The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - POTUS Pulls His Trump Card For Team USA

Episode Date: July 6, 2026

The USA-Belgium Round of 16 match in the World Cup has become political following President Trump confirming he made a phone call to FIFA to “ask for a review” of the red card given to Striker Flo Balogun, which would have disqualified him from Monday’s match. Erika Kirk goes face-to-face with her husband’s ass*sin as the preliminary trial for justice for Charlie Kirk begins in Utah. President Trump reveals how he handled the weather delay on July 4th. The View’s Sunny Hostin claims when she sees American flags all over the community, she suddenly feels UNSAFE. Bill Maher slams liberals for refusing to have a political conversation with him. Jim Geraghty from the Three Martini Lunch podcast joins us to react to the World Cup drama, the stunning dropout of Mallory McMorrow and more. A firework strikes a Delta flight outside of Chicago. Plus, more commentary.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Fast Growing TreesGet 20% off Better Plants and a Better Looking Yard this summer with code Dana. Visit https://fastgrowingtrees.com/DanaConcerned Women For Americahttps://ConcernedWomen.org/DanaTogether, we can defend our girls, equip parents and protect the next generation. Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaTrusted by law enforcement, security professionals, and everyday Americans—defend yourself and your family with Byrna.HumanNhttps://Humann.com/DanaGet the limited edition Watermelon Flavor and find out how to get a FREE 30-day supply before they sell out.Patriot Mobilehttp://PatriotMobile.com/DANAVisit online or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code DANA for a FREE month of service.Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.comDeclare your independence from pain with Relief Factor—start the 3-Week QuickStart for just $17.76Subscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore InfoWebsite

That's right. It is The Dana Show with Dana Lash. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. So much stuff out there to talk about. So little time to do it. We get to talk for the next three hours. Dana, I believe, is back tomorrow. President Trump said that if he appointed Ted Cruz to the Supreme Court, he'd get 100 votes. I thought that was kind of funny. This is a decent way to start off the show. And to be totally honest, I'm not sure he's right about this. but he says that Republicans love him, and Democrats really want him to not be in the Senate anymore,

which is kind of funny. Here we go. In fact, somebody said, would you ever appoint him to the United States Supreme Court because he's a brilliant lawyer, Ted? They said, well, he's the only one I can think of that's going to get 100 votes. All Republicans will vote for him.

All Democrats will vote from him because they want to get him the hell out of the Senate. No, if I was having a hard time with getting the votes, I would appoint Ted Cruz. I get 100% guaranteed. There you go. Get him out. I thought that was interesting. He said Ted Cruz would be supported on both sides.

That might be an interesting way to go about it. I doubt that's actually going to happen. That wasn't the only remark, of course, Trump made today or over the holiday. He's talked to the media a lot, which President Trump does a lot. And I'll just say this again. I feel like I've said it before in this show. The most definitive proof that President Trump's brain is not malfunctioning, like Biden's brain was, even if Democrats,

occasionally like to claim that Trump's brain doesn't work, is the fact that he's so insanely available to media all the time. I think that alone shows you. Now, whether or not you like the tangent he goes on, that's fine. It is what it is. It's long been the complaint by some about the current president of the United States, but it's irrelevant because he definitely seems cognizant of all the questions. He takes negative questions from crappy people. He does this constantly. Case and point is this. Apparently FIFA and the game tonight between the United States, States in Belgium is now a political news story. The reason why it's a political news story is that President Trump made a phone call to the FIFA commissioner and was like, hey, you suspended one of our

best players before a match because he got a red card. He was shown a red card, I think is the way you're supposed to say it in the world of soccer. But anyway, which means he got removed from that last game match. And then he's also not supposed to play it all in this one. FIFA decided, nah, we're not going to do that. We're going to go ahead and suspend that suspension. and the reason why is that the review system that identified the foul as, you know, a red something instead of a yellow something. This is someone who's been watching soccer just recently. And obviously you maybe also have a limited understanding of all this stuff.

But nonetheless, I don't know, maybe a lot of people who listen to this show are giant soccer fans. But nonetheless, it probably should have been a yellow card if it was a card at all. And the review system identifying it as like a serious. foul doesn't factor in the lack of intent because the computer doesn't seem capable of doing that. Nonetheless, Trump is now defending himself for calling FIFA to get one of our best players back into a match. I doubt President Trump actually alone had the amount of impact to get this done. And what I mean by that is that if this had been reviewed and Trump had not made a phone call, I wonder if it still would have been overturned. This almost never happens in the world of FIFA,

but it did seem like a ridiculous call made by a computer system that, again, isn't really factoring in what human beings would factor in because he wasn't given any penalty at all by a human ref. He was just given a horrible penalty call by a computer ref. So here's part of what Trump said in response to a question about if he got involved. And then I do like what Dave Portnoy is out there saying about this topic. Because the weirdest thing, and I'll say this before I hit playing any of this, we are the United States of America. the people here shouldn't be upset at this. There's no one for any reason that lives in our country should be mad that one of our best players gets to continue playing in the World Cup when we face elimination.

If we lose to Belgium, we're out. So I don't know why anyone on our side is complaining, but it's politics. So, of course they are. Here we go. All I did, all I did, I asked for a review because I didn't think it was a foul. And, you know, again, I'm good at this stuff. I didn't think it was a foul. I thought it was two great athletes that crashed into each other and got entangled.

That was not a guy punching somebody in the face or anything that, you know, would be different. Soccer would be more fun if people punch each other in the face. And I think it's a terrible, if they wouldn't allow, you know, a top player, maybe the best, maybe among the best players on the team to play, I think it would have had a big stain. And I related just that feel, I didn't tell them what to do. I can't tell them what to do. But, and I don't believe he made the decision. I think it was a committee that made the decision. And they made the right decision because, number one, it wasn't a foul.

