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Starting early. Two Next month. May um my time allocation. to doors will drop significantly. Um I'll have to continue during the call.

I think we'll probably get the remainder of the President's term. Just make sure that the waste and fraud that we Stop does not come roaring back. Uh which we'll do if if it has the chance. Um so So I think I'll continue to spend Yeah, a day or two per week. Yeah.

Um Government matters. for as long as the President would like me to do so. and as long as it is useful. Uh but starting next month um i'll be allocating Um Far a lot of my time to Tesla. And Uh now that the the major work of establishing the Department of Government Efficiency has done.

That was the plan all along, I have to say. That was... That was and we've talked about this before, but This sound bite, I was actually thinking about this when I was making the Rundown. Uh for the program today. And Whenever he talks about stepping back, and I think it's smart that he reminds people.

And Keeps it out there that this was the plan for Doge all along. That I was going to stay on to make sure that it was up and that it was running and then that everything was going to be okay. And then I was always going to step back. And I think it's important for him to remind. people of this because It i well as you can see the the i mean tesla stock started Started bouncing back up into the stratosphere.

They started performing well. And It also I think really robs the narrative of the left. Where they they are they for so long have been trying to say that there's this wide chasm between POTUS and himself and that Tried to undermine everything that they've been doing with Doge, et cetera, et cetera. That Oh, well, Trump is going to fire him. They don't get along.

You remember all of the stories that they have. Shared, right? That the media has put out all of these. All of these stories, well. It's all designed.

They wanted to put a wedge between them. And I think him going out there and talking to the press about that. Uh has kind of just sort of killed that and it's cribbed and I mean it it obviously they get along well. And this was always ever the plan. But the way that the left looks at it, they try to act like, oh, well, this is us.

We scored this victory. Look, he's stepping down. And that's not. even remotely accurate at all. Welcome to the show.

Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this first hour. And many things to cover, including some of the latest with tariffs. Because now we've got some We've got a little bit of movement. We're going to hopefully have some updates about some of these other deals that have been made.

and jump all into we're gonna jump all into that but To this point. I mean, this was always ever about finding waste, finding fraud and abuse. I mean, that job has a shelf life. You know, that's not a job that's going to last for forever. It has a.

It has a shelf life. And so we always knew it was going to be this way. And I mean, it's like I said, I think it's smart. Speaking of trade, audio stun by one. This was POTUS talking about China.

Listen to this. Mr. President, you said you're ultimately going to make a deal with China, but where do things stand right now? Have you talked about my relationship with President Xi is great? It's been great for a long time.

We've had a very good relationship, and I think we'll make a deal with China. If we don't make a deal, we'll set it. We'll just set the number and, you know, I think they'll want to be a part of the United States. We're doing great. This is the golden age, as Paul said.

We're talking about the golden age. There will never be a time like this, in my opinion. And uh China wants to be a part of that too. I think this is him giving them a bone. Throwing, not, I think that he's just saying, look, we can make a deal with China, this is something that can happen.

I think he's kind of throwing them a bone a little bit, don't you? That's what it seems like with us. That he's He's saying because right now it's a tariff off and China can't win it. for the people who say that China could win or that the administration somehow is blinking. I don't think that they are because they haven't moved.

If they were blinking, they would have, he would cancel the tariffs and he's not doing that. Uh but You do have to have, as I said, all of these other nations come to the table. in order to be able to have a success to have success on this. Otherwise, I'm telling you. One of the other things that we're going to talk about coming up at the bottom of the hour is this plan.

that he has Where He I think he's floating it. If you follow me on Twitter, I have a piece coming out about it later today on Substack. If you follow me on Twitter, you've seen me. discuss all of this. But The The plan was to pay people to have Kids.

Did you see this, Kane? I did. Oh, you said that very unenthusiastically. Yeah, I'm not a fan of these kind of plans. We already have like these tax incentives.

We have welfare. Yeah. Which I'm not sustaining. Saying talking in favor of welfare, but we have welfare. There must be a lot of nuance in this idea.

Yeah. Well, so this plan that he came out with, and I like I said, I mentioned it a little bit yesterday on Uh So on on X. That He wants to pay people like it's like $5,000. To Uh have kids. Mm-mm.

And it's modeled after what Hungary did. And I want to point out, and like I said, I'm going to dive into this deeper. coming up. But I want to preface it. This is the one thing that I have seen.

That from the administration that I've never hated a policy more than I hate this policy. I can't. But it's a proposal. They're brainstorming. I can play a devil's advocate.

I mean, think about this. Oh, you can try. Think about this: the left does not value life at all. They don't value. The unborn.

What does it have to do with wealth redistribution?

Now that you've put a $5,000 price tag on such a thing. it now has value on the left, at least $5,000. Yeah, I don't think so. I look at it as it's a wealth redistribution scheme. That is totally what I was just playing the Well, we're going to talk more about it here coming up as soon as I can get this.

And. By the way. We'll have headlines in that again because everybody was like, okay, I could see your eye was small. It's yes, I scratched my eye. We're rolling with it.

Bear with me. I have Fox later today, too, and I've never really worn glasses on Fox, so that'll be interesting. But I appreciate all your kind words. Yes, it's eye scratch still. It's the iScratch edition.

So we're going to talk about that because I I want to give it There's like three huge points that I want to hit in that topic, and I feel like it needs a larger segment for us to do that.

So that's what, you know, just FYI, just to make you all aware. But. That's what we're gonna be jumping into. All right, the next other thing, and I'm going through all my audio here. Uh On the trade deal with China, coming to this, Audio Sunbite 3.

This is the press secretary just yesterday. Listen. I asked the President about this before coming out here, and he wanted me to share with all of you that we're doing very well in respect to a potential trade deal with China. As I mentioned, there have now been 18 proposals in more than 100 countries around the world who are wanting to make a deal with the United States of America, and the President and the administration are setting the stage for a deal with China.

So we feel everyone involved wants to see a trade deal happen, and the ball is moving in the right direction.

So That's It's good. We'll see how this pans out. We have to get these other deals made, though. It's incredibly important that we get all of this, that this happens. And I have some information we're going to be pulling up, and dealing with a technical glitch here, that we're going to be pulling up that gets into some of this because there was an editorial that ran yesterday in the Wall Street Journal that was talking about.

The all of the 70-some odd nations that desperately have to, we're going to have to have these trade deals with these. These nations coming in, sitting down, having these individualized trade deals that are more advantageous to the United States, put us in a more advantageous position, all well and good, and all a threat to China's national security as well. Because China wants to dominate, obviously. They can't do that if we have great relations with all of these other nations. It's just not how they would like to.

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I'm Greg Corumbus, inviting you to join Jim Garrity of National Review and me each weekday for the Three Martini Lunch podcast. We'll give you the good, bad, and crazy news of the day and hopefully a lot of laughs too. Follow the 3Martini Lunch on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five. Oh boy, here come the economic headlines.

But you knew this was gonna happen. This was something that was gonna happen. Nearly half of Americans, though, have given up on saving money. 67% feel that they are behind on their savings goals. Nearly half don't believe that they're ever gonna reach their targets.

63% of people with savings accounts have withdrawn money since the beginning of 2025 for unexpected expenses. That's the top one, that's 48%. Everyday necessities. Younger generations are more satisfied with their banks, but yet they're more willing to switch. Which is interesting.

That is a very, your bank is like a very, that's a very personal thing. More and more people, there's a big old flashing war.

Now, this is true. You can still think that this is the best way to go with things in terms of. securing long-term economic stability that you can still think That's the way to go. But the reality right now. Longer hair, hair nails at home, fewer facials.

The economic warning signs are flashing at the salon. Salon owners say that they are seeing a huge shift in their clients' spending and they think it's what is ahead for a wider economy. I've heard this. I have a friend who is a stylist and I have heard this, that people not only are also changing what they're buying.

So instead of buying like maybe the more expensive moisturizer, men are like, what? You mean you just don't, you know, whop off the water off your face and call it a day? No, I know. But like, instead of the expensive moisturizer and things like that, they're actually, they're buying like the cheaper stuff. And we're seeing it with hair.

We're also seeing it with other services like women get, I think women get their nails done for women. Because men don't care, do you, men? Unless they're really long and they look, you know, like, you know, like ridiculous. I don't think that they care. Women get it, women get it for women, but they're also seeing that as well.

They said that they're taking longer between their visits. Pre-bookings are down. This is something that's very, I'm just saying, we knew it was coming though. The FDA has suspended milk quality tests. Amid workforce cuts, but they're gonna be mad over unpasteurized milk.

health food stores that operate like a Sam's, really. Food and Drug Administration suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products, they say, that's the reduced capacity is because of, well, they said that they're running low on people. And it's in their food safety and nutrition division. It was an internal email that Reuters saw and they said there was a termination of 20. I don't think you need a million employees to do this.

I'm sorry. You don't need like 30,000 employees at the Department of Health and Human Services to do all this. They're trying to say, Trump is, oh my gosh, can you believe it? Trump is going to kill us all with poisoned milk. Is this the same entity that gave us red die 40?

Yeah, it is the exact same. You know what? It's so funny that you mentioned that. Yes. Just making sure.

and all of the other fun colors. What you know, if they're that's it's true. They also say cigarettes are safe. Yeah. Just FYI.

