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The whole problem is the suicidal empathy of the left.

Yes, that's it.

And how it's just infected our discourse in this country.

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Good Tuesday to you.

Welcome back to the Ruthless Friday program.

I'm Josh Holmes, along with Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook.

Left to right across your radio dial is always a war, peace, crime, punishment.

A lot on the table here, including the Democrats refusing to fund Homeland Security here in the

United States of America, but a lot going on overseas that we're going to get into President Trump.

Everything else, it's crazy, but you would be completely objectively without eyes and ears.

If you didn't take note of the development that happened over the weekend in New York City,

for a bunch of different reasons.

If you missed the news, there was attempted terrorist attack in New York City.

We've since come to find out ISIS inspired an Islamic extremist. A lot of sensitivity to that.

Obviously, when we've got Iran and Middle East problems, there's a little bit of a divorce

between ISIS and Iran. It's just Islamic extremism, I guess.

But the way that journals have dealt with this is I think our role in this space.

If we can get into just right off the top and then I'm going to get your commentary on all

this, fellas, just the event itself, just to level set with the audience about what it is that

happened that is publicly available for all journals, all anybody of social media. These are

the things that happened in real time that everybody could see. Clip one, please.

Okay. So for audio only listeners, that was a gentleman who sprinted up to the gates around

Gracie Mansion, essentially, and through a bomb yelling aloo Akbar.

There have been a group who was protesting Mamdani, and this guy runs up, screams aloo Akbar,

and throws a bomb at that group that was protesting Mamdani. Yeah. Yeah. And so

seems to me, we can probably cut to the chase on the motivation of the said terrorist who throws

a bomb at people he evidently disagreed with. There's another angle at all of this. They'll clip too.

Look at this guy unbelievable. So you got you got a guy with a bull horn saying everybody's

welcome here in New York. That's the thing is like there are also lips who showed up to like

counter protest to be like, oh, they're basically just shouting what's on the yard signs. No one is

illegal on stolen earth in this house. We believe. Yeah. And he's like, oh, I'm born in New York.

Everyone is welcome here in New York and then write that a dude yells, uh, Akbar throws a

bomb and it's like, maybe you got very too open with who you allow in the sweet sweet irony of

it all is, you know, in the investigation of these two men who are involved in this

attempted terrorist attack. They're not even from New York. No, they're from Pennsylvania.

They're from Pennsylvania. And we're going to get into that in a second. But it's what we've been

talking about all along when it comes to the progress of left. You have somebody that shows up and

is like, uh, down with the oil. Another one who's like, yeah, uh, we don't, you know, we want

immigration unfettered. And somebody else is like, we hate the Jews. Yeah. And then the somebody

is like, oh, Akbar, here's a bomb. You don't even mean like, this is what you get with the

progressive left in the coalition that they've built that they somehow have convinced themselves.

This is sustainable democratic coalition. But because it is, I mean, this is what they rely on.

That's why they had a Michigan problem. It's stuff like this is that they are openly

inviting this as a counter protest to some folks who are protesting the mayor evidently. So

he wasn't done with the one bomb. He's got another bomb. This guy all on video. This is so insane.

All on video. This video is out there. It was all out there immediately for all of the press

for everybody to see clip three. Terry's lighting it. Now he's running from the cops.

Tosses at a cops. And the cops are chasing him. But I mean, you can see like what he's intending to do

and how he's intended to do it. And like, look, these aren't good terrorists. You know, I mean,

I don't mean good ones are dead when in my opinion, but yeah, very proficient. Maybe yeah,

proficient is a better word. They're, they weren't very good at their terroristic jobs as they see it.

And that they didn't hurt anybody with all of those bombs. But they certainly attempted to.

And the way that these things were constructed, they were intended to do grave damage.

That's it. So to give a little more back on real quick, I just want to read this little bit

that the New York Post had they said self-radicalized ISIS protesters used explosive called

quote, mother of state Satan. And this is the same kind of explosives that were used in IEDs.

This is essentially, it was, it is an IED was with two of them reused. It said in the New York

Post, a pair of ISIS trained extremists were charged with hurling an IED during a rowdy weekend

protest allegedly packing the homemade bomb with quote, mother of Satan of volatile explosive

favored by international terrorists, the two pro-Muslim fanatics, Ibrahim Kiyumi and Emir Balat,

18, both self-radicalized in recent years and traveled to Turkey and other terror,

terror training, hotspots, law enforcement sources close to the case told the post.

So this wasn't just like rando idiots. These are people who had clearly become radicalized.

And we're using the same type of explosives that's used in IEDs overseas here in the US.

Here's the thing that occurs to me watching that video. Okay. And I'm not second-guessing any of

the brave men and women in our law enforcement who are there protecting people. But what is it

about the rules of engagement that prevent them from shooting a guy who is lighting a bomb and

running towards a crowd to throw it? Yeah. Why are they running after him? I mean, what you can't,

you can't just open fire on somebody like that. Right. I mean, if ever there was a candidate for

a guy where you use lethal force, I would think it's a terrorist with a bomb. Well, but you know,

then you get into a Minnesota discussion, right? Is whether or not what he had was lethal. I don't

know if you try to run over an ice agent to Zach Constitute, a lethal act. We don't have

a guarantee. A guarantee of something like that happened. There'd be videos instantly online.

They'd be like, we were here protesting the Donald Trump's authoritarian attack when police

shot this guy in the back. You see a one-second clip of the guy running after throwing the bomb

being shot. So like, well, the whole, the whole problem is the suicidal empathy of the left.

That's it. And how it's just infected our discourse in this country. And I think it's

epitomized by that guy with the bullhorn, who's basically the walking version of the in-the-house

we believe sign, right? Yeah. Like this guy who's like, all immigrants are welcome. We believe

New Yorkers for all New Yorkers. He was asked, hey, you have any second thoughts about that considering

this guy came behind you and threw a bomb. Used you as a springboard to throw his bomb.

Put up graphic 3a, please. He quote tweets that question and says, I'm the guy who didn't run

when a bomb was thrown over his head. I also didn't become a xenophobic bigot. What's your excuse?

Incredible. It's like, you're going to, you're going to virtue signal on behalf of the

Islamic terrorists. It didn't make you like maybe question your entire worldview. It makes you

double down. Yeah. And it's just, it just goes to show that it is suicidal empathy. They would

literally rather that guy's bomb go off than have to change their opinion. It's true. Why is that

the first thing that comes to your mind that you tweet and not like, thank God that this bomb didn't

kill anybody. Thank God we had people protecting us. Thank God all of it. Well, it's just not a,

well, it's a talking point. It's, they're not. Yeah. They're not. I mean, this is the talking.

These are people who have clinical defects, clinical mental defects. And I think that is true.

I mean, this is going to be controversial, but I think that is true of much of the weird,

progressive left that you see on the streets. Like, these are people who had maybe traumatic

childhoods, maybe traumatic life events one way or another, but you can't actually have somebody

use you as a springboard to throw a bomb at other human beings and be like, that was a good thing.

The people who threw the bomb at are not good people. You're all supposedly Americans here and

not think first about somebody trying to kill someone. Right. Like, you have to have a maladjusted

psychology at some level in order to have that point of view. And that's the thing is it is 100%

like Duncan says, the suicidal empathy and the importance that is stressed by them of when you say

it's completely virtue signaling. They feel trying to look like I'm the good guy because I embody

the slogans on the yard sign in this house is more important to me than the realization that

someone tried to have a terrorist attack, but I need to get my good boy point. It's the same thing

with all of their demonstrations against ice and Minneapolis where ice is there to round up

pedophiles, drug traffickers, rapists, murderers. And they're like, they're targeting our neighbors.

