11.12.2024 -- NLS -- Trump’s Bold Moves, Idaho’s Water Woes, and the Fight for Political Power

On this episode with Neal and Julie, the duo dives into a range of pressing topics that reflect the political and social pulse of East Idaho and the nation. They kick things off with a roads report, noting wet conditions but overall smooth travel. Then, the discussion shifts to Vice President Kamala Harris, critiquing her qualifications and reflecting on the 2020 election's dynamics that brought Joe Biden to the presidency.

Julie and Neal explore the future of Donald Trump’s administration, speculating on sweeping changes like dismantling the Department of Education and reshaping American politics for generations. They discuss Trump’s influence on congressional leadership and his handpicking of cabinet members, signaling an aggressive approach to governance.

Local matters also take center stage as they examine water agreements, legislative priorities, and the impact of Proposition 1 on Idaho farmers. Neal and Julie weigh the complexities of balancing water resources against legislative hurdles, emphasizing the importance of planning for the future.

Rounding out the episode, they touch on immigration policies, including deportation processes and the narrative around border enforcement. The conversation ties in local perspectives with national implications, providing a stimulating blend of insights for listeners.

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Will. Hello and good morning. It is 807 on Newstalk 179. It is a wintery morning across East Idaho. As I check the roads report, though, it looks like everything's green and I think we got some wet roads. And even though we have some snow accumulating on some surfaces so far, the road surfaces seem to be fairly safe to travel.

However, that could change and we know here in Idaho how quickly that can change, so I would encourage caution. Nonetheless, at any rate, welcome. It's been a week since the big day. The big election, and I came to a realization over the last 24 to 48 hours. And maybe you experience this same thing that I did. Sorry, I got the hiccups here, but we've had Joe Biden for almost four years now, and we know the circumstances under which the nation had Joe Biden implemented as president.

And he picked Kamala Harris, probably one of the most under qualified, what about the fraudulent hollow, people to ever occupy the vice presidency and Joe Biden was a puppet, and we all know Joe Biden. I still, in my mind, for some reason, that whole dynamic with his presidency of him being a puppet, I still can hear him whispering in his old man, decrepit, dementia ridden whisper.

So to Marines, you remember that? And it was clear he had an earpiece and he was being told to salute the Marines, but he thought he was being told what he needed to say next. And so that's what he said. And we're like, he's just being guided, paraded around. And they needed his political machine. They needed his name recognition in order to beat Donald.

I mean, I don't know if all that's true or not, but what I'm saying is they didn't have anybody in 2020 that could beat Donald Trump. And so they brought out Joe Biden. And he clearly what it was. So the point is I could go on about that. But the point here, the realization that I had that maybe you've had is you've just become accustomed to being gaslit.

You know, you're being gaslit, you know, you're being told things that are the opposite of two plus two equals four. You know, we have a media complex, much of which does not affirm truth but contradicts truth. And some people simply became used to it and accepted what was stated to them as reality, as reality, I never did, I never got to that point.

I always sort of had sequestered that that cognitive part of me that protected the truth. That said, now boys are still boys, girls are still girls. Two plus two still equals four. And I think we all did. I'm not saying I was special. I think there's some people that have surrendered that completely. They just do what they're told.

They watch the news, and if they are given marching orders, whether overt or through tone, they take those marching orders and move forward with it. And I cannot even begin to tell you how refreshing it is that we, on January 20th, will make a return to reality in America. And there are some people that are losing their ever loving minds over it.

And that's okay. That's okay. I, I don't have a problem. I mean, I feel bad for them that they're going to be miserable, but I am thrilled beyond measure that we will return to adhering to rule and order or excuse me, law and order and the rule of law in areas like our border. I am hearing and reading stories that Donald Trump is going to dismantle the Department of Education.

That was a policy goal of Ronald Reagan's, because it was a it was a brand new agency, and Ronald Reagan did not want it to take hold, back when he became the president. And we know that it's an agency that has become, rather entrenched. Well, I, I feel like knowing that majorities can be fragile, that your political power is limited in duration.

I think we are going to see Donald Trump accelerate his goals. Goal setting and goal achieving. And we may yet see the disillusion of the Department of Education. And what a beautiful day that will be. Now, what Donald Trump has said, in order to get states to buy in, is we'll still send you grants, education grants.

There will still be a federal role. It's just that money won't be filtered through an agency that likes to engage in social engineering. We'll just say you need money for curriculum. Here it is. Now, that's not to say there won't be strings attached. There may be. There's what I you know, it'd be nice if if, Well, it would be nice if we just didn't have it all together.

But the only way to make it palatable and make it happen is that you. You've got to sort of wean them off of this. And I think a lot of school districts and a lot of states, they don't care whether or not the D.o.e. Department of Education exists. They do care about the money flowing to their state from it.

And so you keep the money flowing, you get rid of the federal agency. And then over time you reform how the money is flowing. And this could be an incremental thing. I love it. I have loved so far most not all, most of the names that have been put forward. Marco Rubio will make a fantastic secretary of state.

You have, Lee Zeldin, who's going to oversee the EPA. Great pick. Elise Stefanik, UN ambassador. Awesome. This morning, the first pick that I saw that I felt, was, Christine home for Homeland Security. Not not a fan. I know some of you are. I think some of you think that she's the in fact, speaking of Kristi Noem, my memory takes me back.

We had multiple texts from, I don't know if it was one or a couple of, listeners who said, take it to the bank. Kristi Noem is going to be Trump's VP. And I'm like, you're saying this like, you know, do you know, they never answered, but they seem to insinuate they had inside information? Well, I thought, I don't think so because Kristi Noem is kind of a hot mess.

The whole thing about, you know, killing the dog was a hot mess. The whole thing about the affair with Corey Lewandowski, which we don't know the rest of that story, that was a hot mess. And there were things about transgenders in sports. She waffled on that early on. I think she finally did come back around. So there's just sort of this pattern with Kristi Noem that makes me go there.

I'm kind of lukewarm on Kristi. No. And now here it looks like she's going to be the Homeland Security secretary. Here's what that tells me. A favor is being fulfilled and these things happen. Positions get promised for certain reasons and different reasons. And who knows, maybe Corey Lewandowski arranged this for I don't know. I have no idea. I could speculate all day.

I just know that was the first pick that I saw, that I felt like, there's probably better people out there to do that job. That's an important job. There's probably more qualified people. But you know what? Overall as a whole, I love what I'm seeing. There are rumors. I've seen no headlines. But I will tell you that the rumor mill is churning, that Mike Lee could get tapped as attorney general.

I would love that. Now, I would hate to see Mike Lee leave the U.S. Senate. I love him there and the influence that he has on the Senate. So that would be a vacancy that I would hope would be filled with someone very similar to Mike Lee. But I think he'd be a fantastic attorney general. In fact, I'll make a prediction right now.

I think we may see Mike Lee on the Supreme Court of the United States. He may even be Clarence Thomas's replacement. Now, we don't know this for sure. There may be other reasons why there are others more qualified and may do a better job. But because Mike Lee is in our neck of the woods and we we like him.

We like what he stands for. I think I'd be on team Mike Lee for that. So, so far overall with just an exception or two. I really like what I'm seeing. Right now we have the fight in the Senate, and this is very fascinating over who is going to be the new Republican majority leader. John Kennedy was on Fox.

Here's what the senator said. There's an official looking document floating around the internet that supposedly says, here's how every Republican senator would vote, and here's who he or she would vote for, for, for Senate Majority leader. And in a in an unprecedented act of selflessness, it has Senator Thune actually, voting against himself. And for Senator Cornyn, if you think this list is real or accurate than, he probably thinks that Elvis is alive and running a small beach stand on Lake Erie.

We haven't even had a meeting yet to hear the formal proposals from the three nominees about how half of all they will run things differently than Senator McConnell. Here's what I know. We will pick a leader who will advance President Trump's agenda. We saw what everybody else saw on Tuesday night. Here's despite what the so-called experts in Washington say with their with their in PR tote bags and their organic broccoli.

