Tuesday March 12 - Full Show

What did that ghostwriter do with the information Joe Biden shared with him on his laptop? What did he do after you were named special counsel? Chairman, if you are referring to the audio recordings that Mr. Zwaniter created of his conversations with the files into his recycled bin on his computer. Tried to d tried to destroy the evidence, didn't he?

You know what I think we're going to start requiring now whenever we have these hearings? You know how you have the, um What is it the The little clock, the little sand thing. Gosh, what is it? Hourglass? My gosh.

Days of our lives. And I was waiting for Stefano to pop up. And that. Is it? Damn you, Stefano!

Welcome to the show. It's the her testimony. He's a he's like a you can't flap that dude. He's unflappable Yeah, he's like, he's the kind of guy you would want to be like, investigate stuff, right? That dude.

So he's being questioned right now. It is fascinating. Uh you had Hank Johnson Mm. maybe 10-15 minutes ago asking him questions And I don't exactly know what Hank Johnson was talking about. That's some of what you heard that you heard Jim Jordan questioning him there.

But this is the transcript. All of this is out.

So you have the her report and the full transcript of. The that special counsel interview, and they are so mad. They are livid. Democrats are PO'd. that Robert Hurr was like, oh, he's just this uh He's just a forgetful old man.

They keep going back to that. They're so mad. And they're like, well, you didn't have to opinionate. You didn't have to put that in there. You did that to be mean.

And he was like, my report would have been complete, incomplete if I didn't. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash here with you. Top of this very first hour. We've got all kinds of drama.

We have intrigue. We have drama. We're going to be talking about TikTok with FCC's Brendan Carr, who needs to be on the FCC forever so my get-out of jail-free card can stay like this. Yeah, we got five years.

So I got five years.

So if something goes sideways and, you know. I got a pass, right? I got that pass.

So we're going to talk with him. We also are going to get into. Uh It's like, I was trying to figure out how to classify this: border, NATSEC, immigration, because now you have FBI Director Ray saying, yeah, you guys, the people crossing at the border, could be ISIS. If Step Brothers the movie was an administration, it would be this one. We have, so we're going to get into all of that.

Also, the latest with Gaza and Pallywood strikes again, culture. I don't know if you saw Poot Buddha judges. Don't give me sass for saying his name correctly, by the way. That's the way that our illustrious President Joe Biden says his name. And also, what's his face, Larry O'Donnell on MSNBC, the great Shakespearean commentator.

Uh Apparently, Put Buddha judges Husband partner dude? Chaston? What kind of name is that? was making kids pledge allegiance to the alphabet flag. Making kids pledge allegiance to a flag that represents how you have to sex.

So we're going to talk about that. The trans tyrants canceling of a icon in rock and roll. We got a whole I mean, that's not even the first hour.

So we got a lot of stuff to get into. But first and foremost, this special, this little transcript I love how Wapo was like, It paints a nuanced portrait. Nuanced you say.

Okay, we'll go with that. They said, listen to this. Did you read the subhead on this? This does so heavy, this is such heavy lifting.

Now, listen. The president doesn't seem as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be. And Hurr doesn't appear as crass as Biden has portrayed him.

So they're trying to be like, look, we're giving a little bit to Robert Hurr to make it look like we don't hate him. But no, Joe Biden's not absent-minded. They are all in. All the wagons are like hysterically circling. They don't really have a plan yet.

They're all just running around, screeching at this point. Sidebar. When I was a little kid one time, my grandparents had a little chicken yard, and then they had their little chicken coop, their little hen house. And I one time just ran in there, and all the chickens went, blah, blah, blah. Yeah.

That's exactly what's happening. I got in trouble. That's exactly what's happening right now. That's what's, it brought me back, man. It brought me back.

The interesting piece over the Daily Caller, though, there was. A time. that Democrats had no problem with uh Robert Hurr. Do you believe it? There was.

a time when they didn't have a problem with him. Because he's on Capitol Hill testifying this report on this report. And they used to praise him. They've praised him. In fact, Democratic Maryland Senator Ben Cardin Told WAPO at the time Robert Herr was appointed, quote, he's a true professional.

And he was appointed. Do you know who Robert Herr was appointed by? He's a they got into this. Maybe a little bit ago, and they're like, Oh, what are you? You're a registered Republican.

So Hank Johnson was like, You're basically a MAGA AIDS fire, aren't you? That's he didn't say it like that, but that's what he was intimating. But guess who he was?

Now guess who he was appointed by? Do you have any idea, Kane? You know who he was appointed by? Uh Trump? No.

No? No. Uh he was appointed a special counsel by And this was in January of 23. His name Rhymes with Shmerick Barland Wait a minute. That sounds familiar.

Yeah, what is Shmerick Barland? remind you of Cain. Merrick Garland? And you would be correct, sir. He was appointed by Biden's own Attorney General.

Me Merrick Garland. who looks like a extra out of the labyrinth, like he's Hoggle's cousin, I don't know. S you know. But anyway. I don't know why I keep.

I don't know why I keep going.

So, what if you asked me, what if you sent me an email? Why do you go back to the labyrinth? Because, like, there's literally Lord of the Rings in the labyrinth. You can take everything back to either of those two. I just, you can.

But before he was assigned to a special counsel, Oh my gosh, Chris Van Holland, Senator Chris Van Holland, they love them, some bobby her. What, what? They love them, some bobby her. In 2018, they parazed his confirmation as the next U.S. attorney.

in Maryland. They were looking forward to working with him, effused Van Hollen. Garland himself said Herr will carry out his responsibility in an even handed and urgent manner. He will conduct f investigations. This is what he said when he appointed him a special counsel.

Quote, He will conduct investigations with a fair, impartial, and dispassionate judgment. They loved them. He's no nonsense. said one Biden ally to Wapo. He's always fair minded.

He's a non partisan seeker of justice, said another. He won't be politically swayed one way or another, even MSNBC Daily Colour notes. They love them, Simbapi Her. Rachel Madow herself even said That He was an experienced Justice Department professional. Whoa.

They loved it. They loved Bobby Hur. until they didn't.

Now they hate him.

Now they look at him like he's basically a MAGA AIDS fire. Huh. They've been going at him all day.

So you're a registered Republican, huh? Aren't you basically a Nazi? I mean they didn't say that but They would if they could.

So this was, this is where it was. I mean, he literally forgot. I don't I Bo Biden may be the only Person in the history of the world who's died multiple deaths at the hands of multiple things. Like he's died in tar pits, combat. Killed by an illegal immigrant.

I mean, he's, you know, he's been killed six ways to Sunday. And Joe Biden couldn't remember when he passed. He couldn't remember when he passed. And then he forgot when Trump got into office. Um What?

I it That's I'm just saying.

So now you can you can kinda see why they're all freaking out. And So apparently One other thing I wanted to point out. Uh it was Ah, was it Adams? It was either Adam's shift Or Eric Swaba, I think it was It was uh Schiff. It was Adam Schiff.

Just literally, like in the last 20 to 30 minutes, he was getting on Robert Hurr because Robert Hurr had characterized the president as being forgetful in his, you know, basically the synopsis of this investigation and this interview. And so Adam Schiff was like, well, You know, it's not that he's forgetful. I mean, in fact, many times lawyers advise their clients to say, well, I don't remember, or I don't know, or all of this other stuff, or I don't recall, which is true. Lawyers will say, if you can't pinpoint something specifically, because you don't want to get yourself caught up in, you know, the appearance of making a false statement, just say, I cannot recall. You can say that.

Biden said, I don't recall, I don't remember, and I have no GD idea. Quote, I have no G D idea. more than one hundred times.

So he got mad several times. That sounds a little bit more like than what Schiff is trying to characterize it as, as simply being, oh, well, his attorneys had advised him to say this. It sounds a little bit. More. than than that.

And they were really, they were not happy about this. In fact, go ahead and play this because this is when shift. This was actually, I think. Uh right after Schiff brought this up where he tried to rip off Special Counsel Her's head. Because her basically suggested that Biden was unfit for office.

Listen to this, it's catty. And it was your obligation to follow that policy in this report, was it not? It was also my obligation to write a confidential report for the Attorney General explaining completely what I was saying. You say it wasn't political, and yet you must have understood. You must have understood the impact of your words.

You must have understood the impact of your decision to go beyond the specifics of a particular document, to go to the very general. to your own personal, prejudicial, subjective opinion of the President, one you knew would be amplified by his political opponent, one you knew that would influence a political campaign. You had to understand that. And you did it anyway. And you did it anyway.

And her response to this was, if I would not have included. These aspects of the investigation into this report, it would have been an incomplete report. I mean, they can sit here and go at him for being a registered Republican six ways to Sunday. But y'all, it was Mayor Garland who selected him as special counsel. It was Chris Van Holland who effused, who lavished praise upon him.

And not just him, but a whole host of Democrats that absolutely adored them some Bobby Hurr, up until the point where they didn't.

So if they're mad that he's a Republican, then blame your all selves because you appointed him. You're the one who picked him to be special counsel. You thought you had this locked up. And you didn't. They always get over their skis, these people.

