Zelenskyy Caves, Trudeau Retaliates & GOP Faces Biggest Test

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So join us at iHeart in standing up to it. If you see hate, speak up, call it out. And you can learn more by following at What's Up With Hate. In the various meetings in the last few weeks, most recently two days ago in London, the answer from European capitals has been as resounding as it is clear. We are in an era of rearmament.

And Europe is ready to massively boost its defense spending, both to respond to the short-term urgency to act and to support Ukraine, but also to address the long-term need to take on more responsibility for our own European security. And this is why today I have written a letter to the leaders ahead of Thursday's European Council. This is why we are here together today. I have outlined in this letter to the leaders the Rearm Europe Plan. This set of proposals focuses on how to use all the financial levers at our disposal in order to help member states to quickly and significantly increase expenditures in defense capabilities urgently now, but also over a longer period of time over this decade.

my question with this is why was it ever allowed to lapse in the first place like if they say they have to go for rearmament was there a period of disarmament i mean that's i feel i feel like that's a question that deserves to be asked right i mean i i listened to her remarks and that was the thing that struck me i thought well wait a minute what what have you not been doing this because the United States has been doing it for you? Is that what I'm to get out of? This is Ursula von der Leyen, by the way. She is the head of the European Union, and she's not really conservative, although she knows which way the winds are blowing, where it concerns concentration of power in the EU.

So I think that's why her response is a little bit more tempered than it probably would be. if you didn't have people like Fratelli d'Italia and Lega Nord, the parties in Italy, or the conservatives coming up in France and in Spain and elsewhere.

So I do think that that's kind of interesting, but I don't get the rearmament thing. And of course, this is the response that the EU is having after the disastrous and the fallout is still occurring, disastrous, I don't want to say attempted diplomacy from Zelensky. And it was absolutely disastrous. And that's why the fact that people, anyone who says that it was bad on Trump's part is not paying attention to what all these other leaders are saying. How you had the one of the deputies for the prime minister under Keir Starmer who came out and was saying that, yes, it's, you know, Great Britain's belief that they need to that he needs to take that deal and basically just do whatever Trump is telling you to do.

I mean, that's that's essentially what they what they told him. and we'll see. He did come back and say that he is, he wants to sign the deal, and now, I don't know, did he poison that entirely? And then, of course, in addition to all of this, we have the comments this morning. This is a very busy news day, by the way, because we've got State of the Union tonight.

We've got all kinds of stuff happening. I wanted to play for you because Justin Trudeau made some remarks just a little bit ago, and in his remarks, I felt like he was trying to purposefully be petty and provocative. And I want you to listen to these remarks as well. This was just a little bit ago. This is in response to the tariffs.

And I want you to hear what Trudeau said. And he called him Donald. He didn't call him Mr. President. Listen.

So today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator. Make that make sense. Canadians are reasonable and we are polite. But we will not back down from a fight.

Not when our country and the well-being of everyone in it is at stake. At the moment, the U.S. tariffs came into effect in the early hours of this morning, and so did the Canadian response. Canada will be implementing 25% tariffs against $155 billion worth of American goods, starting with tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods immediately, and tariffs on the remaining $125 billion of American products in 21 days' time.

So, a very busy, busy, busy, busy, busy news day, as you can see, as we get into all of this, because this is hitting today. I don't know. I mean, you just heard Canada's response. And then, of course, we've got the congressional address tonight, the second term congressional address. Typically, they don't really call the first one the State of the Union.

It's just a congressional address.

So that's I mean, it's pretty much State of the Union.

So welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. Top of this first hour. This is a crazy, busy day. I, and Kay made a good point in Slack, and I was thinking about this earlier, because the idea, the phrase trade war, it is problematic.

And it's not a trade war, in effect, and we've talked about this before on the program, so I don't want people thinking that we're treading, you know, old ground. But it's not a trade war. It's your – I like the way you put it. You were talking about it's a balancing of deficits. And that's really what it is.

We've discussed the – I don't want to say unfairness, but that's kind of what it is, right? The unfairness with regard to dealing with the United States and taxation, et cetera. And the United States for quite some time has been dealing at a disadvantage. Does that make sense? That makes sense.

I think it's safe to say that.

Well, yeah. I mean, it's very much that.

So the remarks from Trudeau, and especially the way that he did it, I thought was petty. Did you hear him say Donald? And a message for one person in particular, Donald. That just seems super petty. What is with these leaders and their total lack of diplomacy?

I mean, you don't have it's about balancing the deficits. This is this is the issue. We're going to talk more about this throughout the program. But good heavens. This is a man.

In addition to that, then we also have Trump pausing all aid to Ukraine.

so that came in late yesterday he's pausing all military aid to ukraine after that disastrous meeting with zelensky and the administration wants to ensure that it is contributing to a resolution to the conflict not just perpetuating the duration of it and I think he's called for a ceasefire. I think that you can hold that position and it's incredibly disingenuous to say that you're somehow doing Vlad Putin's work. I mean, some of the folks on the right need to really check their language on this because some of y'all are starting to sound like the left. Got to say, I've been hearing about Russian collusion. How long, Kane?

Jimmy, Christmas, forever. I think that you can hold that position and also dislike Vladimir Putin. and this is about what is in the United States' best interest. And I just, I failed.

So far, these people haven't made the argument. They've dredged up some old neocon talking points, and that's pretty much it. But they're saying that this, oh, Trump is, you know, this is his retribution. Or it's because Ukraine couldn't, I don't know, provide an accounting of where all the previous tax dollars given to them have gone, aside from some munitions purchases, some stuff for, you know, I mean, there's a few things. But I mean, you it is absolutely fact we were paying for pensions.

Real Clear Politics had a great piece about that the other day. You got it in your prep. That was actually absolutely true. It was absolutely true that there were properties being purchased.

So there's there's there are a lot of questions and it's completely within the realm of reason to ask these questions. And Zelensky, this was just, I think we'll go down in history, is one of the worst diplomatic gaffes ever, him doing what he did.

So we've got this. We've got the tariffs taking effect in Mexico, Canada, and China. They were retaliating with their own tariffs. This went in after midnight, so we've got that. 25% taxes on Mexican-Canadian imports, limited to 10% on Canadian energy, doubling the tariff on Chinese products to 20%.

Beijing is now 15% on our, a whole bunch of U.S. farm exports. And they expanded the number of U.S. companies subject to export controls by about a couple of dozen.

So Trudeau said, as you heard, plastering tariffs on $100 billion of American goods over the next 21 days. Scheinbaum, who's the president down in Mexico, said they're going to have their own retaliatory tariffs. They're not going to be able to outlast it, though. that's the thing, because when you go back and look at what, you know, who gets more from what, Canada and Mexico, I mean, the insanity, I mean, we're not even, all we had asked was, can you actually help do your job at the border? Can you stop the influx of human trafficking and fentanyl?

That seems a perfectly reasonable request, particularly if it's coming from someone that these countries, in effort to try to avail themselves of their responsibility, call us as a friend, because the language that these leaders have been using in terms of referring to the United States, I would say a friend would do this.

Well, a real friend also wouldn't allow completely unaccountable human trafficking and drugs flowing in their borders and not do their due diligence as a good neighbor to the north or south.

So spare me the language on that.

Furthermore, China is a geopolitical foe. Quite honestly, we could send them an invoice for all of the IP that they have stolen from us and have tried to pass off as their own. And I don't think it would even come anywhere close to covering the true cost of what they owe, not just to us, to the world after the Wu flu.

So spare me on that count also. It's an aggressive approach, but I think we have to be aggressive. I tell you, I was at an event last night and I had a number of people ask me, what's going to happen? What's going to happen with the budget? What's going to happen with taxes?

