Tuesday December 12 - Full Show

But I don't think it is a radical proposition to say that if we're going to have a national security supplemental package, it ought to begin with our own national security first. And so I'll explain to him that while we understand that, I've made my position very clear, literally since the day I was handed the gavel, that we have to take care of our border first. I mean, that seems like the most obvious thing you could possibly say. That's the most obvious thing ever, but that's what's being fought over right now. In the halls of Congress.

So, welcome to to the program. Dana Lash here with you, top of our First hour here, and this, of course, we've got. Zelensky, who's in DC, he was uh I think he was meeting with senators earlier, right? He was meeting with members of the Senate earlier. And then he's, I think, was meeting with some House leadership.

But House leadership's like, look, this is not not something that we're going to do. It's not our fault either. I mean, blame the Democrats who refuse to, at all whatsoever, have any kind of serious discussion about what's going on at the border.

Meanwhile, you have all these Democrat mayors who have been saying, stop sending us people, stop sending us people, et cetera. Not going to happen. Not gonna because everybody needs to pay their fair share. All right, so the I mean Um Why is that considered an unreasonable position? For Democrats.

We have to take care of our southern border. Before we consider sending money elsewhere. It is not our problem. These other situations that are going on right now that have nothing to do with our immediate interests. Seems like you know, with everything that we have seen.

All of the the fentanyl, what, 12,000 a day was the peak just. Was that last week or was it Monday? That was last week. It was like Thursday, Friday of last week. That's a big deal.

Uh a very big deal. That's like entire towns that are coming across. And people aren't being sent back. Crime is increasing in these border towns. It's a huge issue.

And so for the president to. And Democrats to not come to the table on this, that's inexcusable. Hold the line. Republicans need to hold the line on this because God knows they can't hold the line on anything else right now. Yeah, we had that fun conversation yesterday.

So you have Zielinski. You know how difficult it is to come over to the United States with everything that we're dealing with right now? It just seems, I get it, that he's, they're dealing with their situation in Ukraine. But we have our situation here in the United States. I mean, it's an invasion at the southern border.

We have crime spiraling out of control in Democrat-run cities. We have raging inflation. People are broke. People can't buy houses. They feel discontent.

They feel like they can't trust the system. And you got this guy over there with his hands out after we've given him hundreds of billions of dollars and he still wants more. I was listening to Schumer speak this morning, and he was saying that, well, you know, if they can't get this money, then they're immediately going to have, that's not my problem. Go to France. It's got 19.

Yeah, play this. Audio soundbite 19. Yes, this is the and this is oh, this just angers me when they put it in this perspective. Check it. Zelensky made it so clear how he needs help.

But if he gets the help, he can win this war. And he outlined in some great detail: A, the kind of help he needs, and how. how it will help him win. Even many of our Republican colleagues talked about we are winning this war, and if we get the help, that if he gets the help he needs. He will win.

On the other hand, he made it clear, and we all made it clear, that if we lose, Putin wins. And this will be very, very dangerous for the United States.

So we cannot let Putin influence through any surrogate. What we need to do for Ukraine. You know, the calls for a ceasefire? They need to call for a ceasefire in Ukraine. That's where the ceasefire needs to be called.

Needs to be called there. I mean this is is A Uh How much was the supplemental? $110. I'm looking at my notes. $110 billion, national security, blah, blah, blah.

So $61 billion. Of that is for Ukraine.

Now, forgive me. I swear to you, Kane, correct me if I'm wrong on this. You and Steve did. I swear to you, we literally had that exact same sound bite. It wasn't.

I don't think it was from Schumer, though. I think it was from McConnell. Over the summer, When again, you had Zelensky coming, hat outstretched, and he was saying, well, If they get this aid, they can win the war. How many times have you heard that? We don't even know where the last bit of aid went to.

We do know. After a little bit of snooping around by the IG, we do know that there was some money that went to go towards pensions and for this and that and this and that. And at the same time, the guys shutting down churches and newspapers, you know, in the name of freedom. They're so bent on fighting for freedom. They got to close down the son of stuff.

But we've heard this over and over again.

Well, you know. You know. We've they'll win the war if we can just get this much. Yeah, I just I feel like that's we've heard that so many times before.

So many times. We need the ceasefire over there, though. 61 billion. We've given over $100 billion. My question is this: What is the $61 billion?

going to do That the one hundred plus billion that we have given them already. hasn't. Many takers What's that going to do? $61 additional billion dollars. The pittance.

That is given to The border is shameful. It's shameful. And I I Disregard all of these arguments from these people who say, well, you know. If we're not giving aid, Putin wins. If we're not doing this, Putin wins.

These are just stupid, empty, meaningless platitudes that this is not that's not insight. It's propaganda. It's not opinion, it's propaganda. And that's exactly what this is. This is a war of attrition.

And I don't, what does the end of the war? What does the end of this look like when they say, well, you and Ukraine can win this war? What does that look like? What does that look like? Do you honestly think that Putin's gonna head back to Moscow?

If Ukraine and can they define what victory is if there is some sort of victory? And then ignoring the tensions that predated their entry into this, Russia's entry into this, in the Donbass region. I mean, what gets me is that the people who are who Ignore the existing tensions in the Dompas region. That's such a colonizer attitude. You know, since that's a hot new word right now, I'm going to appropriate it from the left.

That is the neo-con uh colonizer attitude, and I'm actually appropriately. Correctly using that term, neocon. A neocon is like Lindsey Graham, someone who thinks that there is not a problem that the U.S. military and lots of firepower can't solve. I mean, yes, but also no.

It just I mean you you can have territorial what what was the there's this piece I pulled up I was reading um Whether or not you have The sovereignty of the territory or independence of the area. I mean, there is a lot of history. that is in that area that cannot be summed up in a 30 second soundbite. There's a lot of history regarding Ukraine's borders, that area, the Donbass region, the disputed territory, particularly. There's a lot of history there that a lot of people just don't know because you're not expected to know that.

That's not your backyard. It's not your back yard and and it goes back for generations.

So that's why it's equally as preposterous to expect one conflict and another $61 billion is going to solve it. It is not. We're going to come back to this. We have more on it.

So, the latest with this Harvard president, did you guys hear about all this? Jimmy Christmas. Where's Harvard standards?

So the chick who is over at U Penn, McGill, she goes And then the chick over at Harvard stays because she's a DEI hire. Yes, she is. She's absolutely a DEI hire. Liz McGill's white privilege got her fired.

So I guess that's what that looks like. It's true because there are a lot of people who objected to Claudine Gay's hiring in the first place.

So this chick. Has apparently plagiarized as much, if not more, than Joe Biden, which I just didn't think was possible for any person. You're so Do you realize that just this year alone they dismissed 16 people for plagiarism? Just this year alone, 16 students were dismissed because of plagiarism.

So she was found to have plagiarized a whole bunch of stuff, right?

So now. On top of her disgraceful testimony, where she was saying, well, she was one of those, it depends on the context. I know. But The corporate board at Harvard issued a statement this morning expressing unanimous, unflinching support for Claudine Gay. And then they kind of just glossed over her leadership.

or her her plagiarism issues. They kinda just glossed over it. I mean she's Even the Harvard Crimson had discussed it. She had all, and these aren't plagiarism allegations, by the way. I want to be very clear.

They have evidence. It's overwhelming proof. These aren't allegations. They're not accusations. They have indisputable evidence.

Ac hashtag facts that she plagiarized a whole bunch of stuff.

So This and for over 24 years, she even plagiarized her 1997 PhD dissertation. And that was from the Washington Free Beacon. The free beacon gets into. I mean, it's it's pretty shameful. It's incredibly shameful.

And they said no they said no, we're going to stand by her. We're going to stand by her. Not so their standards aren't even enough. I mean, as as if excusing genocidal chants and bullying against Jewish students wasn't bad enough, now they're saying that they have no standards at all. Why would anybody even want to go to Harvard?

I mean, talk about reducing, it's Hamas University, talking about reducing your standards. Hamas you, you can plagiarize whatever. And apparently, here's what here's what's more. They knew. The Crimson writes that the university was aware in October.

of the allegations about the articles. that she had she had plagiarized. They were aware this entire time. Nobody said anything. DEI hires get all the excuses and the protections in the world.

It's pretty amazing. Why didn't they force why didn't they go and address this back in October? I mean, that's that's wh why wasn't that a thing? But no.

So they've stood by her. After all of these years of kicking students out for plagiarism, after sidelining students if they said the wrong pronouns, you know, XYZ, now. if you're at Harvard. and you're a DEI hire, you get to stay. And I don't know what leadership she's had on campus, except she's run off a lot of donors.

A lot of donors. And then she had her Safe Spaces speech.

So let's I'm not I'm just What does it take to get a faculty member at Harvard fired? For real, what does it take? If you're a DEI hire, apparently, there's no answer for that. Nobody knows. I mean this is Pretty amazing.

Now on top of this, 'cause we got a lot more coming up. We've got crony capitalism from Biden. Apparently, one of the big investments that they made, well, it was a waste of our tax dollars. Three billion tax dollars. It's like a Cylindra Part two to a solar company.

That took advantage of disadvantaged homeowners in communities, including the elderly. We're going to talk about that coming up. We also have the latest with GOP and Iowa and all of that other annoying stuff.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five.

