The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Katie Porter Gets EXPOSED, Trump's Historic Israel-Hamas Peace Deal, & DOLLY LIVES!!

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

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As you know, we have major sanctions on Iran and lots of other things who would like to see them be able to rebuild their country too. So this is Podus is going over this Hamas peace plan. And it's phase one. So there's a caveat to it. It's phase one of this peace plan. And it's, I don't know, I understand everybody's hesitancy about it. I get it. I really do.

because we have gone through this for years and years. I mean, I was going through, I would kind of belabor the point if I just sat here and went through and looked at all of the different times that they've gotten close to the table and all of the times that Hamas has then afterwards breached any kind of a ceasefire or anything else. And so I get it. However, this is the closest that we've gotten in this particular situation. and I think that that POTUS deserves a lot of credit for that

because he was really driving all of this hard. And he was even pretty, at one point, he was even pretty caustic towards Netanyahu saying that, look, you know, you cannot fight the world. That's apparently what he told him in a phone call that was widely reported that he kind of raised his voice at some point because he, it's tough because Israel is in this position where they have every right to defend themselves,

but you have most of the world that believe somehow they're the enemy. And I just, it's the craziest thing I've ever seen. That's the way it is. And POTUS is trying to help them navigate that. And sometimes that means raised voices. Welcome to the show, Dana Lash, with you. Now, I wrote about this last night,

if you're a subscriber, you get this, because this plan, and I've written about it before, it's the 20-point peace plan. And I'm reading it now. if you get the newsletter, you already have this. And you've already read it this morning. If you're one of the subscribers that gets the daily prep. So the 20-point plan, one of those is, remember, they have to disarm, they have to release hostages.

And the hostage release is the 20 remaining living hostages in exchange. And this is what I don't like. In exchange for an asinine amount of detainees in Israel's country. And I say detainees when really it should be terrorists because these are people who have been apprehended in the act, in the process of committing a terror act, whether it is they're trying to stab somebody, they're trying to blow somebody up. And that's one of the reasons why they're always very widely reported when these people are taken into custody. So there is a record and people can see, oh, this person was arrested because they're a terrorist. And they were taken. taken into custody because they were trying to kill innocent people simply because they don't like who they are. So that's the one, the only thing that I would be kind of a stickler about. The groups that they're talking about freeing, I mean, some of the people that Gaza is demanding be freed in exchange for the 20 living hostages include some of the terrorists who paraglided in to the Nova Music Festival. I'm sorry,

but I think that if you were responsible, first off, I think if you were a terrorist, you should just die. But I think if you were responsible for October 7th, my only anger about this is that Israel hasn't put them to death first already, that any of these terrorists would still be living. If you're caught paragliding into a music festival to kill innocent people, sorry, I don't believe that you get a trial. I believe you get led to the head and that's it. Right there in the field, one and done. We're going to save everybody a lot of money. We're going to save the bureaucracy, all of the process. That's just kind of how I look at it. When you're committing an act, that's an act of war. And if you want to go that way, then we're going to suspend regular protocol. If you're caught doing that, that's my only gripe, is that any of them would be,

any of them are alive, even in custody. So I don't know. I mean, it's never worked well before, I think, whenever any of these terrorists have been previously released, because they go back to doing terrorist stuff. So we'll see. But I realize, you know, in a kitten, it's not a perfect world. It's not a kitten's and sunshine world. They're trying to de-escalate everything and then go from there. And we'll see. I don't know.

I bet that's, Kim, what do you think? You think this is a good deal? I feel like here we are again reenacting the scene from a glorious bastards. Yeah, I mean. Would you take that deal? I would. If I'm Hamas. Well, if you're Hamas, but I don't know.

I mean, I just feel like they don't know. How in the world is anyone, Kane, if I bust into your house and like killing members of your family, how in the world do I get to tell you, well, you have to release some of the baddies that helped me in order to get some of your family members back? Yeah, that's a tough one. See?

That's what I'm saying. That's the problem that I have. And I just feel like it's asinine to even expect them to do that. At some point, enough is enough, right? enough is enough at some point. I don't know. So this is one of the things I can't get over it. This is one of the points of the 20 point peace plan. Now, of course, they also have giving up jurisdiction. I shouldn't say jurisdiction, administration of the area, as well as disarming, leaving the area. We'll see. I mean, if the hostages are freed, I think that that's regardless, that's going to be viewed as a major win for Trump, regardless anything else. If the hostages are freed, that's going to look like a major win for him. And honestly, I know that a lot of people are talking about the Nobel Peace Prize. I really, I just am not, you guys know how the Nobel Peace Prize came to be, right? The whole thing about the Nobel Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel, you know, he created dynamite. And he realized there was the story of

how his death, his death was prematurely announced. And, you know, he realized. And, you, he realized, there was the story of how his death, he had read about it in the paper, you know, getting up in the morning, somehow it came out that he was, you know, dead and he wasn't dead. But he read that, oh, the inventor of dynamite, and it cost all these lives, and it just sort of stuck with him. And so he ended up creating, he was called the Merchant of Death. That's what they had called him. It was a French newspaper, and it was like in the late 1800s. And they said, oh, my gosh, the merchant of death is dead. You know, Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.

And he became rich. They said he became rich because he invented. ways to kill more people faster than ever before with dynamite. And he was horrified. He was reading this about himself. You know, this is his obituary in this French paper. It mistakenly announced that he had passed. And he was just horrified. So he made an effort to promote to promote peace afterwards because he didn't like the scathing obituary that was accusing him of profiting off of all of these deaths, Le Moshan de la Mord. So he said, it was described by people around him

as a very shocking wake-up call. And he realized that he did not like public perception of him being that of a killer as opposed to a benefactor. So he really got involved in philanthropy. He created the Nobel Peace Prize as well as awards for science, et cetera, things like that. And the Nobel Prize.

And that's how he wanted to go out. And that's why that award continues today. When we were in Oslo, we were actually outside of the head. headquarters for them. It was very interesting. And also interesting, the headquarters is right by a spot where the Nazis had to surrender, excuse me, to the Norwegians, after they were trying to run roughshod in the nation, and then finally they were defeated. So very interesting. So my whole point is, I don't know why some people, don't feel like you have to kiss the Nobel Prize Committee's

backside to do this, because look at the people that they've awarded a Nobel Peace Prize before. I mean, for crying out lot, Barack Obama. What did he do? Nothing. I mean, Trump should have gotten it. with the Abraham Accords, but I digress. So I don't know. I just feel like seeking validation from the Nobel Committee is like seeking validation from the New York Times. Do you really need it in order for it to be considered a success? We have more, a lot more to get into as we roll towards our headlines. The folks at Relief Factor, relief factor is a great way. It's 100% drug-free, a research-based formula that's designed to support healthy response to inflammation and decrease discomfort from exercise, everyday living the whole nine yards at targets.

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He won the jackpot prize of 2,600, but he had to wait for an attendant to process the payout and had moved to an nearby machine to continue playing. He claimed that two men and one woman, who were named his defendants, approached it upon seeing the price displayed, began loudly claiming they had won. He approached the group to say that that was my prize money, they immediately got hostile and started threatening him. The group told him to leave and said it was theirs. One of them stepped forward and got into his face.

He threw a punch to protect himself. Everybody was on the ground. Security guards were not present. That's actually really bad for Blasio. I mean, when those things go off, y'all better be having an attendant. Like, right, I don't gamble, but you all better be having an attendant right there to handle that. So he apparently, he got hit. He got physical injuries.

He's seeking 15,000 in damages. so it's not crazy, you know. But yeah, that cannot happen like that. Y'all, when that thing goes off, you better be there because people have no man. People just are soulless anymore. Gene Simmons is hospitalized after a Los Angeles car crash. He apparently passed out behind the wheel of his SUV. And, oh, man, I hope he's okay.

I've met him once. He was very nice. 76 years old. He was on the Pacific Coast Highway Tuesday and ended up passing out. His car went veering across several lanes and then slammed into a vehicle. And he said he's doing. doing okay right now. He's recovering at home, but apparently he lost consciousness. I don't know if he's dealing with a health issue, but in speaking of health issues, Dolly Parton says she's not

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informative news companion for those always on the move. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. And the state could lose. boy. Get out of my shot. Oh gosh. That's actually incorrect.

It's not that it's electric vehicles. It's that if we don't make a commitment to any of the Paris climate order. Okay. It does.

Okay. You also were in my shop before that. Stay out of my shot. Okay. I'm going to start again with. Holy cow.

