6.12.2025 -- NLS -- Trip, Trump Tax Cuts & Ukraine Fallout

On this episode with Neal and Julie, the conversation ranges from major national policy decisions to Idaho-centric political insight. They dive into Senator Trip’s behind-the-scenes influence on making Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent and the challenges congressional Republicans face with internal opposition. They also discuss U.S. foreign policy, including Iran, Israel, and aid to Ukraine—raising concerns about how funds are spent and the true motivations of lawmakers. Mitch McConnell and Pete Hegseth’s ideological divergence sparks debate, while the ongoing war and America's global role receive scrutiny.

The show also touches on media absurdities, celebrity politics, and how Democrats still cling to outdated talking points on border security. Neal and Julie reflect on local leadership, Idaho values, and why some politicians fail to resonate with constituents. They invite listeners to join upcoming celebrations and share thoughts on NewsTalk. The episode wraps with reflections on leadership, accountability, and staying grounded in truth amidst political theater.

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Transcript

Good Thursday morning, and welcome to the program, Neil Larson, along with Julie Mason. And joining us from the nation's capital this morning is U.S. Senator Jim Risch. Always a pleasure to talk with you, Senator. How are things this week? Well, much like they've been there very, very busy last very, very busy. In fact, let's just dive in and talk about the big, beautiful Bill.

I actually was on vacation for a few days, and and not a lot of data where I was, so I wasn't checking the news day by day. I get asked Julie yesterday, so what's the status on the big beautiful bill? And not nothing passed yet. So tell us what you know. Well, first of all, one thing all Idahoans should know is, that, Senator Trip was right in the middle of this.

This is, you know, he is chairman of the finance committee, and the finance committee is where all this stuff is. And so he it is he he is really busy. He doesn't he can't do a lot of things, as far as visiting with people and things like that, because he's meeting constantly with senators, with representatives, with, the white House.

But he's the guy that's, right in the middle of this thing. And listen, this is going to be very difficult to, to bring together. You know, I've been doing this a long time, and this is one of the heaviest clips I've ever seen. And it it really gets complicated because of the Senate rules and the, relationship between the House and the Senate is either one of the bodies could resolve this, but when you put the two together, it is just doubly hard.

It it goes up by, magnitudes of, a lot lower. So, I there's not a lot I can tell you now except that we meet regularly and talk about it. It it's got a lot of moving parts in it. It's you know, the number one thing is that it does is it makes permanent the tax cuts in 2017, President Trump's original tax cuts.

And he went above, above and beyond all. And he's right on that. And we're trying to help him every way we can and get it there. The second step is to, it, it is to, work with the budget in the appropriations because, we're going to debt $1 trillion more every 150 days. And it's accelerating.

And it's this is staggering. It just kept on. So you put those two things together and, it becomes more difficult. And then on top of that, we have all the other things that, that, that President Trump wants to do and that we want to get done for. So this becomes really, really complicated, really difficult. If I didn't know better, I'd say that this is impossible.

It can't be done. The problem with that is it has to be done. If it's not and the government gets shut down and a lot of other stuff, bad stuff happens. So. So is it part of the calculation, Senator? And and forgive me for jumping in here, but we know that there are members of Congress on the other end of the Capitol, like Thomas Massie, that are just voting against it.

It's kind of the libertarian wing. They joined the Democrats for very different reasons, but they their vote is identical. And it's a no. Are you do you have to calculate that into the negotiations on the Senate side, anticipating how it's going to play on the on the House side? Is that is that part of the complexity? Absolutely. Let me give you a simple example of that.

And there's there's a whole bunch of these I don't know if you know what the Salt deduction is. State and local taxes. It's called salt. Very important to states that are high tax states like New York. And, there's a half a dozen, congressmen from New York that insist that they, that they reinstate the salt used to be salt.

There's unlimited deduction. And, it was it was reduced to $10,000, in the, 2017, redo of the tax, things that, that Trump did. So it's $10,000 now, you've probably seen it on your taxes where you, you can your property taxes can only and, and other and some other tax deductions can only go to 10,000.

Well they wanted on limit go back to unlimited which isn't going to happen. But they compromise in the House. And they raised it from 10,000 to 40,000. Well you got people in the Senate or in the House who say if that if that changes, if, if it comes down from 40,000, I'm not going to go for it.

We got people in the Senate saying, well, I'm, I'm not voting for any salt. I hate the salt production. Those tax those states are taxed too much, should reduce their taxes, blah, blah, blah. But in any event, the the the difficulty here is the Democrats are out of this all UT out. So that means the Republicans have to pass it.

And then in order to do that we have to have unanimity, almost unanimity. We got we got a three vote margin in the Senate, but Rand Paul won't vote for anything. So we're down to two vote margin. Yeah. In the House, they've got, a three vote margin or something like that. And Massie will vote for anything.

So that narrows their margin. And so yeah, it's tough. It's it's really difficult. And and Mike needs to get a lot of credit for this and, that he doesn't sleep much. So you that I hear your frustration, Senator. So I'll ask you this really quick follow up, and then we'll we'll get on to other things. But how do we teach our libertarian friends?

The reaganesque principle of half a loaf is better than no loaf at all. Yeah, most people get that the best majority people, get that, others just their, their, you know, they're virtual anarchists, you know, I mean, they, they, they want to burn the place down and, look, we if, if were that, if you try that, you're not going to be you're not going to be around very long.

The people elected us as Republicans to govern, and they want to see governance. And it's not governance when you don't, resolve problems. And when you do resolve problems, you usually have to give something to get something. And that's, there's people that you you're absolutely right on this. People just refuse to accept that. And it's, it's it makes things tougher, no question about it.

All right, Senator Risch, let's move on to a different topic. And I'm not sure how much you can share with us at this point, but it was announced last night that non-essential staff is being removed from the embassy in Baghdad. We've heard that other personnel has been removed from the Middle East during the met, performance last night, Donald Trump said that there was absolutely no way that Iran can end up with a, a nuclear weapon.

Can you give us any insight on this escalating tension between Israel and Iran? Okay. You raised two points here. Number one, that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. That is our standard. That is Israel stands and it has been for a long, long time. And it is actually kept Iran from developing a nuclear weapon because the, the Israelis, I sit across the table from Netanyahu, 2 or 3 times a year, and you look you right, you know, and say, we're not going to let this happen.

And, so then the question becomes, what is the US do? Well, there are our strongest, our our strongest, most reliable ally in the region. We're not going to turn our back on them when they, when and if they do something. So that's all I can tell you about that without getting into the, stuff.

It's classified. As far as the activities that just happened there with, with removing non-essential personnel. I can't tell you a lot about. I'm not permitted to tell you a lot about that. I can tell you this. This is not unusual. That happens 2 or 3 times every year in a region where there is there are facts that can conclude you to believe there could be a problem there.

And, so you're better off doing that, to, to, to, to lessen the chance of any damage should something happen, rather than, just let it be so I it's it's obvious it happened. Those kinds of things happen generally before there is an event, but they also happen a lot when there isn't a, you know, it isn't an event because, of over caution, over cautiousness.

So I wouldn't read too much into it, but yes, it happened. All right. We're talking with U.S. Senator Jim Risch. Senator, let's shift to what's happening in Los Angeles and other communities around the country. It seems to be kind of centered in Los Angeles, where there are riots and there is violence. The Democrats are insisting there are no riots.

And there is no violence. And it's mostly peaceful. And, President Trump is being very proactive in making sure that these cities don't burn down like they have in the past. What is your take on what we're seeing in Los Angeles and other places around the country? Well, you know, these idiots that are on TV, the mayor of Los Angeles says, look, there's there's nothing happening here.

And then there's the split screen. And on the other sides are looting. They're burning. They're they're, attacking police officers. And, I mean, I don't know if they think the police, the American people, are nincompoops or what have you. These are full on scale riots. The same, type that you had over the years, whether it was civil rights when it started or the Rodney King stuff or, or, what have you and, I saw the chief of police in, in Los Angeles.