So Zara, Zara, I don't care how you say it. They just sell clothes. It's like an a bougier forever 21.

So they got in trouble because they used, I don't understand what their ad campaign was about, but they had people, like, it looked like bodies wrapped up in plastic bags and a model standing in front of it. And for some reason, the Gaza, because people who are pro-Hamas Gazans think that everything is literally about me. Like everything. Every ad, like every sentiment, every opinion ever stated on the internet is all about me because the world revolves around me. Oh my gosh.

They thought it was about them and they demanded that the clothing giant apologize to them.

Now, what I would have done was photoshopped a million middle fingers on my hands. And sent that. They didn't though, because they're dumb. And they said that they were sorry and nobody cares. They said it was a mis, they regretted a misunderstanding.

So they didn't exactly apologize. They just basically said, we're sorry that you're so stupid and barely literate that you didn't understand what this ad campaign was about. We regret that you're so incredibly stupid. And it was their campaign called The Jacket. And if you didn't get it because you're stupid, we're sorry that you're stupid.

That was basically their apology.

So teams, Team Zara, right? All right, moving on. Chris Rock and other comedic talents are not going to host the Golden Globes. They declined the offer because nobody wants to get slapped by a cuck. That's why.

It's true. Where's the lie? Moving on. Declining invitations to holiday parties is actually good for you. Except if it's my party, because that'll get you killed.

Moving on. Yeah, they said it's actually, you know what? I think this is a stupid study. Also, I think that some people are overscheduled anyway. There's no reason why you gotta go to 5,000 different parties.

You know, I mean, I love the reason for the season too. Baidu, but it doesn't mean you gotta go to everybody's thing. Just saying, only come to mine. That's the only one that counts. Rescue crews searching through the scene of a partial building collapse in the Bronx.

And uh why are people coming for Genzel? We're about to throw some hands. The Guardian says Denzel Washington was cast as Hannibal in a Netflix film. And in Tunisia, there's controversy because people are butthurt over it. He's the, you know, the ancient general Hannibal, and people are very upset because they said, oh my gosh, it's a race thing.

And they said it has to do with woke culture. Look, let me tell you, when it involves Denzel Washington, it does not have to do with woke culture because Denzel Washington is a phenomenal flipping actor. Denzel Washington is one of the best living actors that we have. He is one of my favorite actors. And I dare you to find someone who could touch him in this role.

End of. I will fight on that hill and everyone else will die. All right, as we move, we're coming up to the bottom of this hour. We got a lot of stuff to hit. Politics, wokery, so much more.

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but those good intentions have morphed into a dogmatic ideology and turned these universities into places where the pervasive goals are political and social engineering, not academic merit. Uh that's a fareide zacaria. Where he was he on CNN? I guess. Yeah?

Yeah, what does Welcome to the program. Welcome back. Dana Lash here with you. Bottom of this first hour. And uh Did he is he just not realizing this?

Is he like uh just like realizing stuff? He and his friends are just like together realizing things. For easy carrier, it seems very similar to what the left reacted so hostily towards back when people would say to stay in your lane on things, meaning if you didn't know enough about it or if you were giving a very stale take, just maybe perhaps stay in your lane. I don't know why a lot of people are high-fiving him over saying something that we've been talking about for over a decade. Just because some, you come around at the point where.

It is the least advantageous for you. to remain on your current ideological path. And you think that because you waited until the last minute to hop off, that that should be viewed as some great feat of realization or some sacrifice of ideology? Because I don't. I just think it's just you, you finally are saying what you're saying, the obvious.

I don't like rewarding the obvious. I'm all about conversions and you know, people coming to agree with you. But at the same time, I do think that you get to retain the right to determine whether or not that's a shallow move or if it is just something genuine. And it just seems weird that now, after all of this time, after all the lawsuits with Asian students and the way conservative students have been treated, and the way that we've known Jewish students have been treated on campus for decades now, now you're going to say something just only now. You just now realized it.

These are the people who were very upset about being told to stay in their lane over different issues that they were clueless on?

So I'm just I I know that there's some people that I would say that are ideologically more aligned with me that are celebrating this as some kind of big win. But I don't look at it that way at all. I just think it's. Yeah, this is obvious that you should have been saying this for 10 years. Longer.

I mean, this is, it's been obvious to anyone who's cared to take their take their head out of their own backside to look. It's been obvious.

Well, and then the way he says it, retrain their gaze on their core strengths. Can you just state the obvious? I mean, when you're in broadcast commentary, just state it. People don't need some sort of Shakespearean lecture, okay? They don't need all that.

They just they just want it straight. You don't need to sit here and and get all Shakespearean about it. But that's that this is the obvious. A lot of people are seeing it, and it's crazy that it had to get this bad before people could see the natural progression of where leftism goes. What they thought that what we were being hyperbolic?

Were we exaggerating whenever we said this is the natural, conclusive path to your ideology? Did you think we were joking? Because this is it. Here we're at it. When you have 1930s tactics, being used against Jewish people today.

People who are afraid to even Freely worship on their college campuses. This is insane. This is the United States of America. It's just wild to me. And only when it looks advantageous do these people say something.

Because now it's so bad you have to say something. Oh my gosh, now it's so bad This is all, it's all a, it's, they always, these are people, they shift their allegiance to where they think the power is, and they believe that the power lies in victimization. And for the longest time, the left has manufactured victimization. I was watching, um Uh Oh gosh, it's it's uh the writing is a little uh But it's called the Gilded Age. I don't know if any of you have ever seen it.

And it's basically, I mean, it's the Gilded Age of America back when you had all the nouveau riche, and you had all of these big families, the railroad families, and the shipping families, and all these people that came out, the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers and all this. And their fight with the Astors and the old money people who were wealthy before the Civil War and their sort of battle, not just to see, not just to control or have a place in society. But to sort of, in a way, it was like mainstreaming being able to make oneself.

So it's very interesting. And there's one. Scene where you have these mill workers that are going to go on strike. And I actually thought it was quite I the way that I because you have guys that are that are represented as these old vaudeville villains and the total ridiculous lazy stereotype of you know big business owners, etc. And you have the total ridiculous stereotype of the union workers and all this.

And I think that one of the main protagonists in the story, they actually played it pretty realistically. I mean, they played it pretty straight. And he explained, look, I can't just arbitrarily, all of a sudden out of nowhere, jack up wages because it will affect the rest of the market. And we can't do that just yet. And we'll meet you on safety and we'll meet you on this and that in education, but this has to be handled differently.

And I thought that was actually the first time I've ever seen in a discussion in any kind of television or movie that explanation on that, because you see it today with fast food workers, et cetera. And I was pleased that they had included that. But what got me is, or what I was thinking about, and I was talking to my son about this. Because they had the guys who had formed a union that wasn't recognized yet. That they were staging a strike and they were going to prevent the scabs from going in and taking the jobs, et cetera.

And they were facing off against the guard that was called out to help protect the mill, et cetera, and protect the guys that were the replacement workers coming in. And no shots were fired, and it was averted at the last minute. But. It reminded me of how, because right at that time was when Marxism was exploding. in Europe, in Russia, in Europe, and just really socialism, Marxism, all the isms, which are just different sides of the same crap coin, they were exploding.

And one of the ways to really sort of seed the human mind was to exploit these conflicts And highlight the victim mentality and really push the victimhood and the victim mentality and the victimization and use that to demand. this false perception of what they think equality was. And they still do that today. You see them do that today with Occupy Wall Street and BLM and all this other stuff. It's still a practice of the far left today.

And it goes all the way back, even probably before then. But that's when it was really mainstreamed. And you had all these commies that decided to exploit these conflicts and this discontentment and unrest as a way to plant the seed of communism and make everyone worship at the altar of victimhood. Because that's when the power dynamic began flipping, where victimization, being the victim, was the area of power. Being the victim meant that you could demand certain things that you couldn't demand if you were viewed as the antagonist or the stronger person in this scenario.

Because if someone's the victim, then someone's got to be the bad guy, right? That's the way that they, that's the way that the left works. If you establish who the victim is, well, who made them the victim?

Someone victimized them and they became the victim.

So who's the bad guy? And by disingenuously, Framing every single political debate and every single discussion on policy and everything. In that lens, in that framing, then someone has to be the bad guy. And it's very, very easy to cast all of your opponents as the bad guy. And that immediately engenders support for your cause because you are the victim.

That's when the power dynamic was shifting. And they exploited all of that at the time and continue to do it today. And so it's no different when we see it now. The reason, back to my point, Fareed Zakari and others now are saying, well, these universities, maybe they need to kind of slow their roll on their, you know, Hamas, you know, love and their worship at the altar of anti-Semitism. The only reason that they're switching now is because they're confused.

You've had a people who were legitimately, genuinely victimized when they were attacked on October 7th. You've had people here in the United States who were legitimately and genuinely victimized when they were targeted by anti-Semites and college universities on streets when their businesses were vandalized when they were identified because they had their skull caps on. All of this. A people who were genuinely. Genuinely, legitimately victimized.

