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Questioning Government - January 10th, Hour 1

The liberal media is racing to defend the Democrats in Los Angeles.  When is it okay to question the government's performance during major disasters?  The answer is, it's never too soon to get the truth and answers to very tough questions!  What we've seen in California is the promise of socialism.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Sort of anti climatic, the quote, sentencing, nonsentence of Donald Trump in this ridiculous uh case in New York, that that I mean, it will be overturned.
I'm 99.99999% certain that that's going to be the case, uh, regardless of what the appellate court said about sentencing or the Supreme Court said about sentencing.
Um, there are just too many issues in play here where corruption existed.
And it's frustrating.
I think the bigger argument, the better argument before before the Supreme Court was Levin's argument, which was they should use the supremacy clause and how there wasn't any jurisdiction for Alvin Bragg to come up with his novel legal theory to bypass the statute of limitations that had come and gone.
And even on the federal side of this, I mean, the Department of Justice, as weaponized as it is, had passed on this very issue.
Uh and and you know, the fact that they were stacking these charges one on top of the other uh added to the fact the the Supreme Court decision, I believe it was July 1 on immunity, and meanwhile, there were tons of evidence brought into play that that uh of Donald Trump's time as president that would literally render the verdict, you know, meaningless.
It should have been thrown out for a hundred different reasons.
It never should have been brought to begin with.
Um it's it's sort of anticlimatic.
There might be a silver lining in all of this, that silver lining being that Donald Trump can now uh get now that he's out of Juan Mershawn's courtroom, that would now give him the ability to go to another court and get this thing overturned for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is they had no standing.
The first thing is Supreme Court, if you listen to oral arguments will have why are you here?
Why are you before us?
Why is this a federal issue?
And in this particular case, this was a New York issue, a legal NDA, and Donald Trump made that point earlier today, and getting indicted for calling a legal expense a legal expense, which is pretty much what it was.
A legal NDA put together by a lawyer and identified as a legal expense.
That's that from and again the statute of limitations had run out.
How does this become what they turned it into?
This whole novel legal theory, as Jonathan Turley said, there's no underlying crime in this case.
But they they managed to conjure it all up.
They get a corrupt, frankly, abusively biased judge in a very liberal jurisdiction.
You know, a group of people that just don't like Donald Trump, and he didn't have a chance in hell in this particular case.
But he will win on appeal, which I've been saying all throughout this.
I mean, even fake news CNN, I mean it may even be worth playing that with everything that they've thrown at Donald Trump legally, he has won.
Every single thing.
And he did he has not lost, and he's not gonna lose on this one.
Listen.
Big picture.
Six months ago, he faced four criminal cases.
Uh he had been convicted in the New York Hushmanny case, which was considered the least serious uh of the four.
And now, even though he has been convicted, he has received really no punishment there.
The two federal cases against him have been dismissed, and the Georgia case, the prosecutor's been disqualified.
That case is not completely dead, but it's basically on life support.
I mean, if we look at his legal defense team, this is an extraordinary victory.
Now they got a couple of big assists from the Supreme Court uh over the course of the last two years, but the fact that they have been able to keep their client from really facing any consequences uh across four criminal cases is truly extraordinary, and today is really uh the symbol of their successful defense of their client.
Well, in many ways, there are so many attorneys involved in in this whole process, too many to probably count uh on many different levels.
Uh I did notice when I was on vacation that one of Joe Biden's biggest regrets is that he he picked Merrick Garland to be the A. G, which is stunning to me considering how much the Department of Justice became weaponized under Garland.
I mean, this this whole special prosecutor issue, you know, both the one for Hunter and the one designed that was gonna give Hunter the sweetheart deal.
I mean, that that that was all done with the with the wink and the nod of the Justice Department.
This case in New York, remember, you had the third highest ranking Department of Justice official that left his position to go to New York to help help Alvin Bragg try this case.
That's how badly they wanted Donald Trump.
None of this came into play until Donald Trump announced that he was going to run for president again.
And never mind the lack of equal justice or equal application of our laws.
But certainly in this case, I would have appealed to the Supreme Court sooner.
I would have said the supremacy clause would have been the Levin argument was the better argument.
Election interference would have been a good argument, and that they have no standing would have been a good argument.
And again, all of this will come out.
The immunity ruling will come into play in the appeals process.
