The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Cartels TAKE OVER Mexican Cities, Hockey's Patriotic Triumph & Tucker vs. Huckabee Commentary

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

President Trump hosts Angel Families including Laken Riley’s to the White House to commemorate in an Angel Families Remembrance Ceremony ahead of his State of the Union Address. Mexican Cartels take over Guadalajara after their cartel boss is taken out. An awkward moment occurs at last night’s BAFTA Awards where Tourette Syndrome activist John Davidson was heard shouting the N-word during Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo's presentation. Gavin Newsom tells a Black audience in Georgia that he is just like them because he’s dumb and can’t read. Katie Porter gets an audience to chant, “F Trump” at the California Democrat Convention.A 21-year-old gunman is shot dead after traveling 700 miles and breaching the perimeter at Mar-a-Lago. Dana reacts to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Huckabee where Huckabee wipes the floor with Tucker over facts about Christians in Qatar, Israeli history, human rights and President Trump.Dana reacts to Team USA’s historic gold medal for the Men’s hockey team, the freakout over Kash Patel chugging a beer and what it meant for American history. Stephen Yates from Heritage joins us to break down the cartel takeover of Mexico, Peru's new president and more political commentary.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Humannhttps://HumanN.comSupport your heart health. Grab HumanN Turmeric Chews at Sam’s Club right now. Fast Growing Treeshttps://FastGrowingTrees.com/DanaGet huge spring deals with Fast Growing Trees, save up to 50% off selects plus an extra 20% off your first order. Use code DANA at checkout!Noble Goldhttps://NobleGoldInvestments.com/DanaThis is the year to create a more stable financial future.  Open a qualified account with Noble Gold and receive a 3 oz Silver Virtue coin free. Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFTry Relief Factor's 3-week Quickstart for just $19.95—tell them Dana sent you and see if you can be next to control your pain!Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/DANA or call 972-PATRIOTSwitch to Patriot Mobile in minutes—keep your number and phone or upgrade, then take a stand today with promo code DANA for a free month of service!Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaMake 2026 the year you protect your family with solid options—Get the Byrna today.WebRoothttps://Webroot.com/DanaMake the switch! Get 60% off Webroot Total Protection for a limited time.Subscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore InfoWebsite

Mr. President, it's an honor to be here today, and it's an honor to be speaking with you guys. My name is Ethan Carreri. I'm a police officer in Palm Beach County, Florida, and a former New York City police officer. While serving the New York City Police Department, I personally arrested Jose Ibarra for endangering the welfare of a child. A few months later, I saw his face again in the news after he viciously murdered Lake and Riley. I did my job. I put him in custody. The system failed. No detainer, no accountability, no deportation, and an innocent American life was taken. If you enter our country illegally, there will be consequences under this administration. The American citizens must always come first.

To Lake and Riley's family, your law should have never happened. We owe it to you and every American family to enforce our laws, secure our border, and protect innocent lives. Mr. President, thank you so much. much for having me here today. And thank you for all you've done for our country. Thank you. So that was just a little bit earlier, the declaration from POTUS. And he's talking about what they call the angel families. And those are the families of people, victims who were killed by illegal immigrants. And these are all people, by the way, who also entered into the country. and if they didn't enter into the country during Joe Biden's presidency, they were allowed to stay during Joe Biden's presidency.

And their orders were pretty much disregarded, the detainer orders that we've talked about on the show. So that was New York PD, NYPD. And it feels weird to say New York PD, but I don't know why I just did. Anyway, so it's a nice ceremony. Now, the reason why they're all there, in addition to that, is because the state of the union is tomorrow, which we are going to discuss here and we're going to put that up there and we're going to go through some of what we can expect so that we can, you know, because there's going to be a number of Democrat lawmakers that are skipping,

that are actually skipping the whole state of the union. They're not even going. There's like, what is it, 12 or 13, I think, that are not going. which I have a question about that. If you're not going to the State of the Union address, I mean, isn't that kind of part of the expectation, I think that lawmakers have of you? Sorry, voters, not lawmakers, but that voters have of you? Like, why would I went to the State of the Union

when Biden was president? And not because I like having, God knows it's not because I like Joe Biden. I mean, you were, you, it's an interesting thing to go to because you get to see a lot of the relationships that are behind the scenes for these people. you get to see the like for instance I saw Federman I saw just how difficult

it was really for Biden to walk guys I cannot even emphasize that's when I knew oh my gosh this guy is real I can't believe can I have told you about that right yeah yeah you did actually the cameras I swear to you the C-SPAN cameras were lying to you guys

he had such a problem walking it genuinely shocked the hell out of me and I don't I mean I've always really despised the press but after I saw that I'm like how can anybody in the press not be talking about this and when he was up at the podium if you ever go back and this was I want to say what was this like 22 23 I don't remember Steve was there but he was leaning on the podium like to get his balance anyway I'm not never going to get over it. That was like one of the craziest things I think I've ever seen in my life. So we're going to preview some of this, what we can expect from, yeah, it was 22, from State of the Union, because he's going to be speaking on that tomorrow. Now, some Democrats are bringing in victims, Epstein victims that I guess are on, that those who have been public

about the Epstein list and being on the Epstein list. But I'm curious, I'm like, well, I wonder if they're going to have Bill and Hillary there. Are they going to have Bill and Hiller? Are they going to, just saying, you know, because they were perpetrators. So it'll be very, if you think that the week is petty, it's going to get super petty tomorrow. But I have a bunch of other things to talk about. Before we dive into all of that, I hope no one you know is in Mexico. Kane, is your, I don't even want to say this on air because I don't want, God, heavens,

I wouldn't want you to be targeted in your family because you have family there. Right. That's true. Because you guys know that Kane is half wide. adjacent. In case you guys didn't know this. Yes. That's true. 50% Mexican. I don't think I have any family in Halisco. It's not just Helisco. Right. It's like all, it's in Quintana root. Like Tulum, everyone's like, don't go to Toulom. Don't go to Palo Carman. Don't go to anywhere. Puerto Vajara. Don't go anywhere. Yeah, anything you've heard about the cartel in the past, it's cartel

crazy right now. Now, for those of you who are like, what happened? So we took out a big, giant cartel leader down there. El Mancho Servantes. We took him out and he is the head of I can't remember his his it's a new generation cartel. Can I just say something real quickly?

Sorry, it's the Helisco New Generation Cartel. Why does that sound like an 80s boy band? What El Mention? No, no, no. The Halisco New Generation Cartel. Oh, oh, oh. Drugs and humans.

I mean, it sounds that has been my thought all day and it's every time I see that name I'm like hmm I can't help it I just how I think but it's the Halisco new generation cartel one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico and they play a very key role in trafficking meth and fentanyl so you have I mean I mean it's all over I mean Cancancum Plato Carmen Touloum Puerto Vallada uh the whole Quintanaru State, Kazumel. I mean, that's all up around the coast there on the Gulf of America. They said that U.S. citizens in a number of locations have been urged to shelter in place. They've had airports in certain cities that have been, I mean, this is true. I don't think the airport of Mexico City, but there have been airports in some of these Mexican cities that have been closed or they had a number of flights delayed and all of that stuff.

And I mean, it is, well, I think it was near what, Guadalajara. So they, sorry, they've had flights canceled. There, didn't they have a ground stop at Guadalajara at least for like half a day? And, yeah. And then tourists, they're all in these luxury resorts with all this cartel violence. That's a little, but they had eight cartel members that were killed also in addition to El Mancho. They had eight other cartel members that were Merked, not Merced, brought to justice. Let's put it like that.

What do you say? This is brought to justice. They were brought to justice. But what does it say when your, how do I say this, when you take out a giant cartel boss? And he's one of many cartel bosses. And the entire country breaks through. This is, they were setting fire to a gas station. This is what Juan's showing. Setting fire to a gas station. There was one, I think this one was in Guadalajara where they had thrown, let me pull this up. Yeah, it was in Guadalajara where they had thrown like grenades and bombs into a supermarket. And they said that they're just, it's just all, they're going crazy as retribution, as vengeance for taking out Cervantes. And so Mexican president Claudia Scheinbaum, she's kind of missed her moment. I think. I think she had a real opportunity to be a statesman. And she just said, well, today's there's more tranquility. There's more, there's government, there's armed forces. And she didn't really say a whole hell of a lot. I don't know if it's because she's terrified or what, but it's just

odd. The whole thing is odd. The way that the country descended into just an absolute hellscape goes to show you that this was, I mean, these were co-rulers. the Mexican government and these drug cartels have been co-rulers. And you can, I mean, it's pretty evident. So we're going to break more of that down here. In addition to that, man the Olympics. This is the only thing I watched on a replay because we were going to read for church, so I didn't like watch it live.