What's going to happen with no tax on tips? What's going to happen with all these things? And I made the point, I don't care whether or not you like Trump. This is people have to learn how to compartmentalize stuff. This isn't about liking Trump.

He's done what he has said he was going to do when he took office. The people who haven't are the Republicans in the House and the Senate. They have not been holding up the end of their agreement. And I'm at the point already where I'm wondering if it's not sabotage. I genuinely wonder.

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So Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Dean, has passed away. This was so sad. He was 82 years old. It was announced yesterday evening. They were married for over 60 years.

and she announced it online saying, quote, or they did, she gave the quote that Carl and she spent many wonderful years together for over 60 years. They didn't mention a cause of death, although it was made public that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2019. But they married in 1966. They met at a Nashville laundromat and he just hated the Hollywood life.

So he would go with her to some things and stay in the background, but he hated the award shows. She said that he went to one award show and then as soon as they left, he was already taken off his tie and was like, I love you, but I'm not doing that again.

So it was, yeah, and I mean, they celebrated, yeah, it was over 60 years. They were together for over 60 years and I think it was, they were married for 60 years this year, I think.

So, wow. The world's biggest, this is the craziest thing I've ever seen. One of the world's biggest call center is being accused of using AI to whiten Indian accents and improve empathy for British customers. It's yeah, they said that they're trying to improve empathy for their customers. The teleperformance is using real time AI software on phone calls to neutralize Indian accents and reduce communication.

It's a French company behind it, Kane, and they said the new AI tool means customer service calls and that results far more quickly and making call center workers more productive.

Sounds racist to me. It sounds a little, yeah. You know, I want that one video where they called each other bloody for like five minutes before. That's the kind of call center I want. Let's see here.

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And it like, that's what is going to make me have a wreck is that. But the FAA said they're investigating after several liners, airliners on approach to land Saturday morning, received what they said were false alarms from their onboard collision avoidance system. And they said it was happening all morning. That's what one air traffic controller was caught, was heard, telling an inbound flight.

So they said that they had no issues at one hour and then they had six within 11 minutes of each other the following hour at 9 a.m. on Saturday.

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Anybody? I think they should walk out on masks. Naked or clothes? Naked. Naked would be good.

Naked would be interesting. I mean, they should walk out, you know.

Well, is there going to be a laugh track, by the way? I think they should walk out. I think that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yeah, I would pray. Yeah.

So, I mean, I remember when Democrats said that any kind of outburst or anything to that effect was. Like, what was it? Anti-American.

some, I don't know, whatever language that they used. Do you remember, who was it? Joe Wilson, who had said that you lie? Wasn't it him, the guy who, when Barack Obama was speaking at a State of the Union, he'd said, oh my gosh, the news about that, oh my gosh. They went on and on and on and on.

On and on and on. I think it actually looks dumb. You can use tactics like that, but after a while they lose their luster And you can't keep using the same tactics over and over again Their insistence and i've heard everything from noisemakers to signs to Even costumes. I don't even know what that is. I mean, they're treating it like it's mardi gras Uh, I don't think that that's going to help democrats like maybe in the past It would have been helpful for them, but it hasn't.

I don't think it's going to work. It was Joe Wilson who yelled out, you lie, when Obama said that it was false that people entering the country illegally would receive federal dollars, medical benefits, etc. I remember they treated him pretty poorly. But Democrats still don't get it. look, you've had a lot of people, a lot of people who cast their vote for someone different last election.

There were Democrats. In order for Trump to win, Democrats had to vote for him in a lot of these crucial states, and especially states like Pennsylvania. I mean, you had to have Democrats vote for him. There are a lot of Democrats in Congress right now who have a lot of Republican voters, and they're trying to figure out how they're going to navigate this going into midterms and the only thing that they can do is showcase, you know, Trump is incompetent, except Trump's been doing everything that he's supposed to do. It's other members of Congress.

They just don't get it. They cannot stop focusing on him. I've never seen people strategize so poorly in my whole ever loving life. If Democrats want to be successful, they have to start. And I say this politically speaking, picking off other congressional members.

that's what the store even the soros thing is stupid they had these these astro turfed events like the one with rich mccormick in georgia you know they had it was an astro turfed event there were tons of people i know people who went there we have people who are listeners who are in that area and also you know i was talking to some of the media on the ground there were a lot of people who didn't even live in that district who showed up like half it was insane they knew the moment that they got there that, oh, wow, it looks like the call went out. I've seen those type of town halls before. I helped lead them back in 2008 and 2009, going into the Tea Party period where we had the summer of discontent. And so it's like they're borrowing our tactics, but they're doing it over a decade too late.

So back to my point with this, you had a lot of Democrats who went and voted Republican. Why? That's the question you got to start with before you get into why Democrats are messing this up yet again. A lot of Democrats voted for Republicans. Why did they vote for Republicans?

Because the Democrats, to put it plainly, were absolute freaks. Absolute freaks. Nobody wants that. Nobody wants their underage daughter trying to dress in a locker room and having a dude with his frankenbeams, 18 years old, right there. And I talk about that from personal experience with family that had to suffer through that.

And a million other girls across the country had to endure that. That's why parents from every background were standing up, unified all across the country. Democrats instead viewed it as, oh, well, this is an organized pushback. No, that's how bad you are. Democrats think everything is a psyop towards them without, and that allows them to dodge accountability for the positions that they hold.

So again They had Democrat voters Voting for Republicans Because Democrats were straight up freaks They were offering no economic solutions Nothing with regard to actually making it Legitimately fairer trade They had no idea You couldn't count on them To do anything about inflation Because they thought inflation didn't exist They were telling you It was a figment of your imagination They're freaks So people were like wow Looking around before they went to vote They're looking at the high prices They're looking at everything You know I think we're going to have to vote normal It was the normie election All the normies went out and they're like We're tired of the freaks We don't want our third graders Reading about pegging in school We're done You know what Kane How crazy can I just pause That actually was in a book And it was in a book in a library down the road from where we live. No joke. It was a mom who first brought it up. But how bad is it? Cane's recoiling because I said it, but that was okay in a literal public school, elementary library.

You see what I'm saying? Like what in the world? That's my whole point to illustrate the absurdity of what they were holding as priority. It's insane. They're freaks.

So people rebelled against that. They rebelled against the burn loop murder that they saw all throughout the summer. They rebelled against these college brats with their anti-Semitic slogans and their anti-Semitic protests on college campuses. And it wasn't just protest. There's protest which protects even the most offensive speech.

And then there's what we saw where Jewish students were literally physically bullied away from going to temple and congregating. And I mean, they were hunted on college campuses. And we know this because the people doing it gleefully posted the footage of them doing it like it was a big win.

So that's not up for debate. People saw this and they were done. And then Democrats go, oh, well, you know what? We clearly need to do more of that. That's what this is.

Do you realize how stupid it looks if they show up tonight and they go full on what's her face? Crockett. Gosh, poor Davy Crockett. Jasmine Crockett ought to change her name. She's doing that name wrong.

Can you imagine? I mean, not even AOC has gone full Crockett. And not even the cool Miami Vice Crockett again. We're just, you know, for clarification on the Crocketts. I mean, not even AOC has gone that far, which should scare you.

And their idea is, yo, let's get some noisemakers and some signs. And let's do all of this stuff that drove away voters. and let's actually put it front and center on national TV to protest a very popular president right now. That'll work great for us. It'll pay dividends.

I mean, go ahead and let them do it. I like the idea of having, I think you need competition. Success requires competition I firmly believe this And like legitimate competition And when you have a Democrat party that is so unhealthy it I mean I sorry but it a bunch of freaks and people who can't do math. Anti-Semites, freaks, and mathematically challenged people. That's what that party is.

And, oh, and cosplayers, dudes, you want to be chicks. When you have a party that is so unhealthy that they can be distilled down to just those descriptors. And you know that, I mean, you can't really argue against that. I feel like it allows the Republicans to run rampant. And I like winning on conservative principles.

