Day 3 From Vegas: Homan's Border Blitz, Trump Visits Disaster Areas & More

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So, welcome to the program. Happy Friday. My God, it's been a long week. Dana Lash here with you. We are at the top of this first hour.

We have a number of things to get into because we've got the latest. With Gosh, he's traveling all over. We've got cabinet confirmations. I'm looking at some of this now. SECDEF is having a little bit of an issue.

They're having a little bit of an issue with the Secretary of Defense. Radcliffe has been confirmed as the next CIA director. Heg Seth has already lost the support. Of both. Lisa Murkowski, and I believe Susan Collins.

And so that's not a surprise because they're I mean, it's Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. They're major rhinos. And they're just, they're not. They're giving him problems. I don't know who they think they have in mind beyond Pete Hegseth, but we're going to watch all of this and see because we got to get all of these cabinet.

Positions confirmed. We've got to get them confirmed.

So that's some of the latest.

Now, There is a Senate bill. Democrats are wanting to work on the Senate bill as it pertains to the border. We're also going to get into Some of I've got two stories. the journalist malpractice as it pertains Interestingly, to Hunter Biden, because you guys remember when they were suppressing stories and they were suspending people's accounts and all this stuff.

So somebody at Politico Reported that, yeah, they were killing stories about Hunter Biden, about the laptop, right and left. We're going to talk about that. We're also going to get into all of the DEI stuff. We're going to discuss that. Uh we're going to Maybe we'll have some movement.

With The cabinet today, I was breeding that some of their confirmations might come rather late. Like super late. In the evening.

So, Murkowski, nope. She's out. Collins, nope. They're both voting no. And It is Man, they don't have that much to lose in the Senate.

They're gonna have to have some Democrats. What about Mitch? Is Mitch gonna well, how's Mitch voting? Mitch will usually Mitch McConnell will usually do status quo. He'll usually go with status quo.

So even if it's Murkowski and Collins that are not for Heg Seth. They'll typically, Mitch McConnell will go to status quo because I think Trump has made it pretty clear.

So, a lot of stuff to discuss. But first and foremost, I want to start with this. And then we got all of the lawsuits about some of the executive orders.

So One of the big Things here, and I'm pulling this up. He's traveling, he's in North Carolina. He just actually touched down a little bit ago, and he. He was meeting some of the officials there and then meeting with the people there in North Carolina as well. He and the First Lady have traveled to go and view the damage and the destruction still in that area, and it's asinite.

And he was pointing out just the problems with FEMA and how slow FEMA moved and that. They probably would have been able to go a lot quicker had it not been, the state anyway, had it not been for FEMA, just not being there and not. Not providing and not pulling forth those resources.

So that's going to be an interesting conversation. I also read, too, that Gavin Newsome is trying to throw a wrench in the visit when they go to Los Angeles. Whether or not that happens, we shall see. I can't imagine that he would I can't imagine that he would just Miss an opportunity to try to because he looks at this as like a chance to maybe trying to one-up Trump or show greater statesmanship than Trump shows. We'll see.

But the word on the ground was that he was considering just not even showing up and meeting the president when he came to California to survey the storm damage, which is asinine. I mean, he's the governor of the state. That's. That's a dumb move. But we'll see.

I mean, it's Gavin Newsome. I mean, what do you pay? What are you going to do?

So, a lot of moving parts here, and we're going to follow all of that because you know he's probably going to speak to the press again when he reboards Air Force One and then heads to LA, where you know, once he deplanes, he'll talk to the press again.

So, A what? There's a lot to follow.

Now, in the meantime, Speaking of LA and some of these wildfires. And The insanity when you realize so much of this could have been prevented. Another story coming out that there was a so in the Palisades, there's a reality television it's I think this is That Spencer Pratt, yeah, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, they're suing Los Angeles because of the wildfires.

So they filed suit, and they said they were gonna file suit like the moment that this happened. There were two different wildfires that were getting ready to cross. In their particular area, and they are suing because obviously you had empty hydrants, you had an empty reservoir, all of this. And so they've launched the first, they filed the first lawsuit. They call the fire, quote, an inescapable and unavoidable consequence of the water system that's operated by the city and the water utility.

So this is going to be one of the first suits filed. This is not going to be the last, and it's going to get worse, particularly when you have insurance that's going to start denying folks. That's going to be another thing that we're going to see. This this was the first suit that was filed. And You have Trump going to be going to the state.

I don't know who always he's meeting with there. But he's flying in, uh, going to survey the damage, and I'm sure that. There's going to be some choice words. Although I felt like he was very. Magnanimous when he was in North Carolina talking about Roy Cooper, and he was saying that it was mostly FEMA's fault, but.

I don't know. I just feel like if you're the governor and you already know that there are issues. with FEMA. Particularly from past storms, maybe it's something that you would perhaps get a handle on, just thinking, just saying, just you know, thinking out loud, just talking out loud, just might be.

So. A lot of stuff. A lot of stuff to hit today. And we'll be watching all of that. We'll bring you.

We'll bring you all of that as we As it happens.

So, you have to forgive my voice. It's not because I'm losing it, it's just dry. It's super dry in Vegas.

So, we're gonna try to get through it. But, anyway, so we got all of this and a lot more. In the meantime, let's look at audio because. We have a lot of really good audio cuts for you. And I want to make sure I didn't get to everything yesterday, and there's so much happening.

I was talking to somebody that it's like drinking out of a fire hose. I'm like, there's so much to, there's so much to go over and manage. Like, for instance, Audio Soundbite 3, Trump signed. An order yesterday to, this is on top of everything else, to declassify. All of the f V files related to the assassination of JFK, RFK, and MLK.

Listen. Lastly, sir, we have an executive order ordering the declassification of files relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

That's a big one, huh? A lot of people are waiting for this for a long three years. We have So What's the chance that most of it's going to be redacted? Uh 100% chance. A white piece of paper.

and it's just gonna have black bars. All over it, all the way down, is that I'm curious. There's a. I mean, I would. I mean, this is stuff I think that, you know, why can't we know this?

I read this story last night. that Nepa baby Jack Schlossberg.

So John F. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline Kennedy. She married, had two kids. One of her sons, or her son, Jack Schlossberg, he's, you know, of course, they're Kennedy, so they think that they have some kind of like birthright. you elected office, et cetera.

And He had said It it basically was like blasting Trump for Releasing these records. That's not for him. Look, I know that they all are desperate to write on the coattails of their dead granddaddy and try to buy some influence from that, but we're the taxpayer and we don't give a rat's ass what you say about releasing these classified documents. My taxes mean you get to STFU. Me paying my taxes means you can go Well, I could quote Tropic Thunder Les Grossman when he was talking to Flaming Dragon.

That whole monologue is my response. Because This is our tax dollars, our government. We have a right to know. We have an absolute right to I don't think that's bad. I mean that you guys wanna they wanna be they wanna pretend to be the a Camelot here.

Well, guess what? We have taxpayers here. It's a republic, so You don't necessarily get to call those shots. Plus, if your government is doing something shady, wouldn't you want to know? I want to know if my government worked a president.

I would like to know that. Just seems like that's So I read this piece yesterday. He was all You know, blasting POTUS for releasing this information as it pertained to his grandfather. And I just think that whole thing is still weird. I mean, what have any of them accomplished beyond?

Trying to do advocacy or some sort of like fake charity off of the name that their great-grandfather, grandfather, and then the uncle built. I don't know. I don't think it's extended down, whatever charisma they had. I don't think it's extended down to the other members of the family. But.

I just, I also think that because RFK Jr. is in such an elevated position now. that they feel as though they have to be doubly loud and doubly annoying. to hold their stake. in that family legacy, if that makes sense.

I mean, I'm just, it's just a weird thing. They're weird. We have a lot more on the way because we've got a ton of guests for you today. Gun owners of America, Eric Pratt's going to be joining us. We're going to get into a whole bunch of other stuff.

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So, more people are only paying the minimum payment as their credit card balances are rising. This is something that's going to be an ongoing problem until the economy snaps back. Revolving credit card balances have hit $645 billion. That represents 71% of the total card balances per data. And this is about the third quarter now: 10.75% of active credit card accounts paid only the minimum balance.

It's the highest rate that they've had in 12 years. And the Philadelphia, that's per the Philly Federal Reserve Bank. Also, The uh Network CNN, they're preparing for a new streaming rollout. They've been cutting jobs. It affects about 200 employees, the network says.

Their digital hires, they're roughly evening out the staff numbers that they've asked over at the other part. But I don't feel bad about that. That's what happened. I can't, man, I got to really, my filter's down today. I almost said some I shouldn't.

Sorry. Store closures have hit the highest levels since the pandemic. They, a lot of them. In fact, I thought this was a really good economy. I mean, that's what we're told, that it's a great economy.

But a number, excuse me, a number of stores are closing, including Macy's. Macy's is cutting a lot of stores.

So that's a big deal. Also, bird flu, forcing a Long Island farm in New York to kill 100,000 ducks. It's the Crescent Duck Farm. They have been forced to euthanize a flock of more than 100,000 due to positive bird flu tests. It's USDA.

They confirmed several positive tests for bird flu. And this is per the Suffolk County Department of Health.

So I kind of call shenigans on that. I don't believe it, honestly. It's not like it's passing to. Human, I mean, can't they get over it? Can't the birds get over the bird flu?

