Well, I'm not exactly barefoot, but I'm close in my stocking feet starting the morning show with Preston Scott. I will explain tomorrow why I was in my stocking feet to start the show today. But we are great, trust me. I'm grateful to be here with you. My wife right now is going what happened. I'm all right. Just you're never too old to learn. I'll just put it that way and it'll be a fun time sharing the story tomorrow. But good to be with you Thursday. On the radio program
show fifty one to ten. That's Grant Allen over there looking summary. I thought Easter was the day. Yeah, I was trying to I haven't brought the seersucker out, but because it's basically in the eighties and sunny, springtime in the South is here, So you know, green shirt with a tan colored jacket feels fitting, even though I know it's I'm kind of been in the rules a little bit. But like I said, it's eighty degrees, sunny and March, so it's spring time. The spring blazer is out.
It is yesterday. I'm on the golf course. It was overcast, sun would break through and warm up things real quickly, but the wind was blowing. There were spots that I would have sworn I was in Arizona in a dust storm because that's how much pollen was blowing off of trees. Oh gosh, it was unbelievable. I almost and took video of it. It feels like it's getting exponentially. It's like accelerating, Oh, year by year. Well, I don't know, but it certainly is accelerating week by week.
You know. I'm standing on the tee and this wave, just wave after wave after wave of pollen is blowing off of this line of trees across the fairways. These were like three parallel fairways going back and forth with each other. And then I got on the other side of it and I look back and it's still the same, and it was just crazy, absolutely nuts. I said to my wife, you would not have been happy today on the golf course because the level of pollen that was blowing. Yeah, thankfully.
I don't think that would make my throat feel any better than it does. Probably not. Yeah, you've you've been struggling there for weeks. Yeah. I take a really teeny tiny allergy pill once a day at the start of the day, and I'm really good, and that's a development for me. I've shared the story. I've never been that way. But as I've aged and gotten acclimated to the climate here, I've become a North Floridian through and through, which means I got allergies and I never had them before. I
had allergies in Arizona, where you're not. That's where everybody goes to get get away from allergies. Everyone goes to Arizona, arid, dry climates. I got allergies in Arizona, moved here. I was awesome until the last few years. Anyway, our verse today real quickly. Luke ten Jesus entering a village Verse thirty eight, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her
house. And she had a sister called Mary, Mary and Martha Lazarus you might know that story, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. She went in to him and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me. But the Lord answered her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion which will not
be taken away from her. This is I'm going to simplify this. Martha is busy serving and is spending no time listening, learning, growing. Don't be so busy quote serving the Lord that you spend no time with him, that you spend no time quietly sitting at his feet and learning and listening to what he has to say to you. That's what Jesus is sharing. Ten minutes past the hour, get back to the American Patriots Almanac. Next Big
Day in History. Steve Stewart, doctor Steve Stevenson, and New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer joins us this morning his latest book Blood Money, Yeah Yeah, Letting, letting the chips fall where they may, as he always does. Great show. This is a three hour show for you. You must listen to all of it. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott speaking engagement today and speak to the center right coalition. Maybe is that it's home.
That'll be fun. They clearly could not find a better guest speaker, so they resorted to by me. Twelve past the hour, March the seventh, eighteen seventy six, Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone let me run that date by you one more time eighteen seventy six, which meant he had been working on this and testing it for a while, and so he got a patent for a landline a wired telephone. And it would be what one hundred years later, one hundred and ten years later, that we
started to get a little bit of a sniff of a cell phone. I know that they were available before they were available commercially to you and me on a retail level, but I mean, let's just let's call it retail. You and I. I remember getting my first brick or bagphone. I think it was a bag phone was first in the early to mid nineteen nineties, and I thought that was absolutely bonkers that I could stand in the middle of a field with a bag, had an antenna small, and make a phone
call. That was absolutely insane. Eighteen ninety seven in Battle Creek, Michigan, I said to this, doctor John kellaw Ug serves the world's first corn flakes to patients and hopes that a better diet will help cure some of their ailments. He was onto something wasn't he doctor Kellogg Kellogg's serials of Battle Creek, Michigan. He was way ahead of his time. Nineteen twenty six, the first successful transatlantic radio telephone conversation takes place between New York City and London.
No doubt, the fiftieth anniversary of the patent of the phone was chosen as the date to make that phone call. That in and of itself is cool. See I told you this was an incredible day in history. Learn ruminators learn. Nineteen thirty three, businessman Charles Darrow of Atlantic City, New Jersey, trademark marks the board game Monopoly. Talk about iconic the telephone and Monopoly. Come. Nineteen forty five, US troops crossed the Rhine River in
Remigen, establishing the first Allied bridgehead in Germany. During World War Two, and in nineteen sixty five an ominous, not a great, an ominous day in history. Great if you look at the results. What came of this terrible day? Nineteen sixty five police attack peaceful civil rights demonstrators trying to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. It's called Bloody Sunday. And by the
way, that was a peaceful protest. I would love for the news media to look at the tapes of that protest before it came off the rails, with the actions of law enforcement who were likely bigoted clansmen Democrats, and compare the protests of the Martin Luther King era with what Clantifa rolls out and what BLM rolls out today. You tell me where the peaceful protests are sixteen minutes after the hour we come back. We're taking you across the pond twenty two
minutes past. I know the desired to want the best possible living accommodations for yourself, for your family. I know the real desire to want land, to want to find five ten twenty twenty five thirty acres somewhere and be able to put a home, even a small home, and you just visit that land every now and then. I mean whatever. There are things that from
a personal level prevent me from really earnestly looking for that. And one is I have to have and my wife has to have impeccably good internet service. It has to be reliable, it has to be very strong, and the satellite web stuff isn't there yet, It just isn't. That said, this home in England, other than the fact that you'd have you'd have to live for the house, and that's one of my things that I don't want to do. I don't want to work for every single dollar that I earned to
go to do a mortgage payment. That's just that makes no sense at all. So this would be out of reach for me. But this setup, come on, it is and this is something only England can probably get away with. A two story manner that sits in the Langton By Ragby village of Lincolnshire, England. Four thousand square foot nineteenth century home. It is belonged
to the same family since it was built. They're ready to sell. They are looking for eight hundred and sixty five thousand dollars Victorian red brick home. A lot of the original features. Sitting room with gold wallpaper, matching curtains, preserved fireplaces, a drawing room, two cloakrooms, a boot room, all on the first floor. Six bedroom home, master bedroom with an en suite, family bathroom, shower room, all nodding to the time the mansion
was built. Four and a half acres, little on the small side, but I could handle it. But get this, it has a moat surrounding the four acres not the home, the whole four acres, multiple workshops, garages, even a pig sty on the property. I mean, come on, sign me up, except again, you'd have to live for the payment and then some I don't know if I could. I don't think I could even live for the payment. I mean, that's just that's that's and I