He says we're overwhelmed. And of course, both the mayor and the governor are saying, oh, well, we can handle this ourselves. It's all under control. Well, when the chief of police, whose people are out there on the front line saying we're overwhelmed, that's a, a strong signal that, somebody ought to do something about this.

And we have a president who likes to do something about something when he can. And so, he did what he did and, bless him for doing it. Okay. All right. That's leading me to think about the celebration that's going to happen this Saturday. Are you partaking in any of those celebrations that, is kicking off the year of celebration, that Trump has declared, you know, unfortunately, I'm going to get on a plane and come back to Idaho here.

This I think that's probably a wise choice. That your celebration? Yeah, I come home I come home every weekend, you know, and, I had stuff planned at home, long ago. So, this is, you know, in DC, there's a big parade, as you know, on Saturday, and the media is jumping up and down about this. I don't know if they're blind or what, but there's parades here, I think, just about every week.

I mean, it's a parade. Parade is not, an event here in DC. It's, it's regular order. So I, I don't get too worked up about this, and. Yeah, I know and all they're all said, are you going to the parade? And they said, well, look, I love the Army. I know they're celebrating their 250 here.

No, no, no, it's also comes first as well. Yeah, but it's the Army that's doing this in honor of their 250 years, you know. Well, they don't want they don't they're not interested in logic, you know. So anyway, I don't I don't this isn't high on my worry list. Yeah. Senator, last question. Of course, we have a midterm coming up next year.

How are things looking for GOP prospects moving ahead? What does the map look like and how are you feeling in terms of optimism for the Republicans in the future? Well, look, this is really, really important because, we have the presidency plus both houses. And you really to get stuff done, you really need that. In the Senate, we're actually in pretty good shape.

We got a three vote margin, and they've only got two. If arguably a third one, that's a possibility, but only two that they could possibly flip, which is three of them and still be in, in the majority because, the vice president. So, so we're we're in we it and by the way, we got, we got at least three of theirs, but we have a shot at so and it's, you know, incumbents don't get beat very often in a said they retire.

It happens there's no question about it. But it's a, it's a heavy lift. So we've got incumbents in in everything. They've got a whole bunch of vacancies where they're, they're people are quitting. But, we're, we're there's nobody in this town thinks that the Senate is going to flip. The House is a whole different ball game.

That truly is going to depend upon what the state of the economy is. And, idiosyncrasies in, in various districts, because they are so close and in the House races, the, Senate race takes on a life of its own. The House races are much more dependent overall on the condition of the country, how people are feeling and that sort of thing.

So so, you know, we're, there's a lot of focus on, on the house to, to keep, to keep those seats. A good example is, remember I told you about salt, deduction the New York guys. Well, they're, they're all Republicans and that's, that's a big issue up in New York. And so, you know, you got 5 or 6 people that, that are dependent upon a particular issue that becomes difficult to.

So. Yeah. So but we we're optimistic about, we're optimistic about the Senate. And, you know, Trump's going to, tamp down a lot of the upheaval that's going on. I don't I don't think that the, the riots or the immigration issue affects us badly at all. In fact, the polling says the Americans on our side, you know, it's it's a privilege to be here, not a right to be here.

You can't just walk in and say, I have rights. You know, it doesn't work that way. The other side of the coin, the economy is always the issue. And, by the time we get to make sure that it's going to have all this trade stuff and tariff stuff behind him and the economy is going to settle down, I think, more than than what we're seeing, back on the riots, it's always fun when the Democrats film the Republicans campaign commercials for them.

It's kind of nice. Yeah, it's. Yeah, it's all right. All right. Senator Jim Ross joining us this morning. Senator, always good to have you with us. And we appreciate it. We'll talk with you again soon. Neil and Julie I always enjoyed being with you guys. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. All right. Likewise. 822 now on Newstalk 179. We'll be back.

It's 825 on Newstalk 107. What's the windshield wiper thing? Cher dancing over here. There you go. Might as well. Yeah. Might start the celebration early, I know. Right? Yeah. Speaking of which, we are celebrating. Commemorating, just recognizing the five year anniversary of the launch of Newstalk 109. Which the actual anniversary was this past Sunday. But Sunday's a weird day.

It's a special day. Yes. The day we get ready. No that's Saturday. No. But you know we're like we're not going to have an any big celebrations on a Sunday. So we thought and plus I was, I was up in British Columbia somewhere that at that point. But we thought okay let's, let's do something open house tomorrow.

It'll be a great Friday thing to do. A lot of people have the day off. So if you're out and about, you're like, oh yeah, I'm going to stop off hanging out with Neil and Julie for a minute. We're just going to do a little studio tour. You can come in to the station. You can kind of see where the the sausage is made here, the radio sausage.

And, we'll have some little sandwiches and cake and bean treats that you can have. And if you'll let us, we'd love to take a picture with you and record your greeting and, just, just just kind of letting us know what you think of Newstalk want to. So. So if you really dislike us, now is your opportunity.

And it can be on tape. Let it be heard. You guys are morons or whatever. You. We're not going to govern what you say. Hey. Yeah, yeah. So come join us at 854 Lindsay Boulevard. It's across from Jacobs right there on the snake River. And we would love to have you be with us for our five year anniversary.

Yeah. I, I feel like and we in our meeting today, right now, we have several music station bands in our parking lot, and we're going to probably want to have those moved out for, for this to accommodate the the line of people that will be all the way down to probably Applebee's probably. Of course, you know. Yeah, you know it.

Don't fret if it is down to Applebee's will work. The line will walk on down to meet you. Yeah, yeah, we'll do that. We'll film every minute of it too. So it'll it'll be. No, we're we're, we're, we're planning for the 100 to 200 people. So it does say hi. Yeah. It'll be part of a party. It will it will be fun.

What I really like about stuff like this, Julie, is. And we've seen this at different events that we do a lot of times were broadcast and were busy, but people kind of formed their own communities and. Oh, sure. And there's we even have like a Facebook group. I feel like we're the least popular members of that group because, like, they've created their own dynamic.

We're peripheral at this point, right? We are. And it's it's a Neil and Julie Facebook group. But we're like, anyway, we love them. Yeah, we do love them. And we don't participate as much because we're actually on the air busy while they're chatting with each other. But anyway, so we will see you all tomorrow. It's going to be fun.

11 to 2 or excuse me, 1101. Yep. Okay. It's 828 on Newstalk 107. And, Mitch McConnell, I thought Mitch McConnell retired, but he's still he's still plugging away. He is and still has some annoying moments because he's very Mitch McConnell. Yeah, he really is. Listen to this. He's talking with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Tucker probably won't surprise you, but I'm going to start with Ukraine, and I'm going to ask you a series of questions.

But I don't want you to linger on any one of them, but answer to the series of questions in one answer. Number one, who's the aggressor and who's the victim in the conflict? Russia's the aggressor. Which side do you want to end? As we've said time and time again, this president is committed to peace in that conflict.

Ultimately, peace serves our national interests. And we think the interest of both parties, even if that outcome will not be preferable to many in this room and many in our country. Which side is president? Shameful. And for. Well, as we stated, by both of you, we obviously understand, unfortunately, under this administration in the policy, excuse me, under the previous administration and the policies they pursued, it has driven Russia and China closer together.

So there's no doubt, that China would prefer that Vladimir Putin have a good outcome, but he would also prefer a prolonged conflict, that would keep us and other countries tied down and incapable of paying attention to the malign influence of China elsewhere. One thing I'm sure we agree on is what we don't want to headline at the end of this conflict.

It says Russia wins and America loses. And given the fact that all of our adversaries are communicating with each other, that's extremely important. If we're going to continue to play that role in the world, that the vast majority of members of Congress think we should still play, truthfully, not our adversaries, are more significant than they have been since the Berlin Wall came down.

