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In about The great big beautiful bill that we're trying to get passed, it'll be the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country. And hopefully, it'll get done. And the Democrats are fighting us. And if it doesn't get done, it's going to be a 68% tax increase.

So that's going to be the Democrats. But I think we're going to have it done. I think the Republicans are going to vote for it. And it'll be the most consequential bill, I think, in the history of our country. Leader Thun says he wants to get it done by July 4th.

Yeah. Do you think that's possible? I think it is, and I think he's doing a fantastic job. And Mike Johnson, Speaker, is doing a fantastic job, and they're both getting together well. There's great unity in the Republican Party.

The Republican Party is a much different party than it was.

So I he's keeping the criticism to Democrats, but There was a hint of Republicans. You know, you gotta get this past. Otherwise It's going to be. a big giant tax increase and he's right in saying that. And I'm glad that he's.

I'm glad that he's throwing it down because it needs to happen and he needs to start bringing pressure on some of these lawmakers. Although, in the Senate, he was talking about Thune in the Senate. I think it's a lot easier. in the Senate. Obviously, with the House, with the narrow majority.

But he was talking to Kristen Welker there, taking her through the White House, talking about the big, beautiful bill. We got some domestic news on that front. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash, with you are at the top of this first hour on Monday. Yeah, again, it's you know, it's not my fault that it's raining and Very British here.

In Texas, Kane and I are going to start getting accents on this Canco de Mayo.

So it's going to happen.

So, Yeah. You don't need a taco salad today or you're gonna be a bigot. At least only you can only have cane for your Hispanic side.

So, welcome. Dana Lash with you. Remember, okay, first off, I can't talk, I can't even discuss anything else today until we talk about that infamous day back in 2016. when you remember this cane POTUS? Said, you know, the best taco salads, I gotta say it like he would, are the taco salads at Trump Tower.

It looks like a mighty fine taco salad. Can I just be honest? He did this in 2016 and the left lost their minds to the point where this trended on X for like two days straight. And he goes, I love the Hispanics is what he said. Why was the left so mad about this?

They were so mad. Why? I mean, he's eaten a taco salad and he's like, I love the Hispanics. It's great.

Okay, what's the bad thing about it? Taco salads are delicious, Kane. Although technically, maybe not a traditional meal in the way that it was served to him. But still, you know, it's the thought that counts, it's the spirit of the thing, you know? Looked like a very traditional taco bowl.

Yeah, you know, I mean, you know, probably it did it looked delicious. I would like to have a taco salad now or Sanco de Mayo.

So, uh, happy Sanco de Mayo. There you go, right there. Uh, it's uh He, I got a million things here that he's trade deals. Oh, here's one that I wanted to. This was, I thought, very, a very interesting move.

I read this over the weekend.

So a big they're not the only ones, Land Rover. also did something similar. Luxury, one luxury car maker, they said, is making a huge call. I saved you a click, it's Mercedes-Benz. They're shifting production.

of one of its vehicles to Tuscaloosa, Alabama by 2027. That's interesting. Very interesting. And they said that obviously it's in response to tariffs, but they said that there are some other complicating factors. They didn't say which model would move there, they said the production.

Of a core segment vehicle will move stateside. They think that, by they, I mean like the experts, they think that the The move is going to impact the production of the GLC, that's their best-selling car in the U.S. And that It's a compact SUV that's made in Bremen, Germany. And so the speculation is that that is the model that they are moving. to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

That is very interesting. They said that they reported selling over 64,000 units in the U.S., up 58% from the year before. And Alabama, they said. Might, you know, that's that's looks like where they're going to be moving their production. In and out of factory.

They said they're reviewing the moves. Obviously, it's in response to all of the stuff with the tariffs. And they said that it could affect some of these other moves could affect GLE GLS, GLE Coop, Mercedes-Maybach, GLS, and all of those call Alabama home as well.

So they're moving more over. That is very good. Land Rover too. Let me pull this story up. Because Land Rover also, I think they said that they because they had paused Uh Jaguar Land Rover had paused shipments.

Because of the tariffs, and now they have restarted all of those. They've resumed. exports to the United States according to all the According to reports, the London Times first had the story. They said that. There was so it's gonna be like a month behind, but They said the U.S.

was a key market for luxury. Brands, 25% tariffs are still in effect.

So they're going to get here, but it's going to be a little pricier. It's going to be just a little pricier, I have to say. Uh that's uh one of the things that they're that's what they're looking at. And so, those are some, that's a good signal. That's a good first step.

Now, POTUS says that there could be some of these trade deals. that could be announced this week. We need them announced now. I understand that you don't want to announce things too early and you don't want to jeopardize anything, but we need these now. This is some stuff that we need.

We got to have this all now. And I think the sooner the better, because that's just going to make it that much easier. for Republicans going into midterms because otherwise Yes, it is all about elections. Otherwise, you're going to have impeachment palooza. They'll impeach him for anything.

Clearly they already demonstrated that they don't need a criminal action in order to do it.

So He said that some of these deals with trading partners could very well be announced this week, and he didn't specify. Any of the countries. The schedule, he announced today that the NFL draft is going to be held in DC in 2027. And he met with this morning a ballerina who spent a year in a Russian prison because she was accused. She sent like a little donation to Ukraine and the Ruskies threw and the.

They threw in the pokey of an actual ballerina.

So there you go. But he hasn't said, he hasn't given any specificity. as to what What those trade deals could look like.

Now, one of the things that we do know is that they've been put. Pushing these budget cuts, cuts to the FBI, cuts to the DOJ, the latest from the Washington Times. getting into all of this. These are these I mean, we all knew this was coming, these proposed cuts. It's part of $163 billion that they're looking in reducing federal uh federal spending for this Well, those are slices of it.

The overall budget, $545 million in cuts. To the FBI, other Justice Department agencies, it's $163 billion in total.

So they said while still reducing crime at all, and reversing the weaponization of the FBI as well.

So, the FBI headquarters in Maryland, apparently, that's also going to get halted. He says it's three hours away. From the agency's present location, it's silly to keep building it, he had said.

So this is going to be kind of interesting to see how there's some these cuts that have been proposed. And of course, we also have ATF. Apparently, there's a $468 million funding reduction that has been proposed for the ATF. And they said that the proposal, they said it was, well, because it was. It was weaponized.

The ATF was absolutely weaponized. I have a story for you later on to discuss that further. The ATF is a joke. You know, I've talked with ATF agents. I don't care how good of a heart you may have when you're pushing nonsense.

That's rendered invalid. No matter what you're, if you think that, you know, oh, I'm going to go in and work in the ATF on the inside, you're already working for an unconstitutional entity.

So, what do you think your presence in an unconstitutional entity is going to change about said unconstitutional entity? It's still unconstitutional. And the way that they have pursued what they believe is law and order has been to the detriment of the rule of law and due process. I mean, shall I go on?

So There's cuts also for DEA. All kinds of stuff. But again, We have to have all of this codified. I can sit here and run down this laundry list. I am not one of those people that gets excited about temporary things.

I want to see it all made permanent. And I gotta tell you. My patience is running thin. With some because we knew we didn't have a lot of time. My patience is running really thin with a lot of these Republicans because not with this not getting done, it's all they're it's they're gonna use it to.

To tank his uh to tank the rest of his administration.

Now, The other big thing that he proposed, let me put this up.

So this was CNBC, interesting. He's ordering one hundred percent tariffs on foreign made movies to save dying Hollywood. This was something that was announced. Over the weekend, he said there was a concerted effort. by nations, by other nations, and it's a national security threat, he said.

It's messaging and propaganda. He said he was authorizing relevant government agencies, such as the Department of Commerce, to immediately begin the process of imposing a 100% tariffs on all films produced abroad that are then sent into the United States.

Now, I understand that. I also think that you're not going to be able to solve a cultural issue at the top. You can't solve an issue that is kind of at the bottom by just trying to regulate at the top. I mean, I understand it. I think that, first off, taxes need to be just abolished all around.

Let's have a graduating, you know. It all does all come down to that because it comes down to that with the business climate, too. There have been a number of agencies, including there's one that's been just right up the highway from us in Las Colinas, Mel Gibson, and his team. That are doing the sequel to The Passion of the Christ. I think it's the same team that was behind Apocalypto and some of the other ones that he did.

And they're creating, they have this. Production company that they're launching in Texas to make these types of movies. One of the biggest problems, and I think what Trump is talking about by looping in the Commerce Department, is a lot of the financing comes from overseas. And because the financing comes from overseas, that gives a lot of these producers, you can donate millions of dollars to this budget and you can be named as a producer. A lot of it, that's done, actually.

They influenced, obviously, the outcome of the movie. One of the most famous ones, you know, obviously Top Gun, Tencent, and they ended up pulling a lot of support out of that. And they didn't get a Chinese opening because they weren't going to take the Taiwanese flag off of Maverick's jacket. At first, they did in some of the early screen tests, but then it played so poorly with the public that they had to go back. They had to go back to the cutting room floor and pick up the.