These are our neighbors. Your neighbors are pedophiles. Yeah. And you're protecting them with

the fucks that say about you. Yeah, totally. Totally. I mean, it's it's it's in previous in previous

years, they might have said like, you know, I disagree with the actions of this one person. However,

we should all come together. They don't even do that. They don't even do that. Yeah. It's not even

part of their thing. So with all of the abundance of video evidence available, seeing exactly what

happened in this situation, how does the media cover this situation? Oh, well, how do you think?

Check it out. Graphic four, please is the New York Times smoking jars of metal infusions run

at protests near Mary's house. Six people were arrested after an anti-Islamic protesters

led by right wing activists, Jake Lang clashed with counter protesters near grace. You match. That's

almost criminal because can we get that graphic back up? First off, the absurdity of them trying to

downplay that this was an IED as confirmed now by like the FBI. They said that these are the same

materials, bomb making stuff that ISIS uses that goes into IEDs. So the New York Times first off

is like smoking jars of metal infuses trying to downplay that. But then they try to give the context

of like throwing at a protest near Mary's house. Also, there was a right wing activist there.

They are trying to make it sound like this was a bunch of right wing lunatics throwing bombs

near the mayor's house because they're a bunch of agents. It didn't make it sound like that's

what they said. Yeah, it's like they're purposely trying to obfuscate the reality. The fact that

the right wing activist of the anti-Mondani protest gets written up in the subhead. How is he a

part of the subhead? She's the part of the subhead. And the word Islamic terrorist tries to light bomb

is not it's not like just so you have the facts. There was a protest that was led that these people

claim is Islamophobic, which then presented a crowd of counter protesters at which point a couple

of ISIS-inspired idiots terrorists show up and try to bomb people involved in what they would say

was the Islamic Islamophobic protest. The story is about the people who are trying to kill people.

Yeah. The story is not about the nuts and bolts of why everybody showed up.

It's beyond absurd that that could even be a part of the story. I mean, think about all the

it's just lying. You know what? If the terrorists had a press secretary and they put out a rapid

response press release, I'm not sure it would say anything different from that headline.

I just don't think so. But you see it so often it's not they're not alone. NBC is going to rush

to the fire here too. Graphic five. Breaking a device ignited outside of Zoran Mamdani's

mayoral residence yesterday during an anti-Islam protest and counter protest was confirmed to be

an improvised explosive New York city police say again. Yeah. The tweet would make you think that

this bombing was targeting the mayor Mamdani. Yeah. They're like, okay, let me get this straight.

One of the primary critiques of Zoran Mamdani is that he is somehow way more sympathetic and it is

to Islamic extremism than he is to New Yorkers. Right. Remember his wife put out those tweets and

support of the terrorists who killed peaceful people on October 7th. Right. And then you then

they name check a protest that they, you know, call anti-Islam protest. So you're like, okay,

well that sounds like kind of an explosive situation. There's an anti-Islam thing with a guy

that they think is more sympathetic and then counter protest. Yeah. And then they just go on to say

also there's an improvised explosive device involved. You, if you read that, you think

that a bunch of right-wing lunatics, fire bombs, or on Mamdani's house. And that again is the

intent. And also it is, it just occurred to me the contrast when you saw the mayor of Pennsylvania,

or the governor of Pennsylvania. Shapiro. Shapiro. Had that mansion, fire bombed.

By what were they? They're like the pro-Palestinian radicals. Yeah. And the reporting that you saw on

that, first off, you didn't see reporting on it. No. At all. But now you're seeing, okay, so a guy

yells, Allahu Akbar throws multiple bombs. How are we going to make this, how are we going to

take a left-wing look at this? And for them to 100% decide what we're going to do is make it look

like the people protesting Zoran or trying to kill him. It's so insane. It is. And it's almost

criminally manipulative. That's what it is. And you know something else that occurs to me reading

these two headlines is that the left-wing media has very many masters to serve. And they have,

they try to choose which one is the most important because you only have a certain number of words.

In the first one, the master they serve at the New York Times is downplaying the violence that

ensued by these terrorists. They just, they want people to think that it maybe isn't as bad

as you're seeing online. Yeah. The second one, the master they serve. Zoran mom Donnie. Actually,

mom Donnie was the target of this and he's the victim. Right. And then we've got a third.

Oh, okay. We've got a third. Let's, let's toss up, baby, see news. They want to get into it.

Graphic six. Police arrested several people after a smoke generating suspicious device.

Smoke generated was thrown during a protest at Crazy Mansion. Another example of the liberal media

trying to downplay the significance of this, like this bomb, right? So they're serving,

they're serving the master to make, makes me seem like. Who's their master here? I said,

you know what? I, I don't know, but you know, who isn't their master? You know who they never

serve as their reader. And that's why nobody ever clicks on their stupid story. Here in the ABC news,

when can we get that graph again? Six again. It says thrown during a protest at Crazy Mansion.

They're trying to frame this again as, oh, it was thrown at a protest at Crazy Mansion to make

the audience be like, oh, must have been an anti-Mom Donnie kind of a thing. I also think the subtext

here we haven't really talked about yet. I think these left-wing radicals, I think part of them

thinks you deserve it. Yeah, I think that if you do an anti-Islam protest, these are the things

that happen. Yeah. You know, when you're targeting a community like this, maybe somebody throws

a Molotov cocktail or an improvised explosive device at your event. So maybe don't do it.

Well, nothing that they wrote would disavuse you of that opinion. But I also think

what we played to begin this segment should be dispositive about the sequence of events. Remember,

that video was available to every single one of these writers almost immediately. Every one of

these publications almost immediately. You saw a guy yell out Akbar and throw a bomb. What do you

think his motivation? We may never know. Yeah, puzzling. What could he mean by this? What could he,

whose side do you think he was on? And why it is that the target, the intent victim is a part of

the story at all is unbelievable to me. Like, why would it be that whoever they were targeting,

in this case, some right-wing group, that was protesting and got a bomb throw? Can you imagine

reversing that? That's the thing. I think Duncan has such a good point because it feels like they

threw in that this was an anti-Islam protest to kind of be like, oh, they deserve it. Yeah,

these things happen when you do inflammatory things like that. Maybe these things like this happen.

Like if the, you know, you deserve how short was your skirt? Yeah, it is the, it is the

lib version of how short was it the skirt? And it feels like if that Charlie Hebdo attack had happened

today, the lives would be like, good. Yeah, you shouldn't draw Muhammad. And the thing is that like,

it's, it doesn't matter what this original group believes that was protesting.

I mean, you saw, saw Libs going ham celebrating the murder of Charlie. Like, they were happy

that Charlie was murdered. So basically, if you take the opposite side, they think you are

deserving of violence. That's how extreme the left side. Well, they're certainly going to

obfuscate it at the very least. But again, whatever brought everybody to the yard here

is a footnote. It means nothing. It means nothing. What happened was someone tried to kill a lot

of people. Right. That's the story. And you look at like the way that they covered the Minneapolis

protests, which were just fucking meaningless and stupid. They were trying to follow around ice

and trying to prevent federal law enforcement from doing their, their job. And a couple of them

got into physical confrontations, one with a vehicle, one literally hand-to-hand and mayhem

ensued. And people got killed. And but it was all the federal government that was the problem

with this. It wasn't the existence of a protest. Now, take that off six weeks later.

