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to him. He's a retired detective from a uh Springfield township. I wrote a book, Homicide Investigation Interview. We talked about that one and his upcoming book, Harr Toltzman don Heinrich Toltzman book I Am Innocent. He did the translation on that. It's a German guy that was accused and convicted and executed for murdering Charles Lindbergh junior that will be the baby of famous airline pilot Charles Lindbergh. Apparently, according to Don, he convinced me in a very short period of time

the guy was framed. And he also had a really really really crappy lawyer. Tech Friday with Dave Hatter every Friday, very important appointment listening is what I call that excellent segment from Dave Hatter. Let us see here. Don't really know where I want to start. Well, let's start with California, highlighted last week because the Trump administration cut off four billion dollars in federal grants for that stupid high speed train that goes literally from point A to point B

nowhere to nowhere. California promised the moon of the Stars with this multi billion dollar project. It just keep getting more and more expensive. Not a single track has been laid yet. And this has been going on for what seems like forever. I mean, the completion date has coming gone, and they haven't laid a single mile of track. What the hell is going on? And California has now sued the Trump administration because of determination of the funding. They're saying, hy,

everything's fine, Everything's all hunky dory. No, well, we've met all the expectations. Really you have over the Elissa Finley at the Wall Street Journal. California Gavin Newsom has shown these political effects are flexible. He's also showing the ability to turn rotten grapes into wine. So why isn't he using the excuse that President Trump handed him. Just pull

the plug on the whole bullet trained boondoggle. Trump Transportation Department rescinded four billion in funds for the project last week, pointing out the state's host overruns, delays, and funding shortfalls. Quote the railroad we were promised still does not exist and never will close quote corn to President Trump and true social this project severely overpriced, overregulated, and never delivered. All true statements. Wright's President's right. Mister Newsom surely knows it.

It's current construction rate, the five hundred mile rail line between San Francisco and Orange County won't be completed. As she writes in the Governor's Lifetime, the state as the last month hadn't begun to lay tracks on the first one hundred and nineteen miles segment between Madera population sixty eight thousand and Shafter Shafter population twenty one thousand. Remember,

this is supposed to go from two major cities. Instead, they chose this narrow, really road to nowhere path just to get something off the ground and his family rights. The first leg should have been relatively easy, since the state's rural central Valley is lightly developed and populated, no need to raise strip malls and housing developments. A private company built a two hundred and thirty five mile high speed train from Orlando to Miami in eleven years for

about six billion dollars. Yet it's taken California more than a decade to merely bulldozed permitting barriers and clear lawsuits. Think about that. If all goes according to newsmance plans, the first leg might be done, and she jokingly says by the end of his second presidential term in twenty thirty six, might state last week, sue to restore the federal funds as I mentioned a moment ago, which could

mean the years of litigation and more delays. According to Gavin Newsom, Trump wants a hand China the future at abandoned the Central Valley. We won't let him. And see I pointed out that statement last week. What the hell does that mean? How does this stupid leg of track which goes from point A to point B nowhere to nowhere, California have any connection whatsoever to China? Now the list of family rights under the Chinese economic model, here we go.

The government spurs unproductive growth by subsidizing wasteful investment, whether it be in real estate, electric vehicles, or public works. China has borrowed some one trillion dollars to build nearly thirty thousand miles of high speed rail lines, many of which connect lightly populated towns and carry a few passengers. That's the future of nuisance bullet train and nowhere companies, companies, private companies. Here, I am being repetitive for the purpose

of emphasis, routinely cancel and write off bad investments. Why want mister Newsman his Democratic legislature because they fear voters will realize they were conned. In two thousand and eight, Democrats sold the train to voters with fanciful promises, the same sort they make about free universal healthcare. How's that working at Parenthetically, your Obamacare premium is going through the roof. Just bracing you for that one. They cut off the

tax credits. It's now capped. The sixty four thousand dollars you make sixty four thousand and one dollars, you don't get a tax credit anymore under Obamacare plan. That's why people are going with private doctor. My friend John will Wan to cover Since you about that anyway, separate story, completely separate cul de sac. I just went down there anyway. Democrats claim the train would cost a mere thirty a mere thirty three billion, thirty three billion and be completed

by year is it it's twenty twenty five? Right, would be completed by twenty twenty. That was a promise in two thousand and eight, the five hundred mile train trip from San Francisco to Anaheim would supposedly take only two and a half hours and costs less than flying. Democrats also assured voters the train wouldn't need to be subsidized because it would draw masses of riders BAH and that new trillion dollar stadium will bring in so much money that it'll pay for itself. I interject the state high

speed rail authority at the time projected projected here. Let me pull a figure out of my sphincter, sixty five and a half million annual riders by twenty thirty, about five times as many passengers who take Amtrak trains in the more densely and heavily populated Northeast Corridor. Remember this is not a heavily populated corridor that they're focusing on

in the Central Valley. Despite such deceptions, lies, Democrats could have extricated themselves from their big dig had they focused early train investments on electrifying commuter rail in the Bay Area in Los Angeles, as many legislators wanted. But the Obama administration required the state to build the first leg in the Central Valley as a condition for three and a half billion dollars in grants. Why the answer to

the question, according to Lyssa, to help. Representative Jim Costa, a longtime champion of the bullet train, blue Dog Democrat, faced a tough race in twenty ten owing to his unpopular vote for Obamacare, but he was able to ride the subsidy train to victory. Federal dollars, state bonds, and cap and trade revenue have since kept the project chugging along. There's that cap and trade magically out of nowhere. Whol Cloth wasn't there one day and it's there the next.

But the rail Authority is at least seven billion dollars short of what it needs to complete the first segment. It needs more than ninety billion to build all five hundred miles. Remember, the original cost was supposed to be thirty three billion dollars. Oh Anna was supposed to be doubly twenty twenty. Couldn't Democrats have spared some change in the three hundred and twenty one billion dollar budget they

just passed in California? Yes, but have and pretend that they take money from their government union friends or repair back health care for undocumented illegal immigrants estimated cost twelve billion dollars this year, raising the obvious question if Democrats in Sacramento won't pay for their vanity project out of their own coffers, here you go, folks, Why should taxpayers in Cleveland, or Atlanta, or Cincinnati or any other damn place in the United States. It has nothing to do

with California. Why are we paying for this fresh office inauguration in twenty nineteen, Gavin Newsom, governor admitted their quote simply isn't a path close quote to finish the five hundred mile train, which would, in his words, cost too much and take too long. He promised to impose more spending, accountability, no more blank checks. Yeah, the blank checks have continued for the bulletrain and everything else in the state. Democrats

spend twenty four billion dollars to combat homelessness. The result more homelessness state k through twelve. Spending has risen fifty percent since twenty eighteen, yet student test scores have fallen. Electric rates in California have surged, yet the power has become less reliable. California's Bulletrained, whether or not it ever carries passengers, is a monument to the colossal failures of

modern progressive government, from welfare programs the public schools. Democrats make illusory promises as they shovel out money without regard for the result. When will California voters decide they're tired of getting taken for a ride?

