1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and lud The 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. 3 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 2: Replace where we went the carry and the sense of joy. 4 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 2: I know it's incredibly disappointing now, and look candidly it's 5 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 2: it's a bit scary because there's a very different vision 6 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 2: that's being put out there. 7 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 3: And tonight we're getting some new details about that Trump 8 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 3: Trudeau dinner from two people who were at the table. 9 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 3: We are told that when Trudeau told President elect Trump 10 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 3: that new tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, Trump joked 11 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,199 Speaker 3: to him that if Canada can't survive without ripping off 12 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 3: the US to the tune of one hundred billion dollars 13 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 3: a year, then maybe Canada should become the fifty first 14 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 3: state and Trudeau could become it's government. 15 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 2: Ever replace we went the carrying and the sense of 16 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: joy if I know, it's incredibly disappointing now and look 17 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 2: candidly it's it's a bit scary because there's a very 18 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 2: different vision, uh that's being put out there. 19 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 4: President Trump looked at that at the Talle band leader 20 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 4: and said this, I want to leave Afghanistan. 21 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: It's going to be a conditions based. 22 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 4: Withdrawal and translator translated, and he said, if you harm 23 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 4: a hair on a single American, I'm going to kill you. 24 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 4: And translator goes, and Trump goes. 25 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: Said, reached in his pocket, pulled out a a. 26 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 4: Satellite photo of the leader of the Taliban's home and 27 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 4: handed it. 28 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: To up, got up and walked up the room. 29 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 5: Let's go back for a moment, because I think this 30 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 5: is a cultural moment to the choice of Tim Waaltz 31 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 5: to be Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate. It was 32 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 5: an open secret that the polling data said Kamala Harris 33 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 5: was dying with white male voters, especially straight white male 34 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 5: voters and masculine white male voters. And we can get 35 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 5: into a number of reasons for that, but the choice 36 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 5: of Tim walls. And I'm on a bunch of cough 37 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 5: meds because I've had this fluid in my lungs for 38 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 5: a week from being in the cold and anyway, so 39 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 5: I can't recall things the way I normally can, and 40 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 5: it's bothering me because I like to give attribution when 41 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 5: I steal somebody else's thoughts, because it's not stealing if 42 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:25,119 Speaker 5: you give attribution. And I cannot recall who wrote this. 43 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 5: I believe it was a Democrat. I was hoping if 44 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 5: I really really ciphered on it, i'd be will remember it. 45 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 5: But I can't, and it's not important. You don't want 46 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 5: to hear me try to rack my brain, and I 47 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,119 Speaker 5: don't know that it matters that much. It's the substance 48 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 5: of the story. So let me tell you what it was. 49 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 5: It was about the fact that Kamala was suffering hemorrhaging 50 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 5: white males especially, and so their strategy at that point 51 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 5: was abortion, abortion, abortion, because the idea was, if for 52 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 5: every white male we lose, we bring their wives back 53 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 5: to voting Democrat on the importance of you know, fifty 54 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 5: five year old women are real worried about abortion somehow, 55 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 5: if you keep telling them, they are so. But they 56 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 5: need somebody to give them something to hang their hat on, 57 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 5: a real anchor. And so they knew they needed a 58 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 5: white male, and the thought was Josh Shapiro, the governor 59 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:31,159 Speaker 5: of Pennsylvania. 60 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: The problem is he's a Jew, and the Democrat. 61 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 5: Party at the national level has a real Jew hating 62 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 5: problem and a very pro Hamas position, and they're terribly 63 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,039 Speaker 5: afraid of upsetting the terrorists in their ranks. 