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Going after parents at a school board meeting has got to stop. For practicing your religion, sending informants in to Catholic churches must stop. What about branding parents as domestic terrorists or trying to incarcerate one's political opponent as a sitting president of the United States? Will stop. Must stop.

Interesting. Interesting. So this was the day. This was the AG hearing. And there are and I'm looking if you're forgiving me, I'm looking at my rundown.

There are a number of hearings that are taking place in certain different committees.

So you have, you know, your judiciary, et cetera. And they are they're they're handling Marco Rubio for secretary of state. They're handling Bondi for AG. And I will say this. I think that she has done, she's been exceptional in this hearing.

I do want one Republican, please, dear heavens, ask about red flag law. It'd be great. It'd be great. I'm going to expand on that in a minute. First off, welcome to the program.

It's good to be with you. We're at the top of this first hour today. And we have these hearings. We have I have some crazy. Yeah, we have Ratcliffe CIA that's happening, too.

I have some crazy headlines. I have some developments about the fire and all of that stuff as well. But I thought I thought Bondi has been doing exceptionally well. And I thought that it only got dicey, not dicey. I thought Democrats got over their skis a little bit again, because, you know, they are want to do that.

I thought they got over their skis a little bit with Maisie Hirono because she has the amazing ability. Amazing Maisie. She's got the ability to take any kind of advantageous to her situation and look like a fool. I've never seen anyone that Has the ability To actually make the person That you're questioning or Debating or etc. Look better just because of the way That you ask the questions and the tone that you have And it got a little There was a couple of points where it got a little Dicey what is it Is this 22 is this the one where she was With Hirono because she There were a couple but I thought Hirono was the most Aggressive Hirono and Durbin.

Let's play, first off, let's play 17 real quick because this is one back and forth with Durbin. Ranking member Durbin, if you want to get dirt on me, these women have known me since I was a child. Seriously, most of them.

So thank you for indulging me in that. They've all made a very long trip to be here and thank you for holding my hearing as well and not postponing it. I appreciate that. Thank you all. Because she was telling him, if you want to get dirt on me, all these women that are here with me.

They did go back and forth a little bit with that. Let's play this. This is one of the things that I want to get to. Because the question that Maisie Hirono is asking here, it sounds familiar to you. Not because you've heard the question before.

But because you've lived it for four years now. Longer, actually. and Hirono is desperate, speaking on behalf of Democrats, she's desperate. She wants assurances that the Department of Justice is not going to do exactly what Democrats made it do under Joe Biden. And I thought that Bondi was very calm and cool and collected in her response.

This is that question. Just listen to this. Listen to these leading questions. It's crazy. You're saying that the White House will not have any kind of role.

Meanwhile, though, you have an incoming president who said, I have the absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department. And in fact, President-elect Trump considers the DOJ to be his law firm. I ask you this. If President-elect Trump asks, suggests, or hints that you as Attorney General should investigate one of his perceived political enemies, would you do so? Senator Hirono, I wish you had met with me.

Had you met with me, we could have discussed many things and gotten to know me. I am listening to you now. Could you respond to the question? Yeah, you were the only one who refused to meet with me, Senator. but what we would have discussed is that it is the job of the attorney general to follow the law.

I'm very happy to listen to your responses under oath, Ms. Bondi.

So I think it's really important to us that the attorney general be independent of the White House. And you have a president-elect who considers the AG's office his law firm. I would like to know whether if the president suggests, hints, asks, that you as attorney general should investigate one of his perceived enemies? Senator, I certainly have not heard the president say that, but what I will tell you is two-thirds of Americans have lost faith in the Department of Justice, and it's statements like that, I believe, that make people continue to lose faith. If I am confirmed as attorney general, It will be my job To not only keep Americans safe But restore integrity To that department Do you see the setup?

Do you see the setup?

So, Maisie Hirono's like So, if you could go back In history and murder baby Hitler Would you do it? I mean, that's like It's such a hypothetical And it's so weird The questions that she asks There were three of them Two back to back where she sets up this hypothetical and then is demanding that Pam Bondi answer the hypothetical. And Bondi's like, I'm not doing that. I'm not playing this game. And she was super chill.

Bondi was weirdly chill in that she just sat there, blinked, looked. She didn't like, I think Bondi actually performed better than Hegseth. It's maybe not what you want when you have a DOD hearing, but I'm saying because he has a ton of tells. He's sitting there and he's getting fidgety and you could tell when he's getting ticked you can read it you can look at the tension in his hands the way he holds his hands at the table the way he his body language but also she's a career prosecutor there's so she's trained to sit there as the fire goes around i mean it's the difference is was pretty stunning and she just sat there and looked probably about the past the time that most of us would have slapped the person probably questioning us like that. But she just sat there and was very chill.

Like I said, that I'm still concerned because of her red flag advocacy and the fact that she carried it out as the top cop in Florida. That's a huge issue. You cannot sit there in a hearing and discuss concerns about the weaponization of the DOJ. You cannot sit there in a hearing and talk about whether or not the removal of due process for the purpose of expediency is a good trade-off. You can't do that.

You can't have this hearing and not bring up an issue that is key to this office. And my, I guess, concern with Bondi is that it's one thing if you're the top cop and there is an existing law that is there that you're implementing it and you're implementing it.

So, you know, if you have a state that the previous governor passes red flag law and then the AG comes in and they are implementing that. That's one thing. But Bondi was in office and she's been in politics since before that was passed and put into effect by Rick Scott. She went to events and was speaking out in favor of it. She was advocating for it.

Without there being the existence of a campaign trail, she was campaigning for it.

So that's the difference. And that's the concern that I have. Because red flag law is not just about guns. That's what the gun control people and the people who are after your rights want you to think. They want you to think that red flag law only is about firearms when firearms are nothing more than a variable.

This could be applied to every single facet of law and order. It could be Firearms today it could be something you say on the internet tomorrow. I mean, I'm not kidding you when you remove due process Because you think that secures you some kind of expediency That is a very dangerous thing and what's more what's even more frustrating about it is the removal Of due process doesn't actually secure expediency. It doesn't do anything. In fact, none of none of these states that have passed this have seen a measurable reduction in the sorts of crime that they claim these laws were put into effect to prevent or to contain.

Florida included.

Now, this is something that is a big issue because it's the legislature that's there that, I mean, the legislature, we're going to talk to Governor DeSantis about this next hour. He's going to join us. The legislature there is dragging their feet because they don't want to get going on anything. And he's fighting with them just to show up and work a little bit.

So you can see why, you know, you got red flag law in that state.

So I've got questions for her on this. And I would love it, you know, if one senator could just please, for the love of all things holy, ask a question about this.

Now, a couple of other things. Apparently, Trump put on Truth Social that there is apparently they said that there's a deal for the hostages in place in the Middle East. They have a deal and that they will be released shortly. And that's all. Can I just say that sometimes he's great at oversharing and other times he's such a man.

You know what I mean? I mean, it's true. Women, you'll get the full scoop in 60 seconds. Men you know this if you ask your wives your girlfriends Your sisters your friends something About you know you want the tea These ladies can break it down for you 60 seconds or less and you know the whole life story Of every single person involved men are like I don't know It's not good And you're just like hanging it's like pulling Teeth And so Trump either goes from where he's over sharing Or this And he just goes thank you yeah they're going to be released Thanks I want to know more Like what how many do we have to release Any terrorists in order to get back Some of these hostages like I want some Deet spill the tea My dude spill the tea Yeah but you can't just Like just drop that like that and then run Thank you and then go and oh my gosh I want to know About this stuff I mean so this is it this is a Big headline we're going to explore this we're going to follow This more here we've got headlines coming up Also, just let me give you an idea of what we got on deck today. We got the hearings that we're going to be following.

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Well, what about like blue five? I don't even know if that's a real thing, but you know what I mean. Like why? I don't know. I got some questions on that.

So also, um, does that, I bet that's what's in, but that's what Cheeto dust is made of. I'm just saying, you know, probably it's true. A woman, this is the, I can't even believe you guys. I need first one, throw these photos up here. This woman saw these photos and got scammed out of tons of money because she thought the guy that she was talking with online and dating digitally was Brad Pitt.

