Bill Cunningham Show -- 8/16/23

My Billy Cunningham, the Great American. Welcome this glorious, wonderful Wednesday afternoon in the tri States. And right now the Red Legs need some help. They've won three games in the month of August. That's not good, coming out a bad time. And allegedly they've got some relief. They got some relief coming from Green and Lodolo later on and t J. Possibly, but they can't score runs, which is a problem. And we'll see what occurs.

Action starts about five forty with Cleveland and they're off on Thursday, three more with Toronto, etc. But until then, of course, the issues continue to percolate about Joe Mixon and about Donald Trump and so much more. And Mike Allen Junior, Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Mike Allen

Junior. First of all, I talked to some of the individuals associated with the defense and they're extremely pleased with the way things are turning out with Joe Mixon because it appears as woman was a largely an instigation and what happened instead of a victim, and that she was the one that pulled up alongside Joe

Mixon. She was the one that made the first verbal contact, according to her statement, and then Joe Mixon had the gun and more or less brandished at or showed it to her, said some things he shouldn't have said about the police and blowing your face off, etc. But then she says, go ahead and use it. And so can you tell the American people? First of all, at one thirty today Joe Mixon allegedly is going to testify on his own behalf, But can you tell the American people at this point

how the case looks from this perspective? Bill, I would totally agree with you. Merlin Shiveredecker and Scott Croswell are unbelievable criminal defense attorneys and they're doing a great job here. And to be frank, I think you know you know this. There's not a whole lot of Perry Mason moments. That stuff's for TV. But they have landed some serious blows here, the one being

the pulling a gun with his non dominant hand. You know, it's hard for me to believe when you're caught up in the heat of a moment like that that you're not going to use your dominant hand if you're pulling a weapon, and the other thing you spoke about and this is aggravated menacing. You know, they got to show some type of fear on the behalf of the alleged victim. Here somebody who flips the bird at someone and then says,

if you're going to pull that gun, use it. It's very, very hard for the state to make any sort of argument that that person isn't fear. And I think the fact that this case was dismissed and then they were charged later again that kind of messes with me a little bit in that the only new evidence, it seems like was Garner to put that charge on him again was a video that it just showed them sort of driving next to each other. There's been no biball witnesses to this, there's been no gun found.

And again, one of the crucial elements of the act menacing charges is that the offender is you know that they have to believe the offender is going to cause serious physical arm and saying, hey, bullet shoot me. That doesn't seem like you believe that you're about to be faced with serious physical harms. So I have been I'll be honest with you, I didn't think it was a very good case to begin with But but now you know I would be And like I said, these two are very good lawyers, and they

know mister Mixon. I've never met the guy before, but I'm of the opinion at this point I'm thinking, why even put them on. I mean, this case has not been proved. There's litany of issues with it that the defense has highlighted. So but they know what they're doing. I mean, they know Joe Mixon better. And ultimately it could be Joe Mixon who says, no, I don't like the way my name was tarnished during all of this. You know, I'm gonna go up and tell my side of

the story. So I would guess that this is going to come back not guilty. I don't know if it'll be today. I don't know if Judge Bender will take it under advisement. But but yeah, this state has not proved their case. Another important factor, I cannot imagine all of us have been involved directly or indirectly as the perpetrator or the recipient of road rage.

It happens. I can recall a month ago, I shouldn't I kind of rolled through a stop sign when I shouldn't have, and I didn't see a card to my left, and I kind of went in front of him. He got behind me, he started blowing the horn. What I did was simply maintain my speed. I slowed down. I let him pass me. He gave me the one finger salute. I didn't acknowledge it. I let him go further up. Just go away. Anyone that's an adult simply avoids

that. You just don't know who's going to crawl out of that vehicle seat. You don't know who that person is. And I simply let it go. And in this case, she took a pick of the vehicle in front of her so she would have the license plate number behind him, and then she pulled alongside to instigate it. And I can't imagine a woman or a man, or anybody saying to somebody with a gun looking down the barrel of a gun, if you pull that thing out you wanted, you go ahead

and use it. I'm thinking, yeah, what, it's just preposterous. And the other thing, it's your point about the picture of the vehicle and the license plate. As you said, that happened before the alleged you know, gun brandishing happened, So it says that I'm angry I'm either a you know, I want to figure out who this person is. I'm gonna call the police. I'm good. It was some sort of you know, I'm something is about to happen. I think she actually said that I took the

picture because I felt like something was about to happen. Well, I mean what happened. Was it after you took the picture you pulled up right next to him and started yelling at him. I mean, so it's it's it's very very hard to believe. And I and I feel bad for for the Cincinnati Police Department here because it's, you know, they're in a position where it's like, what do we do here, you know, and it's it's

okay, well we'll try and get more evidence. And it seems to me, unless I'm missing something, the only new evidence that was garnered before that that new charge in April was simply, you know, red light camera or city cameras they call it, just showing them driving next to each other. So I gotta be honest, I don't think that this is going to come back guilty at all. And I think, you know, if it were me, i'd say, Joe, you want to take the stand. That's

your choice. I think we got this thing. You know, this thing pretty much won. But if you want to tell your story about what happened, here be my guests. One other factory, which is I think important to a judge's or a jury's mind, is that she immediately went to the CPD substation there at the banks by the Holy Grail, because she had been there before and she knew there was one there. And the police had the pick of the car and the license plate, so they quickly knew or should

have known, it was a vehicle register to Joe Mixon. That that doesn't mean necessarily he was driving it, but the description given by her to them indicate it was probably Joe Mixon now that vehicle, and they knew that the cop knew that he was going to Buffalo to play the Bills a football game, and that car that in the lot for a day and a half, for longer. And so the defense team is going to make the argument, well the police is always good to put the police on trial instead of the

defendant. The police did not go to get a search warrant. They could have proven there was a gun in that car. A municipal court judge is always on duty, as you know, twenty four seven to get the search warrant to go down there and get it. Now. If that had happened, they could have proven yes or no if he had the gun. Now, if the gun was found in the car in a Bengals facility, that means Joe Mixon likely will never play football again in the NFL. But they

didn't do it. And so how critical is it that when you put the police on trial that the police officer did not consider it serious enough to get a search warrant. Wouldn't see. That's the thing is, I wouldn't call it being critical of the police officers. I mean, here's what I would

say. And I've never been a police officer, but I have dealt with, you know, things like aggravated menacing, you know, uh, civil stalking, protection order, stuff like that, where you have these cases where it's like, man, I don't really buy what they're saying, but I have to go through the motions and I have to at least investigate the case. But you know, obviously i'd be speculating trying to trying to figure out what the police officer was thinking. But if I'm sitting there and I'm I'm

a police officer at the Central Business District. You know, they know what aggravated menacing is. You're you're in your mind as a police officer, going okay, what you know, what charge would I put on mister Mixon here, you know, based on this conduct. And it's she's sitting there telling

the police officer I took this picture. I followed him. I told him if he was gonna you know, if he was gonna pull it out, use it, it would be very hard for me as a police officer to go like, okay, well, you know if if if we're investigating an aggravated menacing charge here, there's no real belief that you're going to be caused serious physical harm by mister Mixon. So to me, again i'm speculating. It tells me that maybe the police thought from go like, hey, you

know, I'm not sure this incredible. I'm not sure that this actually happened. And if it didn't really happen, of course, there was a quick filing of the charge. They wanted to take some time to get some video from other parts of downtown and that would take several days or a few weeks.

