Dems' meltdown over Elon Musk's DODGE operation

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That's right. I love this American ride. Stars Well Good morning, good afternoon, wherever you happen to be. I'm Mary Walter sitting in for Todd Starns, and it is Friday. Donald Trump is president.

He is kicking butt, taking names, and it is a great time to be an American. Yes. Yes. Oh my gosh. I knew it was gonna be good, but did you think it was gonna be this good?

I'm so excited. Excited. It's like every day is Christmas. It just keeps coming and coming. It is like drinking from a fire hose, but everything we're drinking from the fire hose is just delicious.

So good. I'm Mary Walter filling in for Todd Starns. How are you?

Sorry. I just had to get, I was just like, I don't know. Like, every day I wake up, I'm like, yes. I just breathe a sigh of relief, and I'm so happy. There's so much to talk about.

So much. It's going to hopefully have a great show. Of course, you know, I love when you join me. 901-260-5926. 901-560-5926.

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So, I have like one and a half hands here. But, yeah, so there's a lot to talk about now. To help us with that, Liz Peake will be joining us next hour. She's with Fox News. And the hour after that, Paula Scanlon will be joining us.

She is with the Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute. We're going to talk about Title IX. And lastly, Matt Schlapp rounds it off. He's the chair of CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference. That's coming up the 19th to the 22nd of this month.

I don't know. I hope I see Todd there. I don't know if he's going to be there, though. Ben is Todd gonna be there? Do we know?

I have no idea.

Well, you can shoot me. Let me know if Todd's going to be there.

So, like I said, so much goodness going on. And I have friends in England who first time around couldn't stand Trump. They were like, what have you people done? They were not for Brexit. They're just, I just.

I guess more liberal, yet he was in the RAF pretty high up, like super high up to the top of the RAF. He was the head of Airbase Kandahar. He was like too below David Cameron.

So he was like, it was the liaison to the R Joint Chiefs.

So I was really surprised by his attitude, but so we differ. But this time around, they're not so harsh on Trump. It's a different feeling, isn't it? Like, it's great. Like, we can actually be joyous.

Like, we're allowed to be joyous. They tried to manufacture joy, whereas we're actually happy people. Not all the time. Life ain't sunshine and roses. But I do think that we handle those bumps in the road far better than the Americans on the left.

They're just constantly crying and outraged, and it's they're just always upset. They're they're just a mess, which. Let's start off talking about USAID and Americans being a mess. I want to go to cut eight. And we're going to start off with this, and because this is going to tie in with some of the things that I want to talk about.

It's going to kind of be a theme throughout the show. And you're welcome to chime in, of course, 901-260-5926 or Mary Walter Radio on X. This, what you're going to hear is just. A variety of Democrats do not Just crying over Donald Trump. And Elon Musk.

So, the president and Elon Musk. Who was one of his advisors? Obama had advisors. He had Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice. I didn't vote for either one of them.

I don't know about you, but I didn't vote for them. And. We still don't know who the unelected bureaucrats were that were running the country when President Puddingpants was in office for four years. We still don't know that. They don't care about that.

Nobody wants to talk about that. But they're crying and whining about Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It started off with crying Democrats. to our Republican colleagues. If you do not see the light.

We will bring the fire. Resist! We are gonna be on your ass. We have days to stop the destruction of our democracy. We have work to do.

Tell Elon Musk to take his hands off your money. We don't pledge allegiance to the Creepy 22-year-olds working for Elon Musk. We pledge allegiance to the United States of America and Shut down the Fit it! Me? I am more!

We will win. We will win. We will win. We won't rest. We won't rest.

So, the we will win a chan, I guess, didn't really catch on.

So, Chuck Shimmer went with We Will Rest. And what was it before that? Beer and Guac. Beer and Glock. It's just, it's cringeworthy right now.

It just really is. Their responses are cringe-worthy. And here's what I don't understand, and maybe you can explain it to me. But the Democrats are bleeding supporters, right? They've lost the under-30 crowd, overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump.

They're not winning young men. I mean, they're not. They're not winning young men. They've got the young women, but they're not winning young men. You have the black population, the Hispanic population, Catholics now coming over to the Republican side because the Democrats have gone so far to the left that it's too much.

I'm independent. I'm not a registered Republican, but I voted Democrat, and I vote for the person, not the party. I just don't.

So that's why I'm not registered one way or the other. I just don't believe in parties. I believe in the people. Vote it casting your ballot that way.

So They get up in front of, what is their response? They get up in front of the microphones and they're screaming at me and they're yelling and they're talking about how we're going to resist what I voted for. I voted for this. I voted for all of this goodness. I voted for common sense.

I voted for finding out where my money's going. We're sitting here saying, you know, yeah, let's look at where our money's going. And you can tell this has been, Donald Trump has been planning this and gaming this out for years. He knew he was going to win. He's been planning it and gaming it out for years.

And they hit the ground running. They had the people in place. And as soon as he took that oath of office at noon, On the 20th, boom, everything went in, and they were like clockwork machines. And they're ahead of the Democrats, and the Democrats don't know what to do. But the majority of the people, over 77 million Americans, voted for this.

So they're sitting there and they're screaming at me and they're swearing at me and they're yelling and they're demanding resistance. And to me, and maybe you disagree with me, but more and more and more, They're just sounding Like Children having a temper tantrum. And maybe, I know that's been used before, but to me, it seems more so now. And I also think it's not working, especially even for their base, the way it did in the past. I just don't think it's working.

You didn't see protests on Inauguration Day like you did in 2017. You know, they were lighting stuff on fire, they were breaking windows, they were screaming in the streets, they had the hats. Remember the pussy hats on with the cat ears, they had that thing going on. You know, they were acting much more crazy. The crazy.

Seems to be tamped down. And listen, you've got John Fetterman saying, we can't have a conniption. I love that when he uses that word, we can't have a conniption every time Donald Trump does something. You can't do that. And it seems as if it's really moving to the far left of the party.

You don't see Nancy Pelosi out there screaming. You see Chuck Schumer, but he doesn't do it well.

So, I think there's a change afoot, not just on the Republican side, but I think there's a change on the Democrat side as well. I think, like I said, I think that they're um Okay. That craziness, that unhinged screaming and yelling Fewer people are engaging in it. You know, they had the they had the women's march, which they had to make it the people's march because they don't know what women are.

So it was the people's march this time when at Trump's inauguration, there were a couple thousand people there, but they applied for a permit for 50,000. They had a couple of thousand, two thousand, you know, they didn't have a lot.

Now people say, Oh, it's cold.

So I get it, but if you really are that passionate about it, you'll get your butt out there in the cold. I was in Washington, D.C. on inauguration weekend. To go to a gala, and it was gold, especially when they shut the street down early and we had a walk in my hands. through the snow.

Down Constitution Avenue. It was beautiful with the Washington Monument. It was gorgeous. There's not a car on the street. And at the intersections, it was military.

So you knew you were safe, which was kind of cool because you don't feel safe in Washington. It was quiet. And we went past the White House, the South Vault of the White House, but I couldn't get any pictures because of all of the barriers and stuff in front of it. But yeah, it was cold, but I still went. I didn't not go because it was cold.

So I I think there's a shift not just on the right but on the left as well. You can disagree with me, 901 26095926.

So USAID is currently the program that is being audited. And that's what's happening here. It's a program that's being audited. Yet the left is losing their minds over this. And they're saying, oh, Elon Musk and his 20-somethings have access to your personal information.

And I'm sitting here thinking to myself, I have to give the DMV my social security number. And I'm supposed to think it's secure with these people. Like the DMV is the bowels of hell of government work, at le uh, depending on the state that you live in, right? But but it's it it's pretty much where they go to send they send government workers that they want to punish to the DMV. I mean, having to go in there is punishment enough.

It's a full-day extravaganza and it's full of miserable people. Nobody speaks English, and I want to get out of there as fast as I can. And I have to trust those people with my social security number, my driver's license number, my address, my picture. What? And you're worried about Elon Musk, who has read capability only, and his team, and they're just doing an audit, just like you would do an audit of any other government entity.

But we'll have more of that coming up. We have Treasury Secretary Scott Besant on Blueberg Radio talking about what Musk can and cannot do.

So we'll talk about that coming up, and we're going to talk about what's being reported as some more coming layoffs and whether you think this is good. Or not? Is are you as happy as I am? 901-260-5926. I'm Mary Walter.

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Before I get to well, actually, let's do this just very quickly. This is Scott Besant. He's the Treasury Secretary on Bloomberg Radio talking about the myth that Elon Musk has taken control of the Treasury payments system. He said it's totally not true. Listen to how he explains it here.

There is widespread concern about the Doge team's access to sensitive payment systems. Are you worried at all that that access and that tinkering of the payment systems could affect the Treasury's market or cause any disruption? Good.

Well, Salaya, thank you for asking me about that because there's a lot of misinformation out there. First of all, when you say the Doge team, these are Treasury employees. Two Treasury employees, one of whom I personally interviewed in his final round. There is no tinkering with the system. They are on read-only.

They are looking. They can make no changes. It is an operational program to suggest improvement.

So they're not they can't make any changes, and if they wanted to make changes, it comes out of the Treasury Department into another department. He goes on later to to dis to um Explain that, how that happens.

So they can't make changes. It's read-only. They're doing an audit, people. Don't we want it audited? There's a ton of waste, and I'll tell you about it coming up.

There is a ton of waste in the program, and I think we should know. Let's go to Jackson, Tennessee, and say happy Friday to Bill. Bill, welcome. You're on the Todd Starn Show. Hi.

Good morning. Thanks for taking the call. Of course, go ahead. Uh I know I've I've I've The list that they come up with where billions go here. The Columbia or For the transgender opera.

All it all is bizarre craft. I'm sorry. Uh star. Um I think it's they're Definitely afraid we're gonna find out they're money laundering operations. Exactly.

And that's Elon doesn't give a heck about your social security. Yeah. Their their their whole network is gonna be unrivaled. Um Shine a bright light on it, and that's what they don't want. It's been that way for.