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Now, the crazy thing is, she's only the latest woman to fall for the fake Brad Pitt scam. Meaning that other women have also fallen for this. What in the world? I, golly, bless their hearts. Bless their ever-loving hearts.

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And then she ended up jacking his car. And so he got fired. What? I didn't. She did not technically a car jack.

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Interesting. But TikTok says that's fake news. They said it was, quote, pure fiction. We got a lot more on the way. Law and order and the snub from Kamala Harris.

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During the election, during the campaign. First, are the felons convicted of breaking into the Capitol on January 6th hostages or patriots? I'm quoting Trump, as President-elect Trump has said repeatedly. Do you agree with his characterization of the felons that I referred to? I am not familiar with that statement, Senator.

I just familiarized you with that statement. Do you agree with that statement? I'm not familiar with it, Senator. No answer. He has also said illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation.

He said that in December 2023. Do you agree with that statement? Senator, I am not familiar with that statement, but what I can tell you is I went to the border a few months ago. I went to Yuma, Arizona, and what I saw at that border was horrific, Senator. It was horrific.

I went to a rape crisis center. That is not my question. I went to a rape crisis center. I'm not familiar with the statement, but I went to a rape crisis center. I met with Border Patrol agents.

I'm sure you've been to the border as well. I want to get to my next question. And then she's like, okay, I'm going to go to my next question now because you're kicking my ass in your response.

So let's go to the next question. Things and stuff. What? That's, I'm just, it's so goofy. It's so goofy.

No. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this first hour of the program. And that was when she, what did she say?

No, I familiarized you with it. That's when I was getting ready actually to come on TV. And I looked up because I thought, ooh, that was bitchy. What's happening here? I had a little bit of a Real Housewives tone.

What's up?

So she's just been told to me for a minute.

So Hirono has this, she issues the statement. and she attributes a quote to Trump. Pam Bondi has, you know, it's a Democrat, so it's probably not true. Pam Bondi is sitting there thinking, am I just supposed to take your word for it? You're Maisie Hirono.

I'm just supposed to take your word for this? Maisie Hirono is asking her to essentially affirm a negative, which that's entirely illogical. And when Bondi doesn't do that, then Hirono's like, she's not answering my question.

Well, you didn't, but you didn't validate your question is the problem. You begged the question because you are asking for a conclusion that is predicated upon a premise that you are presenting as truthful. That's what begged the question means. Begged the question doesn't mean I'm posing the question. I hate when people mess that up.

Begging the question assumes that the presence, that the premise is accurate and truthful. Thus, they want a specific answer for you That is entirely predicated upon the truthfulness of that premise That's what she's doing here So, Pam Bondi's like, I'm not falling into this logical fallacy I'm not doing this And good for her I do want someone to ask about the red flag law, though You can't have a conversation about weaponizing Department of Justice And not talk about that issue And here's why it's incredibly important Remember all the parents at school board meetings? They were red flag basically Yeah, they just don't call it red flag, but it's red flag application Do you see what i'm telling you firearms are merely a variable that's one variable? There is a formula They can plug that in as one variable. There's another very I mean that's that's what I warn people about over and over again You don't even have to like guns.

I'm not even asking you to agree with me on it But you should be able which is horribly stupid, but i'm not demanding that you do that But we all should agree on due process. We should not be so politically tribal that we can't say, yeah, it's important to have due process. I mean, for the love. If we're that tribal that we can't acknowledge that, then we deserve to burn.

So this hearing, I thought, was really, I thought it was very interesting. and these questions and we've got a lot of audio because they're also they're also talking to Rubio at the same time that they're talking to Pam Bondi you know he's got his secretary of state hearing and they've been peppering him with questions on that as well and we'll see I mean he was he uh audio sunbite 19 they had to have disruptors removed out of the hearing room. And Rubio made a joke. Listen. Pause.

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Backdoor. All right. Yeah, they just keep getting tossed out, one right after the other. I want to switch gears here. We're going to come back to this, but I need to bring this to y'all's attention.

So do you remember it was Bruce Fisher, whose wife is a lawmaker, and you remember the whole story last week that we had where people were livid at Bruce Fisher because he, when he walked up to hold the Bible for his wife to swear her oath on, which is unbiblical by the way, but okay. But they swearing an oath on the Bible and he was, he had his cane that he was leaning on heavily and he was having difficulty walking and then he had the Bible in his hand and everyone was saying that He was so ignorant because he because Kamala Harris tried to shake his hand when he was holding the Bible and the cane. And he I mean, it was either they were attacking him because he just didn't, I guess, fall on his face on his way, you know, and on his way, shake Kamala Harris's hand. I mean, it was so ridiculous.

Now, here's why I bring this up.

So you might you might not have heard about this story. She's the way it happens is when you have the before you have the inauguration, there are all of these little things, traditions that the president, vice president and their staffs do as they are moving the new presidential team in and the old presidential team out. And so they have a Naval Observatory residence for the vice president. And typically, and this is how it has worked with every president. And, you know, you have the first ladies that will have tea.

Well, the vice president always invites and it's tradition. It's not a rule, but it's a tradition invites the vice president to their the vice president's home and they have a sit down and a discussion. It's tradition. They tour the new residence They see where their family is going to live And they sit down and they have a conversation So Kamala Harris' wife Has declined to do this Or Kamala Harris has declined to do this To have J.D. Vance and his wife come in Kamala Harris has Declined to invite The Vances To the Naval Observatory And tour the residence Where are all the people who said that Bruce Fisher was horrible and how dare you not shake her hand The sources close to Harris say that the behavior is payback.

For what? Oh, because I guess the V, yeah, for what? For being disabled? I don't know. Well, it's payback to it's payback to that.

She's not going to have Vance. She doesn't like Vance. They said that Navy aides who oversee the home communicated with the incoming second family and they're making arrangements because the Vances have kids.

So they have kids that are going to be moving. Don't wouldn't don't you want the kids to see where they're going to be moving? I just think that it's healthy for them because they're making a huge transition. I mean, they're they're moving several states away from their home to Washington, D.C. it's going to be and they're at the age where they're going to notice and it's going to have an effect on them wouldn't that be just a nice thing to do to invite the family and give a tour of the residence you don't doing that doesn't mean that you change your party affiliation to republican it just means that you know you continue the niceties but they're not doing that they're not doing that not what they're doing and i i don't know i'm just i find that interesting where's the outrage from media over this can you imagine if it was a i don't have to finish the sentence kane what would that be like if it say the situation was reversed and jd vanston invite kamala harris the incoming vp to tour her residence man i mean you saw what they did with bruce so we know exactly what they'll do and that was just a simple little formality thing that's not like a vice president being shunned or anything like that so yeah and the media would not only regurgitate that for days on end, but then you'd have pundits echoing it for another week or so.

Yeah. And this is the first time in decades that there are young children that are going to be living in the house for the first time in decades.

So I'm just curious where, where's the outrage from the press about this? And this is from CBS News, by the way.

So it's not you know, like a made up story. She's refused to do it. The headline is Harris declines to invite Vance for courtesy visit to vice president's residence before inauguration.

Well, she refused to do it because his wife had reached out to the vice president's home because they have people that oversee it. And she was asking what details they need to do since all their kids are under the age of eight. What kind of childproofing can they give some suggestions? And CBS reports that the questions were initially rebuffed by a Harris political appointee.

So they were immediately right off the bat, absolute jackwagons. and this one of the defenses of harris's behavior here was that she was never afforded the opportunity to visit the home before she was sworn in however that was during lockdown and it was right after the riot at the capitol where they were burning stuff down that when they tried to set the church on fire and everything else there'd been all these riots Remember the left going crazy And then you had J6 stuff That took place And then the left was writing the whole time for that So I'm just you know It's just really weird So they said that they're going to try to accommodate the kids But why do you have to be She's not doing anything She's not writing books She's not on the speaker circuit because she's horrible But they said that Pence's people dispute that an invitation Was never offered because pence when they found out or cbs i guess asked pence and uh a spokesperson for pence had said that well that's not true that she was never invited we absolutely did invite her uh we and they said that the only thing was that the invitation was discreet because of conflict between pence and trump but they he was like well that's not true i absolutely did invite harris they didn't have a formal sit down in the house but they said they absolutely invited them. And so Harris's people are saying, well, that was a tradition that was broken during Trump-Pence. But Pence is like, no, I invited you. And it was a little tricky, apparently, when she could go because they had lockdowns and then there were, you know, people out in the street and that's, you know, but that's so lame.

