The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Conservatives Get Swatted, Schumer Bends Knee & Trump Heads To DOJ

Episode Date: March 14, 2025

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Attorney General Pam Bondi is going to host President Trump today at the Department of Justice. How cool is that on a Friday, huh? Welcome to the show. Glad you're here today, 855, 839, 12, 10. That's my number. Never mind. This is the Dana show. It's me, Rich.

It's the only in for Dana. Force of Habit. What can I say? It's been a long week. But it's me, Rich, in for Dana today on a Friday. That is my number if you want to call my show later. But don't call it now, okay, because I'm doing this show. But it's a busy day.

So the president's going to go to the Department of Justice. The FBI director, Cash Patel, came out earlier today and said the swatting incidents against conservatives have to stop. This came after a good friend of mine, his name is Sean Farish, and Joe Paggs, you know Joe Pags, too, great guy. They were both swatted, along with the number of other conservative influencers in the last 24, 48 hours. It's insane.

So Cash Patel is now coming out and saying that we've got to do something about this. and Senator Mike Lee, who I just think the world of, he's just, he's the best. I mean, the guy is a stalwart constitutionalist. He came out and he said that you, we should, we should charge these people with attempted murder. We should, we should charge these guys with attempted murder for what they're doing here. And that's exactly right. Because let me tell you what swatting is. And I don't know if the Attorney General is going to address this today or not with the president.

They have a lot to talk about the Epstein files, the JFK files. The idiots who are out there burning down Tesla dealerships, they got a lot to chat about. And the president is going to give remarks today. So I don't have a preview into what the president's going to say. But this is a kind of a preview of maybe the kind of stuff they're going to talk about. So here's Attorney General Pam Bondi. This is what she said regarding Tesla. This is cut 25.

We have people were locking up on that. We have someone in jail right now from one of the dealerships. They threw a Molotov cocktail through a dealership. They're looking at up to 20 years in prison. So if you're going to touch a Tesla, go to a dealership, do anything. You better watch out because we're coming after you. Good. I mean, I think good. She's coming after people. Why would you not? You should.

FBI director, Cash Patel, tweeted out the following. I want to address the alarming rise in swatting incidents targeting media figures. The FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable. This isn't about politics. Weaponizing law enforcement against any American is not only more. morally reprehensible, but also endangers lives, including those of our officers, that will not be tolerated. We are fully committed to working with local law enforcement to crack down on these crimes, more updates to come. If you don't know what it is, imagine it like this, okay? The cops get a

phone call that there's an incredibly dangerous situation at a house. Somebody has a gun, they're threatening suicide, they've shot people, they're threatening to shoot people, whatever. It's an active shooter situation in a private residence. Now, being the son of a cop and growing up around cops and knowing a lot of cops, I can tell you that this means that their adrenaline is going to go right to a 10. Two scariest moments for a police officer, when they have to pull a car over on the side of the road, because they don't know what they don't know what they're about to encounter behind the wheel of a car.

And when they have to respond to a situation, a domestic situation where there's a gun, and whether it's a domestic assault situation or something else, because that's when passions are hot, Fevers are high and things go wrong. Things can go badly wrong. So in this situation, like what happened to Joe Pags and Sean Farish is that they called up and they said, somebody called up and said there's an active shooter situation at the house, there's dead bodies, whatever it is.

Cops show up with long guns. The SWAT team gets dispatched in most of these cases. And this has happened to elected officials. This has happened to people who are media personalities. And they show up guns blazing expecting the worst or the worst. And what happens in a lot of these situations? Well, the people that these lunatics are targeting are conservatives. And what do we all have?

Guns. We all have firearms. And we, you know, I mean, I have firearms. And I know, I know Dana has them. Obviously, you know, we all know that. They show up at a house. The person in the house has no idea why all of a sudden they see flashlights in their backyard. I look through the window and see somebody with a gun.

And the whole idea that these lunatics are, you're hoping for is that there's a confrontation. Maybe somebody opens the door to try to find out what's going on. The cops see them with a weapon and they, they shoot. Maybe the person in the home sees the person in the backyard, doesn't know it's a cop, thinks it's an intruder, takes a shot, now you shot a police officer, then they open up fire. I mean, this is what could go wrong in these situations. So Senator Mike Lee said that these people need to be prosecuted on the federal level with attempted murder. And I agree because this isn't a local situation when this occurs. This happens because you've got people doing this many states away online and they're covering their tracks

using various different protocols. I reached out to my local police department. And I know the cops in my town. But I just sent them a note and I said, look, I want to make you aware what's going on here. This is happening to a lot of my colleagues. And I just, we need to, I want to come up with the plan here in a situation for this, if this happens to get in the future. Because when Joe Pags, when this happened to him, he says he looks outside, he sees all these guys with guns. He calls 911. He says, is this, are you here for me? And they said, yeah, we have reports as an active shooter. He goes, well, there isn't. I'm being swatted. And the 911 dispatcher didn't know what that was. And he said, you know, they're doing this to conservatives across the country right now.

I'm going to stay on the phone with you. Can you please let them know that there's no, no threat? Now, the problem is that from the cop's perspective, they don't know that. They don't know if that's just somebody in the house holding people hostage, calling 911 and saying there's nothing to worry about. So how do they know? You know what I mean? Put yourself in the police officer's perspective in that moment. They don't know that. I mean, they go, hey, it's me, it's my house, everything's fine.

The cop doesn't know if there's a guy holding a gun to your wife's head making you say that or not. So their adrenaline, which is at 1,000, is not going to go down anytime soon. So Joe was really smart about it. He said, tell them I'm going to come out. I'm going to open the lights. I'm going to come out with my hands up. And I'm going to stay on the phone with you until we work, you know. And he waited a minute until he got the okay, slowly open the door, hands out.

Guns were aimed at him. And he walks out. And that's what I would suggest if that would happen to you. because you might be not a famous person per se, but you might be an online media person. You're active on social media. It doesn't, you don't have to be famous for it to happen to you. And they may just do it to you.

And so what I would suggest is, if that occurs, do what he did. Call 911 and say, hey, and then be very calm and handle it very calmly. The only downside to that, obviously, it's a risk you're going to have to take, is that if it's not the police in your backyard, if it's bad guys in your backyard, but at least you're on the phone with 911, and then they can hopefully dispatch people. And if you know, and if they can confirm that it's not the police in your backyard, well, then, you know, now you know you've got to deal with the situation in a whole different way, obviously. That's what I would suggest. But these are monsters. I mean, these are the worst kind of human beings on the planet,

if you ask me. They really are. They're setting people up for a violent situation. They're risking the lives of law enforcement. They're risking the lives of the people who live in the house. I'll see about it from my perspective. And I have little kids, you know. And what happens if my son opens the door and he's, I mean, he's got, he's got a toy gun. All the kids have toy guns. You know, they're like the Nerf guns and stuff like that. But at night that stuff gets confusing and things go wrong, very, very wrong.

So you're going to wind up getting somebody killed. You're going to wind up getting a kid killed or a cop killed or maybe worse. These people need to go to prison. And then civilly sued for damage. They should have to pay the cost of whatever that police dispatch was because setting up a SWAT team ain't cheap. You know, you can roll out the SWAT team. That ain't cheap. That's number one.

Number two, whatever personal stress you and your family have endured, that should be worth, there should be a monetary value of that of like a million dollars, a minimum of a million dollars. And then those people should be sued, put in prison, civilly sued as well, it's the only way we're going to make it stop. Because this isn't something that's just happened. This has been going on for years. and it's happened to members of Congress. It's happened to, I know, a local state senator. A local New Jersey state senator who I'm good friends with, this happened to him.

And in a lot of these situations now, and I think after, now that the FBI director is putting out a statement to local law enforcement on this, I think that it's going to have to be addressed in the sense that if it's easy in the sense of the cops might know, oh, that's senator so-and-so. This is probably a swatting thing, or hey, that, you know, that's that's so-and-so's house,

that person's on TV a lot or radio a lot. It's probably a swatting thing. But what happens to the person who is not a national figure and is just tweeting, and then the police don't know, and then they go to the house. You know what I mean? So we got to prosecute these people to the fullest extent of the law and use whatever resources to track them down digitally

because a lot of them hide their digital footprints. I don't know if the president's going to address that today, like I said, Department of Justice, but it's a very, very scary situation. It really is. And a lot of this is fueled by the insane rhetoric of the left. Like, for example, Maxine Waters. I think this rhetoric of the left leads to these situations. I am not one who likes to blame speech for the actions of others. However, when you are constantly telling people that we are about to be at war, when you're constantly telling people that Trump is Hitler, this is a distinction I make. We, we as a country,

have been fighting with each other since literally before we signed the Declaration of Independence. You think about tense times in America. Go back to 1775 when people were arguing over whether or not we should declare independence from the king. That was truly America's first Civil War, the Revolutionary War, it really was. And then when we became a country and 1789 rolls around and we start fighting the federalists, the anti-federalists. Do we want a central bank? Do we not want a central bank? I think David made a play about it.

