The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Shutdown Blame Game, Hegseth's Military Revamp & Charlie Kirk's Israel Letter

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

Pete Hegseth announces a new twice-yearly PT test for top brass in the US Military in a fierce Patton-esque speech in Quantico. The left freaks out over forcing our Armed Forces to be in shape. Joy Reid trashes Conservatives for wanting no income tax, no regulations, and earning what you want. J.B. Pritzker ironically says it is dangerous for the Trump administration to call the Democratic Party, fascist. Dana breaks down what is contributing to an inevitable government shutdown. Hakeem Jeffries freaks out over Trump sharing an AI video of Jeffries in a sombrero. Charlie Kirk’s team is forced to release the letter he wrote to Bibi Netanyahu after some conservative influencers were calling him “disillusioned” over his stance on Israel. Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings have fallen even further than before following his non-apology over Charlie Kirk as Americans continue to bail on Disney. Serena Williams calls out a New York hotel for cotton plant decor in their corridor. Rep. Chip Roy joins us to bring us behind the scenes on negotiations to prevent a government shutdown.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…ChapterFor free and unbiased Medicare help from my partners Chapter, dial #250 and say keyword “My Medicare”Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand-alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently, we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.Keltechttps://KelTecWeapons.comKelTec builds every KS7 GEN2 right here in the USA with American materials and workers—upgrade your home defense today. All Family Pharmacyhttps://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/Dana Don’t wait until flu season knocks at your door. Use code DANA10 at checkout to save 10%. Fast Growing Treeshttps://Fast-Growing-Trees.comGet up to 50% off select plants and an extra 15% off your first purchase with code DANA at Fast Growing Trees. Offer valid for a limited time; terms apply.Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFTurn the clock back on pain with Relief Factor. Get their 3-week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/danaGet your hands on the new compact Byrna CL. Visit Byrna.com/Dana to receive 10% off Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/DanaDana’s personal cell phone provider is Patriot Mobile. Get a FREE MONTH of service code DANAHumanNhttps://HumanN.comSupport your cholesterol health with SuperBerine and the #1 bestselling SuperBeets Heart Chews—both on sale for $5 off at Sam’s Club. Boost your metabolic health and save!

with physical fitness and appearance. If the Secretary of War can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations or really any formation and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country and the world. It's a bad look. It is bad, and it's not who we are.

So whether you're an airborne ranger or a chairborn ranger, a brand new private or a four-star general, you need to meet the height and weight standards and pass a PT test. And as the chairman said, yes, there is no PT test. But today at my direction, every member of the joint force at every rank is required to take a PT test twice a year, as well as meet height and weight requirements twice a year. every year of service. Also today at my direction, every warrior across our joint force is required to do PT every duty day. Should be common sense.

Why is this such a big deal? Why are people freaking out over a sec war saying that, you know, this is just one of the things that you should have to do this? I remember back when, if you had flat feet, you weren't admitted. You weren't admitted.

into the military. There was somebody I knew that had a peanut allergy that wasn't able to enlist that tried to. It was a friend of mine in high school. It was a grade above me. And his brother went in and he was going to go in and he was allergic to peanuts and they wouldn't take him. Can you believe that?

Flat feet, I know, well, my husband, he tried to enlist. He had knee surgery because he blew out his knee during football in high school. And he had knee surgery when, I think it was like, his junior year of high school, and they wouldn't take him because he had knee surgery. Is that crazy? Is that wild, right? I mean, that's the standard I'd expect.

Yeah, that's exactly. That's what you would expect. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this first hour. The military is not supposed to be like a place for you to go and have your ego stroked and your feelings held tightly and caressed. If that's what you think it should be, get out, because you're going to make us lose wars and you're going to get our sons and daughters killed, our husbands and wives killed. I just think immediately you are invalidated. You should be ineligible for consideration,

if that's your, if that's your purpose, if that's your priority. And, you know, it was, it was the, the media was livid. Audio soundbite 14. They were so mad this morning, guys, listen. And, Maya, let's talk about this. We know there actually are. I'm sorry. Full stop. Full stop. Full stop. what the hell was the hair that I just saw? Can we, Juan, I'm really sorry.

I didn't mean to do that to you. Juan's like, dear heavens. Can I just get, like, you don't have to do any of your awesome editing thing. I just want to pause for a moment. Okay, I did see what I saw. I thought, is that what I saw? I mean, you're like a 60-year-old woman. Am I being mean when I say that?

I mean, look, I don't care. When I get old, make fun of me, I don't care. But I'm just saying, like, maybe don't dress like a pee-wee's place. House contributor. Okay, go ahead. Full video. I'm sorry. Sorry. About this. We know there actually are some serious things are just being discussed in this meeting as well. There's some new Pentagon policy directives about perhaps de-emphasizing true presence in Europe, making more of a focus on the homeland and the like. But that's the kind of stuff that's going to happen behind closed doors. It will come out in the hours and

days ahead. What we were there for full display for the cameras was a political speech. And it was an anti-woke, you know, something you'd be used. hear from a Fox News host, I guess that's appropriate, rather than someone who is the Secretary of Defense. What are you talking about that you would expect you hear from a Fox News host? I feel like this guy wouldn't be able to do a pull-up to save his life. What is the problem with what Huggseth said? Hmm? My tax dollars that I'm bent over a barrel and forcibly taken for don't go towards rearranging somebody's junk below the waist. to make them feel better about their affirmed cosplay.

That's not what we do. The military is about, I mean, quite literally, kicking ass and winning wars. That's it. What's the purpose of it otherwise? If you want a scientific experiment, I mean, you've gotten the schools, you've gotten arts and entertainment, you've gotten all this stuff. So if you wanted, you know, any of this, then you already have those fields in which to experiment. The military is not one of them. lives are at stake here.

I mean, imagine being so self-obsessed that you're actually willing to endanger the lives of other individuals because you want to do it your way. Honestly, those are like the worst of the worst of the people. They're so, Audio Sembite 15, this Nepo baby, she's like, just, you know, her, I don't know, her mom was this big author and that's this chick's claim to fame. So her mom was an author, and so the 60-year-old, whatever. got her job on MSNB because she's a NEPO baby. AudioSemite 15.

This is stupid analysis. I'm sorry. You're going to talk to some author, Nepo Baby, to analyze the military, somebody who dressed like Joker? They dress like Joker? Seriously?

No, I'm not going to be nice. Everyone can literally go to hell. I'm not going to be nice about this. If you have a problem with it, dying an AIDS fire. I don't care. I'm so tired of this stuff. Play 15.

Sorry, thank you, Juan. I mean, I think we're going to see push back to this. I think a lot about the Vietnam War, which was sort of a moment in, you know, the end of discriminating. You know, there was much the white, the army really focused on making an anti-discrimination. And they ended up really helping the army in a lot of different ways because people were a lot, you know, it was just a much more egalitarian force. Can you like articulate a sentence? And it ended up being really great for the military. I mean, woke doesn't come from recent.

