Will Cain Country - Scripted Outrage: The Politics of Pretend! Plus, TX AG Ken Paxton (ft. TX AG Ken Paxton, Shea Fisher, and Bonnie-Jill Laflin)

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

Live In Front Of A Studio Audience From KRLD In Dallas, TX and featuring the music of Shea Fisher Story #1: Are politics performance or action-based? How words seem to be speaking louder than actions in Washington, D.C. Story #2: Texas AG Ken Paxton sits down with Will to discuss the arrests of six individuals over an illegal vote harvesting scheme, the investigation into the Epic City Muslim community, and his run for U.S. Senate. Story #3: Will talks to Country Music Singer, Shea Fisher about her journey from growing up in the rodeo in Australia to ending up in Texas, singing Country music. He's also joined by founder of 'Hounds And Heroes,' Bonnie-Jill Laflin who shares about the important work her group does for Veterans, and then takes questions from the Willitia.  Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing [e-mail] Subscribe to The Will Cain Show on YouTube here: Watch The Will Cain Show! Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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and his fight for the U.S. Senate attorney general Ken Paxton three country music Music star, Shea Fisher, Hounds and Heroes, Bonnie Jill Laughlin, join us today on The Will Kane Show. It is the Will Kane Show streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel and the Fox News Facebook page. Terrestrial radio across this great United States of America, but always available by subscribing at Apple or on Spotify. Today, we broadcast to you live from the Odyssey Showroom, the KRLD-1080 showrooms in Dallas, Texas. A live studio audience here with us today on the Will Kane show. We will have, country music star, Shea Fisher, Hounds and Heroes, Bonnie Jill Lathlin, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, but we're always joined by the fellas in the crew.

We've got 10 foil pat back in Florida and in Texas. day along with us is Two A Days Dan. We're glad that Dan is down here in Texas. We're glad to be with these fine folks in Dallas, Texas. The MoneyWorks Group and David Dustin has sponsored this wonderful event in Texas where we get to do something that I always love to do, and that is hang out with the people, hear from the people. I am apt to give a sermon. I do like a podium. But even more so than that, anybody that's ever watched me from first take on ESPN to the Will Kane Show on Fox News knows that I like a debate. I like to interact. I like to have a conversation. And today we have that unique opportunity.

as people here in Dallas, Texas, will be joining us on the Will Kane show. But we've got a lot to get to with you today. So let's get to it, and let's get started with story number one. Within the last two hours, President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, along with on the intercom, Prime Minister Kirstarmer of the UK, announced a brand new trade deal between the two great nations, the United Kingdom, the world's sixth largest country in terms of GDP. This is the first, one would hope, of many deals for the United States since President Trump announced Liberation Day back in April. This deal leaves in place the 10% across-the-board tariff with the UK.

It accepts products like autos and steel and begins to allow for American exporters to enter the UK market on a fair trading field than they have in the past. That's what we heard from Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnik, and from President. President Donald Trump this morning. There's been a lot of questions about these tariff deals. There's been a lot of concern, and that's very well reflected, in the S&P 500 and the Down Jones Industrial Average. This morning, both of those indices up. They bounce on this news of a tariff deal.

In fact, this is a good opportunity to invite up Mike and Manny from Decatur, Texas, who've been paying attention and asking questions, as every American has, about these trade deals. What does it mean for small business? What does it mean for your 401K? These are very legitimate questions because what we're looking at is a very long-term project that is set not just to bring manufacturing back to the United States, but establish a fair field on the globe for American businesses. You got Mike and Mandy from Decatur here on the microphone. You guys, I know, we're interested in this issue of tariffs.

We are. Mike and Manny from Decatur are interested in your personal thoughts on the big, beautiful, first big, beautiful deal. I think this deal, I think the adjective that is most important. as you described it, this big, beautiful tariff deal with the United Kingdom is, first, that's the most important element. In 45 days, President Donald Trump, and not just political cheerleading, because we heard it as well from the U.K. Prime Minister Kirst Armer, managed to accomplish a deal that's been in negotiations or attempted for decades.

The counterparts on both sides of the pond, the counterfeit on both sides of these governments, have been trying to get a deal together to failure. Liberation Day was in April. In 45 days, we reset the playing field for global trade between these two economies. But to your question, the most important aspect is first. What follows? Markets, businesses want to see deals with other countries. They want to see a deal, ultimately, in fact, even with China. And I think today this inspires confidence that this administration is not just have that in their mind as their vision, perhaps not permanent tariffs, perhaps not to replace the income tax, but instead, to do what Donald Trump has always done, the art of the deal, and set a better deal for America with each and every one of our trading partners. Mani? No, happy to say it.

All right, manny does not want to speak into the microphone, but Mike's got him covered. We're taking money on who's going to be number two. Who will be the second country to step up to the table and make a deal with the United States of America? Taking money. I don't know what the current betting odds are. What does polymarket say, Mike? I'm not quite sure. But my suspicion would be it would probably not be another European country.

The EU is already making noises, bold, perhaps aggressive noises about fighting back to the United States. What would be nice to see is maybe a trade deal with one of these Asian countries. like Vietnam, to help undercut the Chinese economy, quite honestly, that is suffering under some of these tariffs. If manufacturing continues to leave China and move to places where we can have friendly relationships like Vietnam, that strengthens our hand against China. Thank you, Mike. And as a manufacturer, we actually are aggressively looking at sourcing here in the States already.

That's incredible news. That's great news. Bringing back home to America. Thank you, guys. And in fact, that's something that we've heard, not just anecdotally from Mike and Manny, but we've seen news already that American manufacturing is at capacity. It's having a hard time keeping up with demand, which is a great sign with companies and businesses are beginning to make things back here in America once again.

Now, I think this is part, as I've talked about on numerous occasions, but I think that sometimes this can feel chaotic. It can feel scattered, and it can feel ad hoc or haphazard. But I think Treasury Secretary Scott Besson has been the best and strongest voice for laying out how this has been part of a bigger plan. And that plan has three components. Bring manufacturing back to America through tariffs. One.

Reduce taxes, hopefully through the big, beautiful bill being worked on in the House, to extend the 2017 tax cuts to ensure Americans have more money in their pocket that they get to dictate where investment is made. And three, deregulation, which has already begun, and you can hear from corporate CEOs, the design of which should be, we have businesses, tomorrow's businesses. and we as consumers have the power to dictate who is a successful business right here at home in America. Now, this has left the left not understanding how to react. Donald Trump has not just embarked on and reimagining the global economy, but reimagining the Republican Party.

Talking about tariffs and taking a non-interventionist approach to world policy, certainly when it comes to military intervention, would not be something you heard from conservatives or Republicans 10 years ago. But times have changed. And with that, there's been some trouble with that change on the left. Last night, Senator Bernie Sanders sat down with Fox News as Brett Baer, and he was pressed on this idea of tariffs and reconciling where he is today with where he was roughly 10 years ago. Here's Bernie Sanders. The idea to say, oh, we believe in unfettered free trade, no tariffs.

And some Democrats are saying that. I think that's nonsense. The idea that you arbitrarily one day come up with tariffs on, country on earth for no particular reason, which is going to raise prices in this country, that's also absurd. The federal government needs to be made more efficient. In some ways, it should be expanded in other ways cut. If you're asking me, is the federal bureaucracy a problem? You're damn right, it is. Can we make it more efficient? Absolutely. Absolutely. Isn't that what Doge was trying to do? No, but Doge was trying to, you don't make it more efficient by laying off thousands of workers

at the Social Security Administration. Bernie Sanders having trouble reconciling this new world. Where does he sit when it comes to tariffs? And where does he sit when it comes to government efficiency? He says there's a role for tariffs, but he doesn't like the way that's been done under Donald Trump. He likes the idea of a more efficient government, but not the way that it's done with Doge.

What I think we see here is Bernie Sanders revealing himself as a participant in politics, a sideline participant, a critic that doesn't count. In the famous words of Teddy Roosevelt, it is not the critic the counts, but the man in the arena whose nose is bloodied, who tries and fails, but is there a part of the action. Bernie Sanders can't even fight for the things that he's given voice to in the past. Why? Because he's fallen to the same trap as every other Democrat, to simply be anti-Trump.

He's revealed himself to be a dancer on a stage, less quality entertainer than Shea Fisher, who will play for us today here on the Will Cain Show. He reveals himself to be a person. performer, not a man of action, not what we would hope in politics. I'd like to think that I'm always fair. I'd like to think that I look at both sides and I would demand more, not just performance from your politician, whether or not they're the left or the right, Democrat or Republican. And I think it's therefore fair to ask some questions. Like, for example, with this trade deal with the UK, what about what we've heard in the past from the Trump administration about supporting

Western civilizational values like free speech in places like the United Kingdom. That's something someone I'm a big fan of. Vice President J.D. Vance has given voice to. Now, last week on the Will Kane Show, a former musician from Mumford and Sons, Winston Marshall, came on. He said, hey, don't forget your fight for Western civilization in making the art of the deal. Here is Winston Marshall. He has said, no free speech, no deal.

Our business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has said in the negotiations with the U.S. Commerce Department, that there's been no mention of free speech. So this is really key thing that I want to understand. Is free speech now no longer on the table? And I didn't get a clear answer from Madam Levitt. There he is asking, what about the defense of Western civilization? What about free speech? We can't just make deals that are good for our economy. But I would respond that we do have to look out for America first.

We elected an American president to defend Western civilization in America. But it's an legitimate point. We can't just have words on the stage at the Munich Conference. We have to have action as well on the right that defends Western civilization. And we need to demand as voters, as people who see a better and brighter tomorrow that promises made are promises kept. I think there is another issue at hand when it comes to demanding more than performance from everyone. And that is the files of Jeffrey Epstein. I asked about this yesterday of Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna.

There's been a lot of talk. Where are the files on Jeffrey Epstein? Who was Jeffrey Epstein working for? What has Jeffrey Epstein been doing? And Congresswoman Luna has suggested she's going to stay on that because we have not yet heard from Attorney General Pam Bondi. Where do you stand today on what the DOJ has done regarding Epstein? I stand by my comments.

I can tell you that I'm not the only member of Congress who's publicly questioned what the DOJ is doing. When you say you are going to deliver these files on a terrible predator predators that are still walking free, and yet there's been evidence that hasn't been shared with the American people. The least that you can do is pick up the phone and update Congress. We have seen binders and folders that did not reveal much information on something that is more than simply a scandal. It's more than simply ugly. It is most likely something that impacts American national security. What was going on with Jeffrey Epstein? And we demand more than words and performance, we demand action on that as well. But when it comes to performance,

there is no cheaper and there is no louder performer on the national stage than unfortunately one of our congresswoman from Texas, one of our congresswoman from Dallas. And that is Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Enjoy. Okay. So I'm going to ask you a question and I want you to tell me whether or not it is Trump or trans people that are responsible. You understand? Yeah. Okay, very good. The first one, gutted medical research. Trump. Kidnapping Americans and sending them to foreign countries, aka deporting them. Trump. Driving us into a recession. Trump. Increasing the cost of everything. Trump. Waging an idiotic terror war. Trump. False, false, false. Lie, lie, lie.

No American citizens kidnapped and deported off to foreign countries. No burgeoning recession. By the way, although CEOs show confidence index problems and the way this tariff war will play out, employment remains incredibly strong. Employment, despite their words, has remained low, unemployment low. So in other words, while they were expressed concern, they continue to hire and retain people working for them in this economy. There is no inflation. Inflation is down since the Biden administration, but Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett

is not just a performer. She is not just a dancer on the stage. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is an embarrassment to the state of Texas. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is an embarrassment to the city of Dallas. And Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is a clown in a circus.

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She's married to a rodeo star. She grew up in the rodeo, and we'll be talking a little bit later to Shea Fisher here on the Willcane show. Streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel and the Fox News Facebook page. Hit subscribe at Apple or Spotify. Leave us a five-star review if you think it's so well-deserved. And leave a comment, as we are surrounded today by, I hope, various members of what we call the Wallitia. The fans and the members of our family here on the Will Cane Show. Joining us now, though, is the Attorney General of the great state of Texas.

Ken Paxton. Mr. Attorney General, great to meet you. Good to meet you. I think we've met on TV, just not in person. It's always an awkward thing when I meet someone who I've only ever met through the television monitor. That's how we met. That's how we met in the past. That's right. But now we meet in person. I'm glad to. Thank you for coming in today. I didn't know we had an audience. It's great. Yeah. You didn't know when we were talking backstage? We'd have an audience? I had no idea. None. Well, surprise? Walk through and here we are. Well, let's start, Mr. Attorney General, with what I think is breaking news. Today, the New York Times covers you and Texas, the announcement of six indictments this morning in the

defensive election integrity by you in the state of Texas. These individuals have been indicted for vote harvesting. Tell us a little about what these charges are. So first of all, we haven't been able to prosecute much voter fraud. We used to do it very often. I had four prosecutors. We had a thousand different cases going at one time. We were directed by the legislature long before I got there in 1951 to prosecute voter fraud, and then our Court of Criminal Appeals in Texas, which is our highest court on criminal matters, came in and said after 71 years that it was unconstitutional, that the Attorney General didn't have the authority to be in court, which is a very strange ruling, and I think just wrong. So we haven't been able to do this.

We've had to rely on referrals. So fortunately, this Frio County District Attorney referred six different people to us. Some of them were elected officials who were going out and boat harvesting, which is illegal in Texas. You're not allowed to do it. So one of the struggles we have in Texas is now it's difficult for us to stop voter fraud because it's now up to the local DAs, district attorneys, and most of our counties and the big counties are controlled by Soros and they don't prosecute voter fraud. Several different levels and issues to go into right there. Let's start with the last thing you said, which is that you're struggling because you have to get a district attorney through a criminal referral to bring these charges until the state of Texas

allows the Attorney General to bring charges and bring cases to court, your reliance on district attorneys. You told me backstage, 70% of the Texas population lives where a district attorney is Democrat, but not just Democrat, often one who has been backed by George Soros? That's exactly right, which means they're not going to prosecute voter fraud. So we used to prosecute a lot. You hear in the media all the time, there's no voter fraud. It's not true.

We had hundreds of cases going, almost a thousand cases. So I know there's voter fraud, and we now are at a very, we're at a disadvantage in prosecuting, which if we can't protect our elections, what else are we, what else are we, what, we can't protect anything? What's interesting about that is you're right. The media narrative is that there is no voter fraud. Now, what would they rely on to make the case that there is no voter fraud? the fact that there is no cases. That's exactly right, because most states, before us, we were the only state that I know of really prosecuting voter fraud. And it was when I started, I realized we had a problem. So we started prosecuting it.

Other states don't do it. So it's really easy for the media to say, there's no voter fraud. And by taking away from me, and by the way, we're in the process of getting the legislature to reauthorize, that bill to reauthorize should come up on the House floor soon. But we're also trying to change the Court of Criminal Appeals. we unelected three incumbents last election and put three people in that won't make those types of rulings. And then the next primary in March, less than a year away, we'll have one good guy running again who voted the right way, and then we'll have two new people

trying to take that court back so that we have the ability, even when I'm gone, to prosecute voter fraud. But this isn't just a story about Texas. This is a story about the country on this level of when it comes to criminal prosecutors. Because if you're making the case, once you're accurate, that 70% of the Texas population lives under a district attorney backed by George Soros, what you're really suggesting is Travis County, Dallas County, Bear County, this is San Antonio Austin, Dallas, you've got Houston as well, your major population centers. El Paso. El Paso as well. And I'm sure that is mirrored all throughout the nation. If voter fraud is going to take place, it's going to take place in large urban population centers. And those

are almost always jurisdictions controlled by a Democrat, usually. Dallas is the biggest city in the country that has a Republican mayor. So they have not just mayors, but they have prosecutors who are Democrat and often backed by Soros. Exactly what happened to Donald Trump when he ran against Joe Biden. It was seven counties, Maricopa County, Detroit County, Philadelphia County, Fulton County. They didn't have to change many places. They went to one county in each of those states and they used this mail-in voter fraud. And I know that the mail-in ballot voter fraud happened because we stopped it in Texas. We had 12 lawsuits where had we not stopped it in Bear County and Austin and in Houston, we would have been Georgia. We would have lost. Trump would have lost

this state, but we were able to file these lawsuits and find our way to the Texas Supreme Court. And believe me, these local judges, they were trying to get these ballots out because once you send the mail-in ballots out, and there's no signature verification, they've never applied for it. And you've got thousands and thousands of ballots. You don't know how to track these ballots. That's how they won the last time. Well, you brought charges today. So let's talk about the specifics now really quickly. So we understand. that it's not just a political allegation. You've actually got a criminal allegation.

It's vote harvesting, is what you're suggesting. So what is that? That is mail-in ballots that went out. People then went door to door, which is illegal in Texas, right, to bring those ballots back. Usually they go to nursing homes. I think in this case, some of them went to nursing homes, and they walk around and have people fill it out, and they help them sign, and they actually vote for them.

So they're collecting ballots, and they have, they've been doing this for years. They have people hired to go collect ballots from nursing homes. And your allegations is that they're paid as well. right yes you talked about the use of cash app as a way to make essentially paid couriers to harvest votes mm-hmm yep so yeah it's there's no doubt there's money involved in this people are making money harvesting votes changing our elections well that's gonna be a fascinating story to watch as your charges come forward and see if and hopefully fascinating when the legislature gives us

the authority to re-prosecute voter fraud and the Court of Criminal Appeals as we change that we get back to being able to protect our elections well Texas has been in the national news this week because several of different things, including what we just discussed, have happened that offer up a glimpse of things happening across the nation. I know this isn't directly under your purview, but Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill this week to bring in school vouchers here in Texas. It's one of the biggest in the country, and it's offering up to $11,000 to students to take their tax money and choose where they want to go to school, whether that be a private school or whatever

it may be. What do you make of this program? Will it, will the demand? In the first couple of years, will the demand, do you think, exceed what is actually available in the pool? It would not surprise me if demand exceeded what was in the pool. I've always believed that the parents should control where their kids go to school, that it should not be dictated by the government. Your kid goes here because you live here. The money should follow the student. The parents should make that decision. It's your money.

It's your choice. And I've always believed that. And I've always thought that would also make the public schools better because if they have to compete, they'll compete. If they don't have to compete, if they have a monopoly, they won't compete. So this will be good for students, and then in the end, that's the goal, right? We want our kids to get the best education possible. And in any endeavor, competition makes us better. It's just reality.

I think that's absolutely true. In any product, in anything we do, competition means the best product rises to the top. However, look, I grew up, if not in a rural town, somewhat rural town, Sherman, our up the road. I know you were born in Minot, North Dakota, and moved around a bit before making your way to Texas. There are rural voters that are worried about something like this, because they don't have private school options often. And there are people who are simply invested in their public school. They want that community involvement, that community tied that binds, and they want to see those schools succeed as well. What would you say to those voters that are concerned that something like this means potentially a threat to their public schools?

It's just not true. First of all, there's not enough money. And as you said, if there's only one choice out in a rural area, you've got to make that choice work. This is mostly going to be used in more urban, suburban areas because there's more opportunity to have different mixes of schools. I just don't see why people would, you know, I had a superintendent that was mad that we wanted to do a pilot program when I was in the legislature for failing schools. I'm like, okay, these kids are in a failing school district. They are not going to succeed. and you're telling me not to offer them a pilot program to do something different.

He goes, well, I said, why would you not want that to happen? Why would you not want them to have some opportunity to have success? He goes, well, I'm just afraid it'll work. That's what he said. I'm afraid of work, and then it'll spread. I said, well, then that's a problem if you're worried about it actually working. Let's worry about the kids, not the politics. Well, let's come back to your role as Attorney General because I'm asking about an issue that is outside what you do as attorney general,

but you're looking to change your job as well. Correct. You announced on Laura Ingram Show on Fox News that you are going to be running for Senate against Senator John Cornyn. That is correct. That was a little over four weeks ago and Tuesday. I've watched John Cornyn for a long time. I was in the Texas House, like that, even before that, watched him really not represent the values and the views of most Republicans and really most Texans. And if he has to talk about what he's actually done, it's a real problem.

He has represented Mitch McConnell and the D.C. establishment, and they love him because he doesn't get anything done for us. He has not represented the people of Texas. He's been out there tied in with Joe Biden passing restrictions on gun ownership and right, Second Amendment rights, which not many Texans I know want that. He's not been in favor of our border wall. He's criticized that and criticized Trump for being in favor of that. Instead, who does he send the money to? He sends it to the Ukraine. instead of defending our border.

And look, he's also been very critical of President Trump. He was not in favor of him running this time. He was not in favor of him running last time. Suddenly, now that he is a primary opponent, he's a huge Trump fan. He just became a Trump fan just recently. Johnny Cum Lately is on that pitch. But the reality is he is not representative. I've watched him.

Ted Cruz, fine. I would never run against Ted Cruz because Ted Cruz is doing his job for Texas. John Cornyn is not. I feel like I hear your answer to the question I'm about to ask you. You gave me some specifics there. As Attorney General, you've been very active. For over a decade, you've been active against the Obama administration. You've been active, as you mentioned a moment ago, voter fraud.

It's easy to see how you approach the job of Attorney General. How would you approach the job as Senator? I hear you saying what you would do, some of which, different than John Cornyn. But what is it you're selling to Texans is what you would do in Washington, D.C.? So I was also in the Texas legislature, and if you go back and look at my voting record, It did not necessarily fit with what the establishment, even in our party wanted when I was in the Texas House, Texas Senate. My job was to represent my constituents. And so I was often being pushed to vote for things that I were like, this is just not right.

So when I go there, I'm not going to be listening. I'm not there to represent, you know, John Thune or Mitch McConnell or anybody in D.C. I'm there to represent the people of Texas. So my heart is here. It's with the people of Texas. My heart was with the people in my district. And if you look at my voting record and you look at what I've done as Texas General, it's been all about the people of Texas and representing them and not listening to the establishment, whether it's in my party, Democratic Party, or wherever. That's not my interest. This show is broadcasting nationally. It is in multiple markets from New York to the state of Washington. And I'm sensitive to the fact that we're talking a lot about Texas, but they'll just have to indulge me on this one moment here. When did your heart begin to lie in Texas? You moved around as a kid. You went to Baylor.

right tell me uh tell me uh tell me when you really fell in love with texas the first day i came here so my dad was an air force pilot so as you might imagine i lived in many many states mostly grew up in california i never you know it's only when you leave a place that you realize i don't belong there so i moved from california oklahoma and i i just had this feeling i belong somewhere else i knew it wasn't oklahoma so i came to texico to beiler and i just fell in love of the people. I fell in love with the attitude. Why? I like that the can-do people were friendly and they were open to like ideas. There was less control from the government. I just wanted that I wanted freedom. I wanted to be able to do I wanted to fail on my own or succeed on my

I didn't want the government affecting any of that. Just leave me alone. Let me go live my life and do you know do the basics. Take care of our schools. Take care of our roads. Take care of our defense. But leave me alone. I don't want to be told that I can't do this or that. I want the freedom to live and have my family have those same opportunities. You know, I'm a big fan. I'm a big believer in provincialism. I like the Boston accent for Boston. I want them to sound like that, not like me. I want somebody in California to have their beliefs. I have no requirement that they think like I think. I like distinct cultures, distinct people. And for me, who has a history somewhat like yours, although I'm born and raised

Texas, I've wandered, you know. I wandered to California. I wandered to Montana. I wandered to New York for some time. But I think that has given me perspective about what it is that makes Texas unique. And for me, it is that this is the most undistilled, undiluted bullseye center of the spirit of America. It is entrepreneurialism, risk tolerance, belief, faith and family, willingness to go drill holes in the ground, start businesses that can succeed or fail. And always with the belief, yeah, man, you should do that. You should try. And if you fall in the mud on your face, you'll get back up and we'll cheer you on that as well. I just love the spirit that I think has been here since a bunch of people came from Tennessee and defended the Alamo

and created this great state of Texas. No, I, and Virginia, by the way, some of them came from Virginia. I went to law school in Virginia. No, you couldn't have said it better. I mean, it was what drew me here. Once I got here, it was what made me realize I'm not from California. I don't belong there. I love it. It's beautiful. I had friends there, but I never fit here. I walked in the door and I was like, these people are open. They're accepting. It's another thing I love about Texas. You can come, you don't have to have grown up here. I've been in place, I'm not going to say where since this is a national show, where I knew if my grandparents weren't there doing this and that, they didn't go to this school, you were

never quite part of this group. Whereas in Texas, it's just not that way. People accept you and you have opportunity if you have good ideas and you are doing good things and you're treating people well they will they will welcome you with open arms and it's a special place to me well we're going to turn to the new cycle and I want to return to your job as attorney general for our last topic here today and this is something that a lot of people have encouraged me to talk about they want me to investigate and we have on the will cane show and I find it actually somewhat difficult a topic to to make sense of and I think you're trying to make sense of it right now. So just outside of Dallas, Texas, in your home county of Collin County, there is a

development going up, Epic City, and it is a Muslim community, Muslim-centered community, mosque community center, called a prayer. From my understanding, not exclusive. Anyone else can move in there. Should a Jewish person or a Christian person want to move into this development, they would be open to that of having other people in, which would be a clear violation of the Constitution if they said no. From my understanding, that is not what they're looking to do, but yet we are concerned, I think, to be, we are rightful to be concerned that we can't start resembling Paris and London and having areas of our country that are not acculturated, not assimilated, and living under a different way of life than the rest of America. No, you make a great point. You look at Europe.

They're losing their identity, whether it's England or France, they're losing their identity, and they're losing their culture, their law. that's not I can understand why people are concerned on the other hand we have a First Amendment right it was very important

to the founders it's number one amendment that we have free speech and we have the right to exercise our fate the way we want to and the government

and that includes freedom of association that's exactly right so there is a you know there is a constitutional issue here that we have to be very careful of

and respect because it is fundamental to our freedom that people have that on the other hand my job is not is to worry about those things

but it's also to look at, it is this group, we are always looking at businesses, all kinds of businesses, it doesn't matter whether they're based on a religion or not. We look at business based on, are they violating state law, are they committing fraud, are they doing things that are wrong? So that's my job. And I've been directed, we are looking at those issues to make sure. You're investigating it now. Yes.

Now, some of that stuff, I can't really talk about the details, but we are looking into whether laws have been broken or being broken. And if they are, if they are operating above board, then they're free to do this. that, and we're not going to do anything. You can't reveal the details, but I can ask the questions. That's true. No, do you have any evidence that are suggestions so far that, for example, there's an implementation of Sharia law?

So I'm not, you can ask, I'm not going to answer specifics because there's too much involved in this investigation that I don't want to give away or say until we've finished. Is it true that it's an open community for people of other faiths to move into, or is it exclusive to Muslims? So I don't know that yet. Okay. I don't know that for sure. Okay.

I have to ask. And I look forward to hearing the answers as you forward your investigation. I'm in a different, like I'm not, you know, when I'm in the Texas House, everything's open to, but when we're doing investigations, we have to be really careful because we want to do them fairly, and we want to give people the opportunity to explain to us what they're doing and not judge them before we know the truth. So my job is to try to find the truth and to follow the law. And I understand the difficult situation that this will put us all in where we have the values of our First Amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of association versus something. It's probably not healthy for America to begin to segregate ourselves off into exclusive communities when assimilation and acculturation and adoption of Western civilization is the key to making this entire experiment as a nation-state work. Right.

But there may not be laws that stop them from doing that part of it. But they are still responsible for making sure they're following other state and federal laws. All right, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. We hope you won't be a stranger on this show or the Fox News Channel's Will Kane Show. We'd love to see you. Hey, I love to be on. What a great audience, and thanks for having me today. Thank you so much.

All right, once again, Shea Fisher. He wore a truck from the farm around of Alabama. Had a smell of perfume mixed with diesel in the back of. He did the clutch and notch if the gears leaving miles. Road down that review mirror to find a little place off the map. Nobody knows just taking it slow. We were wild crazy in love with each other. We were young and we were wrecked me.

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to the back of the trunk back to you will Shea Fisher, everybody. Appreciate Shea Fisher being with us here today. Shea, thank you so much. Thank you for having me. What a pleasure.

We absolutely love your show, so I'm honored. Are you doing something right now with your accent? Because I heard it backstage, and it hinted out. Shea is Australian. I am from Australia originally, but I married a Texan cowboy. So now I'm a Texas implant, but I'm an Aussie girl, so my accent's definitely very confused. these days to say the least there it is now you can hear it coming out a little bit tell me about

that so you're raised were you born and raised in australia before moving to texas yes so my parents are both australian champion rodeo athletes so i grew up in the rodeo industry so i was destined to eventually end up here in the u.s um at 16 i signed a record deal in australia and i was this rodeo cowgirl knew nothing about the music industry so when i got signed i was kind of like thrown it thrown into it i mean i wore my boots and my hat had and I was a cowgirl. And thankfully, I guess it was what young girls wanted to hear. I was blessed enough to have several number one songs of my first album. And then I got offered a record deal in the U.S. when I, right before I turned 21, and that was my first start of my journey

here to the U.S. But it wasn't all just roses. I was here for maybe like four months, and then my record label shuts down in Nashville. I'm in a strange country trying to figure out what my career looked like. So I had to kind of step back for a little bit and figure out what life looked like. Tell me again about that childhood though because your parents were on the rodeo circuit. You kind of grew up nomadic then, always in a trailer, always on the road, always at the rodeo. Yep. It was a lot like a country music artist. Honestly, we traveled all summer the first four years in my life. I lived in a horse trailer. And so when I moved to the U.S., people were like, well, what do you think about this rodeo lifestyle and country music? And I was like, well, this is

normal to me. Like, who wants to be home all the time? That's overrated. But now you mentioned the record label shut down. You're back. You've got several number ones. You've got taking you back to Texas, which is out right now. Yes, I do. So when the record label shut down, I really had to step back. And I found like my identity was very much in how many number one songs I had and people knew me through music. But I had to realize there was more to life than that. And I felt like when I realized that, I was able to get back into music. And, you know, thought, well, I've kind of missed my time. I'm a bit older now, and I got kids. But, you know, there's no time like the present. And honestly, it's so refreshing doing it now independently. I was

with a label for 15 years. And at 16, being told what to say, what to wear, what to do, it's a lot of pressure. So this time around, I'm loving being back out there, releasing new music, and obviously take me back to Texas. I shot the music video at Our Ranch in Texas, which makes it even more special. And she says our ranch, and I'm looking throughout the crowd to see if I could find him because I, for sure he still have, there he is, his cowboy back there. Professional, her husband is professional bull rider Tyson Durfie. How did you entice and me? We actually met at Houston rodeo. So I was modeling for a company there and he was competing. He actually won the rodeo that night. I did notice him, but I will say my husband's a nice guy, the one you want to marry.

So I kind of played hard to get for a little while. It took him like 18 months to take me out to dinner, because I was just, like, too stubborn, and I don't know what I was thinking. Well, that's incredible resilience from a guy that's used to lasting about eight seconds. That took me a bit to register. Yeah. All right, Shay, we really appreciate you being with here today. The songs are beautiful. I hope everybody checks her out on Spotify.

Shea Fisher, everyone. Thank you. I appreciate it. All right, now joining us here on The Will Kane Show is Bonnie Jill Lathlin, who's become friend of the show joining me at the Super Bowl and before the Kentucky Derby. She is the founder of Hounds and Heroes, which is the charity that your ticket here goes to

support today. And I'm sorry, my veteran got sick, so no dog and no veteran, but we have some pictures if we're going to show, though. Awesome. And by the way, we shouldn't bury the lead. Bonnie's done a lot of things, by the way. She's the first scout, NBA in history, female scout. She wrote a book, A League of her own,

celebrating female first in sports, but not bearing the lead. She was also a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader. Go boys. Tell us a little bit about hounds and heroes. Yeah, so hounds and heroes. I've done 19 U.S.O tours overseas, and so I saw, and coming back from, you know, being from a military family, I wanted to make sure that I was able to get back to our men and

women that have served. And so I was lobbying on Capitol Hill for our veterans and just knew, you know, what about, you know, service dogs. And so we rescued dogs from shelters, and then we pair them up and train them as service dogs for disabled veterans and first responders. And now we've extended it to even. horses as well. So we do equine therapy on my ranch in Fort Worth, and we bring out children of fallen soldiers and disabled veterans and first responders. That's incredible.

So talk to me about the veterans, the children of fallen soldiers, disabled veterans. What types of things do you see are accomplished when you pair up a pet or a horse, which I guess is a pet as well, with someone who's in need? Would not that be physically or emotionally? A lot of our veterans are dealing, yeah, with PTSD, TBI, amputees as well. And there's a connection that animals bring out in someone. There's a commoness. There's a great example. As one of our Marines had been blown up by an IED, and he was actually sleeping in his closet because he was so scared to be out and doing like the normal tasks that we take for granted, go in the bank, gas, stuff like that. We paired him up with a

German shepherd, and he is now able to be back reunited with his family. He's able to have a purpose in life, and this dog has brought out something to him that the different meds and different things that the VA was trying to give them wasn't working. And so we've seen this over and over again of what these dogs and these horses can do for these veterans and first responders. And it makes such a big difference. And it's just something, like I said, that humans can't do that animals are actually able to pull out of someone. You know, I read an article the other day that evolution of dogs is revealing an enhanced sense of love.

So in other words, because dogs... Unconditional love. And they obviously dogs were bred over time with utilitarian purpose. Right. Each breed had its own purpose. But increasingly, they're just family pets and loved ones, so they are evolving to develop this sense of emotional connection to human beings that has changed over time. Yeah, you're right.

It's just that intuition. They automatically have that. They are able to see, even without some of the training that we do, they're able to see when a veteran is going through a night tremor or a seizure or even just us pairing up dogs with the military family while their spouse is deployed. It just makes a huge difference. And we all know. EQ.

They have EQ. Yeah, and it's like all of us know if you have a dog, you know, you may be in a bad mood and, you know, the tongues hanging out on the tails wagon and you're in a better mood. But now you mentioned you're also, horses are part of where this has grown for you. Yes, well. By the way, Shea mentioned she has a ranch. And Tyson, we were talking about that. Yeah, because you do as well. Yeah.

And I didn't even know this about you until very recent, but you're very western. You're very into horses and western culture. Yeah, I grew up on a horse ranch. He has a bearer growing up, and my dad owns race horses and all of that. So, again, knowing how much horses can do and how much they can give back, and there's an energy, you know, horses really pick up on energy. And so, again, they're able to really connect with these veterans. And we've had even disabled children come out.

And a child, one of these children came out and hadn't spoken one word, was around a horse and started speaking. You're talking about two animals that have connections to humans and someone, and they're different types of animals. Like a dog is right in your face. He's letting you know, hey, I really like you. Horses make you work for it a little more. Yeah, you have to work for a horse.

They're a little more like Shea when Tyson was trying to recruit. Yeah, it's 18 months, yeah. Yeah, it takes a lot of work to win over a horse. But yet there is something about a horse that connects with people. Yeah, I don't know what that is. And a lot of people say when they see a horse, you know, it's like there's something almost magical, you know, about a horse. And so a lot of these veterans haven't even been around a horse. So just even before they're in the saddle, being around them, doing some groundwork with them, it just changes them dramatically.

And we've been able to see veterans tell me, I, and wives tell me, we have not only did you help save my husband you saved our marriage so there's so much to be said with that and it's uh for me it's it's very heartwarming and be able to just do something to give back to our heroes well can i make a next suggestion so you've gone from dogs to horses the next one's got to be donkeys yes well i have donkeys already i'm a big donkey fan they're not therapy don't and i've got emu so maybe a therapy emu i don't know a lot of personality in a donkey right absolutely yeah yeah i love a donkey um okay so I was looking at my notice just a moment ago while you were talking, not because I was bored because I had to remember the other teams involved as well. So you were a dancer, a cheerleader for the Golden State Warriors and the San Francisco 49ers. You're allowed to boo. I know. Yes. And the Dallas Cowboys. And then the Dallas Cowboys. So while I was cheering for the Cowboys, I was going to school at UT, so hook them. There we go. Nice. I had a little bit of battle on hand with some of the meet and greet from some Baylor Bears and some Texas A&M Aggies. Yes, hook them.

What's the difference between being a cheerleader for the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys? For the Cowboys, we get paid nothing. How about that? No, I'm joking. We only got paid $15 a game. I think they make $50 now, so now they're rich. But we made no money. We practice every single day, five hours a night.

For the Niners, we only practice one day a week. I was on the cover of the calendar, did USO tours, did so much, two commercials, and I got paid. The end of the year, my check was $131. dollars from from the cowboys the cowboys yeah no tickets my mama and daddy had to pay for tickets because jerry jones said girls will pay to be a Dallas cowboy

cheerleader so is you right i mean i don't know i mean you know it's it's a game for me i mean i love being able to cheer for america's team and being you know best you know seen the house and it was you know i'll be honest it was a great stepping stone as well you know i met so many different people still very close to the jones family today and i actually cover the cowboys so i'm you know

a reporter for the dallas cowboys currently And you're reporting tonight from the American Country Music Awards? Yes, I am, yeah, for American Country Network. Awesome. Be on the red carpet, interviewing all the starlets like this one here. Can you tell everybody how they can support Hounds and Heroes? Yes, they can go to Hounds and Heroes.com. And also, you know, any of you all want to come out to Battle Buddies Ranch in Fort Worth,

you know, please let me know. Or if you have a veteran in need, that as well, which is the most important part. All right. Bonnie Jill Lapplin. Thank you so much. Thank you, so much. Thanks, y'all. Thank you all for coming out supporting.

Thank you, everyone, for supporting Hounds and heroes. All right, what did you think, Dan? How did we do today? Are you moving to Texas? I love Texas, I've got to say. I think I'm being swayed pretty good to move to Texas. New York, Texas. I mean, New York, you know, has my heart, but, you know, Dallas is pretty great. I'm just saying. All right. Well, we appreciate you flying down everybody who's flown down here from New York to be with us here in Texas. We appreciate the MoneyWorks Group for being with us today and making sure this happens as well. More of the Will Cain show right after this.

Long Bendy Twizzlers candy keeps the fun going. Keep the fun going. This is Jason Chaffetz from the Jason in the House podcast. Join me every Monday to dive deeper into the latest political headlines and chat with remarkable guests listen and follow now at foxnewspodcast.com or wherever you download podcasts welcome back to the will cane show i want to before we go today invite a few people up uh and have some interaction um let's start if you wouldn't mind you guys can start coming up to the microphone that's debby carter from athens texas um could come up and hi debby hi will how are you i'm good

how are you good great show thank you so my question to you is do you have any idea when Trump will get his beautiful new deal worked down with the tariffs. Well, we saw the first one this morning. Making progress. And you know what? I would like to see it to happen fast. I think that would give so much confidence and inspiration to the markets. Like if we just rolled them out day after day after day, I don't know that that's going to happen.

We hear news that various members of the trade delegation here and trade delegations across the country are meeting in Europe and then in America. And these are harder – it's interesting to think these are harder to know. nail down, hammer out, then one would think, and yet we got one done in 45 days. And maybe that'll start the others. It could be a domino effect. Yeah. And I hope that's the case. Good.

Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Is it Jana Baker? Do I have? Hi, Jana. It's Jan. Jan.

Whoever's handwriting that. It's just a little flourish on the end of the end. It's not good. Do you think they'll ever let up on your friend Pete? And if things don't work out for him, could we count on you going back to Fox News on weekends together? Okay, there's a lot. Let's work from the middle to the end.

I don't know how I'm going to handle those. We'll start with this. I hope that I never have that opportunity. I hope that it does work out for him, and I think that it will. I think Pete has the backing in support of President Donald Trump, and that is reiterated on every occasion. If for whatever reason it didn't work out, No, I'm not going back to New York on the weekends.

They gave me too good a deal. I'm here. I'm broadcasting from Texas. Now, I will tell you that the prospect of broadcasting with Pete is incredibly enticing, and Rachel. And, you know, I've been doing this job for over 10 years, almost 15 years at this point. And, you know, I think everyone aspires to have a solo show or be in primetime at some point of these kind of things. And I'm not going to lie, that was probably an aspiration of mine at one point. But a couple of years ago, I actually quit aspiring for that.

That quit being part of my ambition, and then it happened. But the reason that I did is in 15 years of doing this, I've never been a part of something more special than what I had with those two individuals. And it was effortless, and it was not produced. It was just natural. Everyone knows that chemistry is the most secret sauce there is in content creation, whether or that's radio or that's television. There's a reason that if you're whether or not you're an NBA fan, inside the NBA on T&T is one of the best shows on TV.

It's because Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neill and Ernie Johnson all love each other and have fun. Who cares if they're talking about Warriors, you know, rockets? Who cares? I want to hear those guys talk about whatever. And I've had some great chemistry with different people. I had chemistry with Stephen A. Smith. But I've never had anything like I had with Pete and Rachel, and it was not just on camera. True friends, true people that I love.

And I don't throw that word around. I love those two people. And if anything ever happened, I would be wide open to do something with Pete. Now to your first question, it's hard to know why he clearly is the primary target. I mean, if you take Donald Trump and Elon Musk,

I guess he would be third in line, but he is getting the most attention. They've long since given up hope they're going to be able to accomplish anything with Donald Trump. And that question is why. And I do think being a Fox News host is part of that. I think Fox News is the enemy of the left. And I think in many cases, like, give me a chance.

Like, listen to what I have to say. I invite people on from the left to talk and debate me. And, you know, I'm honest about my bias and my point of view. So why is there so much hatred for me being honest about my point of view but willing to engage in that conversation? But for whatever reason, there is, and that has been targeted at Pete. And I think he will weather the storm. He's a strong guy.

And then finally, where was the other one? Oh, here it is. Ricardo. Ricardo from Louisville, who was born in El Salvador. What's up, Ricardo? Well, I'm doing pretty well. You know, thank you for the chance to actually, you know, be able to ask you a question. And one of the things that I want to ask you is, you know,

the left has fallen in love with this guy in El Salvador. all right so we know what the president of Salvador is going to say somebody asks him okay so with that I want to ask you if you plan

in the future to go to El Salvador and and take it from the Salvadorian president he speaks good English better than me so

well Ricardo I've been to El Salvador oh have you I have well congratulations two years Two years ago. For a couple years there, this is going to make me sound so not Texan, but I do like to surf. And my brothers and I would take trips to various places. We've been to Mexico, and we've been to El Salvador on a trip together.

And so I spent three or four days in El Salvador. Now, I did not go to the prison, luckily. No, I say president. I know, but when everybody says, you're going, I guess all the Democrats go to try to get to the prison and see what's going on. Yeah, the Kilmore-Brego-Garcia story is. I think a real political miscalculation for the left. They are championing a man who is not a good champion, and every day new news comes out about who he was,

the latest being that the owner of the vehicle he was pulled over, driving in Tennessee had hired him to be a human smuggler. That man apparently has gotten immunity, and in exchange for that immunity, he is testifying or offering up evidence that Bregor Garcia was a human smuggler. So on top of being an alleged domestic violence abuser, and on top of being an illegal immigrant,

and on top of being an alleged MS-13 gang member, he is now an alleged human smuggler. And this has been the champion of the left. Now, they will tell you we're actually about the principle of deportations without due process. But it's a simple fact. No matter how many times it's trite and said, illegal immigrants do not receive the same level

as due process as an American citizen. They do not. And he received a measure of due process on several occasions, and now he has been deported. As for Buckele, I find my life in Texas, I like to believe, is fairly diverse. My sons, and it has been wherever I've lived. And I thank my sons for that, to some extent, in their education. But they've always been into soccer.

Again, it makes me sound less Texan. And I've grown to love soccer because of it. It's still below football. But I'm around a lot of people, a lot of Latinos as well, and who are parents of my son's teammates. And I've gotten to them. And recently I had a conversation with a guy from El Salvador, and I brought up Buckele. And I said, tell me about Buckele, how popular.

He said, incredibly popular. I said, tell it to me about deportations in America. He goes, everybody loves it. We all love it because you're taking out the bad people. And his English is his second language, and that's how he put it. You're deporting bad people. He said, even illegal immigrants who are good people aren't that concerned. What's happening right now is you're getting rid of the right people in America here for bad reasons.

Thank you, Ricardo. And now we'll look at making a trip to El Salvador to meet with Buckele. World Cup is coming, so talk about it. Okay. All right. All right. Thank you guys all. If there's anyone else, by the way, who wants to ask a question,

you're welcome to walk up to the microphone really quickly. I'd love to hear from you. It's now or forever hold your peace. Oh, there you go. Introduce yourself, if you wouldn't mind. My name is Steve Feldman. I moved from California four and a half years ago to the great city of McKinney, Texas. And I've embraced Texas culture. My family has. We are so happy here.

You motivate us. Lawrence Jones, another guy who really makes us proud to be, call ourselves from Texas. And I left the question before earlier. It wasn't picked, but what is it about this state, even for a transplant like myself, that makes us so proud to say we're from Texas? Yeah, it's not the natural beauty. It is hard to compare it to California I actually think Texas is beautiful I actually do It is a beautiful

My wife's from Lubbock And I think love is pretty My in law is live in Odessa And I think Odessa is pretty But let's be real It's not California They have mountains, they have ocean They have a lot of natural resources

So it is an interesting question What makes it so unique And I think it has to do something with the answer that I talked about with the Attorney General a little bit earlier It's about spirit and culture And who we are as a people

and they say there's nothing more proud than a Texan who is not currently in Texas and I've been like that throughout my life whether it's in California or New York I've been really quick to let people know where I'm from and by the way because of that I think it gives motivation and inspiration to why it is I would want to do what I do

for a living or what you feel when you watch television or you talk with your friends because if what we have is special and it isn't the mountains if what we have is special and it isn't the ocean then it has to be protected because it's our character and our culture and that has to be defended not just as Texans but as Americans and as we look at what's happening in America right now and where we were five years ago

I think you see a lot of inspiration in the recapture of what it means to be an American that culture you know people say oh culture wars it's not important it's no it isn't it's the most important thing everything is downstream from who we are as a people and I think that has to be defended I believe exactly what you just said sometimes you have to leave the place you were from to really appreciate what you have. I don't know if it was David Crock that said it, but the famous saying,

you weren't born in Texas, but you got here as quick as you could. And I love it and embracing. I'm proud to call ourselves Texans now. Thank you so much. We're glad to have you. Paxton, too, will gain that to protect this state,

whatever Attorney General comes forward, to not let happen to this state, what happened to a beautiful state like California. You're right. In a matter of no time, it could happen really fast, and please, I pray, my friends pray that it doesn't happen here.

Thank you, Steve. Thank God. All right. one more. Hi Will, thank you for taking my question. My name is Lauren Seminook. I'm from Bowie, Maryland, pronounced booie, not Bowie. And my question is, and I wish A.G. Paxton were still here.

But what he said about Soros-funded DAs, coupled with kind of an aura of glamorizing accused criminals like Luigi Mangione and Kilmar Garcia, who, by the way, we do not call him Maryland Dad. He is illegal immigrant Samadour. Or dad, in any event. It's a great branding for your state. How can we be, I'm very interested in the Metcalf stabbing, the Centennial High. My nieces went to Centennial High School.

It's a very intimate community, both of those schools and students. How can we be assured, though, with the way the justice system is that that that trial is going to be fair by the book, true? And it seems like the media circus is infused into it. That would have been a good question for Attorney General Paxton. You're exactly right to see what you can expect about a fair trial in the murder of Austin Metcalf. It's incredibly sad story. It hit me on a multitude of levels, including having a son the same age. As I mentioned earlier, spending a lot of my time up in Collin County because my kids play soccer.

And it's just something no parent thinks is on the menu of possibilities when you attend a high school track meet. I think part of your question was, why do we see alleged criminal? like Luigi Mangione or Carmelo Anthony or whoever may be championed by the left and I think it's a really good question I think I think that there is an instinct within all of America

to look to be a champion of the little man whoever is potentially on the other side of the system so let's think about that for a minute so I think as a conservative and I'm always hoping about my bias or what my point of view exists that means the individual against the government.

You have to protect individual rights. You have to protect individual sanctity and dignity against oppression by government, which in many cases is by the majority. That's what democracy is. And that's why we have a constitution. A constitution is to protect the individual from the will of the majority. All this talk about to protect our democracy. We're not a democracy.

We are a constitutional republic. 51% don't get to say that one guy, you know, whatever, or one minority. whatever. So I think among people of my point of view, that's where our sensitivities of the individual against the system lie. I think the left often sees it as a majoritarian culture they defend people against, right? Where I just got done espousing to you, I think the wonders of our culture, that it makes us different, that it is the American experience, the American identity, and American exceptionalism. That is what makes us unique. I think they look at all that and say, No, that's oppressive.

That's oppressive, and it has been throughout centuries and history, and they import that onto issues of race or economy or whatever it may be. And I'm kind of guessing here, but I think that's what leads them down the path one day to go, you know what, Luigi Mangione kills the CEO of a health care company, and now he's somebody that we should champion because it's him against the system. I think that's how they end up in this trap, championing some pretty unsympathetic figures. Thank you. Thank you.

All right, that's going to do it for us today here at the KRLD News Radio 1080 Studios, the Odyssey Showroom in Dallas, Texas. Again, I want to thank David Dustin and the MoneyWorks Group for helping sponsor this event. I want to thank each and every one of you for coming out and spending time with us today. I want to thank Bonnie Jill Laughlin, Shea Fisher, her guitarist who came in from Nashville, Rodney, and the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxson, for being with us here today. Thanks to two days, Dan, tinfoil Pat, and all the people here at Fox News, as well. I'll see you again tomorrow.

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