Some guy named Hamilton. His ideas versus Jeffersons and the contrast of that. It's been a conflict of visions to quote Dr. Thomas Sol since the beginning of the Republic. I'm okay with that. And I don't blame rhetoric for the actions of a crazy person. However, I'm going to say this, however, not a but a however, there's a difference. When you were constantly telling people that Trump is Hitler, when you were constantly

telling people that people are propping up Hitler, you're sending a message to them to do something that is a positive, which is to take out Hitler. I mean, you know, they made movies about this. There's a movie called Valkyry with Tom Cruise, where he plays this true story about this German colonel, I believe it was, who tries to lead a plot to kill Adolf Hitler. You would think that that's a good thing. If you had a chance to take out Hitler,

if you go back in time, would you kill Hitler? Almost everybody says yes. The only tricky rub becomes when you're in philosophy class debating killing baby Hitler, which was also a deleted scene from the movie Deadpool, too. and in my opinion, an hysterical scene that they should not have deleted, but they felt it was a little rough. Even that was a little rough because it's a baby. But you tell people, you have to stop Hitler.

You tell people, you've got to stop the people that are empowering Hitler. They think they're on the side of right. They think they're on the side of good. They think they're on the side of stopping evil. That's why that is dangerous. That's why it's different than just your usual garden variety, political rhetoric calling, name calling back and forth stuff we've been doing since the days of the founding fathers calling each other bastards and eight.

atheists and accusing each other of having lots of different kids with bastard sons and daughters. And we did all that. I have no problem with that stuff, but that's different. The Hitler thing is the problem that drives a lot of this because most people agree that if you could go in the Delorean and go back in time and take the shot and kill Hitler and you'd be successful, you'd do it. But then you get into the philosophical debate, of course, of what happens now that you've altered time, and the time space continuum and all that.

and I get that, and that's a whole other topic for another show, but you see my point. You know, would you, if you could have killed Mao, if you could have called Pol Pot, it doesn't have to just be Hitler, just that that's the one they always equate Trump with. You know, would you have done so and saved millions of lives in genocides?

The Marxist, if you could have killed Karl Marx, not Karl Marx, but Joseph Stalin, and you could have saved, you know, the millions of people he killed in the purges, would you have done it? These are true philosophical questions. And the problem is that we're living in a day and age now, where you've got lunatics like Maxine Waters calling Trump, equating him to this,

and saying stuff like this, cut number seven. What does Trump expect? Oh, I believe he expects violence. I believe he expects confrontation. I believe he's working toward a civil war. That's crazy stuff. This is the Dana show, not my show, but it's me, Rich is the only in for Dana. And it's great to be with you on a Friday.

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Is it that or is it health concerns? I mean, I love a good Twinkie. Don't get me wrong, but I think of them as surviving nuclear holocaust. The same thing with Doritos. And my son loves them, but I think we've all kind of realized now they're not good for you. And cigarettes, yeah, I mean, you get guilted into buying them. And they're like 20 bucks a pack now. So I think it might be more of the health thing than anything else.

I don't think it's a sign of bad economic times. Married men are three times as likely to be obese. Study finds the risks of being overweight increased with marriage for both sexes. But obesity link is only founded men. Does that surprise anyone listening to this show? Honestly, is that surprised? No. My wife used to joke with me because when I met her, I used to go to the gym at a trainer.

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And yet somehow we're not, except for Tom Massey, who, by the way, is a great guy and should not be primary. and we need more principal conservatives. He's not a grandstander. He's a principal conservative. And the president would be wise to realize that you want more Tom Massies and more of Chip Roy's, too. You know, the president went after Chip Roy as well. And then Chip Roy was the one out there selling this CR because it gives a power of

impoundment. We need more principal conservatives. That means that it makes our job harder sometimes, so be it. but I don't like this whole notion of let's go after the the principal conservatives and call them grandstanders and try to get them primary. It's not a good thing. It's not a good thing. Then we'll end up with, you know, we'll end up with a congressman right now. There are going to be other moments like this going forward where solidly conservative

principled members of the House or Senate are going to say no to the president, the answer can't be, let's primary them, let's remove them, let's get rid of them. That is not good for anybody. But what's funny to watch, though, is that typically Democrats are all lockstep on things, which is one of the things I like about the Republicans is that there's more disagreement in the ranks. But Democrats are typically always in lockstep. So now that Chuck Schumer has said he's going to come out and vote for the CR, of which it's their CR.

So the only people that should be upset by this are Republicans, like I said, not Democrats. But Republicans are going to do it because the president has said, please do this. I need some time. Please go ahead with the CR. I understand that. Look, I get it, and I've said this on my own show in Philly. I'm not the biggest fan of tariffs. I don't like this CR, but the guy just won a landslide victory.

He won every swing state. He won the popular vote. He won the electoral college. He's a billionaire. It's a successful businessman. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt on the things that I personally don't agree with because I'm going to trust him. That he knows what he's doing.

I'm going to trust the fact that he wants to go down in history is one of the most consequential and beloved presidents. So if he says we're going to do tariffs, okay, you know, you ran on it, you said you would do it. So then, okay. Whether or not I personally agree with it or not is not the point. I'm not president. He ran on this issue. He didn't hide it from the American people.

He didn't say he was anti-tariff and gets in there and then does a 180. So now you give him the chance to do his tariffs and show us why he's going to, he's right. Let us see why his strategy is going to work. And then the second point on this is he has said to the conservatives, look, We got to get our house in order here, but I need time. I just got here. You got to just give me a CR and let's, I know we're kicking the can down the road, but we got to do it for now. Because there's just, it's a mess, all right?

It's a mess and we got to deal with it. Okay, I'm fine with that too. I get it. I understand it. I don't like it, but I get it. All these things take time. He just became president not even two months ago. We're talking 50 days, 50 plus days.

And March 10th was day number 50. but was it the only 50th anniversary of something? The point is this. You can't have a situation where you expect miracles overnight because it's not realistic under a system of government because we designed a Constitution Republic that was designed to move slowly. The founders and the framers of the Constitution

were acutely aware of that. They wanted the process to move slowly. So I'm okay, fine. You want to do a CR, fine. But what I don't get is Democrats, this is your CR. This is we're continuing your spending. We're continuing what you.

and Biden put in place. So we'll do it to give our president a chance here to get the House in order and figure out what has to be cut. It's said, but what are you guys upset about? I don't get this. I don't understand this. This is like, it's today's pie day today, 314. Pie day should be recognizing pizza, in my opinion. Not fruit pie.

Not dessert pie. It should be about pizza pie. It's Friday. It's Lent. Although if you ask me the whole issue about whether or not you can't eat meat on Fridays, look, I'm Italian. I'm a Roman Catholic. And all I can tell you is Vatican's in Rome,

do I think that some Italian fishermen from Naples took a trip up to Rome to ask, you know, a cardinal at one point, Bishop, can we, you know, can we get everybody starting fish on Fridays? Do I think that might have happened? I'm not ruling it out. I'm just not ruling it out.

So I'm going to say, I don't want to get controversial. Tonight we're rolling out anchovies, though. That's controversial. Not for me, not from my perspective. I put anchovies in a clam on a pizza every day. Every day. Because that's what my ancestor, my people.

That's what they did. But my children have yet to be exposed to anchovies, and tonight's going to be the night because I'm making homemade pizza. And, I mean, heads are going to roll in this house. And, but we're doing it anyway. I don't care. And maybe I'll make a clam pie too. Like, maybe I'll tell my wife, go out some clams.

Good clam pie. Right out of Naples, you know what I mean? But the point is this. It's pie day. It's 314. It's a Friday. So you got to make homemade pizza. You got to at least enjoy pizza.

You got to do something like that. But it'd be like you coming over to my house. And I made all this pizza and I refused to eat it. And then I grandstand and I throw it out. And you're like, but you made this pizza. I don't understand. You made this. This is yours.

You did this. Yeah, I refuse to eat this. And now I'm going to call it slap and throw it away. But you did it, Zioli. You made this. You made the dough by hand. You made the cheese by hand. Yes, I do.

You buy mozzarella. curd, a little salt water, boiling salt water, it's wonderful. It's heavenly. It's heavenly. Really is heavenly. And now you're refusing to eat it. And not only that, you're grandstanding and throwing it on the floor and making a spectacle of yourself. The CR bill is the Democrats spending. This is their stuff. I don't get that. I can't figure this out. Here's Schumer going on about what's happening here and why he's now capitulated and going to go along with keeping the government open. I think it's because he understands politically speaking that, yeah, the would get the blame for this the schumer shutdown i understand and i know my buddy johnny cook's listening

right now on x thank you johnny if you'd like to tweet me you can tweet me at rich zoli um yeah typically republicans do get to blame but that's usually when the democrats have the white house and we have we put forward the speaker who everybody to be the voice on this and they're not very good at this trump is a he's a force man and he knows the media better than anybody he knows how to control the cycle the media cycle he will get out there on tv he blest he bles it blame Democrats. He'd hammered Democrats on this. And I truly do believe the American people would blame them, especially because he's coming in. He's still in his honeymoon period. And he won on a landslide, electoral college, popular vote, all seven swing states. I do, I do believe the

Democrats would get the blame for this. And that's why I think John Federman, Pennsylvania Senator John Federman, and I played that on the clip for you yesterday on the show. That's why I think John Federman said what he said. He knows that. They would get the blame for this. So Schumer just gets that. That's all. comes down to. They tried to pick a fight here, and then common sense people also expose the fact that this is your spending bill. Like, this is your spending, guys. Cut two. While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse. For sure, the Republican bill is a terrible option. It is not a clean CR. It is not a clean CR. It is

deeply partisan. It doesn't address far too many of this country's needs. But I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even more, even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option. Okay. So then you're going with it. That's fine. AOC's not happy.