Okay. All right. My issue here is I think that he is really Mitch McConnell is really trying to define that he's different than Donald Trump and by extension, Pete Hegseth. Yeah. When in reality the conversation is actually very agreeable. But Mitch McConnell keeps using these phrases. Well, I'm sure one thing we can agree on is there's multiple things you're agreeing on.

Senator McConnell, the you're trying to create, them US category here. Yeah. And there really doesn't need to be one. It should be American. Yeah. Russian category. Not them. Us not yeah. Not Trump and his allies and then me in the Senate. Yeah that's true. Like he's viewing the the conflict line of demarcation is within the American political system when in reality this is good versus evil.

This is about wanting to stop the senseless killing of innocent people. Yeah. And that's why I say it. It's not controversial. He what he's asking is fine. And I think they're very obvious answers that Pete Hegseth is giving. I don't know if he thought maybe he would say something different, but the reality is peace in the region means peace throughout the world.

Yes. It does. I also think and we've seen this and I, I'm not sure what drives this, Julie, but it seems like there are some who are hell bent on keeping the war going. And they say it obviously under the guise of they want Ukraine to defeat Russia because Russia invaded Ukraine. They're the aggressor and you always want to defeat the aggressor.

I, I would agree ideally that would be nice if Ukraine, given the billions that we've sent them, given the billions that Europe has given them, that they would have been able to win that war. But at some point, when it's clear that you're in quagmire territory, winning kind of has to go off the table. We didn't win the Vietnam War, but that we needed to end the conflict because we had tens of thousands of our soldiers that were were dying.

And there were other reasons why that war needed to to to end. We don't want the Ukraine, Russia conflict to just go on endlessly. And we've learned that whatever funds we send Ukraine, it doesn't help them win the war. It just helps continue the fighting. And I, I think that, the American public has shifted. I think we were all in at first on saying, yeah, let's I mean there was some really cool moments in the early going of that war.

Remember when the Ukraine guys told Russia to you like it was there were these moments that were pretty inspiring how tough and how much grit the Ukraine soldiers had. And not saying they don't anymore. But I think when you after a while, you realize we have sent them literally, I'm going to use a liberal word, literally billions and billions of hundred.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And and you go, okay, this isn't working out any more for us. We can't just have that open checkbook where we just keep writing checks to Ukraine with the hopes that, well, maybe this next round of funding will help them win the war. It just isn't working. Not going to push it over the edge.

Yeah, it's it's Einstein's definition of insanity. Don't keep doing the same thing over and over again. So I can't help but wonder to Julie, if and how these politicians are somehow making some profit off this war. And it could be something as simple as when they write those checks, they know which contractors are going to be getting that money and they increase their investments in, in those knowing their stock is not going to drop it because they're getting an infusion of cash.

I mean, it could be something that that simple. It doesn't have to be this quid pro quo in a smoky room saying, we'll send you 100 billion, you send me back 5 million. I don't think it has to be quite that nefarious. I think they could set it up so that they actually don't do anything, quote unquote, illegal, but they guarantee that their portfolios are going to increase, so their decision making is compromised when it comes to sending aid to Ukraine.

Yeah. Probably my least favorite part of this clip that you played by Mitch McConnell is the phrase when he said, well, you know, we don't want a headline that says America loses and Russia wins. Yeah, that's pretty good. Thank you. Yeah. We've already lost. America has already lost in this, and Ukrainian people have already lost in us.

And quite honestly, Russian people have already lost in this. Yeah, there's already a loser. Senator McConnell, you're acting as if we haven't determined a winner or loser yet. Yeah, there's already been a loser. Yeah. That's true. And sometimes your best, your best hope is to end the losing, as opposed to declaring a winner. And sad that it has to be that way.

Because I think we're kind of locked in on having a victor and I think we're just naturally built that way we are. But it's not reality, especially in a conflict like this. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's not. I also think that Zelensky, his demeanor has not done himself and his country any favors either, just sort of the entitlement, the making demands, the the ticking, the Karen finger and all of that, that that's not a look that helps.

Maybe it it got you a little bit at some phase of this. That is not going to bode well for ongoing help from the United States, right? If you wanted to be a hero, that's not the persona of the you should have infused into look at me, be a hero, because it's made you be part the villain, too.

Yeah, yeah. No, that's that's true. That's a good point. It's 836 Newstalk 1079. Let's, break away here and we'll come back if you'd like to join us. (208) 542-1079. Hey, welcome back Neil Larson, Julie Mason and you, if you'd like to reach us. (208) 542-1079 is the number to call Julie I can't. Why do I let the antagonists get under my skin?

I don't I shouldn't have read you the text. You probably shouldn't have, but it's okay. And, because they said to me, well, maybe it was to both of us. Oh, no, it was to you. What's freedom worth, Neil, if it was our country, would you just capitulate to. And I said, if you expect other nations to pay for your war, you've already capitulated.

Yeah. It's called preparation and becoming a world power. I mean, you don't have to grovel at the feet of people. Now, the Ukrainian people deserve to be protected. And this is not about them. This is about the leadership from Ukraine. They're was capitulating for America. You're comparing apples and oranges because capitulating for America is not going to happen, because we prepared ourselves to fight our own wars.

So this is an apples and oranges comparison here to question. And then I said, should we fund every war around the globe? I mean, at what point do we, you know, I mean, don't get me wrong, I, I feel bad that there are people who live under oppression. They live under the threat of war. They live it. That's but to to extend that to so America should fund every effort out there.

That's not. No. At some point, if it's working, I mean, if we had paid billions and Ukraine had won the war, then great. I wouldn't be upset about that. That's not capitulating. That's an effective use of, foreign aid and and and helping someone win. It's not working. I don't think Ukraine's any closer to winning against Russia today than they were two years ago.

And also baked into this question is a lot of misinformation, which is if we if it was our country, would you just capitulate to well, you were asking a very, not well funded country, Ukraine, to fight Russia and should have had allies all over the place. But for the first year the U.S funded it and everybody sat on their hands.

Yeah. So when we're calculating quote unquote capitulation, we have to look at the last two years and or more than that, the last three years and how it's all gone. Yeah. You're acting as if it started yesterday and we just rolled over like a dog with her paws in the air. Yeah, that's not the reality. Yeah, we have given over and over and over again.

And we're we're still stuck in this quagmire situation. So yeah. Now I do think I do think that Trump recognizes it's not working. And so he's not going to keep sending money over to Ukraine. And you're changing your approach. You have to move the goalpost. You have to decide, okay, what is what is the best outcome here? Because victory is probably not going to be achieved simply by sending more money to Ukraine.

Okay. We're we unless they let us call all the shots and fight the war. But that's going to lead to World War three so that, you know, we can't send the money over. But here's a problem too. And we found out this was true, Julie, the money that we were sending them, they were using it just economically, like they were paying for pension and they were paying for and and you would talk to people who were like, well, their thinking is if they can keep their economy stable, then they can make the, you know, the, the materials for war that they need to to fight, fight Russia.

I'm like, no, there's too many leaps there. There's not enough direct connection to our dollars being sent there. And especially in a region of the world that is flush with oligarchs and and people who are all too willing to have massive, massive amounts of money based on political dollars and corruption. That's so true. And to reference the timeline again, of how long this war has been going on, Mitch McConnell in that clip asked.

Well, yeah. Has the relationship between China and Russia been strengthened? Yes. That's one reason to quote, capitulate. Yeah. We got to stop strengthening that relationship. Yeah. We have harmed the entire world by this war going on and this this camaraderie to be established between Russia and China. Yeah. You're right. The endless money is escalating it on the other side, too.

That's a good point. Yeah. All right. Are you Ukraine? Doubt. Sure, sure. I like, I'm not going to budge on my my stance here. I feel very strongly about it. And I think you do as well. The people of you have Ukraine have been harmed. Their president and, along with the bad look that he's provided for himself just a few months ago, bought himself in a state, I believe it was in the countryside of France.

