4.3.2025 -- NLS -- Trump, Risch, and the Battle for Democracy

On this episode with Neal and Julie, they dive into the latest political controversies, including former President Trump’s recent endorsement of Senator Jim Risch and the ongoing judicial battles shaping the political landscape. They discuss how unelected judges are influencing executive decisions and the broader implications for democracy. Neal and Julie also analyze the Democratic Party’s strategy in countering Trump’s influence, debating whether bombastic personalities are their answer to his leadership style.

The conversation shifts to the growing concerns over the American health care system, particularly the increasing number of administrators compared to doctors. They examine how this shift affects medical costs, patient care, and the role of AI in the future of medicine. Later, they explore media accountability, questioning whether journalists should be held to higher standards when making bold claims about political figures.

Closing out the episode, they revisit the challenges facing the Biden administration and reflect on Trump’s international strategy, all while encouraging listeners to take control of their own healthcare choices.

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Transcript

You want to show us? It's 807. Good morning, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason, and joining us from the nation's capital, the US senator, Jim Risch. Senator, welcome. It's always great to talk with you, Neal. Great. Great to be with you. Before we start, let me apologize to your listeners. You know, these last since the first of the year, these have been kind of short.

And I want to explain why I, I have I have to preside as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee over the meetings, and they start just about this time. So I got to get there or just start. And I've got more of the president's confirmations as appointment nominations in my committee than anybody else in the in, the president impresses me ever so gently things that was the long and I got him happy and I want to keep him there and we're going to keep moving him, so I apologize.

We'll have more time as the year goes on. Oh, well, we're, Senator, we're just grateful for the time that you do give to us. So. So thank you. All right, well, let's talk good news. And like you said, we haven't been able to chat for a couple of weeks. And about 13, 14 days ago, Donald Trump put out a Truth Social that read in part, Senator Jim Risch is doing a tremendous job representing the incredible people of Idaho, a state I love and won big in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

It then went on to talk about all the great things you did, and then finished out with Senator Jim Risch has my complete and total endorsement for reelection. He is an exceptional man and he will never let you down. What? How did that feel when you found out that that had happened? How would you guess? You know, I was honored that he'd do that.

It was kind of funny the way it happened. I, I was talking to him on another issue that day, about an hour before he put that out, and he said to me, are you going to run again? I said, I'm going to run again. I said, I haven't made a formal announcement or anything, but I'm going to run.

And he said, oh, okay. And so after we finished our call, about an hour later, my phone blew up and, and, everybody said that he had put that out there. So he announced for me, thank you, Mr. President. I appreciate that. But in any event, then he then he, proceeded later that day to call me, and I missed the call.

You know, it comes up, it just comes up. DJT so on my phone so I know who it is. But anyway, so then the next morning he call me again and I missed it, but he left me a voicemail and, so then I thought I should call him back, and I called him back, and then, and, he picked up the phone like he always does, and he didn't say hello to me.

You don't go through with it. You know, you just. I just press DJT. He's got a cell phone like everybody else, and he answers that, believe it or not. And when he answered the phone, he didn't say hello, Jim. But he says, wasn't that a great endorsement? I did that myself.

And cut right to the chase. That's what a fantastic story. Yeah, yeah. That's good. Well, you I was, I, you know, I was incredibly do that for me. Well so that. Yeah without with. Yeah. The senator let's talk about a couple of issues here. How much time do we have you this morning. Till about 815. Really? At 1215.

I can't really hold people much longer than that. Or they start leaving on me, I gotcha. Okay, well, we'll we'll make the most of the next five minutes then. Senator, let's jump into the signal app controversy. That is kind of an, in our opinion, way overblown beyond what it needs to be. But the left in the media continue to talk about this a breach, yes a mistake.

Yes. But it's not know the the magnitude of what they're saying. Yeah. And I can put this in perspective for you. You're absolutely right on this. You know, I've been doing this a long time. And I was surprised that at how long they kept trying to beat that dead horse. And they did. I think they're backing off a bit of it now, but it went on way longer than it should have.

Look, was there a mistake made? Of course it was a mistake made. I mean, this guy was added to an email chain that shouldn't have been on there, and it was an innocent mistake. This is if you compare this to Abby Gate. When the, Afghan war ended, where there was intentional conduct putting 13 of our best in harm's way, who got killed?

That that deserved the kind of this kind of attention. This is a mistake. Nobody got hurt. Nobody got here killed. There was no information that went out. That was a permanent damage to the United States. So, look, let's move on. We got other stuff to do. It's it's great. It's great. Do you think, though, really quick follow up on that.

Yes. Move on for the media's sake. But we did talk with Senator Crapo yesterday. He believes it should be investigated as to how this journalist made it into that signal chat group. Do you agree with that? I do I think the, you know, the public should know what I know on an already and, I've already made the inquiries that I needed to make and look at.

Nobody can explain this. There is not there's not going to be an explanation out there. It it was it was in the, in the, chat group. There's no question about it, how it got there and exactly who put it there. There's not going to be an answer to that. It as you know, unless somebody comes forward in midst of doing it, you know, there's really no way of proving things.

So I'm, Yeah. And I agree with Mike. You know, the public, the public deserves as good an answer as you can possibly get, but it's not going to be a resolution of, somebody came forward. Mike Wallace has already taken responsibility for it, which he has to. It was his his catching. And he said, look, I'm you know, I'm responsible for this.

I feel badly about it. It was a mistake. And, we have put, processes in place to see that this doesn't happen again. All right, real quick, let's talk about some legislation that you have been working on. I believe, along with Senator Crapo, which is that there are contraband cell phones in prisons, and this happens all over the place.

But we had an issue in Idaho with that that created that ambush at the Boise Hospital. So you are introducing some legislation that will help, prisons jam the systems for cell phones that prevents incarcerated people from having those contraband cell phones and being able to use them. Do you want to give us a brief update on that?

Yeah. Real brief. What it does is it permits the prisons to use technology to do the jamming. I mean, it's hard to believe that they are prohibited by, FCC regulations from doing this. This is going to, ease up on that. In addition to that, they need drone control in their airspace. And, we're going to address that, too.

I mean, if they drop, they use the cell phones, and then they dropped contraband into the prison yard using, drones, believe it or not. And, so and again, you got the FAA saying you can't shoot them down. Well, if I guess if I was in charge of the prison, I shoot them down and tell the FAA, do your worst.

You know? But then in any event, they need they need, legal authorization. We're going to help them up. Okay. Well, that my follow up was, how do they get a cell phone in there? But you just answered that question. Really quick, Senator, last minute here. I'll let you, decide tariffs or the budget resolution? Boy, both of them are not one minute issues, but, tariffs.

Look, the president has been successful in this in his first term of using tariffs to help US commerce. I have confidence that he's going to do that. These are difficult. They they churn the, stock markets and other things. But at the end of the day, we come out of it better than we went in. And I trust him on this.

I'm willing to give him the space to do it. All right. On the budget if you work in progress. Thank you. We'll talk to you. Yes. Okay. Okay, Senator. Thank you. Sorry. I appreciate your time. Appreciate you. We'll talk to you next week. It's 815 now on Newstalk 107 nine back after this.

It's 820 on Newstalk 170. Neil Larson and Julie Mason on this Thursday morning. So, Jim Jordan gave a great speech about judicial overreach on the House side. Julie, should we listen to that? Let's do it. Here it is. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Who decides? That's the fundamental question. Who gets to make the call? Is the guy whose name was on the ballot, or is it some bureaucrat?

Is it the guy who got 77 million votes or some district judge? The left always says, trust the bureaucrat. Trust the judge. It's the fowl cheese. It's the boss. Birds who get to make the call. After all, they're the experts. They're smarter than We the people. They're smarter than all us hillbillies in flyover country who voted for President Trump.