know for some of you that's like I got that good awesome. I'm one of those guys. I'm happy that there are people that are massively successful. You know why, because it makes it possible for people like me to have a job that I love. I don't mind people upstream doing really well and be the Kevin O'Leary's out there, Robert herjeav X. Come on, I
am big fan of independently wealthy people. I just know that that would just be so cool to have a piece of land, a home that everybody in the family could come to and no one run into each other, and then a mote for safety and privacy. Yeah, that would be just too good, too cool. Anyway, if you know of anybody with ten fifteen, twenty thirty acres interested in, you know, parceling off some of that if it had a spring fed pond on it all the better. You know where
to reach me. Twenty seven minutes after, let's do the big stories. Next, Big stories in the press box, brought to by restore Acre Chile not much bigger than Peter Sweitz are joining us in the third hour. Okay, we'll get to some other stories too. This is crazy. An illegal immigrant, illegal alien wanted for rape and sexual assault in Oregon was arrested in Florida this week. How does someone get from Oregon to Florida. They're in
the country illegally. Where do they have money? How did they get here? We'll set that question to the side. Got busted for driving without a license. Authorities learned in Martin County that he was wanted for rape and sexual assault in Oregon. Oregon wouldn't didn't want to take him back. They didn't want to deal with it. Immigration and Customs ICE, they didn't want to
deal with it either. They were listen to this. They were wanting Florida to just release him, a known accused, alleged rapist, and neither the state of Oregon nor the Biden administration's ICE wanted to have him arrested until Governor DeSantis got involved and forced their hand. They reluctantly took him into custody. Now what happens next, Who knows. You need to think about that, Biden voters, You need to think about that, all you Trump haters out
there. That doesn't happen under Trump. They were gonna let him go. That's just that's stunning. Related story, New York Governor Kathy Hokeel is sending the National Guard into New York City subways because of crime. They're gonna help police search passenger bags for weapons. Crime is so out of control they're having to send the National Guard into the subways. Speaking of New York City, leek, this flow is pretty cool. Times Square, the Committee to Unleash
Prosperity, is doing a three month ad campaign on the fifty. A high billboard at Times Square shows people running away from a rising national debt before an explosion clears away the screen. It reveals the message, scared of the national debt, you should be and right now it shows a ticking time bomb of thirty four trillion dollars of government debt and oh, by the way, that's
conservative because it doesn't include Social Security and Medicare. Private sector job growth less than expected I'm fascinated by the fact that Wall Street is watching the labor market closely for signs that it's finally slowing down and the Fed Reserve can pivot to cutting rates. Huh. Apparently, if wages are slowing down, that's good news because people can't buy as much stuff, which means the Fed can lower rates. Huh. Yeah, that's how screwed up things are. We got
a crap economy. And then, lastly, Marbles, Mitch is runningly clear that a former President Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters in our to be our nominee for president. She comes to no surprise, and his nominee, he'll have my support. Man. That had to hurt. That had to be like razor blades in the throat, maybe even worse than Grant Allen's throat. Right now, for Mitch McConnell to endorse Trump, do you think he like he went in the in a side room and vomited, Mitch
lowering himself. Remember, Mitch was accusing Trump of crimes related to January six forty minutes fast, forty one minutes past the hour. Little follow up story here. Do you remember us talking about the mayor of Dalton, Illinois, Tiffany Henyard all upset because the city council getting up in her business, remember that, remember that SoundBite? And and she vetoed, she's described herself as super mayor, she vetoed efforts to investigate her spending, her alleged misuse of
tax dollars. Well, it's gotten so bad. She's allegedly been running a racket along with police, pressuring businesses to an essence, pay protection money. And so they've spoken out business owners who happen to be black as she is. And the FBI is now investigating her. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. We'll see where this all leads. Of course, say what you will about the FBI. I think
this is a lot like the FDA. I think they have to drop some things out there that are legitimate, have some legitimate investigations, and so forth, to bring credibility to the rest. It's like the FDA has to come out with some things that are good warnings or advisements or determinations to offset the horrific wake left behind COVID, where they obliterated the trust of the FDA,
the CDC, the the medical profession, in general. Same thing with with with the FEDS and the FBI here, so it's going to be interesting to watch and see what happens. Then there's this the north Face outdoor clothing company. A bunch of us have it in our wardrobe, offering a forty percent discount to customers who take an hour long racial inclusion course. No, I'm
not kidding. It discusses quoting barriers that people of color face outdoors w T H, question mark, exclamation point, question mark, well, outdoor, the outdoors this is. The course says the outdoor are forever. Outdoor are for everyone. That grammatically wrong, But I digress. Not all of us can access the outdoors equally and have the resources to do so. The course noted that people of color are less likely to go climbing, hiking, skiing,
snowboarding, and trail running. I don't do any of those things either, anyway. What I loved about this ridiculousness was a comment by A Toby Young, founder of Free Speech Union, because the course instructs customers to report coworkers to their manager if they call them woke. Toby Young said this, The irony is that the north Face is implicitly acknowledging that all its customers are white. After all, why would black customers need to take a course about
white privilege to get a discount. But if all customers are white, shouldn't be examining the beam in its own eye. Searing logic is always fun, no matter where it comes from. Love it, love it, love it, love it. Anyway, there you go. You're caught up on a couple of other little stories. We come back. MSNBC is getting laughed at. We'll tell you why. You might have time to get let me let me just pop this up here real quickly. Yeah, I think we can.
I think we can do this. Joe Scarborough, MSNBC. That guy's middle state. I've said it for years now. He's cogent, But I undersold him when I said he was cogent, far beyond cogent. In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been intellectually, analytically, because he's been around for fifty years. And you know, I don't know if people know this or not. Biden used to be a hothead sometimes, that irishman would get in front of the reasoning. Sometimes he would say things he didn't
want to say. This is and and I don't really you know what, I don't really start your type right now because I'm about to tell you the truth and f you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever. First of all, anybody that that seriously watches MSNBC, you need your head examined. Yeah, I don't even I don't even watch for for research purposes. Joe Scarborough is making an
absolute fool of himself. And oh, by the way, he just said to any of you that think that Biden is missing something, f you he said it. I didn't, he said it. This is the best version of Joe Biden intellectually, cognitively. I listened to man on the street interviews of New Yorkers and their thoughts on Joe Biden. Whether they're going to watch the State of the Union speech, No, the Hub of Democracy allegedly a democracy right New York, New York City. They they think Biden's an absolute
joke. But it doesn't stop there. Listen to Jen Saki and Rachel Maddow mocking voters in Virginia being worried about immigration. It's incredible. I mean, if you look at some of these exempoles. I mean, I live in Virginia. Immigration was the number one issue, of course. I mean again, these could change in Virginia. Virginia does have a border with West Virginia. They hate you, they hate us, they hate our way of life, and they have no problem making fun of our people, our family.
The people who live in the Heartland, the people who live in the South, the people who live in the rural Midwest, they despise us in their mind. If your state doesn't have a literal border with Mexico, you got nothing to say. It doesn't matter that the rapist in Oregon traveled across the country, did he rape others, did he sexually assault others and ended up in Florida. Doesn't matter that that little girl in the med student in Georgia.