This was a really simple message from the people who Republicans aren't perfect, but the other side is crazy. And President Trump is going to do things differently. And we will pick pick a leader who will help him do that. Okay. So I feel like and I'm a Trump loyalist, I love Trump. I think he's great. But I think there are some of us that have put the Senate in a tough situation because of this overt demand for Rick Scott, which I agree with.

I would vote for Rick Scott in a heartbeat. The Senate does. It's filled with ego, and they cannot look like they are simply rolling over and being pushed around and told what they must do. So I feel like this push for Rick Scott may be over overplayed a little bit, because now there, they're in a tough spot. And I will say I, I'm not sure which is worse, John Cornyn or John Thune, they're both kind of mushy, moderately middle mushy, whatever.

And I want someone with a backbone. I want someone that will stand up legitimately and with strength. And independents support Trump's agenda. America spoke very, very loudly on Tuesday night, as has been pointed out, this is the most rightward shift that we've seen since the early 80s. And Ronald Reagan, we haven't seen anything like this, even California has shifted right.

I also notice this just as a little aside here. Notice the pick of Lee Zeldin and Elise Stefanik. Don't think that is not about the future and softening up the blue status of New York State. I think Trump has his sights set on not just four more years as president, but reshaping the entire landscape of American politics for a generation.

He has the power to do that, and I think he will. He's also thinking about his his future legacy. And there's the guy. I forget his name, but he's the on the ground grassroots guy in Pennsylvania that essentially flipped Pennsylvania red because he worked tirelessly to go out and get Republicans registered to vote and reminding them, you've got to get out, vote early, vote day or whatever you do.

You got to get out and you got to vote for your Republican candidate. And now we have McCormick Ice, and he's now eyeing another state. I haven't heard which one, but it very well could be the state directly to the north of Pennsylvania. He may go into New York and do something similar there. We'll just have to wait and see.

But as I watch this and this would be my message, we have no idea. We've seen this leaked document. It seems to indicate that both Risch and Crapo are leaning. Cornyn again, as John Kennedy said, that document is is is fraudulent. And you know what? I was thinking about this. Maybe the documents not fraudulent, or at least maybe it's a an accurate reflection of where people are at.

But John Kennedy with this line saying it's a bogus document, is giving the Senate enough room to actually revisit this, because Trump may not get his first choice. But I think if Trump went to the Senate and said, look, I've been elected with a mandate both electorally and, with the popular vote, I don't want John Cornyn as the majority leader.

They probably would find someone else. I hope it's Rick Scott, don't get me wrong. And if you feel inclined to reach out to our Senate offices and let your voices be heard, I wholeheartedly support that. I'd ask you to do it with civility. Don't don't make demands. You must. You have to, Trump said. Don't do it like that.

All right? They're they're just going to be polite and hang up and whatever. But if you call up and say, you know what? I think the, the Trump the people spoke on Tuesday and I think Rick Scott is, is in the greatest alignment with voters on Tuesday, I think that's going to get you a lot, a lot further.

So let's hope I think there's time. And, I'm I'm hopeful that that can happen. However, I will say this and I've caught a little bit of flack for this, I have to admit, when you're elected with a mandate, you that doesn't mean you get to make every decision in every branch of government everywhere. And I love our republic.

I love the three branches. I love the separation of powers. And I will say this, regardless of how excited I was for the Trump victory last week and for him to be the president on January 20th and four years forward, it's not his decision. This is the Senate's decision to make it. Is there one House in one branch of the legislature with Trump having a big voice in it, and his opinion should be listened to but not obeyed?

It's very important that we keep these kinds of barriers in place just from a structural, functional standpoint. He is not a king, and we can never, ever go down the road of thinking that he is. So let's take a break. What time is it? Oh my goodness, it's 826. We'll be back. I do see, Brian Murdoch through the window.

He's in the house. We'll have him on here in about ten minutes and we're going to dive into the water, figuratively speaking, as he has been involved in this issue from the get go. He's been very vocal. And we'll get his take on the agreement and what happens in the future. Coming up on this Tuesday morning, also, Congressman Russ Fulcher is going to join us at 905.

We're finding out just in the last I'd say, a 12 to 18 hours that Republicans will hold the House right now. Real Clear Politics puts them at 219 seats. That's very good news. And we'll get his fresh take on that. Coming up on Newstalk 179, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. The Neil Larson Show, East Idaho stimulating talk on Newstalk 179.

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831 It's Tuesday Newstalk 179 Neil Eisen, along with Julie Mason and Julie. We're looking forward to talking with Brian Murdock coming up in a few minutes. He's in the house. He is in the house, which nobody wants to be out of the house right now because it's snowing. Yeah, he's very grateful for the snow, by the way. Yes, I am too, with caveats.

I don't care that you complain about your yard happen to cleared off the driveway. That's no fun. Yeah, no. It's okay. Like, I like dry roads, but I do like to see snow up in the mountains. So yeah, I will I will take this, but. All right. It's 832. I get some in my throat. Do you need another soda?

I don't know, I don't think so. Do you want me to talk about Crown Peaks Prime Meats while you get that out of your mouth, go ahead and do that. Yeah. Okay, so we were we were supposed to talk about him yesterday, but we got all wrapped up in lots of stuff. So I wanted to tell everybody I had in my freezer these, wings that are SUV, they're cooked and everything, and they're like the, the ribs.

All you do is stick them in your oven, get them good and warm, season em up, and you're good to go. Yeah. Those wings were on the menu for Sunday. Yeah. Now, I didn't eat any. I'm not a big wing fan. Not even one. No, my husband said they were fantastic. I've had them. And they are. Yes. So just one more thing that we haven't really talked about from Grand Peaks Prime Meats that you guys can order.

Yeah, there's so many. You can get just your basic ground beef, your chuck roast. But then they have the sweet meals, they have the the ribs, they've got the fajitas. Five out of five stars on the fajitas. So here's what you do. Go to Prime meats.com. Click on the packages and specials links. And that'll kind of show you what they have to offer.

Now if you don't see something that you'd like, it's always worth a phone call and say, hey, I'm kind of looking for this. Do you have any of that? More often than not, they can accommodate that. Absolutely, absolutely. They're great friends. They can be your friends too. Again, that's g p Prime meats.com. Okay, Julie, let's take a break.

Let's get, farmer Brian Murdock in studio and settled in. We're going to talk water for a while here. We know, this year like no other. It has been a hot topic. After government enforced an artificial drought on a bunch of farmers in East Idaho. Luckily, they got it temporarily solved. That led to a negotiation. And we're going to get the full story from Brian coming up just minutes away.

It's 830 for live local stimulating talk for East Idaho, the Neil Larson Show on Newstalk 179. Time to get you updated on the all new Newstalk 179. Brought to you by Idaho Falls Regional Airport, helping you make up for lost time. I'm Kelly Galvez with your top local headlines. The Idaho Transportation Department is hosting their winter driving class at the Chubbuck City Hall on Tuesday.

This class is from 530 to 630, and you can register on its website. There is another class planned in Rexburg at the Madison Library on December 4th. The classes will teach new drivers and people new to the area how to drive properly in the snow. Those who participate will also get a discount on snow tires from Les Swap for attending.

The Bonneville County Republican Central Committee is hosting a school voucher debate on Thursday. They will have presenters from both sides. They're presenting their perspective and answering questions. School vouchers are a big topic for the upcoming Idaho legislative session. The debate will be at the Shiloh Inn at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Everyone is welcome, and you can also stream it live on Facebook.

Some Idaho lawmakers are unhappy with their pay. As a result, they're proposing a wage increase for the next year, but some are rejecting a pay increase for all Idaho lawmakers until they can see other changes happen. People that support the increase say it will attract new legislators in the future. But the lawmakers fighting against this say inflation makes it the wrong time to do this, and instead they want their colleagues to repeal the grocery tax before increasing their salary.

