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Speaker 1: Joining me now on the Dan O'Donnell Show to talk

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Speaker 1: about the midterms, to talk about this Save Act, to

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Speaker 1: talk about all things twenty twenty six, is the chairman

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Speaker 2: Sir, it is such an honor to have you on

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Speaker 2: the program.

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Speaker 3: Hey, thanks so much for having me on.

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Speaker 2: Well, the pleasure is all mine, sir.

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Speaker 1: So you heard the White House Press Secretary today talking

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Speaker 1: about this Save Act. You've heard undoubtedly the President talking

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Speaker 1: about the need for citizenship proof for voting, obviously voter

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Speaker 1: for the Republican Party in the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: Oh, no question.

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Speaker 3: We're pushing on all fronts. We think that. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's basic common sense. If you look across the board,

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Speaker 3: all polling says almost all Americans want document proof of

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Speaker 3: us citizenship to vote. I mean, it's it's I think

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Speaker 3: it's just a basic fundamental issue of our democracy. I

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Speaker 3: ask yourself, why is it so hard to pass something

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Speaker 3: that should have been passed a long time ago? And

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Speaker 3: what it is is it's the Democrats And look at

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Speaker 3: the open borders that they had under Biden, essentially twenty

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Speaker 3: five thirty million illegals. They're trying to fundamentally change our country.

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Speaker 3: And it's a purposeful attempt by them to change the

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Speaker 3: so yes, we are working hard. We're trying to do

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Speaker 3: all we can, but we support the president and we're

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Speaker 3: pushing his policies every single day.

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Speaker 1: It does seem as though there would need to be

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Speaker 1: a tweak of the filibuster rule in the Senate in

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Speaker 1: order to get this passed. Since about nineteen seventy five,

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Speaker 1: so more than fifty years now, we have had what's

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Speaker 1: known as the zombie filibuster and the two track system

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Speaker 1: but it is very likely that in order to get

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Speaker 1: talk to readopting the talking or standing filibuster, you know,

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Speaker 1: the traditional filibuster that we think of. Mister Smith goes

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Speaker 1: to Washington and Jimmy Stewart standing there until he absolutely

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Speaker 1: falling on him. Everybody knows what a standing filibuster is.

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Speaker 1: We actually haven't had those since the nineteen seventies. Cherman Gruters,

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Speaker 1: would you be in favor of the Senate going back

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Speaker 1: to the talking filibuster, abolishing the filibuster altogether, the so

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Speaker 1: called nuclear option? What do you think is the best

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Speaker 3: I support the President and what he's been pushing, and

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Speaker 3: I support them doing what they have to do to

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Speaker 3: get this pass. The problem is is we know exactly

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Speaker 3: what's going to happen if the Democrats get control of

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Speaker 3: the Senate, they are going to break the philibuster. That's

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Speaker 3: why Stienna was voted out. You know, they primaried her

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Speaker 3: so I think we should be aggressive. I think, like

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Speaker 3: I said, I agree with the president. We support the

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Speaker 3: I mean even the Democrats when we pull them, they

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Speaker 3: And for the Democrat members the Senate to hold this up,

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Speaker 3: it just goes to show you their true colors and

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Speaker 1: Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court allowed for California's rigging

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Speaker 1: of its electoral map. It's congressional map in an obvious

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Speaker 1: Everywhere Democrats can jerrymander, they are right now. We saw

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Speaker 1: Are the so called redistricting wars of twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: And if so, what is the Republican Party going to

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Speaker 3: Well, listen, this is not new for the Democrats. The

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Speaker 3: And that's why the Democrats have found an advantage by

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Speaker 3: But Indiana, it just goes to prove that. Why, you know,

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Speaker 3: Republican legislative members around the country need to wake up

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Speaker 1: On that, does that include potentially the United States Supreme

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Speaker 1: catch people up on this, in the nineteen sixties, the

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Speaker 1: the Democrats back in the reconstruction days, they jerrymandered district

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Speaker 1: There is a direct challenge to that, and the Supreme

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Speaker 1: this sort of what you're talking about, Chairman gruders.

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Speaker 3: Dan, you are a genius. PS. You just outlined exactly

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Speaker 3: what I was going to say in a much more

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Speaker 3: And yes, I think as a result, some of the

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Speaker 3: what I will tell you is is we are playing

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Speaker 3: we're in position to prevent the Democrats. Basically, the Vice

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Speaker 3: President hasn't right. This is the Democrats been using this

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Speaker 3: even out the scales, and I think we'll do exactly that,

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Speaker 3: maybe even a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: He is Republican Party Chairman Joe gruter Is, And Sir,

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Speaker 1: in spite of all this, in spite of the fact

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Speaker 1: I saw some new immigration and deportation numbers from the

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Speaker 1: two to three million people have left the country since

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Speaker 1: last January. Obviously, inflation is under control. GDP numbers are

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Speaker 1: looking good. We've had a bit of a bumpy ride

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Speaker 1: on the stock market of late, but the S and

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Speaker 1: been winning special election after special election at both the

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Speaker 1: just given the cyclical nature of American politics, the party

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Speaker 1: very well in these mid terms. Do you expect Republicans

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Speaker 3: Great question. The only four times in the last one

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Speaker 3: full in holding their majorities in the midterms. But I

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Speaker 3: We have a lot of great things going for us.

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Speaker 3: One is I think we're recruiting good candidates. Number Two,

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Speaker 3: I think we could ride the cotels of the president.

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Speaker 3: I think what he's been able to prove in a

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Speaker 3: You've obviously heard that there may be a midterm convention

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Speaker 3: and that would be essentially the kickoff for the president

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Speaker 3: to barnstorm these districts. And because of the redistricting, you're

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Speaker 3: looking at fewer races, we're recruiting better candidates. If the

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Speaker 3: more important is when you look at another Supreme Court

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Speaker 3: we're now direct going to be able to coordinate directly

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Speaker 3: and you talked about the special elections across the country.

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Speaker 3: I don't care about the little victories. The only thing

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Speaker 3: So we are building out our missile silo. You could say,

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Speaker 1: And I appreciate that, and I think this is the

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Speaker 1: at fundraising and coordinating efforts, and from everything I've heard

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Speaker 1: about you, you are the exact same way in doing that.

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Speaker 1: That said, with those special elections, I know there's always

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Speaker 1: There is an undeniable trend, though, of Republican underperformance. And

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Speaker 1: one of the big things that I think the party

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Speaker 1: we have significant underperformance. I mean, just take a look

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Speaker 1: He is Republican National Committee Chairman Joe gruter is joining

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Speaker 5: It's Jim Crow two point zero? And I called to

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Speaker 1: And in fact, for those who say, well, Dan, you

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Speaker 1: The idea was that every thirty thousand people would be

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Speaker 1: Maybe if you care about I don't know, what does

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Speaker 2: Just watch.

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Speaker 1: We should put a note in our calendar. Just watch

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Speaker 1: the last decade decade and a half, politics have gotten

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Speaker 1: Conservatives have moderated in the era of Trump. The Republican

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Speaker 1: step aside for a break. Coming up after the top

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Speaker 1: Coming up in justice second, a perfect example of how

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Speaker 1: and an exclusive from Channel twelve's Matt Smith, one of

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Speaker 2: Before we get.

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Speaker 1: in the Daily Trump Day. We're gonna win so much

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Speaker 1: you may even get tired of winning.

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

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Speaker 5: It's also a big win for the United States.

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

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Speaker 2: We're gonna win Moore.

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Speaker 1: White House Press briefing today was delayed by a little

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Speaker 1: bit because Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary, as

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Speaker 2: Just a good example of how.

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Speaker 1: This missing person story has really taken over the entire country.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll have some time in the five o'clock hour.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to get into that in some of the

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Speaker 1: psychology behind what makes these missing persons cases just catnip

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Speaker 1: House Press Secretary Levitt did answer some serious questions, especially

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Speaker 1: pulling out of Minneapolis and not actually going to deport

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Speaker 6: Is the President still committed to deportations of the twenty

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Speaker 2: Or are you starting to see that back?

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Speaker 7: Yes, and the President has always been committed to that, Shohn.

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Speaker 7: But we must prioritize, and the prioritization is on those

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Speaker 7: tens of thousands of convicted criminals whom we know are

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Speaker 7: additional self deportations, so nearly three million people have left

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Speaker 7: the United States. But again, as you pointed out rightfully,

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Speaker 7: Joe Biden and the Democrats allowed approximately twenty million people

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Speaker 1: The President himself attended the National Prayer Breakfast this morning.

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Speaker 2: I have no doubt that with the.

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Speaker 1: The President also announced a National Day of Prayer in

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Speaker 6: Pleads to announce that on May seventeenth, twenty twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 2: We're going to rededicate America as one nation under God.

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Speaker 2: Out of the country. That's it.

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Speaker 2: In Minneapolis, what did you learn? I learned that.

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Speaker 6: Maybe we can use a little bit of a softer touch,

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Speaker 6: but you still have to be tough. He's a criminal.

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Speaker 6: We're dealing with really hard criminals. But look, I've called

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Speaker 1: So today at the White House Press briefing, Caroline Levitt

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Speaker 1: Does that mean the President is going soft on immigration? No,

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Speaker 2: Cooperation.

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Speaker 1: What's going on in Wisconsin is exactly what the federal

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Speaker 7: The full context of his answer was that he'd like

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Speaker 7: can continue deporting illegal aliens from our communities without tons

654
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Speaker 7: of agents having to go after one illegal alien. If

655
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 7: the states in the local governments just turn over their

656
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,760
Speaker 7: illegal aliens to ICE at jails, as they should be doing,

657
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 7: it requires one agent to deport that one illegal alien,

658
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Speaker 7: who can then go on the way to their home

659
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 7: country in a peaceful manner. The escalation that we've seen

660
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 7: take place in Minnesota is a direct result of the

661
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Speaker 7: refusal of state and local officials to cooperate with the

662
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Speaker 7: federal government and with ICE, which has led to these

663
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 7: hostile and dangerous environments. And so we don't want that again.

664
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Speaker 7: The President wants direct cooperation and that's what he was

665
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Speaker 7: referring to.

666
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Speaker 1: And what happens when local law enforcement, especially sheriff's departments,

667
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: cooperate with federal ICE agents, dangerous illegals are taken off

668
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:34,280
Speaker 1: the streets, like in Columbia County. According to a press

669
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Speaker 1: release put out today, on Friday, at approximately six twenty

670
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 1: eight pm, Columbia County Sheriff's deputy on patrol in the

671
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Speaker 1: town of West Point he observed a car that was

672
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: speeding failed to dim high beams. As the vehicle approached

673
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Speaker 1: oncoming traffic, deputy conducted a traffic stop.

674
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Speaker 2: Guess what.

675
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: Driver did not speak any English. Well, the deputy was

676
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: able to communicate, at least in rudimentary fashion, and obtain

677
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:06,919
Speaker 1: a name and date of birth. Unsurprisingly, when that name

678
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: when that date of birth were entered, no records matched.

679
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: The deputy again spoke with the driver, this time used

680
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: an interpreter service to obtain proper identification. Even though the

681
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: interpretation app was speaking fluent English to the guy speaking

682
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: fluent Spanish, I should say, the driver still struggled with

683
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: providing a name and date of birth. Despite speaking with

684
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: an interpreter. During this time, the driver provided several different

685
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: variations of his name and date of birth. For almost

686
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: an hour. The deputy tried to interpret the driver's identity,

687
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,760
Speaker 1: tried to verify it, was not able to figure it out,

688
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 1: so they take him to jail. Guess what fingerprints match.

689
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: And there's a reason that he wasn't giving his real

690
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 1: identity because it is Roberto Briones Arauz, forty seven years

691
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: old from Nicaragua living in Prairie du Sac as an illegal.

692
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 1: After identifying Roberto, it was learned this, according to the

693
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 1: press release from the Columbia County Sheriff's Department, why you

694
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 1: failed to identify himself? Roberto was wanted for a felony

695
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: warrant from a twenty twenty two case filed in Dane

696
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: County for sexual assault, false imprisonment, strangulation and suffocation, battery,

697
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 1: and disorderly conduct, all related to domestic violence. It was

698
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: also learned that Roberto had previously been deported from the

699
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: United States in twenty twenty three. Roberto appeared in Columbia

700
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 1: County Circuit Court on February second, after being charged by

701
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: the Columbia County District attorn Ernie's office with obstructing an

702
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: officer and felony bail jumping. He is currently being held

703
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 1: in the Columbia County Jail on a five hundred dollars

704
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 1: cash bond. US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement was immediately notified

705
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 1: of the arrest and placed a detainer on Roberto. So,

706
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: instead of being able to bond out for the low

707
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: low price of just five hundred dollars, even though he's

708
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 1: previously deported, and even though he's wanted on an outstanding

709
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: warrant for very serious sexual battery and strangulation crimes, he's

710
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: going to be in ICE custody very very soon. I

711
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: am told Ice is already on its way to come

712
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:39,839
Speaker 1: pick him up.

713
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 2: And guess what.

714
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 1: There's no danger to officers because Roberto can't run anywhere,

715
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:49,399
Speaker 1: he can't arm himself. There's no danger that there's going

716
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: to be a widespread public outcry that leads to rioting

717
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 1: from left wing crazies, because there's no opportunity for Roberto

718
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 1: to turn himself into a cause celeb amongst the Libs.

719
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: No muss, no fuss, no danger to the public, no

720
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: danger to law enforcement. Because Columbia County is doing the

721
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: right thing because the Sheriff's office honors ICE detainers. And

722
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: that's literally all that needs to happen for there to

723
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:25,959
Speaker 1: be hundreds of thousands of these deportations. ICE doesn't need

724
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 1: to be in communities. ICE doesn't need to be crawling

725
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: all over where this guy was living in Prairie du

726
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: Sac looking for him because the Columbia County Sheriff's Department

727
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: did its job, pulled the guy over, realized, Hey he's

728
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: got warrants. Hey he's an illegal alien. Hey, ICE now

729
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: has a detainer on him. We're gonna just keep him

730
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: here and not let him bond out, not let him

731
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 1: go back into the community, not go back to the

732
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: girlfriend or wife or whoever it was that he was

733
00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: strangling while sexually assaulting in this domestic violence case. He's

734
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: simply going to sit in the cell and wait for

735
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: ICE to come down. How difficult is that? Seriously, Milwaukee

736
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: County has refused to cooperate with ICE detainers since twenty eighteen.

737
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: Now do you think there are more illegal alien criminals

738
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 1: living in Milwaukee or living in Columbia County. All this

739
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 1: county has to do is to cooperate with ICE. Open

740
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 1: up their jails, turn them over to ICE agents, and

741
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: let ice.

742
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 2: We're constantly complaining.

743
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:40,320
Speaker 1: I am constantly told when I rail against the inefficiency

744
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:44,320
Speaker 1: and the unwillingness to prosecute serious crimes, I'm constantly told

745
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 1: that the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office is simply too swamped,

746
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: that the criminal justice system, the judicial system, they're simply

747
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: too swamped. They don't have enough time to prosecute all

748
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: of these criminals, so they have to give out sweetheart

749
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: plea deals. Well, what would happen if a whole lot

750
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 1: of these illegal alien criminals were suddenly taking off their

751
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: hands and put on a boat right back to whence

752
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: they came, get them out of the country, make it

753
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: up impossible for them to ever come back in, for

754
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,399
Speaker 1: them to ever sneak back in. How much you want

755
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: to wager that this guy was able to sneak right

756
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: back in almost as soon as he was deported. He

757
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: gets deported in twenty twenty three, he's right back in

758
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: the country. Why because our border was wide open. I'm

759
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,439
Speaker 1: taking a wild guess that he did not come back

760
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: after January twentieth of twenty twenty five. I'm going to

761
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: take a wild. Guess it was some point during the

762
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: waning days of the Biden administration, probably immediately after he's

763
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: sent on a plane right back to Nicaragua.

764
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 2: He's going right back here. That was the problem. Get

765
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 2: him out.

766
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: Let the Nicaraguan authorities deal with him. Know he's not

767
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: getting off scott free for his crimes. I love liberals

768
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: when they say, well, we just want to make sure

769
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: that we're able to prosecute him to the fullest extent

770
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: of the law.

771
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Okay.

772
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: You're the same people who don't want bail for any crimes.

773
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: You just want to release everybody, ensuring that he's never ever, ever,

774
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 1: ever ever going to show up for another hearing and

775
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:18,439
Speaker 1: he's never ever, ever, ever ever going to face any

776
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: actual justice. So that's how they do things in Columbia County.

777
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:25,839
Speaker 1: And kudos to the Columbia County Sheriff's Department for doing

778
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:30,959
Speaker 1: the right thing. What do they do in Milwaukee County? Well,

779
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: ban law enforcement officers from their parks. We'll get into

780
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 1: that insanity coming up next. All Right, you know who

781
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: wins the internet for today? Still Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis

782
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 1: Ante Tokumpo. This second after the NBA's trade deadline passed

783
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: at two pm Central Time. He tweeted out the following

784
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: legends don't shame, they attract, and he attached the famous

785
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: scene from The Wolf of Wall Street where Jordan Belfour

786
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: played by Leonardo DiCaprio, gets on the microphone and says,

787
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 1: I'm not bleeping leaving absolutely hysterical. We'll have much more

788
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: on the Bucks not trading their superstar despite intense pressure from.

789
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 2: Well pretty much just.

790
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:30,760
Speaker 1: ESPN talking heads. And I'll admit I thought for sure

791
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: they were gonna move him. Now, look, folks, I still

792
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: believe that they're going to trade him in the off season.

793
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 1: They need to rebuild, They need to just completely blow

794
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: this up now. The alternate thought on this is that

795
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: they just fire the single worst coach in the NBA,

796
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:49,840
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers.

797
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 2: He's abysmal.

798
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 1: Bucks also are expected to simply shut Giannis down for

799
00:48:55,440 --> 00:49:00,040
Speaker 1: the rest of the season, which you would think the

800
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 1: NBA would have something to say about that, because he's

801
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 1: supposed to be back in forur to six weeks. They're

802
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,760
Speaker 1: going to just turn this into a season ending injury

803
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,280
Speaker 1: because they're going to tank for a top lottery pick.

804
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: Is that what I'm hearing? I mean, okay, wait to

805
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: signal that you should not, under any circumstances go to

806
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:24,720
Speaker 1: another Milwaukee Bucks game because they're not. Look, I agree

807
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 1: with the strategy. This season is pretty much lost. Why

808
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: not the year that you actually are going to likely

809
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: get a good pick. They have pickswap rights with the

810
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 1: New Orleans Pelicans, so they get the worse of New

811
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: Orleans and the Bucks picks, which is probably going to

812
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: be the Bucks pick. New Orleans is terrible. They're absolutely

813
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:47,879
Speaker 1: awful this year, and if you're into the lottery, you've

814
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 1: got a chance at one of the top three picks.

815
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: And wouldn't you know it, this year is projected to

816
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: have three very very good players, Cameron Boozer, Darren Peterson

817
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: and aj Debantsa. Any one the three could potentially be

818
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: a megastar and alter your franchise. You pair one of

819
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:10,280
Speaker 1: them with Yannis, you build some pieces around them. Who knows,

820
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: Maybe give it another go and see if you can't

821
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: convince Yanis that you can build around him and a

822
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: young superstar. I believe that is going to be the

823
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:25,280
Speaker 1: uh bucksmo. If they don't strike gold in the NBA lottery, though,

824
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,320
Speaker 1: then I think they're going to be forced to listen

825
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: to offers for Yannis because what's been going on the

826
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 1: last five years simply has not worked. And Yannis has

827
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 1: a lot of miles on him for thirty one years old.

828
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:44,240
Speaker 1: All right, Columbia County does the right thing and cooperates

829
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: with ICE and without any muss, without any fuss, without

830
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: any publicity. First, anybody is reporting on this is me.

831
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:57,240
Speaker 1: They get rid of a dangerous, violent, once deported criminal

832
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: illegal alien from Nicaragua who had been living in Prairie

833
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: du Sac and sexually assaulting and strangling and beating up

834
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: a domestic partner. They pull him over and they inform

835
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 1: ICE that this guy's in their jail. ICE comes, they're

836
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: on their way right now, and they're going to take

837
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: them and they're going to deport him. Milwaukee County has

838
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: not cooperated with ICE since twenty eighteen. They are a

839
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,240
Speaker 1: sanctuary county. Do you know the exact moment this happened,

840
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: by the way, Yeah, that's right, when Milwaukee County Sheriff

841
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: David Clark left. Obviously, if there is one guy who

842
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: would be like the most cooperative sheriff in America with

843
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: ICE right now, it would be David. David Clark would

844
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: like be personally going out and busting criminal illegal aliens

845
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: like Clark would be out there with his night stick

846
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 1: beating the hell out of Nicaraguan rapists right now. If

847
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: you gave him half a chance, give the man a

848
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: badge of the man is cowboy hat, put him on

849
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: a horse, and he's our one man deportation squad Wisconsin.

850
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 3: Man.

851
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: I miss that guy. I do miss Sheriff Clark. I

852
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 1: know he's a regular listener. I should probably reach out.

853
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: We got to go have coffee. I love that man

854
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 1: so much. Milwaukee County is a sanctuary county. Not only that,

855
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 1: County Board supervisors today, per CBS fifty eight reporter aj Byatpoor,

856
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: voted fifteen to three to prevent all law enforcement agencies

857
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: from staging in Milwaukee County parks. Now, staging is simply

858
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 1: preparing for a large scale police operation. For example, if

859
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:47,760
Speaker 1: the SWAT team needs to go bust down a drug

860
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 1: dealer's door, they will stage, say in the parking lot,

861
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 1: out of view of the suspect, the target of the raid,

862
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: and they'll get everything ready. They'll they'll they'll get they'll

863
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: stage in that area. No law enforcement agencies will be

864
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 1: allowed to stage in Milwaukee County parks unless they get

865
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:19,840
Speaker 1: a permit like what they're they're holding the actual policeman's barbecue. Yeah,

866
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: we're going to Greenfield Park. Need a big permit for

867
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: the staging to get the dangerous murderer who just ran

868
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Speaker 1: off onto the golf course.

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Speaker 2: How ludicrous is this?

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Speaker 1: Byapoor said from comments by supervisors, it was clear that

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00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: one law enforcement agency in particular was the target of this.

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00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 1: Any guesses as to which one it might be, That's

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Speaker 1: absolutely correct.

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Speaker 2: Ice.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I need to tell you. Ice in

876
00:53:56,840 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: a public place absolutely cannot be stopped by municipal ordinance

877
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Speaker 1: from conducting a legitimate law enforcement operation. In fact, it

878
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 1: is beyond the scope of any municipal authority, any state authority,

879
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: to do anything that interferes with federal law enforcement operation.

880
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: This is like constitutional law one oh one. This is

881
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: the supremacy clause. In fact, it is very likely that

882
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: this county board resolution is already dead on arrival. It's

883
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Speaker 1: already unconstitutional because it violates the supremacy clause. They're saying, Okay,

884
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 1: Ice is absolutely authorized just as any other law enforcement agency. Okay,

885
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 1: think about the Milwaukee Police department, it comes up on

886
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 1: a dangerous criminal. He's armed, he's got a hostage, he

887
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: runs off into the woods. Because this is such a

888
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: dangerous situation, a massive law enforcement presence is needed in

889
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 1: order to stage. Let's say, let's say the guy takes

890
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Speaker 1: his hostage to the top of one of the water

891
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Speaker 1: slides at cool Water in order to stage. In order

892
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:29,840
Speaker 1: to establish hostage negotiations with the perp, they would have

893
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Speaker 1: to go to Milwaukee County and get a permit. And

894
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Speaker 1: as we've all seen, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley can't

895
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Speaker 1: even get health insurance for his own employees. We will

896
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Speaker 1: have a big update on that coming up at the

897
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Speaker 1: top of the five o'clock hour. How long do you

898
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Speaker 1: think it would be for the Milwaukee Police Department to

899
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Speaker 1: get a permit? This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

900
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Speaker 1: Its rank virtue signaling that if you actually think for

901
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:03,320
Speaker 1: more than about five seconds, you realize that A this

902
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: is unconstitutional. B It is very likely in violation of

903
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin's constitution and or state and federal law. And it

904
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Speaker 1: actually makes law enforcement operations. These people say they're not

905
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 1: anti cop. They swear up and down, no, we don't

906
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Speaker 1: hate law enforcement. We just really are worried about ICE's

907
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:27,520
Speaker 1: gestapo tactics. Well, this sort of proves you are absolutely

908
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 1: anti law enforcement because you're gonna make it largely impossible

909
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 1: for any law enforcement operation to take place in any

910
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 1: Milwaukee County park. You tell me, I would love to

911
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:43,800
Speaker 1: have Milwaukee County Board Chairwoman Marsilia Nicholson on to explain

912
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 1: exactly how this makes the people of Milwaukee any safer.

913
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: You explain to me how your asinine anti ICE thing,

914
00:56:54,600 --> 00:57:01,840
Speaker 1: which you stupidly you know, expanded to law enforcement agency.

915
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: You explain to me how this makes people any safer.

916
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 1: You explain to me how this is going to take

917
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Speaker 1: dangerous people, legal or illegal, off the streets. You explained

918
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 1: to me how this is going to make law enforcement

919
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 1: more able to do its job. You're listening to the

920
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell Show. Big update on our exclusive story the

921
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: city Attorney's war on Cops. Next Dan o'donnald's show, Welcome

922
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: back to It. Apparently, the latest on the Nancy Guthrie

923
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: disappearance is that federal agents have been seen canvassing the

924
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Speaker 1: neighborhood where Annie Guthrie, Nancy's daughter Savannah Guthrie, the NBC

925
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Speaker 1: anchor's sister, as well as Savannah Guthrie's brother in law,

926
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Speaker 1: who has emerged as potentially the prime suspect in this live.

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Speaker 1: Earlier today, law enforcement agents were seen removing boxes that

928
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Speaker 1: are used by law enforcement to transport electronic materials laptops, iPads,

929
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Speaker 1: phones from suspects houses. That also was going on at

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Speaker 1: Annie Guthrie and her husband, Tomaso Cioni, an Italian man

931
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Speaker 1: who she married some time ago. And folks, I'm not

932
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Speaker 1: bringing this up to say something like, you know, I'm

933
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: not going to say I told you so or anything

934
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Speaker 1: like that. I just this has sort of been my

935
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Speaker 1: working theory the entire time that it was a domestic

936
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Speaker 1: disturbance between the son in law and Nancy Guthrie.

937
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:47,439
Speaker 2: He loses his.

938
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Speaker 1: Temper, he shoves her, he hits her, something happens, she's

939
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Speaker 1: very seriously injured. He removes her from the house to

940
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Speaker 1: make it look like a kidnapping. The theory being there

941
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Speaker 1: that well, if there's no body, there's nothing that could

942
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: tie this to me. It just nothing added up to

943
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: a standard issue kidnapping, if there is such a thing

944
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Speaker 1: as a standard issue kidnapping. Now, Look, it could still

945
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Speaker 1: be I have no idea what happened. I'm just telling

946
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Speaker 1: you based on my long long experience in covering these

947
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: sorts of things, that's what to me. It always sort

948
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Speaker 1: of pointed to, let's go to Carl in Germantown up

949
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 1: on the Dan O'donnald show.

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00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 2: What's going on?

951
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 8: Carl? Hey, Dan, thanks for taking my call. You know,

952
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 8: every time I think the politicians can't do something dumber.

953
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 8: This staging area is ridiculous. I've been a swat team leader,

954
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 8: I've been in law enforcement over thirty four years in

955
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 8: federal state, and this is crazy. We need places to stage.

956
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 8: We're not going to give them that information because we

957
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 8: know how reliable they are keeping secrets. You're going to

958
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 8: tell me that we got an active shooter and you're

959
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 8: not going to let us to stage in the local

960
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:00,120
Speaker 8: park because it's close by.

961
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Speaker 9: This This shows they're not serious.

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01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 8: They don't care if we get killed.

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01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: Now a second way to second Carl, you have to

964
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: be fair. You are allowed to stage that. You just

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01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:14,400
Speaker 1: have to get a permit. You see, they think you're

966
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 1: gonna have like a little bonfire. You know you're gonna

967
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:20,439
Speaker 1: have a policeman's jamboree. By the way, for those who

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01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 1: weren't listening the last segment, the Milwaukee County Board voted

969
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 1: fifteen to three to refuse to allow any law enforcement

970
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: not just Ice who Reporter aj Byatt Poor, who broke

971
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 1: the story, said this was clearly aimed at but any

972
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 1: law enforcement agency, presumably even the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department.

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Speaker 1: They're not allowed to stage, which means to set up

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01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 1: for a large scale operation in a Milwaukee County park.

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01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:52,959
Speaker 1: This is Carl, This is the height of anti cop hysteria.

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01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:56,440
Speaker 1: And I actually am insulted on your behalf.

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Speaker 8: Well, well, thank you, because I mean keeps coming. They

978
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 8: keep you know, masked. You know, you look at any

979
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,960
Speaker 8: European slot team, they're all wearing Bella clavas. Yeah, for

980
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 8: our protection, everything they come up with. But what's gonna

981
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 8: happen when one of their people die, or in front

982
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 8: of theirs die, our police officers die. They're going to

983
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:18,160
Speaker 8: be so sorry at the funeral and nothing will change.

984
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 8: They won't ever say they're sorry or apologize for a decision.

985
01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 8: But what if it's their kids inside of school and

986
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 8: we need to park twenty police cards right there, right now,

987
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 8: to get the team assembled to get in there to push.

988
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 8: You want us to call for a permit. Maybe we

989
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 8: should call for a permit so we don't break the law,

990
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 8: which is a joke with them anyway.

991
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever actually heard of anything like this.

992
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 2: Carl.

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01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your service in law enforcement.

994
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: Thank you for doing the dangerous work that keeps us

995
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:51,200
Speaker 1: all safe, and thank you for your call. I saw

996
01:01:51,240 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 1: this cross on x formerly known as Twitter. I thought,

997
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:57,919
Speaker 1: there's no way this is real. There's just no way

998
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: this is real. And then I gotta text from a

999
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:02,880
Speaker 1: source of mine who said, did you see what the

1000
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:05,919
Speaker 1: Milwaukee County Board just passed? And I'm like, yeah, I did.

1001
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 1: I actually kind of can't believe it either. We are

1002
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 1: going to push our big update on the Milwaukee City

1003
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 1: Attorney now basically responding in a very half assed way

1004
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: to the Milwaukee Police Association. You can talk about anti cop.

1005
01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:29,360
Speaker 1: This is about his anti cop as it gets. We

1006
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:32,439
Speaker 1: first broke for you a couple of days ago here

1007
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 1: on the Dan O'Donnell Show that the Milwaukee Police Association

1008
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 1: has been so fed up with Milwaukee City Attorney Evan

1009
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 1: Goik for his refusal to defend cops, to actually mount

1010
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:48,720
Speaker 1: a defense or take cases to trial instead of settling

1011
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 1: them for millions of dollars. In lawsuits against the city

1012
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 1: in which police officers are named defendants and thus have

1013
01:02:56,760 --> 01:03:00,880
Speaker 1: a legal right to be represented by the City Attorney's office,

1014
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 1: I think we're sort of missing this. It is absolutely

1015
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 1: a duty of the Milwaukee City Attorney to represent city

1016
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 1: employees when they are defendants in lawsuits connected to doing

1017
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 1: their jobs for the city. With the MPa Milwaukee Police

1018
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 1: Association is alleging is a dereliction of duty and borderline

1019
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 1: misconduct in public office by Evan Goiki and his City

1020
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:30,280
Speaker 1: Attorney's office. We're going to get into that after the

1021
01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:33,600
Speaker 1: top of the hour. Just not enough time to really

1022
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 1: do it justice right now. Instead, let's go to Charlie

1023
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: in Brookfield up next on the Dan O'Donnell Show.

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01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 9: Hey, Dan, good afternoon. Hey, just a funny question occurred

1025
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:48,440
Speaker 9: to me. You know with this city council resolution or

1026
01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:53,600
Speaker 9: county county. You know, if if a law enforcement agency

1027
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 9: were to stage in a county park, what law enforcement

1028
01:03:57,280 --> 01:04:01,920
Speaker 9: agency would be the arrestignagen That's a great point.

1029
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:06,240
Speaker 1: That is a great point. Well, I think I think

1030
01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 1: it would be more after the fact. They Yeah, what

1031
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: would actually what would be the punishment mechanism?

1032
01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 2: Here?

1033
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 1: Would you have the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department. Okay, the

1034
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Police Department is actively looking for you know, Jeffrey

1035
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:24,760
Speaker 1: Dahmer the third He is absconded with a severed head

1036
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 1: that he has climbed up a tree in a Milwaukee

1037
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 1: County park and he's gnawing on. So what the Sheriff's

1038
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 1: department is going to just come arrest some homicide detectives

1039
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:37,240
Speaker 1: who are staging trying to get this guy into custody.

1040
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:39,520
Speaker 9: Yeah, the circular stupidity of it.

1041
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:42,320
Speaker 1: Like I just you know what, like how how exactly

1042
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 1: is this going to be enforced?

1043
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 2: Or how about this afterwards?

1044
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: So let's say you and I, Charlie, Let's say you

1045
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:52,480
Speaker 1: and I have a nice little picnic in the park.

1046
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: We we we get a gazebo because we want it

1047
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 1: to be extra romantic, just me and you and we

1048
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:03,960
Speaker 1: uh we we unfortunately are interrupted by the schwartz bar mitzvah,

1049
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 1: and we did not have a permit for our little

1050
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Speaker 1: romantic lunch. We would be what fined, Like, so, what

1051
01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:18,000
Speaker 1: would happen to the police department. They'd have to pay

1052
01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 1: a fifty dollars fine for using the park without a permit.

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Speaker 9: Just yeah, I'm so glad that's it.

1054
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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you brought that aspect up, Charlie, because

1055
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:34,440
Speaker 1: I'll admit I didn't initially like processing what is going

1056
01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:37,960
Speaker 1: on here? I didn't really think about that that. Yeah,

1057
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:41,600
Speaker 1: how exactly would this be enforced? What exactly would the

1058
01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 1: county board do if a law enforcement agency is like,

1059
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 1: all right, we don't got a permit, but we're going

1060
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 1: after this murderer.

1061
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Speaker 2: All right, county, what are you gonna do?

1062
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:53,760
Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell's show, Coming back, Welcome back to the Dan

1063
01:05:53,800 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: o'donald Show. Classical Conservatism and contemporary Style come up after

1064
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:04,040
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. Big updates on a couple

1065
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 1: of stories that we broke for you earlier in the week.

1066
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Speaker 1: First of all, the Milwaukee City Attorney's Office is finally

1067
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Speaker 1: responding to the Milwaukee Police Department's accusations that the City

1068
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 1: Attorney's Office is refusing to defend cops and frankly, folks,

1069
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Speaker 1: what I have learned about some of these cases in

1070
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Speaker 1: which the officers are alleging this. It paints a pretty

1071
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Speaker 1: disturbing picture about what exactly is going on in Evan

1072
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Speaker 1: Gouiki's office. Also, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley responds to

1073
01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: his thorough in neptitude in allowing health insurance coverage to

1074
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 1: lapse for thousands of county employees. He's passing the buck

1075
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Speaker 1: and also refusing to say exactly when he learned about

1076
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Speaker 1: the laps. Today's unsung hero of the day is the

1077
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Speaker 1: Columbia County Sheriff's Department. As we told you earlier this hour,

1078
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Speaker 1: a deputy arrested a criminal illegal alien from Nicaragua who

1079
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Speaker 1: had previously been deported in twenty twenty three and was

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Speaker 1: wanted on a twenty twenty two warrant for sexual assault, battery,

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Speaker 1: strangulation and suffocation, false imprisonment, and disorderly conduct. They took

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Speaker 1: him to the jail and immediately contacted Ice, who is

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01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 1: now on the way to pick this loser up and

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Speaker 1: deport him.

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Speaker 2: It is just that easy.

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Speaker 1: For doing the right thing, for cooperating with law enforcement,

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Speaker 1: for keeping the community safe.

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Speaker 2: The Columbia County.

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Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department your unsung Heroes of the day, still chuckling

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Speaker 1: at how exactly Milwaukee County's Board expects to enforce a

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01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 1: new ordinance it passed just this afternoon saying law enforcement

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Speaker 1: agencies can no longer stage in any Milwaukee County park.

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01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 1: According to CBS fifty eight reporter aj Byatpoor, who was

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Speaker 1: in the County board meeting, he said, based on comments

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01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:18,400
Speaker 1: from board supervisors, this was very clearly aimed at Ice,

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01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:23,080
Speaker 1: who again has no actual plans to come to Milwaukee.

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01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:26,840
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, there was some idiot guynecologist

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01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 1: and radio host for some left wing statewide network who

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01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:35,599
Speaker 1: was fanning the flames of liberal hysteria, attempting to dos

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01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 1: agents and say.

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01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:38,439
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, there are one hundred rooms booked at the

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01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 2: downtown Milwaukee Hilton. There were never.

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01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:46,000
Speaker 1: Any rooms booked. There was never any need for Ice

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01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 1: to book one hundred rooms because thankfully, we have departments

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, like the Columbia County Sheriff's Department, who took

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01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:58,559
Speaker 1: a dangerous criminal, illegal sex assault suspect into custody just

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01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:02,680
Speaker 1: this past weekend and turned him over to Ice, exactly

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01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 1: how federal law is supposed to work. Instead, you've got politicking,

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01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: grand standing, buffoons in the Milwaukee County Board who didn't

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Speaker 1: just limit their prevention of the park. So excuse me.

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01:09:19,680 --> 01:09:22,360
Speaker 1: They're not totally prevented from using the park. They have

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Speaker 1: to get a permit, just like if you are going

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01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:29,880
Speaker 1: to plan your kid's seventh birthday at Whitnell Park. The

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01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:34,320
Speaker 1: cops would need a permit in order to stage to

1115
01:09:34,439 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 1: go after a dangerous criminal. Now, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee County Executive,

1116
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,879
Speaker 1: I should say, David Crowley desperately wants to be governor.

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01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:50,960
Speaker 1: I'll tell you if he wants to pass himself off

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01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:53,759
Speaker 1: as a moderate, he would veto this. He's not going

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01:09:53,840 --> 01:09:57,000
Speaker 1: to because he'd never get out of a primary doing

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01:09:57,080 --> 01:10:02,040
Speaker 1: anything that is seen as helping ice. But Crowley's got

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01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:05,799
Speaker 1: his own problems. We'll get into those. The very latest

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01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 1: on the massive scandal, and it is a massive scandal,

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Speaker 1: the fact that the county executive let healthcare coverage lapse

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01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:20,439
Speaker 1: for five thousand county workers and retirees. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: that in just a second. Here are some of the

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Speaker 1: top stories that we are following this hour. Law enforcement

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01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:33,240
Speaker 1: officials have been seen canvassing the neighborhood around where Savannah

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01:10:33,240 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 1: Guthrie's sister Annie and her husband Thomasocioni, live about a

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01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:43,719
Speaker 1: mile or so a couple of miles from Nancy Guthrie,

1130
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:46,559
Speaker 1: the eighty four year old mother of the two sisters,

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01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:50,240
Speaker 1: who disappeared from her home a couple of days ago.

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01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 1: It is believed that there is at least some suspicion

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01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 1: cast on the son in law. A big news conference

1134
01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:04,439
Speaker 1: today revealed that the FBI had arrested someone who created

1135
01:11:04,479 --> 01:11:05,759
Speaker 1: a fake ransom.

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01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:09,439
Speaker 10: Note to those impostors who are trying to take advantage

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01:11:09,479 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 10: of profit from this situation, we will investigate and ensure

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01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:16,439
Speaker 10: you are held accountable for your actions.

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01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 1: Even the White House Press briefing was delayed today so

1140
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 1: Press Secretary Caroline Levin and the President himself could watch

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01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:28,080
Speaker 1: that press briefing, showing just how much the nation has

1142
01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:33,360
Speaker 1: been captivated by the disappearance of potential kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie.

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01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 1: Big news tonight from the President.

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01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:40,519
Speaker 7: Night at seven pm during Primetime, President Trump, Doctor oz

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01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:45,280
Speaker 7: In National Design Studio Director Joe Gabia will officially unveil

1146
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:49,400
Speaker 7: Trump Rx, a state of the art website for American

1147
01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:53,720
Speaker 7: consumers to purchase low cost prescription drugs.

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01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 1: That announcement again going to come at seven pm. The

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01:11:58,160 --> 01:12:02,880
Speaker 1: President today attending the National Prayer Breakfast, Cold Hard Cash

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01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:07,840
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01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:11,800
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01:12:11,840 --> 01:12:15,800
Speaker 1: in the iHeartMedia family and listening to the Dan O'Donnell Show,

1153
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:18,760
Speaker 1: where I dare say we have had more winners than

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01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:22,160
Speaker 1: any other radio show in the entire country.

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01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:23,040
Speaker 2: No real surprise.

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01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 1: WYSN, our flagship station, always has the most winners. In fact,

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01:12:27,520 --> 01:12:29,360
Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time we did not have

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Speaker 1: the most winners. You folks just love winning one thousand dollars,

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01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 1: and you could do so again right now by just

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01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:37,800
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01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:40,960
Speaker 2: Why your entry is picked at random? You know the drill.

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01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:46,040
Speaker 1: Right now, we pay you one thousand dollars. It was

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01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:52,680
Speaker 1: reported widely earlier this week that Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley. Actually, no,

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01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:54,920
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it wasn't earlier this week. It was late

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01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 1: last week in a Friday afternoon news dump, of course,

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01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:05,240
Speaker 1: where Milwaukee County revealed and County board supervisors were first

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01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:08,400
Speaker 1: made aware of the fact that the county's health insurance

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01:13:08,479 --> 01:13:12,200
Speaker 1: plan lapsed on the first of the year. Now everybody knows.

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01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:16,160
Speaker 1: Everybody who gets their healthcare through work has an open

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01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:20,040
Speaker 1: enrollment period where the company says, Okay, here are the

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01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:24,120
Speaker 1: available healthcare plans. If you want any changes from last year,

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Speaker 1: if you want to waive coverage, if you want coverage,

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01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:28,519
Speaker 1: You've got a set amount of time to be able

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Speaker 1: to do this. Well, the county owns its own healthcare plan.

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01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,600
Speaker 1: They run their own health care plan, but they contract

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01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:39,120
Speaker 1: with United Healthcare and optim our X to handle the

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01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 1: actual coverage and to handle the actual prescription coverage. There

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01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:47,439
Speaker 1: was no new contract with United Healthcare and Optimrx. They

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01:13:47,479 --> 01:13:51,200
Speaker 1: were operating without a contract, and that meant that thousands

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Speaker 1: It was something like thirty one thirty two hundred current

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01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:59,040
Speaker 1: employees and a total of one thousand current employees and

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01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:03,040
Speaker 1: retirees remain on the county's healthcare plan had a lapse

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01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:06,639
Speaker 1: in their coverage. Now today, for the first time, County

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01:14:06,680 --> 01:14:12,760
Speaker 1: Executive Crowley, who is desperately trying to convince a skeptical

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01:14:12,920 --> 01:14:16,759
Speaker 1: public that even though he is completely mismanaged Milwaukee County,

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01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:19,439
Speaker 1: he should be put in charge of the entire state.

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01:14:20,200 --> 01:14:24,120
Speaker 1: He insisted nobody lost their health coverage look, no harm,

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01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:27,320
Speaker 1: no foul. Right, I fired the guy who is responsible

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01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:28,920
Speaker 1: for this, not my problem.

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Speaker 11: But first I want to say that I want everyone

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01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:35,240
Speaker 11: to know that none of our employees, none of our retirees,

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01:14:35,280 --> 01:14:38,000
Speaker 11: have lost their insurance coverage. When we learned about what

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01:14:38,080 --> 01:14:40,280
Speaker 11: had happened, we made we started looking into it, and

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Speaker 11: we looked.

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Speaker 2: We took swift action.

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Speaker 11: I'm not going to speak on the personnel issues, but

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01:14:43,640 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 11: that individual is no longer here who quite frankly, was

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Speaker 11: here longer than I've been county executive. And so it

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Speaker 11: is my hope that we get this through the county

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01:14:50,479 --> 01:14:53,000
Speaker 11: board on today. But we want folks to know that

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01:14:53,200 --> 01:14:55,800
Speaker 11: everybody has had insurance, and we want the folks to

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01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:57,080
Speaker 11: know that they have been able to go to the

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01:14:57,120 --> 01:14:59,040
Speaker 11: doctor and all their claims have been paid out.

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01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:02,240
Speaker 2: Okay, what did he just say there?

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01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:07,320
Speaker 1: Not only am I not responsible, I'm not responsible for

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01:15:07,479 --> 01:15:11,760
Speaker 1: hiring the guy who was responsible for this. He was

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01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:16,439
Speaker 1: an HR employee who was the lead on negotiating and

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01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:20,040
Speaker 1: interacting with the insurance companies on the healthcare as the

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Speaker 1: HR Director for Healthcare whatever the title was, Tony Mays

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01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:26,920
Speaker 1: was his name?

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01:15:30,040 --> 01:15:30,719
Speaker 2: Not exactly?

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01:15:30,760 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 1: The Bucks stops here in terms of taking accountabilities. So

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01:15:35,320 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 1: Crowley was actually asked, and this is the operative question

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01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:44,400
Speaker 1: because County board supervisors were not made aware until January

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01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 1: twenty ninth. Rather, obviously, there would have been some notice

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Speaker 1: given by United Healthcare and by optim RX. Hey, Milwaukee County,

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01:15:53,280 --> 01:15:57,080
Speaker 1: you're a pretty big account Why have you guys not

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01:15:57,280 --> 01:16:01,000
Speaker 1: reupt with us? Those notices were probably coming throughout the

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01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:04,439
Speaker 1: month of December, if not earlier, and then they rather

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01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:07,559
Speaker 1: obviously would be providing notice after the first of the

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01:16:07,680 --> 01:16:12,000
Speaker 1: year that coverage had lapsed, that there was an interruption

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Speaker 1: in coverage, So it would have been very widely known.

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Speaker 1: Let's just assume for the sake of arguments, January first

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Speaker 1: was a Thursday.

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Speaker 2: This year.

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Speaker 1: Let's say the entire county took off on Friday the second.

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to take a wild guess that they

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01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:30,160
Speaker 1: did that. They just turned it into a four, if

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Speaker 1: not five day weekend New Year's Eve on Wednesday, New

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01:16:33,840 --> 01:16:36,360
Speaker 1: Year's Day Thursday, and then the day after on Friday.

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Speaker 1: I've just taken a wild guest. This is how Milwaukee

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01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:41,720
Speaker 1: County government works. I'm taking a wild guest. The day

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01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:45,160
Speaker 1: after a holiday being a Friday, there aren't a whole

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01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:48,000
Speaker 1: lot of people who are going in. So let's say

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Speaker 1: the first business day that they would have been aware

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01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:57,720
Speaker 1: would have been Monday, January fifth. It took them, therefore,

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01:16:58,360 --> 01:17:03,480
Speaker 1: twenty four full days to tell anyone in an oversight

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01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:07,599
Speaker 1: role on the Milwaukee County Board that there was any

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01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 1: sort of lapse in coverage, that there was any sort

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01:17:10,080 --> 01:17:14,519
Speaker 1: of problem. In fact, County Board supervisors on the Health

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Speaker 1: Committee on that Thursday, when they were first informed, reacted

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01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:21,920
Speaker 1: with complete shock, indicating they had no idea that there

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01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:24,479
Speaker 1: was ever any lapse in coverage, that there was ever

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01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:30,160
Speaker 1: any issue whatsoever. Now, today, as Crowley met with reporters

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01:17:30,200 --> 01:17:33,759
Speaker 1: before the County Board meeting to discuss whether to adopt

1246
01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:34,360
Speaker 1: the new.

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01:17:34,280 --> 01:17:38,559
Speaker 2: Contract with United Healthcare and optim RX, he.

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01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:42,960
Speaker 1: Was asked the operative question, all right, mister county executive,

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01:17:43,439 --> 01:17:47,479
Speaker 1: when did you first learn that there was a lapse

1250
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: in coverage? Listen very carefully to how Crowley does not

1251
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:54,200
Speaker 1: answer this question.

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01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:55,840
Speaker 9: What will you find out about that?

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01:17:56,120 --> 01:17:57,200
Speaker 2: Do you feel responsible for?

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01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:01,439
Speaker 11: Look, we have employees who are was my doing their jobs,

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01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:03,920
Speaker 11: and so learning that this person did not follow the

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01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:06,439
Speaker 11: ordin is the correct way. We took swift action as

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01:18:06,439 --> 01:18:10,400
Speaker 11: we needed to do. But again, folks, insurance have not

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01:18:10,439 --> 01:18:12,719
Speaker 11: They have not lost coverage. We want folks to understand

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01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:14,719
Speaker 11: that they have been able to have coverage this entire time.

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Speaker 1: Now, at that point, one of Crowley's aides quickly showed

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Speaker 1: him away from reporters. They literally said, Okay, that's it,

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01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:27,200
Speaker 1: thank you, We're done. Why because that's the only question

1263
01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:30,599
Speaker 1: that mattered. Kudos to whichever reporter that was that asked,

1264
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:34,639
Speaker 1: when did you learn this? And why wasn't the county

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01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:40,560
Speaker 1: board informed sooner? If you were not informed this until

1266
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 1: the exact moment that the county board was informed, how

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01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:48,120
Speaker 1: incompetent is your office that you can go nearly a

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01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: full month, more than three weeks without having a health

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01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:55,600
Speaker 1: insurance plan for five thousand people.

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Speaker 2: And you don't even know about it. So that's option one.

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01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:06,759
Speaker 1: Either the Crowley administration is so incompetent that they literally

1272
01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:09,400
Speaker 1: did have no idea what was going on for three

1273
01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:12,800
Speaker 1: plus weeks, and then as soon as they found out,

1274
01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:16,400
Speaker 1: they went right to the Milwaukee County Board, they fired

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01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:20,479
Speaker 1: the employee involved, and they took swift action as Crowley

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01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:25,880
Speaker 1: set or the more likely scenario is that they knew

1277
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:29,080
Speaker 1: exactly what was going on right away, tried to keep

1278
01:19:29,120 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 1: it hidden from the public because it would look very

1279
01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:35,240
Speaker 1: very bad as Crowley is running for governor that he

1280
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Speaker 1: can't even manage to get health insurance. You know what,

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01:19:38,640 --> 01:19:41,439
Speaker 1: This reminds me of that old episode of the Office

1282
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:45,280
Speaker 1: where Michael doesn't want to pick the health insurance for

1283
01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:48,639
Speaker 1: his employees, so he has Dwight do it, and Dwight

1284
01:19:48,720 --> 01:19:52,519
Speaker 1: picks the absolute worst health insurance plan of all time.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't have found a Dwight County executive, Crowley, You

1286
01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 1: couldn't have passed it off, and hell I would have

1287
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:06,920
Speaker 1: since my tax dollars would be going to pay for

1288
01:20:07,040 --> 01:20:10,479
Speaker 1: part of that health plan. I would have loved if

1289
01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:12,880
Speaker 1: you would have gotten the Dwight plan. Instead, they opt

1290
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:17,000
Speaker 1: for no plan. It is my very strong suspicion that

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01:20:17,040 --> 01:20:20,360
Speaker 1: they knew very quickly and were trying to figure out

1292
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: how best to spin this. So it's either in competence

1293
01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 1: or its rank dishonesty. Now why else do I think

1294
01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:29,800
Speaker 1: it's some combination of both. I mean, it is rather

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Speaker 1: obviously incompetence, but it's also dishonesty because this exact same

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Speaker 1: scenario played out with respect to the Milwaukee County transit

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Speaker 1: system when everyone was so surprised that there was a

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Speaker 1: twelve million dollar budget deficit that just, oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: County Executive Crowley had absolutely no idea. CBS fifty eight

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01:20:53,960 --> 01:20:56,680
Speaker 1: reporter aj Byatt Poor is having himself a heck of

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Speaker 1: a day, having himself a good day. I Hey, look,

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01:20:59,680 --> 01:21:03,439
Speaker 1: I have very critical of the news media in this state,

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01:21:03,479 --> 01:21:06,560
Speaker 1: but I have also I give praise where it is warranted,

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01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:09,320
Speaker 1: and by it. Poor is actually one of the guys

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Speaker 1: who does the work and asks the tough questions. He

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01:21:12,920 --> 01:21:15,799
Speaker 1: asked Crowley, Hey, this comes just a couple of months

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Speaker 1: after MCTS was forced to admit that there were twelve

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01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:25,000
Speaker 1: million dollars worth of deficits and you were forced to

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Speaker 1: fire the two top officials.

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Speaker 4: Is this a pattern between this and the MCTS situation

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Speaker 4: last year? How concerned are you that there are people

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01:21:33,640 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 4: who work fairly closely under you that need to be

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01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:39,920
Speaker 4: more transparent or diligent about what's happening with the taxpayers dollars?

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Speaker 11: Well, Bauk County Transit System is its own separate entity.

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01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:45,839
Speaker 11: Is not we own the system, but it is operated

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Speaker 11: within Waukin County Transit, And I would say that because

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Speaker 11: of what has happened.

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Speaker 1: Come on, it's your count Well, yeah, we own it,

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01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:00,760
Speaker 1: but you know it's it's operated by Transit.

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Speaker 11: Yeah okay, and especially with recently transpire, we are looking

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01:22:06,479 --> 01:22:08,800
Speaker 11: internally making sure that we put things in place to

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Speaker 11: make sure that things like this never happen again moving forward.

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Speaker 2: Just no accountability whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: Well, I can't possibly be responsible for the buses. That's

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Speaker 1: you know, that's Steve over in Transit. Talk to him

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01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:31,880
Speaker 1: that that was the guy I put in charge of

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Speaker 1: getting the healthcare plan.

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Speaker 2: He sucked. I didn't hire him. He predates me. Not

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01:22:37,160 --> 01:22:40,000
Speaker 2: my fault, not my issue.

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Speaker 1: When even Sarah Rodriguez, the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, is

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01:22:45,400 --> 01:22:48,599
Speaker 1: willing to take a potshot at a fellow Democrat candidate

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01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:52,000
Speaker 1: for governor, she said it was very disturbing what she

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Speaker 1: had heard about the Crowley failure. You know, this is

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01:22:56,360 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 1: a big, big deal. This says a lot about David

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01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:05,519
Speaker 1: Crowley as a leader and as a person. He's an

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01:23:05,520 --> 01:23:10,320
Speaker 1: incompetent leader. I mean that much is clear. But instead

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01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:13,919
Speaker 1: of saying, look, I'm the county executive, it's my office,

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01:23:14,200 --> 01:23:18,840
Speaker 1: we failed to every single employee of Milwaukee County I say,

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Speaker 1: I am sorry. If it's any consolation, your coverage never lapsed,

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01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:27,759
Speaker 1: you were never without health insurance. But this is something

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01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:31,080
Speaker 1: that cannot and will not ever happen again. As your

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01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:36,360
Speaker 1: county executive, I will ensure that can't do that, apparently

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01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:39,439
Speaker 1: when you're running for governor. But that would have gone

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01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:43,600
Speaker 1: a heck of a lot farther than just saying yeah, eh,

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01:23:43,720 --> 01:23:47,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, as Chris Larson, he hired

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01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:49,519
Speaker 1: the wrong guy. Maybe it was even Scott Walker. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:52,439
Speaker 1: it was county executive Scott Walker. He hired that health

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01:23:52,479 --> 01:23:57,680
Speaker 1: insurance guy. He sucks not my fault transit system. I

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01:23:57,680 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 1: don't even run that. Not my fault either speaks volumes

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01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:08,519
Speaker 1: about his character or lack thereof conservative thought, not just talk.

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Speaker 1: It is the Dan O'Donnell Show. Welcome back to it.

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01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:15,959
Speaker 1: Two days ago we broke for you a very sizable story.

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01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:21,760
Speaker 1: The Milwaukee Police Association is accusing City Attorney Evan Goike's

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01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:26,280
Speaker 1: office of refusing to defend police officers when they are

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01:24:26,400 --> 01:24:29,800
Speaker 1: named as defendants in lawsuits against the city. In a

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01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:34,200
Speaker 1: couple of very high profile cases recently, the city Attorney's

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01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:39,480
Speaker 1: office simply settled cases that could have very easily been defended.

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Speaker 1: Most notably, they paid two point five million dollars this

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01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:47,280
Speaker 1: past November in a case in which a guy who

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01:24:47,439 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 1: shot a man to death swallowed a whole bunch of

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01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 1: drugs and then died of an overdose in his cell.

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Speaker 1: The allegation was that Milwaukee police officers didn't do enough

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01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:02,160
Speaker 1: to say of him. What you can see on video

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01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:06,400
Speaker 1: from the holding cell that about fifteen different officers come

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01:25:06,479 --> 01:25:09,879
Speaker 1: running in when they realize that this guy was actually

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01:25:09,920 --> 01:25:13,200
Speaker 1: in very serious trouble. They attempted to save his life,

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01:25:13,200 --> 01:25:16,680
Speaker 1: but unfortunately they could not. He took a truly staggering

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01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:25,880
Speaker 1: number of drugs hidden in his orifice to try to

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01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:32,960
Speaker 1: avoid detection, and then swallowed them. City Attorney Evan Goik,

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01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:36,639
Speaker 1: fresh off of what I am told is a family

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01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:41,800
Speaker 1: vacation in Honduras for the past couple of days, has

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01:25:41,880 --> 01:25:45,519
Speaker 1: released a statement not to me, who broke this story,

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01:25:45,560 --> 01:25:49,439
Speaker 1: of course, not to the Milwaukee Police Association, but to

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01:25:49,520 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, who, yeah, did not mention at all.

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01:25:58,240 --> 01:26:01,439
Speaker 1: Who broke the story should get used to that of course.

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01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:06,559
Speaker 1: In a statement, Journal Sentinel reports, Goik defended his office's

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01:26:06,600 --> 01:26:09,599
Speaker 1: work and said his office. Quote remains committed to lawful,

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01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:13,960
Speaker 1: ethical and professional service, careful stewardship of taxpayer resources, and

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01:26:14,160 --> 01:26:17,160
Speaker 1: ensuring that the City of Milwaukee acts within the bounds

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01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:20,640
Speaker 1: of the law. As an elected office, the City Attorney

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01:26:20,760 --> 01:26:23,560
Speaker 1: is accountable to the voters and as a professional obligation

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01:26:23,880 --> 01:26:28,000
Speaker 1: to provide independent, objective legal advice to city officials and departments.

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01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:31,839
Speaker 1: Our attorneys make decisions based on the law, the facts,

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01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:35,680
Speaker 1: and their ethical duties. We are charged with providing our

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01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:38,080
Speaker 1: clients with the highest level of legal service, and I

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Speaker 1: am confident we meet that standard.

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 1: The Milwaukee Police Association, one of the clients, most certainly

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01:26:45,640 --> 01:26:50,040
Speaker 1: is not in the statement. Goik, in turn, voiced his

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01:26:50,120 --> 01:26:53,000
Speaker 1: disappointment that the MPa and its attorneys did not engage

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01:26:53,000 --> 01:26:57,040
Speaker 1: directly with him. I know them, We've met previously, and

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01:26:57,080 --> 01:26:59,599
Speaker 1: I've offered a direct line to me if issues arise.

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Speaker 1: He said, it's unfortunate they've ignored that invitation and engaged

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01:27:03,840 --> 01:27:08,240
Speaker 1: in a political game instead. End quote. Why do you

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01:27:08,320 --> 01:27:13,120
Speaker 1: suppose he said, they engaged in a political game because

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01:27:13,360 --> 01:27:18,280
Speaker 1: I'm involved. Well, if we want to talk about political games,

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01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 1: City Attorney, Goigi, let's talk about your statement. In twenty

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01:27:23,080 --> 01:27:26,240
Speaker 1: twenty when you were a Democrat State assemblyman a day

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01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:29,120
Speaker 1: or two after George Floyd's death, when you said, and

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01:27:29,360 --> 01:27:35,000
Speaker 1: I quote, the system of criminal justice, with its bloated budgets,

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01:27:35,400 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 1: needs to be dismantled and rebuilt. Is refusing to defend

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01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:47,200
Speaker 1: police officers to make it seem to the public like, well,

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01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:48,840
Speaker 1: they had to pay out a two and a half

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01:27:48,920 --> 01:27:51,840
Speaker 1: million dollar judgment, they must have done something wrong. They

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01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:56,759
Speaker 1: were held civilly liable for this murder suspect's death because

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01:27:56,760 --> 01:28:00,880
Speaker 1: he swore he swallowed enough metham Fete means that would

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01:28:01,000 --> 01:28:07,720
Speaker 1: you kill an elephant? Is this how you're dismantling the

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01:28:07,760 --> 01:28:11,519
Speaker 1: police department in the city that you took an oath

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01:28:11,920 --> 01:28:17,479
Speaker 1: to defend in the court of law. Since Goiky started

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01:28:17,520 --> 01:28:19,960
Speaker 1: a four year term as city attorney in April, Journal

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01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:23,640
Speaker 1: Central story goes on April twenty four, I should say

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01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:27,240
Speaker 1: his office has agreed to large settlements in the cases

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Speaker 1: for Danny Wilbur and Keishawn Thomas. Both are among the

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Speaker 1: city's most expensive settlements.

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01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:34,600
Speaker 2: Ever, isn't that weird?

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01:28:36,600 --> 01:28:42,200
Speaker 1: In less than two years, he settles two cases that

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01:28:42,360 --> 01:28:44,800
Speaker 1: just happened to be some of the most expensive in

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01:28:44,880 --> 01:28:49,360
Speaker 1: the history of the city, doesn't fight them, doesn't try

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01:28:49,360 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 1: to defend the officers vigorously at trial, doesn't try to

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01:28:55,520 --> 01:29:00,479
Speaker 1: present evidence that, No, the claims plaintiffs are making are

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01:29:00,800 --> 01:29:05,200
Speaker 1: totally factually erroneous. No, we are supported by qualified immunity. No,

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01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:08,280
Speaker 1: we are supported by this statute. No we have a

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01:29:08,360 --> 01:29:10,559
Speaker 1: valid defense. He didn't even attempt to make a defense.

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01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:17,599
Speaker 1: Write a check, taxpayers, This one's on you. Wilbur's settlement

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01:29:18,040 --> 01:29:21,800
Speaker 1: was for a six point nine million dollars. It is

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Speaker 1: the second largest ever. It was not mentioned by the

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01:29:24,200 --> 01:29:26,479
Speaker 1: police union. It came after the man spent almost eighteen

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01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 1: years in prison and was released after a court deemed

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01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:34,360
Speaker 1: his court hearing was unfair. The settlement in Thomas's case, however,

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01:29:34,479 --> 01:29:37,040
Speaker 1: was one of three cases the police union pointed to.

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01:29:37,240 --> 01:29:40,639
Speaker 1: He was the twenty year old man who shot a guy. Now,

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01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:47,400
Speaker 1: it's so weird that nobody says the charges that Keishawn

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01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:48,760
Speaker 1: Thomas was facing.

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01:29:50,120 --> 01:29:51,919
Speaker 2: Killed a man. This was a murderer.

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01:29:52,360 --> 01:29:55,519
Speaker 1: This was someone who the evidence pointed toe. Now, did

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01:29:56,520 --> 01:29:59,720
Speaker 1: he deserved to die? Maybe maybe not. But when you

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01:30:00,160 --> 01:30:05,160
Speaker 1: swallow a literal butt load of drugs, dying of a

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01:30:05,240 --> 01:30:10,320
Speaker 1: drug overdose is a very real possibility. Another case mentioned

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01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:14,879
Speaker 1: Cedric Smith one hundred and eighty thousand dollars settlement. According

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01:30:14,920 --> 01:30:18,320
Speaker 1: to his lawsuit, he's stabbed by a man police failed

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01:30:18,360 --> 01:30:22,120
Speaker 1: to remove a knife from Smith was working as a

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01:30:22,160 --> 01:30:25,200
Speaker 1: hospital security guard. According to court records, came after Smith

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01:30:25,240 --> 01:30:28,680
Speaker 1: and another security guard restrained a man who became threatening

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01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:31,479
Speaker 1: toward him. When police arrived, they called an ambulance for

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01:30:31,520 --> 01:30:33,960
Speaker 1: the man did not take away a knife in his belongings.

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01:30:34,240 --> 01:30:36,320
Speaker 1: According to the court records, the man was taken to

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01:30:36,320 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 1: the hospital Smith worked at, and later stabbed him. Now,

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01:30:43,560 --> 01:30:48,000
Speaker 1: this is a very interesting case because when Smith filed

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01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:53,479
Speaker 1: his lawsuit last February, an assistant city attorney actually missed

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01:30:53,520 --> 01:30:58,080
Speaker 1: a deadline to respond, and US District Judge J. P.

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01:30:58,240 --> 01:31:03,960
Speaker 1: Stadmuller was in credulous, actually asking the city attorney's office,

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01:31:04,640 --> 01:31:07,240
Speaker 1: this is highly unusual.

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01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:09,720
Speaker 2: Why did you not respond?

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01:31:10,720 --> 01:31:15,320
Speaker 1: City attorney of course blamed staffing shortages, saying well, we

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01:31:15,360 --> 01:31:20,679
Speaker 1: don't have enough, we don't have enough funding. You see,

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01:31:21,439 --> 01:31:25,840
Speaker 1: that's just incompetence, that's ineffective assistance of counsel is what

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01:31:25,880 --> 01:31:30,720
Speaker 1: that's known as in the law. Now, when we come

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01:31:30,760 --> 01:31:32,960
Speaker 1: back here on the Dan o'donald Show, I have actually

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01:31:33,080 --> 01:31:37,000
Speaker 1: learned a little something about some of these settlements that

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01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:41,840
Speaker 1: makes me think maybe there might be a little more

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01:31:42,439 --> 01:31:46,559
Speaker 1: to them. Interesting angle to this exclusive story. We'll have

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Speaker 1: it for you coming up next here on the Dan

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01:31:48,240 --> 01:31:53,519
Speaker 1: o'donald Show. On Tuesday, we first broke the story that

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01:31:53,600 --> 01:31:59,920
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Police Association is absolutely furious with city attorney

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01:32:00,160 --> 01:32:06,040
Speaker 1: Evan Goik for refusing to adequately represent Milwaukee police officers

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01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:09,120
Speaker 1: who are named as defendants in lawsuits against the city.

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01:32:10,080 --> 01:32:13,280
Speaker 1: In the letter, Alex Ayala, the head of the Milwaukee

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01:32:13,280 --> 01:32:20,479
Speaker 1: Police Association, lists three cases, one involving Keyshawn Thomas, which

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Speaker 1: we have been talking about, that the city settled for

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01:32:23,240 --> 01:32:25,479
Speaker 1: two point five million dollars.

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Speaker 2: The attorney in that.

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Speaker 1: Case who represented Thomas's family just happens to be Mark Thompson,

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01:32:36,520 --> 01:32:40,240
Speaker 1: who is also a member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission

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01:32:40,960 --> 01:32:46,000
Speaker 1: and also happens to be a campaign donor of one

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01:32:46,760 --> 01:32:47,400
Speaker 1: Evan Goik.

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01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:50,879
Speaker 2: That's not all.

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Speaker 1: In one of the other three cases that's named by

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01:32:54,160 --> 01:32:59,840
Speaker 1: Ayala in this letter, Isaiah Taylor, a then sixteen year

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01:32:59,840 --> 01:33:04,120
Speaker 1: old who spent twenty minutes fifteen minutes now fit twenty

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01:33:04,120 --> 01:33:09,360
Speaker 1: minutes twenty minutes. I guess in police custody and settled

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01:33:09,360 --> 01:33:12,200
Speaker 1: with the city for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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01:33:12,240 --> 01:33:15,360
Speaker 1: Here's what Iola writes in yet another matter involving Isaiah Taylor.

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01:33:15,439 --> 01:33:19,040
Speaker 1: After this case was successfully defended by a former assistant

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01:33:19,080 --> 01:33:22,920
Speaker 1: city attorney, Taylor appealed his loss at trial. The case

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01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:26,040
Speaker 1: was ultimately remanded for a new trial after the Seventh

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01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:30,240
Speaker 1: Circuit Court of Appeals denied qualified immunity. The involved officers

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01:33:30,360 --> 01:33:34,080
Speaker 1: repeatedly requested that the city continued to litigate the case

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01:33:34,080 --> 01:33:37,560
Speaker 1: at a new trial. Unfortunately, the requests of those officers

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01:33:37,600 --> 01:33:41,000
Speaker 1: fell upon deaf ears. The city settled this case for

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01:33:41,120 --> 01:33:44,840
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, even though mister Taylor

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01:33:44,960 --> 01:33:49,440
Speaker 1: was detained for a mere twenty minutes. Guess who Taylor's

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01:33:49,479 --> 01:33:55,160
Speaker 1: attorney was in that case. None other than Evan Goik,

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01:33:55,400 --> 01:33:59,880
Speaker 1: donor and Wisconsin Elections commission member, a Democrat of course,

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01:34:00,320 --> 01:34:10,759
Speaker 1: Mark Thompson. But that's not all. That's not all. Guess

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01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:19,000
Speaker 1: who Isaiah Taylor's mother happens to be. Think about it,

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01:34:20,040 --> 01:34:27,439
Speaker 1: Taylor Milwaukee possibly getting money because of political connections or

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01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:32,559
Speaker 1: personal connections in a very controversial lawsuit against the city

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01:34:32,640 --> 01:34:37,960
Speaker 1: that's right, none other than former state Senator and current

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01:34:38,040 --> 01:34:43,400
Speaker 1: Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge Lina Taylor. So Isaiah Taylor,

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Speaker 1: the now twenty seven year old son of Lina Taylor,

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01:34:51,880 --> 01:34:56,400
Speaker 1: a client of Mark Thompson who is a donor to

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01:34:56,600 --> 01:35:00,519
Speaker 1: Evan Goike, gets three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Thompson,

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01:35:00,560 --> 01:35:04,000
Speaker 1: of course makes out like a possibly literal bandit here

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01:35:05,560 --> 01:35:10,479
Speaker 1: and the taxpayers are footing the bill. By the way,

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01:35:10,520 --> 01:35:15,920
Speaker 1: what were the circumstances of that case? It actually went

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01:35:16,040 --> 01:35:22,000
Speaker 1: to a federal case. It actually went to federal court.

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01:35:23,439 --> 01:35:29,200
Speaker 1: He claimed two Milwaukee police officers illegally detained him. And

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01:35:29,400 --> 01:35:34,320
Speaker 1: remember this case was brought up way later claimed he

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01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:39,440
Speaker 1: was delivering a turkey to a neighbor. He gets detained

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01:35:39,479 --> 01:35:45,439
Speaker 1: for twenty minutes. The story Senator Lena Taylor calling an

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01:35:45,479 --> 01:35:48,040
Speaker 1: incident where police stopped her son while he was delivering.

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Speaker 2: A frozen turkey outrageous.

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Speaker 1: According to a Facebook post, Taylor said that when police

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01:35:52,320 --> 01:35:54,280
Speaker 1: stopped her son Isaiah, they put him in a squad

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01:35:54,320 --> 01:35:57,080
Speaker 1: car and questioned him. He was terrified, of course, she

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01:35:57,120 --> 01:36:01,400
Speaker 1: wrote in the post. WITITV reports Taylor's sixteen had returned

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01:36:01,439 --> 01:36:03,600
Speaker 1: home with her Monday evening after giving out meals to

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01:36:03,680 --> 01:36:06,920
Speaker 1: needy families, and her son wanted to take a turkey

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01:36:06,960 --> 01:36:10,559
Speaker 1: to a neighbor down the street. Police confirmed to the

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01:36:10,560 --> 01:36:13,639
Speaker 1: TV station the tailor's son had been questioned, saying it

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01:36:13,720 --> 01:36:17,519
Speaker 1: had been a lawful interview. Officials were addressing recent robberies

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01:36:17,520 --> 01:36:20,559
Speaker 1: in the area. When describing the incident, Taylor said her

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01:36:20,600 --> 01:36:22,800
Speaker 1: son saw a squad car as he was running near

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01:36:22,880 --> 01:36:28,000
Speaker 1: fifteenth in Capital and continued as the car's sirens weren't activated.

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01:36:28,479 --> 01:36:30,960
Speaker 1: She told the television station an officer called out to

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01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:33,479
Speaker 1: Isaiah to stop, which he did. The officer then proceeded

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01:36:33,479 --> 01:36:36,000
Speaker 1: to talk to him and pat him down. Taylor told

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01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:38,360
Speaker 1: the TV station she planned to contact the Police and

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01:36:38,400 --> 01:36:41,760
Speaker 1: Fire Commission about possible violations of her son's civil rights.

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01:36:41,760 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 1: She eventually did file suit. The case actually went to

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01:36:44,560 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 1: the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, it was remanded back

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01:36:48,200 --> 01:36:52,280
Speaker 1: down and instead of actually fighting the case, guess what happened.

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01:36:53,160 --> 01:36:55,160
Speaker 2: That's right, quickie.

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01:36:54,680 --> 01:36:57,719
Speaker 1: Settlement for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Evan

1535
01:36:57,800 --> 01:37:03,600
Speaker 1: Goik's friend, Lena Taylor's son, and his campaign donor Mark Thompson,

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01:37:04,280 --> 01:37:11,240
Speaker 1: his client by the way, the kid's got a frozen turkey.

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01:37:12,439 --> 01:37:17,840
Speaker 1: So he's giving out meals to needy families, and he

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01:37:17,960 --> 01:37:21,479
Speaker 1: makes off with a turkey that was supposed to go

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01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:25,519
Speaker 1: to needy families and he wanted to take it to

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01:37:25,560 --> 01:37:26,920
Speaker 1: a neighbor down the street.

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01:37:28,720 --> 01:37:34,120
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. So the turkey doesn't go to a needy.

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01:37:33,840 --> 01:37:38,880
Speaker 1: Family who showed up at the spot where Isaiah Taylor

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01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:42,639
Speaker 1: was giving out turkeys to needy families. He instead takes

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01:37:42,680 --> 01:37:45,080
Speaker 1: the turkey that was meant for the needy families who

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01:37:45,080 --> 01:37:47,760
Speaker 1: show up at this location and instead is going to

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01:37:47,880 --> 01:37:51,040
Speaker 1: give it to a friend. And then when the police

1547
01:37:51,439 --> 01:37:54,280
Speaker 1: show up, instead of saying, hey, yeah, I've got this turkey,

1548
01:37:54,479 --> 01:37:57,040
Speaker 1: I'm just giving it to my friend, he takes off

1549
01:37:57,160 --> 01:38:00,439
Speaker 1: running as if he did something wrong by taking a

1550
01:38:00,479 --> 01:38:03,400
Speaker 1: turkey that was supposed to go to needy families to

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01:38:04,080 --> 01:38:05,599
Speaker 1: a neighbor's house.

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01:38:05,640 --> 01:38:07,040
Speaker 2: Do I have that right?

1553
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:13,599
Speaker 1: Seems maybe the police weren't totally off with that one,

1554
01:38:16,360 --> 01:38:21,760
Speaker 1: But let's see. Evan Goik takes a dive on a

1555
01:38:21,800 --> 01:38:26,759
Speaker 1: two and a half million dollar settlement when the family

1556
01:38:26,960 --> 01:38:30,839
Speaker 1: just happens to be represented by one of his campaign donors,

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01:38:30,840 --> 01:38:34,680
Speaker 1: Mark Thompson and Thompson stands to get one of the

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01:38:34,960 --> 01:38:41,600
Speaker 1: largest settlements in the history of Milwaukee, getting a substantial

1559
01:38:41,680 --> 01:38:46,240
Speaker 1: percentage of that plus lawyer's fees. I assume I'm going

1560
01:38:46,320 --> 01:38:49,360
Speaker 1: to take a wild guess he doesn't just work on contingency.

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01:38:51,479 --> 01:38:55,679
Speaker 1: By the way, this is one of the biggest loudmouths

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01:38:55,720 --> 01:39:00,720
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin electoral politics, and I would I would just

1563
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:06,160
Speaker 1: love to get his statement on this because it sure

1564
01:39:06,360 --> 01:39:14,960
Speaker 1: sounds I mean, here's the thing. It's not as though

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01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:19,080
Speaker 1: Mark Thompson has a history of this sort of behavior.

1566
01:39:19,240 --> 01:39:27,080
Speaker 1: Is it, like, you know, he donates to potential litigation

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01:39:27,160 --> 01:39:31,439
Speaker 1: opponents or judges and then expects a favorable outcome for

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01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:35,519
Speaker 1: his client. Oh wait, yes, he absolutely does have a

1569
01:39:35,640 --> 01:39:41,840
Speaker 1: history of that. Wisconsinwatch dot com and I quote in

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01:39:42,000 --> 01:39:45,759
Speaker 1: January two thousand and nine, Milwaukee area attorney Mark Thompson

1571
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:49,680
Speaker 1: donated five thousand dollars to a Wisconsin officials political campaign.

1572
01:39:50,160 --> 01:39:53,479
Speaker 1: Thompson soon sent an additional five hundred dollars just eight

1573
01:39:53,560 --> 01:39:56,360
Speaker 1: days before the official cast a key vote on an

1574
01:39:56,439 --> 01:40:00,400
Speaker 1: insurance issue that greatly affected Thompson and his clients. The

1575
01:40:00,439 --> 01:40:03,000
Speaker 1: public officials vote was not in the State Assembly or

1576
01:40:03,040 --> 01:40:05,759
Speaker 1: the state Senate. It was in the state's highest court.

1577
01:40:06,120 --> 01:40:09,639
Speaker 1: When the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision came down in Thompson's favor,

1578
01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:14,320
Speaker 1: the majority included the recipient of Thompson's money, Chief Justice

1579
01:40:14,680 --> 01:40:22,240
Speaker 1: Shirley Abramson. Thompson has been doing this exact thing, donating

1580
01:40:22,600 --> 01:40:26,599
Speaker 1: to people he believes can help him win cases since

1581
01:40:26,640 --> 01:40:30,479
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, in two of the three cases

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01:40:30,720 --> 01:40:35,880
Speaker 1: cited as the most egregious by the Milwaukee Police Association.

1583
01:40:36,800 --> 01:40:39,560
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, all of this is exclusive

1584
01:40:39,680 --> 01:40:42,479
Speaker 1: new information. You are of course not going to get

1585
01:40:42,520 --> 01:40:44,040
Speaker 1: this in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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01:40:44,120 --> 01:40:44,360
Speaker 2: Now.

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01:40:44,439 --> 01:40:47,599
Speaker 1: They'll probably end up running with this tomorrow without giving

1588
01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:48,920
Speaker 1: me any credit for it.

1589
01:40:51,960 --> 01:40:53,000
Speaker 2: But it sure.

1590
01:40:52,920 --> 01:40:56,320
Speaker 1: Seems like Goik is taking a dive for his friend

1591
01:40:56,600 --> 01:41:00,840
Speaker 1: or campaign donor, isn't it. And that Thompson in was

1592
01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:04,240
Speaker 1: donating to the city attorney knowing full well he is

1593
01:41:04,320 --> 01:41:08,360
Speaker 1: representing every scumbag in the city who's going to file

1594
01:41:08,400 --> 01:41:12,599
Speaker 1: a lawsuit against the City of Milwaukee. And that this guy,

1595
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:17,200
Speaker 1: Evan Goik, his little puppet, his little stooge, is simply

1596
01:41:17,280 --> 01:41:20,760
Speaker 1: not going to defend any of these officers. He's going

1597
01:41:20,800 --> 01:41:25,200
Speaker 1: to soak the taxpayers and give their money to Mark Thompson.

1598
01:41:25,360 --> 01:41:31,759
Speaker 1: The Democrat election official and attorney who can't stop buying

1599
01:41:32,240 --> 01:41:34,439
Speaker 1: his litigation opponents or judges.

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Speaker 2: Just a recap for you.

1601
01:41:38,040 --> 01:41:41,920
Speaker 1: The Milwaukee Police Association highlights three cases in which Milwaukee

1602
01:41:41,920 --> 01:41:46,080
Speaker 1: City Attorney Evan Goike takes a dive, refuses to defend

1603
01:41:46,120 --> 01:41:50,559
Speaker 1: police officers, and instead accepts a massive settlement. Two of

1604
01:41:50,600 --> 01:41:55,240
Speaker 1: those three cases, the lawyer that got the settlement is

1605
01:41:55,360 --> 01:41:58,960
Speaker 1: Mark Thompson, who is a prominent Democrat attorney. He's also

1606
01:41:59,040 --> 01:42:02,760
Speaker 1: a Democrat member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. And in

1607
01:42:02,800 --> 01:42:06,200
Speaker 1: one of those cases, the guy who got the money,

1608
01:42:06,520 --> 01:42:10,160
Speaker 1: Isaiah Taylor, just happens to be the son of Goike's

1609
01:42:10,240 --> 01:42:15,080
Speaker 1: former colleague in the state legislature and political ally, current

1610
01:42:15,120 --> 01:42:22,080
Speaker 1: Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge Lena Taylor. So he refuses

1611
01:42:22,120 --> 01:42:26,599
Speaker 1: to defend cops and pays out massive lawsuits that the

1612
01:42:26,640 --> 01:42:31,840
Speaker 1: taxpayers are on the hook for to Thompson, who donated

1613
01:42:31,920 --> 01:42:37,400
Speaker 1: to Evan Goike and, as I revealed, according to Wisconsin Watch,

1614
01:42:37,800 --> 01:42:43,080
Speaker 1: attempted to pay out a campaign finance donation bribe to

1615
01:42:43,320 --> 01:42:53,000
Speaker 1: Shirley Abramson, the late former Wisconsin Chief Supreme Court Justice.

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01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:57,719
Speaker 1: Do I have that all right? Anyone's gonna ask Evan

1617
01:42:57,800 --> 01:43:03,720
Speaker 1: Goik about all this. I'm guessing they will not. This

1618
01:43:03,760 --> 01:43:05,880
Speaker 1: is why you need to listen to the Dan O'Donnell

1619
01:43:05,960 --> 01:43:09,320
Speaker 1: show each and every day three two six pm, because

1620
01:43:09,360 --> 01:43:12,840
Speaker 1: you get information you will not hear anywhere else. All right,

1621
01:43:12,960 --> 01:43:15,519
Speaker 1: NBA trade deadline is in the rearview mirror.

1622
01:43:15,600 --> 01:43:16,200
Speaker 2: What did we.

1623
01:43:16,240 --> 01:43:23,360
Speaker 1: Learn that Scham's sharania is not exactly the best sourced dude,

1624
01:43:23,439 --> 01:43:25,800
Speaker 1: I can tell you. However, the Bucks, of course, were

1625
01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:29,320
Speaker 1: doing their due diligence in looking at all available options

1626
01:43:29,360 --> 01:43:33,840
Speaker 1: for trading Giannis Antetkumpo. They would be derelict in their

1627
01:43:33,960 --> 01:43:39,919
Speaker 1: duty not to They apparently just wanted way too wealthy

1628
01:43:40,200 --> 01:43:42,599
Speaker 1: an offer. They wanted somewhere in the neighborhood of five

1629
01:43:42,680 --> 01:43:47,200
Speaker 1: to six first round picks plus a good young player,

1630
01:43:47,320 --> 01:43:50,360
Speaker 1: like a blue chip type player that they could potentially

1631
01:43:50,840 --> 01:43:54,000
Speaker 1: build around. Again, they are putting a lot of their

1632
01:43:54,080 --> 01:43:57,519
Speaker 1: eggs in the basket of potentially getting a top five

1633
01:43:58,000 --> 01:44:02,599
Speaker 1: lottery pick this year. They are going to welcome Jannis back,

1634
01:44:02,680 --> 01:44:05,400
Speaker 1: but it is entirely possible he's already played his last

1635
01:44:05,439 --> 01:44:09,439
Speaker 1: game as a Buck, because they've said, apparently that they

1636
01:44:09,439 --> 01:44:12,519
Speaker 1: are going to shut Yannis down and if you believe

1637
01:44:13,200 --> 01:44:16,880
Speaker 1: the NBA reporters, and after this week, I'm going to

1638
01:44:16,880 --> 01:44:20,839
Speaker 1: have a difficult time believing the NBA reporters, especially from ESPN,

1639
01:44:20,880 --> 01:44:23,760
Speaker 1: who is telling me it was a FATA complee that

1640
01:44:23,840 --> 01:44:27,280
Speaker 1: Jannis was out the door by the trade deadline. By

1641
01:44:27,280 --> 01:44:30,160
Speaker 1: the way, if you didn't see it, Jannis actually posted

1642
01:44:30,240 --> 01:44:32,880
Speaker 1: a very famous scene from The Wolf of Wall Street

1643
01:44:33,240 --> 01:44:37,800
Speaker 1: in which Leonardo DiCaprio's character Jordan Belfort grabs the microphone

1644
01:44:37,800 --> 01:44:41,200
Speaker 1: when he's expected to announce that he's leaving the firm

1645
01:44:41,280 --> 01:44:43,960
Speaker 1: that he started, and instead he goes, I'm not bleeding

1646
01:44:44,040 --> 01:44:46,800
Speaker 1: leaving and start screaming. The whole crowd goes nuts. Very

1647
01:44:46,960 --> 01:44:51,760
Speaker 1: very funny by Jannis, who has I think been enjoying

1648
01:44:52,320 --> 01:44:55,840
Speaker 1: the social media drama a little bit more than he's letting.

1649
01:44:55,600 --> 01:44:57,759
Speaker 2: On this past week.

1650
01:44:58,439 --> 01:45:00,960
Speaker 1: I do still believe that the Bucks are going to

1651
01:45:01,120 --> 01:45:05,880
Speaker 1: very seriously entertain offers for Giannis, especially if they don't

1652
01:45:06,080 --> 01:45:09,280
Speaker 1: win one of the top three picks in this summer's

1653
01:45:09,400 --> 01:45:15,880
Speaker 1: NBA draft, as they're clearly aiming to, because they're just

1654
01:45:16,200 --> 01:45:19,320
Speaker 1: not going to be able to exit. Jannis wants to

1655
01:45:19,320 --> 01:45:21,920
Speaker 1: win championships. He doesn't want to compete for an eighth

1656
01:45:21,960 --> 01:45:24,840
Speaker 1: seed right now. This is a roster that is going

1657
01:45:24,880 --> 01:45:27,400
Speaker 1: to compete for an eighth seed. You've got one of

1658
01:45:27,439 --> 01:45:32,880
Speaker 1: the top five players in the world right now. You've

1659
01:45:32,920 --> 01:45:35,240
Speaker 1: got to do better than that. And the Bucks don't

1660
01:45:35,280 --> 01:45:38,200
Speaker 1: have the pieces, I think to turn what they have

1661
01:45:38,560 --> 01:45:42,280
Speaker 1: into a competitive championship roster. We will, I'm sure, talk

1662
01:45:42,320 --> 01:45:44,719
Speaker 1: about that more tomorrow three to zero six pm.

1663
01:45:44,720 --> 01:45:46,400
Speaker 2: We do it all again right here on the Dan

1664
01:45:46,439 --> 01:45:47,200
Speaker 2: O'Donnell's show.