Well, I guess they don't edit celluloid anymore, but they had to go back and restore it digitally because they had taken it off and it enraged people across the United States. But then that enraged Tencent.

So. But I understand this. I also think, too, it's not going to just be fixed from the top. This is something, it's a cultural problem in the United States. It's like putting a band-aid on it by trying to fix it with regulatory policy at the top.

And I understand people are like, yes, we want immediate, we want it to change, and we want it to change immediately. Don't Don't fall into the trap in thinking That It is the same that you're going to get the same thing because you're sacrificing. Speed. Because you're going to sacrifice. You know, getting everything that you want because you want it done fast.

It's that immediate gratification. This is stuff that's been in the works in the United States for years, and you're not going to undo it in just one, you know, one term. It's just not going to happen. But I do think making it overall to make things here in the United States so that people don't have to seek. Overseas funding that in turn influence what we make is a good thing.

We got to get into some of this other stuff because. People lost their minds over the AI Pope. But did you hear what they're doing with Jesus Christ Superstar?

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Okay, so first thing: an air traffic controller is warning that a major airport is unsafe for travel, claiming that you should avoid Newark at all costs. That it's just a hot mess. It's not safe. It's not a safe situation for the flying public. Said Tom Costello.

He said it's due to staff shortages. I think they've always had issues though, correct? I think they always have. A robot attacked somebody in China. A humanoid robot was filmed attacking its handler while trying to break free from its restraints.

Juan is gonna show you those on the side. It is crazy, it goes nuts. That's me when someone says Green Day's Punk. This is also why I don't get a room, but. I don't get a Roomba because of this.

It showed this thing lashed out at a dude. He had to duck. And it raised its arms, you can see, and it was just trying to thrash around and break free from the crane holding it. That is insane. I'm telling you, this is what's going to happen.

Your Roomba is gonna eat your face one day. You're gonna wake up in the morning and it's gonna be right over your face, killing you to death. That's what's gonna happen. I'm just warning you right now, they're gonna overthrow you. We've seen this movie before, you guys.

We saw it before. Skype shut down after 21 years. I can't believe Skype was around for 21 years. Uh yeah. Microsoft Skype, two billion people used it.

It was launched. Forever a million years ago. I cannot even believe that. There are people alive right now. Who, like, Skype is older than them.

Yeah, that's so weird to me.

So, Skype is gone now. Uh, let's see. A guy impaled himself in an iron fence because he was taking a selfie at the Coliseum in Rome and he just sort of fell over one of the areas. People have got to be careful, especially in ancient sites. Stick with us.

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I mean, much is not covered. You're paying for every food, every bit of food that you eat. You're not paying for housing and the staff in it, but everything, even travel. If you're not traveling with the president, if your kids are coming on a bright star, which is the First Lady's plane, we had to pay for their travel. Wow.

I am just like... The first well almost like the former first lady because I still had to pay for my house Know as a human living here in the United States, it's former First Lady Princess Michelle Obama. Uh Her Royal Highness or whatever. And uh She's talking about, she's. I don't, I don't, I never understand.

I don't get people who have the world served to them on a silver platter and yet still. They bitch. Don't get it. Welcome back to the program. Tana Lash with you.

Bottom of this first hour. She was, she's, is that her podcast? I don't even pay attention to her podcast. I just. No.

Is it hers? She was She's always behind some microphone talking about how hard her life is every day, every, every time. that we have these sound bites go around, and this is a new one. And she's complaining about the fact that she I had chip Egads pay for food and travel. And travel.

What? You know what, when when my kids and I, when my family, when we went to go, uh, we took our kids to uh 30A. Down in the beautiful, beautiful Florida area, beautiful near Dustin. It's just a gorgeous place down there. Can you believe that we had to pay for our own travel?

What? I was like, what? And then, and then get this. We had to pay for it. or our own food.

Yeah. Outrage. The oppression you had to deal with. It's an outrage. It's totally outrageous.

Can you? I was shocked. Like, I thought all of these things would be given to me for free, and it wasn't. No, she's complaining because I guess she had a different idea of what She thought Beanie. First lady was gonna be like, like.

She was, all of that stuff was going to be just given to her. She was complaining about having to. I mean, it's still private air travel. You had to fly your, they walked out with like 20-something million dollars. I think they're okay.

Didn't, how much money was he banking on book deals and speeches? I think y'all are gonna be okay. I mean, y'all got a mansion in the Hamptons. That's on the Atlantic beachfront. They also bought, oh my gosh, what was Tom Selleck that?

Uh, Hawaiian show he did came right magnum PI.

So the house. That he apparently lived in for the show. Like, I guess it featured on the show. That's the house they bought. In Hawaii, and it's like right there on the coast.

In fact, there was a bit of a scandal. Because They were doing something to the shoreline that actually encouraged erosion and was against state law, but they were allowed to kind of do it anyway because they're the Obamas.

So you have two beachfront properties, in addition to the big old historic place that they, the pad that they have in Chicago, and they're complaining that they had to pay for food and travel. Like some people don't even have a house. And you're complaining that you had to buy food. And all of that for, I mean, what do you think that it was? This idea that positions in government are supposed to be Everything subsidized like you're a member of the royal family is asinine.

I mean, you are serving the public. It's not supposed to be a free-for-all. I mean, I realize that Democrats over the course of some years have transformed the expectation of public service to free-for-all, but Uh it's not supposed to be like that. It's actually sup it was supposed to actually kind of be a burden. And then people figured out a way to you know, monetize everything and and uh grift off of it.

Uh and Trump is how much did you figure out Trump is he's donated his White House salary. His presidential salary.

So over two terms, it would be $3.2 million total. Can I just say? to be President of the United States and have to deal with all of that. I'm actually shocked that it's only 3.2. And that's probably before tax too, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that's pre-tax.

So it's roughly half. Roughly half of that he's going to walk away with. But still, I mean you know again it's supposed to be kind of burdensome you're you're serving And it somehow changed over the years to where now people want to get in on the grift and they just go right from college into public office, and I just don't get it.

So She's complaining about having to pay for this stuff. She has always complained. She grew up. privileged. She doesn't know poverty.

The Obamas don't know poverty. He was raised by what his grandparents, his grandmother or grandfather, which one was it, vice president of a bank. His mom was this like bougie b university professor. I mean he had the most elite privileged childhood. They would die if they had to grow up in the poverty, for instance, that I knew, or regular middle-class life that many of you out there listening know.

They wouldn't be able to handle that. They grew up in privilege from the very beginning. They have no idea what struggle is. They have no idea what poverty is. They have no idea about any of it.

And they have this idealized expectation of what public office is supposed to afford them as opposed to what they can bring to public office. I frankly am tired of hearing her bitch and moan about everything. She has to be one of the most negative people I've ever seen. I can't stand people like that. I cannot stand.

And granted, I'm a curmudgeon. I'm a cynic. But to not find joy in anything. to not to I mean you're the first lady of the United States and you're still complaining. She acted like all the world.

Half the country loved you, and they voted your husband into office twice.

So, can you stop with the tiny violins? You are the most pampered, privileged person. Ever. You can never do anything wrong. And you're mad that you ought to buy some sandwiches for your damn self for the love.

It's just good night. I just it's just shocking. But it's also insulting. Because it's like, oh, this is what you have to offer me for the you knew what you were getting into running for the White House. But maybe be a little bit grateful for it.

For the experience, instead of complaining that you had to fly your family, and by the way, when she's talking about flying her kids out. I remember there was one time when she and complained because they were flying to Hawaii for vacation. And I remember it came up that somebody had asked about something, and she had made an offhand remark that they, yes, they, you know, they paid for their. daughters to fly out to Hawaii and she said it so bitterly. And with so much uh uh resentment That I thought maybe you ought to take a step back.

You have the means to do it. and the resources to do it. You are the one percent of the one percent in this country Every argument that you try to make for identity politics is turned on its head. Because of your life. And you're still complaining.

Nothing's ever going to be good enough for these people. You know, if they have problems in their marriage, no wonder. She is like the ultimate Karen. Never happy. constantly complaining.

Nothing's ever good enough. It's just enough already. Heavens So uh Over the weekend. Trump tweeted out. What was it?

The uh AI image. of him as Pope, as a joke. And all of the people. who hate religion.

somehow wanted to pretend to be very upset. for the Catholics. I don't know if you guys saw this.

So, Trump tweeted out. It's very, you know. Very, very nice Renaissance looking. image of him as Pope. Put the number one.

and uh tweeted it out or had it on his his platform. And it went out from there, and all the left got mad. You know, the left that hates all religion anyway. Suddenly, they were mad. And I was thinking about this when I saw this headline this morning.