The existence of the protest, very, very similar in terms of its, it was there. And like,

I don't know what the intent of the protest is. Well, we never found out because somebody threw

a fucking IED at them. And when they did that, it was the problem of the protest. Right.

Not the problem of the person who intended to kill people. Just break that down just from a media

perspective and look at that and say like, dude, these people at very least are attempting to

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Right. If you show up to protests, I don't know what they were protesting. They say it's

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Okay, so look, the way that the media framed this whole thing in New York would lead you to believe

that the intended victim of the Aulu Akbar terrorist throwing an improvised explosive device

was Zoran Mamdani. So it's interesting to get his perspective on this sort of thing.

Here is Zoran Mamdani in Graphics 7. It's a long thing, but what he says is yesterday white supremacist

Jake Lang, again, I've never heard of that. Nobody has ever heard of him and we have no idea

like what this is all about, but now he is the target of the mayor's discussion. He was apparently

the target of the improvised explosive device. Organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion,

rooted in bigotry and racism. Such hate has no place in New York City. It's a front to our city's

values and the unity of the defines who we are. What followed is even more disturbing violence

at the protest is never acceptable. The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others

is not only criminal, it's reprehensible and in the antithesis of who we are.

I want to thank the brave men and women of the NYPD who acted quickly to keep New Yorker safe

our officers ran towards the danger without hesitation, demonstrating once again the courage

and dedication that takes to protect our city every single day. My administration is monitoring

the situation. It's monitoring the city. They do a lot of monitoring over there. The monitor

the situation and I remain in close contact with our police commissioner. Again, the mayor of all

people. Now, he wasn't getting all of the Iranian intelligence and all the things that he was

or the Minneapolis situation, all the things that he's been monitoring the situation about over

the last since he's become mayor, but he should have a pretty close hold on what happened outside.

It's house. And if you have any idea whatsoever, those are the first two clips that we played.

Somebody yelling aloo Akbar and throwing something at a bunch of protesters that turns out

is an improvised explosive device. The target of his statement is the person who is intended

recipient of improvised explosive device. He is the problem. According to Zora Mamdani,

what are we doing? That's the thing. So what is critical is if you're like the mayor of a city,

there's a lot of chaos, especially for a town which has been targeted by terrorism so many times.

And the information he puts out as he says, this is the takeaway he wants you to get is

white supremacists are protesting outside of his house. Well, followed was even more disturbing.

It was violence at the protest. He doesn't name who did the protest or who did the who did the violence?

Right. Who is causing this danger to New Yorkers? He's not giving any information that might

be useful to the millions of people of New York City. He's not like at that time, video is already

out of a guy yelling aloo Akbar throwing a bomb. He's not letting New Yorkers know anything except

so I'm the victim of of bigotry. There's no place for that in New York City. I'm monitoring the

situation. Unbelievable. Would you believe if somebody threw an IED at your house in the

yelled aloo Akbar as they did it? Wouldn't you be like, you know, Islamic extremism seems like

it's a real problem. Yeah, imagine the surreal situation if you were just your average New Yorker

participating in a protest that is saying radical Islam is a problem. Somebody throws an IED at you

and then the mayor in which the city you live says, no, this was a protest of white supremacy and

bigotry. You become the problem. Like get out of that city. I'm sorry. New Yorkers. I love you.

Get the hell out of there. Those people hate you. They do. I mean, but he's not alone. There's

another former New York city. Brad lander who is a minister. So this guy was well known in New York

politics. Right. I mean, this is somebody that you're probably not going to know. It's my former

councilman, an absolute maniac. Yeah. So he is his post and graphicate.

Happy to know that our mayor and first lady are safe. They were never the targets, by the way.

But horrified that there was such a disturbing threat of violence outside their residents,

vile displays of Islamophobia will never be tolerated in our city. End of statement.

End of statement. He is the normal Donald joke. That's it right there. I mean, he's like, so

so a guy shouts ala Akbar throws a bomb. There's no place for Islamophobia in this. Are you

for real? Are you like New Yorkers? They never will wake up to it. I, you know, I'm so glad I left

that place. New Yorkers would rather have Islamic extremists. It's going to be the 25th anniversary

of 911 throwing bombs on their street as long as they can be like, well, you know, at least I'm

not an Islamophobic bigot. Yeah. I may be killed by an IED, but goodness, I don't want anyone to

ever think I'm a bigot. Think of the brain damage you have to have in order to formulate that logic.

It's not enough to just say it out loud, like saying it out loud kicks it to another level.

But if you're first iteration of like, all right, here are the facts. Yeah. Somebody,

LL Akbar, they threw an IED at a protest. It thankfully didn't go off and kill thousands of people.

But, um, you know, that it all happened out of mom Donnie's house and he's like, oh, thank God

for mom Donnie. Uh, what was the protest? And they're like, well, these people had a problem with

radical Islam. Well, who the victim or the perpetrator, uh, the victim. Okay. Well, they're,

they're clearly the, I mean, there's your problem. It's like an SNL skit. It is. It's ridiculous.

And I'll still do comedy, but like reality is we're attributing much more than what it simply is,

which is just lying on purpose, obfuscating reality to serve their political agenda, which is just

it's so sad and pathetic. And that's the reason why every New Yorker who's a common sense person

needs to get out of that city. That's the truth. I totally agree. It's suicidal empathy. It can't

do anything about it. This is the embodiment of suicidal empathy. This is you're seeing it's one

thing for the media to do this because we know they've been lying bastards in the American people.

You look at there are the American people's opinion of the media. They don't trust them for

shit. And it's because of reasons like this. But you see public officials like Zorn Mamdani,

she had this calm Brad lander who ostensibly your job is to serve the public and to do everything

in your power to essentially lie to them and misdirect them. And very clearly what this is doing is

making them less safe. If they don't even know the threat that they're facing, it's unbelievable.

Well, you know, Mamdani was the son of wealthy, successful parents. I mean, maybe these terrorists

were, you know, maybe they grew up in poor circumstance. Well, you would think so.

Do a little investigation. And by the way, we're going to have the deputy AG top planch talk about

this later in the show, but they've done immediate investigation into all of this. You might think,

well, we get a couple of terrorists sitting here, maybe like down Trotten Poor, the, you know,

they're just down on their luck. They have no choice. They've turned to radical Islam.

Graphic nine is the home of one of the alleged terrorists, Ibrahim Kiyumi. Yeah, it's a house.

And it's his parents house. Does it still qualify as just a house when it's 6,000 square feet?

6,000 square feet. How important does it become a mansion? It's, it's in suburban Philadelphia

and over a $2 million resident where they apparently, I mean, look, this guy went and radicalized

himself and did all this other stuff. You're telling me that somebody that grew up in that neighborhood,

nobody is like, hey, maybe we should keep an eye on this cat. It's just like flown to the

Middle East two or three times and talked about Aluak Bar and all that stuff. Like no, we're two

PC to do that. Can I say something? So it really seems like those are a lot of discussions.

So those are video this past weekend that kind of went viral on X where it was an interview

with a former KGB official who was discussing the useful idiots that they worked to foster

around the world. He was like, you'd look for like professors, the highly educated, the wealthy,

because you find a class of these people to be your useful idiots. Yeah, contrarian morons.

And which actually, and what you do is you get these people to think that, oh, you know,

I want to be a Marxist revolutionary like you're seeing at these college campuses and

and how much of Zormam Donney's administration is all just like Ivy League people from wealthy

families who are like, it's time for the working class to rise up and and seize the means of

production. And you see this terrorist kid from a two and a half million dollar house. And it's

these people who who feel like they have to be the vanguard of the uprising and revolutionary.