Yeah, while his people die in the streets. Yeah. Great. He trains over at that. Yeah, I I'm not going to have a whole lot of sympathy for this man and him begging for more money, because I truly believe it has been misused. I'm not, I'm not I'm not moving that stance. Yeah. No, no. And I think it's time and I think it's growingly.

It's obvious to everyone other than the, the fully Trump deranged that it's time to to shift gears and to have a different approach. I didn't realize he had done that. Yeah. Yeah. No, he's a very wealthy man. Yeah. Who's been kept very safe. Yeah. He has, which, you know, you want to protect. You do want to protect your leader.

But but but he shouldn't be living a lavish lifestyle. Well, he's, you know, you. Yeah. And I will also say he is an actor. He comes from the entertainment realm. But so does Donald Trump. So that that alone shouldn't be disqualifying. But he kind of wears that army fatigue. Look, you know, like he's just but in reality he's just kind of living this high life and and yeah, it's I feel like in many ways it's an extension of his acting career.

Well, I think we can use the LA riots to compare the two actors. Donald Trump and Zelensky. When something starts to happen in America. Donald Trump sends in the National Guard. He had the Marines at the ready. He's calling the leadership out for their they're, you know, ill timed and misinformation and their lies to the American public, all of it.

And he's trying to protect his cities while Zelensky walks around and asks everybody else to protect his city. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaking of Trump and celebrities, you sent me this clip, Julie, about, from the met and I don't know why reporters ask these kinds of questions, I really don't. But listen, it's been reported that some actors may be boycotting you.

I couldn't care less. Okay, so the reporter says there's reports out there that some actors might be boycotting that nobody cares. Yeah. So what, they don't show up at tonight at the Kennedy Center, right? Nobody cares that Rosie O'Donnell moved to Ireland. Nobody cares that. What's your name? Ellen DeGeneres moved to wherever she moved to. No. Nobody gives a crap that a celebrity didn't show up to something.

Okay. They that world that they live in duly is hilarious when from looking on the outside looking in, celebrities think so much of themselves that their absence is a devastating thing, devastating thing to Donald Trump. And Trump was almost irritated with the question. Like I couldn't care less if they don't come. I loved that response last night at the Kennedy Center.

Also, like 4 or 5, I couldn't tell exactly how many drag queens walked in together. They had seats for the performance and. Yeah, and there were people on the left that were making such a big deal about this that they took the attention away from Donald Trump. Okay. First off, they didn't. Second off, the attention shouldn't have been on Donald Trump or the drag queens.

It actually should have been on the performance. Yeah. That's what you were there for. Stop trying to make everything about you. Here it is. So rent free in their heads. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah. Okay. But here's the thing. This is that you have to look at the, the subconscious layer when they're like, oh, it took the attention away from Donald Trump in which they redirect the attention back to Donald Trump.

Yeah. Yeah. It's like the morons, they can't get over themselves. And it wasn't a headline today and they all enjoyed the performance together last night in the audience together. That's what we're actually asking for. Yeah. Stop trying to elevate yourself above everybody else. Yeah. Show up at the same performance and enjoy together. Done deal. Everything. Now just run through the political filters.

Yeah. And it's like, how about we just go enjoy a performance. You can be there and I can be there and it can all be good. Yeah, I know we don't. We don't have to have a fight here. Nope. We can just enjoy it. Enjoy the night. It's 851 on Newstalk 179 (208) 542-1279. Is the number to call. All right 855 on Newstalk 107 nine minutes ago we had Representative Comber grilling Governor Tim Walz.

Of course he's the governor of Minnesota sanctuary state. About the border. Listen to this. And the reason I ask, obviously, is because I know you watch CNN and, other networks have, interviewed a lot of people, including, John Pierre and Buttigieg and others that have suggested that, they were shielded from, from President Biden and weren't allowed to speak to him.

And, that, you know, his mental decline was was obvious. You you never discussed that with my friend Harris? No, not that I can recall, chairman. And like I as governor and then being on the ticket, I was probably more concerned with my own debate performance than President Biden. So, no, I did, let me ask you this, governor.

Do you believe that that the Biden-Harris administration secured the border? You mentioned it's the federal government's role to, secure the border to protect, Americans from illegals entering the country, I guess. Do you do you think they did a good job of that? I think the the border has been broken for a very long time through many administrations.

It's one of the reasons why Vice President Harris was advocating so strongly for the bipartisan bill. They did. She mentioned her role is the borders are ending. When you all were out campaigning, there. Not that I can recall other than that we talked about the need to pass the bipartisan border legislation that would have done many of the things that, as a governor, I know would have made our jobs easier.

But President Trump secured the border without any legislation. I mean, that was kind of a myth. That was in the media, the Democrat talking point, that we needed legislation to secure the border. The border secure. Everything's fixed. That's step one. Okay, I get to stop there. That moment when Tim. So everything's fixed? No, but it's far, far better than it was under Biden.

Yeah. You were. You were sitting there waiting for what he touts as amazing bipartisan legislation. It wasn't it didn't get passed. And there was a reason it didn't get passed because it didn't need it. Trump could do all of it without you had the option. The Biden administration had the option. Kamala Harris as vice president, could have lobbied for that.

Yeah, she did not. You know, it's interesting that you have Democrats still using that talking point, because Donald Trump has proven you didn't need that magic legislation that they were floating back then to, to do good work on the border and to not not seal it up 100%. But it is far better than it was before. And and that has been demonstrated like the border crossings are down to a trickle compared to what they were before.

So I don't know why they go there, because it is so easily refuted that you didn't need their magic bill to to handle immigration. Yeah. And can I skip back to the beginning of the clip where we we were catching it and he was saying, well, I was far more concerned with my debate performance than than Joe Biden's.

Well, there was many weeks between them and you, you should have been concerned as a Democrat with what your president was doing. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's not a it's not a good excuse. That's a we should not be concerned. Yeah. Well that would be interesting to look at the dates of the Biden debate versus Tim Walz because he's in one sense he's saying, well, I can't talk and chew gum at the same time.

Yeah, they were they were weeks and weeks apart. I'm so busy with debate prep. I guy can't worry about how our government's doing. It's so weird. All right. It's 858. We'll take a break here. We'll be back after the news for our two.

907. Welcome back. It's our two on Newstalk 1079. We've got the four string quartet ready. We've got the caviar ordered. We've got the, I think we have one of those ice sculptures that will be out front for our open house. Valet parking? Yes. Valet parking. Tuxedos have been all of it. It's it's all ready to go for our open house tomorrow, and, okay.

No, it's not going to be swanky like that, but we are going to have some, sandwiches for you, Will. So have some cake and, just an opportunity to come in and hang out and, not for too. We may have a lot of people here, but, to come in, chat for a bit and take a picture and, record a greeting if you'd like.

But, swing by our studios tomorrow for our open house. As we mark five years of being on the air, we launched crazy, right? Five years. It is crazy. Yeah, it is crazy. And, we launched June 8th of 2020 as the pandemic was getting underway. That was a crazy, crazy. Yeah, it was crazy time, for kicks and giggles.

And Neil threw in a heart attack in the middle of all that, so that was fun. I did have a heart attack eight days before the, the launch. We and the general manager was like, look, we can delay this launch. Your health is more important than that. And I'm like, I, I don't think so. Everything was pretty much closed, you know, ready, finished.

And so we went ahead and did it. So yeah, it was it was good. I will tomorrow as we as we approach that, I'm going to find some of the imaging that we used to launch that imaging just means like promos. And when our voice guy talks that's imaging. And some of the things that we did and I want to play that to see if we've lived up to the standard that was set by that.

