The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Kamala RETURNS, Gavin Newsom's BOASTS His Failed Train & Bannon's Epstein Ties Revealed

Episode Date: February 5, 2026

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You can't be sarcastic with them because they write your words and the people are reading the words are much different. But I said, I'm never going to make it to heaven. I just don't think I qualify. I don't think there's a thing I can do, but all of these good things I'm doing, including for religion. You know, religion's back now hotter than ever before. I mean, I have to tag. But I said, even though I did that and so many other things, I named things, I said, I won't qualify. I'm not going to make it to heaven.

And the New York Times did a front page story that Donald Trump is questioning his life and the meaning of his life. No, I was just having fun. I really think I probably should make it. I mean, I'm not a perfect candidate, but I did a hell of a lot of good for perfect people. I mean, it's hysterical. This prayer breakfast that he's in a prayer breakfast, God bless him. He's like, you know, I mean, I think I'm a good candidate. I just, you got to appreciate the New York boardroom style approach.

that he has to this stuff. You know, I'm like, I'm just, I feel like, you know, I'm a, I'm a good candidate for it. First off, welcome to the show, Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of the first hour. I don't know if there's ever, we should have Steve find, at some point, find video of it because I was at one of these prayer breakfasts one year,

met with POTUS before. And he's just, like, you know when he looks away from the prompter. It's the exact same feeling that you get when you're on the roller coaster And like screaming eagle cane Six Flags in it in that rickety old thing I can't believe it let I cannot believe it didn't fall apart The like I wrote it twice in my life so it's the it's the point where the roller coaster is like right up at the top And it gets slower and slower right up at the top and whenever he looks away from the prompter it's the exact same feeling because you're like where are we off road now. Where are we going? And was sitting there with my husband at this prayer breakfast,

the same one a couple, a few years ago. And he had just gotten into a fight with Eric Swalwell, like literally the night before. I can't remember what it was about, but he got to a fight. And then he was making fun of him and his like manliness or lack thereof. And he looked right at me because we've known he. each other for a very long time. And he's like, Dana, you know what I mean? You know, your husband's a very manly man. But Eric Swalwell, he's just, he's just not. He's just very flaccid. And I am dying because it's like 9 a.m. and we're at this prayer breakfast and I'm sitting at a table with like two pastors and I don't even know who else. There's probably some like nuns behind me.

I don't even know. And he's up there talking about, you know, Eric Swalwell. Well, he's just, you know, flaccid, sad little man. Don't you think, Dad, I mean, you look at him and you just, you're not attracted. And I am just dying. And he kept doing it. I was sitting in the front. So he just kept looking at me. He kept doing it.

And it was on C-SPAN. I was just, I was dying laughing because he was just very, he's like, he's not a very, not a very Christian man. I think everyone can do Trump's voice now. Don't I think so? I think it's stuck there in that cultural crawl for the lack of people. but I would put it. I think that everybody can do it. But it was just too funny. It's very funny. So he's at the, he was at the prayer breakfast this morning. And usually I was very, you know, well, he's up there saying, I just thought it was funny. He's like, well, I think I'm a good candidate.

In the meantime, he's been dealing with Iran, and he's also been dealing with the situation with ice. And whether or not, I don't want, I think what everybody doesn't want to, I think what everybody doesn't want to see is pulling out ice agents to accommodate the Democrat lawlessness. And I noticed yesterday POTUS had said that they were looking at, oh, well, you know, how about, you know, I just, we'll pull these ice agents out. And then the leaders of the city have to ask us to come in and deal with it. And I thought that that's like a probably really bad idea. Let's not do that one. Let's keep them in there. Let's make it look like we're not bending the need to anything. that sounds like that's

let's not bend the need to anything. And this is what, this is what he's talking about. This is cut one. They got to, they have to say, please is what he was saying.

And I think, I don't necessarily think that he's doing it, but it could be just him talking to try to put pressure on. You listen and decide. So I want to be clear because it sounds like

there is a shift in immigration enforcement here that there's going to be a shift after Minneapolis. What should Americans expect going forward? Well, one thing I say to my people, you know, we do a good job, we don't get credit for it. I say they have to ask and they have to say please.

When a city is going to ask and who has to say please. Or the governor, I don't want to go and force ourselves into a city, even if their numbers are terrible. Like, for instance, I got a call from Jeff Landry, Governor of Louisiana. See, it doesn't sound like he's making an actual adjustment. Does it to you? Because the headlines are Trump is bending the knees, pulling out, etc. Yeah, no, the actual knee bending has been from Minneapolis because the actual jails, the police departments are now agreeing

to when these illegals who are here and they've committed other crimes and they're in the custody of the jail, they're now giving these people to ICE where before they weren't doing it. They were during the Obama administration, but they stopped doing it under Trump. Now they got them back doing what they used to do when Obama was president. Okay, I got to switch gears. What the hell is Kamala Harris announcing? Huh?

Did you see this? No. She tweeted, she had a tweet out. I lost the tweet. But she had a tweet out where she was, well, not her. It's like the, what is it, the Kamala HQ or something like that? Are you talking about that? Stop it.

No. No. Madam Vice President, what's going on with Kamala HQ? Well, I'm so glad you asked. I have good news. No. So Kamala HQ is turning into headquarters, and it's where you can go online to get basically the latest of what's going on. And also to meet and revisit with some of our great courageous leaders, be they elected leaders, community leaders, civic leaders, faith leaders, young leaders.

I'm really excited about it. So stay engaged and I'll see you out there. Thank you. You know what's so funny, she can do this without having a website. if she really wanted to stay engaged with all our letters she could do it without having a website right it's weird did she say that Kamala HQ is now headquarters yeah

what did the HQ stand for before that's that's I don't know I think headquarters yeah that's usually what it is did you see the past so they had this video wasn't a video wasn't like just a gif They had this like um

little thing when she had it on on X and you had to type the password into it and it was the headquarters Kamala HQ I don't even understand the purpose of that what is she doing what is she what is she why all right

I know every I let me pull up a couple polls here do I do you guys really care if she's because she doesn't fare very well did she say what she's running for or that she's just going to be campaigning for just generally No, I think she just is all she knows how to do

is pretend to run for offices that she's just selected for by Democrat Party leadership. She saw the billy that she got when she was running for president and then ended up in $20 million in debt after that. But she thinks it's a decent way

to make money, I guess. I mean, you know what it is? That's why you got some of these people that run for office. You know, that's why you, because they make fat bank. They make fat bank off it. That's why.

I just, I was I'm pulling up the survey that I was looking at and it was showing how she fares with I don't know where they're getting some of this data because in a matchup with someone like Newsom I think it's just because maybe she has greater name recognition I can't imagine that because Gavin Newsom all he's been doing is increasing name recognition that's why he does this little goofy podcast every day instead of being the governor of California he does this podcast every day and I think it's all about him trying to increase name recognition so that he can compete, you know, their primary wise. And I don't know. I can't imagine them Democrats actually running her.

I think that's a pipe dream. Maybe they're doing a fake out. She's only like a couple of points ahead of some others. And then depending on where you draw the survey from, I mean, whether it's California or wherever. I mean, they're with, they're like neck and neck, but he's pulling away from her in terms of favorability. I can't even believe that's the thing I'm saying with a Democrat candidate, but you know, I don't even know. So I look at this. If they run her again, she is so unlikable. This is what she doesn't, and I think Democrats who like her don't understand. Back during 21, she was, I mean, Democrats, Democrats didn't even like her.

Democrats did not like this woman. She came in last during the primary. You guys remember this? That's why she was relegated to the far off side of the stage. She just, she came in last. So she's, it's her online, I don't even know what this is, her online organizing project. Maybe she can organize some, uh,

favorability for herself because she doesn't have it. Democrats didn't like her. She came in last because they didn't like her. She has a very, high unlikeability. I don't know how else to put it. I mean, I think the only person who has it lower is maybe perhaps Hillary Clinton, but that's because it's Hillary Clinton. You know what I mean? It's, this is just weird. I don't understand what they think that they're going to do with this. I mean, you have the Josh Shapiro's. You have the Andy Bashir's, which I feel like Andy Bashir,

who's Kentucky, I feel like he doesn't want to run. You, they're, granted, they have a tiny little bench because they have no idea how to recruit. But dear heavens. I just, yes, it would be easy to beat her, but also I would be bored to death. Guys, it's going to be the, it would be the most boring, boring, boring, boring, boring. Boring to death. But I think you're right. I think that they need, it's about fundraising. But she doesn't fundraise that well either.

