WEBVTT - How About This Shiznizzle?! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.239 Armstrong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.599 This is a district Donald Trump won by twenty two 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.200 points last year. The fact that the special election has 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.199 become the center of the political universe, it's really a 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.839 testament to the excitement Democrats feel after sweeping key races 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:39.320 in New Jersey and Virginia last month and Republicans growing 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.239 concerns about the president's unpopularity and facing backlash in the 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:44.159 midterms next year. 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:50.400 They are describing a special congressional runoff race in Tennessee, 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:55.760 specifically the Nashville area, in which the Republican ought to 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.560 win it going away. But there's great excitement around this chick. 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.840 She's been and called the AOC of Tennessee for her 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.680 left wing views in antics. Her name is aften How 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:11.679 perfect is that aften Ben? And she ought to be 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.040 the ideal Democrat for Republicans in a red face, red 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.600 state to face that used to be the thinking. But 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.160 again she's gotten a lot of support in the dude 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.640 who looks like a great candidate, who's the Republican whose 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.639 name is Van Apps. Matt Van Epps is the West 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.640 Pointer flew helicopters for the Army Tennessee National Guard. Nice 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:36.240 America First Republican, lower regulation, more freedom, that sort of 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:40.680 thing seems ideal. And he's running against this aften Ben woman. Now, Katie, 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:42.720 I'm gonna need you to be the judge because I 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:47.920 generally stay away from people's appearances unless they deserve it. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.280 Okay, she is. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:02:00.360 Attractive ish, this aften Ben. But if I were at 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.880 say a Nashville bar, and we are having a drink 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.200 and a laugh and the light hitter just right, I 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:11.720 might think that's a dude, pretty man ish. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:16.480 I'm not going to argue with that is a strong jaw, one. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.600 That does not enter into her ability to govern successfully 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:24.800 or legislate Wisely, she's a freaking nutjob. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:30.600 But so yeah, you're not wrong. Okay. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.080 Anyway, So she's thirty six years old, a former community 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:39.799 activist the hell does that mean? And healthcare organizer? Hell 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:43.000 does that mean? She's now serving in the Tennessee House 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:50.600 again dub the AOC of Tennessee. So this woman is 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.680 is also very dodgy with a press. She won't answer 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.839 questions straight, and what they keep asking her is does 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.480 she stand by her last her past public statements. 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:02.680 Here's just a little sampler for. 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:07.399 You a few years ago on the city she represents, Nashville. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:08.840 I hate the city. 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.920 I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.560 hate country music. I hate all of the things that 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.320 make Nashville barely in its city to the rest. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:18.760 Of the country. But I hate it. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.520 Okay, Okay, now she says she was just talking about 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:25.920 all the tourists that make it tough for her to 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.359 get to her house. Okay, how about on her state. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.480 Let's go a little bigger. Let's pull back to ten 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.280 thousand feet on the state of Tennessee. This is an 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.320 interview with the Tennesseean newspaper. And again, this woman is 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.440 not twenty three, so we're not talking about when she 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:42.600 was nineteen years old. 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:44.800 She's thirty six. Quote. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:49.240 Let me be clear, Tennessee is a racist state. Racism 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.000 is in the air we breathe, permeating the state capitol, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.560 codified in the legislation being passed. To the detriment of women, 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.440 she means, to the detriment communities of color and the 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.320 working poor are problem with racism in the state is 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:07.000 wild and untamed. Okay, how about the whole defund the 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:12.480 police thing. What's the proposal lettl dissolve the matt Nashville PD, 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.839 she asked online. Or if that's not enough for you, 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.480 how about this? She's nizzle. She tweeted this in June 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:24.279 of twenty twenty. Good morning, especially to the fifty four 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.679 percent of Americans that believe burning down a police station 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:28.840 is justified. 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.880 Holy crap, good grief. Yeah. So. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:39.000 On CNN's Inside Politics Sunday, which I wouldn't condemn prisoners 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.680 to watching, host Manu Raju asked Miss Ben if she 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.200 regretted making these remarks instead of disavowing them. She answered 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.600 that she wouldn't post such remarks today because she has matured. 