And by conservative, I mean conserving individual liberty in the face of an ever-expanding government. They need that contrast. They need something to be able to contrast their positions with to show how much better they are When you don't have that good check and balance With healthy parties Then you get a party that's like Yeah, maybe a little cronyism is okay Yeah, that's how it works Yeah, a little cronyism, just a little bit You know, never hurt nobody And then it goes from there, you know what I mean So I think it's incredibly healthy To have that balance Now they're wrong And that's okay so long as they're normal This isn't normal And now it's making the right to be a little bit Not normal because the right can just you know there's no check and balance what the right can do whatever and the left is like well we're too much of a freak to do anything so shrug you see what i'm saying i i you you need to be able to have that contrast i don't know that's just my perspective on it but to do this at the the congressional address tonight that who what was it someone one of them said that it's going to be nothing but a maga rally but why is it the view who is obsessed with the nakedness can i just go back to that. Why was it the view who was saying they should storm out naked? Yeah.

I don't think that I want to hear a group of questionably fit advanced ladies. Chronologically advanced ladies talk about nakedness. Very politically correct. Again, freaks. See, total freaks.

I thought it was very classy how I said it. And they are chronically or chronologically advanced, Cain. If you looked at it as like a scale of age, they're a little bit on the other side. And I'm not hating for that. I'm just saying maybe don't obsess about people being naked in the State of the Union.

That's, again, freak. Stop. Just stop being freaks. No one has told them that yet. There hasn't been a single Democrat who's looked at them.

They just said, you need to talk about these issues. But not even Carver none of these people have gone and looked at everybody and said you know what stop being freaks just stop it be normal and it doesn't help when you've got Republicans out there we're going to talk about some of this stuff with Russia and can we also talk about the glow-ups that some of these dudes are experiencing so Kane just shared with me video of Mike Pompeo I mean I'm all for people getting healthy but like he's like Al Sharpton now. Mike Pompeo has lost all of his weight. I liked Al Sharpton better when he was fat. And he wore them jumpsuits.

He did seem more jolly. Yeah, I mean he just seems, I think if you're skinny and mean, you're bitter. If you're fat and mean, it can be kind of funny. I don't know. I think it's just a have you seen him?

like his it just his skin hangs off him i mean dude you gotta like work out and get some muscle if you're dropping that weight i mean i'm not saying that he looks bad but you know but pompeo looks like a completely like he lost an entire person of weight the whole reason that you even posted this clip i should say is because he was saying that everybody wants to cease fire except for vladimir putin and that putin can't be rewarded for his aggression i don't think that you're anybody's i don't think that people are going into this with the explicit aim to well Let's reward Putin. I think people are going into it with the expressed intent of let's like reward ourselves and not spend any more taxpayer dollars on unaccountable things, particularly when we are on a precipice economically. Like I just feel like that that's the way it should be looked at. Not everything is but Putin. What is the obsession?

Everything is every it's all Russia and Putin. This has not changed. No one dares talk about the Chinese, though. Oh, my gosh. I mean, well, you know, Democrats talk to them in bed.

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Oh, shut up. And I don't say that lightly. Who's this freak? You said it lightly. I say it lightly.

Somebody got a thesaurus. Oh, you don't even know what these words mean. How is it genocide? First off, you can be trans all you want to. Go be trans somewhere else, though, not on women's sports teams.

Bullying is what you're doing to bully these women into altering, I mean, every rule that they've incorporated into governing these teams since the inception of women's sports teams. And you're bullying them to change that. You know what? Women didn't bully dudes back. Women created their own leagues.

So you could at least ball up and be as half as tough as the women that you're trying to pretend to be and create your own leagues. Thank you. Not hard, gents. Not hard. Definitely.

Now, that being said, go be a freak somewhere else. I saw this story from ABC News. It says the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, they're encouraging House Republicans to do more virtual events over in-person town halls.

Now, I don't know how accurate that story is because it's all sources say and you know how I feel about that. But I will say this. We do know that a couple of these were absolutely astroturfed. And I made the point that the Soros astroturf against these Republican lawmakers, It is such a cheap imitation of the very real grassroots, the uprising during the early Tea Party days in 2009. The difference is that the Tea Party town halls were real.

They were they were real. They were comprised of people who actually lived in the district, whereas these others are not. There are people who are at these events and they're like, we've never seen these people. I mean, you live in a tiny town and you have people that you've never seen and giant buses. I mean, you know, yeah, it's a pretty astroturf.

But they're they're desperately trying to figure out some way to pierce the Republican Party. And they haven't been able to figure it out yet. And so far, everything is failing. Like people are happy with how Trump is handling Ukraine. What they're going to try to hurt Trump on is the economy.

And we're going to talk about this coming up in the second hour. And they think that tariffs are the way to do it. They think that tariffs are the way to go after the crown jewel that's in Trump's, you know, elected crown, the economy. And they think that by way of going through that and you want to talk about spreading misinformation. There you go.

They think this is the way to do it. We're going to discuss this as well. We'll also get into, again, we've got the address tonight. Trump invited a volleyball player hurt by a trans opponent. Invited to the address tonight.

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Mr. President, just to follow up on my colleague's question. And just so you understand, vast amounts of fentanyl have poured into our country from from Mexico. And as you know, also from China, where it goes to Mexico and goes to Canada. and China also had an additional 10.

So it's 10 plus 10. And it comes in from Canada and it comes in from Mexico. And that's a very important thing to say. Yeah, please go ahead.

So I'm just saying, it's just going to make it. I understand using tariffs as a way to try to redirect behavior. And I get that whole, you know, I get it. It makes everybody nervous though. It does.

It makes people nervous.

Some of the misinformation makes people nervous. Like everyone was trying to say like World War II, whatever, Smoot-Hawley contributed to that. That wasn't even signed in until like months after World War II actually for us kicked off.

So I feel like that that's a lame deflection. Welcome back. Dana Lash, top of the second hour. and this uh well we i mean we knew that this was we i i i feel like the right is really divided on tariffs and then in addition to that we've got the government shutdown coming uh and well i think it's 10 days now right yesterday was the 11 day and this is all important because I think we're, you know, a lot of people are going to be over spring break and we might have a government shutdown.

So plan accordingly. You know, if you're going to like monuments or something. It's, I do believe that there, that this has been used as a tactic to get a favorable outcome for the United States.

However, the, it's not something that you can maintain. This is not something that you're able to, I don't think you're going to be able to drag it out for it.

Well, definitely they won't be able to last as long as the United States.

So it is, we'll watch and see, because look what happened with like Colombia and these other countries. This got resolved pretty quickly. But in the meantime, we have $7 trillion in government spending. We have a $2 trillion deficit. We've got a $29 trillion GDP and the exports to Canada, that's only a couple...

Now, I don't mean to downplay the amount of money I'm about to say, but that's like what? It's over $300 billion. Yeah, $350 billion.

Okay. All of the other trillion dollar stuff that I mentioned is way more. I just don't think... With Canada, I don't think we're going to be affected. I don't think we're going to be affected by Mexico.

I just don't think we're going to be affected, not in the way that they are.

So it's not a game that they can win. And I think that using this as leverage to get a more favorable outcome for the United States is exactly why you have to be able to make hard decisions. We'll see. But I completely understand the nervousness that so many are explaining on social media. I get the nervousness from investors.

I get the nervousness from Wall Street. I get it. I'm willing to give benefit of the doubt and watch it and have it play out a little bit. But what is the alternative? The alternative is to continue suffering from a completely uncontained border and be treated unfairly by people who call us friends and then trade with us unfairly.

I feel like I'm a godfather here. How are you calling me a friend? And then you're doing me this way It really feels like that, right?