So at this point we'll see what happens later this afternoon, and nonetheless from Joe Mixon's perspective, Rocky Boyman told me that when you have a gun in an NFL facility and you're a player, they throw not the book at you, through the library at you. And so if Joe Mixon is found guilty, I've aggriated menacing with the use of a firearm in his car going to a Bengal facility. I don't think he rolled down the window and threw

the gun out between Third and Walnut and the stadium. I don't think that means the gun was inside the stadium and was inside the stadium grounds for about a day and a half. It looks as if Joe Mixon is done as a football player. Yeah, and I'd be speculating on what the Browns would do in that situation. But what I can say, and we've seen it

time and time again, they are an incredibly loyal family. We've seen them give people chance after chance, but again, and I think this kind of goes to the choice of a bench trial as well, and that you know, you have the incident with his family and the shooting you know, over at their house with the NERF guns and all that kind of stuff. And to me, when it's let's have a bench trial, you know, you

don't want a jury to hear about something like that. And again the judge can say to the jury, hey, you're not to consider any of this extracurricular stuff. But you can't turn off human nature. You know, people hear things and they think things. But as far as what the NFL does, it would be difficult because again you know Roger Goodell and whether it's the Bengals, I have no idea, you know who where a suspension would come from or something like that. But you have stuff like the Shawn Watson and

these other players where there's no consistency to any of it. But in my view, at least, I don't think mister Mixon needs to even worry about that because I just see no way this comes back guilty. I just I don't think the city has come even close to proving the case. Now. Secondly, I'm watching some of the morning talk shows Mike Allen Jr. And there is a rapper whose name I cannot pronounce, who's been on trial in Atlanta, Fulton County for eight months and at this point they haven't picked a

jury. Yet there's nine other cohorts under the Rico Statute, and they have the best criminal defense attorneys available in Atlanta, because these guys have lots of jack, they have lots of the Great let Us of Salvation. And this thing's been stretched out. It's taken nine months before this on pre trial motions and now they're about eight to nine months in picking a jury on a RICO violation. In Fulton County, we're a year and a half into the deal

and they think the trial is going to take another year. Compare and right now Fulton County is under federal monitoring. They jail because I guess one inmate was left alone for a couple of days and some mice and bugs at them, and so there's parts of the body remaining in parts not the Atlanta is a complete meltdown. They have backlogs you can't believe. And so Fani willis the prosecutor. I won't call her the Melissa Powers of Fulton County, but

she is a female prosecutor. Has so many backlogs, so many murders, so many rapes and robberies and drug dealing. Her office is overwhelmed. You can't bring defendants to trial. So what she does in the middle of all that is take thirty months, two and a half years or more to investigate Donald Trump and his cohorts, and she's calling the executive branch of the federal

government an ongoing criminal enterprise. Your comments, it's I don't even know where it began, first of all this stuff where she wants this done in six months. I'm gonna be honest, and I try not to tear on other attorneys, but I'm just gonna be blunt. It's getting really old seeing prosecutors go out and say with a straight face that somehow, some way, speedy trial rights are that of the government. That is preposterous. They belong to

one person and one person only. That's the defendant, and in this case, that's Donald Trump. Secondly, the fact that she thinks it's even it's somehow a remote possibility that nineteen defendants in a Rico case with all of these, I mean, all of these different predicates. I think there's one hundred

and sixty one acts they're calling action further into that conspiracy. I've been trying for the last twenty four hours to think of how to characterize that, how nuts that is, I mean, she's got to be on LSD or something because it's just even a case with four defendants like this is not going to be hashed out in six months. So you know, we saw the leak of the indictment on the website. That's another problem, I think, and I think the defense is going to have an argument for e Most to dismiss

on that, but it just screams, get Donald Trump. And it's not only that, but it's literally, i would say, completely impossible to try this kind of case and have it, you know, wrapped up and done in six months. It's just it's absolutely insane. Well, at this point, this is about ninety one felonies against the guy. And one of the acts were further inst of the conspiracy was a telephone call that Mark Meadows, the chief of staff, made to a state representative in Georgia to get somebody's

telephone number. So it'd be like Tony Bender calling somebody, say can you give me Mike Allen Junior's telephone number? Then uh, and then he's indicted for calling to get a telephone number. That's one of the acts that is ridiculous. Oh, it's preposter and some of them. You know, they're like I said, there's one hundred and sixty one of them. A lot of them are are like you said, making phone calls, tweeting things out.

And when I when I, for example, when I explained to my clients, you know what what is a conspiracy and what's you know, an act in furtherance? You know, given this example, it's like let's say, hey, we're gonna go to Walmart and you want to you know, buy some some you know, food or whatever. They'll it changes if it's hey, you know we want to go rob a bank. I'm gonna go to Walmart and buy you a gun to rob that bank. All of a

sudden, me buying that gun's criminal. We knew what the acts themselves were in the indictment, you know, like I said, it was it was you know, tweeting and making phone calls and essentially you know, saying, hey, we want to make sure this is all above board. Now are those acts going to be now criminalized, you know, again in furtherance of a conspiracy? So I will say this, this better mean the end of anybody ever challenging any election ever again, Republican or Democrat. And if this

is the way we're gonna do this. I look forward to the indictment of Stacey Abrams in Georgia because to this day, Stacy Abrams still thinks she's the governor, so anytime, well, I'm hoping, I'm hoping that based on this, we will never see a bush begor, we will never see any of the hanging chad stuff in Florida because this criminalizes that, and there's no other way of getting around that. This criminalizes challenging elections. So maybe it'll

be a good thing. You know, well we won't have to secrough this crap anymore. But but yeah, it's it's it's I gotta be honest. It is ambitious, to say the least, to say that every single one of these things are are acting further into of a conspiracy. Well, I'd like to jump ahead about five years to see how all this turns out,

because this is amateur night. When you talk about how about Rob Sanders and Kenton County and dieting Joe Biden, how about going after the chief of staff, how about Melissa Powers going after maybe Stacey Abrahams, how about these are not the roles of local county prosecutors to go after federal officials in the Oval office committing acts that when they were committed, those who are doing these things

thought it was legitimate because they firmly believed the election was stolen. As a concert wentz, We're gonna have local prosecutors who are a Republican and dieting Democrats. And this is a bridge too far for me. I couldn't I couldn't agree more with you. And now we're right back to the same issue. And that's, you know, the stuff with Jack Smith, his indictment, and the issue is, you know, what did Trump know and when did he know it? The government's going to have to show it in this case

Georgia. You know, they're gonna have to show Trump knew for a fact that he lost the election, and then he pursued a bunch of means to overturn that election. And again, challenging and attempting to overturn an election that you know you lost are very different things, you know what I mean. There's a difference to me saying, hey, I don't think that this stuff

in George's above board, versus I know I lost in Georgia. Now let's commit some fraud here and anybody who owns a television knows Donald Trump legitimately believes he won Georgia. Mike Allen Junior, thank you very much. The apple doesn't fall far from the trade from coming on the Phil Cunningham Show. We'll see what happens in about an hour with Joe Mixon and more. Thank you, Mike Allen Junior, Thank you very much. Always a pleasure, Bill,

Thanks for having me. Bless America. Let's continue with more news next at Jerome of the Reds. Let's win one tonight on news radio seven hundred WLW joint host Ted Rriss and the Cincinnati Bengals for Taste of the Bengals benefitting the Free Store Food Bank, Wednesday, August thirty, from six thirty to nine at Coming up later, we have a couple of state reps coming to talk with you. One is a representative Adam Bird from New Richmond area,

and he's going to discuss issues happening in Columbus. Also later on as Stacy Abrams, we'll be here to discuss some new doings in Columbus relative to going to school. A couple of little issues, minor issues except when they hit your family. I'm watching the other night there was a soccer player in Northern Kentucky, look like a great teenage boy, great kid without previous history of any type, simply dropped on the soccer field with sudden cardiac arrest as as

you have about five minutes to restart the heart. Five minutes and after that there's either serious brain damage or death. And of course most schools do not have a EDS. That's not part of the deal. And by the time the life squad got to the field got him to the hospital, it was too late. Ohio. And I pray to God Rob Sanders can quarterback this

in Northern Kentucky. To make sure that every grade school, middle school, and high school and college NKU Xavier UC as available ae EDS and personnel that knows how to use it, because you don't have time to be mumbling and fumbling and stumbling through a package when you're sixteen year old son or daughter's heart is stopped and they're dying right in front of you. Damarrow Hamlin would have been dead almost anywhere except on the Bengals field for that Monday night football game

with the Bills. I'm gonna get VI a website and it's a it's an easy one to write down that at least in the state of Ohio, there's a program available for organizations, schools, employers to have a ed's training, and I think the availability is to get a few of them. At Madeira High School, for example, I know they have three, the middle school has two, and Deer Park. I'm gonna check with Jay Phillips to see what's happening there. And it's awful when something is preventable and it causes the

death of a son or a daughter. And the website to go to is project Adam dot com, Project Adam dot com, And I'm gonna put down on my Twitter account and get the word out so that young men and young women playing sports who have sudden cardiac arrest, the probability of surviving it with an AEED available and properly used is very, very very high. It's like above ninety percent. And so why not. They're not that expensive compared to

