More Pentagon Leaks, Nancy Mace Melts Down & Kristi Noem Robbed in DC

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Okay, what is this? About the Signal Chat controversy. You know, what a big surprise that a bunch of a few leakers get fired and suddenly a bunch of hit pieces come out from the same media that peddled the Russia hoax. Won't get back their poitzers. They got poitzers for a bunch of lies.

Pulitzers for a bunch of lies on hoaxes, time and time and time again. And as they peddle those lies, no one ever calls them on. See, this is what the media does. They take anonymous sources from disgruntled. former employees and then they try to slash and burn people.

and ruin their reputations. Not gonna work with me. Because we're Changing the Defense Department, putting the Pentagon back in the hands of warfighters, and anonymous smears from disgruntled former employees on old news. doesn't matter.

So I'm happy to be here at the Easter egg roll with my dad. and my kids, because you know this is what we're doing it for. These kids right here. This is why we're fighting the fake news media. This is why we're fighting slash and burn Democrats.

This is why we're fighting hoaxers. Hoaxters. This group, no, no, no, this group right here. Full of hoaxers that peddle anonymous sources from leakers with access to grind and then use Put it all together as if it's some News story. And when we know it, we know exactly what it is.

So I'm really proud of what we're doing for the president, fighting hard across the board. And I'm going to go roll some Easter eggs with my kids. Have you spoken to the president? Have you spoken to the president? Have spoken to the president.

Heg Seth. SecDef Heg Seth. Who is They had, it was this morning, they have the typical Easter egg hunt at the White House, and that's when they roll all the Easter eggs down the hill. You might remember that because. What was it, a couple of It was a couple of weeks prior to that.

You had uh Under in the Biden administration, you had What was it? Like that that pride thing that they did and right before the Easter egg roll they had These Trans activists that legit went topless there in the middle of the. Like, and then, you know, a couple of weeks later, we do the White House Easter egg roll. But I, that's Sec Def Hexeth talking about some of the turmoil, which we're going to address. Uh, welcome to the program.

Uh, your girl Dana Lash here with a fun scratch, I think, on her cornea.

So, we'll see how that works out. I know, we're gonna power through the radio today, one eye.

So, uh, welcome. Uh, it's good to see you. And well, or hear you, be on with you, we'll we'll get things remedied here. But we've got a lot of stuff to touch on. It was kind of actually a slow and boring weekend, but then of course the news came this morning, Pope Francis passed away, so now I guess the conclave of that movie is happening.

It's going to be the conclave. I don't know. There's a lot of discussion. I'm not going to get into the back and forth of it, of all of the political nature of it and all that stuff. But.

There's a legitimate, there's a lot of debate as to how that's going to politically kind of affect the church. And what that's going to be like, because there's. I think questions about Pope Francis and how he Uh, you know, is accused of taking the church left-leaning, of course. It's not just him alone. I mean, there's a lot of stuff, there's a lot of structure that goes into making all that happen.

So, we're going to talk about some of that going into it.

So, welcome to the program again, and we're going to get into all of that.

So, we've got this, we've got the Easter egg stuff, the Easter egg roll that's been happening at the White House, and You heard the Secretary of Defense just there. Bear with me. I can't. I'm still looking at some stuff in terms of trying to see some things. I also wanted to play this.

This is Audio Sun by 2. This is Chris Van Hollen, who did admit, by the way, that his trip, the Codel that he was on, that it was taxpayer funded. He met with this Kilmar Garcia. And called him an American, a Maryland dad, all this. I mean, it's just wild.

Listen to this. He calls him, at this point, he's talking about this guy. He says, He's an American in this. Audio Sun by 2. I think at some point the president of El Salvador realized it was looking really bad to have this person who had been absconded from America, from the streets of Maryland, in one of their prisons.

So He's not a Maryland dad. He's not a Maryland dad. He's literally a citizen of El Salvador, but we're. We're not going to pay attention to any of that. We're going to keep calling him an American.

But he went. He admitted that it was a taxpayer-funded Codell, AudioSoundbyte 4, to go and meet with this MS-13 gang member listen. Who did pay for this trip? This was an officially cleared congressional trip, clearing of pipe parks and basis. Yes, like every other trip.

Yes, taxpayer funded. Taxpayer funded. To go and meet with this gang member, taxpayer funded to go and meet. with this guy. Uh MS13 gang member.

and sip margaritas. I don't know if you guys saw that, but They uh at one point they were they were there and they were sipping margaritas together. Uh wi I didn't know that you could be in an El Salvador prison and drink margaritas, but you know, I guess I'm wrong. I guess you can do that if you're If you're MS-13, I wonder if all the other prisoners were upset. That he was having Drinks when I don't think that they can get anything like that in jail.

I don't think that they is that a feature of jail? Did they just let that happen? You can just go and you can have Uh you know, sip tequila. You can go and have tequila? I'm just curious.

Is that something you can do in prison? I don't know. I guess it is for him. But it's taxpayer funded, and I'm curious as to how much these codells cost because it was and it's not just him. Then there's a number of other Democrats that are also going down there.

Everybody has to have their who are the other because there's another four that are going down. And I, and I, and they're a little bit lesser in stature. James Comer's refusal to have taxpayer dollars pay for these trips.

So that was a new outrage I saw this morning. Yeah, but I mean, these guys have already left. These lawmakers have already left.

So The taxpayer doll I mean, you're probably looking, I would say easily, you know, half like fifty thousand dollars to get all these guys down here and then the security and all that. You know it's gonna it's it's you know it's gonna be uh a pretty uh it's going to be a pretty hefty price tag to get these guys down here. For all of them, and you know, they got to fly first class. They have to fly first class. You know, that's something that they got to do.

So he's confirmed that they did it. He confirmed that it was taxpayer funded to go down there. Then he was asked. You know, when he was asked about Rachel Morin.

Now, Rachel Morin. Was one of his constituents, and her mother was the one that was there at the White House, and they were talking at the White House. at during the press surveillance Talking at the White House. I don't, he's never tweeted about her. People were looking at his Twitter account.

He's never tweeted about Rachel Morin, he's never tweeted to her mother. Apparently, he never reached out to any of them. This is audio soundbite. Which one is this? I just had it in my.

This is Audio Soundbite 5. Listen. I think it's about the mother being unable to understand why you would spend so much time and energy for this person who was not in your state or in the country legally at which time she felt like you didn't have the same concern about her daughter and her family. I did have concern. I have concern.

My heart goes out to every Maryland family. that is the victim. of violence, regardless of the perpetrator. Neglect. But y w what do you mean any Maryland family?

Wi w anybody?

So what does this have to do with Him lionizing the exact kind of gang activity that got Rachel Moran killed. It just doesn't make any sense. None of this makes sense. Audio zone by 7.

Now he's trying to gatekeep and says that he... He, more than anybody else, has been fighting Audio Sunbite 7, MSNBC, or MSNBC. Same thing, though, really. MS13 longer. Listen.

The embassy, the Trump administration is doing nothing right now to comply with that court order. What they're doing is trying to change the subject as if you can't comply with the Constitution and fight gang violence. I've been fighting MS-13 longer than Donald Trump probably ever uttered the words. I put together an anti-gang task force in this Washington region, Maryland, Washington, Virginia.

So this task force. What task force did he put together? What did they actually accomplish? He put together this task force, and yet people are still getting killed. And they're still allowing them to come in.

So What is that? Before Trump ever uttered the words.

Well, I think POTUS has done more in that short time. than Van Hollen has done. which is the crazy thing about it. I think POTUS has done a lot more in this time than than POTUS has.

So What you know, what was his point of even going down there? Audio Soundbite 8. He says this in this interview. This was the only big interview that he gave about it. He said he wanted to go down to see if Garcia was alive.

Listen. I did. I had two missions. One was to ask the government of El Salvador to not be complicit in this illegal scheme with the Trump administration and to release him. I made that request to the vice president.

They denied that request. My other major purpose was to just see Abrego Garcia to see if he's alive. I did. Mm. No, to see if he's alive, to see a break.

Like, why would he not be alive? Out of curiosity. Oh, 'cause He's I mean the El Salvadoran the El Salvadoran prison is you know pretty hardcore prison That's for pretty hardcore people. This dude's pretty hardcore, rolling with MS13. He wanted to see if Garcia was the.

He never called the Morud family. Hell, he's never called anybody in Maryland that have been. Subject. to the sort of violence that he claims that he's protecting citizens from by inviting a deluge of illegal immigrants in.

So this is one of the things we're going to we got we got a lot more on this because, yes, they sent there are four other Democrats that are traveling down To go and visit this Garcia guy. They're just going to take turns. You remember how they took turns with the kids in the cages? What they said was kids in cages. Remember how they took turns with that?

They had AOC go down and pose on the side of the fence. They had a number of other Democrats go down. For like three weeks, they just took these extended field trips down to the border and they all took photos. They all took photos. Like AOC was in a parking lot by a chain link fence.

