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So, what you're looking at photographs right now of Michael Waltz. He is the president's national security advisor, except for we just got news that he is going to be leaving the administration along with his deputy, Alex Wong. Of course, if you might remember the story of SignalGate, I don't know if that's for a particular reason, but there was some consternation amongst some people about Mike Waltz, who you might remember, was a congressman. Uh Green Beret, a long long history and career in foreign policy and I believe J All right, welcome to the show. It's a busy day.

We already got POTUS. Kicking it off day of prayer. I thought maybe we'd get a little bit of time and he'd like kick in at the uh at the bottom of the hour, but no. No waiting. No waiting.

That's okay. That's okay. So, so welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you.

So, Mike Waltz is out. That's like, that just came in like an hour ago. We're going to dive into all of that. That's from the Signal. Chat.

leak and you knew something like this was coming. Uh I don't I think it happened probably a lot quicker than maybe anybody anticipated, Kane, I think. Yeah, that's fair. Because we went from talking about it to. I mean, literally, just like a week ago, and then now Mike Waltz is out, other NSC, national security.

staffers out as well. Waltz and his deputy. are also out. I like Mike Waltz, and just so you have a background as to who he is, I mean obviously, you know, he was a congressman and he ended up going into NSC. But he, Mike Walz's district, that was one of the districts that they had that special election for.

They had the special election to. to fill his district and I mean, he was considered, I think, a pretty valuable house member. I was some of the other individuals who were a little nervous about him taking. you know, Waltz and and others uh Out of the house because you know, we just a little nerve-wracking.

So, and that's the seat that uh actually Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, and I used to have that seat. Uh, they had the special election for that, and uh, just they just had it, and so I don't know what he's going to do now. I mean, I don't know, he hasn't really, I don't think he's released a statement or anything, uh, yet, anyway, but uh, that's that's the latest that's happening, a lot of fallout for. From that signal chat. And it's interesting because I don't think that the signal chat.

Honestly, I mean Am I downplaying it? And you guys know I'm hardly a sycophant. I think everybody can say, you know, that Dana Lash is hardly. I mean, I like POTUS. I know POTUS personally.

I like a lot of the other people out there. I know him personally, but. I also call balls and strikes. And if it's, you know, if there's something bad, I'll say, oh, I think this is bad. Or, you know, this is not a good look for POTUS.

You know, there's certain policies of his that I have not been a fan of. And some I really love. Anything that has to do with taxation, as you guys know, or anything, you know, two-way stuff, I always get very, very antsy on. With this, the signal chat, I mean, I feel like I'm not. I'm not trying to be cutie with it.

But Kane, am I downplaying it by thinking that it's overblown? I think it was overblown, the reaction to all of this. Yeah, I think it was kind of intentionally overblown.

Well, yeah, but the fact that other, the fact that they're out, because I just tend to think that if POTUS didn't want them out, they're not going anywhere. No, that's exactly right. And he said as much with Pete Hegseth, where he like supports Pete to that degree. I've never heard him talk about Mike Waltz that way. No, I mean, I think he likes Mike Waltz, but I don't think, like with you, I don't think that it's been, I don't think he's got that close relationship with him.

as he does. Uh hegseth. I won I I wanted to say sec death. Sec, death, hexeth.

So that's the new news. Mike Waltz is out of the Trump NSA. And also, POTUS right now is speaking at the Prayer breakfast, or well, prayer breakfast, National Day of Prayer. They had a prayer event at the White House. I want to be careful, it's not like you know, a prayer breakfast per se.

They had an event at the White House. Do we want to dive in and hear some of this? Is he? Because I think right now he's just doing salutations and all that.

So we'll touch in on it when he gets into some of the meat and potatoes of it. But it's nice that we have a national day of prayer. And do you know, by the way, here's a fun fact for you. National Day of Prayer, the bill to acknowledge this was initiated back in 1952 by Conrad Hilton of Hilton Hotels. She guys know that?

I have no idea how I know that, but I do. I remember reading it, I think, somewhere years ago. Yeah, the Hilton Hotel family. Yeah, like Paris Sultan's family. Like her family, her Grandfather.

Grandfather. Was the one who initiated, was one of the people, one of like two people who initiated this. Very interesting, is it not?

So we have a packed show for you today. We're getting into a lot. a lot of stuff. In fact, later on today, We're doing something a little different because I've never had on, like, well, I mean, I've had on, I don't think I've had on peak headseth before. But We've had on different members of the military, et cetera.

There's a lot of stuff that's changing in terms of. Policies that regulate readiness, lethality, a number, and acquisition. And a lot of that is changing. That's a big thing that's going to have to change. And we're going to have the Secretary of the Army is going to be joining us a little bit later on in our program.

We're going to dive into some of this because this has always been a huge issue with regard to. Uh you know one of my criticisms I don't think that defense spending is a sacred cow, but simultaneously.

So, we're going to, you know, there's things that have to be done.

So, we're having General Randy George on, he's chief of staff for the Army and Secretary of the Army, Dean Driscoll. They're going to be joining us later on because they're going to get into exactly what is coming, what they're doing, what they're cutting, what they're not cutting, how they're redirecting, reallocating, and reinvesting. And this is based on a conversation that I had with him in person a couple of months ago because I was shocked at how much of, I mean, my jaw hit the floor legitimately. My I was shocked at how Much waste in the military comes from Really anachronistic acquisition.

So, like, if you make a purchase for like a jet or something like that, and then you know, obviously, technologies change. And then you, by the time it's delivered, you know, a decade on, then there's a lot of stuff that's outmoded. And yet, because you have these lawmakers that have made these commitments to bring home that pork barrel, you know, to bring home these defense contracts, it's really, really hard for them to get rid of them.

So, we're going to talk, and that's just one of the things.

So, we're going to discuss a lot of that with them. But POTUS is in the rose garden. Yeah, this is the rose garden. They're in the rose garden. Remember when Melania Trump redesigned the rose g garden and everybody got mad and then Joe Biden made it look like a goofy thing again?

So he's speaking right now. This is the National Day of Prayer. And I'm just Honestly, I'm just curious to see if he dives into. Dives into some jabs and punches. There's a lot of stuff to hit today.

And as you know, as we just, I mean, literally, as we just started the show, the announcement came in that heads did roll, in fact, and Mike Waltz is the one who is out. Although, I think the left is sad because they wanted Hegseth out. I think this was about them eliminating Pete Hegseth and getting him out of the way. But this was, I mean, it literally just came in. I mean, moments ago.

Mike Waltz is out. And I'm curious because what signals does this send as it pertains to foreign policy and direction? Because this is a very, I mean, obviously it's a purposeful, but it's a very interesting. I like Mike Waltz. I met Mike Waltz.

Mike Waltz, I think Mike Waltz has been on the program. He's a very straightforward, straight shooter. And I think a lot of people were upset because he had, what's his face? Jeffrey Goldberg. Who was on the uh on that it got somehow inadvertently added To the signal chat.

And I honestly think it was just an accident of somebody not checking.

Now, there are some critics of Mike Waltz, and we talked a little bit. A couple of weeks ago, about how there seems to be this, it's a small schism, but a schism nonetheless, of people who are. Pro-Iran, like a more watered-down Obama-Iran policy, and people who are very much in Trump and Hegseth's camp, who are very much, they don't want to empower Iran, and they don't want any part of that old failed policy that Obama Biden and even Biden Harris had as it pertains to Iran.

So, we're going to dive into some of this because that's just unfolding. We have headlines on the way as well. We've got some cultural things to hit. And of course, you know, Red State rhino hunting. Do I have some things for you?

So, we have a lot of stuff to hit today as we get moving and we're coming up on headlines.

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Yeah, apparently they had a little earthquake, a 3.9 magnitude earthquake in Salt Lake City. Over and well, the KSL TV said it was 4.2.

Somebody else said it was 3.9.

So I don't know. I mean, there's obviously a slight difference there. But this kind of goes into this one, the first headline that I have in terms of earthquakes. It said a massive earthquake could sink parts of the Pacific Northwest coast within minutes. And they said that a major earthquake along that fault line could have catastrophic consequences along coastal Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.

Well, duh. I mean, it's all like sea level, super sandy, marshy up there. I can totally see that. Pakistan may hit 120 degrees this week. It could be a new record.

I don't think that that's a new record. I think I've honestly heard. You know, other places getting hotter than that. They said the global record is 122 degrees Fahrenheit, but it is super hot in Pakistan, parts of India right now, getting up there all the way up going towards Hindu Kush.

So, uh Nobody plans on going there, I don't think, so yeah. Yeah, I'm like that. I'm like, it's okay here. It's actually cold and very British weather outside in Texas today. Declassified, ah, here's the meet and taties.