Now, additionally, I wanted to touch back on what we hit, FBI Director Ray is warning. That uh guys he's a little concerned with what's happening at the uh southern border. That Crossers could launch another 9-11 attack. He says human trafficking cells have ties to ISIS. We're going to talk about this more because this is something a lot of people have brought up, but yet when they bring it up, Well you know, you're told that you're a bigot or What is it, xenophobic or something?

If you bring up the possibility that this could be exploited.

So, coming up, we have this. We also have that Mr. Poot Buddha judge making kids pledge the allegiance to the rainbow flag. Yeah, but don't call them groomers. We have that.

We're going to get into some of the 2024 gossip. Biden's team, they're at each other's throats. They're all leaking to Politico. I've got that for you. Taco Bell's closing all over Oakland.

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What so 50 people were injured by what's being called a strong movement? On a plane, do not let me forget to tell you about my airplane horror story. Oh dude, I cannot even believe I forgot to tell you this. Anyway, 50 people were injured by a strong movement on a plane traveling from Australia to New Zealand. This, that's what they're calling it.

They said it was going from Australia to New Zealand, 50 people. It was a Chilean plane. Their airline said that there was a technical event during the flight which caused a strong movement. They did not elaborate. They had 10 emergency vehicles when the flight touched down at Auckland, and most of the injuries were mild.

13 were hospitalized, one was in serious condition. and a number of them were not wearing their seatbelts.

So it suddenly dropped in the air is what it sounds like. um but still that's kind of uh speaking of planes and stuff Boeing whistleblower, John Burnett, was found dead in his truck outside a South Carolina hotel just days after testifying in a lawsuit against the aviation giant. I'm sure this is just totally coincidental. A 62-year-old man found dead in his truck in a hotel parking lot on Saturday, just days after he gave a deposition about Boeing, claiming that they were using second-rate parts. And that's why things were, that's why there were some problems.

They said that. The ex-quality manager said it was a self-inflicted wound and they're still investigating. Self-inflicted. I'm sure.

Okay, yeah, just let's go with that right now. Daily marijuana users, they say, are 25% more likely to have a heart attack. But Kane insists that it's not the vax, guys. Because it is in the backscreen. Do pot people, did they get the vaccine?

I probably because the pot people, like pot people, aren't they like hippies? And so they drink that bacteriotine and they wear it, they like go out into the woods and get hemp, wherever that is, and they weave it together into sandals and stuff.

Some don't go that far. It seems like they wouldn't get it. Yeah, some don't go that far. I don't know. Anyway, doctors cannot edit the genes inside of your body, according to the Wall Street Journal.

But as Kane would like for you to know, It's not the VAX guys. 47% of parents still financially support their adult children. Do you know why? Because the economy? is a giant deuce.

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I don't know. All right. I plus my heart to the rainbow, the not-so-typical gay camp, one camp, one camp. Pride indivisible with affirmation of equal rights for all. Watch your heads.

So, what you just heard, if you were listening coast to coast on an affiliate near you, if you're streaming, if you're listening later to the archived podcast, or if you're watching the simulcast live, either on channel 347 Direct TV, YouTube, where the discussion happens, or Facebook, that was. Uh Mayor Secretary Uh Vice Admiral of the uh canoe fleet at Camp Wimpetonka. Poot. Pooty judge. And that was mister Poot Booty Judge.

Chaston Who is basically mocking, not basically, is mocking the Pledge of Allegiance. It was recorded at a 2019 Iowa Safe Schools annual governor's conference. On alphabet youth, and I have no idea why they feel the need to do this. And this dude's a middle school teacher. Um That was yeah, it was the Iowa Safe Schools thing.

It was their virtual graduation ceremony. And they that's the It's a first off, can I just point out the the Ludicrousness The lunacy. of having you don't have to have a flag for everything. Right. This is a flag for how you like to have sex.

Okay. And with whom? I get it that everybody wants to turn themselves into a brand, which is infuriatingly, insufferably annoying nowadays. But you don't need a flag or a marker or. I mean, are you that star for attention?

Because people who need attention do this stuff. It's like I need a flag because I like I like uh brownies without nuts and I need a flag for that. Or, I like ankle socks over cruise socks. I need a flag for that. It's my laugh, it's my truth.

I it j it's just You're it's a flag. For how people have To sexes, okay? Why do you need that. It's like saying, well, I'm a dude and I prefer to sit to pee. Where's my flag?

I mean, you know, where. I don't get why you have to have some sort of Announcement For every aspect of your life. cordoning yourself off by insisting upon having some kind of flag with some kind of r it's goofy. Just be a here. Yeah.

Be a part of the human race, right? And then to have these kids do this? Look, Pooh Buddha Jej was. He was a DEI hire. He got selected.

This Bob the Builder guy got selected. Because he's gay. That's why he got picked for this role. It's not because Secretary Booty Judge has some sort of immense qualifications in transportation. It's not because Secretary Bootyjedge has a lifelong affinity for vehicles.

They act like he's like the the American Jeremy Clarkson or something. He got picked. Because he has sex with dudes. That's why he was selected. for no other reason.

He ran against Joe. Joe wanted to make his administration look young. Then he could also check the box of, well, here's a guy who's alphabet, and he installs him in this position. And Poop Booty Judge immediately puts out his identity politic of how he has sex before any other qualification like merit or skill or anything else. See, that's it.

At some point, that's what our world's going to be. We're getting there. We're getting there slowly but surely. Your doctor will be the surgeon operating on your guts, will be the guy operating on your guts, not because he had the merit and skill to do it, but because of how he has the sex. It's going to happen.

Just get used to it, right? You're gonna die.

So. It's true. I mean, at least Rick Rennell, who was DI, had like Intel experience, right? Can I be real? I didn't even know that dude was gay.

Until it came out and they tried to shame him over it because the left likes gay people until they find out you're a dirty Republican. And then all of a sudden being gay is bad. Because they patent identity politics. You can't be gay, you can't be black, you can't be Hispanic, you can't be a chick. Unless you're a Democrat.

The Democrat aspect validates all the other identity politics.

So you can't truly be any of them. I mean, Joe Biden told y'all. If you're not y if you're not voting for him, you ain't black. That's how they literally view it. I'm not exaggerating.

That's that's how they look at this stuff.

So He was a DEI hire. Why is he holding up this flag? I'm confused as to how this is written. Was it a conference talking about alphabet youth, or was it a gay kid camp? And then, why are you sending your kids to gay camp?

Why is there gay jokes? You have to realize I came of age in the 90s. And I wish the eighties were my coming of age 'cause that was I feel like a way better time. But things were still pretty politically incorrect then, right? I mean, the Goonies was out when I was a kid.

Goonies, right? Remember that? Uh, the Brad Pack was like a you know, they were a thing when I was growing up. I just feel like there could have been like a PCU sort of thing with like. Which still, I found the link on that, by the way.

You got to look at it online because for some reason you can't watch it anymore. Jeremy Piven, PCU, the best movie that was really a prophecy. On where everything was going. It was making fun of identity politics and all of this woke stuff before, like decades before it happened. The whole Iowa Safe Schools thing, they were mad because Kim Reynolds was like, okay, we don't want dudes.

changing in women's locker rooms.

Now that should not be a controversial thing. I told you how we had a cousin. And this was in Hillsboro, Missouri. Right? at the school there, who was an athlete.

And there was an 18-year-old male who was over six feet who just decided, you know. One month he wanted to be a check. Demanded access to the girls' locker room so he could change. The girls were like all having to cram into the bathroom to change because they didn't want to have to change in front of this dude. Understandably.

Because remember, as Caitlin Jenner said, you can be a dude and still attracted to chicks and dress like a chick because he still liked the ladies. That's how goofy all this is. And so he Insisted on being able to change in the girls' locker room, and the girls had no, the female athletes had no, what were they going to do?

So They um All of the Iowa safe school things, all the other alphabets, all the other letters, they're thrown into the street. It's all about the T. Oh, the L's and the G's? Get out. LGB get out.

It's all about the tea. The T's running all the other letters off. The T's telling L's. that they can't be truly L's, and they're telling the G's they can't be truly Gs. They're not saying anything to the bees, but That's you know No.

So they had um mottos that said Uh 2468 How do you know your kid is straight? How about 2468STFU? It doesn't rhyme, but it serves a purpose. Like, seriously, what in the world? But they had their whole curriculum.

They had a queer book club. What does that even mean? Do gay people read books differently? I know gay people, they don't read books differently than non-gay people. How does how you have to sex affect how you read to books?

D is this do I not know something? Did they just put their face on the book and absorb it by osmosis? Like, how does that work? I could do that. Dude, right?

So they had that, they had, let's see, oh, queer current events.

Okay, whatever that is. Uh Gingerbread per I mean this is the dumbest stuff ever. I'm just going to say, like, if I even was a, if I was a super left person. And I encourage this in my kids. I would actually be offended by this list because.

It's patronizing and stupid. It's really dumb.

So they had a whole thing about pronoun prep. This is what Chastin was involved in. Yeah, the Secretary of Transportation. who knows nothing about transportation. That's like making me the minister of football.