They all took photos. It was. a photo op for them. It was a PR stunt for them. We're going to talk more about that here coming up.

Also, on deck, the White House, they're backing Hegseth, and now you have this. It seems like the Pentagon is really, you've got some entrenched people. In the Pentagon, who make decisions that are really pushing back against some of these reforms. We're going to talk about that coming up because that is a big thing in this. It is a big thing.

You're never going to be able to work on your fighting force if you don't get the top of the pile in order, so to speak.

So we're going to get all this in. We're also going to ask, why was it? And I saw this earlier today. How in the world can the Homeland Secretary, DHS, Christine Om? How in the world does she have a bag stolen from her at a DC restaurant over Easter?

Like she has a secret service detail. How did that happen?

So we're going to talk about all of that and then the latest as well. We'll follow all the Pope stuff as well as we get moving. Our partners that help bring you the program. It's our friends at All Family Pharmacy. All Family Pharmacy is a great business.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Need knife control in DC. DC mass stabbing suspect was arrested after attacking six people, including innocent bystanders, at random in a substance-fueled frenzy. Try that in a concealed carry town.

The DC police responded to the scene. It was two miles from the Capitol. It was like 3:20 p.m. yesterday after we got off air. They found the male suspect on the ground suffering from stab wounds, but he had hurt a number of people.

They said he was in a quote alternate mental state from an unknown substance. And that's how it began. Also, rising odds. I am really upset over this. And I feel betrayed.

Smart. The asteroid that we thought might, you know, kind of ping the Earth is actually threatens to hit the moon instead. I mean, you know, it's going to just mess stuff up for everybody, but it's not going to be the end of humanity, sadly. I'm saying it's a huge asteroid.

Now it has a 4% chance of smashing into the moon.

So, there is a chance, though. It's uh, they thought it's it's the size of it is capable of leveling a city, according to data from the James Webb Space Telescope. It has a 3.1% chance of hitting our home planet. The apparently, the biggest, highest chance more than any other asteroid that they've measured previously. And it required the Earth's planetary defense community to leap into action.

Further observations quickly ruled out the asteroid called 2024 YR4 or Giant Disappointment will strike Earth on December 22nd, 2032. Wow, we gotta wait that long. Maybe it can change its trajectory. Could we send Bruce Willis up there and have Aerosmith play and he can like jackhammer the asteroid into a new trajectory? I mean, I'm sure it's possible.

I know engineering, guys, because I can eyeball a wall and hang a picture. I have a story about that. It was like perfectly in the center. I swear to you. My husband was like, that's an exception, not a rule.

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I will create the most horrible content.

So, yeah, they said that they put in a last-minute offer to buy TikTok. uh and we're i guess we're gonna it's now we're playing wait and see see if they take up the offer Well, San Francisco is rethinking its free handouts of drugs and drug paraphernalia. Wow, I wonder why. Wonder why that's happening. San Francisco's now scratching their heads thinking, you know what?

Maybe it wasn't a great idea. To hand out free drugs and drug paraphernalia. to drug addicts. Maybe it wasn't a good idea. It's like, you know, giving kids to a kid toucher.

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So I have a book here that I really like. And on the end You will tell me what you learn from it. And the name is Bunny with a big heart. Does anybody know this book? Yeah, you do?

Beautiful.

So let's start. Bunny with a big heart. PJ Fanny Bunny was a very busy bunny. He was always doing something. I'm going to the park.

He shouted one morning. Then he raced out of the house, leaving the door wide open. PJ also left his dirty dishes on the table. She's reading to the kids at the Easter eggs. It's so refreshing to not have like topless trans activists.

on the on the White House lawn. Bottom of this first hour. And That is It's interesting to me in that The I think the tenor of I mean, it seems like there's more of an acknowledgment of Like a genuine acknowledgment of Easter. And from an administration that's not Insane, I think. I mean, I have to tell you, I was kind of laughing because I was listening to this.

And thinking of the you know, the White House Easter egg roll. And then I was also coupling it with this story. From Christy Noam. The DHS secretary about how she had her bag stolen. And you know what my first thought was?

Did Sam Britton do it? Rem remember Sam Brent and the luggage tweak? Sam Brenton, I thought, did he do this? Is he the guy who stole her luggage and is he going to start walking around with hair extensions and all this stuff?

Now I was just wondering. Oh, and then I remembered that was the last administration.

So, not really, don't really have to worry about it. It's not the same. It's not the same. So welcome back to the show. All right, so the other.

A couple of things that we're watching, and again, welcome. We're. Your girl has an issue with her eye today, so we're dealing with that while we're also covering all the news. Just for the people that are asking, we're just giving you guys a heads up.

So. The uh Fallout with DOD. And I'm sure that you guys have seen these stories at this point. The fallout with DOD, the Department of Defense. And this issue.

With Hegseth, and now they're accusing him of what having had another conversation or whatever in Signal, and it got out. I think I'm. First and foremost, Regardless of what people think of signal, One of the things that you and this was a New York Post piece, by the way, that had this, where it said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared war plans in second signal chat. Can I remind everybody that No matter You know what it separate from what your thoughts on this may be. Signal has been Uh an approved Uh platform for use.

By members of the government for some time. I, you know, admittedly, I didn't know this at the time when this story first all started breaking, but. It's been Uh it's something that comes preloaded. On apparently, who was it that testified to this? To the CIA?

They were saying, Yes, the CIA loaded this onto our computers. Yes, we had this on our devices. We use signals, and encrypted supposed to be safe. I I mean I don't I don't know if the alternative is That Something in like that the government makes is going to be somehow more secure. Because I don't necessarily believe that.

So I don't know if you If it's one of but the b the other big question is who's leaking it?

Now, we've had a number of aides already. that have been shown the door.

Now they were saying, oh, there's a second group chat and there's been advice.

So who are the people that are leaking it is the bigger question. And especially if it's something that has been Approved So I don't see what the scandal is. whether or not You know, it's acting like they were somehow involved in using a phys a platform that's somehow clandestine. I don't know. I mean, it's all it's been approved for government.

devices But again, who's been leaking this stuff? If you can't have an inner circle, you know, you're the Secretary of Defense, if you can't have in your inner circle, The you know, a trustworthy grustworthy group. Then We've got issues. I mean, these are the people that are heading up our warfighters. We have issues if we cannot trust the people.

Who are working around the Secretary of Defense? Dan Caldwell was one of the guys who was escorted from the Pentagon last week because they said he was leaking. from the DOD. And they've had three officials in total placed on leave. and recent, just like within the past, you know, week and a half.

Uh his Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Selnick and then Colin Carroll, the Chief of Staff to his Deputy, were also placed on administrative leave. And then his chief of staff, Joe Casper, is apparently going to go for per politico to a different post within that agency.

So I want to know. Because they're all demanding. People like Chuck Schumer are demanding that Heg Seth be fired. Can I ask the question of it, or not a question, making an observation that it almost sounds like. They want him to fight.

They want him to fail. It's like they're trying to set him up to fail. That's what it really seems like. That like Chuck Schumer had said, Oh Pete Hagseth put lives at risk, but Trump is too weak to fire him. He's got to be fired.

He's got to go. That was Chuck Schumer. He wrote that. On X just last week. They really want Heg Seth to go.

And I keep, I want to ask why. Why is he being set up to fail? Why is it that you have a whole group of people that are supposed to be in your inner circle? And yet You can't trust them with any information. You can't trust them.

uh with any kind of discussion. And I get, you know, with certain sensitive things, they have to, you know, they'll meet in person or they'll, you know, if they're reviewing stuff, they'll go in the skiff. I get it. But. Uh Wh why the leaks?

Why is it that they're trying to undermine him? Because that's what this is. They're trying to undermine. the Secretary of Defense. And at the at these are people who will who would rather rule over ashes.

Then to lose. That's what this is. They would rather rule over ashes than lose, and they're fine. With endangering and jeopardizing the security of the nation in order to do it. That's what this is.

If he had And apparently, this had to do with the because the first time you remember it was this March attack at the Houthis, and that's what and it was only I think it was Goldberg that Jeffrey Goldberg over at the Atlantic that had was writing about this, and apparently he only learned about the actual, you know, I guess, strikes two hours before they happened, but still. Uh I I'm concerned because there doesn't seem to be a lot of cohesion in DOD. I mean, you're talking about an agency that thrives on discipline and cohesion. You know, Department of Defense. They thrive on cohesion.

They thrive on being a unit. They thrive on, well, you can't have leaks.

So why is it that some of these people, and some of them are newly transitioned, some of them have been there. Why does it seem to run the gamut of people who are leaking on sec dev? If they are displeased, With the selection for the Secretary of Defense, there are ways to deal with it. beyond leaking Things to the press. leaking things to a malicious press that wants to do nothing more than destabilize this administration and in turn destabilize the country.

