Monday April 24 - Full Show

You said you were in touch with hundreds, but there are about 16,000 or so people who have to get out of this country. Are you able to, you're not able to get in touch with all of them, right?

Well, Don, I want to push back on this idea that there's 16,000 Americans who want to get out. We don't have firm estimates of the exact number of Americans, citizens who are in Sudan. They don't have to register with us. They don't have to tell us that they're there. We think the vast majority of these American citizens in Sudan, and they're not all in Khartoum, are dual nationals.

Do they even know how many people we have? I was being honest with Kim and I actually knew that we had a few people there, but I didn't know. How many we had there? Yeah, that's John Kirby, who always sounds like a per like he's perpetually. In chaos.

Whenever he takes to the podium, first off, first off, welcome to the show. What a weird start to the week. It's a weird news cycle in that it's a slow news cycle, but then there's a couple of things that have popped off that are weird. We're going to talk. Yeah, you know, you know.

Maybe you don't yet. We'll talk about it. But Dana Lash with you, you can listen coast to coast, you can stream the program, you can listen to the program in your radio, you can stream it on the Webernets, you can watch the simulcast of the radio show. I have no idea what's going on with my hair today. If you're watching the simulcast, Today was senior skip day, so I had a bunch of kids at my house late, and I was like in the kitchen making stuff like all night.

So I just didn't.

Sorry, I just didn't do the top of my head. Anyway, so now everyone's going to tune into the simulcast just to see that. They're going to be like, what is going on? I look like Bam Bam from. Flintstones.

Anyway. V, welcome to the program. Whenever I see John Kirby take to the podium, this is going to sound weird, but I promise you, I'm going to bring that tugboat to shore.

So, when I, for some reason, Instagram has taken to. showing me two videos all the time. The first one is Frenchie's writing skateboards. I have no idea why. Every video that comes up on Instagram that's like a suggested video is a Frenchie writing a skateboard.

But wait, there's more. I watched one of them and I was like, ha ha ha. And now Instagram's like, she loves it. Let's show her all of these things.

So then the second. is Pandas. Baby pandas, pandas in general. And it's every video is complete chaos. for these pandas, right?

It is chaos. They have no they're just living their lives. And it's just total chaos. They seem innocently mischievous. But it's chaos.

And I get the same feeling. Here's where the tugboat comes in. Listen to the horn. I get the same feeling whenever I watch John Kirby take to the podium. Because I feel like, out of all everybody who is in the Biden administration, he seems the least.

Uh hatable? Is that Thank you. A good way to put that. You know what I mean? He seems like he genuinely every day wakes up and just goes whiskey, tango, foxtrot.

Now, I'm not giving him a pass. I'm just saying. He just seems a bit more amiable than the rest. But when he gets up to the podium, I get that panda chaos energy from him, right? Where he's just like, I don't know.

I mean, we got some people here. I don't know. I get that from him every single time.

So. That's what I that's what I thought of. All right, so we have Like I said, it's kind of an odd news day. And then later on, we're going to talk with a couple of people coming up for you, including our friend Stephen Yates, as always, because I think we're at the point now where we need to be regularly looking to see what in the world is going on, what's happening, everything related to China, including their moves to bolster their alliances. And I think this is all important for you to know.

Uh because If say that 2024 we decide to do something dumb and we end up losing.

Well, you're going to really need to know what China's doing because I think it'll get worse from there.

So We have Stephen Yeats going to be joining us. And also, Stephen Williford, he's going to be up in our second hour. You might have remembered him. He's the guy who stopped the Sutherland Springs massacre. And he's been working on gun rights.

And he's got this crazy story coming out of Texas about the ATF and checking into your private information related to your gun rights.

So we're going to be discussing all of that with him.

Now, They had news today, like literally right as we were getting ready to come on air. And it's probably trending right now, I would imagine. Tucker Carlson's out at Fox News, my friend Tucker. I messaged him. Uh but he's out I mean this just literally came out Uh, what, a half not even a half hour ago, maybe 20 minutes ago?

And I don't know. No one has said why or anything like that. It is a really odd situation. Because he was THE TOP SHOW AT FOX. The top show, not just the top show at Fox, but when you break down.

Those day parts, and you look at those, those specific, you know, you look at morning, afternoon, and evening, and then you break your evening down. He was like top. on TV. That is Significant. I mean, ads on his show went for an astronomical amount of money.

Because it's very expensive to run commercials on Fox. It's one of the most expensive networks on which to run a commercial. You would fall over. And that's a lot of ad because those rates are going to go down for that hour. Holy cow.

So his last show, they announced his last show. was Friday. Detroit. He didn't even cut that's it. And so he's out.

They've announced he's out.

Now I have no idea. And like I said, I think everybody I mean, even back channel, nobody exactly knows what's going on. Um but it is I mean, it's pretty, it's just pretty wild, but that just came out about 20 minutes ago.

Now, some people are wondering: does it have anything to do with the Dominion stuff? Does it, I don't think anybody knows. I don't really think anybody knows. And I'm wondering. I I just I I It's just, I can't figure it out.

I don't think it's even related to that. I don't even think it would be even related to that. The Dominion stuff. I really don't. I don't think that it would.

I don't know. Again, that's all speculation. But He consistently had some of the best monologues. on the network and was uh I've known Tucker for years. I've gosh, I've known him for over ten years.

I've known him for a long time. We used to do even before he had his his evening show at Fox, we did election coverage at Fox. uh all all the primaries and the caucuses and then uh the lit the the uh lead up to the conventions and then the uh general election and he was always you know he was always super fun and funny. But I mean, that's just shocking.

So I don't know. If anything comes up and I see that it's. Jermaine to this discussion, but they announced this. Like I said, if you're just joining us, yeah, Tucker Carlson's out as of last Friday, apparently. And it was just announced literally like 20, 25 minutes ago.

They said in the statement, Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank for a service to the network as a host, and prior to that, as a contributor, his last program was Friday, April 21st. They said that it's going to be Fox News tonight that's going to air starting this evening as an interim program. And they're just going to rotate people until they name a new host or figure out what they're going to do with that hour.

So, I mean, it's pretty wild.

So that's the latest there. I don't know, it's just I it it it is just it's weird. I don't know, it's weird. Can I just say, I don't understand how somebody like Steve Hilton stays and somebody like Tucker Carlson goes. I'm going to say it out loud because I don't understand why Steve Hilton's there.

No offense to him, but I don't really go to you for news. Is he daily or is he? I think he's just weekend, but I mean no offense to the guy, I've never met him, but I just don't really think you know, it's like me going to d to Britain and tell talking to them about their politics. Why? Wait, I'm an American, why do you and you you might think, Dana, that's that's actually That's nationalist.

Well, I kinda wonder. Right. And isn't that his ideology too?

So it's a little bit of a catch twenty two for him. I don't know. I just under and and I just I don't understand why somebody like Steve Hilton stays and somebody like Tucker Carlson goes. I don't know. There could be more to it than that, but Yeah, but I know that all the women at the View were cackling about this already.

There's a video of them laughing about it. I had tweeted about it. And they were celebrating him leaving. And what's her name? Anna Navarro.

Anna Navarro was a nobody. She was entirely irrelevant before she married the guy who reigns who used to run CPAC. She married that guy. She was totally irrelevant. She was like a Z-list contributor.

She wasn't even a contributor. She would just be on certain networks from time to time. And. Uh then I think she got into social climbing and married the guy who used who is a moderate who used to run CPAC. And then she started guesting on the view because she started being very critical of Republicans while still keeping that R.

And I think that legacy press liked that. They wanted to be able to use a Republican to beat the Republican Party over the head. And then she got on the she got on the view and now Uh they were all cackling about it. And I just looked, I made a remark, I said not a single one of these women could carry a talk show on their own. For sure.

You have to have five of them there, and they can barely do that. It takes five of them to barely do what they're doing. Not a single one of those women could keep your attention longer than 30 seconds. Not a single one, not in a talk show, even Whoopi Goldberg. Whoopi Goldberg's fine in film and television when other lines are scripted for her, but not as this, not as this.

Not a single one of those women.

So I always, and I see a lot of little jealous hits and stuff, you know, all these little people making these little jealous remarks about Carlson and all this stuff. But I was like, I was watching these women. They were just laughing about it. They thought it was so funny. Not a single one of them could carry a show on their own.

Not a one. It's not an easy task. I mean, you have to have a, you have to fill the room. And All five of them together don't. You got a couple of pieces of cardboard and, you know, like some just very milquetoast commentary, and then all together they just they have to hype each other up.

So I don't know, that's just my two cents on it. There's it's just bad. It's bad. You know, I will say I'm gonna miss Tuckerface. The meme Oh yeah, that's right.

Where he looks at somebody like very confused. And he's just like, What? Who's very good at the dry, dry sarcasm? Very, very good at it.

So I'll update you with all of that stuff as we get it. But and if I see other people being snotty about it, I'll be taking pot shots at them.

So just, you know, just so you know. I can't stand that. It's always like the people without talent that are the loudest whenever they see someone with talent and they think it's like a they think they have a W and they don't. But it's always these talentless Karens that are out there. Oh, blah, blah, blah.

