Speaker 1: All right, seven hundred WLW. It's nine Thanksgiving Eve.
Speaker 2: I'm Dan Carroll.
Speaker 1: This is the Wednesday night edition of the Midweek Crisis.
Speaker 1: We'd like to call the show We Go till Midnight
Speaker 1: tonight and Man terrible loss for you see no way
Speaker 1: to sugarcoat that one Eastern Michigan. West Miller not very
Speaker 1: happy after the after the debacle at the fifth third
Speaker 1: Center tonight. So we'll see what happens with the Bearcats
Speaker 1: down the road. But I am very glad as always
Speaker 1: to welcome in my first guest tonight. Kevin Aldridge is
Speaker 1: the opinion editor at the Cincinnati Inquirer, and Kevin Aldridge
Speaker 1: is great to have you on the show.
Speaker 3: How are you tonight, Dan, Always a pleasure to talk
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 2: How you doing.
Speaker 1: I'm great. I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: But there's going to be sort of a dark cloud
Speaker 1: over this Thanksgiving Giving, the events that have unfolded in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. With a couple of National Guard members shot
Speaker 1: and apparently clinging to life at this moment. Let me
Speaker 1: have your reaction to those events in d C today.
Speaker 1: This is sure I think to reignite again the debate
Speaker 1: over migration in this country, whether you're.
Speaker 2: Here illegally illegally.
Speaker 1: Again, the rhetoric that we hear are political rhetoric surrounding
Speaker 1: what federal agents are doing, what National Guard units are doing,
Speaker 1: what is going on to try in and combat violence
Speaker 1: in cities like d C, like Chicago, like New York.
Speaker 1: Give me your thoughts on the events that are unfolding
Speaker 1: as we speak.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think the first thing that you know
Speaker 3: needs to be said is prayers need to go up
Speaker 3: for these two National Guard members as well as their families,
Speaker 3: and we pray that you know that that they're able
Speaker 3: to recover and that the worst doesn't happen in this situation.
Speaker 3: And I think you know, we we all have to
Speaker 3: unequivocally denounce violence like this. There can be no equivocation
Speaker 3: or no it's ands or butts to it. I mean,
Speaker 3: we have to we have to denounce it. We have
Speaker 3: to say it's unacceptable, and we have to call on
Speaker 3: each other to be better, to to support law enforcement
Speaker 3: and and try to get you know, these types of
Speaker 3: individuals who will commit these types of crimes off our streets.
Speaker 3: But I think we also have to resist the temptation
Speaker 3: to try to politicize these incidents, Dan, because I think
Speaker 3: that's that's part of the problem.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, there there will.
Speaker 3: Be some people who will say because apparently this is
Speaker 3: a targeted attack, and I don't know if this is
Speaker 3: in response to you know, President Trump deploying National Guard
Speaker 3: members to these cities to to fight crime, and a
Speaker 3: lot of people think that that is that that move
Speaker 3: in and of itself was a was a political move.
Speaker 3: And and I just think the issue of crime is
Speaker 3: too serious, whether we're talking about here in Cincinnati or
Speaker 3: in the nation's capital or anywhere in the country for
Speaker 3: us to try to to to politicize these issues. And
Speaker 3: I think it's not good for law enforcement, it's not
Speaker 3: good for law abiding.
Speaker 2: Citizens in this country.
Speaker 3: And I just think we've got to find a way
Speaker 3: to talk about these these very serious issues of crime,
Speaker 3: which we can't act like don't exist, but deal with
Speaker 3: them in a way that is that is constructive, that
Speaker 3: allows people to get due process and and you know,
Speaker 3: protects all of our rights but also gets the worst
Speaker 3: elements off of our streets. And and I think we're
Speaker 3: smarter than we have been in terms of how we
Speaker 3: do with this, but we got to come out of
Speaker 3: the We got to come out of our political tribes,
Speaker 3: We got to come out of this nation and try
Speaker 3: to or try to come out of this division that
Speaker 3: we have in the nation and come up with some
Speaker 3: common sense solutions to this issue, because you know, we
Speaker 3: just can't continue to go on like this as a country.
Speaker 3: And it's definitely a tragedy and and you hate for
Speaker 3: something like this to happen anytime, but particularly right before.
Speaker 4: A holiday where you know, where.
Speaker 3: We celebrate what we're grateful for and thankful for and
Speaker 3: our freedoms in this country and other things.
Speaker 1: It's just saying, yeah, how many times have we heard
Speaker 1: this debate though, about cooling the rhetoric and you know,
Speaker 1: trying to elevate the level of our political discourse. And
Speaker 1: we get these lectures and we hear all these different
Speaker 1: politicians come out and pontificate, and then about a day
Speaker 1: goes by and we start here in the same terms
Speaker 1: nazi and brownshirt and fascist and all these terms being
Speaker 1: thrown out again. It seems like it we are quick
Speaker 1: to get back on that track, especially when we have
Speaker 1: a series of incidents like we're seeing right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think this is and I don't think
Speaker 3: this is exclusive to one side of the aisle, right,
Speaker 3: I think both sides do it. And one of the
Speaker 3: things that I've been critical of a lot of times
Speaker 3: when I write about these issues is leadership.
Speaker 2: You know, I believe that.
Speaker 3: It starts at the top, that it starts at the
Speaker 3: top with everybody, starting with our President, who I think
Speaker 3: we just have to admit, is not the It doesn't
Speaker 3: lay off the rhetoric himself or the hyperbole, and that
Speaker 3: doesn't help it that it comes from the top levels
Speaker 3: of our government, and then it trickles down. I mean
Speaker 3: that that doesn't exempt any member of Congress, Republican or
Speaker 3: Democrat from engaging in the same kind of hyperbolic rhetoric
Speaker 3: that doesn't do anything but further devis us. And I
Speaker 3: really feel like our leaders have to have cooler heads,
Speaker 3: they have to be smarter, they have to choose their
Speaker 3: words wisely.
Speaker 4: Dan, I think.
Speaker 3: About every word that I use, whether I'm writing it
Speaker 3: or whether I'm speaking to somebody. I think about what
Speaker 3: I want to say before I say it, and is
Speaker 3: it constructive or destructive to the conversation. And it just
Speaker 3: it pains me that our political leaders don't do that
Speaker 3: and instead of trying to appeal to the better angels
Speaker 3: of every American, I think they played to the lowest
Speaker 3: common denominator. They play to our biases, our fears, and prejudices,
Speaker 3: and that's just not good. Whether you're a Republican or
Speaker 3: a Democrat, it's got to start at the top. And
Speaker 3: then I also think each one of us bears the
Speaker 3: responsibility as well. You know, when Donald Trump first won
Speaker 3: the presidency, I wrote a piece that said, you know,
Speaker 3: it's not Trump, it's us. You know, Donald Trump can
Speaker 3: say whatever he wants to say if you don't like him,
Speaker 3: whether you like him or you don't like him, he
Speaker 3: doesn't control your social media fee, what you choose to
Speaker 3: put out, what you choose to say. And I always say,
Speaker 3: if you don't like the tone in this country, then
Speaker 3: you need to check your own see what kind of
Speaker 3: tone you're contributing to the conversation. So while I think
Speaker 3: it starts at the top, with all of our leaders
Speaker 3: starting at the very top, I think each one of
Speaker 3: us bears a responsibility to be responsible in our conversations
Speaker 3: as well and not get caught up in contributing to
Speaker 3: this negative discourse that's going on out there, and it's
Speaker 3: easy to do if you you know, I mean, if
Speaker 3: you follow any social media, and unfortunately I have to
Speaker 3: consume more of it than I would like because of
Speaker 3: what I do. You know, some of these spaces are
Speaker 3: just so toxic and so nasty. It's just it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: And you just want to think, like man, you want
Speaker 3: to think your fellow person is better than that. But
Speaker 3: if you spend too much time in social media, you
Speaker 3: start to wonder. But I tend to think that, you know,
Speaker 3: most of us want to try to get along, want
Speaker 3: to try to figure out the best solutions. And I
Speaker 3: think people who feel like that have to be more
Speaker 3: vocal in holding all of our leaders to account, not
Speaker 3: just the ones we don't like, but even the ones
Speaker 3: who are on our side, holding them more to account,
Speaker 3: to be more responsible.
Speaker 1: Well, that is very well said. Let me turn our
Speaker 1: attention to to local matters here now. And this is
Speaker 1: the first time you and I have talked since after
Speaker 1: the most recent election. And it was a day or
Speaker 1: so after the election. I asked Chris smithaman in the
Speaker 1: same question about a week or so ago, and it
Speaker 1: was a day or so after the election. There was
Speaker 1: some violence on Short Vine, a couple of different incidents there,
Speaker 1: and just a couple of days ago we had the
Speaker 1: Kroger up there in Coryville that had the windows shot out.
Speaker 1: We've got the issues going on with the Privy nightclub,
Speaker 1: and so I put a post out there and I
Speaker 1: asked Chris smitham in this, I said, I said, the
Speaker 1: voters of Cincinnati apparently won it this way because they
Speaker 1: have returned the exact same mayor, the exact same city
Speaker 1: council that really did not address crime in a serious way.
