Wednesday June 12 - Full Show

They are so damn important. We need you. We need you to overcome the unrelenting opposition of the gun lobby, gun manufacturers, so many politicians when they oppose common sense gun legislation. I used to be a law when I was no longer the vice president, I became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Before that, I taught a constitutional law class, and so I taught the Second Amendment.

There's never been a time that says you can own anything you want. You couldn't own a cannon during the Civil War. We want you to think about it. How about you hear this phrase? The blood of liberty.

Well To wash your dough, give me a break. No, I mean it, seriously. And by the way, if they want to think to take on government, if we get out of line, which they're talking again about.

Well guess what? They need F-15s they don't need So the quote is occasionally the tree of liberty must be watered. with the blood of patriots and tyrants. That's the quote from Thomas Jefferson. I just feel like if you're going to trot out a founding fathers quote in your big old anti-gun speech, then maybe you should get it right.

I don't know. Just a little thought. Little bit of a thought. That was from yesterday and holy cow guys First off, welcome. to the program.

Dana Lash with you. Uh we are at the top of this first hour. And I mean, it was it's pretty wild to see Yesterday his speech. We've heard it all before. with this stuff.

I mean, we've heard it all before with Biden. And I noticed the bots were really mad, by the way, yesterday with with some of this. I don't know if you saw that. I had a ton of bots that were super all like brand new created accounts that were all like pushing Joe Biden's speech, which I thought was real weird.

So we're covering some of that today. And also, he's on his way to embarrass us at G7, I'm positive.

So, Daniel Lash, with you. Listen coast to coast, you can stream the radio program as well. The simulcast, which is the visual component, channel 347, direct TV, and we have a chat on Rumble, all kinds of good stuff.

So the um A speech that he gave yesterday. not to diminish any threats contained therein, but It's it's stuff that we've heard before. And His quote was real weird. I mean, it is incredibly weird. He completely got it wrong.

The quote. And then he also was saying that you can't own a tank, which you can. I mean, you can own a tank. We've been over this before, too. I also felt like.

Uh, do we have the uh I'm pulling this up here, do we have the uh the sound bite where he was saying that you I mean, you don't have a jet either, which I thought was a really it was another really weird audio sound bite from him because He said this kind of before, which almost sounds like the government's threatening to merc you. And he had said that uh he's talking about jets. And he said that, well, you know, audio is nobody too. He mentioned apparently that we F-15s are constitutionally protected. Listen.

By the way, if they want to think to is to take on government if we get out of line, which they're talking again about.

Well guess what? They need F-15s they don't need The rifle.

Now, see, so a couple of things here. We're going to get to the F-15 thing in a moment. Everybody kind of skipped over the first part of his sentence. Can you play that one more time? Just listen to the first part of his sentence.

Listen to just the first part. By the way, if they want to think to take on government, if we get out of line, which they're talking again about if they think they want to take on government. If we get out of line, which is what they're talking about.

So, let's before we get to the F15 part, let's stop there because everybody kind of ran right over that. Mm-hmm. Uh First off, that part was incredibly That's concerning. There's an unpopular Well, not unpopular. I don't even know why it's controversial considering the way this country was founded.

We have a bunch of pseudo badasses in the United States that think that they're so tough, but they don't realize the purpose of the Second Amendment. It doesn't have anything to do with you defending yourself against a rapist coming into your home. I mean, yeah, you can defend yourself, it covers that. But you realize the real reason, the real reason. That We have it.

The real impetus for Creating that with the founders. Let's go back in time. Let's go back. To the revolution, which predates the War of Independence. The Revolution was the Stamp Act, it was everything else.

It was a bunch of fed up colonists who had exorbitant taxation, similar to what we have now, placed up on their shoulders and all their monies were sent over to England and the uh the king over there. And we had no representation in matters that were designed to govern our everyday lives. We had no representation at all. And when we entered into the War of Independence and we fought a bloody battle for our independence from the Crown. We came from years of quartering soldiers.

We came from years of red coats in the streets. We came from years of living under threat of penalty, enforcements carried out by military. That's what we lived in threat of. And our founders were very, very. purposeful In terms of how they shaped our founding documents, how they based it on a republic, not a direct democracy.

They didn't incorporate any, we had parliamentary measures and we had democratic processes that were used in the republic. They were so smart in how they created this government. And they were such students of the Roman governments and of the Greeks and everything else. And they were so smart, and they took the best things from some of the best things and they used it to make the best thing. And so they were coming into the creation of a new sovereign entity.

That was to be By the people, for the people. And you can't have an entity that's by the people and for the people if it's an entity that has a military ruling class. And they wanted to get away from that. They didn't want a monarchy. They didn't want a, you know, monarchist republic.

or monarchy and uh having a having a monarch and a parliament uh a parliament. They they didn't want any of that. They wanted a republic in which the people represented themselves. And that they had to be virtuous and educated which we're losing uh both of those they had to be virtuous and educated so that the common man could represent himself, and that there was no aristocracy and there was no there there wasn't anything like that. Everyone was capable of doing the job.

And everyone, and it was a service, not just to one's own family, but to one's neighbor. And when they created this. And they incorporated the Second Amendment going through the history. And they've written some books on this, so I'm pretty well versed in the history. Again, They did not want to fear the people that had the guns.

They wanted to have guns. They wanted to be able. to protect themselves. from anyone who tried to force tyranny upon them again. That's why George Mason said.

When they were debating this and when he was writing letters back and forth, he had remarked that The militia is the whole of the people, every American man and woman. There is no separate int everybody is part of that. Everyone has as a responsibility the cause of freedom. It's not just for some. It's not to be outsourced.

It is all it is a shared. Responsibility and privilege. That's how it was viewed. They did not ever want to live under the tyranny of red coats and a crown that didn't represent them but was happy to take their money.

So when you look at the history of this. And for the people who say, well, they said well-regulated militia, look back at the parlance of the time, you absolute illiterates. I get really upset at the illiteracy rate of this country.

Well regulated meant you could keep yourself well. Actually was a phrase, and a friend of mine pointed this out. I mean he I was I was a fan of Jane Austen, of course every girl was back in college. There's a phrase she used like repeatedly. That was a popular phrase to use, almost cliché.

Oh, well regulated, meaning they were able to take care of themselves. Talking about a well-regulated militia, you're talking about every man and woman who is capable not only of shooting, not only of carrying their firearm, but servicing it, cleaning it as well. That's what was meant at the time. And of course, anyone who ever paid attention to anything that the founders ever wrote to themselves or to each other, the debates, or paid attention to the Federalist papers at all whatsoever, this doesn't need to explain to you because you're educated.

So When he says if they want to think to take on the government if we get it out of line, that's the entire purpose of the Second Amendment. is to take on the government if you get out of line. Self-defense is covered. But the government is never to think that they have more power than the people because the government's power is derived from the consent of the people. And that is manifest by way of a vote.

And people who ignore this. are often tyrants.

So he has no concept. Of how America works. I've met people. who have emigrated into this country. Who have more of a knowledge and an appreciation for America than people like Joe Biden who were born here?

That tells you.

So That's what the purpose of the Second Amendment is. It scares the hell out of the life when you mention this. Because they don't like to be reminded that there are limitations. to their tyrannical goals. Can only go so far that people have rights, the people are required.

That's why. Thomas Jefferson said what he said. But he said it wasn't just the blood of tyrants, it's the blood of patriots, because there's a cost to it. And it's a cost that should only be paid when there is no other option. And the people who've never felt such heat and have never been around anyone who's even paid such a cost, they're always the most eager to Leroy Jenkins right the hell into it.

But then Biden in that same sentence, in this sound bite, Go ahead and play it again because this soundbite was just amazing to me. Go ahead so we can hear the full sentence now. By the way, if they want to think to is to take on government if we get out of line, which they're talking again about.

Well guess what? They need F-15s. They don't need a rifle.

So maybe it's just me, but I immediately interpreted that as, oh, so F-15s are also constitutionally protected. Great. I am going to go and build a garage now. to house my giant F fifteen. I mean, you know, I'll now just it but if anyone gives me problems, can it identifies as a drone?

That's right. I was going to go to the F-35. I don't know if that program's so great for the United States, but I think that's a vertical takeoff. Oh, that's actually a really good point. You know what I mean?

Yeah, you don't need all the gateway and all that. Yeah, that's a very good point. Yeah, making a note. Dang, that's making a note.

So. When I my second thought after I saw that was Laughs in Viet Cong. Or Lavson, Mujadahin. I mean, you go back to this was in the 80s, so I wasn't, you know, historically, I can go back and read about. What ultimately became the Taliban, members of some of the northern Afghanistan fighters that ended up becoming the Taliban.

What did they just have can?

Well, they had some. rockets and some other uh incendiary devices, but what do they have? Just G guns, rifles. Yeah. That's how they do it.

Oh, yeah, that's all they had too. Tons. Yeah. That's all you need. That's all you need.