human life, and they're about one to two thousand dollars. But the key is to have them, and the key is to know how to use them with multiple teachers and parents and athletic directors and coaches that know how to use them. Sco what good is it If you don't know where it is and it's underlock and keen, you can't open up the box. And once you get it to the body that needs it, like life itself, no one

knows how to use it properly. Are you kidding me? And so in today's world that should not happen, And it's it's unbelievable that we live in such a way in an advanced age, but suddenly we live in a world that is preventable for human life being taken, especially if it's a sixteen year old boy or girl playing soccer or football and they have this happen. There's three reasons that happens. A structural problem, an electrical problem, or a

situation. Damar Hamlin had a situation which is a blow to the heart, which can happen almost in any sport. How about a baseball throne that hits the chest, not hold baseball. If moms and dad's would have them in their cars with you, and it takes thirty minutes of training to know how to properly use it, it could save your sound or daughter's life. And buy one, get one, know how to use it, put it in the trunk of your car and it can save your life or your or your

or your boy's life. So please once again Project Adam dot com. I'm gonna have on later doctor Naomi Cortez, who's a pediatric cardiologist and Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus. She's coming on later and Mike DeWine's office has set this up because of what happened tomar Hamlin. I'm not sure more is happening. Some say it's COVID related, packs of it related, vaccine related. I do not know. I'm going to ask doctor Cortez that question. Is more

of it happening? Now? Are there more kids playing sports? But what's the reason. According to one news account, there's two to four thousand who die every year of sudden cardiac arrest, which is more than ninety percent of the time preventable with the right personnel. The only reason tomar Hamlin lived is where it took place, if they were in the air. I think now airlines have to have it, but I'm not sure. But Project Adam dot

com go to the website as a parent if you're involved. I coached Naho baseball for so long and played it and the youth sports at St. Gertrude's for so long, and at no point did we consider to have an AED. I'm not sure they existed at that point, but now they do. And now it's time for you to get involved as a parent, as a mom, or and dad. Buy an AED, put it, know how to use it, put it in your trunk, and when something horrible occurs.

Your car is almost always with you for sporting events, right, and you can run out to the trunk of your car, open it up, and if you know how to use it, don't spend the time, take thirty minutes to operate it and save your son, or save your daughter's life, or save your life, or your husband's life, or your next door neighbor. Think about that. It's preventable. Get it done. Off my soapbox. Project Adam dot Com coming up later. Mike Allen Jr. Oh

kind of touched on the I'm watching more about Fannie Willis. Of course, we know nothing about her. She was funded by George Soros to get elected, and she has a criminal justice system in Atlanta that is largely melting down. The Feds are looking at the Fulton County jail that had an inmate that died and bugs and vermin eight part of his body while he was dead. It's under federal supervision. There's more crimes in Atlanta, in Fulton County than

there are prosecutors to handle it. Rapes and robberies and drug deals. Buckhead, which is a nice section, a nice part of Atlanta, part of the city of Atlanta, wants to leave because there's so little police protection. About twenty percent of the cops have left. They can't take it anymore. It's like Cincinnati, Washington. Cincinnati's not there yet, but we'll get there if we stay on the same path. Washington, DC. One third of

the cops have left. Chicago twenty eight percent of left. New York City twenty percent of left. I see Minnesota towns. Small towns had five cops. They were poached by medium sized cities and they left. When I talked to the sergeant Dan Hills of CPD, he tells me the cops are being poached to leave, to go to Indian Hill and become a ranger. They go to Boone County in Florida. They're poaching NYPD cops to come to Florida.

They're accepting the certification. North Dakota's doing a great job. In other words, cops in the major cities, we are saying we can't take it anymore. We have no respect. It's constant double time and trouple time work. We're getting kicked. We have prosecutors that don't support us, and lawmakers. Black Lives Matter only cares when a black life can be monetized. When a black life cannot be monetized, black Lives Matter doesn't care. And so

he points out, and I now know that to be the fact. I don't pay much attention to Atlanta, although I have a couple of radio stations there, and I'm sure I have hundreds of listeners and a listening right now. But nonetheless GST for example. But nonetheless there is a meltdown and trying to get a trial in Fulton County because they don't have the courtrooms, don't have the bailiffs, don't have the clerks, don't know the personnel, and

jurors do not want to serve in downtown Atlanta. It's too dangerous to go there. There is a RICO racketeering influenced corrupt organization trial happening with a rapper with nine defendants. The alleged crimes took place three years ago. They started the trial nine months ago with nine defendants in Fulton County and it's complete, utter chaos. Jurors do not want to come, Jurors at our schedule to arrive, I have their cars broken into, and at this point this is

unbelievable. I've tried one hundred jury trials in Hamley County and I would say picking a jury tends to take about a morning two to three hours. If it's a big case, it might take a day or two and that's it. Well, after eight months in Fulton County under Fannie Willis, eight months, they're still picking a jury because they can find jurors who can serve or want to serve, or jurors that don't unqualified. They can't get a jury

in Fulton County slash Atlanta because of chaos. So in that environment, it's best to avoid the obvious problems in Atlanta and to come up with somebody to

beat up on politically popular whose name is Donald Trump. So for the last two and a half years plus, Fannie Willis, the George Sorrow selected prosecute tricks in Fulton County has launched a full scale investigation involving one hundred and sixty one different acts comprising forty one and felonies, declaring the President of the United States executive branch of federal government in Washington to be a corrupt criminal operation.

That's the heart and soul of what we're discussing here, a corrupt criminal organization. That statute is reserved for biker gangs or the mafia, or rap artists that are dealing in with heroin and fentanyl and large numbers of people are involved. It doesn't deal with a local prosecutor named Fanny Willis who is wasting her time on a case that's going to take tens of thousands of hours, costing the taxpayers tens of millions of dollars that will never come to a good conclusion

when the Feds already have jurisdiction and they're pending indictments anyway. So, assuming you're in the anti Trump camp, Jack Smith has filed a four count federal indictment against Donald Trump for corrupt practices during the twenty sixteen I'm sorry, the

twenty twenty election. It's already covered. But having launched for thirty months and this investigation having ignored the folks of Atlanta and Fulton County that have personal crimes committed against them every day, having in the incapability of selecting jurors to serve nine months. Not yet. They don't have a jury yet. It would take years and years to try nineteen criminal defendants, even if you get over all the procedural hurdles and humps of a lack of jurisdiction to bring this case

to trial. Can you find a jury in Fulton County that would serve? Some of the experts I listened to this morning said no, you won't be able to find a jury. And she stood up there in time time at eleven thirty five PM a couple of nights ago, and said, yes, we're gonna go to try within six months. Don't have the lawyers. You'd have to have the Georgia Dome. These nineteen criminal defendants are going to have fifty to sixty lawyers and pairalegals. They're gonna have a hundred people involved in

the defense. Can you imagine the vais deer the selection of the jury process. It's taken eight to nine months to get a jury for a rapper and still don't have it. This is unbelievable. It's already covered by whatever Jack Smith wants to do. Well. I don't know what to say except we live in an era of complete and utter chaos that doesn't have a resolution other than electing Donald Trump back to the presidency to stop the federal madness and the

state madness. Because you can't have the president of the United States in trial in Atlanta or New York City. The Feds would step in in federal courts would say you can't do that because there is something called the Presidential Immunity Act. By that, I mean if the president acts under the color of federal law, presuming to be doing his job and his duty, he's exempt from criminal or civil lawsuits. Otherwise we'd have every president suit every day for every

decision he makes. The president has immunity. Now, that doesn't mean the president can take a gun and go into a fifth third bank and rob it. It doesn't mean that at all. He goes out's outside the cloak of his authority. But while sitting in the Oval office doing his job, if he tells his chiefestaff like I'll tell the segment you see, if you can get me this number, and the segment calls somebody. That doesn't mean the

segment's committed a felony. This idiotic prosecutor has said that if Mark Meadows was told by Donald Trump to get me the phone number of a state representative in Georgia, that that is a felony and further into the conspiracy. Are you

kidding me? Adults have got to step in. We're in meltdown in the urban areas and a prosecutor somewhat new to the gig, completely overwhelmed by the work she has to do, put there by George Soros wants to make a name for herself by bringing Donald Trump, Mark Meadows, and Rudolph Juliani and

seventeen others to heal. And I pray to God it doesn't begin the process of local prosecutors here following criminal charges against Joe Biden or against his chief of staff and tying that the Democrats, the liberals, the excessive liberals, have now crossed the rubicon with the Army of Rome, and we can't come back from this moment. It is awful. Let's continue. Coming up after one o'clock today will be State Rep. Adam Bird about what you can do if

your kids not being properly educated once again. Project Adam dot com as the website to begin the process of getting a e EDS in your organization, at school, at work, or whatever, and access them how to use them to save lives. Thousands and thousands of kids die every year of sudden cardiac arrest. Don't let it be yours. Let's continue twelve fifty seven Home of Your Reds hopefully winning Tonight on news Radio seven hundred w altiview. It's a

