The Night Cap with Gary Jeff Walker -- 1/21/25

Almost at the end of day number two of Trump administration number two in Washington, d C. Taking down the establishment, draining the swamp, whatever you want to call it, undoing the unthinkable that Joe Biden perpetrated on this nation four years ago. And Donald Trump has undone most of the damage that was done to us. God bless Donald Trump. And as we enter this next era, some may call it the Golden Age of America.

Some may say America is back.

Like the White House website said this morning, I love that no visage of Joe Biden available anywhere on the White House website, as it should be. All it said was America is back. And I felt that way yesterday watching the inauguration, all of the different ceremonies, the executive order signings. Favorite part of yesterday was Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office after already an incredibly long day. Joe Biden would have called the lid at twelve o

It looks like that's going to get passed.

Pete Hagseeth last week and Pam Bondi last week. It's only the tip of the iceberg, and the ice is being felt on the left as these Democrat senators stumble through non important questions and character issues when there's a job that needs to get done for the American people, and that is exactly what we elected Donald Trump to do, a job for us. On tonight's show, we'll have Stacy Washington,

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Time for a little sports for the out of sorts boy, he was out of sorts last night during that National Championship game. I'm talking about the one and only sports commando, Wildman Walker. I get this text at nine two last night. If this game it's so fixed, switching to me TV to watch the last nineteen minutes of Gomer Pile, Tell me, wild Man, what were the last nineteen minutes of Gomer Pile like? And we'll get to the game after that.

It was the episode where Opie Taylor left home and went out to see Gomer and wanted to be a marine and he had to. Of course, I tried to you know, cover for Opie because he wasn't supposed to be there, and Sergeant Carter, you know, found out, and then he took him to a hotel room and then sorry comer couldn't leave him and brought him back. And then, uh, sergeant Carter took him the hotel room and then couldn't

And everything ended happily ever after in Maybury.

Yeah, no, it ended up happily ever after.

That was the only episode that Andy was ever in, with the exception of the Pilot of the Pilot in black and White.

Yeah, And when you're talking about Andy Griffith, don't get Mount Pilot confused with pilot because it's two different.

Things, exactly exactly, I know.

And as for historians with the Gomer Pile show, Aunt Bee was also in one episode, and so was Goober because Goober came out there one time unannounced and got gohmert all kinds of trouble because Gohmer kept trying to cover.

For him, so they all.

The only people didn't show up there out there was Otis and uh.

Well, as as they say, hilarity baths, hilarity ensues. Let's get to the nuts and bolts of what transpired last night at the college football championship game Ohio State versus Notre Dame. It looked like a runaway in the first half, wild Man.

Well, that's when I sent you that text. I was like, oh man, this this game, this game is over. But then I went back to the game and it ended up to being an exciting game. I mean the play of the game. Let's be real here, third and a third and eleven with about the two minutes left the clock, with three minutes counting down on the clock. Yeh and and Will Howard making them throws that pass? You know, the US try him because a perfect pass could have

Knows what's gonna happen.

Then were to go back to that and you miss that field goal too, that missed that miss field goal, but other Dame also so came back to kind of buite them.

What I'm curious about is your text. It's so fixed. What do you think was fixed about it?

Wild man?

I was just yanking your chain about that. There wasn't fixed about that.

I mean Ohio Statele Ohio State played a great.

Game and they deserve it.

I hope all the fans in Columbus will now get off Ryan Days back because all they ever worry about because they made his life miserable after losing to to to Michigan, Like that doesn't mean anything. They had a national championship, the first one since twenty fourteen. That guy will never Ryan Day will never ever have to pay for a drink or a dinner again in Columbus.

Well hella look good for him, Good for him. What do you think about the NFL playoff games? There was there were some points over this past weekend as I was watching, I was just like, man, this game is not deserving of of this high a place in the playoffs because they of the the Commanders blow out of the Lions just astounded me.

The injuries finally caught up to Detroit, didn't they?

Yes they did, Yes, they did. I think a lot of people were expecting that.

But Jalen Daniels, man, I mean, that guy's got ice in his veins. And I'll tell you what, don't the Eagles but are not sleep on him. I mean, I know they got Swan Barkley and then they got they got home deeal advantage. But the Commanders they might just they might just pull this whole thing off. Now, they might just.

They might just do it. The Bengals get checked out.

Remember this, The Bengals lost to the Eagles here and the Bengals also lost to the Commanders here. So here are two teams that are in the end for the understy title, but playing to go to the Super Bowl AF through.

Your Kansas City chiefs.

I know you're not going to admit it, but something that that Mahomes.

Gets away with murder.

That was the biggest flop, and you know that was one of the worst flops ever and that guy and he surely got flagged.

Fid NFL and NFL expert who's who's been an official on the broadcast explain both of these so called controversial penalties called against the Texans and said they were actual penalties wild man, they weren't that guy's blind?

That guy are you talking about.

The one or the two guys collided and then they called a uh they called it hit on and you calling that one?

Is that on one of the ones? He was, yeah, it was one of the ones. Sure, Well, if you go back Mahomes is on the ground, you can't he made contact with him on the ground. I mean, I know, they they barely make it. They got to change the rule. They gotta they gotta start.

Looking at these penalties and maybe go back in real time and and check the check the replay on rich Eisen. There's a post on Facebook yesterday last night. I saw that he explained all this, and they need to do something about this because some of the I.

Know it's I know it's tough for the officials to.

Make these calls. But these two guys, I mean, when Mahomes ran out there, he's you know, he's not able to get hit. He's he's able to get hit. He said he was out of pocket. He's able to get hit. And he went down and those two guys they've grazed him.

They grazed him.

Them two guys hit their own helmets together. They grazed him and that was not That was not a penalty. That was not and that flopping crap that just got that's whatever.

What about what about the horizontal horizontal touchdown pass into the ends? I mean, Mahomes is superman. He's completely level with the field and he's throwing the ball for a touchdown. And Travis Kelsey, I'm sorry, the Buffalo Bills are going to have their hands full in Kansas City next week.

Wild man.

He has picked up.