But again, it's sort of anticlimatic.
meaningless.
This whole exercise was all designed to prevent him from running and winning.
That's what it was all designed.
The American people, to your credit.
Otherwise, what you're seeing unfold in California would be your reality right now.
Because this is California represents that intersection of radical environmentalism, you know, that sort of melds itself into what is radical socialism, Marxism, statism, whatever you want to call it, because that's what's going on out there.
And radical environmentalism.
I mean, you go through the list of failures, and it's just they're too numerous to mention.
It's like it's a bad movie that's been unfolding before your eyes.
It really is.
And it's sad because California is one of the most beautiful states you've ever been to.
I did live out there in the 80s for five years.
That's where I got my radio start.
And and you could even go, I think it's UC Davis.
You can go to many top universities.
I've mentioned many of them, Auburn University, University of Georgia University of Florida.
I mean, there's so many universities where you can get a degree in the science of forestry.
And yet, you know, here the simple things like, well, why weren't the fire hydrants working?
Well, they wanna Gavin Newsom, I'm I'm not sure what he's thinking.
And when he answered, Anderson Cooper, I guess, asked him the question, well, they weren't designed to deal with these types of fires.
Well, slow down a second here.
Because California is known to have wildfires.
Santa Anna wins, and I lived out there, so I know for a fact they are predictable.
They're going to happen.
So you've got to prepare for the worst case scenario.
You know, they had a referendum on this very issue and building water reservoirs out there from 2014, that's 11 years ago.
Not a single one of them were built.
Just like they can't even build that the train that they want to build from Bakersfield to God knows where.
And it's already billions of dollars above budget.
They they have plans for wind turbines that will cost billions.
They allocated six hundred and fifty state-federal dollars for a project to make the LA ports green.
I mean, how does that make any sense?
Well, why do they have eight hundred thousand dollar green street sweepers in Los Angeles?
Why did they cut the LA Fire Department budget by 17.6 million just a number of months ago?
Why did they want to even cut more money from this knowing that they're not prepared?
Why did I have to travel to California and Devin Nunes' uh district to cover the issue of farms not getting water?
I did it on behalf of the farmers because I love farmers.
I just do.
I mean, I just have a very keen understanding, and maybe I don't think we appreciate farmers and ranchers as much as we should, or truckers that deliver all these goods to us at every store that we go to.
But they're all part of the supply chain.
And farmers couldn't farm out there.
And the reason was that the state put the the life lives of the Delta smelt above giving the which is a minnow fish an irrelevant mineral fish in my mind over the right of farmers to grow crops to feed people.
I mean, that's that's how bizarre this all is.
But you know, they gave up on clearing the brush and these controlled burns and the science behind it.
They didn't build the reservoirs.
They didn't, you know, we now know we learned today that the reservoir in the Pacific Palisades was empty.
How to how is that possible?
How do you deny farmers thousands and thousands and thousands of acres of farmland water, you know, to protect a little minnow fish called the Delta Smelt.
How do you cut the LA FD fire budget by millions of dollars and and yet you allocate six hundred and fifty million for the LA port to go green and spend eight hundred thousand dollars per green street sweeper in LA?
This is insane.
It's the highest tax state in the country, is plenty of money allocated for illegal immigrants in the sanctuary state of California in the sanctuary city of Los Angeles.
And I know the people out there, and then you have a mayor that comes back from Ghana when the fire started, and then is asked by a reporter and and can't even get the words out.
My my thoughts are with the people of Los Angeles.
We're doing everything we can do to remedy the issues involving fire hydrants that don't have water and getting the resources available to people to protect as many homes and property as as much property as possible and to save lives.
Ten people at least that we know of are dead.
You know, you have over 10,000 structures that have now been destroyed, homes and businesses.
And if you look at, you know, the disqualifying conduct of this mayor and the idiocy, and she goes, Oh, let me give you uh here's the website to go to the here's the URL.
She doesn't even know what the website is.
This is the second time she spoke.
The first time she wouldn't answer a reporter's question.
The LA Fire Department deputy chief said if she has to carry a man out of a burning building, he's in the wrong place.
What?
Hang on a second.
I don't care if you're a man or a woman in the fire department at all.
Doesn't matter to me, but you got to be strong enough to do the job.
It's that simple.
Um it is, you know, by the way, some of the money that was spent in LA, gay choirs, trans cafes, uh the social justice art.