So, the left, and it's always forever lifting up of victims. They see that there's a new victim class, and they immediately have this knee-jerk reaction. Oh, well, there's a baddie who did this to them. But they've never been friends, they've ignored everything that these people have endured for the past several decades. This is not anti-Semitism on college campuses, it is not new.

They're only talking about it now because it's grown to be so bad, and it was allowed to flourish by these people's apathy. They fed this. They encouraged it by looking the other way. And not just against Jewish students, but conservative students, Asian students. They looked the other way for so long.

And now they're like, well, our rules tell us that we have to give power to the victim. And now these people have been legitimately victimized.

So it's not, forgive me if I don't take their sudden conversion as being something sincere. I don't. I think that they're just following their formula of power dynamics and it just happened to align very briefly. We don't even know how long that's going to last.

So long story short, I think he's full of it. Did they answer your questions? Everybody, does that does that enlighten everybody on this topic? Full of it.

Now Couple of other things too. As we uh I think As we are wh I w We've been talking about Harvard and talking about McGill and Claudia Gay and I don't even know what this means for their standards going forward, honestly. I actually don't. You have the House impeachment inquiry. Republicans can only lose three votes on this.

This ongoing investigation into Joe Biden. A lot of the Democrat lawmakers have been saying that, oh, this is a witch hunt. This is just theater. No, what you guys did was theater. You guys didn't even hold an inquiry.

You literally immediately skipped the inquiry and went right into the vote. That's not even how the process works, but to hell with the process, you thought you're just going to go right into it and do it.

So at least Republicans are holding a legitimate inquiry to get to the bottom of this and incorporate evidence. Democrats didn't even entertain evidence, they just went right into impeachment.

So, this is the right way to do it. But, in order to have their apparently, they're considering a vote Wednesday to formalize the impeachment inquiry. There's all these different steps to go into it. And a lot of people think, oh, well, this may be very, very slow. Why are Republicans moving so slow on this?

It's not that they're moving slow, it's that they're taking steps, in my opinion, to contrast how ridiculous Democrats handled theirs. And theirs was a legitimate witch hunt, which I think is why they went so fast. If they would have held an impeachment inquiry, it would have been disastrous for them because there's nothing there. They never even impeached the former president on any kind of criminal charges. There were no criminal charges that were brought forward.

But with this, I mean, there's a lot of receives a lot of evidence here. And the inquiry is the process by which you find all of this evidence. The inquiry is the process from which you are weighing: is this a legitimate cause for indictment or not? And so that's what they're doing.

So they have the vote to formalize it, they're eyeing it for tomorrow. And uh they can only lose three votes. They can only lose three. I mean, it's razor thin, so we'll follow that and give you updates as it happens. This should be a Christmas gift that you have.

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But we know this year's Hanukkah is different. It's been 65 years since the deadliest day of the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Sixty-five years. Can he get a sentence right? And sentence.

That's it. That's all we need. Just one. Sixty five years since the deadliest day of the Jewish people since the Holocaust?

Well, at number seven.

Okay. Yeah. Man, he confuses us. When I hear him talk, I'm like, are we also having issues?

So he meant days, is what he meant, right? Uh did he?

So we're I think that's what he meant, right? We're 65 days since October? I don't speak turd, dude. I don't know. I legit have no clue.

I'm doing the math real quick, and I think that's what it is. I think it's days. He meant days, but he said. Years. There was also this Audio Soundbite 2, I'm for the Love.

Ha ha. This is This this doesn't exist. I had cranial aneurysm. I wasn't in the middle of a snowstorm. Not a joke.

I couldn't figure out how they were gonna for President Reagan was nice enough to send Air Force a helicopter one, take me down, but it couldn't fly. There's uh no such thing as Air Force helicopter one. There is marine one. But there is no such thing as Air Force Helicopter One. That's That I mean he flies on it, so he ought to know, right?

Yeah. And you get your own helicopter, you're gonna remember the name of the helicopter. You are going to, it's going to be. I've never even ridden on it. I've seen it only on TV.

Oh, no, I've seen it. circle something when they took the president out from speaking somewhere in DC. I mean, it's your it's your own chopper. Marine One You remember the name. And Marine One sounds way cooler than Air Force Helicopter One.

Uh The only time that they ever had anything jokingly named like that was Reagan's writing lawnmower that he had at Rancho Del Cielo. They called it Lawnmower One. And they put a giant presidential seal sticker, Secret Service did on him, because they thought it was hysterical. And when he was at, that was one of the funniest things because he legitimately was like a ranch guy. Like he did the work.

He didn't have a hobby ranch where he just wanted to. You know, have other people do his work. He legit went, he built his own patio furniture. He laid the stone, he built all, put up all the fencing, he did all of that, dug his own pond. And the only time that they intervened, that the Secret Service was like, wait, wait, wait, hold up, stop it.

Whiz the woodchupper.

So he was taking all of his stuff, you know, when he was, you know, cutting down trees and doing all this, and he was putting in the wood chipper, and it freaked those dudes out. And they said, under no circumstances. And the people there said that was the only time that they actually got, you know, they They, because they let him, you know, he was very capable, but they're like, no, no, no, we got to draw the line here, dude. We cannot have the president of the United States like accidentally fallen in the wood chipper. Stay away from it.

It's not Fargo. Stay well on this before, Fargo. Stay away from it. So that was the only time, that was the only thing he couldn't do.

So other people had to do it. He had to have like other people do it for him because they wouldn't allow him to do it. But he would take his horse and he'd ride it like all over that mountain, Santa Inez Mountains. He'd ride it all over. And there was only a couple of guys.

One guy actually, who's a good English rider, who could keep up with him because he was nuts. He just like rode everywhere. And you got to be, honestly, you got to be careful up there when you're on some of these trails because you, I mean, you look to your right and there's like a 60-foot cliff. I mean, I'm not joking. It's really like that.

They offered to let me drive the Hummer one time up there on these little tiny roads where. You're basically, it's carved into a cliff. And I remember I looked at one of these guys. I'm like, I can tell that you're not active anymore. Because you just offered to let me, a woman who drives like a bat out of hell, drive the presidential Humvee here on a tiny road where this damn thing barely fits.

We will go tumbling off this cliffside. Is that what you want? Is that what you want? They're like on second thought. And I'm like, this is what I thought.

Yeah. I'm like, as much as I would love to, I will totally yeet us off a cliff. Yeah. Alright, so coming up in our second hour. We've got Lawsuits against media matters.

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I don't think that Vladimir Putin should be given a green light to invade and conquer Ukraine and Europe simply because for 40 years we've had a tough time coming to a conclusion on immigration policy. But listen, Poppy, we're going to work at this. I'm at the table. I hear what Republicans have been saying. We are going to try to come to a conclusion.

And I'm sitting down with Senator Lankford and others in good faith this week. There's no good faith in this. There's no good faith in this at all. This is uh Senator Chris Murphy who says Republicans are giving a green light to invade Europe. Oh, now it's invading Europe.

Yesterday he said invade Ukraine.

Now it's oh. If you don't give us the money that we want to go and launder in Ukraine, then I guess you like the invasion of Europe.

Well, then let Europe deal with it. I'm just not going to be moved by this. Whenever people get hysterical and they think that hysteria is going to move me, I just get more rigid. And I think a lot of you do too. Welcome back to the program.

Dana Lasha with you, top of the second hour. You can listen coast to coast. You can also follow along on YouTube, Facebook, channel 347 DirecTV. He says, Oh, they want draconian immigration policy changes. There's no policy change.

They just want you to enforce the damn law. Look, no policy change is required to enforce the law. Hey, no new policy needs to be proposed to just enforce the law. Super simple. That's all it takes.

All it takes. But yet that's not. They think that that's apparently too far. That's just one too far. That's too much to do.

We can't have that. since these are not serious people. And what what is this giving a green light to invade Europe? What does that What is that? Because we're not going to give them $61 billion on top of the already hundreds of billions that we've already given them.

That the 61 billion, it wasn't the hundreds of billion that we gave them before, but the 61 billion, that's what's really going to do it. That's gonna they're not gonna they're not invading Europe. What is that what is that? That's like war ink talk. They're not going to invade Europe.

They have no desire to invade Europe. I'm tired of the disingenuousness of this. And I'm tired of these people acting like, well, you know, unless you do this, then you're going to, you're supporting, it's not supporting that at all. It's just saying that that's not what Russia's, that's not their aim to do. Take one look at their economy.

Take one look at the fact that they've had to blow through most of their Young active duty age male population. Already in this war of attrition. They have no they've they're not gonna invade Europe. Good grief. They can't.

This is not the this is not the Russia of the 80s and 70s. They can't. Have you seen their leader, by the way?

Okay, now that Kane, if you want to talk about body doubles. They're not invading Europe though. It's not going to happen. But we'll see. I mean John Kirby addressed it briefly, audio sound by five, because they're talking about running out of money.

Where are these other c is he going to these other countries to ask is Zelensky going to these other countries to ask for billions too? Is it just us? Like, maybe some of these other European nations that run that jaw about the United States, maybe you guys can put up. Listen to this. Audio 7x5.

So, is there a plan B? Is there some executive action? It's not control. The purse strings here, is there some executive plan that he can kind of end run Congress here? Look, we'll do what we can to continue to support Ukraine if we run out of funds, but there won't be much we can do, Phil.