It's not like they get bird flu and they have bird flu forever. I mean, is it different with avians? I don't know. Costco shareholders overwhelmingly rejected anti-DEI measures because. Wait, I guess they want to lose money.

I guess they want to go broke.

So, Costco, they don't want to do anti-DEI, or they don't want to ban it. They want to keep incorporating. That's like the only company that I've heard of in the past. I don't know, several months now that is actually keeping the DEI stuff instead of axing it. They made headlines because they had a robust defense of their DEI efforts.

This was like over Christmas, they came out and they were defending this.

So we'll see. We'll see how this goes. But we have a lot more on the way. Gun Owners of America, Eric Pratt, will join us. We got to talk about some of these executive orders.

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Eric Pratt, who is head of Gun Owners of America, joins me now in our Snow White box. Welcome to the Snow White Box. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me. Good to have you.

Thanks for having me. I wanted to ask you: have you stopped by the booth of your good friends over at the ATF and asked to speak with the DEI diversity officer? We actually have visited them. We dropped off some hats and also the Save a Pup abolish the ATF system. Do they enjoy those?

They do. Actually, privately, some of them really enjoy it, which is funny. But when. If they're not publicly enjoying it, does it count? You know, But I love that you're a dilemma.

Yeah.

So when they see you coming, what do they do? Are they just like, oh my gosh. Him. And then they hide behind the desk. Is that what they do?

Yeah, pretty much. Oh, I love it. I love it.

So, do they present to you, Eric? Their chief diversity, whatever, Yellowbrook Road officer. Did they present that person to you? Did you get to meet them?

Well, I don't know that they're here, but we certainly exposed them. You did? Because what happened? They had a chief diversity officer, but then magically. The title on the website changed.

So now I guess all the controversy is over, huh? Yeah, so just to back up, I mean, the president issued an order. Every diversity officer had to be put on paid leave. And a subsequent memo pointed out: you can't disguise or hide these people, give them a new title, you know, like do a shell game, put them somewhere else. You can't do that.

And we found out that they were doing that at ATF, so Gun Owners of America exposed it. Boy, our tweets went viral on it. Elon retweeted, you did as well. I really appreciate that, because that just helped to get the word out on that. This is our tax dollars.

Oh, yeah. And these are people that, I mean, first off, I mean, beyond the point, Eric, of not needing an ATF. I don't understand why you would need that. Why would you need that role at the ATF? I mean, your alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, why would you have to have a chief diversity officer?

I mean, it's a weird, this is bizarre. I feel like Winamoni Python episode. Right, well, it's just so Biden. I mean, really. And so it's good to get rid of it.

But you know, what it really underscores, I mean, here they're defying the president. I mean, we've known all along they defy the Constitution, they defy the law. I mean, you know, they don't follow the rules that are set for them. We have, our members are protected from the pistol brace ban, and yet as of last month, they were sending a letter to one of our members saying that they could not put a pistol brace on their handgun in total defiance of the injunction that our lawsuit has against them. I mean, as you know, I mean, they go into people's homes who are not even accused of anything, and they have shot them to death.

We were talking earlier about the puppies. You know, save the puppies. They've put many of them to death as well. A lot of times, that's the first thing that goes on. It's always puppy season at the ATF.

They register gun owners, but then they say, oh, it's not a registry. I mean, there are so many things that are.

So let me stop you right there because that's a bill that Michael Cloud, I know there's a senator out of Ohio, or sorry, Idaho that they've introduced, the Stop Registry Act, because even though we're not supposed to have, you know, save purchase data and create a de facto registry off that, the ATF has been doing that from the FFLs that they've been raiding and confiscating their property, even for so much as something like a grammatical error. Yes. The ATF will come and they've been raiding these federal firearms licensees, like the gun store retailers, or where you'd go purchase your gun. And they've been getting, from what I understand, correct me if this number is too big, hundreds of thousands? of names and purchase.

So it's a de facto registry because they know exactly what you bought. It's your number is only incorrect because it's too low.

So we got a document from ATF and then did a Freedom of Information Act request, which was followed up by Michael Cloud doing Freedom of Information Act requests. And what we found out altogether was that the ATF has one billion with a B gun records already and over 900 million of them are digitized. And our Freedom of Information Act found out that they can search that database.

Now they say And you're going to laugh at this, that they have paid Adobe to remove certain features like name and a couple other features, which of course could easily be undone, I'm thinking. Yeah.

Even if that's legitimate, right? A button, right? Yeah.

I mean, we've got computer guys that can pull that out. That's supposed to be your bulwark against having your rights infringed upon it. That's it. As an Adobe hack, oh my gosh. But here they have these names digitized.

How is that not a registry? And they're saying that's not a registry. I would love to know what makes that not a registry with them, Eric. Why do they think it's not one? I think it comes down to the definition of is as a.

Oh my gosh. And we're going full on Clinton now. It's full on Clinton. We're talking with Eric Pratt, who's head of Gun Owners of America, because that's a scary. I mean, when you couple that with the encouragement of red flag law and the obliteration of due process, I mean, that's a, that's, oh man, that's terrifying.

That's actually legitimately scary.

So I'm so grateful for Representative Cloud in the House and Senator Risch in the Senate. This is a fantastic bill to abolish the registry.

Now, many of us want to go the full way, abolish the ATF. And that's the goal. I don't know that we're going to get that immediately, but the registry, I think there's momentum in Congress building for this. And so I hope people will ask their representatives and their senators to co-sponsor this legislation. It's the No Registry Rights Act.

Is that going to get through to Trump? Will that hit his desk? Uh I think Well, it's going to depend on grassroots support because a lot of times, you know, even good ideas. Don't go forward if they're not hearing from people.

So we have alerts on our website, gunowners.org, pushing this. People go there, we've made it easy. They can send off an email, they can make phone calls. That's really important. We're also working with key congressmen and leadership to get some of these things put on must-pass legislation.

Because, look, let's face it, we're not going to get votes in the Senate or at least overcome the filibuster in the Senate on a lot of these things.

So it's going to be really important to put it on must-pass bills. And so we're already working that drill. There's great receptivity to that. Look, this is how Democrats pass gun control. They would put it on appropriations bills or the national defense authorization.

So that's exactly the strategy that we're using to get these things passed. Are there any Republicans, Eric, that would drag their feet on this, which I can't imagine, but you know, I mean, it's 2025, and sometimes some of the R's are no better than the D's. Right. You will have a couple. I'm thinking.

Of like Fitzpatrick in Pennsylvania. There's a couple, but I think for the most part, You historically, we have found that even Democrats, like especially the blue dog Democrats, and I realize a lot of them are gone now, right? But they opposed registration as a privacy issue.

So I do think for every Republican we lose, I think we gain a Democrat or two who just on principle of privacy opposed this kind of registry. For those listening across the country, or maybe you're watching the live stream, you're talking with Gun Owners of America's Eric Pratt. What do you make of John Cornyn's bill? I got whiplashed. My neck's a little sore.

Because we had that 2022, I got to think of the long name, bipartisan community, thank you for that. And then we had the Office of the Gun Violence Prevention. That was supposed to implement the gun control bill. I mean, and he was instrumental in getting that gun control bill passed in 22.

Now he has a national reciprocity bill.

Well, you know he has an election in a couple years. Oh, that's what it is.

So everybody else runs center, and he leaves his spot in the center, Cornyn does, and then he runs to the right. He came on the show about it and was talking about it, and I was asking. Him and he seemed like he just didn't really want to talk about that 2022 bill. It just doesn't exist anymore. You know, he shows up at gun shows in Texas or Republican events and he gets booed loudly.

Is it a good bill? I mean, from what I've read, it seems on its face like.

Okay, it's a basic reciprocity bill. It's better than basic reciprocity because it protects constitutional carry states.

So, anybody, you know, Texas, Florida, Arizona, wherever you're from, if you're in a constitutional carry state, this legislation will protect you so that you can carry nationwide without a permit.

So, yes, it's very good. Don't say that because I don't think Democrats know it. They may not, but that's something we fought hard for because a lot of past reciprocity bills didn't protect that, and we didn't support it because we didn't want to undercut the constitutional carry movement, which was starting to grow legs. How did Cornyn introduce it? How did he do this?

It wasn't him, it was somebody. You remember Senator Tom Coburn? Yeah.

We had weekly meetings, gun owners of America in his office pushing for this, explaining why this was important. And finally, God bless him, he said, you know what? I'm going to introduce a bill that protects it.

So he was the first one, and ever since then, the people. People that have taken that mantle have included protection for constitutional care. I wanted to ask you, I wanted to go back real quick to the DEI with the ATF. Why? Because you mentioned The presidential, the executive order from POTUS.

Yes. They can ignore an executive order, but if you get one thing wrong, filling out your form, you're going in there, whether you're buying a gunner or you're an FFL, you mess up something, you're 4473, your gun owner, you messed up something on your paperwork, they'll shut you down. The ATF loves that. They get very excited. They know, they're very excited about it.

But they can ignore a executive order.

Sounds like you're saying we need zero tolerance for the ATF. Yeah, absolutely. When can I follow the laws that I want to follow? I would love that. I mean, if that's because the consistent application is part of the strength of law.

And if they're not consistent in application, they're degrading the law, so we can just follow their example, right?

