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Good morning. It is Tuesday, January 28th. Current time is 6.07 a.m. Hopefully everybody is up and ready and got your coffee. I don't know, Daryl. I made myself some Irish stew. For breakfast? No, it must have been Sunday. Because last night I had some leftover for dinner. And I have to tell you, now you see I'm drinking milk for breakfast. Yeah, but that's chocolate milk, isn't it?
But it's only a little bit. It doesn't count. It doesn't count. I have a heartburn, and I'm like, I can't stomach regular milk. And I'm just like, oh, my word. Oh, my Atlanta. Yeah, skipping the Black Rifle coffee this morning. Coffee's a little acidic. So you had stew is what you said? Gotcha. I mean, like moose stew. What was it? Irish stew. Irish stew. I wish I had some, too.
Yes. I wish. I wish. It was very good. I mean, me and potatoes, how can you go wrong? Literally, as soon as you said it, I'm like, mmm. I got some lamb, so I'm going to make someone some lamb. Oh, lamb, yum. Yeah, I was a little heavy-handed with the cayenne, I think. Oh, that will burn back through you.
I'm like, oh, you know, I woke up like three times during the middle of the night, you know, because I had heartburn. It is miserable. But, you know, look, worth the pain. It's so good. Worth the pain. I think I'm going to go grab me some taters. I'm out of taters, so I need to get some taters and whoop me out some of that also. Oh, yeah. It was nice. It was nice. Well, I'm glad it's Tuesday. I got to tell you, the winning keeps going. I just keep watching Trump, and I'm like, we just keep winning. I mean, you cannot keep up.
with the number of executive actions. And I'm not just talking about EOs. I'm talking about directives and departments, and the winning just keeps going. Well, what I've noticed is, compared to the very first term, he knows what he's doing now. First term, he was completely whisked. And the problem was he had training wheels, but they weren't training wheels on his side.
Go ahead. I was going to say, with the first term, he was subject to the swamp, right? He was reliant on people to basically tell them this is how it's done, this is what's done, and this is the product. Like, he had to learn the ropes. These are the people you talk to. Yeah, and he had a lot of snakes in the pit. Let's just put it that way. A lot of snakes in the pit. So what are you going to do? Yeah, this time, though, he's already figured it out. He's like, okay, I just do this and I do that, and we've got one of those over there.
Like I said, it's and talk about throwing the progressives into a world. I mean, me, I'm trying to keep up just figuring out what it is. They're trying to keep up the outrage. And it's just like, wow, fire tornado. This is a great example. You know, I was watching Fox News this morning and as I'm watching Fox News, they have a guy on and he's talking about, I mean, you have to remember, Trump has been president all for now. Today is the eighth day.
I mean, he was sworn in a week ago Monday, a week ago yesterday. So he's been president all for like a week, right? And as of this morning, it was being reported on Fox News, already ISIS had 4,012 arrests of, you know, illegals. And what are they arresting? They're arresting rapists and murderers and drug traffickers. You know, they're arresting gang members. I mean, they're going across.
You know, the country and Colorado, Chicago, we hear they're going to be turning their sights on New York soon. But they have been going all across the country making these arrests of the worst of the worst. And I watched this interview with, was it Nora O'Donnell? I'm trying to think of who it was that was with J.D. Vance yesterday. And I can't remember who it was, some liberal reporter. She was interviewing J.D. Vance yesterday.
And, you know, the feigned outrage, you know, first of all, when these reporters interview any Democrat, they don't interrupt, they don't constantly, look, here's what is so funny to me. When I watch a liberal reporter try to counteract J.D. Vance on policy or the law, I'm like, girlfriend, you better, like, step it up because, first of all, these reporters are not smarter than J.D. Vance.
Let's just put it out there. They're just not. They try to be these policy experts. Look, you read cue cards. Let's be honest. You read cue cards. You're not a genius. You're not somebody who is this, like, intellectual juggernaut. And she's going through interviewing J.D. Vance and challenging him. But this country was founded on immigrants. And he's like, we don't need to have the dumbest immigration policy. It's been 240 years since our founding. And I would say we have the dumbest, like.
immigration policy in the world. Like J.D. Vance has just given it back to her. Well, are you going to go to churches and schools and arrest immigrants? Well, we're going to go wherever the bad guys are. I mean, first of all, this is the stupidest argument. Think about this as a parent. When you know ICE is sweeping across the nation and they're arresting murderers and rapists. Gerald, if there's an illegal immigrant in your kid's school,
That's a murderer or a rapist. Wouldn't you want the police to come in and remove them from your child's situation? Like as soon as possible. So their argument is basically going, it's bad to deport an immigrant who's a murderer or a rapist. And, oh, no, they're off limits if they're in a church or a school. Now, I've got to be honest with you. I don't know any law enforcement agent who, if they know there's a really bad guy,
in a church or a school or a grocery store or a Chuck E. Cheese. Like, here's the thing. They're going to go wherever the bad guy is and they're going to remove them. Especially, I would say, if there's a murderer or a rapist in a school, yeah, I want them removed as a parent. I don't want that sicko near my kid. Well, and crazy enough, so earlier in the week, one of the schools that they sent
People to, well, actually, let's come back from the angle of the school. The school had officers show up at it. They locked the doors and refused to allow the officers in because they were sure they were ICE agents who were coming to raid the school, so they wouldn't let them in. Do you know what turned out those agents were from the federal government? What? They were from the Secret Service. And so they locked out and kept the Secret Service out from coming in. But this is crazy. They're going to lock out law enforcement. This was admin for the school.
Look, we're going to get into this in the show. But I've got to tell you, I've said this on the show before. When you have people that are harboring criminals, that is a crime. Period. End of discussion. That is a crime. And I think there's going to be some points made. And I think at the end of the day, there's going to be feigned outrage.
Everybody's going to go to Selena Gomez round. They're going to be crying. There's going to be tears. Like, you're an idiot. Like, at the end of the day, if people are harboring murderers, rapists, terrorists, I don't care who it is. If you are harboring criminals, like, you're part of the problem. And so, you know, it's going to be interesting. I have a couple stories relating to this, but I've got to be honest with you.
The winning keeps going. This morning on Fox, they reported, as of this morning, 4,012 arrests have already been made in the first week of Trump's inauguration of his presidency. And so, you know, like, look, it's going to ratchet up. Look, this is just a drop in the bucket, literally, when you have 2 million known gotaways. Like, people that have just, you know, come across, you don't even know who they are, you have no idea.
4,000 is like, it's a drop in the bucket. But the fact is that ISIS is focusing on the worst of the worst. And, you know, I saw Tom Holman getting interviewed, and people are like, well, you're not going to be going into people's businesses, are you?
Yeah, that's where the criminal is. We're going to go wherever the criminal is, and we're going to arrest them. And no other law enforcement agency is told you can't go into a business, you can't go into a church. They go where the bad guys are. These reporters are literally stupid. Like, I can't take it anymore. I cannot take it. It is too much, Daryl.
Too much. Maybe we shouldn't call them reporters anymore. We need to come up with a new name, a card reader. I don't know. Something, though. I know. They're little puppets. That's what they are. It reminds me of, like, a ventriloquist. They're just little puppets, and they read whatever's on their teleprompter, and they sound like idiots. Like, it is not a winning argument, to my point. It is not a winning argument when the vice president of the United States...
or the border czar, Tom Holman, is saying we're arresting criminals that are murderers, terrorists, drug traffickers, you know, rapists. These are the people that we're arresting. And the reporter's like, but you're not going to do it in a school or in a church or in a business. No, we're going to do it wherever the bad guy is. Yep, yep, yep. And I think every rational American is like, yeah, probably a good idea.