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.040 She added that those remarks were made when she was 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:56.120 a private citizen and not an elected lawmaker. But she 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.200 doesn't say she doesn't believe it. She just says I 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.240 wouldn't have posted it. The difference between now and when 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:03.960 she made the remarks is that she since learned to 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.839 hide better what she really believes, so she can't be 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:11.640 called to account for it. And my final note on 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.320 the Democratic wakudoodle of the day. Aft in Ben is 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:21.120 this delicious note reported by The Free Beacon that she 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:26.640 in the past called for white candidates, if they find 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.880 out they're in a race, a political race against a 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:35.440 non wait candidate, you should drop out of the race 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.960 preemptively because there are too many white voices already. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:41.560 And I quote, I'm probably. 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:42.880 Going to be trolled for this, but if you're a 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.000 white man running in a primary with a progressive PoCA, 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.159 that's a progressive people of color, I challenge you to 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.480 ask yourself in this moment, is my voice more important? 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.760 And if you think it is, your campaign is more 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.760 about you than your policy agenda. 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:58.160 Oh the white guilt. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:03.560 Well, then on the other hand, she found herself in 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.920 a primary against a black dude. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.600 Haha, that's perfect. 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.240 The only black candidate in the primary race who came 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.120 in last place in a four way struggle. 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.880 Ben beat him. Bla blah blah blah blah. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.400 During the primary, Dixie press his name was Vincent Dixie, 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.760 which is a great name. Yes, he really needs to 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.800 run a restaurant or a car dealer. Vince Dixie from 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:35.320 Vince Dixie for anyway. During the primary campaign, Dixie pressed 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.320 Ben at a candidate forum on how she would ensure 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.000 black constituents had a voice in Congress. Ben replied that 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.600 she has always followed the lead of black women and 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.760 said she was grateful for their organizing. But Dixie then 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.080 called out Ben for only mentioning black women. I just 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.520 want to make sure you understand it's more than black 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.080 women in this world that you'll be representing. There are 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.640 also black men that need to be in this conversation, 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:57.760 he added. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.200 But having already said that white. 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.800 People should drop out if a black is in the race, 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:05.479 she had to kind of narrow it down. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.040 I didn't mean black men. I just meant black women. 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.840 Let's see, she posted, liberals listen to black women. Black 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:19.160 women abolish the police, liberals listen. An other deleted posts, 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.880 she wrote that she wanted Nashville's police department to be dissolved, 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.080 supported a teachers union call that defunding the police should 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:29.040 be a condition for schools reopening during the COVID nineteen pandemic. 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:38.200 Wait a minute, look, she supported the teachers' unions, And 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.240 if you've ever doubted that teachers unions are a force 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.280 for evil, even as they're just trying to get wages 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.360 and benefits for teachers, which I get. It's a union, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.160 and I have problems with public employee union in general. 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.000 But anyway, if they only did that, that would be 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:52.440 one thing. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:53.840 But they are evil. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:08:00.520 During COVID they said we won't open schools unless you 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.800 defund the police. That's effing evil. 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:09.320 That has what to do with COVID, right right, It's 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:09.920 just crazy. 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:16.760 So anyway, this crazy nut job Tennessee AOC is just 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.000 two points behind in the polls. I will tell you 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.920 that state poles tend to be inaccurate because the sample 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.080 sizes are pretty small and the national polls are not great. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:30.760 But so we'll have to see if this l O 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.040 la lola looking chick gets elected. 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:39.800 Well that what another Kukola in Congress? 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:44.400 Great Scott, Great Scott, the progressive wave. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:46.880 It's just I try to well, I don't try to 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.120 understand it because I'll go insane, but the mindset of 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.600 listening to her make any of those points and going, yes, 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:54.320 I like her, I'm with her. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:55.920 Oh yeah, I know. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:02.360 These people have no capacity for rational thought. How dumb 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.319 are you to want to defund the police? 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:05.240 Why didn't you. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:09.560 Ask anybody in a tough neighborhood, a black neighborhood, a 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:14.680 Hispanic neighborhood. You morons, Do you want more police in 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.600 your neighborhood or fewer police? Oh, it's like the mins 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.160 are almost universally more. 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:20.520 Yeah. 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.600 It's like the woman that was just interviewed, I think 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.880 it was on News Nation actually who They asked her 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.679 how she felt about the National Guard being sent into Memphis, 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.160 and she thanked them and said, I haven't been able 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.559 to leave my house and feel safe in years. 