1 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,799 Speaker 1: Hour two for a Tuesday on Twin Cities News Talk 2 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: John Justice, that be Me broadcasting from the sixty five 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: to one Carpet Next Day Install Studios on a Chili 4 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: Morning forty four When I Got It Today, Sam Nixtdoor 5 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: and the Master Control Booth. Of course, of your comments 6 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: from the iHeartRadio app. Talkback's brought to you by Lyndahl Realty. 7 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 2: Coming Up Local A hodgepodge of local. 8 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: And national news all swirling around just the lunacy that 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: has occurred over the course of the past twenty four 10 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: hours from Alpha News. Democrat Virginia Attorney General candidate j 11 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: Jones once sent disturbing texts to a former colleague in 12 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: August of twenty twenty two about wanting to kill bill 13 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: a Republican lawmaker. Jones, a former Virginia state delegate, told 14 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: Republican House Delegate Carrie Cooyner that he would give a 15 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: former Republican Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert two bullets to 16 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,119 Speaker 1: the head and then blank on. 17 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 2: His grave bodily function. 18 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: So the National Review initially reported this on Friday, and 19 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 1: this also comes from the Daily Caller, citing text messages 20 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: of change. Jones is running against Republican Virginia Attorney General 21 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: Jason Midieri's in the November general elections, and reportedly made 22 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: the comments about Gilbert after leaving the State House months earlier. 23 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 2: I will go to their funerals and. 24 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: Blank on their graves to send them out a wash 25 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: in something Jones reportedly wrote about a Republican colleague such 26 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: as Gilbert. The now candidate also said that if he 27 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: had Gilbert and two dictators in front of him and 28 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: a gun with two bullets, Gilbert gets in two bullets 29 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: to the head. Koinner asked Jones to please stop, adding 30 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: it really bothers me when you talk about hurting people 31 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: or wishing death on them, no matter who they are. 32 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: Jones reportedly replied with lol and okay, okay. The candidate 33 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 1: blamed Trump controlled media for the scandal in a statement 34 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: to WTVR Richmond, but did not deny the conversations. I'll 35 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: give you what he had to say here in just 36 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:43,079 Speaker 1: a moment. Listen in a world where we spent a 37 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: number of weeks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk talking 38 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: about how individuals were applauding and celebrating the political assassination 39 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 1: of a conservative commentator simply trying to do outreach to 40 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 1: young people at college campuses. 41 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 2: This should not come as a shock to any of us. 42 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: And unfortunately, it also shouldn't come as a shock that 43 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: he's not losing any Democrat support over this. I mean, 44 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was bad enough. I mean, this is actually 45 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: and this is why he's attempting to spin away from it, 46 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: because that kind of set the standard on the left 47 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: in the way that people were celebrating and still are, 48 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 1: the assassination of Charlie Kirk. And now that whole situation 49 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 1: has gotten even more disgusting as people are going after Erica. 50 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 2: Now his wife. 51 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: Now, in terms of the statement, like all people, I've 52 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: sent text messages that I regret and I believe that 53 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: violent rhetoric has no place in our politics. Let's be 54 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: clear about what is happening in the attorney general race 55 00:03:53,560 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: right now. Jason is dropping through is dropping smears through 56 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: that's his opponent, through Trump controlled media organizations to assault 57 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: my character and rescue his desperate campaign. Jones said, this 58 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: is a strategy that ensures that he will continue to 59 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: be accountable to Donald Trump, but not the people of Virginia. 60 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: This race is about whether Trump can control Virginia and 61 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: Virginians can control Trump. 62 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 2: It's all about Trump, Trump, Dinny. 63 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,919 Speaker 1: Trump, Trump, opposition to Trump, Orange Man bat after the 64 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: text has changed. In twenty twenty two, Jones called Coiner 65 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: on the phone to further explain his views and said 66 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: the conservative public officials like Gilbert should experience pain so 67 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: that it leads to policy change. Citing a source familiar 68 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: with the call, he reportedly suggested Gilbert's wife should watch 69 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: her child die. I've used this example relating to Governor 70 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: Tim Walls and his over the top rhetoric that in 71 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: no way, shape or form should he be a viable 72 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: candidate for re election to the third term, let alone 73 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: continuing to serve as governor. He should have resigned from 74 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: his post a long time ago based off of the 75 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: numerous statements and lies that he's perpetuated. This guy should 76 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: have dropped out of this race in the wake of 77 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: all of this. If this was a rational and sane 78 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: political world that we live in. 79 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 2: But it's not. And listen, my view on this is exposure. 