There's a Hollywood Bull production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Now, In Hollywood, because they're out of original ideas. They've had to sort of switch and modify their expectations of originality. And so now instead of originality, they just want controversy because they think the two are synonymous. I mean, they're not, you know. I mean, Wick, by the way, you want to talk about like real controversy?

Wick ate a baby bird. That's controversial. Probably more artistic than, you know, I know he did. That's a whole other story. Probably more artistic than what.

The Hollywood Bowl is planning to do with Jesus Christ Superstar. They have Cynthia Irvo, a blackballed lesbian, a BBL, who's playing Jesus. And then Adam Lambert, yeah. He's playing Judas. That actually seems fitting, you know, TBH, but But everybody was mad about Trump with the AI Pope.

Again, you got a BBL playing Jesus. but Trump with the AI Pope. Make that one make sense. I mean, it was a joke. He was making a joke.

This, they're not making a joke, they're trying to offend. They're not even making a statement. The whole point is they want to offend. I really, we've gotten so dumb in our culture. A lot of this stuff, especially with this production.

They act like they're being thought-provoking, and that that is again a substitute for originality, or controversy is a substitute for originality. Animals can be, they can do shocking things. Shock is cheap art. Shock isn't even art. It's a cheap imitation of art.

It's when. They can't actually do The artistic thing, so they settle for the cheap imitation of it and they pretend that, oh, you're shocked, that's compelling. It doesn't com is compelling. A necessary requirement to be considered art? I don't think so, not necessarily, especially when used and abused in this case.

But all of these people that dragged him I woke up Looked at the uh 'cause he tweeted it out in the morning. And he you know, he doesn't sleep, he just blinks for long periods of time and that's it. But I saw that what was it, Pope Trump or Trump Pope was trending and I'm like, oh boy what happened?

So I looked and I saw the AI image and I thought, That's funny. And then the left was mad. Oh my gosh, sacrilegious, blasphemous. What else were they saying? Like, I'm running, going through the Rolodex of adjectives in my mind.

All of my Catholic friends thought it was funny, and I have some pretty hardcore Catholic friends. Like, I look, I'm not Catholic. I have some of my family was raised Catholic. My husband's family is Catholic. Uh Part of them.

I was raised Southern Baptist. Fun. But um, and we're non-denominational, we're Church of Christ. But um You know, my Catholic friends have always been so nice in explaining, okay, this is why they're wearing the pointy hats. Because I'm like, what's up with these hats?

And that's old Dolce and Gabbana. Explain that. And they think it's funny and they explain it to me. But none of them were offended by any of this. They were like, okay, he's making a joke.

He's not trying to offend. He's making a joke. Like, he didn't he order the flags half mast? for the Pope or something to that effect. And all but but the left they'll do like um Jesus Christ Superstar.

What was the other one they did? Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. Then there were there were a couple of other productions and then there were some art there were some exhibitions that were supposed that were poking fun at um like Catholicism or religious artifacts and things like that. The left never was offended over any of this. But it's only because Trump is That's the only thing.

They only only because he's the thing that they that to them he is the ingredient that can sour anything They will immediately, if it's something they've been for their whole lives, they will immediately argue against it if he's involved. Because that's how tribal people are. If they even have to if the left Has to agree with Trump on anything, they view that as they lost on that issue. And because they're that narrow-minded. Like, if you agree with someone on a particular issue and you have common ground, it doesn't mean you're giving anything up.

It just means that, wow. Both of you have the same thought on this issue.

Now, you didn't change your position. They didn't change their position. You just have the same thought on an issue. But the left doesn't look at it that way. They look at it as if they're agreeing with someone who's across the aisle, then that nullifies.

Their position and their, they don't want to look like they're wrong or that they have been modified in any way. It is bizarre. They are a walking psychological study, the left is. They really are.

So I I don't know. I um I am just it's just I don't want to hear anybody get I'm just tired of them complaining about Pope Trump, Trump Pope or whatever it is. A c a few other things because there's uh POTUS is busy over the weekend. Uh he said also they want to reopen Alcatraz. He said it's something that he thought.

We have this audio. Can we play this? This is uh.

Sorry, audio sound bite. Million five thousand eleventy 2014. Thank you, Steve. Where did you get the idea for reopening Alcatraz? Just an idea I've had, and I guess because the judges, so many of these radicalized judges, They want to have trials for every single, think of it, every single person that's in our country illegally, that came in illegally.

That would mean millions of trials and it's just so ridiculous what's happening. Bad. It's long been a symbol, Alcatraz, of whatever it is. I mean, you know, it's a sad symbol, but it's a symbol of law and order. And, you know, it's got quite a history, frankly.

So I think we're going to do that. You're not posted to it. Are you posted, Kane? No. I think it's kind of cool.

AF. Yeah. There's a lot of sharks in them waters too. Super shark-infested. I don't know if y'all knew that.

Super shark-in-fested.

So, uh He says he wants to uh open it up for some of the most ruthless violent criminals. Is it though? I heard it was like really I watched a um About a year or so ago. Because I love haunted history stuff. And I watched a haunted history thing about Alcatraz, and they were saying that it is in great disrepair.

So I don't know. what it would take to Like make it Work, I mean, does it really need to be that workable? I just think if you're a super violent criminal, the consequences, you're not going to the writs. You know what I'm saying?

So, do I care? Just does the security work? Are there shock fences? Part of me makes me believe he's saying this because he's got a different motivation. What is your theory?

I don't know what the motivation is or what he wants to do, but I think there's something that he wants to either do with that land, either sell it or something. But I don't know if the prison is. Really, the end game here. I'm still a little suspicious. I mean, wasn't it.

I I mean Because I think part of the reasons that they couldn't even use it anymore was because it, I mean, even like the infrastructure, I'm talking like electricity, water. It was all really bad off. But again, you know, you do crime, you're not going to the writs. Yeah. I am all for cruel and unusual punishment when it comes to rapists and pedophiles.

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Why did I lose confidence? He's going to the United Nations representative to me. I think it's personally, if I had a choice for myself of doing it, I'd rather have that job than the other. He didn't resign. I just moved him.

There's no resignation. You people are so bad. You're trying to make a big deal out of something. You are so bad. That's why nobody watches you anymore.

Who are you with? Who are you with? You're with who? Erst? I didn't know there was such a question.

He's just like so dismissive. I didn't even know there was a hearst. What? He's just so dismissive. Welcome back to the program.

Dana Lash here with you. We're at the top of the second hour. There is he's talking about Mike Waltz. And he was talking with the press, a little, not a scrum, but like some of the press that's there on. Oh, Air Force One.

Good heavens. I almost said White Force One. I was thinking White House, Air Force, whatever. It's rainy. I'm blaming that.

Anyway, Daniel Lash with you, top of this second hour now. And of course, you can listen across the country. A stationereo, uh, channel 347, direct TV, the chats at Rumble, YouTube, Facebook, all that good stuff. But he was saying, Oh, you're making something out of nothing with Mike Waltz. Him getting the UN ambassador, in some ways, is a cushier, fancier.

Sing. Than what he had prior. I mean, that's kind of my opinion on this. I think it's in some ways it's like way. It's a little cushier, but Uh I do think what this does We've talked about this before, is it highlights a divide in the Trump administration.

That they're going to have to fix. They all need to be on the same page as it relates to Iran. And there's a suspicion that one of the reasons Waltz was moved from this role. to Mor I would say more of a least or leashed roll rather. is uh at the UN is because of Iran.

Because he's one of those who he just bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, right? That's or Iran, like Lindsey Graham. And the grandma always wanted to bomb Iran. But there's definitely a divide in the Trump administration on this. There was a very interesting, a good piece over at Washington Examiner, Trump Needs His Team on the same Iran page, where they dive into this.

Specifically about Waltz. And it's not just Waltz, there's other people within the administration that are pretty absolutist on this stuff. Rubio's kind of in the middle of it. I think that he leans a certain way, but I don't think that he's showing his cards just yet. But The uh Idea of being very, very aggressive and essentially getting us into a war with Iran.

There are absolutely people in the administration that are leading that way. Trump is not. Trump is, he's not an isolationist, but what is the clear objective for getting into Iran? What, to stop them from uranium enrichment? They've been enriching uranium this entire time.

And why is it our responsibility to send our blood and treasure to do it when the nuclearized Iran is a threat to the Saudis and the Arab League? Why can't the Arab League do it? Why is it the United States' responsibility to wipe the backside of the rest of the world with our blood and treasure every single time? I'm sorry, but I don't really care about the lives of anyone over in the Middle East as it is worth anybody here in the United States. I would not spend one American soldier's life.

for that of anybody. That is not A United States citizen that we do not have our interests completely outlined and articulated. Might be harsh, but that you know what? The, the, Onus is on the shoulders of the people who are trying to make the case to get involved in this conflict. What do they think is going to happen if we start striking Iran?

The Houthis are one thing. That's why Iran always uses these. proxy groups like, you know, Hezbollah or or uh the Houthis or all of the other million different little factions of warlords that they have.