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:35.640 Oh yeah, and now I can. 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.079 It's been the story for well over a month now 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.640 that Memphis is thrilled because Memphis has had a serious 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.240 crime problem. Yeah, the folks in Memphis are mostly thrilled 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.200 by the presidence of the National Guard. It's funny you 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.840 haven't heard that reported in the nations media. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:51.480 That's odd. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.520 It must just be in oversight, all right, more to 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:59.920 come stay with us. This might be my favorite headline. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:04.840 Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI. 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.400 Controversies are upted after twenty one percent of manuscript reviews 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.400 for an international AI conference were found to be generated 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.160 by artificial intelligence. And we'll touch on that a little 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.680 bit more later. Plus the big climate conference that happened 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:25.559 in Brazil lately. I'm absolutely astounded at the lack of 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:32.000 self awareness by the lefty climate change zealots, and I 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.640 should probably be glad about it because it undermines them, 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.040 you know, getting over you know, doing what they want 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.840 to do, which is mostly ruined the economy and accomplish nothing. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:45.640 But you should shut up, you know what. That was harsh, 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.880 and I apologize. You should more carefully consider your words, 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:54.200 my dear. So closer to home, though, and of more 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.280 immediate concern, given the fact that virtually all of us 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.200 drive back and forth virtually every day, if not every day, 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:07.400 a number of high profile truck accidents that have killed 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:11.160 innocent people have brought the nation's attention to the fact 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:12.680 that there are a hell of a lot of people 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.400 who have commercial driver's licenses that not only shouldn't, but 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:20.280 there was no effort made to make sure they were qualified. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.400 Absolutely shocking news. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:22.760 Nation. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.920 Marcus X Spinoza doing some pretty damn good reporting on it. 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.920 Yeah, there's been accidents that have really got the attention 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:33.040 across the country, and certainly of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.160 here and the government finding that nearly half, up to 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:40.760 forty four percent of US trucking driving schools do not 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:45.280 meet government standards at this point, and they risk facing 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.880 closure because of that particular issue. Out of the roughly 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:54.520 sixteen thousand licensed truck driving programs of nationwide, the Transportation 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:59.360 Department says close to three thousand could lose accreditation unless 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:05.400 they fix serious training and record keeping failures within thirty days. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:11.079 So nearly half of truck driving schools don't meet the standards. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.280 And I don't get the idea that this is one 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:18.080 of those super picky, you know, hyper regulation things. I 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.600 think it's just making sure these guys have any idea 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.280 what they're doing. But this is a hell of a 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.520 lot of truck drivers on the road, is we're about 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:26.040 to hear. 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.600 And another forty five hundred have been warned they may 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.680 face similar scrutiny. Now that means hundreds of thousands of 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:38.560 aspiring drivers could see their training and validated, slowing their 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.800 path to a commercial driver's license. Officials say many of 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:47.240 the schools were operating like quote CDL mills, offering quick 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:52.160 turn courses without proper behind the wheel, classroom, beyond the 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:53.800 wheel or classroom training. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:59.760 Now I know that California in particular, was wildly giving 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.160 out out commercial driver's licenses to people who didn't even 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.080 speak English, couldn't read English, and that's one of the 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:10.760 very basic requirements. I wonder if the geographical location of 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.080 these places is disproportionately in Blue states. I don't know 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:15.599 that to be true. I knew there was I know 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.440 there was a problem in Texas too. I'm not trying 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.439 to leap to any conclusion. I was just curious final clip, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:22.079 and I. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.200 Think it's really taken, you know, a number of high 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.960 profile crashes and other incidents to put a spotlight on 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.360 training in our industry in general and asking the question, 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.040 you know, are the are the rules or regulations we 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:34.920 have on the books? 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.160 Are they working? And if not, what do we need 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:37.880 to do about them? 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.840 So we are absolutely throwing at ATA that the administration 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.720 is paying attention to this. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:46.680 Yeah, that is. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:56.400 That's an absolutely horrible, horrible failure of our licensing agencies, 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.199 dynamics schools. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.720 How does it get that bad? 