And you're probably going to get a primary challenge from AOC on this. Alexandria Ocasio-C Cortez, who did the, you know, the TikTok. street fighter video was a mortal combat or street fighter i there's some debate on that i think i went back and i played mortal combat on my son switch the other day and you select your fighter so i've pretty sure it's mortal combat but could also be street fighter it doesn't matter they not none of them no but i'm just you know she had that whole zebra background what was up with that why did anybody talk about that when all these goofy democrat women were making that dumb video choose your fighter and They had all their things.

What was with her zebra background? Like, did she kill zebras? Were zebras harmed in the making of that? That's what I want to know. And I really wish we would have a conversation, a national conversation about that zebra background. I get the black lights in there. You know, do you use a, I mean, you got like a lava lamp?

Like, what's going on? They look at a college dorm room. You remember a Congress. It was just weird, that's all. It was just strange to me. Looking at that whole set. I mean, like, what's up? This is your house?

I mean, worse of it was her fiance's house. because that would be even worse, but that wouldn't surprise me. Anyway, here's AOC with Jake Tapper, cut eight. What do you think of the job that Chuck Schumer is doing? Would you ever challenge him, do you think? I think that what we need right now is a United Senate Democratic caucus that can stand up for this country and not vote for cloture and not vote for this bill. And I think that the strength that we have is in this moment.

Reconciliation and all of these Republicans do not need Democratic votes for that. They need it for this. And so the strength of our leadership in this moment is going to demonstrate the strength of our caucus. And I cannot urge enough how bad of an idea it is to empower and enable Donald Trump and Elon Musk in this moment. It is dangerous. You're dodging the question, though. You're dodging the question. I do think you're going to go after Schumer and Primarium.

You probably will. She probably beat them, too. That's the thing. You look at New York State politically. My wife grew up in Tupper Lake, New York, which is in the Adirondex. my dad was a cop, a Port Authority police officer. So my parents were in the Bronx. And then I'm looking at the map of New York State.

New York State is actually a red state if you were to leave out in New York City and parts of the area outside of New York City, Westchester County. But it's a red state. All the way through, it's a red state. The Adirondex, where Elise Daphonic is the member of Congress until she moves over to the U.N., which I assume she's going to be confirmed. at some point. Orange County, all these counties,

it's a solidly red state with New York City in it. So if New York City were to be annexed out, you'd have another red state. But the problem is New York City has got, you're talking about

10 million people, and a lot of people who vote Democrat, obviously, there are many Republicans that vote in New York City, Staten Island, the Upper East Side of Manhattan,

parts of the Bronx, parts of Queens, but it still is not enough to overcome that. and then overcome the people in counties like Westchester County that moved out of New York City, but they're all the people that live in those suburb parts. But do I think AOC can beat him statewide? Yeah, I do.

I really do. I think she could. Chuck Schumer, they can't stand him in the state. I mean, listen to the guy. He also cooks raw burgers and puts a slice of cheese on a perfectly raw burger that's not even on a heated grill. Look, I'm all for a rare cheeseburger. I sent one back last night because I ordered it medium rare.

It came out like a freaking hockey puck. But it can't be raw. You can't start a pandemic, man. Like the COVID pandemic, which is started by a bat burger, an undercooked bat burger with a side of pangolin fries and a raccoon dog aoli. Everybody knows that.

Wasn't a lab leak? Everybody knows that. But Chuck Schumer's going to start a pandemic with that freaking raw burger on his grill, on the grill wasn't even hot. He puts a slice of cheese on it. What are you doing? Are you making beef tart tar?

You're going to make beef tart tart tart. First of all, that's not how you do it. But I think he could lose. I really do think he could lose. I think that he has also lost a lot of the Republicans that used to side with him in New York State because they thought he would deliver for New York. He's also nuts, too.

Remember he went after tide pods? Because he said that they'd be banned because kids were eating tidepods and thousands of children were dying over. Chuck Schumer is the guy that goes after everything. He just finds things. Now is Zin pouches. Zin pouches.

So Zin is a brand of nicotine pouches, not tobacco pouches. They're different. Nicotine is a chemical. There's a lot of benefits to saying it may stimulate your brain. It may fight Alzheimer's. Helps your attention. There's multiple brands, but Zin is one of the more popular ones. Although I think Tucker Carlson has one.

It's called Alp. Either way, he wanted to ban those. Why? He wanted to ban flavored vapes. These things have helped people quit smoking, which everybody acknowledges is bad for you. Cigarette smoking. They've switched from that to using the nicotine pouches, which have no tobacco, and they've switched over to vaping. And they're going to survive now.

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Can't believe Monday is St. Patrick's Day. That's crazy. Wow. That's nuts. It's flowing by. This is, this will be one of those things where we're all going to realize now. We're going to be like, what happened? How did it go by so quickly?

It's just the nature of the day in which we live, I guess. I don't know. It's hard to believe. Like, just yesterday was the inauguration. It seems like it's flying very quickly. But it's a reminder that midterms are going to be here before we know it. And the party in the White House typically does not fare well in midterms. And this is a House of Representatives that is structured in a way right now where it can easily flip back to the Democrats.

Easily. So just keep that in mind because I mean, candidates are already running for re-election in the House Representatives. But also the election for president is going to be here before you know. Even now, candidates are already starting to position themselves for 2028 and doing various different things. We see that with that slime ball Gavin Newsom in his podcast, his dumb podcast,

which, conservatives stop going on his podcast. Please stop normalizing this guy. I beg of you, enough. But it would be interesting, though, if AOC, primary's Chuck Schumer, I think she could beat him, and a Democrat would take that seat, so it's not like the Democrats would lose a seat in the House. But yeah, and then she would run for president. And the question, of course, is could she win?

Let's not forget something. AOC is Bernie Sanders, but better looking. Bernie's 175 years old, but she's the same mindset. Same mindset. And Bernie in 2016 would have been the Democrat nominee. 100%. He would have been the Democrat nominee, had the Democrat Party not stepped in and stopped him from getting the nomination to ensure that Hillary Clinton got the nomination. Democrat Party can control the process because they control superdelegates. It's why the Republican Party was not able to stop Donald Trump, although they tried in 2016. They were not able to stop him because in the Republican Party, super delegates are not a thing. So grassroots delegates are a thing. Democrat Party controls the process from top to bottom. They blocked Bernie in 16. They've blocked Bernie in 16. They've been.

blocked Bernie in 2020. But the question, though, is for 2028, would they try to do that again or they just let a loose cannon like AOC try to get in there? Now, my sense is they would still try to block it because they, the Democrat Party is controlled by so many various complexes now, whether it's the war complex, the pharmaceutical complex, the science complex, whatever complex you want to think of. And they want somebody they can control. They control Hillary Clinton and she was She was a warmonger. Joe Biden, same thing. So they, that's why they blocked Bernie.

They need somebody they can control. But I do think she could beat Chuck Schumer in her primary, no doubt about it. No question in my mind. All right, coming up in the next hour on the Dana show, what is the president going to say to the Department of Justice? It's Rich in for Dana. Don't go away. Preborn. This is a great organization that does so much to help moms and babies, particularly saving babies.

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I know I hate you so much. You're making me late. You're blocking traffic. You do not win hearts and minds doing that. It's the same thing when you take over Trump Tower. You're not going to, what are you going to convince the president to be on your side with this whole issue with this kid? They want to deport the student. Welcome back to the Dana show.

It's great to be with you. It's a Friday afternoon. And it's me, Rich Zioly in for Dana today. Appreciate you being here on Pye Day. So we're getting ready for pizza tonight. No, this issue of deporting this student with the visa. a green card, I should say. His wife is pregnant, and she's a U.S. citizen.

It's a touchy issue. He's entitled to due process under the law because he is, in fact, a legal permanent resident of the United States of America. However, the people that were protesting his deportation yesterday by going to Trump Tower

and acting like crazy people, this is not, you're not going to win over people to your thinking. I don't know who advises them. I think, somebody asked me the question earlier about all these agitators.

You go to, town hall meetings and they do this stuff. There are subchains that there's a site called Reddit. You can go on there. There's all these things about getting paid to do this. They hire people. They do. George Soros and Act Blue and a bunch of these other organizations,

they pay people to go out there and disrupt, to be paid disruptors. And they don't have jobs, so they're more than happy to take the money and do it. That's where a lot of this is fueled from. Some of these people are passionate. I'm not saying that they're all like that. I think a lot of these people are obviously very passionate about their cause, but not all of them. But when you're doing this and you're, you're, you're, protesting at Trump Tower, who are you winning over? This is the, ultimately the decision of the

president of the United States vis-a-vis the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. If it were me, I'd say, bring out the pregnant American citizen wife, let her do a bunch of press conferences and go on all the shows and do it that way. You don't, they don't go in a Trump Tower and, and cause disruption and look like lunatics getting dragged up by the NYPD. It's the same thing with people that shut down the school hole when I'm driving home from work in Philadelphia when I can't drive at the moment because I had a foot injury.

But the same thing. You make me late for my commute. You make me late for picking up my kids. You make me late for whatever it. I hate you. I don't care what your cause is. I'm against it. Whatever it is, I now hate you and your cause.