This game here and the last month, and that, like you said, that horizontal pass.

First thing I thought of was our boy. I'm Joe Burrow. It's the first thing I thought about.

Yeah, I mean, I'm not going You know, the Chiefs. The Chiefs are going to are trying to make history. And the Chiefs know how to win. We've we've discussed that, uh and nausea here with you.

They know how to win. The Bills.

Uh.

You saw the m VP of the league uh the.

Other night, and that's Josh Allen hands down. Josh Allen hands down is the m v P. And of course Buffalo has to go to Kansas City. But Buffalo is gonna be uh. But Buffalo has got a very pretty good defense. They got a pretty good defense.

Once again, my summation or my assessment of Lamar Jackson, who's been a two time NFL MVP, no question, and it may be again this year, who knows. But what I'm saying is I've always thought that he had He's probably the most physically talented quarterback in the league. But there's something missing up in the helmet area with him. Do you do you sense that?

No?

No, not at all.

I mean they're taking he's taking a lot of grief, you know, because he really can't get him over the top. That pass that he threw to Andrews, you know, he really he really didn't put anything.

He didn't really the guy was wide up.

But I don't blame Andrews were dropped the ball because he hardly ever dumps the ball, but he didn't really put.

Anything on it.

He kind of like guided it out there, so that was kind of a mental error on his part. But no, I don't think don'd think upstairs. No, I don't think that's that's any issue at all.

Well, I mean, compared to Patrick Mahomes or a Josh Allen, who was you know, taking care of his giveaway problem that he's had in the past. This season he's been more proficient with the football than in seasons past for the Buffalo Bills, and you know, Joe Burrow. Uh, it just it just seems like there's something that's not quite firing right up in his head.

To me, I'm just watching because thank.

You, doctor Jeff. Yeah, thank you, doctor Jeff.

I stayed are a psychiatrist, I say, I stayed in a holiday and express last night.

I don't know what you did.

Yeah, right, Oh, but before we before we go, there was such a great day yesterday to be in an American What a great inauguration speech. Already the woke and the left and the media are crying every you know, are still crying and whining. Yes, I'll say it once, I'll say it again. America spoke, America spoke. They wanted Trump wanted Trump wanted fair and square to get you know, quit your whining and you know, and.

Get on with it. If you don't like it, go leave. Then if you don't like it, you're gonna continue. Leave you can leave. You know, we're not going to stop you.

I understand there's some planes going back to Venezuela and Nicaragua if you want to real soon.

So yeah, maybe hit hits on board and go to those countries.

Yeah, his speech was great. And again you know, America spoke. And what more you need to say. You can't. You can make all the excuses you want. America spoke. We want every damned state, the majority of.

Them, and you have spoken. Now, thank you, wild Man. Yes we must. It's a great day. We must move alone.

Hive state buck guys are national camps. Whatever. I still my Columbus.

I know you got arrested for jaywalking. There. I'll talk to you later, wild Man.

No, I got a ticket.

I'll see you insureance.

I would have got arrested if I wouldn't have painted in forty eight hours.

Bye wild Man.

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Hey, don't go through another year with all that high interest that Let Loan Pronto wipe it all out. It's Eddie Loan Pronto's rapid equity loan makes it easy to pay off all that. It's with Andy Furman the fur Ball sports for the out of sorts on this Tuesday night after basketball fur Ball, how are you?

You know what?

I'm feeling pretty good, and it's always good to talk to you because I.

Feel like a balloon.

And when I talk to you, I let all the hot air out to.

You, and you let it out. You're the only one who'd listened to me.

And you wind up, and you wind up on the other side of the room flat like a pancake.

Because Jackey, right answer I speak to you, you kind of beat me up. But I think you're going.

To agree with this one course, it's a perfect day for you and I to chat, all right, because today's today. Then every Buckeye fan, every fan of the Ohio State University, take a good hard look in the mirror. I realized that you were the one I wanted to get rid of Ryan Day. You were the one that wanted and fired. You were the one that would bearmouth in this guy. He won a national championship last night. And you know what, take another damn good look. You know what his career

You're paying players right now. Get with it.

And now that they've won, they have more money, the more Alump's coming on board and they'll pay even more. Because you watched that Ohio State team play, you realize the separation of power, the separation of personnel between a school like Cincinnati and the Ohio State University.

How do you like that?

I know Bearcat fans that just simply can't stand Ohio State because.

It's envy and jealous.

They know it is the.

That the buck Eyes are perennially better than the Bearcats every time.

Station. Yeah, I mean, it's.

I don't know about kind of I don't care if you're a train station. It doesn't make a difference to me.

Yes, I totally get it. But I know some of those Buckeye faithful that you're talking about who were ready to ditch the whole thing after the Michigan lost and it was absolutely a collapse on the field by the buck Eyes against the Wolverines in that game at home, and you know that that's the tale of the tape. That's That's the only thing that matters to most Ohio

That is there. That is their cause.

They believe that they have a birthright to beat Michigan every single time, and it's simply not the case.

When they start the season.

There are three goals for a hot state university, be Michigan, win the Big Ten, and win the national championship. Okay, they did two out of three this year. And I'll tell you something else. Honestly, I'll make you halfway on this. You know, honestly that Michigan loss. After watching Ohio State play and what they've done and these players beating, pounding, and it's seeing Oregon pounding these teams to death, I say to myself, how in the world do they have a loose to Michigan.

Think about it.

They beat the little bit daylights out of a great Tennessee team and a great Oregon team. They really did, and then they lose to Michigan. But that's that's yesterday's news. And honestly, really for you to want.

To get you know, Ryan Day gone.

Fired after a Michigan loss, get get a life.

Fans are crazy.

I thought the Suoner fans were nuts. They take us, they take a second seas to Ohio State.

But they're just like UK basketball fans. Andy, you know, if.

Post you're not that bad.

The Ohio State's the worst, the worst, worse to wor I like the I like the Wildcats. I roof for them, but I'm not live and die with them. But here's the thing. They're the worst, but in a sense they did.

The best because they expect the best and.