So what's the alternative? We just take it and keep going And keep enduring it Because we have to Because we're the United States And we're more successful So we just have to take the penalty Excuse my Portuguese But quite frankly, blank that No I don't see what's so bad about saying You've got to treat us fairly It's about time because it's having a negative impact cumulatively. It's about time that you trade us fairly. I don't know why the right is so divided on this, Kane, but this is what the left is going to use to exploit it. If I were the left, I absolutely would.

I'd be like, ooh, there's some daylight here. Let's make Trump look fiscally irresponsible. Because didn't everybody say the same thing with Colombia and some of these other maneuvers that he's made? Look, sometimes Aggressive moves are scary But Sometimes they're required No one said this was going to be easy I don't recall Trump running on easy 2024 Do you, Kane? Was it easy peasy lemon squeezy 2024?

No, sir, it was not It was not none of this is going to be easy. We've told you this before, that this is going to be hard. I've been saying this since the Tea Party days, and people don't believe me. In order to get this under control, I don't think people understand really how much of an edge we're on fiscally. In order to get this under control, there are going to be some cuts made.

Now, I do understand people like my mother, you know, Social Security, you know, she's a retiree. I understand that because that's your money that you paid in. And I don't think that anyone should call money that was taken from your check forcibly, not through your own will, by the government to safeguard it, I don't think that that should be termed or described as an entitlement. You should get all of your money back and that's pretty much it.

So there's no cuts to be made in that regard. But there are a lot of cuts to be made elsewhere and a lot of people are very upset over quote unquote services. I hear all about these magical services.

Well, guess what? Your government doesn't exist to provide you solely with happiness and to make sure that you have everything that's you at some point you got to claim ownership of this and a lot of people they only want to go so far on this path to austerity and then when it affects them or compromises them in any way they don't want to do it but that's what it takes this is the difference i mean good heavens i back in the day go read about the founding fathers and everything that the patriots went through and how they lost everything many of them most of them in order to create this more perfect union i mean if you have to lose some service at their and the services that they're talking about i'm not talking about social security or things of that you know like that things where you what you pay into but a lot of other services they don't need to be something that's federally governed they really don't so this is a i mean it's a it's a i think that's one of the things that's really promoting a little bit of division on the right. And then you hear the stories of people losing jobs, federal jobs, et cetera. And there's a lot of discontent with that. And I think that there's a lot of back and forth with some folks on the right over that.

And again, I always say I default to the taxpayer. You know, taxpayers have been kicked around. They've been treated pretty poorly. They've been overtaxed and overburdened and stressed out. They didn't, none of us received the return on the investment of our tax dollars during COVID years when government was enforcing imminent domain seizure of economic activity.

No one was, no one was lamenting or crying over the loss of jobs in the private sector when people are laid off. Nobody cries over that. Not in the private sector for sure. because there's this, for a lot of us, it appears like there is a clear preference baked into the debate, that somehow you're holier if it's a public sector as opposed to a private sector. Can you get that saying?

I don't feel like that's a sensitive remark. I feel like that's kind of how it is. Doesn't it feel like there's this level of sanctity that's baked in to the debate as it pertains to public sector? Like they have to get treated in a different, more favorable way than private sector. That's unfair.

We're not at the table. They're playing with our money. Right.

So there's, I think that that consideration for the taxpayer, I don't think that's been explored or stated enough.

Now, a few other things to touch on here. Actually, I lost my sheet. Here it is. The Trump addresses tonight, we were talking about Democrats and some of the ways that they wanted to, I guess, try to sabotage some of this. Have you seen the response that's going to be delivered by Democrats?

I don't know how many responses there are going to be. One of the responses is going to be by Representative Latifah Simon. I don't know. There's probably going to be a million. Doesn't Bernie always do one for the socialist bros?

Think he has one that AOC can't resist. He'll have the independent, right? The independent response? Oh, yeah. I love how people call themselves independent simultaneously while asking for more government intervention.

It's so fabulous. But the invite list, let me pull this up. It's always interesting to see who's invited, right, to these events.

So Trump is inviting a volleyball player who was seriously hurt by a dude who was playing on the women's team. I don't know if you remember 19-year-old Peyton McNabb, who was left with a traumatic brain injury after a dude who insisted on playing volleyball as a female, yeeted a volleyball right into her brain, right into her head. She was 17 years old at the time. Her high school girls volleyball team was facing off against another team And the other team had a male who wanted to pretend to be a woman on their team And during the match the male spiked a ball right into McNabb's head daily collar is a big story She was unconscious for 30 seconds And then she was severely injured she was left with a brain bleed Traumatic brain injury partial paralysis and loss of all peripheral vision on her right side and she was there of course when president trump signed that bill she's apparently going to get a shout out tonight during his when he touches on his eo about prohibiting biological men from participating in women's sports. And so think of it, her life is forever changed.

She said that she, you know, because she's been working very, very hard to raise awareness of this. And there are other women, I think it's insane that they have to fight that hard just to protect themselves and protect their sports. But she, I mean, she was irreparably injured by this. I mean, how do you go back to being an athlete. 17 years old, you're in high school.

You know, what about your chances of scoring an athletic scholarship? Even people, no one's saying she's going to be a pro volleyball player, but do you realize how many people get their tuition paid for because they go and play sports just at the college level? Maybe they don't want to go pro, but they're good enough to get their school paid for or to get some kind of scholarship.

So she's expected to get a shout out tonight. I think that's incredibly smart to have that, to have her there.

So it should be interesting. I think I might watch just for the outbursts alone. Like I usually watch these, you know, as per my job. But sometimes I have to make a special effort if there's a lot of things going on. But I just think I want to watch just for the outbursts alone, Kane.

Do you think they're really going to do that? Do you think, because who's babysitting these freaks on the left. You're telling me there is not an elder statesman who tells them, OK, can we please just not do this in front of the American public? Do you see these cameras? It's going to go everywhere.

Everybody just rejected us for being freaks. Can you not do this right now? You do it later. People were talking about bringing eggs in for what? For what?

This is so stupid. To symbolize Joe Biden's failures. Oh, geez. Eggheads. We have more on the way.

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They said the tariffs would cost about $1,200 a year, the typical U.S. household. I want to talk about this because my only issue, I have two things to bring up about the tariffs. I think you use them as a leverage, but it's not sustainable. But number two, if Republicans continue to sit on their asses and they do not pass anything, no actual Doge recommended cuts, no reduced spending, they will have created a storm.

And I question as to whether or not they doing it on purpose to yoke him with the full blame for it We talk about that more Dow tumbled more than 600 points S 500 post biggest loss since December All hinged on tariffs. Car prices poised for a $12,000 surge because of the tariffs. And again, Chipotle. Who eats a Chipotle? People eat here, right?

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We're in very strong position to defy what is the norm. It's not traditionally expected for a new president to pick up seats in that first two-year midterm for his party. But we are going to grow the majority next year, and we have a great plan to do that. Hmm. I don't know what plan he has to grow the majority next year, because so far you ain't doing it, Mr.

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The reason I say that's not happening is because so far the house has not moved nearly as fast as they need to in order to, again, I'll say a million times, you need to actually pass legitimate cuts. You incorporate what's recommended about from the doge cuts, incorporate those, and immediately you've got to cut spending. You have to. I don't care what narrative they're worried about. If you don't do that You will lose You will lose Everybody knows midterms is coming Believe me, they know midterms are coming They know They know when the filing deadlines are The more that you consistently talk about Planning for midterms Instead of doing what you're doing right now The more you put it in people's heads That midterms are coming up And already some people There's a difference I bet the polls would be astounding The difference in terms of approval for Trump And approval for congressional members Republicans Because What Trump is doing what he's supposed to be doing But he has to be able to have Congress Step up as well And the tariff Proposal is a major gamble It is a major gamble A major one Especially with where we are In the timeline of elections And with a looming recession The inflation this is something we were all talking about on break everybody is affected by it if you can use it as leverage get a favorable outcome that's that's the whole intention and i think that's trump's purpose but and yes i agree you got a balanced trade but keep in mind democrats suddenly have absolved themselves of any culpability in terms of the high prices of goods they've absolved themselves of an inflation that they said didn't exist until the day that Joe Biden left office and then suddenly it magically was here.