And you want to see a game with your best players. You don't want to say, how would you feel if I took, you know, we take messy out. You know, he ran into somebody. Or we took. You know, it's interesting. A couple things about that. The first thing, and the president is making this point, I thought it quite a bit. I don't know why Belgium would want.

to play a weaker U.S. team. I understand in the sense that it might be easier for them to move on to the next round. But in the world of sports, don't you actually want to play the best? Isn't that the thing we're supposed to teach all the young kids in the world about sports, is that you want to be challenged, you want to succeed at the highest levels. You don't want any sort of excuse version of we won, but we defeated this team, but one of their best players wasn't allowed to play over what is a controversial call. It wasn't President Trump alone. who thought that. Again, as he said, it's not like somebody punched somebody in the face, got suspended, and now suddenly isn't. It's quite a bit different. But it's just amazing that this

topic in this place has this level of back and forth. Like, I can't believe that people are mad that the president of our country called FIFA and asked for one of our best players to play in a game in a match. It doesn't make sense. If it's a Democrat in this position, and I hate these what aboutisms, but they're so easy. in these types of environments and these types of discussions, if it's a Democrat that did this, he'd be praised. Regardless of if FIFA said yes or no, just making the phone call would be an incredible thing.

Like, look, how much he cares about the world of soccer in the United States of America. But it's Trump and now someone thinks that some sort of terrible, horrible thing is involved. Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports has said that you should be deported if you're against this and live here in the United States. I thought that was pretty funny. I'm going to need some fact-checking from fact-check people, but I've seen a lot of talk that this has been done before in the World Cup.

Like Ronaldo had his suspension pushed off a bunch of things. So it's not the first time this has ever happened. It was the right call. Yes. And this is United a Nation. I'll also say, and I know T. Bob, you're not a Trump guy. And I don't know people's politics. You really shouldn't care about people's politics, by the way.

shouldn't matter. If you are against this and you're a United States citizen deported, I want you out of the country. If you have a problem with this guy playing, because you're letting politics get in the way and you know, like Trump played, place a phone call and you think this is wrong, deported. Get him out. I love this so much because again, it does make sense to me in a certain sense. I'm not actually agreeing with Dave and I don't think he's doing this seriously in calling for the deportation of Americans. But I think it just makes no sense to have this level of hatred toward a politician or a political party or whatever the thing is that motivates you.

And because of that, you don't even want something like this to benefit the soccer team that represents our country. It just makes no sense. I wouldn't care what the reason was if a leader of my country gets one of my best players back into a world-wide competition, good, good for me. I don't even care if the controversy is more legitimate than this one, because it just simply shouldn't and doesn't matter, at least in my opinion. You are doing much better at the world stage with the best players, and this benefits you.

All right, I'll stop berating that narrative. It's crazy that's a thing that we're actually talking about, but of course we are. The president did also answer other questions, mostly questions about Iran and the conflict between our two countries and the things that have been happening recently. You would think that that's a much more important topic. I know that most of us might be sick of discussing the Middle East and how long this has been going on, much longer than many of us wanted it to be going on. But nonetheless, like, we're here now. And again, you'd think that this was a bigger deal than soccer. but it definitely was a question that came later on in the president's remarks to the press today.

Here's what he said. Look, we're going to win one way or the other. We're either going to make a deal or we're going to finish the job, okay? And it won't be tough to finish the job. I'd rather make a deal because I don't want to affect 91 million people. We can knock down their bridges in one hour. We can knock out their energy supply, all of those big plants that they built, big, beautiful, modern plants have a lot of money.

They don't have any money now. We haven't given them any money. But we can knock out their electricity and power generating plants. And I would say a small part of an afternoon. Every plant will be gone.

And they know that. Here's the thing about this. I know that many people have said that this type of talk is not working anymore. President Trump, whether he says this in a press conference or on truth social, it's not getting the message

through to the other side to make them negotiate in a way that makes sense to us. They keep behaving as though they have cards that they don't have from a simple conflict standpoint. We would win. We are capable of doing the things that President Trump is saying, will we actually do it or some version of it, some semblance of demonstration of what it is? I do think something like that needs to happen. I know Dana at times on this very show has called for the bombing to start again or the fighting to start again because it should. If Iran continues to pretend as though they're not in the position they're in, which is they have absolutely no cards to play, then we need to do something about that. We need to demonstrate to them that we are serious in some of these things that the president

says. And then inevitably, hopefully, this isn't to decimate them for the sake of being big jerks or mean people or whatever crazy stuff the left tries to say about conflict and war. It's to win the fight and win it appropriately and then usher in something better for the world, for all of society. All right. We'll take a break. A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. As we move, the folks who make the program possible, it's our friends over at Relief

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My name is Craig Collins, filling in at the Lash, Dana Lash Radio. Two great ways to stay connected to her on X. At Radio Craig Z. If you want to see what it's like to not have a fancy producer, Stephen, doing some of your social media for you. And Dana does a whole bunch herself. She's way better at it than I am. But you can follow either one of us.

I'd love it if you followed me, so I have more credibility in this field. But darn it, I fill in on this show. That should be good enough. All right, let's talk about other things. I think this is interesting. The Charlie Kirk assassination hearing is today. I don't know if that's what you call it or the trial of Tyler Robinson, a name that I don't like saying. I don't like saying the names of any of these horrible people that do these terrible things, but this name is obviously all over the place.

Cameras have been allowed into the court proceeding, and Erica Kirk was in attendance. I do have part of the audio of the judge saying, let the record show that we recognize that Ms. Erica Kirk is here. I don't know at what point people inevitably relent on the craziness that has been criticizing Erica Kirk. It just seems to have no value at all in our society. None of it's about her and the way she's, say, running Turning Point USA, now that she's in charge of Turning Point USA, all of it is about whether or not she grieves enough about Charlie Kirk or whether her reactions make sense. And that is disgusting. I know that Dana talks about this often, and I will just categorically reject the idea of this.