Georgia doesn't border Mexico. The crimes committed all across this country by illegal immigrants. Need I remind you there are a lot of people that would be alive today, alive if they had not been allowed and invited into this country to invade this nation. And they're laughing about it on MSNBC. So just think about that. They're laughing at you. If you're concerned about the border, and you don't live on a border state. Lord, it's not a
border state. We're concerned. They're laughing at you, and they're saying, if you, if you think Joe Biden is mentally struggling, if he's showing signs of dementia, if he's declined, that's what. At least they're saying it out loud, right, Steve Stewart. Next, it's The Morning Ship with Prestin Scott. Five minutes past the hour. It is the second hour of the Morning Show with Crustin's got a little more casual edition than I would
normally think, even though I'm a little dressed up. I have to speak later today. I dipped into the wardrobe just another layer deep, and I'm in my stocking feet for reasons that I will explain tomorrow. There is a story there, trust me. It's kind of a casual day around here because of that, Except there's Grant Allen over there in his spring blazer, and then here with me and studio. Is the intrepid reporter and executive editor of
Talass Reports, the website talasreports dot com. He is Steve Stewart, So tell me is my hosting duties, sands the shoes going to be a story. No, we've got much. Not going to make the cut, not going to make the cut. Disappointed. Yes, a lot of good stuff to talk about. Actually, newspaper printed today. Come on, we'll be out all right. Stuff in there you're not gonna get anywhere else. I
promise you. It's good stuff. Let's reset for those that might be tuning in, might be in a different area part of the country, they don't when we say blueprint, what are we talking about? Yeah? This. You know a lot of communities have this program blueprint. They take one percent sales tax and they invested in infrastructure programs. It started in two thousand here in Leon County. But they bank the money and use it. It was
originally strictly infrastructure. Oh yes, and you know went around and it moved very I mean, it was popular program and the roads. You say, you put a blue sign up, say this is your sales tax at work. People enjoyed it and it was good. It was good, and then they started messing around with where the money went. They voted in an economic development piece, which meaning they they well, the legislature, well, the legislature allowed to get opened the door. They allowed the county to do it
if they wanted. And referendum, you know, was cobble together with a bunch of other projects. Of voters voted it, voted it in, and since then it's been it's been bumpy road with regards to Blueprint. In addition to those changes, we had a change in leadership. There's new new people that have been elected. We had a referendum in twenty fifteen or twenty fourteen on projects for the next twenty years, and then we get new leadership.
We had the corruption trials and so now there's a lot of dysfunction going on, not unlike what's on the City Commission. And maybe that's the problem. Are the people that are on the City Commission get together with Blueprint because that's made up of the seven Leon County elected officials, right and five city commissioners, So you get twelve politicians in a room at one time. Quantify this for us. How much money are we talking about overall and how much money
for these special projects? Yeah? Look, so the special projects are when we're talking about economic development is I think it's like twelve percent of the total. But we're I mean we're talking about one hundred million dollars for special projects. You're talking about a billion dollars in infrastructure over the next twenty years,
and so a lot of money at stay now. Again, like I said, we approve the next twenty years and what the infrastructure projects were the twelve percent of economic DEVELOPM money is you know, sort of as projects come up. And that's been very contentious. So every time Blueprint meets, and it's about four times a year, it is a well of a meeting. The last one it was just under eight hours. That was last My goodness, Oh, it's it's it's unbelievable. Who's responsible for preparing the agenda for part
time elected officials. Yes, So what we have is both the city manager and the county manager Vince Long and ResCode, are in charge of Blueprint, and then they have a staff underneath them that they take direction from the board. For example, the board is that they'll ask for a gend items to come back on specific issues and then they can vote on them. So there's a very professional they have legal council, they have professional staff, and that's
how it operates. When we come back, we're going to talk specifically about the most recent meeting, and I'm just going to tee him up because he covered the meeting eight hours of fun and what happened, because this matters, because it's your money, folks. It's about ten minutes past the hour here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott, The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven. WUFLA, all right, you just heard
a new paper is coming out. If you are a subscriber, you'll get it to your mailbox. You'll also get a digital download if you're not a subscriber, if for no other reason, subscribe to support independent journalism, fact based research, research oriented. Steve Stewart is the executive editor. So they had an eight hour meeting. What are the highlights or low lights? Now?
Well, so the highlights so are affordable housing. There was a move to bring back an item that would allow infrastructure funds to be spent on buying land where you could build affordable housing. What does that mean? You know, it's just what I said. I mean, it's something that I think is never going to work. But there are a group of people on the Blueprint IA that are interested in that. So it passed and so but I mean, do they have a way to measure and say this is the metric
by which we say it's affordable. Not even there yet. This is just about the state has opened the door to allow infrastructure funds on this. This is a substantial amendment. So in other words, they're going to start the process. I don't think it's going to pass because you have to have a supermajority of the County Commission and the City Commission to amend what the voters that
already voted on. So this is they're trying to force this into as a project affordable housing, so to begin the process, which will have public hearings passed. I don't think it's you know, I don't think it's more symbolic than anything. Okay, So that's one issue. Another issue, they did a bond issue on so of one hundred and thirty six million dollars, And
this is why you should be interested in this. They have to do bond issues to pay for these projects, the Northeast Gateway, the Market District, Park Cascades, because it's money that'll be collected in the future exactly. And so that passed eight four to one hundred and thirty six million dollars. Fam you requested fifteen million dollars for upgrades on Bragg Memorial Stadium. They asked for
infrastructure funds. They decided that that wasn't the proper use for infrastructure funds, so that the Blueprint voted eleven to one to look for the economic development part of the sales tax to go to help BRAG So that will come back at a later meeting. You could actually make that argument better than the former argument, you could, and FSU successfully did, and they've already remembered. Blueprint has already given FAMU ten million dollars agreed. So anyway, that was an
issue they got moved along. Another issue that was dear to Commission Bill Proctor's hard is up the upgrade of the fairgrounds. Of course, yes, and this is a this was a two phase project. They came back staff and said, look, phase one thirty million dollars to get the to beautify the park, to get things in line, to be able to make it useful.