She's never been a big money draw. They saw the excitement with her when she was running against Trump. And I think they see that now that the USAID money and everything else is drying up for Democrats. I'm sorry. Did you say you, I took a sip of coffee? Did you say that they saw the excitement with her running against Trump? Well, how did she get a billion dollars? Democrats were running away.

It's probably all George Soros. Democrats were falling down like they were fleeing a fire trying to get away from her. That was my point. What I put in slack, they do these little tiny small money donation things through Act Blue and everything else. What it's really just billionaires dropping dough and then they're just piecing it out to make it look like they were small money donations, grassroots in the whole nine. They're doing it here as well. but they did it with her when she ran against Trump. And I think they saw that opportunity.

They're seeing it again because the USAID money's drying up. Everything else that they've been tapping from the taxpayer as it relates to funds that go to these elections and things. Yeah. Yeah. It's done. In the meantime, at a Fremont High School, a mother is upset because one of her, her child was during, it was one of these school protests of ICE got hit by an SUV. Let me read this. I know.

This is Channel 6. out of Fremont. It says a mother of a Fremont high school student who was struck by an SUV during a student protest said she's angry with school officials and believes they should have prevented the demonstration. It was at an anti-ice protest outside the school. And apparently the student of female is recovering at home with bumps and bruises. So she said that they were not informed enough to organize such a protest. I actually think that does raise a question as to, you know, what happens when stuff like this takes place at these stupid protest that these schools allow instead of educating kids.

That's, that's in many instances, the schools have been organizing it or the teachers have been organizing it. She said, my daughter was allowed to make her poster in class to career class. She's like, why are they not, why are the teachers not paying more attention to what these kids are doing? So they had a potential walk out. The school's trying to distance itself from it saying, well, we heard rumors that this was going to happen.

Okay, you can't, you don't got all these kids that are walking out. so freely like this unless there is an absence of penalty. You guys know that. We have more on the way. We've got to get into some of the stuff. I got some GOP stuff, but also,

the latest with China. Oh my goodness. And also, this, Gavin Newsom has a knack of trying to hold press conferences on his failures. And he did it over the high-speed rail. We're going to revisit that

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Pennsylvania. Have you eaten out that Applebee's? It's in Williamsport. Was it Applebee or Olive Garden? Sorry, Olive Garden, yeah. It's all the same thing. Olive Garden. They got the bread sticks, though. They got infinite stick. Unlimited stick. They said that the Pennsylvania State Police looked into it.

I can't, I've never heard of a suicide. Like, somebody trying to kill themselves with Deep Friar. That's really sad. I hope this dude, oh man, that's so sad. That's horrible. His poor family. Dude. All right, let me move on.

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Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. And when this thing is moving and it's happening and you're not taking off your damn shoes and you're not having to show your real ID and you're just hopping on, you know, eat your heart out, Texas, that abandoned their high-speed rail project. by the way, that project that was announced a year after this one, $50 billion. They just pulled the plug on it last year. Why the hell wasn't that a headline? They couldn't get anything done there.

Big red state of Texas. Supposed to show us how to do it. They couldn't get a damn thing. I've never seen anybody hold a press conference about one of their biggest failures. And yet that's what Gavin Newsom just. did in that sound bite that you just heard. This was just yesterday. I am I'm just floored but also not over all of this because he's he's talking about the high speed rail. First off, welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you and we're at the bottom of this first hour. We've talked about this

before the high speed rail project that they've they had in uh california i don't know why he's trying to slam texas about this i'm not quite sure but he i don't know what the it's not even comparable it's not even comparable so there was a new york times piece that came out that really just like blew the lid off of this this. And he's been trying to, I mean, it's the rail that they have there, that, I think they only got like a stretch of it built. It was supposed to have been completed for, no, sorry, six years ago. Excuse me. You don't know what the hell I'm thinking. It was supposed to have been completed six years ago. When it first was pitched, it was supposed to cost $33 billion.

Now, this was back in like, what, 2008 or something like that, which was an astronomical amount of money then. Now, before you think that Gavin Newsom wasn't involved in government, he was AG, he was mayor of San Francisco. He's been involved at every, every aspect of government for the last 20 years, right? So it was proposed, and it was supposed to be $33 billion, and they were going to have it completed by 2020. Except it's only, what did they say? It's not even a full 17 miles. I had someone, it was a listener that explained this to me a couple of years ago. And they were saying, well, they're trying to act like X amount of miles have been built. But really what is happening is they got the pylons and they've, for certain areas of it.

And it's like a few sections and it's not even operable, et cetera, et cetera. So it was $33 billion and it was going to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco. Voters approved it. It was on the ballot. And by the way, it wasn't even supposed to, it wasn't just supposed to be. completed in 2020, the service was supposed to start in 2020. So how much do you think that the cost has expanded to now? If you had to guess.

You said 33? Yeah, it's 138 billion. 138 billion is what it ballooned to. Is Jerome Powell in charge of it? Yeah. It's now what they're looking at. Now, here's the kicker. So remember, it started as a high-speed rail project

that was going to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco. 33 billion, service starting in 2020. Apparently, they only have a portion of it kind of constructed, completely inoperable. It costs to balloon to $138 billion. And the rail itself has been scaled back. So they're now looking at a reduced, what they say central valley line between, I think it's Merced, Merced and Bakersfield.

That's not going to open until 2032 at an additional cost of 36.7 billion. Newsom had to actually sign off on 21 billion of that alone. Now, the area where the little rail is going to be only has a combined population of under 500,000. So that means they're spending $22,000 a person just to get a little rail line between these two little areas in California. This is this is Merced California. Between that and Bakersfield, just a little bit of area. $22,000. Now they would have two stops, Fresno and Madeira. That's it. Now, the realization of the as to whether or not they're going to have that line ever completed,

now officials are actually throwing doubt on it. And do you know what Democrats have been doing under Newsom in California? They've been promoting legislation that would actually stop any auditing of any records related to high-speed rail from public scrutiny. It's legislation that they have been actively pushing in their state legislature. I know. How crazy is this? They said that they're trying to, critics are saying, accusing them accurately of trying to conceal all the fraud in this multi-billion dollar money pit.

138 billion. Guys, it was, again, just to recap, $33 billion. It was the service was supposed to start in 2020. And then now it's 138 billion and it's never going to be done. And just to get the little Fresno, whatever Bakersfield thing happening, they had to commit like 36 billion, 21 billion of that. Newsom had to sign off on himself. So part of the reason there was a French company that was involved in all of this. It was a French company that came in, and they were going to help California build their rail, right?

They've got rail systems in France, and they've also worked on stuff in Japan, you know, et cetera. So this French company came in, and this is, it was the France National Railway, SNCF. They came to California. They were bidding on the project. then they got so frustrated after years of nonsense and hemorrhaging money that they pulled up stakes and left in just under seven they left like it was a couple of years they just left they actually completely pulled out in 2011 they went to morocco and within seven years they built pretty much the same high-speed rail system that they were looking to build from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

They did it in Morocco within seven years under budget. I mean, go figure. This is crazy. And you know what they said? You know what the French company said. They said, get this, this is the direct quote, quote, the region is less politically dysfunctional, end quote. They pointed to the exorbitant amount of fraud, corruption, spending. They had all these state lawmakers and officials that were trying to get the rail to go here and there. It was supposed to be a straight shot, right? And it ended up zigzagging all over the place, going to, you know, places where it never needed to go. I mean, they pulled out of bidding. They just, they weren't, they couldn't do it. They said that it's impossible to do. And they went elsewhere. It was supposed to be two-hour.

on 40-minute, you know, train ride, but, you know, SCNF was reportedly very angry, according to one of the leaders of it, Mr. McNamara, said, quote, there were so many things that went wrong. So they went, by the way, Morocco's bullet train service started in 2018, still functioning. Is that not something? So he's having a press conference where he's bragging about this. This is insane. This was approved. You're supposed to get from San Francisco to L.A. 2.

hours, 40 minutes. It was supposed to serve downtown and some of the major cities in between. And never happened. It was set up for failure immediately. It was supposed to be, I'm going to send you a picture. It was supposed to be just a straight shot. And then it ended up going all of these other places, which ballooned the cost. Ballooned it. So they said, they can't do it. The French company's never coming. back. They're like, we're never going to, you know, we're never going to go do it. It's never going to happen. And the company, what Juan's showing you right now, the red was supposed to, was how it was supposed to go. All the yellow and the blue are all of the stuff that they did.