So that's Katie Porter. By the way, kudos to that staffer who not only did not take that, but was like, By the way, you're talking about EVs and you're wrong and corrected her. And Katie Porter's response was, yeah, you're still like in my shot.

My gosh, these people are insane. They're insane. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. It was an aide who said she simply wanted to correct something that she had said about electric vehicles. This was published last evening by Politico. And it was several minutes in the conversation. So this was it from, I think this was like a July of 2021, which is why that staffer is wearing the face mask. And she was like in view a few minutes.

She was going through some stuff in the background. Porter screamed at her, well, yelled at her. And then she said, well, what you're wrong, what you were saying there. You know, she's like, I just, FYI. And so kudos to her. But oh my gosh, this is. And by the way, was this while she was talking to Jennifer Granholm? So I'm curious, was Jennifer Granholm like connected with her at that point?

because I'm because at that point Jennifer Granholm's already the energy secretary Katie Porter is not you know I I don't know she was in Congress and I don't know why she I just can't believe she thought she could act like that to somebody and scream at somebody like that that's insane you're at my side I would first off the shot is horrible anyway you have your refrigerator in the background I mean for crying out loud you you can't there's not a blank wall that you could situate yourself in front of or something to where we don't see all the debris by your sink and everything else.

The woman in the shot was the least problematic to say nothing of Katie Porter's attitude. I mean, I'm looking at, I'm sorry, but I got to get real picky about this. I'm looking at everything in the background and she's got all of this like debris like all stacked up on her butcher block little island. And then, I mean, I can see your dish soap.

I can see all of this stuff. and the stuff on the fridge, I just think that that's more problematic than anything else. The staffer in the shot is the least. Kane, Juan, you guys wouldn't accept a shot like that. No.

That looks hokey. To have all of that stuff in the background. She's not in a corner. She doesn't got a wall behind her. Yeah, it's standard to keep the background as less busy as possible so that your focus is on the content of what's being said in the video.

And obviously, that wasn't a concern of hers. Hmm. So I don't know. I think that's kind of... The staffer's the least of my concerns. I'm really nosy. Can you just bear with me for a minute?

What is that in the background? What does she have? You can tell a lot about somebody by this stuff they have. That's... I see dish soap. What else do I see? What is this? I know it doesn't matter.

And the people who are not watching the radio show on 347 DirecTV or in the chat at Rumble watching it or like Dana, who cares? But like what is that? It looks like a box of just like junk that she's got a sign on. And then all other, she looks like a hoarder.

And then it's like all in the, like what in the world? You don't have to have like a better Homes and Gardens setup. Right. I don't know. I just think that that's just. And for her to have that attitude and then to yell at that staffer. Katie Porter is indicative of this. I don't know how to describe it.

current level of the what's currently happening with the Democrat Party where you've got I keep telling you the ones who are who are like 50 and younger that are coming up have major issues they all have major issues I do not recognize them as part of my generation they all have issues all of them think of it you've got mandani ma'am donnie you've got some of the progressives in Texas you've got the crockets, you got all of these. There's just, I don't know, they are, it's like they pulled people off of the street and just staffed their party with them. They are representative of like the worst inclinations of the Democrat Party.

So anyway, you have, you have Katie Porter, she's struggling, by the way. She really is not having, I mean, she's, you know, maybe perhaps the leading Democrat, but she's got major. anger issues. She's running for governor, as you know. She's trying to replace Gavin Newsom. Have you noticed Gavin Newsom hasn't really touched her? Maybe it's just because it's a primary so far, but he's not gotten involved in it. So clearly, if she was the anointed one, they would all be behind her already. It's a pretty divided field. So she's going against Zabir Bacera. And now Zabir Bacera was AG of California. He became HHS under, head of HHS under Biden, Harris.

And now he's running for California governor. And then you've got the loss and mayor and then that's just on the Democrat side. And then there's like, I think Steve Hilton is the Republican. He's a British guy. And then a bunch of other people, no one knows. So in California, it's the top vote getters that if they are the top vote getters, they advanced to the November ballot, regardless of what their party is. So she doesn't have a major lead. Her big thing is that she has name recognition because she was a congresswoman from the burbs around L.A. So that's literally the only reason I think at this point why she's maintaining some kind of, or why she looks like she's in the lead in this primary.

Now, I mean, these videos are really going to help with that name recognition, but not in the way that she's hopes or her staff would hope. because you have the CBS thing that fell apart and then you have this, her screaming this. And I mean, and the way she handled, if I could go back to that interview that she did,

the CBS interview, that is, that is just, first off, she didn't handle the questioning correctly. Because the questioning, the question that was asked of her is, well, what do you say to the 40% of,

because they're talking about, could you get Trump voters? and the reporter had asked, well, what do you say to the 40% of California voters that you need to win this race? What do you say to that 40% that voted for Trump? Now, she could say, well, you know, it's a one-party state, so it doesn't really matter. She can't say something like that. But there was a way that she could have more gracefully handled it. And if that's the toughest question that Katie Porter has ever been asked, which I kind of think it may be.

And she just failed that spectacularly. Guys, I mean, how in the, I don't know, man. I don't know. It's so bad. I mean, she could have said, well, technically it's like kind of a one-party state. Or, well, you know, that's, that's, you know, it's, that's a tautology. So technically, it's illogical. Go ahead. Listen to listen to this real quick.

Listen to how she, the question and how she handled it. Because the question is actually kind of a logical. Listen. So, and the question is, what do you say to the 40% of voters who voted for Trump? Oh, I'm happy to say that. It's the, do you need them to win part that I don't understand. I'm happy to answer the question as you haven't written and I'll answer it. And we've also asked the other candidates, do you think,

think you need any of those 40% of California voters to win, and you're saying, no, you don't. No, I'm saying, I'm going to try to win every vote I can. And what I'm saying to you is that well, to those voters. Okay, so you. I don't want to keep doing this. I'm going to call it. Thank you. So Katie Porter, first off, you have to understand Democrats or reporters, even if you're Democrats, sometimes and they don't like you, they're going to ask you a tough question that you might not be able to answer easily. But she should have been prepared for that, especially because this question has been asked of other candidates. Either her staff didn't prepare her or she, I mean, regardless, I think even if they did, she wouldn't have been able to handle it. All she would have to do is say,

I would love to win every voter, you know, but historically, California is a pretty one-party state. So it kind of washes out in the end. I mean, that you could have said something just as innocuous as that. And then she could have monologued a little bit and commanded the interview and taken it to a place where maybe she could have thrown her a bone with some sort of, you know, on a different issue. But she didn't do that because she's not talented. She's not talented. She's not a quick thinker. She's short-tempered, and she's intellectually stumpy. She's just not fast. And that's very evident. Every single time I've seen her in a back and forth, that's, you know, it's pretty evident. But that's not a hard question to handle, right? That's not a difficult question to handle at all. I mean, I've actually,

I can't believe him saying this. I can't remember where it was. Joe Biden was doing some sort of press avail during the campaign and the lead up to 2020. And they were talking about not necessarily verbatim the blue wall, but they were talking about Michigan and some of these other states and, you know, like, you know, and going into like more redder counties. And they're like, well, you know, some of these counties, you know, you might lose because they're red. What do you say to those, do you need those voters? And Biden's like, I would love to have all those voters. And he's like, you know, and if they don't vote for me, you know, I'm still going to figure out a way to win. I mean, he's for crying out lot was barely sentient. And he was able to answer that

question better than Katie Porter. I mean, it was basically the same question, just different variables. And it's not even a gotcha question. I know the reporter would love to have the soundbite where Porter, or the reporter would love to have Porter saying, well, I don't need Trump voters to win. And that's ultimately what she was going for. Any Democrat that's not prepared to answer that question is a moron. And you can't tell me that the staff didn't prepare her. I mean, technically, I guess it's a possibility that they didn't. But if you're someone who's already been in Congress, and you're portraying yourself as a quick thinking seasoned, you know, political veteran, that's child's play.

I mean, that was actually kind of a softball considering the level here. You're talking about the gubernatorial race. And the fact that she couldn't even rise to that occasion, you don't rise to the challenge. You fall back on your skill set. And Katie Porter's skill set is being a bitch. And so she fell back on that. That's the truth of it. I mean, that's just crazy.