Does that make sense? How well have we done so can I, can I go ahead and say we have our second guest launching was Governor Brad Little. That's right. He was our last guest at our previous employment. Yeah, I mean that that is that is the highest office in the state of Idaho going. I'm following these guys wherever they go.

Yeah, we'll do that. And quite frankly, our criticism of the governor was the catalyst to that led to our exit from our previous place. Absolutely. But he still trusted us enough to interview him and to have him on. And, and in a way, kudos to him for allowing that. Yeah. But at the same time, I have always wanted any politician to believe that they were going to get a fair opportunity to make their case, even if the line of questioning was difficult, even if we've been critical of them and we've been critical of many a politician, but they are always welcome to rebut what we have to say, and they'll have plenty of time

to do it. We may ask follow up questions, but we will not censor them. And, I feel like that's probably the healthiest approach that we can have. We don't want to stifle the voices of politicians, but we do want to respond to them, and we want to let them be heard and then have our take as as a follow up.

So especially during a pandemic. Yeah, we had just got it was, April 20th. The interview occurred on April 17th. April 20th was a Monday morning that we left that position. And, I mean, is there a more appropriate time to interview the governor and push a little bit on, policy decisions? I don't think so. No, I don't think so.

On. Yeah. And, and as again, I, I feel like I'm humbly bragging about Newstalk 1079 tomorrow we have Attorney General Raul Labrador on. He'll be joined. So the guests have just continued for five years. We had Senator Risch on today. We have Senator Crapo on almost every week. So we yeah. And during the course of the, of any legislative campaign season, candidates galore.

I'm choosing my words rather carefully. Candidates galore though like we I, I feel good about our efforts and what we we strive to do not that everybody agrees with us. We have oh no, we have politicians that will not speak to us. Sure. And they're we ask them and many of them decline. They don't like the criticism that maybe we've thrown their way in the past.

But the invitation is, is always open, for them. And if they want to, you know, and and and that's fair. You know, they're they're are we we have been critical of some politicians, but the reason for that is because what they seek is political power that is bestowed upon them by the voters. That is a where much is given and that if there's anything that's much here, that's much where much is given, much is required of them.

And so we scrutinize them very, very heavily and into how the job that they're doing, are they being true to their constituents? Are they using their position for personal gain? Are they, you know, and are you following the laws? Yes, absolutely. Are you consistent in what you promised your your constituents and your voters and what you're delivering?

All of those questions are, are fair game. And through that entire process, yeah, there are moments when we have been critical because we don't think necessarily they are living up to all of those standards. Right? I sure, I guess those, those politicians can call it critical. I'm sure that that's what they can say about it. Yes, it probably feels that way on their end.

I don't think it's critical to ask a politician how they're going to vote on ranked choice voting. No. It's a major, major. Yeah, major change to Idaho. You should be boldly saying how you're going to vote on it. Yes, absolutely you should. And I also believe and there there's been debate back and forth about this. I once you decide you're going to run for office and you're asking for that political power from the voters, the anonymity most of us enjoy at the ballot box.

You don't get to enjoy that anymore. I believe I have the right to know if you're a politician, how you're voting individually on prop one, how you're voting. Who are you voting for as president? Who are you? The you're in a different position now where you're representing us. We have the right to know your full slate of philosophical beliefs, and if so, we do have the right to know who you voted for for president.

I in some people may push back on that. They're like, oh, no, that's a sacred thing. It's really not okay if you're if a if you're not asking for political power from someone else, you get to have that right to privacy. You get to you get to hold on to that and say, you know what? That's my choice.

I don't want any negative ramifications with my workplace or my family or whatever. That's fine. But the moment that you're seeking political power from your peers, you waive that right to privacy in how you're voting for different politicians and issues. I agree with that. And I, I proudly state that we have been critical of regional politicians. It's never about personal behaviors.

It's never about their children. And guess what? We know things, yes, about regional politicians personal lives that we have not spoken about on air. We don't pull that in. We all, we all have a junk drawer. And absolutely I never want to go there because you know what? Karma can come back to bite you. And they also didn't sign up for that, but they did sign up to talk about voting standards.

Yes, they did sign up to talk about the way that they represent their constituents. And so for me, that's not critical. Yeah. That's what you signed up for. Right. It's it's an assessment of the work you're doing. But it's not about you personally. Yeah. So I think we're thinking of the same pieces. Yes. As we, talked so all right, back to the oh, we're still, like, grilling walls.

Should we listen to some? Sure. Let's do it. Our national sovereignty, and most importantly, you have failed the people of Minnesota. The time for radical sanctuary state policy is over. The voters made that clear last November when they elected president Trump and Vice President JD Vance. You remember him, don't you, governor? The time for real leaders is is that and real leadership is now, and with that, sir, actually, Mr. Chairman, yeah, I ask unanimous consent to induce introduce into the record the governor's tweet that I referenced from May 23rd, 2018, which makes it clear his hatred for federal law enforcement.

Thank you. Without objection. So ordered, Mr. Chairman. Yes, I recognizes Mr. and Mr. Chairman, thank you very much. I have that was fire consent requests and I'd like to, present both of those to you at the same time. Okay. Okay. I ask unanimous consent that we enter into the record an article from the Hill. Does he look scared to death to you?

Yes. Governor Walz, he looks terrified. Yeah, he he does. He looks very, very uneasy right now. Okay. So they're. Yeah. They're not going to get any tougher. He's not getting any tough questions from Queasy and Fumi, but, fellow radical Democrat. Yeah but so that was Tom Emmer, the guy grilling him earlier. He is a Minnesota member of the House.

And so they share the same state. And so he has he has the legitimate cred to go after Tim Walz. Absolutely. So yeah. And Tim Walz just didn't he he kind of sat there with kind of deer in the headlights. Yeah. He looks terrified as he should be. I mean he he hasn't supported the police. He he's been on a defund the police movement.

He's been on a, wanting to create a sanctuary state. He's he's on the other side of the issue here. And that's why he's getting grilled, is because these are governors from sanctuary states. And and Congress is asking them, why are you choosing this? You're going against the federal government. Yeah, yeah. And that's that's a very good point.

And and, you know, if the if the tables were turned that be all in on, going after Republican governors for defying the federal government. Yeah. So yeah. Okay. All right. 2.5421079. If you'd like to join us on the program this morning. I saw there was a little story yesterday. Julie. And I can't remember what this is called.

It hasn't made a lot of waves, but about the Democrats in Idaho are launching some campaign to win back some seats. Good luck. I yeah. Good luck, good luck. I go for it. Do you remember that story? I think it it's it is, it is. It was in the local news. It was in the region. Yes. I'm going to get the name of it because, my, my thought as I read this was, isn't that called a political party?

And the election is an already in existence, like. Yeah, it just seems like, it's already there. So, Idaho Democratic Party has launched a new initiative called All in for Idaho, all in for Idaho. The party. Because we haven't been up to now. Yeah. The party states the strategy aims to challenge the state's Republican majority in the 2026 elections by focusing on candidate recruitment, grassroots organization and voter registration.

How is that any different than anything else before? Well and I love that it it's all in for Idaho. They always pick these names for the groups Reclaim Idaho, Take Back Idaho. It's all in for Idaho. I yeah. How how about this. Can we can we play. We won't even charge for our consultancy work right now.

Okay. How about you toss aside your crappy ideas?

It's like serve is serving stale bread, but naming it something different, and I go, it does taste better this time. It tastes better, I promise. No, it's still crusty and gross and dry. Right? It's the same. No, but I renamed it so it tastes different. I put the moldy bread in a different bag.

Yeah. Okay, here's a bit of a longer story. It's a press release from the Idaho Democratic Party. They announced the launch of All In for Idaho, a bold new strategy that that marks a historic step toward ending one party control and lays the groundwork to compete in races across the state in 2026. The initiative focuses on recruiting local candidates.