It's the same as it ever was, you know, from Saigon to Imanazouari to Assama bin Laden, all of them

extremely wealthy. Terrorism like far left wing radicalism are luxury beliefs. Yeah, it's never

the working class in the downtrodden who are the vanguard. It's these lunatics in the either

ivory towers and academia or people who are very, very, very wealthy who have time all day to talk

about how they want to remake the world. Yeah, that's really good point. Yeah, well, look,

it's particularly interesting to an awful lot of Americans who are extremely concerned that the

conflicts in the Middle East around and foremost amongst them. If, you know, there were some news

about sleeper cells from Iran being activated. And when you have 20 million people, it just walked

over our border in the last four years and get a little sensitive about something like that.

Well, how did Democrats respond? We haven't covered this enough from the program in large part

because it's been sort of scripted and wrote. And there's not a lot of news. But a couple of weeks

ago, Democrats shut down the Department of Homeland Security. This is the post 9-11 agency created

out of the 9-11 report, a suggestion that would help sort of integrate all the various

agencies that are supposed to keep you safe in this country, whether it's from immigration,

related issues, terrorist related issues, all these things, that's their primary job. Well, of

course, because of ICE and Minnesota, Democrats decided that we're going to shut this thing down,

shut it, like, shut it, shut it down. No, no government funding, which is an unbelievable thing

at any point. It is incredibly striking to do it at a moment of war, where there's a hot

war going on in the Middle East, of which American service members are involved. And some of

lofts, they're lives. And then you have articles about sleeper cells being ignited. And you have

the data knowing that there are 20 million people who came in here who we don't know exactly who

they are or where they are. Imagine that set of facts and then being so committed to this weird

progressive, like anybody who's enforcing the laws that have been on the books for four generations

in America is evil. If you don't stop enforcing that law, I'm going to shut all of it down to make

American people that much more vulnerable. That is the take that they have. Can I tell you, there

was video that came out after that, those terrorists tried throwing those bombs in New York City,

of the, the, the, like, libs who are out there shouting at the NYPD. Yeah, be like, get out of here.

After they had just saved them from, literally just saved them from a terrorist attack,

you had libs shouting at the NYPD, telling them to get out of there. Well, in Zoran,

from Mondani in his statement, calls him the brave men and women of our NYPD. He wants to defund

the NYPD. Yeah, well, he said it. Like everything that they do is a fucking lie. Yeah, it's,

you know, but it's, look, I don't want to be hyperbolic about this. But if you've got a bunch of

people who know better, and I know that Chuck Schumer, who is an absolute idiot, who is not long

for the political world and that he's being run out by a progressive, I know he knows that defunding

homeland security at a time of war has grave implications for the safety and security of the

American people and people of New York, frankly, the people he represents. I know he knows that.

And I know two thirds of the United States Senate Democrats know that and they're uncomfortable

with it. But they're being let around by the time, by progressive leftists who have a guy use

his shoulders as a fricking pole vault to throw an IED at people to try to explode them that

immediately apologize for only the fact that the people who are the intended victims existed.

Right. I mean, how can you not come to the conclusion that if they're not inviting terrorist

attacks on the United States, they're at least complicit and can't tell you my greatest fear,

which ties all everything what we've discussed together, is that in this time, our country is so

vulnerable to a horrific terrorist attack. And you talk about how the Department of Homeland Security

all this sprung from the things that we learned from the 9-11 Commission of how we should have an

agency that works with like the FBI, DNI, all these people to make sure that actual intel is being

action to share and share. And my greatest fear is that we do have a terrorist attack in this country

and what'll end up happening is then the Democrats and the media, who's

the book under Trump administration, it's already happening. A terrorist attack has occurred and

the media would write it up as, wow, look at Donald Trump not keeping the Homeland safe.

There will be not a word about how Democrats have shut down DHS in any of that because they want

Americans to see their viewpoint and to go with the left wing talking points. And that's why people

like Schumer have to go along with the radical. We already had that shooting in Austin, Texas,

the Senegalese immigrant, who was wearing the property of a law shirt and underneath that,

a shirt with the Iranian flag. We had the bomb scare on the Southwest.

Kansas City. Kansas City. And now we have this. So like it's right here. It's at our doorstep.

Yeah. And the fact that like the media isn't holding the Democrats accountable. I'm not exactly

shocked, but how is DHS still defunded? It's why it's also you just have to come to, as a listener,

look, a lot of these are partisan fights. And you just, that's what happens in federal politics.

But you have to just sort of grapple with the idea that these people hate the president of

the United States more than they want to do their jobs to keep you safe. And they're only there

as a representative or a senator representing you in the United States Senate because of that.

Like they're fundamental jobs to keep you safe. The secondary is to provide services in a

array of issues. All of that in the current context of today's politics has taken a distant

second place to opposing Donald Trump. Yeah. And in a time of war, you can defund

the Department of Homeland Security. If you can do that, you will basically say no to anything

that could help the American people at any curve. It doesn't matter where it's elections related,

immigration related, environmentally related, you know, all of these things are to be opposed

if Donald Trump wants it, regardless of whether it makes you and your family and your community

and your state a better place. And that is a hell of a place to be. That is a midterm message

that I think Republicans need to drive here. And God hope that we don't have anything tragic

that puts an exclamation point on it because these people, this is what they're dedicated to.

Political opposition is if we're all playing games here. Like I don't think it's a game for the

people in Austin. Doesn't seem like it to me. The people that were killed by an Islamic extremist,

like it's certainly not a game to all the people who had to rush out of the Kansas City airport

or the people who got improvised explosive devices exploded within their proximity.

Like I mean, these things are real life things. And yet the highest echelons of the democratic

party are treating it as though it's a debate in the town square. It's wild. Anyway,

all that is pretty dark stuff, but it is what it leads to our question of the day. When you like

and subscribe to the Ridley's Variety program, we read all of your comments and we get back to

the very next episode. This question is, give us your best lib journal headline about the attack

in New York City. We miss them. We just did three. But also like, if you want to put your creative hat

on. Yeah. If you were just like a stand up comic and you had the editorial sort of say that

the New York Times, how would you have framed what they're going to do if you want a total leftist

take? I mean, I missed Norm McDonald because man, he'd have a lot of material to work with. He would.

We have a lot of funny people in our audience. And I think that we're going to get some real

bangers in this in response to this question. But I do not think that anybody will submit a headline

that the left will not take and write themselves. Yeah. I mean, we know. They just buy the comedic

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I love this so much. So if you've been online at all since the Texas primary, there's something

for everything out of this Tal Riko character. Democrats nominated this guy because they're like,

oh, man, he's so talented. And they continue. It was like there was a New York Times profile

over the weekend. All this stuff. And I was like, oh, he's just so talented. He's so good. He's

there. And like nobody has actually done a little research to see what it is that this guy.

I tried, I tried telling everyone. I said if he, I told, tried telling Jasmine Crockett on the show.

And I was like, if someone actually digs into this, there is so many skeletons in this guy's closet.

We got to help a skeleton today. Well, this one's pretty good. Clip six, please.

Something that you love that's not family or friends.

I love, I'm just saying this because it's on my mind, the trans children who showed up yesterday

and stayed capital to advocate for their humanity. They shouldn't have to, but it was an inspiration

to watch. Dude, just think about this. Something you love that's not your family.

You know, get sunsets. You love fishing. Pizza football. Love your dog. You love football.