Can you imagine? I would immediately say all the teams with ugly colors, change them. 'Cause your uniform's like Hana so I would immediately do that. I totally would.

Some of those uniforms, some of these colors out there, I'm like, that's gross. Like, nobody wants that color. That looks like a 70s Afghan. Stop it. Like a quilt, like a crocheted quilt or crocheted afkin.

It looks, no, nobody wants that. You know what I mean? The brown and gold. No, change that. Y'all know what I'm talking about.

I heard y'all go, oh, because you all have one. Your moms have one. Or you got one from your grandparents. I know.

Now, speaking of trans tyranny, you guys know uh Cherry curry, right? And if you don't, why? The Runaways, one of my absolute favorite bands because it was a girl rock band and they just pioneered girl rock. And there are a lot of women today that are in rock and roll, or people who like women in rock and roll, that owe a debt of gratitude to Sherry Curry. She was the singer, right?

So she got canceled by trans tyrants. At the Ironically named Riot Girl Festival in Bisbee, Arizona. They canceled her because she spoke out against. The grooming of kids and targeting of kids with trans surgeries. The Riot Girl Festival.

That whole festival wouldn't exist. without people like Sherry Curry. All of these remedial power chord playing bitches can only have a space in the musical sphere because Curry blazed the path for you. People like Susie Quatro, people like Sherry Curry, people like Lita Ford.

So bow down and give thanks. I just find that incredibly. Asinine. Yeah, they they she opposed the transitioning of minors She's like if you're an adult And she's even like more to the left of a lot of conservatives on the issue. She's like, if you're an adult, you choose to do this with your own dollars.

That's one thing. She's like, but if you're a child, how and I agree with the reasoning that it's not informed consent. It isn't informed consent. You're pumping people full of hormones. That I'm going to tell you, I had an aunt.

I don't want to give anybody's names. Who, when she went through menopause, they did all the hormone stuff with her. She ended up developing a serious health issue because of that. They have no idea. There are no long-term studies on this stuff.

You're just jacking kids up with hormones to hell with the consequences they're going to have to deal with a decade down the road. Big pharma is like, yeah. With that's not informed consent. And so they're actually canceling her. From the Riot Girl.

festival. That's a that's one of the funniest things I've ever heard of. Because that whole thing, if you know that term like took off like early 90s. And that was um It was like L7 and really, you know, hard, grungy, guitar-driven rock. I mean, there were like a bunch of bands that were there, but you have like a lot of these new chicks that are out, and I'm like, How are you canceling this icon and some of the chicks that got big in the 90s?

How are you canceling an icon like this? You either want to protect kids or you don't. She's saying, can we protect kids from this? This isn't informed consent. She's 1,000% correct.

And I think it's incredibly brave for her to go out and say stuff like this, especially in this environment. There is nothing more metal or punk rock. Than what she just did. And she's not stepping down she's not backing down off it either. She is an absolute icon.

If you think you're going to sit here and make Sherry Curry back down from something, you're a moron. You have no concept of this lady's history. She's a chainsaw artist for crying out loud. You think that she's got time for your stupid political sensitivities about grooming kids?

Okay, who the hell is it? What do these people think they are? The whole reason I ever picked up a guitar, I play rhythm guitar horribly. And I can play drums. The only reason I ever did was because people like Sherry Curry.

I had a runaway t-shirt that I still have. You don't believe me? Check my Twitter.

Okay. True story. Kali. Instead of like complaining about her. performing somewhere, I would be punching chicks in the neck.

to be first in line to get a ticket to be front row to see her. And she's and she's absolutely a thousand percent right. You know, pointing out that That Kids should be protected from this hormonal experimentation. And that's exactly what it is because there are zero long-term studies. It is so dangerous.

Kids that are still going through puberty that haven't even fully formed yet. Oh my gosh, this is so dangerous. That's not care and it's not informed consent, and she's right. Uh, our partners that help bring you free radio, it's our friends over at Black Rifle Coffee. I am super caffeinated where I was for the past week didn't have good coffee, so I came back and I'm like, you know, trying to make up for it.

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Tremendous amount of things you can cut. Let me be precise. Yeah. Yeah. Tremendous amount of things you can do.

Not cut. He said, I will and but the bottom line is Yeah. Yeah. Someone remembered American man. I don't know.

I mean, I could understand cousin It from the Adams family better than I can understand Joe Biden. Yeah, like true. way more animated. Man, they need to get him some of Hunter's Booger Sugar. For real, man.

Like. Animate this corpse. Good night. Welcome back to the program. Your lovable curmudgeon Dana Lash here with you.

It's always so gonna be with you. Happy Tuesday. You're like, don't tell me happy Tuesday, girl. It's not even halfway through the week.

Okay, Tuesday. There you go. So uh a few of the things that we're gonna get to coming up. We're going to hit his budget and the proposal he has to give two billion to ATF. And I think it was $51 million to FBI.

And this is on the heels of House Republicans claiming that they have cut the funding of these agencies. This was post SODU, State of the Union, by 7%, which is a giant Giant Lai McLai. It's a huge lie because they didn't actually. They just simply cut the rate of growth and they included construction funding for a facility in Alabama for the FBI as like the basis in order to achieve the 7%. It's like not even half a percent.

So they lied to you. That's how Republicans did that. They lie to you. Not all of them, but Johnson did. Mike Johnson did.

So we're going to talk about this. We're also going to get into, and again, the reason I'm bringing this up is because this is going to have far affecting. consequences.

So Haiti's prime minister resigned.

Now, what does this have to do with you? My question is: How many Haitian quote-unquote refugees are streaming across the border? And there's a lot of talk about a suspected Haitian gun smuggling operation. How are they getting all this stuff in Haiti? That's a big question.

So we're going to get in, we're going to talk about all of this stuff. I mean, nobody, apparently, the administration doesn't seem the least bit concerned that any bad actors could exploit this, but at least FBI Director Christopher Wray, too, I will say this. Is saying, you know, you need to watch what's happening at the southern border. We're going to touch on this and so much more coming up. Second hour on the way.

Stick with us. All charges are warranted in this matter. Correct.

So this lengthy, expensive and independent investigation resulted in a complete exoneration of President Joe Biden. For every document you discussed in your report, you found insufficient evidence that the President violated any laws about possession or retention of classified materials. The primary law that you analyzed for potential prosecution was part of the Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. 793E, which criminalizes willful retention or disclosure of national defense information. Is that correct?

Congressman, that is one statute that we analyzed. I need to go back and make sure that I take note of a word that you used, exoneration. Mr. Hurricane, I'm going to continue with my questions. I'm going to continue with my questions.

I know that the term whether sufficient evidence existed such that the likely outcome conviction is a very important thing. Mr. Hurr, it's my time. Thank you. Where?

As Premier Jayapal, questioning. Special Counsel heard just a little bit earlier, that's been ongoing. All morning, all afternoon. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you.

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So the Report. They're livid, as I talked about last hour. They're super mad, Democrats, because. Eh this report is bad. It's bad for them and it's bad for Biden.

Case in point. He forgot That his When his son was deployed, He forgot when his son died, his first, his eldest son, Bo. He forgot when Bo died. Uh he was asked Was it 2015? And he had to have an aide come in and say it was May of 2015.

And Biden couldn't remember. And then he said, and Trump gets elected in November of 2017. He I mean, that's what the trans the transcript I mean, he was And he was mad because her claimed that he couldn't remember when his son passed, and then he said it was false. But no, he literally First off, her never made that claim verbatim. Her never said that.

He they said he was confused. You have what's her face out there. This is and there's already a community note over it. Uh Weng, who is with CBS. And she was saying that she sets up, this is classic straw man.

She sets up a claim that's completely demonstrably false and then reacts to it and acts as though Her's report is biased because Hurr portrayed Biden as not knowing a specific date. When Hurr actually never made that claim, he just said that Biden seemed confused, which Biden absolutely did when you read the transcript.

So, they won't show you the actual transcript when they make these claims. They just want you to take their word for it. And he literally thought in another part of the transcript that that His son Bo was deployed in Iraq in twenty seventeen. When he shuffled off this mortal coil in 2015.

So They're just they're mad. They're livid over this. I mean, it's right there in the transcript. Her was absolutely, positively correct in the way that this was. por the way that he described it.

That was that was Absolutely, positively correct. And as I said earlier, Democrats never had a problem with her until now. Until now.

Now they're super angry.

Now, a couple of other things I've got for you. I've got a piece coming out later today. over at Substack on chapter and verse, and it's going to dive into some of this. Because we have this You know, this this super awesome budget. that's coming up and in this budget This was issued, today's the 12th.

Yeah, so this was yesterday. There were a number of little, you can go to the White House and they have their statements or their press releases, and there was a ton yesterday, and it's like one towards the bottom, but it's I have it linked. You'll be able to read it. But it's a major taxpayer funding increase. It was called Fact Sheet.

The president's budget tackles crime, keeps Americans safe at home, and they get into funding for the ATF and the FBI.

So they're saying that they're investing.