I think they've already been doing that, investing in grassroots party infrastructure. That's what your party is expanding the electorate and holding honest conversations with Idahoans about the future of their communities. So I will say this, and I mean this genuinely, if you continue to be for killing babies, that's going to be problematic with many Idahoans. If you continue to support socialists like AOC and Bernie Sanders, and you show up in a very enthusiastic manner and posting selfies on your social media, that's going to be problematic for most Idahoans if you defy Idaho laws and fly a flag anyway, just because you don't like the law.

Yeah, that's problematic if you robotically, oppose any efforts whatsoever for parents to have choice in education, that's going to be problematic for you. So all of this stuff about packaging, you're not even addressing the real issue. You're you're not you're not in a sari to mix the metaphors here, because we know the GOP mascot is elephant, but if you really want to address the elephant in the room, I go back to what I said kind of flippantly earlier it's your crappy ideas.

That's your challenge, that that is the reason why you cannot get elected in Idaho is because you stand and align yourself too closely with the National Party and what they stand for, and, and the crazy craziness that they've become. And you will not separate yourself from that. And that is your problem. And you can come up all in for Idaho.

Next year it'll be we totally love Idaho. The year after that is, I don't know what's another one. Reinvent Idaho, reinvent Idaho. Somebody on Facebook Live says, stick it to Idaho. Yes, that's a more appropriate naming of your group. Yeah, that's that's true when your values have no alignment, much at all with Idahoans at large, you're you're just going to have trouble.

Yeah. So that's a hard truth for them. It is. And I'm fine that they have a different agreement than or a different idea of values than I do. I we live around people who have different values than us all the time. Yeah. I just get tired of them faking it, like, all in for Idaho. Yeah. Well, what does that even mean?

What does Takeback Idaho mean? I you're you're making up phrases when you didn't actually ever have Idaho, but you're going to take it back. Yeah. Or reclaiming Idaho from what? Well, you had your property wasn't seized and you had to go get it back. I'm all in for Idaho. What you weren't in for before? Yeah. It doesn't. It's you.

You get on life support, so all of a sudden, oh, I'm going to really do it now. It's it's a meaningless. It's a meaningless. Yeah. Just be honest. Yeah. Just be honest. Be proud of your Democrat party. Okay. So can I read another paragraph from this press release? The campaign builds on progress made in 2024, when Idaho Democrats ran legislative candidates in all 35 districts for the first time in decades.

Okay, progress is when you win, it's great. Hey, we got somebody that announced we put somebody in a swimming pool who can't swim, and they've got floaties on their arm, but we did it. This is two easy. Yeah. They really think that's progress. Like yeah. Now the goal is to go further, contest every statewide office, expand the slate of local candidates, and make sure no community is left behind.

Already, more than 2000 Idaho Democrats have expressed interest in running for office, including teachers, veterans, small business owners and parents who are ready to serve their communities. Look, they're put in as much lipstick on this as they can. Yeah, they're at the makeup counter at Dillard's. That's true. They are. They got pallets of Maybelline. They don't sell them.

Maybelline at dealers. Okay. Well, like I'm going to know that. So can I help our troll a little bit here? Yeah. Because this person's really struggling following the conversation. Do we have more troll trolling here? Okay. The troll says, oh, but a convicted felon with six bankruptcies isn't problematic. Let me explain what problematic means here. Trump was listing problematic for the Democrat Party because they're unsuccessful and they're on life support and they're dying problematic for you with Donald Trump, as you don't like him.

Because guess what? He won all seven swing states overwhelmingly won won the popular vote. And he currently is doing great in the polls. So your problematic is a you think not an America thing. Well, can I also say and you still couldn't beat him. No I'm serious. Oh true. What it seems is problematic was not problematic. And when you write it out, it sounds problematic.

But how does that make you feel to know that what you were offering is even more problematic in that Kamala and him, Walls and Biden and the four years of the administration was so, quote, problematic. And not only that, they had the media all in on this ridiculous, narrative of their 12 man. Yeah. And I ask, I actually, I make the point rhetorically, but I would ask it genuinely, what do you say to that, that you've characterized Trump this way and you still couldn't beat him?

Yeah. What what's so problematic about your side? They said, that's true, Neil. It's a sad statement. Yeah it is. That's an issue where you need to start going to the mirror. Stop going to your your caricature of Donald Trump and raging at that and look in the mirror and determine why you can't beat him as much as as bad as you think he is.

Why can't you win? Well, and now it's come full circle in this segment because you started this conversation explaining all in for Idaho, and really you reinvented something that didn't need reinvented. You have a Democrat party run better candidates have better policies, and then you can win. Yeah, you just explained it. That's why it's problematic for you. You do not have good policies.

You're harmful to America and to Idaho. And there's a reason you lose. Yes. And there's a reason Democrat cities are currently falling apart and L.A. is on fire. Yeah, yeah, it's it's true, it's true. And and putting a different shade of lipstick on that pig is not going to win you anything. It doesn't. And being hating Donald Trumps with all of the power in your soul.

M doesn't get you anything either. Yeah, except just a bitter personality. No it doesn't. 927. Hey, really quick, speaking of which, the felon is talking right now. Let's let's just do it. But, boy, it's been it's had us tied up in knots for years, and they'd pass these crazy rules in California and would it would be, 17 states would go by them.

The automakers didn't know what to do because they're really building cars for two countries. When you have 17 states, you're building cars for two countries. And, I want to congratulate you all the Senate, the House, the whole thing. It's incredible. I was going to sign a, executive order and give it a shot. But the one good thing with this, number one, it holds up forever.

And number two, unless somebody votes it out, they never do that. And, it's just so much better, It's so much better. That's so great. It's very proud of you. We're joined today by the great speaker of the House. I think he's going to go down as a great speaker of the House. Do I may be wrong?

I may be wrong. Who knows? Who the hell knows? I think he is.

And he's doing something. The only thing I would say is more important than this one. And I'll tell you what, it's almost close. That's how big this is today. But, the great big beautiful. I hated the word great. You know, I used the word the great big, beautiful bill. It's going to be, one of the more.

I said it this morning to a group. I think it's the most important. One of the most important pieces of legislation ever, ever signed, ever approved. So it's going to be something very special. Thank you very much. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Thank you. Secretary Sean Duffy. And they had a problem in India today. And you're on that.

Show and doing a tremendous job, Secretary Chris. Right. Everybody said you'd never be able to get him. He's the most talented, man. They say in the only gas industry. I'll let you know in about two years if that's true.

Well, Doug Burgum, you know, I wanted Doug Burgum to head up energy because he was so successful in North Dakota. It's Governor. And he said, so there's one person who's much better than me. I said, who? They said, Chris Wright. I said, who the hell is Chris Wright? I had no idea. And now everyone that's Chris Wright is going to be more famous than me.

But, he said there's a guy named Chris Wright, and if we could get him, he'd be better than I am. So. And if you know Doug, Doug's not here, is he? If you knew Doug, he's always working someplace. But if you knew Doug, you'd know that he doesn't say that often. And he did. And, Chris, you're doing great.

And. But I don't like the oil. Prices have gone up just a little bit over the last few days. I was going to call it just really sad screaming at you. How we okay? Nothing wrong. Right. It's going to keep going down a little bit. Right. Because we have inflation under control perfectly. You probably saw the records. Everyone's on television saying what's going on here.

Trump is proven to be right. You know all of these things we've taken in 88 billion in tariffs in two months, 88 billion with no inflation. And it was what they won't be now. We'd like to get this guy to lower interest rates because you know if he doesn't we have to pay. We have a lot of short term debt.

Obama gave it to us originally and Biden carried it on the like. Short term. I like long term cheap debt, but a lot of the debt comes through because Biden, that's what he didn't do it. I'm sure he didn't know anything about it. But somebody approved the short term debt. It's all over the place and it comes do starting very soon.

