4.30.2025 -- NLS -- Trump vs. Moran, SCOTUS Eyes Saint Isidore

On this episode with Neal and Julie, the conversation opens with reflections on Donald Trump’s combative interview with ABC’s Terry Moran, which Neal suggests may have been a strategic move by ABC to avoid sending a more prominent anchor into what was likely to be a tough exchange. The hosts explore Trump’s visible frustration, attributing it to years of political and personal attacks, and question how much of the truth from Washington, D.C. ever reaches the public.

They also dive into the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing on whether a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma should receive public funds—raising broader questions about religious freedom, parental choice, and how public dollars flow in education. Neal argues the money follows the parent, not the school, framing the debate around fairness and consistency.

Julie and Neal then shift to broader political dynamics, from reactions to Trump's first 100 days and media bias, to academic institutions and foreign policy. The episode closes with some lighter moments, personal anecdotes, and a plug for a local garden center—blending national analysis with local charm in classic Neal and Julie fashion.

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Transcript

Good morning. It's 807 on Newstalk 1079 I'm Neil Larsen. Welcome to the program today. It's a Wednesday and if you'd like to reach the show, the number to text is (208) 542-1079. And this happened recently. This is not a media failure. This is a failure of the Democratic Party. And I just saw sort of the virtue signaling that some people have done to try to say that the media missed this story.

They didn't miss a story. David Ignatius wrote, I just refuse to accept this, this stupid premise, because it's a right wing, manufactured right wing premise in order to to stay in the media. The media's got plenty of things to attack them for. And there are MSNBC and CNN and pundits that absolutely carried water for Joe Biden. But they're not journalists.

They're former strategists for Joe Biden. The journalist David Ignatius wrote a very high profile column in in October of 23 saying, is he really running again? This doesn't seem like a good idea. People like me were promoting Dean Phillips's campaign because he was running a Wall Street message. So I. Okay, so you have, what's his face? Chuck Todd, he is asserting that, this was not a media failure.

The media did not fail the American public. This was the white House lying to the media. It's. And he goes on to blame Kamala and Joe and Jill and all the people around. And I'm like, are you kidding me? I mean, the the level of scrutiny that the mainstream press gives to Donald Trump, for instance, is multiples exponential, multiple, multiple of anything they did with Joe Biden.

And if they dug a fraction, as hard into the Biden administration, then they would have reported properly to the American people what was going on. It was absolutely a media failure. And, you don't just trust the white House and what they tell you and then go, well, we just reported what they told us, but they were the ones like, no, that's not what you do.

If you're a reporter, you find the truth and you assume that everybody's capable of lying to you and you dig in, you dig in, you dig in until you get to the truth. Now the media's doing the opposite. They're digging and digging and digging and then lying about it. And, it's yesterday, by the way, I don't I don't want to focus on that, but I heard that this morning, and I'm like, Chuck, you had a good day yesterday.

You made a slam dunk point about how the Democrats and Democrat voters have not chosen the last three nominees, and they haven't. The elites chose Hillary Clinton, the elites chose Joe, and the elites chose Kamala Harris. It was an internal selection process. And if you're a Democrat primary voter in the last three big Democrat, elections, you were ignored, ignored.

That's it. You were ignored. And, that's, I think, part of the Democrats a big problem here. And Chuck Todd should have just gone with that. You know what? Be a truth teller, Chuck. Don't go back to a narrative teller. Be a truth teller here. It absolutely was a massive media, a cover. And I think to like, this isn't just another story.

I hope you understand that what we've seen happening in America is one of the biggest hoaxes, scandals, frauds that has been perpetrated. And it's all very complex. But the cover up of, Joe Biden's mental decline books are now coming out about it. There will be documentaries. It will be in the history books. And when there's no more Joe Biden to protect and there's not there's no reason to protect Joe anymore because he's he doesn't have access to the political power that he used to have.

So maybe the truth is going to come out fully. You were lied to by the people who were supposed to tell you the truth. In fact, you could look at the media and say, you have one job, and your one job is to tell the public the truth. And you did the OP. You worked very hard to do the opposite.

There is no way that the Biden coverup was not a massive media failure. It was a white House failure to it was a moral failure. It's not one or the other. They were both in on it, and they are absolutely suffering the consequences. And you don't rehab the image of the mainstream media. Chuck Todd by by telling bich by basically extending the gaslighting, continuing to tell them that, oh no, we we didn't, we didn't betray you.

That's not us. That was the white House. Okay? No, you own you you you gotta claw back that integrity. And it's not you that's going to do it. It'll be new journalists, new leadership, new infrastructure. And I think we're shifting into a very much a new media era where the way Americans find out the truth will be very, very different than what we've had generationally.

So you had that yesterday was a big day for Donald Trump. 100 days as Trump, 47. And what a momentous 100 days it's been. He was busy all day yesterday. He sat down with ABC News Terry Moran, and I almost feel like Terry Moran was the sacrificial lamb, that ABC news did not want to put up one of the big names in ABC, because they knew Trump was probably going to shred him and I found something very interesting.

You just had a settlement a few months ago between ABC news and the fact that there lead political voice, slandered Donald Trump and repeatedly insisted the falsehood that Donald Trump was liable for rape. Absolutely not true. But Stephanopoulos kept doubling down on it, and it cost ABC news a pretty penny. Now, I would imagine, because I actually thought about this prior to the interview, but I would imagine that, there was a nondisclosure agreement as part of this that you can't go out and start publicly trashing it and talk about the case and talk about all of that, that I don't think that that was, that's probably the reason why there weren't really any

clips of Trump trashing Stephanopoulos. Because ABC news, if they were smart, they would say, okay, we'll do this settlement, but we don't want you going out there and exploiting this. And, and, and so I do think you saw some of that pent up frustration from Trump, which if you're Donald Trump and you have had just the the hell rained down on you for the last eight years on your family, on your business, on your reputation, on even your life, then, yeah, you're mad.

And I know people get upset with Trump. They don't like him. And they're like, oh, you're being too mean. You're being too blunt. You're. Yeah, you know what? Take about five minutes and imagine what life has been like for Donald Trump for the last eight years, working for free as the president of the United States. And some people are going to be like, oh, no, he's getting richer.

He's just because he's donating his salary. So let me revise. He's donating his salary. He's not taking a presidential paycheck to be the president of the United States. And yet they continue to try to destroy, mischaracterize, gaslight, malign the reputation of Trump and not report the good things over, report the negatives and exaggerate the net. It's just day in and day out.

We interviewed Senator Crapo earlier this morning, and he referenced that the sheer, amount of criticism, the tsunami of criticism that Donald Trump stands up to every single day. And not only does he survive it, he thrives through it. He owns them. So here's a couple of clips. And, this was probably one of the well, just like, listen, hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime.

You know, you're doing the interview. I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you. But that's okay. I picked you, Terry. But you're not being very nice. He had Ms. 13 Ted to agree to disagree on to something else. Okay? He wants to move on because you know why? I think he wants to move on. There might be an element of we're not going to arrive at any agreement here.

I have my version. You have yours. We're not going. Right. I think that one of the driving reasons why Terry Moran wanted to move on from it is because the media is losing this. The Democrats are losing this effort to stand up for a guy who, by any commonsense measure, is a member of Ms13 violent past, drug past here illegally.

There are new documents out that the ex-husband of the woman that, Briggle Garcia, I don't know if he was married or just connected with, but expressed concern for his child safety because the new guy is a gang member. Okay, now, if you are a journalist and you are trying to maintain that Kilmer, Abrego, Garcia's not a gang member, then you are not a journalist.