I mean, whenever I see these people leak this stuff, I kind of always, you know, I always ask the question: what's the purpose here? This isn't whistleblower stuff. This is a malicious movement designed to. portray the Secretary of Defense as not having his people together, as not they're they're trying to showcase that he uh they're trying to they're showcasing, they're trying to project this message that he's weak and that he doesn't have the confidence of the people underneath him. That's why they're doing this.

They're doing this because they are displeased with Trump's pick, and so they're going to leak to the press and think that at some point. POTUS will be prevailed upon to jettison him to the sidelines. That's not going to happen, though, I don't think. When does that ever happen? I mean, Heg Seth, this is not like a situation like Matt Gaetz, okay?

Matt Gaetz is a giant unforced error. This is not even remotely like that. This is a legit witch hunt. And I, and for Schumer, Schumer's trying to, he thinks that he's playing to Trump's ego here by saying, oh, he's too weak to fire him. He's saying that because he's.

He kind of has an idea of how to get under Trump's skin by questioning his strength or his acumen, et cetera. But I don't think that anybody's going to respond to this. I just, you know, we we got a lot of issues. Happening in the Middle East. We've got a lot of issues with China.

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Mm. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. I do them every year. Every year. You want to keep going?

You want to keep going? Keep harassing me? You could have gone to a dozen town halls last year. I asked if you're doing any more this year. It was one simple question.

Yeah. Are you doing a simple hall? I've already done one. I'll do plenty more. You're always invited.

Okay, sweet. And by the way, I voted for gay marriage twice. What does that have to do with you?

So I'm just saying. It has everything to do with you. Do you think everything about me has to do with gay marriage? I do. Absolutely.

Absolutely. If you want to get in my face about town halls, you should have shown up to one last year. You can talk about me, just saying, oh, I support gay marriage. Yeah. Because you're getting in my face about a town hall.

You could have gone last year. Would you like me to ask if you have any plans to have more town halls this year? I have town halls every year. I have over a dozen every year. Great.

That was my entire question. You didn't have to go to this. You could have come to any of them last year. I had over a dozen. I don't understand why Nancy Mace is making such a big deal of this right now.

I this guy's shorts are horrendous, number one. He's in like these short little booty shorts. But can I be honest? I don't know why Nancy Mace. is seeking to make this like a confrontational thing.

Am I missing something? I mean, if he just asks, when are you holding more town halls? Then all she has to do is say, Oh, yeah, well, we're going to have another one here, or we're going to be holding some here. That's all she has to do.

So I'm not. I don't understand why it's a big fight. It it did I mean, did it seem like he was being purposefully like a jerk or totally confrontational. I don't know. In the beginning, I don't want to defend a guy in booty shorts, so please.

Give me a reason to not I don't want to be on this guy's side. He's in booty shorts. Please give me a reason to not. Defend the booty short dude. Look, he's clearly mentally ill approaching someone like that as though he's accusing her of never doing town halls, or that, you know, the talking point out there now with Democrats going to these Republican town halls is that somehow these Republican town halls are reflective of how Republicans feel about their Republican representatives when, in fact, that's not the case.

It's the left causing these issues.

So I think she's just pointing. To that. Right.

Well, I mean, still, I mean, it is, it's. Just uh I don't know. I just feel like that there's there's times to blow up and there's times to not blow up. And I don't know. It just, to me, it just seems, it feels like it didn't need to be all that much.

Maybe I'm wrong. But You know, we also don't know exactly how it started. I mean, you only get it, it only cuts through part way.

So maybe he did something, I don't know. But I just think that if he's just asking you, Hey, are you going to be doing more of this? Then That's not a big issue, right? Yeah, we're going to have more town halls. Yeah, we're going to have more town halls so you can get on the bus with the other Soros-funded people and you can go to town, right?

I mean, it's like it okay. That's how I would have answered it. Wouldn't have been a big deal.

So, you think it was just a hey. I tend to, I don't dislike her, but I also think that sometimes she really tries to manufacture attention. And I think that our I I don't just blame the lawmakers for doing this. I think that our society supports that. I think that we want people like if they if people aren't gaining traction with something they'll manufacture.

a victim narrative. I just don't I don't know. I mean, there's just ways to handle it. I've dealt with people publicly before. And it doesn't always have to be like a big blow up, you know.

Sometimes, you know, maybe it's necessary, but it just didn't seem like this is one of the times where it was. You know, I don't know. Uh, but I think she just needs to slow it down just a little bit. Remember when she wore that A shirt, like Hester. And her A.

Yeah, her's the scarlet letter. Hester with her A. It just, I feel like she just tries to go out for the attention, is like what I'm saying. I feel like she just really tries to go out for it. And I don't know.

It just. We got more on the way. Lorraine noted that Van Hollen's gang task force spent over $2.5 million. in in in just one year.

So, what did they actually accomplish? That's well, that's what she was looking at. She was like, I can't find a single thing as to what Van Hollen's gang task force did. They had like a joint gang task force back in 2004, but it ended there, she said. She said that they had congressional hearings into it in 26.

The uh it was included in the spending bill, the omnibus in 09. But then there's, you know, nobody knows.

Well, I mean, they spent money to the University of Maryland. They spent money there, they sent money there, but that nobody really knows.

So I'm just curious how much taxpayer dollars are we going to have here? For this Code El because we've got other ones going down there. It's like the hot new summer vacation. You go down. And you go down to El Salvador, and you go down to that prison there, and you go, and everybody gets a turn.

You go get your picture taken. with uh Garcia. You go and get your picture. It's a hot new summer vacation. Forget your sightseeing.

Forget your jet skis. Forget any of that. No. Just do it this way. We have a lot more on the way.

We've got a new pope, I guess, that's they're going to make that determination. We're going to get into all of that. I hope you all had a wonderful Easter as well. A couple of observances on that issue, too, on the issue of Easter, but we're going to get into all of that. And then we have Stephen Yates later on in the program because.

You know, obviously, we keep a very close eye on everything that happens with the biggest geopolitical foe of the United States. We're going to talk to him about the latest with China. They sent a. They are they're sin they sent a back a new Boeing jet. China did.

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And so to the Democrat Party who thinks that they are going to bring this foreign terrorist back to the United States of America to live a peaceful and happy life, that is never going to happen. Not only is this an MS-13 gang member, but he is also an illegal alien who broke our nation's laws to come here. And not only is it a slap in the face to the American citizens whose lives who have been put in danger or in many cases lost at the hands of these illegal alien criminal gang members, but it's also a slap in the face to the millions of legal immigrants who came to our country the right way, waited their turn, and paid their dues. We have a legal immigration system for a reason. The president is going to continue to uphold that.

Well, and good for him, he needs to. And it's about time that we've had. Uh I mean, people in the administration do what they needed to do as it pertains to illegal immigration. and to uphold the law. to actually uphold the law.

So I don't know why that, why we're still defending this case, by the way. of The You know, this Garcia, this guy who's. a an El Salvadoran national. Who Was never here legally. I mean, I don't know how many times we can talk about this.

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And The Issue of Immigration and this back and forth. I want to reiterate again because I feel like this gets lost in all of this. The issue with him And the Deportation. I was listening to, who was it? Senator John Kennedy out of Louisiana.

Uh earlier. who remarked how The administration he said in his view the administration messed up. Because They let this guy go too early. or they deported him too early. I don't think the administration messed up though.

I mean, how is it that It's bad if you deport someone earlier than what was scheduled. And then When you And then they enter the country illegally. I mean, if you're going to go buy the book as it pertains to law and order, then you have to go buy the full book, not. Just that which. You know, it works to your advantage.

Not just, you can't ignore the fact the guy came in illegally. And because he came in illegally, and because he had his due process, and he had numerous court appearances, and he was before numerous immigration judges, we read one of the bond documents out aloud to you when we were on air last week. And this guy. is I mean, he immediately He was reoffending. He comes into the country illegally and he immediately starts reoffending.

And That's one of the reasons why he was Ended up getting the attention of these people in the first place, getting the attention of law enforcement in the first place, because he was. Uh he had numerous what traffic incidents And then he wasn't showing up for court, his court dates there. And he entered illegally again.

So he was deported legally, although it was out of schedule. Can you have like an illegal deportion? Deportation? Ill ill illegal deportation? I don't think you can.

Especially if someone's here illegally. I just am trying to wrap my mind around the thought process of the left on this. I mean, if it's bad that he's deported because you think that somehow you're violating his rights, okay, he's an illegal. immigrant, he's not here legally. There's it's the the the One doesn't follow the other.

It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. Why is he entitled to the due process of American citizens when he's not a part of it?

Well, and he got it. He got it with the numerous court appearances. And then they kept telling him, you're a danger. In fact, one of the judges even wrote that: like, you're a danger. Uh to the public, so we can't guarantee We can't make any guarantees to the public as of such.

