The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Rumors Swirl as Tucker Carlson's Son Leaves White House

Episode Date: April 20, 2026

Buckley Carlson, son of Tucker Carlson, leaves as Deputy Press Secretary to J.D. Vance and plans to launch his own political consulting firm. Was this done as a favor by Trump to Tucker for 2028? Israel’s Defense Force speaks out after a photo is posted of an Israeli soldier smashing the head of a Jesus statue in Southern Lebanon. Pope Leo clarifies his remarks and posts about President Trump. Rock band “The Strokes” used its final song at Coachella to protest the CIA's history of covert operations, as well as ongoing U.S. and Israeli military action in Iran and Gaza. Sen. Tommy Tuberville joins us to expose why the Senate is being so ineffective, the effects on Midterms, President Trump’s recent actions in Iran and more. Plus, more commentary.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Fresh Pressed Olive Oilhttps://DanaLovesOliveOil.comTry it now and get a full-size $49 bottle of Fresh Pressed Olive Oil for FREE just $1 shipping with no commitment—Claim yours today.Pocket HoseText DANA to 64000For a limited time, get two free gifts—a 360° rotating pocket pivot and thumb drive nozzle when you buy a new Pocket Hose Ballistic; just text DANA to 64000, message and data rates may apply.Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaTrusted by law enforcement, security professionals, and everyday Americans—defend yourself and your family with Byrna.PreBornhttps://www.PreBorn.com/Dana or #250 AND SAY “BABY”Help Preborn Fund 1,000 ultrasounds by Mother’s Day, and protect mothers and babies in crisis. Give securely today.Laundry Saucehttps://LaundrySauce.com/DanaPremium, fine-fragrance laundry pods that make laundry day your favorite day of the week — find your favorite and save 20% with code DANA.Ghost Bedhttps://GhostBed.com/DANAGhostBed has the cooling luxury mattress you need for deep sleep use code DANA for the lowest prices of the season + an extra 10% off sitewide.HumanNhttps://Humann.com/DanaSupport your heart health with SuperBeets Heart Chews Zero Sugar now Buy 2 get 1 Free. Visit today to learn how to get a Free 30-day supply. Ask ChapterDial #250 and say “My Medicare” Chapter can help you take control of your Medicare. Relief Factorhttps://www.ReliefFactor.comDeclare your independence from pain with Relief Factor—start the 3-Week QuickStart for just $19.95. Noble Goldhttps://NobleGoldInvestments.com/DanaSchedule a FREE gold strategy session now and stay ahead of the curve.Subscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore InfoWebsite

Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. I was looking over the weekend, apparently so Buckley Carlson, who is Tucker Carlson's son. As you know, he was the deputy press secretary for J.D. Vance. And I say it was because he is now leaving, apparently. And they, according to Politico, to start his own political consulting firm. Like, ah, yes. A Nepo baby, barely 30 years old who's never won a campaign ever in his life is going to start a check. notes, a consulting firm. Seriously? Maybe this is what I hate about Politico's kids. I can't stand it. And I see this all the time on the right and the left. There are people that I see on cable news that the only expertise that got them there was coming from the loins of somebody else. I just, it's why my, you don't, do you do not see my kids out in the political sphere? Because it's stupid. If you want to do it, that should be something you naturally gravitate to or as a consequence of being, consequence isn't the right word, for the lack of a better one, the consequence of being

very successful in business or being very good at something, right? It's supposed to be something that like goes along with it, not the thing that you seek out to do. I just have never understood that, right? I don't like dynasties and I don't like dynasties and politics. Maybe that's my super American side coming out because, I mean, just the other day, it was 251 years ago. You know, they had Paul Revere ride who warned that the British were coming and you had Lexington and Concord. And, you know, maybe, maybe it's because of that. I don't know.

All the stars are aligning. But it just never makes sense. And so now you have somebody that's, I mean, what campaigns does he run? Where is he actually done anything except, you know, I'm just saying, but I know people in D.C. I'm just curious. That's some Nepo baby stuff. We make fun of Mamdani all the time for this stuff. Rightfully so.

I just think it goes both ways. I don't care what side you're on. if you do something that's cringe, then it should be noted as such. I don't believe in protecting cringe because of any kind of political ideology. I don't know. Well, my loyalty to anyone who's never proven it to me either, nor should you. But I just, it doesn't, you know, the way that the article is structured is that, well, this was something that was going to be happening and it was first made clear in December.

I call BS. I don't think so. I mean, I, again, and the piece says, yes, he informed the VP's office of his, intention to depart in December, but stayed on to ensure a smooth transition. Do you know how many other press aids there are? You don't need to stay on to do that. This was, I think it was all concocted to give him a soft landing because it looked weird. And I don't think, and I think it was concocted to give him a soft landing as a favor to Tucker. I don't think that it was done in spite of Tucker. I just, and my, because unlike a lot of the people that talk about all these cats on air,

I know these folks, I think it was all designed specifically to give him a soft landing as a favor to Tucker. Because notice, Vance, I mean, he's defended POTUS, but he's never said anything about Tucker. And I just think it looked too weird to everybody to have his son as the deputy press secretary for Vance, and maybe it was causing some problems. I don't know. It was a little bizarre. I mean, you have Tucker and Trump going at each other, and then you have Tucker's kid as the deputy press secretary in the vice president's office. So it's a little weird. You know what I mean? So it made sense. But I mean, he's, all of this is posturing to for 28.

