WEBVTT - 10-29-25 Midweek Crisis with Dan Carroll 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:09.640 I have a big one, seven hundred WLW. It is 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:12.799 nine oh seven. We are rocking and rolling till midnight tonight. 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.400 This is the Wednesday night edition of the Midweek Crisis. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:21.800 I'm Dan Carroll. Joe Waldell is running the big board 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.079 in the seven hundred WLW command center. So when you 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.480 call in, make sure you say hello to him. Five one, three, 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.480 seven four nine, seven thousand, one, eight hundred, the Big One. 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.200 Those are the numbers to call a ton of stuff 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.239 I want to get to tonight. I'm gonna do What 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:37.559 a mess, what an absolute mess we have going on 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.880 at city Hall right now. We've got incompetence run wild. 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.040 I'm starting to see the commercials now for the candidate 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.640 to want to be re elected to city Council. I 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.639 can't think of a good reason to re elect any 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.120 of them. My guest coming up after the news at 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.520 the bottom of the hour is going to be Kevin Aldridge. 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:01.280 He is the opinion editor at the Cincinnat Inquirer, and 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.200 we're going to break down all the latest information that's 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.880 come out and when we just have a city manager 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:14.720 that has shown her incompetence in multiple ways. She finally 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.440 spoke about the situation with the police chief today, and 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:25.200 essentially she said, Hey, it's personnel matter, can't comment on it. 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.679 Isn't that nice? Isn't that convenient? And she was upset 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:32.120 with the chief. And there was a letter that went 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.399 out to the chief, Teresa Thigi. I believe it was 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:40.039 back in August, and the chief said something that the 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.039 city manager wasn't aware of that the chief had been 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:47.840 talking to other police chiefs in Hamilton County and decided 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.360 that Cincinnati would be part of a force task force 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:56.840 to help produce crime. And of course the city manager, well, 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.800 you can't. You can't say things like this without running 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.680 it by me first. And she was called off guard. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.680 And I'm thinking to myself, what difference does it make? 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.680 What difference does it make if the city manager, the 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.920 city manager doesn't speak to anyone anyway, when's the last 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:17.480 time a city manager subjected herself to withering questions from 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:23.239 the media. Anyone seeing that interview, I don't think so. 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.200 So we've got a city manager out there who won't 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.280 talk to the media, that talks about to the police 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.639 chief about Hey, before you do anything, you got to 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.200 run it by me and my compadres here at city Hall. 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:40.480 The copy of the letter I read didn't say specific 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:45.320 specifically I was Roly, but I would imagine she might 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.000 have had a part in it. So we're going to 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:51.919 talk to Kevin Aldridge about that. Then Tom King, one 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.240 of my favorite lawyers, is going to be here. He 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:58.320 is the chief council for the Pennsylvania GOP. They've got 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.160 some hot and heavy They've got some hot and heavy 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.480 elections going on there, especially Obama's getting involved down in Pennsylvania. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.640 They've got a a Supreme Court race going on, and 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.079 Obama's getting involved in that. But I want to talk 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:14.359 to him about the the the information that came out 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:20.399 today from the it's the House Oversight Committee, and they 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:25.640 put out they put out their report on Joe Biden 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:31.120 and the Biden administration as it relates to what was 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.600 going on with the auto pen And of course I'm 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:36.280 I had it here right in front of me a 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.160 moment ago, but of course I'm scrolling through the thing 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.160 now and I can't find it. But to my way 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.080 of thinking, the report is pretty devastating. And I want 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.360 you to listen to then. And what they did was 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.400 if you go to their website and maybe I'll be 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:56.040 able to find it here momentarily, but if you look 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:00.760 at their website, what they did is they put out 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.440 just one after another, a series of videos of people 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:08.640 who testified before their committee, people who were formally in 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:13.760 the Biden administration, who may or may not have worked 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:19.479 closely with Joe Biden. You had one guy in there 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:26.080 who was telling the committee that if Biden got reelected, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.640 then he was in line for a four million dollar bonus. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.680 His salary was already four million dollars, but he was 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.839 going to get a four million dollar bonus if Biden 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:44.800 got reelected in twenty twenty four. So they were incentivized 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.880 a lot of these people, if they knew the truth, 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.120 to not tell the truth, to not relate the truth. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:53.839 And I want you to listen to the cut that 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.760 I have ready to go here. Let me see Joe. 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:01.560 This is going to be cut number thirteen. But this 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.320 is a guy named his name is Iam sam Ian 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:11.360 Sam's he was one of the spokespersons for Joe Biden. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.320 And listen to this clip. It's a little over two 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:21.760 minutes long, but listen to this because they're trying to 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:27.760 clarify how many times this guy actually met with and 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:32.159 spoke with and was in the same room with Joe Biden. 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.320 He was a spokesperson for Joe Biden. And in the 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.160 middle of this clip, you're going to hear a cut 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:48.120 from an interview that Ian Sam's did on MSNBC, and 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.400 it takes a while to get there, but towards the 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.559 end of the clip he finally admits what was really 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.200 going on. So this is the kind of stuff that 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:01.000 the Oversight Committee put out earlier today. And Joe Wabbell, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:02.120 this is cutting number thirteen. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.280 Please, how often would you say that you interacted with 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:06.440 the president in person? 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.960 I interacted with him pretty infrequently. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:15.000 So weekly, monthly, what are we talking about? 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:15.919 Very infrequent? 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:21.080 I think I met with the president a handful of 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:22.760 times during my tenure in lies. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.239 I want to introduce exhibit two. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:30.720 As it's being passed around into a tweet from Alex 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.839 Thompson and at ATCO summarizing. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.040 We pulled a couple of quotes of. 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.920 Us the interview you did it on MSNBC, and one 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.320 of the quotes says, when I deal with him, he 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.360 is sharp and being President Biden, and he is asking 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:45.160 tough questions. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.000 To your call this you got to say that doesn't 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:48.960 look anything like the President that I know when I 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.560 deal with him, He's sharp, he's asking tough questions. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.359 That's the President Biden that so many of us experience 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:55.240 every single day. 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.520 So this statement, the basis for this statement was your 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.720 interaction somewhere between one and five times. 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.760 Yes, okay, do you think that's a bitness leading? 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.400 I think it was pretty direct and honest and said 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.800 that when I do deal with him, he's you know, charting, 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.280 he was asking incisive questions during my meetings with him. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:24.880 But dealt with him five times in twenty four months. 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.120 That's not exactly a large scope of knowledge on how 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.160 he interacts with staff. You know, I think it's missing 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:38.000 some context. I don't Do you think that statement suggests 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.280 that you deal with him more than he did? 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.720 I don't think so. I mean I spoke about my 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:44.840 own interactions with him. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.000 That's the President Biden that we experience every day. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.040 But to the best of your recollection, for meetings two 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:52.720 were in person. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.480 Two that were the two that I described to you 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.400 that I at the very onset in the oval. One 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.560 was a zoom where he was at Camp David, and 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:08.240 I was a participant in the meeting the phone call. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.080 I think there was another meeting, but I or another engagement, 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:13.560 but I can't remember off the top of my head 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:13.920 what it was. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:15.760 I'm sorry, No, It's like I'm just trying to get 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.440 a understanding. So the community decision was. 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.720 Virtual within the camp, David, there's a phone call regarding 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.960 Hunter Biden's testimony. Yes, an in purson meeting regarding Hunter 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:29.080 Biden's testimony, and one other in person. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.840 Meeting about special counsel Hirst special counsel. 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:36.400 So two in purson meetings. Sure, at least at least that, yes. 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.800 At least two in person meetings. So here's a guy, 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.000 Ian Sam's is his name, spokesperson for Biden, worked in 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.480 the Biden White House for two years. Over that span 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:54.600 of time, he met in person with Biden two times. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:59.120 And yet he goes on MSNBC and says, and they're 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:03.920 talking about the decline, they're talking about his state of mind, 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.800 how he acts with people behind the scenes. Well, that's 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.360 not that Joe Biden we see every single day. When 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.480 someone says that's not what we see every single day, 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.640 does that indicate Now, Look, it's even if you work 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:21.720 with someone, it's believable that you don't see them every 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.000 single day. But when you say every single day, what 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.480 do you mean by that, you mean that you see 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:30.720 them all the time, that you have regular contact with them. 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.240 This guy was a spokesperson for Biden. He met with 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.720 him twice in person. Once there was a zoom call 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:40.800 that he was on while Biden was at Camp David, 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.880 and only God knows what happened. And then there was 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:47.960 another time over the telephone. That's it. And this guy 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:52.560 goes out on MSNBC and says, hey, the guy is sharp, 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.120 he's asking questions. I'm telling you, man, got to be 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:59.720 on top of your game. We see it every single day. 