But it is amazing, absolutely amazing. And just finally winning gold over Canada. what was it like 46 years from the miracle on ice yeah yeah like my life yeah crazy and then jack hughes and i love the interview that he gave jack hughes because he was so proud can we play this or is it going to be like copy written we have to we can show you the photo but we can't show you the video because NBC are a bunch of goat-banging pansies. Oh, man. And they will try to cite us.

So here we go. It's going to go with authoritarian. Yeah. All about our country right now. I love the USA. I love my teammates. It's unbelievable. The USA Hockey Brotherhood is so strong.

And we have so much support from next players. I'm so proud to be American today. This was such an incredible game to grind out. I mean, you're bleeding right through it. looking at you right now. Can you just talk about how difficult? He gets his teeth busted out. Goes back to score the winning goal. I mean, amazing.

Just such an amazing story. And he's so, he's like, I'm so proud to be an American. And oh my gosh, the celebrations after. So they were, apparently, they all chugged beer in the locker room while playing Toby Keith. And then Cash Patel, which opened up a whole other can of worms, which were also going to, there's so much I got a breakdown for you guys today. Cash Patel was back there too.

And did he? what do they call it when you like he basically was chucking a bear but I thought there was shotgun in it he was like shotgun in a beer yeah yeah in celebration and he's back there freaking out it's funny because it's like he played

but I will say he apparently is a major hockey fan for those who are unaware he's like tweeted about hockey for years he has been a major hockey fan and the media went apoplectic because Cash Patel was back there that's a whole other subject

that we're going to come back to. But Team USA, absolutely amazing. And defeating Canada to claim Olympic gold. The media tried so hard to play its usual tricks. And these dudes were not having it. I know this is probably audio soundbite 11T Frilly and wherever this is. But it's the, I mean, I got a lot of audio here. There is the, which one was it?

Five. Okay, yeah, yeah. Play this. This was great because they defended what their teammate when the media got froggy. Listen. I don't want to take you away from this moment. Obviously, it's a tremendous accomplishment. But in a couple of days, you know, we got to have to get back to the NHL regular season.

But how do you think you're going to take, you know, this winning experience, like in this, everything you learn with this incredible group and kind of like take that for the rest of the season? I'm trying to live in the moment, man. Come on. I think it doesn't matter what what anyone says now. Austin Matthews is a winner. Austin Matthews is an Olympic gold medalist.

He's a winner. Yeah, that's what the media in Toronto should be talking about. Austin Matthews led us to a championship. I love this so much. How great is that? They're like, yeah, we're even doing this. We're not even doing it. Good on them.

They're like, yeah, we're not even playing this stupid nonsense. This is not even what we're doing. I loved it. But the Kachuk brother, their dad went to the Olympics. He didn't get a goal. He didn't meddle. But how many years was it later that they go, like 20 or 30 years later?

Yeah, 25, 20, and they go and they finish the job. What an amazing thing. And then, so Jack Hughes's mom apparently also played hockey. And she was an assistant coach or like a consultant for the women's hockey team. I love the generational participation in hockey. I mean, it is. It's a real thing. It's a very skilled sport.

So we've got a lot to discuss. Not only, let me just tell it really quickly, I know we've got to get moving to headlines, but so we've got all of the cool stuff with the Olympics. The media going apoplectic over Cash Patel shotgunning a beer. All of this stuff in Mexico. The BAFTA, somebody had a Tourette's at the BAFTA, which is the British film television thing,

and screamed out a racial slur. They legit had Tourette's, and Hollywood is also apoplectic. We've got, I'm not going to tell you what this is written down as on my rundown, but it's LAT. It has to do with Tucker Carl. that he's been forced to backtrack. And also now it's come up that Trump is trying to distance himself. There's another related story for that. We've got Gavin Newsom. Does he have Tourette's because

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I just usually see the photos later in like the Daily Mail. You know, I just, I look at the gowns. I don't ever really watch them. That's the British Film and Television Awards. So there was something that happened last night at, the Bafters, Kane. And the host is Alan Cumming, who's

been in a ton, you'll know him if you see him, he's been in a ton of different films, and they had the Prince and Princess of Wales there, Kane. All of the dignitaries were there sitting in the audience, and the Prince of Wales himself also made a presentation.

It was very nice, wasn't it? It was almost Queen's English. That was fancy, or King's English? I don't even know how you would say that now. But also what they did at the Baptist is they've, they had a, you know, they do like different charitable things. So this one, they were doing, raising awareness for Tourette's. Tourette syndrome. And that's where, long story short, you have an inability to control your brain from or your mouth from verbalizing things that pop into your brain. And you just can't.

And there's a thing. It's a, it's a, it's a thing. And I think a lot of people knew, I don't, I think everybody thinks that's, I don't know, there's different severities of it, apparently. And they had a gentleman at the BAFTAs with them yesterday. He was a, he was a, quote, I swear, is the organization. The guy's name is John Davidson. And, you know, they, what triggers to. Tourette's is apparently like stress, excitement, things like that, right? And you're at the Baptist, so you're sitting there in the audience, and there's all these celebrities and loud music and, you know, bright lights. And, you know, that could be something that triggers those symptoms for people that deal with Tourette's. And for that gentleman, John Davidson, it apparently absolutely happened to him last night. So how to start this? So John Davidson is sitting in the audience, and they have different presenters that are coming up on stage.

And who was it? Michael B. Jordan and who was the other guy that they had? Oh, Delaware, Delroy Lindo. So it was Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo. And they were presenting an award. And John Davidson. Well, he had already had a couple outbursts that night, and he had another one. He shouted a racial slur.

It was the word that comes after the letter M, and the alphabet came. Hold on. Give me a second. Oh, dang. Yeah. That one? That one. Again, he's got serious Tourette's like his hat at his whole life.

This is what happened. Now it is censored, but this is cut 28. Delaware and I are delighted to be presenting the first BAFTA of the night for a vital part of movie making. We're here to celebrate. Now, Delroy Lindo, by the way, is like, stop for a beat. And that man was like, this show's got to go on and just kept going. I got to give him a lot of credit. Because Michael B. Jordan, you can tell that through him, he's like, the hell like he looked over.

I don't know if everyone was aware that this guy was there and that they, not even just that he was there. I don't know if everyone, unless they had said something about it from the stage, I don't know if all of the people who were there at the awards knew that they were doing this like spotlight with Tourette's awareness. Now, Alan Cumming, who is very gracious, and I don't agree with Al. I'm coming on a lot of stuff. I don't. Very politically, we're different. But he is a very compassionate person. He's a big, you know, animal guy and he's, uh, was very compassionate with this. And I do, do we have this too? Because he went up on stage and had said, uh, you know, guys, he said, it's, you know, he explained that this man has, he addressed it on stage. He thanked the audience and and, and he said, look, you know, we were doing Tourette's awareness.

And he said, this guy's had symptoms for, you know, most of his life. His symptoms began when he was 12. And he explained the story on stage. He said, you know, he had ticks and uncontrollable outbursts and it involved a lot of cursing. And he said that this is something that he's been dealing with since he was a kid. And at some point, there were, he had said, blank you, shouted blank you when some directors went up to go accept something for something else. He told someone else to shut the front door, but not in those words, a lot. And when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, they were up there for best visual effects,

and that went to Avatar, Fire, and Ash. And he said, he told the audience, he said, quote, you may have noticed some strong language in the background. He said, this can be part of how Tourette's shows up for some people as the film explores the experience. And so there was a portion of a documentary that they were also discussing. And so I think for some of the people, it wasn't until coming and was explaining it that he, that they understood what was happening. And he said, thank you so much for understanding and creating a respectful space for everyone. And the guy that is in who was there, this John Davidson, it's this organization and it's this film called I swear. And it features one of the guys who was in Lord of the Rings, of power and he plays John Davidson and he goes through this and it's um it was based on they had a

BBC documentary called John's Not Mad and that was showcasing when he met the queen he basically yelled right at her like go like blank you blank the queen is what he said to her when he met her and it's something that he just he can't help and he's been very consistent I mean his whole entire life I mean it is what it is so it's a very interesting thing now Let me ask you this first, and then I'll go to the next thing. Is that something for which you think there should be understanding in a situation like this? Of course. I think there should be understanding.

I think there should be understanding even if the dude didn't have Tourette's in a certain way. But this is definitely a medical condition. And this guy, like you said, I mean, if he's going to do it to the queen, he's going to do it to anybody. Yeah, well, okay. Well, it didn't work that way. Fox was very upset. He slammed the activist, the Tourette's guy, who, and said, quote, out of all of the words, you could have said, Tourette's makes you say that? He goes, nah, he meant that blank, unacceptable. Jamie Fox, my man, come on. Dude. Dude. I had a friend when I was in high school and going into college, and she had a brother that had Tourette's very severely had Tourette's. He had some other issues, too. And one of the things that she told me, she was like, everybody, you know, you are taught manners.