There's also a request to turn it into a you know, a travel sport facility, which unfortunately, and I know I'm biased because I've traveled around and seen these these facilities President, we have missed the boat on this unfortunately, and it's become from a lack of leadership in this community. And I'm not talking about sports facilities in Jacksonville, Orlando. I'm talking about towns like Foley, Alabama, Taveras, Florida. They have built these facilities, and
I mean they are drawing people from everywhere. All you gotta do is look at what the county did with the Appalachi Park. In terms of cross country. They're hosting n CUAA Evans High School state championships. And that's where being north in Florida helps because you can draw from the southern Florida, but you can also draw from the southeast region. We're four hours from Atlanta, two
hours from Jacksonville, three hours on Pensacola, four hours from Orlando. We could, but but is that parcel of land even big enough for that? It is They did a study and said, look, this looks feasible, but we don't have the money. It's it's eighty million dollars to build this complex to do basketball, volleyball into a volleyball and stuff like that. And they say, yeah, it looks feasible, but we don't have the money. This is something we should have done ten years ago, but we dragged
our feet. Other communities did it. Would it necessitate a relocation of, for example, the North Florida Fair or does the North Florida Fair just cease to exist? Yeah? I think it probably ceases to exist up here. I think it's the worst. Yeah. So anyway, that was an issue that was dealt with the airport gateway. When we get to that one real quick, this is a gate The original vote was for the beautification of spring Hill Road. Is the gateway from the airport to downtown. That's what the
voters approved. Right after that, the idea of building another road from the airport through Innovation Park as an economic driver came up, and that was substantially amended. People were, you know, behind It was unanimous. We're gonna not only have spring Hill Road, We're gonna have the road through Innovation Park. That was seven years ago. Well, now the cost to do both
of those roads is coming in at one hundred and twenty million dollars. The commissioner in that area, the Leon County Commissioner, Christian Command, says, look that's too much money. We don't need the road through Innovation Park. And in addition, Fshue was cooled on the idea. They haven't come out
against it, but they're not like supporting it. So Command got the support to lower the funding for the airport gateway project from one hundred and twenty to eighty five million dollars, but he hasn't gotten the votes to limit the scope
yet. Okay. And during that meeting again, which went eight hours, the airport gateway came up near the end of the meeting and people, a couple of commissioners left because it was just I mean again, we're looking at seven hours starting at three o'clock, and so the airport gateway is in limbo and that's going to have to be the addressed. The last thing is a number of aggressives and others have complained repeatedly about the governance structure of blueprint.
That was an issue. The majority said, look, we're content with what's going on. So hopefully that is something they actually put to bed at that meeting, literally at about eleven o'clockock. And so the newspaper will have more details on this. That's our front page story that you can get, and we'll have a story up at tr But a lot going on in that meeting. Talahasse reports dot com. It's where you can go to subscribe to the
paper. It's where you go to get some great information. And oh, by the way, speaking of progressives, could progressives actually be targeted by their fellow Democrats statewide? And could that creep its way into the capital city? That's next on the morning show. Aggressives and their aides listening to this segment of the radio program because they certainly don't listen to all of what I have to say, or they'd be getting smarter. They are right now wondering what
in the world are you talking about? This is an important issue because look, Leon County is a blue county. Yeah, city commission. I like blue as a color city commission. County blue. Right now, we're all Democrats. They're all Democrats, So we need to know what's going on with
Democrats. And we know here we've seen the progressive element get some power, win some elections, and what's going on here with the fight between the progressive element and traditional liberal Democrats is going on all over the state of Florida, probably all over the country. I mean, we've seen over this Palestinian conflict, we've seen liberal Democrats resign from progressive groups because of their positions on the
Israeli Palace Staine conflict. And and you say, well, why does that have to do with anything here, Well, Commissioner Jack Porter signed a resolution, you know, over this conflict that was sympathetic to Palestine, and nobody knew about it. We're the ones that broke the story, and still media
hasn't covered it. So there's this there's this break in the Democratic Party and state wide, state wide, and the issue that we're talking about is Nicki Freed, who's the head of a party who I call a transactional Democrat. Okay, she I don't think that she's progressive or she's tough to get a handle on from are needs to be at a given moment. But she has removed three duly elected or in a process of removing three duly elected Democratic leaders
in South Florida. When you say duly elected head parties, yes, like Palm Beach executives, like elected public office. We're talking about the we're talking about the inner workings of the Florida Democratic exactly, okay. And they started the process to actually remove them. And so I did a little bit of research them do some more, but the three that are removing fall in the category of progressives. And I find that really interesting because I think what we're
seeing happening here in Leon County we see in some other areas. And look, there's no doubt if you look at the registration numbers and what's going on, the Democratic Party is suffering in Florida state wide, and part of it is probably these extreme positions that we see progressives taking them up. Were related to law enforcement, economic growth, the homeless issue, things of extremest positions, extreme positions, and so we see that here again. We've did a
story last month about how the homeless issue has separated the Democrats. Progressives don't want a trespassing ordinance and they voted against it, but other Democrats voted for it, and now we have it. We have a law that passed the state of Florida, that's passed the legislature and the Santus is probably going to sign, which is going to put even more pressure on local governments to deal with public camping. This is something that progressives are going to have to deal
with. So anyway, it's an issue to keep an eye on because we are basically governed by all Democrats. You need to know what's going on in the Democratic Party. Jack Porter, though, has been the focus of some questions about her spending and which is taxpayer money. Correct Now, we mentioned the issue on the resolution related to the Palestine affair. What we started looking
into is that resolution was sponsored by a group called Local Progress. City taxpayers have funded her to go to some of these conferences and basically you can go if you align with their ideology. And what you do is you go to these conferences and they're telling these local elected officials what policies they want implemented at the local level and how they've had success doing it right. And they go back and again it call you know, defunding the police, establishing your city
as the sanctuary city, things of that nature. Well, she hasn't talked about being she I mean, she's a leader in this group. Nowhere on social media has she talked about this. This is under the radar. What we also found when she went to two conferences in twenty twenty three, there
were no expenses covered by the city relating to lodging. And so we started doing a bunch of research and this group has a national footprint City and State, which is a political publication nationwide, more popular in the Northeast than here, did some investigation of New York councilmen and they found that a couple of members, Progressive members, had went to these conferences, but they were gifted lodging and they hadn't disclosed it. So they wrote a story and they had
to disclose it. A couple thousand dollars in free gifts from a group that has interest in legislation. Here in Florida, the gift law is pretty clear, and we have a story up about this that, look, you can take gifts, but you've got to disclose it. We called the Florid Commission on Ethics. Porter hasn't disclosed any gifts. She's not talking. We have asked her directly on the phone via email paid for you go to these conferences,
and so we're continuing to try to get that answer. But it is important because if she didn't file and disclose, it's the violations of ethics rules, and so we'll continue to investigate that and try to get an answer for Commission reporter who just doesn't want to talk about this. Wow, that's always thank you, Thank you Preston Steve Stewart, Talahasse your report, subscribe,
get that paper, Tallasi Reports dot com. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scotts, maybe myself dizzy all right, the shoes your back on and we are halfway through the Thursday edition. Peter Schweizer just a little bit the book Blood Money. Anxious to talk to him about that? Your subtitle? Why the powerful turn a blind eye while China kills Americans? And of course due diligence is always what Peter does, and so that's why he's the best
selling author. Even the progressives read his books. They want to, They want to find out what does he know? Anyway, it's sort of an a a intelligence report for them. Big stories in the press Box brought to you by Restored Carpet Care and Tyle Uh. The governor Rohn DeSantis touting a win after forcing the Biden administration to arrest an illegal alien wanted for rape.