So they said that, oh, here's the kicker. Here's what Reuter says. By the way, guys, the suspension is another disruption to the nation's food safety programs. Matt. Because of Trump's effort to shrink the federal workforce.

Matt, mat. Oh my gosh, yeah. Oh, so bad. You know what? I just think that if you if you still have thousands and thousands of employees and you can't do this stuff anyway.

Something's wrong with how you're structured. Gotta say it. The top producer at 60 Minutes quits saying that he lost independence. Is anybody at all surprised about any of this? No, no one's surprised.

They said that they're facing a lot of pressure and their corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS. They've entered what they call a period of turmoil. Bill Owens, who is the executive producer of 60 Minutes, said that he's going to resign from this long-running program because he's lost his journalistic independence. Like nobody, we never believe that you had it anyway. Stop.

Uh and he said that uh they face mounting pressure uh from both the president who sued for 10 billion and include and uh then also its own corporate ownership at Paramount. I think it has more to do with Paramount than it has to do with Trump, and they're just But his independence cost him money. Let's be real. For real. No one believes that they're independent over there.

Come on. It's 16 minutes. It's CBS. Nobody believes this. Oh, there's going to be a cosmic smiley face in the sky in Arizona.

What if it's frowning? Is that bad luck? Is that bad? The crescent moon is going to align with Venus and Saturn, excuse me, to form an emoji-like grin. It's actually a sweet little smile.

It was visible over Bangkok a couple of years ago.

Now it's going to be visible over Arizona. They'll be able to see it on Friday morning. And it it's gonna be like a kind of a Like a lopsided moon and two stars, and it's supposed to look like a smiley face. Don't think that it means It means God is pleased with you. He's watching you right now.

He saw what you did. No. Still loud. But they can, you can go and it'll be in there. But I guess like only in certain parts, obviously, of the United States, you're going to be able to see it in Arizona and maybe New Mexico.

Let's see. Oh, yeah. And 60 Minutes is going for sale too. This also, let's see, 31.

So here's a poll. I saw this, and I had a couple of people send this to me, a couple of people who were terrif angry. They're saying Americans are souring on the handling of the economy. And 37% approved.

Now hold up, hold up. They were talking about. specifically. The way that they posed the question to these respondents was about the Golden Age of America, including tariffs or not. And having that be a long term, like an established part, and people did not approve of that.

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So why should Americans who didn't go to college or went to college and responsibly paid back their loans pay for the student loans of other Americans? The Trump administration will never force taxpayers to pay student loan debts that don't belong to them. Student loan borrowers need clarity, and we're finally giving it to them. Borrowers will now be clearly expected to repay their loans, and those who default on their loan obligations will face involuntary collections. The government can and will collect defaulted federal student loan debt by withholding money from borrowers' tax refunds, federal pensions, and even their wages.

America is $36 trillion in debt. We must get our fiscal house in order and restore common sense to our country. If you take out a loan, you have to pay it back. It's very Well, yeah, that's fair. I mean, you can have the left say whatever you want, but it's insane to have.

Taxpayers pay for these things that We didn't sign up for. I mean, I don't know if the left has realized that everybody's broke. You know, we went through hell with Joe Biden. Everybody's still trying to get over it. I mean for the love, it's I mean, I can't think of anything More tone deaf than these people expecting everybody else to pay for their college education.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash, with you, are at the bottom of this second hour. And All of this Is so, oh gosh, it's so frustrating. It's, I, I, I paid everybody that I know, I had scholarships and then We paid what was left. I can't imagine.

Because we when we looked at the data, it was like people that are going into grad school and you know, people that they try to act like, you know, they're picking up street urchins and sending them to college and that's that's not what's happening. It it it's it's so disingenuous. You I don't make people pay for my car or my house. I don't make people pay for anything that I agree to pay or that I anything that I purchase.

So why is this any different? It's educational aristocracy. There's no other way to put it.

So, one of the other things that came out yesterday, and I'm glad that the administration really shut this down. It was a hard. No. On This welfare scheme because it is. Free education is kind of a form, I think it's a form of welfare, right?

Yeah, it's a form of welfare. And it well I'm glad that they shut it down.

Now, I need them to shut some of these other proposals down. I'm pulling up my tweet. that I had yesterday because I saw this come out yesterday. And I thought, oh Hmm. This doesn't seem like this is maybe the best the best way to go about this.

So, POTUS, let me pull this up. POTUS had tweeted, well, not tweeted. He was mauling over, and I've heard this before with people in a circle. And now, like I said, I I think that the deregulation is good. I shouldn't have to sit around here and lay out all the things that I like so I can say one thing that I disagree with.

I mean, we're all adults here, right? We can all handle it.

So this is speculation and it might just be The team brainstorming. And then you know, kind of testing the waters a little bit. By suggesting that they're going to have this. New York Post says Trump mulls $5,000 baby bonus for moms in bid to reverse declining birth rates.

Well, we have that. We have that right now. It's called welfare. We You don't need to give people money. to spur breeding.

If you reduce the tax burden. If you reduce government spending, If you Deregulate. You're You're gonna see this happen organically. to where you're not going to have to. Give people five thousand dollars.

Now, they were saying. This $5,000. Selection. or this this choice for this. They were saying that this is, you know, it's It's five thousand dollars for people considering starting, you know, people who are going to start a family, and it's to help, I guess, with like first year, you know, whatever.

And some of the responses that I saw to this were. Oh, that's great. I guess you just don't want to end childhood poverty by giving somebody $5,000. And I'm like, what? Where do you come from that you think $5,000 is going to end childhood poverty?

Like, it's $5,000. It might seem like over the span of it's not as much as what this will cost. Let's put it like that.

Now Again, they're just... I get it that they're just kind of like brainstorming, but I don't want this to take root. Because it is, it's welfare. We have welfare. We've had welfare for years.

Kane, how well has welfare worked out? Yeah, seems uh like it's gotten bigger. Which is a problem. Because there is no point in time until we actually do the policies that he's talking about, which is allowing these businesses to compete, lowering prices, more jobs. People are less reliant.

Until that happens, we're not going to see a decrease in those sucking from the teat of government as opposed to contributing to the teat. Yeah, I guess. Contributing to the teat. Look, we created an extra teat. Look at that.

It's great. Why do the people think that $5,000? Oh my gosh, it's ending childhood poverty. What? $5,000 to have a baby?

I'm set for life. $5,000, I never have to work again. I got $5,000 whole dollars. What? Let's go to the casino.

5,000. Yeah. Seriously? It's wealth redistribution. Here's where I'm going to get real mean.

This is absolute wealth redistribution. I don't know who presented this idea to him, but they're a communist and should be jettisoned from the jettisoned from his privy council.

So Why do I say it's welfare d redistribution?

Well, because it is. You guys know how much everybody pays in taxes?

So, this is just the latest available data from the IRS. The latest available collected data as of yesterday was from 2022. The top one percent. pay $561,523 annually. The average for all taxpayers now hold up.

Because it gets real crazy here. The average for all taxpayers is 13,000. eight hundred and ninety. The bottom 50% of all taxpayers. The bottom 50%.

Yeah. Pay an average of $822. What? Why do I say this is wealth redistribution? Why are we talking about giving money to people who did not even pay that much into the system?

You're taking other people's tax dollars that they earned and you're giving it to them. This literally. is indistinguishable. from anything Barack Obama has ever proposed. That's what it is.

It's true. You either believe in big government or you don't. There is no gray area. We're not going to do a little in. Just like there's no a little pregnant.

Right? Or someone might be a little bit of a dude. No, you either have a weeness or you don't. You either are pregnant or you're not. There's no little bit of anything in this, it's black and white.

Fifty percent of Americans. On average, $822.

So where's the Where's the other 4,000 coming from? Because it's not them. You're giving people's money away that they didn't earn. Can I share with you a story? I'm not caffeinated enough today.

Let me share with this story this is one of my favorite stories. Ever. And it has to do with Davey Crockett, not Jasmine Crockett, heaven forbid. I don't wanna give anybody mm not Jasmine Crockett. And this, there's a book that's written about him, and it's a great book.

It's called The Life of Colonel Davy Crockett. And it came out like in l a long time ago and I think they redid it again in the seventies. David Crockett. In this, and this, some say it's lore, some say it's a true story. Edward Ellis, the guy who wrote it, says it was a true story.

In the house. And Davy Crockett was a was in the House of Representatives. One day in the House of Representatives, they had a bill that was taken up. And it was A proposal to appropriate money For the benefit. of a widow of a distinguished Naval officer, right?

All these people were coming up and they were making these grandiose speeches. And the Speaker of the House was getting ready to put the question when Davy Crockett. arose. and said that he has as much as respected he as he has for the memory of the deceased. And as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living.

If the suffering there be, he says we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to balance. To the balance of the living. He says, I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. He says we have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity, but members of Congress have no right to appropriate a dollar of public money.

Some eloquent appeals have been made to us on the ground that a debt is owed to the deceased, and they said, Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war. He was in office. to the day of his death, and I've never heard that the Government was in debt to him. And he says, every man in this house knows it's not a debt.

We cannot, with the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as a payment of a debt. We have not this semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity, Mr. Speaker.

Now we can give as much of our own money as we please. And he says I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill. but I will give one week's pay to the object. And if every member of Congress will do the same.

it will amount to more. Then the Bill asks Davy Crockett took his seat. Nobody said a word. The bill was put to passage. And instead of passing unanimously as it was supposed to, And it would have without his speech.

