WEBVTT - 11-26-25 Midweek Crisis with Dan Carroll 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:12.520 All right, seven hundred WLW. It's nine Thanksgiving Eve. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:13.440 I'm Dan Carroll. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.000 This is the Wednesday night edition of the Midweek Crisis. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.239 We'd like to call the show We Go till Midnight 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:23.160 tonight and Man terrible loss for you see no way 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:27.520 to sugarcoat that one Eastern Michigan. West Miller not very 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:32.560 happy after the after the debacle at the fifth third 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.360 Center tonight. So we'll see what happens with the Bearcats 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.040 down the road. But I am very glad as always 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.080 to welcome in my first guest tonight. Kevin Aldridge is 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.720 the opinion editor at the Cincinnati Inquirer, and Kevin Aldridge 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:47.760 is great to have you on the show. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.240 How are you tonight, Dan, Always a pleasure to talk 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:51.479 to you. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:52.000 How you doing. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.800 I'm great. I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:01.120 But there's going to be sort of a dark cloud 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:05.679 over this Thanksgiving Giving, the events that have unfolded in Washington, 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.600 d C. With a couple of National Guard members shot 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:13.679 and apparently clinging to life at this moment. Let me 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:17.760 have your reaction to those events in d C today. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:22.200 This is sure I think to reignite again the debate 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.680 over migration in this country, whether you're. 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:28.000 Here illegally illegally. 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:33.400 Again, the rhetoric that we hear are political rhetoric surrounding 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:38.480 what federal agents are doing, what National Guard units are doing, 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.920 what is going on to try in and combat violence 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.959 in cities like d C, like Chicago, like New York. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:52.320 Give me your thoughts on the events that are unfolding 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:53.120 as we speak. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.600 Yeah, well, I think the first thing that you know 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.200 needs to be said is prayers need to go up 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:05.560 for these two National Guard members as well as their families, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.880 and we pray that you know that that they're able 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:14.160 to recover and that the worst doesn't happen in this situation. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.200 And I think you know, we we all have to 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.960 unequivocally denounce violence like this. There can be no equivocation 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.079 or no it's ands or butts to it. I mean, 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.560 we have to we have to denounce it. We have 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.880 to say it's unacceptable, and we have to call on 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:37.720 each other to be better, to to support law enforcement 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.400 and and try to get you know, these types of 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.160 individuals who will commit these types of crimes off our streets. 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.639 But I think we also have to resist the temptation 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.639 to try to politicize these incidents, Dan, because I think 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:51.320 that's that's part of the problem. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.160 I mean, you know, there there will. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.320 Be some people who will say because apparently this is 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.440 a targeted attack, and I don't know if this is 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:03.680 in response to you know, President Trump deploying National Guard 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.080 members to these cities to to fight crime, and a 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.400 lot of people think that that is that that move 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.640 in and of itself was a was a political move. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.560 And and I just think the issue of crime is 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.840 too serious, whether we're talking about here in Cincinnati or 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.760 in the nation's capital or anywhere in the country for 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.520 us to try to to to politicize these issues. And 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.960 I think it's not good for law enforcement, it's not 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.760 good for law abiding. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:32.880 Citizens in this country. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:34.920 And I just think we've got to find a way 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.480 to talk about these these very serious issues of crime, 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:44.080 which we can't act like don't exist, but deal with 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.640 them in a way that is that is constructive, that 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.840 allows people to get due process and and you know, 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.760 protects all of our rights but also gets the worst 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.119 elements off of our streets. And and I think we're 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.800 smarter than we have been in terms of how we 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:01.480 do with this, but we got to come out of 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.760 the We got to come out of our political tribes, 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.320 We got to come out of this nation and try 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.760 to or try to come out of this division that 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.000 we have in the nation and come up with some 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:17.760 common sense solutions to this issue, because you know, we 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.719 just can't continue to go on like this as a country. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.080 And it's definitely a tragedy and and you hate for 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:28.480 something like this to happen anytime, but particularly right before. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.240 A holiday where you know, where. 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.479 We celebrate what we're grateful for and thankful for and 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.640 our freedoms in this country and other things. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.240 It's just saying, yeah, how many times have we heard 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:43.760 this debate though, about cooling the rhetoric and you know, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.680 trying to elevate the level of our political discourse. And 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:51.279 we get these lectures and we hear all these different 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:55.520 politicians come out and pontificate, and then about a day 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.000 goes by and we start here in the same terms 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:02.680 nazi and brownshirt and fascist and all these terms being 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.880 thrown out again. It seems like it we are quick 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.480 to get back on that track, especially when we have 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.920 a series of incidents like we're seeing right now. 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.640 Yeah, and I think this is and I don't think 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.839 this is exclusive to one side of the aisle, right, 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.080 I think both sides do it. And one of the 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.200 things that I've been critical of a lot of times 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.480 when I write about these issues is leadership. 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.320 You know, I believe that. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.760 It starts at the top, that it starts at the 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.200 top with everybody, starting with our President, who I think 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.599 we just have to admit, is not the It doesn't 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.760 lay off the rhetoric himself or the hyperbole, and that 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.560 doesn't help it that it comes from the top levels 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.480 of our government, and then it trickles down. I mean 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:51.760 that that doesn't exempt any member of Congress, Republican or 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.160 Democrat from engaging in the same kind of hyperbolic rhetoric 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.320 that doesn't do anything but further devis us. And I 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:02.880 really feel like our leaders have to have cooler heads, 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.719 they have to be smarter, they have to choose their 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:06.560 words wisely. 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:07.440 Dan, I think. 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.520 About every word that I use, whether I'm writing it 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.640 or whether I'm speaking to somebody. I think about what 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.720 I want to say before I say it, and is 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.359 it constructive or destructive to the conversation. And it just 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.920 it pains me that our political leaders don't do that 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:27.080 and instead of trying to appeal to the better angels 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.520 of every American, I think they played to the lowest 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:35.400 common denominator. They play to our biases, our fears, and prejudices, 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.560 and that's just not good. Whether you're a Republican or 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.560 a Democrat, it's got to start at the top. And 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.159 then I also think each one of us bears the 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:49.159 responsibility as well. You know, when Donald Trump first won 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:53.200 the presidency, I wrote a piece that said, you know, 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.760 it's not Trump, it's us. You know, Donald Trump can 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.600 say whatever he wants to say if you don't like him, 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:01.760 whether you like him or you don't like him, he 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.520 doesn't control your social media fee, what you choose to 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.400 put out, what you choose to say. And I always say, 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.920 if you don't like the tone in this country, then 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.880 you need to check your own see what kind of 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.160 tone you're contributing to the conversation. So while I think 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.200 it starts at the top, with all of our leaders 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.520 starting at the very top, I think each one of 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.680 us bears a responsibility to be responsible in our conversations 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.120 as well and not get caught up in contributing to 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.680 this negative discourse that's going on out there, and it's 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.200 easy to do if you you know, I mean, if 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.840 you follow any social media, and unfortunately I have to 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.720 consume more of it than I would like because of 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.280 what I do. You know, some of these spaces are 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:47.760 just so toxic and so nasty. It's just it's unbelievable. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.400 And you just want to think, like man, you want 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.800 to think your fellow person is better than that. But 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.160 if you spend too much time in social media, you 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:59.040 start to wonder. But I tend to think that, you know, 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.680 most of us want to try to get along, want 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.600 to try to figure out the best solutions. And I 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.520 think people who feel like that have to be more 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.760 vocal in holding all of our leaders to account, not 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.000 just the ones we don't like, but even the ones 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.760 who are on our side, holding them more to account, 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:18.800 to be more responsible. 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.360 Well, that is very well said. Let me turn our 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.760 attention to to local matters here now. And this is 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.880 the first time you and I have talked since after 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.720 the most recent election. And it was a day or 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.080 so after the election. I asked Chris smithaman in the 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.720 same question about a week or so ago, and it 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.520 was a day or so after the election. There was 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.079 some violence on Short Vine, a couple of different incidents there, 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.439 and just a couple of days ago we had the 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.200 Kroger up there in Coryville that had the windows shot out. 