If you continue to characterize Abrego Garcia as a gentleman, a Maryland man, a family man, you are not a journalist. You're a narrative peddler, but you're not, a journalist. So here's another one. They talked about deporting 21 million illegals. Listen to this. The lawyers about that. All I can say is this if you're going to have 21 million people and we have to get a lot of them out because they're criminals, we're going to have to act fast.

We can't. Do you think we can give 21 million trials? Let's say each trial takes two weeks. Is that what you want us to do? What? What? Mr.. The law is the law. And you are so lawyers and say anything about trials? No, not trials. Hearings. I said these people came in. They're not citizens. They came in illegally.

They came into our country illegally. We have to get them out. There's a legal process, but I can't be sure. And we follow the legal process. I can't I can't have a trial at a major trial. I'm not saying every person that came in illegally, we have thousands of murderers that came in. They're going to murder people. They already have murdered people in our country.

So we have to get them out there. We have to get out fast, really bad guys. But in our country, even bad guys get due process, right? If people. Okay, this is another one of those situations. And Bill Barr talked about this, yesterday and I think it was actually Monday, but we had the clip yesterday where he made it very clear maybe we had it Monday.

Let me see if I can find the clip for you. But, he talked about this where there is due process and it's not the same. If I went out and robbed a bank, I'm an American citizen. I go out and. No, I didn't rob the bank. I allegedly robbed the bank. Even the reporting on it. We take care to protect the idea that someone is innocent until proven guilty.

I get due process. Now, if they have me on camera and you have multiple witnesses that can identify me at the scene. Yeah, I'm going to be arrested. I'm going to be detained. I'm going to have to go to some hearings. And and there may be a trial, you know, like that. I would go through a full criminal due process process in the United States of America when it comes to due process for deportation, it's very different than due process for incarceration.

Due process for deportation means you go back to your country, you'll still have your freedom. You'll still have all the things that you need your mobility, your freedom, your access to your home, and whatever an average free person has access to you. Don't lose that. So the due process standard for that is far different than the due process standard for Neil, the bank robber and the media acts like due process is this singular thing that is identical in every situation.

And if illegals don't get the same identical due process that citizens get when they commit major crimes, fifth amendment presumption of it, no, it is very, very different. The due process for illegals is just more administrative. You have an agency that determines if you're here illegally and that's pretty too. Pretty easy to, figure out in a lot of cases, you're they're not sending you to jail.

They're just putting you on a plane if you're near the border, maybe a bus. I don't know how they get them back home, but they just say you're going back home. You just can't stay. It's very different. But yet they use these Jedi mind tricks and these little buzzwords that create this psyop they like. Well, they're being denied due process.

Well, no, not not really because they they're not given the same due process. It's very, very different. All right. We're going to break. We'll come back. There's an interesting case before the Supreme Court of the United States. It's out of Oklahoma. And it does not identically match up with Idaho's school choice. But they rhyme. There's a lot of, similarities between the two.

And we'll talk about it coming up. It's 823. All right. 827 on Newstalk 1079, it's Neil Larson along with Julie Mason. So, Julie, interesting story. The Supreme Court is taking up a case out of Oklahoma. And this involves a Catholic charter school. And, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments today in the case of a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma that is seeking the support of public funds.

So apparently a private school can get a charter which entitles it to public money. So the structure is a little bit different, but I think the principles are the same thing. Public tax dollars flowing to private religious schools. Right. Saint Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School will be the nation's first religious charter school, setting a precedent sure to be capitalized on by other religious institutions.

Both the Oklahoma Supreme Court and the Oklahoma Attorney General Gener Drummond, a Republican, have argued funding the school is uncosted to Oklahoma governor. Governor Kevin Stitt, also a Republican, argues the First Amendment allows funding for the school for Wednesday's Supreme Court hearing, the Saint Isidore case has been consolidated with the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board and other similar case senators James Lankford, Josh Hawley, Kevin Cramer, Ted Budd and Ted Cruz filed an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court supporting the school.

In the brief, the Republican senators flipped Drummond's First Amendment argument on the attorney general, arguing Oklahoma violated the First Amendment by denying Saint Isidore a charter because it's a religious school, and state's office said it's no secret that parents want to educate their children in line with their values, and a public good shouldn't be denied to anyone based on their religion.

The outcome of this case will be revolutionary for religious liberty and education. Freedom Oklahoma is at the forefront. The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, which opposes Saint Isidore effort, argued the case is a slippery slope that would have a far reaching impact. We and because charter schools are now indoctrinated into the K-Through-12 public school complex. Right. Well, that's because they become so reliant on government money.

Yeah, that's how you get indoctrinated. Yes. Yeah. So they said we strongly believe the Supreme Court should maintain that charter schools are public, which is based on 30 years of law to allow a religious charter school. The court would be redefining charter schools as private, thereby putting charter school funding at significant risk and dramatically reducing access to school choice for millions of families across the country.

I don't know if that flows, but okay. So the Supreme Court, there was a case here in 2020, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in Espinoza versus Montana Department of Revenue. Listen closely because this has Idaho implications. A state, a state need not subsidize private education. But once a state decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.

Yep, that's the big one for Idaho because I'm sure will cross this bridge. I'm sure we're going to go to get a religious private school that wants to be part of the the tax credit program. Yes. And yeah, this is an interesting one and pretty convoluted where they're both arguing almost the same point. Yeah, they really are. So that that gets a little crazy.

And it's going to be up to the Supreme Court to just identify what truly is the First Amendment. Yeah, yeah. That yeah. That's a that is a good point because it it's almost you're just using the same First Amendment through different lenses on. So yeah. Yeah. And it they also said the Republican senator said upholding the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act with the included exclusion of religious organizations would set a dangerous precedent, signaling that religious organizations are not welcome in public projects.

This would not only violate the First Amendment, but it would also deprive society of the valuable contributions that these organizations make, the Republican senators wrote. So this has nuts. These two are very, very different, and it's probably comparing apples and oranges. But I just want to pose a question here. Why was it okay for the Catholic Church to take money from federal programs to house illegal immigrants?

But it's not okay for a Catholic school to take money from the government to educate children? At great point. That's a that is a fantastic point. And it shows you how how broken the moral compasses on the land. Yeah, yeah. That's true. So they they took money to serve a public good or I don't know if housing illegals is a public good, but you know what I'm saying.

Biden enforced trauma. Yes. Yeah. It's a it's a public function. And they can do that. But when you start talking about educating kids oh no that's a violation. Get your hands off my money. Yeah. That's a yeah. Yeah. Yeah I think you know what I, I remember Julie because I heard the clip about 10 billion times when I was producing the documentary in advance of prop one last year.

And you had Jim Jones. Yeah. Comes to talking about Jones impersonation prop on. It's going to be a game changer like he's predicting this thing's going to pass wildly. It's going to change Idaho politics. And it failed 70 to 30. He's now predicting that because of the case out of Utah that Idaho is going to lose this, that Labrador is going to lose now or not.

This is, I think, the Supreme Court, because you have the Chief Justice saying, look, if you do this and you can do this, you don't have to. But states can provide money to private schools. If you open that door, you cannot exclude religious schools from it. Right? Right. I would also say to Jim Jones, I sent you, I think it was Monday, Attorney General Labrador out of his office and then via his account.