You have to keep that in mind as well. So I think that this was done. It was engineered theater without formally cutting ties to Tucker. His son's given a soft landing. And that's how I view it. Now he's going to depart, but he's going to create a political consulting firm. Yes, because that's what D.C. needs more of. is more political consulting firms.

Gee, I can't believe no one's ever thought of that to do that in Washington, D.C. To have political consulting firms. Wow, Kane. Such a novel idea. It's just, right? It's goofy. It's brand new. I mean, we make fun of Case Street for a reason.

There's a reason why the stereotype exists, right? There's a reason why. But I don't believe, like I said, I think it was all ingenious. to make it to where he had a soft landing. Now remember, this was the kid that Tucker Carlson was working with Hunter Biden on behalf of because he couldn't get into Georgetown. I'm just saying that's from publicly available records and emails that came out. That all came out, remember in that trial that he had.

What was that trial with Fox, the voting machine one, Dominion? It was the Dominion trial. So a lot of these emails came out, and it came out that, he had been working with Hunter Biden because his son couldn't get into Georgetown and he was trying to get him into Georgetown. And so Hunter Biden somehow, I don't know how, I mean there's emails, that's why we know that.

And they came out and they were presented as part of the Dominion suit during discovery in the courtroom. So I just don't know why Hunter Biden would be like your go-to guy to help your kid try to get past the initial no for Georgetown. So I feel it's pretty safe to say that this dude has had everything, and he's a grown man. He's like 30 now, I think. I think it's pretty safe to say that he's had everything engineered in his life for him,

down to him having his job at the VP's office. He couldn't get into Georgetown. Daddy was working with Hunter Biden to try to get him into Georgetown because he couldn't get in there and it means he's going to have to pay even more, you know, et cetera. So, yeah, I just think it's, it's interesting. I mean, he just stayed long enough for, you know, his dad to turn on bodice, just wild. But I don't know. I just, this is kind of like the problem with, we need fresh faces and fresh voices in commentary. I need people on the right to not mimic the people on the left and think that every, you know, offspring that you bear is going to be some great American pundit one day. Stop it. Please do not subject the country you claim to love to such hell. Just please stop. Good heavens.

People have asked me before about getting my, you know, my sons involved in this or that. I'm like, no, stop it. That's stupid. I'm not going to do it. I appreciate it, but no, no. They're going to do it. It'll be a consequence of being successful in something, not just because of where they come from.

You're not given any kind of special insight or wit or anything else just because of that. So my whole point is that this is some posturing also for 2028 because the VP has been meeting with some big billionaire donors. He's been photographed at some big swanky fundraising. So he's trying to get in position for 28. He says he's not sure he's going to run. He's running. That's a fact.

He's running. He's already running. But I think this was to limit any kind of shrapnel, rhetorical shrapnel coming back on him, as well as to give Buckley a soft landing because I think it was getting a little hot for him. And so they engineered it to give him a soft landing. I just, do you trust someone who has to have everything in life, for them to like make decisions in consulting like very expensive shock calling you know what I mean I would not I would not hire a firm or work with anybody if I was a politician who only got there

because of who their parents were in the favors that were pulled not because of any kind of meritocracy you see how this is literally anti-meritocracy you see how this gets into like this is literally leftism in action I'm just saying it is you see I mean that's we don't we always bitch and moan about things not being done on merit. Okay, well, that's, you know, there's your, it's done on merit, not done on merit. So, I don't know. I just, doesn't that sound about right, Kane?

It seems engineered as a way to not formally cut ties with Tucker and also give, as a favor, give his kid a soft landing. Yeah, absolutely. It was about the milk-toastiest way to do it. Yeah. So I don't, I don't know, some people were praising Vance for that. Vance is very transparent. I feel like he thinks he's being opaque, but.

I mean, we just, you know, we see it. We know. Now, in addition to this, I'm not going to get into the giant slap fight that the social media team wants me to get into, and that's why they gave me a million links about it. All I'll say is this. Over the weekend, two of the people that you hate most on social media decided to have a slap fight. And that's it. I'm not even saying their names.

The two most ridiculous people, perpetually aggrieved people, I'm not a fan of either of them, decided to get into a giant fight. and I ended up not being on social media most of the weekend it was glorious came was one of them talk there no one of them's not no no no it's two women it was an actual cat fight which those are kind of funny to watch because women are just mean I mean gloriously so it's very rare that you get a man who can be that's a very rare achievement and mandum to be catty you know those men are dangerously smart who can be catty or they're super gay one of the two. I mean, there's not really, sometimes there's overlap. But no, this was a cat fight.

Like the two dumbest cats got into a fight in the alley of social media while the rest of you were out there living your sweet little lives. That's what happened. No, I'm not going to go more into it because it's so stupid it kills brain cells without the gin. So, no, if I'm going to kill brain cells, I'd rather do it with gin, not because two dumb cats got into a fight in the alleyway of social media. There we go. Have I addressed it enough? Do you? think, Kane? You think so? Yeah, I think we have. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'd welcome many more you want to give. Why is that? That's because I'm just, you've piqued my curiosity. Oh, man. No, I don't think so. Anyway, so, and they were arguing over Erica Kirk and all this other stuff. I feel so bad for that woman. I really do. I mean, people are mad at her. Jealousy and envy, that's so much of it. So much of that permeates this whole thing.