64 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: I mean, they're horrified by this. 65 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 5: And so when Josh Shapiro Brow's name was bandied about, 66 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 5: it was determined that he would cost them the election 67 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 5: because he would upset the jew haters, the pro Hamas, 68 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 5: propalestan In, pro terrorists, and that that would create that 69 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 5: this The Democrats liked to have the violent protesters on 70 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 5: their side. That's why they jumped up behind the BLM 71 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 5: events of twenty twenty and they said, you know what 72 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 5: we can challenge. We can channel this. We can channel 73 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 5: all this rage and the burning down of cities in Minneapolis, 74 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 5: in Seattle, in Portland, in San Francisco, in New York, 75 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 5: in Detroit, Atlanta, Philly. We can make we can make 76 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 5: these the foot soldiers and we can make them feel 77 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 5: like we're going to support them, and that way they'll 78 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 5: only attack the Republicans. And to some extent, that worked 79 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 5: and then made it look like Trump is out of touch, 80 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 5: he's hated, and the cities are burning because of him, 81 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 5: because of him and the cops. 82 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: And that was the way that worked. Well. 83 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 5: When you bring that mindset into twenty twenty four, you 84 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 5: know that the new BLM is the terrorist Hamas folks, 85 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 5: and you got a lot of little white girls on 86 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 5: Ivy League college campuses and for that matter, of state 87 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,919 Speaker 5: campuses across the country who are a little terrorist wannabes. 88 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 5: In fact, Tim Waltz, the governor of Minnesota, his daughter's 89 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 5: one of them. 90 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: And they keep company with this crowd. 91 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 5: You know, used to the little white girls would have 92 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 5: a thing for black panthers, and now they like the 93 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 5: feeling of, you know, kind of Patty Hirst type thing. 94 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 5: They've fallen in with this group and they want to 95 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 5: go rob the bank and be a tough guy too. 96 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 1: You know, Jenny in Forrest gum. 97 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 5: So Waltz was meant to plug that gap, and you 98 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 5: couldn't have You couldn't have Shapiro because they have that issue. 99 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: Now. 100 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 5: You needed Pennsylvania more than any other single state, and 101 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 5: you had the popular governor there who defeated a well 102 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 5: funded Republican. You had it right there, but they chose wrong. 103 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 5: You had Mark Kelly down in Arizona. That's who Barack 104 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 5: Obama wanted, desperately wanted. In fact, Mark Kelly not only 105 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 5: wanted Mark I mean Obama not only wanted Kamala Harris 106 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 5: to pick Mark Kelly's his vice president Obama was pushing 107 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 5: for Mark Kelly, you know, the smother Joe Biden, the 108 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 5: palace coup that had been rumbling for a bit. And 109 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 5: Nancy Pelosi has told close friends that she regrets that 110 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 5: she led that, and I think she feels a bit 111 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 5: duped that Obama put her up to it. 112 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: But Obama wanted Mark Kelly. 113 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 5: That was his choice, and Biden took that out of 114 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 5: their hands by dan, all right, you're gonna smother me 115 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 5: twenty fifth Amendment. 116 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: All right, got it. 117 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 5: Then I'm endorsing Kamala. And that's why Obama didn't endorse, 118 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 5: because he was trying to figure out if they could 119 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 5: still run Mark of it. 120 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: Anyway, we're gonna get to Walson. Some don't want to 121 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: hear it. He'll just go ahead and say it. Sorry. 122 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: The Michael Verry Show. 123 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 5: So the problem for the Democrats is they view everything 124 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 5: in terms of identity, not in terms of merit. If 125 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 5: they were coaching an NFL team, they'd say, look, we 126 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 5: don't have any Asian midget left handed women quarterbacks, and 127 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 5: we're going to be brave and bold and we're gonna 128 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 5: have a moment. 