The expectations are somewhat unreal. But more often than not, they they reached those expectations. Which is great. That that's pressure, and pressure creates victories perhaps, and I think it's a good thing. Look that when when the University of Kentucky went to the n i T lost the Ducine, they lost to Saint Peter's. I didn't hear the rumblings that they wanted to get John cali Perry fired. I mean,

That's true, that's true. But Ryan Day.

Ryan Day to that point had not won a national championship. John Caliperry had, So maybe there's the device.

Look well, maybe that was a different I don't know. But if I'm Ryan Day today, I pack up, try to get an NFL coaching obviously there's still several.

Of them open, and then give them the bird and walk away. That's what I would do.

And I'm so glad that Louiana Rumo, who was escaped goal at sintenty Bengals as a defensive coordinator, didn't take much time at all because he's a very talented guy. He's right down the road. He's a defensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts.

I'm happy for Louis.

Well, you have defense, will be better defense in Indianapolis. They got better players. But that got him a better defense in the Bengals next year.

Two years ago, he was hailed as a defensive genius Andy and and he was on all the head coaching interviews around the league and decided to stay. I wonder if he's second thinking about staying in Cincinnati with the Bengals when he could have maybe had a head coaching job a couple of seasons ago.

But you're right, it's well.

He never got the job. No, he went for interviews, he never got the job.

But here's the thing, Well, can see you know what that's a plus. Think about this for a second. Jill Belichick left coaching, gets depart I'm not gonna say fired. He was departed for the New England Patriots. Didn't get a sniff. Think about that. When you're talking about the mount Rushmore of coaches, Vince Slumpbardy, Bill Belichick, Don Schuler really, and the next one's gonna be Andy Reid. Those four

I think, I think you are. The Summers think you are.

You know, it's all about personnel. You don't get the players. You're not at the horses.

You don't win.

I don't care how big, how good a manager Tito is with their heads. They don't get some good quality pitching and then get some injuries in there.

They're not gonna win. It's all about people, personnel, the players. That's what it's all about.

And what's the classic coaching line. If you want me to cook the dinner, you gotta let me help buy the groceries.

And that's that's what Belichiers could do North Carolina. He'll do well in North Carolina.

I know he will.

I believe will the call to the NFL be so strong that he wants to come back, you think no.

I think he made a commitment at least for this year. But I think he will come backs. I think he wants to win. He's thirteen wins away, I think from the old time win record, and I think he wants to have that. Why wouldn't they want to have it? At No, I think he wants that. I think they'll be back.

Do you expect Dion Sanders to be a head coach in the NFL?

Andy?

You know what? I don't. And I'll tell you why. I say that and put money.

Aside, because I think there probably would be more money in Dallas. And he's Jerry Jones's guy. Jerry Jones loves him. But there's more control in college. You can control the environment, you can control your players, you can control everything.

You have total control of the program. In the NFL, you don't. You're given the players by personnel people and those general managers. I mean that's.

Basically what it is in the NFL. Look at the New York Football Giants. I mean, do you think the coaching staff didn't want to have Saquon Barkley.

On this squad?

The general manager didn't want him. I watched Hard Knocks this year. They didn't want him, didn't want sa Quon Barkley. And I'm surprised that general manager still has a job.

I really am.

We'll see if Saquon Barkley can run the Eagles right up to the Super Bowl. It's gonna be tough against those commanders, the up and comers.

I'm glad you brought the Eagles up. Did you hear about the mayor of Philadelphia?

Do you hear this?

You gotta go on, you gotta google this. This is this may be the greatest thing of all time. They had a rally in Philadelphia. I think it was yesterday, all right, And she gets on the podium. She says, look a little cheered up for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Give me an E, give me an L.

Give me a G give me an S.

Go birds. She spelled eagles wrong.

She spelled eagles wrong.

Go on and google this. I forgot her name. I forgot the man. She's a complete fool.

She sounds like some.

Forgot You can't spell eagles. If you can't spell.

It, how do you get to be a mayor of a huge city like that and be a total adult.

I don't get it really well.

You can be.

But if you're smart enough, you hire a staff around you and say, look, I'm going up on the stands today, just in case I get a little nervous, give me a little cute cart how to spell eagles? Really hey, Look, lucky for her, you'd have to spell a coach's name. Mit Sterriani today would still.

Be alone on the podium, nobody around, still trying to steal Sirianni football. I gotta go. Thanks for cracking me up. I appreciate it. See you by The nightcap continues in moments on seven hundred WLW.

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Well, thank you for having me.

It was a great day yesterday, and it was.

A good experience, a safe experience. And the only problem is there were a lot of people traveled down and we're not able to see it live had the but I did here in DC. The bars and restaurants were booming yesterday while people who couldn't attend live. I've got to see some of it, you know, on the TVs and the bars and restaurants or even in the hotels.

Jim, I got to tell you I saw some live shots on Fox News Channel inside some of those bars you're talking about in our nation's capital, and that looks like that.

That looked like a party I'd want to go to.

So there were a lot of very very jacked up people, maybe a little bit worse for the wear from the alcohol consumption, but it just it had the party atmosphere, even though the inauguration and the parade were not held outside and get to the inside inauguration thing there in the Capitol rotundo as a viewer just not being and not traveling all the way to Washington and not being a muckety muck who usually gets into these kinds of events,

So but I got.

To tell you that the intimacy of that as an American viewer, I didn't feel cheated at all by the fact that was inside. But again, I didn't travel or expect to be there. And I've been a Trumps supporter ever since twenty fifteen, so I understand the frustration.

But I also from.

An esthetic point of view, Gosh, it was gorgeous, wasn't it.

Gonna tell you, the Capitol is a beautiful building. When I served in Congress, it was just an now to walk through, uh, you know, the halls and uh and the rotunda area and think of all the history that was there. So absolutely, the problem of the intimacy, as you described, which could best be seen on the cameras, was not as well seen by some senators and governors who couldn't get in the room, which was part of the problem when you do take it inside like that.

So it did close.

Things up a little bit, you know. I was told that, and it was confirmed that many of the governors and senators were not able to get inside and sit down.