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first and first place in the month of August. So far, they've won three baseball games, so at some point they got to kick it up. On Notre two. They're a game and a half behind the Miami Marlins. So we'll see what happens for the wildcard. But until then, property taxes are skyrocketing. Some areas, like Butler County, has had a thirty five

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Brown County and Representative Bird. Are you related first of all to Larry Bird? Like to think so, Billy. It's great to be on your show today. And yeah, I'd like to tell people I'm related to Larry. Not sure that it's true or not, though I tell him I'm related to Billy Cunningham. It could jump like crazy White Man can't jump, but Billy Cunningham could jump. But that's a different issue. First of all, let's

get your take on what's happening politically. You may I view yourself as such, but you're viewed by some as like a politician, and so once again the Trumpster has been indicted. I think the count now is up to ninety one counts of felonies, which carry fourteen thousand years in jail. I'm not sure he can do them all. Before we talk about fouchers and property taxes and all that interesting stuff. What's your view and what Joe Biden, what

the Democrats are doing to Donald John Trump. Well, obviously they're trying to take him out, but I think it's a little bit worse than that. I think we're trying to indite him because they want to build up his base of support. They want to make sure that he's the Republican nominee because they see him more vulnerable candidate one on one versus Biden than Ron de Santis. Ron DeSantis is a guy that obviously is America's best governor and he is getting

it done in the state of Florida, and they want him. I think Biden's afraid of De Santis. He does not want to see desantispe the nominee, and so they're going after Trump to try to help him with his base. Well, and you know, Tony Benner, my great producer relates to me that the more of these indictments happen, the more likely it is the Republicans are going to have Trump as the nominee, and the more likely he's

going to lose. Now, I say, be careful for what you wish, because if the economy continues to get bad, suburban nights not rule folks so much. I think they're they understand Donald Trump, but suburban nights who live in Montgomery and live in Madeira and live in Green Township a lot,

especially women, don't want the chaos. And at some point when I did a poll yesterday before I get to the subject matter among my listeners, and of course my listeners represent the American people, and we had eight not guilty, and we have five guilty, and so we had a circumstance of a hung jury. And so the Democrats are banking on the fact with all these indictments, and we're gonna be asked to vote for someone who's on there a

ninety one count federal and state indictments out on bond. That guy's name is Donald Trump. On the other hand, we could vote for someone who's mentally vacant, who's a crook, and accepts bags of cash from Russians and Chinese. That's one hell of a selection to make. Of course, I'm going to be in the Donald Trump camp unless something dramatic comes out. But the folks in Claremont County and Brown County are not like the folks in Madeira and

Blue Ash, not like the folks in Green Township. It goes, you're God's people. You're out there, your farmers and your truckers, and you work hard, work smart, You work with your hands, sometimes with your head. And to me, I think your point's a great one that the Democrats all work in unison. You don't need direct orders from one to an. They just know what to do. And so in Fulton County I saw this morning and some of the talk shows. I'm kind of getting off point,

but I normally do. There's a group of rappers with nine criminal defendants in trial right now under the Rico statue, with Fannie Willis trying the case or assistance or drying it. And they're in the ninth month of jury selection. They can't find a jury in Atlanta to even begin hearing the case. And they say the case is going to take maybe a year and I'm thinking, wait a minute, we don't have a year, we don't have two years. This case won't even start for god knows how long. It's just

keeping it dangling out there about resolving anything. And that's not good for the American people. My goodness, the damage that the Biden administration has done to this country. No, it is out of control. When you think about the energy production in our lack thereof, when you think about the supply chain, the way it's been affected, when you think about the way that inflation has occurred, in the impact that that's had on retirees and all kinds of

people are young people can't buy a house anymore. Inflationary pressure that the Biden administer conference has got to disqualify him from a second term, got to And it's a choice. And if you're a normal person and you don't spend. I have so many of my buddies Representative Oldenburgh that tell me they quit paying attention to politics. They can't take it anymore. They don't want to listen when it comes on, they turn it off. People are turned off,

and that means elly, the activists are going to vote. That's a problem. Let's talk about property taxes. There's there was a headline in the AP I don't know about about Claremont County, in Brown County, but in Butler County there's a thirty five percent increase in evaluation. Explain why that's happening at the state level and does that mean you pay thirty five percent more? Part A, Part B go great question, Billy, And you know Claremont County

where I reside is the high is Butler County high. But our property values are increasing three three percent, Billy, And Clairemont tom is outrageous and staying And the reason why is because tax Commissioner and Columbus has decided to take a one year average of property tax change versus a three year average. Claremont County's reappraisal three year reappraisal has always been on a three year average and a three year average, Billy. If they would have used that, it would only

be twenty three percent. Now, twenty three percent sounds a lot better than forty three, but twenty three that's even crazy compared to the rate of inflation in America. So Claremont County ins are really going to be hammered with a

forty three percent entry something we can do about that. Right now, I have a bill with a representative from Butler County, Thomas Hall, Representative Thomas Hall, House one one eighty seven, which is a bill that would require the Tax Commissioner three year average when doing this and when when reevaluating the property values in our counties, and and so you know that that has got to happen. It's slowly right now. I believe the state sellers. We've got

some influential members in this in the House that are opposing it. It's probably got not going to want to mean to relief to Claremont County and in other counties across across our state, but it's got to. It's got to happen now. That doesn't just because property values are going on forty it doesn't mean that your property tax is going to go up forty three percent, but it'll

still go up higher than it should well. And the other issue is this, everyone in this climate would love to sell their house at some exorbitant price. For the problem is you can't live in stasis for the rest of your life. You got to buy something else. And there's something else also is going up in value. The forty three percent doesn't mean your bills go up forty three percent, but it's going to go up significantly because as evaluation go

up, the village goes down. So you might be paying twenty or twenty five percent more instead of forty three percent. That doesn't mean thank you, sir. May have another that's a problem. And so there's you're saying, there's no law right now that says to the tax commissioner, you've got the average three years. She just decided to make it one and sticking to the taxpayer. Is that what you're saying. That is exactly what I'm saying,

Billy. We need a law that requires them to use the three year average, and right now that does not exist in the state of Ohio. I've got a lot of support in the center for this. It's had a couple of hearings and the House Waves and Mains Committee, and it had some good movement, but it's not going to make it quick enough to bring relief for

o Islands. And you know, when you think about an average, just because a couple of streets on a couple of houses on my street have gone up in value because they've been sold, that doesn't mean that my house has gone up like that. Maybe I haven't been able to renovate the inside. I've not been able to redo some things updated. And that does not mean that my house has gone up that kind of in that kind of way. But that's exactly what's going to happen in Claremont County into your very soon.

Well that's sad. Now. Second, late school is starting almost everywhere. I can't believe it. Used to be in the good old days when men were men, you started school after a labor day, but not anymore. Now you're starting sometime in August, god knows why. And you A voucher bill has passed, which I don't think American parents understand. But essentially, if your kids in any public school, you can apply receive a rather generous

amount of money to go to a private school. Whether your school is functioning or not. I can see it. When it comes to dysfunctional schools like CPS, you want to get out. But this bill encompasses all the schools. Please explain the bill of the American people. Sure. Well, what this part of the budget says is that if you as a family are four hundred and fifty percent of poverty or lower, you're going to qualify for a voucher that's about sixty one one hundred dollars that you can use to go to

the school of your choice. And you know this is there's a lot of public school teachers and administrators that are getting it done and working hard. And I don't want to take anything away from the hard work that public schools public

schools are doing. But but you know when I became in favor of this, when a couple of years ago, the unions you remember during COVID teacher unions went to Governor Dwine and said, hey, put us at the front of the vaccine line, and if you do that, put us ahead of the fifty year olds and sixty year olds, and if you do that, we'll go back to work. Well, Governor Dwine and good conscience did that.