Get get get your head around this. This is where democrats, democrats keeping democrats in office, bring about sanctuary cities and situation where a guy wanted for rape and assault an Oregon Why was he even wanted if Oregon didn't want him back? Oregon said no, they didn't want to extradite him back. Immigration said no, we're not interested. The guy is alleged and was wanted. He's here illegally wanted for rape. Desantus had to force Immigrations to take him
otherwise he was going to be released. And think about it now, he traveled from Oregon to Florida. How many people might have been endangered or in fact harmed on that trip. I'm just wondering. New York's governor ordering the National Guard to subways in New York City because crime's out of control. They're helping. Times Square billboard warning about the ticketing time bomb of thirty four trillion
dollar debt. Committee to Committee to Unleashed Prosperity has rented the New York Times digital billboard for three months, flashing an ad showing the explosion people running for their lives over the debt. Thank you for doing that, seriously, thank you. Private sector job growth rises less than expected. I'm trying to understand. In a welcoming sign for the Federal Reserve, wage growth continued to shrink in February, a welcoming sign that wages are dropping, annual pay rose five
point one percent, smallest increase since August twenty twenty one. Workers who switched jobs wages climb greater seven point six percent. See here's why it matters to the Fed. The Fed, if wages aren't go growing, people can't spend because inflation's overtaking it. It's eating it all up. And so that's the calculus that the Fed is is paying attention. I told you I think there are far deeper political implications to what the Fed is or is not doing.
And then Mitch McConnell endorses Trump. He hates him. He blamed Trump for quote disgraceful acts tied to January sixth, really disgraceful acts. So even Mitch McConnell is supporting Donald Trump. Now he doesn't want Mitch's support. Now he's going to be he's gonna accept it. But he doesn't. He shouldn't. He should He should remind everybody what Mitch has been doing to work against America, to enrich himself and his wife and family. And there's some little controversy
with family there. Sister in law died under mysterious circumstances. Just saying don't know that. I'm just saying, come back with doctor Steve Steverson. Little pause for thought here in the Morning Show. Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yeah, you want to email me Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. It's as simple as that, Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Let's talk about our pets and joining us. Doctor Steve Steverson, it's time for pause
for thought. He's with the Bradfordville Animal Hospital the morning Sir, Hey, Preston, how are you doing. I'm doing well. I sent you a note last night. I wanted to get your thoughts on a tragedy we talked about earlier in the week, and that's the four year old Alabama child that wandered into the neighbor's yard. Their families were friends. He had encountered that dog previously and had no issues. The dog had never been violent or attacked
anybody. The dog was restrained inside the neighbor's yard, but the young boy went into where the dog was and he ended up dead. Your thoughts on this entire scenario, Yeah, pres you know, this is such a tragedy anytime we hear about something like this, and you know, children don't understand dogs. A lot of times if a child is raised with the dog in
the household. They think all dogs are like their dog, and all dogs are friendly, and they don't understand when a dog is being aggressive or protecting their territory, and so he always had to be careful with a child around any dog whatsoever, especially a dog they think they know, but they don't, you know, and we're not sure what happened here that I don't know the whole story out yet. How you know, did the child go pull the dog's tail or did the dog not right recognize the child and think it
was protecting its backyard, or exactly what happened. But these are always such tragedies. Dogs typically give us a lot of body language to tell us what's happening and what they're thinking. You know, dogs can't communicate with words, so they communicate with body language, and you know, it's something that we as adults can read. We can learn to read the body language of a
dog. A child certainly cannot. But that's certainly what we want to look at when we're looking at a dog that we don't know or a dog that we might know, And what they're thinking is they tell us that with their body language. So let's take this in two directions. Let's take it from the perspective of the family first and foremost, that lost the child. What are lessons we can learn? Oh goodness, yeah, First, first off, person, always teach our children even if you have a dog, not
all dogs are as friendly as your dog is. And never approach a dog that you don't know without the an adult being there to give you permission to approach that pet. And then secondly, that probably need to warn them about going in a backyard like that, because certainly a lot of dogs are friendly when their owner is there to give the dog permission to be friendly, but
otherwise they think they're protecting their territory. So a child shouldn't be going in the backyard unattended like that, even neighbors that are friends and there have been interactions. That's just a precaution that the parent of any child needs to be aware of. Oh, absolutely, Preston. We see dogs every year. We'll see a dog or two that has bitten a neighbor, you know, and the neighbors, oh yeah, I know this dog, I know this family, and I just we were on a walk and I we just have
to pat the dog and it bit me. You know, and then we get involved in animal control. Animal control and the county Health upartner all get involved in these situations. We see them all too often. Let's go to the other side real quickly in our final moment. Here, the families that are listening out there that own a dog, you're responsible. You keep them in your yard. Maybe it's on a on a chain, maybe not.
But the bottom line is what should a dog owner know? Well, the first thing is I always say, you know, if some because it's got to pet your dogs. Your dog bite probably the best thing to say, as well, he's never been anybody yet. Don't say, oh no, he doesn't bite, he's great, you know, because then you're a life of that person to walk over. And you know, be very very overly gregariously friendly to your dog, which your dog may not like. So be
careful how do you answer that question? And number two always make sure your dog is under control. And in this case it didn't work out, but have your dog behind a fence of some sort, and if they need obedience training to make them a more well adjusted pet, make sure you invest in that tragedy all around, a young boy lost his life and a family lost their beloved pet and you know, it's just it's a shame. And I still believe there are lessons that we can all learn from these things. So
doctor Steverson, thank you, absolutely great. Thanks presting doctor Steve Steverson with us this morning forty six past. That's the hour, Preston Scott boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast on WFLA. Before we give you a road drip idea, a little suggestion if you're driving the fruited plains of America, maybe making plans now for a summer trip and you're going to just go off on a little adventure. Got an
email from a listener. I'll leave names way from the note that I received. Back in two thousand and seven, I owned a fish farm in South Georgia, had twenty five production ponds about one hundred water acres. Get your minder on that, primarily growing catfish. China decided they were going to compete in that industry, which is now why we have a bunch of other bizarre
name fish on the menus that are part of the catfish family. One of the things the government did to the American catfish farmer back then was to take the USDA inspectors who used to be located at ports where Chinese ships would come in La Louisiana and put those inspectors directly in China. Turns out, the inspectors who were located in China, our own government employees, sure didn't disqualify many ships due to quality control, either by a threat of force with an
AK forty seven in the back of the head or through lavish perks. The inspector tended to let every single shipment pass quality control. When the inspectors were located in America, the loads apparently got sent back to China or likely dumped
in the ocean on a regular basis. Interesting again, this is something I would never have thought of, I would never have known, and yet here we go, here's an example of an industry, and in this case, one person's business totally destroyed because of what we were allowed to be imported into the United States. And some are eating today in their homes or being served in their restaurants. Just saying, if you're going out to a restaurant that
says they're serving fresh seafood, ask where it's sourced from. Now they might not tell you the truth. And there would be no way for you to confirm that. But yeah, just just asking that would be the thing, just asking, let's take a road trip. What do you say going on the road again. I've opened up the pages to Unique America. Yes, this is a book that you can find at your book retailers, online or otherwise. It's Unique America, A strange, unusual and just playing fun a
trip through America. It's a really cool little book. It's a it's a bedside book, it's table side book. It's maybe a book you put in the back of your toilet. I'm just saying, and we go to Lucas, Kansas. Now you might be saying, where is is Lucas, Kansas, Well, my friends, it is. It's between Plainville and Minneapolis, Kansas. Yes, there's a Minneapolis Kansas. It sits between Kansas City and
Denver, a little closer to Kansas City than Denver. And it's just a little bit to the west of Topeka and Manhattan, which is where one of the major universities is located in Kansas. And there in Lucas you will find sp Dinsmore's Garden of Eden. There's actually a website a populist school teacher and vet of the Civil War, Samuel Perry Dinsmore started building his log cabin out
of limestone timber because of a lack of trees. Once the cabin was finished, Dinsmore migrated into the medium of cement and fashioned more than two thousand sacks of the stuff into his own personal Garden of Eden, a menagerie of oddly engaging political and religious imagery. The place faded after its creator died in nineteen thirty two, but was restored in the nineteen seventies. And get this, it's now on the National Register of Historic Places and tours are available year round.