80 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 2: That's what you do. This is from twenty twenty two. 81 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,840 Speaker 1: It was a private Texas changed between individuals I'm not dismissing. 82 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: What he said is gross and disgusting, and you shouldn't 83 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: say those things, certainly if you're not serving in a 84 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: position of power. But beyond exposure, you expose it. This 85 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: is what he said, here's the evidence, and you let 86 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:45,919 Speaker 1: the people decide. And unfortunately we're finding out is that 87 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: the Democrats are just as gross and disgusting as we 88 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: all kind of already knew, because they continued to show. 89 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 2: Support for him. 90 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,679 Speaker 1: Quinner told National Review that in August eighth of twenty 91 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: twenty two, I had a text conversation with Jay Jones, 92 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 1: and he said that he was not just disturbing, but 93 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: disqualifying for anyone who wants to see public office. Former 94 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 1: Democrat Virginia Representative Abigail Spanberger, who is now her party's 95 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: nominee for Virginia governor, said she spoke with Jones after 96 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: the hearing after hearing the story and told him that 97 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: he must fully take responsibility for his words. Unfortunately, they 98 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:31,159 Speaker 1: have yet to pull support away from the candidate. Jones 99 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 1: had previously faced criticism about his personal conduct after news 100 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: broke that he served a sentence for a twenty twenty 101 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 1: two reckless driving incident in Virginia by logging community service 102 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 1: hours with his own political action committee. He previously lost 103 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: the Democratic Virginia primary for attorney General in twenty twenty one, 104 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: but won the twenty twenty five primary in June. The 105 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: unfortunate reality of the world that we live in now 106 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: is that for too many people on the left, when 107 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: they find out that he made these comments saying that 108 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: he would give a former Republican House speaker in Virginia 109 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 1: two bullets in the head and then blank on his grave, 110 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: they actually see that as a positive and probably donate 111 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: more money to his campaign to that point. Karen Hamilton, 112 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: Republican nominee for Virginia House Delegates. She posted this on 113 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: x overnight. A friend who worked the polls this morning 114 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: discussed to Jay Jones with twenty plus Democrats none cared 115 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: about the texts. Their cause is righteous and justifies any behavior. 116 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: I'm not sure where we go from here, writes Karen Hamilton, 117 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: but sadly, I believe that we'll see more. 118 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 2: Violence from leftists in the days ahead. 119 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: You see, and the problem is, it's a problem that 120 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: we face so often, and that is when you have 121 00:07:55,360 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: a group wherein a portion of that group, be it 122 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: big or small, is acting inappropriately or abhorrently. The people 123 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: that wouldn't do that, that would typically go and condemn it, 124 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: they sit back, silent, and they don't say anything. 125 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 2: And this is the problem that we have now. 126 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: Virginia's Democrat candidates for governor and Lieutenant governor refusing to 127 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: withdraw their support for the Democrat Ja Jones after his 128 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: fantasizing about shooting a Republican lawmaker became public. 129 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 2: That's the problem. 130 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: There's not enough individuals out there from their own party, 131 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: on their own side that are willing to go and 132 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 1: condemn it. So too many people see that as being 133 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: a tacit endorsement. Let's get to a few of your 134 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:51,559 Speaker 1: thoughts from the iHeartRadio app. 135 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, like everybody the ad candidate sends texts that he 136 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 3: might regret, but I'm sorry not denouncing him and laughing 137 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 3: about it. 138 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not regret. That's like, oh. 139 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 3: Well, And of course that conversation also begs the fact 140 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 3: of sounds like he does this on a regular basis. 141 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 3: So is this the person you want at the state 142 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 3: version of the FBI? 143 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 2: Don't think so. Thank you for the talking about d 144 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 2: Dale and Princeton. 145 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 3: Great show so far. 146 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,719 Speaker 4: I always thought it was against the law or some 147 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 4: kind of crime to threaten to kill somebody. 148 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:31,559 Speaker 1: I don't think that this would go and cross the 149 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: lines into what you're referring to their dale. I understand 150 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:40,439 Speaker 1: your sentiment, but texted changes between individuals where there is 151 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: you know, the other individuals saying I don't like it 152 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: when you say this, and he's lol, Okay, okay. It's 153 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 1: a private conversation between two people. It's not outwardly calling 154 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: for the assassination for somebody. But again, I understand your 155 00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: thought process. There in the federal list, Breck and Ease 156 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:05,200 Speaker 1: summarized the Democrat, now running to serve as Virginia's chief 157 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: law enforcement officer, mused about assassinating then State House Speaker 158 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 1: Todd Gilbert and wished death upon Gilbert's children. Jones presented 159 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: a hypothetical, according to the outlet, we laid out the 160 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 1: details before suggesting that he wished Gilbert's wife would watch 161 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: her own child to die in her arms so that 162 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: Gilbert might reconsider his political views. Yeah, it's beyond disturbing. 