That's really all you need. And then my third thought was, wait, so you're saying that if rifles aren't enough to take over the government, so what is your big opposition to rifles? Thank you. This was such a stupid sentence that he said. I mean, I could do an entire class on this.

His sentence, but I'm not even done with that because we have some other stupid sentences to share with you. And here's one other quick note, and I always add this as a caveat. You do not have to be a huge Second Amendment. advocate, you don't even have to own a gun to appreciate what I'm telling you here. Because a tyrannical government, if you think that they were only going to stop at disarmament, then you've not been a student of history.

In fact, there is no exception in the entire history of humanity Where tyrants have only made it to where the people cannot defend themselves, and then they've stopped there. That has never happened in the history of humankind.

So that's why you need to pay attention to this, even if it's just about guns. We have a lot to get into because he's already on his way to Italy for G7. He had a quick trip to Wilmington last night where he was pictured hugging Hunter after Hunter's conviction.

Now he's going to G7.

Some of the topics up For discussion at the G7, and that's where you have seven powerhouse nations getting together and discussing these issues, are very interesting. And I'm curious as to how this meeting is going to go, considering that half of the leaders there just lost their backsides in elections, their parties did.

So we're going to talk about some of that too, because I feel like that's going to influence. Our, what we're going to be doing as the United States, there.

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Based on what we've seen and what I've discussed with the Prime Minister and what we've discussed with our Egyptian colleagues, we're determined to try to bridge the gaps. And I believe those gaps are bridgeable. Doesn't mean they will be bridgeable because again, it ultimately depends on people saying yes. But here's the thing, and we both said it. The longer this goes on, And remember, Hamas had this for 12 days.

I mean, it's bridgeable. What the what in the happy Gilmore hell is that? It's bridgeable. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you.

That's Anthony Blinken. Who doesn't? He doesn't blink. Yeah. He uh I'm fascinated by his uh his whole thing here.

He was sent over. Two. Help, I guess, broker some kind of new agreement between Israel and Hamas, and Israel. Agreed to it. Hamas didn't.

They said, nope, we need some amendments, which is basically, no, we don't agree to it. Even Cutter's like, will you eat, please just do something? Will you just accept this stupid thing? Cutter's getting mad. 'Cause all Hamas's leaders live in f the fat lap of luxury.

In cutter. And everybody else, all the The pros live over the proletariat lives over in in Gaza.

So they're telling them this is looking really bad on you. And by extension, it's making all the people that have. Assisted Hamas's leaders like Qatar, who are also trying to maintain this veneer of: no, no, no, we're a professional sovereign country, doing professional sovereign country stuff. It makes them look bad by association and they don't want to be made look bad. Right?

I feel like everybody's competing with the Saudis, and the Saudis are like, We're not getting involved in that, and so it makes them look bad, you know what I mean? Like Saudi Arabia is like they're having film festivals. They had literally a swimsuit fashion show. And uh I feel I they're they're kinda I think trying to Get away a little bit from how bad Hamas looks. And uh the cutter's like left in the dust with the their leaders, Hamas's leaders living there.

It's kind of funny. Not really. It's pathetic. Anyway. They, uh, Anthony Blinken sent over there, bridgeable.

That's one of my favorites. That's an I. He just looked so out of his league. Uh talking about this. And then he they're not I mean, they're not the They have no, no, they're not going to agree to anything because the crux of it.

The crux of the matter is they don't believe in Israel's Right to singularly exist as its own entity. And I know I've talked about this before, but just so that you understand this. You know, the umbrella group over there, the Palestinian Authority, under that, you have Fatah and Hamas, the two big. Ruling entities over there, Fata and West Bank, Hamas and Gaza. Those are the two territories, right?

Uh that and Fata had a lot of influence in the West Bank that's been diminished. Then the difference between the two groups is that Fatah begrudgingly was saying, okay, we'll recognize Israel's right to exist, and Hamas never would. And Hamas surged in popularity over that. Keep in mind that They that's part of their literally, it's it's in their mission statement. They have a website, of course, you know, because everybody has a website today.

And Hamas has it on their charter. That's their charter statement. It's a part of who they are, and that's one of the things that really distinguishes them from Fatah. And their pop their popularity only grew since then. And still continues to grow to this day.

That's why they were eclipsing Fatah in popularity and influence in West Bank. And so that's why they suspended those elections because Hamas is going to take them over. Hamas was elected in Gaza. They were going to get re-elected. They were going to be elected in West Bank.

Fatah was going to be entirely diminished, despite the fact that the head of Fatah is at Palestinian Authority.

So. That's the reality of the situation. People want what they want, and that's what the citizens want. That's why I'm not surprised when I see all of these stories about regular, average, everyday Gazans that have hostages in their houses. You know, they're just helping out their government that they have voted for.

So The Guarantee. They Hamas wanted a guarantee. that there was not going to be any fighting from Israel even if they delayed the hostage exchange. 'Cause they want all their terrorists. Like for instance, one of the people that they wanted free was this lady who tried blowing up a bunch of innocent people that weren't even IDF.

She just carried out like a random terror attack. Hurt herself, they treated her in a hospital, put her in jail in Israel. That's one of the people that Hamas wants back. They'll give you innocent hostages. They'll give you a baby that they stole if you give them back that terrorist broad.

That's the kind of thing, that's what we're talking about. It's not like they randomly went into Gaza and were just snatching people up off the street. I mean, good grief. You see what the coverage that Israel gets when they merely try to go get members of their family back from murderous dogs that kidnapped them. Can you imagine how much worse that would be if all the stuff that Hamas and the Pallywood people were putting out was true?

Hamas said that the proposal did not give guarantees over a transition. They think they can still remain in power after this. And for some reason, all of the other powers of the world are entertaining this idea. Hamas, this is one of the sources that told. I The uh Jerusalem post in Egypt.

Quote: Hamas wants reassurances of an automatic transition from one phase to another. What do you mean, one phase? You want the United States. To guarantee and act as a middleman for a terrorist group. Pound sand No You don't get to make demands.

You're the losing side. You don't get to make demands. That's not how being the loser works. You decided to be terrorists. You're getting your asses kicked.

And now you're screaming to the world, which they knew was going to happen, by the way. That was all part of the plan. They knew that they did not have the ability to beat Israel. They did this knowing that the international community Being the morons that they are, would swoop in. And they would do the defending for them.

Through policy and press. And that's exactly what's happening. You don't get to stay in power after you do something like this. In fact, all of the problems that we have are because you remain in power. And let's not forget they still have American hostages.

How in the hell are you Anthony Blinken and you going over there and you're talking to Qatar and to Egypt about this stuff, and you have a terrorist group that's demanding that you act as you give them guarantees about a transition to power and the next stage, and you don't bring up the fact that they have five Americans? They would not be getting a day I they wouldn't even be getting FaceTime. The only FaceTime they would get is me looking at them from behind the barrel of a gun. That's it. This is all so dumb.

And the Administration keeps doing this. Hamas doesn't think there think that there's anything wrong with what they've asked. They think they're completely in the right to ask this. This just go Biden, remember. Biden When he was picked as VP for Barack Obama, the big concern was that Barack Obama.

did not have he I mean he literally did not even finish out the first term. as a senator in Illinois. And he only got that job because he did a he worked with Seven of Nine from Star Trek. Remember her? Jerry Ryan, she was in a very acrimonious divorce with her husband.

And as they were getting divorced, she decided to do it dirty and she worked with the Democrats and Barack Obama get g apparently leaked out some information as the story's been reported. It's like, you know, over 10 years now. And that's how he ended up getting that seat. He ended up taking, that was his Republican challenger. He ended up taking that guy out, taking a seat.

Didn't even finish out his first term as senator in Illinois. Goes to the Senate. And then in the U.S. Senate, and then from there goes to the White House. He I mean, he was just leapfrogging as quick as could be.

And so Because he was so new, Joe Biden was the guy who has all the foreign policy experience. He's the elder statesman. Does this look like foreign policy experience from an elder statesman to you? Anything that I just described relating to this Gaza negotiation? No, it doesn't.

It doesn't.

So Hamas waited for how many, was it two months? How long did they drag this? It was almost two months, right? Yeah. Yeah and nothing.

And then now they're like, well, mm-mm. They wanted a permanent ceasefire. They wanted all the Israeli troops out of Gaza. Nothing about our our American hostages. But Biden's used to leaving people behind in the Middle East, isn't he?

They also wanted nobody in Rafah, nobody in the corridor along the Egypt-Gaza border. They wanted to maintain power, etc., etc. That's not no. No. We need to not be a part of this at all anymore.

And I don't think I think our continued participation in this is working against our only ally in the Middle East. The United States should just say, we're not going to have anything to do with these negotiations anymore. We're done. Until you produce our hostages, we're not going to sit down and talk with you. In fact, we're going to give them we're going to give the is we're going to sell the Israelis these rockets and missiles that they had asked for.