It only got a couple of votes and lost. Crockett was asked why he did this. And he said that he was thinking about the. the s the election or he was thinking about the w the summer before the election. And uh he said that we uh They were on the Capitol with some members of Congress and they saw a fire over in Georgetown and they ran over there and were helping people.

And then they appropriated all this money and they were sending it over there. And then while he was out, One day he says He was taking papers from Washington and going to the backwoods of his home. and he was on the way to his house when he passed a farmer in his field. And they had words. The farmer did not appreciate.

What David Crockett has done. David Crockett was telling him, he's like, can I get your vote for the next election? The farmer said, no, I can't vote for you. I can't vote for you because of what you did. And he was talking about the act of appropriating all this money in Congress and handing it out to people as really charity.

And he said, he made the point that Crockett noted in his speech that if some of these people in the halls of Congress would deprive themselves of but one week, You would have more than enough to be able to cover Charitable requests without taking it from the taxpayer, he says, because you see, it's not yours to give. And you really made him think. Davy Crockett apologized to him. And he said that. I will never promise him I'm never going to vote for anything like that again.

And he appreciated the farmer. He was humble. Davy Crockett was humble. and he appreciated the farmer correcting him on this. And he said, if I can have your vote.

You know, I'll I'll I won't make a liar out of you. And Then, some months later, this was the speech he gave on the floor of the House. That still is true here. It is not yours to give. It's a Welfare scheme.

People always cite hungry.

Well, Hungary, their birthright fell. They did this exact same thing in Hungary, where they paid people to have kids. The birth rate fluctuated and it went up a tenth of a point. And then it fell. from 1.55 to 1.38.

While they were doing all of this, in every country this has ever been implemented, it has never solved the problem. If Republicans want to kill the Republican Party. They'll do this. No good person. Of good moral heart or character should ever support something like this because, as Davy Crockett said, it's not yours to give.

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We don't articulate as black women our pain because it's almost like nobody ever gave us permission. to do that. And does anyone care? Yeah, there's that. If we knew, I think we would care.

If we knew, if we knew. Or, you know, yeah, and we have to ask ourselves, the men in our lives, is. Uh You know, why wait to be asked? Um, you know, it seems like what we go through is pretty obvious. I mean, maybe we're not complaining, but we're actually living life.

Nothing annoys me more than loud, outspoken women talking about how much they're not heard. That's like me going, No one hears me. Oh my gosh, I'm so oppressed. I'm so oppressed, Kane. No one hears me.

I've never been given permission. I don't think I've ever known you to hold back feelings ever. Oh, I'm gonna be.

Okay, sidebar from this.

So My goal in life?

Now, bear with me. It's going to sound weird, but I'm going to bring the tugboat around. It's to be an old woman.

Now, here's why. Old women. Have A full pass for everything. I am just going to be weird and wild. Like we're er Uh Uh And you can't see me because I'll be old, right?

It's like, think about it. Whenever Nana does something crazy, I'll go, oh, it's Nana. See? Like Granny from the Hillbellies? You get a Nana Pass.

Beverly Hillbellies. Yes. Granny Pass, Nana Pass, Gigi Pass, Nana Pass, however. You get a pass.

So there's Nobody corrects. Everybody goes along with it. Like, oh, that's right. Even if you think it's crazy, you go along with it.

So, I really don't want to hear nobody talk about this, right? I just feel like women are given such a wide berth, but I have never ever in my life felt. I've never seen an outspoken woman, a truly. Confident, outspoken woman, ever be like, I never ask permission. I don't wait, I don't ask permission, I just do it.

I mean, I literally will do it. There's I'll just do it and then I'll and then I'll I don't ask for permission, I'll just say, hey, is that okay? later. This is kind of how that works. But I this is so stupid.

I, people, women, she was the first lady of the United States. What are you talking about? I just never asked permission. I just never, nobody ever told me I could. I kind of Feel like at the end of the day, she's the one who makes all the final decisions in that household.

Just saying.

Well, she sounds like she gives up all her power. By the way, her brother, that was her brother sitting next to her. Oh my gosh. They're clones. I have never seen siblings favor each other as much as those two do.

It's the Spider-Man meme. I did a double take. That was wild. We have a lot more on the way. Coming up next, second hour.

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food supply. And Democrats are going to start chugging them. Democrats are going to be like, I love red dye. Woo! Love all the dies because Trump doesn't like it.

We have to love it. That's literally what they do. Welcome back to the program, top of the second hour. It's iScratch Part 2.

So, just to let you guys know, because everybody always asks comments, like, why are you? Why do you have to wear your glass? I'm wearing it because I have sloth eye. Kane's drinking. He's taking a drink.

He's like, I've heard this so many times. I scratched my eye 'cause I'm a I don't know what happened. I'm ah.

So anyway, that's what happened.

So I'm going to wear the glasses 'cause I'm in trouble seeing. And I did go to the eye doctor. I had 170 million emails. People were rageous. People were mad at Kane because they were like, why isn't Kane letting you go to the doctor?

And I'm like, what? Kane's done. What the hell's that about?

So I'm like, no, no, no. I'm like, I'm going. I'm good. I'm good. I'm all cool.

I'm all cool. Don't blame Kane. It's not his fault. It's a it's I'm a spaz and I probably like scratch myself in the face. I don't know.

Anyway.

So All good, but I'm just letting you guys know because I've gotten fielded some comments. You're, I'm totally fine. I didn't drink any red dye. But you know what? It's true, though, right?

Trump couldn't Cure AIDS. And they would be like, oh my gosh, Trump is evil. They would be on the side of AIDS. Right. He could cure cancer and they're like, oh They'd be on the side of cancer.

Like that's The rage is real. Cancer murderer. I know, right? Can you believe Trump killed cancer? That cancer is so sad.

I mean, he could do all of these things. I don't you know, I don't think I I was I was trying to think Do I? Eat food that has dye in it? I eat pretty whole. But Kane You didn't you did mention that Hawaiian punch.

If I see a Hawaiian punch, I will get the Hawaiian punch. And I haven't looked at ingredients. I haven't had Hawaiian punch in a long time, or Gatorade, or anything like that in a while. But if you look on the ingredients list, I bet you that's what it is. You know what Gatorade tastes like?

Gatorade tastes like it was thrown through Hawaiian punch and then put in a can or put in the bottle. It's weird. It's like you expect a lot of flavor and you're like, hmm. Yeah. The original Gatorade, if anybody remembered back, the first time I ever had it was in the early 80s or maybe even late 80s.

Was it around in the 80s? Oh, yeah. And it was like a powder that you would mix. And sometimes you can mix it stronger kind of than what you should. But in reality, it's just an electrolyte drink, and it's not supposed to have a ton of flavor or color or anything like that.

Just supposed to be an electrolyte drink. The an electrolyte drink. I wish that you guys also.

So I'm going to move on to stuff. But I wish you guys could see where Kane sits.

So, as you guys know, Kane, producer for the program, he sits, we face each other. You guys can't see him. He sits at his little work desk. in the sh in the shadows. But he's got.

One, two, three, four. Five, six, six or five? Uh medicinal bottles. Oh my gosh, Juan is taking a picture of it. This is, I just happened to look down here, but he had the labels turned to me like a stalker.

He's got his probiotics. Do you have two bottles of probiotics sitting over there? Just one. Those bottles look the same. The others are minerals, different minerals, you know, like magnesium.

Guys, one of the bottles is like yay high. It's like five hands high. What is happening over here? Why do you have the probiotic one facing me? Just because I was like subliminal messaging or something?

This is the empty one, right?

So I just set it here so you can see every day. I swear you're paid by them. I think it's a benefit. It's better to get your probiotics from actual fermented food, but there's some. Kane is getting ready to show everybody, or sorry, Juan's getting ready to show everybody what I see.

Because this is what he's got, like a little medicine cabinet over here of minerals. This is literally what is happening. You guys can see on the simulcast. That's actually what that's on the edge of his desk. Supplements, these aren't, this isn't medicine.

No, but they're in like little medicinal bottles. Yeah, so it's just supplements. I see the probiotics there, and then the thing with the orange cap is what? That's just a fiber supplement. Do you do you have to have a giant fiber bottle at I'm just curious.

So you're very you're very in tune with the die stuff. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. There's none no dyes in any of the stuff here.

I don't think I eat anything with the dyes in it. Except maybe every now and then I'll have like maybe a Gatorade, but I don't really enjoy it. Yeah, I wonder like some pills have the coating on them and stuff and they're red or different colors.

So maybe even like you know what I mean? There might be some coloring on those. I just I mean, I like that they're. I don't have any. I actually don't have any objections to this stuff because I don't.

I will say. When we went to The first time we went to Italy. And yeah, it was like your dream vacation. I've always wanted to go. And I I got real fit.

Your girl did a little extra before we went because. I knew I was going to eat my weight and pasta. I was like, I'm going to eat. Like a fat kid. in a DQ.

I'm going to go nuts. And I did, dude. I ate pasta like afternoon. If I could get pasta in the morning, I would. Because over there, they know how to do breakfast proper.

They're like, oh, just, because I don't really like breakfast, I just do a quick thing. I like to work, like when I work out, I like to work out on an empty stomach. I don't like to have, it makes me sick.

