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Good morning on this glorious Monday morning.

It is March 9th, current time 6-0, 6 am.

We're going to do things a little different because I have to have my Monday morning

fix with Representative McCabe.

And I know he is traveling, so I begged him to just shift it to the 6 o'clock hour from

the 7 o'clock hour and he said yes.

So we're going to do something a little different this morning.

We're going to start out with a great way to start your week with Representative Kevin

McCabe.

I'm telling you, I may not get better than this.

Good morning, sir.

You're so nice, Amy.

I appreciate it.

Well, it's great to hear your voice.

Thank you so much for squeezing us in this morning.

I know you have a busy morning.

I will tell you, I've been watching all this news the last week or so.

There's so much going on on the federal level.

I know there's a lot going on in Juneau, but I haven't asked anybody this, so I'd love

to get your perspective.

Obviously, what's going on in Iran and the Middle East?

What are the mumblings in the hallways of Juneau?

Is it generally supportive or what are you hearing from other legislators or staffers

as the Middle East unfolds?

Yeah, well, that's a really good question.

It's absolutely divided along party lines for the most part, or maybe you should say

we, it's divided along Trumpian lines, but those that are Trump supporters are generally

supportive of what he's doing, and those that are not Trump supporters are more liberal

and, you know, they're not supportive of it.

So I suspect that a lot of it hinges on illegal immigration, and whether or not they trust

that there was actually nuclear weapons, and why didn't we use diplomacy, and I've seen

a number of things that came from Kutcher, and I forget the other, who else was with,

and there were some other diplomat with Kutcher.

Yeah, with Kutcher, yeah, Steve with Kutcher.

So I've seen what they said, and what they reported almost immediately, before this even

happened, before Trump even went in there, they reported this, and how basically the Iranians

had come in and said, hey, we have 11 kilos of this stuff, or 4.6 kilos of it, enough

to make 11 bombs, nuclear warheads, you know, so, yeah, you know, it's pretty divided.

I think people are just kind of watching and waiting, of course, the price of oil is

an interesting, you know, how do you debate that, so if this lasts six weeks, will the

price of oil go back down?

I know that the price of gas in my neighborhood has gone up 30 cents, like 10 cents a day

in the last three days.

So you know, we'll struggle with that, the price of gas, but we will love the price of oil

per barrel, which is over 100 right now.

So what does that mean for, you know, as you go into the budget season now, I mean, you

had talked about whether it stays higher, whether it doesn't stay high, I mean, in Alaska

politics, this seems like everybody is waiting for that spring forecast and the, the, the

the price of oil that's, you know, articulated in that, I mean, how does that plan to the

budget?

Yeah, it's absolutely going to plan to the budget.

This particular bump right now plays into the supplemental budget quite a bit.

So we're going to have the supplemental budget back on the floor in the house probably

today, maybe Wednesday for concurrence, the Senate added a pile of money to it now instead

of being 494 million, it's 533 million for a supplemental, it's supposed to be a fast

track.

I think I talked about that a couple weeks ago.

So now it's back in front of us and we're going to have to make a decision if we're going

to pass that and if we're going to go into the CBR, so this is where the minority comes

in.

If we don't go into the CBR, if we don't pass that budget, then it's going to have to go

to a conference committee.

Let me rephrase that.

It will probably pass the budget itself because they have 21, but the CBR vote will probably

not pass.

So then it needs to go to a conference committee.

So then it gets conferenced.

The only thing conferensible is the 44 million or whatever the Senate put in over there

when before they send it back to concurrence.

So then it will go for conference committee and then what happens.

So then it comes back to the house in the Senate to be voted on and my guess is unless

somebody in the minority breaks, it will probably not pass again.

So you know, this is the problem they have when they act like a steamroller and they refuse

to actually listen and work with a minority, they still need because they're funding

source, they've chosen, which is a constitutional budget reserve.

They still need the minority's help, but they don't, they won't even, they're basically

going to hold a hostage and say, see you guys, you guys just want to vote for it.

But they wouldn't, they wouldn't listen.

I mean, there was some reasonable amendments on the floor that I saw, I saw Will staff,

you know, propose some.

I thought, why not?

Right.

And remember why we're in this situation is because last year the co-chairs of house

finance decided that they were going to get creative on where they got the money from.

And part of that federal match money that they took out of the budget, they reappropriated

from the Cascade Road project in Juneau.

And even though they were clearly told by the DOT that that money was within a week

of being encumbered to the project, meaning it was getting, you know, promised to the contractors

that were going to work on it, DOT clearly told them that and yet they still did it.

So the governor was sort of forced into a situation where he had to veto it because by the

time he got the budget, the money had already been encumbered.

It had already been basically spent.

So they were relying on a fund of money or a pot of money that was no longer there.

Just like they did with ADA, the governor had to veto that.

So then they went into the higher education fund and that's where they ended up getting

some of the money for the budget.

You know, there was contingency language that says if the minority does not vote for a

CBR draw for this budget, we'll take it from here or here.

It sounds like they're attempting a little bit of leverage.

I mean, they're trying to extort, you know, where are the monies coming?

You know, this feels a lot to me like people that are trying to be a little smart.

They're trying to be a little cagey here.

And just why can't we just, you know, frankly, budget from the earnings reserve account

from the regular general fund?

I mean, you know, the reason why do they keep going to the CBR?

Yeah, I know it.

Well, that's because that's what that's, you know, that's our behavior and has been

for the last 15 years.

You know, we're $17 million for $70 billion down in the CBR that we haven't even begun

to pay back yet and we're required to pay it back.

So when and how are we going to do that?

You know, we told them clearly we told everybody that would listen clearly

for this fast track quote unquote supplemental that if they, if they needed a CBR

but we would be happy to do that, please just strip everything out of there

that did not need to be fast track.

So strip out the historical preservation fund, the strip out the higher education fund

is only moving money around.

We could do that anytime.

So why not wait till the 2027 budget?

So there's things in there that could wait till the 2027 budget.

And they don't want to do that because, you know, they don't want to have to do a CBR

on the 2027 budget.

So it's all sort of frustrating.

I just wish that we could all work together and figure out the best path forward for this.

Instead, the minority especially is treated like, well, you don't really, you don't really

know what you're talking about and you don't really matter anyway.

So we're just going to do what we want.

Well, yeah, they don't need your vote, the vote until they need your vote, right?

Right.

Right.

Well, I can't imagine, I can't imagine how frustrating it can be.

You know, I know I've watched the legislature for years now and I know they're small wins

along the way.

And unfortunately, this is the game that has played constantly.