We're going to do that. And remember, we're not even giving stuff to them, we're giving things to Ukraine. The Israelis ask to buy stuff. That's what Taiwan does. Taiwan begs, can we buy this stuff from you?

That's money into our economy. And we're like, no, we're gonna give it for free to Ukraine. That's what this administration does.

Alright, I got a couple of other things.

So G7. It's kicking off. The G7, as you know, the big G7 nations. It's hosted in Italy. This is the seventh time Italy has hosted it.

And they're discussing some very interesting topics. They're getting into climate change. The Indo-Pacific economic security is an issue, which I find fascinating. They are getting into energy. And a number of other issues as well.

And also immigration.

Now, they have seven nations that are part of this, including the United States and Italy. You have Japan, you have Britain, et cetera. But then you also have these other nations that are invited to observe. They don't really participate in the discussion, but they can just kind of learn from it and things like that. I'm just curious as to how Biden's going to perform over there because he was just awful.

When he gave his 2A speech at the gun control thing yesterday, he flew to Wilmington just for the night so he could see Hunter. Tax dollars pay for that. Flew to Wilmington. Then he's flying to Apulia. Which is on the southeastern side of Italy, and that's where this is going to be.

And so they have uh their summit. G7, it'll get kicked off today. And we'll see what we'll see how this goes. We'll see what sort of and obviously they're going to be talking about Gaza, etc. The thing that I find fascinating about this, though, is they're all coming together.

right after a number of them got their backsides kicked. in in these European parliamentary elections. And That's important because these are allies of ours that are participating in this European consortium, the European Parliament, right? And that's going to be determining policy that also affects how we approach foreign policy.

So for instance, one of the big issues that we've talked about quite a bit has been energy, right? And how under the previous administration, we were net exporters. Of oil, uh, gas. We were, we were sending out all kinds, we were sending out resources like crazy, even surpassing the Saudis. Uh, we were becoming a we were an energy powerhouse for a brief period until that started getting undermined by Democrats, and then Biden came in and ended all of it.

Now, my reason for bringing this up is because who was so reliant on dirty Russian gas and crude that was actually kind of destabilizing a little bit of the alliance? You saw that when Trump was over there talking to Angela Merkel, uh, and they had that weird photo where he's sitting down, he's got his arms crossed, and she's leaning over the desk and she looks mad. He ticked her off, apparently, because he called her out for being basically a welfare recipient. They weren't even paying like a hardly, they weren't even paying like the bare minimum of a percentage of GDP for their own defense, which is required of NATO countries. And she got called out on that, and then one of her excuses was energy, and so he.

Here, if you are able to unyoke. allied nations from having to depend on geopolitical enemies for energy and instead rely on you, does that not increase your influence, control and national security in that region and worldwide? And there you go as to why G7 is important right now.

So we're going to dive into this because This, it trickles down, but it affects you. in massive ways. And it is so incredibly important that the conservative movement is now starting to sweep these countries little by little, incrementally. I think Germany. had probably one of the biggest upsets.

Italy was the most consistent, building on their 26% in 2022, 28% this last election. Germany, they said it was a bloodbath politically. We're going to talk about all of that coming up. And we're also going to get into on the way. Immigration.

You know the bunch of Russian terrorists were arrested by uh ICE and the FBI?

Now, I'm trying not to be too tinfoil hat, but Kane Do you think some of this might be Oh, d that Democrats might say, oh, look, this is why we need to pay more attention to Russia than China. Notice how there's, I feel like there's more talk about this than there ever has been about Chinese nationals coming across the border. the landing. Or, yeah, or the land that they own here, to say nothing of that, right? Am I.

Alone and thinking that? I thought that all last night when I was reading about this for today's show. I thought it all this morning when I was trying to figure out how I was gonna stack the topics for today. I just feel like that's a major issue. That also, all of this stuff, immigration and Indo-Pacific economic security is coming up in the G7 stuff.

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. It's so important for us to fight for education because when we do that, we can aspire to careers that will help change what goes on in this country and have a real democracy. I want to give you an example of it. Right now, as Trump, is on trial. You have Letitia James in New York.

You have Fannie Willis in Georgia. And you have Tanya Chunkin, who is a judge, who all have a role to play now, prosecutors and judges. And if we're ever to change the criminal justice system and get some justice, we've got to be in there. This has nothing to do with their skin color. It has everything to do with the fact that this isn't about justice for them.

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So that then you can hide behind the veneer of race. Is that like I don't know. That's like a neo-plantation tactic, if ever I saw one. It's what it looks like, doesn't it? I mean why are y why are you sending out Black prosecutors I mean, for crying out loud, in Dexter Taylor's case, they were replacing we heard from his attorney, they actually replaced one that prosecutor who was white with a black prosecutor because heaven forbid it looked like they go after a black man in court.

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You're not really going to do it. Yeah. But what I'm saying is that the President I have not spoken to the president about this, and what I'm saying is, he was asked about a pardon. He was asked about, he was asked about The trial specifically, he answered it very clearly, very forthright. As we know, the sentencing hasn't even been scheduled yet.

I don't have anything beyond what the president said. He's been very clear about this.

So she was asked, Karine Jean-Pierre just then, and this is, you know, Biden's on his way. Actually, I think he's in, he's already arrived in Italy for the G7 summit. It's in Puglia. And that kicks off today. They had a dinner last, well, I think, well, a dinner, they're eight hours ahead.

So they had a dinner. And I think he's skipping that because he's probably tired. But she was asked about. his uh whether or not he's gonna pardon or commute the sentence Of his son, that conviction in Wilmington yesterday. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you.

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So she was asked about, because everyone talks about. The Um Um pardon. He could also commute the sentence as well. But as I said on my piece last night that I sent out on Substack, chapter and verse, which you should subscribe to because there's a lot of good stuff that comes out of there all throughout the week. is that I don't think, and they left it open for the possibility of Hunter to appeal it.

I don't think he's going to do anything right now except look like a sad and contrite son. Until after November. He's not going to do anything to jeopardize his dad's reelection. He's not going to do a thing until after November. And Joe could when he feels That He is beyond political penalty I don't see how he doesn't par at the very least commute his sentence, but I think he'll pardon him.

That I feel like that's an absolute thing. And this, don't think that, well, no, I'm not going to pardon my sentence. I'm not going to pardon his sentence. He's doing that right now because he's up for election in November. This is the same president that's lied to you six weeks to Sunday about a million different issues.

These are the people that had 51 intelligence officials sign on to a lie claiming that the laptop that was absolutely Hunter Biden's was not Hunter Biden's and it was some Russian misinformation psyop. And then it was entered into evidence at his trial and it was already confirmed by the FBI. They'll lie to you about anything.

So why wouldn't he lie to you about the most basic thing? Pardoning His son.

Now, I put out a piece yesterday saying don't celebrate this. And here's why. This case, the reason why there was a conviction is because it was the easiest case against Hunter. Biden. It is the only one that does not implicate the whole entire family.

Now you have the tax fraud case. That's in California. Those hearings are supposed to, that trial kicks off in September. That has to do with the $1.4 million in taxes that he didn't pay. And The Uh Reality that he was buying a lot of hookers in blow at the time when he could have been paying his taxes is not going to look good to a jury.

Yeah, Forbes, though, already warned a year ago in a piece that I linked up on my Substack that to not expect jail time over that. The IRS investigation plays into the House's impeachment inquiry. If you remember yesterday, the House committee had referred they made a criminal referral. over perjury for both Jim Biden and Joe Biden.

So that's all part of that. that impeachment inquiry, which is still building.

Now, the impeachment inquiry, you might think that it's taking a long time and they're dragging their feet and why don't they move like the Democrats did?

Well, the Democrats didn't hold an inquiry. That's what you have to do. Really, before you have an impeachment. Imagine this: you're going to take someone to trial for murder, except you don't investigate whether or not a murder has been taken place or there's even any evidence that he was involved in it. But you go ahead and you charge him with it anyway.

That's exactly what Democrats did. There wasn't even a criminal charge associated with Trump's impeachment. They didn't have an impeachment inquiry. They didn't have a hearing. They didn't bring him to testify behind closed doors and then in public.

They didn't do any of that stuff. They just went right into the impeachment. The proper way to do it is to actually investigate to see if there are charges there. And there's a lot of smoke.

So they've referred to Two criminal, they have two criminal referrals based on perjury. Because what Jim and Joe apparently said contradicts with the evidence that they it contradicts the evidence that they have. And then keep in part that they've also made a criminal referral about Merrick Garland because Merrick Garland absolutely refuses to release the audio of Joe Biden's closed door interview. They only released a redacted transcript. And they said, oh, well, what we did is we eliminated some redundant words like the and if, like, if someone's talking and they're going and, and, and like they're really excited or something.

But the reason that that doesn't seem right is because A, we've seen Joe talk, but B, I mean, the IG noted that the reason they weren't even pursuing charges against Biden in the case of the classified documents that he had in his garage and in his office at Penn State. was that or University of Pennsylvania was that He's old and he's basically like he he's an old man and he doesn't he's not all there But he's okay to run the country. He's just not mentally capable of standing trial. That's literally what the IG said.