He had put He allowed teachers to get the vaccine before others. And then once that happened, they would not go to work and kids in urban settings were denied in education by teacher unions. And when that happened, I became a fan of vouchers because we got to protect kids. But it's not just about that. If you're going to force my child into arrest group with somebody with my daughter into a boys restroom with boys in it. That kind

of problem with that. If you're going to ask my child what their pronouns are on the first day of school, I've got a problem with that. If you're going to compel students to affirm a certain ideology or belief, I've got a problem with that. And if you're going to compel students to room together a dand camp, whether the boys or girls, because you don't want to think somebody who who thinks that they're transitioning, I got a problem with

that. And when you have that kind of situation, we've got to provide relief to parents and allow them a different educational environment for their students. You know, there might be an argument about that in Claremont County, or in

Boone County, or in Butler County. But when I see reporting out of Medesto, California, for example, that any parent that takes your position or my position on the transitioning and transgender issue, you're a found you find yourself in a situation where the State of California may attempt to take your children away from you because you're a bad parent. That somehow if you object to a third grade or being told about oral sex, that somehow, if you object

to that, Adam Bird, the problem is yours. That you're the guy who has to understand this is the new way, and that you are contributing to the delinquency of a minor if you object as a parent, and they'll take you to juvenile court in order to put you through a reindoctrination camp.

That your eight year old girls got to know about oral sex. That is so outrageous that we if that happens, I'm moving to Madagascar and I'm start breeding Komodo dragons because I will not live in a world in which that happens. And I will completely get out and do whatever I can. If I'm a father of a boy or a girl being preached to about sex when they're eight or nine years old, do you want to live in modesto California? Oh my goodness, boy, that it's like start it out ages and we're

not gonna. I don't believe we're going to allow that. In Ohio, And in fact, a couple of a month or so ago, we passed a parent Bill of Rights out of the Ohio House and I'm chairman of the Education Committee, so I was very closely involved in the going through the committee process, and the parent Bill of Rights that we passed here in Ohio said that if you're going to teach sexually explicit material to my child, I have a right to know about it, and I have a right to ask my

child to be excluded from that conversation. It also said that if you're going to talk to my child about gender dysploria issues in the counselor's office, you've got to let me know. As a parent, I have a right to know if my child has gender dysploria issues. And if you're going to call my son Susie when they get to school, I have a right to know about that. And so you know, we cannot allow the TRANSCLT to get in control. We cannot allow them to groom our children down this path.

Well, good luck to you. I can't imagine what the world's gonna look like in twenty years, But all right, Representative Adam Bird, thank you, and that hearing on the Tax Commissioner is very important, and we'll see what happens with your parent Bill of Rights, which is required. I don't know how this will be received in Columbus public schools or in Dayton public schools,

but I know in Claremontain Brown County it'll be extremely popular. Once again, Adam Bird, State Representative, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show, and with your permission, will do it again. Thank you, Representative. I am so grateful to be on your show. You are a great American, and you know what, I'm looking forward to watching the Bengals get it done this year. With Joe Burrow at the helm, I think he's going to make it happen for Cincinnati. We need it, man,

we need it bad. The Reds look like they're fading, and we've got to quit the fade and start winning some baseball games. Adam, thank you very much. Thank you, Billy, appreciate you having me on yourself. God bless you. Let's continue with more, and in many parts of our

country there's no debate on those issues. By the way, you'd simply in some blue cities and blue states, if you object to your child being indoctrinated with the liberal and other sexual matters inappropriate to their age, that you're the one that has a problem, not the teaching system. Let's continue with more. My comments and news are next at your home of the reds Plankton I starting at five forty against the Cleveland Guardians. Sounds like a savings alone in

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and I'm broadcasting and say. It began with Biden saying I have nothing to do with my son's businesses right now, when that was proven to be a lie, he said, I my son never made any money out of China. That that proved to be a lie. Yeah, my son never took millions of dollars from Varisma. That turned out to be a lie. Now Biden is saying, well, my son's a crackhead Leah alone, Well, that's fine. Many people I know many and you know many that have alcohol

and or drug problems. That doesn't mean they have bags of cash they accept all over the world to give to the president of the United States. That's a different thing completely. So he's picking up this st oh man, his son, he's got a drug problem. Put in front of me and say, look, do you believe my son would do these kinds of things? And I would say yes. In fact, I want to see the checks. I want to see the bags of cash. I want to see the deposits. I want to see it all. Segment, You're okay, I'm

getting all pissed off. I think I'm gonna write myself in when I vote for president United States? What do you think can you do that you can do a better job? I mean, what else the choices do you have? But I mean the Trumpster is under indictment out on the bond. I mean, what's gonna happen is he's going to be the president and then go to jail after four years. You know, the county prosecutor that it'd be like Rob Sanders and dieting Joe Biden, I mean, and Fanny Wallace.

She has an office that's melting down. Prosecutors and police are cheating. The jail is so bad that inmates are dead, and birds and other critters starts eating him. And I'm thinking, don't you have something better to do? The this when it's covered by Jack Smith, who's a clown himself. By the way, I see clowns everywhere looking at you. Willie. The Stute

imports a proud service of your local Thames Star Heating air conditioning dealers. Tame Star quality you could feel in Cincinnati called Sheldon Braun at Braun Heating at five one, three, three eight, five seventy seven sixty five spots. Thank you. Roxy. Spent the morning Willie out at the beautiful Western and Southern Open. If you get a chance, get out there. The place is gorgeous. You got plenty of room. There's tennis going on and food and

everything else. The flowers are gorgeous. It is a good time out there at John Barrett's tournament. How's the traffic? It was fine, this morning, rolled in parked, walked across, rocked across the way. I'm in It was great. What about J. J. Wolfe? He got beat last night? Not good bye. Let's see he lost to alex Your six love three six six one. Who Carlos Alcarez was a winner late last night. Born At Gorrich was also a winner. He's the men's defending champion.

Now today coming up top seeded IgA Schwartec. Well, we'll take to the court tonight. Arena Sablinka. Who is on the court. I'm not saying this. I'm not saying this twice. I've been practicing this for three and a half hours. Do you know who they are? Yeah? Among the men, number three, Danielle Medvedev went wins today. He's a former champion. Here, Tommy Paul a winner. Also Alexander Zerev. Casper Rude is on court now. Stefano's Sissy pass fourth seed No. The fourth seed is

is coming up. And then tonight the joker as seven o'clock Novak Djokovic on court. It'll be packed and act at the Big Tennis Track. Hold on right now? Am I speaking with the Great John Barrett? Yay or nay what John Barrett? Hello, Hello, Hello. He must have heard me talking about his own tournament. Hello hello, hello hello, can't technically we did we pay the bill? There he is? I'm looking at did we did we pay the bill? On the cloud? I don't know? Better

call him on the bat phone, John Barrett, Thank please continue. We'll try to get him up. Let's see what else is going on, Willie. Let's see. Let's see Red's update Logan Allen and three relievers A six hit or last night, those Guardians knock off the Reds three nothing to go, one up on the battle for the Ohio Cup. The Reds are shut off for the ninth time this season, in the fifth time since July the

ninth. So they wind things up tonight. Noah Cinder Guard four. We'll be opposed by Lefty Andrew Abbott, Number forty one, forty Sports Talk, Ralph's American Grill, Inside Pitch, Kelsey Chevrolet Extrning Show After the game. Now, John Barrett, how are you? I'm well, Willie? How are you? How are you now? If anywhere I'm down to the office getting ready to go to tennis, you're taking a helicopter or taking your entourage with you. I'm gonna drive out in my little suv all by my lonesome

John. I was out there this morning. It's it's beautiful. It's wonderful. The flowers are beautiful, the tennis is at action is beautiful. The people are out there. It was packed this afternoon this morning when I was out there ready to go, it's all good. Yes, Now, what can you tell me? Let's get down to the facts. Are you confident or not confident? Are you happy or sad or somewhere in between about keeping your tournament where it belongs in Mason. I'm very hopeful. I'm very hopeful.

I think the guys who bought the tournament had been pleasantly surprised by the success of it, by the flavor of it, by the wide range of people who come. And remember, the tournament is about promoting tennis, and this is it in the Midwest. There's no question that it's like having an All Star Game like seven or eight days in a row exactly. And in two years, Willie goes to two weeks, two weeks, having an All Star Game for fourteen days in a row, and that field will be double

the size. When I spoke to Commissioner David Young, who I think he put it on the Richter scale at six point five out of ten and keeping it because Ben Navarro, who, as you know's daughter is the tennis partner of Peyton Stearns, and she's politicking right now. And he said last night. She actually didn't she she lost last night, but she won the NCUBA championship last year. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. So you're going up and what about the Joker? You like to have

Alcatraz against the Joker in the finals. Wouldn't that be the best? Yeah? And who gets a Rookwood Trophy? Then both of them, they're just different sizes. You got that. That's right, that's true. You're prob a different color. But nonetheless and so great. You know. The thing you have to think about Ben Navarro, be Mark is like a businessman like you are, and at some point you want to spend money on things that

you like to do and be involved in. But on the other hand, reality hits How many hundreds of millions of dollars would he saved if it stayed here in Mason as supposed going to Charlotte. It'd be a big I think it'd be a big number. But also in Charlotte, he's going to get forty acres. Here he starts with ninety, and we think it's possible to add another twenty to twenty five to it from people willing to sell to him with property to de that's it. So I mean, this is gonna be

a year round facility. It's one thing he's gonna do. Or I think that makes a lot of sense. If you had a big pal wow, the shakers and movers, the creme, the creme, the captains of industry. Have you gotten Procter and god Kroger, Western and Southern, fifth third Bank, Sintas at all, all you boys singing out of the same hymn book. We are, we are we Sintos right down the street from him, Sintos right there, right there, right there, right there, don't

have to go too far. And where is Sintos anyway? Where is it right next door to you? I've hit a few balls off number fourteen and hit Sintas. Don't tell Scott Farmer that. And when's the decision? Unlike many things in life, this decision has got to be made within the next thirty days. Is that true. I'd say thirty to sixty. And you're cautiously optimistic. I am cautiously optimistic. And I like the guys. I like the guys from Bemonk, I really do. And I think I think

since that he has played very, very well and impressed them. I really do. Can you put some of some of your money with b Mark. You might want to say, hey, there, Ben, I'll give you a few bucks and make a few deposits in the accounts. He's a banker, he's from Indiana. He's a Midwest kind of a guy. And across Dad that's right, and you look across the street there's King's Island and tell colins Worth to get him some ticket football tickets. What about collins Worth?

Yea, you get Chris involved in this. Everybody's involved. Actually, last night we have a sweet down at the red Stadium, and they took a bunch of the tennis players down to watch your Reds play last night. They didn't see much of a game. I'll say that, boy, how about taking him tonight? Tonight they're gonna win ter last night actually did reasonably well, Graham Ashcraft. Yeah, it's good. I mean, couldn't hit the damn ball worth her. No, didn't. They didn't support him. No

question. Who's the greatest tennis male tennis player you've seen in your life? And your choices are Federer, Nadal, Djokovic? Which one in a match would you say would win all? Probably bet on the Joker. The Joker is wild, no question. How about how about female? Did you see probably Serena. Did you see last night's or today's comments about the Joker warming up yesterday? No? Yeah, three four thousand people in the stands watching them going crazy. Yeah. If the US Open they got you know,

arbor vity around the place, you can't see anybody in. They kind of like rush you in and rush you out of practice courts here. You're part of the deal. The players love it. They love it. Did Ben Navarro see that with his own eyeballs? That? I don't know, But you'll send him a video, I'm sure. Yeah, Well, we'll talk to her. He right. No, I think I honestly believe that what Ben Navarro is witnessing is all good for our tournament. Absolutely see it.

It's one thing to talk about it. You know, you see a lot better than you hear, and when you see it, you're thinking, oh my gosh, oy, dont want to reinvent the wheel. He's going to have lawsuits, He's going to have zoning issues, he's going to have environmental studies. Nobody likes development in certain areas. Charlotte is going to be some of the green activists are going to get involved. He's got nothing but headaches, my grand headaches. In fact, he has clustered my grand headaches by

going to Charlotte. If you come here, you got everybody's singing out of the same hymn book. You have lots of money to support. How important are the fifteen hundred volunteers? Huge? Huge, And these guys come from all over to take a week of vacation and they come here to work this tournament. And that is not lost on Ben or his people. His Ben's guys are very impressive as his Ben. They're smart and they're analyzing all this

stuff. There was a bit of a hometown push. A couple of this guys might have come from like b of A. But I think that the the question is can you recreate this somewhere else? And I'm not so sure you can. Yeah, I get it. With John, you have our hope and you have the hopes and dreams of the American people resting on your shoulders to keep the tournament. I want to make clear that Western Southern did

not sell the tournament or we never owned it. The United States Tennis Association owned it, and unfortunately they got way over their skis with their renovations at the US Open. Then they had two years of no income with COVID and so they had they had to raise money, and selling the tournament for you know, around three hundred million is one way of doing it, right. Yeah, the three hundred million here and then the Madrid was three hundred million.

That's six hundred million to cover the COVID problems the USTA and all of a sudden we're in the large. But this may turn out for the better. Keep the tournament. I think you're going to put up like fifty two hundred million. He's gonna put up about one hundred, one hundred and fifty million. It's gonna be pickleball. Going to be crazy, Yeah, and uh it should everybody. I will tell you the Cincinnati companies have all stood up and said count me in on the next next step. So I mean

might tip my hat to send us krog Or Proctor. They're all in, and I think, great American, I think I think it's very hard to overlook when you're finally making the decision because the USTA never approached those guys for major contributions, because our our deal covered the need, you know what I mean, right, Yeah, you took care of it. But now it's all yeah, bigger, Yeah, that's gonna be twice as big. All right, John Barrett, keep doing what you're doing and we'll see what happens.

And root for the joker. The joker is wild and Mason, the Joker is wild. John Barrett, thank you very much, see you guys. Segment Get Me out of this Studies Report, and we're gonna have my interview with Dwayne Robinson maybe tomorrow to talk about the veterans. And then then coming up next is the great Representative Cindy Abrams segment, Get me out of the Studge Report. WILLI in honor of the Western and Southern Open, we leave you with the immortal words of the stew Report. Thank you well said,

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a baby in yoga that I'm bad of the Bowl. Bad of the Bowl, Bad of the Bowl. By Billy Cunningham to Great America. Let's continue. We never stopped. We simply continue. Several weeks ago, the Sheriff Richard K. Jones organized a little bit of a get together of local lawmakers and legislators to go to the southern border to talk about how Hamilton, Ohio and Covington and Cincinnati and Green Township is at the center of human trafficking and

drug use and what's happening there and one of the contestants. One of the attendees was Cindy Abrahams, a former police officer in the city of Cincinnati. I'm glad she got out alive. Now a state representative for Western Hambleton County

and Cindy Aberns, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. Before we talk about that a little bit, John, you may not view yourself as a politician because you've led a normal life, But nonetheless, what is your view of a local prosecutor in diting at that point as sitting president of the United

States for criminal acts? For example, Let's say that our county prosecutor right now is Melissa Powers, and she indicts President Joe Biden for wrongfully sending American soldiers to fight and die in Afghanistan when he acted, in her view, illegally, and that she indicts the president. She indicts the local prosecutor, then indicts the chief of staff, indicts the attorneys working for the President United States, then brings them to Hamlet, a County to be arraigned and maybe

locked in the Hamlet County jail. That is similar to Alfani Willis is doing in Fulton County. What is your view of what happened with the indictment of President and Trump for acts committed in office. Well, first of all, thanks for having me on again. But every time I see something pop up in my news feed or I click on you know, whatever news app by I want to look at or even if the news is on. I just keep shaking my head about this topic, and I keep saying, what on

earth I mean? It doesn't make any sense to me. I know, every level of government has their own jurisdiction, right, and so that's kind of high. I just keep shaking my head. It doesn't make any sense. Well, you have Jack Smith, who is the US Attorney Special prosecutor appointed by Joe Biden's Department of Justice. And this guy who's spent his life in federal law. He's indicted President Trump in one case for four counts, and then in the Marlago case, there's about three people indicted, and he

has surveillance tapes allegedly. He has the Secret Service to testify against President Trump. He has the President Trump's own attorneys. They've pierced the attorney client privilege in federal court to testify against Trump. And it's a case involving activities committed after he left office. And now this is completely different, in which the president is sitting in and around the Oval office, executing the laws of this