Speaker 1: They gave it some some lip service, you know, the
Speaker 1: ordinance that created a curfew that has so many holes
Speaker 1: in it you could drive a truck through it. And
Speaker 1: I asked Chris Smithman, I said, is that a fair
Speaker 1: comment that this is the way the voters of Cincinnati
Speaker 1: twenty nine point eight percent turnout? Just absolutely horrible when
Speaker 1: you talk about the turnout for the vote, but the
Speaker 1: people who vote in this town, the violent situation we
Speaker 1: have right now, I don't see why we have any
Speaker 1: any really concrete reason to believe that it's going to change.
Speaker 1: And apparently this is the way the voters want it.
Speaker 1: Is that a fair comment?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I don't think it's totally fair. I see how one
Speaker 3: would say that, right, because you elect pretty much all
Speaker 3: of the same council members, say, for one new one
Speaker 3: new gentleman who you know pretty much replaced Victoria Parks
Speaker 3: and was part of the Democratic ticket. There, I could
Speaker 3: see why one would say that. But here, here are
Speaker 3: a couple of things that I would say to look
Speaker 3: a little bit deeper at that. One, when we look
Speaker 3: at voter turnout, there's still a fraction of the people
Speaker 3: in Cincinnati who are registered to vote, who actually engage
Speaker 3: in the process of voting. And so I always hate
Speaker 3: that when I see that, because what it says is
Speaker 3: that there's a very small number or small percentage of
Speaker 3: residents of Cincinnati who pretty much decide how the rest
Speaker 3: of them live. You know, thirty percent of registered voters
Speaker 3: decide how the other seventy percent of the city is governed.
Speaker 2: And how they live.
Speaker 1: Now, that's a pitiful turnout for an important election like this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And so you know, one would say, well,
Speaker 3: you know, that's the fall of those who you know,
Speaker 3: who don't get out to vote, and and you know
Speaker 3: who knows why that's the case. Why you know that
Speaker 3: other seventy percent of so people don't don't show up
Speaker 3: to vote, and you know, you kind of get the
Speaker 3: government you deserve, as they say at that point, if
Speaker 3: you don't really engage in the process. The other thing
Speaker 3: I looked at was is that, you know, Cincinnati has been,
Speaker 3: you know, a blue city, and it seems to be
Speaker 3: getting deeper blue. And what I think really happened to
Speaker 3: some of the non Democratic candidates in this election is
Speaker 3: this was I think this election was as much a
Speaker 3: referendum on Trump and the national politics in Cincinnati and
Speaker 3: maybe in other parts of the country, then it says, hey,
Speaker 3: we're completely and totally okay with with the status quo.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, if you are if you live in
Speaker 3: Cincinnati and you're a blue city, and you know, I
Speaker 3: think I told you this before the election when you
Speaker 3: asked me if Corey Bowman, if I thought Corey Bowman
Speaker 3: had a chance to win, I told you no. And
Speaker 3: my percentages were probably pretty much right on.
Speaker 2: The money, right on the money on that one.
Speaker 1: I was I just hope I was holding out up
Speaker 1: a miracle might happen, but that it didn't work.
Speaker 3: Out that yeah, yeah, no. And and that's because I
Speaker 3: could kind of see coming what happened? And and I
Speaker 3: even wrote in my column afterwards that you know, and
Speaker 3: I wrote this to the mayor that he shouldn't mistake
Speaker 3: the landslide that he got as a love letter, because
Speaker 3: I think that if there had been and this would
Speaker 3: never happen, because the party is not going to run
Speaker 3: another Democrat against an incumbent unless there's you know, some
Speaker 3: rogue element of the party who just wanted to challenge him.
Speaker 5: But if but I think if he would have had.
Speaker 3: A a stronger, maybe democratic challenger or alternative, maybe a
Speaker 3: Democrat who was you know.
Speaker 2: A little bit more.
Speaker 3: You know, center left or something like that, with some
Speaker 3: different ideas and different approaches, he might have had a
Speaker 3: much harder time winning this election than he had against
Speaker 3: Corey Bowman in Cincinnati just wasn't going to elect a Republican,
Speaker 3: really any Republican, but particularly one that had such such
Speaker 3: close ties to JD. Vance and what is perceived as
Speaker 3: the Maga movement. I mean, you know, how many times
Speaker 3: did how many times did have to have say that
Speaker 3: in the debate that we hosted, did he bring up Maga,
Speaker 3: Maga Maggay.
Speaker 1: That was definitely part of the strategy well, Kevin Aldiens,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to leave it right there because we're
Speaker 1: short on time, all right, But as always I appreciate
Speaker 1: the thoughtful commentary. All the best to you and your
Speaker 1: family for a great Thanksgiving and we will be talking
Speaker 1: again soon, I certainly hope. But all the best to you,
Speaker 1: Kevin Aldridge and this everyone at the Inquiry and keep
Speaker 1: up the great work. And thanks again for being part
Speaker 1: of the show tonight. I always appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Hey, thanks the Happy Thanksgiving to you and.
Speaker 2: All your listeners.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Kevin Aldridge from the from
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Enquirer nine six at seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Seven hundred WLW. It is ten o eight.
Speaker 1: This is the Wednesday night edition of the Midweek Crisis
Speaker 1: on this Thanksgiving Eve. Glad to be here, Glad you
Speaker 1: are here as well. I'm Dan Carrol'll be here till
Speaker 1: midnight tonight and always great to welcome in.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite guests.
Speaker 1: That's my buddy Curtis house from NewsBusters dot org and Curtis,
Speaker 1: what does hey, what does Thanksgiving look like at the
Speaker 1: at the Curtis house household.
Speaker 5: Well, I just finished Thanksgiving with the in laws here
Speaker 5: well winded down. I'm finishing some the hot apple fighter here. Uh.
Speaker 5: We got a box of crayons that Denise's and nephew
Speaker 5: were playing with earlier, and we got to do a
Speaker 5: turkey trot in the morning. Dan the wife and I
Speaker 5: have to go run. So my wife was a d
Speaker 5: run track and cross country runner, so she wasn't gonna
Speaker 5: let me go Turkey Day without that. So so we
Speaker 5: got that to do.
Speaker 2: And I do not endvie you. I did not endvie
Speaker 2: you for that task.
Speaker 5: So I'll considering considering last year was about thirty five
Speaker 5: degrees and raining tomorrow thirty seven degrees in about fifty
Speaker 5: MinID hour winds. That's you know, that's Florida weather compared
Speaker 5: to what I dealt with the a year ago.
Speaker 1: That sounds like what we're going to have here for
Speaker 1: the for the big Turkey race tomorrow. But you've been
Speaker 1: busy today covering essentially from the moment this story broke
Speaker 1: in DC with a couple of National Guard members attacked
Speaker 1: in d C. Give give my listeners a flavor of
Speaker 1: the sort of coverage that has been coming from the
Speaker 1: CNNs and the MSNBC's and the cn C and ABC's
Speaker 1: of the World ever since his story broke.
Speaker 5: Well, the first thing I'll just say is, it is
Speaker 5: the Farragut West Metro station where the shooting took place.
Speaker 5: It's not a residential area, folks, look it up on
Speaker 5: Google Maps. It's right by the White House. It's right
Speaker 5: by Lafayette Park. Okay, if you've ever been to Washington,
Speaker 5: So it's very much a office park, office area. There
Speaker 5: might be some hotels, but not really a nightlife area.
Speaker 5: This isn't, like, you know, one of the areas that
Speaker 5: was a major focus of the President's surge of resources
Speaker 5: to cut down on crime, which makes it all the
Speaker 5: more tragic. But nonetheless, members of the National Guard have
Speaker 5: remained there since the summer, just making sure metro stations
Speaker 5: are safe. And I know for a fact personally just
Speaker 5: riding the metro to different events in Washington. It has
Speaker 5: been nice to just have a few of them overlooking
Speaker 5: the escalators, you know, at all times of the day.
Speaker 5: You know, this is what I'm thinking about. What I
Speaker 5: want to say here, Dan to you is this is
Speaker 5: another Charlie Kirk test. This was a very shocking, sudden story.
Speaker 5: The media's minds, we're not thinking about this kind of thing,
Speaker 5: not that you ever are, but you know, you know,
Speaker 5: a Dana news at this time of the year, in
Speaker 5: local news, the focus is travel, travel, travel, weather, weather, weather, right,
Speaker 5: and some football, And so this is the last thing
Speaker 5: that you're thinking about right now. And so what is
Speaker 5: your genuine reaction, you know, the thoughts and prayers, concern
Speaker 5: and how horrible this was another act of violence against
Speaker 5: people who defend our country and keep us safe. Or
Speaker 5: are you gonna do what MS now is Kendelanian did,
Speaker 5: which is kind of suggests that, you know, there's a
Speaker 5: lot of controversy in the United States with ice and
Speaker 5: you know, people wearing masks in uniforms. So there's a
Speaker 5: lot of Americans out there who object to that kind
Speaker 5: of thing. And so the shooting has happened. It's like,
Speaker 5: what what this was? At three o'clock Eastern time, just
Speaker 5: maybe twenty minutes after we first learned of the shooting,
Speaker 5: that's where this guy's mind went. We saw this on
Speaker 5: ABC News, we saw us on CBS, we saw this
Speaker 5: on CNN. People say, well, there's a lot of rhetoric
Speaker 5: in the country right now about immigration. There's a lot
Speaker 5: of you know, feelings about the president's immigration policies, even
Speaker 5: though we don't have any evidence. Of course, Dan, we're
Speaker 5: going to speculate anyway, because the cable news, if they've
Speaker 5: been watching it, speculation, they've.