You love pizza. This cat came up with trans kids. Trans kids is the top of my, any in the world,

any in the world. And remember, Schumer tried to tell everyone, this is Joe Six pack.

Yeah. This is the everyday, I know Democrats have lost election after election because we run

weirdos. We're gonna have someone that everybody can relate to. And they're like, what do you like?

He says trans kids. So the two, there's two ways to read this, right? Like number one, super

fucking weird that you would just say trans kids is the thing that you love. But what I find also

very interesting is that he can't to your point homes, like name a single hobby, like name something

normal and like a robot. He's like input question, a last campaign event trans kids. And that's

the thing he says that he loves. It's like, I don't think he's really ready for the bright lights.

No, I don't think so either because it would be so easy for a politician running in Texas to say

something like barbecue or football, like the obvious thing. But like, I think it's such a wild

way. I think I think Duncan hit on the reason why this guy went straight to the top of

dem preferences in a primary because not only is he on the trans kids thing, but he has been

lockstep on abortion in every pot for years. And I mean, you can see I've seen it on Twitter.

There's like 10 years of footage of him sticking up for on for the abortion issue in like

wedging it into every conversation. So he is a doctrinaire progressive leftist and they know

that he's already sent the signals and they're like, okay, well, you need to you can act however

you want in this campaign. We know you're with us. Which again, it goes back to our first segment.

I mean, this is what these people do. They're doctrinaire, it doesn't matter how they sound or how

they look or what we're there from the way the Democrats look at it is it, hey, it's a young white guy

who speaks about the Bible. End of story, he's going to have to be a good sale, right? Never

mind the fact that the only thing that comes to mind when he's asked what he loves is trans kids.

Are you kidding me? Like, I would say 70 plus percent of the American people would think

the idea of trans kids is like, what are you doing here? Our whole argument that conservatives

have fundamentally won over the last couple of years is the idea that politicians and doctors

trying to take the confusion of pre-pubescent children and medically alter them for the rest of

their lives is not something the society is interested in doing. Yeah, we have we have fundamentally

answered that question. It's just so macabre. It's like the thing I love most is all those mutilated

children. That's what I love who we exploited for our political agenda. Yeah, it's a sick thing,

he's a sick guy. That's a sick thing. And he's a dishonest guy, which is what we should also.

Yeah, so we also are going to bring it down. Well, this is a big, you know, we never

has it taken on the ruthless variety program to pat ourselves on the back. Yep. And we were early

on this one. The whole Colbert thing. Yep. We called it and we told everyone this way before

told it. We were on this stuff. We're on this stuff. So if you listen, you knew this beforehand,

but now it is out there. And there have been many pieces. Mediaite has done one where

Taleriko knew his interview with Stephen Colbert would never err on TV before he flew to New

York City last month, but the Texas Democrat and Senate candidate and his team were betting the

late show host would complain that the Trump administration had censored his appearance.

So it was just a bet. It was a betting. He didn't know that for sure. 100%.

They were just it's a white, you know, put your chips and yeah, right or black and we'll see how they

they were correct. And it spurred a ton of liberals that donate to his campaign, according to

a report from the New York Times. The Times actually did some good reporting on this.

Reports stated started off by talking about the days leading up to Taleriko's much publicized

appearance on Colbert. They said days before the trip Colbert's producers told them the network

nervous about federal like regulators would only post the interview online. And the Taleriko

campaign had a choice cancel the trip and crow about how the Trump administration was trying to

muzzle them of which by the way, the Trump administration had no interaction. This was internal

lawyers at CBS concerned that they would not comply with regulations that have been on the books

for generation. They said that like if we the CBS people were like if we do this, we also have

to find equal time for Jasmine Crockett because that's the law. It had nothing to do with the Trump

administration and everything to do with not wanting to put jazzy jazz on the thing which we are all

told you about. And if nobody wanted to talk about or say nothing and film the segment and hope

Mr. Colbert would tell his audience the story of federal interference. Well turns out he got both.

He got both when he showed up. They both they did a three day run up about how he was

disenfranchised by the Trump administration. Then Colbert did the thing on air

about how you weren't going to see him because the Trump administration. Yeah. And then they posted

it online and used it as a fundraising vehicle for their preferred democratic candidate who beat

out jazzy jazz. I believe at the time we said it was like, you know, drawing a foul better than

LeBron James or rolling like one of those European soccer players. Yeah. And it says here in

the New York Times, it says the YouTube clip gained more than nine million viewers donations poured

in internal campaign polling by his opponent showed the ground shift in Mr. Talleriko's direction.

Oh, so weird. So it's almost like Colbert used his platform on federally regulated broadcast

airwaves in conjunction with Chuck Schumer and the DSCC and the Talleriko campaign to provide an

edge for a particular candidate. Never would have expected that from Colbert. I mean,

that video of him dancing with Chuck Schumer. I just never didn't nobody saw it coming. Nobody

saw it coming. I mean, it is exactly what you think it is. And folks are making this point

this last weekend of it used to be like 10 years or 20 years when we find out that, oh, the public

it turns out was played in line two. And now it was just like two weeks after two weeks after we found

out that essentially Talleriko's campaign Chuck Schumer, Colbert all worked together to just pull

the wool over the public's eyes and create this fake live live live. Oh, it's the Trump administration.

They're willing to spike the football two weeks later. Yeah. Amazing how the New York Times always

comes to these conclusions three weeks after it matters. Exactly. Well, this is an invitation.

They're telling every other candidate, hey, if you want an opportunity, such as the one we

provided James Talleriko, just do and say what James does. It just reminds me of all of them say,

like, you know what, that hunter Biden, that was the laptop. Yep. And three months after the election.

Right. And it's like that move. What's the one about the subprime? Big short. Big short.

We're here because they're not bragging. They're they're not confessing their bragging. That's it.

Yeah. That's what this is. It's like they got away with the crime. And now they want everyone to

know that they did it. We did it. We did it on purpose. We done it deliberate. We done it deliberate.

All right. Oh, man. Listen, you are a resident expert at beating politicians and beer chugging

contests. I am. You do it every time we do some kind of a live event. I think we got somebody who's

going to provide a show that is comparable to what it is that you do. Clip seven.

No way. No way. So for for audio only folks, he's chugging a beer through his nose.

No way. Pretty good clip. How do you do that? Add a pretty good clip. Like we're talking about a,

you know, a smaller orifice there. Yeah. Then a mouth. And he's he took it down fairly quickly,

but took it down through his nose, which I'm not sure at like physiologically,

you know, extremely painful. It checks out biologically because, yeah, because your nasal

cavity is connected to your throat. I mean, that's how you breathe. I guess he wouldn't get a

sinus infection from that. Yeah, my alcohol. Yeah. I don't sterilize his nose. Give it a couple

of squirts a half for an half for it. It's just to wash things through. I think you might want to.

All right. So this is a tragic story, but it just represented the liberal left in their

jurisdiction within cities so perfectly that we had to bring it to you. This is from KT LA.

Man stabbed to death by a homeless man while charging an EV at an LA library,

responding ambulance stolen by another homeless man like this. So this is a horrific,

horrific tragic event that happened in Los Angeles, but it basically is like Los Angeles

in a nutshell. You had a guy, just a normal guy who's charging his Tesla next to a library.

Well, a homeless guy jumps out, stabs him up, right? So another guy is is laying on the ground

bleeding. Somebody calls 911. Yeah. And ambulance shows up. EMTs start working on him or like,

okay, let's put him in the ambulance. We got to get him to the hospital soon. Another,

another, a separate homeless guy has jumped in the ambulance, stolen and driven away. The guy

dies right there. And now his family, I think rightfully, is suing the city of LA for 40 million

in damages. Hell yeah. Listen to something that I just noticed in this story. And it goes to

liberal Democrats passing the blame to something else. They have never at fault.

