Will Cain Country - Washington D.C. Is More Dangerous Than Mexico City! Inside President Trump's Plan To Clean Up The Capitol (ft. Senator Markwayne Mullin)

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

Story #1: Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) joins Will to break down President Donald Trump’s move to invoke "Home Rule" and deploy the National Guard to fight crime in Washington, D.C. The two also tackle rising juvenile crime, the root causes of broken communities, and whether a peace deal with Russia is actually within reach. Plus, Senator Mullin explains the behind-the-scenes fight to speed up President Trump’s cabinet confirmations. Story #2: Three-time loser Beto O’Rourke says that Democrats will “drive it like they stole it” and legalize every illegal immigrant, as Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) calls GOP redistricting efforts “legal insurrections." Will calls out Democrats' lies and shifting narratives on gerrymandering. Story #3: An NFL kicker just booted a 70-yard field goal, albeit in a pre-season game. Will breaks down what this could mean for the game. If you don’t even need to cross midfield to get points, how much more valuable do kickers become?  Subscribe to 'Will Cain Country' on YouTube here: Watch Will Cain Country! Follow Will on X: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One, President Trump invokes home rule, deploying the National Guard to stop crime in Washington, D.C. with Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. Two, Beto O'Rourke says they're going to commandeer the government. and drive it like they stole it, legalize dreamers and illegal immigrants, the best in his words of America. Three, field goal kickers are booming it 70 yards. What happens when you can kick a field goal from midfield, from your own 40? How does it change the NFL?

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Pat is addicted to X. I think that's fair, right, two days? He's addicted to X. And he has informed us as of this morning there's a new feature. No, not GROC, not AI, but there's a new feature that judges your IQ based upon your posts on X. Now, of course, he gives a pretty heavy level of credibility to this, and there's no reason or no secret as to why. First, whatever this little add-on to X is, it's analyzed the IQ of the Will Kane Show account, and it has come back as genius, top 2%. You hear that, Ellie? You hear that everybody working on the team, giving us generic posts on what's coming up today on the Will Cain Show or Will Cain Country, a 136 IQ score.

Congratulations, Ellie. Now, I said it's no secret as to why we're doing this and why this has been invested in here. Well, here is Tinfoil Pat's score off of his X-Feed. 120, top 16 percent. Take that. Judge a nerd in intellect. I don't think he did yours two a day, so I'd love to know what your IQ is. I don't have one.

to this. I deleted it a while ago. He did do, by the way, he did do our first guest. He did do Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, okay? Senator Mark Wayne Mullen came back with a 112 IQ, according to his tweets. Mid-curve, called middle, 68 percent, well above the average. But the real reason we're doing this today isn't so much. He's thrown his hands up in the air right now. I can see him. Oh, you are? Okay, well, Senator Mullen's going to join us in just a moment. He seems unhappy with his mid-curve, but I would like to you'd imagine Senator Mullen if you're sitting here hosting Wilcane Country, your

names on the program, if your score came back as a 64, bottom 2% it is in very scientific terms, characterized me as a retard, which I don't think you're

allowed to say, but apparently on X, you have. I think I have a claim of some kind to grievance, offense. This thing thinks I'm really stupid, Patrick, based upon my posts on X, which aren't very frequent. I've really kind of stepped back from this social media platform, and I don't even have a good reason as to why.

So that's what we're to take away from this, tinfoil? I'm a retard. I don't think you are. I think if this account watched the show, it would know that you're extremely intelligent. But to be fair, your account is very low, low level sports, you know, content. Like talking about referee conspiracies. I mean, how much can you talk about the Cowboys on one X account?

I mean, let's be real. What percentage of my feed is that? I feel like politics is a good 60% to 70% of my feed, not sports. It just depends on the season, really. Yeah, it's about to ramp up, boys. It's about to ramp up on Sundays. There you go. Thanks for tuning into this, despite getting only a bottom 2% intellect to guide you through your day's news. We appreciate having you here on Wilcane Country. But let's get into it now with a mid-level intellect and story number one.

He is the senator from Oklahoma. It is Mark Wayne Mullen joining us here on Wilcane Country. See, do you feel better about your score? Now that you know, the guy you're interacting with is a bottom 2% intellect? He reminds me of your professor in college that has a really, really, really tough scoring, and he gives no curve. So when I heard that you were at the bottom 2%, I was like, okay, I take that. That's like getting a C in the class that you want to be, you want to A. But the guy that you think is the star of the show gets an F. So you're like, hey, I've actually feel better about myself now.

You were upset when it was like, he's 68 percentile until you found out I was two. Mid-level, I was like, okay, I'm mid-level. and height in some other areas, but not other, I mean, not the majority of my life. Say I'm mid-level and IQ. I kind of was offended by that. Well, I look at you with envy today. If only I could be mid-level. I'm joined here by Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. The big news of the day, Senator, is President Donald Trump has invoked the home rule. law in Washington, D.C., deploying the National Guard to deal with crime.