It's a game of leverage, but the budget obviously is the big is the big one that we're watching.

This is just a supplemental part of obviously the regular budget has to go through its process

and you guys are doing that.

What else are you keeping an eye on this week?

Oh, you know, there's a bunch of stuff.

The big thing that's hitting recently is the sorry about the announcement in the background.

The thing is the data center that came out of the resolution that came out of the

burrow assembly this week and sort of set people's teeth on edge because there's lots of

eco-terrorists in the lower 48, the air club, I mean, all of them are lined up against

data centers.

And, you know, Alaska is a sort of a unique situation.

We need power.

We're not going to put in a data center before we put in a new power plant of some sort,

the coal plant or a nuke or, you know, if we had to sit in a wotana and be a different

story.

But we need the headspace.

A power plant would need a big customer before it would make it viable for them to actually

build a new coal plant at the top of West Sitna.

And so this data center, which is Terra Energy is being run by a local businessman, you

know, their idea was, hey, we could do a data center.

We could do it in Alaska because we don't need so much water because we have cooler temperatures.

And, you know, we're not going to put it in the middle of Wasilla.

We're going to put it out, you know, on Port McKenzie or somewhere else, it could even

go up as far as up to Healy up in that area.

So, you know, the problem is, and I heard Jesse Sumner say once when he was on the assembly,

he was talking about the West Sitna access and he said, you know, when we shut these

projects down before they even get off the ground, before they even have a NEPA study

or an environmental impact or any kind of a study done, when we shut these down like

this, before we even look at them just based on something we heard in the lower 48, we

make a mistake because we tell the rest of the world that Alaska is not open for business.

And so, yeah, does it need to be done safely?

100 percent.

Does it need to be done properly with all the environmental impact statements and all

the studies done and all the public input and, yes, we absolutely need to do it that way.

But, you know, jump it down the internet based on a, there's a place called the Lincoln

Center for environmental justice or something and if you read and they're lined up against

these data centers and if you read what they're all about, it's all about diversity and

equity and inclusion and ESG and all those things that set conservatives teeth on edge is

what this, this, you know, Lincoln Center is about and they clearly sent and yet they're

lined up against data centers which ought to be a warning to us conservatives who really

don't like all that stuff that maybe we're on the wrong side of this.

We absolutely need to be good stewards and conservationists because we're Alaskans.

But, do we need to listen to all the angst and all the emotional rhetoric from the lower

48?

No, we need to be Alaskans.

We need to do our Alaskan thing and do the studies properly and see if we can't find

a way to make this work.

If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work and that's fine.

But it's not really going to cost us anything other than saying, sure, Mr. Businessman, come

on in, take a look at it, see what you think, see if it makes sense to put it in there

after we have the power.

You can't bring our power grid, obviously.

So I just get a little bit frustrated with especially my conservative friends that automatically

say no.

Well, let's stop saying no.

Let's say yes, but instead of no, because.

Yeah, I will tell you, I think Alaskans, one of the best places you can develop because

I think we can develop in a environmentally safe and friendly way.

But at the same time, bring much needed energy and jobs to the state.

I think you're right when it comes to that.

Well, I think this is going to be an ongoing discussion, especially when it comes to other

development.

I'm starting to see, I've got to tell you, I was a little, I said this, I hate it sometimes

when I was right, but I said this like a month ago.

I said, I think Kathy Giesel is trying to kill this whole project.

We're seeing headlines now in the Alaska media about moves being made in the Senate to

potentially change the deal basically with the gas line.

Is this something that other legislators are talking about that is getting the attention

in June or is it just kind of outside of June or that we're noticing?

No, I think other legislators are looking at it and saying, what the heck over, we, everybody

seems to be leaning forward, well, except for the CEO of the railroad, but other than

that, everybody seems to be leaning forward and focusing on getting this done.

So saying yes, but let's do it safely or how are we going to do this?

There's a, there's a hundred butts out there, but why, why, why just say no because the

legislature won't have control?

Well, wait a minute, why does Alaska need to have, why do we need to own all of these?

You know, I'm going to go and ask you that once, why do we need to own all of this infrastructure?

Why can't we have business, I mean, we can own the land and they can lease it from us,

you know?

It's a, it's a little frustrating.

We're looking at the point McKinsey-Rail spur, had a meeting with the Alaska Infrastructure

Partners the other day, which is AGDC and McCquery and Martinez and the railroad in the

borough and the railroad said, well, you know, you can build the rail, but you know, I won't

be able to maintain it because my collected bargaining agreement won't allow it.

And I'm like, well, can't you negotiate an MOU with your, you know, I mean, this is

good for Alaska, it's good for Port McKinsey, it's good for the Valley and we're throwing

up roadblocks this far into it.

Hello.

Call up the negotiator and get an MOU, you know, whatever we need to do to get this forward.

We need to start developing our infrastructure because we need, I mean, you want education

funding?

Where's the money going to come from?

You want a PFD?

Where's the money going to come from?

You want your road's plot, your road's fixed, your senior center is done, your libraries

or courthouses.

Show me the money.

Yeah, well, I was going to say spoken like a voice of reason, I mean, at some day, we

have to be forward thinking and this reactionary, everything, we can't build anything, we can't

do anything, but at the same time, we spend like money is growing on trees.

It's just these two things are incongruent, you know, it's drives me crazy sometimes.

Well, you know what does drive me crazy is talking to you every Monday morning.

It's the highlight of my week, so I really appreciate your time.

I know you're about to jump on an airplane, so do you have any parting thoughts for us

today?

No, well, I do have one, so we had to pass or we passed, they passed the masking thing

for ICE out of state affairs the other day.

So this is Representative Hannon's bill to make it illegal for any law enforcement officer

in Alaska to wear a mask.

There are some caveats for health reasons or for cold weather or something like that,

but it's directed at the ICE thing and the Minneapolis thing for sure, even though

I think she filed it before all that happened.

But anyways, it passed out of state affairs, it's going to its next committee of referral

and I would urge anybody that's concerned about that type of lead vertus signaling legislation

to, you know, ask hard questions in your emails and letters, ask how APD is ever going

to support it if ICE comes up here and is wearing a mask, is APD going to arrest an ICE

officer, you know?

Yeah, I don't think so.

It doesn't make sense to me.

Yeah, I mean either.

I mean, we have fabulous law enforcement in Alaska, they're community cops, they understand

their community.

If Minneapolis had the police department that Anchorage does, who understands their community

and knows their community and the people know them, none of that would have happened.

But Minneapolis got political and they decided not to support the ICE agents and that's

what happened.