Well, I'll tell you what, we've got an alert up on our website right now for people to take action on this. First of all, to fire, Trump should have this DEI officer in drag fired because she's just going under another name and to abolish the ATF as well because it is clear they are defying everybody from the Constitution down to the chief executive to the law to courts. They just do what they want to do and they're out of control. What if they actually, and I don't mean for this to be like such a myopic question, but. What do they actually legitimately accomplish?

Yeah.

So, you know, Michael Cloud, who did the Freedom of Information Act request, asked them about the registry.

So, what's the purpose of it? Is it to solve crimes? Can you tell me how many crimes have been solved with the registry? Do you know they could not give him an answer? In fact, they even said that we cannot answer that.

That should be like their most basic, like, they should have that memorized. But don't we know that gun control, I mean, you know, we preach that all the time, right? Gun control, it never affects the person. They have not helped with gangbangers, they have not helped with the violent drug sales, anything like that. I mean, that's really what's driving all of this.

I just see them harassing. good people, innocent people who are felt. That's all gun control has ever done. Yeah, they're on the right side of the law, but they get turned into felons by dumb edicts. Yeah.

So, I mean, I I would I would love for that to be abolished. I I would think that that would be great. I don't know if it's gonna happen with this term. I don't know about that. Again, I do think momentum's building for that.

If you're talking about abolishing the ATF, that's a real big thing. That's a big one. And I will say this, we do want to abolish the ATF, but understand, if you think of it in terms of movies where they have to clip the wire to defuse the bomb, sometimes you'll see a movie where you have to clip two wires at the same time. That's this situation here. You can't just get rid of ATF, or the FBI or the DEA will enforce the gun control that they were enforcing.

And we don't want that.

So, the other wire to clip is we have to repeal the NFA and the GCA.

So, that's why this is a bigger momentum, a bigger lift for looking ahead. Two other quick questions. First is the.

So now that we have a new regime change, I guess, Vice President South, she was heading up the Gun Violence Office of Gun Violence Prevention, such a dumb long name. They were said to have been colluding with the ATF to go after Glock in Chicago. Is that stopping now with the new administration now that that office is gone? My understanding is it's gone. You go to the website, you get a 404 era.

So, what does that mean for the legal fight with Chicago and going after Glock? I think the fight still happens. They're just, they've had an arm or a leg exactly cut off. Yeah.

Well, I mean, all of the feds. I mean, there's nothing about the ATF there. Interesting. And then, of course, a lot of this stuff that I've been seeing state by state. I think it was in Washington.

I know there's some stuff in Colorado where they're going after, I mean, it's the same story: semi-automatic firearms. I feel like it kind of shocks me that they're still trying this state by state. I just kind of want to get your thoughts on the landscape as we're going into this new administration.

Well, you know, as your question assumes, it's amazing they still keep going. And, you know, for so long, you know, the Brady bill passed, and the idea was, we'll just get this behind us and that'll satisfy the other side and we won't have to deal with gun control anymore. You never satisfy the other side. They always keep coming. That's why we cannot compromise.

Thankfully, we'll find out soon. We may have a case. The Snopes case out of Maryland going to the Supreme Court. And if they don't take that one, we've got one that we're working on in Illinois.

So there's a lot. It's a target-rich environment, if you will, for getting a case before the court. We had actually appealed our semi-auto case in Illinois to the Supreme Court. And they don't like taking things before they've run their full course. And the court said that, but Justice Thomas indicated there were severe problems with what Illinois was doing.

So I love the fact that he's already indicated that he really wants a case like this. That's interesting because I know they were sort of hesitant to take some of those cases, but now that looks like that's changing. Eric Pratt with Gunnars of America, you guys do such a great job. Thank you. And you don't, you hold the line, you don't move away from it at all, which is pretty extraordinary in an industry where you have a lot of groups that do.

Well, I appreciate that. And of course, we appreciate what you do getting the word out. That helps. Always, I'll always love helping y'all.

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Well, I can tell you right now, Chris, is we arrested 1,300 people. Over a thousand of them are criminals. Who are the other ones? They're either fugitives who've been to immigration court in order to remove, but didn't leave and became a fugitive, or collaterals. That's Tom Homan.

Who is saying they're going in right now? They're already starting the deportation for people who got here illegally. People are being sent back. Tom Holman's all business. Welcome back to the program.

Dana Lash with you. We're broadcasting live from Vegas in SHOT Show. And POTUS is expected to be heading to Vegas.

So he's in North Carolina now. They're going to be going to, after he finishes, he's surveying the damage. Then the word is that he's flying to Vegas. I don't know if he's staying the night in Vegas or not. I think that's up in the air.

And then he's going to be in LA surveying the wildfire damage there and talking with state and local officials to try to work around FEMA. California, I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday, and they were. Their family, they're here just because they have a side business as an FFL, but they also do stuff with construction and rehabilitation. And they were saying, I asked them, I said, is it true, like all the stuff that I've been hearing about in terms of trying to rebuild your home or your business after a wildfire or earthquake or something like that in California? And I relayed the story of this guy who it took 12 years just to get through the regulations.

It took 12 years for him to rebuild his property. That's insane. And the gentleman I was speaking with said, oh yeah, that's true. And there are even scenarios that are more worse case than that. And he was describing how After one wildfire, and this was I think like nine years ago, he said that it took them because of where the home that they were working on was situated.

It was like 13 and a half years. because the regulations change.

So like every couple of years, it's like they get dumber and dumber. And so you have to basically start from scratch. And then there's all of this added. Regulation and red tape and all of that. I mean, my head was spinning when they, can you imagine owning property?

And And having a home, your home burned down through no fault of your own. And there were some of the people too who did like the concrete, the firewall, all that stuff. And they're like, sometimes that's not even enough. But can you imagine doing everything you're supposed to do and your home burns down? And the state's like, oh, well, I guess you're SOL.

And then when you go to rebuild your life, You have to go through like five different government agencies, then you have to get like an environmental impact thing. To they assess your property and where your home was. They can't even assess, I mean, the environmental impact was that the fire burned down your damn house. Why, you know what I'm saying? I can't.

Why the hell does anybody live out there? The weather is not all that, guys. It's not all that. You know what? You have a lovely.

couple of weeks in Texas. But then the freedom outweighs the heat. You know what I'm saying? It's just, so anyway, POTUS is gonna be, he might be coming here.

So, well, he's gonna be coming to Shacho. And then they're saying that if he does stay, he'll stay at the Trump. He'll stay at the the big Trump Hotel, which is like right across the street from us.

So interesting. He likes to come to SHOT Show.

So we knew that. But he's coming into Harry Reid Airport.

So that airport's gonna shut down when POTUS comes in.

So there will be flight delays today. If you're flying today and you're going out west anywhere, especially if you're in Vegas. 50% chance of a big flight delay because they have to freeze the airspace when POTUS comes in.

So, uh, Yeah, that it's making Juan real happy right now. Poor Juan. Juan's like, I just was wanting to go home back to Texas. Oh man, I feel you.

So that's happening today, and I'm sure. Uh, he's obviously probably going to be meeting with NSSF folks, he might make I mean, depending on when he comes in, you never know. You know, only like his innermost team know. Maybe he makes some remarks. I don't know.

Maybe he'll talk about some gun stuff and reciprocity. We'll see. So. We'll watch all of that as well for you. But as in the meantime, as we were talking about these deportations, here's the thing, I wanted to play this audio for you too.

This is Audio Sombay 13. It's Ron DeSantis. He was having a press conference because he was It's a press availability for the governor's office, and they were talking about the implementation of not only deportation, but also now that they have the ability to do so, strict enforcement, implementing Trump's agenda state by state. And this reporter decided to get froggy. There was a reporter that was pushing back, and he was correcting the terminology of this reporter.

But he did a really good job. Listen, this is audio Sombay 13. He explained it quite well. I just have four questions. One, Florida is home to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who are working in areas.

So the federal government has made clear that the statutory term, it's not undying, they're illegal aliens. That's the statutory term, and that's what it is. And I think it's to try to water down. I mean, like, undocumented, it's like if I get in my car and I forget my wallet, okay, I don't have my document on me, my driver's license. But I mean, I still have a right to drive.

I just made a mistake. This is intentional to come in illegally. And it's not just a question of missing a document. It's a question of, you know, you violated the law that we're very clear and knowingly and with the help of the cartels in many cases. Yeah, I'll bring Price down.

So Florida is home to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who are illegal aliens. Illegal immigrants. I like how he just corrects it. He should. Um He he was not going to accept the narrative on that.

Like this whole idea of migrant, that's the problem, they're trying to conflate it on purpose. Nobody has a problem with immigration. Immigration's awesome. But you absolutely, as a sovereign nation, have a right to determine how many and who. And you get to say you didn't come here legally, get out, or you came here illegally, get out.

You can't do it anywhere else. I mean, I don't know how many times Democrats have to be told this.

So here's what's interesting, the Democrat Massachusetts governor. Mara Healy. Audio Soundbite 17. I want you guys to listen to this. I wouldn't describe them as raids.

What it seems to be is what we expected and what I support, which is the apprehension of criminals in our communities. Secret interesting. These Democrats know which way the wind is blowing. Very. Interesting.

Uh I want to switch gears here now with Cabinet. Audio sound by 18. Elizabeth Warren goes after Pete Hegseth. Over his Drinking. Listen.