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No, I know you're not. You are going home. Simple as that. We do not have unlimited resources. I think a lot of Americans take care of other people.

There's a hell of a lot. Hold on. Other than the black people who were brought here as slaves who came to this country illegally. They are not the same as black people who were brought here against the people. That's exactly what I should say.

I said there is a lot of people who are not aware of that. Also, though. Other than the black person. Sherman, Sherman, and Anna. You can act indignant.

That's exactly what I just said. Let me just share my thoughts. Other than the black people. Anna and Sherman has. There are a lot of people from Latin America.

I think you actually misheard what she. I think you misheard what she said. No, he purposely is hurt. She said, yes, she did.

So now you're in my life. Share Michael, listen to me for a time. Is that where we're going? I was saying I have advocated black people my entire life, something like that. Because you've advocated for black people.

Anna, great. Congratulations. Last time I checked, I'm black, you're not.

Okay, show me. Oh, that's right. I'm Latino, and my people are being racially profiled. Do I have to remind you the history of my people? Share.

Do I want to go with it? No, I don't remember. Do you really want to go? We're going to go to break. We're going to go to break.

Raul Reyes, thank you very much for joining us. Everybody else, Abby Phillips cannot control the panel. First off, that was, golly, that was a hot. Mass. I mean, I expect to see, you know, a woman act like that.

In maybe a dollar store or Waffle House at 2 a.m. or Waffle House at 2 a.m., drunk and slapping people with her flip-flop. But I don't expect to see her acting like that. you know on a set so that was uh anna navarro And Sir Michael Singleton. And I'm highlighting it for the specific purpose of Identity Politic Olympics.

Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you.

So, this I thought was one of the craziest things. Anna Navarro was just mad in this segment. Because she Realizes that she loses authority by not being the only minority on set. That is where her soul, all of her influence and everything comes from. That's all she talks about.

Every day, that's all she ever talks about. Every conversation that I've ever seen, and it's not like I follow her, I've never gone to her for insight, sidebar. When When I was getting into politics at the policy level back in 08, 09, everything else from the Tea Party, she was there on the right. She was always trying to get on Fox and she was always writing op-eds, but she never really had any traction. She was just kind of basic, right?

And it wasn't until she decided to get TDS and go on a rampage and pretend to be Republican while going on The View, and then she got the slot on The View. I don't I honestly don't know how she considers herself a Republican because she's on the left side of Republicans on every single issue. And I tend to think Republicans, by and large, are pretty moderate. That's why I'm not one because they're too moderate for me. I just don't subscribe to any particular party because they're all stupid.

That said, I don't know why she calls herself a Republican because she's so far to the left of any Republican policy and she has a problem with all of it. But that's like her and David Brock, who started Media Matters, that's sort of their MO. They didn't get enough appreciation on the right. And so, out of spite, they just decided to reject their ideology and go to the left because the left would use them. And they mistake being used with appreciation.

They mistake being played as influence. And it's kind of embarrassing to watch like an older woman get played like that by producers and the left. She's just mad because she sits on that panel and she's not the only minority. She doesn't have any authority derived from being the only minority on set. She does not want to share any intersectionality because.

That's all she brings to the table. She's it's a whole it's her whole entire grift. And that's why she talks about it endlessly. Every response that she has, like all of these videos that we've played before, I think in honesty, it's only been like a couple. But she always taught, well, I'm a Latina, I'm this, I'm, you know, blah, blah, blah.

And she's constantly playing identity politics as a way to shut everyone up and sort of try to gain. An alpha position at the table based upon that. And what Kane and I were talking about on break is that plays still on television, at least with the old crowd. It plays on television because that's, I mean, clearly she thinks that there's a value in that. And I think previously it used, maybe people were too, I don't think it was value.

I think it was bullying. People did not want to be accused of a moral failing because they disagreed with a minority. And so, and that's how it was. I mean, Ever, oh my gosh. My whole entire life in politics, that's all it's been.

If you disagree with this, you're a racist. You didn't even have to disagree with someone who had a different skin color or background. You could not want to vote for Hillary Clinton, the old white woman who fell down in Manhattan and lost a Tory Birch slipper, and you're called a racist. But that's a grift, it's identity politics. And so she's sitting there.

Across from Shermichael Singleton, who's a conservative. And He was accurate. and calling out her super dumb comparison. And she did make a dumb comparison. And if she wanted to make it clearer, she should have spoken better instead of mushmouthing and running all of her words together.

I mean, nobody knows what you're saying when you're talking like the micro machine man and you're blah, blah, blah, blah, like, I mean, you're not, you know, this is, this is not one too many mimosas brunch. You're on a panel on a morning show. Act like it. You know, speak clearly, articulate your words, have like ideas. And the defense can't always be, well, I'm Latino, so you can't disagree with me.

No one gives a rat's ass. Spare us, you racist bitch. I'm so tired of this stuff. And that's exactly what it is. Oh, quote me.

I'm so tired of it. I'm tired of the griff that these people have day in and day out. They're racists. And she tries to shut up. A guy for being conservative by acting like she's the white adjacent savior of the black race.

That there was at one point in that, she's like, Well, I've I've defended, you know, blah, blah, blah, my, you know, my whole life, black American. Who cares? Are you supposed to get a special trophy for this? You're so I mean, that's like an actual racist remark.

So you get to shut someone else down and you get to demonize and diminish their background by making this. Absolutely illogical and embarrassing comparison to criminal illegal. entry And you compare it Really awkwardly to slavery. And then, when he just makes a reasonable objection, you lose your mind and become a stereotype. That's embarrassing.

And I'm just tired of seeing this. That's all CNN has. CNN's like, okay, we gotta, do we have the black commentator, the Hispanic commentator, the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant? Let's make sure that we have every not people don't, I don't think people care about it anymore because they were supposed, they were forced to make it a priority. Completely the opposite of how I was raised.

Cain, when we were younger, no one cared about this, no one cared about what race you were. Nope. I mean, some of you know how goofy this is when I was younger. I had friends, some of my very good friends, my very, very close friends were Hispanic. And I just, it never registered with me.

It never Because no one obsessed over it. We just did our thing. Are you cool? Do you want to hang out?

Okay. Oh, we like the same music. That's awesome. Yay. Oh, we're both in the same sport.

Yay, that's great. We like some. I mean, that's all it was. You just didn't. And it didn't matter if they were Hispanic or black or Asian or whatever or Indian.

One of my very good friends was Indian. And we just didn't even care. It's not. No one sat around and focused on, so you're Indian, talk to me about that, or you're black, let's discuss. We just didn't do that.

That was not a phenomenon until. I guess when I started at college. And then it started becoming a thing. And I noticed that it was becoming a thing because people were putting that as their identity first and foremost above everything else. And my first experience.

When I was a freshman in college, One of the people that I met and became friends with, she was a black woman, and we got along really good. You know, we liked a lot of the same food, you know. And I mean, obviously, we had clearly we had differences, but it wasn't just, it wasn't something that we. um really focused on. And then I knew I saw kind of going into my sophomore year that she started to be a little bit more identity forward.

She had joined a couple of groups in college and she started to be a little bit more identity forward. And then by the time we were leaving and graduating, it was, we just didn't really talk anymore because she had become very, very militant in that. And I started to see other people get very, very militant in terms of being that's your that is your identity first and foremost above anything else, above being a Christian, above being an American, even above being like a woman. Like that, that became, and it didn't matter if you were black or Muslim or Asian or Indian or whatever, that became like the thing. Immediately, like, okay, here's this: we're never going to be very close because you and I don't share this identity politic.

And that's when I really started noticing it take root. And it was really sad because that was not anything that. You know? And then there were all of these manufactured victimization stories. I don't know.

But I just saw this and I'm like, that is so, that was really bitchy to do to him. To say that. And you can tell she got mad because he objected. She is not used to having her identity politic contested, particularly on a national stage. And I probably would say, particularly by someone who, you know, if you really wanted to argue identity politics, probably has a bigger box to check than she does.

I don't think that he was participating in it. I think that he was highlighting her absurdity with absurdity, and she just wasn't quick enough to get it. She's not smart enough to see it. That was one of the most embarrassing exchanges I've ever seen. If I was a producer, I'd be like, I can't have her back on the show because.

it turned into like kindergarten fighting. That was embarrassing, but that's what it is. I mean, and there, and I've seen people like this. I've seen people like this on the right, too. This identity politic, you know, the phrase the woke right, that is a real thing.

There are people on the right that use identity politics as kind of like a shield simultaneously, a shield and a cudgel, the same way that they do on the left. Identity politics is identity politics, and it doesn't matter. What the rest of your politics are, if you subscribe to that, that is a communist left tactic. And you're you're practicing it when you subscribe to that. But that was insane.