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One of the things that made the rounds over the weekend was this insane story. And it was showing this statue that, and I'm pulling this, you'll have to forgive me, I'm pulling this up. It was the statue that was apparently, what was it like a near Lebanon? And it had, I don't know if it fell over or if it was like that or somebody knocked. I don't know what it was. But apparently there was a photograph of one lone IDF soldier that was taking an axe to the head of a sculpture of Jesus in southern Lebanon. And people were trying to run it down and trying to, you know, figure it out. And is it real? it AI, what is it? And the statue, it's like, it's a, what is it, a crucifix shrine in the garden

of a private family home. And I don't know. I guess a lot of people took this as evidence of their hatred of, yeah, just Israel, not of Jews at all. Just Israel. Yeah, the government. What does the government meet? Wait, what? No, what? Oh, you don't know anything about the government, than do you? You sure it's not just about Jews? Anyway, it's one IDF guy. And I don't know what our response was supposed to be. Was there, it seemed like we were supposed to declare war on Israel as a result of it? Is that the understanding? Yeah, that's what the left would like you to do. Yeah. And the woke Reich, for that matter. Well, they're the same. The Woke Reich and all that they're all the same. Because the reaction and the responses, I just, like I said, I didn't really,

I haven't really been on, I try to stay off social media to avoid burnout over the weekend, because I don't think that humanity was meant to deal with so many things all at once, constantly all the time, right? So I was following this, and so I, you know, one of my friends that said, yeah, because the IDF tweeted about it. And they said, they did an examination, They looked at the photograph and they began an investigation, and they said it was, they determined that the photograph depicts an IDF soldier operating in southern Lebanon. And they said the IDF views the incident with great severity and emphasizes that the soldier's conduct is wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops.

And as Cain notes, this whole thing was to trigger some sort of anti-Semitic narrative. And, you know, people love being baited because they love taking bait. It's their favorite thing to snack on. They love bait, bait, bait, bait. And so they said it's being investigated in Northern Command, et cetera, et cetera. And apparently they, I think they're going to, the guys, what the conclusion was that there's going to be a pretty serious consequence to this dude. And that's exactly what you would want to happen. I mean, you have, you address it head on, you don't run away from it.

You don't lie about it. You deal with it. You correct it. And it seems like that's exactly what they're doing. You know, the guy is a jerk who's doing it. And he's an absolute jerk. And they're going to deal with it. And I'm glad that they are.

There's apparently a very strict punishment for that. And that's apparently what's happening. So good. I'm glad. That's exactly what you would want to happen. And, you know, there were people who apparently for them that was not enough of a response. And I'm just like, wow, don't tell them what happened at that big old church in Istanbul. then don't tell them about the Hagas Sophia.

Don't tell them what Muslims did that. I mean, if you want to have sitting here and have a measuring contest about who's destroyed more stuff or who's more hostile to Christians, I'm not doing this red-grain alliance. I'm not doing this nonsense. But the thing is, the people who are upset about it and who've kept going on, I feel like there's proper reaction and then there's overreaction.

And I don't think that the, I feel, feel like the overreaction has nothing to do actually with Jesus and it has to do with just Jews. That's what it feels like. I mean, these people that were very upset about this didn't say anything at what happened with these churches across Syria over the past several months at the hands of Muslims. They haven't said a single damn thing about it. None of the accounts, because I went and I was looking, none of these accounts were objecting to anything that Islamists were doing, churches in Syria or in parts of Africa.

I don't understand. This whole point, I think it's, again, anything that can be used as a way to try to drive the advance of that red-green alliance. And if you need a reminder as to what that is, it's the communist Islamist alliance, red for commies, green, because that's the color of like the Shia in Iran, et cetera. and it's all to advance this red-green alliance. And so people need to be just, I mean, a singular action by a singular person, yes, deal with it. But to act like this is some kind of ongoing thing, I think is it betrays the claimed faith because you're misrepresenting something by way of exaggeration.

And I also think that there has to be a consistency there, especially after what we've seen with churches in Ethiopia, Coptic Christians, churches in Syria. That didn't have anything to do with Jews. That was all Islamists that were doing that. Or what about the people who basically do that to Christ every single day with our actions here in the United States? What about those people who bear false witness against people that they don't like politically? Who act like, who put Christ in their bio on social media and then they go on social media and say the vilest things to people. I mean, you're doing that and more yourself. But then they look at themselves as though they stand apart from it and they're better because they're not Jewish. That's really ultimately what they think. So I just,

the overreaction I felt like was performative. It was all entirely performative. That's what it seems, you know. Or like, yeah, you were, there's a million examples of churches turning into either mosques or Islamic centers. But this is all about, this is all personal. about dividing the right and driving that red-green alliance, because that's what this is. What gets me, communists are so stupid. They want to attack the West, and they will leverage an alliance with Islamists because they think that Islamists will go at them last. Isn't there an old ESOP's fable about this? Yet they persist. They persist in it. Doesn't make sense. You've seen the Red Green Alliance in Britain. I mean, Britain is dying. They are just at, they're dying. I don't

know how else to put it. They were wholly unprepared for everything that has happened with Iran. They can't deal with anything in their own nation. They are completely overrun by Islamist promoting Sharia. They couldn't save their girls in Rotherham and elsewhere. It's very sad to see. I mean, they've allowed, they've taken in so many illegal immigrants and have completely reoriented their entire economy to serve that while they let their military languish. And for people who like to go, oh, military spending, that's literally the only job of a nation. That's their only job is that. And if you can't even do that, there's a big issue. You can't protect your citizenry.

