1 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty and one to 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 1: three five FM. Our three representative Elliot Ingen joins me 3 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: in studio. He's running for a state auditor. 4 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 2: How long you've been serving as a representative now? How many? 5 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 3: How many? 6 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 4: Three and a half years? But holy credit feels like more. 7 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: What do you think just real quick on TI we're 8 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: talking about fraud a moment ago like, is there any 9 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: aspect of the conversation around fraud that we talk about 10 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 1: so often that that isn't getting covered or you think 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: isn't being talked about enough? 12 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: Is there an angle on this. 13 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,279 Speaker 1: That you feel like, you know, this is getting that, 14 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: this is getting missed. 15 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred percent. 16 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 5: I think it's that legislators are often benefiting from it 17 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 5: and that's why they're not preventing it. I remember my 18 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 5: first term, my second session in the legislature, I came 19 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 5: across information that Senator John Hoffman, who's been recently in 20 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 5: the news for having been attacked and you know, somebody 21 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 5: tried to kill him, and so we're praying for him 22 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 5: and we hope he's doing well. 23 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 4: He and his wife a vet. 24 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 5: But I did see an instance where he funneled three 25 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 5: and a half million dollars via a bill that he 26 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 5: chief authored and passed through the committee that he was 27 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 5: the chair of that gave that money to his own 28 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 5: nonprofit that he was the executive director of. And so 29 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 5: when you see that, you have to call it out. 30 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 5: And if you don't call it out, you're just another 31 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 5: cog in the machine. You're just another political status quot 32 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 5: type figure who is not calling out the elites who 33 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 5: are benefiting from their positions of power. And that's wrong. 34 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 5: And when we see it on the Republican side too, 35 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 5: we need to call it out. And so I think 36 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:45,759 Speaker 5: that there's going to be something in the coming days 37 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 5: that we're going to be talking about a lot about 38 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 5: a certain Republican that might be doing the exact same 39 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 5: and we're going to be an independent watchdog for the 40 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 5: state of Minnesota. We're going we're going to say something 41 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 5: when we see it, and you guys should definitely stay 42 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 5: stay tuned for more on that. 43 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: All right, let's turn our attention over to these town 44 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: halls doing that thing with my fingers that Governor Tim 45 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: Walls is conducting. 46 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 2: He had one over the weekend. 47 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 6: I know. 48 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: We'll start off with this though, this is part of 49 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: the reporting from Fox nine. Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords pushes 50 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: for action on gun laws in Minnesota. A packed auditorium 51 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: in Waconia High School hosting this gun violence prevention town 52 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: hall featuring a panel of notable figures discussing ways to 53 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: prevent future tragedies. Here's a bit of the coverage from 54 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: Fox nine. 55 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:44,399 Speaker 2: How is the time to come together? Be responsible, Democrats, Republicans, independent, 56 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 2: We must never stop by the fight, fight fight. 57 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 7: Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffers, a survivor of gun violence, was 58 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 7: one of a panel of five and a gun violence 59 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 7: prevention town hall. The DFL hosted it in Waconia to 60 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 7: make its case to Minnesotan's on getting something done. Governor 61 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 7: Tim Walls made a suggestion. 62 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 4: And I will tell all of you, We'll put it 63 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 4: on the ballot. You can vote for a constitutional amendment. 64 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 7: Also on the panel, the first physician on seeing the 65 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 7: day of the deadly shooting at Annunciation, doctor Tim Komer. 66 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 7: He helped care for twelve year old Lydia Kaiser. 67 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 5: The energy from the rifle was so great because life 68 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 5: threatening bleeding. 69 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 4: Insurgents had to remove part. 70 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 5: Of her skull from a handgun that would likely have 71 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 5: only been a grace. 72 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 7: DFL House and Senate leaders were also there. They encourage 73 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 7: the Republican colleagues to work together to pass gun violence 74 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 7: prevention legislation. 75 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 6: Taking weapons of war off the street, banning large capacity magazines. 76 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 6: You also heard the focus on mental health and school safety. 77 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 2: We want a comprehensive. 78 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 7: Approach, Republican Speaker of the State House, Lisa Daymyth tells 79 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 7: Fox nine In a state in part, since the governor 80 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 7: couldn't even get his own members on board with a 81 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 7: special session on banning guns, it appears he's moved on 82 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 7: to holding campaign rallies hosted by the DFL that aren't 83 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 7: truly open to the public. This is exactly why the 84 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 7: legislative process is important. We need to hear from all perspectives, 85 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 7: not just the walls approved ones. The DFL says it's 86 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 7: town halls are open to any resident. The next one 87 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 7: is in Rochester on Thursday, November sixth. Leon Purvis Fox nine. 88 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: Again the reporting from from Fox nine, So a couple 89 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: of things. I'm going to hand it over to Representative 90 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: elliot In because i know he has just more than 91 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 1: a few comments to have plenty to share on this, 92 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,559 Speaker 1: So these are pre screened, completely pre screened campaign events. 