So, yeah, I think we kind of need the audio, but Democrats and the Biden campaign are terrified. Because the audio I would imagine is exponentially worse than the transcript. And so They're supposed to. That was subpoenaed. And they just ignored it.

You can't just ignore a house subpoena. There's charges that come up with that. There's people right now that are on the Trump side that ignored a subpoena. There's when it comes from the house, you gotta. I mean, there's certain protocols that you have to do if you want to try to avoid or protect yourself against it.

Garland's just like, nah, tick off. I'm the AG.

So now they're dealing with that too to try to get that audio because they're not being transparent with the people and with the house.

So the tax case in California with Hunter Biden all goes into this. It is all a part of it. Because what is the reason that they are doing this impeachment inquiry in the first place? To see how much it's not a question of if they financially benefited. It is a question of how much.

And was our national security put at risk? Which I think that you can beg the question and say, it absolutely, our national security was put at risk because of their financial dealings and merging out the White House and the Vice Presidency.

So that's what this tax fraud case in California, which is a lot worse. Than the gun charge, and it is the only one that will get that gets into the entire family. And so that's why I think that they allowed this. And remember, they slow walk this. Don't think that this is part of justice because it's not.

They allowed Hunter Biden's other criminal behavior because he had other charges against him that expired. They ran up against the statute of limitations. And the government, run by his father, dragged its feet in bringing any charges, so they expired.

Now, think about that for a moment. The government dragged its feet. Because there were other tax charges and other financial dealings that Hunter Biden that technically could have been felonies. Uh or at least uh or class eight or or misdemeanors. They allowed those The ability to charge for those crimes to expire under statute limitations.

And then in New York, they resurrected a misdemeanor. Tried to tie it to another misdemeanor so that they could elevate it to federal court. and and get around this statute of limitations for Trump.

So don't call this justice, because it's not.

Furthermore, The Behavior and actions of 51 intelligence officials signing a letter claiming that the laptop was Russian disinformation when it was confirmed by the FBI and then later entered in as evidence. In this case, In Delaware, and will be part of evidence for the case in California, and is part of evidence for the House impeachment inquiry. You have 51 intelligence officials, including former heads of the CIA and NSA. That signed on to this, lying to the American public. That's not justice.

That is injustice. None of this. is justice. And you have Dexter Taylor. A man who did nothing Wrong sitting in jail because they tried to retcon illegal activity unconstitutionally with his firearm hobbyism.

and uh jail him for it. He's waiting for his justice.

Now, the other thing that I brought up With this uh Conviction. Is I don't want people being baited into, and I'm going to say it again briefly. into the separate issues of the law's validity. and then democrat hypocrisy on the law. Because we are not the people who demanded unconstitutional abridgments of our Second Amendment, right?

We are not the people who demanded that. That was gun control Democrats that Hunter Biden actively fundraised for. He was step by step with his dad on the campaign trail. He was at fundraisers where gun control was the key feature of his speech. We were called domestic terrorists.

We were referred to as child killers, all for supporting. The Second Amendment, but he can snort booger sugar and his girlfriend/slash sister-in-law can steal his gun, throw it in a trash can across the street from the school. The Secret Service got involved in that, if you don't remember. They got involved in that, retrieved the gun, and tried to downplay it. The FBI did too.

They tried to hide it, hush, hush it. That's not justice. So to say that gun control advocates should live under the laws they create is not an endorsement of those laws. It's a recognition of their hypocrisy. On the issue.

And one of the things that I noted, I think that Hunter Biden's conviction is a fantastic way. to showcase the hypocrisy. And futile effort of unconstitutional gun control laws. to either the unawake or the hyper-partisan and get them changed. Course correction should not start.

with privileged Hunter Biden. It should start with people like Dexter Taylor. and others.

So this case This is just A theater for them. The evidence was overwhelming. Other people have been sent to jail for this before. This whole case was just theater to make it look like. justice is being served.

So don't be taken in by that because it's not.

Now Speaking of justice, did you hear about, I told you the other day about the teenagers. That were uh driving around On this. Uh Pride mural. And that one reporter who was freaking out about it.

Well, apparently, some of the reporting is that they could be charged with level one felonies. Because they were driving they were just on scooters driving around on all the streets and sidewalks. And guess what? Tires on asphalt will leave marks. They're trying to get these kids charged, apparently, with luck with felonies.

Ruining their whole life that ruins their whole life. They can never own a gun, they can't, anything. Because of this. Is that not crazy? We're going to talk about some of this with the alphabet.

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Do you guys remember Leah Thomas, the dude who wanted to swim as a woman? And he was trying to compete in the Olympics as a chick.

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So, So he's out. I don't know if you can appeal or what. A two.

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We don't see the president attending the dinner for tomorrow, the G7 dinner, if you can explain why.

So look, it's going to be a jam-packed two days, just starting with your last question first. There's going to be a lot of meetings happening, a lot of sessions, as you know. And so the president is certainly going to be engaged for the two days or two and a half days that he is in Italy at the G7. Mm. Yeah, and he's old.

And uh Tired, and he just went to Wilmington to go and hug his felon son. And then he flew apparently from Wilmington. Two Pulia, and then going to G7 there with the other member nations. And it doesn't sound like it's getting off to a super strong start for Biden, does it? Welcome back to the program.

Daniel Lash here with you. You can listen coast to coast terrestrially, stream it, watch the simulcast, channel 347, direct TV. We're on Rumble X, everywhere else. You have United States, France, Canada, Italy, Britain, all meeting. G7, a lot of very interesting stuff to discuss.

And also, it's interesting because this is on the heels. Of I mean, a couple of these countries that are sitting there have had some EU elections, and conservatives really. Clowned them. I got to say, by a pretty significant margin, that's got to be awkward, right? To go into your nice big G7 roundtable and you got to sit down.

And because now that I would imagine that has to change how these leaders are approaching the issues that they're discussing, which include immigration and it includes economic security and climate change, what they're discussing at this summit. Joining us now is Matt Mowers. He is the founding board member of the EU U.S. Forum and he's also a former Trump administration State Department official. He joins us via Skype.

And I have to say, one of the best appointed offices that we do have as a background on this program. Very nice.

So love the chair. Love the blue color. Matt, I got to ask you. I don't think this is starting off.

Well, for the left, it's not starting off very strong because Biden's coming in and he's all tired. And then you have, you know, some of these countries where they're having to, everybody's kind of looking around. They're like, y'all getting taken over by conservatives too? Yeah, us also by a pretty significant amount. It's really changing the shape of what's happening.

So tell us a little bit. How How does this change what happens at G7, the EU elections that happened this week?

Well, you know, I think you could call this G7 meeting dazed and confused because I think some of the leaders there are going to be shocked by what they saw this weekend, and particularly in France and Germany and Italy, where you saw real gains for conservative parties, folks who are saying we need to have national borders, we need to have border security, we need to have a government that's responsive to people, that actually values limited government, individual liberty, that doesn't have this onerous regulations that's going to regulate a bunch of farmers out, family farmers out from doing work, that's not going to regulate out energy security. And we knew people were ticked off about this. I mean, we, the EU-U.S. form, did a poll just a few weeks ago. We polled five different countries, and three issues really stuck out in particular.

We asked the question of: do you believe that the EU has put too many regulations on energy to the point that jeopardizes our national security? Over 60% in every country said yes. Wow. We asked, do you believe that there's too much government censorship of free speech? Are you concerned?

Concerned about how much free speech is being eroded in Europe right now, over 60% of every country said yes. And then the real kicker was that when we asked, do you believe we need stronger border controls in Europe? And the EU has not done enough. Over 75% in nearly every single country said yes. I mean, here in the United States, we can't get 75% of people to agree that the sky is blue.

Yet the problem is so bad, it's been so exacerbated, whether it's the economic challenges or the crime that's come in because of illegal migration, that voters across the spectrum are waking up in Europe the same way we know they're beginning to wake up here in the United States. And so when you look at the EU, that is the backdrop. This G7 meeting, you've now got leaders who are beginning to wake up to the fact that they need to enact new policies, really drive a new change, or they're going to lose. And you saw Emmanuel Macron, for example, the president of France, call for snap elections in Paris just next month. That's a reflection of the fact that he knows the political ground is slipping beneath him and that there's a dramatic call for change in the European Union.

We're seeing that same thing happen here in the United States. Folks on both sides of the Atlantic are fed up with the global elites that have been running the countries the way they have. Yeah, we're talking with Matt Mauers at the EU-U.S. Forum.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong on this, because we kind of knew France was, I think, because of the immigration and also because of agricultural policy, they had already started shifting. From what I understand from the results from the elections, Uh, it was by a greater amount than they had anticipated, and I know that I don't think he's up for re-election until 27, but that uh conservatives took way much more than they anticipated, and it was a lot of young voters, which is also what we saw apparently in Germany. Wasn't it like a like a ton of young voters that were actually kind of driving some of this? Oh, that's exactly right. I mean, you look at, you know, in France, for example, the Conservative Party, who has never really been able to get more than, I believe it was about a quarter of the vote, was over 30% of the vote, came in first place.