Now you've got to keep in mind, see the area where on the map where it says Bakerfield and Fresno. This region has a combined 500,000. They're spending in that area $22,000 a person. They did a study. No one takes the train. No one needs. needs to no one is going to need it no one needs it but guess who there was there's a a state official that lives in that area that is big pockets and he wanted that rail because he wanted some of that too he wanted some of that control he wanted some of that rail there that's how that was per the new york times not me it is insane it's crazy but this is that's that's california so going back to his little press conference here, why is he bragging about this? Do you realize that if they actually

ever did an audit? Now, remember, these lawmakers are trying to pass a law right now in California to prevent any kind of public scrutiny of the high-speed rail project. Do you realize that if they had an investigation, I would imagine that they would discover massive amounts of impropriety, and there would be people going to jail. There would be people going to jail. There would be people going to jail. And lawmakers, Gavin Newsom has been trying to bury this. Do you know that they're saying that as of right now, wrap your mind around this number. The rail costs $215 million a mile per New York Post and the California Post. Yeah, $215 million per mile. I, I, I, I'm speechless.

And he's slamming Texas for what? Yeah. Texas was like, look, I'll tell you, we live in an area where we have one passenger train and there's like five cars on it. It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life. It slows down traffic. Everything has to shut down. And this one little five little, nobody takes it. It's like some like local tourists will take it.

Yeah, it's usually empty. I have a friend who wrote it actually a couple of months ago and said there were only three people on it. it's stupid it's a waste of time Texas was like we don't even need this everybody's got big cars and Texas loves building highways they will build highways on highways they don't care it's like a Dr. Sue's story they don't need it it's something that they didn't need

so they did the right thing this is actually this is a huge issue for Newsome and I feel like he's trying to get around it by throwing it out here like that like let me have a press conference about it let me let me do this and it's it's making it's a it's helping it's kind of shielding him he's trying to reset the narrative I mean it really is probably one of the most wasteful projects ever attempted in American history and it's all

because of the corruption and he's part of it he's part of it by the way the federal government pulled four billion out of it they had a grant a federal grant for four billion dollars that the federal government pulled because they and here's the report they cited quote systemic failures in management funding and schedule compliance and here's the thing they're supposed to go through this mountain pass area construction on which they haven't even started they have to build a tunnel for this train to go through they have to build two tunnels in fact all they did was put some concrete pylons and some flat farmland and they were like oh there it is we're building they haven't even

started blasting through this mountain passage to get that's the hardest part of this whole project. They haven't even begun. How insane is that? You know, in Florida, they spent $5 billion, and they built 235 mile long, high-speed line from Orlando to Miami. It was financed privately.

They did not spend any public money on it, and it was $5 billion, and it came in right under budget, and they didn't spend any taxpayer money on it at all. So it's interesting that he talked about Texas, but he didn't compare it to Florida. Very telling. I was talking with Colin Plume over at Noble Gold Investments, and we were discussing how no one really

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so are the days of the United States. Hey, it's Vince. I'm running for Congress against this guy. Stop having a politician that's worse than Biden. For discretionary funding. Instead, vote. for me, a guy who's not half dead. I'm going to soak up the swamp, clean the house, and pick up those liberal tears at the same time. I'm going to slap chop the nuts out of the

woke, making less blue hair commies and more red-blooded Americans. Vote for me so I can represent you and the ones that can't stand up for themselves. Vote for Shamow! Pay for my offer bit Shamaw Shlomi for Congress. Okay, that's a really effective ad and I'm sold, man. Dude, I'm voting for him. Even if I can't, I'll cheat. I'll do it the Democrat way, man. I didn't say nothing I didn't admit anything What are you talking about? I didn't admit anything

I didn't hear nothing you know I'm just saying no He's um Well good for him Yeah good for him Good for him Getting out there and doing that And I liked how he did a play on all of the stuff

That he's known for That was very clever That's the Vince Say his last name again Shlomi Shlomi No it's Yeah yeah yeah

Yeah, yeah. I think it's Shlomi. Shlomi, I'm checking. Because it sounded kind of, yeah, I think. Is it Shalomie? Yeah. Shamaw-Shlomi. Yeah.

It's the Shamwell guy. That's all I know. I just be going like by Vince Shamwell. Although that's probably a brand and it's probably trademarked and he probably can do that. Those are for people in Texas in the 31st district. You will have an opportunity to vote for the Shamwell guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's talking.

I mean, so his last. name. Yeah, it's Shlomi. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they, it's spelled a couple different ways. S-H-L-O-M-M-Y, S-H-L-O-M-I. So I hope that that's pretty confirmed before people go to the ballot to look for the name. I don't, I don't, but he's going up against incumbent John Carter. No offense, but John Carter does look like he's a retirement age.

Let's just say that. Yeah. I mean, I don't know, it feels like the guy could handle it, right? I mean, Yeah, he's got some history. But, you know, who doesn't at this point? Yeah, you know, he's going to slap chop the nuts out of the woke. That slap chop is great. I loved the slap chop, just saying. There's something about slapping your vegetables apart that's just satisfying.

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NBC News broke the story today. I don't know if you saw it that the Democrats are already saying if you bring President Bill Clinton and he has to testify, we're bringing President Trump. What do you say to that? I think they might say that, you know, but they've already brought me. See, I've been brought. They had me indicted many, many times, many times. And the president had some surprising thoughts about former president Bill Clinton. It bothers me that somebody's going after Bill Clinton. See, I like Bill Clinton.

I still like Bill Clinton. What do you like about him? I like, well, I liked his behavior toward me. I thought he got me, he understood me. You know, he was the one that said very famously that you don't want to run again. against Trump when there were 18 people. It was 18 people including me total. And he kept telling them, you don't want to run against Trump.

Run against anyone, don't run against Trump. And Hillary sort of left at him. I need him to stop talking nice about Bill Clinton. I just needed to stop. Stop talking nice about Bill Clinton. Just stop it. Honestly, the reason being is because I, they, let's remind everybody what happened during

2020, right? You had POTUS now who was targeted by the Clintons that ended up having to pay a big whopping fine because they lied to a FISA court so that they could spy illegally surveil people who were working with the Trump campaign. And then they almost compromised a CIA asset against Russia because they were trying to say that Carter Page was a Russian asset when he actually was a CIA asset against Russia. And then the people who get so up to tight about outing Valerie Plain were upset because that got outed or weren't upset because that got outed. They tried to undermine and upend a free and fair election. So no, I don't care if they said something nice about him. They tried to rob voters. There's no nice.

There's no nice about this at all whatsoever. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, with you. We are at the top of this. What is this our third hour? No, sorry, second hour. I feel like we've been on air for a million hours. It's a weird day. It's a very weird day. So the, I, and you know, they've been saying this because of all the stuff with the Epstein files and everybody's been talking about the Clinton's because they have to go and testify.

The stuff that's coming out, can I just say, why are people still acting like Steve Bannon isn't an embarrassment to the movement? This is a guy who took a report. named Michael Wolf, a well-known snake in the grass, and just let him traips through the White House and overhear conversations. And shocker, shocker, he wrote this horrible book where he was trying to go after the administration

and all because Bannon wanted to see his name in print. I mean, I've seen socialites that wanted to be famous less than Steve Bannon. And that's true. This guy's fame-hungary. It doesn't do anything. Everything he gloms on to stuff and then acts like he created it. He did it with Sarah Palin.

He did with Andrew Breitbart. He tried to take credit for Trump's ascendancy. He was just there. He didn't contribute to anything. And somehow he convinced Jeffrey Epstein. Was this before or after he was arrested on a communist party, communist Chinese assets boat? He got arrested on a communist Chinese assets boat.

A guy who works with the CCP. Yeah, but whatever. We're going to sit here and act like, America for Earth and all this stuff. You know, a guy is literally like stabbing Trump in the back, six ways to Sunday. I'm working with the CCP. But okay. Maybe if you ask, kiss him enough, you'll get another cocktail invite, Zoom more often.

So anyway, you've got now, he's his name and all these other people's names are in this Epstein list. There was the thing where he did this interview with Epstein. He was trying to coach him. He was trying to rehab his image. This is even apparently after the Pito conviction. still working with him, still trying to rehabilitate his image. I just don't see how in any way that is defensible. I just think if you're paling around with this guy now,

then you're sanctioning Epstein and everything else that went on with that. I mean, took pictures with him, made sure he got a lot of pictures with him, you know, over the years, exchanged emails or emails where they were talking about undermining Trump. Of course, this is banned in the same guy who called Donald Trump. Jr., a traitor and promoted the Fusion GPS oppo about Trump Jr. and the whole story, the meeting in New York and Trump Tower, that whole thing, called him a traitor. But we're going to sit here and act like he's still like, you know, America First or whatever.

