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	If you want to be a part of the program, now, with all the lawfare and judge shopping and weaponization that we have witnessed from the left, there are some state attorneys general that are fighting back.
	We now have in my free state of Florida the next steps to protect your children.
	And the Attorney General, James Udmeyer, is going to join us in just a minute, has now filed a lawsuit against Snap Inc., the operator of Snapchat, which a lot of kids use, alleging violations of Florida law, specifically HB3 and the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
	And the complaint is asserting that SNAP has knowingly defied HB3, which prohibits social media platforms from providing accounts to users under 14 years of age and requires parental consent for users age 14 and 15.
	Now, SNAP is accused of failing to comply with these requirements and using addictive design features such as infinite scrolling, push notifications, interactive metrics that promote compulsive use among teenagers, continuing, you know, contributing to a mental health crisis.
	I mean, these kids get on social media, and this is a danger, is they get addicted very quickly to social media.
	And then kids react to social media and people say mean things to them.
	Trust me, if I looked at my ex-account and something I posted, there's going to be Sean Editor Dumb is a doorknob and whatever else they want to say.
	I even got accused of being a CIA operative recently, which was pretty funny to me.
	But then you have other issues where kids are being bullied or targeted by these pervert adults that are posing as other children.
	And we have those cases that we have to deal with.
	Anyway, so in Florida, what the Attorney General here is trying to do is seek to compel SNAP to comply with the law, address their deceptive practices.
	And then they do this other thing, which is really sneaky.
	They literally come up with, how do you describe this?
	They will analyze any user's patterns and then target things that they think or believe that you'll be interested in as a means of drawing you in deeper and deeper and deeper into the use of their app.
	And anyway, the complaint, if you read it, details how Snapchat's design features, including messaging, beauty filters, algorithms, the algorithms are what help addict people, are harming young people by fostering behavioral addiction, body dysphoria, and to exposure to inappropriate content.
	And again, they're also being targeted by people that have well beyond nefarious intentions.
	And it does highlight these deceptive age ratings and misleading claims about the platform safety, despite hosting mature content such as profanity, drug references, sexual material, dangerous themes.
	I mean, what's on social media is just too much.
	And if you're a parent, you've got to be paying attention to what these kids do.
	The other thing about Snapchat is you can design it that, okay, they receive a message and poof, it just disappears.
	And if you're mom and dad and you're looking at what your kids might be doing on social media, it's long gone before you ever get to that phone.
	And you've got predators and drug dealers and other potential harmful interactions facilitated by their features like SnapMap or Find Friends.
	Anyway, the Attorney General of Florida, James Uthmeyer, is with us right now.
	James, how are you, sir?
	Mr. Attorney General, great to have you back.
	I'm doing great, Sean.
	It's a pleasure to be here as always.
	Thanks for having me.
	All right.
	This really is something I don't think parents are fully tuned into.
	I don't think they understand how their kids and these algorithms target their kids, get their kids addicted, the danger for these predators that are on there, the fact that these social media companies don't often enforce, quote, even written stated policies.
	So what's going on?
	Yeah, you said it well.
	Parents at home, if you are not already in tune to what your kids are looking at, the applications they're using, wake up.
	Please get involved.
	It is very dangerous out there.
	We've got evidence that these companies, they want to make the sites more addictive.
	They've got the never-ending scrolls, the videos to start on their own, push notifications throughout the day to keep kids engaged, and incentives to try to ensure communications are ongoing for hours a day.
	And then they've got these features like the disappearing messages and pictures that make SNAP in particular a preferred site for dangerous sex offenders.
	We've got a case I just talked about at a press conference today where we saw that a registered sex offender who'd been out of incarceration for months was impersonating other people online trying to seduce pictures out of young people.
	And a lot of these people, they try to schedule meetings with kids.
	It is dangerous.
	I can't say enough to scare people at home.
	Get involved, make the tough decision.
	Is this the appropriate age for my child to be using this app in the first place?
	And the law we passed last year, HB3, made clear that we do not want young teenagers, 12, 13 years old, they are not permitted to have access to these sites.
	And the companies need to make sure that there are proper screening and protocols in place.
	And if you're 14, 15, you can have access, but it must only be after parental approval where parents consent and then have the opportunity to look at controls and monitoring options that could be provided.
	How bad is it in terms of these companies really don't seem to care?