Even if five minutes ago I was on your side. You don't win hearts and minds that way. Here are the Trump Tower protesters yesterday. Cut 14. Yeah, Trump's looking at that going, what do they want me to do? They think I'm going to come on their side. I'm trying to get rid of crazy people. I'm trying to kick crazy people out of the country.

They just proved why I'm trying to do what I'm doing. They just prove what I'm attempting to achieve here, which is to get rid of crazy people. Now, look, this guy's going to have his day in court. In the meantime, though, he is in a situation like a lot of Americans are, awaiting his day in court, being held in a jail cell. It's not pretty, it's not fun. There are American citizens who are in jail cells right now.

There are a lot of people who were at on the Capitol on January 6th who were also held in jail cells without access to their attorneys. Everybody should have access to counsel. Everybody should be given access to their attorney. Everybody should. But look, the reality of the situation

is that unless you are a flight risk or a real imminent danger to the community, everybody should be released on bail. But there are different circumstances under our immigration law than under criminal law in the United States of America. But I don't know how many people on the left

were whining about January 6 protesters and people who were taking selfies in the hall of the retund of the Capitol and using the bathroom, who were literally detained without access to counsel, some in solitary confinement. There are,

American citizens being held in solitary confinement in our criminal justice system. You don't hear about it that often. There are mothers who are not allowed to hug their babies and their children because certain prison systems don't allow contact. Because, you know, the kid may be smuggling a gun or something, I guess. I don't know. But that's, in my mind, it's cruel to the kids. It's cruel to the mother.

But you don't hear about that stuff. It's like the family separation stuff when they talk about families being separated at the border. Here's a news flash. If you get arrested for a crime, you are separated from your family. Your kids don't go to prison with you. In the United, they don't. They don't.

You are arrested for a crime and found guilty. You go to prison. Your kids can visit, but they don't get to spend in the cell with you. So we have family separation in this country every day. It's called the justice system. It's just interesting to be what causes they choose to make a cause to lebe over and what they don't. You know, it's really strange to me how they do this.

And I'm not so sure that making. this kid, this student at Columbia, the face of this works out well for them. And the reason why I think that is because say what you want about Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo, the Love Gov, the nursing home killer, smart guy. Politically, he's staying far away from this. And politically, he's going out there and saying these Jewish students have a right to exist and go to their colleges and not have to deal with this kind of anti-Semitism. He's a smart guy, Cuomo.

I'm telling you, I can tell you, I can tell you, don't like his politics, but he's a lot more moderate in this day and age than the whack jobs on the left. I mean, he's the nursing home killer. He should be held accountable for what he did with the nursing homes in New York State. But he's better than Gavin Newsom with his policies. Not much better, but a little bit better. But compared to like lunatics like AOC and others, you look like Cuomo's goal here is to come across as the moderate guy, the sensible guy, the guy in the middle. So he's, he's not touching this whole thing with this Mahmood Khalil guy. He knows this is not a winner for them.

Like I said, if you wanted to get hearts and minds, you'd roll out the pregnant American citizen wife, and you'd have her on every show, and she'd be out there, and you'd be trying to win people to the cause that way. But all you do, and you have crazy people take over Trump Tower, and then the demonstrations on Columbia and everything else is prove the president's point. We have to get rid of people like this in our country. And it's funny, is I've polled a lot of people who are, I consider more, libertarian leaning and they're like, nah, I don't care, deport the kid.

He doesn't have constitutional right to be here. It's like, yeah, I mean, he doesn't. You know, the law is pretty clear. They can kick out anybody they want. If you're not a United States citizen, you get a modicum of due process depending on your level, but you don't have a right to be in this country.

And I always say it's just a simple common sense test. You're a guest in someone's country. It'd be like me going to Italy and holding protests and riots demanding pineapple on peace. They'll boot me out of there, even though I could be an Italian citizen because my grandpa was born in Kaivano, Italy. They'll boot me out of there in a heartbeat. Anyway, here is what, let's see, Mahmood Khalil's attorney said regarding this situation right now, cut 13.

This is all about the First Amendment, and it's all about due process. You know, they have, they kidnapped this man, this young student, father to be in any minute now. based on an accusation that he has the wrong political ideas and he has expressed them. Okay. First of all, every single person who gets arrested, if you want to use that argument, is technically kidnapped. Nobody really wants to get arrested and be put into jail. That's why they do the whole thing with put your hands up. They put you in handcuffs.

They put you in the back of a police car. The door doesn't open. This is what we've never seen a movie? I mean, if you want to make that argument, technically everybody who's arrested is kidnapped by the state or by the federal government. I'll just use the state in the sense of the government. Nobody looks to get arrested. So, well, it's not true. Some people do.

Like Red in Shawshank Redemption. He wanted to go back in. No, not Red, the other guy. He wanted to go back in. I mean, some people can't make it outside of the jail system. But for the most part, when the state comes and they accuse you of a crime and they take you typically against your will, you go, you don't resist, but you don't want to go. And then, especially if it's on a Friday,

you gotta wait until Monday to see a judge. So they're kidnapped you, they're holding you against your will, but yeah, that's, that's what happens. Now the First Amendment issue, this is where the government has to prove the point before the judge that this is beyond just simply the First Amendment

and freedom of speech. The reason why I say that is because I don't want to create a dangerous precedent in this country where we start, deporting people based on their views and their beliefs, I would like the bar to be action. Even if that action causes unrest, I'm fine with that.

I mean, even if it's just that causes, you got to give me something more than just simple speech or thoughts or views or beliefs, because I know that that will come back and bite us in the future. No doubt about it. If a president, AOC is in there, do I see her deporting Israeli students or Israeli legal permanent residence?

the United States of America because she's saying they're advocating for genocide against the Palestinian people 100%. Absolutely, I do. And she would be within her rights under the law, just like the Trump administration is well within their rights under the law to deport people based on their views. I mean, it's just, that's it. That's it. That's how it goes. For better for worse, that's how it goes. This is what the vice president, J.D. Vance had to say on the issue cut number 12. Green card holder, even if I might like that green card holder, doesn't have an indefinite right to be in the United States of America, right? American citizens have different rights from people who have green cards, from people who have student visas.

And so my attitude on this is this is not fundamentally about free speech. And to me, yes, it's about national security, but it's also more importantly about who do we as an American public decide gets to join our national community. And if the Secretary of State and the president decide this person shouldn't be in America, have no legal right to stay here. It's as simple as that. Yeah, we as a country also get to choose that. It's a very valid point. We get to choose who we want in this country. We get to make that decision. That is an American prerogative. You think about Germany, for example, where you had Angela Merkel, Angela Merkel led in millions of Muslim immigrants into her country. A lot of European countries have done this, and they've drastically changed the character of their countries.

So yeah, the United States of America does have a legitimate interest in saying, we want this person, we don't want that person. It's kind of like picking a team. We don't have to take anybody on this team. We don't have to let anybody in. There's no one outside of the United States of America in terms of citizenship has a right to be in this country. There is no constitutional right that says you have a right to come to the United States of America if you're not a United States citizen and be part of the United States of America

because the Constitution wouldn't apply to that person anyway since they're not a U.S. citizen. Citizenship matters. It always has. It's why the earliest days of the Republic, we were very acutely aware of the fact that we could have foreign countries trying to infiltrate our country. This is part of Jefferson's argument for Manifest Destiny. Part of the argument for the Louisiana purchase was national security, the idea that we

have to maintain an American character and that we have to watch out from foreign influence. So, yeah, we do have a right to do all those things. We have a right to preserve our culture, and we have a right to say we think that person's a pain in the ass, and we don't want them here. The problem is that whoever's in charge and decides what that means to be a pain in the tookus changes based on who's in power, and that's what you have to be careful of. Which is why these things have to be done diligently and done the right way, because what who J.D. Vance views as antithetical to America's character, who J.D. Vance views as a pain in the neck to American society, I happen to agree with him. But that doesn't mean that I'll agree with the next president who views somebody that way. It could be somebody who is a Russian student or a Russian citizen here on a legal permanent green card, who they say is too pro-Trump and is trying to overthrow America.

And if Elon Musk were not a U.S. citizen and the Democrats were in charge, they'd be trying to send them back to South Africa right now. So, yeah, all these things have to be diligent. But honestly, their actions right now are. demonstrating to a lot of Americans why you're not getting an outpouring of support for this guy. You're just not. And you're not going to. Not as long as they keep up this behavior.

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interview together because Gal Godot is from Israel and she's very very much pro Israeli and Zegler put on on X last year free Palestine and in all these interviews she went on there blaming Israel for all these quote senseless deaths so more problems for Snow White which is supposed to come out next week Good luck with that. I refused, this woman says. I refused to give up my seat to a flying toddler, to a toddler on a plane, and it went viral because somebody filmed me,

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Let's be honest. They just don't want to give Donald Trump a win. But it's their money. It's their spending. There's nothing here that's changed. But I want to share this clip with you. This is now Secretary Scott Bessent, who is the Secretary of the Treasury, the United States of America. maybe this explains what the bigger picture is and what we're all hoping happens here

and why they wanted to have just a CR for now. And yeah, is it kicking the can down the road? Yes, but it's not they're not doing it because they're procrastinating. They're doing it because they're focused on doing all these other things that have to be done in the short term. And it's just difficult to get Congress on board right now. And I understand the game plan. I'm okay with the game plan.

