1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. Ambassador, thank you 3 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: for being here tonight. 4 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 2: I mean, I just wonder, as someone who worked inside 5 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 2: the West Wing when Donald Trump was president, what is 6 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 2: it like for you to see his mugshot tonight? 7 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 3: Well, I thought it was, as with most things Trump does, 8 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 3: carefully stage, they must have thought about what look they wanted. 9 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 3: He could have smiled, he could have looked benign. Instead, 10 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 3: he looks like a thug. 11 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 4: FBI agents have rated the Marylynd home. A former Trump 12 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 4: National security advisor, John Bolton, happened at seven am this morning, shortly. 13 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 2: After the raid began. FBI Director Cash Pattel posting on 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 2: X quote, no one is above the law. FBI agents 15 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 2: on a mission. 16 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 5: But it is notable, guys that John Bolton, Ambassador bolton 17 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 5: security clearances were stripped earlier this year by President Trump. 18 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 5: Tulsey Gabber, the Director of National Intelligence, took that security 19 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 5: clearance away. They had concerns. The administration had concerns about 20 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 5: Ambassador Bolton still being able to access some of these 21 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 5: documents and have some of those security clearances. It's also 22 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 5: notable that John Bolton has a security detail as well, 23 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 5: because of the threats from Iran on his life. That 24 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 5: security detail, that government, federal paid security detail, was also 25 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 5: taken away by President Trump. 26 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 6: Post carrier. 27 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 7: Were. 28 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 3: I think a lot of Republicans right now just wish Cash, Bettel, 29 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 3: Tulsey Gabbard, and a number of other Trump nominees that 30 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:09,959 Speaker 3: just go away. 31 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,639 Speaker 4: There was a probe going on when Prisidon Trump was 32 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 4: in office last time because John Bolden wrote a book 33 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 4: and he violated his NDA. The President said in doing 34 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 4: it and he felt as though they were classified information 35 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,799 Speaker 4: in that book. The probe dropped when Joe Biden became president. 36 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 3: I don't think he cared about the classification system. I 37 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,679 Speaker 3: don't think he appreciated the sensitivity of this information, and 38 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 3: he didn't appreciate the sensitivity of how it was often acquired, 39 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 3: the so called sources and methods. So this had been 40 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 3: brief to him before I arrived, it was repeated frequently. 41 00:02:45,240 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 3: I think it simply had no impact on him whatever. 42 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 2: Giving a sense of where you think the truth wise 43 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 2: with respect to Trump's intelligence carelessness and the degree to 44 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 2: which he might have brought motive to bear on taking 45 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 2: these documents out of the way as of keeping them 46 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 2: for this. 47 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 3: Long at mar Laga, Well, it's very hard to speculate 48 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 3: on motive other than that he liked cool things. He 49 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 3: saw things that he so he wanted to take them, 50 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 3: and he was pretty much able to take them, and 51 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 3: not just on classified information matters, on all kinds of 52 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 3: things that crossed his desk. Some days he liked to 53 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:55,839 Speaker 3: eat a lot of French fries. Some days he took 54 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 3: classified documents. He wanted them. Why did he want them? 55 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 3: Because he could get them. 56 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 8: That is the voice of John Bolton, who was very, 57 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 8: very eager to bring down Donald Trump. He failed, but 58 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 8: now his home and office have been raided. And the 59 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 8: story that is making the rounds in DC and in 60 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 8: media circles with relative credit credibility is that he was 61 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 8: selling secrets. The belief is through the qataris there's a 62 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 8: photo that has emerged of him in Doha very close 63 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 8: to a drop site and meeting site for the Katari government, 64 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 8: a government that has shown a willingness to pay big 65 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 8: money for American intelligence, And the allegation is that he 66 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 8: was getting paid big money for selling America's intelligence. Remember, 67 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 8: we've got the best intelligence presumably in the world, and 68 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 8: it's worth a lot of money to countries. Rather than having, 69 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 8: rather than being able to accumulate it themselves, they just 70 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 8: buy hours by sellout. John Bolton, a serial butt sniffer, 71 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 8: registered sex offender with a long rap sheet, has been 72 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 8: arrested once again for another sniffing incident in the southern 73 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 8: California area. He was arrested for a similar incident last month. 74 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 8: The story from ABC seven in Los Angeles. 