They have a website. It's called Garden of Eden Lucas dot org Garden of Eden Lucas dot org and it tells you about the guid to tours, and it's got pictures and all of that stuff. So there's your road trips coggestions if you're going to plot a drive to the Middle America. It's a beautiful part of the country, just farmland. It's just beautiful. Some people say the flat land is boring. I think it's beautiful. Let's come back
with our number three and it promises to be exceptional. Why because my guest is best selling Times best selling New York Times best selling author Peter Schweitzer, the book Blood Money. Next to the Morning Showing. All Right, ruminators, settle in, get yourself a little something to nibble on and something to sip, and stay with us. Third hour of the Morning Show with Rustin Scott. It's Show five thousand and ten. There's Grant Allen over there in
Studio one A, looking resplendent in the spring blazer. I'm here a little little more frumpy in Studio one B, and I am joined on the phone line. He still sits atop the Morning Show Guest Power rankings. He is New York Times best selling author Peter Schweitzer. Hi, Peter, Hey, great to be with your press is always thanks so much. I uh, I I've we've we've known each other for a while now. There have been there have been a few books, and and your books tend to have this
interconnection seemingly. They they just seem to always have some commonalities in the players and how these sort of ominous events take place. Take me back to where the idea came from that there needed to be a book devoted to what's going on in China that you've entitled blood Money. Why the powerful turn a blind eye while China kills Americans? Where this all begin, Well, it really
began in noticing that corruptions become globalized in America. I mean we're all used to, you know, the politician who's trying to get a federal paving contract for his nephew or something like that, or the politician who's taken one hundred thousand dollars in money from a shoe in a shoebox from a lobbyist. That's kind of the corruption we're used to. That's bad enough, But what's really
happened over the last decade is corruption in America has become globalized. You find these politicians both sides of the aisle, who find, you know, foreign oligarch's, foreign governments that are willing to stuff money in their pockets. Now they do it kind of in a more subtle way than a shoe box. You know, they'll set up a family member and a quote unquote private equity
deal that's funded by you know, a foreign government. But I wanted to look at this nexus and this book I think is a little bit different than the others that you know, before the concern was always the corruption. In this particular case, I really wanted to look at the things that China has done over the last five six years that has killed literally millions of Americans and the fact that we're getting very little attention paid to it by positions of authority.
I mean, in other words, this is corruption that actually is a life and death issue and has affected the United States dramatically in so many ways. You say, you really focused in for the last five or six years. If I were to try to maybe kind of look at this as a plant, all right, that's the growth above the ground. Where do the roots of this thing begin? Does it start with, you know, capitalism trying to find a way into China and US embracing that. Yeah, I
mean that was the origin, right. The idea was great, and it was one that I embraced for a long time. The idea was, you know, China's developing world country, you know, going back in the eighties, and look, if we get of encouraged them towards free markets and capitalism, Uh, they're going to become more like us. They're going to become more liberal. And for a while people thought that's the way things were going to go uh and that abruptly ended uh with the rise of President g Uh
more than a decade ago. And so what you have is in China is you don't have a market economy. Uh. You don't have a Marxist economy. You have what I call a market Leninist economy. So you have certain elements of capitalism, uh, but you have the Leninist you know, communist
control system and the llure of China. You know, you look around the world if you're a Wall Street investor or you're a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, the lure of you know, the world's most populous country growing rapidly, the prospects of making enormous sums of money is enormous UH. And their ability to you know, tap into politicians, family members as a lure is powerful and has
been quite effective. And so that's kind of the origins in the headwaters of it, which you have going on at the same time, though, Preston is really a concerted effort in China what they call disintegration warfare, and that's something that was written about in twenty ten. They've embraced it. And really what it is Preston is, you know, their view that they are at war with the United States, but it's not a war with tanks, it's not a war with aircraft carriers. But it is a war with casualties.
And it's based on the idea of what can we do to disintegrate fragment American society in a way that would allow us to beat them without actually getting into a kinetic fighting war. And that's what we're seeing unfolding. Whether it's s pentanol, whether it's COVID, whether it's violence in American streets, whether it's a lot of the social division that we're facing in the country. They didn't cause it, but they are absolutely fanning the flames in a very very aggressive
way. And our leaders don't want to talk about Peter Schwitz are with us. We're talking about it. The book is Blood Money. He's the best selling author and our guest here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott, Peter Schwitz are with us. The book is Blood Money, subtitled why the powerful turn of blind Eye while China kills Americans. We're going to get to that
with a little more detail. Peter, for the benefit of our listeners and for me broadly, set up, who are the main players in this particular story. So the main players on the side of China is President G. And I think what people are going to get is a different look at President G than they've previously heard. Part of it is understanding who this man is and what his motives are. He really veers his father, who was a
CCP leader, and he built a mausoleum. His father's perhaps most famous act was as a young man, at the age of fourteen, G's father tried to poison his teacher because the teacher was not sufficiently revolutionary, and G thinks that was a bold, courageous act. So I think that offers insight into kind of his view and perspective. The other thing to understand about G is
that his wife is a very famous singer in China. In fact, she's so famous, I would say even infamous because after the Tieneman Square massacre in nineteen eighty nine, she was brought in to serenade the troops who had just massacred people on the square. So this is a hardened, hardened tough man who has a very different view than we do on our side. It's a series of people, you know, it includes President Biden, It includes Republican
leader Mitch McConnell. It includes people like Governor Gavin Newsom who have entanglements with Chinese entities, not even with Chinese entities, but in some cases they're brushing up against Chinese organized crime networks that are actually involved in things like the fentanyel trade. So it is a mosaic that includes characters on both sides of the aisle, and it's I think, really the story of what America is facing today because when you look at a lot of the challenges that we are facing
in this country, social division, violence in our streets. A lot of this is being the flames are being fanned by China. They didn't cause it, but they're absolutely exaggerating it because they are seeing strategic benefits of doing so. Peter in the news just this week, we talked about an arrest in Georgia four nationals, one at least here illegally involved in what they believe is potentially inner national marijuana grow farm. We're also seeing that ninety percent of the
illegals coming in across the border in San Diego are China. They're coming from China. This is all connected to your story, correct, That's exactly right, Preston. I've got a section in the book. It's about the drug warfare that China's engaged in. You know, they are the senior partner in the fentel trade. The Mexican cartels are the junior partner. But also to your point, this problem with legal marijuana grows in the United States is massive.