That carries. It's how they filter money to their Listen Appropriate. Cause it Funding terrorism. By going through Columbia, then the Pia. It is just that's what they're sure to have.

They're throwing the Social Security number out there because they're minions and all their zombies. are easily excitable without any form of thought. Yeah, yeah, it's true. Like, they don't understand, and it's easy to say to these people, oh, he's got your social security number. These 20-somethings have your social security number.

First of all, that's a great way to win back the 20-something vote, right? Like by saying, oh, these 20-somethings and denigrating them and talking, you know, about how dangerous they are. I just thought it was a really interesting way to try to win those voters back by denigrating them, which clearly they're not going to win them back. And I don't know, why shouldn't we use the best and the brightest regardless of how old they are? But they don't like meritocracy.

So you're right, Bill. Thank you for joining me. Great point. Thank you for listening to the Todd Starn show. All right, here we go.

Here's some of the examples of waste and abuse. And then we're going to get into some cuts that are being made. More people are getting fired, and I want to know if you're okay with it. Are you okay with people getting fired?

Now first of all, USAID, Trump does have the ability to dissolve the entire agency with the stroke of a pen. It was created by executive order in nineteen sixty one, and it can be dissolved with no congressional approval needed. No court challenges are possible to it. Boom, that's it. And it has it's never been audited, so why aren't we auditing it?

Just a few examples: one and a half million to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities. 70 grand for production of a DEI musical in Ireland, $2.5 million for electrical vehicles in Vietnam, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru, $2 million for sex changes and LGBT activism in Guatemala. Why are we paying for this? Six million to fund tourism in Egypt Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a nonprofit linked to designated terrorist organizations even after an Inspector General launched an investigation. terrorist organizations.

Millions to EcoHealth Alliance, which was involved in research at The Wuhan Lab. Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria. Why are we feeding al-Qaeda fighters? I don't understand how the left justifies this. And th if you go through it line by line with them, they can't they they can't have a discussion based on each thing.

They just scream that Elon Musk has access to your social security number, he gets to change everything. No. Funding to print personalized contraceptive birth control devices in developing countries. Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund irrigation canals, farming equipment, fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan, which benefits which benefits the Taliban. Why?

Why are we doing that? And Ted Cruz was on Fox Business today, and he said that they now know that USAID money is flowing to Gaza, and that money is going straight to Hamas, which is a terrorist organization, and they want to hide this. The left wants to hide this.

So, this is why they're screaming so loudly. When someone screams about doing an audit, you've got to wonder what they are hiding. We gotta ask the right questions. All right, so coming up, I'll let you know who's being fired, supposedly, according to reporting. We'll see whether it happens, but lots of people are scared.

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So, talking about what's happening at USAID and what's happening with the Trump administration, because it's so hard because there's so much happening at all times. And Democrats have this selective outrage. And right now, they're super outraged that Elon Musk has a bunch of whiz kids who have come up with algorithms and they came in right away like 1201. And they have these algorithms that will go through and audit this bowl of spaghetti that is USAID, which is an organization that gets trillions and trillions of dollars and it dispenses all over the world, but we really don't know where it's all going. And so it's time to find out, but they're very, very upset about that.

So apparently, according to the New York Times, they reported yesterday that more than 10,000 employees at USAID are going to lose their job, with fewer than 300 remaining. Apparently, 294 will remain. According to three different people with knowledge of the plans, telling the New York Times.

So it's almost their entire workforce.

Now they do need, I think, listen, you can't cut off all these programs. There are some of these programs I think are good, but why do I have to fund plays in Somalia? Why am I feeding ISIS fighters? What is happening? You know, vaccinating people around the world, great idea.

But why is it my job? I'm sorry. Why is it my job to vaccinate people around the world and take care of people who don't have enough food in this? And that sounds great. That's a wonderful thing, it sounds wonderful.

But there are people in this country who don't have food. There are people in Hawaii who still don't have homes. Nobody's talking about them. People in North Carolina still don't have homes. We're not talking about them.

California, how about we take care of that first? And if we got some money left over and we're feeling super generous, then we'll take care of everybody else. But we can't save the world, nor should it be our responsibility. If you want to do it, like if you think that's worthy, God bless you, go volunteer with a private organization and go save the world. My husband is going on a medical mission to Ghana.

And there's like forty of them going and it's being privately funded. The government's not giving them anything. They had to get the all of the equipment and medical equipment and everything that they need. They had to have a sponsor. They you know, it's this has been a year in the making.

But you're not paying for it. He's paying he's even paying his own way over there. Let's go to Susan and Moorhead City in North Carolina. Susan, welcome to the Todd Starn Show. Happy Friday.

Thank you. Thank you. And actually, everything you just said, I was going to say some of that myself. I am a very happy Trumpster at the moment waiting for somebody to come forward with some sanity. And thank God, everything that Trump has been doing since he hit the White House is all sanity-driven, not insanity.

And I think that USAID should be totally disbanded, at least until they could get a grip on sending money out, like you have just told us about. I consider listening to this station my moments of sanity because there's so much going around us. And I was watching Fox News this morning, and there was a group of congressmen trying to get into the building that holds the Education Secretary. not everything that was going on with that, but back to USAID. I would love to see them all fired, the whole thing disbanded.

We need to fix America first. That's why most of us voted for President Trump. Exactly. I sent out a meme to my friends, and this is exactly what I voted for. And I couldn't be happier, right?

And it's a picture of a bull in a China shop just wreaking havoc. And it's just a picture. And he's got a. Chain around his neck, and it says Trump, right? This is exactly what we voted for.

And to your point, common sense. That's what Trump said. He said, you know, listen, I'm not going to make everybody happy, but I'm going to, what he's going to try to do is just govern with common sense, not for Republicans, not for Democrats, but for the American people.

So, you know, hopefully, people, when this all Settles out, we'll see what he was trying to do, which is why I think they've had this planned out for a couple of years. And when he won the election in November, they knew exactly what they wanted to do. They knew exactly the agencies that they wanted audited. They had people in place ready to go at 12:01 on Monday, January 20th. Those people were in place and they rolled it all out.

And Democrats, they caught the Democrats totally off guard, which is delicious. I love that. Instead of forming committees to audit stuff, they just did it. Because that's what you would do in a business. That's what you would do in the real world.

So I'm super happy, and thank you for calling us your sanity. That's such a wonderful compliment, Susan. Thank you. Have a wonderful weekend. My f my husband would totally disagree that I was his sanity I think I drive him insane, uh, quite a bit.

All right, coming out of the Wall Street Journal, they're saying that the White House is working on an executive order to fire thousands of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services workers.

Now, this is what drives the left crazy. They believe in a big, powerful central government. As Susan pointed out, the Congressmen and women, the Democrats, went down to the Department of Education to get in. There was a worker standing outside going, You can't come in.

Sorry, making changes. Closed. You know, we're taking a week off. We'll be back. And Maxine Waters screaming and yelling at this guy, and all insurrection-y, and all this other stuff, and they threaten violence, all this stuff.

Because they believe that the federal government should have control of your children's education, right? B before The creation of the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., before Jimmy Carter did that, children were educated. And I would argue, I would argue that they had a better education than what they have had since the 70s, since Jimmy Carter. I would argue that kids in the 40s and 50s probably learned far better and far more. Than kids in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and on up.

Probably not the 70s so much, but the 80s, 90s, you know, with the government mandating that you have to teach this and you have to teach this. As opposed to local control, Democrats don't like small government. They don't like local control because it's harder to hide stuff when it's not a big legislative bureaucratic mess. And it's all about power. It's all about power.

So now, health and human services, and they're like, that's terrible. People have to be healthy.

Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, under this order, which could come as soon as next week, the FDA, the C D C and other agencies health agencies would have to cut a certain percentage of employees. Officials have been told to prepare lists of probationary workers who have essential roles and must be retained, and those who don't. DHS employs over eighty three thousand people. Agencies within the department are tasked with an array of functions, including tracing the current bird flu outbreak and other viruses.

Now the White House yesterday denied that they're drafting an executive order to do this, to just cut workers across uh health federal health agencies.

So, okay. Good.

I I I say good. Listen, I I think Having someone in the office who is a business person is a wonderful thing. And Elon Musk is also a business person. And they're going to look at dollars and cents and they're going to look at programs and see what's necessary and what's not.

So, one last thing on this. You know what else they found? They're going to find more stuff every single day with this Doge audit. USAID have been channeling taxpayer money into Soros-affiliated NGOs for years. The East-West Management Institute is a beneficiary of both USAID and Soros's Open Society Foundations.

They got over $260 million of your tax dollars. Too both, you want to know what they did with it? they were charged with bolstering the rule of law, in various countries across the world, including Georgia and Serbia. Why is that our problem? I'm not saying the the United States needs to be isolationist.

But I think we gotta let people figure out their own problems. We are not the world's mommy. Right? Why are we doing this? They had previously come under scrutiny for their role in Albania, where they were accused of facilitating judicial control by the left-leaning government.

In other words, meddling in order to benefit a leftward lean in the government. Or subvert the will of the people. We shouldn't be paying for that. I want somebody to do that here, we shouldn't be doing it there. Republican senators voiced their concerns that USAID's funding was being pushed used to push a progressive agenda in Macedonia, again through Soros's open foundation, The Open Society.

So that was the Open Society Foundation Macedonia in 2017. Also, USAID support for Soros affiliates extended to the Anti-Corruption Action Center in Ukraine. Mm-hmm. And Transparency International. They've got great names, and this is what they do really well.

They put pretty names, they put a nice big bow on the pig because it sounds like it's like people who say, well, Antifa's not fascist. It literally says that they're anti-fascism. That's their name. Like, oh, okay.

So if Hitler called himself the anti-Nazi, it would be good. We'd all be okay. They received dueled funding from USAID and Soros. The Anti Corruption Center Ac Action Center was funded by USAID during the coup in Ukraine in twenty fourteen. Huh Remember that?

Aligning with the Biden, Obama-Biden administration and the European Union's efforts to get rid of the, at the time, Russian-leaning government. And that then set the stage for Russian military intervention in Crimea, the Donbass, and eventually Ukraine.