That's a big issue. They have, I was reading this report about the destroyers that they had. For instance, they have the HMS dragon. that's like the only one that they can actually deploy at this point. They had five other type 45 destroyers that are unfit for deployment. Is that not something? And by the time that they allowed that they deployed Dragon out in theater, it set sail March 10th. This was at, they dispatched it to go to Cyprus.

Remember, they thought they could avoid any kind of conflict with Iran by simply saying, well, we're not going to allow the United States to use our air base in Cyprus. and then they ended up getting droned anyway. And they had the dragon that succumbed to what was described as a technical issue. And it had to retreat to port for repairs. Hmm. They're already divided. What you're seeing with Britain is a consequence of the Red Green Alliance,

the far left and the Islamists working together to destroy a powerful sovereign nation. And that's happening right here in the United States. that's happening right here right now. And it doesn't help that the Pope goes along with it. And he does. He says now his tyrant remarks were not aimed at POTUS after POTUS was critical of him. He was in Cameroon. You know, by the way, this is not, this guy's a very far leftist.

There are photos of him marching with communists. I don't know if you've ever seen any of this, but there are photos of him marching with communists and taking parts and all kinds of communist demonstrations in his, youth and not even really in his youth. I mean, he's just, he's a very far left. That's not even getting into the stuff that he had with his social media posts, et cetera, where after he deleted his ex account. So all of this, incredibly, all of this is true. And I don't think that he's helping with this by going back and forth with POTUS. It's all of this, you cannot tell me that all of these things happened just randomly. You know, some of these bishops doing what they're doing,

the Pope saying the things that he's been saying. And you can't, it's all to do to the, it's all to divide the last remaining power in the West to get rid of the unipolarity with the dominant United States. By the way, speaking of Britain, did you hear that SAS soldiers are apparently resigning in large numbers? This is a piece that's over at the telegraph right now. And they're resigning in large numbers because they're afraid that they're going to be subjected to witch hunts by human rights attorneys. Is that not something? They're afraid they're going to be subjected to witch hunts by human rights attorneys. You know, if they're in theater and they're in conflict, the people who have never even carried a gun nor probably ever left the UK are the ones that

are sitting at desks making determinations about whether or not a soldier had just caused to react the way that he did. They had multiple sources tell the telegraph that personnel from across 22 SAS, their most elite fighting force, have applied for premature voluntary release. They said, someone said that morale is garbage right now. It's real low. This is so sad. This is sad.

And it's the special air service soldiers. And they said that it's like a threat to national, they, they, you know, they, you. They're concerned because they don't want to be targeted in like this, how do I put it, PR fake human rights op, right? Where they basically string them up and have a public lynching. So they're leaving. That's a scary thing. The telegraph is withholding the exact number that have left.

But they said that SAS sources have described the losses as, quote, significant and a, quote, threat to national security. They said their D&G squadrons were believed to have been affected, outrage over, like what they say, war crimes probes in Afghanistan and Syria. Because that's what they do. That's what Britain does. The United States has done that before, too. We go after our guys. They go after their guys super hard so that they can pretend that we're trying to make inroads in with these communities where they believe. and Marionoff 12-year-old girls. Are you kidding me? I don't want to chase favor with that kind of

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ballistic, you're going to get that free. You see it right here. 360 degree rotating pocket pivot and a free thumb drive nozzle. Just text Dana to 6430s. That's Dana to 6400 for your two free gifts with purchase. Message and data rates may apply. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this third hour on a Monday and we're going to be getting into, we've got some domestic stuff to get into, but I also have this as well. Then, this is, where do we want to start? We were, we, I've been discussing the whole situation with Iran and also the red green alliance. Two sound bites. One where I'm like, hmm, and the other one, which is actually good from the Pope. First cut eight. Where the Pope was downplaying tensions with POTUS, and he was saying that, is he accusing people

of misrepresenting him, i.e. his own social media people? I don't know. Listen to this. This is cut eight. There's been a certain narrative that has not been accurate in all of its aspects, but because of the political situation created when on the first day of the trip, the President of the United States made some comments about myself. Much of what has been written since then is, has been more commentary on commentary trying to interpret what has been said. Just one little example, the talk that I gave at the prayer meeting for peace a couple days ago, was prepared two weeks ago, well before the president had ever commented on myself and on the message of peace that I am promoting. And yet, as it happens, it was looked at as if I was trying to debate again the person.

president, which is not my interest at all. Yeah. Yeah, it does not. I don't know. I don't know. But he did say this, and I thought this was, he was talking about immigration. This is cut seven,

where he was telling people to stop leaving your countries and going elsewhere. This is interesting. Listen. Cherie, this kid of Cameroon, he's talking about the people in Cameroon. He's basically saying, stay home. to be emigree,

who could let them think that we'll find a far as a year, stay home. Bloom where you're planted.

It's essentially it's what he was saying. I mean, good for him to say that. I mean, that is true. Try to improve your own country

instead of taking over a country that doesn't need to import anything other than freedom in, really. So I'm kind of happy that he said that.

That's good that he said that. He now needs to go to Pakistan and say the same thing. Tell them there. Tell it to Libyans. Tell it to any, I mean, anywhere. Oh, my goodness. So the tension, it seems so much of it seems so manufactured. But I also, you have a lot of the TDS.

that has infected every aspect of analysis to what's happening in Iran. I don't know if you guys heard. I'm not going to play it because it's in Farsi, but apparently the IRGC Navy called Iran's own foreign minister an idiot over open maritime radio. They were running their mouths about him before they realized, oh my gosh, our comms are open. But we got it.

