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Speaker 1: This is the Wednesday night edition of the Midweek Crisis.
Speaker 1: I'm Dan Carroll. Joe Waldell is running the big board
Speaker 1: in the seven hundred WLW command center. So when you
Speaker 1: call in, make sure you say hello to him. Five one, three,
Speaker 1: seven four nine, seven thousand, one, eight hundred, the Big One.
Speaker 1: Those are the numbers to call a ton of stuff
Speaker 1: I want to get to tonight. I'm gonna do What
Speaker 1: a mess, what an absolute mess we have going on
Speaker 1: at city Hall right now. We've got incompetence run wild.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to see the commercials now for the candidate
Speaker 1: to want to be re elected to city Council. I
Speaker 1: can't think of a good reason to re elect any
Speaker 1: of them. My guest coming up after the news at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour is going to be Kevin Aldridge.
Speaker 1: He is the opinion editor at the Cincinnat Inquirer, and
Speaker 1: we're going to break down all the latest information that's
Speaker 1: come out and when we just have a city manager
Speaker 1: that has shown her incompetence in multiple ways. She finally
Speaker 1: spoke about the situation with the police chief today, and
Speaker 1: essentially she said, Hey, it's personnel matter, can't comment on it.
Speaker 1: Isn't that nice? Isn't that convenient? And she was upset
Speaker 1: with the chief. And there was a letter that went
Speaker 1: out to the chief, Teresa Thigi. I believe it was
Speaker 1: back in August, and the chief said something that the
Speaker 1: city manager wasn't aware of that the chief had been
Speaker 1: talking to other police chiefs in Hamilton County and decided
Speaker 1: that Cincinnati would be part of a force task force
Speaker 1: to help produce crime. And of course the city manager, well,
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't say things like this without running
Speaker 1: it by me first. And she was called off guard.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking to myself, what difference does it make?
Speaker 1: What difference does it make if the city manager, the
Speaker 1: city manager doesn't speak to anyone anyway, when's the last
Speaker 1: time a city manager subjected herself to withering questions from
Speaker 1: the media. Anyone seeing that interview, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: So we've got a city manager out there who won't
Speaker 1: talk to the media, that talks about to the police
Speaker 1: chief about Hey, before you do anything, you got to
Speaker 1: run it by me and my compadres here at city Hall.
Speaker 1: The copy of the letter I read didn't say specific
Speaker 1: specifically I was Roly, but I would imagine she might
Speaker 1: have had a part in it. So we're going to
Speaker 1: talk to Kevin Aldridge about that. Then Tom King, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite lawyers, is going to be here. He
Speaker 1: is the chief council for the Pennsylvania GOP. They've got
Speaker 1: some hot and heavy They've got some hot and heavy
Speaker 1: elections going on there, especially Obama's getting involved down in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: They've got a a Supreme Court race going on, and
Speaker 1: Obama's getting involved in that. But I want to talk
Speaker 1: to him about the the the information that came out
Speaker 1: today from the it's the House Oversight Committee, and they
Speaker 1: put out they put out their report on Joe Biden
Speaker 1: and the Biden administration as it relates to what was
Speaker 1: going on with the auto pen And of course I'm
Speaker 1: I had it here right in front of me a
Speaker 1: moment ago, but of course I'm scrolling through the thing
Speaker 1: now and I can't find it. But to my way
Speaker 1: of thinking, the report is pretty devastating. And I want
Speaker 1: you to listen to then. And what they did was
Speaker 1: if you go to their website and maybe I'll be
Speaker 1: able to find it here momentarily, but if you look
Speaker 1: at their website, what they did is they put out
Speaker 1: just one after another, a series of videos of people
Speaker 1: who testified before their committee, people who were formally in
Speaker 1: the Biden administration, who may or may not have worked
Speaker 1: closely with Joe Biden. You had one guy in there
Speaker 1: who was telling the committee that if Biden got reelected,
Speaker 1: then he was in line for a four million dollar bonus.
Speaker 1: His salary was already four million dollars, but he was
Speaker 1: going to get a four million dollar bonus if Biden
Speaker 1: got reelected in twenty twenty four. So they were incentivized
Speaker 1: a lot of these people, if they knew the truth,
Speaker 1: to not tell the truth, to not relate the truth.
Speaker 1: And I want you to listen to the cut that
Speaker 1: I have ready to go here. Let me see Joe.
Speaker 1: This is going to be cut number thirteen. But this
Speaker 1: is a guy named his name is Iam sam Ian
Speaker 1: Sam's he was one of the spokespersons for Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: And listen to this clip. It's a little over two
Speaker 1: minutes long, but listen to this because they're trying to
Speaker 1: clarify how many times this guy actually met with and
Speaker 1: spoke with and was in the same room with Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: He was a spokesperson for Joe Biden. And in the
Speaker 1: middle of this clip, you're going to hear a cut
Speaker 1: from an interview that Ian Sam's did on MSNBC, and
Speaker 1: it takes a while to get there, but towards the
Speaker 1: end of the clip he finally admits what was really
Speaker 1: going on. So this is the kind of stuff that
Speaker 1: the Oversight Committee put out earlier today. And Joe Wabbell,
Speaker 1: this is cutting number thirteen.
Speaker 2: Please, how often would you say that you interacted with
Speaker 2: the president in person?
Speaker 3: I interacted with him pretty infrequently.
Speaker 4: So weekly, monthly, what are we talking about?
Speaker 1: Very infrequent?
Speaker 3: I think I met with the president a handful of
Speaker 3: times during my tenure in lies.
Speaker 4: I want to introduce exhibit two.
Speaker 2: As it's being passed around into a tweet from Alex
Speaker 2: Thompson and at ATCO summarizing.
Speaker 4: We pulled a couple of quotes of.
Speaker 2: Us the interview you did it on MSNBC, and one
Speaker 2: of the quotes says, when I deal with him, he
Speaker 2: is sharp and being President Biden, and he is asking
Speaker 2: tough questions.
Speaker 3: To your call this you got to say that doesn't
Speaker 3: look anything like the President that I know when I
Speaker 3: deal with him, He's sharp, he's asking tough questions.
Speaker 5: That's the President Biden that so many of us experience
Speaker 5: every single day.
Speaker 2: So this statement, the basis for this statement was your
Speaker 2: interaction somewhere between one and five times.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, do you think that's a bitness leading?
Speaker 3: I think it was pretty direct and honest and said
Speaker 3: that when I do deal with him, he's you know, charting,
Speaker 3: he was asking incisive questions during my meetings with him.
Speaker 2: But dealt with him five times in twenty four months.
Speaker 2: That's not exactly a large scope of knowledge on how
Speaker 2: he interacts with staff. You know, I think it's missing
Speaker 2: some context. I don't Do you think that statement suggests
Speaker 2: that you deal with him more than he did?
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I mean I spoke about my
Speaker 3: own interactions with him.
Speaker 5: That's the President Biden that we experience every day.
Speaker 2: But to the best of your recollection, for meetings two
Speaker 2: were in person.
Speaker 5: Two that were the two that I described to you
Speaker 5: that I at the very onset in the oval. One
Speaker 5: was a zoom where he was at Camp David, and
Speaker 5: I was a participant in the meeting the phone call.
Speaker 5: I think there was another meeting, but I or another engagement,
Speaker 5: but I can't remember off the top of my head
Speaker 5: what it was.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, No, It's like I'm just trying to get
Speaker 4: a understanding. So the community decision was.
Speaker 2: Virtual within the camp, David, there's a phone call regarding
Speaker 2: Hunter Biden's testimony. Yes, an in purson meeting regarding Hunter
Speaker 2: Biden's testimony, and one other in person.
Speaker 5: Meeting about special counsel Hirst special counsel.
Speaker 4: So two in purson meetings. Sure, at least at least that, yes.
Speaker 1: At least two in person meetings. So here's a guy,
Speaker 1: Ian Sam's is his name, spokesperson for Biden, worked in
Speaker 1: the Biden White House for two years. Over that span
Speaker 1: of time, he met in person with Biden two times.
Speaker 1: And yet he goes on MSNBC and says, and they're
Speaker 1: talking about the decline, they're talking about his state of mind,
Speaker 1: how he acts with people behind the scenes. Well, that's
Speaker 1: not that Joe Biden we see every single day. When
Speaker 1: someone says that's not what we see every single day,
Speaker 1: does that indicate Now, Look, it's even if you work
Speaker 1: with someone, it's believable that you don't see them every
Speaker 1: single day. But when you say every single day, what
Speaker 1: do you mean by that, you mean that you see
Speaker 1: them all the time, that you have regular contact with them.
Speaker 1: This guy was a spokesperson for Biden. He met with
Speaker 1: him twice in person. Once there was a zoom call
Speaker 1: that he was on while Biden was at Camp David,
Speaker 1: and only God knows what happened. And then there was
Speaker 1: another time over the telephone. That's it. And this guy
Speaker 1: goes out on MSNBC and says, hey, the guy is sharp,
Speaker 1: he's asking questions. I'm telling you, man, got to be
Speaker 1: on top of your game. We see it every single day.
Speaker 1: This is how the Biden administration operated. And when you
Speaker 1: go to the government website of the Oversight Committee and
Speaker 1: you look at the report that they put out, and
Speaker 1: I found it during the where we were playing the
Speaker 1: SoundBite there the Biden not a Pen Presidency declined delusion
Speaker 1: and deception in the White House put out and by
Speaker 1: James Comer, the chairman, And what does he hear? He says,
Speaker 1: the let's see the Biden not a Pen presidency will
Speaker 1: go down as one of the biggest political scandals in
Speaker 1: US history. As Americans saw President Biden's decline with their
Speaker 1: own eyes. Biden's in her circle sought to deceive the public,
Speaker 1: cover up his decline, and took unauthorized executive actions with
Speaker 1: the auto pen that are now invalid. So when I
Speaker 1: have Tom King on, we are going to break this
Speaker 1: down and get in to this. A huge political scandal
Speaker 1: put out by the Government Oversight Committee or the Committee
Speaker 1: on Oversight from the House of Representatives James Comer chairman.
Speaker 1: And what they did was they put out video after
Speaker 1: video after video. Andrew Bates, former senior Deputy Press Secretary,
Speaker 1: Anita Dunn, former Senior and Communications for the President, Ashley Williams,
Speaker 1: former Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Outreach, Bruce Reid,
Speaker 1: former deputy chief of staff. We've got Jeffrey Zint's former
Speaker 1: White House Chief of Staff, Ron Klain is in there,
Speaker 1: carin John Pierre. Michael Donellan is a former senior aide
Speaker 1: to the President. He's the one that told them that, hey,
Speaker 1: if Biden gets elected, I'm in for a four million
Speaker 1: dollar bonus. Four million dollar bonus. Is that how you
Speaker 1: you really want the staff to operate at the White House.
Speaker 1: Steve Rochetti, former counselor to the President. All these depositions
Speaker 1: are out there, and it goes on and on and on. Alison,
Speaker 1: Claremont County, how are you tonight?
Speaker 6: Very well? I hope you can say the same.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is a huge scandal. This
Speaker 1: is a huge deal. How about this guy? Hey, look,
Speaker 1: I see the president every day. Uh, he's not declining,
Speaker 1: he's good, he's solid, asking some really tough questions. And
Speaker 1: then it turns out he met with him twice in
Speaker 1: person over two years.