country, believing in his heart of hearts that something wrong took place. It's his job as the president to make sure that federal elections are conducted the proper way. He might have been wrong, they might have acted improperly. But to have a local criminal prosecutor in the city of Atlanta while forty one counts

of felony charges against then a sitting president is really unbelievable. But nonetheless, Cindy Abrams, let's talk about first of all, human trafficking and Fentnyl explained what happened when the sheriff of Butler County got a hold of you and said, you're an up and coming lawmaker, let's go to the southern border. What did you observe? Well, we went down there and we met. We were down in coach Ease County. We met with Sheriff Dennell's and his

team. And whatever you have heard about the border, have looked on the media, whatever you whatever news ali you watch, whatever you think you know about the border, it is a thousand times worse. The cartels number one

are absolutely a terrorist organization. They have no regard for human life. Everything we witnessed with our own two eyes, I mean you know, they took us up on top of a mountain and we literally watched the cartel loading up these criminals with backpacks of as much fentanyl, meth and cocaine as they can carry, arming them and dressing them in full camo, coming right across our border. There's no wall where we were, there's no barbed wire. They

are coming right in. And these are not people. You know, this is not about immigration, Okay, that's a whole nother topic. These are not about the people that want to come here to the greatest country on Earth, do better for themselves, start a family, you know, get an education, whatnot. These are criminals and they are coming over the border all day, every day, and they're coming to different regions in this country.

And it's a very much organized operation. So for example, what do they do with these armed backpack full of dope carrying, you know, full camel wearing people. They then the cartels then recruit Americans to come and drive down to the southern border along you know, a desert roadway. They give them GPS coordinates, they show up, they blow their horn three times and these yahoos come out of the out of the brush and they get into their vehicle.

They then take them traffick them up to Phoenix where they're deployed to every city in the nation where they literally have a cell phone full of addicts. So you have your customer base right there. They show up here in Cincinnati, they start making phone calls and it is I'm telling you, it's the craziest thing I've ever seen. And so again, every States of Border state, the law enforcement down there. We met with Border Patrol, the local

sheriff's department, the prosecutor's office. They literally all looked at me and said, if you don't think every States of Border state, you are sadly mistaken. One hundred and fifty thousand Americans will be killed this year overdosing on heroin and fentanyl. There'll be millions and millions of Americans using these drugs. And when I hear the argument, well, you got Governor Abbot of Texas wants

to put this plastic device in the middle of the Rio Grand River. So what, Sidney Abrams, You're saying, So what go a couple hundred miles to the west. There is no fence, there are there are no borders whatsoever. And you watch that happening. Are we powerless to stop that? No? I don't think we are. But of course, at the state level. Again, going back to our previous conversation, each of us has

a jurisdiction at the state level. You know, we can't say, Okay, we're going to send everybody down to our you know, our military to the I mean we can the governor can send the National Guarden that, but it needs to come from a federal level. They need to secure the southern border. Listen, we can't leave this country right now and go anywhere. We can't go to Canada, we can't go over across the pond. We can't go to Mexico without showing who we are, where we're going, how

long we're staying, if we have any fruit in our suitcake. I mean, you have to answer all these I mean, I'm serious, you have to do that. I'm laughing, but it's actually true. I mean, anybody who's left the country knows all the hoops you have to jump through. It should be the same for America. That's what I'm saying. And so here we are. So we were down there again, learned a lot. And on the way home, you know, Sheriff Jones and I were talking and he said, what are you going to do about it? Now?

You know, because obviously, I'm a lawmaker and the chair of Criminal Justice Committee. So I thought about it. And you know, the state of Ohio pours millions of dollars into treatment programs. Okay, once you're addicted, we help those addicted. You know again, millions of dollars, that's set up. We send spend millions of dollars on re entry programs. Okay, fine, again, we need to help you come out of prison and make a productive, you know, law abiding life for yourself. Great, but

you know what, but here's the thing. Here we are and it just seems this heroin and now fentanyl and cocaine and meth and everything else, it just seems like we've kind of gotten away from Look, they knowingly trafficked these drugs. They know, damn well that is fentanyl. When they sell that pill that looks exactly like adderall or exactly like xanex to some young person and

they kill them, they know damn well what they're doing. So I say, this bill, the Saving Ohio's Ohio Communities Act, House Bill two thirty, is going to ramp up penalties for drug trafficking and cocaine fentanyl related compounds, heroin and mess we're also going to keep human trafficking as a felony of the first degree, but we're going to expand the definition by basically saying, look, we're going to target the drug traffickers that literally recruit these humans and

traffick them to basically traffick their drugs all over the state. And when you hide from the police and hide these people from the police, I mean, I have a press release here from our state patrol. On March thirteenth of this year, they end up catching pulling over Toyota Sienna on the Ohio Turnpike for a cracked windshield. They got eleven illegals in there in the whole nine yards. So listen that people say, oh, this isn't happening in Ohio,

Yes it is. And if you don't think it is, obviously you must be living somewhere differently than where I'm living, because it's happening every single day. Speaking of the patrol, they sees in twenty twenty two, they sees four hundred and ten pounds of fentanyl and up one hundred and sixty six percent from twenty twenty one. It's here, folks, and it's killing our people in Ohio. So again, one more thing about killing people. This

is my most favorite part of the whole bill. If you are the drug dealer that sells that fentanyl related dope and you kill someone and the police can trace back that you are the drug dealer, the person that sold that pill or that cocaine lace with fentanyl, you will do time in prison to the tune of five year specification period in addition to what the judge sentence to you. So it's a five year speck for killing somebody. I'm tired of it.

Representative Cindy Abrams, you bring up the great point. It must be stopped at the border, because once it gets into Phoenix and then dispersed all over the country, then it's like chasing a thousand mice instead of the ship they came in on. And we do not have a current political desire or the administration to stop it at the border. Has it gotten worse in the

last three years? When you talked to those in Cochise County, there was a sense that with the Trump in charge of the border, there was a sense the border is shut down. What has changed the past three years. I'm gonna give you a stats that came straight from Socis County Shares Department, which they have about eighty three miles of border. Okay, this is just

in Cochise County. So again eighty three miles of border, specifically in the month of January, and I'm going to give you a couple numbers of a couple of different years they caught again Coachi's County, eighty three miles. In twenty seventeen, they caught four hundred and thirty one buda's, you know, undocumented aliens, that's what does what they call him in Arizona twenty seventeen,

four hundred thirty one udas. In twenty twenty two, again month of January, we're comparing apples to apples, they caught sixty six thousand, six hundred and twenty anyway, twenty seventeen, four hundred and thirty one, twenty twenty

two, sixty six thousand, So correct. It is so profitable that the drug card tells the commonest red Chinese have put together the precursors of fentanyl, and the drug war lords that control the border understand this is a multibillion dollar business and it's been allowed to happen by Joe Biden, etc. And it's gone from four hundred and thirty one to over sixty six thousand and one month. Correct. Impossible, I mean, how do you catch sixty six thousand

people in one month in Coachy's County? How's that possible? Well, I'll tell you it's kind of it's kind of brilliant what they've thought of. So they're a you know, Biden cut the border patrol down from five hundred agents to two hund The Coachy's County Sheriff's department has about one hundred deputies, so obviously they're outnumbered. But what they've done is they've learned to work smarter,

not harder. And they've got a company right here from Ohio called Buckeye Cam and they've literally created this camera system all throughout the border, through throughout the desert. And I'll tell you right now you would know the camera when you looked at it looks like yeah, different, you know, landscape out in the desert. That's all I'll say. But I will say this is clear. So when they get a hit, the people are coming over it,

they just go directly to that area. And those the mules that are transporting this stuff and their backpacks, they're almost victims also because they either do it or else they get killed, their family gets killed, and you owe the money. If you're in the country, you have to pay allegiance to the drug cartels here, and if you don't, you get killed. They have

the wrist bands on that tell them exactly what drug cartel they're with. It's human trafficking, it's sex trafficking, it's drug trafficking, and it's happening every hour of every day, and it is destroying the country. The foreign policy of communist right China and the drug cartels. One is motivated by politics to destroy us, and the other is motivated by money. And unless there's a national state approach to the situation, we can't continue as a nation unless we

have a defined southern border. I don't know what to say representatives in the Abrance, but you have some startling facts here that are unbelievable, and we have to go to the origins and stop the flow across. It should be the United States Army, it should be drones, it should be absolute stopping in place. And you're telling me that we have the ability to do so, but we refuse to do it for political purposes. I mean that's how