If I was advising her campaign, I would have quit. There's no way in hell. There is no way. the fact that you couldn't have answered that and I will never forget because I remember that Biden quote and and people were trying to say look you know Trump says he doesn't need Democrats. Biden says he would love to have Republican voters and they try to make a big thing out of it. I remember when that happened. And I just, it made me think of that when watching actually the second clip and just thinking

that she has an anger issue to say nothing of the fact that she dumped potatoes on her hot potatoes on her husband's head, which is really weird. But okay. she um it's just not she's got a lot of she's got a lot of issues now does she have as many issues as jones has that's something that we're going to discuss because he's trying to so hard stay in this race and there were there was some internal polling that was released oh yeah she got really mad about her lighting she's like oh the lights are killing she was just really rude about it but jones he um there was a last night there was uh somebody had posted

some of the latest internal polling. It's what campaigns used to refine their messaging, et cetera, et cetera. So she, this internal polling came out about Jay Jones, and a lot of people are saying it's Spanberger, who potentially released it. And that there is a building quiet pressure to get him out of the race,

because it's not going anywhere. And I have a feeling that there's a lot more stuff about him that is being drip, drip, drip, dripped out. I really feel that. And I feel like a lot more of it's going to be coming. And they're just sort of girding their loins about it. We're living in a time when truth feels dangerous and silence comes at a cost. Victoria was scared and desperate when she took the abortion pill at Planned Parenthood.

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I want to say something. Well, today's October the 8th, and obviously I'm here doing some commercials for the Grand Ole Opry, which is why I'm dressed, kind of like a country Western girl. But before I got started, I wanted to say, I know lately everybody thinks that I am sicker than I am. Do I look sick to you? I'm working hard here. Anyway, I wanted to put everybody's mind at ease, those other things. that seem to be real concerned, which I appreciate, and I appreciate your prayers, because I'm a

person of faith. I can always use the prayers for anything and everything, but I want you to know that I'm okay. I've got some problems, as I mentioned, back when my husband car was very sick, that was for a long time, and then when he passed, I didn't take care of myself, so I let a lot of things go that I should have been taken care of. So anyway, when I got around to it, the doctor said, we need to take care of this, we need to take care of that. Nothing major, but I did have to cancel some things so I could be closer to home, closer to Vanderbilt, you know, where I'm kind of having a few treatments here and there. But I wanted you to know that I'm not dying. I love Dolly Parton. I also

loved it later how she goes in. Can you believe what did she say? People put up an AI video of me and when she said Loretta Lent, Ereba McIntyre. And she goes, we look like we should have been buried. I about died. She's hysterical. Well, I saw, because we had it, like her sister was saying, you know, she needs prayers in that. And everyone's like, no. I mean, I really think that Dolly Parton would inspire humanity to take up arms against death itself.

Should anything happen before we are ready to have her leave. But she's, I love her. And she's always been real nice. And she's never gotten super political. and I just feel like her body of work and all of her goodwill means she didn't have to get super political and she does not have to qualify her associations or her political beliefs to anybody. And I kind of like that. I like that there is still a place to go and people who still offer a place to go where you can get away from the politics and it doesn't have to seep into your entertainment and doesn't have to seep into the things that you leave politics to get a break in it.

I like that. She is working hard. So look at her. her, Dolly Parton, because I was getting real nervous. We all were. We're like, oh. And then Kane's like, I think she pre-recorded it. I think so. She said October 8th. I know. It was yesterday.

I could record something today and say it's October 11th and then play it October 11th. What in the world would that stop it? I'm just saying I can do it. Oh my gosh. I realize you got a thing with old people, but you know, Dolly's different, you know. Not every old person is trying to trick on you. Not every one. That's not fair.

So I'm glad that she's okay Because who was the other one that we saw? There was, I know, someone kept, every time somebody dies now, I get, everyone's like, well, your grandma's rule of three. And I'm like, I don't even know how that, grandma boots,

and we called her boots, and we have no idea why. There's no logic to the rule of three. It's just if you, if someone kicks the bucket, then two other people that you know, celebrities, et cetera, or just high profile people will also.

That's her rule. But I don't, know how that applies if you know them and other people don't know them i don't know how that works and is it just like celebrities and i don't know she never i should have asked her to explain it like it's a logical thing but it is now see now you just told me somebody kane i don't know who this person was what you don't no i don't know this dude i never seen him in my i wouldn't know him if i fell over him in my living room you don't know that picture on the right you don't know who that is no i don't i don't know who Ron Dean? I feel bad because I don't, but I don't. All right, we got our second hour on the way.

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Well, first, we've made sure that people know their rights and they know how to find out what their rights are because we don't want them picked up off the streets just because they're brown or black, just because they happen to be undocumented, and have come. committed no crime. Okay. Well, I mean, just because he was in the store taking items off the shelf, shoving into his pants pockets and running out of the store, doesn't mean that he's like a criminal. Doesn't mean that he's gone out to commit more crimes. That's so dumb. You know what I mean? Entering the country illegally is a crime. And I can't believe we keep having to say this over and over again. It's really annoying because then we can't say anything new because we have to keep going back and

try to stop that from becoming a thing because the left one stopped saying it. That was J. B. Pritzker, by the way. I don't know. nor do I care who the reporter is. But J.B. Pritzker was saying, well, no, I mean, they, you know, just because they happen to be here illegally, they haven't committed a crime. What? If you're driving without a license, you get pop forth that's illegal.

If you, there's a million things, just because you go on to do something else after you commit an illegal act doesn't mean that the act that you committed wasn't illegal. by nature of you going on and doing other things. Correct? If someone breaks into my home, that's still breaking and entering a crime. But what if they go to like Walmart after, Kane?

Yeah, if they just walk out and didn't take anything, it's still a crime. Yeah. Sorry. And if people don't believe that, I mean, if J.B. Pritzker, if he doesn't, if he really believes that, I mean, just maybe, then why does he have like such a secure estate? He's got the governor's mansion and then he's got all kinds of other properties. So. Sure, he locks his doors and his gates.

And has security and cameras to keep unwanted guests from entering. I guess he just hates people. Why does he hate people? What if I wouldn't be able to walk into the governor's mansion? Why does he hate people? Oh, my gosh. Bigot. I mean, it's same.

It works, right? That makes sense. Because the logic is consistent. It's true. Back again to the program. we were just listening to POTUS. He was holding a cabinet meeting and allowing the press to come and ask some questions before that all gets kicked off and get some insight there. So, and of course, we're still dealing with shutdown madness. Nobody knows what's going to happen. Nothing new.

We're still dealing with shutdown madness. But the, and Democrats, by the way, I was pulling, let me pull this up. This was something I marked this morning. Give me five, half a second. Here we go. This was from Gallup. It was released this morning. And it headlined Americans' job ratings of six key agencies worsen. And it's a new survey that is really, really bad for Democrats, actually, in this shutdown. And Republicans need to kind of look at this. It looks at some of these major government agencies that have really, really deteriorated in the past couple of years. So you have FEMA, the CIA, CDC, FEMA, CIA, CDC, FDA, FDA, EPA, IRS. They are at the lowest points in Gallup's trend. Now, it says the decline in agency job ratings for these agencies is the greatest for FEMA. You're looking at minus 20. That's a big drop. CIA drop 10. CDC drop nine. FD. EPA, they fall in seven each, IRS down six. Their performance ratings as excellent or good range from

25 to 31 percent. These are record lows for all, but the IRS, which was one point lower in 2013. Now, why is this bad for Democrats in shutdown? Well, because no one likes these agencies and these agencies are all frozen because Democrats want to undo the cuts that were made in the one big, beautiful bill to said agencies. Democrats are fighting to give more money to agencies that have dropped, you know, anywhere from 20 to 10 points in terms of public perception or public approval, literally within the past year. Is anyone in the Democrat Party paying attention to any of this stuff? If I'm looking at this, if I'm a consultant, if I'm a strategist and I'm looking at this, I'm saying, Democrats, you need to stop defending these agencies. You need to stop defending the

federal workforce. People are not buying it. Because these people, look, you have federal workers still getting paid, even when everyone else was forced to stay home and they weren't getting paid. There are a lot of people still, I think, underestimating the rage that people have for that still is very, very, very dangerous. Republicans need to be, you want to talk about seizing, Republicans need to be seizing on this. This is actually a huge thing. You know why? Because if these, if people loat these agencies as much as being reflected in this polling, then guess what? That makes it a hell of a lot easier for Republicans to go out there and sell the American public on cutting government bloat, cutting the expansion of these agencies, especially the expansion of the IRS

with 88,000 additional workers, cutting funding. It makes the reductions in terms of expense so much easier when you're messaging that to the public. And I have no idea why we don't have a Republican leaders just sailing on this right now. I mean, this is, this Democrats are, they need to call the Democrats bluff. You know, the only agency that actually saw an uptick and improve, an approval, approval, sorry. According to this story, it's the Department of Homeland Security. Department of Homeland Security, according to this piece at Gallup has seen a significant increase. a significant improvement in its job rating. Do you want to know by how much,

particularly amongst independence and Republicans? 59 points. So you know what? People not Christy know them. And look, I do. You know, I'm like, oh, my gosh, shot her dog in a gravel pit. However, they're like, oh, she always has cameras.