And I hate that people also, before I hit playing in the audio, couch all of this in something else. They claim that they're not criticizing Erica Kirk because she is the widow of someone who is very well known in our society politically. They claim it is about something else, something to do with her and Turning Point USA. But I never see any of the criticism about Turning Point USA, the organization. and what they do politically or what they do on college campuses to demonstrate to some young people that you're not alone if you think politically on the right side of the aisle and you happen to be going to school. Like none of that is ever questioned or discussed.

The only thing that's ever questioned discussed is the person that is Erica Kirk. And it just again is ridiculous to do it. But here is just the simple mention in the court that she is there to watch the trial of the person that many, many people believe, almost everyone believes, myself included, killed Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson. Richard Novak and Stacey Visser here on behalf of Mr. Robinson, who's seated to my way. Good morning. Mr. Robinson, good morning.

For the record, the court also recognizes the presence of Ms. Erica Kirk. Ms. Kirk, good morning. That's essentially it. And now she gets to sit there and be a part of this and watch this. and I'm sure at some point people will react to something involving her again, which is, it's just crazy. It makes no sense. All right. Moving on, other things out there, President Trump revealed that he refused to stop the America 250 Independence Day celebration in D.C.

That I think was a Guinness World Record for the insane amount of fireworks they fired off there in D.C. He said the people that were paying attention to the weather and some of the things that were happening earlier on in the evening, I made a lot of people think, all right, let's just do it some other time. And President Trump was having none of that. He's like, it's happening. At some point tonight, we're shooting so many fireworks into the sky that most people who see this will inevitably probably leave with the little spots in their eyes, especially the end, the finale, which really just looked like one giant white light flashing in the sky.

But here's a little bit of President Trump. I'm glad anyone's ever seen that unfortunately lightning caused it to leave. And everybody said, well, we'll do it another time. And when I heard that, I said, no, we won't. Everybody had left. I said, we're not doing it another time. We're doing it on the 4th of July. And we actually started the speech on the 4th of July.

We had to wait a little while, like a couple of hours, let the lightning pass. And everyone had left. And we came back, and they had 150,000 people came back from, they took their car. They're going back home to Texas. They turned their car around. They came back. You wouldn't believe 150. I think the 150 was more impressive than the 4,000.

25 or whatever it was. It was pretty amazing. Yeah, it's awesome that people turned around and came back. And I actually feel like even though Trump was just joking, I might know the guy who lives in Texas that did you turn when he found out that the firework thing was happening and go back to watch the show because people did do that. And it was a hell of a show and you can find it on social media if you want to see it or YouTube, whatever. I'm going to just watch a bunch of fireworks going off in the sky. And the finale is the best part because it's just insane. even where I live in Houston. I thought the finale was amazing and then also ridiculous because at some point if you shoot enough fireworks into the sky at the same time, I can't really discern what's happening.

I'm still happy that I'm there for it. I'm still happy that I feel like for a few seconds, the sky has turned into a strobe light. But nonetheless, I don't know if I lost some of the majesty that was a certain fireworks in the crowd. But again, not complaining, just enjoying and also observing. This is definitely complaining and not doing anything productive at all. This is the view.

Sonny Hosten apparently thinks that the American flag is so co-opted by the right that she's terrified whenever she goes anywhere where a lot of American flags are. I think we played audio on Friday when I was filling in of a dude walking into a bass pro shop who was shocked at the amount of American flags. It's the 250th anniversary of the country. It just passed. How are we not using a whole bunch of flags all over the place to celebrate our country? And how is this a talking point in politics?

I don't have the answer to that. I just have the question. But here's Sonny Hosten saying that the American flag to her is terrible for some reason. And I said this on this show many, many years ago, because this is my 10th year on the show. And I said there are times when I walk into a community and I see America, flags all over the community. And I suddenly feel unsafe because there is a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag.

And they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy. And that should never be ever. My favorite thing about this piece of ridiculous audio is the terrible applause in New York. Even New Yorkers understand that this is a step way too far in the world of what we talk about. You should never be nervous to see American flags as an American citizen in the United States. Nothing about that should make you remotely nervous. And foreigners who've been coming here to watch soccer matches throughout the country

have been thrilled to celebrate the United States in our culture. And people like this, Sonny Hosten, who brags about saying this before in her 10-year run on The View, seems to think that, here, I'll play it again. to a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there is a section of this country that has

co-opted the American flag and they equate. My favorite is the audience. Like there's a few people like I don't know. Should I be clapping for this? Maybe. And a lot of other people are sitting there thankfully on their hands saying that this is probably a ridiculous statement because it

is one and we should all know that and reject that. It's just what I'll say about it, I guess the last thing I'll say before I move on from this topic, is it's amazing to see how effective the Psiop, if that's what you want to call it, has been to make some Americans hate other Americans and also hate America, because that is a thing that's definitely happened. A political side of the aisle has tried as hard as it can to convince you that two things are evil. One of those two things is anyone who votes differently than you. I never consider the other side evil.