Yeah, well I'm I'm Ugh. This whole thing is exasperating. And the fact that everything at the borders h is is hinged upon this. Goodness But The whole notion, and I've talked about this with candidates before on this program: this whole notion that. You know, somehow If 61 billion or this 100 billion or that billion, if we don't do this, if we don't give this, if we don't give this.

then somehow that that's giving a green light to Russia to do what? Over the, by the way, because we're, it's Hanukkah right now. And I was reading this story a little earlier today. The Biden White House is being accused Of ignoring, this is via CNN, families' requests. to attend the White House Honegger Reception.

They said that they were snubbed. It says several family members of U.S. citizens believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas had asked to attend the Hanukkah reception at the White House on Monday. They never received the invitations, according to the father of one of the missing Israelis. This is a 19-year-old.

And they said that they had reached out. They were not invited. A White House spokesperson declined to comment. They had 800 guests featuring, they included Holocaust survivors, lawmakers, Jewish leaders. And The Uh also they had I think uh a couple of like some other diplomats, etcetera there.

But they're saying that they they were snubbed.

Now I'm Apparently So they didn't, not only did they not invite them, apparently, when the families reached out, they just were ignored. Ugh, goodness. I thought that this president wanted to be president sniffs McKidd's empathy, right? This doesn't really go a long way with that.

Now was it a deliberate snub? Was it deliberate? Is it something that they did on purpose or is it just kind of par for the course of a ridiculous White House that doesn't function very well. I mean, I think you could go both. I think it's probably the latter, but optics is everything.

Optics, what it's perceived as, is the truth in these situations. But they didn't try to they didn't try to rectify it. They didn't try to rectify it at all. How do you have a Hanukkah celebration and you not include? the families of people who were taken hostage.

by Hamas, and still are in captivity, held hostage by Hamas. How do you not Especially now when There's so much that's been revealed about people's characters after this attack on October 7th.

Now at the event, it was said this was ABC. that Biden touted the work that his administration has been doing to try to secure the release. Of the hostages, so he was taking, he didn't want to talk about the American hostages, but he took credit. for freeing others apparently, according to the way that ABC puts it here.

So In the deal, however, It doesn't seem like there was any kind of insistence on the part of the White House to make sure that American hostages were freed. You have American families and American citizens in captivity, and you do not invite the American families to the White House Hanukkah celebration? You don't invite the American families of the American hostages to. to the White House Hanukkah celebration. That is one of the biggest fails.

That's just an optic fail, number one. Uh It's just a humanity fail, number two.

So why? I mean, it's y you can't sit here and say that you're empathetic, but while not demonstrating it. Can't have it both ways.

So I'm I'm I don't know. I mean, I think I hope that this is something. Corrine Jean-Pierre addressed this. I don't think this is something they can just sweep under the rug here. But how do you not invite them?

Apparently, they asked them later on. I saw it tweeted out that they, oh, well, now the way that they want to rectify it, this is from NBC. Biden has invited family members of the Americans Held Hostage to a meeting at the White House. It will be their first in-person meeting since October 7th. Oh, so they got to skip the Hanukkah celebration, but you can come to the Not for a meeting.

Come to a meeting. What are they going to meet about? My gosh. I'm just it's just so this is just so exhausting. Dealing with these people is exhausting.

Now with all of this We have The house we have, we were talking about the NDAA and Also the uh Pfizer. House Republican leadership pulled two bills reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from the floor. As the House Speaker, he was getting some backlash because he allowed them on the floor in the first place.

So, the Washington Examiner said that neither of the bills related to Section 702. We're going to go to the floor for a vote this week. Republicans have been kind of going back and forth on how to either extend 702, obviously, some were against it. And Johnson was going to both of them were going to be introduced today. And then whichever one ended up getting the most votes, that's the bill that was going to go to the Senate.

One of them was the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act, and that was from House Judiciary. The other was the Pfizer Reform and Reauthorization Act, and that's the House Permanent Select Committee on Intel. And so they were fighting because you had Turner and Davidson, both of Ohio. Representative Davidson, he's the Judiciary Committee. The other guy's on the House Intel Committee, Mike Turner, and they were accusing each other of.

Well, I can't say it a redacted line about the judiciary bill. We'll put it like that. They were very creative with their speech there. They were saying that one, they were a lying each about the bill. But that would have been wild if that would have.

Gone forward. If he would have had Faiza go forward and you're still not having anything about the border, you have FISA go forward and you have Republicans seriously entertaining the situation with giving Ukraine money, you have FISA go forward in the middle of all of that, I think that would have been just the ultimate straw. I think that would have been pretty much it at that point. Good night.

So we'll see where that goes.

Now in the meantime The border security aspect of NDAA. I don't know, you even have the governor, Audio Sunby, of Arizona. And we don't like her. Listen to this, audio Sun by date. I'm here at the Lukeville Port of Entry to assess the situation on the ground firsthand and get Customs and Border Patrol the resources they need to reopen our port of entry.

Security is a top priority, and as long as I'm governor, I'll do whatever I can to end the chaos at the border. I'm not afraid to stand up to politicians on either side who aren't doing what's in the best interests of Arizona. And I'm taking action. This week, I sent a letter to President Biden demanding the resources and manpower to open this port of entry, and we announced Operation Secure to step up state support for local law enforcement. But Arizona can't do this alone, nor should we have to.

We're asking the federal government to reimburse us for the cost to Arizonans. For Far Te Lan, Arizona has borne the brunt of federal inaction on our southern border, and I'm tired of it.

Now is not the time for partisan politics. It's time for action. Uh She's a Democrat, like a bad one that we don't like and she's saying this. Um The more Democrats come out like this, the poof. the more that it's going to make it a lot more difficult for Biden.

and and Democrats, other the Democrats in Congress. to push back on this. Republicans so far have been holding the line on it. They need to continue to do so. We're going to talk more about that.

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Alright, so first up. Record US holiday air travel. Seven and a half million people are going to fly, according to AAA. Does that mean we're going to see more fun videos of people having shenanigans on airplanes? Just really curious about this.

Is that what that means? Because, I mean, to have that many people flying, whoo. Uh, yes, seven and a half million according to triple-A, and they say that. Uh this Goodness, it's like one of the busiest year-end travel seasons since they began tracking the data. all the way back in 2000.

So they said from December 23rd to January 1st, that's like the crazy busy season. That even beats the pre-COVID record of 7.3 million seen during the same period in 2019.

Now, they said that because they have more efficient airplanes, it doesn't mean like more jet fuel consumption, which I thought was interesting. A little thing in there.

So, yeah, gonna be crazy, a record crazy busy, the craziest, busiest in 23 years. Just so you know, just so you know, Sam gets to your hour, you're doing early and all that stuff. And I don't know how this happens. An LAX passenger arrives on an international flight without a passport, a visa, or a ticket. It was a Russian dude too.

Who, yeah, flew from Europe to LAX without a ticket, visa, passport? They have no idea how he does it. I don't even know. Where did he go through? If he went to, he so apparently he evaded security in Copenhagen.

And then that's where his flight departed. He wasn't on the manifest, he wasn't on the passenger list of either flight. That's wild. He did have some identification. He had like a partial photograph of a passport.

He was a Russian dude, and that's it.

So they said he's not in the CBP system either. They've never encountered him. And they're still trying to, that's all the information that's out there. They're still trying to figure that out. Looks like you need to do a little bit better work out there, Copenhagen.

How does that happen? Florida School District is adding four-day weekends to combat chronic absences.

So if there's no school, You can't count them as being. Absent. Isn't that uh well how does that work? I love the the entrenched educational administration, administrative system.

So they're just going to add a Add two days together. Maybe they're priming the kids for like the three or four day work weeks they've been talking about for the last couple years. I just don't know. Can I be honest? I don't know what people do with that much free time.

What the hell do people do? I cannot sit still for the life of me. What the hell do people do? Nothing bores the hell out of me more than an entire stretch of a weekend day with nothing to do. I will invent things to keep busy.

I can't stand it. That's torture. Uh My family hates me for it. They're like, oh my gosh, sit down. Can you just try?

Two mystery ghost ships washed up on a beach, and tourists started immediately climbing on them, doing tourist things. Of course, they did.

Okay, for real though, would you do it would you do it too? You'd totally climb on them ships. I don't know. I don't know, like when I've been jet skiing out, there's an island out in the Caribbean, you can jet ski around, and there's like an old rusted-out ship. They tell you not to, I just, it looks like Tetanus Central.

So that's why I stay away from it. But if it didn't look like Tetanus Central, I probably would explore. Do you need? Anyway, they said this other boat washed up on the same beach. It was sent out to rescue the first ship, suffered a technical problem.

So now people are, it's a rust, the vessel's rusting away, and so it looks nasty. The first one looks totally tetanusy. And people keep running up and climbing all over it, and y'all are gonna get hurt, and it's gonna be y'all's fault. Nobody else's problem but yours. A squatter won a battle over a dead woman's home and sold it for a huge profit.

This is a crazy story. It's so bad in the UK. He took over this lady's home, a retiree. She passed away, and he ended up selling it for like half a million dollars. and cut the profits.