	In other words, there are very, very specific issues that are addressed in the law, which is my understanding, Florida law, HB3, and it's under the Florida Deceptive Unfair Trade Practices Act.
	Are they just not caring or paying attention at all?
	Are they making any effort at all whatsoever to adhere to the law?
	Yeah, I don't want to treat all of them the same.
	There are companies that have reached out and they want to protect kids.
	They do.
	I don't believe everybody out here is secretly hoping to help child sex predators.
	But you do have companies that after the law was passed and signed by our governor, they have not taken the proper measures to ensure that they are adhering to the law and that they are ultimately protecting kids.
	And again, SNAP is potentially one of the worst offenders.
	They want to make the site addictive.
	They want to attract kids to be on there as much as possible.
	They're profiting off of the eyeball attention day in and day out.
	And they know the risks with the disappearing messages and the opportunity for predators to come in and send things to kids where the kids click and don't even know what's going to be on the other side.
	And they allow it to happen.
	And we're not going to stand for that.
	We're going to hold them accountable.
	And we're going to make sure that we are the safest state in the country when it comes to protecting families.
	All right.
	Let's talk a little bit.
	Have there been any conversations with these companies in the lead up to this that caused you to take this action?
	There have been.
	And we're looking at multiple companies.
	We issued some CID investigative letters last week into Roblox, a company that young people can get into in a social setting to play games.
	We believe that they also could be doing more to prevent older people from pretending to be kids and conversing with other people in a dangerous fashion.
	So we have had conversations.
	We'll continue to have conversations.
	You know me, Sean, I'm not looking for government to unnecessarily get in the way of business and try to take a pound of flesh.
	That's not the goal.
	But I do believe government has a responsibility in limited areas to step in when there are very serious dangers, especially to our most vulnerable, like our kids.
	So we will continue talking to the companies.
	Hopefully, the idea is not to just shut the company down entirely.
	However, we want to see some changes made.
	Okay.
	And when you have these conversations, do you think most parents are aware, and tell me if I'm wrong about Snapchat, it's not an app that I use.
	But my understanding is you send messages to people and you can time it out so it erases either immediately or in 30 seconds or in a minute or two minutes.
	So, in other words, if a parent wanted to know what their child was communicating with in regards to somebody else or do a background check in some capacity and find out whether or not this is a legitimate 13, 14, 15-year-old, they wouldn't be able to do that, would they?
	They would not.
	No, I don't think parents fully understand what's going on on some of these sites.
	You know, Snap is very different from Facebook, and Facebook is very different from some of the gaming sites.
	But you said it correctly.
	I've never personally had a Snapchat account either.
	I think maybe I was supposed to be born in another generation.
	But yeah, these videos and pictures and things can be sent.
	And if you don't have your settings adjusted the right way, they can be sent to people from anonymous other users, people that they don't have a prior relationship with.
	It's not a friend from school.
	It's not a family member.
	And without any screening, all of a sudden this picture's up on the screen, and it can be some horrific things.
	So parents should know it's very difficult to track and monitor what's happening when these things disappear.
	That's why child predators like it, and you need to be very plugged in.
	Oh, you really do.
	All right, quick break.
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	We continue now with the Attorney General, my free state of Florida, James Uthmeyer's with us.
	All right.
	I noticed that, and I had the governor on recently, and it's very frustrating to me to hear that Republicans in Tallahassee are fighting him on the agenda that they all ran on.
	And I find that very frustrating.
	And there seems to be, I don't know, like a mini Republican rebellion going on.
	And I've noticed they tried to drag you into this and are attacking you lately.
	And I'm wondering, okay, whose side are you on here?
	Can you tell us what's going on?
	Yeah, you know, with the big problems we have in our country, especially focused on crime and immigration, you'd think everybody would come together and want to fight for the things voters elected them to go to Tallahassee and do.
	But, you know, as you know, we've got our own swamp in Tallahassee and you have private interests that are out and about.
	You know, I'm getting attacked because I worked on the outside to fight the Dangerous Amendment 3, the unrestricted marijuana use in public that was presented last year.
	A lot of big marijuana companies don't like that.
	But at the end of the day, this was not marijuana use in private.
	I think that's a completely different story.
	And of course, we've got a medicinal market where people can use it for medical reasons.
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	But here, this would have been unrestricted where it would have been restaurants, theaters, parks, probably even schools.
	And I just, I don't think that's good for the state.
	We got a really good thing going in here in Florida, as you know, as a new resident.