Just Trump by taking the oath of office apparently shot up inflation. I mean, it's so stupid. They're going to work overtime to go at him over his key signature issue, the economy. And they're going to be successful if Republicans can't point to cuts and say, we cut this in spending while this was going on to balance the trade deficit. We were able to do this.

So you might, this might increase, but it's offset by this. Republicans have to be better messengers of it. Here's the other, can I just point out a bad thing about Trump in the White House? A bad thing about Trump in power. He is a communicator.

And he's very effective as a communicator. And as a result, I really do believe that a lot of Republicans feel as though he can just carry the weight of messaging because of that. And that's bad because now you have a bunch of non-messaging, you have a bunch of non-communicators that you need to implement your agenda and they can't even speak about it, much less act upon it. And, you know, Mike Johnson's got to prove that Republicans are worth keeping around after midterms. Don't make them.

Don't mistake it. Every single independent moderate person who is a Democrat who went over and voted for Republicans this last go around. This is the question they are going to be asking themselves. Did it improve? Where did it improve?

Did it improve by how much it was promised? voters are fickle and they will remember this republicans have to get it together they're not going to win nothing as as you know what doesn't help stuff like this can i can i point out and i'm trying not to be mean but i saw this and i'm like you got to be kidding me what so there's a couple of congress people from texas and obviously i think that they're very aware of the deficit. They're very aware that Americans are super taxed. They're aware of all these things. We don't have a balanced budget.

We're going to do government's going to shut down in 10 days unless we do another CR. And it's going to be the continuing resolution that was passed through the house is the exact one that just continues for the next fiscal year. Joe Biden's exact same level of spending. There's nothing different in it.

So you would think that we got a lot of stuff to incorporate the no tax on tips permanence of 2017 tax cuts. And instead, some congressional members from Texas have decided this is the time to focus on changing the $100 bill. Who is on the $100 bill? One of the co-sponsors is a Texas Republican, Troy Nels. The other is Dinesh D'Souza's son-in-law who just got his seat and he introduced the measure.

Republican Brandon Gill. It's titled the Golden Age Act of 2025. And it said, Gill said in a statement, quote, there's been no one who's done more to bring America into the golden age than President Trump. Featuring him on the $100 bill is a small way to honor all he will accomplish these next four years. Let's make history.

There's a problem here. And I really feel like it's kind of embarrassing that it wasn't actually known before this was proposed. You can't put a living person on a U.S. banknote. That's been law since the 1860s.

So you can't have a person living be the visage on currency. And also I feel like that's a move that you do at the end of the presidency When all of the stuff that you wanted to accomplish is accomplished or at least three quarters of it We don't have time for this And pushing something like this when we are on the edge of a knife economically Is miles wide and inches deep. I feel like it's just cheap a cheap ploy for favor and I just was disappointed with us. To do this after we get things accomplished. We don't have time to mess with us right now.

And you can sit here and say, yes, but they can do more than, can they? Because they haven't been able to. Republicans can't walk and chew gum at the same time, much less juggle several different pieces of legislation and try to persuade each other to pass more cuts. We'd have to be printing a whole bunch of other we'd have to make a whole bunch of new money that's going to cost I mean, are we not actually talking about reducing the cost of this? There's a cost I just think it's dumb.

This is like what you would propose if you were a senior in high school Not even that I get that gill owes his entire career to trump and he would not have gotten his seat had it not been financed by And I don't mean to be mean but it's very nepotistic very nepotistic and you know, that's fine Do the job. I don't care. Do a good job and I'm fine. But this kind of stuff, we don't have time for it. And what makes me even more disappointed is that he comes from a solid red district.

You should be leading the charge on serious stuff because you have the insulation of a deep red electorate to protect you.

So to do something like this, as opposed to proposing some of the more serious cuts, it seems to me you don't understand your purpose. Republicans that are from the solid red districts, they can take the chance with some of the more aggressive proposals, and they should be taking that chance. Not doing clickbait stuff that's just designed to win you more personal favor, but does literally nothing for voters.

So, I don't know. Joe Wilson, by the way, he said he was preparing legislation for a new 250 bill. I'm like, can we just like maybe, I don't know, have inflation go away? Again, this is stuff that you do after. Do it as like, you know, a spike, spike in the football at the end of it, but not now.

Now, this is like, This all goes into what I'm saying. Moderates and independents and people that are part of the coalition, they see this stuff. And this is where Republicans have to realize that their electorate has changed. Do not make the mistake that Republicans did in 2012 and think that the lay of the land is still the same. Republicans in 2012 were campaigning like W was running again.

They were oblivious. And it's one of the reasons why they had their backsides handed to them. I don't want Republicans to make the same mistake. Like this, the Republican Party and a coalition are two different things. The Republican Party is hardcore.

I am not a party animal. I go where issues go. I really don't like parties. I don't like, I don't like the jockeying. I don't like it.

I'm just averse to it. But, and there are a lot of people in the coalition that are very similar in nature to me with that. You have the party and then you have the coalition. And these are very two different things. Republicans are not factoring in the coalition with a lot of the decision making as of late the coalition the people who came because they wanted lower grocery prices and they didn't want dudes on their on their daughter sports teams they didn't want any of that they just wanted sanity they're expecting delivery on that sanity and so far we've seen Republicans argue over the stuff in the bathrooms which is fine just do it you don't have to make it into a three-week PR vehicle or the Epstein thing that didn't, that was nothing but a PR vehicle.

That's all it was. We don't need PR vehicles. We need action. And these people in the middle that we need for the coalition are going to see all of this and they're going to wonder, okay, that's great. Why has this cost not gone down?

Why do I still have high taxes? Why is there nothing being cut after finding out that all of this waste, fraud, and abuse with like one entity, USAID, This is all our tax dollars. They're going to see that and they're going to revolt. And Republicans will have earned their their mistake. I don't want to see it.

But I also feel like they really don't give a damn about listening to anything to the contrary. I look at them and I'm like, do they want to lose? And I'm sorry. Actually, I'm not sorry. I'm not apologizing for this.

I'm not I'm not going to rah-rah cheer them when I don't feel like they're doing everything that they need to do. They are not living up to the full potential that they have, nor are they living up to the expectation from voters. I don't I don't want to go back to losing again. And I am trying to be as serious about this as possible. This is a big problem and it's got to get fixed.

Republicans have to get this done. I'm so tired of the excuses. I'm so tired of the, oh, well, we don't have a big enough majority. Do you know how often I've heard that? Oh, we don't have a big enough majority in the House.

I have heard that my whole life. Oh, we don't have. What was the excuse? I mean, we've got the Senate, the White House and the House right now. That's what voters will know Voters are not going to know the margin By which Republicans have them They just know that Republicans have them And Republicans have to stop using that As an excuse for their cowardice So Trump's success hinges on these people And I'm looking at them And I have no confidence We have a lot more on the way Native Path Collagen delivers the two most essential collagen types that your body needs to support strong bones and flexible joints.

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Okay, so let's try to get through these. A Florida man was accused of having cocaine. He texted the homeowner about a baggie on a nightstand while being trespassed. Holmes County, Florida. He is accused of unintentionally setting himself up to be arrested after he sent a text message about leaving behind his cocaine baggie in a home that he was asked to leave.

Yeah, no joke, right? Hunter's like, where's the cocaine now? The Holmes County Sheriff's Office say they responded to a call for service on Friday about having Christopher Newton removed and trespassed from a home. While on scene, he texted the homeowner that he left a baggie on the nightstand. Deputies got consent.