That's so lame that they would try to, well, you know, Pence did it.

So I, you know, paybacks. She's a child. All the people who are mad over disabled Bruce Fisher, I hope they feel so stupid and ashamed of themselves. Because where's the outrage over this? There's no consistency there.

That's why I never take any of these people's complaints seriously at all. We have more on the way as we roll towards the conclusion of this first hour. Coming up in our second hour, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, he has been coordinating with Trump state-by-state immigration response. And now the rhinos in Florida, they don't want to get to work. We're going to talk to him about that and more coming up as we move our partners who help bring you the program.

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I'm trying the day of in this hand. You'll fill in the dates here, guys. All right. I know that, but I don't want to.

So welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. That's Biden. You can't remember how to sign anything. Apparently, here's something I was thinking about.

So we're learning more while we're we're getting a little bit more drip, drip detail about this reported ceasefire. deal and maybe even hostage release with Israel or with between Gaza and Israel and Israeli and American hostages. And I'm was looking at this so that they agreed to their they're agreeing to a ceasefire so that hostages can come home. And apparently there Israel would have to pull back from some of the borders, release some of the Gazan prisoners. I don't know if I I don't know enough yet to determine whether or not I think that this is a good deal I think getting the hostages back obviously but at what cost like how many terrorists gaza and terrorists do you have to release uh what other what else is Israel going to be uh pushed into so I I want a little bit more detail of it but here's the thing where's biden in this because if this is trump that made this happen you know regardless of what you think about the deal then wow that's pretty gutting for the biden administration because what have you heard from the biden administration this entire time that they've been working tirelessly on trying to secure a deal right that they've been they've been doing everything that they can to secure a deal and get the hostages home and they've been working out and and and talking and there's been you know endless diplomacy and it's did trump do it just saying i don't know i mean we'll get more details out about it but biden does not seem to be a part of this biden had nothing to do harris didn't have anything to do with it as well.

They're just figureheads. Neither of them were secure enough in their own status within the Democrat Party to do this without overseers.

So they're just taking orders at this point. It's pretty extraordinary, though. Pretty extraordinary. All right. So coming up, we have Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is going to be joining us next hour.

And they're having a big old fight trying to get everything ready so that when the Trump administration takes office next week. They have a flurry of executive orders and the bulk of it is focusing on immigration. And Florida is key to that. They've been coordinating on it. But then there's some rhinos that just don't want to do the job.

And I'm so tired of being stabbed in the back by rhinos. We're going to talk about that and more. The latest with the fires, hearings, all of it. Stick with us. We've got more in store.

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Now, I know that earlier you agreed that Joe Biden is, in fact, president, but many of the president-elect's inner circle continue to spread the big lie about the 2020 election. Then we'll move on to a different topic. Senator, you were speaking. May I speak? I want to ask you the next question.

You can speak, and I hope you answer, Ms. Bondi.

Well, I'd like to answer the previous one, Senator. When we met yesterday, you pointed your finger at me and said you were speaking. You did not seem to be familiar with the citizenship clause. Let me answer my question. I'm not going to be bullied by you, Senator Taddea.

The 14th Amendment of the United States of America, which was deeply disappointing. I guess you didn't want to hear my answer about Pennsylvania. After I gave an opportunity to study overnight.

So can you tell me in this committee what the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment says? Senator, I'm here to answer your questions. I'm not here to do your homework and study for you. If I am confirmed as Attorney General. You're the one asking for a confirmation vote, ma'am.

Hey, you cut me off. Can I please finish? What does the 14th Amendment say? Senator, Senator, the 14th Amendment we all know addresses birthright citizenship. I've been a state prosecutor.

I've been a state AG. I look forward to even given your remarks today, working with you and the people of California, if I am confirmed as the 87th Attorney General of the United States of America. I didn't take your homework assignment. I'm sorry. I was preparing for today.

Well, he knows what the answer is. She does, too, but she's not playing his game. and she's rejecting and so much of this are these senators that are trying to get like footage for their campaign ads and they they say something just asinine and then they turn around and ask about the minutiae of it oh i'm gonna make a an explosive statement here and then welcome back dana lash with you we're at the top of this second hour here on this wednesday and later on in the hour uh we have a florida governor ron desantis who's going to be joining us uh these florida's been apparently they've been coordinating with potus elect especially on this immigration stuff we're going to talk about that but these hearings i mean i didn't learn anything from democrats questioning except that they've got access to grind it's amazing the stuff that they ask especially given that you know their body is overseen by the vice president of the united states you know when they were when they were grilling hegseth or when they were grilling bondi it was weird because maizie hirona was asking her if she had any history of like sexual like her being a sexual assaulter or something to that effect. It was weird. But what's even weirder is, you know, Hirono is part of a body as Senate that's overseen by the vice president of the United States.

And who is the vice president of the United States married to? She's married to one Doug Emhoff. How did Doug Emhoff come to marry Kamala Harris? It was after he screwed around on his wife and impregnated his nanny. And then they ended up having a divorce.

And then he gets with Kamala Harris, you know, only just a few years ago.

So if they if they're worried about morality, maybe they could start with the overseeing entity of the Senate body. All of it's just, I thought Bondi did well, but I'm concerned as it pertains to FISA, and I'm concerned as it pertains to due process. These are super important things. And she was talking about some of that as well. AudioSumbly21, this is an answer that concerned a lot of folks.

Listen. Do you support reauthorizing FISA in 2025? Senator, I believe 702 is up in 2026.

Okay, I'm sorry, 2026. I believe it's 2026, and we will closely be looking at that. FISA is a very important tool. Do you agree that the 702 provides important intel-gathering capability to protect our nation? Extremely important.

Okay. Hmm. Hmm. So FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA is one of the things that was actually invoked against and weaponized against the previous administration. Of course, I'm completely unsurprised that Lindsey Graham was the one to ask this question.

I mean, come on. But it was that there's no there's not a lot. There's not a lot of oversight. In fact, that's probably one of the biggest, there's problems with FISA, but to pass it without a requirement of greater oversight is criminal, really. And so she said that 702, they were talking about Section 702 of FISA, and that's what a lot of people use for intelligence gathering, etc., or law enforcement uses, FBI, all that uses for intelligence gathering.

and so the left is now saying like for instance this was a headline uh this is from one of the lefty publications quote top senator warns sweeping new surveillance power will quote inevitably be misused by trump they're very upset they're very you like it was misused during the biden administration you know one could say uh yeah it's been 702 is not even supposed to be for domestic intelligence gathering but there was a huge push on it and i i look i of issues. But this plus the red flag stuff, I would like to see more questions on I know that they have the hearing ongoing today, they took a lunch break, and then they're going for round two.

So we're going to have some more audio of that. But I would love I really would like for somebody like a Mike Lee, to ask about and I think you could do it in the context of the same question, you know, where it concerns the weaponization of government agencies, I think you could ask about FISA, you could ask about Section 702. And you could ask about red flag law, which is not about firearms, but about the diminishment of due process in one question that concerns protecting the rights of civilians. When you have parents that can be put on terror lists simply for speaking out, however passionately they did so at school board meetings, which is their right, and then for that to land them on a list, a watch list for the FBI that was made possible by the Patriot Act, that's a major problem. And I think that it does more.

I mean, I want to hear it addressed more than I've been hearing it addressed. Like Audio Sun by 25, this is where she talked about just that thing. Listen. As Attorney General, how will you prevent the weaponization of the Department of Justice against Americans? And Senator, you just gave the classic example of what's been happening regarding the weaponization.

Going after parents at a school board meeting has got to stop. For practicing your religion.

Okay, so what does that mean? to Catholic churches. That's right. We all agree that. How?

We all agree with that. How? Keep in mind, the FISA Act was what they used to target Carter Page. Remember that whole thing. This is why FISA is so incredibly important.