To check out all these stories and more, visit our website. Local news 8.com in the local news eight newsroom I'm Kaylee Galloway's. Your first alert weather is next. Michael Kurtz from Local News eight. We're looking at some scattered rounds of rain and snow across the region, with most of the heavy stuff getting into the high country and gusty winds.

A high of 45 this afternoon. Winds at 10 to 15. Gusts around 25. Lows tonight falling back into the mid 20s. ABC News I'm Sherri Preston. This just in from Louisiana. State law requiring the ten Commandments in every public school classroom in that state has been blocked by a federal judge. Republican leaders meeting on Capitol Hill for the first time since the election.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, talking about the number of members of Congress that Donald Trump has already tapped for his cabinet. I know he's already pulled a few really talented people out of the house, hopefully no more for a little while until special elections. Here's ABC's Rachel Scott. Keep in mind here that Republicans are inching closer to the majority in the House.

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It's 839 on this Tuesday on Newstalk 100 79I do. I got updated information. Julie, one of our other station's morning shows, said that they're getting reports that there are some slick spots this morning. So if you're out and about, especially on the highways, wherever you're at, it could be getting slick. Now we're seeing some accumulation out there.

So we can look out the windows and see the station vans, and it's sticking on them. So it must be sticking other places. And one gentleman who's happy to see this moisture coming is Brian Murdock, who's a Bingham County farmer. And probably someone a lot of our listeners know who you are now, Brian. Thank you. Yes. More people are finding out who I am.

They're not exactly sure what I am, but they know who I. This man who didn't want to be a local celebrity, but now is exactly, exactly. I remember first seeing you on Fox News. You did an interview with them because it was shortly after the curtailment, and, the state of Idaho was shutting off farmers wells. Just saying those words.

I just I shake my head that that, that that happened this year. But it led to a massive debacle. And I think a big political problem for the governor and lieutenant governor. And it ultimately led to some negotiations. Their initial deadline was October 1st, but they extended that into November. Get us updated. I think our minds have been so much in the political sphere that we haven't really been paying attention to that.

So where does it stand now? Well, where it stands right now is all the groundwater districts are presenting this agreement to their to their patrons. Or Bingham Groundwater District in that on October 30th, I not sure exactly what they Bonneville Jeffersons or Jefferson class. I know Aberdeen American Falls district will be a little later, but everybody's coming in and they're getting votes from their patrons.

And so far, well, all the farmers are saying, what what other choice do we have? Of course we're going to agree to this. Yeah. As I've written in my Facebook posts, which, I've said, you know, do I like this agreement? No, I don't, because it's not a fair agreement. Do I recognize this is the best agreement we're going to get at this point in time?

Yes, I do, and I'm grateful. You know, everybody says, well, aren't you mad at the negotiators? I'm going no, because they did the best job they could with the tools they had. So I know that, I mean, it's very clear the governor took a hit politically. Is that fair to say that is very fair to say that he took a hit politically.

And I also believe that, lieutenant governor took a very big political hit. Now, you talked to a ton of farmers. You know, what gets said and how people are feeling. Do they feel a little less irate right now, or is there just this sense of we were not represented at all? Well, right now, the overall, feeling of farmers is exhaustion.

We are we are more than happy to see it snow and rain, because then we can finally slow down just for a minute. At least those of us that don't have cattle. Yeah. All right. Yes. Those guys, they've got to still keep working. But, no, everybody is probably relieved that we've got this far. The terms could have been much worse.

Definitely. We this new agreement, it's basically three points. And they're just quickly to rattle them off 205,000 acre feet of reduction or recharge. You can kind of interchange those things. And then we have what's called a 74,000 acre feet of rental pool water, in which this is kind of the immediate, immediate supply. We have to be ready to provide to them.

And then the last, excuse me, the last thing on the on the agreement, that's a major point, is what we're calling pumping reductions. And this is where the averaging came back in. We were all mad that our recharge wasn't getting averaged in the last agreement. And then and instead of it just being a simple averaging with the recharge, they've kind of talked it a little bit and, and thrown in this thing called pumping reductions.

And so we have a four year block of which we are assigned this much water. And you based on what your usage has been and, and, and what your district is allowing you to pump. And then after that you've got four years worth of that water. And whether it's a hot, dry year or whatever on year four, you could suddenly find yourself short.

It's kind of like a, you know, a bank account. You've got this much and you got a, you know, your water budgets this much. And if something happens and you have to use more water one year, you're suddenly going to be short on another. All right. So we learned, or at least I did. I said all along, this is not my wheelhouse.

I don't I don't know water. I don't understand it. But we learned last spring that the planning for farmers happens far earlier than maybe the average person would expect. Right. Sure. So what does the planning look like for East Idaho farmers right now? With what the three points you just rattled off? It sounds like they can go about this year pretty much as normal.

Yes, I would say, and this is what this agreement has done. This agreement has provided us with some sense of security that we will not, as long as we can fulfill the terms of this agreement, be curtailed. But this is this is this is where this agreement isn't a good one, in my opinion, simply because, there's way too much that can go wrong.

It's just like this, the snowpack that we're, you know, we need to build this year. As I was driving up here, the cars were starting to slow down. You know, we were getting the 55 miles an hour on I-15 rather than the normal 80. And everybody, I could just hear them cursing all this dang snow, you know, Ray, meals going might have been I can I can relate.

I, I can hear you all the way through the radio. Your answer. But, we need it because we're now suddenly responsible for this. And but at the same point in time, there is some security that as long as we can fulfill our terms of this agreement, it's. We have security. Okay. So is the deal done? I mean, I know we're waiting for the various groups to ratify it, but if they do, then it's it's settled for a while.

Not unless, the IDW Matt Weaver wants to throw another monkey wrench in the middle of it. But yes, it's probably a done deal. These are the three major points. Like I said, the farmers are going to agree because what choice do we have? I mean, you know, this goes back to what Frank Vandersloot said about the gun to our hand.

You know, this is the gun to our head. It we either agree or we go back to being curtailed. So what choice do we have? Yeah. Has Matt Weaver been more transparent over the last few months? At Weaver's almost been in hiding over the last few months. I'm sure he has taken a definite hit as far as his, desire to be out in the middle.

Everybody. But, and mostly also, nobody really wants to see him either. I know he's not welcome at the party, is he? Is not. Yeah, I know that there was some discussion whether he would come to our groundwater district meeting, and and I believe he was kind of willing to come, but it's like they said, stay home.

We don't necessarily want to have your distraction in the middle of this. Yeah, yeah. And he was probably happy to do that too. I would, I would imagine I will say this, Giuliani on election night, we had the opportunity to interview, oh, gosh, probably half a dozen lawmakers and nearly every one of them, we asked them what their legislative priorities were, and we didn't even dig for this.

They volunteered that they've got to solve this water issue in the legislature. So there's the agreement, but they feel like there's a legislative piece. If anything, it's to remove that much bureaucratic power in the hands of one person to be able to shut off so much water in a region in Idaho. Well, and that's, I'll tell you a real quick story about that and, and some of the reasons why, and I'll give you the credit.

Neal, the last time I was on this show, I was not even out of the parking lot before my phone was ringing. And on the phone was Barbara Hart, and she was saying, me and Wendy Harmon need to meet with you now because we need to start talking about what we can do, to help the farmers as legislators and representatives of Idaho Falls and ever since my last interview, I have been meeting with them weekly.

A lot of times we've been discussing, I've been kind of helping bring them up to speed. As far as you know, water is a complicated issue. And so we have been working together to, push forward what we're going to do for next year's legislation and what we can do. You know, what's needed. And I know there is a lot in the works as far as that.

This is needs to stay. And number one issue as far as this next legislative session, you said this morning that because prop one failed, it probably did save water because otherwise prop one and how to deal with all the ramifications of it would have been the number one priority of the legislature. So I fully agree with what you said earlier this morning about I have to give credit to Julie.