Most votes they've ever gotten. If that's reflected in the elections that happen in July, you're going to see a big conservative takeover in France in their parliament. And then, you know, you're seeing it in Germany is the same way where they never thought conservatives would actually be able to get a foothold. You're seeing a growing conservative movement in Italy where you've got actually two pretty conservative parties now just arguing who's more conservative. Yeah, I love it.

Both number two gaining. You know, they're the two that are winning seats. And actually, what's more telling is if you look at the results from this weekend, even as much as conservatives gained, the real losers were the left. The Green Party lost nearly 20 seats. The Renew Party, which is a leftist party, lost over 20 seats.

I mean, there is an erosion of trust from voters, including, like you said, among young voters who, you know, you asked them four, six, seven, eight years ago, they're voting for the Green Party. I mean, I guess, you know, Greta Thornberg or whatever, you know, her name is, isn't really making the impact on her generation in Europe the way she thought she would. Maybe folks are actually rejecting that type of insanity that we're seeing across the continent. I think so. And especially with, you know, on agricultural policy, just watching video footage of the protests.

Not just, you know, whether it's in Flanders or whether it's in France. I mean, everywhere. And I saw, I'm going to pull this up too. I had a headline just from recently where for people who were immigrating illegally into Germany and they had all of these different camps set up, they were actually teaching classes to people coming into the country. I have a story right here about how to basically act properly around women.

They're being called anti-rape classes. That's, I mean, people are really reacting to it.

So it's not surprising. I mean, I was reading, European media was talking about the disaster in Germany.

Well, they said it was a disaster.

Someone said it was a political bloodbath. This is really. It's good for conservatives in the United States who want to see our allies strengthened in the face of growing threats, whether it's in the Indo-Pacific region, which I know is a topic that's being discussed in G7 the next couple of days. But that's what I think a lot of Americans are really looking at because you can be the strongest nation in the world, but if you're the only strong nation, how much does that benefit you? Exactly right.

And think about it. If we have a title change here in the United States in November, which most polling suggests we're likely to have, we're now going to be able to have cooperation between the United States and a number of other European allies on issues that matter. We can actually talk about the need for secure borders. We can actually talk about true free trade that's respective of our individual manufacturing bases. We can work together in a way that makes sense when it talks about confronting China.

or Russia or any other adversary out there. That's why this is so important. You want to have allies in Europe that's saying, yeah, we need to invest in our own military because we can't count on the United States to carry the freight for us every single day. That's in America's best interest to have good, strong, conservative leadership on both sides of the Atlantic. And God, hopefully, we have some big change coming in November.

I don't know if you saw that. It was just today, I believe, it was announced that six. Terror suspects were arrested, but ties to ISIS. You look at where they came from. Most of them came across the southern border.

So, I mean, we are seeing the same types of threats because of the lack of border security here in the United States that the voters just rejected in Europe. And, you know, you can see it. It's palpable, the feeling amongst Americans as well that there's a need for a change because of that, too. We're talking with Matt Mowers, who's a founding member of the EU U.S. Forum, and he was also in the Trump administration State Department about what's we've got G7 happening.

We have the EU elections that really major conservative wins. One of the things I'm super interested in, and I don't want to get super in the weeds, but I was really paying attention to what issues were kind of driving, you know, turnout, you know, immigration, inflation, things like that, sovereignty, land, you know, as it relates to agricultural policy. And one of the things I keep going back to is. It seems like the free world picks some kind of geopolitical foe that they have to rely on for something. And we do a musical chairs of this, whether it's the, you know, in the Middle East for oil, whether it's Russia for dirty gas and China for manufacturing.

I mean, we could kind of like cut all of that out. We could be the net exporters of energy. But has, is there any, can you tell me what the sentiment is in the EU and with these other allied nations about maybe relying more on India for manufacturing as opposed to China? Because they're way more predisposed to democracy than China is for sure. And they don't like the communist Chinese any more than we do.

That seems to be a natural alliance there. Is there some kind of like interest or momentum in the movement or in stuff being discussed in Europe right now that maybe kind of lean towards that? There is, but we need to get more Europeans to wake up to it. I mean, I met with some folks from one of the Western European embassies just a few weeks ago.

Some folks who are pretty high-level diplomats in their foreign ministry, and they said, we agree with you on Russia, but we're slow to wake up on China. They don't get it.

Now, conservatives there get it. Conservatives there recognize the threat that China poses. And it's one of the reasons why you saw in Germany in particular, them so hamstrung over the result or over the invasion of Ukraine. It's because for years they were relying on Russia for their energy and then China for their technology. And when we had ambassadors like Rick Rennell who were there in the Trump administration, who were advancing strong but common sense ideas, he said, you guys better wake up before it's too late.

Well, it's too late. And now Germany is scrambling to try to diversify their energy and recognize the fact that China is still manufacturing all their communications technology. We cannot as a Western world be so dependent upon these autocracies. And so whether it's working with India, whether it's actually Working with other nations within Southeast Asia, believe it or not, Vietnam, Thailand, a number of these countries, which a generation ago we would have never thought we could work with, we can today. And we need to strengthen those relationships in order to manufacture in places that we know we can rely on.

Um, and so it's just critically, critically important that we do that and develop really what the truest sense of an alliance is, which is when you have you know similar thinking, well-meaning leaders work together in advancement of their own people's national interest. That's good, that's that's good for us, right? That's something that we as conservatives support, but we don't support is you know, handing all the authority away to some global tribunal like the ICC. And we saw what they're doing with Israel recently, or whether it's some other United Nations overlord. We can't do that.

Yeah, I'm very interested in seeing what comes out of the discussions the next couple of days. And I'm super excited about these elections because I think it's safe to say now. I know everybody seemed like really hesitant about it a couple of years ago. I think it's safe to say that the tide's turning now. I think there's enough evidence, especially in Italy, I think, because what wasn't it like 20-something, 6% in 2022, and now they're up to like 30-something percent.

I mean, that's huge. That's a significant gain in just a couple of years. That's incredibly impressive.

So, I think it's safe to say, don't you agree? the tide's turning. Oh absolutely, because people are feeling the consequences of the left policies now. You know, it's interesting up until what Ron DeSantis and what Greg Abbott did in the United States, where they sent migrants up to, you know, Martha's Vineyard into New York City. You know, you had a bunch of people say, well, that's illegal immigration.

That's not our problem. That's Texas's problem. That's Florida's problem.

Well, no, heck, it's an American challenge, right? Because we're all going to have to pull into this for the health care and the education. We don't get a control over these problems. And so you've now seen Americans even in midtown Manhattan, you know, the left of the left wake up to the problems of illegal immigration. You've been seeing the exact same things happen in Europe.

It started in Italy. It's now moved westward into, you know, into France, into the Netherlands and the rest of it. And you're seeing them wake up as a result because it's those detrimental leftist policies, which have ingrained themselves into government, are now impacting people's lives. It's not a theoretical debate and exercise. It's impacting their lives.

And that's why they're voting the way they are. And yeah, they're fed up. And that's why we're beginning to see some change. I love it. I saw that they ran out the social.

I mean, they basically, the socialists don't really even exist anymore. And Spain. It's kind of amazing. I'm so looking forward to seeing this grow more and more. Matt Mauers with the EU US Forum, great work, as always.

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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. Good night. Fort Myers. A Florida man was shot and killed by police because he allegedly, I feel like allegedly is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, murdered and dismembered his roommate.

Yeah, a woman told police that her husband 33-year-old Willie Louain was killing their roommate. According to the reports, I don't mean to make light of this, but it's wild. Uh Lumaine was angry.

Okay, this is what it says. Lu Maine became angry on June eighth and remained angry through June ninth. saying that he was going to leave the residence because it was too hot. The woman said she was fine with him leaving, and she went to sleep before being woken up by the victim screaming, Help, he is killing me, he is killing me, help multiple times. She was able to gather her children, take them to a neighbor's, and make the nine one one call.

And police, when they arrived, found the whole door open. Trail of blood coming from the entrance, and they found Wheelie in the back of the house, approaching the window with a big old knife in his hand. Oh, and holding a whole human torso. Yeah. So then he began smashing out the back window with the knife and then climbed out and approached the other officers.

They tried to tase him to bring him down. but it was ineffective.

So officers say they then fired shots at him, striking him. They used medical aid, but he didn't make it. And, you know, I feel like allegedly that's, you know, when you're seen holding the torso. The legend. Yeah.

No, that's not allegedly. That's you holding the torso.

So that's. There you go. Uh let's see. I uh Can we go to the guy who's gonna drive over somebody at the Walgreens?