129 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: They have all those slut of terms for it. 130 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 5: Kamala used to quote them, we're gonna that's what We're 131 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 5: gonna have his quarterback, and they would lose every game 132 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,959 Speaker 5: and it would be so much fun to watch them 133 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 5: just get destroyed. But if they do that to the 134 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 5: local company, or if they do that de boeting, or 135 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 5: if they do that to FedEx, or they do that 136 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:22,439 Speaker 5: to the Department of Defense, no one notices what's happened 137 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 5: to the operation. You just think to yourself, Hey, I 138 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 5: don't think that's gonna turn out. Well, well, if you 139 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 5: do that with your military, imagine how that's gonna turn out. 140 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 5: But worse, imagine what the moment is that you're going 141 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 5: to find out how that turned out. You lose a war, 142 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 5: your son dies because you got some freak show beside 143 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 5: him in high heels, putting her lipstick, putting his lipstick on, 144 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 5: called himself her right because much like sports, there is 145 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 5: a winning and losing in war, and I don't want 146 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 5: to find out we lost to prove our point that 147 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 5: this is not what you do with your damn military. 148 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:11,679 Speaker 1: It's wrong. So back to Tim Waltz. 149 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 5: They needed a man, and Mark Kelly had some ethical problems, 150 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 5: and it's not clear that Mark Kelly wanted it, That's 151 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 5: what I'm hearing, although it sure looked like Mark Kelly 152 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 5: was preening, you know, pick me to be the vice 153 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 5: But there's a split of opinion as to whether or 154 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 5: not he wanted it or not, or whether he just 155 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 5: wasn't chosen, whatever that may be. But it's very easy 156 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 5: to forget because of how bad a candidate Tim Waltz 157 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:49,559 Speaker 5: turned out to be. That Tim Waltz had one weekend 158 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 5: where he was the hottest commodity in American politics. He 159 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 5: had a statement and I think it was on CNN. 160 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 5: He had a statement about Trump and jd Vance being weird, 161 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 5: and it was it was heavy influence emphasis on jd 162 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 5: Vance being weird, but that Trump was weird too, and 163 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 5: Democrats were scared to death because here was jd Vance. 164 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 5: I mean, on paper, if you didn't know who Jadvance was, 165 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:32,319 Speaker 5: here's a guy who wrote a best selling book as 166 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 5: his first book. Let's start there. That doesn't happen, I 167 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 5: don't think. And this is a stretch and I haven't 168 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 5: thought it through, and I don't think it's a stretch 169 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 5: to call it the modern day to kill a molkingbird. 170 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,439 Speaker 5: There will never be a book as popular as To 171 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 5: Kill a Mockingbird because of the era in which that 172 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,839 Speaker 5: came out. But it struck a chord. Did He'll bill 173 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 5: the elogy in a way that to Killer Molkingbird? Did 174 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 5: it spoke to people? I didn't know who jd. Vance 175 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:05,319 Speaker 5: was when I read it, Like most of my books. 176 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 5: Somebody bought it for me, and I started reading it 177 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 5: as a gift and I thought, well, I'll read it. 178 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: They sent it and I was blown away. 179 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:20,719 Speaker 5: I marked it up, I circled, I highlighted eye, and I. 180 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 1: Bought other copies for other people. 181 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 5: And I didn't know who this guy was it wrote it, 182 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 5: and I really didn't care other than I wanted to 183 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:32,959 Speaker 5: know whatever became of him. Well, it turned out this 184 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 5: was really a diary, a confessional. Not only is it autobiographical, 185 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 5: I think it was cathartic. I think he needed to 186 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 5: write these things down. So here's this kid that grows 187 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 5: up in what is, in his own self deprecating way, 188 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 5: a really screwed up childhood, going back and forth between 189 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 5: a town in Ohio, in a poor town in Kentucky 190 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,319 Speaker 5: and family members that are broken and addicted and dying 191 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 5: and criminal. And he doesn't make himself out to be 192 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:18,199 Speaker 5: the hero, you know, tiptoeing through the meadow of madness 193 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 5: around him. I mean, he's conflicted, he's struggling. He's very 194 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 5: honest about that, and I admired that greatly. Doesn't say 195 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 5: feel sorry for me. And this was in much the 196 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 5: same way that Selena Zito's book, her first book about 197 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 5: twenty sixteen. This was really talking about a part of life. 198 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 5: I come from a little town. It wasn't the place 199 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 5: in Kentucky where it wasn't Hazzard County or you know, 200 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 5: this sort of thing like JD. 201 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: Van's, But I saw a lot of this. 202 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 5: I went to school with kids who lived in a 203 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 5: fifth wheel at the Koa campground. I went to school 204 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:02,560 Speaker 5: with kids that never white, kids that lived what we 205 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 5: would consider a ghetto existence in that no father, violence, 206 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 5: all that. 207 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 1: Sort of stuff. 