Can you imagine, you know, acting like, well, yeah, but I've defended black people, Kane. Like, oh, oh, yes, Massa. That means that you can be the ultimate authority over me. Oh, you've defe- that's like saying, yes, I have black friends. Isn't that the same thing as saying it?

That's like. That's the exact same thing. Good heavens. That was just so embarrassing. It was a very embarrassing discussion.

It did not go well with him. I got a couple of other things. to touch on as well. Because we've been following this Mike Waltz stuff. But did you also see?

And this went out. In my prep email. If you get my prep email, that's all the stuff that we discuss. The uh Next day, or that we that we discuss later on in the show. You know the Maryland Dad.

You guys heard about this precious baby Marilyn Dad? You guys know, you've heard about sweet, innocent Kilmar Brego Garcia. He's so innocent, Came. Sweet. Sweet.

He's a, you know, it's like a little baby infant. You know how Hunter Biden's a baby? I mean, he's almost he's pushing sixty, but he's infant baby Hunter Biden.

Okay, so Kilmar Obrego Garcia. Apparently his ex his wife, ex-wife are gonna be apparently repeatedly petitioned for protective order against him. Repeatedly. And what's more, he bragged to people that he could kill her and no one could touch him. Jennifer Vasquez-Sura, in a document that she filed with the District Court of Maryland for Prince George's County, said, I also have a recording that he told my ex-mother-in-law that even if he kills me, no one can do anything to him.

We're going to talk more about this coming up because I mean, this is actually very, very smart for DOJ to do, to drip, drip this stuff. Because now you're seeing they have had all this, and they've just been waiting for the left to trip themselves up and keep defending this criminal, this wife-beating criminal. But you know, this Maryland man. Yeah, he boasted that he could kill his wife and no one could touch him. And this was according to one of the a request for a motion for a protective order that she filed in 2020.

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And please. Always remember. This country It doesn't belong to whoever is in the White House. It belongs to you. It belongs to us.

It belongs to we, the people. Gosh, just I'm so tired of this basic boilerplate. You know this is our land, and this is your land, from California to the New York Islands. Yeah. Sland was made for you and me.

Not the White House I'm just so tired of this stuff. It's so boring. She's boring. Her stupid speeches are boring. I would be sitting there, it didn't matter if I liked her or not, and rolling my eyes out of my head.

Like, be original. The red meat platitudes and the stupid word salads, I'm just, golly, she's such an embarrassment. Why is she even out there still giving speeches? that you were put out to pasture. Go.

You know, I mean, hell, even the heifers know. I'm gonna go eat some grass, and they just move on. Yeah, they're smart though. Welcome back to the program. Was that mean?

I don't care. I just, no holds bar today. None. None. The whole thing is goofy.

And then between. If she if she's really gonna try. I will say. If she did try for a Democrat primary for 2028. They're gonna destroy Hurricane.

Other Democrats will. They won't care. She's not protected anymore. Doesn't it even seem like the Obamas have abandoned her? Because she was groomed by the Obamas.

I mean, w from, you know, from the time she was AG going into Senate.

So I feel like They've even kind of abandoned her. Yeah. I I don't know. I'm I cannot and then between her and Tim Waltz, who said that He was like he would talk white guy code. What is his damage?

He needs to go also. He was giving us he was somewhere I guess he was raising money. And um He was again, once again, embarrassing himself. He said, embarrassing himself. He said, Harris chose him.

to talk to white people because I could code talk to white guys. Hey, Kane. Kane and Steve, do you, like, what's white guy code? I feel like this is, we're gonna have to explore this. We're running out of time.

Yeah, let's explore this later. Like, how do white guys code talk to each other? Is that a thing? I don't know. We're going to discuss that here coming up.

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And you look across those swing states, with the exception of Minnesota. We didn't get enough of the yeah, because people thought you were stupid and they don't believe that you fix a truck and they sure as hell don't believe that you go and shoot when you couldn't even figure out how to load your brand new shotgun that you said you used all the time. Tim Walls, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you.

That's just that tells you everything that you need to know about how Democrats view. Uh White dudes. Oh, that's all you guys do. Kane and Steve. It's all you guys do, you sit around fixing your truck.

Watching football, doing white guy stuff.

Well, Kane, white adjacent stuff for you, wink, wink. Always like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you only get half of it. Forever wide adjacent.

That's right, yeah. That's you know, however, it's situationally advantageous to the left to define you. That's how it'll go forward. Oh my gosh, welcome back. Daniel Lash with you, top of the second hour.

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So Yeah, the code stuff. I I just found that That's incredibly insulting. And I am not shocked. that that's but that's the view that Democrats have of Of White guys. That's it.

That's how they view it. Only white guys talk about football and fixing your trucks. Yeah, I mean you guys know this only white guys do that right and he the what did he say he he was the How did he put it? The permission structure. I don't even quite know what that means.

The per I want to make sure I want to make sure that I got his quote right. Hang on, hang on, I gotta make it all official. Uh He wanted to be yeah, he wanted to be the permission He was the permission structure for that.

So What does that mean?

So, a political messenger or a political strategist came up with that?

So he was the So they so you're telling me that Democrats are like, How do we talk to white people? I gosh, I don't know. We need a structure of permission. until Tim Waltz came around to make it awkward. I I They cannot.

He cannot go away fast enough. But that's how they view it. And you know what? They still lost. And that was really hysterical how he kind of had to admit that at the end.

He's like, Yeah, well, you know, in the swing states, and I felt like he was really thought he was going somewhere with that. And then he goes, Oh, wait, we got our Got our butts kicked. Yeah, I can't use that as an example. Oops, can't do that.

So, some of the latest news. We've got Mike Waltz, who is out. at uh NSC. And this was one of the late this happened like right when we were going. going to air.

And so it's all from the signal group. Chat where he apparently accidentally added the Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg. And you had the vice president and SECDAF on this, and they were talking about military. Plans for Yemen. Not anything, honestly, from everything that he said, it's not like he got.

secret code and Numerous officials within the CIA and FBI have all said that they've had, or sorry, NSC and FBI, have all said that, yeah. Uh we um We have the we have signal preloaded on stuff. Do you honestly think that if there is a government encryption app that it's going to be any better? I mean, think about all the stuff that's leaked. It doesn't matter.

If someone wants to leak information on you, they're going to leak information. It doesn't matter how secure you think it is. That's been that is that is a lie that people tell themselves to ease their discomfort at being so reliant upon digital everything. It's true. It's absolutely true.

So. Whether or not he stepped down voluntarily, it seems like he was kind of forced out though. I will say you agree with me on that, Kane. You think he was forced out? Was he forced out as a way to not have to let go of of Heg Seth?

They weren't going to let it go. They wanted a scout. The left wanted a scout. I think that they saw that there was heat building up on both issues, and the way to relieve the heat on both issues is to have one sacrificial lamb. And he already had backed himself and backed up Heg Seth very strongly.

Recently.

So I think that was what they think they had to do politically to get some heat off of this issue. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's exactly what. I mean, it's exactly what they had to do.

So, yeah, I'm all. I find that just, I find it very, very interesting the way that that all happened. But it's him, and it's also, from what I understand, Alex Wong, who's his deputy, also stepping down from this, from his position.

So, and I think that's probably, I get the. I get the um Mm. feeling that those are the only two that are going to go. That's it. That's all they're offering.

I get it. That's all they're gonna offer. It makes sense, right? That makes sense.

So We um have been with this Because we've covered this. Gosh, I don't really think that he should have had to get. I don't think that he should have had to go. And his deputy, Alex, I don't really think that they should have. Had to.

I think it was an accident. I mean, I get it. Um I and it's up to the administration's discretion, honestly, who serves and who doesn't. Uh I don't know if POTUS is going to speak to it, today's the National Day of Prayer.

So, I don't know if today's the day he's going to speak to it. I actually, that's one of the reasons why I was kind of. We were eavesdropping in on what was happening in the Rose Garden with his remarks on that. I apparently anybody else that's removed from office is going to be announced because apparently there were some additional staffers that have not been made public yet that were removed. And Waltz, again, he was a Florida congressman.

He actually took the congressional seat after Governor Ron DeSantis. It's DeSantis' district when he served in the House. And Mike Waltz took that seat now. His they had a special election for it. And Waltz took responsibility.

He said, I built the group. He said, I take full responsibility for it. And if it's a decision that you know, if a decision made that comes from the admin, quite frankly, I think that that's less of a concern than what's his face, the guy oh gosh, the guy who ended up leaving. uh his post over in uh over at the Pentagon and just didn't tell anybody? Remember?

and didn't tell a single person. Austin? Yeah, Lloyd Austin. When Lloyd Austin left, he was gone for like over a week and he didn't tell a single person where he was at. I mean, this guy's over at the pen.

