaukee Bucks. There are

1543
01:45:41,000 --> 01:45:43,720
Speaker 1: other minority owners, of course, the Bucks have I think

1544
01:45:43,760 --> 01:45:47,080
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers owns one percent of the Bucks or something

1545
01:45:47,200 --> 01:45:50,040
Speaker 1: like that. They're a team that will do this, you know,

1546
01:45:50,120 --> 01:45:53,200
Speaker 1: like a lot of teams will say, okay, okay, jay Z,

1547
01:45:54,040 --> 01:45:57,160
Speaker 1: you can own one percent for ten million dollars or

1548
01:45:57,160 --> 01:45:59,879
Speaker 1: something like that. And this is why pro sports franchise

1549
01:46:00,479 --> 01:46:04,400
Speaker 1: are worth so much because let's say you're a billionaire.

1550
01:46:04,479 --> 01:46:08,160
Speaker 1: Let's say you have every possible toy you could have.

1551
01:46:08,640 --> 01:46:13,240
Speaker 1: You've got the Gulf Stream jet, You've got the private island,

1552
01:46:13,320 --> 01:46:18,400
Speaker 1: You've got you know, I don't know, a child trafficking network.

1553
01:46:18,439 --> 01:46:22,479
Speaker 1: Oh I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Had to throw

1554
01:46:22,520 --> 01:46:24,400
Speaker 1: in an Epstein joke in there.

1555
01:46:25,680 --> 01:46:25,920
Speaker 2: Again.

1556
01:46:26,000 --> 01:46:28,160
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm just gonna blame the day quill Eric, Thank

1557
01:46:28,200 --> 01:46:30,920
Speaker 1: you very much. It is it is all the cough

1558
01:46:31,000 --> 01:46:36,519
Speaker 1: medicine that I'm on. What's one thing where no matter

1559
01:46:36,600 --> 01:46:42,040
Speaker 1: how rich you are, it's pretty there is a set

1560
01:46:42,280 --> 01:46:47,679
Speaker 1: number of those pro sports franchises and for a lot

1561
01:46:47,720 --> 01:46:51,920
Speaker 1: of billionaires. It's the ultimate status, and a lot of

1562
01:46:51,960 --> 01:46:58,639
Speaker 1: billionaires are just like us normis, fans of professional sports.

1563
01:47:00,120 --> 01:47:05,519
Speaker 1: They want to get in the sports ownership game, just

1564
01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:09,200
Speaker 1: as those of us who don't have a billion dollars

1565
01:47:09,560 --> 01:47:12,639
Speaker 1: dream of getting in the sports ownership game. It's sort

1566
01:47:12,680 --> 01:47:17,800
Speaker 1: of like fantasy basketball to them, only it's real. Well,

1567
01:47:18,000 --> 01:47:22,400
Speaker 1: Eden's is also a very shrewd businessman and takes a

1568
01:47:22,439 --> 01:47:26,200
Speaker 1: look at the bottom line and says, hey, if I

1569
01:47:26,280 --> 01:47:33,040
Speaker 1: can make a three four hundred percent profit on my investment,

1570
01:47:33,840 --> 01:47:38,120
Speaker 1: if I can make a billion dollars by selling my shares,

1571
01:47:38,160 --> 01:47:43,320
Speaker 1: which is not entirely out of the question, why wouldn't I.

1572
01:47:44,320 --> 01:47:44,960
Speaker 2: So there are.

1573
01:47:44,840 --> 01:47:47,240
Speaker 1: People behind the scenes so I can tell you do

1574
01:47:47,400 --> 01:47:53,200
Speaker 1: believe that this might be the first domino in wes Edens,

1575
01:47:53,280 --> 01:47:56,479
Speaker 1: just like Mark Lasley Lazari before him in twenty twenty

1576
01:47:56,520 --> 01:47:59,439
Speaker 1: three selling his steak in the Bucks, in the Bucks

1577
01:47:59,479 --> 01:48:03,439
Speaker 1: getting new ownership and new governorship. This makes me a

1578
01:48:03,600 --> 01:48:08,599
Speaker 1: little nervous because let's just say, the Cleveland Browns aren't

1579
01:48:08,640 --> 01:48:13,280
Speaker 1: the best run professional sports franchise in the world, and

1580
01:48:13,320 --> 01:48:16,799
Speaker 1: the Haslims have been running them for quite some time.