So breakfast has never been a big thing for me. But over there, oh my gosh, they got like the bombalone, they got the custard-filled donut, and then you have your it's just so good. I ate all of that and I had gelato repeatedly, and I literally lost 11 pounds when I was in Italy because I walked over 10 miles a day, though. That's the thing. You walk everywhere and you don't even realize it.

But also, I just noticed that I I mentioned this yesterday and a lot of you responded to this because you agreed with me. I said I'm not gluten sensitive, I'm chemical sensitive. And I had one of my doctors saying one of the reasons I have such sinus problems and inflammation is because they suspect that I am gluten sensitive. I'm like, I'm not going to stop eating gluten. I love gluten.

Woo! Gluten is amazing. If I could eat it just the gluten, I would. And But I noticed when I was over there, I had none of those issues. None of the issues that I have here when we eat our food.

So I changed How I do our food. I'm not going to grow my own wheat and grind it, but I will only use like Italian flour and all that other stuff. And I don't I doesn't have any I don't care I will Because I do bake a lot and I just don't want any of that stuff in there. I can eat the stuff that I make and be fine. If I eat it, if it's like at the store, it's totally different.

So I think. It's a lot of there's a lot of sensitivity. Going into this. With the dies. How Much Could we actually save in terms of time and cost?

with being preventative.

Now think about it. I Like so when I was in Italy, I do the the super beats. They make a thing of the turmeric chews, which I think are absolutely amazing and they do so much to help infl I almost said inflation, I wish. They do so much to help with inflammation. They're a partner of ours, but they don't really talk about the turmeric juice, but I think they're one of the best products that they have.

I mean, if you have inflammation, literally, that's your jam. I go through bags of this stuff. When I was in Italy. And I think this is because they have regulations about their food and the additives and all that. You can't put all that stuff in there.

I did not have to take hardly any of those. when I was over there.

So then I started thinking, you know what? This is not like a gluten sensitivity. This is a chemical sensitivity. And That's Mm-hmm. That I mean that's Uh I mean amazing.

That's an amazing realization.

So, think about all the time that I've spent going to the doctor, sinusitis, the medicines I've been on, which are not good for you. When you could be preventative by removing some of the stuff from your food supply, think of what that does to American health.

Now, think bigger about it. American Health National Security. It touches so many things.

So, long story short, that's why I'm fine with us. But it really is shocking. I looked at the list of all the stuff red dye is in, like stuff that I don't even think of. Like, if I'm thinking red dye. I'm thinking of like red foods, right?

like all red foods, but not necessarily. I mean, it can be, yeah, it can be in like a number of other things as well. Like, it can be in like Sherbert's. There was, I saw on the list, it was like a peach sherbert thing. And I'm like, peach?

It's like orange. It's not even like a yellowy orange. I'm like, red dye is in this? It's in everything. It is in every condiment.

Oh yeah.

So I make a lot of my own I well except for ketchup and mustard because I get the Whataburger stuff at the store. I totally do, I'm not gonna lie. But I'll make I make my own dressings.

So It's in some protein powders. That was another big thing because I'm big on the protein powders and the collagen protein and all of that. Holy cow.

So there's so much stuff that it's in. Um, what are the cherries that everybody likes? The maraschino cherries. Yeah, the maraschino cherries. Oh my gosh.

But here's the big thing that really hurt my heart. The mouse. Guys, it's in the best candy that the Lord has ever put up on this earth. Candy corn. Oh yeah.

A half of you had a stroke because I said that. That's okay. Candy corn is you don't have to love candy corn as the candy that the Lord chose for us. It's okay. It's the best candy.

But it's in, I can't have candy corn now. Remember when the ice cream man used to drive around the neighborhood? Not in the bomb pops. Remember that? Bomb pops.

We're the bomb. Man. It's in that. It's in bomb pops. It's in all of those things.

So I just assume if it's processed and it could be kind of red. Then Okay, I'm not gonna eat it. Not gonna I I don't need it that bad. I don't need it.

So, well, just think about how much money that saves preventative wise. If you could change your diet and have all of the chemicals taken out of your food and all these additives, I honestly think. our overall American health would be so much better. I think our health care system wouldn't be beleaguered. I think people would be healthier, they would live longer.

They would have more energy, all of it. I mean, I just, when you go to countries where they have, and I'm, and I'm not saying, this is where I run afoul of. You know, I don't like the government telling me what I can eat and what I can do, and I don't like that.

However, When it's so prevalent that you literally cannot purchase unless you grow your own wheat and grind it, and you know, okay, Martha, let's go to the yard and go harvest some stuff. I gotta go make some cake. It's It becomes a problem that needs to be addressed, especially when it becomes a negative on your entire country's society. And it runs up your health care bill. It contributes to your morbidity rate.

Those are all things you have to consider because that all overall, I think it impacts national security. I think it even goes that far. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That's a saying for a reason. I am sad about the candy corn, though, I'm not going to lie.

But now I'm like, I get, I'm one of those people, you tell me that something nasty is in something, all of a sudden, I don't want it ever again. Never again, I don't ever want it. It will look different, so maybe. It looks like little poison bullets now, candy corn. I'm like, oh, oh.

My gosh, the red dye. Oh, now I gotta go through. I haven't. I don't know if you guys have done this, but I went through my little pantry. And I took out like everything after my doctor was like, oh, you might be gluten-sensitive.

I'm like, no, I'm not. Yeah. I will argue with the medical professional. Like, no, I'm not. I'm chemical sensitive, chemical sensitive.

Went through everything with my little phone and I'm like in there reading, going through, you know, type A, going through absolutely everything and throwing everything away. Man, it's a lot. It's in a lot of stuff. We have uh more on the way. That was my long winded thing about why I'm actually okay with the the dyes being removed from the foods and all that stuff.

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So So let's see here. We have a new army fitness test. No more.

Well, there's higher standards for combat arms, and Ball Yeet is standing power throw.

So they're having sweeping changes according to an internal memo, and it includes rebranding of this certain test, the elimination of some of their Reduced the reductions that they had for standards and for soldiers in combat roles.

So now it's not going to be the Army Combat Fitness Test, it's just going to be the Army Fitness Test. And they said they're going to have the, everybody's super happy. They're taking out the standing power throw where you have to hurl a 10-power, 10-pound medicine ball backwards over their heads. And it's kind of ridiculed by service members. I don't know why.

Because it's more about technique than it is strength. Yeah, exactly. I don't know why you would even have that. That's kind of goofy. But they said that all soldiers, Army, Reserve, National Guard, they're going to take the new AFT beginning in June.

And the remaining events of the assessments will be retained.

So that's all very good news. UAE cabinet approves the first of its kind AI regulatory ecosystem. They're using AI to write law. I don't know. I mean, this is, I'm sorry, this is stupid.

We need to be focusing right now on making tax cuts permanent in these trade deals. I like Ron Johnson, but we're spending Republican hearings, Senate hearings on 9-11 conspiracy theories. Come on, come on. The, let's see, a Renaissance Festival fire. I mean, they're really trying to be very authentic with this, so authentic that they burned six buildings to the ground in a Renaissance fight.

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We're also welcoming back former service members who were wrongly forced to leave the military. More than 8,700 service members were involuntarily separated. for not taking an experimental COVID-19. Vaccine. Others were more informally pushed out or decided to get out.

We are welcoming actively back those warriors of conscience. We've sent letters out. We're seeking them out. We want them back. They never should have been forced.

Come back quickly. Personnel and Readiness Department is working in real time to make that process more and more efficient, more and more direct every single day. Good, they should be, and they should get back pay, back everything. Absolutely, because that was insane what they did. Absolutely insane.

What blows my mind, and I brought this up. I mentioned this before. We sat down with Right. Ah, Army General in Futures Command, and they were talking about recruitment. That's Sec Sec Def Hegseth, by the way, just then.

Speaking about welcoming back those soldiers that were shoved out because of the Rona Jab requirements. But I remember saying something to the effect of Well, maybe we wouldn't have such a problem with recruitment if people didn't hadn't seen military members being forced out because they wouldn't get an experimental injection that wasn't even a therapeutic. much less a vaccine. And that was just allowed to happen. It's asinine.

So, yeah, they're owed a lot. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. at the bottom of this. Second hour already.

It's weird. I almost said first. I am happy to see that, but now we got to get other things situated. This fallout over these Pentagon leaks, it enrages me. As I said yesterday, you know, these people are in these positions, they serve.

The You serve the the office, you serve the position, you serve The land. You don't serve a politician. You do your duty. And your duty is not to divide and create fodder that can. destabilize national security and contribute to a reduction in people who seek to serve.

And I He's got it cut out for him. I hear from people all the time that they think that You know these changes can be made instantaneously and that just because Trump is in the White House and Hag Seth is now where he is, that everything in the DOD and Pentagon is going to change, it's not. It's a fight because you have to remember how long these people have been generationally entrenched It would be great if you could just do it with one appointment or one election cycle, but that's unfortunately not how it operates. It's not how it works. It takes a long time to get these people out.

Because they're entrenched. They got these positions because they were appointed. They weren't elected and they stay there and then they make themselves indispensable because they know how everything works and they count on you to let them know how everything works so they can get everything done. By the way, that's why I one of the big reasons I s I oppose term limits. I think term limits are unconstitutional.