Prosecutors said the ambulance was not equipped with the Tremco anti theft system,

which is typically installed in many police and emergency responder vehicles that will lock the

gear shifter when the vehicle is left running. How about you just clean up the homeless problem?

How many billions of dollars is California spent on homeless people? And can't they just

hire more police? I mean, this is what when Democrats say defund police, when Democrats ruin cities,

this is the consequence. Well, because when you think it's not because they didn't get the right

tech on that ambulance, you think you move to a liberal jurisdiction in a major metropolitan area.

But the reality is you have just moved to Grand Theft Auto. Yeah. The video game. It's a PVP

server. No, it's it's literally unbelievable. The paramedics themselves said that every moment

mattered and that his only realistic chance of survival was a quick transport couldn't happen

because another homeless person stole their ambulance. I do wish. I never. It's never.

LA will never be fixed. I guess just because they do Democrats will literally never take the blame

on themselves. They will never take responsibility for anything. This is why all these cities fall apart

because they don't actually have leaders who want to solve problems. I mean, this is this is true

not just of Karen Bass in LA and not just of Gavin Newsom statewide in California, but in every

single city in that state, it seems like they have problems just like this because the paramedic

didn't use the low jack on the. Remember when Democrats blamed kias for stealing themselves?

Yeah. It's the same thing and then you tweet about it and all the lips are like, no, it really

was kias problem because it were so easy to break into. It's never like one point of stealing

the car. Of course, you don't jail that. Yeah. At one point, I think that the mayor of in the

city council of DC, before Trump was in office, provided advice on how not to get car jacked

rather than trying to crack down on the car jacking. Right. You know, I mean, it's just what they do.

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Yes. When we're not going to put kitchen trouble, but a little bit about the latest news that's come

out, the attempted terror attacks in New York, understand the Attorney General on Monday,

had some things to discuss regarding indictments of two individuals involved. What can you tell us

about all that? Just that. It's an example of law enforcement working together quickly to

identify two guys who have been arrested and charged federally for what they did over the weekend.

And it's a sad but real place of where we are right now. And so we learned about it as it was

happening, the joint terrorism task force in New York is really the best in the business. They work

with the NYPD, work with state and locals, and very quickly identify. I mean, if you saw

over the weekend, there was a lot of reports of search warrants, which doesn't look that's a lot of

work. Happens quickly. Judges are involved to try to keep us safe. And those two guys were arrested

and we'll see what happens. Yeah. Johnny, I know you've focused an awful lot of this,

with open borders for years, it's not directly applicable in this case, but the threat of terrorism,

based on not knowing who's all in your country has been something you've talked about.

You know, one of the things that the Biden administration did is they let people flow over the

border. Everybody knows about that. Another thing they did is spend their time at the Department of

Justice focused on political prosecutions and not on taking down some of these terror cells that have

sort of flourished, I think. I mean, this is just my own opinion. But, you know, we talked to Tom

Homan. We've talked to others who have said there are terror cells within the United States,

some of whom came over during the Biden administration. So I wonder if, you know, all of the work

you've done to clean up the messes from the Biden administration, if you got, you know, how are

you guys tackling these prosecutions and going after some of the high-prepensity, right?

Yeah, problematic potential terrorism. Look, you're totally right, that the obvious

risk as a country we have when you have open borders is men will come in who want to kill us.

And they came in unchecked for four years and there's a lot of undocumented illegal aliens in

this country. Not every one of them is a terrorist and none of them can be here. But how do you

how do you focus and make sure that you're prioritizing the the ones that are going to harm,

potentially try to harm us? And the way that you do it is is old fashioned law enforcement

and you're right. The Biden administration was not focused on that. And so it's working with

state and locals. It's knowing, you know, hey, there's a guy that's tips come in all the time.

That's how most many of our cases that ultimately result in terrorism charges, we get those through

tips, whether it's intelligence or whether it's just people that see suspicious people doing acting

something doesn't make sense. And it's a priority. Keeping the homeland safe is the most important

thing to President Trump always has been always will be. And so that's what we are number one

priority. No matter what anybody says, no matter what anybody talks about with what we're doing

at the Department of Justice is is keeping Americans safe. And so terrorism and stopping terrorists is

a big part of that. And can I dive into that just for a second? Because I think look, there are a lot

of good people in the Department of Justice FBI career folks who've been doing a lot of good work

for a lot of different years, but the administration's priorities obviously change. And in this one

in particular, obviously change, do you feel like the zeal by which a Biden administration,

for example, was focused on trying to keep our homeland safe with some, you know,

prosecutions or at least investigations into people who came over our border. They're highly likely

to be problematic. We're sort of shelved. That's editing level because it feels like it does

from the outside. We never heard anything about right any of this for years. And now all the sudden

we're getting a whole new ration for reasons that are only that administrations. They did not

focus on what we're focused on when it comes to protecting the homeland. And I don't know why

that's even a Republican or Democrat issue. Totally. It doesn't it's irrational. Like you can fight

with us on budget. If you want to fight the way we're enforcing immigration laws, go for it. But

why we would ever complain or object to protecting the homeland is insane. And you're talking about

money. You're talking about resources, actual money devoted to to joint terrorism task forces

and to the FBI and to our our DHS and to the U.S. Attorney's offices. You're talking about

priorities. And so we were the Biden administration prioritized all kinds of investigations overseas

that had nothing to do with the homeland had nothing to do with America. And those investigations

money, they cost agents, they cost prosecutors. And every time a prosecutor is working on that,

he's not or she's not working on what we're talking about here. And we've come 180 that and just

made it a priority. We have cases going on constantly. I mean, last year we charged more

defendants with terrorism-related charges than the Biden administration did in two years.

We did that between, you know, in 11 months. And that's not because all of a sudden it got

less safe to the contrary. You're just doing it. We just did it.

So just to broaden it out beyond anti-terrorism charges, there's been a huge crime reduction

effort under President Trump. And he's seen a lot of the stats on violent crime and stuff. And

it seems like all that's working. What can you tell us about the efforts of DOJ as part of that

process? Listen, it's not talked about enough. It's not talked about every day like it should be

that we are reducing violent crime in this country. It's ways that haven't been seen for years and

years and years. And it comes from everything from DC where we all live, or we are right now,

to where it's just, you know, it used to, it's called whatever you want to call it, broken windows

policing. It's just being on the streets, letting law enforcement be there, doing their jobs,

to Memphis, where we've we've saw massive reductions in murders and people who have illegal

guns and rapes. And that's in just a very short period of time. And then you have the FBI,

DEA, marshals, ATF, DHS, every single day arresting bad guys, arresting robbers, drug dealers.

And again, I don't want to sit here and knock the last four years because we're a year in. So

this is our game now, but we did come into a situation where there was not the focus on stopping

illegal drugs, stopping the distributors, stopping the drug dealers on the street corners,

stopping the small arm robberies. So a yearly store gets robbed. It gets robbed. That's a federal

crime. It's not a state crime. It's a federal crime. And no attention paid to that or very little

attention paid to that. And so we're seeing extraordinary results in blue states, red states,

rural communities, Indian country, big cities. And it's, you know, we yell it from the rooftops,

but it's much easier to complain about, oh, you're being really mean on immigration,

than to actually say, look what we're doing, you know, to stop, to bring the murder right down.