	And, you know, I want to protect the way of life that we've got.
	Well, I'm not exactly a new.
	This is my second full-time year here, but I've had property here going back like 25, 27 years.
	So I'm not exactly a newbie.
	I've been a big Florida fan, but family issues kept me in a state that I didn't want to be in for way too long a period of time.
	Yeah, well, we're glad to have you down here.
	The state's doing well.
	We've got a great economy, some of the number one school systems in the country under the governor's leadership.
	We've really moved to a great place, and I hope our state leaders will come in and continue the great traditions we've started.
	The state's in great fiscal shape.
	We're fighting about a tax cut.
	The governor really wants to focus on property taxes that will more directly focus on Florida residents as opposed to a sales tax cut that could help out a lot of the tourists.
	We love the tourists, but if they want to come here and spend money, we'll take it.
	We'd rather focus the savings on our Florida citizens.
	What do you think?
	I love the governor's proposal when he was on the last time.
	He thought that property taxes, especially in the post-COVID years, have gone up so dramatically that a lot of these local municipalities have doubled their budgets.
	And he thinks that there could be a significant reduction in property taxes, but that would be a referendum that voters would weigh in on in, I guess, November of 26.
	I love the idea.
	And he talked about other ways to replace that revenue, for example, with all the tourists and all the visitors that come to Florida.
	And I can tell you, whenever I go anywhere else, I mean, they hit people outside that state really, really hard.
	And it seems appropriate to me rather than tax the people of the free state of Florida, I'd rather people that visit Florida pay a little bit more.
	Yeah, you're right.
	I mean, we've got counties now that are bringing in three, four times the revenues that they did in the pre-COVID world, and their budgets have not increased.
	In fact, some of the budgets have been able to decrease as local governments take advantage of technology and find economies of scale and things of that sort.
	So we need to get that money back in the pockets of our homeowners.
	Yes, it would take a ballot initiative.
	I think the governor, he would like to see a comprehensive study done this year that could wrap up for legislative session early next year where we could come up with the right amendment, get it on the ballot.
	I have no doubt the voters at home would like to see this relief and would vote for it overwhelmingly and prevent people from facing these really significant taxes that make it tough to live, especially if you're a middle-income family in some of the South Florida markets.
	And by the way, if there is a referendum, and there were two defeated in the last election, but if there is, and I was with the governor, I supported his position on both of those.
	But if there is a referendum on lowering taxes, you need 60% of Floridians to vote for that.
	Who would ever vote for higher property taxes?
	You have to be out of your mind.
	You're right.
	It would pass overwhelmingly.
	So I think we as state leaders, we've got the obligation to come up with a good plan and give it to the voters.
	But hey, look, we're fighting about tax relief.
	That's what we're dealing with in Florida.
	We've got good times coming, better times ahead.
	And I'm excited to see what our state's going to do in the future.
	Well, as usual, Florida's leading the way.
	It cracks me up every time I interview Vivek Ramaswamy.
	He basically starts reiterating every policy adopted in Florida.
	I'm like, oh, you're trying to compete with my state.
	Very interesting.
	Anyway, James Uthmeyer, appreciate you being with us, Attorney General.
	Great state, free state of Florida.
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	Very, very important.
	All right.
	So I mentioned this earlier.
	Elizabeth Warren was on some podcast, and I thought it very, very interesting.
	Whose podcast?
	Sam Fragoso.
	Is that how you say it?
	It's called Talk Easy.
	And anyway, she's on this podcast.
	And anyway, and, you know, he points out, you know, you said up until July of last year, noting that Warren was backing Biden up until he bowed out of the 2024 presidential race and asking about his cognitive state.
	Now, there's no way anybody with a straight face and any level of intelligence is ever going to convince me that they didn't see everything that we were reporting since 2020.
	And that is Joe's significant cognitive decline.
	And let me play the exchange for you.
	Do you regret saying that President Biden had a mental acuity?
	He had a sharpness to him.
	You said that up until July of last year.
	I said what I believe to be true.
	Do you think he was as sharp as you?
	I said I had not seen decline.
	And I hadn't at that point.
	You did not see any decline from 2024, Joe Biden, to 2021, Joe Biden.
	Not when I said that.
	You know, the thing is, he, look, he was sharp.
	He was on his feet.
	I saw him.
	Oh, yeah.
	Live event.
	I had meetings with him a couple of times.
	Senator, on his feet is not praise.
	He can speak in sentences is not praise.
