The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Trump Teases Successor, Pope Trump Melts The Left, & The Iran Messaging Chaos

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

President Trump floats J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio as his successor in an interview on Meet The Press. Dana explains how the Trump Administration needs to be on the same page concerning Iran. Michelle Obama complains about having to pay for everything in the White House. The Left loses their minds as Trump posts an AI image of him as the next pope. Dana is wondering how to calm her dog down from the thunderstorms. Rep. Jasmine Crockett gives advice to black students to “use a chair’ against the haters.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…All Family Pharmacyhttps://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/DanaCode Dana10 for 10% off your entire orderBeamhttp://shopbeam.com/DanashowSleep like never before—Beam has improved over 17.5 million nights of rest. Try it now with code Danashow for 40% off.Home Title Lockhttps://hometitlelock.com/danaProtect your home! Get a FREE title history report + 14 days of coverage with code DANA. Check out the Million Dollar TripleLock—terms apply.Byrnahttps://byrna.com/danaVisit Byrna and check out the New Byrna CL during their Mother’s Day Promotion.  Order by May 11th for your FREE Kinetic Projectiles with purchase.  A $49.99 value. Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/DanaDana’s personal cell phone provider is Patriot Mobile. Get a FREE MONTH of service code DANAHumanNhttps://humann.comSupport your metabolism and healthy blood sugar levels with Superberine by HumanN. Find it now at your local Sam’s Club next to SuperBeets Heart Chews.  KelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSee the third generation of the iconic SUB2000 and the NEW PS57 - Keltec Innovation & Performance at its bestRelief Factorhttps://relieffactor.comTurn the clock back on pain with Relief Factor. Get their 3-week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! Goldcohttps://DanaLikesGold.com My personal gold company - get your GoldCo 2025 Gold & Silver Kit. PLUS, you could qualify for up to 10% in BONUS silver

about the great big beautiful bill you know that we're trying to get past it'll be the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country and hopefully it'll get done and the democrats are fighting us and if it doesn't get done it's going to be a 68% tax increase so that's going to be the democrats but i think we're going to have it done i think the republicans are going to vote for it and it'll be the most consequential bill i think in the history of our country leader soon says he wants to get it done by july 4th yeah do you think that's possible i think I think it is, and I think he's doing a fantastic job, and Mike Johnson Speaker is doing a fantastic job, and they're both getting together well. There's great unity in the Republican Party.

Republican Party is a much different party than it was. So he's keeping the criticism to Democrats, but there was a hint of Republicans. You know, you've got to get this passed. Otherwise, it's going to be a big giant tax increase. right in saying that. And I'm glad that he's, I'm glad that he's throwing it down because it needs to happen. And he needs to start bringing pressure on some of these lawmakers. Although in the Senate, he was talking about Thune in the Senate. I think it's a lot easier in the Senate, obviously with the House, with a narrow majority. But he was talking to Kristen Welker there, taking her through the White House, talking about the big, beautiful bill. We've got some domestic news on that front.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this first hour on Monday. day. Yeah, again, it's, you know, it's not my fault that it's raining and very British here in Texas. Kane and I are going to start getting accents on this Sanco de Mayo, so it's going to happen. So, yeah, don't eat a taco salad today. You're going to be a bigot. At least, only, you can only have Kane for your Hispanic side. So welcome, Dana Lash with you. Remember, okay, first off, I can't talk, I can't even discuss anything else today until we talk about that infamous day back in 2016 when you remember this cane potis said you know the best the best taco salads i got to say it like he would are the taco salads at trump tower it looks like a mighty fine taco salad

can i just be honest he did this in 2016 and the left lost their minds to the point where this trended on x for like two days straight and he goes i love the Hispanics is what he said why was the left so mad about this they were so mad why i mean he's eaten a taco salad and he's like i love the Hispanics it's a great okay what's the what's the bad thing about it taco salads are delicious cane although technically maybe not a traditional meal in the way that it was served to him but still you know it's the thought that counts it's the spirit of the thing you know look a very traditional taco bowl yeah you know i mean you know probably it looked delicious I would like to have a taco salad now or a Sanko de Mayo.

So happy Sanko to Mayo. There you go, right there. It's, he got a million things here that he's trade deals. Oh, here's one that I wanted to. This was, I thought, a very, a very interesting move. I read this over the weekend. So a big, they're not the only ones. Land Rover also did something similar.

So one luxury car maker, they said, is making a huge call. I saved you a click. It's Mercedes Ben. they're shifting production of one of its vehicles to Tuscaloosa, Alabama by 27. That's interesting. Very

interesting. And they said that obviously it's in response to tariffs, but they said that there are some other complicating factors. They didn't say which model would move there. They said the production of a core segment vehicle will move state side. They think that by they, I mean like the experts,

they think that the move is going to impact their production of the GLC. That's their best-selling car in the U.S. And that, it's a compact SUV that's made in Bremen, Germany. And so the speculation is that that is the model that they are moving to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. That's going to, that is very interesting. They said that they reported selling over 64,000 units in the U.S., up 58% from the year before. And Alabama, they said might, you know, that's, that looks like where they're going to be moving

in their production, they're in and out of factory. They said they're reviewing the moves. Obviously, it's in response to all of the stuff with the tariffs. And they said that it could affect, some of these other moves could affect GLE, GLS, GLE, Coupe, Mercedes, Mabach, GLS, and all of those call Alabama home as well. So they're moving more over. That is very good. Land Rover, too, let me pull this story up, because Land Rover also, I think they said

that they, because they had paused, Jaguar Land Rover had paused shipments because of the tariffs. And now they have restarted all of those. They've resumed exports to the United States, according to all the, according to reports. The London Times first had the story. They said that there was, so it's going to be like a month behind, but they said the U.S. was a key market for luxury brands, 25% tariffs are still in effect. So they're going to get here, but it's going to be a little priceier. It's going to be just a little

pricier, I have to say. So that's one of the things that they're that's what they're looking at. And so those are some, that's a good signal. That's a good first step. Now, POTIS says that there could be some of these trade deals that could be announced this week. We need them announced

now. I understand that you don't want to announce things too early and you don't want to jeopardize anything, but we need these now. This is some stuff that we need. We got to have this all now. And we, I think the sooner the better, because that's just going to make, it's going to make it that much easier for Republicans going into midterms because otherwise, yes, it is all about elections. Otherwise, you're going to have impeachment paloosa. They'll impeach him for anything. Clearly, they already demonstrated that they don't need a criminal action in order to do it. So he said that some of these deals with trading partners could very well be a announced this week. And he didn't specify any of the countries. The schedule he announced today that the NFL draft is going to be held in D.C. in 2027. And he met with this morning a ballerina who spent a year in a Russian prison because she was accused. She sent like a little donation to Ukraine and the Ruskies threw and the, they threw in the pokey, an actual ballerina. So

there you go. But he hasn't said, he hasn't given any specificity as to. what those trade deals could look like. Now, one of the things that we do know is that they've been pushing these budget cuts, cuts to the FBI, cuts to the DOJ, the latest from the Washington Times getting into all of this.

These are, I mean, we all knew this was coming, these proposed cuts. It's part of a $163 billion that they're looking in reducing federal spending for this for well those are slices of it the overall budget 545 million in cuts to the FBI other Justice Department agencies it's 163 billion in total so the uh they said while still reducing crime at all and reversing the weaponization of the FBI as well so the FBI headquarters in Maryland apparently that's also going to get halted he says it's three hours

away from the agency's present location. It's silly to keep building it, he had said. So this was going to be kind of interesting to see how there's some these cuts that have been proposed. Then, of course, we also have ATF. Apparently, there's a $468 million funding reduction that has been proposed for the ATF. And they said that the proposal, they said it was, well, because it was, it was weaponized. The ATF was absolutely weaponized. I have a story for you later on to discuss that further. The ATF is a joke. I, you know, I, I've talked with ATF agents. I don't care how good of a heart you may have. When you're pushing nonsense, that's rendered and valid. No matter what you're, if you think that, you know, oh, I'm going to go in and work in the ATF on the inside,

you're already working for an unconstitutional entity. So what do you think your presence in an unconstitutional entity is going to change about said unconstitutional entity? It's still unconstitutional. And the way that they have pursued what they believe is law and order has been to the detriment of the rule of law and due process. I mean, shall I go on? So there's cuts also for DEA, all kinds of stuff. So a lot of, but again, we have to have all of this codified. I can sit here and run down this laundry list. I am not one of those people that gets excited about temporary things. I want to see it all made permanent. And I got to tell you, my patient is is running thin with some because we knew we didn't have a lot of time it's i'm run my patience is running

really thin with a lot of these republicans because not with this not getting done it's all they're it's they're going to use it to to take his uh to take the rest of his administration now the uh other big thing that he proposed let me put this up so this was cnbc interesting he's ordering 100% tariffs on foreign made movies to save dying hollywood this was something that was announced over the weekend. He said there was a concerted effort by nations, by other nations, and it's a national security threat. He said it's messaging and propaganda. He said he was authorizing relevant government agencies, such as the Department of Commerce, to immediately begin the process of imposing a 100% tariffs on all films produced

abroad that are then sent into the United States. Now, I understand that. I also think that you're not going to be able to solve a cultural issue at the top. You can't solve an issue that is kind of at the bottom by just trying to regulate at the top. I mean, I understand it. I think that first off, taxes need to be just abolish all around. Let's have a graduating, you know. It all does all come down to that because it comes down to that with the business climate, too. There have been a number of agencies, including there's one that's been, that's just right up the highway from us in Las Kalina, Smell Gibson, and his team that are doing the sequel to the Passion of the Christ. I think it's the same team that was behind Apocalyptic and some of the other ones that he did.