So when we meddle in other countries and we try to make them like us, things don't always work out so well. And I think we have to start trying to make every other country like the United States. If they want to be like us, they will. If they don't want to be like us, they won't. And we have to stop trying to figure out, you know, trying to force all these people to be like us.

And they don't want to. And that's fine. If they want to be corrupt, be corrupt. But stop sending them money. If you know they have a corrupt government, stop sending them money to end corruption.

Where do you think the money's going to go if you know their government's corrupt? It's kinda dumb. 901-260-5926 is the number 901-260-5926, or you can hit me up on exit Mary Walter Radio. Coming up after the top of the hour, Liz Peake will be joining us. We're going to talk about the Democrats melting down over Doge.

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Let's get cut one ready here. Nancy Pelosi. Yesterday, said that Democrat, she was on the MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell Report.

Sorry, she was on there, and she was talking. Talking about What would have happened if Joe Biden had not been the candidate? I don't know why they keep asking this. I think they're trying to figure out why they didn't win, and they still think it's well, if Joe Biden had been in, like, they would have won. Like, they're still trying to figure that out.

So, here she is. Listen to what she says here. This is cut one, as I said. And she was asked by Andrea Mitchell. about Joe Biden remaining in the race.

Biden has said that he thinks he could have won if he hadn't been pressured to step down. Do you agree?

Well, all I know is that we won a seat in the House. We did not lose any seats. You know, people were like, oh, the Democrats lost. No, we did not. I think it would have been quite different with President Biden at the top of the ticket.

It would have been quite different.

So, what she's saying basically is: well, look, we netted one seat.

So we didn't totally lose. Everybody says Democrats totally lost.

So I think that would have been different with Biden at the top of the ticket.

Now, she didn't say. It would have been worse. She also didn't say it would have been better. And she's supposedly really good friends with them. They're supposedly very close.

And. Biden's now reportedly the most angry towards Nancy Pelosi. He did express frustration towards Obama and Schumer, who all were part of that little coup, supposedly, you know, because they believe in the d the democracy. They believe in democracy, but democracy doesn't include letting Americans pick their candidates.

Now Andrea Mitchell also asked if Jill Biden had spoken uh she said Jill Biden had spoken out that she was disappointed in you. Is there any way to patch that up? Have you spoke to Biden? And Nancy Pelosi says, No, I haven't. They've been friends for like fifty years.

And then she said, but the fact is, we're all on a mission for the American people, and she pivots. She's very good at that. Lover or hater, Nancy Pelosi is very good at what she does. And so she pivoted away from the questions about her relationship with the Bidens, because I think that is done. Done, done, done.

All right. Let's take one of your calls at 901-260-5926. Or as I said, you can reach out to me on exit Mary Walter Radio. Let's head back to North Carolina to Statesville. Patty!

Happy Friday and welcome to the Todd Starn Show. Hello, my Jersey friend. How are ya? How are how you doing, girl? Hey, listen, let me ask you a question.

I want James Comer. I'm gonna go to a different route. I understand what Grand uh Grandma Locker was saying. But, um, Let me tell you something. I believe James Calmer and the rest of them.

Better look into, I'm so sick and tired of hearing about January 6th. That's all the Democrats have on Donald Trump. You know that. Right. And I'm sick and tired of it.

What I want James Comer and the rest of them. I want them to get the 27 FBI informants. I want them to get ready up back. in there. And I wanna know where the pipe bomber went.

Am I right? Yes. You know, it's so funny that you bring that up. Democrats just keep forgetting about the pipe bomber. They don't want to talk about the pipe bomber.

So there's a reason when somebody doesn't want to talk about something, Democrat or Republican, I ask questions just like you're doing. There are cameras all over Washington, D.C. You know they know where that person came from. They know where that person got on the subway. They know everything, you know, about it.

So it says to me that they're not telling us 'cause they don't want to know. It's just like the Thomas Crooks, the guy who took a shot at at uh Now, President Trump, right? And got him in the ear, almost killed him. Where did all that information go? Remember, we were told he had foreign bank accounts, but we don't know anything about it.

They couldn't get into his phone because it was locked. They couldn't break into it. Wow, that's kind of weird because if it was a phone of a January 6th, they certainly would have been in that phone and gotten every piece of data they possibly could. It's just so weird. That we just don't know anything about those things.

There's so much for Trump to do and so much for him to uncover. I think he's going to go after the whole. the whole January 6th thing. I think that's a big thing for him. And I think he's gonna put together a committee or however he's gonna do it to get to the bottom of it.

And he's been thinking about it for a while.

So I don't think it's it's over yet. No, it's not over. And I and also, I want to know the Capitol police that were opening up the gates to let these people in. I want to know about them, too. Exactly.

Who opened the Columbus doors? Exactly. Gotta run. Have a great weekend, my friend, my fellow Jersey girl. Have a great weekend.

Liz Peake is joining us next here on the Todd Starn Show. Our daughter Jessie loves playing detective. A clue. But since we discovered she has sensitive skin, we've been playing Detective 2. We thought the problem was our puppy.

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Welcome to the Todd Storm Show. If you're just joining me, I'm Mary Walter sitting in for Todd. Donald Trump is still president, and it's a glorious day in America. Just keeps getting better and better and better. And you know what's going to make it even better?

My guest here coming up, Liz Peake. She is a Fox News contributor. You can find her on X at LizPeak with P-E-E-K. Also, LizPeak.com. She is my guest on the Patriot mobile newsmaker line.

Liz, happy Friday. Thank you for joining me. Oh, it's always a pleasure, Mary. Thanks for having me on. Absolutely.

I love when you join me.

So, a couple of things I want to talk to you about. I don't know if you've seen this, and I don't mean to blindside you, but the cover of Time magazine, did you see the new cover? I did.

Okay, so for everybody who hasn't seen it, it just came out today. There's a picture of Elon Musk sitting at the Resolute desk, and they're doing it just to troll Trump, right? What is the point of this? That's exactly what they're doing. Liberal news organizations have chimed in.

I think The Atlantic had a piece out entitled something like. Elon Musk is president, and they had another one sort of along the same lines. Look, they're trying to drive a wedge between Musk and Trump because, oh my gosh, what a formidable, powerful partnership this is. And so far, they've been unable to do it.

So far, Trump has not let this get under his skin. I sure hope he does not. He understands and has told the press, and Elon has gone along with this, that he's the boss, Elon is doing what he wants. And so far, I think that's exactly how it's played out.

So it is really quite. horrifying though, isn't it? How cheesy the Democrats are. I mean, instead of I I think what's amazing to me Instead of applauding the fact that someone's actually going through the federal budget, going through some of the agencies, looking for Bloated, unnecessary, redundant, maybe corrupt expenditures, Democrats think this is their fight. This is what they're going to fight to protect.

Holy crow, how stupid can you be?

Well, we started off the show and I was talking about how three weeks in and it's like Christmas every day when I wake up and I look at the news, right? This is what I voted for. It was on air yesterday. It is. I wake up and it's like Christmas morning.

I mean, You know, today, the thing about transgender in women's sports. You know what? I have two granddaughters. That's a great thing. I don't want them competing against biological boys when they go to play soccer or something.

This, I mean, Mary, who believes that men should play against women? Nobody. Nobody. I think this has 79% in the country. And that's.

You know, when you get 75% supporting something Donald Trump is doing, that is extraordinary because there are at least 30 to 40 percent of the country who hates him so much. that if he said you should keep breathing, they would oppose that. They'd hold their breath.

So, along these lines, let me just pick your brain just a hot second, then we'll move on because we do need to talk about who's working on Elon Musk's staff because they're, you know, of course, trying to find out who these people are. And that's what they're putting their energy into. You know, Democrats have decided over the last week that yelling at me and swearing at me and trying to browbeat me into seeing the world the way they do is the way to go. And it doesn't seem to be working. But you know what I've noticed?

AOC kind of quiet. She comes out a little bit, but she's kind of quiet. You don't see the usual suspects. It seems to be the old guard, the Maxine Waters, the Corey Bookers, which kind of, but Chuck Schumer, Pelosi's been noticeably quiet. But the number of people on the left who are losing their minds seem to be dwindling.

So are they catching on or what's going on? I think it's interesting, for reasons that I cannot even begin to imagine, I get text from AOC's fundraising arm. you know, purportedly from her. Uh and I'm always kind of interested in actually I don't even open most of the ones I get, but I open hers. And she was calling for, you know, Democrats to rally around policies that help working class Americans.

So somebody out there is at least thinking, hmm, how did we lose the election?

Well, maybe because instead of fighting for lower housing costs or Something that people actually might care about. We're out here running around trying to protect USAID from the spotlight. Give me a break.

So, to your point, Who is losing their minds? I'd say there are a few people, like Chris Murphy of Connecticut, continued, who's a congressman. Is making a lot of noise. Why? He sees, as we all see, an open field here.

There is no democratic leadership.

So I think there's some of these young Turks. Jamie Raskin maybe could be considered another one. He's not that young, but whatever. Anyway, I think there are a handful who want to take the Nancy Pelosi mantle, the Chuck Schumer mantle, because they know that those guys are out. And they are.

They were complicit in the ridiculous Lies about Joe Biden. More importantly, they are the face of a failed administration. and a frankly a failed Democratic Party.

So You know, I think there are some people who really just sound idiotic all the time, but to your point, it's not all of them. I agree. Yeah, it's very interesting to see some of the divisions. And yeah, Chris Murphy, man, he does not shut up. He is on X all the time, day and night, and he's just tweeting out nonsense.

It's just absolutely ridiculous.

So let's go on to the Doge staff. And I'm sure you've seen this.

So they're trying to find out who these people are. And Wired Magazine published a look at a guy named Edward Korstein, who's 19 years old, and he goes by the nickname Big Balls, which is hilarious. And the best part of my day this morning was watching CNN try to have a serious conversation instead of just laughing at the entire situation, right? Because they're trying to do this seriously. And I'm like, this is a riot, people, and you need to just laugh at it for what it is.