Trust them. That's not how it works. We the people have the power. You know what's interesting? For all the lefts, talk about democracy. They don't really trust it. Last summer they kicked their nominee off the ballot without a vote, without an election, and they put someone else on the ballot without a vote, without an election. So of course they, like some judge issuing orders or injunctions that stop the head of the executive branch from doing what he said he was going to do when he ran for the job, when the American people elected him.

Think about it. Here in DC, an elected judge thinks he's better equipped, better equipped to determine military readiness than the commander in chief. An unelected judge in California thinks he gets to decide how many probationary employees work in the executive branch, not the guy who was elected to run the executive branch. Another unelected federal district judge here in DC thinks he gets to decide how long illegal gang member terrorist stay in our country.

Not the president, not the commander in chief. And now that same judge gets randomly assigned, randomly assigned to Hegseth case, and he'll get to determine who the Secretary of Defense can talk to and how he has to do it, not the president. I think Americans see through this. All they know. Representative ICE's legislation is exactly what's needed. They know who they elected, and they want him to make decisions that affect the executive branch, that affect our country.

So great. Great summary. In two minutes of how the left continues to weaponize government, sort of those those last shreds of power that they cling on to, they're still trying to do everything they can to stop Trump. Yes. And it's it's a total Jim Jordan home run. This is what he does. And he does so well says why he's beloved in the House of Representatives.

He doesn't have to, like build up these narratives. He's not Adam Schiff. He just tells it just like it is very succinctly. And I don't know how someone on the left can't listen to that and go, wow, yeah, you're absolute hand-picking judges who are going to cause disruption over someone who was elected into that position with you.

It is one judge in one small district who is determining what someone is doing, who was elected by the entire nation. Yeah. So if you know what, I will say it. I think the Democrats, I mean, think of the name of their party, Democrat. It's the root of democracy. They share the same like linguistic root. Democrats kind of hate democracy when it doesn't go their way.

If the people want Donald Trump and Donald Trump is doing what he said he was going to do, and the Democrats don't like it, they are anti-democracy. They try to stand in the way of the will of the people. And especially on immigration. We had the Harry Anthony audio yesterday, Julie, about how America, maybe it was earlier this week, but America is firmly behind Donald Trump.

Their support for his crackdown on immigration is way higher than his approval rating, because they like what he's doing, even though they don't always necessarily like his style or his personality. And yet the Democrats try to stand in the way through their judges, through their injunctions, through their emergency filings that they put forward in the judicial branch and so, yeah, it may sound a little over the top, but I will tell you, Democrats hate democracy if it's not going their direction.

I agree with you completely. And I had a thought while you're explaining that, because we've talked about those numbers that Entin put out yesterday and and that's been something that's been consistent. Some people are not in love with Trump, but they're in love with what he does. And I actually think I can be put in that camp every once in a while.

Yeah. Why don't the Democrats learn from that? They continue to put forward these bombastic personalities trying to win over people with personality. While your policies stink. Yeah, and maybe switch it. Don't worry about trying to win over all of these people with these these crazy antics that are making you bigger than Donald Trump. Just make good policy.

People will come. That's true. You'll you'll win people over. You know, something you said makes me think because Donald Trump, obviously he has a very unique personality that is polarizing. People either really like him or they can't stand him. And then there's part of the country that tolerates tolerates him because he delivers. He delivers. So there's no way you can argue in good faith that he's not delivering on his promises.

That being said, do the Democrats look at Donald Trump? They see his bombast. They see his sort of fringy personality or as unique personality. And that's why they put forward people like Jasmine Crockett and Tim Walls, because they also have these unique, somewhat bombastic personalities thinking that's the magic, when in reality, the magic of Donald Trump is not his personality, it's the fact that he gets crap done.

Yeah, I agree that I think that some of those Democrat leaders have been put forward as a counter measure with a bombastic personality, and quite possibly that could be why Tim Walz was chosen as Kamala Harris, his running mate. What a misstep you needed someone who was smarter than Kamala, who could make her look good. All Tim Walz did was highlight that with the two combine.

Didn't have an IQ over 100. Yeah. And and so you chose someone who who occasionally tells a joke and makes people laugh. But in the background he's not very intelligent. He has run his state into the ground, he's lied repeatedly. And that was exposed. Like all of those bad things you thought his his quirky personality was going to outweigh all of that?

What a I mean, just a strategic misstep. And maybe they're doing it over and over again, just as a countermeasure against Donald Trump, when in reality, if you would start talking to the people who used to be your base, you probably could have won. Yeah, you probably could have, because I think you can win with normal people.

And they're thinking we can't win with normal people. Yeah. Let's play this Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar, they went at it. This was quite a little cat fight in committee. Democrats today hate democracy. Democrats today are angry at the voters for Reelecting Donald Trump and electing a Republican Senate and a Republican House, and they engaged in lawfare to stop democracy from operating.

Okay. So you get the flavor of what, what Ted Cruz was saying. This happened just a few minutes later when it was Amy Klobuchar turn to speak. Okay, that was a lot. Let me, start with a few things. Number one, well, I need to go back because Ted Cruz and this is the part that I probably should have played to this point where he said they are the party of murderers and rapists.

And and really, you can make that case when you look at these injunctions and the judge trying to keep trend arugula in America, all of that, you can absolutely make that case that they are the party that defends these people. So that's when Amy, Amy Klobuchar said that was a lot. Let me, start with a few things.

Number one, we love the democracy, and I believe what we should be having is a civil debate about how we can best if Donald Trump wants to make changes to the government, we should be doing it in a legal way, not how he's doing it. And the only reason there's all these injunctions, Senator Cruz, is because he's violating the Constitution.

Why would Trump appointed judges? Why don't you file them and read that spread districts? Senator Cruz, why? What did you just say? Why don't you file them in red districts where the Democrat attorney general seeking out Senator Cruz left wing, my esteemed colleague, Senator Cruz, is activity in this Senator white House is entitled to. I'm just going to ask for a point of order, Madam Klobuchar, Senate Senator Moody, we have debates on this committee.

They occur regularly. First, let's let her have her time and then we'll be back to that. If you want to wait, we'll get back to Senator Cruz. Welcome to your question. Or go ahead. Go ahead. So I would urge you to following Senator Cruz once again. But I will say, excuse me. I didn't hear you. What did you say it to be following?

If he and I have a I was permitting you your time to continue. I would be following him in order. Excuse me. Go ahead. Senator Klobuchar, during hearings. Go ahead. That's what I'm referring to. Go ahead. And I will take more than my time since he's taken more than his time to yell at me. You know what? I like that.

Okay, so she pokes the bear again at the end and I will point out she addressed Senator Cruz. If you listen to her actual words, she said something. And then comma, Senator Cruz. So actually it was Amy Klobuchar that was engaging Senator Cruz. He did not interrupt her. She said it because she was addressing him directly. Yeah.

And it I don't know why you can't have this debate. We made fun of this just a couple of days ago. This, this pomp and circumstance. Let them talk back and forth and, and if it gets out of hand you can put a stop to it. But there I mean, there's so much Senator. So and so Senator. So and so like you stop addressing them.

They're two grown adults. Let them talk. If they get of control, then stop them. Like I didn't think. Senator Whitehouse needed to interrupt there. That peanut gallery. It was. It wasn't your conversation to be had. Senator Cruz is definitely strong enough to hold his own. And so is Klobuchar. Yeah. So let them talk. And I want to point out that it was just a couple of days ago, a Democrat lawmaker.

I don't quite remember who it was. It was a man was demanding that those Ms13 gang members be brought back from El Salvador so that we can do this right. Well, then Senator Cruz has a point. You are the defenders of rapists and murderers. Yeah. If you're part of Ms13, you're here illegally. The poor Biden administration policies allowed you to enter illegally, so you we're just going to continue with bad policy.