Secretary of Defense has to be ready to go. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Look, I understand there are people who have alcohol problems, but We cannot trust the safety of our country. Just someone who has demonstrated repeatedly. Using very bad judgment with alcohol and doing it in ways that truly have incapacitated him.

Okay, so that's such hyperbole. That's so ridiculous. I mean, he did this show. It was for Fox Nation. It was like this, you know, special that they did.

And he sat down with a bunch of veterans and they had scotch, right? And they were drinking scotch and they were having a discussion and it was, you know, barbourn. I don't know. It was part of their part of the thing. This has been extrapolated and exaggerated and modified.

to now mean that he is drunk all the time 24-7 and he just keeps a flask under his desk at Fox. And that's such a lie, but that's how they're trying to misrepresent all of this. It's so dumb. And honestly, I mean, he's a veteran. He's, you know, 40-something years old.

If he has, you know, a beer or a couple of drinks every now and then, or maybe if he's out, you know, with friends and family and, you know, he has a couple of drinks. As long as he's not good behind the wheel, why is this a big deal to Liawatha? I mean, why is this such a big deal to Foca Hannis? Why is this such a big deal? To her.

Why? I mean, remember when she was like, oh, sweetie, would you like a beer? And then her husband acted shocked. Like, who are you and what did you do with my wife? I feel like she beats him with a broomstick when there was like no cameras.

It was the weirdest damn thing I've ever seen. Can I just stop for a minute? You remember that? Like, where's the body language experts for that? That man looked like he was whipped.

Didn't he? No, I mean, not like that way, like the bad way. Like he actually gets beat with sticks or something. She offers like, oh, sweetheart, would you like a beer? And he like flinched.

Did you see him? She's too damn stupid to not put that video up on Instagram. I think he was blinking Morse code. If you look at the video, yeah, he's probably like, help me. He's like freaking out.

That was so weird. That was like not normal behavior. You know, like you can tell interactions between couples what's normal and what's put on. Like, oh, hey, baby, you want a beer? I'll get you one.

Or I'm getting me one, you want one. But then she like makes a big, like, even the way she was standing in front of the camera. It was, it was like this. I'm gonna, I'm gonna act it out if you're watching. Oh.

And she's like making sure she's posed right before. Oh, the camera. Oh honey. Would you like a beer? And he looks at her and he's like, No, you dumb broad.

I don't drink beer. You stupid dumb woman. How long have we been married? You know I don't drink beer. And she's like, Oh, I like a cold one.

And then she's like drinking it so awkwardly. It's the weirdest, the weirdest stuff I've ever seen. But I'm telling you, that's... Telling you.

So she has no, man, that's a big water bottle. Golly. All the little ones were gone, so I got the big one. I got the big one. What size would you like, Grande?

Big one? I'll have that one.

So She's attacking him. Look, I don't know how long you're going to hold this up. I think this one and Gabbard will be held up. Everybody else, actually, Gabbard will probably be held up less. But I think it's just Heg Seth because he's charismatic, and I think because he's charismatic, I think that's one of the more so than the drinking.

I think it's just because, and the drinking, it's just social drinking. Why is that a big deal? I mean, for crying out loud, you know. I had a gin martini with dinner last night. You know, you get.

Big deal. Responsible and moderation and social, just you know, when you're at dinner, that's not a big deal. I've I've known him and I know a lot of people who know him, and I hear gossip like you would not believe. If he was a drunk and he was abusive, I would have heard about it from all of my friends. That work with him and that are in the same circle.

So I've not heard that.

So I'm just saying, I think it's part they just, he's charismatic and they don't like that. I think that's a part, isn't there a weird reason? Because he can say something because he's charismatic. And he's a younger dude. I mean, compare him to Millie.

It's the difference between pandering and connecting. And that's what they hate about the right. The left hates the fact that they can easily connect, even though they think that they can. Because we look normal. Because our dudes don't lob off their penises and they don't get into skirts.

That's why. I mean, hell, we look normal. Our men are normal. Our women are normal, you know? We don't have like dudes in skirts, you know, in the Air Force going, it's ma'am, do you like my medals?

Call me call me Joan. Like we don't we don't have that Our people are just like, can we just get on with the job? We'll just live our lives, we just do our jobs, it'd be great. I'm gonna talk you know how I'm talking about this, because we got Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, who's gonna be coming up. And I want to talk to him about that.

That's gonna be funny. Because I've never actually brought that up with him before. Let's just see how mad we can make him with a question. He can't hear us right now.

So he's sitting outside my shh. He's sitting right here. I can hear you. No, no, he can't. He's sitting right there.

He's literally sitting right by the speaker. But they if I talk like this, they can't hear it.

So, wait, hold up.

So, he's sitting right out there. He's getting distracted now. Yeah, he's distracted.

So, we're gonna try to see how many we can make him with a question about. Yeah.

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I said it in Pig Latin. No, you actually. I am fluent in Pig Latin, my dear. When you asked me, you could say it. You said it.

You know, we're going to talk to him about that because the DEI stuff that Trump put out in EO is applicable immediately to military and all that other stuff, too.

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Today, in stupid legislation, Mississippi State Senator Bradford Blackmun, he's a Democrat, introduced a bill this week that would. It's called the cons I'm just gonna say it, God help me. Oh no. Conception Begins at Erection Act. That's what it's called.

And they said that it's an introduction of a bill that would ban men from engaging in any kind of. Sexual act. If it is not for fertilization. Can we, just for science purposes only, is that scientifically true that conception happens at the erection? No, this guy has no idea how babies are made because his mama never told him.

But furthermore, how do you enforce that? You can't. Number one, number two, I always thought it was like, you know, my bad and my choice, and all that.

So he's a Democrat, right? Isn't that his mantra? Why do they do this stupid stuff? That's just so stupid. I mean, it's a stunt, I get it, but it's just a dumb one.

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So now they got it. That's interesting. Huh. Smartphone use leads to hallucinations, detachment from reality, aggression in teens as young as 13. What in the world?

So they said that the younger a person starts using a phone, the more likely they would be crippled by a whole host of psychological ills. They looked at 10,500 teens from age 13 to 17. Look, I'm fine with parents having phones for their kids, but you got to be your kid's baby. You're the parent. You know, you can't have the government do it.

Monitor how much screen time your kid gets. You can do it. You birth the kid, you raise the kid. You can do it. We got Lieutenant Colonel Alan West joining us next from SHOT SHO.

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Well, welcome back to the program. Daniel Lash here with you broadcasting live from SHOT Show in Las Vegas. He cracks me up every single time we talk. My very good friend, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. Oh, now you're standing up, Colonel.

Come on. Look at that child of attention. He told me: he goes, play back in black because I'm black. And it almost, at first, I thought he was saying a lyric, and then I stopped and looked at him. It was a riot.

It's good to see you. And I'm dressing because I can't dress myself. It's easy. It's good to see you. It's good to be seen.

Look nice and rested. I'm all good. We were talking, and everybody knows Alan West because you have your own program that you do, and you do a great job. I can't catch it. I will only watch a few people.

You're one of the people I actually do watch, but I can't watch every episode. That's humbling. I like your commentary, and I like the way you approach stuff, and it's just very matter-of-fact. But you and I were talking because we were getting into some of the deportations and the illegal crossing. The Marines are heading to the border.

We don't know exactly where yet. But what you were telling me is that. What they really need to be focusing on is that big bend area, which is incredibly mountainous. That terrain's difficult because that's where you said the real baddies are going to be. That's where the people, the gotaways, the people that don't want to be detected and caught.

And as a matter of fact, when you go out there and you talk to the Border Patrol in the Big Bend sector, they're Alpine, Texas, and what have you, they actually put carpeting on the bottom of their shoes so they can't be trapped. They're just ride their tracks. Absolutely.

So these are some serious actors out there, and you know those mountain passes. That's not easy terrain.

So while we're focusing on the kids and the women and everyone that's coming across in Del Rio, Eagle Pass, whatever, the bad actors are coming out there in West Texas. How do you even begin? To enforce that in that area. I mean, drones seem like it's the easiest thing.

Well, you got to have drones, you have to have aerial surveillance, you have to have bodies on the ground. Because this is just the same as us being over in Afghanistan or these types of places where you have that mountain. That is a good point. That's why you need to have military down there. This is not just a law enforcement type of thing.

And we send our military to provide security on everybody else's border. We built a pier outside of Gaza and we had some of our military. How did that work out? You know, so well. Everything by these guys.

Feed her mas, feed her mas. Yeah, let's give them supplies that they'll just sell back on the black market. Yeah, that's actually a really good point to get, because they know how to do this and they know that terrain. That's what they've trained in. They know it.

Yeah, and so to have the Marines down there or get someone like the 10th Mountain Division out of the United States Army. Absolutely.

That's their whole thing. Oh, that sounds fun. Yes. Oh, my gosh, the 10th Mountain Division, Kane, get them out there to handle it. Because that's, you're right, nobody ever talks about it.

Every now and then it comes up, but honestly, Honestly, because it's a scary area when you think of it. It's beautiful, and then you realize, ooh, cartels. Oh, sure. You go out and you talk to the folks there in Alpine, Texas, and they will tell you, yeah, we always have these folks that are transiting across our ranches. We see them all the time.

I was out there one time eating at a restaurant, and the restaurant owner said, Yeah, we see the illegals just come right across, and they just continue on. And it's always single military-aged males out there, and those are the ones we need to be focusing on. Isn't that the area where, like, two or three years ago, there was a couple jet skiing in the lake in that area, the Big Bend area, like on the border, or no, in the Rio, they were actually in the river. Yeah.