And they're creating, they have this production company that they're launching in Texas to make these types of movies. One of the biggest problems. And I think what Trump is talking about by looping in the Commerce Department is a lot of the financing comes from overseas. and because the financing comes from overseas, that gives a lot of these, you know, producers. You know, you can donate, you know, millions of dollars to this budget and you can be named as a producer. A lot of it that's done, actually. And they influence, obviously, the outcome of the movie. One of the most famous ones, you know, obviously Top Gun, Tencent, and they ended up pulling a lot of support out of that. And they didn't get a, they didn't get a Chinese opening

because they weren't going to take the Taiwanese flag off of Maverick's jacket. At first, they did in some of the early screen tests. But then, it played so poorly with the public. They had to go back. They had to go back to the cutting room, cutting room floor and pick up the, well, I guess they don't edit celluloid anymore, but they had to go, they had to go back and restore it digitally because they had taken it off and it enraged people across the United States. But then that enraged Tencent. So, but I understand this. I also think, too, it's not going to just be fixed from the top. This is something, it's a cultural problem in the United States. You know, you can't, it's like putting a Band-Aid on it by trying to fix it with

regulatory policy at the top. And I understand people are like, yes, we want immediate, you know, we want it to change and we want it to change immediately. Don't fall into the trap in thinking that it is the same, that you're going to get the same thing because you're sacrificing speed because you're going to sacrifice, you know, getting everything that you want because you want it done fast. It's that immediate gratification. This is stuff that's been in the works in the United States for years and you're not going to undo it in just one, you know, one term. It's just not going to happen. But I do think making it overall to make things here in the United States so that people don't have to seek overseas funding that in turn influence what

we make is a good thing. We've got to get into some of this other stuff because people lost their minds over the AI Pope. But did you hear what they're doing with Jesus Christ Superstar? Well, yeah, in addition to Cynthia Irvo, what does living better mean to you? Is it more money, bigger house. Now think about this. What about how you feel physically every day? Life is so much better when you feel good. When you wake up feeling great, you can do more of the things that you love and you're ready to take on the day. If pain is affecting your life, see how relief factor can help change that. Relief factor is a 100% drug-free daily supplement that helps your body fight pain naturally. Developed by doctors, relief factor supports your body's response to inflammation.

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You're not paying for housing and the staff in it, but everything, even travel. If you're not traveling with the president, if your kids are coming on a bright star, which is the first lady's plane, we had to pay for their travel. Wow. I am just like the first, well, almost like the former first lady, because I still had to pay for my house, you know, as a human living here in the United States. It's former first lady, Princess Michelle Obama, her highness or whatever. And she's talking about, she's, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't get people who have the world served with them on a silver platter and yet still the bitch. Don't get it. Welcome back to the program. Tana Lash with you. bottom of this first hour she was she's is that her podcast i don't even pay attention to her podcast i just is that hers she was she's always behind some microphone talking about her heart her life is every day every every every time that we have these sound bites go around and this is a new one and she's complaining about the fact that she had to e gads pay for food and travel

What? You know what? When my kids and I, when my family, when we went to go, we took our kids to 30A down in the beautiful, beautiful Florida area, beautiful near Dustin, it's just a gorgeous place down there. Can you believe that we had to pay for our own travel? I was like, what? And then, and then get this, we had to pay for our own food. What? What? the oppression the oppression you had to deal with it's an outrage it's totally outrage can you I was shocked like I thought all of these things would be given to me for free and it wasn't no she's complaining because I guess she had a different idea of what she thought being the first lady was gonna be like like she was I all of that stuff was going to be just given to her she was complaining about having to I mean it's still private air travel you had a flyer They walked out with like $20-something million. I think they're okay.

How much money was he banking on book deals and speeches? I think y'all are going to be okay. I mean, y'all got a mansion in the Hamptons that's on the Atlantic beachfront. They also bought, oh my gosh, what was Tom Selleck that Hawaiian show he did? Magnum P.I. So the house that he apparently lived in for the show, like I guess it featured on the show. That's the house they bought in Hawaii, and it's like right there on the coast. In fact, there was a bit of a scandal because they were doing something to the shoreline

that actually encouraged erosion and was against state law, but they were allowed to kind of do it anyway because they're the Obamas. So you have two beachfront properties in addition to the big old historic place, the pad that they have in Chicago. And they're complaining that they had to pay for food and travel. Like some people don't even have a house. And you're complaining that you had to buy food and all of that for, I mean, what do you think that it was? This idea that positions in government are supposed to be everything subsidized like you're a member of the royal family is assinine. I mean, you are serving the public.

It's not supposed to be a free for all. I mean, I realize that Democrats over the course of some years have transformed the expectation of public service to free for all. but it's not supposed to be like that. It's actually supposed to actually kind of be a burden. And then people figured out a way to, you know, monetize everything and grift off of it. And Trump is, how much did you figure out? Trump, he's donated his White House salary, his presidential salary. So over two terms, it would be $3.2 million total.

Can I just say to be president of the United States and have to deal with all of that? I'm actually shocked that it's only $3.2. And that's probably before tax, too. right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's pre-tax. So it's roughly half, roughly half of that he's going to walk away with. But still, I mean, you know, again, it's supposed to be kind of burdensome. You're serving. And it somehow changed over the years to where now people want to get in on the grift. And they just go right from college into public office. And I just don't get it. So she's complaining about having to pay for this stuff. She is always complained. She grew up

privileged. She doesn't know poverty. The Obamas don't know poverty. He was raised by, what, his grandparents, his grandmother or grandfather, which one was it, vice president of a bank. His mom was this like, busy university professor. I mean, he had the most elite privileged childhood. They would die if they had to grow up in the poverty, for instance, that I knew, or regular middle class life that many of you out there listening know, they wouldn't be able to handle that. They grew up in privilege from the very beginning. They have no idea what struggle is. They have no idea what poverty is. They have no idea about any of it. And they have this idealized expectation of what public office is supposed to afford them as opposed to what they can bring to public office.

I frankly am tired of hearing her bitch and moan about everything. She has to be one of the most negative people I've ever. I can't stand people like that. I cannot stand. And granted, I'm a cramogen and I'm a cynic. But to not find joy in anything, to not, I mean, you're the first lady of the United States and you're still complaining. She acted like all the world. Half of the country loved you and they voted your husband in office twice. So can you stop with the tiny violins? You are the most pampered, privileged person ever. You can never do anything wrong and you're mad that you would buy some sandwiches for your damn self for the love it's just good night i just it's just shocking but it's also insulting because it's like oh this is what you have to

offer me for the you what you were getting into running for the white house but maybe be a little bit grateful for it for the experience instead of complaining that you had to fly your fan and by the way when when she's talking about flying her kids out i remember there was one time when she didn't complain because they were flying to Hawaii for vacation. And I remember it came up that somebody had asked about something and she had made an offhand remark that they, yes, they, you know, they paid for their daughters to fly out to Hawaii. And she said it so bitterly. And with so much resentment that I thought maybe you ought to take a step back. You have the means to do it and the resources to do it. you are the one percent of the one percent in this country every argument that you try to make

for identity politics is turned on its head because of your life and you're still complaining nothing's ever going to be good enough for these people you know if they have problems in their marriage no wonder she is like the ultimate karen never happy constantly complaining nothing's ever good enough just enough already heavens So over the weekend Trump tweeted out What was it? The AI image

Of him as Pope as a joke And all of the people Who hate religion Somehow wanted to pretend to be very upset For the Catholics I don't know if you guys saw this So Trump tweeted out It's very, you know

Very nice renaissance looking image of him as Pope with the number one and tweeted it out or headed on his platform and it went out from there and all the left got mad you know the left that hates all religion anyway suddenly they were mad and I was thinking about this when I saw this headline this morning so there's a Hollywood Bowl production of Jesus Christ Superstar now in Hollywood because they're out of original ideas

they've had to sort of switch and modify their expectations of originality. And so now instead of originality, they just want controversy, because they think the two are synonymous. I mean, they're not, you know. I mean, WIC, by the way, you want to talk about like real controversy? Wick ate a baby bird. That's controversial. Probably more artistic than, you know, I know he did. That's a whole other story. Probably more artistic than what the Hollywood Bowl is planning to do with Jesus Christ Superstar. They have Cynthia Irvo, a blackballed lesbian, a BBL who's playing Jesus. And then, Adam Lambert, yeah, he's playing Judas.