If we had had Donald Trump's policy at the border, they would have never made it through the actual way that a lot of these people did know they could have cheated and gotten through in other ways. But if we had to let if we had let Donald Trump build the wall, there would have been even less cheating, even less sneaking across.

While in the Biden years they didn't even have to sneak across, they were allowed to come across. Yeah, and some of these Ms13 members actually walked past federal employees and they were like, hi. Oh, if this was Hawaii, we put a lid on you and welcome you here. Yeah, that's how it was going. So Senator Cruz absolutely had the right to say they are the party, the defenders of rapists and murderers.

Yeah, I don't I don't know why that is actually that controversial. I you know, I can see why Klobuchar would be defensive of that because the Democrat brand, their image right now is in the toilet. It's worse than in the toilet. Like it's it is it has collapsed. And so when you have a very vocal and prominent senator on one side saying, your party's the party of rapists and murderers, and he's not wrong yet, you're probably going to get defensive.

I understand that, but he's still not wrong. And you got to figure out don't counter it with your words. Change your actions, change your behavior. Stop trying to stop trying to stop the lawful, deportation of these thugs and criminals and calling it unconstitutional. Yes. Because if you want to talk about unconstitutional, Joe Biden was required that our immigration laws are not optional.

Okay? You don't just get to enforce them if you want, but you don't have to. If you don't. But the Democrats think that that the immigration laws are something you can just ignore if you want. That's what Biden did for nearly his entire presidency until they focus group didn't found out. Oh, this is harming our reelection chances. Let's act for a few months like we care about the border and they don't.

But I just it is is nuts to me the way they can ignore the law. And then all of a sudden they think Donald Trump's the one that's being unconstitutional. And that action that you mentioned that they took just the few months prior to the election was Joe Biden or Kamala Harris saying, well, if Congress had done their job, the border would have been secure.

No, you rolled back policies with executive orders. This was clearly a Biden administration choice. It was not a congressional choice. It was a Biden administration choice. It was that unconstitutional. Senator Klobuchar yeah, like and clearly the evidence in the first three months of the year show that it could be effective policy. We are down to less than light.

Some days it's less than 200 people coming across the border. Yeah. Yes. You can stem the flow of illegal immigrants. It is down. It's not even a trickle. It's an occasional drip. And that's all it is now. Yeah. So yes, this was enforceable. This could have been done all along. So this is Antonio Grotius. He's a doge volunteer.

Fits very well into this discussion. Julie, listen, that's a jaw dropping number. Words. All those people come from. Well, it's, it made my jaw drop to when I saw it. You know, we were in Social Security looking for fraud, waste and abuse. And to do that, we actually looked at the enumeration system, the system by which you will get numbers in America.

We found that, there were just about five plus million of them that came to the country as illegals. We're giving various forms of parole are allowed in the country. And they got through an automatic system. So screw numbers. So they get into our benefits systems and we track that through and found that they were on the better programs.

And, just because we were curious, we then looked to see if they were on the voter rolls. And we found in a handful of cooperative states that there were thousands on the voter rolls and that, many of them had voted. Okay. I don't know if you remember yesterday I mentioned that I had seen a report on this, that some of these illegal immigrants had received actual Social Security numbers.

And I was like, I'll go back and look for look for it. So I found it in my feed last night. And I sent you this clip specifically, and this was on Fox News. Yeah. This is not just some rogue thing that's happening. This it this is real investigative work by the DOJ's team that has uncovered that more than 5 million illegal immigrants got Social Security numbers.

That means they're taking the benefits that you paid into. Yes, that citizens of America paid into. You were giving them away free now by some bizarre loophole that the Biden administration created. Talk about unconstitutional. Yeah. No, you're it is unconstitutional. I did a quick search here. It says undocumented immigrants who do not have legal work authorization do not get social Security numbers.

They must apply for an individual tax ID number, which they use to pay taxes while working without a lawful status. So these are people that shouldn't even have social Security numbers at all. Yes. But not. But then they are part of the system that they can then later claim yes, they're getting Social Security benefits. That's the point of this report.

That was done in that audit of the Social Security benefits. They found all those people that were over 120 years old and all of that. And and that was a very obvious problem. But then they started to discover that illegal immigrants are getting Social Security benefits and were assigned a Social security number by the Biden administration. Yeah. Okay.

They just they just it's interesting in my search here, you had all these fact checks from a few months ago saying it's a lie. It's not true. It turns out it is true. All right. It's 838. We'll be back. And in the end, if people decide not to get vaccinated, that in the end is their choice. Even if they're a nurse, they may not be able to work in the facility that they've been working in, but they they've made a choice on their own.

That, of course, is Christine Grady, the wife of none other than Anthony Fauci. She was the an NIH bioethicist fired by RFK junior. What goes around, comes around. And RFK Jr, also known as the Karma deliverer, and she's gone from the National Institutes of Health as she should be. Does he have a superhero costume and everything that says karma?

It's like a big K and a big D on the back, right? I, I'm the I'm the DoorDash for karma.

But I didn't order it. Oh yes you did. Yeah. You came. Yes you did. You kind of did. About five years ago. You did. So RFK Jr has begun excising the cancer from the bloated federal health bureaucracy in a bid to make America healthy. Get healthy again. By the way, this is the Western journal. So very conservative outlet.

On Tuesday, Kennedy fired Christine Grady, the wife of disgraced former coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci, as head of the National Institutes of Health clinical Center's bioethics department. According to Politico. Grady was reassigned to a regional office with the Indian Health Service, along with at least three of Fauci's longtime NIH colleagues, per the Washington Times. The Indian Health Service is a low profile federal health program serving American Indians and Alaska Natives.

So he transfer. He may not have been it may not have been legal for him to technically fire her, but he absolutely can transfer her. So he transferred her to a job. He knew she wouldn't take it in Alaska. Yeah, she's not going. She's not going up there. He's not going up there. We all know that, the removals are part of Kennedy's sweeping plan to restructure HHS by eliminating 10,000 jobs.

That's expected to save taxpayers $1.8 billion a year. Wow. Yeah. Karma. I find you have a job. You have to do it the way they tell you to do it, that you don't get to pick and choose as a government. And no, I want to be here. No, I want this. No, I want that. Hey, there. There will be directives.

Go to Alaska if you want to work. Yeah, yeah. That's true. So I like it. Good for RFK Jr. This is good. Yeah. Okay. Does Fauci ever, ever admit anything like apologize to his wife for putting her in this position? Also yeah I know I just ask a question, but let me ask another question. Why is it every time we do one of these, it's these stories.

There is an incestuous angle to it. Yeah. That Fauci's wife has a crush government job. Yeah. Well, not only that, I fact checked this yesterday because I saw it on the internet. I thought that might just be a, an urban legend, but the NPR head, what's her name? Ma. Katherine Ma, the woman who was in front of the Congress in the congressional hearing.

She is chair of the board at signal's charitable arm. Yep. I don't think she's the chair. I just think she's on the board. Oh, okay. I think she. Whatever. Whatever board. Yeah. I mean, yes, I mean that. Yeah. Like how is that you have Boasberg daughter. That is insane. I don't remember what this stuff is so common now you have Comey's daughter worked for that the, the the Southern District of New York that that whole thing like you're right Julie, there's so much incestuous ness that's going on in this anti-Trump, the whole thing, the whole thing is just ugly.

And it's not just I mean, McConnell has this incestuous lines going on. You know, sister working here, like there's connections for his family. And we left out the gigantic kingpin, which is Biden and all of the yeah, the incestuous activity that went on there that was clearly illegal. And he should have been impeached for it. It is just the nature of politics and it's time for that to be done.

Yeah, it really is. It really is. And and, you know, that garbage just kind of seems to roll downhill. So if you have someone in charge setting the tone, you're going to see it replicated on a smaller level. So yeah. Yeah. That we let's see. We've, JD Vance, we can talk about JD Vance for a minute.