of steered clear of politics for the most part. That show became wildly popular college students. I think really made Dave Letterman who he is or was rather, but apparently at least acorded the report's Late Show that with Stephen Colbert losing forty million dollars a year, they say at least since the twenty twenty one season, when ad revenue plummeted. Why would ad revenue plummet? You know, do you think

there's any connection between this and Air America? Remember the radio network that was supposed to be broadcasting left wing commentary but just couldn't get off the ground because there were no advertisers to support it. You gotta make money, that's the point of it. So maybe it was a little off putting for people. They quit tuning in because

Stephen Colbert was such a left wing loon. You're going to alienate a sizable chunk of the population when you just dwell over and over and over and linger on politics, right, I mean, it's kind of the reality of it. But also you have to kind of acknowledge that fewer people are actually watching TV. I saw an article the other day YouTube. In fact, most people are watching YouTube far more than they watch regular television, So people's appetites have changed.

You have on demand, watch whatever you want, binge watch programs, watch as little or as much as you want, pause, go to the bathroom, come back and hit play. You never miss anything. A bunch of different dynamics of play here. But people are going crazy over this Colbert thing. It just doesn't shock me a bit. And this is a weird one, pivoting over to nothing related whatsoever and jumping to immediate conclusions. I don't understand this. Tennessee Titans are

building a stadium, constructing it. It's underway, right. They halted construction why a noose was found on the site. In a statement from the Tennessee Builders Association, they say they suspended work after discovering what they described as a racist and hateful symbol corner of the Builders Association. We are requiring additional anti bias training for every person on site, and work will resume only after a site wide stand down focused on inclusion and respect. Nashville Police are where of

the incident they're investigating. The Builders Association offered a reward for information leading to the identification of those involved. We are outraged and deeply saddened by this act. We were working in close partnership with our client, trade partners and unions to ensure every work understands that racism and ain't have no place here. Everyone deserves to feel safe, welcome, and treated with respect and dignity. Hmm, I just stopped

to ask out loud. You find one noose on a big construction site and that is immediately labeled as an act of racism and hatred anybody else Remember the various times that we've been lied to that folks of color or others interested in maybe stirring the pot of descent and trying to point out that racism is alive and well,

have faked and planted things. Wasn't there NASCAR incident involving want something to turn out it actually wasn't even a noose, no intent there to make a statement political or otherwise. They shut down this entire project because they found what they claim is a news no picture of it. I don't know, but now they're going to rehire everyone to do race training, anti bias training.

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No release of further details from the police. Not clear what led to the violence. They don't have any suspects we don't know about anyway. Just one more violent incident in the city of Cincinnati.

nationwide contractor that's big around here. That their their safety orientation, which is which common practice when you go on a job site, you have to go to the general contractor and and you go through a safety orientation for them for the job site, so you get a sticker for your hard head. You're allowed to be on the site. Now, just one particular contractor, their safety orientation is more about making sure we don't hurt anybody else's feelings than it is about safety.

One of the things my wife and I do when we drive around is we wonder what's going on with the people in front of us around us driving and one of the options is that they just come away from a procedure where they were under anesthesia. So kudos to you for taking care of your wife tomorrow, because Lord knows she takes good care of you.

it's a lesson we can take away from that one. Yes, I won't be in tomorrow, Gary Jeff Walker covering for me since the man arrested over the weekend, accused of reportedly making terroristic threats against the US ICE agents and a US official Court of Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs, a Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin Fox nineteen digital staff reporting Anthony Kelly will face federal charges for threatening to assault, kidnap, murder a.

maybe give them time, Joe. Fire in the building that houses the historic Emery Theater being investigated as suspicious of the sins. A Fire Department cruise dispatched to the six story multi use building at eleven twelve Walnut in the morning six forty one, specifically Saturday morning, for the ports of smoke coming from the ceiling construction workers nearby a lord of the fire department. Theaters is under renovation and closed in the building on one side. Several apartments are

on the other corner of the fire department. When cruise searched the building, they found a fire in the basement extinguished in about ten minutes. Fire department said an extensive effort was then put forth to get rid of the smoke. Specialized unit called Vent twenty one dispatched to ventilate the smoke, which filled the entire building. Fire department said there were no injuries, thankfully to the residents, firefighters orling near by

construction workers. None of the residents were displaced. Estimated twenty five thousand dollars in damage. Not too bad, I suppose the grand scheme of thing. Since a fire department does not know the cause of the fire, they said, the investigative unit is looking at it as in their words, suspicious. Speaking with WCPO, president of the CEO of the Children's Theaters Cincinnati, owning the Emory Theater, says an unknown individual

was responsible for the fire. Kim Kern, the president afore mentioned yesterday and on an individual gain access to the Emerines, started a small fire in the basement for unknown reasons. One of our subcontractors smelled the smoke, called nine to one one CFD respond within minutes and was able to put the fire out quickly. Minimal damage from the fire itself and no water or smoke damage. M All right, well,

thankfully the Emory Theater is in attack. Stack is stupid coming up five point thirty six right now fifty.

The vehicle's windows slightly opened, but the dog was panting profusely and there was no water available. Also in the vehicle four kittens and two cats in animal crates, two of which appeared to be not moving.

the officers when she was asked about documentation. Ah, now court authority is weird then put an officer in what appeared to be a headlocked her in questioning not a good idea. The officer was outside with weird vehicle, came inside to assist, grabbed her by the forearm, took her to the ground, and placed her in handcuffs. Officers said he had to push Weird's head and neck away as

she was attempting to bite him. What Sylvan Detachment police learned The kittens in her vehicle about six weeks old, severely underweight, and had urine scalding on their paws. Cat's since been taken by the Toledo Humane Society. Weird booked into Lucas Caddy Jail in seven counts of cruelty the animals, one kind of assault on a peace officer, and one kind of resisting arrest bond thirty thousand dollars period.

Game came to an abrupt halp. Silver spring to come with Thunderbolts forced to cancel the game due to the rain on Thursday night, after the field of Montgomery Blair High School and Silver Spring flooded when a ball flew over the fence and landed at the neighborhood fire station. The iright firefighter blasted the field with a fire hose after the ball struck his personal car parked at Silver Spring fire Station. Founder and director of the Thunderbolts baseball team.