But it goes out on lots of different platforms, reaffirmed his confidence. You know, that this is going to be perfectly fine in Idaho. Yes. Yeah. I think he had shared the Mountain State's policy centerpiece on this. Yeah. He he's very confident about this. And I think he should be I think there's a can I also ask this because the way the opponents of, House Bill 93, characterized that law, they're saying that the state is sending money to private schools.

And I'm like, okay, you're you're sort of skipping a step here. The reason the money is going to the private school is because the parents are choosing that school, right? The government is not saying, hey, let's arbitrarily send money to private religious schools or private schools. They're saying, parents, you're you have the primary responsibility for making choices about your child's education.

Here's a tax credit that enables you to do that. And then the parents make the choice of where they what they want to do with that, that grant. And there are limits there. But one of their choices can be, I want to go to this private school, or I want to go to this religious school. Government is not the one making the choice to send the dollars to the private schools.

It's the parent using the tax credit to send their kid to the private school. Yeah, yeah. You actually use the word grant in there. I think that that is a very easy and explainable way to look at this, because there's similarities between the tax credit and the grants that the government gives. They hand them out like playing cards.

Oh, okay. You want one. Let's play. You know, like that's how grants are handed out. And the grant goes to a specific organization. And then the organization usually has guardrails. Yeah. But they use the grant to benefit the organization. Again this is nothing different. This is a parent applying for a tax credit from the state. And then they use that tax credit to pay for the education.

That's the guardrail. The guardrail isn't private religious. The guardrail is pay for education. Yeah. Yeah it is so okay. Let me ask can I ask a question another way. What if let's say I get a tax refund. Is the grocery tax refundable. Oh I don't, I don't know if it's a credit or if I think it is.

I think it's a refundable credit. Okay. What if I pay tithing on it. Yeah. That's going to a private religious organization. It's a tax credit. And I'm sending some of that money to my church. Are they is the left going to be upset because I decided to pay an offering to my church using and and you know what?

It falls in line with, with groceries and feeding the poor. You might say, you know what? I got money back from the state as part of the grocery tax credit. I'm going to take, 100 bucks of that, and I'm giving it to my church because they are really, really good at helping people get the food in the basics that they need.

Yeah. Functionally, ethically. How is that any different then getting an education tax credit and saying I'm sending my kid to Saint Lutherans. Whatever. Yeah. I don't think it's, I don't think it's different because I think you have that barrier in there. And the recipient is actually the parent, not the school. Yeah. Now the school does benefit secondarily, but the recipient of the government money is the parent, which I need to remind everybody they put into the fund.

Yeah. They're just deducting a portion of what they put into the fund. Yes. Yeah. Well I remember and it was a very I mean we were on opposite sides of this, but we interviewed Doctor Jeffrey Thomas about this before House Bill 93 passed, because he was he was working diligently to defeat it. And one of the questions that I asked him that, quite frankly, he he really did not have a good answer for.

And I don't mean that as a slam disparaging it just there is no good answer for it is are you suggesting, then, that BYU students should not be eligible for Pell grants? Or what are the lunch programs subsidize the lunch program? Yes, because that's state money, Pell grants federal. But it's the same idea. It it's it's it's taxpayer money going to a family so they can spend it on private and even private religious education.

Yeah. And he didn't he would even be the first to admit I didn't have a good answer for that. Nobody has a good answer for that. Nobody opposing it has a good answer for that question, because you don't want to be the person stepping up and denying lunch money to kids, going to BYU-Idaho, or denying Pell Grants to kids going to BYU Idaho.

Yeah. So there they are, silent on that issue. But it is functionally exactly the same. Isn't it crazy, too, that they, the same people can look at the lunch program and go, oh, it's pristine. We love it. Yay! And the tax credit is somehow the most evil. The evil attack on public education. As Wendy Harmon sarcastically says, it is the end of Western civilization.

That's how they act. Yeah, it's it's there. Yeah, yeah. You know what I would put out there? In addition to my question, even though we've won the battle, you don't have to ask people this question anymore because we won the battle. But, I would tell them, why do you want to deny lower and middle income kids, private education?

Nobody's going to have a good answer for that either. I think in that very same way you, you ask the question, how is this different than lunch money going to BYU I students. Yeah. It's not, it's not it's the same exact thing. But you're right, it's like I, I don't know how they navigate that.

I'll be honest with you, I don't, I don't know you and I had some concerns about the, the lunch program simply because we think there needs to be a few more expectations and guardrails and, you know, it. It's designed to keep kids in Idaho, but there was no accountability to keep kids in Idaho. That's the problem. We had it is it?

There wasn't a mechanism in there, of accountability to achieve what they said they wanted to achieve with it. So that was our problem. We weren't fundamentally opposed to it. We're like, okay, education is a it is a public virtue. We believe in public education. And now I do think we are constitutionally required in K through 12 in a way that we're not in post-secondary education.

But it's more like philosophically, it's the same argument. Look, I have concerns about the school tax credit as well, you know, to to pretend like we can look at any government program and go, I am 100% on board on that. You're just not being an honest person. Yeah. Because every program has a way to be have a loophole in it.

Yeah. Every program has some issues. What I am on board for is making sure that parents have the choice for their children. Yeah, that's what I'm 100% on board for. Yeah. In all things vaccinations, I think it should be the parents choice. I don't think it should be the school's choice. I don't think it should be the doctor's choice.

I think it should be the parents choice. Yeah. There's lots of ways that the government needs to get out of the relationship between parent and child. For me, this is one of them. As a good as a good resident of Idaho, you pay your taxes. And if you feel like the public education system is not meeting your needs, you shouldn't be you shouldn't receive negative, monetary balances because you're going to go looking somewhere else.

Yeah. You paid into that program. You deserve to have the choice of where your child is educated. Yeah. And for like we've said before, this is the part that is just mind blowing. 95% are still going to choose the public education system. Yeah. Why are you so darn threatened? It is not an existential threat. It is crazy.

You know what I would say? I don't this bill would not have passed. But in a perfect world, it should. I think the money should follow the student now, the way they. The only way they could get it passed was to create new money. Because they didn't want to give the other side the talking point of your bankrupt.

You're bankrupting K through 12 to allow parents to put their kids in private school, which you're not. Number one, you're not bankrupt. Again, 95% are going to choose public school. Yeah you're right. So but that would be their talking point. So to insulate against that when he Harman's bill said okay we'll just do a tax credit and it doesn't subtract anything from the K through 12.

Budget will allocate the same amount of money that we always have. And then on top of that we're going to do the tax credit because we believe in parental choice. So it didn't it didn't subtract. It's it's not a zero sum game here. It didn't subtract from the big K-Through-12 budget to make the the school choice, structure viable.

And so they don't they lie about that to a time after time after time. I see commentary writers and pundits saying they are they are siphoning funds off of public education. They are not. So stop lying about it. Yep, yep. But that's the talking point that creates fear. So that's why they lie. Just stretching the truth just a little.

Yeah, just a little. I'm stretching the truth. Just going to tell a little white lie to to get this through. All right. It's 844. Let's break. We'll come back. (208) 542-1079. 850 on Newstalk. 1079 Neil Larson and Julie Mason. (208) 542-1079 Julie a lot of Trump clips. What was your favorite from yesterday? Well of course I loved the Scott Jennings clip because I think that Trump is Trump.

And and this is very on brand for him. And it wasn't that people would say how courageous it was for him to do the things he did in the ABC interview and to say all of the things he says in his rallies. It's just Trump. So, yes, is it courageous? But we're used to it. I love the courage of what Scott Jennings said.