	Fair enough.
	Fair enough.
	He was a cognitive mess, and she knew it.
	That's why she's a hummada, hummed a hummada, hummaing in that interview.
	Funny viral video.
	I saw this on FoxNews.com.
	You know, now Chucky Schumer and his poll numbers that came out today are just abysmal.
	He's getting slaughtered by AOC in New York.
	He's in deep political trouble.
	His days may be numbered.
	But anyway, it's gone viral, this old video of Schumer.
	He knew that Trump was going to go places and people are, you know, just caught onto it and playing a lot of it.
	Anyway, here's what was said.
	I was born in Brooklyn, the same place where Donald Trump's family comes from.
	His father and my grandfather were builders together in Brooklyn.
	Yeah.
	Even when he was much younger, you knew that he was going to go places.
	Yeah, you knew he was going to go.
	Yeah, he went to the White House and you're about to be thrown out of the Senate in New York.
	Anyway, his favorable rating now, 39%, unfavorable rating, 50%.
	This, according to the latest Sienna College poll that came out, now it happens to be the worst showing by Schumer in over 20 years that Sienna College has been conducting polls in New York State.
	And while his unfavorable rating, you know, it's more than 66%, he saw his standing with Democrats fall dramatically.
	And meanwhile, simultaneously, AOC's numbers, they're just beginning to soar.
	And I think people are liking the idea of AOC maybe replacing Schumer if she decides not to run for president in the U.S. Senate.
	So that's getting interesting.
	All right, let's get to our busy phones.
	Joe Long Island speaking of New York.
	What's up, Joe?
	How are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	Where are you in Long Island?
	We're a good son over in Saville.
	I know Saville.
	I lived for a while in Bayport, right next door to you.
	Right, yeah, right next door there.
	When I started at Fox, I lived out in Bayport and I took the train every day, the Long Island Railroad.
	It was a long trip every day.
	And it was Sable, Sable's next, Sable.
	And then I became friends with the conductor, and he used to let me some nights do it on the loudspeaker.
	I'd be like, all right, Saville next.
	Next stop, Sabel's coming up.
	That's how he'd say it.
	It was pretty funny.
	Yep.
	No, I don't envy you.
	I'm actually driving.
	I'd rather do that than take the train.
	Well, I eventually got chased from car to car to car by some lunatic screaming that I'm ruining the world.
	And I realized my days going on public transportation were over.
	And then I started to make the drive every day, which is a pretty long ride.
	Yeah.
	But I'm calling anyway because, you know, I've been teaching for about 30 years or so.
	And, you know, come across over the years a lot of students that taught first in Patterson for a number of years and then New York City.
	A lot of students that get involved with gangs.
	And I know that, you know, everybody talks about with Mr. Brayco Garcia or some of these, you know, other illegal immigrants here that, well, they don't have the look of looking like a gang member, but, you know, because they don't have specific tattoos, they don't have specific markings on them.
	But that's not necessarily, you know, what a gang member looks like.
	I remember back in pre-9-11 days, the tattoos that have become such a big issue, they're really, it's only one indicator of what are many indicators.
	And in the case of Garcia, I mean, there were numerous indicators, including people that ratted him out.
	Exactly.
	And, you know, we used to have in Patterson, there used to be this big gang, the Latin Kings.
	And we had this.
	I know them well.
	I mean, I remember, you know, they were a menace, no doubt about it.
	Yeah, but we had this one student, and he was an honor student, always very polite and very respectful, came very well-dressed to school every day.
	And then we had one day in school, police came in and came into the classroom, took him out of the class, and arrested him because it ended up that he was one of the regional leaders of the Latin Kings.
	And I remember that day, we were all like in shock because, you know, you never would have suspected, like I said, based on he was an honor student, straight A's, the way he dressed, the way he was respectful to the teachers and everything.
	And yet, you know, behind the scenes, he was very active with Latin Kings like that.
	You can't always judge a book by its cover.
	I mean, there's no doubt.
	Now, do I think that some of the images and pictures that I've seen of these heavily tatted, face-tatted guys, does it necessarily mean they're bad people?
	No.
	If they have MS-13 or Trende Aragua insignias tattooed into them, I'd say that's probably a pretty good indicator.
	I doubt the average person is going to go to a tattoo artist and say, can I have an MS-13 gang member tattoo?
	I think that would be very, very specific for an individual involved in the gang.
	But again, it's only one factor, and it's not the determining factor.