And if we would lower the interest rates by one point, would pay about one point less, that's $300 billion a year. Can you believe at one point, if he'd lowered by two points, we pay $600 billion a year for years, ten years, 12 years, whatever we make it. But we can't get this guy to do it. And the fake news is saying, oh, if you fired him, it would be so bad.

This would be so bad. I don't know why it would be so bad, but I'm not going to fire him. I just want him to hear we call him too late. Too late. Is is like too tall. Jones. He was too tall to. You know, and I just say this because we want to get rid of inflation and we have.

But we're going to be paying more for debt. And all he has to do is lower it. Europe's done ten lower things. We've done none. And nobody understands that. Actually today when the numbers came out they were so good. You saw yesterday's numbers. Incredible. No inflation. Today's numbers. All right. It's, 932 on Newstalk 1079. We are, really up against the clock here.

But President Trump I he's great Julie. Like he he's kind of got this meandering style to him because they're there to talk about this bill signing and he's off talking about interest rates and but but it works like it's there's something about it that it works. So I remember once a church leader said, if you want to give your children advice, a really great time to do it isn't during family prayer because you're talking and they're listening.

Hopefully, you know, quietly he's doing that here. He wants those interest rates lowered. Yeah. He's using this moment in front of in front of the microphone to get a point across that wouldn't work in other areas because nobody would be listening. But they're listening right now. Yeah, that's true, that's true. It's like, he sees an opportunity that maybe others wouldn't.

All right. 933 on Newstalk 1079 got to take a break, but we'll come back up to this. Okay. I'll be right. I drink all that. Oh, I'm God, I also was worried you were going to pull your earphones off, so. Oh, am I on Facebook Live? Okay.

He backed up so far in his chair. I'm like those earphones I can hear ripped off of his head because they won't pull the the place. We plug in our earphones into is very tight. It's not like when you yank on the vacuum cord and it comes out of the outlet where they actually pull the earphones off of his head if he went backwards too far.

All right, you guys are all coming. We have so much food. Come eat lunch. We have so much food. We have cookies, we have cake. We have, sandwiches. We have. There's so much. So please come say hi to us tomorrow. 11 to 1. Lisa said she's coming down and she's going to try really, really, really hard not to get a speeding ticket.

This time. Well, she actually didn't get a speeding ticket last time. She just got pulled over and then got out of it. But look, we gave you a window of 11 to 1, Lisa. So even if you are running behind, you don't have to speed because you have till 1:00 to get here. We can't wait to see you, Stephanie.

Super excited. We have a great guest, for, studio for covers tomorrow. Local artist named Taylor Brunson. She hasn't picked her song yet, but she has a very vibrant social media if you want to look her up. She's so good. I don't have a guest for the next weekend yet, but. Or the next Friday.

But the Friday after that, we have Amber Beck coming in to sing The Star Spangled Banner, because it will be the Friday before the 4th of July. And we want to get a little patriotic here. And if you've never heard Amber, she sings that often at like at the checkers games or at the, Spud King games, things like that.

She's so good.

Seven year old Neil just gave me rabbit ears. Okay, so I'll do Clayton when I get back. Okay. They are now reporting that all of the passengers and crew died on that airplane crash in India this morning. If you guys aren't following that in your news cycle, so terrible, so sad. You know, it's so you think catastrophically.

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Things began to be difficult on Friday when raids took place, and it's important that I begin there because that is the cause of the problems that have happened in the city of Los Angeles and other cities. This was a provocative, this was provoked by the white House. The reason why we don't know. Okay, let's reverse engineer this chain of events.

Because you think that everything started with the white House simply enforcing the law, right? That's what they did. The white House enforced the law. They didn't provoke anything. You provoked the white House to have to enforce the law because you let these people run rampant. You give them free health care, you provide them housing. You gave them cheaper loans than the regular American citizens could get in California.

So we could be we could continue going up the chain of profit nations. But you have Mayor Karen Bass here who's politically, opportunistically selecting the provocation so that she can blame Donald Trump for this. And that, I think, really speaks to the larger issue of what Democrats are trying to do is that Donald Trump, president of the United States, upholding the law.

And and keep in mind, the president has sent Marines to California, to Los Angeles. He has the legal authority to do so, but he invoked a rarely used provision to do it. He still can do it. And it's funny how if you're a Democrat, you suddenly care about the Constitution. But the problem is you are you are equating rarely used with unconstitutional.

And it's not the same. Yeah, yeah. We could we could compare this to other situations, personal situations. Right. A man and a woman are driving in a car down I-15 and the woman says, no, I don't want to go faster. I am going to obey the speed limit. And the man gets mad and reaches over and hits her.

Yeah. And the cops get involved. And Mayor Karen Bass would say, what was the woman's fault? She provoked him. If she had done what he told her to do, then it would have been perfectly fine. That's. Yes, that's true. It's it's as though we are surrendering, surrendering our agency over to Donald Trump. Yeah. He determines our behavior.

Oh yeah. These people. Yeah. How bad is it going to get this summer. I am a little worried about Saturday. Not I'm not worried in Idaho and I'm not worried in multiple states. I, I was telling Neil that, governor DeSantis came out and told people in Florida, this is what will happen to you if you take these protests too far on Saturday.

He's already laid it down. I think that would be a great move if Governor Little did that in Idaho. I'm not worried about those states. I think it could get very ugly on Saturday in Democrat run cities. Well, yeah, you're right. I mean, they just had Tim Walz in that congressional hearing, the Democrat governors that don't give a crap about the law, they don't give a crap about the law.

So yeah. All right. We'll be back after this. It's 942. Ooh, babe, baby, sorry I played Van Halen. You couldn't hear it on Facebook Live, but I was lip singing it for you. Yeah, because I wasn't sure my mic was on or off. I didn't look, and I was like, I better be quiet. Yeah. Apparently, Trump said the Biden administration must have hated our.

I think that's true. I really think the radical Democrats hate our country, I think so they're not patriots. No. Yeah. I keep thinking about a Governor Walz. I know I said that he looked terrified. He looks so terrified. I actually kind of feel bad for him. This man is not equipped. How did he win? Governor, I do you know what?

This is a mystery to me. I, I don't I don't find him visually charismatic at all. I don't find his personality charismatic, like he speaks pretty fluently. And maybe that's part of his shtick. But what does he offer? Like what? What is he put forward that makes the voter go, I like that guy. I want him to be my governor, and he speaks fluently.

But it's not intelligently. It's kind of dippy. Yeah, he's he's dopey about it. Yeah, yeah. And so I don't know how he got there. And it's clear when in the spotlight he fails. Yeah I mean we have time and time again. Oh wait a minute. This this conversation is making me think maybe we're missing the point here. He was supposed to be dopey.

Maybe they engineered his victory. Yeah, he. Because he seems like one of those personalities. That's very controllable. Yeah. Maybe that's true. And they're like this is the guy we need. That's why they had Biden be the president. They knew he's got dementia. He'll do whatever we tell him to do. It's hard to not be cynical about the world we live in.

It really is. The cynicism is chronic. I did have let me go to my ex account. I had something I wanted to talk to our, our Facebook Live audience about. I saved it, but do you think right now I can remember it? No, no, I can't, but I will. Okay. There was a Fox News headline that said pizza, chocolate and donuts among the foods you can bring on a flight.

I didn't know you. There were foods that you couldn't take on a flight. I've never heard about that. I mean, I've been, like, grossed out before because somebody will bring a really stinky entree or whatever on that. They got at the, you know, at a restaurant or whatever in the airport. I didn't know there was a list that you couldn't take.

Yeah. 60 different food items are listed in terms of the items travelers may pack in their carry on bag or checked luggage, some restrictions on with some restrictions on particular items. So you can take pies, cake, pizza, solid cheese and chocolate cooked meat, cookies, crackers, candies and cereal. Who's putting that stuff in there? But.