She was actually the one that said that. Oh yeah, it's all right. People confuse what we say. But she she brought that point up. So yeah. Okay. No, and like I said, I was I was trying not to slide off the road when I listen to that. No. You're good. Yes. It's so true. There's only so much bandwidth these legislators have.

And if that is, if they've got to fix a major atomic bomb that had had been imploded upon the election system, they're not going to be able to pay attention to water. So it does make a difference that that failed. Thank you. Idaho voters. Yes. And now water can be paid attention to yes. Yes. And I know right now even the water issue is because of the agreement.

I, I knew that we would have, a slide down the priority status. But as I've told, the representatives, my version is, is look, the farmers provided the table top with the agreement. So now we have that in place. We have the security, what the legislation needs to happen and the legislature, the representatives. I never can say that word.

Right. Legislator. Anyway, what they need to establish is the legs underneath this table. So it's not just one leg that's wobbly, but it's multiple legs. Yeah. All right. We're going to take a quick break. It's 850 on Newstalk 1079. Neil Larson along with Julie Mason. And when we come back, we'll continue our discussion with Brian Murdock about water in Idaho and any potential agreements and what it means for our economy and more.

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Neal Larson along with Julie Mason. And joining us is Brian Murdock, farmer out of Bingham County. And got all your spuds in. We didn't really have. We had great weather for the harvest this year, didn't we? Very good weather to get all these spuds out in that short window that we normally have. And you know, we're all dreading the snowstorm or the the cold temp.

It never happened. Yeah well that's good news. Well, we're limited on time, Brian. I know we wanted to talk really quick about potential legislation. We sort of teased the the discussion about it. What would you like to see as a farmer in terms of what lawmakers have the ability to do in this situation? Well, first we need to start limiting powers of of the Ida are the Department of Water Resources.

We talk about how, Matt Weaver shouldn't have to shouldn't have the ability as a bureaucrat to shut down the entire economy of East Idaho. And so he needs to have limitations as to how many acres, for instance, he can issue a curtailment call on whether it's 5000, 10,000, but certainly not 500,000 without approval from the legislature, you know, some sort of approval there.

We also have, what we would call sideboards that needs to be put in place as far as a curtailment call. So even though as senior water right users and none of us are arguing that we want to mess with the priority system, they are the senior. We acknowledge that that's fine. But before they can make a call, there needs to be certain things.

Matt, you know, that are right now those they have no rules. They can just simply say, we want to make a call, let's make a call. And if they want to go through the process, they can do that. And so that would be another one of these things that legislation needs to address. Probably the the, the lowest hanging fruit is that we have this judge in twin Falls who is simply a district judge, and he has been assigned to be the water judge by the state of Idaho.

But he is simply voted on, and he gained his power and authority from only the people in the Twin Falls district. And so therefore, why wouldn't he be a biased judge on. He's trying to keep the people in Twin Falls happy because that's who's voting for him. And yet he's able to make decisions over the entire state of Idaho's water.

That seems like a conflict event. Like why? Why did they structure it like that? It wasn't meant to be structured that way. Well, there's people who say it was exactly meant to be structured that way. Yeah. And, one of them would be Idaho Power. But, I got to throw a punch in there, as always. Yeah, but, no, that one needs to be addressed.

So we need to, work on at least those three things and more. I know that there is other legislation, ideas and and bills being thought of and presented and getting ready to be presented. Whiteboards, term papers, all these other things are going on. Yeah. So you got about 30s, we've gotten several texts concerning well drilling.

Are you concerned about that at all, or is that something that people need to just settle a little bit? I know that the domestic use of water, we need it because we do need the growth everybody wants. Everybody wants chick fil A's with no growth, but you don't get the two without, you know. But no, I'm not worried about domestic because like I said, we can deal with that.

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Your world, your country, your communities. And you. Let's talk a. Welcome back. 907 on this Tuesday on Newstalk 1079. Once again a quick reminder the snow has been falling steady all morning rain in some areas, but we are getting reports of some slide offs Julie and some slick spots as well. Be careful out there. All right let's let's go right to the phones.

We have Congressman Russ Fulcher from CD1 joining us this morning. Congressman how are you this morning. You know I feel really good Neil and Julie. In fact I feel a lot better than I did before November 5th. Let's put it that way. Well, we can all be in that group. Yes, I would agree. In fact, I've been making the joke to Julie that I am so sick of winning.

Like I'm just tired. It was a great day on November 5th, and we're learning today. This morning, most media outlets are acknowledging that it looks like the GOP is going to hold control of the House narrowly, but it looks like, it'll be a GOP held House. So that's got to make you happy, I would imagine. Absolutely.

You know, even though it's a narrow margin, we've been operating with a narrow margin for a long time of what a lot of people don't realize is even if we don't carry the votes on certain controversial issues, if you have the majority, even by one, that means that you have the chairman of the various committee. So that means you set the agenda.

So it's it's a it would be nice to have a bigger, bigger margin. But just even if you just have the one tremendously important when it comes to running an agenda. One one question I wanted to ask you too is are we going to see a more or maybe less militant Democrat party because that that far left wing that has had far too much influence and play in the Democrat Party, I think is a big reason why we have Donald Trump as the president coming January 20th.

It's a big reason why the the Republicans will hold the Senate. Do you think that that this is going to sting enough that they're going to say, maybe we've been going down the wrong track? Don't expect that Tiger to change its stripes. You remember, the Democrats today are not the Democrats of our father or grand grandparents party. This is a totally different animal.

These are socialist progressives and I would argue, Neil and Julie, the Democrats in Washington DC, for the most part, they're not the same as Democrats in Idaho either. I mean, these are socialist progressives. Hakeem Jeffries is cut from the same cloth as Nancy Pelosi. They're going to be just as ruthless. They're just going to be as uncooperative.

They're going to be as militant and socialist as they were when they were in the majority. So we just have to we just have to accept that and act with that accordingly. You know, I think Republicans have general, we've been much more accepting, much more tolerant of that kind of behavior. And, hopefully a few of us have learned a few lessons and, and we'll treat that the way that it needs to be treated with.

That means we squash it. Yeah. All right. I'm going to back up just a little bit. Let's talk about your race. You were very, successful on Tuesday. What kind of plans do you have? What will you be working on in the next two years? Yeah, I think at the federal level, truly, the agenda is is pretty straightforward, and it's trying to fix a lot of the stuff that's been unfixed in the last four years.

And it starts with the border, and I'm right smack in the middle of that whole whole debate. I mean, we've had an open border for four years. We have no idea who is in this country. And so look for action on that very, very soon. Jumpstarting the energy sector is the other thing. I mean, people don't realize just what how important that is to have a strong domestic energy policy, because if you're domestically producing your energy and you're exporting it, those to your exporting to you have foreign foreign policy leverage.

West. And so instead of Russia, for example, exporting their oil to Germany, to France, and so on, like they are now and fueling their war machine. If we're doing that, we get a twofer out of that. We get the economic benefit. We also squelch some of the revenue stream to Russia. So energy is going to be another one.

The foreign wars. I touched on the appropriation process. There's a there's another big one right there where 30 trillion plus in debt. And by going back to the traditional appropriation process, building these budgets up ground from ground zero, that's going to be part of it. And of course, from the president's standpoint, the swamp, this thing called the swamp that we are all living and working in is massive bureaucracies with bureaucrats have been in charge ten, 20, 30, 40 years working, for the most part, unaccountable in Washington, DC.

I think you're going to see some reorganization. I think you're going to see some disbanding of a lot of those organizations. We got a full plate, but we need to have, we're talking with Congressman Russ Fulcher. Congressman, let's talk about an Idaho issue. But I think by extension, it had it had an impact on Washington. You had Mary Pelton in Congress for the last two years because of ranked choice voting in Alaska.

And I know you were one of the leading and loudest voices against prop one in Idaho. Were you surprised that it failed as badly as it did win a 7030 defeat? I was I thought that that was going to be close. I did think you get defeated, but I thought it was going to be close. You know what I think, Neal?