It was a little over a week ago that we saw a carjacking in Washington, D.C. We've seen the shooting on the streets outside of, I believe it was the Jewish center in Washington, D.C. You've seen various crime pop up over your social media or television screens over the last several months. You know, it's interesting. I'm curious first. Let's just start this with, what do you think about this move from President Trump? It's well needed because we got a mayor in D.C. not doing anything. I mean, I just want to run some numbers just so people would understand. In comparison, Washington, D.C. compared to Mexico City. Now, this is based on per capita of 100K,

right? So Washington, D.C. has 41 murders per 100,000 individuals. Mexico City, eight. Now, cartels running around Mexico City, we hear about murders, people being whacked because of their political affiliation in Mexico City. Lima, Peru, which, I I traveled a lot to Peru. I used to spend from 2000 to 2011. I spent a lot of time in Peru and I always had to go in and out through Lima. I mean, the police literally stood in certain areas

and said, no, you can't go past this point. Seven per 100K. Once again, Washington DC, 41. Now, this is the United States Capitol where there's more police officers per civilians than any place literally the world it's nine to one nine to one you'll see federal or you'll see uniformed or undercover police officers nine to one around Washington DC and that's on the capital complex right and it's

still think you have that many murder rates it's it used to be pushed out all the way to about 12th street now it's all the way into fifth street and people are getting getting literally robbed right there in in broad daylight if you go through Washington DC and you drive I'm not kidding will it's It's like driving, and I've driven in probably 100 different countries, and it's like driving in a third world country. You've got these mopeds, flying past you, nobody's enforcing traffic rules, people driving without license, you have homeless people that just walk out on the middle of the street, and it's absolute chaos.

So for President Trump, who secured the border in six months, taking over Washington, D.C., to actually get control of Washington, D.C. and the police force, it's, I cannot tell you how excited. In fact, I was texting back and forth with the cabinet member. I won't, I won't mention, uh, mention her name, but we were sitting there texting back and forth. She says, when you come back in September, this place is going to look completely different. And I can't wait. You know, it really chapsed my hide that X is sitting here and has characterized me as a retard. And the stats rattled off by Senator Mullen, I, know the stats that were showed today by the president came from the Wilcane show. They're up now

in your studios here at Wilcane Country in Dallas, Texas. I know this because I got a text from the White House last week, how incredible that was. The segment that I did last week, yes, that is from Will Kane show right there on your phone screen. And I know that the White House saw those stats as well. 41 homicides per 100,000 in Washington, D.C., Lagos, Nigeria. Syria 15 per 100,000. As Senator Mullen said, Bogota, Mexico City, Nairobi, Havana, all safer when it comes to homicide rates than your nation's capital. Yeah, but here's a question, by the way.

Did you do the research on that or did someone on your staff do the research? Because that might reflect the IQ level for your tweets. That's not, X doesn't know that and no one wants to use that. But your show producer does. And it's true, the show account got a genius level IQ. So I have to, that's right. I'm Ron Burgundy. Welcome to San Diego.

So here's the thing. I want to ask you this. Now, everybody in the left is freaking out about this today, Senator. And they're pointing out that crime in Washington, D.C. is not up, that it is down. Now, it is a fact, according to FBI stats, that over time, over a long arc of history, since the 1990s, crime is down across the country. We've had various peaks and valleys. We have had crime rise during the Biden administration.

We had crime rise during the BLM movement. But over the long arc, it is down. And it appears, according to FBI stats, that it's even down in some short-term periods in Washington, D.C. Now, the question is, is that real and is it true? Are crime stats jupped, or are they realistic? I watched the wire. Everyone's seen the wire and seen how this becomes political and they ask police departments to often play with crime stats. I think almost as valuable as those stats is a little bit of the anecdotal stuff that you told us about what you see and you experience in Washington, and you're not alone. I mean, I've seen some other people posting this morning on X that you go around D.C. Look, you don't feel safe. You smell the constant presence of weed. you just don't have the quality of life that reflects an improved crime situation in the nation's capital.

So what am I supposed to make of these stats then coming from the FBI? What I would say is look at what's being enforced and not being enforced. The FBI, for instance, I'll say this. They only deal with the most heinous crimes. I'll use Oklahoma, for example. They have over 5,000 pending cases, but they only deal with the most heinous crimes. Washington, D.C., if they're not reporting the crime, then they have no statistics of it. And there is absolutely no one enforcing traffic laws.

And I'm just going to use traffic laws, because traffic laws lead to a lot of arrest. It leads to suspects that are wanted to being arrested. It leads to seizures of illegal weapons, seizures of illegal drugs. It leads to a lot of separate infractions on Sunday. You're in Washington, D.C. and Sunday, they have more. motorcycle gangs, not hell's angels, but kids, teenagers, and adults running around on four-wheelers and motorcycles going through the nation's capital right by the mall, riding willies, and no one touches him. And they literally go blow right through stoplights, everything else.

You talk about home invasions. They very seldom, unless it's a homicide involved, they very seldom even rest of it because they have a crime so high by it, $90 dollars had to be stolen or the seizure or the severity of the crime to actually fit a felony it's only considered a misdemeanor misdemeanors they typically don't even write up the crime I had my alarm go off at my house complete accident it was it was complete accident but the alarm went off and who responded wasn't police it was the fire department I went out there and talked to them and I said I said what did you guys respond and said the

police and they said unless it's a panic button with a 911 emergency call, then please don't respond to it, just fire. So are they writing up the crime report? If the house was in the house is evaded. So my point is, is that they may be able a point to that, but what it is, it's not being prosecuted. They've changed the laws in Washington, D.C. in a lot of liberal cities to where the crime is just not being prosecuted, which is why it's going, the crime rate is actually up, but the prosecutions are severely down. And the police department is like, we're not even going to respond. And I mean, we're literally not even going to respond. A carjacking happened right in front of my house. Right in front of my house.

Carjacking took place. I, um, uh, they came by. I wanted to get my, you know, my video surveillance of it. They didn't write a report of it. I talked to the neighbor that was getting, that got that got carjacked, but they actually didn't have taken his vehicle. They said, well, since the vehicle wasn't taken, they just wanted to just leave it along because they don't have time to investigate it. They didn't write a report on it. They responded, but didn't write a report. So those statistics mean nothing to me. If you want to know what Washington, D.C. is like, come with me. We'll walk around that place right at dusk, and then we'll do it again at one in the morning,

and you tell me how safe you feel. Well, one of the things you just brought up is part that I actually want to focus on, and this was another graph and stat that we showed last week on the Will Kane show, but that's juvenile offenders in crimes against persons. So this is according to the FBI, and this is a category that is up over time from 2020 to 2024, you can see on your screen if you're watching on YouTube or on Facebook. And that was the case in Washington, D.C., a few weeks ago when we talked about the carjacking that captured the nation's attention. We have a problem. We have a problem with kids. Often mobs or gangs of kids committing crime, often violent crime, Senator.