So There's and Steve Woodcroft's in the middle of it And everybody's fighting. They're really fighting over Iran, and it's starting to now be a distraction. And It's I I feel like each side is All one way, and there's no middle ground or anything. Trump is, for his part, Trump is definitely not. He's not on the same page that Waltz is, or some of these others are.

And I don't think he's ever going to be prevailed upon to move to that position. He's very clear that, no, we're not going to. And he'll talk about striking the Houthis, but that's very, very different as opposed to carrying out strikes like against Tehran, right? Very different. But he's threatened to impose secondary sanctions on any country that buys Iranian crude.

And that's I mean, that's I think way more of a ration, reasoned response than maybe what Waltz was kind of promoting. But they're supposed to they had a fourth round of discussions that were supposed to happen last weekend, but Oman canceled them. And so we'll see, but This a It does highlight the split. Dialogue versus detonation is how Axios puts it. and how they're going to try to manage this threat.

And I see these little hit pieces going out too. Here's another thing that I would like to, that I think his administration needs to be cautioned about.

So in the Trump administration, one of the tools that, and I don't think Trump does this, I do think his surrogates do. I know for a fact his surrogates do. Uh they will shop Not even credible Appo, but they'll shop hit pieces on other people in the administration if they're off this, if they're off page. They're not on the same page. Like I saw a piece I don't know if it was the Daily Mail that said, oh, Mike Waltz was you know, he would the reason that he was removed from this position by POTUS is because he was trying to coordinate with Israel to go after Iran.

And that seems to be a pretty high and mighty B S Take. But somebody shopped it.

Somebody put that out there and the press will eat it up. I don't want to see leaks start happening again this term like they did his first term because they were distracting and it just dragged him all over the place. And he I I mean, it wasn't until after, you know, we had a rough midterms that he had to just focus on judicial the second half of his first term.

So, I mean, I think he's listened to everybody make their arguments, but he's clearly not moving on Iran. It's not happening. I think they had a sit-room meeting this morning on Iran and There's, I mean, you have people like, I think Vance is in, he, Vance. Is more in line with Trump in that he wants a diplomatic resolution and still thinks that that's possible. You have Witcoff, who sort of goes back, flits back and forth, but otherwise stays kind of in the center.

And then you have Waltz. Rubio is leaning more towards the Waltz side, I would say. And Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton, which are very, very aggressive towards Iran. And they think that Iran's weaker than ever. We shouldn't compromise.

They either dismantle their nuclear program entirely or we strike them. That's kind of that camp's proposal. And obviously, you have Vance and others, including POTUS, that are like, yeah, yeah, no, I think the diplomatic solution, because that's a big commitment. I mean, you're committing to war. That's, that's, and I, we're sorry, the United States is not in a place to do it.

Everyone keeps talking about recruitment. We're not there with recruitment. Hell, we don't even have all the baddies weeded out at DOD and Pentagon yet before we're going to start embroiling ourselves in a conflict. And I want you to think of this: this conflict isn't going to just be limited to Trump's term. If you would have Waltz and you would have Rubio, even and Graham and Cotton, if they all got their ways and we issue the ultimatum, you either Either deconstruct your nuclear program or we're going to strike.

Guess what? That conflict will outlast Trump's term. And then you will probably, I mean, depending on what Republicans do, if we're getting involved in a conflict and we don't have any. Permanent tax cuts or anything else. Guess what?

You're going to have a Democrat president in 2028. Are you? Are you looking forward to having a bunch of things that Trump did to strengthen the military, but it was only done by EO, immediately reversed by that same pen and paper by a Democrat president? Because that's exactly what's going to happen. And then all of these men and women who signed up to serve our country under Trump and under SekDef Hegseth, they're going to have the rug ripped out underneath them and they're going to be shoved into a meat cannon.

That's exactly what's going to happen under a Democratic administration.

So everybody needs to get their asses and wits about them right now. This is ridiculous. There's two camps, and every and I will say the people who are all excited for war, they couldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight. All these people that are so excited about miring our country down into another conflict, these neocons, and that is the correct way to use that term, they are nation-building neocons. They are entirely ignorant of the fact that some cultures don't want democracy.

Some don't want democratic processes in a republic because they don't want a republic. and you have to modify how you deal with them accordingly. You can't apply the same kind of sanitized Western view to every single nation on God's green earth. It's just impractical and unworkable. And these people that want to get involved, they think that everything, they're the hammer and everything's a nail.

They have no idea. No idea. Not a single one of 'em. There was a 45-minute conversation last weekend between Witcoff and the Foreign Minister of Iran. And that was, I think, since the Obama administration, the highest level of discourse.

Uh but It's it's I mean, he's trying, they want a nuclear deal. Iran has a two-month deadline. Yeah, they have a two-month grace period before the deadline to sign it. And they're trying to get this wrapped up. And it doesn't help that you have some You know, neocons in the administration that are very loudly banging war drums.

So, when it comes down to it, I don't Waltz's removal had nothing to do with signal. I think it was the administration reshifting people. Shifting them around to further underscore Trump's position on Iran and not the neocomp position on Iran. That's what it comes down to.

So And by the way, Lorraine was because Trump and that audio sound about it was like Hearst. I never even I had to say I never heard of Hearst either. Lorraine's got it. She's like, Yeah, they own a bunch of magazines, television channels, television stations, including the San Francisco Chronicle.

Well, that makes sense because Hearst was California-based. But they also own Esquire. I didn't know that. And they own 50% of the AE cable network. Did you know that, Kane?

I did not know. 20% of Disney Company's sports division ESPN. I didn't know that. Hearst Publications. Hm.

So We're going to talk to Stephen Yates about that a little bit more coming up as well. That. that divide that we see in the administration with a a few other things. Also coming up, we got some cultural stuff. Apparently, Gen Z is whining about Starbucks.

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So, as you all know, sovereignty won over journalism at the Kentucky Derby. That was pretty crazy. I love the name. I love the symbolism that it has. That's just so perfect.

Bodies of animals everywhere. Toxic algae bloom is taking a toll on Southern California's marine life. That's, this, doesn't this happen in the Gulf too? Because I remember reading about some of this stuff. They said that it's, I mean, it's like poisonous.

They're talking about sea lions and some animals. I don't even know, like all kinds of stuff. Toxic fish, that it's just that, and it's this algae bloom that, you know, happens every now and then, not just, you know, near California, but in the Gulf as well. The rise of single parents. This is an interesting piece.

That Kane marked because I think there's a financial times, and I think there's a lot that goes into it than just. You know, like economics or like various life choices. You think that there's an inability of people to connect with people. I think that that's true. Yeah.

Because they get into that with this story. People who like work, work, work, and then they don't really, like, I think a lot of it is driven by. You know, digital, everything digital, digital life, digital socialization. People aren't connecting the way that they used to. And I don't think that that's like specifically.

The younger generations as well. I've been hearing stories like older generations now, too, like even boomers. are starting to deal with some of this stuff where people Are just like they wanna just stay home and they'll connect digitally, or they'll just, you know, it's just very interesting, but that's also leading. to more and more people. choosing to not have like the traditional nuclear family, they just like, you know, single parents is like the thing to.

It's like the thing to do. I don't know. There's a lot that goes. This is bigger than just a quick five. A uh, this is interesting.

A 12-year-old boy in New Zealand creates an AI pill bot to stop his grandmother from taking the wrong medication. This is a this was so sweet. A little 12-year-old boy, Gabriel Anthony. He invented a robot and it programmed it via AI to help his grandmother. It calls it Pilbot.

He says she has poor eyesight. She takes a lot of pills because her conditions, and sometimes because she can't really recognize the pill and see it, she'll take the wrong one.

So he has Pilbot and it recognizes. what medications she needs and which ones, you know, she has to have a flashlight and a magnifying glass to identify pills.

So he said that it actually takes a photo of the pill, it recognizes the pill based on its training, and it checks her pills before she takes them. That is amazing and he needs to get an award for that because I love that so much. That's how you properly young people use digital and have those advancements. Awesome. If you don't have a real ID, you're gonna have a lot of travel headaches after May 7th.

The real ID. Isn't that just, I go back and forth on this. Isn't it just a way to like coalesce everything federally? I think so. That's what I think.

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Well, it's far too early to say that, but I do have a vice president, and typically, and JD's doing a fantastic job. He would be at the top of the list. It could very well be. I don't want to get involved in that. I think he's a fantastic, brilliant guy.

Marco is great. There's a lot of them that are great. I also see tremendous unity. But certainly you would say that somebody's the VP, if that person is outstanding, I guess that person would have an advantage. But I think the other people would all stay in unbelievably high positions.

But it could be that he'd be challenged by somebody. We have a lot of good people in this party. He isn't claiming an heir, by the way. And I know that the media is trying to run that as another way to divide, but he's not claiming an error. And HEIR, right?