You know, we're not going to, you know, we can't allow you to stay in this country. And he got the deferment. From the Biden administration. But I want to point out again, too, that was only a temporary thing. It was never an issue of.

He's not going to ever, he's going to stay in the country legally, or we're going to give him legal status. It was never an issue of that, it was always an issue of. At what point is he going to be deported? And so. The Stupidity of the left on this, the fact that they've tripled and quadrupled down on it is truly stunning to me.

It's really stunning that they keep hammering this. I don't know. I wanted to talk real quick. about this issue. With the, let me pull this up because this was another, this is one of these stories that I saw.

running around. Floating around the internet. The issue of Christine Ohm and her bag being stolen. Can someone tell me how in the world a DHS secretary with Secret Service protection can have her bag stolen? I mean, I'm not trying to be a mean person.

I want to know how that happens. She had a purse with three thousand dollars in cash. Uh she also apparently had her passport. and I think some blank checks. Her driver's license, her passport, her DHS bag, medicine, checks, her apartment keys, makeup, according to the New York Post, which confirmed the contents of the bag.

There was a guy in a surgical mask who stole her bag before he left the restaurant. And I'm just curious how that happened because she has Secret Service protection.

So, how do you steal somebody's bag? If they have Secret Service detail. Also, can I just say, how do you get your bags stolen? I'm not, I'm not, I just, I've always got an eye on stuff. I always either wear stuff or I just never leave anything.

But I I really want to know with the Secret Service protection how that happened. Is this another question from Secret Service? I'm just curious. The New York Post reached out to them for comment, and they haven't heard anything yet. I don't like that someone could get that close.

I mean, I've got my issues with how she does some of her stuff. I mean, she can do her glamour shots and her, as we talked about weeks ago, her, you know, extensions and all. As long as you're deporting people, I'm fine. But. How was how was somebody able to get that close.

That's my question. Is this something that we need to be concerned about? Apparently, the Secret Service did review security footage, and that's how they saw that guy on camera do that, go and sneak in, get right next to her and take her stuff. But How was that able to happen? Because Secret Service, if you're ever around any of these.

You know, if you're ever around any of these. People that are in these high-appointed positions, anybody, particularly in the president's cabinet. Um one of the things that you you know immediately is that No. There's always a bubble around them. There's a security bubble.

That's enforced around them. It's not like you can just go up to their table. It's not like you can do any of that stuff.

So I've got questions. I've got a lot of questions about this. I don't even know how this. I just, I don't know how that happens. And I get concerned because.

Hi, what did we deal with last year at this time, Kane?

Well, not this time, but what did we deal with last year? Last year? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Somebody tried to kill POTUS. And there were a lot of questions about Secret Service. Yes. Yeah. I've so that's why I have a lot of questions about this.

Good question. I'm just a little nervous. I get a little antsy.

So I just would really rather I would like for some answers from Secret Service to how something like this could happen. Uh, you know, I for sure. A couple of other things to discuss. The uh on Friday Actually, it was on Thursday, uh the issue Thursday, which we had the it was the horrible shooting that took place at FSU. And as per usual, you immediately had FSU is a gun-free zone, if people are unfamiliar.

FSU is a gun-free zone. Uh there I had a friend who had a family member who was there, and uh my friend, their um nephew, who who is uh you know a practiced shooter. I think he said he did it competitively for a while. He's not able to have a firearm on campus.

Now, you know, keep in mind, he could have very well easily defended himself, defended others, but he was not allowed to have a firearm on campus. And my friend was livid. Lived. That is His nephew was on campus and not able to defend themselves when this happened.

Now As more started to come out about This individual who carried out this shooting. I mean, there's And if I I always get, I don't like to say these people's names. I don't like to do anything like that because there definitely is a copycat syndrome. We've already talked about this before. Um I don't know if he was if he was Anti-Trump or not.

I think they they j just he didn't he just didn't like protests because they immediately one of the things that the left tried to do is figure out well, what are his politics so we can we can assign that to whatever side and use it as a cudgel. And This, you know, you had these uh five wounded, I think, two fatalities. That happened, and Lorraine has a write-up about this over at Substack. She did a really good job covering this. I was a 20-year-old student.

And the son of a member of the sheriff's office, the Leon County Sheriff's Office. He was a participant in the Sheriff's Youth Advisory Council. He had some firearms training as well. Um it doesn't seem that he shot at police, but he was not. following apparently the verbal commands.

And he they took him into custody and apparently to the hospital. Uh the The classes were all canceled for the remainder of the week, but two fatalities and five wounded.

Now, the people who were, the fatalities were not students, I think they may have been faculty. But He, um The left was seizing on this quote. From a college paper, wherein they said, Oh, he just doesn't like the anti-Trump protests and they the left tried to make it Out to be like he's a pro-Trump. I think he just didn't like all the protests because I think he just thought they were disruptive. I don't care.

Why are we sitting here instead of asking how was this individual? What was his motivation, and how was this individual able to do what he did? Why are we not asking those questions? Why are we trying to figure out, oh my gosh, how can we use this against the right? I mean, with the left, I'm used to it because most of these mass killers are people on the left.

But with this, I mean, he had a five, he had a firearm. He had a handgun. That's, I mean, already, if he's 20 years old with a handgun, uh, running around without a handgun, that's already, he's already a prohibited possessor by way of his age. And then by having it at FSU campus, well, then there's another violation.

So there's immediately two charges right there. Uh, you know, they might they might be able to say criminal trespass if they had the appropriate signage. I mean, it all depends. There's several things that go into this. Um, but of course, the left doesn't want to know anything about it.

They immediately just want to say that this had to do with, oh, it's because of the proliferation of firearms. How about bad parenting? Can we talk about that for a moment? Like, how are you a 20-year-old student? You're running around.

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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Alright, so uh we have Ah. I can't believe this is a headline, but it is. It sounds like a punk band name. A flaming.

Mm-hmm. Romantical accessory sparked a blaze, damaging three Staten Island homes, and a neighbor was busted for it accordingly. I don't even know, I don't even want to know how something like this happens. I mean, I understand if you leave like a curling iron on, you know. then you can have an issue, but this had to do with three Staten Island homes.

and they were damaged. An elderly woman told authorities that the blaze started when the guy tried to burn. Romantical accessories, in I don't know how to put it in his backyard. You can say sex toys. Why can't you say that?

Oh my gosh, because we've got some pure people out like Juan out there, and you know, we got to protect them at all. They said that the guy, his name is Harry Torres. He said that he was in his backyard of his house and he lit two of them on fire. And then it just kind of got out of hand and went from there. He said authorities initially called it suspicious.

It spread to two neighboring buildings that were extensively damaged. And they, so it was a three-alarm fire, they said. They said it necessitated being called a three-alarm fire. I can't even believe this is a thing. I don't know.

Let's see. Apparently, how somebody smells may dictate whether or not you're going to be friends. I guess that makes sense. They said that smells do matter, especially when you're forming bonds or relationships with people. I guess that makes sense.

Like if somebody's smelly or if they smell like patchouli or Tom's of Maine. I'm typically probably not. I mean, that's, you know, no offense, but just probably not gonna happen. We're not gonna be friends. Apparently, your midlife eating habits obviously can help you live longer and healthier.

Die, I can't believe this is a headline. You didn't need to do a study about this. A plant-rich diet with some fish and dairy might make the biggest difference, they say. But I thought dairy was bad. Is it good now?

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I think he's exactly where he should be. But you said that El Salvador would have to cooperate. You have no doubt that if President Trump wanted him returned, that he could... Ask President Bukeley to return him, right? I mean, President Bukeley.

I am not a question. I can't comment on something I don't know. I can't comment on it. What do you think? I mean, you know, you know, President Trump.

You've talked about how he can get things done. I mean, if he wanted the guy returned, he could get him returned, right? I do. I'm not going to comment on conversations I'm not a part of. I don't know what conversations are having, what conversation, who's having what conversation, what officials.

I'm not in the loop on that.

So that's Tom Homan, who is. Obviously, you know, working in immigration. He's addressing all of this. First off, welcome back. Daniel Lash with you.

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So the Tom Homan. And that uh for remind me, that was audio sound bite that we had just played. That was eleven.

So he's addressing. The conversations between Well, or rather, saying how he's not going to address the conversations that the president is having with the president of El Salvador.

Now, I'll say this too. The And Jonathan Turley remarked on this: this Supreme Court order that has to do with this Abrego Garcia. Because I quite didn't understand what the Supreme Court was talking with this decision when they basically made it to where the government has to be the facilitator of getting this guy. You know, back to the country to which he illegally entered. Audio Somebody 12, I'm not the only one.

This is Jonathan Turley expanding on that. Right, the Trump administration is adopting a pretty artificially narrow interpretation. They're saying that if they bring him to our doorstep, we have to open the door. The district court clearly disagrees and basically said, I feel unfacilitated.