There are nine other leagues who play here and were not the only ones that hit home runs. Personnel from the fire department had been told constantly by the park staff that this is a dangerous area to park and leave your vehicle. I went and had to talk with the captain and he admitted that he did it. He said he wanted to get our attention. Players caught on wild footage watching the torrents of water raining down on

the diamond over a nearby fence. Outfielder Aiden Driscoll, speaking of the news, when our players heard someone from the firehouse say, hey, watch out, we don't want you to get wet. Probably two minutes later, all we saw was a massive stream of water basically just shooting directly onto center field. I don't think I'll over in my entire baseball career, get a fire truck, rain out again, just

walk away. According to the reporting, the collegiate summer team said gallons of water created a pond in the center of the field. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue since the shooting an apology for the bizarre incident, working with the Maryland National Capitol Park Police to investigate what triggered the soaking. I think we have the answer to that truck got hit with a baseball. Get off my lawn kind of

response from the fire department five forty six. If you five care seed de talk station more stupid coming up.

say that's when they saw Nason on the roof. Never seen this guy before, so they asked him what he was doing, and he said he was trying to retrieve drugs out of the chimney. So they called the police, and when the bank of fire and police respoted, the fire department put a basket up near the roof, and I get a feeling this is one of those, you know,

like armed vehicles. It's got a bucket in it, you know, like you'd use for maybe a repair of a telephone line or something, and of course fire department uses them as well, called a basket. Nason apparently then jumped from the roof to the basket, grabbed an axe that was attached to the basket, and then jumped back on the roof with the axe in hand. Corner Peter Rearden guy

lives at the home. He jumped from our roof. He jumped from our roof to the basket, retrieved the axe, and then proceeded to chop holes in our roof.

abnormal court of Sergeant Jason mccamberley. We took the we look at the people in the street right now, and the people will call concern about that. And there is help for everyone out there if they are willing to accept that. People can make bad decisions. We can't make them accept assistance if they don't want it. Mason taking into custody eleven thirty in the after or in the morning after surrendering. Sent to local hospital for physical and

of course mental health evaluation. Charged with aggravated criminal mischief, creating a police standoff, and violating probation. Now at the Panopscott County Jail, waiting for his first court appearance. Okay, oh Belleville, Illinois, please say Illinois, Please send in Illinois rather say Shooting at McDonald's injuring two people started with a teenage employee refusing to take out the trash just quarter to five and Wednesday PM. McDonald's location one hundred

block of South Belt in Bellville. Forty four year old Kafe Bloodsoe, the manager on duty, ask a teenage employee to take out the trash to the dumpster. When teenager refuse, Bloodsoe told it a clock out and go home. Employee then contacted her mother, Thirty five year old Tanika McKenzie. She brought another daughter, described as a juvenile, to the McDonald's with her. On the pickup trip, a verbal disturbance

happened in the fast food lobby. Police say mackenzie and her daughter eventually went behind the counter to the office area. Mackenzie then allegedly hit Bloodsoe in the face and had During that fight, please say, Bloodsoe pulled out a gun and fired a shot, hitting McKenzie in the leg. Bullet also hit another female, but police did not identify the other one. Bloodsoe arrested at the McDonald's, while McKenzie taken to the hospital for treatment. After the shooting, the restaurant

was closed at least for the day. Police in a Facebook post said, it's unfortunate that this incident occurred. Seems individuals are quick to resort to violence to resolve disputes without consideration of the impact their actions have on the community as a whole. This was an unnecessary incident that could have been mitigated without punches being thrown or a

gun being used. While stating the obvious Bledsoe charge with one kind of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, McKenzie, the employees or with a woman, then charge with one kind of aggravated battery, one kind of mob action. At least said she is an in custody. Wow, things do have a tendency to devolve rather quickly these days. Five point fifty six fifty five k se DE Talk Station. What's going on? Coup de'ta bomb? Administration launching that against

Donald Trump? Crazy stuff being uncovered? Will there be any prosecutions? We'll talk a little bit about that. Got a whole lot more though, But feel free to call if you enjoy talking, and we'll engage in a conversation if you Right back after the news.

I appreciate you covering for me. Let's see here five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight to two three talk it with pound five fifty on AT and T phones if you care to call comment, got a story you want to talk about? Love hearing from the listeners, truly do. Coming up seven twenty Christopher Smithman every Monday at seven to twenty for the Smither Vent from the former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati.

Never idea what he would I never have any idea what he wants to talk about, but he always comes up with great topics. Lately been focusing on crime and yes we have another sugar shooting. Uh someone shot over on the West Side this morning in the morning, West Price Hill, rapid run. Okay, just seems to never end. But I'm not sure that's what he wants to talk about.

It's up to him. Money Money with Brian James, Fast forward two hours eighth five fedchair change looming, how that might affect the markets, Solid earnings report, masking tariff volatility, and picking the right financial planner for you. Three topics with Brian James, and we'll hear from our good friend dab promoter Exit at the tail end of the eight o'clock hour. Let's see what's going on, well, the Trump

Russia hawksmitted to the top of the news. Director of National Intelligence Tulsea Gabbert has unleashed a whole bunch of documents. Rather incriminating, they are to lays out the steps and the follow up beginning from the Hillary Clinton administer Hillary Clinton's effort to cover up her email scandal, all the way through the Bide administration and the preemptive pardons. So

Greg Jared Obt Fox News reporting on this one. Newly revealed documents show that in twenty sixteen, then President Barack Obama and his national security team, in her words Tulsa Gabbert's words, manufactured and politicized phony intelligence in an effort to frame Donald Trump as a Russian asset, all the while knowing it was a lie. Tulsa Gabbert released the declassified documents Friday, describing it as an egregious abuse of power amounting to treasonous conspiracy. Those are not subtle or

gentle words, folks. Genesis of the plot Hillary Clinton July twenty six, twenty sixteen, allegedly approved and illicit scheme to well sully Donald Trump for klude with Russia to rig the upcoming presidential election. Remember this is the year that he beat Hillary Clinton. She was a little burned by that. Anyway, bogus Smeir intended distract from her own problems, the email scandal. Maybe one of the reasons she didn't get elected president.

I don't care why she didn't get elected president, just thank god she didn't. Her campaign commissioned and funded the Steele dossier, which was a whole collection of lies, ultimately concluded to be a bunch of lies, lies that they went and carried around for a long time. Folks and the Obama administration. CIA discovered what Hillary had done the fake Steele dossier and immediately alerted the Obama White House. They had two meetings July twenty eighth and August third,

twenty sixteen. Then CIA Director John Brennan briefed the President and other top officials, including Joe Biden, Vice president, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and FBI Director James Comy. John Brennan, then CIA Director's handwritten notes from the situation room show. He recounted Clinton's plan quote to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian Security Service. Close quote. Nobody came out and said

anything about it. He told him about the plan. It was all a hoax, and Biden and Clapper and Comy then launched Crossfire Hurricane, the investigation into Donald Trump, weaponizing their authority making stuff up in order to persecute Trump as planned, The fake collusion narrative was.