Are you kidding me? He didn't tell anybody, and they didn't let they didn't even discipline him. Yeah, did they demand he be fired on the left? Anyone on the left? Yeah, he was.

Oh, sorry. I meant to say two weeks, not just over a week. He was out for two weeks. And The p a uh uh a Pentagon Watchdog said that Lloyd Austin's hospitalization, quote, unnecessarily increased risks to national security. And the administration acted like it didn't happen.

They defended all the left defended that. They defended him just like they defended all of the people who who ignored the fact that when Kabul was about to fall, the Hamid Karzai International Airport. That the Taliban was literally rolling through Afghanistan, you know, because they were they're starting fighting season. They have seasons in Afghanistan, and you know, like we have spring and summer and fall and winter.

Well, they have let's go harvest the poppies, let's go stay in the mountains and let's go kill everybody. Those are their seasons, and then heat, that's the fourth one, heat. And they were rolling through villages in Afghanistan and using WhatsApp to get people to surrender before they even arrived. They would announce on WhatsApp. I'm not joking.

They literally did this. And our guys knew about it. And nobody did. I mean, there was no condemnation from anyone in the Biden administration for that. I mean, we could talk about the nuke twink.

Remember that, dude? The nuclear twink? Who. I mean, with stealing people's luggage and then wearing all of their clothes to events around the country. I will never forget the story of Sam Brinkman, the nuclear tweak, who.

I mean, literally had a classified Clearing Yeah, security. Uh uh clearance. And stole this uh African clothing designers, luggage. and then proceeded to poorly wear all of her clothes and jewelry to different events all over the country. And then she finally got attention.

She was complaining about it. Like, those, that's literally my one-of-a-kind dress that I designed. Those are my one-of-a-kind earrings that I designed. Oh my gosh. And he was wearing, and she was using, he was wearing materials that she used.

Uh to pay Homage to different parts of African culture and heritage, right?

So they didn't mean anything to him, but to her, or to us, it would be like, you know, you're taking the American flag and wearing it like a pair of pants. You know, I mean, it's that, I mean, it was that egregious to her and her background. And there was nothing from the Biden administration about that. They never said a damn thing about it. Not a word.

What about that uh dude who ended up uh making uh gay porno in the Senate hearing chamber? Can't talk about that. Yeah, you know, he's got he moved to Australia and he's now he's trying to advertise his OnlyFans, of course. They didn't say anything about that. What about the cocaine that was found there?

They didn't say, oh, but my gosh, they're so mad because.

something they were discussing something Very innocuously in a signal chat that's actually, you know, it's not like Hillary Clinton. This is actually okay to use on these devices. And they got mad because somebody inadvertently, and yes, his mistake was not checking that it was Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic. He had meant to hire somebody or meant to add someone else to the group, a lower-level staffer, and it ended up being like this.

So, yeah, that's his problem. But. Uh They're trying to say it's infinitely worse than that, and it's not. My whole point is. And I I get a little Machiavellian about it.

Yes, if we're holding to standards. Maybe we would say, okay, we understand that there's a consequence, even if it was accidental and there was no ill will. There has to be a consequence. I get it. But at the same time, I want to go, you know what?

He's one of ours. Screw you. Look at all the egregious affronts that you presented to not only our NATSEC, but also this, you know, the government function as a whole. Take a million seats. We're not doing this.

I just, I don't allow my opposition to tell me who I have to sacrifice at the altar of appearing like we are. Uh The better guys. Can I just be honest about it? I don't allow the left to tell me what to do. Like with the Herschel Walker thing.

Oh my gosh, people were falling out over that. Can you believe Dana said she doesn't care if you aborted baby eagles? You're damn right. I said it, and I still mean it. You're damn right.

Because, see, the left tries to hold you hostage by illogically and inaccurately presenting your standards against you, and they try to weaponize that. But at the same time, they want you to ignore the fact that the consequence of that is going to be worse than the alternative of not taking their directives.

So I don't know. It's all about the ends.

So, yeah, I just wouldn't have let him, I wouldn't have jettisoned him. I wouldn't have.

So, that kind of signals to me that there was probably pushback within the administration. I think it was somebody within the administration that was telling POTUS he's got to go. And if you don't want it to be Hegseth, then it's got to be this guy. I think that they put Waltz out there and Alex Wong and apparently a couple of other folks. I think that they put him out there so they wouldn't have to do Heg Seth.

Like, okay, we'll give you this, but you can't have this. When it but Also, when does that ever satisfy the left? Never. Never. Do you think they're ever going to?

Do you think the left is going to go, okay, well, at least we've got something? I guess we'll leave Heg Seth alone. No. Never. It's you're right.

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So Apparently, there's a new social revolution sweeping America. It's the hot new club called Staying In. It's your house and your music and all your food in your fridge. What? Literally, apparently like That's the thing.

It means avoiding nightlife. I think a lot of that might be driven by the economy, too, if I'm being honest. 72% of adults prefer their living or into night life. Can I be real though? I've always been like this my whole life.

When I am out somewhere, it is always reluctantly. Kane will attest to it. I am a hobbit. I actually could be happy being the only person on earth forever. I think I'm one of the only people that could live like that.

I am completely fine. I'll entertain myself, do my hobbies, you know, whatever. I'm totally fine with it. As long as I have dogs, not that it's different. But they said that three-quarters of Americans would rather stay home.

Than go out. And that includes with friends, with or without friends. They would even rather stay in their homes and have friends over than even go out with people.

So it's kind of interesting. I don't know. I think some of it, a lot of this is Gen Z driven. Gen Z are also hobbits because they were raised by us, Gen X. What are you now?

What is this? Oh, Barbara Streising is debuting. I don't care. I literally don't care. They're doing an album with a whole bunch of older people.

I don't care. All right. Robertson Can I just say I think she's overrated? Barbara Streisand is one of the most overrated performers on God's Green Earth. I don't get it.

Like... Yeah, that's news. I mean, you know, don't try to convince me you're not gonna. I don't get it. I just don't get her.

I have a couple of friends that think she's so great, and I'm like, you're young. What is the matter with you? Like, she's not. She has like one range. It's the same.

I'm gonna get hate mail. I will not get as much hate mail for saying that I hated ABBA though. People want to light me on fire for that. Don't get me. I mean, it's just not my bag.

They're talented. I think they have more talent than her, so it's okay. What's happening on planes? There's a fee, a flight attendant had to wrestle a crazy chick to the ground because she tried to storm the cockpit on a plane to New York. Was she a New Yorker?

That might make sense. And she's an older Karen too. And she tried to like get, did she think it was the bathroom? She, it was called a strange coup attempt, and she was mad. It was an American Airlines flight, and she was upset.

That it was delayed. And of course, you know, she's gonna be facing charges because you can't be doing that kind of thing, you can't be like acting like a fool on the plane like that. That's crazy. I, this is the, I'm honestly, we've had one of these headlines every single day. but it was a New Yorkbound American Airlines flight.

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So, yes, all I got to say is y'all need to get these folks out of here. But does she have a point? I can't tell. I can't see her eyes because of the insane spider legs that are affected, glued to her lash line. I'm sorry.

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Like, vary it up, make it a classy set, right? Classy, not trashy. All right. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you.

That's Jasmine Crockett, if you couldn't tell.

So her remark was. Uh Okay. I'm trying to understand how she thinks this is happening. How would it feel if countries sent people to our country? Wait, what?

Yes, you know, Kane, all the Americans that are trying to flee the United States and illegally immigrate into Mexico and Venezuela. I mean, it's just Venezuela's bemoans their problem of illegal immigration coming from the United States.

So woe is we. Nobody's doing that. Nobody's doing that. No, but that's not happening. You know, if I try to illegally immigrate into Puerto Rico or The Bahamas.

or Dominican Republic. Or Turks and Caicos. Guess what happens? They take you in. They do not even let you out of a part of the airport unless you present your documentation.

And then it has to be there. Case important, and then you got to fill it out when you got it, got to fill out your form, you got to make your declarations and all that. And you You have to use a certain kind of pen.

Well, at least in a couple of the countries I went to, they won't take it unless it's in something, somebody wouldn't take something unless it's in black ink. And then I was there, as a lady had red ink. And I borrowed her red pen to fill out one line, and they said that invalidates your whole form. You gotta do the whole thing again because there's red on it. I'm like, oh my gosh, what?

I mean, it's like a picky thing.

So where is she talking about? And we're not just snatching, Trump is not just like running around the United States in a windowless van that says free candy and snatching up people. and then yeeting them back to whatever, that's not happening. Does she know what is happening in these streets? And no one is leaving the United States to try to go anywhere else unless it's on vacay.

Rosie O'Donnell, but that's it. I can't believe they let her in there. I know. She went to Ireland. Maybe they, I mean, I guess they were like, oh, O'Donnell, and they just didn't even think about, oh, that one.