There were not public, very public protections in place, and nor were there really, there was not really any kind of penalty either, when they lied to the FISA court, presented information that had funding omitted.

So they were showing the FISA judge these stories that were talking about Trump and Russia. And they came from very progressive journalists. And what they did not tell the FISA court was that these journalists, it was an agreement, they were getting this oppo for them to run as stories. And then Fusion GPS, which was the firm through which they did all of this, Perkins Coie, the law firm from Hillary Clinton, they hired Fusion GPS to handle this. And then they were laundering all of that through the media and then taking the reported stories and using it as evidence before a FISA court.

And they weren't telling the FISA court, they didn't tell the FISA court that they pitched these stories to journalists using information that was discredited by the FBI itself, but also paid for by the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign, which is why both of those entities had to pay a fine for nondisclosure.

So this is a major, major problem. And it extends not just to what happened with Trump and Carter Page, but average everyday Americans. I mean, if you can weaponize stuff to this extent, if you remember when Carter Page when they decided to go after Carter Page and they were trying to act like he was a Russian plant do you remember how the CIA had to get involved do you remember what happened with that Carter Page was actually an asset for the CIA against Russia and the FBI wouldn't let it go so the CIA finally had to tell the FBI would you knock it off like they stepped in like this guy's literally an asset against Russia what is your damage but they were acting, the higher up in FBI were acting on orders of the DNC and Hillary Clinton. And again, if you disagree with that, I would like to remind you about Bruce Orr. Bruce Orr and his wife, his wife worked at Fusion GPS.

Her husband's at the DOJ. He works with the FBI. There's your trail right there.

So I want more from her on that.

Now, I'm not saying that I feel like she's, I'm not saying that she's compromised or anything, but I want ironclad assurances from all of these individuals that are still defending FISA. I want to know what you're going to do to change it. I want to know what you're going to do to make sure that what happened in 2016 is never going to happen again, that what happened with parents is never going to happen again. It's not enough for these lawmakers to sit there and tell you about how much they hate it. Be specific.

We know you do. You say you do. do you hate it as badly as we do?

Some of us fought and took over our school boards. What are you going to do? How can it be properly monitored when it is in use? Why do you have, they say, well, 702 stipulates that it can't, it's not for domestic, it's only for, you know, it's foreign. Essentially what they're saying is that if you're spying on a threat to American security and it's a foreign threat and you are, you know, surveilling them, you discount any kind of domestic engagements.

Does that make sense?

So if they if you have a foreign entity that's talking to someone who's here in the United States, that association is not an immediate implication of guilt. There's a lot that goes into it. But clearly, it didn't matter what the rules were, because they were all broken in 2016 to the effect of almost dividing the country.

So yeah, I want some ironclad assurances here on all of this stuff. I got a couple of other things that we have to touch on as well.

So I wanted to compare for you two headlines. They're both from the Atlantic. And I thought it was very interesting. Let's go back to 2021, February, where we had an ice storm in Texas. The Atlantic wrote about this and we were in Texas while this was happening.

And we had four days, what, at least four days of no power. and then when we got power back, there was like three days of no power and then we had like two days of rolling blackouts. And you had to kind of plan around that. And it was heinous. And there was a lot of, I mean, yes, you have gas lines that are not insulated, but you also, you know, when it's not windy and you're not getting wind power, guess what?

You don't have that power. It's just all, there's a lot of stuff that went into this. Anyway, the Atlantic's headline is this Quote, Texas failed because it did not plan Now I want to compare this to them writing about the fires Here's the headline that they had just the other day About the Los Angeles wildfires Quote, how well-intentioned policies fueled LA's fires What? That's what? What well-intentioned policies?

The policies of draining the reservoir The policies of allowing the capture of record rainfall to drain into the ocean? Is it the policies of ignoring wildlife management in your state that were begging you to clear out undergrowth, particularly in more populated areas between structures? I mean, there's a lot there. Unbelievable. California, it was almost like it purposefully tried to do this.

It purposefully tried to have a natural disaster Hurt as many of their citizens as possible Texas is it's not the same thing Unless you want to well in some instances You have the same ideological left That's one of the reasons that you had these resources That were poured into failed wind And that was one of the reasons why you know It didn't perform the way it was promised People got sold on it and guess what They were SOL it didn't perform So I'm, you know, I just got, I got some questions. I have some questions about all of this. With everything going on in the world right now, the economy, conflicts, the open border, spiraling national debt, the devastating inflation, it's critical that you have a plan for diversifying and protecting your savings. And that's why so many, including myself, have turned to precious metals like gold and silver to help protect our savings. And I've partnered with the top rated precious metals company, Goldco, to make that happen.

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All right. So the MSNBC president Rashida Jones has stepped down after a four year tenure.

Okay, bye Poll projections show Andrew Cuomo See, I told you they were going to try to rehabilitate him Told you that he is crushing Eric Adams and everyone else In a new potential mayoral bid So they're going to try to rehabilitate Andrew Cuomo Because there are serious doubts now About Gavin Newsom's ability Especially after the wildfire response This is going to be a serious thing So now it's Andrew Cuomo it looks like he's beating Eric Adams and all these other people is how in the world how in the world do you like pull the lever for that guy after everything that happened with lockdown you deserve to be betrayed by these people if you vote for them over and over again when they show you who you are you better listen better watch so apparently a new study says that keeping the thermostat at, you know, anywhere between like what, 68 to 75 degrees is the best, is like the sweet spot for senior citizens' cognitive function. That's a pretty wide berth. 68 to 75. They said that's the optimal indoor temperature range. If you keep your house at 68 degrees.

Why? It's winter. We invented indoor heating and fireplaces. Why? There's no reason for it.

So the world's ugliest lawn winner says that she leaves the watering to Mother Nature.

Well, Mother Nature apparently is not doing its job. Not doing her job. It's in Christchurch, New Zealand. And they have like a ban on irrigation because of water shortages. And And now residents decided that they were going to make something positive out of their dying yard.

So they had a competition for the world's ugliest yard. And this woman won. It's funny. All right. So coming up, Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, joins us.

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So one of the things that we were talking about yesterday was the problem of rhinos state by state. In Texas, we got a handful of them here. In Florida, they have a bunch of them there as well. And I've never seen people dig in so stubbornly and refuse to work as I have seen with some of these rhinos who are taking issue with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who wants to call a special session of the Florida state legislature and immediately tackle the problem of immigration. because as we've told you, Trump's got six months before midterms start and then everybody runs to the center.

So he's got to maximize his time. All pedal, no brakes. They got to get moving. And I feel like, you know, DeSantis is like one of the, if not the only politicians who gets this. He joins us now via phone because he's a very, very busy man.

We appreciate him joining us and talking about this. Florida Governor DeSantis, welcome. Hey, Dana, I saw you rocking Russian. and Geddy Lee is the intro.

So I kind of got me. I felt like it's the perfect song for you. It's like that's your theme song, The Working Man.

Well, here's the thing. We have a once-in-a-decade opportunity with President Trump taking office to finally bring an end to the illegal immigration crisis. And this has been something that's been a problem in our country for decades. We've had different periods where it was really bad, like under Biden, sometimes where it was bad, but more manageable. And it's just come to a head.

And so we're either going to do this or we're not.

Now, I've been talking with President Trump about this throughout his transition. We've been talking with some of his policy guys. They have really strong plans. President believes this is the key issue that he got elected on and then he wants to deliver on. But here's the thing.

They don't have enough resources at the federal government. They're going to have liberal states that are sanctuary states and sanctuary cities.

So there's going to be limitations. And so the way to maximize this opportunity is to have states and local governments cooperating and helping to facilitate the swift removal of these illegal aliens.

Now, Florida, we're not a sanctuary state. We've banned sanctuary cities. But it's more than just saying you're not going to impede. we want to impose an affirmative obligation for our folks at the local level now the state i will order them to cooperate uh to be strong partners for example you'll hear a lot about criminal aliens if somebody commits a crime and they're convicted and they're here illegally they should be deported of course that is the case but why if you know you have a venezuelan gang in your jurisdiction why should you have to wait for them to commit a crime no you local law enforcement's the one on the ground, they know what's going on. They can easily get those folks and turn them over to ICE without them having committed a separate crime.