And one of the things that Judge Jeanine Piro at the press conference this morning with the president talked about is beginning to treat 14-year-olds as adults, charging 14-year-olds as adults. Now, I don't know, I literally do not know, Senator, if that is the right course of action. I mean, I have a 14-year-old and I can speak. He is not an adult. He certainly doesn't have a fully formed mind. I also know the price that you pay in sending a kid around to prison at that age, that his life is probably going to be one that is not rehabilitated, but one of crime going forward. So I'm a little torn on whether or not 14-year-olds should be treated as adults. I do submit they are committing adult crimes.

They must be punished. I don't know if that serves as a deterrent, but I think ultimately, if we're going to solve kids, you can't do it unless you solve families. And what you're really talking about a problem here is how do we solve the toughest problem in our society? What do you do with broken families? What do you do with bad parents?

Well, so I'm going to dive in on this one. Well, this is something before I got into Congress the you know when I was serving in the house my wife and I worked with the youth for 13 years in the county we lived in I was on the youth sanction board uh where we dealt with juveniles I had my jiu jitsu gym I actually had a deal worked out with some with the court to where they could have a second chance if they came in and worked with me and worked with my team learning self-defense not learning discipline in fact we had four keys to success and I still preach it to my kids honestly hard work respect

full and responsible. And we, what we would do is try to grow kids because the number one issue, the number one issue and the 99.9% of the time, it was the parent that was actually feeding into the kids. It wasn't the kid that just decided to go rogue. Now, it did happen very rarely. You would have a kid that just was a bad apple, but most time it was the parents. And you you would find a very dysfunctional family. And typically the dad was absent. And the mom wanted to be a friend or the dad wanted to be a friend and not a parent.

Didn't want to be disciplined. And when I would go, I'd do home visits. And when I'd go to home visits, I'd spend more time working with the parent than I ever did with the kid. And it was disheartening. And at some point, I had to walk away because if you can't fix the kid or the parent,

you probably aren't going to fix a kid unless the kid actually wants to change. But that's absolutely correct. However, the crime has to be able to fit the, or the punishment has to be able to fit the crime. And you have juveniles now that know they can get away with it because they're going to be charged as a juvenile, especially in very liberal cities. You have some judges that, you know, crack down on them, but those are the ones that go viral. But you have for every one that goes viral, you have 10,000 that doesn't that gets a slap on their wrist and they get away with it. I mean, you see, you saw a video going around right now on social media on Instagram where they have these three young kids, probably all underneath age of 10 that are, that walked into a CVS and was just walking out with bags of stuff.

And they were, they were in their pajamas. Well, who sent them in there to get this stuff? You know their parents sent them in there to get this stuff. You know, it breaks my heart, but they still have to have some type of punishment too. And so I don't know if there's a perfect solution. I think you had to deal with it a base on base, and the judges had to be able to do their job. And the police have to be able to do their job. And you've got to leave it up to the case to do it because just setting at 14 isn't going to work.

There is some 14-year-olds that are highly, highly mature because of their life experiences that they grew up in, and you have some 14-year-olds that aren't. And so I don't think you can just set it at 14. I think you have to do it with juvenile cases. You have to do it case by case. We'll be right back on Will Cain Country. From the Fox News Podcasts Network. Hey there, it's me.

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with lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle along with all your brett bear favorites like his all-star panel and much more available now at foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts welcome back to will cane country you know if you're in government in which you are and you're you're at the state or federal level, it truly is, I think, the most intransigent, unsolvable problem of society, of what do you do to replace the integral role of a family? And the answer, sadly, probably is, I don't want to be defeatist, but there's nothing that you can do. You know, my wife has a lot of exposure here in the state of Texas to the foster care system and just how bad that situation is for most of those kids.

Not all. There are some real angels out there, right? But once the family breaks down, the state has a really hard time stepping in to fill in that gap. It just doesn't have a good way. We can and we should. How do you fix foster care? How do you fix adoption? How do you fix juvenile crime?

and I just don't know that those problems can ever be solved if you can't solve the family and I don't know that society can fix a family. That's a culture issue. So let me, I didn't know your wife is involved in foster care. Obviously, Christy and I are because we're in the, you know, heavy into adoption. And that leads to being involved in foster care too. You know, and the truth is you can take a kid that is literally living in filth.

their parents are drug addicts and leave them alone all the time and leave them go hungry and maybe they've been in very abusive situations and you can put them in a clean nice safe home and not all foster care parents are the same but I'm just saying you can and you give that that child a choice which one they want to live with and within a month they want to go back home it's just the draw of being with their mom or being with their dad and I can get that I understand that and in society you cannot regulate morality you can't you can't make laws for that the only thing that can fix those homes is the Lord Jesus Christ that's the only way that gets fixed you've got to bring something more into that family that wants them to be a parent that wants to understand they

want to raise a child that wants them to to want to better themselves that that gets out of blaming society for the situation they're in but be able to take responsibility for them and have hope beyond themselves. And the only way you can do that is you've got to put something a higher power in their life. And that's where, that's where with Christy and I, we, yes, I worked with a juvenile in the county. We also did tough love every Friday night. But then if it was the right time, I would invite these kids to a youth group that we were part of at the assume as a God in Queda.