Speaker 6: Well, not only that, just how stupid do they think
Speaker 6: the public is? I mean, we saw Biden. He could
Speaker 6: barely walk.
Speaker 1: They think, Alice, they think we are a bunch of chumps,
Speaker 1: is what they think. This is. This is so consistent
Speaker 1: over the years when we when we see things. I
Speaker 1: remember I did a radio show one time back when
Speaker 1: Barack Obama was running for reelection and it was on
Speaker 1: a Saturday. I was on on a Saturday. It was
Speaker 1: Saturday morning. It might have been I think it was
Speaker 1: the nine to noon show that Mike Allen does now.
Speaker 1: And I played a SoundBite. I played it four or
Speaker 1: five times, and it was Michelle Obama and she was
Speaker 1: on a podcast or some radio show, and she was
Speaker 1: talking about getting people out to the polls. She says, Hey,
Speaker 1: go out and get that knucklehead next door, go out
Speaker 1: and get that lazy cousin of yours, Go out and
Speaker 1: get and she's describing and she's just and this is
Speaker 1: how she's describing people that you, as a good loyal Democrat,
Speaker 1: had to do, was go out and get and get
Speaker 1: these these these ne'er do wells and these low lifes
Speaker 1: and get them to the polls. That is and she
Speaker 1: was and I say, and I, ladies say, listen to
Speaker 1: what she says. This is how she's describing her voters.
Speaker 1: This is what they this is how they think of people.
Speaker 1: And all these people in the White House thought, hey,
Speaker 1: look we everyone can see Joe Biden is going down
Speaker 1: the tube. But if we sit here and we tell them, look,
Speaker 1: we're with Biden every day, I mean, hey, he's good man.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no problem there at all. This is
Speaker 1: because they think they treat us like we are a
Speaker 1: bunch of chumps.
Speaker 6: They do. You have to feel sorry for someone who
Speaker 6: has to be with Biden every day.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Oh my god, unbelievable.
Speaker 6: It was. It's a disgrace, the way they're the way
Speaker 6: they talk down to us. The same thing in the
Speaker 6: city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well the city is the condescension. Tam Purvall is
Speaker 1: up there. I mean, they're they they want they want
Speaker 1: ultimate strict control over every aspect of this. And now
Speaker 1: the curtain, the curtain has been revealed on this and
Speaker 1: we see just how just how bush league this operation
Speaker 1: at city Hall really is.
Speaker 6: The curtain fell down. We can see how small the
Speaker 6: way it is.
Speaker 1: That's a great movie.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, it was no.
Speaker 1: Attention to that man behind the Gooden.
Speaker 6: You don't you almost feel embarrassed for pure val Does
Speaker 6: he really believe what he is saying and he's actually
Speaker 6: talking to people and saying the things he's doing, what
Speaker 6: he is doing to the former chief of police publicly
Speaker 6: embarrassing this woman, and he's well, he does he doesn't care, No,
Speaker 6: he doesn't care. This man wants power.
Speaker 1: The only thing, the only thing he cares about is
Speaker 1: being mayor. And what's what's the next step, what's the
Speaker 1: next step up the political ladder.
Speaker 6: He wants Washington and I think, uh, I think he
Speaker 6: would try, would have tried for governor. Accept as a
Speaker 6: great guy, I can't think.
Speaker 7: Of his name.
Speaker 6: Who's who's going to probably yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think if you're governor, I think I think you
Speaker 1: actually have to do some work. I don't think aft
Speaker 1: tab is really interested in doing any work. I really know.
Speaker 1: You you know, if you get point, if you get
Speaker 1: elected to Congress, or you become a senator. And there's
Speaker 1: plenty of congressmen and senators, senators up there that that
Speaker 1: literally do nothing. You can you can go to Washington
Speaker 1: and you can skate. You can skate and skate and
Speaker 1: just rake in a nice salary, makes some make some
Speaker 1: good trades on the stock market with your inside information.
Speaker 1: And I really think that's what Aftab is looking for.
Speaker 1: I think that's it in the long run. I think
Speaker 1: that really what he wants. He doesn't want he he
Speaker 1: doesn't want any part of this thing going on with
Speaker 1: the police chief. This, I mean, this is her life,
Speaker 1: this is this is this is her world series right.
Speaker 6: Here, poor chief Age. What a wonderful woman.
Speaker 1: Well, she didn't do herself. Look and she had a coach.
Speaker 1: She didn't do herself any favors. When she blamed the
Speaker 1: media for showing showing that video the people getting beat
Speaker 1: up on the street and she didn't do herself any
Speaker 1: favors when she, you know, talked about, hey, if you're
Speaker 1: going to come to our city, you better learn how
Speaker 1: to behave. Didn't do herself any favors there. But in
Speaker 1: the big scheme of things, it's really not enough for
Speaker 1: them to decide to go down this road.
Speaker 6: And she's being an escapegoat, absolutely, and he's disgusting.
Speaker 1: Complete and totally confidence. Alice, we're up against the break.
Speaker 1: We got to run. But I appreciate you so much
Speaker 1: picking up the phone, and I know you're always out
Speaker 1: there listening, and I really appreciate it. Yes, thank you, Alice.
Speaker 1: You have a great night. Thank you very much. With that,
Speaker 1: we got to get to a break. My buddy Kevin
Speaker 1: Aldridge coming up from the Cincinnati Enquirer, and we will
Speaker 1: break down what is going on at city Hall as
Speaker 1: we roll on on the Wednesday night edition of The
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Speaker 1: nine fifty one, Dan Carrol till Midnight Tonight, Wednesday Night
Speaker 1: edition of the Midweek Crisis. See, when I think of
Speaker 1: voting in Ohio, I think we have a pretty secure
Speaker 1: system here and that is because the Secretary of State,
Speaker 1: Frank LeRose, has done, I think a really good job
Speaker 1: of making sure that our elections are on the up
Speaker 1: and up. And he has just come out with word
Speaker 1: of a massive voter fraud scheme that's been going on
Speaker 1: here in the state of Ohio, and he's referred over
Speaker 1: one thousand non citizens to the Justice Department for unlawfully
Speaker 1: registering to vote. The Rose goes on to say that
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty seven of those individuals appear to
Speaker 1: have cast illegal ballots in federal elections going back to
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. So this is the kind of work that
Speaker 1: needs to happen on a regular basis. I think we're
Speaker 1: lucky to have a guy like Frank LeRose in the
Speaker 1: Secretary of States office, who takes this kind of stuff seriously,
Speaker 1: and so he has broken it down. He sent this
Speaker 1: letter to the Department of Justice Criminal Division on these referrals,
Speaker 1: and so he's got one thousand, eighty four non citizens
Speaker 1: unlawfully registered to vote, one hundred and sixty seven non
Speaker 1: citizens who appear to have actually cast balance, ninety nine
Speaker 1: individuals who allegedly voted in two states during the same election.
Speaker 1: Sixteen individuals who allegedly voted twice in Ohio in a
Speaker 1: single election. Fourteen who allegedly voted after their death, which
Speaker 1: is I don't know how you do that, but apparently
Speaker 1: these individuals managed to pull that off. They were dead
Speaker 1: and voted anyway. Four individuals suspected of ballot harvesting. Two
Speaker 1: who allegedly register at false residences. Now, when you look
Speaker 1: at these numbers, I don't know how many. I think
Speaker 1: the population in Ohio is twenty four twenty five million,
Speaker 1: not to look that up, so the numbers are not huge.
Speaker 1: But to me, this demonstrates the diligence that this guy
Speaker 1: has to weed this kind of stuff out. You're going
Speaker 1: to send twelve hundred and thirteen hundred individuals to the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice and refer them for criminal investigation. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1: This is why Ohio should be looked at as a
Speaker 1: model for the rest of the country. And so when
Speaker 1: we have things like this, well you get those on
Speaker 1: the left who want to cry about voter suppression and
Speaker 1: disenfranchising voters and all that kind of nonsense. Now this
Speaker 1: is just doing what's right. We should not have individuals
Speaker 1: who are in the country unlawfully voting in elections. Why
Speaker 1: is that such a hard concept to to get your
Speaker 1: head around. Larrose told the DOJ that the evidence was
Speaker 1: collected through years of careful investigation and cooperation with local prosecutors.
Speaker 1: He noted previous referrals to county officials had produced inconsistent outcomes,
Speaker 1: but with a new administration of the DOJ expressing interest
Speaker 1: in prosecuting federal election crimes, his office is formerly referring
Speaker 1: all relevant materials for consideration. He says, these cases have
Speaker 1: encountered varying degrees of adjudication from Ohio's eighty eight county prosecutors.
Speaker 1: We have an executive administration at the White House and
Speaker 1: Department that has expressed interest in actively actively reviewing and
Speaker 1: prosecuting evidence of federal election crimes. So he's referring these materials.
Speaker 1: The Secretary is later also letter also credits can constructive
Speaker 1: feedback from state and local prosecutors for helping his office
Speaker 1: improve the quality of evidence referred to for consideration. So
Speaker 1: when these things happen, this makes voting better for everyone.
Speaker 1: It waters down your vote that much less when you
Speaker 1: get these kind of people out of there and get
Speaker 1: these kind of these kind of things cleaned up that
Speaker 1: need to be cleaned up. So I say, Frank LeRose
Speaker 1: is to one a great job on that front.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 1: More stuff out has come out about Montani over the weekend.
Speaker 1: We talked, We talked about that last time we were
Speaker 1: on this is uh the The New York Times is
Speaker 1: written a piece about Mondannie and they they talk about Mondannie,
Speaker 1: how he's getting all these uh these Islamophobic comments thrown
Speaker 1: his way and all they're doing. I mean, The New
Speaker 1: York Times is just actively campaigning for him.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: I think it's one thing to go after this guy
Speaker 1: for being a communist, for being a socialist, but the
Speaker 1: rest of it, when you talk about being an Islamist,
Speaker 1: anyone that criticizes him for, you know, meeting with a
Speaker 1: mom's that were connected to the World Trade Center bombing,
Speaker 1: when he lies about his aunt didn't want to wear
Speaker 1: a job after nine to eleven because she felt uncomfortable
Speaker 1: on the subway, claiming victimhood. The New York Times writes,
Speaker 1: in the closing days of the race for mayor of
Speaker 1: New York City, Mandani, the Democrat front runner, has faced
Speaker 1: a barrage of faith or ethnicity based attacks from his opponents,
Speaker 1: and this is what typically happens, and any criticism of
Speaker 1: his policies, of things he said, refusing to refusing to
Speaker 1: speak negatively about the Islamic Caliphate, those sort of things,
Speaker 1: to what did you know did disavow certain actions terrorist actions?
Speaker 1: Things like that. If you criticize that, well then you're
Speaker 1: just you're just an Islami foote. Mister Mondonnie responded to
Speaker 1: the attacks in a ten minute address on Friday, denouncing
Speaker 1: the rhetoric and divisiveness while embracing his faith. That's great.