I love the courage that he showed up there. I love the courage that he goes toe to toe with all of those people on the CNN panels every single day. Yeah, and he does morning hits, night hits, like he is all over the place. The guy works Tyler tirelessly, much like Trump. Yeah. So I really loved that clip.

I just thought, there was a clip that isn't isn't flashy, isn't shiny, but it's a clip where he was, explaining all the things that he has accomplished in the first 100 days. I liked that one, because it's the words that you use to go against the narrative that's being built by the mainstream media and by libs.

Yeah, because things have gone well in the first 100 days, despite people saying our economy is on the brink of collapse. Well, yeah, I mean, the negatives get exaggerated and the positives get minimized. I don't think it's been all roses. I think that there's been internally some hiccups that have gone on. I do think behind the scenes, Elon Musk and Vikram Swamy needed to part ways.

So I think you've got two very strong personalities there that just weren't going to be able to occupy the same space, and that's okay. That got solved. I think, when you look at the Pete Hegseth thing, I think publicly Trump is super supportive of Pete Hegseth, as he should be. I do think Trump is probably trying to redirect him just a little bit, because there's been there's been some tumultuous ness there with the stairs.

Yeah, there have been. And and you know what? I when you take on a cabinet level position, you're going to have a learning curve no matter what you've done prior to that. If you've never been in the cabinet before, it's going to take a little while to get the get the swing of things. And I think the media looked at Pete Hegseth and thought, okay, we got to start picking off these these selections by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth seemed to be the low hanging fruit like that.

Then for stair with the signal app, as you mentioned. And you know, they've had some personnel turnover. Yeah, they've had some leaks that have gone on. And so they derive from that, that he's not qualified to to do the job. And I think there's probably is maybe a little bit of concern on Trump's part, but he's keeping it private and trying to figure it out so that, you know that he can keep Pete around.

So yeah. Yeah, I would say it hasn't been bump free either. But welcome to government and presidencies. I feel like there's general traditions that are suspended when people talk about Trump 100 days and he's supposed to turn everything around. Remember when it was like week four and they went on that week long concept of, well, the price of eggs is still high?

No, I was just going to say that. And you're like, yeah, it's been four weeks. Give it a moment and guess where the price of eggs are back down. Yeah. Guess where the price of oil is appropriate. Guess what. Reserve is getting rebuilt. The oil reserves. Yeah. Like he is doing things. But when it comes to Trump almost it's supposed to be like, what was that bewitched lady who wiggled her nose and it was just automatic.

And it happened. Barbara Eden yeah, they expected that. They just expect that to happen with Trump. Yeah, you can move at turtle if not dead speed with the Biden administration. I might have had a celebrity crush on Barbara. Oh she was cute. Yeah. No, that was I Dream of Jeannie. That's right. It was I think. Yeah. But going back to the Trump thing, he has to bat a thousand, because if he doesn't bat a thousand they say look at what a disaster he is.

It's, it's perfection that they demand or else it's failure. This is why. And if you're tired of it get over it. Because it needs to be said again and again and again. This is why they keep touting the immigration numbers, because the Biden administration claimed repeatedly that the only way immigration would be fixed is if Congress did their job.

And in reality, all you had to do was shore up the border with the current rules that exist, which is exactly what Trump did. He did not have to wait for a divided Congress to do anything. And we're down to less than 200 people crossing the border every day on average. They keep celebrating that as they should.

Because what that focus is on is the fact that government has lied to you repeatedly. The mainstream media has lied to you repeatedly. And action can happen when a strong leader gets in place. Yeah. And yes. And they when you. I would bet you that Donald Trump has done more in this 100 days than Joe Biden did of anything consequential in his entire four years back up to this.

855 all right. It is eight 59 hour two coming. 907 welcome back. It's our to Neil Larson along with Julie Mason. And can I just say, if you're looking for things to do this afternoon, hopping on down to or up, you know, depending on where you live to town and country gardens south of Idaho Falls and grab what you need.

I mean, get one of the big cards, go get your, vegetables, your hanging baskets, your flowers for your flower pots and flower beds. Get some seeds for your vegetable garden because now's the time to start doing that. If you need insecticides or pests. I mean, here's a little prep. Yeah, absolutely. All of that. And, I will say this.

Get the smaller things first and then get your four step lawn program last because you have a few bags of stuff. They had that really cool, like big cart though, that you can put everything on. There's not little carts there. That's that's true. And, you know, I like to ride around on those. Nobody's looking like a skateboard, but that's I don't I don't make confessions on here like that.

Well, I have heard through the grapevine Rex does the same thing. So you're okay when they close down at night? I think Rex and I would race, and I think that's probably true. Anyway. And grab a firefly. Petunia. That's one of those that glow in the dark, I did. I show you the pictures I took. Yeah, yeah.

Time lapse inside a, you know, closet. It's kind of cool. It was, south of Idaho Falls, Yellowstone Highway, across from the big malt plant. So it. Plus, it's just an enjoyable visit. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Amy Coney Barrett is recusing herself on a case. Is she? Oh, it's over the religion because she's Catholic. Yeah, that's what it is.

This is the case we just talked about last hour. This could be a 4 to 4. What's up with Amy Coney Barrett? Really need to recuse yourself because you're Catholic. No. You don't. I mean, I know the school in Oklahoma is a Catholic charter school, but I don't know, simply being Catholic would be cause for. Does she have a direct connection to the people who are running the school?

Possibly. Maybe. Well, I guess maybe we ought to do our research before we we dig it. I just I still have the question. What's going on with Amy Coney Barrett? We thought we had we thought that was a grand slam. It hasn't been okay. Can we. And I'm not going to make this accusation against Amy Coney Barrett, but we could write a movie script.

I feel like Chief Justice Roberts got compromised by something. Somewhere along the way, Republican appointed. It was Bush that appointed him, and we thought we were getting a rock solid conservative. And when it came, the opportunity presented itself to toss Obamacare and I if I remember, I this goes back to many years for me to remember in great detail, but I believe it's centered around you can't have a tax bill addressing health care in America.

Like that's just not the proper place for it. That is the only way that the Obama administration could get it done is to create tax credits and subsidies, whether within our tax code for the exchange. And the only way they could they could get this done. It was the perfect opportunity to get rid of that cancerous cancerous behemoth that we have now.

And it appeared in part of Judge Roberts writings he was poised to do just that. And I think he thought were still going to get beat, like he was going to be one of the four in A54 decision. But there was an unexpected vote the other way. And he changed. He changed the goalposts a little bit in his writing, and he did not want to be the Supreme Court justice.

That tossed out the first black president's only legislative accomplishment. And and I think he didn't want to be remembered in history by that. There are some with more nefarious theories that know somebody got to him. They they got to him and threaten his family or something. But I feel like when you look at some of these justices, you feel like something's happened to him, like he just the way they are functioning and operating and and deciding cases is just a little weird.

And I kind of feel that with Amy Coney Barrett. What's going on with her? I don't know, I, I think it's fair to say we only probably know somewhere around 60 to 70% of thing of the truth about what happens in DC. Yeah. And when it comes to the Supreme Court, it might be even less because it's such a high value.

That's true. Like, I mean, if they were products because aren't Supreme Court justices treated like products? They are. Yeah. Like who had them? Who got the most valuable product? And how many products do you have on the court? Yes. And so if we're looking at that, it is a high value product. Yeah. That's true. And I think yeah I mean you can look at it if you want to be really jaded and cynical, you could put a dollar value on how much it is worth to be a sitting congressman.