1581
01:48:17,880 --> 01:48:24,200
Speaker 1: The Bucks are in a very precarious situation. Janis Antetacumpo. Folks,

1582
01:48:24,200 --> 01:48:27,960
Speaker 1: despite what he says to the media, he wants out.

1583
01:48:28,160 --> 01:48:31,040
Speaker 1: He is done with this organization. He does not believe

1584
01:48:31,080 --> 01:48:34,600
Speaker 1: they can win championships. They have tried to do everything

1585
01:48:34,760 --> 01:48:37,880
Speaker 1: they could to please him, from putting his brother on

1586
01:48:37,960 --> 01:48:40,920
Speaker 1: the end of the bench to the ill advised trade

1587
01:48:41,280 --> 01:48:45,240
Speaker 1: for Damian Lillard, and he's still not happy. This is

1588
01:48:45,360 --> 01:48:50,080
Speaker 1: not a championship roster. Jannis is, I hate to say it,

1589
01:48:50,840 --> 01:48:54,599
Speaker 1: getting past his prime, and this is a roster that

1590
01:48:54,800 --> 01:48:58,600
Speaker 1: built around him, is not going to compete for championships.

1591
01:48:58,920 --> 01:48:59,639
Speaker 2: It's going to.

1592
01:48:59,520 --> 01:49:05,160
Speaker 1: Compete for the eighth seed. That's not something that he

1593
01:49:05,200 --> 01:49:07,800
Speaker 1: wants to do. He's trying to force his way to

1594
01:49:07,880 --> 01:49:11,320
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks. The Knicks, unfortunately for him, don't

1595
01:49:11,360 --> 01:49:14,400
Speaker 1: have the assets to be able to complete a trade

1596
01:49:14,400 --> 01:49:18,280
Speaker 1: with the Bucks without getting five different teams involved to

1597
01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:23,240
Speaker 1: balance out salary and compensation. In fact, I believe the

1598
01:49:23,320 --> 01:49:26,720
Speaker 1: only team that could swing a straight up trade for

1599
01:49:26,760 --> 01:49:29,519
Speaker 1: Giannis I think there are two. One is the San

1600
01:49:29,520 --> 01:49:34,160
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs, the other is the Atlanta Hawks. And the Hawks,

1601
01:49:34,200 --> 01:49:37,680
Speaker 1: by the way, just said or Trey Young, their superstar,

1602
01:49:37,760 --> 01:49:40,439
Speaker 1: has been battling injuries all year, just said he would

1603
01:49:40,439 --> 01:49:43,240
Speaker 1: actually be open to a trade from Atlanta.

1604
01:49:43,280 --> 01:49:44,280
Speaker 2: Now does that.

1605
01:49:44,240 --> 01:49:47,559
Speaker 1: Mean that the Bucks ship Jannis off to Atlanta? No,

1606
01:49:47,680 --> 01:49:50,200
Speaker 1: it probably doesn't. He could block that trade if he

1607
01:49:50,280 --> 01:49:53,439
Speaker 1: wants to. Hawks don't really have a great roster either.

1608
01:49:54,200 --> 01:50:00,800
Speaker 1: San Antonio, meanwhile, has a fantastic roster. They've got arguably

1609
01:50:00,920 --> 01:50:05,599
Speaker 1: the best young player in basketball in Wemby Victor Webbin Yama.