I saw a tweet out there last night, making fun of her for always having cameras and showing her doing all of this. Well, you can argue she understands populism and she understands it in order to constantly make sure that you have that approval rating, that you've got to be out there messaging this to the people every single damn day, and that's what she's doing. So maybe instead of like attacking her for it, ask why approval for her agency now has shot up by 59%.

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So in Kentucky, a man was charged with a terroristic display over a Halloween decoration. Stephen Markham. He's 58 years old. He was charged with terroristic threatening. The display featured body bags labeled with the titles of local government officials. It didn't have anybody's name in it. It just had like district judge. What's the other?

Like they're just mayor. Just the titles. A local prosecutor reported the display to the display to the public. police after driving past his home in Stanton, Kentucky. One of the, the Powell County judge executive drove past it. He was unsettled despite the fact that he was not named on any of them. He said he knew the guy for decades. He said he was someone who can be a good person.

I'm sorry, but I really, they ceased his decorations and took it to a police station. He's being held on $5,000 bond right now. Yeah. Apparently, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, in order to find, and this is, so this is it, this was in Kentucky that they did this. And what gets me is this is a British newspaper. The reason the British newspaper is writing about this is the examples that they give below. All of the examples at Liverpool and Manchester and another one that was in Britain, all of the other examples they give are in Britain.

Because you know they're arresting people for memes and things like that and they're trying to defend themselves. The reason they ran this in this British publication is so they can be like, look, in America, the free speech bastion of America. I feel like this guy's got a lawsuit on his hands. I really do. Really do. That's insane. NFL finds Jerry Jones $250,000 for flipping off fans.

He says that it was unintentional. Do we believe that it was unintentional? He said he didn't mean to do it. He said it was in the middle of an interaction with New York Jets. Multiple fans recorded him interacting with them. And apparently he held up his middle finger before pointing at someone and waving to somebody else. and some people said he was just simply trash talking. Should he have been fine?

No. That's stupid. I mean, it's sports. You know, smack talking is if you can't do it, then, and if it hurts your feelings, please, dear heaven, stay out of sports. Please do not, because it makes it fun. We enjoy those stuff. Good night.

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Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this, our second hour. It feels like it's still the first hour. So yesterday I sat down with my friend Jack Carr. You might know him. He is the author of the Terminalist series. it stars Chris Pratt on Amazon Prime. In fact, actually, it began as a book series. And he began, they turned the book series into a series on Amazon.

So Chris Pratt Terminalist, that's the first season. Now, Dark Wolf is now the second season on Amazon Prime. And then, of course, Jack just came out with a new book called Cry Havoc, which takes place back in Vietnam. And we sat down yesterday and had a very in-depth discussion, including we talked about everything, not just about his projects, but because of his military background. We also talked about drone warfare and China and a lot more. Here's a little bit of a, here's an excerpt of that. Listen.

When you're thinking of future projects, because the future of warfare is changing and you and I were talking a little bit earlier about drone warfare, are you thinking about all of that stuff in terms of like your, how you're, because it's changing pretty quickly. And if you write something, I mean, obviously, as you know, like 10 years from now, it's going to look so, foreign compared to war fighting in Vietnam, like back in the 60s and 70s. It's going to look so different. What are your thoughts on all of that? Because the drone warfare is a terrifying it's a terrifying thing. I think the first time we actually saw it really implemented was with Ukraine. Yeah. So it's out there. I put it in True Believer. So there was a drone attack in True Believer. And we actually filmed that for the for the series. So that's in there. But that was in 20,

that book came on 2019. I started writing it in 2016. But what was great about this book, back to the drone warfare in a second, is that there weren't drones to consider here. There wasn't really satellites to consider. There weren't cell phones. There weren't Teslas. There weren't cameras on every corner. There wasn't facial recognition technology. You could still forge an ID, like all of those things you could do in 1968.

It's a lot easier to be school. Exactly. I could use old school spy craft, tradecraft, and not have to write a chapter and be like, oh, why didn't someone just text him and call off the attack? You know, like you, you know, someone has to search for not even a quarter, like a dime or something to find a pay phone or something here. But so cell phones have really changed the way you write through. And we filmed things too. How many times are we seeing someone just pick up a phone and have a conversation on a cell phone or to be a text in TV and film today? And it's just because

that's how we are as people as well, unfortunately. And, you know, that's something that I was talking about yesterday is that phones and communication, it used to connect us with family and friends that were far away. And now these things disconnect us from people we're sitting right next to. Yeah. It's just crazy to think about. I think there's too much connection. I read a headline where it said people max out having like social interactions and friends at 150 people. And that's really putting. That seems a lot.

That's a lot. And they're like, with some people, it's like 50 kind of maxes it out. There is something to be said for that. Yeah, I believe you're right. And I don't think as humans whom beings were meant to handle all that sort of input. But people can take advantage of it now as well. And it doesn't benefit us as citizens. It doesn't make us better spouses, better mother.

fathers, citizens, uh, it just, uh, just divides us and benefits, maybe political parties and, and of course the,

uh, the tech overlords. There's why I'm trying to push reading so much and reading. Being a reader is being, is a new type of rebellion against the digital tier. Yes. Nothing replaces a tangible actual book. Exactly.

I mean, you pick, pull out a book and start reading a book. That like stands out today. Pull out a cell phone. You just blend in with everybody else. So I'm trying to get pushed the, uh, the, uh,

the reading as an act of rebellion. Nice. I like that. Yeah, But for this, yeah, the drone warfare, I'm so glad that I got out of the military before the drone warfare stuff really hit. It is so scary seeing those drone attacks in Ukraine in particular. And of course, different nations are using them in different ways. We saw Israel use one about a year and a half ago.

Now, you're in a couple months ago where they used drones as a blocking force. So blocking force is like, let's say, a group of rangers that comes in and blocks or contains, which are different things, but similar tactics. and then smaller Special Operations Force goes within that perimeter and does what they need to do in there. And Israel did it with just that smaller group of people to go into a certain target in Syria last about a year and three or four months ago.

And instead of having people be that blocking force, they use drones as the blocking force, which is really interesting. I hadn't heard of that being done before. And then, of course, we're seeing those drone attacks in Ukraine, and you're seeing these drones hunt people down in these trenches. And from what Iran to build as rumbles. What Mossad did with in Iran was,

That was pretty spectacular. Yeah. You can do it there. And, of course, the enemy's always learning, always adapting. But then I got a little nervous because I'm like, if they're able to go into Iran and build a drum base within Iran, then who's to say that that could not happen in the United States? I think a CCP on farmland. I think of the little trial balloon that went over the whole country. Nobody did anything.

They were just out, you know, oh, I get up there. Yeah, that's a little scary. It definitely could happen here. Sure. I mean, we're always learning. the enemy is always learning, always adapting. Typically the enemy does it a little faster than we do because we're a gigantic bureaucracy,

and the enemy is not in many cases. And when I say enemy, I mean Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, super empowered individuals, terrorist organizations, they can adapt a little faster than we can because they don't have as many constraints. We've had a technological advantage for a long time, but because of how technology has dispersed really across the world, maybe we don't have quite the advantage

that we thought we did, or it's leveling up. I think we still have it, but I think it's leveling up also. So someone certainly could do something similar to what Israel did in Iran right here in this country. I don't even think they need the land to do it. I think it's already exists. And that's what's scary, because I hope that we have, for the lack of a better way to put it, a whole stockpile of really spooky stuff that we can use. I mean, that's where I'm totally okay with my tax dollars going.

Like, I just want some super lethal, super spooky stuff, just stockpile it. because I look at, you know, China and AI and the drones that they're making. I mean, granted, you know, it's kind of a war of attrition with them. It doesn't matter the quality. They can just produce a million of, you know, something. But, you know, the chips manufacturing, like with Taiwan and all of this other stuff. And I just feel like we are really behind the ball on this and not even really aware of it. We see it happen in Iran.