I don't know. I seem to resemble that puppet that you're talking about there, Amy. I kind of take that personally. I can't take it. I can't take it. Okay. I am going to zoom through my public notices. There's not a lot of them, and I know I'm running late, so I'll do this quick. Tonight at the Matsu, the Tanina Community Council has their community council meeting at 7 p.m. at the Menard Sports Center. If you want more information, just go to matsugov.us.
As far as the City of Wasilla goes, the Planning Commission has their regular meeting from 6 to 10 p.m. If you need more information, that, of course, is at Wasilla City Hall. Just go to cityofwasilla.gov.
As far as the city of Palmer goes for tonight, there is a regular city council meeting tonight, of course, at the city hall in downtown Palmer. If you need more information on that, go to palmerak.org. As far as the municipality of Anchorage goes, the Geotechnical Advisory Commission has a meeting today at noon. This is going to be over there at the Planning and Development Center, which is located at 4700 Elmore Road. It's going to be in conference room 170.
and that is it for boards and commissions for today. I didn't see anything on the city of Kenai, the Kenai Peninsula Borough, or the city of Sogotna's calendar, and there is nothing on the calendar for the city of Homer until February, which is next week, believe it or not. So that's it for our community announcements. See how easy that was, Daryl? Easy peasy. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. All right, we're going to go ahead and take our first break of the morning. If you'd like to call in and be part of the show, 522-0650.
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Welcome back. Current time is 619 on this Tuesday morning. Hopefully your day is off to a good start. So we started talking about, you know, these deportations that have already started under the Trump administration. Look, you can't let millions and millions of people into the country that are criminals from other countries because they're going to come over to your country and they're going to create crimes in your country. That's what they're going to do. They're going to commit crimes in your country.
and over again I mean ask any border town and frankly with the way that they've flown criminals and illegals all over the country every town practically is a border town
It has become an issue. It has become a real issue. And the rates of crime, I mean, I wouldn't even go to New York City now. Oh, no way. You look in New York, I mean, people just walking down, just get assaulted, just walking down the driveway, the sidewalk. It's just unbelievable. And, you know, and I've said this over and over again, you know, you have these mayors in these sanctuary cities that are trying their best to,
to shield illegals from deportation. You have to ask yourself, why are they prioritizing foreigners that are criminals over their law-abiding American citizens? I mean, why are they doing that? I keep going back to this. Look, I fully expect the Republicans are going to wuss out and they're not going to do what needs to be done when it comes to immigration. Do I think that they're going to?
And honestly, you know, Trump has taken a stab at ending birthright citizenship, which I have been an advocate for for a long time. I do think if it's going to need to be done, it's probably going to need to be done through legislation. And what will that look like? Is that, you know, a Supreme Court action that says birthright citizenship is not, you know, it has to be American-born citizens that it extends to? Maybe. Or is it legislative action through Congress? Probably.
Is it a constitutional amendment? I don't know. You know, but that's what the debates are going to be in the courts is how this process unfolds. But that is one. But the second part, if they refuse to deal with it, and I have yet to hear one legislator accept that this is what they're going to deal with, but they need to end counting foreigners in the U.S. Census for apportionment.
If you don't do that, you still have incentivized the Democrats to flood the country with foreigners. You have to take away the incentive, right? So that's why if you take away birthright citizenship, that's one of the incentives you take away from the foreigners coming in, right?
And then all the free programs and all this kind of stuff, too. That's one issue. That's one. You have to de-incentivize the foreigners. But then you have to de-incentivize the political apparatus from wanting to flood certain areas with more people. Because when they count them every 10 years for the census, then it redraws congressional lines. And the more people you have, the more seats you get.
If those people were only U.S. citizens, do you think they would be flooding these cities with foreigners? No. But why do you think the mayor of Chicago is so fervently defending all these immigrants that are coming into Chicago? Because he knows he's going to gain congressional seats that way. And if Republicans refuse to address the apportionment issue, we're going to get our butts kicked for the next hundred years.
Like, that's what's going to happen, because that's what they're trying to do. The Democrats are trying to flood the zone. And if you don't actually disincentivize it, de-incentivize it, you're going to have the same problem. So this is, like, to me it's so obvious, the fix here, but it drives me crazy, Daryl, because you have the apparatus on both sides that are trying to ignore that issue and not actually deal with it. And it's infuriating, actually, to me.
One of the other things we're seeing is some of these mayors that are in these so-called sanctuary cities are trying to obstruct, not be helpful ICE in their efforts to deport foreigners that are very dangerous. Well, Representative Jamie Comer has now called to the Hill. He is asking the mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City to testify before lawmakers on the effectiveness of sanctuary city policies.
According to Fox News, House Republicans are calling sanctuary city mayors to testify next month about the policy's impact on public safety and the refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. U.S. Representative Jamie Comer from Tennessee, he's the chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, said he was launching an investigation into sanctuary cities across the United States to determine whether they have complied with federal immigration enforcement laws.
In a letter, he asked Michelle Wu, Brandon Johnson, Mike Johnston, and Eric Adams, the mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York, respectively, to provide documents and information related to sanctuary city policies of each. They were each asked to testify at a public hearing on the matter February 11th. It says right here, here's a quote from Comer.
on his first day in office president trump took decisive action to restore the rule of law it is now imperative that our immigration laws are enforced across the country and that criminal aliens are swiftly removed from our communities
He goes on to single out these four communities and say they stand out in their abject failure to comply with federal law. In fact, I think, like I said, I mean, this is probably not going to be popular among a lot of people, but I am tired of there not being law and order. And when you have lawmakers, whether it's a mayor, whether it's a sheriff, whether it is a, you know, whatever, anybody in a position of public trust, if you are knowingly harboring a criminal,
and protecting them from, frankly, federal law enforcement, I think it's criminal. And I think you should be held accountable. I don't think it's complicated. I think the problem is in D.C. for so long, the D.C. people and these politicians across the country, they just ignore the law, and the rest of us are held to account, but they are not. And all it will take, Daryl, is for one of these people.
to be arrested for obstruction of justice or whatever. And one of these people, and I think it would send that loud, thunderous message. And is it political persecution? No. It's called law and order. Like, if you break a law, I don't care if you're a Republican mayor or a Republican sheriff or a Democrat mayor or a Democrat sheriff, if you are knowingly harboring a criminal illegal alien and protecting them so they don't get arrested by ICE, I think that's criminal. And I think you should be held accountable.
I think you should be held accountable. I don't think it's complicated. Like, this is not that complicated. In my opinion, not that complicated. The liberals, though, the progressive side, liberals, Democrats, whatever you want to call them, whatever label we want to affix to them, will automatically, though, say it's retribution and vindictive, and they'll find a way to point it out. Well, look, Trump saw them last month, and I saw him frown at them. He's going after them as a vendetta.
Again, I think it's called law and order. And there's a time, look, if you or I were to obstruct justice, if there was some sort of criminal investigation going on and we obstructed justice, our butts would be in the clink. That's what would happen. Beyond immediately. And not only would they be there, they'd hold us there until nobody remembered we existed. Yeah. And so you look at it and you're like, how is it that?