93 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 2: I know you're going to speak to that. 94 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: You have agreeable attendees that are packing this first one, 95 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: and they sure they surely will the next one as well. 96 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 1: No audio has come out of any of this event 97 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 1: from over the weekend, yet I do as some audio 98 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 1: to share of former Congressman Gabby Gifford's and one of 99 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 1: the individuals involved in her campaign. But Walls mentioned when 100 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 1: you mentioned these town halls and then said that he 101 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: was going to be doing these in GOP districts, I 102 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: was certainly scratching my head because if you really wanted 103 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: to move forward on your gun control agenda, as Wall 104 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 1: says he wants to do, he would be better off 105 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: going to those Senate DFL districts where he doesn't have 106 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: the votes on his own side to convince what would 107 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: essentially be more so a friendly and receptive voting base 108 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: to pressure his own side to go and get this done. 109 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 2: But of course he doesn't. 110 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: He goes into GOP led districts because in my view, 111 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: he's trying to get what he wanted to get during 112 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: a special session. 113 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,839 Speaker 2: He wants fodder to use not. 114 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: Only for his reelection campaign but also to use against Republicans. 115 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: But the whole idea that these are town halls is 116 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: nothing more than the smoke screen. And you actually provided 117 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: me with a little bit of information I was completely 118 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:08,239 Speaker 1: unaware of regarding that assuge. 119 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, these are fundraisers, they're not town halls for tim 120 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 5: walls to not only grave dance on the backs of 121 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 5: the annunciation tragedy and call these town halls to talk 122 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 5: about serious gun control legislation that's going to prevent this 123 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 5: from happening again. It's not only it's not only completely. 124 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 4: I mean it's a farce. 125 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 5: It's a farce on the face of it, but it's 126 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 5: also disgusting in that he's using this as a as 127 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 5: a means to fundraise for his next election. And you know, 128 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 5: because he's calling it a town hall, he can actually 129 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 5: use taxpayer dollars to put these on. And there is 130 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 5: no audio, There is no footage of the Q and 131 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 5: a session of that. Why because they weren't allowing people 132 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 5: to even record it. This isn't a transparent and you know, 133 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 5: man of the people type governor that's going around talking 134 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 5: about an issue that Minnesotans care about. He's literally doing 135 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 5: this to springboard his next re election effort and stay 136 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 5: relevant for a national audience so that he can try 137 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 5: to run for president and fail miserably again. 138 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 4: And you know it wasn't but twenty. 139 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 5: Four to forty eight hours after the Annunciation tragedy that 140 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 5: he'd sent out an email fundraising blast alongside the Minnesota 141 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 5: House DFL in the wake of the tragedy. 142 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 4: And just think about that for a second. How do 143 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 4: you sleep at night. 144 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 5: Knowing that you're using a tragedy and an incident where 145 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 5: kids were murdered and shot dead in cold blood to 146 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 5: make money for your own political party. 147 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 4: It's absolutely egregious. 148 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 5: And what they won't tell you also is that there 149 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 5: were nineteen state and four federal gun laws that were 150 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 5: broken in that same incident. They won't tell you that, 151 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 5: you know, legislation that was previously deemed unconstitutional by the 152 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 5: US Supreme Court in Columbia v. Heller, MacDonald v. Chicago 153 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 5: and NYRSPA versus Bruin is what they're proposing. So these fixes, 154 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 5: these legislative fixes, to somehow put on paper the idea 155 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 5: that an assault rifle, which they don't actually define, is 156 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 5: now banned and illegal to possess. How in the heck 157 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 5: is that going to take four hundred and thirty five 158 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 5: million guns off the streets if they were to pass 159 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 5: that in the hyperbolic sense of the word, that they 160 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 5: actually were able to be, you know, to get it done. 161 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 5: It's absurd, and you know, at the end of the day, 162 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 5: they know what they're doing. This is about creating a 163 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 5: new electoral issue because they have nothing to run on currently. 164 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 5: This is about trying to invoke emotion and pretend that 165 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 5: they all of a sudden care about school safety, when 166 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 5: in reality, for the past three and a half years, 167 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 5: since March, when I introduced the Shield Act, which actually 168 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 5: would install cover, concealment and communication within schools to prevent 169 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 5: these tragedies from occurring, they've opposed it at every turn. 170 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 5: And when I had a letter of support from both 171 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 5: the NRA and Mom's Demand Action for our bill, it 172 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 5: was the Democrats who called up Mom's Demand Action and said, hey, 173 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 5: you better not be supporting a Republican bill, get off 174 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:59,439 Speaker 5: of it, and made them become neutral. They don't care 175 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 5: about this issue. They care about it helping their poll 176 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 5: numbers and their fundraising halls and there's nothing more egregious 177 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 5: than that. That's the epitome of a disgusting politician. 178 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: So we're going to I want to get into with 179 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: Representative Elliott Ingen next the walls floating this idea now 180 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: of a constitutional amendment benning assault rifles and if that 181 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 1: were to move forward, what would that even look like? Plus, 182 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: I have a stunning piece of audio. Emma Brown, she 183 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 1: works with former Congresswoman Gifford's, posted a clip on social 184 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: media over the weekend after this event took place and 185 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: then stated a bunch of things that weren't happening, which 186 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: makes me wonder if Congresswoman Gifford's was even aware of 187 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: what is transpiring relating to the very issue of which 188 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: she was at this town hall again with my fingers 189 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 1: over the weekend. So more of your comments from the 190 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app brought to you by Lyndahl Real Team. We 191 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,079 Speaker 1: have Representative Elliott to Ingen in studio joining me here 192 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: on Twin City's News Talk Am eleven thirty and one 193 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: O three five FM, FM one O three point five 194 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: and kt OLKAM eleven thirty Minneapolis at Saint Paul. 195 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 2: All Right, I'm gonna break my rule. 196 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: Typically I only break the rule for a foes of 197 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: the show. So I'm gonna play another clip from a 198 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 1: foe of the show, just because it's too good to 199 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: not go and address on Twin City's News Talk from 200 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: the sixty five to one carpet Next Day Install Studios 201 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 1: Representative Elliott Ingen spending some extended time with us this 202 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: morning as we talk about these alleged town halls by 203 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: Governor Tim Walls. 204 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 2: Let's go and here again from Eric Hey's. 205 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 8: Eric again, thank you Elliott for proving that you have 206 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 8: no idea what you're talking about. You little zoomer Waltz 207 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 8: is not running for president, He's running for governor. 208 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 4: He's running for because governor is. 209 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 8: Just town halls aren't secretly not town halls because you 210 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 8: don't like them. It was a town hall format. He 211 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 8: was asked questions and answers, and Republicans were allowed to record, 212 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 8: but no mager Republicans showed up. So that's on you, buddy, 213 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 8: have a good one. 214 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 5: So it sounds to me like we have a DFL 215 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 5: operative who's spending their morning listening to John Justice in 216 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 5: the morning, and that's that's a good thing. They're learning something. 217 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 5: Even if I hasn't quite set in yet. Eric, we 218 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:18,319 Speaker 5: appreciate you and that voice and answer that you're using. 219 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 5: Keep listening, you learn something someday. 220 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, these are their town halls in name only. 221 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: If these were actual, legitimate, straight up town halls, there 222 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 1: wouldn't be this extensive pre screening. 223 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 2: Process has gone. 224 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: You could have gone, They've would have been, they wouldn't 225 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: have been filled up with a bunch of activists. And 226 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:39,199 Speaker 1: I'm sure there were plenty of Republicans excuse me, plenty 227 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: of impostors posing as Republicans that would say, hey, I 228 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: voted for Trump, but I'm absolutely in support of what 229 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 1: it is you're you're trying to do. 230 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 2: Eric. 231 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: We're speaking in somewhat generalities. The vast majority of the 232 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: audience understands that. But if you have so few arguments 233 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: to go and lend to the conversation that that's where 234 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: you want to go, then that would be on you. 235 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 1: So yeah, I appreciate you leaving a talkback. 236 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 4: Keep going, Eric, we can answer all of them all. 237 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 2: Right, let's go here. 238 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: I want to play this clip from Gifford's and one 239 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 1: of her officials within her campaign, But first I want 240 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: to address this idea of walls is now floating the 241 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: thought of a constitutional amendment banning assault rifle. So he 242 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: says he's going to call a special session. Doesn't call 243 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: a special session. Everybody knows they don't have the votes 244 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 1: on their own side of the DFL. But now he's 245 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,839 Speaker 1: talking about going a different route and moving forward on 246 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: a constitutional amendment. What's the likelihood that this would happen? 247 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: And what would this even look like? 248 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 2: Elliott? 249 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 5: So, first off, when they had a full Democrat trifecta 250 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 5: over the past two years, the previous two years before 251 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 5: the twenty twenty four election, they didn't pass this bill 252 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 5: because they didn't have the votes, because they also know 253 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 5: that it's unconstitutional. And now they don't have the votes 254 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 5: and they know it's unconstitutional, but they need an electoral issue, 255 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 5: and they need people to try to turn out and 256 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 5: vote for Democrats even though they're offering absolutely zero and 257 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 5: you know, the party's approval rating, I think is at 258 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 5: twenty four percent. So this is about nothing other than 259 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 5: trying to create a new shiny object to a tract 260 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 5: voters to the polls when Democrats have done nothing to 261 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 5: help them out. 262 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 2: So let's go here. 263 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: Once I got in This morning, I was on X 264 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: and I found this clip. It is a congresswoman, former 265 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, along with Emma Brown, who I believe. 266 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 2: Works with her campaign. She says as much in the clip. 267 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 1: Let me make one comment and then I want to 268 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 1: address it, because they seem to be completely confused over 269 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: the reason why they were here in Minnesota in the 270 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:41,319 Speaker 1: first place. As I've said many times on the show, 271 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: so I did nine years of radio before coming here 272 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: to Twin Cities News talking use on Arizona. I'll never 273 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:53,680 Speaker 1: forget getting that phone call on that weekend morning before 274 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: the news had hit that congresswoman at the time, Gaby 275 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 1: Gifford's had been shot Safeway grocery store or the parking 276 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 1: lot where she was holding this. It was a town hall, 277 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: and it was an actual town hall. It was in public. 278 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,439 Speaker 1: Maybe anybody could go and show up. I passed by 279 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: that grocery store every single day on the on the 280 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: way to work, I had said shortly after, as the 281 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 1: former congresswoman was recovering, she obviously had in his dealing 282 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: with a lot of issues relating to that shooting in 283 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: terms of her mental faculties. And I had always said 284 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: that listen if she wants to, and she should retire 285 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: now from politics, which she did and step out of 286 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: the political limelight hands off. You know, she went through 287 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: a horrific event. She survived a horrific event, and there 288 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: doesn't need to be any added sort of criticism to 289 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: her and what she represented at the time when she 290 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: was serving in office. That didn't happen, and she immediately 291 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: began to contin you to do politics. I'm convinced a 292 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: lot of this was due to her husband, Mark Kelly, 293 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: and I find it really unfortunate. She obviously has the 294 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: wherewithal to be able to go up on stage and 295 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: say some words, but she suffered from a horrific tragedy 296 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: and I can't help but feel, this is my own 297 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: personal opinion on this. I can't help but feel that 298 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: the individuals around her continued to go and use her 299 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: because of what she's gone through. I find it incredibly unfortunate. 300 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: So that's just my view on former Congresswoman Giffords. That 301 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: being said, listen to this clip again. This is Emma 302 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: Brown along with Giffords, and Emma has to do all 303 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: the talking for the former congresswoman because she's just not 304 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: capable of going and speaking in this way, but listen 305 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: to what they have to say. 306 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 9: Hey, everyone, it's Emma Brown here, executive director of Giffords 307 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 9: and I am here with yeah Iddy Gibbert, and we 308 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 9: are in Minneapolis, Minnesota, actually specifically Waconia, Minnesota. We just 309 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 9: did a big town hall here. There were seven hundred people. 310 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 9: RSVP'd hundreds and hundreds of people in the room today 311 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 9: to hear about this important package moving through the Minnesota 312 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 9: legislature to do things like banning binary triggers, banning assault weapons, 313 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 9: high capacity magazines, closing the state's gun show loophole. This morning, 314 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 9: Gabby and I met with the parents of the Annunciation 315 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 9: Church shooting, which was really hard or he was a hard, 316 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 9: very sad meeting. But today we have seen tons of 317 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 9: energy in this room in Minnesota to pass this package. 318 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 9: We've got Governor Walls, he is with us. Now we 319 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 9: just need Republicans in the state Senate and the State 320 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 9: House to do it too. 321 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 4: What do you think, Gabby, Let's get her done. 322 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 2: Let's get her done. 323 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: So this should be breaking news splashed on all of 324 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: our local news channels that apparently, unbeknownst to everybody there 325 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 1: is a package of gun reforms that's been created and 326 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:48,359 Speaker 1: missing work right now, John, and it's moving through the legislature. 327 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: This is completely brand new information. 328 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 2: Unless she's completely misguided. 329 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 5: We've been waiting on a special session since Tim Walls 330 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 5: fired at the hip after annunciation and tried making himself 331 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 5: elevant on a national scene again to talk about the 332 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 5: gun control issue, rather than, you know, take a deep 333 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 5: breath and actually look at policies that would prevent this 334 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 5: from happening and save our kids if God forbid, somebody 335 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 5: who you know, attempted to do them harm were to 336 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 5: enter their school. But instead we get this, We get 337 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 5: the Giffords Foundation, and they're forty percent of all donations 338 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 5: that go to cozy salaries for Emma Brown and others 339 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 5: talking about bills that could never pass in a legislature 340 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 5: that isn't in session, with a governor that has zero 341 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:38,199 Speaker 5: zero wherewithal to actually pass something at all. We have 342 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 5: a three hundred and forty six and eight dollars salary 343 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 5: last year for i'ma Brown's It's. 344 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 4: Pretty easy to look up, you know, at the end 345 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 4: of the day, this is what they exist to do. 346 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 5: They're not actually looking to pass policies. They're looking to 347 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 5: create a cozy job for somebody. 348 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 2: So here's the question that I have. 349 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:00,440 Speaker 1: Does she legitimately this may not even be on hurring 350 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 1: Congresswoman Gifford's like does Emma Brown and a former congress 351 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: Woman Gifford's come to Minnesota thinking and believing that there 352 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 1: actually was a gun reform package that was actually moving 353 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 1: through the legislature. I legitimately believe that they think that's 354 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 1: why they came here. 355 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 5: They don't think that deep, they don't think that there's 356 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 5: a legislative package at all. 357 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 4: They think that there's a public. 358 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 5: Narrative that they need to try to create in craft 359 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 5: and get people on board with so that when they 360 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 5: try to pass something that is unconstitutional and they know 361 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 5: it and doesn't even have the capability of passing into law, 362 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 5: andwithstanding all of the court overturnings that would inevitably happen 363 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 5: from it, they're just trying to use this as a 364 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 5: means to fundraise and increase polling numbers. 365 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,120 Speaker 1: So a thread to the show left to talk back 366 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: and some of them that completely flew by both of us, 367 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: and he boids this out. 368 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 10: Hey, John Chuck and Blaine, this one flew right by 369 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 10: you guys. She made a comment that they did that 370 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 10: presentation down there with seven hundred people, and then she said, 371 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 10: now we need you Republicans to get on board with 372 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 10: this also, So is she implying that it was only 373 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 10: Democrats in the crowd. Yeah, I'm so curious. 374 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,640 Speaker 4: That's a great point. Yeah, no, it's in Blaine. We appreciate. 375 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:24,920 Speaker 2: It's a fantastic point. 376 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 1: And again I'm wondering if they actually were up there 377 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: thinking that they were advocating on behalf of a package 378 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: that doesn't exist and that the legislature was really in session, 379 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 1: or did they just end up experiencing what we all experienced, 380 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: and that is any time the Governor Tim Wall speaks, 381 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: he's lying. 382 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, that. 383 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 4: Crazy man. 384 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys, you never were presented with anything over 385 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: in the legislature regarding I mean, that was one of 386 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: the big problems with the special session is that you 387 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: need to set forward the agenda, but you weren't even 388 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 1: given a package to even examine before this session, right 389 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 1: would be called to even know, Okay, this is what 390 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,119 Speaker 1: we're going to be looking at. 391 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 2: They never even put any any pen to paper, right. 392 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 5: Well, the only pen to paper that they put down 393 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 5: was to write up a fundraising email in the wake 394 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,439 Speaker 5: of the tragedy talking about a special session without actually 395 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 5: having a bill written down or drafted or even an 396 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 5: idea thought up in their head. And then in that 397 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 5: same fundraising email they said that Republicans haven't been working 398 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 5: on school safety issues or violence prevention issues at all. 399 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 4: It couldn't be farther from the truth if. 400 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 5: It wasn't for Mary Moriarty and woke DA's alongside the 401 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 5: fact that eighty percent of our gun violence crimes are 402 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 5: you know, downward departed plut out. There's no repercussions at 403 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 5: all for having committed them. We could fix this issue. 404 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 5: We could fix this issue if we actually gave the 405 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 5: tools to the you know, the students, the staff, and 406 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 5: the inside the schools to prevent and protect them from 407 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 5: these sorts of issues. But Democrats would not go for it. 408 00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,639 Speaker 5: They opposed it all at every turn, and now they 409 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,640 Speaker 5: want to talk about guns because they got nothing else 410 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 5: to run on. 411 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: Representative Elliott Engen also running now for state auditor. Do 412 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 1: you have any place online people can go and find 413 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: out about your efforts to become the state auditor? 414 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 2: Yeah? 415 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 5: Thanks, John it's www dot Elliott Angin dot com. Last 416 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 5: names E N, G, E N. It's very Norwegian. We 417 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 5: invite you guys to go there, and then we're going 418 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 5: to be breaking some pretty cool news in the coming days, 419 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 5: a thirty fraud sites and thirty days tour where we're 420 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,880 Speaker 5: going to be tracking across the state showing not only 421 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 5: previous instances of fraud and how they could have been prevented, 422 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 5: but also we're going to be exposing some fraud as 423 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 5: we go, So something that you guys definitely want to 424 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 5: pay attention to. And we invite you guys to join 425 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 5: this movement because at the end of the day, it's 426 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,160 Speaker 5: about making sure that the working class is put first 427 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 5: instead of the political class and the special interests who 428 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 5: they're working for. 429 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: Well representative again, Elliott Ingen, thank you so much for 430 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,120 Speaker 1: spending some additional time with us this morning. 431 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 4: Thanks for having me. 432 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,199 Speaker 2: Man greatly appreciate it. This is a blast coming up. 433 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: We ever talked back of the day. It's brought to 434 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: you by Mini Leaf and Mini Leaf. We'll get to 435 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: that next here on Twin Cities News Talk AM eleven 436 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: thirty and one oh three five FM. 437 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 2: From the six five to one Carpet, Next. 438 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 1: Day Install Studios, John Justice, Twin Cities News Talk AM 439 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 1: eleven thirty and one oh three five FM. All right, 440 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: I got a bunch of stuff in the stack that 441 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: I want to get to before we wrap up the 442 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 1: show today. First off, though, we need to get to 443 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 1: your talkback of the day. 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We 453 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 2: have to fund ourselves other erics. 454 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 1: Yes, we will not cast dispersion upon all erics, just 455 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: those who use a voice disguises from brainer. 456 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:13,640 Speaker 2: Thank you, Eric, friend of the show. 457 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 1: That is your talk back of the day, brought to 458 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: you by mini Leaf and minieleaf dot com. We will 459 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: keep with the theme for just a moment. 460 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 11: I love how Elliott's response to Eric's first question was 461 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 11: with precision and direct, and Eric's response to that is 462 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 11: your zoomer. 463 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 2: Oh you should have heard what I didn't play because 464 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 2: there were more talkbacks. 465 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 1: You can always tell when either myself or the guest 466 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,640 Speaker 1: is right over the target based off of the frequency 467 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: of foe of the show talkbacks that roll in. And 468 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,120 Speaker 1: it's what I get for breaking my rule and playing them, 469 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 1: you know, playing more than more than one. Yes, Uh, yes, Sam, I. 470 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 6: Was just gonna say, I love I love being able 471 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 6: to the transcripts of the talkbacks, and then I always wonder, 472 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,360 Speaker 6: like I wonder what their voice inflection sounds like when 473 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 6: you play some of them near I'm like, yep, that's 474 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 6: about what I expected. 475 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I've gotten to the point now where with about 476 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: seventy five percent accuracy, I can read a transcript of 477 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: a talkback and tell you who's leaving it, if they're 478 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,120 Speaker 1: not saying if they're not saying their name. 479 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 6: That's a good thing, though, I mean, because that just 480 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 6: means that we have some pretty consistent listeners. 481 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 2: It's true. 482 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 4: It's true. 483 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: It's also a useless talent. It's more just for my 484 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 1: own amusement. I'll read it and go, I bet that's 485 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: JD Yeah, it's JD. I'll read that and go, I 486 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,120 Speaker 1: bet that's Tom. Yeah, that's Tom. 487 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 8: All right. 488 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,120 Speaker 2: I want to get back to, just briefly, this clip 489 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 2: from Emma Brown. 490 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 1: He's a three hundred thousand dollars A Y're sorry, And 491 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: as I mentioned, Emma Brown has to do the majority 492 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: of the talking because former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords can't. She 493 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,360 Speaker 1: obviously has made a decision as an adult to continue 494 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,440 Speaker 1: to go on her anti gun crusade. I just feel 495 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: it's unfortunate, and I feel like those around her, unfortunately 496 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:10,679 Speaker 1: are using her. 497 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 2: And that's just my opinion. 498 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 1: I've got a long history with former Congresswoman Gabby Gifford's 499 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: going back to when she was shot outside that subway. 500 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: It was an incredibly tragic event that took place Thereby 501 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: the grace of. 502 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 2: God, is she alive. I just expected, based off. 503 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 1: Of the extent of her injuries, that she would have 504 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 1: completely retired from politics, and she didn't do that. What's 505 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,919 Speaker 1: unfortunate about this is that they're completely misguided as they 506 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: come to town for this town hall. I just want 507 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: to play this clip again and share a talk back 508 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 1: that role. Then another point that I missed when playing 509 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,400 Speaker 1: this the first time, and let me preface up front 510 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 1: if you haven't heard this yet. They're talking about a 511 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: gun control package that doesn't exist, and then mentioning a 512 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: gun control package here in Minnesota that doesn't exist, in 513 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 1: saying that this non existent gun control package is moving 514 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 1: through the legislature, none of which is happening. And I 515 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 1: just wonder if the Gifford's campaign thought that they were 516 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: here to try to support something that isn't even happening. 517 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 9: Hey, everyone, it's Emma Brown here, executive director of Gifford's 518 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 9: and I am here with Yadby Gibberds, and we are 519 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 9: in Minneapolis, Minnesota, actually specifically Waconia, Minnesota. We just did 520 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 9: a big town hall here. There were seven hundred people 521 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 9: RSVP'd hundreds and hundreds of people in the room today 522 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 9: to hear about this important package moving through the Minnesota legislature. 523 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: Yep, there's no package, and it can't move through the 524 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 1: legislature even if it did exist, because they're not in 525 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: session to do. 526 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 9: Things like banning binary triggers, banning assault weapons, high capacity magazines, 527 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 9: closing the state's gun show loophole. This morning, Gabby and 528 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 9: I melt. 529 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: Yet, no there's no package, and even what has been 530 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 1: discussed by Democrats but not put to paper or email 531 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: or website doesn't even include the things that Emma Brown 532 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: form a congress woman's Gabby Gifford's campaign is. 533 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 11: Saying, good grief, there is no gun show loophole. What 534 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 11: they're referring to is private party sales like from myself 535 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 11: to a family member not having a background check, which 536 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 11: is perfectly reasonable. And unfortunately they got rid of that 537 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 11: at the beginning of twenty twenty five, so that's already, 538 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 11: even to their standards, no longer a thing. 539 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was an incredibly ignorant post and I'm not 540 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: even putting it on Gifford's campaign spokesperson or group spokesperson. 541 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,959 Speaker 1: I think they legitimately believed that they were coming here 542 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:58,199 Speaker 1: to support a package that does not even exist. Right 543 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 1: before we move too far far from Governor Tim Walls, 544 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:03,879 Speaker 1: I do want to share this with you. I warned 545 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: you in the first hour of the show for you 546 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: full show listeners. Hope Walls has posted a video up 547 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 1: online as she has wanted to do this one talking 548 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: about the White House ballroom, and I actually appreciate a 549 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: few things that she says until I don't appreciate what 550 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: she says. 551 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,880 Speaker 2: So here's Governor Tim Walls's daughter, Hope. 552 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 12: I think the whole destruction of the East wing of 553 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 12: the White House to build this tacky ballroom really represents 554 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 12: just the larger political climate and state of our country 555 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 12: right now. But if you look objectively, like at the 556 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 12: White House, you're maybe like, oh, it's crappy, but it's 557 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 12: not something to like really worry about or like there's 558 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 12: bigger things. 559 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 11: I agree. 560 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 12: I do think it's symbolic of like what they're doing 561 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 12: to the country, but there's also like history in the 562 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 12: White House, and it's really just it's gross. And honestly, 563 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 12: if it was like the Obamas, I would be like, Okay, 564 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 12: at least what they will build will be classy, right, 565 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 12: you know this is going to be like bake gold, 566 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 12: even if it's real gold, just gold, gaudy, ugly, tacky 567 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 12: mar al Lago, And like, that's what's really upsetting to me, 568 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 12: the fact that not that they're like changing things. I 569 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 12: do think like the White House himself is like historical 570 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 12: and should be preserved as such, but like more so 571 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 12: that it's going to be so we all know it 572 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 12: also like do something like useful when Caroline Lovett is 573 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 12: like he's focused. 574 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 2: On this ballroom? 575 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 12: Are you freaking serious? Anyways? 576 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: All right, so let's start at the end, because she 577 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: actually I'll give her credit where credit is due, like 578 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: she's so close, she's so close, and she shows a 579 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: level of honesty in why Democrats are so ardently against 580 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 1: this ballroom. Andrew Langer joined us in the first hour 581 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: of the show, and we talked about how Eric Swalwell, 582 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: the Democrat, has put up his own purity test for Democrats, 583 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: saying that if you plan on running for the twenty 584 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: twenty eight Democrat presidential nominee, you better be prepared to 585 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 1: tear down the ballroom the moment that you get elected. Like, 586 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: if you're not willing to go and tear the ballroom down, 587 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 1: then you shouldn't run. Let me start off with the 588 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: last thing she said, because I saw Democrats over the 589 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 1: weekend that continue to perpetuate that lie. Relating to Caroline Levitt. 590 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt was specifically asked in full context by the 591 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 1: reporter during the White House Press briefing if President Donald 592 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 1: Trump had any other thoughts about renovations to the White 593 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: House grounds and she said, no, the President always likes 594 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 1: to consider building and he's been thinking about this ballroom 595 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: for a long time. And as a matter of fact, 596 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: I actually have the clip that talks about that. But 597 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 1: she said, right now, his focus is only on the ballroom, 598 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: talking specifically about construction work on the White House grounds, 599 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: not in total. The Democrats kept shotgunning that clip of 600 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt with the quote without giving the proper context 601 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: to make it sound like this is the only thing 602 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 1: that matters to Trump, nothing else. But when you break 603 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: down what Hope Balls had to say in that clip, 604 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 1: I had to laugh because her only arguments were. 605 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 2: First off, she admitted that it was kind of ridiculous 606 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 2: that people were pushing back against it in. 607 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 1: Her own words, in the way that she talks, but 608 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:04,760 Speaker 1: she said that it was gross. And then she said 609 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 1: she simply that wouldn't like how it looks, which is 610 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: all subjective. 611 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 13: Hope Well says, it'll be classy if the Obamas did it. 612 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 13: Look at the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago and tell 613 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 13: me that looks classy. 614 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 8: Yeah. 615 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 1: I do not understand how anybody in their right mind 616 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 1: thought that that Obama Presidential Library in Chicago, that design 617 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: was a good idea, and I took take your partisan 618 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: blinders off. 619 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 2: I don't care who you are. 620 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: That is one big, gigantic, gray, drab looking monolith that, 621 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 1: unfortunately people in Chicago are going to have to endure 622 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 1: for years to come. 623 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 3: Maybe the governor's daughter should care less about the destruction 624 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 3: of the East wing of the White House and more 625 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 3: about the instruction her father has caused in the state 626 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 3: of Minnesota. 627 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 14: Hoping we have dignitaries and leaders of other nations coming here. 628 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 14: Tents and porter potties are not classy. I'm sorry, you 629 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 14: just don't like Trump and that's the only thing you. 630 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 8: Can run on. 631 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 2: That's it, period, end the story. 632 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 8: What a joke. 633 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, she all but admits it in the clip. 634 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: Oh, we missed another point from that Congresswoman Gabby Gifford's spokesperson. Hi, 635 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 1: you missed another important point RSVPs seven hundred people RSVP. 636 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 6: That means they were all invited. 637 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 2: Yep, nobody was. 638 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:38,240 Speaker 10: To walk in. 639 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 2: Hope Olds thinks that the Obamas would have built a 640 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 2: ballroom that looked better. 641 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,680 Speaker 4: Has she seen the Obama Presidential Library? 642 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,120 Speaker 2: H Oh, you found it? 643 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 1: I just now noticed so earlier in the show just 644 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 1: we're getting we're getting close to the end here, so 645 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 1: well we'll thru us stuff out kind of will make it. 646 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 2: We could make it a freedom Monday. 647 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 1: So I played this clip earlier in the show of 648 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: Alexandria Acassio Cortes at a Zohron Mom Donnie campaign event. 649 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 15: Quos escaping Holocaust, lat Americans fleeing sand slavery and Jim 650 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 15: Crow Latinos and seeking a better life, Native people standing 651 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:32,279 Speaker 15: for themselves, Asian Americans coming together in Queens in Brooklyn and. 652 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 2: The Brooms and Menan and sn. 653 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:40,759 Speaker 1: Island in this country, which sounded an awful lot like 654 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,879 Speaker 1: a speech that at one point in time doomed any 655 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,959 Speaker 1: presidential aspirations by one Howard Dean. 656 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 4: Not only are we going in New Hampshire, Tom Harkin, We're. 657 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,839 Speaker 16: Going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North 658 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:59,200 Speaker 16: Dakota and New Mexico. We're going to California and Texas. 659 00:34:58,960 --> 00:34:59,560 Speaker 1: And New York. 660 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,800 Speaker 16: We're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan, 661 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,879 Speaker 16: and then we're going to Washington, See to take back 662 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:07,600 Speaker 16: the White House. 663 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:17,480 Speaker 1: Oh the oh, the days when something like that actually 664 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,800 Speaker 1: had the opportunity to ruin somebody's. 665 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,279 Speaker 2: Political aspirations. Oh I long for those days. 666 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,560 Speaker 1: But remember, the Democrats aren't crazy. I know this because 667 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:30,759 Speaker 1: AOC told me so. 668 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,080 Speaker 17: We must remember in a time such as this, we 669 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:40,839 Speaker 17: are not the crazy ones New York City. We are 670 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 17: not the outlandish ones New York City. They want us 671 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,320 Speaker 17: to think we are crazy. 672 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:54,880 Speaker 2: We are sane. Let's wrap on this. 673 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:02,759 Speaker 1: Vandals damaged newly planed trees in Saint Paul, just over 674 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:08,200 Speaker 1: a year after a similar incident occurred in twenty twenty four. 675 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:15,280 Speaker 1: Saint Paul Parks and Recreation said about thirty two recently 676 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,279 Speaker 1: planted trees south of the High Bridge and Shepherd Road 677 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,399 Speaker 1: have been vandalized again. According to a statement, the trees 678 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,760 Speaker 1: were found cut just a few feet above the ground, 679 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:28,279 Speaker 1: with their canopies left behind. They didn't even take the 680 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:33,600 Speaker 1: carcasses to build anything. Officials said the trees were planted 681 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,239 Speaker 1: in partnership with Tree Trust last fall. Doesn't seem to 682 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:38,200 Speaker 1: be a lot of trust. 683 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:42,280 Speaker 2: In trees in that area, if I do say so myself, 684 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 2: and I did, and I do. 685 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,840 Speaker 1: While this incident is disappointing, we remain committed to growing 686 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,080 Speaker 1: and strengthening our urban canopy, wrote Saint Paul Parks and 687 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 1: Recreation in a social post on Saturday. 688 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,719 Speaker 2: Maybe you should stop. Perhaps this is a sign that 689 00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,560 Speaker 2: you shouldn't do this anymore. 690 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:05,640 Speaker 1: It's almost a poetic analogy, Shakespearean Greek tragedy, however you 691 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:06,279 Speaker 1: want to describe it. 692 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,200 Speaker 2: Look at these new trees, aren't they wonderful? 693 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,000 Speaker 1: Only to have the criminals in the city, just like 694 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,399 Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, but in Saint Paul, emboldened by the lack 695 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,719 Speaker 1: of accountability, to have them go and destroy them again. 696 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,520 Speaker 1: It's the second time that vandals have left the Shepherd 697 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,360 Speaker 1: Road trees damaged, and they can't even make the excuse 698 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,719 Speaker 1: that they took the trees for the canopy to use them. 699 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,560 Speaker 2: They just left them. 700 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:39,759 Speaker 1: Behind, like vandalism for vandalism's sake. Parks and rec representatives 701 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,040 Speaker 1: said they are currently looking for ways to replace the 702 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 1: damage trees, but at this time they have found they 703 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 1: have not found funding a funding option for new trees. 704 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:49,919 Speaker 2: Maybe they should make them like metal. 705 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:53,520 Speaker 1: They can make fake trees if they want the canopy, 706 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,640 Speaker 1: just saying it might be a better idea. Thank you 707 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,439 Speaker 1: so much for hanging out with the show this morning. 708 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 1: I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. It's 709 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,279 Speaker 1: have to say I really appreciate it. Tomorrow on the 710 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 1: show an early appearance this week, we'll talk artificial intelligence 711 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,640 Speaker 1: with David Gartenstein ROTS at six thirty. If you want 712 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 1: to get your questions in AI related you can do 713 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,440 Speaker 1: that justice at iHeartRadio dot com. Also, candidate for Attorney 714 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,440 Speaker 1: General Ron Shoots will be in studio answering your questions 715 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,960 Speaker 1: at seven thirty. Get your talkbacks into the Ihearter Radio app. 716 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,960 Speaker 1: I check those overnight. Have yourself a fantastic Monday, and 717 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:30,879 Speaker 1: I'll talk to you guys tomorrow just after six. 718 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:31,200 Speaker 8: Bye.