Of course he's 19. This is what a 19-year-old boy does, right? Yeah. So, yeah, and so by the way, these guys are spending 80-hour week. I mean, they're sleeping in the office.

They literally brought in air mattresses and cots. For these guys, and because they are so intense. And here's news, Mary. If they get rid of some of these people, there are going to be a hundred more lining up to take their place. Uh and they will get rid of it.

They'll I suppose, you know, Social media tweets that people think inappropriate or whatever. And I think Elon Musk, to his credit, is going to look at that and say, okay, you know what? It's not worth sacrificing what is the most important thing that has happened in our country for the last 50 years. That is, I say, a purge, a serious purge of non-essential spending to protect some young kids.

So they will be occasionally thrown overboard. That's fine. As I say, Elon Musk, I I don't think that Dems get it, what a following he has. There will be a hundred people lined up outside the door to come in and take that guy's place. It just doesn't matter.

Yeah. And Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden have a. They have apparently filed a lawsuit alleging unlawful, ongoing, systematic, and continuous disclosure of personal and financial information, which I'm sure they have no proof. They have no proof of that. No, NAF will prove it.

In fact, yesterday I heard a Bloomberg reporter. Questioning Scott Besund, the Treasury Secretary, along those lines. And this is like now, this is one of these little kind of ideas that the Liberals have that they can't shake, even if there's no support for it whatsoever.

So this woman kept asking Scott Beson, well, are you allowing Doge or others to access Income taxes? And he explained very carefully: no, he was not. And then she literally asked the same question again. I hate it when interviewers don't even listen to the answer. They have an agenda.

She had an agenda as a result. It was a stupid interview. And, you know, it could have been it. I mean, the new Treasury Secretary, for Pete's sake, ask them something important, not just this fiction which they're trying to promulgate. And, you know, guess what?

It's out there to some people. I'm sure they're going to buy it. uh because this is what they're talking about. But it uh it just isn't true. Right.

And we had played some of that audio. And I thought Scott Bassett handled that perfectly. I don't know whether Trump put all these people through a class. It is such a different administration than the last time around. And I am here for every single second of it.

Do you mind if I take a quick break here and then come back to talk about what is being reported that may be cuts that may be coming our way? And also, Caroline Levitt. We have so much to talk about and not enough time. This is crazy. More coming up with Liz Peake on the Todd Star Show.

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Joining me, find her on X at LizPeak, P-E-E-K, and visit her webpage, lizpeak.com. Thank you so much for hanging on there. I do appreciate it. The New York Times is reporting, they reported yesterday that more than 10,000 employees at USAID will lose their jobs and about 294 will remain. Do we know that that's for sure, or are they just getting this inside stuff?

Well, I think that I think that information came from the White House, Mary. maybe from Scott Besant, although and actually it could have been Marco Rubio, excuse me. And nothing's final until it's final. And of course, Democrats, again, are sort of throwing themselves in front of the train, lodging all kinds of lawsuits, et cetera.

So I who knows if it'll actually happen the way they're talking about Uh but it does seem that that's the intention. Yeah. And I don't necessarily know that that's a bad thing. I think most Americans would probably agree with that. Also, we have reporting coming out of the Wall Street Journal.

The White House denies this, though. But they're citing three sources, three internal sources, that the Food and Drug Administration, the C D C and other health agencies have to cut a certain percentage of employees that a memo went out, that they uh have to make cuts across the board, a certain percentage for each one of those agencies. Have you heard anything about that? No, I don't know. I mean, I don't know why anyone should be shocked by this or dismayed.

Uh you know Yeah. I remember um In the last administration, the first Secretary of State, we had Uh uh Tillerson, if you recall, who was a uh corporate guy, spent a lot of time when he got when he got his job. at the State Department going through and trying to c call Uh the head count And he wasn't hiring many people. I don't know if you remember this, but it was a big flap on the left. Like, why isn't he hiring anyone?

This is, you know, he's not doing his job.

So I reached out to a young friend in the State Department. Who came back and said, Look, we have 80,000 people. We have enough people. It was kind of like, Yeah, I think that's probably true.

So, you know, what do corporate guys do when they take over a company? Generally speaking, they cut the headcount because that's the easiest way to reduce overhead. And look, if it turns out that someone can make a very strong case that their job is absolutely essential to the prosperity of A company or to the U.S. government, they should make that case. Generally speaking, Mary, it's not an easy case to make.

Point you to this. that buyout offer, eight months pay The fact that not that many, only 40,000 people out of what is the federal two plus million, it's actually three million people work for the federal government. The fact that so few stepped up, what does that really tell you? It tells you these people, A, love the fact that this is a lifetime sinecure. They'll never be fired.

There's very little accountability. Very and I don't mean to say that there aren't some very, very brilliant, hardworking people working for the federal government. But I can pretty much guarantee you that a great many of them are not brilliant, they're not hardworking, and they might have trouble finding a job outside of the federal government, and so they have no intention whatsoever of leaving. In fact, the risk you run with this kind of buyout is that the people who actually are confident That they can move on and do something else are the ones who leave. And the dead wood is the people who stay.

That's a great point. I hadn't thought of it that way, but you're absolutely right. They get an eight-month paid vacation.

Well, you know, my anything, any of my contracts, any kind of buyout was always three months. That was it. And they even fought me on unused vacation time.

Well, you didn't have it scheduled. I'm like, but I still get it. But, you know, so they would fight me on that. But eight months, that's really sweet. That takes you through the summer.

You're right. And they have all that time to look for another gig. Sign me up. I want to get a job in the government. I want to get a job in the government just so I can resign.

It's not too late. It's not too late. It's probably worth your way into something. Just so I can resign and say, yeah. Last thing I want to talk to you about is what happened in Colorado with the raids on Trende Aragua.

And they were tipped off. Tom Homan is, and I would not want to tick that man off. Oh my gosh. But they were ticked off.

Now he said on Fox with Harris Faulkner, he said, we have a source or they know where the leak came from, where the leak stems from. And he just very made that comment. And she said, I know you're not going to tell me anymore. And that was the end of it. And he said, we're going to be taking care of that later today.

This was yesterday. I have not seen anything, so I just want to know if you had like an inside scoop. I have no idea.

As you say, I'd be scared to death if I were that person. My guess is they're not reporting for work tomorrow. But you know, it's interesting. I wonder how and and With such a large workforce, I think it's hard to find leaks just because, and they happen all the time under Trump. They didn't happen under Biden.

Like, nobody leaked us to tell us that. There are many things I thought were disgraceful, most things, about the Biden administration, but they had a very tight ship, and there were no leaks. You're completely right. This time round, I don't think you'll be seeing a lot of leaks from the White House because these are now Trump people in the White House, and that was not the case eight years ago. As to ICE and Tom Holman, you know, look, that's He's barely been there.

I'm sure there are people who are not happy with the change in direction at ICE. But I gotta say, it reminds me of listening to a congressional, a Colorado congressman. whose district includes Aurora and other places that have had a lot of talk about gangs and stuff. And he was just irate that people were running down his. Town and his district, and how dare they accuse us of harboring criminals and stuff.

Whoa, is he out of touch? Because I would think 99% of his inhabitants are thrilled to see these guys get out of there. Yeah, no, absolutely. They don't want them there, nor should they want them there, because that's just a little crazy. NCAA.

Has announced the day after Donald Trump signs that Title IX adjustment with all those beautiful women around him, because you know he hates powerful women. They announced they're changing their policy for transgender athletes. They made that announcement yesterday, but yet there are some spots. Yeah, there are some states though, like like uh Minnesota, who says, Well, we're following our state laws, not the federal law. And California, I think, is in that too.

And I don't know how that they ha you know, obviously, again, this will end up in the courts. But the fact that the NCAA requi it they're so gutless. Where were they on this earlier? They really thought it was okay for Leah Thomas to win every swimming record in the NCAA? And they really thought it was okay for young women to train their entire lives and then come across, ha, a man dressed in a women's bathing suit who's going to take home all the medals.

I it's outrageous. And yes, I thought it was a very good thing to see that. And it'll take a while to sort all out all the legal aspects of this, but I can't imagine. That I think this will happen. I think that they can prevail on this.

Uh but you know, we'll see. Can the states really fight this? I don't know. And do those Women in those states, the young girls in those states, are they going to be on board fighting this? We'll see, Mary.

I don't think so.

Well, I think it's going to be interesting because when their teams can't play in an NCAA tournament, Yeah. Then I would assume that athletes' scholarships at those schools are going to go unclaimed because the athletes probably want to participate in the NCAA tournaments should the team be very good.

So I would think that people will probably vote with their feet. I would hope so. And last but not least, what did you think of Netanyahu's gift to Donald Trump? Netanyahu, for those who did not see it, gave Donald Trump a gold-plated pager that said press down with both hands. I got like 20 seconds.

I thought it was genius. By the way, the entire program of having those pagers installed in terrorist phones, excellent. I mean, in the networks, excellent. I thought it was genius. We got to go.

Liz Peak, thank you so much. You're such a pleasure to have on. Have a fantastic weekend. And thank you for joining me on the Todd Starn Show. I'm Mary Walter sitting in for Todd Starts on this Friday.

Hope everyone has a great weekend planned. 901-260-5926 is my number. 901-260-5926. You can reach out to me on exit Mary Walter Radio.

So, this just in like every day, this is every day in the new in America now with Donald Trump.

Now he just announced he's bringing back plastic drinking straws. He said, I will be signing an executive order next week ending this ridiculous Biden push for paper straws, which don't work. He wrote on Truth Social, back to plastic. In 2020, he complained that paper straws disintegrated before you could finish your drink. He said, if anyone tried those paper straws, they're not working too good.

And he also said, these paper straws come wrapped in cellophane. Do you ever see this? I mean, what's going on? You got paper straws that are wrapped in cellophane. The country's gone wild.

I agree. So here's the thing. I live in a state and I live at the Jersey Shore. And our town here has banned. Plastic takeout containers, plastic utensils, and plastic straws.