The politico types, you know, these political, you know, elites, how is it that they just get a separate set of, like, they just don't have to follow the rules. They get to do whatever they want. Like, that is not law and order. Law and order is when everybody's held to the same standard. And I think, you know, we'll see what happens. Do I think we'll actually see some of these people held accountable to the standard that I think they should be held? No. I don't think it'll happen.
I just don't. Even Trump, I don't think he'll do it. I just don't. I don't think he'll do it unless there's an absolute egregious case. I just, like, I think a lot of these cases are egregious, frankly. But, I mean, we're seeing reports of certain local communities that are releasing aliens that are criminals.
whether it's rapists, drug traffickers, whatever. They arrest them. They know they're in the country illegally. They know that ICE has a detainer on them, and they immediately release them. And what we're finding now is ICE is catching them on the street as they're leaving the local police departments. So, I mean, this is what's happening. When you know there's an ICE detainer and you willfully ignore it, I think that's a problem. I think that is a problem.
All right, well, this is my thought. So let's first go to Tom. Good morning, sir. Good morning, Amy. To a fellow Matt Suvalian. Yeah, what's on your mind this morning? Oh, identity, politics, just things in general. You know what? I'm going to throw a little satire on this because I've already mentioned my piece.
You know, yesterday you were talking about certain politicians, and it's just so funny that the names they have. So you were talking about Cameron... Perez Verdea. Verdea, yeah. Yep, he's running for re-election to the Anchorage Assembly. Does his name sound like Perdeum? A little bit, a little bit. So it's just like these names, I mean, are they real?
Well, they are. In Cameron's case, I've been told when he got married, he took on his wife's last name. Oh, that's like Jack White or the White Stripes. So, yeah, I was going to say, but Cameron's running for re-election. So yesterday I ran through everybody who is running for re-election to the Anchorage Assembly, and he is running for re-election. I think he's in West Anchorage. Isn't that right, Daryl?
Yes. Yeah, he's in West Anchorage. Hey, Tom, I appreciate the call this morning. I'm running up against my break, so I've got to take a quick break. Then when we come back, we will continue with phone calls. Thank you so much for your call this morning. We'll be right back. Reach out to Amy now, 907-522-0650. That's 907-522-0650. It's Amy Demboski on NewsRadio 650, KENI.
Welcome back, current time 633. I'm going to go straight to the phones, and John is with us. Good morning, sir. Good morning, good morning. Look up U.S. Code 8, Section 1324. That's all the rules against helping illegal aliens in the country. And if you do that and one of them causes death, you can be put to death. Oh, wow.
Wow. See, this is my point. I knew there were codes. I've heard Tom Homan refer to the U.S. code, and he always says it so fast. I never caught, you know, what specifically the reference was, you know, the code number was. But that's my point. I mean, it's got to be illegal to help, you know, to help.
obscure ISIS operations. It's got to be illegal. I mean, aiding and abetting a criminal is clearly illegal. Yeah, but it states it right there in the U.S. codes. Yep, well, see, I knew that. This is why we have smarter listeners than I am. I knew there was something on the book somewhere. Thank you, John. I appreciate the call this morning. I've got to tell you, dear.
All right. Thank you, sir. Have a good day. I got to tell you, Daryl, this is why I love our callers. Man, they're tracking. Oh, they are. He was so fast on the code. I didn't quite get it in there. U.S. Code Section 8, and then I got 34. I wrote it down. U.S. Code 8, Section 1324. As he was talking, see, I take notes when people talk.
Because I feel like, you know, I actually am interested in what they're saying. So I always try to track what they're going. But did you find it? I was typing it. So that is smuggling, transporting and harboring or bringing in illegal aliens. He's nailed it on the code. Exactly what it is. It's weird how our legislatures and people couldn't take that moment to find that.
I'm telling you what. Well, you know, as we're watching Trump navigate his second term, there's been a lot of things that he's done. He's ended a lot of DEI programs across federal government agencies. They have reassigned certain staff. They have fired some staff.
Look, this is the president's directive. When you're in the executive branch, you have the right to hire and fire, and this happens in every administration, whether it is a governor, whether it's a mayor, whether it's a president. As they come in, they change out.
Other people's staff or previous staff with their own hires, and it's people that they feel like are going to be the best equipped to implement their agenda. It happens in every administration. And I have to laugh because these stories are trickling out one by one. I mean, but we're talking hundreds of people across the country that are being reassigned or, you know.
losing their jobs. Some of these DEI people, you know, I was watching yesterday and they're talking about some of the DEI people that are being let go at the VA or some of these different agencies, whether it's the EPA or wherever they put them in.
And they're like, we just don't know what we're going to do now. Where are we going to go for a job? Like, exactly. It's that useless degree that you got that they made a job for you. I think my favorite one right now is the other day I heard a conservative going up against a liberal. And the liberal was like, he's firing 17 of these inspector generals. You just can't do that. And the guy says, well.
Well, actually, they're actually fireable right here. Look, it says under the order of the president, he can. Well, yeah, but they're supposed to get at least 30 days notice, and he's firing them just right away. He says, so actually, you're not arguing that the president can't fire them. You're arguing that he can't fire them right away. And the guy's like, and it's just like, dude, where's your argument? Again, you know, like.
What can I say? You know, some of them, one of the ones that they were talking about was there was a number of DOJ officials that were reassigned to what they say a sanctuary cities, you know, type of...
of team, and one of them resigned yesterday. Career U.S. Justice Department official in charge of public corruption cases resigned. This is written by MSN, somebody named Sarah Lynch. Actually, it originally came out of Reuters. It's just being repeated by MSN. But Corey Amundsen, U.S. Justice Department senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations, resigned Monday after the Trump administration tried to reassign
him to a new role working on immigration issues, according to a letter by Reuters. And then it goes on to say, Amundsen is one of about 20 estimated career officials inside the Justice Department who were reassigned last week to a new sanctuary city working group inside the Associate Attorney General's office. At least two of those officials, Amundsen and National Security Attorney George Toskas,
had some involvement in the two criminal investigations against President Donald Trump over his retention of classified records case. Again, that was BS. Bravo Sierra with capital B and capital S. I mean, at the end of the day, the Presidential Records Act clearly allows presidents to retain classified information. It clearly allows them to decide what is and isn't appropriate for them to take. And what do we have?
We have then the Biden administration trying to weaponize the DOJ. And guess what? The little pawn leeches at the DOJ that use their political sway to go after Biden's political rival are now being told, uh-uh, if you want to work for us, you can go work over here on immigration. That's great. And they're like, no, I don't want to. And they jump off.
Which, you know, look, this is exactly what you do. I mean, at the end of the day, if people don't want to get on board, they can get out. That's exactly it. Look, I have helped many people find a new career path. And, you know, you always give people the opportunity to rise to the challenge, or if they can't, they can leave. And immigration is clearly one of America's number one issues. I think it is one of the biggest issues.