	No, exactly.
	And that's why I wouldn't be surprised, you know, when things eventually come out, you know, if he wasn't.
	I think we already know the answer to what you're bringing up here.
	I think we have two judges determine and ascertain.
	Number one, we know he's in the country illegally.
	We know in his wife's own handwriting in a complaint to police, she claimed he was a wife beater.
	And we have two judges that determine that he was a member of MS-13.
	What else do you need?
	And why has this become the cause to love for Democrats?
	That's the sick part.
	All right, my friend, appreciate the call.
	Glad you are out there.
	Mark in North Carolina.
	Hey, Mark, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
	Thank you.
	What's going on?
	As far as Kilmar goes, don't we have an embassy in El Salvador?
	I believe we do, yes.
	Yeah.
	Aren't embassies considered U.S. soil?
	Yes and no.
	I can't really, not necessarily.
	Not necessarily.
	It's not like the Panama Canal zone where John McCain was born.
	Remember, you have to be a naturalized citizen to be able to run for president.
	I'm not sure that that would qualify unless you were an ambassador and your child was born there.
	I would assume that implies American citizenship and would apply in that case.
	Well, if you're in trouble in a foreign country, you go to the U.S. Embassy because that's American soil.
	It's deemed as American soil because it's deemed as an American, America-protected area.
	Do I know specifically if it's considered American soil?
	I don't.
	I think in some cases it's not.
	I remember this came up a number of years ago, but for all intent and purposes, I understand for the application of this call, let's say you're right.
	Okay.
	Then why not send another, because I think this would be so much easier, send another immigration judge down to the embassy and bring Wilmar Kilmar over there and have him adjudicated there instead of bringing him back to the United States proper.
	He was already adjudicated twice.
	I mean, this is the big lie.
	This would make what's his name from Maryland happy.
	Oh, nothing's going to make this guy happy unless he comes back to the U.S.
	But I guarantee you one thing that's not going to happen.
	Let's say if these four congressmen in Van Holland are successful, I can promise you one thing, that Garcia is not going to live with any five of them.
	He's not going to be invited to stay in their home.
	And then you have to ask the question, well, why not?
	And I think the answer is obvious, and I think it speaks volumes.
	They're all a bunch of hypocrites.
	I appreciate your call.
	Ken in California.
	Ken, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	By the way, we have a lot of news out of California today.
	You want to hear it?
	Yeah, why not?
	All right.
	So Gavin Newsom, your governor, your radical left-wing governor, spoke to the Hill this week, complained that the party, the Democratic Party, has not reckoned with their failures in the 2024 election, is unsure of what it stood for.
	I don't know what the party is.
	I'm still struggling with that.
	He further commented that I'm marginally part of this party.
	I represent the state larger than 21 state populations combined.
	I can assure you, there's not been a party discussion that I'm aware of that has included the state of California.
	I think what he's trying to do is position himself for maybe some type of run for the presidency.
	He's got all eyes on the presidency, but he's got a big problem.
	He's got a record, and his record is radical left.
	But if he wants to run either as a Democrat or independent, I'm fine with it because I think he'd easily be defeated.
	I'll give you another story, justthenews.com, John Solomon.
	He may have some explaining to do, if you will, about the people he appointed to the parole board because the California Board of Parole hearings just ordered the release of a convicted child murderer, this guy, Mr. Herrera, who was found to have beaten his girlfriend's two-year-old son to death.
	And Newsom's parole board claimed that Herrera had shown remorse and is no longer a risk to public safety.
	I think he's got a lot of explaining to do.
	But anyway, that's the news from Lake Wovegon, the United Socialist Topia that is your home state of California.
	Well, Gavin Newsom's a dang chameleon.
	He changes color with whatever tree he's attached to.
	You know, the sad reality is he'd probably still today get elected if he was running for re-election.
	If Kamala runs, I think she'll win.
	That's sad.
	That tells me that anybody with any common sense left.
	And there's just not enough people in California with enough common sense to realize that this blue state and Democrat-dominated state for decades has hurt the people of their own state.
	Well, where I'm at up in the mountains, Larry Elder won the recall in our county.
	Yeah, well, I mean, he would have been a great governor, in my opinion.
	He really would have.
	Anyway, my friend, appreciate the call.
	Good luck out there.
	Watching Gavin, you know, try and be slick and smooth and somehow reinvent himself is going to be fun to watch.
	All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
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