Because if you live along the shore, you clean this junk up from your beach on a regular basis, plastic that just flying on shore, and you see sea life, which has this plastic, especially the straws stuck in snails on the turtles and that kind of thing, and sometimes on the dolphins. And so it's a problem.

So I get that because there are straws because. Where I live Bars and things like that have been forced to come up with something different.

So now there is a new kind of straw. They had the paper straws for a long time, so I started bringing my own straw to the bar, which is fine. I don't care. I just bring my own straw. It's no big deal.

And And they there's this new strat now that they have that's o uh doesn't get Doesn't disintegrate in in a drink. And it's not plastic. It's a little bit more expensive, but it it works.

So a lot of the places around here have done something like that. A lot of them now have these cardboard containers or they have utensils, if you need them, that are a heavy cardboard or made of like a biodegradable material. It kinda doesn't bother me anymore because there are better alternatives now. And living along the shore, I I see where this stuff washes up on our beaches when it's dumped offshore. The plastic floats and it winds up on a beach.

So I don't agree with everything Trump does. This to me doesn't seem to be something that we really had to tackle. That's just me. All right, let's move on to something that we did have to tackle. And Donald Trump is going to be tackling, according to Caroline Levitt, who, by the way, is she a great press secretary?

Mm-mm-mm. Girlfriend, she's good. She's like 27 years old, and she is knocking it out of the park.

So here she is yesterday talking about, this was last evening, talking about what President Trump plan is regarding Americans' taxes. Hit it, Dylan.

So these are the tax priorities of the Trump administration that the president has laid out for members in that meeting today. No tax on tips, which is obviously a very public campaign promise that the president made. No tax on seniors' Social Security. No tax on overtime pay. Renewing President Trump's 2017 middle class tax cuts.

Again, these are the president's priorities. Adjusting the SALTS cap, eliminate all the special tax breaks for billionaire sports team owners. Close the carried interest tax deduction loophole. Tax cuts for Made in America products. This will be the largest tax cut in history for middle class working Americans.

The president is committed to working with Congress to get this done.

Okay, what do you think? 901-260-5926-5926. Or reach out to me on except Mary Walter Radio.

So, her use on no tax on tips.

So, let's talk about that. I saw someone comment who said I am A tipped worker. They didn't like no tax on tips, and I'll tell you, I thought it was interesting because they said it creates like a special group of people who don't pay a tax on their income.

So, you know, if you get a bonus, like you work extra hard at work and you get a bonus. You pay a tax on that.

So, if someone's really hustling and they're really good at their job as a server or whatever it happens to be that they get a tax, they get a tip on. If you give them a really good tip, how is that different than a bonus that a worker would make, like any other worker would make? Or if you're in sales, or you know, in our industry, if we get really good ratings, we get a bonus. Depending on what your scale is and so on. But I had well, wa every time I got a bonus for my ratings, I had to pay tax on it.

So why should tipped workers not have to pay a tax on their quote unquote bonuses?

Now I realize they get paid less than minimum wage, but a lot of servers now get paid minimum wage or even more because it's so hard to get people who will work. Right? So, and it was interesting to see it come from someone who's a server who said, look. I don't necessarily, I'm a server and I like it, you know, it's great money in my pocket. But are you opening a Pandora's box for other people to go, wait a minute?

I got a bonus, why do I have to pay on it? If they don't have to pay on their bonus, why do I have to pay on my bonus?

So that's that. Senior citizen Social Security, no tax on that. I don't necessarily think that that's a bad thing. You know, remember, and Tommy Tuberville introduced legislation on Wednesday to write into law what that campaign pledge that Donald Trump had made. He introduced the Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act to stop what they call a double tax on Social Security benefits.

He said seniors work the majority of their adult lives so that they can spend their retirement comfortably. In a day and an age where the cost of living is skyrocketed, our seniors should not experience a second tax on their Social Security when they've already paid income tax on their paychecks. See, now I get that. If you take a dollar and you look at the number of times that dollar is taxed, it's ridiculous. The Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act would amend the IRS Code of 1986 to terminate the inclusion of Tier One railroad retirement benefits and Social Security benefits on an individual's gross income.

I get it. Joe Biden voted for that, by the way. But Donald Trump's going to take away Social Security. Joe Biden voted to tax it. But it's a double tax, it is.

It's so-called double tax, but I see how it is a double tax. Listen, it ain't gonna be around when I get there. But I'm just saying, I get why they don't want to tax why it shouldn't be taxed. They also say seniors' tax liability will be significantly reduced and the double tax will end. Thomas Massey introduced a companion legislation in the House.

He said, Although seniors have already paid tax on their Social Security contributions via the payroll tax, they're still required to list these benefits as taxable income on their tax returns. This is just a way for Congress to obtain more revenue for the Federal Government.

Now and Trump proposed this in July. Again, I don't think it's going to be there for me. But if you're collecting it, I don't think you should be double taxed on it. I just don't think that's fair. And if we have the government spending less money instead of complaining that they need more money, so we have to tax it, why don't we say, oh, the government's going to spend less money.

This is a good thing so that we can allow seniors to not have to pay taxes on something that has already been taxed and allegedly put aside, which it never was. And the Congress has used Wrongly. Just you're very irresponsibly. No tax on overtime pay. Uh again uh I don't know, it's income.

It's income that you earned. If you're not going to tax a Again, this goes back to the no tax on tips and the way I saw this reframed really changed my thinking on it.

Well, if you're not going to tax overtime pay and you're not going to tax tips, if my bonus comes because I worked really hard and I put in extra time in order to achieve a bonus for more sales or whatever it happens to be, why am I going to have to pay now on that?

So, that to me, I think it falls into this slippery slope argument that I can definitely see happening. Renewing Trump's 2017 tax cuts, with the majority of middle-class Americans did benefit from. Adjusting the state and local salt cap. I don't I think you should g Right, Trump got rid of the SAL caps, and what that is is the state and local taxes. You know, that if you're paying so much to your state, like a high-tax state like California or New York or New Jersey or Illinois, that it's capped, and you only can deduct a certain amount from your federal taxes.

And I just think if you live in a high-tax state, you should have to pay. You know what? Vote differently. Maybe that will make people vote differently. I don't know.

Part of it, I think, makes them move to a lower tax state and then they vote for the same junk they just left in a high-tax state. That's what I think happens because I've seen it happen.

So. I just think that why should you be able to deduct stats ta state taxes from your federal taxes? They're two separate things in my brain. And I get hit with it. I live in New Jersey, so when Trump ended the deductions, it hurt us.

It hurt us hard. But New Jersey is also now a purple state and on the verge of going, I think it's on the verge of going red. I really do. We'll see what happens, but I think it's there. Eliminating special tax breaks for a billionaire sports team owners.

You know, I don't think there should be tax breaks, period. I don't think we should be paying people because you have three kids, so you get this much money off your taxes and write-offs and writing off your mortgage and doing this and do that. How much, just this is how much you made, this is how much you owe. Or get rid of the income tax totally. Before income tax, this country was run on tariffs.

which I'm all about. That's fine with me. Let's stop penalizing people for being successful. And if you want, let's do a sales tax, that type of thing. I hear that, that being bandied about.

The only problem with that is, I don't trust, if Democrats get it again, I don't trust Democrats to not say, oh, but we're going to make the rich pay their fair share because they can afford a sales tax and it prevents poorer people from buying what they want to be able to buy. And there'll be this whole argument as to why we need just an income tax just for the super rich, which is how the original income tax started. It was just for the super rich. And look what happened within a generation, everybody was super rich and everybody was paying it.

So I don't trust that. There's got to be another way. And tax cuts for Made in America products, I think I think that's good. Want to hear from you? 901-260-5926, 901-260-5926.

Or you can send me a little message here on X at Mary Walter Radio, and I'll read your comments on the air. All right. We got so much more to do. Coming up after the top of the hour, Paula Scanlon will be joining us to delve into Trump's changes to Title Nine. We'll talk about with her that with her coming up here in about 15 minutes, 20 minutes or so.

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So you can check those out. Our guest coming up will be talking about Donald Trump's changes to Title IX. That's after the top of the hour. But I would like to talk about this right now. James Carville, cracks me up.

He is from the South. He reminds me, in my book, he's a Democrat version of John Kennedy, who just every time he talks, he's on TV. I have to turn the volume up and everybody has to be quiet because I have to hear what he's going to say because he's hilarious.

So Democratic strategist James Carville was on his podcast, which is Politics War Room. And he's very, very upset with the Democrats.

Okay.

So he was talking about them. They had. They're pushing some things. One of the things they're pushing is pet bereavement leave. Yeah.

So, that's the first thing that he addresses here. Listen very carefully, talking about the Democrats outraged, literally outraged, at where they're going and where they're taking the party. And he talks about their idea of pet bereavement leave. This is cut three, Dylan. Just two things that Democrats have done that are so unmoored to what anyone in the country thinks or feels like.

It's almost impossible. The first one is some Democrats, some progressives in New York. Or art. advocating for bereavement pet leave.

Okay, so in other words, if the cat dies You get three days of paid leave. Does anyone even know? Hmm. like in rural America, like where I grew up, how many dead animals In the entire history of the United States, let me tell you something in a sentence that has never, ever, ever been uttered.

Well, Martha, Fido died, so I can't bail the hay today. I mean, come on. I mean, please just think of how We in Fortunately, no one's got overly publicized this, although the right to use it in some places. Just how clueless you sound. Yeah.

People Hope. Or agrarian. It's like, you know, if you live it on a different thing, life and death on a farm is something that happens every. Six hours. I mean my God.

He's right though. They are so Detached from the average American, and that's part of their problem. And we've been talking about that through this whole show. They can't figure it out a large portion of the Democrat Party.

Alright, before we run out of time, I want to get to the second part of this, where he talks about. The DNC committee's gender rules that they discussed last Saturday at their winter meeting. Here's more of James Carville. The rule specified if we have a gender non-binary candidate or office, that a non-binary individual is counted as neither male or female, and the remaining six offers must be gender-balanced, Harrison said. Did I just did I just read this?