No evidence of wrongdoing ever discovered by carter Page because none existed, And when the Russian hooks failed to prevent Trump from winning the election, the same adversaries doubled down on the Clinton inspired scheme. So we go from the Obama administration over to the Trump administration, where these allegations continue. Of course, you remember all the hearings they did on this,

the impeachment hearings. New documents released on Friday by Tulsea Gabbett showed that December eighth, twenty sixteen, draft of the President's Daily Briefing, Remember this is still Barack Obama assess that quote, Rush and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure close quote. So no Russian criminal interference. That's what

she released. That went to the President Barack Obama. But that conclusion, compiled by top intelligence agencies, did not conform to the Trump collusion narrative. Wait a second, you guys can figure out that Russia didn't impact the recent US election. We've been running around screaming about how the Russians were working with Trump. Trump was a Russian asset. This doesn't work.

We can't have this. So Comey and others decided to well put an end to the presidential Daily Briefing circulation to conduct some alternative narrative, in other words, something involving the Russians and Donald Trump. So they put to bed the Presidential Daily Briefings saying no Russian involvement, and the next day Obama, I'm convened the select Cabinet officials, Clapper Brennan, FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and new Intelligence Community assessment, what

they call an ICA, was ordered. Give us an intelligence community asset that undermines the previous determination that Trump was not in the Russians didn't influence Trump. We need an alternative document. We need something that says the polar opposite.

Is the bottom line here. The replacement narrative claimed Russian intervened in the twenty sixteen election to help Trump win the presidency, even though there's no information that suggests that the top intelligence agency has concluded that that never happened. And of course Brennan and Comy made sure that the Steele dossier was incorporated into this revised Intelligence Community assessment, the one that's the polar oppice of the previous one,

the Presidential Daily Briefing where they said Russia wasn't involved. Well, look, the Steele dossier says that we've got all this information on Trump, all the salacious details. Clearly the Russians were blackmailing Trump clearly the Russians were involved with this. Comey then used the Steele dossier to entrap Trump. They were trying to entrap him into a false confession before the inauguration, which was why they the speed at which this all

took place. So at that point, the FBI director went over to Trump Tower with this new whole cloth created intelligence community assessment, which deceptively alleged Russian interference in the campaign, and also confronted the president elect Donald Trump with salacious accusations in the dossier that the bureau knew were fake.

that was a lie. Comy eventually fired. He stole documents from the FBA out the door and promptly leaked them to a friend of the media to trigger the appointment of Special Council that person Robert Mueller. You may remember that Mueller, his investigation, once concluded, found no evidence of a criminal collusion conspiracy, so nothing to see here, which when you go back to the original presidential Daily Briefing, that's exactly what the intelligence officials told the president those

who were in the room, there was nothing here. Fast forward several years, multiple investigations, many people's name drugged through the mud, the Steele dossier everywhere, and people claiming it was real. Ultimately Mueller, after an investigation, sorry, there's nothing to see here. So this went on for over a decade, one succession of events after another, all going after Donald Trump.

Which is an interesting thing because, as I mentioned, I'm giving credit to Greg Jared of Fox News reporting the new FBI has already opened a criminal investigation to Brennan Commy for doing all of this, but as he observes, they weren't the only ones he should be held to account. This is a long one and it goes right to the top Obama and Clinton, who started the whole idea of Russian collusion from whole cloth, and as and as Greg Jarrett notes, and there's some strength to this this conclusion.

It all started with the illusion huaks, but it didn't end there. Trump appears to have been the victim of an ongoing criminal conspiracy going over nearly a decade, eventually evolved into the specious prosecutions brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith, engineered by the Biden administration, and simultaneous cover ups of suspected illegal activities by the Biden family. Remember Hunter Biden, how they sat on all the evidence they had about him. They could have grabbed him at one point, they let

him go. All the information that the FBI had obtained, a lot of which was confirmed by the Hunter Biden laptop that ultimately was found. All this going on at the same time, but the FBI apparently now examining the possibility of bringing what they call a grand conspiracy case that would encompass all of the aforementioned folks that were involved in this over three presidential elections twenty sixteen, twenty twenty,

and twenty four. So if you have you adopt this strategy, and you try to bring evidence there was a grand conspiracy, it would extend any expired statute limitations to the date of more recent overt acts like the raid on mar A Lago and other events, which if you can relate them, there you go. It's an ongoing conspiracy. Whether or not that has legs that can hold the can stand up in court remains to be seen. But this isn't an

argument I've got to make. It's one for the Department of Justice, who Telsey Gabbert has referred these documents over for consideration of prosecution. So isn't it interesting All the puzzle pieces sort of fall into place when you've got a new administration who's willing to be transparent with what they've got behind the scenes. Go back to the original presidential memo, nothing to see here, No Russians involved. Hillary Clinton was lying. The Democrat paid for the Steele dossier.

It was fake, it was created whole cloth, and yet it served to do so much damage to Donald Trump. They continued to claim that was true and even got warrants from the Pizer Court based on that teen fifty five KR see the talk station. Crazy stuff And there's more to come. First, though, plumbing done right for my friends at Plumb Type Plumbing, outstanding plumbers. They are they know you deserve better. They deliver on better, better customer service,

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But when you think about the lengths to which they, the collective of these politically biased actors FBI, Department of Justice, and others. The first they went to undermine Trump and to try to get him, to try to get Hillary to win the race. Obviously that didn't happen, but to undermine anything he wanted to do in his first presidency by keeping him so busy with legal allegations and charges of treason, et cetera, trying to impeach the man they wanted.

They so much wanted a continuation of those Obama leftist liberal years and That's why I said earlier. I was just thinking, in the back of my mind, what a beautiful thing that we didn't elect Hillary Clinton, that she was not elected president. Can you imagine the state of affairs with this level of corruption if Hillary had four more years to further enshrine the prior aid of Barack Obama and all I mean. And you just step back and listen, you sort of remember the screaming, the whail

and the nashing of tea. Donald Trump, Evil, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Oh my god. Well this is because you know, he stood in the way of this agenda moving forward. He's the antithesis of the See, they want to convince you that Donald Trump is the fascist, that Donald Trump's one wanting to take your rights away from you. Really, who did more damage to the human rights and the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy as Americans, as enshrined in the Bill of Rights than the Obama administration, the

Biden administration and other Democrats. Donald Trump to the rescue. I suppose she's certainly making the most of it right now, isn't he? Six twenty five?