He's not saying that that's he's just saying, look, it's too early. You know, obviously, you know, the VP, et cetera. That's Trump talking to Kristen Welker. Welcome back. Bottom of the second hour.

Although I entirely reject Marco Rubio. entirely, a million with all my heart reject him. Um I have a very personal view of it. And My view is I was there in person and it was the Parkland Town Hall. And he was there, I was there, I was speaking after him.

And that's that infamous town hall. And he was on stage and the crowd. Remember Leading up to this, just to give you some insight, leading up to this. They had um Uh Robert Runcy, who was the superintendent of the school. Uh Deutsch, Ted Deutsch, who called me a quote-unquote bitch.

uh screamed it at me when I was on stage. And he was sitting right next to my husband, and my husband had to say a prayer that he didn't punch him in the face. Uh he screaming at me. And he got up on stage and they riled up that whole arena. like a rally.

You thought the Wellstone funeral was in poor taste when Democrats used that Paul Wellstone funeral to rally. Remember that whole thing came back in the day? This was like worse. Because they were exploiting a mass tragedy. Nobody talked about how much worse it was, what Democrats did at that time.

Parkland Town Hall. They went out there and they gave campaign speeches. And they were railing against Republicans. They were railing against gun owners. They called gun owners terrorists.

This was before the CNN camera started rolling. I was listening to all of this. And it was me and my husband backstage, and as part of my job at that time. uh or a job at that time. I had to represent firearm owners.

and it wasn't a choice. And when the camera started rolling, they didn't tell everybody that, oh, well, we had all these politicians go up and make all these speeches. And so everybody's like, Just bear, you know, just ready to rip out. They were ready to like hump air. They were ready to just.

Yeah. It was like a a five minute tape. And I can't remember, I think he was up there with Deutsche. And Rubio was up there, and everybody got a chance to speak, and they were screaming at Rubio, they were booing him. Um cussing him.

Um oh, it was bad. And they were saying, well, what about red flag laws? And what about universal background checks? And I watched. the mob.

bully him away from the Second Amendment live on cha on stage. I watched him with my own eyes on live television. I was there. I watched him give them everything that they wanted. He agreed live on stage to red flag laws and universal background checks.

That's not an exaggeration. He agreed to it and then they cheered him. And my heart fell into my stomach. Because I still had to go up after him. And my husband turned around and looked at me, and he said, Your job just got that much harder.

And I'm like, gulp. I know. And I had to go up there and I didn't give an inch. And after that My view of him changed dramatically. And because of that, He's good in this role.

But he's a subordinate. Because of that, I could never. Ever. Ever. Endorse him.

I watched him. sacrifice all of our rights and our self-defense. because he bent both knees and bowed his head to the mob. Because it was convenient and easy for him to do.

Now I know everybody, the trend is to cheer him and applaud him. And I think he's doing a fine job. as Secretary of State. He is a subordinate. I think when push comes to shove, I think he cracks under serious pressure.

I watched it happen. happened, I had a view that no other American on in this country had. And ever since then, I was very critical of him. He will not have anything to do with me. His people will not have anything to do with me.

And I wasn't mean, I wasn't harsh. I just said I've never been more disappointed in a lawmaker. in my life. than I was with him at that moment. the moment that his his country needed him the most.

The moment That gun owners, that Americans who want to make sure that they're safe. one that needed him the most. He capitulated. And You can't you can't crack. If you're going for the highest office in the land, you cannot.

Crack. And he did.

So he can never be the heir. I'm not going to get into some of the moderate part of his record. That's not very maga. But on that reason alone, that was more than just he failed on an issue. That was a test of character.

And it was a test of personal strength. And he failed.

Now I think he is in his element that he was born to be in as Secretary of State. He's a surrogate, though. He takes his orders from the Administration. and I think he's fine there. But I will not apologize to any one.

for my position on this because no one else was there. as I was right there on the side of the stage, watching it.

So no grifter can hold a candle to that. real actual experience.

So no, he can never be here. He could, and I would never support it. I would not support it. I couldn't vote for it. Because I've seen it.

I mean, when you crack like that, it's no different than a Democrat.

Now, I think it was interesting what Trump said about Vance. He said, well, you know, he said he's very brilliant, but If you notice, he's said it in two or three different ways. It's early. He wants to just see, you know, and and I think that's completely fine. I mean, for crying out loud, the man's not even been back in the White House for a hundred days and you're already like trying to push him out the door.

Okay, who's your successor? Who's your successor? Give him a minute to do some stuff, okay? But that's the press. You had to know that that question was coming.

I thought he handled it fine. Um I thought the way that the media is trying to present it. They're trying to make it divisive. They're saying, Oh, look, he already named two. People right here.

Oh, he, these are his heirs. That's not what he said. He said there's a lot of good people. And I know because it's going to be brought up, some people are like, well, why didn't he mention DeSantis? He didn't exclude him.

He just mentioned His VP, which is natural, and then the guy who literally is in the press because he assumed a million different temporary positions in addition to Secretary of State right now until they can get these other roles filled.

So, yeah, he's right there all the time. That's not unusual. I get it.

So I think that the way Trump handled that answer was completely fine. There was nothing. There's no drama there. He didn't exclude anybody. And he said it's too early.

And he said, potential, potential, potential. He never claimed anything.

So. Shh. Don't get baited by the press into thinking that Trump said something that he did not. Cain, you heard the same thing, correct? Yes, ma'am.

Didn't he say it like three different times? He kept it like he purposefully. was trying. to keep it as open as possible. And it's still not going to be good enough for the press.

They're still going to try to find some way to divide. Don't buy into that nonsense. I thought it was completely fine the way he did it. And honestly, I gotta tell you. I think the signal gate thing.

The way that he was handling Mike Waltz, especially if this comes down to reshifting things as it pertains to. Um Iran That was a very smooth move. Don't you think so, Kane? Oh yeah. Because He didn't get removed.

My thought, he didn't get removed because of signal gate. It's because of your run. 'Cause of his position on Iran. That's how he got that's why he got moved.

So You know, there's This is all it's it's all this is the way it is. Just the way it is. All right, a couple of things because we have time for some Red State Rhinos, Juan. I just got a few couple things here.

So serious. Isn't it? It's like Red State Rhino Hunting Noir.

So, a couple of things. They are considering, you know, obviously several different bits of legislation. They have a Reader Act, which is being proposed. This is coming from Kristen Bentley. who is uh a committee woman in the uh first Uh Senate district.

And SB3, it's a fix to the reader act for Texas.

Now, you know, we focus on rhinos, obviously, for this Red State rhino hunting. Uh and And I'm not ignoring other states, and there are other states that we're going to get to, but we focus on with put a particular emphasis on Texas and Florida because they are the biggest red states, and you can't lose them. You particularly can't lose Texas.

So, SB 13, they're looking at requiring. Consistent review procedures and basically giving, and also making it to where parents have to sign off on. Non-academic materials that are presented in schools. Like your elementary as well, so that we can get rid of the age-inappropriate sexual material that is constantly being introduced in school. That's you know.

Um Ultimately Uh, it gets into all I mean, the trans stuff and all this other stuff that's in these schools. And there are, of course, you know, some. It's in the Public Education Committee, it's SB 13, and there are some. Nobody's affixed their name yet, but there are some lawmakers that are trying to push back against this that are Republicans of all the things. It's kind of amazing that this is something that just consistently keeps.

happening now in Florida I can't even believe I'm about to say this. They actually had a big win. in Florida because their speaker, Danny Perez, Finally, I was forced to yield on property taxes.

So you remember the Florida House Speaker, a big rhino. Who was fighting forever against any kind of property tax relief for Floridians? He said it was impractical. He's lost the battle. And so now the Select Committee on Property Taxes, they are now allowed, they're looking at proposals to overhaul the entire property tax structure for the state of Florida.

One of the things that the governor had said is that they were, I mean, they require homeowners, you're constantly paying rent. Constitutional protections through Florida homeowners require the approval of voters. In 26, Floridians need relief.

So they're pushing, they're exploring everything from like a $1,000 rebate, whatever it is, until the committee can formulate a permanent structure. They overhaul it and then they can get it passed in the legislature. They had been blocked by the Republican Speaker of the House for forever. And now he lost this battle. And so now it's going forward.

So that is a huge, huge thing. And that goes to a lot of grassroot people in Florida who started hearing about this. And they started burning down his phone lines. And when he started seeing the pushback from Floridians in that state, His knees buckled.

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Wow. Oh my gosh, this is crazy. A Florida homeowner, because you know iguanas are invasive species in Florida, that's what they're considered. A Florida homeowner found 90. Eight iguana eggs in their backyard.

And when they called the Humane Iguana Control Division of Florida Fish and Wildlife, Uh They said that that was literally the most they had ever seen in one. Uh one site. And it was from I think they said uh three three different females? That they, because they, I mean, they tell people to hunt these things. Three female iguanas had nested in burrows, they were all interconnected and each had their own clutch.