163 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 1: And what makes it even worse is that, unfortunately, the 164 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: grotesque comments have not brought about condemnation from the Democrat Party. 165 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 1: Not long after the Jones text messages went public, the 166 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: Virginia Beach Democratic Committee did issue a statement, though, confirming 167 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: its plans to oh continue backing the common Wealth Democrats campaign. 168 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: We are lined up ten toes down, ready to organize, mobilize, 169 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: and deliver voters for Jay and our entire Democratic ticket. 170 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: The statement reads, recent press may have spotlighted past mistakes. 171 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: Can we say let those without sin cast the first stone? 172 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: They write, j Jones has taken responsibility, apologized, and shown 173 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: he is committed to serving with integrity and accountability, and 174 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: that his public record already shows that. 175 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 2: Here's a question for you. 176 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 1: Are we at a place now? I don't know the answer. 177 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: I'm legitimately imposing this for you. Are we at a 178 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: place now where if you're a Democrat candidate on the left, 179 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,839 Speaker 1: the more vile you are, the more vindictive you are, 180 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: the more threats you make against Republicans, the more support 181 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 1: you're going to get. Is this where we are now? 182 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I have a story coming up here in 183 00:11:54,160 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 1: just a moment of State Senator Aaron may Quaid sharing 184 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: a post about a deceased fugitive convicted of killing a 185 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: state trooper. So again I'm just wondering, is this where 186 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: we are? I mean, if it is, then Governor Tim 187 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 1: Wallas is going to rent win re election handily. This 188 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: is where we've landed. Now, I'm curious to get your thoughts. 189 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: Leave us a talk back from the on the iHeartRadio app. 190 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: More coming up right here on Twin Cities News Talk. 191 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 2: You're fascinating to talk to. 192 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: Thank you, Am eleven thirty and one oh three five FM. 193 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 1: I think Hunter Biden says it best. 194 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 2: Do cracker can make you act any differently? 195 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:39,319 Speaker 5: No? 196 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 2: Is it safer than alcohol? Probably? 197 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:49,439 Speaker 6: Good morning John. 198 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,439 Speaker 1: Listening to the story about the Virginia race where. 199 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 6: The candidate was wishing death on people. 200 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 7: You know, I think part. 201 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 6: Of the issue here is that people may hear this stuff, 202 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,719 Speaker 6: they're disgusted by it, and they're like, yeah, maybe I 203 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 6: won't go vote form. 204 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: But the problem is the base that does go out 205 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: and vote. 206 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 7: So we have a lot of people that don't go 207 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,079 Speaker 7: out and vote, and that I think all these Democrats 208 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 7: keep getting in there. 209 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 2: So just my thought. 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As far as acceptance. I 225 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 7: also think they need to charge one of these Democratic leaders. 226 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 7: I'm not sure with what, but that's how they need 227 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 7: to be scared back into the corner that they came from. 228 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 7: That's just my personal opinion. They respond to fear. 229 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 1: Well, listen, you know, charges can only come if there's 230 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 1: something illegal and a law that they've broken. Relating to 231 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: these text exchanges they're discussing private exchanges. They speak to 232 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: the character of this Virginia Attorney General candidate, but they 233 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: don't rise to the level of law breaking. You expose it, 234 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 1: you put them out there, just like we do so 235 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: many of the commentary, so much of the commentary that 236 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: we see on a daily basis, And I have an 237 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: example of that here in just a moment with Senator 238 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: Aaron may Quaid. 239 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 2: And then you know, you let. 240 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: The private sector, for lack of a better way to 241 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: describe it, determine what if anything, is going to be 242 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: done through the commentary and whether or not there's enough 243 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: outrage for individuals to apologize or drop out of races. 244 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: And unfortunately, we just see continuing and further examples of 245 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: the radical left, which is really just the Democrats now 246 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: saying abhorrent things, conducting themselves abhorrently wishing death upon individuals, 247 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: and it seems as if they get more support in 248 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: doing so. 249 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 6: Doesn't this situation in Virginia also point out, at least 250 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 6: it does to me, what the heck about early voting? 251 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been voting for weeks. 