Speaker 1: Been observing this from afar, not participating in it, just
Speaker 1: observing it, of course.
Speaker 5: Right, observing, Yes, neutral arbiters as they like to tell us, Dan.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's absolutely.
Speaker 1: But you know, I've I've been reading all the posts
Speaker 1: you put out on on your social media. I'm reading
Speaker 1: I've got the piece that you've got up on Newsbus
Speaker 1: right now on my computer, and it seems to me
Speaker 1: and you tell me if I'm wrong. But they operate
Speaker 1: from the baseline. Their baseline is when they when they
Speaker 1: cover an event like this or really any event that
Speaker 1: has to do with Trump, is that Trump is in
Speaker 1: the wrong. And in this case, he's in the wrong
Speaker 1: because he asked for National Guard members to be in
Speaker 1: our various cities in DC, yeah, in Portland, in Chicago.
Speaker 1: So this policy we all know. Their baseline is, we
Speaker 1: all know this policy is wrong, and the rest of
Speaker 1: our coverage is going to flow from that baseline.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if it weren't for you know, you guys are
Speaker 5: like triggering people out there that are unstable by surging
Speaker 5: law enforcement resources to high traffic areas. Like that logic
Speaker 5: is just so backwards. You know, it's the fault of
Speaker 5: the now National Guards. Then you know, it's the fall
Speaker 5: of the president that these National guardsmen were shot because
Speaker 5: he put them in a city that is opposed to them.
Speaker 5: Even though people are unders you know, non understanding or
Speaker 5: I don't be you know, crazy, people don't understand, as
Speaker 5: in a lot of liberals in Washington, that there's such
Speaker 5: a thing as a deterrent, you know that like putting
Speaker 5: these folks in in their uniform jackets. They're not there
Speaker 5: with their machine guns, they're not there with their tanks.
Speaker 5: They're just watching. They're very friendly. You know, they've been
Speaker 5: nothing but gracious. Other than maybe a fender bender incident.
Speaker 5: As far as I know, there hasn't been any problems
Speaker 5: with either the DC National Guard or any of the
Speaker 5: states that have deployed there. And so to suggest that,
Speaker 5: you know, while the President put them in this position
Speaker 5: and therefore it's the president's fault, just absolved the you know,
Speaker 5: this individual, this reported Afghan refugee, shout at Alu Lockbard.
Speaker 5: If any responsibility whatsoever. It absolves the Biden administration who
Speaker 5: allowed him into this country with very little vetting, any
Speaker 5: sort of responsibility. And if you're not doing that, you're
Speaker 5: like Andrew McCay on CNN who said, well, who knows,
Speaker 5: maybe these soldiers weren't properly trained, because you know, these
Speaker 5: guys aren't police officers. They don't up training how to
Speaker 5: respond to crazy people. Well, there's nothing really anybody can
Speaker 5: do if somebody comes up with a gun, you know,
Speaker 5: and maybe hits you from behind or shoots you from
Speaker 5: the middle of no or you don't expect someone to
Speaker 5: whip out a gun and shoot you in the head.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting phenomena that it's always the shooter who's
Speaker 1: the last one to get the blame in situations like this.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at Bill Malusion. There's no one who's
Speaker 1: covered the border or immigration issues better than Bill Mallusion.
Speaker 1: And he says, this guy came in afghan national entered
Speaker 1: the United States and September of twenty twenty one as
Speaker 1: part of the Biden op rac allies welcome in the
Speaker 1: aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. And then he writes,
Speaker 1: I'm told his permission to be in the US expired
Speaker 1: in September in this year, so technically he's in the
Speaker 1: country illegally, but that fact is very likely to not
Speaker 1: be included I think in the that will get from
Speaker 1: the major networks in this country.
Speaker 4: Correct, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: And the latest reporting about twenty minutes ago from NBCUS
Speaker 5: says that a suspects relative who served with him Afghanistan
Speaker 5: says the suspects has a wife and five children, but
Speaker 5: they haven't spoken to him in months and they don't
Speaker 5: know why he did this.
Speaker 6: Hm.
Speaker 5: Maybe if a guy goes a wall. Yeah, maybe something's
Speaker 5: going on here.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Well, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: We just gotta gotta pray for the National Guard members
Speaker 1: who are apparently clinging to life RelA of the circumstances.
Speaker 5: You know, there was a lot of confusion at one
Speaker 5: point with the governor. But either way, I mean, as
Speaker 5: the President said, I mean, I think this is why
Speaker 5: we have a commander in chief who doesn't mince words.
Speaker 5: Oh he called him an animal. Oh he said there's
Speaker 5: going to be hell to pay. Like yes, like of course,
Speaker 5: you know, like you want a president, you want someone
Speaker 5: to come out and lead with force. He's not jeopardizing
Speaker 5: any sort of investigation by talking about this. This guy
Speaker 5: is admitted to it. There's security camera footage of this.
Speaker 5: The guy was injured because he was taken down right away.
Speaker 5: I mean, the liberal media will continue to make excuses,
Speaker 5: as we've discussed here, but uh, you know, we'll stay
Speaker 5: on this one. But yet again, you have too many
Speaker 5: people that failed the Charlie Kirk test and show, and
Speaker 5: with their first instinct should have been compassion in this case,
Speaker 5: is looking to blame the victim. They're just doing the
Speaker 5: her skirt was too short, excuse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the good point.
Speaker 1: On another subject, I about a week or so ago,
Speaker 1: I saw I believe it was Rick Wilson, one of
Speaker 1: the founders of the uh the the Lincoln Project, and
Speaker 1: he was he was on whatever station he was on,
Speaker 1: and and he was he was laying out the narrative
Speaker 1: that Trump is mentally deficient, that he's mentally ill, that
Speaker 1: he he's not right in the head, that he that
Speaker 1: that he's a sick puppy. And I was I forget
Speaker 1: who I was talking to, but I said, this is
Speaker 1: this is the the next attack line for the for
Speaker 1: the Democrats and for the left in this country, and
Speaker 1: AOC was reciting these talking points yesterday. Here's AOC talking
Speaker 1: about this. Let's hear cut number five, Joe.
Speaker 6: To be honest, the president's remarks are I think indicate
Speaker 6: a level of instability. It's not just shocking, it's not
Speaker 6: just offensive. It's bizarre, it is it's erratic, it's volatile,
Speaker 6: and I think it indicates a mental state that we
Speaker 6: should all be questioning right now, whether that's emotional, mental,
Speaker 6: what have you. It is not normal to make these accusations.
Speaker 3: It is not normal to.
Speaker 6: Invoke these kinds of threats of violence. And it's also
Speaker 6: not normal to also dramatically misquote, as Carolyn Leavett was doing.
Speaker 6: What these members of Congress said.
Speaker 7: They made a.
Speaker 6: Very clear message to US service members, which is that
Speaker 6: you do not have to obey in illegal order. And
Speaker 6: I think that's an important message to reiterate because this
Speaker 6: administration seems to be increasingly trying to go down that path.
Speaker 1: So there you go, there's AOC, de facto leader of
Speaker 1: the Democrat Party taking the latest DNC talking points out
Speaker 1: for a walk that that Trump is mentally ill and
Speaker 1: the hand he's just not normal.
Speaker 2: So how much mileage. Will they get out of this narrative?
Speaker 5: Well, it seems like that's what they're going to do here.
Speaker 5: I mean, on the side note the service members saying
Speaker 5: is so pathetic. It's all it's so insinniary. We all
Speaker 5: know what they're doing. It's a linkuick, nudge, nudge, you know.
Speaker 5: We it's amazing when these people are actually asked. So
Speaker 5: what is in illegal order that the president has given
Speaker 5: a lot I don't know, men a fake movie. But
Speaker 5: you know, notice how it's all coordinated. Right now, Dan,
Speaker 5: you have the AOC saying that the New York Times
Speaker 5: put out a story that was thousands of words long
Speaker 5: that the President was going off about on true social
Speaker 5: going after Katie Rogers today about his cognitive state, you know,
Speaker 5: and axios is. Alex Thompson was talking about this is
Speaker 5: real concern now and the great Redski Stephen L. Miller
Speaker 5: put out on the X that you know, it's remarkable,
Speaker 5: this is so predictable.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: Now they're looking at themselves in the mirror saying, I'm
Speaker 5: not going to miss the story, you know, because that
Speaker 5: was the line that Alex Thompson said about all these
Speaker 5: subst we just missed the story. We just didn't get
Speaker 5: it right. We just didn't, you know, cover it with
Speaker 5: Joe Biden. But we're going to get it this time.
Speaker 2: Just missed it, okay, guy, you were.
Speaker 5: But don't worry, guys, We're not just a wheel this time.
Speaker 5: Give me a break. I mean, Scott Jennings made a
Speaker 5: great point his book is out talking about this, that
Speaker 5: he spends his time with the president. The president is
Speaker 5: fully in control, you know. I mean that's the thing.
Speaker 5: You know, when a decision is made by this administration,
Speaker 5: the president has made that decision, not Jake Sullivan or
Speaker 5: you know, Jeff Science or Kareem John Pierre or who
Speaker 5: else you know fill in the blank from the last regime.