And he was shot and killed. The husband was shot and killed by cartels?

Well, absolutely, because the cartels on the other side, guess what they have? They have observation posts. In the military, we call it LPOPs, listening posts, observation posts. And so they're looking across and they're making sure that no one is paying attention to their infiltration routes and things of this nature. And they have scouts that are out just as well.

That's why this is a military operation, and President Trump has the right perspective in putting our forces down. This is not a violation of posse comitatas. This is protecting your borders. I'm so glad you said that. It's not.

We're not employing the military against American citizens. We're employing the military against invaders. Because you know what? What you just said. Let me stop on that for a minute.

That's huge because the states, so I remember when Jan Brewer in Arizona was trying to enforce, and the DOJ came down on her like a ton of bricks to stop her from enforcing security and border enforcement, or dealing with border enforcement in her area. But she had the right to do that as a governor.

So it was weird for the federal government to say, you can't enforce this because it's a federal government matter.

Well, then the federal government then, you just gave the argument, well, then you can't send the military. It's a federal issue, yeah. The whole point is that in Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution, which is known as the Guarantee Clause, the federal government is supposed to protect every state in the Union from invasion.

So if they don't do what they're supposed to do, Article 1, Section 3, Section 10, Clause Number 3, says exactly what states can do when the federal government fails so that they can secure themselves and they can do it with impunity. It lays down every means of resource.

So if the federal government is Does not do their constitutional duty, the states have a right to do that. And it was just amazing during the Biden administration that they tried to bring the hammer down, and of course, during the Obama administration as well. Talking with Colonel Alan West, if you're all watching the Simulcast Channel 347 Direct TV, or if you're listening across the country, I had a conversation with someone in Army Futures Command a couple of weeks ago, and they were talking about recruitment. And everyone seemed a little hopeful after maybe the election. This is actually before the election.

I need to modify that. It was right before the election. And everyone was being very hopeful. Like, maybe if this goes the right way, then we'll be able to deal with the military. And we have a problem with recruitment and messaging.

And I spoke up and I said, well, respectfully, if I can be very frank. I'm like, I don't know if messaging is your problem when you got guys at the Air Force wearing skirts and lipsticks and they're like the top of the food chain up there. And then you got other military leaders that are leaving our men and women to die at Abbey Gate. And you got others that are making them withhold, defending themselves and the people that they're serving with, and then we get unnecessary fatalities. I'm like, that's kind of what our young men, including my military-age sons, and one of them's on the fence about it.

That's what they're seeing. And they're like, wait, are they going to, if I serve and give my all to my country, is my country going to be there for me? And they couldn't answer that.

Well, of course he couldn't answer that because he couldn't give you an honest answer because he's still in uniform. But it's not a messaging problem. It is the actions that they saw in the previous administration that you just articulated. When people can understand their pronouns better than they can understand their task and purpose, you know, the purpose of a military, and even Colin Powell said this, is to go in and kill people and break stuff. That's just the bottom line.

You know, when I was in the military, I wasn't trained to make build roads and all this stuff. I was an artillery officer. I was trained to blow things up. Can I say that you have one of the most badass stories I think I've ever heard? No, stop.

No, no, look. Everybody knows his story, right? He was saving lives. Yeah, you were. You were out there saving lives, and they tried to come at you for it.

I know. That's what a commander's supposed to do. Your commander's supposed to look after his troops because, guess what? If they know that you got their back and you're out there, you know, hooking and jabbing with them on patrols and combat operations, they're going to fight tough. I think Denzel could play you in a movie about your life.

I don't know. He looked pretty good in that Gladiator 2. I mean, I just, I feel right, like if I was casting, I'd be like, okay, Denzel's going to play Colonel Island West, and then we'll fill everything else out. We'll get maybe Angela Bassett for your wife, and get everything. I see, like, I'm really, you already got the movie done.

It's already done in my head, yeah. You think Denzel can pull out the salt and pepper flat top? That's what I'm worried about. I don't know if he, I think he could. I think he could.

Yeah, he might be able to do it. But, I mean, you get it, and from your, how different is it from when you were in active duty to now? That fast. It's totally different. Yeah, it doesn't take long.

It takes, you know, the policies that come from a certain administration can change the course and direction of a military or any government agency. And that's what we saw in these four years. And so we have a military that's atropied. You know, if you don't use your muscles, you know exactly what happens.

So we have a military that is not trained up in the skills that it's supposed to be trained, that warrior ethos that Pete has talks about. I was going to ask you, we got to restore that. And that's for men and women. Look, I understand this. I believe in fairness and all this stuff.

But we do not have men and women competing against each other in figure skating. Yeah, that's a great point.

So if men and women can't compete against each other in figure skating, how the hell are you supposed to tell me that, okay, men and women are equal on the battlefield? That dog don't hunt. And so I think that we need to get people that have that perspective and understanding, because there's nothing fair about if you and I have to go mono-emano. Yeah.

Oh, no. You're going to whoop me. And you can't change the standards. I can yell louder, but you'll whoop me. And I'm 64.

And I guarantee you, if I still laid a punch on awesome Dana Lash, it will probably break your jaw. I can dodge, but at some point I'd get hit. I'm quick, but yeah, at some point I'd get hit. It'd be, yeah, I get it. I get it.

So let's get back to. You mentioned Hegseth. What do you think of him? I think that he's going to do a great job. I think the most important thing for Pete Hegseth is to surround himself with a stable of stallions.

That means the deputy secretary, the undersecretaries, those type of folks really have to be strong to be able to implement those policies. And you've got to root things out seven or eight levels deep. Get rid of all these people because this is multi-decades of multi-decades, many layers. I mean, people call it the deep state. I just call it a bureaucratic administrative state.

So, you know, the president has issued an order about all these DEI offices closing. And so, what are they trying to do? They change the name of the office like you just saw with the ATF.

So, I think that you have to really go in there and say, you're out. I think that's hysterical, by the way. They just, because Trump gave this order, they got to get rid of all this DEI in government. And they're like, oh, we'll just change the position. No one will ever know.

We'll just change the title on the website. Yeah, I was born in the morning, not this morning. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. We're talking with our friend Alan West and his last two books, We Can Overcome, an American Black Conservative Manifesto, and Hold Texas, Hold the Nation.

Let me ask you about that too: Hold Texas, Hold the Nation.

So, two very interesting states that I'm watching: so Florida and Texas. And everyone always says, Oh, you got a super majority. That's great. You should be able to do everything as Republicans. We're learning that you can't.

I mean, so in Florida, the weak Republicans are not. Those are the ones that wanted gun control and all this other stuff. They're fighting DeSantis and Trump because they think that they should be able to wait till March. To go into office, we don't have that time to spare. And then in Texas, they just guaranteed that Democrats can be on committee chairs.

And so basically, everything that we do with the Republican supermajority is going to have to get approved by Democrats. Yeah, it's amazing to me because in the state of Texas, the state house has 150 seats. You've got 88 Republicans and 62 Democrats. Pretty easy, right?

Well, instead, you got 36 Republicans that went over and joined with 49 Democrats to select a speaker. And now you just had a rules package that passed that gave the Democrats all of this power on committees to include being able to kill legislation. Why? Why did they do that? People are just cowards.

There are some Republicans that are just cowards. And I can understand why you would. Donald Trump won Texas by 15 percentage points. Ted Cruz won Texas, his senacy everywhere. I thought it was going to be so close, 9 to 11 points.

So why do we think that we need to go and be kumbaya with these people that they'll slit our throats? I mean, figuratively and literally, if they could.

So I think that you're going to see a lot of Republicans. This will be their last legislative session in the Texas State House. How long is this damage going to last? Because I know the big fight was to oust Dade Phelan as Speaker, but it seems like now we replaced Dade Phelan with Dade Phelan 2.0. Yeah, Dustin Burroughs, which is just one of his cronies.

And everyone was, you know, cheering when Dave Phelan said, I'm not going to run for speaker. I said, it doesn't matter.

Something's up. Yeah, something's up. And so I think that you really got the clean house. And look at those 36 Republicans that voted with the Democrats to select this guy to be our speaker. Because by their own rules in the Texas State House, they're supposed to select a speaker out of their caucus.

Will you come back and take over the party in Texas, please, for the love of all things holy? I'll come back and do whatever God and Dana Lash tells me to do.

So if I pray to God, like, please may Colonel Allen West come back and run that. It's not, though, because I'm begging him to use the power of his servants for his glory.

So, you know, can just make that happen. Ask boldly. Ask boldly, Colonel. Ask boldly. You got me.

Yes, sister. Amen. Amen, sister. Colonel Allen West, I'm so happy to see you here, my friend. I got to tell people, he's one of the realest ones in this industry, in politics.

I wish he'd go back into it, honestly. I get why you don't like it.

Well, I'm the chair over in Dallas County, so we got some good things we're doing there. That's Dallas County. I mean, no offense, it's not my county, though. I want you where I can, in my county, where it can be better for me. Terrence, good county.

I know, it's a great county. Both great. I mean, but maybe, like, take over the whole state party. You already did that. I know, but do it again.

You want the brother back? Yes. Bring the brother back. Back in black. Yes, back in black.

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All right, so first up, we had Florida woman Amber send us a story, and I am not reading it. I don't even know how I began to read it.