252 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: Absolutely could not agree with you more, Kathleen, Yes, why 253 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: do you think the Democrats pushed early voting? Now one 254 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: more on this Virginia ag race. We actually go to 255 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: Virginia and a friend of the show, Good. 256 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 6: Morning, John, and Sam rickon Virginia about our attorney general 257 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 6: candidate Loudon County, which is very liberal. In fact, everybody 258 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 6: was there that works works in Washington, DC. It's eighty 259 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 6: five percent liberal and that's how they vote regardless. Unfortunately, 260 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 6: this candidate Jones is going to win the election. If 261 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 6: you were to eliminate o'hammon County or at least flip 262 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 6: it a little bit, this would be a very red state. 263 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 6: But not today, have a great day. 264 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: I have a further example of kind of and what 265 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: he's talking about a little bit later on in the show. 266 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: There's a new wallet hub survey that ranks the Minnesota 267 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 1: in terms of safest states. They ranked this really high 268 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: as being a safe state. But it's akin to what 269 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: he's talking about. You look at the map of Minnesota 270 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: based off of politics red versus blue, and you don't 271 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: talk about anything else. 272 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 2: You just look at the map. 273 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: You're going to walk away from that map with a 274 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: much different view than what the state is actually in 275 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: terms of its politics. 276 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 2: And we'll get into this a little bit later on. 277 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: So last week, the government of Cuba announced that Asada 278 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: Shakur had died at age seventy eight, a former member 279 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: of the Black Liberation Army, Shakur was convicted in nineteen 280 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: seventy seven of murdering a New Jersey state trooper. She 281 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: had been a fugitive since nineteen seventy nine was a 282 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,680 Speaker 1: BLA member for several years. BLA was a Marxist black 283 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: nationalist group that operated throughout the nineteen seventies and was 284 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: connected to bank robberies, bombings, and officer killings. In nineteen 285 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: seventy three, Shakur was involved in a shootout with police 286 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 1: on the New Jersey Turnpike that killed state Trooper Werner Forrester. 287 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 1: Shakur and another BLA member were convicted of first degree 288 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: murder and sentenced to life in prison. However, a group 289 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 1: of BLA members stormed the prison that held Shakur and 290 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: helped her escape in nineteen seventy nine. She lived as 291 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: a fugitive in Cuba for the last forty years of 292 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: her life and claimed that she was not guilty. In 293 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, the FBI added Shaqur to its most 294 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,640 Speaker 1: wanted list. Since her death, organizations such as the Democrats, 295 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: Socialist of America Chicago Teachers' Union have posted tributes to Shakur. 296 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,359 Speaker 1: Both groups have been denounced for their decision to honor 297 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: the deceased fugitive, working off of an article here from 298 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: Alpha News. Why is this relevant to you because here 299 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: in Minnesota, DFL state Senator Aaron mc wade cryptically shared 300 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 1: a social media post about Shaquur that featured a message 301 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: from her daughter. In her message, the daughter said, I 302 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:35,680 Speaker 1: want to thank you for your loving prayers that continued 303 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: to anchor me in the strength that I need in 304 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:40,160 Speaker 1: this moment. My spirit is overflowing in unison with all 305 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,479 Speaker 1: of you who are grieving with me at this time. 306 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 1: Alpha News, of course, reached out to make way to 307 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: inquire why she reposted that message. Further, the senator was 308 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 1: asked if she admired secures Shakur. Neither may Quad's office 309 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:58,679 Speaker 1: nor the Senate DFL spokesperson responded to media inquiries. 310 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 2: Such another example of your double standard. 311 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 1: If you flipped the script on this with a Republican senator, 312 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 1: I wonder how many articles would be written, how much 313 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 1: commentary there would be. I do have a couple of 314 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: good news items for you coming up in just a moment. 315 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,679 Speaker 1: One hr director who sent profanity lacey email to an off. 316 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: The news reporter no longer works for the state agency. 317 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: That's a oh hell yeah, good news. Also, Minnesota school 318 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: gets to keep its Braves mascot. 319 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 2: They had to get approval first. 320 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 1: We'll get into this, then we'll shift our attention to 321 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: the other big news story from overnight, and that is 322 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,919 Speaker 1: Jack Smith, the Biden DOJ tracking the phone calls of 323 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: GOP senators in Congressman. 324 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 2: We'll bring you details on. 325 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 1: That and an amazing exchange that took place during the 326 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 1: White House Appress briefing between the White House Press Secretary 327 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt and the CNN host Caitlin Collins. It's all 328 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: coming up on Twinsday's News Talk AM eleven thirty and 329 00:19:55,600 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: one oh three five FM. 330 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 2: All right, there's a lot going on. 331 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: I do have some positive news to share them Twitter, 332 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: Cities News Talk AM eleven thirty one oh three five 333 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 1: FM from the sixty five to one Carpet Next Day 334 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:25,679 Speaker 1: Install Studios. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says that Levon 335 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 1: Vonnie Phillips Vonnie doing that thing with my fingers is 336 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 1: no longer employed by the agency, more than two months 337 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: after he made headlines for sending a profanity Lacey email 338 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: to an Alpha News reporter from his official state accounts. 339 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 1: A spokesperson for the agency confirmed last week he was 340 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: no longer employed with the MPCA now. The update follows 341 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: Alpha News and their July report on Phillips, who was 342 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 1: then listed as a human Resources Director one and paid 343 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 1: about one hundred and fifty one hundred and fifteen thousand 344 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: dollars per year. 345 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,880 Speaker 2: Oh my god. According to state records. 346 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: Incredibly, Phillips was also listed as the contact for the 347 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: agency's Affirmative Action Plan and was required to comply with 348 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 1: workplace anti discrimination and harassment policies. I'd play the shocking 349 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 1: murmur again, but I don't want to overdo it. Phillips 350 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 1: came to the attention of Alt the News because of 351 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: a Facebook post under his name an account under his 352 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: name that contained repeated racist to comments targeting white people. 353 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: Phillips responded to the inquiry with an exploitive filled email. 354 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 1: When the outlet contacted Phillips for comment, he confirmed the 355 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 1: account was his and responded with an exploitive filled message. 356 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 2: Directed at reporter Jenna Globe. What did Jenna do to 357 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 2: deserve that? Nothing? Jenna did nothing. A very kind person. 358 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: You Jenna notice I did not use my workiemail dot 359 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: dot dot blanking rotten blank, Phillips wrote, who except he did, 360 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 1: in fact send the message from his official SPCA address. 361 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: The email sent by Vannie the state employee to Alfhin 362 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: News reporter Jenna Globe. He later attempted, unsuccessfully to recall 363 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 1: it several times, and followed up with a similar message 364 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: from a personal account, telling Jenna Globe to kiss my blank. 365 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 2: Not tip. By the way, I just want to point 366 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:32,120 Speaker 2: that out. 367 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 1: Did you know that Newell a company, Newell that makes 368 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: the Sharpie highlighters, that every single component of the Sharpie 369 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: highlighter is made in the United States now United States 370 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 1: now courtesy of President Donald Trump, except. 371 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 2: The tip that's still made in Japan. I had never 372 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 2: heard that before. Only the tip, just the tip is 373 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 2: made in Japan. 374 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:02,439 Speaker 1: You're fascinating to talk to the NPCA, plays Phillips on 375 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: leave amid the internal investigation shortly after the incident, but 376 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: declined at the time to say whether it was paid 377 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: or unpaid. Outrage grew as the story spread online it 378 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 1: went viral. The incident was one of several controversies facing 379 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 1: state agencies over the summer. 380 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 2: More good News by the way. 381 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:29,880 Speaker 1: Although good news and yet, I mean, really, we got 382 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: to jump through all these hoops now and I'm going 383 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: to be keeping an eye on this story in the future. 384 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: It actually comes out of the Pioneer Press. The Benson 385 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: School District will continue to use the Braves logo and 386 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 1: mascot after receiving an exemption from the Upper Sue community. 387 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 2: Is nice. 388 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: We are deeply grateful to the Upper Sue community for 389 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: their understanding and appreciation for the way that Benson Schools 390 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,719 Speaker 1: uses the mascot in a respectful and honorable manner. This 391 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: is acording to the Benson Superintendent of Schools, Dennis Lawyer 392 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:11,400 Speaker 1: LAO Meyer. Easy for me to say now. The exemption 393 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: allows the district to maintain a mascot that has represented 394 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 1: Benson Schools since nineteen forty five. School teams previously competed 395 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: as the Plowboys. 396 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 2: Aren't they opening up with Lollapalosa? This year? 397 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 1: The Minnesota legislature, in the twenty three Excuse Me twenty 398 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: two to twenty three session under the Trifecta, adopted legislation 399 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: that required schools with American Indian mascots to end their 400 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,360 Speaker 1: use by September first, twenty twenty five unless they received 401 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 1: an exemption from all eleven tribal nations in the state 402 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: and the Tribal Nations Education Committee. 403 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 2: Why just Indian mascots? I mean what I although there's 404 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 2: mascot that's like a B for a school. I don't 405 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 2: remember which one it was, But. 406 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,880 Speaker 1: Do you have to get permission from the insect experts? 407 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,680 Speaker 1: There's an official name for them, I know, but it's 408 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: not coming to my mind. I'm not going to put 409 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: Sam on. 410 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 2: The spot on that. You and I both know why 411 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:21,439 Speaker 2: political expediency. 