I agree with the founders in the Federalist papers on this, particularly Hamilton, even Adams. They wrote that. One of the things you have to be aware of is if you have constantly changing, well, you're removing the vote from the person. Voters are the term limit. Your vote is the term limit.

The people I that I have seen who argue the most for term limits are people who've never canvassed for a politician in their lives, phone banked, gone door to door, nothing, nothing. They don't can I be honest, these people don't do um anything at all whatsoever to Get votes. And as a result, they just want to farm out. To the government for term limits. That they want to farm out their duty to the government for term limits.

Nothing good ever happens when you decide to jettison individual civic responsibility and give it to the government. You never get it back. But to that point The Uh Pr the bureaucratic class is empowered. when you have term limits like that. You have those people that get entrenched, the lobbyists and they and we have a problem with lobbyists writing our laws now.

What do you think it's going to be like when those people are always there and you just have a revolving door of people every few years that come in because of term limits?

Some lawmakers, I want to stay there. Like Thomas Massey, I want him to stay there for as long as he wants to stay there. I think he's a great example, Rand Paul. I want Rand Paul to stay there as long as Rand Paul wants to stay there. Uh some others, you know, people vote for Nancy Pelosi.

Even though They they well, I think San Francisco her district is so left they're insane. She's the Needles and Feces district. That's literally her district. Of course they vote for her. Because the rich, the super rich people that live out there, they're not bothered by all the stuff that bothers every other everyday people.

You know, they're not bothered by any of that stuff.

So But I agree with what the founders had said in terms of You know, empowering this bureaucratic class, it is a danger. And this is one of the things that you have to worry about within. The DOD, and he's got a fight on his hands. That's one of the, I just, I'm, it appalls me that people. Run to the press instead of taking care of things behind doors.

First off, it's not New Testament. It's chaotic and it's designed to inflict pain and inadvertently inflicts pain the greatest amongst on the voters, really.

So big news, Dick Durbin, not going to seek reelection next year. Audio sun by 28. This shocked me. Listen. The decision of whether to run for re-election has not been easy.

I truly love the job of being United States Senator, but in my heart, I know it's time to pass the torch.

So I'm announcing today that I will not be seeking re-election at the end of my term. The people of Illinois have honored me with this responsibility longer than anyone elected to the Senate in our state's history. I'm truly grateful. Hmm. Right.

He's been there. He's been there forever. He's been in that seat forever. He's number two. in the Senate.

Out of Illinois, and he is there's gonna be a battle to replace him. But he's he's been there for our Oh my gosh, I don't even know how long he's been there for forever. He's 80 years old. I actually think that he seems a little younger than 80. I'm but I'm not, you know, trying to be nice to him.

But man alive, a lot of people thought he was going to step aside. I just was shocked because these people, when they get, he's got a lot of seniority, a lot of these committees, they don't like to give that power up. They don't like to give all that up. 80 years old, he's been there since. I was in high school.

Dick Durbin has been in his seat. since I was in high school. He first got into the chamber in 1996. Oh my gosh. That's crazy.

And he's been the whip. Uh since 2005. And he had a lot of influence with because of that position. It gave him a lot of influence at the time under Harry Reid, who you knew who ran the Senate. He was the leader before Schumer.

And so He's going to be the fourth Democrat now.

So that's going to open up a number of things, not just that seat, but it also opens up a seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was the chairman of that in the last Congress. It also led the proceedings for Kentanji Brown Jackson. He's been, I mean, he's on a number of different committees, but here's the thing: this is going to be crazy.

So they have.

So, some of the people, not just to take his seat, but also to take his position. Because you have people, I think Amy Klobuchar is somebody that they've been promoting to take over some of these positions, Patty Murray, and be number two in the Senate, Brian Schatz. That's another one. But the man, the fight to replace him. There's like they say that in the race.

The primary is going to be dirty. Ooh well, of course, it's Illinois Democrats. Would you expect anything Else. Isn't was he is because I know you have family in Illinois, Kane, is he Was he the senator in your area? No joke.

I'm not really sure, to be honest with you. That's a good question. I was curious. It's been a long time since I've lived in Illinois, so I don't remember at the time. They have two reps that there's polling data.

Let me pull this up. This is over at Politico. This is polling data that was released just a couple weeks ago. But they were talking about two candidates, Lauren Underwood, and I'm going to unfortunately butcher this name, Raja Krishnamurthy. And they are potentially front runners.

Now Krishna Morthy has a $19 million war chest. Underwood only has a million dollars in cash on hand. Representative Robin Kelly also has $2 million in cash. Clearly. Not always money in the war in the chest isn't always indicative of who's going to be a front runner, but in Illinois in a primary race for this kind of seat, yes, it does.

So I'm fine with that. Let's have a big fight. I love it when they fight.

So I'm all for them fighting each other. I think that's great, and I think that we need more of it. That's that's That's what we need. But he's, and he's not endorsing anybody.

Now, he didn't endorse anybody in the video that you saw, and he hasn't said anything otherwise, but. The Chicago Sun-Times had said previously. that he would not rule out endorsing someone. I just don't think he's going to do it in a primary. He's got too many tentacles and too many things.

I think he's going to wait for things to get all tied up and tidy and have a nice little nest egg to leave with before he does anything like that. Because once he does, especially if he finds himself sideways with the winner. It's kind of a big deal. You don't want to have something like that happening. Coming up, a number of things to get into.

Texas Republicans just stabbed Texas taxpayers in the back. in the front and in the head and kicked them. Oh my gosh. Uh this is crazy. We're going to talk about what they did.

We have a twenty-four billion dollar surplus in Texas and they voted to waste eight billion dollars of it and raise property tra taxes. All of the promises about using the surplus to pay down property taxes were a lie. An absolute lie. We're going to talk to a state lawmaker, Brian Harrison, about that coming up. And boy, oh boy.

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It's time for Florida Man.

Now Mm-hmm. This guy seems kind of polite to the cops. In a weird way, a Florida man was caught on video offering the cops a vodka spritzer during his car chase. The man allegedly robbed a convenience store, led police in pursuit. crashed and then wrapped it by asking the police if they had fun.

It was on April 19th in the Spring Lake Market in Sebring, Florida. A store had been robbed. They called the police. They identified the suspect as thirty nine year old Richard Christopher Smith of Miami. and he walked out with several items from the store, including alcoholic beverage, And when the police arrived they saw him in his black Chrysler Pacifica minivan driving in circles around the store.

The driver then took off. Grand theft no took off spotted the authorities and they began a chase that lasted several miles now during the pursuit a deputy parked on the road ahead of the driver can be heard on body camera footage yelling for Smith to stop But the suspect drove on by, holding a can of what authorities say was a vodka spritzer out of the driver's side, while yelling, quote, I was just gonna give y'all a drink, that's it. Then the rep the police reportedly had to use spike strips to flatten the tires in the minivan. And then he tried to ram two patrol vehicles. He finally came to a halt after crashing into one.

They totally tased him because he didn't get on the ground. And then while he was handcuffed, he asked the officers, You guys had fun though, right? He's being held on $120,000 bond. I mean, he gave them a vodka spritzer and he asked them if they had fun, Kane. Kane and I are a little divided on this story.

So, a Florida man was caught on camera pinning down an 11-year-old girl that he thought was egging his house. The Hillsborough County Sheriff said, Yeah, you can't. I mean, he legit tackled her. He p he thought that she was egging his home. All right, now tell everyone your position.

43-year-old Morris Mutu.

Okay, King's like, that's crazy that he tackled her. If a kid was egging my house, I would beat that kid's ass. Yes. I would tackle them and beat them in front of their parents, and then I'd beat their parents. You're a girl, you can tackle another girl.

I would tackle a boy, too. Yeah, you're a girl. You can tackle them, boy.

So, your point is that a man can't do this because it's a man. That's sexism. Yes, no, a man who is clearly 150 pounds. above her is literally physically tackling her. About Eggs.

Well, let's get real here. I think he should have confirmed that it was her before he did it. That's his mistake. Is that really where the mistake is? Yes, that was his mistake.

That's the mistake. That's the only mistake. He should have. Because if she was egg in his house, I'd be like, get it. That's literally his only mistake.

Yes, it's his mistake.

So the tackling of the girl is not. Yes, he shouldn't have tackled her until he confirmed her.

So there's two mistakes now. No, no, he should have confirmed it first. Before he tackled her.

Okay, so wait a minute. Mm-hmm. He shouldn't be tackling her in any way, shape, or form because of eggs. I'm old school. I'm going to beat your kids with whatever thing I have and tackle them.

I believe, look, if you don't discipline your kids, I sure as hell will. I don't agree with that. I would expect society to do the same. If one of my kids are out wilding, which they never would. I expect somebody to slap him with a face.

There's another side to this coin, then. Think about this. What if it's your I just explained it? No, but it. If my daughter was egg in someone's house, it would be her ass.

Yes. That's right. If I didn't if I do it before I do, 'cause she ain't walking after. Yeah. He didn't confirm that she actually did it.

He just suspected she did. This is my whole mantra for misbehaving kids for life. Yeah. Sets. For the radio audience, she raised her flip-flop.