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.720 This is how the Biden administration operated. And when you 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.880 go to the government website of the Oversight Committee and 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:13.320 you look at the report that they put out, and 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.240 I found it during the where we were playing the 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.880 SoundBite there the Biden not a Pen Presidency declined delusion 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.959 and deception in the White House put out and by 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:27.520 James Comer, the chairman, And what does he hear? He says, 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:32.400 the let's see the Biden not a Pen presidency will 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.640 go down as one of the biggest political scandals in 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.800 US history. As Americans saw President Biden's decline with their 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:43.439 own eyes. Biden's in her circle sought to deceive the public, 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:48.040 cover up his decline, and took unauthorized executive actions with 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:53.640 the auto pen that are now invalid. So when I 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:58.840 have Tom King on, we are going to break this 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.120 down and get in to this. A huge political scandal 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:10.040 put out by the Government Oversight Committee or the Committee 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:16.720 on Oversight from the House of Representatives James Comer chairman. 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:22.080 And what they did was they put out video after 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:26.640 video after video. Andrew Bates, former senior Deputy Press Secretary, 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:33.480 Anita Dunn, former Senior and Communications for the President, Ashley Williams, 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:38.080 former Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Outreach, Bruce Reid, 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:43.360 former deputy chief of staff. We've got Jeffrey Zint's former 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.680 White House Chief of Staff, Ron Klain is in there, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:50.640 carin John Pierre. Michael Donellan is a former senior aide 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.920 to the President. He's the one that told them that, hey, 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.520 if Biden gets elected, I'm in for a four million 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:01.520 dollar bonus. Four million dollar bonus. Is that how you 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.280 you really want the staff to operate at the White House. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.920 Steve Rochetti, former counselor to the President. All these depositions 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:18.079 are out there, and it goes on and on and on. Alison, 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:19.800 Claremont County, how are you tonight? 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.839 Very well? I hope you can say the same. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:27.959 I mean, this is this is a huge scandal. This 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:32.160 is a huge deal. How about this guy? Hey, look, 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.880 I see the president every day. Uh, he's not declining, 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:41.040 he's good, he's solid, asking some really tough questions. And 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.400 then it turns out he met with him twice in 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.840 person over two years. 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.000 Well, not only that, just how stupid do they think 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.840 the public is? I mean, we saw Biden. He could 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:52.960 barely walk. 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:58.280 They think, Alice, they think we are a bunch of chumps, 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:02.479 is what they think. This is. This is so consistent 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.880 over the years when we when we see things. I 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.720 remember I did a radio show one time back when 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.520 Barack Obama was running for reelection and it was on 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.400 a Saturday. I was on on a Saturday. It was 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.640 Saturday morning. It might have been I think it was 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.880 the nine to noon show that Mike Allen does now. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.440 And I played a SoundBite. I played it four or 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.560 five times, and it was Michelle Obama and she was 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.840 on a podcast or some radio show, and she was 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:34.080 talking about getting people out to the polls. She says, Hey, 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.480 go out and get that knucklehead next door, go out 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.240 and get that lazy cousin of yours, Go out and 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.560 get and she's describing and she's just and this is 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:48.119 how she's describing people that you, as a good loyal Democrat, 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.920 had to do, was go out and get and get 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.040 these these these ne'er do wells and these low lifes 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.160 and get them to the polls. That is and she 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.080 was and I say, and I, ladies say, listen to 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.600 what she says. This is how she's describing her voters. 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.640 This is what they this is how they think of people. 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.320 And all these people in the White House thought, hey, 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:16.120 look we everyone can see Joe Biden is going down 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.960 the tube. But if we sit here and we tell them, look, 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:24.320 we're with Biden every day, I mean, hey, he's good man. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.440 I mean, there's no problem there at all. This is 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.240 because they think they treat us like we are a 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:32.040 bunch of chumps. 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.120 They do. You have to feel sorry for someone who 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:36.560 has to be with Biden every day. 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.920 Anyway, Oh my god, unbelievable. 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.400 It was. It's a disgrace, the way they're the way 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.400 they talk down to us. The same thing in the 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:46.480 city of Cincinnati. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:54.760 Yeah, well the city is the condescension. Tam Purvall is 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.080 up there. I mean, they're they they want they want 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:03.040 ultimate strict control over every aspect of this. And now 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.440 the curtain, the curtain has been revealed on this and 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:10.760 we see just how just how bush league this operation 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.000 at city Hall really is. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.960 The curtain fell down. We can see how small the 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:16.640 way it is. 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:21.360 That's a great movie. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:23.840 Oh yes, it was no. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.680 Attention to that man behind the Gooden. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:33.800 You don't you almost feel embarrassed for pure val Does 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:38.080 he really believe what he is saying and he's actually 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.480 talking to people and saying the things he's doing, what 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:46.680 he is doing to the former chief of police publicly 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:53.760 embarrassing this woman, and he's well, he does he doesn't care, No, 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.920 he doesn't care. This man wants power. 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.480 The only thing, the only thing he cares about is 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.800 being mayor. And what's what's the next step, what's the 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.480 next step up the political ladder. 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.080 He wants Washington and I think, uh, I think he 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.400 would try, would have tried for governor. Accept as a 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:13.600 great guy, I can't think. 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:13.960 Of his name. 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:18.280 Who's who's going to probably yeah, I don't know. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:22.200 I think if you're governor, I think I think you 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.000 actually have to do some work. I don't think aft 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.920 tab is really interested in doing any work. I really know. 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.600 You you know, if you get point, if you get 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.800 elected to Congress, or you become a senator. And there's 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.960 plenty of congressmen and senators, senators up there that that 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:43.280 literally do nothing. You can you can go to Washington 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.720 and you can skate. You can skate and skate and 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.360 just rake in a nice salary, makes some make some 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.480 good trades on the stock market with your inside information. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.480 And I really think that's what Aftab is looking for. 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:59.760 I think that's it in the long run. I think 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.600 that really what he wants. He doesn't want he he 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.240 doesn't want any part of this thing going on with 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.560 the police chief. This, I mean, this is her life, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:13.560 this is this is this is her world series right. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.520 Here, poor chief Age. What a wonderful woman. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.520 Well, she didn't do herself. Look and she had a coach. 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.119 She didn't do herself any favors. When she blamed the 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.520 media for showing showing that video the people getting beat 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.560 up on the street and she didn't do herself any 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:32.919 favors when she, you know, talked about, hey, if you're 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.520 going to come to our city, you better learn how 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:39.000 to behave. Didn't do herself any favors there. But in 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.560 the big scheme of things, it's really not enough for 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.920 them to decide to go down this road. 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:53.119 And she's being an escapegoat, absolutely, and he's disgusting. 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.480 Complete and totally confidence. Alice, we're up against the break. 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.960 We got to run. But I appreciate you so much 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.160 picking up the phone, and I know you're always out 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.240 there listening, and I really appreciate it. Yes, thank you, Alice. 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.000 You have a great night. Thank you very much. With that, 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.240 we got to get to a break. My buddy Kevin 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.760 Aldridge coming up from the Cincinnati Enquirer, and we will 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.280 break down what is going on at city Hall as 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.159 we roll on on the Wednesday night edition of The 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:25.680 Midweek Crisis on seven hundred WLW. Listening to a woman 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.320 shop in the produce section isn't funny? Yeah, a sail 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.159 on cucumbers Listening to a woman poot next to the 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:37.959 Granny Smiths oops is funny? Eddie and Rocky are also funny. 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.080 So when you think of an Apple farter oops, think 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.600 of Eddie and Rocky, Eddie and Rocky. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:45.320 Tomorrow afternoon at. 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:50.960 Three seven hundred WLW, this is Jim Hello. 0:18:51.160 --> 0:19:00.760 Jim started advertising with iHeartRadio way back in April LW 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.800 nine fifty one, Dan Carrol till Midnight Tonight, Wednesday Night 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:05.639 edition of the Midweek Crisis. See, when I think of 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:07.840 voting in Ohio, I think we have a pretty secure 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:11.520 system here and that is because the Secretary of State, 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:15.320 Frank LeRose, has done, I think a really good job 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.240 of making sure that our elections are on the up 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:24.000 and up. And he has just come out with word 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.760 of a massive voter fraud scheme that's been going on 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.280 here in the state of Ohio, and he's referred over 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:35.280 one thousand non citizens to the Justice Department for unlawfully 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:39.600 registering to vote. The Rose goes on to say that 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:43.879 one hundred and sixty seven of those individuals appear to 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.800 have cast illegal ballots in federal elections going back to 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:53.200 twenty eighteen. So this is the kind of work that 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.560 needs to happen on a regular basis. I think we're 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.040 lucky to have a guy like Frank LeRose in the 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:04.240 Secretary of States office, who takes this kind of stuff seriously, 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.679 and so he has broken it down. He sent this 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:16.119 letter to the Department of Justice Criminal Division on these referrals, 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.760 and so he's got one thousand, eighty four non citizens 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:26.640 unlawfully registered to vote, one hundred and sixty seven non 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:32.080 citizens who appear to have actually cast balance, ninety nine 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:38.679 individuals who allegedly voted in two states during the same election. 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:43.359 Sixteen individuals who allegedly voted twice in Ohio in a 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:50.639 single election. Fourteen who allegedly voted after their death, which 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.200 is I don't know how you do that, but apparently 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:55.880 these individuals managed to pull that off. They were dead 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.720 and voted anyway. Four individuals suspected of ballot harvesting. Two 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.760 who allegedly register at false residences. Now, when you look 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:09.200 at these numbers, I don't know how many. I think 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:13.560 the population in Ohio is twenty four twenty five million, 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:19.680 not to look that up, so the numbers are not huge. 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:23.720 But to me, this demonstrates the diligence that this guy 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:28.120 has to weed this kind of stuff out. You're going 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:31.200 to send twelve hundred and thirteen hundred individuals to the 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:37.440 Department of Justice and refer them for criminal investigation. It's fantastic. 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:44.720 This is why Ohio should be looked at as a 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.840 model for the rest of the country. And so when 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:49.959 we have things like this, well you get those on 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:54.199 the left who want to cry about voter suppression and 0:21:54.960 --> 0:22:01.160 disenfranchising voters and all that kind of nonsense. Now this 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:07.560 is just doing what's right. We should not have individuals 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:11.920 who are in the country unlawfully voting in elections. Why 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:15.959 is that such a hard concept to to get your 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:21.760 head around. Larrose told the DOJ that the evidence was 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:26.680 collected through years of careful investigation and cooperation with local prosecutors. 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:32.359 He noted previous referrals to county officials had produced inconsistent outcomes, 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:36.359 but with a new administration of the DOJ expressing interest 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:41.480 in prosecuting federal election crimes, his office is formerly referring 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:49.359 all relevant materials for consideration. He says, these cases have 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:54.960 encountered varying degrees of adjudication from Ohio's eighty eight county prosecutors. 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.080 We have an executive administration at the White House and 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:02.600 Department that has expressed interest in actively actively reviewing and 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:09.040 prosecuting evidence of federal election crimes. So he's referring these materials. 0:23:10.800 --> 0:23:15.040 The Secretary is later also letter also credits can constructive 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:19.719 feedback from state and local prosecutors for helping his office 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:25.080 improve the quality of evidence referred to for consideration. So 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:30.480 when these things happen, this makes voting better for everyone. 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:36.600 It waters down your vote that much less when you 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:41.160 get these kind of people out of there and get 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:44.919 these kind of these kind of things cleaned up that 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:47.800 need to be cleaned up. So I say, Frank LeRose 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:51.879 is to one a great job on that front. 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:53.800 Man. 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:58.400 More stuff out has come out about Montani over the weekend. 0:23:58.400 --> 0:24:00.520 We talked, We talked about that last time we were 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:08.080 on this is uh the The New York Times is 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:18.359 written a piece about Mondannie and they they talk about Mondannie, 0:24:18.400 --> 0:24:24.680 how he's getting all these uh these Islamophobic comments thrown 0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:27.840 his way and all they're doing. I mean, The New 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:31.120 York Times is just actively campaigning for him. 0:24:31.480 --> 0:24:31.679 You know. 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:35.920 I think it's one thing to go after this guy 0:24:36.040 --> 0:24:41.040 for being a communist, for being a socialist, but the 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:46.040 rest of it, when you talk about being an Islamist, 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:50.359 anyone that criticizes him for, you know, meeting with a 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:55.159 mom's that were connected to the World Trade Center bombing, 0:24:56.040 --> 0:25:00.680 when he lies about his aunt didn't want to wear 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:03.600 a job after nine to eleven because she felt uncomfortable 0:25:03.640 --> 0:25:12.160 on the subway, claiming victimhood. The New York Times writes, 0:25:12.160 --> 0:25:13.879 in the closing days of the race for mayor of 0:25:13.880 --> 0:25:17.359 New York City, Mandani, the Democrat front runner, has faced 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:23.760 a barrage of faith or ethnicity based attacks from his opponents, 0:25:25.840 --> 0:25:30.600 and this is what typically happens, and any criticism of 0:25:30.920 --> 0:25:40.440 his policies, of things he said, refusing to refusing to 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:46.440 speak negatively about the Islamic Caliphate, those sort of things, 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:53.520 to what did you know did disavow certain actions terrorist actions? 0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:57.040 Things like that. If you criticize that, well then you're 0:25:57.080 --> 0:26:01.720 just you're just an Islami foote. Mister Mondonnie responded to 0:26:01.760 --> 0:26:04.520 the attacks in a ten minute address on Friday, denouncing 0:26:04.600 --> 0:26:09.680 the rhetoric and divisiveness while embracing his faith. That's great. 0:26:12.320 --> 0:26:13.880 For as long as we have lived, we have known 0:26:13.920 --> 0:26:16.280 that no matter what anyone says, there are still certain 0:26:16.320 --> 0:26:23.359 forms of hate that are acceptable in the city. Islamophobia 0:26:23.400 --> 0:26:27.879 is not seen as inexcusable. So he's getting he's getting 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:31.840 backed up by the New York Times on this, but 0:26:34.040 --> 0:26:36.520 that that, you know, you talk about an absolute mess, 0:26:36.560 --> 0:26:40.199 and we've got a mess here in Cincinnati, and with 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:49.520 Mondanni going out there this and then there was a 0:26:49.600 --> 0:26:54.320 video that came out from two thousand and three, and 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:58.440 this is a video of Mondannie speaking at a Democrat 0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:03.360 Socialist of America national convention and he was the keynote 0:27:03.400 --> 0:27:08.560 speaker there and one of the things he said, and 0:27:07.960 --> 0:27:13.600 I didn't pull off this cut for the air because 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:17.159 of the sound quality is really not that great. But 0:27:17.280 --> 0:27:19.520 one of the things he says, he says is that 0:27:19.560 --> 0:27:22.480 we have to make it clear that when the boot 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:25.360 of the New York Police Department, the NYPD is on 0:27:25.400 --> 0:27:32.640 your neck, it's been laced by the IDF. So even 0:27:32.680 --> 0:27:36.120 back in two thousand and three, this is a guy 0:27:36.160 --> 0:27:42.400 who was going around blaming Israel for any issues, any 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:46.520 problems they might have in New York City. That's the 0:27:46.600 --> 0:27:50.400 kind of guy he is. And then when you criticize that, 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:52.400 the New York Times comes out and says, oh, look, 0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:56.760 you're an islamaphone. There's something wrong with you. It's ten o'clock. 0:27:56.800 --> 0:27:58.200 We got to get to the news and then Tom 0:27:58.280 --> 0:27:59.760 King will be here after the top of the hour 0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:02.800 and we'll talk about all kinds of interesting stuff. Hope 0:28:02.800 --> 0:28:05.679 you can hang around for that. Dan Carroll, the Midweek 0:28:05.720 --> 0:28:20.080 Crisis on seven hundred WLW. All right back on the 0:28:20.080 --> 0:28:24.280 Big one, seven hundred W LW ten oh seven, Wednesday 0:28:24.359 --> 0:28:26.800 Night edition of the Midweek Crisis. I'm Dan Carroll, glad 0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:28.639 to be here, Glad you are here as well, and 0:28:28.680 --> 0:28:31.120 always glad to have in my buddy Tom King, who 0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:34.119 is the general counsel for the Republican Party in the 0:28:34.119 --> 0:28:36.600 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And Tom King, great for you to 0:28:36.640 --> 0:28:38.720 be here. How are you tonight, sir? 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:41.520 And thank you? Oh I'm just great. Thanks Dan, always 0:28:41.520 --> 0:28:42.240 glad to be with you. 0:28:42.320 --> 0:28:44.400 So I remember when I think you and I might 0:28:44.440 --> 0:28:47.800 have spoken when this this auto pen thing first came out, 0:28:47.880 --> 0:28:50.360 and I asked the question, I said, is this a 0:28:50.400 --> 0:28:54.320 big deal? Is this a big deal that the you know, 0:28:54.400 --> 0:28:57.680 Biden may have signed off on some stuff using the 0:28:57.920 --> 0:29:00.960 All presidents use the auto pen for different things. But 0:29:01.080 --> 0:29:04.640 if he would have signed off on let's say, pardons 0:29:05.000 --> 0:29:08.000 are signed off or the use the autopen for executive 0:29:08.120 --> 0:29:13.160 orders or other serious policy matters. It looks like it's 0:29:13.280 --> 0:29:15.520 it's a huge thing. And you know, we have the 0:29:15.640 --> 0:29:20.920 specter now of the Committee on Oversight, chaired by James Comer, 0:29:21.280 --> 0:29:24.200 putting out their report today on the autopen. Comer says, 0:29:24.240 --> 0:29:29.200 it's the biggest political scandal in US history. Then Tom King, 0:29:29.280 --> 0:29:32.080 that may be a little bit of melodrama there, But 0:29:32.200 --> 0:29:35.520 when I look at the way this Biden White House 0:29:35.600 --> 0:29:39.360 conducted business, I really think it is it's an important matter, 0:29:39.400 --> 0:29:41.360 and I think it is a pretty big scandal. 0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:45.120 Oh, I think you're right, Dan. I think it underscores 0:29:45.200 --> 0:29:50.560 the whole operation of the Biden White House was operating 0:29:50.600 --> 0:29:55.200 on Autopen's up the you know, the significance of this is, 0:29:55.240 --> 0:29:58.560 I mean, you can have autopen to sign autographs that 0:29:58.600 --> 0:30:01.280 they send to kids or people write in and they 0:30:01.280 --> 0:30:03.800 want a picture of the of the president, and they 0:30:03.880 --> 0:30:06.680 use a lot depends all the time. But the significant 0:30:06.760 --> 0:30:10.400 is significance is that when you have a pardon involved, 0:30:10.520 --> 0:30:13.600 or you have the commutation of a criminal sentence involved, 0:30:13.840 --> 0:30:18.400 there has to be some conscious thought and deliberation done 0:30:18.440 --> 0:30:21.640 by the president. You know, it can't be these things 0:30:21.680 --> 0:30:24.680 can't be delegated to his chief of staff, which is 0:30:24.680 --> 0:30:28.160 what the COMA report looks like. It's indicating that the 0:30:28.280 --> 0:30:31.880 chief of staff was orchestrating this stuff, and that Biden 0:30:32.040 --> 0:30:35.880 was talking in generalities, and by Hunter Bidens, I think 0:30:35.960 --> 0:30:39.280 has revealed some of this too, that he was involved 0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:43.200 in in these discussions, and they were talking in generalities 0:30:43.240 --> 0:30:48.360 about classes of different people who were imprisoned or were sentenced, 0:30:48.400 --> 0:30:53.920 and so there weren't discussions about specific pardons or specific commutations, 0:30:54.160 --> 0:30:57.760 which explains how they could have possibly done thousands of 0:30:57.800 --> 0:31:02.160 these things that at one time Biden obviously could not 0:31:02.360 --> 0:31:05.720 have been up to discussing every one of these cases. 0:31:06.000 --> 0:31:08.440 And I think that's what the Constitution calls for, is 0:31:09.520 --> 0:31:14.040 a conscious, knowing, intelligent review by the President of the 0:31:14.160 --> 0:31:18.800 United States making a decision, not somebody saying release all 0:31:18.880 --> 0:31:22.719 the people that have this particular type of conviction or 0:31:22.760 --> 0:31:25.800 are in jail for these particular offenses. I don't think 0:31:25.840 --> 0:31:27.880 that's what was ever intended, and I think that's why 0:31:27.880 --> 0:31:28.600 it's a big deal. 0:31:28.880 --> 0:31:32.840 The notion that you're going to go back and review 0:31:33.600 --> 0:31:38.560 these different You've got these pardons in some cases, you've 0:31:38.600 --> 0:31:42.320 got executive orders in some cases. The notion you're going 0:31:42.360 --> 0:31:45.320 to go back and review these things. I don't know 0:31:45.400 --> 0:31:48.800 that that's ever been done before, that has Are you 0:31:48.880 --> 0:31:52.920 aware that any of these in history have ever been 0:31:52.960 --> 0:31:56.880 reviewed in such a way to invalidate with the idea 0:31:56.920 --> 0:31:59.920 of invalidating them and saying, hey, look, I know you 0:32:00.120 --> 0:32:02.160 got a pardon at him shift, but it really doesn't 0:32:02.160 --> 0:32:05.080 count because Biden didn't know what the heck he was doing. 0:32:06.320 --> 0:32:09.120 I don't believe this has ever happened before, and and 0:32:09.240 --> 0:32:12.920 uh or even been alleged before. And the the the issue, 0:32:12.960 --> 0:32:15.080 of course is that you've got people who were in 0:32:15.160 --> 0:32:17.400 jail that are out of jail. You've got people who 0:32:17.400 --> 0:32:22.160 are whose records have been expunged now, and and you've 0:32:22.200 --> 0:32:24.440 got all there's all sorts of problems trying to go 0:32:24.520 --> 0:32:27.960 back and reverse it, you know, And of course you'll 0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:31.840 have Biden saying that that he was consciously doing all 0:32:31.880 --> 0:32:34.680 these things when when it when the evidence appears to 0:32:34.720 --> 0:32:35.640 be contrary to that. 0:32:36.320 --> 0:32:40.960 Yeah, they talked about in the in the the the 0:32:40.960 --> 0:32:44.000 press release that they Comera put out, he talks about 0:32:44.080 --> 0:32:48.600 political operatives like Anita Dunn Interfield and interfered in medical decisions, 0:32:48.800 --> 0:32:53.200 blocking cognitive tests to protect Biden's re election prospects. And 0:32:53.240 --> 0:32:57.880 then there was testimony from one of the of those 0:32:58.360 --> 0:33:03.320 in the inner circle with and and this guy, Michael Donellan, 0:33:04.000 --> 0:33:08.120 a former senior aide to to Biden, who talks about 0:33:08.120 --> 0:33:11.160 his salary was for for I didn't know senior aids 0:33:11.160 --> 0:33:13.280 in the White House made were making four million dollars 0:33:13.320 --> 0:33:18.240 a year. First of all, where is that salary coming from? 0:33:18.480 --> 0:33:22.000 And then he talked about he talked about how he 0:33:22.120 --> 0:33:26.000 was in line for a four million dollar bonus if. 0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:29.200 He got four million, and he would he got four million, 0:33:29.440 --> 0:33:32.680 and he was going to get four million more. Watched 0:33:33.920 --> 0:33:36.960 if you watch that deposition, if you watch the the 0:33:36.960 --> 0:33:41.000 interrogation that took place with him, you would wonder how 0:33:41.040 --> 0:33:44.000 anybody would pay him four thousand dollars, let alone four 0:33:44.040 --> 0:33:48.920 million dollars. And he stumbled, he stumbled on every question, 0:33:49.040 --> 0:33:52.800 and and and the pauses, the pregnant pauses of in 0:33:52.840 --> 0:33:56.560 his testimony were so unbelievable that I just sat there 0:33:56.560 --> 0:34:00.000 in amazement and shook my head. But but go pay 0:34:00.160 --> 0:34:03.040 this guy four million dollars if Joe Biden got reelected, 0:34:03.880 --> 0:34:07.640 and having already paid him four million dollars, was just unbelievable. 0:34:07.800 --> 0:34:11.239 You know, sor senior White House age would make somewhere 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:14.919 in the neighborhood of close to two hundred thousand dollars, 0:34:15.000 --> 0:34:17.799 maybe one hundred and eighty seven something like that. That's 0:34:17.840 --> 0:34:19.839 what people make in the White House. They don't make 0:34:19.880 --> 0:34:21.080 four million dollars. 0:34:21.280 --> 0:34:24.400 Well, apparently this guy did. And I'm just I was 0:34:24.480 --> 0:34:27.120 I heard that, and I'm thinking myself, man, we've really 0:34:27.160 --> 0:34:30.120 been missing the boat on this this kind of stuff. 0:34:31.160 --> 0:34:33.280 What I meant by that is they're not supposed to make. 0:34:33.200 --> 0:34:37.640 For Yeah, and then you know, a little bonus if 0:34:37.640 --> 0:34:39.279 he gets elected in twenty twenty four. 0:34:39.440 --> 0:34:40.520 So he so. 0:34:41.120 --> 0:34:44.200 But my point is is that the way this administration 0:34:44.320 --> 0:34:49.239 was running, people were incentivized to pull the wool over 0:34:49.280 --> 0:34:53.759 the American people's eyes, to create a false narrative, to 0:34:54.520 --> 0:34:57.480 tell them that, yes, even though you see this guy 0:34:57.880 --> 0:35:00.279 reaching around to shake hands with no one who's there, 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:03.120 doesn't know where he's going, stops in the middle of 0:35:03.160 --> 0:35:05.680 a sentence, as Camp put a couple of sentences, even 0:35:05.719 --> 0:35:08.279 though we see all this kind of stuff going on. No, 0:35:08.320 --> 0:35:10.880 it's it's perfectly fine. Though you know, I played the 0:35:11.560 --> 0:35:14.680 SoundBite from the one guy who testified he was a 0:35:15.040 --> 0:35:20.240 Biden spokesperson, Ian SAMs, and he went on MSNBC talking about, well, 0:35:20.520 --> 0:35:24.080 you know this this narrative that Joe Biden has lost 0:35:24.080 --> 0:35:27.320 his fastball, that he doesn't really pay attention, doesn't know 0:35:27.360 --> 0:35:30.120 what's going on. He said, that's not what we see 0:35:30.160 --> 0:35:32.400 every day. And it turned out over the span of 0:35:32.400 --> 0:35:35.760 two years he had two in person meetings with Joe Biden. 0:35:36.239 --> 0:35:38.839 But yeah, he's out there talking people, creating this this 0:35:38.960 --> 0:35:41.480 idea that he sits with Biden and meets with him 0:35:41.520 --> 0:35:42.239 every single day. 0:35:43.280 --> 0:35:45.160 Listen, all you got to do is you could you 0:35:45.200 --> 0:35:48.800 could go as high up as the as the Prime 0:35:48.840 --> 0:35:52.440 Minister of Italy asked her how he was. If you remember, 0:35:52.680 --> 0:35:55.759 you remember he was pointed in the wrong direction. She 0:35:55.880 --> 0:36:00.000 had to spin him around with the other world leader. 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:03.000 I mean, the easy had to step into at one point. 0:36:03.040 --> 0:36:04.840 As I recall, that's true. 0:36:05.040 --> 0:36:07.799 My my, my old friend Jim Matthews used to say, 0:36:07.840 --> 0:36:09.680 if it looks like a duck, and it quacks like 0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:12.120 a duck in and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck. 0:36:13.040 --> 0:36:16.880 So this was a duck in terms of his behavior. 0:36:17.000 --> 0:36:20.279 So but I think Tom King that when you look 0:36:20.320 --> 0:36:23.920 at the way this administration reacts towards the American people. 0:36:24.239 --> 0:36:27.880 They really treat us with contempt. They really treat us 0:36:27.920 --> 0:36:32.400 with this this sense of arrogance, that that we're just 0:36:32.440 --> 0:36:36.600 a bunch of dupes, that we are only here as 0:36:36.640 --> 0:36:41.000 a nuisance to them carrying out their agenda. And they 0:36:41.080 --> 0:36:43.479 treat us like a bunch of chumps. And and every 0:36:43.520 --> 0:36:46.839 time the curtain gets pulled back a little bit and 0:36:46.880 --> 0:36:49.680 we see things like this revealed, but we see the 0:36:49.719 --> 0:36:52.120 same type of behavior over and over and over again. 0:36:53.120 --> 0:36:56.759 Well, it's really dangerous. It's these are dangerous views that 0:36:56.800 --> 0:36:59.359 they hold that they that they know better than we do, 0:36:59.400 --> 0:37:02.040 they know better than the electorate does, they know better 0:37:02.080 --> 0:37:05.799 than than the American people do. And and at the end, 0:37:05.920 --> 0:37:08.600 the end justifies the means. You know, we've heard, we 0:37:08.680 --> 0:37:11.279 know where that philosophy comes from. And you can see 0:37:11.280 --> 0:37:14.200 it at work. It's about it's about to mature and 0:37:14.680 --> 0:37:17.040 hopefully not, but it looks like it will in New 0:37:17.120 --> 0:37:21.440 York City in this Monday election. That's you know, the 0:37:21.560 --> 0:37:24.080 end justifies the means absolutely. 0:37:24.400 --> 0:37:26.520 And then when you look at I don't know how 0:37:26.600 --> 0:37:31.279 much you've read about the Arctic frost investigation that was 0:37:31.320 --> 0:37:33.960 being run. But now we've come to find out that 0:37:34.040 --> 0:37:36.719 more than one hundred and fifty people who were in 0:37:36.760 --> 0:37:41.480 the Trump orbits were being scrutinized by the FBI. So 0:37:42.239 --> 0:37:47.120 the Left loves to complain about the weaponization of the 0:37:47.239 --> 0:37:50.160 Justice Department. They love to complain about the weaponization of 0:37:50.200 --> 0:37:53.520 the different institutions of the federal government. And now we 0:37:53.600 --> 0:37:57.239 find out that one hundred and fifty individuals in the 0:37:57.560 --> 0:38:00.839 who were close to Trump were being scrutiny by the 0:38:00.920 --> 0:38:05.000 FBI under the direction of who, under the direction it's 0:38:05.280 --> 0:38:07.839 of of the White House, of Joe Biden. With Joe 0:38:07.840 --> 0:38:11.839 Biden able to direct these operations with someone who this is. 0:38:11.880 --> 0:38:17.399 This is more absolute scandalous behavior that to my way 0:38:17.440 --> 0:38:20.000 of thinking, needs to be investigated and needs to be 0:38:20.880 --> 0:38:22.120 brought out to the light of day. 0:38:23.200 --> 0:38:27.360 I couldn't agree with you more. Thank goodness that Patel 0:38:27.520 --> 0:38:29.360 is in there as as a director of the FBI. 0:38:30.280 --> 0:38:32.480 That's the only way we're going to get to the 0:38:32.480 --> 0:38:35.319 bottom of this stuff. And I'm I I'm involved. Not 0:38:35.360 --> 0:38:39.160 only was I familiar with this, but my friend and 0:38:39.239 --> 0:38:44.200 my congressman and uh I happen to be the treasurer 0:38:44.200 --> 0:38:48.360 of his campaign. Mike Kelly, who's been in Congress for 0:38:48.400 --> 0:38:51.719 eight terms. But Mike, Mike's Kelly, Mike Kelly's phone. There 0:38:51.719 --> 0:38:54.960 were eight Senators and one congressman, and the one Congressman 0:38:55.080 --> 0:38:59.359 was Mike Kelly. And UH, it's just it's OUTRAGEEDS. When 0:38:59.400 --> 0:39:02.400 I when I saw the report, I texted Mike and 0:39:02.400 --> 0:39:04.680 and asked him about it and said, you know, I 0:39:04.680 --> 0:39:07.400 can't believe it. They got your day, went after your phone. 0:39:07.480 --> 0:39:09.719 Of course they went after Mike because Mike was very 0:39:09.719 --> 0:39:14.640 outspoken about protecting the president and defending the president. And UH. 0:39:14.719 --> 0:39:17.600 And of course I was involved in in advising the 0:39:17.640 --> 0:39:22.040 electors UH in Pennsylvania on this so called fake electors stuff, 0:39:22.040 --> 0:39:25.279 you know. UH, and so I'm familiar with a lot 0:39:25.280 --> 0:39:28.279 of this stuff. But the the this this operation that 0:39:28.440 --> 0:39:31.120 was conducted is is really an affront to the to 0:39:31.440 --> 0:39:34.360 UH democracy. When we hear on the left all this 0:39:34.440 --> 0:39:38.560 stuff about protecting democracy, the attack on democracy is coming 0:39:38.600 --> 0:39:41.560 from the left. It's this kind of stuff that's that's 0:39:41.560 --> 0:39:44.560 the most dangerous, UH, stuff that we've ever seen in 0:39:44.600 --> 0:39:47.080 America that they're that they're doing. So when they talk 0:39:47.160 --> 0:39:51.080 about this is as bad as Watergate or equal to Watergate, 0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:52.920 I think it's every every bit as bad. 0:39:54.400 --> 0:39:57.440 It makes Watergate looks like look like an afternoon in 0:39:57.480 --> 0:40:01.040 the park. It looks like child's play. It's nick kind 0:40:01.080 --> 0:40:01.440 of stuff. 0:40:02.440 --> 0:40:05.719 Nixon wasn't involved with the burglars. But Nixon, Nixon knew 0:40:05.760 --> 0:40:09.000 about the erasure of part of the tape. That's nothing 0:40:09.040 --> 0:40:11.600 compared to what these guys. What these guys were doing 0:40:11.600 --> 0:40:13.880 would make Richard Nixon look like an amateur. 0:40:14.520 --> 0:40:19.560 Absolutely, and and and what and what was the justification 0:40:20.400 --> 0:40:24.080 for for this type of investigation or this this type 0:40:24.080 --> 0:40:27.080 of scrutiny or or the phone you know, the phones 0:40:27.520 --> 0:40:33.520 to be tapped by these individuals, What was the fake 0:40:35.440 --> 0:40:39.120 and which which which Comy knew was fake when he 0:40:39.200 --> 0:40:42.239 signed off on How much trouble do you think I 0:40:42.320 --> 0:40:45.400 mean to show? You think Comy is in with the with. 0:40:45.280 --> 0:40:49.319 The trial Listen, any any time you're indicted by by 0:40:49.320 --> 0:40:53.760 a federal grand jury and and face federal charges, that's 0:40:53.840 --> 0:40:57.000 that's very serious, you know. So they'll try to downplay 0:40:57.000 --> 0:40:59.960 it and say, well, it's the Trump administration, it's Trump 0:41:00.080 --> 0:41:03.239 going after his enemies, et cetera. But listen, this is 0:41:03.320 --> 0:41:06.560 more than just Trump enemies. These are Trump enemies because 0:41:06.600 --> 0:41:09.160 of what they did to Trump that what they what 0:41:09.200 --> 0:41:12.040 they tried to do to Trump, theawfare that they engaged 0:41:12.040 --> 0:41:15.120 in is unprecedented. And as I've said to you before, 0:41:15.360 --> 0:41:17.720 and you know this for a fact, they went after 0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:19.680 all of us. They went you know, I'm the general 0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:22.920 counsel of Pennsylvania Republican Party. As you know, they went 0:41:23.000 --> 0:41:25.759 after us. They went after the lawyers that I work with. 0:41:25.800 --> 0:41:28.640 They want they went after the lawyers here in Pennsylvania 0:41:28.719 --> 0:41:32.600 and elsewhere. They started a fund dash ll started this 0:41:33.080 --> 0:41:37.320 committee to try to disbar lawyers, anybody who was involved 0:41:37.360 --> 0:41:41.000 in supporting the president in the twenty twenty election. They 0:41:41.120 --> 0:41:44.040 named them by names, They identified these people. They tried 0:41:44.080 --> 0:41:46.800 to disgrace them. They went after all of us and 0:41:46.800 --> 0:41:52.960 and unsuccessfully in many instances, including me. So they but 0:41:53.000 --> 0:41:56.200 they but they nonetheless they tried and uh, and it's 0:41:56.400 --> 0:41:59.240 just all part of a scheme to stay in power. 0:41:59.680 --> 0:42:02.480 And it was all about who's in power and with 0:42:02.560 --> 0:42:05.879 whether Joe Biden was incompetent or he wasn't incompetent, they 0:42:05.880 --> 0:42:09.920 didn't care. And so using the autopen to sign massive 0:42:10.000 --> 0:42:14.759 numbers of pardons to effectuate their policies and controlling the 0:42:14.800 --> 0:42:16.880 White House. You know, you have to go back to 0:42:17.360 --> 0:42:20.759 almost the Woodrow Wilson's you know, when Wilson suffered a 0:42:20.760 --> 0:42:24.080 stroke and the country was found out later that his 0:42:24.160 --> 0:42:27.520 wife was actually running the White House. It's it's not 0:42:27.680 --> 0:42:30.560 dissimilar to that, except it's much on a much grander 0:42:30.600 --> 0:42:32.719 scale the things that they've done here. 0:42:32.960 --> 0:42:37.520 Yeah, I see in Pennsylvania you've got a you've got 0:42:37.600 --> 0:42:41.080 an election coming up. Well, we've all got elections coming up, 0:42:41.080 --> 0:42:42.680 but well, I guess one of one of the big 0:42:42.880 --> 0:42:46.160 election items is you've got some Supreme Court justices there 0:42:46.600 --> 0:42:48.800 that are up for election, and I see that Obama 0:42:48.880 --> 0:42:53.520 is now inserting himself into that, into that election. Does 0:42:54.000 --> 0:42:56.279 Obama have the kind of juice that he used to 0:42:56.320 --> 0:42:59.560 have in Pennsylvania, Well to be able to sway enough 0:42:59.640 --> 0:43:00.759 voters one way or the other. 0:43:01.640 --> 0:43:05.239 He'll be listened, they'll they'll listen to him in Philadelphia, yeah, 0:43:05.320 --> 0:43:09.800 but elsewhere not so much. But he did insert himself 0:43:09.840 --> 0:43:15.120 into this is an your listeners probably aren't much familiar 0:43:15.120 --> 0:43:17.719 with the Pennsylvania system. But you get elected to the 0:43:17.760 --> 0:43:20.799 Supreme Court for ten years over here, and then at 0:43:20.800 --> 0:43:23.240 the end of your ten year term, you run again. 0:43:23.360 --> 0:43:25.719 But you don't run against anyone. You just get a 0:43:25.800 --> 0:43:28.280 yes or a no vote, so yes to get another 0:43:28.360 --> 0:43:30.920 ten years or no to not get another ten years. 0:43:30.960 --> 0:43:34.120 So there's millions of dollars pouring in here on this 0:43:34.280 --> 0:43:36.759 yes and no vote. There are three Democrats. We have 0:43:36.840 --> 0:43:41.040 seven justices total, so these are three Democratic justices all 0:43:41.040 --> 0:43:44.120 elected in the same at the same time, and they've 0:43:44.160 --> 0:43:48.759 they've had a very controversial agenda, including extending out our 0:43:48.800 --> 0:43:53.440 elections over here and a number of controversial decisions. They 0:43:54.080 --> 0:43:58.560 authorized drop boxes when the legislature never authorized them, and 0:43:58.840 --> 0:44:01.520 they've done just myriad of things that are that are 0:44:01.600 --> 0:44:05.000 complained about by by many people here. So's it'll be 0:44:05.040 --> 0:44:09.560 interesting to see. We've only ever had one justice not retained, 0:44:10.480 --> 0:44:12.719 and that was because it was the time of a 0:44:12.880 --> 0:44:15.760 of a of a very unpopular pay raise that the 0:44:15.800 --> 0:44:20.240 Supreme Court went along with, and and Russell Niagro was 0:44:20.239 --> 0:44:22.759 was voted out of office. And so there is at 0:44:22.840 --> 0:44:25.640 least some precedent for it. But there's a heavy duty 0:44:25.680 --> 0:44:28.400 campaign going on on on over here. The TV is 0:44:28.760 --> 0:44:32.400 TV stations that are full of yes and no advertising, 0:44:32.520 --> 0:44:36.320 and now we've got people nationally involved in it, including 0:44:36.440 --> 0:44:40.000 former President Obama. So it's it'll be an interesting night 0:44:40.040 --> 0:44:40.520 to see. 0:44:40.600 --> 0:44:42.600 All I know is that when we have elections like 0:44:42.640 --> 0:44:45.959 that around here, usually yes means no and no means yes. 0:44:46.000 --> 0:44:48.959 So it gets totally confusing and no one is ever 0:44:49.040 --> 0:44:51.239 exactly sure what they're voting for. 0:44:52.320 --> 0:44:55.040 So listen, in Pennsylvania, the last one, the last one 0:44:55.080 --> 0:44:58.759 of these, we had we had some of the machines 0:44:59.120 --> 0:45:02.120 read some you know, they the Democrats want us to 0:45:02.120 --> 0:45:05.520 believe that that all these voting machines are sancri sacked, 0:45:05.960 --> 0:45:09.719 nothing can happen and totally but we had oh yeah, 0:45:09.800 --> 0:45:14.560 in north in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Uh, we had the machines. 0:45:14.600 --> 0:45:17.320 When you voted yes, it registered no, and when you 0:45:17.440 --> 0:45:18.960 voted no, it registered yes. 0:45:19.200 --> 0:45:19.359 Right. 0:45:20.160 --> 0:45:23.800 That was the That was the twenty three election in Pennsylvania. 0:45:24.040 --> 0:45:27.239 That that that is amazing. All right, it's Tom King. 0:45:27.440 --> 0:45:29.160 It's so great to have you on it again. And 0:45:29.320 --> 0:45:32.520 I've got about thirty seconds left here. I saw some analysis, 0:45:32.800 --> 0:45:35.920 uh and there the person on TV was talking about 0:45:36.120 --> 0:45:39.920 when it comes to Jack Smith, when it comes to Komy, 0:45:40.120 --> 0:45:43.160 when it comes to Latitia James, they're saying, all this stuff, 0:45:43.400 --> 0:45:45.440 it's all baked in the cake. They're all going to 0:45:45.520 --> 0:45:48.279 get off of a slap on the wrist, yes or no, Well, 0:45:48.400 --> 0:45:50.719 we'll let you get what's coming to them. 0:45:51.360 --> 0:45:54.640 In a in the sane world, I think that they're 0:45:54.800 --> 0:45:58.880 entitled to what's coming to them. So I hope they 0:45:58.920 --> 0:46:01.080 don't get off with a slap on the risk, all right, 0:46:01.480 --> 0:46:04.200 and you know, Letitia James is going to get what 0:46:04.280 --> 0:46:06.000 she deserves, I hope down there in Virginia. 0:46:06.080 --> 0:46:09.279 So all right, we'll see what happens. But Tom King 0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:12.279 has always been I appreciate the time, love having you on. 0:46:12.440 --> 0:46:14.520 Keep up the great work in Pennsylvania, and we'll be 0:46:14.800 --> 0:46:16.600 hopefully talking again before too long. 0:46:17.040 --> 0:46:18.040 Thanks for having me, Dan. 0:46:18.280 --> 0:46:20.480 All right, there you go, Tom King from the Great 0:46:20.520 --> 0:46:30.239 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Ten twenty five, seven hundred WLW, seven 0:46:30.320 --> 0:46:34.160 hundred WLW. It is the Wednesday night edition of the 0:46:34.160 --> 0:46:37.839 Midweek Crisis. I'm Dan Carroll, and an hour ago we 0:46:37.840 --> 0:46:41.360 were supposed to speak with Kevin Aldrich of the Cincinnati Enquirer. 0:46:42.960 --> 0:46:46.160 He wasn't here an hour ago, but he's here now. 0:46:47.000 --> 0:46:49.880 Kevin Aldridge, What will we do without cell phones and 0:46:49.920 --> 0:46:52.480 computers and stuff? What will we do without him? 0:46:53.320 --> 0:46:55.960 Listen, man, you can't live with him, and can't live 0:46:56.000 --> 0:46:56.520 without him. 0:46:57.160 --> 0:46:58.960 I say that all the time. We need low tech 0:46:59.040 --> 0:47:02.480 solutions for everything thing. But I appreciate I appreciate you 0:47:02.560 --> 0:47:06.640 being here now in your job as the opinion editor 0:47:06.719 --> 0:47:10.320 at the Inquirer. I'm guessing you're getting all kinds of 0:47:10.440 --> 0:47:14.239 letters right now with people opining about what's happening with 0:47:14.280 --> 0:47:16.440 the mayor and the city manager and the chief of 0:47:16.480 --> 0:47:19.359 police and and all and all the rest of it. 0:47:19.560 --> 0:47:24.600 What give me your your your overview, your thumbnail sketch 0:47:24.640 --> 0:47:27.680 of what the situation is at city Hall right now, 0:47:27.680 --> 0:47:29.600 because it looks like it's an absolute mess. 0:47:31.320 --> 0:47:33.480 Yeah, And I think that's kind of the consensus of 0:47:33.520 --> 0:47:35.799 like what I've been hearing from most readers who've been 0:47:35.840 --> 0:47:39.239 writing in. I see people kind of feel like, you know, 0:47:39.360 --> 0:47:42.960 that the police chief is kind of being scapegoaded here. 0:47:43.120 --> 0:47:45.759 There's a lot of questions about, you know, who's in 0:47:45.880 --> 0:47:49.919 charge over the city all and actually palling the shots, 0:47:51.120 --> 0:47:54.920 and it just really seems like there's, uh, there's kind 0:47:54.920 --> 0:47:57.279 of really a lack of leadership over there right now. 0:47:57.360 --> 0:47:59.560 You know, most people on city most of the council 0:47:59.600 --> 0:48:02.719 members don't even seem to know what's going on if 0:48:02.760 --> 0:48:04.360 you listen to them, If you hear how they've been 0:48:04.440 --> 0:48:06.520 quoted in the media and how they talk, they don't 0:48:06.520 --> 0:48:09.799 they don't even really know kind of what's going on, and. 0:48:09.960 --> 0:48:11.759 So it is that a problem to stop. Let me 0:48:11.840 --> 0:48:13.600 just I hate to interrupt you right there, but you 0:48:13.640 --> 0:48:16.080 mentioned the city councilor do you think that's a problem. 0:48:16.440 --> 0:48:18.959 Do you think that's an issue that and I've heard 0:48:18.960 --> 0:48:21.520 some different city council members on this radio station of 0:48:21.560 --> 0:48:24.480 the radio station, do you think that's an issue that 0:48:24.520 --> 0:48:27.440 they really are clueless as to what is going on 0:48:28.080 --> 0:48:30.560 down the hall at the or down the flight of 0:48:30.600 --> 0:48:33.759 stairs at the city manager's office. 0:48:34.160 --> 0:48:38.200 Yeah, I do. I mean, I I think that they 0:48:38.200 --> 0:48:41.399 should know what's going on. Information, you know, should be 0:48:41.400 --> 0:48:45.920 being shared with them, particularly when you're talking about the 0:48:45.920 --> 0:48:49.000 police chief and crime being as much of a topic 0:48:49.080 --> 0:48:50.839 as it is. It's just not a good look when 0:48:50.880 --> 0:48:54.000 you've got your council members who are in the dark. 0:48:54.080 --> 0:48:57.480 They can't answer the questions that they're that the constituents 0:48:57.520 --> 0:49:00.640 want to know, and it seems like they don't even 0:49:00.640 --> 0:49:02.640 have the answers that they themselves might want to have. 0:49:02.760 --> 0:49:04.399 So I think that I think that is a little 0:49:04.440 --> 0:49:06.279 bit of a problem. And again I think It just 0:49:06.440 --> 0:49:11.640 leads to this sense among people that folks over there 0:49:11.760 --> 0:49:14.080 don't really kind of know what's going on or what 0:49:14.120 --> 0:49:18.120 they're doing, and and and you know, that's that's a 0:49:18.200 --> 0:49:20.640 tough spot to be in. You know, about a week before. 0:49:20.360 --> 0:49:24.000 The election, when a week or so ago, I was 0:49:24.160 --> 0:49:26.400 filling in for Bill Cunningham, you were sitting in for 0:49:26.440 --> 0:49:29.440 our buddy Lincoln Ware over the buzz. I think that 0:49:29.560 --> 0:49:32.399 audience might be slightly different than this audience. There might 0:49:32.400 --> 0:49:34.680 be a little bit of overlap there. But what were 0:49:34.760 --> 0:49:38.520 you hearing from the people that's that we're calling in 0:49:38.560 --> 0:49:40.719 that day when you were sitting in for lincoln Ware 0:49:40.880 --> 0:49:44.120 because this story was breaking at that time when you 0:49:44.160 --> 0:49:44.759 were on the air. 0:49:44.800 --> 0:49:49.440 Then, Yeah, I think there's kind of a similar feeling 0:49:49.760 --> 0:49:53.680 that folks are are just kind of wondering what's going on. 0:49:53.800 --> 0:49:55.920 I think they feel like this whole thing with the 0:49:55.960 --> 0:49:59.400 police chief is a bit of a mess. There's questions about, 0:49:59.480 --> 0:50:02.319 you know, how much money the city is wasting potentially 0:50:02.480 --> 0:50:06.000 on this. Now. The flip side of that is, you 0:50:06.040 --> 0:50:08.920 know a lot of the callers who call in are 0:50:09.280 --> 0:50:12.239 supportive of the Democrats on council, So there's sort of 0:50:12.280 --> 0:50:20.000 this there's this mix of being dissatisfied with the current 0:50:20.080 --> 0:50:22.480 council and the way that things are going. But I 0:50:22.520 --> 0:50:25.759 also think there's this sense that as much as they 0:50:25.840 --> 0:50:29.600 might be dissatisfied with the job that the mayor is 0:50:29.640 --> 0:50:33.760 doing in some aspects, they're not dissatisfied enough to where 0:50:33.960 --> 0:50:36.960 they're probably not going to cast a ballot for him. Now, 0:50:36.960 --> 0:50:40.040 I think for the other members of city Council, you know, 0:50:40.120 --> 0:50:43.520 there it'll be a question there because you know, people 0:50:43.560 --> 0:50:47.520 are picking their candidates and who they want, and I 0:50:47.520 --> 0:50:52.200 think there's some resistance to this notion of just kind 0:50:52.200 --> 0:50:55.000 of going in and voting for the straight Democratic slate, 0:50:55.080 --> 0:50:57.360 which we know that that Democratic slate has had a 0:50:57.360 --> 0:51:00.640 lot of power in the City of Cincinnati over the 0:51:00.719 --> 0:51:02.800 years of late. But but you know, I heard a 0:51:02.800 --> 0:51:05.799 few people pushing back against that and encouraging people to 0:51:05.920 --> 0:51:10.040 kind of you know, freethink and do their research and 0:51:10.080 --> 0:51:12.719 maybe consider some of the other candidates who are on there, 0:51:12.760 --> 0:51:15.920 because I think that you know, there there are some 0:51:16.160 --> 0:51:19.160 members on council who are not being you know, who 0:51:19.200 --> 0:51:22.719 are not being looked at in high favor, you know, 0:51:23.320 --> 0:51:25.320 amongst some of the callers who called in there. So 0:51:25.360 --> 0:51:27.799 it'll be an interesting thing to see how how this 0:51:27.880 --> 0:51:30.759 race race shakes out and who doesn't make it back 0:51:30.800 --> 0:51:33.719 on and what new faces we see after next two year. 0:51:33.800 --> 0:51:35.160 Yeah, I want to I want to get back to 0:51:35.200 --> 0:51:38.080 city council in a minute. But this move by the 0:51:38.880 --> 0:51:44.120 city manager to hire Frost Brown Todd uh allow the 0:51:44.200 --> 0:51:46.759 law firm to investigate the chief What what do you 0:51:46.840 --> 0:51:50.440 make of this move? And does this provide the type 0:51:50.440 --> 0:51:56.560 of separation from the from I guess the city manager's 0:51:56.600 --> 0:51:59.560 office and the mayor to having this law firm do 0:51:59.680 --> 0:52:05.600 the investigation to I guess avoid the appearance of political 0:52:05.640 --> 0:52:07.399 considerations being involved here. 0:52:09.080 --> 0:52:11.960 Yeah, not really. And I'll say I'll say this for 0:52:12.440 --> 0:52:14.880 a couple of different reasons. One I I I actually 0:52:14.920 --> 0:52:17.160 think it's it's a bit of a of a waste 0:52:17.239 --> 0:52:23.360 of taxpayer money. And here's the reason why I say that. Yeah, yeah, well, 0:52:23.480 --> 0:52:27.480 you know, hey, that may be a position, you know, 0:52:27.560 --> 0:52:30.400 who knows, another another position that we need, you know, 0:52:30.560 --> 0:52:32.920 somewhere else in the city where that money could be going. 0:52:33.000 --> 0:52:36.200 Who knows. Maybe that's maybe that's more overtime for police 0:52:36.200 --> 0:52:38.960 officers that we need, or maybe even another position I 0:52:39.000 --> 0:52:42.360 don't I don't know, or or on the way to 0:52:42.440 --> 0:52:44.799 another position. But I guess my point would be when 0:52:44.840 --> 0:52:46.919 I first heard about this and I saw the things 0:52:46.920 --> 0:52:49.960 that the law firm was looking at, my first thought was, well, 0:52:50.000 --> 0:52:53.560 aren't these Doesn't the police chief get an annual evaluation 0:52:53.719 --> 0:52:56.640 every year or every six months, you know, and and 0:52:56.719 --> 0:52:59.640 wouldn't these these questions that you're asking this law firm 0:52:59.680 --> 0:53:03.600 to look into. Wouldn't these be things that you know, 0:53:04.560 --> 0:53:07.759 would be asked of a police chief during any evaluation. 0:53:07.920 --> 0:53:11.239 And if there were issues of the sort that they're 0:53:11.280 --> 0:53:14.799 trying to have this firm look into, shouldn't that have 0:53:14.880 --> 0:53:18.000 come out in sort of like a normal HR evaluation 0:53:18.160 --> 0:53:22.200 process on the police chief? That was my first question 0:53:22.360 --> 0:53:26.239 is what does her personnel file say about what she's 0:53:26.280 --> 0:53:28.719 been doing over the last, you know, a couple of 0:53:28.840 --> 0:53:31.920 years as the police chief? And if there were issues, 0:53:33.920 --> 0:53:38.560 wouldn't the city manager and the mayor and council shouldn't 0:53:38.560 --> 0:53:41.280 they have been apprized of that or known that already. 0:53:41.640 --> 0:53:44.000 So I think that's the first thing that kind of 0:53:45.160 --> 0:53:47.480 jumped in my mind when I saw that hire this firm, 0:53:47.520 --> 0:53:49.080 and why I say it's a bit of a waste 0:53:49.120 --> 0:53:52.239 of money. The other thing is is I think that 0:53:53.440 --> 0:53:55.720 you know, look, if you don't think the police chief 0:53:55.800 --> 0:53:57.680 is up to the job, you know, the mayor or 0:53:57.760 --> 0:54:01.480 the city manager, if they feel this way and they 0:54:01.520 --> 0:54:07.040 have evidence of her lack of performance, then just go 0:54:07.080 --> 0:54:09.840 ahead and pull the trigger, you know, make the decision. 0:54:10.080 --> 0:54:13.680 This seems to me to be a way for them 0:54:13.840 --> 0:54:19.000 to kind of shift the results of the outcome of 0:54:19.040 --> 0:54:22.200 this investigation off of them, so that they can say, see, 0:54:22.400 --> 0:54:23.120 this isn't us. 0:54:23.200 --> 0:54:24.320 This is what the law. 0:54:24.120 --> 0:54:27.520 Firm found, and now we have to move on, move 0:54:27.560 --> 0:54:29.680 on their findings. And so I think it's just another 0:54:29.760 --> 0:54:35.080 way for them to kind of shift accountability and responsibility 0:54:35.160 --> 0:54:38.600 away from themselves where they can point to someone else. 0:54:40.040 --> 0:54:42.160 The other thing that I think is that there's a 0:54:42.280 --> 0:54:44.839 close I think, according to the contract, there's a very 0:54:44.840 --> 0:54:48.560 close relationship between the city solicitor and this law firm 0:54:48.600 --> 0:54:54.880 where it almost seems like they're not necessarily acting independently 0:54:55.440 --> 0:54:58.320 of the city because the city solicitor is so closely 0:54:58.840 --> 0:55:03.239 attached to this involved in or at least being reported 0:55:03.280 --> 0:55:06.719 to or everything needing to be run through that by 0:55:06.760 --> 0:55:08.400 the law firm. So I don't know if there's as 0:55:08.520 --> 0:55:12.440 much separation as the city would like to like for 0:55:12.480 --> 0:55:14.400 you to think that there is in this case. So 0:55:15.880 --> 0:55:19.680 for me, I just think it's, you know, it's a 0:55:19.719 --> 0:55:23.239 waste of taxpayer dollars. It's something that the city should have, 0:55:23.680 --> 0:55:25.799 should be able to mayor, and the city managers should 0:55:25.840 --> 0:55:28.799 be able to do themselves, and they should already have 0:55:28.920 --> 0:55:34.160 known this information through their normal evaluation process with the chief. 0:55:34.560 --> 0:55:37.879 If they didn't, I think that again, that just makes 0:55:37.920 --> 0:55:41.040 it even more of a bad look. And it kind 0:55:41.040 --> 0:55:45.799 of looks like they're setting the chief up for an 0:55:45.840 --> 0:55:48.279 outcome that they want, because I don't think you pay 0:55:48.760 --> 0:55:51.680 a law firm forty thousand bucks or whatever they're getting 0:55:51.680 --> 0:55:54.560 paid to come back with the result other. 0:55:54.400 --> 0:55:58.680 Than the one you want. Well, that's an excellent point. 0:55:58.719 --> 0:56:01.080 And I'm thinking to myself, what if this law firm 0:56:01.800 --> 0:56:06.439 it does, it does a genuine investigation and comes back 0:56:06.440 --> 0:56:09.440 and says, look, what we found is that the chief 0:56:09.600 --> 0:56:12.799 was carrying out the wishes and the desires and the 0:56:12.800 --> 0:56:17.719 policies of you city manager, Sarah Long, and you may 0:56:17.840 --> 0:56:20.600 or have to have purval. What happens if that's the 0:56:20.640 --> 0:56:24.759 findings of their investigation, what are the chances that investigation 0:56:24.840 --> 0:56:27.439 is ever going to be made public? And I think 0:56:27.480 --> 0:56:31.040 we see that in this letter, this email that was 0:56:31.280 --> 0:56:34.440 released the other day and uh, and this was a 0:56:34.520 --> 0:56:40.120 letter that was dated in August when the chief said that, hey, 0:56:40.160 --> 0:56:42.880 we're going to be part of this Hamilton County task Force, 0:56:43.280 --> 0:56:46.440 and then Sharah Long has a problem with that, saying, look, 0:56:46.719 --> 0:56:50.359 before you make any public pronouncements, you need to run 0:56:50.400 --> 0:56:53.440 this by me, that this needs to come through my office, 0:56:53.480 --> 0:56:57.040 in the office of you know, my person down the hall. 0:56:57.520 --> 0:57:01.240 So it's it seems to me that if this chief 0:57:01.360 --> 0:57:05.560 strayed at all from the dictates that were coming from 0:57:06.000 --> 0:57:08.960 the mayor and from the city manager's office, then she 0:57:09.120 --> 0:57:11.200 certainly got called out on it. And to me, that's 0:57:11.239 --> 0:57:15.040 what this letter reveals, where they talk about, you know, hey, 0:57:15.080 --> 0:57:17.919 your your announcement caught me off guard and why would 0:57:18.040 --> 0:57:20.200 why would she be bothered by that? It's not as 0:57:20.240 --> 0:57:24.040 as she was facing a withering questioning from the Cincinnati Inquirer. 0:57:25.200 --> 0:57:28.960 Has Sharah Long routinely made herself available to reporters at 0:57:29.000 --> 0:57:32.160 the Inquirer who want to ask her questions about different 0:57:32.200 --> 0:57:33.240 policies at city Hall? 0:57:34.880 --> 0:57:38.200 Yeah, you know, I can't you know, Dan, I can't 0:57:38.240 --> 0:57:41.440 speak for you know, every reporter at the inquirer and 0:57:41.520 --> 0:57:44.440 sort of what what relationship that they have with the 0:57:44.480 --> 0:57:47.520 city manager and her ability or their ability to get 0:57:47.560 --> 0:57:51.440 return phone calls from her. But I but from what 0:57:51.600 --> 0:57:55.200 little did I do know that it has been a 0:57:55.240 --> 0:57:58.960 case that she hasn't been, you know, incredibly accessible. I mean, 0:57:59.000 --> 0:58:02.680 I think some of that be a matter of you know, 0:58:02.760 --> 0:58:05.640 some of the reporting that I think has been done 0:58:05.640 --> 0:58:09.480 on her by the inquiry and maybe others have maybe 0:58:09.520 --> 0:58:13.200 created a you know, I don't want to say adversarial, 0:58:13.320 --> 0:58:16.880 but but not necessarily the type of relationship where you 0:58:16.920 --> 0:58:19.680 want to immediately grab the phone and return phone calls. 0:58:20.120 --> 0:58:23.880 And so this is part for the course. This is 0:58:24.600 --> 0:58:28.960 this is this, this comes with the territory. I wouldn't 0:58:28.960 --> 0:58:29.600 disagree with you. 0:58:30.320 --> 0:58:32.400 I wouldn't disagree with you, but I I, you know, 0:58:32.680 --> 0:58:36.200 we live in a time where I feel like, not all, 0:58:36.280 --> 0:58:40.720 but but too many politicians are are way too thin 0:58:40.840 --> 0:58:45.520 skinned for uh today's environment in terms of how they're 0:58:45.520 --> 0:58:48.320 handling some of the coverage and the scrutiny that that 0:58:48.440 --> 0:58:52.200 comes along with jobs that are highly that are highly scrutinized, 0:58:52.240 --> 0:58:55.120 and you know rightly so, I mean you're serving the public, 0:58:55.160 --> 0:58:57.440 and the public has a right to know and and 0:58:57.480 --> 0:59:00.360 the public has a lot of expectations and demands on folks, 0:59:00.400 --> 0:59:04.160 and so it's a tough job, no doubt. I mean, 0:59:04.200 --> 0:59:06.880 you can look at the average tenure of whether it's 0:59:06.920 --> 0:59:09.960 a city manager or a police chief, and in cities 0:59:10.000 --> 0:59:12.800 the size of Cincinnati or bigger, they're not long. Usually 0:59:12.800 --> 0:59:15.680 they're like two or three years, you know, in these 0:59:15.720 --> 0:59:19.920 types of jobs, because they are tough, and you there 0:59:20.080 --> 0:59:24.240 is a lot of politics involved and high expectations and 0:59:24.320 --> 0:59:27.240 big problems and challenges that need to be solved, and 0:59:27.320 --> 0:59:30.000 so you got to be built for that kind of thing. 0:59:30.040 --> 0:59:30.400 I think. 0:59:30.640 --> 0:59:35.080 Yeah, so the consequences of this maybe it obviously a 0:59:35.120 --> 0:59:37.960 f tab Purval is feeling the heat on this, and 0:59:38.040 --> 0:59:39.880 I think that's why a lot of these things got 0:59:39.880 --> 0:59:43.280 set in motion when they did. Do you think there's 0:59:43.320 --> 0:59:47.280 a possibility now that this is gonna be enough to 0:59:48.160 --> 0:59:51.280 put Corey Bowman over the top and and have that 0:59:51.400 --> 0:59:53.280 wind up in in the mayor's office. You don't see 0:59:53.280 --> 0:59:56.479 that happening. No, No, no, not at all. 0:59:56.880 --> 0:59:59.960 I wouldn't. I mean, I certainly wouldn't go to Vaga. 1:00:00.040 --> 1:00:02.640 It's with it, I mean, and and Dan, it's it's 1:00:02.720 --> 1:00:04.360 just kind of a. It's just kind of a matter 1:00:04.400 --> 1:00:07.720 of simple math for me and the fact that Cincinnati 1:00:08.240 --> 1:00:11.320 and that Cincinnati is a blue city. I mean, you know, 1:00:11.400 --> 1:00:15.320 the reality is Bowman got be pretty bad in the primary, 1:00:15.440 --> 1:00:18.840 and so he started he start, Yeah, he started out 1:00:19.240 --> 1:00:22.600 in a pretty in a pretty deep hole coming out 1:00:22.640 --> 1:00:26.200 of that primary. And you know, kind of like what 1:00:26.280 --> 1:00:28.240 I was saying when I sat in for the buzz, 1:00:28.360 --> 1:00:30.160 you know, one of the things that you hear is 1:00:30.520 --> 1:00:35.360 it's not that people are necessarily in love with ap 1:00:35.400 --> 1:00:38.520 tab pure Vall, but they're not gonna They're not going 1:00:38.600 --> 1:00:42.800 to That's not enough to make them elect Corey Bowman, 1:00:42.880 --> 1:00:47.400 who's a Republican who you know, whose half brother is 1:00:47.480 --> 1:00:52.240 jd Vance, who many people feel has a connection with MAGA. 1:00:52.360 --> 1:00:55.080 I mean, that's just probably not going to force a 1:00:55.120 --> 1:00:59.320 lot of people who vote Democrat in this environment where 1:00:59.360 --> 1:01:02.720 a lot of Demo Crats have an issue and challenges 1:01:02.760 --> 1:01:05.760 with Donald Trump. I don't think they're going to turn 1:01:06.120 --> 1:01:09.200 their city over to somebody who they would feel like 1:01:09.640 --> 1:01:12.720 might go along with the Trump agenda, which you know, 1:01:13.400 --> 1:01:15.960 uh doesn't mesh with you know how a lot of 1:01:16.120 --> 1:01:20.120 a lot of voters in Cincinnati feel and so or 1:01:20.160 --> 1:01:23.600 at least voters who've traditionally voted in the city, which 1:01:23.600 --> 1:01:26.960 has been largely Democrat. So I don't know that there's 1:01:27.120 --> 1:01:29.160 if there was a I think if there was a 1:01:30.080 --> 1:01:35.120 different alternative mayor, Pureval might be in a little bit 1:01:35.160 --> 1:01:38.000 more trouble. But I just don't think. I just don't 1:01:38.000 --> 1:01:42.200 think Bowman brings enough to the table that even those 1:01:42.240 --> 1:01:46.000 who are who might be Democrats who are disappointed with 1:01:46.080 --> 1:01:49.880 the mayor will shift that sharply toward Corey Bowman. 1:01:50.080 --> 1:01:50.720 That could be wrong. 1:01:53.720 --> 1:01:57.880 They say sports, that's why they played against Yeah, people 1:01:57.880 --> 1:01:59.880 go cast the ballot. So I guess we'll see. 1:02:00.200 --> 1:02:02.240 But yeah, by the way, when's the when When is 1:02:02.280 --> 1:02:04.320 the last time we even had a Republican run from 1:02:04.360 --> 1:02:07.160 there in the city of Cincinnati. Is it like two 1:02:07.240 --> 1:02:11.560 thousand and ten or eight year or something like that. 1:02:11.920 --> 1:02:12.760 It was a while ago. 1:02:14.040 --> 1:02:16.400 Yeah, And it's been I think more than fifty years 1:02:16.480 --> 1:02:17.120 since we've. 1:02:16.960 --> 1:02:19.200 Had a Republican Absolutely, so. 1:02:19.160 --> 1:02:21.160 It's been it's been a while. It's been a while. 1:02:21.360 --> 1:02:26.000 Absolutely, or any members of council feeling feeling a little 1:02:26.080 --> 1:02:27.480 uncomfortable at this point. 1:02:28.840 --> 1:02:32.360 Yeah, I mean, I think I think all of them 1:02:32.480 --> 1:02:35.200 have to be. I mean, in some way shape or 1:02:35.200 --> 1:02:38.880 for him. You know, if I had to, if I 1:02:38.920 --> 1:02:44.160 had to handicap and say how many members current members 1:02:44.200 --> 1:02:47.920 of council might make it back on, I think maybe, 1:02:48.880 --> 1:02:51.840 you know, five or six might I like. I like 1:02:51.960 --> 1:02:56.120 Christopher Christopher Smitherman's chance. I like Liz Keating's chance. I 1:02:56.280 --> 1:03:02.520 like Lakita Cole's chance. They're all outside of the Democratic 1:03:02.600 --> 1:03:04.880 slate to get on. I mean, I think they have 1:03:05.040 --> 1:03:11.720 really strong possibilities of being able to crack you know, 1:03:11.800 --> 1:03:17.440 that Democratic stronghold on council. So we'll see how that goes. 1:03:18.120 --> 1:03:21.880 But as far as any particular council members, you know, 1:03:21.960 --> 1:03:25.800 Mika Owens has taken a lot of you know, in 1:03:25.840 --> 1:03:28.280 the black community, she's taken a lot of hits because 1:03:28.360 --> 1:03:33.800 of her decision to appoint Evan Nolan to that open 1:03:33.880 --> 1:03:36.320 position there. There's still a lot of people who feel, 1:03:36.840 --> 1:03:40.360 you know, some kind of way about that and her 1:03:40.400 --> 1:03:44.520 decision in that case, how much that will come back 1:03:44.520 --> 1:03:46.240 to affect her. I mean, Mika was one of the 1:03:46.280 --> 1:03:48.960 top two, I think two or three vote getters in 1:03:49.000 --> 1:03:51.560 the last election, so I kind of feel the same 1:03:51.600 --> 1:03:53.840 way about her like I feel about the mayor. Are 1:03:54.320 --> 1:03:57.280 are there enough people who are upset about that that 1:03:57.680 --> 1:04:00.560 her support arose that much, that she is and you 1:04:00.600 --> 1:04:02.720 know she isn't one of the nine who gets elected. 1:04:03.720 --> 1:04:07.840 I'm not so sure that that's true. I think, you know, 1:04:07.920 --> 1:04:11.520 Mark Jefferies is probably in pretty good shape. I think 1:04:11.560 --> 1:04:15.760 he he you know, I think he has the support 1:04:15.840 --> 1:04:18.920 in backing and I think the finances in his campaign 1:04:19.960 --> 1:04:21.880 to be able to make a strong run. I kind 1:04:21.880 --> 1:04:23.960 of expect him to maybe make it back on. So 1:04:24.040 --> 1:04:25.520 we'll we'll just have to see. 1:04:26.480 --> 1:04:28.640 All right, well, Kevin Aldridge, we got to run. But 1:04:28.960 --> 1:04:32.720 I appreciate you jumping on late and better late than never, 1:04:32.840 --> 1:04:35.360 my friend, And I certainly appreciate that. 1:04:37.360 --> 1:04:39.560 Dan always appreciate the opportunity to be on and I 1:04:39.600 --> 1:04:40.960 apologize for that. 1:04:40.960 --> 1:04:42.800 That's all right, that earlier. 1:04:42.600 --> 1:04:44.160 Not being able to get there, But I'm glad we 1:04:44.160 --> 1:04:45.680 were able to able to do it. 1:04:45.680 --> 1:04:49.640 Absolutely. I appreciate the thoughtfulness and the insight, and keep 1:04:49.680 --> 1:04:51.720 up the great work at the Quire and we will 1:04:51.760 --> 1:04:53.960 be talking again before too long, my friend. I appreciate 1:04:54.080 --> 1:04:56.960 time you do the same. Take care. All right, there 1:04:56.960 --> 1:05:00.120 you go, Kevin Aldridge from the Cincinnati Enquirer, And what 1:05:00.240 --> 1:05:04.120 a mess we have at at Cincinnati City Hall. All right, 1:05:04.160 --> 1:05:06.880 five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred the 1:05:06.880 --> 1:05:08.240 Big One. Those are the numbers to call if you 1:05:08.280 --> 1:05:10.000 want to get on board. No more guests between now 1:05:10.040 --> 1:05:12.560 and midnight tonight, and we'll be rocking and rolling til 1:05:12.600 --> 1:05:15.240 then on the Wednesday night edition of the Midweek Crisis 1:05:15.480 --> 1:05:25.840 seven hundred WLW back on the Big One, seven hundred 1:05:25.920 --> 1:05:28.560 w l W eleven O eight We go to midnight tonight, 1:05:28.640 --> 1:05:32.720 Wednesday night edition and the Midweek Crisis five one, three, seven, four, nine, 1:05:32.800 --> 1:05:35.000 seven thousand and one, eight hundred the Big One. Those 1:05:35.040 --> 1:05:37.840 are the numbers to call if you want to get 1:05:37.880 --> 1:05:38.280 on board. 1:05:38.280 --> 1:05:38.320 No. 1:05:38.400 --> 1:05:41.880 The poll is out about trust in US media and 1:05:42.040 --> 1:05:47.920 newspapers Legacy media News today is solo that only one 1:05:49.280 --> 1:05:52.760 in twenty five US adult citizens place a great deal 1:05:52.800 --> 1:05:56.560 of trust and what they are being told by television 1:05:56.640 --> 1:06:01.280 or reading newspapers. The latest poll by Being Economists conducted 1:06:01.440 --> 1:06:05.840 October twenty fourth through twenty seventh, Americans were asked to 1:06:06.000 --> 1:06:11.520 rate the level of confidence they have in various institutions. 1:06:13.040 --> 1:06:17.959 When it came to TV news, just four percent said 1:06:17.960 --> 1:06:20.960 they had a great deal of trust, while more than 1:06:21.040 --> 1:06:26.040 half fifty two percent said they had very little trust. 1:06:27.440 --> 1:06:31.560 Another fourteen percent said they had quite a lot. Thirty 1:06:32.280 --> 1:06:37.120 percent said they had just some. So trust in what 1:06:37.200 --> 1:06:40.800 you see on TV, trust in what you read in 1:06:40.840 --> 1:06:45.560 the newspapers not that great right now, and it hasn't 1:06:45.600 --> 1:06:48.360 been for a long time. I think one of the 1:06:48.400 --> 1:06:52.280 reasons is because of people like Nicole Wallace and well 1:06:52.280 --> 1:06:55.480 may I mean maybe even people like me. Look, I 1:06:55.520 --> 1:06:57.720 get some stuff wrong once in a while, but we're 1:06:57.760 --> 1:07:02.000 talking really more about news outlets. And so Nicole Wallace 1:07:02.120 --> 1:07:06.920 is on MSNBC. She also has a podcast, and she 1:07:07.160 --> 1:07:10.760 was on with the Governor of Illinois a day or 1:07:10.760 --> 1:07:15.040 so ago, J. D. Pritzker, and they were talking about 1:07:15.080 --> 1:07:18.240 Trump and Nazis. And you might have heard this by now, 1:07:18.280 --> 1:07:20.800 but for those who haven't heard it, let's let's take 1:07:20.800 --> 1:07:24.760 a little review of what that fat slab Pritzker had 1:07:24.800 --> 1:07:28.160 to say with Nicole Wallace on her podcast Cut One. 1:07:28.720 --> 1:07:33.200 I haven't suggested that that Donald Trump is hitler. I wouldn't. 1:07:33.440 --> 1:07:35.040 I don't think any Democrat has. 1:07:35.120 --> 1:07:38.720 I actually and I and I think it's a it's 1:07:38.720 --> 1:07:42.080 a smear that they project back on to critics. 1:07:42.360 --> 1:07:43.520 But I JD. 1:07:43.640 --> 1:07:47.480 Vance called Donald Trump cultural heroin. He called him America's Hitler. 1:07:47.840 --> 1:07:50.320 I mean the the attacks on Donald Trump as a 1:07:50.360 --> 1:07:52.760 fascist came from three generals who worked for him. 1:07:53.600 --> 1:07:57.640 Wallace brutal crit Okay, that's Nicole Wallace says, I don't 1:07:57.640 --> 1:08:01.720 think any Democrats have Well, As I mentioned, Nicole Wallace 1:08:01.720 --> 1:08:07.400 has a show on MSNBC. What we've got here is 1:08:07.840 --> 1:08:14.760 two and a half minutes of guests, Democrats, talking heads, pundits, 1:08:15.520 --> 1:08:20.519 those on the left calling Trump hitler cut number two. 1:08:22.320 --> 1:08:26.799 I haven't suggested that Donald Trump is Hitler. I wouldn't. 1:08:27.040 --> 1:08:30.920 I don't think any Democrat has. I actually, and I 1:08:31.439 --> 1:08:34.280 think it's a it's a smear that they project back 1:08:34.320 --> 1:08:38.320 on to critics. What is the natural extension justin if 1:08:38.320 --> 1:08:40.320 he pursues this to Harvard and beyond. 1:08:40.520 --> 1:08:44.759 It was an authoritarian leader several decades back called Olf Hitler. 1:08:45.360 --> 1:08:47.919 Hitler came to power and the scientist left. 1:08:47.960 --> 1:08:51.040 The military survive in that climate, the same. 1:08:50.800 --> 1:08:53.880 Way that it happened in Russia with Stalin the same 1:08:53.880 --> 1:08:57.720 way it happened with Hitler. Eventually, you get generals and 1:08:57.760 --> 1:09:00.000 admirals that are in there that only tell the leader 1:09:00.400 --> 1:09:03.040 what he or she wants to hear, to the extent that. 1:09:03.040 --> 1:09:05.000 The rule of law, and an assault on the rule 1:09:05.040 --> 1:09:08.160 of law was an obscure, intangible thing. We're now seeing 1:09:08.160 --> 1:09:09.000 it in action. 1:09:09.280 --> 1:09:11.760 If you look back in history, you can see very 1:09:11.800 --> 1:09:15.360 similar parallels taking place that took place in other countries 1:09:15.400 --> 1:09:18.439 that really went down that authoritarian road, including in pre 1:09:18.560 --> 1:09:22.800 World War II Nazi Germany, when Hitler and Nazi officials 1:09:23.040 --> 1:09:26.080 basically took over Frankfort University, which was the bastion of 1:09:26.120 --> 1:09:31.080 independent thoughts and progressive thinking and independent thinking, which is 1:09:31.120 --> 1:09:32.559 what Hitler didn't want. 1:09:33.000 --> 1:09:35.800 And so again, this is what authoritarians do. 1:09:35.840 --> 1:09:39.479 They try to control all of the aspects of social life. 1:09:39.520 --> 1:09:43.160 When Trump talks about peace and Putin talks about peace, 1:09:43.560 --> 1:09:47.599 it's autocrats getting their way, that's it. And muss Leni 1:09:47.640 --> 1:09:50.240 and Hitler said they were being the purveyors of peace. 1:09:50.479 --> 1:09:55.519 All right, I got the idea. But guest after guest 1:09:55.600 --> 1:10:02.000 after guests on MSNBC and Nicole Wallace's show has said 1:10:02.560 --> 1:10:07.599 made this comparison of Trump being Hitler, But she said, 1:10:07.800 --> 1:10:10.439 I don't think any Democrats had Well, you know, one 1:10:10.439 --> 1:10:14.360 of the reasons I think that people have such a 1:10:14.400 --> 1:10:19.760 low a low opinion of what they hear on the 1:10:19.800 --> 1:10:23.439 news is because people like Nicole Wallace just that they 1:10:23.760 --> 1:10:27.599 just don't pay attention very well. They live in there, 1:10:27.640 --> 1:10:30.400 they live in their own, their own sort of world, 1:10:30.920 --> 1:10:35.240 and they don't pay attention. So here's a few democrats 1:10:35.280 --> 1:10:38.840 I found. And look, this didn't take very long. This 1:10:39.040 --> 1:10:41.640 was this, it was it was time to consider me 1:10:41.800 --> 1:10:43.639 because I gotta I gotta put it on the thing. 1:10:43.680 --> 1:10:45.080 I got to send it to Joe, he's got to 1:10:45.120 --> 1:10:45.640 download it. 1:10:47.479 --> 1:10:47.559 Now. 1:10:47.680 --> 1:10:50.080 This didn't take very long to find democrats who have 1:10:50.200 --> 1:10:53.800 compared Trump to Hitler. And maybe you know you you 1:10:53.840 --> 1:10:56.720 correct me if I'm wrong, but we've got one here 1:10:56.800 --> 1:10:59.879 from someone named Hillary Clinton. I think Hillary is a Democrat. 1:11:00.680 --> 1:11:02.880 Here's what she had to say about Trump and Hitler. 1:11:02.880 --> 1:11:03.479 Cut three. 1:11:05.479 --> 1:11:10.000 People would get legitimately elected, and then they would try 1:11:10.040 --> 1:11:13.240 to do away with elections, and do away with opposition, 1:11:13.360 --> 1:11:16.280 and do away with a free press. And you could 1:11:16.320 --> 1:11:21.160 see it in countries where well Hitler was duly elected, right, 1:11:21.600 --> 1:11:24.840 and so all of a sudden, somebody with those tendencies, 1:11:24.880 --> 1:11:29.599 though dictatorial authoritarian tendencies, would be like, Okay, we're gonna 1:11:29.600 --> 1:11:32.320 shut this down. We're going to throw these people in jail. 1:11:32.479 --> 1:11:37.080 And they didn't usually telegraph that Trump is telling us 1:11:37.280 --> 1:11:37.639 what he. 1:11:37.680 --> 1:11:38.760 Intends to do. 1:11:40.520 --> 1:11:44.599 That was Hillary on the View, and she apparently likes 1:11:44.640 --> 1:11:48.040 talking a lot about Trump being hitler. Here she is 1:11:48.080 --> 1:11:51.080 on CNN, cut number four. 1:11:53.240 --> 1:11:56.479 And you know one other thing that you'll see next week, Caitlin, 1:11:56.840 --> 1:12:05.400 is Trump actually re enacting the Madison Square Garden rally 1:12:05.560 --> 1:12:08.479 in nineteen thirty nine. I write about this in my book. 1:12:09.320 --> 1:12:15.000 President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo Nazis fascists in 1:12:15.120 --> 1:12:21.640 America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for 1:12:21.720 --> 1:12:25.360 the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany. 1:12:26.000 --> 1:12:28.200 So I don't think we can ignore it. 1:12:29.360 --> 1:12:32.360 So there you go. There's a Hillary Clinton. She's a Democrat. 1:12:32.439 --> 1:12:35.960 Nicole Wallace hasn't heard of any Democrats who refer to 1:12:36.000 --> 1:12:40.120 Trump as hitler. Here's another one, Kamala Harris, cut number six. 1:12:45.200 --> 1:12:45.840 And let's be. 1:12:45.960 --> 1:12:50.960 Clear about who he considers to be the enemy from within. 1:12:52.320 --> 1:12:56.479 Anyone who refuses to bend a knee or dares to 1:12:56.600 --> 1:13:01.320 criticize him would qualify in his mind as the enemy within, 1:13:02.040 --> 1:13:09.280 like judges, like journalists, like nonpartisan election officials. It is 1:13:09.360 --> 1:13:14.439 deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke 1:13:14.640 --> 1:13:19.839 Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths 1:13:20.000 --> 1:13:24.599 of six million Jews. Oh, she's so hundreds of thousands of. 1:13:24.560 --> 1:13:28.960 Americans, man, were so lucky that she's still out there. Further, 1:13:29.120 --> 1:13:32.760 try and turn that off. That's enough of that and 1:13:32.880 --> 1:13:38.120 believe that imbecile. So there was Kamala Harris, She's a Democrat. 1:13:38.720 --> 1:13:42.320 But Nicole Wallace hasn't heard of any Democrats who referred 1:13:42.360 --> 1:13:46.160 to Trump as Hitler? What about what about the guy 1:13:46.200 --> 1:13:49.720 Kamala Harris used to work for? Joe Biden? Did he 1:13:49.760 --> 1:13:52.679 ever call Trump Hitler? I don't know. Let's hear cut 1:13:52.760 --> 1:13:53.320 number seven. 1:13:54.760 --> 1:13:57.599 He calls those who are opposed Verbin. 1:14:00.000 --> 1:14:02.800 He talks about the blood of America is being poisoned. 1:14:03.880 --> 1:14:09.080 That going the same exact language used in Nazi Germany. 1:14:09.960 --> 1:14:12.679 Well, he didn't say Hitler, but he did say Nazi Germany. 1:14:12.680 --> 1:14:15.719 So I think you get the idea. He's very clever, 1:14:15.920 --> 1:14:21.720 very smart. You know, Joe Piden. What about another Democrat? Oh, 1:14:21.760 --> 1:14:25.160 I don't know. What about Nancy Pelosi? Did she ever 1:14:25.200 --> 1:14:28.760 say Trump was Hitler? Let's hear cut number eighth. 1:14:28.840 --> 1:14:32.120 But we have we just have to win this election 1:14:32.280 --> 1:14:35.200 because he's even predicting a blood bath. What does that 1:14:35.240 --> 1:14:39.240 mean He's going to exact a bloodbath? There's something wrong here. 1:14:39.760 --> 1:14:44.800 How respectful I am of the American people and their goodness, 1:14:45.840 --> 1:14:47.880 but how much more do they have to see from 1:14:47.960 --> 1:14:52.120 him to understand that this isn't what our country is about. 1:14:52.640 --> 1:14:56.200 Praising Hitler, praising the Russians. 1:14:55.800 --> 1:14:58.240 Yes, honestly, honest. 1:14:58.080 --> 1:14:59.360 Condemning our soldiers. 1:14:59.439 --> 1:15:04.800 Ye yeah, fine, that's enough of that. There's Nancy Pelosi honestly, honestly, 1:15:05.800 --> 1:15:11.120 just like Hitler. But no Democrats ever ever really called 1:15:11.280 --> 1:15:14.800 Trump Hitler. Obama was very clever in the way that 1:15:14.840 --> 1:15:18.400 he did it. Is Obama a Democrat? Joe Waddell? Is 1:15:18.439 --> 1:15:20.960 Obama a Democrat? I think he is. Let's hear cut 1:15:21.040 --> 1:15:21.519 Number nine. 1:15:23.560 --> 1:15:30.400 General John Kelley, Donald Trump's former chief of staff, said 1:15:30.439 --> 1:15:33.720 that Trump told him he wanted his generals to be 1:15:34.080 --> 1:15:35.800 like Hitler's general. 1:15:35.960 --> 1:15:39.960 Ah, yeah, just like Butler. Don't boom huh. 1:15:41.760 --> 1:15:44.840 Now, I want to explain that in politics, a good 1:15:44.880 --> 1:15:47.920 rule of thumb is don't say you want to do 1:15:48.040 --> 1:15:48.960 anything like Hitler. 1:15:49.720 --> 1:15:52.120 Ah, there's Obama. He's a smart one too, isn't he. 1:15:52.920 --> 1:15:57.799 So you got Kamala, you got Obama, you got Biden. 1:16:00.040 --> 1:16:02.960 Look Nicole Wallace hasn't heard any Democrats saying that Trump 1:16:03.000 --> 1:16:06.160 is like Hitler. No, he hasn't heard that at all. 1:16:06.960 --> 1:16:11.000 What about what about he took him there? He's on 1:16:11.160 --> 1:16:17.360 that oligarch thing right now, Bernie Sanders, but he doesn't 1:16:17.400 --> 1:16:21.160 like Oligarks and apparently he doesn't like Trump either. What 1:16:21.240 --> 1:16:24.040 about Bernie Sanders? Did he ever call Trump Hitler? Let's 1:16:24.080 --> 1:16:26.840 hear cut number ten. But also we cannot wait. 1:16:26.880 --> 1:16:30.920 We have to have mass protests, mobilization and disruption. Is 1:16:30.960 --> 1:16:34.479 that what it's going to take, because again there's five 1:16:34.560 --> 1:16:37.680 hundred and twenty more days. We've got five more of 1:16:37.680 --> 1:16:40.759 what we just went through before even we get to 1:16:40.800 --> 1:16:41.920 cast a single vote. 1:16:42.000 --> 1:16:44.719 Look, we have got to use the answer is yes, 1:16:45.520 --> 1:16:48.480 and we have got to use all of the tools 1:16:48.880 --> 1:16:52.000 that we can in Congress and out on the streets. 1:16:53.000 --> 1:16:55.320 The truth of the matter is, I don't care if 1:16:55.360 --> 1:16:59.519 you are a conservative, Republican or a progressive as I am, 1:17:00.360 --> 1:17:02.920 you do not believe I mean, you just stop and 1:17:02.920 --> 1:17:04.840 think about it. Think about the men and women who 1:17:04.880 --> 1:17:08.320 fought and died against Hitler, fort and died against fascism, 1:17:08.920 --> 1:17:12.880 fought and died to defend American democracy, And I think 1:17:12.920 --> 1:17:16.400 the vast majority of the American people, regardless of the ideology, 1:17:16.640 --> 1:17:19.960 are not and cannot and must not sit back and 1:17:20.040 --> 1:17:23.679 allow us to move into an authoritarian type society where 1:17:23.720 --> 1:17:26.479 people get picked up off the streets and put. 1:17:26.320 --> 1:17:27.519 In detention centers. 1:17:27.640 --> 1:17:31.000 Really in the United States of America, really where the 1:17:31.040 --> 1:17:35.360 constitution is undermind, where you have a president suing the media, 1:17:35.840 --> 1:17:40.400 maybe Trump will see you. Mike didn't like the questions 1:17:40.400 --> 1:17:43.920 you asked me intimidating a second with Leu's edit that 1:17:44.000 --> 1:17:44.479 part out. 1:17:48.120 --> 1:17:51.600 So there you go. So there's Bernie Sanders and he 1:17:51.840 --> 1:17:56.120 likes to talk about Trump and the Trump administration and 1:17:56.240 --> 1:18:01.360 ICE going and taking people off the streets and what 1:18:01.520 --> 1:18:06.120 kind of people are they just taking off the streets. Well, 1:18:06.160 --> 1:18:11.320 the Department of Homeland Security has put out some numbers 1:18:11.320 --> 1:18:15.479 on that and they tell they say Immigration and Customs 1:18:15.560 --> 1:18:19.400 Enforcement ICE continue to arrest the worst of the worst 1:18:19.479 --> 1:18:25.800 illegal immigrants despite the government shutdown. Latest arrest includes illegals 1:18:25.840 --> 1:18:28.519 who have been convicted of crimes such as loud and 1:18:28.680 --> 1:18:33.480 uh the civit I should be able to pronounce this word, 1:18:33.760 --> 1:18:39.120 lascivious acts on a minor aggravated criminal sexual assault, and 1:18:39.120 --> 1:18:44.600 bodily harm, aggravated kidnapping, possession with intent to distribute. A 1:18:44.680 --> 1:18:47.360 Cuban of illegal was arrested in Florida, convicted of loot 1:18:47.400 --> 1:18:51.000 and lascivious acts on a minor criminal. Illegal migrant from 1:18:51.040 --> 1:18:55.400 Mexico convicted of aggravated criminal of sexual assault with bodily 1:18:55.439 --> 1:19:01.760 harm UH and aggravated kidnapping in Illinois. Nothing, not even 1:19:01.800 --> 1:19:04.879 Democrat government shutdown will slow us down from the arrests 1:19:05.120 --> 1:19:09.439 of the worst of the worst. Sad Tricia McLaughlin, the 1:19:09.479 --> 1:19:16.120 Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Another illegal 1:19:16.320 --> 1:19:22.719 migrant from Mexico identified as Adam Martinez Gonzalez arrested in Texas, 1:19:22.760 --> 1:19:29.519 convicted of aggravated kidnapping, convicted already, this already been convicted. 1:19:31.080 --> 1:19:33.960 And Bernie Sanders and all these leftists want to complain about, oh, 1:19:34.000 --> 1:19:38.000 the people being taken off the streets. No, these are 1:19:38.080 --> 1:19:43.719 illegal aliens who have committed crimes, and they are still 1:19:44.560 --> 1:19:49.880 rounding them up. The arrest come despite the government shut down. 1:19:49.920 --> 1:19:53.240 What's been an effects since October first, and you know 1:19:53.320 --> 1:19:56.559 the rest of that story. And then I saw another 1:19:56.600 --> 1:19:59.280 piece where they talk about their goal is to have 1:19:59.360 --> 1:20:05.639 six hundred thousand deportations. The Department of Homeland Security has 1:20:05.680 --> 1:20:11.280 deported five hundred and twenty seven thousand illegals illegal aliens 1:20:11.280 --> 1:20:17.920 since the start of the mass deportation program the According 1:20:17.920 --> 1:20:22.400 to the Secretary of Christy Nome, the administration expects to 1:20:22.439 --> 1:20:26.640 reach a total of six hundred thousand by the end 1:20:26.680 --> 1:20:30.960 of the year. Trump administration's on pace to shatter historic 1:20:31.000 --> 1:20:35.280 records deport nearly six hundred thousand illegals by the end 1:20:35.280 --> 1:20:42.280 of President Trump's first year in office. Fisher McLaughlin said 1:20:42.320 --> 1:20:45.519 more than two million illegals have already left the US 1:20:45.560 --> 1:20:51.320 on their own, including one point six who voluntarily self deported. 1:20:54.560 --> 1:20:56.640 And it's just the beginning. They say they got a 1:20:56.680 --> 1:21:00.200 lot more to go. And I'm seeing a lot more 1:21:00.200 --> 1:21:03.160 of these videos now with these truck drivers who can't 1:21:03.160 --> 1:21:08.120 read English out there on the roads. Saw one today 1:21:08.200 --> 1:21:10.760 with the dude and I think it was in Arizona. 1:21:13.720 --> 1:21:17.000 The video is too long to The video is like, 1:21:17.040 --> 1:21:20.360 I don't know, fifteen minutes long. But you see this 1:21:20.439 --> 1:21:22.400 cop walking up to this dude in the truck. Hey, buddy, 1:21:22.400 --> 1:21:25.720 put some pants on. Put some pants on. What are 1:21:25.720 --> 1:21:29.040 you doing parking here? The guy can't can't speak English, 1:21:29.040 --> 1:21:33.559 can't read English. The police officer shows him a series 1:21:33.640 --> 1:21:41.320 of street signs, couldn't identify him. Doesn't speak English. And 1:21:41.360 --> 1:21:44.320 we've been talking to Kevin Gordon from ATN about that, 1:21:45.120 --> 1:21:49.439 and they're all over the place. So Nicole Wallace says, 1:21:49.479 --> 1:21:53.519 Democrats don't call Trump a Nazi, hasn't heard of any 1:21:53.560 --> 1:21:56.240 of that before. Well, I just played a bunch of 1:21:56.320 --> 1:22:02.400 them who did, including Obama, Biden, and Kula and Kamala Harris, 1:22:03.000 --> 1:22:08.719 including Nancy Pelosi. Not just some low level, low life 1:22:08.760 --> 1:22:12.479 Democrats somewhere. These are the leading Democrats and they've all 1:22:12.520 --> 1:22:15.799 done it. Nicole Wallace needs to pay attention. It's eleven 1:22:15.840 --> 1:22:17.439 twenty five. We got to get to a break. Dan 1:22:17.479 --> 1:22:25.800 Carroll seven hundred WLW al right back on the Big One, 1:22:25.880 --> 1:22:30.679 seven hundred w l W eleven thirty eight, Dan Carroll 1:22:30.760 --> 1:22:34.040 till midnight tonight five point three seven four nine seven 1:22:34.800 --> 1:22:38.200 eight hundred The big One, Donald Trump is a meeting 1:22:38.240 --> 1:22:43.080 with China's leader Jizin paying at the moment, so he 1:22:43.240 --> 1:22:45.920 was that that meeting took place a little bit earlier tonight, 1:22:46.240 --> 1:22:48.040 or at least the initial meeting. Did I think they're 1:22:48.040 --> 1:22:50.840 having they're talking about the rare, not the rare stuff, 1:22:50.880 --> 1:22:54.720 but serious stuff right now. And I mean it is 1:22:54.800 --> 1:22:59.519 amazing what Trump is accomplishing on this on this mission. 