We're like, oh, wow, that's pretty cool. Right. Over there. Wow, that's really scary. Yeah. Over there. And I just feel like not enough are putting two and two together. here and questioning that. Sure. No, you have to always put yourself in the enemy's shoes and ask,

hey, what would I, what lessons would I take from this if I were the enemy? Okay, maybe this. Then how would I adapt? What would I do? How would I think that the United States is going to try to counter what I'm doing right here? What they think are anticipating that I would take. Oh, then I'm going to do this instead. So that's a constant game of adaptation. And typically, who adapts faster than the adversary is going to end up on top. Do you think this administration is correcting some of that, the mistakes that have been made by, you know, previously, it doesn't seem like they're trying to bring us up to speed because I think you, obviously, I think I trust your perspective on this more than mine. But from what you're seeing, I mean, are you pleased with, you know,

the changes that have happened so far? Yeah, I think we're on the right path. And it's, I'm not saying that the administration got the Department of War thing from me. I'm just saying that I never heard anybody talk about it until I talked about it after the Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021. So I think you even talked about it on with me. We did. Yeah. So Department of War. And in 1947, it changes from the Department of War to the Defense. Why should people know that? Precision in language reflects precision in thought. And when you have something that was called the Department of War, that has a certain connection to the vocabulary. And it means something. And you change that to the Department of Defense. Now, that means something. That's a different word.

war and defense, those are different words. And words are meant to be precise. And when you defend something, that is very different than going to war to crush something. And so I advocated for that back in 2021. But it's interesting. People are saying that it's now called the Department of War. But if you look at the statement from the White House, it's worded very, once again, very precisely. So here they were very precise. So they say that you can call it the Department of War. We are calling it the Department of War. But I think it really takes an act of Congress. to change it moving forward to the Department of War. So those are different things.

Yes. So that bureaucracy you're talking about there. The new SEC war, can't say SECDF anymore. I like Sec War better. The Secretary of War came out, I think this was last week, and had all the generals amass. And the press was going crazy. Why are all of these generals going and meeting with Secretary of War? It's Donald Trump's going to get us in World War III.

That's kind of what they were intimating in the headlines. Then he gets them all together. And he's like, all right, we've got to have news. we got to actually be fat anymore. No more fatties. No, no trainees, no fatties, no fatties, none of this. They thought we were here for, we're going to announce World War III and you're just telling me I do some more pushups? Yeah, exactly. What a big letdown for some of those guys. They're probably like, oh, geez, I wish she was going to announce some sort of a warrior that I'm going to have to go do this PT test. You know, it's possible. It's possible. I've walked by some of those guys.

Yeah. They know who they are. Was that in your estimation? Is that a long time coming? Oh, yeah. I mean, it's a, it's a pretty big correction because we've gone so far in another direction. We look at how many admirals in general. So flag officers there were in World War II, and I won't give an exact number because I don't know it, but it was very small compared to the amount of flag officers we have today. And yes, we are a larger country today, but you are a very top heavy organization today. It really was a profession of arms back then, and it's meant to be a profession of arms. Once again, language. But it became a career for some. And there's a very, there's a difference between a career and a profession. And it's a different mindset.

But they may say it became a career for some of these people, which means they're just trying to climb the ladder, just trying to impress the person that's higher up on that ladder. And instead of, and that's what you have to do still for evaluations and fit reps. And maybe it's gotten better. My information is a little dated. I've been out for a moon or two now. But what really matters is that competence and how your peers see you and the people that are below you in the chain of command see you as well. So hopefully they're looking at things a little more holistically. So that is, that's an excerpt of our.

discussion with Jack Carr. Now, you can watch the full discussion tomorrow. What time, yeah, it says right down there at 5 p.m. Eastern 4 Central. I'm like, what time is, what time do I do it, Kane? What time do we do? It's right underneath me. But you can watch that at 4 p.m. Central, 5 p.m. Eastern tomorrow. Yeah. So, and you'll be able to watch the full discussion because we talked about everything from, uh, we talk about everything from, uh, we talk about everything from the book project, the stuff that he's got going on, and then this. So it's all very good stuff, all very good stuff. But you can watch that in full and you'll be able to see it tomorrow. All good, all good things for all good discussions. We might do more of those. So that was, as you know,

that's the same set. That's the same set that we have here. And we just kind of switched it out. And so we're experimenting and doing a couple of different things because sometimes we want to have longer discussions with some of our guests, but the live radio format is very different from a podcast format. And what works in radio doesn't necessarily work digitally. And what works digitally does not necessarily work radio. So you kind of have to, you know, you got to be careful on how you split that baby. It's got a very, very, very delicate thing. But it was a great discussion. And if you haven't watched Dark Wolf on Amazon, it is fantastic. It's so good. You'll love it. Terminalist was great, too.

I really like, I mean, I like Terminalist. I really like Dark Wolf also. I think I might even prefer Dark Wolf because it was very hard to see Chris Pratt go through it. And that's all I'm going to say if you haven't watched the Terminalist. And then you get to see what he's like before he goes through it. And you're like, and that just makes you angrier. And it's getting to the point where everything starts, you know, all the domino starts. So it's very good, fascinating, fascinating series.

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All right, so this was just reported in this morning. A Coral Springs, Florida man is facing domestic violence charges after he hit his father during an argument that began when the father asked the son to remove the lady of ill repute that he had brought home. A prostitute. What? Lady of the night came. That's right. A hooker. Yeah. According to Coral Springs, police officers responded to a family home where the victim told his son that he had spent the day drinking with a woman he described as a prostitute. Was she a prostitute or was she just unpaid? She did it for free. You know what I mean? Like a skank. I mean, the difference is money in case you're wondering. So when he asked the woman to leave, she complied. But then the son became enraged, shouting threats, telling his daddy was going to beat his adult. snakes and then they came to fisticuffs and 911 he called 911 the son hit him in the lip he's just describing himself as visibly shaken and the police did and the victim's wife and daughter corroborated

etc and so now the son was arrested he posted two thousand dollar bond that's sad he sounds like he's got some problems the son like he didn't get beaten enough when he was a kid let's see this is such a good dog dogs are just the best people I just, you know, if you're like, would you rather spend your day with a very enjoyable person or a dog? I'd be like a dog. So this was in Okalusa County. A dog was deemed a hero because he alerted a deputy to his owner, a grandmother, who had fallen on a sidewalk. A man called 911 frantic after his wife had not returned home from a dog walk.

Body camera footage shows the man telling the deputies that responded that his wife is normally only gone 10 to 15 minutes, but she even gone over an hour. Footage then cuts to the deputy driving before hearing her say, that's the dog. and they find the dog and they ask the dog where's your mom go find us find where your mom is and then the dog led them to the woman who was lying on the sidewalk and the woman asked the deputy the dog brought you over and he wouldn't leave he kept coming back to her he wouldn't leave her alone he ran up to the patrol car and led them to the

woman and they call him ior the dog's name is iore and that dog is the best boy i hope he gets tons of treats i shouldn't say that out loud because if the tv's on our dog w i ck will jailbreak the, I'm not like Hassan Piker. I'm not a piece of scum wrapped in meat who is going to keep my dog

on a little square for four hours while I rail incessantly nepo baby style in my compound and then zap it with a shot collar. No, no, no. My dog will, he didn't do that. He didn't he can't stay in here. Cam wants him to be a studio dog.

You don't know what you're asking. An alligator walks into a bar in Florida. For real. It's Florida. What did you expect? So an alligator legit in Stewart, Florida. It was a local tiki bar in Stewart, Florida. And they got a special friend today. All the people at the bar got a little friend. It was a gator. He walked into Harlow's hideout like he owned the place. And they didn't, he, you know, very dramatically. And they called officers in Florida Fish and Wildlife. They arrived on the scene. The gator was taken into custody. He was very compliant.

without incident and no injuries were reported. And they say that the gator was relocated to a, quote, more suitable venue where the only cocktails are in the swamp and the sun never sets on happy hour, end quote. Did he order gator aid? But I don't know. That's such a dad joke. If I would have seen a gator walk and they have photos of it,

he's this little guy, he's not a huge gator. You can pick him up and carry him like a baby if you wanted to. I'm not saying I would, you know, but just saying. But I would, if I see that in a bar, I'm not going to be scared. I'm going to be free pet. Free pet. Now, I'm not dumb enough to be like in Yellowstone and walk up to a moose or do anything dumb like that. But if I see, you know, if you can eat it, you can get it.

You know what I'm saying? Like if it's eatable, then it's getable. And so I would be my pet. I'm just saying. We got a lot more on the way coming up. Third hour. Stick with us. Our friends at, it's the folks at Burnagun.

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You want to cut the standard deduction in half? Is that what you wanted to do? No, we voted out waste, fraud and abuse, by the way. Tom Donnelly, the Democratic controller of New York, pointed out that $1.2 billion. You're wasted, you're not going to talk to me. Wasted on fraud and talk over me because you don't want to hear what I have to say. Oh, I'm listening. So why don't you just keep your mouth shut.