And they said it's a record, the most ever they've never found in the history of the state. They said iguanas are more than a nuisance. They dig burrows, it damages infrastructure, landscape destruction, health risks. You know, they can like the salmonella on the skin, all that stuff. They said that one even compromised an actual dam before, and it was a $2 million, they had $2 million of taxpayer money to fix it.

Isn't that crazy?

So that's A Florida man was arrested because he had three different wives in three different counties, and that is a big bad no-no. Ew. I think, did we have this before? I think we had this one. Yeah, I think I had this one last Friday.

So we don't need that one again. Also, let's see here. I had another. Another one. This um Hmm Couple, hang on.

I don't want to read that one's gross. Not reading that one. A Florida man was accused of raming into a Boca Rattan fire engine. Apparently, he was triggered. I've never seen a guy with such a large forehead in my life.

It was a roadside outburst. It landed him in handcuffs. He yelled at firefighters, hit their fire engine, and sped off. And there was a call later on into police that said a vehicle was forcing other cars off the road. And they got this guy, forty year old Christian Diorcini, And he was screaming at firefighters.

And that's when he backed into a fire engine, tried to speed off. They ended up, they did catch him, and he's got a very, he had a DUI. left the scene to an accident, property damage, all kinds of stuff. Uh, they so he was under some kind of influence per CBS 12. Yeah, I would say so.

And I'm not gonna have time for this one tomorrow. I'll tell you about the one who assaulted a gate agent at DFW, which you can't do.

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Did I say what? To reopen Alcatraz. How will you use it? How did you come up with the idea?

Well, I guess I was supposed to be a movie maker. We started with the movie making and we'll end. I mean, it represents something very strong, very powerful in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order. Alcatraz is, I would say, the ultimate, right?

Alcatraz, Sing Sing, and Alcatraz, the movies. It's right now a museum, believe it or not. A lot of people go there. It housed the Most violent criminals in the world. And nobody ever escaped.

One person almost got there, but they, as you know, the story, they found his clothing rather badly ripped up. And it was a lot of shark bites, a lot of problems. Nobody's ever escaped from Alcatraz, and just represented something strong having to do with law and order. We need law and order in this country. And so we're going to uh look at it.

Some of the people up here are going to be working very hard on that. And uh we had a little conversation, I think. I think it's gonna be the shark bites. Lot of shark bites.

Well, it is shark-infested water right there. I mean. I'm just saying it is, isn't it, Kane? I mean, you know, the sharks are hungry right there. That's where they're looking to get their bites in.

Yeah, they get they you gotta get your bites in. And then their little watch goes off and says you did it. I don't know what's happening.

So Oh my gosh. Welcome back to the program. We're at the top of this third hour. It's the weather. It's welcome back.

Dana Lash with you with again top of the third hour. Greetings and salutations. I look little quick sidebars. you know, we our studio, we have WIC here. A rescue pop in.

A stog is we've had to teach him how to be a dog. In a way, because we got him from a shelter and he never went outside without a person before.

So the first time I let him go outside, you know, like, go outside to your backyard, you know, and you can go use a restroom. He looked at me like I was crazy. Like, get here, woman. Like, you got to walk out with me. I can't do this by myself.

And he is. petrified. of storms. I've never I mean, he just shakes. He just sh just tucks his tail and just shakes whenever there's like thunder, whenever it's storming.

And then w you know, if whatever w was going on, we gotta stop it and make sure he's chill. and he doesn't like being in his kennel. Except to go to bed at night. That's the only time. And most dogs want a safe space.

Wick does not want to be in his kennel.

So Yeah, I've made a pillow for it for him. Like a whole pillow for it that he can get in and hide.

So I'll let you know how that works out. I'm like, well.

Okay. I don't He doesn't want to be in his kettle.

So the next best thing is a pillow fort. How many pillows have you used in this pillow fort? A lot. And I there's like a blanket, and I am an expert pillow fort builder. I don't know if anybody knows this.

It's a particular skill set that I have. You know, I've made many, many pillow forts, not just as a child, but also as a boy mom. I have made some pillow forts in my time. And so it's a really cane, it's a spectacular pillow for it. Yeah.

In which Wick can find security from the storm since. He doesn't. Does he calm down in the pillow for it?

Well, I don't know. We're trying it for the first time.

So we're going to see. That's what I did on break. I'm like, I went and cobbled together. If I do say so myself, a pretty spectacular pillow for it. And we're going to see if that maybe, because he wants to be under stuff and.

And if you if he sits by you when it's storming, you have to basically hug him. You have to put your arm around him and hug him. Or he'll try to melt into your head. It's just like he tries to get right there by you. That poor guy.

He is just. I and someone was telling me a Thunder shirt. People who have never dressed toddlers. Yeah. Are like, get a thunder shirt for your dog.

Dressing a dog is. As bad, if not worse, sometimes I think than dressing a toddler.

Well, unless it was my youngest. And I just don't know if that's gonna work out.

So I don't even know what it's a shirt that hugs you tight? Yeah, I guess it's supposed to be like those compression blankets that make you feel like you're being hugged. I feel like that's not going to work for him. He's a very smart dog. He is super smart.

He learned how to open gates and. All kinds of stuff. He's incredibly smart. But yeah, so he's just, except he doesn't recognize just a basic storm. He's smart, but you know.

So we'll see how that goes. There's no meteorologist. Give him a break.

Well, I mean, it is kind of out of nowhere. It was, you know, sunny this morning, and then all of a sudden a storm comes rolling through again, and the thunder is so loud that sometimes it carries over air. It's crazy.

So, anyway, that's my life right now. I'm just making sure my dog doesn't have an existential breakdown when I'm on air because of the thunder.

So, if one day you guys happen to tune in, And you hear like some whining in the background of the mic, if you're not watching, or if you just see a giant yellow dog. here in the seat with me, it's because it the pillow for it didn't work. It didn't work, and so he's got to be. He's got to be, and he just sits there. It's the funniest thing.

He doesn't move. It's like he thinks if he's still, the storm won't see him. Like the oh, big roll of thunder. He acts like if he's just super still, the storm won't see him. And he just sits as still as a cigar store Indian.

He just sits there and will not move.

So he'll just, he'll probably look like a fake dog.

So it may happen now. It may happen here in the next, the next few.

So bear with us. It's a r our high maintenance showdog. Oh my gosh.

Now, Lorraine says for her dog, it's the electricity in the air more so than the thunder. I didn't even think about that. Really? The electricity in the air? I just think it's muggy.

Ooh, anyway, so. All right, so POTUS. Having uh the his doc having our little press of ale right there and he's uh discussing Alcatraz. I just again, I don't think you need to make it all up, right? Just make sure you got the f the the uh electric fences work and I think you're good, right?

Don't you think so? And the the locks work? Yeah. Yeah, I think that Yeah, I think that'll. I don't even know how much that would do.

Are we running out of prison space? I don't know. I mean, we've been letting prisoners out for all kinds of different reasons. Right. And overpopulation's been one of those reasons.

Yeah, I just. Yeah, I I mean, I don't know. I I mean maybe it You know, maybe, maybe we do, but I'm not against it. I'm not against it. Pota said down with Kristen Welker.

And was grilling him about a number of different issues. Can we have Audio Sunbite 6? Because I need to hear what he says about Jasmine Crockett. Go ahead and play this one. I can't name one Democrat.

I mean, I look at the Democrats. They're in total disarray. They have a new person named Crockett. I watched her speak the other day. She's definitely a low IQ person.

And they said she's the future of the party. She's dumb. How is that possible? That's what he just said.

Now, speaking of Crockett. Was this at her audio sound by? I think this, oh, 17.

So she was speaking. at a commencement ceremony. You know, Just This sounds like a particular, just like, I guess, what a regular commencement material. Listen to this. There are going to be people that tell you that you don't belong, and I am here to tell you over and over and over that you absolutely belong.

There are people that are gonna tell you that there is not a table in which there is a seat for you, but I am here to remind you of Montgomery and those folding chairs. Let me tell you. Did we know how to use a chair? Whether we pulling it up Are we doing something else with it? Like what?

Okay, so what? I guess she thinks that so this was her graduation, her commencement speech uh Sunday. This is she was in Mississippi. 20 minutes speech. And She's like unnecessarily wordy.

Like, instead of, you know, at a table in which there is a chair, you could just say a seat at the table. You know. At the table. And using a bunch of words strung together poorly does not make you sound smarter. It makes you sound dumb.

Just say a seat at the table. That's it. But she's talking about this fight that she's talking about chairs. Do you remember this 2023 fight that was in Montgomery, Alabama? And it was, it was.

Boaters that fought with, I guess, like a dock worker and a couple of other people. Remember this? It was a bunch of drunk people that fought, and then there were chairs involved. I don't even know. And it had to do with a parking spot at the dock.