So, you know, it's a frustrating virtue signaling bill and I think it just needs to die, but

that's just me.

I agree with you 100%.

Well, safe travels this morning as you head back to Juneau.

We appreciate your time, sir.

As always, you are a treasure trove of information.

Thank you so much.

You bet, Amy.

All right.

That's Representative Kevin McCabe.

He represents District 30, which is the big lake area.

We appreciate his time every Monday morning.

It is Mondays with McCabe.

We always appreciate it.

We're going to take a quick break.

We'll be right back.

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Welcome back for time 628.

I want to thank Representative Kevin McCabe for calling in.

He is right now boarding an airplane to go back to Juneau and he was kind enough to call

in.

He usually calls in at 7, but he was kind enough to call in at 6, so we could still get our

Monday morning fix.

I will tell you, Darrell, the level of frustration.

Some of these legislators must feel when they get to Juneau and there's this like a

quagmire.

You have people, let's be honest, let's just talk in between.

You have some people that aren't that smart, that are literally in power positions and

they are the ones that control funding sources.

What's getting paid?

What's not getting paid?

And I got to be honest, most of them I wouldn't hire to balance my checkbook.

Yeah, I'm biting my tongue the whole time you're saying that because I am trying not to

say bad things and stuff like that.

But frustrating isn't really the word.

I don't think for it.

I think that would be the first maybe two years of that would be frustrating.

After that, I think other angry or words start to come into play, but I'm going to say

about mornings with McCabe, you've got their Mondays with McCabe.

It is better than a cup of coffee, listening to him.

I'll tell you what, I wandered in here.

I was still bleasy.

I just kind of like blah, blah, blah.

He started talking and started pulling them numbers out.

My eyes opened up wide.

My ears went wet and all of a sudden I'm realizing my heart started to pound.

He gets like, this is better than a cup of cappuccino, man.

He gets fired up.

So hey, Mondays with McCabe, man, I'm for it.

Well, I'm in agreement with him.

You know, here's the thing.

When it comes to resource development, I'm a drill baby, drill kind of girl.

I am a, let's get to yes.

I'm not one who starts it now.

I'm generally, okay, when it comes to resource development, is there a safe, responsible

way to do it?

Can we access it?

Is it cost effective?

Does it pencil out?

These are all questions that are going through my mind, right?

And I genuinely feel that if we're going to develop in Alaska, it's probably one of

the safest best places to develop.

So I'm all for it.

I'm absolutely all for it.

The other thing I wanted to follow up on really quick was we were talking about the law

enforcement masking.

I pulled the bill number.

It's HB 250.

That's Sarah Hannan's bill to try to try to, you know, it's her anti-ice bill.

Let's be honest.

That's what it is.

Sir Max over 48.

Yeah, it's so stupid.

And again, this is, this is the epitome of this, this is the highlight of I don't think

for myself.

I have to follow what other liberals are doing across the country.

And we have to try to stick it to law enforcement because at the end of the day, we're actually

anti-law enforcement.

You know, when you have Mexican cartels that are putting out bounties on ice officers,

if you, if you dox them, if you, if you hurt them, if you kill them, you know, and then

you say, wait a second, they're wearing masks to protect their identity, to protect themselves

and their families because these Mexican cartels and others are doxing them, targeting

them.

And now you want to assist the criminals and, and, and doing those endeavors by forcing

them to expose their faces and who they are.

To me, it's anti-law enforcement.

It shows what a liberal you are.

It should, frankly, it gives liberals a bad name.

It shows that you're very un-American.

And frankly, you're part of the problem.

Part of the problem also, it makes me question, just gosh, it was last year I would swear

that it was that they literally told us that, you know, law enforcement are so important

and we need to keep them so safe that we need to hide their identities from the property

roles and all these other things so that these enforcement officers can not be hurt.

Oh, it's, but it's, it's nation wide that these news and everything.

So, so you want to hide their, their identities from the public, but you want to expose their

identities basically to all the criminals is what you're saying.

Show us their faces and we know they can follow them.

I mean, that's what this looks like to me.

I mean, honestly, it looks like, oh, no, we don't want them to know.

Oh, yeah, all of you guys, yeah, take pictures and put them out there, we want everybody

to know who they are.

I'm sorry.

Well, most of these people that are opining on, on public safety have no idea what they're

talking about.

Okay.

You know, I watch Democrat policies across the country, whether we're talking about immigration,

whether we're talking about law enforcement, whether we're talking, whatever they are.

And frankly, these people are making us less safe.

These people are, I believe, Democratic policies are going to lead to the destruction of this

country.

Yes.

I mean, and you could see it through the, the millions, I was going to say hundreds of

thousands, but it's the millions of people they let in this country unvetted.

I mean, the Democrats have embraced subversion as a policy, and frankly, I mean, if we want

to talk about, if we want to talk about what's going to take down the country, right, there

you have it.

All right.

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Welcome back, current times, 639.

Well, you know, I have to say, Taro, I almost went back and pulled the audio clip last night,

but I didn't do it.

I couldn't remember exactly when I said it.

But it was about a month ago.

I said, you watch closely, I bet you anything, Kathy Giesel is going to team up with

Willikowski, and they are going to find a way to shut down the Alaska gas line.

I thought that was her intent.

I thought they would put forward something to tax it out of existence to put hurdles

up that are going to stop it in its tracks.

I hate it when I'm right sometimes.

You get on the money.

Do you remember?

I said that before, I was like, you know what, you just, she has, I can't even explain

to you when I first got into Alaska politics.

I remember she was a nurse practitioner, and she was the hardest right of the hardest

right.

She was pro-life, she was pro-development, she was, you know, all in, all in.

And now she is, I mean, she's just as hard left as Willikowski.

Easily.

Easily.

I mean, he's mellowed.

She is not.

I look at what she's done, and, you know, I saw this pop-up, Susanne has had this article

that popped up.

Oh, I think it was Friday on the news, and she says in the Alaska story, did the night

fall, fall, the nuts fall from the crazy tree, as Senator Giesel tries to kill Alaska's

gas line.

As soon as I saw this headline, I was like, I called it, I knew it.

You could see the move she was making to try to tax it out of existence.

She has made the complete eco-warier transition, unbelievable.

Okay.

So Susanne's article here, she says, sorry, I just swallowed them.

Oh, no worries.

I can't hear you.

I'll say, I'll sing songs while you clear it.

Yet, Kathy Giesel got in there and literally twisted everything that was conservative, and

she has made them twisted it.

Oh, my God.

She's just gone full liberal in the flip-turn.

You can't even recognize this woman.