So we've got a whole host of proposals that are going to make sure Florida is firmly on the side of fulfilling President Trump's immigration agenda and delivering on the mandate. And our legislative session doesn't start till March and it ends sometime in May. Most of the legislation that takes effect in Florida during that won't even take effect until July 1st. And so my view is we don't have months to wait. We need to act now.

So President Trump will be sworn in Monday, January 20th. I've called the legislature into session the following week, and we need to get busy on delivering. And every day that we wait is going to be a missed opportunity.

So I have a sense of urgency on this. I think some of the legislative leaders said that, you know, it's not something that's important enough to do in a special session that we have a few months, we can wait and just tackle it in due time. I reject that. But more importantly, our voters reject that. They have a sense of urgency, too.

This is what they voted for.

So let's get all hands on deck and get it done. And this is something because and we're talking with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, because I saw the House Speaker Daniel Perez, and there were a handful of others, Joe Gruters and a few others, the Senate president, that they were the ones that they issued these statements. And I guess they thought they were being kind of snarky about it. They were quoting some left leaning journalists saying that they're not going to listen to this call for special session, which is wild for the reasons that you just said, because they want to wait till March. I mean, they realize that Trump has six months before everybody starts again with midterm cycle.

So they're willing to jeopardize that by waiting till March. Am I understanding that correctly?

Well, not only that, but it wouldn't even be done right at the beginning of March. It would likely go all the way to the end of the session. And I think part of the reason they want that is because there's 100 different issues percolating in a session.

So some of this stuff that's really strong kind of can fall off, right? And then, you know, you've got a host of bills that pass at the very end.

So, for example, one of the things we're calling for in this package of reforms is to eliminate something that was put in in Florida in 2014, long before I was governor. in-state tuition for illegal aliens at our universities. And I've called for this to be removed for years, and it always ends up falling out of the bill. And so that is something, if that's squarely presented in a special session, obviously the Republicans are going to vote yes to repeal that. But if it's in a general session, this stuff can kind of get obscured, the bills can get amended.

There's more going on. I think it's easier to not follow through. But timing is significant because Trump at the start, he's going to ask Congress for more resources. He's going to ask for some more money and personnel. And I think he'll get it, but he's not going to get it on day one because they've got to run all this stuff through Congress.

It may take three months. It may take six months. But even if it takes three months to pass, by the time the money gets out, knowing the federal government, that takes time.

So I would say these first few months are the most important time for the states to step up and to assist federal immigration authorities. And for us, that is not only on the policy. We are also going to provide funding because I think we'll save money as a state. if we are the state that people view as the strongest deterrent to illegal immigration, well, that's going to be less cost in hospitals and schools and all these other things. The housing costs will be better.

So there's going to have huge benefits for leading on this. But yes, the January 20th until probably those first six months, I think that may be the most important time for the state to supplement the efforts because he is going to be shorthanded to start on day one. He's obviously inheriting the Biden disaster. He will not have the money for the wall. He will not have the money for more personnel, all these other things.

We have an opportunity to do it. And if you think about just how law enforcement works in America, even if you triple the number of ICE and Border Patrol, that's still a small fraction of local law enforcement, police and sheriffs. And so why, if they know that there's a gang operating someplace, why would they have to wait until those people are convicted of felonies? They're in the country illegally. They're part of a gang.

They're a danger to community. Round them up, give them the ice, and let's get them out of Dodge. We're talking with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. You golfed with POTUS-elect yesterday. And he tweeted yesterday as well, after you announced your call for the special session, And he quote tweeted you saying, thank you, Ron.

Hopefully other governors will follow. I mean, it seems, you know, this is something he clearly wants. I think it's a really brilliant way to kind of help supplement his actions while they make that transition. Did he did he what I mean, obviously, you guys talked about this yesterday. Who won in golf, though?

Maybe who had the best score? Let me start with that.

Well, we were on the same team.

So it was two of us versus three other players. and the president and I won the match, which was good because I didn't want to be a drag on that. You know, I played with him a bunch over the years, and a lot of times he'll have a touring pro will be his partner, and then I'm sitting there with, like, you know, some random, we're just getting killed, so it's good to do. And we were down in West Palm and his course at Trump International. It is a really top-flight golf course, and he does a really good job with all his properties, but this is a really good, so, I mean, you know, it's not the easiest course because, like, these are big-time holes to be able to do, But yeah, I think he sent out that truth social.

I think we were on like the eighth fairway or something. He was working through it. But his view is he wants assistance.

So you know California is going to try to kneecap what he's trying to do. A lot of kind of red states will probably just be neutral, right? They won't try to stop it, but they're not necessarily going to aid. And Florida, I think we should be facilitating and helping because it's really a force multiplier. And Biden let in, what, at least 7 million just in four years.

So that's a lot of people. And if you show that you're going to be really strong in doing it and you do, some of them will end up probably just going back on their own because they know the law is going to be enforced. But he is really serious about this. I mean, he told me, he said, listen, I know inflation is a big deal. He's like, but I think the number one reason that he got elected, he said, was because of the immigration and the border issue.

And he's very resolute about solving it. And I know he's got guys like Stephen Miller who are really great on this issue, who know this backwards and forwards. But one of the executive orders he's going to be doing on January 20th is going to be creating a good framework for something called 287G.

Now, this is like, you know, the statutory political language. which basically what it means is it's a program where local law enforcement can opt in to help supplement federal immigration authorities.

Now, obviously, blue jurisdictions don't want to do that. Purple jurisdictions a lot of times don't want to be bothered by it.

Some of the red ones want to. We are going to require all of our jurisdictions to participate, and that's going to be a huge increase in support.

So they recognize the role that the locals and the states play in this. And we can't have a situation where I've wanted to enforce immigration law against Biden, who won't do it. And the courts will sometimes tell us, you're preempted. We did an anti-smuggling law that penalized people for smuggling people into Florida from across the border. And a federal judge said that we're intruding on the federal authority that we can't do.

So you can't have a situation where states are powerless to enforce the law when the feds won't, but somehow are not going to be allowed to also help when the feds do want to do it.

So if the feds want to do it, we want to be helpful. And I think if we got, if you just got the red states to do this, the force multiplier that this would be would be really, really significant. And then you'll end up having a situation where people that are here illegally will gravitate even more strongly to the sanctuary jurisdictions.

Now, I also think they're going to crack down on sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. I think they'll do it through reconciliation with the budget. But here's the thing. A sanctuary state should be defunded of federal money. Why would we subsidize a state that is actively sabotaging national policy, especially on the heels of an election where the American people spoke very clearly about it?

You know, it's interesting, Dana, when I first became governor, Florida state policy was very lax in terms of illegal immigration. And part of the reason was they thought politically, you know, that's why they did in-state tuition and things like that. They thought politically they had to be because we have a high Latino population. I came in and said, no, we're banning sanctuary cities. And the media was like, oh, my gosh, you know, all this stuff.

They started doing polls about banning sanctuary cities. And the group in Florida that was most supportive were Hispanic Floridians. They didn't want sanctuary cities. I won Miami-Dade County. Hillary Clinton won Miami-Dade County in 2016 against Trump by 30 points.

22, I won Miami-Dade by double digits. And people are like, they didn't think a Republican could win it. Then Donald Trump just won it by double digits. And so that and he ran saying he was going to do an ambitious project to repatriate illegal aliens to their home country.

So, folks, this has been a huge thing why Republicans have gained ground politically. Yes. We have an opportunity to to deliver on that. And what we've learned in Florida with us going from a swing state to a solid red state is when you tell people you're going to do something, If you do it and you fight for them and they see that, they will back you and they will back you in a big way. And so we've got to step up and get the job done here.

I think there's going to be a lot of opportunities generally with the new administration. But on this issue, this is the one we can't miss on. One last question for you, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. After Hurricane Helene, actually, any time any type of hurricane comes through Florida, you guys bounce back so fast. You are so prepared and so ready to just get everything fixed.

It's like, you know, the Charlie Brown Christmas special when all the kids come and they all doctor the tree up real quick. That's like what Florida does with bridges that are damaged or anything else. You've offered help to California after, well, ongoing with their devastating wildfires. And I thought that that was I mean, obviously you did it because, you know, states come together. But even in spite of Gavin Newsom trying to say that California is really the blueprint for America, He did not like Florida being called that.