And we, I mean, that sounds like some great propaganda. Did you see Iran's attempt to act like, oh, we are. are the master trollers and we're upsetting Trump so bad with our memes. Did you see that narrative pop out over the weekend? They were trying to say that, oh, no, the Iran regime, they're so good at trolling. These were the same people who also photoshopped. They photoshopped missiles launching and then they forgot to hide the fact that they just copied and pasted and they used Photoshop very poorly and all of the like the debris and the dust

and everything that was around the rockets was all, I mean it made a pattern you could see it in the photo because they just didn't even bother to change anything. Yeah, I don't believe that those people are the tip of the spear on any kind of info battle with any of this but yeah, they were calling their foreign

minister an idiot. They don't, I don't even know who you would negotiate with over there at this point. The gay one-legged Ayatollah, the disfigured Ayatola who's like lying in a hospital bed probably hooked out to a number of like pumps and everything else. I don't know. Like what? What? All right. So over the weekend, did you, have you watched anything with Coachella? Kane? No, not this year. No, not at all. Apparently most of it's been electronic music this year for some reason.

Yeah? Well, I don't know. They apparently, did the strokes play at Coachella? Where did they do their thing? Oh, I don't know I can look that up. Because apparently the strokes played over the weekend, and I'm pulling the story up. They had this like, yeah, it was Coachella. They flashed images of governments, the CIA has overthrown, leaders the U.S. has assassinated, and war crimes that the U.S. is committing in Iran, and Israel's genocide against the poor, sweet, innocent Hamas people in Gaza. Yeah, they played this video. they're getting a lot of criticism for it.

I can proudly say I have always hated the strokes. I feel very proud about that. They're blasted for what was discussed a shocking political commentary during their set. They decided that that's, who are the, you're at an outdoor festival. Most everybody's on Molly and they're, they're dressed like whores and they're drunk.

The last thing that they want is a classroom lecture by a bunch of, like, illiterate nepo babies. That's the last thing. that they want. By the way, I said Nepo Baby, because isn't Julian Casablancus one of the guys that's in the strokes? Hang on. Let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me pull this up real quick. Because there's an interest, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's in the strokes. He's the primary, he's the lead vocalist. He looks like, um, uh, Pete from baby shambles at peak heroin, this guy. He looks very unhealthy. You know what I'm talking about, right? He looks like Pete Doherty at the height of his,

like heroin addiction. He looks like flabbit and flaccid and flabby. Anyway, so his dad was a very highly influential figure in the fashion industry, apparently. He helped, he, so he's, I say he's an up-o baby because his dad helped found one of the biggest modeling agencies in the world elite model management. And he is, was one of the guys who was behind the whole supermodel era, right? And he, his dad apparently has like a serious Epstein connection. I don't know if you've heard about this.

Yeah, his dad apparently has an Epstein connection. And I'm just wondering if that made the their little video. If that was one of the things that he, let's see, yeah, I think he was named in the files and apparently in the Epstein files there was a due diligence

report on one of these guys named Jean-Luc Brunel who quoted John Casablancus and I don't know I just I'm just wondering whether or not that made it in their little video montage where they were going off but what an entitled brat also

way over there shaking your head he does look like people because YouTube and X both removed that video yeah they were trying to claim copyright infringement yeah and then there's been apparently the group's Instagram account appeared to have been temporarily taken down in March.

And I don't know if it was because of like similar messaging or not, but I don't know what they're just what, just do music good. Mm-hmm. Just do music good. Yeah. Just do your music good and stop being, just, just stop trying to lecture everybody and stop trying to pull stunts over on people. Yeah, he, uh, he apparently was like, named in the Epstein files.

I just thought that was kind of interesting. Uh, he is accused of introducing Epstein to some of the models that were at his agency. I don't know. I'm just telling you what's being widely reported. That's it. Just telling you what's being widely reported. But, yeah, so interesting that this guy, he's named, I mean, this goes all the way back to, like, last year. And one of the, and they were trying to make it like John Casablanca's was a very good friend of Donald Trump.

But he wasn't, though. But he did introduce Epstein to a number of models. And apparently one of the stories is that that was reported. is that one of the models that Casablanca had sent to meet a photographer, the photographer was actually Epstein and he sexually assaulted her. That's one of the stories that came out. So I don't know. I just feel like if you have that in your closet and that's your dad and you're a nepo baby,

then maybe you should avoid getting on stage and making an ass of yourself with your absolute illiteracy on world events. Just seems like that would be, that seems like the most obvious self-aware thing that you could do. They did that at Coachella. I wonder what the audience reaction was like to that, because nobody wants that at a concert, at an outdoor festival. Nobody wants that.

They want to go and they want to have a good time. I don't know. Steve says it was as effective as Shnade O'Connor tearing a picture apart on S&L. So I was in elementary school when that happened, and we knew that. We knew that was so, that was everywhere. I don't think that they got the same reaction. I don't think that they had the same reaction at all. all. I don't know.

It's just not as effective as what I meant to say. Yeah, yeah, yeah, not as effective at all. But, oh, man, just separately, I can't stand the strokes. I've always hated them. I always thought they were, like, in a way, they were kind of baby shambles wannabes. I never liked them. I did in the late 90s. I remember them.