Speaker 5: You know, the president has made that decision. But he
Speaker 5: doesn't just go into them. He asks a lot of questions.
Speaker 5: He presses, and you know, some might say pits people
Speaker 5: against each other, but that's kind of how it works,
Speaker 5: you know, versus the faculty lounge approach of Barack Obama,
Speaker 5: where he'd sit around and not be able to make
Speaker 5: a decision forever because he just enjoyed the idea of
Speaker 5: think about stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, Curtis out, we've got about two minutes left here.
Speaker 1: But uh, I and I almost pulled off the sound
Speaker 1: bite of Joy Reid and she's on this podcast with
Speaker 1: these two women. Uh, what is the deal with these
Speaker 1: two women that that are doing you? I don't I
Speaker 1: don't even know what it's called. We had It, I
Speaker 1: think is the name of the podcast. And uh and
Speaker 1: and I on my social media, I see this gal's
Speaker 1: picture and stuff that she's posting all the time. Why
Speaker 1: is she the hottest thing in social media and podcasting
Speaker 1: right now? Because he takes are idiotic devoid of any
Speaker 1: substance whatsoever. It's just it's just stuff she makes up
Speaker 1: off the top of her head. And I guess it's
Speaker 1: okay now. According to Joy Read, to attack other minorities
Speaker 1: like JD Vance's wife and uh and and and make
Speaker 1: fun of her heritage and her skin color, well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, to say that there's no way that jd as
Speaker 5: there's any chance in twenty twenty eight because Maga doesn't
Speaker 5: like brown people, you know. And to say that as
Speaker 5: Joy Reid did in these two crazy which is that
Speaker 5: that you know, it would be a Maga dream if
Speaker 5: shad Vance would divorce Usha Vance Kickers of the Curve
Speaker 5: in favor of Erica Kirk. I mean it's disgusting material.
Speaker 5: I mean, these these women Jennifer Welsh and Andie Sullivan
Speaker 5: with a weird niitty pump personify there the embodiment of liberal,
Speaker 5: white rich women who dominate the Democratic Party and are
Speaker 5: just devoid as any joy and enthusiasm in their life.
Speaker 5: These people are the quintessential you know, middle school bullies
Speaker 5: who are hiding behind a damn breaking level of insecurities.
Speaker 5: You know, they're leveling all these conspiracy theories. They say
Speaker 5: Trump's mental state, right Dan is the greatest media scandal ever.
Speaker 5: It's the greatest media cover up of all time. Excuse me,
Speaker 5: you know, and they say all kinds of things like this.
Speaker 5: I have a piece of news pumpings and I have
Speaker 5: one coming out tomorrow about more than they said over
Speaker 5: an entire hour podcast, and.
Speaker 8: Can you believe it?
Speaker 1: One of they have they seen what's going on in
Speaker 1: Minnesota lately? I mean, come on, you want to tell
Speaker 1: you want to talk about huge scandals. It's unbelievable. But
Speaker 1: Curtis help will have to leave it right there for now,
Speaker 1: because the time always flies by whenever you're on my friend.
Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate the time. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: answering the call when whenever I ask to have you
Speaker 1: on you you do such great work. And tell everyone
Speaker 1: over at NewsBusters I said, keep up the great work.
Speaker 1: And again, thank you for your time. And I hope
Speaker 1: you and yours have a great Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5: Absolutely happy Thanksgiving to you as well, Dan and everybody
Speaker 5: at w LW. You guys are one of the best.
Speaker 2: Go Bengals, Go Bengals.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens tomorrow night. Curtis here the best man.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again soon. Seven hundred WLW pright
Speaker 1: back on the Big one. Seven hundred WLW ten thirty
Speaker 1: seven phone lines are open for the first time tonight
Speaker 1: five one, three, seven, nine seven.
Speaker 2: One Big one.
Speaker 1: A couple of things I want to touch on before
Speaker 1: we get into another topic. I read the post today
Speaker 1: from the Hamilton Township Police Chief Scott Hughes that Officer
Speaker 1: Megan Graham passed away thirty one years old, had had
Speaker 1: a battle with cancer. And I can tell you that
Speaker 1: police department is feeling that loss very very deeply. And
Speaker 1: Chief Scott Hughes texted me earlier today and or we
Speaker 1: texted each other and he said she was she was
Speaker 1: far too young but recently married. Just a great professionalism,
Speaker 1: great courage. And so if you want to say an
Speaker 1: extra prayer tonight, saying one for everyone at the Hamilton
Speaker 1: Township Police and for Officer Megan Graham, that would be
Speaker 1: a good thing to do. I also might want to
Speaker 1: say a prayer for the one time Sheriff of Clairemont County.
Speaker 1: Tim Rodenberg. Been reading about his difficulties lately. He was
Speaker 1: in court Monday, been twenty.
Speaker 2: He was.
Speaker 1: Sheriff for twenty years in Claremont County. Before that, an
Speaker 1: assistant Clairemont County prosecutor, I worked with Tim, known him
Speaker 1: for a long time. At one point he was my
Speaker 1: go to guy for legal and law enforcement issues on
Speaker 1: this show. But I also know that he has had
Speaker 1: some chronic health issues for several years and ongoing, and
Speaker 1: I would not be surprised. I don't know this, but
Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if that had something to
Speaker 1: do with the incident that was reported on November eighteenth.
Speaker 1: According to the police report, shortly before seven thirty pm,
Speaker 1: Rodenberg was driving a Chrysler Pacific, a mini van on
Speaker 1: US fifteen near Walton Creek Road when he failed to
Speaker 1: maintain a safe distance for another vehicle and rear ended it,
Speaker 1: and then he allegedly fled the scene later located in
Speaker 1: Indian Hill on much more Road, and he was arrested
Speaker 1: transported the Jewish hospital. Has apparently given up his driver's license.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to say a little prayer for Tim
Speaker 1: Rodenberg tonight and hope that he gets things squared away.
Speaker 1: So all the best to him. Known to him for
Speaker 1: a long time and like him very much much another story.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought I was going to spend a
Speaker 1: lot of time, not a lot of time, but obviously
Speaker 1: sometime during the course of the show tonight talking about this.
Speaker 1: Of course, we've been talking about mostly for the first
Speaker 1: hour of the show after UC basketball after a terrible
Speaker 1: loss by UC basketball, Tonight spent the first hour of
Speaker 1: the show talking about what happened in DC today with
Speaker 1: a couple members of the National Guard out of West
Speaker 1: Virginia coming under attack by some dude from Afghanistan who
Speaker 1: may have come to the country legally initially under the
Speaker 1: Biden administration, but that legal protection ran out now in
Speaker 1: the country. According to Bill Mlusion the Fox News Now
Speaker 1: in the country illegally, and according to reports from the scene,
Speaker 1: this guy was yelling out lockbar when he shot and
Speaker 1: attacked these two members of the National Guard. So you've
Speaker 1: been spending time covering that breaking news. But there was
Speaker 1: more news during the day today and Fulton County District
Speaker 1: Attorney Fanny Willis the case that she brought against Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has officially come to an end. Jude Scott McAfee
Speaker 1: agreed to dismiss the racketeering case on Wednesday, when the
Speaker 1: prosecutor who inherited Willis's troubled effort to urged him to
Speaker 1: take it off life support. The political persecution of President
Speaker 1: Trump by disqualified DA Fanny Willis is finally over. Trump's
Speaker 1: lead defense counsel, Steve Sato said in a statement, this
Speaker 1: case should have never been brought. A fair and impartial
Speaker 1: prosecutor has put an end to this law fair Prosecuting
Speaker 1: Attorney's Council of Georgia executive director Peter Sidocalus, who was
Speaker 1: tasked with finding Willis's replacement after she was disqualified from
Speaker 1: prosecuting the case, took over November fourteenth, after failing to
Speaker 1: find another attorney willing to do it. So no one
Speaker 1: wanted this case, and so this news prosecutor comes in,
Speaker 1: takes it, and that's the end of it. And the
Speaker 1: judge agreed to dismiss it. And if you listen to
Speaker 1: this show and the legal analysts that I provide on
Speaker 1: this show, then you know that this case and all
Speaker 1: these lawfare cases were on the flimsiest legal ground you
Speaker 1: could have ever imagined. And we've seen over the course
Speaker 1: of all of these cases, one by one they all
Speaker 1: fell apart, not because of any great and brilliant lawyer
Speaker 1: strategies on the part of the lawyers who are defending Trump,
Speaker 1: but because the cases were bogus to begin with, they
Speaker 1: complete frauds, and yet they were allowed to continue. And
Speaker 1: the Democrats and the left sought to get as much
Speaker 1: political mileage out of these things as they possibly could.
Speaker 1: And now we have for them the law of unintended
Speaker 1: quants consequences. Trump has been president since January twentieth, so
Speaker 1: we are now what eleven months into his presidency, and
Speaker 1: we've got three years and a month ago how we
Speaker 1: look it. And you gotta love that the Department of
Speaker 1: War is now going to investigate Senator Mark Kelly that
Speaker 1: may lead to a court martial, serious allegations of misconduct. Kelly,
Speaker 1: who was a retired Navy captain facing accusations of accusations
Speaker 1: of sedition from President Trump. He was part of that
Speaker 1: video that I played at last week. The Democrats put
Speaker 1: out telling telling people, telling people in the military, telling
Speaker 1: people in the clandestine services. Yeah, you don't have to
Speaker 1: follow any illegal orders from this guy. But yet none
Speaker 1: of them can come up. And they've been asked repeatedly,
Speaker 1: can you give me one illegal order?