Okay. A Florida man accused of harassing a Walgreens worker trying to drive over the manager. His hair is interesting. It looks like he had a blowout and it got messed up. A Winter Springs man was arrested over the weekend on accusations that he tried to run over the local Walgreens store manager, according to the police.

They learned that the man, 31-year-old Juan Matos, had entered the store, created a disturbance, threatening the cashier, made sexual advances towards her. Cashier called her dad to the store. And then the man, I mean, it became a whole thing. And then ultimately, he tried to run her over in the parking lot. He was arrested.

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It is wrong to perform a sex change on a 16-year-old. You're not allowed to get a tattoo, but somehow you can have your privates cut off. Give me a break. This is wrong. And I would also say this has already been decided by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

They upheld Alabama's law, which was almost identical to Florida's law.

So this is this judge who is trying to, he put a stop to. the legislation that was trying to put a stop to people Cutting up, kids. How's to put it? Gosh, this is such a crazy day. Welcome back to the program, Top of this Third Hour.

Dana Lash with you. Can listen coast to coast? You can stream the radio program. You can check out the simulcast as well, channel 347, direct TV. We're also in X and Rumble and everywhere else.

So uh while this has been happening in Florida We're trying to we're following this uh this is a kind of interesting little story here. They said what is it? Like a some Russian Russian subs like seventy something miles off a Coast of Florida.

Now, I know that they can go in international waters, and I know it's not unusual. For them to send ships and stuff like that to, uh, Cuba and things like that. They're doing some kind of like marine drills or something like that. Keep in mind that some of the videos, if you see them on social media, Or Uh OLD VIDIOS. And some of them are being shared by like top Conservative influencers, but they're like from 2018 when they were doing like exercises down there.

and people are presenting it and acting like it's just be very, very careful. and always, always, always approach everything suspiciously. Always.

So Apparently though They have one nuclear-powered sub that's it and that I think that happened before like a few years ago. Uh they have some warships that arrived at the Havana harbor and they've docked there. all that kind of stuff. They a lot of people are trying to drum it up as a Cold War chess move. I I'm kind of allergic to immediately responding to things.

In any kind of hysterical fashion, because I want to see how it plays out and I want to see what people are doing. And remember, a lot of the initial reports, people are so eager to be first with stuff that they will actually amp it up and escalate. maybe some of the details involved. In order to get more that's sad. I hate to say that, but it's true.

in order to get a little bit more traffic. But there's a couple of legitimate Accounts that I'm following. And of course, you know, you can track certain things. Are apparently what we got stuff that's already shadowing. And of course, we do.

We know. We know when stuff enters our territory. I'm just wondering if this is going to come up at the little G7 event. You know, because Is this going to come up at G7? I'm just curious.

I saw a meme. I shared it in Slack. It's too funny. It said Floridians right now. And it's just somebody pointing a gun at a sub out in the water.

It's just kind of funny. Uh but anyway, so we'll we'll just you know, nobody needs to freak out. Just, you know, good heavens. Just sever you're just watching to see what happens. But They uh I do think That Going back to this audio that we played.

This battle is going to be a battle that's going to be happening in state by state by state by state. It is wild to me. That The way that it has to be discussed when you're telling people, maybe don't chop your kids up. and do these like gruesome experimental surgery don't do this to them. When they're not even done growing and they haven't even gone through puberty, and good heavens, all this other stuff.

It's dangerous, it's not parenting. And that's not medicine. That's not care. How can you consent to care? Think of it.

If you're under the age of 18, you can't even consent to sexual relations legally. But you're somehow able to medically consent to something that has a permanent impact on your life. Like that? I mean, nobody wants to err on the side of caution here? It's wild.

I really do think that the pendulum is swinging the other way though. Seriously, no pun intended. But, because I have some, I have some surveys. that discuss That's where any kind of support that even some liberal folks have. for the transgender issues is where it concerns minors.

So it I guess If we want to find some bright spot in the day, at least not everybody's crazy, right? They can at least appreciate that. they're minors, that's not really informed consent. A couple of other things to touch on. As well, as we are going through, we've been talking about the, let's see, here, da da da, we've been talking about the situation with, I'm gonna get into this border.

uh issue. This is a daily caller piece since we were just talking about you know, some other A marine saves down there in Cuba. Have you seen anything else about that, Kane? No, not nothing else. Just about our Navy shadowing and stuff like that?

No, that's just about it.

So federal law enforcement officials apprehended a group of Russian nationals with suspected terrorist ties in a nationwide operation spanning several major U. S. cities.

Now we had the ISIS folks There was a whole other group just the other day.

So this is a whole other group from that. Just kind of keep that. And and uh context. They said these were six Russian nationals. Apparently, They were like overheard talking about bombs or something like that.

That was one thing that was said. Uh You realize that there it's Russian, Chinese nationals, tons of Chinese nationals. coming across the border in addition to buying up land in the United States. Easily Yeah. This this issue, I don't know why we don't have whenever these headlines break.

You should have the candidate or a top candidate surrogate. Immediately down at the border, press conference. I know people are tired of like the staged press conferences, but honestly, that's what the press pays attention to. I mean, sadly, is it not? That's what they pay attention to.

Or you know what? Better yet. Why not just uh put up a uh a press shot outside of the uh jail where they're being held. Inside this jail right now, you know, in like Geraldo style it. inside this jail right now.

Are these terrorists? We got ISIS people in here. We got Russians. We got Russians tied to ISIS. ISIS tied to ISIS.

Just to bring, you know, a little whatever we can to keep the attention on the issues that need the attention. instead of all the instead of everything else. Because the Democrats are going to be moving to abort they're trying to move to abortion. They're dropping a couple of million dollars in some swing states on specifically I think it is abortion. They're trying to get some of that ad some of that those ad that advertising out.

And they're they're just started turning on this spigot. We've really, really got to counter that with the RNC, and I feel like we're not. I don't feel like we're doing a good enough job at that. A few other things that I want to make sure that we touch on. Afghanistan's Taliban.

says that they made eighty million dollars in crude oil sales in ten days. They have a spokesman, you know. The Taliban, they're pretty organized, came. Oh yeah. They have the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum.

I wonder what other ministries they have. Like the administrative stoning the gays, right? Oh wait, no, hanging them off cranes. Is that yeah, the ministry of hanging the gays off cranes. The ministry of stoning the women.

Uh the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, the Taliban. They've said they've successfully sold eighty million dollars in crude oil. And China has made a nearly $50 million investment. in Afghanistan. to help boost the country's daily crude output.

to more than 8,000 barrels per day. And it's the Amu Daria Basin. And it is they think it contains 962 million barrels of crude, fifty over fifty two thousand billion cubic feet of natural gas. And it spans across Tajikistan and Afghanistan. China's all about getting in there on that.

And Russia doesn't have Russia couldn't contest it. You know, Russia would like those materials, but they can't contest it. That's why Russia is kind of being treated as China's vassal state. That's the relationship that you got to keep in context whenever you see Russia doing anything, including moving stuff off Cuba. I'm telling you, there's This is not a game of checkers, it's a game of chess.

But uh Beijing's investment is beginning to to pay off, Kane. Oh yeah. To say nothing of the lithium that they have there, that they have 150,000 tons of crude. from that basin. It sold for $80 million over the past 10 days.

They said it's a real good reversal of fortune for them. Ah.

Now the contract that China's Xinjiang, Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Company. By the way, Xinjiang, where have you heard that before? That's the province where the Uyghurs are imprisoned.

Now you think that that would be you know, kind of a hurdle. for doing business, with the Taliban, but you're talking about A demographic that within it has tribes that war with each other all the time.

So I don't think it's gonna I don't think that that's gonna have the effect that they think it is, you know? Especially when you got millions of dollars involved in business to be had.

So the contract with China They have to invest $150 million the first year, half a billion, over half a billion, by 2026.

So far, they've been able to boost them their output to that 8,000 barrels per day, and they're going to go more. They said that one Taliban official said that they felt just a bit short of their investment target due to inaccurate estimates of material and labor costs. Then they had a three month delay. By Afghan authorities. You run Afghanistan.

What do you mean there's a delay? It's other Taliban. What are you talking about? But they said that They've that it's uh it's gonna they're gonna exceed expectations. I'm telling you, this is something to also watch.

They're not only looking to make inroads there, they're also they would love to make inroads in Africa. And that's the other thing. that we've been seeing, Russian officials, Chinese officials. Working to make inroads into Africa, they'd like to supplant Western influence and better position themselves. And by having these political ties, they've been looking at, I mean, it's Mali, it's Niger, it's Libya.

working to really get into these areas. and advancing their objectives. There's a lot of stuff to watch here. Huh, huh, huh? But you know what's most important, Kane?

What's that? are alphabets. I mean, that's what it's all about, right? Who needs anything else? It's alphabets and and and that's that's the most important thing.