208 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 5: But it was more sort of the white rural experience 209 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 5: of that. And here was JD. Vans who had written this. Okay, 210 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 5: so you start there. Then he went into the Marines. 211 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 5: Then he goes to law school at esteemed well were 212 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 5: once respected institutions like Yale. Then he goes into private equity. 213 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 5: Then he as a first time candidate he runs for 214 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 5: the Senate in Ohio, wins and absolutely destroys his opponent 215 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 5: in his debate, and he shows that he has the 216 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 5: spoken word as well as the written command. 217 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: He's got a real mind, this. 218 00:14:53,680 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 5: Guy's and here was a guy, and he's good enough looking, 219 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 5: and so here was a guy that the Democrats saw, 220 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 5: we got a problem. 221 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: We've got a real problem. We've got to destroy him 222 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: before he gets any win behind his sales. 223 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 5: So Tim Waltz that weekend says he's weird, and the 224 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 5: Democrats say, we've got our guy. And for a moment, 225 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 5: it was the most brilliant choice ever. He's a military 226 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 5: veteran of war, he's a coach, he's a dad, he's 227 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 5: a governor. He's tough. He turned out to be. I 228 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 5: went back and read some of the comments. Let's see 229 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 5: if I can find it was one that I say 230 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 5: here it is Tim Waltz is peak white boomer male, emasculated, 231 00:15:55,400 --> 00:16:01,479 Speaker 5: behaves like a flamboyant gay man, prostrates himself before troons, 232 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 5: non whites women. His wife is a screeching Karen. Compare 233 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 5: that to JD. Vance and don't underestimate the importance of 234 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 5: the vice presidential race to this election. 235 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: This is the Michael Verie Show. 236 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 6: Yeah. 237 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 5: George Santaiana said, those who do not learn the lessons 238 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 5: of history are doomed to repeat them. Lest we repeat 239 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 5: those lessons of history, let's make sure we understand why 240 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 5: we won this election. Ronald Reagan famously said that the 241 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 5: Republican Party has a platform with a banner of bold, 242 00:16:54,240 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 5: unmistakable colors with no pale pastels. Bold unmistakable colors with 243 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:18,719 Speaker 5: no pale pastels. You know, so many people, because of 244 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 5: the fear of being singled out, fear of being attacked, 245 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 5: fear of being labeled, fear of being canceled, fear of 246 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 5: being fired, stood idly by and allowed bad things to 247 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 5: happen in our country. They allowed a cancer to spread 248 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 5: through our schools, through our corporations, through our churches, through 249 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:50,360 Speaker 5: our households because nobody wanted to stand up. 250 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: Oh they might. 251 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 5: Go write something on social media, but they didn't want 252 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 5: to stand up. 253 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: And then along comes Trump. 254 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 5: Here is a guy who is naturally preternaturally bombastic. 255 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,360 Speaker 1: He loves it. He's also smart. 256 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:16,199 Speaker 5: He knew that in the marketplace of ideas, nobody was 257 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,680 Speaker 5: standing up for the things that real Americans cared for. 258 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 5: Remember the hands on favorite for the twenty sixteen Republican 259 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 5: nomination was Jeb Bush. It was going to be Jeb 260 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 5: Bush versus Hillary Clinton. I think about that for a minute. 261 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 5: That was twenty sixteen. Let's go back all the way 262 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 5: to nineteen eighty Ronald Reagan's running mate, George HW Bush 263 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:56,400 Speaker 5: nineteen eighty four, again George HW Bush nineteen eighty eight, 264 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 5: Republican nominee and eventual president, George HW. 265 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: Bush. 266 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 5: Three elections in a row eighty eighty four, eighty eight, 267 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:12,360 Speaker 5: nineteen ninety two, George HW. Bush is vanquished, four elections 268 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:17,159 Speaker 5: in a row, is vanquished by Bill Clinton. Focused on 269 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 5: the Bush and the Clinton. Nineteen ninety six, Bill Clinton 270 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 5: re elected. Two thousand George HW Bush's son, George W. 271 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: Bush. 272 