That actually seems fitting, you know, TBH. But everybody was mad about Trump with the AI Pope. Again, you got a BBL playing Jesus, but Trump with the AI Pope. Make that one make sense. I mean, it was a joke. He was making a joke. They're not making a joke. They're trying to offend.

They're not even making a statement. The whole point is they want to offend. I really, we've gotten so dumb in our culture. A lot of this stuff, especially with this production, they act like they're being thought-provoking and that that is, again, a substitute for originality or controversy is a substitute for originality. Animals can be, they can do shocking things.

Shock is cheap art. Shock isn't even art. It's a cheap imitation of art. It's when they can't actually do the artistic thing. So they settle for the cheap imitation of it and they pretend that, oh, you're shocked. shocked. That's compelling. It doesn't, is compelling a necessary requirement to be considered art? I don't think so, not necessarily, especially when used and abused in this

case. But all of these people that dragged him, I woke up, looked at the, because he tweeted it out in the morning. And he, you know, he doesn't sleep. He just blinks for long periods of time, and that's it. But I saw that, what was it? Pope Trump. Trump or Trump Pope was trending. And I'm like, oh, boy, what happened? So I looked, and I saw the AI image. I thought that's funny. And then the left was mad.

Oh, my gosh, sacrilegious, blasphemous. What else were they saying? Like, I'm running, going through the rolodex of adjectives in my mind. All of my Catholic friends thought it was funny. And I have some pretty hardcore Catholic friends. Like, I, look, I'm not Catholic. Some of my family was raised Catholic. My husband's family's Catholic, part of them.

I was raised Southern Baptist. It's fun. But, and we're non-denial. nominational. We're Church of Christ. But, you know, I, and my Catholic friends have always been so nice in explaining, okay, this is why they're wearing the pointing hats, because I'm like, what's up with these hats? And that's a little chan gavana. Where, what's explain that? And they think it's funny. And they explain it to me. But none of them were offended by any of this. They were like, okay, he's making a joke. He's not trying to offend. He's making a joke.

Like, didn't he order the flags half-mast for the Pope or something to that effect? And all, but, but the left they'll do like um uh Jesus Christ Superstar what was the other one they did uh Joseph and the amazing technical or dream coat then there were there were a couple of other productions and then there were some art there were some exhibitions that were supposed that were poking fun at um like Catholicism or religious artifacts and things like that the left never was offended over any of this but it's only because Trump is that's the only thing they only only because he's the thing that that to them, he is the ingredient that

can sour anything. They will immediately, if it's something they've been for their whole lives, they will immediately argue against it if he's involved. Because it's how tribal people are. If they even have to if the left has to agree with Trump on anything, they view that as they lost

on that issue. And because they're that narrow minded. Like, if you agree with someone on a particular issue and you have common ground, it doesn't mean you're giving anything up. It just means that wow, both of you have the same thought on this issue. Now, you didn't change your position. They didn't change their position. You just have the same thought on an issue. But the left doesn't look at it that way. They look at it as if they're green with someone who's across the aisle,

then that nullifies their position. And they don't want to look like they're wrong or that they have been modified in any way. It is bizarre. They are a walking psychological study. The left is. They really are. So I don't know. no. I am just, it's just, I don't want to hear anybody get, I'm just tired of them complaining about Pope Trump, Trump, or whatever it is. A few other things, because there's, Potus is busy over the weekend. He said also they want to reopen Alcatraz. He said it's something that he thought, we have this audio. Can we play this? This is, sorry, audio sound bite, million five thousand, 11 to 2014. Thank you, Steve.

Where did you get the idea for reopening Alcatraz? Just an idea I've had, and I guess because the judges, so many of these radicalized judges, they want to have trials for every single, think of it. Every single person that's in our country illegally, they came in illegally, that would mean millions of trials, and it's just so ridiculous what's happening. and it's long been a symbol Alcatraz of whatever it is

I mean it's a sad symbol but it's a symbol of law and order and you know it's got quite a history frankly so I think we're going to do that and we'll look at it. I'm not opposed to it are you opposed to a king? I think it's kind of cool AF there's a lot of sharks in them waters too super shark infested

I don't know if you all knew that super shark infested so uh he says he wants to open it up for some of the most ruthless violent criminals. Is it though? I heard it was like really, I watched a, what a year or so ago. Because I love haunted history stuff. And I watched a haunted history thing about Alcatraz. And they were saying that it is in great disrepair. So I don't know what it would take to like make it work. I mean, does it really need to be that workable? I just think if you're a super violent criminal, the consequence is you're not going to the Ritz, you know what I'm saying?

So do I care? Does the security work? Are there shock fences? Part of me makes me believe he's saying this because he's got a different motivation. What is your theory? I don't know what the motivation is or what he wants to, but I think there's something that he wants to either do with that land, either sell it or something. But I don't know if the prison is really the end game here.

I'm still a little suspicious. I mean, wasn't it, I mean, because I think part of the reasons that they could even use it anymore was because it I mean even like the infrastructure I'm talking like electricity water it was all really bad off but again you know you do crime you're not going to the writs I I am all for cruel and unusual punishment when it comes to rapists and pedophiles so maybe that's something you know make punishment fit the crime exactly you know so I look at our partners that help bring you the program our friends over at all family pharmacy they've got you covered whatever it is that you need is it any of the medications or therapeutics that the

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baby to help save lives. He's he was fine and where he is he'll do a good job. I don't consider that I didn't lose confidence. Why did I lose confidence? He's going to the United Nations to me. I think it's personally if I had a choice for myself of doing it. I don't. I'd rather have that to you up than the other. He didn't resign. He didn't resign. I just moved him. There's no resignation.

You people are so bad. You're trying to make a big deal out of something. You are so bad. That's why nobody watches you and who are you with? Who are you with? You with who? First. I didn't know there was.

I didn't know there was a Hearst. He's just like, so just, I didn't even know there was a Hearst. What? He's just so dismissive. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lashier with you. We're at the top of the second hour. He's talking about Mike Walt. And he was talking with the press, a little, not a scrum, but like some of the press that's there on,

Air Force One, good heavens. I almost said White Force One. I was thinking White House Air Force, whatever. It's raining. I'm blaming that. Anyway, Dana Lash with you, atop of this second hour now. And of course, you can listen across the country, a station near you, Channel 347 DirecTV, the chats at Rumble, YouTube, Facebook, all that good stuff. But he was saying, oh, you're making something out of nothing with Mike Walt.

Him getting the U.N. ambassador in some ways is a cushier, fancier thing than what he had prior. I mean, that's kind of my opinion on this. I think it's in some ways it's like way, it's a little cushier. I do think what this does, we've talked about this before, is it highlights a divide in the Trump administration that they're going to have to fix. They all need to be on the same page as it relates to Iran. And there's a suspicion that one of the reasons Waltz was moved from this role to, I would say more of a leased, or leashed role, rather, is the UN is because of Iran. because he's one of those who he, yes, bomb, bomb Iran, right?

That's, or Iran, like Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham always wanted to bomb Iran. But there's definitely a divide in the Trump administration on this. There was a very interesting, a good piece over at Washington Examiner. Trump needs his team on the same Iran page where they dive into this specifically about waltz. And it's not just waltz. There's other people within the administration that are pretty absolutist on this stuff. Rubio is kind of in the middle of it.

I think that he leans a certain way, but I don't think that he's showing his cards just yet. But the idea of being very, very aggressive and essentially getting us into a war with Iran, there are absolutely people in the administration that are leading that way. Trump is not. Trump is, he's not an isolationist, but what is the clear objective for getting into Iran? What, to stop them from uranium enrichment? They've been enriching uranium this entire time.

And why is it our responsibility to send our blood and treasure to do it when the unuclearized Iran is a threat to the Saudis and the Arab League? Why can't the Arab League do it? Why is it the United States's responsibility to wipe the backside of the rest of the world with our blood and treasure every single time? I'm sorry, but I don't really care about the lives of anyone over in the Middle East as it is worth anybody here in the United States. I would not spend one American soldier's life for that of anybody that is not a United States citizen, that we do not have our interests completely outlined and articulated. Might be harsh, but that, you know what, the onus is on the shoulders of the people who are trying to make the case to get involved in this conflict. What do they think is going to happen if we start striking Iran? The Houthis are one thing. That's why Iran always uses these proxy groups like, you know, Hasbola or or the Houthis or all of the other million different little factions of warlords that they have.