Now, here's the subsection: quote, addressing the gun violence epidemic. And it reads: Invests in federal law enforcement to combat gun violence. The budget makes significant investments to bolster federal law enforcement capacity to strengthen public safety. I thought you guys wanted to this is them trying to push back on some of that defund stuff too, remember. They said the bid the budget includes $17.7 billion for DOJ law enforcement, including $2 billion, an increase over 30% since 2021, for the ATF.

to implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. And then they also talk about how it includes an additional $51 million for the FBI to support the continued implementation of quote-unquote enhanced background checks. Which that's dumb. That's So they are proposing a major taxpayer funding increase for gun control policies.

So that's a 30% increase from 21 for the ATF.

So that's $2 billion. And then the enhanced background check for the FBI for $51 billion.

Now, the other issue with this is because this is right on the heels. Let me pull my notes up on this. This was right on the heels of the house cleaning. that they had Uh cut seven percent, I think it was. From FBI, yes, FBI and ATF.

They said that they were bragging that they were going to save taxpayers. This was from They were going off of a CBO projection about national debt expanded by $20 trillion and eclipsing our GDP. And they were saying that we're going to save taxpayers $200 billion over the next decade. And they were claiming that some of the cuts came from cuts from federal law enforcement agencies, ATF and FBI. But the problem is that.

They were talking about this appropriations package. They were saying that they wanted to utilize their power as the House, House's power of the purse, to do this. And they wanted to, they were trying to say reverse the ATF's anti-Second Amendment overreach by reducing their overall funding by $122 million, as well as the FBI, they said, reducing their overall operating budget by $654 million and cutting their construction amount by 97%. They were saying it was a 7% decrease for ATF. But here's the problem.

Um FBI's salaries and expenses, and this was a piece that Reason did when they were looking at their budget for 2023. That was $10 billion in 23. They wanted $11 billion in 24. Appropriations gave them 10.6. That was less than they wanted, but it's actually only 1.5% less.

That's not the 6%, 7% that they were talking about. And then in the omnibus bill that was in 22, that's that $652 million construction project on this Huntsville, Alabama facility, apparently that they were going to build. And they include, when they say that they're cutting construction costs by 95%, they literally use that whole number as a baseline and then slowing the rate of growth as a way to act like they've made these major cuts when actually they really didn't. This is similar to Joe Biden and Democrats saying that they created all of these jobs by allowing people to go back to work after they shut the economy down. I just don't like it when Republicans aren't honest with you about stuff.

I don't like it when they, and especially if you're going to sit here and act like you're doing a great favor for me where it concerns the Second Amendment, I'm going to look into it. This is not a giant great favor. You're not cutting. N you're cutting Nada. Like a half a percentage point.

They're still getting your slow. What? It's still more than the previous appropriations. It's still more than 22. It's still more than 21.

You're just you're just slowing it. Barely. It's not a 7% cut they're trying to act like. I mean, the ATF, this was justice.gov. And who wrote there was a piece, I think this is.

Show Lancas Lancaster. This was in 23, 1.6, almost 1.7 billion for salaries and expenses for the ATF, and that was in 23. And that the appropriations bill gives them just A little bit less. The official was $1.672 billion for 23. This is 1.625.

So what? That's like Maybe two percent? That's not 7%. They were claiming 7%. That was supposed to, that 7% they were acting like was a cut of 122 million.

The ATF didn't ask for any construction stuff. I get that Making any kind of a cut is a step in the right direction. That's not what the issue is here. The issue is on the fuzzy math that they're using in order to try to get you to believe that they're cutting more than they actually are. when in fact they could cut a lot more.

I don't care if you can't get it through the Senate. Do it anyway. And then gum everything up so that nothing passes. Because it's ridiculous at this point. You're talking about increasing the budget for an agency that was so abusive towards people of political opposition to the administration that parents were getting surveilled by going to school board meetings and speaking out, as is their free speech right to do so, about a school that they fund with their tax dollars that their children attend.

And you want to expand things for them? I mean, I'm thinking that we need a drastic overhaul and serious cuts. to start with.

So, I don't like the false claims. And that made me very suspicious of Mike Johnson. And found being honest about it.

So, I have a thing coming out about that over at chapter and verse that you're going to want to take a look at as well.

Now, in the meantime, This was interesting. I swear when we were on our, I think when we were on our flight from, we had to do a layover in Miami to get back to Dallas. And I swear that when we were on our flight, I think they were shuffling around people who were not in the country illegally because people had neck pouches and they had no idea where to go. And there were different, you know, government officials. I could tell they weren't just basic TSA that were there directing them on what lines to get into, et cetera.

The Biden administration admits, this is via not the B, that it secretly flew 320,000 quote-unquote asylum seekers into the U.S. That was just in 23 alone, because they were trying to reduce the Deluge at the border.

Now, when Joe Biden sends people to different cities, as he has done since he took office, it's okay. But the moment DeSantis or Abbott did it, the left lost their mind, and then they pretend that. Biden never did any of this stuff. I mean, I can't get. My, I have to take in because I only carry carry-on, I know checkpacks.

I can pack for a weekend and carry one carry-on. But you can't take anything what is it over 3.4? Fluid ounces, something like that. You'll get in trouble. Balbidium, you can cross the border illegally.

kind of have no idea it's just the honor system And it's totally fine. Republicans are seeking answers on this, by the way. House Republicans are demanding more information about how much the flights have cost because, don't you want to know? I mean, hell, look at the price of everything. People aren't going to be going on vacation like they used to this year because everything is so expensive.

But your taxpayer dollars are buying plane tickets for other people. They aren't even here legally. We're going to talk more about this on the way, also on deck. They're gonna ruin King of the Hill. Oh yeah, they're looking at a reboot.

with new people. I'm not excited about it. We're going to talk about this coming up. We're going to get into all of that and more. And then, also, the FBI director's warning of dangerous threats at the border.

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But yeah, y'all need to be real careful with that stuff. I know times are tough, but man alive, Airbnb is banning all indoor security cameras. Can I just be honest? I don't like Airbnbs. No, I stayed in one one time.

It was weird. I don't like being in s even if it's a rental income that or like or like that that they use it for, it's just weird to me and I don't like it. I know.

Like some people, it's their jam. I'm weird. Pat, in the past six months, I've probably... Stayed in two different Airbnbs. Yeah, I keep it.

Not bad at all. I do it because they have the grills and they have like the stuff that you want that a hotel doesn't. I end up grilling. I never, I don't like to be in a room for a long period of time like that. Like, I, so I'll just be like, if I go somewhere and I'm in a hotel, I'm usually not in the room.

And I don't need any of that. I don't want, it's just weird to me. I don't, the only upside is you can do your own laundry, but I don't like it. It's weird. Anyway, my whole reason to bring this up is that they've banned, the whole service has banned indoor security cameras.

They're reversing its course on surveillance policies because some people were perverts and they were peeping toms. Checking on people. See, that's another reason. A 45-year-old was killed after a tree fell onto their home in Pennsylvania, in Cumberland County. A person was, this was on Monday, a tree, a huge tree, up, just like fell right over roots and all.

And just, I mean, Took the roof in, knocked the brick down. It was a massive tree. The 45-year-old was killed. Two others were able to escape uninjured. And crews were, it was like three in the morning.

That's horrible. That's horrifying. Can you imagine? That's horrifying. Let's see.

This apparently in New Orleans, the rats are high. All of them. Yeah, that's a thing. They said that heavy mold and deteriorating elevators, HVAC units, and plumbing are problems that are plaguing the. NOLA PD, New Orleans PD headquarters, but apparently also they said the rats are eating their marijuana and they're all high.

That's a direct quote from the NOPD superintendent and Kirkpatrick. That's where all the evidence went. Yeah, the rats. It wasn't... All of a sudden, all their pot disappeared.

Oh, it's the rats. The rats are high. The rat, I mean they are. The rats started drinking bacteria tea and driving volvos and everything. It was weird.

Let's see. Also, a man who's disgusting. This is the nastiest thing ever, and I am for the death penalty here. This is so nasty. I can't.

I'm not looking at this. I have I hate feet. A guy who hasn't worn shoes for three years because he's a horror, but like a walking horror story, sells pictures of his dirty feet online because he's a disgusting, gross person. The internet is not for him. Shouldn't be.

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Unleash the power of knowledge at your fingertips by following Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. What makes TikTok so good is that it has this artificial intelligence that knows you better than you know yourself. It's literally reading your mind. The more you use it, the more it knows about you. The problem is not that TikTok has that.

The problem is that ByteDance and their engineers in China are the ones that own that artificial intelligence. And no matter where you put my data or anybody, I don't use TikTok, but people that use TikTok, no matter where you store that data, you could store it in a safe in the United States. Those engineers in China have to have access to the data, but they control the brain of TikTok. They control that artificial intelligence. The point I made today.

And the FBI director agreed: is if the Chinese Communist Party goes to them and says, we want you to defeat Donald Trump, we want you to put out messages that are anti-Trump and pro-Biden. ByteDance has to do it. It doesn't matter that they're a company in China. By Chinese law, they have to do it. If they say, we want the data of all your users that live in Florida, they have to give it to them.