Oh, is that the way to talk? You showed up. You showed up. Yeah. And so you voted for this one big of good bill. You can extend it right now. A permanent extension of massive tax breaks for your billion-eanor. So 90% of Americans, they can get a permanent extension.

90% of Americans take the standard of dollars. Is that right? 90% of Americans take the standard deduction. Is that right? If you had your way, the standard deduction would have been cut in half. No one. That would have been a massive tax increase on Americans all across the country. You're here, unfortunately, you're against lifting the cap on salt.

The billionaire donors, lifting the cap on salt, we put a income cap in place. Why are you here right now? Didn't you want all Republicans to be here? Where are the rest of your republic? You wanted Republicans? So I'm not even like a major Mike Lawler fan, but holy wow, man. I really, Hakeem Jeffries is just a goober.

I don't know how else to put it. What is that, Kane's over here mad. He's worthless. You were hitting the desk. You're mad. Yes. Get it. The big beautiful bill was passed in July.

July 4th, by the way, is a familiar date. And all we're doing is extending what has already been assigned. It's a current Biden-level spending. Yeah. What I think is so funny is that Republicans are all, it's still current Biden-level spending. You guys voted for this 11,000 times.

By the way, round seven just failed in the Senate. So still the shutdown's in effect, which I'm totally okay with. Democrats are still holding the American people hostage. Democrats are mad because they wanted more funding for my murder. And they're trying to sit here. What is this? This is their new talking point.

First off, welcome back, by the way. Dana Lash with you. Top of this third hour. Dave Rubin joins us at the bottom. Chats at Rumble. They got everybody there has their own shiv. You got to make your own before you get in there. And then we also,

You could watch the radio show, Channel 347, direct TV. I felt like I needed to say that. I forgot it. So the new talking point, and I think I put this in Slack for you earlier. I did, right? Did I put the, the, the, they're trying to argue that, oh, well, Medicaid funding. Where's this at? Let me pull this up real quick.

Because I have a million other, oh, here it is. It's the ABC piece, ABC piece. They're trying to say, oh, no, emergency Medicaid. for illegal aliens. I don't say undocumented immigrants. Just I don't like I don't say things like assault weapons or a man can be a woman or something like that, right? Because this doesn't exist like Palestine. So they said that emergency Medicaid for illegal aliens accounts for it.

Now this is what their ABC news is, all of the Democrats are tweeting this right now. It accounts for less than one person of state spending according to the study at Amri University. And the problem with this is that this is based A on fiscal year 2022, number one. Number two, it's state-based. Number three, it doesn't get into, nor does it doesn't include at all any kind of, like if you go to an emergency room, that's, you de facto get care regardless of an ability to pay that's literally has been a federal law for forever. It doesn't include that. And there's a bunch of other stuff that it doesn't take into consideration. Did you note something else too with that?

Or am I missing something? Or did I make that up? It was it's state spending. It's definitely 2022. But also it's the salt cap. stuff. This money is fungible. What they get from the federal government is then distributed, and they don't count it in regards to what they're getting and putting towards Medicaid and state. So let me explain it like this. So like say Hunter Biden wants to buy crack rock.

Okay. How much, what is it going rate for a crack rock? For a crack rock? Like just keep it something easy and something. Probably a spit painting. Let's say $100. Okay. I have no idea. Who knows? I've never bought the crack. So crack rock. He's going to, Hunter, Biden wants, he's got $100. He wants to buy a crack rock. Actually, say he's got $50 and he wants to buy a $100 crack rock. And he's like, what am I going to do here? I don't have enough. Huh?

I don't have enough money here. Yeah. So say that he's got $50. Say Joe gives him $100 because Hunter Biden also has to pay his rent and he's got to buy, he wants to buy his crack rock. And he's like, I can't do both of these things. You know, crack rock is $100. My rent's like $50 or whatever.

I don't know. Just making it up. So Joe Biden slips him $100. So he's able to take them. that he already has and he buys a crack rock with it. So in terms of fungibility, it's essentially just one in one out. You just trade it out. That's all it is. I mean, it empowers you to be able to do things financially because someone gives you money that makes you more financially secure layman's terms. So that's what we're talking about here. So they're trying to my, I mean, if I was just

going to be a ridiculous smart ass, I would say, well, is one percent greater than zero? It is. Okay. Because that's still my tax dollars. And I just explained to you why the math is funny and it's actually significantly higher than that, but I digress. And we've talked about this before, state by state, the millions and billions that are actually going towards this. We talked about it quite a bit. So, you know, this idea that, I don't know. By the way, I just saw this. Trump signed a Columbus Day proclamation and said, we're back Italians. I am, I'm just, it's so funny. It just cracks me up. He says, yeah, we're back Italian. Isn't he Irish?

But, or no, wait, he's English, right? Scottish? They'll take him. New York Italians, they'll take him because he's very, he's got those mannerisms. He goes, we're calling it Columbus Day. We're back Italians. Love the Italians. Here, let me drop this in because this is going to be, I like, like when he had that taco salad the one time on, was it, Cinco de Mayo, and he was

like, I love Hispanics. And everyone's like, he said he loves Hispanics. He's a racist. insane. But this was actually from this cabinet meeting where he was sitting between Marco Rubio and Pete Hegeseth. And that's funny. So, and then you have the people that are going, oh, Italy didn't exist as a nation during the time of Columbus. He traveled. Shut up. Columbus, shut up. You know what? Him in America Vespucci, they were Italians and they went and they got the favor of the Spanish court because Italy was all broken into different kingdoms. And then in the 1800s, they came

together, but that's a long story and we'll, you know, another time. But this idea, they were Italians. America Vespucci, interestingly enough, one of his cousins, Seminada Vesbucci, who married, well, Seminada married his cousin. There goes back and forth that Bodicelli had her, was secretly in love with her and had her as his muse, but then also some people say that she was just the ideal avatar for Florentine beauty back during the era. So very interesting. She was part of that family and had that connection to Boticelli. And as you know, Amerigo Vespucci technically was the first to discover America, but they didn't call it Amerigo, which I actually like that we're not Amerigos. I like

Americans better. It just works. But anyway, you didn't need to know any of that, but I shared it with you anyway because it's Thursday. If you have that, play that for me, because this is funny. This cracks me up. This is Trump right after what we were just talking about. Listen. In other words, we're calling it Columbus Day. Yes. That was the press. that broke out in applause. I've never seen that happen before.

The press actually broke out in applause. Good. Columbus Day. We're back. Columbus Day, we're back Italians. We love the Italians. I like how he says it too. We love the Italians. It's so great.

He cracks me up. Oh, man. So the a lot of where to even go where to go from here so one of this see i had posted this up so now we just had the seventh round failed and i told you this was last hour and i'm just saying it again because i think that this is important for you to know the this gallop survey that came out that shows american job approval or the americans uh approval rating of these the jobs that these different agencies are doing. They had 15 agencies, and among them, they had FEMA, CIA, CDC, FDA, EPA, IRS. They're at or near

the lowest points in Gallup's trend. The decline is pretty significant. So, for instance, FEMA dropped 20 points, CIA 10, CDC 9. The only one that saw an increase was Department of Homeland Security, which saw like a 50-some-od, 50-plus some-odd increase in its approval rating, 59 points, in fact, and it even beat SEC war, even beat the Department of War, they saw a plus 38 in terms of the year to year gain

in public approval. And so I bring this up because this is messaging that I have not seen Republicans see on. Like, look at the absolute disapproval with which Americans view these agencies. And we, the Republicans, are trying to streamline them more so they're more

efficient and get rid of the bureaucracy and the bloat. And that's why we're not committing to Democrats' demands for increasing spending. We're only continuing the previously approved Democrats' current level of spending. I wish that they will go out. I think that would even be more helpful to them if they wouldn't message in that particular way. Because that's, I mean, that's, they have the people on their side. This is really bad for Democrats. And then, where's the story that I just, let me pull this up. And then, and we're going to get into the stuff with Jay Jones here. Then you have this story. The IRS is now announcing new federal income tax brackets for 2026. And there's a lot of

their people are furloughed. And I'm like, make it permanent. I don't want them doing nothing. Make it permanent. It's so completely unconstitutional. Now, speaking of Jay Jones, as I just mentioned, so there are a couple of polls that came out. And one of these polls that came out, he's, is one that Jay Jones is, it's like a push poll that they're running. And they're trying to say that, oh, this is, this is really great for Jay Jones. They're trying very, very hard to stay in the race. And I just, I think it's going to get more and more difficult for him as it goes because these text messages, and it's not even just the text messages, it's everything else too, are so detrimental to him. It's crazy. And it looks like this poll that came out, well, that was released yesterday evening,