Speaker 2: And it's all this.
Speaker 1: And Curtis House was talking about this when I had
Speaker 1: him on the interview, and it reminded me of when
Speaker 1: James Comy was just walking on the beach and he
Speaker 1: found this interesting shell formation right eighty six forty seven. Oh,
Speaker 1: look at that. Isn't that These shells just happened to
Speaker 1: be aligned like that. Didn't have any no, no motive
Speaker 1: for it. Couldn't understand why anyone would get upset about that.
Speaker 1: And then you got these Democrats, senators and these lawmakers
Speaker 1: who are putting this video out.
Speaker 9: Ah.
Speaker 1: Now, we were just just a little refresher on on
Speaker 1: the law on the Uniform Code of Military Justice, just
Speaker 1: letting these people know, Hey, illegal orders. No, you don't
Speaker 1: have to. Did this guy Trump he's giving you orders?
Speaker 2: No, you are you?
Speaker 1: You are right to question these orders. Everyone knows that's
Speaker 1: exactly what they are up to. And now Kelly's going
Speaker 1: to be investigated, which he should. I think they should
Speaker 1: all be investigated. And then Pete Hegseth and got into
Speaker 1: a little back and forth with because heg Seth called
Speaker 1: them the Sedition six. And so this guy Kelly puts
Speaker 1: out a picture of him with all these medals on
Speaker 1: his chest. Pete hegg Seth had a look at that,
Speaker 1: and he says, not only did your Sedition video intentionally
Speaker 1: undercut good order and discipline, but you can't even display
Speaker 1: your uniform correctly. Your medals are out of order and
Speaker 1: rose reversed. When and if you're called recalled active duty,
Speaker 1: I'll start with a uniform inspection. So I give Pete
Speaker 1: Hegseeth the upper hand on that one. Ken from Mason,
Speaker 1: I hope you you and your family are going to
Speaker 1: have a great Thanksgiving, you.
Speaker 8: Too, Dan, I hope your family has a great Thanksgiving tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 8: And and I want to talk locally. First, your guest,
Speaker 8: Kevin Aldridge, you had on ruler today. He clearly is
Speaker 8: obviously a Democrat. His statements, well.
Speaker 1: We you know what we don't. We don't see a
Speaker 1: lot of the issues the same way. But I like
Speaker 1: Kevin Kevin Aldrichhan. He presents a different viewpoint. I think
Speaker 1: he expresses himself quite well. I was at a little
Speaker 1: bit of a disadvantage tonight because of the postgame cut
Speaker 1: in into about ten minutes worth of our time, so
Speaker 1: I didn't really have time to argue with him on
Speaker 1: some of the different points that he was making. But
Speaker 1: I still enjoy his perspective anyway.
Speaker 8: But go ahead that the election, as you said, was
Speaker 8: less than you know, thirty two percent of the total.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 8: That's so sad. They had a Channel nine had done
Speaker 8: a thing dan where they talked about thirty five people.
Speaker 8: Not one of them knew who they voted for. Now
Speaker 8: one individual knew who they voted for. They were all
Speaker 8: being given placards on who to vote for, and they
Speaker 8: just followed that.
Speaker 2: They couldn't That sounds about right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they couldn't say who they voted for. It was
Speaker 8: just they were voting Democrat, no matter.
Speaker 1: What, Yeah, vote for these vote for these these eight
Speaker 1: names or these nine names. Yeah, and that's what they did.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I had no idea. You know, Bowman
Speaker 8: never had a chance in hell of winning that election.
Speaker 8: You know, in the city has been made to look
Speaker 8: so bad, so inept, so ineffective. Yet these people they
Speaker 8: just keep winning that and a lot of our major
Speaker 8: cities in the United States. And these people keep voting
Speaker 8: to be treated like crap. They keep voting to let
Speaker 8: people just abuse them. You know, it's always amazed me.
Speaker 8: They they cry out constantly about what they don't have
Speaker 8: and what they have their hands on. They want more,
Speaker 8: and they refuse to accept the fact it's Democratic lawmakers
Speaker 8: that have put them in this plight they suffer from. Well,
Speaker 8: it's not the Republicans. And you know, Aldridge made comments about,
Speaker 8: you know, demeaning Trump and he referred to Maggie like
Speaker 8: in a negative term. I don't understand how make America
Speaker 8: Great Again is anything but a fantastic slogan.
Speaker 2: No, it's it's a great slogan.
Speaker 1: But that was the whole notion of connecting Bowman too
Speaker 1: to the Vice President J. D. E. Vance, because they're
Speaker 1: I guess they're step brothers or half brothers. I don't
Speaker 1: know exactly what the relationship is, but I've got a
Speaker 1: step brother. I call them my brother, and and and
Speaker 1: and that's the way I think a lot of people,
Speaker 1: a lot of families deal with that issue. But yeah,
Speaker 1: making that connection and trying to create this narrative that
Speaker 1: this was going to be the conduit to getting the
Speaker 1: mega agenda in the city of Cincinnati. People hear that,
Speaker 1: and that's that's something easy to latch onto and easy
Speaker 1: to make people afraid of. And so that that strategy.
Speaker 1: I don't know how hard they hit that. And I'll
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I didn't pay attention to all
Speaker 1: the daily comings and goings of that election. But the
Speaker 1: pieces and parts that I did see and that I
Speaker 1: did pay attention to, I knew that was a main
Speaker 1: thrust of their campaign was to create that that whole,
Speaker 1: that whole narrative that hey, if this guy gets in here,
Speaker 1: he's bringing the whole mega team with him, and yeah,
Speaker 1: make America great again. That is not a bad thing,
Speaker 1: you know what. You know what a bad thing is,
Speaker 1: Ken from Mason A bad to to me. A bad
Speaker 1: thing is when Bernie Sanders the day after the election
Speaker 1: in New York City, and you got Zoron Mondanni gets elected,
Speaker 1: and he's a he's a communist, he's a he's a socialist.
Speaker 1: And Bernie Sanders says, we need to take this Mandannie
Speaker 1: model and and and bring this all across America. And
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders is not saying that because it's something that's
Speaker 1: good for America. He's not saying that because it's wholesome
Speaker 1: or uplifting or anything that is going to benefit the
Speaker 1: American people. The only reason he's saying that is because
Speaker 1: this is what gets democrats in power. And that is
Speaker 1: his that is his that is his ultimate goal. That's
Speaker 1: his mountaintop having having democrats in power, and the rest
Speaker 1: of it be damned. It doesn't matter how you get
Speaker 1: him there, just get him in power.
Speaker 8: Well, Dan he the Democrats are successfully brainwashing millions and
Speaker 8: millions and millions of people that Trump. Everything Trump says
Speaker 8: is a lie. Every single word he says is lie,
Speaker 8: and every single thing he does is to for his
Speaker 8: own benefit, not of America's benefit. And yet if you
Speaker 8: will look at the facts and look at the truth,
Speaker 8: the man is talking nothing but common sense. And the
Speaker 8: man truly loves America, and the man the economy is
Speaker 8: going to start exploding in April and May. There will
Speaker 8: be so many jobs, so many car factories in this country.
Speaker 8: Everything is going to be turned upside down. In America
Speaker 8: is going to start thriving again. This economy is going
Speaker 8: to start booming. And God knows that Democrats will have
Speaker 8: one lie on top of another. They're brainwashing people. There's
Speaker 8: a large swath of African American people that believe Trump
Speaker 8: is a bad man, that he's evil, he's poison, he said.
Speaker 8: Donald Trump has won the highest honor from the NAACP twice.
Speaker 8: People don't even realize that in the last forty years
Speaker 8: he's won wards that very very few African or white
Speaker 8: people ever win. You know, Donald Trump is one of
Speaker 8: their greatest friends, if they'd want to be honest and
Speaker 8: be truthful. But the Democrats, you know, starting with elano'mar
Speaker 8: in Minnesota, Talida Rashiva Michigan, AOC in New York, this
Speaker 8: idiot young lady in Seattle, these people are communists. They
Speaker 8: want power. People need to wake up. They're listening to
Speaker 8: your show, Dan every week. They need to wake up.
Speaker 8: These people want to take power away from you. They
Speaker 8: want to take everything from you.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, if we had, if we had a
Speaker 1: legitimate news media in this country, then the vast majority
Speaker 1: of people would know that. It is amazing to me
Speaker 1: how many people still get their news from George Stephanopolis
Speaker 1: at CBS and all the rest of them ABC and
Speaker 1: NBC and MSNB and I guess it's called ms now
Speaker 1: and CNN. The vast majority of American people still get
Speaker 1: their news from those sources, PBS and so. Know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of shows like mine, well you know the
Speaker 1: host is uh at least uh at least leans to
Speaker 1: the right and conservative talk radio. Even though they you know,
Speaker 1: those shows are on in abundance, the vast majority of
Speaker 1: the American people still get their news from those those sources,
Speaker 1: those few sources, and it's a it's not good. And
Speaker 1: because they they simply refused. And if you listen to
Speaker 1: Curtis Halk earlier tonight, and he was talking about the
Speaker 1: news coverage that came out during the you know, the
Speaker 1: breaking news today with these these National Guard members they
Speaker 1: got gunned down in in d c. Their their baseline
Speaker 1: is is that Trump shouldn't have had him out there
Speaker 1: to begin with. And and they all they all have
Speaker 1: that that's their starting point on the coverage that Trump
Speaker 1: was wrong.