Well Uh let's see.

So we've got Oh boy. A Florida man was arrested after hitting a police officer in the face with a snowball. Did they they got enough snow, I guess, on there to make.

Now, if it was on the beach where he did this, there's going to be a sandy snowball. That would hurt.

So he was arrested. He hit an officer in the face with a snowball. It was a snowball flight that escalated into chaos. And this 22-year-old man who threw the offending ball was arrested. It was in Tallahassee, and there were people throwing snowballs at cars passing by on Madison Street.

Citizens were complaining. Fox 35 Orlando says that then police had to respond. And authorities said, you can't throw stuff, including snowballs, into a moving vehicle. That's a felony. But then when the participants, when the police arrived, the snowball people turned on the cops.

And they began throwing them, throwing snowballs at the police. One hit someone's cruiser, another one got hit right in the face. They had to give them warnings over the PA system. Apparently, it was a crowd. It's described as a crowd.

They ignored commands to disperse, and the snowballs were flying.

So police were like, all right, you brought a snowball to the fight, we'll bring pepperballs. And they didn't cause any injuries, but they did use pepperball. You're just sitting over there smiling so much about that. I don't know how to I mean, yes, you shouldn't throw snowballs at passing cars, but I just think this whole thing is hysterical. I think it's hilarious that snow in Florida, and then this is what happens.

They decide it's combat. It's snowed, it's time for combat. Uh a oh no, we had that one yesterday.

So let me, oh gosh, I don't want to read this one that Florida woman Amber sent. She's the one who I think, and I know she's cackling right now, she tries to look for the most offensive stories possible. Oh no. and send them to me. Like those I'm okay.

I'm gonna try to do this. I was triple dog Dared. I have to take that. I gotta take that, Dared. A man with um Oh boy.

abnormally large Parts of his male copulatory area. I did that well. Was arrested for exposing said area. to a teenager. He if you look at this dude He looks like it.

He looks like cross between that poltergeist preacher. And a pervert. Oh, yeah, he just, oh, right.

So he faces charges. of uh lewd behavior towards a minor. As Sunrise Police did it, his name is Mark Buckley, 62. He was arrested because he was exposing himself and apparently bragging about his bits. Everything about this story is so nasty.

We're all gonna go through up a little bit. Everything about this is nasty. And then, days after the inauguration, there was a Florida guy who was arrested for trespassing at Mar-a-Lago. He tried hopping the wall. How would you think that was gonna go for you my dude?

A 32-year-old man was arrested. He scaled a wall. To get to Mar-a-Lago two days after the inauguration, and Secret Service had him immediately, and they took him into custody. His bond has been set at $100,000.

So, coming up, our third hour of the program, and POTUS. Is going to be heading to LA and then he's going to be in Vegas tonight for a rally tomorrow. We got a lot to hit as we roll towards our third hour here broadcasting from SHOT Show in Vegas. Stick with us. All Family Pharmacy, you just need to bookmark this website.

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Fauci or John Bolton? No. You know, they all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security too. All the people you're talking about, they can go out.

I can give them some good numbers of very good security people. They can hire their own security. They all made a lot of money. Vauci made a lot of money. They all did.

you know, felt that strongly. I I think That certainly I would not take responsibility. I love this. And the other thing that POTUS did too If you're just joining us, first off, welcome back. Top of our third hour.

Daniel Lash here with you, broadcasting from Vegas Shot Show 2025 from the National Shooting Sports Foundation. We're going to talk to Larry Keene, head of that later on. But additionally, he, because Trump is heading to. Los Angeles later today. He's in North Carolina.

He's surveying the Devastating effects of the hurricane that they're still recovering from. Then he's heading to LA to survey wildfire damage, and then he's coming to Vegas. He's staying here tonight. And then they have a rally at Circo tomorrow, I believe. I don't know what time that is, but he's very busy.

And then when he goes, no, check it, when he goes to LA, He's saying that Well, I'm totally happy to help you with wildfire aid that your Democrat leadership caused it to be this bad. But he said, before we do that, though, he goes, quote, I don't know if we have this audio just yet, but I'll tell you his quote. He says, I want to see two things in Los Angeles: voter ID so the people have a chance to vote, and I want to see the water be released and come down into LA throughout the state. He's like, those are just two things. He wants them done.

before federal aid. The voter ID, Kane, the voter ID, are they C are they gonna do that? Are they gonna do the voter ID? To get the federal aid? I mean, doesn't that seem like the most Simple thing that you could do?

Just saying, seems like it. Yeah, go ahead, let me see. Funding to Los Angeles because of its sanctuary city policy? I want to see two things in Los Angeles: voter ID, so that the people have a chance to vote, and I want to see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state. Those are the two things.

After that, I will be. The greatest president that California has ever seen. I want the water to come down and come down to Los Angeles and also go out to all the farmland that's barren and dry. You know, they have land that they say is the equivalent of the land in Iowa, which is about as good as there is anywhere on earth. The problem is it's artificial because they artificially stop the water from going onto the land.

So I want two things: I want voter ID for the people of California, and they all want it. Right now, you don't have voter ID. People want to have voter identification. You want to have proof of citizenship. Ideally, you have one-day voting, but I just want voter ID as a start, and I want the water to be released, and they're going to get a lot of help from the U.S.

Thank you very much. I'll see you next time. I mean, that's like the because the water being released helps them. Voter ID helps them. Wow.

Uh Where's where's the problem? That's what they have. Odds on uh we're in Vegas. Yeah.

Odds on uh Newsome complaining about this. Oh my gosh. 100% odds. I haven't seen a response yet. I mean, this was something that Trump just said, so I haven't seen a response from Newsom yet.

That's going to be interesting though, because didn't you saw the same headlines, although I only saw it a couple different places, and it was sources say, so it didn't say it was confirmed officially. But wasn't there the narrative that he was considering just like ghosting POTUS? When POTUS got to California, like the governor of California was just like not gonna show up out of spite. What the hell kind of leadership is that? The people that didn't want to politicize this are doing that, just to put it in perspective.

Yeah, I don't know. It's so frustrating. This is so incredibly frustrating. Between this And people who are fighting these cabinet nominees, done with it, done with it.

So that's pretty, I mean, that's pretty significant. I would like to see for that to happen. I hope that they can get that happening.

So we'll see all that. I got to take a. A quick step away from the meat and potatoes. We have an issue here, Kane. We have an issue.

Okay, so you guys know I got a rescue pup, right? My pup, Wick, who's. part Belgian Malinois, part Rhodesian Ridgeback and all sweetness and kindness and insanity.

So um he's he's staying with his Nana, right? He's Nana is sitting for Wick. Can I Read. Please don't kill me. She can't reach me.

I'm in Vegas. Protect me. This is where she attacks me. She's, she asked me, she was like, do you have Disney Plus? I don't think we got Disney Plus.

I'm pretty sure. I think we canceled that after the Gino Carano thing. And then she goes, Well, I looked. And she goes, I think you have to sign in, so we don't have an account. We did cancel it.

She goes, But that is okay. This is what she legit what she texted me. I saw where they were saying the cartoon Bluey is the cartoon that dogs like to watch because they like the colors. Dogs only see black and white. I haven't told her this yet.

Because they like the colors and they like it because it's a cartoon of dogs. She's like, But I did find where it's on a regular station, and right now it's kittens. He seems to like it. Doesn't Bluey have that trans character on there? My mom is gonna make my dog.

Watch Trans Cartoon Dogs. On Disney. Why is it Paw Patrol? On somewhere? I don't know.

Didn't Paw Patrol get off Fruity 2? Did they? I don't know. I don't know. I never watched it.

But she was asking me: I know Bluey did because that was a headline, and that's how I know that. Because she sits with them, Nana sits with them, and they watch animal videos. That woman will sit there and they will watch videos of like penguins, or if you're a Benedict Cumberbatch, penglings, all kinds of stuff. She's asking me about Bluey, so I gotta intervene. 'Cause she's like, oh, he likes the colours.

I'm like, Mom. Doctor Colorblind. They're colorblind.

So, Nana's. Does she know how to get on YouTube? I'm sure she does. I'm terrified for her to get on YouTube. It's Nana.

Dog video style stuff on YouTube. All you have to do is search at home. I am terrified as what her to get on there. Who knows what she'll type? I don't know.

I get worried with Nana.

So I'm going to have to intervene and prevent the trans indoctrination of my dog. 'Cause Nana's gonna have him watch Bluey.

So I had to, I had to, because it all happened like right when I'm getting ready to go on air, and I'm like, no. Honestly, I'm pretty confident Wick won't fall for any of it. You think? He's a smart dog. No, I'm confident.

He doesn't really have time for that nonsense. He won't be effective. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he doesn't like communists either. No. Yeah.

There's a. He's good. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he doesn't like communists either. All right, so I had to share that with you because. Here's a story that's funny, you ready?

Meta is having to scramble to fix AI chatbots that are still calling Biden the president. They said that the AI bots across Facebook were still telling inquisitive users that Biden is president. And they said the current president of the United States is Joe Biden.

So now they're trying to get it to incorporate that Trump was sworn in on January 20th. I thought AI was smart, Kane. Yeah.

I think it's only as smart as its inputs and the people doing those inputs.