The way she explained it to me, and I don't know if this is how everybody with Tourette's, you know, if they experience similar, but she said you're raised with manners and you're raised with behaviors and you're aware of that. And she was like there is, you know, sometimes part of your brain that will just push whatever it can find out. And you are defenseless from having it come out of your mouth, is how she explained. it to me. She's like, even if you know it's wrong, you cannot control it. She was like, that ability does not exist for you. And I think, you know, it sort of highlights the point as to why

they needed to have this documentary, right? I mean, it kind of highlights that point. And I, I think people should be very cautious because, and this guy left. No one asked him to leave. He was apparently so embarrassed and upset that he left when he had a thing that was being shown there. He, and he was some, I read an article where it said, like, some of his friends were, they were a little worried about how his triggers would be able to handle it. But I mean, it's a real thing. And I think some people don't think that. Or they think that you have a modicum of control over it. And look, I'm going to tell you, I mean, and maybe it's anecdotal, but, you know, being at my friend's house and watching her parents with her brother because she was

one of four and he was just I mean the stuff that he would say was hysterical but also you were like you can't just can't say but he has no ability to control it it's a really real thing so I wish Jamie Fox would have a little I think he needs to understand this more and have a little bit more grace now the other aspect of this let me pull this up because they think this was so BBC so this is the other thing that's fueling this that's feeding the fire the BBC it was like a two-hour thing. They had everything on delay. And there was a filmmaker named a Canola Davies, who had an acceptance speech. And Davies said, he said, quote, free Palestine at one point. And an excerpt, any excerpt from his speech removed from broadcast per variety. He was accepting

the award for some film, blah, blah, blah. And it was about course migration. And he was. he said, you know, archive your loved ones, archive your stories, and blah, blah, blah, free Palestine. And apparently a portion of that speech was cut out. Now, the BBC was saying, well, it's because the live event was three hours and we had to reduce everything to two. And so people were like, well, why was that cut out? But John Davidson's slur was in because it was Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan from sinners.

Why did you have that slur in there and then this out? Well, because they were literally presenting something and he interrupted. and this was at the end of, I mean, are you that seriously, are you that much of a mental abortion that you struggle with understanding that? I just think people need to lighten the hell up. And you know what? Good on Alan coming for laying that all out like that and saying, look, folks, this is what happened. And being very firm about it with an audience of entitled people. Good on him for doing that.

But this is, I mean, Jimmy Fox, come on, he's not a ridiculous dude. Jimmy Fox isn't a ridiculous person. I just don't think that he understands what it is. And I hope somebody like tells him like this guy did not do that. He was horrified. I feel really badly for this guy. He left apparently in total shame and he was so upset. Now, how do you think that's going to affect him?

He's probably going to be dealing with these symptoms like a million times over while, you know, his body kind of, you know, acclimates and gets to, you know, a state of homeostasis for the lack of a better way to put it. so I hope you know I mean it's not like it's Gavin Newsome do we have this audio yes we do it's not like you tell me is this Tourette's Kane so this was Gavin Newsom doing an interview

giving an interview doing or giving giving an interview okay so and he's talking in Georgia and it is a black crowd predominantly black American crowd you tell me if this is Tourette's oh gosh I'm not you know

I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy. What? And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940. Guys, the average score is like 1024.

Starts at like 1024 to 1028. It's considered average. Okay. Also, oh my gosh. Do I, I know, it's okay, go ahead, go ahead. I can't. It's so hard. It's so, this is.

And I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there. You got 940. But literally a 960 SAT guy. I cannot, you've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. What? I'm just like you. I'm just like you. I can't read.

I have a 960 average SAT. Is that, that's, does he have Tourette's? That's like, I'm sorry, but that is so bad. Where's Jamie Fox? Yeah, where is Jamie Fox on that? Did Jamie Fox hear with Gavin Newsom just said? Does Gavin Newsom have Tourette's? I mean, that poor John Davidson guy legit has it.

What is Gavin Newsom's excuse? I'm just like you. I can't read it. I'm stupid. What's, oh my gosh. Like, I was dying watching this. Oh, man. Okay, so coming up, it's getting worse for Tony Gonzalez. The cover-up is always worse than the crime, dude. Oh, man, those texts are just coming fast and furious. avoiding a joke.

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I don't think I can say it, though. Weighing it over my head right now. Do I say this or not? Is that what she wants to do? Because he's married. I don't think anybody wants to jump on that landmine with you, girl. Hmm. No, no one wants to cover you.

Hmm. What? Get out of my shot. She just seems like a barrel of monkeys. That one. She's not a person that I would get along with, I don't think. You know how you can look at people and watch their behaviors and watch them speak and you know whether or not you're going to get along with them? I'm really good at that.

I've never been wrong. I would not get along with this chick. She's somebody I would have bullied in school just because she needed it, right? She is like the bully that wants to bully other people until she meets a meaner bully. That's what she seems like. That was the governor's thing that they were doing. the Democrat governor's dinner or whatever

what is that going to do that's just so lame that's your thing I mean I don't know maybe go workshop some ideas other than that one maybe go workshop how you're going to bail out California because it's in the red because of a disastrous high speed rail that cost

hundreds of billions of dollars now the money's gone and nobody knows where it's going and California Democrats with Gavin Newsom were trying to stop any inquiry into discovering where that money went and they're trying to make it a lot where you can't ask for transparency about it. I'm not even kidding you. That's an actual bill that's in their legislation right now.

That's in their, that's, that's, that's, that's, it is actually in their capital right now. Not kidding. Maybe that's something that you should be focusing on it.

Did you have to bring a whiteboard though? Was it that difficult? Did you have to bring the white board? Did you write on the whiteboard yourself? Because I feel like she didn't. She had an aid do it for her. I need you to write blank Trump on this. That's,

totally. something. What's her name Katie? Porter. Oh, of course it is. Katie Porter. She's a big, tall, stout of a woman, isn't she? Katie Porter. Stout. Goodness.

But not in a good way, right? More like an old-timey icebox way. Like that. Just going to sit here and be mean for the remainder of the hour. All right, so coming up, the Olympics, I mean, it's another amazing story on ice. But also, we got ice. We're going to be talking immigration.

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All hell breaking loose in Mexico. What Juan is showing you on the simulcast right now, if you're watching us do the radio show, is complete and total chaos at Guadalajara's International Airport. That was an Alisco, and that was after the Halisco New Generation Cartel, which still sounds like a 90s boy band name. Sorry, it does. they had an attack on the airport. And that was after El Mention their leader was taken out by a combination of basically U.S. and Mexican, there's Mexican military and U.S. forces. Kind of like raises the question, and that's some of the smoke rising over Puerto Vallarta right there.

That's Puerto Vallada right there. And that's the Halisco New Generation cartel members. They shut down the entire city. and they had cartel members, armed cartel members storming the airport in Guadalajara. They had apparently running around the streets of Puerto Vallada, just wild. And it's all retaliation from their drug dealer being taken out. Their drug dealing boss being taken out. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you.

So I hope there's nobody in Mexico. How insane. One cartel boss and the whole country. And it really is. I know everybody's trying to be, media is trying to say, oh, it's just certain parts of it. There are a lot of certain parts that are affected. And there are a lot of very touristy parts that are affected. Like Quintanaru, the whole Playa del Carmen, going all the way down south of the coast to Tulum, all of that whole area.

And then on the other side, I mean, it's everywhere. It's everywhere. So not safe. But how crazy is it that one, because there's a number of cartels. one cartel head is taken out and all of this starts happening. One cartel head and then all of this happens. That's, I mean, it makes you really question all of the stuff you heard about the government working hand in hand previously with these cartels.

So Trump puts pressure on Mexico and now Mexico complies and now they work with the United States. I mean, I don't know. There's no, nobody's taking Americans hostage. I don't, that would actually be very dumb for cartel members to do. I mean, you want to talk about opening up the biggest can of what-ass that country's ever seen. Hmm. Since maybe San Francisco.

Wow. Just saying. Just saying. I, I, I, I, because I know that there, I'm pulling this up. Well, there were some reports. Some people were reporting that, um, there were like American American hostages being threatened, but nobody's

been threatened at all. And yeah, they've, I mean, they have Mexican National Guard, they have the Mexican state police, and they're apparent, I mean, it's like brutal. It's brutal. But the, I mean, just that all of that can happen from one cartel head. Pretty powerful cartel head.