Speaker 2: And here's what happened.
Speaker 8: Well under Murio Bowser's leadership, the mayor of d C,
Speaker 8: who's not running for reelection, she had turned Washington, d C.
Speaker 8: Into a hellhole. It was dangerous. Everywhere you walk, you
Speaker 8: couldn't walk, you know, without being worried about getting run
Speaker 8: over shot. And they're changing that city dramatically and cleaning
Speaker 8: up all the homeless crap and the graffiti and everything
Speaker 8: else associated with what Democrats do. This is what they're
Speaker 8: doing across the United States, and they're destroying the major cities.
Speaker 8: They're destroying Chicago, They're destroying l A, They're destroying Baltimore.
Speaker 8: They're destroying these cities. You know, in the city of Baltimore,
Speaker 8: they don't have one kid that's had eighth grade proficiency.
Speaker 2: In Man for English. The schools are they're terrible there.
Speaker 1: They're terrible in Chicago, and uh and you know, and
Speaker 1: and the and you know those are cities where the
Speaker 1: mayor has a lot of control over the over those schools.
Speaker 1: But Ken and Mason, we got to run late for news.
Speaker 1: But uh, as always, Man, I appreciate you picking up
Speaker 1: the phone, and you and your family have a great
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving tomorrow.
Speaker 8: Happy Thanksgiving to you, Danny and your family.
Speaker 1: There you go, Ken from Mason with that. We got
Speaker 1: to get We got to get to the news at
Speaker 1: seven hundred Wlwright, seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: It's eleven o nine.
Speaker 1: This is the Wednesday night edition of the Midweek Crisis.
Speaker 1: I'm Dan Carroll five one, three seven, the big one.
Speaker 1: If you want to get on board, Mark and Monroe,
Speaker 1: what's going on tonight?
Speaker 2: Thanks for holding on man, Hey Dan, how are you
Speaker 2: doing it? I'm good. I appreciate the call and happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 10: Well, same to you, Bud. Here's my theory, and this
Speaker 10: is in regard to Mark Kelly. I think his comment
Speaker 10: about not obeying illegal orders was not only directed to
Speaker 10: the military, but I think and hope in hopes that
Speaker 10: he was also hoping he would hope that it would
Speaker 10: be picked up by so called civilians and hope you
Speaker 10: know that the Luce Keenan's once they hear that, they
Speaker 10: would think that, well, if it's good for the military,
Speaker 10: it must be good enough for us to take the
Speaker 10: same initiative. So if he can get the military to,
Speaker 10: you know, disobey, I think there's a springboard for a
Speaker 10: lot of nutjobs out there to go, well, you know,
Speaker 10: if that's the way they feel about the military, why
Speaker 10: not take the same initiatiff on their.
Speaker 4: End of it.
Speaker 1: Well, and I you know, as I've seen so many
Speaker 1: of these individuals that were in the video being interviewed,
Speaker 1: and they all want to play dumb on this. They
Speaker 1: all want to play you ask him. Scott Jennings on
Speaker 1: CNN was asking the question of one of the panelists
Speaker 1: on there, saying, what were you trying to? You know,
Speaker 1: what were you trying? What what were you trying? What
Speaker 1: was the message you were trying to get across here?
Speaker 1: And the message is is that Trump is doing something
Speaker 1: that he shouldn't be doing. But yet they can't point
Speaker 1: to a single example of something that he has done
Speaker 1: that is illegal or against the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Speaker 1: So they know they know what, they know what they're doing,
Speaker 1: but yet they want to play. They want to play
Speaker 1: like all, we're totally innocent here and no need to
Speaker 1: investigate us. Just trying to you know, create this this
Speaker 1: notion because it's people here. They they want people to
Speaker 1: hear certain things. They want people to hear illegal orders
Speaker 1: that you don't have to follow them that the you
Speaker 1: know that that our democracy is in danger, those are
Speaker 1: those are the things they want them to hear. And
Speaker 1: if that, if that's the message you get to cross,
Speaker 1: then they've accomplished their mission.
Speaker 10: Let me ask you this, uh, based times what I
Speaker 10: would refer to as the power suggest You know, they
Speaker 10: can wease a lot of everything. We all know how
Speaker 10: the media and all that sublibin messages go across the
Speaker 10: board there. But like I said, if you got other
Speaker 10: ears out there that are hearing this, uh, like I said,
Speaker 10: power suggesting, and they had instgates or initiates them to
Speaker 10: come to the forefront and and all the people that
Speaker 10: you know, the brass like Kelly, they can get off
Speaker 10: the hook. But they've already put the the idea out
Speaker 10: out there.
Speaker 1: So if they yeah, I mean no, you're you're I
Speaker 1: think you're one hundred percent right they are. They are
Speaker 1: likely not to face any serious consequences for doing this.
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, and then what what I'm glad about.
Speaker 1: If Pete hagg Sath and Cash Betel and the Attorney
Speaker 1: General can make their life a living hell, then I'm
Speaker 1: good with that. Even if even if they might not
Speaker 1: face any any meaningful consequences of doing such a thing.
Speaker 10: Well that that's necessary. Otherwise you're going to have, you know,
Speaker 10: you're going to open the flookies anarchy. Unless unless there's
Speaker 10: some sort of convictions, not just indictments against these people.
Speaker 1: Well and then and look, and they've got they've still
Speaker 1: got their friends in the media who are going to
Speaker 1: try and create the idea that somehow Pete hegg Seth
Speaker 1: isn't the wrong for pursuing this, that if if any,
Speaker 1: if any legal action is brought because of this, well
Speaker 1: then somehow it's going to be the Trump administration that
Speaker 1: is being heavy handed or doing something that shouldn't be done.
Speaker 1: And and that's that's the way they're going to play it. Mark,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the phone call. Uh, let's go to Amelia
Speaker 1: and talk to Jim. Then we got David Dayton, Jim
Speaker 1: seven hundred w l W.
Speaker 9: Hey, Dan, I want to don't want to play checkers ready,
Speaker 9: but when I heard about those two people got got
Speaker 9: killed West Virginia National Guard people got killed, well, I
Speaker 9: am the governor.
Speaker 1: The governor of West Virginia said a couple of hours
Speaker 1: after it happened, that he that he he said that
Speaker 1: they had been killed. He has taken that back and
Speaker 1: he has and he has said he was getting some
Speaker 1: some conflicting information on that, so he might have been mistaken.
Speaker 1: As of now, we do not know if if those
Speaker 1: individuals had been killed as a result of that attack.
Speaker 1: So the latest information we have on that is that
Speaker 1: is that they are still alive.
Speaker 9: The two the two the two soldiers are still alive. Yes,
Speaker 9: let's thank god for that because yes.
Speaker 1: No, it was reported earlier that they that they had died,
Speaker 1: but that reporting was an air all right.
Speaker 9: Well, I'm just saying that if it were true, like
Speaker 9: you know, God is dead and the war's begun. Because
Speaker 9: this stuff is getting out of hand, and I'm getting
Speaker 9: very angry, and I I my Thanksgiving is a ruin
Speaker 9: because of these reports of this stuff in the Capitol.
Speaker 1: Well it's a terrible thing, sure, and look, uh we're
Speaker 1: probably all feeling a lot of the same things. I'm
Speaker 1: angry about this. I feel helpless to do anything. I
Speaker 1: look at the reporting that is being done on this,
Speaker 1: that is coming from the national media. And that's why
Speaker 1: I had my buddy Curtis Halkon because he's been following
Speaker 1: this all day.
Speaker 2: And okay, and you know, and they.
Speaker 1: And they start from their starting point is that Trump
Speaker 1: is doing something wrong and shouldn't have had these people
Speaker 1: in harm's way.
Speaker 2: And so it's somehow it's his fault that this took place.
Speaker 9: So so the people that are taking care of this shootero,
Speaker 9: We're going to waste our our our blood to say this, dude,
Speaker 9: I don't understand that.
Speaker 1: Well uh yeah, well he's a yeah, he's a perpetrator
Speaker 1: and and and that's how we we deal even though
Speaker 1: they may have committed a hana's crime. Well, we don't
Speaker 1: let people just suffer and die in the hospital. David Dayton,
Speaker 1: what's going on tonight?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 4: Dan, it's been a minute, and I want to wish
Speaker 4: you and your family happy things.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dave. I appreciate that, and the and the
Speaker 2: same to you and yours.
Speaker 4: Hey, thank you very much. Of First, I'm a hoop chunky.
Speaker 4: You know, I'll get to the National Guard units, but
Speaker 4: I want to just I'm I'm a eight flyer fan
Speaker 4: and season ticket holder, but I'm a hoops chunkie in general.
Speaker 4: So I want all you know, ships her eyes Xavier, U.
Speaker 2: See and do and then lose Michigan.
Speaker 4: Losing to the dregs of the MAC, and I'm a
Speaker 4: Miami grad and they could have lost to Miami would
Speaker 4: have been a debacle as well.
Speaker 8: But.