That drove people to Trump, frankly. It was that and the economy. It was national security and the economy, in my opinion. And it makes, it does not surprise me one bit that Trump is prioritizing that and he's doing exactly what he said he's going to do. Well, I think that's also part of what's driving them crazy is he said they were going to do it. They all were like, yeah, yeah.
and he's doing it, and he's doing it rapidly. He's not waiting. You know, we're going to do one order today. We're going to do one order tomorrow. It's, all right, guys, we're up at 4.30, 5 o'clock. We're going to start the orders, 8.30 at night. All right, guys, that was the last order. Let's get McDonald's.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So that's why I just look at it and I'm like, Trump ain't playing around. And if you just try to keep up with his executive orders that are going out, it is unbelievable as we are watching it just unfold. But, you know, the other thing that they're in the process of doing is they're really working hard to try to get some of these confirmations through. And it is not going to be the easiest. It is not going to be easy. Let's put it that way. You know, I was watching Senator Kennedy.
uh yesterday and he was talking about who's going to have the hardest time he thinks the majority of trump's nominees will make it through but you know out of all the people that he was talking about you know the one i care about the most is cash patel because i think he's honest i think he's very effective i think he's proven that over the years and he's somebody i think that you absolutely he has he has he has proven himself as somebody who is not afraid
to expose misdeeds of people in high levels of government, and I think it's appropriate. Like, I think if you're going to win back the trust of the American people, you need somebody who's not afraid to say, this happened and it's wrong.
And Kash Patel has that. So that's the one that I care about personally the most. But Senator Kennedy yesterday in the Daily Caller has an article out. It says Senator Kennedy says Tulsi Gabbard is in most danger of not getting confirmed by the Senate. Senator Kennedy is from Louisiana. And he said yesterday that the Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard is likely in most danger of not getting confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Gabbard has criticized the U.S. government for handling over billions of dollars of Ukraine and accused the power elite of risking America's safety for the benefit of Ukrainians. The nominee has come under scrutiny from Democrats, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for challenging the status quo on the Russia-Ukraine war and have publicly accused her of being a Russian asset and a threat to national security. Okay, she's clearly not a Russian asset. But when we get to the point of...
This is what I'm talking about, Daryl. The deep state is still strong, even on the Republican side in D.C. All you need, you can only lose three votes in the Senate in order to be able to still confirm Trump's nominees. And the problem you have is the military-industrial complex is strong, and they are deeply embedded in both sides in D.C. And so when you have somebody who's in these very strong power positions that has been critical of that,
We are talking about a great deal of money for a great number of people that are in the political circles that will do anything to protect their gravy train. And Tulsi Gabbard is a threat to that, especially if she's in the national intelligence role where she and the information she has can significantly sway a president's decision and how he makes his decision.
Again, when you start looking at this one, Tulsi Gabbard may not have been on everybody's pegboard as she's probably the most vulnerable, but Senator Kennedy is already raising the flag. And what that tells me is watch for the Republicans that vote against her. Now, look, over the years I've been very critical of people like Lindsey Graham, but I've also praised him because, you know, there's been times where I've been very...
on board with some of the policy positions he's taken but but there's a lot of these guys that yes we agree on many issues but they are still very much very like the cheney type republicans very pro-war well and also you got to remember tulsi gabbard used to be a democrat she only recently converted to being a republican and a lot of those republicans have very long elephant memories because well
They're old as elephants. So they're going to use that as a grudge also against her. And the Democrats that might have swayed over are literally going to be going, no, she already ruined us once. I think less of the issue about being a Democrat for me. Look, Trump used to be a Democrat. I look at him and I'm like, okay, you know what I see with the Democrats? It's like they are so fervently against Tulsi Gabbard and Kennedy.
You know, when I'm not talking about Senator Kennedy, I'm talking about RFK Jr. for health secretary. But it's almost like they're very triggered that they have a defector and they're going to make a point to tank those two.
That's what it feels like to me on the Democrat side. On the Republican side, I think with Tulsi Gabbard, I think it is very much a deep state military complex type of thing. I mean, I just don't trust it. Whether we're talking about Mitch McConnell or whether we're talking about...
We'll see. We'll see what Lindsey Graham does. We'll see. We'll see. Like I said, I just don't trust some of these longstanding senators that have very close ties to the Raytheons of the world. Right. As you said, military-industrial complex. I just thought about something. Can we give a nickname to RFK? Can we call him Right Hook RFK just because he doesn't like jabs?
Yeah, yeah, that's funny. That's funny. That's cute. You know, we haven't even talked about this yet, but it has been fascinating. I can't wait to see some of the classified documents that Trump is declassifying regarding the JFK assassination, the RFK assassination, the MLK assassination. You know, I'm one of these people that I absolutely believe the government, the alphabet soup. We won't say the name because every time I say the name, something weird happens to my technology.
I absolutely am one of those that believe the government had something to do with it. I want to know more about Boggs' death. That's the one I wanted to release information about is Boggs' death.
Boggs. Who's Boggs? That was the gentleman who stood in front of Congress. He was a congressman. He stood in front of Congress. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He said the CIA is doing bad things, and I'm going to expose him. And then he died in an Alaska plane crash. With Mark Begich's, or not with Mark Begich. Would it be his dad? Yeah, Congressman Begich. Yeah. With Congressman. Former. Former Congressman would be his dad. Or Nick Begich's uncle. Yeah, he used to, grandfather. Grandfather, sorry. Grandfather, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, no. So, no, you're right about that. See, it took me a minute to place it because I was thinking modern day, not before I was around day. Right, right. That's just one of those nagging things that's bothered me because for years I didn't know that that had happened. And now it really throws a giant black shadow on that missing plane. Oh, I tell you, like I said, I think there's so many secrets that the U.S. government has. Like, I'm just nosy. I just want to know.
I just want to see it. I just want to know. So I can't wait until some of this information is released. I mean, 60 years is long enough. I mean, there comes a point where, you know, honestly, I mean, whatever happens, happens. And I know a lot of times I think they wait until everybody involved is basically dead. So they can't, you know, nothing happens to them effectively. But come on.
Come on. Do any of us really trust the government? Like, honestly. And, you know, you say you want to know. Do you know why you want to know? Because you were raised in the generation that used to hear this every Saturday.
That's right. Knowledge is power. That's it. All right. We're going to take a quick commercial break. If you'd like to call in 522-0650. Now back to the boss, Amy Demboski. Call 907-522-0650 and be a part of the show on News Radio 650. KENI. Welcome back. Well, I will tell you.
It is. They are not messing around down at the southern border. You know, and what's so amazing to me, Daryl, is you can see in the first week all the actions that have been taken. It demonstrates Biden could have done all of this. He could have done all of this. In a moment's notice, he could have done all. Oh, there's just nothing we could do. Well, he undone. He undid.
Almost 90 actions of President Trump's almost immediately and was so proud of it. And then what happened, an influx of foreigners started blowing through our borders, and they facilitated it. So not only did they have something they could do, but they created the issue, and they refused to stop it. It was intentional.
And that's what history is going to show. It was absolutely intentional. It could have been prevented, and then when it started happening, they could have stopped it at any time, and they just refused to. You know, they could have done that. You know, there's a lot of things going on right now. And as I look at the different stories, I think, okay, where are we going next? You know, when I look at some of Trump's orders, right now he is trying to
fix many of the things that the previous administration have done wrong, and one of the things they did was kick out military members before refusing to take the COVID jab, right? Many of us know people that have been impacted by this, and the reality is now President Trump has issued an executive order reinstating service members discharged under the military's COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
It says on August 24, 2021, the Secretary of Defense mandated that all service members receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The Secretary of Defense later rescinded that mandate on January 10, 2023. The vaccine mandate was unfair, overbought, and completely unnecessary burden to our service members. Further, the military unjustly discharged those who refused the vaccine, regardless of the years of service given to our nation. After failing to grant many of them an exemption that they should have received,
government redress of any wrongful dismissal is overdue. Consistent with the policies announced in Section 1 of this order, the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate, shall take the necessary action permitted by law to make reinstatement available to all members of the military active in reserve who were discharged solely for the refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaccination and who requested to be reinstated.