1610
01:50:05,680 --> 01:50:08,960
Speaker 1: You pair him with Giannis. They've also got the reigning

1611
01:50:09,040 --> 01:50:12,280
Speaker 1: rookie of the year in Stephan Castle. They've got a

1612
01:50:12,360 --> 01:50:16,799
Speaker 1: very very Darren Fox, an incredibly talented young point guard.

1613
01:50:17,960 --> 01:50:21,719
Speaker 1: I mean that is a ready made championship team. If

1614
01:50:21,800 --> 01:50:25,320
Speaker 1: Jannis wants to compete for championships, san Antonio might be

1615
01:50:25,360 --> 01:50:29,240
Speaker 1: his best bet, and they have both the roster and

1616
01:50:29,320 --> 01:50:31,640
Speaker 1: the draft capital that would be able to make that

1617
01:50:32,240 --> 01:50:33,000
Speaker 1: trade work.

1618
01:50:35,000 --> 01:50:36,479
Speaker 2: I guess I'm just.

1619
01:50:36,400 --> 01:50:40,840
Speaker 1: A little concerned that the Bucks will be left with

1620
01:50:41,479 --> 01:50:45,040
Speaker 1: an owner who has proven himself in Cleveland with the

1621
01:50:45,080 --> 01:50:52,600
Speaker 1: Browns to be not particularly good, and now a superstar

1622
01:50:53,160 --> 01:50:55,679
Speaker 1: who's going to leave this team with sure a ton

1623
01:50:55,720 --> 01:51:00,240
Speaker 1: of draft capital, but again potentially an owner who doesn't

1624
01:51:00,280 --> 01:51:03,320
Speaker 1: quite know what to do with it. You're listening to

1625
01:51:03,360 --> 01:51:05,519
Speaker 1: the Dan o'donald show. We'll be back in just a

1626
01:51:05,560 --> 01:51:09,600
Speaker 1: second with more conservative thought and not just talk. Just

1627
01:51:09,640 --> 01:51:13,000
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes left here on this first Dan

1628
01:51:13,040 --> 01:51:15,680
Speaker 1: o'donald's show of twenty twenty six, at least the first

1629
01:51:15,760 --> 01:51:19,639
Speaker 1: Dan o'donald show featuring Dan o'donald. I want to make

1630
01:51:19,680 --> 01:51:22,680
Speaker 1: sure I mention this because it is in the process

1631
01:51:22,840 --> 01:51:27,759
Speaker 1: of being memory holed as we speak. Early this morning,

1632
01:51:27,880 --> 01:51:31,559
Speaker 1: shortly after midnight, a twenty six year old man by

1633
01:51:31,600 --> 01:51:36,679
Speaker 1: the name of William de four, who is also being

1634
01:51:36,760 --> 01:51:43,240
Speaker 1: referred to in some reports as Julia Defour, with indications

1635
01:51:43,280 --> 01:51:48,680
Speaker 1: of potentially identifying as transgender, attempted to break into the

1636
01:51:48,800 --> 01:51:54,680
Speaker 1: home of Vice President jd Vance in the East Walnut

1637
01:51:54,800 --> 01:51:59,080
Speaker 1: Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati in Ohio. This is the Vice

1638
01:51:59,120 --> 01:52:05,160
Speaker 1: President's person home. The Vances, his wife, Usha, the Vice President,

1639
01:52:05,360 --> 01:52:07,160
Speaker 1: and their children were not at home.

1640
01:52:07,200 --> 01:52:08,960
Speaker 2: They had returned to Washington, d c.