Okay, sure, whatever. Astonine. You know what? There are people that it's not about America First. It's about them first and whatever they can do to promote that to that effect. So to that point, these emails that have come out, there's a lot of them. People are still going through them. None of this looks good.

None of this looks good. It all looks bad. And the, I think there was one where he was going off on, he was talking to Chomsky and he was going off on Israel. He's like, he doesn't like Israel. He said he didn't like it. Somebody had suggested that they have a meeting somewhere there. He's like, never Israel, no. So I guess there goes the, what was it, the story that he was with Mossad?

I guess there goes that whole narrative, very inconvenient. There are a lot of people. I just, you know, I'm trying to figure out how everybody can sit here and go on and on and on about Epstein, but then you're not going to say anything about, you know, Bannon being involved with Epstein to the extent that he was, which was pretty deep, even knowing everything else. Everybody goes after, what is it, that Prince Andrew dude? they go after him I mean are we

like are we picking and choosing who we going after here there's more coming out about all of this but the emails are pretty bad there was a apparently now he's being accused that he had like bodies buried on his Zoro ranch out New Mexico this guy he was everywhere

knew everybody had a lot of a lot of compromises stuff. And the stuff with Bill Gates, the stuff with, you know, the Andrew Windsor or whatever his name is, Bannon, the Clintons, pictures of Bill Clinton at some of these, oh my gosh, you can just smell the, it's just greasy and disgusting. So I don't know. I look at all this stuff. I'm like, there definitely are some people compromised. It hasn't been Trump, But it has been one of the dudes that he excommunicated from his inner circle, likely for good reason.

Just FYI. Speaking of excommunicado, have you seen all of these Washington Post reporters losing their minds? So just to give you some insight, Jeff Bezos has, he's cutting costs at Washington Post. They've been hemorrhaging millions of dollars a year. Just hemorrhaging an astronomical amount of money. The reaction to this has been stunning. I wanted to pull up this from one of their staffers who was let go. One of their staffers says it always bears repeating.

This is not ultimately a financial decision. Jeff Bezos is worth over $250 billion. He can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. This is, at its core, a political and personal decision by Bezos to destroy the host because one third of their staff across all departments are being laid off it so it's not just the newsroom. My thought is this, if it's not financially solvent, he can save his money, right? He doesn't have to keep funding this ridiculousness. I mean, it's not even really all the time journalism. I mean, if you have to be propped up, are you successful anyway? I mean,

if you have to be propped up, there's questions as to whether or not you're successful. if you can't stand on your own. Clearly, they're not standing on the work alone that they're doing because the advertising dollars isn't supporting it. But why does Jeff, I mean, what gets me is that they think that this is a welfare project. They think that this is, that it's supposed to be a welfare project. They aren't owed continuation. They aren't owed this.

I mean, good heavens. Why are they so eager to be subsidized by somebody else's money? These are deadbeats, people who've never built anything in their lives, that are demanding everyone else subsidize their dreams. That's what this is. They've been hemorrhaging money. The guy who owns it, he's going to be acting in the best interest of business. He doesn't, just because he has the money doesn't mean he owes you a living.

To do what? It's activism. You're doing activist stuff. You've been doing activist stuff. And trying to present it as journalism. I mean, he's not, he's there to make money. That's what business is. He's not there to subsidize a bunch of leftist propaganda activities. So, I mean, are they, it's kind of like they're admitting that it's a drain, that it's a financial drain. He can afford to lose many millions. So they're admitting that it's a

drain. How is that good business to just waste money like this, to just him, Well, it's not. It's rhetorical. It's not good business. It's not good business to hemorrhage money like that. This is stupid. These are people who literally never built anything, ever. You know what's interesting? I was looking back at some of this. Do you know the Washington Post? The editor had said before that they had never been an independent newspaper. The post editorial page on its first day of publication, it was December 6, 18. Their whole existence was about promoting the Democrat Party. That was their whole existence. And so the very first thing that they did in this editorial is they wrote how the Post will aim to be a thorough going newspaper, always abreast the times. It will be democratic in politics and modern and style. Now, by the way, this is from page 4 Thursday morning, December 6, 1877.

They said it will be Democrat in politics and modern in style. They write, the Democratic Party controls 25 of the most important states of the union today and is in a position to prevent bad legislation. They had the Post will do what it can to uphold the Democratic majority in the House and the majestic Democratic minority in the Senate. and it will bring about the political millennium, which is due in 1880. That's what they wrote.

That was in 1877, their editorial page on their first day of publication. So they were outed as a propaganda entity. They've also, by the way, they've never won, or they've never endorsed a Republican for president. Interesting, is it not? Hmm. They have never, ever endorsed.

endorsed a Republican for president. And they're mad because Jeff Bezos doesn't want to continue subsidizing those. Journalism. Yeah, it's journalism-ean. And then you got this, Bernie Sanders. Listen to him. Quote, if Jeff Bezos

could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie and $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me that he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. democracy dies in oligarchy.

This is... Which home did he tweet that from? Yeah, I know. He is an 84-year-old treasury drain who's mad because the guy responsible for, like, how many percentage points of the GDP does Jeff Bezos constitute? At least probably one.

He doesn't want to waste money on a financial drain. Bernie Sanders doesn't know anything about running a business. Remember, he ran a zine like what was it in the 60s, and his wife bankrupted at a school. So why is that human drain on the treasury mad that someone who's more successful than him is going to spend his money in business in a smart fashion?

What a joke. He's recognizing that the Washington Post is failing. You know, they could learn to code. What's funny is you could be suspended on X if you said that four years ago. Speaking of Bernie Sanders, he spent over half a million dollars just last year. alone on private jets. That's a lot. That is a lot. According to a new story, New York Post, Bernie Sanders spent, ooh, almost $600,000 actually on private jets. Wait a minute. Aligarchy, what? He was on the, now here's what's funny. He did this while he was on his political

tour. What was this political tour called? Fighting oligarchy tour. Brought to you by oligarchs. Yeah, the fighting oligarchy tour, brought to you by oligarchs. He and AOC were on private jets using campaign funds. And they were flying privately all over. When they could have taken commercial, they flew private. Over, actually, it's well, almost $560,000.

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We saw that in the House of Commons just yesterday. They might now expect the Prime Minister to take responsibility, but we know he won't. He will have to be dragged out of number 10. So, I am making them an offer. if they want the change they know the country needs come and speak to my whips and let's talk seriously about a vote of no confidence to force the moment so they're having a bit of a bit of a bit of a pickle over in the UK right now because they the far left has how do I put this they've been compromised

by associations and and promoting of one MP and associations with Epstein and all of this stuff has come out in these emails etc well now it's it's imperiled Kier Starmor. I was actually a little worried about our ally across the pond because I thought, golly, because I know that people are flirting with the idea of returning to the EU, and there's been a lot of discussion about that. So I'm just hoping that this just tanks all of it. There's a number of things that I want to talk about with our next guest.

You guys are familiar with Mr. Matt Mowers. He is with the EU-US Forum. He's a founding board member, and he also worked in the Trump administration state department the first time around. Now I know UK is obviously not part of the EU. However, it does affect all of this affects everything else. Matt joins us now via video. Matt, always good to see you. I kind of wanted to get, you know, your quick thoughts on that before we start talking

about this other stuff, particularly as it relates to the United Nations and POTUS and the EU and Gaza. But, I mean, does Starrmer out? Because for people who don't know, he basically appointed a guy who's pretty cozy with Epstein. and he's incredibly compromised. And this is just one of many scandals to say nothing of the grooming gangs in Rotherham that have also compromised Kier Starrmer.

Is this it? Like, what does it take to get this guy out? Yeah, I mean, look, you know, Lord Mandelson, who he had pointed as ambassador of the U.S., was a total snake in the grass from the beginning. I mean, this is a guy who in 2018, 19, 2004 was attacking Donald Trump. Kier Starrmer then chooses him,

hence Alex. to become the ambassador of the U.S. after Donald Trump gets elected. And then, of course, you know, Mandelson's out there saying, well, I didn't really mean it. I've had a change of opinion, which we all knew was just a bunch of happy talk as an intent to try to then weasel into the good graces of the United States. And so like when you put someone like that in that type of position, someone who clearly is willing to, you know, mislead and lie about how they feel. You know, it's not surprising that they're caught up in this situation now. I mean, you know, the president likes to use that poem off at rallies that says, you knew I was a snake when you took me in.