I'm willing to give the time. I'm willing to give it a chance. Let's see how this all works out. I don't love the fact that we have a CR. Nobody does. But let's take the time to get it right. Okay, I'm in. Cut one.

We're trying to bring down this spending, and we're determined to do that. We're trying to right-size the federal government. We are committed to that. As I mentioned, we've gotten oil prices down. Secretary Rollins, had a very good plan to get egg prices down. So the media kind of touted it when they were going up, but now they're down 25% from the peak,

and we don't hear much about that. So it's kind of at all hands on deck, all areas of government, that we are trying to do that. Okay, I get it. And the price of oil coming down is huge. That's a really big deal. Obviously, it's a very, very big deal. What Doge is doing is a big deal.

No doubt about it. But you see, the Democrats just don't want to give Trump a win. That's the bottom line. So here's a little montage for you of Democrats melting out over, melting down over the CR. Again, this is their spending. This is what they approved themselves. We're just continuing it.

It's just a continuation of what the Democrats were spending. So I don't know what the heck they're melting down over. We should be theoretically melting down. But we're not because we're giving the president a chance here. Cut five. I cannot support giving them a license to destroy, nor that surrenders or capitulates what I swore an oath to do, which is uphold the Constitution. It is one thing for those who aspire to dictatorship to take power.

It is another to knowingly give it to him. And they've already proven that instead of governing responsibly, they've been reckless, causing chaos, confusion. They've been reckless, yeah, with the money that you put out there, your money. And then, you know, the thing about Schumer is that the reason why, part of the reason why I think AOC could beat him in a primary is because the liberals will all go for, no question about it. But moderate Democrats, I think, have had it with this guy. I really do. I think, I think, there's not a lot of moderate Democrats in New York State left, let's be honest, but they're just tired of him.

He's been there forever. And, you know, he's, when you're the majority leader, that's one thing. That's a lot of power. But it's kind of like Mitch McConnell. Everybody has their time. Everybody has their day here. And I think for McConnell, it was a long time ago when he, you know, thank him for getting us the judges, the justices through on the Supreme Court so that they could overturn Roe v. Wade, restore originalism back to the Supreme Court.

But by Mitch, like your time has come and gone. Thank you. Time to move on. I think from the Democrats' perspective for Chuck Schumer, hey, you're a majority leader. You brought a lot of money back to New York. You're not majority leader anymore. Time to go. And then he starts calling people names, which you always know that you got somebody on the ropes when they start calling people names. Cut number three. To have the conflict on the on the best ground we have summed up in a sentence that they're making the middle class pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

It's much, much better not to be in the middle of a shutdown, which to divert people from the number one issue we have against these bastards, sorry, these people, which is not only all these cuts, but they're ruining democracy. They're ruining democracy. Got it? They're ruining democracy. Just so you know. Now, he said, you know, listen, I knew people were going to disagree with me, but a shutdown would be the greatest disaster that we face. But that's not what you said 15 minutes ago, Chuck, that's the problem.

You went out there as the leader of your party, you're the highest elected official in Congress, and you went out there like a lunatic jitting up all this opposition to it, and then you change your mind. of course people are going to be upset with you for that. That's Politics 101. Dummy? Cut four. Do they have it wrong? I supported what the House did to vote against this bill universally. But that didn't cause a shutdown.

It's different in the Senate. And I knew people were going to disagree with me, but I felt so strongly that the shutdown would be the greatest disaster we face with these arrogant, arrogant autocrats that we had to avoid the shutdown and fight. on many of the other things, every other issue that we have. And he's arrogant, arrogant, arrogant autocrats. Arrogent, arrogant autocrats, by the way, was my Van Halen Cover Band name in college.

We are arrogant, arrogant autocrats. Senator Cory Booker, who you know is Spartacus. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, I call him Count Grant Stangula, Spartacus Booker and the Tears of Rage Band, because this guy is such an absolute grandstander. Actually, Corey Booker has had an interesting political story. He used to be my favorite Democrat.

He was. He ran for mayor of Newark, New Jersey. He ran on school choice. He ran on giving children opportunity, creating charter schools. The minute that guy saw statewide and national ambition. He sold out to the teachers union, just like Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is doing, abandoned school choice, abandoned charter schools,

did exactly what the teachers union wanted, and then he just became a grandstanding nut. And he had real potential. He did. He had real potential. He was at one point everybody's favorite Democrat. Republicans loved him. Everybody went to Newark to help him win.

He was running at the time against this guy named Sharp James, who wound up going to prison because he was so damn corrupt. But, yeah, Republicans were working in Newark to help Corey Booker get elected at one point. I was working in the New Jersey governor's office at the time for Don DeFrancco, who was the acting governor after Christy Todd Whitless, that sellout went over to the EPA. And yeah, all my friends would go up to Newark on weekends and help Cory Booker. So how far he's come? Because he's a grandstanding, grandstanding grandstander. And this is what he said, cut number six.

This is saying, let's just give up even more of our constitutional authority because, hey, he can do. a lot worse later on. And so to me, that's capitulating to someone who's already showing that he's reckless and willing to do a lot of destruction. We are in a perverse bizarro land where we're having to decide between letting Donald Trump wreck the government this way or wreck the government that way. So at what point do you say I'm going to stand in fight? If you guys want it, I don't know. Is this your Spartacus moment? Part two. Spartacus moment redo? That's the question. I think I think Congressman Chip Roy put it best on why on why these Democrats are in such a pickle on this whole thing.

A, it's their spending. But B, it's going to give Donald Trump a win. They don't like it. Because really, Trump could have come out and told their party, we got to fight this and they could have had a big war over this and they could have. But no, he got everybody with the exception of Tom Massey to vote for it. And I have great respect for Tom Massey.

I'm not going to pick on him. I'll defend Tom Massey all day long. But he got everybody in the House except for Tom Massey to go along with it. That's a big deal. That's a big win. To muster up that kind of political support in the House of Representatives among conservatives, and you're dealing with 25 or so Freedom Caucus members who really had to hold their nose for this is a big political victory. There's no other way to describe it than that. Cut number 10. Chuck Schumer, he's in a box because the Republicans let on this.

We made very clear that we wanted to make sure we wanted to allow Elon Doge, the president, Russ, vote, to do their hard work of identifying all the waste fraud and abuse in government that Democrats have been funding for all these years. Schumer was blustering. He was saying, oh, we're not going to do this. We're going to shut it down. We knew they couldn't do that because the end of the day, they were stuck between empowering the president and Russ vote to determine who the essential employees are and going through

and doing what needed to be done if they shut down or continuing to empower Elon and the president to do what they're doing through Doge. Yeah, I mean, Chip Roy is as conservative as you get. As conservatives, you get. So if Sheproy's saying that, then, okay, you got me. I'm in. I'll give you the chance. Do it.

Let's get it done. Senator John Thune, who is the majority leader in the Senate, is pointing out correctly that the left continues to appeal to the wackos in their party, which is basically their party at this point. If you run as a moderate, you're running as an outlier in the Democrat Party. Think about that. Cut number nine. But this is why they lost the last election.

It's these far-left policies, the far-left rhetoric, and appealing to a small corner of the electorate instead of working for the good of the american people and there's a lot of of revisionist history right now going on among democrats and senate i've heard a lot of them on the floor and an interviews talking about how we got here we got here because they didn't do the work last week last year we are cleaning up their mess and we'll get this done and then we'll turn and pivot and start focusing on fiscal year 26 and the president's agenda well september which includes reconciliation and tax cuts yeah let's let's do it let's make it happen Or let's just protest, shall we? Let's protest.

Let's just go after Tesla dealers and firebomb Tesla dealers. Pam Bondi announcing that they have an indictment in that case. I shared that with you earlier in the show. But you've got the media all week has been suggesting that this is just the resistance. Like it's a Star Wars show. Cut 16. Like if you, you know, are attacking Teslas or dealerships, going beyond vandalism, that that could be an act of domestic tech.

terrorism. But I do want to ask about this as resistance. Is this what resistance should look like? Yeah, no, definitely. Yeah, firebombing car dealerships, definitely. Yeah, keep going with that. Keep doing it. You'll definitely win hearts and minds of the American people, you morons. Absolutely. But a lot of this is organized. As I mentioned to you, there are groups out there that fund these people to go and protest and go to town hall meetings. This is not organic. I was part of the Tea Party movement back in the day. That was organic. This stuff is not organic. This stuff is orchestrated. You've got very powerful people, villains, true villains, who are funding all this.

No question about it. No doubt in my mind about it. And here's Scott Jennings from CNN talking about the chaos at the North Carolina GOP Town Hall. And there's these town hall meetings all across the country where this happens, where these people show up. And these are paid agitators, 100%. Cut 17. Roywood Jr., the host of People's Pain. The Republicans always cut.

You don't think Republicans were prepared for unhinged liberal mobs? We've been dealing with this since Donald Trump won in 2016. These are veterans. I watched a little bit. I looked at the questions. Why is he shredding the Constitution? Why is he shredding the Constitution? Putin is.