They searched the room and they found a cocaine bag. A little baggie of cocaine. And so he was, you know, got in trouble for that on top of it. I mean, I know that's not a surprise, but why would you, I don't know why you would do anything like that. Let's see, this woman, women are very particular about their cooking.

And this Florida woman, I like how it's Coral Springs talk. Woman was arrested for stabbing her boyfriend after he refused to eat her cooking. Man, she looks all manner of smug in her mugshot. Dang. She was arrested and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend because he would not eat what she had cooked.

Her name is Navida August, and she's 43. I, no. This broad is lying about her age, straight up. No, I don't believe you.

So she was trying to hide in the bushes of a neighboring building when the cops showed up They met with the victim. He said that he was arguing with her his girlfriend And he did not want to eat her cooking and she slapped him while he was sitting in the living room He confronted her about it and then she grabbed an eight-inch kitchen knife off the counter and started slashing at him He raised his arms got a two-inch laceration And then at the moment he was stabbed a witness called 9-1-1 She fled was found hiding in a bush. They took her into custody without incident The other guy had to get stitched up They took the knife into custody So she's in Broward County Jail She hasn't bonded out But dang Just eat her cooking You know I mean Well I mean what is it Disbarred Miami attorney Gave an Irish pub as his address It's the old Dublin or Irish pub and kitchen In downtown Miami It was This has gone on for a year But now he's like apparently going to court but uh the his name is no his daryl bobby fenton daryl bobby we're going daryl bobby wait how is that your name because bobby's a nickname you don't get to have two nicknames that's just stop uh so anyway the uh they they were investigating this guy they visited uh his bar address like like literally like what you state with this your the address that you have registered with the state they didn't find it on an apartment or home but the uh they did find uh the irish pub that's what he listed as this his address thought that was kind of entertaining uh and let's see this oh uh a half-baked and half exposed pizza customer arrested for exposing himself at stoner's pizza in florida he stoned And he exposed himself at Stoner's Pizza. Louder police. Stick with us.

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Go back to South Africa What? What? Who is this lady? This is Democrat representative Nydia Velasquez And She sounds like a racist She's telling him to go back to South Africa I feel like You know that Mean Girls thing When Lindsay Lewin's character is like Yeah I'm from South Africa And then the other chick goes Well why are you white? uh does she oh my gosh this is democrats welcome back to the program top of this third hour i thought they they don't like him i guess they don't like immigrants that's the big i guess you know if you listen to them talk this i have to say this is one thing that i get really aggravated about and i've even heard it in my own church and i get really mad when I hear it.

I think particularly in church, the preacher has the responsibility biblically to be very, very clear and articulate when discussing an issue and not be reckless with one's words. And whenever I hear this discussion of immigration, I realize that, well, and you need to realize too, the first battle is the language. And if you lose the language, you're going to lose the rest of the argument. You have to control the meaning of words and keep that word definitions what they are. The left has, over the past 20 years, reconstituted or reconfigured, rather, the word immigrant to mean not just people who came in legally and did everything the right way, but people who sneak across the border or got here as part of human, whatever.

illegal immigration and immigration are two entirely different things just like stealing is entirely different from making a purchase very different but people keep conflating them purposefully the left continues to say things like just immigrant and they leave out the legal status for a reason and just last sunday you know i was you know listening to what was you know otherwise a good sermon. And the pastor mentioned immigration and said that there was some disappointment in hearing some people who were Christians talk about immigration the way they were. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up. First off, don't give me anecdotal nonsense because this is too serious of an issue.

If you're going to cast someone as having a moral failing from the pulpit, you need to be explicitly clear. Number two, by not using the clear distinctions of illegal immigration and immigration, you are, it seems purposeful to conflate the two issues so as to lead the congregation to a false impression. Like if they criticize illegal entry, then somehow they're committing a sin. And I don't agree with that either. I think it's incredibly disingenuous.

And I think that it's irresponsible, it's reckless, and it's malicious, especially when there is a clear difference. And anyone with more than one brain cell to rub together would complete, would understand this and make sure that their words reflected thus. And that's the problem I have with stuff like this when I hear it from the left. Oh, immigration, he should go back.

Well, he did everything correctly. He came here the right way. Who are you to say otherwise? Who are you to attack and criticize? I mean, I would definitely say that I find Elon Musk, his skill set, infinitely more valuable than I do.

Checks notes. Nydia Velasquez. Can you tell me what she does? Does anybody know her? No.

No. She's out of New York and she chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus or did for a while a few years ago. No idea. I mean, it's just unfortunate. And I don't think that she's, you know, she went to university.

She went and got a degree in political science. And then right after she went and got a degree in political science, she decided that she was going to go into elected office and be a basically glorified welfare.

So she's been there for a long time. She provided zero value to us here So I just I don know I major issues with this language I also think that the right got to get all their stuff together as to the tariffs Don you think, Cain, that this is just, I think I feel as of right now that this is just Trump using this as leverage. And you do have to balance trade deficit. I understand that you want to have more amenable treatment. You want to have more, I mean, don't call it fair trade if we're getting punished and we're getting penalized for being the United States.

Everybody loves to use these buzzwords like fair trade, etc. But unless it runs equally, then it's not. The problem is, though, what if it doesn't work and everybody digs in? I mean, granted, we're going to outlast Canada and Mexico, but at what cost? You don't want it to be a Führig victory.

At what cost? Things are going to get more expensive before they get cheaper. And that's an accurate way to put that, Kanye. I don't think you would disagree with that.

So then the problem becomes, what do Americans do in the meantime before they wait for that to. To average out. That's the issue. I hope that the president speaks to that at his address tonight. And I hope that they're I think they need I think he needs to immediately lead with it and come on strong and be an assure Americans and know on certain terms.

and far from using the pulpit as or the dais as a as a rally point I hope that he really goes after some of these lawmakers that are holding up implementation of the agenda we voted for I want him to go after the Lindsey Graham's and say you're not going to be spending and adding trillions to the deficit I want him to go after some of these other Republicans who want to engage and fart around with all this other stuff, and they want to clout chase, but they don't actually want to propose real and lasting cuts and fix the exorbitant inflation. He needs to do that. He's got the influence, and he needs to use it before it starts to erode as midterms approach.

So we'll see how this goes. I know that you have people like Rand Paul who are saying he's already warning about more expensive home construction, more expensive vehicles. And that's to be expected. He said retaliatory tariffs lead to lower lowered U.S. farm exports, lowered bourbon exports, less international shipping.

And they are. I mean, their tariffs are taxes. And when you do tax trade, I mean, you're going to get less of what you tax. uh that's kind of you know how it works but um this um we have to have improved treatment though i mean they we we i mean they pretty much tax us already i mean we have tariffs levied against us already so why do are we the ones who have to say no we we're not gonna we're not gonna do that in return we are going to accept the unfair uh economically disadvantageous treatment We should probably all of the things that are going to increase in price These are things that were allowed we should we should be making ourselves U.S. steel U.S.

lumber U.S. aluminum U.S. vehicle manufacturing All of that, but you know, it's it's unfair to say you have to take these hits And be penalized and no one else can no one else can can do anything about it that's a problem.

So we'll watch and see. But Republicans need to get it together. They so desperately need to get it together. What are you expecting from the address tonight, Cain? Besides, you know, the eggs.