And you've you've offered you've offered him some assistance. Have you spoken with Governor Newsom? I haven't. But this is something that's been standard. We've actually supported California in the past.

California has actually supported us. We have a whole system where you can submit emergency management requests. And if there's things that are being needed, the states can fill.

So this is not something that's out of the ordinary. I think the states do do a good job of getting people's back.

So after Helene, this is obviously a big storm. We had a lot of people staged. We had the utility linemen. We had first responders. But we had some out-of-state folks for search and rescue to buttress those efforts.

Well, you know, the storm came in, and it did damage. We effectuated a lot of rescues. Fortunately, we didn't have – it wasn't like you've seen in some of these other parts of the country. And so we got things stabilized relatively quickly for a storm of that magnitude.

So I sent those people to Western North Carolina and they started helping there. And the same thing with Milton. The minute that we didn't do, we sent back to the states.

So this is something that's normal. And in spite of the political rivalries, I do think the governors recognize because we're the ones that have to deal with it. When when there needs to be things that you can augment, step up and do it. Florida has had help from other states. We're always standing by to be helpful as well.

And, you know, these fires are really, really difficult. I mean, hurricanes are tough. Don't get me wrong. I mean, it can wipe out someone's home. It can obviously cause a lot of damage.

But you kind of, you watch the weather. You kind of know it's coming. You have an opportunity, you know, to kind of evacuate. And then you have a better opportunity to pick up the pieces. These fires can just rage out of control.

And I know California's had a lot of bad policies that have facilitated it. But I'll tell you, these things are really, really vicious. and Southern California is never going to be the same. We do control burns in Florida, so we have a different approach to forest management. But we have had times where we just got no rain and you have fires, and you've got to really work to contain them.

And these are big-time emergencies. And so I've got a lot of folks, and I'm sure I know you've got a lot of people you know out in Southern California. Just the number of people that I know that have lost their homes is in the dozens. And here I am on the other side of the country.

So this is a really, really big deal. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the best governor in America, really. We appreciate all you do for Florida and the model that you and your state are setting for the rest of the nation. Thank you for your time, Governor. OK, thanks.

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Senator, I have not looked at any of those files. If confirmed, I will look at the files. And will you be able to do, will you be able to review hundreds of cases on day one? I will look at every file I am asked. Of course you won't.

So will you advise the president? Can I answer the question?

Well, my question is, I would have plenty of staff. You said, of course you want. You'll be able to review hundreds of cases in her state. I'm not going to mislead this body, nor you. All right, let me ask another question.

You don't want to ask that. Let me ask another question. You were censured by Congress, Senator, for comments just like this that are so reckless. It will also... Wow!

Wow! Wow! Well, good for her, because that line of questioning was just so... First off, you can't answer hypotheticals. Yes, we would like for you to compromise yourself by answering a hypothetical.

That's why I always say, and granted, maybe you shouldn't say this like in church or at work, but you know, if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle. I don't sit here and do hypotheticals. I don't do that. Nor does she. I just want one question about red flag law.

That'd be great. That'd be great. Biden is speaking. Do we want to take any of this? Or can you just, let's just monitor it.

I heard a collective no out there from the audience. Let's just, we're going to monitor this because this has to do with this agreement. and he's speaking right now. He's got Harrison Blinken with him. Is he?

Okay, you know what? Can I just dive into it just a smidge? I just want to hear a smidge of it simply because I am curious if he is going to take credit for it. Listen, let's just see if he's taking credit. We'll dive into it here.

Juan's getting it set up. Yeah, we need a little time. But that's the... Guys, he has not been involved in the negotiation of this. Of all our war.

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So apparently he did. I just wanted to listen to a little bit of what he was saying. Apparently he has taken full credit for it. And Juan's going to get that soundbite ready. And I'm curious as to how because he was not at all involved in any of this.

And I don't think that anybody could argue. First off, welcome back, everybody. We're at the top of our third hour. Dana Lash with you. But he's the president.

I almost said former president. Will be in a couple. Will be in a few days. I know he's he's speaking now. And I he wasn't involved in any of the negotiation on this.

How can he say what he's saying in the soundbite? Listen, state, let's listen. Good afternoon. It's a very good afternoon. Because at long last, I can announce a ceasefire and a hostage deal has been reached.

between israel and amas and the secretary well there you have it he did it kane how dare you he did it all his self his own precious little self uh yeah i well i just don't think that this is like the longest goodbye ever this is like a longer than a midwestern goodbye do we remember what Trump said just a week ago? No. Okay, let me play this real quick. And you let me know. In what context?

Well, this was Trump saying that if I'm not in office, you know, if these hostages aren't back by the time I'm in office. Oh, right, right, right. Yeah, yeah. All hell's going to break loose.

So let's just hear that. If those hostages aren't back, I don't want to hurt your negotiation. If they're not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East. and it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. All hell will break out.

I don't have to say anymore, but that's what it is.

Well, so what we do know is that the outlines of an agreed upon ceasefire have been, at least the discussion of this has been accepted by Gazans and the terrorist Hamas that run it and Israel. Netanyahu's office says that it's still everything's still premature and that they're still sorting out final details.

So I don't think anyone can say for certain concretely what's in it. It has to be ratified.

So if they have this deal, the Israeli cabinet has to ratify it. I don't know how long that takes, that process for them. But this, it's supposed to include the release of hostages, Hamas's, the hostages that they're holding. and apparently they're going to they're exchanging the hostages for gauzen prisoners held by israel and so i i don't know i will see the last time that what they publicized last spring was a six-week ceasefire and they had to release 33 female hostages older men things like that and why why does israel have to release hundreds of Gazan prisoners. You realize that they take those people into custody when they're caught in acts of terrorism, like when they try to blow up checkpoints or detonate suicide bombs and things of that nature.

It's not like they're just like randomly walking out in the street and they see someone that they identify as Gazan and they just take them into custody. That's not how it works.

So I don't think they should have to release anything. And in fact, I would be killing for every day that they did not release a hostage. I would kill two prisoners and I would dump them Vlad Dracul style right there at the border. But see, that's why I shouldn't be in an elected office because diplomacy is sometimes a waste of time. I don't know, but we'll see.

They are in a tough spot because Iran's been sidelined after the Syria implosion. And I think a huge part of that was Israel just pummeling Hezbollah And that was against the direction That was against what Joe Biden and Antony Blinken were telling them to do And thankfully they did ignore it because that started this domino effect which culminated in Bashir al fleeing to Moscow And now but now you have another terrorist faction taking over Syria.

So I don't know. But we'll we'll see. But that kind of, you know, obviously, it was shocking to Iran. Iran lost a pathway through which they send munitions, etc. and them pummeling Hezbollah like that, decimating them.

That's pretty significant. I just, so they're releasing, from everything that I've read, it involves the release of all of these Gazan prisoners which, I don't know, Cain, I don't know why we have to, why Israel should be prevailed upon to release anybody who's caught in the act of terror. Exactly. We should have got a way better deal than the one that's on the table. Way better and way sooner.

so we'll see what all the what all the details are because like i said netanyahu said it's premature and that uh they're still figuring out some of the details they're still hammering out some of those so we'll we'll see we'll we'll see what what happens but it is weird that it's if biden's taking credit for it um i because i just i don't know that i think that that trump would agree to say, yeah, let's force Israel to release all of these terrorists that they caught, you know, coming from Gaza, trying to blow up innocent people in Israel. I just don't feel like that that would be right. That'd be something he'd say. Yeah, that's good. I like it.

I don't know. We'll see what the details are. It's kind of hard to to analyze it when you don't know fully what all the specifics are. But there is a deal. There is a deal.

I want to switch gears and focus on some of the wildfire stuff as well. And we'll come back to all of this as we get more information because I mentioned this story earlier. Mayor Karen Bass, this is kind of just unreal. The LA Times reported that as the Palisades fire spread, she was at an embassy cocktail party in Ghana. She's just having a little drinky drink at this embassy cocktail party.