That one guy had to be escorted out. He was so unhinged. That was that guy. This is an unrepresentative. Scott, if they, it's a mob. It is a mob, but it's orchestrated and it's paid for. And here's a liberal plant reading talking points at that same, town hall meeting we're talking about. This is, it was representative Chuck Edwards in North

Carolina. Here, they distribute the talking points. They all go out and say the same things. This is what they do. It's orchestrated. It's not organic. Cut 18. Okay. So I'm trying to, I'm trying to get your opinion on this as a yes or no. Do you support Trump on anything, Canada or Greenland? And do you, do you like the way he treats the premier or the president of Canada, calling him governor. Is that the way you do as a diplomat? Is that the way, is that the way the United States should act to our closest neighbors? Aw, all we've done is save Justin Trudeau's political career.

You realize that, right? I mean, he was out, and now he's at a resurgence. So if anything, Trump's done Trudeau a favor. Trudeau was toast. And he was on his way back to Cuba. Well, allegedly, Fidel Castro, some people think Fidel Castro is his father. Am I saying that?

No, of course not. Am I saying that he looks a lot like Fidel Castro and acts like Fidel Castro, like as a tyrant? Yes. Absolutely. Did his mom play naked twister with Fidel Castro back in the day in Cuba? Yes, yes, yes, she did. Does Justin Trudeau look anything like his father?

Pierre Trudeau? No, no, not even close. I look more like Pierre Trudeau. But we've said, we have managed. to give this guy a resurgence. And maybe that's actually also part of Trump's long-term plan, because if, say, Pierre Polivir got in there, he'd be a much more formidable opponent

for the United States of America than Justin Trudeau is. Truly, I mean, no doubt about it. He's a smart, sharp guy. He puts this country first. He's conservative, but he's the Trump of Canada. I don't think Trump wants to deal with the Trump of Canada. I think he wants to deal with Justin Trudeau. Because Trudeau is not strong.

He's weak. And the thing about Canadian politics is you could be down last week, you're up this week, you could be down again next week. So it's not a big deal. It's not like we've given the guy another four years here. He could still be out by the summer. But for the moment at least, little Justin, little Fidel is okay for the moment in time. He's going to be okay.

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It's time for Florida Man. You know, I love a good alligator story, and it seems like every time we do Florida Man these days, we have one. So this is good. Huge alligator surprises pizza delivery man on a Florida street. Quiet night in Bradenton, Florida, an eight-foot-long wandering alligator became a center of attention. The question, of course, is,

did the guy try to give the alligator any of the delicious pizza? Because the pizza delivery man kept asking about the delivery, where's my pizza, where's my pizza? And they found the pizza, got the cash for the delivery man, and nobody was harmed in the making of this alligator story in Florida. But there you go. You know, if you're giving the alligator pizza, everything would have been fine. As long as didn't have pineapple on it. Just saying.

A Florida man is accused of setting fire to a strip club. Why? Why would you do that? I don't understand. The officer said they received a handgun from the suspect. He set it on fire. He threw a bottle of urine at police as well. I don't know what this guy's motivation is exactly, but apparently he looks like from the picture,

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Dana likesgold.com. And Dana will be back next week. In the meantime, you're stuck with me for one more hour. It's Rich Zioli from Talk Radio 1210 WPHT in Philadelphia, where I host the afternoon drive show 3 to 7 p.m. every day. You can listen on the Odyssey app. I appreciate you being here. Thank you for joining us. Senate Democrats are there. It's an open war right now after Chuck Schumer said he's going to support the CR. It's an open, open war in a battle, and it's fun to watch. It really is.

It's adorable. It really is adorable to watch as they eat their own. Typically, Republicans do this, not Democrats, but here we are. The president is going to speak at 3 o'clock today at the United States Department of Justice, joined with the Attorney General M. Pam Bondi. I don't know if the president will address or they will address the recent swathes. incidences that have happened to conservatives across the country. I opened the show with that today.

They will talk about sanctuary cities, though. And I have a sense that the big part of what they're going to talk about is new ways to go after sanctuary cities. So what is a sanctuary city in America? Sanctuary city, as you know, is when the local law enforcement does not cooperate with the feds when it comes to criminals in their jail. And so you're talking about somebody who's in the system, somebody who's in jail, somebody who's actually literally a criminal arrested, and that's how ICE knows the person's there.

ICE doesn't have ESP. If the cops in Boston pick up somebody, he's entered into the system, and that person is on a detainer list, it gets flagged by ICE. ICE calls up the local jail, the sheriff whoever, and says, hey, we want to come pick this guy up.

In a sanctuary city, they hang up the phone. And why would you do that? Why would you want to keep bad guys and put them back on your streets. I don't understand. Nobody understands that. I think by implying sanctuary, you think of the old days

when used to run into a church, you know, get sanctuary or something like that. We're not talking about people that are not bothering anybody, just going about their day, minding their own business. Or as Representative, Jasmine Crockett put it,

you know, picking crops and cleaning hotel rooms. Well, that's what she said. No, that's what Democrat, representative jasmine crockett said you don't believe me well here's the audio of that cut 26 many of you are sending your kids to college to go and work on there okay well guess who is working the farms so that you can afford your food that you can have food so that you can have food now how many of you are looking to send your kids into hospitality after this college education so they can go and make the

beds at the hotels how many of you are planning to send your kids to college because that's what we do here and everybody got you. How many of you are planning to send your kids to college so that they can then go and build these houses? So the reality is that so long as we live

at a capitalist society, there's always going to be someone or a group of people that will do work that someone or the rest of y'all don't want to do. First of all, beyond the fact that's just racist

in general and stereotypical, it's also so insulting to working class people in this country who actually do build houses. There's a lot of them that build houses, and there's a lot of working class people in this country that, yes, clean hotel rooms. I have news for you, but if you live in, say, the state of Hawaii, all right, one of the most expensive states to live in in the country, if not the most expensive, you work at a resort. That's their primary industry in Hawaii is tourism. So yeah,

the people that clean rooms in Hawaii are citizens of the United States of America, who happen to live in and probably can't afford anymore to live in that state. But that's where they work. They work in that industry. But leaving all that aside, it shows you how also out of touch to the left is where they talk about, how may y'all send your kids to college? First of all, she doesn't actually talk like that. That's not her real accent.

She puts on a fake accent, Jasmine Crockett, to sound real in the streets or whatever. But how many y'all send your kids to college? See, it's that elitism again. You're sending your kids to college so they don't have to do anything with their hands. pick crops. You know, people that pick crops are called farmers. They're called farmers. And there's a lot of people in this country who are farmers, work on farms. Believe it or not, they're American citizens. So there's that aspect of being completely out of touch with this. But the other point of this, too, is sanctuary cities are not about protecting people who are

picking crops and cleaning hotel rooms. It's about protecting people who are in jail because that's how ICE knows that they're there. And so these sanctuary cities are providing cover. and we shouldn't even really call them sanctuary cities. It's a bad term. It's a bad, I don't like it. I think we should call them cities that are aiding and abetting fugitives of justice because that's what happens.

Look, if a guy's wanted by the feds, and he comes to your house, and you give him safe harbor, and then the fed's not on your door, call you and say, hey, by any chance, do you have whoever it is there? You know, just say, do you have Fred there? We have a warrant for Fred, and you say no,

or you hang up the phone, or you refuse to cooperate, or you tell Fred had to sneak out of the house and go back in it. You've now aided and abetted a fugitive. Can you explain to me how it's any different on the sanctuary, quote unquote, sanctuary city level? I understand that under our system of federalism, the state does not have to do the federal law enforcement function and the feds don't have to do state law enforcement function,

but at the same time, to give safe harbor to a criminal who's wanted by the feds, that's against the law. You can't do that. We can't do that. So how come the city of Boston or Philadelphia or Denver or wherever, or wherever else, how come they're allowed to do that and get away with it? I understand. If they don't want to have their local cops deal with giving that person over to ICE,

I understand that, but if ICE says, hey, we got, we want this person, we're going to come pick him up. Even if, even if they say, okay, well, we're releasing him tomorrow at 1 p.m., and then ICE shows up and they're waiting outside the courthouse at 1 p.m. or the jail cell, wherever it is, yeah, that's understandable. That's what you would do. But in this case, now they just hang up the phone. they don't cooperate. So that's giving,

you're aiding and abetting a fugitive of justice. So yeah, they need to go after these sanctuary cities. It's insane to be that they do this. And the people that live in the cities, guess what? They don't want these sanctuary cities. They don't want this. They want these criminals off their streets. They want the criminals off their streets.

Now, the Democrat Civil War that's going on right now just escalated as the vampiric one, Nancy Pelosi, has come out and said she does not agree with Chuck Schumer on the continuing resolution. Hakeem Jeffries, who is the minority leader in the House of Representatives, was asked the question, have you lost confidence in Chuck Schumer cut 28? Holds to this bill. Leader Jeffreys, Senator Chuck Schumer is from your state.

He clearly is a different view of this than you. He is not saying, let's go back to the negotiating cable. He's saying, let's take this vote. So have you lost confidence? in him the fact that you guys see this so differently. Next question. Let me go back to my colleague's question. Can you clarify what you mean by showdown versus shutdown?

Next question. I'm not going to comment on Chuck Schumer, but Nancy Pelosi did. And she came out and she's very, very upset by this. She's very upset by this, the vampire quote Nancy Pelosi, according to a townhall.com. Pelosi's statement on the government funding bill in the Senate. Speaker emeritus Nancy Pelosi issued the following. First of all, it's not a real. That's a ceremonial nickname.