Maybe some of the politicians, I think get pretty close to that, but not the actual people voting on the other side. By and large, I see them as idiots, which is a different thing that I've talked about before on this show myself filling in for Dana in the past. But the other side often sees people as hateful and, you know, this is or that is and terrible, and also sees the country as a whole and people who are proud of our country and its heritage as some have. terrible, awful people. It's amazing to see that SIAP be successful and what it actually says about a political party in this country. And those, I guess, are the people that I do at times consider evil, the people who perpetrate that version of a thing and have convinced so many of something so ridiculously unhelpful in the world of our country, so ridiculously anti-American and just completely failed to understand the historical benefits of being someone born

and raised here. Because in those moments when you really truly criticize the country, one of the first things I think about is how naive you are as to how the rest of the world behaves and how you'd feel if you went to go live anywhere else. One last thing I do want to play before I take a break. This is the Federal Reserve quietly admitting, and then actually the Trump administration demonstrating they put the end of this, that a lot of illegal people were able to get houses through a system that they're not supposed to be able to access, and that has directly harmed the U.S. citizens' ability to get an affordable home, that the housing crisis or whatever you want to call it,

the version of it that exists now, just the cost of housing and the limited supply that pushes those prices up even further. All of those things are, of course, caused by an additional amount of competition that never should have existed. Here is Scott Turner, one of those people talking about what they've done to end some of these programs. We eliminated non-permanent residents eligibility for FHA insured mortgages. And we are auditing public housing authorities to ensure taxpayer dollars don't support illegal

aliens. American dollars should benefit American citizens and American citizens only. Correct. By focusing on our core mission, HUD provided a pathway for homeownership and supported housing affordability for more than one million Americans through FHA and Jenny Mae. We also take stewardship very seriously, so we're cracking down on waste and fraud and abuse. our office of the chief financial officer uncovered more than $5 billion

in potential payment errors over $50 billion in total rental assistance. You know what's crazy about this? I'll go ahead and jump in here and then we'll take a break. The thing that's crazy about this is you're seeing story after story of corruption, of waste, of fraud, of abuse,

be uncovered by the Trump administration that was perpetrated by Biden or Obama or anyone else. But Trump is uncovering these things, these terrible things that the past administration did. And what is the reaction, oftentimes, to this version of, hey, we're saving all of you money. All of the American taxpayers out there are getting money saved technically through the upending of this system and hopefully the allocation of funds to appropriate places and then maybe asking for less money from us a next go-round. But the reaction for some to this is how terrible it is because somehow it's bad or, you know, it lacks heart or compassion or something.

And it's surreal because this should be one of the few topics that is so bipartisan in nature. You shouldn't retreat to your political side of the aisle when you hear that fraud, waste, abuse, all these things are being upended and money is being put back in the right places and sometimes, hopefully, clawed back from people who stole it. That should be a uniformly good thing to all involved. Somehow it's not. All right. Quick break.

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But darn it, it doesn't matter. I get to fill in on shows like this, so I'm good. Dana Bash of CNN, I was asking the Interior Secretary Doug Bergam, if the reflecting pool was actually vandalized This is such a stupid obsession of the left, and I do want to start here and play this audio. And I thought that Bergam did a very good job of saying we have photos of slash marks and whatnot in the pool, in the liner, the industrial liner that we put down. So you be the judge.

It seems like everybody could be the judge as to whether or not that can happen naturally slash marks that seem to be coming from some sort of device that someone used to cut the pool and cut the industrial line. liner, not necessarily just chipping and fading and falling apart weeks after it was fixed. This seems like an odd thing again for people to be truthers on, but here's the back and forth. And you're 100% sure that what happened with the liner was vandalism. You can prove it. Oh, yeah, absolutely can. And as we drain it, and we've got all the photographs, we can see. I mean, there's no possible way. You're photographs of a person or people cutting a 300 or 350-foot gash in the bottom of the reflecting pool?

I'm not sure why you and others in the media think that you want to keep trying to question whether or not. This is an industrial liner. Every farmer and rancher in America that's had their pickup liner lined by this sprayed on liner, knows that you literally, literally, it would never just like peel off or fall off. This is like a strong material. And it's the size of eight football fields. And the only way you can end up with actual slices in one spot and not the other is that someone physically cut it. Yeah, it's weird.

But there's only one spot where there's going to be a lot of cut marks. in the liner and then people who were claiming they were just sticking their hand in to fish out little pieces of the liner, which is weird. All this is strange. And it's yet another demonstration of the craziness that is some people and the stuff that makes them so mad they want to fight about it. And then also the amount of times they forget other people that they might support did it. Obama, I believe also at one point tried to fix the reflecting pool and spent money on it. The Biden administration approved the money that President Trump inevitably spent on it. So all this is just sort of crazy that we fight about it and talk about it.

But to me, the most ridiculous part is, in fact, the truthers who want to believe that no one did any of this. And now we're just blaming someone for some reason. I think the company that also initially did the project will be the ones responsible for the repairs. People are up in arms about this, too, that there hasn't been a bidding process for that. I'll say this. And I'll be a little fair and honest in saying this. I would have at least taken some bids this time around. round. I'm not saying I believe it was actually the company's fault, but all right, give me a few

more ideas. Some other companies throw some stuff my way. We'll see what sticks. We'll see what we like best. I wouldn't hate that part of the equation. I don't know why exactly we don't do that, but maybe we feel good about what we've gotten as far as maybe there's a discount now that some things didn't go well. Even if it wasn't the company's fault, maybe they're the ones that are going to make it right and save some money. I don't know. A couple pieces of audio from Bill Maher went viral. For some reason, when I fill in on the Dana show, there's some Bill Maher audio that's out there that I always want to play. I don't know if the reason why is because the left is so insane that showing them that someone that was once thought of as very much their own, but now at times,

I think some people on the left actually hate Mar for his willingness to say certain truths out loud. He's still very much to the left, very much votes for Democrats and not conservatives, he even says that within one of the two pieces of audio I'm going to play. But the thing that's amazing and that he keeps mentioning on his show and on his, I think, podcast that he does after his television show is how often he struggles to get people on the left to even agree to be on his programs and that that tells him something about the people and the talking points

on the side of the aisle that for some reason he still overwhelmingly supports. But here's a couple clips, including a mention of COVID, COVID too that I thought was interesting to hear from a lefty, like Bill Maher, who, of course, to the left is probably now a Maga Trump supporter. If I thought that the people who hate me ever, like, made an honest argument, they're the people who won't talk to me. The conservatives, who I don't vote with or agree on many things, they're always happy to talk. It's the woke people who are like, because they're not really that bright or learned about what the things they're arguing about. So they don't want.