Okay. He talked about tariffs at a town hall. I think it was News Nation. You have to qualify the understanding based on, what we just saw with those 20 plus Nobel winning economist who said, if you do tariffs the wrong way, you wind up spiking prices here. They get passed on to the consumer. Yeah. And that was also additive to inflation.

And they criticized, the Trump administration and its future plan for being at risk of doing exactly that. So I know that's a criticism that's been out there. Here's why I don't buy it. So first of all, these are the same experts that said, shipping our entire manufacturing industry to China, to East Asia, to Mexico would lead to greater American prosperity.

They were wrong. It was a mistake to do that. We followed their advice. And now, frankly, a lot of Americans can't afford a good life, can't earn a middle class wage because we listen to some of those very same people. But the more immediate reason why I don't buy that argument, Chris, is, look, Donald Trump was already president, right?

These aren't just plans and proposals. He was already president. And when he was president, he did use tariffs. Right. And you had the fastest rising take home pay in 40 years in this country. You had inflation at 1.5%. So look, you don't have to agree with everything. I say or everything that Donald Trump says. But when you actually look at the policy accomplishments, we had low inflation and rising take home pay.

And I think tariffs were a big part of that. I think for me, the biggest thing that JD Vance pointed out there, Vice President Vance, was the opponents are wrong and they are wrong all the time. It reminds me of the climate change prognosticators, Julie. For decades, they were talking about how all the glaciers are going to be gone by this year, and the sea levels are going to rise 11ft by this year.

And then, you know, they make all these predictions. The day comes and goes, they're completely wrong. And they gain no humility from that. They just it's almost like if you have a Harvard PhD, you can be wrong because you have a Harvard PhD, which makes all your wrongs right somehow. And and I think and Trump mentioned this too, but I think JD Vance is right.

He's like all these people that were spelling, how rosy it was going to be by outsourcing and moving our stuff offshore. They were they were wrong about it, too. Our economy still struggled even after doing that. And I have a couple of questions as a follow up to that, to the people who double down and say, no, those experts are right.

Well, if those experts are right, why are so many foreign companies promising to invest in America right now? Hey, the latest one was South Korea bringing a steel plant to Louisiana, I believe is where it was at. Yeah, which we need to make far more still in America than we do. So. And that was just one of several dozen that equaled up to between 3 to $4 trillion of investments in America.

So if Donald Trump is so wrong and the experts are so right, why are those investments being promised and happening? Well, they are only correct if you look at the at the liability side of the ledger. They don't want to talk about all of the manufacturing that's coming back home now. Right. They don't want to add that into the mix.

Donald Trump also called out, all the failed predictions by his opponent. In the coming days, there will be complaints from the globalists and the outsources and special interests. And the fake news, always fake news will always complain, but never forget every prediction our opponents made about trade for the last 30 years has been proven totally wrong.

They were wrong about NAFTA. They were wrong about China. They were wrong about the Trans-Pacific partnership, which would have been a disaster if I didn't terminated. If I didn't turn that terminate that United Auto Workers, you would have had no jobs in this country. You would have had no jobs. It was all going to other countries. In my first term, they said tariffs would crash the economy.

Instead, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world. And again, I have great respect for President XI of China, great respect for China. But, they were taking tremendous advantage of that of us. And and I commend them for that. I say, hey, if you can get away with it, that's okay. Right. He's saying it's not their fault.

They're they're getting the best deal they can. And we're not mad at the other countries for getting the best deal they can. We're just not going to let it happen anymore. Yeah, this reminded me of about 3 or 4 weeks ago. I played you a comedy bet that has been around for a bit, but it resurfaced amid all of these tariff talks, which is the comedian is talking about the blanket of warmth that Canada lives under.

They don't have to have a strong military. They don't have to produce they. We provide so much for Canada, yet they talk tough, right? And Justin Trudeau when we're going to and they were one of the first ones to cave yesterday. Yeah. In the conversation about tariffs when the push comes to the shop they were one of the first ones to cave.

And if you noticed Donald Trump didn't talk a lot about Canada. Yeah. In the in the speech yesterday. That's because Canada is the perfect example of somebody who has been able to live under the comforts of America, having us as a neighbor, us providing so many things for them, and they get to act like they're this, well, look at where the where the more intelligent, the higher, compassionate country.

No, you're just lucky that you have us as a neighbor. And these tariffs are reminding them of that. Yeah. It is. And you know we're going to see other countries cave. All right. It's 853 on Newstalk 1079. Quick break. We'll be back. We'll wrap up this hour just ahead.

All right. 856 on Newstalk 1079 on this Thursday morning. I have a brilliant idea that I'm going to share a little bit later. I just kind of shared it with you. I actually think it is brilliant. It's good, but, we'll have that in a moment. First, we have to talk about another brilliant idea, which is putting the four step lawn program on your lawn.

I looked very closely. You'd think I'd memorize this by now. Step one is the humane steps two and three are lawn food. Once for middle summer, the second one's for late in the summer. And then the fourth step is a winter riser. To put all the stuff your lawn is going to love through the winter. Yeah, getting it all ready.

I know my lawn is starting to kind of come back to life a little bit. Super excited about that. If you have questions about your lawn, this is my recommendation. Figure out your square footage and then head on over to Town and Country Gardens. Ask them questions. The reason you need your square footage is you don't want to buy too much or too little like you.

If you come with the square footage of your lawn, they're going to be able to go, oh, let's get you two bags of this one bag of this, and you can just get it at a discount price because you're buying all four steps. You take it home, you stick it in your shed or in your garage. You set some reminders in your phone and you get it on your lawn all summer long at the appropriate times, and your lawn will look beautiful.

So we have like a minute left. Can I give a really quick plug for what I did? Because I wasn't sure what my lawn square footage was. I actually got on Google maps the aerial view. Put it on the satellite layer. You can actually if you right click where it says measure distance. That's also measuring area. So if you cordon off an area it'll tell you exactly how many square feet you have.

It's so easy. It is so easy. So that's a lot easier than going out with a tape measure and walking your lawn off, and then doing some math and hoping you ride. Figuring out algebra from junior year of high school. Yeah, so that's how I did it. But we had a question. It was a great question the other day.

They're like, well, how much does this cost? And I would say for the average lawn, it could be less than this for small lawns, could be a little more for this. If you have a lot lawn, somewhere around 150 to $200 right in there. But that's the whole summer. And when you think about the cost of a lawn service to come and do all those things, you're saving oodles of money.

Well, and plus it's a it's a four step program that's designated for this area. You're not getting some random formulaic formalization from California. Whatever. Yeah. Go get your four step lawn program south of Idaho Falls, Yellowstone Highway, across from the beer plant, town and country gardens. Our two coming up.

We call that in engineering circles, a quickie. And welcome. It's 907 on Newstalk 179. If you'd like to reach us on the fall River. Excuse me. The stones automotive group, the old Habits Stones automotive group. Call and text line (208) 542-1079. We would love for you to join us this morning. And, Julie, there I'm looking at a graph right now is, it's a in that story where I talked about Christine Grady getting fired by RFK Jr.

And it's over the. Well, since 1970, the growth of health care administrators compared to the growth of physicians. So the number of doctors that we have and the only way I can describe it, do you know what Mannan Butte is? You know, I hiked it ferry Butte. I know ferry ferry Butte is on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, just off to the west, kind of, you know, like 3 or 4 miles from the interstate, just a very smooth slope.

Yeah. If you were to put that in front of Mount Everest, that's what this graph looks like, is that the number of health care administrators, it absolutely dwarfs the number of physicians. And they're saying that is one of the big reasons why the cost of health care has gone up so much is that we are paying so many health administrators.