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.960 And why did it take multiple people dying for anybody 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:06.960 to even look at it. 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.960 Imagine if we did that with pilots, Oh. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.520 Yeah, well yeah, too many people would die too quickly. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.240 You kind of you get some recent Indian immigrant, for instance, 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.720 who can't speak English, you give him a driver's license. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:25.120 Hope just self preservation keeps him on the road. But 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.280 as we've seen the number of people have been killed 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.600 because of that, that fingers crossed approach. I just it's 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:35.239 such a multi layered failure. Not only are these schools 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:41.440 fake CDL mills, as they called them, but any regulatory 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.960 agencies that I should have been looking at it have 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:50.440 failed until now. The trucking schools don't give out the licenses. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.480 You have to go to the DMV and pass the test, 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.840 which is why I wonder about which states are doing what, 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.520 who is giving them out like candy, and who is not. 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.400 And again Texas had a bit of a scandal with this, 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.560 so it's not just a red blue thing. I think 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:14.040 it may be entirely. Look, we need cheap foreign truck drivers, 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.880 and we need a bunch of them, but quick, and 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.280 maybe that's just what drives this. I don't know, but 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:25.240 it's absolutely shocking. Let's hope they've gotten to the bottom 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.800 of it and no more people will die. Speaking of 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:33.440 competence and lack thereof and state politics, we really haven't 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:34.880 touched on this much. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:37.480 And do we have the. 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:44.360 Tim Waltz Kristen Welker tape from Meet the Press yesterday? 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.640 I don't even remember. We may have, but he was 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.920 on and she asked him about the more than a 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:54.040 billion dollars in taxpayer funds that were stolen from mostly 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.400 Somali migrants. And of course there are the people from 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.360 the left. It would be a mistake to demonize or 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:01.400 immigrant community. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:02.040 Shut up. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.840 How about we charge criminals with crimes. That's all anybody 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:10.160 wants to do. But well, Kristen Welker, no, you know, 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:15.120 Republican attack dog, good lord right, says to him, and 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.280 to quote, dozens of people of East African descent have 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.640 been charged, convicted, and sentenced for stealing more than a 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.480 billion dollars in taxpayer money from government programs during COVID. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.280 Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.280 in your state? Well, the model for the New American 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:33.520 masculinity responded, well, I certainly take responsibility for putting people 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:38.440 in jail, he said, before pointing to Trump the president. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.560 This president has cut a lot of inspector generals. He's 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.240 cut programs that could help us tackle this on. 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:46.760 Nobodys poor sentence. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.000 That's Donald Trump deflect demon eyes, come up with no solutions. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.920 He's not going to help fix anything on fraud. I'm 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:53.840 just a regular guy. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.880 I was a football coach. Oh boy, unbelievable. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:00.080 He could have been our. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.400 Can you? Occasionally I allow myself to picture Kamala as 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.280 the president during the disturbulent times. I mean, Trump's nuts, 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.479 but good lord, Kamala Yike Simarta cum stay with us. 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.040 Grab the podcast. 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:14.840 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.080 Perhaps you are here Earlier. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.639 Hour two of the show kicked off with an interview 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.560 with the fabulous Mike Lyons or military analyst about the 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.080 controversy over the strikes in the Caribbean, specifically the alleged 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.960 snuffing of two survivors of a strike on September. The 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:36.640 second Mike and definitely worth dipping into the podcast Armstrong 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.640 and Getting on demand hour two from today. He made 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.560 the point that look, this sort of double tap to 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.920 make sure the threat is eliminated, whether the boat or 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:50.960 the people, is very, very common in warfare. There's a 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.359 little complication in that it's not clear that this is 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.679 a warfare per se or terrorism per se. It's a 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.000 drug cartel. This is kind of a new wrinkle on 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.719 executive power. But anyway, that's the backdrop, and we make 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.040 no judgment here. There are too many facts that aren't 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.679 known yet. Mike was of the opinion that this was 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:12.760 just a very loyally effort to get the Trump administration, 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:17.240 specifically Pete Hegzeth, perhaps to hang a scalp on the 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.520 wall by Democrats. We countered that there seemed to be 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:22.960 plenty of Republicans who seem concerned with us too, But 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:24.280 it's an interesting case. 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:25.439 And we will not prejudge here. 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.439 On the Armstrong and Getty Show, having said that the 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:33.160 President is holding a cabinet meeting as we speak, and 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:38.160 both the President and Pete Hegzeth addressed this topic. 