Can you imagine if it was all the cartel heads, the power jockeying? But they've been allowed to do this for so long, for so incredibly long. Americans have been told to shelter in place there. Aren't you so glad that we have border security right now after seeing everything that's happening in Mexico? Aren't you so glad that we don't have Biden and Harris with the open border?

Can you imagine what would be happening right now? If the border was as open now as it was in 2022 or 23, can you imagine? Can you imagine? And it's also interesting that some of the exact same people that are instigating violence and brutality in all these parts of Mexico are some of the same people that we've been deporting. Very types of people we've been deporting. Very interesting. I also think, now, this might be me being cane and tinfoil. But is it odd that the day that El Mancho,

is hit is the day that you have this attempted assassin shot at Marlago he's a lone wolf snuck into the Marlago

estate yesterday he was apparently obsessed with the Epstein files he wanted others to raise awareness a 21 year old he was shot and killed by Florida police and members of Secret Service because he apparently was trying

to storm Marlago with a shotgun. He was in a, quote, shooting position on the property, according to authorities. He was reported missing by his family after he vanished Saturday. His mother made a missing person poster for him. 21 years old. He had some bizarre text messages. He apparently said he was embarked on a one-way trip to Florida that was obtained by TMZ. And he shared his thoughts. It just as all looks very odd to me. He had said in one text, I don't know if you brought up on the Epstein files, but evil is real and unmistakable. The best people like you and I can do is use what little influence we have, etc. His coworker didn't reply. And I mean, just crazy. I just think it is weird, though. I do think

it's weird that the day that that happens, the day that I'll mention is taken out, that this happens. I'm not saying that it's related. I'm just saying that I find it very weird. Is that too much tinfoil, cane? Because it is weird. It's actually not enough to be totally honest with you. It's not enough tinfoil.

But I can see where, I mean, there's a lot to be... Well, Iran bragged about trying to kill Trump. Yeah. I mean, only because all these threats come in all the time verbally. I mean, anything at this point could be true, but we're still in that area of speculate. I mean, if you, I mean, let's not forget, Iran had issued an assassination threat against POTUS. And they, I mean, at first they bragged about it, then they kind of walked it back, but I don't know.

I don't know. It's just very odd to me. But this individual, so this is what, the second guy who was on the property, the third time that they tried to kill the guy. And, man, I'm saying. saying, you can't just be on Mar-Lago with a shotgun. Also, what kind of assassin are you? I mean, what did you think you were going to do with a shotgun? Where's the left talking about gun control, by the way? They haven't said anything about this, which I also think is weird. The family member said that their quiet cousin, he was described as quiet, and this was also described as, quote, extremely out of character for him. They said he doesn't even know how to use a gun. So how did he get a shotgun? Was that one that he had?

I mean, I realize that they're still running this stuff down, but, you know, I've got a lot of questions. But I do think it's very odd that the same day that that happens, then you have this. Hmm. Just saying. Now, Lorraine thinks that it was maybe suicide by secret service. Yeah, and there was the guy who tried to storm the capital arm just a few days before. Just saying, very interesting. Just, I don't know.

Now, and that guy was 18. He also had a shotgun. and he tried storming the Capitol. So we were showing you as we opened the show, tourists, hot spots, smoke, fire, and cartel members running rampant through the streets, armed to the teeth, cities, buses exploding in flames, homes torched,

black smoke billowing into the sky. It's pretty insane. The State Department issued a security alert for all Americans in the area in Puerto Vallada, saying shelter in place, avoid crowds, minimize your movements. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of the downside about I've never, I can, look, I'll say I've never been to Mexico. It's one place I've never been. I've been to a lot of places. I've never been to Mexico. It looks beautiful. I would love to go. I mean, I love the food. I mean, I love it. I love the, the, the architecture, the, like the historical areas, the archaeology sites with, oh, what am I thinking of? The zigguron. And all of, I mean, pretty amazing. I will, because there are some ziggurats in that near Tulum in Quintanarroo.

There's like a whole host of like this archaeological site that you can visit and all of this. But then they shut that down because of cartel activity. And that was like a two years ago. I don't know if they reopened it, but they were saying that you shouldn't go there for a while because apparently cartels, they were having shootouts in the area. But I mean, I just wouldn't be able to go and feel secure. Like you have one drug cartel member taken. out in the whole country goes to hell. Interesting. But man, these are, I mean, they're all over. Guadalajara is a cross. It's, you know, it's more further east. So Puerto Vallada is on the

western side. Guadalajara goes towards the east. There are no, and Quintanaroos, totally on, it's on the Gulf of America. It's on that coast. But man, it's, I mean, even without this, it was still pretty suspicious to travel in a lot of parts. of Mexico. That's one of the reasons why we just never wanted to go. So in addition to all of this, we got to, I found, let me pull this up because I think one of you, apparently Tucker Carlson was just spotted at the White House. Now, there's a lot of stuff happening right now. So that interview that he had with Mike Huckabee, I can understand why he tried to pull a stunt and make it a international incident, because Mike Huckabee, and I know him, I've been on his show,

before. We've done election coverage before together. I've known him for a long time. Very nice guy. And I think some people think that because he's a nice guy and he's this, you know, former Baptist preacher that he's probably kind of a pushover, which is completely not even remotely accurate. By the way, don't tell Tucker that it was a Jewish kid, apparently, that scored the winning goal for Team USA for hockey, because then he'll turn around and totally hate hockey and be like, but, you know, Israel, just waiting.

But in that interview. Mike Huckabee beat him into a hole in the ground and he was very factual. Tucker was flabbergasted at times. He was flummoxed. He kept moving in his seat. He kept fidgeting. He had no idea how to deal with this stuff. He was out of his depth. And the story is that Trump is apparently cautious now. There's a story over at Axios. There's also several, there's several different ones. but there's a story that Trump is wanting Tucker to walk back or to stop with all the Israel stuff is apparently what it is. And Apotis has been warned of this schism.

So I don't know if he's at the White House because Trump's going to talk to him or what. There's a couple of things that were, and I'm going to dive into that here in a little bit, but very interesting. And we're going to talk about some parts of this interview. because what Tucker Carlson did in his interview, in his numerous interviews, where he has these Hamas, these Islamist apologists on

to spread absolute false, disprovable, you know, demonstrably disproven information is no different from what the legacy press has done for decades. One of the reasons why we have an independent media right now, is because of the type of behavior that Tucker Carlson has demonstrated that the legacy press has done for decades. This absolute disingenuous, you know, fact omitting, not even reporting. It's not reporting. It's activism dressed up as reporting.

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miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. Sorry, I was briefly distracted by all the new Marco Rubio memes that were coming out. All right. So, oh my God, where are we at? Let's see. Okay, this is the one I was going to tell you. Scientists discovered. Oh, wait, do I want to do this? one? Okay, this is the dinosaur from

hell. It was had a sword jutting from its head. Fossil hunters found what they think is the score of a lifetime. The skull of a supersized dinosaur from, quote, hell with a sword like horn protruding from its head. Don't tell me that it's a sword protruding from its head if it's just one of them dino bones coming out of its head.

You guys are lame. This headline's a horrible trick. What if it's a dragon and they think it's a dinosaur? What if it's just a giant narwhal that like, you know, washed up and rotted weird? I don't know. I'm just saying. Speaking of dynos, okay, now we're going to do this one. This is an extremely rare fossilized anus that could reveal reptile evolution breakthrough.

You sped right through that. I did. The butt. Particularly the brown-eyed girl that Van Morrison sang about. That song is great. I don't know why you hate it, Cain, and old people. But they said that it's rare to find soft tissue structures in the fossil record. That's why this is such a breakthrough.

So there, I got it out. DHS is reversing course on TSA pre-check suspension after confusion because, you know, we got a little bit of a lockdown. And at first, everyone was saying that pre-check was going to shut down. DHS walked back its decision to suspend the pre-check program after sparking some confusions. That's not done well. If you're walking it back, I mean, you make a decision you need to stick to the decision, and you need to make sure that the decision you're making is the right one, so you don't have to walk things back. Also, let's see, bomb cyclone, blizzard.

Hey, Steve, are you getting affected down in D.C.? That's, wait, that's two inches too many. This is not winter anymore, guys. It is harassment. We are being harassed by nature. Bomb cyclone, blizzard. We're going to talk about how Mamdani was begging for people to come shovel snow and nobody showed up. Crazy.

Crazy. Something was making stone tools in China 600,000 years before Homo erecta showed up, according to a little study. I'm not saying that it's aliens, but it might be aliens. Also, coming up, I got to tell you about the spot that I found on the map, because I have no life in Chile that looks like a big alien face in a mountainside. It's crazy. I'm going to show it to you coming up. Well, I'll tell you about it.