Well, this is the problem with what the Supreme Court did. You can get a unanimous decision if no one can agree what you said. And they said you have to facilitate, but they didn't define what that means.

So, what is facilitate mean in that regard? Like, what is the United States, what do we have to do in order to fulfill the facilitation And they didn't, as he said, he didn't, it wasn't defined as to what that meant. And that was a question that I had when that order came out. And that's what the left keeps coming back to.

So Audio Symbite 14, Senator John Kennedy, he responded this way: listen.

Well, Chris is my friend, and I respect him. And he's certainly entitled his opinion, but in my judgment, He is utterly and gloriously wrong. I mean, most of his gauzy rhetoric. It's just rage bait. Unless you're next level obtuse, you know that Mr.

Garcia is never coming back to the United States, ever. And that's not because of President Trump. That's because of Mr. President Buchanan. Uh Yeah.

Well, and the president of El Salvador said, I'm not releasing him from prison. He's a known Gang member. And it just seems disrespectful for Democrats to try to argue this, by the way. And to think that they're just going to travel to El Salvador and have this conversation with him and to make demands. I mean, we have a number of other lawmakers going there to sit down and sip margaritas and all in the taxpayer expense.

I mean, you know, we're not taxed enough already. And and and after the The discoveries of the wasteful spending from USAID and elsewhere. Yeah, I don't think that taxpayers are really in the mood. Yeah. Uh spending money on this type of stuff.

But yeah, that's that's what That's what it is. That's what w that's what they're doing. And it's incredibly unfortunate to see these people do more. For those who broke the law and injured illegally, than not. This, I wanted to switch gears here and also bring up this story.

This is more of a culture story. New York Post had this story. I saw it on Friday when we were out. Home Alone 2 director wants Trump cut from the cameo. He doesn't hear from his cameo piece cut from the Home Alone 2.

And you remember Home Alone 2? There was where Macaulay Colkin was in. the uh hotel He was. I never watched Home Alone 2. Did you ever see a cane?

I never watched it. I couldn't tell you what it was about. I know I've seen it. It's been so long, though. It's been a long time.

Home Alone came out when I was a kid. Home Alone 2. I never saw it. I just didn't see it. But Trump was in it.

He has a cameo in it. And I d I'd how petty do you have to be? to start talking about taking this cameo out.

So he said, the guy who, the director, Chris Columbus, he wants it removed, but he says, well, He goes, if I if I cut it I could get deported. That's what he said. If he cut it, he's worried that Trump would deport him. if he cut his cameo. How Petty is this.

This guy's 66 years old. He did an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. And he said that. Trump's cameo has become a curse. Because he would love to Cut it out, but he goes, It's become an albatross for me.

I just wish it was gone. He says, I can't cut it. If I cut it, I'd probably be sent out of the country. And he said it'd be uh I'll be it I'll be considered sort of not fit to live in the United States, so I'll have to go back or something. He said he's from Italy, I'll have to go back to Italy.

Although he's well, he's has Italian heritage. He was born in Pennsylvania, so he's pulling a Hillary Baldwin with us. And it was the Plaza Hotel, which Trump owned at the time. Columbus said that Trump bullied his way into the movie, which I don't believe. Uh he said that that they Uh said that they spoke with him about filming in the plaza.

And they paid the fee, which you'd have to do with everybody.

So if you, when you, when people scout for locations, uh you if they choose a private property, they pay like uh basically they ch it's almost like the well, they pay an ungodly amount of money. You can make a lot of money by having a property uh that's used for filming, but He uh What Chris Columbus said was that, oh, well, you can use the plaza if I'm in the movie, is what Trump told him.

So he said, however, it happened, they agreed to put him in the movie. And then when they screened it, people liked it when they showed up.

So he told the editor, leave him in the movie. It's a moment for the audience, is what he said. And he made that decision then. And so. They now, he says it's an albatross, and he hates the fact that he's in it.

And then he's also said, oh, well, you know, he bullied his way into it. Trump says that Columbus begged him to appear in Home Alone 2. They they they That the film's director and others were begging him to be in it. And I How in the world, like if you're Chris Columbus, why do you think that this is a smart move to just start trying to pick this fight now? I guess this is like the only leverage that he thinks he has.

Why does he think this is the time to do it? It's just these people. being so petty and so obsessive and so insufferable. It's truly remarkable. I think it looks petty if he removes him.

Because it's become like, you know, this like cultural iconic scene. I think he looks. petty by removing him. And thinking that You know, I because then it looks bad, and then the director has projected. Uh his Garbage onto that.

I mean, he's tainted the movie then. If you do something like that, that's so lame. I and I don't think that anybody was complaining about it either. I never heard anybody complain about Trump being in this movie or having a cameo in it. Nobody complained about it.

Nobody said anything about it.

So Why now is he wants to yeah, it's an albatross around his neck, Kane. Steve says that Home Alone 2 is his all-time favorite Christmas movie. You've got to be kidding me. I mean, it's up there. I it it's the first Christmas movie as a kid I remember seeing, so I guess it just stuck with me longer.

I don't know. But Think about this. All he's doing is really making.

So, the movies that are out there on VHS and all that that have Trump in it. He's literally going to make Trump. more valuable Because those movies that were originally with Trump in them are going to be more valuable to people. Because if he's going to remove it from the movie, that's going to be something people will collect and keep. Which will then, of course, gain value.

So if he's wanting to give Trump more value, I guess this is the move. Yeah, that's the way to do it, for sure. That's the way to make it exactly like you said, way more valuable. That's how you do it. I it's just so lame to take this out.

But this is this like Mao. That's like cultural that's like the cultural revolution. That's very Mao esque. Oh, we got to take all these references out. We have to we have to go back and whitewash all of our stuff.

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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. I mean, I've heard of some people being desperate. To get attention, especially from the ladies. This Florida man is no different.

A Florida man shot himself and then lied. About having cancer, so he could get sympathy from the woman that he is accused of stalking. This guy, he uh I mean, this 30-year-old, he staged a shooting and a claim about having cancer so that he could gain sympathy from a female coworker who accused him of stalking her. This went for a year. It began back in March of last year.

And Cocoa Police, they responded to shots fired at a FedEx. This guy was, he liked staged all of this. And Then he then afterwards, uh, he pretended to have cancer.

So he could all because he wanted to get. uh sympathy from this woman. He was released in a $4,000 bond. I feel like... That's a little low.

It feels like that's a little bit low. A, let's see, this. Oh, I want to do this one, the outdoor. A man faces harsh consequences after he provoked an iguana for viral content. Yeah, I think that you should.

He, this individual, these people that do these videos, this was his, his video was supposed to be like, this is what living in Florida is like. And he grabbed this iguana. And that was standing, well, like kind of sitting next to his arm. And the animal, I mean, the iguana immediately bit him. And it he had a lot of damage.

He's like, Yeah, I'm gonna need stitches. You know that they actually like I mean, they're covered with salmonella, not all of them, but they you can get salmonella from You're always supposed to wash your hands. After handling iguanas, I had a friend in college that had two of like the biggest iguanas or something like that in the state and kept them in this like huge, they converted a room in their basement to housing these iguanas. But you always are supposed to wash your hands if you're handling them, et cetera. And this guy gets bitten by him because he thinks he's going to do it for viral content.

Not everything has to be viral content, you know. Not everything has to. I don't know why people are obs so obsessed with it's the the click culture. Uh let's see this. Mm.

This was a a local ten. An Audi driver going 155 miles per hour said, I know what I'm doing before he had a deadly crash on State Road 84. That doesn't sound good. This individual, he was told by the passenger to slow down as he drove. a hundred and fifty five miles per hour.

And then not just what, minutes later. He crashed into another vehicle and it ejected one of his passengers and killed them. That's horrible.

So he was arrested on six felony charges, including one count of vehicular homicide. And they said that he rear-ended a Honda Accord as he switched lanes, which caused his Audi to spin out, hit a curve, roll over. and then sadly eject a passenger who did not have his seatbelt on. Uh the people in the Honda were taking the hospital. That's just 155 miles per hour.

That's terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. Good heavens. Machete news. Today, machete news.

An ashtray, this is a headline: an ashtray theft. led to a machete fight. in Cooper City. A dispute over an ashtray. Turned violent.

I didn't even know Ashtrace still existed. I'm more. I think I'm more amazed at that than I am about the machete fight. A 42-year-old man broke into a townhome courtyard, fought the new homeowner who was armed with a machete, authorities confirmed. Broward sheriff's office deputies said the confrontation happened Tuesday of last week.

One of the men, identified as David Guevara, was, or Guevara, was standing in an enclosed patio of his townhome holding his ashtray. The victim opened the door, demanded the ashtray, told Guevara to leave, and then the victim walked back inside, sensed that Guevara was following him.