Yeah, the Reagan swearing in in the rotunda. Well, is something like that going to be something that I don't know? To me, I understand the protocols, and I understand having these big donors there and having the usual complement of governors and congress people as senators and House members not be allowed, And is that going to break the Trump honeymoon right off the bat?

Jim Well, I don't know.

I think there are going to be people that are upset. I mean, you talked about that, you or I because I did not travel down there this year, didn't travel down to it. But if you traveled down and we're expecting a seat in the rotunda and you didn't get it, I think you may not be complaining publicly. But somebody like Governor de Santus is not going to probably forget that. And I don't think it was intentional to him, because, like I say, there were a number of governors that

Talking to Jim Rinecy on the Nightcap here on seven hundred WLW and Jim. Let me ask you about Susie Wiles, who was the White House Chief of staff. Everything that I've heard from, gosh, almost everyone, both the Republican and Democrat, have been glowing in their assessment of how how tight a ship Susie Wiles will run and how this is so important to have this chief of staff for this president. Your thoughts, if any on Susie Wiles.

Well, I had to tell you, I would one hundred percent agree.

I know Susie Wilds.

In fact, I've tried to work with her to get to the president in the last four to six years, and she does run a very tight ship, and it's become tighter and tighter. The problem with pass individuals in this position is that many people got to see the president. She's not going to allow just anyone to see the president. She's gonna she's going to make sure that it's very tight. One thing about President Trump, and I really like him

Isn't it amazing?

Although we saw it the first term, and we've seen it in his efforts to fight off all of the people trying to take him down previous to the election and during his whole first term. But it's amazing to me the amount of energy and stamina this seventy eight year old man has. I mean, you talk about yesterday's schedule and this morning, you know, right back at it this morning after what was an eighteen to twenty hour day. This is not unusual for Donald Trump, though.

Is it.

No, it's not, and I would agree with you. He's he's somebody that lives on about six hours sleep a day and gets up early and some and diet coach. Right, he gets up early. He is thinking at two o'clock in the morning. It's not unusual for him to make a call at two o'clock in the morning to people like his vice president or a member of Congress that he's thinking about something and he reaches out. It's kind

What did you think of the rescinding as he promised to do in the campaign. Rescinding was at seventy eight executive orders that Joe Biden signed just to get rid of them immediately and get those obstacles out of the way of the new administration with their mandate and their agenda.

And then the rest of the day.

I tell you what, my favorite part of all of yesterday was him going back to the Oval Office and allowing a press pool in and doing an impromptu press conference, no screen questions as he signs executive orders. That was amazing. That was a masterclass to me. Your thoughts, well.

You got to remember President Trump as a showman. He's also somebody who's best in front of a camera. So these kind of stages and issues do not bother him. Joe Biden. Half the time they were trying to keep him away from the camera. But now Donald Trump will be in front of the camera every chance he gets. He's not afraid of taking questions. And I thought that was great too. It just shows you he was going to continue in a record pace.

Now.

I always throw a little bit of water on some things, and I'll throw a little water here for some of your conservative listeners. You got to remember in twenty ten when I ran, we were all upset that Barack.

Obama was making executive orders.

And we said, executive orders should not be made. This should be law. We should stop these executive orders. And what's interesting is, you know, turn the page this many years forward. Donald Trump's probably going to do two hundred executive orders, and people are happy with that. In the end, I understand why he did it, and I understand it's he wanted to overturn these things as quickly as possible. But I got to tell you, here's the best way

Congress, Donald Trump couldn't turn.

Them up, you know, couldn't turn them back away, which is good it said he wasn't able to. But let's look at the ones that Donald Trump is doing now. We need to get these approved in the law so that in four years, if by chance, somebody from the other party doesn't take over, they don't just rescind all of.

His executive orders.

Right, and all we keep doing is going back and forth.

Right, I just talked to someone who's got some inside knowledge of some of these executive vorders in the way they are written, and they are written to eventually determine policy and legislation as part of the Trump agenda. I think some of these executive orders that are being signed, they are going to work tirelessly to get the House and Senate to approve them and pass them as bills.

No, I'd agree with you.

And the only problem is it's going to be very difficult when you have a majority of two in the House of Representatives, and I know everybody wants every Republican the vote one with exactly what Donald Trump wants.

Oh you mean like you mean like the Democrats do?

How like the Democrats do? But I'm going to tell you, I don't think that's going to be the case.

And I do think it's going.

To be very very tough.

Remember when I was in Congress, we had a twenty nine seat majority and Donald Trump was president, and we

No, I my representative I live in Northern Kentucky is Thomas Massey. He's not a yes vote guaranteed on anything, as we've already seen. And I will tell you this, Jim, I'm glad that Thomas Thomas Massey as I worked for the seven hundred and fifty thousand people who I represent in my district. First and foremost, He's not a go

So I mean, well, I can give you an example.

When I was in Congress, I voted with Trump ninety four percent of the time and people say, and by the way, Jim Jordan at the time only voted with Trump ninety three percent of the time. I actually voted with Trump more. But there were six percent of the time time that I did not vote with Trump, and people would say, shame on you, and I go, wait a minute, shame on me. I was voting for my district. There are a lot of ideas that President Trump has.

Of things that people have to understand.

You really do have.

To vote your district.

YEP, no doubt about it.

Well, Jim, it's going to be an interesting week I had, it's going to be an interesting year, it's going to be an interesting four years. You don't sound as optimistic as I as I I am, but I think you have a reasoned die and you've had experience in Washington, d C. And knowing how it works and sometimes it does not work very well, even when you've got a twenty nine seat majority.

Well, exactly right.

And that's exactly I used to say to people. I'm not a pessimist, and I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And in the end, when you have four hundred and thirty five people in a room, it's a whole different situation.

Here's I can best explain it.

Just sit around Thanksgiving the Thanksgiving table with your family, and I guarantee if you have seven, ten, twelve people around that table, you're not going to agree to everything. Well, add four hundred and twenty five more people to that table and you have a real problem. Yeah right, So that's real quick, it's Washington, d C.