Of course I did. And do you believe this? Of course you do. Because That's the level of Jack Astery. Dead.

But there's any Democratic candidate No, I don't even know if Tim Martin himself actually, but they do it. And it's like there's a A plant somewhere. in quote progressive unquote America. That just sees how many jackass, stupid things that they can embrace. It's stunningly stunned.

Stupid. Both of them. Yeah. Yeah. So I think James Carville's had it.

Wouldn't it be interesting to see if James Carville just becomes red-pilled? Wouldn't that be interesting to see if that's what happens to him? He was talking about outgoing DNC chair Jamie Harrison. And he also seemed confused by his party's policy when he was struggling to maintain those rule when he was trying to explain those rules. When they talked about the party being gender balanced, it meant that the party must elect one male.

One female and one person of any gender for the party's vice chair position. And that article that James Carvo was reading from is from The Atlantic, which of course reports this stuff with a straight face. because they're they're whole hog in. The the Atlantic, they're all in on this. And this goes back to how we started the show.

If you missed it, I just I was just talking about, you know, how wonderful three weeks of Donald Trump being President has been. It's been fantastic. And it's just something new every single day. Like I said, I kind of hit a wall with me with the straw thing. You know, all right.

Fine. And it's not e it's not even three weeks. It'll be three weeks on Tuesday. I'm on Monday. But you know, so it's not going to be everything, but so much good is happening.

So many to me, he's doing so many things he promised to do, talking about the taxes and the things that he wants to cut and all of that, I think, is just fantastic.

So it's interesting that the left still hasn't get it. You know, someone who does get it, though, is Fetterman. Although he came out and said he's not going to vote for Tulsi Gabbard and he's not voting for somebody else. Forget who the other one is, but he's not voting for Tulsi Gabbard and someone else. He's voted for the Republican.

Sometimes he's been the only Democrat vote. For some of the Republican nominees. And he said, Hey, I don't just represent Democrats, I represent Republicans too. And I give him credit for that.

So he's like the one who's come across as the most sane. Him? Coming up, Paula Scanlon will be joining us on Trump's changes to Title IX and how that affects sports. That's coming up on the Todd Storm Show. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch.

Tell me. That's right. I love this American ride. Stars. Oh, yeah.

And I'm Mary Walter, sitting in for Todd Starns on this Friday, almost three weeks that Donald Trump has been president. And I just keep checking, you know, the wires and all the news. And I just keep seeing new stuff, new stuff, new stuff.

So I will share some of that coming up with you. But first, this happened just recently. And this happened, I believe, on Wednesday. And then yesterday we had more. Donald Trump making changes in the transgender policy parts of Title IX.

So let's discuss this legislation.

Well, it's not legislation, it's really an executive order with Paula Scanlon. She is the Special Projects Ambassador for the Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute. She joins us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Paula, thank you for joining me. Thank you so much for having me on.

Of course, and you can find her on X at PaulaY Scandlin.

So the NCAA, good news, changed their participation policy for transgender athletes yesterday. This is in the wake of Donald Trump signing the executive order to give federal agencies the ability to withhold federal funding from entities that do not abide by Title IX in alignment with the Trump administration's view. How did Donald Trump change Title IX? Absolutely. So I mean, before executive order was even signed, Donald Trump announced he was going to be going back to the Title IX that they had written prior to the Biden administration.

And so obviously, we had already known that was going to be happening. And that was a promise that was pretty clearly made to us on the campaign trail. That was no surprise anywhere at all. Um And then ultimately he did go in and sign an executive order, which we saw happen this week, and formally informalizing the exact statement that people who are men are not going to play in women's sports. And so that was obviously a big win.

I'm very I was very excited about it. There's still work to be done because I think ultimately we do need to pass this in Congress. I do want them to take this to the Senate. And I think it's very important that they do work to pass this, but It was a great first step, and also immediately we saw changes because, yes, you're right, the NCAA did. Calls the threat.

To me, the NCAA is still a bunch of cowards because it took them having an executive order so they can hide underneath that. They were just following federal law when they could have changed the rules, oh, I don't know, over three years ago when Leah Thomas is dominating an NCAA summit. Exactly. But what's important with what you just said is this is just an executive order that can be overturned with a stroke of a pen on day one of the next presidency, should the Republican candidate not win in 2028.

So it is super important that this become enshrined as a law. And I have to tell you, I think that once people start screaming and crying and they move on to something else to scream and cry about, that this is going to fall off the radar. I really think it will. I think that down the road, the people who Are affected by this. It's such a small percentage of the athletes in the country.

It's such a small percentage, but it's enough to keep women, legitimate biological women, from benefiting from a scholarship or anything along those lines. And that's the problem here, is it takes Something away from biological women, and I think your rights end where mine begin.

So, I have no problem with a man who says going to take hormones to become a quote-unquote become a woman. I don't think he really becomes a woman, but if he does, God bless him. You know, if he straps a horn on his head and tells me he's a unicorn, that's fine. Doesn't mean I have to play the game with him, though, right? And because that's forcing me to play the game, and so that's where I think this strikes a really good balance between those two things.

Trump's not saying like you can't, you know, become a woman if that's what you want to do, but you can't compete against actual women. Which I think is important.

So the NCAA adjusting this within a day, she said they're cowards. It took the executive order for them to do that. What about states that are choosing to not adhere to this? States that are choosing, for instance, Walces, good old would-be vice president in Minnesota. The state high school league says that they are the eligibility of transgender student athletes is determined by state law.

What happens to the kids who then go through and go into college there? How do they compete in any kind of NCAA sport? Yeah, you know, it's so interesting that there's going to be people pushing back from this, which, of course, there's going to be. Um, but I I think it look the the situation is this everyone tries to make it complicated and they give you all these what-if statements, but the reality is and the simple solution here is there's room for for everybody in sports. I'm not here to deny anyone the opportunity to participate in the sport, of course not.

But if you're male, you belong in men's sports, and if you're female, you belong in women's sports, and that is it. But it's simple. If you want to, you know, dress a certain way, if you want to petition to wear a women's swimsuit while you compete in the men's category, be my guest. I really don't care. I mean, it it doesn't look very pleasant to see you in that costume, but if you, for some reason, you're going to kill yourself if you don't get to do that, which is what they say, then be my guest.

And it's going to be interesting because we're going to see pushback. We're going to see schools across the country that are going to refuse to comply with this. We're going to start seeing. States starting to pass state legislation where they're going to go in the other direction and essentially become sanctuary states for radical transgender ideology. And we're seeing that out west, especially.

California is going to be doing some wacky things, and same thing with Colorado. We've already seen some stories out of there. Minnesota, you mentioned. It's it's going to be interesting to track, but ultimately this is very simple. If you're born male, you belong in men's sports, and if you're born female, you belong in women's sports.

That is really the end of the discussion, and that should be the end of the discussion. But of course, we're going to continue to defend and protect these female athletes. What I find interesting is that, regardless of sex assigned at birth, which that statement right there drives me absolutely incrazy. I went to a physician yesterday and I had his preferred pronoun. I just put a big X through the whole thing.

I'm just like, there shouldn't be this many options. I just refuse to play the game. I wouldn't respond. It says an athlete can practice and compete with a men's team, assuming they meet all the other NCAA eligibility requirements, regardless of their sex assigned at birth or gender identity.

So, what they're saying is that as a woman, as a woman, you could go play in men's sports, practice, and compete with the team. What does, I mean, doesn't that right there say that there's a biological difference and a woman competing in men's sports is going to get her head handed to her? Or not make the team. Absolutely. Absolutely.

But the thing that's so interesting is even before they change these policies this week, okay, so I went on a deep dive back in 2019. I found out that William, Leah, whatever, Thomas, was joining my team. And I looked into the policy and it said that you don't have to go through any hormone treatment in order to compete on the men's team.

So in their policy, they acknowledged there's a difference between men and women. They said if you're a woman and you want to go go compete with the men, you can do so the minute you declare that you're a man. But if you're on the women's side, you have to do one year of hormone suppressing. And that was the policy that they had previous to the one they announced this week.

So they had already had that acknowledgement. And again, it's a known fact that once you go into the men's category, you're not going to do as well. I mean, they've they've had athletes, they even had actually an athlete at Yale doing doing that. Um During the same season, Leah Thomas was competing. And this individual said he identified he identified as a man.

Swam in the women's category. Then the next season went to the men's category and didn't qualify for anything.

So it's just all nonsense. It's just, I mean, again, I said it before, the NCAA is weak and full of powers. And so it doesn't surprise me that their policy is, you know, not perfect, incomplete. It's also taken, you know, like probably five years too long to announce at this point. But Uh Again, it's still when that Trump signed his executive order, and I'm glad that there are organizations like the NCAA do have to comply now.

What happens, though, now to like your former teammate Leah Thomas? He won trophies, got first place in a lot of competitions. Will he be stripped of those titles, and then whoever came in second get those titles? Is that how that's going to go? How do we do that?

I hope so. And I I think we we might have to continue to file lawsuits, but It's going to be a lot and it's not just with the autonomous, it's with all of these instances across different divisions, across not even just NCAA sports, but high school level sports, middle school level sports. I mean, We should start talking about this and bringing back these trophies and bringing back these awards and adapting the records. And I would love to see his name stripped off the record board at Harvard. University of Pennsylvania, University of Akron, and all of the pools we swam at during that season because he broke a record in pretty much every single one of them.

So I would love to see those processes start. I mean, I don't know if that's going to involve lawsuits, but if it needs to, then I will apply. Everyone who wants to help file these because absolutely these records need to be corrected and should have been corrected years ago. And there is a lawsuit that has been filed by three of the former teammates of Leah Thomas, and I assume you're one of them, I could be wrong, suing Leah Thomas. At NCAA, Ivy League, Harvard, and the school over Thomas' participation in all of this.

Where is that lawsuit right now? Yeah, I'm not actually on that lawsuit. I haven't really read through it. I actually didn't know about it.