You couldn't run a show. You can't run a show without a team of producers telling you where to look, where to stand, how to dress, how to speak, what to say. I mean, good grief. Like, when you do get free reign with your opinion, it's horrible.

So, maybe just don't be criticizing other people. All right, so. Uh in addition to all of this stuff. We've they're going to have the White House press avail here coming up soon. But Democrats, so Biden's expected to announce his campaign tomorrow, his reelection bid tomorrow, in a pre-taped video.

Nat. Mm-hmm. Just go to the basement. Yeah, I mean, he's going to try. Trump and Biden are both running the same playbook again.

And I'm so done with it. Biden's like, I'm just gonna come out with this video and I'm gonna stay in my basement. They've sent all of these other people out there ahead of him to try to clear the path, right? They've sent everybody else out there. But he's announcing it in a video.

He's not gonna be taking any questions or anything. And that's That's where he's. It's going to be fascinating to watch. We're going to talk about this. Also, do you remember the story we talked about weeks ago when the New York Times first dropped it?

It was the story of all these kids that they were losing who were coming across the border illegally, and Alejandro Mayorkas and others at DHS were demanding that the processing go faster. Don't you think it's interesting that it's been just kind of airbrushed out of the psyche of the press? No one's talking about it. It's the outrage that wasn't. Should be, but wasn't.

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They had a Michigan Republican chair out there at the protest on Saturday. The company is called Goshen. They plan on building the plane 100 miles away from Camp Grayling, where the Taiwanese military is being trained by the Michigan National Guard. How convenient! Saving this to talk about that with Steven Bed Bath Beyond Bankrupt.

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Do you remember? Bed Bath and Beyond used to be like the place to go. I mean, do you need stuff for your bed? Uh-huh. Your bath?

Mm-hmm. Beyond? Sure. What was the beyond? Like everything that wasn't bed and bath.

Right, like you could get stocking stuffers. I guess that was the beyond part. I don't know. I was always kind of confused, but it was very fun to walk around and look at gadgets. I love kitchen gadgets.

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Meaning the moms are mental. Oh yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes. They said it's an abstract of a scientific study undertaken a number of years ago in 94, but they said it's now trending on social media and it's shocking on a number of levels. They said mothers of boys with gender identity disorder.

a comparison of match controls. It was done by two PhDs and it's very they're very predictable. They also they said that the National Institute of Mental Health said basically that The son's father is sort of the secondary in the picture. Even if he's still in the house, he's kind of like the beta role, and that it's the dominant mental mom. Woo!

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Word has just come down that Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.

Well, thank you for your service to the network and hospital prior contributor. Wave. We'll talk more about it tomorrow because but we wanted to make sure that we let you know what was going on.

Well can I can I ask the audience if they'll help me do something? Come on folks. Nah, nah, nah, nah. I find so bad. I mean Sayonada.

Think anyone likes to celebrate the demise of someone's career, but he is responsible for no, the demise of someone's career. Yeah, but he is responsible for the degradation that we see somewhat of our democracy in this country. Oh my gosh. And I just think, as a faithful person, look at God. Oh, my goodness.

Yes, look at God.

Well, let's internationalize the personality of the person. Oh, yes, Jesus. He's been the biggest purveyor of pro-Russian populations.

So it's a good day for you. I find it hysterical that Nepo baby Alyssa Farah, whose dad is like one of the biggest conspiracy theorists in conservative publishing and who ran around spreading rumors about the demise of my former and late boss and dear friend and mentor, I just find it hysterical that like these are the type of people who, I mean, they're celebrating. It's the talentless thinking that they have a W over people with talent. Welcome back to the show. Dana Lash here.

And as I said, Not a single one of those females could helm a talk show by themselves. Not a single one. It takes five of them and they can barely do what they do with five of them out there. And that's with a team of producers and everything, feeding them everything that they need to do.

So all they have to do is just. make sure that they they spread the lip gloss. That's it. No, it's not it's not mean if it's true. Not mean if it's true.

So, na na na, oh my gosh. Anyway. Don Lemon is also out. Did you guys hear this? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Don Lemon is out. At CNN, he blasted the network for quote not having the decency to tell him. He said, quote, I was informed this morning by my agent. That I've been terminated by CNN.

Now, full disclosure. Don and I are the same agent. He says, I'm stunned. After 17 years at CNN, I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly. At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work that I've loved at the network.

It's clear that there's some larger issues at play. And with that said, he says, I want to thank my colleagues and the many teams I've worked with for an incredible run. Blah blah blah. Uh I have always thought that he was not in He is not bad at broadcasting. Even though I disagree with him a lot.

I've always gotten along with him, even though he's wrong on everything. Except his like of me. There's where he's correct. But I always felt that being in the hard news. environment was not where he should be.

He is more because he's he he has his style is too relaxed. And he is so personality driven that that is kind of incompatible with the I think the type of format that he was doing. And I think that was his first downfall. His second downfall. is that He couldn't read the room.

They were putting him on with younger females because he wasn't Keeping the audience. And so they were trying to put him with people that. Like for like some of some of the people that they were pairing him with were more news driven, more hard news driven. And they were less editorial. They didn't have huge personalities, but they were news-driven.

So clearly, they were trying to offset that, which Lemon lacked. by adding that component. when they were having him, you know, do this this morning program. And it just, and he clashed with them because, and I've seen this happen at networks before. You put like a guy that has seniority with younger women who do not have seniority and who are brand new there.

And there doesn't, it doesn't, it's not a sexism issue. That's where I do take a look, you know, the one remark that he did make. Where he was talking about older women. Yeah, that was misogyny. But...

By and large, it's And it's an issue of ego, and it's an issue of this person feels, and they do, have more seniority, and they're being made to run against someone that has less seniority. And there's a lot of friction there. And that was more, I think, what his situation was. And like I've said, I've seen it happen elsewhere. And it just never works.

Whenever I see that format happen, it never works. The only time that's actually ever worked was Regis Philbin and What's Her Face? Um The blonde who's Kelly? Kell, uh, yeah, what's her name? Ripa.

Kelly Rippa, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's the only time I've ever seen that dynamic work. But that's because Regis Philbin. And we had a mutual friend. He was, he, I mean, he was old school though.

He was an older dude, but he was, and that he was way old school. He's been involved in that. He was involved in that for so long. that he was a total pro. Total pro about it.

And he knew that the show must go on. And you put that first and you do your job. And so he was up, got paired with this lot younger, energetic woman. And he really, he just, that was where it wasn't affected, but that's because he was a consummate pro. I mean, he really was like the old school type of TV host broadcaster.

And that's where you can tell the reals from the fakes.

So that's kind of I think the dynamic with him. They had him in a bad format. He ought to do something like HBO or something like that. Because I don't think that CNN, uh, I d I just don't think that that's the format that works for him. It's kind of weird.

So I look at it. I don't, I'm kind of ambivalent about him. Like, I thought the remark that he had was misogynistic, but I never looked at Don Lemon as or his discourse as any sort of. threat to an agenda that I wanted to pass. I don't think it merited enough of a threat.

I mean, I just think he was kind of um. Milk toast. I mean, he's your run-of-the-mill lefty, right? I mean, what was there's nothing, I don't find anything threatening about his comments. I don't find anything challenging about them.

I think that's probably the better word to use. I d I just he's not challenging. Is that I think that seems more accurate to say.

So That's uh, golly, what a weird news day.

So, that's gonna be that's gonna dominate everything. That's gonna and then tomorrow is When Joe Biden's expected to announce. Democrats, so here's what's weird. They're kind of torn. They're fighting with each other.

The Democrats are in two factions right now. You have the faction that views Biden as their only choice, and you have the faction that doesn't view Biden as their only choice. And that faction's the one that's pushing out all of the stuff on Hunter Biden. Because, as I've said, these are not Republican oppo-drops. These are from the left.

Because a lot of the stuff could only come from the left, because that's who's in power controlling the info.

So they're trying to take out Biden by pushing all of this stuff with the investigation, et cetera. It needs to happen. And they're correct. And then I think it makes him ineligible. But.

No, it is what it is. And then you have the ones who are like, oh gosh, we don't have any other choice. And the ones who feel like they don't have any other choice but Biden, those are the ones who are baiting Trump. And he's taken every little morsel they can bait him with. They're baiting him, And they want him to.

They're basically calling the shots. I know that. Uh I have a I have a f a guy that I've known for a long time. Who's a friend of mine who is working with their campaign? And I know he thinks that he's calling the shots, but he's not.

It's the media and the left that are wanting Biden to run that are calling the shots in that campaign. Let's be real. Because if I was trying to run my opponent's campaign, that's literally everything I would do. I would exactly do everything that they're doing, and they're all taking the bait. It's mind-boggling.

But that aside, The That's the only way Biden can be competitive. I think you could put our, you could put anybody or anything, literally, an entity. on the ballot and just put an R next to its name. And I think that Biden would compete. But there have been a couple of very interesting surveys that they've done.

The Wall Street Journal has done one. There's been a couple of other ones. And they've been pretty.