Jim, real quick. What about Ramaswami running for governor of Ohio.

Well, I believe he's going to I've been encouraging, encouraging him. I was not a John Eustead fan. I believe that John Eustad is one of the reasons why Ohio has followed John Newstaid and Mike Dwaine. Of course I ran against them, So I have actually been encouraging him, and I believe he's going to uh and we'll see, I mean he He has not come out and said it yet. I expect to hear that soon. But look, we need somebody who's going to break things up in Ohio as well.

Uh.

The status quo is not good.

And uh, I'm hoping that by Theake steps into the ring because I know he can win, and that's the real key. Let's let's get somebody.

In there who can win AND's willing to make change.

Jim Ornecy, I appreciate your time so much.

I know it's a busy day and uh and it continues to be busy.

But thanks again for being on the night camp to see me.

Oh, thank you, and you have a great rest of evening.

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She has so many things, and she's also as well, the host of the nationally syndicated serious XM show Stacy on the Right. Stacey Washington joins us for a few moments. Stacy, Welcome to the show. It's great to have you on the Nightcap.

How are you.

Thanks, It's good to be here.

That was an incredible flurry yesterday and the first thing that I've been noticing, and I haven't been alone obviously, because it was so apparent Donald Trump works tirelessly. The second that he was sworn in, he was ready to go. All he wanted to do was start signing executive orders, but the pomp and circumstances dictated that would wait, oh, I don't know, an hour or so before he got to work as our forty seventh president of the United States.

Well, I mean, I think it's a reality that President Trump has been waiting for four years to take the actions that he took yesterday, and really President Biden made it. He made it difficult for President Trump not to be president. President Biden didn't actually go in and say what can I do to improve the lives of Americans. He said, first day, I'm going to undo everything that Trump did.

That and the inflation, the Middle.

East wars, and then the overall vacancy at the Resolute Desk. I think it was more than President Trump could take. And so the two hundred or so executive actions that he implemented yesterday demonstrated just how clearly his vision for America can be implemented immediately, and how cognizant he is at the amount of time he has left. It's four years,

And it's different from other presidents.

It's different from politicians because most politicians forget everything they've promised you when they're raising money and asking for your vote. And President Trump is very, very serious about doing what he promised to do. I went through a lot of the executive actions on the radio last night.

I was reading through and just kind of I.

Was marveling at the detail and the completeness and the efficiency of how he is following on every executive order actually instructs the two sections of government that are responsible for their implementation to examine the areas surrounding the target for other executive actions that need to be taken to complete the actual directive in section two of each EO. So that means that there will be additional eos coming

It was just such a beautiful thing.

And I love the way that he focused on at key moments he pointed back to God and was grateful for being alive, being elected this country. And it was really was. It was masterfully done and incredibly important to me as someone who has supported President Trump since, you know, way back when he became the nominee. The first time, I just felt like there was so much attention to detail on behalf of people who have really kind of sacrificed a lot and put a lot on the table to be his supporters.

What do they say? Love is more lovelier the second time around? Donald Trump had such an intense training course with everything the establishment could throw at him in his first term, and after his first term, with the law fair and the persecution and false prosecution of this man, and after the assassination attempt, there was a feeling not just in the Trump camp but among Americans in general that this man was destined to be back where he is.

And that was such a great.

Unifying, solidifying, kind of confirmation that this is going to be different this time in many ways. You talked about the protocols and the pomp and circumstance of the first family at the inauguration yesterday, Stacy, and you're right, Milania was just I don't know that there's a and I hope my wife's not listening. I don't know if there's a more gorgeous woman on the planet than Millennia and

Well, I will just say one final thing about the beauty of Melania Trump. It's so in our younger years, and it starts when we're toddlers. We have a certain jealousy for the people that we love and we don't want them to think about anyone.

Else but us.

But as adults we are I don't think it's just something that we can do. I think we're commanded to enjoy our lives and to take in beauty. And I think Malania Trump, the Trump family, the Vance family, such a lovely and winsome representation of America. And you mentioned Pam Bondi another person who you shouldn't be feeled by the outer you shouldn't be fooled by the outer package.

She's actually very very kind.

But I think her command of the law and her desire to see law and order actually executed in this country far outweigh the beauty, which means that she's a it's a triple threat, and underestimating her means embarrassment for

They never care when Democrats have affairs.

When Democrats do horrible things to their wives or cheat on them, or have kids at a wedlock, or you know, snort coke off with the stomach of a prostitute, they never care about that kind of stuff, And so it rings really hollow with Pete Heexas, and the same for

So you know how it is.

It is an old old thing that that older people say you shouldn't take marital advice from a single woman, right. I don't listen to single women when they're talking about marital things.

I've been married for twenty eight years.

I feel like, you know, I have a PhD in marriage, and you don't even know what it is because you've never been married. It's similar here people who've never been to war, people who've never led, people who've never talked to women in the service about whether or not they want to be in the combat specialties. I served on active duty, and then the fourth generation of my family to do so. My father and my grandfather were decorated

Can do anything. Women can do everything.

I was especially fired up after a really, really strong history class where all of the girls in the class talked about being in combat. And my dad said, you know, I think you're old enough for us to talk about combat.

I said sure.

He said, sit down, and he began to explain what combat was from the experience of someone who fought and killed people in Vietnam. And I just sat there with my ears peeled back. He might as well have hit me with a blast of jet air. You know, if you stand.

Near a jet when it's right it was hot.

I was sitting there with my face burning, thinking about what he was telling me and just trying to wrap my around it. And he said, I'll never tell you everything I did or everything that I saw. I'm giving you a slice of what it was like. And he said, I love you, so I'll tell you the truth. Women do not belong in combat. And he told me why.

And he's right.

And since then, I've read articles written by women who've been in combat, and I've talked to lots of women on active duty when I was on active duty, and we don't belong in the combat divisions. And so Pete text is speaking from experience having gone into combat, and many many American women agree with him. The majority of

No, we're talking to Stacy Washington, host of Stacy on the Right on Serious exam and the author of Eternally Canceled Proof, a guide for Courageous Christians navigating the political battle front. So we're talking about combat as Christians, as human beings, there is a constant combat for our souls.