American people want to see justice delivered. So keep your popcorn out on this one. And maybe one of the reasons we're all screaming about Epstein documents is to divert our attention to the information. Tulsa Gabbert is well bringing to our attention six twenty six right now, I'll fifty five KRCD talk station. Feel free to call first though, Zimmer Heating and air Condition for all your HVAC needs.

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Another homicide latest in the city of Cincinnati. Forty six year old man was found suffering from a gunshot wound in his chest at the parking lot of the forty five hundred blocker A rapid Run Pike West Price Hill. This is about one thirty this morning. Court of Fox nineteen. Victim taking the UC Medical Center pronounced. No further details from the police and not clear what led to the

violence or whether or not they have any suspects. Breaking story from this morning and let us see here since they man arrested happened over the weekend, accused of reportedly making terroristic threats against US Immigrations and Customs enforcement agents and the US official, according to the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLoughlin.

Fox nineteen reporting on this one, Tricia said Anthony Kelly will face federal charges for threatening to assault, kidnap, and murder a United States official. She posted a photo of this Kelly guy and screenshots of an account connected with him, one of which has a post you come here for me, You're gonna get shot and I'm not looking to disable your pedo.

got this morning. Mike or Matt, Welcome to the Morning Show and a happy Monday to you, sir.

You heard it over and over again every single day, parroting what the Biden administration was telling you, parroting what the Obama administration obviously launched and started before Trump took over. So yeah, it's easy to sell a lie when everyone's repeating the lie over and over again. You hear it, and you say it enough people start to believe it and take it for the truth. Thank God for a change of administration. It's amazing. The border gets immediately shut down.

No more flooding of illegal immigrants across the border. Why, well, we got a new administration. Oh look, here's a whole bunch of documents showing that you are they're all lied to. Oh thank you, new administration. Appreciate what you're doing for the American people. No reason I'm jaded and cynical. You know exactly why, Matt. I appreciate the call, my friend,

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your Steele dossier was brought into play. So they changed their opinion, they changed the whole narrative on it, just because they were directed to do so. So ignoring what the internal intelligence concluded nothing involving the Russians into the Russians were involved. One hundred and eighty degree shift. Well check this out. We got new documents from America First Legal is a conservative organization kind of like Judicial Watch, and they, you know, send Foyer requests out and they

obtained documents, and so that's what they did. So they obtained all these records from the Department of Justice, Biden Administration's Department of Justice, which was looking for a federal hook, a federal connection, a federal law for the purpose of investigating and criminally charging parents that protested school policies regarding COVID, transgenderism,

critical race theory. You remember those the school protests. You know, you go to the board meetings and you'd have moms and dads angry about the curriculum, and then there was all this, Oh my god, they're a danger and threat

to humanity. Ah, we better do something about this. These documents obtained by America First Legal, but they say conclusively prove a memo from former US Attorney Merrick Gardland, mobilize the full force of federal government's firepower against concerned parents, not to protect schools, but through silence dissent, and that the ensuing investigation was politically orchestrated and coordinated with a

Biden Whitehouse. That's according to the charges from America First Legal. Now, what do we have by way of documentation?

federal level. The FBI was asked to assist local law enforcement with what they described in this Garland directive as disturbing spike and harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators. So the National School Board Association is the one that brought this to the attention of the administration Biden administration was asked by the school Board Association to

investigate parents. You may recall when that came out was rather an amazing revelation that the school National school Board Association was telling the White House, or asking the White House to investigate you for your behavior at school boards, claiming that you, if you were protesting, were a domestic terrorist. That later was was retracted ultimately, yet career Department of Justice lawyers were concerned about what legal action they could take.

One DOJ attorney wrote to colleagues and an email dated October of twenty one. Listen, He said, I read the letter from the National school Board Association and looked at the links for a handful of footnotes, and it appears to me that the vast, vast majority of behaviors cited cannot be reached by federal law. In other words, nobody violated federal Well, there's no federal law in the books that could be asserted that they violated.

There's your internal memo from someone on the front lines investigating whether it's appropriate for the FBI to even be involved in this. The answer clearly no. And yet we learned later from a whistleblower that the FBI launched dozens of investigation in the parents after Garland directed the agency to do it. Hmm, chilling effect much. Now, ultimately, what you take away from this is, Okay, listen, there's nothing to see here.

chilling effect intended here. The follow up on this ultimately would have been the Feds had no nothing to hang

their hat on, but they did an investigation. Can you imagine an FBI agent coming to your front door and asking you questions about what you said in the school board meeting and that word gets out, Oh my god, if you say anything in the school board meeting, the federal government via the FBI is going to come on your front porch, knock on your door, and want to have a conversation with you about your activities at the

school board meeting. Now, if you fought them, I guess you would have backed them in a corner because there was no federal law at play here. Could they have worked with local law enforcement to the extent you violated a state law? Yes, they could have worked with them, But why would they allocate the resources to do that?

How much work can it possibly take for local law enforcement to review the footage of the school board meeting, see what you or somebody else did by way of disruption and determine if they the local law enforcement can figure out whether you broke a state law that doesn't require federal agents. And they knew they were wasting their time and spending their wheels at the outset because internal guidance from the lawyers said that no federal laws were broken.

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And he was very supportive as oh no that he said, it's actually a really good thing because there's been times we've had bad guys and we were going to lock them up for two years, but if we get the FBI involved, they can throw them away for seven years. Now, are we still a sovereign state with state laws?

law enforcement is supposed to deal with. But is there a parallel law something that is covered by federal law as well? Quite often they are redundant. So in local law enforcement likes using the FBI's resources. Why because, well, they usually have limited resources themselves, and the FBI has access to more information, databases, and resources that local law enforcement quite often does not have in place. It's called, you know, working collaborative Italy. I used to have Sheriff

Neil in the program we're talking about working collaboratively. The Hamilton County Sheriff's office along with regional law enforcement and the FBI all working together, sharing the information and the services they have and helping each other solve crime. So I understand the motivation for wanting to work with the FBI because of those resources that are available. But you make your question is a legitimate one. Are they working

on a federal law that has been violated? And quite often I imagine no, like investigating parents that protest at school. Boards investigated it, but there was no violation of federal law, which that parallels your stated concerns, Jay, and I appreciate them very much. Federalize the law enforcement and we do lose our sovereignty as a consequence of that. Do appreciate

your raising that. Jay, Feel free to call. We got a little time before we get the Christopher Smithman at seven to twenty every Monday for the Smither event from the former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati. Will do that Money Monday at Brian James coming to eight oh five and we'll find out about picking the right financial planner for you, among other topics with him, including the federal chair change that is looming. Is it how might that affect the markets? Will it affect the markets?