But now she wants to come back. Did you hear that?

Now she's thinking about coming back because it's hard to live out there. It's hard to live in rural Ireland, says the woman who's never lived in a rural area. What did you think was going to happen? What do you think is going to happen? You were not there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Google that, 'cause she she didn't, she doesn't want to be, she doesn't want to be, uh, she doesn't want to be there anymore. She wanted to come back. She moved out there and it wasn't uh It wasn't like She thought it would be, apparently. I I don't know.

That's just too funny. It's too funny. But No, that's not the policy. The policy is if you enter illegally. Then that's Democrats clearly know the difference between legal and illegal immigration.

They just think it's all the same. It doesn't matter because brown people. That's how they look at it. They think that everybody who immigrates to the United States, well, they must be brown.

Now think about the amount of racism and bigotry. It takes to come up with that as a response to any kind of debate on immigration. Because you know, on some of those yard signs, I don't even want to know the conversation that the White House gardeners had. You know, they were mad about them yard signs. You know, they were.

But Did you know on those signs there were like blonde hair, blue-eyed people on them signs because not everybody that comes here illegally is all from Central or South America. or from Haiti. That's just not Not, you know, some of them are Chinese, some of them are white, some of them come from, you know, where a ton of different places. But um It's This idea that There it's just all the same and there's no uh delineation at all. illegal and legal is I feel like that really has contributed to such a problem with this debate.

This discussion on immigration, it's really, it's, it's, and it's all on purpose. Oh, they're just snatching people. They're just, you know, yeah, Trump's throwing out there his windowless candy van. Won't you come in and get some free? I got some tacos here.

She come gets some free tacos and then snatches them up. And then yeets him to wherever the hell he wants. That's not how that works. People are so goofy. This is just stumps.

She's not the sharpest uh tool in the shed. Tool nonetheless, but not the Not the sharpest one in the shed. All right, a couple of other things. Oh, oh, oh.

So. I had We talked about white guy code, and we've been talking about this story uh with um Mike Waltz. Who's out? Can we also I've got a million things here that I want to make sure we're hitting on. Can we also talk a little bit?

We need to get touched on some of the Red State rhino hunting. Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm. We had a big bad one yesterday. with the uh meme police. Which is pretty crazy.

You can go ahead and kick it, Juan. See, we're getting. Look at our intro. The creepy music. Real nice, isn't it?

So, a couple of things with the Red State rhino hunting. Yesterday, we talked about the Political memory.

So the rhinos have been trying to, they've been working really, really hard to defend this. And there is a major, major problem. Uh, not just in Florida, but also in Texas. And we had this discussion with banning political memes and giving people like a year in jail for failing to attach a disclosure. There's a, I think, I feel like the rhinos trying to defend this.

Well, I don't feel they are. They are. Really Trying to muddy the discussion. They want you to think that this is only applicable to political advertising. Is a problem.

It's not true. And the reason it's not true, and I read the language to you yesterday from the bill, is that. There isn't enough, there is no distinction, and it's written, I feel like it's written purposefully vague.

So that there is no distinction with whether it's an ad or you are sharing something, whether it was an ad or not. on your own personal social media. Whether it's Facebook or Instagram or X or TikTok or wherever, there is no distinction in the wording of the bill. And so as a result, because of the vagary, Absolutely. You can be It's actionable under the wording of that bill if you share it.

People aren't being stupid and they're not being deceptive when they tell you that, yes, you could be jailed for sharing a political meme if you didn't go and beg the state of Texas's permission by way of a disclaimer that you would affix to your meme. And by the way, the disclaimer would have to be X amount size on the meme itself, a certain font, a certain font size, everything. Like all of these little things just to make it to where you are ensnared no matter what you do. Oh, I'm sorry, you were one point below on the font size. And keep in mind.

that even though Those requirements are listed in this bill that we talked about. Even though those requirements are listed, they don't actually. Uh Tell you Like, okay, what font? And what font size I don't know if that Has been determined or not, I don't know, but that's all in there.

So, all of the people who are saying that it's inaccurate. And again, I don't want to re-litigate it, but I read the bill, that portion of the bill to you on air yesterday. But the people who are saying that it's inaccurate, that's a lie. Because the wording of the bill is such, and I've consulted actually a ton of lawyer friends of mine, and I have my own reading comprehension, but just to be sure. And every single one of them are in agreement.

Yes, because of the wording of this bill. Yes, you actually could. Have an action against someone for sharing it.

So it doesn't necessarily just have to be an ad. Say Kane sees a political ad on Facebook, right? Because you know. Whatever algorithm or whatever, it'll pop that up like an ad, like a promoted thing, right? And he He takes it and shares it.

It doesn't matter if It's not just applicable just to the people who decided to design and run that ad. It's also applicable to him because there is no distinction, there's no exemption, it is just if you share this, regardless. If it is political advertising or not. And I think that was done on purpose. I think that they wrote it like that on purpose.

Because it's a Mott Bailey argument. They're saying, no, no, no, we're just talking about AI generative. Things for advertising, right? Because that can be with some moderates. I think it's a First Amendment violation, but whatever.

For some moderates, right, that might be a reasonable thing to argue, Kane, right? Like, oh, it's just for the ads.

Okay, I get it. Oh, the FEC rules, I get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand. But That's easier for them to defend. Then, oh, it's for everybody who shares it.

That's a little much.

So they pretend that, no, no, no, it's this more easily defensible thing. But in reality, the language of the bill means that even if it is an ad and you share it, There's no distinction between you and the ad. And again, they did it on purpose because the guy who did it, Dade Phelan, Dade Phelan. Is the he's the guy who shepherded this through, and he is the one that they did all these drunk dade memes on, and he was livid. I have friends in Austin.

I have some friends in the state capitol. That was a big thing with him.

Now here's a common trait. That all these rhinos share, whether it's that Alexane Drady, who's like Alexane Drady, who's like the beta or roar of Florida. It's embarrassing. All of these guys, they all share the same trait, they have egos. And their mouths love writing checks that their asses can't cash.

All of them. And it's it's It is, it's very They're very, very sensitive. And Lorraine just bought, made a really good point. And I didn't even think of this. She said, the font needed on memes in Texas better not be a font you have to buy.

I did not even think of that. Like, is it gonna be, you know, like Helvetica? Ariel? Like, because they say font. I didn't say font.

That's what it says. Like, you're going to have to have a certain font, certain size, all of this. And I I don't know. Texas is notorious. In some ways, it's good, and in some ways, it's bad.

They're very notorious in adding these little things. Onto bills.

So, for instance, in Texas, if you go to a business and they, it's very specific if you're a business. if you are a gun-free zone. And they are barring concealed or open carry. You have to have the exact signage for it to be considered legal signage and for it to be obeyed. It does not count as a, it does not count as.

Uh, I can't, I can't think of the word for it. Uh, basically, for trespass, like it doesn't count as a warning against trespass if it's not legal signage.

So, if you are on private property and you're carrying, they can ask you to leave the first time they're asking you to leave, the second time they can get you for criminal trespass if you don't fall, if you don't heed the first warning.

So in Texas, the signage is it has to be a certain size sign. The gun and all the imagery have to be a certain size. The font has to be a certain size. It has to be a certain type of font. It has to be in English and Spanish.

It has to have the statute cited.

So it's like the. They have very interesting names for the, because the statute's like 30 out, whatever. And it has to be in a particular spot on the door, like X amount of feet away from the door, if not right on the door. Anything, one thing off, and it's not considered a legal signage, and you don't have to, you can just be, oh, it's not legal. It's not legal.

So it doesn't. And I can't tell you how many businesses try to be gun-free, and they have that on there. And I'm like, that's not a legal sign. It's not a legal sign. You got to do it right if you're going to the law is the law, right?

And what is the strength of the law, the equality, right, of that law, and the equality of the enforcement? That's not legal signage.

So my point is that That was, those were some conservative Texans that were able to make that happen. But this is goofy. For it to have, this is just to ensnare people who are criticizing the rhinos. That's all it is. It's just, you know, they're criticizing the rhinos.

I've even heard of stories where people try to, some of these rhinos tried to enact lawfare against private citizens for expressing their opinions on certain things. That's a real thing. That's a story that might come out someday. I just have a suspicion that might come out someday, because there's a lot of lawfare that goes on behind the scenes, too, where they try to chill speech. Pretty unbelievable, huh?

How bad would that be if that came out and named names? I will always carry a firearm and I have no problem using lethal force. And I live in Texas and I don't really like to go to gun-free zones. And fortunately, I have some friends who unfortunately live in gun-free areas because they have to. They're big kids and they got to go to work, right?