I totally did. That's the only way to deal with them. But if it's my daughter and it wasn't confirmed, she did it. Yeah, I wouldn't go tackle the kid if I didn't, if I was like, oh, I'm not sure, but it could be you. No, you confirm it first.

If somebody wrongfully tackled your daughter, which was my question, what would you do?

Well, I'd be like, well, what was she doing? Why why why did you I mean if she was on your he w she was on his property I'm not saying, look, I'm not defending the guy. I'm saying he should have confirmed it first.

Okay, because it felt like you were defending. But I also feel like we live in a society where you can take a knife into a tent and stab somebody to death, and hey, it's okay, justice for that guy. You know, I'm like, where does it end? I'm just saying, if you're going to say that I hate old people, it sounds like you're defending this guy, and that's where I was coming from.

So you're defending a.

Well, he's 43, so he's hardly an older guy. But he's older, yeah. But it was in Tampa. He uh he he's a parking enforcement specialist. And they said, oh, no, he shouldn't have done this.

You know, it's unacceptable. What gets me, though, is there was a woman recording it. Who just heard, all she did was go, get off her, get off her. If I was a woman and I thought that there was a child being manhandled by an adult and they needed help, I'm not going to stand there and record it. I'm going to pop you.

That's the thing. Like he is damn lucky. That there was nobody there that thought he was trying to kidnap this girl because he'd be dead. He'd be dead. You got you cannot just.

Oh man, there's so many variables here. But yes, spare the rotten spoiled child. That's exactly what happens. Exactly what happens. You gotta be careful with some of this stuff.

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Oh my gosh, right? Super, that's the most symbolic story I've ever heard in my life. That actually is true. Good point, Kane. Very good point.

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They've got no movement. They've got no leader. I mean, it doesn't get any worse than that. I mean, you're defending Harvard. You're traveling to El Salvador for MS-13 gang members.

But here's the point: you're taking $20 million. If I'm looking at someone, my vice chair, the RNC, taking $20 million for another effort, it's $20 million out of the DNC's pocket. You can't be on the board of the Fishing and Forest Company and on Greenpeace at the same time. There are places that hold the party accountable. I think it's right.

Yeah, let me push back again. This was not an MS-13 gang member, and you damn well know that. Oh, come on. He was not. And the only administration admitted this was wrong.

In America, we have the process that we are in land of law and order. We are a land of law and order. And this administration is repeatedly showing time and time again they do not care about what the Supreme Court says. They do not care about the rule of law. And you cannot defend.

Sending people to agencies.

Some of them just get a poll to another country, but it's just not right. But illegal immigrants, by the way.

So you're losing your effort.

So if you want to try to defend the constitutionality of deporting an illegal immigrant that's here, check out the public. He's here illegally. In the Intel community, every Intel community agency and the White House say he is a member of immigrants. I like Reince Priebus. That he was talking to uh oh, who's that little pig kid?

Uh David Hogg. I mean, that dude is made of twigs and magic, like black magic. I don't know. He's like, I don't know how he animates. I don't know how he holds his frame.

I mean, his no-tone. Anyway.

Uh, no, I'm not a fan of him because he attacked my kids and me as a mother and my family repeatedly on live television, told me that I owned Congress. All this stuff. He's just a moron. It is embarrassing that he's what the vice chair of the DNC. I mean, I want him to stay there as Democrats because I think it's a great look for them.

But Reince Priebus used to be the RNC chair. Uh this was Uh back in March. Mm. Like right when the tea party kicked off. And I remember because I got into an argument with him at a restaurant because we sat next to each other.

But then we got along because he. found out he actually realized he agreed with a lot of the grassroots stuff. And he was like, I get it. Yeah, I get it. And it ended up helping to foster a little bit better of a relationship.

But um he was um He handled that very well. He doesn't get flustered. He's like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. They're just like, oh my gosh. All right, kids, I'm going to pull the minivan over.

They have that whole, that's like the mood that settles. It's funny. Welcome back, Daniel Lash with you at the top of this third hour. But that was, they were on CNN. Great.

Oh, sorry, MSNBC. And for him, David Hall going. ABC, sorry, David Hogg going, yeah, and you damn well know it. He cusses like he thinks it's going to give him like a plus 15 toughness buff or something. Like either way he said it was so Like he practiced that.

Ooh, you're tough. Have you noticed a lot of lawmakers doing this? On the left particularly. They think that that somehow is a good substitute for wit. or policy Or that it makes them appear tougher.

And it doesn't. I'm gonna tell you: the person that remains the calmest and the coolest. Those are the people that are chill when this stuff happens and speak real calm, those are the ones that I'm like, ooh, that's the person you don't want to mess with. Because if they can handle it when it's this hot, What is it like when they do unleash? That's what it's the it's a you know.

I, these people that do all this performative outrage on the left, it's just so meaningless. Yeah, like Steve, like Steve was telling us, the Tim Walt's like, mind your own damn business. Oh my gosh. It's so it's just cringe to watch them do this. But him as the vice chair, he really has no idea what he's talking about.

And of course, everybody's that's it's the conversation over the dude who was in El Salvador that we've been discussing this whole time. And this guy, who absolutely was an illegal immigrant here in the United States. And then he was taken back to El Salvador, where he was born and raised. By the way, here's something I was thinking of. When he said, and now this was proven false in court.

because the gang didn't even exist anymore. But And that's why his asylum claim was denied. this uh Brego Garcia guy. When he said that other gangs were targeting him. Weren't they targeting him because he was in a gang?

Isn't that Hawaii? Yep. It's like he tells on himself. They had other ones going down there. Didn't they have other lawmakers?

Like, how many lawmakers they had going down there? They had that one dude from Florida go down there, that one Democrat. Who else? I had this. I had this bolded.

They sent uh several others. Down there, like they were like I said the other day, they're just taking turns going down audio sound by 18.

Now, this one they're going to visit Mahmoud Khali. This, uh, This is the guy who was the Columbia student, remember? And he was saying, Oh, it's so mean that they denied me the ability to be there with my firstborn when my child's being born. And I thought, well, you violated the terms of your stay. You shouldn't have done that and risked missing this as a consequence.

Audio Sun by 19 Democrats went to an ICE facility.

Now they're going to do it with this guy. Listen. What you Here they are. Look at them all walking through. Ariana Presley.

Walking through they're all walking through to meet with this guy. Just I mean Pay it. It's shameless. It's absolutely shameless. Uh they I don't know.

I can't believe I'm playing this. This is Newsome. I'm telling you, he's positioning himself for 2028 as the moderate. There's a real threat here. Audio Soundbite 19.

Ah. This is the distraction of the day. The art of distraction. That's a tough case because people are really: are they defending MSR 13? Are they defending someone who's out of sight, out of mind in El Salvador?

It's exactly the debate they want because they don't want this debate on the terrace. They don't want to be accountable to the markets today. They want to have this conversation. Don't get distracted by distractions. Don't get distracted by it.

Now, you see how I'm going to say something that might be seen, but I'm saying this as a warning. He is a very good Very good messenger. are very he's very good with messaging. He is similar to Claire McCaskill. He's that was his like specialty before getting into public office.

Apparently, he is very good with messaging. Did you see what he just did there? He's like dividing the baby. He's like, Yes, don't be distracted by distraction. At no point, He said, you know, you're risking the appearance of defending this guy.

He didn't tell them not to do it. He just said, don't be distracted. He didn't justify. The objections? By siding with those objections, and he didn't really technically condemn.

the motivations for these Democrats doing it. He just said th the what he intimated, what the statement intimates is that Other people are going to define you by this.

So don't get baited and don't fall into it.

So he's giving the appearance of making it look like He's condemning them for what they're doing and seeming reasonable about it while simultaneously not condemning them for what they're doing. And yet, Not really actually going to that reasonable position that he hopes others think that he's taking. Does that make sense? He's he's the way that he messaged that was very interesting Oh, just don't be you know, you're gonna you're gonna you're you're gonna risk being defined by this. Uh don't be distracted by distractions.

Like what does it even mean? What is the distraction here? Is the distraction what they're saying or is the distraction like using this guy as a PR stunt? It was like a nothing burger statement that wasn't. It's very interesting.

He's doing this little stuff and making these little quips about current events. and letting it you know kind of hang out there uh without clarification And That way, he can look like he's moving to the middle on it, and he seems like the reasonable Democrat. He's already started building his case for himself for 28. To look like the reasonable person. Because I'm telling you what, this is what's going to happen going into 2028.

First off, midterms, if we don't have any trade deals. I know that Democrats have been worried about losing more seats in the House, but that could easily switch the other way. This very fragile coalition that we have. The biggest threat to it is Republican inaction. They they the the biggest threat is that.

And it It's a Something that I just don't see them doing anything really to thwart. I don't think Republicans have their eye on this. I have no idea where the RNC is at. Where's the RNC? Where is the hell is the RNC with this stuff?

If you don't have these trade deals, you don't have reduced taxes. That fragile coalition that all came together for just two things, two tenants. it's gonna it's gonna just blow up. It's gonna be h horrible. I'm just saying this as a warning because I don't want this to happen.

And then by the time 2028 comes around, everyone, the media, and they will have convinced enough independents. They will think, oh, that was a very chaotic term under Trump. Oh, gosh, total chaos, high prices. You don't want any more of that. Let's go to the reasonable, moderate.