Some of them have been likely voters and then registered voters.

So. It's been kind of interesting to see what the breakdown is, but they've looked at, well, what if you do you want to avoid a Biden-Trump 2.0? And nobody wants to have a Biden-Trump 2.0. And it's interesting because it's across the board with Democrats and Republicans. Democrats do not want to see Biden run if it's if it's they don't want to see him really run again Republicans do not want to see a Trump Biden 2.0.

But if Trump is the candidate, Democrats want Biden to they think that Biden can beat it. That's the only time and that's when the party of, oh, well, there's no other choice but Biden, that's when they really come out. That's because he's. That's the way he's competitive. He's only competitive in that regard.

So. The uncomfortable truth is if it's a Biden-Trump 2.0 You're going to have people voting Biden. Or they won't vote like they did in the 2020 election, which I tried telling everybody about when you had split-ticket voting. I know some people were saying that it wasn't a real thing. I literally looked at, I can't tell you how much data, state-by-state breakout.

And that's absolutely false. You had John Cornyn that got more votes in Texas than Trump did. Which I've I can't even believe I said that with my mouth. Like I would say it any other way, but you know what I mean? That's just a shocking reality.

And I think a lot I think people were really they were tired of the campaigning and I think that they were just done and I'm just warning people you cannot prepare to run a general like a primary. And Primaries are great and they have their place, but people also need to remember You you gotta make sure that you can run what you're running in the general. That's the that's the truth of it.

Now, while all of this has been happening, he's set to announce, Biden's set to announce his. candidacy. his re-election bid tomorrow. He's apparently going to name Julie Rodriguez as campaign manager. This is coming by way of CBS when he announces.

and his campaign manager, I think she was involved Uh she's managing the twenty twenty four bid. She's one of the senior advisors that he has right now. She's in the West Wing, and she works as the director of White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

So she has to deal with all of the governors and all of the mayors and do all of that outreach. And so she's from California. She's the granddaughter of. Caesar Chavez.

So that's I know.

So he's making a play. By the way, Cesar Chavez really didn't like illegal immigration. I don't know if you've ever he really didn't like it if you ever go and watch the countless videos on YouTube where he talks about it. Just something fun. That's a really good way to just take, you know, why would you do something like that?

You just walk right into it, right? I've seen a lot of dumb errors over the weekend. Trump bashed Florida. He was speaking at a dinner in Florida. And he decided to bash literally bash Florida.

And I could not believe what I mean, you saw that, right? What did he say? He wa he was going down because he he's I guess targeting DeSantis. And he was saying that Florida was a bad state, and saying that it was a horrible state, et cetera, et cetera, just a bad place to live. And this was after he had some Republican congressional members, like literally right after.

He had them endorse him. Then he starts bashing, like Byron Donalds and others. Then he turns around and he just bashes the hell out of Florida. And I'm like, well. You know, I kind of want to ask Bayern Donald.

So, what do you think about that? Right? Like how is that how in the world? Who's He's got He's got uh not what did he say when he was saying Mexico doesn't send us their best?

Okay, his campaign isn't sending him their best. Oh my gosh, we got to talk more about that here coming up. I know we got to get rolling as we do. Collie. Black Rifle Coffee Company set out on a mission to make the best cup of coffee that's ever hit your mug.

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I'm LOLing. A friend of mine messaged me, and I was like, What? Make over what? 'Cause I I had so much going on this weekend, so I didn't have the opportunity to pop on. It's a very busy time.

The next month is going to be very, very, very, very busy for us. And so Go online and all of these people are just losing it. It It was the digital version of like a fight on Black Friday. I don't know how else to describe it. And I saw that I had my blue check back and I'm like, well, that was weird.

I had been waiting to sign up for the service until they fixed the Rat's nest of manipulated algorithms from the previous people. Because it's like, for me, I thought, well, what difference is it going to make to pay $8 a month and not and still be throttled?

So I was waiting for that. I mean, I'm not against paying a company for their service or for Elon Musk to run Twitter how he wants to. But the throttling was still so bad. And I wasn't the only one that was dealing with this, mind you. But what got me is all of these like celebrities were losing their minds because they had their blue checks restored.

So I didn't know that over Friday night the Left decided that it was A virtue, I guess, or what? It was a cap in their feather to not have their blue check because they weren't going to pay for the service. And then Musk decided to troll them by giving their blue check back. And it made them mad because they didn't want anyone to think that they had paid for the service.

So they were all out there. They had raged about losing their blue check. Technically, it's a white check and a blue circle, but roll with me. And then they were mad that they had gotten it back. And They just weren't happy.

There was just no way that they were happy. It was hysterical to watch. There was a guy who had a 17-tweet thread. this journal journalist or something at Rolling Stone, seventeen tweets where he was explaining how he did not purchase this service and he was so mad at Elon Musk, but he kept wanting everybody to know that he did not buy it because it made him look like a basic bee, right? Like, oh, you you paid for your check.

Maha ha. I just thought it was funny. They were all whining over it.

So it and they still are to an extent, but I mean, it was a riot on Saturday. It was one of the funniest things I've seen on Twitter in a really long time.

So, coming up in our second hour. And what is the ATF trying to like sneak peeks at what your gun records are? Hmm. We've got some stories, a story here about the Texas Workforce Commission. handing the ATF some financial data on gun owners.

And so we're going to talk about this with Stephen Williford. He's the spokesperson for Gun Owners of America. He's also the good guy with a gun who helped in one of the deadliest mass shootings in Sutherland Springs with his AR-15. We're going to talk with him coming up next hour. Stick with us, back in just minutes.

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over education for our country's future today. To put it simply, this is an issue about the responsibility that the United States Congress. as an extension of the United States government. has to pay its bills. Yes.

You have to pay your bills. We have to pay our bills. Everyone watching has to pay their bills. You spend the money, you need to pay for it. You you put money on your credit card, you need to pay for it.

The United States Congress needs to step up. And where the Republican caucus is standing, the way needs to step up and agree that there is a responsibility to pay the bills. Yeah. Yeah. It's your responsibility to stop spending so damn much.

Um Oh man. Hmm. That's the VP. Kane's having a meltdown. Welcome back to the program.

Second hour here. Your lovable curmudgeon, Dana Lash. Ooh, if you can listen coast to coast again. Stream the program, YouTube, Facebook. You okay over there?

You alright. To hear her talk about responsibility, fiscal responsibility. Are you effing kidding me? With that. I wish you guys could have seen him with his little hand spasms over there.

Oh my gosh. How can she, knowing all the spending that is happening right now, over the past two years, we've added an additional $6 trillion. to the spending. And she says we got to pay our bills.

Well, wait a minute. We didn't spend that. She did. She did. They did.

I mean, you can't sit here and treat us like a sugar daddy and then go out there and be like, well, you need to pay your bills. I didn't authorize you to spend all this. I didn't tell you that you could do this, you thieve and thief. I didn't tell you you could do all this. You gotta pair bells.

It's weird how, in one hand, she demonstrates an understanding of how that works. But then on the other hand, she doesn't. Yeah. Just I'm really confused. Um roll the tip.

Yeah, I mean I oh man. I mean, you have to 'cause at first it started off so strong, right? And you're like, wait a minute, is she telling what? And then she puts it back on us. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Mm-mm. I didn't do that. That's not how that works. Not in the least.

Okay, that wasn't the only. That was the only thing that we were trying to figure out what to start this hour with because there was some good stuff. The uh audio soundbite 14, please. I need this in my life.

So badly. which was approved 20 years ago by the Federal Drug Administration. I'm sorry, what? The federal Drug? administration?

That's what she thinks the FDA is. Then what if What does the F stand for, she thinks? Federal? Federal. That's funny.

That's good stuff. Yeah. What about the food people? Forget the food, Dana. It's the federal.

It's the Federal Drug Administration. There's no one here to... There's no one here to... Deal with food. They only regulate drugs.

They have nothing to do with food. Apparently. S This is why they don't let her go talk. Kali. I don't know who she I can I am if Biden when he announces and and if they end up staving off uh Gavin Newsome And she's his VP.

again which I'm having trouble to see I'm having trouble seeing that that's the case. I can't wait for that debate. I don't remember the last one that she had. The debate with pence? I think it was pretty boring, wasn't it?

Like the world's most boring debate, I think.

So He's expected to announce Biden his Candidacy tomorrow, via, ladies and gentlemen, A prerecorded message. Hmm. So I I have some questions about that. The the big one being Why is it a pre-recorded message? Why, I mean, you would think that he would.

have an event, right? He's had all of these people go out ahead of him to sort of clear the path and. And and you know meet with the the Um all of the donors, etcetera, etc. And you think that This would be, I mean, this is, that's not the time. Your announcement isn't the time to do this, like, basement.

Video. But that's what he does. He's trying to run the same playbook. He wants to run the same playbook. I don't know if that's going to be successful for him.

Because he seems I mean, his voters even think that he's MIA.

So I don't I mean I've got I've got a lot of I've got a lot of questions Alright, so. In addition to this, The Audio I'm gonna pull this up. This is audio sign by four. Because they've been pushing climate again, climate, climate, and you have AOC who's redoing the Green New Deal. Listen to this.