They don't have a choice but to do it. That is Chinese law. And so as long as ByteDance owns the artificial intelligence that powers TikTok, we got a Trojan horse living inside our country. I understand this is so this is Senator Marco Rubio. talking about this and I There's, this has been, it's a very interesting debate that's happening on the right, within the right.

right now between more libertarian right people and more Republican right people. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you, bottom of the second hour. And this has to do with TikTok, because there is this. It's and we're actually going to talk with the FCC's Brennan Carr coming up because there is This Debate over whether or not it should be restricted, right? Whether or not there should be restrictions on this because TikTok is literally owned.

By the CCP. This is not. Um Conjecture. It's not hyperbole. You know, it's a real thing.

And There's a I mean, for instance, like the idea that shareholders at TikTok who Criticize or do make, you know, say anything about the company at all. They could have their entire holdings seized. This is something that I do think, especially with all of the everything that's been written about the algorithms and what American audiences are. Presented as opposed to like what Chinese audiences are presented. I understand the concern of I would say division and like a, it's like a site, it's like psychological warfare in some instances.

TikTok is claiming that the First Amendment. Blocks Congress from requiring that they divest from the CCP.

Now what Brennan Carr is going to join us on later is to discuss why what the law actually says on this. And as you know, Carr is commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission. He was general counsel of the FCC previously. And he says that You know, the Supreme Court draws a distinction between laws based on the content of speech and those based on conduct. And he's arguing that the bill is not based on the content of TikTok's protected speech or lawful content.

It's taking action on their illicit conduct, he says, namely the threat, very concrete threat, documented threat to national security that it presents. With all of these illicit actions. He says that is conduct that is not protected by the First Amendment.

Now, that makes sense. And he also argues that the First Amendment does not protect against, does not protect espionage as an act of protected speech. That's a very, very good point. And I feel like it's being lost in a lot of the discussion on this.

Now, there are also people. like Thomas Massey, who say the so called TikTok ban is a Trojan horse. He says the bill goes too far. and that the President would be given the power to ban entire websites, not just apps. He says the person breaking the new law is deemed if to be in the U.

S. or offshore Internet ho hosting service or app store, not a foreign adversary. And he says, if you think it's not a Trojan horse and will only apply to TikTok and foreign adversary social media companies, he writes, and this was four hours ago, then contemplate why someone thought. It was very important to get a very specific exclusion for their internet-based business written into the bill. And he cites this subsection that says exclusion.

The term, quote, covered company does not include an entity that operates a website, desktop application, mobile application, augmented or immersive technology application whose primary purpose is to allow users to post product reviews, business reviews, or travel information and reviews.

Now you could Extend that. And I understand, and I think his concerns. are legitimate. Because that is a Trojan horse buried inside of this.

So TikTok has major problems. I mean, the fact that it is financially intertwined with the CCP. And you have to understand business in China, as we've talked about with Stephen Yates. who ran radio free asia. Uh and You know, worked in the previous, worked in two presidential administrations now, is an expert on this, lived there for a quite, lived in Taiwan for a number of years.

He You know, as many others say, yes, you can't run a business in China and not be a member in good standing of the CCP. You have to essentially be a member of the CCP. They have to, I mean, that's something that they have. You have to have a CCP member. Like, if you have a board of directors, you've got to have a CCP member on your board.

And so Byte Dance, that's the parent company of TikTok. ByteDance is under CCP control. That's public information. TikTok is a subsidiary of ByteDance.

So the proposal is to deinvest and separate Byte Dance from TikTok. And that if they refuse, then based on the illicit conduct, which, as Brennan Carr argues, is not protected speech under the First Amendment. then there would have to be a ban.

Now, there's a lot of nuance in that, that people who are motivated by different uh you know, opportunities will argue for or against. Because you have people who have You know, you have people who are like TikTok famous, which I can't even believe is a thing. And they argue, oh my gosh, you're going to affect this, you're going to affect that. They're motivated by personal advantage. They don't want, they don't give a rat's ass about national security.

They just may, you know, they are famous on TikTok. And then you have business entities, too. Like there's the argument about Elon Musk. Elon Musk wants China to be an open economy for Tesla. You know, they have uh they have factories, they have uh gigafactories in in China.

And he wants to make sure, because that's how China is. If you're critical, if Elon Musk were to call for a ban on TikTok, China would close its economy to Tesla. That's a fact. Is it a conflict? conflict.

I mean it's it's it but he's in business. He hasn't come out against TikTok, but I think he's open to it. And I also think that he's. And I don't want to shove him into a basket of, oh, well, he's going to be owned as a subsidiary of CCP. I think that that's less gracious.

And I think that we need to stop being so damn stupid about this stuff, honestly. I just literally want Smod to obliterate the sweet rock because it's so moronic to even have discussions anymore. That being said. The fact that it extends the executive branch's power to essentially go after everything on the internet that it dislikes is a major problem. And it's interesting because if who would you guess that exclusion would be for?

What I just what I had read to you. Remember I said the term covered company does not include an entity. That operates. A website, desktop application, mobile application, augmented or immersive technology application. Primary purpose is to allow users to post product reviews, business reviews, travel information reviews, da-da-da-da.

Think of a giant big company that would be affected by that. You probably use them every day. Any ideas, Kim? Like Apple? Close.

Amazon. Amazon. Big company. Yeah. that they needed to seek out an exclusion.

Clearly. Hmm. I mean, you would have The executive branch that would be able to extend its finger fingers into everything, like you know, the like the app telegram. Or VPN programs. Think about VPNs.

I use a VPN when I travel. Think about it.

So That They don't actually even define. And Massey had hinted towards this. when he talked about foreign adversary. They don't define what that is. What do you mean, four and a- I mean, I want everything defined in black and white, don't you?

So This bill For all of the alarms that they are raising over bike dance, this bill seems to have some very concerning aspects to it.

Now, is it something to where you could have an amendment to take some of this out? I mean, I. Because the bill I mean, there is, as Brendan Carr noted, a major difference between protected speech and illicit conduct. And Does the bill It seems like the the vagueness of the bill is the poison of the bill to me. Right.

And I understand people talking about government control, but illicit conduct, well, that doesn't fall. Under Free speech, if it is something that violates the law and if it's espionage, because again, First Amendment doesn't cover espionage.

So people who are going, oh, government control.

Well, yeah. You're not allowed to fi you're not allowed to finance cartels. That's not considered, so that would be a government control, too.

So there's nuance here. I want you, I want to caution you. To not use. Uh what I would define perhaps as maybe limited government rhetoric. As a way to protect or enable a brutal Communist regime.

It's a very brilliant trick. that the CCP is doing. Do not be taken in by it. Because they don't have to defend themselves if they can get some people here to do it. And under the flag of limited government, too.

That's why I'm very cautious about all this stuff.

So we're going to talk to Brendan Carr about this. And I'm going to ask him some of those very things: like, why can't we have a little bit more specificity? Why can't we define foreign adversary? Why does the power extend to the executive branch to be able to ban all, you know? What I have seen, there isn't a limitation on that.

I feel like that's a legitimate concern, right? But I stop it saying that they should not be made to divest. Because illicit conduct and espionage do not fall under First Amendment activities. If you want to be a straight letter of the law, That's pretty straight letter of the law. I mean, I'm open to being persuaded otherwise, but that's the way I see it right now.

So like I said, we're going to talk more about this coming up in our third hour. We do have Florida Man on the way. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah. It's time for Florida Man.

HEAL All right, so first up. We um Okay. A man wearing a wig it is Sorry. This is hysterical. I'm not trying to laugh at this, but it's so guy looks so funny.

Okay. It made me I was trying to stifle a laugh and it made my eyes water. Police in Central Florida are on the hunt for a man who was accused of robbing a Bank of America while wearing a wig.

Now he was d is that a face mask that he's wearing? Like not like um bo pre COVID, but like a COVID face mask. See? He entered the Bank of America in Edgewater, showed the bank teller a note as he displayed a firearm. He had a fake wig on, well, obviously, fake wigs, he had a wig on.

And he's a big dude. And police are sharing photos of him. He's in a long-haired wig, blue jeans, a white shirt, gray zip-up jacket. Carrying a little black bag. And nobody would ask questions because we're in that era where, I mean, don't assume it's pronouns.

You know, he's just doing very poorly as a woman. No, right? Am I right? You can't ask questions because maybe he's worried about the pandemic. Maybe he's a trans, you know, so you can't ask questions.

Pre-all of that, people would be like, you're here to rob us. But now you can't. No. Because you're assuming It's pronouns, so I don't know. Anyway, so they can't find him now.

This dude robbed a bank. He robbed a bank, and you're urged to contact a detective.

So, this is the way. Yeah, apparently, that's it. You know, the people that are happiest about the trans stuff and the face masks? Robbers. Yeah.

Bank robbers. 'Cause like I said, before all of that Y'all would have been like, That man's gonna rob us. You need to hit the alarm, but now you can't because it's considered mean. Maybe he's here to rob you. Maybe he just started trying to be a woman, and he's just horrible.

You don't know. And he's worried about germs. You don't know. I don't even know how this happens. A Florida woman was missing for days, and they found her in a shipping container.