It says, just when you think things can't get any worse in the Alaska legislature, someone

shakes the crazy tree in Juneau, and all the nuts roll into the Capitol this year, that

tree appears to have Senator Kathy Giesel, Senate Majority Leader, as one of the nuts falling

off the crazy tree.

Once considered a reliable supporter of Alaska's oil and gas industry, Giesel has undergone

what can only be described as a remarkable political transformation.

Her latest legislation, Senate Bill 275, reads like a blueprint for sabotaging the largest

economic opportunity Alaska has seen well ever.

The short answer is, it doesn't, it appears to do the opposite, she says, and when she

is asking, how does the bill advance the LNG project?

It doesn't.

The Alaska LNG project is one of the, is on the cusp of becoming reality, global instability,

particularly in the Middle East, has investors looking hard at stable energy suppliers.

Alaska, suddenly, looks attractive again.

So what enter, enter what could screw it up, the Alaska legislature, I've been seeing

this forever.

SB 275 sends a different message entirely, political interference, regulatory uncertainty,

and the possibility of the state takeover, aka socialism, I will tell you this.

And we had a caller call in last week and say, you know, basically, that they thought

that the government should own the LNG line, I totally disagree.

The government would screw up a sure thing, guaranteed.

Just remember, remember, I mean, come on, the dairy, I mean, what other projects can

we think of the, the fish processing, you think about this, look, the role of government

is not to own the means of production, the role of government is basic, right?

It's education, infrastructure, it's, it's public safety, right?

That's basically what it is, right?

When I say infrastructure, I mean, roads, I mean, dams, if you want to build a dam, I

have no problem with the government owning that.

But at the end of the day, we're not Venezuela.

What happened in Venezuela when you saw the government take over their oil production

and their means of oil production, right?

I got to tell you, if it can be screwed up, it'll be screwed up by the government.

All 100% of the time, I am very convinced of that.

So I believe the private sector should own the project.

I have no problem if they have to pay royalties to us, it's our resources, that's how

the constitution set it up.

I have no problem if they have to cross our land and they have to lease it.

Okay, that's fine.

But at the end of the day, do we really want the Alaska legislature running the natural

gas pipeline?

These people can't even balance a dam budget, I mean, let's be honest about it.

I mean, oh my God, these people can't figure out, they can find their way out of a web

paper bag.

And this is who we want to actually own one of the largest natural gas pipelines in the

world and run it.

Are you kidding me?

This is a tear.

But I said, I said, she is absolutely, I don't know what it, what it was that tipped

me off, but you know, actually I do know what it was that tipped me off, but there was,

there was some moves that were being made.

And I said, watch Cathy Giesel this session because I think her goal is to try to kill

the gas line.

I think that's exactly what her goal is.

And you do it through instability, you do it through over regulation, and you do it

by the government trying to take control.

And I think that's exactly what we see that's happening.

In Suzanne's article here in the Alaska story, it says, the legislation adds a bunch of

new taxes and surcharges targeting gas pipelines, gas treatment, LNG processing, carbon capture,

and other parts of the industry.

In other words, it raises the cost of doing business at the exact moment Alaska should

be lowering barriers.

The cumulative effect is unmistakable.

The groundwork for a state-dominated gas line, a government energy company.

That approach has a name, socialism.

And it's exactly the kind of policy that drives investment away.

What makes it even more baffling is the timing.

The Alaska LNG project is poised to bring thousands of high-paying jobs, billions of dollars

in economic activity, and long-term supply of affordable natural gas for Alaska homes,

schools, and hospitals.

It says it would be diversified the state's economy and secure energy for generations.

Now, again, enter liberal politics, and what happens is none of us can have nice things.

Let's be honest.

Because it's the politics of envy, it's the politics of they want to control everything

in your life.

At the end of the day, if it was up to the Alaska legislature, they can't even figure

out how to pass a damn budget in 90 days, which they're supposed to do.

That's like the one thing they're supposed to do in the Alaska Constitution is pass a

budget, right?

That's the only thing they have to do.

And we have told them over and over again, they're supposed to have a 90-day session.

They can't do that.

They can't remember the last time they had a 90-day session.

We'll have to look it up.

That'll be a fun little fact.

But most times, they go 120 days.

Most times.

Sometimes they can actually push it to 121 days.

But the reality is that the only thing they have to do is pass a budget.

And somehow they can't figure out how to do that in their 90-day session.

And we're going to add on top of it something as complicated as, you know, effectively running

a gas line project, I, you know, this is just not going to turn out well.

This is not going to turn it.

Now look, the way this plays out this year, no matter what, if this stupid thing passes,

governor's going to veto it.

No doubt in my mind, governor will veto it.

And I do believe enough Republicans are there to uphold the veto this year.

You notice what I just said this year?

Because I am not convinced.

I think things are going to get worse in the Senate before they get better.

I think in 2026 is election.

I think we're going to lose seats in the Senate because you have Edgman likely moving

up to the Senate.

You have Louis Stutes likely moving up to the Senate.

So I think even if they're replacing kind of what you would consider more moderate senators,

I think what you'll have is I think you're going to have a push more to the left in the

Senate.

But I do believe we have a good chance of repealing right choice voting in 26.

So what does that mean?

That means it sets us up nicely for 2028 to gain seats back.

And if we are able to gain seats back in 2028, the flavor of Republicans going to June

will change.

Why?

Because once again, these Republicans are going to be held accountable in Republican primaries.

So Kathy Giesel is going to have to make the absolute hard transition to Democrat and

put a D by her name.

Now she's up this year.

So it's not going to, I mean, we're looking at Kathy Giesel for 2030, really.

But the reality is she's going to have to either survive a Republican primary, which she

will not, or she's going to have to convert to a Democrat, which she is now, so you might

as well be one.

Same with Lisa Murkowski, right?

Maybe what you are, and because they're going to have to survive Republican primaries.

Yep.

I've got an answer for you.

If you'd like about your 90 day sessions.

Yes.

One's the last time they did a 90 day session.

No, I can't tell you because that's not the way I found it in my system.

I can tell you though, since it came into effect in 2006, and the article I'm reading

is from 2023.

So only four times since 06 have they completed their session in 90 days of those four

times.

That's amazing to me.

I don't know.

I was going to say, look at that.

Well, but more than I thought, some of them, they would end it and go right into a special

session.

Okay.

That doesn't count then.

See, so like, like I said, to be honest, maybe, well, well, Clayman had an idea, it's

funny because I don't support Clayman for just about anything.

He did have an idea in 2017 to put this as a constitutional amendment for an idea limit.