And rather than care in education, it would be how many superintendents and principals and other administrators do you have versus how many teachers and how much money is going into the classroom, which the graph in in education looks very similar to would be probably not as drastic, but very similar. The problem with that is that is top heavy.

You're not actually helping the the patient when you hire another administrator. Now are you covering yourself from lawsuits and things? That's what they would probably say. Yes they are doing. But that's not benefiting the patient. No, no, it's not benefiting the patient. And in fact it's hurting the patient's financial ability to pay because health care has skyrocketed. And now this is a systemic thing.

I'm not sure how you fix this in a in a short amount of time, but the the growth of it is shocking when you look at it. And and the doctors. Yeah. It's it's been a little bit of growth but it's fairly level. It's we're just not seeing the explosion. Right, right. I as a point of note about doctors and the fact that they're not you're not getting as many doctors right now as you used to.

I interviewed somebody for the We Share podcast. He has a connection to radiologists. And he said this year there will be it was something around 1400 available jobs and new jobs in radiology for doctors. There will only be 700 graduating. We will not have enough. And I think that graph kind of explains that, is that you're asked to put on all of this debt and for what, pay off because they've made it so complicated to do health care.

Yeah. Okay. Which leads me, Julie, to another topic we need to talk about, but not right now. And that is the role of I, Bill gates last week, last couple of weeks has said that in not that much time, I think it was 10 to 15 years. Maybe you are going to see AI replacing doctors and teachers.

And I know look, we can talk anecdotally about how well in my like you can't replace a teacher, which is true to an extent. You can replace certain things teachers do with AI. You absolutely can replace certain things that doctors do with AI. And so the cumulative effect of that is and in medicine, this actually makes sense, because if you don't have enough doctors and there's a shortage, if I can help make up that shortfall then and, and it's quality care, if I can diagnose if I can look at an X-ray or an MRI and see things, see everything that a radiologist would see and, and red flag it, then.

Yeah. Now we're not saying it's a complete replacement because I can hear people right now wanting to send me a text or wanting to say, well, yeah, but here's a situation where you have to have a doctor. I'm not disputing that at all. I'm just saying there's a big portion of the workload in the coming years. As AI gets better, it will take on some of that workload, which will mean we need fewer teachers and and fewer doctors.

And so the world is changing. And if you'll set aside the heartburn that you get over how that might impact teachers, you know, or doctors, you know, it's it's it's coming. And, and I think we have to accept the fact that it's coming. Yeah. I it was interesting because this man that I interviewed that, that talked about that said there's actually a marriage that needs to happen between physicians.

And I. I can't replace physicians but should be used to make physicians more efficient. Yes. Which will help with the fact that we don't have as many physicians coming out of, of of college. If you can marry the two, it works very well for your health care. Yes. Yeah. Right. And and I don't think and this is me just being geeky.

So just bear with me for a moment. You're used to it, right? I don't think I will replace 100% a doctor, but I think the overall effect will be you just need fewer doctors. Yeah, if you use it correctly. Yeah. And so I think if a doctor retires or passes on, we'll lose doctors through attrition. We may not need those replacement doctors to come in on the younger end as much that I guess that's my point.

Yes. Yeah. And and you could hope for that. I would also see I would also like to see patients take back their care. I mean, I don't even know if this is the avenue you want to go down, but I would like to see patients take back their medical care. And what I mean by that is that if you don't want a doctor who uses, I ask the question and don't go to a doctor that uses I.

And except what happens when you do that? You might not get in as quickly. You like. Those kind of things might happen. If you do want a doctor who heavily relies on it, I ask the question and accept the care it. It's always so interesting to me that we appear helpless in absolutely everything we do now in 2025, in an era where we should be more independent, people have actually become more helpless.

Yeah. That's true. Yeah. And so I would love to see people take back control of their health care and demand that. I know it's very difficult because you're you're sidelined by your insurance carrier and that's hard. Hopefully we can restructure insurance at some point and not have them dictating so much of what happens to you, because the real that reality is, is that happens as well.

Yeah. The insurance only covers this test. So that's why the doctor is going to go with that test. Even though I and the doctor combined are going, that's not the test I shouldn't be doing, but insurance is only going to cover that one. So we'll do that one. Yeah. Like that's ludicrous. It is ludicrous that that's the situation we're in.

But you're never going to get out of the situation until you at least make a step towards controlling your health care. Yeah, yeah. No, and I you know, what's weird is I have seen situations where insurance companies will make decisions that's in the worst interest for the patient and the insurance company. Like, it makes no sense. It's it's less effective for the patient, and it's more expensive.

It's hard. All of it's hard. And I feel bad that physicians even have to play the insurance game. Yeah. Like they should be able to look at a patient and go combined with I and my knowledge base, I know we need to look at these three things and it shouldn't matter because the doctor is prescribing that those three things need to be looked at.

Yeah. And agreed. Okay. We're going to go to the phones. And Julie, before we take the phone call, remind me to share my brilliant idea. Okay. Oh, yeah. Yeah, a little bit later. All right, caller, go ahead. So I just wanted to weigh in about the idea of health care administrators and doctors. I've worked as a health care administrator for 24 years and think, well, I was making 60 to $80,000 a year.

The doctors were making 800 to $1 million a year. So I would say that the health care administrator is really not the problem. I think, doctors kind of need to, reevaluate the kind of fees that they're charging. And I also saw on some occasions that they would order tests that were weren't really necessary. They would kind of be helpful, but they certainly lined the doctor's pocket.

Yeah, I'm sure there's waste in every part of it. And I'm not saying it's either or. I, when you see the growth in the number of administrators and that's what this, graph was, was pointing out, just the sheer growth. It's been almost 3,000% growth, it looks like by 2009. So I don't know what it looks like in the last 15 years, but there was 3,000% growth cumulatively, whereas physicians were down around it looks like maybe 150% growth, like it's exponential with.

So why do we need so many more administrators today that we didn't need 30, 40 years ago? Well, I think it's because the, doctors are pushing more on to the administrators so that they can push more people through the system. Yeah. And that could be that could be. But thank you for the call, I appreciate it. I'm sure it's a very complex situation that isn't fixed with one easy, no easy solution because you've got so many players and a little bit of everything is broken.

Is there a little part of you that wishes Elon Musk could bring Doge to this situation? Yeah. And walk through and say, what are you doing. That's unnecessary. Yeah. What would be great. What are your expenditures that the you don't need to do what are the, what are the health insurance policies that are of benefit to nobody.

Yeah. Well I think one of the things I and I know this because of what my son and son in law are going through right now, is that one thing that's drastically changed the landscape. And this is just a small portion, but it has changed. The landscape of health care is the ability for doctors to be raided online.

You would think that's great, right? Of course you want a doctor that's well rated well in med school. They teach you. Then you better give every patient a prescription because that's how they think they got taken care of, even when a prescription is not necessary. Yeah. If you send somebody out the door with the idea of, hey, I don't think we need to take medical intervention here, but it would be great if you could lose 20 pounds.

Here's a workout plan. I want to see you again in three months. You get a bad rating on the internet because they wanted ozempic. Yeah. Got you. Yeah. Or one of the other. See. So that's just I mean we talked about too many administrators. We talked about insurance getting in the way. We talked about them having to hire clinic staff to take care of all the insurance.

Now we're talking about the ratings online. And, and it changes the way the doctor actually is going to prescribe and treat you. Yeah. So a lot of factors here that have made the the whole thing not that awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. All right. 921 on actually 920 on Newstalk. 1079 quick break. When we come back, we're going to shift gears because about 30 minutes ago, I had an idea I ran it by Julie.

She likes it and I'm curious if you all would like it too. We'll be back. All right. How's the mic? Much better. Good. Yeah. We in about a 45 second span. We did a swap of mikes, and, Now Neil's going to put the other mic on. I don't know if they can see you. Oh yeah, they can see you just.