It comes from experience in the military. So I do think this is kind of bizarre. And if you think about like, you know, Winston Churchill, the idea that people have to be thin in order to run the military seems kind of wild. Molly Jong Fass is one of the stupidest old broads that I've ever had the misfortune of hearing. It's not about being thin. good heavens. Clearly, the ability to comprehend things that your mother has didn't pass to you. So it's evident that you got your contributorship strictly based on your genetic lottery, which by the

looks of it isn't a great haul. That being said, it's not about thinness. It's about fitness. I'm embarrassed for these people. Don't ask me to unify. Don't ask me to be courteous. I've spent 20 years being courteous. I'm out of give a dams. I'm out of courteousness. I'm out of all of it. That is such an asinine analysis. It's not about thinness. It's about being fit. Can you do what is required physically? Can you meet the standards, the performance standards physically? That's what it's about. It's not about being thin. Like, oh my gosh, no. It's not about whatever ozimic dreams you have, lady. It's not about that. It's about physical fitness, something that clearly escapes most of the roster on any of the left-leaning

alphabet networks. It is about fitness. It's about stamina. It's about endurance. It's about health. And it's also about mental strength and mental fitness. That is the point. You have a bunch of these pencil pushers who have, you know, they have all of these, you know, things. You know, things on their pin to their their uniforms. They're pencil pushers that have never won wars, and yet they're like all, they're all wokeery. I mean, Millie comes to mind. Some of the individuals in charge

during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan come to mind. That's what it's about. What are you talking about invoking Winston Churchill? What in the Kamala Harris hell word salad did we just hear? Just talk.

See, if I was the host, I'd slap somebody. I'd be like, can you just spit it out? Godly, you're killing my soul because you're so stupid. You cannot articulate a simple sentence. Heaven help us all. And he said this. He added this to add. This is so great.

16. Listen. This administration has done a great deal from day one. To remove the social justice, politically correct and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department. to rip out the politics. No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship.

No more division, distraction, or gender delusions. No more debris. As I've said before, and we'll say again, we are done with that. Now, see, that's what I want to hear for my sack war. I want to hear that. By the way, do you guys know he did the Patton with the stage setup, right? George C. Scott, when he did in Pat, which is a great film, Patton, the big flag behind him.

Yeah? I mean, I don't think that that was by accident, I got to say. So what's wrong with anything that Hegg Seth said? It's rhetorical because nothing's wrong. There's literally nothing wrong with it. My gosh, have we gotten so soft and pansified as a nation that, oh, my, we're expecting people to be physically fit? Oh, my gosh.

So mean. Okay, well, then be fit. This is military we're talking about. This is, this is exactly it. This is what it's all about. Audio Sound by 12. Trump nailed it right here. Listen.

But as leaders, our commitment to every patriot who put on the uniform is to ensure that American military remains the most lethal and dominant on the planet, not merely for a few years, but for the decades and generations to come for centuries. We must be so strong. that no nation will dare challenge us so powerful that no enemy will dare threaten us and so capable that no adversary can even think about beating us. It's called peace through strength. The left thinks that strength comes from how many times that you can be victimized.

Oh, well, I'm like a Latino, trans, gay, manses, whatever, furry, who's also maybe Indian and also like, like, Ukrainian and whatever. Like, add, how many labels can you add? The more labels you have, it's supposed to be like the more powerful you are. That's progressive mentality. We all know in real space that that doesn't work. This is peace through strength.

And this is exactly what our military is supposed to be for. This is what our defense posturing should be. You want to be friends with us and you don't want to make us mad, right? It's peace through strength. We don't want to go to war. But we want you to know that if you provoked us to the point where we had to to protect ourselves, we won't just take you out. We will burn a scorchmark in your family tree that will go all the way down into the ground beyond the roots.

That's what needs to be understood. And just so long as they know that that's a potential risk with doing something that could potentially alienate or make angry the United States. States and they don't do anything to alienate or make angry the United States, then we're good, right? I mean, that's the way what the hell do I care what another country does with their defense. I'm only concerned about where my tax dollars are forcibly taken and used here. This is what literally the only job of the government is defense. The only job of the government is defense. That's it. And that's where we are. So this is not a, controversial speech that either Sec War gave or that POTUS gave.

There's nothing controversial about it. The only controversial idea in this fear is the idea that you should accommodate everyone else's completely irrelevant identity, garbage, whatever, and prioritize that over unit readiness and perform. performance and standards and purpose, that that should be prioritized. That's the only controversial thing in all of this. We have more on the way as we roll. As we move, our partners over at WebRute. WebRute is, this is one of the things where I think you would rather have it and not

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so are the days of the United States. is that if you go back before the 20th century, there were no income taxes, there were no regulations on business, you could earn as much money as you want, leave 100% of it to your children with no taxes, that's the world they want back. And to get it back, they need society to change. They need people to be less modern. They need people to want fewer things. And why does Simple Jack here find such a problem with this? This is not, again, this is not a controversial thing. Why is this such a problem? Yeah, we want to not be taxed and we want our businesses to not suffer from a ton of regulation, under a ton of regulations.

We would like an actual free market. What is so bad about this? Is she mad because she wants money that she didn't earn? Because that's welfare. I mean, if you're trying to demand the fruits of someone else's labor, that makes you a thief. That makes you sinful because you're coveting what you're. neighbor once and that's sinful. And just because you're using the government to take it doesn't absolve you of the theft. I hope, by the way, people who support, and I do believe this,

I think that if you support federal, like income tax, I think if you support property tax, I think you're a thief. I think that you're a sinner. I think that you are morally compromised because you believe that you are absolved of this covetous nature and this sin. And this because the government's doing it on your behalf. And that's just, you're just using an agent. You're using a middleman to carry out your sinful desires. So that's, I absolutely believe that. If you support property tax, then you support theft. You're coveting what your neighbor has. If you support income tax, you support theft. You are coveting what your neighbor has. You are sinning. So you need to ask God for forgiveness on that stuff. And I,

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White House senior staff calling the Democratic Party fascist. The Trump appointed FCC chair threatening to revoke broadcast licenses and the approval of a merger in order to silence late-night comedians. Trump's threats to jail political opponents. You cannot call this anything except an attack on the Constitution. This didn't happen.

This is like, why does J.B. Pritzker rape women? Why does he beat women? Did you hear the story about how he beat a woman to death and buried her in his backyard? Same thing. I can make up stuff too, just off the top of my head. Isn't it fun? Let's see how fun it can get. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash at the top of this second hour.

Don't ask me to unify with these Cretans. Because no, I'm no interest in unifying. None at all whatsoever. He's, oh, well, they're going after people's licenses. Where did that happen? They think you are so stupid. That's what really galls me. They think you are morons.

All they have to do is just tell you this is what happened. Can you believe it? Trump is going after these licenses. He did no such thing. I don't care if you like or dislike Trump because I don't care about you, the drive-by. I don't. I don't care if you love or hate him. I really don't.

But you're not entitled to your own facts. You're not entitled to just make stuff up. You're not entitled to create. a different reality and then demand that we all believe it. That's not how this world works. So this, these accusations, and then, and then to top it all off, after he says all of these like absolute demonstrably proven lies, then he's like, well, and then he's, you know, he's, he's, he's a, Trump is, you know, saying that we're fascist and that's, well, I mean, Antifa

is fascist. and the way that you behaving, the behavior is very similar. But you don't get to make all of these false claims. And that nobody, J.B. Pritzker hasn't learned. J.B. Pritzker so badly wants to run for president, but he's not a good candidate. He's not a good governor. He's not even a good family man. And he's just not a good person.