So then the homeowner had time to arm himself with a machete. Then he went back and confronted Guevara. And then Guevara rushed the victim. They tried to wrestle the machete away. They fell to the ground.

They fought.

Somebody did get cut in the face. I mean, it was just crazy. Guevara told the deputies that he took the ashtray because it looked nice. Was he going to steal it? Like, what in the world?

Over an ashtray. And also, everybody has machetes. Literally, everybody has a machete in Florida. One thing that we've. I mean, that's not a joke.

I think you have to. I think they give you one if you move there. I don't know. A Florida man stabbed a woman after she criticized his uncontrolled kids while in line at the supermarket butcher counter. Oh my gosh, this Florida man's going to spend a decade behind bars.

A woman criticized his kids at the supermarket, so he brutally stabbed her. Jamaicar Gale. Literally, as it sounds, he was convicted by a jury of his peers. He had a three-day trial.

So he got sentenced to 12 years in prison, one count of battery, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. The knife attack occurred at the butcher's counter in the Milan supermarket in Port Charlotte. And apparently, he was there with his kids. And I guess they, I don't know if they were loud or whatever, but this woman criticized them for their behavior. And they ended up arguing.

And then afterwards, you know, they people were pushing one another. And then, yeah, the next thing you know, he, I mean, somebody even grabbed a cast iron pan from a shelf in the store and like went back to the butcher counter because they thought they were going to swing it around and slap people with it. But then that's when the defendant, upon seeing the cast iron pan, grabbed a An eight-inch chef's knife from the shelf. And then they didn't pay for it first. They were stabbing without paying, they didn't pay for it.

After he stabbed the woman, the man fled to the parking lot, and the victim was severely wounded. Followed him, though, in an attempt to photograph the license plate on the vehicle. And so that's how. Yeah, when first responders arrived, the victim was in pretty dire straits, bleeding profusely from her abdomen and head, they noted.

So they absolutely did find the people who did it, took them into custody, and that's the conclusion of the trial. Third hour on the way, stick with us. What does living better mean to you? Is it more money, a bigger house?

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So Jamie, you're asking.

Well, you found that interesting, Kane, did you? Yeah. I mean, cu like when we come back in power. You know, this whole time they've been whining that Trump would be some, you know, uh vengeful type president.

So far he's followed the law to a T. But they have no problems going out there and future threatening other countries. Yeah, none none at all whatsoever. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you.

We're at the top of this third hour. Apologies for the interruption in the simulcast today. Your girl has sloth eye. I don't know how to put it. I feel like from the Goonies.

Major, like I have a scratch on my eye, and it's super red and super swollen, and it's not even the same size as my other one. And I'm having difficulty even seeing.

So we're like, maybe we don't do the simulcast today, even though I'm having a great hair day. It's like a baller hair day. But maybe we don't do that today.

So apologies for that, but it's not, I mean, I can't even see the camera anyway.

So it's not, it's, we're in that bad of a shape. It's like your nightmare scenario. You're getting ready to go on national television and you have a huge red eye and a scratch on it. And you got to go to the optometrist after, or the ophthalmologist after, after you finish your broadcast.

So yeah, it's a, so I appreciate your patience. That's for those asking, that's the explanation on that. There's no conspiracy. You know, it's not, you know, no conspiracy at all. Whatsoever.

All right.

So, because there are going to be those, some people are going to be like, she had plastic surgery. I've never had that, but still, no. Kane can attest. I have sloth eye, he can attest.

So Okay, the situation, so we got the Pope. Who passed away this morning? And everyone's saying right after J.D. Vance visited him. And I feel like the leftist, am I crazy in that the leftist trying to make this a thing?

What, that he visited the Pope and now the Pope's dead? Because I keep seeing it all over X, which I'm trying not to look at because it's just trash. It's everywhere. I've seen it. Like, is that a thing that we actually.

Is that we're entertaining a serious Are any of them suggesting anything specific that he could have done? Oh, like, uh, oh, he met the Pope, and now, look, the Pope is pass. I mean, that's kind of a new low for the left, I think. Is it? 'Cause I've seen worse.

Yeah. I I don't know.

Well, I have seen worse, but I I don't know. I just have a lot of questions about this. Why is that a thing?

So, the Pope's passed away.

Now they're going to have the conclave, it's going to come to life. And Sidebar, I think it's fascinating that they work in the Sistine Chapel for this.

So when they when they're selecting The new pope, They uh their they meet, they have their proceedings in the um Sistine Chapel. Isn't that interesting? I mean, how could you? I would have difficulty working and concentrating sitting in the Sistine Chapel. I got to be honest.

It's the Sistine Chapel. I mean, it's, you know, Michelangelo's amazing masterpiece is on the ceiling. And it's, I've been there. It's an amazing, beautiful room. And, you know, the artwork is, I mean, it's Michelangelo.

I mean, what else is there to say about it? But they gather there, and then they showed us where they put the, I guess after they have their votes, they put them in this little. This little furnace, and then they light it, and then they color the smoke depending on whether or not they have elected a new pope or whether there is a new pope that remains to be elected. It's all very fascinating. You know, the process, but how could you sit in the Sistine Chapel and work?

And listen to Old dude speak. You're in the Sistine Chapel. I mean, do you just are you there just so often that it's just commonplace, which I can't imagine either. that you just don't it doesn't even register anymore. I don't know.

I just I that's kind of interesting to me. But I do think that the Conspiracy theories that the left is pushing. Aren't the right the conspiracy theorists? How dare you? That's our job.

We're supposed to be the conspiracy theorists, according to the left, and now the left wants to be the conspiracy theorist. I don't know. But. It's going to be a very, there's a lot of debate amongst all of my Catholic friends as to who's going to be the next pope. And there's apparently some cardinal from Africa who they say is like a great candidate and would remove woke, but it's not going to happen.

He's not going to get the votes. I don't know. I just, I don't think I would want to run, I wouldn't want that job. 'Cause you have to deal with all the the all the other cardinals and it just seems like it gets caddy. You know, it gets caddy.

But I've noticed they've got a short list of some, but yeah, all my Catholic friends are debating. the the Pope issue. And who is it going to be, and who's going to get the votes, and who isn't going to get the votes? And it's very. I don't know.

It's very interesting, but I would not be able to work sitting in this Sistine Chapel because it's so beautiful. The other thing that we're also following is this Pentagon fight. A number, a former top Pentagon spokesperson told Politico that it's been a month of hell inside the agency. And apparently, There's another, I mean, the exclusive coming out of NPR.

Now it's NPR.

So take it for what it is. They're saying that the White House is looking to replace Hegseth as Sekdef.

Now I do know that there was another choice. That is true. I do know that there was another choice if it wasn't going to be Hegseth. There was another choice that POTUS had met with. played golf with.

in Florida. That's all I I can tell you that, for certain.

Now I think that the person that, well, I'll just say it. Trump was looking at DeSantis.

Now, I like Heg Seth. I mean, I think it's a different type of leadership. Because they think that you have, you can have executive, more, more, more administrative, and you can have more warrior class. I mean, it just all depends on what you think the. Uh it all depends on on what you think the need is.

but or how it needs to be run. But I mean, I don't dislike Hexeth. I do know. I mean, one of the things that I very well place sources, you know, DeSantis and Trump actually do get along, even if some of Trump's people hate DeSantis. I don't think that Trump listens to his people 24-7.

I know his chief of staff hates DeSantis, but I think Trump and DeSantis get along. And I think all of the primary stuff that they've had has been put to bed. But. I do know that. He was being considered for sec death, but I think that DeSantis.

From what I understand, wanted to stay on as Florida governor because there's so much that needs to be done still. And have you seen the state of things? We're resuming Red State rhino hunting tomorrow. If you've seen the state of things, and we've covered this before, the issue of. Really weak Republicans trying to undo a lot of these.

A lot of these initiatives that the DeSantis admin had implemented is that's incredibly concerning. I mean, they were vetoing. Cuts in, or they were trying to override the veto of basically getting more money from the taxpayers to pay for these special interest, their special interest pursuits.

So they've. They've been fighting with the administration, the DeSantis administration, because you have a handful of these rhinos that are trying to drag the state. Back to being more purple because then they could actually run as Democrats. You can't run as a Democrat in Florida. You got to run as a Republican.

But they could actually run as Democrats, technically.

So I think that that's kind of part of their push. I think he really wanted to stay and remain as governor. of Florida. But I like, like I said, I like Heg Seth as sec deaf. A lot of people have got it out for him.

And I think that's going to be true almost of anybody in that position. Because There's a lot of money tied up in War Inc. Think about some of these legacy contracts. There was a time I was at a dinner in Austin, Texas. Meeting with a couple of generals and futures command and all of that down there.

And one of the things that they were talking about was recruitment. And I brought up respectfully. That the recruitment comes from the way that the military is being operated and administered. And Abbygate definitely wasn't a great recruiting message after we saw that from the Biden administration. A lot of the leaks and the cat fighting that just doesn't really look so great.