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.160 We've got the issues going on with the Privy nightclub, 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.319 and so I put a post out there and I 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.920 asked Chris smitham in this, I said, I said, the 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:05.360 voters of Cincinnati apparently won it this way because they 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:09.240 have returned the exact same mayor, the exact same city 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:13.720 council that really did not address crime in a serious way. 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.599 They gave it some some lip service, you know, the 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:23.400 ordinance that created a curfew that has so many holes 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.600 in it you could drive a truck through it. And 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.680 I asked Chris Smithman, I said, is that a fair 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.720 comment that this is the way the voters of Cincinnati 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:37.400 twenty nine point eight percent turnout? Just absolutely horrible when 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.360 you talk about the turnout for the vote, but the 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:44.520 people who vote in this town, the violent situation we 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.960 have right now, I don't see why we have any 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.920 any really concrete reason to believe that it's going to change. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.960 And apparently this is the way the voters want it. 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:55.960 Is that a fair comment? 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:58.120 Yeah? 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.480 I don't think it's totally fair. I see how one 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.480 would say that, right, because you elect pretty much all 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.680 of the same council members, say, for one new one 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.160 new gentleman who you know pretty much replaced Victoria Parks 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.360 and was part of the Democratic ticket. There, I could 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.120 see why one would say that. But here, here are 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:17.600 a couple of things that I would say to look 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.079 a little bit deeper at that. One, when we look 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.880 at voter turnout, there's still a fraction of the people 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.920 in Cincinnati who are registered to vote, who actually engage 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.880 in the process of voting. And so I always hate 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.120 that when I see that, because what it says is 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.920 that there's a very small number or small percentage of 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:43.000 residents of Cincinnati who pretty much decide how the rest 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.600 of them live. You know, thirty percent of registered voters 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:50.240 decide how the other seventy percent of the city is governed. 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:50.680 And how they live. 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:55.400 Now, that's a pitiful turnout for an important election like this. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.800 Yeah, absolutely, And so you know, one would say, well, 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.920 you know, that's the fall of those who you know, 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.520 who don't get out to vote, and and you know 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.200 who knows why that's the case. Why you know that 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.120 other seventy percent of so people don't don't show up 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.040 to vote, and you know, you kind of get the 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.360 government you deserve, as they say at that point, if 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.400 you don't really engage in the process. The other thing 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:22.200 I looked at was is that, you know, Cincinnati has been, 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.160 you know, a blue city, and it seems to be 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:29.000 getting deeper blue. And what I think really happened to 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.200 some of the non Democratic candidates in this election is 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.600 this was I think this election was as much a 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:40.440 referendum on Trump and the national politics in Cincinnati and 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:46.360 maybe in other parts of the country, then it says, hey, 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.720 we're completely and totally okay with with the status quo. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.320 I mean, look, if you are if you live in 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.040 Cincinnati and you're a blue city, and you know, I 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.960 think I told you this before the election when you 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.280 asked me if Corey Bowman, if I thought Corey Bowman 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.520 had a chance to win, I told you no. And 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.160 my percentages were probably pretty much right on. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:11.520 The money, right on the money on that one. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.080 I was I just hope I was holding out up 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.000 a miracle might happen, but that it didn't work. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.360 Out that yeah, yeah, no. And and that's because I 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.960 could kind of see coming what happened? And and I 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.480 even wrote in my column afterwards that you know, and 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.000 I wrote this to the mayor that he shouldn't mistake 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.640 the landslide that he got as a love letter, because 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.880 I think that if there had been and this would 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.360 never happen, because the party is not going to run 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.160 another Democrat against an incumbent unless there's you know, some 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.160 rogue element of the party who just wanted to challenge him. 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.760 But if but I think if he would have had. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:54.360 A a stronger, maybe democratic challenger or alternative, maybe a 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.280 Democrat who was you know. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:57.599 A little bit more. 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:04.000 You know, center left or something like that, with some 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.960 different ideas and different approaches, he might have had a 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.320 much harder time winning this election than he had against 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:15.480 Corey Bowman in Cincinnati just wasn't going to elect a Republican, 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:20.200 really any Republican, but particularly one that had such such 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.880 close ties to JD. Vance and what is perceived as 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.160 the Maga movement. I mean, you know, how many times 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.360 did how many times did have to have say that 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.760 in the debate that we hosted, did he bring up Maga, 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.440 Maga Maggay. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.400 That was definitely part of the strategy well, Kevin Aldiens, 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:37.920 We're gonna have to leave it right there because we're 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.280 short on time, all right, But as always I appreciate 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.120 the thoughtful commentary. All the best to you and your 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.120 family for a great Thanksgiving and we will be talking 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.440 again soon, I certainly hope. But all the best to you, 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.400 Kevin Aldridge and this everyone at the Inquiry and keep 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.880 up the great work. And thanks again for being part 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.559 of the show tonight. I always appreciate it. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.320 Hey, thanks the Happy Thanksgiving to you and. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:00.480 All your listeners. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.880 All right, there you go, Kevin Aldridge from the from 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:08.040 the Cincinnati Enquirer nine six at seven hundred WLW. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.800 Seven hundred WLW. It is ten o eight. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.840 This is the Wednesday night edition of the Midweek Crisis 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.360 on this Thanksgiving Eve. Glad to be here, Glad you 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.400 are here as well. I'm Dan Carrol'll be here till 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.760 midnight tonight and always great to welcome in. 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:31.000 One of my favorite guests. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.640 That's my buddy Curtis house from NewsBusters dot org and Curtis, 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.360 what does hey, what does Thanksgiving look like at the 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:42.360 at the Curtis house household. 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.880 Well, I just finished Thanksgiving with the in laws here 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:53.240 well winded down. I'm finishing some the hot apple fighter here. Uh. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:58.960 We got a box of crayons that Denise's and nephew 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.160 were playing with earlier, and we got to do a 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.160 turkey trot in the morning. Dan the wife and I 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:05.960 have to go run. So my wife was a d 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.840 run track and cross country runner, so she wasn't gonna 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:13.200 let me go Turkey Day without that. So so we 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:13.800 got that to do. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.400 And I do not endvie you. I did not endvie 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:17.600 you for that task. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.920 So I'll considering considering last year was about thirty five 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:27.160 degrees and raining tomorrow thirty seven degrees in about fifty 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.800 MinID hour winds. That's you know, that's Florida weather compared 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:32.360 to what I dealt with the a year ago. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.000 That sounds like what we're going to have here for 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.920 the for the big Turkey race tomorrow. But you've been 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:42.280 busy today covering essentially from the moment this story broke 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:46.840 in DC with a couple of National Guard members attacked 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:52.480 in d C. Give give my listeners a flavor of 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.600 the sort of coverage that has been coming from the 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:03.239 CNNs and the MSNBC's and the cn C and ABC's 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.240 of the World ever since his story broke. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.560 Well, the first thing I'll just say is, it is 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.800 the Farragut West Metro station where the shooting took place. 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.600 It's not a residential area, folks, look it up on 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.160 Google Maps. It's right by the White House. It's right 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.400 by Lafayette Park. Okay, if you've ever been to Washington, 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:29.040 So it's very much a office park, office area. There 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:33.440 might be some hotels, but not really a nightlife area. 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.600 This isn't, like, you know, one of the areas that 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:40.520 was a major focus of the President's surge of resources 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.960 to cut down on crime, which makes it all the 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.400 more tragic. But nonetheless, members of the National Guard have 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:50.720 remained there since the summer, just making sure metro stations 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.240 are safe. And I know for a fact personally just 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.160 riding the metro to different events in Washington. It has 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.400 been nice to just have a few of them overlooking 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.720 the escalators, you know, at all times of the day. 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.000 You know, this is what I'm thinking about. What I 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.480 want to say here, Dan to you is this is 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:12.480 another Charlie Kirk test. This was a very shocking, sudden story. 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.240 The media's minds, we're not thinking about this kind of thing, 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.960 not that you ever are, but you know, you know, 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.199 a Dana news at this time of the year, in 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.560 local news, the focus is travel, travel, travel, weather, weather, weather, right, 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:29.320 and some football, And so this is the last thing 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:33.560 that you're thinking about right now. And so what is 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:40.200 your genuine reaction, you know, the thoughts and prayers, concern 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.200 and how horrible this was another act of violence against 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.720 people who defend our country and keep us safe. Or 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.400 are you gonna do what MS now is Kendelanian did, 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.800 which is kind of suggests that, you know, there's a 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.960 lot of controversy in the United States with ice and 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.840 you know, people wearing masks in uniforms. So there's a 