I see it on the federal level. I mean, what I'm going to do here with my joint sponsor DJ Swearingen from up North is look, we're going to send a strong message, don't come to Ohio if you want to traffic humans and drugs. We're not tolerating it, all right, Representative Sinney Abrams, thank you very much. And as we concern ourselves with indictments and so much more, as we concern ourselves with almost irrelevancies, the country is

being destroyed from within. And Sindney Abrams, once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show, and thank you for caring enough to take time to go to Arizona to watch it in person. Thank you. Representative, thank you very much. Thank you. All right, let's continue. So there it is. Look at what's in the headlines, and look, on the other hand, one hundred and fifty thousand Americans killed with fentnol overdoses

and heroin, cocaine, meth and so much more. We're being stroyed from within, and we concern ourselves with Donald Trump one hundred percent of the time, as if that's relevant to the lives of so many of us that have kids and family members addicted to drugs. So let's continue with more and f line becomes available. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand, Red Spaceball Tonight starting about five forty with the Cleveland baseball team

in town. The Guardians against our reds all a news radio seven hundred w LW achieve an insanely clean home with zero res carpet cleaning call. Now mentioned this because of how they cheated. I did win my election, I just didn't get to have the job. They were robbed of an election, using the word rigged, using the words steal. Do you think it's dangerous going

into twenty twenty? I don't because we can actually back it up. And so, in response to what I believe was a stolen election, I'm not saying they stole it from me. They stole it from the voters of George facts but outside asked if I'm ever getting contee. The answers, no, this is not the speech of concession. Oh hello, hello, hello, quiet, and I'm broadcasting right, guy? Now'd you like that one? Will as Trump right? As a Trump? I think it was Trump right

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We got a doctor coming up next about getting everyone involved in sports, an ae D from Nationwide Children's Hospital. What about your child? Do you have an AED? Yes, we do. The Harrison Youth Football Program had on location at our game field on Campbell Rood. Do you know how to operate it? They say it's easy. I don't know everybody, and Harrison's either a firefighter or policeman. So we're in good shape Hall community. Unlike

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You have no idea, That's it. In sports. We got the cardiologist is waiting, I mean your guy. No, the guy from Nationwide Children's The Rock said, you have an on site everybody, and everybody in Harrison's a cop, a firefire of paramedics. That we're in good shape. Good Thank you, Rock. Yes, gotta everybody in Middletown they're retired playing pickleball, ken where they're playing golf, and Harrison they're either a cop or firefighter or an ambulance driver. And that's it. If you want to have

a heart attack, Heaven and Harrison. Correct. That's all I can say, Rock, Thank you, Thank you. I got some more probing questions for you. I need to get to at some point. Segment get me out of the Stewarte Report, Willie. It was on this day, August sixteenth, nineteen seventy seven. Oh No, Elvis, the King of rock and Roll passes away. Elvis Presley and Memphis, Tennessee, forty two years old on a toilet with Ginger Tough. Can't believe it. Segment, Thank

you. I have some list here about the number one state parks in Ohio to go swimming nude, given to me by Chip Hart. We're gonna have those out for you tomorrow by swims naked. I don't want to miss that. No, sounds like somebody else that used to be here to do that, except he was swimming downtown. Can't say Andy Furman and he's Harry. He looked like a monkey. Have you ever seen any firm and naked? If you have, I thank you. That's what I was gonna get it.

I'm missing. I can't un see that. No. Seven hundred w l ow get ready to win your way to our twenty twenty three. Iheartradeal music festivals. What happened to Damarrow hambling with the bills here in Cincinnati? What happened in Brownie James. It's kind of shocking when you have young men and some women who simply drop dead AEDs may not be available. And doctor Naomi Cortez is a nationwide expert on these matters of cardiology, electrical conditions,

et cetera. She's one of the leaders of Nationwide Hospital Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus. And doctor Naomi Cortez, welcome, I thank for the first time to the Bill Cunningham Show. And uh, doctor, can you tell us first of all, how many kids every year have cardiac arrest and how many recover from an almost instant How big of a problem is it. Well, I think it's a number that's hard to know because it's not necessarily a nationally

tract event. What I can tell you is that there was a beautiful study done in Seattle looking at sudden cardiac arrest in the young and they define that as less than thirty five These were all witnessed arrests, meaning somebody was standing next to the person when it happened. Of all the people who had an arrest, only forty eight percent survived. If somebody did CPR, that number went up to sixty three percent. However, if an AEED was present and

used, the number went up to eighty nine percent. So the issue is that you can't predict who is going to have a sudden cardiac arrest. Sudden cardiac arrest is the highest leading cause of sudden deaths in the United States, and it does happen in children as well. Is it more male than female? Is one race more applicable to get it than another? Who's at risk? So really everyone's at risk. It depends on how you look at the numbers, whether you look at athletes or non athletes. It is more common

in men than in women. A misconception is that it only happens in athletes in the pediatric age group. It is more common in non athletes than athletes, and even when it happens in athletes, it may not happen while they are actively participating in a sport. This is why it's so important that schools have aeeds available and that they run drills so that anytime child suffers a sudden cardiac arrest, that the school is prepared not only with an AEED, but

with someone who knows where it is and is willing to use it. Is there. I've read some claim this is COVID related. Is there any just put that the rest. Is there any thought that maybe the vaccine, maybe pax leovid COVID has anything to do with this? Absolutely not. One of the causes of sudden cardiac arrest is myocarditis, which is a viral infection in

the heart. COVID can cause myocarditis, but the incidents and presence of sudden cardiac arrests has existed well before COVID ever reared its head, So it might be this issue is getting more publicity because of the Monday night football game with the Bills and the Bengals and Bronnie James. A might be anny more publicity, but it's been there for a long time. And you're saying it's not

exercise related. It's not the fact that more kids are specializing in sports, playing at a younger age, their hearts getting bigger, too much exercise. Can you talk about the precursors of those who get it? You seem to be saying athletes get it, but so to non athletes, So there's not a connection between exercise and cardiac arrest. Now, the three main causes of

sudden cardiac arrest are you can have a structural abnormality of your heart. The second reason is you have an electrical abnormality of your heart, and the third reason is something called situational where you can develop an infection or you can get hit in the chest in a certain specific way, which is very rare. The common denominator is it all results in a rhythm called the ventricular fibrillation. The treatment for that is an AEED, and so sudden cardiac arrest has been

going on for a long time. People, both athletes and non athletes, are susceptible to sudden cardiac arrest. It's just the athletes get the most news attention because people presume that they're absolutely healthy. You have five minutes. Wow, all right, Well, what's a website you talk about? Adam the states involved in this thing, Heart Safe, how their parents and school boards connect up with this free program project Adam dot org. Very simple projects Adam

dot org. This is wonderful and everyone, I guess because of the publicity of Damar Hamlin and Bronnie James and others. So we had a kid playing soccer in northern Kentucky. That was a great kid, no previous presentation of any difficulties. Cardiac arrest during a soccer game. Nobody knew what to do. They call the ambulance. It takes ten to fifteen minutes to get there, and he didn't survive. And I cannot happen in today's world. And

once again, Uh, it's got it's got to be different. And uh, doctor Cortez, I'm glad you came on the Bill Cunningham Show and the messages. Get the word out and go to the website, find out what it is and get involved. And doctor once again, thank you very much for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you very much. Let me correct. The website is Project Adam dot com dot org, Project Adam dot com. All right, let me. I'm gonna mention that several more times,

so I have thousands of listeners in central Ohio. Project Adam dot com is where to begin. Yep, doctor, you're the best, and thank you very much, thank you, thank you so much. All right, let's continue. I forget the name. It was Northern Kentucky. I watched the news story about two or three months ago. Great kid, no problems, cardiac arrest and didn't make it and it was preventable. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundred W Traffic and Weather News Radio seven

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early next week to allow for presidential visit. Biden said Tuesday he wanted to ensure his visit would not disrupt those efforts on the ground. Elizabeth Chelsey, ABC News Washington, everybody's talking about Barbie. It's all over the place of movies. Amazing success, broken a lot of records, but this one is the most remarkable. Think of all the huge movies Warner Brothers has ever made, Batman, Superman, Justice League, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings,

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