It's from heart research. This was an internal poll that was conducted from Saturday to Monday. And this is the one that Jay Jones is really desperately trying to use as a way to say, look, I'm still competitive. The heart research poll shows Jones only plus one over the incumbent AG Miaras. And as you remember, Jay Jones is the Democrat nominee for Attorney General for Virginia. And he was the one who in text messages was talking. about shooting a Republican delegate because the Republican delegate had the audacity to say

simply nice things about a recently deceased Democrat delegate. And he said very nice things and said he was praying for his family. Nothing negative. He didn't qualify anything. He just said he was a nice man and, you know, he was sad about it. And Jay Jones apparently didn't like that and then told another lawmaker that he wanted to put a bullet in the guy's head and also kill his children in front of them. He wanted the wife to watch her children die. Like he got graphic in these text messages. And then what's more, it comes out, all of these other instances where Jay Jones had major, major rage problems for real, whether it was, you know, road rage or whatever. So now, and this was the poll that they came out with, that they were kind of trying to like hang on to it. Well, there's also an interactive poll. I haven't broken any of, I haven't broken these down. But it shows Jason Mierrez. ahead of Jay Jones.

And back in the beginning of October, it was 60-40 in favor of Jones, and now it's precipitously dropped in Miaris' favor. And now we're looking at him being ahead by about three points at this, Miaraz being ahead about three points at this moment. So very interesting stuff. That could, and you honestly, that's what you want to see because can you imagine somebody who gets that mad

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Okay, so this is totally appropriate here. I saw Babylon B headline. You want to know what the headline said? Hitler brings peace to Israel. And they had a picture of Donald Trump because the left always calls him Hitler and Nazi. everything else. I thought that was pretty funny. Well played, Babylon, B, well played. Let's see. Also, what we have, this, okay, here we go. So, only in St. Louis,

Kane, it's our hometown. A feller wearing the same underwear during an alleged robbery leads to arrest. Now, this is in the east side. This is East St. Louis. This is over the river. A man's facing multiple charges because he robbed a Dave's hot chicken in Chesterfield over the weekend.

And according to probable cause, Kane, Lassain Whitley, he entered the restaurant on Saturday of October 4th, and he was armed. He had with an armed pistol. That's how they wrote this at Yahoo News. Dear heavens. So the pistol had a pistol? With an armed pistol.

Okay. They said he was wearing a ski mask, entered the manager's office, and they apparently, they got a witness described a description of him. They had a description of him. They had him on surveillance camera. and apparently his bridges that were captured,

sticking above his pants, that helped identify him and that led to him being caught. Pants were more below the bridges, but yeah. Yeah, oh, well, yeah, it was hanging low. That's right. And apparently Disneyland guests suffers a medical emergency at the haunted mansion later dies, so that actually tracks. I mean, it's Disney, but also haunted mansion and all that stuff. So we got more on the way.

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deserves a Nobel Peace Prize? Well, I mean, if this sticks, I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace prize is for ending wars and promoting peace. And I'm going to make a direct appeal to the president. I mean, that's, I completely agree with that. Of all the things that people get nominated for when they get the Nobel Peace Prize, I mean, considering this is a pretty significant thing. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. You can listen coast to coast. You can also watch the digital stream of the radio program, Channel 347 Direct TV, also at RumbleX, Facebook, everywhere on the Webernets.

Joining me now, my good friend Dave Rubin, host of the Rubin Report. He joins us from his super swanky set via video. Always good to see you, Dave. This is a good thing. I mean, think about it. Like the birds are singing. We're green with John Federman. You know, it's like, I don't know, like rainbows and stars and kittens and sunshine.

and it's just, this is something good. What are Democrats going to bitch about? I kid you not. There is a bird that magically appeared in my kid's nursery about an hour ago that's still flying around their room. The window wasn't even an open in the room. We're not even sure how it got there.

Yeah, there is a lot of good stuff happening right now. Yes, Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for this, regardless of whether this is actual peace like kumbaya, everybody's going to love each other, or it's just that this, two-year disaster is coming to a close. The hostages will come out. The Israeli troops will withdraw.

The map will likely look a little different. I'm not Pollyannish. I don't think we're going to just magically have peace tomorrow and everyone's going to be crossing borders and loving everybody. But Donald Trump has painted a vision for the world that is different than basically everyone has done in about 75 years in that region.

And we already have evidence that it can work when you think about it differently, because we have the Abraham Accords. We already have evidence it can work differently, if you think about it differently, because he was able to move the embassy to Jerusalem and all hell didn't break loose. So I think there's every reason for optimism right now,

and Dana, as I'm sure you've pointed out already on your show this morning, I mean the fact that Bernie Sanders, Rashida Taleb, Chuck Schumer, the laundry list of lefties, who have been screaming about genocide for two years, which of course this was not a genocide, it was an active war. They have not tweeted about it,

tells you all you need to know. All they have wanted to do here was destroy Israel. It had nothing to do with saving the Palestinians. The Palestinians could have all been saved on October 8th if they would have just released the hostages. So there's all goodness here, there's a lot of good signs, and I'm very bullish on maybe this can heal

some of the wounds that we've been seeing on the right because the, oh, we're gonna destroy Israel crowd, is looking pretty silly right now. I know, maybe that Katari money will still keep coming in. The CCP slash Katari money. We'll see how that goes. Talking with our friend Dave Rubin.

You made a great point on X just a little bit earlier this morning, and I wanted to touch on this because you were quote tweeting about this strategy that Israel implemented and the partnership, the strategy that came from the partnership of the United States and Israel, talking about Lebanon and then Syria and Yemen. The point that you made was winning the action, actual war is still more important than winning the Instagram war because there were questions of,

well, is Israel going to be able to be successful if they lose the PR war? But what does it matter? I mean, can you even win a PR war if you're Israel? I mean, sometimes, you know, it seems like a rhetorical question. Clearly, they won the real one. Right. Well, look, the real war is that they've been fighting a seven front war and their enemies are all basically destroyed. Ask Hasbala. How's it going? Ask Iran, how's it going? Ask the Houthis, how's it going? Ask Khamas, how's it going? The West Bank, or Judean Samaria,

is the proper turn for the West Bank. I mean, that's largely been quiet. So their enemies have basically realized, boy, we just can't take these guys out. And the irony, of course, is if they would just get over it, which I do think, perhaps because of Trump is happening right now, they're going to find an unbelievable partner in Israel that will help them literally make the desert bloom

just like they did in Israel. You want drip irrigation, you want desalienable, desalienization, just like Jordan, which now imports most of its water from Israel. Like just get on board that the Jews are gonna have this little place, the size of New Jersey. You guys still have all the oil, like, get over it, and there is a chance for prosperity.

So again, I'm not just like over the top, oh my God, this is the greatest thing ever, but it is a massive, massive movement that ends a seemingly intractable problem for now, and then we see what happens on the other side. But nobody will, look, Even the Qataris, who you're right, they've dumped a ton of money into our, you know, into our influencer side and Instagram and TikTok and all that stuff.

You know, they got hit by the rocket from Israel about three weeks ago going after the Hamas leaders, which didn't quite work out. But I think they were suddenly shook. They were suddenly like, boy, we're not even that safe. So I do think some of that Qatari money might be drying up. And by the way, even Al Jazeera now has fired a bunch of their most crazed anti-Israel people because Trump is leaning on these guys. This is the true genius of Trump.

And I mean, for all of that, you made a good point, too, with Rashida Taleb and these others who haven't said anything about this, because I was told reliably. We're told this in 2016 and again in 2024 that Trump is going to get us in the Middle East. It's going to kick us off into World War III any day now. And so we're all like just waiting. Where's the World War III at? Where's this at? We thought we were going to be fighting with Iran. That hasn't happened.