So that's where we are. Smart or partisan? Although being super partisan is dumb, so I don't know. Uh but I that struck me because AI, I mean, it pulls from a number of different resources, so it should automatically be able to. to compute and know that.

computes it We don't know for sure. How much of a bet AI is just a big old Martian in the sky? It's all the Martians that are up there. That's what those drones are. I'm sure it's pre-programmed stuff on levels like that so that AI just gives it out based on its programming.

But you're right, the update is definitely necessary. Hamas is also about to announce the, I think they're announcing the fate of the Beabus toddlers and the parents. Do you guys remember one of the videos? It was one of the. Light-haired mothers, and she had two red-headed children.

One was a baby, and one was a toddler, four and eight months old at the time, when they were taken into custody. Shiri Beebus and her and their children, they were taken from their home, and her parents were murdered. By Hamas. They were taken into captivity and they were murdered. And the dad was released, but the wife and the babies were not.

And there's all kinds of stories as to what they think happened. There's video excerpts, or there's video clips out there showing them taking her into custody with the kids. And at one point, Hamas released a video of the dad, Yardin, and they told him that his family had been murdered. But yet It believed It was believed that, you know, that they were still alive.

So I don't know, this is like part of those hostage deals. And this was the baby eight months old was the youngest in captivity.

So he celebrated both his first and second birthday in captivity. He has been in Hamas. captivity longer than he's been alive. Or as or for longer, sorry, longer than he's been with his parents. He's been with Hamas for longer than he's been with his parents.

I can't even imagine if he's even still alive. What I mean, wow. And that was one of the most I think viral videos that came out of that. because the mom was terrified. And she's clinging to her four-year-old, and you know, she's wearing her eight-month-old.

And the kids had no idea what was happening. They were kind of looking around, and she was holding both of them, and she was petrified. I mean, I mean, it's just, it's the every it's a mother's worst nightmare. And it's been this long, and there's no word except they were trying to, I guess, psyop the dad and torture the dad by saying that the family was killed. Holy wow.

So that's um We'll get some more information about that, but that was, they were announcing that today. And I I don't know. That's If they're not alive, holy cow. Because they ended up being kind of like The representation of all of the hostages that were taken, because so many children were taken.

So many young women were taken, so many young men were taken, and older, you know, elderly men and women. There was no discrimination. They just wanted Israelis. That's all they wanted. They wanted Jewish people, and they took them into custody.

They just kidnapped them. But I can't imagine the baby. I mean, and even if the baby is alive, you know how malnourished that baby is, two years old, no doctor's visits. Nothing. No, but I mean it's just horrific.

What we're supposed to We're supposed to Find out today about that, and POTIS has been pretty hardcore. Saying they will be released, and these were the ones that I think the Israeli government and POTUS were pressuring in addition to U.S. hostages. You know, let the babies go. I mean, let them go.

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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. I know you guys are going to be totally shocked about this. TSA's facial recognition tech is highly accurate. A review says, someone else, though, said it was highly inaccurate. And I don't know.

DHS said that they had self-identified black volunteers that participated in it, and they had the lowest face-matching success rate of any demo with an overall accuracy of 98%. And that the technologies that they're using to verify, they said that they're trying to make, you know, when you go now, you can. A lot of them, they just take a picture of your face as you're boarding and now it's supposed to, it's not that accurate though. They're trying to make you feel comfortable and they're trying to say that it's accurate, but it's, isn't this basically like the red light camera of identification?

So Oh man, I've got questions. All right, moving on. This. Oh goodness, your next Spirit Airlines flight, if you have offensive tattoos and see-through clothing, you could get kicked off. I don't know why people try, I don't like the idea of dressing up like a hobo to get on a plane.

Like, I don't want to see your ripped sweats. I don't want to see, like, you don't need to be wearing leggings. Leggings ain't pants, right? You don't need to be wearing leggings. You don't need to be wearing crop tops.

You know, cover your ass for crying out loud. You know, you're getting on a plane. Just like make it nice for other people. But they said Spirit Airlines might have to. The tattoos thing I don't get, but can see, like, I guess.

If people are barefoot, they said, or if their clothing is lewd or obscene, then they're barefoot big. Oh my gosh, if you're barefoot and you try to get on a plane, I'm gonna cut your feet off. You don't even get a chance to put shoes on. Pop pop! We're just gonna cut them right off because that's nasty with a capital NA.

It's gross. Also, let's see, quick headlines. Bucky's assuming. Ooh. It's a Buckeyes fight.

It's a beaver fight. Bucky's is suing North Texas. uh a North Texas based gas station chain over trademark Infringement. It's called Super Fuels. Super Fuels is also using a beaver.

Well, they said it's an anthropomorphic dog. It looks like a beaver. And that Bucky says it's a complete copy of their Bucky's Beaver.

So. The courts are gonna They're gonna duke it out in the courts. Oregon DMV is closing its East Portland location. After complaints to the landlord included, quote, sewage smells, sporadic water pressure, and all kinds of maintenance. Problems.

I mean, it is a federal government office, so it makes sense that it smells like.

Well, you know what I mean. I don't even like the fact that they're a DMV and they have to, they have a landlord. Like they're a government agency and they have some sort of landlord. Like, how do they not buy that building themselves? Yeah, that's actually a good point.

That's actually a good point. Let's see. The Associated Press says it's going to change Mount Denali to Mount McKinley, but it's not going to honor Gulf of America. The Associated Press. That's all right.

I'm honoring it. Yeah, you guys can say Gulf of Mexico all you want. I'm going to say Gulf of America, but I don't understand the Denali-McKinley thing. They said they're renaming Denali to Mount McKinley because that's apparently one of the things that was an edict from Trump and EO. But they said that they are not.

Going to honor anything related to Mexico or international bodies. And they said the Gulf of Mexico has carried that in for more than 400 years, et cetera. Oh my gosh, just call it Gulf of America, you dimwits. What's the big deal? Just stop.

It's they just want to fight. Additionally, let's see here. Canada wants to help restart the Keystone XL pipeline. That's very good news, right? As we're unleashing energy and going to be resurrecting our economy, the premier of Alberta, Canada, said they would like to restart conversations with the Trump administration about reapproving the Keystone XL pipeline.

Because remember, they decommissioned it and then they began deconstructing the actual pipeline and take they had to dig it up. They were digging parts of it up.

So that would be great if we could get something like that back in action and re-implement that. And that's actually, I think it's been what decommissioned out for a couple of years, but they were, I mean, it's like one of the easiest ways to get crude down to Houston where it needs to go. And they've been very respectful of the land. This is just environmental nonsense. We have a lot more on the way coming up.

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They don't take conservative business. Welcome back to the program. That was POTUS. And he's talking about Bank of America and the unfriendly practices that we've seen in the banking industry against not just conservatives, but gun owners. And I mean, pretty much anybody who is not, you know, an anti-gun communist.

I don't really know how else to put it. It sounds like, you know, very just broad, but it is what it is. Welcome back. Dana Lash here. We're broadcasting from the Keltech booth at NSSF, the annual industry event, National Shooting Sports Foundation.

And we're here with the head of it all, Mr. NSSF himself, Larry Keene. Hey, Jane. How are you, my friend? Busy but good.

Busy but good. I'm doing quite well. And this, this, what POTUS was talking about just then in this audio clip, I know you couldn't hear because you didn't have your earphones on, but you got an idea. I mean, he was talking about, you know, Bank of America needs to be a little nicer to conservatives. And really, the finance industry needs to be a little nicer to gun owners in general.

Well, yeah, and they're in for a rude awakening because I'm so happy to hear the president talk about this and make this a priority because it is a real problem. It's been going on since back in the Obama. Administration with Operation Chokepoint, where the FDIC, the Department of Justice, and others put pressure on the banks to de-bank and refuse to provide financial services and banking services to a variety of industries, including the firearms industry, because we were politically incorrect. We were able to, we thought, get that stopped with the help of Congress, in particular former Congressman Luchtemeyer, who was really a big champion.

Now we saw it privatized during the Biden administration, where it continued to happen with banks like Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citibank, and a lot of Wells Fargo and a lot of the other big banks refusing to do business with people in the industry, closing accounts, not explaining why, or adopting these woke ESG policies. And so we ran around the country getting FINED ACK, Firearms Industry Non-Discrimination Act passed in a number of states. But the conduct continues. And so we're really glad to hear the president speak about this. And in fact, we just heard this morning, about a half hour ago, that the Senate Banking Committee, chaired by Senator Scott from South Carolina, is going to have a hearing in Senate banking on the 5th, Tuesday the 5th, about debanking.

So, you know, they are turning up the heat, which is fantastic. We need to see the new administration put out the Office of the Controller of the Currency OCC final rule that was pending as a final rule when Biden came in and he pulled the plug on it. We want the Trump administration to blow the dust off that final rule and publish it. That will go a long way to stopping this. And we need to see the fair access to banking legislation that's been introduced by Senator Kramer and Congressman Andy Barr from Kentucky in the House.

We want to see that. It's going to be reintroduced very shortly. We hope we'll have north of 40 co-sponsors in the Senate, and we want that to be the centerpiece of the hearing. And we certainly want to see that happen. It essentially codified.

The rule, but we need to go further. There's more things that can be done. And we've heard the administration and the president speak about this: reining in the bank regulators, stopping them from imposing these woke policies. You know, you have a quote-unquote reputational risk, which is just. You know, semantics for saying we don't like you, we don't like the products you make, we don't like your industry, you're politically disfavored, you're not, you know, you're not one of the cool kids, so we're going to cut you off from banking services and try to snuff out an entire legal industry.

