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And it caused that situation I told you about yesterday, where like the he repealed affirmative action and nobody really covered it very much. And eight years ago, that would have been an insane thing in the in the news cycle, like everyone would have been freaking out. It would have had all the gas. They would have pointed out that it's almost Black History Month and that's by design, and then leave out the context that this is when we put a new president in the whole thing would have

been backcraped, crazy and nothing. So yesterday the media finally able to coalesce around a narrative. The narrative is Trump just shut off all the government all the people will starve, all the old people will die. There's gonna be no medicaid. There's gonna be no medicare. There's gonna be no food stamps.

There's gonna be no police. I don't even have time to list all the things, even though I was able to when I started seeing these, I was able to go and look at the statements and the order, and it specifically did not, I repeat, did not affect those programs.

What it did affect, and it is a pause, I would point out, is all the this other ancillary stuff, all this these crazy stories that come up from time to time or annually get put in that book of government waste that a couple senators like to put out, and you know, things like rubbers for Gaza and which that whole thing is crazy. Russo made a bunch of pictures this morning. Apparently he too was looking at that. If you don't know what it is, wait for it.

We'll get to it, because I don't even know what to think. They're also, man, you want a rabbit hole? Do you remember the story here from inauguration day in Vermont, right up by the Canadian border, where a US Border Patrol agent was shot and killed. Do you know who they claim did it and who you're dealing with there, because that was a weird story, right, Like a lot of people probably maybe they saw the name or something, but they didn't really understand what was going on there

and why a border patrol age. Maybe they thought they were apprehending people coming to It's far crazier than that. The the suspects here, let me read this. It's a couple, okay, but it's more than a couple. They are like Montana militia style, but it's a cult of of trans militia.

It's it's crazy. I told you it's crazy. And federal law enforcement have been actually surveilling Felix Ophilia Backolt and Theresa Milo young Blood who goes by They literally in the press release here they have the pronouns z zemzers. Is that for both Okay, it's both of them. The reason that law enforcement decided to go ahead and roll up on them that day is the couple had gone to a motel in Lyndonville, Vermont, and the people at

the hotel said something, saw something, said something. But also they were being surveilled, so in whatever capacity they were being surveilled. Law enforcement saw what Motel staff saw, and that was them dressing up in a bunch of black tactical clothing, which isn't inherently illegal, but a crap ton of weapons, which also isn't necessarily illegal. And then also they had some sort of protective equipment, so I'm assuming that means ves, perhaps a shield of some sort. I

don't know. So what do they do. They pulled them over, They're like, what's you know, let's let's see what's going on. And it was at that point they just decided they were going to shoot the police officer, also Backholt, the oh Felix Bachholt was killed and young Blood was injured and survived. So anyway, this thing, the more you dig into this thing, it just gets crazier and crazier, like the cult status, which I don't like, what does that even mean? They don't do a very good job of

outlining it. But but yeah, that's what was going on up there, man. According to federal law enforcement. There's a bunch of photos and then like, uh, finally some journalists decided to dig into this, and and when you do, and they start talking like people in Berkeley in this this one article I was looking at. Yeah, Jessica Taylor, a Berkeley, California women who actually had been friends I think with one of them, confirmed that they went a

little off the deep end there. So what's crazy, though, is have you seen anyone really covering it? The person who's covering this whose article I'm reading is Andy No. You know, the dude who who Antifa hates more than

anything on earth? All right, so here we go. According to according to Andy Knows reporting, Ophelia, the one who ended up losing their life in the the shootout with police, was connected to a violent trans militant cell or cult centered around a person known as Zizz, which was both

their pronouns and apparently their cult name. Court filing suggests the armed trans duo involved in the attack was connected to the Ziz cult and they the reason that they were surveilling them was more so, it wasn't just a stockpile of weapons. They were suspected in three homicides across the US, but they did not have enough to go in and arrest them. I'm sorry I'm skimming this because I literally just saw. I was only able to read about half of it before the show started. Here we go.

All right, So three murders and also the attempted murder of an eighty two year old man Curty. Eighty two year old artist lind of Vallejo, California, survived an assassination attempt on his life when members of the ziz Trans terror group impaled him with a sword, took one of his eyes out. After the he was their landlord. He he was evicting them because you know, they decided they were going to go ahead and not pay any money

for the place. And at the time he actually thankfully had a firearm and he took out one of the cult members. This this thing is just wild. Man. It impaled him with a sword as in a ritualistic fashion. How he was able to get a shot off, I don't know, all right, So the the Yeah, a cult member by the name of amer Emma Borhanian was killed at the time. Oh wow. The Texas House lg who

it was a Texas resident. The Texas House LGBTQ Caucus honored Borhanian even though he died in the process of trying to murder the eighty two year old ritualistically with a sword and in fact it GoFundMe raised tens of thousands of dollars for Bohanian's family. I'm not gonna be able to get to all of this. Here's what I'm gonna do this. There is a giant thread that no put together. I am retweeting it right now. All right,

so it is reposted. If you go to at CAC on the radio on Twitter, you can you can go down this rabbit hole will I'm going to continue to do it during breaks. But that's about as far as I got. So the crazy's not over, man. You know, some dude literally yesterday went to the mall with molotov cocktails to go kill the new Treasury Secord Jerry, right, Which that's an instant hate crime, right because he's gay, isn't That's how it works, right, just wondering because I

I was, I was reliably informed. That's how that's how this works. So and in fact, the suspect in that case, according to authorities, initially was going to kill Pete hegg Seth and then for whatever reason, uh did the old switcheroo over to to actually know hold on, let me uh, let me read this. Yeah, so it was gonna go, yeah, it was gonna go kill Pete hegg Seth and I

don't know. I guess that didn't work out. Then was gonna go kill Mike Johnson and then decided to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Descent that according to NBC News, by the way, before any of you, oh, you don't know he's gonna do, well, that's what they're reporting. So and if those are the people you trust, there you go, yeah, I think you got to go instan hate crime. I gotta think I gotta think the Justice Department is going

to go throw everything they add. The question will be a kind of judge do they get if they get some moon bad judge? And I don't even know how that rolls out. So there you go a little fun and for volity to start your day. There is another thing we're gonna have to do. I'm gonna have to issue a correction on a story that we did yesterday,

because you know, that's what we do. And when when you're wrong about something you need to be forthright, you generally need to do it around the same time or in the same manner like This is always the criticism of newspapers, you know, especially during the first Trump uh presidency, where they would write something and they would it would be splashed on the front page and it would be

incredibly wrong. And then, you know, like two weeks of feet dragon later, they put it in you know, second for six or something of the paper and everybody knew what was up. No, you got to do it in the same manner that you did it, so that you make sure that you're correcting this in front of people. And I messed up yesterday on the story of the

of the lift driver that was fired. Now, if you don't remember this story, there was a woman, a rather large woman, who was videoing this this whole situation where she had called a lift and the lift driver refused to let her in the car she called a regular lift, and I pointed out that she was six hundred pounds. Well we know more today. One she's a rapper from Detroit, which I did not know, So I apologize for leaving

that out. I didn't know she was famous. Also, when I said that type TUPAC was six hundred pounds, she's only five hundred pounds according to her own attorney. Now you're probably wondering why Rose Malone has an attorney, and the reason is is because she's not just concerned with getting the lift driver fired. No, No, heaviest d is filing a lawsuit ensuing Lyft for a lot of money. And it was at this point I realized that triple exhibit here was this is a shakedown and probably a

publicity stunt in my opinion. Okay, it's like it's too instant coordinated. The video was running. She probably had encountered something like this before and thought to herself, you know what, I'm gonna do this and when they show up, I'll be filming, so I have all the evidence and then we can go We can go ahead and and make

some money. But I had to correct it. So when I said yesterday that da Belly was six hundred pounds, what I meant to say, according to her attorney, says, I don't want to get sued because it's clear that Lardie b heres after some money. She's only five hundred pounds and not six hundred and is a rapper, so you know, are bad or by bad ross. I don't hang Ross into this in case the lawsuit comes. But

that was that was my bad. So if asap Rocky Road here's this, I'm sorry you're still in my opinion doing a shakedown and this was coordinated and it's it's been and you literally cost this dude his or at least part of his livelihood. And Lyft should be ashamed of themselves because they know. Look, their lawyers are sitting in the back and they understand that heaviest d is shaking them down. So if like they realize it, then maybe Lyft should uh fix this and not let Jacola win. Okay,

all right, we got that. I know what you say. You say, Casey, is there no parody with a little in front? And I would say little Plump would work too, or John in the east Side boys, little John, We'll be back phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Wait where do we want to start? Well, well, Ross, I think you put it very succinctly just a moment

ago when we were chatting. It's pretty clear to people with eyes and the ability to reason that whatever you give Hamas, no matter how benign or non weapony, it is seemingly their first thing is to sit in a room with the think tank and go, how can we

weaponize this to kill Jews? Case in point, prophylactics man, this story, Oh, my this story because at first, if you're just hearing about it and it's not a news story, but when you first hear about it, the outrage lies with the idea, well, let's go ahead and actually hear from the new White House Press Secretary, Miss Levitt, who I thought did a great job yesterday. Is we got a bunch of cuts from her. Yesterday was her first one and she's standing up there. There was there was

a couple little jitters at the beginning. I think I would have been far worse. This isn't even a criticism because now you're there. Now, if you're in the world of pr and communications, you are in the number one job in the world. If there's anything bigger than that,

I don't know what it is. And you're staring and and you're staring at a room full of people who the majority of which hate you, and over however long your tenure is, we'll spend every waking moment trying to get you, trying to confuse you, trying to catch you off guard. And what I was really impressed with is this isn't a knock on mcanany Levitt didn't have a binder in front of her, and yet as you'll come to find out if you play these cuts. She knew

all of her stuff, and she knew everybody's name. She knew everybody's name, which means she studied that chart. Now granted she's she's been in it, so she knows a lot of these folks. But she doesn't know everybody in that room. But she knew everybody in that room, and she knew all the information top of her head. That's wildly impressive. Think about how it is for Russ. Name all of our salespeople. Go ahead, name all we have.

Some people excel immediately at it and some don't. Some people, you know, just doesn't work out. So so watching her go through that room and know everybody that was that was very impressive. But let's get to the let's get to the rubbers, shall we.

the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money. So that's what this pause is focused on, being good stewards.

using them for. No, no, no, they were turning them into flaming aerial Molotov cocktails and floating them into Israel, which is which is really ingenious actually, right because obviously the iron dome there is is look for missiles and stuff, like they're not looking for hundreds of flaming condoms.

makes people's lives better. I don't know, just a thought, because you're good at tinkering.

keep up. But yeah, this headline flaming condoms newest threat to Southern Israel.

they're they're one of the eyes. Let's say. But let's say the US government only found out when the Jerusalem Post ran this article in twenty twenty, how is there still a budget to send all of these condoms five years later, or even if it was the end of the year four years later, because you're like, well, why I didn't use them in the in the budoir They used them to as to kill the Jews or attempt

to Here we go. Jerusalem Post reported in twenty twenty the scores of condoms were being used to create ied carrying balloons that wins would carry into southern Israel, which would cause you know, school yards, farmers, basically anyone who's outside at that point, you know how they do the alarms. Everybody runs to stuff. Well they see these things coming over and it shuts down whatever's going on, and they knew about it, and they still had a byline in there.

The unraveling, the absolute unraveling of all of these programs, all of these non governmental organizations. I posted this yesterday and I saw others have arrived at the same conclusion. It's it's it's it's very clear because there's so much of this, and there's all these little one off organizations that all do really kind of weird stuff that all were funded, all were getting money, and uh the term to best describe it is moonbat basic income minimum basic income. Right.

So if if you are an absolute soldier for the woke, all this wokeism, and you went you got a garbage degree right in uh I one of the one of the non traditional humanities, and you're you're you're an activist. They made sure you weren't without a job, man, you would have some basically no show thing working for this non governmental organization which somehow got a contract to go ahead. And we'll get into some of the lists here, but just do stuff that no taxpayer really wants to pay for.

That's what they're going after right now. They're going to go one by one through these during the pause and go no not doing this, No, we're not doing this, and people who are arguing that that's not within the purview of the executive branch aren't necessarily accurate as not as we understand it. And I can prove this because California got sued for taking dollars and adopting the broadest definition for viable use. And it was and it went all the way up to the night was Night Circuit

whatever the one over there in California is. And of course they're like, no, look if it had the word green in it, and even if it said green port stuff, this is what the lawsuit was about. It's still only you could earmark basically all the money for green stuff because somebody put in there that this is to promote green projects. So now you're getting the It wasn't meant

that way. It was meant to do things like maybe open some additional shipping some you know, they get some crane so you can unload ships faster, because we were having all these supply chain issues. And they just said no, and so they took the money and they didn't expand any of the capacity. They just swapped out you know, old style fossil fuel trucks for green trucks which then

plug in to power that's created through fossil fuels. Sheer insanity man, So no, not necessarily, and if it needs to be changed at the congressional level, Congress can do this, and it's not. If it's not new spending, they don't need sixty votes in the Senate, and the House is a simple majority there as would be the Senate. So they're saying one thing which could be partially accurate, but also quickly overcome, so long as they can rally it, because if they want to go one by one, it

will take a very long time. So what likely will happen is they'll cut or redirect funds to of these insane things, which are nothing more than welfare for moon bats that they can call on immediately, right they can get them. These are the experts that sign things. These are their soldiers, and they can go through and really

try to weaponize this. But what they're going to be staring at if there actually has to be legislation, is a list of programs like the one with the condoms, and then they're going to have to go out and defend them, and they will misconstrue what they are. They'll say that they're trying to get. They're trying to they're taking away STD prevention is how they'll word that one.

And then you know, Johnny doesn't pay attention, sitting there on his couch with his idiot wife going, can you believe that the Republicans want people to get the aids? They're evil? Mark my words, that's the path we're on. So I have seen steely resolve thus far within the new administration, and that's what it's gonna take, because they're going to accuse you of everything from trying to kill

Nana to uh wanting babies to get cancer? Right, remember that, you remember that with the Continuing Resolution, even though there had been a standalone bill to fund infant cancer research that Democrats would not allow, they didn't allow out of a committee, and then when it was in this omnibus bill with everything else, then they're like, do you see that they want to they want babies to die of cancer. And then that same idiot on his couch, oh, let me send you ten dollars only to have Act Blues

say I donated seven hundred times ten thousand dollars. That's another scan. All of this is absolutely scandalous and That's why they're gonna fight so hard, because this is the fallback. This is your reward for being a good soldier, going out, gluing yourself to stuff when necessary, showing up every now and then one of you flips out, hides in the bushes to shoot Trump and your whole racket. If they are successful, here is done. You're all out of a job.

This is literally what Barack. Remember when Barack Obama said that Isis's problem was they didn't have jobs, he wasn't a thousand percent wrong, right, Because if you're when the terrorist organizations lean heavily into the hopelessness, because it's you can tell people that the reason they're poor and the reason that they don't have opportunity is not because the leaders of Hamas are stealing all of it and living

in giant London mansions or in Qatar. Before they throw them out, they tell them it's because the Jews did it, or the US did it, or the West did it, or whoever it is. And it's easier to weaponize those people. So you're about to have a bunch of the hardest core leftist activists who's who just had this spigot turned off the money ain't flowing no more, and frankly, their ideology and the things that they were advocating for have fallen out of style with Americans. Ten years ago, a

third of the country supported mass deportations. The number now in every single poll I've seen is over fifty percent, and the majority are in the high fifties low sixties. Is done. And so much of this money also is attached to a lot of these These the immigration, migration, illegal immigration, you name it, organizations whose sole thing was to advocate. These are the folks who were printing guides

and arming people with literally what to say. They don't even speak the language, and they were arming them with, say, telling I fear for my safety because and then you pick, you know, pick one of the reasons. And at that point, oh well, if you fear for your safety, here you go, well what are you talking about? Those are the groups

that we're talking about. These are the groups that were moving them around the country, making it that much harder, under the cover of oh, we're just you know, we're being helpful, and yeah, there's some religious organizations tied into this stuff. It's gonna get messy. But what do you think, what do you think a million unemployed, hardcore, pink haired, bull ring in the nose leftists. And I understand that I'm generalizing. I'm stereotyping here, but am I, what do

you think they're gonna do? You don't think they're gonna throw on some ANTIFA gear and h and fire away because now it's not government money necessarily, it's a bunch of rich lunatics who fund this stuff. I don't want to be that guy. But if they're successful in purging a lot of this, then there's going to be violence, and I don't celebrate that. But am I go ahead explain to me how my logic is wrong. This is the realization I sat there and pondered and thought about

yesterday and then I'm like, damn it. And then I went and made myself some dinner, and I'm thinking, I'm like, they're gonna the mostly peaceful summer if they're successful and fast tracking this, where are those people gonna go? If not to the streets to attack people? So some scary times could be out there, and I don't want it, not for a minute. But it's also not Republican's fault. Some of it mightea is I'm sure there's some NGOs

in there that are purely on them. But no, no, no, no, this is what Democrats have wrought, much as I explained with illegal immigration yesterday. This is dangerous stuff and it's there doing. We'll be back. Oh number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four coming up on this show. Oh that's interesting, huh, weirdness there. So Ross, I was typing into Google NC auditor because I always had I go and make I want to check a bio if we have a guest coming up, because the

new state auditor is coming on. Do you know? Would you do this? Will you pop Google open on your computer please? I want you to type NC space au I've gotten that far, and tell me what your predictive search results say, the ones that where the little thing drops down and you can click so you don't have to finish typing. So I'm typing to get Bullock our state auditors bio, just so I have it in front of me because he's going to be joining us at eight oh five. So as I start typing this, it

gives me NC auditor, which is good. That's what I'm going to type. And then on the predictive it has Beth Wood. Okay, she was auditor for a long time. She's probably in there NC Auto Repair. I guess you could go there and then it says NC Auditor Jessica Holmes.

I mean, obviously the otter's office isn't gigantic, but what does that look like? And also what do you do

when people are trying to actively skirt stuff. I'm sure you've seen all of these side by side photos that have emerged where it's like where the title is, you know, a vice president of a diversity, Equity and Inclusion and then all of a sudden last week their title on the government website is just some generic thing which really doesn't mean anything where they're clearly trying to hide what they do. So and by the way, as they get busted, they'll get purged. And if you're mad, I don't know

if you saw what Trump did, dude, I'm sorry. This is this is funny. And I know people like, oh, these are people's lives. I understand that, but who knows better than anyone what the actual the ability to do For those of us who work in the private sector, Our staffing looks nothing like it looked like five years ago, ten years ago, fifteen years ago, unless I guess you're in a startup that's rapidly growing. But even in those cases, look at what look at what Elon Musk did with Twitter.

He has what twenty five percent of the original workforce. It's some crazy low number, between thirty and twenty percent, And there's eighty twenty rule. I'm not if you've ever heard of this, and it really goes to twenty percent of the people are going to do about eighty percent

of the eighty percent of the work. It's I'm probably misdescribing it, but basically, you get yourself into a big, bloated corporation and especially a bloated governmental organization, and it's it's very clear that you can trim some of that fat.

You can trim some of that fat. And there's countless stories where you know, people who who have worked there say, you know what was crazy is we could have we could we could do this thing with half the staff here because we're literally told by our bosses to work slower or they create intentional slowdowns. So there's never really the highest of expectations. And if you ever get put in a position where you need to up your productivity, let's say your goals are five percent, it's easy to

do that because you have artificially low numbers. What is this.

And all you have to do, and this is what made me laugh, open up your email of your government account and send to that. There's an HR address for the federal government and just you don't have to write anything in the body of the email. You can just write the word resign and the butt. Okay, So this is what Ross is literally emailing me. It says free day off today in the subject line, and then he added the emphasis thing the stupid Now it's on my iPhone and it's the thing where the word shows up

and then it goes big free hard. But you can't will you can't will this into exist. What are you a TikToker? Where you're what is it the word they use manifest? You manifest? You're not manifesting stuff in a single line and sending it to me doesn't do any good. You got to send it to Bob Pittman or Travor or you know one of the people.

the way, I could for much just a moment. If if Ross's goal was to distract he's just accomplished this. Whoever designed the new emphasis way that the iPhone works with the messaging system where if you just hold the button for a split second too long and move your finger to the right, it takes everything you just wrote and adds the emphasis whatever it is to choose from. So you have to delete all of it. And the person who redesigned the photo apps, which I don't have

a lot of photos. I don't really take photos, but I have a lot of screenshots that I use for Twitter posts and stuff. Resign. Send an email to Tim Cook and yeah, okay.

I'm not talking about Ross's wife and Joe. Maybe that is. But does your wife have a lot more photos than you should? Probably done tons of them? Yes, yeah, okay, all right, so now you've made it. If I want to go to my meme folder, you know how far I got to scroll on that damn thing, And it used to be I just hit the drop down and boom, there it is, and I put a little asterisk in front of it so it would populate first on the thing.

Now it's all the way at the bottom. Who are you? What? What? What? Demon? Maybe it's the Ouiji board demon from the story we coming up? Who decided to do that? Send Tim Cook an email resign or I'm gonna have elon fire you into the sun. Okay? So annoying? All right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. So there's so much craziness. Tell you what, Let's do this. We'll do a rundown of the first White House press briefing with a new press officer, Ms. Levitt. I thought it

went great. There's a lot of interesting stuff. We got drones and press credentials, all sorts of goodies. And I think this woman who appears to be insane, although I have seen people who are very much on the religious side that this may be. I think her husband is just a genius. Videos making the rounds, you know, some of them political, some of them not, some of them

just like Carnival sideshow. That's the thing, like the side shows of the twenties with the people with the deformed whatever or the beard or you name it, like that didn't go away. That's just it's just digital. Now. That's what we get on the internet for some people, just swimming it all day and I guess maybe it makes them feel better whatever. So that being said right now,

and then I get drug over. So I saw this one going around to this lady with a pile of notebooks and a Ouiji board and I'm like, I am clicking on this. She looks backcrap crazy, And then I started watching it. I'm a play some for you will retweet it so you can stare in awe on your own. But here we go.

so let's continue. Oh and it's about the end of the world, so you're gonna want to pay attention.

that's try at fifty nine. The record there also seventy eight, and that one also in nineteen forty four, so it's been warmer, but still we're near above sixty degrees as we head on through the coming days, Today most likely upper fifties, a lot of sunshine around Tomorrow partly Sunday lows will still be down close to freezing and augusty

breeze around, especially this afternoon the north northwest. And then as we get to Friday, still looks like the wet day, maybe some decent rain, occasional rain and showers around, but the highs will be in the upper fifties to low sixties. And then the weekend is going to be great. We're right near sixties we get into February, but the warmest days are yet to come early next week, low to maybe mid sixties Monday Tuesday and lots of sunshine. So

that should have made you feel better. Case see one rain day and then the ends the book ends today Thursday, and then Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. All looking great, feeling great. Pretty nice stretch here now of milder weather as our pattern kind of shifted now to a more maritime influence off the Pacific, more.

which then would have caused Ross dispads out. But now we're taking this thing to the end at least of this hour, and then we're gonna chat with State Auditor Dave Bollock. All right, So I don't know, maybe I started talking about this Ouiji board and that's what happened. I want to be clear here too, Like a Wuiji board is a tool, it's a conduit, but like it's the concept of opening oneself to something else.

So it does stuff like speak in binary by speak, I mean, you know, it's giving us ones and zeros to write down on the Ouiji board. I'm recording this and in the moment we have no idea of what this means. We googled it later. This is again July twenty thirteen, and it turns out it's binary, but it's backwards binary, so in this way it meant nothing. But when we reverse the numbers it meant hello because it does that a lot. It speaks backwards a lot.

that's another thing. What were we gonna say? I'm sorry? Right?

Well maybe if you're if you're a hardcore progressive, you think this is demonic. Watching Catherine Levitt the new White House Press sect Terry yesterday again thought she did a good job. She didn't have a binder in front of her, yet seemed to know everything that she wanted to say and anticipate the questions and numbers and you name it. Knew everybody's name, far more impressive than us. As we talked about earlier in the show. If you asked Ross and I to name all the salespeople, maybe Pry.

other reasons. Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational and private individuals that enjoy flying Jones in meantime, In time, it got worse due to curiosity.

or messing with their neighbors or whatever. But the first thing she said, those are FAA authorized and it's for research purposes, which means the previous administration authorized those drones, knew they were flying around and allowed panic to ensue and then pretended like they didn't know. They could have

just said, hey, it's a thing. And don't get me wrong, there are absolute legitimate reasons why the Federal U the US federal government would have an interest in drone technology usage, whether it is for as people talked about, locating a dirty bomb, got it far more efficient in certain situations than some of the ways that we do it now, especially if you've got to get really close. Obviously you're seeing in Ukraine they just did you see they just

hit Russia's i think fourth most productive refinery. That was drones that did that. The whole thing is on fire still, so I've got it. But what the hell are you researching in New Jersey? You tell me you can't go out to you know, you can't do this on a military base or if you need to have a population center. We have giant military basis that have giant cities within them. I think there might be one moon just to the south of the studios here.

while that's going on, NC hasn't escaped this. And I'm not talking about past three dollars. I'm talking about changes right now. Two of our Council of State members made it a priority to when they entered office to attempt to remove DEI components from their office. One is our newest state auditor, Dave Bullock, who we chatted with here a couple of weeks ago. Wanted him to come on and talk about it. How are you doing this morning.

it looked like in the Auditor's office was. For example, if you are a team member in the Auditor's office and you're being evaluated for your job performance, there's certain metrics that were used to determine how well you did your job. Trustworthiness, helpfulness, competency on the job, you know, normal things like that, and then how how you managed diversity,

equity inclusion. And I'm just not prepared to have folks that work in an office that I lead having to answer how they do with DEI a pointless measure with no return.

sometimes it's five. And the only person I used to data girl who had a master's degree in abstract algebra, and I asked what that was one time, and she's like, well, it's like a math prob with no right answer, and and then and then I tuned out at that point that's for you guys, she's in actuary. Now. The fact remains that all that you guys care about is the numbers, and and so why having it, why a DEI component

would fit within that? This isn't health and human services with this is this is this is crunching numbers.

and number two created divisiveness in the workplace. I didn't get any pushback from the members of the team because my point to them was is that I believe that everyone in the room was there because they're good at their job, they deserve to have the job, and they're giving the people of North Carolina value every day when they come in trying to hunt down ways fraud and abuse. And so that's the type of person we want working in the Auditor's office. So to your point, yeah, I

want people. We're going to hire people based on merit and the value that they bring to the office, not based on some fantasy metric made up on a DI scale.

it was purely a self inflicted decision. And there's another component to this, and that is the meritocracy after employment. And this is where I see people talk about, well, if I'm a cists white male, or if I don't tick enough boxes, why should I work harder? Because my chances of advancing are nil in some cases? And you want to talk about something that kills efficiency, that's got to be up at the top.

to doing their job. Quite frankly, there are many people that work in the Auditor's office that are not as much concerned about who the elected state auditor is as they are about doing their job, which is making sure North Carolina runs more efficiently and making sure the numbers add up. So we do have some really committed civil servants in that office. At least I have found that to be the case. Now, we've obviously going to make some moves and have changed some leadership in the office,

and that's to be expected. But to your point, we want to have an opportunity in our office at the Auditor's Office for folks to earn their way to promotions, to come to work, to dig down and go the extra mile on behalf of tax payers get value and purpose out of every day's job, and they're going to be rewarded for that.

the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That is a preposterous way, all right.

Carolina and the inability to actually use these trailers. There were seventy to eighty trailers in Hickory, North Carolina at the Ickorymotor Speedway, and tilers have not been deployed frankly because they don't qualify as a recreational trailer. They're not a permanent trailer. But the zoning requirements have not been loosened up in the western part of the state. You can't put them in a flood zone. Everything's a flood zone. Now. You have to hook them up to water electricity, and

they have to fit zoning requirements. So a lot of the emergency trailers that have been provided are simply sitting in staging areas and not being deployed. And so that's at least one thing that I've noticed and have talked to the Governor's office about it.

their departments. But you know, I haven't. I haven't had any any terse words with the governor one way or the other.

be a net negative for North Carolinians. So how do we make sure that doesn't happen even when you guys have fundamental disagreements.

We're working together currently on one project to help my office with the structure that the Governor's required to sign off on some things, and he's indicated that he's going to assist me to move forward in an expeditious manner. So, Governor Cooper, you know, I dealt with him occasionally, particularly when I was on the chair of the board at USC Chapel Hill, and if you just didn't agree one hundred percent with everything he said, he really had no use for you.

a was a net negative. But that was during controversial stuff. And I think one of the controversial things is going to be if Trump well, I mean Trump said it. He said, no, we're gonna we're gonna put the we're gonna pass the dollars through the state side. Step FEME on this and as a working philosophy going forward, it's something that has been suggested. My question is that's got to create a whole new ball of wax for you. Uh, what what do you think of that? Because now you're

doing oversight, you're doing double overside. On stuff on billllions and billions of dollars more than you're currently doing.

President Trump. I don't see the necessity in a huge government apparatus like FEMA, when the state of North Carolina and every other state in the Union has its own emergency management department, And instead of creating some behemleth of a government agency that requires yet one more layer of red tape to make dollars flow, why not just go directly to the states, give it in the form of a grant to the states, and let the states distribute it in the way that it sees it, and that

the way the citizens need. My office is certainly capable of tracking those dollars and making sure they're not wasted. And we've begun that process with Western North Carolina. So I actually support President Trump in that effort. I think SEEMA, other than just writing a check and sending it to the state, serves no purpose.

more efficient. And the recommendation might not always be just to be efficient, maybe to eliminate programs.

the reason for the season. You know what I'm saying, Like, if you do you do any bit of research, especially.

at CNN was at the White House covering Donald Trump. Actually, no, that moment came here when I covered four President of Barack Obama's trip to Cuba in twenty sixteen and had the chance to question the dictator there, Astro about the islands political prisoners. As the son of a Cuban refugee, I took home this lesson. It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant. I've always believed it's the job of the press to hold power to account.

I've always tried to do that here at CNN, and I plan on doing all of that in the future. One final message, don't give into the lies. Don't give into the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope. Even if you have to get out your phone, record that message. I will not give into the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too. I'll have more to say about my plans in the coming days, but until then, I want to thank all of you

for tuning in. Has been an honor to be welcomed into your home for all these years. That's the news reporting from Washington. I'm Jim Acosta.

at the contrarian. Is that what the the dec All the cast offs from the Post are calling it, and now Krugman from New York Times, I don't know, but I also don't care, you know why, because you're you're possibly this smuggist reporter I have ever seen, and and I'm almost impressed that he's never really backtracked on it, you know what I mean, Like remember when he wouldn't give the microphone up, like and and of course all of the fake news and real fake news at no,

at no point, even when his empire, so to speak, is collapsing around him where they're trying to move the graveyard shift, but they remember they moved him before, and he wasn't at the White House anymore. Like he's been summarily demoted for years because he's so incredibly unlikable, and yet he never let it get him down, never said, hey, maybe the way I do things is problematic. And just so you know, some of his former colleagues are on

these apology tours. Chris Saliza, remember Chris Saliza, just as big as scumbag as the rest of them. He had to play. He had a whole thread yesterday. But it's also scummy, and I'll explain why outside of just what he wrote. It says I screwed up. Back in May twenty twenty, I wrote how Anthony Fauci had crushed Donald Trump's lab leak theory for how COVID originated. The CIA said over the weekend they now believe the virus leak

from a lab. And he gives a little background there, but more specifically, i'll paraphrase this because it's very lengthy. He says, when when Trump was saying from China and Fauci was saying wet market, so not you know, not being weaponized in a lab or studied in a lab, gain a function in a lab. I decided that I would just believe Fauci over Trump, not because there was evidence, but because he decided that he didn't like Trump. He liked Fauci more. That's not how you gather news and

facts on something that important. If you're not able to independently confirm it, you have to present both. You decided to take a position, and you also took positions. If I could just remind people that were not just a disagreement over the origin of the virus. You took positions and your colleagues took positions that people who disagreed with

your facts were attempting to kill people. Okay, attempting to kill people should have their children taken away in some instance, should be fired and have their livelihood stripped from them, And Biden tried to put it in action if they didn't go along with it. So you didn't just make

a judgment air on the origination of the virus. You openly advocated, and your colleagues and your guests openly advocated for the eradication of people's lifestyles, to put them into poverty, to break up their families, to ostracize them from everything and everyone around them. And you were partially successful because it destroyed It destroyed some people's lives. I'm not even talking about any of the medical speculation about either long

COVID or people's hearts just stopping. I'm talking about families that don't talk to other portions of the families because you so engrossed them that you were right, and anyone who disagreed was essentially a murderer or a potential murderer, or not fit for society. And your scumbaggery doesn't even stop with your stupid Manaculpa here because if you want to go to his sub stack, which he promotes throughout it, you have to go. He tells you to go to

his bio. If you click it, it shows you part of the article, requiring you to give your email address. Then you get part more part two of the article, but you don't get his quote unquote. I can't remember how he words it, but basically he goes through a bunch of stuff. You have to subscribe for that. So this piece of garbage got excommunicated for the same reason his buddy Acosta's hit in the streets and he wants to trick you into restoring his lifestyle with a groveling

semi apology that isn't really even an apology. You can't hate these people enough. Sorry. See, Yeah, I was gonna I'm gonna scream about Tom Tillis. Don't worry, that'll be coming up at first race stagic. He's got good news. So happy time is race stagic here. Yeah, let's bring the happy. Yeah, not much bring the joy as the last election, which didn't work so well.

record warmth. Got a stiff west breeze tonight in the thirties. Tomorrow, still hovering around sixty. Most of us will probably fall just short, but we will stay well above normal with the showers coming in and getting a little warmer Friday as this quick little clipper type system pushes through. It's gonna be a fast mover. Mid to upper sixties on Friday.

Weekend's going to be great, upper fifties, lots of sunshine, and then back up near seventy for the Triangle on Monday, try it probably upper sixties and we'll keep the sixties together even into Tuesday.

And it never dawned upon you though, when he was telling you that he believed it to be a lab leak, that he might be privty information that you are not. You never thought about that, which is insane. We'll be back.

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if I tell my story. It will make it, make it so Pete hagg Seth won't be the Defense secretary. And I'm gonna say these things that he did to my sisters, and even the sister heg Say's former wife said, none of that is true. And yet it became a became a thing. Now it didn't cost him the nomination. He is the Defense secretary, and he is getting busy. That being said, now we know who might have been there if you, you know, pulling the strings on this

thing behind attempting to undermine heg Seth. And according to Wall Street Journal.

Trump will probably endorse them. Well, my question is after this article comes out and it appears that in a statement until his didn't dispute the Wall Street journals reporting about the call. He said hegstays statement did carry weight, which is why I communicated my concerns to the White House, spent days doing due diligence and seeing if there was any first hand corroborating accounts of the statement. He continued that quote, he was not able to speak with anyone

who provided first hand corroboration. So what he's saying is, yes, I may have pushed it along while I did my due diligence. I don't know why you wouldn't just be upfront about it. But then eventually I arrived at the decision in opposition. I think he was putting his finger in the air politically and I wonder if Trump's going to be a little upset about this.