And so. The the I think the more entrenched. I don't want to say bureaucrats, but for the lack of a better way to put it, the more entrenched bureaucrats that are there at DOD, I think they're going to give anybody a hard time because anybody that's appointed to that spot is going to technically be an outsider. They're not going to have been there within the Department of Defense, within the Pentagon, for all of these years, the way a lot of these individuals that really carry the weight of the influence have and are. And really, ultimately, anybody that's appointed is going to have a hard time.

I especially think it's doubly hard if it's a Republican appointee. For some reason, we have a whole ghost class. Within the system that is just stringently against any type of Republican. And I feel like that's going to also be an issue.

So, I don't, the idea that they're looking to replace him, the fact that NPR wrote this, so I don't, NPR doesn't really get the best scoops. I gotta be honest, they don't. They don't really get great scoops. I don't really put a lot of stock in this one. And even if.

I I Anybody, like I said, anybody's going to have a tough time in that position. There's not going to be anybody that finds an easy time of it because you're going up against this entrenched class. Class. It's just the way that it is.

So, you know, I'm not quite sure. I wanted to bring this one up, too. This is a culture story. This G. I.

James. has they called her a wannabe GI Jane is suing the Navy because her dream of becoming the first female seal has come crashing. to an end. The woman is forty two years old. Oh well, she'd be over the age limit of forty two.

So they said she will no longer quarrel. Qualify for Naval Officer Training Command in Newport, Rhode Island. because she would be over the age limit of forty two by the time she graduated. She's 41 now. She said she told the New York Post that the opportunity was taken away from her and she would like to be reinstated.

And she said that I want to be determined by merits instead of a technicality.

So she wants a special exception for her. She said she was working in litigation for 12 years and she got burnt out working for 24-7. And she thought the SEALs were a noble cause. And she says she's scuba certified and she's an avid long distance runner. And she said the special forces just, quote, kind of jibed with my physical pursuits.

Yes, because. You know, special forces, all it is is just some running and swimming. That's all it is, you know. She wrote of her quote Viking-like pursuit to be a seal. And she said that her grandfather served in the Norwegian ski patrol, and that her uncle was in World War II.

And her brother works in the FBI. She said she wants to be the first female Navy SEAL officer. And from the immediately she was having problems with it. She is rep.

So she's like going to, she's suing them for age discrimination against the USA Navy. Oh my God. This broadcast. is suing for age discrimination. Because the Navy has age restrictions for all men and women.

And she thinks that She told her she thinks that age waivers are obtainable and that she should get special. She doesn't want equality. She wants to be kid gloved. She wants special treatment. She wants a special exemption.

And I'm going to be honest, I don't think that she's not going to last in the seals. No. Are you kidding me? No. A 41-year-old woman who thinks that she's going to just make it through buds?

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So, the Associated Press says that the cause of Pope Francis' death was a cerebral stroke that led to a coma and irreversible heart failure for the Vatican. He apparently also had it decreed in his will that he be buried in the St. Mary Major Basilica in a simple underground tomb.

So, it was he was like having a lot of issues. He was like super sick when he met with the VP.

So, uh, that. I mean, goodness. And he was I saw that at one point he was in a wheelchair being wheeled around.

So he's been he's been struggling with it for quite some time. Also, moving on down the rest of these headlines here, the um. What is hatfish? I've heard of catfishing. Oh, hatfish.

It's when bald guys go on dating apps and they wear hats in their pictures. And then when you go to the date and they're not wearing a hat and they're bald and these women feel like they were hatfished. That's hysterical.

So this is like apparently a big enough of an issue that Huffington Post has written about it.

Well, ladies, it'd be like if you don't wear makeup or have extensions. Like, I mean, that's not your natural hair, and that's not your natural face.

So, I don't know.

Somebody's like. Then you go on a date and you find out that they're bald okay, then don't go on another date with them if that's not your jam. Right? I mean... Just just sane.

I don't know why that like has to be like this big long Uh I don't know why it has to be this big. Ordeal. China sent back a new Boeing jet made more expensive by tariffs. We're gonna ask Stephen Yates about this. The 737 MAX, which was meant for China's QMN Airlines, landed at Seattle's Boeing Field.

It was returned. They returned it because they said it was too expensive because of tariffs. That was just them being punks, don't you know? It was them being punks. Stephen Yates joins us next.

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Start today and get on the road. to better cardiovascular health support. Brighten up your timely news consumption with a Dana Show Podcast, where every update comes with a little dash of not so serious, on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, with you at the bottom of this third. Hour and joining us now.

Via the phone is our good friend Stephen Yates. You know him, Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation at Yates Comms. On X. And, Stephen, always a pleasure. I hope you have a blessed Easter, and we're so glad that you're able to join us at the top of this week.

I wanted to ask you about this headline. Because this sounds like the height of pettiness.

So China sent back a jet. They sent back this Boeing jet per, I think, Fox Business, The Guardian elsewhere, a 737 MAX that was intended. for a Chinese airline, and it was returned to Seattle on Saturday. Because they said, oh, well, now the tariffs are made it made it too expensive. This sounds like it's just a stunt.

What are your thoughts on this?

Well, Dana, first and foremost, Boeing is one of the largest companies in America that actually sells things into China. And China sells far more to the United States than the other way around.

So this is one of the very few points they think to pressure the U.S. system. And the old theory of the way the world used to work was they press on a big American company. Those executives come and lobby Congress and the administration. And in times past, that meant that the executive would cave and smooth things out with China and the sugar would flow.

At this point, pretty sure Boeing can sell that aircraft to Malaysia or somewhere else. And China's going to have a hard time filling their inventory by trying to shop elsewhere. And if they show that they're willing to do this to the United States, France via Airbus or wherever else can't be certain it won't happen to them too.

So really, this is just China driving their own brand down, in my view. That's a really great point because if they can do this, like just, you know, With a 737, I mean, of course they would do it to other countries that even You know, have lesser stature than that of the United States. Talking with our friend Stephen Yates at Yates Comes On X. They also, apparently, China's also like threatening.

Well, they say they're warning, but it sounds like a threat. They're threatening other nations about appeasing the United States as all these countries have been coming to the U.S., these nations' leaders, to negotiate new trade deals country by country. And China's warning nations against appeasing. The U.S. in these trade deals because it's not favorable for them, Stephen, if the U.S.

has made if they make all these 70-some-odd deals. Yeah, well, I mean, this is just part of a piece where they project onto us that we are putting politics in the way of the quote-unquote rules-based international order and free markets and all of that.

Well, they have grossly distorted markets by subsidies, stealing intellectual property, doing all kinds of manipulation. And of course, they go out to their neighbors and say, oh, well, we're not going to bully you the way the U.S. does.

So we'll make some sweet deals with you and we'll hide our trade deficit with the United States by laundering it through our neighbors. And that's basically what the Trump administration is the first ever to do, is to go to the neighbors and say, don't launder their trade deficit. Make a deal with us. We'll make it right with you and we'll rebalance these relationships. That's actually rational economics.

China, on the other hand, it's not based on economics they're going to these other countries. They're actually bullying them on sovereignty and on economics.

So in a way, it's another way. They're driving down their own brand. I just don't think they have the self-awareness. And it's going to take a while for countries to adjust to this new normal. But I think President Trump has hit a big reset button.

And it's only going to go in one direction. And these countries are going to have to figure out. They want to bandwagon with the United States or make deals with China. And they have a lot more to gain dealing with the United States. Yeah, very true.

And it was Giorgio Maloney who was in the United States just towards the end of last week before Easter weekend, apparently in town to negotiate a separate trade deal for Italy.

So a lot of countries are, it looks like they're following through with this and they're trying to have normalized trade relations. Is that because I know so much of that depends upon just cementing these 70 some-odd deals. Is that doable, especially with this short amount of time, in your opinion?

Well, it's doable if you have kind of the gradualistic view that I would, in that you want to get a big economy like Japan done first and soon. And the mood music that I'm hearing from the Japanese side and the American side suggests that that is possible. And if you end up with the momentum of a big economy like Japan, and then you get one or two others coming along, that really will have a bandwagoning effect in a lot of other places. And it basically makes clear this is really about rebalancing economics, trade, investment, and manufacturing. And if it has the added effect of being less dependent on China, too bad for China.

And a lot of Europe has been fed up with the over-solicitous approach of old Europe that's made them very dependent and very vulnerable. And so I think Maloney is on the front line of a new wave to rebalance what Europe's trying to do, but they got a long way to go. Yeah. Well, and to that point, one of the statements. That the Chinese had said is that, quote, China firmly opposes any party dealing, reaching a deal at the expense of China's interests.