75 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 9: To a disturbing story of a registered sex offender who 76 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 9: has been arrested again. He made headlines for sniffing women 77 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 9: in the past. Thirty eight year old Calice Crutter was 78 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 9: rearrested Wednesday after reports of yet another sniffing incident at 79 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 9: a Walgreens in Burbank. This is video of prior incidents. 80 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 9: You can see him coming up behind that woman. Crowder 81 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 9: was already on parole and has a documented history of 82 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 9: similar arrests for lud conduct in both Glendale and Burbank 83 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 9: dating back to twenty twenty one. 84 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 6: Looking at that pictures off that you were breaking me 85 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 6: for a moment. I don't think arresting a person was 86 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 6: clear of mental health issues is the answer. Clearly, he 87 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 6: needs a program that's going to keep him, that's going 88 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:13,679 Speaker 6: to guide him in a right direction. 89 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 9: And Crowder has been charged with a felony and is 90 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 9: now being held without bail. 91 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 8: Wonder how that guy votes? He goes around sniffing people's butts, 92 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 8: He gets arrested for sniffing people's butts. I mean, where 93 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 8: do you go from there? How do you fix that guy? 94 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 10: You know? 95 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 8: You have to wonder he's got parents, missus Jones, Yes, 96 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 8: it's his officer Smith lapd Oh, this isn't about Bobby again, 97 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 8: is it? I'm sorry, but it is? He kill himself? 98 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 8: No worse? Did he get arrested again for sniffing people's butts? Man, 99 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 8: I'm sorry he did. Bond has said it fourteen dog bones. 100 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 8: If you could come down and bail him out, I mean, 101 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 8: or maybe he's just misunderstood, maybe he identifies as a dog. 102 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 11: Order in the court State versus Barkiy Sniffstein, Yes, sure, Hona, 103 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 11: my client Barkie here is ridiculed for simply being misunderstood. Misunderstood, Counsel, 104 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 11: your client is a serial butt sniffer. He's accused of 105 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 11: literally walking up to people and sniffing their rear ends 106 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 11: without consent. 107 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: Also, he's accused of public. 108 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 11: Urination on a fire hydrant and pooping on a sidewalk. 109 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: Your client is disgusting, not judge. 110 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 11: Hear me out now, My client, Balki Sniffstein, is just 111 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 11: doing what is natural in his habitat. 112 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: You see, my client identifies as a knie aka. 113 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 11: A do Dear lord, what might be disgusting to you 114 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 11: is just a normal reaction for Barky here. When you 115 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 11: and I see a friend, a dear loved one, we 116 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 11: give them a hug. Barki here, well, he just likes 117 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 11: to give folks a little honey hello. 118 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: If anything, my client's a good boy. 119 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 11: I'm telling you it's time to stop being so rough 120 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 11: on my client. 121 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: You see what I did there, Dear God, this might 122 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: be the lowest point of my career. Sentences. 123 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 11: Barky stays out of all dog parks for two years 124 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 11: and let's call it a slap on the nose with 125 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 11: a newspaper. What the hell is that? 126 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: That's Barkie's family. Come on, guys, let's go celebrate. You 127 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: get some grooming. I'm moving to Texas. This is. 128 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 4: I know. 129 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: What's your name? 130 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 7: You say, Michael Buddy. 131 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 8: Drunk days drunk DAYE Feeling is his family has a 132 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 8: lot of money in Beaumont. My brother lived off feeling 133 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 8: at and some people say failing, some people say feeling 134 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 8: p h E l A N. Feeling Investments owns a 135 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,719 Speaker 8: good part of Beaumont and all the way up through 136 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 8: Jasper County, Orange and drunk Dad was always it. A 137 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:22,439 Speaker 8: lot of rich families have that kid who is sort 138 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 8: of a good for nothing and you know, they get 139 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 8: dwi's and they get arrested, and they they don't do 140 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 8: well anywhere, and they cause problems for daddy, and daddy 141 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 8: has to put them in a job, and then they 142 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 8: screw that up and eventually they end up coming to 143 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 8: work for the family. Well, drunk Dad followed that pattern 144 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 8: to a t. And drunk Dad was never happier than 145 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 8: posting pictures of himself at the University of Texas and 146 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 8: the expensive seats his daddy had bought in his little 147 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 8: Texas get up with his cowboy boots and his perfectly 148 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:02,079 Speaker 8: pressed pants and his U T shirt with his other 149 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,439 Speaker 8: frat buddies. That was drunk day that he Drunk Day 150 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 