In the state of Maine alone, there are three hundred known large scale marijuana growing operations that are run by Chinese nationals, many of which have come into the country illegally. These are financed with money from China. And what they're doing President is they're not producing the you know, the marijuana you know
in the nineteen nineties the kids were smoking in college. Stuff is highly highly potent, much more potent than the stuff so legally it can be laced with sentanyl of course, and this is part of what China calls explicitly cognitive warfare. They want to certainly profit from this, but they also want to sort of dumb down, destabilize, and soften American culture. So when people wonder why people are, you know, Chinese nationals are crossing the border in Mexico,
I would argue a big part of it is. They have a large need for labor. These illegal marijuana grows are in Maine, They're in Oklahoma, They're in Washington State, they're in California, They're all over the place. Peter schweizerre with us more to come. The book is Blood Money. It is located everywhere, and I mean everywhere. Get yourself a copy.
Twenty two pass. When I say he sits atop the guest power rankings, it doesn't havefend any other guests that I ever have on the show, because anybody who ever sits and listens to Peter Schweitzer, who's read his books, they just step back and go, yeah, he's right. He's amazing the research, the amount of work that goes into one of these books. And the book is Blood Money. And Peter, you said something previously and I'd read this as well, that you know, China thinks it can win the
war literally and take this nation without firing many bullets. It needs to for infrastructure for all kinds of reasons. But is that where TikTok comes in, the ability to analyze what Americans are digesting, consuming and are moved by. Oh. Absolutely, I've got a whole section in the book on TikTok, and what I would say, Preston is, you know, don't take my word for what TikTok is doing. Take the words of the Chinese officials and
military officers. Like quote in the book, we got access to documents from the Chinese military, uh, you know, military journals, et cetera,
from the Chinese minister Ministry of Propaganda, and they're very explicit. I mean they say explicitly that TikTok is a trojan horse, and they dissect and they explain I quote from them extensively as to how they are using it to grind down America's youth, creating sort of this this you know dopamine loop where you know they need this constant, urgent hit by watching these short videos and that the video content is very dumb down, but it's also injected with propaganda,
and they lay out explicitly how they do it. The purpose is not to be like explicit. You know, you're not going to have placards of you know, Chairman Mao, you know, marching and marching down in videos.
But what you are going to get is videos that are designed, in their words, to strip America's young people of their understanding of their historical path to strip them of reverence for their national symbols, because by doing so, they are then able to deconstruct America's youth and build them up in the image that
they want them in. And you know, look ttech is TikTok is run by byte Edance, the parent company, the senior leadership there is all populated with people that work at the Ministry of State Security or used to or at the Ministry of Propaganda, senior officials and the Chinese Communist Party and Bye Dance, the parent company of TikTok, has a joint venture with the Chinese Ministry of State Security to study artificial intelligence and how it can be used to manipulate
people online. This is the company that people are allowing their children unfettered access to. I mean, it's just remarkable. And the reason not much is being done in Washington, and as I lay out both Republicans and Democrats and I name names, is because there is so much money being made by certain American investors that they are hiring an army of people in DC, former senators and congressmen, former campaign officials for Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and they're
dolling that money around to prevent any serious action being taken. Okay, Is that genie permanently out of the bottle or are there enough people in Congress, enough people running states that can take action and do something about it? A great question. There are some people that I think have been very very good on TikTok, of both Republicans and Democrats. Of course, you know,
people like Marco Rubio, Rick Scott have been very good on TikTok. On the Democrat side, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia has been very very vigilant on TikTok. And the solution in my mind is I don't know that you can ban it in the sense that something else can just emerge that's similar. But I do feel that Trump's solution in twenty twenty, which was to force the sale to an American company, while not ideal because I got problems with American
big tech companies too. You're in a whole lot better case where you can regulate and try to control a Microsoft than you can a company that is owned by basically the Chinese state. So that was the right solution, of course. Joe Biden rescinded that one of the reasons is that some of his biggest supporters of the Kyl Carlisle Group are major investors in TikTok. And at the same time, on the Republican side, there's a gentleman named jeff Yass.
He's a big funder for the Bob for Growth and Republican politicians. He is persuading some Republicans to take a hands off approach to TikTok. So there are some very very good people, but the battles there, and we need to convince our elected officials that this matters to us. This matters to us us because this is about the future of our country and our future generations. We've got Peter Schweizer with us for two more segments. We will continue with Peter
next. First the News on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, and this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Why do the powerful turn a blind eye while China kills Americans? It's called blood money. The author of the book is with us for two more segments, Peter Sweitzer. Peter, you mentioned former President Trump, who many hope will be future President Trump. You mentioned the current I won't call him president, I call him Resident of the
United States. Joe Biden. I have long believed that any tough talk coming from the Biden administration relating to China's saber rattling, that when it's all said and done, he can't do anything against China because China has all the dirt necessary to absolutely overturned Biden and probably the entire administration. I feel the same way about Ukraine. Is there anything to that, Yeah, no, I
think that's absolutely correct. In fact, the Chinese have a phrase they use for leaders in the West that they've co opted with money financial ties, and the phrase is big help with a little bad mouth, And what it means is what it sounds like, as long as you are delivering what really matters
to them. But what really matters to China is unfettered access to our markets, unfettered access to our capital markets, minimal interference as they sort of continue to rise against the United States. If you want to talk tough on Taiwan, if you want to mention human rights, they're completely fine with that because they know you have to realistically, to be viable, you have to have tough talk. And in the case of the Biden's it's really really clear why
he will not tuck tough on issues. I mean, take the issue of fentanyl. You know, China is involved in every stage of the sentinyl production that is poisoning Americans. It's now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of forty five. Here's the problem for Joe Biden. If he calls out China, they are then going to be able to pull levers And what is that lever Well. The Chinese gang leader who created the fentanyl crisis in America is a guy named White Wolf. He's the head of a gang
called UBG. They made the Sineloa cartel in Mexico, the kings of fentanyl. Everybody acknowledges that in Mexico. Here's the problem for the Bidens. In twenty seventeen, White Wolf's business partner gave the Biden family a five million dollar interest free forgivable loan that the Bidens have never repaid. So you literally have preston one degree of separation between the Kings of sentinel Trade and the Biden family. So does Joe Biden really want to call out China and say China is
poisoning Americans. We need to stop this, We need to confront them, we need to do something about it. No, he can't. It's deeply embarrassing. And that's just one of the entanglements that he has that I think prevents him from taking any strong action on this vital issue. What about Donald Trump does is you know, from a from from my chair, it looked like we were starting to gain ground in our covert battle with China in his
four years. Were we gaining ground? Is China really have anything on Trump at all? I don't think they have anything on Trump in that sense. I think, you know, Trump did do a lot to sort of re enter, reorient our relationship with China. I think the challenge that that that he faced was sort of self created, and that is that Donald Trump, I think, has obviously supreme confidence in his power of persuasion, his ability
to get people to do things. And so in you know, twenty eighteen, he met with President G and to his credit, first American president, only American president so far who confronted China on the issue of sentadel. President G told him, Okay, we'll stop it, we'll ban it, we'll prevent it from being produced. We won't be involved anymore. And you know, President Trump took him at his word. And sang his praises that's not really the way China works. You've got to be tough. You've got to
be consistently tough. I do think that Trump has learned the lesson from that. I think also during COVID I have a section of the book on COVID on how China maximized our body counts. A part of the way that they did at Preston was they knew what the virus was, they knew where it was going, and they cornered the market on masks and medical supplies. So when the virus hit us, we lost a lot of medical personnel because they
didn't have access to any of that equipment. Donald Trump saw that and was put in a difficult situation, and he told people in his administration, we can't to talk too tough to China right now because they will withhold more equipment from us. The point being is, I think Trump has learned those lessons, But it's about who he puts around him. Who are his advisors. That's going to be the real question if he becomes president. Peter Schweitzer with
us for one more segment. We've got a seventy second break for weather in traffic. As we continue talking about the book Blood Money by Peter Schweitzer on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott on news Radio one hundred point seven w FLA. I don't know if he and his team will ever get a Congressional Medal of honor for trying to save this nation, but they ought to, especially Peter Schweitzer, the author Blood Money.