How much do you think it is psychological with state, local, police knowing that they have a

federal government who has their back undoing their jobs? Because I think we got to a point over

the last, you know, during the Biden administration, certainly everything after George Floyd, where it was

unclear about whether or not the federal government was more interested in prosecuting the police

officer or the criminal. Listen, the vice president said on your show said something that I think

is totally true. The very basic way we make our streets safe is by making sure law enforcement

know that we have their back. And, you know, it's everything from me going and talking to a

sheriff's association. And afterwards they say, you know what, thank you for showing up. Nobody

showed up for the past four years from the federal, from the Department of Justice. Oh, thank you

for saying you have our backs. So that's where, that's where we are in this country. The mere fact

that the deputy general says, guys, we have your back, they're going to just say thank, thank, thank

you. That's so generous. That's not generous. Yeah, that's all nice. That's the job. They say

stuff, man. So I don't think, anyway, yes, there is, it is, it is, every day, the attorney general,

myself, all of our leadership scream from the top of our lungs that we love, we back the blue,

that we support local law enforcement, that we support our feds. Yeah, it's not just locals.

It's all of our 1811 federal agents put in their lives on the line, every day. And I think it's

true that if you're, it's just like your job or my job, if everywhere you go, people say they

don't like you, it's gonna wear on you. Like you can't say it doesn't bother me. Yes, it does.

It does bother you. Okay. As opposed to the opposite where you have, where you have cops who go

through a community and they're appreciated and the kids come up with them and say, I want to be

you when I grow up. That's, that's what we should be striving for in this country. And it's,

that's, that's done thing to say because of course it is. But I have to say that because that's

not what we did for many years. Yeah, we're into reiterating the plain and obvious. Yeah, let's

just state the obvious over and over again. Cops are good. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Speaking of the plain

and obvious, and you mentioned a lot of things that the Biden administration was doing wrong, where

you, you have, you have turned 180 degrees. One of the things that they overlooked for all four

years was fraud. And we always joke with our dear friend from Minnesota. Yes, it's been a fun

topic conversation for the last time. Never stopped. Yeah. Noticeably absent today.

His own state has been, you know, center stage in a lot of the conversation about fraud. But we all

know that this is going on all over the place. And you, you were saying right before we started

that you guys are launching a brand new division or a new office inside a DOJ to go after this.

Yeah, you're totally right that it's a massive problem that nobody wants to talk about because

it's not fun to talk about fraud, Medicaid fraud. All right. If you bring that up at a cocktail party,

everybody's going to walk away. Yeah. Okay. But, but you know, spreadsheet. Yeah. Right. Exactly. But

the vice president has been talking about it for months. The president's been talking about it.

And certainly we have been as well. And so right, we're standing up on an entire new division.

No, no, we're making a new assistant attorney general to focus completely on the fraud problem.

The fraud problem is insane. So imagine how fraud takes place in the federal system. It's mostly

Medicaid, Medicare, some other program fraud. But there's a recent case that is a perfect example

of how fraud takes place to guys from Pennsylvania. Sign up for benefits to run homeless shelters

in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They don't live there. Okay. They dub themselves as like the housing

guys, housing dudes, I think, and they they register for for all these programs. They then go to

Minneapolis and they find people who are homeless, get them to sign some paperwork, apply saying that

they're given these guys all kinds of all kinds of benefits, all kinds of programs at the end get

like six four million dollars. Now a four million dollar fraud. That's not Bernie made off. Okay.

But that's just two dudes. Yeah, just driving from Philly to Minneapolis, ripping us off your money,

money, money, ripping us off and nobody care. And you can pound it a thousand times. Nobody cares.

Like this, the fraud is extraordinary. There's all kinds of fraud. For example, school lunch program

fraud. We just give money away like candy as we should to the most deserving to the kids who need

it to make sure they can eat when they go to school. And you have these daycare centers and you have

these schools that do not exist. And there is no check on them. So we get the feds get a bill,

hey, can you send us 2.9 million this month because we have this many thousand kids that we paid

for for their lunches. Turns out it's all mostly made up. That's unbelievable. It's crazy. It's so

disheartening too. I mean, you consider taxes and where people think their money is going. And I

would agree with you that the most deserving have been well articulated at this point. And I think

there's large agreement that there are people who deserve federal assistance. But when you have at

least a third of it, as it appears to me, going to people who just sort of made it up because the

government is not checking on it. So we're going to get to a point where you think this new

deputy, we're going to get a fuller scope. So the goal is the feds, we prosecute fraud. But these

cases take resources. They take a lot of time. So to discover the fraud, I just talked about,

think about the amount of work that has to go into the, you know, a handful of FBI agents or

DHS agents work in the case, sending grand jurisprudence, putting it in grand jury.

Yeah, because you got to prove it in the court a lot to prove it. And you know, just to get a

complaint, you have to, you have to prove it in some dicey jurisdictions and some dicey jurisdictions

and some local governments that do not want to cooperate. They don't want to volunteer. They know

that something fish is going on. And so, so anyway, so what, what the new fraud, what, what we're

going to be focused on is no fraud too small and no fraud too large. So what, what we've seen is

that the middle frauds, so the multi-million dollar frauds, US Attorney's offices are fraud

section at DOJ focuses a lot on those and there's, there's a lot of it. So there's no,

there's no no days off. But, but what we want to do is say, if you steal $1,001, I say felony

in this country. And so if you steal $1,001, you were going to go to prison and you were going

to have a felony. And if people actually believe that, yeah, they're deterrent. It's a massive

deterrent. Yeah. You're not going to go sign up in another state for some program. If you think

you're going to go spend a hard time because it's so brazen, right? And it's like the facts.

Yes. Yes. People read these stories of how brazen it is. And you have to think, okay,

with these two guys in Pennsylvania, brazen enough to do this scheme, they must have heard from

somebody else that this would work. We've, we've, we've joked internally that the mafia is like,

wait a minute. That's right. We're making this problem. That's right. We have to shake down all

of these. We don't have to break knees. Yeah. Right. So my guys just fill out some. Well,

the best thing is not to just stay on these two guys, but when they finally get some inquiries

from from the feds, we have some questions about what you're putting in. They use chat,

chat GP to actually figure out how to answer them. So they then use just AI to answer the questions

and be like, oh, yeah, we had, you know, and so then eventually they were called is how do I

answer this enough to help you? Yes. Yes. Oh, that's a pretty good answer. Let's see if the feds

buy that. And it was so unchecked. They were, they weren't even sophisticated enough to have

like a backup plan. They literally use AI to answer questions. I got to, I got to ask you

because I mean, look, this is a big job. You guys are busy as heck and you've got all kinds of

jurisdictions and all kinds of things that you're worried about on a day-to-day basis. Did you

ever think you're going to be in this line of work? I don't know. It's just a presence lawyer, man.

No. I mean, you clearly had a love for the law very early on. I'm

I'm loving that all the way through. Yes. Yes. Yes. But, you know, at some point,

probably early on, you knew you wanted to be a lawyer. Yes. Yes. Yeah. My first job out of college

was a DOJ as a paralegal. I was a paralegal for a long time. I was a federal prosecutor in New

York for a decade. And I love the department justice. I love this job. I love the work. I love

feeling like we're making a difference in our communities. And so this is the greatest job

in the world. I mean, I really love President Trump. I love working with the attorney general.

We get along great. We're working every single day together. But did I ever think, you know,

I didn't, when I was in like night law school or Brooklyn with two little kids, I was like,

you know, someday I'll be the deputy attorney general. You just wait. Life is a way working out.