So. I don't have much comment about it, but what I will say is I'm glad to see that people are finally coming out and talking about this. It's always it's better late than never. And also, I encourage everyone who's been flighted by the NCAA when it came to this policy that they should take legal action if possible, and they should absolutely hold the people accountable that allowed this to happen. Yeah, absolutely.

Well, thank you so much for taking the time to come on and talk about this and the good work you guys really, you just never gave up at the Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute. And, you know, good for Riley and the other women who spoke out against this and said, I'm sorry, but this just is not right because too many people just kowtowed because, you know, it's hard to be the one who speaks out.

So, so kudos to you and to Riley and the other women. And a job well done, ladies. Thank you, Paula. Have a great weekend. Thank you so much.

Appreciate you. Absolutely. Paula Y. Scanlon on X if you would like to follow her. Coming up after the bottom of the hour, Matt Schlapp will be joining us to talk about the upcoming CPAC from the 19th to the 22nd and also your calls.

I've got a caller coming up next on the Todd Starn Show. And happy Friday. I'm Mary Walter in for Todd Starns with you. And coming up at the bottom of the hour, Matchlap will be joining us. We're going to talk about the first two weeks with Trump and the media.

One of the things I wanted to get into. Is I wanted to talk about John Fetterman a little bit. We've got a little bit of time here, so let's do that. But you can jump in if you have a comment. Please feel free.

You want to jump in 901-260-5926, 901-260-5926. You can also reach out to me on X and at Mary Walter Radio. There's no S because there's only one of me. Mike tweeting me, saying, Hey, the left is concerned with the children, the left. And this is why they're in front of the Department of Education screaming and yelling.

Without the Department of Education, their children may get smart enough to see through the BS. Yeah, I think that that's part of it as well. All right, so let's take a little bit of a turn here and let's talk about John Fetterman. As I said, John Fetterman has been voting with Republicans a lot, especially when it comes to confirming. Donald Trump's nominees.

And he said, look, I don't just, he said repeatedly, I don't just represent Democrats, I also represents.

However, he said he's voting against Tulsi Gabbard and one other person, and I forgot to look it up.

So, if you know, you can reach out to me and tell me. But he is voting against Tulsi Gabbard and someone else.

So, Russ vote, I think. No, was it Russ vote? Anyway, all right.

So John Fetterman Was with Puck News reporter Tara Palmieri. And she asked him. And the podcast is called Somebody's Gotta Win. And she asked him how Democrats can win back white men such as himself.

Now, he still has some problems with words here and there, but you'll get the idea. Here's what he had to say in response to that question. I don't know. And truthfully, I'm not sure if that's possible, to be honest. I think that's been seriously eroding for a while.

And in some cases, in the conversations I've had, a lot of people, they don't even want to say it publicly, but they just feel like, you know, the other side seems like it's like men, well, men's the problem, men are to blame, or their masculinity is toxic, or if unless you're able to conform to our very strict kinds of definition of what we think is appropriate, well then, hey, I'm going to find an alternative, and they've done that. He's right. What did we start the show off talking about? Talking about, you know, the left seems to think that yelling and screaming and swearing at me and browbeating me and telling me I'm an idiot and all these other things fill in the blank and insurrectionist Hitler, the same thing they were doing during the election. They haven't figured out that that doesn't work.

And it doesn't work with men who've been told that just by being male, you know, they're privileged, especially if you're a white male, you're You're privileged, and if you're a male, you're privileged, and the color of your skin is toxic, and the testosterone in your body is toxic. And unless you conform to what they want you to be, then they don't want you. They basically told you they're not, we don't want you. Yeah, we could by having having their candidate call half of America garbage because they don't See the world the way you do? People have a tendency to say, you know what, I don't like you.

I don't like the way you message things. I don't even think I really like your message now. And they start listening to the other side. And what happened? Donald Trump spoke to them and said, Hey, you want to be, come on, be garbage with me.

You want to be garbage? Let's get a big old garbage truck. That was brilliant. Donald Trump did what you see some groups do. Remember the gay movement, right?

Like, oh my gosh, it's so gay. They're like, yeah. Or they called them queer. Oh, you're queer. Like, they tried, people tried to use that.

And the right did this, not the left, but the right did this. And they tried to smear people, homosexuals, with using the term queer. And so, what did they do? They embraced it and they turned it around. They said, you know, their chance were we're here, we're queer.

Donald Trump did the same thing with the derision from the left. You're going to call us garbage basket of deplorables. Remember, I still have a t-shirt that says adorable, deplorable. Donald Trump taught us how to embrace the derision, turn it around, and use it.

So you had people going to cast their ballots in garbage bags, wearing garbage bags. to show the left that they don't care. And John Fetterman seems to be one of the sane people. And I don't know if it's the stroke, I have no idea, or if he's kind of just been common sense all along. And he says it, he goes, It's just common sense.

It's just common sense.

So, do I think he changes parties? No, he's going to be a Democrat. And I don't know how much I buy how genuine this is anyway. He has an election coming up in midterms.

So I don't know. I think he does. Correct me if I'm wrong. Which I'm sure you will. I.

I don't know how genuine this is, or if this is about. This is about just getting votes. You know, he went on to say, he said, once we've one Once we've kind of turned their back on that demographic, meaning our back on that demographic, it's going to be difficult to rebuild and replace with those voters because I think that migration has been going, that migration has been on. God, I have to put words in here.

Sorry. Because I think that that migration has been an ongoing phenomenon for several years and that. Has been in front and center, you know, in part of the election in 2024.

So basically, we've been losing, we've been bleeding white men for a long time. And remember, they're like, well, we don't need you because you're white and you're toxic. And that's when they started putting down white men and telling them, well, we don't need you. But then what followed? Black men who were tired of being told that they were toxic just because of their the fact that they have a certain amount of testosterone.

They also black men in the black community also didn't like the illegal immigration. Because these people were being put in their neighborhoods. They didn't like that. Amazing how people don't like that. All right, coming up next, Matt Schlapp, joining us right here on the Todd Starn Show.

Welcome to Friday. I'm Mary Walter sitting in. For Todd Starnes, it's great to be with you. You know what else is great? My next guest.

Right here on the Patriot mobile newsmaker line, we have Matt Schlapp, the chair of the Conservative Political Action Committee Conference. You can find him on exit M Schlapp with two Ps. Matt, welcome to the show. Thanks for joining me. Great to be with you, Mary.

Of course, I'm going to see you soon too because upcoming CPAC, the 19th to the 22nd of this month, which I just signed up because I just found out the dates. I had totally forgotten about it. I'm like, oh my gosh, CPAC.

So I checked and I'm in and I'm going to be there and I'm so happy. Explain to people what CPAC is because it's not just for people who are in media or people who are on politics. There's a lot of people who come from all over the country to attend this event.

So for people who don't know, tell them what it's about. All over the country, and now all over the world. That's true. I think it's the most important. conservative gathering where people come together to plot and plan and compare We are a lot about political activism, but not just that, we're also a lot about education.

policy conversations, conservative disagreements and debates. A whole lot of fun. uh maybe uh a little bit of adult beverages and uh It all together, and it's a great. Four-day crashed course. in the state of America and freedom generally.

Absolutely. I know Javier Malay spoke last year, which was so great to see. And so you're right, it is from all over the world. And I actually went to something last year that was, I think, on Thursday night, and it was a roundtable. And it was with people from different organizations all over the world talking about conservatism and the movements in their country.

And I can't remember what the title of it was, but it was really, really interesting to hear these people from, I want to say, South Korea and just all over the world talking about the movement that Trump really lit a fire under and that has spread all across the globe. Do you remember what the name of that was? I don't remember. I think you're on. It's our first annual international summit.

We're going to have it again. That's going to be on. The nineteenth, we'll have dozens of countries there. And so you know, what became apparent to me as I was doing these DPACs around the world and these different continents. is that the things they were doing here, they were doing there, and sometimes they were doing things there.

That I realized they were probably going to do here. Election interference is a big piece of this. What USAID, all the scandals. About USAID, you know, that was playing out in those other countries when they were having elections. all this out of the country money was flooding in.

Um that was a big deal. Um obviously everything around the the uh the the virus and the lockdown. You know, comparing notes about what's happening, I mean, the big social media companies and the lockdown on the First Amendment. Yeah, the first time I heard about Pushing trans on kids was in Brazil, strangely enough. Bolsonaro was president.

We're out of CPAC, and the minister gets up there and starts talking about how. in you know textbooks for seven, eight, nine year olds they were pushing gender radical gender theory. And I thought, well, that's not These you know, Mercy and I didn't even realize they were doing the same thing in Virginia textbooks. Uh so you know the globalist uh Effort to undermine civilization and kind of societal norms. It's a very scary.

very well coordinated thing and I'm Very proud that CPAC is standing athwart it and trying to stop it. The other interesting thing about CPAC, and then we'll move on, is, and I want people to realize, is there's a lot of young people there. And I was always struck by the number of young people. It seems to be more and more every year, especially young men, which we know overwhelmingly voted for Trump, that demographic voted for the president.

So if someone wants to say, you know, hey, I have a kid, he loves Donald Trump, he wants to be involved in the movement, how can they get involved?

Well, that's a great point. The first thing is it just shows up at CPAC. A student ticket is uh fifty bucks or less.

So it's a little bit of money. And what I've noticed is Mary, in the old days there'd be bus loads coming from Christian schools and Private schools and conservative schools.

Now you see a lot of these college kids are coming one or two at a time. From big state schools, from all kinds of schools. And mostly because young men in our society have been told. that um they're toxic They've been told that um being Male is part of the patriarchy. Of old, that it's intimidating to minorities of women.

And so if you're a White, straight Christian guy, you know, you don't need to apply, kind of like they used to say about. you know, racial minorities. And it's been a real disgusting phase in our Country's history, I do think this. The young people woke up and realized how insane this was, and they pushed back and They supported Trump, and I think the gay community supported Trump because they thought all this trans stuff on kids was crazy.