want to argue with me because they don't have they just they it's i always say to them just just engage on the argument i'm making tell me that the argument i'm making is wrong no it's it's always you're old or your um you know your sexist or these are labels what about the argument yeah what about the substance of the conversation how about that it is nice to hear someone on that side say that in his own experience trying to debate people on the side of the aisle that he votes for uh that's the crazy version of the world we live in right now. And I do think he's also right in basically doing the Trump thing of calling them low IQ people, because a lot of people in the world of politics are told all the talking points. They blindly accept all the talking points and stances, and they go

out and run the campaign. And if you ask them to sort of explain the reason that some within their party have told them that this is something that they support, they can't do it because they have done that little homework on the stances that they actually take in these, elections throughout the country that like, you know what, I don't really know why we're defund the police, or at least we were defund the police. But I think I'm supposed to say that. So I'll go ahead and say that and move on to the next question. Bill Maher also mentioned the COVID shot again. He has brought this up before on his show and on his podcast. Here's what he said about this. Why did everybody have to get a COVID shot? Even people with natural immunity, natural immunity,

which we always used to respect. But in COVID, no, just get our product. in you. And I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I'm just somebody wants to decide which ones I want. You know, it's crazy, too. The reason I played that piece of audio is that I'm sure a lot of people who listen to the show can think back a few years ago when that was a horrific take in the world of the left, in the world of mainstream media to just get to decide what I want to take and what I don't want to take, what shots go into my body and which shots don't, and how much maybe I think I'm probably fine after, say, getting COVID and getting over COVID from needing any sort of additional shot to protect me from it. These were all things you weren't allowed to ask

a few years ago. And one of the main reasons I assume, since Moore is actually talking about it now that most of the left has nothing to do with or doesn't want to do with his show, they don't like those kind of questions. They don't like rehashing stories and giving actual honest answers to things, because how dare they? And actually, this is kind of on topic. So I might as well play this too. I thought this was pretty funny. On Fox News, Bernie Sanders was asked why he flies private, why he doesn't fly commercial, as one of the guys who's a climate hysteric, or just someone who constantly screams and yells about how crazy things are in the world of climate change. And my favorite, too, by the way, before I even play on this, some of those people out there who claimed worst case

scenarios just a few years ago are having to backtrack because of where we are. We are, and how bad things are not, and how many things they told us would be terrible by now. It's so funny. And this happens multiple times. This is not new. I think it's been going on for like 40 plus years now, where they warned us that by this year,

stuff was really going to be terrible. And then you look at it all the numbers that they projected, and it's nowhere close to the reality of the situation we're currently in and how the world adapts to the changing environment of said, you know, society. And as this is all happening, these people are like, well, but next time, next time it's going to be crazy, you would at least think that a Bernie Sanders would go ahead and fly commercial in order to help save the planet from the horrible things he says are coming.

In the very near future, just those dates have to be changed all the time. This time you saw Donald Trump during a campaign mode at National Airport. No, no, no. It doesn't. But he's also not fighting the oligarchy. No. You run a campaign and you do three or four or five rallies in a week. the only way you can get around to talk to 30,000 people. I think I'm going to be sitting on a waiting line at United, waiting, about 30,000 people are waiting. That's the only way you can get around.

No apologies for that. That's what campaign travel is about. We've done it in the past. We're going to do it in the future. How dare you, sir, tell me that I should fly commercial, even though I'm telling everybody else out there that they should all do it. Anyone who could afford to fly private shouldn't because they're killing our society, except for me.

Because I have to get to my campaign destinations and drop up support so I can keep winning elections. It's the most self-serving and ridiculous answer you could possibly imagine as far as a conversation about that, that I found it just so chef's kiss hilarious. But that's also going viral out there. That is, it's the only way to get around, man. You can't do anything else. There's no other scenario that would help me get to all these places. You want me to wait in a line. How dare you? You know, it's also funny. If a politician were ever to do that, like actually fly commercial to all of their campaigns, destination. I wonder how the people on those flights would react to them. You'd have a unique

opportunity to talk to a whole bunch of people that are flying to places that you're flying to that you find important for your campaign. And you'd be able to have a chat with all the people on the plane and also have all of the photo ops of look at me. I'm actually flying commercial, but nobody does it. It would be interesting if somebody at least did. And what that would mean for I'm not trying to help people win elections on the side of the aisle I don't agree with, but it would be fascinating if at least one high-profile candidate ever for an entire campaign decided to fly, like the rest of us, horrible, terrible people fly and not the private fancy way that they can fly and then I complain about if it's not them.

One last thing, I just want to play this audio. I just found it fairly amusing today. Many, many Europeans and talking heads and sports people in the world. are saying how terrible the FIFA decision is to let Balgan, a Balagan play, Flo Balagan play in the World Cup match that is tonight. I like one of the takes because it's so insane. And we had a guest on earlier, Jim Garrity, who mentioned that FIFA has a lot of controversial decisions they've made and a lot of controversial things they've done

throughout the history of their existence, allowing a player to play and suspending a red card suspension that a video review seems. to say was a red card, but any human would tell you it really wasn't. That seems to be the most egregious offense possible, at least according to some on the other side of the bond, in the world of FIFA. That is a ridiculous take, but here's at least one person making it. It is quite simply the most shameful decision in the history of the World Cup. No question. FIFA's call to allow USA strike a fellow in Balagan to play against Belgium after he was sent off for a violent conduct red cup.

following a VAR intervention defies belief, defies integrity, defies everything the game is about. FIFA's darkest day, they say, was when the FBI raided their headquarters hotel in Zurich in 2015. This is worse. Yeah, no, it's not worse at all, bud. That is an insane thing to say. It's crazy how many people around the world desperately don't want the United States to be good at soccer. because I think much like all the other sports that we nominate,

if we ever get to the point where we're the best in the world at it, and our athletes, our kids grow up wanting to be the best in the world at it, it might be the end of everyone else being, you know, consistent champions of this sport. I think they're all terrified of us. That's how I take this. That's how I take that reaction. And not just the fact that some might think we're actually going to beat Belgium and that we should have all of our players in order to attempt to do that.