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And I can see now why Tucker Carlson, who I've always been friendly with. I mean, I guess you could say, you know, we're friends. We're never been best friends. We, you know, the last time I text, we got into kind of a text argument in October was the last time I talked to him because we were having a religious disagreement. And known him for years. and I can see why he did this stunt last week when he went to the airport there in Israel and wouldn't leave the airport. Because the interview with Mike Huckabee did not go the way I think he thought it would.

I guess he thought that Huckabee was just like this pushover. And Huckabee really set him straight on stuff, particularly he called Tucker Carlson out. And yes, when you have somebody on your program and they are saying absolutely, false things and you do not check them. You are platforming that nonsense. You're not only platforming it. You are laundering it through whatever credibility you have left. And by association, you're vouching for it. That's exactly what that is. So this is cut 14. Huckabee set him straight on one of the big ones. And this is probably why he wanted to take away from the interview. Watch. Can I ask you something? Yes. You platformed a guy. You had him on your show, Tony Aguble.

Don't platform anyone. Well, you interviewed. Not a liberal, so I don't platform, BK. Okay, you interviewed Tony Aguilar, who claimed that IDF soldiers killed a little boy in his presence. Uh-huh. That didn't happen. Okay. It did not happen.

I don't know if you know whether it happened or not. Well, I can tell you why I know it didn't happen. Because we found that little boy less than a week later. All right. I was involved, heavily involved. involved in helping to extricate him from Gaza. Four different countries were involved in getting he and his mother to safety, get them out of there. Tony Aguilar is a liar. Okay. Tony Aguilar claimed that he saw an IDF soldier shoot the little boy. He was fired from the GHF for cause,

and he begged for his job back, and they wouldn't give it back because they didn't want him. And he told him that if they didn't give his job back, that he would burn him down. Okay. So he goes out, no, let me finish this because it's important for you to understand. Right. So this guy then goes out and makes up this story that he witnessed IDF soldiers shooting a little boy. I don't know that he made it up. He seemed to believe it to me.

It's possible he's wrong. I've been wrong many times. Well, this is a little bit more than just missing a fact. I mean, are you wrong or are you lying at your ass? and there's kind of a difference, you know what I mean? I mean, there's just, who is it possible that he was wrong? I don't know, is it possible that he was lying out of his two cheeks?

I mean, that's just what it seems like. You know, he lied. He absolutely lied, and you didn't check it. I thought that's what journalists do. Journalists, when someone spouts absolute nonsense on their program and you're the host, it's your creation, you're sitting there across from them,

and you don't check them. Well, there's only one of two reasons why. Either because you're culpable, because you help them by laundering the story through whatever credibility you think you have left, i.e. vouching for them. Or you are lazy and you didn't do the legwork and you didn't do any of the research. And you got too used to being at Fox News where you have literally a handful of producers for every segment. And they hand you a stack of papers.

I've been in the studios millions of times. That's how it works. They have great people that work there. They have a whole floor of people that are dedicated to researching stuff and writing their articles and doing all this stuff. And they funnel all of that and they hand all the information to their host. They're no different from CNN or NBC or ABC. And so you didn't do the legwork.

You got used to having a whole team of people hand you everything to read. And you just read it. They loaded in the prompter and you sit there. and turn the prompter, you just literally regurgitate the words that you see in the monitor as you're staring into the camera. So which is it? Because it's one of those two. There's not a third option. There is not a third option because you're too damn old to be that naive. And you're too damn old to be still learning on the job at this. So which is it? There's just no excuse for it. There's zero excuse for it. This is the type of stuff that we have literally marched in the streets,

to protest against legacy media, the same behavior that legacy media perpetuates. The same media that pulls this stuff, pulled it on the Tea Party, pulled it on conservatives, pulled this stuff on Trump voters. How are you any different when you're behaving the same way? This, cut 15. This is another example where he insists that there are more Christians in Qatar than in Israel. Listen to this. countries. There's almost no Christians in Qatar, for example, except those who live in the Christian

ghetto, who are the service workers. I'm sorry. I don't want to argue with you. There are many more Christians in Qatar than there are in Israel. That's not true. It actually is true. And I refer you to Wikipedia, Mr. Ambassador. Wikipedia. I refer you to the government of Qatar, the government of Israel. These are knowable facts. Like I'm in Jordan. The numbers are down. In Syria, the numbers are down in Lebanon. The numbers are down. There are about twice as many Christians. But they live in the enclave. They are not native Qataris. Okay, we're mixing so many different categories here.

I'm just saying I get things wrong all the time. You've just gotten something wrong. No, he didn't, though. He absolutely did. There are many more Christians in Qatar than there are in Israel. Fact. How many? Now you caught me.

I don't know. I can look at my phone, but I was just there. And there are many more, like, whatever. Oh, wait a minute. Can you play 32 really quickly? Because, hmm, that sounded very familiar. Yeah. How many people living around, by the way?

I don't know the population at all. No, I don't know the population. You don't know the population in the country you seek to topple? How many people living around? 92 million. Okay. Yeah, how could you not know that? How could Tucker not know how many Christians are actually in Qatar?

I mean, he said he wants to buy a house there, and he's been positioning them as this great savior of Christendom. By the way, do you know why it's not correct to say that there are more Christians living in Qatar than there are in Israel? Because Qatar, the entire Christian population is slave labor. Qatar, where he talks about purchasing a house, is one of the largest slaveholders in all of the world. One of the last places on earth that still actually actively practices slavery. All of their Christians are imported labor that work under threat of penalty. And you know what?

What's more? They're not even allowed to leave their Christian ghettos to go and practice their faith. They'll get whipped if they walked out with a cross necklace. They only have a couple of buildings that are not allowed to even say Christ, Christian, anything. They can't even have a cross. They can even have an Icthus on the buildings outside. Icthus, Icthus, is what an Ictheus is. You can't even have that on the outside of the building.

You have to secretly, very quietly, go in and pray by yourself and do your own thing. You're not allowed to evangelize. You're not allowed to proselytize. You're not allowed to do any of that. So wait a minute, you're saying that Qatar can hold slaves, Christian slaves, and that gives them the moral authority over Israel that has Christians that willingly and happily live there and actually participate in their government affairs. And you think that that's a flex. Oh, dear heavens. But there's more.

Oh, wait, yes, there is more. You also have this. 13, please. Cut 13. I wish that none of those people in Gaza had been killed after October the 8th. Well, I say not none of them. I'm glad Mohammed Sinwar was killed. I'm glad that some of those warriors, the people who masterminded and carried out the atrocities October 7.

The 14-year-old Hamas operatives? How do you feel about their deaths? If they participated in that, then God help them. I'm telling you, Tucker. I don't know that they were 14 years. No, but I'm telling you that when someone commits the acts of atrocity, and then they hold hostages. If these were your children being held hostage in Gaza,

what would you do to get them out? I wouldn't want to kill 14-year-olds. I'll tell you that. Let me ask you something. Would you do whatever it took to get your kids back? If they were being tortured, raped, starved, and be? I would not kill children, period. It's not your decision.

Well, I'm just telling me. Okay, I'm going to interrupt because this is really pissing me off. Tucker Carlson has the attitude of someone of extreme privilege. He has never been in a position where that choice was made for him. What is so completely naive and inept is that he thinks that this is a choice that he can make. When you're facing the barrel of a gun that's held by a teenage terrorist member, someone who's going to go and get coins in the martyrs fund for their family,

that decision is not a decision you get to make. It is a decision that is being made for you by Hamas. It is a decision that is being made for you by the terrorists that recruit children, terrorists, you are an apologist for by repeating their propaganda as it pertains to Gaza. By repeating Aguilar's propaganda, you're actually helping make more child soldiers. So you're telling me that if you and your family had your home stormed by terrorists, And among them was a 16-year-old terrorist that was going to blow your child's head off, that you wouldn't act. You wouldn't do anything to defend your family because that just makes you a horrible father on top of being a terrorist propagandist.

It makes you a bad parent. It makes you a horrible steward of the lives that God has given you. It is not a decision that you make. Do you think it's a decision that innocents make to have teenagers go and fight for terrorists? Who makes a decision like that for a child? Terrorists do. Stop assigning the guilt of terrorists to that of innocence. That's like blaming innocent gun owners for the crimes of repeat illegal offenders.