You know, it's the same thing with Kier-Starmor and Lord Mandelson. He knew he was a snake when he took him in, yet he chose to do it anyway. And whether they knew about the extent of the relationship with Epstein or not, it seemed like it was a wide open secret in London. So I'm not sure how they wouldn't have. I mean, MI6 is pretty good based on anything I've ever been able to tell. my time of the State Department. I think they would have known this. But this is just another litany of the problems for Kirstarmer and the Labor Party. You look at their approval rating right

now. They are down to about 20% support in polls. 20%. Reform party, Nigel Frage's party, is significantly polling higher than them right now. And it's because you do have frustration with this double talk coming out of the Labor Party. They said they were going to actually try to make some market reforms. They haven't. They said they were going to. They were going to to actually start protecting free speech they haven't. They've actually been rolling back on all the issues that the voters of the UK care about. And at the same time, then they get themselves caught in messes and scandals like this. It only adds insult to injury. Yeah, it does. And it's interesting because he was very, Mandelson was very, very hostile towards POTUS. So that was a very deliberate pick.

That was a thumb in the eye that Starmor made when he selected him to be the ambassador. I mean, there's no other way to read that. Of course, it blew up in his face. And I'm trying not to enjoy the Chadenfreude on this because, you know, I, heaven forbid. But still, I mean, what a horrible, I mean, miscalculation to get over your skis like that. How petty. Oh, my gosh. I mean, and it shows the hubris, right? The fact that they thought they could take a guy who had been so vocally opposed to the president and his agenda, make him the ambassador to the United States. I mean, this is supposed to be the special relationship. This is the one where you're supposed to choose the person who you think is going to be able to embody.

body what's needed. And by the way, the UK needs the United States a heck of a lot more than the U.S. needs the UK these days. You know, it's a, it is a single economy right now. We want to get a trade deal done. The president's announced the tenants of a trade deal. But at the end of the day, the UK really needs the U.S. right now. And, you know, by sending someone like that as the ambassador to then having to recall them, you know, not smart, not smart. Not smart at all. A huge black eye on him. And it looks like the momentum against Starmor, who I can't stand. I can't. I can, cannot stand this man. Looks like it's building. So, you know, it's a, it's nice to see as we start the new year. We're talking with Matt Mowers with the EU-US forum. Okay, in Spain, their prime

minister, Pedro Sanchez, they have all of these measures that they have been aiming at social media. And this is very similar to, you know, the European Union, targeting X, France targeting X, all of these European nations. With Pedro Sanchez's government, they sent out this thing to telegram, warning people about using telegram. I saw this the other day. They are pushing these regulations that, I mean, they call it a protection, but in reality, it's the creation of a surveillance state. I was really hopeful because I know conservatives have been gaining a lot of ground in Spain, but I feel like it's slow going. Give me your latest assessment as to what's happening with this nation right now. Yeah, it's amazing. I mean, Spain out of

all the countries in the EU is probably one of the harder ones to turn. It's just got such this history with the far left political parties in the country. But it's not surprising that they're going to be among the forefront of those codifying what a bunch of other countries are already doing on free speech, right? And you look what Germany is doing. We've often talked about what's happening in Netherlands. UK, we talk about even though it's not in the EU, really clamping down on free speech, monitoring private communications and groups. like WhatsApp and others. Now you're like you talked about on Telegram.

And so it's not surprising that they are trying to do whatever they can to utilize political power, government power, to restrict to restrict the free speech of citizens who are just trying to express their opinion. And, you know, I go back and I think about the polling that the EU-US forum did about a year and a half ago now, around the time of the EU elections, and nearly 70% of respondents, and Spain was one of the countries we polled. said that if you nearly 70% said that there were too many free speech restrictions already at that point, let alone now where you're continuing to see this erosion of free speech,

where you continue to see politicians and governing authorities try to tell you what, you know, is appropriate speech and not appropriate speech. And it's all a slippery slope, right? I mean, it starts with, you know, they bring these broad definitions of hate speech. Yeah. In many parts of European Union, you can't say illegal immigrant. if you use the term of legal immigrant, that's a term of hate speech. It's a legal term. It's a legal term. It's fascinating. We did about a million dollars of advertising

the lead up to the EU elections. Our lawyers said you can't use the term illegal immigrant because it violates hate speech laws in too many European Union countries right now. It was, I mean, it was dumbfounding. And so, you know, this has been ongoing for a long time. Spain is now just, you know, the tip of the spear on a lot of it. But given their infatuation with the left-wing parties there, I'm not surprised that's going to be one of the first places they truly try to codify these restrictions on free speech. But that's why we have to be so vigilant because others will follow suit. Yeah. You know, they're all pretty interconnected.

They all go to the same hangouts and Brussels. And they like to swap lousy left-wing ideas and doctorate and bring them back to their home countries. So that's why we've got to remain vigilant in all this. And Spain looks, I mean, honestly, I'm looking at it. some of the regulations that they have, well, that they've proposed, I shouldn't say past, because one of them, they wanted to criminalize the use of algorithms

that amplified certain content. I don't even know how that's enforced. I don't even know how a country even starts going about enforcing that unless you're talking about really bringing a heavy hand unlike really what we've actually seen in Europe and even with Spain. I mean, that's CCP level monitoring. Yeah. Oh, and what?

Now the government's going to dictate what an AI algorithm is, Do they have the engineering capabilities and experts who understand how an AI generative computer is able to actually go through and determine what gets served up or not? They have no damn idea. I mean, you know, it's a bunch of government bureaucrats who want to regulate everything to death for political power. And this is why the U.S., despite the ongoing, you know, relationship with the EU that's always going to have in European countries that's going to have, cannot be reliant. upon the EU's policy framework and regulatory framework. Because if we are going to be in a place where we want to out-compete China, especially with the development of AI,

I mean, the truth is the Europeans are going to regulate it to death. There's no way that they'd be able to out-compete China. Now, I think China, at the end of the day, is going to try to do too much state-sponsored AI generation as well. It's going to hamstring themselves, but Europe's going to be right there with them. It's why the U.S. is going to be on the leading edge of all these things. and really charting the way forward.

But, you know, that's why, you know, at the EU-US forum, we'd be concerned about CS-T-T-R-D, these, you know, acronyms for these big, broad regulatory frameworks that say companies, even in the U.S. have to start complying with European Union laws to have access there. What if they start saying, well, hey, if you want to be a tech company, and this is what they're doing? If you want to be a tech company that wants to offer a platform in the European Union, we're going to set the AI, you know, algorithm now. We, the government, are going to actually tell you what you can and can't do. It's really no better than what's happening in China.

I mean, look, as American conservatives, we rightfully complain and bemoaned when there were tech companies that were having a separate set of rules for China, letting the CCP dictate the terms there. Yet we were allowing technology owned by China to actually be here unfettered in the United States under our free speech regulations. The same things now happening in the European Union. We've got to wisen up to it. Last quick question.

The Board of Peace with POTUS and the United Nations, POTUS is serving as the inaugural chairman. No-term limit holds veto power. And it was supposed to be just about the Gaza reconstruction. You have 25 countries that have agreed to join up with us. What are your thoughts on this? Because there's a lot of the reluctance has come from major EU powers. That's where all, of course, that's where all the reluctance has come.

I mean, you have everybody from Argentina to even, you know, Hungary, UAE that's all signed up for this. But the major EU players are very, very reluctant. Why is that? Well, because, you know, it might mean fewer cocktail parties. They get to go to sponsor by the government or the U.N. I mean, you know, look, they, at the end of the day, you know, people forget that the United Nations goal is to actually. advocate and bring about peace, yet you look at who was on the Human Rights Council previously. You had Maduro-led Venezuela.

You had Cuba. You had a whole host of other human rights abusers. And not to mention, it really didn't do anything. When they got involved, it was too late. It was riddled with scandal most of the time. And so what you see President Trump trying to do is bring new thinking, new alliances, new allegiances. And it's not to say, you know, it's actually, you know, some people

We're saying, well, it's step away from diplomacy. No, it's stepping from failed attempts of diplomacy. He's bringing in new attempts of diplomacy that actually are catered to the current world order. I mean, I think anyone who look back and determine the Security Council today, the way that is in the UN, which was developed after World War II, would say the makeup of the countries

would look radically different right now. You know, the leaders in the world look radically different right now. And so that's what President Trump's addressing. And not only that, he wants In short, countries are stepping up to the plate and investing their money in the peace process as well, their talents in the peace process as well, because he doesn't want America to have to go it alone in these places.