Tamales. You can take tamales. Coffee, creamy cheese, canned foods, gravy, ice cream and hummus are allowed to be carried on if the items weigh less than 3.4oz. Hummus haters I need more than 3.4oz of hummus. Okay, I'm not even going to take the bait. I'm just going to let you have your minute here. Who's carrying gravy around? Okay.

You don't take gravy on flights. No. What's wrong with. You know what I take? What? Red licorice. That's. That's my expense right there. I don't think I'm testing TSA in any way. Okay, so on the trip to Alaska, Steve stopped by Costco and bought the 55 gallon barrel of Red vines. Did you guys finish that then? You know.

Oh, you did it. No, that's the point I was going to make. I know this comes as a surprise. We looked in it when we got up to Anchorage. It didn't even look like we had hardly touched it. It's crazy. And we did have quite a bit of, quite a bit of it. So at 947 on Newstalk 179, Neil Larson, along with Julie Mason and, President Trump still speaking at the bill signing at the white House, the bill that he is signing essentially is going to kill California's effort to ban gas powered vehicles.

And, we're just kind of paying attention to the headlines here. He's saying that they don't even have enough electricity as it is. They have brownouts every summer. How are they going to handle more electric car infrastructure to charge these EVs? When when they can't even keep up with the current demand. So and then I have a question.

When you have a massive Palisades fire like you just experienced and which you're not mitigating at all. Yeah, they will have another. Yeah. So when you have that and all you have is electric vehicles and the power is out for days, how are you going to take care of your state? I don't know, just one of those questions to be answered.

I don't know that Gavin Newsom even cares. It's just, do you see how virtuous I am to your green religion? I'm get. Do you want to hear jaded? Today's the day to be jaded. We're pretty cynical to you. Like, I look at this and I'm thinking when you you look at Gavin Newsom, I mean, he was sort of a tyrant through the pandemic, but he can eat at the French Laundry.

When you look at the situation in with, just the filth on the streets of San Francisco, but they somehow find the resources to clean it up when the president of China, the communist leader of China, comes to visit, when you consider what happened, in the Palisades Fire last year, and they didn't even have a reservoir full.

They couldn't even get the water, to to put the fires out, I don't think I think with some governors, competence is a political strategy. I think with some governors, they don't even have they don't even consider having competence as a, as a political strategy for them because they can be. You look at him, he is incredibly magnetic, like he he's good on the stump.

He's good when he's talking one on one, he can make you feel like he cares about just you. And usually when he points to his phone and he says, I am literally talking to the president of the United States right now, he doesn't expect you to be smart enough to followed up with, let me listen then. You know that lady, that lady did.

But yeah, but, you know, he he can do those things. And then all of a sudden you're like, oh, he's so important. He's talking to the president right now. And, but he's just he's just good at that part of it. And sadly, in American politics, that level of charisma can compensate for that lack of competence. And and that's so I don't even think he cares how this thing turns out.

I don't think he thinks about, are we going to have enough electricity if we get rid of all the gas powered cars? He doesn't care. Competence doesn't matter. It did, because he's got the is I, you know, and I guess it doesn't matter to the people of California either. Hey, we mentioned in an earlier segment this hour our departure and and which from our old work which enabled us to have our five year anniversary party tomorrow.

Yes. Here at our new work. But we mentioned that we pressured Governor Little in our last interview at our old work about the shut the shutdowns in Idaho for Covid 19, because I expect my governor to care about the people of Idaho. Yeah, when I was frustrated for athletes and parents of athletes who couldn't go and watch their kids play in state championships, but the athletes could sleep in the same bed together at the hotel.

Yeah, they could share, you know, four kids to a hotel room. Somehow Covid wasn't going to be transferred that way, but it was going to be on the bench. So they had to be six feet apart and they could slam against each other all sweaty on the basketball court. These are questions that I'm asking my governor to care.

Yeah, we care about the people of Idaho. And it was why I was frustrated. I'm asking Governor Newsom that same question about about electric vehicles. Because you should care. Yeah. About the people of California. He does not. Yeah. No, I don't think he does. I think he cares. I think I think there's one Californian that Gavin Newsom cares about himself, Gavin Newsom.

Yeah. And I think that he and he does it by acting like he cares about others. We're going to take a break. 952 on Newstalk 179. We'll come back. We'll wrap it up after this. Okay? If Trump is, he's saying California's the most ridiculous laws I've ever seen. Yup. See, this is good. This is a beautiful use of the bully pulpit.

I love it, I love it. Yeah. I'm so tired of that CarShield advertisement. Yeah, I'm over it. They need to get new advertisers or make a new car shield. You you don't need to get a new advertiser. Just do a different commercial. Yeah, the ads that drive me crazy are just the the pharmaceutical ads. Let's do one more town and country and then can I give a plug for we?

Sure. Yes, yes for sure. That's a good point Christine. She said Ron DeSantis was the first to knock Newsom off his pedestal. He did in that debate that will be resurrected no matter what. When gruesome. When Newsom makes this presidential run that debate will be brought back up. Oh yeah. So whether or not DeSantis is included in the next presidential race or it's a few years down the road, the things that DeSantis did in the build up to 2024, yeah, were important a yes.

Yeah, well they were yeah, it was it was very important. He kind of created the gold standard. So our friend and listener Jesse sent us our very first segment on June 8th in 2020. Really. So we'll play that tomorrow. Oh fun. Thank you Jesse I probably sweet him. I could have dug back and found it, but, I appreciate you recording it, so we'll use it.

Good. Dude, Jesse is. Yeah. Let's come back and do this. Do we share it out of the gate? So, you know, when we're cynical. We have to remember we're surrounded by Jesse's. Yeah. It's true. Really good people. Yeah. And no post show we have our staff meeting I'm meeting I have five clients today and Nilla appointments.

So basically I count that as six clients because I got to get to it and get back and start doing clients in order to leave town on Sunday morning can be crazy. Day 956 on Newstalk 179. If you want to catch the latest episode of. We Shared, Julie's podcast, you should, you should because yesterday we dropped an episode that where we interview, local sports legend, regional, I should say sports legend, John Baldini.

He's part of our team here at Sand Hill Media. I've had to beg and beg and beg to get this man on the podcast. He just didn't want to do it. He doesn't like being called a legend. He's a modest guy. He is a modest guy. He is, but incredibly funny and told some very interesting stories in his more than 40 years of broadcasting in East Idaho.

So yeah, you can catch the latest episode of We Share on Apple Podcasts, Spotify. We share podcast.com. It's available there, and you're looking for the John Bell Genie episode. Always funny. We love Joe. In fact, we have our staff meeting coming up in a few minutes. John's always fun to sit by because he's mumbling some Joker or snarky.

It's very funny. It fits right in. They get out to town and country gardens as we approach the weekend. I know you're going to be doing yard work and you just need things when you do yard, maybe you're going to be working in your garden, maybe you're going to be mowing. Maybe you're going to lay down steps one and two of the four step lawn program.

Whatever it is, Town and Country Gardens has it for you. Also, if you have a gift that you need to get for Father's Day, there's things available at Town and Country gardens. Plus, if you're looking to give someone, like, hey, I'm sorry this happened to you, or hey, congratulations gift or whatever, they're they're potted plant, two rooms, not just one, two rooms have some of the most amazing plants regionally and an expert there that can totally help you with those.

So that's a great gift to give. It is Town and Country Gardens south of Idaho Falls, Yellowstone Highway, across from the Budweiser plant. And while we're doing rapid fire here, Julie, we just want to remind all of our listeners tomorrow, 11 to 1. It's our open house as we mark five years of broadcasting here at Newstalk 1079, we launched the, first week, well, I guess second week of June back in 2020.

And, we we're grateful for our listeners. We're grateful for what we've been able to do and, what this has become. So we invite you to join us at 854 Lindsay Boulevard, 11 to 1 across from Jacob. So, yeah, come party with us. All right? Have a great Thursday. We'll see you tomorrow.