It's the fifth time that Clayman has proposed it, and he's only had one hearing since

2017.

Well, look, I got to tell you, see, I tell you, good ideas and bad ideas can come from both

sides.

Right there is a good idea.

See, even Matt Clayman has them every now and then.

Look at that.

I fully support a 90 day session.

I do too.

I know.

I know.

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654.

Well, it is a little bit warmer this week than it was last week.

You know, I had to shovel a couple of times.

I'm telling you, spring is coming.

I keep telling myself this.

You should see me when I'm outside shoveling.

I keep telling myself spring is coming.

Spring is coming.

Spring is coming.

As I'm shoveling my snow out of my house.

But it's definitely a little bit warmer around town than it was the beginning of last week.

I'm looking at temperatures right now and I have six degrees out here in Palmer.

My temperatures are showing anchorage at nine degrees.

Darryl corrects me because I'm sure he looks at temperatures like 15 temperatures across

the anchorage.

Key and I is one degree, big lake, 10 degrees fair bangs.

Little nippy this morning, negative 13.

So not terrible.

What did you tell him for anchors?

I was on the phone said nine degrees.

So it's funny because it depending on where you are in anchorage as always, it changes

our degrees.

I'm just going to real quickly here because I looked at it an hour ago and I have not

looked at it in the last hour, but I'm going to check real quick here.

And so anchorage, you're right.

It is averaging between nine degrees and five below and five below.

Yep.

Good heavens.

Yep.

There's a couple of spots still on here that are sub zero in anchorage, but when I got

here this morning, yes, in Spanard, it was two degrees.

I walked out of the house.

It was two degrees.

I was all right.

Yeah, we're above zero.

I get over here to the studios and it's 12 below zero with the studios.

Oh, diamond's a little nippy out there, tiny pocket of cold, but otherwise, yeah, you're

right.

I'm going to give the rest of anchorage, west anchorage, all in the nines and tans.

Well, I will, you know, it's interesting because it's just like the mad zoo anchorage.

If you're over on the hillside versus west anchorage versus downtown, the temp or East

anchorage even, you see massive fluctuations between west anchorage and East anchorage.

So it can happen.

But you know, we look, resistance is futile, spring is coming.

It's happening.

We all just have to accept it in mother nature.

She must submit because I'm sure I'm here.

That's it.

And I'm sick of shoveling.

I'm sick of shoveling.

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Good morning, everyone.

It is Monday, March 9th, current time, 7-07 AM.

I'm going to do something a little different.

We're going to go straight to the phones, you know.

I'm going to do it.

All right, let's start with the warning.

Let's get back to live.

Local and instant.

What is happening?

Oh, just multiple of you here today.

Literally, it is like this is the greatest Monday for me.

Cut it back.

You know what?

You're just testing me.

You're just testing me.

Good morning, Warren.

Hey.

Good morning, Amy.

Hey, thanks for the hot chocolate.

Oh, you're welcome.

I was hoping you get it.

Oh, my gosh.

So you for those that don't know, Warren has the biggest heart in the whole wide world.

And last week, I'm at work at the senior center.

And I come back to my desk and there's this ginormous box of hot chocolate that he brought

in to donate to the senior center and I had this sweet little dot on there from Warren.

I happen to be away from my desk.

I don't know.

It's a very large facility.

So sometimes, you know, I'm doing other stuff, but I came back.

It was a great treat.

And I've already shared it with everybody and they were very, very excited.

So Warren, thank you so much for that donation.

We appreciated it.

I don't, you saw the little note, it's an expensive way to help a lot of people, so.

Yeah.

Well, it brings warmth to everybody.

And who doesn't like a good cup of hot cocoa?

Well, it's pretty decent.

Yeah, that's right.

The ice queen herself.

Good heavens.

So what's on your mind this morning, Warren?

Um, last week on Friday, Mark Beggitz had called in and really asked Cassidy for what the

heck is she doing.

Cassidy is delisting.

If you're an environmentalist or whatever and you wanted cleaner error, I've got a lot

of friends up in the valley and up in the Fairbanks and all over the place.

And this LNG line is good, I've got a super cheap energy and even lower mic costs to

all of the last ones.

And we can finally get some decent heating, y'all, sir, everybody that needs it.

Absolutely.

That's the first point.

The second one is a lot of people I know wrote into you and asked you to please lower

the cost instead of raising it like you did.

Stopped wanting to kill the best thing that's ever happening to Alaska.

And I just need to just ignore us.

I talked to your most wonderful partner on the federal side.

And he said one of your famous quotes which it is is, follow the money and the only major

difference now in Kathy Deeville funding is the union started in particular, NEA, who

also taught volunteer budget and they don't know how to educate people because they just

don't want to follow all the recommendations that the entire country has been given them.

So, but I'm going to write to the NEA or whatever and say, hey, why are you giving Kathy

Deeville all this money and maybe APOC should work in to see how she's spending other

questions.

I was going to say, I'm watching, I'm looking at her, I'm looking at her APOC right now

as a matter of fact, Alaska Laborers Local 341 PAC gave her $1,000, looking at NEA,

PACE General Account $1,000, IAFF Local 1264, that's a firefighter's union here in Anchorage,

they gave her $1,000, she has become 100% a shell for the left.

As I'm looking at her right here, over and over again, I'm watching Union donations, Alaska

Police Department Employees Association gone completely liberal, $1,000, public employees

Local 71 political lead candidate fund $1,000, I'm looking over and over again, she's

made the complete switch and you know what else is a telltale sign that Kathy Deeville has

made the complete switch and become a complete lefty.

She has Paula Delario doing her APOC as her treasurer who is Paula Delario, she's the one

who does the APOC reports for all the lefties associated with this ship creek group.

And right here I see her expenditures, who do you think is running Kathy Gisels campaign

the ship creek group.

Ship Creek group is the political arm of the Democrats, they are their political campaign

management firm that all the lefties use and that's who it's showing up right here on

Kathy Gisels APOC report, Ship Creek group LLC, there it is, campaign startup systems,

NADMEN setup, et cetera, et cetera, it goes on throughout.

So that's why I said she's made the complete transition, she's officially a traitor to

the Republicans, Kathy Gisels, frankly, should not be registered as a Republican, she is

a Democrat, she's made the transition, she's a traitor, I'm just going to say it, she's

a traitor.

There you go and not only do she know it, but your entire listening audience, not this

in Alaska, but all over the world now it now too.

I'm telling you, this is why Amy needs a podcast, so I can say stuff that I can't say

down there because the veil is coming off, Kathy Gisels has completely made the transition,

she's not even hiding it, she doesn't even try like Lisa Murkowski, she's not, I mean,

if she is worse than Lisa Murkowski, frankly, and yes, I said that.