You know, the fire chief warning the Democratic mayor these budget cuts would severely limit fire response.
She didn't pay attention to it.
These hundreds of hydrants were stolen for scrap before the fires in LA.
Now everybody's worried about the amount of looting that's a that they anticipate is going to happen.
LA water power officials rake in fat salaries.
Some people being paid hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars to be being paid more than Donald Trump, who gives all of his salary to charity.
You know, we'll play it later in the program.
This this mother confronting Gavin Newsom on the horrific response and the lack of water.
And I I mean, his answer was I'm on with Joe Biden.
Well, I'm trying to call Joe Biden.
It just is one thing after another.
Then we have an insurance crisis that we've we warned about.
The insurance was the canary in the coal mine.
When the insurance companies pulled out, they pulled out for a reason.
They pulled out because they knew that this was likely to occur.
They took an objective view of what the policies in the state were, and they said, we can't ensure this, the risk is too great, the payout will be too great, and we'll be bankrupt.
So they they pulled out.
California Democrats.
And the sad reality is too is I still don't have any hope that the people of California would wake up, realize that the promises of government that they overpromise, they underdeliver, that they mismanage, and and this is the fake, this is the promise of socialism.
They'll promise you the moon.
You're gonna guarantee your cradle to your grave, from the womb to the tomb.
Everything's gonna be taken care of.
And yet we have Social Security and Medicare on the on the verge of insolvency.
We have some of the worst schools in the industrialized world, even though we pay more per capita per student.
We have they can't keep basic law in order because they believe in defund, dismantled no bail laws.
They can't control the border.
We let in terrorists and murderers and rapists and cartel members and gang members, and then they don't want to expel them.
They want to give them free sex change operations, housing, food, health care, and education.
Explain that insanity to me.
But all the promises of Obamacare, none of them were fulfilled.
None of them.
They squandered the money with Social Security.
There was no lockbox.
The school system's a disaster.
They don't keep law and order.
And people still want to put their faith, their hope, their trust in government.
I urge all of you to never do that.
To assume the worst, assume they're never going to be there.
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Look, President Trump, and this really did define his first term, and I think it will define his second term.
And that is the things that he said on the campaign trail are not just slogans.
They're not just words.
I think they they're there.
This is his agenda.
It's not going to be earth shattering to people.
The left will do their predictable.
They hate Donald Trump, they hate Donald Trump, they hate Donald Trump.
I mean, that's what's so anticlimatic about the sentencing today.
And I wonder when this case finally gets overturned and it will, I wonder what kind of news coverage that'll get, especially compared to all of the coverage of all of the cases that have all fallen apart because it was all designed by a weaponized Department of Justice.
Unfortunately, a politicized, weaponized FBI and a politicized and weaponized intelligence community, you know, which they have been working, you know, to get Donald Trump since the day came down the escalator.
And, you know, for three years, nothing but a Russia hoax and lie pedaled to the country.
He he literally was in the Ritz Carlton in Moscow with hookers urinating on the, and they were urinating on him.
I'm like, huh?
Okay.
First, he's the biggest germ phobe in the world.
It never happened.
He wasn't there.
It didn't matter.
The truth never mattered.
PISA warrants, where they used his opponents dirty, bought and paid for Russian disinformation dossier with made up lies as the basis of getting a FISA warrant, not one, but four them.
It ruined the life of Carter Page.
Donald Trump, they spied on him as a candidate as a president.
This went on for a full year.
Nobody's ever been held accountable.
The double standard, you don't have equal justice under the law.
You know, Joe Biden, he wasn't covered by the Presidential Records Act.
Donald Trump was.
Hillary Clinton wasn't covered by the Presidential Records Act.
Donald Trump was.
They raid Mar-a-Lago.
They shuffled through all of Melania's clothes, all of Barron's clothes.
And meanwhile, they had been there not that long before.
And the FBI had full and complete access to all of Mar-a-Lago.
We know that now to be a fact.
We know that the FBI even called.
There was one particular room where they saw things happening.
I don't know why they, if they saw something that shouldn't have been there, why didn't they take it with them then?
Why didn't they ask to take it with them then?
Why did they call back and say, would you mind putting another lock on that door?
Which they complied with.
I mean, why didn't they just come back?
Nobody denied them access the first time.
Joe Biden had top secret classified information in four different locations.