And, hey, let me tell you, not all of it worked out right, but we were planting a seed, trying to, if we can't get the parents' attention, we wanted to plant a seed in the child themselves. And that's the only thing that can fix it. You can't fix it any other way, Will, and you know this and your wife sees it. And it's the most disheartening thing that you deal with when you're dealing with children like this. However, you have to punish these kids. They have to be held responsible for their actions regardless of it. And because the crime rate is rising. And the crime rate on all this stuff and serious crimes are a lot of them being committed, especially in Washington, D.C., by juveniles.

All right, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, so I want to hit a few other topics with him here today, including that it is expected. This Friday, President Trump will meet with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska. I think there's a certain level of skepticism that is earned about the progress that could come out of this meeting. Putin has been very, very reluctant to move, to move in any direction that could push Ukraine and Russia toward peace.

But at this point, Senator, we're looking at Azerbaijan and Armenia, India and Pakistan, Congo and Rwanda. Peace deal struck in the first six months of his presidency all across the world, so much so that many, I think, rightfully have brought up the Nobel Peace Prize. it seems like that would be a layup if he was able to accomplish that as well with Russia and Ukraine. You know, I think so, but it's much more complicated. Now, I compare this to Reagan Gorbachev. Everybody criticized Reagan for meeting with Gorbachev and what ended up happening is the collapse of USSR and the end of the Cold War and a relationship that was built again off of the economy because our,

economies were tied together, so economic incentives. And what you're seeing right now is Russia's economy is tanking. They're tired of subsidizing China and India. And what I mean by that is they're selling oil to Russia or Russia is selling oil to India at $76 per hundred based on or $76 on the dollar to everyone you want to look at it. And India has turned around and sell it. They're profiting. China is buying it and hoarding it. They're tired of subsidizing their economy while their economy is felling because you see China and India economy is growing. At the same time, they also understand that if we put sanctions, heavy sanctions on India, which we did, and heavy sanctions on China, it starts boxing in their economy. So Putin at this point is

looking for an exit. Now, what he's proposing isn't practical. It's just not. It's not practical. I have been in meetings with Whitkoff, with Lindsey Graham, with myself and a few other individuals discussing with some lower level individuals from the Russian political world trying to figure out a path forward. What Trump has is one he doesn't bluff. And they know that going all the way back to 2017 when he took over the airspace in Syria after he warned them if you allow a soft. at the time to use chemical weapons on his people that we will we will take over the airspace he did it the first time they did it and not only did that but he destroyed the airport and all the aircraft that Russia had part in 30 minutes after they did it and then the second time he also knows that it would he gave Iran 60 days at 1201 on the 61st day bombs bomb started raining in

he that's not lost on Putin Putin it may not want an extra strategy but he's going to need it remember he's the one that wanted the meeting by by trump meeting him i believe there could be more positive out of it now it doesn't make any difference what trump does whatever deal he gets the left is going to criticize it what trump has always wanted what president trump was wanted from the beginning is to stop the killing and he doesn't want to ceasefire he wants a peace deal and i will tell you i can't get in the details but some of the stuff like i said that russia's offering just isn't realistic it's not it's not realistic zalinski's kind of in a position too that he needs to end it two. The idea that the lines are going to be redrawled where they were probably isn't

realistic. That's probably not going to happen. But can the war end? Yes. As long as Putin wants to end it, it can be ended and Trump can help negotiate the end to it. I believe he does. I believe he's looking out to it or looking for an exit strategy right now. And the person, the only person that can be in this thing is a guy who wrote the book on the art of the deal. And that's President Trump. I'll see. It's going to be a tough deal. Neither side wants to give in from where they are or where they were before this war. All right, before we lose Senator Mullen, I want to talk to you about a couple of things you're working on. First of all, the nomination approval process for cabinet members.

I know that's something that you want to bring reform to. Talk to me about this. I know you were integral in many different cabinet members, notably Secretary of Defense Pete Heggseth. what do you want to change about the process? Well, there are several things that have to be changing this. And keep in mind, I was on Brian Kilme last night, and Brian Kilme said, you know, the Republicans are going to use a nuclear option. We are not using a nuclear option.

Chuck Schumer used a nuclear option when he chose to filibuster every one of the nominees except Marco Rubio. That's never happened ever in any presidential history ever. Keep in mind, Obama and both Bushes got 98% of their people, in place by unanimous consent or voice vote. Not one has went through unanimous consent or voice vote with President Trump. So they're slowing down purposely trying to disrupt President Trump's presidency by not allowing him to get put his people in place. So what we

had to do is change those rules. Harry Reid's the first one that changed the rules that went from they have to have 60 on a rule change, dropping it down to a simple majority of 51. So Harry Reid started this. We're probably going to do now, air say is, okay, you've done this. So there's three options. This is the way it works right now. Right now, we have to, we have to have a vote on going in and out of legislative to executive session on every nominee. So that's one vote. We have to, we have to, we automatically go to legislative session to go into legislative session, which is where you've got to have for the nominees. We've got to have one vote for there. Then you got to have another vote to invoke cloture. Then you got to have another vote to

end cloture. And then you got to have one vote to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the individual. So those four votes take a minimum of 30 minutes each. Then you have a two-hour debate. So you have a minimum of four hours, minimum of four hours, which you can't vote in 30 minutes anyways, because senators walk slower than Manassas pours on a cold day. So you, but that's the minimum that it'll take. When you get done with that, it's about five hours per individual. What we're looking at is saying, okay, one, let's stay in an executive session. Rather than having to go back and forth, let's sustain an executive session all day to limit the debate from two hours to maybe 10 minutes or 15 minutes. And then we're also talking about, well, why would we even need