So Patagonia Related to all of this. According to Washington Examiner, It's it's it's alphabets and it's also uh you gotta support you have to support uh Hamas. Those are the big things. Patagonia, which loves to virtue signal about the alphabet stuff too, they funneled thousands of dollars. to terrorist groups, according to documents, via the Washington Examiner.

We're going to talk more about this here as we head towards headlines, but They uh the company has said that they've launched an internal review into the funding.

So Patagonia has this tax exemption Foundation, it's a private foundation that's based in California, and they've sent six figures to the Alliance for Global Justice. and they have sent money according to this investigation to a group that funds mammas. Isn't that nice?

So how many of you have Patagonia stuff? You're funding Hamas. It's really what it is. It it interesting. And Patagonia was trying to defend itself saying, Well, you know, our grant making um I mean, we you know, we we like to support everybody except if you're discriminating like on sexual orientation or religion.

Wha whoa, whoa, whoa, what do you think the groups that you're funneling money to Try being gay over there. See how well that goes for you, since that's a big thing with you. Why is there this disconnect? You got the Alphabet month, and then all of these people that are virtue signaling about Alphabet also support the entity that would totally kill them in a second. Does that not you see this, right?

I don't get that. We got headlines coming up. Maybe it'll make sense here later. And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five. More than 130 CVS owned brand drugs were recalled by the FDA after horrifying truths about how the meds were made were revealed.

It said apparently twice as many as its competitor, Walgreens. They had 70 calls over the same period, three times more than Walmart, which had 51, 130. And this is the CVS brand of stuff. They said that the reasons included the drugs being infested with bacteria, mold growing in factory ventilators, barefoot workers in factories, and pills. that were not even properly dosed.

Wow, that's wow. Restaurant robots can cook and serve and bus your meals now. This is where it's all going. Everything is going to be automated. It's the droid era.

We're getting ready to embark on that. The robots, tech, and AI are seen as potential saviors, boosting efficiency and revenue. As we're, you know, although people, the part-time job thing has been growing. But they said, yeah, they have everything from a robotic stir-fry machine that can prepare 30 meals in an hour, the alpha grill that can cook 200 hamburger patties in an hour, and then clean itself. They got these little robots that bring stuff out.

I don't know, it's weird to me. I don't know. That's just, that's where it's all going. It's just getting started. Brits are warned: don't look monkeys in the eye.

That is true.

So in Bali, in Bali, they're offering safety advice. The monkeys, they're also like on Gibraltar, they're crazy. They'll you gotta like yeet them off a cliff to get them away from me. They said that they'll just attack you. Don't look them in the eye.

And those are the, what is it, the macaque monkeys? And they said that they're super aggressive. Don't feed them. You'll get, because apparently everybody's getting attacked because they're like, oh, cute little monkey. And then they lose it because the monkey goes crazy.

I've told you my story about that before, didn't I? Told you all about that. Yeah. Uh, it's not the VAC, says Kane. Gen X is getting cancer more than their parents' generation.

But then I also read that Gen Z, which is partly raised by Gen X, is also. Getting cancer more than even Gen X.

So I don't know. But Kane says: don't worry, it's not the shot. It's not the shot. the forgot forgotten generation apparently Uh, they said that the rate of incidence per 100,000 people is greater than that, than it was with the boomers. Because you have boomers who raised Gen X, and all the Brady millennials were raised by boomers.

We're talking about the bad boomers. I don't want to get hate mail because you're thinking I'm talking about you. No, everything's about you.

So, just saying, we got more on the way. Congressman Bob Good is going to be joining us. 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.

Ruin. God's name. Needs a magazine which can hold two hundred shows. Yeah, shells. I don't understand the language of this.

200 shells? I mean, nothing in it, guys. They're just the shells. You know, you don't have any of the innards in it. I mean, it could be rounds also.

That was from some of President Biden's speech yesterday. It was a gun control conference that was taking place with the Bloomberg groups, the Moms Demand, the Everytowns, on the same day, you know, that his son is convicted of falsifying his information on a 4473 about doing drugs that the ATM bank receipts and his own text messages show that he was doing hours before he purchased his gun. But, you know, whatever, facts and that, it's, you know, guys, it's irrelevant. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you, bottom of this third hour, joining us on this.

And I was going to have him on to talk about the NDAA, but then I was reading more about his bill with regards to silencers, and I was greatly intrigued, considering I feel like if we lose everything in November, we're never going to get his bill ever. But I wanted to bring on Congressman Bob Good out of the beautiful state of Virginia. And I wanted to get kind of his reaction to just some of the stuff that the president said yesterday. And then I want to ask. Ask you, Congressman.

It's good to see you about the Shush Act, which I love the title of it, but it's about also kind of making silencers. I don't know why they're, you know, these things are on the NFA list, but first and foremost, welcome to the program. What is your reaction to just what you heard from the President yesterday? Very, very ironic or coincidental day. Thank you, Dana, for having me again.

Great to see you. In addition to his incompetence that we can highlight every day. the fear that we all should have that this is the so-called leader of our country, someone who is incompetent, someone who is obviously greatly diminished. He's fading, he gets tired, he gets disoriented, he can't find his way off the stage. This is a president who is a radical.

He is an extreme left-wing president. He makes. Obama look moderate while he's making Jimmy Carter look competent, the two recent, in our lifetime, anyway, Democrat presidents. But he never forget that what he wants, and I know you know this, but we've got to bear repeating it over and over, they want registration and confiscation. They think the Constitution is just a suggestion, an annoyance really at best.

And they certainly don't respect the Constitution. They don't govern within the boundaries of the Constitution. They abuse the Constitution every day. And certainly they've got our Second Amendment rights, those rights that protect all the other God-given rights that we as Americans have the privilege of having enshrined in our Constitution to protect those rights. They are at tremendous risk by this president, who, to your point, has no understanding.

Of the uh of guns or firearms or ammunition, that sort of thing. Uh, if he had his way, we would we could only possess shells, we certainly could never possess possess live rounds. Yeah, no, that's a very good point. We're talking with Congressman Bob Goode out of the 5th District of Virginia. The legislation that you've introduced, the Shusheck, this is the Silencers Helping Us Save Hearing Act.

I have to say, normally I criticize the title of bills that are introduced in DC because they have nothing to do with what's actually in the bill. This is a rare exception. It actually has everything to do with what's happening with this bill. It's looking at deregulating suppressors at the federal level and then preempting the state law that would regulate that. It's wild because for a leftist ideology in this country that wants to be so like Europe, I mean, it's considered bad manners if you go hunting in the UK and you do not have a suppressor, if you're not doing everything you can to reduce even a little bit the decibel level.

But here in the USA, it's an NFA item, which is wild to me. Tell us about this legislation. Yeah. Yes, a suppressor, as you know, doesn't eliminate the sound. It's not like the movies.

It's not truly what some, you know, as we reference to call it, a silencer. It's still pretty loud, but it does protect hearing. It makes it more comfortable for many people to use their firearm if they have a suppressor on there.

Some like it because it helps their aim. But what this administration wants to do, as you know, is to bankrupt the gun industry, bankrupt their access or prevent their access to capital, to financing, their ability to operate. And they want to eliminate ammunition as they try to eliminate firearms. And they want to regulate gun accessories, firearm accessories, under the National Firearms Act. And so our bill would say: hey, that the ATF, as an unelected group of bureaucrats, these agencies, these unelected department officials don't have the right by FIAT to regulate suppressors or other gun accessories under the NFA, and this would preempt federal and state law to that effect.

Yeah. Now we're talking with Congressman Bob Goode. And yes, being it, I mean, The government, as my producers noted, is really good at being cost prohibitive. It's really, really good. That's a great tactic that it has.

Speaking of being prohibitive, sometimes our people in our own party can be prohibitive. I was looking at this contempt vote of Merrick Garland. Tell me a little bit about the struggle in the House. Tiny, tiny, slim majority. It is a struggle.

To, you know, somebody like Merrick Garland, who is refusing to give to members of Congress the actual audio of the interview of the president who went in, you know, testified.

Now I know that there were the two criminal referrals for perjury that were sent for him and James Biden, his brother. That has to be incredibly frustrating to not be able to hold the AG account even when he's circumventing the law that he's supposed to follow. Yes, this is the most corrupt presidential family, most corrupt administration, and certainly in modern history. When we had the sitting president accused of bribery, influence, peddling, corruption like this president has, not only making millions of dollars, he and his family off corrupt business deals, China, Ukraine, Russia, and so forth, but also how has that impacted foreign policy? We changed China from an adversary to a competitive partner after President Trump rightly confronted them and declared China an adversary.

And then Ukraine, how has the Biden crime family making millions of dollars off Ukraine impacted the fact that we sent them $200 million in aid over the past three years since he's been in office? But at the tip of the spear in the corrupt administration is the Department of Injustice under Merrick Garland. And to your point about Republicans, for half Republicans to vote with Democrats to give his department not only just fully funded and to fight our efforts to defund, to use the power of the purse to hold this Department of Injustice accountable, but they actually gave him $200 million in the spending bill that was passed in March. For a new FBI headquarters, we need to be actually dismantling the FBI and starting over, let alone funding it and giving it a raise. And then Merrick Garland, to your point, doesn't want to be accountable to the people's representatives who have constitutional oversight for all the departments and agencies.