Like somebody was trying to dock their boat, and somebody else, there was like a large river boat, and then there was a smaller private boat. And everybody got into a fight, and everybody made it a racial thing. And because they said, well, the cha, you know, this the city has a history of racial violence. I don't necessarily, I mean, I don't know if it was a race thing more as much as it was a drunk person, drunk people entitled thing. I don't know.

But I mean, I guess, you know, she needed it to be that. She referenced that. That's what she was talking about with the folding chair. Like that doesn't even Me makes sense. You're talking about a drunk fight over a do over dock space and a f What?

But why is that the message? First off, who's telling people that they don't that there isn't a seat for them at the table. Oh, sorry. A table at which there's a seat, also known as a chair. that you could have the seat at I don't get it, Kane.

Like, what? Why is that the. Who's telling anybody this? The only people that are saying this are people like her. The only people that are going, oh, there's no room at the table.

It's just, it's, it's her. She's the one who's telling them those. But that she did respond to him on on X Oh, oh, yeah? I put that in Slack. She did respond to him on X.

Yeah. Well, her remarks were stupid when she's talking about the chair. But she said she tweeted, as Kane noted, she tweeted. Quote Oh gosh. For you to be in charge of the whole country, you sure do have my name in your mouth a lot.

Okay, first off, let's stop with the first sentence. He doesn't even know your name, he just knew your last name. And he only mentioned you one time, so get over yourself. And can we stop saying name in your mouth? Like, that's so stupid.

Just shut up. I'm so tired of people trying to sound hard ass and like, I'm gonna say something that I think other hard ass people say. And if I say it, then I'm gonna borrow the hardassedness. Just stop. And then she goes, Every time you say my name, you're reminding the world that you're terrified of smart, bold black women telling the truth and holding you accountable.

Like, what? like he mentioned you one time. He mentioned her one time. Like He wig snatched you. And why are you still talking?

Like, stop. He didn't even mention your whole name.

So she snatched her own wig at her speech. Like, I've never seen anybody wig like do a self-wig snatch and SWS harder than this woman does. Like, it just does not. Keep my name out of your mouth.

Okay, that's not even how that works, but okay. Just, I feel like I'm watching like shit's creep the show. Fold in the cheese, David.

Well, what does it even mean? I spelled it in. Keep my name out of your mouth.

What does that even mean? The funny thing is that every time she talks about it, it's proving his point.

Well, yeah, I mean, she's She talks about him all the time. He just referenced her one time. One time he just mentioned her one time. and she loses it on X. loses it.

She was so excited that he even mentioned her last name. Nobody remembers her first name, and the only reason that they remember her last name is because it's Davy Crockett's name first. And it's a little bit jarring to realize that somebody with the last name Crockett is such an idiot. And so entitled. I mean, she's literally like a trust fund socialist.

I I I told y'all she grew up in the ritziest area in St. Louis and she went to the most expensive and exclusive private school ever. I mean, MICDS is That's where all the politicians' kids went. All the CEOs kids went. All the debutantes, all the billionaires and the millionaires, kids, all the ball players' kids were at MICDS.

Like everybody was at, if you had money and you had your parents were famous, you were at MICDS. That was like the school, and it was, it's super expensive. It's like more expensive than a four-year university. It is insanely expensive to go there. Beautiful campus, but I had to do a profile.

My one of my first jobs. After college was writing a celebrity profile on a performing artist, and they went to MICDS. And when I walked into that school, I was blown away because it was like A world away from how I grew up. I've, I mean, S and so, yeah, she's Yeah, yeah. She I I think she tries to cosplay like she's hood.

Well, she does. She tries to cosplay hood. And she's not. Like, AOC tries to cosplay like she's tough. It's like, stop.

It just looks so bad. It's so bad.

So The um She that was her commencement address. I just can't believe that you would reference Drunk people fighting with folding chairs over dock space at a commencement address and then act like that's somehow representative of racial struggle. I mean, if you're. It doesn't even make any sense. And she was in Mississippi, right?

And she's referencing something that was in Montgomery, Alabama. I don't understand. None of that makes sense to me. Of course, you know, not the brightest bulb in the box. Not really.

Audio Summit 18. Oh, she kept going. Listen, this is nuts. It's easy to play because she says stuff that's so crazy. Oh, wait, we got to move, don't we?

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So, very interesting headline that I had to double-check to make sure it was real. Chinese officials are reportedly. seeking to discuss fentanyl. And the fentanyl ingredients amid all of the stuff with the trade war. Apparently, it was reported that their minister of public security has made some inquiries over the past few days.

Now, I don't know. What that means. Like, can we talk to you about fentanyl? Can we have a talk? How does that even work?

So, to talk to us about this, our very good friend, Stephen Yates, you know him. He's on the show regularly. You can find him on X at Yates.com. comms, yeah, Yates comms. And of course he worked in not one, but two.

Previous presidential administrations, and he is the senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He joins us now, not via Skype, because Skype is now dead. Stephen, it's good to talk with you. What does that mean when they say, yeah, we're interested in talking about fentanyl? Like, okay, so.

Talk. Yeah, well, for you and me, and everyone with common sense, that should be the reflex. For the Chinese communists, they seem to have been taken a little by surprise. And I say this not to make excuses for them because I don't and would never, and I'd rather they go die under a tree. But they seem to have been scratching their heads that Americans might be serious, that they shut the flow of this poison that has been killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.

And that's not actually negotiable. We don't need to talk about it. Just do it. And if you do it, then we can go on to negotiate other things. It was a bit of a test.

So here they waited through the first hundred days of the Trump administration, not doing the things they knew that the Trump team was telling them they needed to do and escalating the rhetoric on all the other forms of tariffs. And then they start sending their surrogates to DC to talk to the tanks where they have China programs that actually come and go to China, unlike mine. And they start saying, hey, well, what does Trump want? What does the administration need? What are we really trying to negotiate?

And for whatever reason, they'll come around and they'll have their friends come ask me because they don't ask directly to me. And I should say, well, you know, this isn't rocket science. Said right from the outset, the very first tariffs that were levied were linked to stop the fentanyl precursors. This isn't really an academic debate. They know who's doing it.

They know where they're doing it. They know where the money's being laundered. And they can stop it 100% in a day if they're so motivated. And if you wonder, look how quickly they locked down the entire city of Shanghai when they wanted to or needed to. Look how they stomped on Hong Kong when they wanted to or needed to.

This isn't academic.

So that's the dance that we're playing right now. I think the president wants to make a deal to rebalance the economic relationship, but I think he correctly, and I hope he sticks to his guns about it, said this fentanyl thing is not actually negotiable. Do something meaningful that we can verify and measure, and then we'll talk about the other things. Yeah, that makes all the sense in the world because they were saying it. I think it was Fox and others that reported these Chinese government officials were, well, what does the administration?

They were asking, what does the administration want us to do about the inputs for fentanyl?

Well, stop sending them to the cartels. I mean, it's just that simple. Maybe stop having that kind of relationship with the cartels. It's interesting too, whenever they talk about fentanyl, Stephen, they never mention that aspect of the equation. They never talk about their association with the cartels, which they kind of treat the cartels like they're their own independent sovereign entity.

Right. Well, and they seem to have no shame in that association.

Now, we shouldn't expect communist parties to have too much shame. But at the same time, that is the other reason why I think that fentanyl precursor materials, not the stuff that's used to treat pain in surgeries and hospitals or whatever else, but the illicit precursors should be listed as WMD. Because then we are listing not just the vehicles for bringing these things into our country, the cartels, but also the substance themselves. And it double brands, okay, China, you want to be a world leader saying you're upholding rules and norms? You're trafficking in weapons of mass destruction.

And so, go ahead, Europe. You want to warm up to someone trafficking in weapons of mass destruction? That's your association now. And I think that that might, might, might do something that has been more than just get talks going. But really, we're dealing with bad people who've been willing to kill a lot of Americans already.

We shouldn't be surprised they make this hard and they don't operate under our logic. The New York Times had, we're talking with our friend Stephen Yates. The New York Times had the headline: China looks for a way out of U.S. deadlock, trade deadlock. Fentanyl could be the key.

Is there willingness? to discuss fentanyl you think kind of maybe the beginning of waving them waving a white flag on this trade war.

Well, from what I hear, and my information is as imperfect as everyone else's in this regard. I feel like you know a little more than everybody else. Let's be honest about it. Go on. Goldpost seemed to shift in the life we live now at Lightspeed and Trump speed for news cycles.

But what I think has been very, very clear is that the president is interested in talking to Xi Jinping. He's just not interested in conceding in advance. The Chinese side is trying to intimate they're not interested in conceding in advance. But I think that the president has rightly held out fentanyl as something different. It shouldn't be negotiable.

And so if they want to have talks about what to do about fentanyl, they're wasting their time. They know what needs to be done and with whom, and they can do that. And if they won't do that, what should that tell any reasonable American, European, Asian, or otherwise about how can you negotiate and deal with this kind of government if they won't do this? If they were poisoning your children, would you negotiate free trade with them? It's insane.