They can see half a Neil. He's fixing the mic on the other side. So these are you. They can't even really see our new mic booms. Here's the great thing about our new mic booms is tomorrow when we have two singers here from S.O.S performing for studio four covers, one Mic Boom will not be covering up the face of the other singer.

These are low profile and so will they. You will be able to see everybody because the mic doesn't come up and over it goes. Almost like parallel, like flat. So it'll be really good on Fridays. Somebody said sounds like a good chance to put the work in. After Musk leaves to go after health care waste, Vivek has already committed, he he believes he will be the new governor of Ohio.

So that's a no go. Although I think Vivek would have done a great job at it. It was it was it confirmed Elon's leaving douche. Is that. Yeah. Well, there was a rumor put out by a couple left publications that said Trump was kicking him out, and Caroline Leavitt approached her, like, confronted that or that rumor head on and said, absolutely not true.

It was always designed that Elon would not stay here. He's doing this for free and he has companies to run. He laid out how we're going to do it. He he kicked it off. He got everyone going and then he's going to step away. So quit with your false report okay. So this was always the plan. They're making it sound like he's getting fired.

Yes okay. Imagine that the media.

924 on Newstalk 1079 Neil Larsen, Julie Mason and you and our number on the Stones Automotive Group, Collin Text line is (208) 542-1079. Julie, I don't even quite remember what story we were talking about, but it triggered a thought in my brain while you were telling it. And while we were talking, I believe the white House, Donald Trump should create a new tool in the American media, like a new standard and a new expectation.

I would call it an apology escrow. And the way this would work is a reporter or a pundit or whoever, wears the costume of a journalist. If they're critical of the white House, then Caroline Levitt comes along and says, okay, if you're wrong, will you right now submit an apology to a third party, a third party that will hold that apology, whether it's written and signed or it's taped and can be broadcast later and then, so put some pressure back on the media that the claims that they make, the predictions that they put forward of doom, and how this is going to collapse the economy is going to do all that.

It'll be like, fine, First Amendment, make all the predictions you want. But if you really mean it, if you really want to put your, your, figurative money where your mouth is, you'll submit to the apology escrow a written or or broadcast apology and then just see how they respond. And you can put a sunset on it. Meaning if you believe that the tariffs are not going to work and you're you're prognosticating doom and gloom for America, then you need to write on their on your your prognostications.

You need to say the stock market will crash by June of 2025. Yeah, whatever. Then you submit your apology. Will you put it as June of 2025? If it crashes by then, apology gets ripped up or destroyed. You know, if it doesn't by then, then it gets played. You get to determine the timeline and then whatever the timeline is, if you're if what you're predicting happens by that timeline, then we we get rid of your escrow account, it gets empty, it gets yes, it gets voided.

Yeah. But if it doesn't happen by that timeline that you pick, then that gets to be played from the press secretary. Let it right there, Caroline Love brings it up and either reads it verbatim or plays the audio. And I would love to see that a big 85 inch TV of Jim Acosta saying, I am such a stupid moron and I'm, I'm sorry that I treated Trump like this and made this prediction.

So let me give you an example of how this would have worked. We're in the middle of this story breaking right now, so the FBI had new 100% new by early October in 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop story was real. Yeah, that the the computer was real. How it all went down was real. That there was stuff on that that was incriminating to both the president and to Hunter Biden.

They knew that. And they threw out their organization and to other places, told everyone, keep your mouth shut. So what did journalists do? They ran with the story, said it was fake. It was fake. It was fake. If they had been required to submit an escrow apology, if you're going to make a bold claim that the Hunter Biden laptop is fake, you need to submit an escrow apology that says, I am really sorry I got this story wrong.

The Hunter Biden laptop, Israel blah blah blah. And now we would be playing those all over the place because we have actual text messages and memos from the FBI verifying that they knew that laptop was real. It's just another mechanism of accountability for them. All right. 208542 179 let's go to the phones. Hi, caller. How are you doing?

Well, how are you guys doing? All right. Hey, on the, the media escrow accounts, you know, maybe they don't have to submit it upfront, but I say if they don't, submit said apology on the back side of being proven wrong, then they lose access to the press pool or any access of the president until that network has issued it.

Yeah, yeah. Back there. Yeah. So it's like, a conditional surrender of your press credential if you're wrong. I like it. Yeah. You know, that way they don't have to feel like they're being pressured into giving something beforehand, but they still I mean, it gives more onus on them because then, you know, they feel like they can say whatever they want and you know, they're going to lose access real quick, which is just going to open the press for the more people like yourself to go and, you know, take a trip with the president.

Yeah. Got you know, thank you. Thank you for the call. Yeah. That's that's another way. And it wouldn't just be press credentials to the white House. You you don't get to, cover the election like you don't get to you don't get to do a debate if you haven't admitted to the lies that you told. Now, it I mean, it's Trump.

Basically the interview that he had. I don't even know the reporter, but he didn't know the reporter. He said, who are you with? And the reporter said, NBC news. She's like, I'm not talking to you. You're you're a discredited news organization. So almost formalize that functionality. So that if your reporting is is over time proven to be non credible, proven to be wrong, proven to be overtly Partizan, why should you continue to get access to the white House press room simply because you're a legacy media.

If you are NBC or ABC or whoever, why should you? Why should you get that luxury? I say we need to have an accounting of how accurate and I don't know how you objectively measure fair. That's a tough one, but you can certainly measure accuracy. You can absolutely measure accuracy. So it'll go back to the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Politico, who that publication is revered as always, having, you know, great information and being in the know in everything they ran multiple stories saying the Hunter Biden laptop was a made up controversy by the Trump administration. All right. They shouldn't be able to cover anything until they say sorry about that. Now you can absolutely claim we didn't know when we thought it was.

But you better retract everything that you had that was wrong. Yes. Yeah. No you're right and that's fine if it's nuanced. But to just move forward like it never happened, that that's not acceptable. And honestly, I think that's just one of the reasons why the, the support for the legacy media has collapsed. I mean, we're talking about a system of accountability, but I think the declining audience numbers for the legacy media is another mechanism of accountability.

We just don't we don't trust them anymore. We don't pay attention to them anymore. Yeah. And I wish more politicians. We had a clip that referenced this a few days ago where a politician said, you don't even have any viewers on your network. I, I wish more politicians would say that to legacy media. Yeah. Oh, what we're going to you're going to ask me a question so eight people can hear my answer.

I'd rather talk to that podcaster over there and just walk right past them. Yeah, put them in their place. Yeah. I, I think it's what needs to happen. And I think we're starting to see more examples of it happening. So (208) 542-1079 Stones Automotive Group call and text line is Neil Larson along with Julie Mason. I loved this part of Trump's tariff speech at the white House yesterday.

Julie. Likewise to all of the foreign presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, ambassadors and everyone else who will soon be calling to ask for exemptions from these tariffs. I say terminate your own tariffs, drop your barriers, don't manipulate your currencies. They manipulate their currencies like nobody can even believe, which is a bad, bad thing and very devastating to us.

And start buying tens of billions of dollars of American goods. Tariffs give our country protection against those that would do US economic harm. And many people we're looking to do US economic harm. Maybe not so obviously, but, they were doing tremendous economic harm. Okay. So he's he's just talking directly to the people in charge. He's just saying, I say this to the heads of state and the prime ministers and and then the message of, you know what?

We can work together, but you've got to you've got to you got to give and it needs to be more fair. And like I said earlier, Canada and Mexico weren't mentioned much in this press conference. I give all credit to Mexico for that. And their president, she has been in tons of communication with Trump. She's trying to find a workable solution to these tariffs.

It will cripple them. Yes. They do not figure this out. And so she is trying to do something good for her country there. She has also been in talks with Canada. Now a couple of days ago the mainstream media who we've just referenced are horrible and lie. They played up conversation. Well, we know that, Canada and Mexico have been talking.