They've been around for way too long. Yeah, I remember them. Retire already. The jig is up. Retire. Never meet your heroes? Yeah, well, they were never my heroes. But, you know what I mean?

Just, and I would be mad. even if it was somebody that I agreed with. Like when you go to a concert, you want to be entertained. I don't want to have political posturing. That's not why people pay the cost of a ticket to go and read some NEPO baby with a weird

daddy. Sit here and grind on about issues that he clearly doesn't understand and just takes lead from via TikTok. It's kind of it. But they are getting a lot of criticism.

and apparently was a real downer. Of course, you have some people who are like, oh my gosh, it's so great. That was brilliant. And then others who were like, what a downer? But they said, oh, no, it's a very, it was a protest. And they were, it was just propaganda. All they did was have a little short about propaganda that they're part of, ironically.

How funny was that. So, I don't know. I just, I can't stand that. Like, everything has been made political and it's just awful. And people like that group, they just, yeah, they said that they had, I don't know how long the video montage was, but how old are these guys now? That would be in the 50s, 60s? You think?

At some point, like the Green Day type protest, bratty stuff is just unattractive. Just stop it. We have more on the way. We've got headlines coming up as we move. The folks who won't make the program possible, it's our friends over at Relief Factor. If you want to help with everyday aches and pains, relief factor is there to help you whether it is, you know, you're sore from working out, or maybe you have old injuries.

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call 800 number four relief. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. You can listen coast to coast terrestrially, find us in a state near you. You can also check us out digitally as well, Channel 347, Direc, TV, X, Facebook, YouTube, all that good stuff. So what's happening with Save America Act. What's happening in the Senate? Well, for this and more, we bring on our next guest. The great Senator Coach, we were debating, how were we going to address him? I'm just going to come out with it. Like, Coach Senator, Senator, Coach Tommy Tuberville, U.S. Senator, from the great state of Alabama, he joins us now via video. Senator, Coach, it's good to have you. I'm just going with that because I can't just say coach. I also have to say

Senator. It's a Southern thing. I don't know. I have to do it. But it's good to have you. Thanks for joining us. Thank you, Dana. It's good to be on. It's good to talk about our country and our world because there's a lot of news. A lot of news. Exactly. Well, I wanted to ask you this because I saw two. I've heard what Senator Thune has said. We don't have the numbers when it comes to the Save America Act. But then just, I mean, I'm pulling up this post on X just this morning that came from Senate Republicans. And it said Democrats block funding for ICE and Border Patrol. The result, Senate Republicans will now fund them even more with no Democrat votes. How is that going to have? and when the Senate is struggling right now just to get the numbers, according to Thune anyway? Yeah, we have a tough problem. We've got 53 supposedly Republican senators,

but we probably really have about 45. And you've got about six to eight that kind of go back and forth, and it's going to be very tough for them to commit to anything. So we can save that we all want the Save America Act. I'm one that I'm ready to bust the filibuster, but I don't think we'd have enough votes, Dana, even if we busted the filibuster. I think we would still be a few shorts. So we've gotten ourselves in a bind by having people elected that are not truly, you know,

Republicans. They're more of the rhinos. Again, we've allowed that to happen. So we're the ones that are at fault, nobody other than. the people are in the Senate who have not gotten together and got people on board that are truly conservative. And I, you know, everybody's worried about with DHS and TSA and you've made this point before, you know, here we are in a conflict, a response, really, with Iran. And we have, you know, we've had a couple of terror attacks here in the United States. And Democrats have been dragging their feet about funding for the agencies that are helped that are supposed, that are tasked with helping to surveil and prevent this.

I guess they don't see that as any kind of a threat or maybe their voters don't see the importance of this. Does that not weigh on the hearts of your colleagues from across the aisle, Senator? Well, you would think it would, Dana. But again, we have dealt with these crazies for so long now on the Democratic side. You know, they care nothing about anything other than power. They say they want to protect their American people. They want to do things for the American people. I've been here six years, and the only thing they've done for American people has put us in a huge problem when it comes to inflation, overspending.

All they do is want to spend money, just throw money out there so they can get reelected. They love power. They have not one policy have they brought up since I've been here to try to help the American people. And that's what's a shame because that's the reason we're up here. Right. But we don't get anything from the Democrats other than just blocking everything that we try. to do when it comes to policy. They're more about politics. We've been more about policy. You know, we're talking with Senator, Senator Coach Tommy Tuberville. I know Kane calls him

coach, but we're talking with the great senator from Alabama. You know, I was thinking that maybe this would get wrapped up before summer travel started, you know, and people were getting out there flying, going to the airports, TSA. But I really do think Democrats want to drag this all the way to midterms. And it scares me and a lot of voters about half to death. to think, if we're not going to have a way of protecting voter integrity by the time midterms come up, because I know that there's a lot of prognosticators out there saying that we could lose control of the House and we could maybe even lose a bit of an edge in the Senate, I mean, we want to guarantee that the integrity of the votes protected, but it really does seem like

their play might be to run this all the way to midterms because they think that helps them the best. How do you all plan to battle against that? Well, that's exactly what they're trying to do. They're trying to run this all the go line and say, oh, this is a Republican's fault. When we have voted, I think now 16 times to fund all of our law enforcement agencies, including FEMA and the Coast Guard and all that, the problem is we're running out of money. Now, we have a lot of money for DHS through the big beautiful bill, but we're running out of money every day. It costs a lot of money to do these things.