I think there'll be, because I don't think the media has given him a fair shake as to all the accomplishments since January 20th. And I think that he'll probably list those in a State of the Union-style address.

so I'm expecting at least that and I'm hoping some talk on taxes as well because I think outside of the spending that we're doing and the tariff issue taxes are a big deal are they going to be permanent? those tax cuts from 2017 so that type of stuff I'm expecting from him the I the tariffs that Canada have on us and that Mexico have on us and the unfair treatment those are pretty significant yeah so how long do people just expect for us to you know they're not going to help out with the border we're going to be punished for being the U.S. and yet we're the bad guys by saying oh you didn't you didn't talk with us about ending this so now we're going to retaliate this we're not the aggressor that's retaliatory what we're doing so why is that never mentioned that's so nonsense it's nonsense yes i feel like you're like it is absolute nonsense i agree with you 100 so why are we the bad guy if we're retaliating and this is a response to that unequal treatment why are we the bad guys because trump is at the helm oh for crying out loud. I mean, that's literally the reason. But they always say, oh, our neighbors to the south or our neighbors to the north, our friends.

I mean, I don't know friends who levy financial penalties on their other, their friends as a way to offset their heinous economic policies and bolster their economy. I don't know. I don't know friends who do that. And it's a smart move on Trump's part to do the reciprocal tariffs because what that's going to do is if the countries who are now complaining about tariffs, all they have to do is lower their tariffs and then U.S. will lower theirs in a reciprocal manner.

It's literally encouraging the lowering of tariffs across the world. And yes, there's going to be a temporary time where the countries, and we're seeing it now with Canada, that they're being retaliatory. That will change once they understand reciprocal Tariffs means that if you lower yours on us, we lower ours on yours. It's pretty simple. I mean, I'm just looking at, and you can find this actually on Canadian websites.

I'm just looking at how many things that we send them that are taxed. And we're talking about 25%. I mean, some of this stuff is triple digits, the percentage by which we're taxed, the tariffs on those products. Yeah, I think everybody needs to take a breath. But however, that said, Republicans have got to have a plan.

And this address, I hope Trump doesn't turn it into just like a rally because he really needs to take advantage of having all the Republicans there and the American people and say, look, I'm trying to do this. But I need these people to step up and I need your help in holding them accountable if they don't. He needs to send that message.

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So a man was locked in a Monroe storage unit and had was called 911 days later. I don't know how you days later. he was freed following a fight with his girlfriend Monroe Police Department they released this 911 call it was they haven't repubblically identified him but he was locked in a storage unit for like a week he said I was locked in a storage unit for a week and he says just now found my phone and then the 911 operator goes so you're locked in a storage unit yeah that's what he just said He said his girlfriend locked him in there She doubled up his lock He doesn't know how But they were actually able to extract him But the unit was dark and full So he wasn't able to find his phone That's why he got shut in there with no lights Just real quick Have you ever had your phone Even if you haven't looked at it or touched it For a week and it has power If it was on I don't know about a week I've got some questions Yeah we all have questions Yeah, it does sound a little sketch, right? A little sus. A pet store goldfish survived winter conditions in Lake Erie, and they're now growing to enormous sizes.

I actually kind of want a big, giant fat goldfish, to be honest with you. U.S. Fish and Wildlife, they posted a statement warning fish owners of releasing goldfish into Lake Erie. Like, the guy's got to hold it with two hands. That's how big they are.

They said that after a few years in the wild, they're huge. They're not supposed to be there.

Someone released it and they created now an invasive problem that can last decades. They, I mean, these goldfish, it said they can turn lakes and waterways into murky messes. They breed super fast. They steal the food of native species of fish. They degrade the water quality and they completely spread disease.

They said if you can't keep your fish, rehome it. That's wild to me. I want a big dumpy looking goldfish. Like the one that Juan's showing you on the simulcast, 203.47. Chats at Rumble.

I want a big dumpy looking goldfish It's the size of a giant bluegill Right? How huge is it? I wonder if they're good eating when they get that size I've never eaten goldfish I don't know I think they're a carp type fish So it's probably bony and not that great I don't understand how they make it murky The water Like as opposed to other fish that don't make it murky So they're just messy sloppy fish Probably has to do with poop Maybe, I don't know I'm fascinated by this Let's see Oh, there is.

Okay. There's a booze free bar in a New York City neighborhood where people sip zero proof cocktails and play. This sounds like hell.

Well, I mean, you know what? You don't have to go to a bar. I don't understand the whole thing of trying to avoid a bar. But then you go to a bar and you drink like copycat alcoholic. I just don't get that.

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Now, President Zelensky supposedly made a statement today in AP. I'm not a big fan of AP, so maybe it was an incorrect statement. But he said he thinks the war is going to go on for a long time. And he better not be right about that. That's all I'm saying.

And it looks like he's Zelensky is crawling back and saying, oh, I am sorry, my bad. Should not have said, huh? No, not yet. but he he needs to uh he's apparently offered uh i guess they're he's saying yes i'll take this you know take the deal he missed you know he i guess he's now realizes how badly he misread this whole thing you're not a diplomat though that's this is the problem when you're a cosplayer you do what zelinski did and i don't think that i think his attempt to try to win over all of these other leaders wasn't very successful because even you know in the uk they were nudging him to take this deal and now you any and all aid to ukraine was suspended increasing it isn't a popular position in europe i mean it is but they don't want to actually be the ones to do it they want to be generous with the united states's money they're like yes how how dare you not how dare you not have more aids you must give ukraine some aid and then when the U.S. says, no, we're actually kind of broke.

You guys need to step up. Oh, no, they can't do it. They I mean, they they've struggled to even just give what, 2% of their GDP to their own defenses for NATO. I don't know. I mean, the U.S., we provide all the logistical support for NATO.

And then we act like we're just doing our part and everyone's doing it equally because we give command of what we bring over to foreign military people. No. So adding more aid to Ukraine is also super unpopular with other Europeans. Again, they all just want to do it with our money and we can't do it. And we need to not have mission creep and we need to have some more assurances.

So we'll see. but i guess he's announcing all of that tonight at the uh the address i mean that is if he can i'm curious to see how how badly democrats are going to behave as to whether or not trump can even you know get words out of his mouth we'll see i don't think they're i i don't think they'll shut him down can you share with me a photo of tens of protesters outside the capital oh yeah they're they're calling for trump's impeachment where we haven't heard that ever for what for doing the president's job being trump we don't like trump because he's trump what do you want to impeach him for we like don't even know tariffs wait what yeah we're going to impeach him over tariffs but he has the authority to actually do this although i know that some of the capital l's are saying he doesn't have the constitutional authority to do it i think that's a different debate uh however he does have the authority to use things use this sort of uh I guess, power granted to him by voters to make some of these moves.

So I, you know, I don't know. I don't know. The address is going to really be, I think, put everything in context tonight. I mean, how is he supposed to maneuver foreign policy as it pertains to trade? Clearly, Congress is not on the same page as he is.

Otherwise they would be working as fast And they would have they'd be able to bolster what he's doing I mean I just We're checking to see Of our quote unquote friends Who actually is our friend I think that's a That's not too myopic of a way to put it I feel like that's pretty accurate Who is who is truly our friend And look, I get the hesitancy. We'll talk more about it this week. I get it. But I mean, we have to be allowed to do something. Oh my gosh, the video, tens of protesters.

All their signs say something different.

So like, what's their message? Juan's showing you some of what we're looking at. Like, what is even their message? There's one sign that just says, Trump sucks at golf. Like, that's literally one of the signs.

Like, there it is right there. Look. They're all different. everybody's got a different what are they doing she's an example of girls shouldn't wear high waisted pants uh what is what's the point deport elon like what and then the one guy i guess he spelled the word country see you next tuesday like who are you trying to insult because that insults all of us not potus they're not the brightest bulbs cane in the box they really aren't Tens of people tell you Yeah, so they're going to be outside of the Capitol The other freaks, the Democrats Will be inside I'm just not sure what to expect One of the things that Trump had said I wanted to pull this up He was Talking about protests And He had a message To campus agitators I think he was really trying to Invoke Reagan a little bit Remember the campus riots and all of this with Reagan and this Was in the 60s that this happened Where he laid he like went into Reagan versus Berkeley and Berkeley lost and It was actually a big part of that movie that Dennis Quaid was in the Reagan movie Dennis Quaid was in but He had he had said Trump posted on to social quote all federal funding will stop for any college school or university that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned or permanently sent back to the country from which they came.