And I remember she left knowing that this was going to happen. I mean, she was aware that this was, they told her that these fires were going to take place, that all of this was going to happen. And so she's at this embassy party, you know, having a drink while the fires are spreading throughout the Pacific Palisades. That's some top notch representation, right? Top notch representation.

and then she because they knew that this was happening a full week before la times says that by the time that she left the gathering to fly home i mean you had multiple fires at that point that had broken off she was there for the inauguration of the ghanian president and she left on January 4th and came back on January 8th.

So she was gone for a little while. I just, when you know that wildfires, you've already been warned and you've been told that the likelihood of them happening, of all of it kicking off is pretty much 100% and you still decide to leave when you are the ultimate authority on the ground. I mean, think about it. how are they able to reach her speedily when she's in Ghana? I mean, consider everything that's happening in Los Angeles right now.

Consider how it took them forever to get firefighters deployed. And that's not a rank and file issue. That's a leadership issue. Where was she on all of this? Where was she?

I mean, again, she's the ultimate authority on the ground there, where this is happening. And she was MIA for something she didn't need to attend. The world's not going to spin off his axis if Karen Bass doesn't go to this inauguration of the Gehenian president. That's so dumb. You need to focus on what's happening in your own town.

And speaking of that, there's been, man, the back and forth. The fighting is only going to intensify with all of this stuff, too, by the way, between because apparently I think now the Christians, all the lesbian Christians that run the fire department are fighting. They said that the way that they, this is a couple of different reports. They said that Newsom had called the guard on Friday. Bass returned from her trip to Ghana, says she was on the phone on her whole way back with disaster response.

This seems like from, this is coming from the California governor's office and an aide to Newsom had apparently said, quote, knowing the mayor's office couldn't adequately manage the situation. Newsom should have immediately traveled to LA to backstop the mayor's office. I mean, this is a fire prone area. They have a catastrophic fires like every few years. I'm not saying that they should be used to it.

I'm saying that these leaders should be used to dealing with it and responding fast. This is crazy, but they, but it's the budget cuts. and now they're playing a game of how quickly can they blame the other person. Audio soundbite. Let's see.

I want to actually do four. This is L.A. City Councilwoman. Listen to this. Listen to this soundbite.

There are large swaths of the city with no emergency response resources available. Are we going to be having the same conversation next year and the year after? We can't. That's pretty unbelievable. And then the civil war is broken out between the top leaders there in the fire department, including the Christens.

Yes, that's correct. Chief Kristen Crowley was accused of harassment by a former top city official. And she called out what she says was alleged misconduct and failures of leadership.

So now there's been a 14 page legal complaint filed against the city of Los Angeles. This was done just in the very end of December by former LAFD fire administrator Jenny Park.

So it's a Jenny, not a Kristen. And Park is a former deputy city attorney. She rose to become the highest ranking woman in the LAFD other than Kristen Crowley. And she says she was wrongly fired because she was complaining basically about the corruption of the fire chief. That's what it sounds like.

They were saying that Crowley was overpaid by almost $40,000. And Park told the fire chief that that money needed to be returned. but she said she was, quote, ghosted. She said she know that she got money, a significant amount that was overpayment and never repaid it. She refused.

And yeah, so they've she's filed. She's filed a complaint.

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So I have a couple here. One is big changes coming to the White House press room. Trump is apparently going to be sidelining legacy media. They're not reserving the front row seats for ABC, CBS, NBC, AP, Reuters, and CNN anymore. I know they're not doing that.

They are kind of mixing it up. And his press secretary is not going to have an office in the West Wing, which makes sense because that, I mean, he's kind of his own best, you know, he's his own press person really, you know, but they're going to have, they're going to have a press person, but so that's a little bit of a change up. Also, let's see, we've got now the FDA saying they want to put little micro warning labels on the front of food packages. Or if maybe if food was healthy, we wouldn't need it. Just stop by and jump.

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Somebody's campaign coffers really are struggling right now, so she's going to keep saying trans, trans, trans, so that people will feel threatened and child, listen, I want y'all to tell me whether or not... You do not call me a child. I am no child. I want to find out which of those emails I actually have. Order, please.

I am reclaiming my time. You will not do that. Order. I am not a child. I am reclaiming my time.

If you want to take it outside. Mr. Chairman, it could mean you would not.

Okay. Order. Now, look. I'm not necessarily, I would say, a fangirl of Nancy Mace. But I'm not going to lie.

First off, don't sit here and slay Mace for that. every single time somebody is acting a fool every single time we got videos somebody being a fool and one of these here in like the chamber like this jasmine crockett who's from dallas is always one of them always one of them every damn time it is always her that's who it was jasmine crockett and it was uh nancy mace welcome back to the program bottom of this third hour and she's like child you know whatever and then she has the audacity she's the victim don't you know jasmine i was pulling up this tweet what did she say oh she goes that's what she wrote she was she goes if you want to see the difference between house stems and house gf hey watch this today i introduced an amendment to reinstate the oversight subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties oh wait sidebar oh now you want oversight and then she goes my republican colleague threatened to physically fight me about that. Oh my gosh.

Well, first off, you were condescending to her. And if, because Jasmine Crockett behaved like a condescending brat is why. And when you were speaking to her, she thinks that this makes her look good. And I just feel like, you know, people are tired of it. They just, I think it's like Mace and others were just tired of it.

Somebody said, we can take it outside.

Now she didn't say she's going to fight her. She just said we can you know like talk about it outside Maybe Or it was catch me outside How about now I mean maybe you know Was could be But I don't Know I I've got questions namely Why is all of her hair on one side of her head But that's number one but number Two why does she always do this They always instigate And then when they get it back They act like victims now some people are saying, well, this is, you know, so unbecoming of these representatives, so unbecoming of them. Wait, this is where I, it is not unbecoming. If you, if you put some noise to bed, that's not unbecoming to finally just, I get aggravated about that because sometimes I stay real quiet, even in the face of, you know, unrelenting nonsense, and then finally when I do strike back, because I'm always harsh, then the people, oh, that's so mean.

Well, you should have been saying something when these people were trying to instigate.

So I don't know. I don't really think Mace is in the wrong here, do you? Kane? No. I don't think she's in the wrong at all.

Why are people, why are some on the right clutch on their pearls? I mean, for some of the stuff, like when she wore the letter A on her sweater, I was like, geez. Did you wear that because it's tight? Come on. On this, she's not in the wrong.

I particularly love the giant cross earrings. I felt like they added some pizzazz to the whole scene. You know what I'm saying? I got some too, but they would get caught in my turtleneck today, which I'm going to wear in perpetuity right now until it stops being freezing. You can't fight in those earrings.

Oh, yeah, you can. Oh. You take them out. I don't recommend. Oh, well, there it is.

Son, you take them out. Did you call me son? I'm a grown man. Do you want to just take this outside? Oh, my gosh.

Child. I would have. I don't know if I would have said what May said. I would have been like, OK, listen up, fetus. I'd have maybe just like thrown it back in that way.

I don't know if I would have been like, let's go outside. That was like her first response. Oh, yeah. Let's go outside. Man, her and Crockett just Crockett never stops.

Ever. She's from Dallas. I forget who she replaced.

Somebody worthless. I can't remember.

So that was, I saw that and I'm like, yeah, she's really Macy really isn't in the wrong here. Not really. I want to switch it up. There's a million things I think that I've missed. Bear with me because I'm scrolling my list really quickly.

Making sure that we were touching. Oh, can we let's do, I got two things.

So we got the Carrie Underwood She's playing Carrie Underwood is getting flack Because she's playing the inauguration Shut up people Who's mad at Carrie Underwood Shut up She's playing the inauguration This is like I read this article I mentioned this the other day How all these designers now are wanting to dress Melania Trump And out of all of the first ladies I think she's probably And I'm not saying this like she's offensive But I'm saying generally She's probably like the least offensive first lady She's more of a classic kind of first lady where she Is not acting like a pick me girl and running out there desperate to carve a name for herself as a policy expert like hillary and michelle did But she's just real kind of quiet and she does her thing and she does her christmas I liked her christmas decorations and I will I will literally take you outside over that We will go outside over that Well, because all these morons out there, like when she did her Christmas. OK, bear with me. This is a sore spot for me. You remember when she did the red trees in the hall? OK, that's like what they do in Puglia.