1641
01:52:09,320 --> 01:52:13,479
Speaker 1: The previous day, Sunday, after spending time at the home

1642
01:52:13,520 --> 01:52:18,439
Speaker 1: in Ohio over the holidays. To four According to Secret

1643
01:52:18,479 --> 01:52:22,439
Speaker 1: Service agents, broke four windows at the unoccupied home using

1644
01:52:22,479 --> 01:52:26,439
Speaker 1: a hammer, damaged a Secret Service vehicle parked in the

1645
01:52:26,520 --> 01:52:30,960
Speaker 1: driveway and attempted to enter the property. A Secret Service

1646
01:52:31,040 --> 01:52:35,200
Speaker 1: agent on site witnessed this, heard a loud noise, and

1647
01:52:35,360 --> 01:52:40,879
Speaker 1: detained to four immediately. He then called Cincinnati police for backup.

1648
01:52:41,120 --> 01:52:46,719
Speaker 1: The response lasted several hours. Officers searched the property. Now

1649
01:52:46,840 --> 01:52:52,160
Speaker 1: Vance posted on x shortly afterwards, I appreciate everyone's well

1650
01:52:52,200 --> 01:52:54,320
Speaker 1: wishes about the attack at our home. As far as

1651
01:52:54,320 --> 01:52:56,280
Speaker 1: I can tell, a crazy person tried to break in

1652
01:52:56,320 --> 01:52:59,599
Speaker 1: by hammering the windows. I'm grateful to the Secret Service

1653
01:52:59,640 --> 01:53:03,839
Speaker 1: and the Cincinnati Police for responding quickly. He also chided

1654
01:53:03,880 --> 01:53:10,360
Speaker 1: the media for repeatedly showing the home. Yes, ladies and gentlemen,

1655
01:53:10,400 --> 01:53:15,320
Speaker 1: this suspect is potentially trans According to the UK Daily,

1656
01:53:15,720 --> 01:53:21,200
Speaker 1: male Defour quote appears to have transitioned to female and

1657
01:53:21,280 --> 01:53:25,880
Speaker 1: now goes by the name Julia. Defour reportedly created a

1658
01:53:25,880 --> 01:53:31,120
Speaker 1: Facebook profile reflecting this identity as a quote transgender woman

1659
01:53:31,280 --> 01:53:35,840
Speaker 1: named Julia de four within the past month. The profile

1660
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:40,559
Speaker 1: included likes for pages like the Heartland Trans Wellness Center,

1661
01:53:40,600 --> 01:53:46,080
Speaker 1: which provides resources for transgender individuals in the greater Cincinnati area.

1662
01:53:46,520 --> 01:53:50,360
Speaker 1: Earlier in life, Defour went by names like Davis during

1663
01:53:50,479 --> 01:53:56,759
Speaker 1: high school and William but now apparently identifies as Julia.

1664
01:53:58,240 --> 01:54:02,400
Speaker 1: Whether or not this suspect is trans and folks, you'd

1665
01:54:02,400 --> 01:54:05,080
Speaker 1: better believe that you are not going to hear anything

1666
01:54:05,160 --> 01:54:08,920
Speaker 1: more about that angle of the story. This could have

1667
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:12,719
Speaker 1: been way, way worse, and in fact, it is only

1668
01:54:12,800 --> 01:54:16,760
Speaker 1: the latest in a long string of what can only

1669
01:54:16,760 --> 01:54:22,439
Speaker 1: be classified as terror attacks committed by avowed leftists. The

1670
01:54:22,479 --> 01:54:27,759
Speaker 1: assassination of the United Healthcare CEO, the assassination of Charlie Kirk,

1671
01:54:28,360 --> 01:54:33,120
Speaker 1: the assault on the Prairie Land ICE facility, shootings at

1672
01:54:33,320 --> 01:54:37,520
Speaker 1: ICE agents in Dallas, Texas. All of this is left

1673
01:54:37,560 --> 01:54:41,200
Speaker 1: wing terrorism, and I suspect we will be talking about

1674
01:54:41,240 --> 01:54:45,200
Speaker 1: it in greater depth tomorrow when the Dan O'Donnell Show

1675
01:54:45,280 --> 01:54:46,760
Speaker 1: returns at three h six.

1676
01:54:46,840 --> 01:54:47,440
Speaker 2: Talk to you then,