And Belgium should want that. They should want all of our athletes on the pitch so that when they win, if they win, they can say they beat us at our best and didn't beat us while we were a handicap. What happened to the world of sports and the athletes who don't want that? I would never want to play with an injury or some other sort of penalty, removing one of the best players from the opposing team, because then my victory would be hollow. At least that's how I behave, and I think a lot of us in the United States behave, and very few other people apparently do.

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the Dana's show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrill to be with you, a bunch of stuff to talk about. D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X, a great ways to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C. If you want to see what a much smaller social media audience looks like, Jim Garrity has a fancy social media audience. He is a writer for the National Review. He does the morning jolt. And he also co-hosts three martini lunch, which is an excellent podcast that sometimes has an incredible filling as well, I think. Jim, welcome to the show. Craig, it is great to be with you. I must salute everyone at Radio America for figuring out. Let's give Jim a guest co-host with a name that sounds a lot like Greg. So if you forget who he's talking to, it's still going to sound very similar.

That is correct, yes. And I don't even care about being called Greg, to be honest with you again. That's totally fine. Your morning jolt is fantastic, as always. Today it led off with a soccer story. I am amazed candidly, although I actually shouldn't be, and I feel a little naive in saying this, that this is such a big political story. But darn it, you have President Trump, you have all the pieces. So we'll start there. I've already been talking about it this morning. What say you in the world of the red card and the phone call that can't stop being talked about? Sure. Well, first of all, I am very glad that Falarin Balugan is going to play tonight, or at least as of this recording, as far as I know. I know the Belgians wanted to appeal, and I don't think it's going to work out that way. I don't think what he did deserved a red card. Maybe a yellow card. You know, you want to give him a warning. Fine. Okay. But, you know, in today's jolt, I quote three referees who are all basically saying, no, it really didn't seem like it rose to the level where you'd be suspended, not to be. just for the remainder of the game and the U.S. would have to play a man down, but also suspending him for the following game. And so FIFA, you know, it sounds like several people in the Trump administration, including Howard Lutnik and Andrew Giuliani, the son of Rudy Giuliani, who's the executive director of the White House World Cup Task Force, immediately set out to say this is a ludicrous call. There's no way you can take out our leading scorer for the next game. We're going to lobby against this. And it sounds like Trump called

the FIFA president, Infantino. And basically, it sounds like, at least according, the account of the Wall Street Journal says, he simply was asking what the rules were. And Infantino explained it, but Infantino also said, I'm willing to look at it, we're going to take a look at this. He didn't commit to overturning it. But there are lots of people who might say, ah, you know, Trump, he could read between the lines or he could see that Trump was willing to, I don't know, invade Italy or something.

I don't know, whatever Trump was going to do, it was going to be, you know, bad. But then they announced that, hey, you know, we've decided to rescind the red card. And the Belgians are, they're overturning their waffles. That's how upset they are with this decision. And it's one of those things like, look, I totally get, first of all, FIFA is legendarily corrupt, right? So that it would feel like, oh, this is the dirtiest decision in FIFA history. No, no, they built like stadiums with slave labor and gutter a few years ago. This is not the worst decision in FIFA history.

This may not even make the top 50. If you do it, and I was looking at the video, again, I don't think it deserved a red card. So if you have to lead, like, we see players working the refs all the time in every sport. So I don't really mind, you know, the U.S. President Trump calling up the FIFA president saying, hey, what's going on here? It really didn't look like it was a foul that would warrant a red card. So I have really no problem with this. And also, look, look, the U.S. team is rare.

This is this, only the second time we've gotten to this stage in World Cup history. People are really fired up about it. Whatever you think of football, Americans love seeing other Americans win. Usually. Everybody's super excited about it. And all of a sudden, the president's in it. And he does something, which, you know, his fans love because it's like, ah, he's standing up for the country. He's getting things done.

He's showing those European who's well. And his haters kind of in some way kind of love it, too, because, ah, see, he's cheating. He's breaking the rules. He's intimidating people. You know, and everybody can agree, you know, can argue about whether it's good or bad. Even though I have a feeling people might have reversed the call either way. Yeah. No, I love that you pointed that out in your article, too, that FIFA really might have done this without any involvement from President Trump whatsoever.

And the other thing, and I hate what aboutisms, but I do them occasionally, I feel like if a Democrat were in office and made a phone call to FIFA to get one of our best players to participate in a world, you know, stage fight of any kind of world sport, not just soccer, anything. it would be lauded as a president who cares. He cares so much about the country that he's trying to help get something done. It is amazing that it's going the way it's going right now in the world of politics. But I guess, of course, it does. I don't know if you know this. Dave Portnoy has called for anyone that's against this to be deported, which I found hilarious because this is good for the United States,

definitively good, and it's just crazy that people want to argue. And I should point out, look, those of us who root for what we would call traditional football, real football, American football. But we have all kinds of gripes about, you know, instant replay, the refauses the call, they look at an instant replay, and somehow it comes out worse. What is a catch? Did you have to feel? Like, on the one hand, these things are going to happen in sports.