You know, that happens sometimes. Yeah, it was Click Orlando, Marlene Lopez. She was missing. They found her the next day, just before noon, in a shipping container next to a business. They asked, What happened?

She said she didn't know. I was in one place and found in another. What? And apparently, the people who owned the shipping container, they went in, they secured it for the night. They didn't know she was in there.

But finally, they heard her. New York Post said somebody heard her banging from the inside. And they call police. S I I'm I'm not saying it's aliens, but Yeah. Was she drugged and just stuffed in a container?

Good lord. She's wearing an early 90s neck choker, so I'm assuming drugs. Because it had a charm on it. If it was just a thin black choker, I'd be like, okay, maybe she's just, you know, retro. but it had a charm on it and I always thought that was the trashier version of it, so I'm thinking drugs.

That is Detective Dana figuring this out. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Apple AirTags. A Florida man is accused of stalking his ex using Apple AirTags.

I mean Yeah. The girlfriend of Robert Roberto Quion of 57 years old, Florida man. He his girlfriend left him in October, but began harassing her and stalking her. He would pass her home every day, duct tape handwritten letters to her car's windshield. And uh she also found Apple air tags in her vehicle uh several times.

And then he was threatening that he would do something better.

So he's in jail, Miami-Dade, held without bond. Mm-hmm.

Now this one. Hold up. I wanna uh th this is actually I just think incredibly This man is living in the future. A Florida man was accused of posing as a drug cartel captive and extorting $80,000 from his wife. all to support his own drug habit.

What? Yeah, a Melbourne, Florida man. He lied and pretended that he was Kidnapped by drug cartels, and he extorted his own wife for $80,000 so he could go buy more drugs. Yeah, Eric Paul Johnson, twenty nine years old. And his wife reported him missing.

And then She said that she received messages from an unknown number demanding sums of money, and they told her that apparently we're the Mexican cartel, and we have your husband, and she believed them. I'm just saying. We have a third hour on the way. Brendan Carr, FCC Commissioner, will join us. We've got a lot to hit.

Stick with us. From an FBI perspective, we are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border. There is a particular network that has where some of the overseas facilitators of the smuggling network have ISIS ties that we're very concerned about and that we've been spending enormous amount of effort with our partners investigating.

So that's the FBI director who is nervous enough about the stuff of the border to warn during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. just earlier this morning that uh there's a threat A terrorist threat. It could be an interior attack on U.S.

soil. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. top of this Third hour. And this disclosure This was, I mean, again, all just this morning, there was an annual report put out yesterday.

by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. wherein they stated the US is facing a fragile world order, was the quote. Due to accelerating strategic competition with major authoritarian powers working to undermine order.

Now, the top concern is this ongoing crisis. of illegal entries at the southern border. that has seen since Joe Biden took office over 7.2. 2 million illegal aliens entering into the interior.

Now that does not even include the gotaways.

So you can imagine.

Now, where he was asked If you're wondering what prompted that sound bite, He was asked about the issue of the southern border being used by. adversaries of the United States and he said yes, absolutely. And when he was asked, well, what about the Godaways? Because there's almost 2 million Godaways. that have evaded, captured, thus, gotaways by border officials Could terrorists possibly be amongst those?

And he actually says, well, No, and then he cited former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld saying, We don't know what we don't know. He said that There were major national security ramifications. And he added quote Uh And we don't know about the people who snuck in, provided fake documents, or in some other way got in when there wasn't sufficient information about the time they came in to connect the dots. And he says it's almost more significant because those people, for the most part, are stopped, detained, and process. He was saying that the gotaways, yeah.

And he says that he did share the concern. That people coming across the border were evading law enforcement. Maybe, maybe, and we know a couple of them already. One of them was an actual. terrorist who's been in in custody before.

But he says there's a threat stream that he is concerned about. That's falling on deaf ears.

However, with The administration. and with other Democrats. Audio Soundbite eight. Premier Jayapal. Says that well it's I guess they're now saying it's a border crisis, but Listen to those.

He should point out. That the reason we have chaos at the border is because Republicans have continued to refuse to fix. the legal immigration system to actually make it possible for people to have legal pathways to come in, whether it's for family or employment or asylum or refugee. Seeking. There are no legal pathways anymore.

Everything is so backed up because we haven't had changes in 30 years. And I think he needs to say that we will get rid of the filibuster, carve out the filibuster so that we can pass. Comprehensive, humane immigration reform. Because, as you know, this Republican Party is not the Republican Party. She wants amnesty.

She hasn't the Democrats haven't done a single thing. I mean, for crying out loud, I'm going to just take you back really quickly to when they had a super majority for the first portion, the first half of Barack Obama's first term before special elections changed the math. They had a super majority. I mean, they could have gotten over any filibuster. You're not going to what?

That's just such a stupid response. You don't need to remove the filibuster, which is a key component of how our Congress is functioning and should continue to be. She's like trying to conflate two things here at once. She wants to attack the filibuster and try to use this as a stupid way to do it. That's not the issue.

And Joe Biden could alleviate a lot of this with some executive orders. I mean, he undid the executive orders so he can redo some executive orders and do other executive orders. He absolutely has that authority as the executive. But he just refuses to do so. And Democrats refuse to do so also because they want amnesty.

The people who are trying to come into the United States legally and they get work visas and all of this stuff, they play by the rules because they want to be a part of the United States and they don't want that held against them. They play by the rules. That's not who we're talking about. We're talking about the people that are sneaking in illegally. And the number of people that I have met.

who have done it the right way. Everything that they have told me, it's the people who would have the most trouble getting in, following that pathway, that are the ones sneaking in.

Now, do there need to be some changes made to the bureaucracy that makes it so incredibly ridiculous? Like, for instance, I had a friend who just became a citizen a couple of years ago and his son from a previous relationship, and they're in Britain. His son can't. Can only come over here for extended periods. He can't get.

He can't come over and be get the certain type of easy that he needs yet, and he can't come over and be a citizen. It's a long process for him. It's like several years in the making now. I mean, I have a number of friends who, like, actually, four friends in the past three years that became American citizens after waiting a decade plus. It's a could a lot of that bureaucracy be remedied?

Absolutely. Especially for those who are wanting to come to the United States, bring their skill sets with them, raise their families and then add to it. And yes, vote Republican. As long as the Republican Party deserves it. But I'm just saying.

This, that's not, those aren't the people that we're talking about, and Democrats already showed their cards on that because you had Nadler up there saying, Oh, well, you know, who's going to come in and pick the weeds? And you know, I mean, golly, these racists already showed you who they were. Good heavens.

Now, a new thing I wanted to touch on this because this happened actually right as the show began. Landmark ruling, this is in Britain. Children will not be prescribed puberty blockers. It's a huge, huge, huge ruling. And it is the this was their health services over in Britain.

And they said that the ruling comes months after a public consultation on the issue. and that they've had different groups studying it, etc. But they said that there have been a rising number of detransitioners who regret having a lot of people. Having the irreversible procedure. And they have been coming forward over and over again in recent months.

Claiming that they have not been challenged enough. They were not challenged enough as children as to their commitment to having this irreversible surgery. And they went from being perfectly healthy to now they have to be on medicine for life. This is very interesting. And so they said that it is a bill, it's the Health Inequality Acts over there.

It's a ban on the prescription of body-altering hormones to children. They're saying if you're a minor, if you're a child, no, we're not doing this.

Now we just need the US to do it. That makes sense. And there have been a number of detransitioners that are Rightly infuriated because the adults that were in their lives. that should have protected them, even at sometimes from themselves. Failed to do so because the adults are more interested in public perception of their own actions than they are the well-being of those minors who are entrusted to their care.

That's the truth of it. These adults care more about their perception. Because you cannot tell me that you think it's better to take a healthy child, put them through experimental surgery, and then have them on medication for life. before their little bodies are even done growing.

So that's a huge significant improvement.

Now, whether or not something like that can pass in the United States. I don't know. That remains to be seen. A couple of other things I wanted to touch on this. Haiti and the Biden administration, I mentioned this a little earlier, one of the reasons I mentioned it is because.

Remember, there was discussion as to How many Haitian? Illegal aliens were coming across the southern border. And I was telling you about how this is affecting a lot of different nations in the Caribbean because they're seeing their resources just drained and their economies besieged, basically. And they're being strained beyond all capacity.

Now, Haiti is teetering, they said, they're on the brink of collapse. They're teetering right there on the edge of the cliff. And they have criminal gangs that have taken control. They keep trying to rehabilitate the image of the one criminal gang leader acting like, oh, he was a former cop or something. Yes, because we know that you can never have a corrupt cop.

Just ask Scott Israel in Parkland. Uh yeah.

So the Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, has resigned. And I guess it's now just total gang land. Haiti Haiti's actually turning into Borderlands, the video game. Yeah. Yeah, it that's true.

Yeah, that yeah it is. I was reading this piece. Let me pull this up. It was a very good piece of a Washington Examiner getting how the U.S. DEI regime failed Haiti.