Speaker 4: That that is completely unacceptable. To lose to Eastern Michigan
Speaker 4: is a complete joke. And God helped West Miller with
Speaker 4: the Big twelve schedule this year. If you lose to
Speaker 4: a lower MAC team at home and they just got
Speaker 4: their brains beat in by Louisville by thirty one points
Speaker 4: two days ago, and you get your you know, blown,
Speaker 4: it's ridiculous and it's just a.
Speaker 2: Shame that pack Kelsey.
Speaker 4: So I'm also a hoops.
Speaker 2: Coach and I've all said, I've always said that.
Speaker 4: Over and you you back up the Brinks truck to
Speaker 4: bring Pat Kelsey home to coach the Ucy Bearcat because
Speaker 4: he is.
Speaker 2: One hell of a coach. I like him all.
Speaker 4: So onto the National you know, really, you know, piss
Speaker 4: off about the National Guard shootings. I was eleven year
Speaker 4: National Guard and you well, I thank you. I appreciate that,
Speaker 4: but it's no different than if you put on the
Speaker 4: uniform and we're giving a weapon to go out there
Speaker 4: and defend because you know, I'll pull back the curtain
Speaker 4: on the National Guard. I mean, I served eleven years,
Speaker 4: but you know, these are white collar and blue collar
Speaker 4: people that have families and we you know, I get
Speaker 4: a weapon with live rounds in it for one hour
Speaker 4: a year going down to Fort Knox to do our
Speaker 4: range qualifying and and you're we're not We're not the
Speaker 4: regular warriors like the Marines or anything like that. When
Speaker 4: you're a National Guard where where your mom and dad
Speaker 4: and you know you but you put the uniform on
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, it's like putting if you
Speaker 4: you know, if you put a copy uniform on or
Speaker 4: a state higher patrol. Now you're the target.
Speaker 2: Of people who hate, you know.
Speaker 4: The military or hate enforcement. And it's just a damn shame.
Speaker 4: You know that, you know, someone some idiot that probably
Speaker 4: as a record and don't belong in this country may
Speaker 4: have well they've definitely altered their lives forever. But hopefully
Speaker 4: they you know, pray for Lee they I pray that
Speaker 4: they make it. But but yeah, it's it's it's not
Speaker 4: Trump's fault.
Speaker 2: It's just.
Speaker 4: Uh Trump derangement syndrome again, probably manifested in the shooting.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, we will see. I think
Speaker 1: we'll get some more information on this dude tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: according to what Bill Malusian said, the guy is from Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: came in under the Biden administration in September I believe
Speaker 1: it was twenty one, and that you know that legal
Speaker 1: status expired in September of this year, and so he
Speaker 1: technically in the country illegally. So what motivated him to
Speaker 1: do this, We'll have to wait and see. Initial reports
Speaker 1: are was that he was not cooperating with the you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's federal or state or local police investigators.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll find out more about this guy tomorrow, but
Speaker 1: based on what we see already, it looks like the
Speaker 1: dude is here illegally and was yelling alu wakbar when
Speaker 1: when the gunfire was taking place, So that that that
Speaker 1: is not good and I belie leave the government right
Speaker 1: now is looking.
Speaker 2: At this as a terrorist attack.
Speaker 4: Well, I pray they they pull through. And it's just
Speaker 4: a shame when whatever uniform is targeted for just having
Speaker 4: a uniform on, just like that police officer run down
Speaker 4: just because the guy who's angry with cops because of
Speaker 4: this kid yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I was thinking about that, or I was thinking
Speaker 1: about that earlier today was I sort of have that
Speaker 1: same feeling right now because I'm angry that this happened.
Speaker 1: I feel helpless that I couldn't do anything about it.
Speaker 1: And this guy, Look, the National Guard is not the
Speaker 1: one that is. And again there's this whole leftist narrative
Speaker 1: out there that you've got federal agents who are wearing masks,
Speaker 1: who are going into places of business taking people away.
Speaker 1: People who are actually American citizens don't have any business
Speaker 1: being rounded up as the illegal aliens. They haven't committed
Speaker 1: any crime and all that kind of stuff. So they
Speaker 1: want to create this whole narrative that these are the
Speaker 1: people that are paying the price for this policy that
Speaker 1: the Trump administration has. And so it's someone who who
Speaker 1: was in uniform simply following orders, doing what they were
Speaker 1: told to do. That doesn't have anything to do with that.
Speaker 1: And if they have anything to do with that, it's
Speaker 1: because they are in a role to help protect the
Speaker 1: federal agents who are carrying out that policy. And so
Speaker 1: when we have a sheriff's deputy in the city of
Speaker 1: Cincinnati who's working a traffic detail at the UC's graduation
Speaker 1: gets run over by a guy whose son was who pointed,
Speaker 1: you know, whose son pointed a gun out a Cincinnati
Speaker 1: police officer, and that police officer had to unfortunately end
Speaker 1: his life. He goes out and attacks someone who had
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing to do with it. And so I'm sort
Speaker 1: of feeling that same sort of emotion of anger and helplessness.
Speaker 1: And and you know, you have that that case of
Speaker 1: mistaken identity there, because the person who attacked the sheriff's deputy,
Speaker 1: I think was wrong in attacking that sheriff's deputy, but
Speaker 1: somehow he feels justified. And so, you know, the person
Speaker 1: who attacked these guardsmen, it really didn't have any business
Speaker 1: attacking those guardsmen, but somehow, I guess he'd probably feels
Speaker 1: justified that he was, you know, striking a blow for
Speaker 1: for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2: And I don't know.
Speaker 4: Any when he looked at those National guardsmen as cold
Speaker 4: blooded killers like marines and stuff. And I realized that
Speaker 4: when I took off my coat and tie it with
Speaker 4: my white collar job and threw on the uniform, that
Speaker 4: now I was transformed into a target. And and you're,
Speaker 4: you know, literally it's almost window dressing ts A you know,
Speaker 4: it's feel good window dressing so that we look like we're,
Speaker 4: you know, having some force. We're trying to do our
Speaker 4: due diligence. But you know, those poor people that were
Speaker 4: shot were We're regular Joe's that you know work worked
Speaker 4: there nine to five Monday through Friday, and but they
Speaker 4: got called the duty. And that's a risky take. And
Speaker 4: you know, maybe with this happening that you know, Trump
Speaker 4: maybe switches some put some active duty guys in there.
Speaker 4: I'm not blaming him, but maybe have people who wear
Speaker 4: the uniform daily and that are being trained a little
Speaker 4: more often too. If they're going to have weapons with
Speaker 4: live rounds in them too.
Speaker 1: Well, and we'll see, you know, we'll see what the
Speaker 1: the We'll see what happens with the policy. But Dave,
Speaker 1: we got to run. I got to get to a break.
Speaker 1: And I appreciate the phone call tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks staying I was talking to you, think.
Speaker 1: David Dayton, I appreciate that. But everyone that I've heard
Speaker 1: that is in DC, people who worked there, they talk
Speaker 1: about with the presence of National Guard members on the
Speaker 1: street has transformed that city into a place that was
Speaker 1: very uncomfortable to walk around a lot of violence going on,
Speaker 1: a lot of random bad stuff, and with those National
Speaker 1: Guard members in uniform on the streets, a lot of
Speaker 1: that has come to an end. Eleven twenty five, seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW SO last weak, President Trump announced his intent
Speaker 1: determinate temporary protected status for Somali's. He put out a
Speaker 1: social media post, but the status has not been legally
Speaker 1: ended or officially ended yet. That has to go through
Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security, and Christy Noams said the
Speaker 1: Department would follow the prompt her legal process to evaluate
Speaker 1: temporary protective status for Somalia or Somali ends, but it
Speaker 1: would not be limited to just Minnesota and so ilhan
Speaker 1: Omar heard about that, and she's not happy about that
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 10: Cut number seven, Somali's are not terrorizing this nation.
Speaker 2: You are helping it fly. Oh, helping it fly.
Speaker 6: I have always seen as a fabric, has seen themselves
Speaker 6: as a fabric.
Speaker 1: All right, that's enough turn that off. That's enough for her,
Speaker 1: always seeing themselves as the fabric helping America fly well.
Speaker 1: City Journal Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe did a deep
Speaker 1: dive into what's happening in Minnesota, and they write Minnesota's
Speaker 1: drowning and fraud Billions and taxpayer dollars have been stolen
Speaker 1: during the administration of Governor Tim Walls alone. Democrat state
Speaker 1: officials overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in
Speaker 1: the country are asleep at the switch, and the media
Speaker 1: refuses to connect the dots. In many cases, the fraud
Speaker 1: has been perpetrated by members of Minnesota's sizable Somali community.
Speaker 1: Federal counter terrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in
Speaker 1: stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they
Speaker 1: ultimately land in the hands of terror groups Al Shabab.
Speaker 1: As one confidential source put it, the largest funder of
Speaker 1: al Shabab is the Minnesota taxpayer. Their investigation shows what
Speaker 1: happens when a tribal mindset meets a bleeding heart bureaucracy,
Speaker 1: When imported clam loyalties collide with a political class too
Speaker 1: timid to offend, and when accusations of racism are cynically
Speaker 1: deployed to shield criminal behavior, the predictable result is graft,
Speaker 1: with taxpayers left to foot the bill. If you were
Speaker 1: to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would
Speaker 1: probably look a lot like Minnesota's Medical Housing Stabilization Service program.