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That's Jamie Raskin, who apparently thinks that he is the king of all. Anything that has to do with Jewish people at all whatsoever. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here, bottom of this second hour. Her questioning, at least Stefanik's line of questioning, was perfectly reasonable.

And I think for Jamie Raskin to play this card, And suggest somehow, and he's intimating anti-Semitism on her part. I think that that's just abhorrent. It's it's shameful and he should apologize. I think he's a walking joke. That's ridiculous.

She had every right to question. He's angrier at her for questioning these university presidents that have coddled anti-Semitism and have allowed Jewish students to be bullied. He has more to say to Elise Stefanik for asking tough questions of these people who have created these situations than the people who have created these situations. Tells me whose side he's on. If you want to go down that path, Raskin, I mean, that's the way that you go.

Then that shows that Raskin's on the side of Hamas you. It shows that Raskin's on the side of those who threaten and bully Jewish students. I mean, I understand that he's, you know, partial to his super progressive far-left ideology, but good grief, cause and effect are pretty obvious here. This is elementary. She wi her every single question that she asked was legitimate.

And he has an issue with that? He has an issue with tough questioning of these people who have fomented these situations on all of these college campuses. He has an issue with asking why it is that you can get bounced from a university and have admissions rescinded over pronoun usage, but not. If you're screaming death to the Jews. Seriously?

What kind of asinine questioning is that? She doesn't, where does she get off? She can question whomever the hell she wants to. You bigot? Jamie Raskin is a bigot.

Let's be real about this. The way that he responded to that is textbook bigotry. Because she is not Jewish, I don't even know what she is.

So he's saying that because she's not Jewish, she has no right to question the anti-Semitic policies of someone who may be. At a college university? What relevance does that have to the way that students have been bullied on campus? What relevance is that to to the fact that students fear for their safety because of how they worship. What an absolute bigot.

When these people show you who they are, believe them.

Alright, we got to talk about this story. with this uh Texas mother in this abortion case. I wanted to read more about it yesterday, so I didn't bring it up yesterday. This is not This is a weird case, and I don't know why there's so much problems with this.

So the way that I understand it. Uh I was reading everything I could about The case has to do with his thirty one year old Dallas mother, Kate Cox. She has kids. She's pregnant. I and she would like to have more kids in the future.

And her baby has a very rare, but very it's a fatal disorder. And it's, I don't even know if I'm saying it correctly. Tristomini, I can't even say that. It is a. Uh Fatal issue that so the child is gonna the child is going to be stillborn and the child is in the process of dying right now.

She's leaking amniotic fluid, according to the reports that I've read. And there are no uh There are no cases. of children actually Living through Trisomi. It's Trisomi 18. It's a fatal genetic.

disorder. It's very sad.

So looking at this story And I was reading about This uh genetic disorder by itself. And I mean, it's I mean, I can only imagine how devastating it is. She's she has two kids Her unborn child is in the process of dying now. She's leaking amniotic fluid. She's in and out of the emergency room.

She's got severe cramping. Her doctors are saying that she, and these are, can I be, I want to be really clear. These are doctors, these aren't plain parenthood abortionists. Her doctors were saying that Uh She's at risk now for very severe complications, including it could be fatal for her as well. They were talking about uterine rupture.

And depending on how it gets, and I'm just laying out what they've said. These are doctors again. This is why I've always objected with people acting like abortionists at Planned Parenthood or are, you know, oh, well, you know, women, they want to be able to get, if they have a problem, they're going to go to their, they always act like they go to these abortionists at Planned Parenthood. They have actual OBGYNs. She's seen OBGYNs.

So there's, I feel like that's important to note. And they're saying she may have to have a hysterectomy because of how the complications that have manifested. I'm just telling you what the state of things are. Because You're gonna the the issue of life. is important and it does not mean and I'm I will angrily Table flipping.

Reject. The arguments from people who say that even acknowledging the current situation right here is somehow a betrayal of principle of pro-life because it's not. This is the situation that she's in right now. That sounds pretty bad. Uterine rupture.

I mean, you have to get a hysterectomy. These are not. light things and she wants to have more children.

So they're You know, she's in and out of the emergency room because her pain is severe, she's leaking fluid. And she was trying to seek an abortion. uh because she wanted to be able to try to save uh have more kids in the future. and not have this, you know, the the have it progress. And she was denied, so it was going back and forth in the courts.

And they said that if her doctors perform it, they will face civil and criminal penalties.

Now I am not pro-choice. Here's my Here's what I have a question about.

So in ectopic pregnancies, The life of the mother in all of these situations where you have ectopic pregnancies or things like that, if the life of the mother is at stake, there is not a state in the union. that does not Have an exception for that. And I bring up ectopic pregnancies because. Ectopic pregnancies are so often cited by pro-choice people. Probortion.

That There's no science, there's no technology, there's nothing that makes that a viable pregnancy. Ectopic prognostic. Nothing with all the technology we have, all the medical knowledge that we have. It is universally known that there is nothing that can be done to make an ectopic pregnancy. a viable one.

And that is why it has always been included in because it could kill the mother. I mean, I had a friend that had an ectopic pregnancy and it damn near killed her. And she had to go to the hospital and they had to do emergency surgery, like legit when she went in because she was. feeling a lot of pain and she wasn't doing well. Like they took her to the hospital from the doctor's office.

They called an ambulance. It is very serious. And It's this so it's incl 'cause it it it's not viable. From everything that I've read, and I'm not an expert in this, I'm just telling you what I've read. From everything that I've read about the Trisomi 18.

Most of the most of the pregnancies don't even go that far. It is, they have so babies have three copies of chromosome 18 instead of two. And it occurs at the time of conception. And they said about I mean, it's fatal. It's like it it's it's a fatal genetic syndrome.

Uh, and it's heartbreaking. And They said that It's very rare. Um And I guess I think the disorder that her Baby has, it's considered very severe. Because some kids can survive, they can be born, they live. Most of them, though, the majority don't survive the first two weeks of life.

Fewer than 10% live beyond the first year.

Now, I bring all this up because hers is apparently already in the process of. Uh it's apparently very severe.

So this makes it a very weird thing because it's not From everything that I've read, it doesn't seem viable. If that's not viable and an ectopic pregnancy isn't viable, now her infant's condition is from everything that's been reported does not seem viable. What is the difference in this with the exceptions of this? This is where this is the weird thing. This is where.

I don't like medicine politicized. in any in any form. Not and this is even before COVID. I don't like medicine politicized. And this is where it gets weird when you I think laws and and medical fact can differ greatly.

So what's the right choice here? I mean, you could easily say, okay, well, she needs to just go to term. and have at it. That I understand that saying, but from the publicly available information about her current condition, she may not make it. I mean, when you're leaking amniotic fluid and you're cramping really bad.

That's pretty serious. And Her doctors are saying that they may have to I mean, once she's is delivered of her child, then she they may have to take her uterus and everything else. And she desperately wants to have more kids and she's trying to save that.

So what's the right answer here? This is not an issue with which you try to prove some sort of. Partisan fealty, it is an issue in which you want to preserve life. That's where any kind of fealty lies. But you also, and she was originally granted this, by the way, as Know, she was originally granted the order.

to get the procedure and then the courts are fighting over and it was denied. Here's what I want to caution people. One of the reasons, I don't see a lot of, I don't see hardly any conservatives writing about this case because they have no idea how to. And they're afraid to. They're afraid to write about it because they don't want to engender any kind of ill will or make the pro-life movement look cruel.

And I'm open to persuasion, and I say this to someone who is anti-abortion. is her condition and every condition is different. But is this specific mother's different from her unvi? Because the baby apparently is again from publicly available information is dying. It's a very severe, this is not going to be one of the infants that lives.

and may not even live while it's being born. She's leaking amniotic fluid. She's now apparently there fighting with infection. She's cramping. She's in and out of emergency rooms.

Now her fertility and her life or well, her life at some point is going to be on the line. Her fertility is on the line now. What is the correct move here? How is it that particular situation is not viable from everything I've read? How is that different from an unviable ectopic pregnancy at this point?

just on that issue alone. That's where it gets tricky. I mean, I hate that anybody Leaking, and I'm using ectopic as an example just based on viability alone. Please just don't, I'm talking about viability alone. But she's leaking amniotic fluid.

That is so dangerous, you guys. That is so dangerous. Uh That's like, you know, whenever something like that happens, it's like one of a pregnant woman's one of her worst fears. Because then you're like, oh my gosh, what's wrong? What's wrong?

And you're open to infection. And that, huh?

So what's the right decision here? This is not something that is. Uh I think as cut and dry as every as previous arguments have been. And I do think that Some of my most staunch pro-life friends. I've already backed channel.

I've cautioned them. I'm like, please be take the take care. to not Project yourself as being cruel in this case because that is how people will look at it. I don't think it's an open shut case, and I kind of tend to think that her legitimate doctors who were not abortionists at moonlight at Planned Parenthood. These are actual, you know, certified.

They work in hospitals, OBGYN, delivering babies, doing all this. I tend to think that they know a little bit better. In this issue, than a one-size-fits-all law as it pertains specifically to. A pregnancy that By all public accounts, it is not viable, and a mother that is dying, or a baby that's dying, and a mother whose life could be in jeopardy. as her fertility already is.

So that's the question. What is the decision here? What is the move? Her doctors are already worried that the back and forth court case, because she's in and out of the emergency room. Every day that goes by is a day where your chances of ser of sepsis increases.

Um oh my gosh, it's I mean this is bad. And it's urgent. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah. It's time for Florida Man.

I got a couple of questions. First off, what is a Gator nugget? What is is that like a Gator tendy? I think so. I think it's like little cuts, bites of the tail.

Like they just cut it in cubes and now it's a nugget. Huh. What I think it is. Oh, I didn't. I originally thought it was.

Oh, I didn't go there, but you did. Oh, yeah.

So, this is why I asked: here's the headline: quote.

Okay. This is a big one. All right, ready? Drunk Florida man sexually molests manatee statue throws Gator nuggets in the restaurant Anthony Michael Less that was charged with a misdemeanor kind of disorderly intoxication disturbance, booked in jail. Uh, the 23-year-old was witnessed by customers and staff at Rick's Reef in St.

Petersburg. He was throwing Gator nuggets. Around the restaurant, and then he began, after he became belligerent, he began performing sexual acts on the life-size manatee statue. and it wears a little t-shirt. The manity statue does.

And the criminal complaint does not provide further details of the alleged molestation, but appears.

So they arrested him. He was yelling obscenities in the parking lot when officers arrived at the scene. He was heavily intoxicated, had no clue. As to why he was being arrested, no idea. He was booked, misdemeanor count, released from jail the next morning, probably with a major headache.

So there you have it. And I also now know what Gator nuggets are. That manity statue. Why, though? Stick with us.

Third hour on the way. We need a clear articulation of the strategy to allow Ukraine to win. And thus far, their responses have been insufficient. They have not provided us the clarity and the detail that we have requested over and over since literally 24 hours after I was handed the gavel as Speaker of the House. And so what the Biden administration seems to be asking for is billions of additional dollars with no appropriate oversight, no clear strategy to win, and none of the answers that I think the American people are owed.

Yeah, I mean that's a good enough point right there. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, saying, Yeah, we're still not moving on any of this. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lashier, with you. Top of this third hour. And the Missouri Attorney General is going to join us at the bottom of this third hour to talk about the suit, the media matter suit, and more.

It's, you know, it could be, and I've seen this floated, but I just don't know if the administration is smart enough to do this. I've seen some float the idea that maybe, perhaps, Biden is. unwilling to negotiate. with Republicans on inclusion for border. and sacrificing their uh empty check for their blank check for Ukraine.

as a way to force Zelensky to start to wind down. his uh fight. Against Russia and to conclude this because at some point they were actually doing that and then the West got involved and ah. Do you honestly I don't think the administration is that s is that smart though. Do you think I don't think Biden's that smart?

Sorry, but the guy can barely speak. I don't think he's that smart. I don't think anyone that is in his inner circle is that smart. Do you? I don't have faith in in these people to make those kind of moves.

So if it seems that way, I think it's done by, I think it's accidental. I think it's by accident. If it seems that way, it's I think it's like by accident. Uh but I I don't Although that could be a good tactic, and I think Republicans need to hold that line. I mean, Zelensky needs to understand the United States before they can consider welfare for anybody else, and they shouldn't really, but before they do, they have to consider their constitutionally obliga their constitutional obligations here.

to taxpayers, to voters, here, like our southern border, to here. This is all what's this is all what's it takes priority, it takes precedent, it's more important. And that's that has to be dealt with. I'm just I like I said, I just don't know if I think that. That It is If they are smart enough to make that make those kind of moves, I just don't know.

A couple of other things I want to make sure that we touch on. I saw this earlier today.

So apparently Uh Kid Rock is cool with Bud Light again. I just like Kid Rock. I just like by light. He is, according to the Washington Examiner, back on the Bud Light train, wishing the brand nothing but the best. Following over eight months of criticism.

He says, quote, I think they've got some work still to get some of the base that they lost. He said, I've said a few times I'd love to see them get triple Fratty, hit it head on, self-deprecation, kind of you know.

So, remember in the very beginning, he shot up a whole bunch of Anheuser-Busch stuff. and everybody was bo boycotting it and all of this stuff.

Now, Rock he had said that he doesn't think that the punishment that they've received fits the crime anymore. He says, I want to see people get back on board and become bigger because it's the America I want to live in. And he said, What would that say about us as like-minded people who are like, Hey, cut it out? What's the matter with you? There's nothing wrong with giving a spanking.

Someone gets taught a lesson. They say, We've made a mistake. Let's move on, et cetera. We've done it for worse. Oh my gosh.

Okay, so here's my problem with this. Did Bud Light ever Ever. At the very least. I don't give a rat's ass who's been fired or not. Did they at the very least ever say sorry to women for their cosplay promotion?

What have I always said? This is real easy, y'all. What have I always said from the get-go? All they gotta do is be like, ladies, we are sorry. We value you.

You could even do a frat type of ad about it. I didn't care. We like, we value you. We love it when you do keg stands. We love it when, you know, at our frat parties.

We love it. I mean, I don't even care. But I want acknowledgment. I don't want a just a bland, well, we made a mistake. And this is not about.

you know, scoring a point or anything. I want to know that they truly understand. And I want other brands to see that this brand truly understands why it was so offensive. I don't even like using that word. I don't like it when a brand makes me sound like a damn feminist.

It's infuriating. Because we're not. But You you participated in cosplay marketing. You got spanked. And we're supposed to interpret time.

As a substitute for acknowledgment of offense and apology, because I don't. Like I said, this is real easy. I don't even think that, and someone made the point, I don't even think they've acted contrite at all. They haven't even acted contrite. I don't owe you my forgiveness.

I don't owe you any kind of moving on. You know what? In order to move on, the person who made the transgression, the transgressor, They have to acknowledge what they did. You can't have reconciliation without someone going, oh, yeah, I totally messed up in this way, and I'm sorry that I did this. Time isn't a substitute for that.

Don't sit here and act like a big champion of the culture war if you're only in it until you, you know, for a certain, there's no shelf life on this. That's what makes me mad. I mean, it'd be real easy for the brand to do this. Reconciliation requires acknowledgement. Otherwise, go do something unflattering to yourself because no, deck my halls.

It's not going to happen. I'm not going to drink what I would wash my beer glasses in. We're not going to sit here and move on. There's no moving on. And the moving on starts with acknowledging and saying, you know what?

Ladies and gentlemen. We offended you with our lack of chivalry. We offended you by reducing who you are to cosplay. and a cheap marketing stunt. And we're sorry that we did that.

That's not difficult to do. Why is that so difficult? Why is it so hard? What? Because because somebody might get paid, it's all okay now?

Or because somebody gets paid, it's okay. or someone gets a donation from this, it's okay? I mean Don't sit here and act like you're a big fighter in the culture war if this is how it's going down.

So I'm curious, like how At what point? You know, and they asked this on Twitter. And everyone's like, nope, they did not. They did not. They did not say sorry, they didn't do this.

Someone goes, were you ever a Bud Light drinker? B, I grew up with Bud Light. I lived two blocks from the brewery. I saw the Clydesdales every damn day. I grew up with Anheuser-Busch.

Okay, my family worked with Anheuser-Busch. Anheuser-Busch products were in our cooler on the porch in the Ozarks every Thanksgiving, every Christmas, every Easter. Hallelujah. That's how it went.

So, if you're going to have a phallus measuring contest, I will. choke you to death on it. Don't. And same. Are you serious?

I'm going to have fun with that fellow on Twitter, so you can look for that later.

Sorry, dude, but you know. You're gonna be my dammit doll on this one. You know how that is, Kane. Mm-hmm. Whoo boy So seriously, what's the answer here?

Here's how I got an answer. Yeah, what's your answer? Here's the answer. Who cares whatever Kid Rock does?

Well, no, I'm just like, at what point? Because it's not just him, it's some other people too. Yeah, I think people will take it upon themselves to decide whether or not they are going to accept the current terms. Of so-and-so coming back. I know.

Yeah, I never even. What are even the terms?

Well, he's like. He said their punishment already exceeded the crime. Like, what punishment? Oh, they lost the money. Yeah, the billions lost, the market cap lost, the months and months of boycotting.

And he's That's his decision, whatever.

So he's given up. He's waving the white flag of surrender. I'm not sure what that is. That's how I'm looking at it. He's bending the knee.

That's how I'm looking at it. Yeah, I don't like that. Look, I like the guy. That's his thing, whatever. I couldn't care less what he does and never have.

Um Kane, we all know that you wake up every day and go, gosh, I wonder what Kid Rock did today. Might be jealous of that mullet. Does he have a mullet? I think he's got long, he's got a party in the back. He's got a couple motorcycles.

He doesn't have a party in the back, I guess.

Well, yeah, but isn't it also a party all over? I don't know. He's always wearing a hat. See, mullet. Wait, hold up.

Sidebar. Let's clarify this. A mullet is strictly business up front. Right. In the back is the porti.

That's like aka Missouri Compromise, aka Camaro Crash Helmet, aka Kentucky Waterfall. That's what that is. Business up front.

So when you're looking at them straight on, you're like, well, hello, professional, sir. Right. And then they turn to the side and you're like, yeah, bro. That's the difference. Does that make sense?

It does to me. Yeah, I feel like we just gave a lesson there. That's a lesson. You are graduated now. I'm not sure if I've ever seen outside of, wasn't he in that one David Spade movie?

I think he had a hat off in that movie, but I don't think I've seen him with his hat off in quite a while. Yeah, I haven't either.

Now that come to think of it. He may have bangs. I don't even know. But yeah, it doesn't matter to him. He doesn't have bangs.

I don't. I haven't. I haven't drank Bud Light or Budweiser in a while. Um But it's not because I'm boycotting it or whatever.

So people can do whatever the hell they want. Kid Rock can do whatever the heck he wants. I think they're saying that when he shot up a bunch of cases of Bud Light, that people followed and there was a big boycott and that he was responsible, you know, or the big part of being responsible for that. And now that he's back on board, that a bunch of people will just come right back on board with Bud Light. And I don't think that's how it's going to go.

Yeah. I mean, I'm telling this fellow: not only did I feed a Clydesdale once. But I shot all my bottle rockets out of empty bud bottles. Degeneration X motion.

So there you go. Did you hold the bottle while it happened?

Well, not if I wanted to do a bunch of them at a time.

So, okay, hold up. There's like rules for bottle rocket war, right? Like, you can light them and throw them at people. True. I mean, I can you tell I was very my mother hovered over me as a child.

Uh but we would like to get my uncle um would always like we could count on him. To help us with our artillery. And we would line all the bottles up because I had so many cousins, we'd break up into two groups, and it was just war. It was war. People would get hurt, and you'd just be like, You're not dead.

Shut up because nobody wanted to get in trouble.

So we would. And this is like in the 80s and 90s.

So we would line up all the. My uncle would come over, and at first he'd walk over very confidently, and then his walk got. Lazier and stumblier as the evening went on, and he'd give us another. And he was a cantankerous dude. He'd give us an empty bottle and we'd line them all up.

And we'd, it, it was, because you know how sometimes you can't have a punk. Like when they came, when they, when we got the lighters, that you could, they were long and you could press the trigger, the little trigger thing on and light it, that changed the game. That was a game changer. That was like having. You know, that's the difference between having smooth bore and not.

And so we would have all these things lined up in these bottles, because it's really hard to light all of them with these punks. And you'd have to get all of us, like everybody on our side, we'd all have to be right there. Anyway, long story short, we'd light them up out of those bottles. And it was just like... An old-timey war.

Instead of arrows, it was bottle rockets. It was a beautiful thing. That's how we celebrated America by trying to kill each other. It's awesome. And now, all of the news you would probably miss.

It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So people with children live longer, says a news study, but only if you have this many kids. Yeah, so the whole dink thing, the dinky dinks, double income, no kids. They are dinks. Who prefer changing time zones by traveling the world as opposed to changing diapers?

A study from the University of Michigan suggests that parenting actually can extend your life expectancy longer. And they said, however, you know, there is kind of a limit. You know, you can't have like a that having like More undercuts the benefits according to their survey.

So they said that if you have what, like two kids, that seems to be a pretty good job. That's a pretty good deal, two to three. I think you're all full of it. I don't care. Just do what makes you happy, right?

As long as you take care of it and you don't go on, don't permanently live on welfare. All right, the nation's largest pharmacy chains, CVS, Kroger, and Rite Aid. Apparently, the Washington Post has reported that they could hand prescription records to police and government investigators without a warrant, according to a congressional investigation. Information is the new oil. It is.

Think about it. Oh, good grief. Oh, this was in Missouri. It's that panda. It's just what we call Panda Express.

A dude is accused of stabbing A Panda Express worker over food quality. Dude, you're at a Panda. Why are you getting all mad? Uh it was in Richmond Heights, Kane. A du yeah Panda in Richmond Heights Yeah, Keno Robo from St.

Louis in case you're just tuning in. A dude's accused of stabbing this Panda Express employee. He punched another one. in the face. Uh, in Missouri, Richmond Heights, it's about like what northwest of St.

Louis, downtown St. Louis, over the quality of his food. The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged 33-year-old Philip Person, Mr. Person.

With felony assault and weapons charges. And it was about 4 p.m. Wednesday of last week. The guy who works at the restaurant was legit stabbed in the back. He apparently got into an argument with employees over his food, and then he punched, oh, the chicky, the duty, the other person he punched in the head was a female.

And they got him outside. He stabbed the male employee. He was arrested and they took the knife into evidence. You're at a Panda Express, you know? Like, What did what what like what are you upset about?

Yeah, so. This This woman was arrested after running down a Montana airport runway. Uh Okay. Helena Police reported that they arrested a 42-year-old Tennessee woman who was acting erratic. They said in an email that they were called to the airport 6:30 in the morning, Saturday.

They had a deal with a woman who was trying to board a plane. She ran down the runway, climbed a fence before police arrival. They did locate her. Uh no further information was available. Kane adds that she must have eaten all of her gummies before she got to TSA.

Are those those pot gummies? Seems logical to me. I mean, does that make you do that? I don't know. Does it make you act nuts?

I have many questions. Hey, joining us coming up here, Missouri AG Andrew Bailey. He's going to take it to Media Matter. Stick with us. Whether you're a policy wonk, a news junkie, or simply someone hungry for insightful discourse, the Dana Show Podcast has your back.

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So I. Giddy is Not a generous enough word to describe the Warm. Fuzzy feeling of joy that just swelled up into my chest and almost burst out of the top of my head. When I read, That the attorney general of my home state, where my entire family still lives, and they all voted for him. Where The Attorney General of the state of the great state of Missouri is uh Going after media matters.

Now, for those really quickly. Who are unfamiliar with Media Matters? Is it's the activist arm of the Democrat Party. I have danced with this entity for almost two decades now. And when I lived in Missouri, they tried to get me fired as the token conservative from CNN.

They tried to get me kicked off the view. They tried to get me kicked off air. They stalked me at every single event that I went to. They still listen to my radio show and they still try stuff here in Texas. But they have been ridiculous, not just against me, but.

Every conservative. And after Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X, they've been going after Elon Musk. And in fact, that's how all of this kind of really kind of kick-started. They accused him of basically being anti-Semitic and running advertiser content next to Nazi propaganda. And then everything broke loose.

And now the Missouri Attorney General just said, okay, well, he's going to bring the FO part of FA. And he joins us now via Skype. Sir, it's good to see you. I'm very excited about this case. Talk to me about this because this is not, they're not the ombudsman as they portray themselves to be.

It is just like a hate campaign they wage against people they don't like. Yeah, that's exactly right. And thanks for having me on and covering this important story. Look, I believe in the right to free speech as a foundational principle of our republic. And we're in a war against radical progressive tyrants who will lie, cheat, and steal to take that freedom away from Americans.

The allegation here is that Media Matters used fraud and an enterprise to solicit money from Missourians and then used it in a market manipulation to attack the last platform dedicated to free speech in America. And we can't let that happen. We've launched an investigation and we're going to root out any lies, any deception, any fraud, uncover exactly what went happened here, hold wrongdoers accountable, and ultimately protect Missourians and our right to free speech. And that's the big thing too, because they were getting money. They were soliciting.

Donations from people and acting as though it was going towards this campaign to clean up X or something to that effect. Like, it was like Elon Musk was purposefully running these advertisers, their ads next to pro-Nazi content, which he was, that's such a ridiculous claim to make, but they've never ever gone up against someone like yourself. They've never faced this type of heat before, ever.

Well, it's important that we continue to push this investigation forward. I know the Attorney General down in Texas is conducting a similar investigation. We're hopeful other states will join in because it's important that we present a united front here. Media Matters is built on lies. Again, this is a radical progressive advocacy group masquerading as a news organization, but they're no such thing.

But I would point out too here, the allegation is that they've lied in two different ways. Number one, they lied when they solicited donations from Missourians in order to defraud advertisers on Twitter. But then they also lied when they manipulated the algorithms to juxtapose controversial speech and actually emphasize controversial speech next to images of the advertisers. This is enormously problematic. This is market manipulation.

That's a whole different line of legal authority that might be a fountain of authority to go after them. But I would point out that, you know, if you look at the lawsuit that Elon Musk has filed, one of the facts that he asserts in the lawsuit is that there are more than 500 million X users. And that when they tried to replicate what Media Matters did, in one instance, they could only generate the juxtaposition of controversial speech next to the advertiser in one out of 500 million instances. And in another instance, in two out of 500 million instances.

Now, think about that for a minute. The odds of winning the powerball are one in 292 million.

So you have a better chance of winning the powerball than replicating what Media Matters did. Again, this is market manipulation at its worst. Why were they doing it? In order to destroy free speech in America. That's why we've got to continue to fight back, and investigations like this are so important.

We're talking with Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. This is an interesting kind of like two multi-pronged approach to this because he's going after for defamation, which I know is very difficult to litigate. That's a very, I mean, it's tough. And you're focusing on the fraud aspect because I think that that's a, I mean, that's a great argument, especially if they've made this knowing it was an empty accusation and it was just designed to maliciously tarnish someone's character, which is what his case will focus on. They were trying to solicit and raise money off of that.