412 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,879 Speaker 1: Now, the Benson School District did request an exemption, but 413 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: two tribes and the tribal nation's Education Committee rejected it. 414 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 1: So in the last session, legislation was approved to allow 415 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: districts to seek an exemption from the tribal community nearest. 416 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 2: The school district. 417 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: Benson School Board members met twice with the Upper Sioux 418 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,679 Speaker 1: Community Board of Trustees to make their request. Throughout the 419 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 1: elementary school, signs promote the braves away, with the B 420 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: representing positive attributes such as be respectful, be engaged, be 421 00:25:59,000 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: my best. 422 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 2: Also a mantra that we have here on this very 423 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 2: show on Twin City's News Talk. 424 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: Be respectful, be engaged, and I always strive to be 425 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:10,679 Speaker 1: my best. 426 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 2: There's our podcast title, and you can be our guest. 427 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: It was a two way conversation with the local tribal trustees. 428 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: According to the superintendent, the Upper Suit community indicated a 429 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: willingness to help the district as it meets the state 430 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 1: education requirements for instruction about the Indigenous peoples of Minnesota 431 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: and particularly the Dakota. 432 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 2: The decision to. 433 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: Seek the exemption to maintain the mascot and logo came 434 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: amid overwhelming support from the community to do so. The 435 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: superintendent said board members had been discussing the issue for 436 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,120 Speaker 1: over two years now, my gosh, and feedback from residents 437 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: and school alumni was overwhelmingly in favor of maintaining the mascot. Yeah, 438 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 1: because there's nothing negative attached to it. 439 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 2: There's no need. 440 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 1: There was no need for this requirement from the legislature 441 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:06,640 Speaker 1: at all. No school adopts a mascot as a negative. 442 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 2: It doesn't happen. 443 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: The major concern, they said, with the potential cost for 444 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: adopting the new mascot and logo, when we know what 445 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: that feels like here in Minnesota. When it comes to 446 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 1: changing our seal and flag. The superintendent said it was 447 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,439 Speaker 1: a one million dollar proposition. The legislation provided no funding 448 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 1: for schools to make a mascot change, and the cost 449 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: would have to come out of the expense of the 450 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,199 Speaker 1: educational programming. 451 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 2: Entomologists. 452 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 1: There you go, Thank you friend of the show, Jamison Ritter, 453 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: threat analyst and expert. Did they go to the entomologists 454 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: and ask their permission before or to keep their b. 455 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:54,920 Speaker 2: Mascot? 456 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: It took me a while, but I got there go. 457 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: The district is discussing the possibility of adopting a four 458 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: day schedule for the potential cost savings to help maintain 459 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: the educational offerings. But thankfully it looks like they won't 460 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: have to go and do that now. All right, one 461 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 1: more on the school front, then, I want to turn 462 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: our attention into just how evil democrats are as they 463 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 1: spied upon GOP senators an attempt to continue to perpetuate 464 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 1: the January sixth narrative, the Forest Lake Area School Board 465 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,879 Speaker 1: is are urging state leaders to immediately comply with Title 466 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: nine by barring males from competing in female sports and 467 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: using female only spaces. Of course, as you know, this 468 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: comes after the US Department of Health and Human Services 469 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: in the US Department of Education announced that the Minnesota 470 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 1: Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League 471 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 1: are in violation of the anti discrimination laws. Specifically, the 472 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: federal government said the MSHSL and the MDE violated Title 473 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: nine by allowing males to participate in lacrosse, ski, volleyball, softball, 474 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: track and field teams that were designed for females. The 475 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: letter expresses support for protecting the privacy and dignity of 476 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: students by keeping males out of female locker rooms and restrooms. Listen, 477 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 1: in light of all of the day's recent news and 478 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: more news that we're about to get in here in 479 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: just a moment, issues like this wherein we attempt to 480 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: try to make sense of a policy that makes no 481 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: sense because it makes no Listen, this makes no sense. 482 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: It makes no sense to continue to advocate for boys 483 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: playing in girl sports, boys being in girls' locker rooms, 484 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: boys being in girls bathrooms. It doesn't make any rational sense. 485 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 1: But as we attempt to make sense of those policies, 486 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 1: it only makes sense as an extension of the staunch opposition. 487 00:29:58,080 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 2: To the right. 488 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: In as I've said since the start of my talk 489 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: radio portion of my radio career. If you are on 490 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 1: the left, you can be as irrational, hypocritical, and with 491 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: what we're about to get to here on the show, 492 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: nefarious and devious as you want to be, as long 493 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: as you continue to perpetuate the cause of Democrats. Case 494 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: in point, before we get to the treasonous actions of 495 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: the Chicago mayor attempting to make ice free zones. Yeah, 496 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 1: treason is conspiracy. I'm with those other commentators out there 497 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 1: saying as such. I think they're inviting themselves to be arrested. 