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But it would seem that particularly on the after reconstruction. And after the Compromise of 1877 and during the period of Redeemers, that you would have that kind of conflict. There were a plethora of Confederates still around. There were any number of people who would continue to either run for state offices or national offices.

So it would seem that would suggest that there would at least be a few examples of. uh national uh candidates being uh disqualified. If your reading is correct.

Well, there were certainly national candidates who were disqualified by Congress refusing to seat them. I understand that, but that's not this case. Did states disqualify them? That's what we're talking about here. I understand Congress would not seat them.

Other than the example I gave, no. But again, Your Honor, that's not surprising because there wouldn't have been states certainly wouldn't have the authority to remove a citizen.

So what was the purpose of Section 3? The states were sending people. The concern was that the former Confederate states would continue being bad actors. And the effort was to prevent them from doing this. And you're saying that, well, this also authorized states to disqualify candidates.

So what I'm asking you for, if you are right, what are the examples?

Well, Your Honor, the examples are States excluded many candidates for State office, individuals holding State offices. We have a number of published cases of States. I understand that. I understand the States controlling State. elections and state positions.

What we are talking about here are national candidates. I understand, you look at Foner or Foote, Shelby Foote or McPherson, they all talk about, of course, the conflict after the Civil War and there were people who felt very strongly about retaliating against the South. the radical republicans but they did not think about authorizing the south to disqualify national candidates and that's the argument you're making and what i would like to know is you give is uh do you have any examples of this many of those historians have filed briefs in our support in this case making the point that the the idea of the 14th amendment was that both states and the federal government would ensure rights and that if states failed to do so the federal government certainly would also step in but i think the reason why there aren't examples of states doing this is an idiosyncratic one of the fact that elections worked differently back then states have a background power under article ii and the 10th amendment to run presidential elections they didn't use that power to police ballot access until about the 1890s and by the 1890s everyone had received amnesty and these issues had become moot so i don't think the history tells us sort of look at justice thomas's question sort of from the 30,000 foot level. I mean the whole point of the 14th Amendment was to restrict State power, right? States shall not abridge privileges' immunity.

They won't deprive people of property without due process. They won't deny equal protection. And on the other hand, it augmented federal power under Section 5. Congress has the power to enforce it.

So, wouldn't that be the last place that you'd look for authorization for the states, including Confederate states, to enforce, implicitly authorize, to enforce the presidential election process. That that seems to be a position that is Yeah. At war with the whole thrust of the 14th Amendment.

So, this is, I found this fascinating, and it was a little long, but I wanted to play it for you. And there are several excerpts from this, and I haven't dug deep into it because I want to wait till it, because this is from the Supreme Court. This is the hearing. In fact, this exchange happened maybe, what, 40, 45 minutes ago? There was another really good one with Justice Gorsuch that took place, and this is about the fight from Trump to appear on the ballot in Colorado.

And it is. Fascinating. You should listen to it if you can. You can, I mean, other people have like, I mean, they have like the archives of it online. You can stream it and listen to it.

Listen to it while you make dinner or something. Because it is a very interesting argument. And they're specifically diving into the 14th Amendment. I mean, specifically, they're looking at Article 14, Section 3, which gets into whoever incites, sets foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto. And they had a huge debate about that clause shall be fined under this title or imprisoned, blah, blah, blah.

This is about whether or not Trump can be disqualified from the ballot in Colorado because of January 6th. And it's insightful because the repercussions from this are far more reaching than just specifically this election. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash here with you at the top of our very first hour here on Thursday. It doesn't feel like a Thursday.

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So, this, I'm, I kind of feel like the. And again, this is the hearing and we were just hearing the audio of it. That has been carried. And the arguments that the state of Colorado has made, because they want to. They think that Trump shouldn't be on the ballot, and what they're arguing.

is specifically Whether or not It's state authorities. It's not an issue of the courts. It's an issue of a state authority in the state of Colorado whether or not they have. the uh legal uh authority to disqualify someone who has met every qualification. for president.

And there was an interesting discussion And even It was Cantani Brown Jackson. We don't have to play every single bit of it. She, I found her remark very interesting because they were actually, they had a little bit of a. back and forth on it, and she was just trying to clarify something. And I don't know, her remarks to me Suggested that she kind of sees a bigger picture here.

Because remember this: one of the things that the left Guaranteed. They get over their skis. The right can't strategize to save their life. But the left gets over their skis. And they'll take an issue like this.

And it doesn't matter How They bend the law. how they pervert the law. Whatever they do, it doesn't matter. what they'll do whatever is necessary to achieve their objective. Even if it means imperiling.

their own strategy and moves later on down the line. They do this all the time. In fact, they had a bunch of mistakes that led to Citizens United. Harry Reid suffered for that immensely. This, I think, is one of those things.

And I just got the sense that when Kentanji Brown Jackson was questioning the lawyers representing Colorado. Uh It just was very. I mean, you got a quick sound. If we wanted to play this, do we want to play it? Because I don't want to drag you all into the weeds, but it's fascinating because I honestly feel like she.

And maybe kind of so to my or Kagan, I felt was hardcore against. I don't think Kagan gets it, but I sort of felt like some of these progressive justices. Could see the writing on the wall. Like, wait a second. If the whoa, guys, hold up.

I felt like they were just sort of taking inventory of, you know, what the consequences of this could be. Play a little of this because this was. Yeah, this was the Kentanji Brown Jackson when she was replying to him. Because I think this exchange came, I think this is what I heard like a half hour ago, where she kind of just gutted their whole argument. And I don't think she did it on purpose.

Listen. From rising again. in the context of these sort of local elections as opposed to focusing on the presidency.

Well, two points on that, Justice Jackson. First is that, as I discussed earlier, there isn't the same history of states regulating ballot access at this time.

So ballot access rules to restrict presidential candidates wouldn't have existed. They wouldn't have been raised one way or another. Right, but I'm not making a distinction between ballot access and anything else. Understood, but the more broad point I want to make is that what is very clear from the history is that the framers were concerned about charismatic rebels who might rise through the ranks up to and including the presidency of the United States. But then why didn't they put the word president in the very enumerated list?

In section three, the thing that really is troubling to me is: I totally understand your argument, but they were listing people that were barred, and the president is not there. And so, I guess that just makes me worry that maybe they weren't focusing on the president. And, for example, the fact that electors of vice president and president are there suggests that really what they thought was if we're worried about the charismatic person, we're going to bar insurrectionist electors, and therefore that person is never going to rise. This came up in the debates in Congress over Section 3, where Reverdy Johnson said, why haven't you included president and vice president in the language? And Senator Morrill responds, we have.

Look at the language any office under the United States. Yes, but doesn't that at least Suggest ambiguity. And this sort of ties into Justice Kavanaugh's point. In other words, we had a person right there at the time saying what I'm saying. The language here doesn't seem to include president.

Why is that? And so if there's an ambiguity, why would we construe it to, as Justice Kavanaugh pointed out, against democracy?

Well, Reberty Johnson came back and agreed with that reading. Any office is clear. The Constitution says about 20 times. No, I'm not going to do that.

So let me just say.

So your point is that there's no ambiguity with having a list and not having president in it, with having a history that suggests that they were really focused on local concerns in the South. I'm telling you, it's fascinating to me because. She's Literally destroying their argument here. Here's the point, and this is what it kind of comes back to, because some of these. You have people that are arguing.

I mean, this gets into very much the spirit of the Constitution and originalism, et cetera. But there are, I mean, ultimately, what Colorado's saying is that state authorities can just take somebody off the ballot. And there have been a number of arguments from the justices saying, well, you're disenfranchising a lot of voters in Colorado who have made this determination. That determination, because he's satisfied every other qualification. Keep in mind, he was never charged criminally.

There's no criminal charge. You're talking about removing someone off the ballot based on a state official's discretion, their own personal choice. You're disenfranchising. And I think every single Sodomiora mentioned this, shockingly. Gorsuch mentioned this, as well as Thomas.

And I think even. Alito touched on this. And it was, I mean, to me, to have that many justices, particularly some who have always sort of swayed in the middle, and then to have Kentanji Brown Jackson and even Sotomayor, to an extent, you know, come up to that line, to me, is incredibly telling because I don't see the Supreme Court determining in favor of Colorado on this for the simple fact that you have an individual who is not charged with a crime. And by the way, this doesn't matter if you like Trump or not. This comes down to what the ultimate authority of power a state official has.

And they're trying to stretch the argument over states' rights to include this state official making this, you know, a completely arbitrary determination. And when they were arguing, by the way, when they were arguing states' rights as well, they also brought in the Fifth Amendment. And it was a very interesting constitutional scholarly debate. But when you have federalism, when you're going to argue federalism, you're also arguing that you have to observe the process that the structure of federalism as it pertains to states. That doesn't mean, or not Fifth Amendment, Section 5, by the way, of the 14th, because Congress was the one that has the authority.