So, what are China's interests that are being threatened by the United States just making a good trade deal with another nation? Basically, they're confessing that they can't compete on fair and transparent terms. And so it hurts their interests if we are trying to compete on fair and transparent terms with other people. It also is a basic admission that the World Trade Organization has failed world trade. And what it did was it adapted to become more like China and permissive of China, then normalize what China's behavior was and make it more consistent with supposed international rules and norms.

So we have to negotiate a post-World Trade Organization reordering of these patterns. And that's the huge reset button that President Trump has hit. People can question it. It's definitely risky and costly. I would argue it was necessary, and it's far better to go through this now than waiting for when missiles are flying across the Taiwan Strait or when China's caught helping the Houthis hit parts of the Middle East or they're caught doing other things that provoke a conflict.

We've got to reorder now before we're having to do it in a time of crisis.

Now, J.D. Vance, our Vice President Vance, is in India. with his family meeting apparently with the prime minister. And obviously it looks like a lot of people are banking on there maybe being a trade deal that comes from that meeting. But then going back to China, because they're, I mean, that's their top trading partner.

I mean, China is like, or well, like number one or two, first or second largest trading partner for India, China.

So with China threatening, what is that, is that going to impact Vance's meeting with the Prime Minister of India? Is that going to, is that enough to maybe potentially derail a sort of normalized trade agreement with them?

Well, there are risks for India, but they have gone very, very slowly for decades in trying to wake up and embrace engagement with the free world. They came out of a Fabian socialist background where they were the billion people that lived in a democracy, but they were a very socialistic democracy. And China lived under a communist party, but there were things that looked like markets to those who didn't want to scratch too deeply.

Now you've got another billion people who have discovered they can make iPhones. And finally, the woke leadership of Apple discovered the Indians can make iPhones too. And that, I think, is the giant sucking sound of manufacturing moving across a different southern border to another billion people. And so that, I think, is the great. Profit motive for India.

It also makes India a much more central player in global affairs. And I think that's consistent with what Modi is trying to do for the country.

So why not give that a spin for a while? We've already made the China bet and the returns are in. It was bad. Yeah. I want to switch gears here because you, for people who don't know, Stephen Yates also worked in two different presidential administrations.

So he's had a front row view of how all of that works and the relationships that these department heads have with their subordinates. I wanted to ask your thoughts real quick about SecDef Hegseth and this leak. Is this. I mean, I like Hegseth. I haven't seen a reason as to why I should oppose him in his position at Secretary of Defense, but.

I feel like, too, this stuff that's, why is nobody asking how in the world someone is leaking on the Secretary of Defense? Why are we having leaks coming from DOD of all places? That to me suggests that maybe there's an entrenchment there that has an issue with him being the Secretary of Defense to the point where it actually endangers national security. What are your thoughts on this?

Well, in terms of when it comes to the secretary, I'm very absolutist in my view. I think that presidents deserve the person that they want in those key positions, especially the national security team. And so if the president has confidence in Pete Hexeth, then that's the secretary we have when we ride for that brand, in my view.

Now, the people around him, it seems like we're caught in some leaking. It's the first time in my lifetime where there was actual enforcement of leaks right away. And the Pentagon is huge and full of leaks under normal circumstances. State Department is a close rival in that regard. And so, in some ways, I'm impressed with the speed and the enforcement.

But clearly, there was a personnel mix-up. The people that had been let go were people that were in the inner circle staff. And basically, their behavior now shows they. Shouldn't have been. But until I see something that sort of says that the Hexeth is doing something the president doesn't want, the Hexeth is taking policy in a direction that increases risks for the United States, I'm not going to listen to the whiners who try to talk about signal chats.

Signal chats are not going to save the world or undermine our enemies. And I'd love for that distraction to go away, but I'm not going to feed it. I like the doing and lets the talking sort itself out. But that might just be me, but I think we just have too much at stake to get caught up with the chatter bugs that are infesting Washington, D.C. Yeah, agreed.

Agreed. Very much so. Stephen Yates at YatesComs on X. Always so good to have you, my friend. I hope you had a wonderful Easter.

Have a great rest of your week as well. We so appreciate your time. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Dana. Take good care.

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There's a pizza chain in St. Louis called Emo's Pizza. It's awesome. Don't say anything against it. What is your beef?

Sterling bread. Tell me. No, you know that I don't like it. I do know that you don't like it. It's a thin crust pizza.

Is that your issue in and of itself? The crust is the least of the problems. Come on, give it to me. This is something that I had an argument with John Hamm about this. Anyone from St.

Louis is so defensive of this pizza place. It's delicious. And I will tell you, I was excited to try it. In fact, I ordered it. for my wife for Valentine's Day when we were first dating.

I had it come out and I was excited to try it because she says, oh, this is Emo's pizza. It's the best pizza. And we tried it and I was my first thought was, did I leave the plastic on it when I put it in the oven? And that is not a joke. I believe you.

You have to let it cool a little bit.

Okay. I think you probably had it too because sometimes the cheese will be running. If you let it cool for about two minutes, you would have a completely different culinary experience. Really? Yes.

I got your back. That's what you're doing next time. I just saw this over the weekend. It was a couple of months ago, but Sterling Brown, who's an actor from St. Louis.

and uh Jimmy Kimmel, who I'm not a fan of anyway. Uh they were talking about Emo's Pizza. Emo's Pizza, if you are a St. Louisan, is the pizza. I actually have some Emos in my freezer as I speak right now.

In fact, I'm going to have some. after the pro after the show. I'm gonna have some as a way to like make up for having a swollen wonk eye uh for the entirety of the broadcast, like a weeping red eye. Oh, horrible. Uh but um they were they were debating over Emos.

And it is true. If you're from St. Louis, Kenny, you can attest. Its emos is a is a it's a St. Louis thing, but it's also delicious and better than any of the other pizzas there.

It is delicious. It's better than any of the other pizzas there, also. I mean, it's delicious. As of St. Louis, then don't make me do this.

I'm just saying, it's delicious. But I don't think it is the best. It's so much better. Oh my gosh, it is. Then something's wrong with your tongue.

I'm sorry. There are St. Louis families that have been there for years, I mean, decades, that have been making some really amazing pizza. Good for them. And.

It's that Provel, man. Yeah. Okay, how do you explain Provel cheese to people who have no idea what it is? It's a cheese that you only get in St. Louis because of emos.

They blend a bunch of cheeses together to make this cheese, and some people hate it. You can get it roped. At one of the grocery stores, like a roped cheese. You can get it there. I don't know how to describe it.

How would you? It's like it's not cheddary, but it has like a it's got the smoothness of mozzarella, but it has a tiny bit of um. Not a cheddary tang, but it's got a little bit. It's got a little bit of some flave. It's a white processed cheese.

So it's a combination of cheddar. Cheddar, Swiss, Provolone, and Liquid Smoke. Oh. and it has a low melting point. And And they've used it for St.

Louis style pizza. It's also in like a Gerber sandwich. Do they have those anywhere else? Yeah. Okay, so you can do a Gerber.

I mean, it's it's I think people don't. I mean, it's just a nice, it's a nice melty cheese. I don't know. It's a great cheese for pizza.

So I have nothing against the cheese at all. But there's trademark it in 47. There's so much great pizza. Out there. But why did people got a hate on emos?

It's a thin crust pizza. I dip mine in ranch. I've never eat it unless I mean I will, but I'm older than you, and I have never put it. The fresh emot in St. Louis is unmatched.

It is a I mean, you can get the frozen and it's still good, but a fresh one is unmatched. I mean, after school, we would either go to like Burger King or Emo's. Dude, the pepperoni bacon used to be my favorite. Dude, it's so good.

So they were having a big oat. And of course, you know. Jimmy Kimmel being a, you know, doucher, he hates. Emos pizza because he hates everything good in life is why.

So good on Sterling Brown for like sticking up. Apparently, John Ham, John Ham's from St. Louis, he's apparently a big Emos fan too. This is not a commercial for emos. They do not advertise.

I just like the pizza and I get very protective of it. When I hear people run it down, you know, I'm like, how dare you mess with my little brother like that? It's like something like that. I don't know. I've even ordered emos through Gold Belly.

That's how I do it. To have it here down in Texas. You can get the make-your-own kits, but it's not the same. No, it isn't. Everybody knows it's not the same.

All right, today in Stupidity Camp. All right, Juan, this is cut 25. This is an LGBTQIA plus teacher saying that now most of her students somehow are transgender. Listen to this. Thank you so much.

So, I am here as the co-chair of the Trans and Non-Binary Network of the NEU. I'm here as a teacher. I'm here as an activist. But I want to speak to you as As a teacher, I teach in an alternative provision where most of our students are trans and non-binary. That seems like a lot of mental illness to me.

That's a lot of mental illness to be bragging about. Yep, that's, I agree with that. Yeah, I totally agree. Uh that does it for us. for today.

And again, we'll be back with the simulcast tomorrow, hopefully without Super swollen eyes.

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