8: could do. That, he could do that, he could he 151 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 8: could be at the game and drink and do his 152 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 8: do his horns up, and that that was you know, 153 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 8: until Gabriel blew his horn. 154 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: That was drunk day. 155 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 8: But he had no business. He could be a state rep. 156 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 8: You have one hundred and fifty state reps. You can 157 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 8: have some you know, some goobers here and there. There's 158 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 8: a there's a fair number of guys that are there 159 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 8: that are not the sharpest pencils in the pack. But 160 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 8: what happened was it was maneuvered to put him in 161 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 8: as speaker because he could be controlled. And then of 162 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 8: course he was drunk when he was holding the gavel, 163 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 8: and he madger clared under the and he made a 164 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 8: lot of enemies with some really anti bass stuff, anti 165 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 8: Maga stuff he did. And of course we told you 166 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 8: last week that he was very upset that we were 167 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 8: making memes. He he wrote a bill. It didn't pass, 168 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 8: but we heard from every news outlet in the state 169 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 8: because they said it was it was designed to get me, 170 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 8: because he didn't want to be made fun of. But 171 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 8: as we told you last week, he had resigned and 172 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 8: or retired. He will not be running for reelection and 173 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 8: he has decided to bury the hatchet. So we got 174 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 8: this message. 175 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 12: Her, Michael, this is more Dave failing the Moore Dave failing. 176 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 12: I want to be the first to tell you something 177 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 12: side news backle Berry. I sided to hang up the 178 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 12: gavel after five secuted terms. You heard it here versus 179 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 12: our secret Backleberry, you're first one to know. Heysweet us. 180 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 12: Hope it didn't embarrasse my family too much. They bought 181 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 12: me to see you know, they're always told me I'm 182 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 12: an idiot. I'm a I'm an idiot. Wow. 183 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 13: I hate those backup people. 184 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: They're nasty, But I love you. 185 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 6: Thank you for. 186 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 12: Being such a supportive corner fighter for me in corner 187 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 12: of my boxer. Thank you, Michael. I'm not sure what 188 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 12: I'm gonna do now because I've I've really done much 189 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 12: at all. Frankly, I think I might be a little 190 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 12: bit on the lazy side when two things I know. 191 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 12: One it's five o'clock somewhere and the other one I 192 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 12: am presidently somewhere. 193 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: So you know what that means? 194 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 13: Oh, would you look at the time, I pardoner, bring 195 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 13: me a couple of shots of cossaws cossa zuli saquilo 196 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 13: while I'm still on government te. 197 00:12:58,600 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 7: Time. 198 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 12: Celebrate all right, Marchael Berry. Let's go play pickleball and 199 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 12: shue me man, doubles match. Call me back, man, I'm retiring. 200 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 12: Where's my cossa Zuli? 201 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: Oh give me whatever of Besty car. 202 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 10: Well. 203 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 8: It can only get worse at this point. Sadly, we 204 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 8: love Chuck Norris, don't get me wrong, and we don't 205 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 8: have any problem with people getting a cameo from Chuck Norris. 206 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: Chuck Norris is cool. 207 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 8: That's a personal call through the website. You pay him 208 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,319 Speaker 8: and he says what you want. But when you get 209 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 8: a Chuck Norris cameo for your retirement, let that be 210 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 8: a private thing. Don't post that to social media as 211 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 8: if Chuck Norris called you out of the blue. 212 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 14: Hey, daid Chuck Norris here, thank you for serving Texas, 213 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 14: my friend. Good luck in the next chapter of your 214 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 14: life in twenty two. All the people that walk this 215 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 14: journey with you are just as grateful for you as 216 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,559 Speaker 14: you are for them. The future is bright for Southeast 217 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 14: Texas and the great state of Texas. 218 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 8: Ouch. I'm afraid Dad wrote that himself. The worst part 219 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 8: is I'm afraid it wasn't even a family member trying 220 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 8: to cheer him up. I'm afraid drunk Dad wrote that 221 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 8: himself and then posted it to his social media site 222 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 8: as if Chuck Norris called him on his own Even 223 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 8: Texas Monthly that loves nothing more than an anti Trump 224 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 8: Republican establishment swamp creature. Even Texas Monthly there has been 225 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 8: so nice as if drunk Date is the ideal Republican 226 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 8: blasted him, saying, quote, this seems like an unnecessary self own. 227 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 8: It's like Jeb Bush not just asking people to please, 228 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 8: but offering, but also offering to pay them to do so. 229 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: So here's my pleasure to you. 230 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 7: I will be a commander in chief that will have 231 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 7: the back of the military. 