Enable those service members reinstated under the section to revert to their former rank and receive full back pay, benefits, bonus payments, or compensation. And allow any service members who provide a written and sworn attestation that they voluntarily left the service or allowed their service to lapse according to appropriate procedures rather than be vaccinated under vaccine mandate to return to service with no impact to their service status, rank, or pay.
So Donald Trump is doing everything he can to right the wrongs of the last administration. I think it's admirable. And I love the fact that he added in the back pay in there because that's a really important thing. And what really killed me about that whole situation is they kicked out perfectly healthy soldiers, okay, and yet they allowed the exception for 14,700 transgender troops to stay in the military. Yeah, exactly. I'll never understand that, never.
Well, you know, again, these people aren't logical or reasonable. They're lunatics. The policy positions they take are nonsensical in an often case. And often, often, often in many cases, they are nonsensical. I mean, the fact that we have to debate with somebody what a woman is, is ridiculous. At least you don't have to debate that anymore. We are taking care of that, and I appreciate that. That's right. There's two genders, according to the federal government now. There's two genders, which, by the way,
You know, there's an inmate in one prison somewhere who is now pursuing the federal government over their position that there's only two genders. Wow. Oh, yeah. You know, we all know it's going to happen. We all know it's going to happen. But, you know, here's the thing. The more we win, the more painful it's going to be for the left and the more lawfare we're going to see. Just accept it. It's just part of the reality. But you know what?
All we got to keep doing is just moving forward, keep winning. That's it. That's what's going to be in the best interest of our country. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. The opinions expressed on this show are those of the host and not of iHeartMedia or its employees. Thank you for listening to NewsRadio 650 KENI. Welcome back to live, local, and insightful Morning Drive Radio on NewsRadio 650 KENI.
Welcome back to Hour 2 of the Amy Dobosky Show, broadcasting live and local every weekday morning from 6 to 8 a.m. right here from South Central Alaska. I'm in Palmer. Daryl is in Anchorage. But through modern technology, we feel like we're in the same room. At least you don't have to smell like we're in the same room because, yeah, I did Mexican last night. Oh, no. Well, it was really good, though. Oh, there you go. Well, you know, I read an article that...
Some people are calling for Trump supporters to cars to be keyed in Mexican restaurants. There was an article I read last night about that. Some chick was on a rant. Is she the same one who said that all of us Republicans and conservatives should no longer go and eat Mexican food? Because there was one that came out with that. I was really in shock. That was a that was a different one. But yeah, I saw that same thing. And I thought, well, you know, I mean.
I just want to say I want to support every small business in my community. And I don't know what to tell you, but when I was in Juneau, so funny, when I was in Juneau, my car had a Dunleavy sticker on it when the governor first won. And the governor, so a bunch of us staffers and the governor go to dinner.
And the governor sees my car and we're having a conversation about, you know, cars and, you know, get them to Juneau and all that kind of stuff. And I made a comment about my car and having my Dunleavy sticker on it. And he looks right up and he goes, you need to take that sticker off your car. Like, you should take the sticker off your car. That's not wise to have it on your car down here. I said, I refuse. Like, I absolutely refuse to take my sticker off. You could have had a Greenpeace sign put over it. Well, I'm not. Yeah, one day I come.
I go to walk to work because I only lived, I don't know, a couple blocks from the capital when I was in Juneau. So I walked to work, you know, but I had my car there. Anyways, somebody busted out my taillight right next to the sticker. Well, of course they did. Smashed it all over. And I just, I got to be honest with you, I laughed. Like, I was just like, yeah, it cost me a couple hundred bucks, but it was totally worth it. I refused to acquiesce.
You know, if I support who I support, I'm not taking my sticker off my car. It's not going to happen. But I will say in his defense, like, he warned me. The governor told me, take that sticker off your car. And I said, no. Like, I absolutely refuse because he's like, like, your car is going to get damaged. He was right. It happened. I don't think it was a coincidence. No quinky dinks when it comes to that, no.
I don't care. Yeah, I'm like, whatever. I was going to say, you know, if that makes you happy. You know, look, I had a chance to support another small business in Juneau. There you go, the mechanics down there. Me, I'm not too worried because either, A, I will cook my own food. Like I said last night, I didn't make the tamales because I had tamales and then I had three kinds of tacos. But I can, you know, fry up tacos if I need to. But I don't because I've got my favorite food truck that's a Mexican one. So I tend to.
lean towards them. And then tamales, way too much trouble to make. I go to Mexico in Alaska. No, not Mexico in Alaska. It's the Linda one, the one over on Tudor. They put out some incredible tamales. Oh, my gosh. Oh, nice. Are you talking about a taco local? No, no. Over next to where Granny B's used to be. I'm having a brain lock. It's...
I'll look it up real quick here. There's so many good ones. I got to be honest with you. Chepo's, Lucia out here. I mean, whether you're in Wasilla or Eagle River are fantastic. Jalapenos in Eagle River, Gilbert over there, they're fantastic. I mean, we have some really great Mexican restaurants up here. I got to tell you, my favorite is Chepo's. I love their chicken fajita quesadilla.
It's like to die for. Big old chunks of chicken. It's so good. Mexico Lindo is what it's called. It's a little tiny green mug. Mexico Lindo. It's right next to where Granny B's used to be, which was a phenomenal breakfast cafe that almost nobody knew about. Only good locals knew about it. Yeah, yeah. And that's where my Tacos del Primo, which is a food truck, they took over that spot so they could actually run all winter long because otherwise they kept running into the cold days where they couldn't run their truck and stuff. So they took over the Granny B's spot. And I'll tell you what.
some of the best Mexican I have had in so long. I mean, like I said, they bring it straight out of northern Mexico, and it is delicious food. So, yeah, that's my callback. Daryl and I, we can make any story turn into a story about food. That can happen.
All right, well, as we change back to what is going on now, right now we're seeing lots of movement. You know, I've been in communication with a number of Alaska legislators, so we're going to start getting them into the rotation because the Alaska legislature is in session. Big items on the docket this year. Obviously, they're going to spend a bazillion dollars on education spending.
We'll see if there's any accountability tied to that. But this is where the governor will step in, and there will be negotiations because he will ultimately have the say in how much money. Why do I say that? Because he has the veto pen, and he has a strong Republican minority in both the Senate and the House. So he has the numbers to uphold a veto should he issue one. The question then becomes, you know, the governor will be in discussions with those minority members saying what is the right number.
for the increase to the base student allocation for education spending? And what strings should be attached to it? Because, again, should we just continue to throw money at an issue without accountability?
Or should we actually put metrics in place to say this is what's expected? And, you know, it's always amazing to me when we have to fight people to have transparency and accountability. I don't understand that. I think it's just laziness at this point. I think there has to be accountability. There has to be expectations that are articulated when we're talking about, you know, $1.47 billion to go back into.
to permanently go into the base student allocation over the next three years, that's a lot of money. So it will be in perpetuity. It's not just that's the amount of money total and that's it. It's in perpetuity. So, you know, we're talking about once we get past those first initial three years of them adding hundreds of millions of dollars to the BSA, your permanent fund is gone. Just expect that. That will happen because there's no other way to pay for it unless there's not enough Alaskans.
in Alaska who make money that can pay for that kind of spending. I mean, it's just not possible. So they're not even hiding it anymore. Representative McCabe was on yesterday. We were talking about that. He's like, they're not even hiding it. The goal here is to take the PFD. So just an earwig out there. Andrew Gray, Powerball. Powerball will fund education. All you Democrats, Powerball will fund education.