So I think that we are on the right track as long as the emissions begin to be abated, they begin to be captured. And that is the key for the oil and gas industry. There's no free pass here. It is imperative that we meet our goals, and that will require capturing emissions, which are the real problem, the real enemy. The emissions are the real.

And I mean, we were talking about this last week. It was on Friday, I think, with Alex Epstein. And that video, by the way, is up at YouTube. You can go and watch the discussion. Why, first off, he's the climate envoy.

The United So the United States has a position that's filled by this guy. Who He travels around the world. many pri priv private flights and lectures everybody about the weather. on behalf of the United States. I don't know.

Part of me thinks that Part of me thinks that that's such a dumb position to have, but then the second part, if he actually was a climate envoy. That I think was supportive. Of the United States in this situation, he would be lecturing everyone else about why can't you be as good as the United States is on climate. Instead of telling the United States that we have to do more when other countries don't expect, like China, the biggest polluter, is not expected to do anything. I just that to me, I feel that You know, that's kind of a that's kind of an important an important distinction in the the role that he should be playing.

And I'm pretty sure that's going to be because you have AOC, like I said, she's reintroducing that Green New Deal. You do you remember the last time that she did it and it was a disaster? Because they apparently The Because they reintroduced it and so she wants to decarbonize the U.S. within 10 years.

Now do you remember When she came out with it the first time, they literally had a big discussion in that bill about um Uh, cow flatulence. Or was it bovine flatulence? Is that how they put it? They had a whole thing on that. There was an actual.

That was part of the actual proposal. And I had the screen, everybody was taking screenshots of it, and then she deleted it from the. her uh dot gov website. and said that it was a Photoshopped. proposal that went out.

And then she put it back up and it was virtually the same minus that sentence. It it was so embarrassing.

So they are they're rolling this out again. Just in time for Biden's. To give him honestly, I think they're trying to just give him, it's timed. I mean, they want, he has to have something to run on. Because he can't run on the economy.

He can't run on I mean, what can he run on? I mean, what are all his accomplishments? What name an accomplishment? Skyrocketing inflation. Yeah, but I'm not saying like skyrocketing gas prices.

Yeah, but but not like ruining the economy, you know, higher taxes, you know, making us dependent on every other country except our, you know, ourselves for energy. Yeah, those are all negative. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you does he have a positive? No.

He didn't do anything. Because I don't know what it is. Nothing. We've been paying attention extremely closely. I am trying to do that every single day.

Give him the benefit of the doubt. Is there anything? I don't know what it is. If there is, I don't know.

Okay, so it's not us being mean. Look, we're really trying here. There's just nothing. There isn't an uh there isn't an accomplishment. Maybe someone in the the YouTube chat can suggest something.

Because I don't think that Jobs. Yeah, not jobs. Not not economic stability, not Uh Funny. I can't think of it. I don't know if he sold as many guns as Obama did.

No, I don't think he did. He's been doing a pretty good job. He's made a lot of money for his family. With his connections. Is that well I mean it's positive for him and not for all of us.

Yeah, I don't know. I'm on the struggle bus with this one. I don't know what he's done that's actually positive.

Now, speaking of China and the money that he's made, we're going to talk to Stephen Yates coming up later on in the program. China and Singapore are collaborating on concrete initiatives that will catalyze capital flows to support a credible and inclusive transition to a low-carbon future. Blah, blah, blah. That's a bunch of words for they're teaming up together for green. Mm-hmm.

That's what they're doing. dollar. And they've also been uh trying to expand Belton Road. Even more so.

So they're com they're really targeting the petrodoll dollar period. They're just targeting our currency. And they've created Like they want this task force. That they're forming to enable the countries to strengthen sustainability bond market connectivity. and they want access to green and transition bod products, et cetera, et cetera.

Uh They've been, he's been, think about this: Xi Jinping has been working overtime. To bring people into the fold, whether it's Brazil, even Emmanuel Macron, all of this. And what's Biden been doing? Nothing. I don't know.

Nothing. I don't I have no idea what he's doing. He's actually passing more money to the United Nations to the Communist Party. Washington Examiner has a piece as to how he's funneling more money for climate change to Beijing. He promised to spend a billion dollars on Thursday of last week.

And then remember he signed the executive order about the ESG code, the scores, the ESG scores. which we're going to talk about here coming up. But he Pledged to send a billion dollars in taxpayer money to the UN's Green Climate Fund.

Now the Green Climate Fund you have a bunch of tyrants in the fund who are beholden to the CCP, They consider China to be a developing country, therefore a billion dollars can go to China. We just gave, we just bought a whole bunch we probably bought a whole bunch of military equipment for them to fight us with at some point. Good job, Biden. That's an actual thing. And he had previously agreed that the U.S.

should pay climate reparations, but he didn't demand the same commitment from China. Are you okay? You know what? You're going to twist your hands off. You have a whole other juice back there by you.

Just get you some juice. Oh, yeah. Just, yeah. See, wait, we got to get Kane to a happy spot. Hang on, get your little juice.

Get your little juice and get over there and get your little happy spot. He's about to rip his hands off. He's so frustrated today. The only ray of sunshine in this freaking gloomy Monday. You just see him over there.

He's stupid newspaper. I wish that I could accurately, for the radio audience listening. He's like trying to tear apart his own hands. I don't know how else to put it.

So you get your juice. Is that a berry juice? Part of it is to keep me from yelling. Yeah. Well, what kind of juice you got in your cup?

This is what they call a liver cleanse. It actually has beet juice in it. It's carrots and why don't you just take a super beet heart chip? Use Codena.

Okay, I'm just saying because I wouldn't Okay, well, you know what? It's a vibrant color. Look at that. It's a happy color. Yeah, happy colour.

It's a really friendly cup. To my liver in my 20s and 30s. I'm trying to be more friendly now. You got your juice. You're in your happy spot.

There you go.

Okay. Thank you. You're all good. You're welcome. We're all good.

So, where I have to stop and play Enya or Noco Flow, Kane has to have his juice. He's got to have his juice. His adult sippy cup over here. He's got to have his juice. We have a lot more on the way.

We're going to talk more about this. Yeah, the money that's going to China. I know, see, this is all the stuff that you should be focusing on. What is the number one headline right now across the country? Man, Tucker.

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He was offered an opportunity to meet with management, but instead released his statement on Twitter. Yeah. Oh man. All right.

So we're just going to keep watching that drama.

Okay. We're just going to keep watching that. In addition, American force, American embassy was evacuated in Sudan. Special forces have swiftly evacuated another embassy. This time in Sudan, special forces carried out a precarious evac.

This was on Sunday, sweeping in and out of the capital with helicopters. They were on the ground for less than an hour. No shots fired, no casualties reported, because that's how you do it. Unlike, you know, if only they actually ran leadership. Be honest, yeah.

So that was good news indeed, but another situation there. And apparently, China's trying to figure out what they're going to do with their people in Sudan. Can you imagine being this person? Like, okay, so. A lot of people like to go antiquing and things like that.

This woman purchased this old Roman-looking bust. for $34 at a Texas Goodwill. Uh as it turned out, it was like a An actual antiquity. It was estimated by Silves to be about 2,000 years old. They're still trying to confirm the identity of the bust.

It's on its way back to Germany now. It was housed in a replica of a Pompeii home, and it's like priceless.

So, how does that work? Like, is she going to get, because the story doesn't actually get into, because it's on display at a museum. How does that work? Stick with us. Stephen Williford next.

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To the Danish show Coast to Coast in a market near you. You can also stream it online. Find it also on YouTube, Facebook, channel 347 Direct TV, your lovable cremudgent here with you. Bottom of our second hour. And one of the things that we've discussed, particularly in the past couple of weeks, are all of these state-by-state legislation where you have permitless carry that's passing, as well as a number of moves by the administration and some of their surrogates to further compromise and infringe on people's Second Amendment rights.

One of the things you may not be aware of, and my friend Emily Miller has done a really good job at covering this for the Epoch Times. Imagine being told or being contacted by the feds because they believed that you didn't have enough money in your bank account to purchase the guns that you were purchasing.

Now, your first thought would be: wait a minute. First off, how do they know how much money that I had in my bank account? And secondly, what business is it of theirs?

Well that's the thing. They've been without any kind of warrant. conducting surveillance. And looking at your purchases. And this has been happening across the country for the past couple of years.

And even In the great Republic of Texas, we've been seeing this, where they've been coordinating with the ATF to share the income of residents. For warrantless monitoring.

Now, one of the people blowing the whistle on this is a very dear friend of mine, and he is the iconic good guy with a gun. And he is also the spokesperson for Gunowners of America, Stephen Williford. First. it was introduced to the nation because he was the good guy with a gun. who stopped one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history.

And he did it barefoot. And I always think that There is a every now and then you really see, I think, a divine plan come into play. And a man that had for his entire life trained to have skills that he hoped to never use was called upon, which is always, you know, God equips the, he equips the called and sprang into action and saved lives that day. And now he's raising the alarm on this very troubling story about this warrantless surveillance. And Stephen joins us now via Skype.