I'm not a fan of Lisa Murkowski, Kathy Gisels is worse, she's a complete sell out, she's

a complete piece of, you know what?

Can I play you a 18 second clip?

Oh, I know what's coming.

No, no, actually, I might surprise you because I just got this out.

Okay, okay.

Let's hear it.

Let's hear it.

Here you go.

Sean, we've lived, I've lived here since before statehood, we've lived since 1982 with

a cash handout from the state of Alaska, and I think it's pretty obvious that the time

for that is ending.

Oh my goodness.

Okay, give me the other one.

You know, the other one that I was expecting to hear, yeah, okay, Darryl, tell me when

it's cute up because this, this will show you, okay, so Darryl just played you a clip

from last year where she says, you know, you're a resource wealth, the thing that they force

us to own collectively, so if you drill and hit oil, but these are your feet on your

own property, you can't keep it because it's collectively owned amongst everybody, hence

where the permanent fund dividend comes from, right?

It's like we're stockholders in our own corporation called Alaska Resources, right?

Stockholders get what?

A dividend, right?

So that was Cathy Giesel last year, but she's made the complete liberal transformation.

Let's hear her a few years ago.

Hi, I'm State Senator Cathy Giesel, and this is my husband Rich.

You know, the state of Alaska's government is facing some type fiscal times.

It's like a family when someone loses a job or something else happens to make the budget

tight.

But there's a difference between looking at options and grabbing someone else's money.

And that's what Governor Walker did.

He grabbed your money.

That money grab didn't solve anything.

A money grab is not a solution.

Senator Mike Dunlady is proposing a solution that would give that money back to you.

I support that solution and we will be working with him in January to see that done.

You see, you deserve to have that money back.

And Alaska deserves a real solution to the budget crisis.

Pay for it by real extender Cathy Giesel, 1-2-7-01, Redwood Road, Anchorage, 9-9-5-1-6.

Interesting.

Interesting.

How do we go from the commercial where she's sitting at the dining room table and she's

taking her husband's wallet?

How do we go from that where she says it's your money to now it's a handout?

How do we make this is why people don't like politicians?

Because this is all about Cathy Giesel getting re-elected.

She made the complete conversion.

She sold her soul in order to get re-elected and to get back into the Senate.

This is the most, I got to tell you, these are the exact kind of politicians I don't like.

I don't respect.

Because look, I can have a conversation with somebody like Bill Wilkowski and I understand

where he's coming from.

We have different life views, but he's not changing completely who he is.

He is who he is, right?

Whether you like him or you don't like him.

Cathy Giesel, on the other hand, ran as a tea party conservative, hardcore, right Republican.

And you hear her in that ad from a few years ago when she was trying to get re-elected

as a Republican conservative when there was a close primary, by the way.

What you hear her running and saying your permanent fund dividend was your money, and it's

a money grab for the government to take it from you.

And now she's made the complete liberal conversion to saying, it's a handout and the government

knows better than you how to spend your money.

Oh, by the way, it's not your money, it's just a handout.

I mean, those two clips side by side are very telling, very telling.

And that's why I say, the woman isn't standing on ideology.

We can disagree, and if you, if this is truly what you believe and we just have different

life views, all right, we accept that we're just different.

But for her, she is the slimiest kind of politician there is.

Because she told you she was one thing, gone to office over and over, and she sold her

soul to get back into office, and she completely, completely abandoned what she told us her values

were, and she made the hard quirk conversion.

I don't have anything nice to say, so I better go back, I better go back to conversion.

Yeah, go ahead, Warren.

Okay.

Kathy or any of your aged listening, could I remind you that you really do work for the

people of Alaska?

And the people of Alaska don't want to legislate or messing this up.

Could you please just pull your bill and save yourself the embarrassment of having it vetoed

because the entire state, if they could have vetoed your bill?

I know, right?

We would love to see Alaska prosper, for sure.

Well, see, Warren does a good job of softening Amy.

Definitely.

Warren, thank you for the call this morning.

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Good morning to everyone.

Hopefully, everybody's having a great day.

Let's go to the phones and Randy is with us.

Good morning, sir.

Oh, good morning and happy Monday, you two.

Happy Monday.

I'm so glad y'all back, the people who the show that replaces you, it's not that great.

You know, it's all from 3 o'clock in the morning to 4 o'clock in the morning and the other

show for 4 to 5 is good, which leads you to eye heart media.

But anyway.

The beauty about eye heart is there's so much different content throughout the day.

There's different people that I like listening to more than others and I love the local content.

That's why usually in the morning you get me and then the afternoon you get my, but when

we're out, whether somebody's sick or if we're having technical issues, sometimes they'll

plug in a national show.

So you get a little different flavor for sure.

Well, I'm glad to be back for sure.

We took Thursday and Friday off due to due to illness, but everybody's feeling good now.

So we are back at it.

We're in to go.

I really appreciate Warren calling in.

He's really helping us become better educated and better individuals to ask for security

to speak to speak.

Yeah.

That would know how to talk to other individuals and say, you know, camping, geese will get

$1,000 of money from any seed and $1,000 of this, you know, just read it all about information

to other individuals and say, not clippity to play.

Yep.

Oh, it's so great, you know.

Well, it shows you the transformation in a very short amount of time, her going from

defending the PFD saying it's your money to then all of a sudden she's made the complete

conversion saying it's a handout.

I mean, I don't understand that conversion other than to say, you know, my hypothesis is

my conclusion is effectively she's doing, she's made the conversion to save her own bacon

and to stay in elected office, which frankly, I just don't, I just don't respect it.

Yeah.

The things you got to talk about while you're in line to go to school, you've got to say

that make that right choice building bill or pass.

Absolutely.

All right.

What's on your mind?

What else is on your mind?

I'm just going to close out with a joke and I always said it.

I got some stuff on next Friday, but anyway, what do you get when you close a hot ice

cream truck with an impressionist artist?

What do you get when you cross a hot ice cream truck with an impressionist artist?

I don't know what.

Van Gooh.

Van Gooh.

Oh, there you have it.

All right, Randy.

I have one for you.

I know if he has good as Van Gooh, but here it goes.

Are you ready?

Yes.

All right.

Why couldn't the leopard play hide and seek?

No clue.

Because he was always spotted.

Yes, you can.

Yes, you can.

Yes, you can.

All right.

Thank you so much, Randy.

I appreciate the call.

All right.

Bye-bye.

All right.