Is this what the book is about? What do you do? What do you write about in the book, Stacy?

So the book is about it is without Christ we have nothing. We can do all things through Him. But the bigger deal for us is that in America, in a lot.

Of places, she.

I say she because it's a lot of us women who are in charge of doing the majority of the talking. We as Americans have allowed politics to become more than a tool like a hammer or a ladder. We use politics as it's like a dividing line. And much of the things that we've seen really are. It's good versus evil.

I don't have to fear.

Being canceled because I have an eternal reward that I'm looking forward to and it's assured. So now that I have that out of the way, I can live this life courageously and boldly tell the truth and love people and enjoy them regardless of politics, because I know I'm telling the truth and I'm being obedient to what God has called me to do.

And the book is inspirational in that way. It's a weekend book.

I didn't write the traditional eighty thousand words because I actually wanted people to read it.

I wanted people to read it exactly.

And it's a fun book. You'll laugh a little bit in it. There's a lot of great information and it's well foot noted, especially for the link of the book. It's very well footnoted, so you can find everything that I'm telling you and verify it and see if I'm right. And I think it's important. Even after the winning of President Trump, there's still so much to be done. There's so much for us to kind of manage and keep

I talked about how hard that, Stacy.

I talked about how hard President Trump already is working for America. But you work pretty darn hard yourself. Stacy's communications director of Family Vision, Media Ambassador for America First Policy Institute. She served as co chair of Black Voices for Trump, a board member of Veterans for Trump, and the co chairwoman of the Project twenty one National Advisory

Thank you so much for your.

Time, Thank you for having me on, and I hope you guys have a great day.

All right, I look forward to listening to you on your show too, Sure, Stacey Washington with us on the Nightcap. Much more to come into the second day of trump Mania on seven hundred WLW.

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Things are moving, I mean really moving.

We have founder president CEO we Invest USA and national grassroots nonprofit that is helping hundreds of communities provide thousands of bulletproof vests for their police forces through educational, public relations, sponsorship, fundraising programs, and the like. He's been a frequent guest of ours, and he is kind enough to come back and join us again tonight for a few minutes. Michael Letz, how are you doing.

Mike doing great? We've got always see a great week that has begun, and thank god, it couldn't come any faster than it did. But here is the great part about it is, while it was a fantastic swearing in an inauguration, we were hitting the ground running and more of the work just furs Now.

Well, you know what, uh I hated the fact that the leak of immigration raids was out last week, kind of tipping the Trump administration hands on what they are planning to do to carry out these executive orders and to bring law and order back to our country. Brings soganty back to our country, to put America first over the citizens of the rest of the world. So it's

Well they're going to have to wait.

Yeah, they're not going to be waiting long. Trust me. You know, the plans are already underway. We are positioning now as we speak, and you're going to begin to see things happening on a very quick level, I do want to kind of on a note your listeners should be aware of here's for them to keep matters in the forefront of their mind. It's bad enough to have to deal with our enemies, the legal immigrants, those who are drug card tellers, child rapists, et cetera, et cetera.

Well, hallelujah.

What are laws for if they're not adhered to and they're not obeyed. And the first law that these people break is by setting foot in our country illegally without going through the proper channels and process of immigration. We all, and I think you would agree with me, We all welcome immigrants to this country. We're a country of immigrants. But there is a process, there is a way you

In fact, it was flawed.

Wanted that they were ignoring it, and may Orcus under the Biden administration continued to break the law. He would not go before Congress when he was subpoenaed to do so, just thought it was important to only pursue their agenda

Well, you're exactly right, here's those sat a statement I could make. It was about politics. It did not fit their narrative for them to have passed that would have conceded that some of their policies were indeed bad policies for America, and they were not about to do that. They didn't care what was best for America or as citizens. They care what was best for what they were trying to make their image to be and what allows the image.

It was, yes, yes, indeed.

Now here's the question for law enforcement and sheriffs in particular counties where the elected people have said, now we're a sanctuary and we're not going to cooperate with ICE. Now does the sheriff in each of these counties, if he believes that the federal law usurps the sanctuary city status of where they are serving. Is anybody arrested for blocking or hindering the apprehension of these illegals in our countries, in our cities?

But how does that mean?

Let mean let's let's define it so your listeners would know what to expect. He used two words there, the sheriff. Sheriff is an elected position, so the sheriff can do what is right and what he knows to be writing. Most of these sheriffs are responding, regardless of their city council's mayors, et cetera, have determined to back the law

The federal government has two main I mean, at the top of our Constitution, it says that the priorities of the federal government are to defense, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare of its citizens.

Those are the two things that federal government is supposed to do.

Of course, we're far afield from that because it's gotten so obese and so large, they've forgotten their primary two objectives. And the first one is to provide for the common defense. I am so glad to see, and I've been crying this for years. Put our troops on our borders to protect our borders. Don't take them to some far off foreign land to fight somebody else's war and to protect

Horde already underway. You've already shut down one border at El Passo. More carsladed for today, and quite frankly, we will want to send a message not just to the drug cartels and the terrorists and all that are in this country that worked hard to round up starting today, quite frankly, but we're going to send a message to

I'm just so excited. I'm so jazzed.

And the fact that saying what we all have known for a long time that these cartels, these drug cartels, and these people cartels are foreign terrorist organizations.

It's obvious, you know what.

It's kind of like watching the president sign all the executive orders that he did and maybe continuing to do so as this week progresses. Michael Letz, I just so much of it. He talked about common sense, but it's just so obvious. I mean, why are people surprised at the obvious that Donald Trump is.

Far the left liberal ideology has gotten from reality. Who would in their right mind want to allow child sex traffickers to continue to stay in this country? Who would want to allow drug cartales with pittanel to stay in this country? Makes absolutely no sense. And to have people, especially those in elected positions, stand up and say we're going to rally behind it because we're compassionate. You're not compassion You're stupid. Stupid can't be fixed.

That's the old Ron White thing. You can't fix stupid, exactly right.