American students will be permanently expelled or depending on the crime arrested. No masks. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

So that's what he had posted.

Now, I will say like, so a lot of these universities where this happened at their private universities.

So that might be tricky as it concerns federal funding, right? Because not all private universities receive federal funding.

Some do, but not all do. The other thing is the illegal protest thing. And I'm trying to figure out how do you navigate that. there are cases as it pertains to anti-semitic protests i'm not talking about protests where people simply disagree with israel's government or even some of the things that israel does but like clearly people who don't know the difference between that and clearly anti-semitic agitation are so stupid they need to just refrain from opining about this issue in public at all and save themselves the breath and the rest of us attention. That would be great.

But because there is a difference.

So I don't know. I mean, you could go, you know, under the Civil Rights Act. I mean, there's things that you can trigger in order to for suspension of that. But the illegal protests, I think, you know, the intimidation factor, a lot of the stuff that we saw with the anti-Semitic riots across college campuses. I mean, I absolutely think that there are things that are protected speech and things that are not protected speech.

and bullying and intimidating is not part of like going after these college kids on campus just because they're jewish you're bullying and intimidating them either out of assembly or into silence and that's not protected that's not something that's considered a protected form of speech i.e protest so i um i mean i think that he has a lot of reasons to be able to cut off funding without much of a fight. And I'm, you know, I, my only thing is, just be careful with your language is all, you know, whether it's like illegal protests, I mean, I would say protected speech and unprotected speech. I don't know if you can say like illegal protests. And I don't say that because I'm trying to pick nits about language, because certain different parts of the law are invoked depending on what the language is. And that's why it's important to make sure you get it right.

But yeah, no, as Cain points out, you're not owed federal funding. I don't, you're not owed a big federal grant. You're not owed a federal allocation of taxpayer funds. No one, they're not owed this. And a lot of these universities, good heavens, they have so, I was just getting ready to say, what was Harvard's endowment?

It was like billion something, like multi-billions. Why are they getting federal funding? Why would any of these universities that have these multi-billion dollar, billion, yeah, endowments, why do they need any of our dollars? I mean, you already have the racket of the student loan industry all consolidated because of Democrats. I'm curious, just curious.

Now, we're anticipating what subjects are going to be discussed at the president's address this evening. And it's expected to be theater because Democrats are saying that they're going to be disruptive. And the president obviously is expected to lay out, I think, part of his strategy as it pertains to tariffs, which, you know, it's definitely a strategy. That's how he's using it. And then also, I think with DEI, the girls' sports, as well as Ukraine, he's expected to announce that deal, I think, this evening.

So it should be very, the media is going to be apoplectic all night and all tomorrow. That's all you need to know. They are going to just be in a frenzy. It's going to be insane. I actually may watch MSNBC tonight just to see what happens.

Right? just for a little schadenfreude. Yeah, I feel like that's incredibly yeah, that's good. I think that's something that we it'll be worth it.

So in addition to this there's a couple of other things I want to pull up make sure we're touching on before we are wrapping for the day. Where's this? I'm going to get this up. The with the Epstein files. We had talked about this.

Pam Bondi got a lot of heat from it. There was another tranche of documents, I guess, released for this. Bondi's been under fire. And then she and Kash Patel, apparently, they were exchanging letters. The head of the field office in New York resigned.

They were, well, they were, let me rephrase that, they were ordered to resign by week's end. James Dennehy. He is the top FBI agent in the New York field office. He confirmed yesterday that he had been ordered to leave. He said late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did.

He said I was not given a reason for this decision. They said he was given a choice to resign or be fired. He says he doesn't know why was pushed out. He was one of those. He had a high pro this apparently might be related to January 6 New York.

New York posted that Dennehy had a high profile battle with the acting deputy attorney last month. And he sent this email to staffers saying, dig in and we're in a battle of our own. And that's like some of the stuff that he had that he had stated. And one of the other things, though, is that one of the other and this hasn't been confirmed by anyone. It's just a lot of online speculation is whether he was part of the problem as it pertained to the Epstein case and the files that were supposed to be released.

And it was a total redacted dud. It was a stupid PR stunt. Bondi sent Patel a letter demanding that he investigate. And apparently it looks like she wanted full files on her desk by 8 a.m. the next morning.

And then he was told to resign.

so i think the question is did the fbi give more material to bondi after she pressed and who was it that made the determination because it seems like the telling him to resign or be fired that they suspected i mean it sounds like they suspected this guy was involved in not having all of the information that was promised right i mean the timing is so convenient for that for that for that suspicion um i don't know i don't and i don't know if it's anything that potus is going to mention tonight but um that was a very interesting timing of events i mean if i was a betting person which i'm not i would wager that he was part of one of the reason why not all the files were released and he was found out and he was his position terminated it's kind of what it sounds like subscribe to the dana show podcast because who says you can't make fun of people while staying informed on your own personal time subscribe on youtube apple or wherever you get your podcast i mean i think that it's not going to go well for democrats tonight also because they had voted against requiring dudes playing dude sports and girls playing girl sports and then now trump has that big guest at the state of the union tonight the girl that got popped in the head by a volleyball spiked by a dude playing on a girl's team and she is you know has irrevocable damage done to her now as a result.

So that's going to be a really big, bad optic look for Democrats. That'll probably be the worst look for them tonight because you know he's going to mention this. He's going to mention signing it, and then all the Republicans are going to cheer, and the nation's going to see only half of the room getting up and applauding, protecting women's sports, and that's a hot-button issue for the middle. You want to talk about a coalition issue? That's a coalition issue.

But Democrats are like, nope, not doing it. We can't even do this barely. Can't even do it. I mean, it's going to be pretty. That's going to be pretty amazing to watch.

So I would definitely keep your eyes out. Look on the left and see if anybody in the Democrat Party stands up. Fetterman may. Maybe. Yeah, he's pretty.

I can't believe I'm saying this. He's like the normie over there. He's, you know, even with the hoodie, he has a hoodie pass. The one that had a stroke is the normie. Yeah, actually.

And he, I think he was better. He's better now. Amazing.

Well, Democrats are bringing lazy, double dipping, useless and fired former federal employees. What? That should be good. No. Yeah.

You didn't hear that? Cry for these federal employees that are sitting here. Yep. The redundant positions. You're not going to out victim the taxpayer.

It's literally never going to happen. Thank you. Just never. Just don't even try that. That's going to, he's going to have the girl who got beaned by a volleyball and he almost, and this dude who spiked, it almost knocked her a little head off.

This guy literally almost spiked with a volleyball. This chick's head off her shoulders. Blah. Almost did it. It's just not, not even a competition.

All right. Today in stupidity came. That actually brings us beautifully to today in stupidity. Juan Cut 16. This is Minnesota State Rep Alicia Kozlowski.

She thinks that men out of women's sports is genocide. Listen to this. And they aren't going to stop being transgender just because you stripped them from sports or from housing or from their health care or any other public place that you don't want us to be. Grandma hell is up with that sweater. And some members, make no mistake that this is just another version of state-sanctioned bullying and genocide.

Oh, there it is. And I don't say that lightly. Somehow. If I saw her at Hobby Lobby, I would go up to her and ask her where the item I'm looking for is. Because she has a craft vest on.

It's not genocide, too. That's an art teacher vest. And it's not genocide. That's so stupid. That's so dumb.

Stop genocide. Learn what words are for the love. All right, folks. We'll have a recap of all the fun stuff tomorrow. You don't want to miss it.

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