Peter, I want to take a second to focus on the subtitle why the Powerful turn a blind eye? Well, China kills Americans and that is a literal statement you're making there in that book that we've discussed when we talk about the powerful. I mean, we've got the NBA, we've got the clothing and tennis shoe manufacturers, but as we talked about this week, we've
got all kinds of other businesses. Boeing, How in the world does our government allow a defense contractor to be farming out work in China for our jet fighters, our strategic ammunition. I mean, I don't get it. Yeah, well you don't get it because you're thinking logically. You're thinking in terms
of what makes practical sense for our country. How dare you Preston, No, I mean the problem is again money Boeing wants access to the Chinese market, and this is something companies have done for decades and they always, pardon my language, always get screwed. They always get screwed. But they think it's going to be different for them if they, you know, do certain deals in China, if they move manufacturing there, China's going to open up
and give them access. What they always do is they end up stealing the practices and technologies and building their own version of the same product that the American company was creating. But you know a lot of these companies are they're thinking about the next quarter, they're thinking about their stock valuations. So they move in this direction and it's an enormous problem and China recognizes this dependent So you
know, we were talking about President Trump earlier. When Trump imposed tariffs on China's president in twenty seventeen, what did China do. Did they go to Washington, d C. And lobby the White House? No, they didn't.
They went to Silicon Valley and they went to Wall Street and said, you are going to go lobby on our behalf because if you don't, you're not going to get certain deals in our country and lo and behold, the big investment firms to Washington, and the big tech firms in Silicon Valley all went to Washington and you know, pulled arms and twisted arms to lobby on behalf of the Chinese government to get rid of tariffs. And that's how they
operate. And until we refuse to do that, that is going to be their approach, and it's going to be to our detriment in the future of our country. We have to have a pretty sophisticated plan if we go that route. I mean, we have to be empowering the Pacific grim nations that surround China. We have to secure the rare metals that are used in our F thirty five from someone other than China. We can't let China have the
corner on the market on those rare metals. I mean, the list goes on and on, but included in the powerful turning a blind eye, Peter. As uncomfortable as this may be, does this include us, the consumers, the people that just live in America. It does? It does. I would encourage everybody to do something I did, and I was kind of shocked. I looked at my retirement portfolio. It's nothing fancy. You know,
you've got some you know, different mutual funds. I use fidelity, But go through and look where your mutual funds are actually investing, and you will be shocked at how many of the global or world funds are invested in Chinese companies. Not just Chinese companies pressed in, but companies that are actually part of the Chinese military industrial complex. So there are very practical things you
can do. And so what I did was I sold those investment funds and said no, no, no, I'm going to focus on you know, the S and P five hundred index or something else. Pick another investment fund. That's the first thing. The second thing is the consumer choices you make. You can find Chinese products that are always going to be cheaper than American products, but chances are that Chinese product is made by a company that's part of a conglomerate that is wedded to the CCP and is also part of the
Chinese military industrial complex. So you're aiding in a bedding. I would argue you're our chief adversary when you are making a consumer choice. I understand it the cost of things are more expensive, but just realize the implications of what you're doing when you make that choice. Peter, I could spend a day talking with you and you know that all too well. Thank you for your time this morning, and we'll talk again soon. Always a pleasure. Thank
you, Preston. The the movie, maybe it'll be a movie. The book is Blood Money, Why the Powerful turn a blind eye while China kills Americans. The author is Peter Schweitzer. To HarperCollins book, you can find it literally everywhere. I joked with him, I said, you get entrees to democrats because your book's available at Target. Go buy it at Target. But it's literally available everywhere. He's a bestseller, and now you know why
he's on top of the power rankings. For guests of the Morning Show with Preston Scott, what do you know about Vice Media? They are trash. Their articles are more or less propaganda pieces. There YouTube channel is just full of just what you I guess news coverage that trash. Yeah, it's just trash. It's yeah. Do you hear what just happened? Didn't They like lay off everybody, They got a closed shop or something like that, massive
layoffs. So their whole a virtual meeting to announce the changes. And so they've got this virtual town hall underway, and it happened last week chief content Officer Corey Haik giving an update on the company, job cuts and so forth, and then come the flood, dude, flood of angry emojis, one after another, after just a cascade, and so the vice president of the company, Bruce Dixon, cut the meeting off and ditched it. They shut
it down. Oh my, it's impossible to ignore the emojis from our side, he said, And I think we're going to organize this in a way where we can actually give the information to people who want to receive it in a way that it's meant. Thank you for your time, your presence in terms of trying to explain that. I think let's progress with our own town halls on this. Thank you for all the questions as we've received. We'll do our best answer to them. And he ended the meeting. Then the
comments began this way. Corey Haik's salaries approximately seven hundred and twenty six thousand, sixty eight dollars last year. What a joke. Another said, they can't handle emojis. This meeting is over. I'm sorry. I love the self destruction of the leftist media air quotes. I love it. I absolutely I don't like people losing their jobs, but if you are working for an ideological place like this, oh well that's what happens. Brought to you by
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