You're really putting that into your press release? Man, these people have gigantic egos, are they not? Donald Champ and Elon Musk have offered the Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a blank check that makes a devastating assault on the well-being of working families across America. Let me be clear. Neither is a good option for the American people, but this false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable.

I salute leader Hakeem Jeffries for his courageous rejection of this false choice, and I am proud of my colleagues in the House Democratic Caucus for their overwhelming vote against the bill. She has a vampire, it's true. And this is why every intern season, there's not many virgins on Capitol Hill, but if there is a virgin in an intern class, that person usually disappears and winds up becoming.

That's the rumor. I don't know if it's true or not, but that's what I've heard. Democratic senators, she listened to this woman. Appropriations leader, Rosa DeLoro. Oh, she's the hottie with the purple hair. Oh, she's a smoke show. She's like 97 years old, I think. She was scowling during Trump's joint address to Congress.

If you looked over with a purple-haired crazy old woman scowling, that's Representative Rosa DeLauro. And Patty Murray have eloquently presented the case that we must have a better choice, a four-week funding extension to keep government open and negotiated bipartisan agreement. America has experienced a Trump shutdown before, but this damaging legislation only makes matters worse. Democrats must not buy into this false choice. We must fight back for a better way.

listen to the women for the people. For the children. So she's having a belt down. AOC is having a meltdown. It's not good. Pardon me. It's not good for the Democrats right now. They are just looking like this is a total train wreck.

And I guess the only question, as we all sit back and laugh at this, is how much worse is this going to get for them? You know, James Carville came out a little while ago. and said the Democrats are breaking all the rules by the way they're going after Trump and all their antics and all the other crazy things that they're doing, they're breaking all the rules on this. This is not the way it's supposed to be. This is not how it's supposed to be in terms of pushing back. They look like fools. Remember during the 2024 election when they were looking at who Kamala Harris was going to pick

as a running mate? Several names came forward, one of them, of course, being Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. They couldn't pick him because he was Jewish and there's too many people. people that hate, they hate Jews in the Democrat Party. It's bottom line. There's a lot of anti-Semitism in that party. So they didn't pick him. They talked about picking Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.

They said, well, the guy's an astronaut. He's a hero. He was in the military. He's exactly what we need. A boring white guy. Well, he's going to show Elon Musk once and for all. He's going to set Elon Musk straight. Cut 27.

So have a really hard time driving around. on this thing. So I think it's time for an upgrade today. So this is going to be my last, last trip in this car. There are some things I really liked about it. There are things I didn't like about it, but that doesn't matter. What matters is, you know, doing the right thing. I think it's time to get rid of it. You know, Elon Musk kind of turned out to be an asshole. And I don't want to be driving the car built and designed by an asshole. So looking forward to And that's what the actor Jason Bateman said too. He said he was selling his Tesla because the entire thing was like a giant MAGA sticker.

So the people that one time used to brag and virtue signal that they were driving Teslas are now getting rid of them because they don't want to drive the HateMobile. The HateMobile. No, really, there was this guy on X the other day called with that, the HateMobile. Dunna, nah, nah, nah, nah, Batman to the HateMobile. It's the day in a show. We've got a lot to chat about before we can wrap up today. It's a busy afternoon. President Pam Bondi and FBI Director, Cash Patel,

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guilty of wait for it slavery that's right united nations judge convicted on thursday of trafficking a young woman to the united kingdom and forcing her to work as a slave a ugandan judge lydia mugambay forty nine years old found guilty of human trafficking and slavery it just kind of don't see hear that every day um a ucf fraternity allegedly hit their pledges with cars in a hazing incident police say. Sigma Kai at University of Central Florida, they were hitting their pledges with cars. It just reminds me that's seen in Animal House, so they go, they can't do that to our pledges? Yeah, only we can do that to our pledges. Hazing's no joke. Somebody broke a shoulder bone or something like that. So that house would probably get kicked off campus, I would imagine.

Warren Buffett's latest move is sending an ominous warning about the state of the housing market. We still are at a time right now where there's just not enough inventory in the market and people that want to buy a house. houses, can't buy houses, but Warren Buffett is likely selling his real estate empire. He has a big brokerage and it is now being sold. Compass, the largest real estate brokerage in the country, is in advanced talks to acquire Berkshire Hathaway's Home Services of America. Compass is my, well, actually, full of disclosure, my wife used to work for them. They're a very up-and-coming company, but the fact that Buffett is getting out of a real

state business probably says a lot more than you think. I know a lot of people who were agents, my wife being one of them, who just decided that they wanted to get out of it. So that's very interesting. And speaking to the housing market, if you were looking to buy a house in New Jersey, it might be a good time for you because they keep having all these bottles of whiskey still washing up on the shore. It sounds like I talked about this yesterday and it happened another story today. Whiskey bottles believed to be from the prohibition era, washing up on the Jersey short. This stuff's worth a ton of cash, by the way. This is worth a lot of money. If you're lucky enough to get your hands on this stuff, well, A, drink it, then refill it with

iced tea and then try to sell it. I'm kidding. But no, this is a lot of stuff. And the other questions, too, that some people are wondering regarding all this is whether or not there's going to be a situation where in Robert of Kennedy's world, will people start having soda being stored up? So they'll come back and find a night. A 2025 vintage bottle of mountain dew, because that's going to probably wind up becoming illegal if Robert Fettie Jr. has his way. Well, I don't know if he really will ban soda, but certainly a lot of people are trying to stay away from drinking all that stuff. And, you know, the other thing, too, is that there's a new thing now with cloning of key fobs.

So high-tech car thieves are cloning keyfobs to steal newer vehicles. Remember in the old days, you used to get the club put on your steering wheel so they couldn't drive. Well, those days are gone. And then they would try to get your keys and copy them. Well, what's happening right now is that people are going in, they're taking those little key fobs that you give, they're getting them copied, and then using them to steal cars. I know. It's very high-tech, so just be careful about that.

And many times this often happens, believe it or not, when you drop your car off at the valet. So there's that. And finally, if you're wondering about the new Superman trailer, they're saying April 1st. It'll be unveiled at Comic-Con. I personally am looking forward to that because Well, not only am I a nerd, but my son and I bond over superhero movies.

And I've been disappointed with everything Marvel's put out in the last several years. So I've got, I'm hoping, I'm hoping. Nobody's ever going to top Christopher Reeve. He was the goat. He was the greatest. He really, really was. But I got high hopes for this anyway. It's a day of show coming up.

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Thank you, Steve. And that is really what the Democrats are doing right now, which is flirting with absolute political disaster, no doubt about it, as they continue their own internal civil war right now over the CR, but also to just broadly, nationally right now, just looking nutty in every single way. I mean, just looking nuts. I mean, even Carville coming out and criticizing them for how they're acting and how they're looking. And they just look like a bunch of fools.

They look like a bunch. There's no other way to put it. They're looking a bunch of nuts. Okay, so I wanted to talk about that as the show goes on today. But I also thought it was really important to discuss something else that's happening right now. You know, the president's going to go to the Department of Justice. He's going to have this big press conference at a little bit after 3 o'clock today with the Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi and with the FBI Director Cash Patel.

I want to find out about the Epstein files. I really do. I'm really anxious about this. I'm, I want to, I want to do it, I want to do it right. I want to get this done right. I want to get all the answers out there. I had a congressman from Pennsylvania on my show the other day. His name is Congressman Scott Perry.

And he's a great guy. And he's on the Intelligence Committee. And I asked him about the Epstein files. And he said to me, he said, look, you know, the bottom line is this. he said if Jeffrey Epstein was an asset of the intelligence community, why were they using this guy? Why would they use him? I don't understand this.

He's a pervert. He's a pedophile. He was going after young kids and young girl, maybe not a pedophile in the sense of going after like really young kids, but he was under the laws of what would define somebody as a pedophile, of going somebody under the age of consent, certainly. And he was bringing powerful, people down there to Lolita Island. And what was up with that? Why did we do it with this guy?

What was the point of this? What did we get out of this? And I'd like to know, because I think Jeffrey Epstein, by all accounts, probably was an intelligence asset. Remember that time? He had an apartment in New York City, and the FBI raided the apartment. They had a search warrant, searching the apartment. The safe is there. And they see in plain sight all these pictures. and CDs and everything else. I mean, real stuff that you would say gives them probable cause to take it. And they left.

And why do they leave? They said they didn't have a warrant for the contents of the safe. But they never called the judge. Never got a judge on the phone to get an emergency warrant or anything like that. They left.

And they went, so then when did they come back? Four days later. Four days later. Does that sound normal to you in that sense? Is that no? Not so much. Not so much. So I want to know what Jeffrey Epstein's real role here was.

I think it was probably to blackmail people and get them to do the bidding of the United States of America by putting them in incredibly compromising positions, I guess. I'm guessing, maybe we'll see. But the other thing, too, is that I'd like to know who on that list is in very high, powerful positions within our government. I'm not worried about Trump being on there. Trump distanced himself from Epstein after Epstein got arrested in Florida for the first time he was with underage girls. But a lot of people kept hanging out with him after that.