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mouse trap. You're going to become well wealthy, and you'll employ people. You'll evaluate things based upon you know people's needs, the realities of your market, what the competition is. You'll do the best you can. If nobody's telling you what to do and how to do it, and that's where the government comes in and ruins everything. So I saw this one article over at zero Hedge Green Agenda. Fallau Democrat led Northeast now has the highest electricity prices in

the nation. They've been retiring a stable, affordable fossil fuel power, closing down their gas plants, of course, getting rid of nukes to the extent they had any in the first place, in favor of of course, so called green projects, solar and wind. They are not as stable. You end up with blackouts when the wind ning blowing in the sun nane shining, you're not generating power. This disrupts the grid. It's unreliable, and it's more expensive to build these in

the final analysis than it is a gas plant. So why are the folks in the worth He's paying more because they've been pushed over into these green projects to the exclusion of things that work and are efficient and generate power constantly. We move over to the editorial board of the journal. The real risk to the electric grid power shortages are coming thanks to wind and solar subsidies.

Here's how they distort energy investment democrats attacking the GOP's budget bill for phasing out subsidies for wind and solar power, claiming this is going to cause power shortages and higher electric rates. The evidence suggests the opposite.

That's your reliable energy generation. But here's a really bad Newsday write that shortfall will exist even if that production is replaced as expected, with two hundred and nine gigas of mostly solar and wind generation that's under development thanks to subsidies and credits. Americans would lose power in twenty thirty for an average of thirty four days, assuming typical weather condition. If heat waves or storms stress the grid out,

it just could reach fifty five days. Even without plant shutdowns, Americans will lose power for eleven days. Amid demand growth like your artificial intelligence demand, the power shortages will be worse in Middle America, where demand is growing fast is owing to yes AI data centers and renewables that are displaced in colon gas. How can this be the answer is that the Inflation Reduction Act turbocharge subsidies for wind

and solar in ways that are distorting energy investment. Because the subsidies can offset more than fifty percent of a project's cost, solar and wind became more profitable to build the new baseload plants gas plants. The credits enable wind and solar to underprice coal and gas plans in competitive power markets. That paragraph alone points the problem out. Would this happen? Would we have unreliable wind and solar power that would cost so much more to build than traditional gas plans.

Thus many have been closing, thus jeopardizing grid reliability. The renewable lobby claims that new gas plants can't be built in time to meet.

They acknowledge there's a shortage new gas turb owing to the surging global demand, but turbine manufacturers are expanding production and the phase out of the Inflation Reduction Acts. Tax credits will provide them with more certainty to make investments in new capacity welcome to the renewed demand for gas turbines.

Turbine makers expanded production in the early two thousands as demand for new gas plants rose, but they were left with the excess capacity when demand weekend last decade, in part because federal subsidies and state renewable mandates encourage utilities to buy power from solar and wind instead of gas. Of course, that'll drive down demand for these turbines. You forced it on us. You took away our choice, which had the ripple effect of impacting I'm sure job losses

over in the turbine production companies. Nobody wept for those people losing jobs because you mandated the adoption of wind and solar. Wind and solar projects also face long weight times to connect to the grid from four to nine years. According to a recent study, the Inflation Reduction Act increased delays by increasing the projects in the pipeline through the incentives, So the phase out of the tax credits could benefit

renewable projects that don't need subsidies to be economic. The claim that tax credits reduce electric rates is contradicted by experience. Go back to the article about the Northeast power costs. Wind and solar must be backed by peak or gas plants or batteries, which both cost more than three times

as much as base load power. Renewables also cause price spikes when there are power shortages, and they require more transition investment or transmission investments to balance fluctuations and loads and frequencies.

In solar because you never have a problem having to turn to those. It provides constant, reliable power. So we're creating a grid here just in an effort to so called b green that requires backup generators to kick in when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. They say, all of this is why Texas's residential power prices have risen some forty percent over the last seven years.

The Renewable Lobby says the financial benefits of the tax credits are passed on to electric customers, which may be true when state regulated utilities build projects, but the credits usually pad the profits of the independent generators. The best way to make the grid reliable again is to let supply and demand work in energy markets without distortions or of man dates and subsidies. The GOP budget bill takes a step in that direction, and that should be welcomed. Amen,

maybe we'll start acting rationally and reasonably. I know someone out there is in the audiogoing, well, the reason we're doing this is because of global warming. Really, really go back through the supply chain, at the manufacturer and cost and transportation and all the rare earth minerals and elements and everything else that's involved in this so called green revolution, you will find that there's nothing green at all about it. Not to mention the fact that it props up the

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with minor children. Yes, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen year olds and then those who were older in quotes were eighteen, nineteen, twenty, and twenty one. And so any girl dad out there, you know, any girl in your life, and you're thinking, these are grown men having sex with our daughters and exploiting them. And so this was about the rich and

the famous, and everybody knows it. We know that the people that are on that list that I do believe exists that we know that those are the rich and the famous, and in their mind they have everything to lose. This isn't the one percent, This is less than half of percent. And the people that were involved in this are monsters. They're walking around us in big positions, going to black tie events, still lecturing us, most likely on

societal morality, and we don't know who they are. Why haven't we given a voice to the girls who are now women to tell us who these people are that they were having sex with because they know and a grand jury release isn't gonna give us the details. You're the lawyer, Your beautiful wife is the lawyer. You know, the prosecution doesn't put their entire case on so you're

gonna only get a glimpse into it. We know that there are people out there, and I'm gonna name some of them that could come and tell a story to the American public, who's very interested in this because the everyday guy out here, the everyday person out here doing basic criminal stuff that's crazy. I'm talking traffic tickets. We don't get these kind of breaks. Everybody tell who we are, they post our information up. You got a traffic ticket,

you have to show up to court. What is it about this case that it seems like the White House and even President Trump might not want this information to make it into the hands of the American people.

into it. That may be bringing possible criminal charges against the people who did this. And so that's why I can't give you the Epstein files as they currently exist. That would satisfy me to some degree, Christopher, but that's not what was said. He just said, there's really nothing there there.

keep covering these things up. And that's why seventy percent of Americans when they do these polls, want to know what happened here. It is a very big mistake from the White House. And I'm telling you, politicians overstep their boundaries here. This is a very big mistake by the White House. It's a big mistake by BONDI it's a big mistake by by the president. And you're seeing dissension

in the cabinet. When you see that kind of dissension, Brian Thomas, it means there's something there, may have more information than we have. And you have people saying I want to resign over the decisions that are being made.