232 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: I won't trash talk. 233 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 7: I won't be a divider in chief or an agitator 234 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 7: in chief. I won't be out there blowharden talking a big, 235 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 7: big game without backing it up. I think the next 236 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 7: president needs to be a lot quieter, but send a 237 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 7: signal that we're prepared to act in the national security 238 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 7: interests of this country to get back in the business 239 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 7: of creating a more peaceful world. 240 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 8: Please clap, oh man. That's almost as bad as the 241 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 8: fact that when they went to Barbara Bush, whose husband 242 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 8: had been president and her son had been president, and 243 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 8: they said, do you support Jeb running for president? And 244 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 8: she said no. Jeb Bush was the Dade feeling of 245 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 8: his family. I don't know that he's a little slow, 246 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 8: but the question has been. 247 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 11: Asked very brigade activate the Michael Barry Show. 248 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 8: Show July fourth was the Pervil flood, the horrible tragedy 249 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 8: that befell so many young folks and families. Pat Green's 250 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 8: brother and his family among them, a teacher at Kingwood 251 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 8: High School among them. But the early stories that captured 252 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 8: the nation's imagination, and maybe just because young girls are 253 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 8: so innocent and precious and it it really captured the 254 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 8: heartstrings of the country. What happened in Camp miss It. 255 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 8: There were other locations. I was surprised how many connections 256 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 8: we had to so many of the kids that were there, 257 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 8: either through my kids being friends with them, knowing them, 258 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 8: going to school with them, having youth activities with them. 259 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 8: And then a lot of the dads, because a lot 260 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 8: of the dads are about my age or a few 261 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 8: years younger, and they also have other kids, and some 262 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 8: of those other kids were in school with or played 263 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 8: ball with my boys over the years, or we knew 264 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 8: through business organizations or different things. I did not know 265 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 8: Matthew Childress, but I knew people quite a few who 266 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 8: knew him, and my kids knew his daughter, Chloe Childress, 267 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 8: who was eighteen, who was a camp counselor at Camp Mystic. 268 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 8: And so here we are, seven weeks later, and we're 269 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 8: finally starting to see what I expected to see much earlier. 270 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 8: And I can guarantee if my child had been in 271 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,920 Speaker 8: one of those camps, I would have been out there. 272 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: You would have. 273 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 8: But I'm a loudmouth, and I have no filter, and 274 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 8: I lead with my heart. You know, most people are 275 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 8: not like that. Most people are a little more reserved, and 276 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 8: they wait until at the right time, and they do 277 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 8: it in cleaner, more sophisticated language than perhaps I would use. 278 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 8: But I expected this moment to come, and I think 279 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 8: it's a healthy moment. You don't have to agree with 280 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 8: what he says, but I think it's I think it's 281 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 8: healthy to have these conversations. So Matthew Childress is the 282 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,199 Speaker 8: father of eighteen year old Chlod Childress, who was a 283 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 8: counselor at Camp Mystic who perished, and he says I 284 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 8: taught Chloe to obey authority at Camp Mystic that got 285 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 8: her killed. He wrote an editorial that reads, quote, my 286 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 8: daughter was one of two counselors that needlessly passed away 287 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 8: at Camp Mystic during the early morning hours of July fourth, 288 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 8: along with twenty five young campers. The important word there 289 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 8: is needlessly. He writes. She died because she followed directions. 290 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 8: The instruction from camp leadership was to stay in your cabin. 291 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 8: She did what I taught her to do, obey orders. 292 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 8: While the camp managed to evacuate others all around. Bubble In, 293 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:47,679 Speaker 8: bubble In was her cabin. The largest mass casualty in 294 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 8: summer camp history did not happen by chance. It was 295 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 8: the result of complacency, having no plan, little training, no systems, 296 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 8: and no response when second grade campers and counselors like 297 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 8: Chloe needed those things most. It happened because we have 298 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 8: allowed youth camps to self regulate, to operate without the 299 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 8: safeguards we've come to expect of every daycare, every school, 300 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 8: and every other child care facility in Texas. Stay in place. 