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 5: Here we go again, he runs, he wins. That's five 273 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 5: out of seven elections in a row that a Bush 274 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,439 Speaker 5: has been on. There at seven in a row that 275 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 5: a Bush or a Clinton was either president or vice 276 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:50,199 Speaker 5: presidential candidate. Two thousand and four Bush again. So you 277 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 5: get all the way up to two thousand and eight, 278 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 5: and for twenty eight years, all but eight of that 279 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 5: you've had a Bush or a Clinton. Two thousand and eight, 280 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 5: Joe Biden runs becomes the vice presidential nominee after he's 281 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 5: defeated by Obama two thousand and eight. You've got, now 282 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 5: add to the two names. You've got Biden twenty twelve, 283 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 5: Biden again, two thy sixteen. You've got a Clinton who's 284 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:35,399 Speaker 5: supposed to run against the Bush. But Trump threw it 285 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 5: all into disarray. Now, we never had a meltdown. As 286 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 5: long as the Clintons or the Bushes or the Bidens 287 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:52,399 Speaker 5: were in charge, we didn't have any problems. It wasn't 288 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 5: the end of democracy. There wasn't a threat to democracy. 289 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 5: Nothing was wrong. Candidates ran, candidate's won, No there was 290 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 5: you know, that was the old sparring that you have 291 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,679 Speaker 5: an election that always happens. But what you weren't going 292 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 5: to have was anybody screeching to the heavens that this 293 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 5: guy needs to be assassinated or gal because this is 294 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 5: the end of our democracy and we're all going to 295 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 5: be put in chains, and the Jews and the girls 296 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 5: and everybody's gonna be rounded up, and this the end 297 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 5: of the world, and it's all gonner. 298 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: But the election of Trump. 299 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 5: Now, they'll tell you today that the reason that you 300 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 5: have to. You have to assassinate Trump. You have to 301 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 5: end it all. You have to finish him off. You 302 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 5: have to put him in prison. You have to put 303 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 5: his family in prison. You've got to take all his money. 304 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 5: Remember New York tried that. You've got to do all 305 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 5: these horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible. 306 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: Things to him. 307 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:55,120 Speaker 5: It has to happen because he's literally hitler. Why because 308 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 5: he wouldn't step down in twenty twenty on January sixth, 309 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, he wouldn't step down, and we cannot 310 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 5: abide that because democracy is bigger than any man. And 311 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 5: now we have to stop him. But wait, you didn't 312 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 5: want to let him in the front door. Don't tell 313 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 5: me you were worried he wouldn't leave the back door 314 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:24,199 Speaker 5: because you were screaming, screeching these people to keep him 315 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 5: from getting elected. Well, remember he was going to lead 316 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 5: us into World War three, that was for sure. There's 317 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 5: no question this hot head. He's never been elected office before. 318 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 1: Look at his. 319 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,159 Speaker 5: Hair, we don't know if it's real or not. We 320 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 5: don't like him, there's nothing good about him. He's a 321 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 5: terrible human being, and we can't have a bad person. 322 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,959 Speaker 5: And then he made comments and locker room humor, and 323 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 5: he's crash, and we can't have him be president because 324 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 5: then our children would ask us if they could talk 325 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 5: like him, and that would be so upsetting. We couldn't. 326 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 5: We could not abide that. So he must not be 327 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,360 Speaker 5: allowed to be president. And then as soon as he's 328 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 5: elected president, he starts digging into what was the subject 329 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 5: of the hunter Biden. 330 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: A pardon. 331 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 5: Going back to January of twenty fourteen, Barisma Ukraine, Biden's 332 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 5: involvement kickback schemes. He as a president reached out and said, hey, 333 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 5: what happened there, and that's impeachable. 334 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 1: Nobody knew what happened. 335 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 5: They just democrats knew we had to impeach him. 336 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: And you remember that little Jerry Nadler, that little gnome 337 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: of a man, little. 