They could care less. I mean, they could absolutely care less. all they care about is to blame the Republicans and President Trump on something to where they can get a one or two thousand more votes from people that are really not keeping up with what's going on. So it's frustrating to me knowing that we're trying to do the right thing, but they're not going to give us any help. And then they're pointing the finger back at us. And then you have the mainstream media that's all on board with them. And we can't get anything done. If the mainstream media would shift gears and say, okay, we're going to start pointing the fingers that actually.

actually who is wrong on these situations, it would be over with in a matter of days. But that's not going to happen. No, it's not going to happen at all. I wanted to ask you as well about your thoughts on the president's prosecution of this conflict with Iran. We've talked about it. I think, you know, people who have Trump derangement syndrome, they're not going to like anything that he does. The legacy press isn't going to like anything that he does.

For some reason, they find, you know, the, I guess it's the gay one-legged, injured, disfigured Ayatollah who's laid up in a hospital in Tehran more of a sympathetic figure than the people that that regime has has gone after, including Americans. What is your take on how this is going with Iran? Because, you know, we've talked about how POTUS has been boxing out China, regaining control over these choke points, and really kind of showing the world just how much of an alliance we actually did not have with Europe. What are your thoughts on this? I traveled with the president last week to a couple of places out on the West Coast, and he was very frustrated, obviously, with NATO and the people that should have jumped on board

because, you know, we're in alliance. But that didn't happen. It supposedly, it wasn't their war. But at the end of the day, you know, they like to scrape up the crumbs if there's anything left. But, you know, sooner or later people are going to look at President Trump and go, you know what? whatever this guy says he's going to do. And I was all for him doing what he did in Iran to go after him because we knew that they're working on a nuclear weapon.

These crazy people will use one. North Korea's got one. We've got some in Europe. We've got some in Eastern Europe. But the problem is most of those people use it for the right reasons and use it to keep peace. These people would use it to destroy countries, including ours, United States of America.

That's how crazy they are. So he did the right thing. He went in there. Didn't get a lot of help anybody other than Israel. Got all these people that want gas and oil. I think that's working out for us because we got three or four hundred ships coming to the Gulf Coast, the Gulf of America, to get oil and gas. I think that's going to work out.

But the problem is sooner or later, we've got to get the straits open. President Trump told me we've got 25, we've got an armada, 25 ships blocking the straits. But you can't, at the end of the day, you can't trust these people. They lie. They kill. their own people. And when you kill your own people like they do, then you know there's no, that's somebody you can't trust. So vice president's going out tomorrow, try to work a deal. But I'm telling you, President Trump's fuse is getting very short. And, you know, he pulled off

those power plants and, and Carg Island and all those things. But I tell you, they mess around this guy much longer. They're going to really find out what it's like to, you know, to have a bombardment of their cities and, you know, places that are very important to them like the electrical plants. Yeah. Do you think that this is the closest that we would ever be able to get in terms of dealing with this threat in Iran? And I mean, it's just, this seems like my entire life, this has been the specter over there, is the Shia regime in Iran and playing games with the Strait of Ormoos. I don't know if we're ever going to get a chance like this again. What is your, I mean, you would know more than me because you're on every single committee.

I mean, you're on everything. You're on Armed Services Committee. You're on everything. Is that your insight as well that this is maybe our only chance? Yeah, we've looked at all the data for the last several years and what they were doing. We knew what they were doing. President Trump tried to knock them out last fall. They did a good job.

Our military did excellent. But they still had some things that were there. They were trying to put back together. Again, all they need is one. All you need is one bomb when these crazies figure out, you know, how to do it. and then explode one. Then you got a huge mess. So I was with President Trump before this started.

Several of us were. And he asked us all, what do you think? And he asked me, what do you think about going to Iran? This is before he went. And I said, listen, it's the only time in our lifetime that we're going to have to have a good chance because they're weak as they've ever been is take care of this. This. I said, no, you can take that with a grand assault, Mr. President. You know a lot more about it than me.

But I've lived in this great country of ours for a long time. And we've never had to secure Iran and really know that, you know, they can't do something to us. But it's, you know, he pulled the trigger on it. He went after him. Our military did a great job. It's just, I know we lost a few military people as a very unfortunate, disastrous. But at the end of the day, I think this is going to really turn out well for the country, and not just for our country, but all countries that want to be free from this,

this group of people that want to destroy us all because they live for death. That sounds crazy, but they don't live for money. They live for death. They like dying for some reason. And that's just not something that we want to be a part of. I think you're one of the few people in D.C. that gets it because they're not looking at this, like they're prosecuting something political. This is a religious war to them.

I mean, they really believe that Armageddon's coming. They're going to have that 12tham. I mean, they're 12ers, Shia 12ers. I mean, you can't negotiate with that. And you know that, coach. You can't negotiate with that. That's radical. Yeah.

No, exactly right. They have no sense of reality. You know, they're a third world country that, now I know there's a lot of people. There's 90 million people and they probably got several million that are actually the Iranian guard that control everything. But they've all been indoctrinated in this nonsense. And it's, you know, it scares me there. It scares me if they ever get a weapon. Then it scares me that a lot of, you know,

A lot of people from these third world countries are moving to Europe and now moving to United States of America trying to create that same cult-like atmosphere that they have there. So it is very worrisome for the future of our country. I completely agree. Well, we're glad that we have people like you in the Senate to help hold the line on this. Senator Tommy Tuberville from the great state of Alabama, we'd love to have you back, Coach. Senator Coach, we'd love to have you back. It's good to see you.