Well, you know, what I think actually happened in those conversations? Was Mexico going, don't be stupid. We've got to fix this. We've got to take care of our citizens. And I believe that that was actually the conversations that were happening. Now Trump is having conversations with both, and they seem to be the countries that are going to fix all of this the quickest and give the example to everybody else what needs to be done.

You know, you look at it, Julie, when you look at let's back up like 30,000ft, maybe 50,000ft. Look at America's climate policy. What? And then the carbon credits and all of that. You're going to charge nations that put out more carbon dioxide money so that you can shift it to poorer nations, which is just wealth redistribution. It's just Marxist wealth redistribution.

But you you decorate it in a in a good, virtuous intention. We want to save the planet, save the environment. But really it's a way to to move money. The tariff scenario that we've been living with under Joe Biden and certainly under under Obama, I think Trump tried to do some things with it in his first term, accomplishes the same thing when we have an imbalance in tariff levels.

What's happening is they're charging us massive amounts to sell our stuff in their country. So we it just shifts wealth from America to these smaller countries. It's the same exact result as the wealth redistribution that we see in the in the climate change and in the environmental movement. And, and that's their whole goal all along is, is just to, to move wealth where it's concentrated in places like the United States and then give it to poorer countries.

Yeah. And as Trump has said, for far too long, we've been taking care of people that we shouldn't be taking care of. The the first prime, the first premier people that should be taken care of is Americans. Then we pick and choose certain allies based upon foreign policy, economy, safety. And then you start to create these balances with them.

But that's not how it's been working. It's been expected that America take care of everyone. Yeah, okay. That doesn't work in social circles. What happens to the person who is charged with taking care of everybody in a friend group? It gets burned out and the friend group gets annihilated and it doesn't exist any longer. Yeah, that's the that's the cusp of where we're at right now.

It's time that America start taking care of themselves. And then when we fix everything here, we have the capability to help our allies. Yeah, we we can't be the sugar daddy for every country in the world. We just can't. And everybody seems to want to have their hand in the trough. In America, a massive amounts of wealth going to the Ukraine and other nations.

And it we just have to put a stop to it. Trump's doing it. It's controversial. The left hates it reflexively, but he's he's absolutely doing the right thing. And yeah I think it's going to be turbulent for a little while maybe a few months. But it'll it'll settle out and and people will adapt and adjust and it's going to be okay long term.

Yeah. In fact it may very well indeed lead to what Donald Trump called the golden age of America. 938 we'll be back, right? Yeah. Right. Justin, I was going to do a quick look to see what the markets were doing. The Dow is down 1400 right now. That's a big hit. Yeah it will rebound. But that's a big hit.

Yeah. You know what. Now is an opportunity to pick up some some bargains. Wow CNN is such an interesting website. It's a chaotic website. And I think that's intentional. Yeah I bet when things are happening the way CNN wants it. And when they have a Democrat president and everything the site is far less chaotic. They want you to feel chaos when you go to the site.

Yeah I think you're right because it didn't look like this. This is a revamp of this website. It wasn't this way. Do you remember it had this, the three columns at one point. And it's not that anymore. It is just all over the place. And some are big and some are little. And guess what Neil brought me? I brought Julie some parts.

Sweet and salty. Popcorn. It was delicious. I, I ate that instead of my protein bar for breakfast. Stop your judgment. We listen and we don't judge.

You. I love that that's like a I demand that you listen and you don't judge.

That's great. It's actually a massive compliment because usually when we have something that's like a treat, Julie will just take 2 or 3 little bites, nothing crazy, and wraps it back up, or she gives it to somebody and she's. She'd been munch munch on it. Yeah. It's good. It's really good. Yeah. Hunter Biden voluntarily surrenders his DC law license to dodge disbarment, battle over criminal conviction.

He doesn't want that on his record, so he's just surrendering it. I'm going to quit before you can fight. Get on the couch. Get on the bench. No, I voluntarily leave the field. Listen to this headline. Jean-Claude Van Van Damme said. Hey, say his name. He was named in a Romanian sex trafficking scandal. He's accused of sleeping with five victims.

He knew were traffic. What is wrong with people? Hey, I don't even get it. I don't get the depravity. I just don't get it. John's asking me if I'd let my grandchildren eat popcorn for breakfast. You bet. I'm the fun grandma. If they want popcorn, they can have popcorn. Last night, my grandson wanted peanut butter and honey for dinner.

He had already had a peanut butter and honey sandwich for breakfast. I had to gently remind his his father that the apple does not fall far from the tree because there were multiple days he ate two sandwiches made with peanut butter. Is a peanut butter and something else honey or jam or no, it was peanut butter and honey when Mason was young.

He's not a big jam fan. Okay. Yeah, it was peanut butter. Does Asher like peanut butter? And honey? Is that, Oh, yeah. That's it. Yeah. He has about five foods, and he's good to go. Blueberries and cottage cheese. You can get him to eat that all the time. Peanut butter and honey all the time. I'm impressed by the cottage cheese, because when I was little, that was just disgusting.

He loves cottage cheese. 943 on Newstalk 1079 Neil Larson, Julie Mason and you all. If you'd like to reach us, the Stones Automotive Group, Collin Text line is (208) 542-1079. So I'm reading a story here, Julie from, Tucker Carlson. He interviewed Doctor Mary Talley Borden, and she left him visibly shaken after dropping a chilling Covid 19 vaccine statistic that is impacting millions of children right now.

She said that she pointed to data from the CDC s Vas system explaining over 38,000 deaths have been reported following the rollout of the so-called Covid 19 vaccines. She said under normal circumstances, such numbers would have prompted the FDA to pull the shots. Instead, they pushed forward, adding the Covid vaccine to the routine childhood schedule with the expectation that babies receive three doses by just nine months of age.

Who in their right mind would give a healthy baby three doses of a Covid vaccine? Okay, first off, I had no idea that became part of the the scheduled regimen. Second off, I have shared the story with Facebook Live. Should I tell all of the listeners about what my son has faced with vaccines in Arizona? Sure, if you want to.

Okay, so my son, who is in Iran and is currently becoming a nurse practitioner with his new child, had decided at a minimum wanted to do delayed vaccination. And so they chose not to vaccinate their child in the hospital when they went to their pediatrician to schedule the circumcision, which is usually done about two weeks after the birth, their pediatrician fired them, said, if you will not vaccinate this kid, I will not do this procedure on your child.

That left my son and daughter in law doctor shopping for the next several days. They finally settled with a pediatrician who said, I will do it, but I'm asking you to sign a paper saying that you will eventually vaccinate your child. They even through all of this negotiation with the pediatricians, said, Will you tell some of the vaccines, meaning I don't want the entire schedule?

Can I look at a list and pick, yes, we'll do this one. No. On this one cocktail was an absolute hard no, they would not do it. So let's rewind to the beginning of the hour when I said I wish people would take back control of their health care. This is the battle you're going to face. Because when you try to take control of your health care, this is what said to you.

Based upon pressures from pharmaceutical companies. It's shocking. So like so the the obstacle to cocktails or, you know, smorgasbord I guess from your for your vaccines because some parents don't want particular vaccines. They just won't let you do it. Is that a bureaucratic decision or is it because they're there? Do it like the MMR was three and one like you couldn't get just get a mumps shot or a rubella shot.

You you had to get one that had both of those in it. Yeah. I don't know what they gave them, what reason they gave them. I think the Occam's razor in all of that is it's coming packaged that way purposely so you can't. Yeah, right. They do not want you to be able to selectively choose which ones. Why are they so hellbent on on that kind of coercion and manipulation?