My friend, good to see you. As always, thank you so much for joining us and warning people about this. This has been going on for a couple of years now, and it's not just in Texas.

Well, apparently so. Apparently the ATF is um without any kind of legislation, without any kind of warrants. Uh and I I don't understand how that Texas Workforce Commission is working with the ATF. Why don't they tell them, look, you're federal, we're state. Um Yeah, we can't give you this information.

Yeah, it's a very weird story. And he's talking about the Texas Workforce Commission, which apparently has written contracts. They told this to the Epoch Times: written contracts with the ATF for what they call sharing income information for criminal investigations. But the thing that's been uncovered, and I know you've been drawing attention to this, Stephen, is that, for instance, there was a man in Arizona who was subjected to Nick's daily monitoring because his reported income wasn't enough, according to ATF agents, to purchase the firearms that he had.

So they were trying to look at this as like a criminal investigation without actual, I mean, enough of an evidentiary standard, number one, to even have this sort of warrantless surveillance. That's troubling, and it makes me wonder how widespread this is. What do you know about how widespread it is? And to your point, why is a Texas workforce? Why is anything in Texas working with us?

Yeah, exactly. Why is anyone in Texas? And I'm not real sure. I know that the ATF has been caught by gun owners of America doing Uh Basically, tracing guns and following guns and registering guns, and they have an illegal registry now. And people say, well, I don't want to be on that list.

Well, guess what? You probably are on that list already. And we have filed to get that destroyed, that registry destroyed, because it is unconstitutional. And now we find out that our Texas workforce is working directly with them. Another thing you should fear is apparently we're going to a paperless or money list.

Um, form of government or Commerce, not government, but commerce, and everything will have to go through the federal government. any transaction and they can decide whether you need it or not. Wow. It's a very dangerous time. A very dangerous time indeed.

We're talking to our friend Stephen Williford, the iconic good guy with a gun. And this isn't just, you know, this isn't anecdotal. I mean, there's actual hard data with this. There are case after case after case. My friend Emily Miller for the Epoch Times discussing, you know, in Wisconsin, in Florida, in Arizona.

I mean, state after state after state where, you know, for instance, a guy in Florida was monitored daily by the FBI, not because he did anything criminal, but because they thought that he just was purchasing too many firearms. That was it. I mean, but that's not a crime. They they tried to uh pass that and In the state, just recently, just this past week, I was down there fighting at the Capitol. Uh they were trying to pass anything, anyone that buys over one gun a week.

makes a list and starts getting investigated. The GOA was down there, gun owners of America, and we were fighting this. And I uh I don't Think it made it out of committee, but I was down there till 1:30 in the morning fighting things like this. at the state capitol. Speaking of we have 10 coming to speak with us.

At the Capitol on Wednesday, if anybody wants to come to the state capitol. And that's Wednesday of this week in Austin, correct? Yes, that is. Yep. One of these cases, we're talking with Stephen Williford.

One of these cases, and Stephen's with Gunowners of America, he's a national spokesperson. A Missouri man was put onto this Nick's daily monitoring because an ATF agent Thought that he had been, you know, bizarre messages and things like this. And there are a couple of other cases where, I mean, You know, the stuff that you write online could be considered for and make you eligible for this sort of like warrantless surveillance. The thing that worries me, Stephen, about that is that political discourse has gotten so weird that if you simply disagree with someone on policy, you can be called a terrorist, right? I mean, law-abiding Americans have been called terrorists just for supporting Second Amendment rights by members of Congress, like Representative Kathleen Rice, which that I mean, I just, there, anybody could be at play here, even someone who's not, you know, going to the range regularly, maybe they have a shotgun.

Anybody could be up for this. Absolutely. Anybody That the government disagrees with the government, you know, and I guess GOA is big on the. the hit list because one of our slogans is save a puppy, abolish the ATF. That's a good slogan.

kind of saying.

So never in any other uh do we have a national police force to Regulate one of our God-given rights, one of our constitutional rights, whether it's free speech or. Or freedom of religion or anything. There's never a government law enforcement agency that regulates that.

So, why should it be with the Second Amendment? That's a good point. We're talking with our friend Stephen Williford with Gun Owners of America. Is there Because I I is th I haven't seen this. I don't know what would be I guess it would be uh an A G thing with attorneys general state by state that they would have to I guess, look into this and investigate to see whether or not people's right I mean, obviously there's rights being circumvented here and or the process being circumvented.

There's no legislation that called for this. Is there do you are you aware of any move by attorney generals around the country that are that are acting to maybe put a stop to this? No, I'm unaware of that, but that is a really good point because Ken Paxton is. absolutely stood with the Second Amendment and Uh he may be looking into this. Uh If not, maybe he should be aware of it and start looking into it himself.

And I'm not aware of any other state that is doing that. Uh actively I know Ken Paxton is uh With the state of Texas, he has said that he would support our Suppressor Freedom Act and other. Other acts like that.

So he's pretty good with pro-gun issues. And uh yeah, he made need to be made aware of what's going on if he's not already. Yeah, we'll make sure that we reach out to him. We're talking to Stephen Williford, who's sounding the alarm on a number of states just working with the ATF without citizens' knowledge and giving granting the ATF this ability, the Feds the ability to monitor people without a warrant through the NIC system, the federal background check system. And you particularly were talking about the Texas Workforce Commission having these written contracts for sharing income information for criminal investigations.

The thing that I don't see in any of the which is the point of all of the reporting on it, Stephen, is that they're Is no firewall to protect innocent people from being swept up in this. I mean, I don't know how to put it, a red scare sort of approach to investigating this because simply purchasing, you know, five guns in a day is not a criminal activity. Or if the ATF thinks that you don't have enough money in your bank account and yet you have, you know, more guns than they think you should have, that's not a sign of criminal activity. That's not a felony. There's no firewall here, there's no protections that I can see for everyday people.

No, there isn't. And you know, who's to say what's important to you and spending your money? I know somebody that um puts lay away. Put some very expensive collector bowl. Um Colt revolver zone layaway at a A gun store.

And he takes his time and pays them off and he has a really nice collection. If someone were to look to at his bank account and decide Well, we don't think he should be able to afford them. That's none of their business. That's none of your business, none of my business, and None of the government's business for sure. Yeah, for sure.

Because I definitely don't, I mean, that's not the entity that I'm going to trust in order to keep us safe. There's too many examples of that. Our friend Stephen Williford, the event that's taking place in Austin, the Texas Capitol, this Wednesday, Gun Owners of America event, raising awareness of some of the stuff that y'all have been battling state by state, but particularly in Texas there at the state legislature. Tell us about that and what you have in store and what you would like to see people to do to help.

Well, this is Second Amendment Day at the Capitol put on by gun owners of America. And we're going to be talking again, I'm speaking. Ted Nugent's speaking. Michael Cargill is going to be speaking. He's great.

Yeah. We've had him on recently. Yes. I love Michael Cargill. He's a good guy.

Great, you know, he's fighting the bump stock bands and stuff. He owns a gun shop there in Austin. And in liberal land.

So, we're going to be discussing some of the bills that are being pushed and the pushback, the things that we're doing. Um again, I signed up at like Um Eight o'clock in the morning. last Tuesday and I didn't get to speak until 1.30 the next morning in Texas. And then I stayed in a hotel and got up and got on the road because I had to get on a Zoom. To testify in Boulder, Colorado.

There you go.

You're a busy man. Very busy man. One last quick thing: I know you have a book coming out as well. I want to touch on that real quick before we got to go. It's not, it's going to be coming out in the next couple of months.

And it's going to be about it's your story. It is my story, and it's more than just my story. It also. Talks about the people that we lost in Sutherland Springs, what their families wanted. the nation to know about them and who they were.

and their stories too.

So it's it's quite encompassing. It's about Mayberry, USA, if you want to say it. It's going to be titled A Little Town Called Sutherland Spring. There you go.

Well, I can't. I know you and I have been talking about it, and I know we're going to have you back on that when it comes out. But Stephen Williford, if people are on, I don't think anybody should be unaware of who you are. I have to say you're a very humble person. You are very focused on the issue, a very godly man.

And I have to say, I think that you are, I think you're probably a living American icon, and I think one of the most important figures in Second Amendment history and in self-defense history in this country. And it's a pleasure to know you, and I think that you do such great work, and you don't get enough attention for it. But I know you like it that way. But I just have to say, it's an honor to know you, and I appreciate what you do, my friend. We'll have you back to talk about your book.

Thank you, Dana. I sure appreciate that. Of course. Take care. And of course, that's going to be this Wednesday.

Stephen will be talking in Austin. Stephen Williford, Gun Owners of America. Always good to see you, my friend. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you.

God bless.

Okay, God bless. Good to see you. We have more to come, folks, here as we finish up this second hour. We got Florida Man on the way as well. You don't want to miss that.

And I'm going to make sure that I link all of that stuff that you just heard us talking about because it is more than just. I mean, it surprised me a little bit about Texas to see that Texas would be working with the ATF on this. We are going to reach out to Ken Paxton about that. But you need to read about these actual documented cases in all of these other states. It's not anecdotal information.