I think if you have something like video-assisted replay, you should try to get the call right. And if I felt like Trump was trying to argue, if it was clearly a penalty and he was arguing against it, Well, no, it wouldn't be, you know, we would not feel the same way about it. But the argument from a bunch of the folks who are upset about this is that you have to let the bad call stand for the integrity of the game, except, wait a second, it's a bad call. If you make a bad call, shouldn't you try to fix it? Don't you want to fix it? And I think they're, you know, like, am I rooting for America? Yes, of course. But in the end, we're Americans. We'd really like to do well in the World Cup tournament. but we're used to winning things like World Wars.

So we really don't need to worry that much about, you know, if they win tonight, fantastic. If they don't, okay, it's been a great run. We just wanted to see our team do well, and they did pretty darn well. And it did feel like that we got treated badly. I don't know if I can use what words I can use on the radio with you. But we got, you know, that's good.

That seems fine. I do want to ship, go on it instead of nails, you know. I do want to shift gears and ask you about one other thing that came up in the podcast, the three martini lunch that you do. You talked about a state senator in Michigan who dropped out of the U.S. Senate race. It was a surprising decision to a lot of people. I think Axios had like stunning in their headline about this. I'm Alory McMorrow.

Why do you think this happened now? Do you have any thoughts on that one? Sure. Well, my first thought is that when the third place candidate in a three-person race drops out, it's not that stunning. I kind of think Axios might be, you know. Look, so there's three candidates. McMorrow was kind of the middle path one.

Haley Stevens, this is a Democratic primary. They're all Democrats, and our mutual friend, Greg Corumbus, would argue there are no good Democrats. None of them are any good, but he's from Michigan. But Haley Stevens is kind of the establishment candidate. Abdul Al-Said of Ann Arbor is the furthest left one. He's the guy who's been endorsed by Hassan Piker. And so, you know, I think the idea of McMorrow was I'm going to try to appeal to both camps at once. And in the process, she didn't appeal to either one of them.

And so, you know, does this put a certain number of voters up to grabs? Sure. I suspect McMorrow thinks she's going to get courted by both candidates. And, oh, you know, I'll hire your staffers and I'll endorse your idea. You know, like, if you're going to finish third and it's probably going to be a disappointing third, maybe you can gain something from leaving the race early and having people compete for your endorsement. And again, I don't think there's a ton of voters left at stake. It's interesting because on paper that people said, oh, this should be good for Stevens,

the establishment candidate. But a lot of people think, look, you look at the other races across the country, the socialist left, the communist left, the far, far left has done really well in Democratic primary so far this year. So my suspicion is, like, I would not dismiss Abdul L. at this point. I think he's, you know, still got a decent shot at this. But our friend Greg is the true expert on Michigan politics. Well, I was going to ask you this, because I do find it just sort of interesting, since you do describe her as sort of the middle of the road Democratic candidate. And you did mention the amount of far left people who are winning a races. Is there any chance that the Democratic Party itself wants outcomes like this, or at least the people behind the scenes, that they're pushing their party into that further left corner? It would the other factor I probably should have mentioned is that Mike Rogers is expected to be the Republican senatorial candidate. And in a year where the map is really not worked on all that great for Republicans, this is a chance where Republicans could pick up a seat.

I wouldn't say, you know, now Michigan is never an easy state for Republicans to win. Trump is one of a couple of times. Every once a while, they elected a Republican governor a couple cycles back. But by and large, it's been a pretty darn blue state. So I think if you're a Republican, you feel like you have the best shot against El-Daid. I would also point out that like this makes the stakes higher that if you lose and you don't win and what probably is going to be midterm elections are traditionally very tough for the president's party, you could end up with a Hassan Piker endorsed far-left senator for the next six years representing Michigan.

And so I think that like, you know, there's a part of me that would not mind more establishment Democrats to win. Again, don't overstate the centrism. They're not really middle of the road. is still pretty dark progressive. Certainly by your standards, my standards, and I suspect the standards of the audience. But by and large, like, this is a, you know, this could end up being a really high-stakes Senate race.

And I think if, I think the establishment candidate would be a safer bet for Democrats. Sure. As do I. Again, I don't want them to win elections. I just think it's interesting that we're seeing more and more of this in certain places. And I just, I'm so curious as to how that will go. in the midterm elections. And I hope it goes very poor. I'm sure you do too. I hope it goes very

poorly because I hope a lesson is learned that these type of candidates can't actually win national races, but maybe or at least statewide races, but they maybe can't, which is more terrifying than anything else. Yeah. And look, I think the vibe you're getting from a whole bunch of Democratic primaries is, boy, we Democrats are so mad that Trump won the election. We're so mad about everything he's doing from the state of the economy to the ballroom to the Kennedy Center to all and they want fighters and when they say fighters they basically mean the candidate who seems angriest the candidate who emotes the best now this is you know um despite my irish-american polish-american passions uh at politics i guess i'm something of a vulcan

um and that i want someone who actually knows what they're doing knows knowledge and i actually I kind of get suspicious when I see somebody pounding the table and emoting and reacting as if they just had somebody brush up against them in a soccer game, you know, kind of flopping and, oh, my good thing. Yeah. How dare that? Man, if we could only issue red cards to politicians, that would be amazing. All right. You can only generate red states. Thank you so much, Jim Garrity.

You are awesome. You are a author at the National Review for a very long time. You're also a part of the Three Martini Lunch, a podcast that people should check out. anything else before I let you go? You want us to know? Nope. I'll just say like I'm rooting for Team USA. I hope we succeed. And boy, if the U.S. were to win the World Cup, that'd be like the second or third most important thing we've ever won this year. Amen to that. Actually, by the way, I'll just do this. I won't say what you predicted, but I'll tell people to check out the podcast because at the very end, Jim has a prediction for the final score of tonight's game. And it is a doozy. It is an incredible one.