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.600 As I've said, I'm saying again, we've only just begun 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:48.119 striking Narco boats and putting Narco terraces at the bottom 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.080 of the ocean because they've been poisoning the American people, 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.520 and Joe Biden tried to approach it with kick loops, 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.920 allowed them to come across the border. Cartels takeover community, 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:02.239 twenty million people, hundreds of thousands of Americans poisoned, and 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.880 President Trump said no we're taking the bloves off. We're 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.440 taking the fight to these designated terror organizations. 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:09.040 And that's exactly what we're doing. 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.840 So we're stopping the drugs, we're striking the boats, we're 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.880 defeating narco terrorists, and we're saying to you, may say 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.480 one thing that drugs coming in through the same by 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:23.120 seeing are down ninety percent, and I don't know who 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:24.080 the nine percent is. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.959 I'm not sure either are because down ninety one percent. 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.280 By see, we've had a bit of a pause because 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:33.160 it's hard to find boats to strike right now, which 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.640 is the entire point. Right, deterrence has to matter, not arrested, 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.280 handover and then do it again, the rinse and repeat 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.320 approach of previous administrations. This is meant to get aft 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.320 after that approach. And I will just end by saying, 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.159 as President Trump always has our backs. 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:50.920 We always have the back of our commanders who. 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.040 Are making decisions in difficult situations, and we do in 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:57.280 this case and all these strikes. They're making judgment calls 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.000 and ensuring that they defend the American people. 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:01.359 They've done the right things. 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.680 We'll keep doing that, and we had their backs. 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:09.960 Good ye think, wow, wow, pretty unequivocal statement. 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:13.199 There, and that's new that just happened. Oh yeah, that 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:15.120 was the cabinet meeting that's going on right now as 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:16.080 we speak. Wow. 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.359 I don't know if the chuckles were a good idea. Hey, 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.240 we've killed so many people we can't even find a 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:23.480 boat to shoot out of the water. 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:25.520 Ah, I don't know. 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.760 People chuckled. People chuckled in the background, background chuckles. What 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:30.840 are you anti chuckling? 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:32.119 Now is your monster? 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:37.119 I haven't heard anybody mentioned this that Trump really hates drugs, 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.240 really hates him. He doesn't drink or do drugs or 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:45.200 even drink caffeine. And his kids, he's told this story 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:46.960 many times when they are grown up. First thing you 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.640 would say every morning, no drinking, no drugs, no tattoos, 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:52.760 he would say to his kids, just because he believes 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.359 in that whole sales mantra thing you get into people's heads. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.880 Apparently worked with his kids because they don't drink drug 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:00.720 or to do have tattoos. 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.200 But he hates his older brother right to addiction. 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.000 He lost his older brother to addiction. Yeah, and so 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.560 it runs in his family. I think, actually, I think 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:15.440 Trump is a classic untreated alcoholic. But as all the 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:16.879 a or marks of that. 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:20.880 But because you're alcoholic, that means because he doesn't drink. 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:21.959 Uh. 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:26.040 Well, the way many of us understand alcoholism, drinking has 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:27.840 absolutely nothing to do with it here right now. It's 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.560 a symptom of something your Your brain is not like 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:36.119 other people's in the way you interact with the world. 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:38.760 And I've only had the one brain. It doesn't work 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:39.200 so good. 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:41.159 The best way to deal with it is drinking or 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:44.040 something else to deal with the way you look at 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:48.080 the world. And there are you can be an alcoholic 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:50.520 and never drink in your life, is the belief. 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:51.119 Of many alcoholics. 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:55.160 But that aside, I won't go down that road. 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:57.160 He he hates drugs. 0:21:57.280 --> 0:21:59.520 He definitely hates them and thinks they're bad for society, 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:01.680 which they the you know, very very often are, and 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:03.440 certainly the kind of stuff, the fentanyl and. 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:03.879 Everything like that. 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:06.399 It's hard hard to come up with a good recreational 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:08.159 story about fentanyl, I think. 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.280 Right right, Oh yeah, just do a little fentanyl to 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.919 relax on the weekend after around of golf with my buddies. 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:15.960 I don't recall ever, hearing. 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:17.000 Helps me with my anxiety. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:19.199 I tell you what this is difficult, and this is 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:23.480