Daryl and I are both Powerball fans. I definitely want it up here. I know. Was it Warren Buffett who made the comment that we could get the national budget under control if we tied it to the legislators who write the budgets that if there's more than a 3% growth in our deficit that you remove?
And have to reelect all new ones. Wasn't that Warren Buffett? I don't remember who said it, but I do remember somebody saying it. So why don't we run this same thing? If school grade scores do not come up in a set period of time, all administrators, not the teachers, all administrators will be rotated out. Superintendents, assistant superintendents, all these people. I'm sorry. We're ending your termination. It's part of your contract. Your scores are horrendous. You're out. Let's get new administrators in. Give these teachers support.
Imagine that accountability. When we start talking about politicians, rarely there is accountability. Sometimes there is. The voters will speak, and I think there was accountability for Joe Biden this last election. I think the American public spoke and said, uh-uh, no, you're out. It's fascinating to me as you watch the media right now. When you start looking at CNN's numbers and the number of their numbers, their ratings have absolutely tanked.
It's a reflection of the American people's distrust of legacy media. And I think there's a great example of that in an opinion piece today in the Daily Caller. It's written by John Loftus. I don't know. He's an editor. But it says it's a tale of two pardons. Moments before he left Oval Office, former President Joe Biden issued pardons for James Biden.
Sarah Biden, Valerie Owens, that's Joe's younger sister, John Owens, her husband, Frank Biden, Joe's younger brother. Hours after he entered the Oval Office, President Donald Trump issued pardons for over 1,500 of the January 6th defendants who were federally charged in connection with the incident at Capitol. But, of course, the legacy media treated each pardon very differently. Now think about this.
You pardon your family members who have taken millions and millions of dollars, effectively laundered them through corporations and organizations to their own personal coffers and to your benefit as president and from foreign governments. And, you know, somehow the legacy media, Darrell, take a guess.
How much airtime do you think ABC News, CBS News, NBC News spent covering Joe Biden's pardon of his criminal family? Ten minutes. Okay, that's your guess for that. Now, how many minutes do you think they have spent on the January 6th pardons?
Four hours, three minutes, and 27 seconds. So close. So it says right here, according to a new analysis from the conservative media watchdog group Media Research Center, the flagship morning and evening newscasts for ABC News, CBS News, and NBC News spent three minutes and 32 seconds on Biden's preemptive pardons to his family members. But for Trump, in the January 6th pardons, 46 minutes, 32 seconds of analysis.
I mean, okay, so you have people that were literally swept up in this January 6 hunt by the federal government for trespassing on government property.
Some of them, of course, there were some property crimes involved. Some of them, I hear that, you know, were, of course, you know, were assaults or whatever. But relatively, we're talking about a protest. We are talking about people who walked through the Capitol. At points, some people fist bumped the police officers. So there were some people that were clearly nonviolent. I would say the vast majority of them were clearly nonviolent.
Some people were told, I was listening to one guy talk about his son being detained for the past three years. And he said they didn't even know sometimes what prison he was at because they kept moving him around. So he wasn't officially charged. He wasn't sentenced. But he was detained for three years. How is that American? That's unbelievable to me. And Trump said enough. Enough.
And he just said, that's enough. And, you know, the January 6th people got pardoned. Juxtapose that to the president of the United States criminal family, where they are literally taking money from foreign governments, funneling it through their family coffers. Some of the money is going to Joe. And clearly selling out the United States foreign policy to foreign adversaries.
And they get pardons and we spend three minutes on it. What's worse, selling out our national security or national interests or trespassing on federal government property? I would say the former is worse. I would say selling out national interests is worse. I would say nothing demonstrates corruption better than what Joe Biden's family did.
and what Joe Biden was part of, nothing demonstrates corruption better than that. And legacy media spent three minutes and 32 seconds on average on that story, but 46 minutes on January 6th. Wow. I apologize. You asked me a question there, and I was busy with a caller on the line there. Three minutes is all? Three minutes, 32 seconds. Wow. On Biden's preemptive pardons, but for January 6th pardons, 46 minutes, 32 seconds.
According to this analysis. I guess I missed all the coverage on Biden's because I was in the bathroom for that part of it. I missed everybody's coverage. I definitely could not get away from the J6, J6, J6 everywhere. Well, this is why the American people don't trust the media. It's because they see the blatant hypocrisy and the ridiculousness. I mean, you can't even get past it at this point.
And so when Donald Trump comes out with multiple executive orders, whether it is securing our southern border, whether it is, you know, righting the injustice that happened to many of our military members that were kicked out over the COVID vaccine mandate, whether it is ending ridiculous DEI policies that, frankly, destroy meritocracy and make our country weaker, whether it is any of that, they're going to always go to what they know, which is
Orange man bad. No matter what he does, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. That's what they're going to go to over and over again. And I think the problem they have is when they see this type of double standard being covered over and over and over again. This isn't a one-off. This is typical for these people. Look, Joe Biden was like this practically.
dementia ridden old man who couldn't hold a sentence together couldn't find his way off stage when he walked up to a podium he had these huge cue cards that said walk straight stop here
Ask this question in big, bold print. I mean, the reality is he was handheld. They pre-screened his questions. They pre-screened who was going to ask questions. Everything was scripted and choreographed. And when he went off script, it was a hot mess. It was a big old disaster, and everybody saw it. So you have that juxtaposed to President Trump, who is signing executive orders, giving him prompt to press Q&As. I mean, the difference is.
so stark, but the fact that the legacy media hid for years Joe Biden's lack of capacity is shocking. Right? And so people saw it, and now they're like, we don't trust you. Are you surprised? I'm not surprised at all. Well, Donald Trump is still at it. He is not only going towards
what is good for the national security and the border and all of those things, but he's looking to the future. And he's going to enforce laws that are on the books, but he's also looking to the future. And he says, you know what, there's a time and a place, and now we need to prioritize military excellence and readiness. I'll tell you what that's about when we come back.
You're listening to live, local, and always insightful Morning Drive Radio with Amy Demboski on NewsRadio 650 KENI. Get on the show now by calling 907-522-0650. Welcome back. Well, one of the EOs that has come out, it came out yesterday, prioritizing military excellence and readiness. This is coming from the desk of the president.
And it goes on to talk about military readiness and what it means. I'm going to go straight to Section 2 of the policy because this is effectively where the good stuff is. It is the policy of the United States government to establish high standards for troop readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity. This policy is inconsistent with the medical, surgical, and mental health constraints on individuals with gender dysphoria. This policy is also inconsistent with shifting pronoun usage or use of pronouns.
pronouns that inaccurately reflect an individual's sex. And it goes on to say, within 60 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense shall update DOD 6130.03, Volume 1, which is Military Service Appointment Enlistment Induction. And the Secretary shall promptly issue directives for DOD to end invented and identification-based pronoun usage to best achieve the policy outlined in Section 2 of this order. So again,
All the DEI nonsense, all the woke nonsense coming straight out of the military. This is exactly what President Trump said he was going to do. So that is yet another promise made, promise kept. The other thing he's coming out with where you're going to see a lot of headlines about this coming out. And you're going to have some foreign adversaries that are going to be anti this happening for obvious reasons. But President Trump, through executive order, has issued the Iron Dome for America EO.
