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	So we have this entire issue of whether or not the DOJ, whether or not the FBI has been weaponized.
	You know, I'm listening to Director Ray testify before the Senate last week.
	Pretty amazing.
	You know, he's never seen more threats, a larger threat level than ever before.
	And for the first time, he even mentions Joe Biden's illegal immigration and open borders.
	But yet, what has the FBI been involved in?
	Oh, let's see, before the 2020 election, they've been meeting with big tech companies, warning them they may be victims of misinformation campaigns, and it may be about Hunter and Joe Biden knowing that they verified that Hunter's laptop was authentic and real.
	When Facebook and Twitter reached out to the FBI after the New York Post broke the laptop story, they would not confirm what they knew to be true.
	Maybe if they didn't invest resources in ways that seemingly are political and would have an impact on a presidential election, maybe if they weren't harassing tiger moms and dads that go to school board meetings that dare to want age-appropriate material taught to their children, maybe if they didn't go after traditional Catholics, maybe, just maybe they'd have more resources to deal with the worst terror threats we've ever had.
	Of course, another big story today is the European Union.
	There was a terror plot that was foiled and a Mossad warning that goes along with that, which we discussed earlier in the program.
	Well, now we have justthenews.com.
	Well, before I get to that, let me take you back to Jim Jordan.
	And this is Jim Jordan grilling Merritt Garland in October of 2021.
	I want you to listen to this exchange.
	Will FBI agents be attending local school board meetings?
	No, FBI agents will not be attending local school boards' meetings, and there's nothing in this memo to suggest that.
	I want to, again, try to be clear.
	This memo is about violence and threats of violence.
	Let me just point out: the same day you did the memo, the Justice Department sent out a press release Monday, October 24th, or excuse me, Monday, October 4th, 2021.
	The press release says Justice Department addresses violent threats against school officials and teachers.
	Now, you said earlier to a question from one of my colleagues on the Republican side that parents aren't domestic terrorists.
	We're not going to treat them that way.
	But let me just read from the third paragraph.
	According to the Attorney General's memorandum, the Justice Department will launch a series of additional efforts in the coming days designed to address the rising criminal conduct directed towards school personnel.
	Those efforts are expected to include a creation of a task force consisting of representatives from the department's criminal division, civil rights division, executive office of U.S. Attorneys, the FBI, the Community Relations Service, Office of Justice Programs, and the National Security Division.
	And I find that interesting.
	You said there's no way you're going to be treating parents as domestic terrorists, but you got the National Security Division in a press release regarding your memo that day.
	My memo does not mention the National Security Divisions.
	It's addressed to you.
	I didn't say it did.
	I said the press release accompanying your memo that day from the Department of Justice.
	Right here it is.
	It's talks about the National Security Division being part of this effort.
	I want to be clear as I can be.
	This is not about what happens in Sky school board meetings.
	It's only about threats of violence and violence aimed at school officials, school employees, and teachers.
	Okay, now, justthenews.com, founder, editor-in-chief, investigative reporter John Solomon just broke news at a newly released public memo, first referenced by the House Judiciary Committee in their March report on the DOJ's efforts to monitor these nebulous threats against school boards, et cetera.
	It shows the top-down effort from Merritt Garland's department to gather information and facilitate prosecutions with local law enforcement against parents that are concerned with curricula that is imposed on their children.
	Joining us now to explain what may be a huge, massive contradiction of the testimony you heard.
	And what we now know is John Solomon, editor-in-chief, founder, and investigative reporter, justthenews.com.
	Sir, how are you?
	By the way, Merry Christmas, my friend.
	Merry Christmas, Sean.
	Good to be with you.
	Yes.
	Yeah, this is a very important set of documents.
	I think the Protect the Public Trust, which is a public watchdog that's been doing a lot of FOIA work, they went after some documents that were hinted at in Jim Jordan's recent report on this, and they went and got this memo.
	This is a very important memo.
	Two weeks after Merrill Garland put his memo out there saying, hey, we're going to treat these threats seriously.
	We need to roll out all the resources.
	Right after he gives that testimony, a memo goes out from the executive office of the U.S. Attorneys.
	Now, remember, at this moment, Merrick Garland's downplaying.
	Hey, this isn't a big deal.
	We're not overblowing this.
	We're just looking at violence.
	On October 20th, this memo goes out from the executive office of U.S. Attorneys.
	It's basically the office that supervises the 93 U.S. attorneys, the chief federal prosecutors across the country.
	And it says, all of you must go out and have a meeting with your local law enforcement in the next two weeks.
	There's a deadline even set and get these guys rolling.
	Get the cops.
	Sick the cops on this.
	Let's get rolling on this.
	And oh, by the way, after you have the meeting, you have an obligation to come back and report to us who attended and what you discussed.
	This is a very top-down, put pressure on the federal prosecutors to rile up local law enforcement and to get something going.
	Now, if this was such a serious violence problem, you would assume that the local police and the local prosecutors would be contacting the Justice Department.
	That wasn't happening.
	This is the Justice Department trying to rile up local law enforcement officials and try to get them engaged on going after anyone who might be upset with the school board, might be threatening violence against them.
	It's a very top-down effort, very different from the sort of way you just heard Merrick Garland try to downplay it.
	The Justice Department was trying to uplay the threat.
	Now, one of the things we don't have, we've never been given data from the Justice Department on how much threats went up.
	Were there really violence against any school board members?
	We can't find many episodes, so it doesn't look like there was a spike.
	There's never been a data to support the idea that there was a spike and this needed to be done.
	I want to point out one other thing that shows up in the document.
	In one of the accompanying documents for this, it's revealed that the Justice Department wanted to activate the FBI's National Threat Operations Center, NTOC.
	This is normally put out there or a center that's used to take terrorist threats and immediate threats for public safety.
	They wanted to activate this center and put this also in action against possible threats being made at school boards or clashes between parents and school boards.
	All of that comes out in these new FOIAs.
	You get the sense that the federal government was actually trying to rile up local law enforcement than the other way around.
	It's pretty unbelievable the story.
	But let me go back to the testimony part of the Attorney General because we had contradicting testimony from David Weiss, who's now the special counsel involved in the Hunter Biden case.
	This was the guy that wanted no charges at all.
	That was the initial plan until we heard from whistleblowers.
	And then the whistleblowers' testimony resulted in a, quote, sweetheart deal that would have resulted in no jail time.
	That got blown out of the water by a Delaware judge.
	And thankfully so.
	If you look at the testimony, you know, of the whistleblowers and they took contemporaneous notes, they said that David Weiss was very clear that, in fact, he did not have the authority to bring charges against Hunter Biden in other venues, directly contradicting, by the way, himself, what he said to one elected official versus what he said to another elected official.
	I mean, he just said one thing to one, one thing to the other, the exact opposite, but also contradicting the Attorney General Merrick Garland.
	Do we have an example here yet again that Merrick Garland is going before Congress and not being completely truthful?
	Yeah, listen, I think that's how most of the members of Congress are looking at this.
	And Jim Jordan has had this concern from the beginning, which is Merrick Garland got caught, right?
	This was something that started with the school boards and the woke educators putting pressure on the education department, education department, put pressure on the Justice Department.
	Mayor Garland bends and he sends out this memo.
	I'm pretty sure from the people I've talked to the Justice Department, he's always had buyers' remorse after it got out there because it became such a public backlash.
	And he spent the next couple of weeks trying to downplay.
	Well, we weren't really doing anything different here.
	We're not putting pressure on anybody.
	We're trying to address a problem that was actually occurring at the local level.
	And what you find out is the local level isn't complaining to the Justice Department.
	The Justice Department is pressing its prosecutors to go out and try to rile up the local cops and say, hey, do you have a problem?
	Let's get involved on this.
	No one has ever provided the data.
	And I think if Congress had a good follow-up, it would be to follow up and say, is there any data, Mr. Attorney General, Justice Department, FBI, that showed a sudden spike that this really was a national crisis?
	Because we can't find it.
	We don't find it in the FOIA documents.
	We don't find it in anything that the government's put out there.
	They claim that there's this spike, but no one really sees any evidence of violence in the numbers.
	And so I think that's a good follow-up.
	But I think that the distrust that Merrick Garland has created with Congress is real.
	It starts with Hunter Biden and it continues on in this story as well.
	All right, quick break more with John Solomon on the other side.
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	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
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	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
	That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
	We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
	So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
	You're our kind of people.
	Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday.
	On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen.
	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Napok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Lock her up.
	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	I'm Ben Ferguson.
	And I'm Ted Cruz.
	Three times a week we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
	Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
	Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
	And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
	We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
	So download Verdict with Ted Cruz Now wherever you get your podcasts.
	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
	That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
	We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
	So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people.
	Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Napok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Lock her up.
	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	I'm Ben Ferguson.
	And I'm Ted Cruz.
	Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
	Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
	Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
	And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
	We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
	So download Verdict with Ted Cruz Now wherever you get your podcasts.
	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
	That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
	We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
	So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people.
	Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and, frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Lock her up.
	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	I'm Ben Ferguson.
	And I'm Ted Cruz.
	Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
	Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
	Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
	And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
	We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
	So download Verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
	We continue now with John Solomon, justthenews.com editor-in-chief, founder, and investigative reporter.
	Let me shift gears on you if you don't mind, John.
	We had the House yesterday voting for the impeachment inquiry.
	I will tell you, there has been no reporter in the country that has done more work, broke up more stories, that has done more investigative reports that have been corroborated and confirmed and verified than you have.
	And I tip my hat to you personally.
	It is a tribute to the hard work that you do every day and your commitment to get things right.
	Very similar to the Russia hoax case and the Witch You Work So Hard impeachment case.
	I mean, this is what you were born to do, in my view.
	But I want to go to this and I'm watching the, we watched what was unfolding yesterday and then the sideshow that Hunter Biden put on and doesn't want to give a deposition like the Trump children did and goes out lashing out the way he did.
	Let me play part of that from yesterday.
	Jim Jordan, Jason Smith, and their colleagues have distorted the facts by cherry-picking lines from a bank statement, manipulating texts I sent, editing the testimony of my friends and former business partners, and misstating personal information that was stolen from me.
	There is no fairness or decency in what these Republicans are doing.
	They have lied over and over about every aspect of my personal and professional life.
	So much so that their lies have become the false facts believed by too many people.
	No matter how many times it is debunked, they continue to insist that my father's support of Ukraine against Russia is the result of a non-existent bribe.
	They displayed naked photos of me during an oversight hearing.
	And they have taken the light of my dad's love, the light of my dad's love for me, and presented it as darkness.
	They have no shame.
	Wow.
	Let's get your reaction to it because obviously we've covered this top to bottom.
	Amazing how you can make millions and millions and millions of dollars with no experience at a time you're struggling with addiction and we can't find any services ever rendered by anybody.
	And we're talking about tens of millions of dollars, John Solomon.
	Well, listen, this is a classic Democrat strategy, right?
	Which is to play the victim card.
	I'm a victim here.
	Me and my family, even though we made millions off of China, Russia, Ukraine, and others, we're a victim.
	And that's not the case.
	But the most important words he uttered yesterday was this very small twist of phrase.
	He's changed the phrase now.
	We went from Joe Biden not involved in his business to Joe Biden not financially involved.
	They have moved the goalpost.
	And this is a very important moment.
	Anyone who's been watching this, it wrung their errors the second he uttered it.
	By changing it to financially involved, he's trying to say this, and you're not going to be able to find money to my father that, you know, he wasn't an investor in my businesses.
	But what it does leave open now is the very real possibility that the evidence shows that Joe Biden was involved in his business.
	He was meeting with his business partners.
	He was taking actions that, whether intentionally or otherwise, benefited his business partners.
	He had meetings at the Naval Observatory, at a restaurant in Washington, D.C.
	He was furthering the family business.
	And in some cases, it appears that money came back to the family business.
	There's nothing else to pay back.
	Joe Biden money he was owed.
	But that is a very significant change in phraseology.
	And it's the third or fourth time that the Bidens have changed the goalpost.
	We went from, he never got any money from China.
	He never did anything to help his son's business.
	He never met with his son's business partners to now he wasn't financially involved in it.
	That is a major recognition that what's about to come in the impeachment proceedings is clear evidence that Joe Biden was involved in helping Hunter Biden make these millions of dollars by showing up at dinners, by making phone calls, perhaps by firing the prosecutor in Ukraine.
	And I'm going to throw another data point out there.
	It's something that we'll make public tomorrow.
	The congressional committees have done a lot of work to show that Hunter Biden's 2017 China deal, the CEFC energy, China energy deal, actually began when Joe Biden was the vice president.
	It wasn't in 2017.
	It's consummated earlier.
	And then the monies are withheld until after Joe Biden has left the office.
	That is a very important dynamic.
	It makes it look like the family's trying to hide their China connections until Joe Biden can be out of office.
	We're going to put out some very new information, including some testimony that was given to the FBI by a business associate of Hunter Biden that makes clear, though the FBI didn't follow up very strangely, that Joe Biden may have met with Hunter's Chinese business partners, the CFC business partners, before he left office as vice president.
	In other words, he was vice president and he was facilitating the China deal, that $3 million payment, diamond tarot, and that $5 million loan.
	Unbelievable work, John Solomon.
	Probably won't talk to you, at least on the air, till after the new year, but thanks for all the hard work, being a great partner, friend to us.
	We wish you and your wonderful family all the best this holiday season.
	And we hope you get a little bit of downtime.
	I know it goes against both our natures, but it's important.
	Anyway, if people knew the hours of which we'd speak, I think they would think we're both insane.
	And they probably would all be right.
	Anyway, God bless you and your family.
	Have a great holiday, my friend.
	800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
	I 25 down to the top of the hour.
	We'll get to your calls, your comments straight ahead, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	All right, let's get to our busy phones.
	Brian is in the state run by Gavin Newsom.
	Anyway, Brian, how are you from California?
	What's going on?
	I am great, and I'm loving it in California.
	You know, I have a question, though.
	If Hunter Biden wants to be public with it and everybody has this mountain of evidence, why not put it on TV so everyone can see it and then everyone will say he's guilty.
	If you play the game where you hide it behind closed doors and you leak little bits out, then you get this 50-50 game going on.
	Everything should always be out front.
	We're all adults.
	We can all decide.
	I don't, I mean, I respect you, but I don't need you to tell me what it is.
	I don't need anyone to tell me what it is.
	I can watch it and make my own decision.
	And I think everything should be like that: whether it's Donald Trump, whether it's Joe Biden, whether it's Hunter Biden, whether it's whoever, it all should be on C-SPAN, and we all can watch it at our own leisure and make our own decisions.
	And then we'll have true democracy and people won't have this.
	I believe this, I believe that, because we'll all see the same thing.
	Well, I got to tell you this.
	Well, let me ask you this.
	You say you're an independent voter?
	I mean, I vote Democrat and I vote Republican.
	I voted for Trump the first time, not the second time.
	I want to vote for Nikki this time.
	So I vote by the person, not by a party.
	Okay.
	But don't the principles of where the person stands matter to you?
	For example, you know, I don't know how you can vote for somebody that doesn't want secure borders and then somebody that wants sanctuary cities and states.
	How do you vote for somebody that wants only green energy and to eliminate oil, gas, coal, and take away our refrigerators and our air conditioners and our gas stoves and somebody that doesn't?
	You know, how do you support somebody that believes in law and order and those that want to reimagine or defund and dismantle the police?
	I mean, I would imagine issues have to matter to you just as much, right?
	Well, I thought what we were talking about was whether or not Hunter Biden should be on TV or behind closed doors.
	If we're talking about that, that's why I voted for Trump the first time because Mexico is going to build a wall.
	But like DeSincimonia said, that never happened.
	Well, I disagree with you.
	500 miles of wall was built.
	I mean, I'm not sure what Governor DeSantis, and I'm very fond of Governor DeSantis.
	I'm not in this fight between him and Donald Trump.
	I think he's done a great job with the state of Florida.
	He's 45 years old.
	Whatever happens in this primary, I think his political future is bright.
	And I think he is a real true conservative who's done a great job for the people of Florida.
	And I think that was evident during the debate that he had with Gavin Newsom.
	Did you watch the debate?
	Yeah, I did.
	But again, I'm voting for the president of the United States, not the president of Florida.
	All right, understood.
	But I'm just saying, what state policies do you like?
	You prefer California or do you prefer Florida?
	Neither.
	There's some about and some I don't like.
	I like some and some I don't like for each state.
	Well, tell me what what California is doing better that's benefiting the people of California more so than the state of Florida.
	I don't know all the Florida policies, but I know that Miami is no.
	Well, they have zero income tax.
	In your state, they have a high tax of 13%.
	A fair, a married couple pays 6% income tax.
	In California, they pay zero.
	The homelessness population is dramatically lower in Florida than California.
	The crime rate in California is nearly twice that of Florida.
	So tell me, you can't cite one thing that you think California is doing better?
	No, what is the population of California versus Broad population if it's twice as no we're measuring that per capita, so it's apples to apples.
	I'd like to see you cite that data because I think that's a little bit if you watch the debate.
	I cited all of these statistics over and over again.
	I did it, you know, what do you want me to put it up on a silver platter in Melathea House?
	No, the debate is never reality.
	Everyone knows the debate is people cherry-pitting their own things.
	It's not, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop.
	I did a fact-based debate.
	You know what I never got criticized for?
	That debate, moderating that debate, except for maybe like one or two far-left organizations.
	You want to know why?
	Do you think if I got one fact wrong in my question in that debate, do you not think I would have been excoriated, roundly excoriated by the media?
	You know that's true, right?
	And the reason they didn't excoriate me is because they couldn't excoriate me because I did my work.
	I did my job.
	And we checked our facts and we cited our sources, like the U.S. Census Bureau, for example.
	Those kind of numbers.
	You're acting like Daswami now.
	You want to let me speak.
	I'm asking you if I ask one question.
	But you don't answer any of mine, but go ahead, ask away.
	Have you been to Miami?
	Have you been to Jacksonville?
	Have you been to Tampa?
	Yeah, I've been everywhere.
	I've been to California, too.
	I lived in California five years.
	I know.
	And when you were in Miami and Jacksonville and Tampa, did you feel safe?
	Because I know I didn't.
	I did.
	Yeah, I felt 100% safe.
	I didn't feel...
	You had no crime in Miami?
	Listen, I'm just giving you the numbers.
	You don't want to deal with this number.
	The number is per capita per 100,000, California, when you talk about homicides, murders, and rape, has twice the number of Florida.
	Those are FBI statistics.
	Now, I'm citing my source from the FBI, okay?
	What is the number then?
	It's about 499 per 100,000, I believe, in California, and it's about 250 per 100,000 in Florida.
	So there's crime everywhere.
	No, there's twice as much crime in California.
	What is wrong with you?
	Are you dipping into the eggnog a little early or what?
	You know, it's nicer than making those kind of insults on people if you can't put it.
	It's not an insult.
	I was kind of joking around with you.
	You have no sense of liberal.
	You don't have a sense of humor.
	I don't think it's funny.
	And here's why.
	Because I think it's very funny.
	Have that much crime.
	We don't have that crime while I live in the parts of Miami.
	All right, I'll start name.
	Go to San Francisco.
	Go to one of the stores, the smash and grab stores.
	Go talk to the people at Walmart.
	Go talk to the people at Target.
	Go talk to all the stores that have decided to close down because they can't make money anymore because of smash and grab robberies.
	Go down to South Central Los Angeles.
	Go to anywhere in Los Angeles.
	Talk to those store owners that have been victims of smash and grab robberies.
	So, you know, I mean, I could throw right back at you.
	Do you feel safe in those cities?
	Because I wouldn't feel safe there.
	Are there smash and grabs in Miami?
	Is there crime in Miami?
	All right.
	This is just a waste of my time.
	Let's go to David is in the free state of Florida.
	Maybe we'll get some common sense out of him.
	David, how are you?
	I'm good, Sean.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Thank you for calling.
	I just wanted to chime in on the impeachment process.
	I was listening to Mark Levin and he had Alan Dershwitz on the other night, a couple nights ago, and they laid out beautifully the case to impeach Biden strictly really on immigration and his failure to enforce the border laws, the immigration laws, and all the implications that has, including national security.
	Plus, no one's ever really answered the question about How long these illegal immigrants get free room and board and $2,000 a month?
	And when does that end?
	And where's the constitutional authority to spend that money?
	But it was a beautiful job that Mark did of laying out the high crimes and in a very simple way, because it is very simple, that the American public can really relate to versus trying to drew the investigation with depositions and everything else to try and get down to the facts.
	Look, let me just say the way I've been saying it, because I think Mark is right.
	I mean, I've been using different terminology, but the president has taken an oath to a sworn oath to uphold the laws of the land and our Constitution.
	And he has been picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce and which he doesn't want to enforce.
	And we have laws on immigration.
	He has not been enforcing those laws.
	And I've been telling everybody he is aiding and abetting in law breaking.
	That in and of itself would be an impeachable offense.
	If I went down to the border and I put somebody in my car and drove them to whatever state and said, here, get out here.
	What state would you like to go to?
	This is what Joe Biden's administration is doing.
	I promise you I would be arrested and I'd spend time in jail for human trafficking.
	Now, what's the difference between that?
	Joe Biden has institutionalized it.
	We've never had this many people entering our country unvetted as since Joe Biden has been president.
	And look at where many are coming from.
	The hundreds from Iran, the hundreds from Syria, the thousands from Afghanistan, the thousands from Egypt, the 12,000 plus from Russia, the 20 some odd thousand from China.
	I don't think they're making it to our southern border, all of them, because they want a better life of themselves and their children.
	And I do believe that the likelihood that Joe Biden has allowed into this country with his border, open border immigration policies, Joes illegal immigrants, I do believe we probably have terrorist cells plotting, planning, scheming the next attack on our nation.
	And that in and of itself would be impeachable to me.
	I have said it.
	I think Congress should be looking into it.
	I don't see it happening.
	And by the way, he's doing the same thing.
	He's defying a court decision on the issue of student loans, and he doesn't seem to care.
	Well, that bypasses the concept of co-equal branches of government.
	We do have a legislative branch, and we do have a judicial branch on top of his executive branch.
	They're not co-equal if you defy a court order, and they're not co-equal if you defy legislation that was passed and signed into law.
	So, I mean, there's your president.
	That's your choice.
	November 2024, you get a chance to fix it.
	Anyway, appreciate the call.
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	Help me, help me, Rhonda.
	I hear that all the time.
	Well, I bet you do.
	What's going on?
	I have a couple things.
	Regarding the impeachment inquiry, now, if the president or anybody for that matter is even charged with treason, does the military handle that?
	And also, regarding the border, I was listening to the previous caller.
	It makes no sense, you know, to expose us to these people coming over from countries who obviously hate us.
	So what's motivating Biden, Maorcas, or any Congress member to keep the borders open?
	Are they being paid by China, Iran, the cartel?
	I mean, what do you think?
	It doesn't make any sense.
	It makes no sense, and I think it is a clear and present danger to the country, don't you?
	Oh, yes, for sure, for sure.
	You know, look, elections have consequences.
	And when you have radicals like Joe Biden and the Radical Democratic Socialist Party, the climate alarmist cult in charge, the radical socialist in charge, this is the government you get.
	Now, America is about to face an election, as I keep mentioning.
	And that is our opportunity to shift and change course as a country.
	And I hope we choose the right course.
	Look, let me put it this way, Rhonda.
	In all the years I've been doing radio, which is, you know, I started my first radio show was in 1987.
	And since that time, I've done a lot of hours on radio and a lot of hours on television.
	28 years.
	I'm now in my 28th year at Fox.
	I've been very blessed in my career.
	Thanks to all of you.
	And I mean that with all my heart.
	I'm very grateful.
	And I could tell you, I've never been this afraid about the direction of the country.
	And I've never been this, I don't say afraid.
	I think the word concerned.
	Deeply concerned.
	I've never been this deeply concerned about the state of the country and the state of the world.
	And I've never been more concerned about America's vulnerability.
	And that vulnerability in large part stems from the fact that we have elected a president that does not know that today is Thursday, the day after Wednesday, the day before Friday.
	It's sad to me.
	It's very sad.
	And so that's why I'm telling people that, you know, elections matter.
	Look, you know what I hear from this audience, though?
	I hear hope because I hear all of you are engaged.
	You know what I hear from this audience?
	here an opportunity that you hopefully will seize.
	All next year, you know, I'm going to take my long vacation and I try to find God on vacation.
	I try to get centered.
	I try to relax my brain a little bit and I'm going to be thinking hard, long and hard about how I will approach this coming election and how best to approach it.
	And I will tell you, this is it.
	To me, it's all laying on the line here.
	That's how I feel.
	And I don't think that feeling is going away.
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