And even what's crazier is that the, this rehabilitation. of Syria and their leadership just because it's advantageous to us and it kind of keeps the peace in the area because in order to control brutes, you need a brute. And that's been working out incredibly well. He hasn't gotten enough credit for that either. And regardless of whether or not people love him or hate him, I think that that needs to be recognized because this has been sound foreign policy and I want to see more of it. Your thoughts? Yeah, well, it's peace through strength. I mean, it's not rocket science, right? If you show people, look, somebody's going to lead the world one way or another. And if it ain't us, at this point, it basically is China. So if you believe

that Western values are good, if you believe that freedom is good, that doesn't mean we have to bomb all these countries into living like us. But it does mean what Trump said when he went to Saudi Arabia about six months ago. He basically was like, look, guys, we're not going to tell you exactly how to live, but there are certain preconditions, not much, but certain conditions you're going to have to accept if you want to enjoy the success of America, if you want to be part of our economy and things of that nature. And I think that speech really was the beginning of the shift here where all of these countries are starting to realize, boy, we can go against America. It's just not going to work out that well. I mean, think about it, Yemen, this tiny,

ridiculous country, they could have so much success. They could have, right, like, and instead they chose, okay, every other day we're going to fire four rockets at Israel. It's like, you're doing nothing but destroying your own people. So if you get over it, you will see that America is standing there like, hey, we'd love to partner with you and help you. We'll build some hotels for you. How about that? Yeah.

And you're right, too, six months ago when he went over and was speaking to Muhammad bin Salman, when he noted that he was going to start removing sanctions against Syria, and Salman stood up and applauded, because we played that clip on air, and I thought, that's really significant. And then all of these other, you had the Emirates that stood up and began applauded. And then when Syria pulled their air cover over Iran, then you knew it was over after that because Iran, the skies were then than Israel's and it was done. And then you had the drones that came up. It was, I mean, it was pretty spectacular. So, Dave, what do you think China is thinking of when they're looking at this now?

Well, I think they're realizing that America is asserting itself again. You know, it really in some sense, I think we'll look back like 20 years from now. And it was sort of a miracle that we survived the Biden slash auto pen for years. We did not lead in the world. We almost destroy our own country via, you know, the open borders, which despite everything Trump has done on the positive side on that, we're still going to have to deal with the reckoning of we don't know how many people are here and all the things that that will entail. But I think China's realizing, boy, America's asserting itself again. And I would say that perhaps as it pertains to Taiwan, they're a little maybe less bullish of going in right now because they realize who knows what Trump is going to do and America does seem to have new alliances forming. Yeah, that's, I mean, this is huge.

We're talking with our friend Dave Rubin. You can find him at Rubin Report and Rubin Report Show on X as well. Entrepreneur, author, all these good things. So one last quick thing about this, because the Nobel Peace Prize, part of me is like, Trump needs to get it. He deserves it for this. Give it to him. And then the more rebellious part of me wants to just stick a finger in the air and say,

you know, screw you guys, we don't need you. We don't need your validation. So I don't know where do you fall at this? You know, Dana, it's a little bit like when one of us writes a book and if we get on the New York Times bestseller list, right? Like, we kind of know it's fraudulent. We know it's part of an institution that hates us. And yet, you get the call that morning when I got the call, even though I was like,

this is all garbage. And it's literally made up. Oh, I missed it. I sold more than Russell Brand. And he got on it. And I didn't. So, you know, I'm a little sore about it. Right, exactly.

They definitely don't like you. They're probably not thrilled with Russell, but every now and again, they got to throw a bone to somebody. But it's sort of like that. So does he deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? on merit, of course. Did Barack Obama deserve it when he got it for literally doing nothing? Of course not. Would it be nice if he gets it? Yes. Is it going to happen? I don't know. But it's like, you know what, Trump just in this case, take the accolades of all of the same people in the world and run with that. How about that?

I want to ask you about Katie Porter because you're out in California. Yeah. She could, are you scared that this crazy Karen could be your governor? Wait, Dana. Did you just say I'm in California? I came in Florida. You're in Florida now. Oh my gosh. Please. That was of all the things that people have said to me over the years on air that have offended me, that might be. I'm going to get, Dave is going to fly over here and kick my backside. That's what's going to have.

Okay, never mind. So you don't live in California. I don't care about your, I'm kidding. No, but Katie Port. Because I thought you were in California for a while and then you. No, I was. I was. I got out.

So you got out in time. Thank heaven. So you don't have to worry about this. You're in Florida. I don't have to worry. I'm actually jealous. Yeah. No.

However, look, she's. She's an absolutely terrible candidate, but that is what they have left. You would never talk to anyone in your staff the way she screams at people. Well, I... You would never be like, you're in my shot. You're in my shot while you have like all of this debris in the background in your kitchen. I'm known to smack my guys around, but I would never speak to them with that language. Yeah, you wouldn't shock your dog like Hassan Piker either.

No, that I, no, definitely that one I would definitely not do. That one I would definitely not do. She is she, does she actually, I keep seeing, I keep seeing conflicting reports that she is a top-tier Democrat and she's one of the top considerations, but also the only reason that she is even in the lead, or even leading, I should say, because it's pretty competitive is because of name recognition. So there's still time for her to like, you know, flame out. I just don't even know what the name recognition is. I mean, I've watched enough videos of her between the thing, you know, telling the employee to shut the F up, who was trying to help her, by the way, or then the interview. that she sat in where she just got up because she was asked a follow question.

I mean, she has the emotional temperament of a six-year-old, so she's sort of a perfect progressive. But look, it's up to the people of California at this point, and unfortunately, you know, about a million people have left in the four years around COVID. So good people leave, people dependent on the state's stay, and they keep voting the same way.

So look, whether it's Gavin Newsome doing what he's done for these last couple of years, or it's just Katie Porter, like I don't sense that it would be any great change. they had chances over the years to go the other way. They seem to not choose it. Yeah, I agree. Hopefully they don't follow you to Florida.

And we don't want any more coming into Texas. No, we're closed. Yeah, just put up signs and direct them to other states and pretend that that's Florida. Be like, no, Mississippi's actually Florida. Just stop there. No, no. People are getting eaten by alligators here every day. It's very scary.

It's humid. The mosquitoes. Please don't come. Don't come to Florida. Dave Rubin at Rubin Report. Always a pleasure to see you, my friend. And I can't believe I forgot that you had. I know you relocated to Florida.

I don't know why that slipped my mind. But when you come to Texas, we'll go shoot some stuff and get brisket. So we'll have to. Now we're talking. There you go. Good to see you, my friend. Appreciate you. Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast.

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There's nothing funny about it. Oh, now you've tested me. I mean, there's nothing funny about it. You can't say there's nothing funny about it. No, don't say that because as a comedian, I'll be like, I'm sure there's something funny about it. The guy was shot while defending guns. Do you understand?

I'm not even writing that as a joke. As a human, you have to admit, that is an incongruous funny thing that happens. You are there on stage, and you're like, on stage, you're like, let me tell you why people should have guns. Whopha! First off, he wasn't shot while defending guns, by the way. That's a lie.

He was shot while he was discussing trans Tifa and how the question was about there are no trans. I mean, all of the increase in violence has been coming from the trans sector. That is verbatim what he was discussing when he was shot. and he was shot by a dude who was banging a trans, a guy who pretended to be a girl and who would dress up as a furry. So he banged a furry, cosplaying trans Tifa member. So that's the accurate way to state it. That's the real way to state it, is that he got killed because of trans Tifa.

I mean, it's easier if you want to slide and say, oh, it was about guns because that means you're an intellectual coward and you can't face what actually was the motivating factor behind his his cold-blooded murder. And it was the bloodthirstiness, the bloodlust of Trans-Tifa. That's what did it. So at least be honest about it. If you're going to act like, you know, a hard ass and you're going to get up on stage. And he's like, by the way, one of the most unfunny people ever. And I've always thought that. He's, he's not as mean-spirited, but he's just dishonest and not funny. I just think if you're going to get up there and try to crack jokes, at least be somewhat factual, at least be honest, because is it funny that he got killed by a guy who was banging a furry? I mean, let's talk about

that. What is up? Is there jokes and why Trans-Tifa gets so bloodlusty? I mean, does Trevor Noah find that funny? I'm just curious. I mean, why doesn't you make a joke about that? Oh, it's probably why. Probably a good reason why he's not, just saying. Maybe he's worried that he'll be marked by trains Tifa too. Today's stupidity came. All right, Juan, this is cut 17. Democrat Eric Swalwell. Why, well, by the way, other Democrat senators are still holding the American people hostage as it relates to getting the government back open. And while the Democrats are holding us all hostage, this is what Eric Swalwell's doing. Look at this. No Kings rallies just a couple weeks away. I have partnered with no Kings here. Check out our merch. He's merchant. No Kings.

By the way What is that stupid shirt? Gosh, he is so gross. Did he fart at the end there? I couldn't tell. One cut the audio out. But yeah, that's what he's doing. He's out there merching

while Democrats are holding you guys hostage. He's trying so hard to just seem... I think he... I don't know. I don't have anything nice to say. All right, folks, I'm off here tomorrow for some family stuff. And then back on air with you Monday. So you can find us on Substack, Facebook,

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