And that's the beginning of my segment. And the White House and specifically President Trump, they are making a mistake that conservatives out here who really believe in the Constitution are not going to turn a blind eye because he's deciding that he doesn't want to release information for whatever reason. This story is not going away, actually getting bigger.

tooth Fairy. And I'm not a conspiracy person. If you think that Estein committed suicide, meaning this notion that this guy is it is still by himself and hangs himself. And there's video that kind of just disappears for a little bit old. The video is always in the loop in this kind of in this period. We just missed this part of the video. Look, you've gotta believe in Santa Claus coming down your chimney and the tooth fairy

if anybody out here believes that he committed suicide. So all of this is kind of cascading over the White House and President Trump and Bondie and I just am saying publicly they should all be careful, meaning they think they have loyalties that extend beyond what anybody would think

is misinformation, corruption or cover up by conservatives. They're absolutely did wrong about it, right, meaning Conservatives are coming and they're still going to talk about it, and they're going to demand the transparency that the Trump campaign said that they were going to provide yea prior to his election.

is going on here? He was making demands, he was promising the release of all this information, along with the JFK documents and the MLK documents everything else. But here he is putting the brakes on him, saying not nothing moving on and quick complaining about it. I don't even want to hear from you people anymore. I don't even I disavow you. And it's bizarre. It's just totally bizarre, and he.

everything that she knows by name. So we don't need a list. If the list doesn't exist, the person exists. And why is it the White House demanding that level of transparency. They're partning everybody else. Let's parton her to the extent. You don't have to pardon her so she doesn't have to go back to jail, but you can protect her testimony so that she is not retried for any thing that she's saying to Congress. So we actually find out what happened to these girls, because at the

end of the day, they're victims. Here there are twelve and thirteen and fourteen and fifteen and sixteen and seventeen year old girls who were being raped and manipulated by grown people who were famous and rich.

of downtown, it includes our fifty two neighborhoods. People are being slaughtered out here. And here are some of the thoughts in the solutions when I was serving as the vice mayor. One re coordinated with the share meaning we ask the shriff to come in and help us with extra patrols in our in the air, give us some visibility in places, just dry and be present. Number two reaching out to the governor the state of Ohio saying, bring in your helicopter, bring in your state highway patrol.

These are state routes, bring in them. Let them patrol. These areas down places like fifty like Reading Road, their routes, our state highway patrolman. But I guarantee you you have a city hall that doesn't want the help. It's not the police department, it's not the command staff. It's the mayor and members of council who do not want to show in their minds the rest of the fifty two neighborhoods. We really don't have a solution. Look asking for help.

Saying you don't know is what intelligent people do. They reach out to their partners and say, listen, man, we've got a situation that's happening. Young people are being slaughtered. Adults are not choosing to go downtown and hang out in the Dora because they don't want to be shot. Like you saw a mainstream somebody just drove by Ryan Thomas and sprayed the street with bullet. Nobody is going to go down there with their right mind when they can go somewhere else, right out in the suburbs where

the shootings aren't happening. And so I'm the former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, and I'm not going downtown, and I'm not going to allow my daughter to go downtown, and I'm not going to allow my children, at at least I'm sharing with my adult children. Please stay out of downtown. There's something going on with the leadership at city Hall. The upcoming election elections are local. I'm focusing in on Stephen Gooden. He's running as a child right,

common sense guy running for city council. A lot of people might not know him. I served with him for a while. Incredibly smart, well thought, came to council prepared, didn't introduce crazy resolutions that had nothing to do with the business the council. A solid guy, a lawyer, very smart. We would do the city great good if all of us, collectively, no matter what your political party, was, voted for Steven good I like a Linda Matthews. Linda Matthews is running,

lives in Avondale. Great person, thoughtful, common sense.

If you're a candidate, you got a shout out in College Hill. The point is that we can't just keep voting for the same people and think we're gonna get a different outcome. The guy running Bowman, who's running for mayor, it's one of the reasons I'm supporting him, right, is saying, this is somebody that wants to roll up his sleeves. This notion of me talking about who.

the day to try to keep power. The reality is African Americans, young people with guns are killing each other in our city, and we need to elect people that actually care about making sure that that stops.

We had some measure of discipline and some expectations at homes on how to conduct yourself properly. And let's face it, getting a hold of a firearm and just unloading into a group of people, in what possible way does that benefit anyone at all? How is that manifesct Like if someone on the left would say, well, it's because they grew up in a bad neighborhood and they're victims of racism.

How does unloading on a group of innocent people, how is that a product of a racist environment or some poor upbring I don't I can't draw a line between the two. It doesn't make any sense. If they targeted, they sympathize.

their cars and their lights on. You've gotta build confidence with your officers that if something happens there that's on the margin, that you're gonna stand with your officers when one of these young people walk up with a block and they're shooting at somebody, and the officer decides, I have to end this with force that you're not going to try to destroy the officer, his family, his parents,

and his whole world are her old world. City Hall has a problem with with with managing a police apartment and in energizing them to do proactive policing because they don't trust City Hall. That's the issue. And the chief, as good as the Chief DG is, there's no way she can substitute the mayor coming to a roll call, or the mayor going on a ride along, or the mayor having a press conference surrounded by police officers saying

I support the men and women in blue. He'll never do it because he's interested in a primary where he knows his base will not support him. Because they want to reimagine the police department. They want to defund the police department, and they want to send counselors out when we need cops on police runs. Black men and women are losing their lives out here, and I'm tired of these democrats at City Hall allowing it to happen with their silence, spending time on summer break. These are Americans.

You care about them, Brian Thomas, your listeners care about them. You're not focused on their race. These are Americans, and they're dying in our streets, and we have a mayor and a council that are accent. I'm never going to let him off the hook. I'm never going to let him off the hook.

he'd never leave the job absent dying. So we have until May. I guess there's going to be a natural changing in the of the guard next May.

that actually sticks. But that doesn't mean we're not gonna go ahead and have the conversation about who might replace in May of twenty six when this current term is up.

other names that are thrown around. But let's as a fundamental thing, if Powell was out, whether he got fired or he died or he quit, just because you name a new chairman of the Fed, doesn't mean they're going to lower interest rates, does it, right?

been famously independent politically. Yeah, that's one of the departments that really has not been impacted by politics so much.

to be. And so for example, you know, one of the popular things that people want to pay attention to this for is because maybe you're in a situation where you bought a house in the last three four years and you're paying six, seven, maybe even eight percent on a thirty year mortgage. Obviously that's something that's that's not the norm. We're happier when we're in the three to four percent range there. I'm not sure we're go all the way down there again, but the lower the better.