There were seven states and the District of Columbia. Yeah. Or that was on the ballot. And it lost in all the states passed in the District of Columbia, which doesn't count because that's a socialist island anyway. Yes. Right. Nevertheless,

That was resounding, and I haven't heard a word, but last I checked, Alaska was on track to real. Yeah, that in their state. So, and, you know, back to you, Alaska example. That is the prime one right there. You may recall previous election, Sarah Palin, Nick baggage, Mary Pearl Tola. Basically how it worked out is Sarah and Nick split the Republican vote.

There's more Republicans in Alaska, the Democrats by a long shot. They split the Republican vote. And as the ranked choice system work. But Mary Ann marries a very nice lady. But she's a she's on the Democrat side and, and, that's how that worked out. And I, I think people figured it out and I but you're right, I did not expect that to happen as a resounding as it did.

Well. And let's talk because I know you you care deeply about Idaho, but but by extension, and I think the Trump down ballot factor had a lot to do with this. Democrats, they already had a very small minority in Idaho. They now have three fewer seats in the Idaho Legislature. So even Idaho shifted more to the right. And I think this the I guess the reach of the Trump effect and and maybe you disagree, maybe you feel like there's something else at play, but the reach of that, I think, was much deeper than most people anticipated on a whole host of issues in addition to prop one.

I agree with that. And I would say there is more to it than that. It wasn't just the Trump factor, it's the factor of the Democrats or the socialist progressives or whatever they want to be called, but today are doubling down on the policies of crazy, and people are figuring that out. I mean, this whole DEA stuff and, you know, socializing the military and diversifying the military to try to make it look like society, you know, you can't do that with a fighting force.

This whole thing of of men competing in women's sports and, and children, young children being somehow being acceptable that they get their, their gender changed on their own when they're six or 7 or 8 years old. This is an old man dating a, that you have to have an electric car by 2030 or 2034 or whatever it was.

This is these are policies of crazy that I think not just Idahoans saw, but across the board American saw. And Donald Trump is a factor, no question about it. But I think there was others and and that has a lot to do with it is just the overall general policies. People say no more of that. Yeah. We do have a question from one of our listeners, and it might not be your exact wheelhouse, but I think they respect you and would love you to weigh in on that.

They seem to be a little nervous about the tariff funded system that Trump is, hoping to put into play. And I know that it really depends on which side you're talking to. Man, they can spin tariffs. What is your opinion on tariffs? I'm concerned about it too. I mean, generally speaking I'm a free market guy. And then with your free market person then you you let the market dictate a lot of that.

The issue is and where I think there's a a need for some of that is you don't have a level playing field, energy, minerals, production and so on and so forth. There are a couple of examples of that. If China, for example, doesn't have any environmental constraints at all, and they can use child labor to mine or whatever, and, and basically abuse that in the form of slavery, of course, their cost is going to be lower on certain things.

And so if that's the case, I don't think we reward good that type of behavior by buying their stuff from them. And so a tariff may be, may be, warranted. But it just in terms of using that as a weapon. I don't think that's right either. So this is a case by case deal I am concerned about, just the broad use of that as a weapon.

But at the same time, strategically, utilized on a case by case basis so we can level the field for American producers and suppliers, I think it's warranted. Congressman, there is kind of, an internal struggle right now in the Senate about who's going to be the majority leader. I know it's on the other end of the Capitol, but certainly you have to think about how the Senate will be taking up House legislation.

Do you do you have a preference? There are three names, John Cornyn, John Thune and Rick Scott. Do you have a preference of those three? Well, I know them all, and I've had a chance to to work with them in some form and, and know them personally as well. I mean, not not super. Well, it's not like we go out to dinner on the weekends, but.

Yeah, you know, every everything is a perspective, right? It's like my, my, my benchmark is Chuck Schumer and say, oh my goodness, any one of those guys is going to be a quantum leap, you know, compared to Chuck Schumer. So I'm not going to complain with any of the above. Probably if you look at a if you just take a, an Idaho lens, just, you know, you know, looking for the state where you and I work and serve that.

But probably Rick Scott is going to be a little bit closer aligned with some of the things that are important in Idaho. But, that's not to say that, John, you know, Cornyn and soon we would not as well. The bottom line is, is there's going to be an improvement there. And, and we desperately need it because so much of what we've tried to do in the house, whether it be passing something or stopping something bad, then it just doesn't get heard in the Senate at all.

And so I think no matter which one of those three are, are successful, that, that that system's going to change. Okay. Oh go ahead. Julie, I was just I was going to ask him a question about that perspective that he's, that he's talking about. It is a completely different world in DC than in Idaho. We're very aware of that.

Can you give us some perspective of what DC is right now, pre-election and post-election? Did pre-election? Were the Democrats aware they were going to lose and Postelection what are you hearing from your peers? Yeah, I think so. I think they did know and see some of that by some of the actions they were taking, both for executive order and also by some of the legislative efforts that they were attempting to make.

So I did I do think they saw that coming. Here's what you, will probably see in terms of the internal, DC functionality. The district I jokingly said earlier is kind of like an island. It's a socialist, progressive island, and it's not required to follow any particular state law. And so much of the problem here has to do with what's nicknamed the swamp or the deep state, or whatever these are, and that is comprised of these massive agencies with thousands and thousands of employees, with bureaucrat, unelected leadership has been there ten, 20, 30, 40 years.

And they've kind of created their own parallel form of governance over the course of time. And although Congress technically has oversight, the tools for that oversight are very, very poor. And Donald Trump, I think, knows that for goodness sake, he's been attacked by a lot of that sloppiness, that bureaucracy through the FBI, CIA, various other agencies with the lawfare approach.

He is aware that what I expect him to do is not just change the leadership of some of these organizations, but probably disband them and airdrop them and break it up a little bit and move them to some states. And so, for example, I mean, can you imagine if you had the department of AG based out of Idaho instead of Washington, DC, would that take on a different flavor?

Could you imagine if you had the EPA based out of, I don't know, Arizona instead of Washington DC? It would take on a different flavor. I think that's what you're going to see. And that gives me incredible encouragement. Congressman, I do have a question about leadership in the House. Do you anticipate Mike Johnson will continue as speaker, or do you think there will be a challenge from Republican ranks for that?

We all know how sort of painful and tumultuous that was, a while back. Yeah. I do not anticipate a change there. I think guest Speaker Johnson will stay in place. There's only one thing that could potentially derail that. And that's if we get to December, when the budget, the budget timeline, the next one expires. I think it's December 20th.

And if he were to allow what we call a mini budget or omnibus bill to come through on a continuing resolution that would just basically take the the, the, the federal budget in its entirety and just say, we're just going to continue with no changes. If that were to happen, and there is going to be pressure for that because we're still going to have that pressure coming out of the Senate and the white House in December, then I think that he would probably get a challenge, because there's a lot of people that are tired of the business as usual, especially on the spending front, minus that Neil, I think, Mike Johnson remains the speaker

of the House. Is there a chance and, you know, I certainly don't quite know how all the politics work here that they would say, let's just do a very temporary C.R. to get to January 21st. And everything's different after that point. And then you could it would be much more effective or easier to dive into the spending at that point.

Yeah. I think you're on to something there. Only it probably would be January 21st. There would need to be a little bit of a buffer. Yeah. But the new distraction it could be on probably March. And so there's a there's a very real possibility of that. And there's some something to be said for the strategy there. Because if you just get through this lame duck, if you can get through it without without a lot of shenanigans.

And here's another thing. Probably the biggest, one of the biggest concerns we've got right now as we go back into session today is look for the white House and, and the Senate to, to be doing a lot of executive order type of things to try to, to guard some of their sacred cows, whether it be with spending or, some other legislative tool, executive order tool, in light of the fact that there's going to be a leadership change.

So I think we need to be on guard and, and, tuned in to some of the shenanigans that are likely to take place until January 20th. Okay, Congressman, as Trump chooses his members of his cabinet, the it is going to create some vacancies. We've already seen two possible vacancies in the House with Representative Waltz and Representative Stefanik leaving to to serve with Trump.

Are you nervous at all about those replacements and any shenanigans with that? Well, I always and, you know, I frankly, I think that there still might be some more house seats that get vacated with cabinet spots, so. So stay tuned on that. But in the case of walls and Stefanik, first of all, I know him both very, very well.

And they were great picks for those particular roles. And so my it's hard to argue for the good of the country not having them in those roles. The other thing that there was some foresight, both Walz and Stefanik are in districts where they are highly likely to be replaced by a Republican in the House. It's different than the Senate.

If there's a Senate vacated, like Rubio, for example, then that means that the governor in his case, DeSantis, appoints the replacement in the House. It's only by election. You cannot be appointed by the by the people. The people's House has got to be done by election, no matter what state. So, but there was some foresight, and I think they're going to be replaced by Republicans.

And the president knew that before he made the pick. Okay. And we'll leave it at that. Congressman Russ Fulcher, we really appreciate the time that you are spend with us. You're always generous with your time and we wish you luck. It's, it's a new landscape coming in Washington, and we look forward to productive days ahead. Well, I miss you guys back home, but, this this ugly place is looking a little bit better already.

All right, well, you're welcome any time here. Congressman. Take care. Thank you. All right. 925 on Newstalk 179. We'll take a break and be back. Good for us. Yes, I Facebook, I Facebook, we're fans. We're fans of Congressman Belcher. He's been solid. Yep he has. What did he win by like 190% or something. I think it's over 80 right.

It was I, I, I thought it was like 78 but it could be over 80. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He's good. I kind of like his idea. Move a couple of these agencies out of DC. Yeah, I think that that's it's got some legs. Is there honestly any good reason whatsoever to have the USDA know next to the mall in a big, huge, large palatial building?

No, no. Absolutely not. Yeah, I like that idea. Yeah. If you if the vote were held today and you were in Congress to dissolve the Department of Education, are you a yes or no? I'm a yes. If the infrastructure is infrastructure is in place to push it to the states immediately. Yeah. And all of that is lined out.

Yeah. You can't, you can't. Chaos. Yeah. Yeah. You can't dissolve in into chaos. So as long as that there's a system. Yeah. Hey, see, this is my this is my problem with the, Affordable Care Act. It is going to take years to change that. Years? Yeah, almost. It's almost impossible. Yeah, to be frank. Like it is almost impossible.

It's woven in now. Yes. Yeah. I believe that. And I mentioned this earlier. I feel like the FDA is probably the easiest one to dissolve. Yeah, that's why I say do that one first. But I'm not Trump. He gets to choose. So I, I think you're going to you're going to be mad at me when I share this analogy here.

But I heard a story one time that, this big old, really fat lady, like, massively big, never left her couch, and she stayed there so long that the that her body grew around the fabric of the couch, they actually had to cut the fabric off, cut the fabric off to get her off the couch. Oh my goodness.

And I feel like that's what Obamacare is now the system. It's just sort of grown into it. Yeah. Like it's not. Yeah. Can't just rip it out. Sorry for that visual. I worked in the ER. Yeah. There were a few, there were a few things like that that happened really. Some rough ones paramedics or some of the toughest guys you're ever going to meet.

Yeah. One time I was working and a paramedic came in, transferred the patient, walked past my desk and threw up everything in a garbage can. He was holding it and holding it and holding it to get that person into their room. And then he just. It was all he could do to make it to the garbage can, I lost it.

I'm a person that can watch somebody else throw up and I don't get sick. So it was fine. Like, I can do that. Which most people in the E.R.. Yeah. So that's not a big deal. But to see a paramedic go to that place, it meant that that's how bad. Must have been really bad. That house was at that point.

And what was happening is this person wasn't even transferring themself from their recliner to the five gallon bucket that they were using for their commode. Oh. So for the last several days, it had just been accumulating and he kept it together until he got to the ER. So champion okay, we got to go on the air now.

No, I don't even know how to talk after that Facebook Live story. Yeah. We should tell people it's not always the benefit to be on Facebook. Like I know that's true. I think all of our audience is like, oh, I wish I wasn't on Facebook lately. But we were talking we can talk about the topic that started it all, and that is, curtailing the bureaucracy, moving some of these agencies that make no sense to be in Washington, D.C., out of D.C. like I, I've been to D.C., quite a bit.

And the USDA has this massively big, long building right there against the mall. Why does the USDA need to be in Washington, D.C.? What good can they do there? Well, and are they even aware of what it's like to live middle of the country and be a farmer, or be it I or or what? Like, do they even know?

Get them out of the bubble? Yes. If you're going to have the agency, get them out so they can directly interface with the people that you serve. Yeah, I really liked that idea. I will say, Julie, I think this is going to be a very, very difficult accomplishment for Donald Trump if if he can do it because, well, once you get some political power and influence, you don't.

It's very difficult to pry that away from people. I let me tell you something. I've wrestled with day one of Biden coming into office. He cut off the pipeline. I, I can't remember the exact number, but about 12,000 people instantly lost their job. Yeah. And, they were told to go learn to code. Oh, I can remember that.

I remember when and, man, I, I felt horrible for those people. That's something I've been internally wrestling with because I, I want the FDA to be changed massively. There will be job loss that comes with that. Yeah. And I've had to have a conversation with myself and go, if it's better for the country, it has to be okay.

Yeah. Because they implemented job loss nonstop with Biden's administration. They actually went in and changed people's jobs too. So they implemented job loss with the, energy industry. They changed people's jobs with the immigration. I mean, these immigration officials have been doing things like changing diapers. Yeah. You did not you did not take that job with that listed as your job duty.

Yeah. And then all of a sudden, that's what Biden looked at you and said, no, that's what you're doing now. Yeah. Okay, so I have I've had to go. Okay. It growing pains and they're going to have to find new jobs. And maybe with the restructure of the FDA, there will be placements for them in other parts of the country.

I don't know, you go to the individual states or you whatever happens, or if the USDA moves, you've got to move. Two people move for their jobs all the time. Yeah. And so I've had to go. You can't feel bad for these people because, well, growth means change. And I mean everyone working in the private sector is subject to this risk.

Absolutely. So why would we insulate people in the public sector? Yeah, I did that. And I would agree with you. I think it's hard. You're right. I just feel for people. But you know what a if it tempers the issue a little bit. You know what Vikram Swamy though said something really smart. So good yesterday. Let me I need to open this up from yesterday.

We never, did quite get to this, but. But he had a really good. I think his point is you can solve maybe about 25% of the problem very, very easily. And here's what he had to say. He was on with Tucker Carlson the mass deportation of millions of unelected federal bureaucrats out of the bureaucracy. And I do think that is what's going to save this country.

You can't do that. I think you actually can. You can't fire. We can all be fired. I've been fired many times. I'm sure. What? You just lost a presidential race. Like we've all. The only group that cannot fail that has actual tenure is not a Harvard professor's. Not even. Yeah, it's not even. It's federal bureaucrats. No, Amy wax just got, you know, tenure is is no protection at all compared to the protection of federal employees.

So the one difference is, first of all, we have a president who I think has the spine to actually step up and do it. But the second thing is we actually have a and not to get to, you know, in the weeds here, but we actually have a legal landscape with the current Supreme Court that allows us to do what couldn't have been done in the last half century.

They have a moral right to work from home. Yeah, ten hours a week at our expense, at a far higher wage than the average American. Oh, absolutely. So the the funny thing is even more right. You can't you can't complain about you actually brought up a really interesting dimension of this. If you literally just mandated that they have to actually show up to work Monday through Friday, I no radical idea.

They don't they don't go to work. Actually, a good number of them would quit that way. Right? Right. That step alone. So you don't even have to talk talk about you're on a mass firing mass exodus. Just tell them they have to come back five days a week from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m.. Like many Americans, most Americans who work hard to earn a living in this country just show up physically to work.

You actually have about a 25% thinning out of the federal bureaucracy right there. So that's an easy first step. He's been a CEO. He knows this. And that is low hanging fruit right there in terms of getting rid of a big chunk of the bureaucracy. They quit. And then you just don't replace them. You don't reopen the position.

No. So in these they have been doing this since Covid. There are agencies in our government that are still not back full time because of Covid. And if that is making your head explode, it should. That's insanity. It should hit your head. In four years. Yes. And I, I, I saw lots of memes. This was probably three weeks ago or four weeks ago.

Zoom, the company has decided to make their their workers come back and work. Yeah. At the end people are like, zoom was invented, so you don't have to go to office. No. You know what happens when you don't go to office? Lots of times, the work, proficiency, your work, efficiency that you perform drops dramatically. Yeah. People go golfing during their day instead of working.

They they do other things besides working. And so even zoom, who created the ability for us to do things remote, is saying, hey, you got to come back to work. Yeah, I love that. That's so funny. No, but I think that we, we have to change it. We we really do. And and I love that. That's that's a good first step.

Just require them to come to work. You lose a bunch of people by attrition, see what you got left, and then now don't fill the positions and you clean up your department. Decide decide from there. All right. We're going to break (208) 542-1079. That's the fall River propane Kotlin text line. If you'd like to join us on the program, give us a call.

We'd love to hear from you today. Okay. What happens to us when the first snow flies? It's like we forgot how to drive in snow. I know, it's like you have to have a memory. It's in for Idahoans. What? It's not like riding a bike. You just forgot. And then you have to relearn every. Every November. Yeah, I think so.

I think so, yeah. Well, and I do think we have a lot of people from out, you know, maybe never driven. Yeah. They've never driven. They don't know, don't use your cruise control when roads are like this. But, you know, there's part of me, I going back to Congressman Fletcher's interview, and I asked it and deliberately.

I know the answer to this question. It sounded naive, you know. Do you think this will soften them up? Will they become a little more timid as Democrats and he said, no, they're not going to. I'm actually kind of glad because I think if they are making the decision that they're going to continue down this road of absurdity, that is just going to help Republicans win in other places.

And, you know, the more concessions they throw, the more temper tantrums they have, then that's better for us. We haven't even really talked about this on air because it's kind of just a waste, a waste of time. But, these women that are shaving their heads, wearing the blue bracelets or getting the blue heart tattoo so that they are identifiable and it sounds off a lot like Nazi camps, but you go right ahead and do that, demanding that women divorce their husbands and break up with their boyfriends.

What a joy. I can't take cellphone. Yeah, take yourself out of the reproductive group. First off, we're going to have less abortions. Second half. I don't want your genetics reproducing, so. Hallelujah. Take yourself out of that. And third, make yourself even more unlikable. Go right ahead. Do it. See how that plays out for you. I'm all in favor.

I'll help pay for your tattoo and your haircut. Okay, Julie, you got to give it. We got to make a decision here. Well, actually, I want to ask Facebook, our troll who was incessant and often would send a dozen texts a day. We have not heard from him since a week ago, almost exactly a week ago. So this is prior to the election results.

And here was the last text this person sent. It's amazing the accusations you make on air with no facts against those who do not share your extremist views yet support a convicted criminal who constantly lies and where the facts are overwhelming of his crimes. Your program continues to sink lower all the time. Okay, that was the last thing we heard.

I did text on November 8th, so three days after Election Day, I said, it's been a very long time since you've let 72 hours elapse between texts. I hope you're coping okay. And I've heard nothing. Nothing? Well, you know what I don't like about it? Well, there's a couple of things I really hope this person's okay. I really do, because they were that off the rails, that there's a chance they're not.

The second thing I don't like about it don't ever cower. If you couldn't stand on your like, I can go toe to toe with somebody about abortion and they can hate me for it. I'm not going to cower. Yeah, either you either you feel it so deeply, you can always defend it or don't behave the way this guy did.

Calling us names? Yeah. Telling us we're horrible people. Yeah. Are they just in mourning? Maybe they. They're just that grief stricken. Maybe. Okay, let's talk about our what he always called our favorite felon. The judge in the case where the 34 felonies were were put on Trump. He punched it again today. He was supposed to make a decision today.

You know why he punted? Because basically his case is defunct. The Supreme Court has made it so. Once it goes to the appeals process, it's screwed. It's over. It will be thrown out. Yeah. And will the the felonies be vacated? Yes. So he won't be a he's not even a felon yet if it's still an appeal. So this guy punted again today.

Judge Merchan punted again today. Again. Don't come at me with your favorite felon. When they brought charges that can't stand up to an appeals process. That's a good point. That's a really good point. Okay. 942 on Newstalk 1079, it's Neil Larsen and Julie Mason. And if you'd like to join us. (208) 542-1079 Julie I'm super excited. Tom Homans the borders are gonna be great.

He's going to be great and he's going to be the borders are all of these will be subject to, you know, well, I don't know if he'll have to be Senate approved, but a lot of them will be have to have to be Senate approved. He's going to be amazing already. The border patrol, they're holding little quiet parties today.

Yeah, they are because of this. They want to do the jobs that they applied for and that this is going to make it possible because first off, a whole bunch of Biden's executive orders are going to be tossed out on day one. That's what Trump's going to do. Remember the left melting down because he said he was going to, act like a dictator on day one, and that's what he was referencing, too.

It was a joke. But remember, the liberals took it 100% true. Yeah. What he was saying is these executive orders that Biden put into place there, they're going, bye bye. And he's going to make that all happen on day one. So once those happen, the Border Patrol, officials get to start doing their jobs again, though, for the jobs that they thought they were hired for.

And then second, if this guy becomes their leader and how awesome is it that he gave him the title of Border Sour right off the bat? Yeah. Talk about trolling Kamala Harris. Oh it's awesome. It was amazing that he did that. Yeah, because that was supposed to be her title. And then remember she ran away from it. And Trump's like now we're not running away from it because this guy is going to be a true borders.

Yeah. And so yes, they're holding their little private parties because they're so excited that they get to do this. Yeah. They get to do the jobs that they were hired for. Yes. Yeah they are. And I so much is going to happen in the first few weeks. Julie. The border is going to get, shored up.

I think the wall will resume. They're going to keep building the wall. But you cannot justify the amount of money that's been sent to Ukraine and not give the few billion that it's going to take to build that wall. Greed. But don't say Ukraine.

No, I, I, I was sort of jokingly musing this morning with Julie about I can't wait for the apology from our Ukraine obsessed listener when Trump becomes president and they de-escalate in the region without us sending endless amounts of cash. And, I, you know, what do you think he'll apologize? No, I don't think he will either.

No, no, I don't think he will. Now Putin is stepping things up because he knows he has only a limited amount of time. I think he's trying to take as much land, much stuff as he can before the new sheriff in town arrives. Yeah. If you're that kind of guy, wouldn't you be doing the same thing?

I don't pretend like you're Putin. I'd probably be doing the same thing. Makes sense. I mean our current weak leadership. Has led to this. So I want to play this this is Scott Jennings going back to Tom Homan for just a moment. Here's what he had to say on CNN. Well, first of all, I think, Mr. Homan is the exact right choice.

And I'm glad the president has moved on that so quickly because it was such a big part of his campaign. Number two, look, there's a whole bunch of people in this country that don't need to be here. In fact, there's I think 1.3 million people who've already received deportation orders from federal courts. They've already had due process. They need to leave.

And so there's a good place to start. There's a whole nother bunch of people who are here that we know have committed violent crimes, either where they were or since they've been here, they need to be sent away as well. So there are large numbers of people that need to be taken out of this country. And I think Mr. Homan is going to be the person who's most capable of getting that done.

And for those who think that this is somehow unusual, it's not every administration deports people. Barack Obama deported, all kinds of people, lots of people, in fact. And so it's something that the executive branch can and should do, when due process is occur or when we know there are people in the country who wish harm on American citizens, this should not be controversial.

And in fact, in the campaign, it wasn't, polling repeatedly showed that people supported Trump's viewpoint on this issue. Okay. And he's not wrong. I, I think what we're going to have is it's really hard to argue to keep the criminals here. Right. So I don't think it's going to be a I mean, they'll find reasons to complain, but I don't think it'll get much traction.

I think the problem that we're going to have and Tom Homan, I don't know if I have this clip or not, but Tom Homan, I think we played it yesterday where he said, and now we can deport and keep families together because the whole family can be deported. Yeah. That was the 60 minutes in. Yes. Yeah. That's when it's probably going to get pretty controversial.

But it's very, very obvious that there's a number if you're single here and you don't have any direct family and or you're a criminal, send him home. I don't know what we're waiting for. I really don't know what we're waiting for. Especially whatever the program's called. I don't even know what it's called, but we are taking criminals from places like Venezuela, Guatemala, and we're actually accommodating them coming into our country.

Identify those and get him out. What? How? I'm going to try to remember we took from Haiti, we flew in. What was it? 7% of their population. Is that what it was? So that sounds kind of familiar. Yeah, it was something like that. You guys come on. Yeah. Have you been to Haiti? I sent a daughter to Haiti on a service mission she wasn't allowed to go anywhere with where there wasn't a group of people.

Yeah, they had to operate in a group. That's how dangerous Haiti is. Yeah, and we took him voluntarily during the Biden administration, 7% of their population. Was this all so they could attach a ballot to that name coming in? Like, why did they do that? I don't know, but it so if you come across somebody, I have a couple on, a couple of people on my Facebook feed that are really struggling with this deportation.

There are very simple concepts that are in play here. Try to calm them down. If you have to have a conversation with them and say, if you're somebody that's like a DACA person, you're not going, they're not sending you away. There has been plenty come across the border during that, the Biden-Harris administration that they're going to deport first.

So if you've got somebody who's lost their mind about this deportation first tell them the thing that Scott Jennings said, which is other Democrat, presidents have deported people. This is not a new process. And then secondly, tell them they're going after the criminals. They're going after the people who built the system. That's who's going away first. If you want to get upset after that, then save your energy for that.

Yes. Yeah. Agreed. All right. It's 949. Let's take our final break again. If you'd like to reach us on the program. (208) 542-1079 back after this, it is still coming down out there. Holy. I didn't anticipate this much. It all came on in the timeframe that Neil got to work. And I went to work. Yeah, I drove on dry roads.

I didn't even see a snowflake on. And I came in wet because it was snowing by the time I got here. Yeah. Other than the clerk at the convenience store with the Kamala Harris hat, I didn't see a single snowflake on the white, and I didn't stop. Anyway, I need to answer. Peyton. Everything okay? Yeah. We have a coworker who is taking the Amtrak from, like, Salt Lake to Sacramento, and he's posting pictures, and I'm kind of jealous.

I think it would be kind of fun to travel by train. Oh, I've that's on my bucket list. The train through Colorado on my bucket list. Yeah. Want to do it I mean I've done Amtrak on the East Coast. But you're, you know you're going through the hood. You know you're not really seeing beautiful scenery. But I want to I want to do that.

I want to see. Yeah. Did the Amtrak from the only Amtrak train I've ever been on, the one from Baltimore to DC. So that year we went to DC. I had Marlee with me, and she had got, she had received her church mission call to Baltimore. So we built in an extra day, jumped the train, went up and saw Baltimore, created a whole bunch of fares in my mama mind and then came back to DC.

That's what moms are supposed to do. I left that that day going. And this is where I'm sending my daughter, okay? It's going to be fine. It's going to be fine. Yeah.

Why are we a week out from the election and we still don't have certainty about the House races? Can someone explain that to me? Anyone? I there is no explanation. A fixed. My daughter went and did pottery last night. I'm so jealous. I think this would be so fun. This is her. Oh, that's cool. I don't think I'd be very good at it.

Why not? I, well, I don't like gunk on my hands. Oh, gotcha. And you just kind of have to be okay with it for that long time. When I make, like, cinnamon rolls or anything, I have to knead with my hands. Yeah, I often put on gloves because I have latex gloves for my other job. Yeah. Food grade.

So I just go grab some latex gloves. Okay. I kind of mine just so you don't have to. So it's not under my fingernails and. Okay. Yeah. No, Neil and I are totally coordinating today. We had no idea. I've also. He doesn't wear that shirt very often. Yeah, I've also owned this sweater. I've never worn it until today.

And I've probably owned it for four months. So I don't know what was going on and why I chose to put it on this morning. The only thing we've coordinated is like the Gen X shirt from Friday. Yeah, yeah, but you have, black pants too, right? I have, black pants. Yeah. Here we go. 954 on Newstalk 170.

Jill, you knew this was coming. Headline from the Telegraph. Left wing conspiracy. Conspiracy theorists are claiming Elon Musk used satellites to steal the US election. So I've totally seen this on Onex. So it's a floating of this theory. Why isn't the mainstream media running around with their hair on fire that somebody is suggesting that the election was stolen?

Yeah, I don't know. Where are they now? Yes, they're, you know, conveniently silent so that all of it left wing conspiracy theorists have claimed the 2024 U.S. presidential election was stolen as posts falsely alleging Elon Musk's Starlink satellite network was used to manipulate the results spread on social media. Claims that 20 million votes in the election have, quote, disappeared.

So this is the flip side of people looking at Joe Biden getting 81 million votes. They're saying it's a conspiracy, that it's impossible, that you could go from 81 down to 61. Okay. We're we're not in complete disagreement here. Yeah. But are the votes the conspiracy or the lack of votes. The conspiracy. Yeah. Are the fact that he got 81 running a campaign from his basement where we have said that that's a conspiracy, who's forgotten all about that.

But when Kamala is such a unpopular candidate, well where'd they go? Where'd they go? My question is, how did they get there? Yeah. Yeah, right. Where did where they come from? Where those votes come from four years ago. Yeah. I mean, they say it's been debunked. They should know the answer to that question. Yeah. What accounts for the extra 20,000,000 in 2020?

Okay. Let me play devil's advocate for a minute. Okay. The only thing that I've seen that I want, I would really like an answer to this is apparently it's been reported on the night of the election that at about 7:00 ish, between 6 and 7:00 on the East Coast. Okay. Elon looked at everybody and said, this election is over.

He's won. And he stood up and walked out, and he had some sort of an app that he built on his phone. Yeah, that nobody else had that he was tracking things and he said it was over. Okay. Did this really happen? Or just people saying like, yeah, who knows. It was reported from multiple places that that happened, but that could be just people going second hand reporting.

So this story says a nine minute video claiming states had used Starlink in order to tally up or count ballots had more than 100,000 likes, 55,000 shares and it had been viewed almost 900,000 times on TikTok. The video falsely claimed this is why the numbers don't make sense. Similar claims that Mr. Musk, a Trump ally, may have used Starlink to tamper with the election have spread widely across threads.

The social network owned by meta, as well as Onex, which is owned by Mr. Musk and was previously known as Twitter on Threads. One post with more than 42,000. Wait a minute, Elon's allowing this to be spread on Twitter. So yeah, yeah, a platform they say isn't isn't an all usage platform is being an all usage platform.

Julie, we only have one minute left. But while we're on Elon Musk here, you have all these people saying that Elon Musk is now either the co-president or the real president. This is just another garbage false narrative that the mainstream media is weaving to sow distrust among the American people. Absolutely. Yep. Absolutely. We really only have 30s. Can I just say this?

Yeah, I know you don't get on threads at all. Yeah, threads is the wild, wild West people just lie really on threads. It is crazy. Wow. Maybe I'll have to get on there now. Yes. Just see what it looks like. Say, I've been there, done that. All right everyone, have a great Tuesday I back tomorrow. Mark Lee VanCamp and Robbins is coming up next.

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