Yep, it is. It says,
requirements and implementation plan for the next-generation missile defense shield. The architecture shall include, at a minimum, plans for the defense of the United States against ballistic hypersonic advanced cruise missiles and other next-generation aerial attacks from peer, near-peer, and rogue adversaries, acceleration of deployment of the hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor layer, development and deployment of proliferated space-based interceptors capable of boost phase intercept,
deployment of underlayer and terminal phase intercept capabilities posture to defeat a counter of value attack.
It goes on and on. This is quite long, so I'm not going to read the whole thing. But effectively, Donald Trump is going to develop an iron dome for the United States. I think this is long overdue. I fully support it. The only reason we don't have one was because of the ABM Treaty. That's what kind of stopped it all. But we pulled out of the ABM Treaty years ago. Yeah, a long time ago. Over 2002. Let's see. He has it here in the beginning of it. It says, the threat of attack by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles.
other advanced aerial attacks remains the most catastrophic threat facing the United States. President Ronald Reagan endeavored to build an effective defense against nuclear attacks, and while this program resulted in many technological advances, it was canceled before its goal could be realized. And since the United States withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 and initiated development of limited homeland missile defense, official United States homeland missile defense policy has remained only to stay ahead of rogue nation threats.
in accidental or unauthorized missile launches. Over the past 40 years, rather than lessening, the threat from next generation strategic weapons has become more intense and complex with the development by peer and near peer adversaries of next generation delivery systems.
and their own homeland integrated air and missile defense capabilities. So, I mean, the reality is what he's saying is we haven't kept up with technology, and it's time to, you know, it's time to get on board. Well, we haven't kept up with it, like you said, because we should have had this. I mean, we helped the Israelis do their three-tiered, and that's a really nice system. A lot of people don't know how many actual tiers there are to it. We've helped them build theirs. We've withheld ourselves from building it. But I can guarantee you China and Russia both have systems. They just don't publicize them.
Of course. And the reality is we are not keeping up with the technology to the same scale of China, frankly, and Russia, probably. The reality is if we don't do this, this could be to the detriment of every American, Republican, Democrat, Independent, non-voter. It doesn't matter. I mean, none of it will matter if you're dead.
At the end of the day, you have to be able to keep up on technology and protect your citizens from the technology that our adversaries have. These hypersonics are a big one. Exactly. It's a big deal. And so I'm glad to see that President Trump is taking national security.
Anybody who's listened to this show for any length of time knows that national security is probably my top issue. Obviously, fiscal issues are right there because you have to be able to afford your national security budget. But to me, it's common sense. You have to take care of life before you can take care of...
everything else like if you want to talk about education that's great well and fine but is it going to do any good if you have millions and millions of people that want to do us harm that come across the border probably not it's not going to help you if you're dead right it's not i mean the reality is
You have to keep Americans safe before you can do all the other things you want to do. And we have to have strong fiscal policies so we can afford to keep Americans safe. And we can build the infrastructure of our roads and our bridges and our education and all that kind of stuff. So, I mean, it's all connected, no doubt about it. But I love the fact that he is prioritizing national security because that is my top issue, personally. And I think it's just common sense at this point.
Orange man bad. Just wait. Just wait. You're going to see some Democrats on the other side that are just going to attack every single thing he does, even when they're good things. They will attack him because, you know, they can't give him an inch. They can't do it. They don't have it in them. They just don't. All right, we're going to take a quick break. If you'd like to call in, 522-0650.
Amy Demboski, 6 to 8, mornings on News Radio 650, KENI. Call now, 907-522-0650. Welcome back, current time, 738 on this Tuesday morning. Hopefully everybody's off to a good start. Jill, how are the roads around Anchorage? So the roads themselves are in...
barely good condition um there are slick spots uh particularly at the overpasses on ramps off ramps a lot of the intersections have been sanded or graveled but there was a real light sanding and by now most of that had probably been blown off the road because it is extremely it's cold out there now and it's going to get extremely cold between tomorrow and now
Yeah, I was hearing by Thursday they're calling for single digits. I actually was just looking at my one on it. We're talking sub-zero single digits. Oh, boy. Well, yep, it's definitely shifted. It's crazy. This weekend is 45 and gorgeous. And, yes, a little rain in spots, but 45. I mean, I had green grass on my lawn. And then you turn around and now this. I'd rather have a foot of snow than ice.
I don't like the ice. So I agree with you also because the way it freezes the ground, it messes. I sang the green grass all around, all around song this weekend as I was walking around my yard. It was like, wow, there's green grass everywhere. I think a couple of my trees started to pop also, you know, started to burn. Well, that worries me because that usually kills the tree when it freezes right after that because it's already brought water up into it and they're not good. So I'm a bit worried.
Well, you know, it has been weird weather, that's for sure. So do be careful if you're out driving around. You know, we talk a lot. Look, my filter goes away. I don't know if it's the older I get or the more annoyed I get with nonsense. I'm not sure. It probably makes it for an entertaining show. But, you know, I always laugh. I can't do it. I can't actually watch the view. It is so painful for me because.
Like, to listen to the screeching and the cackling, and I can't do it, Daryl. I just can't do it. It's so painful. Oh, but it's so much fun. I mean, I do put in ear protectors and stuff like that, and I have one of those cat scratchy posts next to me. But otherwise, yeah. I look at it, and I just think, you know, as you're having conversation with some of these people, you think, they cannot be this stupid. Like, it's unbelievable.
It's unbelievable some of the stupid things that come out of these chick's mouths. But, you know, it was so funny because I did see an article from the New York Post, and I saw this exchange. Senator Fenderman was on The View, and he's a Democrat from Pennsylvania. He seems, I can't even believe I'm saying this, but he seems to be one of the most rational Democrats there are now. But Fenderman flummoxes The View host when he says that Trump's New York City hush money trial was politically motivated.
Yeah, Captain Obvious. Captain Obvious there. This according to the New York Post, U.S. Senator John Fetterman sent the View host Sonny Hostin into a tizzy Monday when he asserted that President Trump's New York City hush money trial had been politically motivated. Yeah.
We all knew it. We all saw it. Appearing on the far-left ABC chat show in his trademark hoodie, Fetterman started out by covering a wide range of topics with a host from Hunter Biden to Trump's pardon of the January 6 rioters. The first-term senator had already rankled his fellow Democrats by visiting Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month. Because, again, orange man bad. How dare you actually work with the president?
A meeting he called, quote, overall a positive experience, end quote. The view, adding that he felt the president was kind and cordial during their hour-long conversation. While discussing Hunter Biden on the show, Fetterman then let slip that he believed Trump's widely publicized Manhattan trial, in which he was given a no-penalty sentence on January 10th, was more about politics than the facts of the case.
quote, I'm on record criticizing going after Hunter Biden, and I also agree that the Trump hush money trial in this city in New York was politically motivated, end quote. Well, imagine that. Imagine that. A Democrat. See, so when I go out and I say, Democrats, everything about Trump is bad, I have to point out, look, I think it's only fair to show that there are people out there on both sides that actually see reality for what it is,
This whole Trump prosecution thing was nonsensical. So I was glad to see it. But, you know, they were like flummoxed. I mean, they didn't know how to react to his response. But just for clarification, do you mean the 34-count case in which Donald Trump was found guilty of various financial crimes was politically motivated here in New York? That's what Sonny Hostin said. Sonny Hostin, yeah.
Yeah, 100%. They changed the law to go past a statute of limitations to stack charges where we don't even know what the underlying actual issue was that made it a felony, number one. But number two, yeah, Donald Trump paid his lawyer for a legal fee, and that's what you're calling a financial crime.