debate? Because not one single person's vote has changed because of the debate. Why don't we just go straight from the floor, straight or straight from the committee straight to the floor and have an up or down vote on it? That's probably going to be harder to change because there's some old ruled dogs that's in the Senate, that's even in the Republican Senate. That's, that's even in the Republican Senate. want to keep that debate time there so we'll just limit the amount of time and then uh then the other one is if they come out of if they come out of committee with bipartisan support there's 66 of the hundred and eighty plus nominees we have this waiting uh there's 66 is bipartisan if they come out bipartisan out of the committee then they can move straight to the floor without having debate

and go straight for an up or down vote uh and then the last thing is is trying to do them in groups So you have a group of ambassadors. So they'd all have to be part of DOJ, part of DOD, part of the Ambassador Corps, or whatever, or DOI or, you know, DOI or DOE, whatever it is. And group those individuals that are less controversial together and vote on them in blocks of five or ten. So there's a lot of options. We're working through this will right now. In fact, that people are, leading this is Eric Schmidt, Katie, Britt, James Lankford. And I shouldn't have started naming them because there's two more that's leading it. And they're keeping all of us informed. We all have input on it.

And I think we're going to present this the week of the third. And I'd be real surprised we actually don't have a rule change by the end of that week. Well, this inside Washington baseball is always hard, hard for the common man. and to kind of understand from even terms like cloture into the amount of time that you just laid out for us to get somebody approved. I do know that you're taking people behind the scenes. I do know that on your social media, you know, it's almost like a play-by-play behind the scenes on the process that you're guiding people along. And they can find that at your social media feeds, Senator. Yes, and you can follow us.

We do weekly and a lot of times daily updates, especially when our D.C. daily updates. And it's S.E.N. Mullen. so it's at sin. I hate that, but that's abbreviation, at S-E-N-Mullen, and that's on all across all media, social media platforms. All right.

You're going to take you behind the scenes. You can see the process. All right, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, certified mid-level intellect. Always fun to have here on Wilcane Country. Thanks, brother. I appreciate it. All right.

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Fox News, Facebook, Spotify, and Apple. Tenfoil Pat, two a day stand. Let's start with this Hollywood actress who has gone on a Botox rant about where you're allowed to eat if you oppose illegal immigration. Before we play this sound, would somebody tell me who in the hell is Jennifer Welch?

Who is this person? All I'm seeing her described as is a Hollywood actress or is she a reality show? I don't know who this lady is. I just know she's got the face of someone who's been way too long

in Los Angeles. I had no idea who she was. A quick glance. She was born in Dallas, Texas. So she's one of here. And she's a Bravo star. Botox Travels. A Bravo star.

Okay. What Bravo show? I don't tend to watch Bravo a lot. I do. May my wife watch Bravo way too much. Keep up on the brunches. Well, her name is Jennifer Welch. And this is her message for you if you vote for Donald Trump.

I've had it with white people that triple trumped, that have the nerve and the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, go to perhaps their gay hairdresser. I don't think you should be able to enjoy anything but cracker barrel. Is that it? Wow. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So she voted for Donald Trump.

Dude. Don't get your hair cut by a gay man. It's so insane, obviously. And why do we take someone who's not even an A-list actress, but rather a D-List Bravo star? Seriously. And the answer is

because you get the window inside a mind and inside a mind that I think is somewhat representative of many on the left believing in their own moral enlightenment and your depravity believing that you walk around full of hate and she goes on to say that in that clip

talking about how you look at these people and how you in her words browbeat all of these people, extolling then the virtues of multiculturalism and saying it's what makes America great, which I welcome her on that debate at any time. Multiculturalism is an interesting place to live, to travel, but it has been used to deny the existence of a superior and present culture in any country, any country, not just the United States of America, almost everyone believes in their own cultural superiority. Some are right, some are wrong.

But the track record speaks pretty well to where we rank in the United States of America. She thinks you shouldn't be able to eat Mexican food. You shouldn't be able to eat Chinese food. If I guess you believe in illegal immigration. While that is representative of mine that is common on the left, I don't think it is representative of the broader swath of the United States of America. But again, if you think I'm simply playing peniata with absurd points of view, I give you three-time loser

Beto O'Rourke, whose PAC is funding the Democrats who fled from the state of Texas and seeks to be a national voice on issues like redistricting or illegal immigration. This is what Beto says about who should be and who are the best Americans. Next time we win power, we're going to drive that car like we stole it. We're going to legalize every dreamer, every dreamer's parents, every hardworking American doing backbreaking work that makes this country so great in the first place, even greater as U.S. citizens.

Going to legalize every illegal immigrant that makes us so great in the first place. Well, I mean, there's your platform. See how that's going to fly away. with America. Legalize every illegal immigrant. And by the way, he doesn't seem to be too concerned about your vote or whether or not that's popular. Because right now, the big fight is about redistricting, right? The left in states like the Northeast, redistrict, make it the case such that Donald Trump can win 35% of the vote in Massachusetts and Republicans can end up with zero seats in the United States Congress. But when in turn, that's done, to a lesser

extent in the state of Texas, everyone has lost their mind. In fact, let's just actually listen to the governor of New York, Kathy Hokel, suggesting that all of this redistricting is in fact, now get ready for this, right? Insurrection. There's a blatant power grab to maintain power in our nation's capital. This is what I call a legal insurrection. Legal insurrection. Just let the rules stay the way they are. We'll do it the way we always have. But here we have Texas. And now going to other states, J.D. Vance, why aren't you looking out for how to lower a cost like you promised? Instead, he's going like a lap dog around the country in a different state saying, oh, can we pick up some here?