That's a very provocative headline. They said that. Now they're talking about how the prime minister is unable to return to the country because of violence, gang-controlled barricades blocking roads all through the capital city of Port-au-Prince. the uh gang leader nicknamed BBQ. He says he wants to liberate the nation from corrupt government officials.

You know, 'cause he's not corrupt at all. That's right.

Now Billions of dollars in foreign aid has flown from the United States government. paid for by the American taxpayer to Haiti. Last year, just last year, $344 million in aid. That's been the most since yes, Kane almost died. Are you okay?

Yeah. That's been the most since 2016. In 2010, following the earthquake, it was $1.3 billion.

Now What has the funding been spent on? It's supposed to be spent on food shortages, healthcare infrastructure, but there's been no improvement. No improvement. Foreign aid to Haiti, extended government functions, their country ranks. uh as apparently like the most corrupt in the world.

And app apparently all of this this Money hasn't stopped.

Now, the U.S., now, this is where it gets interesting. Washington Examiner. Great piece, and I'll link this in your prep. It says, before the Genekou, Haiti was subservient to U.S. government's endless money spigot.

And in turn, the U.S. government wielded considerable influence to export an agenda of diversity, equity and inclusion that actually endangered the lives of Haitian people and provided no tangible improvement to their security and well-being. I would also add that it also propelled and encouraged and maybe put on a fast track these gangs that grew and took over. Because they said they bragged that they pushed the country to hire women to be more gender inclusive and all of this other stuff that had nothing to do with healthcare infrastructure and food. They talked about blah, blah, blah, women, women, women.

Well, now, guess what? You didn't actually. Nobody gives a rat's ass about gender-inclusive policies. Where's the gender-inclusive police force as you see all the craziness unfolding in the streets of Port-au-Prince? I mean, how much money has been given, to say nothing of the Clintons' involvement?

Right? We have more on the way. We've got headlines coming up. We got Brendan Carr, FCC commissioner, going to be joining us. Ooh, and one quick point: if you count Haiti twice, two different times, this is the seventh embassy/slash consulate that we've had to evacuate since Biden took office.

Kabul in 21, Ukraine in 2022, Minsk, Belarus, 21, Sudan in 23, Port Auro Prince first off, July 23, then in Niger, January 24, and then Port-Au-Prince again now. Wow. Mm-hmm.

And China, under Trump, they closed the consulate in Houston. There was a lot of because they were being shady is why. But there's rumors of suspected Haitian gun smuggling operation.

Some say we're asking if it's in Florida. And remember, people got mad because the previous administration called Haiti a blank hole country. Mm. Cannibal gang involved. In charge now.

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

So, this just in the GOP's House majority really couldn't afford to shrink, but it has some more. Ken Buck. Colorado Republican is, and he announced that he's retiring next week.

So the very small GOP majority, the weensy, bitty, tiny, small majority is now a little weinzier, bittier, and tinier. And he entered as a Tea Party Republican. And he's, well, he's leaving. He said, quote, he's announcing that he's departing Congress at the end of next week, looking forward to staying involved, blah, blah, blah. He's going to spend more time with his family.

And apparently, Uh, yeah, he's. I don't know what's going to happen with this seat, but we'll keep an eye on it.

So, there's only two extra votes that the house has to pass, uh, that Republicans have in the house in order to pass legislation.

So. It's very tight now. Thousands of kids are overdosing on melatonin gummies. Knock it off, parents. You know, you have wild like fever dreams almost on those things.

People are giving their kids melatonin gummies. They said that excessive amounts only leads to minimal side effects. In fact, if you like take too much, it stops working. It like actually has the reverse effect.

So stop it. You know, like, I don't know. Pia, can I say something? I'm gonna use my rock while the guy's singing up in the meme. If you have to use that much melatonin all the time to get your kids to sleep, Please, like, I don't know, evaluate your parenting.

And then, then, only then, consult a doctor. And then, you know, if you need that much, I've been hearing this all the time from parents. About the that's shocking. A guy who is literally named Deesnutz was arrested and charged with battery. In Green Bay, Wisconsin.

No, that's his name. This is official news. This is professional news. A 42-year-old named Deesnuts Kroll was arrested on March 5th. Mr.

Nuts was arrested on March 5th. They said that Mr. Nuts I had a Wisconsin ID card, that actually was his name, but he got pulled over, he was drunk, didn't follow officers' commands.

So there you go.

So he was Mr. Nutts is no longer on the road anymore. By planthers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A mother was arrested after concocting a drink for her son to give to a school bully that sent him to the hospital.

Parents, I appreciate the effort at trying to do something out of the bag here, but A, that's illegal. And B, just tell your kids to fight back, right? That's just, you know, it is what it is. Coming up, FCC's Brendan Carr, the TikTok fight. Stick with us.

Ready to grow your intellectual Rolodex? Download the Dana Show podcast and join the ranks of those who refuse to settle for the same old boring content on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You know, it's very complicated. I think that's one of the reasons why we're working to have TikTok not have the People's Communists of China own TikTok, because it is a popular form of communication for young people, but and for a lot of people. It's not just young people.

A lot of seasoned people, like the President's campaign, are using it because it's a form of communication. But that's why the People's Republic of China wants control of it. If this bill passes and they don't d disinvest from PITOC, then I think none of us are going to This is the big fight looming right now. And it's not just about TikTok. It's exposed, I think, a very interesting divide in the right with the more libertarian-leaning people on the right and the more Republican-leaning people on the right.

Welcome back to the program. That was Debbie Dingell talking about this bill, this, I guess, for the lack of a better way to put it, the TikTok bill. Daniel Lesh, with you, bottom of this third hour. And my next guest, I like the way that he explained this because it isn't really. an issue of free speech.

Uh, because as Brendan Carr, who is a member of the FCC, uh commissioner on the FCC, he used to be general counsel as well for FCC, he explained: you know, espionage is not a protected form of speech, illicit conduct is not a protected form of expression, and it's not looking at what people are saying or TikTok speech, it's the relationship between TikTok and bite dance, which is a CCP-owned thing. We've talked to Stephen Yates, we've explored bite dance, we talked about how businesses work in China, and you have to have CCP members involved. That's a huge issue, and we have documented concrete evidence showing that there's some pretty shady practices that China's been involved in on the part of bite dance with TikTok. Brendan Carr joins us now via Skype, and he is a commissioner on the FCC, previously general counsel. And he had a great thread about this that I'm going to make sure to include on Substack for our subscribers.

Brendan, always so good to see you.

Well, talk a little bit about that because it isn't really when you break it. Down. It's not a fight about free speech. It is about their illicit behavior. Yeah, you've got it exactly right, Dana.

Thanks so much for having me on. This is very clear: the Supreme Court draws a line between government actions based on the content of speech, which is presumptively unconstitutional, and actions based on illicit conduct.

So it's a content content. Conduct distinction. And here, the government isn't acting because of people's posts on TikTok. They're acting because TikTok has been caught repeatedly engaging in conduct that is itself. Espionage.

So, for instance, TikTok said for years: don't worry, no US user data is going back to China. It doesn't even exist there, they said. But then a blockbuster report came out based on leaked materials that showed everything is seen inside China. And that is highly sensitive information. That's search and browsing history, keystroke patterns, biometrics, location information.

And so that's the reason for the government to be acting. It's the conduct. not the content. And this bill is really smart. First of all, it's very narrow, very targeted, and it would actually just require TikTok to break up with the CCP.

And then people that love TikTok, I'm not one of them, but people that love it can continue to use it. And so that's what it comes down to, doing business with ByteDance.

So the offer is essentially if you break up with Byte Dance, or if ByteDance sells it because it's a subsidiary, that's their parent company, then there's no issue. But if they don't, then that's what could incur the ban, correct? Yeah, that's exactly right. And some people have argued, you know, is TikTok really any that different than other big tech social media companies? And it is definitely so.

I mean, look, I've not spared any criticism for US big tech companies that I think engage in too much censorship, but what they do is fundamentally different than TikTok. TikTok has in the bike dance leadership level a C C P cell embedded. Fight dance personnel have used illicit access to TikTok to surveil. Americans. There's been independent analysis that looked at the TikTok source code and finds that it pulls an excessive and alarming amount of data.

And look, TikTok said, all right, you caught us red-handed. We're going to stop sending this data back to China. Don't worry about it anymore. Then a Wall Street Journal report came out and showed, lo and behold, Personnel in Beijing are still getting access. Why?

It's not because the TikTok people are bad people, it's because they're beholden to the CCP.

So, whatever you want to do to big tech, whatever you want to do about privacy and data flow laws, have at it. But until TikTok breaks up with the CCP, none of that other stuff is going to matter. Talking with Brendan Carr with the FCC, there have been some concerns raised by people like Congressman Thomas Massey. And he says he was a little bit worried, from what I gather, about some of the vagary. For the lack of a better way to put it, in the bill.

Like it could have been tightened up. It could have been maybe more specificity because he's concerned about the executive authority to go further than just CCP entities that have apps, but to ban maybe all websites. He was cautious over the term foreign adversary not being defined. And I tend to give that a little weight, especially in an era where, I mean, somebody who disagrees with you on healthcare can be considered a terrorist.