And so he needs to be held in contempt of Congress. Obviously, criminal referral goes to his own office, to the AG himself. But we also have to have the stomach. If we win this election like we think we will, we re-elect President Trump, get the Senate and the House, then we've got to go after these bad actors who violated the Constitution during their time in office and abuse their power against American citizens. And you're also looking as well at defense policy with the NDAA.

This is, considering everything that we have going on, whether it's in the Middle East with our ally Israel. And then, of course, we've had the story today of these. And I realize it's not beyond, it's not unusual for Russian ships to be in international waters off the coast of Cuba. I get it. But it seems a little bit much right now.

And it's a little, with everything else, all the other tension escalated. It seems like maybe not the great optic, especially. Especially they do it. Russians choose to do it the day that G7 kicks off. I kind of wanted to get your thoughts on that in context of NDAA and really responsible defense spending, because we hear all this stuff from the DOD and the Pentagon about rainbows and alphabets and all of this other stuff that doesn't have anything to do with our objectives and our mission.

We have the mission creep that is going into political experimentation using tax dollars in our military, and that's why recruitment obviously is suffering. I just wanted to get your take on all of this within the context of this bill. Yeah, the Democrat Party and the Republican Party have very different visions for America and very disparate views on what the purpose of the military is. The Biden administration, when he first got into office, he basically said that the purpose of the military was to fight the climate war. And he was serious about that.

The climate war, of course, is a hoax. Man cannot measurably impact the climate. That's ridiculous. That's a conversation for another time, I guess. But they have tried to force our military vehicles to convert to electric.

They're trying to convert our military planes to sustainable fuel. They think that the military is a jobs experiment, a diversity experiment. You've got critical race theory permeating the military and the military academies. You've got diversity, equity, inclusion policies, funding of transgender surgeries for our troops, funding of abortion. You have the same military that forced our troops to be discharged because they didn't get a vaccine that they didn't need, they didn't want.

And so my hope is we'll have a good NDA as we get through this amendment process this week that I was able to vote for one finally last summer, a good Republican NDA that dealt with those harmful policies that are weakening our military, hurting our recruiting, diminishing our capacity. We Republicans believe that we ought to have the most lethal, effective fighting force so that nobody wants to challenge us on the world stage, so that we rarely, if ever, have to use it. That would be our goal, not to get entangled in foreign wars, but to be the big kahuna, if you will, that no one wants to challenge. And that's how President Trump viewed our military, and that's why he didn't get us involved in any foreign conflicts, the first president to do that in some 40 years when he was in office. Yeah, I feel like we probably wouldn't have maybe the ships down off the coast of Cuba like we have right now if there was a difference in the White House, which brings me to the question.

I was looking at your freedom score index. Actually, I was looking at how you're rated with heritage, how you're rated with the freedom. You've got like a 90% average rating. You're a member of the House Freedom Caucus. You're probably one of the staunchest conservatives.

In the House. You really don't, you don't, you don't play the game with Democrats. You just hold the line because I went, I looked up your voting record, I've looked up your history, I've looked at this, even your procedural votes. I've went and looked at it, you're pretty conservative. That's like what most Americans want.

Your challenger has a, this guy, John McGuire, coming out of Virginia, has a freedom score of 75, which to me seems moderate. I like to be a strict constitutionalist. Looking at this score, why is there an issue? between you and former President Trump going into this election when we need more staunch conservatives because those are the people who are going to pass the agenda that he wants.

Well, if you take all the strong conservative scoring agencies, I actually have the highest scoring Congress average. I have 100 on almost all of those. The House Freedom Caucus, the most conservative members of Congress, voted me as their chairman back in December. We are the tip of the spear for the Republican Party, holding fast to the things we say we stand for, actually believing we should do the things that we say we are going to do. We are on the campaign trail, confronting our own party even when we are wrong.

We are the ones who had the president's back in his first term. I didn't get to serve with him in his first term. I got elected in 20. But the Freedom Caucus were his strongest allies. We'll be his strongest allies.

He endorsed your challenger in the primary, a guy with a lower conservative rating. Why?

Well, you're right. My opponent gets those moderate, you know, moderate Republicans, the worst Republicans get scores in the 70s like my opponent. You know, all I can say is there's people, dishonest people with their own agenda who are in the president's ear trying to deceive him about me and deceive him about this race because they've got their own agenda. And unfortunately, he made the endorsement that he did. I still support President Trump, and I'm sure he's going to support me after Tuesday when I win.

On June 19, we'll be on the same page with him supporting me, I imagine. I was looking at a lot of his allies, a lot of President Trump's allies, everyone from Rand Paul to Matt Gates to Lauren Boebert, a lot of people, they've backed you. And it just, I just go back to the scoring and I go back to who's going to be delivering that agenda. And I just feel like that that's what we need more of. Are you a little worried about maybe the health of the House?

Because it just seems like what happens in primaries, that happens at primaries. But in general, you go to war with the soldiers that you got and you want the healthiest fighting force, politically speaking.

So what's the issue? You're right. Steve Bannon's endorsed me and campaigned for me, as has Mark Meadows, as has General Michael Flynn. You mentioned some others, Scott Perry, Byron Donalds is behind me. Matt Gaetz, as you said, Andy Biggs, all the conservatives are.

And so, Conservative Nation is behind me. The people in the 5th District is a conservative Republican base in the 5th District. They're not fooled by the McCarthy revenge toward the millions of dollars of smear attacks. They weren't waiting for three and a half years to see who's endorsing me to see what not they would vote for. Yeah, I feel like I should remind people: you kind of helped orchestrate the McCarthy removal.

I was at the tip of the spear alongside my friend Matt Gage with that back in January when we first tried to prevent him from being speaker and when we removed him as speaker in October. And so he's on the revenge tour trying to spend millions of dollars to try to deceive the people in my district about me. I don't think they're falling for it. Interesting. This is going to be a very interesting race to watch because I don't think anything can be taken for granted going into November.

And that includes the overall election results. But we need to keep good conservatives in Congress. That's all I know. That's what I've been doing as part of the Tea Party for decades, you know, just for over a decade now. Gosh, I made myself some 90.

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To aspire to create wealth is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. If that is what one chooses, I, on the other hand, have chosen to live a life of public service. She's a multi-millionaire. But I am all for it. And if you get yours if that's what you want.

We're trying. And so that's what this tour is about. I mean, she's a multi-millionaire. She's she's Thank you. Scourge McDuck rich.

She's got bullions and a tower somewhere. Does anyone else know anybody Cacola Harris? Is My God, that laugh. It's That's such a Marxist Well, aspire to aspire to create wealth is a good thing. Um, but I want to live a life of public service.

So, you want to live a life? mooching off of the people who create wealth. And you think it's virtuous because you call it a public service. I got to tell you. I I have a love No, I have a hate tolerate relationship.

with public office. Because It's a glorified welfare scheme for some of these people. Like the people like Nancy Pelosi, who stay there forever. Right that people like Biden Biden has been in office since before I was born It's glorified welfare. They don't actually do anything.

Other people write the laws and they show up and they vote. And then they go and they party and they network. And then they try to convince people to support stuff. It's glorified welfare with partying thrown in. I'm not joking.

It should, I think that voters should be termed. They are the term limits. That's why I absolutely oppose term limits. I agree with the Federalist papers on this. Uh But I also think that You deserve what you vote for.

That's why everybody needs to get out and, you know, do their part. But for her for the people to act like it's public service. No, it's glorified welfare. You're living off of everyone else. You're not creating anything.

You're lording over stuff. You're not adding to the tax base you're not Inventing anything, there's no innovation in what you're doing. You're not providing jobs, you're costing them with your horrible policy. In fact, A life of public service is like, I would read that on the resume of someone I would never hire for the job. Right?

It's exactly what it is. She's just so unaware. Just so unaware. It's just remarkable. It truly is.

All right. Also remarkable is what you have here, Kanan, Todayan's stupidity. Is she unaware, just unburdened by what has been? Oh my gosh. I could have gone like a whole other week without hearing that phrase.

All right, Todayan's stupidity is again our President of the United States Cut 5-1. Listen to this. Instead of trying to stop our ban on ghost gun kits that contain these that can commit crimes, they're working like hell to stop it. What? Then So, I don't know why they use the phrase ghost gun.

It's just literal, like unmilled, undrilled polymer, things like that, like bricks of material that you get in. They are not guns by themselves. And they actually, there's no evidence to support that it's the driver of crime. In fact, that's the black market. And by the way, if you're not allowed to purchase or possess in your own state, you can't be doing that at home anyway.

Federal law already covers that.

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