That's constantly. It's based around a natural right, which is the weirdest thing to do. Exactly right. That's exactly right.

So, you know, it's inappropriate for banks to be making these woke policy decisions. They're supposed to be making financial decisions. Based on the numbers, real credit risk, not on woke policies, which is what's been going on.

So the banks were bailed out by the taxpayers in 2008. They can't operate without taxpayer-funded services like the automated clearinghouse, FDIC insurance.

So, You know, if they violate the OCC rule or they violate the fair access to banking, if it becomes enacted, they're cut off from these taxpayer-funded services and they can't operate without them. I like hearing that. That's significant because we haven't seen that kind of, I don't think I recall seeing that kind of movement towards eliminating that like this. That's what's behind the fair access to banking. And it's interesting to now hear that the cryptocurrency people are now experiencing this same exact thing.

It's like, you know, I feel bad for them, but welcome to my world. Yeah, you've been dealing with it for a little bit. We've been at the tip of the spear. You have been. And you would think we're talking with Larry Keene, who is with National Shooting Sports Foundation and SSF.

They put on SHOT Show this industry event every year. And they were very kind and helped me make my Snow White box happen.

So we're very grateful. Thank you for joining me in the Snow White and the 73. Good to have you here. Yeah.

With everything that's redefined in terms of applying the status of a protected class to every different group. It almost seems like you kind of need to do the same with gun owners and manufacturers at this point. Yeah, I mean, you know, we're a protected class. We are protected. The Constitution.

Look, there are probably two products that are protected by the Constitution: firearms and the press. Oh, yeah, yeah. And so we are a constitutionally protected industry because without our industry, You know, the ability to exercise your Second Amendment rights just becomes illusory. Yeah, exactly. So, you know.

Heller has said there can be some regulation, but you can't stop. There's a limit. It's a very big limit. I thought Scalia was very explicit on that. Yes.

The limitation. And I mean, he even went back to, I think, what did he cite a frightening back in the colonies' times? He went B-side deep dive. Yeah, he was, I love, that was one of my favorite opinions of his. Talking with Larry Keen.

Everybody's happy. It seems like everybody's in a great mood here because we had the election in November, but.

Sometimes I get worried. And I'm a little bit of a cynic, and I'm always waiting for the shoe to drop, and I'm always, I want to get ahead of something bad. And sometimes when you control all three branches, That's kind of can be the most dangerous time. And I say that because not every R is the same, as you know. Oh, no.

And sometimes bad decisions can be made, and then the context in which they're made, like a majority, that can, it's almost like it sanctions it and it makes it doubly hard to repeal.

Well, let me just say, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't really out to get you. Oh, I know, they totally are. I'm not paranoid, I'm just observant. But yeah, I mean, I've spent a lot of time since the election and certainly here at CHACHO trying to manage people's expectations about what is possible. What's that like?

Well, if I had a nickel for every time I said 53 is less than 60, you know, I'd have a lot of money. You know, there are limitations on what can be achieved legislatively. The House majority right now is 217 to 215. You lose one You know, moderate, rhino, Republican, and the tie goes to the Democrats, right?

So now. You're not going to see you know, substantive legislation, good or bad. be able to move in Congress, things at the margins perhaps, conservation, things that are bipartisan.

So let so the focus is on the on the executive branch and what can be achieved through Policy changes through regulation, through repealing regulations, repealing policies like zero tolerance and restoring things at ATF to the way they were. You know, repealing this outrageous engage in the business rule that far exceeds what was enacted in the Bipartisan Safer Community Act, which was literally a very minor tweak to make it consistent with how the courts had interpreted it. And in fact, I will share with your audience: when that was all being negotiated, I am told by people on the Republican side that Senator Murphy said this is garbage, it doesn't do anything. And now, of course, he touts it like it's some major thing. Yeah, he loves it now.

So, I mean, that's been enjoyed by the courts, but that's just like, let's not leave it to the courts. Let's just repeal that. And get rid of it because it's not consistent with the law.

So, what does a new administration mean for, like, for, and I realize that these lawsuits probably have to play out, like, for instance, in Chicago with the ATF, and the story was: obviously, you know this, but for the people watching or listening, that Kamala Harris and her White House Office of Gun Violence, whatever, that they were working with the ATF and the city of Chicago to go after Block. They absolutely were. And how does, so with the elimination of these offices, does that change that dynamic? What does that do?

Well, that's a good question, and we want to see the House Oversight investigation that had begun in the last Congress continue because there were subpoenas served on the White House and ATF for documents about this collusion between the White House Office of Second Amendment Suppression. I'm sorry, I think you're right. It's a verbal typo, but it's actually.

So, as you know, that office was staffed by the former top federal lobbyist for Everytime, Rob Wilcox, and they were in direct conversations with every town, and that led to the lawsuit, this frivolous lawsuit against Glock that somehow blaming them because criminals illegally obtain, illegally imported or made these switches and illegally install them on firearms, illegally manufactured. It's like saying that changing the muffler out or taking the muffler off your car because it's louder, then the manufacturer of the car is responsible. Exactly.

So, it's a frivolous lawsuit. Glock is trying to get the case dismissed, but now we've seen other lawsuits against Glock on the same sort of theory. New Jersey, Minnesota, there's about 15 other state Democrat AGs threatening to sue Bloc. We need to get that stopped. But, yeah, I mean, there's absolutely collusion.

We want to see that continued. We want that exposed. Because, you know, the way we figured it out was that Feinberg, the head of Everytown, on the day that they sued Glock, on behalf of Chicago, tweeted about how Glock had refused the White House's request to change their design. And how would they know that except having a conversation with somebody in the White House? And who?

Rob Wilcox. Fascinating. That's very interesting. You've got your work cut out for you.

Next question. You know, people, oh, like, yeah. I mean, you must be breathing a sigh of relief. No, I'm actually busier than before. All that's happened is, like, you know, get the defense off the field, get the offense on the field.

Yep, that's it. You know, and so we're going to, you know, we've. Have a long list of things we want to achieve, certainly on the executive branch. But you have to prioritize your priorities. You can't do everything.

And so we're working on that. Repealing this BIS policy to stop exports. We want to get suppressors off the USML, they don't belong there. We want to get ATF fixed and back on the right course. We want to make sure we get a good, solid-I'm going to ask you a controversial question because there's some out there who say, Well, you can't fix the ATF.

I mean, look, it would take an act of Congress to do away with ATF and I just be a great retail store. I don't see that. Who brought the chips? Yeah.

I don't see that passing Congress, right? Like, you're not going to get all Republicans to vote for that in the House. You may not get national reciprocity. I don't think that passes. I don't think that will pass right now.

Maybe, maybe the House. It's not going to pass the Senate, I don't think.

Now, have we gotten. to 55 in the Senate, right, in Arizona and Nevada. If we had then gotten luckier in Wisconsin and Michigan, we'd have had 57.

Now you can have a conversation about getting to 60. But at 53, you know, we're not knocking on the door, we're standing at the end of the driveway. But that doesn't mean we don't keep. You keep trying though. Absolutely, you have to, because eventually we'll get there.

Yeah, it'll be right. Right, or maybe the court will eventually strike down challenges on the interstate. Traveling with firearms. Oh, yeah. Just like you can't buy a handgun across state lines.

The Second Amendment rights don't stop at your state border. Your Fourth Amendment rights, your Fifth Amendment rights, your First Amendment rights don't stop at your border. That's a problem. Like when we were born and raised in Missouri, and you go through Illinois and you have to have your ammo in one part of the car, and you gotta have your umbrella, and you gotta do it before you cross into the state. It's kind of annoying.

And you know, the gangbangers always do completely. They follow those laws, as you know.

So, you know, I mean, so. As we know, all of these gun control laws only impact the law-abiding citizen who's not the problem, right? Rank-and-file law enforcement all across this country, they know that, they understand that. They don't believe in this stuff. But it's all political and it's driven by, you know.

Democrat states and cities like Chicago. I feel like we've come a long way because to get something like reciprocity, I mean, not only to have a President of the United States say that he wants to sign it, and then for it to get this far is just a big difference because, I mean, I remember when they couldn't even get it out of committee.

So, you know, this is pretty significant. I mean, passing major legislation takes many, many, many years. You know, seven, eight, ten. You have to, you know, the other side never stops. We can never stop.

We must be vigilant and persistent, and eventually we will prevail. We will. And we will. I mean, we have. You know, the Constitution on our side, and we have common sense on our side.

There you go. The other side talks about, you know, common nonsense gun control, but like, you know, so. I like that. Larry Kane, you do such a very good job, and I know it's like hurting cats sometimes. I know.

But I appreciate it because one of the reasons that we're able to exercise so freely as we do our Second Amendment Rights is because of the work that you and your organization have put into it.

So we're glad. I appreciate those kind words. Thank you very much. It's a privilege and an honor to have this job and to fight this fight. You're a good man for it.

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Now, I don't have my big old giant atomic clock. Do I need to allot you time for today's stupidity, Mr. Kane?

Okay. I'm not sure if you are aware of what our federal employees are on a mental level, but this will kind of give you an indication. Listen to this. As a government employee, what's so ironic About all of this sh going on with Trump, making us go in person five days a week to promote efficiency. How dare he?

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God bless.