Speaker 1: The Health and Human Services program, first of its kind
Speaker 1: in the country, was launched with a noble goal to
Speaker 1: help seniors, addicts and disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing.
Speaker 1: It was designed with low barriers to entry and minimal
Speaker 1: requirements for reimbursement. Nonetheless, before the program went live in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at
Speaker 1: two point six million. Costs quickly spiraled out of control.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, the program paid out more than
Speaker 1: twenty one million in claims. In the following years, annual
Speaker 1: costs shot up to forty two million, then seventy four million,
Speaker 1: then a hun hundred and four million dollars. During the
Speaker 1: first six months of twenty twenty five, payouts totaled sixty
Speaker 1: one million. In August, Minnesota's Department of Human Services moved
Speaker 1: a scrap the HSS program, noting that the payment to
Speaker 1: seventy seven housing stabilization providers had been terminated due to
Speaker 1: credible allegations of fraud. Joe Thompson, then the acting US
Speaker 1: Attorney for the District of Minnesota, stated that the vast
Speaker 1: majority of the program was fraudulent, and it goes on
Speaker 1: and on and on. So that's just one program. And
Speaker 1: there's another one that fraud the frauds Medicare and Medicaid.
Speaker 1: There's another one that where you have called Feeding Our
Speaker 1: Future founded in twenty sixteen, and Feeding Our Future, a
Speaker 1: small Minnesota nonprofit, sponsored daycares and after school programs to
Speaker 1: enroll in the federal child nutrition program. The organizations that
Speaker 1: Feeding Our Children are Feeding our Future sponsored were primarily
Speaker 1: owned and operated by members of Minnesota's Somali community. In
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Feeding Our Future received three point four million
Speaker 1: in federal funding dispersed by the state. In the months
Speaker 1: after the COVID nineteen pandemic, which I call the WUHUNT,
Speaker 1: the nonprofit rapidly increased its number of sponsored sites. Using
Speaker 1: fake meal counts, doctored attendance records fabricated invoices. The perpetrators
Speaker 1: of the fraud ring claimed to be serving thousands of
Speaker 1: meals a day, seven days a week to underprivileged kids.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, Feeding Our Future received nearly two
Speaker 1: hundred million in funding. And so you've got that going on.
Speaker 1: Then you've got the other scam where You've got all
Speaker 1: these kids claiming autism, and they take these kids around
Speaker 1: to different clinics, and these clinics get all this federal
Speaker 1: funding and it's all completely bogus. And ilaan Omar has
Speaker 1: the nerve to sit up there and say, they say
Speaker 1: that the Somali's are the fabric of the country. Do
Speaker 1: they cheat and steal in the fraud the government in
Speaker 1: Somalia like they do here in the United States, I wonder?
Speaker 1: And so she's upset that Trump may take action on this.
Speaker 1: According to her, we're just supposed to sit there and
Speaker 1: let all this fraud take place.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not just me making this up. And
Speaker 2: it's gotten to the point where.
Speaker 1: Even local news in Minneapolis has caught on to all
Speaker 1: of this. This is a montage of different stations in
Speaker 1: Minnesota that thankfully are starting to cover this story.
Speaker 2: Joe Let's hear cutt number six.
Speaker 11: Look at this graph showing the explosion in this program.
Speaker 11: This is the amount of money the state is paid
Speaker 11: in Medicaid claims to autism treatment providers using your tax dollars.
Speaker 11: You can see in twenty seventeen, not that much, just
Speaker 11: more than a million dollars. But you see the gradual
Speaker 11: growth here in twenty twenty one more than eighty million dollars.
Speaker 11: But look at last year, more than two hundred and
Speaker 11: twenty million dollars paid out in claims, with a grand
Speaker 11: total of jaeshi of seven hundred million dollars. This is
Speaker 11: what state investigators are now looking at, these soaring costs
Speaker 11: in questioning how many providers are doing real.
Speaker 12: Workington Federal prosecutors say Minnesota is grappling with one of
Speaker 12: the biggest welfare fraud waves in US history, and now
Speaker 12: counter terrorism officials warned some of that money as likely
Speaker 12: ending up in the pockets of al Shabab and now
Speaker 12: Kitlnked terror group operating out of Somalia, So the biggest
Speaker 12: funder of out right.
Speaker 1: Enough so you get the idea. It's gotten to the
Speaker 1: point where even local stations are having to cover this now.
Speaker 1: Congressman Tim Burchett, I'm really starting to like this guy.
Speaker 1: Was asked about this, about what's going on with Minnesota
Speaker 1: and these folks who are stealing all this money, and
Speaker 1: here's what he had to say about it. Let's hear
Speaker 1: cut number nine.
Speaker 13: Please to think that somebody is using that situation to
Speaker 13: rip off the system, to me, is unbelievable. We need
Speaker 13: to get a hold of these people that are doing this.
Speaker 13: We need to within the law, of course, but we
Speaker 13: need to seize their assets. We need to mark them, no,
Speaker 13: not physically mark them, but know who they are so
Speaker 13: that they will never ever be able to get back
Speaker 13: in our country again, and deport their assets fast as possible.
Speaker 13: Then is to root out who in our government allowed
Speaker 13: this to happen. That's the problem we have with the
Speaker 13: conservative movement. We get a hold of these the person
Speaker 13: at the tip of the spear, and then we don't
Speaker 13: go down to the base. And that's where the problem is,
Speaker 13: the real problem, because they've allowed this to happen. They've
Speaker 13: been paid off, or they've got they're so deep in
Speaker 13: whatever department it is that they are. There's some gun
Speaker 13: that they are able to just move around to another
Speaker 13: another area and that needs to stop.
Speaker 1: So there's Tim Burchet, and he's right. We find out
Speaker 1: about these things, we have hearings, investigations, and then nothing
Speaker 1: ever happens. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said the
Speaker 1: facts of this story are truly discussed. Millions in stolen
Speaker 1: Minnesota welfare dollars have been funneled to Al Shabab and
Speaker 1: ISIS aligned terror group. It happened because Democrats build a
Speaker 1: system so loose, so corrupt, so politically timid, that fraudster
Speaker 1: has exploited it to bankroll terrorists abroad. This is a
Speaker 1: national security problem. But Ilha and Omar says that, oh,
Speaker 1: look we're the fabric of the country. Yeah, we Somali's
Speaker 1: so you know, we look, we make this country fly.
Speaker 1: Now you're fraudsters. I mean, the fraud and the corruption
Speaker 1: is absolutely breadtaking. And so much of this was set
Speaker 1: up under the Biden administration. John Kennedy from Louisiana was
Speaker 1: talking about this during the hearing last week, talking about
Speaker 1: the money that was being shoveled out the door under
Speaker 1: the Biden administration. Let's hear this cutting number eight.
Speaker 7: It's rare that I'm speechless, but I want to be
Speaker 7: sure I understood. The people running the Department of Energy
Speaker 7: for President Biden's administration shoveled ninety three billion dollars, not million,
Speaker 7: ninety three billion dollars out the door in seventy six days.
Speaker 7: And it just happened to be the time between when
Speaker 7: President Trump was elected in President Biden their boss was leaving.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 11: It is correct and distasteful confidence undermining.
Speaker 7: So you're telling me that the Department of Energy in
Speaker 7: the seventy six day period before their boss was going
Speaker 7: to leave office gave our loan money to institutes that
Speaker 7: had no business plan, correct, no financials?
Speaker 2: Correct? My god.
Speaker 1: So there you go. There's Kennedy spelling it out. And
Speaker 1: what do you think is going to happen when all
Speaker 1: this stuff gets investigated? Is anyone going to be held accountable?
Speaker 1: Is anyone going to have to pay the price for this?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You like to think that at some point that the
Speaker 1: times are going to change and that this kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: that this is the kind of stuff that needs to
Speaker 1: be done away with. It needs to be cut out
Speaker 1: once and for all. We are thirty eight trillion dollars
Speaker 1: in debt. How do you deal with that? And the
Speaker 1: money just keeps on. There's so much of it. I mean,
Speaker 1: just you can you can all this stuff about Minnesota,
Speaker 1: you can find it on your own. It is beyond breathtaking,
Speaker 1: just how just how bad it is. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I thinking about Thanksgiving is just a few minutes away.
Speaker 1: It'll be midnight and in about seven minutes from now,
Speaker 1: and we'll have Thanksgiving at twenty twenty five. Of course,
Speaker 1: it's going to have this dark cloud over it during
Speaker 1: the course of the day ahead, and we have to
Speaker 1: pray for these members of the National Guard who were
Speaker 1: attacked in DC. Pray for Hamilton Township Police, my buddy
Speaker 1: Tim Rodenberg. So that's kind of things I'll be thinking
Speaker 1: about tomorrow, and then i'll be back on Friday. And
Speaker 1: I got a whole bunch more stuff that I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about today, but it didn't really get a
Speaker 1: chance to get into that much. So Joe Waddell, thank
Speaker 1: you for being here. Appreciate everything you do. Joe Waddell
Speaker 1: running the big board there in the seven hundred WLW
Speaker 1: Command Center, and I'm out of here. Have a great Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: We'll see you on Friday, and let's go Bengals tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: I'm not holding my breath on seven hundred WLW.