But all right. Get against that one. Don't go into Polymarkets. say, I think it's going to be that. Craig, always a pleasure. Always a pleasure to you, too, Tim. Quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. So if you've listened to me for any length of time, you know that I've talked about Human and Superbeats for years now. And now they've released a new limited edition, Watermelon Super Beats Heart Tube. I'm a little curious about this one. One of the reasons that I've stuck with Human is they aren't just another supplement company that's just chasing the latest trend. They were founded out of the university. University of Texas Health Science Center and their products are built on real cardiovascular research.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. That's right. It's time for Quick Five on the Dana Show, D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X, a great way to stay connected to her and all the awesomeness of her social media team, including producer Stephen and all the great stuff he does. 46% of Americans didn't know what we were celebrating this past weekend. They knew it was the 4th of July. This would be remarkably bad if they didn't even know that was a holiday, almost half of the country. They didn't know as the 250th anniversary of the country, which shocks me.

I feel like this survey, which only asked a certain amount of people this, just found a lot of really dumb people because there have been so many advertisements, so many things out there that it seems impossible to have not at least least seen some of that stuff and scratch your head and wonder, hey, why are they saying 250? And then you do some basic math and boom, things are great for you. But no, almost half of the country, according to at least one survey, a national one, said that people didn't know was the 250th anniversary of the country. That's terrible. Another thing that I saw that I thought was interesting, the ice bucket challenge is back. People are once again dumping ice on themselves. This is to bring awareness to ALS. I feel like the one thing we need to do is up the ante even more.

You can't just dump a bucket ice water over your head again, especially when it's insanely hot a lot of places. I think you've got to do the polar plunge or a cold plunge of some kind and actually jump in the water for a few minutes. I actually know a veteran in Illinois who does this every month on the 22nd. He either jumps in the river in the middle of the winter or does a cold plunge in the summer, and he does this to raise awareness about veteran suicide. So another great cause thing that deserves attention, just like ALS and funding for it does. So let's just up the ante. Let's not bring the ice bucket challenge back.

Let's make it harder. Let's make it different. That seems to make sense to me. Waymo cars were stranded on San Francisco streets on the 4th of July. Gridlock, drained batteries. Cars ran out of power, and they just kind of sat there because that's what a machine does. It has no ability to keep going, so it doesn't. It's stuck.

It doesn't know what to do. And then it just gives up entirely. This seems like one of many things that's going to go bad if Waymo is all over the place and if rideshare vehicles don't have human beings in them. These are some of the things that we hopefully can avoid by continuing to drive the cars ourselves, people. Let the Uber guy make some money. Come on, let that happen. My favorite thing about Waymo, we have it here in Houston, is that it's more expensive.

usually, then hiring a person to drive you in their car and pick you up. I don't know why I do that. I'm not so anti-other humans that I can't sit behind one while they drive me to a place and save a little bit of money compared to, and I don't know. If Waymo is a sponsor of this show, maybe I have to take some of this back, but now, screw it. I mean what I'm saying. I would always pick the human experience over the computer one, especially if it's

actually cheaper. I thought the whole benefit of the Waymo car was that they weren't going to pay the driver so that for some reason I would save a bunch of money. And then finally, one last thing I saw, minions and monsters did have a franchise low premiere at the box office, but they did do better than every other movie at the box office, including Toy Story 5, finally dethroning that movie from the top spot.

Supergirl did not achieve that feat. It took minions and monsters to do it. The only funny thing about the minions movies to me, I'm married to a woman who was born and raised in Mexico, fluently speaks English now. It's not like she doesn't, but she loves the minions. She loves them. I don't know why. I didn't go to this movie. We don't have any children to bring along with us. So that would have been weird for just the two of us to go. But I'm sure I'll watch it on a, on a, you know, streaming service at some point because she loves them, mostly because they just speak gibberish, which she thinks I do sometimes. All right, we got to take a break.

A lot to get to, a lot to talk about Craig Collins filling in on The Dana show. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. A thrilled to be with you, just a little bit left to talk about. One of the things that I thought was really interesting over the weekend and in honor of the 4th of July and the 250th birthday of our country was the attempt and likely record set by Washington, D.C. for the most fireworks ever shot off in one celebration of anything. In 40 minutes, the idea is, or I think the total is, that over 250,000 fireworks were shot off. That would crush the record. previously set, I think, by a church in the Philippines that fired 210,000 fireworks back in 2016.

We'd beat it by 40, 50,000, something like that. To put this in, you know, some sort of comparative type of explanation for you, what I think is to put this in context is what I was looking for to say. It was a 40-minute show that fired 250,000 fireworks, the 800, excuse me, 800, 50,000. The 810,000 show took over an hour to be done. And then for comparison sake, in New York City, one of the biggest fireworks, I think the biggest show they've ever done, was under 100,000 total fireworks, something like 85 to 90,000. And this is just a quirky thing at a New York that I kind of liked. Apparently a family that owns a firework business in New York

have been trusted multiple years to do the fireworks show in the city. And they're all described as crazy pyro-technic people that are just obsessed with all kinds of explosive pyro fanatics, I think, as they were called the Sousa family. I find that hilarious. That if I think about my own childhood, my little brother and I, really loving fireworks, that at some point, had we been influenced differently, we might have grown up to be people that were professionally doing it and not just stupidly doing it the way we did as kids. but DC, almost a million fireworks. That's how I'm going to describe it.

We're shot off at the National Mall in, I think, a tremendous amount of locations, a ridiculous amount of locations. Just an amazing show. And Trump said it didn't matter when it happened. It was happening. And he was right about that. Talk to you guys next time.

Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.