Nobody wants him. He does not have a political future outside of Illinois. He does not have one at all whatsoever. Do you guys remember when he locked down the state of Illinois and fully endorsed, like firing people if they didn't get the injection, fully endorsed, citing you, literally giving you a ticket if you walked outside without a face mask? Remember all of that? How he demanded that your children be kept at home without being around any other kids, without any teachers for the like year. And you guys remember what J.B. Pritzker and his family did, right? They left the state. They flew to Florida. His whole family waded out. They have a ranch in Florida. They waited out. All of his edicts in Illinois, they waited it out in Florida. Were you guys aware of that? Because that happened. He got some heat for it, but he didn't care because that's, you know, typical limousine Marxist. That's exactly how that's. they operate. He didn't care. So he desperately wants to be like a Gavin Newsom kind of thing.

But he doesn't, a Gavin Newsom barely has. A Gavin Newsom's just annoying. J.B. Pritzker is just smarmy and insufferable. And I don't even think his own party outside of Illinois likes him. They just like his money that his family earned. That's it. That's all they like. this guy, he's the one who has not slowed his role on the rhetoric and tone at all whatsoever. Like, not at all. And he's a nepo baby. J.B. Pritzker is a nepo baby. All of the men in his family who are smarter and more successful than him earned his family's money. And now he just get, and now he has it. So it's not like he contributed anything to himself. You know, he didn't, he didn't actually contribute.

I don't know if you're familiar with J.B. Pritzker's background, but he really never had to cut his teeth or prove himself in the private sector because he's had everything handed to him, just like a Marxist, limousy Marxist. He immediately, like when he was younger, he immediately was working, you know, for his family and, you know, all of this. And his, he had all of these trusts set up for him. he was a beneficiary of a huge overseas trust that his grandfather set up for him. And then he went to law school and then immediately started working with the family business.

He never had to earn anything by himself. Everything has always been given to him. He doesn't understand how investment works. He doesn't understand basic economic principles because all of the people in his family earned all of this money. And then he just gets it and he's never had to really do anything. and they have all of these, you know, this structure set up to make sure he doesn't like burn through it. But that's it. That's all J.B. Pritzker is like one of the nation's biggest nepo babies.

Democrats only have nepo babies that they are considering for 28. Gavin Newsom is a nepo baby. J.B. Pritzker is a nepo baby. They all are. So I'm not impressed with J.B. Pritzker at all. He's never, I mean, the only difference between J.B. Pritzker and Bernie Sanders is that Bernie Sanders, well, he doesn't have the billions that J.B. Pritzker does. His wife did run through a bunch of money in bankrupt a girls' school, though. Correct, Kane? That's right.

That's Bernie's wife. Bernie's wife did do that. And he does have three houses now. But he has nowhere near the amount of money that J.B. Pritzker has. And that's really the only difference between them. Bernie Sanders, at least, I can't believe I'm saying this, at least was the editor of a little zine. a little magazine that, you know, alternative magazine that, you know, you'd put together in your garage when he was in his early 20s. That's literally all he ever did in the private sector. J.B. Pritzker doesn't even have that. He's only ever worked in jobs given to him by his family within the family company. That's it. Now, do I actually don't really have a problem with that, but the left does because you heard what Joy Reid said, the last segment of last hour,

and we played her saying, can you believe they just want to make money and pass it on? Yeah. J. B. Pritzker, though, hates this type for anybody but his own family. That's the problem with the left. When they have money that they pass on to their next generation, they don't want anyone else to be able to do it. So I really dislike J.B. Pritzker,

like at a cellular level even. It's that much. We have a few other things to touch on. Okay, so let's, what did I not get, that last hour that I wanted to make sure I got. to, because I'm like behind with everything. So we got this shutdown that's going to be, that's happening tonight at, uh, uh, not midnight, but 12.01 a.m. right, technically. So 12.1 a.m. That's when the shutdown happens. And right now, Chuck Schumer is trying to blame Republicans. He said

he's not going to support any kind of stopgap to avoid a shutdown. Now, here's what you need to know about the shutdown. The CR, the continuing resolution, was already passed in the house. Republicans passed it in the House already. They sent it to the Senate. Democrats don't want to vote for it. And they're simultaneously accusing Republicans. And by the way, I think this is all stupid. I think it's dumb.

You should have a budget. We shouldn't be doing CRs. But aside from that, this is not something that Republicans are gumbing up. This is Democrats refusing to support it. Schumer said that he's not going to support any kind of stopgap. we're going to have to do this again in 30 days too by the way just so you know it's it's not going to happen and it's interesting there's so many of them on the left that are infuriated by this they're they're livid over their own leadership senate leadership's refusal and they're

trying to blame somehow blame uh republicans for this and it doesn't make any sense it doesn't make any sense. This is, let's see, where do we, where do we got? Oh, we've got, oh, this is the AI video. This was funny. There's a lot here. So late, let me set this up. So first off, we got seven. Let's hit audio sound by seven. I have a, I have a note to make about this, but let's play seven really quick first. If there is a shutdown, how many federal workers do you plan to lay off? Well, we may do a lot, and that's only because of the Democrats. And as you know, they want to be able to take care of people that are coming into our country illegally. And no system can handle that. And so we're totally opposed on that. But we can't take it. We just can't do it. I'd love to do

everybody. I'd love to do the whole world. But our country can't handle people that come into our country illegally. And they want to give them full health care benefits. They want to open the wall again. Can you believe it? I can't even believe it. They want to open the wall. So here's the thing that Trump said, and the reason I'm playing this is because there's a caveat to this. So he says that there's going to be a lot of layoffs coming, right? He's playing a, he's playing a game here with the left. He's trolling them with that. And let me explain. Have you heard the number that there are going to be 100,000 federal workers that are going to quit? Well, you know that's all BS, right? The 100,000 federal workers, it's actually the 100,000 federal workers that took that, um, deferred resignation

program. And the separation date for that is today. September 30th. And with that being at the end of the fiscal year. But that's not as attractive a headline, is it? Is it? So they're trying to act like they're doing this big thing and they're all quitting. But they're not. They had already agreed that September 30th was going to be their last date. And they did. They agreed on that like months ago. Like what, four or five months ago? longer, I think maybe, when that program came to be. So he's trolling them, really, and trying to get them to say more stupid things. But that's it.

It's just the 100,000 people who are quitting, they're not quitting. They actually agreed months ago. And they took that deferred resignation program. Remember the program that was offered, well, if you don't want to sit here and do what POTUS is asking and get out and here's your, you can leave. And here it is, you'll, you know, severance, whatever. took that. They all took that package. So you had 100,000 people that took that package. So don't let them, don't let them lie to you and misstate what this actually is. Now, here's where Trump made Chuck Schumer really mad. This is AI video. I can't believe I, you guys, no, it's a real actual,

real video. Watch it. Audio Soundbite 4. Go ahead. Look, guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it. Nobody likes Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans bull-h-h-not even black people want to vote for us anymore, even Latinos hate us. So we need new voters. And if we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us. They can't even speak English. So they won't realize we're just a bunch of woke pieces of f***.