These are real stories of the way that the federal government is trying to do a back door peek. without a warrant, into your finances to see what you own. In terms of firearms, you can Now, you don't even have to own a gun. That's just a variable. Imagine if it's about any other issue.

You see the importance here? It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah. It's time for Florida Man. Mm-mm-mm.

All right, so first up, I mean, I didn't know that you could get a DUI on a bicycle. Did you know that? I didn't. I didn't know that either. I didn't know you could get a DOI on a bicycle, but apparently you can't.

This Florida man was pedaling while intoxicated. And uh he got in trouble on Friday, April 14th. Sanabelle. EWI? Yeah, actually, that's a good idea.

Yeah, well, Dido, yeah. It's an arrest on Florida, Sanibel Island. There's a lot of debate now, apparently, about this. There was a guy on a bike. He was traveling on the side of the road, Ray.

He had no front or rear light, police said. He was arrested for DUI, taken to Lee County jail. He's 56. He was visiting from Tennessee. And DUI while biking is a legitimate charge in Florida.

They said the statute covers it, it's applicable to bicycles. Really? Yeah, I didn't Know that. I mean, if you're on a bicycle. I mean, I guess, you know, if you're interfering in the roadway, but what if you're like on a bike path or something?

I don't know. Like, can't you get a DUI on a horse, too? That's. Even though the horse is the one who can really like is like the designated Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't know.

I'm just I don't know about this one. I really don't. I'm just not, you know. Uh let's see, this um Nope, I can't no, I can't do that one. No, I can't.

Uh but uh this Florida man There's a Florida man who mistakenly tried to rob an office building in Lake County, Florida. He thought it was a bank. And it wasn't. Didn't work out well for him. It was on Fox 35.

Stick with us. We got third hour on the way. And when you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other folks on Fox do. It is very, very clearly incitement of violence. Very clearly incitement of violence.

And that is the line that I think we have to be willing to contend with. That's AOC who is arguing for the Re she wants regulation of conservative media. which is asinine. And I I that's I I guess she's never listened to the network that she's on. Mm.

Welcome back to the program. Top of The show here. Top of this hour. Your lovable cremudge and Dana Lash with you. You can listen, ladies and gentlemen, coast to coast.

And always, you know, you can watch the simulcast of the radio program, Facebook, YouTube, where the discussion is ongoing, and DirecTV, channel 347. I mean, I really just don't I mean, honestly, it doesn't seem like she ever listens to any of these other networks, if that's the kind of stuff that she's saying. But. I mean I I This is just because you dislike someone's views doesn't mean it's a violence. You know, a different words aren't violence.

A different opinion isn't violence. I can't stand that. That's such a lazy way to try to shut down an opinion that you are either too dumb or too lazy to engage. and and disprove. But that's kind of how the left has been has been going on and on.

With us. I mean, they were the ones who said the whole hands up, don't shoot erroneously. That was a lie with the Michael Brown thing, that three different forensic reports. Proved wrong. One of them was Eric Holder's own DOJ.

The other was an independent one hired by the family.

So, all, I mean. They they proved that was a lie. The uh mostly what is it, the mostly peaceful protests. From the uh George Floyd Summer. They weren't they weren't mostly peaceful.

I mean, to say nothing of Russian collusion. Right? That whole story, to say nothing of that. I mean, that was these were all lies. These were all lies, lies, lies.

So that's I I this idea that First off, that you'd need to re I wouldn't need I wouldn't want any, even people with whom I disagreed, regulated. But at the same time, I also don't feel like I have to go and appeal to government to help me win an argument. That's what I think that, you know, that's what I hear from her. That's what she sounds like. Mm-mm-mm.

Now Everybody's been talking about uh Tucker Carlson and uh leaving Fox News today.

Well, actually they said Friday was his last show. And I kind of wonder, it seems like this all happened over the weekend. Because I mean he ended his show Friday with you know we'll be back Monday And apparently, his executive producer, Justin Wells, is also leaving with him, which makes me think that there's something else. No, he's gonna do something else different. I mean, this is the guy who started the Daily Caller.

Um He could He could start his own network. Really? So I I don't know the whole I don't know what it's due to.

Some people are speculating maybe it's Dominion, maybe it's this, maybe it's that. I don't I don't really think anybody knows. I don't think anybody knows because nobody knew he wasn't I don't think even he did. Nobody knew that he wasn't going to be there today. But it was announced just right before we were going on air and they said his last show was on Friday, so he if I I don't know if you could it it doesn't seem like it was planned.

So And I don't think that it's because the left demanded that he leave either. But it does seem I don't want to speculate, but You know, Tucker's a longtime friend of mine, but it just it's this is weird. It's odd. Brian Stelter was saying, I've tried calling and texting Tucker Carlson for comment. No response yet.

Why would anybody care about talking to Brian Stelter about this? I love it that he thinks that Tucker Carlson would tell Him. of all people. He didn't even w then stealter, he's Didn't he get fired from CNN too? I think so.

Don Lemon's out. Don Lemon's out also. Mmm, big, I know, all kinds of stuff. He's out.

So lemons out. He was seventeen years there. Uh Tucker's out. There's oh I don't know. I think that there is I do think that there's honestly, I think that there is an effort, there's been an effort by the left to target Carlson.

Because he was, I watched the left do this to my dear friend, Andrew Breitbart, because Tucker and Andrew were very, they are similar. And in fact, Tucker used to be the more reserved version of Andrew. And then I think that changed after Andrew passed away. It's very interesting to watch that arc. But They've targeted him for a long time because he is good at engaging with people.

He just has a no-nonsense type of style. He's a good broadcast, and he's he's very he's sardonic, he's very funny, and that resonates with people. And he was a threat in that way because he was entertaining while also informative. And that's not something that you learn. You're either born with it or you're not.

And there are too few people in commentary who can do it. But This targeting of him, I feel I they haven't done it really yet, but I feel like they're gonna try to take that as like a win for them. They're going to act like they did this. Don't you think so? I haven't really seen it gear up yet, but just give it time.

Just give it time. Yeah, just give it time.

So I don't um I don't know. Like, they had one guy who worked for a couple of decades. He apparently launched a lawsuit against. Fox And he was saying the network was rife with sexist, misogynistic, and abusive behavior. This guy sounds like a lefty, I have to say.

And They were saying that uh You know, he was targeting them for He was filing suit for these things. I don't know if that has anything to do with it either. I don't even know why that would be mentioned in context with Carlson. I just, I don't know. But I don't know.

Just all very interesting. All very. It is just very, very interesting. It is kind of weird. Because I The people that watch very carefully, the people who come out and are very joyous, or the people who kind of push these sort of conspiracy theories about this.

This is always whenever things like this happen, particularly in commentary or in media, these are the good times where you. you get a rare opportunity. And it goes it happens real quick. You gotta watch. But you can see who's who.

Very briefly. You get a little glimmer of who's who and who isn't. Hmm. But I see a lot of people Just crowing about it. We talked about the view a little bit earlier.

And CNN did like this whole thing.

Someone was, someone told me, a friend of mine messaged me and said, CNN's mentioning this whole thing about Carlson. Didn't say a damn thing about Lemon leaving. You know what's funny? Yeah. Is I got messages from people saying they saw Fox News mentioned the Don Lemon firing, but not a thing about Tucker.

Oh, really? Yeah. But you know what? You know how it broke open widely? Harris Faulkner announced it on Fox.

Really? Yeah, she announced it on Fox. She covered it on her show. I watched it. I watch and I love Harris Faulkner.

I think Harris Faulkner is one of the best interviewers in the business. She really is. She is an underappreciated talent, I gotta say. I don't think that she gets her due from commentary at large, from media at large. But Uh she announced it on her show.

Yeah, so they didn't see that then because she went, she doesn't care. She went right at it. Apparently, after her show, they have yet to mention it. Mm. Again, I can't confirm that.

I don't know, but that's what I'm hearing.

Well, you know, Greg Gutt felt well. I've known Greg for a long time too. Just all weird. It's all weird. Just, you know, don't get distracted, though, about other stuff.

Now, we got that out of the way. I want to refocus you. China and Singapore teaming up for green. You need, yes, it isn't. I know it's so much more fun to play in the tee.

But I mean, do you want to get your ass kicked by China? I feel like I got to just ask it like that. Let's refocus. Because if we lose 2024, guess what? That's probably gonna happen.

I hate saying it, but you have an administration and a governing party mostly. They ran DC for the first part of Biden's term. And they still have You know, a significant amount of influence. They still got the White House in that. Come on.

But It's very important to note this. That I mean, if they're there, you have Xi Jinping who's making inroads with a lot of these other countries. Brazil, they're really trying to get a foothold in Latin America. And they're working with Singapore. As well.

They're also expanding their use case for belt and road.

So this is Uh And also another You know, they they have their central bank digital currency. It's the digital Wuan. Or Uan. I don't know, everybody always like argues like what's the best Chinese way to pronounce it? Yeah, because there's so many di the dialects, et cetera.