So what do you say to those concerns? And is that something that can be fixed into some amendment process? Yeah, Rep Massey has been so good on some of these issues of individual liberty, but this bill is actually slightly different than that. There are other TikTok bills that I think a lot of people on the right had a lot of concerns that were too sweeping, but this particular one goes at TikTok and only other applications that clear four separate hurdles.

So, one, the bill has no authority to go through any individual user. That's off the table, unlike other bills. Two, you have to be controlled by a foreign adversary, and that's defined by Congress already as only four entities.

So it's China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia. And then you have to go through an additional process, including a public. Report on the concrete national security threat. Again, it's not enough that you're. Even controlled by a foreign adversary, has to be also a national security threat.

Congress is involved with the process.

So there's four or five hoops you have to go to that makes sure that this is very, very targeted and it corrects force from some overbreadth that we saw maybe in other TikTok bills.

So I appreciate the concern, but that's why I think this bill is so smart, because it is so narrow. Does it make it a little difficult in that we have the current president who uses TikTok? And then the former president just reversed his stance the other day on TikTok, on his social media platform, former President Trump, saying that he found Facebook was a lot worse, which I thought was a little weird because for all the criticism, legitimately of Meta, they at least haven't, to my knowledge, bowed to the CCP in China.

So Facebook isn't in China. China doesn't allow Facebook there. They have their own version. But to have that stance, to have the former president reverse his position against TikTok. How much is that going to change things as it relates to policing their conduct through bite dance.

Yeah, look, President Trump is right that we also need to take a look at regular social media companies like Facebook. I've long advocated for Section 230 reform. I think you and I have been close on that issue, but maybe I go too far from where you want to be on that issue. But we do need to rein in those big tech companies. But again, it starts with dealing with the national security threat.

And President Trump was out front on this in 2020. He identified TikTok as a real threat, tried to take action. And so it's important that we step back with this. As to President Biden, it's true his campaign is on TikTok. And that's why partly I think it's so important that we get this bill passed, because then they want to, they can stay there, but they can do it in a way that no longer presents the same national security threat as being on there right now whilst holding to the CCP.

Yeah, and that makes it, you know, that security, it freaks me out, honestly, that a member of government would have a personal device or any member of the administration would have that on their personal device, knowing what we know about it. Do you have an indication? I mean, does it look like that that sale could happen. I know China's been rattling the sabers about it, making a lot of noise about I think it's ironic, the First Amendment, which they don't have in China. But is there an indication that they might actually agree to sell, to decouple, so that they don't have to lose the American audience?

It's unclear, but right now there's a lot of, at least TikTok claims, a lot of independent investors. That are invested in bike dance. And that's right. If they're really calling the shops, then presumably they're going to want to turn a profit by complying with the sale provision rather than having the app be banned entirely from the US. And there's been a lot of people that have put their hand up.

I saw Rumble Rumble recently today. I thought I saw put their hand up as being interested. Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank put his hand up.

So it could be interesting to see where it goes. And it doesn't even have to be a US company, it just has to be an entity. Again, it doesn't trigger those four or five hurdles, which is controlled by a foreign adversary. Be a national security threat in addition. And so there's a lot of sort of process that would happen at that point, too.

Yeah, we're talking to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr about the big TikTok fight. Is there any truth to the speculation that I know that there were some exceptions that were cited? I mean, like the Amazon, some people were suggesting that maybe Amazon asked for a carve-out. I mean, is there any truth to the rumors? No, not at all.

There's some confusion around that too. Two different pieces of the bill.

So, the one piece of the bill that we were just talking about, which is how do you get it defined as a covered application for purposes of the ban, those are those four or five hoops you have to go through. The US part of that, in terms of this website language, is an additional limiter as well.

So, it's making sure that it doesn't. cover any of those companies.

So I think there's some just confusion about the provisions. Of course, If TikTok Chooses not to divest and to take the ban option, then there's a part of the law that says Google and Apple can't continue to allow TikTok to operate through back doors. And so that's the only part that comes in. But again, that portion of the bill that deals with Google, Apple, or similar companies is not covered by the provision that gives the government power to ban. And so I just think there is some confusion about the interplay between what we call the substantive ban authority and just this back-end stuff that says, If they go the non-divestment route, of course, a U.S.

company can't enable them to keep doing business here. Again, that's different than banning that U.S. company. Yeah, it is. And I think it, when I see some of the arguments out there saying, oh, well, I don't want the government telling me what app to have.

Well, that's again, I go back to that illicit. conduct as you I and I I was inclined to not Totally agree with you on this, but I love the way that you, I like how you did explain that. There's a lot of nuance there because there is a difference between the conduct that a company is engaging in and then actually banning speech and et cetera, et cetera.

So we'll see how this plays out, but it does open a brave new world because I feel like this is just like one of many hurdles we're going to have to get over as tech becomes more and more integrated. In society, even more so now with AI and everything else. Any final observation about this bill you want to share? No, all good points. You know, just yesterday, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board came out in favor, which I think is a really good indicator of whatever people think about the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, that it doesn't sweep too broadly into U.S.

companies. I think if it did, you wouldn't have seen that outlet come out with that position.

So I think it's just further evidence that the legislature have done a smart job of just zeroing in on things that are demonstrated, controlled by foreign adversaries, so that it protects our individual liberties as well. It's a smart path forward. Yeah, well, we'll see how this performs. But I mean, it is a very good point. And nobody likes it.

I wish we could extend from ByteDance and look at, you know, like Tencent and look at, you know, some of the other stuff because the gaming platforms, it's like a whole other thing with all of the CCP companies. Actually, one last quick thing for you. Kellyanne Conway was saying, why start with this? She was kind of defending, I think, the former president's position on it. She was saying, why not start with fentanyl, et cetera, or the persecution of Uyghurs, the vulnerability of Taiwan?

Why are you starting with TikTok? Was her question in an interview that she gave earlier? What is your thought on that? Yeah, I'd say we're not starting with it. We're not starting with it here.

You know, we've taken action on Huawei, ZTE, China Mobile, China Telecom. And President Trump was the one in 2020 that said, hey, there's a problem with TikTok. And he was right. And so that's why I think it's important that we follow through on this action. Again, it's not a first one.

TikTok is just the next one, a string of Entities tied to the CCP that we're taking action on. Yeah, I think we can multitask. Multitasking, I think we're capable of doing that. Brendan Carr with the FCC. And I appreciate, I still, you know, I have to double-check.

I still have my pass. My one. You haven't used it yet. I haven't used it yet. Yes, that's right.

So, just, you know, we always like to have that record when we have you on, sir. We always like that record. Exactly. Brennan Carr with the FCC. Thank you so much.

Appreciate your time and your explanation on this. Thank you. Good to see you. Thanks so much. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower.

So apparently, according to Variety, at Hulu they've ordered a revival of King of the Hill. I'm a little nervous about this. They say a new generation of young writers are working on the revival, and they're adapting the quote sweet spots of the classic. Into the new era. Which sounds like they're going to sanitize it woke style.

That's what it sounds like to me. They said that the updated version From Mike Judge, who is behind Beavis and Butthead, which is amazing. All of the new film, everything, this new series is amazing. But they said that they have the series creators, Mike Judge, Greg Daniels, Saladin Patterson. They're executive producers on the show.

Patterson's going to be the showrunner. Judge and Daniels will executive produce. And then they said that they're going to have you know the the same voice cast. I'm just wondering, maybe it won't be so crazy. If you have Mike Judge, who's definitely not woke.

Being an executive producer on Greg Daniels. Maybe it won't be. But I j I don't want them to set themselves up for fighting with new writers either that have gone to woke Academy. I don't know. I just, this is me being a cynic.

I just don't have anything. I wish they would just have new ideas and new things. Or that. I mean, why not? I mean, didn't the guy that did the voice for Boomhauer, I thought, like a few months back, I saw some story about him.

Passing away or something. Yeah, I think he kicked the bucket.

So, I thought. I wonder who'll do Boomhaire.

So, yeah, they've got. Yeah, they'll have the Read The Revival of it. Oh boy.

So we'll see. But if Mike judge I look I have I will G I will give Yeah. I'm going to wait and see because Mike Judge has earned that. He's an OG, he's earned it. By him being involved, I'll consider it like a sequel to the series.

You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Something like that. That's my purse. I don't know you.

Buppy? Gosh, all natural propane. All right. It's the long-going thing. But if you liked it, if you haven't watched the new Beavis and Butthead series.

It's been out for a little bit. Brilliant. It is at they have a whole thing on white privilege. A whole episode, and it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. It's hysterical.

Without further ado. Today's stupidity came. All right. It is our president, Joe Biden. Yeah, this is how much contempt the Democrats and Biden have for the American people.

This is him in front of the press. Listen. Anyway. Am I allowed to take any questions? Yeah.

Anybody here is telling you? Unlock the cars. Thank you. Process. They're like, oops, thank you, Pressi Later, and the feed is officially cut.

There it is. There it is. Yeah. They're almost kind of like airline attendants. Thank you.

Thank you. Bye-bye. Have a nice day. We can't let him just talk on his own. Yeah, thank you, Press.

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