Bye-bye.

All right.

Always entertaining.

Joe is with us.

Good morning, sir.

Thank you, Amy.

Good morning, Q listeners.

I had three questions about the gas line.

Sure.

And that is, are the big dog oil companies

on the north slope in favor of it?

I have not been able.

I've found it, yes, and no on Google.

And have they signed anything in concrete contracts?

Second question would be, with the new icebreaker,

is it an option to just go ahead and build a LNG plan

on the slope and tanker it and break the way through the ice

with the new icebreaker.

Store us.

And with the four new icebreakers that

are under order.

And the third question on the gas line

would be, does the natural, does the gas on the north slope,

which is petroleum-based gas, work on our hot water heaters,

on our boilers, our forced air heaters,

or will they have to be recarborated

to suit that type of gas?

And what I'm trying to say is, is petroleum natural gas

different than methane-based gas, which we get from cook

inlet and star, and we're burning right now in our homes.

If you can answer those three questions,

and if you have any questions for me,

I'll see if I can get an answer to those questions.

Well, I don't think I have any questions for you,

but look, I'm not an expert when it comes to refinery,

but I would assume, I mean, common sense tells me

that if they're able to pull it out of the ground,

the gas is able to be refined, which

would make it convert it into usable.

It would make sense to me that it is.

I can't imagine that it is not.

But I'm looking at my email right now,

because I'm on the press release for a lot

of these different companies.

And I will tell you, when I just did a quick Google search

inside of my, well, it's not really a Google search,

but a quick search inside of my email inbox,

I have one press release that just popped up

from February 26.

So it's only about a week old, right?

A week and a half old here.

But Glenfarn total energy sign Alaska LNG offtake agreement.

It says right here, Glenfarn Group LLC,

the majority owner and developer of the Alaska LNG project

and total energies today announce the signing

of a letter of intent for the offtake of 2 million tons

per annum of liquefied natural gas from the Alaska LNG.

The agreement was signed in a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

witnessed by US Senator Dan Sullivan in Congressman Nick

Baggage, total energy is one of the most sophisticated LNG

market participants in the world.

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positioned to better serve our Asian customers.

It also illustrates total energies ambitions

to consolidate its position as a leading buyer of US LNG

while diversifying its supply sources.

So not only will we have potential offtake here in Alaska,

but they're talking about potentially supplying

some for the Asian markets, which the important part of that

is you have to have contracts in order to fund the project.

And so I know we go back and forth on this,

and sometimes people will say, well, you know,

we don't need to supply foreign places

or other people outside of Alaska.

But the fact of the matter is, it's

called an economy of scale.

We don't have a big enough economy of scale here in Alaska

to fund the project by ourselves.

So you have to have customers outside of Alaska

in order to fund it.

In this press release that I have here,

it says Glenfarn intends to contract 80% of Alaska's LNG

to finance the project and now has 13 of the 16 MTPA

accounted for.

So these long-term energy contracts potentially

will help fund the project.

That's how the financing of these large projects work.

So again, what does it show?

To me, it shows that there is support for it.

The reason I know it's taken me a little bit

to get to that point.

But it does show me if they're looking

at off-taking about 16 MTPA, and they already

have about 13 of it accounted for.

That tells me there is broad-based support.

And in order to build a multi-billion dollar project

like this, you have to have contracts to say,

yes, we have people that are going to buy this gas.

Because that's what shows the funders

that you have the ability to not only fund the project,

but to pay for it.

Does that make sense?

I hope that makes sense.

So as I'm looking at that, I do think there is support for it.

I think this one press release demonstrates

that there is support for it.

Now, an icebreaker is much different than oil tankers

or barges that are going to be potentially carrying crude.

Is there a possibility to build some sort of off-take

and barge the gas down probably?

But I will tell you as somebody who

has talked to a lot of people in different development

type arenas, whether we're talking about an off-take to Fairbanks,

whether we're talking about transporting

by truck or by barge.

Every single one of these scenarios,

whenever we're talking about a large, large development

project, every single one of these scenarios

is always penciled out as far as cost of running and managing

those types of transportation mechanisms.

And typically speaking, I don't want to say always,

but typically speaking, the most resilient

and the most cost-effective one is the one

that's usually sought after.

And if they've done the math and developed,

instead, it's going to be cheaper in the long run

or most effective in the long run to build a gas line.

That's probably why we're at where we're at.

Now, without looking at all their financials

and looking at all their math, I'm sure they've

done the analysis on barging versus gas line.

And for years, the gas line has always

been the winner when it comes out to the transportation costs.

That's my guess.

But I couldn't, again, you're asking the wrong person.

I'm not the person who's sitting in the board room with them

doing all the fiscal analysis.

You'd have to go to these companies

and say, what would the cost analysis be,

barging versus gas line?

But every time it's come up in the past 30 years,

it seems to me that the most cost-effective and realistic way

to do it is the gas line.

That's what they keep coming back to you.

And I would say they're coming back to it for a reason.

But do I think, look, I've had conversations

with some of the guys relating to gas specifically

and talking about maybe instead of a spur-line to Fairbanks,

gasing or trucking, trucking gas to Fairbanks.

And it just seems to me that it always

comes down to transportation costs and long-term stability.

And those are the two things that have always

brought them back to a gas line.

I don't know if that answers your question,

but it's the best I can do.

Thank you for the call, Joe.

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Well, every other radio show across the country

is going to focus heavily on what's going on with Iran

all the time around the clock.

I'm not doing that.

I'm taking a little tiny bit here and there,

and I'm giving you primary audio

so you can make up your own mind.

You can decide what's good, what's not good, whatever.

But part of that today, what we're going to play is kind of

the mentality of the negotiating team as they went in.

So Steve Wickoff and Jared Kushner

were two of the main negotiators with Iran.

And Steve Wickoff was on Fox News.

And here is a very short audio clip we're going to play.

And this is something that led significantly,

I believe, to the decision to go in

and take out Iran when they did.

There's some other things.

We'll talk about that here in a second.

But here's Steve Wickoff on Fox News.

Both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly

with no shame that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%.

And they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs.

And that was the beginning of the negotiating stance.

So they were proud of it.

They were proud that they had evaded all sorts

of oversight protocols to get to a place

where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs.

OK, so you hear that.

And immediately there's a lot to unpack in that little 60s

second clip.

But the fact of the matter is, for 47 years,

this regime has been hell bent on terror.

And when you look at the decades,

they have been supposed to let you and instructors in

to make sure that they're not enriching

uranium for nuclear weapons.

The fact that they so recently say,

yeah, we have 460 kilograms of enriched uranium to 60%.