That's what they're going to go to. And by that time, Gavin Newsom, because he's playing in the periphery, is going to be making this case that he's this moderate guy, and he's been doing so without objection. He has these people from the right that go on his show that use that allowed that he uses them as props. You might think, well, that's great. They're finding common ground.

Isn't that what it should be about? If you don't know how Gavin Newsom works, that's an easy thing to say. He is one of the most insidious people in politics next to Claire McCaskill. She was very savvy. He has all of this baggage and he's been able to last this long because he's got money and he's savvy.

That's why. You have got to be aware of this. I'm not saying that he's smart in everything, but he's smart in messaging. And he's he's very quick on his feet with that. Not every Republican is, not every Democrat is.

That's going to be a problem for Democrats if they do not get the rest of this stuff done. Oh my gosh. But that's you know Yeah.

Well that's how he's positioning it. But they shouldn't uh Democrats need to or Republicans really need to hammer it even more. I don't think they're hammering it enough. I I I mean the Uh the photo ops Did you see there was one photo. Did that guy have one or two margaritas?

Mm-hmm. The gang member, because there were like two glasses with a little thing on them. And I'm like, there's three people sitting here, and there's four margarita glasses. Am I was I crazy? I counted four.

Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. But I can count better than Democrats. I'm just saying. I wanted.

A couple of other things that I want to get to. Let's see here. Oh, goodness.

So Randy Weingarten. Went on Fox. It didn't go very good. What do I want to play first, Steve? Six or seven?

Both of them are bangers. Let's start with six.

So she's talking to Martha McCallum, AFT President Randy Weingarten. They're talking about classroom indoctrination.

Well, talking for now. Listen. but you don't want to indoctrinate children. You don't want a child to hear a book read to the whole classroom and go home and say, why am I being taught that I was born a girl, but that was just a guess? I mean, that is going to freak out some children.

They are not, they're going to be very confused at four, five, and six years old. And I know you said that you don't agree with reading this in the classroom, but I'm saying this is the problem. Then that same kid can't read and is pushed all the way to eighth grade and they still can't read.

So, so, Martha, I suspect that you and I agree on more that we don't. I know you don't believe me. Martha didn't say that. What I'm saying to you is that. I saw that case, and you know, when you, if you have not socialized books with parents.

And a book that may be controversial, and you haven't actually talked to your parents of your kids in that. in that classroom, that's going to be a problem regardless of what's in the book.

So No, that's not. You're talking about sexually inappropriate material. You're talking about. I can't even actually tell you it's in the book again. I'll get in trouble.

How do I say this? I can't even say what's in it. I mean, that should alone tell people how crazy this is. Just the fact that we're having this conversation.

Well, they have a big debate and they melt down later, and we'll play that later, but man alive. Also, coming up, Texas state rep Brian Harrison. Texas Republicans just voted. to increase property taxes, and they spent $8 billion of a $24 billion surplus. on not property taxes.

They're spinning it on everything from crony corporatism, all their little special interests. We're gonna dive into that coming up as well. As we move, we got headlines on the way. Our partners. I always tell people to carry.

I will always carry. I will always encourage people to carry. I get that some people want to diversify their weapons array. I understand that, especially like what we were just talking about, gun-free zones. I have friends who were all I can say is that they work in the media.

Uh New York. Washington, D.C. They are out at night because, as you know, apparently our government now with this administration never sleeps. And even though they went through all the hoops and jumped through all of that stuff and got their license to carry, they're barred from carrying it a number of places.

So they went out and they got what's called the Burna SD. That's the most popular model. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that deter threats from up to 50 feet away. And it is a way for you to still have some means of protection when you are barred from carry. I mean, think about it.

You carry knives. You know, you'll carry blades. You can't have different calibers. You know, I think the saying is, what I use my pistol to get to my rifle. You see, you have all different kinds of stuff.

It's always good to anticipate varied situations and plan accordingly. And this is the niche that I feel that Burna fits. And you can look and go to their website and see everything that they have to offer. Like I said, the Burna SD is the most popular model. And when you go, when you go and you can look at the different projectiles.

That's what I'm thinking of. The different projectiles, the different accessories, all this kind of stuff. They have different things up there. And this has five rounds compared to regular stun guns, which only have one or two.

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They stemmed from a snake pattern on his own clothes. Calls coming from inside the house. The guy, he was wearing a t-shirt with a snake pattern on it, and then he felt like 30,000 feet. He went berserk, they said. He thought that there were snakes on the plane, slithering around the plane.

Families looked in horror because he was starting to become abusive and threatening, screaming that they needed to land. They were going from Gatwick to Marrakesh, and they took, they had an emergency landing in Portugal. Oh boy. Yeah, they said that they're 180 pounds. Nobody was hurt, thankfully, but can you imagine it being delayed like that because somebody, yeah, it's freaking out.

Let's see. Oh boy, this is WAPT. A man hands a joint to a Richland officer during a traffic stop before a major bus. He looks like he doesn't give a care. Marijuana joint.

It led to several pounds of drugs, including shrooms and ecstasy, that were confiscated in Mississippi. The guy admitted during the traffic stop that he smoked weed. They pulled him over for traffic violation. And the guy's Carl D'Amino58 of Story, Arkansas. He literally handed the cop a joint.

Ha ha. Pretty sure you can't yeah, you can't be doing stuff like that. Oh my goodness. I don't know why this is bad. I agree.

13 Bozeman police officers were caught playing crime bingo while on duty. Why is that caught? It was called Midshift Bingo, like s like a d drug DUI, things like that. That's silly. Stay with us.

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This story has me really mad. I'm glad we just came in off a nice little break because I get real riled up. Over this, some choice words. I was firing off some texts to some folks in Austin. One of them, I'm guaranteeing never gonna hear back from that person again.

That's totally fine. It was pretty caps lock. I'm trying to figure out what the heck is happening here. This is insane.

Now, Texas, Red Republic, Red State. And we are Turning into a blue paradise, for the lack of a better way to put it. This is part of our red state rhino hunting wand. It's not official to throw the graphic up. We're getting there.

We're getting there. It's a fancy graphic, you know. But this, this is a crazy. We talked a little bit about this earlier on.

So. What ended up happening is, you know, Texas, I, you know, voting for Republicans, you're supposed to, we were promised that we were going to have property tax relief. We were promised a whole bunch of stuff. It is not happening, according to Texas state rep Brian Harrison, who represents the 10th District, native Texan. He also worked in the Trump administration as well, and he joins us now.

Representative Harrison, oh my goodness, you are keeping us up to date with everything, and we are grateful for it.

Okay, so let me make sure I understand this correctly, and then I'm going to turn it over to you. We have a $24 billion surplus, and instead of using it, I mean, I literally had on Greg Abbott, Governor Greg Abbott yesterday, while he was talking to me. That is, I mean, I'm not kidding you, Representative. Like seven minutes after he left the show, that's when you said, oh my gosh, the House just voted to spend $3 billion on crony corporatism, and you're not going to get any property tax relief. And then today, You stated that they are spending $8 billion of a $24 billion surplus on who knows what, and they're voting.

For a property tax increase. What is happening in Austin? You either have to laugh or cry, or why I spend a lot of time is just being angry. And if you're a voter in Texas, you have every right to be angry. Let me, let me, I'm not going to sugarcoat this Dana because Texans deserve the truth.

I'm tired of the politicians in Austin breaking their arms, patting themselves on the back when they're not even doing the bare minimum of what voters elected them to do. Texas voters re-elected President Trump by 14 points, but the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris agenda is alive and well in the swamp of Austin.

Okay, this may go down in history as the most anti-taxpayer session in the history of our state. It is impossible, and we're almost all the way through session at this point. It is impossible to overstate how much I think the Texas government hates the taxpayers that pay the bills. Down here. Let me give you just a couple examples.

And you hit the highlights, okay? We've got a $24 billion surplus. And despite what some politicians down here are telling you, we don't have this surplus because we've been fiscally conservative. We have been the opposite of fiscal conservative. We have a surplus because we have been over taxing Texans.

And we're sitting on a $24 billion pile of your money. And by the way, that's sitting right next to a $29 billion pile of your money in a rainy day fund.

So we're talking almost $60 billion of your money that we're just sitting on down here in Austin. Actually, it's worse than just sitting on it. We're spending it. And we're spending it on basically every left-wing pet project, woke initiative you can imagine, DEI, transgender ideology. And you just mentioned a few.

House Bill 2, perhaps the worst bill I've ever seen since getting elected. It piles $8 billion.

So of the $24 billion surplus, $8 billion was set ablaze to go on top of an already overfunded, failing government monopoly. which we're already spending $100 billion a year, $18,000 a student on without any reforms. It's gonna actually make our public schools worse. That's $8 billion of the $24 billion surplus. Just yesterday, look, I want nuclear power as much as anybody.

But the way to do it is by slashing taxes and slashing regulations, not by crony corporatism.

So we spent $2 billion of the surplus yesterday on nuclear. What did we do today? We're not done yet. As President Trump is reining in and trying to cut the federal NIH, National Institutes for Health, because of how much taxpayer dollars that's wasting up there, yeah, the Texas House voted to stood up the Texas NIH to study dementia. How much is that going to cost?

$3 billion. Is there any guarantee any good is going to come of that? Absolutely not. And let's talk about Doge, okay? President Trump's Doge is cutting government, reining in spending, slashing the bureaucracy, firing thousands of bureaucrats.