You know, at least for a while until they learn English and they realize they hate us too. I think this is, you know, I thought this was a real video. I mean, it's a real video. because, hey, if a man can demand that you recognize him as a woman, this is a real video. Prove me wrong. It's a real video. That was a real sombrero that Hakeem Jeffries was. Yeah, yeah. It's a video that identifies as real. Yeah, that's, that video identifies is real. So we're going with that. Yeah, absolutely. Now, Hakeem Jeffries, should I wait on this? Do we have time? Okay, all right. I'll play Hakeem Jeffrey's reaction coming up. Also on deck, real quick, just so you know.

No. The Charlie Kirk letter to Netanyahu, you know, the letter that all these like Johnny come lately grifters who actually didn't really know him very well were insisting that it wasn't, it wasn't a real thing, but it was. And all the people who did know him and people who read the letter, they just, you know, very calmly sat by and waited until the organization released it. And how sad is it that the organization that Charlie built felt it necessary to even release this in the first place to shut some of these grifters who wanted to posthumously hijack his legacy for their own ends after the fact. How sad, right? We have more on that coming up. Did you know that fall is one of the best seasons for planting? Many trees and plants thrive when planted now, but knowing where

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someplace respectable and have your stupid gender reveal party. Look, I love babies. I'm all about celebrating babies, but some of you all take this like, oh my gosh, we got to blow up the whole neighborhood a little bit too far. This 26-year-old he got mad and apparently he didn't like how long he was

waiting for a table for the gender reveal party and it's all on CCTV so he's in big time trouble. Also, let's see, that's crazy. Three days away from your phone is linked to more dopamine, serotonin, and improve well-being. and limiting phone usage to two hours a day had similar effects. I really don't care.

I mean, I got to be on my phone for work. And also, that's where my solitaire is. So what am I supposed to do, man? A truck slammed into six parked cars with people inside, and the driver fell into the Whittier Canal. Dang, that's kind of crazy. Oh, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. Shrimp recall.

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Where's this at? Because I just saw it. I'm in a mood today. So I don't know why. Like I feel a lot better because, you know, all family pharmacy came in clutch and, you know, got over my sinusitis. Whoop, whoop, Codenna. Ten.

Anyway, I saw, I don't know, we'll pull this up because this is what I was doing on vacation. you were curious. Eric Swal, it's like everybody from everybody on the left. They're livid over sect war and Trump talking about military, right? And first you had Swalwell, who got mad that Hegseth said F-A-F-O. He goes, quote, if necessary, our troops can translate that for you. And Eric Swalwell retweeted it not too long ago and said, only a week and secure me.

would use the acronym, you know, because their new thing is cussing. And I just retweeted and said, you banged a Chinese spy. And then you had John Harwood, who I barely remember who he is. He is, I think he was like a token, like whatever, filler. He was like a regular, like a Marxist, filler Marxist on CNN and NBC or whatever. I don't really know. I just remember he's like an old dude who's all. always been on TV forever. And he goes, he tweeted this. He tweeted this, quote, Pete Huggseth has

made clear that if he had his way, the U.S. military would have no blacks in leadership positions and no women at all. First off, Hegseff literally never said that. And I asked, I go, why are you such a sad and weak little male that you have to fabricate things for drama? This is what the left reverts to. They hear something that they don't like and they think that they can just make up something and invoke Black America and that Black America is going to go to war on behalf of their Marxist ideals. That's what he did. That's why he tweeted it. That's why he put that out there because he thought, I'll just make something up and get Black Americans on Twitter all mad and they'll go to war for me. That's like, I'm sorry, but you, John Harwood thinks he's a slave owner in 2025. Like,

no, that's not how this works. You crusty old thing. It's not how this works. That's disgusting. Just to make up something like this. Just to make this stuff up. So, you know, the AI video that Trump retweeted that everybody was mad about. Hakeem Jeffries reacted to this video. He wasn't happy.

Cut five, please. We're going to see it. They'll see it in other ways. It's easy to find. But it is absolutely disgusting in every way. It is a lie. It's the man you met with has now. lied about what you said after that meeting. Could you give us your reaction to that Trump posted

video tonight? It's a disgusting video and we're going to continue to make clear. Bigotry will get you nowhere. We are fighting to protect the health care of the American people in the face of an unprecedented Republican assault on all the things. Medicaid, Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, Republicans. Lawrence O'Donnell, his mouth, oh gosh, how do I say this? How do I do this? You know, because he's an older individual,

but not so old that he should have that shape of his mouth. My, one of my grandmothers who was not on my mom's side, just a mean woman. And she had,

that mouth where she was always in a scowl. And it, for the lack of a better way to say it, it turns into like sphincter mouth, right? She's just, that's what he looks like. He looks like that worm actually from Star Wars. You know, on tattooing where the huts are, they're seeing where it comes out. Like that's his whole mouth.

He's just mean and me like that. And he starts this thing. Isn't it horrible that he said this? He's so horrible. Blah, blah, blah. I'm in a monologue for five minutes question. And then Hakeem Jeffries, I'm going to repeat everything that you just said in your monologue. Repeat, repeat, repeat, not really answer your question.

See, who watches that stuff? That's just so boring. It's brain rot. It's absolute brain rot. It just, it's, bleh. But they're upset. What they're really doing with this shutdown is they're fighting for things for illegal immigrants, harder than they are for the American taxpayer.

And that's, Kay, and that was a point that you were making as well. And that's true. That's exactly what they're doing, to your point. That's using parity to essentially expose the truth. There is always in comedy. A little threaded truth in there. Absolutely. Completely.

Absolutely. A couple of things still, because we're watching, you know, we got the government shutdown that's going to happen and it's all going to happen because Democrats are wanting things that they didn't get because they lost an election. They're wanting things that American vote. voters don't want because if American voters wanted these things that Democrats wanted, then they would have voted for Democrats. So there you go. Trump has met with Schumer and Jeffreys.

He's tried to convince people, try to convince them to come around. They're, they're not willing to. They're not willing to come around. I think that they're getting themselves into a trap because they're, they're walking themselves into something where they have no way out. you have the health care for illegals. This is a part of the deal. It's a $1.5 trillion. VP called it a hostage deal, and that's correct.

They're demanding health care for people who came into the country illegally, a portion of the funding that they have allocated as far as the expansion of the horrific Obamacare is literally earmarked for that. That's in the language of the legislation, which is available online for people to read. And you don't have to, if you don't want to read the whole thing, just control F your way through it. Control F, put a keyword in and then just glide on through, right? Because it's in there. Absolutely. And the realization, Democrats don't understand that has not hit them yet, the realization that the things that they're trying to shove onto the American people that are in this legislation are things

that we've already voted against. That's why they didn't win this last election. You also have a memo that OMB, Office of Management and Budget, sent out. They were telling various government agencies, get ready for firings, et cetera, things like that. And of course, don't forget, you also have those 100,000 federal workers that already agreed to the resignation program months ago. And that deadline is today. So they were already leaving. But the funding is not going to exist for programs that are not required by statute. that they're not required. And so some of those staff reductions that they were preparing,

that's not even going to be considered a layoff. They're, that's it. So they don't really, Democrats don't have a lot of negotiations in this. They, they really don't. They're trying to hold out for federal, the, for the expansion of federal government and the subsidies for health care as it concerns illegal aliens. Yeah, that's it. Oh, and then they keep going, oh my gosh, they're trying to, Republicans don't want to fund health care. But one of the problems with that is the cuts that Republicans are talking about doing are the COVID-era emergency appropriations that are way overdue to go. And Democrats are insisting that they remain. So this is some of the stuff, you know, we're talking about with us.