That is the same formula. formulaic argument of gun controllers. Switch up the variables. This is not a decision that innocent people have made. It's a decision that was made by terrorists and now

you are being presented with life or death. What do you choose? That is the only decision you have at that point. So stop acting as though it's somehow not noble or it is immoral to act to defend innocence against evil. When that evil decision was made

before you and predate your awareness of it. Sickening. But wait, there's more. Cut 12, please. Abrams descendants are the ones who have the right to have. I'm sorry. Abram or Abraham. I just feel like if you're going to lecture, you need to understand the actual correct names of the forefathers in the Bible. Go ahead. Sorry. Abrams descendants are the ones who have the right to have this land, correct? Yes. Okay. Why don't we do genetic testing on everybody in the land and find out who Abrams' descendants are? It's really simple. We've cracked the human genome. We can do that. Why don't we do that? Would you be against doing that? I have no idea what that would prove. I mean, maybe it would be. What do you mean? It would prove who Abrams' descendants are and who has a right to live here and who doesn't, according to the theology that you yourself just explained. And so I'm very confused as to what we're. why we don't do that if you believe the theology that you've just explained to me would we do that

all over the world well this is the only country in the world that you've said has this covenant with god that this people have a moral and legal right to the land what about people who convert to judaism would they have a right well you've just you've just said i mean there are not to judaism so you just told they can make aliyadh they may not have you've just told me that it doesn't matter You told me moments ago trying to keep track. Okay. That it doesn't matter whether or not you believe in God or whether or not you practice Torah Judaism or rabbinic Judaism, which is something else that I don't even know if we should, I don't even know what that means. But it doesn't matter whether you're quote a religious Jew or not.

What matters is that you are part of the Jewish people to whom God gave this land that extends from the Nile to the Euphrates. And so if you believe that, wouldn't you want to know with a burning passion who those people are? And because of science, we can now know who those people are. How come Tucker's never asked people in Gaza to take DNA tests? How come he's never asked, quote unquote, Palestinian, which is, again, a made-up name that was given by Hadrian to an area where this was after the second Judeanid uprising and he decided to name the area after the Jewish people's enemies that had already left 200 years before. and it was the seafaring people from Crete, the Philistines. Why does he ever, why does he never ask them to take a DNA test? By the way, I don't give a rat's ass about a DNA test.

I don't care what Abraham's descendants. I don't care anything by that. Just by the law of conquer, it's theirs. And they followed the mandate and they followed all the rules and they did everything that they were supposed to. And still, the world, maybe except for the United States, refused to acknowledge it. So no, it is their land.

And it's, by the way, people who have been there historically, supported by thousands of years of antiquity in actual historical documents, not Wikipedia as Tucker cites, which is such an unreliable trash bag, ghetto slop of nonsense that it's not even admissible in a courtroom in the United States of America. That's fact. So he's actually talking about. eugenics here. I don't care. I don't care about any of that. Law of Conquer. Also, they've been there. I mean, history supports it. We can talk more about it if you'd like, but why doesn't he ever ask

any of the quote-unquote Palestinians to take DNA tests? Is it because he's worried that it all come back Jordanian? Million questions. Don't say, this is an independent journalism. It's bought and paid for a Qatari slop. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. This is a jerk move. A Florida guy was arrested for throwing nails into the roadway. Like, what is poop urinated in your weedies? I know, which isn't the real way to say that.

But Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, deputies, let's see, the story. Golly, the pop-ups for West Orlando News. Your website is so bad. All of you should be arrested. I'm not even reading this story because it's a stupid, Worst website ever. I'm never revisiting that. Basically, a guy got in trouble because he's throwing nails on the road.

Seriously, what is wrong with your website? Crappy Florida publication. Let's see. This story, a driver was accused of going 129 miles per hour to make it back from McDonald's on time. For what? Well, he was going back to work, and he said McDonald's took too long to make his food. He had only a few minutes left of his break. And so he was going 120 miles per hour.

129 because the McDonald's order. How far was the McDonald's from your work, dude? 19 years old, so now he's in big trouble. He probably didn't even get to eat it because he got pulled over. I'd be munching at least the fries, shoving them all in my mouth as quickly as I could. We have a lot more on the way. Stick with us. Specifically, I'm talking about Cash Patel, who's over in Italy,

partying with the hockey players who won and they're, you know, they're celebrating. You've had the FBI do. Why are you even there? and most likely on taxpayer dollars, well, yes, of course, on taxpayer dollars, probably on the plane, which he has been in trouble for, which he has been scrutinized for. This administration is so tacky. I know that Donald Trump, they say he's a wealthy man or whatever he's made billions off of the presidency. So Don Lemon is, has no, you know why Cash Patel's over there.

First off, Cash Patel's over there because the FBI actually plays a major function in providing security for Team USA athletes and securing areas in Olympic Village and places where Team USA athletes go. That's how it's always been. That's why the FBI is there. They work with the host nation, with intelligence and protection and all of that stuff. So, and Cash Patel was visiting the Milan Joint Operations Center, which is like the Olympic Security HQ. to, in his capacity as FBI director, to oversee and check out, you know, the security operations over there. So that's why he's there for people who don't understand how government works. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you, top of this third hour.

And it is asinine, I think. Now, I've got a friend who is upset that he was shotgun in a beer. Should he have been shotgun in a beer? I don't think so. do I care? No. I don't care. Should he have been shotgun in a beer? No. I think that people are too sensitive about it and people are too, I think everybody's too everything. Just calm down. I mean, he was there. He's also a big hockey fan. I don't drink when I work, like when I go and give speeches. If I have a dinner after I finish all my work, I may have a little bit of wine,

but I typically do not. When I'm on the clock, I don't at all. When I travel for work, I don't at all. At all. And if I do, like usually it's at a dinner after everything is over. I don't like, I don't even like eating before I speak. I'm very, you know, I'm very drilled down on stuff. So that's me.

Would I have done it? No. I do think that when you're FBI director and there's so much respect has been lost by that department, it makes it very difficult for the person who comes after to rebuild it. And I think that he's got a lot of that hanging on him, too, from previous, you know, the James Comey's and everybody else. I mean, it's, you know, it's a, it's a, a lot to have to sift through. But I also think if I am to, I wish that the left would have been as upset over Cash Patel shotgunning a beer as they were over the FBI,

by shotgunning after parents who spoke up at school board meetings. Or I wish that they were as upset over, you know, when people were like people of faith or were targeted during Biden Harris. I mean, we could talk a lot about that. We have on this program before. So him shotgunning a beer celebrating with the men's Olympic team, I don't care. Now, I'm going to say something very, very controversial here in a minute. And half of you are not going to like it at all. and I don't care, but I'm just going to say it because it does, I'm just going to.

So I had a friend saying, oh, well, you know, he set this, he set up a PR problem because there was the issue of, he called POTUS while he was there in the men's locker room, the night that they won. And all the people who clip audio are listening very carefully right now. He called POTUS from the locker room while the men were celebrating, you know, the videos are fun. It's a lot of fun. And, yeah, was this cut seven? Yeah. He, we can play some of this.

This is, this is, he called POTUS right there. Listen, this is cut seven. Watch one minute. One minute. And by the way, you goli played not bad. Say hi to him. How you doing, Dan? I have seen hockey goalies have slightly worse games.

Unbelievable. And you are all unbelievable. And that team is pretty good you played. I don't know. I don't get it again anytime soon. You know, I tell you what, I just told my people too much, I know they'd be calling. I said, we're giving the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night.

I could send a military plan or something. But if you would like to, it's the coolest night, it's the biggest. We're in. We're awesome. Oh, it's so awesome. They did not hesitate. They didn't hesitate. So one of my friends was saying, okay, well, you know, he's setting up kind of a problem,

PR-wise, by making it seem like POTUS is favoring the men's team over the women's team. And apparently the women, they got praise and all of that, but they got immediate White House praise after their Thursday gold over Canada. And that's a big deal. And Trump's, I mean, because he's, I think both of them actually are invited to state of the union. but some people are saying that and they both have accepted those invites per steve but some are saying well you know in the locker room you know trump because cash patelle was there and cash patelle just happened to go to the men's just stop it by the way i'm going to again the controversial thing more people are watching the men's team than the women's team just fact just fact also we did not have a miracle on

ice with a women's team 40 some odd years ago we had that with the men's team 40-some-odd years ago for the people not paying attention and don't understand the double entendre of meaning with this. That picture of Jack Hughes, by the way, where he is facing the camera and he's got his hand kind of up and he's got a hold of the flag and his teeth are all broken and busted and he's bleeding from his mouth is such an iconic photograph because it is a very American photograph. I mentioned this on X just a little bit ago. I love this photo and I hope it wins an award because it's worthy of an award. I mean, he's beaten up, he's taken the blows and he's got the blood to show for it, but still standing tall, jubilant number one. This is such a great photo.