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So remember how last week we told you about the FAA was looking for gamers to hire for their air traffic control? So apparently it's gone gangbusters. They said they had a record 12,000 new applicants. That's crazy. They had 12,000 applications. They came in an under 24 hours. They said that is the most in one day since the FAA was created 68 years ago. And that's pretty impressive.

This I saw this morning. This is a crazy story. There is a hunt for this mysterious white pickup that's terrifying women on Montana's empty highways. They're all of these because the person who wrote this story doesn't know how to ride a violence lead and should be fired and have their journalism degree pulled. Long story short, a white pickup truck has been stalking women along Monta. Montana's long highways. And KTVQ reported on it as well, like their local television stations. But they're trying to kind of figure out, you know, who this is.

But a number of women have reported this. And they've reported the incident to Phillips County Sheriff's Office. So there to have it. That was me, again, once more, just running down the synopsis of one of the most, Melissa Canig should be fired. She's a horrible reporter. You can't write a balanced story. What the hell are you doing?

Where do these people graduate from that write these stupid, godforsaken stories? Seriously. Also, you have a poetess signing an order to accelerate access to psychedelic drug treatments, Ibogaine, and more for people who suffer with PTSD and those who struggle with addiction. All I know is that I have a lot of friends in the veteran community who have seen some serious stuff, and several of them have done everything on God's Green Earth to try to find some kind of relief. And it was only when they finally had to go, as like the last. ditch effort. They went that route. Did they actually find relief? And for the people who think

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That makes sense. We need more redheads. I like red hair. It's very pretty. It's very pretty. I would rather that than everybody look like the same damn influencer on social media with under 30,000 followers. You know, like I would rather have like a bunch of like Scottish redheads.

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land and someone goes, make this affordable again. And then if you read the comments, there, you know, people are like, remember when we could afford this? But when was it actually ever affordable? That's a huge house. That's a giant farmhouse. Was that, were we all supposed to get a giant farmhouse? Like, when did people, if you want to look at the style of houses that people used to

be able to afford? And I know this because when my husband and I first got married, our very first house, was something that we had rented. And it was a tiny, like under 800 square foot. It was in this part of Kirkwood, Missouri, in this old boomer subdivision that literally was created after World War II. And that's where all the boomers moved

and started having their families. And then they were trying to rezone it for commercial property and all of this and the remaining people there fought it. And it was just kind of crazy. But they were all like tiny houses and that's what people lived in. And I was thinking about this.

And I knew that because one of the original people who lived there was this elderly woman in her, like, 90s. And her and her husband, after World War II, when he returned, they had gotten engaged. They got married when he came back. And then they started their family, and they moved to that subdivision, and they never left. And he passed away after they raised their kids together. And she saw her neighbors, you know, pass away. and new families move in, and the cycle of life continued. But that was what they, that was what a singular salary afforded.

And they were nice little houses. I mean, you're still considered wealthy beyond any term anywhere. And I don't know. Someone said that there was this problem in America, downwardly mobile zoomers who don't realize that they grew up wealthy in the wealthiest country in human history because everyone measures wealth by what their favorite influencer shows. on social media. And I think that's the difference.

Everyone thinks that you have to have this big, giant farmhouse on, you know, tons of acres or you have to have this. That's not what affordability looks like. That's what an influencer marketing campaign looks like. And everybody gets on social media. I think social media is just ruined. I think it's ruined and it's horrible.

Maybe that was all it was ever supposed to do, though. Maybe it was only ever to be ruined. because this was kind of, you know, the conclusion of it all. You have clickbaiters out there that make a million dollars off of rage bait and people think that, you know, you're supposed to have the type of house that one was just showing you on the simulcast. That's insane. That's not the standard. That's not the same.

But that's everything that all of these other generations, they're growing up with seeing that and they're normalizing that. And they're trying to retcon history by believing that apparently everybody was able to afford that at some point. Kane, no one was it, that was never, that was never an average house. No. That was never average. No. That looks like a literal like wedding venue. That's not an average home.

You have 10 kids maybe and. That has two fireplaces and a wraparound porch. Some in-laws. On probably a couple hundred acres. Yeah, that's. Yeah, that's not. That, that wasn't the average. I feel like they don't understand what the real average was.

We're going to talk more about that tomorrow. In the meantime, today's stupidity game. Holy cow. I think Kamala Harris, former VP, was today in stupidity on Friday, and she ends up in it again today. That's a lot of stupid. Cut 19-1. Here is what she has to say. Again, this narrative that somehow Israel is controlling Trump is just dumb, so here she is saying it. He entered a war, got pulled into it by BB Netanyahu. Let's be clear about that. Is that what happened?

Entered a war that the American people do not want. He responded to 47 years of Iran being dopes. Yeah. I mean, we learned our lesson with North Korea. We let them go nuclear. That's what they were trying to avoid with Iran. So obviously, we sent pallets of cash and unfroze their assets. Somehow that didn't work.

What do you know about that? It's crazy. It's crazy how none of that ever worked. Folks, we have, well, that's it. Our first show back this week. I will be back behind the mic with you tomorrow. In the meantime, find us in Substack, Facebook. YouTube, like and subscribe. Have a great night.