But you want to look at the ten year Treasury that's what most mortgage mortgage rates are are tracking. So the Federal Reserve will make the moves too, but the market will also anticipate which way bonds are going to go, and that itself can have impact on what where interstrates are going to go.

not going to increase the stock of housing. In fact, we can consider inflation. The lower it is the charge to borrow money, the rate at which you borrow. It seems like the demand would go up, putting upward pressure on the price of a home.

think it depends on what situation you're in. If you already bought a house, then you really really want a rate cut so you can refinance, because you heard all the awesome stories when you were younger, of the prior fifteen twenty, when refinancing was something you did every six months. You know, on date night, you don't go out for dinner after work. It was just a regular routine. But on the other hand, if you are shopping for a house,

you may not want that. You arguably might even want rates to tick up higher, so it'll finally break the back of housing demand and things will pull back a little bit. Now, all of those are very short term in nature, and it really just depends on what your own individual situation is. But these are all things, and we will not have a perfect situation. Somebody is going to end up on the short end of the stick clearly.

actual holdings to pay for their bills. This isn't something the average person gets to do, but that is we've set up a system in this country where that is a very profitable thing to be able to take advantage of. So that generates a lot more activity, and it generates just people going out and doing things and buying more products and so on and so forth because they're cheap, especially now, because we will when that happens, Brian, we

will convince ourselves of scarcity. These rates that aren't going to stay low forever. I better do things right now. We saw this with products and imports in the first quarter of the year, where we saw a big spike in imports, but in anticipation of the coming Yeah, so anticipation will itself drive prices up.

does really seem to be what's what is anything? Go find anything that we can point at him and point out the weakness of him. And I'm speaking of you know, those who are on the warpath to get rid of him. Sure, if that's what they came up with, I'm feeling a little more confident about Chair Powell.

Right now, let's get a traffic.

percent up. So futures are up. This morning headline front page Wall Street Journal of the US economy is regaining its swagger, evidence mounting the companies and consumers who held back during the spring's tariff chill are starting to splurge again. And yet we have Donald Trump saying he's going to implement some new tariffs beginning August first, most notably in the European Union, a minimum of fifteen to twenty percent tariffs.

So I'm having a difficult time reconciling what all this actually means.

and thirty percent on EU and Mexico. And that's that one's I think, probably the most well known that we've got hanging out there, although with Mexico some of the USMCA compliant goods might sneak out of that. And then on again twenty five to thirty five percent on Canada, Japan, South Korea, and a few more so August first, that's the we're playing chicken right now.

a lot of technology stocks this week. And again those are the ones that benefit a lot from Copper with all the data houses and things that they have to build out there. So we're just continuing this role of companies being in a good spot and earning more than that cost them to sell their products, which is the core of everything we want to do, and so that's a sign of a stable economy.

It's up a little bit every day, which is good, but at the same time, we haven't seen any huge spikes that you might normally expect when we have such positive earnings reports coming.

without it. Honestly, as much as I love Scotch, I can do without it. If the price goes up too high, I just won't buy it. So it's discretionary versus mandatories. Where really the rubber hits the road, And what are we getting from Europe that we consider mandatory or desperately needed.

Think of companies like Sanofi and Bayar, and we know we do not manufacture a lot of our own drugshare. That's one of the things the current administration would like us to.

degree seventy four. Now, let's get a traffic update.

kind of product. And I remember my dad and his uncles and my uncles, uh trading these these these people they knew, and it was always whoever got them the most recent you know, good good hot stock tip. This is in the eighties when there was really nothing more than I want to throw money into something and watch it grow. There wasn't a lot of thought of how do I, how do I plan for taxes? How do

I you know, put all the puzzle pieces together. So you want to make sure you're talking to somebody who is who is going to teach you something, who's gonna look at your situation and show it to you from a different point of view, so that you can think about things that you hadn't thought about before.

that I use my credit card for. It's very eye opening, but it makes it really easy to figure out how much you charge in a year, and that you can apply to your once and your what your needs might be in retirement.

the credit card companies provide. But not everybody looks at They're buried in that website somewhere. Every time you swipe that card, whatever that is is going to get categorized as a restaurant, as a gas station, as whatever, So you'll know exactly what it costs you just to keep that ship afloat. Then, in addition to that, there are other things you're doing. You've got a mortgage, you've got some other things. There are places like Duke that don't

allow you to use your credit card. You're going to look at your checking account for that. But that'll give you your basic, your baseline of here's how much an income we need to just keep the ship afloat.

into my Social Security check. Meanwhile, I'm going to ignore the two million dollar nest egg that I've set aside.

to ten years to get paid off. Now a different situation if you just moved somewhere in the last three four years, now you've got a twenty five years left on a six percent mortgage, that's a different discussion. But again, this is where a financial advisor can help you see the impact of paying it all off in a lump, or perhaps meeting the middle ground and paying a little more so that it's only got seven years versus fifteen or something like that.

in enough? How do I decide whether to put you know, money on the traditional side versus the roth side. And should I pay off this mortgage? There is a notion that I shouldn't have any debt. All debt is evil. Should I pay off this mortgage? Should I spend you know, twenty years not saving anything because I want to get this house paid off?

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dot com. The podcast Page uh started out this morning I believe it six o'clock hour, talking about the new revelations the Russian collusion hoax that was manufactured by the Obama administration after being told by their experts in the Department of Justice and or FBI whoever that was looking into this, that there was no involvement with the Russians

going into the twenty sixteen election, none period. Obama didn't like that, so he ordered a new directive, one that Well concluded that the Russians were somehow involved with Donald Trump, and that of course led to four years of investigations in Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, and now we come to find out it was all a lie, a lie built on by the Biden administration when he was reelected, so one that they claim exists until this day, some referring

to it as an attempted coup, undermining Donald Trump's authority, undermining the will of the American people. Some people are thoroughly convinced that the twenty twenty election was rigged. When you can make that argument, and I understand the reasons why.

But now we have former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn calling on the Department of Justice to confiscate the passport a former President Barack Obama, Yes, Barack Obama's passport Flynn Keith figuring the Trump administration made this request after this newly declassified presidential briefing document show how the Obama well was involved directly with the Trump Russia collusion narrative built entirely on lies created by Hillary Clinton, the DNC, the

Steele dossier, for example, documents released by the Director of National Intelligence Telsea Gabbett on Friday Show, Obama knew the Russian collusion narrative was a hoax and was involved in manufacturing and politicizing the intelligence to create the narrative. Flynn also targeted by the Obama administration during the Russia Collusion, which Hunt was on with Steve Bannon, noted Conservative to

discuss these documents. Flynn also suggested that other officials from the NSA, FBI, and CIA may have been involved in this what he calls coup attempt and could face prosecution. And that's exactly what many are calling for now, prosecution for the wrongdoings they committed and the lies that they created and manufactured and sold in the American public. Complicit was, of course, your legacy mainstream media in parroting this narrative

over and over again, layer upon layer upon layer of coruction. Yeah, you don't even get over to like, for example, the lies that were told about Hunter Biden's laptop. Yeah, lies outright lies. They sold that bill of goods. You look, fifty one experts say this is a Russian disinformation.

the program. I'll be back on Wednesday. Enjoy Gary Jeff tomorrow and have a great day.