They didn't raid any one of those locations.
They didn't raid his home with his beautiful corvette.
And they didn't rate any of the they didn't rate his home on the beach in Delaware.
Interesting how he's able to home in Delaware, isn't it?
On a senator's salary.
You don't exactly get rich serving in Congress.
But that is an aside for another day.
Same with Hillary Clinton.
33,000 deleted, subpoenaed emails.
You know, no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute.
Devices destroyed with hammers and SIM cards removed, a bleach bit, something nobody had ever heard of being used to wipe clean the hard drives and the servers of Hillary Clinton.
You know, she had top secret classified information, more than they found at Mar-a-Lago with Donald Trump.
Why didn't they raid her house, her office?
Why wasn't she put under the this the same type of scrutiny?
Why wasn't there a special prosecutor?
I didn't finish the thought earlier, but you know, the idea that Joe Biden is angry at Merrick Garland is one of his worst appointments is laughable considering Merrick Garland did everything he could do to weaponize that Department of Justice and the FBI in the process.
James Comey was the one that famously said no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute before the 2016 election.
The only reason that he he came out with this this information was because there were other law enforcement officials that were aware of Anthony Wiener's laptop and the top secret classified information vis-a-vis, I guess Uma Abedeen, who's worked for Hillary at the time, but Hillary's emails, not hers, and anyway, and that it was going to come out, and he had to get ahead of it.
But they were trying to protect him, just like the Department of Justice tried to protect Hunter, had this guy investigating Hunter doing nothing for four years, and then all of a sudden comes up with a sweetheart deal.
They thought that the judge would sign off on it, not read it.
The judge actually did her job, read, read the plea deal, and turns to the prosecution and the defense and says, I've never seen a deal like this my entire career.
Have any of you ever seen it?
And the defense had to even acknowledge, no, they never had.
So the plan was to give Hunter a sweetheart deal where he wouldn't be held accountable for anything.
The judge, unfortunately, didn't go along with their scheme, unfortunately, for the for if you believe in the truth.
In the case of Donald Trump, no.
He he look at what he they have put this guy through for the last nine years.
And this is the amazing part of the election.
I keep focusing on it because it's so amazing.
Is that the American people heard this every single minute, every every hour of every 24 hour day, every seven-day week?
This is all they focus on.
And if you watch the mob, the state run media mob, they're doing it again.
You know, some people are saying, well, the media's gone quite quiet and and they're more compliant.
It's all going to change.
Let me, once these hearings begin for the nominations, you know, when they bring up Pete Heggseth and Pam Bondy and Cash Patel and RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, they're going to go back to doing what they do best, the Democrats.
You think Adam Schiff's character has changed.
You think Chuck Schumer's character has changed?
No.
They're smear merchants.
They will smear slander, besmirched, try and destroy every single person that Donald Trump wants in his cabinet.
And they're going to pick and choose who to go harder at and they're going to try and do what they did to Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas and Justice Kavanaugh.
They're going to try and do that to a lot of the Trump nominees.
They will be true to form.
It's predictable as the day is long.
And the hope is that Republicans will give Donald Trump the cabinet that he wants so that he can fulfill his promises as your president.
That's why when you look at what he has planned on day one, and this was kind of revealed when he had a closed door meeting with Republican senators, is a apparently a list of about a hundred executive orders for prioritizing border security, domestic energy production.
And he was in the meeting.
Apparently, Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller was there.
I talked to a number of senators in the room.
They said it was extraordinarily productive that the president was dialed in, funny, got along with everybody, listened to them.
The only question that came up was whether there should be one bill or two bills.
There's two schools of thought on it.
I'll let them work out the details, but I kind of think Newt had the right idea, one big beautiful bill, get it all done now and and get it done so the economy can start revving up as quickly as possible.
Trump said he'd also sign at least 25 executive orders on the first day of his second term.
And based on those statements and the statements on the campaign trail, you know, he ran heavily on these focused promises that he wanted to secure the border on day one and dedicated to carrying out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, reversing the Harris Biden open borders policy, which has created the the biggest national security crisis in our lifetime.
So he's going to stop illegal immigrants and the flights from the southern border to other parts of the U.S., he's going to shut down the acceptance of asylum applications.
He's got to bar U.S. born children of illegal immigrants from automatically receiving American citizenship, which he should do.