And I'm not talking about their salary. I'm talking about how much of the Treasury they command. Yeah, you could put a dollar value on owning the presidency. You could put a dollar value on. And so, yeah. Are there forces out there that are gathering up assets in the form of government positions? You better bet there are. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, this is not a this is not something we invented. They put a dollar value or a, a, a just an overall political value on the difference between a House seat and a Senate seat. And so, yeah, to think that that couldn't happen with the Supreme Court justices that are appointed for life. Yeah. Pretty high, pretty high value.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it really is. Julie, what is I feel like this Nike study about trans youth. Have you seen anything about that? I saw some headlines. I didn't do a deep dive because Nike just continues to disappoint me. So I there just didn't go all the way. They're getting rid of it. Yes okay. And I feel like this is, they were they were going to fund this trans youth study.

But but why they make shoes like, and we know they're dea. We know what the outcome of a funded study is going to bring like that. So I'm glad to see the headline that they're withdrawing from it, but I think we could tie this into the Harvard story you sent me. Harvard is totally caved. Completely caved.

Because they don't want to jeopardize the billions of dollars that they get from the federal government. And why do they need billion? Can we just set the whole antisemitism thing aside? Why is Harvard that has dozens of billions of dollars in endowment money? Yeah, getting more federal money. It is phenomenal to me how, we have just accepted the fact that education just sucks and sucks and sucks off the government dollar.

Yeah. And they believe they they they don't they haven't gotten enough. They deserve more all the time. They deserve more. Yes, they they do. It's never enough. Right. It's it's never enough money. Furthermore, Harvard probably has if you look at their alumni, they have one of the most affluent alumni in the world, and yet they still need to be a charity case from the federal government.

Subsidized. I don't understand what is that about. Yeah. And and anybody who's connected to education don't send me in. I mean text right now, I, I don't understand why we provide so much for, for state universities and private universities. Separate that out from K through 12. Yeah. I don't understand why we provide so much for state and for private universities because they are not passing that that savings on to the the student.

Yeah. Right. That's tuition goes up every year. You know, and as the government gives them more money, they're not cutting you a deal as a student. You should be angry about it too. Yeah. You you absolutely should be. So I and you know what. Well there is actually a relevant clip from Trump's big rally last night where he talked about getting rid of the the DEA stuff.

It all is intertwined. Hold on one second here. I, I ended all of the all this so-called diversity, equity and inclusion bill all across the entire federal government and the private sector. And I made it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. Yeah. You know, I look at this whole thing, I have no idea how academia gets away with being so overtly anti-Semitic.

And I don't, I don't well it's nuanced. No comment that right. Yeah. No, no it's not the thing about the First Amendment right argument and whenever you hear somebody on the left make this point and they're walking around carrying a sign with some kid's name on it that they're frustrated that that kid got kicked out of the college for holding rallies or whatever.

These, these protests and these rallies aren't just people standing on the steps of somewhere chanting, do the chant, the the Larry Dynamite. And you know that one. That's not what's happening with these. They're impeding the progress of Jewish students on campus. Yes. They're not letting them go to class. They're creating barriers. They're they're making it so fearful that these kids won't even walk like a campus.

It's personal intimidation. Yes. Right at the line of illegality. That's not First Amendment, right? No, it's it's not it's not. But but these universities are fostering that kind of although I think it is changing hopefully because if if their conscience won't stop them from doing that, a lack of funding. Yeah. The almighty dollar has so much power. You know what lack of funding is a great artificial conscience, right?

I decided to do the right thing. Yeah. Dot dot dot dot dot dot. Because you were going to take away my money. Thanks. You. You think you know what? I look at my kids growing up, not getting their allowance from time to time was a great substitute for, good behavior. I do. Yeah. Have you ever pulled out the.

Okay, well, I don't need to pay for your cell phone. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, that one was a regular. In fact, I will say sometimes I would get my kids something they really wanted. So I had that leverage. It's like now I've got something they treasure that I can take away. Yeah. And. Yeah, sure. Keep your phone. Yeah.

Oh, but you'll take over the payment for the phone, and you're going to have to pay for the monthly payment. Yeah. For sure. Have your phone go right ahead. We can, we can work this out. Yeah that's it. Now I don't know if that's the best parenting approach for me. Like you know you know get your phone only so I can control you.

That's what the government does with with people. But yeah. Right. (208) 542-1079 someone said unemployment is two. This is our troll. Yeah. Okay. Our Trump's tariffs on or off now because he can't make up his mind. Maybe he doesn't know what he's doing. Question mark. So here's what I would say. Scott Bezzant had a great quote a couple of days ago.

He said, this is designed to be an environment of uncertainty. You never put on the table what you're not willing to do, where you're not willing to go. You are specifically making things uncertain. And it has nothing to do with Trump not knowing what he's doing. It has everything to do with Trump knowing exactly what he's doing.

He is projecting this uncertainty. And it's it's so that he has leverage in these negotiations. And it's it. He's done this a long time. I don't really care what the trolls say, but this is a good teaching moment about Trump's approach, which is you go in and you don't. This is the same thing if you're fighting a war and you have some dumb reporter or some dumb Democrat that says, when are you going to bomb?

And where, you don't give that away, right? You you let them know you're willing to bomb them, and you will if they stop doing this, you don't give them specifics. So this is what this is that. But it's in a trade war. Give me three minutes and ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever I source. You want me to use.

Give me three minutes. I bet I can find 100 audio clips of people questioning Elon Musk buying Twitter. Oh, absolute. You could. And look at how it turned out, and how arrogant to believe that you can question the motives of the richest man in the world, as if you know more than he does. Well, not only not only that, let's go back to the discussion about egg prices.

I mean, it was in in two minutes after Trump was inaugurated. They were screaming that the egg prices were still high. Yeah. And right after, Elon bought Twitter, yeah, the stocks tanked and they went through a time of uncertainty, but took a little time, got things reordered, worked it out. And now Twitter is in. Well it's X now but it's very, very vibrant.

It's also profitable. It changed the landscape of the election. It absolute did. And so I guess my reaction to this thinking and I even think we have some Republicans now that are getting a little they're starting to wet their pants a little bit over Trump's tariff thing. How uncomfortable for them I know chafing all of that. Google strategic uncertainty.

And if you're willing to learn and not just married to orange man bad. But if you're willing to learn, you might get some insight on why Trump's doing what Trump still in. Yeah, yeah. So, I will much like Senator Crapo said today, absolutely afford Trump more than 100 days. And by the way, it hasn't been 100 days since the tariffs had been imposed.

Less. Yeah, far less. So I, I don't think it's a a sustainable argument to say, well, he doesn't even know what he's doing when we're three weeks into this tariff war, four weeks into this tariff war. Yeah. Well, I know that's a pretty high bar you're expecting. Speaking of, strategic uncertainty, one of the my favorite, favorite things that I would do as a dad when all my kids still lived at home was I, like, I would grab a little ball or a pillow or something, and I'm like, we're going to play the game of uncertainty.

And I'd act like I was going to throw it at one of the kids and they'd all be like, oh no, oh no. Like they're there anyway. It's strategic uncertainty. If you know what you're going to do, but other people don't know what you're going to do, you have an advantage. That's what Trump's doing. He knows exactly what he's willing to do and not do.

But he's not going to tell the world about it. So have these people ever played poker I mean yeah me just sit down and play a few hands of poker. Yeah. And see how every once in a while, a person with a pair of threes takes the entire massive pot, right? Yeah. Because they know how to play this game.

Yes. So I think we need to take a break. Or maybe we won't.

We'll see. Okay. I can give them some insight. Oh, he just reached for his mouse and now he's going to play the music. That doesn't mean anything. Julie. I might be playing solitaire on my other screen. It's the game of uncertainty, which was almost as fun as another game I used to play with my kids called Involuntary Yoga.

When they were little, like, okay, we're going to play involuntary yoga, and I'd grab them and, twist them up into a pretzel and they laugh. They thought it was funny. And, just the whole idea of involuntary yoga was super hilarious. So. 924 on Newstalk 1079 yeah. Yeah, Glade has a great point. He said. Compare that to Biden telling everyone the day of withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Yeah, that's actually setting it up so that those 13 soldiers could be killed. Yeah. Good point Glade. Great point. Yeah. All right. What's going on? Any new new new new new new new news moon. That is not what I wanted. Oh, shoot. Two people fell at Bryce Canyon, and they're dead. Inspiration point. Oh, no. It's unusual for two people to fall.

Oh, they both climbed over the railing near Inspiration Point. Okay, there was a railing there on purpose. I'm not judging the victims, but there was a railing there on purpose. Yeah. I mean, I was just there a few weeks ago. Inspiration point. I think that's the that's the end cul de sac of, Bryce Camping is that rainbow point.

You could call it whatever you want. And I would be like, okay, I haven't been there in a hot minute. There is a hilarious headline on Drudge picture of Pete Hegseth, and it says Jennifer Hegseth Holds Unorthodox Role Shaping Pentagon affairs. Jill Biden ran the cabinet. You there. So they are so clueless. This is like when the media did the hit piece, when Marco Rubio was running for Florida senator.

Yeah. And, they did an exposé on Marco Rubio's wife getting a speeding tickets. Remember that? All right. 928 on Newstalk 107 nine, Julie read the headline that you just saw on Drudge. Okay. So it's in reference to Pete Hegseth, and the headline reads, oh, hold, please. Headline reads Jennifer Hegseth Holds unorthodox role shaping Pentagon affairs. And I said to Neil on the break, and Jill Biden ran a cabinet meeting in the last couple of months, by the way, a cabinet meeting that hadn't been held for over a year.

Well, not only that, how influential was Hillary Clinton when Bill was president? Yes, these people are so un self-aware. And what is the story like? What what is their threshold? I think you're supposed to be scared that we're already nervous about Pete, and now Jennifer has some control too. But what are they saying Jennifer's doing inside the Pentagon?

Like is it she shared an opinion about, you know, I think we should have casual Fridays. I mean, like what? Like what is they. What did freak out over that? I'll tell you. It says, Jennifer made a request with the defense secretary staff. She asked, edit and post a video to the Defense Department's social media accounts of his initial remark to reporters.

So she asked them to post a video defending. Okay, take set this. Go back to the headline. The headline was Jennifer Hegseth Holds Unorthodox role Shaping Pentagon Affairs. She asked a question, and they're saying she made a request that they post a video of Pete Headset's comments. And that's shaping the Pentagon. Sure, to them, it is. These people are insane.

They are insane, Julie. Yet the first lady can run the first cabinet meeting in over 12 months. No, by the way, no constitutional authority whatsoever. And she runs the cabinet meeting. Yeah, I was telling Julie off air. It reminds me of back. This is years ago when Marco Rubio, I think he was either running for Senate or he was just newly elected.

And everyone was kind of afraid of him because he was a rising star and for good reason. He these remarks has been he's talented. They I think it was the New York Times did a hit piece on Marco Rubio, an expose on his wife's speeding tickets. Remember they did the same thing with Ron DeSantis. They ran an exposé on the fact that Ron DeSantis hasn't gotten wealthy as a politician.

The corruption I know. Isn't that a good thing. Yeah that's right I do remember that. Like what's wrong with him. Yes. Why isn't he like all the other evil politicians? That is an unfair advantage. Allowing politicians to have integrity gives them an unfair advantage at the polls. And we're going to prove to you that we can't be competitive with that.

He needs to be crap like the rest of us.

All right. (208) 542-1079. If you'd like to join us on the program, let's talk about steak. Sometimes I randomly like to talk about no, it's not random. You like to do it several times a day. You're sitting there and all of a sudden, steak. Steak, Steak bites. Garlic. Beef steak. Cube steak.

Steak. Ribs. Once in a while I venture into grilling and dogs and not grilling dogs, but grilling hot dogs. See, ever since Cleveland, we can't say grilling dogs like that. It ruined that, that term that, you know, brought you can can you can. It's part of the last segment. It's unsteady. They don't know what you're doing. That's true.

You just don't know. It's the game of uncertainty. Is it a Chihuahua or is it a brought. Which one? Okay. We're not finishing that. Well we'll do it another time. All right. 932. Let's take a break. Let's take a break for the news. We'll come back after this. Well, press the reset button and continue. All righty. Oh, I'm in trouble again, or we're in trouble now.

First, I allowed the fake ABC news to slam Trump. And now how dare we run the propaganda every hour? Okay, okay. I just very humbly and politely asked back to our troll. How can unemployment be 200%?

Everybody doesn't have two jobs. Well, lucky for them, some of us make up for theirs and we have three.

That's true. Okay, I was searching to see if there was anything good. Let's go. Here. Yeah. Oh, you guys, did you see the video of the new prime? Premier of Canada? And his wife dancing? No. Is this the one that's questionably. No, no, no, this was from the party. Oh, yeah. Last night. Okay. No, I didn't see that.

Yeah, this was from the celebration party of him winning. They give. Everyone was comparing it to Tim Walz and his wife, Gwen. It's cringe here than that. Yeah. Okay. I'm not going to go. She is doing she's really tall and thin. So she's got these spindly little arms. Yeah. And she's got her hands like this. And she's doing this weird rocking back forth thing, dancing.

And. But it has no rhythm. No, it's almost like she's in the middle of a convulsion. Weird. You know what, I don't know. I don't know what this is. There's subconscious things at play. But when the Biden White House had the big transgender party and it shows Kamala and the first gentleman was there, she was doing this, too.

I was grossed out by it. Like I wanted to throw up. And I don't know why, because I don't think she's an unattractive woman. But that was just when she actually has rhythm. Yeah, she does. And I don't know why. It just absolutely grossed me out. I wanted to barf. Yeah, maybe that's why it's. This video is so jarring.

It's because you already have a yeah, a profile in your head. Maybe. So. Yeah. Of who these people are. And then you see that, okay. Julie, I can't I don't know why you're engaging with him. I don't know, they said unemployment is 200% for the first 100 days. Trump is destroying us. I said, how can employment unemployment be 200%?

Does absolutely everybody not have two jobs? That's me being snarky. And I said, or do twice as many people that exist not have a job. And they're like, well, unemployment was less than 5%. Now it's over 15%. That is a 200% increase in unemployment. It is not. I just looked it up. It's 4.2%. Oh my goodness. This guy can't even do basic math.

Oh goodness. Okay. We're not engaging with him. But I'm I'm fact checking him. I just said the listed unemployment rate for is 4.2% for March. Stop lying. Yeah. So you looked it up. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was going there. I have heard 15 nowhere. And I promise I'm on the news. Enough. That would be everywhere all day.

Yes. If it were 15%. There's absolutely no way we have a bona fide case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Yes. Texting us. Yeah. Oh. Go ahead. It's sort of like the bearded lady at the carnival. Yeah. Like you. You don't want to look at it, but you kind of do. Everyone's asking, was it like the Ellen dance? It was worse.