Well, the Texas House has a Doge too. But what has the Texas House Doge done? Oh, it's grown government, expanded the bureaucracy, increased spending. And even after the Supreme Court shut down the bureaucrats' best weapon, which is called chevron deference, yeah, the Texas House Doge just protected chevron deference in Texas courts, meaning Texas courts are now more liberal than D.C. courts.

Wow. This is the most anti-taxpayer session in the history of Texas. Let me tell you what, I, on my own, I went through the Texas budget. I'm on the appropriations committee. I identified $90 billion that we could cut without breaking a sweat if we just stopped funding agencies that were doing DEI and left-wing transgender ideology.

And that means we could cut people's property taxes in half. Tomorrow, without breaking a sweat, put our state on a path to eliminating property taxes, we would become the economic juggernaut of the planet. But instead The Austin swamp is doing the opposite. We're spending the surplus. We're growing government.

We are reducing liberty. And I've had it. I mean, I got this guy for a reason, my little stress ball. This is crazy what I'm hearing from this. We're talking to Texas rep Brian Harrison, who's been a watchdog for the taxpayer on this.

So I think it's safe to say. We're not getting property tax relief. We're going to get a hike. Let me tell you what they're gonna say. There's a $24 billion surplus.

All right, and let me tell you the gaslighting that's about to happen. Of the $24 billion surplus, they have set aside, they're so generous. 3.5 billion. Of the 24 billion for new property tax relief. You don't have to take my word for this.

I got the legislative budget board director to admit to me in a hearing. You can watch it on tape, it's only 3.5. But what they're about to do, okay, they're gonna gaslight you because of mathematical errors on last session's tax relief package. It actually cost more when they lowered some rates. What they're gonna do is go back and just fulfill current law, but because their math was wrong, they had to add about six or seven billion dollars just to make up for last session's property tax property tax relief package.

But they're gonna pretend that that's new to this session.

So they're gonna just, they haven't done it yet. Mark my words. They're gonna come out and they're gonna announce a $10 billion property tax relief package, which, number one, is pure gaslighting. It's a lie. The real number is $3.5 billion.

But even if it were true, Dana, last session we passed a $12.5 billion property tax relief package. And what happened? Property tax bills went up. Texans are sick and tired of swamp politicians telling them they're cutting taxes.

Meanwhile, they're down here cutting deals with Democrats to fund every Joe Biden and Kamala Harris initiative that anybody has ever cooked up in this town and making the Texas or the taxpayers of the state of Texas who are being taxed out of their homes pay for it all the while telling them they should be applauding the hard work of the great Republicans who are fighting for small government down here in the swamp of Austin. It is outrageous and I'm going to continue calling it out, quite frankly, I don't care who it pisses off down here.

Well, you got a lot of people behind the people. The Texans deserve the truth. You got a lot of people behind you.

So if they come for you, they come for a lot of us. And that's a promise. Talking to state rep Brian Harrison, Texas Representative, you also noted that they were trying to force the Appropriations Committee to vote in secret. Yesterday. This was.

They've done this like five times. I at least know that that's against the House rules. That they voted for, that they crammed down our throats. The irony is like I voted against the House rules because of the amount of power we gave to Democrats, but at least had this one provision, I guess they accidentally left in there that says that appropriations committee hearings have to be held in public with TV cameras and microphones. And get it's so much worse, Dana.

They've appointed, if you ever hear someone tell you that the House doesn't have Democrat chairman, know you are being lied to. The Appropriations Committee has multiple Democrat chairmen. They wrote the budget in secret, so the House budget was written by Democrats. for Democrats, it funded Democrat priorities. And it was written in secret in black and white violation of the House rules.

And then the appropriation chair, this rhino, Greg Bonnin, in order to hide, we haven't even talked about this yet. In order to hide what he wants to do, which is take $5 billion of the rainy day fund, okay, which we're about to blow through the cap, instead of giving it back to the taxpayers that I want to do, he wants to take $5 billion. Hand it to rich investment firms so they can make a fortune managing your property tax dollars, your sales tax dollars. But he didn't want to do it with the cameras rolling, so he forced us to meet in a small room in a corner of a museum. And fortunately, I had my staffer there to start recording this when I had to read the rules to him and force him to cancel the whole meeting.

And so I was able to temporarily kill that bill. But don't worry, that one's going to come back. They're going to rob you of $5 billion more dollars that should go to property tax relief so they can hand it to rich investment firms on Wall Street. This is insanity. Give us some names.

Who well Greg Bonnam is the chair of that committee. Let me tell you the worst way to talk about the names, Dana. This hurts my heart.

Some of these people are my friends, okay? The most egregious bill we've had so far is HB 2, the $8 billion, most liberal, bloated boondoggle I've ever seen since getting elected to public office. The there were only Four. Republicans. That had the courage to vote against this Democrat and Rhino-constructed bill.

Four Republicans had the courage to vote against this. And we have 88 Republicans in the Texas House. That is how bad things are. And I've had it with Republicans campaigning like Ron Paul, but governing like Mitch McConnell. But that's what we have every day here in the Texas House.

That's a very good point. We're talking with Texas Brian Harrison. I noticed that someone was saying, oh, Brian Harrison couldn't show up, even though he was complaining. You were in another hearing. You were what gets me is it was a public hearing.

So this dude I don't want to give him too much attention, but he's an editor at this. It's a propaganda thing over down in Austin. And he was trying to accuse you of not showing up When they try to hold a hearing on your legislation, because you were literally in another public hearing that was also streaming at the same time. I guess he doesn't read.

Well, you know what? I thought that the bloggers and the reporters in DC were liberal and low IQ. I had no idea what low IQ was on bloggers until I got elected to the Texas House and came down here to Austin.

Okay, so these ankle-biting, you know, liberal bloggers, yes, they tried to concoct this smear that I wasn't at work, trying to find some way to discredit me, to take me out because they can't. But they can't go after your points, so they're going to come after you. No, but the truth is, and if he had turned on the other TV screens, he would know that I was literally voting on bills. I had been in the Capitol for three hours. I was voting on bills in another hearing.

It was only for 10 minutes when I was voting on bills. And somehow, in a day-long hearing, during that 10-minute window, my bill, which by the way, it was a bill to stop. Up ESG in Texas. He calls up my bill, knowing I'm not in the room, and then withdraws the bill, something that never happens. They usually just wait till the member comes and hears the bill.

So what they've actually done, I just tweeted this out, in their like cheap stunt that they thought, okay, we're gonna smear this conservative Brian Harrison because he's making us look bad and he's exposing us. All they've actually done, Texans see through this, all they've done is help the ESG supporting leftists by protecting ESG in the state of Texas. That's what their cheap stunt actually accomplished. But you know what? It shouldn't be surprising that they did something today that helps ESG supporting leftists because Democrat, because the truth is Democrats control the Texas House.

Yeah, Democrats are apparently running a red state. What can voters do? I feel like they call and they email, but then a staffer reads it and it goes right into the trash can. Yeah. So here's what you do.

You call them, email, but do it with a very specific question. Don't ask them about conservative, liberal, Republican, Democrat. They all have the right answers. They know what to say around campaign time. And that's what they're going to say to the voters.

Ask them a specific question. Say we know that the leadership of the House is corrupt. Say we know Democrats really control the speaker.

So, ask them: give me an example where you have publicly stood up to the failed, corrupt, rhino-Democrat-controlled leadership of the Texas House. Give me an example you can point to where you have stood up to House leadership. And if they don't give you an answer, find them on Facebook, or worse, find them on X. I promise you, if you tag them in a tweet or on X, I guess it is on a post on X, they will see it. Ask them to explain to you.

How they are fighting for you, what they have done to advance liberty and freedom, and how they have stood up in a tangible and visible way. To the corrupt leadership in the Texas House that is colluding with Democrats to bankrupt the next generation and destroy liberty in the state. They're running people out of Texas is what they're going to do. And I think that's the same thing. But they're running conservatives.

They're running small government, liberty-loving Texans out of this state. But it's worse than that. They're bringing in wealthy liberals from all over the country by stealing property tax money from individuals and mom and pause shops and make but who they're making pay full freight on their property taxes. But then they're offering tax abatements to rich, woke, multinational firms to relocate here and not making them pay a dime on their property tax bill. It's the most perverse set of incentives people could possibly imagine for this state.

It's harming individual Texans and it is enriching rich, woke, multinational firms who are bringing their left-wing voters to the state of Texas. Texas Representative Brian Harrison, you do an amazing job for us in Austin and keep at it. And we're here right with you. You just let us know what we need to do. To put the heat on some of these folks because some of us like putting the heat on the folks that deserve it.

So, you let us know. We appreciate all you do and your time.

Well, the only way good things happen in Austin is when people feel the pressure.

So, let me reciprocate. Thank you for the kind words, but thank you for what you're doing, Dana, to shed a light on this and bring transparency to the swamp. I always say transparency is like kryptonite in the swamp.

So, I appreciate what you're doing as well.

Well, thank you.

Well, we'd love to have you back. I know we will, and we'll talk again soon. Thank you so much. Talk soon, Dana. That's Texas Representative Brian Harrison.

You should go find him. He's at BrianE. Harrison on X. You're gonna get mad, though, got all the stuff that he's been revealing. Just FYI.

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