Uh but they have been using this for their Belt and Road Initiative and cross-border trades, the their digital currency. And that was one of the first C B D C's to be uh Developed and I guess more widely tested. They haven't officially launched it, but they're setting up to expand testing. And they're including millions of people in multiple cities. And they've been they've issued this currency for use in cross-border trade in a number of cities and for uh uh Rail railroad services, uh goods on trains from China heading to Europe.

So they have, and this was a couple of different. They have 18 cross-border rail connections. In their South China Morning Post, which is their CCP paper, they've been crowing about it. They've been running out. They have all these headlines celebrating it.

So they're expanding this for use in Belt and Road.

Now think about this. They're moving to digital. They're pushing this digital while they're also trying to destroy the petrodollar. They're trying to get all these Belt and Road countries, which include a number of countries in Africa, a number of countries that they're getting inroads in in the Caribbean, a number of countries in South and Central America, to say nothing of what they've been doing with Emmanuel Macron and France. And now you can see what's coming.

Remember, we've talked about this before. You don't necessarily need to have a military offensive to take a nation. You can use loans and currency and everything else to do it. You can have financial warfare and without ever having to fire a shot. And I mean, that would be, they have the ability and the will to do it.

They'll be reckless in pursuing it. Whereas the United States, what are we doing? What's going on over here? You got Biden who's going to be taping, he has a pre-taped announcement to launch his reelection bid tomorrow. And you have Republicans fighting with themselves.

I wish Donald Trump would spend as much time talking about the threat of green energy as he does railing against Ron DeSantis because he's mad that Ron DeSantis hasn't even announced a run for presidency yet. But but has been a successful governor is considering it. The media has been baiting these two to fight. And Trump and some of his operatives are taking it. And I just, Trump needs to not listen to these people.

There's a reason why the people that he has advising him couldn't get jobs anywhere else before he decided to run. The side there's I I say this because I feel like they're selling him short. I mean, how do you have the accomplishments that he has and then this is how you like run your reelection bid. You can tell it's not the same team that's around him. And I know for a fact that it's not.

But you, because I know them. I know all of them. And a lot of them I grew up in the conservative movement with. And it's so frustrating to see. Oh my gosh, it's so frustrating to see.

I cannot stand when I see people take bad advice. and then get themselves involved in controversies because of bad advice. I'm just We'll talk more about this. But this is a huge case. This is a huge situation here.

What are we doing to offset this? What are we doing to stand I mean, come on. Nothing. They've talked about all the only thing you've heard from this administration is green knew everything. More reliance and dependency upon China.

Now how does that help us? It's rhetorical because it doesn't. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. I have to tell you guys, I took a drink of soda on break.

Like 30 seconds, we're coming back in, right? And Kane finds the sound bite from Jake Sullivan, which we're gonna play coming up, and he just lost his mind. And it was so funny that I actually snorted soda, and it really hurts. It's like my eyes are watering, my nose is burning. Oh my gosh, he was so in.

He's like gonna fit, he's out of juice. He's out of his juice.

So, all right, here's that headline. Face masks may raise the risk of stillbirths, testicular dysfunction, cognitive decline due to buildup of carbon dioxide.

So don't wear your face mask because you're gonna have stillbirths, small balls, and you're gonna get dumb. Science! Science! So legit, they actually studied this. I'm gonna, they, it was the CO2 mask review.

And you duh, you trap the carbon and then you inhale it and you keep inhaling it. It was German researchers, and they it was a pretty, I mean, they studied a pretty large amount of people.

So, I'm gonna, I'm gonna put that. You gotta read this. I'm gonna put this in your prep link because you're gonna want, you're gonna wanna have this. That's a very sick, it's very interesting. Uh, the U.S.

Army. Here's the AP headline: Unprepared for long war, U.S. Army is under the gun to make more ammo. Oh, but you know, they have all these restrictions and stuff that the administration's been wanting to pass. This comes out, this is from the Associated Press.

They said that. Uh they can't uh US can't produce enough ammo. For Ukraine, the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, which is part of this multi-billion dollar Pentagon plan to modernize and accelerate ammo production, because it's very dangerous actually to make it. They said that now you have to support Ukraine, but you have to have something in case there's any kind of frogginess with China. But that's just one of two sites that make the steel bodies for the howitzer rounds that's needed in Ukraine.

So now everyone's like, oh well, we gotta, we need more ammo.

So they have to put out a lot more. There's a, I know there's a lot of concerns here with that. A massive fire broke out at a Disneyland park. A dragon prop caught fire. It looked actually amazing, but it wasn't supposed to happen.

It was at the Tom Sawyer Island and the Phantasmic Nighttime Water Show, and it engulfed Maleficent's dragon prop. Which I gotta be real, it looks really cool in the video, but that wasn't intended.

So that was dangerous. They had to figure that all out.

So that's, you know, it's a very, you know, tough thing. Several men were arrested for selling laughing gas in downtown Austin. This is totally like what's the thing, Taylor Sheridan's thing with Stallone in. And he's in Oklahoma, and they were selling laughing gas on the side. Can't you have.

King of Tulsa. Tulsa King. That's great. Tulsa King's great, but this sounds totally like a plot from that show. But these men were arrested for illegally selling it in downtown Austin, nitrous oxide.

Stay with us. Stephen Yates next. Whether you just want to stay informed or just hear her vent about all the ridiculousness in the world, make sure to download the Dana Show podcast wherever you get your podcasts. A decision to suspend operations at the embassy. Remove our personnel from their assigned posts is among the most difficult that any secretary has to make.

But my first priority. is the safety of our people. And I determined that the deteriorating security conditions in Khartoum posed an unacceptable risk to keeping our team there at this time. Another another uh embassy. Evacuation.

Are they at least getting ahead of it well enough? I'm just wondering how that's that's kind of is that Belt and Road territory, too? Wondering. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you.

That's Anthony Blinken discussing the EVAC of U.S. personnel from yet another embassy. It just seems like we're kind of behind the ball on a lot of things, really. Joining us right now, Stephen Yates, Senior Fellow at America First Policy Institute, chair of the China Policy Initiative. I know China was still trying to figure out, Stephen, what they were.

I don't think they've evacuated anyone yet. They were trying to figure out what they were going to do there. But, I mean, it does seem, what is it? I mean, there's been fighting, obviously, in that area for quite some time, but all of the, and correct me if I'm wrong, that's a Belt and Road nation, isn't it? Didn't they have, or didn't China have projects going on in Sudan?

They do. They have a number of personnel. It's like a lot of parts of Africa where. They promise to build projects and they bring in their own Chinese labor, and the locals don't like that so much.

So it's another one of those areas of opportunism by the Chinese. But really, I mean, I basically see this as another retreat and defeat move by the Biden foreign policy team, too. the National Security Advisor Sullivan was trying to say, well, these things happen sometimes. I think this has happened three times on the Biden team's watch. I don't think that's happened to the United States in the history of the Republic on any president's watch.

So these things don't actually happen from time to time. They happen a lot with you guys. Yeah, exactly. To this point, I want to kind of switch still with still discussing China. I, this was kind of shocking.

So, they the China's ambassador to France was on French TV. And Then began questioning The the individual sovereignty of all of the former Soviet republics that are now their own nations, and basically intimated that, yeah, you know, go ahead and recreate the Soviet Republic, the USSR. That You can give insight into this. They I don't think that this is he didn't really speak off the cuff. I mean, I think that that's really give us some insight on that because I don't think that that was just a careless remark that he made.

Well, I would feel sorry for these guys, except they're evil communists, but one of the problems. with being an evil communist is that the truth is not a part. Of your job description. And so you run the risk on any given day, the memo switching out from under you.

So at some point in time in the Communist Party, Central Party school, it was a-okay to talk about sovereignty in the sense that, well, you know, sovereignty, schmauverenti, these Eastern European countries, they really belong to the Soviet Union, and so they're not real countries.

Well, and because, and why would China want to say that? Because they want to have their revisionist view about Taiwan. And so, because they don't care about the truth, because they're not really worried about the United Nations and its august rules, they just make stuff up. And this diplomat, as I say, I'd feel sorry for him if he weren't a bad guy. He was using the old memo.

And he said what they actually think. And what they think is terrible and revisionist, and it's provoking the freer parts of Europe to rise up and protest against it. And so I say, God bless him for telling the truth of what the communists really think. But my old mind, did he kick a bee's nest at that picnic? Yes, he did.

Are they going to disappear him, so to speak, after this? Because I know he kind of has a history of this. I don't know. Sometimes these people get promoted away. You know, they just sort of move back to the mothership.

They'll find a new form of propaganda that suits them just fine. Oh, apparently, yes. That would seem so. With still with respect to China, we had this headline a little earlier how there's this.

So China and Singapore are working on what they say is to scale up green and transition financing. They're collaborating on the statement, concrete initiatives to catalyze capital flows to support a credible and inclusive transition to low carbon, blah, blah, blah. Green tech. More reliance upon Beijing is how I'm reading it. But they set up this task force to establish this bilateral cooperation with transition finance.