301 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 8: That's what Chloe was told to do, and it's what 302 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:26,919 Speaker 8: Texans cannot do now. We need new laws, and we 303 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,679 Speaker 8: need them urgently instead of moving my daughter into her dorm. 304 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 8: On August fourteenth, I was at the Texas Capital alongside 305 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 8: more than twenty other grieving families who also lost their 306 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 8: daughters at Mystic. We were there pleading with state leadership 307 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 8: for their help so that a repeat of this tragedy 308 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 8: could not happen to anyone else in the future. We 309 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 8: were encouraged by their words of support and they promised 310 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 8: to take action. I understand that we live in Texas. 311 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 8: We were about small government, parental empowerment, and low taxes. 312 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 8: Our state believes ineping regulations to a minimum to ensure 313 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 8: that businesses can thrive without unnecessary regulatory hurdles. 314 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:08,160 Speaker 1: But as the. 315 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 8: Deaths at Camp Mystics show, youth camps cannot be allowed 316 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 8: to self regulate and the time to act is now. 317 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 8: Governor Abbott made camp safety the number one agenda item 318 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 8: this special session, and it should be a top priority 319 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 8: for every responsible adult in our state. The changes we 320 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 8: need are not political, they are not expensive. In fact, 321 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 8: most other youth serving organizations must already meet these requirements. 322 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 8: They are common sense measures that everyone should be able 323 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 8: to agree to so that camps can thrive into the future. 324 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 8: While providing critical safety protection for all Texas children. Number 325 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 8: one prevention, No child should sleep in a floodplain daycare 326 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 8: and school sitting. Sorry, daycare and school siting laws already 327 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 8: prohibit such dangers. Camps must meet the same standard. Number 328 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 8: two Warning, A simple flood or weather alert system with 329 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 8: backup communication could have saved lives. Instead, the camp had 330 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 8: no alarm, no warning, and no way to phone the cabins. 331 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:17,959 Speaker 8: Number three Planning and training. The official plan at Mystic 332 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 8: was to stay in place, but the girls who died 333 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 8: were the ones who followed that plan. Training should prepare 334 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 8: staff in campers to act, not to wait in danger. 335 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 8: There was also no coordination with first responders, no lighted 336 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 8: evacuation paths, no exit signs in an emergency. Confusion kills. 337 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,640 Speaker 8: There are basic protections that all parents want and should 338 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:46,639 Speaker 8: demand when they entrust their child to a summer camp. 339 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 8: Matthew Childress, father of Chloe Childrens, I have said this 340 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 8: before and I will say it again for any parent 341 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 8: who lost their child in those floods who wants to 342 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 8: share your story. It does not necessarily have to be 343 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,120 Speaker 8: advocacy for summer camp change, but for any parent who 344 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,880 Speaker 8: lost your child in those floods. Who wants to share 345 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 8: your story about your child, you are welcome to call 346 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 8: the show and we will put you on and have 347 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 8: that conversation. I received a call from the parent of 348 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 8: one of the girls who perished, a young girl, I 349 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 8: think she was only six years old, and they wanted 350 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 8: the not a call. I received an email. Everything goes 351 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 8: through the email Michael Berryshow dot com, and they wanted 352 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 8: the name of my friend who makes the heritage films, 353 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 8: and they said, we want to make a heritage film 354 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 8: about our daughter while it's fresh, because we want her 355 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 8: younger daughter to know what kind of person she was 356 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 8: as the younger daughter grows older. And so I forwarded 357 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 8: it to Chance and I didn't ask anything other than 358 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 8: take good care of these people, which I knew he 359 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 8: would do. And of course I later learned that he 360 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 8: did not charge them for that. They're not cheap. They 361 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 8: involved a lot of time. But I warned the father. 362 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,199 Speaker 8: I said, look, I'm gonna send this to him and 363 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 8: he's a crier like me. And the father's response was, 364 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 8: he didn't charge us, he's awesome, and yeah, he's a crier. 365 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 8: I guess the dads cried out at that point, and 366 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 8: it makes sense, doesn't he And the. 367 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 15: Michael Berry Show. You know this guy, he loves country music, 368 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,399 Speaker 15: he loves his country, he loves guns, he loves guntry, 369 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 15: that's country with guns. He's a conservative, you know. He 370 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 15: believes in a smaller government, and he basically says, whatever 371 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 15: he wants. I wish I could do that. That'd be awesome. 