Can we pick up some here? Because they know they're going to lose next year. That's the only reason they're engaging this. A legal insurrection. Words are play things. Words are just, they're just toys to get whatever you want across the finish line. Here, you want another example? Remember, this is predicated on the idea that perhaps this D-List Hollywood Bravo person

isn't reflective of the vast swath of Americans. But is it a representative mindset of the vast swath of the left and maybe even Democrats? Well, how about former Attorney General for Barack Obama? Again, on redistricting playing with words. Here's Eric Holder. But we are now in a situation where we find ourselves where authoritarian moves are being made by the White House through various states, Texas, most prominent among them. And there has to be a response to that.

What I've said is that we have to protect our democracy now if we ultimately want to be able to save it. And so taking the reasonable steps that have been proposed in California, I think it makes a great deal of sense in this moment, a temporary way in which to respond to that which is happening in Texas with the thought that after this crisis has passed, we get back to the fight against gerrymandering by anybody. Okay, so let me just get that straight, just to characterize what he said, so you understand how words are a play toy. Gerrymandering, redistricting, is a threat to democracy, an authoritarian move, and we have to protect our democracy. So how do we protect our democracy? By redistricting, by gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is a threat to democracy. We must gerrymander in order to protect democracy.

That's what you just heard from Holder. A lot of extra words in there, but that's what he said. gerrymandering a threat to democracy. We must gerrymander to protect democracy. Words are play things. Positions are malleable. Everything is fluid. All in service of the continuation, preservation, or recapture of power.

If you think they're going to convince you or they're going to try to convince you that they're on the side of protection, democracy, that they are the one that protect the norms, that they are the ones that care about the rules. Let's cut out all the extra words. Let's read straight through. Let's be clear-eyed. Let's just listen. Let's listen directly. Because that's what you're going to get from Beto O'Rourke. You're going to get it straight. Who cares about the rules? Democrats hold the governor's mansion, the assembly, and the state Senate to redraw their congressional districts now, not wait for Texas to move first, to maximize Democratic Party advantage. Listen, you may say to yourself, well, those aren't the rules.

There are no reps in this game. The rules, we are going to win whatever it takes. We're going to take this to them in every way that we can. There are no rules. There are no refs in this game. F the rules is what is said by Beto O'Rourke. Let me tell you exactly how that actually manifests. The state of New York is going to try to redistrict in response to Texas redistricting.

Already, New York, heavily Democrat, United States Congress representation. The Constitution of the state of New York precludes them from redistricting. They don't care. Kathy Hokel has said, we're going to do it anyway now in response to Texas. In the words of Beto O'Rourke, F the rules. We are less than one week away from the New York City Navy SEAL swim. Saturday morning, I'm going to be shoving off into the Hudson. Three-mile swim, three stops.

At each stop, 100 push-ups, and 22 pull-ups. Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Ground Zero. This is my fourth time to do the New York City Navy SEAL swim. And I would put it my, it's in the mid range of my training regiment. There is one year where I trained a lot and took this really seriously for months I swam. And I did well. That gave me a little bit of cockiness. And last year, I didn't swim at all.

Zero before the swim. And it hurt. So this year, I thread the needle a little more. I've been in the pool I'd say it's a little bit like crashing for a test in the last two weeks I've swam like four or five times

the little open water when I was on vacation as well so I'm feeling like I can pull it off not sure I'm going to be strong not a strong swimmer we'll see after how it goes we will this week later this week be talking to some of our friends some of the Navy SEALs who have been with us throughout the years

through this Bill Brown Jason Redmond, Ray Care, and others will be joining us here on Wilcane Country. And then we will broadcast. I don't think live because of the tides we shove off about 10 a.m. on Saturday. But we will have that for you come Monday on this show and on the Will Cain show on the Fox News channel. I think I'm already, my immune system is built up over the years of doing this. The third nipple is already grown You take antibiotics?

The toxic waters of the Hudson. I'm boosting vitamin D and zinc Two of days. I'm going to do that. Okay. I'm not going to do antibiotics. Somebody told me I need to do an IV drip. Somebody told me those are really good.

I've never done an IV drip. Like you get a lot of B12 and things like that run through your system. I do think it's probably advisable. Our friend, member of the Wilicia, Brent Suriano, well, once again, he did it last year. He's going to be back.

He's doing it again this year as well. Love to see viewers and listeners of Wilcane Country out there in the waters. It's going to be exciting time. There's nothing, honestly, among the things I've done in my life, certainly when it comes to physical accomplishments, swimming under the Statue of Liberty, running through the streets of New York City, holding an American flag, seeing the bagpipes play, the fire engines blare their horns,

and the people of New York along the streets, cheering and clapping. It's some of the coolest thing you will ever see or do, the patriotism on display that day. Absolutely incredible. Here we go, one week, less than one week, this Saturday, the New York City Navy SEAL swim. Okay, we might just be changing the nature of football. We just saw a kicker, kick a 70-yarder. What happens to football if you don't even have to cross the 50?

Coming up on Wilcane Country. I'm Janisteen. Join me every Sunday as I focus on stories of hope and people who are truly rays of sunshine in their community and across the world. Listen and follow now at Fox Newspodcast.com. Can you win a football game by threes? It is Will Kane Country streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel and the Fox News Facebook page. Hey, if you subscribe to Apple or on Spotify, you'll get the Kane on Sports Friday edition of Will Kane Country. This coming Friday, we're going to be hanging out with Josh Hamilton. He was just here hanging out in the studios.