So there's, and Steve Wiccoff's in the middle of it, and everybody's fighting. They're really fighting over Iran and it's starting to now be a distraction. him. And it's, I feel like each side is all one way and, and, and there's no middle ground or anything. Trump has, for his part, Trump is definitely not, he's not on the same page that Waltz is or some of these others are. And I don't think he's ever going to be prevailed upon to move to that position. He is very clear that, no, we're not going to, and I'll talk about striking the Houthis, but that's very, very different as opposed to carrying out strikes like against Tehran, right? Very different. But he's threatened to impose secondary sanctions on any country that buys Iranian crude.

And that's, I mean, that's, I think, way more of a ration, reasoned response than maybe what Waltz was kind of promoting. But they're supposed to, they had a fourth round of discussions that were supposed to happen last weekend, but Oman canceled them. And so we'll see. but this, it does highlight the split. Dialogue versus detonation is how Axios puts it and how they're going to try to manage this threat. And I see these little hit pieces going out too. Here's another thing that I would like to, I think that his administration needs to be cautioned about. So in the Trump administration, one of the tools that, and I don't think Trump does this, I do think his surrogates do. I know for fact his surrogates do. They will shop. not even credible opo, but they'll shop hit pieces on other people in the administration if they're off this, if they're off page. They're not on the same page. Like I saw a piece, I don't know if it was a daily mail that said, oh, Mike Walts was, you know, he would, the reason that he was removed from this position by POTUS is because he was trying to coordinate with Israel to go after Iran. And that seems to be a pretty high and mighty BS take. But somebody shopped it. Somebody. put that out there and the press will eat it up. I don't want to see leak start happening again this term like they did his first term because they were distracting and it just dragged him all over the place. And he, I mean, it wasn't until after, you know, we had a rough midterms that

he had to just focus on judicial the second half of his first term. So, I mean, he's, I think he's listened to everybody make their arguments, but he's clearly not moving on Iran. It's not happening. I think they had a sit room meeting this morning on Iran. And there's, I mean, you, you have people like, I think Vance is in, he, Vance is more in line with Trump, and that he wants a diplomatic resolution and still thinks that that's possible. You have Whitkoff, who sort of, you know, goes back, flits back and forth, but otherwise stays kind of in the center. And then you have Walt's. Rubio is leaning more towards the Walt's side, I would say. and Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton, which are, they're very, very aggressive towards Iran.

And they think that Iran's weaker than ever. We shouldn't compromise. We either, they either dismantled their nuclear program entirely or we strike them. That's kind of that camp's proposal. And obviously you have Vance and others, including POTUS, that are like, yeah, yeah, no, I think the diplomatic solution, because that's a big commitment. I mean, you're committing to war. that's and I we're sorry the United States is not in a in a place to do it everyone keeps talking about recruitment we're not there with recruitment hell we don't even have all the baddies weeded out at

doD and Pentagon yet before we're going to start embroiling ourselves and uh you know a conflict and I want you to think of this this conflict isn't going to just be limited to Trump's term if you if if you would have waltz and you would have rubio even and graham and cotton if they all got their ways uh and they were and and you know we issue the ultimatum you either either deconstruct your nuclear program or we're going to strike, guess what, that conflict will outlast Trump's term? And then you will, I mean, depending on what Republicans do, if we're getting involved in a conflict and we don't have any permanent tax cuts or anything else, guess what? You're going to have a Democrat president in 2028. Are you looking forward to having a bunch of things that

Trump did to strengthen the military, but it was only done by EEO immediately reversed by that same pen and paper by a Democrat president? Because that's exactly what's going to happen. And then all of these men and women who signed up to serve our country under Trump and under Sector F. Hegseth, they're going to have the rug ripped out underneath them and they're going to be shoved into a meat cannon. That's exactly what's going to happen under a Democrat administration. So everybody needs to get their asses and wits about them right now. This is ridiculous. There's two camps. And I will say the people who are all excited for war, they couldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight. All these people that are so excited about admiring our country down into another conflict,

these neocons, and that is the correct way to use that term, they are nation-building neocons. They are entirely ignorant of the fact that some cultures don't want democracy. Some don't want democratic processes in a republic because they don't want a republic. And you have to modify how you deal with them accordingly. You can't apply the same kind of sanitized Western view to every single nation on God's green earth. It's just impractical and unworkable. And these people that want to get involved, they think that everything, they're the hammer and everything's a nail. They have no

idea. No idea. Not a single one of them. There was a 45-minute conversation last weekend between Whitkoff and the Foreign Minister of Iran. And that was, I think, since the Obama administration, the highest level of discourse. but it's it's I mean he's trying they want a nuclear deal they have a two around has a two month deadline yeah they have a two month grace period before the deadline to sign it and they're trying to get this wrapped up and it doesn't help that you have some you know neocons in the administration that are very loudly banging war drums so when it comes down to it i don't waltz's removal

had nothing to do with signal i think it was the administration reshifting people shifting them around to further underscore Trump's position on Iran and not the neocomposition on Iran. That's what it comes down to. So, by the way, Lorraine was because Trump in that audio sound about it, it was like Hearst. I never even, I had to say I never heard of Hearst either. Lorraine's got it. She's like, yeah, they own a bunch of magazines, television channels, television stations, including the San Francisco Chronicle. Well, that makes sense because Hearst was California based. But they also owned Esquire? I didn't know that. And they owned 50% of the A and E cable network.

Did you know that game? 20% of Disney Company's sports division ESPN. I didn't know that. Hearst Publications. So that's, we're going to talk to Stephen Yeats about that a little bit more coming up as well, that divide that we see in the administration with a few other things. Also coming up, we get some cultural stuff. apparently Gen Z is whining about Starbucks. I don't know. I don't know why our partners that help bring you the program are friends over at Super Beats. You guys are familiar with the Super Beats folks. The Super Beats are shoes. Well, now they have the Super Boreen and it's available at the Sam's Club. And your metabolism affects everything. You can support it with Super Boreen. It's $5 off at Sam's Club through April 29th. It's just 2498. It's plant-based doctor formulated. It has a unique form of berbering. in Italian olive fruit extracts.

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It's just so perfect. Bodies of animals everywhere. Toxic algae bloom is taking a toll. on Southern California's marine life. Doesn't this happen in the Gulf, too? Because I remember reading about some of the stuff. They said that it's, I mean, it's like poisonous. They're talking about sea lions and some animals.

I don't even know, like all kinds of stuff. Toxic fish. And it's this algae bloom that happens every now and then, not just, you know, near California, but in the Gulf as well. The rise of single parents, this is an interesting piece. that cane marked because I think there's a financial times and I think there's a lot that goes into it than just, you know, like economics or like various life choices. I, you think that there's an inability of people to connect with people.

I think that that's true. Yeah. Because they get into that with this story. People who like work, work, and then they don't really, like, I think a lot of it is driven by, you know, digital, everything digital, digital, digital life, digital socialization. People aren't connecting the way that they used to. And I don't think that that's like specifically the younger generations as well. I've been hearing stories like older generations now too.

Like even boomers are starting to deal with some of the stuff where people are just like, they want to just stay home and they'll connect digitally or they'll just, you know, it's just very interesting. But that's also leading to more and more people choosing to not have like the traditional nuclear family. they just like, you know, single parents is like the thing to do. It's like the thing to do. I don't know. There's a lot that goes. This is bigger than just a quick five. This is interesting. A 12-year-old boy, New Zealand, creates an AI pillbot to stop his grandmother from taking the wrong medication.

This is a, this was so sweet. A little 12-year-old boy, Gabriel Anthony. He invented a robot and it programmed it via AI to help his grandmother. It calls it pill bot. He says she has poor eyesight. She takes a lot of pills because they're conditions and sometimes because she can't really recognize. the pill and see it, she'll take the wrong one. So he has pill bot and it recognizes what medications she needs and which ones, you know, she has to have a flashlight and a magnifying glass to identify pills. So he said that it actually takes a photo of the pill. It recognizes the pill based on its training and it checks her pills before she takes them. That is amazing and he needs to get an award for that because I love that so much. That's how you properly young people use digital and have those advancements. Awesome. If you don't have

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president and typically would be and jd's doing a fantastic job he would be at the top of It could very well be, I don't want to get involved in that. I think he's a fantastic, brilliant guy. Marco is great. There's a lot of them that are great. I also see tremendous unity, but certainly you would say that somebody's the VP, if that person is outstanding, I guess that person would have an advantage. But I think the other people would all stay in unbelievably high positions.

But, you know, it could be that he'd be challenged by somebody. We have a lot of good people in this party. he hasn't claiming an error by the way and i know that the media is trying to run that as another way to divide but he's not claiming an error uh an h e i are right he's not saying that that's you're just saying look it's too early you know obviously you know the VP etc that's uh Trump talking to Kristen Walker uh welcome back bottom of the second hour although I entirely reject Marco Rubio entirely a million with all my heart reject him I have a very personal view of it and my view is I was there in person and it was the Parkland

Town Hall and I he was there I was there I was speaking after him and that's that infamous town hall and he was on stage in the crowd remember leading up to this just to give you some insight leading up to this they had um uh Robert runcy who was the superintendent of the school Deuts, Ted Deutsch, who called me a quote unquote bitch, screamed it at me when I was on stage and he was sitting right next to my husband and my husband was, had to say a prayer that he didn't punch him in the face. He, screaming at me and he got up on stage and they riled up that whole arena like a rally. You thought the Wellstone funeral was in poor taste when Democrats used that

Paul Wellstone funeral to rally. Remember that whole thing came back in the day? This was like worse because they were exploiting a mass tragedy. Nobody talked about how much worse it was what Democrats did at that Parkland Town Hall. They went out there and they gave campaign speeches and they were railing against Republicans. They were railing against gun owners. They called gun owners terrorists. This was before the CNN cameras started rolling. I was listening to all of this. And it was me and my husband backstage. And as part of my job at that time, or a job at that time, I had to represent firearm owners. And it wasn't a choice. And when the camera started rolling, they didn't tell everybody that, oh, well, we had all these politicians go up

and make all these speeches. And so everybody's like, just bare, you know, just ready to rip out. They were ready to, like, hump air. They were ready to just, ugh. They, it was like a five in a tape. And I can't remember, I think he was up there with Deutsche. And Rubio was up there and everybody got a chance to speak. And they were screaming at Rubio. They were booing him, cussing him. All, it was bad. And they were saying, well, what about red flag laws and what about universal background checks? And I watched the mob bully him away from the Second Amendment live on stage. I watched him with my own eyes on live television. I was there. I watched him give them everything that they wanted.

He agreed live on stage to red flag laws and universal background checks. That's not an exaggeration. He agreed to it and then they cheered him. And my heart fell into my stomach because I still had to go up after him. And my husband turned around and looked at me and he said, your job just got that much harder. And I'm like, gulp. I know. And I had to go up there and I didn't give an inch.

And after that, my view of him changed dramatically. And because of that, he's good in this role, but he's a subordinate. Because of that, I could never, ever, ever endorse him. I watched him sacrifice all of our rights and our self-defense because he bent both knees and bowed his head to the mob because it was convenient and easy for him to do. Now, I know everybody, the trend is to cheer him and applaud him. And I think he's doing a fine job as Secretary of State. He is a subordinate. I think when push comes to shove, I think he cracks under serious pressure. I watched it happen. I had a view that no other American in this country had

and ever since then I was very critical of him he will not have anything to do with me his people will not have anything to do with me and I wasn't mean I wasn't harsh I just said I've never been more disappointed in a lawmaker in my life than I was with him at that moment the moment that his country needed him the most the moment that gun owners that Americans who want to make sure that they're safe one that needed him the most he capitulated and you can't you can't crack if you're going for the highest office in the land you cannot crack and he did so he can never be the error i'm not going to get into some of the moderate part of his record that's not very maga but on that reason alone that was more than just he failed on an issue that was a test of character

and it was a test of personal strength and he failed now i think he is in his element that he was born to be in as secretary of state he's a surrogate though he takes his orders from the administration and i think he's fine there but i will not apologize to anyone for my position on this because no one else was there as I was right there on the side of the stage watching it. So no grifter can hold a candle to that real actual experience. So no, he can never be air. He could, and I would never support it.

I would not support it. I couldn't vote for it because I've seen it. I mean, when you crack like that, it's no. different than a Democrat. Now, I think it was interesting what Trump said about Vance. He said, well, you know, he said he's very brilliant. But if you notice, he said it in two or three different ways. It's early. He wants to just see, you know, and I think that's completely fine. For crying out loud, the man's not even been back in the White House for 100 days and you're already like trying to push him out the door. Okay, who's your successor? Who's your successor? Give him a minute to do

some stuff, okay? But that's the press. You had to know that that question was coming. I thought he handled it fine. I thought the way that the media is trying to present it, they're trying to make it divisive. They're saying, oh, look, he already named two people right here. Oh, these are his heirs. That's not what he said. He said there's a lot of good people. And I know because it's going to be brought up, some people are like, well, why didn't he mention DeSantis? He didn't exclude him. He just mentioned his VP, which is natural. And then the guy who literally is in the press because he assumed a million different temporary positions in addition to Secretary of State right now until they can get these other rules filled. So yeah, he's right there all the time. That's not

unusual. I get it. So I think that the way Trump handled that answer was completely fine. There was nothing. There's no drama there. He didn't exclude anybody. And he said it's too early. And he said potential, potential, potential. He never claimed anything. So don't get baited by the press. into thinking that Trump said something that he did not. Can you heard the same thing, correct? Didn't he say it like three different times? He kept it like he purposefully was trying to keep it as open as possible. And it's still not going to be good enough for the press.

They're still going to try to find some way to divide. Don't buy into that nonsense. I thought it was completely fine the way he did it. And honestly, I've got to tell you, I think the signal gate thing, and the way that, you know, he was handling Mike Walts, especially if this comes down to reshifting things as it pertains to Iran, that was a very smooth move. Don't you think so? Oh, yeah.

Because it wouldn't, he didn't get removed. My thought, he didn't get removed because of signal gate. It's because of Iran, because of his position on Iran. That's how he got, that's why he got moved. so you know there's this is all it's it's all it's just the way it is just the way it is all right a couple of things because we got uh we have time for some red state rhinos one i just got a couple things here so serious isn't it it's like red state rhino hunting noir so a couple of things they are considering uh you know

Obviously, several different bits of legislation. They have a Reader Act, which is being proposed. This is coming from Kristen Bentley, who is a committee woman in the first Senate district. And SB3, it's a fix to the Reader Act for Texas. Now, you know, we focus on rhinos, obviously, for this red state rhino hunting. And I'm not ignoring other states, and there are other states that we're going to get to, but we focus on, put a particular emphasis on Texas in Florida because they are the biggest red states and you can't lose them. You particularly can't lose Texas. So SB 13, they're looking at requiring

consistent review procedures and basically giving and also making it to where parents have to sign off on non-academic materials that are presented in schools like elementary as well so that we can get rid of the age inappropriate sexual material that is constantly being introduced in school that's, you know, ultimately gets into all, I mean, the trans stuff and all this other stuff that's in these schools. And there are, of course, you know, some, it's in the public education committee. It's SB 13 and there are some. It's, nobody's fixed their name yet, but there are some lawmakers that are trying to push back against us that are Republicans of all the things. It's kind of amazing that this is something that just consistently keeps happening.

Now, in Florida, I can't even believe I'm about to say this, they actually had a big win in Florida because their speaker, Danny Perez, finally was forced to yield on property taxes. So you remember the Florida House speaker, a big rhino who was fighting forever against any kind of property tax relief for Floridians. He said it was impractical. He's lost the battle. And so now the Select Committee on Property Taxes, they are now allowed. They're looking at proposals to overhaul the entire property tax structure for the state of Florida. One of the things that the governor had said is that they were, I mean, they require homeowners. You're constantly paying rent. Constitutional protections for Florida homeowners require their approval of voters. In 26,

Floridians need relief. So they're pushing, they're exploring everything from like a $1,000 rebate, whatever it is until they can get, until the committee can formulate a permanent structure, they overhaul it, and then they can get it passed in the legislature. They had been blocked by the Republican Speaker of the House forever. And now he lost this battle. And so now it's going forward. So that is a huge, huge thing.

And that goes to a lot of grassroots people in Florida who started hearing about. this and they started burning down his phone lines and when he started seeing the pushback from Floridians in that state his knees buckled so you have the power to do this you just got to do it and you got to get your friends and your family to do it because it doesn't matter how powerful the speaker of the house is in a particular state they're never going to be as powerful as you are when you bring that heat the way that these people have been bringing on him you can get it done so that's a big win so now they're they're pushing forward and all of that as we move, our partners that bring you the program, our friends over at Keltec, a great

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mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida, man. Wow. Oh my gosh, this is crazy. A Florida homeowner, because you know iguanas are invasive species in Florida, that's what they're considered. A Florida homeowner found 98 iguana eggs in their backyard. And when they called the Humane iguana Control Division of Florida Fish and Wildlife, they said that that was literally the most they had ever seen in one site. And it was from, I think they said, three different females that they because they I mean they tell people to hunt these things three female iguanas had nested in burrows they were all interconnected and each had their own clutch and they they said it's a record the most ever they've never found in the history of the state they said iguanas are more than a nuisance they dig burrows that damages infrastructure landscape destruction health risks you know they can like the salmonella on the skin all that

stuff. They said that one even compromised an actual dam before. And it was a $2 million. They had $2 million to taxpayer money to fix it. Isn't that crazy? So that's a Florida man was arrested because he had three different wives in three different counties. And that is a big bad no-no. Ew. They, I think did we have this before? I think we had this one. Yeah, I think I had this one last Friday. So we don't need that one again. Also, let's see here. I had another another one. this um hmm a couple hang on i don't want to read that one's gross not reading that one a uh florida man was accused of ramming into a boca rattan fire engine apparently he was triggered i've never seen a guy with such a large forehead in my life uh it was a roadside outburst it landed him in handcuffs

yelled at firefighters hit their fire engine and sped off and uh there was a call later on into police that said a vehicle was forcing other cars off the road and they got this guy 40-year-old Christian Diorcini and he was screaming at firefighters and that's when he backed into a fire engine try to speed off they ended up did they did catch him and he's got a very he had a DUI left the scene of an accident property damage all kinds of stuff they so he was under some kind of influence per CBS 12 yeah I would say so and I'm not going to have time for for this one. Tomorrow I'll tell you about the one who assaulted a gate agent at DFW, which you can't do. So we got a lot more on the way. Third hour next. Stick with us. The only, I mean, literally

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Can you walk us through that decision? Did I say what? To reopen Alcatraz. How will you use it? How did you come up with the idea? Well, I guess I was supposed to be a movie maker. We're talking to, we started with the movie making and we'll end. I mean, it represents something very strong, very powerful.

in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order. Alcatraz is, I would say, the ultimate, right? Alcatraz, Sing, and Alcatraz, the movies. But it's right now a museum, believe it or not. A lot of people go there. It has the most violent criminals in the world, and nobody ever escaped. One person almost got there, but they, as you know, the story, they found his clothing rather badly ripped up and it was a lot of shark bites a lot of problems nobody's ever escaped from alcatraz and just represented something uh strong having to do with law and order we need law and order in this country and so we're going to look at it some of the people up here are going to be working very hard on that and uh we had a little conversation i think i think it's

The shark bites. Laddus shark, well, there's shark infested water right there. I mean, I'm just saying, it is, isn't it, cane? I mean, you know, the sharks are hungry right there. That's all they got are needles and feces on the... That's where they're looking to get their bites in. Yeah, they got to get your bites in. And then their little watch goes off and says you did it.

I don't know what's happening. Oh my gosh. Welcome back to the program. We're at the top of this third hour. it's the weather it's uh welcome back dana lash with you we're at again top of the third hour greetings and salutations i look a little quick sidebar so you know we our studio we have wick here a rescue puppy this dog is we've had to teach him how to be a dog in a way because we got him from a shelter and he never like went outside without a person before so the first time i let him go outside you know like go out to it's your backyard you know and you can go use a restroom he looked at me like i was crazy like get here a woman like you gotta walk out with me i can't do this by myself and he is petrified of storms i've never i mean he just shakes he just just just tucks his tail and just shakes whenever there's like thunder whenever it's storming and then you know if whatever was going on

we got to stop it and make sure he's chill and he doesn't like being in his kennel except to go to bed at night that's the only time and most dogs want a safe space wick does not want to be his kennel. So, I've made a pillow fort for him, like a whole pillow fort that he can get in and hide. So I'll let you know how that works out. I'm like, well, I don't, he doesn't want to be in his kennel. So the next best thing is a pillow fort. How many pillows have you used in this pillow fort? A lot. And I, there's like a blanket and I, I am an expert pillow fort builder. I don't know if anybody knows this. It's a particular skill set that I have. You know, I've made many, many pillow forts, not just as a child, but also as a boy mom.

I have made some pillow forts in my time. And so it's a really cane. It's a spectacular pillow fort. Yeah. In which Wick can find security from the storm since he doesn't. Does he calm down in the pillow fort? Well, I don't know. We're trying it for the first time.

So we're going to see, that's what I did on break. I'm like, I went and cobbled together, if I do say so myself, a pretty spectacular pillow for it. And we're going to see if that may be. because he wants to be under stuff and if he sits by you when it's storming you have to basically hug him you have to put your arm around him and hug him

or he'll try to melt into your head it's just like he tries to get right there by you that poor guy he is just I and someone was telling me a thunder shirt people who have never dressed toddlers are like

get a thunder shirt for your dog dressing a dog is as bad if not worse sometimes I think than dressing a toddler. Well, unless it was my youngest. And I just don't know if that's going to work out. So I don't even know what, would it's a shirt that hugs you tight? Yeah, I guess it's supposed to be like those compression blankets that make you feel like you're being hugged. I feel like that's not going to work for him. He's, he's a very smart dog. He is super smart. He learned how to open gates and all kinds of stuff. He's incredibly smart. But yeah, so he's just, except he doesn't

recognize just a basic storm. He's smart, but, you know, So we'll see how that goes. There's no meteorologist. Give them a break. Well, I mean, it is kind of out of nowhere. It was sunny this morning and then all of a sudden a storm comes rolling through again. And the thunder is so loud that sometimes it carries over air. It's crazy. So anyway, that's my life right now.

I'm just making sure my dog doesn't have an existential breakdown when I'm on air because of the thunder. So if one day you guys happen to tune in and you hear like some whining in the background of the mic, if you're not watching, or if you just see a giant yellow dog here in the seat with me, it's because the pillow for it didn't work. It didn't work. And so he's got to be, he's got to be. And he just sits there. It's the funniest thing.

He doesn't move. It's like he thinks if he's still, the storm won't see him. Like the, oh, big roll of thunder. He acts like if he's just super still, the storm won't see him. And he just, he sits as still as a cigar store Indian. He just sits there and will not move. So he'll just, he'll probably look like a fake dog. So it may happen now.

It may happen. You're in the next few. So bear with us. It's our high maintenance show dog. Oh, my gosh. Now, Lorraine says for her dog, it's the electricity in the air more so than the thunder. I didn't even think about that. Really?

The electricity in the air? I just think it's muggy. Ooh. Anyway, so. All right. So POTUS, having a little press avail right there, and he's discussing Alcatraz. Just, again, I don't think you need to make it all up, right? Just make sure you got the electric fences work, and I think you're good, right?

Don't you think so? And the locks work? Yeah. Yeah, I think that'll, yeah, I don't even know how much that would. Are we running out of prison space? I don't know. I mean, we've been letting prisoners out for all kinds of different reasons. Right.

And overpopulations been one of those reasons. Yeah, I just, yeah, I mean, I don't know. I mean, maybe it, you know, maybe we do. But I'm not against it. I'm not against it. Pota sat down with Kristen Walker and was grilling him about a number of different issues. Can we have Audio Summit 86? Because I need to hear what he says about Chasmund Crockett.

Go ahead and play this one. I can't name, I can't name one Democrat. I mean, I look at the Democrats. They're in total disarray. They have a new person named Crockett. I watched her speak the other day. She's definitely a low IQ person, and they said she's the future of the party. She's dumb.

How is that possible? That's what he just said. Now, speaking of Crockett, was this at her audio sound by, I think this, oh, 17. So she was speaking at a commencement ceremony, you know, just this sounds like a particular, just like, I guess, what a regular commencement material, listen to this. going to be people that tell you that you don't belong. And I am here to tell you over and over and over that you absolutely belong.

There are people that are going to tell you that there is not a table in which there is a seat for you. But I am here to remind you of Montgomery and those folding chairs. Let me tell you that we know how to use a chair. Whether we pulling it up or we doing something else with it. Okay, so what? I guess she thinks that. So this was her graduation, her commencement speech Sunday. She was in Mississippi, 20-minute speech. And she's like unnecessarily wordy. Like instead of, you know, at a table in which there is a chair, you could just say a seat at the table, you know, at a table and using a bunch of words strung together poorly does not. make you sound smarter. It makes you sound dumb. Just say a seat at the table. That's it.

But she's talking about this, uh, uh, the fight that was she's talking about chairs. She's, do you remember this, uh, 20, 23 fight that was in Montgomery, Alabama? And it was, it was boaters that fought with, uh, I guess like a dock worker and a couple of other people. Remember this? It was a bunch of drunk people that fought and then there were chairs involved. I don't even know. And it had to do with a parking spot at the dock. Like somebody was trying to dock their boat and somebody else there was like a large river boat and then there was a smaller private boat and everybody got into a fight and everybody made it a racial thing and because they said well the you know this the city has a history of racial violence i don't necessarily i mean

i don't know if it was a race thing more as much as it was a drunk person drunk people entitled thing i don't know but i mean i guess you know she needed it to be that she referenced that That's what she was talking about with the folding chair. Like, that doesn't even make sense. You're talking about a drunk fight over a dock space and a, what? But why is that the message? First off, who's telling people that they don't, that there isn't a seat for them at the table? Oh, sorry, a table at which there's a seat, also known as a chair that you could have the seat at.

I don't get it, Kane. Like, what, why is that the, who's telling anybody this? The only people that are saying this are people like her. The only people that are going, oh, there's no room at the table. It's just, it's, it's her. She's the one who's telling them those. But that. She did respond to him on, on X.

Oh, yeah? I put that in Slack. She did respond to him on X. Yeah. Well, her remarks were stupid when she's talking about the chair. But she said, she, tweeted, as Kane noted, she tweeted, quote, for you to be in charge of the whole country, you sure do have my name in your mouth a lot. Okay, first off, let's stop with the first sentence.

He doesn't even know your name. He just knew your last name. And he only mentioned you one time, so get over yourself. And can we stop saying name in your mouth? Like, that's so stupid. Just shut up. I'm so tired of people trying to sound hard ass. And like, I'm going to say something that I think other hard-ass people say. And if I say it, then I'm going to borrow the heart-acidness. Just stop. And then she goes, every time you say my name, you're reminding the world that you're terrified of smart, bold, black women telling the truth and holding you accountable. Like, what? Like, he mentioned you one time. He mentioned her one time. Like, he had wig snatched you. And why are you still talking? Like, stop. He didn't even mention your whole name.

So she snatched her own wig at her speech. Like, I've never seen anybody wigs like do it. a self-wigsnatch, an S-W-S, harder than this woman does. Like, it just does not keep my name out of your mouth. Okay, that's not even how that works, but okay, just, I feel like I'm watching like Schitt's Creek, the show. Fold in the cheese, David. Well, what is it even mean? I just fold it in.

Keep my name out of your mouth. What does that even mean? The funny thing is that every time she talks about it, it's proving his point. Well, yeah. I mean, she's, she talks about him all the time. He just referenced her one time. One time. He just mentioned her one time. And she loses it on X. Loses it. She was so excited that he even mentioned her last name. Nobody remembers her first name. And the only reason that they remember her last name is because it's Davy Crockett's name first. And it's a little bit jarring to realize that somebody with the last name, Crockett is such an idiot. And so entitled. I I mean, she's literally like a trust fund socialist. I told you, she grew up in the ritziest area in St. Louis. And she went to the most expensive and exclusive private school ever. I mean, MICDS is, that's where all the politicians' kids went, all the CEO's kids went, all the debutants, all the billionaires and the millionaires kids, all the ballplayers kids were at MICDS.

Like everybody was at, if you had money and you had, your parents were famous, you were at MICDS. That was like the school. And it was, it's super expensive. It's like more expensive than a four-year university. It is insanely expensive to go there. Beautiful campus. But I had to do a profile, one of my first jobs after college was writing a celebrity profile on a

performing artist. And they went to MICDS. And when I walked into that school, I was blown. away because it was like a world away from how I grew up. I mean, so yeah, she's, I think she tries to cosplay like she's hood. Well, she does. She tries to cosplay hood and she's not. Like AOC tries to cosplay like she's tough. It's like, stop. It just looks so bad. It's so bad. So the, she, that was her commencement address. I just can't believe that you would reference drunk people fighting with folding chairs over dock space at a commencement address and then act like that's

somehow representative of racial struggle. I mean, if you're, it doesn't even make any sense. And she was in Mississippi, right? And she's referencing something that was in Montgomery, Alabama. I don't understand. That doesn't, none of that makes sense to me. Of course, you know, not their brightest bulb in the box. Not really. Audio somebody at 18. Oh, she kept going. Listen, this is nuts. It's easy to play because she says stuff that's so crazy. Oh, wait, we got to move, don't we? Oh, hold that, hold that thought. Sorry, Steve is dying. Steve got to yell at me. We got to move because Steve will have a stroke and we won't have any quick five. Goldco is making it easy to take that first step toward protecting your savings. Just fill out a quick form, no commitment, just free information.

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Brighten up your timely news consumption with a Dana Show podcast, where every update comes with a little dash of Not So Serious on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you, we're at the bottom of this third hour. Listen coast to coast. You can also find us channel 347 on DirecTV, X, Rumble, all that good stuff. So very interesting headline that I had to double check to make sure it was real. Chinese officials are reportedly seeking to discuss fentanyl and the fentanyl ingredients amid all of the stuff with the trade war.

Apparently, it was reported that their minister of public security has made some inquiries over the past few days. I don't know what that means. Like, can we talk to you about fentanyl? Can we have a talk? How does that even work? So to talk to us about this, our very good friend, Stephen Yates, you know him. He's on the show regularly. You can find him on X at Yates Coms.

Yeah, Yates Coms. And, of course, he worked in not one, but two previous presidential administrations. And he is the senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He joins us now not via Skype because Skype is now dead. Stephen, it's good to talk with you. What does that mean when they say, yeah, we're interested in talking about Fenton. and all like okay so talk yeah well for you and me and everyone with common sense that should be the reflex uh for the chinese communists they seem to have been taken a little by surprise and i say

this not to make excuses for them because i don't and would never and i'd rather they go die under a tree but uh they seem to have been scratching their heads that americans might be serious that they shut the flow of this poison that has been killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, and that's not actually negotiable. We don't need to talk about it. Just do it. And if you do it, then we can go on and negotiate other things. It was a bit of a test. Yeah. So here they waited through the first hundred days of the Trump administration not doing the things they knew that the Trump team was telling them they needed to do and escalating the rhetoric on all the other forms of tariffs. And then they start sending their surrogates to D.C. to talk to the tanks where they

have China programs that actually come and go to China, unlike mine, and they start saying, hey, well, what does Trump want? What is the administration need? What are we really trying to negotiate? And for whatever reason, they'll come around and they'll have their friends come ask me because they don't ask directly to me. And I should say, well, you know, this isn't rocket science. Said right from the outset, the very first tariffs that were levied were linked to stop the fentanyl precursors. This isn't really an academic debate. They know who's doing it. They know where they're doing it. They know where the money's being laundered and they can stop it 100% in a day if they're so motivated. If you wonder, look how quickly they locked down the entire city of Shanghai when they

wanted to or needed to. Look how they stomped on Hong Kong when they wanted to or needed to. This isn't academic. So that's the dance that we're playing right now. I think the president wants to make a deal to rebalance the economic relationship. But I think he correctly, and I hope he sticks to his guns about it, said this fentanyl thing is not actually negotiable. Do something meaningful that we can verify and measure. And then we'll talk about the other things. Yeah, that makes all the sense in the world because they were saying, I think it was Fox and others that reported these Chinese government officials were, well, what does the administration? They were asking, what does the administration want us to do about the inputs for fentanyl? Well, stop sending them to the cartels. I mean,

it's just that simple. Maybe stop having that kind of a relationship with the cartels. It's interesting, too, whenever they talk about fentanyl, Stephen, they never mention that aspect of the equation. They never talk about their association with the cartels, which they kind of treat the cartels like they're their own independent sovereign entity. Right. Well, and they seem to have no shame in that association. Now, we shouldn't expect communist parties to have too much shame. But at the same time, that is the other reason why I think that fentanyl precursor materials, not the stuff. stuff that's used to treat pain in surgeries and hospitals or whatever else, but the illicit precursors

should be listed as WMD, because then we are listing not just the vehicles for bringing these things into our country, the cartels, but also the substance themselves. And it double brands. Okay, China, you want to be a world leader saying you're upholding rules and norms. You're trafficking in weapons of mass destruction. And so go ahead, Europe. You want to warm up to someone trafficking in weapons of mass destruction, that's your association now. And I think that that might, might, might do something that has been more than just get talks going. But really, we're dealing with bad people who've been willing to kill a lot of Americans already. We shouldn't be surprised they make this hard and they don't operate under our logic. The New York Times had, we're talking with

our friend Stephen Yates, the New York Times had the headline is China looks for way out of U.S. Troy Dudlock. Fenthal could be the key. Is there willingness to discuss fentanyl? you think kind of maybe the beginning of waving, them waving a white flag on this trade war? Well, from what I hear, and my information is as imperfect as everyone else is in this regard. I feel like you know a little more than everybody else. Let's be honest about it. Come on. Gold Coast seemed to shift in the life we live now at light speed and Trump speed for news cycles. But what I think has been very, very clear is that the president is interested in talking to, to she, he's just not interested in conceding in advance the chinese side is trying to intimate they're

not interested in conceding in advance but but i think that the president has rightly held out fentanyl is something different it shouldn't be negotiable uh and so if they want to have talks about what to do about fentanyl they're wasting their time they know what needs to be done and with whom and they can do that and if they won't do that what should that tell any reasonable American, European, Asian, or otherwise about how can you negotiate and deal with this kind of government if they won't do this? If they were poisoning your children, would you negotiate free trade with them? It's insane. And so it has to be the prerequisite from my point of view. I'm not the president. No one elected me, and he hasn't asked for my advice. But for free

in charge, Mr. President, I think you're on the right track and stick to your guns on this. That's a good, I would say that they should listen to you. I mean, you were there before, and you've had other potuses listen to you. We're talking with our good friend Stephen Yates at Yatescoms-on-X. So in the Pacific, we have obviously the threat of China, and then we focus so much on the Middle East. But then recently, and this is where I wanted to get kind of your experience and expertise on this, because, you know, with the dismissal of Mike Waltz being where he is, now he's going to be the UN ambassador, I don't feel like that. all happened because of the signal leak. I feel like that happened because of Iran

and how you have these two different factions in the administration that don't seem to be on the same page with us. Trump and I think Vance for the most part seem to be more of let's approach this diplomatically. We don't want to either look like we're going towards conflict with Iran or have or commit to anything like that. But then you have others, you know,

more like Tom Cotton and some other folks that are there, Lindsey Graham, who absolutely, you know, to them, everything is a nail there, the hammer, they want to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran. I mean, it seems like there's these two factions competing in the administration. What do you make of this? And what does that forecast for how we're going to deal with them? Well, this is a hard challenge. You're not wrong about the mixed forces.

And the reason there are those mixed forces is because the United States has tried a lot of different things. And what we know with a certainty is the things that were tried before mostly didn't work. The thing that worked the best was Trump 1.0's maximum pressure and Abraham Accords combo seemed to put us our allies in the region in the best possible position, at least since the 1970s, and that's not for nothing, but it also didn't solve the problem, and the problem might not be solvable with acceptable risk on our part. That's the reason why it's a hard job to be president, and it's a hard job to advise presidents. I have no idea what the true sort of of Tinder was that lit things off to make a change for a national security advisor, I would say that whenever there is really sensitive negotiations going on, everyone is at risk of getting a little out on their skis or out of step with the president. And this administration in the first hundred days had like three or four very sensitive and complicated negotiations going on at the same time. Never seen anything like that before. And so the risk of sort of crossing wires at some point

and wanting change, it's going to be really high, and it's going to be high for whoever has that position under those circumstances, I would assess. But in dealing with Iran, I think the president is trying to see, is there some kind of deal to be had? I actually kind of doubt there is. What are our allies looking for him in Israel is still having to try to defeat Gaza, and there's still a lot of people in the international community trying to hold them back from doing it. And an Iranian threat of having a nuclear weapon, that's obviously aimed at Israel and aimed at the United States. And so this is not easy stuff.

And China and Russia aren't making it any easier. So people talk about three-dimensional, four-dimensional chess. I don't understand that. I could never play it. But this is kind of what the president is facing. And I think it's really hard. Most of the building blocks he's trying. I think are on the right track, but we can't count on the bad people coming along and getting with the program.

What are, I know that Oman was hosting, I think, the last, like a week ago, they were hosting some talks, I think with Steve Wyckoff and others. From what I was reading, there was supposed to be another round of talks this weekend that ended up ultimately being canceled because you mentioned the Abraham Accords. And I'm thinking, you know, a nuclearized Iran is, is way more dangerous to a lot, like, you know, the, I go back to like the Sunni-Shia conflict. and they're way more dangerous than, you know, to this, as much as they are dangerous to Israel and the United States, I would imagine they're super dangerous on those terms to Saudi Arabia as well. It just seems like all that's reported about their involvement is just hosting talks and maybe doing some mediation. It's just, is there more to it than that that's just not getting reported? I strongly suspect there's a lot more going on with our major allies in that, in that region.

When I say major, I mean, those that have the financial and military means, to make a meaningful difference in shaping the region. And so I think the United Arab Emirates punches above its weight in that regard. I think Saudi Arabia is vital in trying to keep some sense of balance. This isn't a question of, do you love every part of every kingdom that you deal with? It's a matter of, do you have a coalition that can keep the darkest genie in a bottle in order for the rest of us to have an alternative path to peace and prosperity? And with those, I think the president is scheduled in the not-to-distant future to go spend several

days over in the Middle East and will have very, I think, in-depth and serious and I think very blunt talks with leaders over there that will be on the Iran situation and what's the end state for the Gaza situation and what America can do and can't do and what they need to do and listen to them also. I mean, that's the under-told story as people talk about Trump being a certain way, but he actually is doing a lot of listening to the allies that are serious about sharing risk and resources to address these things. So he'll hear what the Saudis and the Emirates have to say and what the Israelis have to say. And that's vital to try to chart this path forward. There you go. Stephen Yates, always the expert. So you need to be telling the

administration. You need to be right. I would feel better. I would feel better knowing that. Just hope they're tuning in, and, you know, this is managerial excellence, free of charge. There you go right there. At Gatescoms on X, go and find him. He has all kinds of good stuff that he puts out there regularly. Stephen, always a pleasure. Thank you, my friend. Thank you, Dana.

Take care. You too. Brighten up your timely news consumption with the Dana Show podcast, where every update comes with a little dash of Not So serious on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the program. I'm a little weak hair a lot from Faith No More, which was so great. By the way, so we're talking about, I eat a late lunch. I have the weirdest eating schedule because we're on air in the middle of the afternoon. And I'm going to say something that's probably very unpopular, the Sanco de Mayo.

But I'm going to say it. Yeah. I love Taco Bell and it's amazing. And I'm tired of pretending that it's not. Oh, man. Kane and I. You could have chose any other day of the year. No, dude, do, do, do, no, no, no, no, no.

It's like, I pull up and I have them. Like, it's amazing. Right? It's like so fast. you just pull up and then you have them I have them so good oh my gosh it's like when you pull up to a fast tamale spot and they're like here and you just have them

and oh man by the way your mom I wanted to hire your mom to make some more tamales by the way she makes the best ones see that's the kind of and people know this especially ones that grew up in Mexican families you're just like look okay Taco Bell's great I know he's dying right now you're drunk at one of the morning or whatever and you need a you know

our fan done in KURV is dying right now something that kind of resembles Mexican food, then yeah, that's what you do. That's what you do. It's so good, though. It's like, I'm not saying, I don't even classify it as Mexican food. It's just its own Taco Bell. It's just, like, its own thing.

I mean, I would. Yeah, wouldn't necessarily say that it's, yeah. But, oh my gosh, like, it's so good. Like, they do weird stuff with their breading. It's like a chaloupa? What's that? It's a fried taco shell or soft tortilla, whatever. It's so good.

I feel like they should advertise on the show, but they don't. Taco Bell? Yeah. If I live next door to one, oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I would be 5,000 pounds. I would be on like my big life or whatever the hell that's called. Seriously, you love Taco about that much.

Dude, I love it. I could, I get into weird ruts. What is it? What's your go to when you go to Taco Bell? Oh my gosh. What isn't? I love the, any of the canteena things that they got, the fresco stuff, the Gordita. I love refried beans so much.

More hard taco or soft taco person? Yeah. Hard taco is a joke. What? I love hard taco. Hard taco is a joke. It is a trick on you. It's a joke.

What's the trick? That it's bad. It looks like you think it's going to be good and it's not. It's bad. It's what it is. But I'm going to get so much hate and I don't even care. I don't even care. It's so good.

I'm tired of pretend that's not. And you can get so much. You can get so much for it. Anyway. As far as fast food goes, it's the cheapest out there right now. And it's healthy. You can get a bowl and not have the breading. It's healthy.

You said those words. I'm so dead. In a sentence? Maha! I think we just killed Cain. We're going to need to call the 9-1-1s. Look, I'm not, I don't want to, no pun intended, crap on Taco Bell, but... There's no pun there.

It's all beef. It's all beef, my friend. It's all beef and chicken. It was definitely a pun. A chicken clucked at one point. It was definitely a pun there. Yeah, it wasn't. All right, go ahead with your today and stupidity.

Already? All right. You hate her. Well, here, all right, here's... Listen to this. Okay. Now, you know that the media has been doing this for the past three or four years. They just denied it.

As a matter of fact, if you even said that Biden had some cognitive decline, you were attacked, you were shamed, all of it. And now, of course, there's plenty of books out there now saying this. Listen to what she says here. Jen Saki cuts one. I never saw that person, not a single time. And I was in the Oval Office every day. That was on that debate stage. She's the spokesperson.

I'm not a doctor. The Whitehouse spokesperson. And she's still, to this day, claiming that she didn't see a thing. I don't trust your judgment. No one believes that. And if they didn't see it, I don't want these people anywhere near making decisions for the rest of the nation. Yeah, that's stupid. How did you not see him?

I mean, the man didn't even know where he was. All right. Does it for us tonight. Sign up at Substack, Chapter Inverse, Facebook, YouTube, like and subscribe. I'll be back with you tomorrow. God bless.