This on the heels of the CBDC, their digital currency that they've been testing and expanding the testing of. I wanted to kind of get your thoughts on this because I see the president eating ice cream. And Kamala Harris going around saying the same thing over and over again in different speeches. And then I look and I see Xi Jinping, who is apparently like gathering allies and he's trying to boost up any kind of economic alliances to offset any kind of, you know, like embargoes or anything or trade, you know, wars or anything else. This is, I mean, the Singapore thing is troubling, the CBDC thing is troubling, especially now that other countries are being encouraged to adopt, being encouraged to adopt it.

Yeah, well, there's no question that there's a lot of momentum out there in the world, and it's being driven by people other than Uncle Sam. And so, what you have when you have weakness in the leadership in the United States, you don't really have any initiative, they're playing catch-up almost like on a comm strategy B-roll every day. Trying to excuse what's happening, not really shaping events. Deterrence has failed in Europe. We don't really have a lot of confidence of deterrence holding in Asia.

All this currency thing, there's a lot of momentum why the US dollar is going to remain very, very important for a long time. But this feeling of erosion, and sort of people like Singapore as a country. That's kind of like the size of a postage stamp in a certain sense, but it's been really important at a key location and has really straddled East versus West in a very significant strategic way for a long time. This is tilting much more towards playing with Beijing in a way that I think most American leaders would have thought possible in the not too distant past.

So I think there's a lot of reason to be concerned by these games. And I think they're games. I don't expect anything to come of this in a big way economically right away. But the more we let these games unfold, the more it kind of becomes real. And that's, I think, what we really have to get our hands on.

We don't get our own house in order, get some real leadership, then these kinds of games start to bite really hard. Yeah. And speaking of getting our own house in order, we're talking to Stephen Yates. There were protests over the weekend. A lot of Republicans were out in Michigan protesting against this Chinese-owned EV battery company.

And it's very, very close to Camp Grayling, where the Taiwanese military is being trained by Michigan National Guard. Very interesting. China's like, this is a great spot for an EV battery company. We're just making some batteries right by the camp where the Taiwanese military is being trained. Just a big coincidence, I'm sure, right?

Yeah, well, I don't know if that super fantastic state government also helped them out on that site survey on what might be available and good. But I see some momentum out in the States, and I know that there's some private sector initiative since the government is not so fabulous there, to really have some screening of where money is coming from Into our states. And so, people that are average citizens, farmers engaged in manufacturing, they want to know who they're doing business with. They want to know where this money's coming from and where it's going. And we had some dealings with Christy Noam in South Dakota about what that might look like on Ag land and some other areas.

And like there's a private sector initiative in Michigan that wants to question, hey, who are these companies? What is this kind of money? What are they really up to? Yeah, this. Building batteries is one thing, but right there near sensitive locations, a little bit too much of a coinky thing.

So we need to have some real processing. We can't count on the federal government to do it.

So, the part of me that is troubled has at least part of me that says, hey, you know what? I believe more in this grassroots up stuff.

So, more power to the citizens and the people in the states that want to have some scrutiny and transparency on this. Yeah, good for them. Good for them on that. I know you're traveling this week. You've been very busy, man.

We appreciate your time with us as always at YatesComs on Twitter. Folks, go find him. His timelines, always a good resource. Stephen Yates, thank you, my friend. Good to see you.

Thank you, Dana. Take care. Of course, you too. And that, we'll make sure we also have all of our discussions, folks, that we put up on YouTube and Facebook as well. Yeah, it's not a coincidence at all, that it's literally right there.

Where They're training the Taiwanese military. Not at all, in any way, a coincidence. I don't believe in coincidences. Not with this government anymore. Not at all.

Some of the other stuff that we've been following as well for the program, throughout the program, we've been looking at.

Well, I have some wookery for you as well, but you have, as I said, the president's going to be announcing he's running for reelection in a pre-tape thing. There's a new poll out saying that 70% of Democrats don't want him to run. That does change if it's against Trump, though, because then it turns into people who would not vote for Biden, but they'll vote against Trump. That's how Hillary Clinton ended up losing, by the way, in 2016. But there's a very interesting.

There's 70% don't want him to run. And it's and it's a New poll from NBC. They don't, 70% of Americans do not want Biden to run for a second term. Only 26. Who are the 26 people?

But 69% say it's his age. 48% say it's a major reason. And The poll said that 47% of Americans right now plan to vote for Biden in 2024.

So but those change if it's a Trump rematch. then his numbers improve. This is Republicans, the Republican Party better get a grip on this stuff. They better get a grip on all of this.

So the other headline that we've been seeing as well, too, is this Uh Tucker Carlson's out at Fox. They announced that just right before we were getting ready to go on air. And it seemed to be. I don't think it was expected because he had said Friday in his broadcast that, you know, we'll be back Monday, and then he wasn't. Monday.

They said his last show was Friday. They said he ended on the 21st. And the first mention of it was Harris Faulkner. And that was 11:45 Eastern.

So it was 15 minutes before we were on air that they made the announcement on the network. And they were saying that it's news from within our Fox family, is what they said.

So he I mean, it looked like I don't know if this was Um to there's a lot of speculation. There There were some that were saying that he was becoming too powerful a host. Maybe for management, or that they needed to represent the balance, or that a lot of you know, that some of the people that they had previously at executive levels that were kind of a check to the balance of power with the hosts are that are no longer there, and that maybe that's what this was. A lot of people are saying, Well, Paul Ryan is on the board at Fox, so that maybe, you know, maybe that has something to do with it as well. We also have this.

This is audio soundbite. I wanted to play this: Audio Soundbite 11. Listen to this because this is wild. This is Ray Epps who blames Tucker Carlson for being in the news. He's obsessed with me.

He's... going to any means possible to destroy my life. and our lives. Why? to shift blame on somebody else.

If you look at it. Fox News. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Ted Cruz. Gates, they're all telling us before this thing that it was stolen.

So you tell me. Who has more impact on people, them or me? Hmm. That's the point. Yeah, that's yeah, exactly.

This uh The thing is, is I don't When he's talking about, well, who lied about the election? Are you talking about 2016 or now? I'm curious. I mean, I just think we need a time stamp on that. Like in 2016?

I'm just you know I'm curious about that. There were there's a there were a lot of um The whole Ray Epps thing, there were a lot of Questions about this. The New York Times was saying, Oh, he became the victim of a conspiracy theory and all of this other stuff. And then this was the 60 Minutes thing where they profiled him. And they made it out: like, oh, he's, you know, he's in hiding, he's facing death threats, you know, et cetera.

Um I which you know, I don't know. The way that they went about that, um, He was the guy. Wasn't he the guy that was on camera, though? Who was telling everyone to like go run for it? And, and, um, Yeah, he's going to go into the Capitol.

I mean, he's like on tape telling people to push through and go into the Capitol. And not just once or twice. No, but three times. There's like tons of footage of him doing this. You have people who are literally in jail because they were like chanting USA, USA.

you know, outside the doors of the Capitol. They're in jail. And then you have people like this Ray Epps who are on camera inciting a riot. I don't know how you can say that he wasn't. I mean, when you're telling people, knowing that they're not supposed to go somewhere, and you're telling people go, go, go, and you're trying to get them all riled up.

I mean, I'm not exaggerating. I'm probably being very, I'm probably generously underplaying it. And then he's not in jail. That's just weird to me. And these are all questions that everybody, not just Tucker Carlson, have asked, but he's targeting Tucker Carlson because the left is using him as this arrow to go after someone who's been very, very effective at blowing up their narratives.

So I question his sincerity and then I question his overall role. It makes me even more suspicious of him. That whole 60 Minutes thing made me more suspicious of that guy than I'd ever been before. I mean, not to say that I wasn't before, but it made me more so. I got to be real.

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You know my mom? Stranger danger! That's my purse. After seeing the Biden kids, I don't want any of my kids near the Biden kids. Dude, right?

Like, if we were all Biden's kids, like, we'd all have Coke habits. Right? It seems like that way. Good grief. Welcome back to the program.

Daneline shared that was just a little bit ago. What is he at Biden's at Uh National teacher something celebration appreciation dippity do da whatever that He's Joe's husband. unburdened by what has been and what has oh wait that's Kamala's line. Can you imagine if he said that, if he said that line in his speech? I I think we'd all have a meltdown.

Because That means that it's her in a costume. I don't know. Which means he plagiarizes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Today's stupidity came.

All right, it's Jake Sullivan. Boy, when I heard this. I I think I may have cussed. Did I cuss? Do you remember if I cussed?

You totally did.

Well, here's what Jake Sullivan just said minutes ago. Americans are free people. We cannot dictate. Where they travel, tell them they must go or not go to a particular place. All right, tell us the story of COVID then, Mr.

Jake Sullivan. That's not what you said though on break. I snorted soda up into my nose 30 seconds back to the corner. Cleaning it up for FCC rules. Yeah, Jake Sullivan, screw you.

You, yeah, that's that that is polite compared to what there you go. Yeah, today's stupidity. Folks, I'll be on Jesse Waters program in the 6 p.m. Central Hour. Sign up for the newsletter over at Substack chapter and verse.

Have a good night. I'll be back with you tomorrow. We will, will be. We'll be back tomorrow.