Speaker 1: For as long as we have lived, we have known
Speaker 1: that no matter what anyone says, there are still certain
Speaker 1: forms of hate that are acceptable in the city. Islamophobia
Speaker 1: is not seen as inexcusable. So he's getting he's getting
Speaker 1: backed up by the New York Times on this, but
Speaker 1: that that, you know, you talk about an absolute mess,
Speaker 1: and we've got a mess here in Cincinnati, and with
Speaker 1: Mondanni going out there this and then there was a
Speaker 1: video that came out from two thousand and three, and
Speaker 1: this is a video of Mondannie speaking at a Democrat
Speaker 1: Socialist of America national convention and he was the keynote
Speaker 1: speaker there and one of the things he said, and
Speaker 1: I didn't pull off this cut for the air because
Speaker 1: of the sound quality is really not that great. But
Speaker 1: one of the things he says, he says is that
Speaker 1: we have to make it clear that when the boot
Speaker 1: of the New York Police Department, the NYPD is on
Speaker 1: your neck, it's been laced by the IDF. So even
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and three, this is a guy
Speaker 1: who was going around blaming Israel for any issues, any
Speaker 1: problems they might have in New York City. That's the
Speaker 1: kind of guy he is. And then when you criticize that,
Speaker 1: the New York Times comes out and says, oh, look,
Speaker 1: you're an islamaphone. There's something wrong with you. It's ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: We got to get to the news and then Tom
Speaker 1: King will be here after the top of the hour
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about all kinds of interesting stuff. Hope
Speaker 1: you can hang around for that. Dan Carroll, the Midweek
Speaker 1: Crisis on seven hundred WLW. All right back on the
Speaker 1: Big one, seven hundred W LW ten oh seven, Wednesday
Speaker 1: Night edition of the Midweek Crisis. I'm Dan Carroll, glad
Speaker 1: to be here, Glad you are here as well, and
Speaker 1: always glad to have in my buddy Tom King, who
Speaker 1: is the general counsel for the Republican Party in the
Speaker 1: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And Tom King, great for you to
Speaker 1: be here. How are you tonight, sir?
Speaker 8: And thank you? Oh I'm just great. Thanks Dan, always
Speaker 8: glad to be with you.
Speaker 1: So I remember when I think you and I might
Speaker 1: have spoken when this this auto pen thing first came out,
Speaker 1: and I asked the question, I said, is this a
Speaker 1: big deal? Is this a big deal that the you know,
Speaker 1: Biden may have signed off on some stuff using the
Speaker 1: All presidents use the auto pen for different things. But
Speaker 1: if he would have signed off on let's say, pardons
Speaker 1: are signed off or the use the autopen for executive
Speaker 1: orders or other serious policy matters. It looks like it's
Speaker 1: it's a huge thing. And you know, we have the
Speaker 1: specter now of the Committee on Oversight, chaired by James Comer,
Speaker 1: putting out their report today on the autopen. Comer says,
Speaker 1: it's the biggest political scandal in US history. Then Tom King,
Speaker 1: that may be a little bit of melodrama there, But
Speaker 1: when I look at the way this Biden White House
Speaker 1: conducted business, I really think it is it's an important matter,
Speaker 1: and I think it is a pretty big scandal.
Speaker 8: Oh, I think you're right, Dan. I think it underscores
Speaker 8: the whole operation of the Biden White House was operating
Speaker 8: on Autopen's up the you know, the significance of this is,
Speaker 8: I mean, you can have autopen to sign autographs that
Speaker 8: they send to kids or people write in and they
Speaker 8: want a picture of the of the president, and they
Speaker 8: use a lot depends all the time. But the significant
Speaker 8: is significance is that when you have a pardon involved,
Speaker 8: or you have the commutation of a criminal sentence involved,
Speaker 8: there has to be some conscious thought and deliberation done
Speaker 8: by the president. You know, it can't be these things
Speaker 8: can't be delegated to his chief of staff, which is
Speaker 8: what the COMA report looks like. It's indicating that the
Speaker 8: chief of staff was orchestrating this stuff, and that Biden
Speaker 8: was talking in generalities, and by Hunter Bidens, I think
Speaker 8: has revealed some of this too, that he was involved
Speaker 8: in in these discussions, and they were talking in generalities
Speaker 8: about classes of different people who were imprisoned or were sentenced,
Speaker 8: and so there weren't discussions about specific pardons or specific commutations,
Speaker 8: which explains how they could have possibly done thousands of
Speaker 8: these things that at one time Biden obviously could not
Speaker 8: have been up to discussing every one of these cases.
Speaker 8: And I think that's what the Constitution calls for, is
Speaker 8: a conscious, knowing, intelligent review by the President of the
Speaker 8: United States making a decision, not somebody saying release all
Speaker 8: the people that have this particular type of conviction or
Speaker 8: are in jail for these particular offenses. I don't think
Speaker 8: that's what was ever intended, and I think that's why
Speaker 8: it's a big deal.
Speaker 1: The notion that you're going to go back and review
Speaker 1: these different You've got these pardons in some cases, you've
Speaker 1: got executive orders in some cases. The notion you're going
Speaker 1: to go back and review these things. I don't know
Speaker 1: that that's ever been done before, that has Are you
Speaker 1: aware that any of these in history have ever been
Speaker 1: reviewed in such a way to invalidate with the idea
Speaker 1: of invalidating them and saying, hey, look, I know you
Speaker 1: got a pardon at him shift, but it really doesn't
Speaker 1: count because Biden didn't know what the heck he was doing.
Speaker 8: I don't believe this has ever happened before, and and
Speaker 8: uh or even been alleged before. And the the the issue,
Speaker 8: of course is that you've got people who were in
Speaker 8: jail that are out of jail. You've got people who
Speaker 8: are whose records have been expunged now, and and you've
Speaker 8: got all there's all sorts of problems trying to go
Speaker 8: back and reverse it, you know, And of course you'll
Speaker 8: have Biden saying that that he was consciously doing all
Speaker 8: these things when when it when the evidence appears to
Speaker 8: be contrary to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they talked about in the in the the the
Speaker 1: press release that they Comera put out, he talks about
Speaker 1: political operatives like Anita Dunn Interfield and interfered in medical decisions,
Speaker 1: blocking cognitive tests to protect Biden's re election prospects. And
Speaker 1: then there was testimony from one of the of those
Speaker 1: in the inner circle with and and this guy, Michael Donellan,
Speaker 1: a former senior aide to to Biden, who talks about
Speaker 1: his salary was for for I didn't know senior aids
Speaker 1: in the White House made were making four million dollars
Speaker 1: a year. First of all, where is that salary coming from?
Speaker 1: And then he talked about he talked about how he
Speaker 1: was in line for a four million dollar bonus if.
Speaker 8: He got four million, and he would he got four million,
Speaker 8: and he was going to get four million more. Watched
Speaker 8: if you watch that deposition, if you watch the the
Speaker 8: interrogation that took place with him, you would wonder how
Speaker 8: anybody would pay him four thousand dollars, let alone four
Speaker 8: million dollars. And he stumbled, he stumbled on every question,
Speaker 8: and and and the pauses, the pregnant pauses of in
Speaker 8: his testimony were so unbelievable that I just sat there
Speaker 8: in amazement and shook my head. But but go pay
Speaker 8: this guy four million dollars if Joe Biden got reelected,
Speaker 8: and having already paid him four million dollars, was just unbelievable.
Speaker 8: You know, sor senior White House age would make somewhere
Speaker 8: in the neighborhood of close to two hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 8: maybe one hundred and eighty seven something like that. That's
Speaker 8: what people make in the White House. They don't make
Speaker 8: four million dollars.
Speaker 1: Well, apparently this guy did. And I'm just I was
Speaker 1: I heard that, and I'm thinking myself, man, we've really
Speaker 1: been missing the boat on this this kind of stuff.
Speaker 8: What I meant by that is they're not supposed to make.
Speaker 1: For Yeah, and then you know, a little bonus if
Speaker 1: he gets elected in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6: So he so.
Speaker 1: But my point is is that the way this administration
Speaker 1: was running, people were incentivized to pull the wool over
Speaker 1: the American people's eyes, to create a false narrative, to
Speaker 1: tell them that, yes, even though you see this guy
Speaker 1: reaching around to shake hands with no one who's there,
Speaker 1: doesn't know where he's going, stops in the middle of
Speaker 1: a sentence, as Camp put a couple of sentences, even
Speaker 1: though we see all this kind of stuff going on. No,
Speaker 1: it's it's perfectly fine. Though you know, I played the
Speaker 1: SoundBite from the one guy who testified he was a
Speaker 1: Biden spokesperson, Ian SAMs, and he went on MSNBC talking about, well,
Speaker 1: you know this this narrative that Joe Biden has lost
Speaker 1: his fastball, that he doesn't really pay attention, doesn't know
Speaker 1: what's going on. He said, that's not what we see
Speaker 1: every day. And it turned out over the span of
Speaker 1: two years he had two in person meetings with Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's out there talking people, creating this this
Speaker 1: idea that he sits with Biden and meets with him
Speaker 1: every single day.
Speaker 8: Listen, all you got to do is you could you
Speaker 8: could go as high up as the as the Prime
Speaker 8: Minister of Italy asked her how he was. If you remember,
Speaker 8: you remember he was pointed in the wrong direction. She
Speaker 8: had to spin him around with the other world leader.
Speaker 1: I mean, the easy had to step into at one point.
Speaker 1: As I recall, that's true.
Speaker 8: My my, my old friend Jim Matthews used to say,
Speaker 8: if it looks like a duck, and it quacks like
Speaker 8: a duck in and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck.
Speaker 8: So this was a duck in terms of his behavior.
Speaker 1: So but I think Tom King that when you look
Speaker 1: at the way this administration reacts towards the American people.
Speaker 1: They really treat us with contempt. They really treat us
Speaker 1: with this this sense of arrogance, that that we're just
Speaker 1: a bunch of dupes, that we are only here as
Speaker 1: a nuisance to them carrying out their agenda. And they
Speaker 1: treat us like a bunch of chumps. And and every
Speaker 1: time the curtain gets pulled back a little bit and
Speaker 1: we see things like this revealed, but we see the
Speaker 1: same type of behavior over and over and over again.
Speaker 8: Well, it's really dangerous. It's these are dangerous views that
Speaker 8: they hold that they that they know better than we do,
Speaker 8: they know better than the electorate does, they know better
Speaker 8: than than the American people do. And and at the end,
Speaker 8: the end justifies the means. You know, we've heard, we
Speaker 8: know where that philosophy comes from. And you can see
Speaker 8: it at work. It's about it's about to mature and
Speaker 8: hopefully not, but it looks like it will in New
Speaker 8: York City in this Monday election. That's you know, the
Speaker 8: end justifies the means absolutely.
Speaker 1: And then when you look at I don't know how
Speaker 1: much you've read about the Arctic frost investigation that was
Speaker 1: being run. But now we've come to find out that
Speaker 1: more than one hundred and fifty people who were in
Speaker 1: the Trump orbits were being scrutinized by the FBI. So
Speaker 1: the Left loves to complain about the weaponization of the
Speaker 1: Justice Department. They love to complain about the weaponization of
Speaker 1: the different institutions of the federal government. And now we
Speaker 1: find out that one hundred and fifty individuals in the
Speaker 1: who were close to Trump were being scrutiny by the
Speaker 1: FBI under the direction of who, under the direction it's
Speaker 1: of of the White House, of Joe Biden. With Joe
Speaker 1: Biden able to direct these operations with someone who this is.