Look at the joy if you're watching us do the radio show. The joy on his face. He's got the flag. He's so proud to represent his country. Literally wrapped in the red, white, and blue. He's not wearing it and disrespecting it as a robe. He is being adorned by it. His hands up in celebration.

His teeth all busted and broken. But he is standing there unbowed, unconquered. Number one. I love it. I love it. And considering the political animosity right now on the right, it's important to say for the Woke Reich, he's a Jewish kid, apparently. That's not a bad thing.

That's American. This is the most American thing you can see, E pluribus unum. That's such a great photo. That is a photo that we needed because that's America right now. that is one of those rare instances where a photo everything is in all the ingredients are there for an iconic moment and it is a photo that is a snapshot of a moment in our culture a moment in time you have all these factions in the united states and then you have the united states standing against islamism the united states casting a wary eye over china wary eye over russia our alliances because we are finally calling our allies to step up and prove that this isn't a one-way relationship. That's America.

That is why that's so iconic. That is why the men's team is getting a lot of attention right now for all of these things coming together. The miracle on ice, the defeat of Russia, my gosh, you guys, that was like an epitaph of the Cold War. And a lot of the guys that were there have kids here that were in the Olympics Sunday. day. It is an amazing thing. That is why it's getting a lot of attention and to reduce it down, to diminish it. Men and women as to being just that men against women is offensive, stupid, illiberal, illogical, and anti-American. Both teams deserve to celebrate the

their successes. Stop trying to rob from either of them. That's such a great photo. That photo needs to be hanging on the White House. That's a great photo. Because I want you to look at that photo

and then compare it to the one of Trump and Butler, Pennsylvania. It is almost the same composition. Juan's getting that up for you. It is almost the same composition. If you look at Trump with his hand raised,

mal got blood on his face, he's got the flag behind him and the secret service around him. It is very similar to that photo if you think about it. And there's just something about it. Very, very similar. Fist in the air. And there's several different angles of that photo. A couple of different angles of it.

But you get the idea. idea of it. It is a, it's a, there's some triumph in there. And one is a very, you know, fighting spirit. And the other is, you know, oh my gosh, you just score the winning goal at the Olympics and got us gold. Very similar. Very similar. That's something that struck me when I was looking at that photo. So I hope the photo of Jack Hughes goes into the White House. It's a very iconic. Wanah's going to put them side by side for you so you can compare. It's such a great. And because Trump is in, you know, the suit, what was this, the navy blue suit that I think he was wearing that day? He's got the white shirt and then you've got the red for the podium and the stage

and then the flag in the background. It is, I mean, these are very iconic images. There it is. Very iconic images. How great is that? That's just, I mean, the similarities are striking. Now, another thing, and Lorraine reminded me of this, this was the first time that the men and women both won gold, same year. But also the men invited Cash Patel. Cash Patel was at the women's game, and I saw an article where he was. He was at the women's game, but the men invited him into the locker room.

That's why he was there. Team USA, the men's team. And I can understand the women made. not if necessary. And that's totally fine. But the men invited him in there. So the press is going to try to find any kind of crack at all whatsoever possible. They already have. Yeah. So just don't let these teams have their moment because Democrats are going to try to have theirs at the state of the union. Oh my gosh. You guys. Do you know that, okay, so there's like 12 or 13 Democrats that are not even going to the state of the union. Okay, they're not even going to go. But they're going to

do a rally, like somewhere near the Capitol. There's no way they're going to be able to get it they're going to have to do it outside. It's cold. Steve's just said there's like two inches. Steve, when we went, when we were at the State of the Union in 2022, how damn cold was it? In February and D.C., it's always cold. It'll warm up in March, but it's in the 30s back today. It was like freezing. And we couldn't bring a big giant coat in. So I had to wear a really warm suit. And you can't bring your phone or anything in. And they have streets shut down. like for blocks leading up to the Capitol. Oh, fun, fun story. So my husband, he was at the house building, because I was in the galley, it was in the Capitol. And when he came out, he was on the

rooftop because a lot of the lawmakers that have offices there, they can go on the rooftops and they, you know, they get great pictures of the Capitol. They had red dots on them because they got in the crosshairs of Secret Service that were on all the rooftops because when POTUS leaves, everything locks down. And, you know, obviously nothing happened. But that's, I want my secret service to have eyes on everything. I'm serious. But just interesting.

This one's going to say, why are they going to have a rally? No one's going to see it. It's going to be freezing. It's going to be nighttime. Everything near the Capitol is going to be shut down. This is performative clownery. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

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You're on the go guide for getting up to speed on today's most important stories. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or your favorite podcast platform. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are at the bottom of this third hour. I'm watching some of these photos that are coming out in video in Mexico right now. Wow. I hope that nobody we know is vacationing there, vacationing, air quotes, doing a lot of heavy lifting. Joining us to discuss this and a few other issues are very good friends, Stephen Yates. You can find him on X at Steve Yates, and he's a senior research fellow at Heritage.

He also served in not one, but two, presidential administrations. He is a living, breathing, walking encyclopedia on everything related to China and pretty much any kind of geopolitical issue that you could dream up on God's Green Earth. and he joins us now from his prestigious library. Mr. A, it's always a pleasure. First off, what really blows my mind about everything that we're seeing in Mexico right now is this is one, one singular cartel boss, the Halisco New Generation Cartel, which kind of sounds like a 90s boy band name, but I digress, one cartel head and all hell breaks loose. Like, what if it had been more than one cartel head? How much power do these, I mean, I get it.

It seems like they were really. co-sovereigns with the Mexican government for all of this to happen because of one guy. And there are so many cartels down there. And of course, this was a methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficker. But that's pretty bad if one cartel head can destabilize the country this much. Well, then it certainly is shocking to see the disruption. And I think one important principle is that what we see is only a fratel. of what reality is playing out.

When we see large black clouds of smoke and fire and things like that, we expect that there is a huge swath of destruction, and no doubt there is, but it'll take a few days at the very least to kind of get a sense of what's really happened in this lay of the land. This was not an ordinary cartel boss. This was one of the big ones, arguably the biggest in terms of death in America. And so I would like to see this as a cautionary, maybe even scary, turning point, but one turning point that indicates that not only has the government of Mexico done some fundamental things

to make their side of the border safer, and I think that is one of the reasons why we have had less border crossings in 2025 and six, not just with added enforcement on our side, but also that not only has the President of the United States designated these as terms, terrorist organizations, but the government of Mexico isn't waiting for the U.S. to figure out when and how it's going to do something in Mexican territory. And so, yeah, it's scary, but the cancer has been allowed to grow for decades, and the casualties have been everywhere, not least of which in Mexico. So let's see how it shakes out. But yeah, if you were a tourist and sipping your preferred beverage by the pool in Puerto Vallarta, this is a rude awakening when all flights are

canceled and smoke is going at the Costco. But that's kind of a first world problem if in a matter of days, order is restored and these guys are taken back a notch and maybe the other cartel bosses are questioning their own security. That's the question because if you're another cartel boss there, I would imagine there's a power vacuum to fill. If you can see that the Mexican government is battling this cartel, why wouldn't you swoop in and go, well, we can help you restore law and order if you look the other way? I mean, who's to say that's not, I mean, it seems like that's probably already happening. Yeah, there's a few things that could be happening. Number one, if you're the president of Mexico, you're going to triple down on your security from now into the not too distant future.

And I just saw, not to interrupt you, but I just saw she had been earlier transferred to a Mexican Navy ship for her own safety. So she's not actually even on land anymore. Yeah. And that's, it's a sad state to have to acknowledge that in your country, things have gone to this level. But, you know, we don't throw stones. I mean, our president had multiple assassination attempts before coming back into this office. There's already some whack-a-noodle guy running with a shotgun towards the Capitol, and there's all these neo-Marxist gangs going around trying to disrupt our civilization. But in Mexico, it's times a million. And so if this is an indication about turning the corner and getting serious,

better we face this now while we have a strong commander-in-chief. real commitment to this hemisphere. And I think the American public won't want this kind of conflict, but at the same time, we've suffered economic, familial, and just real life casualties in unacceptable numbers for a long time. So I see this as a terrible but necessary thing that had to happen. And it probably is the first of several that are going to have to unfold. But aside from that leader looking for safe harbor, I think the other cartel leaders are going to have to ask themselves, do I really go after the Mexican president? Do I really go after retaliation against the United States? Because we don't want the big Bubba to the north to get serious about whack and me because he

brings a lot more than a few helicopters and paratroopers. I do like that variable for those just joining us. We're talking with our friend Stephen Yates. I like that idea of people not knowing that, you know, Trump could just get mad and press that button and boom, another cartel. leader just evaporates into the ether. I mean, there's something about that that I like them not trusting the temperament of our president. Yeah, the well, the willingness to use force overwhelmingly decisively and literally no one in the world can do a darn thing about it.