It rests in them to enforce this particular law, not a state official. And he hasn't done anything in order to merit such consideration. under Section five. And it's they I just don't think that the attorneys for Colorado I mean, they're making they're arguing very well, but the facts simply are not on their side. They're really trying to stretch this.

We're going to talk more about this coming up because again, Whenever anyone tries to pervert the Constitution and stretch and bend constitutional law to fit their means, you're going to get something bad out of it down the road. And this actually could affect Democrats more than Republicans later on.

Some of the other stuff we're going to hit.

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So, you remember the kid who was accused of being in blackface at the football game? Remember, it was a little bitty kid, and all these people were out there weighing in on it. It was in November. Deadspin was the one that went after him. He was the Kansas City Chiefs fan, and he actually was in his colors.

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So, moths apparently aren't actually drawn to light as previously thought. One of the best, most ridiculous jokes in the world is the one my friend Norm McDonald told, where it was the longest joke I've ever heard. And he told it on Conan O'Brien, and it was so ridiculous. But his joke is going to be the hardest hit, as Kane noted. But apparently, they've done this whole study on it that they published in the journal Nature Communications.

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No, we are not, Your Honor.

Okay. And here we're not talking about the qualifications clause, right? Nobody's talking about whether he's 35 years old or natural born, whatever, right? Not an issue, okay? We're talking about something under the 14th Amendment and Section 3.

So that's where you have to find your authority, right? We find our authority in Article 2, in states' plenary power to run their elections. Federal election, but this is for a federal office. It has to come from the Constitution, and you're seeking to enforce Section 3. We're suggesting that in their broad power to determine them to select presidential electors in any manner they see fit, they can take account of Section 3 and apply Section 3.

Could they do it without Section 3? Could they disqualify somebody for on whatever basis they wanted outside of the qualifications clause? That would run into term limits, I think. Yeah, I would think so, right?

So it has to come back to Section 3. And if that's true, how does that work? Given that Section 3 speaks about holding office, not who may run for office. It was a point Mr. Mitchell was making earlier, and I just wanted to give you a chance to respond to it because it seems to me that.

That you know that you're asking to enforce in an election context a provision of the Constitution that speaks to holding office.

So it's different than the qualifications clause, which is all about who can run and then serve. I don't know that it is different. Other qualifications for office similarly talk about eligibility for the office. There's nothing unconstitutional about a 30-year-old trying to get on the ballot. Except for this disability can be removed, right, under Section 3.

That's what's different about it.

So talking about... Neil Gorsuch totally sounds like an exasperated professor. That's what I noticed with us. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you.

Uh it's a joy to be with you this Thursday.

So they're arguing over, and we're going to get to this other stuff, but the hearing's wrapped. Uh but they've were Lescotus was listening to arguments from the state of Colorado. They want to take Trump off the ballot. Why they want to take Trump off the ballot? They said he incited an insurrection.

Oh my gosh, let's go to 14th Amendment. We got to go to section all the sections of the 14th Amendment. But what the what SCOTUS is arguing is that, well, actually, you guys don't have the they they well, they didn't say it, but they're leaning towards it. I mean, everything that they've said suggests that. They really do believe that there's limitations, obviously.

You can't disenfranchise a whole state of voters because you have one state official who thinks that Trump shouldn't be on the ballot. The guy can have his opinion all day long, just like I think Green Day sucks and they're not punk and they're not the first people to play in a subway, but whatever. That doesn't make my opinion law, which is why you should not elect me to public office because I would do everything in my power to make it so. Glad Riel with the one ring. That should be terrifying.

That being said, they're saying, look, you know, let's look at Section 3 and let's look at the power that Congress has. And the reason why, going back to Kantanji Brown Jackson's point, they were trying to argue that, well, there's some vagary here with this. And that, you know, and we think that vagary entitles us to be able to argue for inclusion of the president of the United States in consideration for removal of ballot. And Brown Jackson was like, well, you can't interpret this vagary against democracy, which I almost choked to death after I heard that. But she was also saying, look, this is a very enumerated article.

And if they wanted the president in there, the founders would have put the president in there, which suggests. You know, which goes without saying that the impeachment process, that's where they have the check and balance on the President of the United States. I don't see the Supreme Court siding with Colorado against Trump on this. I really don't, because it's such a specious argument, especially one in which there are no criminal charges present. And that's huge.

And secondly, we watch this online. We saw everything. I mean, we were live when this was happening. We were carrying video on air. I mean, we saw all of this happening when we were, like I said, we were broadcasting live.

It was during a weekday afternoon. And You know, while we were condemning. The smaller group of people that wasn't anywhere near the peaceful rally that broke away and was engaging in just property destruction and violence, we condemn those people. But. The idea that it was an insurrection is one of the stupidest things that I've ever heard in my life because you, you, you, it just doesn't make any sense.

These were people who were just. I think that there were some bad actors there, and I think there were some dumb, gullible people who went along with some of the bad actors, which says more about them than anything. But. It wasn't a movement as a whole, and it wasn't a whole bunch of supporters of Trump as a whole either. And he also was telling people to be peaceful.

I don't know what else Democrats wanted him to do. I mean, these are the same Democrats that had Chuck Schumer literally standing in front of the Supreme Court building, raging about, you're going to pay for this, Kavanaugh. And then two weeks later, without missing a beat, a guy's arrested for trying to assassinate him.

So, I mean, we could sit here and go back and forth with this argument all day long, but what it comes down to is that you have what seems like the majority of the Supreme Court that's arguing against bastardizing the Constitution of the United States to elevate the opinion of a state official in removing a qualified presidential candidate from the ballot because they're butt hurt over J6 not having criminal charges go their way with the president. I don't know. That's just what it seems like to me. Speaking of the president and criminal actions, so now I don't know what changed. Can I just read you this?

I just want to read you this NBC headline. The Biden administration. is considering executive action. to deter illegal immigration at the southern border. Who?

Oh, yes, they say with border security legislation unlikely in Congress. The White House wants to take action. Migrant crossings are expected to soar back to last year's record levels.

So They're According to two U. S. officials. NBC says that that's what the President is pe preparing for. Because there hasn't been a border solution.

And they say that Now, listen to this. The unilateral measures under consideration might upset some progressives in Congress, but they have to help the Democrat mayors who've asked for more help from the federal government to handle the influx of migrants in their cities. They would be pleased. Democrats are setting themselves up for a win on this too. But at this point I don't care 'cause I want the border secured.

But it also If d Republicans play this right, If they stop? If Republicans get on the same page, and you have half of the Republicans, stop trying to. denigrate the other half that didn't make the primary choice that they wanted to. And everybody gets on the same page and they put all their effort into that. This could be a very successful narrative flip for them.

If they wanted to be smart about it. Which I still haven't seen that demonstrated from a handful. They go, Congressional Republicans chose to put partisan politics ahead of national security. Why didn't Biden do this in the first place then? If it was so important that it needed to be done, why didn't he do this in the first place?

You know, he could have established an EO. That sunset and reverted to anything that Congress had passed. I mean, he could do whatever with your EO like that. You could structure it like that. Sure.

He could have easily done that. They go, Oh, this is Plan B.

So, what is it going to be? They haven't given any suggestions as to what it might be. Because remember, when his literal first day. Actually, let me pull this up. His uh executive orders.

on on first day. And this was I think there were four. He had the revision of the civil immigration enforcement policies and priorities, so that revoked literally everything. uh everything that was under Uh under the former president. Since that time, about 300 executive actions on immigration, most of which have been to dilute the strength of law.

So they he had the EO on ending what he was calling discriminatory bans on entry to the U.S. revision of civil immigration enforcement policies and priorities. The d deferred action for childhood arrivals. He had a this this literally was all day one, January twentieth. Uh the executive order on ensuring lawful and accurate and blah blah blah blah blah.

That was uh uh Different appointments for immigration judges. They had the deferred enforced departure. Uh the Suspension of new enrollments on this was the Remain in Mexico policy on the migrant protection protocols. That's the official name of the Remain in Mexico policy. They also had suspension of entry, non-immigrants and non-immigrants, people who, the COVID stuff, they suspended all.

So that was the executive order that this was on January 25th.

So this was still within the first week. The next big batch of executive orders that he had on immigration included suspending any kind of coronavirus protections against people who are entering illegally so that they could say that they didn't have to worry about testing them.

Meanwhile, you still had to prove a negative test to get on the flight, you know. I mean, all kinds of stuff.

So he had a handful. He had at least, he had five, actually. I was saying four. I was incorrect. He had five executive orders on day one.

And within his first week, he had a ton. And then in total, he's had about 300. It's crazy. Nearly 300.

So he rolled back all of this stuff on his very first day, his very, very, very first day. And The Executive actions that he took. Really, as I said, that's when you got rid of the Remain in Mexico and you had essentially the reinstatement of the Flores Agreement, all of this stuff. There were a bunch of interior enforcement priorities that were discarded. The entry bands that were discarded, DACA, which was expanded, family, I mean, all kinds of stuff on this.

The asylum was eroded. The protections against everybody trying to claim asylum and backlogging that. I mean, he undid all of it.

So you're telling me, and we made this argument, he had all of these executive orders to do these things.

So you know that because he could do these things with an executive order, that he could undo them with an executive order as well. Although I doubt that that's what he's going to be doing with any of his authority. I don't know what it means, but they're getting ready for some kind of op, right? They're getting ready for something to boost Biden and kind of try to play off of what they view as a victory for themselves. And maybe it works on some independents who haven't been following it as closely.

But they're trying to paint Republicans as being the irrational ones who wouldn't take seriously all the concerns that they had as it pertained to the deluge at the border. And so here they try to propose perfectly reasonable legislation, and Republicans just rejected it, except they don't tell everybody that less than a third of it actually went towards the border and everything else was foreign money, but whatever.

So now they're going to try to double down and make it look like: well, since Congress couldn't get this done, Biden's going to step up to do it. And they're going to make, oh, get ready. Oh, get ready. It's going to be a big push. And they're gonna I bet he's gonna give a speech on it too.

How much do you wanna bet? We'll probably see a speech and he's probably not going to answer any questions, but we'll probably see a speech at some point, you know, like a late afternoon, right before prime time speech that he's going to be 40 minutes late for. And he's going to make a big deal out of it so Democrats can say, look, we're saving the country from this recklessness at the border without telling everyone that it was their policies that directly contributed to all of the influx at the border.

So they're getting they're are Republicans ready to push back on this at all? I'm curious. They should reintroduce HR two. I mean, they should. went I was we'll just see.

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Well, I mean, Chris, that's been a failed play for 20 years.

So you are right that that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years maybe. And it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country. This is also not 2013 any longer when we ran that play last year. Wow, he cares about non-citizens more than citizens? That's Senator Chris Murphy.

Saying that, well, we care, you know, more about, you know, the most about the undocumented American. You mean the pe they're not undocumented Americans? You're not an American until you're until you're a citizen. Undocumented means you're here illegally. There's no such thing as undocu Can I be an undocum undocumented Mexican?

Can I go be an undocumented Italian? Do you know in Italy, or when you walk around in any of the European nations that have, what is it, the Shenzhen Agreement? Yeah, I mean you're technically you can't just carry a copy of your Passport. You have to carry your documents on you. It can't even be a copy.

And I know some people encourage you, they say, oh, you can carry a copy of it. And it's up to the discretion of, you know, the law enforcement that would pull you over. But in a lot of these countries, if you're traveling abroad, if they demand to see your actual for real documents and you cannot produce them, they can haul your ass off to jail. I mean, we could have been detained in Italy if we had to provide the actual documentation. You can't just provide a copy.

Does that so what can I just say I'm in an undocumented Italian? No. Cause guess what? To Jalio Yugoio. That's what happens.

But why is it in the United States that's considered acceptable? That's so stupid It's not. There's no such thing as undocumented American. Yeah, I'm an undocumented billionaire. Give me my money.

What's good? I'm so tired of this undocumented stuff. We're not doing this. Then you're here illegally. Senator Chris Murphy's a moron.

Don't sit there and look at the camera. Look at the American people through the camera and say with a straight face that we care about people who are here illegally more than anyone else. You know who you're also screwing over? The people who come here legally that you claim to care so much about. I mean, you are literally steamrolling over those people.

And that's I mean, these are people who are gonna be Americans and you're steamrolling over them. Gosh, I hope they remember that. That's why I have a survey we're going to be talking about. Democrats are still losing a lot of ground with black and Hispanic Americans. Probably, I mean, there's a big reason why.

Big reason why. I don't know how Republicans aren't looking at this, particularly with a Hispanic vote. and then the mess at the border because I'm gonna tell you something. You think you're mad about the border. Hell hath no fury.

Like a Hispanic American. who did their due diligence. waited for years, proudly became an American. Joined our fabric. created a business, added created wealth.

And then they see all these other people get fast tracked. while they were put through the ringer. I'm going to tell you, you do not know the rage until you talk to these people. They get and they deservedly get infuriated about it. It is some righteous indignation.

And then Democrats are like, why are we hemorrhaging the Hispanic vote? Gee, I wonder. Also, because they're natural conservatives. They're not buying into your trans stuff. Good night.

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Um And now it's official. We just finished voting. There will be some who will want to continue to talk about this bill. It's their right, but I think they'll just be grooming a corpse. Oh my gosh.

He is so funny. That's that's Senator John Kennedy out of Louisiana. That's as dead as a Wooddraw Wilson. I like you know what, you know, he I he likes to give these little jabs as unstudied an air as possible. But you know, He's probably got, is it something that just arises from the moment, or does it get careful planning involved?

That's like really one of the only questions I would ever want to ask him. I think he won't come on the show, though. We can't get him on the show. And I'm like, you don't realize we could be best friends. No.

Like I like your energy is my energy. Why don't you come on, Senator Kennedy? Why? Like, we could be best friends, and you just won't do it. I don't understand.

Welcome back to the show. A very sad little Dana Lash here with you. Top of the second hour on Thursday. I mean, he's got the energy of someone that you, if you get to church early and you want to sit in the back, I'm not saying that any of us do this, but you know what I mean. And like, say you get early for a wedding or something, and you're sitting in the back, and you want to watch everybody else how they're dressed.

He's the guy you want to sit next to because it's going to be like running commentary a la Joan Rivers. You know, it would be like that. you would get some tea. He has that energy. I am all for that.

Like when I when I become an old lady, I want to be just like John Kennedy's personality. I just want to I want to be like that. Oh my gosh, she's just got great energy. I'm not insulting him. I just want him to come on the show.

Like you have a best friend right here and you don't even know it. Like Anyway.

So uh we've been covering a lot of stuff, including this uh the border The border spin that they have on it now.

Now, Joe Biden's like, well, guess what, guys? I guess I will use some executive orders. Don't know what I'm going to do yet. Could have done that from the beginning, slick. Could have done that from the very get-go.

All right, one of the other things that I want to hit on. I hate doing this cheap. I'm gonna play this old lady.

So Tucker Carlson, and Tucker's a friend of mine, I actually just spoke with him last night and he's doing some extensive traveling and I have a feeling that he's got a couple more a couple of more Interesting interviews to come. But he went over and he's interviewing Vladimir Putin and he's putting it on his website. And it's going to be, Elon Musk has said he's not going to abridge it at all. It's going to be live to tape, meaning that you tape it, it's recorded, but you treat it like it's a live broadcast.

So there's no editing, there's no cutting in. You might put what they call a donut on it: something in the front, something in the back, like a video marking, you know, an intro or whatever, and that's it. But live to tape means that they treat it like it's a live thing and there's no editing. It's just what you see is what you get for however long that the duration of that interview is. And so It's gonna air uh ton to I think this evening.

And He was getting a lot of flack. a lot of flack from it. And some people have been, I think, questioning his you know, the reason why he's going over there and interviewing Putin. And he g in his in this video, he put like a a two minute long video up on X and he was explaining that there are all of these interviews of Zelensky And a lot of people have given a lot of airtime to Zielinski. My gosh, wasn't the wife at one of the.

Mm-hmm. What is it? Uh I can't think of it.

Now I can't remember. State of the Union. Wasn't the wife a guest at this one of the State of the Unions before? A lot of interviews have been given to Zelensky, a lot of magazine covers. I mean, they mentioned him like at award shows and all kinds of stuff.

And he thought that it was kind of weird that there has been an absence of That from the other entity involved in this war, which he says, you know, Vladimir Putin out of Russia.

Now, I don't know if it's because they've just turned them down. And I don't put anything, I mean, maybe they may have. They may have been, this may be, and don't put anything past like a former KGB dude. Don't put anything past the former KGB guy. to leverage anything.

However, Carlson's not stupid. I I've known hit Tucker for A long time. since bow tie days. And I've known Tucker since he thought that our mutual friend and a dear friend of mine who's since passed, Andrew Breitbart, was two out there and two over the top. Oh my gosh, if Andrew could see Chuck or now.

But um I don't think he's dumb. I think that he and nobody everyone's prejudging this interview before it's even aired. And he's asking him questions as to: well, why did you invade Ukraine? Why did you invade Ukraine? Why is all of this happening?

I mean, I think those are legitimate questions that. That should be yes. I'm I mean, especially if our tax dollars are going towards paying for this conflict. And especially if our tax dollars and our participation in whatever counsel Ukraine has been receiving are involved in this. And it's reshaping The argument over foreign policy here domestically, then I think that you are owed an answer on that, or as close to an answer as you can get.

That's journalism, and I don't disagree with that. And I think Tucker Carlson has the right to go and interview whomever he wants to go and interview, and no one needs to, you know, crap the bat over it, for the lack of a better way to put it. But there have been a lot of journalists, like journalists, I'm using this very loosely, that have been very upset over this. And they're super upset over the fact that Tucker Carlson's going over there and he was interviewing him. And oh my gosh.

Why? I mean, I think the American people are going to realize they're not going to sit here and buy into whatever he says. I mean, the excuses that I keep hearing from Democrats are they presuppose that Americans are so stupid that they're going to take as gospel truth whatever comes out of Putin's mouth. I mean, this guy's a again, former KGB. And the idea that anybody in the United States should be somehow quote unquote protected from hearing any Q and A like this is as commie as the communists that he represents.

That doesn't make any sense to me either. This was Hillary Clinton. Audio Soundbite 1. Who Well, I'm gonna play this and then I'm gonna shred it. Go ahead.

I mean, he's like a puppy dog. You know, he somehow has, after having been fired from so many outlets in the United States, he uh I I would not be surprised uh if he emerges with a contract with outlet because he is a useful idiot. He says things that are not true. He parrots Vladimir Putin's pack of lies about Ukraine.

So I don't see why Putin wouldn't give him an interview because through him he can continue to lie about what his objectives are in Ukraine and what he expects to see happen. It's really quite sad that not just somebody like Tucker Carlson, who has, as I said, been fired so many times because he seems unable to you know correlate his uh reporting with the truth. Um but also because It's a sign that there are people in this country right now who are like a fifth column for Vladimir Putin. And why? Oh my gosh.

Can we? I mean, if you want to have a discussion. About any kind of fifth column from Vladimir Putin, let's talk about how you were green lighting. Uh certain, what is it, uranium? I I Resources, et cetera, for Russia without going through the proper procedures in Congress.

I mean, we could sit here and talk all day about what Hillary Clinton's been a fifth column for. Good heavens. For her someone like her to say that, you got fired from running for president. His thing with Fox, it does I don't necessarily it Whether I don't even, I'm not going to sit here and speculate as to what he, you know, the situation with Fox, but what other networks was he was he fired for? From Was she talking about CNN?

'Cause didn't he used to do like a crossfire kind of thing at CNN? But I thought that was just their contract ended. I can't stand when people say that. People try to say that about me all the time, and I'm like, simply choosing to not renew a contract does not mean someone was. Let go.

But that's one of the things that the left does. They do it to me constantly. Uh and and Allowing contracts to expire and choosing to not renew them is not being fired. And for her to say that about Carlson is incredibly disingenuous, particularly, you know, this is the wipe the hard drive lady. But she's saying that oh, he's uh her her more serious accusation is that he's a useful tool.

For the Russian regime. That's what she's saying. She's saying that him going over there to get this interview and to do that, you know, he's going to come out with a contract from a Russian outlet.

Well, I don't necessarily believe that either. And again, this is someone who worked with Russians when you were talking about undermining the Libyan government to cede the ground. You had Blumenthal and everyone else involved in that. I mean, we could sit here and go on into all of the stuff that Hillary Clinton did. And to say nothing of Fusion GPS literally working with the Kremlin to compile a discredited Russian dossier that the FBI refused to validate.

And it was so bad and so shoddy that they literally had to lie to a FISA judge in order to get a signature to sign off on it. Oh, and let's not forget that it was Hillary Clinton's campaign that paid this discredited British spy through an unregistered FARA activist entity, Fusion GPS, that were here lobbying all. On behalf of Russian oligarchs to overturn the Magnitsky Act, and she was literally working and paying for Kremlin activity to get involved in the 2016 election.

So she, Ms. Bleachbit, doesn't have anything to say about this. Nothing. Close, but no cigar hill. Close but no cigar.

Wink wink. But Carlson can go over and I mean, who was what was the guy with 60 minutes? It was Mike Wallace, Chris Wallace's dad. Mike Wallace went over and he interviewed Vladimir Putin. Traitor.

Why are they mad that Tucker Carlson's doing it? I don't understand. Now keep in mind that I d I totally expect you know a a Uh oh. the Soviet spirit And if I were thinking, if I were in the Kremlin and I was trying to, I was trying to scheme on something, you know, I would absolutely, this is, this is a position that I would take.

So you have, look at the United States right now. A lot of people in the United States, I don't know if we've ever lived at a time when there's been such high distrust of our the entities that we have engaged, that we've entered into this social contract with, right? Our government. I don't know if there's ever been such a time when there has been such a high level of distrust, right?

So You have a government that's criticizing an independent journalist for going and getting the other side of the debate with the Russian-Ukraine war. And the people who are criticizing the journalists doing it are people who actively engaged in aiding and abetting one of the biggest transgressions against the American people in our country's history, which was the COVID lockdown and all of the lies that had to do with the pandemic. The same government that was spying on reporters, the same government that was spying on parents using the Patriot Act because they were speaking out in school board hearings, the same government that actually was pressuring Amazon to literally ban books, which we're going to talk about here coming up. The same government that went after Tea Party activists, the same government that has been weaponizing the IRS and politically auditing people, the same government that has been trying to suspend FFLs while at the same time protecting the president's son who illegally purchased a firearm. While he was coked out of his mind and then discarded it in a trash can across the street from a school in a Coke-leaden pouch.

I mean, I could go on and on. I mean, there's a lot of examples and a lot of justification and a lot of righteous indignation from the American people as to great reasons why they, I mean, they have every reason to distrust their government. And if I were a Soviet entity, I would be exploiting that to the nth degree. And the left are the ones who are being useful idiots here. They should be encouraging.

Go and ask as many questions as you want. Find out as much information as you want sitting down and asking someone a question and interviewing them and sometimes I get criticism about this on my show from people who have the same number of brain cells as Hillary Clinton. Why would you have this person on? Because I want to ask questions and that's what I do. I don't stick my head up my backside and then, you know, and then pretend that all my conspiracy theories are real.

I want to go and I want to find out the answers. And that involves sitting down with people, asking questions, and getting answers to the best of my ability. And simply sitting down and questioning someone and getting answers from them isn't an endorsement and it shouldn't have to be explained in an era where you can get a digital dictionary on your phone in 0.5 seconds. The same thing applies here. But I'll tell you, I'm sure as hell not going to take any kind of insinuations about collusion with Russians from Hillary Clinton, the lady who ought to be in jail for conspiring with lobbyists for Russian oligarchs to discredit and rob people of a free and fair election in 2016.

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

So, a record number of Americans reportedly can't afford their rent, and it says lawmakers are scrambling to help. Help like what? Like cutting taxes? No. Oh, no.

Uh, help, like, oh, I don't know, maybe abolishing the whole thuggery that is the IRS in the first place? No. Spending less of our money? No. Not printing money endlessly?

No. Oh, then you're not actually interested in helping. Get stuffed. Uh movie nine. A gentleman was busted for handing out free cocaine samples with his business card.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This 30-year-old came up with a unique method for marketing his services as a chauffeur, also maybe a cocaine dealer in Calgary, Canada.

So he was literally handing out his business card with small bags. He's a blow staple to them. And the card read Alex Lee, driver, and included contact details. The card was an alias, but police literally tracked him down, conducted surveillance for a month and arrested him. And he had lots of cocaine, lots of baggies, a scale, and lots of cash.

So he's charged two counts of trafficking with controlled substance. I mean, this is a Calgary man. This is like Florida-level stuff. Who does this? Like, here's a free sample of cocaine.

Like what? Police recovered two dozen bags of ice stolen from a Vinton County Dollar Store. This is in Ohio. They stole back 27 bags of ice stolen from a family dollar. Ice.

stolen from a family dollar. Yeah, I know. I thought, like, it's cold up there, right? A pickup truck with the ice was spotted at a gas station 13 miles from the store. Two people were detained and arrested.

Imagine, like, what are you in jail for? I stole some ice. I mean, you're going to, yeah, you're going to have a pylon just because your crime is so stupid. That's what that's going to, that's what's going to happen there. We have a.

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Republicans have indicated they may hold another vote and they might have the numbers at that point to impeach you. If that happened, would you consider stepping aside? No, I would not. I don't like him. I feel like I would have bullied if we were both students at the same time in school, I would have totally bullied him.

I wasn't a bully, what? Welcome back to the show. Why did you laugh, Juan?

Well, it's like pfff. Yeah. It's almost like what you said wasn't believable. Shit. Probiotics, talk about it.

Dana Lash back here with you. Most disloyal people ever. Bottom of the second hour. Notice how quiet Steve was. Steve didn't say anything.

That halo shines bright over DJ Fun Uncle's head. Bottom of this second hour, it's gonna be with you, Dana Lash here. You can listen to coast to coast, stream it, all that good jazz. YouTube, the great discussion that happens every day, and channel 347 DirecTV. Yeah, that's Aleander Mayorka saying, No, I wouldn't.

I just don't like the way he talks. If smarminess had a sound, it would sound like that. He's just He doesn't do his job. He's at the Super Bowl. And he's being asked these.

I'm not going to play 11 because I'm going to get mad. I don't care about Taylor Swift and all this stuff. What do you care about? The other threats with the MAGA backlash, Taylor Swift.

So goofy. Let's talk about the southern border and like the threats that are, you know, have to do with the southern border. Oh, by the way, speaking of which, oh, you guys are going to get really upset. Do I want to share this with you? Hmm.

Do I want to?

Okay, so Let's Grab onto a counter or something. Let's just do, let's just do that. Grab onto a counter. Or make sure you're all seated and nice and happy because the Senate just voted 67 to 32. Via Greg Price in favor of advancing a $95 billion foreign aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, Gaza.

and Taiwan, without the border provisions. The Republicans who voted yes Murkowski, McConnell, Cassidy, Wicker, Young, Collins, Capito, Kennedy, Thune, Sullivan, Romney, Ernst, Rounds, Tillis, Cornyn, Grassley. Kennedy? Kennedy. I take back the best friend part.

A foreign aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and Taiwan. Why are we giving okay, Ukraine and Gaza? Why? And particularly Gaza. It's not my fault that that entity voted for a terrorist government.

And enthusiastically supported its terrorist government. to the point where even the West Bank was going to vote for Hamas. Over fata. to lead them. Why?

Why are we giving money to a terrorist entity? Not everybody's over there as a terrorist. You know what? Their elected government wanted this war. And guess what?

You forfeit any such nuance when you decide to do something so unbelievably stupid as to launch a mini genocide against your neighbor to the north, and you're shooting babies in the head and women in their vaginas. No, you do not enjoy the luxury of nuance after that. I'm in the burn everything camp. I don't want a ceasefire. I want.

flipping lava poured on the entire thing. Because when you're voting for terrorists, you are one.

So, and anyone who disagrees can go over to the Middle East because there's tons of sand to pound. That being said. Why are we doing this? We don't even have without our southern border, they're voting to advance a $95 billion foreign aid bill.

Okay, so reason number 5027, I could never be in. elected office because if I were in Congress and this bill came up, I'm pretty sure I would probably get in trouble for this, but what I would do. is I would get some sort of um like uh fire retardant backing. And I would go up with a collection of like some rocks. And, you know, some like straw and some things like that.

maybe just a smidge of some accelerant. And I would go and I'd Put the backing down. And then I would place these rocks, my rocks, in a circle around it. And I would assemble in the middle a nest of, you know, my straw, my kindling, you know, things of that nature. And then I would apply a little bit of accelerant, and then I would have my super bougie candle lighter that I used.

when I'm trying to zen out after, you know, dropping bombs on socials. And I would use that and I would light what I had just assembled, and then I would take this $95 billion foreign aid bill page by page, and I would add it. to the flames and feed The fire of my hatred of this stupid nonsense. in lieu of any spoken word. And I'm pretty sure.

There's probably a rule about that. No fires in the chamber. and I would be subsequently removed from the floor, maybe even dispelled. you know, from From the body itself. I don't know.

Crazier things have happened. I mean, you can be Gold Bar Bob and nothing happened to you, but you know, whatever.

So, you know, that that would that's why I wouldn't be able to being elected office. There's there's this is this is asinine. And why did Kennedy Why did he vote for this? I mean, maybe it was just a vote.

Someone's like, well, maybe it's a vote to begin considering the aid package. I'm not even going to consider it. Nope. Yeah. See, you know what, to save your voice, you could just go up.

with to the to the dais with like a You know he can get one of those red joke buttons. And you could do one you could do like a rag joke button that just says no. And press that every single time. This is just dumb. We don't need a $95 billion foreign aid bill, particularly for Ukraine or Gaza.

I mean, Taiwan wanted. They didn't even want aid. They were like, can we purchase some weapons? Hello, could we give you some money for some weapons? They didn't even have to be your latest and greatest.

This is what Taiwan was doing. Can we give you some amazing money? for thee some guns? It would be wonderful. Could we have And The Biden administration was like, Uh Oh no.

That was them. They weren't even like hands outstretched like Zelensky. They weren't even like him. Taiwan was like, May we may we please purchase some guns. Even Israel's like, might we buy some guns?

Might we purchase some things? Maybe I don't I understand what Chip Roy was saying. As it pertains to aid money, I'm not for giving anybody aid money right now. And that doesn't mean I don't love you. This is what I hate about the tribalism of politics because you get someone out there who, God loves them.

I don't want to make fun of the misfortunate, but sometimes you come across people who literally are the result of, you know, cousin loving. And, you know, them with their single cell, you know, amoeba brain function, they get out there and they're just like, well, if you don't want to give any money to Israel or Taiwan, that means you hate them. No, it doesn't. It means we're broke. Why do you not understand this?

We're broke. We're baroque. No, not like the era, baroque. The art, we're broke, like in no cashmane, broke. We don't have no green.

We don't have no money. We're borrowing from our great-grandkids to finance something. This is stupid. With all the government spending we have and all the tax money that we're taking in, we can hire 88,000 new IRS agents, but we can't even secure our own southern border. Oh, H-A-I-L-No.

No. We're broke. We can't afford to be giving nobody nothing. Because we we don't even have the money to secure our own border. And that's not just a talking point.

Like, you literally have the equivalent of multiple Pittsburghs that come in every week. We don't even know who the hell these people are. I wrote a story the other day. It was a multi-convicted rapist. Who was able to get in?

Guess what? He raped another chick here in the US of A. Then he was detained again. He'd already been deported or already been kicked back. I don't know how many times.

These are the type, this is what happens. You get criminals that are able to come in. in the flood of people coming across the border. You get kids that are getting trafficked. Hell, we don't even know what happened to 88,000 kids that were trafficked not by their own will.

I mean, kids, not 18-year-olds, I mean like nine-year-olds coming across the border. We don't even know where they are. Because you got daddy's Avi Becera up there in HHS who just wanted these government NGOs to process them as fast as possible and not even vet where these kids were going. And then surprise, surprise, you lose contact with eighty eight thousand of them. Huh.

No, that has to be secured. And so when we don't have the cash to do that, how do we have the cash to go and give somewhere else? As Chip Royce said, I thought this was a great point. Look, in order to be an ally, For a friend, we have to be able to stand and actually be the ally. And we're crippling ourselves from even just doing that right now.

And he's right. Makes all the sense in the world.

So, this is dumb to even consider it. There are certain things that are non-starters. I'm so tired of the stupid argument.

Well, you know, Dana, we got to get to the amendment portion. We got to get to the negotiation. No, because that presumes that I have to accept this as even entertainable, and I don't. It's not going to happen.

So, yeah, ninety-five billion dollars. With a B. additional money. Beam set. Over.

Now, in addition to this Speaking of Gaza, Israel is in a tough spot because They still have, I mean, tons of hostages. We have American hostages that are over there still. Nothing from the Administration on that. It was reported that Israel was considering a deal which would see one of the top goat loving terrorist chiefs from Hamas. Involved in the October 7th attacks to go free.

It was like one of their main masterminds. They would the offer was to allow that guy to go free to release all the remaining hostages. You know what I would do? I put an implant in his brain. Like in uh Mission Impossible.

So that the moment he was over in their custody I blow his brains up. That's what I would do. And I would like patch the hair in real expert light so they couldn't see that there was any. Anything done? I would totally do that.

Yeah, sure, we'll let this guy go. Absolutely. Go ahead and let's get all the terr let's get all the hostages. Why do why we should do that? Why don't we why don't people do that?

Do that every time with everything. Because you could only do it once, and then they wouldn't trust you anymore. You know, it's like a one-time thing. But I feel like it would be worth it if you're getting like these babies that have been kidnapped by these goat-loving pedophile Hamas members. I mean, yeah, I mean, it would be worth it to do that.

But then let him go over. And as soon as they're like, yay, and then they feel like they got one over on you, got one over on the IDF or something, then, you know, beep. And then watch his head turn into pulp right there on his shoulders. I wonder how long he'd stand upright before he fell over. Is that mean to wonder?

Because I do. And then you could videotape it and then you could sell sell it. Just saying you could subscription-based service and then use the funds to offset what the families are having to incur by simply because you have a lot of these families from a lot of the kibbutz over there who can't. they they can't go back because their homes have been utterly destroyed. And I mean, their whole community murdered.

And so they're homeless and they don't have anything. Maybe go towards using that to. rehabilitate them and get them set up again.

someplace safe. That's a good idea. I think that's a great capitalist idea. Don't you you'd I'd pay to watch it. Hey, pay to watch this Hamas mastermind's head blow up into a like a grape.

Pop. Bets on how long he stands before he falls. Then you could get some gambling aspect in on it too and raise a little bit more money, right? Like that, I mean you could get some odds going on that. Dana, that's so mean.

No, it's not sh. I'm just saying. All right. Speaking of which, it sounds a lot like the power my psycher has with one of my staffs, because I can literally like take an enemy's head and anyway, I don't know where that came from. It's his life mission to make bad decisions.

Yeah. It's time for Florida Man.

Okay, so Oh my gosh. Excuse me. A Florida man. Asks for a ride from a stranger at a Walmart parking lot and then stabs him with a box cutter for stealing his car. That escalated quickly.

The investigators of the case said Nelson Angel Bellin. And he approached a 56-year-old man Saturday night, asked for a ride. Man agreed. Bellin told him where to go. And then on the way, he told the elderly man to get out of the vehicle.

Uh and or the fifty-six, I guess you're not elderly. Get out of the vehicle and then pulled out a box cutter on him and stabbed him in his stomach numerous times. Witnesses heard screaming. They saw the men struggling. The victim collapsed after getting out of the car.

Bystanders went to help him. There was a lot of cell phone video, apparently. The victim's in critical but stable condition. He's in the hospital. They recovered the car.

They got the guy. He's being held at Miami-Dade County pre-trial detention. And they said that he's being charged with attempted murder and carjacking. Dang. Man, yo no good deed g goes unpunished, you know what I'm saying?

Like no good deed goes unpunished. Let's see here. This okay, I'm going to get into this lady. A drunk naked Florida woman wielding a peeler knife barges into a racetrack convenience mart and threatens to kill staff. Say deputies, this is in St.

Petersburg. Florida woman found herself behind bars after she burst into a gas station naked and drunk. No way to go through life. Threatening to kill staff members with a peeler, a core, an apple, like a apple peeler. Celia Barrett, 35, was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault, disorderly intoxication, criminal mischief, exposure of sexual organs, S-C-C-K-S-H-U-L, sexual organs.

Trespassing after the incident unfolded at the racetrack with no K. Uh in St. Petersburg. She was previously trespassed. I didn't know that was the way you put that.

This sounds like how my grandma would put it. Barrett, who was previously trespassed from this gas station. She had been banned from it back in November. She came back though. She took Oh, golly.

She told police she did six shots of liquor. And then grabbed her at her peeler and then ran off to the racetrack. Oh my gosh. She did not request money from the cashier, but she was just complaining about being previously banned. And then she banged the peeler on the counter and she was screaming obscenities.

And then the manager came over and she threatened him with the peeler, too. Like, what are you going to do? Like, peel off that, you know? And then she was waving the apple peeler in the air, acting like she's gonna stab somebody. And then she said she was gonna kill people, lowered her weapon, and walked away.

And then she knocked down a case of 50 Red Bull drinks in one display and destroyed a carton of cigarettes. Oh gosh, it gets worse. Then she went outside and then as the deputy showed up, No. Oh no. I don't want to read the last sentence.

Should I she beg Barrett allegedly began to inappropriately touch herself inside the gas station. She's still in custody in Pinellas County. Oh my gosh. I don't even want to get into this one. This is a guy who went to this pirate event.

And ended up getting in trouble because he was looking for a lady he's met on a one-ad. Oh my gosh. Um there was a guy who got uh arrest warrant issued for a man accusing uh uh accused of dumping a sailboat on a beach. You can't do that. You can't just leave your boat on the beach.

That's actually considered like uh littering. Yeah, no parking. Stick with us. Third hour on the way. He had the opportunity to call witnesses remotely.

He didn't use all of his time at trial. There was ample process here, and this is how ballot access determinations in election cases are decided all the time.

Okay. Second question.

Some of the rhetoric of your position, I don't think it is your position, but some of the rhetoric of your position seems to suggest. Unless the states can do this, no one can prevent insurrectionists from holding federal office. But obviously, Congress has enacted statutes, including one still in effect, Section 2383 of Title 18 prohibits insurrection. It's a federal criminal statute. And if you're convicted of that, you are, it says, shall be disqualified from holding any office.

And so there is a federal statute on the books, but President Trump has not been charged with that.

So what are we to make of that? Two things, Your Honor. Section 2383 was initially enacted about six. I don't think that this is going to go the way that that attorney representing Colorado would like for it to go. I'm just, and there are a lot of people who agree with me on this.

It seems like SCODIS. Is going to rule in favor, they're going to decide in favor of Trump.

Now, this is just the hearing, they still have a decision forthcoming, etc. etc., but um. Even the way that, and we went over a lot of this during the first hour, but to recap, this is about whether or not an official. can disenfranchise the will of voters in a state And remove someone off the ballot who is qualified to be on the ballot, and there is no criminal charge. When you say innocent until proven guilty, a charge is not an i is not a declaration of guilt.

There's due process to go through. And there's no criminal charge with J6. That's the thing. He was never charged with inciting an insurrection because he didn't. With all the everything that they could have done to try to get him on that, I don't care what you think of Trump or not.

I don't care if you hate him. He was not my pick in the primary. I frankly thought we could have gone with a million better candidates. I don't want Joe Biden in 2024, and I'll roll, I'll drive over your dog to win. Actually, maybe not your dog, but.

Your grandma for sure. But This is the stupidest, most specious argument. That I think the left could make to try to kick him off the ballot because there's no bearing to it. He didn't incite an insurrection. There's no evidence that he did.

He actually called for the opposite. And they never could bring charges against him specifically for that, which is the only thing. That's literally what they're trying to argue now under the 14th to get him off. Uh uh to get him off the ballot. and they're not able to do it.

And Kentaji Brown Jackson, I can't even believe I'm saying this, hold up. First we got Fetterman and now her. Maybe I think she can read the writing on the wall, though, and she realizes that this is creating a nasty web that Democrats might catch themselves in later on. But she's looking at this and she's like, look, even with all of the enumerated You know, the ve or what's she say, very enumerated. Uh aim.

Names, powers, etc., in this, talking about all of the different people that could be removed or could be affected by a state's decision. President wasn't included. And Colorado's attorneys were trying to argue that it wasn't an oversight, that the vagary necessitates or justifies them trying to make this case on behalf of including the presidency. Whereas Brown Jackson was arguing, well, there's a reason why they didn't include it in this very enumerated list, and that's because the impeachment process deals with the president, whereas this does not.

So she just gutted their entire argument, like with a simple one-minute, 30-second QA.

So it was very uh Uh I think Illustrative of where they're gonna Where they're going to go with us. I I just do not see them Siding with Colorado on this. I just really don't. I really don't. This is something that the voters get to decide.

The voters make this determination. And by the way, this is also the reason why I don't like. Term limits, and I think term limits. I agree with the founders and the Federalist papers on term limits. I think they're anti-American, anti-constitutional, and anti-conservative because you're talking about stripping a right of the voter and giving it to the government to determine how long people can serve in office.

And that is the right of the voter. The term limit is the vote. Why are we, I can't believe conservatives are being baited into ceding more power to the federal government. Blows my mind. People seriously need to read the Federalist Papers on this.

It should be a required reading before casting a vote.

Now that being said. The uh Got a couple of other things. I was going to say this for headlines and I don't really want to. I want to talk about it now. Mutant wolves I wasn't going to touch on this at all right now.

I was actually going to go to something else, but I can't. I don't want to wait till headlines, and it's just there's not enough time in headlines to give this this due justice.

So, you know, everybody knows Chernobyl, right? Apparently There some are some mutant wolves. Exposed to the Chernobyl disaster and they've evolved a new superpower. I know what you're thinking. I'm thinking it too.

When can we adopt them? Who wouldn't what what's your what's your do you have pets? Mm-hmm. Oh, what do you have? I have a mutant wolf.

I mean for real. I'm I'm recovering after the loss of Rocco. our Frenchie, who is very much not a mutant wolf. Love that dog with the brachiophallic dogs. I will tell people, can I sidebar on this?

Excuse me, still, I'm feeling a lot better. I was sick all week. Do not get a Frenchie. French bulldogs. Are they most adorable?

Most expensive, most heartbreaking dogs you will ever get in your life. If you're considering it, Save yourself thousands of dollars because you will have to get pet insurance. There is not a Frenchie, I don't know anybody. who has ever had a Frenchie that has never had a problem. The way that they even come into fruition is cruel.

Because the dogs can't even be born naturally. They have to do cesareans 'cause their heads are so large. Like these dogs cannot exist without human intervention. The most dogs, the top killer of Frenchies is neurological issues. Like I said, I don't know any Frenchy.

I know a lot of people that have them. that have never never had an issue, ever. Uh the the life span's about nine years. And like our Frenchie Louis had a brain tumor. Rocco had invertebral disc disease, so he had to get back surgery.

That's common with Frenchies. And then they also have problems with breathing. They can develop laryngeal paralysis, which is ultimately what Rocco had. He couldn't get surgery for it because he missed the window because of back surgery.

So that's where they suffocate to death. And they can't drink and they can't eat and they're miserable. And he was dying because he was suffocating to death. And that's a common problem with Frenchies. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you and is trying to scam you with a sick dog for a buck.

Don't trust them. And I don't care if it's a family member. They're morons then. They, I love Frenchies. It's my favorite, one of my favorite breeds, but I will never own another Frenchie.

As long as I live, I will never own another French bulldog. They, it's too heartbreaking, and they suffer so much. They can't be out in the heat. Uh, they can't cool themselves off because they're short, they're braceophallic, so they have like no their short face. And in addition, it's not just being braceophallic, they're they have tons of eye issues.

Rocco had eye surgery, he almost died, he already almost died from eye surgery. Their eyes bulge out, they can pop out, it's crazy. They have back problems. They have even more problems than pugs. It is the most heartbreaking breed you could have.

And we had two of them that had every issue. And it wasn't that they were bad breeds. Louie came from like an an uh an AKC uh uh AKC champion line. like his lineage had been shown at Westminster. Uh he came from a champion family line.

Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. They're super smart. They're comical. But they have so many issues.

My public service message to you, if your family's considering it. Don't. Do not. It is there's don't do it.

Now we'll probably get it I we'll probably have uh get another dog. I think I'll I would like to uh go to a rescue or shelter. And I need more than one dog, but I'm never going to do another Frenchie again.

Now, that being said, I will take a mutant wolf.

Now you're probably wondering, Dana, you never told us about the superpowers. I know, because that's to come.

So, this team of researchers found these animals in the Chernobyl evacuation zone. They have genetically altered immune systems. And these genetically altered immune systems. show a resilience to cancer. And so researchers are now hoping that this discovery can be used to help find cures, for human.

Cancer. Patience. And they said that since its explosion in 86, they got all the humans out because they had extreme levels of radiation. Wildlife flooded. flourished there.

And it contains six times the allowed exposure amount for human workers. And it's still, I think that you can go to parts of it because I can't remember what I was watching. I was watching some macabre destination travel show or something like that. Uh but they have like grizzly bears and bison and You know, they have deer and boar and all kinds of stuff. But they said that.

They're trying to figure out how the animals are able to survive, and they were taking the blood samples from like wolves and all this other stuff. And they used GPS collars, and they think that somehow they've been able to develop a resistance against this. And so they're hoping that they Pin Figure out. You know what mutations occur there, and maybe use that as a way to help them with humanity.

So it's very. Fascinating thing. I know, like you, I was a little disappointed that they didn't turn into just like humans later. And then go back to wolves and then, you know, like a werewolf kind of thing. I'm just saying that would have been That'd have been very interesting.

But yeah, for instance, they have tree frogs over there. Tree frogs normally have a green pigmentation. But in the Chernobyl area, they apparently they got the mutation made them black. And then they have like a green tinge to it. It's very interesting.

So, I don't know, I'm just saying mutant wolves. I'd be done for that. I'd totally take a mutant wolf. Can you just imagine the signage I'd have to put up? Beware, mutant wolf.

Yeah. I may still do it anyway. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

So Let's see here. I was looking at this story. I'm going to do the Alzheimer's one.

So they say this is a, it's not for the weather channel for some reason. I don't know why. But. They say that people who frequently pick their noses may be at a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's. According to a new review of some published studies, I feel like they're guessing at this point.

This sounds like guessing. Hey, guess what? That everyone that has, that gets Alzheimer's, they also wear shoes. Right. And they drink water.

So It feels like drink wearing shoes and drinking water could cause potentially Uh Alzheimer's cane. But they say it's chronic. Nose picking and it introduces germs into the sensitive nasal cavity that causes brain inflammation, and that's been linked to the onset of Alzheimer's. Again, that sounds like a guess. I don't know, some of this stuff is so goofy.

Let's see here. PETA is targeting a Wichita company over carousels because the carousel has animals on it.

Okay. You have illegal immigrants that are dragging sweet poor dogs all the way to the southern border, abandoning them. To the elements, and they're injured and sick and starving and dying, and you're worried about. Carousel? Like fake animals on a carousel?

A north. Carolina man. Was arrested oh boy. For Uh molesting a fire extinguisher. 27-year-old Joshua Sanders.

But Was it vandalism or was it? I hate the language. They said that they found this surveillance footage, and Sanders apparently broke into and damaged a fire extinguisher housing unit. And then he proceeded to Willfully misuse it. I don't even want to know how this is done.

Okay. That's where Smod. Where is Smod? I mean, he kind of smodded his bits, didn't he? I mean, there's no other.

Okay, we're not. His mug shot is gonna have nightmares. This fascinates me because, okay, lemon's my favorite fruit. I love everything lemon. New York Post has the story.

About how these auctioneers, Brattells, auctioneers, and valuers in Newport, England. Put a 285-year-old lemon up for auction. And it got about $1,800.

So they found this fruit, this 285-year-old lemon. It was from 1739. It was hidden. in this 19th century cabinet. The cabinet only sold for like $40.

And readers can see in the, they can see pictures of the time-worn lemon, and Juan has it on the simulcast as well.

So the auctioneer said we thought we'd have a bit of fun and put the lemon up for auction. And they said that the fruit is deep brown in color, but remarkably intact. It was carved with the words given by Mr. P. Lou Francini, November 4th, 1739, to Miss E.

Baxter. They thought that it may have been brought to England as a romantic gift from India.

So there was a bidding war that drove, they call it ancient fruit, it's not, that drove the final price of it just shy of $1,800.

So, what are you going to do with it after the fact? I don't know. Would you? Are they still good at 1739? Stick with us.

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one of impunity, unbound by any laws. There's a yearning among certain people in our country for that kind of leadership. And I find that absolutely gobsmacking, terrifying. She's still tone deaf and can't read the room after all this time. Welcome back to the program, Bottom of This Third Hour, Dana Lash here.

That's Hillary Clinton. That's not what it is. She is clueless as to how the electric feels or what the electorate wants. That's not at all it. She can't even identify it.

And you wonder why she never won. Nationwide office. She couldn't identify it because she doesn't know what it is. don't have a yearning. to imprison their opponents.

That's Democrats for sure do. Democrats want to imprison their political opponents. That's what she tried to do in 2016 when her campaign had to pay a fine after they were caught. Hiring an unregistered FARA agent that was lobbying on behalf of Russian oligarchs to repeal the Magnitsky Act in DC. And they worked with this disgraced British spy, this former spy, and then they lied to a FISA judge to try to get surveillance and try to sell and launder Oppo in the press That they then used to try to say was evidence and necessary for a surveillance warrant for everyday citizens.

And then they used that as a way to go and harass and try to jail people simply because they were working on her opponent's campaign in 2016.

So absolutely, she personifies that. And I think that will be the biggest part of her legacy for actually, really, that is her legacy for now and forever. But she misses what people have a yearning for. People don't have a yearning to imprison opponents. She mentions people going after the press and everything else.

People have a yearning for accountability. And people kind of have a yearning for a reckoning. And that doesn't mean imprisoning opponents. That means stopping what has been done to them for the past twenty years. Longer, actually.

Keep in mind that when Hillary Clinton ran in 2016, there were a sizable number of Democrats who were voting Republican for the very first time. And it wasn't necessarily because they were convinced that Trump himself was the better choice. They were a hate voting against her. And then what solidified that even more in the weeks leading up to the election. was the way that her surrogates, her campaign itself, and other Democrats then began to impugn the characters of all of these people that had so reliably voted Democrat all of these years.

For any candidate, no matter how bad it was, Al Gore, they showed up and they held their nose. They showed up and they they supported and they did their part for the party. But when she She herself pushed it too far. and it became a bridge too far. For the voters Democrat voters Then they were cast aside after all of those years of loyal support.

Oh, suddenly they were racist now. They weren't conveniently racist when they were voting. For the old white woman, but suddenly, and her husband, but when they weren't voting for the old white woman, then that's somehow they were racist, which doesn't make any sense, but that's Democrats for you. If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, there it is.

So, her saying this, she's so completely out of it, out of touch. With so many people and that's why they don't like her. People want accountability from the press because of the way the press targets average everyday Americans. The way the press has lied. without any kind of accountability.

Without any check and balance, the way the press has destroyed the lives of people simply because they don't go along with the progressive far-left status quo. Wanting accountability is not yearning to imprison opponents. That's you, lady. When you're not Vince fostering them.

Now I don't know if you've been following this case. I'm going to bring this up to you. With the Supreme Court, or not Supreme Court, sorry, Hawaii Supreme Court. But I have. I was reading about it.

If you're unaware The state of Hawaii, the Hawaii Supreme Court, had a ruling. The latest ruling, this was yesterday. They We're looking at It's a major second decision in this gun carry case. And so what they Found and it had to do with this this these charges leveled against this guy named Christopher Wilson who they said was carrying a firearm without a permit, he was saying that it it violated his rights. And so the the Supreme Court of Hawaii made the determination that their state constitution doesn't allow.

For gun rights. protections at all whatsoever. and they did it in one of the most ridiculous ways possible.

So they actually said This is what they wrote. Like actually in their ruling. Quote The Spirit of Aloha clashes with a federally mandated lifestyle that lets citizens walk around with deadly weapons during day to day activities. That's how they started it. Um So their argument is that and then they quoted the wire.

I'm not even kidding you. The spirit of Aloha doesn't clash with the Second Amendment. Because the Second Amendment surpasses The spirit of Aloha. And what is this? The phrasing on this.

Who wrote this? Did David Hogg write this? It sounds like remedial. Clashes with a federally mandated lifestyle. There's no fan federally mandated lifestyle.

That doesn't even make any sense. If I I really desperately want to turn into a grammarist and tear this apart, federally mandated lifestyle that lets citizens walk around with deadly weapons. It's a f Federally made You're allowed the choice. And that freedom to choose. is what is protected.

Not mandated, it is protected because it is set apart from a civil right, meaning. A privilege that is granted to you in a court of law by other people. And they they say that The history of the Hawaiian Islands does not include a society where armed people move about the community to possibly combat the deadly aims of others. Oh, they're magical. They've never had any conflict, you know.

That is a I love the progressive retconning of any kind of indigenous history, particularly American Indians. Like when they talk about Mount Rushmore, oh my gosh It was white Americans that came and took it. But we're not going to talk about who the Lakota took it from and who the Cheyenne took it from before them and who took it before them. I mean, you know, that's that's just conveniently written out of history. The spirit of Aloha I mean, who do you think wins if you had a battle of spirits?

Is this what they mean by two spirit? Like, if you had the spirit of Florida man versus the spirit of Aloha, who wins? Who wins and why is it Florida man? I'm just saying. Yeah, I just you know, I just wondering.

But they're they're try they're they're arguing that both Heller and Bruin are wrong. And In their decision, and they're claiming that. The individual right isn't a right at all. When they say that, well, we don't have like weapons, I mean, you. No weapons ever, not even bladed ones, attached to sticks.

Not even that? Never, ever? Like, I mean, this is like one of the craziest things ever. I love what one listener said. They go, Well, I opened the Constitution and Controlled F Spirit of Aloha, and I didn't find anything.

Me neither. But they did include human sacrifice, though. Spirit of Aloha did have that. This is just it's it's wild the reading on this. But they I There's There's having a respect for history, regardless of whether or not you agree with it, and then there's just not believing in history.

This is some flat earth stuff right here. Ancient Aliens So they were they were Trying to say that somehow they're particular states history overrides that of a natural right. They wrote that they reject Wilson's constitutional challenges. And they said that The spirit of Aloha clashes with us. I I mean, I thought, I'm gonna be real with you, I was um I thought this was a joke when I first saw the ruling because I just saw the graphic.

of the Like second page of it where they talk about the spirit of Allah. And I thought, this is not a real thing, this is like 4chan trolling.

So I just kind of discarded it. I didn't really. Then I started seeing it pop up, and I'm like, wait a minute. And it was real. I've never...

That's starting to happen more and more when I'm like, oh, this is a 4chan troll. No, no, this is actually an actual legitimate. They put this on paper and they released it. That's crazy.

So I Can only imagine How the Supreme Court doesn't take up this case. To smack down I mean, this wouldn't be the first time that the Supreme Court Uh, undid a decision by a state court, it wouldn't be the first time, and I can't see them not doing it with us, but it just I mean, the arguments that they have in here, they are. I mean, this is just. It's really pathetic. The spirit of Aloha.

Well, you know, the spirit of Aloha is part of the United States, and the Constitution of the United States trumps whatever spirit of Aloha or non-spirit otherwise that you may claim. The end. I mean Maybe you would still have this. Oh, pain, I'm not going to say it. Never mind.

It was gonna be bad.

Sometimes it's just a run it was Yeah. Thank you. But I will Wha why are you like breathing a sign of relief over there? We're not done yet. What?

I mean, I could still technically run this all the way up until 50. You know, just 'cause. But they uh They say that they talk about reducing firearms, violence, etc. And a free willing right to carry guns in public degrades other constitutional rights. Who wrote this?

Some lawyer is going to just make a lot of money with one of the easiest cases ever, destroying this Wiscotus. It's going to be ridiculous. But yes, the right to life, liberty, and your pursuit of happiness and all of your natural rights are guaranteed protection by your free will choice to use the Second Amendment to defend yourself and your rights.

Okay, so Cage match. Spirit of Aloha. The spirit of Florida Man or the spirit of Texas. Who wins? Spirit of Florida and the spirit of Texas are going to gang up on spirit of Aloha.

Yeah, you know that's gonna happen. I mean, good. Oh my gosh, I'm gonna have to make a joke about the laha. I'm gonna have to make a joke. I just can't.

We gotta get moving because otherwise, this is gonna get real snotty real quick as we do so. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. But uh go niners. done it before, can do it again, and I'm rooting for that. You know, I was just literally last night talking with my husband about what our menu will be for Super Bowl.

So I'll keep you posted, but we got some ideas. All of them are going to be delicious. I don't care what she's making for the Super Bowl. I really don't care. I'm not watching Super Bowl.

Are you watching Super Bowl? I just don't. I don't get into it. I never have. And I especially didn't.

I'm just not. I'm just not. I wasn't into the... Like, I, the whole boycott thing and all of that, like, I disagreed with why people were taking. I've talked about this before to the point where I could rather literally chew my own toes off than talk about it anymore.

But I would, like a badger. But Like you're taking the knee over a lie if you wanna that's dumb. You know, at least they didn't go out and riot like BLM did, but taking an A overall lie is stupid. But I just, after everybody's like, oh, I'm boycotting the NFL, now everybody's watching, I don't know, I don't get it. I just don't get into it.

I feel like NFL is bread in circuses. I've always I feel I just it's why I've never been able to get and I like I like ath I mean, I was a jock in school. But I couldn't I've always had a hard time getting into Like sports teams. I like the Cardinals just because I grew up and it was such a baseball town and I enjoy watching baseball, but I'm not. I have some friends that, you know, like when Kane knows this, in St.

Louis and our hometown, opening day, the whole city shuts down. Oh, yeah. Ev people take off work. They're families. They pull kids out of school.

It's like they it's a big thing. And I've just never been to that extent of it. I don't know. I've always felt a little bit like bread and circuses. Oh, it's totally bread and circuses.

And then they use a ton of taxpayer dollars to build the stadiums for it. Yeah, but I understand their arguments that, okay, well, if it's if you're using it with as a social contract to bring investment in and make more money than you put in, but in St. Louis, they didn't make more money than they put in it. That's the problem. I mean, if you can make the argument and do the math and you can bring in more than taxpayers ever have to put in so they get a return on their investment and then some, okay, then I can understand that argument.

But that's not what happened in St. Louis.

So that makes it a little harder. Everything now, especially with the Super Bowl, is being over-politicized and everything else. Plus, the companies. that are advertising during the Super Bowl have already pledged to be so safe as to not offend anyone. that I don't see w now what's the draw.

Of watching anything on television as it relates to the Super Bowl. Who's even doing halftime? I don't know who is doing half time. Oh, sure. I mean it's pretty safe I guess.

Ushers do it half time? Who else? It's not just usher, they have to have somebody else. No, I think it's just usher. No, it's not just Usher.

Who else they got, Steve? Usher and his DJ. Mariba's doing the national anthem. That makes sense. Are they betting on the over-under whether she's going to be two minutes or less on the national anthem?

What do you mean? Under. Usher says there's going to be surprise guests. It's under right now. They're betting that her national anthem will be under two minutes.

Okay. So someone says that Bieber's going to show up. I don't know. I don't even care. I just don't 'cause I'm probably not even gonna watch that point.

I'm I'm probably not even gonna do that. I'm man, I'm here for the snacks. That's it. I'm like there for the snacks. All I know is that Kansas City Chiefs are playing, and I literally only know that because of all the drama over Taylor Swift, and I don't even want to know.

You're like, Dana, it's an American pastime.

So are guns. What? Yep. I want some chicken wings and some Casey barbecue. I'll go with that.

Casey barbecue? Yeah. What? Yeah, Kansas City Barbecue. Kansas City is part of Missouri.

You do know that. That's part, right? I don't care. You're from Saint Louis. Yeah, and Casey Barbecue is very similar.

This is what it would feel like if you would tell me you're trans. Oh my God. Yeah. Talk about being dramatic. No, it's not.

St. Louis BBQ is the only. I will physically. The drama. This is where I will throw it.

The drama. It's like you're on the view. Speaking of which.

Okay, can we play this?

Sorry, today in stupidity, that's worth it. This is not so sunny, hosting. Juan, just play this. At first, I was deeply disappointed. The slave thing is a bummer.

It's a bummer. Jeez. And I still enrolled. I still believe in reparations. I still believe in reparations, by the way, so y'all can stop texting me and emailing me and saying that I'm a white girl and that I don't deserve reparations.

You don't deserve reparations because you're a millionaire on a television show. You can pay reparations to yourself since your family was involved in the slave trade. I've been paid from people who never owned slaves. Like you literally sold other black families, your family did, other black families into the slave trade.

So pay your own reparations. Oh my gosh. All right, folks, that does it for our show today. Tomorrow's Friday. I hope you have a wonderful evening, and I will be back with you tomorrow.

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