372 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 10: Man. 373 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 1: This is Frank Calando. You're listening to Michael Barry. 374 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 8: Lena had Algo came to Harris County Commissioner's Court seeking 375 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 8: enough money to take an entire entourage to Paris. Government 376 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 8: officials love conferences because they use your money to go 377 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:23,680 Speaker 8: on vacation. So Lena ad Augo brings this to Commissioner's 378 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 8: court and presumes it'll just be signed away and she 379 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 8: can take all her staff and all her security people 380 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 8: and all this like she needs security. Nobody knows who 381 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:40,640 Speaker 8: she even is. The mayor of New Orleans, LaToya the Destroyer, 382 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 8: has been indicted for spending money with her lover, who 383 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 8: she calls her bodyguard, and they fly first class all 384 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 8: around the world. And when questions were raised about how 385 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 8: much money she's spending on first class travel, they didn't 386 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 8: deny her the travel. Why do you have to fly 387 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 8: first class? She says, I'm a black woman. As a 388 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 8: black woman, I can't sit back in the back. It 389 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 8: ain't safe. Okay, with a lot of other black women 390 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 8: back there. I don't know how they're doing it. So 391 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 8: when Lena didn't get her money, she asked for a 392 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 8: smaller amount of money. She was very angry. A lot 393 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 8: of cussing going on, a lot of anger, a lot 394 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,199 Speaker 8: of anger being expressed. Woo spicy hallopenna kind of stuff. 395 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 8: She was mad, she was hopping mad brother. So she 396 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,879 Speaker 8: asked for half as much and they said, no, you 397 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 8: can't have half as much either. Well, she started asking 398 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,119 Speaker 8: for I think twenty three, then she went down to 399 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 8: eleven five. It turns out she ended up spending forty 400 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 8: three thousand dollars. You know, if you had forty three 401 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,360 Speaker 8: thousand dollars to go on vacation to Paris for four days, 402 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 8: I'm betting you could have one hell of a blowout. 403 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 8: And I'm betting she did too. 404 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 16: ABC thirteen with the story documented trade mission to Paris 405 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 16: by Judge Lena Hidalgo and team photos and posts on 406 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 16: her social media show meetings with business leaders and dignitaries. 407 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 16: Captions read they were deepening ties between Harris County and France. 408 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,199 Speaker 16: They say a photo is worth a thousand words, but 409 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 16: those words don't explain what led up to the photos 410 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:21,359 Speaker 16: in the City of Love. 411 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 17: To request. 412 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 16: In early May, Judge Hidalgo asked county commissioners to approve 413 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 16: her using taxpayer money that was in her office's budget 414 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 16: for herself and essential members of her staff to travel 415 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 16: with members of the Greater Houston Partnership and Rice University 416 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 16: on a trade mission to Paris. That request was denied. 417 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 16: Two weeks later, she again asked fellow commissioners to approve 418 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 16: her using taxpayer money for the trip, specifically twenty three 419 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 16: thousand dollars, and she would bring four members of her staff. 420 00:27:51,520 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 17: Own favor hi any posts, no, okay, motion fails, two okay. 421 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:01,640 Speaker 1: So let's see. 422 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 17: Let's move to resolutions. Okay, so the resolution is you 423 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,160 Speaker 17: know what, Let me make another motion here. 424 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 16: Judge h Adalgo then asked to use eleven thousand dollars instead, 425 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 16: and said she would bring only two members of her 426 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 16: staff with her. Commissioners Brionas, Ramsey and Garcia voted no again. 427 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 16: Meeting taxpayers would not be funding it, but that didn't 428 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 16: end up meeting that she couldn't go. Judge Hidalgo used 429 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 16: donations to her political campaign to fund the trip. 430 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 18: The rules are very flexible on how the officeholders can 431 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 18: use their funds, so long as they are publicly disclosed. 432 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 16: Her campaign finance report was filed last month and detailed 433 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 16: the expenses for the trip. The report shows Judge Hidalgo 434 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 16: took five people with her from June eighth to June 435 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 16: fifteenth to Paris, her chief of staff, director of Special Projects, 436 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 16: chief of External Affairs, director of Economic Development, and the 437 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 16: Director of Policy. Here's the costs as listed in her 438 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 16: campaign finance report, twenty five thousand dollars on lodging, more 439 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 16: than seventeen thousand dollars on airfare, and more than three 440 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 16: hundred dollars to Uber. No meals were listed. We asked 441 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 16: Jonathan Nierman, a campaign finance advisor out of Dallas who 442 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 16: served previously as the chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party, 443 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 16: if this spending was an appropriate use of campaign funds. 