498 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 1: And we'll get to this coming up. Nearly ten Republican senators, 499 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: working off of the version from Breitbart and a representative 500 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 1: had their private communications allegedly tracked by former Special counsel 501 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 1: Jack Smith under the Biden administration. FBI Director Cash Betel 502 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: revealed Monday one of those individuals is friend of the show, 503 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 1: our adopted senator from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson, and hopefully we're 504 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 1: going to have him on the show Thursday to discuss this, 505 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 1: and they continued shutdown. 506 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 2: Now files were obtained. 507 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 1: That show Smith, in his official capacity at the Department 508 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 1: of Justice, investigating President Donald Trump in the events of 509 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 1: January sixth was tracking the phone calls of Republican Senators 510 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham, Marsha Blackburn, Ron Johnson, Josh Hawley, Cynthia Loomis, 511 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: Bill Haggerty, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, and Republican Representative Mike Kelly. 512 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 2: I always get that wrong. Do we go Tuberville or Tuberville? 513 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 2: I know the sam. I shouldn't be looking at you 514 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 2: for that. I have no idea. 515 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: Every time I go to say it the one way 516 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 1: with confidence, I feel like I hear somebody say it 517 00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: the other way. I think it's Tuberville. We'll see what's 518 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 1: That's what I've heard before. But I could be wrong. 519 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: You could be talked back of the day brought to 520 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 1: you by Mini Leaf. If you can tell me the 521 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: direct pronunciation of Tommy Tubberville or Tuberville out of Alabama. 522 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 1: The alarming document revealed that Smith and his Arctic Frost team. 523 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 2: Ooh, rock band or a racehorse. I'm going to rock band. 524 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 1: Isn't that the name of our women's hockey team, the Frost. 525 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 1: You're being serious, aren't you. I have no idea it 526 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: would be a good name. 527 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 2: Though. Between the two of us, we're getting all these names. 528 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 2: I know we need a continuity director for the show. 529 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 2: Get right on that. I'm sure we can afford it. 530 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: I'm going a rock band by the way, Arctic Frost 531 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: opening for the Plowboys. 532 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 2: There you go. 533 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 1: They had subpoena telephone providers for the lawmakers records in 534 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and was recently discovered by Patel. Patel 535 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 1: confirmed the legitimacy of the findings on X yesterday, saying 536 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 1: that the abuse of power ends now under my leadership 537 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 1: in the FBI will deliver truth and accountability and never 538 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: again be weaponized against the American people. He should have 539 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 1: added dot dot dot until Democrats get back into control. 540 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: An FBI official told the outlet that Smith and his team, 541 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: which opened the bureau in twenty twenty two, were able 542 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: to see which numbers the politicians contacted, the locations from 543 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,200 Speaker 1: where the calls originated, and the locations of where they 544 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: were received. Can you imagine if they had uncovered phone 545 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 1: calls anywhere near what the Virginia AG candidate had said 546 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 1: via the text messages? M double standards be applied. A 547 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: source added the calls were likely in reference to the 548 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 1: vote to certify the twenty twenty election. FBI Deputy Director 549 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: Dan Bongino briefed the impacted lawmakers on Monday afternoon and 550 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 1: told the publication at Breitbart that it's a disgrace that 551 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: he had to reveal those findings. It's a disgrace that 552 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,839 Speaker 1: I have to stand on Capitol Hill and reveal this 553 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,840 Speaker 1: that the FBI wants weaponized to track private communications of 554 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:20,280 Speaker 1: US lawmakers for political purposes. Bongino went on to say 555 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,440 Speaker 1: the era is over now. Several of the senators who 556 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,839 Speaker 1: had allegedly been spied on spoke at a subsequent press 557 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,040 Speaker 1: conference with Grassley and made statements on their respect to 558 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 1: social media pages. I have a couple of clips to 559 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 1: share with you. First off, Senator Bill Haggerty slamming the 560 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:40,360 Speaker 1: partisan corruption after they were told about the Special Council 561 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,439 Speaker 1: Jack Smith tracking their private phone calls. 562 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:43,439 Speaker 2: Here's what he had to say. 563 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,880 Speaker 5: This corruption run deep, runs deep, and it's gone on 564 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 5: far too long. And the fact that it's happened here again, 565 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:52,560 Speaker 5: the fact that they are looking at our records in 566 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 5: twenty twenty three, sitting members of the United States Senate again, 567 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 5: the only thing that we have in common, the only 568 00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 5: thing that common in the centiur list is that we're 569 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 5: all follow things. They decided to come out Russ. This 570 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 5: is as partisan as it gets. The FBI and the 571 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 5: corruption's running there has to be cleared out. Thank god 572 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 5: we have Cashptel and Dan Bongino there. This has to 573 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,800 Speaker 5: be addressed, has to be resolved. It needs to happen today. 574 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,839 Speaker 1: Here's what our adopted senator from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson had 575 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:20,120 Speaker 1: to say. 576 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:24,759 Speaker 4: This doesn't surprise me, but it should shock every American 577 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,920 Speaker 4: of what the Biden administration has done. By the way, 578 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 4: this is the first time I was targeted by the 579 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 4: FBI under the Obama administration. The same thing happened to 580 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,880 Speaker 4: Bill Sander Grassley and I as part of the Foreign 581 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 4: Foreign Influenced Task Force. We were giving a briefing to 582 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,759 Speaker 4: try and convince us that the Hunter Biden laptop was 583 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 4: no big deal, basically trying to throw us off the track. 584 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 4: So this is major corruption. 585 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,400 Speaker 1: Hey, Jonatham, it is Tubberville. 586 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,920 Speaker 6: I've heard among other programs and that's how he gets introduced. 587 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,720 Speaker 2: Hey, I got it right. Look to that great morning 588 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,799 Speaker 2: to you guys. I'm pretty sure it's Tubberville. 589 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,240 Speaker 1: And yes, the FROST is our professional women's Hockey League. 590 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:15,319 Speaker 2: And you got that right. We're two for two, Joan 591 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,360 Speaker 2: down down here in Alabama. It's called Tom at Tuberville. Okay, 592 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 2: so we got full confirmation now right there. I don't 593 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 2: think that accent was real. If it was, I apologize 594 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,200 Speaker 2: he took the thought right out of my head. 595 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:35,400 Speaker 1: Tubberville immediately jumped on the War Room podcast to discuss 596 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,120 Speaker 1: the document after he was brief saying it's going to 597 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,840 Speaker 1: be a big deal. I would have always thought it 598 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,400 Speaker 1: would have been North Korea, China or Russia, not our 599 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,359 Speaker 1: own government. And Joe Biden was tapping the phones through 600 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,120 Speaker 1: the FBI Senators in this country. 601 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:48,640 Speaker 2: That's a damn shame. 602 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:53,960 Speaker 1: But again, when you have a party whose members openly 603 00:36:54,000 --> 00:37:00,640 Speaker 1: celebrate political assassinations with little condemnation, not to what we'll 604 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,760 Speaker 1: get into coming up in the next segment, the treason 605 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:07,600 Speaker 1: his actions like attempting to bar federal law enforcement from 606 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:12,480 Speaker 1: doing their jobs, supporting a candidate who jokingly doing that 607 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 1: thing with my fingers said he wanted to put two 608 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,799 Speaker 1: bullets in the heads of a political of the political opposition. 609 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,880 Speaker 1: This will not make one ounce of difference when it 610 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: comes to our political discourse, especially when it comes to 611 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 1: an issue like this because there's too many people on 612 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,799 Speaker 1: the left that have bought into the lies and the 613 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,719 Speaker 1: narratives perpetuated by Democrats. 614 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,000 Speaker 2: Relating specifically to. 615 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:45,239 Speaker 8: January sixth, Good morning, John and Sam. We all need 616 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:50,560 Speaker 8: to remember the Democratic creed rules for the not for me, 617 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,880 Speaker 8: or the ends justify the means. So when they spy 618 00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:03,080 Speaker 8: on Republicans conservatives, all good, God help if you flip 619 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,920 Speaker 8: the tables much like those people on January sixth, you're 620 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,640 Speaker 8: riding away in a jail cell for simply marching along 621 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 8: the Capitol steps. 622 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,640 Speaker 2: Okay, we're about to get a grammar lesson. This will 623 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,080 Speaker 2: be in the running for Talkback of the Day. 624 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,880 Speaker 9: Okay. The rule for vowels is that if a vowel 625 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,840 Speaker 9: is followed by a double consonant, then the vowel is short. 626 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,920 Speaker 9: For example, summer s U M M e R the 627 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,520 Speaker 9: US short hammer h A M M e R. The 628 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:38,200 Speaker 9: A is short as opposed to one consonant for example, 629 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,760 Speaker 9: tumor t U M O R, the U is long. 630 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:43,160 Speaker 9: Thank you. 631 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,239 Speaker 1: Okay, Sand did you get all that, because there's going 632 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:45,520 Speaker 1: to be a. 633 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,160 Speaker 2: Quiz at the end of the show. Sure. 634 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:55,000 Speaker 1: Speaking of grammar, we had a bit of a debate 635 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,279 Speaker 1: on Freedom Friday show Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirates of 636 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:02,080 Speaker 1: the Caribbean, and how it fluctuates depending on the connotation. 637 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,040 Speaker 1: I had an email from Lee that came in It's 638 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:10,200 Speaker 1: just not reminded me of it. Caribbean is a noun, 639 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:16,680 Speaker 1: Caribbean is an adjective. Pirates of the Caribbean is a 640 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:23,080 Speaker 1: movie about Caribbean pirates. I have no idea if that 641 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,440 Speaker 1: is true at all, but it makes sense to me. 642 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,240 Speaker 1: Hold on, let me get my corkboard or red string, 643 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:37,360 Speaker 1: let me put this together. I can absolutely respect the logic. 644 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:38,640 Speaker 6: Hell yeah,