Oh, like, really, really weird. Okay. 937 on Newstalk 1078 Julie I don't even think Common Core Math could get it this wrong. We have a bona fide case of Trump Derangement syndrome, texting us right now. Unemployment is 200% for the first hundred days. Trump is destroying us. So I just very humbly and politely asked back, how can unemployment be 200%?

Does absolutely everyone not have two job? Because that's the only way you could get there or do twice as many people that exist not have a job. And they're like well unemployment was less than 5%. Now it's over 15%. That's a 200% increase in unemployment now okay. So I'm like all right I think if unemployment went up to 15% don't you think that would be the only thing?

CNN, NBC, MSNBC, New York Times, that's the only thing they would be talking about. I have heard nothing. Yeah. They're covering Trump's Trump's cabinet meeting. Even CNN's covering it. We'll we'll join it in a moment. So I, we googled it or ChatGPT it, whatever. Right now the listed unemployment rate for March is 4.2%. It's manageable. And it's come up a little bit under Trump, which is understandable.

We knew there was going to be some rough cut jobs. I don't even know what they're saying is 15%. Yeah. And I certainly don't know what they're saying is 200%. They're just I just told them to stop lying. So. Yeah. All right. Let's listen in. This is the Trump cabinet meeting live from the white House. We wonder, on the basis of a great border and of getting criminals out of our country.

That was why we won every swing state. We won by millions of votes. We won everything, every every metric. We won by a lot. It was a massive victory. And and we won, I think largely because of this issue. I put this issue as number one issue, and they don't want us to do what we're supposed to do.

And I don't think that can be I hope the Supreme Court is going to fully understand what's going on. We have to get the criminals out of our country. And that's the basis under which we won the election. Core GDP. And this is you know, you probably saw some numbers today. And I have to start off by saying that's Biden, that's not Trump, because we came in on January.

This a quarterly numbers. And we came in and I was very, against everything that Biden was doing in terms of the economy destroying that country in so many ways, not only at the border. The border was more obvious, but we took over his mess in so many different ways, caught GDP, removing distortions from imports, inventories and government spending was up plus 3% when you add it.

We had numbers that despite what we were handed, we turned him around and we were getting them really turned around. Gross domestic investment was a whopping 22%. Now that is the number that people are coming in at numbers. For instance, I just walked in, I heard Samsung is now because of the tariffs. They're going to build massive facilities in the United States.

If we didn't do the tariffs, they wouldn't be doing that. So it takes a little while to get those facilities built. But they're coming in with big, big numbers. They're all coming in with big numbers. We have more money being spent than any at any time in the history of our country. We're up to close to $1 trillion.

I think I can say, and really, it's going to be a lot higher than that. Those are just the ones that we know about 8 trillion I I'm not going to say, but I don't think I'm not sure if Biden did a trillion for four years, 1 trillion. But, we're 8 trillion for two months because let's give us a pass.

In the first month, we were sort of getting a little bit used to things. Right? But after two months with $8 trillion, there's never been a number like that. And that includes chip companies, car companies, every form of manufacturing, high tech companies, nobody's ever seen anything like it. So $8 trillion, I can talk about, gross domestic product, gross domestic investment.

I can talk about a lot of things. But to me, the biggest numbers, the kind of numbers that are. And these people are coming in, our secretary of commerce spent the weekend. He went down to, Arizona to see what was happening with the chip. The biggest chip company in the world. And he said, Howard, you said you've never seen anything like it anywhere.

Just describe what you saw. So they're investing $165 billion in 1100 acres in Arizona. And, they're building the high tech chip manufacturing semiconductors and 4000 employees, you know, American trade craft, right? Technicians doing every kind of work. That classic foundation of American is building it. They have 14,000 people. They're expecting 40,000 people to build the rest of their plants and to employ 20,000 people for the rest of time.

This is all driven. You never saw a site like this, and this is all driven by your policies. No chance. Chances be happening without it's going to be about 40% of the chip market from that one section. And this is the biggest chip maker. They have 99% of the market. They come from Taiwan. And unlike the Chip act, which was done by Biden where they hand everybody billions of dollars.

So think they don't need this money, they got plenty of money. What they need is an incentive to come in and the tariffs they're building because of the tariffs and without the chair. And I like to say they're building because of November 5th, the election and the tariffs. But I'm going to be a little more blunt. They're building because of the tariffs.

And November 1st gave them the tariff. So the it's amazing when you look and these are not companies, they go out and say, well we're going to build we have to go get our financing. Let's go. Like, we would in New York, everybody would look, you know, you could get a building site and then you'd look around for money, you look around for financing for six months, you get your financing, you build your building.

The market would be good. You'd make money. The market would be bad. It would be so pretty you'd have to negotiate. Bah bah bah. This is different. These people have so much money, they don't know what to do. They, I asked, how did they finance it? No, they do it through cash and they say, that's right. And they just started, you know, they just announced it like a month ago and they've already started.

He said. I've never seen a site like it's so big. So you know, you're talking about a 50 essentially a $50 billion building. Now, if you build a warehouse for $50 million, that's a big warehouse. Got but a $50 billion building. That's a lot. They building the electric they're building, they've become a utility. And I'm giving them the right to become they're going to build their own electric.

They're going to build their own electricity, which they need tremendous amounts of electricity, and they're going to build it themselves. Anything they have, look, you know, leftover, they'll hook that into the grid. But the grid is old and they're unreliable, and bad things can happen to grids. I said, if you want, you can hook into the grid. But, that's a little bit risky.

Or you can build your own electricity and become your own utility. And a I think in all cases are deciding to do that. So it's very exciting. And we have a lot of things going. We took over on January 20th. Deja quarterly reports. We took over on January 20th. The tariffs haven't kicked in yet. I know that.

And I don't want this to happen, but I know that China is doing very poorly right now. I just saw some reports coming out, and I don't want that to happen to China. I like the president a lot. President XI, I don't want it to happen. I was I was actually saddened to hear it. But they're getting absolutely hammered in China.

And, you know, they're sending boats, the biggest boats in the world, carrying a cargo like nobody's ever seen before. These are the biggest votes in the world. The biggest cargo ships in the world. And they're coming and they're turning around in the Pacific Ocean. They're doing a big U-turn and going back because they don't want the goods, because 145% tariff.

But I just certain point, I hope we're going to make a deal with China. We're talking to China, but their factories are closing all over China because we're not taking their product. We don't want their product unless they're going to be fair with us. And that includes intellectual property and other things. There are a lot of things far beyond just buy, sell.

So we'll see what happens. But, you know, I was not because somebody said, what were you happy about? I said, I am not happy. I want China to do well. I want every country to do well, but they have to treat us fairly also. So with that, I think we're going to maybe go around and we have some letters where, the, secretaries and people around the table are making statements.

All right. You've been listening to live coverage of, President Trump's cabinet meeting this morning, which he pulls. He's all the time. We we're kind of under the constraints of time. Got to take a break here soon. But, Julie, really quick, you pointed this out while you're watching. He is he put Pete Hegseth immediately to his left, which I think you are.

Spot on. That is a statement. They're not even talking about things that are affiliated with Pete Hegseth. Yeah, but I believe he's making a visual statement saying I am in his corner. He is in my corner. I can have him directly be my wingman. You all back off. Yes. Yep. And and that's good because he's been Pete's been under fire for the last few weeks.

Very interesting. Also, this is hilarious. This is the art of the troll. He has multiple I saw wide shot Julie. There's probably at least half a dozen Golf of America caps, baseball caps that are sitting on the cabinet, facing the press, facing the cameras. Yes, almost like a gifted one to every cabinet member. Because there's one in front of every cabinet member.