We're going to continue with it as well as we roll because so far they don't have a deal. I want to touch on this letter because this came about, I think this was in the early days in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination. And he sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu where he talked about the allyship with Israel, et cetera. and there were a bunch of people out there who were trying to hijack his legacy for their own means, which I found gruesome. And he had said he wrote in his letter that was released, quote, one of my greatest joys as a Christian is advocating for Israel and forming alliances with Jews in the fight to protect Judeo-Christian civilization. And he said that he regrets to report the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic trends are at record levels on social media.

He said that his team, they spent months analyzing these trends. and he said he started, you know, it made him want to reach out and write to Netanyahu because of the stuff that he was seeing. And he gave him, I mean, he basically gave him suggestions on what to do. And we're saying you need something like an Israel Truth Network. And he also said, you know, it shouldn't seem like, you know, other people are advocating more for Israel's welfare more so than the Israel's own government is one of the things that he has. said. He goes, Israel needs to do a better job explaining the Iranian threat. And I agree with that. I think that these, I think that Israeli leaders would do well to take these concerns to heart. But none of the stuff, and I've read this letter like three times now, none of the stuff that's in this

letter at all whatsoever shows what people, some of these grifters have been claiming. At all, whatsoever. This is a person who is speaking in love to an ally. And I mean, it's very obvious. Like he talks about how do you think of Israel as a political candidate? You know, you need to market Israel as, I mean, it's actually a really, he's got some really smart suggestions in here. And he's really focusing on younger generations as well, because there is an issue with that, with younger generations. And this, I think that there is an anti-Semitic rise. And I say anti-Semitic and not just critical of Israel because the people, that I see on social media that are engaging in this, they can't even tell you how Israel's government is structured. They can't tell you who the leaders in Israel are. They can't even tell you anything about the latest policy that's been introduced. But they tried to mask what's just, I mean, at its heart, really anti-Semitic trends on social and this sentiment that's developing. they try to mask it as such. And you can't do that. I mean, there's a difference. What Charlie Kirk did in his letter is give suggestions as to how Israel can best handle some of this stuff, even lawfare and things of that nature. And he gets into it. And he said that, you know, he gave his private number and he said, you know, we can't let this slip away. And, you know, if you want to talk to me further, et cetera. This is not anything what these people said it was.

not a single bit. And remember, first you were told this letter didn't exist. Then you were told, oh, no, the letter exists and it's just pages of him blasting Israel. Well, that's not what the letter shows at all. And there were a lot of people who went on their little podcasts and everything else trying to mislead you for their own gain. And a lot of those people, if they were honest and if they were really conservatives because they're not, they make an idol of race and they make an idol of faith.

like the practice of not Christ, right? These individuals, if they were really conservative and they were really America First, they would apologize for misleading you in the same way that the legacy press does. Some of these people on the right are no different than the legacy press. They're actual progressives, but they realized that they could make more money masquerading as members of the right. And they were never in the battle when it really counted. never never this is all about advancing their own brand and it's all about their own advantage and so a lot of these people owe a lot of apologies but they're not honest or authentic enough as conservatives or

Christians to do that because real Christians don't mislead the way that a lot of these people who like to say Christ is king but then they spit on his name with their with their behavior they don't mislead people like that this letter speaks for itself. And I think that the people who misrepresented it are ghoulish. And I do think it's interesting that there were a lot of individuals who knew what this letter said. And they just sat quietly and they waited for the organization to release the letter and correct all of the really bad progressive disinformation that was out there. I mean, that's no different than the Russian collusion story, what they were trying to do to Charlie Kirk's legacy. And I just find it absolutely ghoulish.

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So basically they had a regular come in, a 78 year old. And he said that the guy came in, regularly and that he noticed that he stopped coming in. And then the staff actually tried calling him because he's such a regular that they were concerned that he wasn't showing up. and they even had like by the way they even threw a party for him at this restaurant to celebrate a 78th birthday so stalworth was like you know what i'm going to swing by the guy's house because this is weird and he said i knocked in the door nobody answered a third time i knocked i didn't hear anything and he said i stayed for a minute and then i heard a weak voice say help and i said who is it and he opened the door and he saw the guy laying on the ground the guy was laying on the ground for like

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So I hope many good things happen to Donnell Stalworth in his life because he deserves it. Oh, I don't want that one. Not getting that one. Not doing that story. Oh, oh, no. It's a bad one, guys. I cannot know. I am not following up that sweet story about Donald Stalworth helping

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I don't know where they're saying this is some huge partisan thing. This is something we do fairly routinely. And when the Democrats had the majority, on 13 different occasions, they had the majority, President Biden was in the White House, we passed continuing resolutions to fund the government. This is purely and simply hostage taking on behalf of the Democrats. The Republicans are united. House Republicans, Senate Republicans, President Trump, the House has passed a clean funding resolution. to fund the government until November the 21st. It's clean. It is bipartisan and it is short term.

But it gives us enough time to finish the appropriations process, which is the way we should be funding the government. Well, I mean, that's the way it's supposed to happen. But I don't think that that's what Democrats are going to allow to happen. The meeting that they had at the White House, it didn't go so well yesterday. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this third hour. It didn't really go well yesterday, the meeting that POTUS had. He met with Senate's Chuck Schumer and then he met with the House as Hakeem Jeffries and didn't go, didn't go well, apparently. They left empty handed, I guess, and then that's when Trump decided to troll them. And Chuck Schumer keeps saying things like, you're a shutdown, you're shut down.

once again, Republicans passed the CR in the House. That is the CR that Democrats are looking at right now in the Senate. Republicans passed it. And for whatever reason, Democrats, they don't, well, I know why. They have no interest in passing it because it doesn't, they don't want to have to cut things like health care, expanding health care to cover people who come into the country illegally. the COVID-era expansions, all of that other stuff. They don't want to cut any of that.

But see, when you lose elections, that means people reject those ideas at the ballot box. And so that's what happened. They got rejected. So, yeah, anyway, this is the whole problem with it. So they, I mean, this is their shutdown. That's their shutdown. It's going to be their shutdown. And then if they have the reduction in discretionary agencies, so they're not going to have layoffs we were talking about that.

They have, oh gosh, the word I forgot, Cain, furlough. Thank you. It's one of those days. One of those days. You know what's going to happen? If those people are out, then and they have to refill those positions, you're just going to have mac of people in them. And they're going to be entrenched and Democrats will have allowed that to happen. bum, bum, bum.

Kind of like that idea, though. Yeah? I mean, they're literally in a no-win situation. Yeah. Yeah. And it's a situation they caused. That's right. So when, if they have these agencies once again funded,

and they can, and people can start hiring for those agencies that, You can have like mecca people that could get those jobs, right? And because of the previous rulings on civil service, they're going to be protected and it's not going to be an issue. And look at that. There you go. Bottom line is this. And I'm pulling up a poll, right, actually a couple of polls. Bear with me.

I was trying to pull this up and it didn't. I'm going to have to archive it because it didn't want to get pulled up. There are a number of polls that are out showing where the American public think about where the American, where the American. public stands on this. And the, there was a couple of pieces. In fact, I think every poll that has been released, every survey for the, of the American public, these individuals are, they're not, they don't believe Democrats' claims that

these are, that it's a Republican shutdown. They just, they don't believe it. because they've watched the fight over the CR in the House because we went through this. When did we go through this? It was like three months ago, correct? And then like right before then and right before then. So let me pull this up. There really isn't a lot that blames Republicans.

But if you're looking at polling as it pertains to Democrats, this comes from America's, this majority project. they did a survey. Only 18% of those surveyed want. Now this is, I will say this is plus three Republican. That's not, you know, major. And it was September 19th that this was taken. Fewer than one in five voters want Congress to pass a budget that increases spending. A plurality, which is over 40% would blame Democrats if the government shuts down. This is one survey. It also pulling this up, this is a U-Gov an Americans for Prosperity survey now Americans for Prosperity is it is a more of a right-leaning entity but it is more of a

I would say more moderate right they did a separate poll and 61% they're like yes you know the shutdowns are going to hamper Congress's ability to help get the things that we voted for passed however the majority of them

actually they like 60 something percent of them believe that this is really a Democrat shutdown simply because the House did what it was supposed to do it passed the continuing resolution it sent it to the Senate and all of a sudden the CR that was able to get through the House is suddenly untenable in the Senate and so now we have and they're demanding $1.5 trillion in additional government spending. So there's not a a lot out there that supports Chuck Schumer's positioning that this is a Republican shutdown, because it isn't. And this is a bad strategy. I was reading this op-ed that Newt Gingrich had because, you know, they had a big shutdown fight in the 90s. And he was writing about how

they went toe-to-to-to with Bill Clinton. And we were demonstrating that we were serious about cutting, spending, and balancing the budget. And less than a year after we closed the government, we were reelected. And that actually did, that was a huge earthquake. And Gingrich notes that that actually set the stage for four consecutive balanced budgets from 1998 to 2001. And they were the first in decades. And then in 96, when Clinton was reelected, they pushed through the welfare to work legislation. That was the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. And they were fighting over it for that. But he said that it doesn't hurt Republicans to go toe to toe to with Democrats on this stuff. Go back to 2010. The same thing happened. There was a big shutdown looming,

and Republicans went toe to toe with Democrats. And even though the media and everyone else said that Republicans were going to lose in midterms because of the shutdown, and then what happened? It was described by Obama as a shalacking. Republicans destroyed Democrats in midterm election, partly because they were very consistent in their messaging about how they were trying to preserve. fiscal sanity and and be fiscally responsible. But they also message, this is what Democrats are wanting to do with your tax dollars. And I really feel like Republicans have been, and I mark this one for the record books, I feel like Republicans have been doing a decent job at messaging that. Like you, you guys know this. You guys know why this is being held up in the Senate.

1.5 trillion in additional spending. You guys know that it's all this stuff that you voted against. I mean, literally, health care for people who enter the country illegally, keeping the COVID expansion. I mean, that's just some of the stuff that's up there. They're two of the biggest, I think, for people. So you guys know this because people have been very consistent in messaging this. So we'll see. We're going to talk with Congressman Chip Roy about this here coming up because, you know, he was there when it was passed through the house. You know, he saw all of this stuff. A few other things. Jimmy Kimmel's ratings are back in the toilet. Guys aware of that? His ratings fall off a cliff again after the post. post-suspension viewer bump.

The ratings bonanza. So everyone watched him the first night that he was back and then no one's watching him again now. And Kane, what did you say? The ratings were lower than what they were going into this. Yeah. Going in, he had like a four share barely. It was a 129,000 people.

And now it's just a hair above 100,000. So he actually has lost viewers after everyone tuned in to hear him apologize, which he didn't do. and now he's lost even more. He lost viewers. And I think that they were, some people wondered if he was ever, maybe he's going to finally be funny and he wasn't.

So he ended up losing that. Not only that, but listen to this. This is from New York Post. Over 1.7 million users canceled Disney and then Hulu and ESPN. Now here's what's funny. It's like a combination of both. So a bunch of people canceled it

because they were livid, that Kimmel said the stuff that he said. And then after he was suspended, people canceled because they were mad because he got suspended. So Disney got hammered. This is a riot. The cancellations were recorded between September 17th and the 23rd, and that is, according to an industry periodical that tracks the stuff. And they said that it was the 1.7 million cancellations represented a 436 percent. increase above baseline subscriber churn.

Dude, that's so bad. That's so bad. And I am loving it because, you know, nobody deserves it more, Kane, than Jimmy Kimmel. Nobody deserves it more. A couple of other things here as well. We've been talking about the shutdown.

We've been talking about some of the culture stuff. Can I touch on the Serena Williams cotton thing? I can't believe that this is the thing, but it is. So Serena Williams, tennis star, right? She was she at a hotel. Yeah, I think so. So she was at a hotel. And she decided to take issue with like this vase and an arrangement of Hobby Lobby Cotton.

You know how like you see it everywhere like these sticks with cotton on them. Do we have this? Can we play this real quick? Can we play this for the folks? All right. everyone, how do we feel about cotton as decoration? Personally, for me, it doesn't feel great. So actually, it feels like no polishing for cotton, natural. I don't know, she, you know, she's wearing cotton. Like, is she, this is so stupid. By the way, um, I don't know why she's, you know, she's,

doesn't she have like she has like a sculpture of that includes cotton in her home somebody posted on social media is she Kane is this her trying to be woke or is this her like this sculpture is just trash or this display is trash she's trying to be woke you think it's trying to be I was really trying to give her benefit of the doubt there for a moment I'm like maybe she's just like what is with it in this fine hotel what is with this arrangement but you think it's because she's like oh my gosh it's cotton and I feel triggered I mean I guess there's room to have you know white people people pick cotton right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I just want to throw that out there.

I know you're not supposed to say that stuff, but like we literally have like our, we have a family friend whose family, they worked in sharecropping and they were white. So I just wanted to throw that out there. Yeah, that's an important little point there. But you're reaching to be upset at something when you look at a display that actually looks good in the room. If you look actually at that display, it works well for that room. You having that sort of reaction or that.

that meaning or whatever you've defined cotton as now. You can't because of, I guess, black people picked cotton back in the day. So now today, cotton triggers you. I mean, that's more you than the about the hotel. Why did she pick it off the branch? I just, why do people do this? She's gotten drug on social media for this. And she did have this like sculpture that has cotton on it in her house. It's like a donkey pulling a wagon of cotton and it's felt she apparently she has it in her house. I just don't

stop it. You're getting upset over something that you never did. What are you, what are you talking about? And then she acted cringy when she used the cotton appropriately on the nails. And it was like, ooh, like she got the shivers from doing it. It's like, is that really? Are you doing that for the camera? Is that really how it is for you? I just cannot stand

drama for the sake of drama. I am allergic to drama queens. Like I, I get ragey no matter what it is. You're just like creating drama so you can be seen as a victim and people baby you. Just stop it. That's so stupid. If you're that upset over over that, then ditch the blonde hair, ditch the wearing cotton, ditch all the fake nails, ditch all that stuff because all of its appropriation. And if we're going to go that far, let's go all the way. This is so stupid. Stop trying to create drama in a nation that is completely just already overdosing on it. Stop it. Whenever anybody's

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Because literally at the top where it would say federal reserve note, it literally says motion picture use. So how are you, is this happening? Are people not looking at it when they exchange it? I mean, then it makes you wonder, okay, how often does that happen? That's crazy. 58 million pounds of corn dogs and salsage on a stick products were called because wood pieces may be inside.

That's kind of why there are corn dogs. sausage on a stick. And Humane Society's telling public, keep a distance from the sea lions in Bellingham in Washington. Keep a distance. Congressman Chip Roy's next. Keep your finger on the Pulse with a Dana Show podcast, delivering timely news with insightful analysis. Whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Credit President Trump, showing real leadership. He's operating in good faith, and that was on display by bringing the leaders in. the arguments and the debates. They're baseless. I mean, Chuck Schumer is now arguing exactly the opposite of what he has always said in his career and why. You hit the nail right on the head,

Sean. He's doing it at a political desperation. He is willing to force the government to shut down just to oppose President Trump for temporary political cover for himself, and he will abandon the American people just to do that. It's really, it's really something to watch. Well, and that is, and I think Democrats are kind of walking into a track. here. I'm all for that, though. And I, because it serves us better. But that was Speaker Johnson, who was

talking about this opposition that Democrats in the Senate have. Republicans passed the CR through the House. Democrats are holding it up in the Senate. I don't get this whole language from Schumer that it's like a Republican shutdown. We all know that's nonsense. Joining us on this now, Congressman Chip Roy from the Great Republic of Texas

by video. Congressman, it's good to see you. So you guys did your job in the House. You did what you were supposed to do. now Democrats in the Senate need to do their job, but they don't want to do it. Yeah, Dana, that's exactly right. I mean, look, Speaker Johnson hit the nail on the head. President Trump has exhibiting great leadership, hauling in the Democrat leaders into a meeting, and the Democrats walked out, and they doubled down on their crazy strategy to shut down the government for no purpose

except for political grandstanding. That's all they're doing. Look, Dana, I've never been a blind adherent that we must go, oh, my God, we got to go fund the government for the sake of it, right? But what we've done as Republicans is fund the government, including our troops and the border patrol pay and all the things that we all support as conservative. But we've funded it at a reasonable level, i.e. flat, holding spending flat, continuing to do that while we're looking to find other ways to cut spending like we did in the big beautiful bill. That's responsible. President Trump is responsibly carrying out the duties of government, securing the border, trying to find ways to expand health care freedom, rooting out all of the woke nonsense like we saw Pete Hexsuff do today. Pentagon. And now the Democrats want to shut down. Why? To double down on the failed experiment of socialized medicine for subsidies to be $40 billion a year of COVID-era subsidies expanded to

enrich insurance companies while the average American is eating $25,000 a year to pay for health insurance that doesn't even get them the health care they want. That's the modern Democrat party. Yeah. I noticed that and with that you mentioned the COVID-era subsidies. I was actually I knew we don't need these. We don't need these subs. Why is, I can't even believe they're fighting to keep these in here. I don't even understand the argument that they would make for that. Well, what they're fishing for is a reason to shut down the government, a reason for fighting

because they're getting their butts handed to them on the border. They're getting their butts handed to them on the economy. They're getting their butts handed to them in terms of what we're doing to dismantle the woke machine. They see the effectiveness of this administration. and this Republican Congress, and they're scrambling. So they want to pick a fight on something they think they can win at the polls because polling shows, oh, we can win on health care.

And I think that's actually wrong. I think if Republicans hold the line here, and we demonstrate that we believe in doctors and patients, not insurance companies, we believe in health care freedom and health savings accounts and direct primary care and driving down prices with transparency and the ability to compete, we don't believe in feeding a monster K-street lobby-driven health care world in D.C. That spends $750 million a year lobbying, which is six times more than the entire defense contractor space. We're fighting for people, hardworking families. Democrats know they're on their heels.

That's what they're doing, trying to pick a fight to try to get on offense. Yeah. And I've also heard they sent out, well, there was an OMB memo saying to prepare for mass firings. And then I saw Democrats, and for those joining us, we're talking with Congressmanship Roy from the Great Republic of Texas. I saw, I'm looking at some of the tweets now, some of them saying, oh, there's going to all of these federal workers, 100,000 of them are going to lose their jobs. But isn't that, aren't those the workers that accepted that early resignation program offer and the deadline was like today, September 30th? Well, that's part of it. And this is all up to now. And this is why they're panicking.

Democrats are panicking because they're going to empower my good friend, Russ, vote, to be able to as director of OMB, make decisions as they go through the prioritization process. In other words, if you shut down government, you have to prioritize spending. We take in tax dollars on a monthly basis, quarterly basis. We get those dollars, and then they have to do something with them. So what do you do?

You pay the interest on the debt so you don't default. You pay Social Security benefits, so people can live on those. And then you get busy deciding where the dollars are going to go. And if you can lay off workers and cut the bureaucracy, then you're doing what you need to do to try to reduce dollars that are going out the door, And frankly, dollars that will have to go out the door when we have to pay workers on the back end of a shutdown.

So Russ is going to have a lot of power here, a lot of flexibility, and Democrats know it. And I think Schumer and I think Rakeem Jeffries, they're going, oh my gosh, we might have walked ourselves into a box canyon here. We're empowering President Trump and Russ vote to do more to go after the bureaucracy. Meanwhile, we're picking a fight that we're losing. And we want to say that we now want to give more to insurance companies and to pay the health care of illegal aliens to the tune of $1.5 trillion. That's a loser. That's a huge loser. Who are some of the, I know that there's a couple of sticklers.

You got Murkowski in the Senate. You know, I know Federman is surprising. He's, I guess, going to be like the new Joe Mansion of the Senate. But by and large, I mean, it seems pretty much party line ideologically driven. And I just, and all of the surveys, and we've talked, I had three different surveys that I shared with people the previous hour. Americans are not buying what they're hearing from people like Chuck Schumer. They saw what y'all did in the House. They know, because you guys have been really good.

Republicans have been really good at messaging this, I think, this time, which I haven't always said, but they've been really good at it. So I feel like the public really is informed, and they're not buying this, that it's the Republicans shutdown. So, I mean, I guess my question is, they really are walking into a trap. Is there what, other than maybe convincing some of these Republicans to be holdouts, do you anticipate this, this, I guess, fight extending past midnight tonight? night? Right now, it looks like Democrats have got themselves in a trap and they picked a fight that they can't walk away from before midnight. It would seem that there were headed to a shutdown. Who knows, maybe they'll come back and try to do some short-term spending deal in the Senate, send it to the House. Yeah, Schumer said he was against any seven to 10-day stop gap. Right. And we know, we passed a seven-week bill that gets to November 20th. All they have to do is take that up and pass it and the government is funded until November 20th. But also remember all of the work that went into this in the months leading up to it. People don't realize all of

the stuff we've been doing to continue to build a coalition to deliver. It took weeks, obviously, months to get the big, beautiful bill done. It took the last two months of working to get to this point to get a CR done and to get it passed out of the House so that we would have the negotiating leverage on the Senate Democrats. We did that. And by the way, a lot of conservatives, a lot of my friends, Freedom Caucus Conservatives, non- Freedom Caucus Conservatives, they don't like CRs. I don't love CRs. I'd rather as pass appropriations bills. We've done a lot of that. But we don't have them passed because we need 60 votes in the Senate, and you have Democrats blocking us for getting good policy.

So the alternative is do a CR, keep government funding flat, grow the economy, constrained spending through rescissions, which Russ vote is doing, winning at the courts by getting pocket rescissions, which Russ and the president got done. And what we did in the big, beautiful bill, that the Democrats want to undo. They want to get rid of the work requirements on Medicaid. They want to get rid of the restraints on illegal aliens getting health care. We passed all of that. Now they're trying to undo it.

And that's why the American people are saying, wait a minute, these guys are crazy. Republicans are doing their job. I don't want you to give away your strategy, but you mentioned pocket recisions. And I know you and I've talked about this before as a strategy that no one, it was funny because no one in the Republican Party really wanted to talk about it too much as we started getting closer to fall. So I don't want you guys to give up your strategy because I know where you're going on this. But is there, will there be more of those maybe that come?

before. Because I know it's all, it's time, it's about timing and it's about running out the clock to make sure that these items stay unfunded. Is that part of the strategy? Well, and again, to your credit, I don't want to get too much in the details there. But look, here's, here's the point. We have a long, a marathon type approach to this administration, right? We are in nine months into four years of President Trump term two. And we're doing the things that we set in motion over a year ago, right? The big, beautiful bill was months. in the planning. We put $150 billion of defense spending in there, which a lot of conservatives said, wait, why would you do that? You know why? So defense is now, has what they need while the Democrats

try to play politics with our regular appropriations bill. The $150 billion for the border funding, we can keep removing people because we put money over there aside through the big, beautiful bill. And on recisions, we need to do it methodically. We pass recisions that Democrats are now all upset about, right? We did it on a majority vote to get rid of. of NPR, PBS, and cut and save $9 billion, including foreign aid. What else, though, we do is the pocket rescissions, to Russ Votes point, and guess what? We just won in the court. The court said, yeah, you can do that.

That was step one. Now we've got to do the other steps to keep having an executive branch, do what they should do to restrain spending, put pressure on legislators, to restrain spending like we did in the big, beautiful bill, and in the recisions bill. Let's hold spending flat. We're beating back the appropriators and the swamp creature. both Democrats and Republicans, by the way, who always want to spend money, we're holding them in check, and we're winning. But we've got to slog through these four years being methodical and smart.

Last question for you. Midnight tonight, there's no deal. Government shuts down. I mean, really, you know, you and I, I mean, we just talk, we think Democrats own this, but what's the strategy after that? Because how long feasibly can it go? Look, so long as Republicans don't blink. as we stand firm that we stand with hardworking families and Democrats cries about these subsidies are all incorrect and the cries about the illegal aliens make them own that okay if we don't blink Democrats will have come back to the table and then we can get busy doing our job we have appropriations bills we need to move um Republicans ought to stay on message stay making the case to

the American people and then we can focus in on November 20th what we need to do to keep the funding going pass appropriations bills but the big thing is if Republicans don't blink the American people are with us. So I stay on that path and I'm going to keep messaging it all through this week as long as Democrats are being foolish enough to shut down the government for a ridiculous fight for $40 billion into the pocket of insurance companies and health care for illegal aliens. Yeah, I can't believe. I mean, I can't believe. I don't know why I'm saying. I can't believe that. I can actually believe that the left is they're willing to go to the mat on behalf of illegal aliens, but not so much for the American public. Well, I think that this, honestly, it feels the same

as it did in 2012 when Republicans just took it to Democrats and then there was the shalacking after. And I was reading Gingrich's editorial this morning in the New York Times where he was saying, yeah, we did this back with Clinton, went toe to toe with Clinton and look what happened, like conservative revolution. So I mean, this could just be stacking win on win. So we'll see how it unfolds. But we appreciate you standing strong. Congressman Chip Roy from the beautiful Republic of Texas. We're going to watch. We're going to be watching and we're going to know who blinks in the Senate. So I'm glad that y'all did your job. Thank you. Good to see you. friend. We have more to come, folks, as we wrap up this hour. Also, yesterday, POTUS, up on deck,

outlined this 20-point plan for Gaza. We're going to touch on that real quick before we rock. The Danish Show podcast, your fast, funny, and informative news companion for those always on the move. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let me say this. President Trump has amassed the best cabinet of public servants and folks who want to fight crime like General Bondi, Secretary Nome, FBI directed Cash Patel. These folks know how to keep Americans safe. And you know what? Tonight, we're setting the Department of War request to send the National Guard,

asking them to deploy a National Guard here in Louisiana into our cities like New Orleans and Baton Rouge and others so we can continue to reduce the amount of violence on our streets. Why would you not want your citizens to be? safe. Yeah, such a good point. That's Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, who, by the way, I love Louisiana accents. Oh, my gosh. Like super Southern Georgian accents.

And then you heard Landy, the God. I love it. I love the accents. Oh, my gosh. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. He sent the admin a letter about the extended deployment of National Guard to help fight crime because

New Orleans, they've been having, you know, you got carj, Democrat mayors. Democrat, Democrat. So where you got Democrats? You got crime. So I feel like Democrats also think that by shutting down the government, they can stop funding for this. Yep. That's what they thought. So what they thought. One other quick thing, if you are over at Substack, I got a piece up. We talked about this yesterday, but I was looking at this multiple, this 20-point plan that Potus announced yesterday for Gaza. And there were a couple of sticklers in here. Well, a couple of questions that I had. because they noted, now Trump did say, Hamas had 72 hours to accept this deal.

And if they don't accept it, then Israel's free to do whatever Israel wants to do in response, which is really the response that everybody should have had after October 7th. But they said one of the questions that I had was, why do we have to have oversight of it? I get it. I mean, if it's a temporary stabilization force, I just, we don't even get a discount on the crude for babysitting, this multi-decade fecal storm. kind of, you know, I'm just, I got some, you know, why does Israel have to release terrorists in exchange for innocent civilians? So this was one of the things that was outlined in this. And they

said that Israel will release some of their, who they have in captivity. But these, the people that they took, they're not like these innocent grannies and kids. These are actual like adult terrorists that they've, so why do they have to exchange terrorists for innocent civilians taken by Hamas? And also, absent is the demand that Cutter stopped playing. both sides and stop funding Hamas. Because remember, Qatar shares a gas field with Iran in the Persian Gulf. And so they are, they're still friendly with the Iranian regime. So I'm just, Israel's accepted. Hamas, they're still crickets. So we'll see how this pans out. But those are some of the questions that I had, particularly within 72 hours of Israel publicly accepting the agreement, all hostages,

you know, they have to, they have to be returned. But they're also saying Israel has to, anybody that they have. No, if you're a terrorist, that's why I think that if you're caught terrorizing as a terrorist, you get put down in the field. That's just how I view it. All right, today's stupidity came. All right, Juan, it's cut 28.

I just want the part where Rosie O'Donnell says this. I'm not sure if you know where that's up. Oh, my gosh. Her? Oh, yes. It's like she just doesn't have enough TDS. She needs more. Listen.

It's happening to everyone. And when the Medicaid cuts go in, old people are going to start to die. Oh my gosh. To die. What he's done yet hasn't even hit us yet. And if he's not stopped now, we have lost our country. And I don't know.

My favorite thing is are... Neither of them are looking at the camera because they're too busy looking at themselves. Right. They're going like this. Instead of looking at you when they're talking about. The hyperbole is off the charts. Folks, that does it for us. tonight find us at sub stack chapter and verse youtube facebook like and subscribe we will be back with you

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