The one of the big issues that they found is that if you go strictly with a pediatrician, they want certain ratings by these government agencies. And I don't know the exact names, like, you know, like the American Pediatric Association or whatever. And if you don't, if you're not, a pediatrician who does a vaccine schedule, they will not allow you to be part certain organizations.

So they have a gun to your head as a doctor. So the doctor may be more than willing to do the cocktail, but or, you know, a shot by shot approach, but they've got a gun to their head. Yeah, I believe that's true. Holy cow. We can't live this way. It says that the Covid shots are you know this is going to get flagged on YouTube I promise you.

Oh I'm sure the last time we talked about vaccines, YouTube's tisk tisk at us and said oh you're talking about misinformation and it's not misinformation. It may be an opinion YouTube doesn't like or their algorithm or their whoever they are, I don't care. It's not going to stop us from talking about this. The Covid shot is still under emergency use authorization.

It's meaning it's not fully FDA approved. So why are they putting it in the schedule for newborns? That makes no sense to me. And I had no idea it was in the schedule I that that that scares me even more specifically because children weren't dying from Covid. Yeah. If children had been dying from Covid, we could have a data conversation about it.

Children were not dying from Covid, so why do you need to take something that wasn't causing eminent death? Yeah, I, I don't know. One one other detail here. Tucker was horrified when Doctor Boden mentioned this disturbing fact. According to the CDC, 9 million American children have gotten the latest version of these Covid shots. 9 million. Well, I'm, think about it.

Did you ask what was in your vaccine regimen that you put in your kid? Not back then. No, I didn't either. And that means there's people still doing that. That's true. They're just going in. The doctor's like, well, they need their shots and they're getting the shots. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah. Let's go to the phones. Hi, caller. How are you today?

Hi. Sorry. Second call this week, but you're in my wheelhouse here. Yeah, right. Will granted. Go ahead. That's correct. Thank you. One of the biggest reasons for the problems that you're talking about is actually the consolidation of doctors under hospital systems. Also, as of 2023, about 77% of doctors are employees of hospitals where we don't have too many holdouts anymore.

Independent doctors like me. But when they're under that hospital thumb, they just have to do it. Yeah, and that could have been. That could have been why they got told no by several pediatricians. Because they have rules. They have to follow these rules. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well that's another another layer to it. Another layer of foolish reason.

Thank you for calling. Appreciate it. And for the clarification. Yeah. Because I'm sure there's multiple reasons. I, I'm sure also doctors get paid per visit, right. Yeah. So when you come to have just a wellness check and get vaccinations for at pediatricians office, you're getting paid for a visit without the child being sick. Yeah. Does that make sense?

So yeah, it's probably a profit flow. Yeah as well. Yeah that yeah that's true. That's true. Money. Follow the money. Right. Okay. 951 on Newstalk 179. And let's take our break really quick here. We'll come back. We'll have a good robust final segment when we return on Newstalk 179. Right. There we go. We should talk about this in the next segment.

Joe Biden's former chief of staff has written a book. Ron Klain. He was the chief of staff 2021 to 2023. Okay. And then he returned in 2024 to help him prepare for the debate with Trump, according to The Guardian. In his book, clean claimed that Biden, quote, didn't know what Trump had been saying and could not grasp what the back and forth was.

During debate prep, Biden reportedly left and fell asleep by the pool. At one point, Biden had a brainwave. If he looked perplexed when Trump talked, voters would understand that Trump was an idiot, the book states. Clean replied, sir, when you look perplexed, people just think you're perplexed. And this is our problem in this race. The claims were made in reporter Chris Whipple's upcoming book, Uncharted How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.

In another part of the book, Whittle says that clean even wondered whether Biden thought he was the president of NATO rather than the United States. Oh, heavens. And they're upset about a signal app chat, the jokes about waking him up in the white House bedroom and telling him he's the president actually have legitimacy. Yes. It's not. No, it's not.

It's not an exaggeration at all. Oh, no. Okay. We need to do another town and country. Yeah. Clean wondered half seriously if Biden thought he was the president of NATO instead of the U.S. he just became very enraptured with being the head of NATO. That would not help him on Capitol Hill, because his claim noted domestic political leaders don't really care what Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz think.

Little, meanwhile, believes that calling the behavior Biden's staff a cover up is too simplistic. I happen to think that to call it a cover up is simplistic. I think it was stranger and way more troubling than that. Biden's inner circle, his closest advisers, many of them, were in a fog of delusion and denial. They believed what they wanted to believe, so they were ignoring the obvious signs.

And darn it, somebody celebrated that we were going to bomb Yemen. Yeah. 954 on Newstalk 1079 while you're out at Town and Country Gardens, grabbing your four step lawn program, saunter over to the seed rack and get the seeds that you need for your garden. Three vegetables for your potted plant, whatever you're, growing this year, Rex told me that the seeds go quickly, and, so you'll want to jump on that as soon as you can.

It's also that time of year where certain trees need to be planted, so ask about that. If you're in the position that you're, you know, redoing some of the areas of your lawn and maybe planting some new shade trees, now is the time to be planting certain varieties. So ask the experts at town and country. And he told us last year when we went and visited, now is also the time to get berries in the ground.

So if you're if you're doing raspberries or strawberries or whatever, he the experts there can help direct you exactly the best time to plant those as well. Okay, so swing on by south of Idaho Falls, across from the beer plant. And, tell them that Neil and Julie sent you. You're there for all the things. So. Okay, Julie, I just came across this.

There's a new book out about Joe Biden, and it's his former chief of staff. He didn't write the book. Another guy did, but he's quoting him. And apparently there were moments where Joe Biden didn't know what Trump had been saying, couldn't grasp what the back and forth was in the debate prep that they were doing. And, it said here at one point, Biden had a brainwave.

If he looked perplexed when Trump talked, voters would understand that Trump was an idiot, the book states. Clean replied, sir, when you look perplexed, people think you're perplexed. And this is our problem in this race. And then it goes on to say, there were times where Biden thought he was the president of NATO, not the president of the United States.

And so my response to you during the commercial break is all those jokes about somebody waking him up in the white House bedroom and telling him, hey, hey, Joe, you're the president of the United States, and we need to get you up so that you can do some duties. They might have been real. They made jokes. Yeah, no.

That's true. It's crazy if you take some calls. Yes. All right, caller, go ahead. You're on the program. Good morning. Good morning I know, I know, we got to make this quick. My wife and I were appalled last night when we watched a video of a couple up in upstate New York. We saw on life site news and FD, children's Self-Defense was doing the interview.

The couple had to take their baby and a one year old little baby girl to be in for a wellness check. They said they had to give her her child, injections. They gave her six shots and 12 of they consisted of 12 different vaccines. And then on top of it, this a one year old. She had two teeth.

They they said they had to give her fluoride on her teeth. One tooth. Wow. She had two. Two teeth. That's all she had. Tooth baby teeth and didn't put fluoride on them. She they went home and she went into seizure into shock. And the police tried to help revive the baby, and they took her to the hospital in an ambulance.

She died shortly thereafter. She had like 6 or 7 seizures during her hospital stay. They tried to revive her, took they went, spent 45 minutes trying to resuscitate. Oh, that's her. And they lost her. That's horrible. If people get a chance to go out. Look at that. The interview at life site news. Okay. She fd there's a GoFundMe page too, for so.

Okay. Wow. It's a sad story. It really is. Thank you, for the call. One last call. You got 20s caller. Go ahead. Okay. To let you know about the Veirs website, only 1 to 2, possibly 3% of all vaccine injuries or deaths are reported out of everybody who has them. Okay, so that 38,000 number could be much could be much bigger.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right Julie that's going to do it for the show today. All right. Thanks for all the calls and the participation. We appreciate you. And, Julie and I will be back tomorrow right here on Newstalk 1079 studio four covers tomorrow. Yes. Singers from S.O.S.. All right. See you then.