Because look at the ones that are sitting directly across the table. They have them too. They do. Everyone got a Golf of America cap? Yeah. He's so good at this. He is. He really is. He really is good. All right, we're going to break away. We do want to encourage you. Stop by Grand Peaks. Primates GX primates.com.

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It used to be if you saw camouflage on the border, they could hold binoculars and that's it. And now we can detain and assist. And we are we're going to get 100% operational control that, Julia's pointing out that Pete Hegseth has a camo tie on. I can't even see it in the Middle East. He's wearing a tie.

What is invisible is China. So because of your leadership, sir, I believe we're making the military great again. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Howard. So I have the pleasure of, running, the investment accelerator, which gets to recruit these companies. And, you've never seen anything like the companies committed to building in American technology.

Companies have really pointed out the transparency at which he is running this administration. Yeah. To not use a phrase because I hate it that he uses, but it literally has never existed before. Yeah, we have never seen this in a president's administration. Well, ver I mean, he opens these up to the public. They talk openly. I'm sure they have private meetings, too.

But he invites the if you ever see this room, the wide shot, you have all had a couple dozen journalists that are lined up behind the other side of the table, and the cabinet gets peppered with questions like he opens it up for them to to be very available and accessible to the, to the press like I have never seen before.

And I think his his approach is come at us, we don't care. We know you're hostile towards us, but we have good answers and we we have a lot of great things to talk about. Also, almost all of them are so excited when they talk about their positions and what's happening. You know, they get really excited. We've had previous cabinet members that could put you to sleep in about 37 seconds.

Yeah. And these people are like, let me tell you what I'm doing to make America great again. And then they start spilling it and it's just different. Yeah, I Trump has this way where I, you look up and down the table, all these faces are familiar. And which is not uncommon with the presidential cabinet. But he has a celebrity flair that he adds to everybody on his cabinet.

Absolutely. I think he picks people that kind of look like movie stars. He picks you know Kristi Noem Pam Bondi, you know Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, attractive people to to or at least people that have a sizzle to them. Yeah. But they're qualified to. Yeah. So okay, let's do our other town and country when we come back shot.

What's that? I was going to say Sean Duffy could be in a movie. Yeah, he's 952 on Newstalk 1079 Julie, some dandelions have snuck up in my lawn. Then I have to take care of you. Know how you can do that? The four step lawn program? Absolutely. And, because it has, weed, weed growing as weed killer, but, you, you you put that down and, it helps eliminate the weeds and helps your lawn to be lush and green and, I can't believe.

I mean, it's not even quite May yet, and my lawn looks like it's late June, like it's green and lush. And, I had a couple of my clients at different occasions. Compliment my lawn at how green it already looks. Yeah, you guys, it works. I. What else do we say? I don't know, it works. That's true. Works.

If you have been frustrated with your lawn, this is a very small investment to make it look beautiful. Yeah. You you couldn't pay, like a lawn care company. And they you would pay far more. Yes. And I'm going to say you probably wouldn't get these results. It's for average lawn sit maybe a couple hundred bucks for the whole year, but it's for applications if you have a lot, you know, fertilizer, spreader, whatever, you can do it in a few minutes each step.

So it's not a huge time investment at all. And you set the alarms on your phone if that's how you work and don't put it on your calendar or whatever, as a reminder. And, you mates are down in March and April, but you can put them on late if you need to. June, July is the second application of lawn fertilizer and lawn food.

And then I believe August September is the third and October. November is the winter I it's the winter rain. That easy? It's easy. Yeah. And you get a deal if you buy all four steps at the same time. So visit town and country Gardens south of Idaho Falls, across from the malt plant there, right there on Yellowstone Highway.

Okay. Should we go back to the cabinet meeting here? Derek, do you have any thoughts before we pop back in for a minute? No, no, I, I what I said on the break is just how excited these members are. This is not a dull. I'm kind of half asleep meeting. They're so excited to talk about the things that they're involved in.

Yeah. Yeah, they really are. There's just an energy to them where maybe we will. Yeah. Okay. A third grade student would know it doesn't work. He can't work. And they spent they wasted tens of billions of dollars. But we want to put a brand new air traffic control system in, and you might want to do something that means this.

You and I have talked about this. It's a state of the art system. Envy of the world. And it's. I mean, listen, I don't think our system is safe, but you would have hoped someone would have seen that there's a problem with with fixed wing aircraft and helicopters coming in at DCA. Someone should have seen that before. We we lost almost 70 lives.

It's our job to look and see that we have an aging infrastructure around air traffic control. And so, if we don't if we don't build a brand new system, there's going to be failures and people will lose their lives. And so we need the help of Congress, to, to help fund this. But it's going to be all brand new.

And after you build a brand new system, we have the bedrock and the foundation to actually build on top of it. But no one has done this. Mr. President. There's there's Band-Aid fixes that have happened over the course of 20 years. You can't have a Band-Aid fix. It doesn't get done. Let's be brand new. The technology hits. It looks like it's over.

1980s movie, old computers, floppy disks. We're using copper wires, not fiber. So there are there are great solutions we have available that, by the way, everyone's sick of their delayed flights or their canceled flights. We have more capacity in the air space. And if we if we rebuild, not rebuild, if we build this brand new system, what you'll have is more efficiency in the air space.

And it will be safer. So the economy will be stronger. We now have more flights and less delay. So I appreciate your support on that. Mr. President. Building that is very important. You wouldn't have had the helicopter crashing into the plane at 400ft up. What is supposed to be 200ft, that would have, bells and whistles would have been gone over and you would have heard, you would have heard, the screaming equipment saying there's a problem coming up in 15 seconds.

You had to do something about it right now. And it would have it would have also sent the word right into the helicopter, because I guess you'll be doing the full report on that. But it was pretty obvious what happened. And there was supposed to be a 200ft. There were 400ft. And a terrible thing that wouldn't have happened if we had the right equipment.

If we had the right equipment, you would have heard bells and whistles going off, and it would have alerted long before that would have happened, two minutes before you would have had a lot of time. So we have to do all right. Of course. Sean Duffy weighing in on the f a. Yeah. They've got a few issues they need to.

Yeah. You know what. It's interesting just in the last couple of minutes that we have here Julie, the IRS has had the same issue where their computer infrastructure is like 30 years old, ancient like they're still using like mS-DOS type type stuff. And I thought, how do you find money to hire 87,000 new IRS agents, but you don't pop into Best Buy and update your computers?

I mean, how does that happen? I don't know, and how do we send money to so many foreign countries like we do? And I created part of our monetary infrastructure is operating. Well, K Kelly, there's not another word for it when when we have the technology we have that's archaic. Yeah. Now if the system that takes that confiscates money from us goes down, I'm not that heartbroken.

But the systems that keep us safe when we fly, that's super big deal. Yeah. Anyway, so, Yeah. No, I think, we've got the first hundred days in the rearview mirror and in our last minute here. Julie, I. I would just say these have been about the most amazing 100 consecutive days that I've ever seen in American history.

Is that overstating a no. The speed the the way, the transparency, the the innovation, the willingness to review, the willingness to accept that guess what. Just because it's done that way for the last 40 years doesn't mean it's the right way anymore. Yeah, that has been different. Not even in the 100 days, but in the way the campaigns were run.

Yeah, yeah, it's true. I mean everything is, has has changed dramatically. Everyone have a wonderful Wednesday that's going to do it for Julie and me. Clay and Buck are up next and we'll see you tomorrow.