And the truth is, America's had to lead the UN to get anything done. He doesn't want that to just have to be the case. He wants to bring others into the fold as well. Europeans are just, you know, they're more, it's such a mindset of the EU where they're so wedded to process that they don't really care about the result anymore. that's like the left-wing bureaucratic mindset. You know, it's all about process. It's not about results. That's the greatest explanation of that. And that's just so like old Europe as well. They're expanding the welfare state. We were expanding defensive spending within our G is a percentage

of our GDP. Matt Mowers with the EU-U-U-S forum. You can find him at M-O-W-E-R-S on X. Always good to see you. Appreciate your time. Thanks so much. Thank you. decisions. It's time for Florida man. So you know in Florida, because the temperatures have dropped, they're dealing with iguanas falling out of trees. And it is one of the craziest weather-related things I can think of. And it's an actual big ordeal. They put out notices because you can get hurt with a big old iguana falling out of a tree on you. We've got stories. And they're not dead. They just like they're like frozen. They lay on the ground and they're kind of out of it. So now there's a Florida man who's turning frozen iguanas into tacos.

He says if you can't beat them, eat them. This is something my husband would do. I've literally never eaten one. But, I mean, you know, I guess if I was starving, I've eaten an alligator. I mean, he says it's the chicken of the trees. It says iguana has a mild flavor. When seasoned right, it's surprisingly tasty, especially when, tucked into a taco with all the fixings.

Okay, I... You know what? I'm willing to try it. This is, okay, this is where it gets gross, so. Because during the cleaning process, he discovered one iguana was loaded with eggs, over 20 eggs. And he's like, oh, look, I prevented dozens more. I don't want to deal with that. Okay, I don't want to deal with that. I'm a girl. Look, I'll, I feel, I have filled dressed a deer. I've done all that. This is an iguana. This is d'aguana. This is,

different from regular prairie critter. You know what I mean? Like prairie critter I can deal with. This is just straight up, ooh. I feel, I mean, it feels, I don't know. I feel like I'm in hell divers and I'm like eating the things I just shot. You know, I'm like, I don't know, man. Anyway, so he makes tacos out of them. That's one way to deal with it. Woo! I'm going to hear from every Florida person because in addition to having machetes, you know that they're going to be doing this. Let's see. A Florida man took a work for you to a dangerous level, tried to run a dude over. Okay, we got to resolve our differences differently. This is from Keyes News.

The man, he smiles in his mug shop, Monroe County. 50-year-old Jorge Garcia, he was driving a pickup, and he swerved to hit a 38-year-old male. Turns out the male, they've had a workplace dispute. He was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. You can't do that. You can't be running people over with your vehicle. And, of course, it was all caught on security footage from a nearby gas station that backed up the victim's allegations. Third hour on the way, go nowhere.

It's Jim Crow 2.0. And I called it Jim Crow 2.0 and the right wing went nuts all over the internet. That's because they know it's true. What they're trying to do here is the same thing that was done in the South for decades to prevent people of color from voting. Wait a minute. Why do they not like IDs to vote, but they wanted you to show your papers for vaccinations? These are the same people. They wanted. And the majority. of voters, Democrat and Republican, there's been so many surveys. It's just, just, we'd be here all day. They support voter ID. Welcome back to the program. Top of the third hour, Dana Lash with you. The, uh, find us over it substack chapter and verse, YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe as well as the podcast. So, uh, it, it was it Jim Crow to make everybody's show ID and papers during the great vaccine fight? Hmm. Interesting. You know, I had to cancel a whole bunch of stuff in New York when all that happened, because there were places that wanted to have meetings. And I probably ended up screwing myself, but I don't care. It would have been worse if I would have had an experimental injection. And the places that I wanted to go to, they did not allow individuals in the building that were, quote, unquote unvaccinated and it didn't matter if you already had the virus because I'd already had

COVID didn't matter because none of that came shaking and said it's true none of that mattered all of the like natural immunity isn't a thing that they believe in and you had to show you had to download an app there you had to download an app and put your idea in and you had to use this app like if you wanted to go out to eat in New York to go to restaurants get a cat whatever you had to have an app to show your injection statives. That's the dumbest thing ever. But that wasn't Jim Crow. Is it Jim Crow to have to show ID to purchase cigarettes or tobacco products?

Is it Jim Crow to have to produce an ID if one wants to get a phoity, Kane? I'm just saying. Yeah. The irony is it's the left that in New York they did that Lucy cigarette. law that ended up, you know, people who were selling Lucy cigarettes and ended up dying. How he got killed? Yeah. He got killed because they wanted stronger enforcement of Lucy cigarettes. That's them. That's Democrats. That's their history. That's what they wanted. That's what they fought for. I mean, very conveniently, none of those things are Jim Crow. But oh my gosh,

you ask people to show an ID because they're going to vote. Suddenly, that's Jim Crow. That's Jim Crow all of a sudden, which is so stupid. The left has been doing this forever. They, I mean, they think, you know, they invented Jim Crow, so they, they think that they can now turn around and redefined it six ways to Sunday. And this is all because the House is voting next week on photo ID. They're going to vote. Steve Scalese said the floor vote.

They're going to force it. It's going to happen. Save X stuff. Voter integrity. Incredibly important. What is the problem with showing? an ID to vote. I think if you've got a problem, I mean, this is, this is something that is, you know, it's a sacred process in this country. If you don't want to show an ID to vote,

then I'm questioning your motives. I feel like you're going to be pulling some shenanigans, is all I'm saying. I got a couple of other things to get to. I drop some audio, by the way, if you want to grab that. It's Kathy Hochel, who said something insane about firearms, apparently because they're pushing all kinds of restrictions. And I'll wait for one to get that. In the meantime, oh wait, do we have? Okay, now I'll wait for us to get it. You just signal when we got it.

I'll wait for it to get it. In the meantime, you have Brandon Gill, who has introduced a proposal. He said that Islamic migration is transforming DFW. He said that there's a huge problem with mass Islamic migration in Dallas and DFW. and he also is introducing a moratorium on Somali immigration. He said Somalia, which is true, it's a predominantly Muslim country. He said, and people of Texas are concerned about some of this stuff. They had an Islamic group called Y Islam that visited Wiley East High School on February 2nd,

handing hijabs to female students and distributing pamphlets on Sharia, per Texas scorecard. Apparently it was a visit that was not approved by the parents or really the school body itself. So the school addressed it. And they said in an email, quote, mistakes are made, we take full responsibility, et cetera, et cetera. Why was that even allowed to happen in the first place? You'd get in trouble for praying into school, but you can go and distribute hijabs and promote sharia. All of this, of course, now you have a. an Islamic complex, an Islamic whole, like center, East Plano,

residential religious development in Collin County. That's the epic city. They renamed it the Meadows. We've talked about this before with the governor. And then you have, for instance, you've had a couple of, you've had a guy who killed his daughters, according to Sharia, just down the road down the highway from us in Irving. And then you have an Afghan national who was in Fort Worth,

Muhammad de Wood Alok Jose. who came out in support of Taliban, threatened to bomb last Thanksgiving the entire area. He was working as a private security guard as recently as 2024. Now, Gil has legislation in Congress that would pause Somali immigration for 25 years. I completely agree with us.

Yes, the United States has every right to gatekeep. If your baseball team has the right to gatekeep players, your country is the right to gatekeep who comes in and comes out. Come on. And he's correct when he talks about, particularly Somali diaspora, the welfare rates are significantly higher than any and all Americans. Crime rates are higher than even any other immigrant group. That's wild. I didn't know that, but they are. He said the legislation would not currently affect Somalis that have legal status in the United States. So those who were in the country, properly would be exempt from the law, including apparently current green card holders, diplomatic and international organization visas. He says it's not kicking him out of just as we don't want anymore.