338 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 5: B legs coming out of the bottom, and there's this 339 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 5: big round ball in the middle. And he pooped his pants, remember, 340 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 5: and he had his pants all the way up to 341 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 5: his nipples. And there they married the sepulcher. They carried 342 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 5: the the document. It was like Indiana Jones. Here was 343 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 5: a great document that was big. It was the Ten Commandments. 344 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,880 Speaker 5: It was it was Moses coming down from he had 345 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 5: they we had the document, the articles of impeachment, and 346 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 5: they brought him over to the Senate and it was 347 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 5: carried live like John F. Kennedy's funeral. Oh my goodness, 348 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 5: the pomp and circumstance, because. 349 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: Why was it again? Oh that's right. 350 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 5: I remember we had the Muller report for two years, 351 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,439 Speaker 5: we had the former Achiatra and remember that. I remember 352 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 5: the Jeff Sessions that idiots stepped down as Attorney General 353 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 5: and they investigated Remember all this live laugh learning doing 354 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 5: it big on the Michael Berry Show. How did we 355 00:24:54,000 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 5: allow our institutions suit to fall? Well, we weren't out numbered. 356 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 5: I want to make this very clear. Trump won the 357 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 5: popular vote. The majority of Americans support what we stand for. 358 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 5: It's important you understand that there is strength in your numbers. 359 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 6: You know. 360 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 5: One of the things that makes us laugh when we 361 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 5: go to a comedy show is when a comedian will 362 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 5: tell a story about a quirky thing they do in 363 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 5: the bathroom, in the bedroom, in their own head, and 364 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 5: they act like they're really weird for doing this, but 365 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 5: they know deep down that lots of people do that 366 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 5: or think that respond that way, and it's a validation 367 00:25:54,960 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 5: it's an affirmation. Ah, I didn't realize other people did that. 368 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 5: Our reaction, our learned reaction, is to laugh. But that's 369 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 5: really what that connection, that deep connection is. Oh my god, 370 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 5: I do that too, right. It's important you understand that 371 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 5: whatever place as a cog in the wheel, that you 372 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 5: are because Trump's a cog in the wheel. I'm a 373 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 5: cog in the wheel. You're a cog in the wheel. Yes, 374 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,400 Speaker 5: from own you are a cog in the wheel. Yes 375 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,640 Speaker 5: you're You don't even know what that means. But you're 376 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 5: excited to be a cogan the wheel, aren't you. So 377 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 5: I'm going to play you a story that comes out 378 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 5: of Houston, but it's going on around the country. From 379 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 5: January of twenty three through June of this year, so 380 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 5: eighteen months or so, the US Post Office Office of 381 00:26:55,880 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 5: Inspector General has made six hundred to arrests nationwide for 382 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 5: male theft, and they say, quote, most of our male 383 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 5: theft cases involve employee arrests. 384 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 1: The president of the. 385 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 5: Postal Police Officers Association admits, quote, there are pockets within 386 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 5: America where the mail is unsafe. It's being stolen, it's 387 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:35,679 Speaker 5: being ransacked, it's being sold on the dark web. 388 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:43,199 Speaker 1: A nation that cannot deliver its mail to its people 389 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 1: is broken. 390 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:53,360 Speaker 5: That is a fundamental system of communication, and it is broken. 391 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 5: Now let me ask you this, If every American except 392 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 5: for the people stealing, were to agree with that, how 393 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,880 Speaker 5: many Americans would simply say, but we can't fix it. 394 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 5: Of course you can't. You do understand though, that fixing 395 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 5: America's problems. 396 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 1: Like these people who. 397 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 5: Steal, they're not going to go, you're right, let's fix 398 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 5: the problem. They're going to find racism, right, They're going 399 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:31,880 Speaker 5: to find every excuse imaginable. Here was a story out 400 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 5: of Houston, and it's going on around the country. I 401 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 5: just happened to know it because I saw at my 402 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 5: local news. This was credit ABC thirteen in Houston. 403 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 7: How would you describe your faith in USPS right now? 404 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: My faith has been shocked. 