That's like they do all of these amazing red decorations. And it was very reminiscent of that. And I'm like, you uncultured single amoeba Democrats. Shut up. I loved those Christmas decorations.

Thank you. I didn't like the super confectionary circus thing that Jill Biden did. It looked like she went to Hobby Lobby and bought a bunch of like Chinese made accessories and then just threw them all over the White House. It looked it just looked tacky. Not all of her decorations are bad, but those really bad.

Anyway, what was I? Oh, yeah. So I remember back in 2016, everyone was talking about what Melania Trump was going to wear because the fashion world was like, oh, they were a gas like, oh, we cannot believe it's Melania Trump. And they wouldn't design for her Ralph Lauren who is a gem I don't even know his politics He's just a decent dude He's like you know what I'll design a dress for her I respect the office of the presidency I'll do it And so he did that blue Like kind of Jackie O kind of dress And that's what she wore for inauguration And it looked great It was perfect And I like Ralph Lauren by the way Like he's making a heritage brand Out of Americana And I like that But that being said he was like the only person that came forward.

Well, now designers, I don't know why they feel like it's safer now, but they're coming out of the woodwork. Why are you making that face? That's what I don't get. Why is it different for them now? Surely, I get the last four years were bad, but they voted for that.

They can't be that damn dumb. No, they're not dumb. They're playing their cards and they played them close to their chest until they realized Trump is back in office. and now they're going to appeal to the authority that's in office again. They just blow in the wind.

They're Democrats. They blow in the wind. These people don't have the convictions that you and I have. They just don't. They're more about populism than they are anything else.

It's understandable. Yeah. Well, and I like that Ralph Lauren did that. Carrie Underwood, she's playing the inauguration. Who wouldn't want to play the inauguration, right?

I mean, if you're an artist, that's, you know.

So she apparently says she doesn't care About people being upset over it But they're going to be turning on her I see, like everybody's like You had plastic surgery Carrie Underwood Why is that the first thing that leftist Particularly progressive women hating men go for Have you seen their women? For the love That's like the first thing they go for with women And they're like oh Carrie Underwood's playing Did you see these comments? Oh my gosh, they were dragging her Look, she's pretty You cannot like her for playing the inauguration You can be stupid and petty all you want to But if you're saying that she's ugly You have a visual Issue there is something That is not right with you Jim any Christmas It's just mean and petty These people Speaking of petty This Okay I gotta ask so we're gonna bring Steve In on this because aren't you a big Phillies fan Steve Yeah so the Eagles fan the guy who Apparently verbally abused a female a female Packers supporter he got fired by his job is why are you laughing you're laughing your head off I saw that damn video that's why I'm laughing but okay are we really going to start doing this to people though what doing what I go controlling the behavior that they decided to have at a public game is that what you're saying no I'm just like they found out who he was and they got him fired from his job and if his job decided they don't like him as a representative people Or like, hey, employer, did you see those? Yeah. Well, I mean, everyone saw it.

I know everybody saw that. I like the olden days when the penalty to be paid was that you got your ass beat. That's what I like. Let's go back to those days. I mean, we don't need everyone to turn into Inspector Gadget and run down the guy's employer and get the guy fired.

Let's just have a good old-fashioned ass beating right there in the stands. I'm okay with that. The decision to fire him was solely on the business. Oh, come on. Listen, the information.

You're just like, well, how are people giving this business the information? That's horrible. The business did it. Sure. Sure they did.

They did. I mean, look at all the stuff that we showed the business about their employer, and we linked the business name to this guy. I mean, there was a pressure campaign. The business did what they wanted to do as a private business. What, all of a sudden, now you don't like that?

The guy, I thought the husband, people were getting mad at the husband because I think that they wanted him to give that guy a knuckle sandwich. Dude was so nice and gracious.

Well, he had to be because he's apparently surrounded by everybody who does not like them because they are for a different team. I don't understand that. It's bread and circuses. Everybody realizes this, right? It's all bread and circuses.

Like, I'm never going to get so into a team that I'm actually mad at somebody else who's for a different sports team. I can't even fathom that. Like, Steve loves the Phillies, but he's not like the Eagles. He's not crazy. i i've just never been i don't know it's noticed that i see because lorraine just put this in here and it looks like he's been fired from the dei focused consulting what oh no are you not okay i'm fine i didn't say it wasn't okay why do you hate old people stop putting words in my mouth old people hater it's the bct partners i don't even know what this guy does uh and the guy i mean she wasn't really doing anything he was just mad because she's a packers fan so he was obnoxious completely you know there's a way that and i and i feel like you know the couple you know they they they played it the way they did but we can't play any of this can we no we can no my gosh we get so in trouble we cannot i don't know steve did he do any editing to it i just feel like there's a line you don't cross a line like you're going after the guy's livelihood.

I mean, maybe ban him from some games and stuff, but going after his job... You did that too. Yeah, I know. I don't have the audio in front of me. I mean, I've seen the video.

I mean, my feed is all Eagle Sports stuff the next day. And it was all over my feed. And if you watch the video, he dropped some words that we can't even get close to saying on radio. And they do warn you about being physical or they'll kick you out.

So the team can do whatever they want and the stadium can, but I guess it's up to his employer. I'm kind of with Kane on this. oh that's what i'm saying what wow wait you're saying that people threaten like people didn't threaten the business no and be like hey here's some info he called a woman to see you next tuesday yeah he information was just handed off to the business and the business made a business decision that's literally how it went yeah i mean if he would have called me that i would have said oh do i resemble your mom i would have been like you know just played it like off. I don't know. I don't know.

I just get really weird when they go after... I don't know. I'm on the fence about it. I'm on the fence over it. It's just weird.

Because now when... Can I just say it? It seems pansified. Going after the guy's job? No!

Take him out the parking lot. Cash me outside. How about now? Which is what a normal Philly fan would normally do. See, I like that.

Go beat their ass. And then get it over with. One's 100% legal. The other one's questionably legal. No, it should be legal.

I feel like if you're like, no, Mr. Officer, we both agree. There's no liability here. We're just going to beat the hell out of each other. Give us five minutes.

I feel like there should be allowances for that. What's that in Texas called? Settling differences. No, but it's called something. It's like the mutual combat rule.

Yeah, I'm all for mutual combat. Can we invoke that? I am all for that. Like, you know what? I'm not going to go up to your job.

I will punch your face in, though.

So let's agree to mutual combat. see this is where in my head i feel like a lot bigger than i am because i was telling how did this come up because i'm 5'7 i lied i'm 5'6 i'm not 5'7 but i'm going to continue saying i am i'm like a buck 20 but in my mind kane i'm like 6'4 yes and i'm about i'm pushing 280 all muscle sometimes in my mind you are so i'm like yeah let's just beat her i mean i don't know how hard I physically would have to punch to concave his face. But, you know, just saying like, I like the mutual combat thing. He does have a punchable face, though. Oh, he's total face.

Only a mother could punch. I'm just saying, you know, he's he's he's obnoxious. He's so obnoxious. But I just I get I don't know. It just is.

I'm sorry. I understand what you're saying, but I think the distinction is whether or not people threaten this business with boycotting if they didn't do anything, which I did not see. I just saw people saying, hey, look at this public info. Are Phillies fans like really ornery, Steve? Wait, the baseball fans?

Like Phillies fans in general. You mean the Eagles fans? Yeah, but apparently everyone's just saying Phillies fans, so they're not really specifying the Eagles or nothing like that. It doesn't matter. They're all just as passionate.

Oh, I love how he described them. They're just passionate. They're just as passionate. What context are you saying ornery for?

Well, because everyone's like, oh, that's a typical Phillies fan for you. That's what all these people on snow. I don't know. I don't have that experience. It just goes back to this old throwing snowballs at Santa Claus thing from the 60s that people won't let go.

What? Tell us. We're running out of time. You can look it up. There's an old story about people throwing snowballs at Santa Claus when the Eagles were losing one day, and then they never got rid of it.

It's like a 50-year-old story. Wow. I mean, I kind of like that kind of camaraderie. I want to be camaraderie with people that would maybe give you the shiv, right? I want to be on that team.

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