So they supported Trump in higher numbers, Asians, blacks. Hispanics they threw this whole idea that being for Trump Was racist on its head when the people in the racial minority said, hey, we don't like an open border, we don't like crime going through the roof. We don't like girls' sports being destroyed by biological men. Um all these things were just too radical and I really take my hat off to the newer Americans, these immigrants. who were up to the task of realizing that It was a sniff test that that that what the leftists were pushing just that wasn't going to pass.

Yeah. And you can also find out more about this if you do want to find out about it. Get a ticket. cpac.org is where you need to go. And will President Trump be joining us this year?

Yes, and Mary, I always blow it when I'm supposed to be promoting my own organization. Thank you for being better than me. Yes, please go to cpac.org and get your tickets today. See all the speakers. President Trump, I'm not allowed to say whether he's coming or not, but I will say this: he's come every year.

I've been chairman. Um I can't imagine he's not coming. And just be looking for looking at my Twitter feed. We'll be making all these big announcements really soon. But really, all the senators and Congressmen and people in media you want to hear from will be there.

And bricks, what is it? The brick wall guy is always there, too. The brick suit guy is always there. He's always there. God bless that man.

And I saw some nuns last year, which I thought was awesome. I thought that was fantastic. Yeah, it was fantastic as well. It's an interesting story in politics. The holy chase women think Trump is their savior.

They love him. Let's talk a little bit about what Doge has discovered regarding payments to Politico. And I find it interesting because they also talk about how much money we spend with NPR. And Dan O'Donnell just posted that in Wisconsin Public Radio reported that there's a number of anti-Elon Musk protesters at the state capitol in Wisconsin. And they said there were thousands.

Then the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said it was about 400. The actual photo, there's no more than 30 there.

So here it is, Wisconsin Public Radio, NPR, getting all this money.

So it's not just Politico getting this money. Let's talk about that when it comes to the politicization of our media that has happened over the last, well, I guess it's probably happened over the last four to 30 or more years. How do we reverse that?

So we don't need PBS or NPR. They're paid for By and large, by the taxpayers. And maybe the argument was there's not a diversity of media outlets at some point. But I mean, Everything's reliable. 90% of media is reliably left, NPR and CBS.

lead the band on being to the left We should cut all taxpayer funding to these organizations. I used to be a contributor to PBS, and you know who my debate partner was? None other than Karine. Jean-Pierre, and they thought we were both too aggressive on TV. They were like, the two aggressive.

He cut back and Corine and I had lunch, and we both agreed that we have to be true to ourselves. If she's going to call me a racist, I'm probably going to react to Chris. And that's usually how our conversations plan, or she would say Donald Trump is a racist, and then I. defend Donald Trump. And so you never guess what they did, Mary.

They fired me and they kept her. This kind of stuff ha this kind of stuff happens. BNN and MSNBC, we don't need to have a taxpayer-funded left-wing media. We already have a corporate-funded media. Left-wing media, and now we're trying now we're coming to find out it's not just PBS and NPR that are getting a bunch of taxpayer money, it's Politico and all these other organizations like AP.

They lie and say, Well, they were just getting a subscription to our very sophisticated Politico Pro news source. This is a bribe. was a bribe by the Biden administration to facilitate more hate coverage of Trump and his allies. And I'm very glad that Elon Musk and Donald Trump at the team are exposing this. And whatever happens to liberals, they say we need transparency.

We give them transparency and they start you know, call them as criminals. It's it, and you know, you know why you lost out. You know why you got fired because you're a white dude. That's exactly right. No, there was no question.

It was okay for the For the black person to constantly scream race, but if the white person defends himself in that situation, then uh it's not acceptable and you get fired and This is one of the reasons why Donald Trump is the president. They just fundamentally lost the American people. Yeah, no, absolutely 100%. And the idea that we still fund NPR and PBS, when they make money, they make more than enough money and they can sell ads. And I believe NPR is being investigated because one of the NPR outlets is being investigated because they were selling ads.

And they're not allowed to do that if they're getting the taxpayer money. And they make enough anyway.

So it's time to defund them. And people have said that. go to get to DC, go see NPR's studio. Oh, I know. It's the most gold plated thing I've ever seen in media, nicer than any T V station.

We paid for all of it. The last thing they need is more of our money. And they have, they get fed, they get meals. I can't cobble together 25 cents to get something out of the out of the vending machine. And the coffee you get is the cheapest stuff they could possibly find, and it's the most vital thing in a radio station.

Matt Schlapp, chair of the Conservative Political Action Committee. Check him out on X at M Schlapp and also check out cpaxcpac.org and come join us in two weeks in Washington, D.C. at the Gaylord, which is a beautiful place to have to stay and to have some kind of conference. And the whole area at the waterfront there at the National Harbor is really nice, and there's lots of great restaurants. And it really is a fun time.

And everybody's super friendly, and you meet people from all over the world. And so it's a lot of fun.

So come join us. Matt, thank you so much. I'll see you in two weeks. Thanks, Mary. Look to me.

Take care. Yes, and hugs to to a mercy as well. 901-260-5926 is my number. 901-260-5926. So reach out to me on X at Mary Walter Radio.

We're not done yet. I got more coming up on the Todd Starn Show. Hey, welcome back to the Todd Starn show. Like I said, it's just crazy with the Trump administration. There's always something.

So this just came out. U.S. Attorney Edwards. R. Martin Jr.

for the District of Columbia, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, sent a note letter today to Mr. Elon Musk and Mr. Steve Davis at Doge. Thank you for the referral of individuals and networks who appear to be stealing government property and/or threatening government employees.

After your referral, as is my practice, I will begin an inquiry. Please let me reiterate again: if people are discovered. To have broken the law or even acted simply unethically, we will investigate them and we will chase them to the end of the earth to hold them accountable. We will not rest or cease in this. No one should.

No one should abuse American taxpayer dollars nor American taxpayer workers. No one is above the law. I am proud that we have been able to assist local law enforcement in protecting the Doge workers and others over the past week or so. A safety sea is a priority for President Trump and all of us.

So people have been threatening Doge and the workers. And we're finding out who these kids are who are working on the team. And so he's like, oh, let us know. Thank you for letting us know that there were people who were. Who were threatening us?

So, all right, let's go to Mike. Mike in Newport, North Carolina, who's been so, so, so patient. Mike, thank you for joining me here on the Todd Starn show. Thank you for holding on. You have a problem with Trump's edict about straws?

What's your problem with the straws? I know, no, no. That's not necessarily true. But look, first, I do enjoy the Todd Starn show, and I think you're doing a great job. And uh just Just a couple of quick comments, Matt and Mercedes.

doing a great job for uh the GOP. And uh, Mr. Feder madam. probably the only person I've ever heard of And I'm 71. The only person I've ever heard of that got smarter.

Because of a stroke.

So I don't know how that happened. I don't know how that happened. But, you know, we need more of that.

So but no no no problem with straws. You had mentioned earlier about New Jersey stuff washing up on the beach all the time. We uh we live in North Carolina. Um I am we're right on the coast. I'm at the beach a lot.

Um We go to the when we vacation, we go to Hatteras, you know, on the beach. Uh, we go to Florida on the beach, we're beach people. Um I have never seen a turtle with a straw on his nose or or a porpoise. with a straw uh Stuck anywhere in them. You know, I mean, no.

No nose, no nothing, and I have seen a bunch. I've seen a bunch of corpses and a bunch of turfs up. We have uh like a sea turtle preserve here along our beach. Um you know so Yeah, fertiles they uh course they protect them and they're in good shape, but uh Carolina beaches, um which is incidentally probably the fastest growing state in the in the Union, probably. I'm back on.

And all along the coast down south here, beaches are clean. You know, now shipwreck or something or something. comes in, that's a different story, you know. But um but that's that's all. That's the only thing about the straws um You need to come on and get rid of being a Yankee and slide on down here with the rest of the Yankees.

Yeah, see, that's the thing. You know, it's funny, the Carolinas, they call it the halfback, you know, because the people from the north can still get back to see the grandkids in just a day's drive. And I just think it would drive me crazy that they just vote, you know, move down there and then vote the same for everything that they just left. It drives me nuts. I'm hoping that they all just move out of New Jersey and go to the Carolinas and then leave it for us.

That's where I am right now. Thank you so much for your picture. Go ahead.

Okay, we have just a bumper sticker. We have a. Bumper sticker down here that says we don't care how you did it up there. Anyway, exactly. Mike, thank you for your patience.

I appreciate you holding on. Have a wonderful weekend. You're a sweetie. Let's go quickly to Connor from Massachusetts. Connor, I have about 90 seconds here for you.

Welcome to the Todd Starn Show. Mary, you're doing a great job. Always a pleasure to talk to you. I'm going to tell you, it is I'm with you. It is a pleasure to wake up every single day and look at the T V and know that President Trump is president again.

What he needs to keep doing is what he's doing right now and firing more of these government bureaucrats and all these this wasteful spending.

Soja's doing a great job. Elon Musk is doing a great job. We have the dream team in place right now, and it's very refreshing. Um, since we fired uh we fired Joe Geis and Kamala Eric. It's it's amazing.

You know what's interesting? Do we know who we fired who was running the country? Just curious. Do we know who that was? I don't think we do.

I think we have some ideas, but we'll say the president and name only is the one we fired. I like to call him president pudding pants, but just because I hate to, I don't like to be mean, but he never should have been in there for as long as he was. And that was, I blame his wife for that, and she put him through that. But they had to go long enough so that he could pardon everybody. And, you know, that's what they did, which is disgusting.

So, Connor, thank you very much. Oh, the pleasure. All right. Thank you so much. I appreciate you.

And have a wonderful, wonderful weekend, Connor. We're running out of time here, so we got to get going. But it's a pleasure talking to you guys. I hope I see you with CPAC. That would be great if you decide to go.

It really is a lot of fun. And especially, it's so great to see so many young people there. It's really nice. And you'll see also, you know, Newsmax will be there. And you'll see, you know, they have Radio Row with all the radio stations that go, and there's TVs and all that stuff.

And you'll get to see a lot of politicians as well. Don't forget to follow me on X at Mary Walter Radio. Check out my podcast. Again, Mary Walter Radio. There's no S.

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