We used to used to be a term, probably politically incorrect now.
I don't know.
I mean, I can't keep up with what you can and cannot say, but you know, an anchor baby, somebody would come from another country into this country, they'd give birth and and that that child automatically being born birthright citizenship.
I'm I in under those circumstances, I think it's done, you know, outside of the spirit of what was intended.
And yeah, he's gonna pardon.
There were a lot of people that were persecuted about January 6th.
There were some bad people there that day.
They did horrible things and they should be held accountable, and they were held accountable.
But then there were people that never even entered the Capitol that were tried and convicted.
Those people never should have been convicted.
I mean, you've got a guy in New York, 87 prior arrests out stabbing people on the subway last weekend.
You got this guy in the Daniel Penny case, nearly, you know, 42 previous encounters with law enforcement.
And yet he's on a train threatening to kill people, and they wanted to put Penny in jail.
The president is also going to end this last minute attempt of sabotage by Joe Biden on his energy agenda.
This to me is one of the most important parts of his agenda.
If we're gonna get this economy running again, and we're gonna deport people, and we have to find them to deport them, that's gonna be very expensive.
We're gonna need a lot of manpower.
If the president is going to restore or refund the police and restore law and order in the country, if the president is gonna prop up Social Security and Medicare, which is headed towards insolvency, if the president is going to create the next generation of warfare, again, Russia and China have hypersonic missile technology.
Why don't we?
We are falling behind.
It's a gap of vulnerability.
If he's going to really build an iron dome, all of this research is going to cost a fortune.
We're gonna have to invest that money because if we don't have a secure country, we don't we'll never have for f we'll never have freedom, and we'll always have a vulnerability that we oughtn't we ought never have.
And both Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, they have neglected our military.
So we're gonna have to spend money there.
And then the president has promised no tax on TIFFs, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime.
He will fulfill those promises.
But that also, in the beginning, especially, it will stimulate economic growth over time, which will result in in more revenues, not less revenues, but in the and he's gotta extend the uh Trump tax cuts.
I would advise that he make them permanent.
But if he's gonna do all of these things, they all cost money.
Now the biggest revenue source we have.
You know, you hear about, you know, these oil-rich nations, these energy rich countries.
The beauty is we have more energy resources in the United States of America than all of these countries pretty much combined.
We have Western Europe that has allowed itself to become reliant on natural gas from Russia, in light of what Russia did with Ukraine, I don't think it's a reliable partner.
So there's an opportunity for America to produce all of the energy needs of all of Western Europe, and we have the benefit of earning a lot of money financially.
We can become a rich country.
One of the things Alaska does that I always loved about Alaska is as they produce energy, as they produce minerals and they mine the earth and whatever they're producing there, natural gas, whatever it happens to be.
The people, the citizens of Alaska, they don't pay a state income tax.
They get a check from the state every year, a percentage of of what the profit that they're making from the resources that they share as members of that state.
I mean, we have $37 trillion in debt we've got to pay down.
These are enormous problems we have.
So this is the single best way to pay down our debt, salvage Social Security and Medicare, deport these people that shouldn't be here, refund the police, you know, end this military gap of vulnerability, prepare for the next generation of warfare, which will be fought in air conditioned offices, not in not on battlefields.
And the single best thing we can do is to produce energy, you know, to the extent we're capable.
Now, there's going to be a lot of reluctance and resistance among energy companies to do it because Donald Trump only has a four-year term.
And I think the best way around that is to give them an unbreakable, you know, 50 hundred year lease on certain areas of the country that the government cannot go back on.
And that has to be binding.
They have to make it binding.
And if that takes congressional action, then so be it.
Now, there's a lot of things Trump can do on his own, but then there's going to be times when we come on this program and we give out the phone number in Congress and the Senate, and you're gonna have to you just can't vote for Trump and say, good luck, I did my part, I'm done.
Because we don't have big enough margins in the House and Senate.
And some of these people are not exactly fearless leaders.
Some of them have very weak spines, and some of them are scared to death, and some of them only care about their reelection.
And we may have to help them stiffen their spine.
You know, God forbid, if a moment ever comes and and somebody breaks into your house, your home, your business, and you have to protect your life, your family's life, your employees' life.
You know what?
That's a tough situation to be in.
I hope nobody ever has to live through that.
But the reality is we do live through moments like that.
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