405 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 6: Jimmy Blackstone is losing faith because he says, sometimes the 406 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 6: mail arrives at his Northwest Houston home already open, had 407 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 6: a one hundred dollars cards sent his way, never made it, 408 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 6: and instead was spent at this nearby Colombian restaurant. 409 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: Have you ever eaten at that restaurant? I've never been 410 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: to that restaurant. 411 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 7: Do you think this card was stolen because this was 412 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 7: an inside job? 413 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 2: I absolutely think it was an internal job at the 414 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 2: Postal Service. 415 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 6: It's a story thirteen Investigates has heard over and over again. 416 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 6: In April, we met Kim Gradham, whose check she sent 417 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 6: certified to the IRS. 418 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 1: Was stolen and washed. 419 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 6: To this day, her tracking number still shows her certified 420 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 6: envelope at the USPS North Houston distribution center. 421 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: What do you make of that? So that's an inside 422 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: job one side. 423 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 6: And in February we profiled business owner Emily Mottoyer who 424 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 6: was receiving mail opened with crucial checks missing inside. What's 425 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 6: your confidence level in USPS right now? 426 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 1: Zero? Well, we can't say for certain. 427 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 6: These three are victims of USPS employees behaving badly. 428 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: We know internal mail theft is happening. 429 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 6: Thirteen Investigates obtained hundreds of pages of case files over 430 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 6: the past five years from the USPS Office of Inspector General, 431 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 6: which investigates employees breaking the law. In June of this year, 432 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 6: an humble mail carrier was throwing away mail at her 433 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 6: own home. Just look at the letters thrown into her 434 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 6: garbage spin. In twenty twenty two, a worker inside that 435 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 6: North Houston distribution center admitted to stealing mail as she 436 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 6: targeted cash and gift cards. Her sticky fingers likely affected 437 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 6: over one thousand postal customers. A year earlier, a Tomball 438 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 6: carrier was arrested. You're looking at the one thousand, eight 439 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 6: hundred and eighty two pieces of mail. 440 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 1: Found inside his car. 441 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 6: In twenty twenty, a carrier at Houston's Fleetwood postal station 442 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 6: was found with ten thousand hess of mail in his 443 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 6: car and home. Those are USPS boxes inside his house. 444 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 6: And that same year, a carrier in Galveston was dumping 445 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 6: your bills, your brochures, and batches of. 446 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 1: All kinds of mail in this field. 447 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 6: Thirteen Investigates has learned through a federal records request that 448 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 6: from January of last year through June of this year, 449 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 6: the USPS Office of Inspector General has made six hundred 450 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,280 Speaker 6: two arrests nationwide for mail theft. 451 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,880 Speaker 8: You know, it's one of the most beloved federal institutions, 452 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 8: and right now it's under attack. It's under attacked by criminals. 453 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 8: Criminals are infiltrating the postal Service. 454 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 6: Frank el Bergo is the union president for the roughly 455 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 6: four hundred and fifty remaining. 456 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: US Postal Service police officers. 457 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 6: These are officers trained to patrol USPS facilities. 458 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 1: But Frank says. 459 00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 6: USPS is defunding and downsize its own police force, and 460 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 6: Frank believes internal mail effeft would go down if more 461 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 6: officers were brought in and inspected the bags. 462 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 1: Of workers coming and going. 463 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 6: A recent Postal Service audit shows a Postal police personal 464 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 6: bag that was caught stuffed with stolen greeting and gift cards. 465 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,719 Speaker 7: Would you feel confident mailing anything of value nowadays? 466 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 5: No? 467 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 8: I mean, I hate to say this, but right now 468 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 8: there are pockets within America where the mail is unsafe. 469 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 8: It's being stolen, it's been ransacked, it's being sold on the. 470 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 1: Dark web, it's used in one of them. Yes, Houston 471 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: is one of the worst. 472 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 7: So one of the worst, and again none of the 473 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 7: branches of the Postal Service would speak to us on camera.