And so it has to be the prerequisite from my point of view. I'm not the president. No one elected me, and he hasn't asked for my advice. But for free of charge, Mr. President, I think you're on the right track and stick to your guns on this.

That's a good idea. I would say that they should listen to you. I mean, you were there. Before, and you've had other POTUSs listen to you. We're talking with our good friend Stephen Yates at Yates Comson X.

So, in the Pacific, we have obviously the threat of China, and then we focus so much on the Middle East. But then, recently, and this is where I wanted to get kind of your experience and expertise on this, because with the dismissal of Mike Waltz being where he is, now he's going to be the UN ambassador. Uh, I don't feel like that all happened because of the signal leak. I feel like that happened because of Iran and how you have these two different factions in the administration that don't seem to be on the same page with us. Trump and I think Vance, for the most part, seem to be more of let's approach this diplomatically.

We don't want to either look like we're going towards conflict with Iran or have or commit to anything like that. But then you have others, you know, more like Tom Cotton and some other folks that are there, Lindsey Graham, who absolutely, you know, every to them, everything is a nail there, the hammer. They want to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran. I mean, it seems like there's these two factions competing in the administration. What do you make of this and what does that forecast for how we're going to deal with them?

Well, this is a hard challenge. You're not wrong about the mixed forces. And the reason there are those mixed forces, because the United States has tried a lot of different things. And what we know with a certainty is the things that were tried before mostly didn't work. The thing that worked the best was Trump 1.0's maximum pressure and Abraham Accord's combo seems to put us, our allies in the region, in the best possible position, at least since the 1970s.

And that's not for nothing, but it also didn't solve the problem. And the problem might not be solvable with acceptable risk on our part. That's the reason why it's a hard job to be president. And it's a hard job to advise presidents. I have no idea what the true sort of tender was that lit things off to make a change for a national security advisor.

I would say that whenever there is really sensitive negotiations going on, everyone is at risk of getting a little out on their skis or out of step with the president. And this administration in the first Hundred days have like three or four very sensitive and complicated negotiations going on at the same time. Never seen anything like that before. And so the risk of Sort of crossing wires at some point and wanting change is going to be really high, and it's going to be high for whoever has that position under those circumstances. I would assess.

So, but in dealing with Iran, I think the president is trying to see: is there some kind of deal to be had? I actually kind of doubt there is. What are our allies looking for? I mean, Israel is still having to try to defeat Gaza, and there's still a lot of people in the international community trying to hold them back from doing it. And the Iranian threat of having a nuclear weapon.

That's obviously aimed at Israel and aimed at the United States. And so, this is not easy stuff. And China and Russia aren't making it any easier.

So, this people talk about three-dimensional, four-dimensional chess. I don't understand that. I could never play it. But this is kind of what the president is facing. And I think it's really hard.

Most of the building blocks he's trying, I think, are on the right track. But we can't count on the bad people coming along and getting with the program. What are, I know that Oman was hosting. I think the last, like a week ago, they were hosting some talks, I think with Steve Witkoff and others. From what I was reading, there was supposed to be another round of talks this week, and that ended up ultimately being canceled because you mentioned the Abraham Accords.

And I'm thinking, you know, a nuclearized Iran is. Is way more dangerous to a lot like you know, the I go back to like the Sunni-Shia conflict, and they're way more dangerous than you know, to this as much as they are dangerous to Israel and the United States, I would imagine they're super dangerous on those terms to Saudi Arabia as well. It just seems like all that's reported about their involvement is just hosting talks and maybe doing some mediation. Is there more to it than that that's just not getting reported? I strongly suspect there's a lot more going on with our major allies in that region.

When I say major, I mean those that have the financial and military means to make a meaningful difference in shaping the region. And so I think the United Arab Emirates punches above its weight in that regard. I think Saudi Arabia is vital in trying to keep some sense of balance. This isn't a question of: do you love every part of every kingdom that you deal with? It's a matter of do you have a coalition that can keep the darkest genie in a bottle in order for the rest of us to have an alternative path to peace and prosperity?

And with those, I think the president is scheduled in the not too distant future to go spend several days over in the Middle East and will have very, I think, in-depth and serious and very blunt talks with leaders over there that will be on the Iran situation and what's the end state for the Gaza situation and what America America can do and can't do and what they need to do and listen to them also. I mean, that's the undertold story is people talk about Trump being a certain way, but he actually is doing a lot of listening to the allies that are serious about sharing risk and resources to address these things.

So he'll hear what the Saudis and the Emiratis have to say and what the Israelis have to say. And that's vital to trying to chart this path forward. There you go. Stephen Yates, always the expert. See, you need to be telling the administration.

You need to be right there. I would feel better. I would feel better knowing that. Just hope they're tuning in. And, you know, this is managerial excellence.

Excellence, free of charge. There you go right there at YatesComs on X. Go and find him. He has all kinds of good stuff that he puts out there regularly. Stephen, always a pleasure.

Thank you, my friend. Good. Thank you, Dana. Take care. You too.

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Well, welcome back to the program. A little week here a lot from Faith No More, which was so great. By the way, so we're talking about, I eat a late lunch. I have the weirdest eating schedule because we're on air in the middle of the afternoon. And I'm going to say something that's probably very unpopular, the Sanco de Mayo.

But I'm gonna say it. Yeah. I love Taco Bell and it's amazing and I'm tired of pretending that it's not. Oh man. Cain and I could have chosen any other day of the year.

No, dude, it's like I pull up and I have them. Like it's amazing. Right, it's like so fast. You just pull up and then you have them. I have them.

Oh my gosh.

It's like when you pull up to a fast tamale spot and they're like here, and you just have them. And oh man, by the way, your mom, I'm going to have to hire your mom to make some more tamales, by the way. Oh, man, those are the best. She makes the best ones. See, that's the kind of thing, and people know this, especially ones that grew up in Mexican families.

It's just like, look, okay, Taco Bell's great. I know, he's dying right now. You're drunk at one in the morning or whatever, and you need to, you know. Our food on a KURV is dying right now.

Something that kind of resembles Mexican food. Then, yeah, that's what you do. That's what you do. It's so good though. It's like I'm not saying, I don't even classify it as Mexican food.

It's just its own Taco Bell. It's just like its own thing. I mean, I would say that. Wouldn't necessarily say that it's yeah, but Oh my gosh, like it's so good. Like they do weird stuff with their breading.

That's like chalupa. What's that? It's a fried Taco shell or soft tortilla, whatever. It's so good. I feel like they should advertise on the show.

But they don't. Taco Bell. Yeah. If I lived next door to one, oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.

I would be 5,000 pounds. I would be on like my big life or whatever the hell that's called. Seriously, you love Taco Bell? Dude, I love it. I could, I get into weird ruts.

What's your go-to when you go to Taco Bell? Oh my gosh, what isn't? I love any of the cantina things that they got, the fresco stuff, the gordita. I love refried beans so much. More hard taco or soft taco personally.

Yeah. Hard taco is a joke. What? I love hard taco. Hard taco is a joke.

It is a trick on you. What? It's a joke. What's the trick? That it's bad.

It looks like you think it's going to be good and it's not. It's bad. That's what it is. But I'm gonna get so much hate and I don't even care. I don't even care.

It's so good. I'm tired of pretending that's not. And you can get so much. You can get so much for it. Anyway.

It is, as far as fast food goes, it's the cheapest out there right now. And it's healthy. You can get a bowl and not have the breading. It's healthy. You said those words.

It's so dead. Maha. Yeah. I think we just killed Kane. We're going to need to call the 911s.

Look, I'm not. I don't want to. No pun intended crap on Taco Bell. There's no pun there. It's all beef.

It's all beef, my friend. It's all beef. Beef and chicken. It's definitely a punch. The chicken clucked at one point.

It was definitely a pun there. Yeah, it wasn't. All right, go ahead with your tedane stupidity. Already? All right.

You hater.

Well, all right, here's. Listen to this. Now, this is Jensaki.

Now, you know that the media has been doing this. For the past three or four years, they just denied. As a matter of fact, if you even said that Biden had some cognitive decline, you were attacked, you were shamed, all of it. And now, of course, there's plenty of books out there now saying this. Listen to what she says here.

Jensaki cuts one. I never saw that person, not a single time. And I was in the Oval Office every day that was on that debate stage. I'm not a doctor. Aging happens quite quickly.

And she's still to this day claiming that she didn't see a thing. I don't trust her. No one believes that. And if they didn't see it, I don't want these people anywhere near making decisions for the rest of the nation. Yeah, that's stupid.

How did you not see him? I mean, the man didn't even know where he was. All right. Does it for us tonight? Sign up with Substack, chapter, and verse, Facebook, YouTube, like and subscribe.

I'll be back with you tomorrow. God bless.