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.760 lot of Americans out there who object to that kind 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:09.119 of thing. And so the shooting has happened. It's like, 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:13.400 what what this was? At three o'clock Eastern time, just 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:17.320 maybe twenty minutes after we first learned of the shooting, 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.600 that's where this guy's mind went. We saw this on 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.240 ABC News, we saw us on CBS, we saw this 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.719 on CNN. People say, well, there's a lot of rhetoric 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.280 in the country right now about immigration. There's a lot 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:32.080 of you know, feelings about the president's immigration policies, even 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.240 though we don't have any evidence. Of course, Dan, we're 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.760 going to speculate anyway, because the cable news, if they've 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.400 been watching it, speculation, they've. 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.639 Been observing this from afar, not participating in it, just 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.680 observing it, of course. 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:50.200 Right, observing, Yes, neutral arbiters as they like to tell us, Dan. 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:51.840 Yes, that's absolutely. 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.720 But you know, I've I've been reading all the posts 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.760 you put out on on your social media. I'm reading 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.000 I've got the piece that you've got up on Newsbus 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:04.199 right now on my computer, and it seems to me 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.480 and you tell me if I'm wrong. But they operate 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:11.520 from the baseline. Their baseline is when they when they 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:15.119 cover an event like this or really any event that 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.840 has to do with Trump, is that Trump is in 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.439 the wrong. And in this case, he's in the wrong 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:25.879 because he asked for National Guard members to be in 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.639 our various cities in DC, yeah, in Portland, in Chicago. 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.560 So this policy we all know. Their baseline is, we 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:39.720 all know this policy is wrong, and the rest of 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:43.080 our coverage is going to flow from that baseline. 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.680 Yeah, if it weren't for you know, you guys are 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.920 like triggering people out there that are unstable by surging 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:56.600 law enforcement resources to high traffic areas. Like that logic 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.720 is just so backwards. You know, it's the fault of 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:01.920 the now National Guards. Then you know, it's the fall 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.439 of the president that these National guardsmen were shot because 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.840 he put them in a city that is opposed to them. 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.040 Even though people are unders you know, non understanding or 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.800 I don't be you know, crazy, people don't understand, as 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.480 in a lot of liberals in Washington, that there's such 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.639 a thing as a deterrent, you know that like putting 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:25.240 these folks in in their uniform jackets. They're not there 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.080 with their machine guns, they're not there with their tanks. 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:33.440 They're just watching. They're very friendly. You know, they've been 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:37.000 nothing but gracious. Other than maybe a fender bender incident. 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.760 As far as I know, there hasn't been any problems 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:43.399 with either the DC National Guard or any of the 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:46.600 states that have deployed there. And so to suggest that, 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.320 you know, while the President put them in this position 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:55.479 and therefore it's the president's fault, just absolved the you know, 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:59.400 this individual, this reported Afghan refugee, shout at Alu Lockbard. 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:03.119 If any responsibility whatsoever. It absolves the Biden administration who 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.400 allowed him into this country with very little vetting, any 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.120 sort of responsibility. And if you're not doing that, you're 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:12.440 like Andrew McCay on CNN who said, well, who knows, 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.120 maybe these soldiers weren't properly trained, because you know, these 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:17.080 guys aren't police officers. They don't up training how to 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:20.280 respond to crazy people. Well, there's nothing really anybody can 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:22.679 do if somebody comes up with a gun, you know, 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.280 and maybe hits you from behind or shoots you from 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:27.720 the middle of no or you don't expect someone to 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:29.879 whip out a gun and shoot you in the head. 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:37.480 It's an interesting phenomena that it's always the shooter who's 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:41.879 the last one to get the blame in situations like this. 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:46.480 And I'm looking at Bill Malusion. There's no one who's 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:50.840 covered the border or immigration issues better than Bill Mallusion. 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:55.040 And he says, this guy came in afghan national entered 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:58.479 the United States and September of twenty twenty one as 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:01.480 part of the Biden op rac allies welcome in the 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:05.800 aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. And then he writes, 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:08.439 I'm told his permission to be in the US expired 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:12.320 in September in this year, so technically he's in the 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:16.879 country illegally, but that fact is very likely to not 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:21.959 be included I think in the that will get from 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:24.359 the major networks in this country. 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:26.720 Correct, Yeah, I know. 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.240 And the latest reporting about twenty minutes ago from NBCUS 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:35.440