That has an effect. It can't be overused. It shouldn't be overused. But at the same time, no matter what anyone wanted to say about President Trump, he has been more effective in the use of this tool than any of his predecessors. I mean any of his predecessors. And so for now, this is writing a ship that was going profoundly in a dangerous and wrong direction. And I hope, just Godspeed in taking these next few steps, because Pandora's box has been opened in Mexico.

Oh, completely. And do you think that Shinebaum has risen to the challenge? Are you, because some have been criticizing her absence of, I don't know if a statesmanship, but they just said that she should have been a little bit more forceful in coming out right after all of this. I mean, she was at a rally and left, apparently, without saying anything, and now she's on the ship. What is your interpretation of how she's handling this? And is she going to, I mean, do you think that based on what you're seeing from her, that this is something that's going to be put down within the next couple of days? Well, I sort of believe in living histories, more than written histories in a lot of ways. And what I mean by that is there's a lot of people, I mean, she herself said that this could never be done, maybe never should be done. She's on record last year saying that Mexico can't go to war with the cartels and that this is sort of right-wing extremism trying to advocate this kind of death and destruction in Mexico.

And I think in history, we have a lot of leaders that didn't choose to rise to the moment. They were forced into that moment. And then out of survival, they do some of the necessary things if they succeed. And she might prove to be one of those. But I think she had no choice. This moment was brought upon her. And I'm not going to be harsh about what the near-term choices are. I would be harsh about what are the results.

If over the months and years come, we really have a significant measurable degradation of the cartel hijack of this hemisphere and hijack of Mexico, then I'll give grace to whatever someone said and looked like in a moment of crisis. If we don't do that, then their best words and best chest thumping don't do a darn thing for me. I don't know if I've ever seen it this bad there. I just, I don't, in recent memory, I don't think I've ever in my lifetime have ever seen it that, I mean, where it's every, we're from, you know, Puerto Vallada all the way over to Quintanaru and, you know, Playa del Carmen and then down south to Tulum. I mean, it's the, it seems like the whole country is, you know, every hot spot that you would want to go to and more is in flames. I think you're accurate. I don't think this ever has happened. And it's a big, big, big sobriety checkpoint for everyone, because this happened simultaneously. simultaneously across the entire country. That means that that cartel network is literally everywhere. And as you pointed out, this is just one of the cartels. There are other cartels covering lots of

other geography, too, including other countries and with tentacles into our vulnerable country. And so there's a lot of reasons to look at that and say, whoa, what's going on here at the same time? I think this box is opened. And so we had better just manage it and get the outcome we need out of this. And I know that our military has been looking at what they needed to do by way of authorities and capabilities if forced to act on our own in Mexican territory because the president his team knew that we've had too many lives taken from us. We have too much of our communities and families disrupted by this cancer and it can't just be ignored. And so I know they've been going through this. But it's far, far better for the Mexicans and maybe others to be doing

all they can before, we are the last resort to come in, and I'd say strike pretty, pretty hard if we have to. Yeah, I mean, they saw Venezuela. They saw what happened with Maduro. So last question for you. And this is kind of a, in the, kind of in the similar area, but a different topic. We've talked about it before, but I think briefly, and I keep seeing all these videos and new videos too of they call it the squid fleet China squid fleet they've been they apparently tried this before in Argentina now they're off the coast of Peru and their exclusive economic zone and the amount of overfishing that these vessels I've read anywhere that it's like from 1600 to 2,000 vessels that are just flooding this zone the overfishing and the destroy the destruction of their

biodiversity there they've been apparently and it's heavily obviously entirely subsidized by their government. Going after mackerel, tuna, their giant squid even, they're entering all the Peruvian waters, using false licensees, all of this stuff. I was reading a story this morning about how they've been trying to not go into the ports at Peru to dodge laws. Obviously, that's

a big economic factor for Peru. This is going to sound like the dumbest question probably I've ever asked you. Are there no more fish by them? Like, what's up? Like, why why are they going to take it everybody else fish? Well, the short answer is they have been over-harvesting in their near abroad for a very,

very long time, but also this is a very, very permissive environment for them. And so, you know, these fleets, a lot of us live our lives with no awareness of how much of the life on planet Earth is actually on water, not on land. And so these ecosystems have been out there. It is unusual that they are showing up in these numbers. And if you'd like to worry about conspiracy theories, some Japanese entities have done some tracking of what's happening along that first island chain in Asia. And every once in a while, they'll have these exercises where these civilian fishing boats align in a perfect formation to make a straight line barrier. And so there's a civil military fusion part of this. But the last point I would put on this,

it really ought to, but I'm not holding my breath, wake up the left. They have looked to China as somehow their savior on their cult of the climate change, but here is China just thrashing the ecosystem of the oceans and taking advantage of the, what do they like to call it in the southern hemisphere, the countries that are trying to come up for themselves, the global South. So they're taking advantage of the poorer countries who can't defend themselves. They're killing all the poor little fishes. And where are the leftists? Oh, they're out there protesting that they want to have murderers and thugs stay forever at our expense in our country. That's their hill they want to die on. But they don't want to save the planet and they don't want far away countries

taking advantage of poor countries in our hemisphere. That's just, it's crazy. These videos to see it. And it's not AI. I mean, they're legit sources. And I mean, boats, all different kinds, as far as the I can see. And the amount of fish that they're pulling. I mean, it is insane. That's insane. I would be worried if I was Peru's government.

I would be thinking this is like a weird, like put together, mashed together sort of assault on our, you know, waterway sovereignty. It's, you know, trying to do what they're doing in the South Sea. We are out of time, though. But Stephen Yates at Steve Yates on X, always a pleasure, my friend. and we always appreciate your expertise in time. Thank you so much and have a good rest of your week. Thank you, Dana. Take care. Of course, you too.

Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast because who says you can't make fun of people while staying informed on your own personal time? Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. A couple of quick headlines. The U.S. deported a gay asylum seeker to a third world country where homosexuality is illegal. My friend Kurt Schlichter goes, well, then he probably should not have come here then.

That's a true story. Yeah, then maybe don't, maybe enter the right way, just saying. Also, more texts are coming out, oh boy, about Tony Gonzalez, like more texts. He apparently was asking for sexy time photos from that staffer. Apparently, oh, I can't even read that one. She at one point said this is going too far boss, the staffer, that said, that set ourselves on fire. I can't read this either.

Hang on. Let me find a text that I can actually read. Oh my gosh. Okay, well, maybe we're going to have to share that one. I'm going to have to come up with some very creative words. I'm going to have to make up words like the left does in order to get through some of that. It's that bad.

It's that bad. He was looking for explicit photographs from her, according to these texts, which have been published. and it's it's the hill it's everywhere Brandon Herrera released a statement about it people are demanding that Trump pull his endorsement from Gonzalez which he should have done in the beginning Tony Gonzalez was a gun control guy

Trump should I don't know who the hell was advising him on that but he should never ever ever have endorsed Tony gun control Gonzalez a guy who supports red flag laws universal background checks and bans how in the hell are you having those positions and calling yourself a Republican oh my gosh but apparently I feel like they're and the husband has already come out about this.

It is bad. It is very, very bad. I mean, yeah, she was pushing back on it in the beginning, but he was, yeah, trying to get some nudie photos of her. So, uh, also we'll get into, uh, we've got to, there's some things I'm going to have to say for, save for tomorrow. but the State of the Union preview tomorrow and the number of lawmakers who are not going to be attending, they need to put

like angel families all in those seats. Just keep on bringing them in and add them to those seats. But they're going to have a rally, they said tomorrow. I don't know how. It's not going to be anywhere near the Capitol. It's going to be cold.

I mean, what do they think they're going to do? Good heavens. I hope they don't burn down another church or try to. Anyway, today and stupidity. came. What do we got? I mean, there's so much to choose from here. Let's just do AOC, cut 20.

Just start playing it. And you get it. You understand where I'm coming from here. You know, I've seen one or two questions. Oh, my gosh. I can't handle. About people complaining that the snow is still here from the last storm. And like, what are people going to do about it?

And I'm starting to wonder how many, of you know how snow works and know about like what temperature snow melts I'm so done with her I'm done with her I want her to lose her voice entirely it's a lot of stupidity by the way Jimmy's famous seafood give them a shout out because people were trying to rain all over the hockey men's hockey team and they told the haters to go do something and flattering to themselves for complaining about the men's gold and they

give the men's and women's team crab cakes for life they ship worldwide so good job jimmiesfamous seafood.com. Folks, it does it for us today. Make sure check out the podcast and substack back behind the mic with you tomorrow.