Yeah. Put your head down, right? Yeah. You just got to keep your head down. And, you know,

Reddit, you know, representing a charge of the bunch of crimes. And so a federal prosecutor in

New York, I have to imagine you saw some pretty wild stuff. Yeah. What's the craziest case you

prosecuted? Wow, it's great question. So the case that I think was the most insane that I've

said a few times before is when we solved a cold, a cold case murder, we had a guy come in and

say that he had been part of a drug robbery. And he wanted to cooperate. And we said, well,

what happened, you know, how can, you know, prove it? And he said that, you know, we committed the

robbery. It went wrong. We shot the kid. And then we drove up to the Bronx. And we threw

these guns in the river, right? We went over this bridge. And so the FBI took him out. We got

to take out order to take him out of prison, drove him up there. And the case agent was

happened to be on the FBI dive squad randomly. He just happened to be on the dive squad. And they

said to the guy, all right, they gave him a brick and they kind of broke it in half. And they said,

throw this about where you guys threw the guns. And so we did. And the dive team went in and

within like 15 minutes found to know why. Yeah, true. And so then we arrested the participants. They

went to trial. And the guy that actually, the guy that threw the guns didn't know that we had

found the guns because we never told them because he was in jail. He was a witness. So he testifies

and the defense council crossed him and was like, by the way, you took him to find the guns. And

you know, they found the guns and he was like, nah, I know that. That's crazy. And it's like the

perfect kind of collaboration because you know, he's a murderer. He's a bad guy. So how do you prove

that someone like that is telling the truth, right? Yeah, to do like completely independent

collaboration. And so anyway, those so it's great. It's a hot case. Yeah, three points for

the good guys. Yeah, three points for the good guys. Yeah, yeah. Not every fair. I'll tell you,

people talk about being a prosecutor. There's no bad case, whether it's a very basic case,

like a guy with a gun who's not allowed to have one or a murder or a big fraud case.

That's why I think the work that the department does is so meaningful because every case is

pretty cool in its own way. And I think every prosecutor will say that. You know, there's not a

boring criminal trial. Yeah. And so I'm not really a trial lawyer anymore. I'm just a manager.

But but it is the work that those men and women do around the country is not only rewarding and fun,

but also really important. All right. So three quick questions that we ask everybody who comes on

for the first time. Your last meal on earth, if you can plan it, what would it be? Because I know

my wife's going to watch anything she could. You can't do that. I did think about it. I think

at the end of the day, it's a cliche, but I would want a filet medium rare with like a black pepper

corn with some kind of like smashed potatoes and Brussels sprouts with probably honey on it.

There you go. I like that. Okay. All right. So your second question is, you've accomplished a lot,

clearly all the way leading up to this. But at some point in somebody's life, they encounter something

that they're actually really good at. They just don't have the time to pursue. And in another life,

they'd be like, I wanted to do that thing for you. What would that be? So for me, it would definitely

be playing hockey. All right. My father was from Hamilton, Ontario. Yeah. All right. Not

I don't know how. And all of a sudden this guy lights up. But and he came to the United States to play

hockey. He won two back-to-back national championships at University Denver. And I was just going to be

probably better than him, probably Gretzky level. And then when I was like 11, my dad moved to Louisiana.

I never played hockey again. No. You just got the whole, you're like, no, I mean, the SEC.

Right. I'm going to play baseball. That's good. I love hockey. I love watching hockey. I think

that hockey players life, like you, if you're playing for the Florida Panthers, you can golf in the

morning. Yeah. And then go play hockey at night. Like it's just, it's the dream. It's really nice.

It's really nice. It's really nice. That's great. All right. So question three, our view is it

almost everybody that's successful is motivated by one of two things, the thrill of victory or the

agony of defeat. And it's not that anybody doesn't like the win. Not that anybody loves to lose.

It's what motivates you to keep on going right to work a little bit harder. Jordan is obviously

the agony guy. We always say Phil Mickelson is kind of our thrill of victory type character. But

knowing the sort of polls, where do you think you find yourself on that spectrum? I'm definitely

victory. Your victory. Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. It's a 50, 50 split totally. And there's a lot of

I think motivational value and defeat, right? I mean, of course. But yeah, I'm definitely,

I'm definitely like, I think we can do that. Yeah, we're going to do that. It surprises me because

I find most time we have lawyers in, they're usually agony and defeat guys. It's true. You know,

because they got to plan out how they might lose a case. Trial lawyers in particular are always

like, no, we look over across the diet. They're like, no way that ass ones. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's

it. Listen, it is true. The word that's built into our nature to be like, well, that might work,

but it probably won't. Yeah. Like, or when you're talking, your job as a lawyer is to kind of give,

you can't just say, don't worry, we're definitely going to win this. You have to say like,

well, we should win, but there's the following seven things could go wrong. You kind of got to

interrogate yourself. You have to play devil's advocate every time you have a conversation with

somebody, but I got it. So, I mean, maybe I learned it from President Trump, but he's the same

way like he's like, we will win. Don't worry. I'm like, sure, it's, I don't know. No, no, no, we

will win. And he's, you know, he's right. Like, I say to people all the time when I talk about

representing the president and what it was like those two years and all the criminal cases and

everything with the judges in New York and, and, and DC. And then people will get, you know,

you can, the mood of the room will get a little more solemn, but then I always say, but, you know,

we won. So it's okay. Yeah, everybody, right? Everybody stand up. We won. You know, it's okay.

It's a while experience. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, just watching a full weaponized

Department of Justice and state actors is coming full throat. It's crazy. I mean, we don't have

long enough to talk about it. Maybe I should come back. But they, it's, when you talk, when

somebody says today, what, oh, President Trump is weaponizing DOJ. I look at them and I say, I mean,

it's true. It wasn't one or two indictments or even three or four. They filed six indictments

in four jurisdictions. So imagine, no, there's not a criminal among us. El Chapo went to trial

in one jurisdiction, right? And President Trump was flying from Palm Beach to New York to DC

back to Atlanta. Yeah. And everybody was like, yeah, follow the facts, you know, like, and then it's

so obnoxious that people are now saying to us that we are weaponizing something. And, you know,

you want to say to folks, just run over and look in the mirror for a minute. Yeah. I mean, seriously.

Did everybody have amnesia? Yeah. Everybody has amnesia. I walk in the oval sometimes and

half the people in there were either criminal defense attorneys because of the weaponization

by the Department of Justice, or were subjected to the folks that were doing it. And so, you know,

we learned our lesson. Yeah. But yeah, I know it was, it was honor of my life, as I will always say.

And, yeah, when you come back, we don't want to dive deeper. Yeah. Because I'm sure you've got

a million incredible stories, but it's been a pleasure to get to know you. Top Blanch, she's doing

the Lord's work over at the Department of Justice. Thanks for joining us. Thanks a lot, guys.

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gambling problem call 1-800 gambler. Okay, some very interesting stuff there. Not just on how they're

cracking down on terror cells within our country, but also the fraud that's rampant everywhere. And

I'm really interested to see what comes out of this brand new department. He's standing up. Yeah,

it seems significant to me in that they're doing something. I mean, it can't be easy within the

confines of these big departments to do something unique and have a unique person in charge

of a very specific task like fraud. But when you have the scale of the problem that Blanche was

talking about here, you don't have any choices, but to dedicate a lot of personnel and financing

to try to crack down on it. It's really, look, it's impressive. He's doing good work. Good dude.

I'm glad he's there. I'm glad he's doing all of that stuff because it's just super important.

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