Yeah, again, if if If Media Matters doesn't like what's being said on Twitter, They should offer counterspee, not rip off Missourians in an attempt to manipulate the marketplace to shut down the last platform dedicated to free speech. But as you pointed out, they hate X because they can't control it. Look at the rest of big tech and how it counters. And succumbs to government censorship. We've exposed that in our First Amendment suit, Missouri v.

Biden. We've been first out of the gate on this issue. We've also litigated against the gag order placed on President Trump. We are dedicated to free speech in America and what Media Matters is doing. Represents a new front in this war where radical progressive advocacy groups will manipulate the marketplace to destroy forums of open public, free, fair, and open debate if they can't control that.

I mean, this should frighten all Americans. You are doing what conservatives wished elected officials had done for like 20, 30 years. And you're like one of the, you're like really actually doing it and calling these groups to account, which brings me to my point of nobody knows where their money comes from because they don't have advertising. They're not like a website. It's not like the New York Times online.

It's not like the Examiner. It's not like Daily Caller. Is that something that I know that there's a whole process to go through? Is that something that you look to perhaps coming up in this case? Yeah, absolutely.

Again, we're going to see where the evidence leads us. We've demanded certain documents be retained as we generate subpoenas to go after those documents. And it's going to take time to review them. But I'll tell you, again, there are several founts of legal authority here to bring to justice wrongdoers. I mean, like I said, number one, if Missourians were defrauded in this enterprise to solicit contributions for a nefarious purpose, I mean, that's problematic under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act.

But there's also an element of this: if you're manipulating the marketplace to benefit other Market competitors, there's an antitrust angle here, too. And so it's going to be important to look at these documents and determine exactly who was involved and at what level. But at the end of the day, at face value, you can look at the fact that Media Matters had to go through four or five different steps. And one of the steps they had to use, they had to do an endless number of times to get the juxtaposition of the controversial speech next to the advertisers. That is market manipulation.

Why would they do it? Who benefited? The only reason to do it is to destroy X, the last platform dedicated to free speech in America. And that's why it's so important to fight back. That's huge.

Have you spoken to Elon Musk at all? Have you all talked about these cases? I have not yet. No, at the end of the day, you know, we in the state of Missouri, we've got an obligation under state statute to protect Missourians. But again, we were first out of the gate on this issue.

And this is just a new front in the fight for the freedom of speech. And I think the question before Americans is: are we going to be allowed to enjoy the legacy of freedom handed down from the founding fathers and protected by previous generations and codified in our Constitution? Are we going to let radical progressive tyrants control what we think, what we say, what we hear? Amen to that. We're talking with Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.

You also filed suit over the St. Louis Pediatric Transgender Center. That's a mouthful. Their refusal to turn over records. This is an ongoing case because you've been trying to get documents to them for some time.

And the Biden administration has even tried to obstruct in this case. Talk to me about this. Yeah, Dana, you're exactly right. Look, I want Missouri to be the safest state in the nation for children. And so, you know, to that end, after a whistleblower came forward last February and made some very credible and specific allegations against the clinic in St.

Louis, we launched an investigation, the first of its kind in the nation. We pushed that investigation forward. We have received and reviewed numerous documents, but there are other batches of documents we've requested. I mean, the investigation is not a fixed in time thing. You start pulling on a thread and it leads you to other aspects of the investigation.

And that's what this is. And so we requested additional documents. In the meantime, the General Assembly enacted a statute. We defended that statute from legal attack in court. We're the first state in the nation to successfully defeat that kind of legal attack at the trial court level and defend a statute that ends child sterilization in Missouri.

But we can't let the investigation go. We still got to look back. Hold wrongdoers accountable and demonstrate to the public what went wrong here so we can ensure we have the proper systems in place to prevent it from ever happening again. The clinic has said, well, HIPAA, we can't turn this stuff over. But they should know that HIPAA has an explicit textual provision that carves out when you have state regulatory bodies that are conducting this kind of investigation.

So we anticipate that they had previously agreed to turn over the documents and then changed their mind after the federal government got involved and told them not to. And so we can't let Joe Biden shut down this investigation. Again, it's important to the people of the state of Missouri and to continue to protect kids here in the state of Missouri. We're going to be watching both of these cases, especially the Media Matters one. I can't wait to see how that ends up.

Andrew Bailey, the Attorney General for the great state of Missouri, Missourians are very lucky to have such a vigilant watchdog like yourself going and watching their backs on behalf of them against all of these, I don't know, these bad actors out there.

So my family, all my family lives out there, very lucky to have you. It's good to have you on the program today. Merry Christmas to you. Thank you, man. Merry Christmas to you as well.

Of course. We've got more coming up, folks, as we wrap up this third hour of our broadcast. I don't think I've ever been so excited, by the way, about a court case in my life. That Media Matters case, please let it be on C-SPAN because I will literally just keep. The cable just for C-SPAN.

Just to watch. Just to watch that. All right. We gotta get moved. Cause we got uh.

Showing stupidity on the way too, coming up. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. Uh First of all, I I think my own personal ethics on life are I think enough Keep me going on the right path. And I think that there are enough negative aspects about the organizational church. That you're very well aware of?

I'm not against it. I identify myself as a Catholic. I was raised, I was baptized, I was confirmed, I was married in the church. My children were baptized in the church. But as far as practicing it, it seems almost like a pro forma thing.

that I don't really need to do. in the background. That's so weird. He acts like it's an ethnicity. It's not.

Like, you're, what is that? Welcome back to the program. That's. Anthony Fauci.

So apparently he's been vacationing. at the I I read that it was the Bahamar. Uh in the Bahamas which is a super swink. Hotel. Where rooms can go for like Thousands of dollars a night.

Super swank. And, you know, I mean, he got that, he's got that coronavirus money. He's won awards. He was given awards by even the former President of the United States. They handed him an award right at the end of all of it.

People were sitting in J6 cells. A lot of money for this, thousands of dollars. He's got that COVID money. He's got that CCP COVID money. Doesn't he still have Security detail that we pay for.

Does he does he still have that? Maybe. I thought, because I remember having it as a headline. I got it pulled up.

So this was it was last year. But he had this was last year, he had taxpayer-funded securities still.

So does I'm just I'm wondering Is he They showed him pictured at the airport not wearing masks and all this stuff. Those are at the Bahamian airport that he's at. But doesn't he hasn't he been wanting us to wear masks? Again, hasn't he been talking about that still also? But he's not wearing one.

Just kind of curious about all this. you know. Just interesting. I'm just you know so he's he hasn't answered questions. Congressional questions.

about gain of function. There's a lot of questions that remain about his association to the CCP lab and Wu Han. But now he's in the Bahamas. I don't think somebody said he's not, that's not Atlantis. I think he was staying at that.

Somebody said it was the Baja Mar. That's expensive. Like, what's the cheapest room at the Baja Mar? That's like a five s it's a four star hotel, but it's like one of the new ones, isn't it? It's like super swank.

Must be nice. Big pimpin' spinning them geese, Fauci. Gant dang I'm just saying, you know, he's got that COVID money. Does he did you find does he have taxpayers security still? I'm curious about that because I'm wondering how much that costs.

The last I saw back in September this year, he was still pleading that he needed it. Oh. For what? For what? Yeah.

What does he need it for? All these people that are in these ivory towers, I tell you what, All these people. I'm just yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just saying. I I Whether it's this, whether it's these university presidents. Whatever it is.

It's just, it's kind of crazy that they just don't. That's why, one of the reasons, by the way, why I like what Andrew Bailey's doing, going after. These uh like media matters. I can't stand media matters. I hope Elon Musk drags them.

I hope he takes ownership and shuts them all down. And I hope they all lose their jobs 'cause that would be hysterical and I wouldn't feel the least bit sad about it. They are some of like the meanest, cruelest, ugliest pe like spiritually ugliest people I've ever ever encounter. I used to call him the Soros lotion lotion brigade. And a lot of people that don't care about the First Amendment, but act like this is like a First Amendment thing, and the same with that professor or the school president.

It's. It's about harassment. This is not about free speech. Yeah, it's not.

Well, and it's not protected speech when you're lying about someone, when you're trying to incite against them based on an absolute misrepresentation designed to damage their character, damage public perception of them, and damage them professionally. And that's their whole goal. They've been doing this for so long. Long. I remember when I when it was announced the first time that I was gonna guest host the view, they literally launched this whole thing online where they gave out all the handles of all the producers and the emails of the executives and they were telling people to like wage this Online war against me.

They had promoted a Facebook page that popped up that was trying to get me fired from CNN when I was the token conservative there. They did all of this stuff. They promoted all of that.

So, yeah, I'm over a barrel. Let's see it. Come on. All right, today in stupidity came.

Well, we know Media Matters lies, and the Biden administration lies along with their economic advisors. This is Lale Brainard. Brainard. Emphasis on the ARD. All right, this is what she says about the economy.

Listen. I feel like the underlying trend lines and inflation are good. We've seen grocery prices come down. We've seen prices at the pump come down. We've seen some of the criteria ruin things so that they're 300% more expensive.

Cut them by 40%. And then take credit as though things are coming down. No, that's not buying that. People aren't buying this. Yeah, no, they're not buying that at all.

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