One of my friends lives in DC, and they went and got that very difficult-to-get license to carry. But even then, they can't carry hardly anywhere because you got all of these municipal restrictions. And then, on top of it, you'll have private party or private property restrictions that ban people from taking a firearm to protect themselves. And so, my friend, by the nature of their work, and yes, they do work with the press, you know, they're up pretty late at night filing stories. And at 11 o'clock, you know, going back to their car, they don't want to become a statistic.

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Okay, I've got two questions for you about this story. First off, who steals a tricycle? And secondly, what is an adult tricycle? Mm. I'm thinking big wheels.

Why don't they make those? Basically, an unrelated third question. I just love those. Those were amazing, right? And I didn't like it when the pedals got stripped, but man alive, that was big wheels were where it's at.

Man, if I could get some with engines, I would blow everybody away. If there was a big wheels race, okay, where am I going? I don't know. So, this is in Arcadia, Florida. And here's why I asked this.

Because there's a woman who stole an adult tricycle. I don't even know what that is. And she was in a Tiger Print onesie. They identified her, but they can't find her. Her voicemail's full and they can't find the tricycle.

It's petty theft. But They literally said, if you see somebody in a tiger onesie on a tricycle, please call the sheriff's office. And I'm just trying to figure out what is an adult tricycle. I've never heard of this. One that's big enough.

Is it like motor-powered? I'm afraid it'd write adult into any kind of search engine. It might have an engine or a motor. I guess it's larger. I mean, I look at all it's showing me are bikes.

I don't even know. It's just a three-wheel bike. That's like, really? That's. I would imagine, like, I would think it would have some fatty, fat tires and.

You know. Like an engine, something, like a Hemi. I don't know. Can you imagine? Oh my gosh.

All right. Oh, this is crazy. A doorbell camera. There's the lady in the onesie, she's the one who stole the tricycle.

Now here's something. If you see this chick, if you see that broad and the tiger onesie on an adult trike, you know, you holler at the popo. Doorball camera catches a Florida Gator.

Now they're progressing, guys.

Now they're walking. A Florida gator standing on two legs and literally knocking on the door. It literally gets up on its two legs. And knocks on the door.

Now they can climb. I'm sorry, I love Florida, but one of the reasons Probably the biggest reason I could never maybe move there. Is this? They will climb up your fences, up your walls, knock on your doors.

So it's on Reddit. It was on Reddit. And he said, Meanwhile, in Florida, and it shows two gators. One of them stands up on its back legs and literally knocks on the door, and it's all on camera. They were able to call Florida Fish and Wildlife, but so far, by the time Florida Fish and Wildlife got there, because it was an emergency, it was not an emergency call.

The gators kind of wandered away, but. I wouldn't, like, you have animals. Would you feel comfortable letting your animal? I mean, there's gators, if there's like a little pond. There's a pothole in the road.

There's a gator in it. I mean, it's that Juan shown you. That's what it did. That's from his ring doorbell camera, this Florida man. the gators are evolving.

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But outside of the Home Depots. Trying to get work.

so that they could feed their families. And I didn't say anything about it. Because I'm not a Latino. At the Home Depot.

Now, that was the only, like, mildly entertaining part of. What's his face? Hank Johnson, Guam tip over. His remarks because it all fell apart. He couldn't rhyme anything else after that.

And I what is that even from? This is like some uh cat in the hat. Green eggs in ham We'll come back to the program. Dana Lash with you.

We are at the Top of this third hour coming up. We're going to have two guests simultaneously: General Randy George, who is Chief of Staff of the Army and Secretary of the Army. Dan Driscoll, who I've met before. I told you this a few months ago, sat down with him and was talking to him about a number of things, including. recruitment and then of course tech and drones.

Drone warfare, there's not a l there's several things that make me nervous. Uh Hunting wild hogs. they're terrifying. and drowns. And also, crickets, but that's a whole other story.

Made me very nervous because they fly at your face, it's crazy. Anyway, so he's going to sit down and talk with us because there's a lot of changes. Coming through DOD, and they're going to discuss, and that's coming up at the bottom of this hour.

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So, um, All right.

Okay. Phone. That was downright poetic from Hank Johnson. Don't you agree? I feel like that man's going to receive a Pulitzer.

So artful. The Latinos at Home Depot. You ever hung out at a Home Depot? Just you know, as an observation. Racist as hell.

Oh yeah. Oh, so bad. Racism. It's so bad. But Did you see the look on his face?

Like right before the clip ends, the way he's like wistfully looking at the people watching him. I honestly, he's got this look on his face of smug cleverness. He thinks that what he's doing is really smart. Yeah, he thought what he said was clever. He's a new beat poet.

He thought what he said was clever. Whoa, man. Latino. Whoa. And Home Depot.

Whoa, man. So I married Max Murderer. Really underappreciated. That is race. This is all good out.

Latino. And Home Depot. You know, there are a lot of other people at the Home Depot. I like hang I like going. My husband doesn't like it.

Because I think you know how sometimes men will go and they want a man trip, like a man errand, a quest. They want to go on their own man quest and they don't want their wives to go along with them because I will completely distract you from everything. Guys do get new ideas on how to build stuff when they walk through.

So do women. Yeah. When we walk through, don't let me near the garden center because I'll be creating chores right and left, right and left. But, um, you know, other people besides Latinos like to hang out at Home Depot, you old racist. That's just I mean I want to laugh because he thought it was real clever.

It goes on forever, but it falls apart after that because then he can't rhyme anything else and it looks so dumb. But he thought that that was a great, oh, this is my sound. I just remember this is from the party that says they don't like stereotypes. Yeah, they don't like stereotypes, but the Latinos at the Home Depot. You know, everybody likes to go to, you know, a home improvement store, whether it's Lowe's or Home Depot.

They all like going, right? I mean, like I said, I like going. I like going and going down the aisles that have all the doodads in them. Like, I just want to go look for the. All the men are dying.

I just like looking at the sign. I'm like, where is the doodad aisle? Because I'm sure there's something that I don't have. Every aisle is the doodad aisle. Yeah, but there's like things and stuff.

It's crazy. And then when you go to like the science experiment aisle where they have their tinctures and their, I don't know, like their caulk and the glue and glue guns and glue guns. Are we still talking about Home Depot? Huh? Are we still talking about Home Depot?

Yes. Yes, I don't know. There's like things that you can do with it. There's stuff that's dangerous, probably, if you've got it in your eyes. And if you've got it, you can do stuff with it.

I don't know. I just like going and I'm like, there are so many things here. I am, it's amazing. I like going to the Home Depot and my and Chris goes with me. He goes and he's like, there's a couple things I want to go.

Maybe I'll look around, you know. And I I'm like, let's look at all the things. And then I tell him, did you know that they have this? And he's like, yes, I know. I'm a man.

I know these things. For several years now, when I walk by the plywood and the lumber and all that, I'm like, man, that price of wood. Right? I didn't even know what the price of wood was before because I don't build stuff regularly. Price of wood.

But I look at it now and I'm like, whoa. That's crazy. But there's just all kinds of things, fun things to look at, right? That and like great inventions that you think, why didn't I think of this? This is a great idea, this is a great product.

And then what I do, Is I take like a photo of it, like a psycho, and I'm like, that's a great idea. Just because I want to remember how good of an idea it is, I'll take a picture of it. Does anybody else do that? Me? No, I don't know.

But, and I like the way it smells in there because it smells like wood shavings and paint, and I love that. I love the smell of gas. Yes. Can we run that club again? I have something for that.

Okay, yeah, go ahead. Wait, the home, the Latinos and Home Depot? Please. The Hank Johnson.

Okay, all right. Here we go back. You know, first... They came for Latinos. Outside of the home depots, I don't think the TV trying to get work audiences hearing this so that they could feed their families.

We're playing the Home Depot game. And I didn't say anything about it. Because I'm not a Latino at the Home Depot. Oh, there it is. There it is.

That's like an ad. I mean That is an ad. I mean, I like is where can you go to find Latinos at the Home Depot? And it's just Hank Johnson. for Home Depot.

Man, that is like such an identifying riff. Isn't it though? It is. Yeah. It's iconic.

By the way, I asked Grok. I said, can you write a story about Latinos at Home Depot? Good lord. Oh, I did. You didn't.

Yep, are you ready? Hold on, do we need this again? Yeah, we're going to need it. The Home Depot on Cesar Chavez Boulevard buzzed under the Texas sun. Its parking lot, a mosaic of pickup trucks, lowriders, and minivans, blasting everything from bad bunny to classic Tejano.

It was Saturday morning and the store was a second home for half the neighborhood. Among the aisles of lumber and paint cans, three Latinos, Javier, Marisol, and Diego crossed paths, each on their own mission, but bound by the unspoken rhythm of community. Javier, a wiry contractor in his 40s with a faded astro cap, pushed a flatbed cart piled high with 2x4s and drywall. He'd been up since 5 a.m., bidding on a remodeled job in East Austin. Mira, I'm telling you, this genification's got everyone wanting shiplap, he grumbled to his cousin Diego, who trailed behind with a bag of concrete mix slung over his shoulder.

Diego, 25. And fresh off a landscaping gig laughed. Shiplap, man. Two shiplaps. Appalettes house had that in the 70s, call it vintage charge double.

Javier dropped the tool corral, eyeing a new DeWalt drill. If I win this bid, I'm upgrading. These clients went artisan, but my wallet screaming bargain. Diego smirked, tossing a roll of painter's tape under the cart. Oh, it goes on.

Marisol navigated the garden center, her toddler Sophia giggling in the cart. I mean, it goes on, it's amazing. At Home Depot, an employee named Carlos spotted her puzzled look and strolled over, orange apron swinging. And there it is. Any more mentions of Latinos at Home Depot?

Latinos at Home Depot. Courtesy of Hank Johnson. By the way, this song on the internet is called Let's Do It. There's a word for the name of this song, and someone uploaded an hour-continuous mix of this. Are you serious?

That's actually amazing. a continuous one hour I think my kids made this the ringtone for Paw Pa because he worked at Home Depot for a while. My stepdaddy, when he retired, he was got he got bored to death on day two of retirement. And he's like, I'm going to go work at Home Depot because he's forklift certified, which, why is that a big? Is that a big thing with you dudes?

Yeah. Is that a big thing, Steve? Forklift certification? I don't I don't think so, not with me.

Okay, maybe Steve DJ Fun Uncle's like an outlier here. Yeah, I mean, you have to be able to operate large equipment, right?

So you need some sort of service. Apparently, Gen Z thinks that's a measure of a man, is whether or not you can drive a forklift. Yeah. But, and he, you know, fair. Yeah, so he, and he liked Home Depot.

He liked working there. And then he got bored and he wanted to change it up because he had all the seniority going in there. But I think that was his ringtone for a while. Papa's ringtone was. Yeah, I've been the guy that actually wrote that.

Can you imagine being the dude that wrote that little riff? It's very simple. It's almost like Peter Gunn. It's this very simple little guitar line. That's all it is.

How do we get on that subject? I have no idea. Anyway, okay, so yeah. Hank Johnson. Damn you, Hank Johnson.

At least we're not talking about Guam tipping over, rolling over in the ocean like an iceberg or something. Good heavens. That is Democrats for you. It's Democrats. That's that's that's you know, that's what it is.

But I think they're still rolling with this, but after all of the information that's come out, okay, so let me, let me, let me go to the story.

So that gangbanger, right? Because all of this is because of this Dumbass gangbanger. The Kilmar Obrego Garcia. I'm going to turn into AOC. Kilmar Obrego Garcia.

So he apparently We got to ask our brother from another mother, same father, down in KURV. That was good, right? Good roll of the R's. That was good.

So apparently, there's like several protective forms that his wife. Jennifer Vasquez Sora had filed against this guy, you know. Sweet. Infant baby. Maryland ad aberego garcia.

And he apparently, you know, like a good, sweet Maryland man would. dragged her out of a vehicle by her hair. Broke her son's tablet, broke down her doors, shoved her against a wall, broke all of her television and phones, and ripped her out of a car by her hair and drove off, leaving her in the street. That was in 2020. Sweet Maryland Dad.

Mm. And there's more. Like he threatened to kill her, and then he bragged about threatening to kill her, saying, you know, even if he kills me, she was saying, even if he kills me, no one can do anything to him. And he had told her that repeatedly. Doesn't that really just remember Chris Van Holland sat down?

Chris Van Hollen, by the way, there is an inherent racism in what Chris Van Hollen did. this crusty old white dude goes down there like, Oh, well this guy's probably You know, he's disadvantaged because, you know, he's he, that's, that's what he thinks. He thinks that this guy is immediately the victim because he's Hispanic. That's the That is the inherent racism of how the left looks at this stuff. Sat down, had a damn margarita with a guy who dragged his wife out of the car by her hair and left her in the street.

This man only married her because he was trying to boost his asylum claim. They weren't even taking it seriously because he wasn't married. They considered, and that was in the court documents, they actually considered him a greater flight risk because he wasn't married.

So that's the reason why he married her. He didn't love her. He didn't wanna have anything to do with her. He married her during the whole court battle. Because he kept trying to stay in the US, claiming all these things.

Oh my gosh, Bigfoot's after me. Oh my gosh, you know, the window goes after me. Oh, I missed their gangs are after me. Oh, my family's been, oh, silent. He was rejected at every turn.

Numerous court appearances. That was his due process. And when they said, oh, well, no, he's further a flight risk because he's not married. He has nothing holding him here. That's when he married her.

That's the only reason that he married her.

So I mean, it's so bad that now uh Jeffries Is telling everybody, okay, can you guys stop going down there? Can you stop going down there and trying to see this guy? You act like he's like this two-headed calf. Stop going down there and trying to get a photo op with it. Stop doing this.

This is, it's actually, they realize that it's actually making them look bad. Because remember, they had all these other Democrat Codels that were going to go, and now none of them are going. They've stopped. And that's because this is hurting them bad.

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So, welcome back. One of the big things that happened today, we've got a lot of breaking news today, and this is one that I've been watching very closely. You know, we have a military history in my family, and you all know that we love our veterans, we love our warfighters, and we also love smart spending and we love making them the most lethal fighting force possible. Let these people do their job because it's what they're best at, right? I know what I know, I know what I don't know, they know what they know, and they know that you don't know what they know.

So, this is great. And we need them to be able to make these decisions. Two headlines for you, and we're gonna go to our guests: Army leaders to Musk. This is from NBC. Don't doge us, we're going to doge ourselves.

Top Army officials are proposing to eliminate Unneeded spending and modernize. That's one. Second, Wall Street Journal: U.S. Army is planning a massive increase in its use of drones. There's a shift to small, unmanned aircraft, and it's all based on modern battlefield lessons.

So, with this, joining us right now, we have two people on at the same time, and this is a real treat for us. We have General Randy George, who is Chief of Staff of the Army, and with him, Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll. Mr. Secretary, General, it's good to have you both. Welcome.

Thank you for having us. Of course, you've all been very busy talking about this. And I'll start first off, I'll start with you, Secretary Driscoll. This, and then I'm going to go to the General and ask him about this as well. This is huge.

The first and foremost, the doge, the doging of the military. And you said, you know, we're ahead of the game on this. We understand what you're doing, but we know exactly where we need to go to cut unnecessary spending and redirect resources to make us a strong fighting force and the most lethal force on the planet. Tell us a little bit about this because I know that you met with the president recently and you had these conversations about how to best do this. I think that's right, Dana.

So, what the president has done, his leadership has given us the air cover to go do the right thing. That soldiers like General George, who've been in 35 plus years, they've known these changes need to happen for a long time. And what President Trump did by putting Secretary Hexeth in charge of the Pentagon is he gave us the air cover to go do the right thing. And if you look at what Doge and Elon have done in different parts of the federal government, when we met with them, we basically said, hey, look, we know what to do. We are willing to have the hard conversations.

Give us 60 days to come up with a plan. We will present it to you if that matches your intent, which we hope it will. Let's announce it. And that's where we are today. It's huge.

And especially with some of these previous contracts, and General, I'll ask you about this because just for the practicality of warfighting, you want to have the best of the best, the most modern equipment, the most modern technology. And this has been a bit of a struggle for our military. Talk to us a little bit about these struggles and how you're overcoming them now with these proposals.

Well, thanks, Dana. You kind of said this up front. The battlefield's changing. We know we need to change and actually transform ahead of it. And this is about eliminating equipment inside of our formation and not spending money on things that we know are not going to be winning technologies that we have going forward so that we can also spend that money on the things that we know will make a difference.

This is all about the Secretary and I making our formations much more effective. And we're reducing headquarters, we're cutting senior positions, consolidating in a complete effort just to make sure that we are supporting our formations down where it matters. And Dana, the Pentagon for the last couple of decades, has contorted like a pretzel its decision-making process. And I know you know this. And when you talk to senators and congressmen, everyone has their favorite procurement story that's preposterous.

That this thing that should have cost, we have an example of one thing that should have cost $1,400. And we were quoted $40 million by our own team. And then, once we proved it worked with the $1,400 example, they still told us to go use the $40 million example. And what I don't think people realized is at scale, these things had calcified into the system for so long that we needed the leadership of President Trump to basically say, Enough is enough. The American warfighter is what matters.

Lethality is what matters. Go do the right thing, no matter what it takes. And a lot of this, too, is: you know, we have a lot of legacy. Contracts for things that, when the order is placed, just to put it in layman's terms, you know, you place an order for a piece of equipment, whether it's a jet, whether whatever it is, a tank, by the time you get it, you know, after all of those years in production, it's outmoded by the time it actually, you know, can hit the battlefield and actually be, you know, be deployed. General, tell me a little bit about this because that does affect how effective, honestly, our military can be.

And then you look at drone swarms and you think, well, why can't we have this instead of this big, old, heavy, out-moded tank? Yeah, so we're looking at, you know, there's a lot of things that are dual-use technologies that we can just adopt right off the shelf. We're working with a lot of companies. We've seen that with what we've been doing. We have an effort that's called Transforming in Contact.

We're getting bottom-up innovation from our troops who are telling us, you know, what's most effective, and they're the ones that are fighting these formations. I think the key is just being modular and open system, so it's got to work into our system. We know things are going to change, and I'm confident industry can come along with us. We've had a bunch of great, very innovative, I mean, United States is the innovation leaders in the world, and we can get this inside of our formations. And Dana, you are absolutely right, but it's even worse than you think.

So it used to be that it was okay or at least survivable if it took you a couple of years to get through procurement, a couple of years to get the thing going, and then you manufactured it at scale and it finally hit units. And maybe it was a couple of years out of date then. The problem now is if you look at what's happening in Ukraine, drones are being updated every two weeks.

So we probably, without the old systems before President Trump and Secretary Hexa's leadership, we would have had a hard time updating within two years. And we are very optimistic that with the changes announced this morning, we're going to be able to get even faster than two weeks and start to lead the world again. And isn't this really the future of warfare to unmanned aircraft and drones particularly? And I can't imagine how difficult that is navigating that. It seems like when you're in the military, you know what's best, but then you also have to balance it with the politics and all of the asks and the contracts and the special interests, which is almost antithetical to what you're doing as warfighters.

How do you navigate that? Secretary, I'll start with you and then ask the general. This is kind of the whole crux of the issue: is that President Trump and Secretary Heckseth have given us the air cover to go say our decision-making from here on forward optimizes for one thing. Does this make the American soldier more lethal? If yes, we are doing it.

And if no, you can send as many lobbyists into this building. You can make as many calls as you want. You can threaten us as frequently as feels good. We are not going to concede. And President Trump and Secretary Heckseth are going to stand with us.

And that is a totally different way of doing business. And that is going to make an incredible difference in how the American soldier is ready to go fight and defend our country. Yeah. In general, with the use of drones as well, you know, this Wall Street Journal article talking about the plan to incorporate, well, actually, I have a massive increase in drones. I mean, this really, I mean, previously, I think maybe, you know, years ago, they were more for some resources, surveillance, but now they're, you know, they're.

Right there with these units, and we're relying upon them more and more. Talk to us about the future that you see for the incorporation of drones within the military and exactly what you're asking for. Yeah, Dan, it's certainly on the drones. We're seeing that, you know, we're going to have a formation that's down. We're getting ready to do another combat training center rotation.

It'll have more than 300 drones. But we're also seeing autonomous systems. We're going to send, what we want to do is send a, if you can send a robot or an autonomous system in a place you would normally send a human, we're going to do that. And our soldiers are so good and they're adaptive. We're having the companies that are down there with our formations.

We have engineers. For us, this is about putting users and developers together that can help us advance what we're doing and make sure that we're staying ahead. And this is, I mean, it's really about modernizing. Fighting and modernizing our military. Have we been behind in that because of the bureaucracy, Mr.

Secretary? I'll start with you. Unequivocally, yes. We are a couple of years behind. That is not as scary as it seems.

We have incredible, amazing soldiers. I've been on the job today, Day 66, probably spent about half that time out of the building with soldiers with General George. And the American soldier is innovative, they are smart, they are disciplined. They are ready to face this challenge. And the other good thing is the American innovation engine, that is, people typically talk about Silicon Valley, but it's all over the country, have created solutions and tools and software that we just need to go get and allow our soldiers to use in the formation.

And it is going to catch us up incredibly quickly.

So, Dana, one of the things we talk about is we need our people to be able to talk to each other over the horizon, talk to our things, and talk to our sensors all in near real time, creating this kind of web of activity. Activity and action and aggressiveness. And we will get there. I think we need six months, and we'll start to start. This will start to transform our formations, and soldiers will start to feel it in their everyday activities.

And then maybe 18, 24 months from today, we will have a transformed army. General, what is this to me?

Sorry, go ahead, sir. Yeah, I was just going to add, you know, back to your earlier comment about, you know, drones are doing resupply. They're doing logistics. I mean, they're doing, you know, they're everywhere. They're ubiquitous in the battlefield.

And again, having the people out there that understand, we're trying to be really simple also in what we explain that we want. And this gets back to the procurement process where it's not this drawn out requirement that takes years to come. If they're out there in our formations talking to our soldiers, I mean, we've gotten to see that up close and personal. They're telling the engineer, here's what it needs to be able to do, and here's how it needs to be able to do it. And we can adapt that quickly and make those kind of changes because of the innovation we have at the soldier level.

What is this doing for recruitment, General?

Well, recruitment is, you know, I think the best we've had in a good long time. Recruiting is going great. I think we're over 90% right now for what we had hoped to get this fiscal year. And we have our biggest recruiting months ahead of us.

So Army is a great place to be right now. And one of the things we look at, too, in addition to new soldiers being recruited in, is our retention. And General George and I look at those numbers both because some of our best soldiers are the ones that are already trained and we want to keep them, but also it is a trailing indicator of how we as a leadership team are doing on behalf of the soldiers. And right now, we are thrilled to say for our 12-month goal of retention, we hit the entire goal in six months. And so we're taking that as a positive sign that the president, with his leadership, is making a huge difference.

And we're following his commander's.

Well, and that's been kind of the big issue with military and recruitment and spending because the previous years, if I'm being honest, haven't been too kind to the military and the headlines. And that's why we saw a drop in recruitment. There have been a lot of questions about spending, legacy, DEI legacy contracts. I heard stories about even just meals to obtain meals for our warfighters. And the contracts for that kind of blew my mind.

This seems to all have really just done a 180 with the new administration, the new Secretary of Defense. Secretary, how has that affected? I know we're just beyond the first 100 days, but a lot of stuff can change dramatically in those 100 days. What has that difference been like? Because it seems like these changes that you're talking about normally would take a long time, but now it seems like you guys are hitting the ground running pretty quick.

Dana, it's all about the backing and the air cover and the The command climate that they are setting, what Secretary of Defense Hexeth has told us is go figure out what we need to do to care for our soldiers, to care for their families, and most importantly, to stop wasting our time on things that are just performative. We, as a United States Army, for the previous four years in the previous administration, became this social experiment that was performing as if there wasn't a big scary world out there. And Secretary Hexeth has told us that we'll no longer do. You figure out what you need to do for soldiers, and then you have my full authority and backing to go do it. And very importantly, Dana, and this is what makes all the difference and has allowed us to do this in day 105.

Go do it regardless of the consequences to people that are adjacent to the core mission. The torsion to the decision-making had been for people adjacent to the actual soldier. And that is, there has been a complete reset under the president. And I love that you mentioned, too, you know, social experimentation because that just seems like a distraction, you know, honestly, for our warfighters. You know, you have the general who knows how to, you know, how to prosecute conflict and knows what needs to be done.

And the soldiers know what they have to do. And now it seems like we can finally get back to what the military is. You know, very soberly, it is a very lethal fighting force. And that's the reality of the world in which we live. And General, I'll give you the last word on this.

What are you hoping to see here within the next few years as we barrel towards this brave new world here? Yeah, I think, and Secretary and I have had a lot of comments on that. I mean, I think we've got to get into the habits where we're, you know, for us is like make sure that the processes are right so that we are on a road of continuous transformation, that we're getting the bottom-up innovation. And, you know, you mentioned, you know, there's things that we're focused on as well that didn't come out this morning and making sure that we're building cohesive teams, taking care of our soldiers and families, how we build things, because we struggle a little bit with the cost for military construction and how we go about providing food service to our soldiers.

So I think we're just getting started and looking forward to the way ahead. I have to say, this is one of the most transparent things I've ever seen from our Department of Defense and our Pentagon. This is very unusual to see, and it's very refreshing because I feel like we used to have this relationship with our military leaders and our warfighters. And it's just been obscured by all of the stuff that we just mentioned, all of the petty politics and everything else. And now it just seems very streamlined, very refined, and very transparent, which is incredibly refreshing.

And I can imagine very encouraging for those military families and future warfighters as well.

So, thank you, gentlemen, so much for what you do. We would love to have you back and keep us surprised because we follow all of this closely. And we appreciate exactly what you do, Secretary Driscoll and General George as well. God bless you both. We appreciate your time and your service to this country.

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