Josh Hamilton, the Major League Baseball MVP in, I believe it was 2012, two-time World Series. runner-up with the Texas Rangers. We talked about what it was like to be away one strike away from winning the World Series twice. He hit the home run in the 10th, a two-run homer to put the Rangers up over the St. Louis Cardinals, only to see that lead lost in the bottom. Home run derby. Really enjoyed my conversation with Josh Hamilton, super self-reflective. Everybody that knows about his career knows, you know, the drugs, the alcohol, the suspensions, the relapses.

He talked about all of it, and he was really open, and it was great. And, you know, for me, I don't know how it is for you guys. You guys are both baseball fans, tinfoil, and two a days. And I am, but I always say, look, I'm more of a Texas Ranger fan than I am a baseball fan. And that's probably true for you guys as well. You're more of a Braves fan and a Yankees fan than you are baseball at large. And that's why I ask you this. Like, Hamilton is sort of larger than life.

Like, he was and is in my mind such a character. so good. I mean, honestly, like, one of the most talented baseball players, I think, that's ever been in the game. And, of course, his story is larger, everything. And, and it was just wild to be with him. Is he, is he like that in, in your mind as well? Just like, a larger than life. Like, I've met other Major League Baseball players, and some of them are really actually quiet. They're, like, I think it was Alex Bregman I had in the studios when I was at ESPN and so forth. Hamilton is just kind of a giant.

In your mind, is he like that? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, he got onto my radar in 2008 with the home run derby when he hit 28 home runs in the first round. That was the most exciting I've ever seen. It was at Yankee Stadium, so it was bigger for me. But it was the most exciting home run debris I've ever seen. And then after that, I followed his career more.

Just because of that, I liked him a lot. I thought he was a great player. He was definitely on my radar. Well, also just the story, the story of being the first overall pick in 1999. And, like, I would say, tell me if you think this is fair. You guys were young, but, like, you're talking about a Joe Burrow level, like, guy coming out. You know what I mean? Like, where it's like, oh, maybe an archmanning type, not as famous because of the last name,

because it's football, and because college gives you some time to build up your fame in football. But that level of can't miss prospect. That's what Josh Hamilton was in baseball. And by the way, immediately a stud, immediately, until he got in that car wreck. And then he was pretty open. Right out of high school? Start hanging out of tattoo parlor.

Start drinking right out of high school. But played right out of high school as well? Yeah. Yeah, he could go to college. I don't think. He went straight from high school. I mean, so to do those two things at the same time is pretty crazy. Yeah.

Anyway, Spotify or Apple, this Friday. I think you're going to enjoy it. He talks about faith and his relationship with the Lord. He talks about some of his – he brought it up, his more recent controversies as well. I think in some ways, I don't know if it's breaking news, but it might have been on what he had to say about some of that. So you've got to listen to that on Friday here on Will Kane Country. Speaking of college football, a tinfoil pad – I don't know if you have this, Dan, but just sent us the AP new – Top 25 that just came out for college football.

And it has, just like the coach's poll, at number one, the Texas Longhorns. But pretty surprising on this one is who comes in at number two, which is the Penn State, Nittany Lions, coming in at number two. Ohio State at number three, Clemson, four, Georgia, five. That's your AP pre-season poll. I will say I hate pre-season polls. Oh, tinfoil is already shaking his head. I hate pre-season polls.

They do, they warp your mind, and everybody votes on that from a starting point. Season starts for two or three games into the season. And it's like, I mean, on one hand, we know it, Patrick. Like, I mean, it's reasonable to assume Clemson and Texas and Ohio State and Georgia are all going to be some of the best teams in the country. but there's a benefit of the doubt that gets baked in that lasts, but it only lasts probably half a season, right? I mean, it does get washed out in performance.

I mean, you know, last year we started pretty high, top 10, and it only took a few games to be exposed. So, you know, depends on how bad you are. Florida State. Yes, yes, sorry, yes. But I mean, like my issue isn't necessarily with the, The top? Not.

We're 40. Reasonable. Came in at number 40, did the Seminoles? Whatever. 40. Nothing matters anymore. I see the Texas Tech Red Raiders came in at number 23, which is a reflection of the talent they are buying to come in to Texas Tech.

Just watch that. I'm telling you, it's a story that I feel like I'm way out in front of in terms of predicting the rise of Texas Tech over the next five years. It's going to happen. They're going to dominate the Big 12. They're going to get college playoff football spots. They're going to then see if they can make a run. They're going to get bigger and better athletes.

Applications are going to go up. It's going to become a more popular school. Watch it. Watch the rise of Texas Tech. Okay. Tenful Pat, help me set this up. A kicker in the NFL, what is his name, just booted a 70-yard field goal. Cam Little.

Kicker out of, he's a rookie kicker out of Arkansas. He did it just like five miles from my house on Saturday night, booted a 70-yard field goal in the preseason against the Steelers. Pretty impressive. So that is kicking from his own 40. Well, and it means that the team petered out at the 47. they did not cross midfield. Line of scrimmage 47, back it up seven yards, kick from your 40, right?

No, because your official field goal length is the line of scrimmage. So you've got the 50 yards, you've got the end zone putting you at 60. In order to get to the 70-yarder, that means the line of scrimmage had to been on the 40. And then he backs it up seven yards and kicks it from his own 33. Is that what we're talking about here? That is insane. That's a boot. Yeah, I'm looking at back up again now.

See where the spot. What is the record? You mentioned this is a preseason game, so that's not counting for the record. It's not Brandon Aubrey of the Dallas Cowboys that has the record. Justin Tucker booted some long ones too, but... It was Tucker. I do feel like that long time NFL record got broken, right? And is it Tucker that holds it now?