And he wants to co-sponsor legislation to denaturalize Somalis engaged in fraud. I can't believe that's not an automatic thing. If you're engaging in taxpayer fraud to the degree that the Somali diaspora was in Minnesota and other groups are elsewhere, that should be automatic denaturalism. and deportation. Because people aren't coming here for the American dream. They're coming here to pervert the American dream. They're coming here to pervert the American dream. And they're coming here to deconstruct the republic. That's really ultimately what it is. I want to play this audio. This is Kathy Hochel, who I can't, I want you to just listen to what she says here. I'm just going to lay it out

with no comment right now. Go ahead. You'll no longer sell handguns that can be converted into semi-automatic machines able to fire 1,200 rounds a minute. Not here, not in New York. Where can I get this fantastic gun that fires, a pistol that fires 1,200 rounds a minute? Where can I get this? I'm like Googling. Apparently it's in New York somewhere. Yeah, where can I get this 1,200 rounds a minute?

pistol. Where can I get it? Machine. This, this, I'm just going to say fabulous pistol. Where can I get this fabulous pistol? Holy wow. 1,200 rounds a minute. So she's these, oh my gosh. A belt fed pistol?

I don't know. I really, I don't know. Maybe it's like a plasma pistol and she just doesn't understand it. Just, you know, auto reload. I don't know. I don't know. Do you realize what you'd have to do to do 1,200 rounds through a pistol in one minute? I think you burn your hand. You could even have a switch on that damn thing.

It still wouldn't do it. So, and she's been calling for stricter laws. They want to, they're going after, which we're going to dive into here coming up. The 3D printing, they're going after all of it. But I just want to come. This is people who have no idea about firearms are the ones that want to, that they want to ban everything.

What does that pistol even look like? What does she mean semi-automatic machines? What the hell is that? Where do I get these fabulous pistols? I can't even imagine the mag that you would have to have. Like a drum mag wouldn't do it. No, it'd have to be belt-fed. Yeah.

Yeah, it would have to. A belt-fed pistol. How does that? How do you carry that? You don't. I mean, I guess you could like feed it you know, like a, I'm thinking like a bandelier, you could, you know, like feed it like off your belt, maybe. Like you'd wear it as like up the belt and then it just like would feed.

I don't know. I'm trying to think out loud. That's, wow. What is, I'm wondering what the manufacturer of this pistol is. Nobody in the press asked her that. Ma'am, can you name them? Who manufactures that pistol? Right.

Man, what kind of, what kind of pistol are you talking about? Is it, is it select fire capable? What kind of rounds? Like what kind of rounds that matters too? Because how are you going to feed the next, you know, there's certain rounds you can't feed that fast into any weapon. Yeah. So I'm, I'm curious, I guess mine are under that 1,200 per minute threshold.

That's a real bummer. And she's talking about converting into semi-automatic machines. What does that mean? A semi-automatic machine. Wait, she's worried about a semi-automatic being converted into a semi-automatic machine? I don't know. I literally don't even know. Save that for today's stupidity one. I... She... I don't know. I am without words. It was in her state of the state address. So this is something that she made yesterday after radio. And she was talking about the Glock switches. By the way,

all of this is... You can't aftermarket, you know, do that. I mean, you can't take a semi-auto and flip it to full auto. I mean, all of this stuff is already regulated. And the fact that lawmakers pretend that it's not is an insult to the intelligence of Americans. This is so stupid. I'm just wondering, like, how she's talking about, you know, she calls unmodified pistols, quote, semi-automatic machines. And that's what she's, still, none of it makes any sense.

None of it. I really need people in government to just stop talking entirely about firearms. whether they're in the administration or whether it's Kathy Hokel, just stop entirely. It's not helpful. I have a whole thing in the Washington Times about this, by the way, that I will link in your prep email. I'll make sure that you get access to that for you subscribers. They need to stop talking about it. Ellen DeGeneres is fleeing the U.S.

Well, she fled the U.S. for the U.K. because of Trump. She's been in the Cotswaltz for a year. Now she's coming back. to the U.S.? Yes. $27 million mansion in California. She's saying that apparently she thinks that

Britain is becoming unsafe. Actually, I think that they just couldn't take the rain and the, excuse me, the rain and the mud, the Cotswolds. Because they purchased two different properties over there. They bought a house out there and then they didn't like it so they went to a different one and now they don't like that, so now they're coming back to Montecito.

Hmm. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So a human skull donated to a Michigan goodwill. Apparently now police are looking for the woman responsible. They just want to talk to her. Apparently it was dropped off at the thrift store last week. And it's, uh, yeah, you can't. It's illegal. That's why they're like, hmm, hey, you dropped off a human skull wrapped in a shirt. They said that there were no uncharacteristic holes or visible damage. They turned it over to a medical examiner.

They sent it to an anthropology department. Could take up to 90 days. What do you got to do? Like look and be like, it's the skull all right. So they just want to talk to the person responsible. That's pretty baldy to drop off a skull to a goodwill. Like somebody could use this in their everyday decorations. I don't know.

But they just want to talk to her. They're not saying she killed anybody, but they want to talk to her. Let's see. Personal protection pups. Demand has increased. The shocking rise of. personal protection dogs. My whole caution with us

it's a whole piece of with a guardian by this woman who does not know how to write a lead to save her life. So I'm going to spare you. I mean, good heavens, L. Hunt. Learn how to journalism. But I think that a lot of people are getting these dogs and they don't know how to take care of them.

If you're getting a personal protection dog, that's a working dog, that's a high energy dog, you've got to be able to devote a lot of attention to that and a lot of training. Smoking laws. They're trying to make cigarettes unaffordable. $17 for a pack of cigarettes. People will pay it.

That's not going to work. They've tried this six ways to Sunday. So right now, they're looking up, looking to add more taxes to this. So in Seattle, they cost like $15 at Washington. They're looking at House Bill 2382. They're going to slap an extra $2 in taxes on cigarettes in Washington. So you're looking at paying $17 for it. That's insane. That's insane. $17. That's just...

Back in the day when I used to smoke, I paid less than that for a carton. That's crazy. But people are still buying it. They're still buying them. We got a lot more on the way. Stick with us. Back after this. Not able to catch all three hours of the Dana Show? Subscribe to the full podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short, easy to digest episodes. ideal for your busy lifestyle on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm trying to wrap my mind around this headline. It's from the New York Post and it says New York City politicians are demanding action from Mandani.

Man Donnie blaming ambiguous city snow removal rules for delayed cleanup. What is ambiguous about snow removal? They're having a hell of a time. This is cut 17. Apparently they're not actually removed. Hi, we added in front of a lander shoe. And the snow patrol is clearing up over here. Big mounds of snow.

But instead of carting it away, they're spreading it out equally on the entire road. Hopefully, it's going to melt quicker. But look at this. It's almost like three inches over here. But it seems like it seems like 15 degrees tonight. So this is all going to become a sheet ice. Yeah, yeah. Liberalism is a mental disorder. Smar much like Mamdani, he wants to make this place as socialists.

He wants to spread the snow equally. Everyone equally gets the same amount of the snow. You gotta say, what do you gotta say over there is this world? You're looking fine, fresh, fresh. That's hysterical. That's what a mess. That's, I mean, good night, that's crazy. So there's, but yeah, they're spreading, everybody gets, some snow. Look, everybody's happy. Socialism. Yay. So they're not removing it. They're, so they're

actually taking it to other parts of the city. They're not actually, they're not actually removing any of it. People are mad. People are saying it's a dirty snow cover dump. Famous people now are blasting Mandani for not doing anything, including like far lefties. They're mad because I mean, it is. It's a mess. That's like, I mean, I, there, you're not even plowing the street. You're creating, and it's right, if it's like, if it's below freezing, that's just a sheet of ice across the whole road. Man, and it looks bad and it's dangerous. Everybody knows this. I can't, um, someone said that they lived here for 15 years and this has never happened. The plows always worked around the clock to get the city back to work. I wonder what happened. I wonder what happened. happen. Yeah, because they've never had an issue with snow. I've been in New York during like blizzards. I one time got stranded and I had to stay an extra night because I was up there doing the view and I kept thinking with as much snow coming down there's no way I'm going to

get out the next day either. And I did because I woke up and it like New York had it cleared out. It was cleared out. So that's now they're struggling. struggling. Now they're struggling with it. And other politicians have been demanded. They've been demanding for some action. They had politicians that were helping people like dig their cars out. That's horrible. Like if you're parked on the side of the road and they come and you're just buried in. You can't go anywhere. You got to dig out. Is it like that in DC too, Steve? It's real bad out there, isn't it? Is it still bad? Everybody's waiting. Some of the, they're saying that the, it's not making it melt faster if it's below freezing.