Speaker 1: This is more absolute scandalous behavior that to my way
Speaker 1: of thinking, needs to be investigated and needs to be
Speaker 1: brought out to the light of day.
Speaker 8: I couldn't agree with you more. Thank goodness that Patel
Speaker 8: is in there as as a director of the FBI.
Speaker 8: That's the only way we're going to get to the
Speaker 8: bottom of this stuff. And I'm I I'm involved. Not
Speaker 8: only was I familiar with this, but my friend and
Speaker 8: my congressman and uh I happen to be the treasurer
Speaker 8: of his campaign. Mike Kelly, who's been in Congress for
Speaker 8: eight terms. But Mike, Mike's Kelly, Mike Kelly's phone. There
Speaker 8: were eight Senators and one congressman, and the one Congressman
Speaker 8: was Mike Kelly. And UH, it's just it's OUTRAGEEDS. When
Speaker 8: I when I saw the report, I texted Mike and
Speaker 8: and asked him about it and said, you know, I
Speaker 8: can't believe it. They got your day, went after your phone.
Speaker 8: Of course they went after Mike because Mike was very
Speaker 8: outspoken about protecting the president and defending the president. And UH.
Speaker 8: And of course I was involved in in advising the
Speaker 8: electors UH in Pennsylvania on this so called fake electors stuff,
Speaker 8: you know. UH, and so I'm familiar with a lot
Speaker 8: of this stuff. But the the this this operation that
Speaker 8: was conducted is is really an affront to the to
Speaker 8: UH democracy. When we hear on the left all this
Speaker 8: stuff about protecting democracy, the attack on democracy is coming
Speaker 8: from the left. It's this kind of stuff that's that's
Speaker 8: the most dangerous, UH, stuff that we've ever seen in
Speaker 8: America that they're that they're doing. So when they talk
Speaker 8: about this is as bad as Watergate or equal to Watergate,
Speaker 8: I think it's every every bit as bad.
Speaker 1: It makes Watergate looks like look like an afternoon in
Speaker 1: the park. It looks like child's play. It's nick kind
Speaker 1: of stuff.
Speaker 8: Nixon wasn't involved with the burglars. But Nixon, Nixon knew
Speaker 8: about the erasure of part of the tape. That's nothing
Speaker 8: compared to what these guys. What these guys were doing
Speaker 8: would make Richard Nixon look like an amateur.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and and and what and what was the justification
Speaker 1: for for this type of investigation or this this type
Speaker 1: of scrutiny or or the phone you know, the phones
Speaker 1: to be tapped by these individuals, What was the fake
Speaker 1: and which which which Comy knew was fake when he
Speaker 1: signed off on How much trouble do you think I
Speaker 1: mean to show? You think Comy is in with the with.
Speaker 8: The trial Listen, any any time you're indicted by by
Speaker 8: a federal grand jury and and face federal charges, that's
Speaker 8: that's very serious, you know. So they'll try to downplay
Speaker 8: it and say, well, it's the Trump administration, it's Trump
Speaker 8: going after his enemies, et cetera. But listen, this is
Speaker 8: more than just Trump enemies. These are Trump enemies because
Speaker 8: of what they did to Trump that what they what
Speaker 8: they tried to do to Trump, theawfare that they engaged
Speaker 8: in is unprecedented. And as I've said to you before,
Speaker 8: and you know this for a fact, they went after
Speaker 8: all of us. They went you know, I'm the general
Speaker 8: counsel of Pennsylvania Republican Party. As you know, they went
Speaker 8: after us. They went after the lawyers that I work with.
Speaker 8: They want they went after the lawyers here in Pennsylvania
Speaker 8: and elsewhere. They started a fund dash ll started this
Speaker 8: committee to try to disbar lawyers, anybody who was involved
Speaker 8: in supporting the president in the twenty twenty election. They
Speaker 8: named them by names, They identified these people. They tried
Speaker 8: to disgrace them. They went after all of us and
Speaker 8: and unsuccessfully in many instances, including me. So they but
Speaker 8: they but they nonetheless they tried and uh, and it's
Speaker 8: just all part of a scheme to stay in power.
Speaker 8: And it was all about who's in power and with
Speaker 8: whether Joe Biden was incompetent or he wasn't incompetent, they
Speaker 8: didn't care. And so using the autopen to sign massive
Speaker 8: numbers of pardons to effectuate their policies and controlling the
Speaker 8: White House. You know, you have to go back to
Speaker 8: almost the Woodrow Wilson's you know, when Wilson suffered a
Speaker 8: stroke and the country was found out later that his
Speaker 8: wife was actually running the White House. It's it's not
Speaker 8: dissimilar to that, except it's much on a much grander
Speaker 8: scale the things that they've done here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see in Pennsylvania you've got a you've got
Speaker 1: an election coming up. Well, we've all got elections coming up,
Speaker 1: but well, I guess one of one of the big
Speaker 1: election items is you've got some Supreme Court justices there
Speaker 1: that are up for election, and I see that Obama
Speaker 1: is now inserting himself into that, into that election. Does
Speaker 1: Obama have the kind of juice that he used to
Speaker 1: have in Pennsylvania, Well to be able to sway enough
Speaker 1: voters one way or the other.
Speaker 8: He'll be listened, they'll they'll listen to him in Philadelphia, yeah,
Speaker 8: but elsewhere not so much. But he did insert himself
Speaker 8: into this is an your listeners probably aren't much familiar
Speaker 8: with the Pennsylvania system. But you get elected to the
Speaker 8: Supreme Court for ten years over here, and then at
Speaker 8: the end of your ten year term, you run again.
Speaker 8: But you don't run against anyone. You just get a
Speaker 8: yes or a no vote, so yes to get another
Speaker 8: ten years or no to not get another ten years.
Speaker 8: So there's millions of dollars pouring in here on this
Speaker 8: yes and no vote. There are three Democrats. We have
Speaker 8: seven justices total, so these are three Democratic justices all
Speaker 8: elected in the same at the same time, and they've
Speaker 8: they've had a very controversial agenda, including extending out our
Speaker 8: elections over here and a number of controversial decisions. They
Speaker 8: authorized drop boxes when the legislature never authorized them, and
Speaker 8: they've done just myriad of things that are that are
Speaker 8: complained about by by many people here. So's it'll be
Speaker 8: interesting to see. We've only ever had one justice not retained,
Speaker 8: and that was because it was the time of a
Speaker 8: of a of a very unpopular pay raise that the
Speaker 8: Supreme Court went along with, and and Russell Niagro was
Speaker 8: was voted out of office. And so there is at
Speaker 8: least some precedent for it. But there's a heavy duty
Speaker 8: campaign going on on on over here. The TV is
Speaker 8: TV stations that are full of yes and no advertising,
Speaker 8: and now we've got people nationally involved in it, including
Speaker 8: former President Obama. So it's it'll be an interesting night
Speaker 8: to see.
Speaker 1: All I know is that when we have elections like
Speaker 1: that around here, usually yes means no and no means yes.
Speaker 1: So it gets totally confusing and no one is ever
Speaker 1: exactly sure what they're voting for.
Speaker 8: So listen, in Pennsylvania, the last one, the last one
Speaker 8: of these, we had we had some of the machines
Speaker 8: read some you know, they the Democrats want us to
Speaker 8: believe that that all these voting machines are sancri sacked,
Speaker 8: nothing can happen and totally but we had oh yeah,
Speaker 8: in north in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Uh, we had the machines.
Speaker 8: When you voted yes, it registered no, and when you
Speaker 8: voted no, it registered yes.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 8: That was the That was the twenty three election in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: That that that is amazing. All right, it's Tom King.
Speaker 1: It's so great to have you on it again. And
Speaker 1: I've got about thirty seconds left here. I saw some analysis,
Speaker 1: uh and there the person on TV was talking about
Speaker 1: when it comes to Jack Smith, when it comes to Komy,
Speaker 1: when it comes to Latitia James, they're saying, all this stuff,
Speaker 1: it's all baked in the cake. They're all going to
Speaker 1: get off of a slap on the wrist, yes or no, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll let you get what's coming to them.
Speaker 8: In a in the sane world, I think that they're
Speaker 8: entitled to what's coming to them. So I hope they
Speaker 8: don't get off with a slap on the risk, all right,
Speaker 8: and you know, Letitia James is going to get what
Speaker 8: she deserves, I hope down there in Virginia.
Speaker 1: So all right, we'll see what happens. But Tom King
Speaker 1: has always been I appreciate the time, love having you on.
Speaker 1: Keep up the great work in Pennsylvania, and we'll be
Speaker 1: hopefully talking again before too long.
Speaker 8: Thanks for having me, Dan.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Tom King from the Great
Speaker 1: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Ten twenty five, seven hundred WLW, seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW. It is the Wednesday night edition of the
Speaker 1: Midweek Crisis. I'm Dan Carroll, and an hour ago we
Speaker 1: were supposed to speak with Kevin Aldrich of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Speaker 1: He wasn't here an hour ago, but he's here now.
Speaker 1: Kevin Aldridge, What will we do without cell phones and
Speaker 1: computers and stuff? What will we do without him?
Speaker 7: Listen, man, you can't live with him, and can't live
Speaker 7: without him.
Speaker 1: I say that all the time. We need low tech
Speaker 1: solutions for everything thing. But I appreciate I appreciate you
Speaker 1: being here now in your job as the opinion editor
Speaker 1: at the Inquirer. I'm guessing you're getting all kinds of
Speaker 1: letters right now with people opining about what's happening with
Speaker 1: the mayor and the city manager and the chief of
Speaker 1: police and and all and all the rest of it.
Speaker 1: What give me your your your overview, your thumbnail sketch
Speaker 1: of what the situation is at city Hall right now,
Speaker 1: because it looks like it's an absolute mess.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I think that's kind of the consensus of
Speaker 7: like what I've been hearing from most readers who've been
Speaker 7: writing in. I see people kind of feel like, you know,
Speaker 7: that the police chief is kind of being scapegoaded here.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of questions about, you know, who's in
Speaker 7: charge over the city all and actually palling the shots,
Speaker 7: and it just really seems like there's, uh, there's kind
Speaker 7: of really a lack of leadership over there right now.
Speaker 7: You know, most people on city most of the council
Speaker 7: members don't even seem to know what's going on if
Speaker 7: you listen to them, If you hear how they've been
Speaker 7: quoted in the media and how they talk, they don't
Speaker 7: they don't even really know kind of what's going on, and.
Speaker 1: So it is that a problem to stop. Let me
Speaker 1: just I hate to interrupt you right there, but you
Speaker 1: mentioned the city councilor do you think that's a problem.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's an issue that and I've heard
Speaker 1: some different city council members on this radio station of
Speaker 1: the radio station, do you think that's an issue that
Speaker 1: they really are clueless as to what is going on
Speaker 1: down the hall at the or down the flight of
Speaker 1: stairs at the city manager's office.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I do. I mean, I I think that they
Speaker 7: should know what's going on. Information, you know, should be
Speaker 7: being shared with them, particularly when you're talking about the
Speaker 7: police chief and crime being as much of a topic
Speaker 7: as it is. It's just not a good look when
Speaker 7: you've got your council members who are in the dark.
Speaker 7: They can't answer the questions that they're that the constituents
Speaker 7: want to know, and it seems like they don't even
Speaker 7: have the answers that they themselves might want to have.
Speaker 7: So I think that I think that is a little
Speaker 7: bit of a problem. And again I think It just
Speaker 7: leads to this sense among people that folks over there
Speaker 7: don't really kind of know what's going on or what
Speaker 7: they're doing, and and and you know, that's that's a
Speaker 7: tough spot to be in. You know, about a week before.
Speaker 1: The election, when a week or so ago, I was
Speaker 1: filling in for Bill Cunningham, you were sitting in for
Speaker 1: our buddy Lincoln Ware over the buzz. I think that
Speaker 1: audience might be slightly different than this audience. There might
Speaker 1: be a little bit of overlap there. But what were
Speaker 1: you hearing from the people that's that we're calling in
Speaker 1: that day when you were sitting in for lincoln Ware
Speaker 1: because this story was breaking at that time when you
Speaker 1: were on the air.
Speaker 7: Then, Yeah, I think there's kind of a similar feeling
Speaker 7: that folks are are just kind of wondering what's going on.
Speaker 7: I think they feel like this whole thing with the
Speaker 7: police chief is a bit of a mess. There's questions about,
Speaker 7: you know, how much money the city is wasting potentially
Speaker 7: on this. Now. The flip side of that is, you
Speaker 7: know a lot of the callers who call in are
Speaker 7: supportive of the Democrats on council, So there's sort of
Speaker 7: this there's this mix of being dissatisfied with the current
Speaker 7: council and the way that things are going. But I
Speaker 7: also think there's this sense that as much as they
Speaker 7: might be dissatisfied with the job that the mayor is
Speaker 7: doing in some aspects, they're not dissatisfied enough to where
Speaker 7: they're probably not going to cast a ballot for him. Now,
Speaker 7: I think for the other members of city Council, you know,
Speaker 7: there it'll be a question there because you know, people
Speaker 7: are picking their candidates and who they want, and I
Speaker 7: think there's some resistance to this notion of just kind
Speaker 7: of going in and voting for the straight Democratic slate,
Speaker 7: which we know that that Democratic slate has had a
Speaker 7: lot of power in the City of Cincinnati over the
Speaker 7: years of late. But but you know, I heard a
Speaker 7: few people pushing back against that and encouraging people to
Speaker 7: kind of you know, freethink and do their research and
Speaker 7: maybe consider some of the other candidates who are on there,
Speaker 7: because I think that you know, there there are some
Speaker 7: members on council who are not being you know, who
Speaker 7: are not being looked at in high favor, you know,
Speaker 7: amongst some of the callers who called in there. So
Speaker 7: it'll be an interesting thing to see how how this
Speaker 7: race race shakes out and who doesn't make it back
Speaker 7: on and what new faces we see after next two year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to I want to get back to
Speaker 1: city council in a minute. But this move by the
Speaker 1: city manager to hire Frost Brown Todd uh allow the
Speaker 1: law firm to investigate the chief What what do you
Speaker 1: make of this move? And does this provide the type
Speaker 1: of separation from the from I guess the city manager's
Speaker 1: office and the mayor to having this law firm do
Speaker 1: the investigation to I guess avoid the appearance of political
Speaker 1: considerations being involved here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, not really. And I'll say I'll say this for
Speaker 7: a couple of different reasons. One I I I actually
Speaker 7: think it's it's a bit of a of a waste
Speaker 7: of taxpayer money. And here's the reason why I say that. Yeah, yeah, well,
Speaker 7: you know, hey, that may be a position, you know,
Speaker 7: who knows, another another position that we need, you know,
Speaker 7: somewhere else in the city where that money could be going.
Speaker 7: Who knows. Maybe that's maybe that's more overtime for police
Speaker 7: officers that we need, or maybe even another position I
Speaker 7: don't I don't know, or or on the way to
Speaker 7: another position. But I guess my point would be when
Speaker 7: I first heard about this and I saw the things
Speaker 7: that the law firm was looking at, my first thought was, well,
Speaker 7: aren't these Doesn't the police chief get an annual evaluation
Speaker 7: every year or every six months, you know, and and
Speaker 7: wouldn't these these questions that you're asking this law firm
Speaker 7: to look into. Wouldn't these be things that you know,
Speaker 7: would be asked of a police chief during any evaluation.
Speaker 7: And if there were issues of the sort that they're
Speaker 7: trying to have this firm look into, shouldn't that have
Speaker 7: come out in sort of like a normal HR evaluation
Speaker 7: process on the police chief? That was my first question
Speaker 7: is what does her personnel file say about what she's
Speaker 7: been doing over the last, you know, a couple of
Speaker 7: years as the police chief? And if there were issues,
Speaker 7: wouldn't the city manager and the mayor and council shouldn't
Speaker 7: they have been apprized of that or known that already.
Speaker 7: So I think that's the first thing that kind of
Speaker 7: jumped in my mind when I saw that hire this firm,
Speaker 7: and why I say it's a bit of a waste
Speaker 7: of money. The other thing is is I think that
Speaker 7: you know, look, if you don't think the police chief
Speaker 7: is up to the job, you know, the mayor or
Speaker 7: the city manager, if they feel this way and they
Speaker 7: have evidence of her lack of performance, then just go
Speaker 7: ahead and pull the trigger, you know, make the decision.
Speaker 7: This seems to me to be a way for them
Speaker 7: to kind of shift the results of the outcome of
Speaker 7: this investigation off of them, so that they can say, see,
Speaker 7: this isn't us.
Speaker 1: This is what the law.
Speaker 7: Firm found, and now we have to move on, move
Speaker 7: on their findings. And so I think it's just another
Speaker 7: way for them to kind of shift accountability and responsibility
Speaker 7: away from themselves where they can point to someone else.
Speaker 7: The other thing that I think is that there's a
Speaker 7: close I think, according to the contract, there's a very
Speaker 7: close relationship between the city solicitor and this law firm
Speaker 7: where it almost seems like they're not necessarily acting independently
Speaker 7: of the city because the city solicitor is so closely
Speaker 7: attached to this involved in or at least being reported
Speaker 7: to or everything needing to be run through that by
Speaker 7: the law firm. So I don't know if there's as
Speaker 7: much separation as the city would like to like for
Speaker 7: you to think that there is in this case. So
Speaker 7: for me, I just think it's, you know, it's a
Speaker 7: waste of taxpayer dollars. It's something that the city should have,
Speaker 7: should be able to mayor, and the city managers should
Speaker 7: be able to do themselves, and they should already have
Speaker 7: known this information through their normal evaluation process with the chief.
Speaker 7: If they didn't, I think that again, that just makes
Speaker 7: it even more of a bad look. And it kind
Speaker 7: of looks like they're setting the chief up for an
Speaker 7: outcome that they want, because I don't think you pay
Speaker 7: a law firm forty thousand bucks or whatever they're getting
Speaker 7: paid to come back with the result other.
Speaker 1: Than the one you want. Well, that's an excellent point.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking to myself, what if this law firm
Speaker 1: it does, it does a genuine investigation and comes back
Speaker 1: and says, look, what we found is that the chief
Speaker 1: was carrying out the wishes and the desires and the
Speaker 1: policies of you city manager, Sarah Long, and you may
Speaker 1: or have to have purval. What happens if that's the
Speaker 1: findings of their investigation, what are the chances that investigation
Speaker 1: is ever going to be made public? And I think
Speaker 1: we see that in this letter, this email that was
Speaker 1: released the other day and uh, and this was a
Speaker 1: letter that was dated in August when the chief said that, hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to be part of this Hamilton County task Force,
Speaker 1: and then Sharah Long has a problem with that, saying, look,
Speaker 1: before you make any public pronouncements, you need to run
Speaker 1: this by me, that this needs to come through my office,
Speaker 1: in the office of you know, my person down the hall.
Speaker 1: So it's it seems to me that if this chief
Speaker 1: strayed at all from the dictates that were coming from
Speaker 1: the mayor and from the city manager's office, then she
Speaker 1: certainly got called out on it. And to me, that's
Speaker 1: what this letter reveals, where they talk about, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: your your announcement caught me off guard and why would
Speaker 1: why would she be bothered by that? It's not as
Speaker 1: as she was facing a withering questioning from the Cincinnati Inquirer.
Speaker 1: Has Sharah Long routinely made herself available to reporters at
Speaker 1: the Inquirer who want to ask her questions about different
Speaker 1: policies at city Hall?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I can't you know, Dan, I can't
Speaker 7: speak for you know, every reporter at the inquirer and
Speaker 7: sort of what what relationship that they have with the
Speaker 7: city manager and her ability or their ability to get
Speaker 7: return phone calls from her. But I but from what
Speaker 7: little did I do know that it has been a
Speaker 7: case that she hasn't been, you know, incredibly accessible. I mean,
Speaker 7: I think some of that be a matter of you know,
Speaker 7: some of the reporting that I think has been done
Speaker 7: on her by the inquiry and maybe others have maybe
Speaker 7: created a you know, I don't want to say adversarial,
Speaker 7: but but not necessarily the type of relationship where you
Speaker 7: want to immediately grab the phone and return phone calls.
Speaker 1: And so this is part for the course. This is
Speaker 1: this is this, this comes with the territory. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: disagree with you.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't disagree with you, but I I, you know,
Speaker 7: we live in a time where I feel like, not all,
Speaker 7: but but too many politicians are are way too thin
Speaker 7: skinned for uh today's environment in terms of how they're
Speaker 7: handling some of the coverage and the scrutiny that that
Speaker 7: comes along with jobs that are highly that are highly scrutinized,
Speaker 7: and you know rightly so, I mean you're serving the public,
Speaker 7: and the public has a right to know and and
Speaker 7: the public has a lot of expectations and demands on folks,
Speaker 7: and so it's a tough job, no doubt. I mean,
Speaker 7: you can look at the average tenure of whether it's
Speaker 7: a city manager or a police chief, and in cities
Speaker 7: the size of Cincinnati or bigger, they're not long. Usually
Speaker 7: they're like two or three years, you know, in these
Speaker 7: types of jobs, because they are tough, and you there
Speaker 7: is a lot of politics involved and high expectations and
Speaker 7: big problems and challenges that need to be solved, and
Speaker 7: so you got to be built for that kind of thing.
Speaker 7: I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the consequences of this maybe it obviously a
Speaker 1: f tab Purval is feeling the heat on this, and
Speaker 1: I think that's why a lot of these things got
Speaker 1: set in motion when they did. Do you think there's
Speaker 1: a possibility now that this is gonna be enough to
Speaker 1: put Corey Bowman over the top and and have that
Speaker 1: wind up in in the mayor's office. You don't see
Speaker 1: that happening. No, No, no, not at all.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't. I mean, I certainly wouldn't go to Vaga.
Speaker 7: It's with it, I mean, and and Dan, it's it's
Speaker 7: just kind of a. It's just kind of a matter
Speaker 7: of simple math for me and the fact that Cincinnati
Speaker 7: and that Cincinnati is a blue city. I mean, you know,
Speaker 7: the reality is Bowman got be pretty bad in the primary,
Speaker 7: and so he started he start, Yeah, he started out
Speaker 7: in a pretty in a pretty deep hole coming out
Speaker 7: of that primary. And you know, kind of like what
Speaker 7: I was saying when I sat in for the buzz,
Speaker 7: you know, one of the things that you hear is
Speaker 7: it's not that people are necessarily in love with ap
Speaker 7: tab pure Vall, but they're not gonna They're not going
Speaker 7: to That's not enough to make them elect Corey Bowman,
Speaker 7: who's a Republican who you know, whose half brother is
Speaker 7: jd Vance, who many people feel has a connection with MAGA.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's just probably not going to force a
Speaker 7: lot of people who vote Democrat in this environment where
Speaker 7: a lot of Demo Crats have an issue and challenges
Speaker 7: with Donald Trump. I don't think they're going to turn
Speaker 7: their city over to somebody who they would feel like
Speaker 7: might go along with the Trump agenda, which you know,
Speaker 7: uh doesn't mesh with you know how a lot of
Speaker 7: a lot of voters in Cincinnati feel and so or
Speaker 7: at least voters who've traditionally voted in the city, which
Speaker 7: has been largely Democrat. So I don't know that there's
Speaker 7: if there was a I think if there was a
Speaker 7: different alternative mayor, Pureval might be in a little bit
Speaker 7: more trouble. But I just don't think. I just don't
Speaker 7: think Bowman brings enough to the table that even those
Speaker 7: who are who might be Democrats who are disappointed with
Speaker 7: the mayor will shift that sharply toward Corey Bowman.
Speaker 1: That could be wrong.
Speaker 7: They say sports, that's why they played against Yeah, people
Speaker 7: go cast the ballot. So I guess we'll see.
Speaker 1: But yeah, by the way, when's the when When is
Speaker 1: the last time we even had a Republican run from
Speaker 1: there in the city of Cincinnati. Is it like two
Speaker 1: thousand and ten or eight year or something like that.
Speaker 1: It was a while ago.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And it's been I think more than fifty years
Speaker 7: since we've.
Speaker 1: Had a Republican Absolutely, so.
Speaker 7: It's been it's been a while. It's been a while.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, or any members of council feeling feeling a little
Speaker 1: uncomfortable at this point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think I think all of them
Speaker 7: have to be. I mean, in some way shape or
Speaker 7: for him. You know, if I had to, if I
Speaker 7: had to handicap and say how many members current members
Speaker 7: of council might make it back on, I think maybe,
Speaker 7: you know, five or six might I like. I like
Speaker 7: Christopher Christopher Smitherman's chance. I like Liz Keating's chance. I
Speaker 7: like Lakita Cole's chance. They're all outside of the Democratic
Speaker 7: slate to get on. I mean, I think they have
Speaker 7: really strong possibilities of being able to crack you know,
Speaker 7: that Democratic stronghold on council. So we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 7: But as far as any particular council members, you know,
Speaker 7: Mika Owens has taken a lot of you know, in
Speaker 7: the black community, she's taken a lot of hits because
Speaker 7: of her decision to appoint Evan Nolan to that open
Speaker 7: position there. There's still a lot of people who feel,
Speaker 7: you know, some kind of way about that and her
Speaker 7: decision in that case, how much that will come back
Speaker 7: to affect her. I mean, Mika was one of the
Speaker 7: top two, I think two or three vote getters in
Speaker 7: the last election, so I kind of feel the same
Speaker 7: way about her like I feel about the mayor. Are
Speaker 7: are there enough people who are upset about that that
Speaker 7: her support arose that much, that she is and you
Speaker 7: know she isn't one of the nine who gets elected.
Speaker 7: I'm not so sure that that's true. I think, you know,
Speaker 7: Mark Jefferies is probably in pretty good shape. I think
Speaker 7: he he you know, I think he has the support
Speaker 7: in backing and I think the finances in his campaign
Speaker 7: to be able to make a strong run. I kind
Speaker 7: of expect him to maybe make it back on. So
Speaker 7: we'll we'll just have to see.
Speaker 1: All right, well, Kevin Aldridge, we got to run. But
Speaker 1: I appreciate you jumping on late and better late than never,
Speaker 1: my friend, And I certainly appreciate that.
Speaker 7: Dan always appreciate the opportunity to be on and I
Speaker 7: apologize for that.
Speaker 1: That's all right, that earlier.
Speaker 7: Not being able to get there, But I'm glad we
Speaker 7: were able to able to do it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I appreciate the thoughtfulness and the insight, and keep
Speaker 1: up the great work at the Quire and we will
Speaker 1: be talking again before too long, my friend. I appreciate
Speaker 1: time you do the same. Take care. All right, there
Speaker 1: you go, Kevin Aldridge from the Cincinnati Enquirer, And what
Speaker 1: a mess we have at at Cincinnati City Hall. All right,
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Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: The poll is out about trust in US media and
Speaker 1: newspapers Legacy media News today is solo that only one
Speaker 1: in twenty five US adult citizens place a great deal
Speaker 1: of trust and what they are being told by television
Speaker 1: or reading newspapers. The latest poll by Being Economists conducted
Speaker 1: October twenty fourth through twenty seventh, Americans were asked to
Speaker 1: rate the level of confidence they have in various institutions.
Speaker 1: When it came to TV news, just four percent said
Speaker 1: they had a great deal of trust, while more than
Speaker 1: half fifty two percent said they had very little trust.
Speaker 1: Another fourteen percent said they had quite a lot. Thirty
Speaker 1: percent said they had just some. So trust in what
Speaker 1: you see on TV, trust in what you read in
Speaker 1: the newspapers not that great right now, and it hasn't
Speaker 1: been for a long time. I think one of the
Speaker 1: reasons is because of people like Nicole Wallace and well
Speaker 1: may I mean maybe even people like me. Look, I
Speaker 1: get some stuff wrong once in a while, but we're
Speaker 1: talking really more about news outlets. And so Nicole Wallace
Speaker 1: is on MSNBC. She also has a podcast, and she
Speaker 1: was on with the Governor of Illinois a day or
Speaker 1: so ago, J. D. Pritzker, and they were talking about
Speaker 1: Trump and Nazis. And you might have heard this by now,
Speaker 1: but for those who haven't heard it, let's let's take
Speaker 1: a little review of what that fat slab Pritzker had
Speaker 1: to say with Nicole Wallace on her podcast Cut One.
Speaker 8: I haven't suggested that that Donald Trump is hitler. I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I don't think any Democrat has.
Speaker 9: I actually and I and I think it's a it's
Speaker 9: a smear that they project back on to critics.
Speaker 1: But I JD.
Speaker 9: Vance called Donald Trump cultural heroin. He called him America's Hitler.
Speaker 9: I mean the the attacks on Donald Trump as a
Speaker 9: fascist came from three generals who worked for him.
Speaker 1: Wallace brutal crit Okay, that's Nicole Wallace says, I don't
Speaker 1: think any Democrats have Well, As I mentioned, Nicole Wallace
Speaker 1: has a show on MSNBC. What we've got here is
Speaker 1: two and a half minutes of guests, Democrats, talking heads, pundits,
Speaker 1: those on the left calling Trump hitler cut number two.
Speaker 8: I haven't suggested that Donald Trump is Hitler. I wouldn't.
Speaker 9: I don't think any Democrat has. I actually, and I
Speaker 9: think it's a it's a smear that they project back
Speaker 9: on to critics. What is the natural extension justin if
Speaker 9: he pursues this to Harvard and beyond.
Speaker 10: It was an authoritarian leader several decades back called Olf Hitler.
Speaker 7: Hitler came to power and the scientist left.
Speaker 9: The military survive in that climate, the same.
Speaker 11: Way that it happened in Russia with Stalin the same
Speaker 11: way it happened with Hitler. Eventually, you get generals and
Speaker 11: admirals that are in there that only tell the leader
Speaker 11: what he or she wants to hear, to the extent that.
Speaker 9: The rule of law, and an assault on the rule
Speaker 9: of law was an obscure, intangible thing. We're now seeing
Speaker 9: it in action.
Speaker 10: If you look back in history, you can see very
Speaker 10: similar parallels taking place that took place in other countries
Speaker 10: that really went down that authoritarian road, including in pre
Speaker 10: World War II Nazi Germany, when Hitler and Nazi officials
Speaker 10: basically took over Frankfort University, which was the bastion of
Speaker 10: independent thoughts and progressive thinking and independent thinking, which is
Speaker 10: what Hitler didn't want.
Speaker 8: And so again, this is what authoritarians do.
Speaker 10: They try to control all of the aspects of social life.
Speaker 12: When Trump talks about peace and Putin talks about peace,
Speaker 12: it's autocrats getting their way, that's it. And muss Leni
Speaker 12: and Hitler said they were being the purveyors of peace.
Speaker 1: All right, I got the idea. But guest after guest
Speaker 1: after guests on MSNBC and Nicole Wallace's show has said
Speaker 1: made this comparison of Trump being Hitler, But she said,
Speaker 1: I don't think any Democrats had Well, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the reasons I think that people have such a
Speaker 1: low a low opinion of what they hear on the
Speaker 1: news is because people like Nicole Wallace just that they
Speaker 1: just don't pay attention very well. They live in there,
Speaker 1: they live in their own, their own sort of world,
Speaker 1: and they don't pay attention. So here's a few democrats
Speaker 1: I found. And look, this didn't take very long. This
Speaker 1: was this, it was it was time to consider me
Speaker 1: because I gotta I gotta put it on the thing.
Speaker 1: I got to send it to Joe, he's got to
Speaker 1: download it.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: This didn't take very long to find democrats who have
Speaker 1: compared Trump to Hitler. And maybe you know you you
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong, but we've got one here
Speaker 1: from someone named Hillary Clinton. I think Hillary is a Democrat.
Speaker 1: Here's what she had to say about Trump and Hitler.
Speaker 1: Cut three.
Speaker 13: People would get legitimately elected, and then they would try
Speaker 13: to do away with elections, and do away with opposition,
Speaker 13: and do away with a free press. And you could
Speaker 13: see it in countries where well Hitler was duly elected, right,
Speaker 13: and so all of a sudden, somebody with those tendencies,
Speaker 13: though dictatorial authoritarian tendencies, would be like, Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 13: shut this down. We're going to throw these people in jail.
Speaker 13: And they didn't usually telegraph that Trump is telling us
Speaker 13: what he.
Speaker 6: Intends to do.
Speaker 1: That was Hillary on the View, and she apparently likes
Speaker 1: talking a lot about Trump being hitler. Here she is
Speaker 1: on CNN, cut number four.
Speaker 13: And you know one other thing that you'll see next week, Caitlin,
Speaker 13: is Trump actually re enacting the Madison Square Garden rally
Speaker 13: in nineteen thirty nine. I write about this in my book.
Speaker 13: President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo Nazis fascists in
Speaker 13: America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for
Speaker 13: the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany.
Speaker 13: So I don't think we can ignore it.
Speaker 1: So there you go. There's a Hillary Clinton. She's a Democrat.
Speaker 1: Nicole Wallace hasn't heard of any Democrats who refer to
Speaker 1: Trump as hitler. Here's another one, Kamala Harris, cut number six.
Speaker 1: And let's be.
Speaker 14: Clear about who he considers to be the enemy from within.
Speaker 14: Anyone who refuses to bend a knee or dares to
Speaker 14: criticize him would qualify in his mind as the enemy within,
Speaker 14: like judges, like journalists, like nonpartisan election officials. It is
Speaker 14: deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke
Speaker 14: Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths
Speaker 14: of six million Jews. Oh, she's so hundreds of thousands of.
Speaker 1: Americans, man, were so lucky that she's still out there. Further,
Speaker 1: try and turn that off. That's enough of that and
Speaker 1: believe that imbecile. So there was Kamala Harris, She's a Democrat.
Speaker 1: But Nicole Wallace hasn't heard of any Democrats who referred
Speaker 1: to Trump as Hitler? What about what about the guy
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris used to work for? Joe Biden? Did he
Speaker 1: ever call Trump Hitler? I don't know. Let's hear cut
Speaker 1: number seven.
Speaker 8: He calls those who are opposed Verbin.
Speaker 7: He talks about the blood of America is being poisoned.
Speaker 12: That going the same exact language used in Nazi Germany.
Speaker 1: Well, he didn't say Hitler, but he did say Nazi Germany.
Speaker 1: So I think you get the idea. He's very clever,
Speaker 1: very smart. You know, Joe Piden. What about another Democrat? Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. What about Nancy Pelosi? Did she ever
Speaker 1: say Trump was Hitler? Let's hear cut number eighth.
Speaker 15: But we have we just have to win this election
Speaker 15: because he's even predicting a blood bath. What does that
Speaker 15: mean He's going to exact a bloodbath? There's something wrong here.
Speaker 15: How respectful I am of the American people and their goodness,
Speaker 15: but how much more do they have to see from
Speaker 15: him to understand that this isn't what our country is about.
Speaker 15: Praising Hitler, praising the Russians.
Speaker 1: Yes, honestly, honest.
Speaker 15: Condemning our soldiers.
Speaker 1: Ye yeah, fine, that's enough of that. There's Nancy Pelosi honestly, honestly,
Speaker 1: just like Hitler. But no Democrats ever ever really called
Speaker 1: Trump Hitler. Obama was very clever in the way that
Speaker 1: he did it. Is Obama a Democrat? Joe Waddell? Is
Speaker 1: Obama a Democrat? I think he is. Let's hear cut
Speaker 1: Number nine.
Speaker 16: General John Kelley, Donald Trump's former chief of staff, said
Speaker 16: that Trump told him he wanted his generals to be
Speaker 16: like Hitler's general.
Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, just like Butler. Don't boom huh.
Speaker 16: Now, I want to explain that in politics, a good
Speaker 16: rule of thumb is don't say you want to do
Speaker 16: anything like Hitler.
Speaker 1: Ah, there's Obama. He's a smart one too, isn't he.
Speaker 1: So you got Kamala, you got Obama, you got Biden.
Speaker 1: Look Nicole Wallace hasn't heard any Democrats saying that Trump
Speaker 1: is like Hitler. No, he hasn't heard that at all.
Speaker 1: What about what about he took him there? He's on
Speaker 1: that oligarch thing right now, Bernie Sanders, but he doesn't
Speaker 1: like Oligarks and apparently he doesn't like Trump either. What
Speaker 1: about Bernie Sanders? Did he ever call Trump Hitler? Let's
Speaker 1: hear cut number ten. But also we cannot wait.
Speaker 17: We have to have mass protests, mobilization and disruption. Is
Speaker 17: that what it's going to take, because again there's five
Speaker 17: hundred and twenty more days. We've got five more of
Speaker 17: what we just went through before even we get to
Speaker 17: cast a single vote.
Speaker 18: Look, we have got to use the answer is yes,
Speaker 18: and we have got to use all of the tools
Speaker 18: that we can in Congress and out on the streets.
Speaker 18: The truth of the matter is, I don't care if
Speaker 18: you are a conservative, Republican or a progressive as I am,
Speaker 18: you do not believe I mean, you just stop and
Speaker 18: think about it. Think about the men and women who
Speaker 18: fought and died against Hitler, fort and died against fascism,
Speaker 18: fought and died to defend American democracy, And I think
Speaker 18: the vast majority of the American people, regardless of the ideology,
Speaker 18: are not and cannot and must not sit back and
Speaker 18: allow us to move into an authoritarian type society where
Speaker 18: people get picked up off the streets and put.
Speaker 8: In detention centers.
Speaker 19: Really in the United States of America, really where the
Speaker 19: constitution is undermind, where you have a president suing the media,
Speaker 19: maybe Trump will see you. Mike didn't like the questions
Speaker 19: you asked me intimidating a second with Leu's edit that
Speaker 19: part out.
Speaker 1: So there you go. So there's Bernie Sanders and he
Speaker 1: likes to talk about Trump and the Trump administration and
Speaker 1: ICE going and taking people off the streets and what
Speaker 1: kind of people are they just taking off the streets. Well,
Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security has put out some numbers
Speaker 1: on that and they tell they say Immigration and Customs
Speaker 1: Enforcement ICE continue to arrest the worst of the worst
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants despite the government shutdown. Latest arrest includes illegals
Speaker 1: who have been convicted of crimes such as loud and
Speaker 1: uh the civit I should be able to pronounce this word,
Speaker 1: lascivious acts on a minor aggravated criminal sexual assault, and
Speaker 1: bodily harm, aggravated kidnapping, possession with intent to distribute. A
Speaker 1: Cuban of illegal was arrested in Florida, convicted of loot
Speaker 1: and lascivious acts on a minor criminal. Illegal migrant from
Speaker 1: Mexico convicted of aggravated criminal of sexual assault with bodily
Speaker 1: harm UH and aggravated kidnapping in Illinois. Nothing, not even
Speaker 1: Democrat government shutdown will slow us down from the arrests
Speaker 1: of the worst of the worst. Sad Tricia McLaughlin, the
Speaker 1: Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Another illegal
Speaker 1: migrant from Mexico identified as Adam Martinez Gonzalez arrested in Texas,
Speaker 1: convicted of aggravated kidnapping, convicted already, this already been convicted.
Speaker 1: And Bernie Sanders and all these leftists want to complain about, oh,
Speaker 1: the people being taken off the streets. No, these are
Speaker 1: illegal aliens who have committed crimes, and they are still
Speaker 1: rounding them up. The arrest come despite the government shut down.
Speaker 1: What's been an effects since October first, and you know
Speaker 1: the rest of that story. And then I saw another
Speaker 1: piece where they talk about their goal is to have
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand deportations. The Department of Homeland Security has
Speaker 1: deported five hundred and twenty seven thousand illegals illegal aliens
Speaker 1: since the start of the mass deportation program the According
Speaker 1: to the Secretary of Christy Nome, the administration expects to
Speaker 1: reach a total of six hundred thousand by the end
Speaker 1: of the year. Trump administration's on pace to shatter historic
Speaker 1: records deport nearly six hundred thousand illegals by the end
Speaker 1: of President Trump's first year in office. Fisher McLaughlin said
Speaker 1: more than two million illegals have already left the US
Speaker 1: on their own, including one point six who voluntarily self deported.
Speaker 1: And it's just the beginning. They say they got a
Speaker 1: lot more to go. And I'm seeing a lot more
Speaker 1: of these videos now with these truck drivers who can't
Speaker 1: read English out there on the roads. Saw one today
Speaker 1: with the dude and I think it was in Arizona.
Speaker 1: The video is too long to The video is like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, fifteen minutes long. But you see this
Speaker 1: cop walking up to this dude in the truck. Hey, buddy,
Speaker 1: put some pants on. Put some pants on. What are
Speaker 1: you doing parking here? The guy can't can't speak English,
Speaker 1: can't read English. The police officer shows him a series
Speaker 1: of street signs, couldn't identify him. Doesn't speak English. And
Speaker 1: we've been talking to Kevin Gordon from ATN about that,
Speaker 1: and they're all over the place. So Nicole Wallace says,
Speaker 1: Democrats don't call Trump a Nazi, hasn't heard of any
Speaker 1: of that before. Well, I just played a bunch of
Speaker 1: them who did, including Obama, Biden, and Kula and Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: including Nancy Pelosi. Not just some low level, low life
Speaker 1: Democrats somewhere. These are the leading Democrats and they've all
Speaker 1: done it. Nicole Wallace needs to pay attention. It's eleven
Speaker 1: twenty five. We got to get to a break. Dan
Speaker 1: Carroll seven hundred WLW al right back on the Big One,
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Speaker 1: till midnight tonight five point three seven four nine seven
Speaker 1: eight hundred The big One, Donald Trump is a meeting
Speaker 1: with China's leader Jizin paying at the moment, so he
Speaker 1: was that that meeting took place a little bit earlier tonight,
Speaker 1: or at least the initial meeting. Did I think they're
Speaker 1: having they're talking about the rare, not the rare stuff,
Speaker 1: but serious stuff right now. And I mean it is
Speaker 1: amazing what Trump is accomplishing on this on this mission.
Speaker 1: I saw some video earlier today when Biden went to
Speaker 1: Japan came home with nothing, absolutely nothing. This is the deal,
Speaker 1: the billions of dollars and the deal that went down
Speaker 1: between the Republic of Korea, South Korea and the White
Speaker 1: House in the United States. Today, President Trump completed the
Speaker 1: final stop of his Indo Pacific trip, securing billions and
Speaker 1: landmark deals while visiting the Republic of Korea, including initiatives
Speaker 1: to support American jobs, further American energy dominance, promote American
Speaker 1: leadership and technology, and to build our maritime partnership. Korea
Speaker 1: Air Or purchased one hundred and three new Boeing aircraft
Speaker 1: thirty six point two billion dollars. It'll help support up
Speaker 1: to one hundred and thirty five thousand jobs in the
Speaker 1: United States. The aircraft are going to be powered by
Speaker 1: ge Aerospace engines. That's a separate deal worth almost fourteen
Speaker 1: billion dollars. The Republic of Korea Air Force selected L
Speaker 1: three Harris Technologies to develop a new airborne warning and
Speaker 1: control aircraft. That's a two point three billion dollar deal,
Speaker 1: and the list goes on. Korean Gas Corporation signed an
Speaker 1: agreement to purchase three point three million tons of LNG
Speaker 1: liquid natural gas via a long term agreement. Centrist Energy
Speaker 1: Corporation and Pasco International Corporation agreed to support the expansion
Speaker 1: of their uranium enrichment capacity in Pike to Ohio. Three
Speaker 1: thousand jobs right there, and it goes it just it's
Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. Amazon is going to invest five billion dollars
Speaker 1: through twenty thirty one to build Korea's cloud infrastructure, helping
Speaker 1: drive US exports in American AI leadership. What else? Hundai
Speaker 1: and their capital management partner is going to invest five
Speaker 1: billion dollars to modernize American shipbuilding yards and strength and
Speaker 1: supply chains. Hey, this guy is absolutely amazing the kind
Speaker 1: of stuff that Trump is bringing home from this trip.
Speaker 1: Trump signed an agreement with Japan on Monday to ramp
Speaker 1: up cooperation in the process of critical minerals and rare
Speaker 1: earth materials, underscoring a major priority of his trip to Asia.
Speaker 1: Trump and the Japanese Prime Minister Sanatak Takichi signed off
Speaker 1: on the agreement. It outlines how the two countries are
Speaker 1: intensifying their cooperative efforts. The Critical Minerals Agreement states of
Speaker 1: two countries will provide financial support for mining projects within
Speaker 1: the next six months. Critical minerals are used in electronics
Speaker 1: and all kinds of day to day products. The Critical
Speaker 1: Minerals signing with Japan comes two days after the US
Speaker 1: signed an agreement with Thailand and Cambodia and Malaysia outlining
Speaker 1: cooperation on the process of exporting critical minerals. So you
Speaker 1: saw the video that was I believe Malaysia was the
Speaker 1: first trip or the first the first leg of this trip,
Speaker 1: and Trump got off the airplane there in Malaysia and
Speaker 1: there was a whole bunch of people there and they
Speaker 1: were doing a dance and Trump is right there on
Speaker 1: the time reck having a great time just dancing with him.
Speaker 1: And I saw a lot of criticism from a Keem
Speaker 1: Jefferies and others talking about how Trump shouldn't be doing
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, that he ought to be there
Speaker 1: in Washington with them talking about the government shutdown. Well,
Speaker 1: Trump is doing business. And this deal on the rare
Speaker 1: earth comes right before the meeting with China Xijingping, and
Speaker 1: what does that do that puts Trump in America even
Speaker 1: in a stronger position to deal with China, because China
Speaker 1: dominates the rare earth market at the moment. But now
Speaker 1: that the US has these deals in their back pocket,
Speaker 1: they can negotiate more effectively with China, and Trump can
Speaker 1: get exactly what he wants out of China. And I
Speaker 1: will not be surprised we don't see a major announcement tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Oh well, will not be surprised at all if that happens.
Speaker 1: So here's Trump when he went to speaking in South
Speaker 1: Korea a little bit earlier today. And the guys out there,
Speaker 1: he's having a great time. He's meeting all these leaders.
Speaker 1: And here's what he said when he was in South
Speaker 1: Korea a little bit earlier today, Cut number eleven.
Speaker 20: The Republic of Korea is a cherished American friend and
Speaker 20: a close ally.
Speaker 1: And as we.
Speaker 20: Can see in this beautiful city, it's truly one of
Speaker 20: the most remarkable nations anywhere on Earth. Here in this peninsula,
Speaker 20: the people of South Korea have forged a miracle of
Speaker 20: economic development like you rarely see, an industrial and technological powerhouse,
Speaker 20: and above all, a free society and enduring democracy and
Speaker 20: a thriving civilization.
Speaker 1: And I want to congratulate you. Very few places like it.
Speaker 20: The entire world should be inspired by all that you
Speaker 20: have achieved, and they study you and they do so
Speaker 20: much to understand what you've done, but most of them
Speaker 20: don't get it.
Speaker 1: And it's probably good for you keep it this way.
Speaker 1: So there you go. There's Trump in South Korea making
Speaker 1: a great speech. But if you remember, it wasn't all
Speaker 1: that long ago when Kamala Harris was the one who
Speaker 1: was representing the United States in South Korea. Anyone remember
Speaker 1: what she said when she was there. Anyone remember the
Speaker 1: great technological deals that she came home with. No, what
Speaker 1: we remember is this idiot of a vice president that
Speaker 1: we had when she's spoke these inspiring words about our
Speaker 1: friends in South Korea. What's your cut number twelve?
Speaker 8: Please?
Speaker 14: So the United States shares a very important relationship, which
Speaker 14: is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, and it is an alliance that is strong
Speaker 8: and enduring.
Speaker 1: Oh, strong and enduring. That great alliance with North Korea
Speaker 1: is just a slight difference there, just a slight difference
Speaker 1: between the two administrations and what they're doing. And so
Speaker 1: Trump is over there, and I guess Cambodia and Thailand,
Speaker 1: I guess we're having problems. And Trump settled things there,
Speaker 1: and it's got that deal with Malaysia. Now, got to
Speaker 1: deal with South Korea, Gotta deal with Japan. All this
Speaker 1: stuff is happening. Anyone remember any of that happening when
Speaker 1: Biden was president, when Biden would take these trips. I
Speaker 1: saw the video today from UH. I think he took
Speaker 1: a trip to Africa, and these guys are They're sitting
Speaker 1: at a table and and some of these African leaders
Speaker 1: are reading off the about the you know, the cooperation
Speaker 1: and how great it is they have their great relationship
Speaker 1: with the United States. And and Biden is there just
Speaker 1: and he is he is out. I mean, just just
Speaker 1: sound asleep. Big difference, just a huge difference between what
Speaker 1: we see with this administration and what we see with
Speaker 1: the with the other administration. Absolutely unbelievable. What else, what else?
Speaker 1: What else? The Wuhan, the effects of the Wuhan are
Speaker 1: still out there. There's a study that shows listen, ninety
Speaker 1: one percent, listen to this, ninety one percent of patients
Speaker 1: show cardiovascular side effects from the MODERNA vaccine. Ninety one
Speaker 1: percent from the moment the COVID vaccines were released, the
Speaker 1: public was gas lit about their safety and efficacy. Many
Speaker 1: of the claims were pure bs, such as the claim
Speaker 1: that recipients of the vaccine couldn't contract or transmit the virus.
Speaker 1: The former was not evident in the original studies, turned
Speaker 1: out to be the opposite that turned out to be
Speaker 1: the opposite of the truth, and latter claim that was
Speaker 1: never even tested. So this, this was the MODERNA vaccine.
Speaker 1: Let me so, I'm trying to let's see the uh.
Speaker 1: Let mean, the longer the vaccines have been around, the
Speaker 1: more evidence suggests that they are far more dangerous than advertised,
Speaker 1: and that will be discovering new problems for years to come.
Speaker 1: So they studied these patients who had the MODERNA vaccine.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you if yeah, how are you feeling
Speaker 1: right now? If you got you took those vaccines, you
Speaker 1: thought you were doing what was right. The government was
Speaker 1: telling you what to do, take the vaccine. What I saw.
Speaker 1: I saw someone posted the other day that they're on
Speaker 1: their seventh, their seventh vaccine or their seventh wuhan vaccine already.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely unbelievable. So and then I mean, just the
Speaker 1: government just completely out of control when it came to
Speaker 1: the Wuhan ninety have some kind of cardivent, cardiovascular side
Speaker 1: effect with this, and I never got it, never took it,
Speaker 1: never took the vaccine, and I am I'm glad I didn't.
Speaker 1: We heard Nancy Pelosi earlier talking about Trump and how
Speaker 1: she compared him to Hitler. She was on another event
Speaker 1: this week and she was reflecting on the wonderful demonstrations
Speaker 1: that we saw over the weekend about no kings. That
Speaker 1: was the end, all that was was. That was the
Speaker 1: other thing in South Korea. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw this, but Trump has been trolling people with all
Speaker 1: this talk about running for a third he said on
Speaker 1: Air Force One. He was talking with the reporters and
Speaker 1: they were asking him about a third term, and so
Speaker 1: instead of he may be done with the troll at
Speaker 1: least for the time being, because he's just been playing
Speaker 1: the left in the media and bloat like a fiddle
Speaker 1: with this thing suggesting that he might hang around for
Speaker 1: a third term. And he said something that made a
Speaker 1: reference to the Constitution, and he said, yeah, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure I can't run for the third term. So he
Speaker 1: may be ready to move on from that. But he
Speaker 1: had the leader in South Korea give Trump a couple
Speaker 1: of gifts today and one was actually a crown, So
Speaker 1: they were getting in on the jokes too, kind of
Speaker 1: giving it to all the all the people who wanted
Speaker 1: to cry about Trump being a king. That's why we
Speaker 1: had the No Kings rally. But Nancy Pelosi said that,
Speaker 1: you know what, whatever you thought of that No King's
Speaker 1: rally that we had last weekend, you might have been
Speaker 1: wrong about what it was really all about. And here
Speaker 1: she is breaking it down. Cut number fourteen, Joe.
Speaker 15: Because I see the Democrats every day. You saw a
Speaker 15: march that was not political, and the value of it
Speaker 15: was that it wasn't political No King's Day. It was spontaneous, organic,
Speaker 15: but everybody, everybody was there, and that's what's important is
Speaker 15: what are the people thinking, what are they hopeful about,
Speaker 15: what are they willing to get out.
Speaker 1: The vote for? Surprised she didn't say anything about the children,
Speaker 1: because with her, it's all about the children. But of
Speaker 1: course the No King's rally was not political, according to
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelos, just spontaneous, just a bunch of great amount
Speaker 1: of Americans saying, you know what, let's go out there
Speaker 1: and exercise our First Amendment rights, and we'll do it
Speaker 1: under the banner of no Kings. Because I didn't see
Speaker 1: anyone at all attacking Trump. I didn't see anyone at
Speaker 1: all mocking Charlie Kirk and the assassination. No, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't see anyone. I didn't see that. I didn't
Speaker 1: go to a No King's rally, but I looked at
Speaker 1: the video. I talked about it on this radio show.
Speaker 1: I didn't, I don't. I didn't see any political activity
Speaker 1: at all. Nancy Pelosi, that wasn't political. God, the gaslighting continues,
Speaker 1: absolutely unbelievable. So now we know that the Biden administration,
Speaker 1: the ones closest to him in the White House, knew
Speaker 1: full well they were lying to us about the cognitive decline,
Speaker 1: and Nancy Pelosi is still playing that card. Look, I
Speaker 1: know you saw the No King's rally. I saw you,
Speaker 1: saw all the speeches being made. I told you. The
Speaker 1: first is the first speech I saw when I turned
Speaker 1: that on was Randy Weingerten, the president of the American
Speaker 1: Federation of Teachers, and she went on and on. I
Speaker 1: probably saw about ten minutes of her speech, and all
Speaker 1: she did was attack Trump. Nothing political about it, though
Speaker 1: she didn't you know, didn't say anything about the kids,
Speaker 1: wasn't concerned about the teachers, wasn't concerned about anything like that.
Speaker 1: She was concerned about consolidating power for herself and her teachers' union,
Speaker 1: not for the kids or the teachers, but for you know,
Speaker 1: her and her friends, because their grip on power is
Speaker 1: being threatened under Trump, and god knows what. We can't
Speaker 1: have them lose their grip on power. One of the
Speaker 1: worst things that happened. But and according to Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: none of that is political. That's just that's just grassroots
Speaker 1: as it gets. Timothy Mellon, who is a billionaire, has
Speaker 1: been identified as the anonymous owner who stepped forward with
Speaker 1: a massive one hundred and thirty million dollar gift that
Speaker 1: covers the salaries of US military personnel during the government shutdown.
Speaker 1: Shutdown began when Congress failed to pass approach appropriations legislation.
Speaker 1: Central services continue, but non essential operations have halted. And
Speaker 1: so when it comes to paying the military, this dude,
Speaker 1: Timothy Mellon, eighty three years old, said to be worth
Speaker 1: fourteen billion dollars. I said, you know what, here's one
Speaker 1: hundred and what is it, one hundred and thirteen. Seems
Speaker 1: like you might need more than that one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars to pay those military salaries. I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. That's it for me. I got to
Speaker 1: get out of here. I had a great night tonight.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. We are back tomorrow
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Speaker 1: I hope you can hang around for that until then.
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