How long is it? Tucker has a 66 yarder. And so it looks like Cam Little kicked it from the 40, like it was spotted at the 40. So that was like right at the 50 when he kicked it. So the line of scrimmage was close to the 50, it was 47. Yeah. 48 yard line. So I don't think that would technically count as a 70-yarder, though. That would be like a 62-yarder, wouldn't it? I think you don't get credit for the spot. you get credit for the line of scrimmage. Well, the NFL officially said it was 70, so I don't know. So maybe this is the spot.

Yeah, I guess, okay, it's the spot. You get credit for that. So think about this. Think about this has the potential to change football. I've got to think about this this morning. I think it's pretty fascinating. If you get a kicker who can, and granted, we're talking about extreme situations here,

rarities. But if you've had a kicker that can kick it before you cross midfield, your offense really only has to gain about 15 yards of offense before you're in scoring range. I mean, that is, that is, that changes the nature of the game. We can all talk about, oh, kickers are too important. Like this is, if kickers can back it up like this, I was talking to you this morning on the phone, tinfoil, what is your average number of possessions in an NFL game? It's seven, right?

It's like you get seven drives a game roughly. Isn't that about right? Yeah, that sounds right One of you guys can look that up I'm a double track And then I think 21 points Is a pretty fair Like if you can score 21

You're gonna win So that's That's converting points touchdowns on less than half of your drives Now if you start Getting into a situation where You don't have to drive You know 50, 60, 70

yards for a touchdown, but you can actually just go 15 yards for a field goal. Like, I just wonder if three points, which are, by the way, three points, a field goal kick feels like a letdown, right? It feels like a disappointment. Every time your team's driving and you have to kick the field goal, you all scream at the television, I do too, we're not going to win this game by threes. We're going to kick field goals, they're going to score touchdowns, we're going to lose. But now if you're kicking them from way back, those don't feel like letdowns, those feel like extra. Like, that would have been a punt, a pooch punch, a short punt.

And now you've got a kicker who can kick that through. I'm just thinking three points becomes much, much more important in the NFL. Go ahead, two days. I'm seeing about between 10 and 12 possessions per team, per game, is what the average is. Okay, what's the average scoring in a game right now? Can you see what that is? What is average scoring? Per team?

Total. Either way. Either way. While he looks that up, take a look at what I've got up in the studios here at Wilking Country in Dallas, Texas. This is your average field goal attempt distance over the last 10 years. 10 years ago in 2014, it was 37.6 yards, average attempt. By 2024, it's climbed roughly 3 yards to over 40 yards per attempt. I mean, just, Like everything else in sports, if this just keeps backing up, and this isn't dramatic, I don't think three yards over 10 years is that dramatic, but I do feel like, at least anecdotally, we're seeing the longer stuff become more regular, whether or not it's Justin Tucker or Brandon Aubrey or this kid. The more you see that, the more you start to wonder, okay, 10 to 12 drives, two a days, how many points on average per game? 22 to 23.

22 to 23. So let's take that in touchdowns for a moment. that's three conversions right out of 10 to 12 if you're kicking if you're still scoring those touchdowns but you're kicking more field goals from distance you're talking about a huge swing and wins and losses like if you you got a kicker who can start turning midfield into scoring range this is dramatically shifting the game I think I think that's huge also you You think about... You think about two-minute drills,

and it's like, you know, you don't have to go to the 30-yard line anymore for those game-winning field goals, you know? Like, Vinutieri could have made it, but like... Do you think a big factor, too, in this is if it's an outdoor or indoor stadium? One little gust to win for 70 yards is way bigger than 40-yarder, you're talking about?

So that's a huge factor in these. And so, like, not everyone's going to consistently hit 70-yarders because there's way more goes into it. For sure. The further we get back, the less the conversion rate's going to be

I mean, none of these guys are going to be automatic from that distance. But indoor, you could be, it'll be better. Absolutely. Think about what in advantage that would be for teams like that. That's on saying.

So if you start, if you have an indoor stadium, you're going to hit more of these long ones. And not just wind. Like, I would be curious to ask my son, like, do you think wind plays a big role? I just think there's so much.

I think the whole thing on kicking is in your head. It's not so much external. External would be the field, I would think, the field conditions. I would think you'd rather kick off of turf. Temperature, like kicking a hard, cold ball versus another, you know, kicking in Houston, you know, or New Orleans, even those are indoor stadiums. But most of it's in your head, man. can you just keep your same form? It's like a golf swing.

Can you do that? Yeah, the yips, but blocking out everything around you, like they just had football camp, and my son told me that the drill at the end of football camp was everybody has to run gassers unless the kicker. For every, he has to do seven kicks. For every, or suicides, whatever it was, for every kick he misses, add another one, right?

And then the team has to come and heckle you, and like they play music and the coach gets in your head gets up in your face and yells the entire time you're doing it. I just think that's all. Like can you be, did you guys watch Justin Rose and J.J. Spotton yesterday in the playoff in the golf? What was it the FedEx? Yeah, the FedEx playoff. I mean, it was awesome. But how much can you block it all out? How much can you block it out and execute the same form that you're always, that you need? Go ahead, two days. I showed my wife, I had my wife's watch for the love of the game for the first time. And he has the best. best line for this. He says, clear the mechanism. And it just all shuts out the noise. The crowd

goes away. Everything else goes away. He just clears the mechanism and you can just focus on what you're doing. I thought that was like the best way to do it. I used to use it in baseball myself, that exact thing. Look at you. You and Kevin Costner, clear the mechanism. That's right. Does the movie hold up? I want to go back and watch for the love of the game. It does. It does. She liked it because it's a rom-com essentially with baseball as a background. yeah it's it held up yeah so should do that a little rewatch party on for love of the game all right and get you a kicker that can boot it at least from 60 that's going to do it from us today here on will cane country we hope you will subscribe hangouts again tomorrow be here same time same place

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