444 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 16: He says yes. 445 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 18: So there are two different things. One is whether the 446 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 18: Ethics Commission would allow it. The other is where the 447 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 18: donors be okay with it. That's really where the bigger 448 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 18: issue may lie for her is when donors find out 449 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 18: how she's using these funds, are they okay with it? 450 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 16: In total, the trip cost her campaign just under forty 451 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 16: three thousand dollars according to her finance report. That's thousands 452 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 16: of dollars more than she brought in in contributions during 453 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 16: the same period. 454 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 18: And that's why they're all publicly disclosed, because it gives 455 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 18: owners a chance to look and see how you're spending 456 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 18: the money. 457 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 16: Judge Hidalgo touted the connections made during the trip in 458 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 16: subsequent Commissioner's Court meetings, including securing visits to Houston from 459 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 16: international organizations within the next year. But she's let commissioners 460 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 16: know that she has not forgotten about their refusal to 461 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 16: let her use her county funds to pay for the trip. 462 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 10: It's a lot of really valuable meetings. Obviously, you know, 463 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 10: twenty thousand dollars is what like a little party costs 464 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 10: in some of these big precincts. I just want to 465 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 10: point out, obviously the rhetoric was disappointing about the Trade Mission. 466 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 10: I don't think that we need to be sort of 467 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 10: maligning work to pursue international business and opportunities. 468 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 16: We asked Judge Hidalgo's county team if we could speak 469 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 16: to her on camera about the trip and the expenses, 470 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 16: but they told us that she's deep in budget season, 471 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 16: so we sent her county team a list of questions. 472 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 16: They sent us a copy of the itinerary for the trip, 473 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 16: but told us that since her campaign is who funded it, 474 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 16: that we needed to reach out to them. We did, 475 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 16: and we sent them a list of questions, but we 476 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 16: were told that since she doesn't have an active campaign 477 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 16: right now, there's no one who can answer those questions. 478 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 16: Judge hit Algo has also tried several times to amend 479 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 16: the county's travel policy as it relates to international travel, 480 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 16: but it's gotten voted down. 481 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 8: Imagine, if you will, you are a French business considering 482 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 8: doing business in Houston. You're not bored, You're not like 483 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 8: where on the map might we do business? There would 484 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 8: be a reason you were going to do business in Houston. 485 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 8: It's most likely oil and gas related, but there's some 486 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 8: other reasons you might do business. And imagine that you 487 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 8: are a business capable of conducting international trade. No small matter, 488 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 8: and Houston is where the business is either buying or 489 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 8: selling the product that you want or want to sell. 490 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 8: And you're thinking, guys, I think this is what we 491 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 8: need to do. They've got a big airport, two airports. Actually, 492 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 8: they've got everything we need and they have the specs 493 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:17,959 Speaker 8: we need to meet this contract. Let's buy from that vendor. Okay, 494 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:22,479 Speaker 8: but shouldn't we meet with the county judge first? Or 495 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 8: does it happen like this? We are not doing any 496 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 8: international deals. We're just not. We're going to focus on 497 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 8: our home turf of friends. But we're going to take 498 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 8: a meeting with the county judge in Harris County, in Houston, 499 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 8: in Texas. And how does that work? Does she go 500 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 8: in and go we have some really good companies here 501 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 8: and they're good. Will you talk to them? This woman, 502 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 8: when she loses her job, no one will hire her 503 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 8: for anything. Nobody's hiring her to send her around the 504 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 8: world to be the face of their company. Can you 505 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 8: imagine it'll never happen? So the Democrat infighting has begun. 506 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 8: Apparently Adrian Garcia wanted Sylvia Garcia seat and he was 507 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 8: telling people she was stepping out because she's old and crippled, 508 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 8: and she apparently let him have it because she's a 509 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 8: mean woman. She's one of those women. How do I 510 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 8: say this, Well, she's mean. We'll leave it at that.