The only reason you get to that point is for a weapon.

That's the only reason.

And then they say, we have enough for 11 bombs.

Really, that's a game changer.

But here's the other thing that President Trump knew.

President Trump knew that Israel was going to strike.

I ran why?

Because I ran it at the weakest they've been in decades.

And if you're Israel, and Iran has said they're going to wipe

you off the face of the earth, would you not punch the bully

in the nose before the bully flattened you?

Of course you would.

Of course you would.

It's killer be killed, right?

So Israel Trump knowing Israel is going to take them out,

take out this regime, knowing that.

He also knew the orders had been widely reported now.

And it's clear through their actions,

the orders were given that if anybody struck Iran,

Iran was going to attack a barrage of installations,

US installations, ally installations all across the region,

which they have attempted to do.

So it's either way to be hit or you strike first.

And the reality is the Iranians themselves

are telling you they have enough enriched uranium

to effectively build 11 bombs.

So you have to take out their ballistic missile technology.

You have to be able to take out their supply

to deliver that nuclear stuff.

You've got to take out their Navy.

So you can start to control, again,

if you don't take out their Navy,

it puts all of our military resources

in the region at jeopardy.

So you've got to take it out.

But it also gives you the ability to keep an eye on China.

And if you can control the straighter hormones,

you can control all that oil, 55% of China's oils coming

at 55% of Iranian oil that's being sold is going to China.

So there's a lot going on right here.

There's a lot going on.

But when you hear Steve Whitkopf say,

what the Iranians told them, does it surprise you then

that we struck?

Probably not.

Probably not.

You know, we're going to go ahead

and take a quick commercial break.

But when we come back, I want to play for you,

Idaho Senator Jim Rich.

Rich, he was on the floor.

And when he made his speech,

it kind of put things in a little different perspective

for me.

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Welcome back, current time, 750.

All right, so Senator Jim Rish, he is the Senator from Idaho.

He's also chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

And last week, Democrats in the Senate

put forward a resolution to basically block President

Trump from being able to do anything against Iran.

And I thought his speech on the floor was interesting.

It was about nine and a half minutes long.

So you'll hear, I took the front part of his speech

and the back part of his speech.

You'll hear a little, you'll feel a little transition

in this audio clip.

But I thought he put it in an interesting context.

One that I, I gotta be honest with you.

It's self-evident.

All right, let's go ahead and play Senator Rish.

Senator Faradah, thank you, Mr. President.

Mr. President, I rise today to oppose the resolution

that my Democrat friends have brought here to the floor.

It is very short, only a few pages long,

but the operative part of it is only 18 words.

It's on page three.

And it says, Congress hereby directs the President

to remove the United States Armed Forces

from hostilities within or against Iran.

Real simple.

They're trying to stop, they're telling the President,

he must stop and remove our troops.

From the conflict that we're currently involved in.

The Commander-in-Chief ordered this attack

because of the increase in the manufacturing

of long and medium range missiles

and after trying to restart the nuclear program

that was decimated in the 12-day war.

And all this time, they had a sitting at the table,

dragging out and yacking away at negotiations

that were going absolutely nowhere.

For that reason, he did what he did

and that is ordered our brave young men and women

to do what they're doing today.

The message to the regime I would have today for them

is no one's coming to help.

I said that before in the 12-year war, I was right.

Today, the same is true.

China's not coming, Russia's not coming,

North Korea's not coming, Cuba's not coming,

Venezuela's not coming.

They are not coming to help you Iran.

No one is coming, but there is one entity left

that is trying to help you Iran regime,

only one on this planet.

And that's my friends over here.

They have brought this, and you heard the language I said,

they're trying to use the process,

excuse me, the process of the United States Senate

to stop our Commander-in-Chief

to doing what he has set out to do.

No other entity on the planet is attempting to help you Iran.

Nobody, nobody except one.

And that one is right here, but we're going to end that now.

It ends now, it ends here in a few moments

when we have this vote.

To our brave men and women, I say,

you're fighting to accomplish the task and the objectives

that the President, our Commander-in-Chief, has given you.

We are proud of you.

We are about to help you.

Know this.

We have you or back.

We are about to defeat here on this floor

the last entity that is trying to stop you

from doing the job that the President of the United States

has given you.

Bless you for what you're doing

and bless the United States of America.

You know, it's sobering when you actually hear that.

Because if you look at what's going on in Iran,

Iran has been the leading state sponsor of terrorism

for the past 40 plus years.

They have killed thousands of Americans.

They have killed even more of their own citizens

that have dared to stand up to their radical ideology,

this regime's radical ideology.

And you look at the different allies

that they have launched missiles at.

That is why you see Saudi Arabia, Qatar,

the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait.

Now we're starting to see others join the campaign.

Frankly, against Iran, let's just say what it is.

Even if they're not publicly saying it,

they're celebrating behind the scenes

that the US and Israel have finally done

what nobody had the guts to do over the past many decades,

which was take out these bloodthirsty terrorists.

That's what they are.

They're terrorists.

There's no negotiating with terrorists.

There's no negotiating with these crazy people.

Appeasement does not work.

We learned that with Hitler, right?

There was an effort in the early days

before World War II kicked off.

And the US joined the effort.

Appeasement, appeasement, containment,

containment, appeasement, containment, doesn't work.

Crazy people will continue to do crazy things.

And at the end of the day, crazy people with a nuke

is a danger to all of us.

Every single one of us.

And at the end of the day, the only thing we can do

is kill or be killed.

When it comes to Iran, this critical, crazy Iranian regime.

And when you hear Senator Rish literally laid out for them,

look, where is Russia coming to the defense of Iran?

They're not.

Where is China coming to the defense of Iran?

Where is North Korea coming to the defense of Iran?

They're not.

But when we look across the globe,

the one group of people that are coming to the defense of Iran,

Democrats in the US Senate, Democrats in the US House,

it's shameful.

It's shameful.

And when I heard him say that, it gave me a whole new perspective.

I see things clearly.

I see things very clearly now.

At the end of the day, there is one political party

that is not putting America first.

There's one political party that has Trump's arrangement

syndrome so bad that they're willing to sacrifice

and put Americans at risk

in order to retain power and in order to oppose orange man

because orange man bad in their mind.

It's shameful.

It is shameful.

At what point do we call it what it is?

In my mind, it's treasonous.

In my mind, it's not America first.

It's America last on the left side.

It's shameful.

All right, that doesn't for all of us today.

We will see you tomorrow morning at 6 p.m.

Until then, stay safe.

God bless.

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