1:22:59.560 --> 1:23:05.759 I saw some video earlier today when Biden went to 1:23:05.840 --> 1:23:16.519 Japan came home with nothing, absolutely nothing. This is the deal, 1:23:17.280 --> 1:23:22.240 the billions of dollars and the deal that went down 1:23:22.240 --> 1:23:27.240 between the Republic of Korea, South Korea and the White 1:23:27.240 --> 1:23:32.880 House in the United States. Today, President Trump completed the 1:23:32.920 --> 1:23:37.640 final stop of his Indo Pacific trip, securing billions and 1:23:37.760 --> 1:23:43.320 landmark deals while visiting the Republic of Korea, including initiatives 1:23:43.479 --> 1:23:48.280 to support American jobs, further American energy dominance, promote American 1:23:48.520 --> 1:23:54.120 leadership and technology, and to build our maritime partnership. Korea 1:23:54.160 --> 1:23:58.440 Air Or purchased one hundred and three new Boeing aircraft 1:24:00.080 --> 1:24:04.559 thirty six point two billion dollars. It'll help support up 1:24:04.560 --> 1:24:07.040 to one hundred and thirty five thousand jobs in the 1:24:07.160 --> 1:24:11.439 United States. The aircraft are going to be powered by 1:24:11.960 --> 1:24:17.800 ge Aerospace engines. That's a separate deal worth almost fourteen 1:24:18.160 --> 1:24:23.320 billion dollars. The Republic of Korea Air Force selected L 1:24:23.400 --> 1:24:27.640 three Harris Technologies to develop a new airborne warning and 1:24:27.680 --> 1:24:31.960 control aircraft. That's a two point three billion dollar deal, 1:24:33.640 --> 1:24:36.720 and the list goes on. Korean Gas Corporation signed an 1:24:36.760 --> 1:24:41.599 agreement to purchase three point three million tons of LNG 1:24:41.840 --> 1:24:48.320 liquid natural gas via a long term agreement. Centrist Energy 1:24:48.360 --> 1:24:53.440 Corporation and Pasco International Corporation agreed to support the expansion 1:24:54.439 --> 1:25:00.320 of their uranium enrichment capacity in Pike to Ohio. Three 1:25:00.360 --> 1:25:05.120 thousand jobs right there, and it goes it just it's 1:25:05.160 --> 1:25:08.679 absolutely amazing. Amazon is going to invest five billion dollars 1:25:11.080 --> 1:25:15.759 through twenty thirty one to build Korea's cloud infrastructure, helping 1:25:15.840 --> 1:25:22.600 drive US exports in American AI leadership. What else? Hundai 1:25:24.080 --> 1:25:28.080 and their capital management partner is going to invest five 1:25:28.240 --> 1:25:33.720 billion dollars to modernize American shipbuilding yards and strength and 1:25:33.760 --> 1:25:41.639 supply chains. Hey, this guy is absolutely amazing the kind 1:25:41.680 --> 1:25:43.799 of stuff that Trump is bringing home from this trip. 1:25:45.160 --> 1:25:47.800 Trump signed an agreement with Japan on Monday to ramp 1:25:47.840 --> 1:25:50.800 up cooperation in the process of critical minerals and rare 1:25:50.840 --> 1:25:56.120 earth materials, underscoring a major priority of his trip to Asia. 1:25:56.280 --> 1:26:01.840 Trump and the Japanese Prime Minister Sanatak Takichi signed off 1:26:01.840 --> 1:26:05.559 on the agreement. It outlines how the two countries are 1:26:05.600 --> 1:26:11.640 intensifying their cooperative efforts. The Critical Minerals Agreement states of 1:26:11.680 --> 1:26:15.880 two countries will provide financial support for mining projects within 1:26:15.920 --> 1:26:21.280 the next six months. Critical minerals are used in electronics 1:26:21.560 --> 1:26:27.280 and all kinds of day to day products. The Critical 1:26:27.280 --> 1:26:30.280 Minerals signing with Japan comes two days after the US 1:26:30.280 --> 1:26:34.600 signed an agreement with Thailand and Cambodia and Malaysia outlining 1:26:34.640 --> 1:26:41.680 cooperation on the process of exporting critical minerals. So you 1:26:41.720 --> 1:26:44.680 saw the video that was I believe Malaysia was the 1:26:44.680 --> 1:26:48.240 first trip or the first the first leg of this trip, 1:26:49.080 --> 1:26:55.559 and Trump got off the airplane there in Malaysia and 1:26:55.640 --> 1:26:59.160 there was a whole bunch of people there and they 1:26:59.200 --> 1:27:01.040 were doing a dance and Trump is right there on 1:27:01.080 --> 1:27:04.360 the time reck having a great time just dancing with him. 1:27:06.080 --> 1:27:09.840 And I saw a lot of criticism from a Keem 1:27:09.920 --> 1:27:14.120 Jefferies and others talking about how Trump shouldn't be doing 1:27:14.120 --> 1:27:17.200 that kind of stuff, that he ought to be there 1:27:17.200 --> 1:27:19.960 in Washington with them talking about the government shutdown. Well, 1:27:20.000 --> 1:27:26.679 Trump is doing business. And this deal on the rare 1:27:26.720 --> 1:27:33.640 earth comes right before the meeting with China Xijingping, and 1:27:33.720 --> 1:27:37.200 what does that do that puts Trump in America even 1:27:37.240 --> 1:27:41.960 in a stronger position to deal with China, because China 1:27:42.120 --> 1:27:46.760 dominates the rare earth market at the moment. But now 1:27:46.800 --> 1:27:49.360 that the US has these deals in their back pocket, 1:27:51.000 --> 1:27:54.519 they can negotiate more effectively with China, and Trump can 1:27:54.560 --> 1:27:58.479 get exactly what he wants out of China. And I 1:27:58.920 --> 1:28:01.839 will not be surprised we don't see a major announcement tomorrow. 1:28:03.200 --> 1:28:06.599 Oh well, will not be surprised at all if that happens. 1:28:08.080 --> 1:28:11.360 So here's Trump when he went to speaking in South 1:28:11.439 --> 1:28:16.360 Korea a little bit earlier today. And the guys out there, 1:28:16.360 --> 1:28:19.280 he's having a great time. He's meeting all these leaders. 1:28:19.880 --> 1:28:21.880 And here's what he said when he was in South 1:28:21.960 --> 1:28:24.959 Korea a little bit earlier today, Cut number eleven. 1:28:30.000 --> 1:28:33.160 The Republic of Korea is a cherished American friend and 1:28:33.240 --> 1:28:34.120 a close ally. 1:28:34.840 --> 1:28:35.479 And as we. 1:28:35.479 --> 1:28:38.120 Can see in this beautiful city, it's truly one of 1:28:38.160 --> 1:28:43.280 the most remarkable nations anywhere on Earth. Here in this peninsula, 1:28:43.439 --> 1:28:46.000 the people of South Korea have forged a miracle of 1:28:46.120 --> 1:28:52.560 economic development like you rarely see, an industrial and technological powerhouse, 1:28:52.560 --> 1:28:56.240 and above all, a free society and enduring democracy and 1:28:56.280 --> 1:28:57.920 a thriving civilization. 1:28:58.080 --> 1:29:01.880 And I want to congratulate you. Very few places like it. 1:29:02.880 --> 1:29:05.760 The entire world should be inspired by all that you 1:29:05.800 --> 1:29:08.960 have achieved, and they study you and they do so 1:29:09.080 --> 1:29:12.120 much to understand what you've done, but most of them 1:29:12.160 --> 1:29:12.720 don't get it. 1:29:13.200 --> 1:29:15.439 And it's probably good for you keep it this way. 1:29:16.439 --> 1:29:22.160 So there you go. There's Trump in South Korea making 1:29:22.200 --> 1:29:26.720 a great speech. But if you remember, it wasn't all 1:29:26.720 --> 1:29:30.960 that long ago when Kamala Harris was the one who 1:29:31.080 --> 1:29:37.519 was representing the United States in South Korea. Anyone remember 1:29:37.560 --> 1:29:41.519 what she said when she was there. Anyone remember the 1:29:43.400 --> 1:29:50.280 great technological deals that she came home with. No, what 1:29:50.320 --> 1:29:57.600 we remember is this idiot of a vice president that 1:29:57.640 --> 1:30:02.040 we had when she's spoke these inspiring words about our 1:30:02.080 --> 1:30:05.800 friends in South Korea. What's your cut number twelve? 1:30:05.840 --> 1:30:06.080 Please? 1:30:07.920 --> 1:30:13.479 So the United States shares a very important relationship, which 1:30:13.520 --> 1:30:16.080 is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea. 1:30:16.240 --> 1:30:20.120 Oh yeah, and it is an alliance that is strong 1:30:20.200 --> 1:30:20.879 and enduring. 1:30:21.120 --> 1:30:26.880 Oh, strong and enduring. That great alliance with North Korea 1:30:27.680 --> 1:30:31.839 is just a slight difference there, just a slight difference 1:30:31.880 --> 1:30:40.320 between the two administrations and what they're doing. And so 1:30:40.439 --> 1:30:44.200 Trump is over there, and I guess Cambodia and Thailand, 1:30:44.240 --> 1:30:49.799 I guess we're having problems. And Trump settled things there, 1:30:49.920 --> 1:30:54.000 and it's got that deal with Malaysia. Now, got to 1:30:54.080 --> 1:31:00.360 deal with South Korea, Gotta deal with Japan. All this 1:31:00.400 --> 1:31:06.160 stuff is happening. Anyone remember any of that happening when 1:31:06.200 --> 1:31:11.200 Biden was president, when Biden would take these trips. I 1:31:11.560 --> 1:31:16.080 saw the video today from UH. I think he took 1:31:16.120 --> 1:31:21.400 a trip to Africa, and these guys are They're sitting 1:31:21.439 --> 1:31:25.559 at a table and and some of these African leaders 1:31:25.560 --> 1:31:29.800 are reading off the about the you know, the cooperation 1:31:29.960 --> 1:31:33.360 and how great it is they have their great relationship 1:31:33.400 --> 1:31:35.720 with the United States. And and Biden is there just 1:31:35.920 --> 1:31:39.559 and he is he is out. I mean, just just 1:31:39.680 --> 1:31:49.720 sound asleep. Big difference, just a huge difference between what 1:31:49.760 --> 1:31:53.559 we see with this administration and what we see with 1:31:53.680 --> 1:32:00.639 the with the other administration. Absolutely unbelievable. What else, what else? 1:32:00.680 --> 1:32:05.840 What else? The Wuhan, the effects of the Wuhan are 1:32:05.880 --> 1:32:10.759 still out there. There's a study that shows listen, ninety 1:32:10.840 --> 1:32:14.920 one percent, listen to this, ninety one percent of patients 1:32:16.520 --> 1:32:23.679 show cardiovascular side effects from the MODERNA vaccine. Ninety one 1:32:23.720 --> 1:32:29.800 percent from the moment the COVID vaccines were released, the 1:32:29.840 --> 1:32:33.800 public was gas lit about their safety and efficacy. Many 1:32:33.840 --> 1:32:39.000 of the claims were pure bs, such as the claim 1:32:39.040 --> 1:32:43.559 that recipients of the vaccine couldn't contract or transmit the virus. 1:32:45.960 --> 1:32:48.400 The former was not evident in the original studies, turned 1:32:48.439 --> 1:32:50.680 out to be the opposite that turned out to be 1:32:51.400 --> 1:32:57.680 the opposite of the truth, and latter claim that was 1:32:57.720 --> 1:33:08.320 never even tested. So this, this was the MODERNA vaccine. 1:33:08.360 --> 1:33:13.600 Let me so, I'm trying to let's see the uh. 1:33:13.680 --> 1:33:16.720 Let mean, the longer the vaccines have been around, the 1:33:16.720 --> 1:33:20.040 more evidence suggests that they are far more dangerous than advertised, 1:33:21.400 --> 1:33:24.599 and that will be discovering new problems for years to come. 1:33:27.800 --> 1:33:31.760 So they studied these patients who had the MODERNA vaccine. 1:33:32.560 --> 1:33:34.160 I mean, if you if yeah, how are you feeling 1:33:34.240 --> 1:33:37.080 right now? If you got you took those vaccines, you 1:33:37.080 --> 1:33:41.479 thought you were doing what was right. The government was 1:33:41.479 --> 1:33:45.639 telling you what to do, take the vaccine. What I saw. 1:33:45.840 --> 1:33:49.000 I saw someone posted the other day that they're on 1:33:49.080 --> 1:33:56.280 their seventh, their seventh vaccine or their seventh wuhan vaccine already. 1:33:57.160 --> 1:34:02.320 That's absolutely unbelievable. So and then I mean, just the 1:34:02.360 --> 1:34:05.760 government just completely out of control when it came to 1:34:05.800 --> 1:34:12.479 the Wuhan ninety have some kind of cardivent, cardiovascular side 1:34:12.479 --> 1:34:21.240 effect with this, and I never got it, never took it, 1:34:21.240 --> 1:34:25.080 never took the vaccine, and I am I'm glad I didn't. 1:34:25.880 --> 1:34:29.559 We heard Nancy Pelosi earlier talking about Trump and how 1:34:29.600 --> 1:34:33.639 she compared him to Hitler. She was on another event 1:34:35.320 --> 1:34:40.200 this week and she was reflecting on the wonderful demonstrations 1:34:40.240 --> 1:34:44.519 that we saw over the weekend about no kings. That 1:34:44.640 --> 1:34:48.040 was the end, all that was was. That was the 1:34:48.080 --> 1:34:50.880 other thing in South Korea. I don't know if you 1:34:50.880 --> 1:34:58.280 saw this, but Trump has been trolling people with all 1:34:58.360 --> 1:35:01.680 this talk about running for a third he said on 1:35:01.760 --> 1:35:05.720 Air Force One. He was talking with the reporters and 1:35:05.760 --> 1:35:09.160 they were asking him about a third term, and so 1:35:09.280 --> 1:35:12.240 instead of he may be done with the troll at 1:35:12.320 --> 1:35:15.880 least for the time being, because he's just been playing 1:35:15.920 --> 1:35:17.920 the left in the media and bloat like a fiddle 1:35:17.960 --> 1:35:21.240 with this thing suggesting that he might hang around for 1:35:21.280 --> 1:35:23.960 a third term. And he said something that made a 1:35:24.000 --> 1:35:28.120 reference to the Constitution, and he said, yeah, I'm pretty 1:35:28.160 --> 1:35:30.559 sure I can't run for the third term. So he 1:35:30.640 --> 1:35:34.840 may be ready to move on from that. But he 1:35:34.960 --> 1:35:40.320 had the leader in South Korea give Trump a couple 1:35:40.400 --> 1:35:46.040 of gifts today and one was actually a crown, So 1:35:46.080 --> 1:35:50.240 they were getting in on the jokes too, kind of 1:35:50.280 --> 1:35:52.439 giving it to all the all the people who wanted 1:35:52.439 --> 1:35:55.320 to cry about Trump being a king. That's why we 1:35:55.360 --> 1:35:57.680 had the No Kings rally. But Nancy Pelosi said that, 1:35:57.800 --> 1:36:01.920 you know what, whatever you thought of that No King's 1:36:01.960 --> 1:36:05.840 rally that we had last weekend, you might have been 1:36:05.880 --> 1:36:10.000 wrong about what it was really all about. And here 1:36:10.040 --> 1:36:12.599 she is breaking it down. Cut number fourteen, Joe. 1:36:13.400 --> 1:36:17.240 Because I see the Democrats every day. You saw a 1:36:17.280 --> 1:36:21.800 march that was not political, and the value of it 1:36:21.880 --> 1:36:28.000 was that it wasn't political No King's Day. It was spontaneous, organic, 1:36:28.439 --> 1:36:32.800 but everybody, everybody was there, and that's what's important is 1:36:32.840 --> 1:36:36.839 what are the people thinking, what are they hopeful about, 1:36:37.240 --> 1:36:40.000 what are they willing to get out. 1:36:39.880 --> 1:36:43.679 The vote for? Surprised she didn't say anything about the children, 1:36:44.640 --> 1:36:48.400 because with her, it's all about the children. But of 1:36:48.439 --> 1:36:53.720 course the No King's rally was not political, according to 1:36:54.640 --> 1:36:59.920 Nancy Pelos, just spontaneous, just a bunch of great amount 1:36:59.920 --> 1:37:03.240 of Americans saying, you know what, let's go out there 1:37:03.240 --> 1:37:07.160 and exercise our First Amendment rights, and we'll do it 1:37:07.240 --> 1:37:11.559 under the banner of no Kings. Because I didn't see 1:37:11.560 --> 1:37:16.960 anyone at all attacking Trump. I didn't see anyone at 1:37:16.960 --> 1:37:24.880 all mocking Charlie Kirk and the assassination. No, I didn't. 1:37:24.920 --> 1:37:28.280 I didn't see anyone. I didn't see that. I didn't 1:37:28.320 --> 1:37:31.920 go to a No King's rally, but I looked at 1:37:31.960 --> 1:37:34.120 the video. I talked about it on this radio show. 1:37:37.800 --> 1:37:40.240 I didn't, I don't. I didn't see any political activity 1:37:40.280 --> 1:37:48.840 at all. Nancy Pelosi, that wasn't political. God, the gaslighting continues, 1:37:50.280 --> 1:37:53.200 absolutely unbelievable. So now we know that the Biden administration, 1:37:54.080 --> 1:37:56.840 the ones closest to him in the White House, knew 1:37:56.880 --> 1:38:02.160 full well they were lying to us about the cognitive decline, 1:38:02.360 --> 1:38:06.720 and Nancy Pelosi is still playing that card. Look, I 1:38:06.760 --> 1:38:10.080 know you saw the No King's rally. I saw you, 1:38:10.120 --> 1:38:13.800 saw all the speeches being made. I told you. The 1:38:13.800 --> 1:38:16.200 first is the first speech I saw when I turned 1:38:16.200 --> 1:38:20.240 that on was Randy Weingerten, the president of the American 1:38:20.280 --> 1:38:25.080 Federation of Teachers, and she went on and on. I 1:38:25.120 --> 1:38:28.120 probably saw about ten minutes of her speech, and all 1:38:28.160 --> 1:38:30.840 she did was attack Trump. Nothing political about it, though 1:38:32.240 --> 1:38:34.559 she didn't you know, didn't say anything about the kids, 1:38:34.640 --> 1:38:38.320 wasn't concerned about the teachers, wasn't concerned about anything like that. 1:38:38.360 --> 1:38:44.479 She was concerned about consolidating power for herself and her teachers' union, 1:38:45.800 --> 1:38:49.479 not for the kids or the teachers, but for you know, 1:38:49.800 --> 1:38:55.200 her and her friends, because their grip on power is 1:38:55.240 --> 1:39:00.559 being threatened under Trump, and god knows what. We can't 1:39:00.600 --> 1:39:03.960 have them lose their grip on power. One of the 1:39:03.960 --> 1:39:06.400 worst things that happened. But and according to Nancy Pelosi, 1:39:06.520 --> 1:39:11.920 none of that is political. That's just that's just grassroots 1:39:11.920 --> 1:39:18.800 as it gets. Timothy Mellon, who is a billionaire, has 1:39:18.840 --> 1:39:21.640 been identified as the anonymous owner who stepped forward with 1:39:21.680 --> 1:39:24.360 a massive one hundred and thirty million dollar gift that 1:39:24.439 --> 1:39:30.160 covers the salaries of US military personnel during the government shutdown. 1:39:32.120 --> 1:39:35.960 Shutdown began when Congress failed to pass approach appropriations legislation. 1:39:37.520 --> 1:39:43.960 Central services continue, but non essential operations have halted. And 1:39:44.040 --> 1:39:48.599 so when it comes to paying the military, this dude, 1:39:48.600 --> 1:39:53.439 Timothy Mellon, eighty three years old, said to be worth 1:39:53.560 --> 1:39:57.880 fourteen billion dollars. I said, you know what, here's one 1:39:57.960 --> 1:40:02.960 hundred and what is it, one hundred and thirteen. Seems 1:40:03.000 --> 1:40:04.640 like you might need more than that one hundred and 1:40:04.640 --> 1:40:08.120 thirty million dollars to pay those military salaries. I don't 1:40:08.120 --> 1:40:09.960 know about that. That's it for me. I got to 1:40:09.960 --> 1:40:12.240 get out of here. I had a great night tonight. 1:40:12.280 --> 1:40:14.479 Thank you so much for listening. We are back tomorrow 1:40:14.600 --> 1:40:17.840 night and we're talking all about elections tomorrow night, so 1:40:17.880 --> 1:40:20.400 I hope you can hang around for that until then. 1:40:20.720 --> 1:40:24.360 Have a great night, and we will see you tomorrow 1:40:24.439 --> 1:40:26.599 on the Home of the Best Bengals cover seven hundred, 1:40:26.800 --> 1:40:27.680 WLW