So tell me how you were involved with the new administration through invest US say, and what are your plans as far as continuing to help our first responders and our police make sure they have the protection that they need. And are you working with the federal government in that regard as well?

Without question, exactly our mandate and what we have agreed and we have told the administration, told the President, told Tom and Cash and the rest them is we stand ready to turn back this eeevil tide that has come against our law enforcement officers. We're going to make sure they properly equipped, properly protected, and given the due respect they so rightly deserve. And the other thing that we're going to do, let the liberals be put on notice now.

Amen, It's a good call. And I I tell you what, I'm so excited and so jazzed about what has A had for us. I don't know you've told me this before. But explain what invest USA actually does, Michael, and why your cause is so important to protecting the people who are hired to protect us, I e. Police law enforcement are What makes your vests different than the ones that are issued to the officers by each department.

Well, let me give a quick overview. We started thirty years ago, and thirty years ago only fifty less than forty eight percent of officers, fifty two percent of cops had no vest, no protection at all. We got that down to nineteen percent. The vest that we were able to provide at that time was the only technology available. It's called a concealable vest.

You wear it under your shirt.

It will stop any pistol round because back in those days, nobody wanted to advertise.

If they were a criminal.

They tried to hide it with the smallest armament possible. Well, times are changed. Drug cartels and the others, they're using long range rifles AK forty seven and others, and they're very proud of it. Those will cut right through a consumable bess like their butter. So we had to create new technology called active shooter vests. They have titanium plates who will stop anything that's out on the market. The problem is ninety percent of cops today do not have

Well, the Golden Age of America, as President Trump has proclaimed this to be, is just beginning. Do you think it's also a golden age and a return to respect for law enforcement officers across the country.

There's no question, and you know that is what we were talking about. Anyways, that was our first goal, to make sure they're all properly protected. Of course, we've merged and morphed into other things. Now we're trying to make sure that we establish programs to recruit law enforcement. You know,

You mentioned Cash Battel, who is the at least nominee to be the director of the FBI. How much of a difference. Does that make and will Cash Betel, in your estimation, be able to root out all of the trash that is currently the political trash and that's I'm sorry, they're people, but I called him political trash that has embedded itself in the Federal Bureau of Investigation?

Is Cash Bettel the right guy to do this?

Mike, he definitely is doing Cash. While we were down in more long room with Cash and Tom and quite frankly, here's a great thing about Cash.

He is a pit bull.

When he gets his teeth sunk in or he gets focused, he doesn't let go.

He has seen because of his.

Prior involvement with the administration in the last term classified information. He knows the files, he knows who the crop people are, and they better watch out because we're covered.

Are you believing that there will be mass firings at the FBI, mass resignations.

Or I believe mass resignations. Here's what you heard me, tuggle At. I just want to send a very clear message fire, resign whatever you want to do, but let me tell you if you use your position of trust to violate the law and to prosecute and to harm the American people, you will be held accountable. You better lawyer up now because it's coming.

I talked to my friend Tim Hale, who is known as the criminally funny J sixer. He spent about three years in the Washington Gulag for just being at the Capitol on January sixth, twenty twenty one, and he said, this is this is the communication I got. I said, sir, I apologize for not responding sooner. We've been scrambling to force the DC Jail to release an inmate to us to bring to her family, but they're refusing to do their jobs after the pardon. And these people were they

We'll make sure that communication gets done immediately, and I will tell you this. Let it be clearly understood. INVES is the biggest proponent of law enforcement in the country and in the world. However, you have an obligation. You don't do your job, and we will come down just as hard on you as we do on anybody else. The American people are tired of being lied to and being abused, and it will it hazarded. And the new day has arrived.

Golden Age of America.

I'm praying that this day would come, and it has and now I'm praying for its success.

Michael Letts.

I'm sure that you're going to be proud to be a part of that success when we have it, when we enjoy it together as Americans, all of us. But thank you so much for being on the show as all.

Thank you, God, bless you, God blessed work. Keep putting out the truth because it's going to get better every day.

I love it. Michael, let's with us on the nightcap. We continue in a moment on seven hundred WLW.

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He's worked for over three decades in and around DC politics. I wonder how he got to smell off immersed in economic advising and policy legislation from Capitol Hill. And he's also the author of Unprecedented Assault, How big Government unleashed America's socialist Left. This is not something that just started during the Biden administration, but believe you me, they, as JT says, cultivated this socialist left takeover of our federal government.

JT. Young, Welcome to the Nightcap, Gary.

Thanks so much for having me on this auspicious night.

Well, it's been an incredible day and a half so far, JT. In the Trump administration, all the executive orders yesterday, DOGE of course coming under fire immediately that they filed a lawsuit at twelve oh one this morning against DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, which Donald Trump has put together with Elon Musk. I guess vivek Ramaswami is backing away from that so he can run for governor in Ohio. And I know a lot of people who are pleased

I know he's got the chops.

Do you think he'll be able to cut through this millange of just bureaucratic bs and successfully bring the federal government closer back to the people as it's supposed to be, Or will will establishment Washington just to be too strong for anyone to reverse the tide? What are your hopes? What are your hopes and what are your expectations?

Well, you know so much to unpack from that question. The first thing that comes to mind is a lawsuit. And it reminds me of an old adage that we used to say back home, which is that the stuck pig is the one that squeals the loudest. So I'm not surprised that there's been a lawsuit. Second, I think what's so important about what the President is doing is that for the first time, we're going to open the door to the attic and see up there. I think for so long the power of government has been that

Seeing out there, the president can do a lot by himself, and hopefully the Department of Government Efficiency can start targeting things for executive action, and then the things that can't be done with executive action, hopefully those can be turned over into to Congress from laws and other ways to perceive here. But I am hopeful, and I'm hopeful again because it's the first time that anybody's wanted to do this.

So you have to take hopeful that.

Oh, I absolutely and I am wishing the best for our president and I voted for him, and I support Doze and everything else surrounding limiting federal government or at least lessening the influence of all of the lobbyists and all of the unelected bureaucrats who are making money off of our tax dollars and then concealing where that money

It just seems like such a such.

A huge mountain that you have to push through just to get a little bit of results for the American people.

Yes, I completely agree, Gary, and I think you really identify the issue, which is, yes, the Department of Defense is vital.

What we have there and the job.

It has to do is crucial, but it's not doing that job as well as it could if it's wasting money. And we all know that. We know that from our own budgets. In other words, are you providing as well for your family as you could be providing for them if you're wasting money. No, some wasted money is not going to them. It's not going to help your family, and you want to stop it. And the same thing applies here to the Department of Defense. Money that's being

As a former congressional political analyst and policy advisor JT My idea was for Trump to sign an executive order to bulldoze K Street and move the lobbyist out of Washington.

Would that be a good start.

Yeah, well, Jerry, we now have identified why you weren't elected president. But perhaps he should tap into your expertise because I know that there would be a great deal of concern over bulldozer's running down K Street. And if anything could navigate Washington traffic, especially in the last few days, it's a bulldozer.

But I mean, there's no place, there's no place in our constitution that says that lobbyists should be dictating legislation. That is something that's post constitutional.

Right, Well, yeah, and I think you raise a great point, and this needs to go into investigations that take place during this Congress and this administration, which is particularly in things like what was the role played by the teachers' unions in keeping schools closed during COVID absolutely and things like that. And this is not what the left wants to make it seem like, which is this is not a persecution. It is an investigation that needs to happen so that it does not happen again.

The book is unprecedented assault how big government unleashed America's socialist left.

The author is JT.

Young, and he's been our guest for the last few minutes, and thank you so much for your time, sir.

It's been a pleasure.

I really enjoy talking to you and laughing with you.

Well, I'm gonna get the bulldozer warmed up.

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Don't you think, Oh.

It's just I think the whole spirit of the country has changed, literally overnight. It's wonderful.

I felt that way on November sixth, that all of a sudden there was a pep in people's step that hadn't been there before, and there was hope again. And it's been a long time waiting for January twentieth, though

No, yes, and you know, everybody is impacted by what has happened in the past four years, Gary, because when you have an open border like that, you have criminal gangs literally running the traffic. You get all these people from backgrounds. You have no idea who they are, and they're given literally free transportation to sanctuary cities where they can set up shop as drug dealers or sex traffickers.

Yeah, And it's not.

As much a matter of you say it has to be detailed. It's not as matter of much of you know, reciprocity or getting back at the people who did this to us. It's more about moving forward and leaving it all behind in the dustbin of history. I mean, that's the important thing. Donald Trump said his revenge would be success and.

Nou and I agree with that.

But it should also be detailed.

You know, the lying of the media, the lying of Democrats, the way they set up this organization. This all has to be known and not covered up.

Oh no, absolutely, this is about transparency. There was nobody more transparent than Donald Trump. Last night in the Oval Office, after an almost fifteen hour day at that point, taking impromptu questions from a press pool as he signed the executive orders.

It was just, yeah, I thought that classic Trump.

You know, he would take he would take the executive order, and they would explain to him what it was. He said, oh, that's a big one. And somebody would ask a question, is he's signing his name? And he'd answer the question. And it was totally not even to do with the executive order. He just signed just things that he'd promised to do and things that he'd still had yet to sign. It was marvelous theater, for sure, but it was so necessary to get America back and this morning, go ahead.

What an American story he is. I mean that that is what America is about about creating people like a Donald Trump, who has just this set of gifts that are perfectly adapted to the necessity of his being in office. And this whole last ten years of his story is utterly remarkable.

In your trilogy, The DNA of Democracy and Shadows of the Acropolis, the latestest passages through the Shadows, do you feel like we've moved out of the shadows now, Richard?

No, I don't.

I think it's only beginning, Gary, because you don't just have to push back on the administrative state or push back on bad actors in the say the DJ or the FBI. You have to have an understanding of how the country was created and how over one hundred for over one hundred years, power is concentrated in Washington, d C.

To the point where the.

Democrat Party thought they could control power forever by attacking their political opponents. That is, that is contrary to everything America stands for and was created for. So people have to understand this is going to be a fight for the next generation of containing power.

Yeah, I agree, and I don't think that the fight is over. I wasn't trying to assume that. It just seems like we're seeing some breaks in the clouds.

When you talked about.

The great start, it's a great start.

You know.

The previous administration was tagged with being incompetent on so many levels, and so much of the left appears incompetent. But that's exactly what their masters want them to do. They just do their bidding and forget about the job they're actually elected to do. Their job is to be incompetent boobs.

Basically, well, actually, if you if you think about their border policy and sanctuary city policy and defunding the police policy. It was all a great success.

In their eyes. Oh so just two other Americans.

It looks incompetent, but it's actually they did what they wanted to do, so we shouldn't think it was an accident.

No, And Joe Biden in his final address saying that he was proud of what they had accomplished. And I believe that Joe thinks that they did a great job. But for more than half the country, the attitude's a little bit different, as it should.

Be, Thank Heaven, it's more than half. I can't believe it's not eighty percent. Oh, I know of the country that would want Democrats out of power.

I was talking earlier with another guest and I said, you know, Donald Trump has called these common sense executive orders and common sense agendas, but they're just so obvious, Like you said, surprised that eighty percent of the country isn't behind Donald Trump, be they Republican or Democrat, because.

It's so obvious.

I heard something interesting from Newt Gingrich. He really believes there's going to be a civil war in the Democrat Party. And I think you can see it there's because it's the hardline socialists that have been at war for all these decades trying to concentrate power, and now there's going to have to be some part of that party that wants to get elected again, and so they have to move toward Trump issues, you know what I mean. So

No, no, and and the other half if they admitted what they really were, they'd consider what they.

Consider themselves Marxists and.

Exactly they'd have to carry a gun.

Richard Lyons, thank you so much for a little bit of time tonight again. Passages through the Shadows, the third volume in the Democracy series of Richard C. Lyons, if a great rate, I'm certain, and I plan on making that track through the with.

You, Okay, Gary, I appreciate it.

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