So anybody who was hanging out with Epstein pre that arrest, you could argue that they didn't know what was going on. But once he gets arrested for that, at that point, if you're still paling around with the guy, that's problematic. Which is why Bill Clinton, who still pal around with Jeffrey Epstein after that arrest in Florida, that's why everybody says this is creepy. But finding out that Bill Clinton was on the Epstein flight is no surprise there. It's like finding out there was a pilot on the plane. Yeah, you'd expect that. You'd expect Bill Clinton on there.

It was probably on every flight. So we're looking into that, too, to see what they say about that. The president also mentioned today that they were going to talk about dealing with illegal immigrants as well. So the president is talking about invoking something that is a very, very old law in the United States of America that the president has the ability to use. And it deals with illegal immigrants, and it gives the president extended powers over the issue. It's a 1798 Act called the Alien Enemies Act.

And he's going to use this now to carry out deportations to Guantanamo, planning to invoke a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as soon as today to authorize the summary deportation of some migrants, including to Guantanamo Bay, escalating his government-wide immigration crackdown, multiple U.S. officials familiar with the plan told CBS. The 227-year-old law gives Presidency extraordinary power to order the arrest, detention, and deportation of non-citizens who are 14 years or older

and come from countries staging an invasion or predatory incursion of the United States. Particularly now, he's going after Trende Aragua. That's the gang, the big gang. Trend de Aragua. President is expected to cite the 18th century statute to order the swift detention and deportation of suspected members of Trenda, a Venezuelan gang with prison origins that his administration has designated a foreign terrorist organization. Officials have made preparations to send suspected gang members to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo

Bay, Cuba soon after Mr. Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act, two of the U.S. officials said. At Mr. Trump's direction, excuse me, officials have been detaining some migrants awaiting deportation at the naval base, though the holding facilities were left empty earlier this week. Those subject to the Alien Enemies Act would not be allowed to have a court hearing or an asylum interview since they would be processed under an emergency wartime authority, not immigration law. Instead, they would be eligible to be detained and deported with little or no due process under Title 50, the section of the U.S. Code housing America's war and defense laws. It's only been used a few times in U.S. history, including during World War II,

when the government used it to surveil and detain Italian, German, and Japanese immigrants in the U.S. It's invocation to talk migrants from countries in which the U.S. is not actively at war is almost certain to face legal challenges. Well, everything faces legal challenges these days. He's previewed the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act in an executive order that he issued on his first day back in the White House. By saying the following, quote, by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil. He actually said that in his immigration, in his inaugural address as well. So we'll find out if that's also something the president is

going to do today. He's also going to ask judges to stop governing the entire nation from courtrooms, which is long overdue. We talked about this on the show when the news broke that a federal judge had stopped the president of the United States of America from literally being able to fire anyone. Anyone. And a federal district court judge even came out and said that the office of personal management can't even help the president figure out how to fire people. So as part as this today, the president of the United States of America with the attorney

general there, I imagine may address this as well. But he's asking SCOTUS to please. Can you please ask these judges, knock it off, all right, stop governing the entire nation from their courtrooms. Judges should not be able to govern the whole nation from their courtrooms by issuing universal injunctions that block policies across the entire country while litigation is pending. District courts have issued more universal injunctions and TRO's temporary restraining orders during February 20, 25th alone, then through the first three years of the Biden administration. Let me say that again because I think that that really drives home the point, does it not? District courts have issued more universal injunctions in TROs, temporary restraining orders,

during February 2025 alone, then through the first three years of the Biden administration. That sharp rise in universal injunctions stops the executive branch for performing its constitutional functions before any courts fully examined the merits of those actions and threatens to swamble. this court's emergency docket. This court being the Supreme Court, obviously. Now, these are district judges. The president of the United States is the only elected official elected for the entire country.

The only one. This is one. It's him. Nobody elects district court judges, number one. Number two, they have their district, but their rulings apply to the entire country. It's an abuse of power. It is abuse of the judiciary. and it's got to stop, has to stop.

It is tyranny of the judicial branch. It absolutely is. What's the point of having elections, really? What's the point of having elections? American people vote for this guy. He wins the electoral college, wins a popular vote, wins all seven swing states. And then he gets to get stopped by some judge you've never heard of,

who wasn't elected by anybody, whose actual district covers like two or three states. And his order now holds for the individual. entire country, all 57 states, to quote Barack Obama. No, it should not be that way. And they're doing this purposely. A lot of these judges are doing this simply to just help with the resistance of Donald Trump. Their arguments are not based in any law. They're not based in any fact. They're just stopping him. They're just trying to stop him. And look, major issues like birthright citizenship, which are going to be decided by the United States Supreme Court ultimately should not be

left up to a federal judge. And the only thing federal judges should do is just pass the baton over to the Supreme Court on these major issues. And if a Supreme Court has a problem, the Supreme Court can stop it if they want to. And then you have that battle. You know, the Supreme Court could put a temporary injunction on it and then have actual arguments on it. But enough with the federal district judges already. Enough is enough. And the Chief Justice has the power to rein these people in. These cases, which involve challenges to the president's January 20th, 2025 executive order concerning birthright citizenship, raise important constitutional questions

with major ramifications for securing the border. But at this stage, the government comes to this court with a modest request. While the parties litigate weighty merits, the court should restrict the scope of multiple preliminary injunctions

that purport to cover every person in the country, limiting those injunctions to parties actually within the court's power. Good. And most of these judges, you'll be shocked to know, are in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Massachusetts. So the district court judges in D.C., obviously, the swamp. Maryland, basically, the swamp.

Massachusetts, liberal, lefty land. Several Supreme Court justices have previously expressed disapproval of lower court's use of nationwide injunctions. Justice Neil Gorsuch, who I love, he is one of my favorite justices of all time. He really is. Outstanding. Fantastic. Outstanding. He's a constitutionalist. He is a absolute defender of every single one of the Bill of Rights, and he is a guy who wants criminal justice reform. He wants to end civil acid forfeiture. He's terrific. And he criticized what he called a rash of universal injunctions. This was during an oral arguments regarding the abortion

pill case back in 2024. And good. I mean, this is nuts. It's tyranny of the judiciary is what it is by unelected district court judges. Look, it's one thing of the Supreme Court rules on this. I remember when Mark Levin wrote his book, Men in Black, back in, I think it was 2005. It's a great book, a must-read book. If you have not read it, it's outstanding. But he talks about the Supreme Court of the United States with all of their nuttyness and lunacy. But he points out that most of the cases in this country are decided by lower courts. A lot of them don't even. see the Supreme Court courtroom, so to speak. But when you're dealing with the president of the United States of America and his executive orders and his powers to have a district court judge be able to stop the president, a district court judge to stop the man who's the only official in government who's elected by the entire country is nuts and has to stop. It has to be reined in without question. All right, final segment straight ahead here on the Dana Show with me, Rich

Ziole, as I get ready for my show in Philadelphia, don't go away. On the go and need a quick news fix with a fun twist. Follow Dana's absurd truth podcast for bite-size and formative episodes, perfect for your busy schedule on Apple or wherever you get your podcast. Clarence Thomas actually said the same thing as Justice Gorsuch in a separate opinion. Regarding all these injunctions by these federal judges that try to block the president of the United States of America, he said, and this is an old article from law.com back from 2018 as a matter of fact, He said, these injunctions did not emerge until a century and a half after the founding.

It was the travel ban case. Remember the travel ban case in President Trump's first term? Trump v. Hawaii. It was a federal district court judge who put a hold on the president's travel ban of people coming from certain countries, which he was perfectly allowed to do, empowered to do under the law. Clarence Thomas said, and they appear to be inconsistent, that is these, these injunctions, they appear to be inconsistent with longstanding limits on equitable relief and the power of Article III courts.

If their popularity continues, this court must address their legality. It was 2018. Then Justice Gorsuch also raised the issue of their dubious nature in the abortion pills case when he said the same thing about these federal injunctions. I mean, it's just, it's not the way it's supposed to be with the judge. judiciary. Every person who's a federal judge is not empowered to be a check on the president of the United States of America. That's not the job. You have lots of jobs as a federal judge, but being a check on the president is literally not one of them. It's not. You mean, you could argue that in our

three branches of government, the Supreme Court is a check on both Congress and the executive. You could argue that, although, I don't know, I mean, it's Marbury v. Madison, the first case that actually the Supreme Court gave itself the ability to have constitutional. review, so to speak, of laws. But nothing, and I mean nothing within the actual Constitution says, hey, federal judge, guess what? Congratulations, you're a federal judge now. Your check on the executive.

Yeah, you, you and you alone. You and your district in Colorado that encompasses 30 miles. You get to block whatever the duly elected president of the United States does, even though nobody elected you, and you're not accountable to anybody. No, it's insane. So, yeah, the Supreme Court has to deal with this. And I'm glad that the president is asking them to. And you notice he's being very nice about it, being very gentle about it.

It needs the court to come in and just step in and say, all right, this has to stop. I got enough. This is enough. All right. Give it up. I hope that they do. All right. So we'll tune in.

I'll be on the air now in Philly in just a matter of moments. You can join me there. If you want to listen on the Odyssey app, I'll be taking the president's remarks from the Department of Justice because this is a first president, attorney general, and the FBI director all together. It's been an honor filling in for Dana. Steve, thanks for all your help. I appreciate you listening. Keep me in your mind going forward on Twitter at Rich Zoli.

Have a great weekend. Thanks to Dana for let me be here. Thank you.