Well, and tie it in with elections. It's unbelievable. This is the most unbelievable nonsense. And this is why I say you can't even have a rational conversation with people who believe this crap because they just believe so many things that are not true. I mean, there you go. There you go. Oh, I can't wait to see what this conversation is. OK, I'm going to go to the phones because we have a we have a caller calling in. Her name is Amanda. Good morning, ma'am.
Good morning. Thanks so much, Amy. I just feel like you are a great critical thinking voice. Spoken like a teacher. I gotta tell you, I always laugh. I can tell who my teachers are because they're the ones who actually push you to actually think beyond the headline. Yes, and you know what? I started that journey actually in ASD. You know, I grew up in the era where we still had a great level of art.
education program here in ASD and kind of got my start there. Two things for you. One regarding some interesting requests I got from Representative Holland. But first thing is I just dropped off my two, I'm a charter school parent, and I just dropped off two kiddos for their citywide Battle of the Books competition. And they are going for their third city win. So our charter schools just do an amazing job getting kids, you know, loving reading, loving critical thinking.
So I appreciate everyone sending good thoughts for that. Absolutely. Well, you know, it is a lot of work to do the Battle of the Books. I remember when I was in school, my friends did it. I never did it, but I remember the work my friends put in. So we are sending good vibes their way, and congratulations to even getting them to do it. So the fact is, clearly you're doing something right.
Yes, well, just the school is amazing, their peers are amazing, and all the parents who put in all that time is amazing. And that brings me to what the request seems to be from Representative Holland. So I'm a Bear Valley girl, grew up in a beautiful place, went to Bear Valley Elementary. I spent a lot of time and still in the south part of our municipality and love it, and so that's what Representative Holland now represents.
And the request is for charter school parents to testify in support. So this Wednesday at 5 p.m., I believe there's a bill, a hearing for that, for House Bill 69. And I thought it was really interesting because it was saying that charter school parents need to be in support of...
$1,000 BSA increase with no strings attached. And I'm kind of scratching my head thinking like, okay, Australia schools, we have amazing results with, you know, a fraction of the money that the schools do. I don't think property tax owners really want to see, you know, they don't want to see taxes go up, their PFC go away because, you know, these districts want more money that aren't, using the charter school system, you know, as a whole.
You make a really good point. I had two thoughts on that. You know, one of the things that has annoyed me about the way the funding system works is when the money flows into the Anchorage School District, you know, they strip out the transportation money for charter schools so you guys don't get that pass-through. I don't think it's, I don't think it, when we talk about equity, I don't think it's equitable that charter school parents don't get the same benefit as regular school because these are all public schools. And as Dr. Bishop pointed out,
when she called in a few months ago, we have the best charter schools in the nation. So wouldn't we try to replicate that more and funnel more of the money directly to charter schools rather than, you know, feel like the big administration takes their cut? Yes, for sure. So that's about $600 per parent that drives their kids to school every day in transportation than they don't see.
Also, I thought it was interesting that he requested Bear Valley parents testify. Those Bear Valley parents, they put in almost as many volunteer hours as charter schools do to make that school community amazing. Everything they need to do for getting childcare up there, you know, they put in that time. And I just thought it was not very nice to kind of use those parents for this other.
political push that I don't think necessarily, from my reading, came from his constituents, but it's coming from somewhere. So I just wanted to put that out there. If you are against that unallocated, well, unaccountable BSA increase, you can testify Wednesday at 5 p.m., it sounds like.
I appreciate you floating that out there for people because, look, we have real issues, especially in this school district when we're talking about results. And I don't know that the money is necessary. Money is always a factor because it gives you more resources to do more things. But at the end of the day, we have watched the amount of money get.
pumped and pumped and pumped into these school districts, and we're not really seeing the direct results when it comes to the brick-and-mortar schools. We're seeing sensational results in the charter schools, and to your point, they are doing better with far less than what we're seeing in some of these other brick-and-mortar schools. So I think we need to reevaluate everything. Like, what is actually working, and let's replicate that.
Yes, and don't get me wrong. We need funds. Those charter schools, we need funds to help keep on bringing in the best teachers, giving the best experience for our students. We need a BSA increase, but not one that has no accountability to it. So stay tuned for the governor's bills. He sounds like he has some really great plans to bring just reasonable accountability that other states in the nation do and just things to help.
keep going, the amazing things that are happening in our public charter school is going strong. So thank you so much, Amy. Great. Great plug. Thank you. So, again, that is going to be House Bill 69 today, Wednesday at 5 p.m. It sounds like there's going to be public hearings. So we will definitely dig into that and remind people about that tomorrow, too. Amanda, thank you so much for the call this morning. Thank you.
All right. Bye-bye. We're going to go ahead and take a quick break. Then when we come back, Dill has a story he wants to talk about with everybody. It's going to be fascinating. You're not going to want to miss this one. Welcome back to live, local, and insightful Morning Drive Radio on NewsRadio 650 KENI.
I'm going to trigger everybody. We're going to do this quick because we only have three minutes. But Daryl has been on this kick for the past week, and he has been talking to me off air about this. There's a lot of scuttlebutt around Alaska, has been for a few years now, that Lisa Murkowski may not run for re-election to the Senate. In fact, she may run for governor. That's what people are saying, right? Daryl says, mm-mm, we don't think she's running for governor. Now, can we play the audio real quick? There was a conversation between Leslie Stahl.
and Peggy Noonan and the conversation went like this. Go ahead, Daryl. We're getting there. Don't worry. Do you agree with those who say that Kamala Harris lost or one of the main reasons she lost is because she's a woman? So Kamala Harris, is it because she was a woman? No. Here's how I see it.
There will certainly be a woman elected president of the United States in our lifetime. She will most likely be a Republican, I think a moderate conservative. I think Kamala Harris lost it fair and square. OK, so there are that part of that. That's the main gist of it. And what I've been telling Amy for the last week, basically since these confirmation hearings really started.
I came to the realization Lisa Murkowski is setting herself up to be a presidential candidate. I know everybody's like, what? Think about this. Think about this. She is literally, almost a month and a half, two months ago, came out and said, you know, I'm not labeled as a Republican in my own mind. I'm an independent. I work with both sides. She has sat here and gone to both sides in almost all issues. She is pulling the Democrats into her arms.
I will tell you. So Daryl believes Lisa Murkowski wants to run for president. Now, I think this is this is the fallacy in that thought. First of all. There's enough states that have closed Republican primaries. I think Lisa Murkowski, in most Republican eyes in many of these states, I mean, you go to Georgia, you go to North Carolina, you go to Texas. I don't think Lisa Murkowski survives a Republican primary.
If she runs as a Democrat or if she runs as a Democrat, that's something different. That's what I think she's going to do, Amy. She's not going to run. No way can she run as a Republican. Get it. But as a Democrat and then those. What's the name of the Republicans that hate Trump so much? They're the Lincoln Project, the Lincoln Project and the moderates. I mean, come on. We've got a lot of moderate Republicans. I love when you said that. I was going to say the Cheney's.
Janies, maybe. Look, if you want to strike fear in the heart of many Alaskans, you would think President Murkowski. God help us. God help us all. All right, that does it for Daryl and I today. We will be back with you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed tomorrow. Don't forget, on deck right now, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, followed by Sean Hannity, of course, at 11, and then the great Mike Piccaro and Crash every weekday from 4 to 6, live and local.
Daryl and I will be back with you tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. Until then, stay safe. God bless.