Do they not know that? Like you're not making it melt faster if it's beyond. If it's below freezing, you're just, you're literally making a giant ice skating rink. What the hell is wrong with people? I know this and I'm not an engineer, Kane. I'm not an engineer. I don't drive bulldozers.

I don't drive snow plows. I don't do street work. But even I know that if it's below freezing and you're spreading around snowmen, one slush. Guess what? You're going to get ice. It's going to be slick and it's going to be dangerous. How is the city not liable? How is this, how are they not liable for any kind of injury or accident by doing something that's stupid? Right? Ooh. I'm just saying, I feel like there's probably going to be something to that at some point. I don't know,

maybe. A couple of other things. Eric Swalwell is in the hot seat. I told you how Bernie Sanders spent over half a million dollars on private flights. So now with Eric Swalwell, he is apparently in trouble because he's been spending campaign cash. Ooh, $200,000 on personal child care. Like his own person, you can't be doing that. The FEC dated from 2019 to 2025. his campaign reimbursed him for over $2,000 of child care-related costs. Three payments were made out to his wife, Britney, that total over $6,000.

Why are you paying your wife to be a mom? That's my question. Yeah, with his donors. I mean, if his donors, this is what happens. If you want to be stupid and donate to a Democrat, this is the stuff they're going to do. they're going to do this kind of stuff. So he has like $1,000, $22,000 for just three months of childcare, from October to December of 25.

For three months of child care. $22,000. What kind of child care is he getting? It doesn't actually say. That's a lot of money for that. Nanny's name is Fang Fang, if that means anything. Oh man, don't. He wouldn't have his Chinese CCP mistress doing this, would he? Mm.

So you got him and you have Bernie Sanders spending donor money on private flights on his, what was it, oligarchy tour? And then, here, so this, pull this up. I have this under Democrats. So apparently, the Charlotte Rail Murder suspect linked to an inmate release was approved under the Democrat governor. Now here's the story. You got Roy Cooper, he's running for

Senate, he's a former governor, Democrat governor. There was a woman on the Charlotte Light Rail train that was murdered and now there's a lot of scrutiny of this prison release deal that Cooper's administration approved. And apparently those people who were freed in that, including this killer. De Carlos Brown Jr. He is the guy, remember Irina Zarutka? He's the guy who's charged in the fatal stabbing of the 23-year-old on that light rail. She was on the Charlotte light rail. Everybody saw that video. It was horrific. She was stabbed to death. He's a repeat offender, extensive criminal history. He was supposed to be under state supervision at the time of attack. and she was the one who was just terrified cowering in her seat after he stabbed her and then she, you know, bled to death.

And the records identified that referenced his offender identification number. It was all tied to the NWACP versus Cooper settlement. So this guy as a part of this settlement, this, he, I mean, apparently it was a COVID-era settlement that authorized the early release of like 3,500 violent offenders incarcerated individuals, and he was one of them. So Roy Cooper cut a deal that freed the guy who killed this young woman after he was freed. He went and killed her. It's that restorative justice. Restortive justice, yay. So he was arrested. He was on post-release supervision in February 2021. they had a preliminary hearing.

They did the COVID settlement that was February 25th, 2021, 10 days after. Long story short, he's pretty much unequivocally involved in that group of people that Cooper freed. Wow. So it's true that he let thousands of violent criminals out early and then he hid what he was doing. He was trying to avoid any kind of at all whatsoever accountability for it. And he also was trying to argue that none of these people were violent. Clearly, especially after you see the brutal stabbing death of Irina Zarutka, he was. This guy was violent. There are others that are violent. So these, it was one of the largest mass prisoner releases in the country, one of the largest in our country's history. And it's on Roy Cooper's watch. He signed off on it. He defended it and advocated for it. And by the way, do you know the people that were, In addition to this guy, just let me give you some of the insight into some of this other stuff. The people who were released had extensive felony histories, sexual offenses, kidnapping, pedophiles, crimes against children.

These are the people that were released. And lawmakers have been requesting a public list in the state under Cooper refused to release it. they would not release which inmates were transitioned or set free basically under this agreement. So wait, this is a trend. You got Gavin Newsom fighting oversight and public scrutiny of the rail in California, and you've got this. Democrats, they don't want any oversight. So this is all another fatality at the hands of restorative justice. It just, there's, it gets worse and worse.

Now, a couple of other things. We talked about Mam Dany earlier. Remember the Carhart jacket that he had? Now he's being ripped over it by local media ahead of the storm that left 16 New Yorkers dead. A city is still in that. He's still wearing that Carhart jacket for all of his press appearances. I don't know if anybody saw this or not, but he is. He's still wearing that jacket.

He had these jackets specially made like the Tiger King with the EMS, jacket and now local media is calling him out saying, wait a minute, during all of this, all this is happening, you had time to go and have these jackets made? Has the city of New York, has all the stuff embroidered on it? It's just a bad look. I mean, people are dying out in the snow. You're not even moving the snow. It's a bad look. There's no other way to look at it. It's a bad look. I just, he's, what, Kane, how long is he, he's like, what, maybe, two months into his term. Already, it seems like he's one of the most unpopular.

He seems pretty unpopular. And he's getting rightfully criticized. He also just visited a guy who got shot while charging at a cop with a knife. Check this out. This is cut 18. And as you said, I spoke with the Chuckerworthy family and I visited Javez in the hospital. And there is no family should have to endure this kind of pain. What did they think was going to happen?

You charge a cop with a knife. What do you think is going to happen? And he's going. And of course, he's advocating on the part of the violent criminal. I feel like this guy's only going to serve one term. The pain will be too great for a second time. I'm kind of getting that. We have more on the way.

We also have today in stupidity coming up. Brighten up your timely news consumption with the Dana Show podcast. podcast where every update comes with a little dash of not so serious on youtube apple or wherever you get your podcasts you know it's funny i was looking at the story about how kids are conducting ice raids and roblox and they're getting in trouble for it aren't they that's what i heard that they were that the game was like not it but they were they were conducting raids and roblox i thought that was kind of funny this is uh what cut is this 25 25 why this they're in Roblox and they're going toward a door to

door busting people look at that poor look at how many are coming out what is that guy why is he all beefy look at the one swat guy he's huge he's huge compared to all the other ones that's hysterical you know what never underestimate kids ever ever never underestimate kids so they're but they're I guess some of them were protesting ice and some of them weren't But they were, you know, they did this in Minecraft too. By the way, I saw a thing in Minecraft. They're trying to get woke.

It's Minecraft. It's literally a game about geology and fighting bugs. Why do people got to be just, you know, absolute debags about it? Just leave games alone. Leave them alone. Have you seen that? They've been, yeah. That's why a lot of, a lot of people are giving up on some of this stuff.

You don't need any of that. You don't need that stuff. Stop it. It's just crazy. So they had, yeah, they were trying to get a little woke with Minecraft. Like, let's be exclusive or inclusive and all that. I don't even know what that means is a game. You can alter your appearance.

You can do whatever. How do you get more inclusive than how it is? I feel like these people have never looked at Minecraft ever if that's like their thoughts on it. Just goofy. One of the things we're going to be looking at this, as we, this later on this week, is some of the other new polling that came in. about midterms. And there was a couple of, everybody's talking about SD9.

I got a post coming out about that still. But there's also this. Like I was looking, some of this, take it for what you will. I think it was really, I first saw it pushed by Cornyn's people. But I've seen a couple of other things that sort of confirm this. The Tala Rico guy, the lefty who was trying to say Jesus loved. abortion and his latest interview and all this crazy stuff he's really competitive with both cornon and paxton and i saw corin's people pushing this poll and i'm like technically it shows him

only within the margin of error that's not good it's not good and it was like plus three corin plus one paxton it and i don't know why corin's people would be pushing this as though that's a good thing. How is it that Republicans in Texas are running that closely to this guy? We'll talk about that later this week. All right, today's stupidity. All right, Juan, it's that Kathy Hokel cut. Holy smokes. We don't know what kind of pistol this is, but Dana and I both want it. I want this fabulous pistol. I need it in my life. Listen to what she says for. You'll no longer sell handguns that can be converted into semi-automatic machines, able to able to, able to to fire 1,200 rounds a minute. Not here, not in New York. Oh, man. Where is that belt-fed pistol

that I want? Yeah, I need that in my life. I need this fabulous gun in my life. Whatever this is, I want it. That's what I need. Folks, that does it for us today. Find us over at substack, chapter and verse. All good things. I'll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow.